Patients Kayla Bonilla and Michael Maxwell clowned around with Cirque du Soleil performers at the Child Life Zone.
Performers from Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities brought their imaginative art form to life during a recent visit to the Child Life Zone at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai. Pediatric patients and their families enjoyed a short performance that brought smiles to their faces. Recorded in the KidZone TV studio within the Child Life Zone, the performance was broadcast live throughout the hospital for those who were unable to attend in person.
“The artists of the Cirque du Soleil truly lifted the spirits of our hospitalized children and families during their dynamic visit,” says Diane Rode, Director, Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department, Kravis Children’s Hospital.
A short time later, festivities continued when the Mount Sinai Children’s Center Foundation hosted its 30th annual benefit at Randall’s Island Park. Supporters saw a full performance of Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios: Cabinet of Curiosities and recorded hopeful, positive messages that were broadcast to hospitalized patients and their families via the KidZone TV studio.
A major fundraising event for the Department of Pediatrics, the benefit supports Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy programming for the most seriously ill pediatric patients. The benefit was chaired by Jennifer Deppe Parker, Stan Parker, Frederique Svider, and Raymond Svider, and honored Alfin G. Vicencio, MD, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology in the Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.