The NPSCJ

Some Jugglefest Info

Festival Schedule

Friday

• Festival starts at 3PM in McMillan Cafe for open juggling!
• Gym closes at 10PM for Renegade show.
• FREE Renegade show at 10:30 in Brown 100!

Saturday

• Gym opens at 9AM in Olin Dance Studio 1 (Women’s Building).
• Workshops start at 10AM in Olin Dance Studio 2. (Workshop schedule to be posted soon, if you would like to lead a workshop, contact Max Wasserman, maxwaz91@gmail.com)
• FREE PB&J sandwiches all day outside the gym (NO food or drink allowed in the dance studio).
• Tech Rehearsal from 2-6PM (Open juggling and workshops continue in the gym)
• Gym closes for Juggling Showcase at 6PM
• Doors open for Juggling Showcase at 6:30PM in May Auditorium (Simon Hall)
• Juggling Showcase (Featuring Patrik Elmnert, Michael Karas, Curt Carlyle, Brittany Walsh, Thom Wall, Kellin Hentoff-Killian, and the NPSCJ) at 7PM
• Gym reopens after the Juggling Showcase for open juggling and the raffle!
  • Thank you to all the vendors who have donated to the raffle including Renegade Juggling, Higgins Brothers, Neon Huskey, Penguin Juggling, and Flying Clipper
• Party time!

Sunday

• Gym opens at 9AM in Olin Dance Studio 1 for open juggling.
• Games start at 12PM. (Schedule to be posted soon)
• Festival ends at 4PM but feel free to stick around and juggle in the quad!
• See you next year!

Guide to Enjoying Jugglefest 2011! 

1. Important Places
   1. All official festival events are at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL)
      1. The gym is a pair of connected dance studios in the Women’s Building (the dance studios are called Olin 1 and Olin 2)
         1. On Friday, the gym will be in McMillan Cafe in McMillan Hall
      2. The Renegade Show is in Brown 100
      3. The Juggling Showcase is in May Auditorium (this is on the lower level of Simon Hall)
   2. Delmar Loop
      1. “One of the ten best streets in America!” Just a ten minute walk from campus
      2. Has a variety of shops, theatres, restaurants, etc.
   3. Forest Park
      1. Huge park with lots of free stuff including a zoo!
      2. Joggling?
   4. The Arch
      1. The gateway to the midwest and a St. Louis landmark
      2. In downtown St. Louis, you can go up to the top if you’d like
2. Food
   1. Festival Options (no food or drink in the gym please)
      1. Free PB&J all weekend!
      2. Pizza ($1/slice)
   2. On Campus
      1. Subway (in the Mallinckrodt Center by the bookstore, across the quad from the gym)
      2. Danforth University Center, called the DUC (pronounced “duck” if you’re asking for directions), also across the quad from the gym
         1. Has Mexican food, grill, Italian food
   3. On the Delmar Loop
      1. A list of our favorites: Fitz’s, Thai Gai Yang, Market Pub House, Cicero’s, Chipotle, Noodles and Co., Blueberry Hill, Ginger Bistro, St. Louis Bubble Tea, Coldstone, FroYo, etc.
3. Transportation
   1. Cab Companies (you want to go to the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis)
      1. Airport Best Taxi (314-781-1515)
      2. County Cab (314-991-5300)
      3. Laclede Cab (314-652-3456)
   2. Metro (St. Louis’s train system)
      1. You can buy a three day pass if you’d like
      2. Wash U station: University City - Big Bend
         1. To get to the gym: When you get off, you’ll see a stone wall thing with “Washington University in St. Louis Danforth Campus” on it. Walk down Big Bend so that you pass this, turn left onto Snow Way Dr. (this will be the first street on the left). Walk down the street past the parking garage until you see a lot of stairs on the right. Walk up the stairs to the top, and hang a left. Walk straight down the left side of the quad and you’ll see McMillan Hall on the left, followed by the Women’s Building, two buildings down. Ask a Wash U student if you don’t know where to go.
      3. To go to Forest Park, get off at Skinker or Forest Park - DeBaliviere.
      4. To go to the Arch, get off at Arch - Laclede’s Landing
      5. To go to the airport get off at the apropriate Lambert Airport terminal
4. Contact Us!
   1. Max Wasserman
      1. maxwaz91@gmail.com
      2. 857-488-7848
   2. Danny Rose
      1. drose91@gmail.com
      2. 952-380-7678
5. Have Fun!

