Alley Ooop

• Multiple HoopGasm
• Hoopalicious Trick Share

Amie Gravel

Amie is from Nanaimo and has been a multi-prop spinner for almost 3 years. Her specialties are fire fans, mini hoops and clubs (though not juggling... yet).

• Fan Movement: An intro workshop covering planes, grips, transitions and moving the fans around your body. Don't have fans? Don't worry! Cardboard fan facsimiles will be provided for up to 15 participants to keep.
• Moving with Mini Hoops: Mini hoops for beginners with a focus on removing barriers to movement.

Ariel Amara

A performer and dabbler in the arts since a young age, Ariel is an explorer of all things expressive. She has been performing and sharing her joy and passion since 2002 when she discovered the hoop - her launching pad into the realm of circus fun. Inspired to expand from prop based performance, Ariel began clown training in 2010 as well as exploring burlesque and new physical practices such as dance and stilt acro. Ariel is mostly found playing in the hoop arts, tallness, fire arts, character, costume creation, playshop facilitation and precise blundering. Ariel loves being involved in community arts and has worked with the Stillmoon Arts Society as a performer and mentor for 7 Years. She also recently completed her second tour with Spark Circus, sharing silly circus bliss with children from Burma. Ariel is excited about a shared and ongoing obsession with prop manipulation, super human ridiculousness and continuing to connect with community at home and abroad. Who knows what circus adventure will emerge next!

• Fancy Feet ~ intermediate to advanced hoopers. Tired of being on your feet all day? Roll around on the ground instead I say! The next step? Get all limbs involved. Inspired by circus foot hooping techniques, this workshop will cover a variety of foot hooping moves that include some light acro/yoga type movement, including tricks to make it work within a range of flexibilities from stiff as a board to pretzel!
• Zero to Silly ~ Clown Games for Prop Manipulators. 'Lighten Up’ they say? Well lets try it out! This is an invitation to explore the physical and emotional relationships we have with our tools and to expand in those places both in performance and play. Invite your inner trickster to emerge! This fun filled playshop is a place to get silly and expressive with your prop, so come with an open mind and a playful heart! Be prepared to laugh, wiggle, use your voice, and connect.

Blake Speers

Blake Speers is a Juggler with more than 10 years experience goofing around with things that fall down. He has run school juggling programs for almost half that time in Canada and the UK and taught juggling theory at the IJA, EJC and Online. He has taught judges, students, tourists, teachers, and children from 7 to 90. He is not exactly an esteemed performer, but is known wherever he goes for his innovative and often baffling take on the manipulative arts. His favourite thing is to see somebody's brain explode with possibility. Not literally, cause that's like, icky.

• Rings: Unexplored Territory: A forty-five minute workshop on the ring.  We've seen isolations, toss juggling and rolling rings. What else do rings offer? Manipulations and bounce patterns for individuals or groups focusing on stuff you've never seen performed. Like, ever.
• Trick Discovery for Toss Jugglers - 6 Ways to Find New Tricks with Balls, Clubs or Rings. A truncated 1 hour workshop exploring layering, body movement, substitution, imagery, shape and transitions as methods to find tricks that have never before been performed. You will leave this workshop with something new whatever your skill level. All levels are encouraged.

Burns The Dragon

Burns The Dragon began performing in 2008 and has been busking and on stage ever since. He began developing the SilverMan Statue contact juggling character, and recently has been receiving rave reviews as an extreme freak show performer, both with Bloody Betty and his own solo shows.

• Freakshow 101 In intro to freakshow i will go over block head, balloon flossing, and glass walking,
• beginner contact juggling In multy ball I will be going over 3 ball and 4 ball simple maneuvers

Cora Schiller

A devil stick obsession in her 20’s, Poi manipulation & flags in her 30’s, CORA of SHASTA HOOP FITNESS continued passion & energy for play & movement lead her around into her 100% complete Hoop Addiction. With a deep desire to learn as much from others & share her love of hooping this has taken her to Bali's Sacred Circularities to NC Hoop Convergence. Whether its meditation, kickass bootcamp style, or trying to master the never ending techniquesshe is excited to be teaching ongoing weekly classes & Workshops in the central Vancouver Island area. Cora is also vending- bringing some sweet organic hoop clothing, belts, fun hats, hoodies, hoop jewellery, corsets. This is her annual Sale from Miss Daisy's boutique!! She is also bringing the long awaited Pod Poi, PolyPro hooping, flowwands & the newly launched BubbleRing glow hoops & laser point lights !!

