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Posted: 8th Feb 2006
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I believe in fate

Welcome lemminglady

Yep, yep... as it happens, the Belfast juggling convention is happening in Belfast this weekend.

It will feature lots of fun, spinning, juggling, heaps of local talent, heaps of international talent and all of us

There's another thread with all the details, but I think the plan is to meet in Queen's Student Union around 7pm on Friday night.

They have the hall all day Saturday and Sunday, and there will be a circus show in Belfast Community Circus (Gordon St, in the Cathedral Quarter) on Saturday night at 7.30pm.

Pm me (or one of the organisers ) your mobile number, and we'll get in touch.

Best wishes, hope to see you at the weekend!

Clare

PS: good time to come back

Getting to the other side

Posted: 13th Feb 2006
phew clean up is just finished...the house sparkles but i dont anyway thanks everyone for turning up and extrs special thanks to olive and goldolight for steping in at the last minute when two acts got injured. I hope everyone had a good time, and because of the success of this one we have decided to make it a regular thing again.
so talk soon guys im going to de stink myself and go to bed and sleep off the mother of all hangovers

There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers...

Posted: 14th Feb 2006
Fantastic job Colleen

Thanks to you, Nicky, Alastair and all involved for a great convention.

See you in Dublin March 10th -12th !

Helen_of_Poi

EJC Ireland 2006 Organisational Team

Posted: 14th Feb 2006



Woohoo to everyone who came, and to those still here



And more cheers for Ronan, Andy, Olivier, Doro and all the other amazing talent there for proving that poi isn't pointless

Ahem.

Getting to the other side

Posted: 14th Feb 2006
Poi?

I didnt even realise there was poi

That was my most favorite of juggling conventions in a long while.

Even if i did get cancelled at the very last minute you still owe me a hineken Tainted

The show was incredible. And i am so, so glad i got to see all of it. So inspiring it was to watch all those great performers... And sooooo cool to see some of our own up there with em. Doro and Olivia were smashing and Olive is surley on his way to Rubber Heavan Dreams.

Roll on Dublin

Love is the law.

Posted: 14th Feb 2006
Well wasn't that pleasant!

Olivier, Andy, Doro, Olive - you beauties!

Team Goldolight, I do believe that was the nicest two person poi performance I've seen
Olive - lovely to watch staff world opening into something else.... isolated crucifixes, need I say more
Andy - as always I think you might just have a thing or two for the shaolin monks. change those plane tickets!
nice one for making it over

the only complaint....NOT ENOUGH TIME! Time just seemed to fly! hope to see ye all again soon.



Ronan

Don't bolt your door with a boiled carrot...

Posted: 15th Feb 2006
Sorry I couldn't make it guys family pulled a strop taht I hadn't seen them in 4 years and i had to spend the day wandering round Belfast city centre

Hope you all had a great time

I'd love to stay here and be normal....

Posted: 15th Feb 2006
Ah, tis a pity you missed it lady...

And Ronan... ditto to all you said - but also, thanks to yourself and James and Aidan and Lisa and all the other inspiring dancers in this country.

Well done Colleen

Getting to the other side

Posted: 15th Feb 2006
whushhhh
hmm back in mannheim after a ...delayed flight (...missed, ok)

i have never seen so many pleasing to watch poi (and staff) players -boys AND girls!!yipiii- in such a small place

clare, amelie, lisa, maggie, ronan, aidan, james, andy, olive, olivier, rob...and a few others whom i have forgotten the name

there's definitely a beautiful irish dub-poi movement: smooth, slow, precise, embodied in ronan. just look at furrypurple 's flow!

olive and his 3 staffs is de-fi-ni-te-ly a treasure!!!!

maggie, a ronan and thaitom's happy student will be to look out for at the EJC!

and i thought we could see the influence of uberpoi in a few players...

