News
Summer 2010
NECDT - The North East Circus Development Trust
Let's Circus have been integral in establishing and launching the North East Circus Development Trust - a registered charity with a strong board of individuals dedicated to bringing positive opportunities of circus to the North East of England including a permanent circus building project. More information can be found on the Five Ring Circus website
Five Ring Circus
Five youth circuses across five local authority areas in the North East. The project has now gone live and Summer 2010 will see events taking place in North Tyneside, Stockton, Newcastle, South Tyneside and Durham local authority areas. If you're a young person in one of these areas then get in touch. Check out all of the details on www.fiveringcircus.net
Summer Events
Unlike ever before, we've got the busiest summer we could hope for. We'll be taking more circus to more people in a greater number of places. We've got some fantastic international acts involved with our projects this year, with artists from Kenya, China, Australia, Japan, Tanzania, Italy and more. Whilst we upgrade this website to handle all of these calendar dates, please visit the Five Ring Circus What's On page.
December 2009
Cultural Olympiad Project - we got it!
The result we've been hoping for after 12 months of planning and discussions, we're running an Olympics project! Starting in 2010, NECDT and Let's Circus shall be developing 'Tyneside's Five Ring Circus' - five local youth circuses that shall develop over the three year period with the aims of youth-lead excellence and eventual self-sustainability. Five Ring Circus is part of the Generation 2012/Legacy Trust project and will ensure that circus is part of the cultural offer available to young people and communities in the North East after the Olympics and Cultural Olympiad.
Circonnection Launch
Finally we can launch our first European Partnership project 'Circonnection'. Twenty projects across Europe that will provide opportunities of creative and professional development for circus professionals. The partnership will bring several international workshops to Newcastle and will also provide opportunities of travel and professional development for Let's Circus' team of artists. Visit www.circonnection.com for details and get in touch if you'd like to be involved.
November 2009
Circadium
Wow, what an event! 2 days of Big Top Circus Heaven. Thanks to the thousands of people who came into the tent and got involved with the workshops and watched our shows and particularly to all those who helped make the event such a success through their time, energy and experience. We believe this was the biggest single participatory circus event ever held on Tyneside and were lost for words by its success.
Here's the event in numbers: 1 Big Top, 2 days, 6 local circus clubs, a bunch of extreme unicyclists, 16 circus disciplines taught, 22 professional teachers, 36 workshops each day, 1432 toys borrowed, 2416 registered participants, zero time wasted in having a good time!
October 2009
Circadium is Coming!
A big top filled with circus equipment, teachers, workshops and fellow enthusiasts - two days of activities and it's all free! Has Christmas arrived? Even better - Circadium has!
With successful funding from both Arts Council England and Find Your Talent we are chuffed to be hosting the region's newest event to celebrate circus arts. Part Juggling Convention, part Youth Circus Festival, part public have-a-go - all good! This is the next step on the way to developing a dedicated circus facility in the region. We will be announcing more details when we have them - join our mailing list circadium @ letscircus.com (delete spaces).
September 2009
Circ-Us-Cool - Whitley Bay
After a very successful Summer event series with a summer school, professional mentoring program and public performances, Let's Circus are honoured to welcome their new North Tyneside Youth Circus into being.
Aimed at 10-18 year olds and their families, the open circus club will be meeting at Whitley Bay High School on Tuesday evenings from 7:00-8:45 PM. Open to young and young at heart, for registration details - get in touch!
(Supported by Find Your Talent, Whitley Bay School Partnership and Extended Services)
Funding and Assistance for Emerging Circus Professionals
If you are an emerging professional in the realm of circus arts and have an idea for a new creation project you can apply for assistance from Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe. The scheme assists new work and provides support (both financial and creative) to successful applicants. Steve Cousins is assisting the scheme in searching out North-East based applicant organizations.
To download an application or to receive web-based information visit the Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe website.
August 2009
A Permanent Circus Facility for Tyneside?
We are coming the end of the first stage of our feasibility study into converting an inner-city church into a dedicated circus training space. We've generated lots of support for the project and are working hard at getting the conversion off the ground. We are looking for support from individuals and business, both financial and otherwise. If you or someone you know would like to support circus in the North East of England, please get in touch. Our next stage is to raise £1.5million in capital!
July 2009
Circonnection - A European Circus Exchange
We're very happy to announce that we have been successful in our funding application to become the UK representative of 'Circonnection', the international circus exchange project. Partnering with organizations in Turin (Italy), Valencia (Spain), Marseilles (France) and Budapest (Hungary), Let's Circus will be organizing and participating with circus exchange projects across the EU over 2009, 2010 and 2011. Stay tuned to developments of the project and to hear when the international exchanges will be touching down in Newcastle.
May 2009
Website goes live
It's been a very long time coming, but we've now launched our website! It's been a hard slog for our web-designer Jem of jaijiel creative, but we think he's done a fantastic job in visually representing all that we do in such a fantastic way. Thanks Jem!
April 2009
We are now on youtube
Our channel will be developed as a location to view all of our acts and events along with other inspirational content. The ideal medium for connecting to millions across the globe, and spreading our message and our works to new audiences. Subscribe today to follow our progress and get all of our movies as they are released.
January 2009
Our Circus Safari to Kenya
Armed with a playful approach, a box of circus toys and a wish to exchange circus and cultures, Let's... Circus delivered training to local acrobats and dancers as part of a teacher training program. Our sister-circus 'Sarakasi' is now working to place these individuals into projects within Nairobi, many of which are in the slum areas. We also traveled to the Maasai community at Olasiti in Amboseli with a crew of acrobats from Nairobi. What a huge privilege it was to perform under the slopes of the awesome Mt. Kilimanjaro to such wonderful people with whom we are now good friends. We are working on sharing our stories with the world via video documentaries that will be released soon.
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