Toronto: Chung & Slim lecture [Feb 20]

From IBM Ring 17:

Chung has been a magician for over two decades with a love for close-up and cards. Though he's mostly stayed out of the spotlight, he has played a big part in crafting the Montreal magic scene into what it is today.

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Slim is the founder of the Slim Card Co. In 2012, after meeting with a retired Las Vegas hustler who showed him the works on card trimming, he started making gaff playing cards and dice for magicians who needed that little extra special for their performances.

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Their work has appeared in the UK magazine Operandi, and they were both featured in Issue 1 of Conundrum.

You won't want to miss this one. As we were organizing this event, Chung said to us recently, “I don't want to give full details because like a magic show, we like to build a little mystery into the thing.” Shhhhhhhh!

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Rounding the Western rings in February 2025

Updated February 19th to add:

• Calgary's meeting will be a lecture from Ryan Lackey.
   

 

Confirm details about dates and locations by visiting each club's website.

City	Club	Event(s)
Calgary, AB	Ring 66 (Calgary Magic Circle, Les Brocklesby Ring)	- Ryan Lackey lecture.
Edmonton, AB	Edmonton Magic Club	- N/A.
Winnipeg, MB	The Magic Club of Winnipeg	- SYM.
Fraser Valley, BC	IBM Ring 387 (Fraser Valley Magic Circle, Celeste Evans Ring)	- N/A.
Vancouver, BC	Ring 92 (Vancouver Magic Circle)	- N/A.
Vancouver, BC	SAM 95  (Carl Hemeon Assembly)	- Annual dinner.
Victoria, BC	Ring 183 (Victoria Magic Circle)	- N/A

Please leave a comment to let us know about corrections or omissions.

 

 

 

 

 

Rounding the Central rings in February 2025

Confirm details about dates and locations by visiting each club's website. 

Montreal, QC	Montreal Magic Jam	- Mario Diamond workshop.
Montreal, QC	Ring 62 (20th Century Ring)	- N/A.
Hamilton, ON	Ring 49 (The Doug Henning Magic Wand Club)	- Symposium Ancaster. - Teach and perform restaurant table magic.
Hamilton / Burlington, ON	Hamilton Burlington Magic Society	- N/A.
London, ON	Ring 265 (London Magician's Guild)	- Levitations. (incl. floating hank with Scott Hood)
Kitchener, ON	Ring 235 (KW Magic Society)	- N/A.
Ottawa, ON	Ring 151 (Ottawa Society of Magicians)	- N/A.
Ottawa, ON	Ottawa / Gatineau magicians	- N/A
Toronto, ON	Ring 17 (Sid Lorraine Hat and Rabbit Club)	- Chung and Slim lecture

Please leave a comment to let us know about corrections or omissions.

 

 

 

 

Rounding the Eastern rings in February 2025

Confirm details about dates and locations by visiting each club's website.

Halifax, NS	Ring 316 (Conjourer's Court)	- Visit their Facebook page.
St. John, NB	Magic Circle of St. John	- Math magic!

Please leave a comment or email me about corrections or omissions.

 

 

 

 

 

Calgary: Wit & Wizardry with Ryan Pilling and Lori Gibbs [Feb 19]

Tickets at Magic Tickets.

 

From the January 27th Facebook post by Ryan Pilling:

Here's the deal, you can show up at the next Wit & Wizardry - Comedy Magic Cabaret in a dreadful mood. You can grumble about our free parking, use bad language with our box office volunteer, and be a right miserable bugger. I'll allow it this time, because I'm about to release the secret weapon...

 

 

[Previously shared at Canada's Magic Facebook page on January 28.]

 

 

 

London and Tillsonburg: Peter Mennie in Love Old East Village [Feb 14] and Tillsonburg Family Day [Feb 17]

From the January 31st Instagram post by Peter Mennie:

Join us as we celebrate London's Old East Village on Friday, February 14th, at the Palace Theatre.

 

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A post shared by Peter Mennie, That Magic Guy (@magicianpetermennie)

 

 

From the January 22nd Facebook post by the Old East Village BIA:

Love is in the Air… Let’s Celebrate!

LOVE OEV is all about celebrating community, creativity, and connection in Old East Village (OEV).

In partnership with the Palace Theatre, the Old East Village Business Improvement Area (BIA) invites you to join your neighbours for an unforgettable evening of local talent, fun, and fundraising for the OEV BIA.

 

 

 

As of time of posting, Peter is scheduled to perform at 9:30 and 10:30 on February 17th in Tillsonburg. 

From the February 5th Facebook post by the Town of Tillsonburg:

Family Day is coming on February 17--and that means free fun at both Annandale National Historic Site and the Tillsonburg Community Centre. 

Get all the event details including scheduled activities at www.tillsonburg.ca/familyday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Henry Box Brown in depth at the CBC (including Toronto laneway named in remembrance)

Updated February 12th to add:

• If you didn't already know, you can listen to the podcast referenced below using the CBC Listen app available at the App Store and Google Play.

 

Learn more about the CBC Ideas Podcast about Henry Box Brown at the bottom of the post.  
[with thanks to Jeff Evason for letting us know!]

 

From the February 4th article "How Henry Box Brown escaped slavery in a box and became a subversive magician" by Lisa Godfrey in the CBC:

Henry Box Brown eventually returned to the United States, more than a decade after abolition in 1865. He brought his second wife and children, who joined him onstage, and sang with him.

He made his home base in Canada: briefly in London, Ontario, and then settling in Toronto. It was here, Cutter discovered, that he died and was buried in 1897.

Three Toronto residents — history advocates Coralina Lemos, Adam Wynne, and Pancheta Barnett — recently worked together to have a laneway named for him, behind a house he lived in on Bright Street in the Corktown neighbourhood east of downtown. 

Read more.

 

 

From the February 3rd CBC Listen Ideas episode "The Amazing Henry Box Brown: From Fugitive Slave to Ingenious Entertainer" with Nahlah Ayed:

Enslaved in 1840s Virginia, Henry Brown has himself nailed into a postal crate and mailed to a free state. But that’s less than half his story. In freedom, he becomes Henry Box Brown, and uses his escape box as the basis for a subversive magic act that sees him tour the stages of the UK and Canada — his final home. 

Read more and listen to the podcast.