Assistance for the homeless of family circuses is intended to support circuses that choose to offer itinerant shows, taking place under a tent. This grant from the Ministry of Culture is intended to reduce the cost of transport and installation of marquees.
Presentation of the device
What is help for homeless family circuses?
The traditional circus consists of a few large circuses and hundreds of so-called «family» circuses of small size. These circuses prefer shows of numbers with animals, they circulate from towns to villages and present their shows under capitals.
The tent and its roaming are elements of the circus identity, its history, its practice, its aesthetics and its relationship to the inhabitants of the territories.
Assistance for the roaming of family circuses promotes the distribution of circus under marquee with special attention to areas with a low cultural offer. This aid is intended to specific costs related to marquee roaming : assembly and disassembly costs, approach costs (fuel oil, motorway, etc.), maintenance costs of the equipment, wages of the labour needed to roam the tent.
Assistance for the homeless of family circuses is allocated over a roaming season, calculated over a maximum period of 12 months, from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024. The roaming season can be continuous or discontinuous in several rounds (a tour is between the departure and return of the convoy to the usual circus installation site). It must concern several cities or stages. It must include at least 50 performances of one or more shows produced by the requesting circus, presented under its marquee.
Am I concerned by this approach?
- Associations
- Private companies
To be eligible, structures must meet the following criteria:
- be French residents
- Experience in managing a travelling tent with a maximum capacity of 500 seats (as owner or tenant of the tent)
- Have at least two years of professional activity
- perform at least 50 performances of one or more shows under a marquee for the duration of the travelling season in question
This assistance is in the form of an operating grant. It covers the costs necessary to roam the tent.
Other costs related to the tour (artist fees, administrative fees, communication, etc.) are not covered by this aid.
Proceeding
The aid granted is between €6,000 and €12,000 per travelling family circus.
The grant is paid in one payment by the DGCA (Direction générale de la création artistique), in the fall.
Applications will be evaluated by the Direction Générale de la Création Artistique (DGCA). Particular attention will be paid to:
- compliance with regulations related to the safety of the tent and the presence of animals
- elements constituting the costs of roaming: size of the tent, convoy, format of the show (touring team, scenery), route, etc.
- the developed tariff policy
- the nature of the territories and affected audiences, with particular attention to areas with a low cultural offer
- Opening of the deposit of files: 31 March 2023
- Deadline for submission: 15 June 2023, 23:59 (Paris time). No file may be filed or considered after this date.
- Announcement of results: Summer 2023
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Examples of projects previously supported
In 2022, six family circuses were helped, which toured throughout France, for amounts from €6,000 to €12,000, to help them cover the costs related to roaming, such as assembly and disassembly costs, approach costs, fuel and motorway, etc.
A question?
If you have any questions about assistance with homeless family circuses, please contact:
Creative Arts Branch (BOD)
Theatre and associated arts delegation
aidesnationales-rueetcirque@culture.gouv.fr
01 40 15 88 83
62 Rue Beaubourg, 75003 Paris