Arts Care
Clown Doctors
Arts Care is a leading regional arts, health and well-being organisation based in Northern Ireland. We deliver a wide range of innovative and impactful participatory arts projects and events into the heart of health and social care services, the community and businesses.
The Arts Care Clown Doctors are a team of 5: Dr. Muddle, Dr. Clooless, Dr. Fizz, Dr. Dapper and Dr. Twinkle.
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They work and travel in pairs bringing joy and creating mischief wherever they go. The Arts Care Clown Doctors can offer bespoke workshops catering to the needs of specific service users of all ages and abilities.
Clown Doctor Rounds at Hospitals, Respite and Health Care Services
The Clown Doctors engage with babies, children and young people in hospitals across Northern Ireland. They connect with service users through imagination, play and fun. They can visit sick children’s bedsides, create chaos in clinic waiting rooms and sing wailing babies to sleep. They are great at making the doctors and nurses laugh too. Many of the children and young people they engage with have complex needs and life limiting illnesses. The children enjoy participating in the magical and participatory world of imagination and play that our Clown Doctors create with them.
Community and Charity Work
The Clown Doctors can run sessions focused on interactive free play with children and encourage parents to experiment and play with their own children in a fun and creative way.
Clowning and Circus Skills
The Clown Doctors can teach Clowning and Circus skills to build confidence, encourage communication and enhance a groups positive mental health and well-being.
Corporate Services
The Clown Doctors work together teaching circus skills and clowning, encouraging laughter and free play between colleagues, benefiting mental health and well-being, confidence building and encouraging a sense of team.
Teddy Bear Surgery
The Clown Doctors’ Teddy Bear Surgery is the perfect addition to any fun event or festival for children. Children are asked to bring their poorly dolls and teddys to the Clown Doctors for a health check. Armed with plasters and potions the Clown Doctors can give the toys the once over and send them away as good as new.
Event or Festival Walkabout
The Clown Doctors presence at an event is always certain to get attention and raise some eyebrows. The Clown Doctors can walk about an event, creating mischief as they go, rounding up spectators for a show or getting attendees to engage with whatever activities have been planned for them.
Training For Healthcare Professionals
The Clown Doctors work with health care staff to increase positive mental health and well-being and provide empathy building training, upskilling medical professionals to facilitate play and a sense of fun with their service users engaging the person as a whole and not just their diagnosis.