Toronto: Ryan Joyce at CPAC

Ryan Joyce will be performing at the Chinese Professionals Association of Canada's anniversary dinner on September 28th.

Ray Chance on the Coca-Cola Happiness Plane

Watch Ray Chance share his magic with passengers on Porter Airlines.

Ellusionist interviews Shawn Farquhar at sea

Watch Shawn Farquhar answer questions asked by Ellusionist forum director Adam Wilber.  In it, Shawn answers questions about creativity, how he keeps his chops fresh and exactly what made him decide to go on "Penn & Teller: Fool Us."





[h/t: iTricks]

Perfect Magic's 100th post and Bobo's Canadian connection

Congratulations Evelyn Matlin on her 100th post, over at the Perfect Magic blog.


Did you know Bobo has a Canadian connection?   I didn't.


Go read about it in her post, "What does the name J.B. Bobo mean to you?"

Toronto: David Stone lecture

From Morrissey Magic:

Saturday, September 8th


David Stone is one of the brightest rising stars in magic today, having collected an impressive number of prizes and awards from top competitions. David won the 3rd prize for Micro-Magic at FISM in Stockholm, Sweden in 2006 and was voted in April 2008 the TMW Award for Best Magician. In 2010 the FFFF convention voted David to be Guest of Honor for FFFF in 2012.


Read more.

Canadian card magicians

I received the following e-mail from reader Pepe F:

I'm doing a researching about card magic that involves the evolution and history of card magic in Canada. I'm looking for information about canadian magicians that were / are importants for the card magic worldwide.

The magicians that i'm looking information are: 

Roy Cottee

P. Howard Lyons

Ron Scharf

Mel Stover

Cliff Green

Sid Lorraine 

And any other canadian magicians that are influenced in evolution of card magic. I'm interested in other people, perhaps i don't know.

If you have information about Canadian card magicians you'd to share with Pepe (and us!) please leave a comment, e-mail me or e-mail Pepe directly at "josfemo at gmail dot com" (without the quotes).


Also from Pepe:

Last december, i started a social web related with magic, it's called magicsocial and is like facebook but for magicians, registrations are free, people can share magic videos, photos, or experiences. Is in spanish and english language. You can register and see.

http://www.magicsocial.org

Toronto: There's magic at The Ex!

There's magic at the CNE again this year!

At The Farm, Daniel Steep's is back with , Agri-Magic, an interactive magic show that educates audiences about Canadian Farming.

Majinx is back at Kids' World with Professor Wick's School of Magic and Illusion.

And Ted Outerbridge is at the Variety Stage; just west of Food Building.

This year the Ex runs from August 17th to September 3rd, 2012.  Please check the CNE's website for dates and showtimes.