After-School Programs
After-School Circus Classes are a great way to get moving. Skills include object manipulation, juggling, hooping, diabolo, balance such as stilt walking and rola bola, and circus games to create community and promote teamwork. After-school students will perform in the 2025 Youth Circus Extravaganza giving them a chance to demonstrate their skills, determination and courage.
After-School classes are held at Sands Montessori, Woodford Academy, St. Boniface School, Fairview-Clifton German Language School and Hyde Park Elementary.
Free after-school circus classes are offered for Roberts Academy a through funding through the Ohio Arts Council, and ArtsWave. Please contact us for a scholarship for any of our classes if they are eligible for free and/or reduced lunch. My Nose Turns Red believes everyone should have the opportunity to take circus classes.
Social Circus
My Nose Turns Red Youth Circus has been nationally recognized as a member of the Social Circus Network with the American Youth Circus Organization The Social Circus Network is designed to bring up-to-date research and resources to the 18-member network to increase youth circus participation and improve program design.
Social Circus is defined by Cirque Du Monde as an “innovative social intervention approach based on circus arts. The primary goal is not to learn the circus arts, but rather to assist with participants’ personal and social development by nurturing their self-esteem and trust in others, as well as by helping them to acquire social skills, become active citizens, express their creativity and realize their potential.”
My Nose Turns Red’s strategic plan calls for 30% of enrollment be underserved and attend for free. This includes scholarships, two 24-week sessions at Woodford Paideia Academy and Roberts Paideia Academy, ongoing programming at Diocesan Catholic Children’s Home (14 years), and the TALL Institute, an organization for adults with intellectual and developmental challenges as well as L.A.D.D.
MNTR also reaches underserved children by offering full and partial scholarships to our after-school programs, circus classes including the Advanced Circus Ensemble program and summer camps.