ELEVATE CIRCUS
WORKSHOPS UK
Circus Skills Workshops for Schools, Events & Corporate Teams Across the Edinburgh Area
Bringing juggling, plate spinning, stilts & more to schools & events in the Edinburgh Area
Circus Skills Workshops Edinburgh
Edinburgh is a city used to performance, and a circus skills workshop puts your own guests at the centre of it.
Our performers run sessions for schools, weddings, scout groups and private parties across the capital, from the Old Town to Corstorphine.
We are equally at home in a village hall, a school in Newington or at a festival on The Meadows.
A firm in Leith might book a team-building afternoon, a community group in Stockbridge an activity for its summer fair, and a Morningside primary school a whole enrichment day.
Whichever it is, we plan the session around the number of people, the space and the budget you have.
We cover the Lothians as well, including Musselburgh, Livingston, Dalkeith, Penicuik, Bathgate, Dunbar, & Haddington.
The performer brings all the equipment and can set up in a hall, an office or a playground.
Tell us where in Edinburgh you are based and we will send you a quote.
Find out more about our circus workshops for schools.
Circus Workshops in Edinburgh Schools
From £225.00!
Nothing settles a class quite like trying to keep a plate spinning.
It is absorbing, it is funny, and it gives pupils an immediate sense of achievement, which is why circus skills fit so well into a primary school day.
Our performers take each class separately, teaching plate spinning, juggling, hula hoop, diabolo and poi at a pace that suits the age group.
The emphasis is on having a go and helping each other, which sits comfortably alongside health and wellbeing and expressive arts work.
Schools in Morningside, Bruntsfield and across Edinburgh can book for activity weeks, reward days, summer fairs and P7 leavers' events.
Every visit begins with a short circus show, in assembly or at the start of each class's session, so pupils see the skills done properly first. All our performers are PVG scheme members and arrive with the equipment. Let us know when you would like us to visit.
Circus Skills for Edinburgh Gala Days & Events
From £225.00!
Every gala day has a moment when the races are over and the crowd is looking for the next thing.
A circus skills area is ready for it.
It needs no stage and no timetable, so it slots in beside the stalls, the pipe band and the home baking.
Anyone can walk up, pick a piece of equipment and get a short lesson from the performer before practising on their own.
It tends to draw a crowd of its own, because watching a neighbour try to juggle is nearly as entertaining as trying it yourself.
Plates, diabolos, juggling balls, hula hoops, poi, ribbons and flower sticks are all laid on.
We can run it at gala days in Portobello or Joppa, events on The Meadows, school fairs and birthday parties across Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Alongside the teaching, the performer keeps up a steady stream of tricks, which brings in passers-by and keeps the area buzzing all day. You provide the pitch and some cover from the weather. We do everything else.
Edinburgh Walkabout Entertainers
From £225.00!
This is a city that knows street performance when it sees it.
Our walkabout entertainers bring that same close-up, on-your-doorstep style to private and public events all year round.
They perform among the guests instead of in front of them: a juggling routine by the entrance, a magic trick at a table, a stilt walker towering over the dance floor.
Stilt walkers, jugglers, magicians, bubble artists, balloon modellers, face painters and hula hoop artists are all available.
For winter and evening events, fire performers and LED poi look spectacular in the dark.
Book them for festivals, gala days, weddings, ceilidhs, receptions and company celebrations across Edinburgh.
Tell us the occasion and the timings, and we will put forward the right acts.
Circus Big Tops for Edinburgh Events
Planning an outdoor event in Scotland means planning for the weather. A big top takes care of that and looks magnificent while doing it.
It gives you a covered space for workshops, shows or simply for people to gather.
Tents are available as a 7m round, a 15m round and a 22m oval.
You can have purple and yellow or white and yellow, and each size can be set up for a workshop, a performance or a party.
They can be hired across Edinburgh and the Lothians for school circus days, gala days, festivals, weddings and anniversary parties.
Choose the tent alone or bring in our performers and walkabout acts as well.
Sizes, colours and availability are listed below.
Edinburgh Team Building with Circus Skills
From £225.00!
There is a particular kind of laughter that happens when a finance director drops three juggling balls for the tenth time.
It is good-natured, it is shared, and it does more for a team than an afternoon of flip charts.
Circus skills work because they are new to almost everyone and impossible to do while thinking about email.
Our performers guide the group from first throws to simple routines, and can add team challenges for a competitive edge.
Teams from the BBC, Sky, the NHS and the National Trust have taken part in our sessions.
We can deliver at your workplace or at a venue in the Old Town, the New Town or Leith, bringing all the kit.
Tell us the size of your team and what you have in mind. More details are below.
Serving all areas of Edinburgh & the Lothians:
Our performers frequently travel to:
Old Town & New Town for primary school workshops & reward days
Leith & Newhaven for scouts, guides & youth group sessions
Stockbridge & Comely Bank for corporate away days & private events
Morningside & Bruntsfield for school enrichment days & SEN workshops
Corstorphine & Murrayfield for private birthday parties & holiday clubs
Newington & Grange for corporate team building days
Portobello & Joppa for community festivals & fun days
We also cover Glasgow, Newcastle upon Tyne and Aberdeen.
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