Vulcana Circus is a community arts organization, providing creative spaces for women, trans and non-binary people, diverse communities, and young people of all gender expressions. Central to our work is diversity and the feminist principles of equity and inclusion-the starting points for engagement with students, participants, communities and artists.

Our mission is to create a space for transformation.

Vulcana prioritises diverse storytelling, actively creating cross-cultural exchanges, and playing across artforms and influences to inform and enrich that storytelling. Across all our performance work we aim to represent diverse bodies, abilities and creative responses. With this focus Vulcana creates circus and movement-based performance that reflects local realities and expertise and provides performance-making experiences to a broad range of participants and audiences. Vulcana combines the visceral and abstract nature of circus and movement with the perspectives and stories of performers and participants to create unique performance works. Circus is Vulcana’s backbone and provides a potential framework for expansive physical exploration, but bodies and how they move and interact is our inclusive practice.

Vulcana creates performance in collaboration with new and emerging artists. It does this in partnership with community groups and/ or artists working in other artforms, to create exchanges that impact the outcomes as well as the experience for participants of sharing and learning from others’ experiences, cultural realities and creative responses. Vulcana introduces communities to each other, changes perspectives, places importance on different bodies and stories and creates spaces for transformation. Vulcana creates pathways for all participants, students, new and emerging artists to nurture creativity through projects, workshops, incubators, mentorships, presentation opportunities and residencies.