Thankyous

Huge heartfelt, ridiculous thanks to everyone who has helped in any way - and massive apologies if you helped and we are still delving into our brains to remember you, we will get there, we just get confused easily and forget things...

Palestine Israel Cairo 2009
Saffa and all the Happy Families Crew for their love and tears.
Suzanna and Co for their undying love of us even in the toughest of personal circumstances.
Danny and Fabi for showing us the other side,
The amazing Red Crescent people all over the West Bank for locking us up at night out of harms way.
Lydia Trent Siouxzie Meho and noor for carrying our stuff and Arabic lessons
Hisham for hospitality as ever.
The Salfit guys and girls.
The Freedom theatre.
Anne Harris for more play chutes http://www.anneharris.org/
Beard http://www.beard.co.uk/ and Odd Balls http://www.oddballs.co.uk/ and the Hoop Guy http://www.hoopguy.com/ for kit.
The InvisibleCircus http://invisiblecircus.co.uk/invisible_circus/TheInvisibleCircus/Home.ht... and Art Space Life Space http://www.artspacelifespace.com/ for the amazing venue for our fundraising gigs
Holly and Yup Knuckle for support and training and gigs!!!
Michelle, Roots, Eli, Liam, Jo and Rhi for clowning around big styley, my Mum and Dad (no really I couldn't do it without them ;o)
All the festivals that let us in again...

Kurdistan 2008
Debbie!! Radio 4A and all the Brightonians for the amazing Benefit
Scala and Ibrahim
Bedridden, Servet, and all in Maxmour Camp.
Gabriel in Al Kosh
Maureen and Dana, Kurdistan Save the Children,
Boris who we'll never forget.
Ruth, Andy, Sam, Tom for coming along and doing it!!! Sarah for filming and keeping it sane...

Egypt/Palestine 2008
Suzanna, Farid, Waleed, Nadia, Omar and Selma:)without Suzanna there would be no tour.
Dennis for photos
Mauro for filming
Ayman from Jalazone Camp
Ahmed and everyone else from Askar Camp
Abed and Abed from Salfit
Jonaton
Glastonbury, Big Green, Shambala, Sunrise (phenix) festivals for letting us in!
Invisible circus, for the amazing gig.
The Synergy Project
Debbie
Ruth, Laura, Jen, Jo and Annie (Jannie) for doing it for real

Palestine/Israel 2007
Oddballs for lovely kit http://www.oddballs.co.uk/
Beard for lots of great kit... http://www.beard.co.uk/
Anne Harris for the play chutes http://www.anneharris.org/
Miss L A Shepherd
Big Green Gathering for letting us collect donations, Glastonbury for letting us build the Wall...wait and see it'll be huge!!!
Arumdo, Lost Vagueness, and Crow Point festival for the same honour ;o-)
The Skandalous! crew for putting on fundraising parties and the Rare crew for the same!
The lovely people at The Green Park Tavern in Bath for hosting the Rare/Skandalous! nights.
Annie, Ruth, Matt and me for going along and Graheme for his stunning pictures. And Nash for making us laugh a lot.
All the people that put money in the account, THANK YOU!!!
And last but not least all the amazing people we met on tour that found us places to put on shows, found us beds and fed us till we couldn't move. We love you and hope to return..Enshallah xxx

Palestine/Israel 2006
Beard for lots of great kit... www.beard.co.uk/
Anne Harris for the play chutes www.anneharris.org/
Mark Thomas for sending Sam! www.markthomasinfo.com/
Jono for the money
Sally Fitz Harris for the article and donation
James RT Party money
Miss L A Shepherd
Big Green Gathering for letting us collect donations
Arumdo, Lost Vagueness, and Crow Point festival for the same honour ;o-)
The Skandalous! crew for putting on fundraising parties and the Rare crew for the same!
The lovely people at The Green Park Tavern in Bath for hosting the Rare/Skandalous! nights.
Peat, Theo, Matt, Andy and Sam for doing it!!! and all the amazing people we met along the way who fed us and looked after us. Thank you X
Cheers all, onwards and upwards...
Better Late than never

From Sheila..
Thanks to all you people who gave us money , without you we’d all still be in the pub! Some money was paid directly into the bank account and I’m sorry but I don’t know the names of these people , thank you and please let me know your names so we can add them.
T Moore , R Naef , J Naef , N Hales , P Rosin , D Baglow , R Boyd , A Braun ,
A Frame , B Parks , T Horsfield , T Barford and Yaoh Limited , Mary and all at Out of Hand J Borodkine , R Broscombe-Adams , J Cook , J Sluglett-Borodkine
M Ridley , A Braun , R Kenyon , I Darwazeh , V Junor , J Prentice , K Nomura
S Batchelor , M Sulc , K Matschullat , D Toube , C Persey , M Featherstone
The Williams’s , The Carmichaels , The Wildings , The Ross’s , The Walkers
The Brownes , The Bacons , The Veres , The Paynes , The Williams’s ,
The Radfords , The Montgomerys , The Acctbitys , St James Church , D Hopkins
Y Stallard , AH Martin , VM Henning , Hutchinson , Joy & Howells ,
Rodriguez-Thorne , Midha & Midha , Bodey & Bodey , Chaelan MacTavish
A S McDonough , Rev and Mrs King , The Frome Peace Group , R E A Dye ,J A Alty
Lovely Anna and all at Missing Link , The lovely Green Futures people at Glastonbury and Zora and the equally lovely people at The Big Green Gathering .

