SOON!: Bony Lil's Creation + Distraction Internet Release

I'm working on the web pages for the release of the short film duet: Bony Lil's Creation + Distraction in entirety on the internet! These films began 5 years ago as an idea of Michael Pope and I. We shot in my apartment on black and white super8 and I started the mountain of hand-crafted animation. Two years later, they were complete and ready for their rounds of film festival submissions. So the internet waited. Then I applied for a grant to see if we could get some start-up cash to make dvds for sale. So the internet waited. Now, on the eve of the premier of my new solo show at the NY Clown Theater Festival in September, there is no better time to unleash them on the world.

COMING SOON TO A COMPUTER NEAR YOU!!

Crappy Things Kids Say to Each Other

a series in the making

I have ideas for an illustrated series of Crappy Things Kids Say to Each Other. I've got five more on deck. As soon as I can either attain some scrap of financial stability or convince myself I don't need it, I will continue. I'm thinking limited edition screenprints, though I'm sure totebags would fly (*eyeroll*)

Feel free to feedback. I love that sort of thing.

Sketchbook: august...

Here is a portrait of a sun bear from a recent trip to the zoo. The sign says she had jaw surgery for some serious health problem a few years ago, thus, the tongue. I love her.

Announcing: New Clown Show

How to Give Up on Your Dreams: By Not Really Trying
an original solo clown show

Premiering at the NY Clown Theatre Festival 2010

How To Give Up On Your Dreams: By Not Really Trying
Bony Lil aka Zea Barker
Chicago, IL
http://zeabarker.com
So much struggle. So much heartache. Don't you think it's time to let those dreams go? Take it from a recent convert. Bony Lil takes you by the hand and leads you to a place where you don't need to try and strive...and cry. Give up on your dreams. You'll be awfully glad you did. 45 min.

Friday September 17th 9pm
Monday September 20th 9pm
Saturday September 25th 6pm

tix!

This year's line-up is wonderful!

The Brick Theater, Inc., presenter of the first festival of Clown Theatre in New York in over 20 years in 2006, brings the festival back this fall as the 2010 New York Clown Theatre Festival, performing September 3-26 at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This year’s festival will feature diverse clown theatre artists from the Ukraine, Israel, Wales, Mexico, Canada, and across the United States from California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Oregon, Chicago and New York City.

The festival will present 17 mainstage shows, 4 kid-friendly shows, 1 street show, and 5 cabarets, including a cabaret devoted to clowns over 50! The festival begins on September 3 with its traditional opening day parade from Union Square through the L line subway to Williamsburg, followed by an open-to-the-public pie fight at The Brick Theater! And it closes on September 26 with the traditional closing day Funeral, with clowns weeping and wailing in the streets of Williamsburg.

The NEW YORK CLOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL will run September 3-26 at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street, Brooklyn). Tickets ($15) are available online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 1-866-811-4111.

UPCOMING!

I'm happy to announce after over 3 years of film festival submissions and peppered nationwide screenings, Bony Lil's Creation + Distraction are getting ready to be released in entirety on the world-wide internets! Stay tuned for deets! Check out the trailers in the meantime.



ALSO, I am happy to announce the wondrous City Feed and Supply will be carrying greeting cards featuring the blockprints I designed for the opening of their new store on Centre St. in Jamaica Plain a couple years ago! Stay tuned for deets!



PLUS, I am happy to announce I will have a full-length solo show in this year's NY Clown Theatre Festival in Brooklyn in September. Stayed for deets!

Meanwhile, I am unemployed and soon to be homeless. I am not too proud to beg on "the street." Feel free to donate to the cause (of me: vaganthead(at)gmail(dot)com) as I endeavor to move back east in September and mount my show. I will send you a thank you card of my own construction for your mantel.

xZ