Circus Fund Outreach
Circus Fund's real-world educational programs can help enhance your syllabus!
- Development physically, socially & artistically
- Build self-esteem, confidence and respect
- Learn the recipe for success: discipline, perseverance and teamwork
- Have fun, of course!
- To instill character in kids while they’re still impressionable, so they are prepared to embrace life’s challenges with the inner strength to make good choices.
- To promote artistic expression through circus-style performing arts
- To make healthy living and fitness fun through circus-style adventure activities.
- To provide an environment where participants collect ‘wins’, in order to build confidence.
- To promote teamwork by creating an environment where differences are valued.
- To support cultural and ethnic diversity by increasing access to those less fortunate.
- One-Off
- A one-off session gives groups a flavor of what circus has to offer. Your group can try flying trapeze and other aerial and grounds apparatuses. This type of session can help gauge interest for a longer-term circus program, can be used as an icebreaker for new groups, as a teambuilding activity, or can simply be a fun experience. One-off sessions can be extended to an all day experience to meet specific group needs.
- After-School Programs
- Circus Fund after-school programs are based on creativity, collaboration, and most of all FUN. Kids learn new skills in a supportive environment, working along side peers and artist/educators. Each session will vary in format and will introduce new skills, allowing returning students to advance, and beginners to model their peers. This cooperative interaction enables students to progress at their own pace while still working together as a team.
- Education Projects
- Education projects focus on the same Circus Fundamentals of trapeze, balance and acrobatics found in our other programs, but they follow a more intensive format that runs daily for 1-4 weeks. Students, faculty, and parents collaborate with our staff to combine circus skills with academic subjects such as history, math, and science. When projects last 2 weeks or longer, students then showcase their wealth of learning in a grand "Circus- Spectacular."
- 8-Week Circus Project
- An eight-week circus project offers a fun, challenging activity, which promotes many of the benefits circus has to offer. It involves the circus sessions for a two-hour workshop, once a week, over the length of the project. At the end of this time the group will be able to stage a low-key presentation for friends and family. After eight weeks, many participants will show improvements in concentration, coordination, confidence and behavior.
- Long-term or Intensive Circus Project
- This option is geared toward groups seeking more of a long-term, intensive program. This is an intensive block of workshops held over a holiday period. At the end of the project, participants will be able to demonstrate specific circus skills and play an important part in a parade or spectacular. A project of this type can also incorporate elements of costume making and volunteering for adults in the community.
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