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A clown care troupe at service at the hospital Bambino Gesù in Italy. Clown Care, also known as hospital clowning, is a program in health care facilities involving visits from specially trained clowns. They are colloquially called "clown doctors" which is a trademarked name in several countries.
The “Bureau of Smiles and Support” (BUP) is a hospital clowning initiative established in 2023 by Olha Bulkina, 35, and Maryna Berdar, 39, who already had more than five years of hospital clowning experience between them. “Our mission is to let childhood continue regardless of the circumstances,” Bulkina, told The Associated Press.
Elaine Vercellone, aka Daisy D. Dots, is teaching a Hospital Caring Clown Class to local adults at Hatch Street Studio. Do you have what it takes?
Founded in 1986, the Big Apple Circus Clown Care program is composed of over 80 professional clowns, trained extensively in hospital procedures, circus skills, and improvisation, who make rounds as 'clown doctors' at various pediatric hospitals around the U.S.
Patch Adams also said of Robin Williams in an interview, "He made $21 million for four months of pretending to be me, in a very simplistic version, and did not give $10 to my free hospital. [13] Patch Adams, the person, would have, if I had Robin's money, given all $21 million to a free hospital in a country where 80 million cannot get care." [14]
Monica Culen is an Austrian founder and advocate for humanitarian causes. In 1991, Culen helped create one of the first European hospital clown organisations. In 1994 she founded RED NOSES in Austria, developing during 30 years a professional Healthcare Clown Program and escalating it internationally to 11 more countries and worldwide Emergency Missions.
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A member of the Clown Care (SM) hospital clowning program of the Big Apple Circus, Karen was one of the country's leading clown instructors and has developed teaching programs for the Circus's Arts-In-Education program, the National Circus Project and Ocean Park Amusements.