I started performing magic when I was really young, probably about seven or eight years old. It was actually completely by accident, I was at home and my dad was playing with a deck of cards. He knows zero magic, no tricks or anything. He told me to pick a card, so I picked one, looked at it, put it back in the pack and he was playing it off like he was a pro magician and said he was going to find my card. He did it and I was absolutely blown away, I had no idea how to explain how he did it.
He tortured me, wouldn’t tell me the secret for months and then finally I learned it was a complete accident! That month where I didn’t know how it worked played with my head and I was just so fascinated and adamant on learning how to do it. It’s crazy to look back on, if that trick hadn’t turned out like that…
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14 March 2020
Darcy Oake in The Sunday Post
From the March 8th article "VIDEO: Illusionist Darcy Oake on how Britain’s Got Talent changed his life and his upcoming Edinburgh and Glasgow shows" by Ross Crae in The Sunday Post:
13 March 2020
Shawn Farquhar in the Vancouver Sun
From the March 4th article "No saws, but lots of sleight-of-hand in 'hidden' speakeasy magic show" by Shawn Conner in the Vancouver Sun:
There’s magic happening in Vancouver’s Chinatown, but you wouldn’t know it from a cursory stroll. Shawn Farquhar’s Hidden Wonders is a speakeasy-style performance located behind a fake business facade.
A two-time world champion of magic, Farquhar in this show focuses less on grand-scale illusions and more on intimate experiences. The 75-minute magic experience features effects that the homegrown talent has exclusively designed for the venue as well as effects he created to impress talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres and to fool Penn & Teller twice on their hit TV show Fool Us.
We talked to the Maple Ridge-based Farquhar about Hidden Wonders:
Q: What’s the strangest place you’ve performed?
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12 March 2020
On the cover
Congratulations to Gerry Frenette who is featured on the cover of the most recent edition of Northern Peeks, Murray Sawchuck who is featured on the cover of the February edition of Genii, and Sawyer Bullock who is featured on the cover of the March edition of Faith and Friends!
[With thanks to The Magic Demon and Ryan Pilling for letting me know!]
[With thanks to The Magic Demon and Ryan Pilling for letting me know!]
Did you see Gerry Frenette on the cover of the most recent edition of Northern Peeks? pic.twitter.com/JPJcXgAILj— Canada's Magic (@canadasmagic) March 11, 2020
Did you see @SawyerBullock1 on the cover of this month's Faith and Friends?— Canada's Magic (@canadasmagic) March 11, 2020
With thanks to @WowRyan for the tip and the photo. pic.twitter.com/sJqLOKwhXy
11 March 2020
Congratulations to Carisa Hendrix for her nomination!
Congratulations to Carisa Hendrix for her nomination (second year in a row) for "Stage Magician of the Year" at the Magic Castle!
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10 March 2020
David Regal, Jay Sankey, Dan Harlan, and Shawn Farquhar to the MAXX
I've had the good fortune of seeing all four lecture and they were all fabulous. It'd be awesome to see them all again in one place!
From Shawn Farquhar's Facebook post:
From Shawn Farquhar's Facebook post:
Imagine if David Regal, Jay Sankey, Dan Harlan, and Shawn Farquhar hosted a magic party. Four of the world's most brilliant magicians, teaching tricks, hanging out, performing shows, being hilarious. It'd be epic, right? Well, they are! And 300 of you will get to experience it.
Registration is now open for MAXX 2020, an exclusive 2-day magic convention strictly limited to 300 attendees.
"Had one of the best experiences of my life here" -Samuel Moore, MAXX Atlanta 2019
WHERE? WHEN?
Dallas, TX: April 3-4
https://www.penguinmagic.com/p/12249
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Chicago, IL: Nov 13-14
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