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 17