Holy Fools UK - UK

Holy Fools UK is an organization of around 150 Christians from all denominations. The majority perform as holy fools in churches and church events nationwide and they adopt their own clown name. The aim of Holy Fools is to explore how clowning, miming, puppetry, dance, storytelling and allied arts can be used in ministry and worship and to enable their practitioners to develop their skills. Some of us do not perform but just take part in the service or communion. Just being there in the church is not only symbolic, but also an act of personal worship. To some the name "clown" and "holy fool" can be interchangeable, although some members would prefer only the name "holy fool" because the holy fool is not just entertaining, but on a mission to give something special to the world.

Contact: Richard James

Email: rokeytheclown@hotmail.com

Phone: 020 8554 7986

Red Nose Response - Atlanta, USA

Caring clowning, therapeutic clowning and ministry clowning are not new. However, organized clowning in the massive evacuee, refugee, and shelter environments that are created by a disaster is, for many, a new experience. Red Nose Response teams will be certified to effectively provide support and smiles to not only survivors, but other response agencies that have individuals involved in recovery operations.

Email: info@rednoseresponse.org

Phone: 866-422-5696

Address: 2660 Peachtree Rd. N.W. Suite 19A Atlanta, GA 30305

Boutores Da Graca - Brazil

“Nossa missão é desenvolver um trabalho artístico baseado na exploração do cômico, enfocando a figura do palhaço como carreadora dos reais valores humanos, buscando a igualdade e a profundidade das relações, dentro e fora do hospital”.

Clown Planet - Barcelona, Spain

Clownplanet, the Web on the world of clown and the clowns, was created in the year 2000 by Alex Navarro. Since then one has become the Web of reference of the clownish world of Hispanic speech

Contact: Alex Navarro

Email: pallassos@gmail.com

Phone: 34 678 823 738

mi Makkus - Eindhoven Nederland

Vreugde en verdriet horen bij ons leven. Maar wat als de traan opdroogt en de lach verstilt? Heel veel mensen die lijden aan dementie krijgen hiermee te maken. Ze raken verstard en grijpen terug op hun eerste levensbehoeften. In 1999 ontwikkelde Arno Huibers, die mede aan de basis stond van Cliniclowns Nederland en Roemenië, een nieuwe vorm van zorg voor mensen die lijden aan zo’n ernstige vorm van dementie. “Die glimlach, daar doen we het voor” Dat resulteerde in 2002 tot de oprichting van Stichting miMakkus, voorheen 'Mijn vriend de clown'. Door een bijzondere manier van clownerie weet een miMakkus clown vreugde en rust te brengen binnen de psychogeriatrische afdelingen van een zorginstelling. Stichting miMakkus verleent dezelfde vorm van zorg aan mensen met een ernstig verstandelijke beperking

Email: clown@clownalley.com

Phone: 0031 (0)88 - 22 66 699

Address: Postbus 6483 5600 HL Eindhoven

Dr Clown - Montreal, Canada

Dr Clown brings together healthcare professionals, members of the business community, and artists. Its goal is to carve out a place for therapeutic artists (and particularly clown doctors) in the treatment plans of Canadian hospitals by the following means:

Email: info@drclown.ca

Phone: 514-845-7628

Address: address

Payasospital - València-España

PayaSOSpital es una asociación sin ánimo de lucro que, desde 1999, estimula y alegra la vida de los niños y niñas hospitalizados por cáncer y otras enfermedades graves, con payasos profesionales especialmente formados para realizar esta actividad. Nuestra misión es contribuir a la mejora de la calidad de vida de estos niños y sus familias, ayudándolos a soportar mejor las estancias hospitalarias, desdramatizando el entorno médico y ofreciendo momentos de relax y distracción, a través del humor, la risa y la fantasía.

