# 034 Sunday, May 5, 2019 Taganga, Santa Marta, Colombia 11°16’081” N, 074°11’541” W For almost two months we negotiated with the city of Barranquilla to find a mooring for a cultural exchange with local artists and with the public. The city is famous for it’s carnival and for being situated at the […]
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COLOMBIA The Captain’s Log Book 33 Thursday, February 21, 2019 Taganga, Santa Marta, Colombia 11°16’081” N, 074°11’541” W The stars are shining but you never know from where. For our proposition to stage a Curaçao show during the Carifesta Festival, the island happened to be pretty small and too limited its cultural […]
# 032 Saturday, December 29, 2018 Los Roques, Venezuela 11°56’912” N, 066°40’704” W (Espangol abajo/Francais en bas) THE PROMISED ISLANDS The Fools drop anchor at the Promised Islands off the coast of Venezuela. On the biggest island El Gran Roque live some thousand people that cater for the happy rich escaping in small airplanes the […]
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THE GRAN PREMIÈRE # 031 Tuesday, October 23, 2018 SMS-pier, Waterkant #5, Paramaribo, Suriname. 55º09´173´´ North, 005º49´520´´ West Traduccion Castellano & Français abajo & en bas Before each of the shows, another local personality is set on a wooden vegetable box to give a short prologue about freedom. The première was opened by the Chargé […]
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FREEDOM # 030 Sunday, September 23, 2018 SMS-pier, Waterkant #5, Paramaribo, Suriname. 55º09´173´´, North, 005º49´520´´ West The huge wooden summer shed on the quay that faces the ship gradually transforms into a reception room, office, dressing studio and rehearsal space. Things are getting serious. We could comfortably settle here if the Fool’s Fate wasn’t an […]
# 029 Sunday, July 01, 2018 SMS-pier, Waterkant #5, Paramaribo, Suriname. 55º09´173´´, North, 005º49´520´´ West The French Fool Frederic found himself in the jungle, teaching the captain of a small marroon community to fire the outdated cannon that no-one knows how it landed there. He himself learned the trade of shooting by restaging historical battles […]
# 028 Saturday, May 12, 2018 SMS-pier, Waterkant #5, Paramaribo, Suriname. 55º09´173´´, North, 005º49´520´´ West THE BOOMBOAT The arrival of the Ship of Fools provoked a small revolution on the last jetties that belong to the Suriname Maritime Company. Expectations were high. The Company, in a heroic attempt to remount the inexorable slope, speeded up […]
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# 027 Sunday, April one, 2018 SMS-pier, Waterkant #5, Paramaribo, Suriname. 55º09´173´´, North, 005º49´520´´ West A JOLLY ENTRY Arriving in Paramaribo feels like the coming home of a lost brother. The fools come back to the home country of sweet folly. It feels like sailing back to the Amsterdam of the seventies and find it […]
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# 026 Monday, March 12, 2018 Saint-Laurent-du-Maconi, Guyana, La France. 52º18´401´´, North, 005º57´117´´ West PARAMARIBO RIVERSIDE High tide averted the danger of being stuck in the mud forever. The biggest danger of seduction maybe has been the august largeness of the river, far beyond the majesty that presented us already the river Neva or […]
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# 026 Monday, March 12, 2018 Saint-Laurent-du-Maconi, Guyana, La France. 52º18´401´´, North, 005º57´117´´ West PARAMARIBO RIVERSIDE High tide averted the danger of being stuck in the mud forever. The biggest danger of seduction maybe has been the august largeness of the river, far beyond the majesty that presented us already rivers like the Neva or […]