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There is a Way
ell it has
certainly been
a busy few
weeks! Amongst other
things, I attended
Fechters Finger Flicking
Frolic and The Magic
Collectors Weekend in America. Both
these conventions had some fantastic
moments, as well as a prominent
connection to our Members, so
I thought that I would report on
them in this issue.
By way of a reminder, one of the
things that I am always trying to find
for the magazine are good, novel tricks
and routines. As an added bonus there
is also a annual prize, The Cecil Lyle
Award, that is presented annually to
the Member who has contributed the
best trick in the past year. So if you
have been thinking about publishing
that great idea you had a year or two
ago, I would love to hear from you. My
Contact details can be found to the left
of this column.
Just a few weeks after you read this
the World Championships of Magic, or
FISM, will take place in Blackpool.
I will be there and, if you see me
around, I would love to try and meet
any Members who will be there,
especially those who I dont get the
chance to see at our regular Monday
Night meetings. One of the biggest
parts of this convention is the
competition which I know, from
personal experience in Stockholm
2006, is a nerve racking event for all
the competitors. I am sure that all our
Members will join me in wishing the
very best of luck to any Circle Members
who are competing.
Circular news
Summer Season
of Sorcery
The Magic Circles Season of
Summer Sorcery was kick
started last week with the ever
popular Steve Allens Magic
Circle Mysteries. If you missed
it though dont worry as there
are still several events left in the
programme. Michael Vincent
and Julian James are teaming
up to perform their Evening of
Mysteries, Dave Andrews is
Steve Allen
Henry Lewis at
The Cabot Theatre
Member Henry Lewis recently
performed at The Cabot
Theatre in honour of his friend
and Magic Circle Member
Cesareo Pelaz. Days before the
show Henry and the Mayor of
Beverly sealed a prediction in a
capsule surrounded with ink to
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Ian Adair
Illusionology
In the April issue of The
Magic Circular there was a
competition to win copies of
Illusionology, the new magic
book aimed at the general
public. Amongst the entrants
only a few managed to answer
the question correctly. The
question was: What
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COLLECTORS
WEEKEND
By Will Houstoun AIMC
ithin the magic world there are many different
sub-groups, each united by their common
interests in a niche aspect of conjuring. There are
card-guys, illusionists, childrens magicians and collectors.
Outsiders might think that the last group, collectors,
consists of elderly wealthy magicians, interested only in
buying and selling items and perhaps, occasionally
discussing the date on which some obscure magic event
happened. In fact, as a group, collectors represent a more
diverse, interesting cross section of magic than any other
group I have encountered something that was clearly
evident at the Magic Collectors Weekend that took place
in Chicago on the second weekend of May.
Each weekend features a guest or guests of honour and
this year Members James Hagy and Richard Kaufman
were being honoured. The first major event of the
weekend was an on stage conversation between James
and Richard, as they simultaneously interviewed one
another. Despite running for over an hour, the
conversation seemed to fly by with so much more it
would have been interesting to hear about!
The official programming for the weekend featured a
number of themed groups of talks prominent amongst
which were several presentations on previously little
known Houdini items. The first of these was a talk by
John Cox, who had obtained a copy of the guestbook
from Houdinis home which continued to be filled in after
his death. For a collector of magicians autographs this
book is a dream item, featuring the signatures of many of
magics greats. It also raises a number of intriguing
questions and areas for further research as it becomes
apparent exactly who did and who did not visit Houdini
or Bess at various points in Houdinis career and after his
death. The second major Houdini revelation was
presented by Arthur Moses in a keenly anticipated talk
titled Have You Heard it All? Circle Members who have
visited The Magic Circle Headquarters will have heard the
recording of Houdinis voice that can be played in The
Devant Room and another recording is easily accessible
on YouTube. This well known recording is about one
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Lost in Translation
year ago today, I was exactly
where I am now in sunny
Greece having just finished
writing a translation of a book from
Spanish to English. Last year, it was
Woody Aragons A Book in English.
