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Thank you to our sponsors for their generous support.

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Top 5 posts in June 2018

Out of the 30 posts at Canada's Magic this month, here are the 5 most viewed posts in the past 30 days:

5. Toronto: A symphony of illusions - With Ryan Brown.

4. Waterloo: Two fools - What'd you think of the show?

3. Gananoque: The Comedy and Magic of Jason Palter - Will you be there?

2. Vancouver: World of Magic - This is going to be a phenomenal event!

and the most viewed post this month  ...

1. Catching up with The Sentimentalists (they're on Penn and Teller's Fool Us!) - Did you see them on Fool Us?

Toronto: Browser's Den School of Magic

From the Browser's Den of Magic:

CLASSES BEGIN: Sunday, September 16, 2018

Since 1975 'Browser's Den of Magic' has been helping people of all ages whether they are professionals or hobbyists, learn to perform magic effectively.

The goal of our Magic School is to emphasize quality over quantity. Knowing how a tricks works is only the first step. Understanding how to perform a trick in an entertaining and mystifying way is the most important part of becoming a magician.

Magic School also helps people learn lifetime skills such as talking in front of others, practice, psychology, social skills, patience and concentration.

HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:
We know how busy people are these days. And with most of our dear customers living at least 45 minutes away it is not easy for many to sign-up and commit to attending a class each week.

Instead each student registers in advance for 5 classes. And then he or she may show up for any of the classes for a total of 5 classes.

Read more and register.

Toronto: Ryan Brown at the Fringe

From the Toronto Fringe's listing for the "Circus Shop of Horrors":

July 6th - July 14th

It’s dusk. Your car breaks down on an abandoned forest road, far away from home. Far away from the nearest phone. But there’s a cabin up ahead, with smoke spiralling from the chimney, and a light scent of fresh-baked cookies wafting out the windows. A lucky place to spend the night or make a phone call? Not if you’re in a 90’s horror movie. Enter the Circus Shop of Horrors, an eclectic musical revue, paying homage to beloved horror films, by melding the grotesque, with acrobatics, circus, dance, drag, and illusion! Enjoy seeing if you can identify all our references in the show.

Read more and buy tickets.

Dai Vernon in Atlas Obscura

From the June 25th article "An Insider’s Tour of New York’s Disappearing Magic History," by Sarah Laskow in Atlas Obscura:

With his sharp mustache and debonair smile, Dai Vernon always looked like he knew more than he was revealing, and as his stature in the magic community grew, his life became legend. When he came to New York from Ottawa, Canada, in 1915, the vaudeville circuit was still feeding magicians steady income and fame, though Pastor’s heyday was long over. A kid obsessed with magic and card tricks, Vernon gravitated to the city’s magic shops. Martinka’s had already become legendary, though from the outside, one reporter wrote in 1916, it looked like “a little dingy shop … with one window full of dusty paraphernalia,” in the shadow of Sixth Avenue’s elevated train. Whatever wonders the shop had to offer were in the back room, off-limits to newcomers like Vernon.


Read more.