BJC 2000 Business Meeting report

BJC 2000 Business Meeting (Long but snappy)
by Charles O Donoghue
Posted on rec.juggling on 20 Apr 2000

A Quick Run down of the business meeting for those who could not make it and a reminder for those who were there.

1. Brief summary of individual points of BJC 2000 York

Site = Excellent
Halls = Excellent
Catering/Food = Acceptable if expensive. Choice available
(?better than usual)
Toilets/Showers = Good
Parade/Buses = Good
Bars = Good (?English times a bit restrictive)
Campsite = Good
Bins = Fair
Rooms = Excellent
Registration = Excellent
Information/Signs = Excellent
Workshops = Good
Parking = Excellent (if you were not stickered)
Passes = Excellent
Cost = Good (?normally much more contentious)
T Shirts = Good
Weather = Fair (?Weakest point of convention) Shows = Awesome

Not discussed:
Games = ?Excellent
Renegade = ?Good
Security = ?Good
Traders = ?Good
Ceilidh = ?Fair (?too far South)
City = ?Good
Children's Science = ?Excellent
Website = ?Excellent

2. General feeling re BJC 2000 York

The general vibes were that the convention had been a great success.
THERE WERE REALLY NO COMPLAINTS!

The show and the organisation were given special praise.
Special touches were highlighted: Flyer for parade, signage, passes,
aspects of the show, welcoming booklet etc..

The organisers suffered from a dearth of ordinary volunteers during the convention.
Many problems could have been avoided and the convention could have run more smoothly had more jugglers volunteered to help. They felt that just a little time from more people would have been an enormous help.

3. Next Year BJC 2001

Belfast and Chester who had both offered to host BJC 2001 last year were keeping a low profile.

Cardiff offered to host BJC 2001. This however is dependent upon their securing the proposed site.
This means that Cardiff is not 100% definite.

This raises the possibility that if Cardiff withdraws there will be no BJC 2001. Others seriously wishing to host this event should consider this and remain in contact.
The BJC 2K web site will continue in operation meantime to act as an information and contact point.

4. Future Years

There are various tentative plans for BJC 2002.
The meeting encouraged all those considering hosting to prepare their bids and present them next year.

5. Thanks

There appeared to be a general feeling that BJC2K was perhaps one of the best conventions of all time. There was a great appreciation of the organising team.
Specific thanks were given to the following:

Rob Stone = Da Boss Lorri Reese = No. 2

Sam Vines = Registration
Information = Jenny Main
Music etc. = Steve Carter
Pre Reg = Mini & Nicole
Site = Mike Armstrong

Rob Stone then introduced the organising team which included I believe:

Rob = show, Uni liaison, circus science, fight prevention and bossy bastard
Lorri = finances, legal company stuff, and everything else!

Everyone else : in no real order....

Mike A = site management - fences, tents, wood chip panic, NFS generators etc.
Mini + Nicole = Prereg and general hard working from Mini during the set up
Sam Vines = registration supremo
Jenny Main = information desk and registration with Sam
Steve Carter = parade supervision, games, clock, Spanish peeps, musics, signs ....
Pete Bradshaw = Clock + show teching and fence monkey
Matt Shacklady = merchandising, graphics, flyers, signs bits of paper, show tech, powerpoint touches in the show !
Kev UU = accommodation + show tech
Eclair = Accommodation with Kev and general worrying for all of us
Martin Burton = traders
Ewan Crichton = workshops and a great job he did
Little Dave = Gateau's minder.
Paul + Claire Gibbs = press n pub. Unicycle the solar system (www.solar.york.ac.uk), steward supremo's

then these Yorkies (and honourary) who chipped in and were great

Miark = unicycle bits n bobs
Laura = food- she kept us alive and was a star big time.
Tim F = wood, jenga, clock site things general carpenter
Collin D = Raffle, passes, bits n bobs
Michael W = flyers and general slave
Garry B = general, help and computing
Lizzie = registration and giving us her house.
Jim and Anna = fire show
John Cosham = Parade organisation/council liaison and band booking
Little Mike = tourist info and bits n bobs

then this lots of helpers who were stars

Lee + Ian = selfless devotion to registration for hours & tills!
Stacy + Kerry = more registration slaves
Alan Mackenzie = Ditto
James Soper = T-shirts n stuff
Johnny Hopper and Andy = renegade organisation
Renegade comperes = all of them
UoY SU + AV people = for teching the show.
Colin E. = for help with circus science.

All the people who did a bit of registration desk and helped clear up!!!

They were applauded for 2 years of preparation and a week of no sleep. (and it showed). A hard act to follow.

The loudest cheer was given to Rob Stone who was felt by the meeting to have been a father figure for the convention, a mentor, and a source of inspiration to us all.

6. The Meeting was then followed by a raffle of second hand equipment.

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I hope this is a fair representation of the views of the York BJC 2K Business Meeting.

Charles O Donoghue