SPECIAL EVENTS

THE GLOBE

Part installation, part experimental play space, fully interactive and colourful. The Globe is a retired air balloon taking on a new life and aims to be a joyfully creative experience for everyone.  Watch the space inflate from a distance or join in the playful experiences created inside.  The Globe is sure to be a sight of great beauty at the festival and invigorate the playful spirit inside of us all.

The Wheel of Death

Warren Brophy takes on The Wheel of Death, a 12m high, 500kg steel pendulum that reaches a height of 12 metres. This thrilling act will see Warren perform acrobatics, skipping and even walking blindfolded all while maintaining his balance atop the rotating cage. This high adrenaline act is performed without the aid of safety nets or wires, making it a truly on the edge of your seat experience.

Outdoor Cinema

Programmed by the Spaghetti Circus Youth Ambassadors

Grab your popcorn, fairy floss or ice cream from Sweet Street for all your favourite movie classics programmed by the Spaghetti Youth Ambassadors. Kick back on a deck chair or BYO picnic blanket and relax in our outdoor cinema. 

Watch kids, family-friendly, and teenage movies every evening with Mt Chincogan in the background just as the stars begin to shine. 

SNIFFER DOG

Sniffer Dog gives a f#@k

Agitating dancefloors since the beginning of time, Kol Dimond’s latest reincarnation sees the electronic beat terrorist in fine form. A one-man, one-box show, full of slow dirty acid grooves and thought provoking cut-up vocal samples.
Mingling with audiences, as his high freekuency wireless set up allows for an interactive experience so rare in much of today’s sterile electronic music scene.
Sniffer Dog has been unleashed and is currently looking for a post to piss up near you.

FLYCYCLE

Flycycle is a roving comedy piece performed in a slapstick, silent movie style. The Lephts (not to be confused with the Wrights) ride their magnificent flying machine in search of the perfect hill to test it in flight. Old world, absurd and completely intriguing.

Infrequent Flyers

A sunset circus performance made just for the festival and just for you.

THE FAMOUS SPIEGELTENT

The Famous Spiegeltent, the most beautiful and original of the last remaining Belgian Spiegeltents, is a unique travelling venue that has made regular appearances at the Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringe Festivals. It has hosted some of the world's greatest performing artists, including German singer Marlene Dietrich, who famously performed "Falling in Love Again" during the 1930s.

As part of the National Circus Festival, the Famous Spiegeltent will bring excitement and colour to a region that has been through COVID Shutdowns and once in a lifetime floods over recent months. A venue for book readings, cabaret, new works, musicians and kids' shows, the Spiegeltent will be a place to bring the community together to celebrate and connect.

THE GAME

Dear National Circus Festival,
RE: The Game.
It will definitely be fun. We really need fun right now. Big fun with lots of people. There will be a giant wheel to spin, dice, ladders and slides, pedestrians crossing, eggs and spoons, spots, riddles, flags, flashing lights (lots of those) some dancing.  You might have to go backwards at some point, or invert, the rules will be complicated and definitely change a lot.  There will be penalties, head starts, obstacles, bribery and favourites. There will be rotten eggs, sore losers and some opportunities to cheat - in the name of fun.  Anyway, you’re all invited.
Sincerely,
The Lollipop ladies.

CIRCUS OLYMPICS

A Circus Festival Tradition for EVERY BODY!

No circus festival is complete without a Circus Olympics, and this one has a distinctive Spaghetti flavour. A sports field like no other, where inter-generational collaboration takes poll position; where idiocy and skill are of equal standing; where you’re likely to see just as much brains and brawn, and sometimes neither. An arena where mixed ages and mixed abilities go for gold and where and the line between spectator and competitor is blurred.

There’ll be classic events like Longest Handstand, Juggle Combat and Hula Wars and introducing to this years’ Games, The Great Plate Of Spaghetti Run and the Team Circus Obstacle Course. And as for the commentators... well, move over Benaud, you’ve well and truly met your match!

No matter if you’re small, or big, or fast, or precise, or brave, or ready or not… get involved; these Olympics are for EVERYONE!

Sweet Street

Take a stroll down Sweet Street for fairy floss, ice cream, crepes, popcorn and other saccharine delights.

MAGIC OF BUBBLES

Shorty Brown brings the magic of bubbles! Absolute Fun! Joy! Spectacular!

It's a bubble PARTY!