• INTERMEDIATE HOOP VARIETY !! from hand rolls, poi style, to 1-2 hoop techniques transitions and & combinations !! I am thrilled to share a variety of hoop techniques for you to take & add your own God “ess”ness & flavor to !!~ Hoop JOY ~

Dekar Matheson

Dekar Matheson, is a player of Taoist Tai Chi Chuan, working slowly towards grandmasterdom. Relevant experience: philosophy (Taoism and western analyzing); some learning in various aspects of kung-fu, 'internal alchemy' and other Taoist martial arts including Ba-gua-zhang and some Chi Kung.

Dawn Marie

Dawn Marie has been street performing as a contact juggler for 8 years. She has performed on 4 different continents around the world. Dawn was a volunteer on The Busking Project, a documentary aimed at showing the beauty and diversity in street performance and recently did a tour of Canadian Busking Festivals, including the ScotiaBank Busking festival. Dawn also was part of the founding team of the first Vancouver International Busker Festival. This will be her first workshop on busking, but feel free to pick her brain!

• Busking 101

Jake West

Jake West, physical performer, has been working very hard on handstands for the last 3 years. He has had expert training from circus coaches at the Underground Circus and Vancouver Circus School. Session will be centred around building, aligning and balancing a bombproof hand stand.

• Handstands and hand balancing

Jamie Black

Jamie Black runs SoleAdventures, ( http://socialmediabar.com/jamie-black-is-on-a-sole-adventure-intro) and has created the WildCraft Play program for children and adults. She has been a Mother Goose Facilitator, coordinated a Storybook Village, directed a Vaudeville Variety Theatrical Production as a Fundraiser for the Errington Hall. She is also the President of the Errington War Memorial Hall, and is in the process of finishing her degree in Tourism & Recreation Management. She has two diplomas, one in Sport Science and Coaching, and the other in Recreation and Sport Management. Jamie is studying the magic of Celtic Folklore, as well as local native storytelling and earth medicine. Her leadership skills, community engagement, workshops, and Coyote Mentoring skills are an inspiration that tickle the senses.

• Beginner Poi- Class Description: Learn the basics of poi spinning in this introductory workshop. You'll learn a few simple moves and how to control your poi. Caution: poi can be highly addictive! Prerequisites: None.

Jason Stuart

Jason is from New Zealand, and has been studying and teaching contact staff for the past two years in New Zealand and Australia and now here in Canada.He's found a love for dragon staff and wants to push the possibilities of this unique prop.

• Intermediate Contact Staff: for those who have played around with contact staff and want to add some more tricks to their repertoire and also learn some important transitions.
• Introduction to Dragon Staff : Pre-reqs for this class are to have a basic understanding and competence in contact staff, especially rolls. Bring your Contact Staff.

Jen Cookson

Jen Cookson, aka Cookie, hoop therapist and instructor for 4 years, facilitator at Medicine Hoop Retreats, Kaslo, BC,

• Intro to Twins: Off Body...we'll work with same direction moves and opposites and play with flowers, weaves, elbows, rolls, and tosses, and begin to isolate each arm to move independently to allow endless combinations!
• Cookie will also lead a guided Medicine Hoop Journey where we explore the energies in each chakra with the hoop and find ways to visualize the new and release the old!

Joelique SpiritFeather

Joelique Spirit Feather is a Muse, living to inspire through play. During his life he has combined the practices of juggling, dance, martial arts, theatre, clowning, sword play, fire spinning, and gymnastics into his own creative form.

Joelique has been in the performing arts since the age of 15. He has performed with several troupes including Myth Maker, a sacred story telling circus that offers stage shows, workshops and roaming character theatre for festivals. He even helped create an emotive dance troupe in 2009 known as the L.O.V.E. Collective.

He has a powerful ability to entertain as well as inform. With 4 years of experience as a facilitator with Power of Hope youth camp for empowerment in the arts, he is well rounded as an instructor. He has taught workshops for many diverse audiences in juggling, clowning, theater, film making, mask making, self defense and more. His purpose in life is to activate new abilities in others, to inspire growth, renewal and self empowerment.

