
Hupstate Circus Fest
Come to the Hupstate Cabaret Fundraiser!
Buy your tickets for our fundraising cabaret on Sunday night at 8pm! Amazing Hupstate artists and local favorites have generously donated acts to help us fundraise for our first year as a nonprofit.
Join us for an evening to fundraise for Hupstate Circus Inc, the non-profit that produces the festival! Performers have generously donated their artistry to support the cause and you'll see a who's who of the Hupstate artists and more.
Schedule

Festival Cabaret (ASL interpreted)
Join us for an evening of 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 party!
Suggested 18+ (we never quite know what will happen at the fundraiser!)

I Think It Could Work
"I Think It Could Work" is a contemporary circus show.. Utilizing elements of acrobatics, theatre, and classic games, this show is an experiment in what happens when our lives are decided by chance and our fates are left for the audience to decide.
For all ages
PLAY DEAD - People Watching Collective
Set in a shifting universe of domestic trappings and interlocking stories, People Watching’s first creation ‘Play Dead’ observes the way we navigate social connections.
Suggested age 16+
PLAY DEAD - People Watching Collective
Set in a shifting universe of domestic trappings and interlocking stories, People Watching’s first creation ‘Play Dead’ observes the way we navigate social connections.
Suggested age 16+

Brave Space
Center Ithaca Atrium
Brave Space is a blanket fort, a hoopskirt, an impulsive congregation in the tiniest of tents. Inspired by the idea of creating community in trying times, it begins as a puddle of fabric and grows to encompass a world of wondrous circus.

I Hope You Are Fed
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.

I Hope You Are Fed
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.

Brave Space
Center Ithaca Atrium
Brave Space is a blanket fort, a hoopskirt, an impulsive congregation in the tiniest of tents. Inspired by the idea of creating community in trying times, it begins as a puddle of fabric and grows to encompass a world of wondrous circus.

Brave Space
Center Ithaca Atrium
Brave Space is a blanket fort, a hoopskirt, an impulsive congregation in the tiniest of tents. Inspired by the idea of creating community in trying times, it begins as a puddle of fabric and grows to encompass a world of wondrous circus.

Stars Above
Cass Park Sports Fields
Stars Above is an outdoor family friendly circus show created by founders of Hideaway Circus, Josh & Lyndsay Aviner. Set to original music and reimagined cover songs, Stars Above is a modern take on the nostalgic small touring circuses from two hundred years ago. This year's production features brand new acts alongside fan favorites from last season.

My Name is Tenacious/Vestigios (ASL interpreted)
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.

Brave Space
Center Ithaca Atrium
Brave Space is a blanket fort, a hoopskirt, an impulsive congregation in the tiniest of tents. Inspired by the idea of creating community in trying times, it begins as a puddle of fabric and grows to encompass a world of wondrous circus.

Stars Above (ASL interpreted)
Cass Park Sports Fields
Stars Above is an outdoor family friendly circus show created by founders of Hideaway Circus, Josh & Lyndsay Aviner. Set to original music and reimagined cover songs, Stars Above is a modern take on the nostalgic small touring circuses from two hundred years ago. This year's production features brand new acts alongside fan favorites from last season.

I Hope You Are Fed
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.

My Name is Tenacious/Vestigios
Community School of Music and Arts, Third Floor
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.

Goodbye Party the Show (ASL interpreted)
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.

Stars Above
Cass Park Sports Fields
Stars Above is an outdoor family friendly circus show created by founders of Hideaway Circus, Josh & Lyndsay Aviner. Set to original music and reimagined cover songs, Stars Above is a modern take on the nostalgic small touring circuses from two hundred years ago. This year's production features brand new acts alongside fan favorites from last season.

Gathering the Threads
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.