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<strong>Nov</strong>ember/<strong>Dec</strong>ember, <strong>1998</strong><br />
Peppermint--<br />
From preceding page<br />
involved with arts and crafts, or involved with the performing<br />
arts. The program lasted two years. Karen taught children<br />
the history of clowning, the different types of clowning from<br />
around the world. She also instructed them in makeup,<br />
costuming, character building, magic, balloon art and<br />
juggling. The program took over her life. She taught eight<br />
different groups of 15 children per class. Classes were two<br />
hours long, twice a day, four days a week for 11 weeks.<br />
Later that year Karen was asked by a large fundraising\organization<br />
to attend their weekly meetings and<br />
entertain the staff in a different character that would fit with<br />
their theme of the week. She saw this as a big challenge,<br />
but did not realize how much work would be involved. As a<br />
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result, Karen developed several characters that she<br />
continued to use after the meetings. But after a few years,<br />
she retired many of the characters and focused on one -<br />
"Peppermint."<br />
Karen's career then escalated rapidly. When the TAG<br />
program ended in 1991, she went into clowning full time,<br />
teaching and performing at regional and national clown<br />
conventions, clown alleys and magic groups.<br />
A year later, she got involved with the local clown club,<br />
Rose City Clown Alley #196, and became active performing<br />
at charity events and local festivals. In 1994, Karen was cochair<br />
of the COAi Annual Convention in Portland. She<br />
currently is Director to the Northwest Comedifest, a position<br />
she has held since 1995. Now one of the Northwest's top<br />
clowns, Karen is well known in the Portland metropolitan<br />
area for her famous "Peppermint Party." The author of two<br />
books on birthday parties, she has written eight articles on<br />
birthday parties for The New Calliope.with more to come<br />
(see page 8.). She's an experienced fire eater and<br />
magicianne, and is also a talent agent, providing quality<br />
entertainers for various events.<br />
Whether she is entertaining for a birthday party or<br />
company picnic, Karen combines comedy magic, face<br />
painting and balloon sculpture to present a show especially<br />
suited for the child or company.It is common for a customer<br />
to arrange their event dates to accommodate Karen's busy<br />
schedule.<br />
Karen believes that if you don't continue learning, you<br />
become stale: "Your audience changes every day. The<br />
world changes every day. You need to stay current with the<br />
latest things."<br />
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She says that being a clown is a lot like being a doctor:<br />
You have to continue educating yourself, continue to grow<br />
and learn, otherwise you limit yourself.<br />
Karen first applied makeup 18 years ago to attend a<br />
Halloween party and took an award. Since that first award,<br />
she has taken several others, not because of her skills as a<br />
seamstress but for her skills as a clown. The awards do not<br />
matter as much to her as the commitment she has made to<br />
her art. She wants to touch her audience through her<br />
performances, and she wants to reach her students<br />
through her teachings.<br />
"You really need to clown from the heart," she says.<br />
"Don't worry about the money; it will come. Explore every<br />
aspect of clowning: hospitals, charity work, libraries,<br />
schools, birthday parties, company picnics, and all. Read,<br />
watch, take classes, learn and do it."<br />
Karen concludes: "My belief always has been that<br />
everyone should experience a quality clown, whether it is<br />
me or someone else."
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