Contact: Arquitecte Arnau 12

Email: infopayasospital.org

Phone: 902 501 006 ·

Address: bajo 46020 València-España

Doctores Bola Roja - Chorrillos Perú

Los Doctores Bolaroja venimos de todos lados: somos abogados, médicos, músicos, estudiantes universitarios, administradores, sicólogos , actores... que luego de culminar los estudios en la Escuela de Clowns Bolaroja nos interesamos por el proyecto Doctores Bolaroja y fuimos preparados especialmente para asumir esta labor. Los Doctores Bolaroja somos clowns que vistiendo una bata blanca llegamos a los cuartos con un maletín médico lleno de juguetes, instrumentos musicales, burbujas y globos estableciendo vínculos con los pacientes, sus padres y el personal médico. Los doctores Bolaroja trabajamos desde enero del 2002 buscando crear un clima más humano en el ambiente hospitalario, combatir la depresión del niño hospitalizado, disminuir el estrés de los padres e influir positivamente en el personal de salud, a través del juego y el humor. Colaboramos con el aumento de la autoestima del paciente, aliviando el proceso de miedo y angustia producidos por la hospitalización, creando un vínculo sólido de amistad y confianza con los pequeños pacientes. Debido a los excelentes resultados de estos años de trabajo, los doctores Bolaroja hemos sido invitados a realizar visitas a otros hospitales y clínicas, a dar conferencias, en diversas universidades y foros nacionales e internacionales, sobre nuestro trabajo y su efecto en la evolución del paciente.

Bolaroja doctors come from all paths of life: we are lawyers, doctors, musicians, university students, business managers, psychologists, actors...who, after completing studies in the Bolaroja Clown school, have contributed much in work and play in their clown service. Bolaroja doctor clowns wear a white coat, arrive at the bedside with a briefcase full of toys, musical instruments, bubbles and balloons and create bonds with patients, the patients’ parents and the medical staff

Email: doctoresbolaroja@gmail.com

Phone: 251 8407 / 467 2229

Address: Malecón Grau 207 Chorrillos - Perú

Clown Care Unit - Clownville, USA

Clown Care, the Big Apple Circus’s signature community outreach program, brings the joy of the classical circus to hospitalized children at 19 leading pediatric facilities across the United States. Circus Co-Founder Michael Christensen created the program in 1986, based on his desire to provide a unique service to youngsters undergoing treatment in pediatric facilities. In partnership with a participating hospital’s chief medical and administrative staff, members of the Clown Care team conduct ‘clown rounds,’ their own version of medical rounds, where the healing power of humor is always the prescription.

Email: casting@bigapplecircus.org

Cliniclowns Belgium - Deurne, Belgium

Cliniclowns offer a moment of diversion and entertainment to children. Children also hospitalised must get the chance child to feel itself. Moreover diversion can ensure that the children, because is less stretched them, effective less pain to experience.

Cliniclowns bieden aan kinderen een moment van afleiding en ontspanning. Ook gehospitaliseerde kinderen moeten de kans krijgen zich kind te voelen. Bovendien kan afleiding ervoor zorgen dat de kinderen, doordat ze minder gespannen zijn, effectief minder pijn ervaren.

Email: cliniclowns@compaqnet.be

Clown Celular Roja - Santiago, Chile

Clown Célula Roja, es una agrupación sin fines de lucro conformada por actores profesionales con formación en clown, los cuales se dedican a realizar el trabajo de "Clown de Hospital" de manera profesional en Hospitales de Santiago de Chile

Email: contacto@clowncelularoja.cl

Phone: 07-7063070

Pupa Clown - Murcia Espana

Pupaclown suga para dar respuseta a la demda de una sanidad mas humana y personalizada a la que toda sociedad culta y evolucionada aspira

Email: clown@clownalley.com

Phone: 968 216 452

Address: La Seda, 30009 Murcia, Espana

Clowns Canada - Canada

Clowns Canada is an organization of clowns, jugglers, magicians, face-painters, balloon artists and other children's entertainers. Most of us live in Canada, but there are members world-wide. Clowns Canada Incorporated is a Federally Incorporated organization dedicated to the advancement of the art of clowning not only in Canada, but worldwide.

ShowMe Clowns for Jesus - USA

Cultivate learning opportunities to develop and refine Christian clowning skills. Encourage high ethical , professional, and Christian clown standards. Promote clowning as a ministry to bring joy and the love of Jesus to others.

Email: showmeclownsforjesus@juno.com

Phone: 314-822-5315

Sani Clown - Madrid, Spain

Somos una Asociación Nacional, compuesta por Clowns para la sanidad. Está concebida con el fin de mejorar la salud emocional de los pacientes ingresados, como la de sus familiares y del personal sanitario. Los Payasos Terapéuticos son profesionales de la medicina, arte, educación y psicología que se han formado en la técnica del clown orientada al abordaje y acompañamiento de pacientes ingresados. Apoyándonos en recursos de la psicología humanista, nuestro objetivo es que las intervenciones de los clowns ayuden al paciente pediátrico ó adulto a reelaborar su situación de internación, de manera menos traumática, sublimando sus temores a través de técnicas de humor, poéticas y artísticas en general.

