Circus Center
For General Operating Support
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Amount$100,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/24/2017
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Circus Center spreads the joy of circus arts through performance, training, and outreach programs. The organization’s core programming includes a full season of professional and student productions, a wide array of adult recreational classes, pre-professional circus training for youth, and professional training for clowns, physical comedians, and contortionists. Annually, Circus Center draws more than 35,000 people to its facility to experience its education and performance activities, which include regular cabarets showcasing local circus talent. A renewal grant to Circus Center will support efforts to maintain its core programmatic offerings, expand and deepen its circus outreach programs, and build robust contributed income streams.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.circuscenter.org
Address
755 Frederick Street, San Francisco, CA, 94117-2755, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Circus Center was founded by the iconic Pickle Family Circus in 1984, and has established itself as a pillar in circus arts training on the West Coast, with instruction from an international roster of teachers in acrobatics, trapeze, aerial arts, clowning, and juggling for professional and pre-professional performers. Circus Center presents free performances throughout the year at its uniquely suited facility—constructed in 1929 as the boy’s gym of Polytechnic High School, across the street from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park—featuring students, instructors, and community members. Circus Center’s youth camps foster health and discipline through circus arts traditions, and the organization intends to launch a cabaret series to showcase and foster the careers of adult performers. A grant to Circus Center will support its efforts to build operational capacity, increase enrollment, and extend scholarship opportunities for youth.
