Sock Monkey Stagette
Ontario Bride -to-be Katherine, pictured here, celebrated the spirit of Craftivism and Global Citizenship with her Sock Monkey Stagette this past weekend. Katherine has long been a patron and purveyor of craft and her friends surprised her with a sock monkey workshop in honour of her upcoming nuptials. 8 sock monkeys were created as part of the celebration, and will soon be making their way to...
Read MoreSock Birds with Seniors
Vancouver Operative Kat Thorsen spent a sunny summer Saturday afternoon bringing sunshine of a different kind to residents of Rideau Manor Retirement Home in in Burnaby, BC. Residents were invited to help Kat finish off a flock of sock birds soon flying south for winter to be a part of the continued development of the Sinovuyo Caring Families project in Cape Town, South Africa. Kat, you...
Read MoreSpace Monkeys, 4 Max!
Our annual delegation of sock monkeys has shipped off to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in honour of Maximillian Dobbin’s 5th birthday. This year’s theme was ‘Space Monkeys on a Mission to Mars’ and yielded some extremely extraterrestrial sock simians, along with some other spacey species such as space pigs, space birds and a Sock Alien or two! Each year,...
Read MoreTo Russia, with Love
Clowns Sans Frontières departed this week on a mission of love, laughter and joy. From Nov 7-23, 2013 they will tour Moscow and St. Petersburg, providing live entertainment to orphanages and hospitals, where they will distribute OSM delegates to youth in distress and others in need of a smile. Proceeds from OSM workshops & sales have helped to raise money for this expedition. Nearly 100...
Read MoreCape Town Monkeys – CWBSA Sinuvoyo Project Update
For the past 12 weeks, Clowns Without Borders South Africa has been implementing the Sinvouyo Caring Families Programme with vulnerable families in Cape Town affected by HIV/AIDS, intimate partner violence, and poverty. Each week, mothers from the community have made it their daily practice to use positive parenting skills with their children at home. They have learned the benefits of child-led...
Read MoreRussian Delegation/Clowns Sans Frontières
This summer OSM is pleased to be teaming up with Clowns Sans Frontières – Canada to bring laughter, hope & healing to children in Russia. C.S.F. has 3 expeditions to eastern Europe planned for this year, one has already taken place and another 2 are planned for July and November. Beslan: 5-13 April 2013, they held circus workshops in a community that was victim to a terrorist...
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