Curiosity is how we grow.
When someone sees something that they can’t explain, they talk about it.
Cause to Wonder creates curiosity-based events and experiences to introduce notions that reduce human suffering.
We create curious events that turn audiences into storytellers. The new ideas spread by word of mouth: from the markets, to the school yard to the dinner table.
Current project - A magician replaces Abracadabra with the words, "Helping Women Brings Good Things". Grenada / Caribbean 7th run of a program that began in partnership with YWCA Ethiopia in 2011. It has been presented more than 1,000 times to more that 500,000 individuals in India , Sicily, Antigua, Malta, Tortola, St Thomas and Ethiopia.
In a briefing with The United Nations High Commission of Human Rights our director, Lisa Menna, discussed how to create village activism through storytelling.
Past Project - “What have you got to lose?” anti-gang program featured on PBS. Eddy, a former gangster who lost half his body when living in the hood, talks to a high school about gang reality.
Director, Lisa Menna in Patiala, India with a Punjab wise woman.
Director Lisa Menna - magician, activist has performed in 75 countries. Featured on CNN, BBC World Service, Wall Street Journal, Disney, Discovery Channel, and the recipient of a Magic Castle Fellowship. She claims the work is hard traveling and often itchy. Her mother likes to tell the story of the time that a baboon stole her underwear.