Schools in Northern Ireland by Locality - Schools in Belfast, Schools in County Down, Schools in County Tyrone, Belfast Community Circus School (Paperback)

Chapters: Schools in Belfast, Schools in County Down, Schools in County Tyrone, Belfast Community Circus School, Omagh College of Further Education, Jordanstown Schools, Fleming Fulton School, St Louis, Kilkeel. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Belfast Community Circus School teaches young people from Belfast and its surrounding areas a variety of circus skills. The school's director is Will Chamberlain. The Belfast Community Circus School produces a number of shows featuring young people each year. Performances take place in the Circus School and on the streets, including annual shows in the Festival of Fools. The Circus School also programmes a season of street theatre running each Sunday over the summer months in Cotton Court in the heart of Belfast's Cathedral Quarter. Acts featured are a combination of artists based in Belfast and visiting artists from Europe, USA and Australia. In addition, the Belfast Community Circus School has established a social economy trading wing called Premiere Circus. This operates as an agency securing work for artists based in Belfast who work across Ireland. BCCS was set up in 1985 by Donal McKendry and Mike Moloney to promote personal and community development through the teaching of circus skills. Throughout the height of the Troubles, BCCS was able to stage successful cross community projects across Northern Ireland. For more than a decade, BCCS operated workshops and created shows in a variety of venues ranging from church halls to community centres and the Crescent Arts Centre. In 1999 the Circus School took a massive step forward when it moved into Ireland's first dedicated circus building in the heart of Belfast's Cathedral Quarter - an area of the city centre promoting arts and culture. Since moving ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4515860