Flamingo Club
Meets
at IJA Festival
in Winston-Salem, NC -- July 2007
Flamingo Club
Meets
at IJA Festival
in Portland, Oregon -- July 2006
The
Flamingo Club met on Friday afternoon at the Portland IJA festival to chat
and select this year's award winners. We introduced ourselves and
talked about the newly released DVD titled Trailblazers: Women Who Juggle
which was screened on Saturday morning at the festival. Judy Finelli,
a long-time professional juggler and the IJA's first woman president,
attended the screening and was honored. Heather Marriott, Dorothy
Finnigan, Lana Bolin, Iman Kidwell, Connie Leaverton, Cindy Marvell, Viveca
Gardiner and Erin Stephens passed clubs around Judy as a tribute. Go to the
IJA Store to buy
a copy of the video.
We
had a huge task to pick a winner for our award this year because there were
so many young women jugglers at the festival! We consider that a
wonderful accomplishment. We decided to honor two young jugglers who
were very active at this festival. Aubree Kolas won seven medals at
the joggling competition on Tuesday and was seen throughout the festival
juggling everywhere. Kimberly Martinez, age 10, from San Antonio,
Texas, attended many workshops and performed in the Youth Showcase on
Wednesday night. We decided to ask Erin Stephens to present the
awards. We also decided to give honorable mention awards and a DVD to
about 10 otherf young women jugglers.
Arthur Lewbel and Todd Smith Products donated 6 clubs for the Flamingo Award
this year. The Quebec Jugglers donated 2 camisole shirts with the JAQ logo and the IJA
donated 10 "Trailblazers: Women Who Juggle" DVDs. The
Rainbow's End Theatre Company of Pennsylvania donated the trophies.
Mary Wilkins selected Tony Pezzo as the Youth Showcase Scholarship winner
this year.
-- photos and report by Joyce Howard
