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Date: Tuesday 14th July – Sunday 19th July
Time: from 7pm
Venue: Pleasance Theatre, Carpenters Mews, North Road,
Islington, London N7 9EF
Cost: £10 OR £5 if you say HEALTH or go with a group. Call 020
7609 1800 to book
Flamingo Feather Physical Theatre Company presents:
- Production of BLACK DOG & THE BEEKEEPER
These two short plays offer a unique multimedia perspective and are raising awareness of mental health issues.
Black Dog looks at social isolation, loneliness and depression and how nutrition and laughter have their role in the actress’s life.
Laughter Network member Julie Whitehead is the Laughter Consultant for this production.
The Beekeeper is about one man torn between duty and desire and how his inept behaviour unwittingly seals his own fate.
London Laughter Community
Date: Saturday 18 July
Time: 1.30-2.30
Venue: The October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester St, Bloomsbury,
London, WC1N 3AL
Cost: £10/(concessions always available)
More information and to book your place contact Leela: 0790 433 4222 / tamsin.bunce@laughternetwork.co.uk.
The London Laughter Community is a friendly monthly group bringing people from
all sorts of backgrounds together to enjoy a really great laugh and to learn how
to get more laughter into their lives.
Using a wonderful mix of laughter practices and techniques culminating in a blissful laughter meditation - no previous experience is necessary, no sense of humour is needed - come as you are and leave feeling lighter, brighter and smiling broadly!
Places are limited, laughter is very much not! The more the merrier.
Date: 18th July 3rd Saturday of the month
Time: 11.00am-12.00pm
Venue: Lewisham Carers Centre: Waldram Place, Forest Hill,
London, SE23 2LB. From Forest Hill BR, turn right along the main road, and
follow it round down the hill and under the railway bridge. You will see the
Centre ahead of you
Cost: £10/(concessions always available)
South London Laughter is a new regular, friendly group based in Forest Hill run by Leela Bunce and Cathy Collymore.
Come and learn techniques for getting more laughter into your lives, feel healthier, lighter and brighter!
For more information or to book please call Leela on 0790 433 4222 or Cathy on 07957 170 461 or email tamsin.bunce@laughternetwork.co.uk / cathy.collymore@laughternetwork.co.uk.
Date: Friday 24 July
Time: 1.00pm-2.00pm
Venue: Neal's Yard Meeting Rooms, Neal's Yard, Covent Garden,
London, WC2H
Cost: £10/(concessions always available)
More information and to book your place contact Leela: 0790 433
4222 /
tamsin.bunce@laughternetwork.co.uk.
Lunchtime Laughter meets once a month for busy workers, tired shoppers and anyone fancying an uplifting start to their weekend!
Bring your colleagues/friends, make an office outing of it!
Date: 31st July – 2nd August
Time: please contact Joe Hoare
Venue : Mendips, Somt
Cost: free
For full details please contact Joe Hoare on mobile 07812159943 or email joe.hoare@laughternetwork.co.uk,
Light-hearted, endorphin-boosting, stress-busting laughter workshop with spontaneity, laughter yoga and much, much more.
Based on the Bristol Laughter Club, the UK’s longest running series of laughter workshops.
Come and be part of something. Comfy loose clothing; bottle of water (laughter is thirsty work); willingness to take part.
Date: 7th – 9th August
Time: please contact Joe Hoare
Venue : Malverns, Worcs
Cost: free
For full details please contact Joe Hoare on mobile 07812159943 or email joe.hoare@laughternetwork.co.uk,
Light-hearted, endorphin-boosting, stress-busting laughter workshop with spontaneity, laughter yoga and much, much more.
Based on the Bristol Laughter Club, the UK’s longest running series of laughter workshops.
Come and be part of something. Comfy loose clothing; bottle of water (laughter is thirsty work); willingness to take part.
Date: Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September
Time: to be confirmed
Venue: Whitby Pavilion, Whitby, North Yorkshire
Cost: Free, but admission cost to the MBS Fair
(£2.50 / £2)
A laughter club by the sea! People coming together to laugh ourselves happier and healthier.
30 minute sessions with laughter games.
More information from Robin Graham on 0161-831-9385, mobile 07930-570140 or e-mail at robin.graham@laughternetwork.co.uk.
Dates: September 11th-13th 2009
Time: Friday afternoon to Sunday midday
Venue: Claridge House, Lingfield, Surrey
Price: £170 including accomodation and meals
What is it that makes laughter so healing for both body and soul?
How can we develop practical ways of building more laughter into our lives?
We will explore a range of imaginative and playful exercises to wake ourselves up to the potential of laughter.
In the beautiful venue of Claridge House we will have a chance to relax, reflect, and let the laughter flow.
For more information or to book your place please call Jo on 07816 439510 or email jo.eadie@laughternetwork.co.uk.
Date: 12th-13th September
Time: Saturday 11-6, Sunday 10-5
Venue: Herne Hill
Cost: £250 (£200 early bird)
Leela Bunce and Robin Graham lead the Advanced Laughter Training in London.
This course is an opportunity to explore our laughter and to find answers to questions we have about our laughter.
Maximum of 10 places.
The course is part of the Laughter Network Training, and is endorsed by Dr Madan Kataria.
More information from Robin Graham on 0161-831-9385, mobile 07930-570140 or e-mail at robin.graham.
In order to make it easier for you to find information about the Laughter Network, our members, events and training, we have added a few new pages to our website
Please feel free to look around
- reviews - we share some of our success stories on this page
- training - courses endorsed by the Laughter Network are listed on this page
- archive - you may have missed some of our events but it is not too late to read about it
On other pages you find the following up-to-date information
Time: 7:00am - 7:10am BST (GMT+1)
Phone: +44 (0)844-774-2424 - dial the number and wait to enter conference ID
Conference ID: 807911 - enter conference ID followed by # and start laughing
They do it from coast to coast in Australia, they do it in the
US, and now we do it here - in the UK...
From Monday 15th September 2008 we start with 5-10-minute Laughter
Yoga session to kick-start the day!
Welcome to the Telephone Laughter Club where we laugh every morning at 7:00am BST (GMT+1)
For more information please contact Lotte on lotte@unitedmind.co.uk or mobile 07736 341 717.
Time : 1pm GMT
Place : Around the World
Remember how you feel after a good laugh?
Now imagine how the World would feel if we all laughed together!
So let’s do it! Every Saturday.
Let’s change the World with laughter!
For more information: www.worldlaughterpledge.org.
Join us!
Read the full story here!
In Bosham near Chichester Julie Whitehead and Lisa Sturge gathered families by the seafront at Bosham Quay in Brighton, in Edgerton, Kent, Cathy Hill celebrated the day, and Lotte Mikkelsen brought a small group together by the Roman City Wall in Verulamium Park in St. Albans.
Read the full story here!
Julie Whitehead joined Bob Taylor from the Parkinson's Disease Society at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, Kent on Friday 11th April when they ran LAUGH-4-FUN sessions to raise awareness of Parkinson’s Disease.
Read the full story here!
February – April 2008:
Amanda Bate, Julie Whitehead and a number of active members represented and supported the Laughter Network at the South Bank Centre in London as part of a series of workshops to celebrate ‘Laughing in a Foreign Language’.
The exhibition took part over three months in the Hayward Gallery and included laughter sessions both in the Gallery and the Royal Festival Hall.
A fun piece showing how laughter can transcend cultural barriers was aired on BBC2’s the Culture Show.
The laughter sessions were a great success and the Laughter Network looks forward to working with the South Bank Centre again.