Witnessed some amazing things and met some incredible people! Each and every one I met is an inspiration to progress in the world of flow! Keep up the great work and NEVER EVER stop learning!!! Thank you for an amazing weekend !!!!

This year’s Fire Drums Festival (May 19th-22nd, 2011) was located in the beautiful Anderson Valley, in Boone County, CA, just 2 ½ hours north of San Francisco, CA.

Devil Sticks Dave taught a ‘Flower Sticks Basics & Beyond the Basics’ class.

www.firedrums.org

* Below is a link to the 2010 Fire Drums video*

Fire Drums Official 2010 Video

Please join West Coast Juggling in attending the 2011 Fire Dancing Expo in San Francisco, CA on April 23, 2011. Devil Stix Dave will be featured in two performances: a solo act, and another with Reno’s Controlled Burn fire troupe. For more info on this event, please check out the article below:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/949825066/support-the-arts-2011-fire-dancing-expo-in-union-s

Hope to see you there!

* Below is a highlights clip of the event for the last 5 years *

Fire Dancing Expo: 5 Year Highlights

West Coast Juggling had a blast at this year’s Play Immersion Festival in Dripping Springs, TX. Devil Stix Dave taught 2 Flower Sticks classes: Basics; and Beyond Basics. It was a lot of fun hanging out and getting to know the Texas spinning community. Austin is an awesome town and we look forward to attending next year!

www.playimmersion.com

West Coast Juggling will be performing for the 2nd year in a row at

El Rancho Drive-In Movie Theatre (Sparks, NV) for their Opening, (3/11/11), and for their Customer Appreciation Night, Thursday April 14th, 2011. All movies that night are FREE, and we will be performing alongside an awesome BMX team!

 555 El Rancho Drive, Sparks, NV 89431 |

 Call (775) 358-6920 for more info.

Below is a Youtube link to some video of the March Performance.

El Ranch Drive In Show One 

We at West Coast Juggling teamed up with Red Swan Entertainment for a 3-day Halloween fire performance on the Inferno Stage at Knotts Scary Farm in Los Angeles, CA. With crowds averaging 800 to 1,000 people per show, we had an incredible weekend doing four  15 minute shows a night! What a fantastic experience, sharing the stage with so many other skilled fire performers. With any luck, we will return to do it again next year! ;c)

Well, we’re back from Burning Man and back in business. We had a wonderfully uplifting experience this year, almost too much fun to describe! ;c)

(For more information on Burning Man, please visit www.burningman.com)

Akasha/Jen, our own goddess of the flame, along side Devil Stix Dave danced and spun fire in the Great Circle of Fire before the Man burned. We had the pleasure of hanging out and juggling with Adam Dipert aka Harmonized Motion, one of our favorite stix jugglers from The Extra Terrestrial Circus Experiment.

(For more information on the Extra Terrestrial Circus Experiment, please visit

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=242896499 )

Last but certainly not least, we thoroughly enjoyed meeting and signing in all of the skilled fire performers when we volunteered for The Fire Conclave Convergence Camp. We look forward to doing it again next year!!

We will be at Burning Man from Aug 28 – Sep 10, so all purchases will be shipped out the day we are back in town. We will be helping out this year with the Shiva Vista Project and the Fire Conclave at Burning Man. The Fire Conclave is in charge of the Great Circle of Fire before the Man burns. The Great Circle of Fire is a gathering of hundreds of fire performance groups that all perform together to create a living circle of fire surrounding the Man just before he is lit and burned to the ground. The Shiva Vista Project is best described below:

Shiva Vista Project

The Story and Inspiration behind the Shiva Vista Project

Shiva is one of three aspects of the Hindu trinity representing divinity. Brahma is the first aspect, considered the creator, Vishnu the second aspect considered the preserver and Shiva, the destroyer. Shiva’s function is to destroy all the worlds at the end of creation and dissolve them into nothingness, void, from which point Brahma again creates the world, completing the circle of life. Shiva is responsible for change, both in the form of death and destruction and in shedding old habits to start anew. Shiva’s destruction is positive, that of nourishment and construction that builds and transforms life and energy for the welfare of the world and all that inhabit it. Shiva destroys to renew and regenerate. This is the destruction of an artist, a surgeon, a cook; evolution. Through destruction is facilitated the smooth transition of things and events from one stage to another.

The ring of fire bordering Shiva represents the existence of dance within the entire universe. The lotus pedestal that Shiva stands on identifies with each individual’s ability to find that universe. Shiva’s arms represent the four cardinal directions, and similarly, the four arms of Shiva Vista welcome people into its universe at a full circular spectrum from whichever cardinal direction one may be traveling for all to experience and share.

The Shiva Vista Project will be a spiritual gathering place and venue where artists of all sorts are invited to showcase their unique performance talents.

This is the final evolution of the Towers of Shiva in its present incarnation. At Burning Man 2009, the stage will burn, and something new will be resurrected from the ashes of the project.

We invite all fire performers to light up the night and share their unique gift with the Playa. Come play with us again, for the final time, in this way, at this time. Come, share your evolution with us and our evolution.

http://controlledburnreno.com/shivavista/

Located in Marcola Oregon, this 3 day camp-out reggae music festival was a TON of fun to say the least, and definetly family-friendly! =c) It’s one of the smaller festivals that we vend at, with a very friendly community vibe to it. Despite the festival’s humble size, West Coast Juggling’s vending booth was able to completely sell out of the $10 Glow Poi with 3-color strobe AND the AstroJax! Woohoo! We will most certainly be returning next August to vend again.

(For more information on the NW World Reggae festival, please visit www.nwworldreggae.com)

This year’s Compression Fire Arts Festival, located in our hometown Reno, Nevada went off without a hitch. The free one-day event was put on by Controlled Burn, a local fire-arts performance troupe, in which Devil Stix Dave and his wife Akasha are connected with. Such performances include: Black Rock City All-Stars, the Asha World Dancers, Bohemian Burlesque, DragonFly Aerials, Copper Lantern Fire Theater, Vulcan Crew, Controlled Burn, fire duet with Devil Stix Dave and Dusty Bacon, plus a whole lot of other great artists! If you get a chance, please attend this free Fire Arts event next year, for July 2010.

(For more information on the Compression Fire Arts Festival, please visit http://compression.controlledburnreno.com)

 

We at West Coast Juggling had our first vending experience at this year’s Fire Drums festival, surrounded by beautiful redwood tress in Santa Cruz, California. What a great experience!! We will definetly be returning next year to vend again. Fire Drums is a great way to meet people in the fire community, and in our opinion, is one of the best learning opportunities for object manipulation and fire spinning, with a wide array of teachers & workshops to choose from. (For more information on the Fire Drums festival, please visit www.firedrums.org) We were introduced to Buugeng, which is a uniquely designed S-shaped staff, that can create a super cool kaleidescope effect when doubled. We got to meet the loveable Dai Murata of www.zaobab.com, such a friendly guy, and a great entertainer. (For more information on Buugeng, please click on our page entitled Buugeng Info.)

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