Congratulations on the first virtual PCAM!

Congratulations to Shawn Farquhar, Alex Zander, Billy Hsueh, and Kevin Cardona on what has been reported by others as a fabulous and memorable PCAM!

Congratulations also to the contest winners:

• Gold Medal for Close-Up:  Jay Chun The Juggling Magician
• Gold Medal for Stage Magic:  Ryan Wonder Brown
• Children's Entertainer of the Year: Katrina Kroetch
• One hand cut-a-thon:  Topher Gowen
  

Random thoughts about "The Deadly Doom of the Dungeons of Duodenum"

My family and I were invited to spectate "The Deadly Doom of the Dungeons of Duodenum" last night.  Quite frankly, we had no idea what to expect.

The Deadly Doom of the Dungeons of Duodenum is our newest ghoulish creation in which ticket buyers can choose to take part in the story using Dungeons and Dragons based role-playing, or merely witness the horrific adventure that will change each night: https://t.co/oDjRNb3cyp pic.twitter.com/cELWSOvNRN

— Eldritch Theatre 💀 (@EldritchTheatre) November 19, 2020

It's been a long time since my D&D days so we attended as spectators.

Like a Choose Your Own Adventure, but it's a live play, and it's D&D, and you are safe at home... https://t.co/E5aeKIqUAG

— Eric Woolfe (@ericwoolfe) November 16, 2020

Here are some random thoughts that came to mind while watching "The Deadly Doom of the Dungeons of Duodenum":

• No experience playing D&D?  No need to worry!  The talented Michael Ripley guided (DM'd) the adventure giving generous guidance to the novice adventurers who rose beautifully to the occasion! 
• Have D&D experience?  Help lead your adventurer party and be suitably challenged by the DM.
• It is exactly as advertised by Eric Woolfe:
• It is a live play with puppets.  
• The adventurers choose the direction of the adventure.
• Many of the outcomes are driven by the randomness of the roll of the dice.
• There are prerecorded video vignettes by such notables as Doctor Pretorious Wuthergloom and Kenneth Welsh!
  

  Novice members of the Susurring Order of the Lucid Platypus (role-played by patrons) receive a vision sent to them by the ancient Warlock, Ixa Lampoar (Kenneth Welsh), who leads them on a quest to recover the Piscine Key! (Spell casting is hard!) https://t.co/oDjRNb3cyp #theaTO pic.twitter.com/aIyIZvMVBU

  — Eldritch Theatre 💀 (@EldritchTheatre) November 17, 2020

  
  
• Every show is different.  (Even with the same adventurers, making the same choices, the randomness of the dice will lead to different outcomes.)
• For long time fans of Eric Woolfe and Eldritch Theatre, there are some well placed Easter eggs.   We caught throwbacks to "The Harrowing of Brimstone McReedy," "Buster Canfield and his Amazing Fleas!" and of course "Doc Wuthergloom's Haunted Medicine Show."  There were likely many, many more.)
  
• We witnessed a show with brave and entertaining adventurers!  (You don't need to be an actor to play.)
  Thank you Perdon, Scritch-Scratch, Al, Gormunga, and Sparkletastic!  (You want Sparkletastic on your campaigns.  The dice-gods were clearly in their favour!)
• Thank you talented DM Michael Ripley, puppeteers Kimwun Perehinec and Eric Woolfe, and the staff of the Eldritch Theatre (Melanie McNeil, Sandi Becker, Adrianna Prosser et al) for hosting an captivating evening's escape from reality.
  

 

Don't just take our word for it, here's what TV writer Mike McPhaden has to say:

Why watch a puppet-filled comic horror theatrical extravaganza, when you can be IN IT?! Part D&D, part theatre! I played last night and had a blast. Choose your ticket: player or spectator. Thanks to genius creator @ericwoolfe & wonderful DM @TalentedMr https://t.co/NlTSSuaOFa

— Mike McPhaden (@mcphadenmike) November 28, 2020

5 Things You Need To Know... to play The Deadly Doom of The Dungeons of Duodenum, with your guide Dungeon Master Ripley @TalentedMr https://t.co/khh8VLXoMN#theatre #dnd #interactivetheatre

— Eldritch Theatre 💀 (@EldritchTheatre) November 19, 2020

10% off Adventurer tickets for "The Deadly Doom of the Dungeons of Duodenum" at https://t.co/EWy8Vlol5k

code: CANADASMAGIC

details at https://t.co/mK7I3hpTdT

Thank you @EldritchTheatre! pic.twitter.com/iw7JesYvoW

— Canada's Magic (@canadasmagic) November 23, 2020

The "The Deadly Doom of the Dungeons of Duodenum" runs until December 5th.  

Details at EldritchTheatre.ca/dungeons

Disclosure:  My family and I were guests at this show. The opinions expressed above are entirely my own. I did not receive compensation for the writing or the publishing of this article.

 

 

Ryan Pilling with Alan Fisher on "Inside the Ring"

From the November 19th Facebook post by Alan Fisher:

Many thanks to my good buddy Ryan Pilling - Magician for having me as a guest on the 2nd episode of his new talk show "Inside The Ring", a look inside the pages of "The Linking Ring" (the monthly magazine of the IBM - International Brotherhood of Magicians). The replay can be found on the show's website - http://insidethering.show/episode2/. My segment starts at 59:20. But please, don't fast forward to that or you'll miss the best parts of the show.

 

 

 

Browser's Den 45th anniversary celebrations!

