Travelling

[Wayno]

What sort of events are happening at the convention?

Workshops all day - everything from balls, clubs, rings and diabolo to unicycle, acrobatics, aerial arts, slackline and even a "highline" strung up over the town

People on the highline:

One of juggling halls and workshop board:

Open stages - anyone can get up and perform, no audition needed. (Avoided like the plague)
Renegade shows - impromptu late-night performances, unofficial and often the wildest ones. (They don't appeal to me and neither does staying up last my bed time to see it. Maybe if I wasn't duper cranky from the heat)

International Gala shows - the big ticketed spectacle nights, proper circus performers from all over the world. This was awesome. I was hoping for some decent videos to end up online but nothing much yet.

not sure if YouTube Shorts will embed:

Fire space every night — a dedicated area for fire juggling/spinning (again doesn't appeal, too late and cranky from heat exhaustion)

Fight Night - "gladiators," basically a juggling mosh pit where everyone tries to knock each other's clubs to the ground. (Great fun, hoping to partipate next time.)

Diabolo Battle & Juggle Fit — competitive/games-style events (had a workshop and missed these)
Combat Juggling & Joggling (juggling while running - why you would do this in general is beyond me, never mind in this heat)

A citywide parade through the old town (missed this, I'm not sure it happened)
Street performances all over town, hat-passing / engage-with-my-socials encouraged

some dude trying to get a Diabolo in to a net balanced on his chin:

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Fire performance:

Street games including competitive juggling and Unicycle jousting (without the lance)?:

Concerts and parties running until early morning (old and cranky so avoided)

A huge campsite where most people sleep for the week and lots of smaller ones, lots there in campervans which sounded awesome to do.

One of the campsites:

Location difficult for some so attendance of 3.5k is great.

A trade village - vendors selling props, clothes, gear.

Family village with kids' shows every morning. It's massively family friendly, I've had strangers tell me "Oh I bet that's full of people doing drugs etc. and I never encountered it but definitely people there mainly to get drunk with people from a similar space.

Conferences and talks on circus arts etc.


Enjoyed myself but the heat made it an endurance (did I mention it was hot?) and I didn't get as much out of it as I'd like but still glad I went and will go to another.