IJA eNewsletter – January 2025

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   January 2025Editors: Don Lewis & Martin Frost
(ijanews@juggle.org)

 

CONTENTS

  • It all comes back to juggling
  • 2025 IJA Festival July 14-20 – Save the dates
  • Mary Wilkins, 1943-2024
  • eJuggle opportunities
  • Thank you for supporting the IJA for Giving Tuesday!
  • A juggling song
  • By Royal Command; Barnum in Europe
  • Inclusive circus network gathering (online)
  • Skill Sharing
  • 2025 IJA Festival scholarship applications open
  • Nominations open for IJA Honorary Awards
  • Flamingo Club Award nominations open
  • Sky King Award nominations open
  • Juggling Lab phone app: Call for developers
  • Call for letters of interest for 2026 & 2027 IJA Festival Directors
  • How IJA festival cities are chosen (Part 3 of 3)
  • Evansville walking tour & pub crawl
  • YJA Badge Book
  • IJA Board meetings
  • Upcoming juggling festivals
  • Latest articles in eJuggle

 

 

It all comes back to juggling (for me… and maybe for you, too!)  by Benjamin Domask-Ruh

Hello IJA Community!

I am sitting at my dining room table in Minnesota where, for the past few days, the temperature has dropped sub-zero (Farenheit, even!) I just returned from attending Madfest, the annual juggling convention in Madison, Wisconsin (WI), USA. I grew up in Wisconsin, so it always feels like going home when I get to visit.

Afton Benson teachs club balanceThe last time I was out this way was in Fall of 2024. I was performing my show HODGE PODGE in another Wisconsin town, St. Croix Falls, with Afton Benson and Thom Wall. While there, we reached out to the local juggling club in rural Siren, WI, the Siren Movement Arts and Unicycle Group (SMAUG), run by Dave Close, to see if they’d like to have a guest teaching artist swing by and share some juggling! We were welcomed to the school where the club takes place and engaged the 5th graders in a juggling lesson! We brought scarves, balls, and peacock feathers. The teaching was a success! About 40 new scarf jugglers and feather balancers entered the world that day.

Well, last week at Madfest, several months after that lesson in Siren, Dave came up to me. He wanted to share something that happened after we left: A new student came to the juggling club and wanted to join. However, this student happened to not have full use of one of their hands. They commented that they would like to be a part of the club but would probably just have to watch. Dave, being an inviting and encouraging instructor, was able to offer another type of juggling different than the assumed throwing and catching. He provided the student with objects to balance as a starting point! Dave mentioned that he had been inspired by us including balance in our juggling lesson from earlier in the year, which allowed him to think past his previous attitude that juggling is defined by a three object cascade.The other students in the club were also able to offer encouragement to their new club member with balance tips and progressions! I asked Dave if it would be okay to share all this and he had this to say: “I think it’s important for people to remember it is small opportunities taken that help the world grow.”

I tell this story because I have been thinking a lot about what it means to be an IJA member and what juggling means to us, jugglers, and the rest of the world, jugglers-yet-to-be! One of our eJuggle editors, Naomi Stager, happened to be present when Dave came and shared this experience. She leaned over to me afterwards and said, “This is why we want to spread juggling to as many people as possible. To have more experiences like this in the world!”

So here I am sitting with Dave’s story and Naomi’s comment thinking about why we are members of the IJA. I look around at all our programming that we offer and marvel at the effects our art, sport, hobby, and profession has on the world in so many different communities and cultures. By being a member of the IJA, we are helping make these experiences happen, either directly through participating in them and/or indirectly through our membership fees and donations throughout the year. So a heartfelt thank-you to all who stand proudly as members of this organization. If you know a juggler that isn’t yet a member, let them know what being a member means to you! More IJA members help grow our impact on the community at large through our programming. If you ask me, being a member gives me a sense of purpose in the world that goes straight back to our mission: Rendering assistance to fellow jugglers (RA2FJ). Juggling helps me connect with people, even if they’re not jugglers (yet!).

