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Whirlwind weekend topped off with a maraschino cherry 🍒! Last night I shared the stage with @ptrani and @tedslittledream and we kicked off @sfdesignweek at @adobe learning about the crazy new tools in photoshop and illustrator. Huge thank you to @meghanlovesdesign for asking me to present my work and journey to sf creatives. It’s so cool to be able to share my work with @hyphenlabs and my love for clown. Remember: if you’re depressed, lonely, cold, bored, or stuck- we have great medicine at @churchofclown !!! 🤡 #adobecreatenow #adobe #adobeillustrator #sfdesignweek

whoopsie’s side show is coming to @churchofclown on Saturday! Excited to open for @klowndra and juice’s new show Camp Orientation 🤡 and then hit the road to see mi familia and payasas de Mexico for a month. My birthday wish this year is to perform and thrive as a theater maker. Where do i start? The middle? ❤️🖤 #payasa #clown #mime

Also on the lineup for ArtPärdē Spectacle: Carmen Aguilar (@carmenaguilar.oops )! We are so excited to have our first ever clowning act and we can’t wait to watch her perform 🤡💫 Get your tickets for this Friday at @verdiclubsf ! Doors open at 6:30 with live music in the bar. Show from 7:30-9:30. 🎟️ Link in bio! Here’s a little more about Carmen: Flying along the edges of the world, Carmen Aguilar y Wedge, also known as Oops, is a designer, artist, and physical theater maker. A clown and mime she is a perpetual seeker of what she finds funny, has an affinity for moths, oversized clothes, enabling bad habits, and blurting things out before they’re fully formed. Oops!

Know anyone who wants to come to SF for the summer? Please share and send me someone careful, gentle, thoughtful and kind.

✨🔴 Artistas Vabieka Fest 2026✨ ¡Seguimos! Con mucha emoción te presentamos a las artistas que integran nuestra programación, quienes a lo largo del festival compartirán su trabajo, trayectoria y su poderosísima risa. Te presentamos a: ⭐️ Cía. Oops | Carmen Aguilar y Wedge | EUA Carmen Aguilar y Wedge (Whoopsie) es diseñadora, artista y creadora de teatro físico que canaliza la larga tradición de los payasos a través del clown y la pantomima. Un accidente y un milagro al mismo tiempo, su trabajo habita en los bordes del juego, la imaginación y el cuerpo. 🗓️ ¡Apunta la fecha! Del 24 al 31 de mayo en la ciudad de Puebla y del 2 al 8 de junio en las extensiones Zacatlán y Cuetzalan. ⭐️ Vabieka Fest, Festival Internacional de Payasas, a través del CAE Conciencia y Artes Escénicas A.C. @caepuebla es un proyecto apoyado por la Convocatoria de Apoyo a Festivales Culturales y Artísticos PROFEST de la Secretaría de Cultura. @culturamx @circuitosyfestivales Este programa es público, ajeno a cualquier partido político. Queda prohibido el uso para fines distintos a los establecidos en el programa. ¡Nos encontramos muy pronto! #SomosPayasas #florecerentiemposdelamáquina #PROFEST2026 #FestivalesPorLaPaz

Every third Sunday of the month. Hosted by Jessica Farber & Whoopsie Got a show coming up and want feedback? Craving an audience? Have a new idea you want to test? Want to develop something but don't know where to start? Bring it to Clown Jam—a space for physical theater makers to express and develop ideas, characters, and bits in front of others. No idea yet? Even better. Come ready to play and see what emerges. This isn't a class—it's open stage time for experimentation and feedback. Bring snacks, props, costumes, and whatever you need because here, we take silly seriously. Join local clowns Whoopsie & JFarb at Church of Clown. Everyone is welcome. $10-20 sliding scale donation helps us cover the space.

Gra won herself the Audience Award 🏆 at the @mtlclownfest ‼️ I was in shock when i heard my name am honored to be amongst such great performers including the Grand Imbecile himself @isaackessler 🥇and the Rebel 🏅 @jeremachin 🌀 our parents are so proud 🥹 Thank you to the judges @nessiesjeans @krinhaglund @g_blais @cotemariehelene and @vanessakneale for being such a great host!!! 🤡

San Francisco! I’m headed your way to work with @circusbella and to do a pop up Clown Workshop on Sunday May 24 6pm-9pm! Come have some fun! CircusBella.org/clown

🐸 The workshop ended with a public exhibition of speculative prototypes developed through humor, embodiment, and absurdity. Two days without using our computers produced strange projects included Rosetta Pickle — a fictional preserved object that functioned as both food archive and future weapon — and The Cult of Souvenirs, a series of speculative objects designed to preserve the sensory memory of Split. A public urination proposal to bring cross cultural tourists closer and address the mystery of beer culture and our biology, a sense forward - non-visual dating app and a sympoietic Balkan Grandma / Pigeon surveillance system. Across all the work, humor became more than entertainment. It became a tool for investigating uncertainty, contradiction, and the emotional realities hidden inside “serious” futures. Thank you to everyone who brought curiosity, weirdness, and generosity into the room. ✨ To @ela.raciti for all your help and to to the @interakcije_net and @speculativeedu Academy’s director Ivica Mitrović for taking a chance on our strange and surreal proposal.

🌀 18 students. 2 days in Split. One speculative design workshop centered on humor as a survival technology. At the Arts Academy in Split, we explored what happens when design moves away from solutions and toward absurdity. Through movement, improvisation, free writing, gibberish, and collective rituals of misnaming the world, participants used performance and play to investigate possible futures. Together we mapped fears, desires, and values across personal, communal, and planetary scales — uncovering themes of tourism, food systems, climate change, war, health, and disconnection as fuel for speculative worlds and artifacts. Sometimes the future needs analysis. Sometimes it needs a clown.

Can humor be a tool to help us survive in the future? May 4-6 I will be workshop the idea of humor as a survival technology through the lens of speculative and critical design. Alongside students, practitioners and multidisciplinary designers we will attempt to lubricate the creative process and exploring the crossroads where design, absurdity and play meet and co-exists. Thank you to @speculativeedu for giving me the space to explore disciplines of design and performance art (clown). See you soon!

Thawing out and reflecting after spending a week in Montreal with the Quebecois société joyeuses @mtlclownfest 🤡 Thank you @nessiesjeans @joe_de_paul @krinhaglund the performers, foolosophers and audiences! I got to attend brilliant - bizarre shows, workshops and a even got to attend a clownference where we examined our human foibles and resisted the worlds sharp edges by filling the air with colorful, silly and delightful laughter. 🖤🤍🖤🤍 Beautiful photos by @awesomephotography.ca Merci