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WORLD CIRCUS DAY 2025!

Presented by Roscommon Arts Office in association with
Motion Chapel Ireland & Castlerea Rose Festival!

Despite the rain, the crowds persevered and enjoyed a range of circus performances. Check out some of this year's photos below.

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🎪🌟 ROLL UP, ROLL UP! 🌟🎪 

Get ready for an afternoon of fun, laughter & jaw-dropping circus performances at Roscommon World Circus Day! ✨

📅 Date: Saturday, 19th April 2025

⏰ Time: 2PM - 5PM

📍 Location: Somers Park, Castlerea

🎟 FREE ENTRY!

Join us for an incredible line-up featuring: 🎪 The Crazy Circus Show 🤹 Hoops, Juggling, Stilts & Aerial Acts 🪑 Sadbh Grehan Chair Acrobatics 🎭 Symmetry Circus 👨 Jake Fairbrother Ropes 🤸‍♂️ Washington Trapeze Act 😂 Sillyknees 🌀 Iryna Skakun Hoops 🤹‍♀️ Galway Community Circus … and much, much more! Expect workshops, music, food, face painting, balloons, and a whole lot of circus magic! 🎈🎵

Above images: Symmetry Circus who performed at World Circus Day 2025!

Image above: Isabella - Washington Trapeze Act

World Circus Day 2024!

 Presented by Roscommon Arts Office in association with Motion Chapel and Promenade

2 - 6pm, Saturday 20 April at Somers Park, Castlerea
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An event organised by the Arts Office at Somers Park Castlerea on 20th April to celebrate World Circus Day for the first time in County Roscommon, as part of a wider project POP - Planning for Outdoor Performance.

A crowd of approx. 2000 attended on a gloriously sunny day between 2 and 6pm where they were entertained by aerial, acrobatic and circus performances and workshops as well as live music and a very busy ice cream van! 

This event will take place again on 19th April next year and we will again think big and think fun thanks to the support of the Arts Council of Ireland.

2024 Line Up

Circus Workshops:

Join Galway Community Circus to try out some exciting circus skills including juggling, hula hoop, and tightwire. Their tutors will help you to discover skills you never knew you had! Suitable for all abilities and fitness levels and no experience necessary.  

Images above L-R: Galway-Community-Circus-Family-Plate-Spinning-New-Horizon-partnership; Galway-Community-Circus-8-11yrs-Photo-by-Anita-Murphy.

Image Above: Jacob Juggling

Circus shows:

Síolta Circus

On Tish by Síolta Circus is a 30 minute explosive acrobatic show for all ages. A small eccentric tribe of noisy, boisterous beings are on the hunt for food, shelter and a bit of craic!

Cirkado Circus

Cirkada by acrobatic duo Cirkado Circus is a hilarious and heart-warming 30 minute show about companionship and all its ups and downs!

Jenny Tufts

I Dance to Become Enormous by Jenny Tufts performs on a 3-meter-tall spiraling steel structure in a dizzying display of power, surrender, and physics-defying partnership.

Freddy Burrows

A Lovely Day for it is a seaside aerial performance by Freddy Burrows specialising in floor acrobatics and aerial straps.

Juanita the Cleaner

Walkabouts include Juanita the Cleaner by Europe’s leading female clown Angelica Santander who tackles plastic pollution with dance, climate saving circus and several bin loads of humour.

With live music from Ballaghaderreen Ukulele Group and more!