Fern Street Community Arts

History

Mission Statement. Fern Street Community Arts serves families and transforms neighborhoods through performance and teaching of circus arts. Professional artists collaborate with learners and their families in neighborhood settings. Circus transcends barriers between people of varying cultures and languages, combines physical and theatrical skills, and merges the magnificent and the everyday. Participants co-create every aspect of the circus, using their own talents and available resources, working in public locations, creating visible community. History. Founded in 1990, Fern Street has built a legacy of circus in San Diego through a series of annual shows in Balboa Park, City Heights, and in many neighborhoods across the County. Fern Street Circus brings together San Diego's finest circus and variety artists in a show which creates a playful sense of place. The Circus has been named San Diego International Airport's 1st-ever Performing Artists-in-Residence for 2016.

Specialties

Fern Street Community Arts, Inc. is the umbrella not-for-profit (for-purpose) organization overseeing San Diego's original single-ring, social circus, Fern Street Circus. Fern Street Circus is a professional circus and musical troupe providing imaginative, original circus performance in neighborhoods across San Diego County. And our circus professionals teach circus arts to young people in low-income neighborhoods of San Diego. Let Fern Street Circus enliven your corporate gathering, benefit gala, or community event. We can create a circus package for you from one stilt walker to a full 90-minute circus show.