Stanford Court Jugglers
An Affiliate of the International Jugglers' Association


The International Jugglers' Association (IJA) is a great volunteer-run juggling organization that publishes the excellent JUGGLE magazine, puts out very popular DVDs every year (with good discounts for IJA members), and has a fun-filled juggling festival every summer. If you're a juggler, I strongly suggest that you join the IJA. See Upcoming Juggling Festivals below for info on the next IJA festival.

Sections below:

  • Stanford Court Jugglers
  • Stanford/Bay Area jugglers mailing list
  • Upcoming juggling festivals
  • Past juggling festivals
  • Other Bay Area juggling meetings
  • Other useful juggling links

    • The Stanford Court Jugglers, an affiliate of the IJA, meets Wednesday evenings at Stanford University. Our meeting location sometimes changes, but we juggle Wednesdays from about 8pm till about 10:30pm or 11:30pm.

    We've been meeting at Stanford since 1980, but since our meeting place occasionally changes, you may want to join our email list (see below) to be notified of such changes and of other juggling events. Or if you're a visitor to the group, it is recommended that you send email (see below) to verify where we're meeting. Our current meeting place is shown below.

    Martin's youtube channel has lots of SJRI club passing videos, which will give you a sample of what we do at Stanford.

    We meet year round at Stanford. Here are the current meeting details:

    Wednesdays at 8pm Juggling location -- click for directions & map

    Dec 21 & 28, 2011
    NO MEETING these weeks.
    Jan 3, 2012 onward

    Cubberley Auditorium lobby in the School of Education building (If you don't see us in the lobby go down the left hall and look around the corner near the stairs, or go down the right hall and turn right at the rear of the building and look for us near the exit.)

    Down With Gravity hosts another juggling meeting at Stanford on Friday afternoons. They meet on the grass in White Plaza between the Stanford Bookstore and Tresidder Union. (There are usually no Friday meetings between school quarters but they did meet during summer of 2010.)

    Stanford/Bay Area jugglers mailing list

    To verify our current meeting place, or if you want to be on our mailing list, or if you have any questions about our juggling gatherings or juggling in general, send email to Martin Frost: me at cs dot stanford dot edu.

    Upcoming juggling festivals (see also the IJDb list of juggling festivals)

    • 2012 Jan 12-15: The Seattle Juggling Festival will be four days long at Seattle Center (by the Space Needle).

    • 2012 Jun 16: World Juggling Day! Jugglers all over the world will be juggling on WJD, at numerous different events around the globe. If you're holding a WJD event, be sure to register it on the WJD site for the free publicity. Or look there for a WJD event being held near you. The website is generally set up around January or February for a given year's World Juggling Day.

    • 2012 Mar 15-18: Humboldt Juggling Festival. The Humboldt Juggling Society, a Humboldt State University club, presents its annual festival, in Arcata, California

    • 2012 Jul 16-22: The seven-day 64th Annual IJA juggling festival will be in Winston-Salem, NC. Details on the 2012 fest should be available on the IJA website by sometime in February 2012.

    Past juggling festivals (most recent first) -- some will happen again -- stay tuned

    • 2011 Sep 30-Oct 2: The Portland Juggling Festival. A great and large juggling fest, in Portland, Oregon, with very good facilities, many workshops and excellent shows. Don't miss it.

    • 2011 May 6-8:Santa Cruz 3rd Annual Juggling Festival. Held at UC Santa Cruz, this fest is dedicated to juggling as well as the circus arts.

    • 2011 Apr 22-24: Isla Vista Juggling Festival — just north of Santa Barbara, California, about a five-hour drive from Stanford. This popular fest is the longest running regional juggling festival in the world, having started in 1977 (only the big IJA fest has been going on longer -- since 1948). Make your plans to go!

    • 2011 Feb 4-6: The Damento Juggling Festival in Sacramento finally returns after some years off! Not far away, so make your plans to go. SJRI will be performing (for what that's worth :), and Rick Rubenstein will be MCing the public show.

