Belfast juggling convention

Hey guys been talking to the wonderful nicky 9balls and the only thing we are waiting on is the permission from Queens uni to use a hall (but theyll say yes......always do) we thought that dec was a good time as it wont clash with the other conventions happening around that time. So is everyone up for it??? I'll keep you posted. just got the dates so put the second weekend in Feb in your diaries cos thats when the convention is happening

Friday February 10th- Sunday February 12th.

Queen's University Student Unions snack bar is where the main part of the convention will take place
It will cost £10 for th weekend

THere will be an evening show, and then an afterparty where there will also be a renegade stage. All acts are nearly confirmed so yeyyyyyyyyy it'll be a great show.

Accommodation is at the Ark Hostel say you are from th econvention and you get £2 per bed
http://www.arkhostel.com/

myself and diana can squeeze afew in our houses so the more the merrier

Yay! there'll be christmas lights

Of course lots of glitter and general sparkles (not to mention buckfast, fire, juggling, contortion, trapeze, Burlesque - i think i spelt that wrong and lots of other healthy activities)

God i love juggling conventions.

Will there be camping (december brrrr)? Crashing space? Are we all staying at your house?

I think i just pulled a facial muscle smiling

decembers a good time, lots of new presant toys and other such things, Is there a Hostel near bye, or a tropical Archipelago for camping ?

....excellent....

loads of hostels (a really good one is the linin hostel you can rent a room for £10 ) plus im willing to shove as many people into my house as possible

Fantastic... Thanks for the offer of floorage tainted dear : )

im off to spain some time really soon after this Convention. Any one else find that traveling and adventures always seem to happen together ? or in lumps ?

I was told (too late that the Belfast Community Circus were on BBC Northern Ireland last night.

The good news is, it's on again , on Saturday at 6.30pm on BBC2. The programme is called SRL, and it's an Irish language programme.

There's also a clip on the web on the bbc site Be warned: the "narrowband" clip is actually about Zambia. It's very interesting, but just not the same The broadband clip is actually the circus school, but my puny web connection can't cope with it

I'll just have to imagine :

Yey got conformation and we are all go..... just spent the weekend persuading people to give up there time to perform for free as our budget is really low and we want to hire out the circus school. anywhos keep you all posted....

I may well pop over and visit as I haven't seen you irish types for awhile and it'll be christmas so a good excuse for a wee holiday - I will invistigate flights . . . how long is it going to be on for (the whole weekend ? any problem if I turn up a little early/leave a little late?) ... ?

Does any else think the word stroke when they type this "/" and then laugh at themselves because they thought the word stroke sounded funny . . . maybe it is just me

no course not stay as long as you wish, its gonna run for 3 days??? all info hasnt been confirmed but ill post as soon as i get more

righty o....convention is off till january, but the ood news is that we can have the circus school for the entire convention cos its free, free, free so its still on but just one month later.... so far i have 2 confirmed hosts (including our own wonderful docF ) a trapeze and fire not to mention juggling (contact, clubs and rings) and loads of comedy

Ahhhhhhhhhh the convention wheels have started rolling...put the second weekend in feb in your diaries been checking out hostels and so far theres two that will offer concession if you mention the convention (more on that as it progresses) still the above acts and theres likely going to be a contortion act as well The mad people behind it this year are myself, Nicky 9balls and his partner in crime Alister......so it should be totally spiffing, wonderful, amazing........well a good excuse to drink, smoke and play

Is it possible to put up confirmed dates for this in the first post.... or is it still up in the air. I'd like to come but I need to book tickets to get over ASAP so they cost less.

Thanks

it is confirmed as the second weekend in Feb so thats the 10th....i know the dates were a but messy but that was Queens uni messing us about... but its all sorted now (now i have to actullt start working on it )

i sent you a pm coleen. when you get it will you let me know what you think. any aditional info you may have in relation to my queries would be much apreciated.
LORDY! that was very profesional sounding. if i didnt know any better i'd swear i was maturing!

Howdy!!!

New to the forum my name's Skye! I've never been to a juggling convention before and I think it's about time I started...
Anyway there's a load of jugglers in Dublin that have heard rumours about a Belfast convention on 16th December but we don't know anything about it

Was wondering if you could enlighten us???

Where, when, can anyone just turn up etc etc

Also I've heard there's a circus school in Belfast but the only website I could find doesn't list any current training or places so I was just wondering if you knew anything bout that as well!

Sorry to pick your brains (not literally!!!)

Any help would be muchly appreciated!

Yours Skye!!! Thanks xxx

Hi there Skye!!

Welcome to Hop and the utterly wonderful spinning community here in Ireland

We have a small, but friendly group spread all over the island, with lots of great people in Dublin.

Dr Fandango, Fear-Tine and Cloudscape are in Dublin at the mo... Rononpotamus and Flip are in Cork and Offaly. Ado-p is in Limerick.

Faberge and I, and tainted, are in Belfast - and you'd be very welcome to come up to visit sometime.

There's also lots more people who don't post on here... but PM me your email address and I'll let you know about gatherings and suchlike.

As for the Belfast convention... it seems like it's happening in February now... but I'm sure more details will be posted as they become available.

The Belfast circus school runs adult training classes on a wednesday night (from 7-9pm). It costs £3 a night and they mainly focus on circusy-skills - like acrobatics, juggling, trapeze etc.

Not so much spinning, unfortunately... but that's what our gatherings are for

Take care
Clare x