We are a National Association, composed by Clowns for the health. It is conceived with the purpose of to improve the emotional health of the entered patients, like the one of its relatives and of the sanitary personnel. The Therapeutic Clowns are professional of the medicine, art, education and psychology that have formed in the technique of clown oriented to the boarding and support of entered patients. Supporting in resources of psychology humanist to us, our objective is that the interventions of clowns help to adult the paediatric patient either reelaborar their situation of internment, of traumatic way the less, sublimating their fears through humor techniques, poetic and artistic generally.

Email: saniclown@paginasoma.com

Sonrisa Médica - Majorca, Spain

Sonrisa Médica es una asociación sin ánimo de lucro fundada en 1994 y pionera en España. Su objetivo es llevar la alegría, el juego, y la risa a los niños y adolescentes ingresados en los hospitales de la Comunidad Balear. Traslada la experiencia y metodología de los payasos de hospital de Le Rire Médecin de París (1991), y de Clown Care Unit de Nueva York (1985).

Contact: Josep Lluis Vidal

Email: jlvidal@brujula.es

Hôpiclowns - Genève, Switzerland

L’Association Hôpiclowns est une association à but non lucratif et reconnue d’utilité publique qui offre des prestations clownesques aux jeunes patients de l’Hôpital des Enfants de Genève. Hôpiclowns commence ses activités en 1996 grâce au soutien des Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG) avec un souhait commun: contribuer à améliorer la qualité de vie de l’enfant à l’hôpital.

Contact: MS Clown

Email: contact@hopiclowns.ch

Phone: +41 22 733 92 27

Address: Avenue Sainte-Clotilde 9, 1205 Genève

Gruposer - Montevideo, Urguay

A CREACIÓN ES LA SUMA DE TODOS LOS PENSAMIENTOS DE DIOS, EN NÚMERO INFINITO Y SIN LIMITE ALGUNO EN NINGUNA PARTE. SÓLO EL AMOR CREA Y ÚNICAMENTE A SU SEMEJANZA. NO TEMAS AL AMOR, PUES SÓLO ÉL PUEDE SANAR TODO PESAR, ENJUGAR TODAS LAS LÁGRIMAS Y DESPERTAR TIERNAMENTE DE UN SUEÑO DE DOLOR...

We look for to support hospitalized children, with the purpose of to wake up the laughter and the joy, by means of the recreation and the game, so that the boy this with better attitude against the situation that is living, in the understood one that the mood is fundamental for the one best one and but quick recovery.

Email: correo@gruposer.org

Doutores Daalegria - Brazil

Nossa missão é ser uma organização proeminentemente dedicada a levar alegria a crianças hospitalizadas, seus pais e profissionais de saúde, através da arte do palhaço, nutrindo esta forma de expressão como meio de enriquecimento da experiência humana. Somos uma organização da sociedade civil sem fins lucrativos que realiza cerca de 75 mil visitas por ano a crianças internadas em hospitais de São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Recife e Belo Horizonte.

Our mission is to be a prominently dedicated organization to take joy the hospitalized children, its parents and professionals of health, through the art of the clown, nourishing this form of expression as half of enrichment of the experience human being. We are an organization of the civil society without lucrative ends that carry through about 75 a thousand visits per year the children interned in hospitals of São Paulo, Rio De Janeiro, Recife and Belo Horizonte.

Contact: Elisa

Email: elisa@ doutoresdaalegria.org.br

Hospital Smiles Clown Program - Tucson, Arizona, USA

Our non-profit organization is aimed at rolling out similar programs nationwide and perhaps someday internationally. We are very passionate about this initiative!!

Email: clowns@hospitalsmiles.org

Humpty Dumpty - Safety Clown Guild - USA

The Humpty Dumpty Association provides educational and entertaining safety programs that help to lower the number of preventable traumatic brain injuries. Our programs are used in pre-schools, grade schools, middle schools, youth groups, health fairs, public libraries and celebrations. These programs are conducted by Professional Safety Clowns.

Contact: Julius

Email: julius@humptydumpty.org

Phone: 908-241-3374

Address: 442 Dermody Street Roselle, NJ 07203