Montréal Welcomes Next Generation of Innovators at National Social Circus Gathering
Are you looking for an event to warm your heart during the cold Montréal winter? From January 17th through January 19th, 2020 the circus city of Montréal will become the big top playground for Cirkaskina- A National Social Circus Gathering. It will be the first event of it’s kind for Canada.
During Cirkaskina, 150 marginalized youth representing 17 different communities in Canada from Nunavut to Vancouver will use their voices and physical skills to build bonds, entertain, and ultimately create community, social change, and a group manifesto. Though the three-day event will be making its debut, the organization behind the event, Cirque Hors Piste, has twenty-two years of knowledge and experience accrued. They are a Montréal-based social circus organization that uses circus arts to propose an alternative path to personal development for marginalized or at-risk youth as part of the global movement of arts for social change. The organization focuses its interventions on improving the individual well being of participants and the collective well-being of communities. ...Do you have a story to share? Submit your news story, article or press release.