Bill Forchion to facilitate 2 workshops April 23 at NECCA
Mar 10, 2017
Bill Forchion will facilitate two workshops at the New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA) spring workshop weekend Sunday, April 23, 2017. The first workshop: "Mask making 101: Face Casting" will have Bill paired with Kali Quinn to pass on the skill and technique of making a face cast for use in the mask making process. Students will leave the workshop with the face casts they have made. For the second workshop Bill will be teaming up with Billy Higgins for "Creating space for creative genius". Creating space for creative genius is a workshop designed to access new ways to tap into the creative genius in all of us. Workshop participants will leave with practical tools and technique for the creative process. Refining and attuning our ability
to create with genius is a trainable skill set, moving the seeds of
creative work that makes an impact from lucky phenomenon into regular
practice. For more information on the workshops check out the NECCA website.
Bill to perform at Atlas Intersections Festival March 4
Feb 1, 2017
Bill Forchion will perform in the Zip Zap Circus benefit March 4, 2017 as a part of the Atlas Intersections Festival. Bill as Clown / Philosopher, will provide a thread tying together the benefit performance. For more information on the performance and ticketing check out the Atlas Intersections Festival web page.
Billosophy: meditations on GOD, movement and miracles written by Bill Forchion is now available at Amazon.com. Actor, Clown, Director, Stuntman, Acrobat, Lifeguard, Reiki master, Minister, award winning Filmmaker, Father, Husband, Brother, Son are only a few of the accomplishments Bill Forchion has attained in his lifetime. This book is a collection of the stories of a life lived fully and the impact those moments have made. With stories of putting on his first pair of glasses to discovering deep love to accompanying a friend to the end of her life Bill shares a unique wisdom about what it means to live. Some may call these stories from the heart yet within each reader will experience words from the soul.Billosophy a memoir routed in deep thought is Bill's first book. Get your copy now.
Billosophy; Life ~ Circus ~ Death will be presented in the Art Barn at Hilltop Montessori School, 99 Stafford Farm Hill, Brattleboro, VT Nov. 11 @ 8pm and Nov 12 @ 8pm. Billosophy is a one man storytelling, clowning, mime piece of absurdity that is guaranteed to make you feel. Billosophy premiered in September 2016 at the Philadephia Fringe Festival where it received a 4 star review from Tim Dunleavy of DC Metro Theater Arts. Tickets are available at www.brownpapertickets.com or at the door.
Billosophy: Life ~ Circus ~ Death, a one man show performed by Bill Forchion will make its world premiere at the 2016 Phila Fringe Festival. The show, a unique physical theater experience is an intimate conversation about life and death and things in between, namely circus. For the past two and half decades Mr. Forchion has performed international with the likes of Cirque du Soleil, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, The Big Apple Circus Clown Care unit and Vermont’s Nimble Arts Troupe. Bill has also been a stuntman for motion pictures and television. Billosophy is Bill’s first solo creation. The show was Directed by Vermont author and director Peter Gould one half of the clown theater team of Gould and Stearns. As Mr. Forchion says about his new show: “you may laugh, you may cry but you are guaranteed to feel” during this show. The show will be presented at the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, 5900 Greene Street, Phila, PA. tel. 215-849-1991, Performances will be Sept 15, 16, 17, 18 and Sept. 23, 24. For Showtimes check: www.fringearts.com/event/billosphy-life-circus-death
