South Australian Circus Centre

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA 🎉 🥳

Wishing a huge huge happy milestone birthday to Lisa Goldsworthy — our Creative Associate and a huge and very much loved part of the SA Circus Centre / Cirkidz family!

Perform, present, tour, teach… What can’t she do?!

We are so grateful for the way Lisa pours her heart and soul into lifting up the next generation of circus performers in between hugely successful national and international tours of course!)

Leave your birthday message for below!

Haven’t seen Lisa in a while? Along with touring a show with she’s also been coaching past Troupe participants at (hi ! 👋)

She’s not known as the hardest working woman in showbiz for nothing 🫡 .goldsworthy

🕰 THROWBACK THURSDAY 🕰

Can you spot our Associate Director Meredith and her iconic pixie cut? She's lighting up the stage here in a 1996 production of STOWAWAYS at the Adelaide Festival Theatre by Compagnie Philippe Genty (page officielle) 🤩

Scroll further down their page to see the point in the show where Meredith gets swallowed up by a giant brain 🤯🧠

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STOWAWAYS a été d’abord créé en Australie, à Adélaïde, puis repris en France trois ans plus t**d, sous le nom de VOYAGEURS CLANDESTINS…

🎞️ Brian Parker, Russell Garbutt, Meredith Kitchen et Jennifer Newman-Preston.

Bon mercredi à toustes!

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STOWAWAYS was first created in Australia, in Adelaide, and then revived in France three years later under the name VOYAGEURS CLANDESTINS...

🎞️ Brian Parker, Russell Garbutt, Meredith Kitchen, and Jennifer Newman-Preston.

Happy Wednesday to all!

Kickstart Your Teen’s Weekend with Circus! 🎪

Looking for a fresh way to get your teen moving and motivated? Our Circus Arts for Young Adults class in Bowden is the perfect blend of fun, fitness, and friendship! 💪✨

In this class, participants build strength, practice resilience, and stay mindful—all while making new friends in a supportive, high-energy environment.

Don’t miss out—claim your free trial today and see why circus is the perfect fit for your teen!

🕒 Circus Arts for Young Adults (13-17yo)
⏰ 9:00am - 10:30am Saturdays
⏰ 7:15pm - 8:45pm Mondays also currently available (2 spots left!)
📍 SA Circus Centre - Home of Cirkidz
🏠 27 Fifth St, Bowden SA
📞 08 8346 5735

👉 Book now: https://sacircuscentre.org.au/claim-your-free-trial/

South Australian Circus Centre South Australia's pre-eminent circus training facility, home of Cirkidz Circus School.

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Join the Team as a Parkour Instructor!

Are you passionate about Parkour and eager to inspire the next generation? The SA Circus Centre (Home of Cirkidz) is looking for a dynamic instructor to lead regular weekly sessions and half-day school holiday programs for ages 8-17.

Reasons to join our team:

🤸‍♀️ Teach in a vibrant circus community. Work alongside talented performers and instructors, and be part of a thriving circus school.
💪 The opportunity to expand your skills. Gain experience in various circus disciplines, with opportunities to grow into a circus trainer role.

You will need:

✅ Current Working With Children Check, First Aid Certificate, RRHAN-EC Training (or willingness to obtain these)
😊 Alignment with our values of Self-esteem and Confidence, Adaptivity, Creative Expression, Respect, Anti-Fragility, and Resilience
📅 Regular availability on Wednesdays from 4pm - 7pm at the SA Circus Centre in Bowden and Thursdays from 4pm - 6pm at the John McVeity Centre in Smithfield Plains.
🏃🏻‍♂️ Recognition by the South Australian Parkour Association

Ready to leap into a new adventure? Apply now! Email your CV and cover letter to Meredith Kitchen: [email protected]

🗣 APPLY FOR NICA STUDY | Info Session Aug 8

The National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) Bachelor Program is returning! Who wants in?

Applications to study at the National Institute of Circus Arts in a Bachelor or Certificate IV program are open now until 23 August.

Got questions? Tune into NICA's online panel for all the further info you'll need.

Read to apply? Visit nica.com.au/ed

Join us for an online info session this Thursday to ask our auditions panel all your questions about higher education courses, applications, and auditions.

Email [email protected] to receive a meeting link.



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Photography by Rob Blackburn

💪 Join us for BOSS SQUAD like you’ve never seen it before!

