Not everything is as bad as it may seem.
Feb09

Not everything is as bad as it may seem.

WARNING: THIS POST WILL MAKE YOU HAPPIER I have to be honest, my social media newsfeeds don’t make for happy reading at the moment. With the new political direction of the world we live in, there has been a significant amount of distrust and unrest. The 1990’s got a lot of things wrong, but it had an optimism that things will get better and that deep down we are all the same. Just as I found myself yearning for that...

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Where the magic is made
Oct29

Where the magic is made

“Why do you do what you do with your life?” This was a question that I was asked a number of years ago by an incredible clown who has now become a close friend. This wasn’t idle small talk. She asked it with the utmost sincerity and importance. On the face of it, this seems like an easy question. But the more you think about it, the harder it becomes. Each answer you can think of can be met with a further “But...

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Stop being scared about the world: watch this for 7 minutes.
Oct29

Stop being scared about the world: watch this for 7 minutes.

It’s true that the world can be a scary place sometimes. Politics. Money. Relationships. And – apparently – clowns. Despite what you read in the papers at the moment, real clowns are not scary. A clown is not an idiot in a mask with too much time on their hands. Real clowns make light of the difficulties that we face daily, showing us that it’s normal to struggle and allowing us to feel less alone. They tell us...

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Finding the funny spot: instinctive clowning in Cambodia
Oct21

Finding the funny spot: instinctive clowning in Cambodia

My first ever clown show cost 20p a ticket. I was 4 years old and I had painted on a red nose, forced the extended family into a living room, told them to pay up, and performed some mindless drivel that my mother still insists was ‘delightful’. Even at the age of 4, something was stirring. There’s something instinctive about clowning. It’s in the blood. And I think it is in all of us from an early age,...

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Where have all the Cambodian ‘funny men’ gone?
Oct17

Where have all the Cambodian ‘funny men’ gone?

A few of the guys I’m working with on my Cambodian adventure with Epic Arts are Deaf and speak Cambodian Sign Language. I speak a certain amount of British Sign Language, having got my first qualification a few months ago, and we have had fun finding the similarities and differences between our languages. For me, the most beautiful moment came when I arrived on my first day of work and was greeted by a group of artists all...

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