About Wise fool New Mexico
It is Wise Fool New Mexico's mission to ignite imagination, build community, and promote social justice through performances and hands on experiences in the arts of circus, puppetry, and theatre.
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Kids at Wise Fool!
Wise Fool's annual Kids Circus Summer Camps are underway! Through the month of July, a total of 90 youth age 7 to 14 from Santa Fe, Penasco, Taos, Los Alamos, and surrounding communities will have a blast in "circus world," learning stiltwalking, acrobatics, juggling, puppet-making, trapeze, aerial fabric, music, and of course clowning!Camp culminates in a student performance that showcases the proud youth’s individual and group accomplishments for thrilled and supportive parents, siblings, friends, and community members.
Afterschool Fools will run this fall from September 14th through November 4th. For more information or to register, please click here.
Our Approach to Youth Programs
Wise Fool's Youth Programs include summer camps, afterschool programs, and in-school workshops and residencies across New Mexico. These programs utilize the unique combination of non-competitive physical activity and creative self-expression that define circus arts and puppetry in order to:
- provide New Mexican youth with free or low-cost participatory arts experiences
- provide New Mexican youth with healthy risk-taking and goal achievement opportunities that require responsibility, trust, and teamwork, and which result in building self-confidence and gaining life skills
- provide paid teaching opportunities for puppetry and circus artists residing in New Mexico who have undergone anti-oppression trainings, teacher trainings and mentorships with Wise Fool New Mexico
- engage new generations in the traditions of circus arts and puppetry in Northern New Mexico
Support New Mexican Youth
Sponsor A Young Artist at the Penasco Theatre:
Wise Fool's low-cost afterschool program in Penasco currently serves over 35 local youth with aerial and circus arts classes. You can give the gift of flight by sponsoring a youth participant for the 2010 Spring Semester. $100 is a local youth's ticket to challenging, inspiring and fun circus arts classes (60 possible classes) and recitals, plus all the movies and all the performances/events happening at the theatre during the semester! To sponsor a young artist, please click the "Donate" button above, then on the "Review Your Donation" page, click the words "Donating to a specific program/fund?" Enter "Penasco Youth" in the text box, and you're all set!
Donate to the Youth Scholarship Fund:
Wise Fool offers full and partial scholarships to all youth programs. 100% of your donation to this Fund will be used for a youth's scholarship to one of our camps or afterschool programs in Santa Fe or Penasco. To donate to the Youth Scholarship Fund, please click the "Donate" button above, then on the "Review Your Donation" page, click the words "Donating to a specific program/fund?" Enter "Youth Scholarship Fund" in the text box, and you're all set!