The story
Letni Letna in Prague
Letni Letna began in 2004 with a single tent and around six thousand spectators, organised by Spolecnost GASPARD to build contemporary circus as an art form in the Czech Republic. Staged each summer on the open ground of Letna Park known as the green meadow, it has grown to draw more than fifty thousand spectators, with a cumulative 2,050 shows and 517,000 attendees across two decades, and has held the EFFE quality label since 2015.
Letni Letna began in 2004 with a single tent and about six thousand spectators, organised by Spolecnost GASPARD, a company established in 1999 specifically to organise, support and develop contemporary circus as an art form in the Czech Republic, a genre with far less institutional infrastructure at the time than conventional theatre or music.