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Jeremy Shafer
1642 Grant Street, Berkeley, California, 94703
(510) 548-6670 / jeremy@barf.cc / www.jeremyevents.com
Television Appearances
Guest on Craft Lab - DiY Network 2/07
Guest (four times) on Sabado Gigante - UNIVISION 5/03, 7/03, 12/03, 4/06
Second place in competition of Japanese origami masters -- TV Champion - TV Tokyo 2/03
Guest on Evening Magazine - KPIX Channel 5 1/02
Guest on 7 O’Clock Evening News - KPIX Channel 5 11/01
Guest on Ni Tan Tarde - Number one Venezuelan late night talk show - Canal Televen 2/01
Guest on De Par en Par - Venezuelan morning talk show - Canal Televen 2/01
Guest artist on The Show - KRON / Bay TV 1/00
Guest artist (two times) on The Carol Duvall Show - National Home and Garden Channel 5/98
Juggling Achievements
One of 20 known jugglers in the world who can qualify with 9 balls
Performs regularly at fairs, festivals, parties and company events
- Performed 3 shows a day, 18 days straight at the California State Fair - Sacramento 8/03, 8/04, 8/07, 8/08
- Performed 3 shows a day at 31 county fairs -- California, Arizona 2003-2007
- Street-performed 19 years in a row at the Solano Stroll Festival - Berkeley 9/87-9/05
- Circus Arts Instructor for 13 summers at Camp Winnarainbow - Laytonville, CA 9/88 - 9/01
- Clients include, Genentech, Motorola, Chevron, Dreyers, Macy’s, Sutter Health, Red Bull, George Lucas
Performance repertoire
- Juggling, unicycling, stilts, giant transforming origami, handwhistling, salsa dancing
- Fire eating, fire folding (flaming crane), flaming unicycle, fire juggling - 5 Torches, 5 fireballs
- Juggles 2 torches and a watermelon while on a 6-foot unicycle
- Juggles three giant Hoberman Spheres 20 feet up into the air
Origami Achievements
Created hundreds of original origami models 83-present
Author/diagrammer of book - Origami to Astonish and Amuse, St. Martin's Press - release date: 7/01
- Sold 20,000 copies
Self-employed origami artist
- Editor of quarterly newsletter for Bay Area Rapid Folders (BARF) - 200+ subscribers 9/94-present
- Performer and teacher of origami at schools, parties and corporate events 9/95-present
Published regularly in origami journals
- Bay Area Rapid Folders Newsletter 94-present
- Annual Collection, Origami USA 91-present
- Imagiro - bi-monthly origami "zine" 95-present
- Featured in periodicals of national origami associations: USA, England, France,
Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Colombia, Japan 91-present
Featured in origami books and educational media
- Origami the Complete Guide to the Art of Paperfolding, by Rick Beech, Lorenz Books 01
- Origamido, by Michael Lafosse, Rockport Publishers 00
- Folding California, by Dorothy Engleman - origami video production 99
- Origami in the Classroom, textbook by Key Curriculum Press 98
- Origami in Action, by Robert Lang, St. Martin's Press 97
- Secret Life of Paper, by Robert Lang, Cloudrunner Inc. - interactive computer program 97
Commercial Ventures
- FTL Happold - designed expandible sphere for potential use on future NASA Space Shuttle 1/02
- Bureau of Jewish Education - designed/folded 400 50-faced brochures for advertising campaign 9/99
- KPMG - demonstrated origami at tradeshow booth - slogan: "We shape solutions" 6/98
- Bayer Corp. - designed origami red blood cell and blood sampling storage device 2/98
- Co-created and produced origami magic trick, "Fusion Loops" - sold internationally 9/95
Exhibited, performed and taught at museums, origami conventions and cultural festivals
- Honored guest performer at Peabody Essex Museum Origami Exhibition Opening - Salem, MA 5/07
- Honored guest performer at Masters of Origami Exhibit Opening - Hangar-7, Salzburg, Austria, 7/05
- Honored guest at Southeast Origami Festival - Charlotte, NC 9/02
- Guest Speaker at the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting - Boston 3/02
- Guest artist at Junior Museum and Zoo - Palo Alto, CA (two times) 4/00, 3/01
- Honored guest at Venezuelan Origami Convention - Caracas, Venezuela 2/01
- Honored guest at Italian Origami Convention - Bologna, Italy 12/00
- Honored guest at Colombian Origami Convention (3 times) - Cali, Colombia 11/97, 11/99, 11/00
- Resident artist at Zeum - interactive technology museum - San Francisco 2/00
- Guest artist at Exploratorium - interactive technology museum - San Francisco 1/00
- Honored guest at French Origami Convention - Paris, France 5/99
- Honored guest at Spanish Origami Convention - Madrid, Spain 4/99
- Honored guest at British Origami Convention - York, England 4/99
- Honored guest at Origami Tanteidan Convention - Tokyo, Japan 7/98
- Origami U.S.A. conventions (8 times) - New York 6/91-6/99
- Pacific Coast Origami Conference (2 times) - San Francisco Japantown 11/97, 3/00
- Annual Cherry Blossom Festival (6 times) - San Francisco Japantown 4/93-4/98
- McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz - solo exhibition 2/94-3/94
Can fold a flapping crane from paper lit on fire while riding a 6-foot unicycle present
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz - Bachelor of Arts in Math 9/91-6/95
Berkeley High School - Honors level courses 9/87-6/91
Fluent in Spanish,
Basic communication skills in French, Italian, Japanese
Personal Attributes
Dedicated, patient, persistent, and out-going
Creative, humorous, and entertaining
There's more . . .
Unicycling
- Unicycled 80 miles in one day (Daly City to Santa Cruz) 10/11/95
- Unicycled 10 miles everyday to the university campus - Santa Cruz 9/92-6/95
- Unicycled over the Berkeley Hills on a 9-foot unicycle 6/92
Misc. Circus Arts
- Rola-Bola, Walking Globe, tight-rope, contact juggling, club swinging, poi, diabolo, devil sticks, cigar boxes
Dancing
- Salsa, Ballroom, Contra, Irish, Int'l folk - Berkeley 9/95-present
- Ballroom, Contra, Int'l folk, Mexican Folklorico - Santa Cruz 9/91-6/95
Music
- Accomplished in voice, piano, pan pipes, handwhistle, hand clapping
Sports
- Tennis, ultimate frisbee, footbag
- Member of Berkeley Unicycle Basketball Club 9/01-present