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THE INTERNATIONAL JUGGLERSʼ ASSOCIATION September 2012 IJA eNewsletter editor Don Lewis (email: [email protected]) Renew at http:www.juggle.org/renew IJA eNewsletter Contents: Robert Nelson 1949 - 2012 Message from IJA Board Chair Festival Workshop Feedback Guidebook App at Festival 2012 Joggling Winners Festival 2013 News Festival 2013 Postcard Was That Family Friendly ? Special Friends Juggling Club 2011 Festival DVD Available Meet the IJA Board Whatʼs New at eJuggle Regional Festivals Robert Nelson - The Butterfly Man Sept 16, 1949 - August 27, 2012 Please read the two excellent remembrances of Robert Nelson published in eJuggle, the IJAʼs electronic magazine: The passing of Robert Nelson Juggling Festivals: Robert Nelson aka “The Butterfly Man” Portland, OR Philadelphia, PA Tekirova, Turkey Asheville, NC Happy Dayze Are Here Again I caught his breath like many do And pitched it to and fro Tokyo, Japan By Robert Nelson (The Butterfly And watched in awe, him come alive Manchester, UK Man), written to commemorate Art In each and every throw Penaflor, Chile Jennings. Durham, UK The patterns he created Years ago, there lived a man Cleveland, OH Will never go away Who juggled tears of laughter Scharding, Austria His breath between the objects He had a simple dream in mind Helsinki, Finland Forever here to stay St. Louis, MO To live forever after So watch the space above you Munich, Germany Each breath he took, he tossed aloft And listen now and then Minas Gerais, Brasil To soar throughout the air You might hear the angels laughing London, UK A skillful gift he gave for free Happy Dayze are here again Leeds, UK For all of us to share Bowling Green, OH WWW.JUGGLE.ORG Page 1 THE INTERNATIONAL JUGGLERSʼ ASSOCIATION September 2012 Message from the IJA Board Chairman, by Dave Pawson Festival business. Iʼm happy to announce that Kim Laird of treasurer – thanks, Scott! Warren Hammond, veteran of has taken on the job of Festival Director for the 2013 two Fun Fund Committees, will be chairing the Fun Fund for festival at Bowling Green State University. Sheʼs already the Bowling Green fest. If youʼre interested in helping on the hard at work and recently completed a site visit. Like those Fun Fund Committee this year, drop him an email. I who visited the site before her, she came away very participated in the Rochester Fun Fund Committee; it was impressed and excited for the possibilities. Kim is trying to an interesting and fun way to get involved in the IJA. And line up special guests, working on transportation options, congrats and thanks to Jek Kelly, who will be Awards and bringing on other volunteers to help her with the Committee Chairman for the 2013 Festival. daunting job of planning the festival. Just 10 more And before I wrap things up, I at least wanted to make months…. Between the time I wrote this article and got it mention of the passing of Robert Nelson. When I was first published, Kim wrote an article on eJuggle with more becoming infatuated with juggling in my youth, I knew of details. Meanwhile, Mike Sullivan is on the road The Butterfly Man but wasnʼt lucky enough to know him. I investigating options for 2014. Nothing is agreed upon at read “Passing the Hat“ and learned of this larger-than-life this time, but weʼre definitely continuing to explore campus man, and his famous piece of poetry stuck with me enough and other arrangements in addition to the convention center that I could more or less recite it from memory 25 years festivals that have been prevalent in recent years. later. It has been really touching to see the outpouring of The Vendor Discount Program. In Winston-Salem, we emotion and reminiscences in the juggling community. We announced that this program would be returning soon, and should all be so lucky as to touch so many people so so it will. At that time we announced that we had deeply throughout our lives. A friend of mine in college used commitments from Bodyhoops.com, Brontosaurus Balls, to say, “Everything we do in life, good or bad, we do for the Dube, Gballz, Juggling Fashion, The Juggling School, Neon story. No matter what, you have a story you can tell Husky, Sportco, and Sweets Kendamas. Since the festival, afterwards.” I really wish Iʼd gotten back into juggling a few weʼve also gotten commitment from Pass the Props and years earlier and had a chance to actually meet the man Malabares to participate in the program. Iʼm trying to pull and legend, because it seems just about everyone who did together technical details from these various advertisers, has a story (or stories) to tell. Thatʼs