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Fighting back, the survival of the National Circus Festival

Last held in the Mullumbimby showgrounds in 2017, the National Circus Festival is making a welcome return after a five-year absence.

14 Sep 2022 9:00

Suzannah Conway

Children playing in a tent - The Globe - for Circus Festival

Performing Arts

The Globe will be presented at the National Circus Festival. Image supplied.

Cancelled due to Covid in 2020, then again in 2021 just as the final program was going to print, the National Circus Festival (NCF) subsequently had its festival site flooded not once, but twice, in February 2022.

‘The benefit of the Covid cancellations was the ability to apply for RISE funding in 2021, which we were able to roll over to this year. We now have more artists supported and a larger program which is really exciting.‘

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Suzannah Conway

Suzannah Conway is an experienced arts administrator, having been CEO of Opera Queensland, the Brisbane Riverfestival and the Centenary of Federation celebrations for Queensland. She is a freelance arts writer and has been writing reviews and articles for over 20 years, regularly reviewing classical music, opera and musical theatre in particular for The Australian and Limelight magazine as well as other journals. Most recently she was Arts Hub's Brisbane-based Arts Feature Writer.