Resources

  • Directors' skills / SPEAK OUT

    SPEAK OUT Podcast - Considering Equity & Integrity in Circus Education

    This podcast was recorded during our roundtable at the Biennale Internationale des Arts du Cirque (BIAC) in January 2023, in Marseille (FRA).

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  • Directors' skills / SPEAK OUT

    SPEAK OUT Training 1 : Gender Equality

    Our first SPEAK OUT training will take place in January, during the Biennale Internationale des Arts du Cirque in Marseille, France. 

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  • Resources / Equality & Integrity

    SPEAK OUT, our new EU project to prevent discrimination and gender-based violence 📢

    We are happy to announce that the SPEAK OUT project (2023-2024) has been selected by the European commission and will officially start in January 2023 🎉

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  • Resources / Equality & Integrity

    For a public communication without gender stereotypes - A practical guide

    This guide aims to give instructions for adopting what is called gender-neutral institutional communication, which concerns several areas of expression (language, images, group composition, etc.), following its approach of integrating equality into all public tools and policies.

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  • News / Sector news

    Taking risks. Taking care. Health, an issue in the careers of circus artists

    Research report by Agathe Dumont, 2022.

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  • Resources / Equality & Integrity

    Support to Balance Ton Cirque

    We express our support to @balancetoncirque, a collective that fights abusive conduct in the circus sector. 

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  • Resources / Equality & Integrity

    What can we, in the circus world, learn from the #MeToo movement?

    Article by Els Van Steenberghe published in Circusmagazine #69 (Dec. 2021)

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  • Resources / Equality & Integrity

    Gender and power relations - SHIFT project (2021)

    Research-informed recommendations for network organisations on combating sexual harassment and power abuse in the European cultural sector.

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  • Resources / Circus sector resources

    "We protect animals well” - A structural approach to abusive conduct within circus schools

    This master thesis studies abusive behavior within circus schools - 2021.

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  • Resources / Equality & Integrity

    FEDEC statement on abusive conducts in circus schools

    Reports of abusive conduct within circus schools reveal gaps between understanding and implementing the behavioural guidelines in the Charter of Ethics and Deontology and in FEDEC Code of Conduct - 2021

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