Hi Warehouse Families!
IN THIS MASSIVE MISSIVE:
Tickets to shows at the Canberra Circus Festival now live!
Reasons to come to each show!
What else is happening at Canberra Circus Festival!
Myriad ways to get involved!
Big sponsors!
Tickets for the Canberra Circus Festival are now live! Check out the website here for a detail of all the incredible shows that are coming to little ol’ Canberra to show off their stuff: www.canberracircusfestival.com.au
Below is a single sentence (or more!) reason you should come see each show and bring your entire extended family, all your friends, and 6000 strangers:
INTERLOPER: Our headline act at the festival, with simply astonishing acrobatics, gentle-yet-very-funny comedy, friendly spirit, and again, just MIND-BLOWING acrobatics. Features International multi-award-winning Ex-Warehouser, Lewie West! Cast have toured with Gravity & Other Myths, CiRCA, Circus Oz, Trash Test Dummies, Les Sept Doights de la Main. Trained all over the world including Beijing, NICA, and Montreal; this show is creative, thoughtful, accessible, incredible, artistic, and really is a show worth seeing twice.
HER MAJESTY’S SECRET CIRCUS: Our special international guests from the UK!! are on a super-secret circus mission, involving plunger-based archery, and lots of laughs! They’re doing a special show in the big top!
DR HUBBLE’S BUBBLES: A show that’s fun for everyone and perfect for wee kids, this wondrous show of bubble displays is really worth seeing!
BIG TOPS & TINY TOTS: A perfect circus adventure for ages 3-7, our good friend Luth returns with this excellent show for the early learning set!
SUITCASE CIRCUS: Back for a second year, with a brilliant line up of family-friendly circus with incredible skills and lots of funny. Featuring Ex-Warehouser, Jake Silvestro!
PARTY POOPER: Fun and funny acrobatic trio wow with their circus skills while playing at the best birthday party ever in this all-ages, fabulous, highly-skilled show!
TRICKY NICK: Super-fun and amazing magic show for kids of all ages!
THE RIDICULOUS SHOW: Back by popular demand, Ex-Warehouse manager and star performer Pablo Latona brings a truly ridiculous hour of hilarious antics. Just absurdly funny.
CAB SUAVE: Noir-themed LGBT+ cast delivers style, skill, and detective story in this highly regarded, talented show. Featuring Ex-Warehouser Jack Wilde!
THE BS (BAD SCIENCE) SHOW: Australia’s Honest Conman shows you the magic and sideshow stunts behind dubious claims and the faulty science that backs them up; funny and fascinating and perfect for teens and adults who like their comedy with a dash of critical thinking.
GREAT BIG CIRCUS GALA(H): This is our show, so if you saw it last year, or saw Elemental just now, you know this is gonna be great.
MO-KO: Beautiful circus and piano combine in this lovely, inspiring performance from a highly accomplished musician and elite acrobat, previously touring with Gravity & Other Myths.
Genuinely, we couldn’t be more excited to bring these acts to you; to bring these amazing circus artists to come and teach our troupe, to have so many Warehouse acrobats return to perform these award-winning works in their hometown; to have so many talented friends bring their critically acclaimed shows to us, and to have our performance troupes meet, collaborate and perform with guest youth circuses from across the country come to visit us. We have students enrolled from Circuses in NSW, VIC, and the NT, representing RUCCIS, Roundabout, Corrogated Iron, Castlemaine, Lieder, and possibly from QLD, too!
Lastly, we would love your help in a few ways:
If you are keen to vollie for a shift, to help make a meal once or once a day, to work a 3-hour block on the market day, or to be a part of things every day, please register your details at the volunteer sign-up sheet here:
https://forms.gle/EX4o5Se6ATZHYgTX7
A big team of vollies will help this festival go off the way it’s supposed to, and means the work is well-shared and easy, allowing for camaraderie, connecting with Warehouse families and the wider community, and having a heap of fun in the process. Plus, we’ll rustle up some sort of freebie to throw at you.
If you or a trusty mate want to book a market stall for your craft or food business, or a stall for your NFP or community group,
Register here: https://forms.gle/3W5zn89H6BWgfR5XA for craft and food stalls,
or here: https://forms.gle/jEybjVdzFev56aoL6 for not-for-profits.
OR, if you haven’t the time or resources to help in that way, you would be doing us both a huge favour if you buy a ticket (or 300) to see some of these great shows;
And if you can, help us spread the word! This festival is a new one, and the better we do, the more sustainable a fixture of Warehouse Circus and Canberra it can become. We have a lot of people in our corner, for which we couldn’t be more grateful, and if we have you all out there, telling your friends, strangers, and anyone who’ll listen about the shows on offer and the fun to be had, we’ll be super grateful. Tell people in person, especially if you saw a show last year and would recommend it; re-gram or share info on FB; post, ludicrous tik-toks of yourself being excited for the Circus Festival. I’m old, I don’t know what a tik-tok is or how it works.
Finally, A big shout out to our sponsors! Big thanks to the ACT government, Red Canvas Tents, Sidestage Lighting, The National Institute of Circus Arts, Gravity & Other Myths, Southern Generators and Electrical, Security1, ACT Forklifts, Spy in Canberra Printing and Distro, Archangel Design, St John First Aid, Altina Drinks, Eliksir Drinks.
Also: It’s not too late to get on this sponsorship train! If you are a local food business, construction business, fencing business, or cashed-up business and you want to get in on this sponsorship party, we’d love that too.
Cheers, Team Warehouse, we can’t wait to see you at the fest.