Welcome to October’s newsletter!

Zippo’s is a tented circus with the accent on human skills and they are coming to Cambridge between the 8^th and 13^th October, pitching up on Midsummer Common. We have negotiated a special price for CCC members and friends – if we get at least 12 of us together tickets will cost only £4 for grandstand seats – that’s compared to £6.50 for children and £8.50 for adults. We intend to go to the show on Saturday 10^th October at 6 p.m. - if you want to come, tell Charlie and turn up in front of the show at 5.45 p.m. on the day. Please bring your friends and family!

If you can’t make that date, you can get tickets by phone on (01223) 357851 or (07050) 121416 or at the box office on site from the 8^th onwards. Tickets cost from £3.50 - £10 for children and £5.50 - £12 for adults.

You may also be interested to know that Zippo’s run a travelling circus school from 1^st May to 31^st October which involves joining the circus on the road during that period. Auditions are in London on the 27^th October – call for details on (07050) 282624.

If you’d like to see a bit more of Zippo’s, we’re currently negotiating a special behind-the-scenes visit for CCC members (probably on the Saturday as well) – call Charlie if you’re interested.

The Grafton Centre have asked us to come along and juggle, unicycle etc. on Sunday 18^th October betweeen 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. for their Sponsored Toddle for Children in Need This year they have made a special arrangement with the Centre to allow unicycling, stilts etc. (those of you who went last year may recall that there were some problems with this!). If you want to come along, please call Charlie or Lindsay Messenger on (01223) 563586 – bring bright clothes and props as usual.

We’re now back in the Drama Centre until July next year with the usual program of regular weekly workshops, some special skills sessions and more. Remember to check out the Library box for books, videos and magazines to borrow. We’ll also hopefully be running some absolute beginner’s trapeze classes and a special fire juggling evening – keep listening at the end of the workshop for details.

The Annual General Meeting of the Community Circus is now arranged for Sunday 11^th October at 7.30 p.m. Please try and come along if you can – this is your chance to vote in a new Management Committee (which could include you!) and to see how we spent our budget last year, as well as raise any opinions or questions you have on how CCC is run. If you would like to find out more about joining the Committee please see Charlie or any other present committee member (Chloe, Simon, Eddie, Mark T., Lindsay, Jo, Dizzy, Helen, Claire, or Miles).

The videos mentioned in the last Newsletter will be available before the end of this month – please contact Charlie if you want a copy and you’ve lost the order form. Videos are available for last year’s Juggling Convention, the last two Community Shows and this year’s Strawberry Fair at a cost of £5 each to members.

1998 Oct. 10 - 2nd Durham City Juggling Festival, Durham (01642) 897191

1998 Oct. 31 - 5th Lancaster Hallowe'en Juggling Convention, Lancaster University, UK

1998 Nov. 29 - York Circus Skills Day, De Grey Rooms, York, UK (no more details I’m afraid!)

1999 Apr. 8-11 - 12th British Juggling Convention, Durham, UK (01642) 297014 (more details as we get them).

More on the Juggling Information Service website at www.juggling.org

Have fun & keep juggling!