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2014 -2015 February 2014 Next Door Circus Director Māra Pāvula attends Subcase 2014 and the Nordic-Baltic Circus Meeting. The meeting group decides to found Nordic-Baltic Circus Network, and Next Door Circus (NDC) is invited to be an associate member. Legendary Festival du Cirque de Demain in Paris invites NDC to attend. NDC Magazine joins the International Network of Circus Magazines. April 2015 Next Door Circus presents itself in the opening of Estonian Circus Festival in Tallin. February NDC attends Subcase showcase in Stockholm, thanks to Nordic Culture Point travel grant, where the partners of the Nordic-Baltic Circus Network determine 3 new project applications. NDC agrees to map the circus action in the Baltic region. Next Door Circus attends the festival Hautes Tensions in Paris and “International Conference Zirkus | Wissenschaft –Semiotics of the Circus” in Munster, Germany and presenting the mapping of circus in Baltics during the seminars Strategic Planning Session on Aprils 17. March 2015 Preparation of NDC Magazine, issue 2. To be continued.../// March 2014 After more than a year of preparation NDC becomes an official organisation, registered in Latvia. Board members are Māra Pāvula and Rūta Skujina. April - July 2014 NDC prepares the first edition of NDC Ma- October 2014 NDC participates in community-building gazine, releases a form for the database, seminar in Toulouse with Circus Now, La and cooperates with festival RE RE RIGA! Grainerie, and members of Helsinki and Toulouse circus communities. NDC atAugust 2014 tends CIRCa festival in Auch and Focus First NDC magazine is published, with Cirque, a French showcase for internatio50 issues, thanks to RE RE RIGA! festival. nal programmers and curators. Between August 2014 and March 2015 the online version receives 930 visitors. November 2014 Arts Printing House, Circus Studio Folie, In cooperation with RE RE RIGA, NDC the Estonian Contemporary Circus Deveoffers 3 aerial acrobatic workshops by Natalie Oleinik and Sebastian Kann of the lopment Centre, and festival RE RE RIGA! company Manor House. More than 60 pe- sign an agreement to each propose artiople participate. After the workshop Riga cles for Next Door Circus Magazine and pole dance studio Feel Good invites wor- to each organise one event per year to kshop participant and local artist Konstan- support the dissemination of the magazitin Kosovec to teach aerial silks. Beginning ne and information about NDC. in September, Feel Good opens aerial silk classes to the public, a first in Riga history. NDC receives a travel grant from Nordic Culture Point to attend Nordic-Baltic Circus Network meeting during Subcase in September 2014 NDC participates in FACE regional Nordic February 2015 in Stockholm. Baltic meeting and in Nordic-Baltic Circus December & January 2015 Network meeting in Helsinki NDC applies for two grants from the Latvian Capital of Culture. The applications Arts Printing House (Vilnius, Lithuania) invites NDC to the New Circus Weekend. are denied, but NDC is encouraged to resubmit with smaller projects, due to the early age of the organisation 36 We are working on mapping the Baltic circus. So if you are an artist