* Improve the emotional wellbeing of children and caregivers affected by crisis in Southern Africa and around the world through humor, laughter, and play.
*Raise our society's awareness domestically and internationally about conditions encountered in areas of crisis.
* Provide professional development and empowerment opportunities to local artists and improve community based organizations' capacity to provide emotional relief.
* Maintain a spirit of creativity, play, humour, joy, peace, compassion, and loving kindness in all our endeavors.
Welcome to Clowns Without Borders South Africa!
Welcome! Siyakwemukela! Welkom! Kamohelo!
Clowns Without Borders-South Africa is an artist-led humanitarian organization dedicated to improving the psychosocial condition of children and communities in areas of crisis through laughter and play.
We also seek to raise our society’s awareness of conditions in these areas.
Founded in 2004, CWB-South Africa has implemented more than 400 arts interventions with performances and residencies for over 150,000 children and caregivers. Recent countries where we have worked include South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Southern Sudan, and Ethiopia.
CWB-South Africa maintains a spirit of peace, joy, compassion and loving kindness in all of our endeavors.
Please feel free to browse our website to find out more information about Projects, Partners, Press, and ways you can support our work!
Thank you! Siyabonga! Dankie! Rea Leboha!
Latest news
- 3 weeks 1 day agoCalling All Actors, Clowns, Jugglers, Acrobats, Storytellers, Dancers, Drama Teachers and other Performing Artists:
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3 weeks 5 days ago
We are excited to announce that a team of artists and filmmakers from South Africa and France have just left Durban for a project in the field in Lesotho and Ixopo.24 weeks 1 day agoClowns Without Borders South Africa presents Halala Circus!, a circus for all ages, showcasing the Best of KZN Circus Artists including eye-popping acrobatics and hilarious clowns in a FREE 60-minute outdoor performance. Guaranteed to make you laugh yourself silly!31 weeks 4 days agoCWBSA will be at the Drama for Life Festival at Wits University in Johannesburg from August 26 - 28. We are performing "Ajukuja!" with our Swazi partners, the People's Educational Theatre. I am also teaching a workshop on storytelling and play.40 weeks 5 days agoCWBSA thrilled to announce that we have been extremely busy sending clowns here, there, and almost everywhere!Journals
- 5 days 7 hours ago
It is an early dreary gray morning in Addis Ababa in which Sibongile and I are sitting at the airport awaiting our flight back to Johannesburg. After 10-days of performing shows and teaching workshops with Worldwide Orphans (WWO) the weather is mirroring our emotions - damp yet hopeful. We have just said a sad goodbye to Selena who joined us from CWB-USA.
- 20 weeks 4 days ago
CWBSA has established successful links with Woza Moya and has followed their support by organising a show to be done in schools within the area. The shows held at its core the intentions to create joy, laughter and happiness. It also aimed to promote activities that inspire creativity and action.
- 25 weeks 23 hours agoOh! It’s Springtime, again at Ingwavuma known for being next to the borders of Swaziland and Mozambique. This time the weather is very hot as if it’s summer time as I’m wondering how is it going to be like in summer. I have been training 6 staff members from Ingwavuma Orphan Care and 2 artists from Clowns Without Borders South Africa .This week they started to facilitate the workshops with children and guardians. They are leading the workshops and I am assisting whenever they needed assistance. It’s exciting to see other people doing what you have been teaching them, seeing them working together, planning on what are they going to teach on the day.
- 31 weeks 6 days ago
Swaziland - July 15, 2009We have recently completed an epic 2-week project in Swaziland this past month. And I do not use the word "epic" lightly due to the scope and size of our work!41 weeks 1 day ago
Clowns Without Borders South Africa is collaborating on a project in Sudan working with our sister chapter, CWB-USA, the International Rescue Committee, and Confident Children Out of Conflict to provide emotional relief through to refugees from the current conflict. For 14 days in the grueling hot sun, Gavin Stockden has joined Gwen Rooker and Elisa Lane from the United States performing and teaching workshops in both Kenya and Southern Sudan (Juba and Aweil).
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Current ProjectsJanuary:
Project Swaziland: Capacity Training with Lutheran Development Service
Project Siyasizisa: Workshop/Audition in JohannesburgFebruary:
7-19 Collaboration w/ Clowns Sans Frontieres in Lesotho, Ixopo, Durban
16-27 Preliminary Trip to Ethiopia with Worldwide OrphansMarch:
1-5 Project Siyasizisa: Workshop/Audition in Cape Town
7-19 Collaboration with Yale University in Eastern Cape
21-24 DUT Conference on Art and Social Justice
23-25 Project Siyasizisa: Workshop/Audition in DurbanApril:
12-16 Project Siyasizisa: Theatre Training in Durban
19-23 Project Siyajabula: Tour of Underberg w/ Project Khuphuka
26-30 Project Siyasizisa: MBSR Training in IxopoKeep updatedSponsors
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