IJA eNewsletter – November 2023

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

Happy Holidays!

CONTENTS

  • 2024 IJA Festival Holiday Special Pricing!
  • Give the gift of juggling
  • 2024 IJA Festival scholarship applications open
  • Nominations open for IJA Honorary Awards
  • Flamingo Club Award nominations open
  • Sky King Award nominations open
  • IJA Board meetings
  • Latest articles in eJuggle

 

 

2024 IJA Festival Holiday Special Pricing!  by Afton Benson, IJA Treasurer

IJA 2024 Festival Green BayIJA 2024 Festival Green Bay

2024 IJA Festival Registration is open, with Holiday Special Pricing for Event Packages until Noon ET Dec. 7.

Join us in beautiful Green Bay, Wisconsin, July 8-14, 2024, for a week you won’t want to miss.  All festival package pricing tiers, including youth group and vendor registration, are now shown on the festival website.

You are the reason we can continue to support the world of juggling.

Register with Holiday Special Pricing until Noon ET on Dec. 7!

 

 

 

 

Give the gift of juggling  by Don Lewis

Simple juggling kits are available to plant the juggling seed amongst the fertile minds of friends and family.  Check out the offerings from the prop venders in the IJA Vendor Discount Program.

Perhaps you have already annoyed your friends and family with juggling gifts.  Well, look in the mirror, you may need to give yourself a gift.  If you give yourself new props, you can always donate your old ones.  You could buy some juggling stuff and donate it to a local community centre in an effort to create more jugglers.  Community groups are always looking for door prizes, so you could give juggling lessons or home made props.  It all helps to expand the juggling community.

 

 

2024 IJA Festival scholarship applications open  by Afton Benson, IJA Treasurer

The IJA J. Todd Smith Memorial Scholarship Fund is now accepting applications for 2023 IJA Festival Scholarships.  If you have wanted to attend an IJA Festival but have not had a chance and some support would help, apply!  Priority will be given to individuals who have not attended an IJA Festival before.  You can find the application here.  Please share info about this scholarship far and wide — it is open for jugglers around the world.  Applications close at 11:59pm PDT on March 15, 2024.  Scholarships will start being awarded (and recipients notified) well before the application deadline.  The last awardees will be informed by May at the latest.

This fund is named in honor of Todd Smith, one of the world’s top manufacturers of juggling equipment.  Todd was known for giving away props to aspiring jugglers and had the nickname of “the juggler’s friend”.  This scholarship fund will support new jugglers who have not had the chance to attend an IJA Festival.

Big thanks go to the fund’s donors for their generosity: Arthur Lewbel, Mike and Marilyn Sullivan, Unna Med, and a number of other jugglers.  Since 2022, the Scholarship Fund has provided support to 43 jugglers from around the world to attend the IJA’s Annual Festival.

Interested in supporting the J. Todd Smith Memorial Scholarship Fund?  Fantastic!  You can donate here today. Any questions can be directed to treasurer@juggle.org.

 

 

Nominations open for IJA Honorary Awards  IJA Honorary Awardsby Eric Shibuya, Awards Committee Chair

The IJA Awards Committee is open for nominations for the 2024 IJA Honorary Awards.  The Awards Committee regularly selects recipients in four categories.  The Award of Excellence, Historical Achievement Award, Excellence in Education, and Extraordinary Service.  Occasionally, recipients for the Bobby May Award and Honorary Life Memberships are also chosen.

For a list of previous winners in the various categories, see https://www.juggle.org/history/honorary-awards.

Nominations are due by 11:59pm PST on December 5, 2023.  Please send all nominations to: awards@juggle.org

 

 

Flamingo Club Award nominations open  Flamingo Club Awardby Afton Benson

The IJA Flamingo Club is accepting nominations for the 2024 Flamingo Club Award.  The Flamingo Club provides the recognition, support and encouragement of female-identifying and non-binary persons, children, and families, in order to build a more inclusive juggling community.

The award is given to highlight a female-identifying or non-binary person who has shown outstanding support, inspirational skill, or exceptional promotion of juggling.

Individuals can, and are encouraged to, nominate themselves.

Nominate someone or yourself here today!  Nominations are due by 11:59pm PST on December 5, 2023.

The Flamingo Club is one of the IJA programs that are supported by donations from jugglers around the world.  Want to ensure the IJA has the means to support these and other programs?  Please donate today!  Any questions can be directed to treasurer@juggle.org

 

 

Sky King Award nominations open  Sky King Awardby Paris

The Sky King Award committee is accepting nominations for the 2024 Sky King Award.  The award is given in recognition of outstanding dedication to furthering diversity and equity in the juggling community by a BIPOC member of that community.

Individuals can, and are encouraged to, nominate themselves.

Nominate someone or yourself here today!  Nominations are due by 11:59pm PST on December 5, 2023.

 

 

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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