Ringmaster, artist, activist and clown Doug Francisco, was one of 300 performers, crew and attendees stranded at The Tribal Gathering Festival on a remote beach in Panama when the world went into lockdown on March 20th 2020.
This show explores how it was to be the hostess with the mostess for ‘The festival at the end of the world’. Doug talks to others who shared the experience with him and, more curiously, what happened in the year and a half it took to finally make it home.
This episode Doug travels back in time to explore the origins of the Red Rebel Brigade, a performance protest born from experiencing first hand the gravity of the climate crisis by discovering the remote sea plastic strewn shores of Panama. We’ll hear from other Red rebels and their experiences...
Published 04/01/24
This episode delves into the origins of my involvement with Tribal Gathering. How did I end up on that far distant shore? When did I first go there? And why did I go back for more? I explore the treasure I discovered there and how would it change everything that came afterwards.
Published 10/12/23