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Apron 🎪🎡🌎 @apron.social · Apr 30
CALLING ALL ARTISTS & ENTERTAINERS! 🎪

Apron, the Amusement Professionals Network, is the only free-to-join international network for Entertainment Professionals.

We have a Facebook Page, Private FB Group, and non-FB Forum.

Do you do Carnivals, Circus, Sideshow, or Events/Gig Work? You qualify!
A Perfomer blows bubbles while balancing a staff on his head. He is wearing a white tank top, has stretched earlobes, and presumably in the bag behind him is more of his juggling props.
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May 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Percilla Bejano’s Wikipedia page is now live!!

One step of many toward preserving Carnival history and celebrating the immigrants and disabled people who laid the groundwork.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percilla_Bejano
Black and white photo of Percilla Bejano (The Monkey Girl) and her husband Emmitt Bejano (the Alligator Boy). She was born with hypertrichosis, and he was born with lamellar ichthyosis.
May 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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organizeworkers.bsky.social
Gossip Girl meme: "my job sucks" | "organize girl"
May 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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May 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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badatheist.bsky.social
Hell yeah I move through the world like a shooting star.

Don’t let others dull your shine.
January 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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silent13studios.bsky.social
Capture the flame. Imbibe the flame. Release the flame.
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Performer: Lena Fumi.
Production: Belle, Book, and Candle.
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#photography #photographer #burlesque #sexy #beautiful #dance #tease #fire #fireeater #liveperformance #canon #canonusa #canonphotography #silent13studios
May 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Night Carnival, Chicago, 1991
#carnival #nightphotography #filmphotography #kodachrome #kodak #chicago #rogerspark #originalphotography #brucesharp
A Kodachrome photo of the a traveling carnival, just after sunset. The photo was taken in 1991, near Morse Avenue in Chicago.
March 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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magpiespy.bsky.social
Evie, artificer/bard who works at a traveling carnival
A reference sheet of a satyr with fluffy white hair like sheep wool. They're dressed in jester-like attire with a green, white and red diamond pattern. Their horns have little jingly bells at the tips. The reference sheet also includes a carousel goat that's been brought to life through magic.
April 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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segyges.bsky.social
i knew one of those! he worked in the dunk tank at a carnival. he said his proudest moment was people trying to break into the tank to get at him
January 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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CALLING ALL ARTISTS & ENTERTAINERS! 🎪

Apron, the Amusement Professionals Network, is the only free-to-join international network for Entertainment Professionals.

We have a Facebook Page, Private FB Group, and non-FB Forum.

Do you do Carnivals, Circus, Sideshow, or Events/Gig Work? You qualify!
A Perfomer blows bubbles while balancing a staff on his head. He is wearing a white tank top, has stretched earlobes, and presumably in the bag behind him is more of his juggling props.
April 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Shockingly, Percilla Bejano does not have an English Wikipedia page (just on Spanish Wikipedia).

So, we made one. Fingers crossed it gets approved soon!

You can check out the draft version here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Percilla_Bejano
Draft:Percilla Bejano - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
May 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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bktallman.bsky.social
Here is another shot from my night at the carnival. Again, I felt that it worked best as a duotone. I really like this shot. Shot with my beast Fujifilm GSW690III and Portra 400. Converted in Lightroom and Photoshop.

#analog #filmphotography #kodak #portra400 #filmisnotdead #shootfilm
April 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Today in Circus History 🎪 On May 1st, 1934, Marie Novotna was born into a Czech circus and worked as a contortionist and wire dancer.

Marie’s act inspired Frantisek Faltynkovi to perform again. His own family had already retired and sent him to the army.

They married and started a new Circus ❤️
Black and white photo of Frantisek and Marie Faltynkovi in 1955, both on unicycles and holding hands. Frantisek has a red nose and clown makeup on.
May 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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punkrockhistory.bsky.social
47 years ago today
Paul Simonon from The Clash playing in front of a crowd at Rock Against Racism -> 'Carnival Against the Nazis' concert, April 30, 1978.

