Artpark Cirque Festival

Artpark’s Cirque Festival will feature internationally acclaimed cirque troupe, Flip Fabrique and additional performers throughout Artpark’s Lower Park (South 4th St. entrance), on Sunday, August 17, 2025 from 4PM to 8PM.

Flip Fabrique will bring the “Summer Break” performance atop their “Summer Break Bus” while showcasing a circus-styled acrobatic performance of what it was like being at summer camp for the very first time. From meeting new friends, to hijinks and all the nostalgia from a Summer Break! Also featured at Artpark’s Cirque festival will be American professional solo swinging-trapeze and acrobatic artist Violet Defiant and the Buffalo, NY-based music, art and dance performers of Slyboots Circus.   

This fun-for-all-ages festival combines multiple cirque performers and performances that Artpark fans have come to experience and love each Summer at Artpark.

Flip Fabrique is a circus company based in Québec, Canada. Born out of the dreams and the friendship of circus performers in 2011, this troupe is renowned around the world for its beloved production combining astonishing feats to true visual poetry.

Composed of world-class artists, the troupe crafts contemporary circus shows with an uncanny ability to have fun and move the audience. In addition to its large-scale shows presented every summer in Québec City since 2015, the troupe performs around the globe in the most prestigious circus institutions and festivals.

Experience the breathtaking thrill of our Solo Swinging Trapeze act! Violet Defiant is one of the only swinging trapeze performers in the US. Watch in awe as she swings, twists, and flips in a jaw-dropping, daring, dynamic spectacle.

The Slyboots Circus is the premier performing ensemble at the Slyboots School which features music and dance from around the world, story telling, puppetry and circus arts to captivate and excite audiences around the world. The Slyboots Circus specializes in performances, workshops, festivals, school assemblies, lecture demonstrations and celebrations of all shapes and sizes.