Some News/Links

You can reserve your tickets for the October 22nd Jugglefest Showcase here. It will be from 7-9pm in May Auditorium. Here is a link to the Facebook event page. 

The festival, of course, runs from October 21 - 23. Here is the Facebook event page for that. 

The Renegade show will be on October 21st from 10-11:30pm in Brown 100. Here is the Facebook event page.  

I redid the splash page for wujuggling.com and I think that it looks much nicer. 

Posters, T-shirts, and video to arrive shortly. Be excited!

St. Louis Jugglefest 2011

The National Prestigious Society of Collegiate Jugglers is proud to announce the lineup of the Saint Louis Jugglefest for 2011:

Patrik Elmnert is a Swedish juggler born in Uppsala, Sweden, 1989. He currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden where he attends the contemporary circus programme at the University of Dance and Circus. Patrik has also completed circus high school and a post graduate course on the relation between juggling and music. His current research includes extended clubrolls, waterballs and acrobatic juggling.

Patriks interest in always showing the audience juggling in a unique way keeps him at a constant search for things that have not yet been explored. He started performing at the age of 10 and has since than played shows for audiences all over the world.

Brittany Walsh competed nationally and internationally in the sport of gymnastics for twelve years. In 2005 she joined Portland, Oregon’s extremely physical theatre troupe, Do Jump!. Brittany performs and tours nationally with Do Jump!, and also teaches children and adults the art of acrobatics, trapeze, and physical theatre as part of Do Jump!’s movement theatre school. In 2006 Brittany began specializing in and performing hand balancing. Her hand balancing solo has been recognized as one of the best and most unique finale acts of the Pacific Northwest!

Growing up together in the suburbs of Boston, The Jeremys, former NPSCJ co-presidents, began juggling together in high school, and have been juggling partners ever since. They have performed all over the country  and do lots of other cool stuff.

Thom Wall is a juggler from the American Midwest. He is the 2010 and 2011 International Jugglers’ Association three ball juggling champion, and is a student in the Professional Track program at the New England Center for Circus Arts. Thom likes blind throws and catches and strawberry sorbet and is very excited to be performing at the 2011 St Louis Juggling Festival!

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Curt Carlyle is a natural redhead, snappy dresser, and an all-around nice guy. He has been touring the country and astounding audiences for more than ten years, receiving enthusiastic praise. Curt now performs at corporate and community events, colleges, comedy clubs, fairs and festivals all year round. An award winning juggler, Curt has received a bronze medal from the International Jugglers’ Association along with countless accolades from regional juggling festivals and competitions. For more information visit www.CurtShow.com.

Michael Karas is a professional juggler living and working in New York City.  In addition to performing with “Playing By Air” and “The Flying Karamazov Brothers”, Michael is also committed to creating and performing theatrically-driven solo juggling performances, some of which you’ll see tonight.  Michael has a Bachelor’s degree in Theatre from Point Park University, and has appeared in over 100 non-juggling plays and musicals.  This lifelong love for the theatre is the foundation for all Michael’s work, juggling or otherwise.  Some of his most recent ideas can be seen on “Spark”, a downloadable DVD Michael released in 2010 on World Juggling Day.  Next month, he will premiere a brand new duo juggling show in New York City called “The Perfect Catch” with renowned juggler Jen Slaw.  This is his second performance in Missouri, the first being in 2006, when he played a juggling Ferdinand in Newtown at St. Charles’ production of The Tempest.  He thinks the City Museum is the closest example of Heaven on Earth.  For more information, visit www.michaelkarasonline.com

 …As well as your hosts, the NPSCJ.