IJA eNewsletter, May 2016

Editors: Don Lewis and Martin Frost
ijanews@juggle.org

 Was this issue forwarded to you?  Click here to join the IJA to get your own copy each month, and get full access to eJuggle too!

 

CONTENTS

• Chair’s message
• New email address for IJA Membership Director
• Special Workshop added: Aleksandra Savina
• Looking for Youth Showcase performers for IJA 2016 fest
• Seeking volunteers for 2017 Festival Registrar – Earn a full Festival Package
• Board nominations still open — deadline extended to June 17
• Free brunch all week at the IJA fest!
• Festival Special Workshop by Emil Dahl
• Jogglers: Sign up online for the fest’s Joggling Championships
• Workshop leaders: Let us know what you want to teach
• Stage Championships finalists!
• Online fest registration ends at 11:59pm EDT on June 30
• Special Guests at the IJA Festival
• The Gauntlet 3
• 2016 IJA Festival hotel information
• Festival room and ride sharing
• IJA Authors
• Upcoming IJA Regional Competitions: Central America (Costa Rica) and Mexico
• 2013 Fest DVD 2-Pack available from the new IJA Store
• Latest articles in eJuggle
• Upcoming juggling festivals

Chair’s message, by Nathan Wakefield

New email address for IJA Membership Director

Effective immediately, the email address for reaching our Membership Director (Marilyn Sullivan) has changed.  The new address is: ijamemberships@juggle.org.  And remember, you can renew your membership online by logging in to ym.juggle.org and then going to Manage Profile.

Special Workshop added: Aleksandra Savina

Aleksandra Savina will be teaching a 2-day Special Workshop on hoop manipulation at the IJA fest.  The workshop will be held Thursday and Friday from 11am to 1pm, and the workshop fee is $80.

Aleksandra is a highly respected international hoop artist from Ukraine. She studied at Kiev State College of Variety and Circus Arts under the tutelage of world renowned juggling instructor, Yuriy Pozdnyakov. In 2014, she competed in Cirque de Demain and was awarded a Special Prize.

Aleksandra’s Special Workshop will encompass 4 hours over a 2 day period. It is open to beginner through advanced level hoop jugglers and artists who want to take their hoop technique and style to the next level. It is recommended that you have three hoops to attend this workshop.

Each day will begin with a warm-up and finger exercises, important in building the dexterity for hoop manipulation. Aleksandra will teach technical tips on a variety of throws, contact hoop juggling on the shoulders and back, and rolling hoops on the floor. These techniques will be applicable all the way from one-hoop manipulation for the novice to more difficult multi-hoop patterns. During the workshop, Aleksandra will also lead a session on group interaction with hoops.

This is an excellent opportunity to get hands-on training and style tips from one of the world’s top hoop artists.

Sign up now, or at the festival, to take advantage of this unique opportunity to have four personalized hours of training with Aleksandra Savina.

Looking for Youth Showcase performers for IJA 2016 fest

The Youth Showcase is a great opportunity for younger jugglers to perform at the Festival. The Youth Showcase is a non-competitive event at which performers with routines can get stage time to show their skills for a supportive audience. Performers are 18 years old and younger, and routines can be solo or group and should be under 5 minutes. A technical rehearsal will be held on the day of the show, with the performance taking place in the evening. Jugglers who want to perform (or their parents) can contact the show producer, Art Thomas, at youthshowcase2016@juggle.org.

Seeking volunteers for 2017 Festival Registrar – Earn a full Festival Package, by Mike Sullivan

The IJA is seeking a couple of dedicated volunteers to be the Festival Registrars for the historic 70th Annual IJA Festival in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, set for July 10-16, 2017. Volunteers can earn a full Festival Event Package for their efforts and be part of the core team that makes the festival so much fun for hundreds of jugglers from around the world.

After reading the description of the role below, if you think you might be interested, please contact 2016 Festival Registrar Mike Sullivan at registrar@juggle.org soon so that you can possibly get some hands-on training with Mike this year, both before and at the 2016 festival.  He’ll be happy to answer any questions you have.

The effort for next year begins early in 2017 with the setup and testing of the online event registration system. Work with the festival team to get festival registrations ready around February or March, and then provide weekly registration reports until online registration ends in June. Once set up, the system is run by automation through the end of online registration, requiring no administrative effort except weekly reports and a few customer service requests.