my prefered moment however was not in the convention...that was to see andy's time-travelling poi, olivier's creative crazy poi and ronan's slow balanced poi in a small park in belfast at the back of a church, spin together their first burn, hmmmmmmmmmm THAT is history and silence and respect. that is a reason why i spin. to see people touching bliss and be lucky to be there with them


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so thanx to colleen and co. for organising this. thanx for trusting us without knowing our goldolight show! and the same regret as ronan: too fast!!! hmmm, can we have the hall all night long next time, tainted???

the cabaret was funny and simple, special mention to paul the comedian and his dark humour!
and actually, yeaaaaah that felt good to be part of a circus show as a spinner!!!!!

btw i have succeeded in hulahooping from hips to head!!! merci amelie! i will look for some water piping straight away!

and wahuuu to all for receiving us and making the light in belfast brighter

see u all in paris in may!
poipoifishandchips
doro*

Posted: 15th Feb 2006
Hey everybody!!

That certainly was the best spinning convention Ireland has seen in a long time!!!

I sadly never got a chance to say goodbye to all the foreign spinny visitors who showed everybody so much this weekend!!!
Thank you indeed for being such splendid people!
And you even got a spot of fishing in while you were here!!

"F*ck the moves, and just do what you want!!!"
Best advice ever!! Thank you Olivier!!

And I think i might regret not going to spin fire on sunday night forever!!!!!!!

and to everybody who made this happen and to our hostel manager for making sure the UCD and Maynooth contingency had a deadly time.

Rob

Posted: 15th Feb 2006
**what to say more capitain goldorox ur words is light for poireland **

we did not like it we loooooovvvveee it

so nice lightbeings
see u soon with more time
tx to open ur warm hearts for us

peace light and www.loveandfire.de
ap

peace and light

Posted: 15th Feb 2006
Tanks everyone for making me feel so welcome.

This was truly an amazing experience. I must

agree with goldorox that the full moon spin

in Cresent park was the highlight of the hole

experience. Its incredible to be surrounded

by so much talent and motivation to progress.



Hope to C u all soon...

Thomas Bjork
[Fire Artist]
[clown]

Posted: 16th Feb 2006
i really cant think people enough for turning up and having fun, we did try to keep everyone happy because i have found at some conventions (while excellent and i had a great time) the focus was all on juggling when i think that poi and staff can come under the manipulation title (i know people wont agree with that but im looking at it as a circus performer) and so we tried to make sure there was something for everyone and judging by the response over the weekend we succeeded in that. Plans for next year are already under way.....we even know where we are having the show as we ended up having to turn people away who didnt get their ticket until turning up at the doors, the next venue will still have the amazing rig for all f the ariel acts and fit about 300 people in (more if at a squeeze) they only thing is i need to really sit down to think to top this show because it was a great evening. So again thank you to the performers, who did an amazing job, the hostel staff for encouraging general maddness, to Goldolight and olive who steped up at the last minute and blew everyone away, barry and neil whom i thrust toghter sat afternoon - guys did a fantastic job -my fav part of the show infact, there was points where i nearly wet myself........moving on, and of course everyone who came i hope you all come next year.......... ok im gonna go back to drinking my Rose tea (its sooooo good) and get ready for a performance tonight so see you all in dublin

There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers...

Posted: 16th Feb 2006
Big up to everyone, for this amazing week-end

It was so great to see ya all again, meet up with my poi inspirers & some spinners I still had not met (Deep Soul Sheep & co)

I didn't expected to end up on stage, so big thanks to the organizers & the kind comments

I particularly loved the

- Doro's poi rescue in Dublin's river (vidz on its way): Hooooray for our heroes: Andy & the amazing steel-pole team (Olivier & Maggie)

- Andy & Ronan for beeing so inspiring

- Olivier & Doro for beeing my ever favorite poi duo

- Lisa & James doubles .. keep up the good work

- Aidan lovely staff contact (you deserve stage for next Irish convention) & Amélie's fire hula hoop and rhum

- Lisa's pasta & chile red wine on sunday nite

- cluedo sucks (don't ever play with Clare .. she's a killer)