“Live your Love, Love your Life”

• Stage Combat ~ Creating Dynamic scenes with sword, staff and physical theater. By the end of the class students will have learned techniques and they will put them together into a short piece. No prior experience necessary.
• Sword Play ~ The basics of Sword play, How to add dynamic presence to sword performance.

John Spinoza

• Trick Knots
• Beginner Club Passing (must be able to hold 3 club Cascade)

Jpeace Love Circus

Jpeace is a Fire spinning, Stilt walking, Juggling clown whom studied at Dell Arte International in physical theatre. He has made it his goal to inspire creativity, smiles, and light into life where ever he may go through circus and arts. www.firecircusclown.com

• Character based spinning and stage presence~This class will explore combining spinning arts with character and clown, so that your spinning will reach a whole new level of fun on stage. We will explore through games and movement, encouraging your inner clown to flourish and grow.
• Club Manipulation Beg-Int Come explore Clubswinging! We will go over the 4 basic shapes of hybrids, combining them with transition theory and flow with a few fun and exciting tricks. Bring your clubs!

Karina Strong

Karina Strong is the ringmistress of VestaFire Entertainment, out of Nanaimo BC. She has been a full time performer for almost three years, going overseas with Spark Circus in 2012. Her background in social work allows for insight in teaching at risk youth and children, and she regularly facilitates circus and flow workshops at alcohol and drug treatment centres. VestaFire is performing in the gala show, and as well is one of the main acts in the 2013 Victoria International Busking Festival. Karina is also one of the organizers of this juggling festival!

• Flowwand- Beginner flow wand workshop teaching balance, manipulation, stalls, turns, and spins. Long string technique may also be discussed, depending on group levels. Please note- very limited amount of flowwands available for teaching purposes, but there will be flowwands for sale from Vendors on site.

Leona Marchand

Leona Marchand is an accomplished community spectacle artist who has been performing for the past 15 years. She attended the San Francisco School of Circus Arts and interned with the Wise Fool Puppetry Troupe, studying partner acrobatics, stilt walking, fire spinning, juggling and hooping. She can be seen performing in costume at many events such as the International Children's Festival, Burning Man Festival, Maple Sugar Festival, and traveling shows with New Old Time Chautauqua, and Lasquirkus. She enjoys teaching both children and adults the importance of play and creative expression.

• Stilting! Try stilt walking and expand your visual theatre skills through height! This condensed class allows participants to learn the basics of stilt walking, dancing and protected falls. Topics also include safety, balance, costuming and movement expression on stilts.

Lukas Knab

Lukas is a certified yoga instructor and movement enthusiast He specializes in poi, contact juggling, active balancing, and the exploration of acrobatic movement. Life is an experiment, and the art of flow is no exception! Having performed, and taught, both locally and internationally Lukas brings an interesting perspective to any movement meditation! Lukas is one of the senior performers with VestaFire Entertainment contemporary circus and fire performance troupe- You'll see him performing at the @Victoria International Busking Festival this July!

• Yoga/Stretching for flow artists! Join Lukas as he helps maximize your performing and learning potential for the Festival Day! This workshop focuses on warm up techniques and yoga poses for before and after an active session of flow! Learn to use your levels, and dynamic body positions, to enhance your performance abilities and condition your body! Suitable for spinners, jugglers, and anyone who wants to use their body for more than the obvious!
• Intermediate PoiIntermediate poi! Join Lukas as he sheds new insights on movement with poi! From covering ground, to poi geometries, to basic tosses and catches, take the next step on your poi journey! Also, learn what makes a poi trick impressive to an audience! And last but not least, have fun in your flow!

Lyndsay Spencer

Bio: Lyndsay has been dancing and moving creatively her whole life! As a Yoga instructor, Hula hoop teacher, Creative movement and Ecstatic dance facilitator and Performer she is passionate about sharing all kinds of movement forms with others. In her classes she brings a nurturing presence and playful spirit to engage and inspire others to connect with their own joy and authentic selves. She lives in the Comox Valley where she teaches a variety of classes and performs and co-creates with Island Hula Hoopla and improvisational troupe, Methuselah.