After that, you’ll help the festival team with data processing and logistics for the festival registration desk, including:

– Preparing festival packets for pre-registered jugglers
– Giving festival team members data on vendor, juggler and guest registrations
– Handling customer service for jugglers inquiring about the fest or their registration
– Coordinating with event directors on event registrations for joggling, numbers, etc.

Registration setup and testing requires about 30 hours of work spread across a couple of weeks in January and February. Once registration opens, 2-4 hours/week should be all that’s needed to monitor and report on registrations as well as handle the few customer service issues that come up.

Once on-site at the festival in Cedar Rapids, you’ll lead the IJA registration desk team, including

– Staffing the desk from 9am-4pm daily along with 3-4 other IJA volunteers
– Checking in pre-registered jugglers and sell gym passes & other fest items
– Working with the Square Register system to record and process all transactions
– Preparing and making bank deposits of cash and checks received daily
– Updating the festival team and Treasurer on daily sales each night
– After the fest, preparing summary and detail sales reports

It’s a lot of work, but it’s very rewarding and you’ll be part of the core team that makes the 70th annual IJA Festival an unforgettable week of fun in a beautiful, small Midwestern gem of a city.

If you’re interested, please email 2016 Festival Registrar Mike Sullivan at registrar@juggle.org. Hands-on training is available starting now and continues with on-site training at this year’s fest in El Paso.

Board nominations still open — deadline extended to June 17, by Martin Frost

There’s still time to nominate someone to run for the IJA Board of Directors.  The nominations deadline has been extended to June 17.

Run for the IJA Board, or if you think you know someone who would be a good Board member, talk to them about running.  The current volunteer directors on the IJA Board are working hard to keep the IJA alive and vibrant. Each year the IJA needs new volunteers to join the Board and help decide the directions the IJA will go.  About half of the seven Board seats are up for election each summer for a two-year term.  You help out for two years and then you can relax and let someone else step up if you want to.  Or, you could offer to run again. 

Serving on the Board can be very rewarding.  Submit a nomination to ijanominations@juggle.org by the June 17th deadline.  Email that same address if you have any questions about serving on the Board.  Help promote the IJA and build on a legacy of success.  For more details about serving as a Board member, see: www.juggle.org/business/nominations.php.

2016 IJA Festival in El Paso, Texas, July 25-31, Jim Maxwell, Festival Director

Individuals

 

In July of last year, Josh Horton quit his full-time social media job to focus 100 percent on his juggling career. Since then, Josh has appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, ESPN’s Top 10 Plays, Nickelodeon, a national Acura commercial, and over 30 NBA and college basketball halftime shows. Using his social media skill, Josh has grown a following of nearly 250,000 fans. He shares the joy of juggling with them on a daily basis, inspiring many to try juggling for the first time. Josh’s act combines his technical skill with his love for music and the stage.

 

Hiroki Kamei has been practicing diabolo for 15 years. Please enjoy his new diabolo tricks. He won first place in the men’s individuals category at the 2013 Tokyo International Diabolo Competition, first place for one-diabolo vertex at the 2014 All Japan Diabolo Competition, first place for one bearing diabolo at the 2015 Diabolo Asia Cup 2015, and first place for men’s individuals at the 2015 Diabolo Malaysia Open Competition.

 

In the mere seven years that he’s been juggling, Sam Malcolm has achieved more than many jugglers do in a lifetime, from winning numbers gold and competing in the Butterfly Man Busker’s Competition, to performing internationally for giant crowds with his one-man comedy variety show in the Edmonton Fringe Festival. Sam loves performing and making people smile. His act was inspired by the time he spent in a touring circus and has its roots in traditional juggling routines of the past.

 

Geoff Marsh also known as Gypsy Geoff has experience entertaining and traveling all over North America with his unique circus stunts and zany marionette puppets. He has been performing at family festivals, corporate events, Renaissance fairs, and private parties for over 12 years, performing his 30-45 minute show over 400 times a year. Two years ago he won first place in the International Jugglers Association’s street performing competition. He avidly donates his time performing and teaching workshops with Clowns Without Borders in refugee camps and rural areas of social and economic crisis all over the world.

 

Jorden Moir (MOY-er) is a 28-year-old professional juggler from Ontario, Canada. He has been juggling for 15 years and juggles a wide variety of props, with a specialization in foot juggling with beanbags. His performing venues include dinner theaters, corporate events, and European variety shows. Jorden was the 2010 IJA Individual Stage Champion.

