Organizers

Pokrovitelj festivala: Minister kulture in športa Stefan Wallin

Minister of Culture and Sport Stefan Wallin Dragi prijatelji cirkuških umetnosti,

Cirkus govori v jeziku, ki ne potrebuje nujno besed, da bi govoril. Zato je cirkus mednarodna oblika umetnosti in pomembno polje umetnosti ter kulture. To je resnično tudi na Finskem. Imamo tiste s hobijem, amaterje in profesionalce. V zadnjih letih je cirkus šel skozi strukturalni razvoj, ki se je pokazal na povečujočih se aktivnostih in različnostih.

Finski cirkus je priznan tudi mednarodno. V dokaz smo bili počaščeni z organizacijo največjega žonglerskega dogodka na svetu. Med to konvencijo ne bomo zgolj pokazali naše ekspertize ampak se bomo tudi učili od drugih. Interakcija in pozitiven družbeni duh med delavnicami in seminarji bo ustvaril veliko novih idej in možnost samo razvoja za umetnike in amaterje. Profesionalni nastopi, ki bodo tudi na konvenciji, pa bodo omogočili vsem da uživajo v cirkusu. Zato bi rad izrazil mojo zahvalo tistim, ki ste sodelovali v organizaciji tega dogodka. Za prijatelje cirkuških umetnosti želim veliko dobrih trenutkov v umetnosti, sposobnostih in zakaj ne tudi z čarovnijami. Kajti pravo mojstrstvo se kaže magično.

Helsinki, 26. January 2010

Stefan Wallin

EJA

Goals of the EJA

The European Juggling Association, the umbrella organisation of European jugglers, has made its main goal "to promote juggling in Europe, especially by ensuring, that each year, a European Juggling Convention (EJC) takes place in a different European city or town.". (www.eja.net)

Apart from the Board of Directors (chairman, secretary and treasurer) the EJA consists of the country representatives, who are elected every two years during EJC, and the festival representatives of previous EJCs.

Support

In order to ensure the continuity of the annual EJC, the EJA supports the organisers financially as well as logistically. So that the organisational team is able to cover costs occurring prior to the event (all from stamps to large batches of poster prints), the EJA provides them with an interest-free credit. In return an agreement is made whereby any potential profits will be passed on to the EJA to enable the continued support for future EJCs.

At least as important is the logistical assistance the EJA offers. In addition to the collected wisdom and experiences of past EJCs the EJA supports the EJC in various practical ways, most noteworthy the (online) registration system, which will also be used for this EJC. But also during EJC the members of the EJA are active, be it behind registration, at the EJA-Meetings or as point of contact for the jugglers from their country and the local organisers.
At this point a big Thank You to all those active in the EJA for their work for the EJA and EJC.

This year there will be another feature from Karlsruhe convention 2008: The EJA Meet & Greet! On three mornings the EJA country representatives will come together to inform all those interested about the EJA and its activities. This is a good opportunity to get to know your country representative and of course ask questions about matters you've always been interested in.

Organizatorji

EJCja ne bi nikoli mogli organizirati brez podpore lokalnih žonglerjev. Na finskem podpirajo ta projekt Sirkus Supiainen, Sirkus Kumiankka, Finnish Youth Circus Association in mnogi drugi.

Vsa finska žonglerska skupnost je zelo navdušena zaradi tega unikatnega dogodka na Finskem prvič v zgodovini EJCja in je zavezana k temu, da organizira perfektno žonglersko konvencijo. Srce skupine, ki organizira srečanje je sestavljeno iz sledečih ljudi:

Samuli Männistö