Wise Fool New Mexico Youth Programs Summer Camp

1030 Midtown Calle Central, Ste 103, Santa Fe, NM 87505

map1030 Midtown Calle Central, Ste 103, Santa Fe, NM 87505

About

Wise Fool New Mexico Youth Programs Summer Camp offers ongoing classes in circus arts along with hands-on activities in circus, puppetry, and theatre. Participants take part in performances and hands-on experiences in these art forms as part of the program.

• Ages: 10–18 years old
• Schedule: Wise Fool New Mexico will be taking a break between July 27–August 9, with no admin staff available until after August 3.

Wise Fool New Mexico states that its mission is to ignite imagination, build community, and promote social justice through performances and hands-on experiences in the arts of circus, puppetry, and theatre. The organization is described as a beloved and award-winning non-profit organization and social circus, identified as a pioneer in the emerging North American Social Circus movement, and described as the only contemporary circus arts company in New Mexico. It welcomes adults and teens of all ages, genders, sizes, fitness, and experience levels to join ongoing classes in circus arts and holds a mandatory unlearning oppression workshop each year for all staff, board, teachers, and performers. Wise Fool New Mexico states a commitment to accessibility for people with physical and mental disabilities and to enhancing opportunities for full participation in the arts by people with disabilities.

Wise Fool New Mexico serves 2,000 youth and adults with hands-on activities and 14,000 audience members annually with experiences built upon core values of community, arts accessibility, and social justice, and provides visual support for community and cultural events and social change organizations. The leadership team includes Director of Development & Marketing Alexis Kubicki and Executive Director Alishiya Kapoor. Testimonials describe Wise Fool New Mexico as strengthening the community through creativity, art, theater, and powerful messages, and say that programs have given a participant confidence, dexterity, team skills, and life skills. Other testimonials state that the environment is simultaneously exhilarating and safe, that teachers and community members model bravery and enthusiasm, and that the mostly female group of performers guarantees that audiences will feel a sense of unlimited potential.

Last updated August 1, 2026.

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