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Contact CommunityCircus: Corrections and Directory Additions
What is useful to send, and what is better asked elsewhere.
The most useful messages to receive are corrections. Directory entries drift out of date steadily as organisations move premises, change what they teach, or quietly stop operating altogether, and those changes almost never announce themselves anywhere that a directory compiled only from public sources would happen to notice them at all.
Additions matter very nearly as much as corrections do. The three main centres are already well covered here; the likely remaining gaps are in the smaller regions, where a single community organisation may be running the only circus classes available for a considerable distance in any direction from the town.
What makes a correction useful
The most valuable corrections name the specific entry and say what has changed about it. An organisation that has moved city, narrowed its teaching to a single apparatus, or closed entirely will otherwise sit here looking perfectly current for months on end, quietly sending people somewhere that no longer exists.
Additions are most useful when they include a link to the organisation’s own page. Every entry in the directory points readers back to the source rather than trying to replace it, so an organisation without any public page of its own is genuinely difficult to list well, because the listing is built to route readers onward.
Regions where coverage is thinnest
Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch are comfortably the best documented parts of the country here, simply because that is where most established organisations operate and where their details are easiest to verify independently. The gaps are almost entirely elsewhere, in the smaller places served by a single organisation rather than several.
Northland, Hawke’s Bay, the Waikato coast and the lower South Island are the areas where a single community trust or studio may be running the only circus classes for a considerable distance. Those are exactly the entries most worth hearing about, and by some distance the ones hardest to find independently.
The same applies to organisations that do not maintain much of a public presence. A trust running weekly sessions out of a borrowed community hall with nothing but a social media page is genuinely difficult to discover from the outside, and equally worth listing once somebody local points us towards it.
Questions better asked elsewhere
Anything genuinely time-sensitive belongs with the organisation itself rather than here. Class availability, term dates, current pricing and touring schedules all change considerably faster than any reference site can realistically track, and the schools and companies will always know their own current position better and sooner than anyone else could.
Every directory entry links straight through to its organisation’s own page for exactly that reason. The listing on this site is intended as a route to the original source rather than as any kind of substitute for it, and the listing works best when it is treated exactly that way.
Looking for a school or a show?Start with the directory, or the city pages for Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Questions people ask
How do I add my organisation to the directory?
Send the organisation name, the region it works in, a short description of what it teaches or performs, and a link to its own page. Established schools, community trusts and performing companies operating anywhere in New Zealand are all in scope here, regardless of how small they happen to be.
How do I correct an existing entry?
Name the entry and say plainly what is wrong with it. Changes of location, focus or operating status are by far the most valuable corrections to receive, because those are precisely the things a directory gets wrong silently, without any external sign at all that the entry has gone stale.
Can you tell me when a circus is next in my town?
Not reliably, and you will get a far better answer by asking the company directly. Touring routes are set season by season and revised every year, and the companies confirm their venues and consents long before any of it becomes the sort of public information a third-party listing could pick up.