From the February 18th Instagram post by PTFoolUs:
It’s a mystery no more! The magic door is open! Send us your season 10 tricks.
Fooluscasting @ gmail . com. Thank you!!!
19 February 2023
Penn and Teller: Fool Us casting for season 10
Lon Mandrake in The Runner
From the February 12th article "Lon Mandrake brings magic to KPU TALK event" by Kyler Emerson in The Runner:
On Feb. 10 as a part of KPU’s Third Age Learning at Kwantlen (TALK) program, Lon and his wife, Linda, gave a presentation about Leon’s life, Lon’s experience growing up around magic shows, and performed one themselves.
Whereas his father started magic performances at a young age, Lon did his first show at age 38. Some of the students Lon taught at the time asked him why he didn’t do magic like Leon, and after he dreamt about performing magic that night, he performed some the next class.
“It really blew their minds because everything had worked really well,” Lon said. “They dropped a sledgehammer on me and I was doing various kinds of mental effects where you read their minds.”
He’s been performing ever since.
In 2018, Lon and his wife Linda collaborated together to write the book The Real Mandrake the Magician, a biography that describes Leon’s career through over 100 photos and text of behind the scenes stories.
18 February 2023
Fraser Valley Magic Circle award winners
Congratulations to all of the winners!
From the February 11th Instagram post by Mike Nordon:
What a fun evening at the Fraser Valley Magic Circle meeting tonight!
Hosted by Gord Boyes we held a completion called “Poo Onna Stick” (POS for short) in honour of Steve Dickson ❤️
The theme this year was ‘impersonations’
The winner was …Gord Boyes with a Naughty Mr Rogers act!
We also did our awards night and congrats to:
- Wes Barker - for winning the Showmanship Award
- Rob Teszka - for winning the Creativity Award
- Glen LaBarre for being awarded the Celeste Evans Award
- And to Gord Boyes again for being award the prestigious Presidents Award!
Plus our Appreciation Awards were awarded to:
- Donna May Boyes
- Rod Chow
- Chuck Daniel
- Camille Atebe
Thank you everyone who attended!
Next month the meeting is moved to March 3rd and will also be helped at Gord’s house!
SAM #95 award winners
Congratulations to all of the winners!
From the February 8th Facebook post by Rod Chow:
SAM #95 dinner and awards night tonight at Stefanos. Delicious dinner, wonderful company, great magic and well deserving recipients of all the different awards and recognition.
Congratulations to Simon Cassegrain and David Parker who received their SAM membership pins and certificates, Lorena Watters, who was awarded the Lottie Hemeon Award for best assistant, Rod Chow who was awarded the Leon Mandrake Award for Magical Entertainment, and Glen LaBarre who was awarded the Carl Hemeon Award of Excellence. All well deserving recipients.
Special awards of recognition was also presented to Lon Mandrake and Rod Chow by President Chris Yuill, for their years of service to the club. Rod Chow, National President of the SAM also presented a Presidential Citation to Lon Mandrake. Congratulations to everyone.
We were very fortunate to have in attendance tonight, Lon Mandrake, SAM Canadian RVP, Shawn Farquhar, Dean of SAM #95, Rod Chow, National President SAM, Billy Hsueh, International President IBM, and Chris Yuill, President of SAM #95.
17 February 2023
Winnipeg: Reveen [Feb 17]
Tickets at Casinos of Winnipeg.
From the February 13th Facebook post by Reveen The Legend Continues:
REVEEN LIVE
Feb 17th | Club Regent Event Centre | Winnipeg, MB
16 February 2023
Torino: Michel Huot at the Masters of Magic World Convention 2023 [May 11 - 14]
From the January 2nd Instagram post by Masters of Magic:
🇬🇧 DISCOVER THE CAST: Michel Huot! ✨
Even though he started magic in his twenties, Michel Huot quickly became a true professional and has been one of Montreal’s busiest corporate magicians of the past 20 years. He lectured all around the globe and his Penguin lecture is one of the underground’s best. 🚀
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