Is there anything you're super excited for in this year's festival that you want to plug? 
This year we are bringing some huge names from the acro world to NZ! People like Sports Acro super base Hilary Conroy, and the internationally renowned partnership Duo Die Acrobatics. 

Johnny Ryan – New Zealand Juggling & Circus Festival

How long has the festival been running, and how has it developed in that time?
The festival is in its 26^th year. I feel like it would be unfair of me to wax too lyrical about its development, since I've been humbly involved for only ten of those. I first went to the festival when it was in Raglan. I'm not much of a juggler myself, not professionally. I'm a teacher. I first came to the festival with my class years ago, and we had such an incredible time. It was a lovely experience for us, and I've always been thrilled to come back.

Every year the format has changed slightly, though some events remain constant and people look forward to them each festival. The Friday Renegade show for instance, is a beautiful chance for our community to showcase itself. Earlier in the evening we see children performing, there's busking acts, people showing things they've learned in the past year, and as the evening progresses the show can veer a little more risque-

A message from Xanthe Naylor – Circulation Festival

Circulation is a Dunedin based circus festival that takes place over 4 days in November. It's jammed packed with workshops, play times, music, dance, delicious food, laughter and FIRE!

The festival has been running for over 10 years and the team heading Circulation has changed many times since the beginning. Currently Circulation Community Inc. is run by Xanthe Naylor, Kier Russell, Tania Bracey Brown and Josh Smith.
This year the team has also taken on the Wellington based festival Under the Spinfluence as the previous crew needed to move on from the event. We hope to bring together the two festivals by sharing resources, performers and crew.
 

The grand scheme is to connect the two festivals via a circus tour up the country to help support the performers who are coming to both festivals. Circulation is on the 8-12th of November, Under the Spinfluence is held on the 14-17th of December. We plan to tour from Dunedin to Wellington over several weeks, stopping in Wanaka, Christchurch, Nelson and places in-between for shows, busking and workshops. We hope to have several international performers join us on the tour, as well as many New Zealand performers.

Circulation Community Inc. will be ready for applications around about mid-March and will be actively starting to put out feelers for performers, workshop teachers and volunteers.

If this interests you, then stay in the loop through the Circulation Online Community or email xanthe@circulation.co.nz.