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Our story,... so far

The Brewarrina Circus Training Project commenced in 2002 after nearly 3 years of planning and lobbying by Outback Arts NSW, Local Organizations, and the Project Co-ordinator. This Project was designed to offer alternative paths for Education, Physical Exploration and Creativity to young people living in the area.
The vision for the Project began after an overwhelming response from local youth to a 2 week long, Circus Skills Training Intensive, hosted by the Brewarrina Youth Centre during school holidays, January 1999.

The Project began in October 2002 with an 8 week long Training Program, during which intensive in-school and after-school classes were held teaching, Circus Skills, Dance, and Theatre. The training concluded with the students staging a major performance for the local and surrounding Communities.

Since this there have been 7 more such Training Intensives: held in,
Feb 2003, May 2003, Oct 2003 and Feb 2004, Sep 2005, Nov 2005, Jan 2006
Each 6 week long session has introduced new teachers and skills to the students, allowing them to create ever more skillful, theatrical and eloborate performances and leading finally to 26 of the participants being chosen to represent their Community at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, March 2004. The students performed as part of Strut'n'Fret's Big Top extravaganza,' The Umbrella Revolution', with their show, 'River Stories,...and more!'.

The students unique and inspirational performance was an accumulation of Circus Skills, Poetry, Comedy, Theatre,Traditional Dance, Hip-Hop, Video Projection, Magic, Tumbling and Aerial Acrobatics.

The Show featured skills such as, Trapeze, Aerial Strops, Web, Hat Tricks, Roller Boller, Stilts, Juggling, Hula-Hoops, not to mention the disappearing Sword Box Routine, and was executed by the performers flawlessly over their 10 show run. The Performers extracted acclaim from every one of their audiences with their unique performance, which showcased a merging of Traditional Culture and values with their own contemporary bent on life. The artists extracted skills, moves and apparatus from many different artistic disciplines and recreated them with their own unique and natural abilites.

These images taken by Penny Johnson, Amy Gordon and Sue Gordon, are a photo diary of these last 3 years of this Project.

Since Adelaide, 16 of these young artists have also performed at Catapult 2005, the first National Youth Performing Arts Festival. See the Catapult page for more details and images from the show.

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The Project would like to say thanks for Support and Funding to; The Department of Education, Science and Training, Arts Council of Australia, The NSW Ministry for the Arts, Regional Arts NSW, Outback Arts, Brewarrina Youth Centre, Yetta Dhinnakkal Correctional Centre, Brewarrina Central School, Joblink Plus/Tamworth, Department of Sport and Recreation, Northern Star Aboriginal Corporation, Murdi Paaki Sporting Organization, Murdi Paaki Regional Indigenous Womens Organization, The Granny Patrol, DAA, Dick Smith, Rio- Tinto, Flying Fruit Fly Circus and Circus School, DCITA (The Department of Communications Information Technology and The Arts), and Brewarrina Shire Council.
Also thanks to: Youth Workers; Petra Eder, Jamie Hardy, Brad Steadman and Sam Trapman. Supervisors; Penny Johnson, Norma Bloomfield, Rhonda Williams, Peter Gordon, Sandra Murphy, Bruce Shillingsworth, Mary Murphy, Janice Bloomfield, Liz Leyland, Kim Hardy and Duncan Biles. Arts Support; Cliff Hull. Ladder man; JT. Circus Trainers; Susuan Mitchell, Sandy Quilty, Lou Harwood, Maryke De Castillo, Michelle Stephens and Melissa. Head Trainers/Adelaide Show Directors; Josh Bond, Jude Emmett and Kate Reid. Dance Teachers; Nikki Ashby, Tiffany Winters, Danielle Boney and Rita Lord. Traditional Dance Teachers; Bruce Shillingsworth and Ben Shillingsworth and all the Murriwari Dancers. For Costume help; Marty J and Ox. For Production Support; The StrutnFret Crew. For Transport; Frasers Coaches and our fab driver Peter. For free tickets and making our stay in Adelaide awesome; Spaghetti Circus, Kuarna Mob, Circus Oz, Circus Monoxide, The Happy Side Show, Dancers from the Dhuwa and Yirritja People and Bangarra Dance Company. For keeping us in contact; 2CUS, 2WEB and Radio National,...and mostly, the Parents and Community of Brewarrina for making everything possible.
,...and of course many many thanks to all the, majorly talented,...'KIDS FROM BRE'.
...extra thanks to the Brewarrina Youth Centre and Outback Arts NSW,.. for being our life-lines.

This website was constructed using funds raised in the Brewarrina Circus Project Raffle. The Raffle was made possible by the donation of an array of stunning, hand crafted Artefacts by local Artist by Peter Gordon. Many Thanks to Peter and family.

This Project is Co-ordinated by Kate Reid. For more details about any aspect of this Project or Website contact Kate at tangoluke@hotmail.com.

All the amazing images in this photo Gallery, aside from Catapult footage, have been taken by Local Photographers Penny Johnson, Bee Bee, Amy Gordon and Sue Gordon of Bre Images.

Photos and Videos of tours, training and performances are available on request.

News and Notices, updated 22/8/06

Congratulations to the 8 students who attended The Commonwealth Games Cultural Arts Festival, the performance of 3wAyXchange, a unique collaboration between African Youth Circus Zip-Zap and The Flying Fruit Fly Circuswas the hit of the festival.
Many many thanks to DCITA for funding the training component of this amazing event.

Also many thanks to DCITA again for funding the next Brewarrina Circus Skills Training Intensive which will take plave in Brewarrina from the 16th of Oct 2006 and conclude on the 24th of November, show dates and times to be advised

Next Brewarrina Community Show, Brewarrina Community Hall. TBA

Congratulations to David Simpson and Tiffany Winters for being chosen to be part of the Flying Fruit Fly North West Region Schools Tour of the production of Le Triste.

For performance dates please call the Flying Fruit Fly Circus on 02 6021 7044.
The Tour will conclude with a performance in the Brewarrina Community Hall on the 8th of September 2006.