Our Autumn Project, High Wire, examined the calamity of cultural closures and proposed a different kind of venue – the POP-UP-NANO-CIRCUS. The project focussed on high wire acts that would take place initially on a mobile circus barge and subsequently develop into a wider enterprise with a high wire school. Working with research into their individual circus’s in mind everyone embarked on a Google-fuelled-navigation of the French Canal System, scouting a series of suitable places to tie-up their vessel and stage performances. In the first phase practice sessions would take place with the barge under-way and nightly performances would play to long thin audiences, spaced out along the towpath. We investigated wires, tensioning, poles, struts and drew on the specificities of high-wire equipment, https://www.firetoys.co.uk, to create performance linked morphologies. The lightweight and portable elements of the project: the high wire equipment, demountable seating element, canopy, control kiosk, lighting, sound equipment and living accommodation all packed away into the hold of the barge. Finding ways to draw the unpacking and assembly process was part of the challenge. The second phase forecast a hypothetically-joyful-near-future in which the barge based high wire acts had attracted eager sold-out mini-crowds and the mayors of districts throughout France were insisting that the shows be bought to their part of the canal system. Other barges would now perform a variety of high wire acts – so a semi-permanent tow-path wire support facility, WSF, was required. This success also created opportunities for more varied kinds of rehearsal, an occasional circus school and a physio-spa for performers.