The History of GiGi’s Playhouse

By Sara Van Deurzen | July 24, 2020 |

Did you know how GiGi’s Playhouse began? My 6-year-old son, Franco, created our first logo! We started as a Down Syndrome Awareness Center and our tagline was Educate Inspire Achieve. Though, whenever I spoke about the Playhouses I always added the word Believe to our tag line too! As time went on it felt as…

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Pulling For Down syndrome!

By Sara Van Deurzen | July 1, 2020 |

Wisconsin Arm Sports Thanks so much to WI Arm Sports for your support, training, and especially for extending the invitation to include our friends in the State Arm Wrestling Tournament. We are so grateful for your kindness and for inspiring us all to try our best, we are all #strongertogether! Thank you especially to Lee and…

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Playhouse Champions!

By Sara Van Deurzen | May 12, 2020 |

What is a Playhouse Champion? All of us that share the joy of GiGi’s Playhouse with others are champions. We LOVE our community and want to share it with everyone! Through this event we are committing to sharing acceptance in our neighborhoods. We would love to be together in person, but by having a worldwide…

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