Jump Juggle Jest (JJJ) is Scotland's
unique circus and performance skills charity.
We are based in and around the Falkirk, Clackmannan
and Stirling area and operate with a core team
of volunteers who are either young people or parents
who have came into contact with, or been approached
by JJJ. I joined JJJ in 1995 for their production
of "Not a Lottery Time To Lose". After
taking part in their two week summer school, I
joined the newly formed committee as Secretary.
A year later, we applied for Charitable status
and became Scotland's first ever circus and performance
skills charity.
JJJ is a force of fun and a catalyst
for action, expression and positive youth work.
It is also a unique charity with plans both large
and small. We have already staged 7 stage shows,
and been involved in a variety of one off workshops,
introductory programs for youth workers, many
street parades and festivals and the running of
several juggling clubs.
As an organisation with Charitable
Status, we are currently setting our sights on
applying for some huge grants and hiring a development
worker to pursue various avenues of performance
work, recruit more committee members, and co-ordinate
performance activities throughout the Falkirk,
Stirling and Clackmannan areas.
Jump Juggle Jest - Productions and
Photographs
1995 - Not a Lottery
Time To Lose
SYNOPSIS: (roughly based on Bill
and Ted's Excellent Adventure, and the National Lottery!)
A family from the future win the lottery and hire
a dodgy time travelling machine to go back to 1995
and visit the Circus. The machine somehow sends them
back to the jungle age, where they pick up some diabolo
wielding jungle people! The machine then goes to the
stone age where they meet a wise old wizard (me!)
The family accidentally pick up some stone age dudes
and then finally all of them end up at Circus 1995
where a show is put on for them by the ringmaster
and her performers. (I got my own 5 minute juggling
slot)!
This was JJJ's second show (summer - 1995).
It was a two week workshop. The first week was spent
teaching 20+ children to juggle, and the second week
was spent devising a 40 minute circus/drama/comedy
show and touring round the local community centres.
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1996 - Nessie and
the Ring Thing
The Gala performance was the culmination of two weeks
of hard work by the members of the production team
and participants...some of us overcoming shyness or
boredom or transport problems, each of us contributing
our skills and enthusiasm to make the show work; and
all of us making full use of the opportunity to get
involved.
1997 - Space Files
In 1997, JJJ had became a Charity. I was involved
with fundraising, and grant applications, but nothing
would beat the feeling of being on stage. I started
off with quite a small acting role this time, but
as the second went on, other people dropped out, missed
rehearsals, or missed their lines, so my role grew
quite large in the end. I played the part of a crew
member of a space shuttle involved in a race back
home with an antidote to save the Universe.
1999 - It's the End
of the World as we know it
SYNOPSIS: Well - the clock is running up to
the end of the Millenium and the beginning of the
next. Have all the Y2K problems been solved? Do we
really know if we've got the date right? more importantly
will Country and Western replace Boyzone and the Spice
Girls?
I played one of the main characters, and was on in
every scene (even playing the keyboard in one scene).
I played a mad professor (Bill Geeks) who had accidentally
sent a virus e-mail to every computer in the world,
and had to find the antidote in the next 24 hours
before the world would end!
If you would be interested in becoming
a member, or know of someone we could get in touch
with, or know of anywhere we should seek funding,
then please e-mail
me!
