Tiny Circus

Tiny Circus is a group of people using non-hierarchical collaboration to make stop-motion animations, zines, audio documentaries, and other media. Emerging from community of makers with roots in Grinnell, Iowa, Tiny Circus has grown to include hundreds of collaborators across the country through its workshops at schools, arts organizations, and film festivals. Tiny Circus has unique working methods developed by participants in our workshops and creative sessions over the years. These methods have been recorded, practiced, and brought on tour to share with new groups. Our crowd-sourced approach to the creative process expands with every project, meaning that all participants shape the mission and culture of Tiny Circus in addition to creating an animation, a zine, or a an audio piece. Tiny Circus workshops provide people a chance to reconnect with their own creativity, and equally as important, to reconnect with each other. Making something with a group of people can feel challenging at first, but Tiny Circus studies how groups can make their way through the collaborative process and come out on the other side with a result that everyone feels good about.