The Why Not Institute – Coronavirus Update

The pandemic was a difficult time for everyone, including those in the performing arts. At The Why Not Institute, we came together as a community and found resilience, resourcefulness, and new ways to support each other. HUGS is a good example of what we achieved...

The Why Not Institute Presents: HUGS!

The Why Not Institute presents: Hugs Understanding the strength, the importance and the need for a hug, receive ours. Representing all the Why Notters, 21 clowns from UK. USA, Finland, Brazil, Norway and Hong Kong, are sending HUGS to the world. Go on, send a hug to...

Healthcare Clowning – Clown Doctors

By Suzie Ferguson To be a Clown Doctor takes a special kind of clown artist. It requires not only a high level of skill and clown experience but the maturity to commit yourself to being ‘in service’. There are no stage lights to focus attention or paying audience to...

Clowns and Gender

by Miranda Porter Gender is, “a system of classification rooted in social ideas about masculinity and femininity.” (Mardell, 2016). Gender is considered, by some, a binary concept. A binary has only two states with no existing spectrum between. Therefore, gender as a...

Imagination and the Clowns

By A de Castro with extracts from the book ‘Angel Journey’ by Terry Lynn Taylor and Mary Beth Crain The Clowns are like Angels. The consciousness is both human and divine, physical and metaphysical. Being divine messengers, the clowns and the angels move easily and...