Number 588 - 1st October 2011
Congratulations
to Goncalo Jorge and Pedro Teixeira, Portugal's Ta na manga,
www.tanamanga.com the
magic duo that won the IBM British Ring Shield Competition last weekend in
Southport. Geoffrey Newton, the British Ring's public relations officer,
presents an overview of the convention this week,
Click Here and writes: The IBM British Ring No. 25 held their convention in
Southport last week where the weather had been kind adding to the enjoyment of
the shows, lectures, competitions, dealers exhibition and workshops. The winner
of the Stage Shield competition was Ta na manga of Portugal with a most unusual
narrative act. Second prize went to Elemental of North Wales who also received
the Manipulation Trophy. Ianthe from Glasgow being placed third. Tim Shoesmith
from Hertfordshire received the Originality Trophy. The Close-up competition was
won by Matthew Wright, with Michael Neto in second place and Marcus Taylor
thired. Brian Miller has now been installed as the new president with John ‘Sly’
Smith the president elect. The Secretary and Treasurer remain as John Pye and
Keith Cooper respectively. An overview on the convention appears
Here. Geoffrey Newton PRO.
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The
Magic Circle Awards Dinner.
This year's dinner takes place on Thursday 13th October at The Royal
National Hotel in London. Dinner, annual awards, special guests,
professional
close-up magic, and a spectacular cabaret headlined by the one and only
Paul Zenon guarantee a wonderful evening.
Members, non-members and non-magicians all welcome. Tickets are £45
(£40 for members) and are available by sending a cheque (payable to
'The
Magic Circle') with the names of guests to: The Magic Circle Awards
Dinner, 12
Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD. For any further info or BACS payments contact
katherinerhodes@themagiccircle.co.uk.
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Etienne
Pradier Lecture, Tuesday 4th October, London. Organiser Martin MacMillan
emails: "The next lecture in our 2011 series will be Etienne Pradier on Tuesday
4th October. This will be the last lecture we host before our 40th anniversary
convention and is sure to be very well attended to so please do book as soon as
possible if you wish to reserve a place. Many of you will have seen Etienne
recently on Penn & Teller's "Fool Us" (and he did). Originally from France,
Etienne has been living in England now for many years and is one of the best,
and busiest, close-up magicians in London with a long list of prestigious UK and
International Magic awards in Close Up. Usual venue - Casa Italiana, 136
Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5DL (Map).
Start time 7.30 (be there by 7.15 latest). Pay on door at £15 per lecture but
you must reserve a place in advance, please email by return to book
martin@internationalmagic.com
www.internationalmagic.com.
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Ian
Keable Funny Tricks ...a one man comedy magic show. In Funny Tricks Ian
Keable, a recent recipient of the prestigious Magic Circle Comedy Award,
illustrates the techniques he uses to mystify his audience. Is the hand quicker
than the eye, is it all done with mirrors or does everything disappear up the
sleeve? Ian performs a multitude of different tricks demonstrating these
secrets, ranging from sleight of hand to reading minds - and all performed with
laughs galore. Whether you want to learn some of the magician’s innermost
secrets, or be thoroughly entertained by bewildering and hilarious magic,
Funny Tricks is not to be missed. “...simply mind-boggling.” Islington
Gazette. 8pm on Friday 7th October at The Horsebridge Centre, 11 Horsebridge
Road, Whitstable, Kent CT5 1AF (Map).
To book tickets (£8 / £6 concs) call the Horsebridge box office on 01227 281
174. Also 7.30 pm on Sunday 16th October at The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn Street,
Bath BA1 1UF (Map).
To book tickets (£10 / £8 concs) call The Mission Theatre 01225 428 600 or Bath
Box Office 01225 463 362 or book online
www.bathboxoffice.org.uk.
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Kidology
2012 the weekday convention for Children’s Entertainers will take place on
Tuesday, 11th September 2012 at The Civic & Wulfrun Halls, North Street,
Wolverhampton WV1 1RQ (Map).
