Festivals
July
26-28, MontpelIier, Vermont.
Murph will be a featured juggler at the
Vermont Fool's Fest in downtown Montpellier. The Buck(ield Leather'n
Lather Traveling Variety Show, with juggling arOstic
director Benny Reehl, and New England Vaudeville Revue are also
scheduled to perform. A $4 admission but lD is good for the entire
weekend. Contact Montpellier on the Move, Montpellier,VT.
August
2-4 Syracuse, New York - POSTPONED! The International
Unicycling Federation has been forced to postpone the Second World
Unicycling
Convention until the summer of 1986. The postponement will not affect
publication of
th IUF Handbook and the premier issue of "Unicycling"
magazine. For more information contact the IUF at Westbury, NY.
August
17
Cambridge, Massachusetts
- The MIT Juggling Club will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a
day-long juggling festival in the Walker Memorial Gymnasium (corner of
Memorial Drive and Ames St.) on the MIT campus. A $3 registration fee
will cover all activities during the 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. schedule of
events. The management of the gym requests that jugglers check their
torches and sharp objects at the door before entering the gym. Contact
Patty Charney or Dario Pittore Arthur Lewbel.
August
3
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
The second quasi-annual Woods Hole Jugglers Picnic will be held,
weather permitting. Contact Allan Moriz.
August
24
Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Juggler of Ann Arbor host their summer festival. Contact Paul
Kyprie, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
September
5-8 Louvain-Ia-Neuve, Belgium
The Eighth European Juggling Convention will be held in the
Blocry Sports Center of this university city near Brussels. Activities
include workshops, a parade and fun-for-all competitions in the Grand'
Place of Brussels, non-stop video show, a Friday evening Public Show
and Saturday evening "Super Music Hall Show" that will
culminate in a fire routine. Contact Vincent Wauters, Bruxelles,
Belgium.
October
5-6
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The 1985 Fun Skills Jubilee will be
held in Philadelphia in historic and beautiful Fairmount Park. Both
days will be filled with free workshops and demonstrations, and a
public show will highlight the first day's activities. Contact Sidney
Ozer, Fairmount Park Commission, Memorial Park, West Park,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Jan.
26 - Feb. 2, 1986
Kalani Honua Cultural Center, Hawaii
The second annual Hawaiian Juggling Convention will be held on the
grounds of the Kalani Honua retreat center next to the ocean on the
big island of Hawaii. Accommodation limited to 90 jugglers. Package
plan is $190. Contact Graham Ellis, Pahoa, Hawaii.
Scandinavians
bid winter goodbye with juggling fest by Marcus Mandai
The
first Scandinavian Jugglers Convention in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a
great success, even though the 13 Swedes and Fins were heavily
outnumbered by 157 jugglers from non-Scandinavian countries.
It
seems that Scandinavian juggling is based in Denmark. More than 50
persons from the host club, Jugglers Against Gravity, participated in
the three-day convention. The greatest number of people from a single
country were the Germans, but a total of 14 countries were
represented.
Held
at the sports center in the heart of the Danish capital, the
convention attracted a lot of attention. Small children from the
neighborhood seemed astonished as a participant casually tied a rope
between a tree and a sign, stepped on the rope and began juggling. One
man juggling in one of the three available halls was doing two clubs
in one hand while holding his month-old daughter in the other!
The
$10 registration fee covered a dinner on the first evening,
workshops, private lodging, a big party, public show and showing of
the W.C. Fields film, "The Great McConigle."
On
Saturday afternoon, juggling events were held in a big square. They
included gladiator juggling, twin-juggling-race,
long-distance passing and the cold thrill
ice cube juggling. A new record was set by the insensitive David
Faithfull from Scotland, who managed to juggle for 9:05 without
gloves.
