Cherry Artspace

What does it mean to stay present in an ever changing world? Fern Collective welcomes you into an aerial world of their own devising full of beautiful, dangerous, thought provoking, generous, and tangled messes. I Hope You Are Fed is sure to leave you feeling, thinking, and questioning.

Meet up with other circus community at local favorite Sweet Melissa’s! Owners Melissa and Matt are super circus supporters and are donating $1 from every circus cone (pictured) sold towards the festival!

Treman Marina Loop

Join the acrobats of Acting for Climate for a breathtaking site specific acrobatics performance.

Note: The show formally starts at 2:30pm, but we are asking audiences to gather at 2:15pm so we can ensure you get to the site on time.

Press Bay Backlot- Free!

Benjamin and Thom are masters of Varieté... which means a lot of different things! In this case, it means dazzling dining, eccentric entreés, and jubilant juggling. Thom Wall and Benjamin Domask-Ruh are back at it, again, to present an unforgettable show.

Press Bay Backlot- Free

Thom and Benjamin host an evening of Raucous performances, and connection for our community of artists, audiences, and the circus-curious! We encourage all artists, audiences, and circus fans to come out to play!

Going to a 9pm show? No worries- just come by when it’s over!

Community School of Music and Arts

My Name is Tenacious invites the audience to a not-so-distant future to bear witness to the medicine that the end-times of our colonial world brings. Haunting and brave soundscapes, storytelling through movement, and the release that climate change ushers is honored with the creation of this sacred ritual space that touches concepts of wounds held within our identities, bodies, and the earth.

Press Bay Backlot - Free!

“Cirque Us Stories” is a new, thoughtfully curated show that flips through the pages of our troupe’s favorite stories to bring you a touching, thrilling narrative about community and identity. The show features aerialists, jugglers, acrobats, contortionists, clowns, and more, all ready to fly off the shelf and straight to you.

Press Bay Backlot- Free!

Ballet Poulet by Fanzini Productions (Cavan, Ireland) is physical theatre for the street, surrealist and absurdist, with sprinklings of contemporary circus, comedy and character clown made for all ages, particularly young audiences.

Press Bay Backlot - Free!

Cirque Us hosts an evening of ice breakers, performances, and connection for our community under our little top tent! We encourage all artists, audiences, and circus fans to come out to play. Beer and non-alcoholic drinks will be on tap and ID’s will be checked at the entrance.

Cherry Artspace

The end is near but we feel fine !? We hope you clear your schedule to join your fellow workers for an evening of farewell and catharsis, that workplace ritual where you raise a glass to the best and worst memories at the company that writes all of our paychecks: Earth, the Planet, LLC.

Hangar Theatre

After a long separation, five friends reunite. This story of picking up the threads - of reconnecting with one another, rediscovering friendship, and rebuilding community - all unfolds with acrobatic poignancy, magic, and mischief.

Downtown Ithaca - Free

Free Performances on the Ithaca Commons: Aerial arts, juggling, dance, and more.

Galleries with Circus exhibits: State of the Art Gallery, Barbara Mink Gallery, Handwork Coop, Sacred Root Kava Bar