Helping Out at Circus Flora

Once again this year, I am volunteering for Circus Flora (https://circusflora.org/) in Midtown St. Louis' Grand Center Arts District (http://www.grandcenter.org/). This year's show is "The Caper in Aisle 6," which involves an element giving people the ability to fly and Schnucks Supermarkets (https://nourish.schnucks.com/).

I first helped out this year on 5 June--the night before the show opened--joining with others to clean the seats and get the Big Top interior ready for opening night. The rehearsal show took place that night, so I was able to get a sense of the acts on the program this year and how they would all tie together.

The next two Wednesdays (12 and 19 June), I volunteered at the morning shows for children, which were only half as long and with fewer acts as the regular show during the evenings. For these, I helped make sure the seats were cleaned and acted as an usher. The show on the 12th had a power outage about one third of the way in, and we had to help improvise some lighting for the stage until the power came back up later in the show. Fortunately, the show went on.

Last night (23 June), after the early evening show, I joined with other show volunteers at their annual party. We sat for a group photo, and received words of thanks for helping out so far this year. Then, we entered the ring for a buffet dinner, featuring fried chicken from Hodaks (http://hodaks.com/). It was a most tasty meal, and we were joined by many of the performers. I had to leave fairly early, due to having to get up early today for a busy day at work. Still, this was a good reward for all our hard work for the circus.

Later.