Cirkus Syd team

Lina is a producer, curator, strategist and arts consultant based in Sweden & the UK working across Europe.She works mostly with Contemporary Circus, Cross-disciplinary Arts and Live Art – always with bold and brave people, explorers and visionaries at heart. She's interested in how art can be used to facilitate democratic participation to challenge the status quo. Since 2017 she is Network Coordinator for Baltic Nordic Circus Network. Previously work history includes independent consultant for European Parliament and Co-Founding Director of Bristol Biennial Circus Festival.

Email: lina@cirkussyd.com

Lina B. Frank

Director

SE / UK

Edward Rapley works in the arts as a performer, director and strategic consultant.

Imagine a wizard in a cave who can help you solve problems and make decisions. You just need to know where to find him.

Edward is motivated by the politics of liberation and mutual aid in his work with helping people found artist led collectives. He is a member of Residence and based in Bristol, UK.

Edward was part of Cirkus Syd's international advisory board during 2019.

Edward Rapley

Chair of the Board

Originally a journalist in Turkey Burak moved to Sweden to study at Lund University. Burak focuses on marketing, communication and community management for the decentralised forms of governance in communities working with culture and arts. He has worked for Associated Press Television News, Huffington Post, Al Jazeera America as a freelancer. Since Feb 2018 he is Community & Communications Manager at Trans Europe Halles currently managing a 3-year research project, DISCE, on behalf of TEH. Burak is fluent in English and Turkish, and currently learning Swedish.

Burak Sayin

Board Member

SE / TR

Nick is a multi-disciplinary circus artist with a curiosity about the possibilities of this practice between the worlds of dance, performance art, writing and philosophy. Having studied at l’École de cirque de Québec he specialized in aerial rope, hand-balancing and floor acrobatics. Nick has created and performed with companies such as the tony award-winning Theatre de la Jeune Lune, the Circus Smirkus Big Top Tour, battleRoyal and the Chamäleon Theater. Nick currently teaches aerial classes at Xelias Aerial Arts Studio in Minneapolis, and guest lecturers in Circus Performance at the University of Minnesota’s BFA acting program. Nick holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Middlebury College.

Nick Zelle

Board Member

Anna Ljungqvist is producer and manager within Arts and Culture with a vast experience in the field. Mostly working with theatre and contemporary circus (9 years Head of Production and Deputy CEO at Cirkus Cikör and many years board member of Manegen) but also experienced wtih both dance and music. She has been a project leader in several international projects and has been involved in different international networks such as BNCN, and is currently working at SKH (Stockholm University of the Arts) running separate course in Circus Didactics as well as working as Head of Events at Malmö City.

Anna Ljungqvist

Board Member

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Daniel Gulko

Board Member

Email: hedda@cirkussyd.com

Hedda Celander

PA to the directors

Email: kristian@cirkussyd.com

Producer Festival Development

Kristian Anshelm

Fridamy is a circus artist and dance-acrobat based in Malmö and Lund. Her work with Cirkus Syd mainly concerns the development of circus spaces, training, workshops and residencies at Stenkrossen, Cirkus Syd’s headquarters in Lund.

When she is not in the office you might find her in the Cirkus Syd studio, working on her own artistic projects. She has previously studied the circus arts at AFUK in Copenhagen, and is currently involved in the production ”Ragnarok” at the Danish Royal Theatre.

Email: fridamy@cirkussyd.com

Fridamy Roth

Training and Community Officer

Alise Bokaldere

Content Manager / Podcast

Elena is an associate with NHLP, working to coordinate and edit content submissions from participants. Elena is also the digital editor of the NHLP platform.

Elena is a freelance writer, editor, and cultural producer, with an interest in performing and visual arts. She fell in love with circus quite recently, while working temporarily with DYNAMO Workspace, one of the hosting organisations and partners in NHLP. She is based in Denmark.

Elena Stanciu

Editor Publishing

Katie Holloway is a Bristol based designer and maker. Having studied Graphic Design, she works in developing brands, digital illustration, type & print. Alongside creating digitally, she works across a range of other formats, from embroidery, to scaling her work up and painting walls in need of a bit of loving. Her work embodies natural forms, wobbly shapes and bold colours.

Katie Holloway

Graphic Designer

ABOUT CIRKUS SYD

Cirkus Syd is a networking platform for international research, development and innovation based in Lund, Sweden.

Cirkus Syd is a platform to connect people, ideas and practises across borders and genres. We work in the cultural sphere using our expertise in contemporary circus arts, collaborate to inspire structural development and new opportunities.

We are excited by innovation, entrepreneurship, DIY, DIT and artistic research and we champion culture as an agent for democratic participation. We are an international NGO with a global membership base and we invite collaborators, partners and stakeholders to create visionary and developmental projects bringing people together to explore transdisciplinary cultural practises in our society.

We were founded in 2018 and have quickly gained momentum and breadth of activity due to the extensive experience and capacity of the board. Our flagship project are Circus Thinkers Platform connecting independent voices across the globe and the development of circus making in the region of Skåne.
We host a developing publishing house with a book shop and library.

Cirkus Syd is part of 4 international networks: BNCN, Circostrada European Network for Circus and Street Arts, INCAM international network of circus Magazine & Culture Action Europe.

Download our Annual Report 2021 here

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Cirkus Syd is managed by

Board of Trustees: Lina B. Frank (SE/UK), Burak Sayin (SE/TR), Ed Rapley (UK),
Nick Zelle (US), Anna Ljungqvist (SE) & Daniel Gulko (FR).

with support Emma Therkelson (SE) (soft auditing).
Ringmaster/Network Coordinator/Strategy Lina B. Frank
Graphics work by Katie Holloway (UK), Anita Marie (UK) & Naomi Clarke (UK),
Web, Digital & Editorial support by Elena Stanciu (DK)
Editorial and research support from Madeline Hoak (US)
Communications and Content Officers Alise Bokaldere (LV)

PA to the Directors Hedda Celander (SE)
Community and Training Officer Fridamy Roth (SE)

Festival Development and Technical Producer Kristian Anshelm (SE)
Accounting by Stefan Rubensson Redovisningsbyrå (SE)
Auditing by BDO (SE)