Saturday -
Jul. 19, 2008

11:00AM  to  12
 

1:00  to  4:00PM
 

5:30  to  6:00PM
 
 
 
  7:00  to  9:30PM

Parade & Brief Show
-  Farmer Market in Uptown Port Townsend

Free Educational Circus
Circus skills funshops and nautical workshops  -  See workshop list below

Community Picnic
A chance to visit with old and new friends and enjoy live music
Bringing a blanket and a picnic was suggested.

Vaudeville Extravaganza

The Flying Karamazov Brothers * Hacki * Faith Petric * Duo Madrona * Rhythm Planet * Haute Trash Fashion Show * Joey Pipia * Vern and Dream * Foolio * Fyodor Karamazov * Kaiyama * Harry Levine * KAZUM! * Women of the Future * Snowcub * Juggling Jollies * Kevin Murphy * Super Noodlini Family * Kym Trippsmith * The Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra

Partner:

Youth Education Programs of the Northwest Maritime Center and Wooden Boat Foundation

Tickets were:

$20   General Admission
$10   Folks under 13, over 65 or with disabilities

Advance tickets were available at the Food Coop, Quimper Sound or Artisans On Taylor, in Port Townsend.  Online at Brown Paper Tickets (Reasonable fees applied).

Tuesday -
Jul. 22, 2008

Friday -
Jul. 25, 2008

5:30PM

 6:30PM

Lummi Island, WA
Lummi Beach School grounds  -  3786 Centerview Rd

Parade  -  starting at the ferry landing area

Vaudeville Extravaganza
 -  at Lummi School grounds

                        Picnics welcome

The Flying Karamazov Brothers * Hacki * Faith Petric * Haute Trash Fashion Show * Joey Pipia * Foolio * Kaiyama * Harry Levine * KAZUM! * Women of the Future * Snowcub * Kevin Murphy * Super Noodlini Family * Kym Trippsmith * The Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra

Tickets were:

$6 $3 FREE

Adult 6 to 18 years old under 6

Tickets were on sale at the show.

Partner:

Beach School PTO

Sunday -
Jul. 27, 2008 

11:45AM

1:00  to  3:30PM
 
 
 4:00  to  6:30PM

Bellingham, WA
Boulevard Park

Parade  -  Old Fairhaven Business District

Free Educational Circus
Circus skills funshops and nautical workshops  -  See workshop list below
 
Vaudeville Extravaganza
& Community Picnic  -  Boulevard Park

The Flying Karamazov Brothers * Hacki * Faith Petric * Islando and Ukoiya * Haute Trash Fashion Show * Vern and Dream * KAZUM! * Kaiyama * Harry Levine * Dana Lyons * Nobody's Fools * Women of the Future * Snowcub * Juggling Jollies * Smerdyakov Karamazov * Kevin Murphy * Foolio * Super Noodlini Family * Kym Trippsmith * The Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra

It was suggested that one bring one's family, a picnic and a blanket and enjoy a FREE Vaudeville Variety Show with all the bells and whistles!   ...and many, many folks did that very thing...   

All events were FREE

Partners:

Bellingham Parks and Recreation and
Community Food Coop

Thursday -
Jul. 31, 2008
 

 
Time TBD

1:00  to  4:00PM
 

4:30  to  6:00PM

 7:00  to  9:30PM

Langley, WA
Island County Fairgrounds (Workshops)  &
Langley Middle School Auditorium (Show)

Parade

Free Educational Circus
Circus skills funshops and nautical workshops  -  See workshop list below

Community Potluck

Vaudeville Extravaganza

The Flying Karamazov Brothers * Jim Page * Hacki * Faith Petric * Haute Trash Fashion Show * KAZUM! * Tune Stranglers * Kaiyama * Smerdyakov Karamazov * Women of the Future * Snowcub * Foolio * Super Noodlini Family * Kym Trippsmith * The Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra

Partners:

Island Coffeehouse and Books  (a youth run business), South Whidbey Commons
and South Whidbey Tilth

Tickets were:

$12   General Admission
$8     Folks under 13, over 65 or with disabilities

Advance tickets were available online at Brown Paper Tickets (Reasonable fees applied).

