To those interested in the area, I recommend attending the release of the book The Word Clown organized by my dear friend Ana Achcar. It will happen next Monday, October 24, at 7:30 pm at the Argumento Bookstore in Leblon. The publication is the result of the documentation of meetings for studies of clown formation and features stories from various…
A POEM BY MIA COUTO
A POEM BY MIA COUTO The poet does agriculture upside down: with a single seed he plants the whole earth. With a hoe blade, the word hurts time: it cuts off the umbilical cord of what may be a fertile ground. At the end of the crop the poet has no account to close: he only has what he cannot…
BOOK DR. Clown by FERNANDO TERRA
It is not simple to give voice to a clown’s work in the hospital. Each attempt is welcome, especially when the artist himself is speaking. Through Fernando Terra this voice becomes magnified. With experience in acting in Brazil, Italy and Portugal, he invites us to enter the mind of a clown through his diary of experiences and reflections. Check with…
Article Indication
27 Article Indications For those working in the health field I suggest the text of War and Peace: some scenarios of the hospital life from Denise Bertuzzi Sant Anna. With precision and care she describes the new network of relationships and care that are being woven into hospital operations today, helping to think of possibilities and the limits of current…
About Flavia Reis.
It was with great excitement that I read this article by Flavia Reis, actress, clown and a great road companion to think about the encounters’ pedagogy. Each word in her text sounds like it was born ready, but, for real, it means the harvest of hours and hours of workshops and of experimentations that dictate the verb and add adjectives…
A vertical from top to bottom relationship
By Olivier Hughes-Terrault As a French Canadian – from Montreal – therapeutic clown, and social entrepreneur, discovering more and more Brazil, as I choose to live in Rio, of course, many comparisons are inevitably coming to my mind. A compatriot, the researcher Louise Plouffe, from the International Longevity Centre Brazil in Rio, confirmed for me an observation of how much…
A book: Hospital Clowns
Instead of talking about a book, I want to present here the strength that comes from Lia Jaluff and Maria Eugenia Panizza in genarate language to speak of the work of the hospital clowns, calve ways to build encounters between the world of health and art. Strength that comes from the dedication of the researchers and the sensitivity of the…
Humanizing is the point
How to present Bruninha? Difficult, she is special. Some time ago, she wrote me this e-mail: “Dear Morgana, I am preparing my resume for interviews for medical residence. The high points of the curriculum are the scientific production, the extra-curricular activities, and also the letters of recommendation. Many ask for the heads of the subjects to write these letters, or…
The trip of Bataclown
The meeting with Bertil happened at a restaurant in Toulose – in February this year – where we combined breakfast with lunch with a lot of paper in the table, that told who we are how was our professional career was with clowns, health, theater and psychology in the last 20 years . Bertil Sylvander is one of the people…
The walker
This woman walks on these sandals, how to present her? The Roman style sandals do not speak only of style but also of the walker, her walks and the paths. It is been hours finding bites in the maps of Rio de Janeiro, and even though the road was repeated, it was always a new adventure: a street, a tree,…