The New Age of Play

September 8, 2008

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  Playfulness can help us to detach from the painful, ordinary and mundane situations aspects of life without denying they exist.   Through the eyes of the clown, life is full of alternative possibilities. Clowns, Fools & Jesters are adept at using ordinary situations as the fuel to create new possibilities and comic situations.  … [Read more…]

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The Death of Play?

October 20, 2009

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The meaning of play, once valued for it’s own intrinsic pleasure, is being co opted or `taken over’ by the state to make children become better cogs in an economic machine.

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The Fool & His Money Are Soon Parted! Part 1.

July 9, 2007

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The Fool invites us to over turn and suspend the normal rules of reality. One of area of my life where I am experimenting with stepping out and beyond my known and familiar world is in the realm of money. I was keen to discover what lay beyond beyond my judgements and attitudes towards money.… [Read more…]

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The Clown’s Universe: An Unknown Story

November 29, 2006

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Three years ago, I participated in a Clowning Summer School. The Clowning Summer School is a surreal experience. It’s like entering clown universe where all the normal laws of reality are suspended. In clown universe, some of the laws of reality work in reverse or are upside down to our normal way of thinking and… [Read more…]

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