Imagine being a teenager. Imagine being a teenager whose peculiar passion is prestidigitation. Imagine being the only young person in your neighbourhood who cares about it the way you do. Now, imagine 100 other teenagers just like you, pasty and idiosyncratic with wildly varying degrees of social aptitude, coming together in your own little speck of the world for a week, each one of you suddenly somewhere you all belong. That was magic camp.
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24 August 2019
Michael Kras remembers "This One Time, at Magic Camp…"
From the August 15 article "This One Time, at Magic Camp…" by Michael Kras at Medium:
19 August 2019
AGT Quarterfinals: Sentimental wildcard
Tune in to tomorrow night's AGT Quarterfinals and you may see a familiar face (or two).
Congratulations Chris and Steffi!
From The Sentimentalists' Facebook page:
Congratulations Chris and Steffi!
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18 August 2019
Magic at the 2019 PNE
This year's Pacific National Exhibition runs from August 17 to September 2. Be sure to check out Ty Reveen in "Reveen: The Superconscious Experience" and Dick Joiner hosting "Abracadabark"! (Of note, we saw David Acer host Abracadabark last Friday at the CNE and it's a really fun show.)
From the August 17th article "Tux-wearing Tyrone Reveen picks up at PNE where famous father left off" by Gordon McIntyre in the Vancouver Sun:
From the PNE website - Reveen:
Also from the PNE website - Abracadabark:
From the August 17th article "Tux-wearing Tyrone Reveen picks up at PNE where famous father left off" by Gordon McIntyre in the Vancouver Sun:
“This is an opportunity to implement some great special effects, some of which have never been seen before, that will blow people’s minds,” Ty Reveen said before beginning 15 nights of entertaining at the Pacific Coliseum during the PNE Fair.
“I do a few things in this show that will surprise even the people at the top levels of the magic industry.”
He’s followed in the footsteps of his famous father, who died in 2013, a couple of years after his son Ty took over the act.
Ty and his three brothers spent their early years in Chilliwack, West Vancouver and Richmond, their dad (yes he had a first name, Peter) having arrived in 1961 — “With literally five cents in his pocket,” Reveen le fils said.
The boys and their mother Coral later followed from their native Australia after the hypnotist had established himself.
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From the PNE website - Reveen:
Reveen: The Superconscious Experience
It’s the man they call Reveen! The legend continues with this mesmerizing and hypnotic show featuring high-speed memory demonstrations and mystical showmanship. Now Tyrone Reveen is following in his father’s footsteps and continuing the family tradition. The Superconscious Experience allows audience members to become the stars in one of the wildest and funniest shows that has left millions of people crying with laughter all over the world. The legend continues, never forget Reveen.
Also from the PNE website - Abracadabark:
SuperDogs™️ presents Abracadabark. Prepare to be amazed, amused and bedazzled as the SuperDogs unleash their most magical show ever, Abracadabark! With a magician as your guide you’ll experience the magic of the SuperDogs like never before!
Review: Magic Hour Plus
From August 12th article "Magic vs Science" by Sean McQuaid in The Buzz:
Featuring university professors turned magicians Grant McSorley and Derrick Chung in the latest version of the popular McSorley & Chung stage magic show they created in 2016, Magic Hour Plus also stars the duo’s original director (and two-time Canadian magic champion) Marc Trudel, here playing the onstage role of an eager-to-please intern.
McSorley & Chung are amusing in their stage personae as bookish, cheesily self-aggrandizing showmen, often puffing themselves up with lofty rhetoric and then deflating themselves with self-effacing humour; but comedy-wise, Trudel steals the show as a socially awkward magic savant. All three excel at misdirection, not only shifting our focus to where each magician wants it, but also subverting expectations; seemingly botched tricks will morph into even cooler tricks instead, like Chung’s baffling Rubik’s Cube stunts.
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17 August 2019
"Diversion" on Saturday August 24th
Saturday August 24th catch "Diversion" on TF1!
From the Medias France Twitter feed:
From the Medias France Twitter feed:
Samedi 24 août à 21h05 : "DIVERSION" sur TF1 avec @Arthur_Officiel— Médias France (@MediasFrance) August 7, 2019
Les magiciens @ViktorVincentOf @Gusillusionnist @Caroline_Marx_ @LucLangevin @EnzoIllusion @AntonioMagicien repoussent les limites de la magie... pic.twitter.com/pVJMXiDIkg
16 August 2019
Catching up with the Outerbridges
Congratulations to Ted and Marion Outerbridge for the addition of 4 more shows to their Smith Falls Theatre run this season!
They've been in the news a bit too.
From the July 20th article "Experience the magic of illusions at the Smith Falls Station Theatre" by Sofia Donato in Ottawa Life:
They've been in the news a bit too.
From the July 20th article "Experience the magic of illusions at the Smith Falls Station Theatre" by Sofia Donato in Ottawa Life:
In one of Ted’s illusions, he vanishes from the stage, appearing instantaneously in the audience and completely surprising them. One evening, he so confounded an audience member by this illusion that “someone was upset because I was blocking their view of the show," Ted recalls. “They were yelling and hit me to get out of the way. Then they realized it was me.” Outerbridge wasn’t injured. “I was amused," he said.
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15 August 2019
Windsor's former International Playing Card Company factory
From the August 9th article "Jarvis: Bringing back Windsor's history, brick by brick" by Anne Jarvis in the Windsor Star:
Underneath the recreated flap, on the side of the building, will be vertical red and blue panels — the colours of the Bicycle playing cards once manufactured in the building. The tops of the panels will be shaped like the diamonds that decorated the back of the cards. Drive one way, and the red will appear to change to blue. Drive the other way, and the blue changes to red, like the kind of sleight of hand performed with cards.
It’s J. P. Thomson Architects’ salute to the handsome former International Playing Card Company factory built in 1928, a designated heritage property and a link to our industrial history.
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26 July 2019
Did Houdini own a Canadian made organ?
From the June 30 article "Ottawa organ linked to famed magician Harry Houdini" by Charles Stanley in My Web Times:
[via John Cox]
Could the legendary magician and escape artist Harry Houdini (1874-1926) have owned and touched the keys of an organ built in Ottawa?
It is a tantalizing thought — but undocumented. The provenance chain for the organ since leaving the Ottawa factory is missing crucial links. It is likely the possibility may, in fact, just be an illusion.
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[via John Cox]
25 July 2019
Gordon Precious in the Hamilton Spectator
From the July 18 article "Jeff Mahoney: Gordon Precious, Hamilton’s own, is in the Guinness World Records as oldest heli-skier" by Jeff Mahoney in The Hamilton Spectator:
He enjoyed skiing, as well as tennis, from an early age. "As I got better (at skiing) we'd go to Cedar Springs, but I was 15 and not allowed to drive so I'd go with 16-year-old friends who were. Once there were four of us in the car. Our names were Precious, Love, Darling and ... Anguish."
Gordon's conversation, fed by the springs of a terrific memory, is full of such delights, and when he tells me that, in addition to skiing and tennis, he practised the art of magic, I am not surprised, as there's a general feeling of magic about the man.
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24 July 2019
Julie Eng in Business Class magazine
From the June 17th article "Magician Julie Eng conjures wonder" by Keith Norbury in The world from here:
Magic has played a leading role in her life for as long as Julie Eng, BCom ’95, can remember.
“The story goes that I wasn’t delivered by the stork,” the Toronto-based Eng says. “I was pulled out of the hat.”
She learned her first magic trick from her magician father, Tony Eng, when she was just a toddler. He later introduced her to a secret world that would eventually permeate every aspect of her life and lead her to networking with the likes of Las Vegas showmen Penn and Teller.
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20 July 2019
Content creation and magic
From the July 9the article "How to Create Captivating Content Using the Secrets of Magic" by Laura Mingall in CMF Trends:
Masters of cinema, such as Georges Méliès and Orson Welles, were also master magicians. Magicians are storytellers that harness the science and art of constructing captivating illusions. And storytellers have the ability to leverage these secrets of magic when creating all forms of content.
My experience with magic began in preschool. I learned firsthand both the thrill of watching the impossible become possible, as well as the thrill of understanding how it can be done. My grandfather is Henry Gordon, an acclaimed magician and debunker whose career spanned over thirty years and is a fascinating story in and of itself. He appeared on various media platforms, such as a range of CBC programs, through to The Oprah Winfrey Show. He often performed or taught the art of magic, or unapologetically debunked those using it to take advantage of people. He authored regular articles for publications such as the Toronto Star, as well as multiple books. And he would lecture for those fully immersed in the skeptic and magic communities, including at the iconic Magic Castle—the private clubhouse of The Academy of Magical Arts, in Hollywood.
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13 July 2019
Review: Indulgence with Lucy Darling
From the July 2nd post "MMF 2019 Review: Indulgence with Lucy Darling" by Tay Around Town:
We giggled and snorted with laughter, followed Lucy along in her games and marvelled at her wonderful magic. Each time I see Lucy Darling’s shows I become even more enchanted – as does her audience, I’m sure. She has a supreme stage presence and personality, which the audience just revel in. Despite a ‘larger than life’ personality, Lucy (Carisa) is careful to have this aspect not diminish the magic and storytelling. Everything in this show is within perfect harmony.
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08 July 2019
Derek Selinger on Fool Us and Breakfast Television
Derek Selinger's performance of "The Deadly Gallows" from Penn and Teller Fool Us Season 6.
From the Magic Inspired YouTube channel:
From the Breakfast Television Twitter feed:
From the Magic Inspired YouTube channel:
From the Breakfast Television Twitter feed:
Calgary illusionist @DerekSelinger shows off the tricks that got him a chance on @CWPennandTeller https://t.co/7qBRm9cO45 pic.twitter.com/UbunNHZ5KY— Breakfast Television & CityNews Calgary (@BTCityNewsCGY) June 28, 2019
18 June 2019
Catching up with Luc Langevin
Catch Luc Langevin in Montreal and Quebec City in November and December respectively. Or watch him record the show "The Children of the TV." Or watch the show once it airs! Or watch the Geminis and see if he takes his category "Best Variety Special."
Congratulations Luc!
From the June 12 article "Luc Langevin de retour au Québec" in La Press:
From Luc Langevin's Twitter feed:
Congratulations Luc!
From the June 12 article "Luc Langevin de retour au Québec" in La Press:
L'illusionniste présentera ainsi son spectacle Maintenant demain sur plusieurs scènes québécoises dans les prochains mois.
Il sera notamment à la salle Maisonneuve de la Place des Arts le 9 novembre et à la salle Albert-Rousseau de Québec les 22 et 23 décembre.
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From Luc Langevin's Twitter feed:
Amis québécois, je ferai partie des invités de l'émission "Les enfants de la télé" à @iciradiocanada lors du tournage du mardi 18 juin de 18h à 22h et il encore possible d'y assister gratuitement. Les personnes intéressées doivent réserver ici -> https://t.co/fc3UbplTtd pic.twitter.com/eHze1IhBwp— Luc Langevin (@LucLangevin) June 13, 2019
Belle surprise pendant mes vacances : Je viens d’apprendre que je suis en nomination aux Gémeaux comme meilleur animateur de spécial de variété! Cheers 🥂! pic.twitter.com/hJlMaC63xG— Luc Langevin (@LucLangevin) June 13, 2019
10 June 2019
Derek Selinger on "Penn and Teller Fool Us" season 6
Looking forward to see Derek on the Fool Us stage on July 1st!
From Derek Selinger's Instagram:
From Derek Selinger's Instagram:
09 June 2019
Billy Kidd in the Vegas News
From the June 4 article 'Women Are (Secretly) The Driving Force Behind Facebook’s “Making Magic”' in the Vegas News:
Making Magic Episode 4: Billy Kidd Defeats Duct Tape
The last two episodes of Facebook’s Making Magic featured people you don’t often see in the magic industry: Women. Not only are women featured; their back-to-back episodes have been streamed more than those of their male counterparts.
This comes as no surprise to Making Magic guest Mistie Knight.
“People are excited to see women in major magic roles, not just the shadows,” Knight says. “For so long, it was assumed that women in magic were merely ‘lovely assistants’ providing eye candy. The truth is, in illusion shows women are often the ones doing the heavy lifting.”
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Making Magic Episode 4: Billy Kidd Defeats Duct Tape
08 June 2019
Nicholas Wallace in ET Canada
From the June 5 article "Gabrielle Union Is Possessed By A Creepy Doll In Magician’s Mystifying ‘AGT’ Audition" by Brent Furdyk in ET Canada:
From the America's Got Talent YouTube channel:
“America’s Got Talent” has seen its fair share of nightmarish magic acts over the years, but magician Nicholas Wallace has raised the bar when it comes to sheer creepiness.For his trick, Wallace explained that he saved an old rocking chair and a disturbing-looking doll from a fire in a hotel, revealing that the chair and the doll share some kind of a supernatural connection.Enlisting judge Gabrielle Union as his volunteer, he asked her to sit in the rocking chair and then covered her eyes with a blindfold.
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From the America's Got Talent YouTube channel:
01 June 2019
Greg Frewin in the Metrolinx News
From the May 16th article "No illusion – Magician Greg Frewin reveals Niagara Falls spectacles GO customers need to unlock" by Sara Wilbur in the Metrolinx News:
Greg Frewin has pulled off one of the most elaborate feats in the history of prestidigitation. He’s managed to quietly hide a very Canadian existence within a bigger-than-life Niagara Falls spectacle.
The 52-year-old magician seems as much a modern staple of Niagara Falls as, say, running water. His production, inside a local 700-seat theatre named after him, is based on decades of performances around the world that have won him a magic box full of trophies, including the prestigious Magician of the Year Award at the World Magic Awards, as well as a first place for the International Federation of Magic Societies.
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29 May 2019
Toronto: Mystery & Magic featuring Beyond Mental Borders
From the May 22 article "Toronto is getting a Las Vegas style magic show series" by Tanya Mok in BlogTO:
One of Toronto's most popular mind-reading duos, Beyond Mental Borders, is launching a new stage show called Connection on June 16 at the Rec Room.
According to the mentalist pair, Melissa Ronson and Armand Antony, it'll be an extravaganza of divination, accompanied by some of the best magicians across the country.
The pair have previously wowed audiences on CityTV, at Second City, and other venues in the city with their ability to do stuff like guess what number or place you're thinking of, down to the tiniest detail.
It's still a mystery what exactly the show will incorporate, but according to the team, it'll be a "Las Vegas-style magic show that is currently lacking in the city of Toronto."
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28 May 2019
Halifax: Nathaniel Rankin at the Halifax Busker Festival
As an aside, has anyone witnessed Mike Wood's “Catapulted Cabbage Catch”? I can only assume it's as hilarious as it sounds!
From the May 22nd article "Halifax Busker Festival performers announced" by Victoria Walton in Halifax Today:
From the May 22nd article "Halifax Busker Festival performers announced" by Victoria Walton in Halifax Today:
The 33rd year of the festival will take place on the Halifax Waterfront from July 31 to August 5.
Some of the Canadian artists featured include living statue Jenny Jupiter, comedian Mike Wood, and magician Nathaniel Rankin.
Last year's winners of the Busker's people's choice award, Canadian break-dancing group Break City Allstars will also return.
The festival will include the Nova Scotia Marquee Music Stage, which is now in its third year, and will be set up at Bishop's Landing in partnership with the province and Develop Nova Scotia.
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