This year, its Ezra Morenos and Willy
Monroes Mister Balloon: The Shaping of
Air. Unlike Woodys book, this wasnt a
new book (it was originally written in
1997). Its aimed at beginner balloon
modellers, but it does have a really good
mix of models, techniques and theory
that would appeal to modellers at any
level. Im not making a sales pitch for
the book, but I really enjoyed working
on it, and it is a good book.
Needless to say, the section that I
found most interesting was entitled
Magic With Balloons. Im not going to
go through all the contents, but this
section did contain two of my favorites
effects Balloon Penetration: where a
balloon is put in a tube and three or
four needles are inserted into the tube
penetrating the balloon (and everything
could be examined), and Balloon
Swallowing: in which the performer
swallows a balloon. Like any good book,
it made me ask myself questions.
Specifically, it made me think How
could I better incorporate balloons into
my act?
Balloons are the ultimate pack small,
plays big prop. When I need them,
which admittedly is only about once a
year, I use them as a heckler stoppers.
I ask the heckler if he can help me with
my next effect, and I ask him to blow
up a balloon. While he is trying to
blow up the balloon, I will take the
opportunity to quickly blow one up
and make a balloon dog for someone.
I dont usually perform for kids, but I do
perform for their parents, so once I start
making balloon animals, I am often
asked to make another balloon model
for their son/daughter. Even after I have
inflated and made four or five balloon
animals, the heckler is still struggling
with his balloon. At some point along
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Throw-out Cards
hrow-out cards are, as the name suggests, promotional
publicity pieces that are traditionally thrown out by the
performer to the far reaches of the theatre. Usually the
size and shape of a playing card, and ephemeral too, vintage
examples are rare and keenly sought after by collectors. They
are very appealing to me because they often include images of
the performer and it is exciting to think that they were handled
by the magician. Frequently they contain Good Luck
messages.
It is not certain who the first magician was to utilise this
unusual publicity device but one of the most desirable
examples comes from Alexander Herrmann, the legendary
nineteenth century American magician. The card showed
Herrmann, with trade-mark goatee beard, and his signature
underneath, with a playing card back design.
The undisputed king of the throw-out card is Howard
Thurston who, since early in his career as the World Premier
Card Manipulator, would cascade the cards across the theatre.
Often, on ebay and other websites, the standard Howard
Thurston & Jane card is offered for sale. Even though it is the
genuine article from eighty years ago, these particular cards are
plentiful, after a large stash was found, and can be bought for
a few pounds. However, Thurston issued about fifty different
cards, including variants, so there are many to collect. For a full
pictorial reference guide I would recommend Rory Feldmans
www.ThurstonMasterMagician.com The extent of Mr
Feldmans Thurston collection is overwhelming. There are many
desirable Thurston cards and those with advertising backs for
Miller Tyres and Wrigleys Gum, and other product
endorsements, command high sums. I am pleased to have a
few Thurston throw-out cards in my collection, and one is
signed by his daughter Jane Thurston. Thurstons brother,
Harry, who toured with the Thurston show after Howards
death, had a card too.
Dozens of magicians had their own cards printed, often with
a Bicycle back design as the joint advertisement benefited both
The Hoffmann
Memorial Lecture Topic for 2012:
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Invitation
If you have items, stories, jokes or vicious rumours of
interest to mentalists, please drop me a line
(ian@ianrowland.com). If you cant afford Derren and want
to hire a fairly good also-ran mentalist, or you just have
time to kill, please visit www.ianrowland.com.
DYNAMO
Magician Impossible
that people just dont know about.
Unless they experience it themselves,
or hear it from the horses mouth, they
never know. It is like a really great
performance on stage that looks
effortless. What you dont see are the
weeks leading up to the show, where
the performer stays up till six in the
morning rehearsing to make sure
everything goes right!
in
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Paul Clive
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Brearleys Miraculous
Assembly, and Jonsons
own Jack in the Box.
It was in 1937 too that
Will Goldston proposed
Paul Clive for
membership of The
Magicians Club, which
brought him into contact
with those Club
members who were not
also Members of The
Magic Circle.
