Wow...Oh wow...
We just had the most memorable weekend of our lives... Were you there?
26 and 27 May 2012 marked the first ever international juggling festival to be held in Singapore - Child's Play PAssion Juggling Festival 2012. We were honoured and privileged to have been able to invite some of the best performers in the world to attend the festival. Okotanpe (Master of Contact Juggling from Japan and registered performer with Cirque du Soleil), Tetsunori Saito (Diaboloist from Japan) and Jason Chang 张耀文 (Diaboloist from Taiwan), all winners at IJA (International Jugglers' Association) were present at the festival. Joining them on our star-studded list of performers were Dan Parkin ( Ball and Club Juggler - Japan), Satoshi Kanayama (Flower Stick - Japan), Yusuke Inaba (Cigar Box - Japan), MyD Team (Diabolo Team - Malaysia), Jonasun (Master of Manipulation - Japan), Romi Yacop (Poi and Contact Staff Guru - Singapore), and Marcus Koh and Lim Aik Hwee (Yo-yo Champions - Singapore).
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| (From Left) Satoshi Kanayama, Yusuke Inaba and Dan Parkin |
The two-day event was tiring but totally worth it. Jam-packed with workshops, our participants had a fabulous time polishing their skills and picking up new tricks from our guest instructors. We like to think that everyone had learnt something over the two days!
These are some shots taken during the workshops. More professional-looking ones will be uploaded to our Facebook page at a later date!
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| Animation Dance Workshop by Jonasun |
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| Ball Juggling Workshop by Dan Parkin |
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| Cigar Box Workshop by Yusuke Inaba |
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| Contact Juggling Workshop by Okotanpe |
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| Flowerstick Workshop by Satoshi Kanayama |
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| Hoop Manipulation Workshop by Jonasun |
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| Unicycling Workshop by Team Unicycle |
To end off the festival, our performers put up a very exciting show at the Gala Show on Sunday evening! All of us were moved and inspired by the performers' awesome performances. They were simply wonderful... You got to be there to understand how it was like, watching such great people on stage!
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| Our fantastic audience! |
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| Finale! |
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| After the show is over |
The festival is over, but we are not going to stop juggling! We hope that all our participants have been inspired by this festival and keep on improving. That is what this festival is all about. Learning and sharing and spreading the passion of juggling.
Again, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all our performers (we love you all!!!), vendors, participants, sponsors, volunteers and all who have been involved in this project of ours...THANK YOU! It would not have been possible to turn our dream into reality if not for you all!!
We will see all of you again next year! :)
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