* 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 500 interventions with performances and residencies for over 185,000 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
- 1 week 6 days ago
Clowns Without Borders will be performing our new show, "Siyasabenza!", at theDrama For Life Festival in Johannesburg.
5 weeks 5 days ago
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.
8 weeks 1 day ago
Join Clowns Without Borders for an evening of laughter, music, and celebration in Cape Town!14 weeks 4 days agoClowns Without Borders will be performing with the People's Educational Theatre at the Bushfire Festival in Swaziland from 27-29 May. It is a wonderful opportunity to raise awareness about our work and connect our partners in Swaziland to greater artistic and professional opportunities. The Bushfire Festival is the biggest arts festival in Swaziland attracting local and international performers from around the world.
28 weeks 3 days agoCalling All Actors, Clowns, Jugglers, Acrobats, Storytellers, Dancers, Drama Teachers and other Performing Artists:Read more >
Journals
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We have just completed 2 artist residencies in Ufafa and Umqatsheni, KwaZulu-Natal, working with Woza Moya Project and Project Khuphuka to provide psychosocial support to children and guardians.16 weeks 23 hours ago
Funded by the National Arts Council, CWBSA Project Siyajabula (We are Happy) performed 10 shows for over 3,000 children from 19-23 April in the rural Drakensberg community served by the Khuphuka.19 weeks 3 days ago
Here's a journal update from Jacque Feldman, a Yale University student who joined us in the Eastern Cape as part of a Clowns Without Borders and Reach Out South Africa collaboration!It is already morning in this hemisphere, we are changing money at the Johannesburg airport, and our trip leader is trying to get us to take off
26 weeks 3 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.
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Current ProjectsAugust:
2-6 Artist residencies in Ufafa and Himeville with Woza Moya and Khuphuka Project11-13 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 Town14-17 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 Swaziland18-22 Project Siyazisiza: Psychosocial training in Durban
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