The Association Giocolieri e Dintorni (G & D), inheriting a cultural project launched in 1998 with the founding of Juggling Magazine, was founded in 2002 with the purpose to promote, inform, connect a vibrant and growing galaxy of organizations and enthusiasts engaged today in Italy in circus arts. Twelve years after its founding G&D manages today the following main axes of development:
 
1) Juggling Magazine media project. Started from the pages of the quarterly magazine Juggling Magazine, founded in 1998, a project to promote and inform about the development of contemporary circus arts, has gradually expanded and structured. To cope with the increasing demand and supply of information in such a vibrant field, beside the original magazine we have put in place a website/portal www.jugglingmagazine.it, an instant news service, the monthly Juggling Magazine Newsletter, our pages on the social networks Facebook and You Tube (including the video platform Juggling Video Magazine), and last but not least Juggling Digital Magazine, online interactive version of the magazine, distributed online free of charge and internationally.

2) CircoSfera. G&D has from the very beginning paid special attention to the projects inspired by circus pedagogy, becoming a national reference for the training of trainers, the promotion of the field and representing Italy abroad. This ground work has led to the development of CircoSfera project, which plans to integrate the dense series of initiatives related to circus art educational projects, including training of trainers, the educational projects of the affiliated schools, educational innovation, international collaborations, the development of young talents.

3) AltroCirco. Recently launched, this G&D project aims to the development and recognition of the Social Circus in Italy. AltroCirco is meant top bring together associations and trainers dealing with social circus in Italy, helping them at growing together and to promote the role of circus as a tool for social trans-formation. Its five key objectives: facilitate the debate on a national level; develop studies and researches; encourage the recognition of methodologies, training of trainers; collaborate with national and international partners.

4) Quinta Parete. This audience development project aims to combine the horizons of on line/off line communication and audience development in a project for spreading contemporary circus arts in Italy. Quinta Parete will provide over three years a number of specific activities for the development and training of the audience/s, focusing also on disadvantaged youth. Another aim is to introduce new audience to contemporary circus arts, reaching out to other fields such as dance, sport and theater. 


The coordination and implementation of these projects, each with a national circulation, involves a team of highly qualified and experienced people. Our task is to provide each of them with the tools, resources and incentives needed to fuel a project that has no equal in Italy, and over the years has gained the attention and esteem of the international field.
We hope that the same attention, reinforced by the right support, will continue to come from the entire field and from national and European institutions.