The Hospital Clown Newsletter Website - Clowns in Community and World Service The Hospital Clown Newsletter Website: Clowns in World and Community Service

 

 

 

Life is a spiritual journey. I will share with you what comes across my path and I would hope that you will do the same. The stories we share are our hope and inspiration. Our shares are the footpaths of our journey. We need to tell our stories. They are for us, the heart to heart connection, the bond of spirit, the rise of consciousness, the merging into the universe. When we share our stories with others, we share the flame of our love. -- Shobi

Updated   07/26/2008

  

Editor and Publisher:

Shobhana Schwebke (Resume)
a.k.a.
Shobi Dobi the Clown

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"No one expects a clown to be profound. No one expects a clown to be anything but funny. Look again! The clown will catch you off guard and speak directly to your heart – make you laugh at yourself, and weep with the world. "
                                               -- Shobi Dobi

 

Articles for 

Red Nose Response Groups and Response Teams

and 

Shobi's Workshop Handouts

(Click above)

 

Clowns, please also check into 

 www.rednoseresponse.com

(Formerly Red Nose Relief)

 

 

We hospital/caring clowns are skilled at dealing with suffering/death/dying and knowing how to approach people. The clowning we do is called caring clowning as it  appeals directly to the heart.  It is not coping humor, it is hoping humor.  It is a gentle, caring, unconditional kind of clowning. It is this humor we caring  clowns bring to "Worlds of Hurt."

    

Shobi's Mask Workshops

Click above for  information

on Shobi's Workshops

  

Workshop Handouts

  

Other Commedia and Clown Workshops 


 Shobi's Schedule


   

3rd Annual CATC / ACCT Conference

(The Canadian Association of Therapeutic Clowns/

L'Association Canadienne Des Clowns Therapeutiques)

November 8-11, 2007

Toronto, Canada

Flyer PDF   /   Conference Program

 

Workshops in Japan 2008

Feb 7-11 Tokyo, Feb 12-13 Osaka,

Feb 15-17 Kagoshima

 For Information Contact Artland, Japan

 Clowns International Festival

at Butlins, Bognor Regis, U.K.

March 6th - 10th 2008

 

10th International Clown Festival

Svendborg, Denmark

May 14th - 18th 2008

Registration is free for hospital clowns!

www.clownfestival.dk

 

Camp Winnarainbow

Adult Week

June 10-15, 2008

Shobi will teach a mask making class

(limited enrollment)

www.campwinnarainbow.org

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Clown Ambassador Trips

  

Please click below for 

Humanitarian Clown Trips
with Patch Adams and 
Gesundheit! Institute

 

2nd Annual Caring Clown
Cruise to Mexico

Nov 21 - Dec 1, 2008

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 The Current Newsletter - Volume 11, No 3  
Mailed
February 5, 2008 

 

 

In this issue (Volume 11 No 3)

Red Nose Relief and Crisis Response    

Clowns respond in Southern California to the wildfires and in Washington to the floods.  Includes stories: Camping out at the "Q" by Antolin Rodriguez Solecito the clown

Comic Relief for Northwest Flood Victims  by Maureen "OOCHEE" Mould

Clowns from Yakima Washington visit shelters

Flashing a Smile 

An editorial by Shobi  

Exploring the Link between Gratitude and Attention 

Reprint of an article by Gregg Krech of the ToDo Institute with comments by Shobi

Rhythms of the Road  By Jeff Raz 

Jeff Raz who toured with Cirque du Soleil's "Corteo."   This is the story of Corteo's funeral.  Jeff toured for over a year as the clown Corteo and share his experience and insight.

Putting Smiles on the faces of our troops

A report from the Red nose Institute on delivering red clown noses to our troops in Iraq. From The Red Nose Institute

It's a Small World After All  by Dean Cotton.

A group of clowns from Fayetteville, Georgia clown in the Ukraine. 

No Reservations Needed By Chip Daly

Chip writes of his experience at Maria's Children Summer Camp for Orphans in Russia

Here's Blab-i-Gail  a.k.a. Dorothy Miller

Blabs, as she is known to her friends established one of the first caring clown program in Chicago and has been actively teaching caring clowning at clown camp for years.



This is not an on line newsletter. It is a 20 page publication for clowns in community and world service. It contains no advertising and is solely supported by its subscribers.

See Back Issue for Samples of the Newsletter

The Newsletter contains experiences, stories, props, routines, and articles by caring clowns and others relating to clowns in service in health care facilities and compassionate service around the world. We want to share our work, so we can expand and grow and encompass the world with our JOY.

The Newsletter is not aligned with any sect, religion or politics. Our purpose is to be a vehicle to share our ideas, hopes, failures and miracles. We recognize the diversity of the clown community and realize that there are as many ways to be a caring clown as there are clown characters.

 

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Email: ShobiDobi at hospitalclown.com  (putting the "at" sign on this website increases the incidence of spam bouncing off this website.  I apologize for any email you get called phishing. Anything that comes from this website that is not related to hospital or service clowning is spam and phishing; it is not from Shobi 

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