The Velveteen Saint (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} velveteen) wrote,@ 2009-07-01 15:30:00 |
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Peaking
Haven't used this in a while - usually more into making quick status updates on Facebook these days. But I'm getting to that phase of the trip wherein I realize that it's time to pack and talk about the plans. In two weeks, I'll be completing a round-trip that's taken about twenty years, though I didn't know it when I'd started it...
When I was a kid, my family went to see the New Old Town Chautauqua at the Mount Baker Theater - a touring circus show that has been running since the early 80s, and lives on today. I'd only remember a small piece of the show, but it would be ingrained in my mind forever - a juggling troupe whose finale was a challenge from the audience to juggle three random objects chosen by applause-meter. One of the members of the troupe - the Flying Karamazov Brothers - juggled a jello mold, a beheaded salmon, and a small pumpkin for the audience's ten-count.
Almost two decades later, a bunch of circus friends invited me on this tour. I would have gone last year, but I was already on the road - I swore that I'd go this year. So this new tour goes like this: 70-someodd performers jump on a boat and float up Puget Sound toward Canada, stopping in little island communities to throw circus shows and workshops. I'll likely be the Token Contact Juggler on this trip, which means I'll be bringing a bunch of spare balls and teaching kids and parents the fine art of illusory object manipulation while otherwise volunteering my services as an usher, sound tech, ticket-taker, and so on. Expenses are paid, and I'll be busking whenever we stop at street fairs to pad my wallet a little.
It's a three-week tour - July 10th to August 3rd. There's a festival every weekend afterward until Burning Man - with one exception, whichmalariathegreat and I will use as an excuse for a weekend campout. That is: Chautauqua, Meltdown/Shambala (undecided), Hempfest (money!), camping, playa. After Burning Man comes a week off, followed by Lopez Island Jugglefest and Portland Juggling Festival.
Unless the Bellingham Circus Festival comes through - doing some of the preliminary legwork on that one. If that happens as plans are suggesting, I've got every weekend booked until October...
Haven't used this in a while - usually more into making quick status updates on Facebook these days. But I'm getting to that phase of the trip wherein I realize that it's time to pack and talk about the plans. In two weeks, I'll be completing a round-trip that's taken about twenty years, though I didn't know it when I'd started it...
When I was a kid, my family went to see the New Old Town Chautauqua at the Mount Baker Theater - a touring circus show that has been running since the early 80s, and lives on today. I'd only remember a small piece of the show, but it would be ingrained in my mind forever - a juggling troupe whose finale was a challenge from the audience to juggle three random objects chosen by applause-meter. One of the members of the troupe - the Flying Karamazov Brothers - juggled a jello mold, a beheaded salmon, and a small pumpkin for the audience's ten-count.
Almost two decades later, a bunch of circus friends invited me on this tour. I would have gone last year, but I was already on the road - I swore that I'd go this year. So this new tour goes like this: 70-someodd performers jump on a boat and float up Puget Sound toward Canada, stopping in little island communities to throw circus shows and workshops. I'll likely be the Token Contact Juggler on this trip, which means I'll be bringing a bunch of spare balls and teaching kids and parents the fine art of illusory object manipulation while otherwise volunteering my services as an usher, sound tech, ticket-taker, and so on. Expenses are paid, and I'll be busking whenever we stop at street fairs to pad my wallet a little.
It's a three-week tour - July 10th to August 3rd. There's a festival every weekend afterward until Burning Man - with one exception, which
malariathegreat and I will use as an excuse for a weekend campout. That is: Chautauqua, Meltdown/Shambala (undecided), Hempfest (money!), camping, playa. After Burning Man comes a week off, followed by Lopez Island Jugglefest and Portland Juggling Festival.Unless the Bellingham Circus Festival comes through - doing some of the preliminary legwork on that one. If that happens as plans are suggesting, I've got every weekend booked until October...
