Let's meet!

The next General Meeting of Circostrada Network will take place from June 29th to July 3rd 2021 in Alès (France), in partnership with Le Cratère - National stage of Alès (France), the Institut français and Occitanie en scène. It will take place in the frame of the Focus Territories and Arts of the Institut français and of the 22nd edition of Cratère Surfaces - Alès International Outdoor Festival.

This key moment of exchange and physical encounter will be the opportunity to reflect on our relationship to territories, to share experiences, inspiring projects - be they artistic, citizen or political - in connection to the making of urban spaces with a view to revisiting our means to grasp and interact with these common spaces. 

Register now! 

You want to know more about Circostrada and what it does? Watch our brand new video and you'll know everything about us!

Circostrada is the European Network dedicated to Circus and Street Arts, coordinated by ARTCENA and co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and the French Ministry of Culture.  

It was formed in 2003 with the aim of developing and reinforcing these sectors, and winning them recognition on a European scale and worldwide.

But what is it exactly that we do for circus and street arts? How do we do it? With whom? And where? 

Your curiosity is at a peak? We invite you to watch this video to become a Circostrada expert! You will find out in less than two min about our missions, our members, our values, our actions and more!

This video was made by © Katie Shelly 

CIRCOSTRADA NETWORK IS GROWING!

We are more than happy to introduce you to our brand NEW MEMBER!

A warm welcome to the National Circus Festival of Ireland! 

The National Circus Festival of Ireland presents, explores and exposes circus as a highly diverse, experimental, contemporary artform to a new audience.

They do this through presenting high quality Irish and international artists delivering engaging, artform-focussed training and performances, involving the whole sector and the local community.

The festival has been growing sustainably annually, bringing with it our local partners and community, our sector and an ever increasing local and national audience.  The activities of the festival have been instrumental in the development of a local and national awareness of and appreciation for contemporary circus. The festival has programmed such luminaries as Leandre, Gandini Juggling Project, Kamchatka Theatre Company, Svalbard Company, Baccala Company and Fauna Circus.

Perform Europe supports experiments with more sustainable ways in cross-border physical and digital distribution of the performing arts in the 41 Creative Europe countries with a view to designing future support schemes for the sector.

What if you had the opportunity to collectively reimagine international touring of performing arts works in a more sustainable, balanced and inclusive way? Prepare to hit the road because we invite you on an 18-month journey to test, discuss and propose a new support scheme for the performing arts: Perform Europe.

Stay tuned and join Perform Europe’s online Opening Event on 28 January at 14:00 CET, a key starting point for policy-makers and the sector at large where we will introduce the project’s guiding values and vision, and tell you more about its future online platform and about the opportunities it will be providing for performing arts professionals from all backgrounds and horizons.

Perform Europe starts with you. Be part of the performing arts’ touring future. Join Perform Europe’s Opening Event.

• Register HERE to attend the opening event!
• Discover the preliminary programme of January 28th.

Perform Europe is funded by the European Commission and coordinated by a Consortium composed of IETM - International network for contemporary performing arts, the European Festivals Association (EFA), Circostrada Network, EDN - European Dancehouse Network and IDEA Consult.

Performing HEL 2021 is coming September in 2021!

Performing HEL is the one and only showcase dedicated to Finnish performing arts – circus, dance, theatre and everything in between. The third edition of the showcase will be held September 2–5, 2021 in Helsinki, Finland in tandem with the Helsinki Festival.

We truly hope we’ll be able to gather in sunny Helsinki in September 2021. The registration for Finnish and international presenters and programmers will start in February 2021. The showcase will stay small and intimate so that the atmosphere is more “like a creative family rather than a formal event” (feedback from 2019).

This time Performing HEL will be online too! We will offer a possibility to register to the event as an online participant.

The program of Performing HEL 2021 will be published online in March 2021. While waiting for more news you might want to take a look at the fabulous new website of the showcase: www.performinghel.fi

SAVE THE DATES FORT THE FESTIVAL!

This edition of the Festival is a very special one! It has been a challenge to maintain the programme designed from the month of May, but we knew it was the time to resist. Who would have thought that this year, it would be so difficult to simply watch a show, all together in the dark and in silence?

In the historical moment we are living, art and culture, and very specifically circus, can help preserving hope in the face of uncertainty. Today, the whole world seems to be on a tightrope, and here we are all doing balancing and juggling to deal with this new present. Now more than ever, we need to laugh, we need clowning and we need to fly with imagination, just like the artist being flown from the top of a trapeze.

Today we are all Circus, because we are making the impossible possible.

SAVE THE DATES for SpringMoves Dance Festival!

• A Reimagined online Dance and Circus Festival coming to you from Wexford, in the South East of Ireland.
• Exciting Dance events will be online from December 7th-11th, 2020.

This event is supported by Wexford County Council.

TAKE PART IN OUR NEXT GENERAL MEETING!

The next General Meeting of Circostrada is fast approaching! It will take place online from December 9-11, 2020 around the theme “Digital Common Goods”. Exceptionally, 2 sessions will be open to the wider audience:

• The main keynote session: What about digital cultural common goods? (Day#1)
• The presentation of case studies dealing with digital common goods (Day#2)

This is an opportunity for you to take part, perhaps for the first time, in the network’s activities, discover innovative projects and learn new things! 

The full programme is available here. Have a look at it! 

Prior registration is needed to attend this event. 

If you want to join us, please fill in the following form by December 7th at the latest (midnight, CET). 

Looking forward to seeing you all online!

Mark the dates in your calendar: FRESH STREET#4 will take place online from November 2 to 5!

Initially scheduled in October and hosted by the FNAS - Federazione Nazionale delle Arti in Strada in Turin (Italy), we have reframed the event in a digital format to come up with a rich and varied programme around the theme “The space in between”.

Flagship event of Circostrada, FRESH STREET - International Seminar for the Development of Street Arts remains true to its original objectives of bringing together professional artists, programmers, researchers, pedagogues, journalists, and policy makers from all over Europe and beyond in order to enhance the structure, the development and recognition of street arts in Europe and across the world.

This fourth edition will give you the opportunity to:

• Take a step back from our daily practices as street arts professionals,
• Discover Italian artists and international projects,
• Reflect and get inspired by brilliant speakers who will share their views and insights on key issues and challenges that our sector is facing nowadays; eco-responsibility, inclusiveness, uncertainty and health.

Save the dates and stay tuned, we’ll soon unveil the programme and open the registration!

In these uncertain times, make sure you don’t miss any network’s events or activities!

We are both proud and happy to present you our brand new SAVE THE DATES, which summarises all you need to know about our 2020/2021 events & activities: dates, location & partners. Once again, we have saddled up a dense, rich and exciting programme, mixing online and on-site collective times, for members but not only. A new year full of encounters, reflections, discoveries, experience-sharing, that we hope we’ll make you grow as circus and street arts professionals. 

Go ahead, have a look at our brand new SAVE THE DATES, write the dates in your calendar and share it around widely!

In a nutshell, you can already book the following dates: 

• FRESH STREET#4, November 2-5, 2020 / Online and in Turin (Italy)
• GENERAL MEETING, December 9-11, 2020 / Online
• CS LAB, May 25-26, 2021 / Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal)
• GENERAL MEETING, June 30-July 2, 2021 / Alès (France)
• RESEARCH TRIP, July 11-18, 2021 / Montreal (Canada)
• KAHWA MEETING, August 26-29, 2021 / Beirut (Lebanon)