About this time Clives
first magic catalogue was
issued containing almost
200 lines, and an
advertisement for Paul
Clive & Co. appeared in Decembers The Worlds Fair announcing
Jokes!! Conjuring Tricks!! Write for our free Joke Catalogue
and Wholesale List. Separate Conjuring Catalogue. 150
Aldersgate Street, London, EC1. At these premises, termed
The Home of Sir Pryzes, two large floors were devoted to
magic, jokes and tricks.
During the next twelve months the firm issued Witchcraft
Magic pamphlets detailing latest additions to the range, but
then, in November, they launched in style with an attractive 91page catalogue listing well over 400 items, and advertised it in
America in The Sphinx and Genii. It is a publication dear to the
heart of the present writer as it was his first dedicated magic
catalogue and yielded up his Christmas present for 1938, one of
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email theme and ended with five final
loads. During his explanation Rafael
explored Ascanios theory of transit and
stressed the importance of having a
motivation to achieve a sleight beyond the
sleight itself.
Rafael then performed a perplexing card
trick called The Mystery of Kabbala, which
involved a strange cutting and dealing
process to reveal a merely thought of card.
Rafael was generous with his all of his
explanations and ended the lecture by
performing a collection of his favourite
card tricks, his take on the Coin under
Watch effect and a final torn and restored
effect using a ribbon and a tape measure.
Overall this was a fantastic lecture and
Rafaels charisma, wit and skill were a
pleasure to watch.
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offered along the way. If presented closeup, rather than on stage as it was, I could
imagine this creating a really big impact.
Pat finished with his favourite routine,
and one hes used within a number of his
almost one hundred TV appearances.
Presented through the story of the first
Halloween following Houdinis death, a
David Stone
Will Houstoun
Bbel performs
for David Stone
and Paul Gertner
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Audio Transposition
by Daryl
Props and gimmicks with printed
instructions. $39.95 (25) from your
favourite dealer. Dealers contact
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Reviewed by Will Houstoun
I recently had the opportunity to give a
lecture as part of a one day convention
in Montreal that also happened to
feature Daryl. I saw a collection of tried
and tested
Daryl
classics
and then
he pulled
out a kids
rattle and
squeaky
ball.
Thinking
of myself
as a rather
serious card and coin magician, I sat
back to wait for the next item ...
imagine my surprise then when, at the
end of the trick, I was not only
captivated but also rather badly fooled!
In performance you remove a childs
rattle and a squeaky ball toy from a
small cloth bag and talk about your first
magic trick as a kid. You explain that
the rattle and squeaker were your
favourite toys but that one day you
Mum said you couldnt play with them
because they were noisy and your Dad
was trying to sleep. To solve the
problem you make the rattling sound
vanish from the rattle and the squeak
disappear from the ball. You explain that
when your Dad woke up you were
allowed to make noise again so you
made the sounds come back, but that
you made a mistake and got them the
wrong way round. Sure enough the
squeaky ball now rattles and the rattle
squeaks!
When you buy Audio Transposition
you receive the rattle, the ball, a child
Origami Magic
by Steve and Megumi Biddle
80 page hardcover book, 6.5 x 6.5 ins.,
illustrated. Includes origami papers.
Published by Eddison Sadd Editions, Ltd,
London. 9.00 ($14.50) plus p&p from
most booksellers, amazon.co.uk and
amazon.com.
Reviewed by Matthew Field
Member Steve Biddle is an expert in both
magic and origami, so it is fitting that his
latest book with his origami and
silhouette-cutting wife Megumi should be
devoted to this marriage of the allied art
of origami and the art of magic. It
contains seventeen relatively easy to
construct items, ranging from a paper
version of the Organ Pipe production
tubes (you produce an origami rabbit, the
folding of which is also taught), to a
cube-shaped flexagon, which perplexingly
turns inside out.
The book begins with an explanation of
how to interpret origami folding designs
(its simple) and concludes with an
excellent list of resources further books
on origami and magic as well as addresses
of the origami societies in the UK and US.
