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The 2008 NOT QUITE PITTSBURGH JUGGLING FESTIVAL Has Come And Gone!
We want to thank the 150-175 in attendance that come to our first fest and helped make it so great!!!!!!!!!
Hosted by the Leave It To Beaver Valley Jugglers and the Quaker Valley Middle School Juggling Club!
Friday November 7, 2008, 6:00pm - 10:00pm and Saturday, November 8, 10:30am - 8:00pm
at Quaker Valley Middle School gym, 201 Graham Street, Sewickley, PA 15143
HERE ARE SOME LINKS TO NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF THE FEST. The video is especially good. You may have to copy and paste to go to the web sites:
PPG article of the Festival--
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08318/927284-57.stm
Watch the PPG VIDEO--
http://www.post-gazette.com/multimedia/?videoid=101179
Trib article of the Festival-- http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
pittsburghtrib/living/s_596726.html
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GAMES - RAFFLE - SHOW SATURDAY - UNICYCLES WELCOME! - LEARN TO JUGGLE - WORKSHOPS (Please let us know if there is something in the future you would like to see taught in a workshop. If you think you'd want to teach a workshop, let us know that too!
PUBLIC SHOW SATURDAY NIGHT!
Check out the lineup we had for a fantastic show starting with our Master of Ceremonies: Carla Phillips, Natrona, PA
Mark Hayward, Pittsburgh,PA (www.markhayward.net)
Bob! Bob! Bob! Nickerson, The Jock-ular Juggler, Gallitzen, PA and Dr. Jay, Pittsburgh, PA
Laura Ernst, Washington, DC
Jeremy Stanley, Morgantown, WV
Benjamin Lipman, NJ (comedyentertainer.com)
Nicholas Aikens, Pittsburgh, PA
David Jefferson, Wilkinsburg, PA
Case Western Reserve Juggling Club members, Cleveland, OH
Michael (Uncle Mike) Spisak, Pittsburgh, PA
Aaron Bonk, OH
Leave It To Beaver Valley jugglers:
Mike Patsch, Robert Curtis, Kathy Doutt (www.allinjest.com), and Stephen Doutt.
For full festival schedule, see below!
VENDORS WELCOME!
Just donate an item to our raffle and you can set up as a vendor! Please contact us if you would like to be a vendor in the future. Thank you!
THANK YOU 2008 VENDORS!
Quaker Valley Middle School Juggling Club Store: Juggling equipment
All In J.E.S.T. Juggling (Kathy Doutt, PA): T-shirts, Childrens' book, Juggling related Christmas items
In The Spin Juggling (Sky King, NY): Juggling equipment, DVD's, shirts, etc.
Golden Jester (Bill Coad, NY): Juggling equipment
Carla Phillips Balloon Decorating and Entertainment - Childrens' book, clowns
HOTEL/RESTAURANT INFO - SEE PAGE 2
MAP AND DIRECTIONS - SEE PAGE 3
INFO ON OUR JUGGLING CLUB - SEE PAGE 4
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
IN THE GYM:
FRIDAY, NOV. 7
6 p.m. - 10 p.m. Free open juggling and unicycling, learn how to juggle.
The QVMS Juggling Clubs' stilts were a big hit with a lot of the jugglers both days.
8:00 - Poi Workshop - Taught by David Friedman
TBA - Weather permitting, possible glow juggle outside! (Due to the weather, this did not happen.)
SATURDAY, NOV. 8
10:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. Free open juggling and unicycling, learn how to juggle!
WORKSHOPS
11:30 a.m. - Three Ball Tricks - Mike Patsch
1:30 p.m. - Devil Stick Tricks - Scott Slesnick
If you would like to learn something in particular at a future workshop, or teach a workshop, please contact us!
Also, would you be willing to spend just a short amount of time during the next fest to teach someone to juggle, if asked? If you would, please let us know when you arrive. You will get a star! Since our club is very small, we may need to enlist your help! (Thanks everyone that taught someone how to juggle!)
1:30/2 p.m. - Juggling Games! WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!!
We began our time of games with a very unique and exciting performance competition that has never been done at any other festival! We called it "Show Us What You Got, Right On The Spot!" Contestants for this unique competition performed to a piece of upbeat popular music that they had not rehearsed to previously, picked at random at the festival, and had a very limited time (5 minutes each) to hear it, put a routine together and then performed it before the audience and judges! The only choice they had was in picking the era that the song came from, such as the 60's, 70's, 80's and so on. The judges were looking for how well the performer choreographed their piece given the short period of time to create it, few drops, and entertainment value. The more entertaining, the better. Five contestants entered: Andrew Brown, Jeremy Stanley, Bob Curtis, Jim Kogler, and Ben Lipman. The winner was Jim Kogler, who won our hearts with his performance to "Good Vibrations" by The Beach Boys. The judges could tell that he put some thought into it and not just in his juggling moves, which went with the music very nicely, but in other aspects of his performance.
Our other games winners:
Three Ball Sky Sez! (two rounds) - Jeremy Stanley and Nick Aikens,
Quarter Juggling - Alan Thompson,
Three Ball Blind - Nick Aikens,
Speed Club Passing - Nick Aikens and Chase Henson,
Speed Diabolo Passing -Justin Haines and Alex Koren,
Diabolo Grind Endurance (new) - Alex Koren, Diabolo High Toss (outside) - Bill Roddy,
5 Ball Endurance - Nick Aikens (about 3 minutes, 40 seconds),
What Would You Do For A Klondike Bar? (AKA Best Trick) - Charles Cartier.
Congratulations everyone!!!!!
Following the games - Raffle!!! And what a raffle it was!!!
We had donated items from the following companies: The IJA, The WJF, Infinite Allusions, In The Spin Juggling, Golden Jester, Higgins Brothers, Neon Husky, All In J.E.S.T. Juggling, QVMS Juggling Club Store, Carla Phillips Balloon Decorating and Entertainment, Sphere Planet, Ogre Shirts, Brian Dube'Inc., Stixguru and The Bag Lady, and donations from individuals as well! Thank you all!
And thanks to all of you, the jugglers, for buying tickets! We were able to make enough to pay for the use of the facility (yes, we had to pay for it) and other costs and still had a little left over to apply towards hopefully a future fest!
IN THE AUDITORIUM:
SATURDAY, NOV. 8
6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Public Show - Our two-day event ended in an unforgetable evening of fantastic performers. See top of page for show line-up.
Vendors were set up near the auditorium before and after the show for anyone that didn't get a chance to purchase something downstairs in the gym.
PHOTOS OF THE FEST ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING ON SNAPFISH. IF YOU GAVE US A LEGIBLE EMAIL ADDRESS WHEN YOU REGISTERED AT THE FEST, YOU SHOULD HAVE ALL READY RECEIVED AN EMAIL WITH THE LINK TO VIEW THE PICS.
For more info about the Not Quite Pittsburgh Juggling Festival or the Leave It To Beaver Valley Jugglers, contact:
Kathy Doutt at dkdoutt@comcast.net.nospam or by phone (724)643-9248
or
Madelyn Dinnerstein at mdinnerstein@hotmail.com.nospam
(leave the .nospam off to email us)