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The hearts & nose hospital clown troupe provides professionally trained volunteer clowns hospitalized children in greater Boston and training for other clown troops around the world. I am Chairman of the Board of Directors and hope you will join me back work clown with a donation.
Hospitalized children experience stress, fear and anxiety often, can be an obstacle for healing. Heart & noses are specially trained clowns help for sick children and respite for their families. Anxious, that our clowns uncover the hidden spirit of joy and creative energy, life in the heart and soul of the Children- a spirit which is often dampened by the sterile and sometimes frightening clinical environment. Our clowns central objective is to engage, empower and give options to hospitalized children.
After a journey of life-changing after Russia with famous clown and doctor Patch Adams began force founder Jeannie Lindholm home offers a series of seminars on hospital buffoonery in the 1990s. Lindholm home, an actor who began training clowns, sick and handicapped children in Boston area to visit hospitals. Formed the clown troupe and diligently worked to create a strong, professionally trained group of volunteers. More than a decade later, our clowns are all volunteers and we have helped to build clown troops all over the world. The force continues Training workshops to provide and has the art and joy of hospital Clowning manual and DVD published for those who can make it to Boston.
We take young people where you most powerless and most vulnerable are dealing with medical problems (acute or chronic), force you to a hospital or institutional health care setting. Use Theater Arts, music and improvised play our clowns, engage children in interactions, to facilitate their spirits and take you way, for a period of time, to get good from the hard job. Open in the process our clowns of the child will want to restore, rotate the most withdrawn patients who is more optimistic and required more susceptible for the treatment by the medical team.
Heart & nose hospital clowns train for two years and work closely with artistic specialists, child development specialists and our Medical Director, Michael Agus, MD, Director, medical intensive care at Boston children's Hospital. Last year we focused our ongoing training on child development topics and brought us experts teach how better with children with special needs to communicate in particular those who are on the autism spectrum. In the coming year, we hope that our training on other severe disabilities and special conditions to expand.
The best way to explain what we do is to share a story of a real clown visit. As one he said our clowns:
We saw a little boy, Benjamin, for years. It is 10 years old. He can move his hands and is wheelchair in bed or in the reclining. He beams, each time, when he sees our clowns. His foot and toes act as his hand. He makes the magic tricks, the work of Hahn ping our tricks with his foot.Today we visit him. I have games a silent clown. My partner, poppy says "everything has lost her voice." We look into my pockets behind the nurse's counter... everywhere for my voice.
Benjamin says "I will say the magic word." He does, and my voice returns. He takes the cards we give him with his toes. Benjamin never wants to leave us when we visit and always says, "one more magic trick?"
We visit all children on the floors and then talk about our visits to the lobby if we finished all children. I am leaving the hospital. I look through my clown bag and acknowledge, I have left my magic box down on the floor where Benjamin lives. So I take the elevator on its soil.
Benjamin is food, lunch and bar when he sees me. I pretend I have lost my voice again. He laughs and laughs. He says the magic word; my voice returns. I see my magic box on the counter. I smile at him and win a huge wave. How stroke left down, he screams love "I you!"
You can read more stories like this on our website where the contributions of our donors are gratefully acknowledged.
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