 

Scott Sorensen has been a juggler for over 30 years. Juggling the most things for the longest time has always been his passion, and he has collected 16 IJA Numbers Gold Medals for doing so. Once described as a “meat and potatoes juggler” by Matt Hall, here is Scott with an act titled “a few of my favorite juggling things.”

---

Teams

 

Aki and Takeru consists of Aki Ueno and Takeru Hirano, the two devilstickers who have been trying their best at devilstick juggling for a long time. They have conceived a lot of new devilstick tricks that you have never seen and improved their technique up to this day. Their consummated devilstick juggling and combinations will make you all surprised.

 

Balance-in-Motion consists of Heather Marriott and Neil Jordaan. Both have had a life-long love of circus arts, and incorporate these influences to take their juggling to new heights. When they met at the 2008 IJA Festival, they never imagined that eight years later they would find themselves in the IJA Teams competition.

 

Jonglissimo: Daniel Ledel and Dominik Harant were inspired to practice juggling through a workshop at their local school. One of the juggling teachers was Manuel Mitasch. Now they perform together all over Europe. They won IJA gold medals in 2005, 2007, and 2013 and have over 15 world records. Normally, their shows are a unique mix of theater, juggling, and multimedia arts. At the IJA stage championships they will focus on the raw art of juggling by pushing their technical ability to the next level.

Photo by Luke Burrage

 

Diabolo performance duo Totchees is from Nagoya Japan and consists of Tetsuya Tochikubo and Ayaka Tochikubo. In 2015, Totchees won the All-Japan Diabolo Competition for teams. They have won various other prizes and championships and have performed at a lot of festivals. Most of the act is composed of original pair tricks. Totchees especially hopes you enjoy the vertical diabolo tricks. It is their dream to perform on the IJA Championships stage.

---

Juniors

 

Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse has been juggling for six years, since he was ten, and has participated in several competitions held by the World Juggling Federation. In 2013 and 2015, he won the WJF’s advanced overall championship. Jonah has attended the past three IJA festivals, but this is his first time competing. In addition to juggling, Jonah also enjoys playing cello and ultimate Frisbee.

 

Christopher Haaser is 15 years of age. He began juggling in 2009. He has amazed audiences with his juggling skills in Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Texas, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, and Quebec. At the age of 10, Christopher juggled seven balls and performed for Spooky Woods, a TV commercial filmed in North Carolina. He was an eight-time podium finisher at the 2014 IJA joggling competition. He currently juggles balls, rings, clubs, fire torches, knives, and much more. Other interests include chess, kendama, dominoes, kinetic contraptions, trampoline, skiing, swimming, kayaking, and more.

Photo by Emory Kimbrough

 

Bennett Santora was created by a group of mad scientists who were intent on taking over the world by installing jugglers in key leadership positions. He was designed to be witty, intelligent, and charming and to have supernatural juggling ability. He is being groomed to take over the world military industrial complex and convert all weapons production to production of juggling props. At present, he is an entertainer and sixth grader. He lives in New York City.

 

Daniel Van Hoomissen be Insane in the Membrane, and he lives in Funky Cold (M)Edina, which is a Gangster’s Paradise. Like Tag Team, Daniel is back again. He is Berzerk, and loves to Jump because he is Space Bound and Not Afraid. He is So Fresh that you Can’t Touch This. He is super Boombastic.

Online fest registration ends at 11:59pm EDT on June 30

Event Package purchase date	March 1-19	Mar 20-Jun 30	At the fest
Adult (age 18-64)	$199	$239	$259
Youth/Senior (11-17, 65+)	$139	$189	$219

All your favorite events are back: Stage Championships (with much bigger prize money!), XJuggling, Renegade, Numbers Championships, Joggling, Welcome Show and Cascade of Stars, plus the return of the Gauntlet.

We have special IJA rates at three top-tier hotels, all within an easy walk of the beautiful El Paso Convention Center.  See the hotel info below.