Before announcing the line up for next year Albion Magic would like to carry out
a survey of people who have attended in the past. They would like to know: The
names of any lecturers they would like to see, suggestions about the format of
the day, subjects that they would like to see covered and any other ideas about
the convention. And also input from those who used any of the hotels in
Wolverhampton this year as to value and standard. Contact organiser Alec Powell
by email alec@alecpowell.co.uk or by
post, The Albion Magic Company, 8 Florence Grove, Stone Cross, West Bromwich B71
3LL.
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The
Hindhead Tunnel is now open! What does this have to do with Magic? Well now
it's easier than ever to go to the 48th Annual Portsmouth Jumbo Day on Sunday
6th November! This year's Jumbo Day has 'The Sale' with over a hundred new and
used magic dealers, a guest presentation, two workshops, Merv Cole's Auction,
Bob Hamilton's videos, Close-up Sessions and a Star Lecture by Australian Comedy
Magician, Brad Manuel. The day ends with The Gala Show featuring Brad Manuel,
John Kimmons, High Jinx, Neil Kelso and The Vox Brothers. Fast Track
Registration is £17.00 per person and £8.50 for under 16's. Closing date for
registrations is 18th October. Tickets on the day will be £19.00 per person and
£10 for under 16's. For more information visit
www.jumboday.co.uk - and
also see
Hindhead Tunnel (why not!).
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Magic Night at Madame JoJo’s, London.
Friday, 21st October. Magic Night’s Brain Bender! With some surgery,
floating water, psychic phenomena, bending metal, flying knives and
Greek drama! Starring: AJ Eescapolgist, Oliver Meech, Tom DeVoe, Ariadne
the Greek Wag, Myra Dubois, and MC Neil Henry. Magic Night at
Madame JoJo’s. Doors open 7pm, show starts at 7.45pm, Tickets: £12, show ticket
plus dinner: £22 Tickets can be bought via
www.ticketweb.co.uk.
Madame JoJo’s,
8-10 Brewer Street, London W1F 0SP (Map)
For more info visit:
www.magicnight.co.uk.
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Today
is Magic Moments Day. This is the fourth year of this charitable
initiative whose simple aim is to promote magic and magicians
throughout the day whilst making someone's day magical.
Why not join in and create a magic moment for someone today? A magic
trick at an unexpected time can truly brighten someone's day. This year
the organisers also had a Zimbabwe Magic Trick appeal for African
Orphans. Jay Fortune says that so far, thanks to kind donations, they
have over 350 tricks to ship out! Updates and details will appear on the
Magic Moments page here on MagicWeek in the coming weeks.
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Ian
Rowland's Applied Cold Reading Masterclass. Ian writes, "Here’s a special
offer for MagicWeek readers. Mentalist Ian Rowland teaches his ACR or ‘Applied
Cold Reading’ Masterclass once a month in central London. It’s not about magic,
mentalism or psychics as such. It’s about how some cold reading techniques can
be used in other, non-performance contexts. ACR has been described as ‘like
being able to read minds, but for business and professional purposes’. You can
find out more about ACR, what it is and why it’s useful, on Ian’s website:
www.appliedcoldreading.com. The next ACR Masterclass runs October 29-30th in
a venue near Covent Garden, London. 10am to 5pm on Saturday, and then 10am to
4pm on Sunday. The class normally costs £430, but MagicWeek readers can book a
place for just £125. That’s over 70% off the normal price! However, this offer
is limited to the first two MagicWeek readers who take advantage of it. If
interested, email ian@ianrowland.com and
mention ‘MagicWeek Special Offer’."
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Congratulations
to Matthew Wright on winning the British Ring IBM close-up competition
last weekend. Matthew is only
the second person to have won The Magic Circle's close-up competition,
the British Ring IBM close-up competition, and the 'International Magic'
close-up competition. The only other person to have done so was the late
Kevin Reay.
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Lee
Smith lectures at the Mystic Ring on Thursday the 13th of October.
The lecture will feature material from his acclaimed DVD releases The
Step System and his best-selling DVD Eye Candy. There will
also be some new thoughts and twists regarding previously released material,
together with some brand new items. Lee will also be selling lecture notes for this new
lecture, and some new effects. Don’t miss this evening of doable
magic that you will use again and again!
The Mystic Ring meet at The Conservative Club, 49 High Street North,
Dunstable, Bedfordshire. The lecture starts at 7.45pm and admission is £5 for
non-members of The Mystic Ring.
For more details email Steve Milroy, club sec
themysticring@hotmail.com
or see www.mysticring.co.uk. Find out more about Lee Smith at
www.walkaboutmagic.com.
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Modern
Mystic League Magical Banquet and An Afternoon with Faust. "On Saturday 8th
October 2011, The Modern Mystic League will be holding their annual banquet.
This is a sumptuous 3 course meal with Coffee & Mints followed by close-up magic
at tables by members and a fabulous cabaret featuring comedy duo, High Jinx who
starred on Penn & Teller's 'Fool Us' and Magic Circle 'Young Magician of the
Year', Ben Proos. The show will be compèred by none other than Shaun McCree who
got such great reviews at the IBM last week. Tickets are limited, but can be
obtained on a first come first served basis by contacting the Allan Clarke:
allan.clarke@tiscali.co.uk or by
telephone on 01772 685073. The dinner is to be held in the very pleasant
surroundings of the Mytton Fold Hotel & Golf complex, Whalley, Blackburn. 7.00
for 7.30pm. Tickets are £31.00 Some accommodation may still be available,
contact the hotel direct
www.myttonfoldhotel.co.uk As if that weren't enough, the League will be
hosting 'An afternoon with Faust' on the following day, Sunday 9th October at
the headquarters in Blackburn. Granville Taylor will be talking about his life
and times as one of the last great masters of illusion. Visiting magicians
welcome at £5 on the door. Full details can be found on the website at
www.memel.org.uk" Allan
Clarke.
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Steve
Price Lecture, Bolton. Steve Price will be presenting his lecture 'Prop Stuff'
at Bolton Magicians' Club on Wednesday 5th October at 8.30pm. Steve has
been described as 'professionally crazy' with a unique mix of comedy,
magic and mayhem and is definitely a magician to look out for.
Steve's website is
www.stevepriceillusions.co.uk. The venue is the
Doffcocker Inn, Chorley Old Road, Bolton BL1 5QD (Map). Visiting magicians
from other societies are most welcome. There will be an entrance fee of
£5.00.
For directions to the Doffcocker Inn visit
www.boltonmagic.co.uk
or telephone Jim Hodgkiss on 01204 522651.
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Double
Reward Points this weekend at MagicTao! Plus pre-order
Noted,
Stick-It or
Gambit which will be released on October 10th and receive double reward
points on these brand new effects too.
www.magictao.co.uk.
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"Tricky"
Ricky McLeod recently won the Harry Kidd Cup at the West Lothian
Magic Circle for his stage/parlor act. The late Harry Kidd was
Scotland's popular comedy ventriloquist who donated the cup to West
Lothian Magic Circle a few years ago. His son Gary James, a professional
magician from Edinburgh, is pictured here presenting the cup to Ricky.
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Mark
Leveridge will be giving his "Going Walkabout" lecture/dealer dem at the
South Downs Magicians on Wednesday 5th October. The lecture covers how
to approach people at receptions and the types of effects to use to
maximise audience attention and participation. Mark will be performing
and explaining several different routines which are ideal for walkabout
magic. The lecture starts at 8pm at Handcross Parish Hall, High Street,
Handcross, West Sussex RH17 6BJ (Map). Visiting magicians are welcome - £5 on
the door. More details:
www.southdownsmagicians.co.uk.
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Eric
Jones Lecture, Portsmouth. Eric Jones lectures at Portsmouth & District
Magic Circle on Thursday 20th October at 7.30pm. Non PDMC Magicians welcome
£8.00 admission. Portsmouth & District Magic Circle, Buckland Community Centre,
Malins Road, Buckland, Portsmouth PO2 7BL (Map)
www.ericjonesmagic.com
www.portsmouthmagic.co.uk.
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Paul Gordon,
Pentacle Magic Club Lecture. On Tuesday 11th October The Pentacle
Club are hosting a lecture by Paul Gordon on "do-able and entertaining
card magic" to which visiting magicians are welcome - to quote Paul "I
promise you a fun jam-packed night!" The Pentacle Club meets at St
Laurence's School, Arbury Road, Cambridge CB4 2JX (Map)
and the lecture will start at 8pm, doors open at 7.40pm, and there is a
small charge of £5 for non-members.
Click Here for club
info and visit
www.paulgordon.net for details about Paul's magic.
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Gatling
Magic took part in the British Shield Stage Competition last week
and came 2nd, winning the Theo Speaker Cup, and were also awarded the
Dittia Shield for Manipulation. On Friday October 7th they can be seen
at the newly refurbished Colwyn Bay Theatre in the Happy Faces Charity
show Summer Spectacular
www.theatrcolwyn.co.uk/shows
www.gatlingmagic.co.uk.
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Mel's
annual charity show. On Saturday 22nd October Mel Harvey and Dave Short
will be appearing at The Kineton Village Hall, Mill Street, Kineton,
Warwickshire in Mel's annual charity show. Last year Mel raised £900
for The Shakespeare Hospice and this year the proceeds will be going to
MacMillan Cancer Support. It will be a fun evening, a real variety show
for real people! Mel and Dave will be recreating snippets from The
Flanagan and Allen Story which is currently touring UK theatres. Tickets are £12.50 per person which includes a two course
supper. There will also be a bar, a raffle, a charity auction and a competition with a special prize
for the magician who raises the most money at their table as a result of
their close-up magic. Tickets are available from Lion Robin Hammond on
01926 641005 or direct from Mel on 01789 470331. Also joining them, Paul Kybert from The
Leamington and Warwick Magic Circle and Jim Gregory, a Member of The Inner Magic Circle.
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Bishops
Stortford Care & Share Balloon Day, Wednesday 12th October. Featuring three
lectures. For more info and booking details visit
www.qualatexballoons.co.uk.
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Penn
& Teller: Fool Us Ukrainian edition. STB TV , Ukrain, email "Dear all, STB
TV Channel invites qualified magicians to participate in shooting of famous
British TV Show 'Penn & Teller: Fool Us' Ukrainian version in Kiev, Ukraine.
Your goal in this show is to surprise Penn & Teller with your authorial magic
act on the stage, if you don’t have one, then classical act in your special
interpretation will do it (please, send us a link on video with this trick if
you are interested to participate). If you win you will get the opportunity to
participate in the show of Penn & Teller in Las Vegas at the Rio Hotel & Casino.
There could be few winners, not only one! To get a better idea of 'Penn&Teller:
Fool Us', please check the following link:
www.youtube.com. For the shooting of the show participant stays for 3 days
(2 days of rehearsals and 1 day of shooting) in Kiev, Ukraine during 11th – 17th
of December. We’re planning to finish shooting at 7PM, so that you could leave
right this evening. As we want your act to be fabulous and great we use a
consultancy of Penn & Teller’s producers and their magic expert Johnny Thompson
from the US. For terms and conditions and more information email:
foolus@stb.ua (Olga Getun) or call via
cell-phone: +38 095 282 49 96 (Olga Getun) Administration of the project 'Penn &
Teller: Fool Us' – Ukrainian version, STB TV Channel."
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