• CIRCLE GAMES: Original and creative hoop games to activate and captivate all ages and skill levels! This is a deeply fun workshop that explores games, their benefits and how to have an amazing impact on your community through play! Great for kids, adults and hoop jams! Each game can be played just for fun, or with a deeper purpose and goal (ice breakers, personal/group development, flexibility, balance, strength and endurance). Find out why everyone's smiling with Circle Games!
• Dance Improv: Experience an expressive and creative exploration into your own authentic movement, exploring individual, partner and group improvisational techniques and games to take you out of your head and into your body! Become present with your body and allow new and different ways of movement to be experienced.

Matt Cantrell

Matt began trying to make a circle with a rope and jump through it about 1983 after reading a short article on rope spinning in Hoovey Burges’ Circus Techniques. He quickly learned that although roping was once a popular American hobby it was quickly becoming a lost art. He had to learn a lot by experimentation, trial and error. But he did get some help from a couple great ropers who he met at different times: Vince Bruce and Forrest Hobbs. There seems to be a revival of interest in roping recently and he's excited to be able to share some of what he knows at the Victoria Juggling festival!

• Lasso Workshop:This workshop is for beginners or those that already can spin a rope and want to learn some more tricks. I will show what kind of rope to use, how to make your own lariats from bulk rope, how to take care of your ropes. Beginners will learn how to start a flat loop spinning and some basic tricks as well as some fundamental skills for learning more advanced tricks. Folks who have already spent time tying themselves up in knots will get some pointers on learning to step into/out of a loop, handshaking, juggles, butterfly, Texas skip, ocean wave.

Miranda Rad Tastic

Miss Hoop Tastic ~ Victoria, BC. Miranda - aka Miss Hoop Tastic - picked up a hula hoop in 2007 and never looked back. The following year she began crafting and selling her own hoops and in 2009 became a member of Fyre & Lyte, Victoria’s Poi Pixies performance troupe at that time. Not long afterwards she started performing burlesque, incorporating her unique hoop flair into her acts. Miss Hoop Tastic has performed at various venues and events on Vancouver Island over the last 3 years. Her love for the stage, and the dance floor, lead to the creation of Lushious Entertainment, a local collaborative of passionate independent artists offering diverse styles of entertainment. After discovering her strong passion for performance art, Miranda decided she wanted to share her love of hoopdance with others by teaching. She has completed numerous Pixie Hoops classes and their Hoop Instructor Training in 2011. She has also participated in workshops with Valentina Martin of San Diego’s UNITY Hoop Unit and KiT, international performer and member of the Zen Arts collaborative. Miranda teaches Beginner - Intermediate Hoopdance in Victoria, BC at Passion and Performance Dance Studio, Camosun College, and will be at Dunsmuir Middle School's Dance Academy in the new year. Her energetic personality drives her upbeat classes, while her relaxed teaching style creates a comfortable environment for anyone interested in experiencing the benefits of Hoopdance / Hoop Fitness!

• ~ Hoopdance Basics with Miss Hoop Tastic ~ Material covered may vary depending on levels of experience. Workshop Outline: - Waist hooping - Foot/hand positions - Stalls - Moving the hoop up - the Vortex, the Snake - Horizontal (off-body) hand hooping - above head, Stir the Pot variations, stalls, Around the World, Helicopter - Vertical (off-body) hand hooping - Warrior, turning, behind the back, jump throughs, stalls - Isolations, transitions, and beginning to find your flow!

Morgan Goldman

Morgan Goldberg is a multi-faceted circus performer who specializes in contact staff and acrobatics. She teaches and performs in Portland Oregon through her company Motion Magic.

• Dance Integration: This class will be both technique and flow based. We will explore various dance techniques and learn how they translate to prop manipulation. We will also work with exercises that help us find our own dance expression through our props.
• Partner acrobatics- In this workshop we will be learning the fundamentals of partner acro including stacking, counterbalance and L-basing. We will be focusing on tricks that leave at least one persons hands free for prop manipulation.

Randy Schless

Portland's Randy Lee Schless forgot everything when he was squeezed through his mother's womb, but has and will again understand the secrets of the universe. His method for remembering involves playing with the patterns of objects in space, especially how lines make circles. Check out his website! www.circolution.com

• Contact Staff: Look Ma, No Hands- This workshop will get the staff out of your hands and onto the rest of your body. We'll learn how to control muscles we didn't realize we had and get really exited and frustrated by sticks, humans, gravity and centrifugal force and how they relate to each other. Geared towards beginners, but intermediates encouraged.
• Double Staffs: Double Staff Fundamentals- A crashcourse in basic timing and direction and several driving styles, this workshop will give the beginner the foundation for hours and moons of exploration.

