Number 11 -
9th September
2000
Fay Presto
and friends once again present an alternative to the annual British Ring convention with
a Fringe event staged nightly at the Wish Tower
Restaurant, opposite the Lansdowne (the official HQ Hotel). With free
admission, a fringe banquet planned for the
Friday night, a nightly bar open to all until 1am, and planned
performances from John Archer, Peter McCahon, Marc Paul, Richard Pinner, Fay Presto, Alfonso Rios,
Mark Shortland, Mark Stafford & Lesley Young I'm sure it will
all prove to be a very popular addition to the scheduled events. For more
information Email: thefringe@bespokemagic.co.uk
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The News of the World will be running an exclusive story on Wayne Dobson, his family, and his mother in particular, this Sunday (12th September) that will REALLY surprise you all! All will be revealed on Sunday after The News of the World have had their "exclusive scoop" (that we've been keeping a secret since August 30th - and there's your clue!) Amazing! 9.9.00 ...If you've just popped out to buy the paper don't! The story has been held over until next week - when all should be revealed! 9.9.00
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Paul Kieve presented A Tribute to Doug Henning
on Monday 4th September at The Magic Circle, London. The talk covered
Henning's fascinating magic career from his first performances as a
teenager through to his many successes as a world renowned magician both
on stage and in television. Paul's research, combined with comprehensive
and previously unseen television clips, resulted in a real insight into
the life of this original, charismatic and most engaging performer.
Interestingly, his first ever TV special was broadcast live, and was seen
by an estimated audience of 50 million.
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Although MagicWeek focuses on magic in the UK every so often I like to bend the rules (no
committees here!) and this week would like to mention two excellent sites of interest to magicians world-wide. First of all Richard Robinson's amazing
allmagic.com - the most comprehensive magic site on the web. If you've never seen the site pay them a visit
at: http://allmagic.com.
MagicWeek is listed in their "Top Sites" category.
Magic & Illusion is the other site that I'd like to mention. They host the world's largest
'Magic Chat,' with Celebrity 'Magic Chats' every month, and transcripts of past
'chats.' They have easy-to-do magic tricks, a Magic Forum, links, articles, advice, and tips from Bryan Dean, the Magic & Illusion Guide, who is a professional magician from Pennsylvania. Visit them at:
http://magic.about.com
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Tickets are now
available for the first ever Magic Circle Stage Magician of the Year
Competition to be held at the Centre for the Magic Arts, London on Sunday,
October 15th 2000 at 6pm. Tickets are £12 each and can be ordered by
credit card: telephone day: 020 8478 2900, evening: 020 8478 1175.
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MagicWeek advertiser MagicTricks.co.uk are featured in two current internet magazines. The Net features them in October's issue on page 68 under their Retail Therapy slot, and Internet Works (October) have done a two page feature article, showing both the company, and magic, in a very positive light. 9.9.00
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Jack Delvin's
One Man's Magic
can be seen on Friday, September 15th, at the Centre for the Magic Arts, London. "Over 30 feats of pure Magic - An evening you will remember for the rest of your life." Show starts at 7.30pm, tickets £10.00, box office telephone: 01689 826169 or 01689 873003.
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Reader Jason Wood has an interesting suggestion. He'd like to see a Contact Page set up where UK magicians can display their contact details and magic interests so that others can get in touch with them. A notice board in effect that would include: Name, Email address, County, and then a short list of magic interests. This could be especially useful for magicians who don't belong to magic clubs - but would like to make contact with other local magicians, to meet up, exchange ideas, and visit conventions together etc... Unlike an Email "chat line" this would act as a permanent directory. I think it's an excellent idea. I If I get more than half a dozen Emails expressing an interest then I'll set up a page in MagicWeek straight away. 9.9.00
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To speed up loading times I am now only displaying this week's and last week's news, on this opening screen. If this is your first visit to MagicWeek you can read-up on recent news under Back Issues. It would be nice to have some more news from the various Magic Societies up and down the country, what are you all up to? If you want to get something off your chest don't forget the MagicWeek Mail Box read by hundreds of readers each week. Congratulations to Jon Allen who marries his fiancée, Melanie this week. Jon is featured in September's Magic Profile. I have made a few technical notes about screen resolutions etc.. if you would like to read them Click Here. For other MagicWeek information (commercial advertising, contact details, link info. etc..) Click Here. Well that's about it for this week - do keep sending in your news and views. MagicWeek is now being read all over the world. Duncan Trillo. 9.9.00
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