The Roda de Palhaço Institute

The Roda de Palhaço group of artists is responsible for a special artistic intervention in the pediatric wards of two public hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Playing the clowns Adamastor, Shei-Lá and Nena, the artists served more than 10000 children back in 2016 and brought energy to transform the behavior of patients, companions, doctors and nurses at the Hospital Federal dos Servidores do Estado and IPPMG /Fundão. The aim was to make powerful artistic interventions in hospitals, bringing access to the art of clowning to the low-income population and to provoke a state of joy in children and companions during hospitalization, to develop new ways of working in health and to transform the hospital environment in a more humanized place.