Via San Vittore 25/3
40136 Bologna
Bologna
Italy
- Youth and education
“La casa del circo sull'albero” aims to foster solidarity and mutual understanding among people across culture, religion, physical ability, gender, class, ethnicity and citizenship, to raise their awareness about healthy and environmental friendly practices, and to support children and youth to develop comprehensive life skills at the individual, social and environmental level.
Our objectives are:
_to promote a culture of circus as a multi-cultural universal language, with its tradition of travel and cross-cultural community building, and its capacity to include different abilities and attitudes as a kaleidoscope of different forms of artistic expression.
_to develop the children's self confidence, creativity, social skills and environmental awareness through physical training, performing arts, travel, team building and cooperative work.
_to multiply contacts and exchange among artists in a "glocal" perspective.
Our main projects are the “Children Summer Camp at the Circus House on the Tree” and “Camping for Artists”, in addition to out-door and in-door public performances, trainings and seminars.
The Summer Camp is organized, along with trainings in acrobatics and circus, as a comprehensive experience encompassing cooking together, collecting waste lost in public green areas, sorting and recycling, benefiting from cooperative work as a form of peer to peer education.
The Camping for Artists offers hospitality at the venue of the association, surrounded by woods, as a logistic support for artists on travel and a space of interaction and exchange.
Other activities encompass yoga for children (3-5 years) and adults, acrobatics for children (6-14 years) and aerial acrobatics for youth and adults, dance, handicraft, music, walks in areas of socio-environmental and historical interest.