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The stories and advise you will find here is from others in the business. We hope this section will become a place that folks will come to find information that will help lead to resources that will help them understand and learn. On these pages we will feature miscellaneous & interesting articles, etc. etc. etc. From experienced performers and their cautionary tales. You will find them amazing, shocking, strange, fantastic and cautionary. No techniques will be shared only information the will help the Up and Coming to find teachers and learn what others have learned that helped them to be successful in the industry.

Advice for the Up and Coming

Title

You Can Wing It! or You Can Learn It!	Harley Newman
Doc Wilson Gets Taught	Paul Szauter
Always Talk to Your Audience, Not at Them	Ward Hall
The Art of the Sideshow Talkers and More......
Follow the Arrows
Pro-Hecklers Response	Brian Wilson
Walking Through a Playing Card
None of You Have Evidently????	Ward Hall
The Common Size of a Sideshow Banner	Ward Hall
Fire Proof Tents	Ward Hall
A 4 Pound Hammer	Ward Hall
NEVER Sign a Release - Until the Money's in Your Hand	Ward Hall
Always Talk to Your Audience, Not at Them!	Ward Hall
"Gone by the Wayside"	Jeff Murray
First of All!	Meph
When You Really Stop to Consider It!	Meph
Forget the Dictionary	Wayne Keyser
The Bottom Line	Ward Hall
Words from the Past for Our Times
Code of Federal Regulations (Permit to Exhibit Snakes)	Steve Gemeny
Snake Ban Considered by US Fish and Wild Life Sers	Pete Kolozsy
The Big Circus Sideshow	Jeff Murray
Jimmy Dixon's Pitch	John Strong
I Believe You don't Want Your Signs	Jim Zajicek
"The Weird Things!" they have in their Minds	Paul Szauter
You Could Wing it, or You Can Learn!	Harley Newman
Follow the Arrows it's all down hill to the next spot!
What to do About So-Called "Charity Shows"	Dan Meyer
CROSS CONTAMINATION	Lee Kolozsy
How to Self-Promote and Get Free Publicity	Jim Rose
2 Head Turtle - ALIVE!	Rick West
Beginning Sideshow Arts	Slim Price
Beating the Heat???
"Owning a Successful Circus"	Jim Rose
I Have Always had a Cliche:	Ward Hall
A Further Big Canvas Tent Query	Ward Hall
"DEATH WISH LIVE"	Tim Cridland
The Sideshow Talker Works with a Formula	Ward Hall
`"SHOWBIZ, AIN'T IT GRAND"`	Ward Hall
Attraction - Front - Sound - Location	Ward Hall
the Right Price for a Single'O?	Paul Szauter
Even the Simplest Stunt, is a Potential Disaster!	Harley Newman
Shoveling Shit and Performing Too	Mephisto

"Sideshows, the way we know them, extend back in time for a little more than one hundred years. Some of the acts we do are ancient, with documentation as long as four thousand years ago. As performers, we are part of that history, and share the responsibility of continuation. I would ask all of you to look around, see what�s happening around you, and document it. It is up to you to keep a candle burning!" - Slim Price

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