BOOK NOW: https://www.trybooking.com/CTWLE

This thrilling circus show (coming soon to the Parks Theatre) is a collaboration between the professional acrobats of BOSS SQUAD and the rising stars from the SA Circus Centre's Artist Development Program.

The core cast from the ADP have been working hard devising acts alongside BOSS SQUAD, stemming from research on historically marginalised people and their own lived experiences.

You'll also witness high-octane choreographed acts for the ADP ensemble, who feature as guests within the show.

Witness high-level circus skills, hard-hitting performances, and demonstrations of strength and confidence on seldom-seen apparatus like Teeterboard, German wheel, and Aerial cube.

The show challenges stereotypes while celebrating everything acrobatically wonderful, and is guaranteed to leave you cheering for more!

🎟️ Don’t miss your chance to be part of this unforgettable experience. Grab your tickets now and join the BOSS SQUAD magic! ✨

📅 Two shows only! 23 & 24 August 2024
📍 Parks Theatre
🕒 7pm
🔗 BOOK NOW: https://www.trybooking.com/CTWLE

BOSS SQUAD in collaboration with SA Circus Centre, produced by Wildhouse Circus with support from Arts SA.

🎉 LAST CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE 'STACKS ON' WITH A FLASH DISCOUNT! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who has shown STACKS ON love in its debut season! There's just ONE DAY LEFT to catch this uniquely crafted show before it disappears. As a token of our appreciation, we're offering an exclusive discount to our community!

💥 Use code KIDZ at checkout for $15 tickets! 💥
📅 Offer valid for the 9:30am show on Saturday, July 20

📍 Domain Theatre, Marion Cultural Centre
🗓️ Saturday, July 20, 2024
⏰ Showtimes: 9:30am & 11:30am
👶 Under-2s get in FREE!

🎟️ Secure your tickets now: https://marion.online.red61.com.au/event/318:745/

STACKS ON: Official Crowd Favourite!

We so appreciate the support shown so far for STACKS ON (our brand new family show)! Have you been? What did you and your family think?

If you haven't got your tickets yet, we highly recommend doing so fast! This unique blend of story-telling, puppetry, and circus must end it's run at Marion Cultural Centre THIS SATURDAY!

🏠: Domain Theatre, Marion Cultural Centre
📅: Friday 19 July and Saturday 20 July 2024
⏰: 9:30am show and 11:30am show each day
🎟: All tickets $19 (Under-2s free)
🎟: Book online here: https://marion.online.red61.com.au/event/318:745/

STACKS ON is proudly created right here in Adelaide at the South Australian Circus Centre (home of Cirkidz) ✨

You’re invited to bring the family to see STACKS ON - a towering new show for all ages coming to the Marion Cultural Centre

STACKS ON tells a beautiful story of what makes us human, with astonishing acrobatics, unique props, big laughs, and a dash of magic ✨

Proudly created right here in Adelaide at the SA Circus Centre (home of Cirkidz), STACKS ON is a dazzling celebration of ingenuity and ambition.

🏠: Domain Theatre, Marion Cultural Centre
📅: Wednesday 17 July to Saturday 20 July 2024
⏰: 9:30am show and 11:30am show each day
🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒: Suitable for all ages
Book online today: https://www.marion.sa.gov.au/things-to-do/events-calendar/stacks-on

'THE VEIL' WRAP-UP

Let's take a closer look at THE VEIL, our recent co-production with UFFO Trutnov for the Cirk-UFF festival in Trutnov, Czech Republic.

First a reflection from Director Joshua H***e:
"Death and Dying. We've lost so many rituals in our developed world, and pathologised both of them to be as distant from our lived experience as possible.

My solution, take the most beautiful requiem there is, Gabirel Fauré's, combine it with the most beautiful acrobatic and musical team, and give death all the majesty, light and life I can.""

Between life and death, there exists a delicate boundary—a "Veil" that is both universal and personal. This new work set the task of bridging the majesty and grandeur of Fauré's requiem with our all too human personal experiences of grief and dying.

Chamber circus is the perfect medium for that. It is personal and intimate. In the acrobats we see our own stories of love, grief, and connection. Between recreated classical statues, oil paintines, cadaver slapstick and bodies disintegrating to ash, we witness the humanity in this all too human experience of losing someone, and one day, losing ourselves.

Acrobats of the lungs Libor Kasik and Stanislava Kozubíková sung solos through the work ranging from the Requiem itself, to popular inclusions that represented the songs with less pomp and ceremony that we dedicate to loved ones gone. These included Czech folk songs (Kdo má pocernu galanku, Letêla bêlounka) and the people's favourites, My Way and Somewhere over the rainbow. Perfect additions to Fauré's mass for the departed, showing death as a transition to peace and rest, rather than something to fear.

