Coming up on its third edition, Basker Festival is a summer street arts and busking festival ('Basker' translates as 'busker') held annually in Belgrade, Serbia. The organisers are currently seeking performers who thrive in public spaces for the next festival, taking place 30 August – 2 September 2012.

As part of their funding cut rampage that last year saw the Arts and Events team's budget reduced by 62% (leading to the cancellation of Victoria Park's Paradise Gardens festival), Tower Hamlets are now proposing to cut 100% of their funding to Greenwich and Docklands International Festival.

As part of the immense trail of activities coming out of the Adain Avion project (itself part of Artists Taking the Lead, which is part of the London 2012 Festival, which is part of the Cultural Olympiad), there'll be performances of Willi Dorner's much-travelled Bodies in Urban Spaces in June in Swansea.

Oily Cart are looking for a circus practitioner to assist in a series of performances of Something in the Air, their collaboration with Ockham's Razor created for young people aged 3-19 with complex intellectual disabilities or an Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

Each show is performed for six young people, each with an adult companion, who are seated in suspended nest-chairs and flown among the aerial performers.

Motionhouse, a dance company who've worked quite a lot in the past with acrobatics and elements of circus, are offering positions for four apprentices to work alongside and be mentored by the company's dancers. The successful applicants will create and perform material for The Voyage, a major outdoor spectacle that will open the London 2012 Festival (which despite the name is nationwide) in the West Midlands.

Bassline Circus are looking for artists to perform at BoomTown Fair, a four-day independent festival with a backstory, this year running 9-12 August 2012.

Chinese pole and tightwire artists, acrobats, aerialists, stilt-walkers, street artists, parkour and extreme sports practitioners – anyone interested should send videos/photos/questions to natalia@boomtownfair.co.uk

Running up to and then marking the opening of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Sailing events, The Battle for the Winds is a multi-part large-scale outdoor performance produced by Cirque Bijou and Desperate Men that tells the story of – best guess on available information: – the Wind Gatherers' efforts to rescue the captured coastal winds from the wicked Doldrum.

Each year Ath's outdoor festival Sortilège, Rue & Vous programmes a Springboard (Tremplin) that puts young artists and their new creations in front of an audience of programmers.

There's no fee for performances, but companies are given technical support and can play for the hat if they wish. The main reason to go is for the chance of meeting with programmers, who do seem to attend the festival. Here's Yohann Floch writing about Sortilège following a CASCAS trip:

As Fresh Circus 2 (the blockbluster sequel to Circostrada's enormous 2008 industry seminar) draws closer the organisers are inviting professionals, artists, researchers and other interested parties to send in their thoughts and experiences on the topics of the ten thematic working sessions. Namely: