Mexborough Magic Day 2013 takes place at the Corner Pocket Snooker Club, Bank Street. Mexborough in South Yorkshire S64 9QD on the 7th April 2013. With a facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/MexboroughMagicDay/ and a website at www.mexboroughmagicday.co.uk

Dealers include for the event include Mapro magic – martin hunt, Brown’s Juggling – Emily brown, Wiz And Dean Magic, We R magic, and more are to be announced

Lecturers will be announced in the new year

With a sliding scale of prices which means you could see each show for just £5, the full line up for the Festival of Magic evening shows has now been announced. Each evening from Monday 12th to 15th there will be TWO great different magic shows at The Bridewell Theatre, Blackfriars, London each evening with a range of genres and performing styles to please the most jaded of magic palates.

Monday – Rob James: Magicana and Morgan and West: Time Travelling Magicians

Tuesday – Woody Aragon: Bald Faced Liar and Oliver Meech : When Magic and Science Collide

Wednesday – Chris Cox : Fatal Attraction and Ian Rowland’s One Man Show

Thursday – Javier Jarquin: Card Ninja and Luke Jermay: Psychic Cabaret

A great chance to see some of the top five star rated shows from Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Melbourne Comedy Festival and Las Vegas right in the heart of London. The Bridewell Theatre will also be hosting the individual day seminars of the Festival of Magic (Monday – Directions and Showmanship, Tuesday – Cards, Wednesday – Mentalism, Thursday – Perception and Deception, Friday – Comedy Magic). Full details of all prices and full line up for the week including Juan Tamariz, Richard Wiseman, Arthur Benjamin and Anthony Owen amongst many many others at http://www.internationalmagic.com/acatalog/Convention_registration.html

The awards from this years IBM British Ring Convention are,

Micro Marathon – Fay Presto
Dealer trophy -Alan and Barbara Astra

Close Up

Rovi Trophy for skill – Alexander Hansford
3rd- Will Gray
2nd – Fay Presto
1st- Vadim (from Moscow, Russia)

Stage

Tom Harris cup for comedy – not awarded
Originality trophy – not awarded
Manipulation – Dave Andrews
3rd – Dave Andrews
2nd – Sean Alexander
1st British Ring Shield – not awarded

Compere award – Steve Evans

Many thanks to Mandy Davis for passing these on

The IBM British Ring Convention in Great Yarmouth will be here very soon and one of the features is a series of three workshops by Michael Vincent (Photo).

They all take place at the Marina Centre only a walk of a few minutes from the Britannia Pier theatre. Michael will present an interactive workshop on expert card handling and will share his knowledge and experience in the hope that it will support you taking your magic and card magic to the next level. Michael will have support material available in both the printed form and his DVD’s at each session.

You can register for the convention on www.magicconvention.co.uk and please remember to book your accommodation through Greater Yarmouth Tourism on 01493 846485 as that way the British Ring receives a commission.

Genii’s 75th Anniversary Birthday Bash, is now fast approaching, Celebrating 75 years of Genii, The Conjurors’ Magazine takes place at the Florida Hotel and Conference Center in Orlando, October 4, 5, 6, 2012.

You can listen to the Genii Forum’s very own mrgoat (aka Damian Jennings) have a chat with Guy Hollingworth by clicking play below.. What will he be lecturing about? What will he perform? Find out right now!

Further information and updates can be found at the Genii 75th Anniversary Birthday Bash website

Click below to listen to the podcast

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Move quickly! Tickets are selling fast for both the International Magic Convention and Festival and you’re already too late for both Juan Tamariz’s one man show and Joanie Spina’s one to one sessions which now have sold out completely and waiting lists having been created for both. Not that means you can’t get to see both of them during the rest of the Festival and Convention with Joanie lecturing at the Directions day of the Festival (Monday 12th November 2012) and during the Convention on Sunday morning (18th November 2012). Juan will be giving an extended lecture during the Convention on the Sunday afternoon.

Added to the Gala Show line- up is Lukas. This fantastic manipulator, a recent FISM award winner is reviewed in the current Magic with these words, “What we’d witnessed was manipulation in it’s purest form. The silence in the vast auditorium was deafening as we witnessed technical skill slowed down so precisely, so beautifully that we were convinced we were seeing something very special indeed. During the ecstatic standing ovation, the magician to my right whispered “That looked like real magic”. He was right.” Your chance to see him will be in the Gala Show repeated on the Saturday and Sunday evenings at the Mermaid Theatre. Registration details on www.internationalmagic.com