Photo by Syd Shelton

#punkrock #paulsimonon #theclash #fightracism #fucknazis #history #punkrockhistory #otd
April 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Cartoonist Larry Welz (of Cherry Poptart fame) talks about his old day job painting travelling carnival attractions with fellow underground comix artist Larry Todd for Todd's TCJ obit
I had been working with Greg Duncan for 10 years or so doing signage for amusement parks and ride fronts for carnivals. I met Greg through Ron Turner of Last Gasp. Greg would assemble teams of three or four people and send them to carnival shows, winter quarters, or midway lots at fairs, to paint mostly what they called “back-end pieces” – funhouses, mirror mazes, and dark rides that were usually clustered around the end of the midway. One day [my wife] Sharon said to me, “You should take Todd to go see Greg. He could paint rides.” Todd’s ears pricked up. So I did that and next thing you know, he and I are painting a funhouse. I remember we did dinosaurs on it. Todd took right to it. We painted lots of rides in lots of places over many years. These were big things, built on 40-foot trailers with 20-foot flaps that opened up on either side, so there’s 80 feet of sheet metal 15-feet high that’s parked out in the sun and the wind and the rain in the middle of nowhere, or in a really shitty part of town, that we had to apply this solvent based enamel to with four-inch rollers and one- and two-inch squirrel-hair brushes, cleaning them out with highly toxic lacquer thinner (until they banned that shit in California). It was death-defying art. It was painting really big pictures as fast as possible. It didn’t have to be good art, it just had to be attractive. They mostly weren’t actually rides, they were attractions, for the masses. Ron Henon, owner of some off-beat attractions, said, “The audience is your average drunk teenager.” So it was folk art. We were folk artists, like Joan Baez is a folk singer. Todd loved it. We could be as silly as we wanted. Todd drove Greg nuts with his futzing around, experimenting with different techniques, and taking longer than was budgeted, but we were still way faster than “real” artists would have been. The Mardis Gras mirror maze was popular, we must have done a hundred of them. “One of them has been spotted in low Earth orbit” Todd said. They were supposed to look the same every time, but of course Todd and I changed it up a little each time. Then there were the Wacky Shacks, the top-of-the-line funhouse with all the bells and whistles, which went for around a quarter of a million. They were huge, we did dozens of them. Dark rides were less frequent, and they were different each time. I was never really happy with the way any of the fronts came out, being a cranky old perfectionist, but it was an accomplishment after a week or more of hard work. They were big shiny things. The crews that ran the rides were proud of them. The crew at the trailer factory treated us with awe and respect, even when Todd managed to spill gallons of paint on himself from the overhead scaffolding. We were heroes, with awesome powers. Eventually the whole carnival show thing – excuse me, I mean the outdoor amusement industry – slowed way down. I finally quit, having become too old, feeble and irritable to continue. Todd kept going for I don’t know how long until Owen Trailers folded after three generations of owners. The paint jobs on these things would last up to ten years of being folded up, hauled thousands of miles and popped up at hundreds of shopping mall parking lots near you, after which they were painted over. Or sometimes the front would be reskinned and the old panels would be pulled off and thrown onto a pile of scrap metal. There are no surviving pieces being preserved and displayed. This was folk art. It lived and died out in the world. 'A carnival ride in Jurupa Valley, California, painted by Larry Todd and Larry Welz.' 'Carnival ride in Jurupa Valley, California, painted by Larry Todd and Larry Welz.'
October 26, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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herbwilson.bsky.social
foggy this morning so i did some strollin before work
a black and white photo of an empty carnival shrouded in fog. at the left, a concession stand. center frame is a ferris wheel. far right is that ride where you hang in a seat and it spins you around. everything seems slightly cursed.
December 30, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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jokeb0i.bsky.social
I’m just getting started with it honestly so I got a little Nikon D3100 ! I wanna get some better lenses for it, but it’s been fun to work with so far, my favorites are the ones I took at a carnival last year
Photo of a STARSHIP ride at a summer carnival Another photo of a starship ride with swings behind it
February 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Carnival Evening — Henri Rousseau, 1886
Painting good night scene there is a full moon in the sky takes up more than half the canvas small down at the bottom of it are a man and a woman she is in a blue and red dress the sort of white apron or smoke or something I don't know and he is in white Pierrot costume. There are trees behind them in the whole thing looks simple and strange in the way are you this is work usually does
March 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Getting really tired of having to scroll past tons of political posts to find professional entertainers, carnival workers, clown makeup artists, showmen/carnies, bc 80% of the posts are just using our job titles to insult the government.

Nobody in the White House is smart enough to be a Carnie.
May 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Clown makeup is nature's danger signal it's true across every species the clown is the deadliest of every one
April 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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April spreads from my #sketchbook 🖋️

Sketchbook : Travelogue Hand Book linen 9x12
(pg 1) Violet Sorrengail and Fourth Wing belong to @rebeccayarros.bsky.social

#art #artist #drawing
April 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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❗️Site Update ❗️ Due to User Feedback:

New Profile Options Added!!

> Juggler, Human Blockhead, Flow Artist, Airbrush, Shirt Printing, Hair Art, Braiding, Hair Tinsel, Henna, Tarot, Psychic Reading

Select as many as you want!
April 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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CALLING ALL ARTISTS & ENTERTAINERS! 🎪

Apron, the Amusement Professionals Network, is the only free-to-join international network for Entertainment Professionals.

We have a Facebook Page, Private FB Group, and non-FB Forum.

Do you do Carnivals, Circus, Sideshow, or Events/Gig Work? You qualify!
A Perfomer blows bubbles while balancing a staff on his head. He is wearing a white tank top, has stretched earlobes, and presumably in the bag behind him is more of his juggling props.
April 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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❗️Site Update ❗️ Due to User Feedback:

New Profile Options Added!!

> Juggler, Human Blockhead, Flow Artist, Airbrush, Shirt Printing, Hair Art, Braiding, Hair Tinsel, Henna, Tarot, Psychic Reading

Select as many as you want!
April 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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wild to see so many of the top posts with the word “carnies” are about politicians.

They don’t deserve that title 😂

And we don’t deserve the insult ❤️
April 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM