FESTIVAL AND COMMUNITY EVENT ENTERTAINMENT THAT CREATES ENERGY

For festivals and community events, entertainment needs to work in a very different way than it does in a theater.

It has to be visible. Flexible. Approachable. Multigenerational. Multicultural. And able to create energy across a large space.

North Star Circus Arts provides professional circus and specialty performers for festivals, parades, chamber events, family celebrations and community events throughout Minnesota.

Popular options include stilt walkers, jugglers, aerialists, acrobats, roaming characters and interactive circus performers.

FIND THE RIGHT PERFORMERS FOR YOUR EVENT
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ENTERTAINMENT PEOPLE CAN SEE FROM ACROSS THE EVENT

Visual impact matters in a public event environment.

Stilt walkers can move above a crowd and draw attention across a festival footprint. Jugglers and roaming artists can create spontaneous interactions without requiring guests to gather at a stage. Aerial performance can create scheduled destination moments that help anchor the event.

The result is entertainment that helps the event feel active, welcoming and alive.

GREAT FITS FOR CIRCUS ENTERTAINMENT

  • City festivals

  • Chamber of commerce events

  • Parades

  • Family festivals

  • Community celebrations

  • Grand openings

  • Street fairs

  • Parks and recreation events

  • Church festivals

  • Corporate community events

  • Outdoor celebrations

ROAMING ENTERTAINMENT KEEPS THE EXPERIENCE MOVING

Not every event needs a stage.

Roaming performers can move throughout the site, interact with small groups, pose for photos, welcome guests and help spread activity across the event footprint.

Strong roaming options include:

  • Stilt walkers

  • Jugglers

  • Magicians

  • Characters

  • Acrobats

  • Flow artists

  • Interactive specialty performers

NEED A FEATURED PERFORMANCE TOO?

Roaming entertainment can be paired with scheduled, featured acts to give guests both spontaneous interaction and a reason to gather.

Depending on the venue and site conditions, options may include aerialists, acrobatic acts, juggling performances and multi-act circus presentations.

For outdoor aerial performance, freestanding circus equipment may make it possible to create an aerial performance area without relying on an existing building rigging point.

WE HELP FIGURE OUT THE PRACTICAL DETAILS

Outdoor and public events bring unique considerations including weather, surfaces, crowd flow, audience spacing, performance locations, load-in and circus equipment.

North Star Circus Arts helps evaluate those requirements and coordinates the performer and circus-specific logistics needed for the selected entertainment.

That can include performer casting, costumes, equipment, aerial structures, riggers and performance scheduling.

FAMILY-FRIENDLY DOES NOT HAVE TO MEAN FORGETTABLE

Circus is uniquely suited to multigenerational audiences.

The same stilt walker can delight a five-year-old, create a photo moment for a teenager and catch the attention of adults walking through the event.

Costuming and performance style can also be adapted to the audience, event theme and organization.

WHY NORTH STAR CIRCUS ARTS

North Star Circus Arts is a Minnesota-based, women-owned circus and specialty entertainment company with access to hundreds of professional performers and acts.

Rather than handing an event planner a list of artists and asking them to figure it out, we help determine which entertainment makes sense for the event environment, audience, schedule and budget.