As we go forward, the Board is discussing ways to support more endeavors to spread juggling and support programming around the world in addition to the IJA’s. If you have any thoughts or ideas you’d like to share, please feel free to reach out to me at ija.chair@juggle.org. As a member, you are ALWAYS welcome to attend our board meetings by sending me an email for a Zoom link. Or you can see what the board discussed each month by reading the minutes.

RA2FJ,
Benjamin Domask-Ruh
IJA Board Chair

 

 

Evansville, IN, site of 2025 IJA Festival2025 IJA Festival July 14-20 – Save the dates
by Jess Mardini, 2025 IJA Festival Director

A site visit to the location of this year’s IJA Festival in Evansville, IN, went very well. There are going to be all the crowd favorites and some new items too! The Evansville folks are incredibly supportive of the fest and are excited to host us.

Keep your eyes peeled for registration, which will be opening soon. Save the fest dates: July 14-20, 2025!

I am so stoked to see everyone in Evansville this summer!

 

 

Mary Wilkins, 1943-2024  by Roger Dollarhide

Mary Wilkins helping out at 2004 IJA FestivalDear IJA friends –

This is to report the passing of long time IJA member, activist, IJA Honorary Life Member, and dear friend Mary Wilkins.

I received a phone call from Mary’s life partner and best friend Christine McAllaster and friend of mine advising me of Mary’s passing after suffering from dementia for the last several years. Chris has been busy settling Mary’s complicated affairs.

Mary was the oldest of three children. Her father was a civilian professional working for the military and moved around a lot. She was born in St. Louis, MO, but attended Manhasset H.S. on Long Island, NY. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Long Island University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree followed by a Master of Arts degree in Library Science in 1970 from State University of NY in Albany. She then moved to California to be a librarian at the Anaheim Public Library. After four years, she attended Oregon College of Education to attain a Deaf Teaching Credential in 1979 and began her career as a Special Education Teacher of the Deaf for schools in San Bernardino County (CA). She retired in 2003.

Mary was a very kind and caring person and donated money and time to many causes and charities. Mary and Chris met in 2004 on a gay online dating site. They had a wonderful relationship and took many trips and tours together to sites all over the U.S. and the world.

In her younger years, Mary learned to juggle as a hobby and subsequently amassed one of the world’s largest collections of juggling photos and memorabilia, which she brought to display at a total of 28 IJA conventions. I met her at one in the 1970s, and we became good friends. I met her with Chris at the 2006 IJA convention in Portland, OR, which was the last convention for both of us. We continued to keep in touch, and in 2009 they invited me to house sit and cat sit for them in La Verne, CA, for two weeks while they took a Caribbean/Panama Canal cruise, during which time I was delighted to re-explore the LA area (my former stomping ground many years ago) using Mary’s car.

About that time, Mary switched hobbies and learned to play alto, tenor, soprano and bass recorders, and enjoyed playing and performing with local recorder groups until the onset of her illness. Mary was moved to a dementia care facility nearby, all with the invaluable care and assistance of Chris, with whom we will continue communicating, as I also became friends with her family nearby. To quote from Chris’s eulogy: Rest in peace, Mary.

 

 

eJuggle opportunities  by Eric Shibuya, eJuggle Editor-in-Chief

I posted on the IJA’s Facebook page asking about juggling clubs that have been around 10+ years. The response was overwhelming. There will likely be a few articles on these clubs. If anyone would like to talk about how/why their club has lasted so long, please get in touch.

eJuggle is always looking for new writers! Contact us at ejuggle@juggle.org if you have an idea for an article!

 

 

Thank you for supporting the IJA for Giving Tuesday!  by Afton Benson, Treasurer

Thank you to everyone who donated for the IJA Giving Tuesday campaign. We had a goal of $3,000 and you all helped exceed the goal — we raised $3,370! Your support ensures that the IJA can continue to render assistance to fellow jugglers each year. Thank you!

If you made a contribution, don’t forget to check with your employer to see if they do matching gifts on donations. Matching gifts make your donation go even further.

Thank you!
Afton

 

 

A juggling song  by Bob Marston

One of the songs that I composed, “Just Like Juggling“, was recently featured in the World Flute Society’s quarterly publication. It is intended as a sing-along and could possibly serve as a theme song for the 2025 IJA Festival. I hope you enjoy it!

