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A boy puts makeup on a girl getting ready for her clown therapy session

Clown Therapy Projects: love at first nose

Many projects in the expressive arts have a built-in lifetime, and a part of the pleasure arises out of the pre-knowledge of the project’s life expectancy. Clown Therapy, projects, however, are not wrought, like a performance, but rather exist as a process, like the water cycle, where beings are drawn together, change, affect and are affected by their environment, are lifted up, then are quite literally expressed. Like water, the process itself does not need to have the same exact people in it all the time to feel continuous, although like water, repeated action in the same place and close

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A group of kids paints on the floor of a hallway

Theatre for Discovery & Transformation: Prince Ahmed and Peribanou

For many years, the Canada Centre for Faith and Social Justice held monthly open meetings, and at each meeting, they would go through four phases in order to bring the social forces and ‘pre-scribed’ relationships into greater transparency. The four phases are: Identifying Ourselves and Our Interests Naming Issues Assessing Forces Planning For Action Why is that important? Many of us in Arts and Arts-in-Ed do work based in an idea of social awareness and justice, of remembering that ART is the great equalizer and singular opportunity to newly understand and re-imagine what is and what could be. Below is

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Holly in the Jordanian desert

Life of a Traveling Player or What We Do for Art

Ever since the sun set on separate campfires, people—my people—have made their way from one grouping to the next, weaving the enchantment that is a performance. We often have a home fire, a community in which our relationships with others are more solidified and our responsibilities more divergent, but we are successful because we roam, and that open road/distant mountain/rippling sea whisper sweet nothings into our ears the whole time we are at home, calling us back out into the world. Practically speaking, this way of life has several constants. One is that we work hard to offer an excellent

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