Corvallis Juggling and Unicycling Convention

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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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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uni man 22

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