Nelli Kujansivu Cascade of Stars		Bernard Hazens Cascade of Stars		Asaf Mor Welcome Show

   

Bruce Manners Welcome Show		Marvin Ong Welcome Show

   

Aleksandra Savina Cascade of Stars		Amanda Crockett Welcome Show & Cascade of Stars

   

Institute of Jugglology Cascade of Stars		Cinthia Buitrón – La Flaka Welcome Show & Cascade of Stars

   

Peter Irish Cascade of Stars		Zak McAllister Welcome Show		Team Rootberry Welcome Show

   

Emil Dahl of Sweden Performs his ground-breaking Magnet Opus in the IJA Cascade of Stars Gala

  

KamiKaze FireFlies Cascade of Stars Emcees		Fernanda Sumano 2011 IRC Mexico Gold Medalist

  

Bekah Smith Juniors Championships Emcee		Braulio Lopez 2015 IRC Mexico Gold Medalist		Dan Holzman Welcome Show Emcee

  

Jorge Vilchis 2013 IRC Mexico Silver Medalist		Kelsey Strauch Welcome Show

  

Gabriel Estrada 2015 IRC Central America Gold Medalist		Scotty Meltzer & Katrine Spang-Hanssen Individuals and Teams Championships Emcees

The Gauntlet 3, by Jim Maxwell

Festival room and ride sharing, by Jim Maxwell 

If you’re going to the IJA festival and are interested in sharing room and/or transportation costs, but don’t yet have people to share with, we can help.  Just fill out this simple survey. Someone will be in touch: 
https://goo.gl/forms/UTV5wP687I.

As we’ve provided in past years, we also have a Rideshares & Roomshares Forum on our website if you want to seek out people to share with there.  You need to be a logged-in IJA member to post in the forum.

IJA Authors, by Don Lewis

IJA members come from a lot of backgrounds, most of which have nothing to do with juggling.  When we are together at a festival we juggle and don’t always inquire too closely about the rest of a person’s life.  Some jugglers do indeed write about juggling.  And there are others who write about other things that have been important in their lives.

Roger Dollarhide has been an IJA member for years.  He has been on the IJA executive, and was editor of an early edition of the IJA newsletter back when it was typewritten and mailed.  Apart from juggling, Roger’s other passion is photography.  He has worked as professional free-lance photographer for most of his working life.  He has recently written a privately published book titled Confessions of a Freelance Photographer. There is a passing reference to juggling and to some of his involvement in the IJA.  An important theme in the book is that to work regularly as a free-lancer, you have to network successfully.  Some things apparently are constant, regardless of what your career is.  Contact Roger directly by email if you are interested in his book.  

Reg Bacon has written a biography of his father, Wesley H. Bacon. It is a collection of memoirs, short stories, profiles and more. It is an entertaining description of a man possessed of endless curiosity and the relentless drive to successfully follow a series of dreams. Last year I reviewed two other books by Reg, The Cranky Typographer’s Book of Major Annoyances, and the Cranky Editor’s Book of Fox Paws (Faux Pas), both of which have been very useful. Reg’s books are available from the Variety Arts Press.

Upcoming IJA Regional Competitions: Central America (Costa Rica) and Mexico

The 2nd IJA Regional Competition – Central America will take place on World Juggling Day, June 18, at the WJD celebration in San Jose, Costa Rica.

2013 Fest DVD 2-Pack available from the new IJA Store

The 2013 IJA Festival DVD 2-Pack is available for purchase, from the new IJA Store.  The price is $30 for members ($40 for non-members).  To get the member price, sign in at ym.juggle.org.  Once you are signed in, go to:

  ym.juggle.org/store/ListProducts.aspx?catid=449785

We have DVDs for sale from the IJA fests in: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013.  Each year includes two DVDs and roughly two hours of video.

 

Latest articles in eJuggle

Juggling Museum Road Trip Rescue: Part 2
In Part 1 of this article, I wrote about the ten hour round trip journey that my twin brother Scott and I took last year to rescue a giant pile of important old juggling props, most of which belonged to the Juggling Jacksons. These props dated from the 1950s to the 1970s. If you haven’t […]

Sean Gandini on “Drop Everything” podcast with host Dan Holzman
Host: Dan Holzman Guests: Sean Gandini talks about his approach to juggling and performing. Sean talks about his childhood, and revisits the highlights of his amazing career. Also on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/il/podcast/ejuggle/id1063204159

Juggling Museum Road Trip Rescue – Part 1
In October of 2015, I received an email from Lee Jackson of the Juggling Jacksons. Lee and his sister, Joy, performed with their parents Bob and Lois. The Juggling Jacksons were a well-known American juggling act in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1970s, Lee and Joy left the act as they entered adulthood. Bob […]

Aifique Khaikal Profile
Aifique Khaikal brings a unique style of juggling to the Tricks of the Month series. With a combination of contact, flow, and toss club juggling, he demonstrates that the beauty of juggling does not depend on the number of objects. In this interview, Shawn from Everyday Juggler takes a little time to learn how Aifique […]

