When: Friday, August 14, 2009, 7 p.m.

Cost: Free

Age limit: All ages

Description: This Friday (August 14) promises an opportunity to see some homegrown circus
performers in a stellar location, and also do some homegrown good. The
Runaway Circus, from Asheville, and Knoxville’s own Olive Tree Circus, will
perform at Ironwood Studios (119 Jennings St.). Donations are accepted and
encouraged, with concessions and a portion of the door going to Community
Shares. “Runaway Circus is touring,” says Community Shares Executive
Director Shelley Wascom. “My friend Ingrid Johnson is a member. She called
me with the idea of a benefit. I’ve not seen this particular circus, but
every time I’ve seen her groups it’s been really entertaining. There’s lots
of acrobatic balancing and juggling and great music. They do the—what do you
call that thing that hangs down?—the trapeze. Olive Tree Circus is actually
from Knoxville. They just got back from the olive harvest in Palestine, and
their work is a little more political.”

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