Saturday & Sunday -
Aug. 2 & 3, 2008

Port Gamble, WA

Saturday
 

 Throughout the day
 

 10:30AM  and  4PM

Port Gamble, WA
 

Free Educational Circus  -  various locations
Circus skills funshops and nautical workshops  -  See workshop list below

Vaudeville Extravaganzas
 -  Main Stage

The Flying Karamazov Brothers * Jim Page * Hacki * Faith Petric * Haute Trash Fashion Show * KAZUM! * Jonathan Rose * Tune Stranglers * Women of the Future * Juggling Jollies * Fyodor Karamazov * Kaiyama * Snowcub * Tune Stranglers * Foolio * Super Noodlini Family * Smerdyakov Karamazov * Kym Trippsmith * The Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra

Sunday
 

  Throughout the day
 

 1:00PM

Port Gamble, WA
 

Free Educational Circus  -  various locations
Circus skills funshops and nautical workshops  -  See workshop list below

Vaudeville Extravaganza
 -  Main Stage

The Flying Karamazov Brothers * Jim Page * Hacki * Faith Petric * Haute Trash Fashion Show * KAZUM! * Jonathan Rose * Tune Stranglers * Women of the Future * Nanda * Fyodor Karamazov * Kaiyama * Snowcub * Tune Stranglers * Foolio * Super Noodlini Family * Smerdyakov Karamazov * Kym Trippsmith * The Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra

Partner:

Great Peninsula Future Festival

Workshops on the Aqua Chautauqua Tour included :

Juggling

(Chautauqua Jugglers)  -  What goes up must come down!

Song Swap

(Faith Petric)  -  Pass the guitar around and share song. Bring instruments and tunes!

Samba Drumming

(Chautauqua drummers)  -  Learn exciting rhythms and be in the parade!

Clowning

(Hacki and Moeppi)  -  Physical Comedy - It's more than red noses and great big shoes...

Hula Hoop

(Vannesa Vortex)  -  Make your own hoop and learn some funky moves!

Community Quilts

(Chautauqua quilters)  -  Make quilts for local at-risk infants

Native American Storytelling

(David Ortiz)  -  Old tales made new with coyotes and flute

Trash Fashion

(Robin Worley)  -  You'll never look at your garbage the same way again!

Acrobatics-Gymnastics

(KAZUM, Vern, Dream)  -  Turn your world upside down and sideways

Knot-tying

(Puget Sound Explorers)  -  Nautical knots

Sea Chanteys

(Puget Sound Explorers)  -  Songs of life and lore of the sea

Nautical Storytelling

(Puget Sound Explorers)  -  Mostly true tales of the sea

Mask-making

(Robyn Albro)  -  A few feathers, jewels, colored markers, imagination and VOILA! A magical masterpiece!

Puppet Show

(Steve Horstmann and Claribel Gross)  -  Watch a show and make your own puppets

Salish Sea
Historical Lecture

(John Cloud)  -  Learn about the local waters from a NOAA geographer with a passion for sailing.

Juggling Workshop

Friday
Feb. 15, 2008

8:00 PM

Grass Valley , CA

Vaudeville Shows

Did befit and benefit both
New Old Time Chautauqua and Hospitality House

and featured

Saint Joseph's Cultural Center
410 South Church Street
Grass Valley, CA

Besides The Flying Karamazov Brothers, these shows featured the wonderful:

• Haute Trash Fashion Show, Eco-chic and Local
• Jim Page, Folk Music with Teeth (Sat. & Sun.)
• Jan Damm, Not Your Average Clown
• Tom Noddy, the World's Best and Most Amusing Bubblician (Sat. & Sun.)
• The Fabulous Footlights Tap Dance Duo, Toes Tiranoff and Megan Haungs
• Citizen's Band, Anarcoustic Music (Sat. & Sun.)
• Stephen Bent, Bent Juggling  (Fri. & Sat.)
• Faith Petric, Fort Knox of Folk Music
• Kym Trippsmith, a Tune or Tu (Fri. Only)
• and Other Surprised Guests
• All accompanied by the Inimitable and Immutable
   Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra

Tickets were:
              $20  General
              $15   Folks under 13, over 65, or with disabilities

Saturday
Feb. 16, 2008

8:00 PM

Sunday
Feb. 17, 2008

2:00 PM

Aqua Chautauqua sails the Salish Sea

— Port Townsend, July 1, 2008

On Saturday, July 19, the New Old Time Chautauqua will present a day of community fun at Fort Worden's Littlefield Green and McCurdy Pavilion.

