I.B.M. Ring 216 meets on the second Wednesday of every month at the Yu-Ai Kai Center, 588 N. Fourth Street, San Jose, CA. This month's meeting is February 8, 2006. The theme for this month's meeting is Romance Magic. The Early Bird Workshop on "Napkin to Rose" will start at 6:30 PM and the regular meeting will follow at 7:30.

 

Amos Levkovitch Lecture 5/10/06 Sponsored by Ring 216 (more info later).

 

Our January meeting started with a “Ring & String” Beginners’ Workshop led by John Bodine. After brief announcements of several upcoming events, we went right into the performances.

Picking up on the theme of the previous workshop, Ken King performed a series of penetrations with a finger ring and a cord, ending with the magic happening right in spectators’ hands. Richard Myer tossed out a paper ball, had it tossed around the audience, and borrowed $1 bill from each person who caught the ball. He had spectators fold their bills into quarters, then bring them up to the front then had the spectators decide which bill to use - to emphasize free choice. Richard read the concealed serial number by touch, having audience members represent each of the digits as he called them out. Near the end, he had one spectator look at the bill and send the last two digits and one of the letters telepathically to the other spectator. .

Cheryl, a guest, created magic from her purse. She gave her change purse to one spectator, and various makeup items to others. Had another audience member call out a number. The spectator at that number had “vanilla lip balm,” the only item matching what was in her change purse.

David Goldberg shuffled a deck of cards, then placed a framed picture of himself on the table. A selected card (7C) was shown around to audience, then returned to deck. The chosen card appeared in the picture, on his forehead. Josh Logan introduced his girlfriend, Marielle, had spectator try to lift her with his outstretched arms. He couldn’t, but then she was able to lift him, with a little magical help.

Jeff Chiou, in his first time performing for the Ring, placed four silver half dollars on the table. Each changed to an old English penny, then when dropped into a coffee mug, all changed back to silver.

Patrick Reed performed Larry Becker’s “Will the Cards Match?” with jumbo cards cut in half.

Stefan Fisher illustrated the dangers of the Bermuda Triangle by laying out a triangle with 13 glass gems on each side. Even though he added several more gems, representing ships or planes that had ventured into the triangle, each side still only had 13 gems.

Joseph Caffall
Secretary