Who are we?

^{(Last updated: 4th Jan 2004)}

We are the Newcastle Juggling and Circus Skills Club, formerly known to its friends as Fenham Juggling Club. It's actually quite old for a juggling club, dating back over fifteen years. We haven't always been in the same building, but the club was in the Fenham district of Newcastle since it started until December 2006 when we relocate d to Wallsend.

In fact, this surprisingly well preserved piece of evidence, recently discovered not far from the club (see right), suggests that there may have been jugglers in the area since the time of Hadrian's Wall. We like to imagine them juggling in the Bigg Forum for the crowds, or entertaining the legionaries in the camps.

What do we do?

Juggle, obviously, and practice other kinds of circus skills (unicycling, diabolo, devilstick, contact juggling, balancing, club swinging, pole spinning). Hat and plate manipulation have been popular lately. We often play a few games at the end of the evening before retiring to the pub.

We like to run some social events from time to time. These range from a night out in town to bowling or ice skating and the Great, Not Quite Annual, Metro-Assisted Tap&Spile Pub Crawl. These often involve our friends from the Durham City Jugglers.

The people

Here are some of the organisers and regular members:

Colin(colin@geordiejugglers.org.uk)

Occupation: IT Manager
Hobbies: Circus skills (obviously), guitar
Juggling: Mainly clubs and passing, but also acrobalance, contact juggling and hats

Mike(mike@geordiejugglers.org.uk)

Occupation: Development Planning Officer - there may be prizes for guessing what that actually means
Hobbies: Circus skills (especially conventions), board games, falling down drunk
Juggling: Club passing and weird manipulation stuff like hats, ball on parasol, plates

Anwen

Occupation - PhD student, studying palaeopathology [Whatever that is]
Hobbies - circus skills, cross stitch, music, art
Juggling - 3 balls, club-swinging, bounce-juggling, acrobalance, club passing

Ewan

Occupation: Computer Programmer
Hobbies: Circus skills, computers, the glorious game of Mau
Juggling: Lots of balls (pardon the expression) and ball tricks; club passing.

Matt

Occupation: Psychologist and Juggler (does that make him a juggling psychologist, or a psychotic juggler?)
Hobbies: All kinds of circus stuff, probably other stuff too - I should ask him :-)
Juggling: Many balls, many clubs, walking ladder, juggling while balancing a pole, bucket of water and shark on his chin...

Duncan

Occupation: Software Engineer
Hobbies: Boomerang making/throwing, kite flying/making,
Juggling: Until recently trying to improve with 5 balls, now mostly 3 club tricks and starting to work on 4.

Sue

Occupation: IT Manager
Hobbies: Juggling, music, Guides
Juggling: Balls and clubs

Stuart

Occupation: University Lecturer
Hobbies: Music (esp. playing guitar), cycling (but not serious stuff), rebuilding my house and some juggling.
Juggling: Often to be found picking up clubs - actually 4 clubs to be precise.

Alumni
Former club members

Andy

Occupation: Computer programming and stuff
Now lives in: Cambridge
Hobbies: Lots of circus stuff
Juggling: Club juggling, acrobalance

Kim

Occupation: Something to do with surveying
Now lives in: Southampton
Hobbies: Juggling (well, sometimes), folk music, redecorating the house
Juggling: Not if it can be avoided (but passing if pressed)

Colin(colin@geordiejugglers.org.uk) Occupation: IT Manager Hobbies: Circus skills (obviously), guitar Juggling: Mainly clubs and passing, but also acrobalance, contact juggling and hats
Mike(mike@geordiejugglers.org.uk) Occupation: Development Planning Officer - there may be prizes for guessing what that actually means Hobbies: Circus skills (especially conventions), board games, falling down drunk Juggling: Club passing and weird manipulation stuff like hats, ball on parasol, plates
Anwen Occupation - PhD student, studying palaeopathology [Whatever that is] Hobbies - circus skills, cross stitch, music, art Juggling - 3 balls, club-swinging, bounce-juggling, acrobalance, club passing
Ewan Occupation: Computer Programmer Hobbies: Circus skills, computers, the glorious game of Mau Juggling: Lots of balls (pardon the expression) and ball tricks; club passing.
Matt Occupation: Psychologist and Juggler (does that make him a juggling psychologist, or a psychotic juggler?) Hobbies: All kinds of circus stuff, probably other stuff too - I should ask him :-) Juggling: Many balls, many clubs, walking ladder, juggling while balancing a pole, bucket of water and shark on his chin...
Duncan Occupation: Software Engineer Hobbies: Boomerang making/throwing, kite flying/making, Juggling: Until recently trying to improve with 5 balls, now mostly 3 club tricks and starting to work on 4.
Sue Occupation: IT Manager Hobbies: Juggling, music, Guides Juggling: Balls and clubs
Stuart Occupation: University Lecturer Hobbies: Music (esp. playing guitar), cycling (but not serious stuff), rebuilding my house and some juggling. Juggling: Often to be found picking up clubs - actually 4 clubs to be precise.
Alumni Former club members
Andy Occupation: Computer programming and stuff Now lives in: Cambridge Hobbies: Lots of circus stuff Juggling: Club juggling, acrobalance
Kim Occupation: Something to do with surveying Now lives in: Southampton Hobbies: Juggling (well, sometimes), folk music, redecorating the house Juggling: Not if it can be avoided (but passing if pressed)