Filipenko Jugglers
Article by Stanislav Vysotskyi. This is my first article about juggling. When I moved to Germany, I was very surprised how large the juggling community in Europe is. The jugglers show a great interest in new forms of juggling and also in the juggling masters of the past, such as Enrico Rastelli, Alexander Kiss, Francis […]

Circus Pedagogy Comic
Click to enlarge

IJA Tricks of The Month May 2016 México by: Fernanda Sumano
Nací en la Ciudad de México, en 2008 inicie como autodidacta jugando Hula Hula En el 2011 gane el Primer Lugar de la Competencia Regional de Malabarismo de la IJA en México. Actualmente actuo y doy clases en disversos festivales y lugares de circo en México. En 2016 Hooping.org me otorga el Premio “Hoopie Award” […]

Wyatt Davis Profile
Wondering where Wyatt developed his club manipulation style? Find out by tuning into this conversation between Wyatt and Shawn from Everyday Juggler. Wyatt talks about the good he has seen juggling do for him personally and those around him, who his biggest influences are, what he hoped you would walk away from with this Tricks […]

Collecting Juggling Memorabilia – Souvenir Programs
There are a number of people, like my brother David Cain, who are into collecting juggling related memorabilia in a big way. David is one of a dozen or so collectors who have roomfuls of vintage props (many belonging to juggling icons of the past), photographs (many autographed), books, magazines, and costumes that chronicle the […]

Interview with Martin Lamberti
Martin Lamberti is not a name familiar to most jugglers, but it should be. Despite what he says in the interview below, he was a very talented juggler as well as a top hand balancer. Before you read my interview with him, please watch the two videos below. The first has been online for quite […]

IJA Tricks of the Month May 2016 Malaysia by : Aifique Khaikal
Aifique Khaikal is from Malaysia. He has been exploring creative juggling movement for the past 7 years. Founder of the Psycusix troupe in Kuala Lumpur, he’s been trying to bring out the newer trends of manipulation and contemporary juggling to south east Asia’s circus community.

IJA Tricks of the Month May U.S.A. by: Wyatt Davis
My name is Wyatt Davis. I am 25 years old and I currently live in Portland, Oregon. I have been juggling for 5ish years, but I have been doing object manipulation things for over 10 now. I like coffee.

Dan Thurman on “Drop Everything” podcast with host Dan Holzman
Host: Dan Holzman Guests: Dan Thurman talks about his career as a juggler and motivational speaker. Also on itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/il/podcast/ejuggle/id1063204159

A Message from the Chairman, April 2016
Things are really heating up with our upcoming festival in El Paso — in one instance quite literally! We are pleased to announced that fire troupe Odd-Lab will be at the festival! Not only that, but they will be kicking off our Friday Fire Nights jam with a special fire show! You can come out […]

Mark Williams Profile
Shawn From Everyday Juggler takes a little bit of time to help us get to know Mark Williams, one half of the Blingling Bros. From Aukland New Zealand, Mark has been juggling for 20+ years. He started off in a hobby shop, moved onto fire spinning in the dance scene and finally landed with Paul […]

Juggler’s Scoop – April 28th, 2016
Juggler’s Scoop is a bi-weekly collection of the latest juggling videos and news bits from around the web. Here’s the latest scoop! – Jason Garfield is training for a WJF retro performance at WJF 12. – Krzysztof Czarski shows off his flower stick talents in ‘Ants.’ – Louis Duncan demonstrates a few dotted box variations. […]

IJA Tricks of The Month April 2016 Costa Rica by: Richi Fallas and Jose Pablo Molina
We are Richi Fallas Montero and Jose Pablo Molina, diabolists from Costa Rica in the province of Heredia, and we are very proud to present this little video with some tricks with 1, 2 and 3 diabolos. The video was recorded in different locations in the city of Heredia. We greatly appreciate the IJA for allowing us […]

 

 

Upcoming juggling festivals

For a list of even more festivals, check the worldwide juggling event listings on our website at: www.juggle.org/events.

If you’re organizing a juggling festival (or if you simply know of a juggling fest) and you want to advertise it in the IJA eNewsletter, just drop a note to eNewsletter editor Don Lewis enews@juggle.org. Such listings are free.

The eNewsletter comes out near the end of each month. Your festival can be listed for a few months, and you don’t have to be an IJA affiliate to have a fest listed. Hey, jugglers want to know about juggling fests. Help them out and get more jugglers to your fest at the same time.