a beautiful thing. My and expect to have the program live for our members to use condolences go out to his family and to all of those in our in the next few weeks. All vendors may not be available at community that are hurting from loss right now; we can all the time of launch, but I expect at least 6 or 7 will be. Do honor what he believed in by throwing a few things in the you have another vendor you want to see on that list? air, having a good laugh, and reflecting on his famous piece Chances are we approached them, but by all means give of juggling poetry: us that feedback. And the next time you speak with them or do business with them, drop our name and remind them It matters not theyʼre always welcome…. The job youʼve got The response to HEPTAD by Wes Peden was enthusiastic. As long as you do it well. Based on the traffic we saw and the feedback we heard, Things are made by plans well-laid; our members were big fans. We hear you and hope to have The test of time will tell. more IJA member-exclusive videos coming up in the future. But how can you count If you arenʼt yet a member and were considering joining, Or know the amount now would be a good time. Ask a member who has seen Or the value of a man? HEPTAD, and I suspect theyʼll tell you the same. By the show displayed, Or the beauty made In our board meeting, we were happy to approve several By the touch of the jugglerʼs hand. volunteers for important positions within the organization. New board member Scott Krause will be taking on the role WWW.JUGGLE.ORG Page 2 THE INTERNATIONAL JUGGLERSʼ ASSOCIATION September 2012 Workshop 2012 Feedback, by Dave Pawson As the guy who ran workshops in Winston-Salem, I can due to conflicts; we made a greater effort than also take a moment to summarize the feedback you gave usual to not have workshops conflict with other us via our survey. 47 of you responded, and nobody on the events. By the time the dust cleared, we had 5 or 6 whole rated the overall workshop quality below “good”; workshops running simultaneously in every slot. whew…. A fair number of our volunteer instructors were Having duplicate workshops might have raised singled out as doing a particularly great job; special thanks that to 6 or 7. But for the sake of completeness, and respect to Freddy Kenton, Gypsy Geoff, Doug Sayers, several workshops were taught multiple times, Tony Steinbach, Jacky Levy, and Ted Joblin. Huge props to usually by request. In fact, I canʼt remember any all our new friends from Ea Eo, whose workshops got rave time a volunteer was asked to teach a workshop a reviews all over the place. second time and declined. Doing these by request may be a good way to balance the burden on our I had asked how you felt about leaving the noon hour free volunteers with the interests of the attendees. from workshops; 24 people liked that strategy, 15 were indifferent, and 6 of you didnʼt like it. So more good than 2 There were a few very valid comments that it bad. I had also asked for input on the series of discussion/ would have helped to have more workshop lecture workshops we did. 18 people liked them, 23 were descriptions in the program. Certainly that would indifferent, and 4 people didnʼt attend them or didnʼt like have helped, but that also doesnʼt come without them. Again, not too shabby. cost. With the huge number of workshops we had, if we had included workshop descriptions in the There were several questions about the Guidebook Mobile program, it could easily have doubled the size and App we made available. It was used by about 1/3 of the cost of the program. The Guidebook Mobile App festival goers, and the feedback was almost uniformly was intended to help with this problem; it avoids positive. Of respondents, 11 thought it was awesome, 7 the printing cost problem, so any workshop thought it was good, 1 thought it was kinda meh, and 1 descriptions I was provided were available within person disliked the idea enough that they refused to the application. But of course not everyone used download it. There was some good feedback on how the (or could use) the app. Money always makes app could have been improved, and Iʼve shared some of things more complicated. those ideas with the Guidebook team. Since we paid them $0, I figured we could at least give them constructive 3 A few people expressed interest in breakout feedback. sessions. This was a rookie mistake on my part. It wasnʼt something I personally thought of, but after Very few respondents attended the Pavel special workshop, a few people mentioned it in the survey, the point but the few who responded had good to very good things to is duly noted.