Yes it's rocket science! Touring again in 2009!, Space Circus is a touring show for Yorkshire schools which looks at all aspects of outer-space exploration: both real and imagined.

In 2007/08 Space Circus toured 36 schools and performed Space Circus 130 times to over 3000 pupils.

Partners in Innovation, West Yorkshire, an organisation that exists to enliven the teaching and learning of STEM subjects – Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, has commissioned Chol to create a learning engagement tool using drama to enrich young people’s understanding of the science of space.

Set in 3 inflatable artist-designed pods, the story takes place in a lunar hotel, in a space craft and on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Space Circus takes on technology and the stars; poetry and astrophysics, aliens and alienation; maths, myths and magic and will take young people on an unforgettable mission that asks: what’s it really like to be a scientist and asks, are we really alone?

Space Circus is set to re-launch in June 2009 for a brand new tour of Yorkshire schools so steady your jet packs and watch out for the Space Circus team docking at a school near you!

For more details contact Susan Burns on 01484 536008 or Jon Wormald of Partners in Innovation on 01274 841346

Space Circus Company:

Writers- Cathianne Hall, Conor S. Ibrahiem, Michael Stewart, Anna Zaluczkowska
Director- Andrew Loretto
Producer- Susan Burns
Tour Managers- Sue Tongue and David Chadwick
Set and Costume Design- Lisa Ducie and Kevin Freeman, Renaissance Creative Design www.renaissancecreativedesign.com
Pod Construction- Lisa Gort and Jamima Latimer, Space Cadets
www.spacecadets.com
Sound Design- Jason Singh
Video Design- Pete Hamilton and Dave Lynch
Photography- Amanda Crowther

www.spacecircus.org