Bungay Balls Up 2016
    20 May – 30 May 2016
    Hulver Farm, St Michael South Elmham, NR35 1NF UK
    https://www.bungayballsup.com/

Galway Juggling Convention 2016
    27 May – 29 May 2016
    Áras na Mac Léinn · Galway, Ireland (Éire)
    https://www.facebook.com/GalwayJugglingConvention/?fref=ts 

Second Russian Juggling Festival
    1 Jun – 5 Jun 2016
    Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
    https://www.facebook.com/events/1015523838511472/

2016 Flatland Juggling Festival
    10 Jun – 12 Jun 2016
    University of Nebraska Medical Center, 3908 Jones Street, Omaha, NE
    https://www.underthecouch.com/flatland/

Rastelli Festival 2016
    16 Jun – 19 Jun 2016
    Teatro Sociale, Via Bartolomeo Colleoni 4, Bergamo, BG Italy (Italia)
    https://www.teatrodonizetti.it/DoniEditorial/newsCategoryViewProcess.jsp?editorialID=4901

14th Hungarian Juggling Convention // 14. Magyar Zsonglőrtalálkozó
    16 Jun – 19 Jun 2016
    Törökbálint, Hungary
    https://jugglingedge.com/event.php?EventID=4364

Stockholm Juggling Weekend 2016
    17 Jun – 19 Jun 2016
    Vikingahallen, Märsta Sweden (Sverige)
    https://stockholmjugglingweekend.se/

Boulder Juggling Festival 2016
    17 Jun – 19 Jun 2016
    Casey Middle School, 1301 High St, Boulder, Colorado
    https://www.boulderjuggling.com/

Eindhovens Jongleer Festival 2016
    17 Jun – 19 Jun 2016
    Sportcentrum van de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Onze Lieve Vrouwestraat 1, 5612 Eindhoven Netherlands (Nederland)
    https://www.jongleers.nl/ejf2016

World Juggling Day 2016
     18 Jun – 18 Jun 2016
     Everywhere, The World
     https://juggle.org/wjd/

Guelph Juggling Mini-Fest
    18 Jun – 18 Jun 2016
    University of Guelph, Ontario Canada
    https://www.facebook.com/events/1757834357764585/

WJD celebration in Costa Rica, including 2nd IJA Regional Competition – Central America
    18 Jun – 18 Jun 2016
    San Jose, Costa Rica
    https://www.malabarismotico.tk

Periplo International Circus Festival, including 5th IJA Regional Competition – Mexico
    20 – 26 Jun 2016
    Guadalajara, Mexico
    https://www.elperiplo.com/#!festival2016/cwwu

8 Encuentro Internacional del Día Mundial del Malabarista Valparaíso
    23 Jun – 26 Jun 2016
    Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, Calle Cárcel 471, Valparaíso, Chile Chile
    https://www.facebook.com/events/1275063745841070/

MadSkillz Vancouver 2016
    23 Jun – 26 Jun 2016
    CircusWest Performing Arts Society, 2901 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V5K 5J1 Canada
    https://www.madskillzvancouver.com

Freiburger Jonglierfestival 2016
    24 Jun – 26 Jun 2016
    Freiburg Germany (Deutschland)
    https://www.jonglieren-in-freiburg.de

French National Juggling Convention – Jongl’ô Païs 2016
    13 Jul – 17 Jul 2016
    Vanosc France
    https://www.facebook.com/events/997628380312149

69th Annual IJA Juggling Festival 2016 – El Paso
    25 Jul – 31 Jul 2016
    El Paso Convention Center, El Paso, Texas USA
    https://juggle.org/festival

39th European Juggling Convention, Almere, Netherlands
    30 Jul – 7 Aug 2016
    Topsportcentrum Almere Pierre de Coubertinlaan 7, Almere, Netherlands
    https://www.ejc2016.org

2ª Convenção Caipira de Malabarismo e Circo
    7 Sep – 11 Sep 2016
    R. Daniel Antônio de Freitas, 115 – Distrito Industrial, São José do Rio Preto – SP Brazil
    https://www.ccmc.art.br

Portland Juggling Festival 2016
    30 Sep – 2 Oct 2016
    Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland, Oregon
    https://www.portlandjugglers.com/

40th Annual RIT Spring Juggle IN
    7 Apr – 9 Apr 2017
    RIT, 1 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester NY 14623 USA
    https://sites.sg.rit.edu/juggling/juggle-in/40th-rit-spring-juggle-in/