OPEN FOR ALL There are two occasions during the festival, that are also open for people not attending the whole festival. Tickets are sold separetly on the spot at Barker Theatre. Barker Theatre webpages BAR NIGHT 22.5. The first occasion is the bar night at Barker Theatre on friday starting at 21.00. The bar night is K-18, so you have to be 18 or older. The bar will be open and there will also be exclusive circus artists performing their pieces on stage. Later on ST.FELIX will take on the stage and hit the audience with great live music. Taking care of the rest is DJ Laiha Läski. Tickets for people without the festival badge: 4€ Website for the band: http://www.stfelixband.com PUBLIC SHOW 23.5. The name says it all. This show is open for public for as long as there are tickets. The public show takes place in Barker Theatre at saturday 19.00. Here you can see the best professional jugglers, who have been exclusively summoned worldwide to perform at the festival. A must for any friend of performing arts, and a great way to see what juggling can really be. Come and get your worldclass circus experience here! Tickets for people without the festival badge: 5€ WORKSHOPS YURIY POZDNYAKOV AND ALEXANDR KOBLIKOV (cancelled) Yuriy is the teacher and director of such jugglers as Viktor Kee. If you don't know who is Viktor Kee, you should maybe check it out in Youtube.com. Alexandr is one of Yuriy's students and he has just won the gold medal at Cirque de Demain as the youngest juggler ever to do this. Together they will hold a workshop on juggling techique. HARRI VARPANEN: THE MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS OF JUGGLING Harri is an assistant professor in mathematics, and has also written a thesis about the mathematics of juggling. He will hold a workshop on approaching juggling mathematically. Get your notebooks ready! SAMULI MÄNNISTÖ: GRAPHIC JUGGLING NOTATION SYSTEM On this workshop Samuli will introduce his own juggling notation system called the Graphic Juggling Notation. Bring your notebooks. LAURI KOSKINEN: CLUB BALANCE KAJ-MIKAEL SCHÜTT: HEADROLLS WITH BALLS OLLI VUORINEN: LOOSE SPINS WITH CLUBS More to come... GAMES & CONTESTS THE JUGGLING HEPTATHLON If you were at Orivesi 2002, you know what we are talking about. This is hardcore sports juggling! So bring out your sportshorts and headbands if you are going to compete. This is done for sports only and is not to be taken lightly. This is as serious as it gets! THE JUGGLING GAMES Here we have the more classic games, that are open for everyone. Including: diabolo-bucket, high throw, endurance and more... If you don't know about these things, you should come and find out. SHOPPING SIRKUSSIRKUS SHOP Selling YOU the best juggling props since 2005! sirkussirkus shop is a local shop in Turku, and the only circusshop in Finland. The shop will bring you the selected best props of the moment out for buying at the festival. See what you can find and do not wait for any special festival prices! Website: SIRKUSSIRKUS SHOP (in finnish) TORBEN WIGGER Torben Wigger is the Danish man who, apart from his frisbee and hackysack skills is known for his high quality, handsewn juggling balls, hackysacks and other leather ball like objects. He sews everything himself and most of the stuff seems to be more or less indestructible. Every juggling ball is handmade and can be made to exact specification. Wigger uses several different fill materials to enable precise adjustment of both weight and size to fit every customer's desire. Naturally, he alse premakes balls to sizes, weights and colors that he himself thinks will suit a lot of people. When Torben visits a convention a lot of the balls will eventually be handsewn on the convention site. Torben Wigger has also agreed to make three special NJC2009 beanbags for every participant of the festival! Now how cool is that?! Website: Happy Jugglingball by Happy Action (Torben Wigger)