Patrick Ferri’s WRECKAGE-O-RAMA!!!

Hello,
Just an update to let you know what is happening. Summer jobs have started booking up and Dave cox and I have started writing some new material for the Those Two Guys’ show. We hope to have a classic plumbing skit up for this edition. At least that is where it is starting.
I am also sending in an application to Cirque Du Soleil as they are calling for physical comics.
I will be working with Sean Fagan’s Circus Theatricks in Troy, New York at the New York State Theatre Institute. We will be running a circus camp for kids while they are off for a week from classes. Eric Shovah will be directing and I
will take care of the unicycling and clowning. The theme is “Recyling” and I need to get busy with the ideas now if they are going to have a show next Friday.
Also, Keith Nelson and Stephanie Monseu of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus have been busy getting together all kinds of events with the unicycles, as well as their own numerous projects. One in particular is a unicycle convention on Governors Island in New York City’s harbor. The convention is tentatively set for September 17, 18 and 19 , 2010. I will have more information as it becomes available.
The skiing has been pretty good this year up in Austerlitz and even though there hasn’t been much snow we have maintained our base throughout winter. I have 43 days on snow. The Lake Placid Loppet was this past weekend and I opted not to ski the 50 kilometer because of of a nagging injury. My friends Jason Kahn and Len Collins both did the race and did awesome. The high temperature was 25 degrees, bright and sunny.
I did however get myself into a hockey game on Mirror Lake with some kids from Delaware that were in Placid for a Can-AM tournament. They had never played hockey
on natural ice. My buddy Kurt and I started playing against 2 of the boys and next thing we knew there were 20 of them. The ones that were not playing kept running back to their hotel and grabbing their skates and sticks to join in. Great time.
Next weekend, the 19th, I leave for The Keskinada in Ottawa, Ont. If I am feeling well enough I will attempt the 53 km race up there.
I also hope to see a friend of mine Jean-Guy Beaudry perform in Ottawa. We have met a few times at the Rochester Juggle-In. He has seen me perform but I have not caught his act yet.
Below is a photo of Dave Cox and I riding around City Hall in Albany for a press conference to promote Winterfest.

Enjoy the rest of winter and hope to see you soon,
Pat.

December 31, 2009
Hello. I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday however you chose to celebrate it.
I performed last night for a good group of young ones in Copake , NY.
I did my Phillipe’ character dancing the Nativity; a premise I had discussed doing before last Christmas and just never got around to. 2009 has been a very tough and emotional year; health, getting older, relationships, you name it. It was a struggle to even get myself to the venue last night.
Without being to sappy, I looked around at all the kids and their parents and realized that it’s o.k. ! If you give to the audience honestly they will give it back; and I hope I did because they certainly did. I have been doing this for 23 years and this was a completely new experience.
To make it all perfect, I came out after the show and there was a pick-up hockey game being played on the town rink. I watched for about 10 minutes and reminisced with a few guys about the Ghosts of Hockey Past. A great way to end the year. I hope it is a sign of better times to come in 2010.
I would like to wish you all peace, and happiness and good health in the New Year and I hope to see you at a show in the near future.
Sincerely,
Pat.

Hello.
I will be doing 2 shows over the holidays with the Saturday Night Liv/ Columbia Arts Team.
Wednesday at 6:30 PM at the Copake Town Building and Saturday Jan. 2 in Chatham at Imaguration on Main St.; 11:00 AM. Both shows are geared for kids and families. Hope to see you there and have a healthy and happy New Year !!