Two years ago, I began producing a show called Circus Suites. n the apartments above the kitchen at 326 Elm Street, where we have hosted artists from around the world, I’ve often thought this unique environment would create a fantastic reality TV show. I connected with Landau Eugene Murphy Jr., a former $1,000,000 winner of season six of America’s Got Talent, through my friend and author Rick Robinson, who worked with Murphy on his autobiography From Washing Cars to Hollywood Star.

Every region has a Ludlow, which holds great possibilities for the not-so-meek-of-heart. For the bravest of my readers, I offer additional resources in the Workbook mentioned throughout the book. Detailed plans and models for everything from wood-fired ovens to reality TV shows, legalese, historic tax forms, and zoning documents are available as tools for playing this game.  

In 2012 I partnered with Meshu Tamrat, a young man who grew up performing with the Debub Nigat Circus – One Love Theatre – Awassa Children’s Project in Ethiopia.

Follow along coming soon: Circus in a Sundown Town Part II. If you want to roll up your sleeves, consider buying the Workbook which is modeled on the art of pie fighting, the sweetest and dirtiest of clowning activities. Social circus training models and tools are incorporated within while tactics for the more laborious structural and financial efforts are detailed.

More importantly, Pauly the Clown, am available for consultation to anyone looking to leap into the social circus as a means for personal and societal improvement or community development. Investors, entrepreneurs, civic leaders, grass-roots activists, immigrants, teachers, community development professionals, politicians, aspiring circus artists, brewers, and average Bozos: If challenges are your specialty and you’re not afraid of the hard work it takes to pull disadvantaged neighborhoods back from the brink, contact me to discuss potential growth and revitalization opportunities in and around your area. With the power of pies in the face, any willing clown can strengthen our local struggling communities beneath this beautifully burgeoning, global big top. The show must go on—and it will! 

Paul Hallinan Miller

Meshu invited Sven’s CircArtive to visit the Kibera Social Circus, reinforcing the bonds of circus adventures and empowerment. Sven secured the resources to bring eight up-and-coming teen circus artists from Kibera to Germany, paving the way for more people to access travel and proving that a passport is one of the best tools to solve generational poverty. 

Erick Juma was a member of the trip, and he reached out to me with a business plan inspired by his study abroad. His pitch can be reviewed in the workbook. Erick was trying to solve the transportation problem of people in Kibera getting to their jobs. He was inspired by the public transportation system in Germany and wanted to purchase a small van to drive eight people to work. 

Like the Greenline connecting Cincinnati to the Ludlow Lagoon in the late 1800s, transportation equals jobs and economic development. He hopes to blaze the trails to and from his community. I helped him with a small investment, hoping to fuel his dreams.  

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