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 with "fritids"
Cirkus Unik wants to help make Gothenburg a slightly more equal city. Children from vulnerable areas do not have access to recreational activities for various reasons. See below our survey report on availability of leisure activities in ten different areas of Gothenburg.
In schools, we offer the circus as a meaningful activity that increases children’s self-esteem and group belonging. Circus is a mix of culture and sport that has effective results on both physical and mental health. It enables a Unique and personal treatment of every child where we pay attention to their constant development and help them to constantly challenge themselves, each at their own pace.
We have developed our own method for measuring the group’s development in Respect, Concentration, Self-esteem, Collaboration and Equality – The Value Wheel.
We are currently seeking funding for these groups.
Meeting place
Gothenburg is a fantastic and unique city with incredible cultural diversity, which is used poorly. When it is difficult for people to meet, understanding decreases and prejudice increases. That’s exactly what Cirkus Unik wants to counteract in different ways.
Our method is based on creating a platform where children and parents from different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds can meet. Cirkus Unik teaches children both in the suburbs and downtown. We believe that integration is not just about including the children from the suburbs to the center, but also to include the children from the center with “their whole” city.
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 boy who struggles with his unconscious feelings and thoughts and low self-esteem. During the performance, he discovers that he can begin to control both thoughts and emotions.
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.
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!
Circus Relay
Autumn 2017- Spring 2019
Cirkus Unik’s exciting initiative together with Skapande Skola was being developed during one school year at school hours in five selected schools from districts with different backgrounds. The project was perceived as a tripod:
- A class in grade 4 is given the opportunity to learn eight circus techniques during five lessons.
2. The process is filmed and the film provides inspiration for the next school, hence the name Circus Relay.
3. The sports teachers collaborate with the circus educators and gain knowledge of Cirkus Unik’s various theoretical and practical tools to stimulate group cooperation without competition.
All the children met at the end of the spring semester for the Big Closing Event, where they were introduced to the film from the project, had a snack with students from the other schools and were presented with a Cirkus Unik show.
Partners
Västra Götaland Region
the Gothenburg Opera
Kulturskolan
Jämlikt Göteborg
World Culture Museum
Skapande Skola
