European Juggling Convention
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The European Juggling Convention (EJC), is the largest juggling convention in the world, regularly attracting several thousand participants. It is held every year in a different European country. It is organised by changing local organisation committees which are supported by the European Juggling Association (EJA), a non-profit association founded in 1987 in Saintes, France.[1] Like most juggling conventions, it features a mix of workshops for jugglers, a "renegade" performance performed for participants, games, performances and a public show, usually spread out over a period of a week in the European summer. Accommodation is usually in the form of tents provided by participants.
History
[edit]The first EJC was inspired by the IJA Festival and organised by jugglers who didn't want to travel to the USA.[2] The IJA helped by giving the organisers a list (known as the roster) of IJA members living in Europe.[3] It was also known as the "first European IJA mini-convention" and had an attendance of 11 jugglers from 5 countries.[4] EJC has now grown much bigger than its inspiration and has much less focus on competitive juggling, but is more about the sharing of juggling.
List of European Juggling Conventions
[edit]No. | Location | Year | Dates | Attendance | Organiser | Link |
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1 | Brighton, United Kingdom | 1978 | April 15 - April 16 | 11 | Lynn Thomas | [1][2][3] |
2 | Newport-on-Tay, United Kingdom | 1979 | April 14 - April 16 | 25 | Lindsay Leslie | [4] |
3 | London, United Kingdom | 1980 | March 28 - March 30 | 42 | Tim Batson | [5] |
4 | London, United Kingdom | 1981 | September 18 - September 20 | 100 | Tim Batson | [6] |
5 | Copenhagen, Denmark | 1982 | September 10 - September 12 | 110 | Jonglorer md Tyngdekaften | [7][8] |
6 | Laval, France | 1983 | September 16 - September 18 | 200 | L'Institut de Jonglage | [9] |
7 | Frankfurt, Germany | 1984 | September 13 - September 16 | 400 | Schwerkraft Na Und | [10] |
8 | Louvain la Neuve, Belgium[5] | 1985 | September 5 - September 8 | 550 | Cirque de Trottoir | [11] |
9 | Castellar de la Frontera, Spain | 1986 | September 18 - September 21 | 350 | Javier Jiminez, Hermann Klink, Fritz Brehm, Toby Philpott | |
10 | Saintes, France | 1987 | September 17 - September 20 | 1000 | L'Institut de Jonglage | [12] |
11 | Bradford, United Kingdom | 1988 | September 22 - September 25 | 1000 | Sam Scurfield | [13] |
12 | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1989 | August 31 - September 3 | 2000 | Stichting 12th European Juggling Festival | [14] |
13 | Oldenburg, Germany | 1990 | August 30 - September 2 | 2500 | Verein zur Förderung des Freizeitsports e.V. | [15] |
14 | Verona, Italy | 1991 | August 29 - September 1 | 2300 | EJA: represented by Jules Howarth, Pippa Stockting, Doug Orten | |
15 | Banyoles, Spain | 1992 | August 20 - August 24 | 1500 | Sue Hunt | |
16 | Leeds, United Kingdom | 1993 | September 1 - September 5 | 1800 | Up in the Air Ltd. | |
17 | Hagen, Germany | 1994 | August 2 - August 7 | 2000 | EJA (Deutschland) e.V. | |
18 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 1995 | August 11 - August 18 | 1100 | Snöbollen | |
19 | Grenoble, France | 1996 | August 12 - August 18 | 2200 | Association Entre ciel et terre | |
20 | Turin, Italy | 1997 | September 1 - September 6 | 1000 | Just for Joy European Association | |
21 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 1998 | August 3 - August 8 | 2000 | EJC98 Ltd. | |
22 | Grenoble, France | 1999 | August 12 - August 18 | 2300 | Association Entre ciel et terre | |
23 | Karlsruhe, Germany | 2000 | August 5 - August 12 | 2750[6] | Pyramidaler Kleinkunst-Verein e.V. | |
24 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 2001 | August 4 - August 12 | 3500 | Stichting EJC2001 | |
25 | Bremen, Germany | 2002 | August 8 - August 16 | 2200 | Zirkuswerkstatt e.V. | |
26 | Svendborg, Denmark | 2003 | August 5 - August 13 | 2300 | E.J.C. 2003 Svendborg | [16] |
27 | Carvin, France | 2004 | July 25 - August 1 | 4487 | Ch'ti Cirq | [17] |
28 | Ptuj, Slovenia | 2005 | August 14 - August 20 | 3550 | Rokodelci Juggling Association | [18] |
29 | Millstreet, Ireland | 2006 | July 9 - July 16 | 2252 | JCEvents Ltd. | [19] |
30 | Athens, Greece | 2007 | July 30 - August 5 | 2300 | ||
31 | Karlsruhe, Germany | 2008 | August 2 - August 10 | 6800[7] | Pyramidaler KleinKunst-Verein | [20] |
32 | Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain | 2009 | July 4 - July 12 | 4200 | [21] | |
33 | Joensuu, Finland | 2010 | July 24 - August 1 | 1200 | Sirkus Supiainen ry | [22] |
34 | Munich, Germany | 2011 | August 6 - August 14 | 7200 | EJC 2011 e.V. | [23] |
35 | Lublin, Poland | 2012 | July 28 - August 5 | 1540 | Fundacja Sztukmistrze | [24] |
36 | Toulouse, France | 2013 | July 27 - August 4 | 4500 | L’association Par Haz’Art | [25] |
37 | Millstreet, Ireland | 2014 | July 19 - July 27 | 2345 | Circus Events Ltd. | [26] |
38 | Bruneck, Italy | 2015 | August 1 - August 9 | 4042 | [27] | |
39 | Almere, Netherlands | 2016 | July 30 - August 7 | 5417 | Stichting Europees Jongleerfestival 2016 | [28] |
40 | Lublin, Poland | 2017 | July 22 - July 30 | 2440 | Fundacja Sztukmistrze | [29] |
41 | Azores, Portugal | 2018 | July 28 - August 5 | 1300 | Associação Cultural de Artes Circenses dos Açores - 9'Circos | [30] Archived 2018-03-13 at the Wayback Machine |
42 | Newark, United Kingdom | 2019 | August 3 - August 11 | 4426 | Red Hat Events | [31] |
43 | 2021 | [32] | ||||
44 | Tres Cantos, Spain | 2022 | August 6 - August 14 | 3200 | Asociación Circo Diverso tres cantos | [33] |
45 | Lublin, Poland | 2023 | July 29 - August 6 | Fundacja Sztukmistrze | [34] | |
46 | Ovar, Portugal | 2024 | July 27 - August 4 | [35] | ||
47 | Arnhem, Netherlands | 2025 | August 2 - August 10 | [36] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "The Stichting European Juggling Association". European Juggling Association. 2006. Retrieved 2007-04-27.
- ^ "Thoughts, Philosophy, History by Toby Philpott". European Juggling Association. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
- ^ "Report on Brighton IJA Convention April 15 & 16, 1978 by Lindsay Leslie". International Juggling Association. 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-28.
- ^ "First European IJA Mini-Convention Brighton, England". International Juggling Association. 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
- ^ European Juggling Convention (PDF) (Report). EJA.net – via MrJules.net.
- ^ "The European Juggling Association". European Juggling Association, list of EJCs. 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
- ^ "European Juggling Convention 2008". Pyramidaler Kleinkunst Verein. 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-04.