Cost: $125/ticket, $1125/table of 10 (includes 3 course meal by Vibrant Table)
Location/Time: Kridel Ballroom, Portland Art Museum, 7pm
Tickets: Click here for INDIVIDUAL TICKETS, Click here for TABLE TICKETS (dinner-show). Click here for show-only tickets
NOTE: Early reservations encouraged.
We expect to sell out.
Circus Project Community Showcase: December 1, 2011
The Circus Project Community Showcase is the culmination of the Circus
Project's yearlong performance workshop in circus and theatre arts for
homeless and at-risk youth. The showcase features performances by
members of the 2011 Intensive Training Company, along with special guest
artists. The performance will open with a brief discussion of the show's
creation process and will conclude with a question/answer session with
performers. Sliding scale ticket prices ensure equal accessibility to audience
members regardless of economic status.
Cost: $5 - $15. For information about eligibility for Arts for All tickets,
please click here
Location/Time: Kridel Ballroom, Portland Art Museum, 6:30pm
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/194629
SOLD OUT
Indulge: December 3, 2010
Revel in the forbidden pleasures of the Seven Deadly Sins, and all for a good cause! Indulge your palate with a sumptuous four-course feast courtesy of the Adrianna Hill Grand Ballroom. Delight your senses with the musical theatricality of Vagabond Opera. And stir your imagination with the breathtaking aerial artistry of the Circus Project’s Training Company and Night Flight Aerial. A live and silent auction will augment the evening with products and services from local businesses. Directed by Jenn Cohen and Mizu Desierto, “INDULGE,” takes place one night only: Friday, December 3, at the Adrianna Hill Grand Ballroom, 918 SW Yahmill St (at SW 9th), on the second floor. Doors/silent auction: 7pm, dinner/show: 8pm.
Cirque des Courageuses: October 9, 2010
Celebrate the triumph of the human spirit! Join Bradley Angle and internationally acclaimed artists from The Circus Project for "Cirque des Courageuses" — an enchanting evening of aerial arts, acrobatics, music & laughter to benefit survivors of domestic and sexual violence. The show features Circus Project Performance Troupe artists Shersten Finley, Angela Kim, Gemma Adams and Stephanie Marval Lopes (Night Flight Aerial), Meg Russel, Brittany Walsh, Tera Nova Zarra, the Circus Project Band, as well as the premiere of the Circus Project's new aerial apparatus!
Cost: $40
Location: Dolores Winningstad Theatre at the Portland Center for Performing Arts,
1111 Southwest Broadway
Tickets: (503) 232-1528 or bradleyangle.ejoinme.org
WVDO Crystal Awards Breakfast: May 21, 2010
Circus Project Performance Troupe artist Nicolo Kehrwald will perform his hand balancing act at the Crystal Awards Breakfast.
The 17th Annual Awards Celebration, created by Willamette Valley Development Officers members, will kick off the second day of the WVDO Conference. The Crystal Awards Breakfast has a three-fold purpose: recognition, celebration and inspiration. The Awards publicly acknowledge fund raising professionals at all levels of experience and create pride in the profession. The 17th Crystal Awards will host development professionals representing more than 350 non-profit organizations as well as community leaders from the philanthropic and corporate sectors and recognize outstanding individuals in the field of fund development.
Cost: $35 WVDO members, $50 non-members
Location: Lloyd Center Doubletree Hotel Portland
Tickets: www.wvdo2010.org
P:earBlossoms 2010, "Light": (a fundraiser for P:ear):
Saturday, May 22, 2010
The Circus Project Training Company and Performance Troupe artist Petra Delarocha will entertain audiences at P:ear’s 8th annual fundraiser, celebrating another year of trusting relationships with Portland’s homeless and transitional youth. Through education, art, recreation, job, housing, muraling and mentoring programs, these young people are learning to grow and thrive in our community. You’ll experience abundant food, local wine and champagne, and an extensive 100+ silent auction! Performers include: Adam Shearer, Weinland, Johna Wells, The Good Time Girls, and the Circus Project.
Cost: $100/ticket, $1000/table.
Location: Luxe Autohaus, 410 NE 17th, Portland.
Tickets: www.pearmentor.org
Circus Artemis: Friday, May 21, Saturday, May 22 (2 shows),
Sunday May 23 (2 shows), 2010
Circus Project director, Jenn Cohen will perform her solo, single-point cloud swing act, in Portland’s all-women circus, Circus Artemis. Taking a cue from a legendary “strong woman,” Portland’s most powerful, most talented female circus artists have united under a common goal. Their mission? To blow audiences away with amazing feats of strength, skill and beauty. Circus Artemis combines outstanding performance with an empowering opportunity for Portland’s women to take to the stage. In October 2009 we presented three amazing sold out family-friendly shows which left audience members inspired, dazzled, electrified, and demanding more!
Cost: ADULTS $15 in advance, KIDS under 12 pay their age, $20 Reserved chair seating $20 at the door.
Location: Staver Locomotive Warehouse, 2573 NW 29th Avenue, Portland.
Tickets: www.eventbrite.com or (888) 541-9753
Portland Rose Festival: May 28, 29, 30 and June 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, Fridays: 6pm & 9pm,
Saturdays: 6pm & 9pm,
Sundays: 6pm
(weather permitting)
The Circus Project will be premiering our new show, Duende, for three weekends in a row at the waterfront village during the Portland Rose Festival. Duende features: Night Flight's Gemma Adams and Stephanie Marvel Lopes, Shersten Finley, Circus Project director Jenn Cohen, the Circus Project Intensive Training Company (Kyle Hunt, Blythe Olson, Nelda Reyes, Meg Russel), and live music from the amazing Circus Project band (Nathaniel Holder, Diana Rowey, Blythe Olson, Gerardo Calderon, Paul Engler, Sylvia Hackathorn, and Walker Janelle) with costumes by Mizu Desierto.
Cost: $5
Location: Waterfront Village
Tickets: rosefestival.org or at the door
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November, 2009: The Circus Project is featured in the 2009 Willamette Week Give Guide, as one of 79 Oregon nonprofits you should support! Please consider donating to us through the Give Guide. Just $25 buys a week’s worth of healthy food for the homeless youth who participate in our free drop-in classes. $500 covers 40 hours of training for a youth in need in our Intensive Training Program. In addition to providing at-risk youth with unique programming and career training, the Willamette Week is offering some great incentives to encourage donations! You can track our progress online at http://giveguide.oaktree.com/Welcome.aspx. To donate, please click on the link below, then find us under “youth”!
November, 2009: Circus Project director Jenn Cohen was chosen as runner-up for the prestigious Skidmore Prize, which recognizes individuals 35 and under for their extraordinary achievement in the nonprofit sector. Click on the link below for more information and to read the Willamette Week’s write-up on The Circus Project.
November 18, 2009: The Circus Project will be the highlighted act at The Northwest Business Council for the Arts: Arts Breakfast of Champions, which combines recognition and performances to celebrate those businesses who have shown extraordinary commitment to the arts in our community at the Portland Art Museum Kridel Ballroom. Register now at: http://www.nwbca.org/content.cfm/PROGRAMS/Arts-Breakfast-of-Champions
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October, 2009: Circus Project artistic/executive director Jenn Cohen was chosen as runner up for the 2009 Skidmore Prize. As a result, The Circus Project will be featured in the 2009 Willamette Give Guide!
September, 2009: The Circus Project’s second benefit show, “Animare.” The show was a huge success. We were completely sold out, met our fundraising goal, and got rave reviews (which can be viewed on our media page).
