Stanford Court Jugglers
An Affiliate of the International Jugglers' Association


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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.

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
June 24, 2009, and for the summerMemorial Court, on the grass just inside the front of the Stanford Main Quad. (Cubberley lobby is closed for the summer.)

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

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)

  • 2009 Jul 13-19: The seven-day 62nd Annual IJA juggling festival will be in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The juggling facilities and theatre will be very good. Special guests and the overall schedule will be announced around January.

  • 2009 Sep 25-27: 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.

Past juggling festivals -- wait till they come around again

  • 2005 Feb x-y: The Damento Juggling Festival in Sacramento, California at Cosumnes River College -- great fest, inexpensive, lots of jugglers, good indoor facility, not very far away.

  • 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

  • 2006 Jun 16-18: The Seattle International Juggling Festival at Seattle Center (by the Space Needle) over the World Juggling Day weekend.

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

  • 2007 Nov 9-11: This year the Nomadic Juggling Festival will be in at Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, California (about 200 miles southeast of Stanford via US 101).

  • 2008 Mar 14-16: Humboldt Juggling Festival. The Humboldt Juggling Society, a Humboldt State University club, presents its annual festival, in Arcata, California.

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

  • 2008 Oct 10-12: Don't miss the fourth Berkeley Juggling and Unicyle Festival. Mostly free except for the public show.

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

  • 2009 Apr 10-12: Isla Vista Juggling Festival — just north of Santa Barbara, California, about a five-hour drive from Stanford. The fest is back on Easter weekend this year. 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).

  • 2009 Jun 19-21: The 5th Annual Boulder Juggling Festival will be hosted at the Boulder Circus Center in Boulder, Colorado.

  • 2009 Jun 20: World Juggling Day! Jugglers all over the world will be juggling on WJD, at numerous different events around the globe. You can 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.

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.

  • 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).

Media coverage

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

Last modified: Tue Jun 23 19:58:42 PDT 2009