Lestival, the Leicester Circus Festival , is back for its fifth year!

Cedric Lackpot - 2012-04-16 13:52:04 UTC #

Lestival, the Leicester Circus Festival , is back for its fifth year!

 BJC is out of the way, and that means that Lestival, the Leicester Circus Festival is just a few short weeks away. Because BJC was relatively late this year we only have three weeks to wait until Lestival! Saturday 5th May is the date. See the website ffi.

The time has therefore come to announce some of our goodies. The show : This year your compère will be the redoubtable twenty-five time BJC attendee, Guy Heathcote, who is remarkably turning his hand to running a show for the very first time. As with all shows the line up won't be finalised until the last act has been cheered off stage, but to whet your appetites I'm delighted to let you all know that our acts include :-

Rachel Black's luscious hula hooping. She stormed our first ever show and we're chuffed to have her back again.

• Bonkers numbers badassery augmented with tennis racquets from the unique Dave Kelly, the man who fears no pattern, no matter how implausible.
• A welcome return for Ethiopian bounce genius Nunyat Nahom.
• Fresh from touring with Circus Ferrel, Mats Cornelius.
• Originally from Bremen, and having worked and trained with such luminaries as Gandini Juggling Project, Feeding The Fish, Cindy Marvell, and Circus Space, we present Frederike Gerstner.

... and we are still hoping to spring another surprise or two.

 In addition we will be providing all the usual Lestival favourites, first and foremost of which is the mighty Lestival café, purveying high quality refreshments and caffeine-based stimulants for super-friendly prices; our traders this year will be Butterfingers who have kindly stepped in whilst Barbara from Beard, our regular trader, convalesces after her recent surgery; there will be the usual range of games, choons, workshops, and so on, and we hope to twist Mats Cornelius arm to treat us to a few numbers on the grand piano; two tightwires will be available to play on/fall off of; and of course we are overdue for some spiffy spring weather which will absolutely 100% money-back guaranteed* to be utterly splendid.

Since the event is taking place in the bank holiday weekend a few of us (largely the middle aged geeks, Billy-no-mateses, and anyone with small boys in tow) will be heading over to Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome on Sunday to watch an assortment of cold war metal go through its paces, including a pub lunch at a suitable hostelry, perhaps the Chandlers Arms at Shearsby, which is enjoying its third consecutive year as Leicestershire CAMRA Country Pub of the Year.

So, stop dithering, grab your toys and your significant other, jump in the car and join in the fun. Mail enquiries@leicesterjugglers.org if you need to ask about a place to stay, want to give or request a workshop, or have anything else to contribute.

Thanks for reading, we look forward to seeing you all there.

* First £8 of each ticket not guaranteed. Sorry.

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Jay Linn

https://juggler.net/lestival