Stanford Court Jugglers


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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 7:30pm till about 10:30pm. (If you show up at 7:30 and no one's there yet, there'll probably be someone there before 8pm.)

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.

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

Wednesdays about 7:30pm Juggling location -- click for directions & map
Apr 23, 2008 onwardCubberley Auditorium lobby in the School of Education building

In addition, there is a Friday afternoon juggling meeting at Stanford, namely Down With Gravity. They meet about 3pm-5pm on the grass in White Plaza between the bookstore and Tresidder Union. (There are no Friday meetings between school quarters or during the summer.)

And there is a Saturday afternoon juggling meeting at the Klutz store in Palo Alto at 572 College Avenue just off El Camino. They meet about 3:30-5:30pm.

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)

  • 2008 May 2-4: Isla Vista Juggling Festival — just north of Santa Barbara, California, about a five-hour drive from Stanford. Note that the fest is NOT on Easter weekend this year but is the first weekend in May. This 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).

  • 2008 Jun 14: World Juggling Day! Jugglers all over the world will be juggling on WJD, at numerous different events around the globe. Starting around February you'll be able to register on the WJD website to enter the giveaway of various juggling prizes. 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.

  • 2008 Jul 14-20: The seven-day 61st Annual IJA juggling festival will be in Lexington, Kentucky. The juggling facilities and theatre will be very good. Guests include performers from the Quebec Circus School, Niels Duinker, Casey Boehmer and more to be announced later. Make your hotel reservations by June 13.

Past juggling festivals -- wait till they come around again

Other Bay Area juggling meetings

Other useful juggling web sites

  • 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.

  • Wolfgang Westerboer's Causal Editor for creating and editing causal diagrams is included with his JoePass! -- a juggling simulator for showing passing patterns.

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

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

Media coverage

On July 13, 2000, the Stanford Weekly printed a nice picture of juggling in Memorial Court.

Last modified: Sun Apr 27 11:12:17 PDT 2008