I plan to attend the festival and have already reserved the dates on my calendar.

 

 

By Royal Command; Barnum in Europe
A new book by Dr Steve Ward, featuring a foreword by Kathleen Maher, executive director of the Barnum Museum.

On a cold February day in 1844, a small group of travellers disembarked their ship at the port of Liverpool in England. There was no welcoming party; no bands and banners and the visitors slipped silently away to their hotel. Amongst them was the American showman P. T. Barnum and his protégé Charles S. Stratton, known as General Tom Thumb. Both were little known in England at that time. But this would mark the beginning of a three-year long tour of the United Kingdom and continental Europe. Fêted by crowned heads, the tour would bring both Barnum and Stratton international fame and fortune.

By Royal Commandcharts the progress of this tour, with all its highs and lows, triumphs and disasters. Not just another book about Barnum, it celebrates this pivotal time in his life, and draws upon primary sources and contemporary news reports to give a forensic examination of the impact that he and Tom Thumb had on social attitudes towards the ‘exotic’.

By Dr Steve Ward. Edited by Thom Wall.
MSRP $25 (print) $9.99 (eBook)
For pre-orders, author interviews, and more information, visit: www.modernvaudevillepress.com/barnum

 

 

Inclusive circus network gathering (online)  by Craig Quat

We are thrilled to announce a series of 5 online events focused on the latest developments in inclusive circus practice. Organized in collaboration with six circus schools from Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Spain, these events are open to everyone around the world and are completely free to attend! Each session will feature expert presenters and guest speakers, offering valuable insights and creating a networking space for professionals to connect and grow. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to learn, share, and be inspired!

Dates: February 5, 2025 – April 2, 2025
Time: 19:00 – 21:00 CET
Where: Online (Zoom link will be provided upon registration)
Cost: Free

Sign up!

 

 

Skill Sharing  by Don Lewis

There is nothing like a juggling festival to remind you of just how different juggling is to many other sports. The part that most impresses me is the willingness of advanced jugglers to take the time to bring others up to speed.  The experts that you see on stage are often found on the gym floor helping people who are struggling to learn a trick.  Maybe it is only a kind word in passing, or a quick hint that turns on the light and makes the trick suddenly work.  Those momentary connections can make a huge difference to someone on the verge of discouragement.  It is something you don’t see a lot of in other sports, where advanced players don’t mingle much with the lesser mortals, except for a fee.

One kind person told me that I had totally changed his confidence in passing clubs just by standing there catching his errant throws and explaining that picking up dropped clubs doesn’t have to be rushed.  It is actually fun to do.  You get lots of practice catching weird throws and converting them to good self throws.  You get to practice staying on a passing rhythm when some of the clubs are trying to oscillate out of control.  And you get to be blinded by occasional smiles when your passing partner realizes that everything is finally working and they relax.  It is a fun way to relax, spread the joy of juggling, and learn how to catch just about anything.

Workshops are great, and I enjoy teaching the ones that I do.  You can help a lot of people advance quickly in a workshop.   Teaching a workshop forces you to really analyze how you approach each trick and break it down into easy-to-understand parts.  That improves your own mastery of whatever you are demonstrating.

You also have to learn how to explain the same thing a dozen different ways.  What makes perfect sense to me may seem incomprehensible to you.  Consider the phrase “I was inconvenienced by a detour”.  Translate that into Quebec French, and then back into English and it comes out “I was deranged by the deviation”.  Sort of the same idea.  Someone may be trying to translate your local idiom into theirs with similarly unhelpful results.  Having a few different ways to explain what is patently obvious to you will help others get the idea.

Maybe you are a pretty good juggler, but you have no idea how you would actually teach a workshop?  An easy solution to that is to find a workshop similar to what you want to teach and watch how the instructor teaches it.  A couple of times I’ve taught the workshop, but had someone else with me to demonstrate.  The more people who know how to teach a workshop the better.  I missed a workshop once and had to reschedule because my flight got diverted – twice.  You can learn how to teach a workshop at one festival, and then go to other fests to teach a workshop yourself.  It is an excellent way to be of service to juggling. Even if you never teach a formal workshop, you can still help other jugglers one on one with confidence.