From 1-4 PM, Littlefield Green will come alive with an Educational Circus - a puppet show, circus skills funshops and nautical workshops. You can learn to juggle, hula-hoop, perform acrobatics, play samba rhythms, clown, or mystify friends with a magic trick. Other activities include mask-making, trash fashions made from recycled materials, quilting ("blankees" - for local at-risk infants), and a song swap (bring your musical instruments and songs). Maritime workshops include knot-tying, sea chanteys, nautical storytelling, a Salish Sea historical lecture and how to use GPS.

From 4:30-6 PM the community is invited to an old-fashioned Community Potluck - a great opportunity to lay out a blanket, share food and picnic with your neighbors, meet and chat with Chautauqua performers and teachers in a relaxed atmosphere, and enjoy the talents of local musicians.

In the McCurdy Pavilion at 7 PM, The Flying Karamazov Brothers will host a family-friendly, all the bell and whistles, madcap evening of music, juggling, magic, acrobatics, clowning, aerial acts and comedy. The show will feature legendary folksinger Faith Petric, Hacki (winner of the European "Golden Nose" award for clowning), lyrical aerialists Duo Madrona, the Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra plus many more of the multi-generational troupe.

The evening show will benefit the Youth Education Programs of the Northwest Maritime Center & Wooden Boat Foundation and the New Old Time Chautauqua.

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This day of events will be the first in a series of Aqua Chautauqua Tour stops. The journey will begin in Port Townsend and end in Port Gamble, by way of Lopez, Waldron and Lummi Islands, Bellingham, and Langley. Non profit partners will include youth programs, Tilth and sustainability groups.

The voyage is a unique Jefferson County partnership between Chautauqua, Wooden Boat Foundation, and NW Maritime Center, Puget Sound Explorer youth, local boats, captains and crew. Chautauqua has been touring since 1981, but this is the first time the journey will be on boats. "This is a great tour - Chautauquans are excited about being on the water and the Boat Folks are excited about running away with the circus!" says Joannie Murayama, one of the organizers of Aqua Chautauqua.

This tour's plans began when Chautauqua was invited to be a part of the Great Peninsula Future Festival, a sustainability fair in Port Gamble. Paul Magid, one of the founders of both Chautauqua and the Flying Karamazov Brothers, suggested that Chautauqua do the whole tour by boat. Being an avid sailor, Paul has long dreamed of putting Chautauqua on the water.

Since community-building, education and the well-being of children are important issues to Chautauqua, a partnership with the Puget Sound Explorers seemed like a great fit. Puget Sound Explorers, a youth educational program of the Northwest Maritime Center & Wooden Boat Foundation, partners with Port Townsend and Chimacum Schools.

The Wooden Boat Foundation's Wayne Chimenti had been working on a boat voyage for the summer, and the Aqua Chautauqua idea came at a perfect time. It seemed like a unique experience of sailing, performing and living in a nomadic multi-generational community (6 to 93 years old). Ten Puget Sound Explorers, of middle and high school age, will sail two boats, the Wooden Boat Foundation's Dorjun and Chimenti's Fellowship. As part of Chautauqua's circus skill and educational workshops, the Puget Sound Explorers will teach nautical workshops - knot-tying, sea chanteys and maritime stories.

Chautauqua has a personal interest in the Puget Sound Explorer program. Several Chautauquans are alumni, including the Nanda acrobaticalists Misha Fradin, Tomoki and Kiyota Sage. They learned maritime skills such as map and compass reading, knot-tying, rowing, sailing, and singing sea chanteys. They also learned about the importance of teamwork, common sense, leadership and responding quickly to change - valuable lessons for a performance ensemble whose signature characteristics are precision, instinct and innovation.

Chautauquans Misha Fradin and Evan Neville credit the Puget Sound Explorers, ICE and Pi school programs and, specifically, teacher Marci van Cleve for "pushing them hard, with caring support". It was Marci's support that "got them through high school".

Chautauqua is honored to support educational programs such as Puget Sound Explorers.

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To learn more, visit: Northwest Maritime Center & Wooden Boat Foundation http://www.nwmaritime.org

To return to the Port Townsend schedule above, click here.