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The Circus Play 2024-25 project completed Jan 4th 2025. The Report is almost ready. A whole heap of photos are in this post. Video is going to take a while – unless someone helps. In brief : 125 workshop sessions delivered over 3 months. Succesful collabaration with Spark Circus and Spoon Circus; introduced 6 young adults to circus as “trainee tutors”; one Myanmar performer is now our new circus tutor running classes. 

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Donation total for 2024-25 project (at Feb 15th 2025) £1250 or 42% of target.

Hope learning Centre 27th Dec 2024

Project photos

Here’s a selection of photos from Mae Sot and Pho Phra learning Centres. Mid-Oct 2024 to early Jan 2025. It’s not easy running our project on a shoe-string (well, at a financial loss really). We have to do our own docos, promo; take photos and videos ad hoc as we...

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Circus Play December video

https://youtu.be/mfv18CPI9rg Our workshops and trainings continue. These young students showing fast-learned juggling skills and an ability to take risks and learn more each session.

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Circus Play Nov video update

https://youtu.be/7Bkndy-vMoA About mid-way through our project this season. The youngsters at Hope learning centre in Pho Phra show us what they are learning. The school supports the circus class with teachers present and helping with the play and circus trainings.

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Some feedback from Schools (Migrant learning Centres):

“First of all, a massive thank you for conducting the circus program for us. This program has had a lot of positive impacts on our school and students.”

 

“The circus has arrived to inspire and teach our students! This fantastic opportunity helped to ignite their creativity, teamwork, and showmanship. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the organizers for bringing this enriching experience to our school community”

 

“We noticed that you paid attention to each of the participants’ needs, and encouraged them to exceed their expectations. With your positive attitude and guidance, our students were able to improve their creativity and communication. Above all, we saw that they were having fun while performing the things that they learned. We would like to have more programs like this in the coming academic years!”

READ THE PROJECT REPORT 2023-24. 
The Circus Play project Phang-Nga and Mae Sot. Complete Jan 26th 2024

ကျောင်းများ (Migrant Learning Centres) မှ ပြန်လည်တုံ့ပြန်မှုများ

“အရင်ဆုံး ကျွန်တော်တို့အတွက် circus အစီအစဉ် ပြုလုပ်ပေးတဲ့အတွက် အထူးပင်ကျေးဇူးတင်ရှိပါသည်။ ဒီအစီအစဉ်က ကျွန်တော်တို့ကျောင်းနဲ့ ကျောင်းသား၊ကျောင်းသူတွေအပေါ်မှာ ကောင်းမွန်တဲ့အကျိုးသက်ရောက်မှု များစွာ ရှိခဲ့ပါတယ်။”

 

“Circus အစီအစဉ်က ကျွန်တော်တို့ကျောင်းသူ၊ကျောသားတွေကို စိတ်အားထက်သန်စေပြီး သင်ကြားပေးဖို့ ရောက်လာပါတယ်။ ဤအံ့ဩဖွယ်အခွင့်အလမ်းက သူတို့ရဲ့ဖန်တီးနိုင်မှု၊ အဖွဲ့လိုက်လုပ်ဆောင်နိုင်မူနှင့် သရုပ်ဖော်နိုင်စွမ်းများကို လှုံဆော်ကူညီခဲ့ပါတယ်။ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏ကျောင်းအသိုက်အဝန်းသို့ဤသို့ကြွယ်ဝသောအတွေ့အကြုံတွေကိုယူဆောင်လာပေးသောစီစဉ်သူများအားကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏စိတ်နှလုံးထဲ၌ကျေးဇူးတင်ရှိပါတယ်။”

 

