Children learn to work together during circus camp at Tk’emlups reserve

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The five-day camp at Moccasin Square Gardens is the first to be hosted by a First Nations community. 

“We decided to do it for them to discover the community, because for us it’s the first experience,” Ranger said. “It’s very exciting, and to give the opportunity to those guys to have a chance to participate at a circus camp, because they didn’t have a chance to participate at those camps before. So for them it’s their first experience, and for us too.”

Wednesday was the halfway point of the camp, which will end with a performance in front of family and friends on Friday at 1 p.m.

The kids have been assigned their performance duties and are diligently rehearsing before the big show. 

In addition to learning some new tricks, these students are learning how to work together.

“We all work together,” Ranger said. “So, no bullying, no fights, no violence, no nothing. We just go on and on, and we practice, and we discover their talent. Everybody helps each other that’s the plan of the project. The project is a binary project of how to be a good person, and develop yourself and the skills, like circus skills.”