The Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain, a non-profit organisation run by a 2.5 employees and a huge team of dedicated volunteers, has been running for 40 years. Since 1977, our mission has been to give exceptional young circus artists the opportunity to show off their skills in front of circus enthusiasts and professionals who all come together in Paris once a year for this unique occasion.

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For the last two years, the Festival has provided a space for presentations on social circus activities as part of the conferences organised by its Club PRO. After hearing the passionate and touching stories of those working in social circus around the world, we wanted to contribute in our own way to the development of exchanges and partnerships between artists and social circus structures.

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In order to accomplish this goal of supporting the social circus community, the Festival entered into collaboration with various partners around the world:

Cirque du Monde

Cirque du Monde is a Cirque du Soleil program that promotes circus arts as a means of intervention with at-risk youth, an approach known as social circus. Cirque du Monde focuses its actions on training for practitioners, support for social circus organizations and advocacy on the benefits of social circus.

ENC - Ecole National des Arts du Cirque de Montréal

International in scope, the École nationale de cirque (National Circus School) is a higher-education institution for the arts providing programs at the high school and post-secondary levels. It is dedicated to the education and training of professional circus artists, as well as to research and innovation in the circus arts and their pedagogy.

Caravan European Youth and Social Circus Network

The international association 'CARAVAN' gathers 23 youth and social circus schools and organisations, coming from Europe, the Middle East, Asia and America. Its objective is to promote circus practices in youth education around the world and to favour their development, through concrete actions such as youth exchanges and training for trainers.

And with various social circuses:

Zip Zap Circus School (South Africa)

Viktor Kee Foundation (Ukraine)

Sorin Sirkus (Finland)

Mobile Mini Circus for Children (Afghanistan)

Her Yerde Sanat Dernegi (Turkey)

Circo del Mundo (Chile)

Circo del Sur (Argentina)