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We keep adding more inspiring tales of transformation every week to our I Am a WiseFoolian page – check out Fantina Becker’s post below and click thru here to read more peoples stories!

“I am so grateful for the safe space that WiseFool holds for all of us! I feel free to be myself and to create art through movement with the WiseFool community. When I’m not learning, expressing, performing, or teaching at WiseFool, I am an attorney who most definitely could not do my job well without the balance I find here. I have witnessed so many beautiful transformations here because this is an inclusive community, full of heart and soul. I have seen folks find their voice and a platform to be free, authentic, and engaged. I have seen folks come home to their bodies, and from that place begin to know what it is to truly Love themselves. I can recognize it in others because that is what happened for me. WiseFool has created a space where we are able to question the systems that we have inherited but that need not define us. It is a community where we lift each other up, encourage each other, dismantle stereotypes, and become strong to offer resistance to the established structures of oppression so that we can all be more whole, healthy, strong, creative, and free.
WiseFool opened my heart, body, and mind to possibilities never before dreamed. I am proud to be a WiseFoolian! I am home with WiseFool.” – Fantina Becker  

photo by Gabriella Marks Photography

For the next weeks, we’ll be sharing stories of our community members and how their lives have changed through grit, courage, community, and of course…circus! Click here to visit the #IAmAWiseFoolian page and read their stories. 

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Wise Fool Performers Deirdre Africa and Zeke Farrell rocked the Las Cruces Renn Faire on November 4th and 5th. “Wow”-ing the crowds with their stiltwalking wizards, magical purple stilt horse, and of course hours of hands on circus fun for kids and families was all in a days work for these two inspiring Wise Fools!

Thanks Las Cruces for sharing the Circus Love with us!!

Wise Fool loves bringing our special brand of celebratory fun to events across the state and beyond. To find out more about booking Wise Fool click here!

Wise Fool will be offering hands on circus fun at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum’s Weird Science Halloween event this Saturday night October 29. The event runs from 4 to 7pm and Wise Fool artists will be leading a hands on circus zone from 5 to 6pm.

The event features weird experiments, a costume parade, a bouncy house, crazy photo booth, family portraits and a performance of “Thriller.” PLUS keep an eye out for our Wise Fool performer Deirdre Africa brewing up a little Weird Science on her stilts from 5:30 to 6:30!

For more info click here

Wise Fool will be performing Too Much Noise at the final Wednesday Night Farmers Market of the year! FREE Show! Wednesday October 26 at 5:30pm at the Farmers Market Building in the Santa Fe Railyard

Too Much Noise is a participatory folk tale come to life!  This tale of a farmer, his animals and a very wise man will leave audience members laughing, creaking and mooing! Featuring life size animal puppets brought to life by young audience members. Great for young kids and their families.

This repertory show is available for your school or community event too!! Click here to see more about our fun family shows.

Wise Fool is excited to be attending the Mayor’s Awards Thursday Oct 20th to cheer on our amazing Wise Fool performer and teacher Zeke Farrell as he receives the Melissa Engstrom Youth Arts Award!  The awards honor “individuals making remarkable contributions to Santa Fe’s world-class arts community” and we can assure you that Zeke has made a truly remarkable contribution to Wise Fool’s community and programming over the past three years!

CONGRATS ZEKE!! We’re super proud of you and psyched to keep sharing community, art, and inspiration with you! Check out Zeke’s profile on the city site here

“This year’s awards once again highlight the diversity of artists and contributors in Santa Fe, by honoring those who create art as well as those who work to ensure access for all of the community,” states Mayor Gonzales. “It is my privilege to recognize each of them for their unique contributions.”

The selections are made based on careful consideration of community-generated nominations and shine a spotlight on the incredible work artists and others are doing in our community and the ever-increasing importance of the arts to Santa Fe.

Wise Fool’s touring outdoor spectacle production SeeSaw will be performing at SummerFest in Grand Circus Park, Detroit MI on Thursday August 25th – three shows! Presenting of our incredible all new cast! Click here to get more info on our shows in Detroit click here: Detroit SummerFest

For more info about the production SeeSaw created over the past 5 years by Wise Fool New Mexico and The Penasco Theater Collective and directed by Alessandra Ogren, please click thru to the SeeSaw page here.