From April 9th to 12th, the 6th edition of the contemporary circus festival “Peculiar Families Festival” will happen at various locations in Split, organized by the ROOM 100 collective.
Get ready for four days of activities – spectacles by artists from Belgium, Finland, France, Norway, and Germany, 14 performances by artists who are part of the European project “Hand to Hand”, a children’s rave party, and our own accompanying industry program. The entire program is ticket-free!
As in previous editions of the festival, through the selection of the festival program and production decisions regarding locations, ROOM 100 tries to localize circus risk and take it to philosophical, poetic, and political places. This year’s edition of the festival is special because the entire program will take place in public spaces across the city of Split, in a way that the cultural and artistic program moves into the peripheral neighbourhoods of the city. This year’s edition focuses on creating content that will make cultural and artistic programs more accessible, recognizing the diversity of audiences and their needs. The sixth edition of the festival does not ask the audience to get into a car or a bus and drive to the Youth Center, the Open-air Cinema Bačvica, or any other location in the city centre. The festival’s peculiar family comes to the audience, to their neighbourhood, under their balconies. This programming approach also responds to the fact that there is no suitable theatre infrastructure in the city for the festival to use, so the circus has to go back to the street.
ROOM 100 is an internationally awarded contemporary circus collective from Split founded by Antonia Kuzmanić and Jakov Labrović in 2010. ROOM 100 produces and distributes contemporary circus performances and other artistic works of the collective, manages HALA 100 — a residency venue for research in contemporary circus arts, hosts international contemporary circus artists for performances, residencies and workshops, realizes a program of film screenings “Kino Cirkus” in several Croatian cities, brings the contemporary circus arts to smaller island communities and cities in Dalmatian hinterland, Gorski kotar and Hrvatsko zagorje through the project “Circus on the periphery” and implements a number of other projects for the development of the audience in the contemporary circus arts sector. ROOM 100 is a partner in the projects “CIRCUS WITHOUT CIRCUS” and “circusnext PLaTFoRM” which are co-financed by the European Commission through the Creative Europe program and is a member of the Circostrada network (Antonia Kuzmanić is a member of the Circostrada Steering Committee since 2018).
