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15 March 2020
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Magician's Masterclass:
The Social Distancing Festival
From The Social Distancing Festival:
The Social Distancing Festival is an online artist’s community made to celebrate and showcase the work of the many artists around the world who have been affected by the need for social distancing that has come about due to the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Personally, a production of a new musical of mine was cancelled on March 13, 2020. Yeah, Friday the 13th. Like, come on right? It’s such a weird mix of feelings. Yes it was absolutely the right decision. 100%. But so, so, SO disappointing. That production was years in the making, and my co-creator and artistic team had a lot invested. We didn’t just lose a chance to develop the work, but also to share it, celebrate it, and potentially connect with further opportunities. Instead, I went home, where I was alone, disappointed, and facing a whole lot of free time.
I have three main goals with this project:
1) It helps to get some of the great work that you’ve done out to the world, and projects that were cancelled get the word of mouth that they missed out on;
2) We are able to keep feeling a sense of artistic community, even from our living rooms, and;
3) Artists are able to continue to engage with their projects by making videos, sharing work, and celebrating the work of others.
Read more and submit your work.
— Adrianna Pebbles Prosser (@adriannap) March 14, 2020
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:
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…
Read more.
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?
Read more.
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!
Thank you to our March 2020 Friends!
Thank you to John Harrison, Richard Lyn, Joan Caesar, Ian Crawford, Matt DiSero, James Renoire, Gwyn Auger, Jason Maiuri, Doug Hunt, David Johnson, John Smithman, and Richard Hough for being Friends of Canada's Magic!
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It's good to have friends like you.
You too can Be Our Friend for only $20 per year!
Donations of any size are always welcome.
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