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

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 […]

February 15, 2024 | Categories:


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Christmas Show 2023

Christmas Show 2023 . 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 […]

December 21, 2023 | Categories:


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Functional Juggling with Craig Quat in Cloughjordan

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 […]

December 21, 2023 | Categories:


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Cloughjordan Circus Club Attends Caravan Circus Network Events in Brussels

Cloughjordan Circus Club Attends Caravan Circus Network Events in Brussels . From 27th November – 3rd December Joanna Williams, Artistic Director of Cloughjordan Circus Club and Molly O’Brien, Assistant Tutor, […]

December 10, 2023 | Categories:


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Functional Juggling workshop with Craig Quat

Functional Juggling workshop with Craig Quat Unique opportunity to join Functional Juggling workshop with Craig Quat, a renowned theorist and practitioner of inclusive social circus pedagogy. Craig will be offering a […]

November 3, 2023 | Categories:


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Cluichí sa Choille with Cloughjordan No1 National School | Pilot Session

Cluichí sa Choillewith Cloughjordan No1 National School | Pilot Session Cluichí sa Choille is a research project with Circus Artists and Outdoor Educators exploring how our practices can complement and […]

October 17, 2023 | Categories:


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Cloughjordan Circus Club seeks new Board members

Cloughjordan Circus Club seeks new Board members . Cloughjordan Circus Club is a registered charity (CHY 22845), who are thriving in the community and we take our governance seriously. . […]

October 16, 2023 | Categories:


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Artist Development Days for Cluichí sa Choille

 Artist Development Days for Cluichí sa Choille . Over the year we held two artist development days as part of our research into for Cluichí sa Choille. Circus Artists and […]

October 15, 2023 | Categories:


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Meet Peadar ó Dálaigh – our new Operations Manager!

Meet Peadar ó Dálaigh – our new Operations Manager!   Cloughjordan Circus Club are delighted to welcome Peadar ó Dalaigh to our small team. Since September he has been settling […]

October 12, 2023 | Categories:


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Places available at our weekly Circus Classes

Places available at our weekly Circus Classes! Join our weekly Circus Classes in Cloughjordan and learn amazing circus skills together with us! All ages and stages welcome! Juniors/Beginners | 4pm […]

October 2, 2023 | Categories:


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Cloughjordan Circus Club on Tipp Today with Fran Curry

On 28th June our Artistic Director Joanna Williams and wire walking tutor Mollie O’Brien joined Fran Curry on Tipp Today to chat about the very popular Wire Walking workshops, Circus […]

June 29, 2023 | Categories:


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Celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg together with us! | 7th -10th June

Celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg together with us! | 7th – 10th June   Cloughjordan Circus Club is proud to be part of #CircusExplored, a national initiative to highlight youth circus.  […]

May 31, 2023 | Categories:


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Wire Walking Workshops | Summer 2023

Wire Walking Workshops | Summer 2023   Join our Wire Walking Workshops this summer in Cloughjordan Village! All ages and stages welcome! . WHERE: Cloughjordan Village Green COST: €5 per […]

May 31, 2023 | Categories:


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We are hiring! | Operations Manager

We are hiring! | Cloughjordan Circus Club seeks Operations Manager   Vacancy: Part-time  20 hours a week Salary: €35-40K pro rata dependant on experience ABOUT US Cloughjordan Circus Club in […]

May 30, 2023 | Categories:


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Circus Summer Camp | 24 – 28 July 2023

Circus Summer Camp 2023 A fun packed morning of Circus Games and Skills. Each day will include lots of games, juggling, hat manipulation, pyramid building, unicycle, tightwire walking, hula hoop […]

May 26, 2023 | Categories:


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Festival of Fools Trip | Belfast 2023

Festival of Fools Trip | Belfast 2023   The May bank holiday weekend was a busy one here at Cloughjordan Circus Club as we embarked on a trip with 17 […]

May 25, 2023 | Categories:


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The fun, the tricks and good memories | Interview with our Assistant Tutor Ewan Fox Powell

The fun, the tricks and good memories | Interview with our Assistant Tutor Ewan Fox Powell Ewan is 18. He joined Cloughjordan Circus Club as a 10 year old in […]

April 27, 2023 | Categories:


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Circus Explored | We are heading to Festival of Fools 2023

We are very excited to be a part of #CircusExplored this year, and are getting ready for our trip to Festival of Fools 2023 in Belfast from 29th April  – […]

April 26, 2023 | Categories:


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It is my time to shine! | Interview with our Assistant Tutor Molly O’Brien

It is my time to shine! | Interview with our Assistant Tutor Molly O’Brien Molly O’Brien is 21 years old. She has been a member of Cloughjordan Circus Club since […]

April 24, 2023 | Categories:


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Choosing circus as part of Gaisce Award | Interview with circus volunteer Zoe Whelan

Choosing circus as part of Gaisce Award | Interview with circus volunteer Zoe Whelan   Zoe is 15 years old and has been coming to circus since she was 8, […]

April 21, 2023 | Categories:


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We are a part of La Nuit Du Cirque programme this year!

We are delighted that for the very first time Ireland will be represented at La Nuit Du Cirque programme with the Irish Youth Circus Gathering 2022 event! Our event includes […]

November 7, 2022 | Categories:


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ELEPHANT! short movie wins Best Student Live Action Short award

Cloughjordan Circus Club are delighted to have received the award of Best Student Live Action Short from the Nenagh Children’s Film Festival. Originally conceived as a live performance, members of […]

November 3, 2022 | Categories:


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Irish Youth Circus Gathering 2022

We are delighted to announce that the Irish Youth Circus Gathering is back IN PERSON in November 2022 for the first time since 2019. This will be our 5th event, […]

October 28, 2022 | Categories:


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Cloughjordan Circus Club joins CARAVAN Circus Network

We are very excited to have joined the Caravan Circus Network connecting us with Youth Circus groups all around Europe! Caravan was established as a non-for-profit organisation in 2008 and […]

October 11, 2022 | Categories:


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Cloughjordan Circus Club on Tipp FM

On 30th September our Artistic Director Joanna Williams was invited for a chat on Tipp FM to talk about Cloughjordan Circus Club, our programmes, performances and exchange trips, the upcoming […]

September 30, 2022 | Categories:


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Cloughjordan Circus Club meet Minister for Arts, Catherine Martin!

We are very proud to share that they are one of 4 national projects in the Cruinniú na nÓg programme this year. Circus Explored aims to encourage every child in […]

May 17, 2022 | Categories:


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Elephant! Circus comes to town

Excitement in Cloughjordan as the Circus comes to town! Last weekend, was a magical moment in Cloughjordan when a small circus trailer appeared in the field opposite Cloughjordan GAA! It […]

October 20, 2021 | Categories:


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Summer Camp time is here!

Thanks to support from Creative Ireland we are able to run 2 summer camps in summer 2021. Both Camps will be from 12th -16th July, outdoors by our base in […]

June 24, 2021 | Categories:


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Circus goes Outdoors!

We are delighted to announce that Circus is leaving our front rooms and going outside! No more dropping juggling balls on our laptops and knocking the lampshade with hula hoops […]

April 20, 2021 | Categories:


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