The Circus Project

The Circus Project aims to give everyone the opportunity to try circus skills, and to promote new work and new ideas in contemporary circus. Emma Taylor is Founder and Director of the project, a registered charity now in its tenth year. She is a trained trapeze artist and actress who set up The Circus Project after moving to Brighton and discovering that there were no training facilities for circus artists in the city.

Specialising in aerial circus, the project runs weekly classes where adults can learn static trapeze, rope and silks. Once competent and confident enough, adults can then apply to come to the popular drop-in “open practice” sessions to practise everything they’ve learnt in the classes.

The project looks after Brighton & Hove Youth Circus, a group of highly-skilled young circus artistes aged 14 – 19 years who have represented the UK at International Circus Festivals, and performed original circus theatre shows all over the UK.

In all, The Circus Project trains over 70 children every week, who get to perform little shows and cabarets at Hangleton Community Centre, where the project is based.

The project is a useful resource for the growing number of professional circus artists living in Brighton & Hove. Providing advice, low-cost rehearsal space and the loan of aerial equipment, the project is keen to see the work of local professional artists flourish and develop.

DROP-IN CLASSES FOR ADULTS

Adults Aerial Circus Class – Beginners: Every Friday 6.45-8pm £8

A friendly and supportive drop-in class for adults. Suitable for all levels including total beginners. All ages (over 16) and abilities welcome. Rope, trapeze and silks. Just turn up.

Adults Aerial Circus Class – Intermediates: Every Monday 7.30-8.45pm £8

A more challenging class for those who can move confidently around the trapeze and climb a rope. Rope, trapeze and silks. Just turn up.

Open Practise Every Friday 10-11.30am £5

For those able to train safely on their own. Good level of safety awareness and aerial competence essential.

WORKSHOPS

Adults Trapeze Taster for Total & Utter Beginners

Saturday 9 April 3.30pm-5pm £12

A gentle workshop for adults aged 15-100yrs! All abilities welcome and absolutely no experience needed. Learn the basics of static trapeze. Much more fun than the gym.

Limited places – hurry to secure yours!

Trapeze Taster for Children aged 7-12

Saturday 9 April 1.30pm-3pm £10

A fun and friendly workshop for total beginners. Learn how to sit and stand on the trapeze bar, then learn “moves” like Spider, Bird’s Nest and Catchers. Limited places – hurry to secure yours!

YOUTH PROGRAMME – TRAIN EVERY WEEK

There are just a FEW places on our youth programme which you could nab if you are quick!

Trapeze, rope, silks and performance every week in term time.
Sundays 4-5.15pm 7-10yrs and 5.15-6.30pm 10yrs+

Mondays 6.15-7.30pm for 9-13 yrs

Tuesdays 4.15-5.30pm for 7yrs+

Hangleton Community Centre, Harmsworth Crescent, Hove BN3 8BW
  • Buses 5, 5a, 5b

www.thecircusproject.co.uk

Bookstock – The Brighton Book Festival

Bookstock is a community based Brighton Book festival which will bring people together through their love of books and the written word.

It combines the unique diversity of Brighton with the 60′s Woodstock vibe, to encourage book lovers to come together to share their passion for books.

http://brightonbookfestival.com/

Bill Bailey at the Brighton Centre

Comic and musician Bill Bailey takes his live show DANDELION MIND on a national UK arena tourand performs at the Brighton Centre.

Featuring Bill’s trademark musical interludes, observations and stories of the road, DANDELION MIND will be based loosely on the theme of doubt (or will it?), as we follow Bill from his real-life saga of being trapped by the ash cloud to his barely contained rants about celebrity, TV, creationism and Michael Winner.

He demonstrates new instruments, both ancient and modern, he sings an internet love song, a lament about punk heroes, Iranian hip-hop and plays a mean folk-bouzouki. Thomas the Doubter gets a new look, and Darwin’s curious obsessions and the myth of intelligent design are all worked over in Bill’s own surreal style. He revisits the music of his youth with a brand-new French Disco re-working of Gary Numan’s hit ‘Cars’, played in his own inimitable way, and maybe some Wurzels-based remixes of classic German techno.

www.brightoncentre.co.uk

Artist is wanted to create mini-park near Brighton station

£8,000 of European cash is being offered as a fee for an artist to create a tiny oasis of peace in central Brighton.

The council wants to transform a patch of empty land near Brighton station into a ‘pocket park’ to bring a thoroughfare back to life.

Officials are looking for an artist who can work some magic with this area of the North Laine, at the corner of Trafalgar Street and Station Street. The idea should use a combination of public art and landscaping to create a pleasant spot to spend a while.

The scheme will be paid for through the European CIVITAS scheme and the UK’s Cycling Town initiative.

It would form part of a package of environmental improvements the council is undertaking to make the area around Brighton Station more attractive.

The city council was the only one in the country to win £2.2 million to invest in small-scale transport projects from the CIVITAS Plus Archimedes project. The authority is working with five other European cities to share best practice.

Expressions of interest must be submitted no later than 5pm on Monday February 28 2011.

Further details, photos and maps of the site with information on submission are available on the Arts and Culture section of the council’s website

http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1240214

Arlene Phillips and Adam Spiegel present Midnight Tango at the Brighton Centre

The Brighton Centre are delighted to announce the amazing dance duo Vincent and Flavia will be performing at the venue with their incredible show, Midnight Tango!

Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace have dazzled television audiences for six series of the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing with their stunning Tango routines. Now they have created their own live show – Midnight Tango – a breathtaking evening bringing all the drama, sensuality and elegance of this most exciting of dance forms to life.

Set in a late night bar in downtown Buenos Aires and featuring some of the finest Tango dancers in the world, Midnight Tango, takes you on a journey into a heart of this intoxicating city. As danger and excitement, joy and jealousy, pain and passion all combine – this is a spectacular and explosive evening not to be missed!

To book tickets simply visit www.brightoncentre.co.uk