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Swamp Circus Trust – South Yorkshire
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We have been running successful community circus projects in South Yorkshire since 1986. These have been primarily focussed on benefiting communities...

Performance East 1
Following the success of the first stage of their Performance East community circus project 2004/5 Swamp Circus announce phase 2, and this time we plan to make it even better.

In 2004/5 The first stage of Performance East our work benefited communities of Tinsley and Rotherham working in partnership with Connexions Youth Service (Darnall and Tinsley), Tinsley Junior School, Brinsworth Comprehensive School, Hinde House Secondary School, Active Communities Darnall (Sheffield City Council), Tinsley Forum and the Tinsley Tree Project.

Specific feedback from these groups included:

  • “A few of the girls that are lacking self confidence, really got involved, so that was fab building on their self confidence” Shaida Karim, Youth Worker
  • "Through learning the routine the children were able to extend their physical skills and learn to manage their physical behaviour in a controlled manner….It would be hoped that Swamp Circus Trust could do work with this group in the future.” Hena Ryan, Activities Sheffield Co-ordinator
  • The project provided the “chance to develop a new area of interest for after school clubs. I was pleased with the outcomes and would certainly be willing to look at ways in which this might be extended for / by us in the future.” John Thompson, head Teacher, Tinsley Junior School

Performance East 2
We are now short listing groups to work with us on this next exciting stage of the project. This will also include the added bonus of giving some participants the opportunity to participate in the 2006 Colourscape Festival at the end of June 2006.

The aim is that we will be selecting participants from some of the groups that we work with to become performers in a swamp circus community spectacular show. Our aim is to work with selected young people to create a circus spectacular with 50 – 100 young people and 5 professional circus artists. Through this process we will be developing the confidence and team working skills of participants and bringing together participants of different ethnic backgrounds promoting cultural inclusion and understanding

Cost – We have funding confirmed which covers all of our administration costs, approx 50% of our tutor fees. We also have additional funding confirmed from the arts council for those groups wishing to be involved in the Colourscape festival show, covering the costs of these sessions (including tutor fees, rehearsal space and venue costs for these sessions). We do however need to ask each group to make a contribution towards the costs of running these sessions. Suggested rates are ;
£100 for day long sessions,
£75 for part or half day sessions.

If you cannot afford these rates but would still like to be involved these may be negotiable, although I hope you appreciate that these are already massively subsidised rates and in order to reach as many young people as possible we will be giving priority to groups who are able to meet these contributions.
If you require any further information or to discuss options please contact me ASAP we can only offer workshops at these rates to a limited no of groups and we hope to finalise our list of groups involved shortly.

see contact page for details


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