Thursday Artist Talk: Blake Hobson-Dimas, “Developing your Clown in the Pursuit of Magic”

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Cost: Free

Practicing the art of clown, fibre arts, and physical embodiment, interdisciplinary artist Blake Hobson-Dimas will share how he combines these forms into live performances. His talk will focus on the importance of developing an artist-clown relationship and the creative benefits that can be gained. He will give example of unique, finalized characters and a description of the mental and physical practices of embodiment that brought them to life.

Along the way, Hobson-Dimas will illuminate his creative process and teach up-and-coming artists how to approach the most daunting question of all, “What do I want to create?”

About the Artist
Blake Hobson-Dimas is a Mexican-Canadian artist currently based in Surrey and Burnaby. Over a decade of classical acting training has refined his practice into a labour-intensive creation methodology that he uses to devise live theatre performances. His main three disciplines are clown, fibre arts, and physical movement. Blake has been actively leading workshops centred around his techniques for the past three years at the BC Thespians Festival while continuing to hone his craft at the SFU School of Contemporary Arts in Vancouver.
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