Location
King Middle School
1781 Rose Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94707
Festival Hours
- Friday Open Juggling: 5pm to 9:30pm
- Saturday Open Juggling: 10am to 9:30pm
- Saturday Public Show: 7:30pm
- Sunday Open Juggling: 10am to 4pm
- Sunday Juggle-Games: early afternoon-ish
Workshops
One of the highlights of any festival is the array of workshops where newcomers and old-hands can learn new skills and ask the experts how to do that elusive trick. The flagship workshop at the Berkeley Juggling Festival will be Artistic Passing with Jeff Napier. Jeff had this to say about what he has planned:
"Beginners to experts - no matter who you are, you'll discover some things you can do as soon as you see them, and others that will take weeks (of fun) to work out. Probably not much of a hands-on workshop, this will be more about demonstrating things that you can try later. Bring notebook or camcorder if you wish, because scores of techniques will be revealed, broken down and discussed. May be of considerable interest to solo club jugglers as well. For instance, four or five unique ways to pick up dropped clubs will be included."
Other planned workshops include:
- Unicycle Skills with John Foss
- 5 ball advanced with Matt Hall
- Diabolo with Matt Hall
- Side by side, wally walk, and/or 4-hand siteswap with the Long Beach Juggler
- Ambidextrous Passing with the Stanford Juggling Research Institute
- Learn to Unicycle with Tom Holub
- Beginner's Contact Juggling with Kevin Axtell
- Advanced Contact Juggling with Kevin Axtell
- Beginner's Poi with Brandi
- Laughter workshop with Erika and Jacob
- And maybe yours! Do you have an itch to pass your secrets on to eager students in the juggling community? We'd love to hear about the workshop you want to run.
Unicycling
Unicycling is the most fun you can possibly have, as measured on a per-wheel basis. This festival will have a full schedule of unicycle events:
- Mountain unicycle rides on Saturday and Sunday (bring helmet and gloves/wrist guards if you want to ride): Saturday is "My First MUni Ride", an easy ride on fire roads, manageable on any unicycle. Sunday is hard-core technical MUni, though most of it is still ridable by the less insane.
- Distance uni ride (13k) along flat roads and paths on Berkeley's waterfront.
- "How to ride" workshops: Just starting out? We'll give you some tips and a helping hand to get you going. After that, all it takes is practice.
- Skills workshops for experienced riders: learn new skills and tricks, and try out lots of fun unicycles.
- Unicycle basketball! If you can ride without using your arms for balance, you can play unicycle basketball. We will have courts on-site and hope to get a great turn-out for the games. Even if you haven't ridden in a while, now's the time to dust of that one-wheeled wonder and play!
Construction Zone (Learn to Juggle)
Let's face it, juggling is cool. What could be better than juggling to increase your fitness, attract the opposite sex and rocket you forward in your career?
Ok, maybe juggling won't solve the World's problems or turn you into that Don Juan (or Juanita) you've always dreamt of being, but juggling is fun! At the Berkeley Juggling Cooperative we strongly believe that everyone can, and should, learn to juggle, and for the newbies out there the Construction Zone is your first stop on the way to juggling nirvana. Give us your attention and your heart, and we promise you'll be juggling in no time.
Jugglers! Do you love teaching new jugglers? We need volunteers to staff the construction zone. If you have what it takes to bring new jugglers to the fold, please contact us to sign-up!