magic is about honesty
everything here is true
except for the bits I made up
Last night at Suite 114, we had our first Magic & Martini of the New Year. Thank you to everyone who attended. Here are a few photos courtesy of Ivan “The Witch” Bekcic.
For our upcoming shows, readers can use the secret code olive for a discount on the price of tickets when reserving online.
Design by Kurt Firla
It’s been an extremely busy holiday season; lots of parties and great magic to share. We’re thrilled to announce that our dates for Magic & Martini in January have sold out. There are dates for February currently available. Readers can use the code olive for a discount on tickets purchased online.
For those who have requested, we’ve also added the ability to buy gift certificates for tickets to the show. It’s always possible to buy tickets to the show and just put them in someone else’s name, however if you would like to give the gift of magic, but don’t want to commit them to a particular date, you can purchase vouchers that don’t expire and can be redeemed for any future show provided we have tickets remaining that night. You can use the link below:
Last week, I took part in a special year-end show put on by The Toronto Magic Company to celebrate the holidays and the end of another season of their open mic show, The Newest Trick In The Book. Over twelve magicians appeared including Marc Correia, Keith Brown, Jonah Babins, Ben Train, James Harrison, Ryan Brown, Glenn West, Chris Mayhew, Leigh Beadon and Edward Gabreal.
I got a few photos of myself courtesey of David J. Fulde.
(L to R) Mark Correia, James Harrison, James Alan, Glenn West, Jonah Babins, Ben Train, Keith Brown, Edward Gabreal, Chris Mayhew, Ryan Brown, Leigh Beadon
I’ll be making one last public appearance before the end of the year. The Toronto Magic Company is putting on a free event at See Scape, The Show Before the Snow. I’ll be appearing along with nine or ten other magicians and free food has been promised.
The show is free to attend, but there is limited space, so you can reserve tickets at the link below.
The Show Before The Snow
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
8:00 PM
See Scape
347 Keele Street (@Dundas)
A last-minute public appearance. I’ll be appearing on The Art of Magic along with Ben Train, Jonah Babins and The Sentamentalists. This is the fifth show in the series and all of the previous shows have sold out. So if you’re in Toronto, please join us for a night of magic & mindreading.
On Tuesday night, I gave an impromptu performance at The Newest Trick In The Book, put on by the Toronto Magic Company and hosted by the charming Jonah Babins. I had just come from another event and had been asked to step in for another performer who couldn’t make it. You can see photos from the event from David Fulde here).
Toronto’s magic video elf Chris Mayhew shared the video of that performance:
The Endless Chain is an old crooked gambling game. As Whit Hayden and Chef Anton described in their monograph on the subject, the most difficult thing to do while presenting the Chain is to convince people that it’s actually possible to win.
Normally it’s presented as a piece of close-up magic (and you can imagine it would be much clearer if you could be sitting around watching the chain from above). But from the composition of the rest of the show, which was heavy on card magic, I opted to switch to this, literally on the walk up as I was being introduced. But it felt true to the rules of the Newest Trick as it’s something I’ve never performed in that setting before.