 

 

2025 IJA Festival scholarship applications open  by Afton Benson, IJA Treasurer

The IJA J. Todd Smith Memorial Scholarship Fund is now accepting applications for 2025 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, 2025.  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 55 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 today donate here.  Any questions can be directed to treasurer@juggle.org.

 

 

IJA Honorary Awards

Nominations open for IJA Honorary Awards

Nominations for the 2025 IJA Honorary Awards are open.  All the different awards and previous winners are displayed at www.juggle.org/history/honorary-awards.

Nominate someone or yourself today!  Nominations are due by 11:59pm PST on Feb 5, 2025.

 

 

Flamingo Club Award nominations open  by Afton Benson

The IJA Flamingo Club is accepting nominations for the 2025 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 today!  Nominations are due by 11:59pm PST on Feb 5, 2025.

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 here today!  Any questions can be directed to treasurer@juggle.org.

 

 

Sky King Award nominations open  by Paris

The Sky King Award committee is accepting nominations for the 2025 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 today!  Nominations are due by 11:59pm PST on Feb 5, 2025.

 

 

Juggling Lab phone app: Call for developers  by Exuro Piechocki

Recently the Juggling Lab app for Android was removed from the Google Play store because it needed a code update to stay compliant.  Romain Richard and Frédéric Rayar, the original developers of the app, are pursuing other projects at this time and are seeking to hand the project off to any developers in the juggling community who are willing and able to take it on.

The app is coded using Java.  Romain has been able to bring the app back online in the Google Play store but can’t dedicate the future time to maintaining it.  He is willing to provide some minor assistance and guidance to anyone with an interest in keeping it online.  If you have experience with Java (and siteswap) and are interested in using your skills to provide a service to the juggling community, this is an excellent opportunity to do just that.  The app is not available for iOS, but maybe you could make that happen!

Please contact TheRealExuro@gmail.com if you are interested in helping with this project.

 

 

Call for letters of interest for 2026 & 2027 IJA Festival Directors
by Ross Berenson

Are you passionate about curating unforgettable experiences for the juggling community?  Do you thrive in dynamic environments where creativity and organization intersect?  Join our team as a Festival Director and play a pivotal role in shaping the 2026 or 2027 IJA Festivals.  The IJA would love to hear from those who are interested!  We’re beginning earlier than usual to give future festival directors additional time to work their magic.  The goal is to provide extra time for more opportunities, allow time for them to shadow current directors, and collaborate with former directors.

The 79th IJA Festival will be in Fort Wayne, IN, during the week of July 27–August 2, 2026.
The 80th IJA Festival will be in Cedar Rapids, IA, during the week of July 11–17, 2027.

Responsibilities:

  • Organize the week long festival.
  • Oversee all aspects of festival planning, from conceptualization to execution, ensuring seamless coordination and exceptional attendee experiences.
  • Collaborate with the board, volunteers, artists, vendors, sponsors, venues and local partners, to align on goals.
  • Develop and manage budgets, timelines, and resources.
  • Choose to lead a team of your choosing, providing guidance, support, and clear communication to ensure everyone is aligned with the festival’s vision and objectives.
  • Craft shows that highlight the vibrant spirit of our community and embody the core values of our organization.  Let’s showcase the very best of who we are and what we stand for!
  • Implement comprehensive marketing and promotional strategies to drive attendance and enhance the festival’s visibility and reputation.
  • Evaluate the success of the festival through post-event analysis and feedback collection, identifying areas for improvement and innovation.
  • Festival director will have the opportunity to travel to the festival site, a number of months prior to the event with some of their team.

Compensation: $7,000 USD.

Past festival directors and the board are here to cheer you on and help guide you whenever you need it!  While some parts of the festival, like the competitions and shows, are tried and true favorites, there’s also plenty of room for you to toss in your own ideas and make this experience unique!  So, let’s team up and have a blast creating something unforgettable, together!

If you’re excited about the opportunity but not completely sure if this position is right for you, reach out by February 28, 2025, to the IJA Chair at ija.chair@juggle.org.

