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James Alan

We've just added 175 performances to our online archive The Screening Room from Juan Tamariz' 1992-93 series Chan-tatachán . There are performances by Gaëtan Bloom, René Lavand, David Williamson, Ricky Jay, Jeff McBride, Norm Nielsen, The Great Tomsoni & Co., John Gaughan, Finn Jon, Mac King, Th...

James Alan

Bob Farmer wrote:I just received my copy, or rather copies, since there are two massive volumes. It took three Fedex drivers and four mules to haul it out of the truck and up to my house. This has got to be the bargain of the century.

I hope you remembered to tip the mules.

James Alan

We've posted a copy of the oft-pirated 1999 film Dai Vernon: The Spirit of Magic to the Screening Room. The film was directed by Daniel Zuckerbrot and narrated by Patrick Watson and includes interviews with Max Maven, Persi Diaconis, Ricky Jay, Herb Zarrow, John Carney, Steve Freeman and his childre...

James Alan

In the 1970s, Larry Thornton recorded magicians in his hometown of Calgary and at several magic conventions across North America. For the past year, Magicana has been digitizing and organizing his collection and those performance are now available as part of our Screening Room including performances...

James Alan

On May 27, 2017, as part of the closing events of the 44th Magic Collectors Weekend in Montreal , we presented this year's Allan Slaight Awards. The Allan Slaight Awards were instituted by the Slaight Family Foundation to honour Allan Slaight, a media mogul and philanthropist with a lifelong passion...

James Alan

There will be a memorial this Saturday in Toronto:
http://www.magicana.com/news/blog/suley-fattah-memorial

James Alan

With great sadness, we report the passing of Suley Fattah, beloved husband of Julie Eng. Suley passed away earlier today due to complications from a heart attack. He died peacefully at Toronto General Hospital surrounded by his family. Suley was a long-time associate of David Ben and Magicana where ...

James Alan

Nominations are now being accepted for work completed in 2016 for the Allan Slaight Awards. Each year the ASA awards a total of $50,000 recognizing outstanding achievements in the pursuit of the impossible across five different categories: Sharing Wonder ($15,000) recognizes exceptional magic perfor...

James Alan

Magicana is pleased to announce the Lyons Den, a new column of commentary and reviews by Jamy Ian Swiss. Jamy Ian Swiss is considered one of the most insightful, frank and honest critics in the history of magic. He is also recognized as one of the premier sleight-of-hand artists in the world today a...

James Alan

There are just over two weeks left to submit a nomination. We welcome submissions for all five categories from anywhere in the world. We've already received nominations from nearly every continent (still waiting on Antartica). If you know someone whose magic has had a big impact, please let us know ...

James Alan

Brad Jeffers wrote:Seriously, if someone has his address I would love to send him one of these.

It's on the website (http://www.magicana.com)

And if anyone missed the boat, we will have extra hair collectibles for those who would still like to make a donation

James Alan

Between the Canadian and US donations, he just passed $150,000. There's just over a week to go. He's so excited, he's doing colour changes

Richard - your suggestion seems to be getting some traction. How many curls can we put you down for?

James Alan

David posted a review/analysis of Cowboys Full - The Story of Poker by James McManus
(McManus' first book, an NYTimes Bestseller, Positively Fifth Street told the story of his fifth place finish at the world poker series.)

Read the Article.

James Alan

Continuing his trip through England, Sid meets Will Goldston and shows him a thing or two in Smoking Goldston.

James Alan

The Secret is Out! Magicana has been working closely with Luminato to bring four of the worlds master magicians Juan Tamariz , Mac King , Max Maven and Bob Sheets - to Toronto as part of the Festival. What a wonderful opportunity, particularly for the public who now has the chance to see these four ...

James Alan

David Ben posted some background on how this font came to be in It's Amazing.

James Alan

New information about the convention has been posted here:
http://magicol.wordpress.com/

There's information about the schedule for Thursday afternoon/evening and important food announcements... yum.

James Alan

The English always have the coolest names for places!

Follow Sid through Peckham and Lower Tooting and hear about the Ornum in Leadership by Leat. (Harry Leat)

James Alan

Now back to his regularly scheduled blogging with Igniting the Imagination.

James Alan

The tour is off to a great start. Received some terrific feedback from Vancouver: Jason England's lecture here in Vancouver was very well received. His reputation preceded him and he succeeded in impressing every member of the audience with his skills and personality. I have to say he was quite amaz...

James Alan

New updates about the convention schedule are up at the
MCA Blog

James Alan

After a small break, Tricks & Tweets is back.

David was briefly distracted by Olympic Hockey and few other winter events but he's back.

Read Keeping your cool.

James Alan

Sid is honoured with special performances from Owen Clark

You can also click through to read the cover story on Owen Clark from the June, 1904 issue of Staynon's Magic.

James Alan

Magicana has announced the winner of the first Tony Eng Youth Fund CAM Contest . The winner, and her parent, will receive a free trip to the 2010 CAM Convention including registration, hotel and return airfare. Find out who the winner is... The contest was sponsored by: Kent Wong The Canadian Associ...

James Alan

It pays to be curious! The conjuror from Canada recounts meeting his first celebrity in England in
Leaping off the pages.

James Alan

All tied up...
Now...back to Sids adventures on the high seas as he makes his way to England.

James Alan

We're slowly releasing information about the convention as we confirm the details through the MCA Blog . Jason England is speaking about gambling collectibles and also performing on the Friday night. Plus there are some other updates about the schedule which have just been posted. See you in May!

James Alan

Magicana is pleased to announce dates for lectures and workshops with Jason England in five Canadian cities Vancouver - March 5-6 Edmonton - March 7-8 Regina - March 9-10 Calgary - March 11-12 Victoria - March 13-14 Lectures will focus on several of Jasons all-time favorite effects for both magician...

James Alan

And, the adventure begins...

Sid travels to Montreal to board the ship to England. Before arriving in Montreal, however, he stops to visit Joseph Ovette, inventor of the famed Master Move...

James Alan

David Ben is blogging again. This time it's something to do with Max Malini and Hockey...

Tricks & Tweets: I Believe

If you missed any of the old blog posts, you can view the archive here.

James Alan

On the brink of his overseas adventure, Sid steps back in time to remember his father.

Memories of Father

James Alan

Harlan Tarbell, Karl Germain, Paul Fox and Michael Skinner in
Eye of the Beholder

James Alan

Discover how a milk campaign puts Sid on the road back to England:
Milk & Honey

James Alan

Here he goes again... letting secrets slip about Magicana's plans to reprint A Grade Expos

James Alan

Still more memories of Dunninger in Mentalist, Magician... or, both?

James Alan

The new MCA website is up and running:

www.magicana.com/mca

James Alan

New post:
Size Matters

Please post witty retorts in the space below...

James Alan

This week, Sid has more memories of Dunninger, in particular what he had to say on the subject of exposure.

Exposure?

James Alan

A little birdie tweeted this a few minutes ago:

Save the Dates!

James Alan

Sid is back!
In his first tweet of 2010 he remembers seeing Dunninger perform in the 1920s.

Remembering Dunninger

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