There are items that extend orthodox
origami with the use of scissors and sticky
tape, a simple Himber-type switching
wallet you can construct, an introduction
to Tangrams, how to make an Ali
Bongo-type paper tree, and lots more,
including my
favourite,
Monkey
Climbing Mt.
Fuji, in which
a bit of folded
paper seems
to crawl up a
folded square
of paper.
This is an ideal present for a child aged
ten and up (my estimate), but why should
it be of interest to Magic Circle Members?
I was once at a garden party with twenty
adults and one six-year-old child who was
going nuts with boredom. I asked for
some paper and folded the flapping-wing
bird taught in these pages which kept the
little devil occupied, at least for a bit.
Robert Harbin was a magician who
realised the magic inherent in origami, and
this small-sized book is big on entertainment
value. The inclusion of the paper needed to
begin folding is a very nice touch. The entire
production is nothing less than gorgeous.
Fooling Houdini
by Alex Stone
301 pgs, 8.5 x 5.5 ins., soft bound.
12.99 from all good book stores.
Reviewed by Will Houstoun
A magic book written for the general
public is always going to be a slightly risky
proposition amongst the magic world. On
the one hand you may, as for example
Professor Hoffmann did, attain legendary
status as the author of a classic,
responsible for a huge boost in interest for
the magic world. On the other, you may
alienate the magic community as they cry
exposure! Perhaps even more difficult,
however, is a book that, instead of
teaching magic secrets tries to introduce
its reader into the sub-culture of
magicians. This is exactly what Alex Stone
has tried to write with Fooling Houdini,
and how successful he is will probably
depend on how involved in magic you
already are.
I first came across Alex Stone at around
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wrapped around them, something that
presents a few issues. First, you will need
to justify wrapping the notes with the
band before the change happens and
the suggested presentation of the band as
being a magic rubber band seems rather
weak. The second is that wrapping the
notes in a band slows the revelation down
and turns a trick where multiple objects
(four or five separate notes) change into
one where effectively a single object (the
wrapped stack) changes.
As well as the main, gaffed handlings, a
few bonus impromptu handlings are also
taught. Two of these do get rid of the
rubber band and no longer use the wallet
to effect the change in fact they are by
far my favourite items on the DVD! With
these changes however, even more so
than with the gimmicked version, it is
essential that the different bills are all the
same size. This presents no problem for
some currencies such as US Dollars but
would make it impossible, for example to
change a stack of five pound notes into
twenties.
First Hand may well be, as the
advertising claims, the first bill change
that happens completely in your
spectators hand. To my mind, however,
the compromises that are made to
facilitate that mean that the classic Easy
Money, and many of its derivatives, still
represent better routines.
iLoGo
by Craig Squires
35 min instructional DVD with gimmicks.
$44.50 (30) from your favourite dealer.
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Reviewed by Will Houstoun
The iPhone is one of the most popular
gadgets of the last few years and, despite
the fact that a number of different magic
apps have been released for the iPhone,
not many magicians have created effects
that physically utilise the phone itself.
iLoGo, by Craig Squires, changes that
allowing you to perform impossible magic
with a spectators borrowed iPhone.
In the basic routine you would ask to
borrow a spectators iPhone
and then, pushing your
fingers against the apple
logo on the back, slide the
logo from its usual
Naked
by Salvador Sufrate
10 min instructional DVD with gimmicks.
$35 (22.50) from your favourite dealer.
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Reviewed by Will Houstoun
Naked is a variation on a classic card plot
with an interesting methodological twist.
In performance you have a spectator
choose a card which they sign and return
to the pack. You try to cut to their card
but accidentally find a joker. Apologising
for your mistake you clip the joker
between your lips and, with your hands in
view the entire time, turn your back on
the audience for a moment. When you
turn round, despite the fact that your
hands have been nowhere near the card in
your mouth, it has now changed into the
signed selection.
There are two things that you need to
know about Naked to try and decide
whether or not it is a good trick for you.
First what the trick is like
methodologically and what, if any,
restrictions the method places on your
performance? Second even if the
method is clever, is the trick itself good?
First, the method. When you buy Naked
you receive two specially gimmicked cards
that are essential to the performance.
