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Hello all;
Cirque Nova is searching for young adventurous disabled people from the London area, who would be interested in being taught 4 days a month or more aerial work to perform at Liberty's disability Festival in Trafalgar Square for 2008. on a volunteer basis!

We are looking for wheelchair bound disabled people.(we will have to visit you and see if your body abilities are able to do the work provided) but Please DON'T assume that you will not be able to do this.

As our funding is aimed at teaching Young People, we can only include in this project people under the age of 25.

If you have the will you can do it! Cirque Nova has worked in training disabled people previously, which has helped them strengthen their limbs and stretch their back and all the work will be done in as much comfort and safety as possible.

At no point will the work be dangerous as we will be using the best climbing equipment and we are very serious about our health and safety.

We need enthusiastic young people, from any background that can deal with heights or think they can learn to handle being winched up to the same height as Nelson's statue in Trafalgar Square.

If you are accepted, we will look for possibilities of funding for you to travel to our training space, which will be obviously an access for disable space, and on the days of performance you will be fed and receive a Per Diem fee, to cover the costs of you not going to work on that day or to cover and other costs you may come across, also when needed accommodation and food will be provided.

This project is aiming to try and include our work and there is a possibility that it may be accepted for the passing of the Paralympics torch event in Beijing (China) to London, which means we might get the chance to travel and perform there.

If this project is successful we will then look to find a further 20 disabled youths to train them to do the same work simultaneously, to create an aerial disabled ballet to perform up high at the Paralympics opening Ceremony in 2012.

We must point that: None of these Olympics projects are guaranteed yet, but if we succeed in performing at Liberties 2008, we are very likely to be accepted for the Olympic ceremonies as well. And also that priority will be given to youths of the London area, as we have limited funding.

So if you are a young man or woman, that likes performance art, which is adventurous and would like to learn to rotate and hang upside-down from the safety of climbing belts.

Please get in touch with us, send us an email and we will discuss the possibilities further.