evs staff
Circus Maniacs staff on placements sponsored by the European Union's Youth in Action programme:
Duygu Nas
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Goncalo Ramos
Goncalo Ramos has graduated in Visual Information Technologies in the University of Coimbra, Portugal.
He has worked as a percussion teacher, volunteer in several programs such as "Protect the Forests" and the Rolling Stones concert in "Estádio Cidade de Coimbra". As hobbies, he likes to play the guitar and juggle.
Sive Gozubenli
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Suzi Erduman
Suzi Erduman went to a Music School playing Bassoon for 4 years and discovered juggling after it. While studying German Literature in Turkey she started to juggle professionally. During her time as German and Juggling teacher she also volunteered in several programs, mainly in juggling workshops with homeless or ill children. She helped to build University Juggling Clubs, the Turkish Juggling Association and the Turkish Juggling Convention. She performed on several shows in hotels, special events, festivals and community organisations for more than 8 years.
She loves to teach and wants to learn more about acrobalance and circus arts and is looking for more international experience, therefore she is volunteering at Circus Maniacs.
Vanessa Santos
Vanessa Santos has been working for 9 years as a craft maker and a eco-designer freelancer in Portugal. She makes jewellery pieces in silver, cooper and tin. She worked with two fashion designers in Porto, Portugal and made her own collections selling them to different designers stores in this northern city. She has a window-dressing diploma and she did show window displays and her own installations in two galleries in Portugal. She has a drama diploma done with a theatre troupe from University of Braga called TUM. She also has a honours degree in Artistic Studies done in University of Coimbra, Portugal. Vanessa did Erasmus in the Academy of Theatre and Film of Sofia and Bulgaria and acted in Comic Illusion of Pierre Corneille. She worked as a mime, clown and fire swinger for many different venues such as christmas parties, party clubs and community organisations. Her main love though is eco-design, that she explored herself these last years. She love to work with recycled materials and do art pieces and fashion acessories with that. From 2006 to 2008 she established her own style an created a brand.
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