News from Lithuania where Annabel Morgan has been collaborating with UK and LIthuanian clowns!
Social clowns will be traveling around Lithuanian hospitals and orphanages and visited patients at Kaunas Kaunas Clinical Hospital and Children's Hospital clinic.
Two actors dressed in red noses smiles were
not just for kids - was fun and doctors, parents of children. In the game, all
joined in around - the music sounds, soap bubbles, colorful balloons, dancing,
jokes and joyful shouts of joy hospital changed beyond recognition.
The program "Clowns Without Borders
curator Viltautė Žemelytė revealed that the most important hospital staff not
to interfere in their work. The actor was able to cheer up children without
causing turmoil.
Social clowns rarely organize performances or
performances. Usually they individually interact with the children, bring toys.
They can work only for the acting abilities and mastery of psychological
preparation, completion of training.
Clown therapy efficacy in the treatment
process pediatricians recognize and approve the research.
"We will visit child every week, it is
systematic work," - said V.Žemelytė.
The "Clowns without borders" in
Lithuania began in 2010 in Vilnius, and is currently traveling to smaller
cities. Tour in Lithuania is planned to visit 15 different institutions, drive
more than 1,500 kilometers, to communicate with almost a thousand patients with
or without the parents' love for growing children.