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The Latvian magic club A.M.B.E.R. (Association of Magicians of Baltic – Established in Riga ), I.B.M. Ring 376, is going to organize the 2nd International magic convention on May 28-29 2010.
The convention will take place on the Riga Congress Hall with lectures and dealer area during the daytime and a gala show in the main theater on the evening. The first edition have seen lecturing and on stage Dirk Losander (USA), Aaron Crow (BE), Roy Davenport (UK), Grifony (SE), Brinum-X(LV); for the 2010 the theme will be “Magic Star of the past, the present and the future”. The gala show will be organized as follow: (Magicians of the Past) Before the opening, and when all the audience will take seat in the theater, a video projection of magicians from the past will be projected on 2 large screens on the stage side (Houdini, Thurston, Dante, Pollock and others); on the hall of the Congress Hall, will be organized an exposition of antique poster and magic tricks of Magicians from the Baltic area (beginning of XX Century till pre-war). Beside, during the day will be organized a lecture about History of magic in EU from the XVI till the XX Century; the lecture will be opened not only to magicians, but to all audience and the meaning is to promote the art of magic in Latvia (Magicians of the Present) Star Magician JEFF MC BRIDE have been invited to our convention; he will close the gala show with his act and will do his lecture (open to all magicians coming to the convention) and his Master class (magician registered with extra fee and free for magician on our invitation, see below). He is today recognized as “Magician of magicians” and is undoubtedly a Master of this art. Beside, other magicians will be invited to lecture for the convention and to perform on the 2nd part of gala. (Magicians of the Future) This will be the Opening part of the gala. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING AND SPREAD THE VOICE ! THANK YOU ! 4 Young talented magicians will be selected from all over the world (see below) to perform on the first part of the gala. Our goal is to show to the Latvian audience that magic is an ART and those new generations of magicians are keeping high the level. For this reason we do not felt that a competition could let a performer to express freely his talent and to concentrate, exclusively, on his talent, so we decided to make already a selection, with the help of all magic club interested in to take part in this project, and to present to the Latvian audience who is considered for his talent and creativity a “magician of the future”. THE SELECTION Max. 4 magicians will be selected with the help of all president of magic club, for to take part on the gala show. What we offer: To each artist selected we will cover all the transportation fees for the equipment, + return flight from the city of departure till the city of Riga, full board accommodation in a 4* hotel near the convention center, including after show gala dinner, for the duration of the event (arrival 27 May, departure 31 May), all local transport and free participation to the convention and to the Jeff Mc Bride master class where each magician can evaluate his show with the help of Jeff. What we ask: Any club interested on to present an artist for the selection must send a link to a web page or pictures and description of the act + a link to a video of the performance or a DVD with video of the performance. The video MUST be the same act that the magician will perform on the gala. Due to agreement with Jeff Mc Bride for non-duplication, acts should not include the following material: Mask routines, card manipulation routines, water bowl routines, miser’s dream coin routines, linking rings, snowstorm in china, or floating butterfly effects. Each act must be already considered at professional level (i.e. FISM level) and president or vice-president of the club should introduce it. Individual magicians can apply sending the same information requested (web page or CV and pictures and video of performance) + reference of magic club or magicians where it is possible to verify the level. Candidate must be over 18 years old. Exceptionally we could take in consideration participant under 18 years old if the quality of the act is considered of very high level and if participant is accompanied by a parent or tutor (NOTE: We can’t cover travel expense also of the tutor, we can only give accommodation in a shared double room and free participation to the convention). The act will be repeated twice: Friday 28 May and Saturday 29 May Dead line for the submission is FEBRUARY / 15 / 2010 . For more information, please, contact: Enrico Pezzoli brinum-x@ml.lv Tel./Fax: +371 67703248 Mob.: +371 29470394 http://www.ambermagic.lv http://www.abra-kadabra.lv (SOON TO BE LAUNCHED) http://www.pecolli.lv |
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