OCTOBER 2008
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Peoria Magicians Assembly meetings are held on the 3rd Monday of
the month at Bergner’s, second floor meeting room, in Sheridan Village in
Peoria. Please visit the Web site for
current information. Guests are
welcomed at no charge for a limited number of visits. Membership is available for $20 per year and
is prorated. Click here for more information.
This Month:
October Meeting
– 3rd Monday, October 20 at Bergner’s in
Magic that is spooky in nature.
Illinois Central College, East Peoria, Saturday, October 25, 7:30
p.m., Performing Arts Center
The Magic of Bill
Blagg III www.billblagg.com
To order tickets or for more information, phone the
Adults $16, Seniors/Students
$13
Call ahead for best
seats as seats may not be available at showtime.
Jonathon Neal
Brown and Liane and Joel Ward (www.joelward.com)
www.facemakersincorporated.com/theatre/upcoming.html
St. George Center for the Arts
88 Chicago Ave., Savannah, IL (near the Quad Cities)
October 10, 11, 12
$20 and $25
adults/$15 youth under 19
Info: (815)
273-3900 or 273-7262
This looks to be a great show back by popular demand from May! Please
visit the Web site for more information. You Tube video
Last Month:
September
Meeting, Monday, September 15, 2008
This
month’s meeting focused on magic that was black or white or with color as part
of the magic or props. Grant Golden performed a routine called “A Grave
Mistake” where a large paper depicts a black and white illustration of a very
expensive casket. Expressing that it is just not affordable, the paper is
folded inward to show the next most expensive model which is still not
affordable. The paper is folded again showing another model which is also not
affordable. Finally, the paper is folded inward, showing the affordable
choice to be, a garbage can. Grant also performed a nice routine
with a set of black Chinese Sticks where, when the yellow tissel is pulled, the
tassle goes up and vice versa. Carl Niebuhr showed an entertaining
routine with a crystal silk cylinder where several colored silks were placed
into a clear tube and covered producing a tube full of colorful wrapped bubble
gum. Greg Joyce mentioned the powerful black hole effect in
outer space where objects that get too close get sucked in never to be seen
again. He then showed the more powerful “black
rectangle,” which can catch rays of light. Greg
showed a large black rectangle silk and then produced from it “the
rays of light” (a long rainbow colored streamer). Then Greg asked for a
volunteer to catch the rays while holding up the black silk between his
hands. He then rendered the rainbow streamer invisible and threw it in
back into the black silk where it was “caught” by the volunteer.
Club Picnic – Sunday, September 7, 2008,
The
club and family members joined together for a potluck dinner including fried
chicken, beverages, beans, brownies, pies and other good stuff.
Afterwards, a video of the club show in April was shown on a makeshift screen
(a white sheet) using a projector. Featured was Gordon Snow’s routine
with a young man from the audience aiming a magical wand at the deck of jumbo
cards on the table trying to make the chosen card jump out. In the
Sidekick routine, the lad misses the deck only to shoot a rose out of a vase on
the table, causes the table skirting to come undone, and causes the flap of the
table to come down revealing the jumbo card with the incorrect card. With
the wave of the wand, Gordon fixes everything and the card changes to the
correct one.
Dealer Show by Harry Allen of Daytona Magic (www.daytonamagic.com) - Tuesday,
September 23, 7 p.m., Pekin Holiday Inn
Express
Harry
brought in a lot of magic spread out over several tables and performed and
demo’d quite a bit. It was a fun evening of magic. Please visit the
Web site as it is one of the best organized magic shop sites in the country.
Coming Up:
November Meeting
– 3rd Monday, November 17 at Bergner’s in
Magic on
TV this month:
MAGIC'S
BIGGEST SECRETS FINALLY REVEALED (my network TV)
Mondays,
starting October 6, 8-9 p.m., my network TV (
Scheduled is the frozen in a block of ice stunt.
The Mentalist on Tuesdays from 8-9 p.m. on CBS.
Criss Angel continues on Wednesdays on A&E from 9-11 p.m. and 1-3 a.m.
The Central Illinois Magic Get-Together is scheduled for
downtown
Club dues are $20.00 for 2008. Dues are payable to: PMA, c/o Jerry Tupper,
2029 W. Rohmann Ave., West Peoria, IL, 61604 for the 2008 calendar year. For new members, club dues are prorated for
the remaining months of the current year.
For questions regarding club dues, please e-mail Jerry at [email protected].
MAGIC LINKS Click here for MAGIC
LINKS An extensive list of several magic categories, including magic
supplies, magic effects and magicians.
MAGIC
ON TV: www.tvmagicguide.com
For current weekly
magic shows, please visit www.tvmagicguide.com.
MAGIC
NEWS: www.magictimes.com
MAGIC WEEKLY: www.allmagic.com Includes new magic effects each week you can learn, magic
dealers, events, videos, etc.
MAGIC VIDEO CLIPS: www.magicvideodepot.com
MAGIC CHAT: www.themagiccafe.com
WEB SITES OF THE MONTH
www.magicclassroom.com The Magic Classroom
www.MagicalChicago.com Chicago
Magic
www.themagiciansite.com St. Louis Magic
www.quadcitiesmagicclub.org Quad Cities Magic
www.josephyoungmagic.com Joseph
Young (Rubik’s Cube Magic)
The Rubik's Cube Act The
Entertainer Act The Money
Act
www.magicsterling.com Sterling Magic
(Sterling Dietz, one of the top U.S. teen magicians)
www.mallusionist.com Parody of
Ellusionist.com
www.magicproshop.com Magic Pro Shop (Street
Magic)
www.newmagicsource.com New Magic Source
(Street Magic)
Please feel free to send your favorite magic Web sites to: [email protected]. One or more will be
included with future newsletters when available.
Society of American Magicians www.magicsam.com
International Brotherhood of Magicians www.magician.org
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