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Cole Brothers Circus hits Bonita to entertain 'children of all ages'
The BIGGEST stars of the evening were the Asian Elephants during the 127th Edition of Cole Bros. Circus of the Stars at the Naples - Fort Myers Greyhound Track in Bonita Springs, Friday November 25, 2011. John M. Wissocki / Daily News CorrespondentBy JOHN M. WISSOCKI
Naples Daily News
Posted November 26, 2011
BONITA SPRINGS — Once again, for a Thanksgiving weekend treat, Cole Bros. Circus of the Stars entertained S.W. Florida with its international cast of daredevils, aerialists, acrobats, jugglers and exotic animal performers during the 127th edition of their event.
The Naples-Fort Myers Greyhound Track located in Bonita Springs had a slight change of color this weekend. A large 29,000 square foot red and yellow tent stood 45 feet tall and could be seen for miles. What was found under the tent was quite amazing.
The excitement began with hundreds of Circus lovers gathering under the big top rising to their feet for the National Anthem. This was followed by Ringmaster, Chris Connors bringing them a show like no other as trainers Judit and Juergen Nerger awed the fans with an assemblage of Royal Bengal Tigers.
The "biggest" stars of the evening were the Asian Elephants who danced and performed to the delight of the audience. There were even elephant rides that all ages lined up for.
Throughout the evening a variety of clowns entertained everyone with their comedy and balancing, acrobatic, aerialist and thrill performances that made the audience hold their breath.
Chris Bryant, 11, of Fort Myers stated “this is definitely the best show I’ve ever gone to” while Chris’s dad, George Bryant added the usual “It’s the greatest show on earth”.
As the evening came to a close, all eyes were on Jose Bermudez as he burst from the barrel of The World's Largest Cannon. This proved to be the perfect way to end the Thanksgiving celebration with family and friends for all who attended.
The Naples-Fort Myers Greyhound Track located in Bonita Springs had a slight change of color this weekend. A large 29,000 square foot red and yellow tent stood 45 feet tall and could be seen for miles. What was found under the tent was quite amazing.
The excitement began with hundreds of Circus lovers gathering under the big top rising to their feet for the National Anthem. This was followed by Ringmaster, Chris Connors bringing them a show like no other as trainers Judit and Juergen Nerger awed the fans with an assemblage of Royal Bengal Tigers.
The "biggest" stars of the evening were the Asian Elephants who danced and performed to the delight of the audience. There were even elephant rides that all ages lined up for.
Throughout the evening a variety of clowns entertained everyone with their comedy and balancing, acrobatic, aerialist and thrill performances that made the audience hold their breath.
Chris Bryant, 11, of Fort Myers stated “this is definitely the best show I’ve ever gone to” while Chris’s dad, George Bryant added the usual “It’s the greatest show on earth”.
As the evening came to a close, all eyes were on Jose Bermudez as he burst from the barrel of The World's Largest Cannon. This proved to be the perfect way to end the Thanksgiving celebration with family and friends for all who attended.
Circus Vargas comes to Santa Anita
Angels of the air perform during Circus Vargas animal free show at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. (SGVN/Staff Photo by Keith Birmingham)from: pasadenastarnews.com
Posted: 11/26/2011
ARCADIA - Circus Vargas is staging its animal-free show at Santa Anita Park for the first time through Dec. 5 in the racetrack's southwest parking lot.
The circus, which started its 11-day run on Thanksgiving Day, provides entertainment, lighting and music inside its 147-foot diameter blue and gold big-top tent.
The current edition of Circus Vargas, which includes aerialists, acrobats and comedians, takes spectators on "an artistic journey, encompassing the cultures of the world" in a series of vignettes depicting a traveling circus performer, according to Circus Vargas.
The show does not have mechanical rides, games of chance or sell alcohol. Read more: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_19416508#ixzz1etv5jxJG
The circus, which started its 11-day run on Thanksgiving Day, provides entertainment, lighting and music inside its 147-foot diameter blue and gold big-top tent.
The current edition of Circus Vargas, which includes aerialists, acrobats and comedians, takes spectators on "an artistic journey, encompassing the cultures of the world" in a series of vignettes depicting a traveling circus performer, according to Circus Vargas.
