Tiny Fantastic: Creating St. Patrick’s Day Performance Project | Video

This time last year, Cloughjordan Circus Club members were preparing for Tiny Fantastic, our carnival arts and circus performance project.

Have a look at this fantastic video showing the process and the final performance.

Tiny Fantastic featured as part of Limerick St. Patrick’s Festival Parade and Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival Parade in 2023.

A celebration of biodiversity!

Together with artists Martin Shannon of Lumen Street Theatre and independent carnival artist Caoimhe Dunn we explored and created ‘Tiny Fantastic’ – St. Patrick’s Day parade piece which included Giant Spider Float with Hat Manipulator Flies, Honeycomb Float with Unicycling Bees, Giant Caterpillar Jugglers accompanied by Butterfly Stilt Walkers, Hula Hooping Flowers, and Giant Stilt Walking Insects.

Our piece celebrated biodiversity, illustrating how the interconnectivity of the smallest creatures – spiders, bees and insects to the largest of natural features are dependent on each other to allow our environment to thrive.

PHOTO GALLERY

Christmas Show 2023

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Earlier this month, on 11th December, Cloughjordan Circus Club welcomed families and our friends for our annual and traditional end of the year Christmas Show and family workshop sessions which was great fun for everyone!

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Huge thanks to all who joined us and for your amazing support! Our junior artists really appreciated it a lot!

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Functional Juggling with Craig Quat in Cloughjordan

On 12th and 13th December Cloughjordan Circus Club hosted a unique workshop of Functional Juggling with Craig Quat (Quat Props), a renowned theorist and practitioner of inclusive social circus pedagogy.

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During two days, participants explored functional juggling – a fantastic playful way of making juggling accessible.

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Workshop included:

• Philosophies + Intentions + Solutions
• Functional Juggling + Theory of Process Formations
• Spatial Sequencing Maps + Flow State Stimulation
• Correction Strategies + Supporting Independence
• Overview + Implications + Background Information

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Thanks to Craig for sharing all his fantastic research and methodologies so generously. We will be looking forward to ways how we can use the newly acquired skills with our groups and partners.

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During the  visit, Craig and his assistant Jael Rodriquez also generously shared a session on functional juggling and hula hoop with club’s Teen Group.

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Craig’s visit was supported by The Arts Council of Ireland Bursary to our Artistic Director Joanna Williams and Tipperary County Council.

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Check out our social media to see what we did during the workshop days: https://www.instagram.com/p/C1FO3dYMnEN/

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Cloughjordan Circus Club Attends Caravan Circus Network Events in Brussels

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From 27th November – 3rd December Joanna Williams, Artistic Director of Cloughjordan Circus Club and Molly O’Brien, Assistant Tutor, attended the Caravan Circus Network General Assembly in Brussels.

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Molly is a member of the Caravan WAY (What About Youth?) group ensuring our European network of youth and social circus projects keeps the youth voice at its heart!

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Molly and Joanna attended workshops on accessibility in circus, heard presentations about research exploring different organisational structures, and learned exciting updates on the CTF Training for emerging Social Circus Facilitators.

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Caravan was established in 2008 and is an international youth and social circus network of circus schools from across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

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Check out their website here: https://www.caravancircusnetwork.eu/

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Functional Juggling workshop with Craig Quat

About workshops

About Craig Quat

Cluichí sa Choillewith Cloughjordan No1 National School | Pilot Session

                  

Cloughjordan Circus Club seeks new Board members

 Artist Development Days for Cluichí sa Choille

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Over the year we held two artist development days as part of our research into for Cluichí sa Choille. Circus Artists and Outdoor Educators met to exchange practice and explore how our practices can compliment and learn from each other.

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We used bushcraft skills to make circus props, explored knotmaking, invented games with ropes and found opportunities to take our tightwire balancing skills onto fallen logs and ropes between trees. Two great days of shared learning and play.

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Lead Artist: Maria Corcoran

Circus Artists: Joanna Williams, Molly O’Brien, Angelica Santander, Peter Moran, Selene Murphy

Outdoor Educators Kate Egan, Aisling Finucane, Mark Murphy

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Funded by Arts Council of Ireland, Tipperary Co Co Arts Office and Creative Ireland.

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Places available at our weekly Circus Classes!