Ryan Mellors

• Advanced multiball
• Object manipulation- isolations etc

Sean Brossard

Sean throws things, a lot, like way to much. His friends and family suggested therapy, but nothing could end this eight year on going problem of what he calls "juggling". He is now studying at the University of Victoria trying to find the cause and perhaps solution of his addiction. http://seanbrossard.wix.com/juggler

• Ring Juggling Technique- Intermediate to advanced an in depth exploration of throwing technique for shoulder rolls, pancakes, half shower, full reverse, and many more. complete with a Q&A session at the end to answer any questions you may still have.
• technically, how to practice juggling. A workshop in how to schedule a practice, how many reps, sets and stretches to do before and after a good juggling session.

Sharon Mahoney

Sharon www.sharonmahoney.com studied Improvisational Acting at the Second City, Toronto Ontario, followed by an Honors B.A. in Theatre Arts and Psychology at Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec. During her forth year at Bishop's she was introduce to clowning from Mump and Smoot; The Clowns of Horror (Michael Kennard and John Turner).Having developed a burlesque clown during a her "Mump and Smoot" clown workshop, Sharon created "Miss Tallulah" and the Ladder of Men. She later complimented this show with another character, the passive-aggressive "Sharon from Canada".Sharon has performed her solo character-based show and stand up comedy for street, stage, cabaret and festivals all over the world. During her Travels Sharon has always taken time to study with various clown and character teachers to improve her craft, including Fraser Hooper, Sue Broadway and Spy Monkey in London UK.She is presently the artistic advisor for the Victoria Bukser's Festival as well as the producer for the comedy/cabaret element to the festival."Audience's are drawn to her. She is a truly talented and unique performer with a wonderful sense of humour that translates throughout her performance and brings life to any event." Kelly Mckeigan, Esp Productions: Just for Laughs and Halifax Busker and Comedy Festival

• Intro to Clown: By: Sharon Mahoney. Through this workshop, students will be participating in different games that will help develop instincts, increase energy and allow focus. With solo and partner work the workshop will concentrate on some clown basics: Optimism, enjoying failure, and finding the pleasure of play. A large part of workshop will allow students to find their own ridiculousness in a safe environment. We will work towards being free enough to find personal absurdity and the ability to use this as an advantage for the clown. Stupidity is welcome and applauded. "I'm not funny, what I am is Brave" Lucille Ball

Shayne King

Shayne King (The King of Magic), Manager of Murray’s Trick and Joke Shop and full time professional magician, started his career performing in the bars and nightclubs of northern British Columbia. He is a 3 time international magic competition gold medal winner.His ability to customize a “magic trick” for any demographic has made his magic show very popular with businesses and service clubs and families all over the lower mainland and Vancouver Island.

• Shayne will be teaching you: Magic for Roving Entertainers: Shayne will be teaching you: 1. His opening trick that grabs their attention and makes them laugh. (easily made props); 2. A rope trick that you can customize for any audience you happen to be performing for. (props will be supplied by Shayne);3. An audience participation trick for adults which will leave them rolling in the aisle. ( will require a trip to the magic shop and/or the hardware store for a couple of inexpensive props)

Sia Sunshine

Sia has been playing with spheres and traveling for the last 4 years, during which he has been to many juggling festivals on the west coast of north america, sharing his passion for juggling at every opportunity.

• Beginner Contact Juggling- ever wanted to learn the fundamentals of contact juggling? Well now is your chance! This is for any beginner, even if you you have never picked up a ball in your life.
• Beginner 3 Ball toss Juggling- Its called a juggling festival for a reason, time to learn the basics. Learn to keep three objects in the air, no prior experience needed.

Clever Trevor

• Hat Juggling
• Intermediate Clubs

Yuki Ueda http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUswdzn-lWI

Juggling Building Blocks: This juggling workshop will help you expand your techniques through series of exercises and theories that can be used in every day practice. We will go over topics like warm ups, multiplex/claymotion, body throws/rolls, movement, few tricks. There will be something that you could take away from this workshop at any level of skill.

• Balls
• Clubs