This big fat nose dates from my first official CWB trip with the Clowns Sans Frontières, France to Croatia back in 1995.  I made these on the porch of the house where we were staying in Zagreb.   I used flour and water, and created a shape to papier maché using rolled...

Emmanuelle Bon's answer to "What's that, a Clown?" sure resonates in my ears, and hence this post to share it. "Parmi les artistes du spectacle vivant, le clown occupe une place singulière, en contraste : alors que les performances du musicien, de l’acrobate, du...

Hi there fellow healthcare clowns and clown nose afficionados!  As the peri-pandemic stretches out, are you wishing for a better way to stick a nose on top of your facemask?  A nose that you can transfer to a new mask when needed?  As clowning while wearing facemasks...

"The Right Brain Develops First ~ Why Play is the Foundation for Academic Learning" I stumbled across this wonderful article by Vince Gowman this morning, still a bit jet lagged state, just home from teaching workshops in Germany.  Play happens to be on my mind as at...

I had the good fortune to be in Paris when the movie "Chocolat" came out last February (2016), which portrays the famous turn of the century clown duo Chocolat et Foottit. To celebrate the release, there was an exhibit on the duo at the Maison des Metallos. here are a...

Not long ago I wrote a post on constructive versus destructive humor focusing in on if the humor was at someone’s expense or globally uplifting. This was before the whole creepy clown phenomenon exploded into the mediascape, internet waves telegraphing the concept to...