Mike Powers has been creating and performing magic for over 30 years. Mike is the author of four books on sleight of hand magic – Powerful Magic (1983), Top Secret Stuff (1990), Power Plays (2006) and Tesseract (2019). Power Plays was voted book of the year on the Magic Café and was runner up on Magic Industry Awards. His creations have appeared in all the major magazines as well as in Paul Harris’ “A Close Up Kinda Guy.”

Mike has performed for many years as a close-up magician with much experience in restaurant work. He has also been an invited performer at the famous Magic Castle in Hollywood and has lectured and worked at magic conventions and clubs all over the U.S., Canada and around the world. Mike currently writes the “Card Corner” column The Linking Ring. In 2019 Mike will be the guest of honor at the prestigious Fechter’s Finger Flicking Frolic.

Mike’s “Tesseract” lecture involves mostly close-up magic with cards, coins, rubber bands, rings and other ordinary objects, although a couple of items are suitable for platform and stage. Most of the material is accessible to the average magician but there might be a “move monkey” item or two as well.

05:01 – Intro
06:32 – Council Update – Mark Shortland
09:47 – Rabbit & Revelation – MYSTERY GUEST
16:33 – Members’ Musings – David Wood – Kids magic
29:06 – Members Magic – Matthew Garrett – Linking rings
38:21 – Members Musings – Dale Salwak
56:40 – The Vault – Cannon and Ball
01:03:31 – Final bits

Join us for a Speed Quiz, hosted by Stu Turner.

A real mixture of questions, including pictures, music, an observation round, and of course plenty of magic stuff!

Intro
Council Updates
Members Musings – Will Huston / Matt Field
Craft Corner – Napkin elf boot – Megumi
Members magic – Alan Hudson
Craft corner – Optical Illusions 2 – Matt Pritchard
Craft corner – Card box – Maria Cork
The Vault – David and Dania
Final bits

Come and join us on 21st December for ‘Misdirection Detection’ a Christmas panel show special! 🎅🏻🎄

Join us on the Zoom call of the year! Where Two teams of Magicians will be battling it out to determine who is best at hiding truths and telling lies!

Watch as the teams attempt to separate facts from fiction like oil and water, and who will have yet another reason to put ‘award winning’ on their website.

The talented Mark James should be well known to all members of The Magic Circle. His updated Zoom lecture will be about different genres of magic. He will talk about: Chop Cup, Silk to Egg, Billiard Balls, Ten Cards to Pocket, Q&A, Utility Envelopes, Multiplying Bottles, Blindfold Book Test and more. Whether you do Stage Magic, Parlour Magic or Close up Magic, you should definitely find something of interest in his lecture.

05:01 – Intro
06:21 – Rabbit & Revelations – Magic Singh
11:57 – Members magic – Bob King – Topical wild card routine
15:55 – Flourish – Darren Delaney – New years resolutions
19:15 – Craft Corner – Steve Rowe – Gaffa tape deck holder
27:34 – Members’ Musings – Andrew Van Buren – Reminiscing about Robert Harbin
45:04 – Creativity – Andy Stone – Augmented Reality
47:45 – The Vault – TMC at Chenies Mews
01:00:02 – Final Bits

05:01 – Intro
08:28 – Council updates – Megan Knowles-Bacon
11:13 – Members magic – Steel ball and tube – Bruce Smith
25:29 – Book it – Jon Allen
31:13 – Magic history – Side show illusions – Jon Marshall
46:16 – The Circular – Matthew Le Mottée
01:01:07 – The Vault – Linking rings – Ken Brooke
01:07:10 – Final Bits

Magician and Variety Artist Carisa Hendrix is a 8-time Award-Winning Entertainer featured in the Guinness Book of World Records (2014), Ripley’s Believe it or Not (2015) and the star of the Super Channel documentary Carisa Hendrix: Girl on Fire, which tells the true story behind her 2016 Las Vegas magic show. Recipient of the prestigious Allan Slaight award and recently nominated for Stage Magician of the Year at the Magic Castle, Hendrix is best known for her beloved comedy magic character Lucy Darling. With Lucy and a host of her other characters, Hendrix has been delighting audiences internationally for the past 16 years with her signature blend of classy, sassy comedy entertainment.

Hendrix is also the co-host of the Shezam Podcast, a weekly feminist podcast about the world of magic and variety entertainment.

In this lecture on close-up magic, Josh will cover some of his work using phones, bank notes, and more, along with some brand new, never-before-seen pieces. Additionally, Josh will peel back the curtain on the tools he uses to create the gaffs and gimmicks that have become his signature visual style. You’ll walk away learning magic that is both visual and highly practical.

“Josh thinks outside of the warehouse where they make all the boxes. His patience in pursuing paths that most would give up on is something that we magicians can all benefit from.” – Garrett Thomas