If you are ready to apply, send an email of interest stating:

  • Why you’d like to be the Festival Director
  • Any experience you have organizing events and volunteers
  • The year(s) you’re interested in
  • New (or old) ideas you would like to bring to the festival and the IJA community

 

 

How IJA festival cities are chosen (Part 3 of 3)
by Mike Sullivan, Senior Future Festival Site Coordinator

PART 3 – Site visits, contracting and signing

In the first two parts of this series, we explained where the IJA festival fits into the immense world of the meetings and conventions business, and how we go about finding prospective festival host cities.

We also talked about the months of back-and-forth that goes on between our team and a potential host city as we start to hammer out the specifics of a deal that will bring us to their city a few years in the future.

We look before we book
When all of that goes well, we proceed to a big, important step known as the site visit. That’s when the destination city invites us to come and see first-hand what we’ve been hearing about during the preliminary negotiations. They pay for our flights, lodging in the host hotel, and about half of our meals during our stay.

While we’re there, we will tour all of the proposed venues we’d book for our week, and meet with the sales managers and operations or technical staff for the convention center and theater. Reps from the local CVB (Convention and Visitors Bureau) escort us around to the meetings and host us for a breakfast or two, one dinner, and one lunch.

We hold meetings with all the folks we’d work with if we came to town for our event. We explain, in depth, what our group is like, who comes to our festival, what’s important — and not important — to us, all the way down to what fees we have to pay for printing show tickets at the theater, the opening hours for the hotel restaurant, and the availability of free parking and airport shuttles.

Our job is to look closely at dozens of different aspects of the destination, from the cleanliness of the hotel and the downtown to the lighting and ceiling height of the gym, the walking distance between all the points of interest, the size of the “plaster opening” of the theater, and even the ADA accessibility of all the facilities.

We also block out time away from our CVB minders so we can explore the city on-foot, day and night, as our members would do if they came to town. We want to get a feel for the downtown, the restaurants and bars nearby that jugglers would frequent, and the safety and walkability of the city.

We take a couple meals on our own, chat up local residents we meet, and make sure everyone is welcoming and that downtown would be a safe, inviting place where we’d all want to spend a week. We take notes in all the meetings and shoot hundreds of photos of everything so we can make a full report to the IJA Board of Directors with our recommendation.

Back in the office, the inevitable paperwork
After the site visit, we organize all the info we’ve collected into a comprehensive report to the IJA Board. It includes details and photos of all the venues, all the financial and pricing information, destination details such as airlift and climate, and much more, along with our recommendation.

If we recommend moving ahead, the Board can vote to authorize us to move on to final negotiations. If they don’t, we move on to the next prospect on our list.

If they do, final negotiations can often take another 2-6 months to wrap up all the details, and then we will sign binding legal contracts with all the venues and the hotel.

The contracts specify what all parties are promising to deliver, and the costs and penalties if they don’t. If we have to cancel entirely, or cut back on our hotel needs or theater nights, for example, the suppliers are entitled to compensation. So we’re very careful to commit to only what we’re sure we will need, and then plan our event to match what we signed up for.

Luckily, even for the two years during the pandemic when we had to cancel all our plans for El Paso 2020 and Wichita 2021, our partners in both cities waived all the cancellation fees they could have held us to, in the spirit of goodwill and hoping for our eventual return.

It can be a slog
On average, it takes about a year to find, qualify and sign a new festival destination — and sometimes, much longer. Some years we get lucky and sign two or three years worth of deals, as we did just before the pandemic.

Between October 2019 and January, 2020, with no clue what was coming, we contracted with South Bend, Green Bay and our next destination, Evansville. That was lucky for us! Those advanced bookings carried us through to the other side of the pandemic with very, very advantageous rates that we would not be able to book today.

In the past 17 years, I’ve made 29 site visits to potential festival destinations and attended 9 planner/supplier “speed dating” conferences. We eventually contracted with 16 cities out of the 29 we visited, for a 44.8% success rate. Finding a few standout gems, we have re-booked with Cedar Rapids and Fort Wayne so far, and we are likely to make repeat visits to some other recent cities soon where we have been happy and successful.

By now, you’ve learned that IJA just can’t hold a festival anywhere we want. Many places don’t want us, we can’t afford many others, and some we can’t even get to.

