Loading
ABCirk is a project of CIRQUEON, Galway Community Circus, Cirkus LeGrando and Cirkus in Beweging for young people aged 15 - 19 years to gain experience, knowledge and confidence to become assistants of circus tutors.There are four young people and two circus tutors from each organisation accompanied by three ABCirk alumni from the first round of ABCirk (2016-2018) participating on the project for the whole duration of two and half years between autumn 2019 and early 2022.The main objective of this project is to bring young people together and let them learn how to become a good junior leader in a youth circus organisation while working with their peers from other organisations and being supervised by their experienced circus tutors and older friends.They will attend four training activities - one in each organisation - to learn about class organisation, group dynamics, working with specific groups, safety, first aid, teaching methods of various circus disciplines, giving feedback and evaluation activities. There will be a practical session in the third training consisting of giving workshops to children and families during a youth circus festival in Brno in June 2021.We aim to have the learning process happening mostly through peer-to-peer learning.The whole process will be documented on video by participating young people and shared online on a video channel managed by participating young people themselves. These videos will be made for other youth circus members around the world to encourage them to learn more about circus teaching in an informal way. As they will be made by their peers they will be more accessible than written publications produced by professional circus school and universities.The online video channel will be accessible to anyone even after the project is finished. We believe that our participants will continue updating it for several more years and will engage more young circus members to contribute to it as well.Participation on this programme will bring more future cooperation among the participants themselves, the partner organisations and also other organisations from the Czech Republic, Belgium and Ireland as well as other European youth circuses connected in Caravan Youth and Social Circus Network and Educircation Network. Having an international experience in teenage years will make it much easier for our participants to cooperate on a European level in future on a professional and personal level.
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=erasmusplus_::311d633ff4c766a9f0edebe1e607a050&type=result"></script>');
-->
</script>