Lesson from a clowning class: Learn to laugh when life weighs you down

To mark World Laughter Day, I share what clown class taught me about playing, laughing and connecting with strangers.

Members of the Caring Clown Unit comically searching for butterflies in a paediatric ward of KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital in 2017. PHOTO: ST FILE
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On April Fool’s Day, I was one of 12 people who climbed the stairs to the second storey of a shophouse in Desker Road to attend a class in clowning.

Among us were a software engineer, a dancer, an educator, a pharmaceutical executive, a trichologist, an A-level student from Brunei and an NSman.

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