Hey frandz, Lex, Vaughn and I are planning to be at the RIT juggle in next weekend. We are wondering who else is going, and if there are any recommendations for housing. -Boogie
On Wed, Feb 8, 2023, 11:43 AM Christian Kaestner <kaest...@cs.cmu.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > a lot of juggling festivals are now finally returning after a pandemic > pause. Here are a couple of upcoming ones within driving distance. Let us > know if you are interested in joining: > > *March 3-5 -- Pocono Juggle/Circus Arts Fest (~5h drive to east/central > PA)* > > This is a smallish but nice and friendly local festival that some of us > have been too in the past. They attract a lot of jugglers from the New York > and Philly region and usually bring in some good acts for the show. > > *March 24-26 -- RIT Juggling Festival (5h drive to upstate NY)* > > This is one of the largest and best local juggling festivals in the US > (usually >300 jugglers). We have been going as a group pretty much every > year. If you can only make one, try this one. > > *Late April/early May -- Congress of Jugglers (bus or 4h drive to DC)* > > Smallish festival at the UMD campus near DC which we have attended a > couple of times. Usually very informal and organized at the last minute. No > date announced yet for this year, but usually around Mother's Day. > > *June 9-1 -- Philly Fest 2023 Juggling Festival (train, bus, or 6h drive)* > > Smallish festival at the circus school in Philadelphia. Moved to the > summer this year. Very nice space in the circus school. > > *July 17-23 -- IJA (train or 6h drive to IN)* > > Weeklong national juggling festival with about 400 attendees and lots of > shows. Somewhat pricy to attend. Within driving distance this year. > > > Most festivals except IJA are free and charge maybe $10-20 for the show. > Juggling festivals are very informal, like long juggling club meetings with > workshops and a show. Happy to tell you more about them if you have never > been too one. We often go as a group and share accommodations. The CMU > juggling club usually has funds to support car rental, gas, tolls, or even > hotels for a trip. I suspect that I'll attend all of these except Poconos. > If you are interested let us know at some of our meetings. > > > Others: We might try to do our own (*FluggleBurgh*) again in the fall if > we find a space, stay tuned. *Cleveland* also used to have one in > September. If you are up for flying to a festival, I can really recommend > *Mondo* in St. Paul, Minneapolis March 3-5. I'd say RIT and Mondo are the > best festivals in the US; Mondo has lots of unicyclists too. The big > European festival *EJC* usually has >3000 jugglers but is still in flux > for this year. If you are into passing, there is an underground weeklong > passing-only festival *Passout* in Arkansas in May and in the Netherlands > in December that I can share more details about. > > Generally Juggling Edge is pretty good for keeping up with festivals: > https://jugglingedge.com/events.php?Region=us&TimeFrame=Future&; > > > > Best regards, > Christian > > -- > Mailing list of the CMU juggling club: Masters of Flying Objects > Website: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/juggle/ > Mailing list: Juggling-members@lists.andrew.cmu.edu > Unsubscribe/Manage subscription: > https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/juggling-members >
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