This writing sets out to explore the Social Circus program in Nunavik in the Arctic in Far North Canada which in various forms has now been running for nearly twenty years. The initial program begun by Cirque du Soleil in 2002 had little uptake by the Inuit. There was a lack of community support and very sporadic attendance by the Inuit young people and after five years it was discontinued. The Social Circus program now known as Cirqiniq developed out of this initial program. Its success can be gauged by the fact that every year young Inuit vote in a poll as to whether it should continue or not. The program now has the support to ensure it continues each year. This article asks questions about what it was that changed in order to cause this turnabout? What was it that changed to cause the involvement of young Inuit and Inuit communities? Did the approaches to training change? Did structural changes occur? The authors, two of whom have worked with Cirqiniq, set out to answer these questions. A series of interviews undertaken with Inuit and Qallunaat (non-Inuit) involved in the program, along with research undertaken in response to these interviews, revealed a process of structural and cultural decolonisation of the Social Circus program which the authors point to as the key component in the program’s current success.

本文旨在探索加拿大远北地区北极努纳维克的社会马戏团项目，该项目以各种形式运行了近二十年。太阳马戏团于 2002 年开始的最初计划几乎没有被因纽特人接受。因纽特年轻人缺乏社区支持和非常零星的出席，五年后停止了。现在被称为 Cirqiniq 的 Social Circus 程序就是从这个初始程序发展而来的。它的成功可以通过每年年轻的因纽特人在投票中投票决定是否应该继续的事实来衡量。该计划现在得到了支持，以确保它每年都继续进行。本文提出的问题是什么导致了这种转变？是什么改变了年轻的因纽特人和因纽特人社区的参与？培训方法是否发生了变化？是否发生了结构性变化？其中两位曾与 Cirqiniq 合作过的作者着手回答这些问题。对参与该计划的因纽特人和 Qallunaat（非因纽特人）进行的一系列采访，以及针对这些采访进行的研究，揭示了社会马戏团计划的结构和文化非殖民化过程，作者指出这是关键该计划当前成功的组成部分。