# 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 | |
| 2 | Newport-on-Tay, United Kingdom | 1979 | April 14 - April 16 | 25 | Lindsay Leslie | |
| 3 | London, United Kingdom | 1980 | March 28 - March 30 | 42 | Tim Batson | |
| 4 | London, United Kingdom | 1981 | September 18 - September 20 | 100 | Tim Batson | |
| 5 | Copenhagen, Denmark | 1982 | September 10 - September 12 | 110 | Jonglorer md Tyngdekaften | |
| 6 | Laval, France | 1983 | September 16 - September 18 | 200 | L'Institut de Jonglage | |
| 7 | Frankfurt, Germany | 1984 | September 13 - September 16 | 400 | Schwerkraft Na Und | |
| 8 | Louvain la Neuve, Belgium | 1985 | September 5 - September 8 | 550 | Cirque de Trottoir | |
| 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 | |
| 11 | Bradford, United Kingdom | 1988 | September 22 - September 25 | 1000 | Sam Scurfield | |
| 12 | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1989 | August 31 - September 3 | 2000 | Stichting 12th European Juggling Festival | |
| 13 | Oldenburg, Germany | 1990 | August 30 - September 2 | 2500 | Verein zur Förderung des Freizeitsports e.V. | |
| 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 | |
| 27 | Carvin, France | 2004 | July 25 - August 1 | 4487 | Ch'ti Cirq | |
| 28 | Ptuj, Slovenia | 2005 | August 14 - August 20 | 3550 | Rokodelci Juggling Association | |
| 29 | Millstreet, Ireland | 2006 | July 9 - July 16 | 2252 | JCEvents Ltd. | |
| 30 | Athens, Greece | 2007 | July 30 - August 5 | 2300 | | |
| 31 | Karlsruhe, Germany | 2008 | August 2 - August 10 | 6800 | Pyramidaler KleinKunst-Verein | |
| 32 | Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain | 2009 | July 4 - July 12 | 4200 | | |
| 33 | Joensuu, Finland | 2010 | July 24 - August 1 | 1200 | Sirkus Supiainen ry | |
| 34 | Munich, Germany | 2011 | August 6 - August 14 | 7200 | EJC 2011 e.V. | |
| 35 | Lublin, Poland | 2012 | July 28 - August 5 | 1540 | Fundacja Sztukmistrze | |
| 36 | Toulouse, France | 2013 | July 27 - August 4 | 4500 | L’association Par Haz’Art | |
| 37 | Millstreet, Ireland | 2014 | July 19 - July 27 | 2345 | Circus Events Ltd. | |
| 38 | Bruneck, Italy | 2015 | August 1 - August 9 | 4042 | | |
| 39 | Almere, Netherlands | 2016 | July 30 - August 7 | 5417 | Stichting Europees Jongleerfestival 2016 | |
| 40 | Lublin, Poland | 2017 | July 22 - July 30 | 2440 | Fundacja Sztukmistrze | |
| 41 | Azores, Portugal | 2018 | July 28 - August 5 | 1300+ | Associação Cultural de Artes Circenses dos Açores - 9'Circos | Archived 2018-03-13 at the Wayback Machine |
| 42 | Newark, United Kingdom | 2019 | August 3 - August 11 | 4426 | Red Hat Events | |
| 43 | Hanko, Finland (on-line) | 2021 | July 17 - July 25 | | Sirkus Magenta | |
| 44 | Tres Cantos, Spain | 2022 | August 6 - August 14 | 3200 | Asociación Circo Diverso tres cantos | |
| 45 | Lublin, Poland | 2023 | July 29 - August 6 | | Fundacja Sztukmistrze | |
| 46 | Ovar, Portugal | 2024 | July 27 - August 4 | | | |
| 47 | Arnhem, Netherlands | 2025 | August 2 - August 10 | | | |
| 48 | Ptuj, Slovenia | 2026 | | | | |