The Joy Circus Is In Town

I've just heard about a wonderful thing that I wanted to tell you. A traveling circus is bringing joy everywhere it goes around America. The circus is called the Venada Circus. It's kind of a traditional vintage style traveling circus, animal-free, where you get, they set up a tent and you get to go and watch people do things like handstands on one arm on a ring in the air and trapeze and juggling and fun and joy.

They like to call themselves the little circus that could and Donna got in touch to say that she found them during the pandemic and had some really amazing news about them. And you could call it wonder news. In fact, that's what I'm going to call it. It is wonder news.

So the little circus with a big heart, as Donna calls them, are still travelling all over continental United States, bringing a very special style of joy to the people that live there. Most recently, they went to sort of the most ravaged areas from the storm of North Carolina, and they say this.

It is our hope that the opportunity to participate in the world of the circus allowed many of these people to momentarily escape from their current challenges as they prepare to pursue their dreams amidst a new landscape. So they deliberately took the circus to these areas where they felt that there were people who needed some joy to just take a break out of the sadness that they were experiencing and the ravaged areas that they were in

so that they could form a better life for themselves and allow themselves to dream. But they didn't just take the circus there deliberately to help those people. They did more than that. They put the community together. So the first thing is they thought about it and they went, right, when we go to those areas, we are going to use our own food and water. We're going to make sure we take enough so we are not putting any pressure, the number of us that there are, not putting any pressure on the local infrastructure because already at this point, they are not in a good place.

And they offered some different types of tickets. So obviously there was pay what you can, but then they also said free if you need tickets as well. But they went one step further. They encouraged the local community if they could afford it to donate to cover the cost of the free tickets. So not only are they saying, you know what, you can come for free if you need to. They're also saying, look, you have a community around you that want to support you too, and that we're all supporting each other. And in fact, they say they had a really good big donation that meant that they could give tickets to more people.

So this is a really great example of Wonder News. It's a group of people who've just gone, you know what? We're here to help, we're here to spread joy, and we're going to do it with like big smiles on our faces and make people happy. And we're going to do it in a way that helps, actually helps the local community. So that's the Venada Circus. And they said about the whole event, in the end, it all happened through the power that fuels fuels all circus dreams. Teamwork.

My aim with Wonder News every week is to bring you a story that puts your hope back into humanity. And this was sent to me by Donna. She has experienced the circus herself and wanted to share this news with you. If you have something that you think this is amazing, it's absolutely worth a Wonder News. Let's spread this positivity and joy and hope in humanity around the world via

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Now, here's something for you. That circus is still touring. They're in Alabama and they're in, I think, Florida over the next few weeks. So make sure if you want to get tickets, you go to vanandoscircus.com. We'll put a link in the episode notes today, vanandoscircus.com. Good people doing good things for good people. This is your everyday positivity, also doing good things for you, good people, good person.

And I will be back for you tomorrow with another episode for you. Remember, if you want to meet more good people, you can come to the everyday positivity, hang out this Saturday. There is lots of information in this episode. It's this Saturday, 6 p.m. UK time, 1 p.m. Eastern American time and 10 a.m. Pacific American time. I would love to see you there. You can share your wonder news. You can share your wonderful things that have happened in 2024 and we can walk away feeling like we can take on the world.

I'll see you there and I'll see you tomorrow. Have a great day and remember you have 100% got this.