Bring the circus to your event!
Circus can be a show, a workshop, a way to bring people together, or something we haven't created yet.
Fern Street Circus brings vibrant, welcoming circus experiences to festivals, schools, community gatherings, corporate events, public spaces, and special celebrations throughout San Diego.
Whether you are looking for one memorable character, roaming performers, an interactive workshop, or a complete circus show, we can help create an experience that fits your event, audience, and space.
Choose Your Circus Experience
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Bring the excitement of a live circus show to your community or event. Our performances can range from a circus showcase (20-30 minutes) to a full ensemble production (45-60 minutes) featuring a combination of acrobatics, juggling, clowning, balance, aerial arts, music, and physical comedy.
Shows can be adapted for indoor or outdoor spaces and audiences of different sizes.
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Our roaming artists bring energy and surprise directly into your event. Performers can welcome guests, move throughout a festival, interact with audiences, or help transform an ordinary space into something playful and unexpected.
Depending on the event and artist availability, bookings may include:
Stilt walkers
Clowns and physical comedy characters
Jugglers
Acrobats
Musicians
Puppetry and interactive characters
Specialty circus artists (chair balancing, tightwire, Cyr wheel, foot juggling, lollipop/lyra)
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Invite your guests, students, or community members to experience circus for themselves.
Our teaching artists offer engaging workshops in juggling, clowning, movement, acrobatics, balance, physical theater, and creative play. Workshops can be designed for children, teens, adults, families, educators, or mixed-age community groups.
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Bring circus into the school day through a multi-week residency designed around movement, creativity, confidence, and connection.
Fern Street Circus teaching artists work with students over several sessions, giving them time to build skills, take creative risks, collaborate with classmates, and experience the social-emotional benefits of circus.
Residencies can include a mix of:
Juggling and object manipulation
Acrobatics and balance
Clowning and physical theater
Creative movement and ensemble work
Confidence-building and cooperative games
Student-created performance material
Programs can be adapted for elementary, middle, or high school students and designed to fit the goals, schedule, space, and needs of each school. Our approach is rooted in social circus: the circus skills are important, but so are persistence, teamwork, creative expression, belonging, and learning how to try again after something does not work.
Residencies may culminate in a student sharing or performance, or remain focused on process, exploration, and skill-building.
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Bring a different kind of professional development experience to your workplace.
Fern Street Circus offers interactive experiences that use social circus, clowning, movement, and physical theater to help teams strengthen communication, confidence, creativity, adaptability, and trust.
Participants are invited to step outside their usual roles, take manageable risks, work through failure, and reconnect through play. The goal is not to teach people how to become circus performers. It is to create an environment where people can listen differently, collaborate more openly, and become more comfortable with uncertainty.
Sessions can be designed around areas such as:
Team connection and trust
Creative problem-solving
Communication and active listening
Confidence and presence
Leadership and collaboration
Adaptability and working through failure
Play, laughter, and workplace well-being
Supporting multilingual and culturally diverse teams
Sessions can be adapted for nonprofit staff, educators, healthcare workers, community organizations, leadership teams, conferences, and corporate groups.
No circus experience or special physical ability is required. Activities can be adjusted to meet the access needs, comfort levels, and goals of each group.
Programs may be offered as short conference activations, standalone workshops or longer professional development sessions.
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Have an unusual space, theme, or idea? We enjoy creating original performances and interactive experiences for parks, museums, airports, cultural celebrations, neighborhood events, and other public settings.
We can collaborate with you to develop a circus experience that responds to your location, community, and goals.
Events We Serve
Fern Street Circus can be booked for:
Community festivals and neighborhood celebrations
Schools, colleges and libraries
City and county events
Museums and cultural organizations
Nonprofit fundraisers and galas
Corporate gatherings and conferences
Family and private celebrations
Parades and public-space activations
Artist residencies and community engagement projects
Why Fern Street Circus?
We are a social circus organization. We use circus not only to entertain, but to create connection, confidence, creativity, and belonging. Whether we're performing for hundreds of people, teaching a school residency, or working with a professional team, we bring the same approach: high-quality circus, warmth, humor, participation, and genuine human connection.
We are experienced in adapting to unconventional locations and working closely with community partners. From a single roaming artist to a large outdoor production, we approach each booking with creativity, professionalism, and care.
When you book Fern Street Circus, you also help support our nonprofit mission and free circus programs for young people and families in San Diego.
How Booking Works
Tell us about your event using the inquiry form below. Once we receive your information, a member of our team will contact you to discuss your vision, answer questions, and recommend an option based on your audience, location, and budget.
Please include:
Event date and time
Location
Type of event
Estimated attendance and audience ages
Indoor or outdoor setting
Performance, workshop, or entertainment needs
Approximate budget
Any theme, accessibility needs, or special considerations
Every event is different. Sharing as much information as possible will help us create an accurate proposal.
Let’s Create Something Memorable
Tell us about your event, and let’s explore what Fern Street Circus can bring to it.