IJA eNewsletter – September 2023

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www.juggle.org		    IJA eNewsletter
   September 2023Editors: Don Lewis & Martin Frost
(ijanews@juggle.org)

CONTENTS

  • 2024 IJA Festival
  • Get ready for Halloween
  • IJA Board meetings
  • Latest articles in eJuggle

 

2024 IJA Festival flyer

 

2024 IJA Festival  by Afton Benson

The IJA Festival team has been gearing up for our upcoming site visit to Green Bay, Wisconsin!  We’re hoping to lock in a site for Renegade, build community partnerships, and see what all the spaces are like to build an outstanding week for the juggling community.  We’ll share an update in the next eNewsletter.  For now, start planning, talk to your friends, and share the two-sided 2024 IJA Festival flyer with your juggling groups and local festivals!  You won’t want to miss a moment of the fun in Green Bay!

2024 IJA Festival Team
Noel, Afton, Ross, and Shivella

 

 

Get ready for Halloween  by Don Lewis

Halloween is coming soon.  Are you ready for it?

This is probably one of the best opportunities that we get for spreading awareness of juggling, simply because so many kids are out scrounging for candy at every door with a light on.  So spend a couple of hours outside juggling to impress all these little goblins.

Instead of having to get out of your chair to answer the door each time the bell rings, get in a couple of hours of juggling practice in front of an itinerant audience that is just waiting to be impressed!  Often, little kids are accompanied by their parents.  Sometimes, those parents knew how to juggle when they were younger and have totally forgotten about it.  You can plant the seed that gets them started again.  It’s a great way to add a few new members to your juggling club, or start a new group.

There are a lot of learn-to-juggle videos on YouTube.  You can check them out and make a short list of your favorites.  Print out the list, several copies to a page, cut them up and hand them out with the candy.  Most of them will get thrown out, but some of them won’t.  Some kids will get hooked on an activity that will last a lifetime.

Here is a great opportunity to get some extra use out of your illuminated props.  Oh, you don’t have any yet?  Well, here is the excuse you need.  Check out the prop vendors that participate in the IJA vendor discount program to look for great deals.

The great thing about LED style illuminated props is that they are safe.  Fire props are really not a great idea around kids unless you have a serious safety infrastructure in place.  Remember, lots of cheap halloween costumes may not be fireproof – including the one you might be tempted to wear.

Happy Halloween!

 

 

IJA Board meetings  by Ross Berenson, IJA Board ChairIJA Board meetings

IJA Board meetings are open to all IJA members and are hosted on Zoom.  To find out the times of this month’s vision and business meetings, or to attend, please email ija.chair@juggle.org and say which meeting you’re interested in.

 

 

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