Juggling Festival
From JuggleWiki
If you think juggling is fun, and want to be with others who agree, you need to get to a jugglng festival. Following is a good description of what a juggling festival or convention is:
"The attendance of the European Juggling Convention (EJC) is around 2,500 to 4,500 jugglers -- the world's biggest juggling event -- and is held every year in a different European city. From all over the world, professional artists, street jugglers, and hobby jugglers travel to meet up.
The EJC is a meeting of old and new friends, and a forum for exchanging techniques, tricks and ideas. The jugglers also show their art and skills to the public: a colourful parade leads through the city; and other performances, workshops, and games show the great variety of juggling. In the spectacular Gala show the creme de la creme of jugglers fascinates the local audience."
Choose language, see map of clubs and locations, see list of past and future events.
World Juggling Events listed by country at IJDb.
Extensive details of IJA 2009 Festival in USA.
Among information missing is a list of prop dealers that were present in the main gym area the whole week, with everything from silly toys to unicycles, including the first public sales and demo's from Renegade's new Design Lab.
The "live feed" tv broadcast is not available, but there are still many YouTube videos from the 2009 fest.
Links webpage to see about Israeli juggling and festivals, next and past with testimonials.
Here is a video from the 2007 Japanese Juggling Festival: just jugglers, just juggling.
