Seattle: "Bridging the Gap" with Billy Kidd

From Billy Kidd's Facebook post:

Hey all, I'm bringing the show I did in Pittsburgh " Bridging the Gap" to Seattle for limited run at Hales Ales Palladium Nov 8,9, 15, and 16th. Get your tickets ASAP if you want to hang out for a couple of hours:) Here is a review of the show from the summer

From the June 13th article "BWW Review: BILLY KIDD: BRIDGING THE GAP Fuses Magic, Comedy, Surrealism at Liberty Magic" by Greg Kerestan at Broadway World:

To avoid spoilers for the magic show, this review will be brief. Billy Kidd, the actor and magician, is almost certainly playing a character, the (fictionalized) magician Billy Kidd. "I have issues," she jokes at the beginning of the show, and the whole evening's loose plot revolves around this: our narrator has deep-seated, unresolved issues about growing up. A Peter Pan complex is not that unusual in a magician, but part of the charm of the Billy Kidd character is the way her neuroses not only fuel the banter and monologue sections, but at times begin to impact the tricks and stunts as well.

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Brent and Sarah 2020 - Coming to a cruise ship near you!

From Brent and Sarah's Instagram:

Coming to a Cruise Ship Near You... For us 2020 is going to be an exciting year of travelling and performing. We're happy to announce that throughout the year our show will be taking us to India, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Tahiti, Alaska, the Caribbean and South Africa! 

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Coming to a Cruise Ship Near You... For us 2020 is going to be an exciting year of travelling and performing. We're happy to announce that throughout the year our show will be taking us to India, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Tahiti, Alaska, the Caribbean and South Africa! We'd like to thank the fine people at Princess (you know who you are!) and Azamara Cruises for giving us these amazing opportunities. We've both always dreamed of travelling the world with the person that we love and we're hoping these travels will allow us to find that person...

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Toronto: Mark Strivings lecture

From the Northwest Ring of Fire:

November 20, 2019 - Toronto, ON
7:00 PM
Browser's Den of Magic
3220 Dufferin St.
Toronto, Ont. M6A 2T3

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An Evening with Darcy Oake in the UK

From AXS:

• SAT 21 MAR - Northumbria Institute, Newcastle    
• SUN 22 MAR - The Caves, Edinburgh   
• MON 23 MAR - St Luke's, Glasgow 
• TUE 24 MAR - The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham    
• WED 25 MAR - Arts Club, Liverpool  
• THU 26 MAR - Brudenell Social Club, Leeds   
• FRI 27 MAR - O2 Academy 3 Birmingham, Birmingham  
• SAT 28 MAR - Manchester Academy 3, Manchester    
• SUN 29 MAR - Thekla Bristol, Bristol    
• MON 30 MAR - Komedia Brighton, The Lanes    
• TUE 31 MAR -  Islington Assembly Hall, London    

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Super excited to announce my UK tour in March 2020! Tickets on sale Friday November 8th at 10am !!!

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Michael Close's November 2019 newsletter

Just finished reading the November newsletter from Michael Close.  You may be interested in:

• A couple of Stephen Bargatze stories that are very entertaining, especially if you hear Michael's voice reading them to you!
• Michael tips us to a film to begin shooting in Toronto and Buffalo next year.
• Michael Close has a podcast for subscribers, titled "Conversations with Close."   This month's guests are Merrill and Bargatze. 
• Michael wrote up a fabulous review of the recent Ontario Week of Wonder Magic Convention.
• From the playing card patent files by Lee Asher.
• The Magic of Science 
• It's Not Magic... But
• The Art of Conjuring by Mick Ayres.
• A nice shout out to Jonah Babin's Discourse in Magic interview with Ryan Hayashi. 
• A Ricky Jay tribute by Tom Zito.
• Technically Speaking by by Bruce Kalver.
• and many other newsworthy tidbits from the magic community!

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Magic and the Mind

From the November 5th post "Magic and the Mind" by Evelyn Matlin at Perfect Magic:

As most of you know, I was treated for cancer, and had Chemo and a robotic operation and now I’m back and so far so good. I was anxious to get back to the shop. A new customer came in and I picked up Cardtoon to demo it and I had no idea how it worked. I asked Phil. He said, “I never did it. You always demo it.”  I put it aside.

When he left I sat down with the deck and for the life of me, I could not remember how to do it. I opened a new pack to read the instructions and it was so complicated I couldn’t understand it. Then I remembered that whoever bought it, I showed them how it worked because the instructions were so complicated I felt they would take it home and never use it. It’s such a simple trick so I took a few minutes and showed them the secret so they would never have to look at the instructions. Still I couldn’t remember it or follow the instructions.

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Ontario: Outerbridge Clockwork Mysteries

From Ted Outerbridge:

• November 30, 2019     Rose Theatre, Brampton, ON
• December 31, 2019     Oakville Centre, Oakville, ON
• January 10, 2020         Imperial Theatre, Sarnia, ON

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