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Friday

5:00 PM: Free play at the Bellingham Circus Guild

7:00 PM: Intro to Spinning workshop w/ Cassaundra Smyth

8:00 PM: Glow jam feat. DJs Parts Per Million and Dawdust

a darkened room full of people spinning brilliant glow props

Saturday

10:00 AM: Free play at Fairhaven Middle School's gymnasium

11:00 AM - 5:30 PM: Free workshops (schedule link) for all skill levels in disciplines like juggling, hooping, dance

Props and other goodies available to borrow, try, or buy

7:00 PM: All-star invitational gala show at the Bellingham Circus Guild (ticketed event)

two club jugglers engaged in an insightful-looking exchange of ideas

Sunday

Open juggle jam at the Bellingham Circus Guild from 11 AM - 5 PM

Women of Juggling meetup from 11:15 - 12:00

Jugglers' games at noon! Contests of skill, endurance, and one-upsmanship for fabulous prizes

4:00 PM: Presentation of the Della Moustachella Award for Gusto

5:00 PM: Festival officially closes.

several jugglers all stand in concentration, each carefully balancing a juggling club upright on their face

Meet (most of) this year's outrageous gala talent!

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Amy Wieliczka | Oakland, CA

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Audrey Greaves | Seattle, WA

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Cory & Alicia Partner Poi | San Francisco, CA

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Eric Sipos | Chicago, IL

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Jugglejawns | Portland, OR

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Quinn Murley | Bellingham, WA

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Rose Solway | Bellingham, WA

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Sadye Osterloh | Bellingham, WA

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Sara Noelle | Oakland, CA

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Taylor Glenn | Salt Lake City, UT

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Wren the Juggler | Anacortes, WA

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Wyatt Davis | Oakland, CA

But there's hula hoops?

In the circus we sometimes use the word "juggling" as a synonym for "object manipulation," the class of circus arts using hand-held props (as opposed to acrobatics, clowning, or animal acts): hoops, clubs, balls, rings, poi, yo-yos, and so on. Related to the English word legerdemain and the Spanish word malabares, the word "juggling" can be used to describe all types of play with props, and thus a "juggling festival" is where all object manipulators (and their friends) can come together to meet up, practice, play, share tricks, and even perform.