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The British Juggling Convention - a 5-7 day juggling convention in the UK, now attracts between 750 and 1,000 each year, held in the Easter school holiday. The French Juggling Convention (CFJ) is in a different city each year organised by one of the associations that organises a local juggling convention, supported by the Association Française ...
(The largest juggling festival in the world is the European Juggling Convention, started in 1978 and whose founders were members of the International Jugglers' Association). The convention is held in a different city each year during mid-to-late July since 1948. There were also additional winter conventions in the 90s.
The Gosekku (五節句), also known as sekku (節句), are the five annual ceremonies that were traditionally held at the Japanese imperial court. The origins were Japanese practices merged with Chinese practices and celebrated in Japan since the Nara period in the 8th century CE. The Japanese culture and tradition incorporated this in a unique ...
Pages in category "Juggling conventions" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Bay Area Circus Arts Festival; British Juggling Convention; E.
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 ...
"Japanese Festival in Honor of the Birth of Children" from Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs, by J.M.W. Silver, illustrated by native drawings, published in London in 1867. Although it is not known precisely when Tango no Sekku began to be celebrated, it was probably during the reign of the Empress Suiko (593–628 AD).
Stage for Sarugaku at Nogohakusan-jinja, Ibigawa, Gifu, JapanSarugaku (猿楽, "monkey music") was a form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries. One of its predecessors was a sangaku [], a form of entertainment reminiscent of the modern-day circus, consisting mostly of acrobatics, juggling, and pantomime, sometimes combined with drum dancing.
Japanese festivals, or matsuri (Japanese: 祭り), are traditional festive occasions often celebrated with dance and music in Japan.The origin of the word matsuri is related to the kami (神, Shinto deities); there are theories that the word matsuri is derived from matsu (待つ) meaning "to wait (for the kami to descend)", tatematsuru (献る) meaning "to make offerings to the kami", and ...