Get ready for the best holiday training ever 

A really exciting immersive youth circus camp for advanced troupe members and young circus artists (recommended age 12-24)

Youth Circus Program features:

• 22.5 Hours of skills training and performance development masterclasses from industry-leading artists and coaches (details below!)
• A custom program designed for each student based on preferences
• Performance opportunities
• Dorm accom or camping with youth circuses and youth artists from all over. Make friends!
• Food! Good food!
• Tickets to shows
• For young artists who train, perform, and/or volunteer to work the festival, we can write a letter detailing hours worked and tasks undertaken for school credit, CV, where applicable and useful.

The Trainer Training program features: 4 x 2-hour theory workshops (details below), plus practical trainer training skills sessions delivered by master trainers, including guest trainers from our good friends at NICA!

Topics covered:

• Foundations of developmental theory. Focusing on physical and cognitive development; other holistic areas such as Culture, Social, and Emotional development.
• Sensory development and the sensory lens. How it can help direct class structure and minimise difficult behaviours in the group. How it can be utilised to optimise learning within Circus. 
• Behaviour support and management. Working through the ABC framework of Behaviour Change and Coping Strategies. A practical guide to behavioural intervention and cultural development within a circus group.
• Pending time, may also include supporting Mastery of Art through coaching/parenting styles. Focusing on Authoritative leadership and fostering independence.
  
  

Artists in attendance:

The National Institute of Circus Arts - Coaching.

Suitcase Circus - Caz Walsh, Mason West, Hazel Bock, Maddy Burleigh, and more - Performing, Coaching.

Wildhouse Circus - Flick Lannan and crew - Coaching, Performing

Sparkle Society – Jack Wilde, Abby Kelso, Laney Mejias, Latonya Wiggington, Winter Cyan - Performing, Coaching

Jake Silvestro - Performing, Coaching.

Secret Circus! Our special international guests, Brent and Maya McCoy - Performing

Nicholas J Johnson! & The Bad Science Show – Performing.

Pablo Latona! & The Ridiculous Show - Performing.

And where/when is it again?

It’s at Warehouse Circus and Lions Youth Haven in Canberra, from the 18-23rd April 2023.

If you would like to volunteer to help us put up the tent, we kick off on the 15th of April. The more hands on deck, the merrier!

This all sound great. Where do we enrol?

You can click below to enrol and pay a $50 deposit to reserve your place. Once that’s done, feel free to get in touch and we can talk payment plans, issues, logistical stuff, and more, and we will do our best to help troubleshoot options and opportunities.