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From the musty Archives - articles on clowns from around the worldClowns Without Borders plan to bring laughter back to Haiti - Aid agencies like the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders have already poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the relief effort in Haiti. Those dollars from overseas, translate into medical supplies, clothes, and water on the ground, but what about laughter?
That's the main export of crisis response group Clowns Without Borders USA, an organization dedicated to relieving the suffering in conflict zones and refugee camps. KALW's Colin Anderson sat down with the founder of the organization, Moshe Cohen and regular volunteer, Adrian Mejia. Clowns in Makeup - On Friday the Shrine Clowns of Texas gathered at the Crowne Plaza on I-35 to hold a makeup competition. The clowns gather once a year to compete against each other and learn from one another. Lessons in laughter - Each stroke of white makeup transforms a face. Rather than conceal, it reveals. The arch of a painted eyebrow, the exaggerated smile or frown, say more than a monologue. And the metamorphosis isn't limited to the actor; it's in the audience's mind as well. Enter Eli Simon's world, where clowning is an art. Magician works to make accidents disappear - With a mixture of humor, good advice and, yes, magic, Davis met with about 500 first-graders from Aiken Elementary School and Warrenville, Oakwood-Windsor, East Aiken and Merriwether elementary schools earlier this week. His program, "Making Accidents Disappear," is intended to reinforce electrical safety and energy conservation. No tears for this clown - Everyone's life has a story. In "Lives," we tell some of the stories about North Shore people who have died recently. "Lives" runs Mondays in The Salem News. Cirque du Soleil slips up - After opening to rotten reviews in Chicago, Cirque de Soleil’s Banana Shpeel is scrambling to avoid a similar slip up in the Big Apple. Rockaway man knows clowning around is good medicine - Pablo's face lights up when Dr. Willie enters his room at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston.
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Wearing red fuzzy pajamas dotted with monkeys, the 5-year-old grins widely, his round cheeks flush with excitement. Not the ordinary reaction of a critically ill child when his doctor appears. But then, this is no ordinary doctor. Director enjoys one-man clown show - Daniele Finzi Pasca knows large scale. The Swiss director, author, actor and clown directed the closing ceremonies for the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy and he directed the opera L'Amour de Loin for the English National Opera in London.
Wiggles the Clown teaches children safety - Before she took them for a ride in an imaginary car made of four chairs and a zebra-print-covered steering wheel, Wiggles the Clown reminded a group of kindergarten students to buckle up and use a child booster seat. Dog act is real circus - IMAGINE a life in which you did not have a fixed place of residence. You pack up your family, work a few nights a week and travel the country.
You have no fixed address, no responsibilities like a mortgage or showing up to work each day at 8.30am. Hospital clowns conference examines how humour heals - We've all heard that laughter is the best medicine, and the goal of a week-long symposium in Toronto is to show how a healthy dose of humour can heal.
Some 1,000 people are expected to attend the workshops and performances to learn how therapeutic clowns bring smiles to sad faces and cheer those who are ill. Circus clown puts biggest foot forward for sick kids - Laughing Leo, whose real name is Leo Acton, has been clowning around all over the United States and Canada for more than a dozen years.
Leo and ringmaster Justin Loomis from Circus Gatti visited Hendrick Children’s Hospital on Friday, bringing laughter to children who have not had much to laugh about lately. Some of the children are in the hospital facing serious illnesses. 'Circus Day' was once a major attraction in Greenville - The elephants are gone now. The clowns have washed away their makeup, and the trapeze artists have packed up their spangles and moved on. The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus has folded its (figurative) Greenville tent for another year.
It will return, as it has — mostly — for nearly 150 years. Clowning at SickKids - Having some play time with clowns helped Nicole Waddell take her mind off getting a MRI.
The 12-year-old patient at the Hospital for Sick Children was thrilled to take part in the Therapeutic Clown Program.
“They make everything feel better. I’m having fun and not thinking about my MRI,” Nicole said Tuesday. Hospital clowns conference examines how humour heals - We've all heard that laughter is the best medicine, and the goal of a week-long symposium in Toronto is to show how a healthy dose of humour can heal.
Some 1,000 people are expected to attend the workshops and performances to learn how therapeutic clowns bring smiles to sad faces and cheer those who are ill. Send In The Clowns - Any study that calls for a clown on a unicycle is okay by me.
Every year I read and report on hundreds of studies, and way too few of them involve clowns on unicycles. In fact, almost none of them do.
Clown conference explores health benefits of humour - Professor Bernie Warren wears two hats. During the day he teaches drama and education at the University of Windsor. But off-hours he dons a colourful pointy fool’s hat, complete with bells, and turns into “Dr. Haven’t-A-Clue.”
Warren is a clown doctor and this week he will share his expertise in promoting the health benefits of humour at a medical clown conference in Toronto Impact of therapeutic clowns on disabled children gives researchers hope - magine never knowing how a loved one was feeling, what they wanted to say or if they could even hear you. For parents of children with severe disabilities, it’s an all too real scenario filled with frustrating questions and too few answers.
But some Toronto researchers hope science will one day shed light on those questions, and are taking small steps toward giving a voice to children who don’t have one. CircusFit clowns teach youngsters the fun of fitness - Youngsters in the after-school program at the YMCA's East Family Branch learned Tuesday that physical fitness is often just a matter of having a good time while clowning around.
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Wearing floppy shoes and bright red noses, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Ambassadors of Laughter Dave and Cherie Gregg came to the center not only to entertain the children, but to show them that exercise can be fun. Children meet Mr. Gross Teeth - It isn't every day that a Dalmatian and a snake-charmer examine teeth and give patients rides in dental chairs, but the circus - also known as the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium Children's Dental Health Fair - came to town Tuesday to take the terror out of a dentist trip. Clowning around - When you mention the movie Patch Adams to Holly Adams, the answer is one she’s clearly given many times.
“Yes, he’s my friend and no, we’re not related,” she said Clowns Without Borders brings laughter to Haiti - The sound of children laughing again was heard in the earthquake devastated Haitian capital of Port au Prince on Saturday.
Youngsters of all ages from a camp near the wrecked presidential palace turned up for a few minutes respite from the hardships of life, thanks to the French Canadian charity 'Clowns Without Borders'. The four-man troupe arrived three days ago in the rubble-strewn capital, bringing laughter to hundreds of kids. Big show celebrates Circus World - Some came dressed as clowns. Others brought their memories in the form of photo albums, old newspaper clippings and colorful posters. Puppets & the pulpit - John Coen has a buddy with bulging frog eyes and skinny arms.
His other friends include a a whale named Ralph, who swallows Jonah and spits him out; a sun named Ray; and a group of lightening bugs, candles and stars that sing This Little Light of Mine. Jamie Adkins’ one-clown show is fit for all ages - All the world loves a clown, as the old song goes, and the next program of the Loveland Performing Arts Association should prove to be one that touches the hearts of young and old alike. If you paint it, they will come - Last Saturday night, three security guard-flanked red dragons traipsed through the Flamingo casino floor, dutifully playing part in our city’s now all-encompassing Chinese New Year celebration. But unbeknownst to almost all present, the real human parade was happening two floors above, where the first North American Body Painting Championships was in mid-swing. |
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