Torbeck DEc 11th evening

the rain is coming down, and outside under the balcony, a group of the local residents, along with SarahLianne, Elisa and Brandon are singing songs in beautiful harmonies.  Here is a story that I wrote earlier this evening. No doubt in the next few evenings, the others will start adding their stories to mine…
Dec 11th, [...]

AYiti, don’t call it Hate-i

Just a short short note here from Port au Prince, to say that I have started a new blog where for the next two weeks, you can read about the Clowns Without Borders expedition. I am here with three other performers, Elisa, Brendon and Sarah Lianne.
So if you want to read on, click on in [...]

clowns without borders, Ireland-In Uganda

I was just reading the accounts of Clowns Without Borders-Ireland, their blog from the trip to Uganda where they are performing for Sudanese refugees in camps mostly run by the UNHCR. If you are wondering what the concept of sacred mischief can be, here is one extreme. There is little I can say [...]

Mitrovica Poem (2000)

this winter I will be combing through journals and writings from Clowns Without Borders Expeditions, and posting some of them here. Here is one:

Rom Camp. Skenderaj Mitrovica, Kosovo. (2000)
(photo is the bus cemetery next to the camp, by Phillipe Martinez)
Foraging for firewood.
Brilliant face blazen in winter’s sun.
Defiant teeth glimmer
conquerer’s grin.
Barebacked heroe’s pose
For the camera,
One [...]

Clowns Without Borders in the Congo!!!

Just reading the blog about what Zoe, Lars and Malo (Clowns Sans Frontieres, Belgique ) are experiencing in the DRC (Congo) as they perform in areas where there has been a lot of conflict. Stories about performing for, and doing workshops with former child soldiers and in the schools. Lots of photos and text,mostly [...]

CWB-Sweden in Lebanon

True sacred mischief is afoot in the Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon. A team from the Swedish Clowns without Borders has just started working with 15 young artists to create Circus Circuna. Part of the Swedish team, Nalle Blue is writing about it on nalleblue.wordpress.com…
here are a few words from yesterday:
“During the final [...]

Clowns without Borders in New Orleans

all my talk of  travel and performances are trivialized, as they well should be, by great actions going on down in New Orleans right now. after reading through and posting journals on the CWB website from Mindy and Deven, who were down there in late June, and Selena, who is there right now, with Alice [...]