Humboldt Circus

The Humboldt Circus is a student run club through Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. While a majority of their full production shows occur on the campus, they do many events not affiliated with the school as well. The Humboldt Circus was initially founded by a group from the Marching Lumberjacks’s (HSU’s marching band) SS division in 2000. There have been many performances organized since its conception. Typically, each fall show is adult themed, and each spring show is an all-ages show, but not always. The Humboldt Circus also hosts workshops in the community and on the HSU campus in which various circus skills are taught. They also travel throughout California and surrounding states, performing at and attending various juggling festivals. Their advisor is Melanie McCavour.

The Humboldt Circus Monkey was designed by Sideshow Designs, Scott Cocking in Arcata, CA.

Shows

 * The Buccaneer's Caaaarnival (2002)
 * Friction (2002)
 * Flying Greysons (2002)
 * Dr. Sugarshaker's House of Sin (2003)
 * The Last Temptation of Sin (2003)
 * Monkey Barrel (2004)
 * Intergalactic Brawl (2004)
 * Circo Magnifico Variety Hour (2005)
 * The Haunting of Circo Magnifico (2005)
 * Witches Brew of Twisted Tales (2006)
 * Klown College (2006)
 * Mirrifical! (Spring, 2007)
 * Name That Show (Fall, 2007)
 * The Space Between (Spring, 2008)
 * Smoke & Mirrors (Fall, 2008)
 * ̶F̶l̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶G̶r̶e̶y̶s̶o̶n̶s̶ ̶f̶l̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶d̶e̶a̶t̶h̶ (Winter, 2008)
 * A Book of Jokes (Spring, 2009)
 * InTents (Fall, 2009)
 * Cirque-U-Lation (Spring, 2010)
 * On Top of Things (Fall, 2010)
 * What Animals (Spring, 2011)
 * A Box O' Lips, NOW! (Fall, 2011)
 * So Many Colors (Spring, 2012)
 * One Continuous Lick (Fall, 2012)
 * Carnival of the Mind (Spring, 2013)
 * 28 Clubs Later (Fall, 2013)
 * Cirkosis (Spring, 2014)
 * Kink Without Borders (Fall, 2014)
 * The Circles of Life (Spring, 2015)
 * Carnicopia (Fall, 2015)
 * Casual Magic: Clowns on Shuffle (Spring, 2016)
 * Salacious Cirque (Fall, 2016)
 * No Strings Attached (Spring, 2017)
 * The Freak's Lament (Fall, 2017)
 * The Dawn of Juggling (Spring, 2018)
 * The End of the Whirrled (Fall, 2018)
 * The Elephant of Surprise (Spring, 2019)
 * A Space Oddity (Fall, 2019)
 * Mating Season (renegade, 2020)

Daughter entities
Many performers of the Humboldt Circus have gone on to create other performing troupes and shows such as


 * Cirque Du Singe
 * The Freelove Circus
 * The Redwood Curtain Circus
 * The Poetic Motion Machine
 * Blue Angel Burlesque
 * Varietyville
 * Circus Luminescence