11.7.2008 von Ines.

GREENing the BEIGE event is to create more environmental awarenenss through the means of art and combining it with a lot of fun. The 2008 opening party had a huge variety of interesting things going on. There was a market place with a garage sale and second hand clothes (the money you pay is completely donated to help the Sichuan Earthquake vitims), organic food and fresh juices.

There was an informative presentation of the Long Green March explaining their nationwide project showing a movie about it.

Beijing Fashion designers organized an eco-minded Fashion Show. Julien and I participated showing teh useof anti-pollution masks in transportation.

There was art displayed, photography, pictures, sculptures and video installations. The night continued with well known DJs playing great tunes and Oli juggling with glow balls. He did more than 5 balls but this is one of the nicer pictures I took:

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7.7.2008 von Ines.

Today was the rehearsal for the GREENing the BEIGE during our juggling group. I brought my props. At the end we started playing around. Suddenly Peter got into a car accident: 1 truck and 2 cars were involved…

Here are the people who were involved in that accident:

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23.6.2008 von Ines.

Carissa Welton is pulling together an eco-minded art collective that she calls  GREENing the BEIGE. The name implies that we all strive to make this grey colored Beijing greener. Last year she organized an 1 day event. This year will be a full week of green projects mostly expressed through the means of art.

Photographer from CityWeekend magazine came to shoot some pictures of the GREENing the BEIGE organizing girls on the sofa at Yugong Yishan.

The jugglers and fire artists came for our regular Beijing Jugglers meeting

The margaritas are really good at Yugong Yishan, it is well worth to stop juggling clubs for a second.

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15.4.2008 von Ines.

The Italian elections ended tonight. A group of Italians came to the place where we juggle and met to get the results of the elections. But unfortunately they were not so happy with them.

The juggling group is becoming more popular. It was really getting crowded. I did not bring my camera so the pictures are from last week. In that week also a fixie rider from Chicago that belongs to the Chicago fixed group came for a visit and dropped by the open juggling night (as I usually have my track bike with me).

The rola bola (balancing board on a a roll) we use is just made of a board (wood) and a piece of plastic pipes for toilets. My friend took a cab to bring the rola bola last time and the cab driver asked him if he comes from a cooking class, because of the board. This time a surfer from California who trains on a similar board used it to the extreme till it fell apart.

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27.3.2008 von Ines.

Yesterday I went to the juggling and acrobatics group workout in Erlangen. It was really great as they have a huge hall, a lot of juggling and unicycling equipment and they even have real gymnastics mats. This is what we need in Beijing. It was quite full and a lot of people were practicing acrobatics. I found a strong and stable partner to lift me around. The coolest figure we tried and almost mastered in the end was the free standing handstand.

Today I have sore muscles. But actually more the legs than the arms. Probably from all the attempts of the high plange as performed in the movie Dirty Dancing.

I was extremely happy because finally yesterday I had my new fixed gear bike plus all the parts to actually build it up and ride So I did bring it to the juggling workout and I did get to ride it. Backward circles feel good, wheelies are really possible (but I need a bit more time to master them) and I was able to skid again (I am not able to do that on my Corima track bike). But today I will have to take the bike apart to be able to carry it to Asia with me.

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10.3.2008 von Ines.

Today was Juggling night. Not many people were there as there was a long break since December - since our talented juggler and enthusiastic juggling teacher Fede left Beijing to go back to Bella Italia. We also had to change the day we meet from Tuesday to Monday because the bar we are meeting in has events planned on Tuesdays.

Peter wanted to be able to juggle 4 balls today. Well, that is not so easy. Instead he learned how to throw and catch the diabolo even with a 360 body turn.

Strange… I had problems doing one armed handstands. Maybe I should not have drunken those Margaritas especially as I did not have lunch and no dinner…

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