Over the last ten years MASH has created a space in Birmingham for circus, individuality, celebration, skill, equality and magic and those spells bound in 2011 have rippled through every year since. We’re a small team with a big passion to use circus in new ways.
Our office and circus training space is based in Kings Heath Birmingham.
We offer classes, courses, parties, festival and school workshops and make live and digital shows.
When you have this motto running through your life it’s hard to not want to pass it onto others and use what you’re passionate about to create a better future. Our story began in 2011 and was founded by Joseph Fearn, a travelling circus performer with a huge passion for education.
I always loved gymnastics, dance and theatre. Any excuse to show off! So I leapt at the chance to join a cultural exchange programme in America and spend the summer at circus school. It was the perfect worry-free life; setting up a show, making people happy and then doing it all over again. Year after year, I went back. We travelled across 35 different states, living in trailers, buses and hotels. It was the circus life of books and childhood dreams. But I worried about where I was going next. I wanted a career so I started by trying to get a job. With no qualifications and no clue what I was looking for, I struggled.
So I did what I knew and loved, and in 2011 started a circus class (with one member). And just like that, Circus Mash was born. 10 years later, one class became forty and Circus Mash is the heart of Birmingham’s community circus; my inner mood board painted across the city.
But it didn’t stop there. Creating shows and performing were always on my mind. So, inspired by my love of fashion and creativity, House of Mash emerged. A way to share dance, song and spoken word in all its hope and glory. And to showcase the incredible young people who inspire me every single day
Joe Fearn, Founder and Director
An online space to connect circus teachers, performers and enthusiasts with tools for motivation and mental balance. We help generate income streams for artists and introduce the power of circus to a wider world. One mind, body and circus at a time!
Circus skills to empower, energise and encourage you to achieve your impossible. We develop skills through creative classes, workshops and courses and create high quality shows with you, our community members.
Cutting-edge performances that inspire conversation. We create eye-opening acts to elevate events and animate spaces (added jaw-dropping guaranteed). Your feel-good event will do good too. All our shows start with ideas and inputs from our youth collective, giving them opportunities on a Stage of Change.
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