Your March Cork Circus Guide by Circus Factory Cork is here!
Check out this months workshops in Beginner Aerial Silks, Act Creation, and Flying Pole Taster. We’re also running an Aerial Intensive at the end of March.
Reminder: classes on Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th of March have been moved to Monday 30th and Tuesday 31st of March due to the St Patricks Day Bank Holiday.
What you’ll find in this guide:
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Circus in Cork in March
Adult Workshops
Aerial Silks for Beginner | Cocoon
March 8th | 2PM – 4PM
This is for anyone who dreamed of trying aerial for the first time or just wants to dangle in the air. We will create a supportive workshop for anyone who would like to try aerial for the first time. The workshop will be a creative workshop where we will look a fun movement warm ups and bringing this movement to the air.
Intro To Flying Pole – Sold Out!
March 15th | 5PM – 7PM
Introduction to Flying Pole for beginners: flying pole is a discipline merging pole dance moves with the dynamism of aerial dance. The workshop will present different grip and climb styles, upright and inversion moves, and how to start a spin from the ground.
Creative Intensive Series | Act Creation
March 22nd | 1.30PM – 4.30PM
Learn different methods and techniques so that you can start to create your circus act
Discover what you want to share with the audience, whether it’s feelings & emotions, music-driven, or character-based. We will approach different ways you can make an act.
Looking at how to create structure, tips for unblocking & finding your own personal unique style.
Rope ‘N’ Rolls | Aerial Intensive
March 28th – 29th | 1.30PM – 4.30PM
Circus Factory Cork is delighted to host an aerial intensive focusing on Rope, Silks, and Straps with Gianluca Gerlando Gentiluomo. The aerial intensive will take place over two days, with day one focusing on silks and rope, and day two holding a straps workshop.
For Youth
Youth Classes on Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th have been moved to the 30th and 31st respectively due to the St Patricks Day Bank Holiday
Circus Events in Cork
For Families
World Peace Festival by UCC Global Justice Society
Circus Residencies in Cork
Image credits: Paul Blakemore photography (JATEOTW) – Volt Circus City 2023
Circus Factory Cork Residency | Poppy Emer Greenford / Bumble Movement Arts
Poppy Emer Greenford is a circus artist & director based in West Cork. Her work weaves together threads of circus, storytelling and ecology. With a passion for devising and developing creation methodologies, she takes big ideas and turns them into bite-size chunks of re-imagining for her audiences to consume.
The week will be used for residency and rehearsals to complete the creation of a performance project which has been in creation for the past three years. We have our first full length theatre performance coming up and the show still needs to be made, so this would be a welcomed focus week of much needed private rehearsal space. I would work alongside a technician for part of the process as they will be supporting the performance at the Mermaid Arts Centre in Wicklow in March.
Our tutors, coaches, members, and artists will be participating in St Patricks Day festivities around Cork!
Circus Around Ireland
Image credits: Paul Blakemore photography (JATEOTW) – Volt Circus City 2023
Juggling at the Edge of the World
Wicklow: Mermaid Arts Centre
March 18th | 8pm
Tickets: €18 (Full Price) | €16 (Concession Price)
Suitable for 16+yrs
Juggling at the Edge of the World brings audiences to a poetic performance world that invites reflection and reimagining. Through games of discovery, within the cracks and crevices. Puzzling together meaning with a judicious collection of fragments and everyday moments. Physical storytelling through an eco-feminist lens.
Poppy Emer Greenford is a circus artist & director from West Cork. Her work weaves together threads of circus, storytelling and ecology. With a passion for devising and developing creation methodologies, she takes big ideas and turns them into bite-size chunks of re-imagining for her audiences to consume.
Tom Duffy’s Circus
Athlone | 4th March – 8th March
We’re proud to be one of the world’s oldest and most successful Circuses, and this year we have a performance full of high-flying acrobats, death-defying Stunt Performers, Clowns, Ariel Artists, Jugglers, Dancers and much more. We have brought back some old favourites, along with new exciting acts in this years show. A cast of over 25 performers, from all over the world promises thrills, excitement, laughter, and an afternoon or evening of pure family entertainment.
Tom Duffy's Circus
Daredevil Circus
Bray, Wicklow | 12th March – 22nd March
Circus Gerbola
Castlebar – Opp. Milebush Park | 11th March – 17th March
Ballina – Mart Grounds | 19th March – 22nd March
In our 2026 show, we are delighted to present top Circus acts such including the legendary Flying Trapeze, High Wire, Globe of Death and much more. The show lasts for approx. 2 hours including a short interval.
Circus Gerbola
Circus Coming in April
‘Stacked’ Creative Partner Acrobatics Workshop
April 18th – 19th | 2PM – 6PM
Join us on World Circus Day for a workshop in Creative Partner Acrobatics with Lily & Janick (Lily Schlinker & Janick Kremer) at Circus Factory Cork!
In this workshop, Lily and Janick will share their methods on creating movement material, based on the interplay of weight-sharing, the use of different grips, carrying techniques and improvisation.
This workshop is for those with some partner acrobatics experience and is ideal to do as a pair. If you don’t have a partner, you can be teamed with someone on the day.
February Circus Highlights
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Photo by David Hegarty
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