Clowning around in Mexico City
The main objective of the convention is to professionalize those involved in the clown arts in Latin America and highlight the need for a School of Clown Arts in Mexico.
Hundreds of clowns from Mexico and Latin America gathered to brush up on their clown techniques and learn new laugh-inducing tricks.
Despite their elaborate face paint, weird wigs and rubber noses of different sizes, the clowns reveal a slice of the humanity they seek to entertain: happy and sad, pensive and exuberant, playful and macabre.
Clowns pictured at the 17th International Clown Convention in Mexico City in a 2013 file photo
They sought a world laugh record but no Guinness official was seen present and they fell short by 15 minutes.
The laugh-a-thon was to protest violence in Mexico.
Wearing oversized shoes, colorful wigs and red noses, the clowns lined up to register for the convention at a theater in Mexico's capital.
