Owen Sound: Michael Close and Jason England workshop

Updated August 16 to add:

• Michael Weber has been announced as an additional special guest for the October workshop with Jason England.

From Michael Close:

You are cordially invited to join Michael Close and Jason England on October 17-20, 2017, for a unique workshop in the beautiful cottage country of northern Ontario (Owen Sound, ON). You’ll be away from the physical and mental noise of the city, but you won’t be roughing it; the accommodations are luxurious.

You’ll fly into Toronto on Monday, October 16, Tuesday morning you'll be bused to beautiful Owen Sound, ON where you will spend most of Tuesday, all day Wednesday, and all day Thursday talking magic and receiving personalized instruction from two of the most knowledgeable magicians on the planet. You'll return to your hotel in Toronto on Friday, and fly home on Saturday.

Read more and register!

From Shawn Farquhar's Facebook page:

Canadians competing at IBM SAM 2017

A little bird has told me that four Canadians will be competing at the upcoming IBM-SAM Combined Convention.

Keep an eye out for Philippe Theriault, Nicky Circelli, and Nicolas Dutel (stage), and Chris Bruce (close up) who all made the preliminary judges’ selection to compete for IBM and SAM prizes plus a chance to obtain a spot to compete at FISM 2018 in South Korea!

Joan Caesar is  a co-chair of the competition, along with Vinny Grosso, Past President of the SAM.

Break a leg Canada!



[With thanks to Joan Caesar for sending me the information.]

Toronto: Free magic jam!

From Ben Train's Facebook page:

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Canadians at IBM SAM 2017

The IBM-SAM Combined Convention is coming up July 12th to 15th!

Canadian roll call please!

So far, I've got:

• Julianna Chen (stage and lecture), 
• Jay Sankey (close-up and lecture), 
• Murray Hatfield and Teresa (stage and lecture), and 
• The Outerbridges (stage and lecture).

Who'd I miss?


From Ted Outerbridge's Facebook page:

Happy 150th, eh?

Does anyone know what Wes actually did with all the shots in the image at the bottom of this post?


From Brent and Sarah's Facebook page:

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From Wes Barker's Facebook page:

Top 5 posts in June 2017

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

5. Winners of the 2017 Allan Slaight Awards - Congratulations again to all the winners!

4. Magicana features Martin Nash, “The Charming Cheat” - Happy to see that history is being preserved!

3. Vancouver: "Unbelievable!" is back - Something fabulous to look forward to this summer.

2. Dora Nominations for "The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy" - Congrats on the nomination!

and the most viewed post this month  ...

1. Ariann Black and Dean Gunnarson in "Las Vegas Magic Stars" - What a great line up!  I can't wait to hear more about the show.

Billy Kidd on Masters of Illusion 2017

An addendum to Monday's post, it looks like Billy Kidd is also part of this year's season of Masters of Illusion!


From Billy Kidd's Twitter feed:
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New Series of Masters of Illusion starts this Friday on the @TheCW network. @cw_illusion A quick show with very quick magic. #magic pic.twitter.com/KgqFsWL5PF

— Billy Kidd (@Billykiddshow) June 28, 2017