We’re incredibly grateful to share that been awarded an Arts Council Project Funding to bring our next circus show ‘Flight’ to life!
FLIGHT
Flight is Skylight Circus Arts new circus and aerial performance that weaves together physical circus artistry with powerful storytelling, co-created with Spotlight, our young, passionate and creative performers.
Show Dates: Friday 24th and Saturday 25th April 2026
Venue: Skylight Circus Arts
We started conversations around the show idea with Spotlight. last year. They shared their feelings about the world, how people matter, animals matter, our environment matters and how we find our belonging matters. We we’re particularly inspired by the movement of birds, migrating and overcoming barriers, the ever changing environment and the enormous journeys they face, we wanted to use this as inspiration to share stories with circus arts.
Birds travel huge distances, move together in flocks and follow invisible paths across the world. We are using this idea to explore human journeys, how people grow, change and search for where they belong.
The show will be created by all of us together. Through circus and aerial, movement, music and sound, we will explore different moments in that journey.
Just like birds learning to fly, the show is about discovering strength, trusting yourself and finding your direction.
Thank You, Arts Council England
We’re enormously grateful to Arts Council England for believing in this project and in the transformative power of circus arts. This grant is a recognition not just of ‘Flight’, but of every young person who has ever walked through our doors and discovered what their body and their imagination is capable of, and realised that they do indeed matter.
To the young performers who will make Flight happen: this is for you. You are all individually extraordinary and together you create the most incredible things.
Stay close, we’re only a tiny team but we’re proud, excited and brimming with creativity so will be sharing updates, behind-the-scenes moments, and all the excitement as ‘Flight’ takes shape. Follow us on our socials and sign up to our newsletter so you don’t miss a thing.
