Canada's Magic

23 February 2023

Scotland: Shazam! at Flux [Mar 3]

From the February 17th Instagram post by Fluxbrews:

SHAZAM AT FLUX: A magic & mind reading experience / MAR 3

Join us for a mind bending night of magic and mentalism featuring 3 incredible performers💥👇

@awesomemikemagic “10x Guinness world record holder”
@rehandcrafted “Canada’s top mentalist”
@graemazing - “Level 7 Wizard”

The show is on Friday March 3 from 7:30-9pm. Tickets are 25 bucks which includes the show and your first beer.

There are limited spots available, hit the link in our bio to secure your tickets!

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22 February 2023

Sleightly Sketchy: Introducing Tricky Sticky

A new theme in this occasional series of sleightly sketchy thoughts.

Introducing Tricky Sticky!

Can you identify the stick figure magician?
Get a new clue in each of the following images!
Were you right? Leave a comment with the number of clues you needed!

Here we go!

Clue 1

Clue 2

Clue 3 (final)

Spoiler alert!

Answer:

Were you right? Leave a comment with the number of clues you needed!

21 February 2023

Richmond Hill: Dave Curran [Feb 25]

From the February 16th Facebook post by Dave Curran:

I'll be on stage at Jokers Theatre & Comedy Club on Saturday February 25th. Tickets are on sale now!

20 February 2023

Ontario: Keith Brown [Feb 24, Mar 4, 18, 24, 25, May 10]

From the February 15th Tweet by Keith Brown:

Upcoming Shows!

Lots happening in the next couple months.

Full list here: https://t.co/FAByz8EBmm pic.twitter.com/nUxoIkoeAb
— Keith Brown (@KeithHBrown) February 15, 2023

19 February 2023

Penn and Teller: Fool Us casting for season 10

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!!!

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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.
Read more.

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!