The show does not have mechanical rides, games of chance or sell alcohol. Read more: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_19416508#ixzz1etv5jxJG
The show must go off
NICA student Taka Yuki Seki shows off his amazing skill in preparation for the Circus Showcase. Picture: STEVEN CRABTREEBy Nicole Cridland
From: stonnington-leader.whereilive.com.au
27 Nov 2011
RISING young circus stars will showcase their skills in Prahran’s National Institute of Circus Arts graduation performances.
The Circus Showcase is the culmination of three years of intense training, as part of Australia’s only Bachelor of Circus Arts.
Signature acts developed over three years will wow audiences with their technical skill and performance panache in 10 performances starting tomorrow.
Graduate Bryan Talaga chose circus over a career as a music teacher.
The 23-year-old has no regrets about leaving his home country of Canada for Australia’s warmer climate and circus training.
The multi-talented acrobat and juggler says he still gets to play the trumpet as part of a juggling act that also involves a unicycle.
Fellow graduate Sam Aldham, 29, of Windsor, turned to the institute for formal training after completing some short courses on offer.
The Circus Showcase is on until December 3. Tickets $18-$28. Click here for session times and bookings.
To view more picsfrom NICA, go to stonningtonleader.com.au
The Circus Showcase is the culmination of three years of intense training, as part of Australia’s only Bachelor of Circus Arts.
Signature acts developed over three years will wow audiences with their technical skill and performance panache in 10 performances starting tomorrow.
Graduate Bryan Talaga chose circus over a career as a music teacher.
The 23-year-old has no regrets about leaving his home country of Canada for Australia’s warmer climate and circus training.
The multi-talented acrobat and juggler says he still gets to play the trumpet as part of a juggling act that also involves a unicycle.
Fellow graduate Sam Aldham, 29, of Windsor, turned to the institute for formal training after completing some short courses on offer.
The Circus Showcase is on until December 3. Tickets $18-$28. Click here for session times and bookings.
To view more picsfrom NICA, go to stonningtonleader.com.au
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Shrine Circus is underway today through Sunday in Kenner
Circus performer Dulce Vital spins while being suspended from the ceiling of Pontchartrain Center during the Jerusalem Shrine Circus in Kenner Friday, November 23, 2007. By Quo Vadis Hollins, The Times-Picayune
Published: Friday, November 25, 2011
It’s going to be a flurry of family fun when the Jerusalem Temple Shriners present the 65th annual Shrine Circus in Kenner. Performances will be held today and Saturday at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday at 2 and 6:30 p.m. at the Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd.John Williamson, Shriner recorder, said this year’s production will be run by George Carden Circus International.
“We have had the same circus for more than 20 years, and this time we decided to do something a little different,” Williamson said.
Organizers hope to delight guests with aerialists, a high-wire act, lions, tigers, elephants, acrobats, motorcycle and bicycle daredevils and, of course, clowns.
The doors will open one hour before the show, and guests will have the opportunity to ride elephants, take pictures and meet the clowns.
Through the years, the Shriners circus has been a popular attraction for families. To ensure that every student has an opportunity to enjoy the performance, the Shriners have provided vouchers to students in schools in Jefferson, Orleans, Lafourche, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany and Terrebonne parishes.
“We are hoping that this will be the best year ever,” Williamson said.
During each show’s intermission, the Shriners will award one boy and one girl a bicycle. Children may sign up for the giveaway through a coupon offered in the show’s program.Proceeds from the circus benefit the local Shrine in Destrehan and its community activities. The circus is the organization’s largest fundraising event.
Tickets cost $27 for reserved seats or $20 for adults and $14 for children general admission.
“We have had the same circus for more than 20 years, and this time we decided to do something a little different,” Williamson said.
Organizers hope to delight guests with aerialists, a high-wire act, lions, tigers, elephants, acrobats, motorcycle and bicycle daredevils and, of course, clowns.
The doors will open one hour before the show, and guests will have the opportunity to ride elephants, take pictures and meet the clowns.
