New circus centre opens in Brisbane

The Brisbane Circus Centre offers Flipside Circus a new home from which to train the next generation of circus artists.
A bright orange building constructed from multiple shipping containers.

The Brisbane Circus Centre, the new home of youth company Flipside Circus, has officially opened its doors. 

‘The Centre combines form and function, design and utility, to create an iconic building that is uniquely circus … it is a modern industrial circus sculpture that our artists can climb, jump and swing from,’ he explains.

‘It’s such a beautiful space that they’ve created there, certainly with the theatre space and then the training space – so much height for aerials, so many different kinds of facilities within the space itself,’ he tells ArtsHub.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former 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