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The Danish House in Palestine (DHIP) and the Palestinian Circus (PC) partner to harness social circus as a catalyst for youth resilience, civic participation, and cultural rights under occupation. The project delivers psychosocial workshops to 400+ children in marginalized West Bank areas and trains 40 youth leaders - half young women - to design and lead local initiatives. A mobile circus tent provides a unique cultural space, hosting 20+ public performances for 6,000+ attendees in areas often cut off from cultural life. Through creative expression, youth leadership, and outreach, the project addresses major deficits: the absence of safe spaces, dependency on unstable funding, and the isolation of vulnerable communities. It builds local capacity, promotes dignity and agency through the arts, and creates lasting opportunities for healing, visibility, and community-led change in some of Palestine’s most underserved areas.