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Hello circus friends welcome to my blog! These last 2 weeks we have been working on devising group pieces for different events. We have been choreographing in groups... read more →
Welcome to this weeks blog! BYC have been extremely busy with creating our show “The Cabaret Of Bizarre”...let me fill you in all about it... These last few weeks our... read more →
Welcome to this weeks blog! BYC have been extremely busy with creating our show “The Cabaret Of Bizarre”...welcome to this week's update on what we've been up to! These last... read more →
Hello everyone! I hope you're excited to hear how we got on this week...has it been 5 weeks already? Read on! What we did this week! This week we focused... read more →
Welcome to this weeks blog, readers! I hope your looking forward to hearing about what we did this week, as much as we enjoyed the experience ourselves! So, what did... read more →
Hello CircusMASH Friends! I hope your looking forward to hearing about this weeks training as its been very interesting! Here's what we got up to this week... To start... read more →
Hello CircusMashers! I hope you're excited to hear about this weeks training - its been a good one! What we did this week... TRAINING PLANS To start of the session... read more →
Birmingham Youth Circus : Week One ! Hello fellow circus people! My name is Annie and I am a student at CircusMASH. I am now going to be your weekly... read more →
On remarkably varying scales, we are all born with a sense of danger. Our drive to survive is powerful and can define how we choose to live on a daily... read more →
Did you study anything as a child? An instrument maybe, or a sport? Some of us were lucky as children to be sent off to ballet or football. Some of... read more →
So, on Saturday night lots of the CircusMASH gang went along to the fabulous Birmingham Awards. We had been shortlisted for Arts & Culture 2017, up against four other amazing companies including Millennium Point... read more →
Well done this week guys! Was lovely to see so many break throughs in terms of strength and skill. Lets start with the fantastic Malcolm in adult Cirquestars… swinging his... read more →
WEEK 3! Training is in full swing now and exploration is getting exciting! A big shout out this week to our adult Cirquestars for pushing through your dizziness and not... read more →
Week 2 Retrograde Creation with Adult & Youth CirqueStars So, this past week the Mash crew casted 20 youth & 20 adult participants into a variety of acts that will... read more →
Well, week 1 was a fabulous success! Here started the ‘Retrograde’ journey. If you don’t already know, Retrograde is our community winter show 2017 which will be created with our... read more →
What a week! After being commissioned by Arts NK and Doddington Hall to create a magical outdoor piece of circus theatre, we spent the wee working with 10 community members... read more →
Well... that was one very exciting week! Here is Director Katie's Blog as well as a video that you can all get your teeth into! Apologies for the shaky hands.... read more →
We love bringing people together at CircusMASH – and if we get a chance to bring them together and then turn them upside down that’s even better! We’ve just wrapped... read more →
Hello circus explorers! We are CircusMASH, based in Kings Heath we spread circus as far and wide as we can. In the run up to 2018, the 250th year of... read more →
I can't quite believe it is all over! We are thrilled to have raised a whopping £3970 from our Operation Circus crowd funding campaign to go into our pot to... read more →
Well that's it! We can hardly believe it's over! Over the last 28 days we have managed to raise £3970 from 68 backers! We want to say a massive thank you... read more →
Today marks the final 1722nd day that CircusMASH has been running. It started very simply with very few classes and over the past (almost) five years we have come so far... read more →
Happy Sunday circus peeps! So we only have today and tomorrow left on our Operation Circus crowd funder and we'll be sad to see it come to an end... however, we've seemed... read more →
It only seemed like yesterday we had one week to go before launching the actual campaign! WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS5q69QAaV8 Today marks our one week countdown until our... read more →
A huge thanks to those few that entered our game show week contest number one. There was only a few entries so a story wasn't really gathered.. BUT NO FEAR! CircusMASH... read more →
We are officially now TWO weeks in. It was two Tuesdays ago that we launched Operation Circus and since then we have had a fab 37 backers and raised just under... read more →
Last week we ran 'Why Circus' week. We wanted to let you know why we do circus, and what affect it has on our community! Take a look at this... read more →
So, here is the story behind my trip to visit Brian Conley to chat with him about helping push Operation Circus! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICVnkHTxa-8 I contacted Brian some months back as I knew... read more →
Welcome to Why Circus Week. As promised this week we will be taking you on a journey to learn why we do circus and what effect that this has on... read more →
Hello world. We are officially now ONE week in. It was last Tuesday that we launched Operation Circus and since then we have had a fab 27 backers which I wanted... read more →
Afternoon everyone! I completely had the weekend off to refresh my head and now I am back on it as strong as ever trying to get this campaign to as... read more →
Welcome to day four! We're on £1175! I wanted to update you on our latest commercial and let you in on the making of the commercial and how it came... read more →
Hello All! Day three and I've just checked we are on £1140- Wahoooo! I think the rewards are going down a treat and today we added another special one after everyone... read more →
Afternoon guys! Hope you're having a fab day so far. Day two is happening right now! I am so pleased to say that we have so far raised £765 and... read more →
Hi All, I'm Joe and I'm one of the two founders at CircusMASH. As you have probably heard I've been ranting on about Operation Circus on Facebook for the past... read more →
Hi All, We hope you are as excited as we are about Operation Circus. Tomorrow is launch day and we want to fill you in on what is going to... read more →
So here is the full story, so far of our journey to a create a circus space for the community of Brummies wanting to get their circus on! We wrote... read more →
March 2nd 2015 So, it's been a couple of weeks now since heading off down to London for the National Youth Circus Event and we wanted to tell you how... read more →
About a month ago we were absolutely thrilled to be chosen to be part of the National Youth Circus Event 2015, an event that has been running for the past... read more →
Five of our youth members have been selected to participate in the 2015 National Youth Circus Event (NYCE) at the National Centre for Circus Arts in London (NCCA) from the... read more →
So about 10 months ago, we made a fundraising video to inform everyone of our plans of moving to All Saints Centre in Kings Heath. In this video, we said... read more →
January 9th 2015 Week one into the new year and it’s all go go go! After 18 months in the making, post fundraising showcases, performances, circus challenges, raffles, competitions, countless... read more →
January 5th 2015. Happy New Year everyone! As 2015 rolls in we have decided to roll out a brand new (fancy) blog to keep you all up to date with... read more →