insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 21 - November 2016 | Page 17
ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT
What about volunteers?
Our volunteers are very important to the
running of the Circus Project. Volunteers
are a big part of keeping it a community
organisation. We have circus students that
assist the youth classes and get the experience
and training of teaching. Some of which have
gone on to teach for The Circus Project in
their own regular classes and workshops or
progressed to Circomedia school in Bristol.
without money and we can’t make money
unless we have a show to sell! The arts make
up an integral part of our ever evolving culture not only are they are a conduit to understanding
people of different heritage, religion, and
language, but I see them as the glue that holds
our society together. I think that it’s the diversity
in the arts that is underrepresented not the arts
as a whole. Hopefully, charities like ours are
making strides towards changing tha t.
How important is the role of the circus in
the arts today?
The role of circus in the arts today is different
from what it once was. Although there are
still many traditional circuses in the UK, their
power to attract large audiences diminished in
the 80s and has never returned. We became
the poor cousin of other art forms. It is only
recently that circus in the UK has enjoyed a
small renaissance and now circus arts are being
employed in almost every genre of performance,
from the West End and the Royal Shakespeare
Company, to TV adverts and films - its profile is
continually growing, as is its popularity.
The Circus Project
Hangleton Community Centre
Harmsworth Crescent
Hove
BN3 8BW
01273 739106
www.thecircusproject.co.uk
@BrightonCircus
@circusprojectbrightonuk
circusprojectbrighton
Do you think the arts are
underrepresented today?
I feel that there’s still a lot more that could be
done to promote other art forms, such as
circus, but that takes funding…and funding for
the arts is another question altogether; it’s the
chicken and the egg: we can’t make a show
the smash hit ‘best-of’ review of the year edition
THE TREASON SHOW
Macbeth
“Savagely funny-fantastically silly” THE GUARDIAN
THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS
2016
By William Shakespeare
Adastra Hall, Hassocks
Fri 9th december 8.30pm
tickets @thepurplecarrot
“Fair is foul and foul is fair”
The Old MArket, Hove
12 - 15 December - 8pm
Box office 01273 201801
theoldmarket.com
Alfriston, St Andrew’s Chruch, Weds 9 November
Tickets £17.50 & £14 concs Family ticket £45 (2 adults & 2 children)
White hart hotel, lewes
Brighton, St Nicholas’ Church, Thur 10-Sat 12 Nov - 7.30!
Tickets £16 & £13 concs!
Saturday 17 December - 8pm
Box office
ticketsource.co.uk/treason-show
Ditchling, St Margaret’s Weds 16 Nov - 7.30
Royal Pavilion Ice Rink, Brighton
27 - 29 December - 9pm
tickets £16.50 & £14.50 concs
ticketsource.co.uk/treason-show
Tickets £17.50 & 14.00 Family ticket (2 adults & 2 children) £45.00
Rottingdean, St Margaret’s Church,Thur 17 Nov - 7.30
Tickets £17.50 & 14.00 Family ticket (2 adults & 2 children) £45.00
Southern Pavilion, Worthing Pier
Fri 30 December - 8pm
box office worthingpier.co.uk
Fulking, St Andrew’s Church, Fulking - 7.30
Tickets £17.50 & 14.00 Family ticket (2 adults & 2 children) £45.00
Ropetackle, Shoreham
www.ticketsource.co.uk/brighton-shakespeare-company-
New Year’s Eve - 9pm
Sponsored by
box office ropetacklecentre.co.uk
01273 464440
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