In fact,if the perfect IJA festival destination existed — equidistant to every point on the globe, affordable, with mild, dry summer weather, amazing venues, a vibrant downtown, a huge world hub airport in town (but no airplane noise overhead) and is never crowded with tourists or other groups — they wouldn’t need us, as they would be swamped taking care of much more lucrative clients without such ridiculous requirements as ours.

The net net
If you’ve read this far, now you know this about how IJA festival destinations are selected:

  • The meetings and events industry is huge, and our festival is tiny.
  • If our festival got just a little bit smaller, we’d have a lot of trouble booking the kinds of cities we currently visit. In fact, it might not be possible at all.
  • Filling our contracted festival hotel is the biggest factor in keeping our festival viable and attractive to smaller cities.
  • We spend a lot of time and effort trying to find potential destinations for our festival.
  • About three-quarters of the places that say they want to host us are eventually disqualified for one reason or another — sometimes for their reasons, sometimes for our reasons.
  • It takes about a year of work to find, qualify and sign contracts with a new host city.
  • This is an important job that few people are qualified to do, have the time do, or want to do.

The new guy
My colleague Jake Darrow will be sliding into my chair as the lead Future Festival Site Coordinator this year.

Jake is a very capable and enthusiastic successor to the role, and you’ll be able to thank — or blame! — him for our festival host cities for 2029 and beyond. He’s planning to host a workshop at the festival where everyone can learn more about this process, ask any questions, and give any suggestions as well.

The Future Festival Site Coordinator job is one of many behind the scenes volunteer jobs that keep the IJA running. Like all of these IJA roles, it’s not glamorous — it’s a lot of detailed work year-round, and most IJA members never think of the hundreds of hours of work that go into just finding good places to hold our events.

So when you meet Jake in Evansville, wish him luck and offer a pat on the back for the effort he will put into making sure that 600 of his best friends have a fun, hassle-free festival for the next decade or so.

 

 

Evansville walking tour & pub crawl  by Mike Sullivan

Get to know your IJA hometown for festival week with a fun, casual walking tour of all our festival venues and downtown Evansville on Monday afternoon, July 14, 2025.

We’ll step off about 2pm from the lobby of the Doubletree Hotel and cruise through our juggling spaces in the Old National Events Center before popping in to have a look at the gorgeous Victory Theater.  Then we’ll have a leisurely stroll through downtown, pointing out and stopping into several great (but sometimes hidden!) restaurants and bars.

There’s no shortage of fun, casual and delicious places to eat in downtown, but not all of them are easy to find!  Your guide for the afternoon knows every nook and cranny and has scoped out the best of the best, so come along for a tour of where you can wet your whistle and satisfy your appetite all week.

Our tour is just $25 per person, and includes three local draft beer pints at stops along the way and check-ins in over a dozen other spots close to our IJA venues.  We’ll wind up at a local dinner favorite for an OPTIONAL group dinner with your old and new IJA friends.

So make plans to be in Evansville on the 14th in time to join us.  Tickets will be on sale when festival registration opens early next year.

See you then!

 

 

YJA Badge BookThe Juggler's Badge Book

Did you know that the IJA’s Youth Juggling Academy has a book?  It does!

The Juggler’s Badge Book is the ultimate companion for aspiring jugglers of any age!  Track your progress, unlock achievements, and earn badges as you learn the art of juggling.  With its engaging format and rewarding sticker system, The Juggler’s Badge Book makes learning to juggle an exciting and fulfilling adventure.  Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned juggler, let The Juggler’s Badge Book be your guide to skillful juggling and a collection of well-earned accomplishments.  Start achieving your juggling journey today!

The Juggler’s Badge Book is $25 and makes a great gift!  Purchase yours today!  Proceeds go to supporting further YJA initiatives and advancing the IJA’s mission to render assistance to fellow jugglers.

Published by the International Jugglers’ Association in collaboration with Modern Vaudeville Press.

 

 

IJA Board meetingsIJA 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.

 

 

Upcoming juggling festivals

For a list of upcoming juggling festivals, please visit our friends over at The Juggling Edge.

While you’re there, visit their list of juggling clubs.

 

 

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