Through the years, the Shriners circus has been a popular attraction for families. To ensure that every student has an opportunity to enjoy the performance, the Shriners have provided vouchers to students in schools in Jefferson, Orleans, Lafourche, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany and Terrebonne parishes.
“We are hoping that this will be the best year ever,” Williamson said.
During each show’s intermission, the Shriners will award one boy and one girl a bicycle. Children may sign up for the giveaway through a coupon offered in the show’s program.Proceeds from the circus benefit the local Shrine in Destrehan and its community activities. The circus is the organization’s largest fundraising event.
Tickets cost $27 for reserved seats or $20 for adults and $14 for children general admission.
Alexander Calder performs his "Circus" - Whitney Museum WhitneyFocus
Uploaded by WhitneyFocus on Oct 23, 2008
From Oct. 16, 2008 - Feb. 15, 2009, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York presents "Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933" http://www.whitney.org/calder, a new look at the artists early years when his radical innovations included open-air wire sculptures, his beloved and important miniature "Circus", and the creation of a new artform, the mobile. This video excerpts scenes of Calder performing the "Circus" from a 1955 film by Jean Painleve
Uploaded by WhitneyFocus on Oct 23, 2008
From Oct. 16, 2008 - Feb. 15, 2009, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York presents "Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933" http://www.whitney.org/calder, a new look at the artists early years when his radical innovations included open-air wire sculptures, his beloved and important miniature "Circus", and the creation of a new artform, the mobile. This video excerpts scenes of Calder performing the "Circus" from a 1955 film by Jean Painleve
Berks & Beyond: Model trains call Fleetwood depot home
Reading Eagle: Ryan McFadden Jim Herbein of Fleetwood with his model train display in a former depot.Ron Devlin
Reading Eagle
Originally Published: 11/26/2011
When Jim Herbein was growing up in Fleetwood, he'd catch a ride on a Reading Co. steam locomotive delivering freight to his grandfather's depot, A.R. Hoffman Lumber & Coal.
More than 50 years later, he's still riding the rails.
Herbein, 65, is chief engineer on a model railroad located in the depot, a quaint clapboard structure built in 1865.
Over countless hours, Herbein has painstakingly recreated a miniature representation of a bygone era when locomotives were the economic engines of their time.
"It was those rides on the steam engine when he was a boy," said Cindy Herbein, 57, Jim's wife. "That's what got him so interested in trains."
On Friday, Herbein opened his model train display to the public free of charge. The Herbein Line will run weekends through Dec. 23, with Santa Claus visiting next Saturday.
Reading Eagle: Ryan McFadden Jim Herbein of Fleetwood works on a trolley at his model train display in a former depot.
Reading Eagle: Ryan McFadden Jim Herbein's model train display in a former Fleetwood depot.
Reading Eagle: Ryan McFadden Jim Herbein's model train display in a former Fleetwood depot.
Reading Eagle: Ryan McFadden Jim Herbein's model train display in a former Fleetwood depot.
Reading Eagle: Ryan McFadden Part of Jim Herbein's model train display in a former Fleetwod depotFriday, November 25, 2011
First Ford Center circus a lot of clowning around
KYLE GRANTHAM / Courier & PressClowns parade through the Ford Center during the opening day of the Hadi Shrine Circus in Evansville on Thursday.
By Arek Sarkissian II
Evansville Courier & Press
Posted November 24, 2011
EVANSVILLE — Sniffles the Clown gathered balloons behind the big curtain of the Ford Center on Thursday afternoon preparing to let go of reality.
With a little paint, some goofy clothes and silly attitude, Sniffles, also known as Evansville resident Wes Whiteside, said nine years of training with the Hadi Funsters helped bring his knack for nonsense to center stage at will.
"We want to make sure everyone leaves with a smile on their face," he said, adding his secret is to know when to let go of his regular self. "You have to learn to be someone that you're not.
"Just go out and have a good time."
Sniffles was one of the group of Hadi Shriners who helped put on their 78th annual circus, which kicked off Thursday at the still sparkling Downtown facility. Hadi Shrine spokesman Brian Ball said there were no problems moving the show from Roberts Stadium. Some of the few differences were that the size of the new facility required more lights and flooring.
