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European Juggling Convention

The European Juggling Convention (EJC), is the largest juggling convention in the world, regularly attracting several thousand participants. It is held every year in a different European country. It is organised by changing local organisation committees which are supported by the European Juggling Association (EJA), a non-profit association founded in 1987 in Saintes, France. Like most juggling conventions, it features a mix of workshops for jugglers, a "renegade" performance performed for participants, games, performances and a public show, usually spread out over a period of a week in the European summer. Accommodation is usually in the form of tents provided by participants.

History

The first EJC was inspired by the IJA Festival and organised by jugglers who didn't want to travel to the USA. The IJA helped by giving the organisers a list (known as the roster) of IJA members living in Europe. It was also known as the "first European IJA mini-convention" and had an attendance of 11 jugglers from 5 countries. EJC has now grown much bigger than its inspiration and has much less focus on competitive juggling, but is more about the sharing of juggling.

List of European Juggling Conventions

No.	Location	Year	Dates	Attendance	Organiser	Link
1	Brighton, United Kingdom	1978	April 15 - April 16	11	Lynn Thomas	[http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/30-4/30-4,p3.htm](http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/30-4/30-4,p3.htm)[http://www.ijuggle.net/ejc-data/1st-ejc-1978-brighton-uk/](http://www.ijuggle.net/ejc-data/1st-ejc-1978-brighton-uk/)[https://web.archive.org/web/20150626124002/http://www.juggle.org/festival/IJA-EJC-Brighton.shtml](https://web.archive.org/web/20150626124002/http://www.juggle.org/festival/IJA-EJC-Brighton.shtml)
2	Newport-on-Tay, United Kingdom	1979	April 14 - April 16	25	Lindsay Leslie	[http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/31-4/31-4,p1.htm](http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/31-4/31-4,p1.htm)
3	London, United Kingdom	1980	March 28 - March 30	42	Tim Batson	[http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/32-3/32-3,p4.htm](http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/32-3/32-3,p4.htm)
4	London, United Kingdom	1981	September 18 - September 20	100	Tim Batson	[http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/34-1/34-1,p7.htm](http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/34-1/34-1,p7.htm)
5	Copenhagen, Denmark	1982	September 10 - September 12	110	Jonglorer md Tyngdekaften	[http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/34-5/34-5,p4.htm](http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/34-5/34-5,p4.htm)[http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/34-5/34-5,p5.htm](http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/34-5/34-5,p5.htm)
6	Laval, France	1983	September 16 - September 18	200	L'Institut de Jonglage	[http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/35-4/35-4,p8.htm](http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/35-4/35-4,p8.htm)
7	Frankfurt, Germany	1984	September 13 - September 16	400	Schwerkraft Na Und	[http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/36-4/36-4,p4.htm](http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/36-4/36-4,p4.htm)
8	url=http://www.mrjules.net/wp-content/uploads/Small-Book-EJC.pdf	title=European Juggling Convention	publisher=EJA.net	via=MrJules.net}}	1985	September 5 - September 8	550	Cirque de Trottoir	[http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/37-4/37-4,p5.htm](http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/37-4/37-4,p5.htm)
9	Castellar de la Frontera, Spain	1986	September 18 - September 21	350	Javier Jiminez, Hermann Klink, Fritz Brehm, Toby Philpott
10	Saintes, France	1987	September 17 - September 20	1000	L'Institut de Jonglage	[http://www.juggling.org/jw/87/4/europe.html](http://www.juggling.org/jw/87/4/europe.html)
11	Bradford, United Kingdom	1988	September 22 - September 25	1000	Sam Scurfield	[http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/40-4/40-4,p13.htm](http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/40-4/40-4,p13.htm)
12	Maastricht, Netherlands	1989	August 31 - September 3	2000	Stichting 12th European Juggling Festival	[http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/41-4/41-4,p4.htm](http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/41-4/41-4,p4.htm)
13	Oldenburg, Germany	1990	August 30 - September 2	2500	Verein zur Förderung des Freizeitsports e.V.	[http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/42-4/42-4,p24.htm](http://dev.juggle.org/history/archives/jugmags/42-4/42-4,p24.htm)
14	Verona, Italy	1991	August 29 - September 1	2300	EJA: represented by Jules Howarth, Pippa Stockting, Doug Orten
15	Banyoles, Spain	1992	August 20 - August 24	1500	Sue Hunt
16	Leeds, United Kingdom	1993	September 1 - September 5	1800	Up in the Air Ltd.
17	Hagen, Germany	1994	August 2 - August 7	2000	EJA (Deutschland) e.V.
