Accessibility Information

The Canberra Circus Festival contains the following features:

Grounds:

  • Chifley Community Oval: Level community playing field, hard scrubby grass, reasonably level but slightly bumpy.

  • Venue Tent and Bar tent are immediately adjacent to a public footpath that connects to paths to Chifley Shops, The Chifley Health and Wellbeing Hub Carpark, Central Chifley, and Woden Town Centre.

  • The Market day space (Sat October 4th) utilises the areas on the oval surrounding the tent, and the concreted basketball court nearby. There is a public toilet at the corner of the oval, toilets available in the Chifley Health and Wellbeing Hub, and a disability access toilet has been hired for placement directly adjacent to the tent.

  • The Chifley Health and Wellbeing Hub will also be open and has wheelchair accessible bathrooms and showers, change spaces if needed.
  • The bathrooms in the hub have change tables, and breastfeeding parents are welcome to utilise the spaces for feeding if they would like/need to (The whole event is breastfeeding friendly, but there are more private spaces for those who require them).
    There is concrete pathways from directly adjacent to the festival up to the building, but it is a steepish hill, and approx. 60m away.

Venue:

  • The show venue is a big-top circus tent with 345 seats, arranged in the '3/4 round' (chairs in front, and to either side of the main stage). There are raised bleacher style seats at the back of the seating in the venue.
  • Front Row seats in the tent on all three sides can be removed to make space for wheelchair users.
  • There is a single entrance/exit to the tent from the bar tent and an exit out the other side that will act as the primary exit on the market day of the festival.
  • There are three portable disability accessible public toilets immediately adjacent to the venue, and indoor toilets up the hill/footpath at the Chifley Health and Wellbeing Hub.
  • Some shows feature loud noises and music; summary on each artist's page.