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Circus as Drawing Symposium
CANCELLED: Thursday 8 January 2026
After the success of our Circus as Drawing Symposiums in Spring and Summer 2025, we’re pleased to continue to offer a space for circus and visual artists to come together.
Join us at our Kingswood training facilities for a shared exploration of movement, mark-making and creative practice. These sessions bring together drawing, painting and circus physicality, creating space for collaboration and experimentation.
Whether you’re a circus artist interested in refining the expressive, gestural qualities of your performance, or a visual artist curious about expanding the physicality of your drawing practice, this programme offers time and space to explore in a supportive environment.
Together, we’ll consider how bodies in motion create marks, how drawing is physical, and how these practices inform one another. Expect to sketch, move, perform, reflect and play.
You can see what some of our Spring participants explored in this blog Sachin Babbar’s blog here.
Unfortunately the January Circus as Drawing session has been cancelled. If you are interested in attending a future event, please email admissions@circomedia.com to find out more about upcoming activities.
Date:
Thursday 8 January 2026 – CANCELLED
Times & prices:
Circus as Drawing: 9:30am – 4pm each day / £80 per session
Life Drawing: 10:30pm – 3pm each day / £35 per session
Location:
Kingswood Estate, Kingswood, Bristol BS15 8DB
Materials:
Basic materials will be provided by please bring your favourite materials if you wish.
Tea/Coffee provided.
This offer is open to visual artists and circus artists and is also available to international students.
Life Drawing
Alongside the full day sessions, we invite artists to attend in a less committed capacity, to take part in the life drawing of some of our symposium activities.
Life drawing attendees can book per day, and will benefit from the provision of interesting and unusual subject matter, but will not take part in the rest of the full day activities and discussions.
How to book on and important information
Please let us know at the time of your booking if you have any access requirements that we can accommodate during your time with us.
Circomedia does not issue refunds unless the event is cancelled or postponed to a date on which you are unable to attend.
Circomedia’s Circus As Drawing sessions will be overseen by Dr Jonathan Priest, an expert in transpositional practices and artistic research in circus.
The footage and images you see at the top of this page are from our pilot three-day symposium in Spring 2025. This was a ground-breaking collaborative workshop between circus and visual artists that has inspired the trajectory of this next phase of Circus as Drawing at Circomedia.
