title: Bay Area Circus Arts Festival
text: # Bay Area Circus Arts Festival
  
  The Bay Area Circus Arts Festival (formerly the Berkeley Juggling and Unicycling Festival) was an annual 3-day event in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, held by the Berkeley Juggling Collective. It featured workshops, casual instruction, and mini-competitions in various types of circus arts, including unicycling, hat-tossing, whip cracking, tumbling and multiple styles of juggling (contact, pin, diabolo, endurance, etc.). The event was free for everyone and many people learned to juggle or unicycle at the festival.
  
  A highlight of the multi-day festival was its vaudeville-style variety show, featuring local, national and international artists performing in live stage performances. Past performances included acrobatics, hoop dancing, aerial/silk dance, puppeteering, as well as the arts featured in the festival.
  
  Past festival dates:
  
  * 2014-10-03-2014-10-05, festival webpage 2014
  * 2013-10-04-2013-10-06, festival webpage 2013
  * 2012-08-17–2012-08-19, festival webpage 2012
  * 2010-07-09–2010-07-11, festival webpage 2010
  * 2009-09-18–2009-09-20, festival webpage 2009
  * 2008-10-10–2008-10-12, festival webpage 2008
  * 2007-10-05–2007-10-07, festival webpage 2007
  * 2006-09-29–2006-10-01, festival webpage 2006
  * 2005-10-07–2005-10-09, festival webpage 2005
  