    • 2010 Jul 9-11: Don't miss the 6th Berkeley Juggling and Unicyle Festival. Probably still mostly free except for the public show.

    • 2010 Jun 18-20: The 6th Annual Boulder Juggling Festival will be hosted at the Boulder Circus Center in Boulder, Colorado.

    • 2010 May 22: Sonoma County May Madness JuggleFest. Julliard Park, Santa Rosa, CA, Saturday 10am-6pm. Jugglers, unicyclists, and variety artists of all makes and models are planning to attend. Organizers include Mark Bunnell and Jeff Johnson.

    • 2009 Nov 12-15: The Nomadic Los Angeles Juggling Festival will be held at Los Angeles Valley College in Monarch Hall November 14-15 hosted by the San Fernando Valley juggling group Safety in Numbers. Join in at the regular meeting on Thursday, Nov 12, 9pm-midnight, at LA Valley College Gym, and on Friday, Nov 13, at the Kalvan Gym in Van Nuys from 4pm to midnight.

    • 2009 Oct 2-4: This year the Nomadic Juggling Festival will be at Catalina State Park near Tucson, Arizona.

    • 2009 Mar 27-29: The Pacific Northwest Juggling Convention will be held in Corvallis, Oregon, on the campus of Oregon State University.

    • 2008 Mar 14-16: The Victoria Juggling Festival will be held at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

    • 2007 Feb 17-18: Southern California Juggling Festival. Hosted by Claremont High School Juggling Club, Claremont, CA.

    • 2005 Aug 19-21: Coeur d' Alene Juggling Festival on the North Idaho College campus, on the shore of Lake Coeur d' Alene. For more info, contact David Groth: idahojuggler at adelphia.net

    Other Bay Area juggling meetings

    • Down With Gravity meets at Stanford on Fridays about 3pm-6pm on the grass in White Plaza between the Stanford Bookstore and Tresidder Union. They generally do not meet between school quarters.

    • The Klutz Juggling Club meets in Burgess Park (near city hall) in Menlo Park on Saturdays 3pm-6pm, assuming the weather is decent.

    • The Santa Clara Jugglers Club meets in Central Park in Santa Clara on Sundays 11am-3pm.

    • The Berkeley Juggling Club (UC Berkeley).

    • The Castro Valley Jugglers meet on Tuesday evenings at the rotunda of the Castro Valley Bart Station.

    • The UC Santa Cruz Juggling Club meets outside on Wednesdays and Friday. (Not sure if they meet during the summer.)

    • The San Francisco Gutter Jugglers meet on Sunday evenings in the Circus Center near Golden Gate Park. NOTE:June 6, 2010, was the last meeting day for this group.

    Other useful juggling links

    • Martin's youtube channel has lots of SJRI club passing videos, which will give you a sample of what we do at Stanford.

    • The Passing Database, a web site devoted to club passing, with over a hundred patterns listed, plus links to club passing articles, videos, simulators and other club passing sites.

    • Madison Area Jugglers Pattern Book, an online book explaining dozens of passing patterns, mostly for four or more jugglers.

    • The Internet Juggling Database (IJDb), which is a well maintained collection of online juggling resources, including lists of events (festivals), local club meetings, videos and juggling forums, as well as various noteworthy articles.

    • The International Jugglers' Association (IJA), which organizes a big juggling convention every summer and puts out the colorful JUGGLE magazine.

    • Online juggling instructions from the International Jugglers' Association.

    • Wolfgang Westerboer's program JoePass!, with juggling animation and an editor for creating and editing causal diagrams -- excellent for recording and showing passing patterns.

    • Juggling site of Itsik Orr with club passing patterns and juggling simulators.

    • The Orange Jugglers (in Orange County, CA).

    Webpage maintained by Martin Frost.   Last modified: Tue Dec 20 18:12:28 PST 2011