Social Projects
Do you work to build a more inclusive and equitable city ?! We too!
Culture and sports is a wonderful combination, and in addition, Cirkus Unik has developed various services to reach those who need us most or the city’s most vulnerable children. We have five different concepts that we offer. Feel free to contact us and we will adapt the concept to your business!

CIRCUS FOR MENTAL HEALTH
Our performances always have important and relevant messages for children and young people and want to inspire them to dare to be themselves and dream.
Cirkus Unik is now creating a new exciting performance that will be shown in middle schools selected in consultation with the Student Health Team in Gothenburg and the Västra Götaland region.
The theater, music and circus performance, Monster, is about a child who struggles with his unconscious feelings and thoughts and low self-esteem. During the performance, he discovers himself and becomes friends with his thoughts and feelings
Two artists on stage, an exciting innovative structure with a rope and a new aerial acrobatics act give a new aesthetic expression to the performance.
The show is interactive and the children can express their reflections on the show and have the opportunity to think about their own “monsters”.
Follow-up with students takes place in groups and individually with expression in poetry, image or sculpture in close collaboration with the Student Health Team and teachers.
Competence Development with Kulturskolan
One project under development is Competence Development, a pedagogical complementary education program in 2021 and 2022 for dance-, drama-and circus educators within the Kulturskolan in the Västra Götaland region.
The idea for the project started after Kulturskolan expressed a desire to take part in our pedagogy and methodology to use in their own activities.
Our inclusive circus pedagogy increases children’s self-esteem and group belonging and has effective results on both physical and mental health. With our complementary education program, we look forward to recruiting new ambassadors for our pedagogy and in this way reach even more children in Gothenburg and in the region.
Through theory and workshops on three occasions during a semester Cirkus Unik wants to offer inspiration, tools and reflections to contribute to pedagogical development. Our workshop is led by some of Cirkus Unik’s educators / artists.
Skills development is a three-year project (2020-22) funded by the Västra Götaland region, Cultural Strategic Development Support (KSU) which aims to increase knowledge within circus in the region.
Functional Variations
Cirkus Unik works in a Gothenburg school with children with functional variations. We have seen the children make tremendous progress in just a few lessons with increased self-esteem and better group collaboration as a result and both school management and parents are asking for continued cooperation.
These children find it very difficult to attend regular sports education. Complicated rules and lengthy reviews are difficult and do not often lead to feelings of exclusion and to conflicts. Contemporary circus for them means a new and freer training. Contemporary circus with its universal language means a great relief for children with language difficulties.
In the circus you do not compete with others; each child develops at his own pace with joy and with just himself as a yardstick. All children are unique!

Partners

Kulturrådet- the Culture Council

Västra Götaland Region

the Gothenburg Opera

Kulturskolan

Jämlikt Göteborg

World Culture Museum
