22/04/2020
Like many other arts companies, businesses and people we’ve been adapting to isolation. The last few weeks we’ve met unprecedented challenges. We’ve had to come to terms with a great pause in the delivery of our programs – shows, classes, workshops, regional touring, and events at The Melba have been cancelled. Our building, a home to so many circus artists, has been closed to the public.
It’s been hard. Our income has been drastically reduced. We’ve been disconnected from our community, our artists and you, our audience. In order to survive these losses we’ve hibernated a large part of our business and we’ve reorganised the way we work so we can look to the future. We’re taking this isolation period as an opportunity to do something we don’t often get to do in the arts – to slow down, breathe and look around. To use our creativity. To imagine and plan for a future nobody can quite see yet. To find new ways of working so we can continue to support and engage artists, create work through and post pandemic and keep the lights on for you while our doors are closed.
We’re working behind the scenes to rise to these challenges. We welcome you to share this journey with us and continue to be a big part of our inspiration as you always have been.
What is it about circus, performing arts or other artforms that is keeping, or could keep you going through this Great Pause?
Is your digital feed full to the brim with inspiration or is something lacking?
What are you missing most? What are you looking forward to?
Now is the perfect time to reflect on what art means to us all.
