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Bringing circus to the people! 🙌🏻🎪

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My birthday week was beautifully bookended…

Café Ba-Ba-Reeba

@wrightwood659

CafBa

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Me: “I like basing one arms will everyone try one with me”
The amazing incredibly talented @mncircus cast: “we gotchu Oliver 😏”

Thanks to everyone for giving me the chance to base them and help them realize that they are capable to flying cool things 😊

Not pictured: @aerialem, @maddox.morfit.tighe, @reidthewilliams, @ericallengonewild, @owen_lawson_s, and @bookkennison. I’ll get yall in a one arm someday 😉

#handtohand #chicago #midnight #acro cirque

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One more time! (For real this time😢)
@mncircus what a blast! I’m going to miss performing in this tent with this amazing cast so much!! 💙💜

🎥 @emmafwagner

#circus #chicago #midnightcircus #chinesepole #onemoretime

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It’s the first weekend of October and you know what that means, more fall festivities! It looks like no rain in the forecast so I hope to see you all out on the town! 🍂🍎

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📍The Midnight Circus - Welles Park

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Welcome to the Circus 🎪

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Midnight Circus at Welles Park, Chicago!!! it was quite uplifting as the audience. Talented #chicago #mncircus I was lucky to have met Leah on CTA and had meaningful conversations with you. You all are the greatest inspiration for me and many more to do to support community! 💚🎸🎤💗🙏🎪🤹‍♂️🎠

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Did you know… Chicago’s Midnight Circus (@mncircus) is celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year?! Each fall, they partner with parks and local community groups to bring world-class circus to every corner of Chicago. Every weekend they travel to a new neighborhood, raise the Big Top and create a family friendly show that brings foot stomping joy and wonder to all. Then they donate a portion of the proceeds back to the communities where they perform. Since 2007, they have raised almost 2 million dollars that has been used for playground renovations, neighborhood programming, park beautification, and more! The reason they started and the reason they keep going is summed up by co-founder, @juliegjenkins Jenkins, “The reason we keep doing it is the same reason we took the circus out of theaters and into the parks 20 years ago. We saw a real disparity in who had access to the arts in Chicago, and wanted to find a way to bring world-class circus directly into neighborhoods across the city.”

Their last weekend of 2026 shows is October 2-4 and will be at Welles Park where the show started in 2007. That year, co-founders, Julie and @jeffjenkins47 , heard their local playground would be removed if funds weren’t found for repair. So, they rallied the community and did a weekend of fundraising circus shows. The rest is their 20 year history! This weekend, they are bringing in special guests form past shows like @maxwelljenkins and @bookkennison! They always say that , “The best way to learn about midnight circus is to see us!’’ So, head to Chicago next weekend to see this local and international circus treasure!

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#AmericanCircus #CircusHistory #AmericanCircusHistory #MidnightCircus #CircusInTheParks

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So fun to make these happy posters for my good friends at @mncircus !!! They will be selling these 7 color signed and numbered posters this weekend and next weekend at their final season shows at Welles Park in Chicago! If you have never had the chance to see a Midnight Circus performance, well ya gotta go! There are still tickets available for some shows at their website at midnight circus.net

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Weekly playtime at @msacircusarts 💕

#aerialstraps #circus #cirque #aerialist #aerialarts

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