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756: F.F.F.F. 2023 - Day Four Report

Saturday, April 29th

10:00 Dealers’ Room opens (closed during lectures, shows, and dinner)

10:00-10:45 2024 Registration & 4F Shop open

1:30 6th Show: Eric DeCamps: One Man Show

3:30 ED Talks #2 (MCs: Christian/Katalina with Rick Wilcox (The Challenge of Stage Illusions), Keith Fields (Audience Management), and Christian & Katalina (Creating a Seance Show)

5:30 Banquet (ticket required)

7:00 Dealers’ Room & 4F Shop open

7:45 Tribute to our Guest of Honor: Mark Mason

8:00 7th Show: 4F Closing Gala (MC: Steve Beam) featuring: Montreal Trio (Micheal Huot, Yannick Lacroix, and Marc Trudel), Alexandria Duvivier, Shoot Ogawa, Mike Robinson, Horret Wu, Carisa Hendrix, Juliana Chen, and Stephen Bargatze and Rick Merrill

10:00 Hospitality Suite opens

12:00 Dealers’ Room closes

Keith Fields playing “Bohemian Rhapsody” on the ukulele at Abbott’s Get Together in August 2021.

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Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:18 - Marc DeSouza gives us a colorful recap of the Friday night show

00:24:14 - Michael Ammar talks about Eric Decamps’ one-man show we just saw. This was Michael’s first time returning after 42 years of absence, plus he talks about some new projects.

00:32:02 - Keith Fields was one of the presenters who talked about audience management and he recaps his talk here.

00:43:37 - Rick Wilcox was another presenter who talked about doing an illusion show and he recaps some highlights from his talk here.

00:50:53 - Darryl Rose and Boris Wild stop for a quick chat about this convention and Boris’ choice of an emotional performance for Obie O’Brien

00:57:51- Carisa Hendrix performed at this convention as her “real” self and, of course, as Lucy Darling. She also chats about Michael Dardant impersonating her as “Juicy Starling”

01:00:23 - Joe Monti has had some health issues but is glad to be back with the 4F family that has made him feel good

01:05:26 - Marc DeSouza returns to wrap up the evening show and the entire 50th anniversary celebration of the 4F.

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April 30, 2023 by Scott Wells.
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743: Winter Carnival of Magic - Day Two

Friday, March 10th

  • 8:30 AM Close-up Contest

  • 9:00 AM Dealers Open (closing at 5:00 PM)

  • 10:30 AM Lecture: Bill Gladwell

  • 1:00 PM Lecture: David Corsaro

  • 2:30 PM NEW “Open-Mic” Stand-up Contest

  • 7:30 PM Magic-Cadabra Show: David Corsaro, Sterlini, Jay Brenegar, Guy Bavli, Aaron Radatz

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Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:18 - Roger Reeves, Mike Stratman, and Jack Wilson talk about registration and attedace.

00:12:04 - Anthony Gerard talks about his latest creations as a dealer

00:20:30 - Jonathan Neal talks about his upcoming lecture plus his vanishing bird cage and his appearances on Johnny Carson and other shows.

00:33:16 - David Corsaro chats about his lecture that will be presented shortly.

00:41:37 - Dragen and Ferren chat about their magic competitions this morning

00:55:05 - Keith Field and Scott wrap up the final night’s show.

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March 11, 2023 by Scott Wells.
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702: FISM Quebec 2022 - Day Six Report

Saturday July 30th 2022

8:15-11:00 - Stage Contest

8:00 - 9:00: Ekaterina Dobrokhotov

9:00 - 10:00: Michael Ammar

10:00 - 11:00: Eric Jones

11:30 - 12:30: Max Maven presents Erika Larsen: The Story of the Magic Castle

12:00 - 13:00: Miguel Munoz

13:00 - 15:00: Raphaël Navarro and Valentine Losseau

14:00 - 15:00: Julie Eng

16:00 - 18:00: The Winners Gala

18:30 - 19:30: Alexandra Duvivier

19:30 - 20:30: Special Lecture - Luis Piedrahita

21:00 - 23:00: Awards Gala

Winners

Stage Illusion

1. Yunke - Spain -
2. Doble Mandoble - Belgium 

Card magic

1. Markobi - France -

2. Pere Rafart - Spain 

3. Erik Tait - U.S.

Micro magic 

1 Luis Olmedo- Spain -  tie with Simon Coronel- U.A. Micro magic

2 Jacob Schenstrom - Sweden

3. Mr. Triton - France 

Parlour magic

1. Shoot Ogawa - U.S. -

2.Javi Rufo - Spain and Vincent - Australia 

3.  Jonio - Japan 

Mental magic

1. Anca & Lucca - Austria -

2. Rob & Emiel - Netherlands 

3. Magic Larry - Argentina and Andrea Rizzolini - Italy 

Manipulation

1. Junwoo Park - Japan -  tie with And Artem Shchukin - Russia

2. Eden - Korea 

3. Francesco Della Bona- Italy 

Comedy magic

1. Mortenn Christiansen - Denmark -

2. Ramo & Alegria - Spain 

3. Marie Helene - France 

General magic

1. Laurent Piron - Belgium

2. Ding Yang - China 

3. Zhu MingHu - China 

Close up most original act- 

Gleb - Lithuania - 

Close up Invention award - 

Martin Eisele - Germany and Daniel Mormona - Argentina - 

Stage magic - most original act - 

Ding Yang - China 

Stage magic - invention - 

Ramo & Alegria - Spain and HJ - Taiwan and Zhu Mingzhu - China - 

Special Awards Presented by Max Maven

Creativity & artistic vision - Special Awards - Topas - 

 History, Research & Scholarship     Richard Kaufman -  

 Theory & Philosophy      Dani DaOrtiz -

Close-up Grand Prix - Simon Coronel - U.S.

Stage magic Grand Prix - Laurent Piron - Belgium 

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Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:16 - In the Grand Hall, Scott Wells thanks everyone for listening to the daily reports.

00:03:30 - Lady Sarah and Keith Fields are on the final day of the six days of non-stop magic and little sleep. They chat about some of the highlights of acts they love.

00:16:01 - Eric Dittelman, runner-up on America’s Got Talent, talks about his first FISM and how blown away he has been. He talks about the mentalism acts from his perspective as a mentalist. He also talks about his podcast with Mat Franco called “Mind Over Magic” which they started during the pandemic lock down.

00:19:09 - Past winner at FISM, Topas talks about competing and his thoughts about some behind-the-scenes that goes into making this event a success. He talks about the evolution of manipulation from Cardini to Fred Kaps to Peter Marvey to Mako Tendo.

00:29:16 - Past International President of the I.B.M. Joe Turner talks about some of the FISM activities, this being his first time attending a FISM.

00:32:50 - The stage contests are completely over as Marc DeSouze and Scott talk about the last set of contestants.

00:50:30 - As we walk back from dinner, Dick Olson talks about what he learned from the Chip Romero lecture on Doug Henning. Then Chip “chips in” with his comments on how he felt about his presentation plus some additional comments about Doug that he didn’t have time to share during his lecture.

00:59:35 - Another past winner of FISM, Danny Kole (and a Friend of the Magic Word), tells why he attends every FISM he can make time for in his schedule and how they inspire him. He also talks about some of his highlights from this year’s FISM.

01:05:19 - Marc DeSouza and Scott announce the names of the winners of this year’s FISM along with those who received some special awards.

01:17:50 - As an epilogue, we take a breather with Jonathan Levit who talks about this being his first FISM and how he tries to name just a few of the highlights of the event.

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