“ကျောင်းသား၊ကျောင်းသူတဦးဆီရဲ့ လိုအပ်ချက်တိုင်းကို အာရုံစိုက်အလေးပေးပြီး သူတို့ရဲ့ မျှော်မှန်းချက်တွေကို ကျော်လွန်အောင် တိုက်တွန်းအားပေးခဲ့တာကို ကျွန်တော်တို့ သတိပြုမိပါတယ်။ သင်၏အပြုသဘောဆောင်သောသဘောထားနှင့် လမ်းညွှန်မှုဖြင့် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့ရဲ့ ကျောင်းသူ၊ကျောင်းသားများသည် သူတို့၏တီထွင်ဖန်တီးနိုင်စွမ်းနှင့် ပြောဆိုဆက်ဆံနိုင်စွမ်းကို မြင့်တင်နိုင်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။အထူးသဖြင့် သူတို့သင်ယူခဲ့တဲ့ အရာတွေကိုတင်ဆက်ပြသနေစဥ်တွင် ပျော်ရွှင်နေကြတာကို ကျွန်တော်တို့ တွေ့ခဲ့ရတယ်။ ဒီလိုမျိုး အစီအစဉ်များကို လာမည့်ပညာသင်နှစ်များတွင် ပိုမိုလုပ်ဆောင်ချင်ပါတယ်”

Everyone Needs to have Fun!

Where ever we go we bring Fun and promote change – soft power to support and influence society to make it more inclusive, build-bridges across communal divides, promote gender-equality; inspire confidence, problem-solving, creativity, cooperation. We are building a community that share in Fun and Respect for each other.
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The 2023-24 project in Khao Lak

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The Circus Play Project is bringing  new skills and fun to children and young adults living around Khao Lak, Thailand. 
 Playing together helps us live together and our motto is
“Everyone Needs to have Fun”.

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New! Sept. 2023 : Video for promoting our work, Slideshows and bigger gallery

The Circus Play project in Mae Sot Dec 2022 – Jan 2023 has been completed
Thank you to all who donated and supported the project.
We have had good feedback from the schools and it was an absolute joy to meet and get to work with so very many young people and teachers.
We are planning to return in Jan 2024 and have a new project in development for Nov-Dec 2023 in Phangna, southern Thailand.
 

A report on the project is now available.

11 weekly workshops at schools/learning centres in Mae Sot and Pho Pra were delivered for 6 weeks,
engaging with about 220 children each week and weekend juggling workshops took place at Joy House Arts & Peace Community centre.
 

The Circus Play Project continues the work of Social Circus Myanmar which delivered social circus workshops in Yangon every dry season (November-February) from 2014-2020 to thousands of young people.  The project builds on the foundations laid by Spark Circus which toured shows and workshops in Mae Sot and Thailand from 2007 – 2019.

Working with Help Without Frontiers which runs Migrant Learning Centres and provides support for people in and around the Thai border town, Circus Play will provide regular social circus and play workshops from November 2022 to February 2023.

The project will be funded by donations.  Social Circus International, based in UK, will gather funds for the project and monitor finances and project outcomes.

Our workshops use circus skills and play as tools to promote healthy activities, co-operation, self-esteem and provide a much needed opportunity for fun and laughter. Accessibility, inclusion and gender-equality are key elements in our project delivery.

As well as workshops in learning centres and schools, the project team will train local young adults as circus play trainers and supply equipment so the workshops can continue throughout the year.

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“Given the situation in Myanmar, we can’t resume social circus activities in Yangon but we can work with the large Myanmar community near the border. We want to use our fun, skills and silliness to get Thai kids and Myanmar kids playing together, building lasting friendships.”

– Project Manager, Jules Howarth. Social Circus Myanmar.

“Spark Circus is very excited to support the Circus Play Project. Being unable to work in the region during the pandemic, we are very happy to know that the migrant children in Mae Sot, will once again get the opportunity to play and explore the circus arts. We will be sending some Spark Alumni to support the project.”

– Charlene Whitehead, Spark Circus.

“This is a great idea – it’ll help the children’s wellbeing and give them an alternative to the dire circumstances in which they are living.”

– Sally Thompson, former executive director of The Border Consortium.

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