18	Gothenburg, Sweden	1995	August 11 - August 18	1100	Snöbollen
19	Grenoble, France	1996	August 12 - August 18	2200	Association Entre ciel et terre
20	Turin, Italy	1997	September 1 - September 6	1000	Just for Joy European Association
21	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	1998	August 3 - August 8	2000	EJC98 Ltd.
22	Grenoble, France	1999	August 12 - August 18	2300	Association Entre ciel et terre
23	Karlsruhe, Germany	2000	August 5 - August 12	2750	Pyramidaler Kleinkunst-Verein e.V.
24	Rotterdam, Netherlands	2001	August 4 - August 12	3500	Stichting EJC2001
25	Bremen, Germany	2002	August 8 - August 16	2200	Zirkuswerkstatt e.V.
26	Svendborg, Denmark	2003	August 5 - August 13	2300	E.J.C. 2003 Svendborg	[https://web.archive.org/web/20021016225808/http://www.ejc2003.dk/](https://web.archive.org/web/20021016225808/http://www.ejc2003.dk/)
27	Carvin, France	2004	July 25 - August 1	4487	Ch'ti Cirq	[https://web.archive.org/web/20060718083609/http://ejc2004.org/](https://web.archive.org/web/20060718083609/http://ejc2004.org/)
28	Ptuj, Slovenia	2005	August 14 - August 20	3550	Rokodelci Juggling Association	[https://web.archive.org/web/20040815053324/http://www.ejc2005.com/](https://web.archive.org/web/20040815053324/http://www.ejc2005.com/)
29	Millstreet, Ireland	2006	July 9 - July 16	2252	JCEvents Ltd.	[https://web.archive.org/web/20051215083014/http://www.ejc2006.net/](https://web.archive.org/web/20051215083014/http://www.ejc2006.net/)
30	Athens, Greece	2007	July 30 - August 5	2300
31	Karlsruhe, Germany	2008	August 2 - August 10	6800	Pyramidaler KleinKunst-Verein	[https://web.archive.org/web/20180331201327/http://ejc2008.de/](https://web.archive.org/web/20180331201327/http://ejc2008.de/)
32	Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain	2009	July 4 - July 12	4200		[https://archive.today/20120728121857/http://www.ejc2009.org/](https://archive.today/20120728121857/http://www.ejc2009.org/)
33	Joensuu, Finland	2010	July 24 - August 1	1200	Sirkus Supiainen ry	[https://web.archive.org/web/20081120212432/http://www.ejc2010.org/](https://web.archive.org/web/20081120212432/http://www.ejc2010.org/)
34	Munich, Germany	2011	August 6 - August 14	7200	EJC 2011 e.V.	[https://web.archive.org/web/20100202212211/http://www.ejc2011.org/](https://web.archive.org/web/20100202212211/http://www.ejc2011.org/)
35	Lublin, Poland	2012	July 28 - August 5	1540	Fundacja Sztukmistrze	[https://web.archive.org/web/20120730155516/http://ejc2012.org/](https://web.archive.org/web/20120730155516/http://ejc2012.org/)
36	Toulouse, France	2013	July 27 - August 4	4500	L’association Par Haz’Art	[https://web.archive.org/web/20130615020032/http://www.ejc2013.com/](https://web.archive.org/web/20130615020032/http://www.ejc2013.com/)
37	Millstreet, Ireland	2014	July 19 - July 27	2345	Circus Events Ltd.	[http://www.ejc2014.org/](http://www.ejc2014.org/)
38	Bruneck, Italy	2015	August 1 - August 9	4042		[http://www.ejc2015.org](http://www.ejc2015.org)
39	Almere, Netherlands	2016	July 30 - August 7	5417	Stichting Europees Jongleerfestival 2016	[https://web.archive.org/web/20160716064805/http://www.ejc2016.org/](https://web.archive.org/web/20160716064805/http://www.ejc2016.org/)
40	Lublin, Poland	2017	July 22 - July 30	2440	Fundacja Sztukmistrze	[http://www.ejc2017.org/](http://www.ejc2017.org/)
41	Azores, Portugal	2018	July 28 - August 5	1300+	Associação Cultural de Artes Circenses dos Açores - 9'Circos	[http://www.ejc2018.org](http://www.ejc2018.org)
42	Newark, United Kingdom	2019	August 3 - August 11	4426	Red Hat Events	[https://web.archive.org/web/20190630073922/https://ejc2019.org/](https://web.archive.org/web/20190630073922/https://ejc2019.org/)
43	Hanko, Finland (on-line)	2021	July 17 - July 25		Sirkus Magenta	[https://ejc2021.org/](https://ejc2021.org/)
44	Tres Cantos, Spain	2022	August 6 - August 14	3200	Asociación Circo Diverso tres cantos	[http://www.ejc2022.org/](http://www.ejc2022.org/)
45	Lublin, Poland	2023	July 29 - August 6	2311	Fundacja Sztukmistrze	[http://www.ejc2023.org/](http://www.ejc2023.org/)
46	Ovar, Portugal	2024	July 27 - August 4	2799		[https://www.ejc2024.org/](https://www.ejc2024.org/)
47	Arnhem, Netherlands	2025	August 2 - August 10	6573	Stichting Europees Jongleerfestival	[https://www.ejc2025.org/](https://www.ejc2025.org/)
48	Ptuj, Slovenia	2026	August 1 - August 9			[https://www.ejc2026.org/](https://www.ejc2026.org/)
49	Bruneck, Italy	2027

References

(2006). "The Stichting European Juggling Association". European Juggling Association.
(2015). "Thoughts, Philosophy, History by Toby Philpott". European Juggling Association.
(2015). "Report on Brighton IJA Convention April 15 & 16, 1978 by Lindsay Leslie". International Juggling Association.
(2015). "First European IJA Mini-Convention Brighton, England". International Juggling Association.
"European Juggling Convention". EJA.net.
(2012). "The European Juggling Association". European Juggling Association, list of EJCs.
(2012). "European Juggling Convention 2008". Pyramidaler Kleinkunst Verein.

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