{"id":4386,"date":"2020-07-02T11:27:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T11:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enpistedev.wpenginepowered.com\/a-circus-artist-has-15000-worth-of-equipment-stolen\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T11:27:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T11:27:34","slug":"a-circus-artist-has-15000-worth-of-equipment-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enpiste.qc.ca\/en\/a-circus-artist-has-15000-worth-of-equipment-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"A Circus Artist Has $15,000 Worth of Equipment Stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past month, circus artist Benoist Hippolyte has been performing with the Montreal street arts company Dr\u00f4ldadon, in front of the balconies of elderly individuals confined to low-income housing (HLM) or long-term care facilities (CHSLD) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Between Sunday night and Monday morning, he had $15,000 worth of circus props stolen, some of which are rare in Quebec, which he nonetheless needed to &#8220;create smiles&#8221; on the faces of seniors. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>This theft occurs while the Dr\u00f4ldadon company is currently the only one employing him, as circus performances have been paralyzed for over three months due to the COVID-19 crisis. <q lang=\"fr\" style=\"font-style: italic; quotes: '\u00ab ' ' \u00bb'; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-attributes=\"{\"lang\":{\"value\":\"fr\",\"label\":\"Fran\u00e7ais\"},\"value\":{\"html\":\"Ma prochaine date de spectacle est pr\u00e9vue pour mars&lt;span class=\\\"nbsp\\\"&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;2021 en Cor\u00e9e du Sud\",\"text\":\"Ma prochaine date de spectacle est pr\u00e9vue pour mars2021 en Cor\u00e9e du Sud\"}}\"><span lang=\"fr\" title=\"French\">My next performance date is scheduled for March 2021 in South Korea<\/span><\/q>, explains Benoist Hippolyte, who was on tour in Finland when the lockdown was declared in March. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the misfortune suffered by Benoist Hippolyte, this incident illustrates the problem for circus artists regarding the storage of their props, a problem exacerbated during this pandemic period. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>In order to continue working, he has nevertheless decided to launch <a class=\"cbcrc-icon-open-in-new\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/artiste-de-cirque-en-peril (Access page in new window)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/artiste-de-cirque-en-peril\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/artiste-de-cirque-en-peril (Acc\u00e9der \u00e0 la page dans une nouvelle fen\u00eatre)\">a fundraiser on the GoFundMe website<\/a>. <q lang=\"fr\" style=\"font-style: italic; quotes: '\u00ab ' ' \u00bb';\" data-attributes=\"{\"lang\":{\"value\":\"fr\",\"label\":\"Fran\u00e7ais\"},\"value\":{\"html\":\"En \u00e9change, je promet de continuer de faire rire le monde partout au Qu\u00e9bec, dans les salles, la rue, les CHSLD, et ce, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 mes 97&lt;span class=\\\"nbsp\\\"&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;ans! \",\"text\":\"En \u00e9change, je promet de continuer de faire rire le monde partout au Qu\u00e9bec, dans les salles, la rue, les CHSLD, et ce, jusqu\u2019\u00e0 mes 97ans! \"}}\"><\/q><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/amp\/1716460\/benoist-hippolyte-artiste-cirque-vol-materiel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the Radio-Canada article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past month, circus artist Benoist Hippolyte has been performing with the Montreal street arts company Dr\u00f4ldadon, in front of the balconies of elderly individuals confined to low-income housing (HLM) or long-term care facilities (CHSLD) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Between Sunday night and Monday morning, he had $15,000 worth of circus props stolen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"ville_de_levenement":"","name_publieur":"","entreprise":"","role_du_publieur":"","credit":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Circus Artist Has $15,000 Worth of Equipment Stolen - En Piste<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enpiste.qc.ca\/en\/a-circus-artist-has-15000-worth-of-equipment-stolen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Circus Artist Has $15,000 Worth of Equipment Stolen - En Piste\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For the past month, circus artist Benoist Hippolyte has been performing with the Montreal street arts company Dr\u00f4ldadon, in front of the balconies of elderly individuals confined to low-income housing (HLM) or long-term care facilities (CHSLD) due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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