The Bum Bum Club

The BumBum Club is a series of bespoke pop - up performances inspired by Claire’s personal experience of childhood cancer between the ages of 4 and 6.

Performing as BumBum - a fabulously colourful and shapeshifting intergalactic host  - and the glittering assistant Granite, Claire and Eszter deliver bedside performances to young hospital inpatients using live music, storytelling, games and clowning.

The two characters are inspired by the freedom that only something other-worldly can access, with no pre-existing knowledge or  judgement about what human bodies “should” look like, or how they should function.

Performances of The Bum Bum Club are playful, artistic, musical interventions that draw on the everyday existence of being an inpatient. The goal is to entertain the young people, encouraging conversations and creating a space for them to share their stories and explore their experiences and emotions.  

The Bum Bum Club was originally funded by Awards for All Scotland in 2024, and developed at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, with support from Dr Defne Saatchi - a researcher at Oxford University with a focus on the late effects of surviving childhood cancer.  

The BumBum Club is an outreach strand of My Heart Is A Hospital. The project will be developed further in 2028.