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CTF Alumni Meeting: Reflections and Future Visions for Social Circus
Circus TransFormation in Action, CTF, is a social circus training program run by Caravan International Youth and Social Circus Network. After seven cycles of the training, Caravan and Sorin Sirkus gathered CTF alumni together for two days. In the Alumni Meeting,...
What About Youth ? (W.A.Y)
For many years Caravan has been talking about having youth leadership and empowerment at the head of our strategy. Thanks to the development of the ‘Youth Advisory Group’ in 2021, we were able to make that dream a reality, and implement a strong youth lead approach...
Circus Transformation Advanced
To read the final report, with all of the findings from the CTF Advanced project, click the photo below!CTF Advanced is a 2.5 year project led by Sorin Sirkus with the objectives to: form a network (both local and European) of youth circuses, social circus trainers,...
European Solidarity Corps
Caravan has a network of exchange for volunteers within Europe, to support the mobility of young people in circus. By getting involved in the real-life activities of our youth and social circus schools, young people are able to boost their competencies, increase their...
Caravan Week
Program MON 3.11 Resilience in the face of emigration as a response to a threatening contextDiana MubarakshinaUpsala CircusZeits, Germany (Formerly St-Petersburg, Russia)↗Website TUE 4.11 Applying YSC values to broader local communities as an act of resilience...
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Caravan Circus
This year’s edition explored our theme, “Learning & Listening” — an invitation to pause, listen more closely, and reflect on how circus organizations can learn from their communities and help shape a more inclusive, creative, and responsible future for youth and social circus.
💬 Across five conversations, 10 inspiring speakers from the Caravan Circus Network and its wider community shared their experiences, research, and perspectives on how circus organizations work, how they support young people, and how they can inspire change within the sector.
🫶 A huge thank you to all the speakers for their generosity, insight, and commitment to this collective reflection:
🧬 What can research change?
Léana Valentini — Centre des Arts du Cirque Balthazar / Lido de Toulouse
🤹 Can everyone join the circus?
Guille Vidal-Ribas — Ateneu Popular 9 Barris
Jess Martin — Ateneu Popular 9 Barris
🧩 What if teaching became a playground?
Adam Jarchovský — CIRQUEON
🤝 Can circus build democracy?
Antonio Alcántara — University of Barcelona
Petra Malin — University of Tampere
👧 What do young people want?
Barbora Adolfová — CIRQUEON
Molly O’Brien — Cloughjordan Circus Club
Míša Zadražilová — CIRQUEON
Pia Povsic Vesel - Circus Fuskabo
🎙️The podcasts explore the questions raised throughout Caravan Week: how we listen to young people, how organizations learn from their communities, how resilience and inclusion shape circus practice, and how we can build stronger, more reflective circus organizations together.
👇You can now watch all five episodes on YouTube through the links in the comments 🎧
Thank you to everyone who contributed to Caravan Week 2026 — and to everyone who listens, learns, and helps carry these conversations forward ❤️
#caravanweek2026 #learningandlistening #youthcircus #socialcircus #caravannetwork
In this final highlight of the Caravan Week 2026 podcast, host Bara Adolfová (CIRQUEON ) is joined by youth representatives and researchers Míša Zahradilová (CIRQUEONCIRQUEON ), Molly O’Brien (Cloughjordan Circus Club), and Pia Povšič (Cirkus Fuskabo ), Slovenia) to discuss the Erasmus+-funded Youth ECHO project.
🔎 Running from autumn 2025 through the end of 2026, the Youth ECHO project explores youth participation techniques, investigating what young people actually want and need within their circus communities.
🧩 Representing the Caravan WAY (What About Youth) network, the speakers share their distinct research approaches—ranging from qualitative individual interviews to broad quantitative surveys—and how their findings are actively reshaping their home organizations.
👇 Ready to elevate youth participation in your organization? Watch the full interview video next week and stay tuned for the official release of the guidebook! 📕
#YouthECHO #YouthParticipation #SocialCircus #CaravanWeek2026 #CIRQUEON #CloughjordanCircusClub #CirkusFuskabo #ErasmusPlus #YouthVoice
🎙️In this compelling highlight episode from the Caravan Week 2026 podcast, William Borell sits down with researchers Dr. Petra Malin (University of Tampere and Helsinki) and Antonio Alcántara (University of Barcelona) to explore how social circus fosters participation, citizenship, and democratic culture.
🧪 Drawing from their doctoral research—including studies with Circus Magenta and Ateneu Popular de 9 Barris— Petra and Antonio discuss how embodied artistic practices can break down traditional hierarchies.
🤹 By moving away from rigid office walls and into physical, shared spaces, social circus creates a unique environment where social workers, service users, and community members can meet as equals.
👇 Ready to explore the intersection of performing arts and social change? Watch the full interview video next week to dive deeper into the transformative power of social circus!
#SocialCircus #Democracy #ArtsBasedSocialWork #CaravanWeek2026 #CircusArts #CommunityParticipation #CivicEngagement #UniversityOfBarcelona #UniversityOfTampere
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