What a perfect premiere in Trutnov with encores and standing ovations. We will post more from this stunning production soon!

Credits
Directed and Designed: Joshua H***e
Performers: Libor Kasík, Amanda Lee, Lisa Goldsworthy, Jesse Scott, Lachlan McAuley, Stanislava Kozubíková, Zoe Perrenoud
Associate Director: Meredith Kitchen
Production Manager: Taylor Dawson
Dramaturgy: Hanka Strejckova
Producer: Nick Skibinski, Libor Kasik, Pavlina Kynčlova
Photography: Miloš Šálek

📻 LUNCH BREAK LISTEN 📻

Artistic Director Josh H***e is going to be on Radio Adelaide's Art Throb program today from 1pm-2pm, speaking with David Jobling about what the South Australian Circus Centre has been up to recently (including a bit about 'The Veil' co-production at UFFO Trutnov).

Tune in via the link below or 101.5 on your wireless! You'll be able to listen to the interview later via the website too ☺️

Program Visit the post for more.

Here's a great InDaily article about Artistic Director Josh H***e's involvement with a new ActNow Theatre project for schools.

'When [Yasmin] Gurreeboo became a leader of ActNow in 2021, she quickly began looking into ways the company – which has a focus on social impact – could address domestic violence.

A conversation with Cirkidz artistic director Josh H***e about parenting young boys became the first step in the journey toward spotlighting the issue on stage.

“We found common ground wanting to look at, well, what are things that are important for particularly young boys to know about healthy relationships and how to have greater emotional literacy?,” says Gurreeboo.'

Read more:

Acting to break the cycle of domestic violence - InDaily As awareness of the gendered-violence crisis spreads across Australia, Adelaide’s ActNow Theatre is devising a play to help the next generation do better.

Lisa and Taylor have had a hectic few months working onstage and behind the scenes of circus shows at home and around the world… so they took some time after the successful world premiere of The Veil (more on that soon) to visit Greece!
1. Lisa at the Panathenaic Stadium, Athens (the first modern day Olympic stadium)
2 and 3. Lisa and Taylor 2-highing at the Acropolis, Athens
See you back home soon, superstars!

📢 Artist Callout for Illuminate 2024 (ages 18-25) 📢

Calling all Adelaide performers! Sydney-based theatre company Erth is taking over Adelaide Zoo for Universal Kingdom: Prehistoric Nights at Illuminate Adelaide from Thursday 4 to Sunday 21 July.

They have some exciting professional development opportunities for local performers and emerging artists aged 18 to 25, as well as some volunteer roles for younger people.

Erth are seeking strong and physically fit performers to work with them to operate a menagerie of full body puppets & smaller handheld puppets.

Full on-the-job training provided from Friday 28 June to Wednesday 3 July. Performers must be available for training and 3 weeks of nightly shows Thursday to Sunday 4 to 21 July. A stipend of $100 per performance will be paid to successful candidates.

Get in touch if this sounds like you: email Scott at [email protected] by Monday 10 June with a CV/bio and a statement about yourself detailing why you’d like to work with us at Erth.

NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK 2024

Nart’adlu, Let’s do it now!
Now, more than ever!
Kumangka wapidlu!
Let’s do it together!

This week, and every week, the SA Circus Centre and Cirkidz celebrate and honour our First Nations staff, participants, collaborators, and friends.

Circus teaches us how to embody trust and togetherness, the things that this country needs now. We are committed to walking together, hand in hand, across yarta of Kaurna Miyurna, and all Nungas, and all First Peoples across the continent.

Our goal? A future that respects, acknowledges, and cherishes the rich cultural heritage and ongoing contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna yartangka ngunya-wayinthi, tikkanthi.
We know we live and play on Kaurna country.

- Joshua H***e (Artistic Director, SA Circus Centre)

Who's interested in harnessing the creative possibilities of Generative AI? You can join in a free info session learn more, thanks to Carclew! Check out the details below for how to save your spot 🙌

Did you know AI can assist your creative work? 💻⁠
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If you want to learn how you’re in luck because we’re partnering with our friends from Strawberry Sauce to bring you a FREE lunch and learn session at Carclew!⁠
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🗣 International Employment Opportunity: Czech Republic

South Australian Circus Centre is assisting UFFO Trutnov to engage Australian-trained contemporary circus arts trainers.

