ARTiculate Circus Pedagogy network
developing diverse activities for trainer support
ARTiculate Circus started in 2018 as the work of the pedagogy workgroup within BNCN and is the pedagogy development strand. Under the ARTiculate strand we explore how to develop circus education across our region, with specific focus on practical organisation and artistic thinking in circus education. How to train to make circus arts, to use circus as creative tool to make art in addition to equipping students with technical ability.
Timeline: 2018-2025
Focus: circus trainers
Since 2018 we have delivered a series of projects including ARTiculate 1.0 that brought experienced circus pedagogs from 9 countries in the Baltic Nordic Sea Region to develop methods for artistic thinking in circus training and education. ARTiculate 1.0 bridged practises of contemporary, social and traditional circus training with theatre, dance and contemporary circus practises of pedagogy. In 2021, four day workshops were organised bringing circus teachers together from the 8 countries in our region to develop new methods to facilitate and develop artistic thinking in circus education. For ARTiculate 1.0 we will create a publication on the topic of creating increased focus on artistic thinking in circus education which will be published by Cirkus Syd and downloadable here on our website.
Project Partners: Cirkus Syd (SE), Riga Circus (LV), Sirkunst (NO), Arts Printing House (LT), Nycirkus Öst (SE) Finnish Youth Circus Association (FI), Sirkus Studio Folie (EE), AFUK (DK). Funded by Nordisk Kulturfond and Nordic Council of Ministers.
ARTiculate Pedagogy Network - Strategic Meetings in the Baltic Nordic Region
Throughout 2020 and 2021 we started to organise strategic meetings in order to develop a concrete strategy. We held several co-creation labs and developed a strategy which also formed the basis for the new ARTiculate Pedagogy Network!
The Articulate Pedagogy Network was formed out of the Baltic Nordic Circus Network (BNCN) pedagogy workgroup. The members had an ambition to extend the pedagogy and education collaborators within the region and include different collaborators from the circus education sector. In particular, working with people who could not join BNCN because they were not part of an organisation, individuals.
In this mission, we have found a core group of committed and energetic individuals who have taken up this opportunity and are driving it forward. This has been expressed through the 3 strategic planning meetings which have culminated in this document.
OBJECTIVES
Build Community
Strengthen Networks
Increase international engagement
Inspire youth to circus engagement
During 2022 and the beginning of 2025 we will hold an ambitious range of activities which ultimately aim to involve more circus pedagogues directly in capacity-building circus pedagogical development and peer learning across our region.
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