How a printer and a dream became a life-changing circus school

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When Bim Mason and his partner bought a second-hand printer in 1994, they had little more than ambition and a shared vision. What started as a scrappy operation to launch Circomedia, a physical circus school in Bristol, has since transformed hundreds of students into professional performers, acrobats, and artists. Now Mason has written a book chronicling how two circus practitioners bootstrapped their dream into one of Europe's most influential training grounds for contemporary circus arts. The story captures both the practical hustle of early years and the unlikely alchemy that turns passion projects into institutions.