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62nd IJA Festival
July 13-19, 2009
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Being There

Summary   Guest Artists   Special Workshop   Shows   Competitions
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Downtown Winston-Salem

Downtown Winston-Salem and the central Twin City Quarter district, where all of the IJA festival events are being held, is a safe, clean, vibrant and very walkable area. There are more than 50 restaurants and pubs, a farmer's market, a large arts and shops district along Trade Street, and many conveniences for your visit including a pharmacy, a new 24-hour fitness club, and much more.

Convention Center

The Benton Convention Center will be the hub of festival activity. With nearly 100,000-sq.ft. of modern, well-lit, climate-controlled space, the Convention Center gives us plenty of room, all under one roof, to spread out and juggle, conduct workshops, party, shop for cool juggling gear, and more!

Located at the northwest corner of Fifth and Cherry in downtown Winston-Salem, the Convention Center is adjacent to our two headquarters hotels and near dozens of shops, excellent restaurants and pubs along Trade Street (one block east) and Fourth Street (one block south). Plus, it's just one block from both the Stevens Center Theater (evening shows) and the Millennium Center Theater (Club Renegade).

Stevens Center Theater

Having welcomed audiences in Winston-Salem since 1929, the beautiful, fully-restored Stevens Center Theater of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts will be the venue for four nights of IJA shows and championships.

This spacious and modernized theater seats 850 in comfortable upholstered seats on the lower level alone, with barrier-free sightlines from every seat. The theater is located at the northwest corner of Fourth Street and Marshall Street, just one block from the Convention Center and 1.5 blocks from either headquarters hotel.

Volunteers Needed

The IJA's annual festival is a mammoth undertaking for our small, all-volunteer organization, and making the week a success depends on dozens of volunteers to help out by donating their time and effort during the week. If you can offer to help a little or a lot, from one hour to several, please volunteer. You'll help make the festival fun for everyone, and your effort will be valued and recognized by your fellow jugglers.

Volunteers are needed for a wide range of positions including gym door checkers, IJA ambassadors, ticket assistants, IJA table staff, registration assistants, T-shirt and video sales, backstage show assistants, and election tellers. Those with a car at the fest are needed as VIP airport chauffeurs and downtown errand runners. If you can pitch in, even for just a couple of hours during the week, please see Volunteers Needed and/or email IJA Festival Volunteer Coordinator Dina Sharnhorst at .

Workshops

IJA festival workshops are worth the price of an event package for anyone interested in learning directly from the experts. Here you'll learn first-hand from some of the most amazing and inventive people in the world: your fellow jugglers! You'll be able to preview the full workshop schedule on this IJA web site before you leave home for Winston-Salem.

The festival workshop schedule runs Tuesday through Saturday, from mid-morning until 5pm each day and 3pm on Saturday. All workshop meeting rooms are located in the Benton Convention Center, making it easy to find and attend all the workshops on your "must-do" list. Updated workshop schedules will be posted every morning at the IJA Workshops table in the main gym.

If you'd like to teach a workshop, please contact Workshop Coordinator Kevin Axtell at .

Business Meeting

The annual IJA business meeting will be Tuesday at 4pm. Hear about and discuss how your Association is run, and meet the candidates running for the Board of Directors.

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