One of the casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that magic clubs have not been able to meet in their clubrooms.
Hopefully this will start to change as other indoor venues, with appropriate social distancing measures in place, have started to open up again, and I see no reason why magic societies couldn’t recommence as well. Continue reading “Magic Clubs Are Not Just For Magic”
I had an email out of the blue recently from an overseas magic club asking me whether I would be interested in providing them with a Zoom lecture as part of one of their weekly virtual meetings. Although it wasn’t a full length lecture they required it was still about 40 minutes.
I replied that I would be happy to put together a varied selection of my close up ideas to present to the members and I offered to do it for a reduced lecture fee, given that my normal lectures run for up to 2 hours. Continue reading “The Price Of A Zoom Magic Lecture”
It seems to me that having an ability to assess your audience can be a very helpful attribute. By this I mean that when you are interacting with them, it pays you to try and judge, from the way they react to what you say and do, where they are in terms of their intellect and range of interest.
For instance, when I take my lecture round to various magic clubs, as I do every year, the blend of knowledge, experience and understanding can vary hugely from one society to the next.
As I write this blog in mid-April I am about to embark on a two week trip to the States where I will be presenting 6 lectures in 8 days at different venues on the east side of the country, and then finish by attending the incomparable 4Fs Close Up Convention.
When you have overseas lecturers visiting your club and you are sitting at home and wondering whether you are going to make the effort to turn up to listen to him, have you ever stopped for a minute to consider what that person has had to go through in order to be there in your clubroom?
Continue reading “The Trials And Tribulations Of Lecturing Overseas”
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