Friday, April 15, 2011

BALI, INDONESIA!!!! One Women Circus Tour


work in progressss.I need to do more writing!!
Hell yeah! Feeling like a super woman.
Wow! its a lot but I love it....Im teaching,performing,booking hotels/ride,calling my contacts,having meetings,carrying 3 HUGE SUITCASES, taking care of myself, updating my blog, writing,taking photos and video of the whole tour( I love my tripod),taking balinese dance classes. Like Forest said "multitask-radical like the cover of your coloring book"
Oh I forgot one; and I'm watching Avatar The last Air Bender . lol

While I'm doing all that I'm also working and going through all of my
video footage everyday because I'm working on a documentry about my
tour!

Im feeling really proud of my self and very happy!

I posted some photos on this blog but if you wanna see more photos right below the main photos of the blog right on the top you can click right on the left side where it says "Mumu's one woman circus tour photos".

One Woman Circus Tour! Mi gira

Offering Free: / Ofreciendo Gratuitamente:
Circus arts workshops / Talleres del arte del circo
Circus Show / Espectaculo de Circos
Coloring Books (Drawings by my friends) / Libros de colorear (Dibujoshechos por mis amigos)
Crayons / Crayolas
Dance Parties / Fiestas
Face Painting / pintando caritas
And Smiles / y sonrisas

Hell Yeah! Me siento como la mujer maravilla

Wow! es mucho pero me encanta .... ensenando, realizando espectaculos, reservando

hoteles y transportancion llamando a mis contactos,reuniones, llevando a tres ENORME

MALETAS, cuidando a mi misma, actualizando mi blog,escribiendo,tomando

fotos y video de todo el recorrido, tomando clases de baile. Como Forest dijo "multitarea y radicale como la cubierta de mi libro de colorear "


Mientras yo estoy haciendo todo eso estoy trabajando y pasando por todas las

secuencias de video, todos los días porque estoy trabajando en un documental acerca de mi

gira


Me siento muy orgullosa de mi misma y muy feliz!




Puerto Rico / indonesia!
They almost took all my coloring books and crayons away from me!

Puerto Rico!
I woke up about 4 in the morning to get ready and wait for my sister Noelia at my grandmother "Mami" We got to Luis Munoz Marin Airport, after three hours of anticipation it was my turn to weigh all the bags. I was told that I had to pay $ 550 for the extra weight (100 pounds) because it was a international
flight. Those hundred extra ounds were the 500 copies of coloring books and 500 crayola boxes. My first thought was "God after all the effort ,love and motivation on this project I won't be able to take the
coloring books and crayons.I looked at my sister Noelia and very cleverly she
said to the travel agent "and if we divide the weight in another case?" "Yeah! u can
totally do that, but need to be back in less than 30 minutes". My house is a 15 minutes drive from the airport ... wow! those who live in Puerto Rico now what it was waiting for me : A lot of traffic is waiting for us.My sister were driving as if we fugitives .... After that mission of getting an extra suitcase we got back to
the airport so fast. I highly recommend if you ever have to go rob a bank or hire a fast driver for
a crazy mission hire my sister Noelia When we arrived again at the airport the guys who were helping us were gone So this chick who was at the counter, With that puerto rican attitude she told me "oh! you lost your flight." .... Oh no! A miracle occured when
the original guy came back. From $ 550 I paid $ 150 for the third case.


Thanks Noelia and the dude!

Bali
When I went through customs upon my arrival in Bali, I handed my form to the customs agent who seemed momentarily distracted. Then he saw how much luggage I had. He looked at my form again then
called another agent. They then took me to a room asked me to open all my luggage (I
was so scared) They noticed all the 500 hundred boxes of crayons and they
asked me how much I payed and received for them. I told them someone donated it to me
and they asked me if I had brought them with me to sell them here in Bali. I told them to call another person. (In my mind i Though They would send me back to the usa or they would take all my coloring books and crayon or give me a fine.) i was Trying to Be relaxed Then They Told me I needed a work visa to be a teacher. I told them I was just a student ... they asked me if I was doing business here
Not here i said. They told me I had lied and they were confiscating all my crayons and coloring books. My heart was in pieces and I was breaking in two. I WAS oh so sad my gift for the main tour's kids. Then I noticed that the form they had, it Was in Different hand writing than mine. so I yelled "hey! That is not my form Then They looked at my passport and They Said "Oh sorry. we got your papers mixed up with a business woman's so we thought you brought all that's crap to sell it here.so Then They let me go. wow!
crazy huh?