These gimmicks allow you to show one
card clipped between your lips and then,
with just a moments cover, have the card
change into a different one. The gimmick
Haunted
by Peter Eggink
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Peter Eggink is well known in the magic
community as the creator of a number of
very clever and fooling effects. Haunted,
unsurprisingly, is Peters take on the
haunted deck. In effect, a spectator
chooses a card which they look at and
remember before it is lost, back in the
deck. The cards are then put down on the
floor or on a table and, after a suitable
pause, eerily cut themselves around the
centre. The spectator is then invited to lift
the top portion of the deck at the point
the deck has cut itself and, when they do,
one card shoots out of the deck of
course it is their selection.
The method for Haunted is clever and
features a number of strong elements. For
example, the deck can be freely handled
and even examined before and after the
effect, there are no bad angles from which
to view the deck at any point during the
routine, and you need to have no
connection to the deck as it spookily cuts
itself. An additional strength of Haunted is
that the cutting action of the deck is very
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Council minutes
review them separately.
First, The Spiral Principle, something that is
introduced as an entirely new principle in card
magic. Essentially this is a procedure that allows
you to locate a selected card in impossible
conditions The cards are cut into four piles, the
piles are shuffled into one another by the spectator
and then they look at the top card of the deck. This
card is then buried into the pack and, after a
further shuffle, the magician is able to locate the
card. The basis for The Spiral Principle is an old idea
that restricts a spectators choice and it is the
second part, that allows the identification of a
particular card from this limited choice, that is
described as original. This addition certainly works,
but seems a rather procedure heavy way to attain a
position which can be duplicated, as far as the lay
spectator is concerned, much more simply.
Having said that, if your goal is to
fool your magician friends, The
Spiral Principle may do the job,
depending purely on whether
they know the basic idea on
which it is based.
Second we have Beyond, a revised
handling of Paul Currys classic Out of This
World. This routine is absolutely fantastic and
suffers only one small flaw, something I will come
to later. In effect you show a deck of cards to be
well mixed and then one spectator is assigned the
red cards and another the black cards. They take it
it turns to pick up a card and, if they think it is their
colour to keep it, or if they think it is not their
colour to discard it. Of course, when the spectators
turn over their cards they are each seen to have
located all the cards of their own colour. The effect
is easy to perform, very strong in terms of effect
and also very fooling. We now come to the flaw
On the DVD Craig Petty enthusiastically comments
For those of you who dont know, Paul Curry
created the original Out of This World and it is a
classic for a reason... Unfortunately nobody
associated with the DVD seems to have know that
a routine almost identical to Beyond, John
Kennedys Red and Black, was published in Genii in
1989. Leathwaite does have one display in his
routine that differs to Kennedys, but in my opinion
Kennedys handling is better.
So what do you get if you buy The Spiral
Principle and Beyond? You get a rather convoluted
variation on an old principle, which might be good
to fool your magic friends but which can easily be
bettered for a lay audience, and a great version of
Out of This World which essentially was published
over twenty years ago.
3. MINUTES
After one amendment and
on a proposal by James
Freedman, seconded by Noel
Britten, the minutes of the
meeting held on 5 April 2012
were approved with one
abstention,SP. and those who
did not attend the April
meeting also abstained.
4. MATTERS ARISING
A discussion about moving
forward with Live-Streaming
took place.
ACTION: The Streaming
Committee to report, via the
Council Mail List, before the
next planned event.
ACTION: Scott Penrose will
supply names of those
magicians employed at
corporate events.
5. SECRETARYS REPORT
i New Members (See attached
schedule)
ii Reinstatements. None
iii Resignations. None
iv Promotions (See attached
schedule)
6. CORRESPONDENCE
Ruth Dean, the sister of the late
Pete McCahon, having missed
the tribute evening, would like
to bring her children to TMC to
see the items that had been
donated.
ACTION Scott Penrose to
arrange a display and James
Freedman to liaise with Richard
Pinner concerning a date.
AE request the Awards
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an email to a password
protected download link when
the hard copy is mailed out.
