Canada's Magic

02 August 2014

Browser's Den magic club day

From the Browser's Den of Magic Facebook group:

Tomorrow, August 2nd is (free) MAGIC CLUB DAY at the shop.
All are welcome!
Club meets from 2:30pm to about 5:00pm.

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Corey Mintz makes dinner for David Ben

From the Toronto Star, Saturday July 19, 2014, page L3, by Corey Mintz:

It's hard to choose a playlist for dinner with a magician. Just "Final Countdown" on a four-hour loop? I settle on the early '70s smooth jazz sounds of Bob James.

I don't know a lot about magic but I feel that this could be the soundtrack to a Doug Henning television special.

Planning a menu for David Ben was easier. I only had to figure out how to execute the most obvious food allusion, to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

01 August 2014

Steve Valentine surprise special guest at Sorcerers Safari

How exciting for this year's campers! Among many other notables, Steve Valentine was the 2013 Magic Castle Lecturer of the Year!

From the Sorcerers Safari Facebook group:

Well we can finally let the cat out of the bag.....our surprise special guest this year, along with Asi Wind, will be Magic Castle's lecturer of the year....Steve Valentine!!

So excited to have these guys up at Sorcerers! Along with our awesome 'regulars' Lee Asher , Aaron Fisher, Eric Leclerc, Steven Kline and so many others, It's really going to be the BEST SUMMER YET!! Hope you can join us Aug. 15-20. See you there!

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Who's where August 2014

Leave a comment on this post to let us know where you're going to be this month!

Listings from last month's comments section:

From Captain Corbin:

Yarr,
I'll be performing pirate themed magic shows every Friday in July and August at London Ontario's Storybook Gardens! and Every Sunday in July and August at Gravenhurst Ontario's Wharf aboard the steamship Wenonah I'll be hosting a 2 hour pirate cruise on Lake Muskoka!

Hosting Magic@theCage this Sunday with Jason Palter and Wes Zaharuk. Still a few tickets left: http://t.co/WIvcsZrdWt
— James Alan (@james_alan) August 14, 2014

Next Public performances are happening this weekend in #canada. I'll be at #portcredit #buskerfest... http://t.co/3eS0hjWSWE
— Billy Kidd (@Billykiddshow) August 10, 2014

"Exchange hits the mark ★★★★” - @WinnipegNews, Opens 8 PM. Join me in BYOV 47! http://t.co/tgmqU64T7M #yegfringe
— Keith Brown (@KeithHBrown) August 14, 2014

Every Tuesday starting August 19th 10/9c on Syfy channel #wizardwars begins. I'm on Episode 4 with Leon Etienne.... http://t.co/S21hyTJ0ro
— Billy Kidd (@Billykiddshow) August 9, 2014

Come see a show this summer. If you're looking for me you shouldn't have to look to far because I'm everywhere! http://t.co/k8vOwv5Zso
— IncrediBrent (@IncrediBrent) June 18, 2014

31 July 2014

Amherst: Houdini Day

From Wild About Houdini:

Bruce MacNab, author of The Metamorphosis: The Apprenticeship of Harry Houdini, has helped arrange a special Houdini Day in Amherst, Nova Scotia, this Sunday, August 3, 2014. The event celebrates Houdini's historic August 3, 1896 performance at the Amherst Academy of Music.

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Also in the post, it says that "Lucas Wilson will perform Houdini's upside down straitjacket escape from a 100-foot crane."

A special way to mark Houdini's presence in Canada!