A SPECIAL INVITATION
Dear friends,
I hope this message finds each of you and your loved ones healthy and safe, and that today is a good day. I am excited to be reaching out with an invitation to be part of something special: a virtual performance, led by members of our SF Youth Circus troupe, to celebrate, in their words, “the community we have created through our collective passion for circus arts.”
Not long ago, Rachel Ostrow, Mia Raneri, and Ayden Wisney-Leonard approached me offering to play a leadership role in organizing a virtual circus show as a fundraiser for Circus Center. I was moved by their generosity, and it’s been so inspiring to watch them develop their idea.
Circus Center is slowly reopening right now, and we are keeping our eyes on the horizon. We will continue to bring the joy of circus to all – especially to children and those who can’t afford it. We can and will make it through this, setbacks and all, because our extraordinary community has come together and will keep coming together to make it happen. If you would like to be part of this effort to lift Circus Center up, I encourage you to read their message and attend the first organizing meeting next Sunday night. I’ll be there! Read on...
Onwards and upwards,
Barry Kendall
Executive Director
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Hello Circus Center Community!
We are very pleased to introduce Circus Center’s 2021 Virtual Winter Fundraiser! Though so much has changed since last year, we hope to continue our tradition of a winter production that will bring the Circus Center community together, though virtually, to celebrate the season. With this year’s Winter Fundraiser, we hope to replicate the authenticity of in-person performances to the greatest of our abilities by hosting a live-view compilation of pre-recorded acts from a variety of members of the Circus Center community.
We want this production to celebrate the community we have created through our collective passion for circus arts, and are hoping to fundraise in order to give back to Circus Center. In order to reach our goals and make this winter production the best it can be, we need your help!
If you are interested in participating, have any questions, or would like to know more, please email wintershow@circuscenter.org and we will get back to you ASAP. We are excited to work with everyone who wants to contribute: performers, costume, makeup, filming, editing, you name it. If you would like to perform, you do not immediately need a fully formed idea or act, we are happy to hear your initial thoughts and collaborate with you in the process.
We are hoping to premiere in late January or early February, but we know that we are not entirely in control of our timeline these days, so we’ll be flexible if necessary. Still, we’re excited to get to work, and we invite you to join us for a first organizing/production meeting on Sunday, November 8, at 5:30pm: ZOOM LINK. We’ll introduce some of our initial ideas, and we can talk together about ideas and the production process. If you plan to come, please RSVP to wintershow@circuscenter.org.
Thanks to everyone willing to go through this unique process with us!
Rachel, Mia, and Ayden