Number 108 - 20th July 2002
The Magic Circle,
founded in 1905 by Neil Weaver, Herbert J Collings and Ernest Adams, will
celebrate its centenary in 2005. To mark this important milestone in its history
a number of exciting events are being planned. The focal point of the year will
be The Magic Circle Centenary Celebrations, to be held from Wednesday
20th July to Saturday 23rd July. The four day event will be packed with special
shows, lectures and surprises.
The University of London in Bedford Way, London WC2 has already been booked to
house the celebrations. This venue, with its excellent facilities, is just
minutes away from The Magic Circle's own headquarters, The Centre for the Magic
Arts, and following the main celebrations the Centre will host a Magic Heritage
Day on the Sunday and an Open Day on the Monday. These extra days will provide
an opportunity for visiting magicians from all over the world to enjoy more
magic, and spend time enjoying the facilities.
The Magic Circle Centenary Celebrations will be open to non-members as
well as members of The Magic Circle, and details will be announced nearer the
time. For further information contact: David Beckley, Press Office, The Magic
Circle: telephone +44 (0)1483 408 430 email:
david.beckley@hays.plc.uk
20.7.02
David
Blaine v David Copperfield
- Magic's big boys fight it out
in Celebrity DeathMatch at 10pm on Thursday 1st August on MTV in
this animated show. No MTV?
Click Here for a video clip. 20.7.02
International News New
York City - July 6th, 2002, New York based magician Torkova was awarded both the
First Prize/Silver Medal in the Stage Competition and the Johann Nepomuk
Hofzinser Award for Classical Magic at the Society of American Magicians
Centennial Convention. When talking about his love for magic Torkova said, "I've
always been rooted in the classics of magic which I love performing. My style is
reminiscent of the golden age of conjuring which flourished during Vaudeville.
My magic reflects my personality." Torkova will be performing his classical
magic at Monday Night Magic on Monday, August 19th at 8.00pm.
Monday Night Magic
is located at The McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway (at West 76th St.) New
York.
20.7.02
Quentin Reynolds' show
Adventures In Astonishment opened at Bewley's Cafe Theatre, Grafton
Street, Dublin on Wednesday 17th July and plays every Wednesday until
September 18th. All seats 10 Euros. The show starts at 8.30pm. The box office number if you are dialing from the UK is
00353 1872 0104.
20.7.02
Magicians Featured Links - There is no
charge to have your website linked under Magicians
on MagicWeek but from this week onwards you can enhance your entry with a 'Featured Performer'
link, with up to 50 words of text Details
Here. Those of you with full stat-trackers on your websites will know how
many valuable hits come in via the Magicians' page - now you can really stand
out. For the online
application
form, and rates, Click Here.
20.7.02
The Nottingham Guild of Magicians hold
their One Day Convention tomorrow at the Arnold Leisure Centre, High Street, Arnold, Nottingham. With Lectures from Eddie Burke, Russell Hall, Derek Lever
and Duncan Trillo plus dealers Goodliffe, Magick Enterprises, Mr E
Enterprises, Practical Magic and Taurus Magic. In the evening, in the Bonington
Theatre, there's a full Gala Show featuring Eddie Burke, Derek Lever, Duncan
Trillo, Clive Moore and illusionists Safire. Tickets
are £12 for the day only, or £15 including the gala show. Telephone Barry Perkins on 0115 9283080.
20.7.02
Penn
and Teller
star in the World's Wildest Magic tonight on Channel 5 at 8pm
(thanks to Hugo Hadlow for the info. - we'd missed this one on our
listings last week!).
20.7.02
We have had a
two emails and a letter this week regarding problems with email viruses, asking us
to bring this to the attention of MagicWeek readers. I hope
that the following helps. It seems that some readers have received an email
containing suspect files. It sounds like someone is sending out emails
that appear to be from bona-fide magicians (using "real" email addresses). The
only advice is NEVER open an attachment no
matter who it is from unless you are explicitly expecting that file to be sent
to you.
If you send and receive emails, or place your email address on a website, without having state-of-the-art up-to-date AntiVirus software running on your computer you are taking a very large risk - the chances are that YOU WILL contract a computer virus that could do great damage: deleting valuable files, sending emails out automatically to everyone in your address book (containing a replicate virus), locking up your system, rendering some programmes unusable, total shut-down and so on. Often a virus will come from a friend (unknowingly) who has himself contracted it without even realising. A message may read "Thought you might like to see this" or whatever, with an attachment for you to open (the virus). Some viruses open themselves without even being clicked. Curiosity may have killed the cat - but it's killed far more computers.
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Spielberg's
Minotity Report (written by Philip K. Dick in 1956) offers an
intelligent glimpse into the future that would make worthwhile viewing for all
"mentalists." This movie sees sci-fi firmly back on track - excellent. For local
cinema details vist
Guardian Films
• Mike O'Brien lectures on Tuesday July 23rd at the
Northamptonshire Magicians' Club. Visiting Magicians £4.00. For more
details, including directions to the venue
Click Here • I look
forward to seeing some of you tomorrow at the Nottingham Guild of Magicians
Convention when I'll be lecturing on cabaret magic and performing in the Gala
show. That's it for this week, see you next week when we'll present more
adventures from the land of make believe, Duncan.
20.7.02