Please accept my sincere apologies to John Luong, Bob Brown, James Murphy and the others that performed during the intermission at our last meetings. This is a new thing we are trying and I blew it. I did not record who performed. I am sorry. Now, let’s get on with the March meeting. Bernardo Sedlacek came to Denver and he talked about the psychology and theory of performing magic. He showed us a Tantalizer trick that he adapted from Royal Road to Cards it was a mathematical trick and it was liked by all. Bernardo said that he really doesn’t get flustered when a trick goes horribly wrong while performing because they did a riffle shuffle instead of an overhand shuffle. He has always considered it a challenge to find the selected card! He performed a reverse card in box under the table so that neither he nor the spectator could see the card. When the box was opened, the card he predicted WAS reversed! He also suggested that if we need more time finding a card during a trick to ask the question a second time, that will give you more time to located the card. Another event was a field trip down to see Joe and Carol Givan’s Theatre of Dreams where four of our members performed. Melissa Neumiller, Glenn Proulx, Mark Paulson and John Walker received great feedback from our World Famous friends.
We also had our MHMS Annual Flea Market and Swap Meet. For the last three+ years, Bob LaRue and David Breth, have been working with local Filipino performers via the Angeles City Magicians Hub (see on Facebook), to improve their magic and their marketing. One of the challenges is, these performers are universally poor. The MHMS will have a donation box at the Flea Market and we will send it to the Philippines afterwards. Many magical donations were given and we also had a donation box for the Denver SYM for kid friendly magic, which will be in the library of magic we are assembling.
Ring 131 and Assembly 37 meets the second Thursday of the month at Riverpointe Senior Community 5225 S Prince St, Littleton, CO 80123. https://www.milehighmagicians.com Glenn Proulx 303-794-5208, glennproulx@gmail.com