The Forth Valley Magic Circle was formed in 1978. The early meetings were held in Woodlands High School, Falkirk. The Circle later moved to Grahamstone United, Boys Club, Thornhill Road, Falkirk. The original members included: Eric McDonald, Jim Wilson and Michael Breck.
I’m sure that anyone who attended the lecture last week will agree that it was one of the best we’ve had at the club. Here are some pictures from the night. Our thanks to all who attended and of course to Etienne himself.
Etienne Pradier will be lecturing as a guest of Forth Valley Magic Circle on the 8th February 2010 at the Station Hotel, 2 Foundry Loan, Larbert, FK5 4AW.
Born in France, Etienne became fascinated by magic at an early age and rapidly made a name for himself as a truly gifted close-up magician that was assured to be “going somewhere.” And he did … twice! He moved to England and achieved international recognition as one of the world’s finest close-up table magicians. After only 3 years as a member of the elite ‘Magic Circle’, he was invited to take membership of the ‘Inner Magic Circle, with Gold Star’ in recognition of his excellence as a professional magician. Uniquely skilled, creative, charismatic and immensely entertaining, Etienne Pradier is now one of the UK’s most successful London UK based magicians.
The lecture will begin at 7.45pm (we would advise you to arrive early to get a good seat). Non-members will be charged an entry fee of £10.
On Wednesday 11th November our very own President Peter Kinney was invited to judge the Scottish Conjurors Association competition. Here is Pete’s report.
Last Wednesday, I was invited along to the Scottish Conjuror’s Association to judge their club competition. It was a great night and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There were five acts on. Three of the acts routines were geared towards family entertainment, very similar to our own Tryst routines. For example; we had needles going through balloons without bursting the balloon and a live rabbit appearing from a large pot. The next act was a card routine, where four Aces disappeared from four separate piles of cards only to reappear together in the final pile. We also nearly saw a ten pound note levitate! I say nearly because the magic just didn’t quick work on that one, but he assured us it usually did work. To be fair, he did manage to make it levitate later on.
The final act was a mentalist. No not Patrick Jayne. He did a couple of very nice mind reading effects were he managed to tell who drew what figure, just from looking at it. His final routine involved members of the audience, who chose certain pages, columns and lines to determine a name of a person in the telephone directory. Then with the help of someone from the audience, he managed to pick up on the information this person was sending o him, to successfully tell the person’s; name, address and telephone number!
On the whole, a great night, with great entertainment from the five acts, and I would like to thank the Scottish Conjurors Association for their kind invitation to judge the competition.
Our thanks again to club member Kenny Mullan for providing these pictures of last nights competition.
Our thanks to member Kenny Mullan for providing these shots of this years Tricks at the Tryst Show.
Congratulations to all the participants in last nights Forth Valley Magic Circle Competition. The turnout was exceptional with 8 members performing on the night. The winner of the McDonald Cup was Colin Mackenzie (above being presented with the cup by SAMS president George Colvan). Second place was Geoff Todd and third place was taken by our very own President, Peter Kinney.
Our thanks go to the judges for taking time out to mark the acts. Special thanks must go to SAMS President George Colvan and especially to Janet Colvan who acted as assistant for most of the acts.
Forth Valley Magic Circle are proud to announce that our website now has an interface especially designed for mobile users.
To access the site simply point the browser on your mobile phone at the usual site address http://www.forthvalleymagic.co.uk and you will see the mobile specific site. At Forth Valley Magic we try to keep you up to date with not only our latest club news but also news from the Scottish Magic scene. So now you can keep up to date on the move too using your Android, Blackberry or iPhone.
