PEORIA
MAGICIANS ASSEMBLY
IBM RING 48 - SAM ASSEMBLY 51 -
PEORIA, IL
JULY 2003
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NO JULY MEETING!
NEXT MEETING:
P.M.A. Picnic in August – Date and Location To Be Announced!!!
The Peoria Magicians Assembly meets the
first Friday of each month at West Bluff Christian Church, 2018 W. Kellogg St., West Peoria, IL. Guests of all ages,
interested in the performing art of magic, are invited to attend our meetings
at no charge. Please refer to this site for current meeting
information. For more information about the PMA, please send e-mail to: [email protected]. For
directions, see below. For a map, go to: www.mapquest.com and enter the
address: 2018 W. Kellogg St., West Peoria, IL.
Last
Meeting:
Friday June 6, 2003
We briefly discussed the May 3 Magic
Get-Together and its success. A date was
set for the picnic on August 2. Upcoming
lecture proposals were discussed with a proposed lecture to be announced for
October. Grant Golden demonstrated an
original adaptation of a mentalism effect for children’s shows for summer
reading programs at libraries. The theme
for this year is relates movies and reading.
Names of well-known children’s movies were used and included on jumbo
laminated cards with five movies on each side of five cards. A movie title was mentally chosen on one of
the five cards. From the reverse sides
of the five cards, the spectator is asked which card includes the thought of
movie and the movie title is revealed.
Ideas for a humorous quiz (a,b,c,d choices)
about the movies were discussed. Paul
Buob presented the Get-Together video of Tony Mitchell’s fish bowl production
and Zombie routine and Jon Gallagher’s close-up sponge ball and cups and balls
routine. Both were in attendance to see
their performances on tape. After much
discussion about the video highlights, those in attendance mingled around
outside on a warm June night for more magic talk with their friends.
2003 Central Illinois Magic
Get-Together - Saturday, May 3, 2003
On Friday, May 2, Robert Bengel, from the Atlanta area, presented an excellent workshop
on card locations and coins attended by over 20 close-up enthusiasts and Bengel fans. Robert
offered several anecdotes from his experiences performing at trade shows and
allowed each person attending to ask for a demonstration of various coin
sleights.
On Saturday, May 3, over 50 people
attended the day’s events at Lakeview Museum including
lectures by Robin Walker, John Rogers, Robert Bengel
and Dan Garrett. The close-up show
included Jon Gallagher, John Rogers and Robert Bengel. The evening show was very entertaining with a
large walk-up public audience of over 200.
Highlights included Mike Stratman, IBM
President performing Sidewalk Shuffle, Rick Fisher’s hilarious huge bunny vent
act, Greg Loschen’s CD and card manipulation act and
illusions by Chezaday. Chezaday also
performed a cute restored tennis sneaker effect with David Taylor’s young son
Bennett.
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Directions to
West Bluff Christian Church: Take I-74 to Peoria, exit at University St. South (Bradley University) Exit 91A. Take University St. to the second stoplight. Turn right on to Main St. at Avanti's
Restaurant. Go past the overhead
stoplight at Bradley Field House on the left and past the next stoplight at
Bradley Park on the right. Two blocks further, Main St. curves left and continues
on to Western Ave. Go past the two
stoplights on the right at Hardee's and
McDonald's. Go two more blocks, past the Kentucky Fried Chicken on the right
and before the auto parts store. Turn
right (west) onto Kellogg St. Go one block and park in back of the
church. We meet in the basement.
THANKS
FOR VISITING. PLEASE COME BACK!