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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  as the project plans on bringing performances up to the Tohoku region...

Reading about the work the group Foco is doing, it is clear that social clowning continues to expand it's scope of activities. Over the past fifteen-twenty years, bringing humor and lightness to places where it is most needed (social clowning) has seen two main paths...

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 Tyler Foundation's Shine On project (in collaboration with Clowns...

Clowns Without Borders (USA) has returned to Haiti (Sept. 4-25, 2010) ...working with Terres Des Hommes to  workshops and collaborative performances with local youth in Grand Goave and Les Cayes.  Check out their stories.  CWB will have an almost continuous presence...

March 5th Sitting in the air-conditioned cool of the administrative office at EMDH, while outside it is 99 degrees, and I am thankful for this moment of cool respite. This mornings show had me once again sweating up a storm as I played up the antics with the 250 boys...

March 1st. All day workshop for Activity facilitators plus caregivers, 12 in all. At the end of the workshop, one of the caregivers comes up to thank me (translated by one of the facilitators) for the day telling me that this will be very useful for her to work with...

12/28 The muscle I pulled in my back two days back is slowly returning to normal, still pulling and aching some, and like a good soldier I carry on cursing myself for having forgotten the arnica back home. I have been liberally dosing the tiger balm, and as I sit down...

February 26, 2010 Mandalay. After a 4 hour flight delay, finally find myself in Mandalay, ancient capital, and spread out town, peaceful and relaxed compared to the busy Yangon. Two shows and a workshop today. The Girl’s Vocational School in the morning, an...

Feb 25th. Early morning cool breeze gives little clue of the heat to come later in the day. Negotiate the ride to the EMDH office with the taxi driver, yesterday afternoon it was 2500 kyat ($2.5), which is the correct price I am told, I have to bargain him down from...

I've escaped the stuck in transit no seats available 2 day wait at Tokyo aiport, and after a good hike through the interminable hallways of the Bangkok airport, I have finally arriving last night in Yangon. From freezing cold to very hot, from not much to do to a full...