Let's meet!

Key event of the network, the next General Meeting will take place in Zagreb in Croatia, November 17-19 in the frame of the festival Novog Cirkusa (New Circus Festival).

Launched in 2005 by Croatian association Mala Performerska Scena, the festival Novog Cirkusa is actually a key player for the development of contemporary circus in South-Eastern Europe that is a real opportunity for members to grasp the challenges of circus creation in Croatia.

Circostrada Network, in partnership with Imaginarius - International Street Theatre Festival, organizes the second edition of FRESH STREET from 24th to 26th May 2017, in Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal).

After the first edition in 2015 in Barcelona & Tàrrega, which gathered more than 300 professionals from 30 countries, FRESH STREET#2 is back to open new perspectives, establish new contacts and celebrate street arts!

The program of FRESH STREET#2 includes plenary sessions to be inspired, overview sessions to reflect on the current state of street arts in specific regions of the world as well as tailor sessions to dwell deeper into key thematic topics for today's artistic creation in the public space.

Highlight Topics

• Street arts as transformation for our territories
• The role of citizenship in today’s outdoor arts creation
• Good practices in public policies for public space
• Copyright and street arts
• Safety plans in street arts
• New models for support the artistic creation in public space
• Participation programs and international mobility

FRESH STREET#2 also represents a real opportunity to meet the local scene and see performances, connect with Portuguese street arts players and give a glimpse into an emerging scene in the European panorama!

Pre-programme and online registration will open soon on Circostrada website…

Stay tuned!

Where to find us next?

• IETM Satellite Meeting in Beirut (Lebanon), October 6-9
• Annual Meeting between Circostrada and FEDEC at Auch (France), in the frame of the 29th edition of CIRCa festival, October 24
• IETM Plenary Meeting in Valencia (Spain), November 3-6
• General Meeting of Circostrada in Zagreb (Croatia), in the frame of Novog Cirkusa Festival, November 17-19

The 3rd edition of the Vaudeville Rendez-Vous International Festival presents this year with redoubled force, we can even say triplicated. The number 3 wins a special importance in this 3rd edition of the festival. The number 3, famous for its symbolic character of unity and balance, also symbolizes here the joint effort and strategy of the three cities that host and coproduce along with the Teatro da Didascália this 3rd edition: Braga, Guimarães, Vila Nova de Famalicão (Portugal).

This joint campaign is a reflection of a strong cultural commitment, in a concerned territory that wants to add to their vast historical and cultural heritage a programming thought for the public space, able to differentiate itself for its specificity and artistic quality, following what is the emergence of a new and increasingly vibrant and promising national production in the field of street arts and contemporary circus.

The 7 CircusNext 2015-2016 laureate projects, that were selected last November, will present a finalized extract of their future show on June 2, 3, and 4, 2016 at Théâtre de la Cité internationale in Paris (FR).

Program A: Thursday, June 2 and Saturday, June 4 from 8pm

• Circus Katoen (Willem Balduyck, Sophie van der Vuurst de Vries)
• Compagnie du Chaos (Rafael de Paula, Ania Buraczynska)
• Motchok (Dymitry Szypura)

Program B: Friday, June 3 from 7pm on and Saturday, June 4 from 3pm

• La Migration (Quentin Claude, Marion Even, Gaël Manipoud)
• Galactik Ensemble (Jonas Julliand, Mathieu Bleton, Cyril Pernot, Karim Messaoudi, Mosi Espinoza)
• Two (Ricardo Gaiser, Katja Andersen)
• Sandrine Juglair

Booking: www.theatredelacite.com / +33 (0)1 43 13 50 50

CircusNext 2015-2016 Selection Week will take place in Theater op de Markt in Neerpelt (BE) on Nov. 25-27, 2015.

It is organized by JTCE in partnership with Circuscentrum and Dommelhof, and supported by the Culture program of the European Commission.

Shortlisted artists presentations and encounters with professionals from 10am to 7pm.

Registration are open here.

A contemporary circus festival staged in big tops with: 

Parasites, by Moise Bernier - Thomas Garnier - Nicolas Lopez - Galapiat cirque
Slow futur, by Cirque Bang Bang 
Emois and Trois fois rien, by Cirk Vost 
Le repas, by Cheptel Aleikoum
Otradnoie.1, by Cie. Proyecto Otranoie
Carte Blanche to Academie Fratellini with Inbox Soralino Company and En vrac! by Jerome Thomas - Armo company 

And more … Check out the programme!