If you haven't seen it already, check out the Tuesday November 24th post Jeff P made at the Browser's Den of Magic Facebook page:

This is a long note...but a FUN note!

Part of the tradition at our annual shop anniversary party is a store wide discount. Well we would still like to offer you a discount for your overly kind support. Many of you have been part of the Browser's Den magic family for more than forty years!

From today until December 2, 2020 any orders (Curb Side, Phone, Online) will receive 10% off their purchase.

And for the first forty five purchases a special 45th Anniversary Gift will be included with your purchase. 

The gift was specially made with love by Artemus Syman and his new 'The Magic Coffee Co.'

Plus for those first forty five purchases a draw will be held for one lucky winner of a special gift from The Magic Coffee Company and a Special Gift from Browser's Den of Magic.

Read more for details.

Wes Barker on Steve Spade's podcast, Deceive Reality

Listen to episode 16 of Deceive Reality at Google Podcasts. 

 

From Steve Spade's November 21st Facebook post:

Strong Magic, Strong Whiskey and also contains Strong Language.. 😂🥃 (You have been warned) , we had such fun chatting with Wes Barker Tonight on the Deceive Reality podcast, so good to hear the real story about fooling Penn & Teller on fool us, his new magic TV show that he is filming with three of his magic friends in 2021, and his Good the bad and the ugly story about even a guy with an oxygen tank isn't going to help you on a sinking ship... 😁 It's all in here plus big ANNOUNCEMENT.
Deceive Reality is now Ireland's only professional online Magic shop..
"Childhood dream coming true..." 

 

It's the 10th blogiversary of Canada's Magic!

Ten years ago today this blog was born!

  

Thanks to you wonderful people who have supported this project!

For free, we've published over 4,420 posts, and served well over 980,000 page loads.  Four hundred and sixty of you follow us on Facebook, 1451 of you follow us on Twitter, 175 of you have found us on Instagram, and a bunch of you have subscribed to this site's RSS feed.  The bulk of you are Canadian, and we're delighted to see visitors from United States, the United Kingdom, India, France, and the list goes on.

There are so many of you doing such a fabulous job of making magic a priority in this great country!

 

A special thanks to:

• All of my early supporters.  Special shout outs to Ariel, Doug, James, and John for your continued encouragement.
   
• All of you readers, Likers, RTers, submitters, guest posters, contest prize providers and all other manner of promoters of this site.
   
• All of my sponsors, past and present.  That means you: Magic Information Canada, Ryan Pilling, Clive Court, Perfect Magic, The Browser's Den of Magic, The Amazing Corbin,  Michael Close, Daniel Sugar, Ty Reveen, and The Vanishing Rabbit Magic Shop!
   
• All of the blog's official friends, past and present.  That's you:  John Smithman, John Harrison, Richard Lyn, Joan Caesar, Ted & Marion Outerbridge, Ian Crawford, Owen Anderson,  Ryan Pilling, Matt DiSero, James Renoire, Gwyn Auger, Jason Maiuri, Doug Hunt, David Johnson, Richard Hough, Robin Dawes, Eric Bedard, Loran, Cam Dix, and Peter Mennie.
   
• All of the fabulous people that have offered up contest prizes for our readers through the years: James Alan, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Orca Book Publishers, The Bloor Cinema, Chris Westfall, Gwyn Auger, Sheldon Casavant, The Outerbridges,  Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Champions of Magic, the Toronto Magic Company, the EldritchTheatre, Michael Close Magic,  Perfect Magic, and  The Browser's Den of Magic.
    
• The wonderful wordsmiths that have guest posted here including: Ariel Frailich, The Magic Demon, Kidlet, Clive Court, James Alan, Killarney Sheffield, Ian Crawford, Erin Thomas, Ring 99, Dennis Schick, and Phil Matlin.
   
• And especially, my family for their support of this bloggy experiment.

My continued thanks to all of you! 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Anna DeGuzman virtual lecture

I saw the excellent Morgan and West lecture Gary invited us to attend!  I encourage you to take advantage of this fabulous free opportunity. 
  

Gary, thank you for the invitation!

 

From Gary Meyer's Facebook post:

The Oakland Magic Circle and IBM Ring 216 proudly present:
Anna DeGuzman lecturing and teaching ​on​ Tuesday, December 1 at 7pm PST. This is another night you do not want to miss. There is no cost.

What Anna DeGuzman can do with a deck of 52 cards will make your head spin! Manipulating cards into impossible 3-D configurations, she cuts, flings, flips, rotates, juggles and shuffles playing cards in the middle of the street, along train tracks, and in close-up shows at the most prestigious magic venues in the world including for The Magic Castle, Liberty Magic and the Chicago Magic Lounge.

Anna will discuss Cardistry and incorporating it into your magic. Anna uses money, rings, Rubik's Cubes and more in addition to cards. She will teach us some basic moves and signature effects, talk about her success using social media, tell behind-the-scenes stories of being on ”Fool Us,” and being a regular on “Masters of Illusion” this season. She will also discuss the challenges of being a woman in magic.

She learned her first trick at 11 and now this 22-year-old has gone from street magic to her recently created stage act. She has also appeared on MTV's “Amazingness”and even has a part in a recent Windows Surface commercial showcasing her talent! She has over 150,000 followers on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube.

Anna will also answer your questions.

Watch her appearance on ​“Fool Us”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ORmNspxN48

To see more video and To obtain the Zoom link go to https://oaklandmagiccircle.com/