- Irish girls dressing up like the British

- making 2.5€ after an hour of busking in Dublin

..

so next time: more fun, more spin, more tricks sharing



I've got a lot of footage of sunday's fire session, but I need to buy a new PC (HDD at least) & I happen to have lost my camera's power adapter ... so you'll have to wait for the vid-yo



See ya all in Paris Juggling Convention: "Balles Habilles à Belleville"

& EJC







and a last word:

PING !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: 16th Feb 2006


I am no killer. It wasn't me... honest

Getting to the other side

Posted: 17th Feb 2006
@olive

hihihihahahhhohoho
yeahhh sooo funny!

but olive, how do u do to remember all that or did i do a lot of passive smoking?

Posted: 17th Feb 2006
for olive

We're coming to Paris! How does us arriving on friday and leaving on monday sound?

bouncebounce

Love is the law.

Posted: 21st Feb 2006

Written by: ado-p

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How does us arriving on friday and leaving on monday sound?

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soundz BRILLIANT

Posted: 21st Feb 2006
I just wanted to thank all the people at the conevention, but mostly Olive, for his amazing staff performance, Doro and Olivier for the beauty of their chemistry (I don´t know if you use that expression in english but anyway) performing, all the performers,The aereal was,..they were flying,..great,..and Andy for the workshop,..I loved the massaging,.. and of course all the people that sahre the apartment with us, was lovely,..
OHHH!! and in answer to Olive,.. PONG!!!
Hope to see u all soon, maybe here in Spain or Paris, or Germany,...

Posted: 22nd Feb 2006
heya maiuki are you going to paris? The flights from ireland can be got for about 10c folks looks for ronan. you coming? huh huh?

were all booked up

though we are gonna come for a week instead of four days we'll be visiting friends and being tourists before the jonglage. Any space at yours for a couple of homeless fire spinners for a day or two after the weekend olive?

Love is the law.

Posted: 23rd Feb 2006
gonna have some savage fun!!

ado, i hear tell that you have a vid of the convention show, if so could u please forward me a copy, or maybe, colleeen darlin , that pro might have given you a copy of the vid of the whole schebang, anyways, i cant remember most of it for some reason... and the next day i woke up with a head ache and nausea?? dunno what happened there?

There's no place like 127.0.0.1, There's no place like 127.0.0.1, There's no place like 127.0.0.1,

"in most of our friends we're the hippies. but we have hippie friends of our own.. its like a dog having its own pet" - H. Sinoquet 19-03-2005

Posted: 23rd Feb 2006
ooops,

barry, i replied to your post in the irish thread. but yes, we do have some footage. not alot, just fire. send me on your address

Love is the law.

Posted: 23rd Feb 2006
hahahahaha thats grand i'll do my best to get a copy of the show...(will was being a bit of a tit that night....cos the performers dont mind being filmed...) Anyway baz you seem to have forgotten a great show...

There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers...

Posted: 23rd Feb 2006
I don´t know yet, but I´ll try to make it. Rigth now I´m a bit confused of what I´m doing, I´m thinking so seriously about going to Gomera again cos I have to finish the driving test,..and is sunny and warm,..jeje!!But I´m sure Ronan will make it,...I´ll keep you informed anyway
besos

Posted: 23rd Feb 2006
You know, a couple of years in ireland and you'll forget all about that sun worshipping business.

A bit of cold rain is what you need

Love is the law.

Posted: 23rd Feb 2006
ado we want to have a copy to from that evening and we never saw our goldolight duo on blacklight
so please merci
peace light and good night

ap and doro*

peace and light

Posted: 24th Feb 2006
hi olivia

we dont have any footage from the show inside unfortunatley. some photos but no video>

we do have a bit of the fire from sunday night. as soon as i can get it on a cd i will send it to you and your lovely goldorox. do you want to send me your address or will you be in paris for the belliville jonglage spectacle!!!?

Love is the law.