The Swedish Arts Council has spent 9 months mapping Swedish Circus to present a report to the Swedish government with recommendations of improvements of support that the sector desperately needs. The Report in Swedish is around 70 pages, and today a summary in English has been released. Practitioners, organisations, independents have all been asked to … Continue reading Swedish Arts Council Mapping of Circus
The first week of November BNCN attended our first Circostrada meeting in Ljubljana in Slovenia. BNCN are joining Circostrada to directly take part in the planning of the advocacy workgroup. BNCN wants to highlight the Baltic Nordic agenda on European level. The coordinator attended two work sessions in order to contribute to the planning of … Continue reading Advocacy connections
Following the recent BNCN members meeting in Stockholm the network is pleased to announce Riga Cirks / Riga Circus as new member. "Riga circus has a long history but it has always been an important part of Latvian culture life. The profound building of Circus in Riga is going to be renovated soon; but … Continue reading BNCN welcomes new member; Riga Circus
After a great summer of festival across Europe we are back and getting ready for our autumn activities. Co-presented with Subtopia as part of official programme of Subcase we will present a Seminar and a Party! The seminar you will need to be registered as a delegate of Subcase to attend, but the Party is … Continue reading Autumn activities
During the summer months most Northern Europeans disappear for holiday for quite the few weeks. Summer cottage, holiday on an island, all that stored up tension from working hard throughout the year is about to get released and relaxed. During the summer BNCN will be preparing for the challenges of Autumn. We are working with … Continue reading Glad sommar! Happy summer!
BNCN is pleased to announce that our partner project has been funded; NuoraNORD – a new development project for circus companies and communities in the Baltic and Nordic region lead by Circus Info Finland 31.5.2017 Text reposted from Cirkus Info Finland's webpage - click for original post. NuoraNORD is a project for young circus companies … Continue reading NuoraNORD – a new development project
Hello! Here we are at members Cirko's Festival in Helsinki, Finland. Tomorrow Lina, Coordinator will make a presentation of the network and to coincide we are updating the theme of the website. Hope you like it. We've tried to simplify and share information more easily with you. As documentation and news are gathered the website … Continue reading New Website Theme
New year, new era, the last 3 years (2014-2016) BNCN has been hosted by Sirkus Info Finland since the inauguration of the Network. A new 3 year period has begun and the baton has been passed to Manegen - a national organisation for circus, variety and street performance in Sweden. Members are artists, companies, producers, … Continue reading Passing the Baton
Website under construction Please bare with us while we update the website this month (March/April 2017). Updated info will emerge first week of April and culminating in a new theme for the site to host more information, news and statistics from the Baltic and Nordic Circus scene to coincide with Cirko Festival in Helsinki 16th … Continue reading Bare with us…
