If you are interested in the clown traditions of indigenous cultures, you will find filmmaker Jethro Massey’s blog (The great clown hunt… there are nine entries in Nov-Dec) extremely interesting. He documents his trip to Mali to meet the Koreduga Jethro is engaged in a documentary film project about clown cultures on each continent.If you don’t feel like reading, his photographs of the Koredugaw most fascinating and enlightening. They are posted on facebook. 
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About yoowho
I was born in Los Angeles, and now live in San Francisco,. Inbetween I lived in Europe for a good segment of time.
About my vocational side of life, and what leads to a good amount of the writing on this blog:
I perform and teach in the clown realm. the term no-nose clowning and european theatrical clowning applies. I offer workshops and trainings focused on humorous expression on 4 continents. Themes include "Humor your Human" , "ClownZen, the Power of Levity", "ButohClown" ,"Clown is Poem".
I'm one of many who bring humor, joy and laughter into crisis areas- where it does a lot of good. I started by performing in 3 small Guatemalan refugee communities in Chiapas, Mexico in 1987. That has lead a pathway through South Africa, Croatia,
Guatemala, Haiti, Kosovo, , Nepal and Sudan. This last January-February (2009), I traveled to Myanmar/Burma on an international Clowns Without Borders project performing 20 shows with 3 Myanmar artists, one Swedish and one Australian clown. I also offered workshops with activity leaders/trainers from a number of NGO's using humorous expression to both release trauma and empower children, not to mention have a lot of fun.
Fascinating – I love “the great clown hunt” – did he hunt you down?