565: Lisa Menna - Fully Rested but Never Resting

Lisa Menna is a popular magician and activist who has pioneered in a male-dominated profession on account of her skills and talents. She was called as the Most Influential Female Magician of the 20th Century by BBC world service. She received success in 1990s for performing as a trade show magician known as ‘The Darling of Dot Com’. She was the first women to lecture and perform at FISM and was the only women to have been invited to perform in every theater of Hollywood’s Magic Castle.

Menna founded an NGO named Cause to Wonder in the year 2011 and aims to bring about social change. She has conducted some of the notable programs in countries like Antigua, Ethiopia, US Virgin Island, Sicily and India. Her NGO also coordinates with the curiosity based events from all around the world.

Lisa performed in 2019 for the 100th anniversary of the United Nations ILO on international women’s day in Geneva.

Papua New Guinea tribes and a white woman magician. Using curiosity to spread vital information. Close up magic in the jungle. Lisa Menna Performs in the jungle.

In this week’s episode, Lisa talks about her magical life that has taken her around the glove performing magic and developing the non-profit “Cause to Wonder” organization. She gives some great advice, encouragement and inspiration to female magicians in this episode, too. Lisa transitioned her success as a trade show magician into helping those in third world countries to have cleaner water supplies and treat women humanely within their communities.

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524: 2019 Genii Convention - Day Four Update

Saturday October 5

12:00 am To 7:00 pm Dealers Open

8:15 am To 9:00 am Basic Training Breakfast Ian Kendall

9:15 am To 10:15 am David Kaye Show/Lecture

10:30 am To 11:30 am Michael Vincent Lecture

11:30 am To 12:30 pm 49 Boxes

1:00 pm To 2:30 pm Close-Up Show 2Your Host: Max Maven

John Lovick, Anna Deguzman, Eric Jones, Gaëtan Bloom

2:45 pm To 3:30 pm Dominique And Alexandra Duvivier Duo Show

4:00 pm To 4:50 pm Ben Seidman One Man Show

5:00 pm To 6:00 pm 49 Boxes

7:00 pm To 9:15 pm Gala Show

Your Hosts: Nick Diffatte And Lucy Darling

Romany, David Kovac, Jay Johnson, John Archer

9:45 pm To 10:45 pm Dominique Duvivier Lecture

Time stamps for this podcast:

00:00:17 - Lisa Menna talks about her passion project

00:15:02 - Katrina Koetch talks about her experience as the person who volunteered her urine for the Piff and Pops show last night

more time stamps later when I have time

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#204: 2014 Year of Magic in Review

It's that time of the year when we try to "put the band back together" and chat with members of the hosts from the MagicNewswire.com podcast, "This Week in Magic". Trying to get a time to arrange everyone's schedule is like "herding cats". So, due to work and health conflicts, this year we have David "Silly Billy" Kaye and Cameron Ramsay join Scott Wells to discuss what went on in the magic world this past year.

To supplement our chat about Magic on TV, here is a little up-to-the-minute information that I read on IndieWire.com after our chat:

"Magic is in the air, or at least on the airwaves. "Masters of Illusion" did well enough for CW last year to make an order for 13 more episodes materialize – and that's after being canceled by MyNetworkTV in 2009. It joins the network's other magic show, the British ITV production "Penn & Teller: Fool Us," as well as magic programs gaining traction on basic cable. TruTV's "The Carbonaro Effect" will be back for a second season, while "Wizard Wars" returns to Syfy in January for six additional episodes. Even shows that don't have magic as a focus are shuffling it into the deck: "American Masters" is kicking off a new season January 23 with an episode about master magician Ricky Jay, and Nat Geo's "Brain Games," regularly tosses a sleight-of-hand artist into the mix."

Of course this is from a personal perspective of the guest on this podcast and does not include a lot of things you perhaps found to be more relevant. But we hope you enjoy our chat.

Instead of bouncing all over the globe, we try to stay on topic with an agenda that includes: magic on television; live touring magic shows; magic conventions; notable passings, and; predictions for 2015.

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Magicians' Valhalla

Although the list below is not exhaustive, it does reflect the names of many well-known (and some lesser known) magicians, spouses and assistants who passed on in 2014. If you are unfamiliar with any of these names, then it would behoove you to do a little online search of what these people have contributed to our craft. If you have someone you think was overlooked, then please post the name in the comments below on this blog.

Aldo Colombini

Scott Lewis

Dave Madden

Montecore (S&R’s tiger)

Jeff Busby

Judge Arnold Drennen

Robert “Bob” Knigge

Robert L. “Bob” Bluemle

Stella P. Coward (wife of Noel Coward)

John T. Fedko

Robert “Bob” W. Klamm

Alan Alan