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Star Wars Celebration

Star Wars Celebration is the world’s largest official fan event dedicated to the Star Wars universe.
It takes place regularly in different locations around the world and offers visitors an extensive entertainment program, including panels with actors, directors and producers, exclusive announcements about upcoming films and series, and of course loads of merchandise.
Cosplayers, fan groups and elaborate fan activities also enrich every Star Wars Celebration.

We’ve been part of this special event twice so far: in 2013 we had our own booth at Star Wars Celebration in Essen and contributed lightsaber workshops and shows to the diverse program.

What made it special: it was the first time in over 10 years that an “official Jedi Academy” at an event was run by fans again. After an accident involving spectators, only professional performers had been invited for years. In 2013 we were chosen over performers from Disneyland Paris. Lucasfilm was so happy with our work that fan groups have been able to officially offer workshops at Celebrations again ever since.

(The image is a screenshot from the 2013 StarWars.com blog, unfortunately now only available on the Internet Archive)

At Star Wars Celebration 2023 in London we attended as fans and visitors. On site we organized an international meetup with lightsaber groups from various countries. Tim and Markus even got the chance to present their choreography on the Celebration Stage, the main stage of Celebration. Another highlight was the bridge fight video we shot together with other lightsaber-loving fans.

YouTube videos

Back in 2007 when Alex and Tim visited London for the very first Celebration Europe a fun lightsaber battle took place on the bridge next to the ExCeL Convention center. (Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Tuf7U9SN8) 16 years later we wanted to recreate the spect …

During the warm-up for the „Villians of the Sequels“ panel everyone with a lightsaber was called onto the stage. Tim and Markus used the chance to show off their skills with a lightsaber. Afterwards the hosts asked them to stay on stage and we entertained the audience for a fe …

A small group of our team went to London to @StarWars Celebration Europe. The best part was meeting other lightsaber-performers from all around the globe!

A great feature that aired on Servus TV. Interviews: – Bernd Pentrop, R2-Builders (http://astromech.net) 0:23 – Tim Dagott, Saberproject (http://www.saberproject.de) 1:20 – Jimmy Arijs, Belgian Garrison (http://www.501st.be) 3:04 – Marc Draven, Ink-Fusion (htt …

(deutsche Version weiter unten) We were at the Star Wars Celebration Europe II! You could meet us at our display booth, got trained in the ways of lightsaber fighting in our Jedi-Academy and watch our show before and after the screening of Episode VI. These days were awesome …

more spins and dueling at the celebration europe

some spins and dueling at celebration europe

While staying in London we finally had the chance to meet the team of @JediGenerationShow from Italy. During the days of Star Wars Celebration Markus worked on a little choreography with Arianna from Jedi Generation. That is the result! #starwarscelebration #starwars #lightsa …

Alex and Tim already visited the first Star Wars Celebration in London back in 2007. The Report about it is one of the first in our event overview. In 2023 the two recreated the photo from back then.