Vulcana Women’s Circus grew out of the lively arts community of West End in Brisbane in 1995. It was established to provide circus skills training and performance opportunities for women and young people from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Over the years this vibrant community arts organisation has provided large numbers of women and young people with access to cultural expression. Learning circus is great fun and provides participants with the opportunity to develop physical skills, to improve their health and wellbeing, and to develop personal empowerment in a non-competitive environment. From the first major community show (A Girls Own Adventure) performed in October 1995, Vulcana has grown to provide a diverse annual program of activities.

Vulcana offers a series of circus workshops, a variety of performances projects, outreach programs and team development workshops and creates performances for functions and events. Vulcana Women's Circus is renowned for staging large-scale community shows which combine "brilliant physical theatre" (The Australian) with "dazzling skills" (The Courier Mail).

Vulcana works closely with other arts organisations and community groups to provide these performance experiences and relies on grants, sponsorship, memberships and self-funding to continue operating.