With a little paint, some goofy clothes and silly attitude, Sniffles, also known as Evansville resident Wes Whiteside, said nine years of training with the Hadi Funsters helped bring his knack for nonsense to center stage at will.
"We want to make sure everyone leaves with a smile on their face," he said, adding his secret is to know when to let go of his regular self. "You have to learn to be someone that you're not.
"Just go out and have a good time."
Sniffles was one of the group of Hadi Shriners who helped put on their 78th annual circus, which kicked off Thursday at the still sparkling Downtown facility. Hadi Shrine spokesman Brian Ball said there were no problems moving the show from Roberts Stadium. Some of the few differences were that the size of the new facility required more lights and flooring.
KYLE GRANTHAM / Courier & PressA poodle in a skirt follows it's trainer through one of the rings at the Hadi Shrine Circus at the Ford Center on Thursday.
"We were just saying this morning that it was actually like setting up at Roberts, again," he said. "Everything just seemed to flow perfectly and everyone worked quite well."
Ball said the Shrine Circus is the last in North America to use a live orchestra playing for every performance. It also is one of the few remaining three-ring circuses, he said.
Another difference is that each act to perform in the circus is hired separately, and they are brought together to make the entire show. Proceeds from the circus will stay in Evansville and will be used to support the Hadi Shrine facility, which in turn provides events like Shrinersfest to benefit the community, he said.
Ball said those who saw the show on Thursday should expect a similar version through the weekends. And adults who toted the kids along but want to see it again on their own should not feel alone.
KYLE GRANTHAM / Courier & Press
"Ernestina" hangs and spins from her neck above the Ford Center floor during aerial acrobatic performances at the Hadi Shrine Circus on Thursday.
"It's not just mom and dad bringing their kids – it's grandparents bringing their grandkids," he said. "But we also have grown adults continuing to love the circus."
Rick "Outback Jack" Smallwood said he has been a Hadi clown for 26 years, and each installment improves. Outback Jack said he is a legacy of such clowns. His father became a clown as a young man.
"Then I came in and when my father passed away, my son came in," he said. "It's a family tradition."
Liz Robling and her family eagerly waited for the show to begin standing on the arena's large concourse. She said although it wasn't her first circus, it was for the facility.
"It's a nice arena," she said, adding of the circus, "I hope it was like it was at Roberts Stadium."
Azad Kabir and his family also were anxious for the circus to begin. He also said the atmosphere generated by the show was electric.
"It really is very nice," he said.
The circus will take place through Sunday.
For more details, go online to hadishrinecircus.com.
"We were just saying this morning that it was actually like setting up at Roberts, again," he said. "Everything just seemed to flow perfectly and everyone worked quite well."
Ball said the Shrine Circus is the last in North America to use a live orchestra playing for every performance. It also is one of the few remaining three-ring circuses, he said.
Another difference is that each act to perform in the circus is hired separately, and they are brought together to make the entire show. Proceeds from the circus will stay in Evansville and will be used to support the Hadi Shrine facility, which in turn provides events like Shrinersfest to benefit the community, he said.
Ball said those who saw the show on Thursday should expect a similar version through the weekends. And adults who toted the kids along but want to see it again on their own should not feel alone.
KYLE GRANTHAM / Courier & Press"Ernestina" hangs and spins from her neck above the Ford Center floor during aerial acrobatic performances at the Hadi Shrine Circus on Thursday.
"It's not just mom and dad bringing their kids – it's grandparents bringing their grandkids," he said. "But we also have grown adults continuing to love the circus."
Rick "Outback Jack" Smallwood said he has been a Hadi clown for 26 years, and each installment improves. Outback Jack said he is a legacy of such clowns. His father became a clown as a young man.
"Then I came in and when my father passed away, my son came in," he said. "It's a family tradition."
Liz Robling and her family eagerly waited for the show to begin standing on the arena's large concourse. She said although it wasn't her first circus, it was for the facility.
"It's a nice arena," she said, adding of the circus, "I hope it was like it was at Roberts Stadium."
Azad Kabir and his family also were anxious for the circus to begin. He also said the atmosphere generated by the show was electric.
"It really is very nice," he said.
The circus will take place through Sunday.
For more details, go online to hadishrinecircus.com.
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