They are looking for a suitable person to start in September 2024 for a 3–4 month full-time contract.

📧 Please send an email expression of interest with a short biography and CV to Nick Skibinski at [email protected].

Job Information:
▪️ Role: Circus Arts Trainer - CZirkidz UFFO Trutnov
▪️ Opportunity: Teach contemporary circus arts and influence the content of CZirkidz at UFFO Trutnov - Czech Republic's newest circus school for young people.
▪️ Qualifications: Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or professional experience considered.
▪️ Employment: Employed by UFFO Trutnov
▪️ Duration: Full-time role for 3-4 months from September 2024.
▪️ Classes: Based on a 5-day program, Tuesdays to Saturdays. Teaching schedule includes the opportunity to maintain your personal training.
🔗 More Info: https://en.uffo.cz/czirkidz/

UFFO Trutnov - The New Face of Czech Culture:
The Trutnov Community Centre for Culture and Leisure (SCT) operates the UFFO community centre, the National House, and the Vesmír cinema. It's one of the most modern cultural spaces in the Czech Republic, hosting a wide range of cultural and social events since its opening in 2010.
🔗 About UFFO Trutnov: https://en.uffo.cz/about-us/
🔗 Photo Gallery: https://en.uffo.cz/photogallery-c11/

Further Details:
UFFO Trutnov is looking for a contemporary circus arts teacher with the appropriate qualifications and professional experience. CZirkidz is intended for children and youth from 4 to 19 years of age. Courses for adults may also be included if there is interest. Teaching will take place continuously in blocks of three to four months.

Requirements and Benefits:
🌍 Requires either EU Passport or Czech Working Visa (Visa application costs reimbursed)
✈️ Flights from Australia to Prague included
🚖 Airport transfers included
🏠 Accommodation provided by UFFO – centrally located apartment
🩺 Employment includes access to the National Health System
💰 Salary: AUD $3600 per month net of taxes and health contributions (paid electronically in Czech Crowns)

Apply for this exciting opportunity to shape the future of contemporary circus arts in the Czech Republic!

🚨 RARE OPPORTUNITY TO TRY CIRCUS 101 🚨

Another exciting series of Adults Classes at the South Australian Circus Centre have now started! Welcome to all new and returning students bitten by the circus bug... we hope you have fun challenging yourselves and getting circus strong 💪

We have *spaces available* in our Wednesday Adults 101 class! This hardly ever happens, so it's a perfect time to grab a friend and book in for a FREE trial. You'll have fun trying things like solo and group acrobatics & tumbling, trampoline, and object manipulation, in a safe and supportive environment.

Dates: Wed 1st May to Wed 3rd July (10 week block; mid-term enrolments available and pro-rated)
Time: 7pm to 8:30pm (1.5 hour class)
Class: Adults Circus 101 at the SA Circus Centre
Skill Level: All levels including beginners totally welcome!

To join the fun, call 08 8346 5735 or follow the link below.

More Info & Bookings: https://sacircuscentre.org.au/do/adult-classes/adult-circus-101/
Claim A Free Trial: https://sacircuscentre.org.au/claim-your-free-trial/

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Adelaide Juggling Convention GALA SHOW

Join the local circus community for an unforgettable night at the Adelaide Juggling Convention Gala Show this Friday night!

Experience jaw-dropping performances by international and local circus stars at the Goodwood Theatre & Studios. Witness the latest tricks and acts from the world's best jugglers, diablo artists, and more...

Although our Troupe won't be there this year, this show promises to be absolutely fabulous. Secure your seat now by following the link below!

AJC Gala Show
Goodwood Theatre
Friday 26th April
8pm (90min show)
Tickets $30
Link: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1117069

Adelaide Juggling Convention Gala Show The Adelaide Juggling Convention Gala Show is the highlight of the juggling festival with the best Jugglers, Hula Hoopers, Clowns and Acrobats from...

Bittersweet news from the floor tonight — it’s Aerial coach ’s final night teaching for a while, as she will be making more room in her life for tertiary study.

Thank you SO MUCH for soaring with us, Clo! Your passion for aerial arts has inspired so many incredible students that have come through our doors — from the Aerial Specialty classes and Artist Development Program to the Adults Aerial short courses & more.

Thanks also for all your long hours rigging, choreographing, and making sure our Aerial apparatus is in tip-top shape.

See you around soon we hope! 🤞🙌🫶

If you have a message for Clo, please feel free to comment below!