The publications of the Effective Circus project online and Social Circus actions on a map
The final publications of the Effective Circus project "They're smiling from ear to ear" - Wellbeing Effects from Social Circus and A Guide to the Study of the Wellbeing Effects of Circus were published in the Culture Has an Impact! seminar on December 13th 2013.
The publications are online both in Finnish and in English at Effective Circus project website.
You can order the printed publications from the Effective Circus project via e-mail katri.kekalainen(a)uta.fi.
In the same seminar, Cirque du Soleil published their mapping collecting the organizations, research projects and training. Find the map on cirquedusoleil.com/socialcircusmap.
The goal for The Effective Circus Project is to increase the employment on circus field by improving the circus organizations´ prerequisites for acting as the employers of the professionals of social and applied circus. The project organizes social circus lessons in various communities in Finland, advances the methods for researching the wellbeing effects of circus, sells workshops promoting wellbeing at workplaces and organizes work seminars for commercialising the wellbeing services with the circuses and the communities. The project also co-operates internationally.
