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Clowns at Drama For Life Festival
Clowns Without Borders will be performing our new show, "Siyasabenza!", at the ![]()
Drama For Life Festival in Johannesburg.
Clowns off to KwaZulu-Natal!
Over the next 2 weeks, Clowns Without Borders will be conducting 2 Njabulo Artist Residencies in rural communities of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Our core staff of facilitating artists will be working in Ixopo and Underberg with the Woza Moya Project and Project Khuphuka.
Project Siyazisiza (Helping Ourselves) and Project Siyajabula (We are Happy) will focus on providing children and guardians affected by HIV/AIDS with the opportunity to reawaken to joy and happiness while finding the means to cope with stress and challenges in life.
Benefit Show in Cape Town
Join Clowns Without Borders for an evening of laughter, music, and celebration in Cape Town!
Clowns at the Bushfire Festival in Swaziland!
Workshop/Auditions in Cape Town (3-5 March) and Durban (24-26 March)
Calling All Actors, Clowns, Jugglers, Acrobats, Storytellers, Dancers, Drama Teachers and other Performing Artists:
Clowns off to Lesotho!
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.
CWBSA presents Halala Circus at Celebrate Durban!
Clowns 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!
CWBSA at the Drama For Life Festival
CWBSA 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.
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CWBSA thrilled to announce that we have been extremely busy sending clowns here, there, and almost everywhere!
Support our circus school in Ixopo!
Lebanon Expedition
In collaboration with our sister chapters, Sweden and Belgium, Clowns Without Borders South Africa artist and director, Jamie McLaren Lachman, will be going to Lebanon to work with Palestinian refugees.
We will be in Beirut and the southern Palestinian refugee camps from February 21st to March 2nd.
Project Ixopo
Clowns Without Borders announces a new programme: Project Ixopo!
国境なきピエロ団・南アフリカ支部へようこそ！
世界には紛争や貧困、ケガや病気などで苦しんでいる人達がたくさんいます。生きていくことに精一杯で、笑うことを忘れてしまう人達もいます。私達はそんな子ども達や村人に、笑顔や楽しさを届けているピエロの団体です。
Project Lesotho
We have just returned from a very cold but equally productive expedition in Lesotho after 2 weeks of performing at schools, hospitals, and clinics, teaching workshops, and desperately trying to keep warm. Since it was school holidays, we had the opportunity to partner with Medecins Sans Frontieres for the first time in the region. Hopefully, it is a beginning to future collaborations.
Building Local Capacity in Swaziland
CWB South Africa and CWB Sweden are collaborating on a year-round project to build local capacity for psychosocial support through play of organizations in Swaziland. We will be teaching facilitators how to implement Project Njabulo, our HIV/AIDS programme, in communities working with the Lutheran Development Service and Swaziland for Positive Living. This project has been funded by SVT (Swedish Television). Stay tuned for updates from the field!
Fundraising drive 2008!
We are currently raising funds for an ambitious program of action in 2008. Along with continuing to improve our ability to provide emotional relief to communities affected by HIV/AIDS, poverty, and violence in South Africa, Swaziland, and Lesotho, CWB-South Africa will be expanding our projects in the following areas:
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Current Projects
August:
2-6 Artist residencies in Ufafa and Himeville with Woza Moya and Khuphuka Project
11-13 Project Siyazisiza: Gender Sensitivity training in Durban
16-20 Project Siyazisiza: Artist training in Durban
17-Sept 22 Prevention Plan in Ufafa
21-24 Drama for Life Festival in Johannesburg
September:
9-11 Drama For Life Festival in Cape Town
14-17 Project Siyazisiza: Children's Rights training in Durban
14-16 Drama For Life Festival in Pietermaritzburg
17-18 Drama for Life Festival in Durban
20-24 Celebrate Durban
27-Oct 1 Vuka Mphakathi Facilitator training in Swaziland
October:
4-15 Vuka Mphakathi Njabulo Residency in Swaziland
18-22 Project Siyazisiza: Psychosocial training in Durban
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