Floating Circus

Think Out Loud | Aug 5, 2019
Organizing a circus is no easy task. Ring-leading a month-long floating circus in a boat down the Willamette River is even harder. We ask Jason Webley, a performer and organizer with the Flotsam River Circus, how his traveling performance experiment from Corvallis to Portland is going this summer.

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