Membership cards that are
made annually are expensive
and a move to a barcode on
the card could eventually save
expense.
ACTION: JF to investigate
membership card expenditure.
Web hosting may also be
able to save money.
ACTION Alexander Crawford
to discuss with IT committee
Web costs. At the same time
who might be the Council
Committee to revisit the matter representative for this
committee.
of a posthumous award to Ali
Andrew Eborn was of the
Bongo of the Gold Medal.
opinion that licensing TMC
Graham Reed is still pursuing
brand should add 4K per year,
this.
going forward.
Whilst these discussions were
7. DRAWN BY THE FUTURE
about saving money, Alexander
OUR VISION FOR TMC
The Chair outlined the need for reiterated that TMC is not in
a long term vision for TMC and, any fiscal trouble, saying that
the budget was prudent and
as most meetings have to deal
should guide us.
with immediate matters
suggested that Council meet
9. PRO:
outside of these monthly
AE presented a report showing
meetings in order to
good results had been achieved.
brainstorm, plan, specifically
The media uses TMC as a source
and strategically, for a longer
term vision for TMC both in the for stories so we need to
way the organisation is run and maximise the things that we
want there. The publicity
what it provides for members.
committee will discuss what
our message should be. AE
8. TREASURERS REPORT:
has been consulting with Angelo
TMC BUDGET
Carbone to find what effects
Whilst the Circular is the
work well on media. Publicity
biggest expense it is also what
committee is compiling a
is perceived by many to be the
Notes for Editors document.
main benefit. Whilst there are
AE presented a proposal from
physical versions required, an
electronic version does not save a company that was under way.
JF proposed certain restrictions
significant amounts. Postage
reduction would help especially to be considered for the
negotiations, KR suggested it
the difference between airmail
should be left to the PRO team
and surface costs for overseas
to do what they deem best. A
members. Each copy of the
motion to accept the proposal
Circular costs about 4.50 per
with the restrictions was made
member.
by JF, seconded by AC. Passed
The Circular Management
with one against: KR
Committee submitted a report
which concluded with a
10. YMoTY
recommendation to move to a
There was a discussion,
Digital version of the Magic
initiated by Alan Maskell, about
Circular by offering members
the Irving Schneider award. The
the option to opt out of the
hard copy in favour of receiving trustees, mindful that few apply
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by examination at TMC,
semi-professional magician,
Student, London
Daniel Farrant MMC
by examination at TMC,
Semi-professional, Student and
Musician, London
ThomasWebb
(aka Tom London) MMC
by examination at TMC,
Professional magician, Student
Alexander Robertson MMC
by examination at TMC,
Amateur, Student,
Canterbury, Kent.
Michael Perovich MMC
by examination at TMC,
Amateur, Retired Civil Engineer,
California, USA.
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membership at AIMC level
and/or promotion to AIMC
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l Button Badge* 3.95
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July
MAGICIANS CHOICE
The popular Magicians Choice summer events will be returning
to Club Nights at The Magic Circle this summer. As with previous
years, each night will feature at least four different, surprise,
events from expert speakers on a wide range of topics. Some of
the events will be hands-on giving you a chance to try something
new, some will look at allied arts giving you a chance to learn
something new, and some will be discussion based so that you
get a chance to be fully involved. We look forward to seeing you
at what we think will be the best Magicians Choice yet.
Events planned for the season include:
Hands on Card Sessions
Variety and Vaudeville
Magic Psychology
Special Effects
Manipulation
Running a Magic Venue
Using The Media
Planned speakers include:
Mark Bennett
Mike Caveney
Maria Cork
Tina Lenert
Richard McDougall
Steve Price
Mat Ricardo
Stephen Rice
John Styles
Magicians Choice events will be running on:
Monday 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 July.
Please note that Magician's Choice events will run
throughout the evening but will start at 6:30pm.
Change of address? Contact Secretary Steve Price,
Secretary@TheMagicCircle.co.uk
Member in need? Contact Welfare Officer David Hatch,
WelfareOfficer@TheMagicCircle.co.uk
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