From Peat..
Firstly, I'd like to thank Viv from SCABIOUS CORPUS for running around finding sponsors and having faith in me. All the folk involved in battle re-enactment, the funding I received from them was truly amazing, I really cant thank you all enough. JOE AND ALL THE CREW FROM CIRCUS2IRAQ both the performers and the home crew. It's an honour to work and party with you all. RAID, my habibi, for smiles and habibi-ness. JOE KING for holding my hand when it got scary. Lastly, I'd like to give a big BIG thank you to my FAMILY. I know they worry when I do this kind of work, but they never ask me not to go, and that takes real guts.

From Jo..
I don't want to get all Oscars but.
Buckets of love and boomchucka blessings and praises are amply due to:
Hamsa, Husni, Hayder, Waleed, Aala, Ahmed, Abeer, Rehab, Raed – 'Habibi',
Chnur, Mr Daoud – without whom really nothing could have happened and, if
it had, no one would have understood us.
Happy Family, especially Mustafa Poser and Fuad for 'Nahnu Huna', Premiere
Urgence, especially Zainab and Muna and Fadhil and all the actors, Our
Home Iraq, Intersos, Enfants du Monde, especially Cedric for dinner, War
Child, especially Alex for everything, Organisation for Women's Freedom,
especially Layla for bringing me to Shuala and loads of support and for
enormous courage and inspiration, Un Ponte Per, especially Simona P for
kiddie riots and Simona T for getting me on the plane out.
Imad, for everything.
Mohammed at Kishmisha for fruit juice and bright eyes.
Tommo Albert Goblin for love and benefit nights.
Mcpunkgirl for reminding me to be a kickass chick when I'd forgotten and
everyone else who e mailed love and support.
Michael, Raed, Waleed, Dahr, Rob, David, Ahmed, Wissam, Atilla, for
stuffing juggling balls and keeping me somewhere near sane.
Jenny Gaiawyn, Voices in the Wilderness, Joanne Baker and Felicity
Arbuthnot for getting me there in the first place.
Shaner and Mohammed for showing me the power of a soap bubble
Ahrar, Jenny, David and Donna for being not a bad bunch to get kidnapped
with.
Scott for running the website
Sheila for sorting out the bank account and everything
Mary and Tim for the party and all the people who performed for nothing,
Anna and Booby and all at Missing Link and everyone who performed in the
cabaret and all the many, many people who raised or donated money for the
circus and for the drain – it goes without saying that we couldn't've done
it without you, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
Peat, for inspiration to persevere with the whole plan, for waking me up
gently and for dancing to Grease with me in Kurdistan.
Amber for teaching me to walk on stilts and for vegan chocolate.
Peat, Luis, Amber, Uzma and Sam for getting on that mission with me – you
bunch of clowns.
And finally. Paddy, because in the beginning there was a word and the word
was "Boomchucka."

Shukran jezilan. Ohibkum, ya tofal. La totloq alnar ala muharrija.

From Fisheye..
The others seems to have covered most people I want to thank, but I'd just like to thank them all some more (dont worry, I'm not going to make you read through the lot all again!)
There are a few others I have to mention though, and in no particualr order they are:
Everyone on the MT mailing list, not just for the cash and encouragement, but also for helping me to grow enough over the last few years to be able to get it together to boogie on down with all the children and Boomchucka Circus!
Mark Thomas for being an inspiration and a great friend who gave me time, advice, encouragement and more besides.
The Scary dads, for all the reasons mentioned above and some I dare not mention in public!
To Baggy for being an excellent mate and running me round on missions left, right and centre to get things sorted!
The Suttongrad krew, for giving me a place to rest my head and for putting up with my bouts of despair when it looked like I would never get out to Iraq to join the others!!
All the random good folk I met along the way who have supported the circus in so many ways. I thankyou all from the bottom of my stupid clown shoes.
Massive thanks to Jo Wilding for asking me at 7am on a monday morning at the end of festivities at The Big Green Gathering festival if I'd like to join her in taking a circus to Iraq!!
Huge love to all the other Boomchucka freaks for supporting me and putting up with my frazzled nerves all along the way.
And lastly to Rebecca Sumner, for giving me encouragement to go in the 1st place, but mostly for being there in such a loving, supportive and caring way when I returned.
Thankyou so much everyone.

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people"

Love fisheye x

(Im so glad thats over...how schmaltzy was all that??! Cheers everyone!)