Back story. I have come over to Japan on a Clowns Without Borders collaboration with the Tyler Foundation's Shine On! Smile Ambassador program. The Tyler Foundation's focus is on childhood...
Arriving in Ofunato.tsunami relief.
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Destination Ofunato: Tokyo Workshops
Just finished Day 3 of 4 days of Tokyo workshops training future volunteers for the Niko Niko Taishi project in the 'Our Space' theater studio. The intention of the workshops is to train volunteers ...
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Destination Ofunato, Japan
I'm just starting to gear up for a 3 week trip to Japan that will include free workshops in Tokyo, and then a 2 week series of shows and workshops in the tsunami zone, the Tohoku region. It's the...
Clown Poète Extraordinaire: Claire. at Festiclown in Vigo, Spain
The big ocean going port of Vigo, in Galicia, is hosting Festiclown festival this week, and I was lucky enough to catch the performance of Clown Poète ExtraOrdinaire, Claire, a fine dancer with a...
Clowning around Tassajara
Recently I had the great pleasure to teach a Clown Your Zen workshop at the Tassajara Zen Center. On the final morning, I proposed a spontaneous procession through this most wonderous mountain hot...
Sand Mandela.Swept Away
At the "Change Your Mind" festival in Oosterpark in Amsterdam last weekend, a group of Tibetan monks created a Sand Mandala and then swept it away. I arrived late afternoon and caught the...
Clown Ritual @Buddha’s Birthday 2011 Celebration at Zen Center Los Angeles
This was the 6th year of clowns conspiring to celebrate the Buddha's Birthday at the Zen Center following the traditional ritual of offering flowers and pouring sweet tea over Baby Buddha. Many...
Henry Miller on Clown
“A clown is a poet in action. He is the story which he enacts. The clown teaches us to laugh at ourselves. Joy is like a river: it flows ceaselessly. It seems to me that this is the message which...