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Youth circus sector launches national manifesto

The manifesto’s key principles and strategies have grown out of a two-year, sector-wide discussion.

25 Jul 2014 12:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Image supplied by Warehouse Circus. Photo by Katy Barr

Targeted conversations at the last two National Youth Circus Symposia, hosted by Canberra’s Warehouse Circus in 2013 and Adelaide’s Cirkidz in 2014, in conjunction with the Australian Circus and Physical Theatre Association (ACAPTA), have resulted in the publication of a new manifesto for the youth circus sector.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts