John Smithman writes about Charles Howard

From John Smithman's Facebook page:

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2016 Allan Slaight Award Recipients

Congratulations to this year's winners!

From Magicana:

Lifetime Achievement Award ($15,000) - TON ONOSAKA
Sharing Wonder Award ($15,000) - DARCY OAKE
Sharing Secrets Award ($10,000) - RICHARD KAUFMAN
International Rising Star ($5,000) - JORGE BLASS
Canadian Rising Star ($5,000) - LUC LANGEVIN

Read more.

Revisit "The Magic Palace"

From Magicana:

The Magic Palace was a Canadian television series, produced and hosted by Dale Harney, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, which was an inspiration for a generation of magicians. In an age before YouTube and the Internet, the show gave viewers a broad sampling of magic acts from North America and Europe in an unprecedented scale. 

Almost lost to history, it is now one of the most important collections of magic performances. Magicana is delighted to share this material and, perhaps, inspire another generation of magicians all over again. 

Read more and enter exhibit.

Watch the teaser:

 

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Toronto: Free magic club meeting

From the Browser's Den of Magic Facebook group:

Hi There- This Saturday, July 2nd is our next (FREE) Magic Club Meeting. 

We meet at Browser's Den from 2:30pm to 5:30pm. All interested in talking magic are welcome.  

And we are pleased to let you know that it looks as if Jeff Hinchliffe will be joining us at the meeting. 

Happy Canada Day!
Jeff & The Browser's Den Team.
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Top 5 posts of June 2016

Again with the high number of duplicate-ish entries in this list, so to level out the playing field, here are the 10 most viewed posts at Canada's Magic this month:

10.  Montreal and Toronto: Let’s Make uberMAGIC - Did you participate?  How was the experience? 

9.  Diary of a Sorcerers Safari newbie - part 10 - The latest instalment of imaginary camper Alex's experiences at Sorcerers Safari Magic Camp. 

8.  Toronto: Fundraising for Fort McMurray - Shout out to all the magicians out there raising money for this good cause. 

7.  Diary of a Sorcerers Safari newbie - part 9 - In which we see Daryl get up close and personal with pie. 

6.  20 things you need to know about Sorcerers Safari - Who can tell me about the origins of "Farquhar Lake" mentioned in item 6? 

5.  Diary of a Sorcerers Safari newbie - part 6 - Camp photo! 

4.  Diary of a Sorcerers Safari newbie - part 7 - “Cheerleader" by Omi and "Love Is An Open Door" from Frozen.  Need I say more? 

3.  20 magical memories from Sorcerers Safari - Have you ever seen Lee Asher in an egg plant costume? 

2.  Chris Funk on America's Got Talent - Go Chris, go!

and the most viewed post this month  ...

1.  20 amazing alumni from Sorcerers Safari - Did you know that Neil Croswell (gold medal ‘Magic of China, International Magic Championships” 2015), Bill Cook (three-time award winner at the World Magic Seminar in Las Vegas), and Kelvin Kwong (first place Magi-Fest junior close-up, second place IBM junior close-up) have all attended?