clowning – Hackney Citizen

Face on your Egg: Clown’s Gallery in Dalston shells out for collection of precious new arrivals

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 12 March 2018 at 12:49

Mattie Faint, curator of the monthly free museum and in-house clown for Great Ormond Street, tells us why these historic painted eggs are so important in clowning – and how they ended up in Hackney

Lyons share: comic Elf to teach ways of the clown in new classes

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 9 January 2018 at 16:14

Bird is the word: Elf Lyons dressed in feathered garb for her show Swan. Photograph: Andy Hollingworth

Having studied with a French ‘master clown’ and conquered Edinburgh, comedian Elf Lyons is readying a pair of workshops at Rosemary Branch Theatre, aimed at Hackney’s aspiring funny people