Custom-built circus centre to open in Brisbane in 2021

Flipside’s uniquely designed new building will be a home for community and social circus training while also accessible to the broader circus sector.

4 Aug 2020 12:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Training in progress at Flipside Circus. Image supplied.

A custom-built circus training centre, operated by Queensland’s largest youth arts organisation Flipside Circus, is set to open in Brisbane next year.

The new space will be an important addition to the city’s thriving circus ecology, said Robert Kronk, CEO and Creative Director of Flipside Circus.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts