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RUMSPRINGA A dance party in support of CWB Project Egypt 2010. Philadlphia, PA  Featuring DJ Ruxbin Postponed due to snow! New Date: Saturday February 6th! Unfortunately we had to cancel this event due to snow AGAIN! Please consider MAKING A DONATION for Project Egypt, especially if you were planning to attend the event. THANK YOU! [...]

CWBSA has established successful links with Woza Moya and has followed their support by organising a show to be done in schools within the area. The shows held at its core the intentions to create joy, laughter and happiness. It also aimed to promote activities that inspire creativity and action. After a week of rehearsals, the creation of a 1 hour circus show including hilarious clowning, juggling, magic cigar boxes, tricky sticks, break dance, acrobatics and tumbling was choreographed to music which was used during the rural tour.

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Sarah, Brendon, Elisa and Moshe spent the first week in the Les Cayes area in the southwest of Haiti. This was CWB-USA’s third visit to the area. The group spent the week performing shows, doing walk-around performances, and teaching stilt, juggling, balancing and clown workshops to local kids. We saw a lot of old friends – adults and children in the community who remembered some of us, our previous shows, and even some circus skills they were ready to build on. We also met a lot of new people and made some new contacts – for example, we visited a nearby orphanage and did a lively show under a metal airplane hangar for about 600 kids.

During the spring and summer of 2007, Clowns Without Borders organized 3 expeditions to areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, in and around New Orleans Louisiana. These expeditions were organized in response to the continuing lack of aid over the past 2 years for low-income families affected by the hurricane. In these communities, public schools are still unopened or overcrowded and understaffed, families are without permanent housing, people are demoralized.

Gwendolyn Rooker and I returned to Cairo, Egypt for three weeks of performances and workshops focused towards Sudanese refugees. We also performed at some of the institutions which we visited on our first trip to Cairo in February 2006.

We have finished the last big day of our tour… we played four shows today for about 1,450 adults and kids in Oceanspring, Mississippi. In the Magnolia Park Elementary School 300 of the students lost their homes. Luckily, the two elementary schools here survived to give the students and teachers a sense of normalcy.

The destruction here is massive, buildings turned to rubble, or simply gutted from the storm surge. I have been so surprised that the destruction is so different from that of Louisiana, as well as the recovery effort. Many people who lost their homes were at least land-owners, not renters in Mississippi; so there are many fewer FEMA trailer parks. The community support is quite apparent, but there is still so much to do and so many people that need help.

The performance was attended by over 200 kids and adults from the area and was a great success for everyone involved. Before leaving we set a plan to return in April to perform again and also to offer workshops for the local kids in San Jeronimo and another community. Overall the trip felt like a good begining with a great deal of potential to create an ongoing relationship and to expand the project to effect numerous communities along the US – Mexico border.