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Corvallis Juggling and Unicycling Convention

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  1. A Juggling and Unicycling Convention will be held in Corvallis, Oregon
    on March 30-April 1, 2007. This is our first attempt at hosting a
    festival and we are looking forward to a great success. Our goal is to
    offer the weekend at NO ADMISSION. A wide variety of workshops will be
    available, including different levels of unicycling and off-road
    events. We hope to do some trail riding (although many trails are
    closed until Apr. 15). In order to plan better, we'd like to know how
    much of a response we'll get from off-road unicyclists. How can we make
    this a signature event? What would get you here, and what would make
    you want it to be an annual event? How can we get a bunch of you to
    show up? I can be contacted directly if you want to dissect this e-mail
    address into it's usable form: "youreit at proaxis dot com". Put
    "unicycling" in the subject line. Check out the festival web site and
    it's links: http://www.jugglingconvention.blogspot.com/. I hope to get
    some feedback! Posted for Angela, unicycle team coach and festival
    team member.

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  2. One thing that'll be an issue is that this is the week after the Moab
    MUniFest, the largest MUni event in the world, so some people might not
    be able to travel twice in such a short time.

    I'm the organizer of most of the unicycling events at the Berkeley
    Juggling and Unicycle Festival, which has had some success drawing
    strong unicyclists. We had 20 people on our biggest MUni ride this
    year.

    The advice I would give is twofold. First, make sure you have a
    specific list of unicycle events decently in advance of the festival.
    Most juggling festivals don't have very much stuff for unicyclists, so
    people who are more interested in unicycling than juggling aren't drawn
    to them unless you can show them that there will be stuff to do. Check
    out 'our event list'
    (http://berkeleyjuggling.org/festival2006/workshops.php); most of that
    unicycle stuff was listed at least a month before the event.

    The other thing is that, a lot of unicyclists don't attend juggling
    festivals (for the same reason as noted above--not much unicycle stuff
    there). So, they don't know the lingo of the juggling festival. Your
    web site uses terminology that will only be meaningful to people who
    attend juggling festivals (renegade show, public show--your materials
    should describe what those things are, not just use terms which are
    only meaningful to insiders). Much of the stuff you have posted that
    sounds like it might be of interest to unicyclists, isn't; for example,
    "freestyle competition," "big trick competition". Those terms have
    meaning to unicyclists, but it doesn't sound like unicyclists are
    invited to those competitions. Make sure that things which are for
    jugglers are labelled that way, and that there's plenty of parallel
    stuff for unicyclists.

    In general, re-read all your promotional materials with the idea of
    making them understandable and appealing to someone who is not a
    typical juggling festival attendee; that will help draw unicyclists as
    well as members of the general public, and reduce the incestuousness
    which is prevalent at most juggling festivals.

    Good luck!

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  3. corvallas mmmmmmmmmmm live in silverton and ther are 4 or 5 of us that i
    might get to come but i want to know more about the trails and if you
    are going to have muni

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