Berkeley Juggling and Unicycle Festival

The Berkeley and Unicycle Festival is coming up, Friday, September 18th – Sunday, September 20th. The festival and workshops are free, the show is $10.

This amazing event has around 35 different classes over three days, as well as two shows, and other activities. I’m definitely going to this one – my third time. I may try to learn to unicycle.

Contact Juggling/Object Manipulation Workshops:

• Saturday 3:00pm:Beginning Contact Juggling
• Sunday: 10:00am: Advanced Object Manipulation
• Sunday:Noon: Contact Juggling Show and Tell

Portland Juggling Festival

The Portland Juggling Festival is coming up, and I hope to make it there this year. The usual other things like unicycles, diablo, etc., of course.

http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/event.php?eid=106645804304

Acrylic Spheres are Lenses

One thing I experienced at the Santa Cruz Juggling Festival was getting burned when doing contact juggling with my acrylic spheres in the sunshine. That’s why you can see me there practicing in the shade. I learn slowly, but I do learn!

But my stings were mild compared to this woman’s problems. She managed to burn down her house with an acryllic sphere. She put it in a window, and it lit her television on fire.

So keep your spheres covered when you are not using them, and don’t put them down (or leave them) where there is direct sunlight.

Santa Cruz Juggling Festival

I was at the 2009 Santa Cruz juggling festival recently, and I had a blast. Only downside was the heat. Bring a hat, bring sunscreen, and bring water. (I’m fond of throwing water bottles in the freezer, and bringing them. After a couple hours, they half melt, and are still wonderfully cold).

There were a range of classes; there was club juggling, contact juggling, hoops and whip cracking. I’ll definitely go next year. I wish they would find a spot with a little more shade, though.

Lots of pics at the link above.