Finally in Bali, I got to open my email to let everyone know I made it here in one piece and the first things I Noticed Was a email from my sister " Tio Wiso ( my lovely uncle)Passed away "


ME HE ENAMORADO DEL BAILE DE INDONESIA! HE ESTADO TOMANDO CLASES TODO LOS DIAS!
I feel in love with balinese Dance! went to see a balinese dance performance at the Ubud palace and I fell in love
with Balinense dance.i have been taking legong and Taruna Jaya classes with two
amazing teachers. Its a beautiful dance and is actually really hard to learn but
im getting there.
Puerto Rico / indonesia!
!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

1st Stop! Yayasan Widya Guna Bedulu

Kids Love the coloring book! ALOS NINOS LES ENCANTA LOS LOBROS DE COLOREAR! DIBULOS HECHO POR MIS AMIGOS Y YO...
http://yayasanwidyaguna.org/ A warm heart and happy smiles of the children will welcome you at our children’s Learning Center ”Yayasan Widya guna” in Bedulu.

Yayasan in Bedulu is a place for Balinese children from various unfortunate situations. They support them in receiving their education, when they cannot afford to pay the school costs. They provide them with food and shelter when they don’t have a family or home. They assist underprivileged children that need support, such as children with physical and/or mental disabilities, orphans, street children, as all children deserve a good education.


























Estoy haciendo Una Gira de Circo Mundial Sola en Bali (Indonesia) Viajando con una maleta llena de Sonrisas,ofreciendo talleres ( acrobacia,danza,pinta cara,arte) y haciendo espectáculos todo libre de costo en orfanatos,escuelas,organizaciones que rescatan ninas/mujeres de la calle (prostitución) y otras que ayudan mujeres/ninas que han sido sexualmente abusadas.Tambien estoy regalando libros de colorear con dibujos hechos por mis amigos.Estoy muy contenta por este proyecto






MI MEJOR DON ES TRAER FELICIDAD A LOS NINOS! ALGUN DIA SERE MADRE Y LO DISFRUTARE..





TODAS ESTAS FOTOS SON DE NINOS HUERFANOS,

2nd STOP Sidhu Atsu Orphanage Tuka

The Bali Orphanages " is a very special place. With your first few steps inside you begin to realize that this is not just a place for kids to sleep and eat. Lives are changed here, and not justthe lives of the children. A safe refuge in Bali for children who have lost their parents or whose parents can no longer care for them.


Rice Field








3rd STOP MARIA GORRETI ORPHANAGE NEGARA/MELAYA



This nun knows how to roll!

Friday, April 1, 2011

First Stop Puerto Rico

Julio From Y no Habia Luz
MI PRIMERA PARADA FUE EN PUERTO RICO!
My first stop was carolina,Puerto Rico.The city where I grew up.I performed at my little niece Alisha school "Centro Flabomyan" Had a audice of 27 kids.The show was lovely.The teachers and kids love it.The principaltold me that was the first time that the kids stayed so quiet.They were so amazed by the show.I gave each of them coloring books and crayons.
Coloring books

Centro Flamboyan Carolina
TUVE LA OPORTUNIDAD DE COLABORAR CON EL CIRCO NACIONAL DE PUERTO RICO.
I had the most amazing Time Performing as a Special Guest With El Circo Nacional De Puerto Rico. @ Abracadabra,Santurce March 25th ,27th and 27th

Monday, March 21, 2011

Coloring book Ilustration By Forest Stearns http://draweverywhere.com

One Woman Circus Tour!

Mumu toured with the Dreamtime Circus in India and Peru and now she's off to Bali, Indonesia to do a tour of her own with a huge suit case full of smiles and coloring Books. All on her own, that is, a One Woman Circus is offering free shows and circus art workshops in every town and village on her path. She's raised money for the tour and to print several hundred coloring books she's putted together with drawings from Ba
y Area artists. She'll give those away to the kids in Bali.

Photo by Tristan Savatier http://loupiote.com


Dreamtime Circus

Founded in 2006, the Dreamtime Circus is a non-profit circus arts collective based in California. We are dedicated to providing free shows and performance art workshops to children and communities around the world, focusing our efforts on those who lack the opportunity to delight, learn, and express themselves through the magic of circus arts.




Why Bali?

Bali was the place where the magical idea of the Dreamtime Circus started, when K-Fire and Chris Dunn, the founders of the Dreamtime Circus, were traveling around the island performing for kids and everyone in various neighborhoods. I would love to come to the island to bring back the magic that was born there. I've always been fascinated with Bali and I desire to learn and discover more of the Balinese culture and it's beautiful people.