Sept. 26: Lecture from Rafael Benatar

Professional Magic Lecture by Rafael Benatar
Thursday, September 26 (off-meeting night)
7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Yu Ai Kai Center, 588 North First Street, San Jose, CA
Member Price: $15 / Non-member Price: $25

About the Lecture
Rafael’s lecture will include commercial and practical items from his working repertoire, including card magic for the stage as well as for the table, coin magic, and his latest update on his well-known cups and balls, with new insight on this classic. His explanations will be full of practical advice that can help raise the level of all the magic you do, such as scripting, management, and handling of volunteers.

About Rafael
Rafael Benatar was born in Venezuela and currently lives in Spain. He is one of the most active members of the prestigious Escuela Mágica de Madrid and one of the few magicians that performs regularly in all three rooms of the Magic Castle.

Rafael Benatar is a recipient of the Linking Ring Parade of the Year award from the IBM. His DVDs received rave reviews from all major magic magazines.

He has lectured extensively, in five languages, for magicians of many countries and this year was nominated by the Academy of Magical Arts for the Lecturer of the Year Award.

Magic Workshop with Rafael Benatar
Saturday, September 28
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Price: $50/Person (member or non-member), Minimum 6 attendees

To sign up for the workshop, email Raahul Srinivasan: raahuls@gmail.com

About the Workshop

Learn it, but learn it well! A card workshop with Rafael Benatar

In this hands-on workshop, Rafael Benatar will teach, with personalized attention, the finer points of some of his best card routines and original sleights, and his approach to card magic. His teachings will include advice on routining, on how to develop an appealing presentation, and systems to get the most out of your practice time. The workshop will be customized to suit the wishes of the attendants and the subjects covered will help you raise your magic to the next level.

Coming up: Lecture and Open Performance

Coming this week: IBM Ring 216’s September Lecture by… Alan Sands (son of the great George Sands, AKA the Rope King).

Join us for Alan’s rope magic lecture: Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM

FREE to all IBM Ring 216 members

Yu-Ai Kai Community Center, 588 North 4th Street, San Jose, CA

Lecture to be followed by open performance

Walk-Around Competition Winners...

With over 20 folks at the Ring 216 club meeting this past Wednesday (not bad considering it conflicted with Magic Live!), we had a wonderful walk around competition.

4 competitors (Patrick Reed, Vikram Singh, David Martinez, and John Jones) amazed the audience with their strolling magical routines. While Raahul and I tabulated the ballots, magicians performed for the laypeople who attended the event. For the first time at Ring 216 (that I know of), the competition resulted in 2 first place winners.

Congrats to David Martinez and John Jones for their first place awards!

Cal Tong
President
IBM Ring 216

August meeting: Walk-Around Magic Competition

Join us on Wednesday, August 14, 2013, for the IBM Ring 216 Annual Walk-Around Magic Competition.

If you are interested in competing, please send an email to Cal Tong (calvin.tong@ring216.org). In addition to the standard division, we will also have our Masters Division if there are enough competitors. So if you have won first place in one of the competition events in previous years, then you qualify for the master's division and can sign up for this event!

Bring your friends or family with you to enjoy an evening of great magic. The more people we have, the better the magic.

Read the competition rules.

Upcoming Meeting: Mystery Bag Magic

This month, at our regular meeting on Wednesday, July 10, we have something special planned for all of you! That's right, back by popular demand, our:

"Mystery Bag Magic Spectacular!"

If you missed this last year, you owe it to yourself to be there for the fun this year. And if you were there last year, you will remember what a blast it was! Our Treasurer, Will Chandler, is putting together bags containing magic apparatus, comedy props, and a few surprises. Like last year, we will divide up into teams, and each team will receive a "Mystery Bag of Magic". Then each team will prepare a "mini-magic show" for the club members using the props in the bag. And after we've had some time to prepare and rehearse, we will perform for each other. There won't be any pressure - this isn't a competition. It's just an opportunity to enjoy the creativity and magical skill of your fellow IBM members, and to showcase your own.

Last year the level of performances was outstanding. Many of us did things we didn't think we could do, and all of us enjoyed watching our friends display their magic. If you love magic as a performing art, as I'm sure we all do, you won't want to miss this opportunity to have fun with "Mystery Bag Magic".

Our meeting begins at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, July 10, at the Yu Ai Kai center in downtown San Jose. We meet on the third floor.