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695: I.B.M. 2022 Convention - Day Four Report

Saturday July 16th 2022

8 am Order of Merlin Breakfast Talk: Road to FISM with Stuart MacDonald Promenade

9 am - 1 pm Registration Open and 2023 Registration Chattooga Hallway

10 am Special Event - TALK MAGIC II
DAVID GOLDRAKE
TRIGG WATSON
LANCE RICH
Grand Salon

11 am - 6 pm Dealers Open Chattahoochee Ballroom

11 am - Noon Lance Burton Teen Seminar Rabun 11 am Raffle Drawings in Dealer Room Chattahoochee Ballroom

12 noon Lunch Break (Cash Lunches Available) Promenade

1 pm - 3 pm Ring 2100 In-Person & Virtual JAM Session Grand Salon

3:30 pm Special Event - CLOSE UP SHOW
MC - DOC DIXON
ICE MCDONALD
ALYX HILSHEY
BRENT BRAUN
JOE M. TURNER
Grand Salon

8 pm. Showtime - Grand Finale Show
MC - RAFAEL
TRIGG WATSON
JULIANA CHEN
RICHARD PRESTON
THE EVASONS
DAVID GOLDRAKE
Grand Salon

10 pm Farewell Party Promenade

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Contest Winners:

Close-Up Award Winners:

  • Youth Award of Merit: Jackson Oliver - Honolulu, Hawaii

  • Youth First Place: Anja Steyn, Cape Town, South Africa

  • Adult Award of Merit: Tetro - West Hollywood, California

  • Adult First Place: Micheal Bloemeke - Raleigh, North Carolina

Stage Award Winners:

Finalists:

  • Danny King - Garland, Texas

  • James Irwin - Arlington, Texas

  • Rena Cui - Fresh Meadows, New York

  • Anjya Steyn - Cape Town, South Africa

  • The Wushuong - People’s Republic of China

  • Artem Shchukin - Moscow, Russia

Youth Stage Award of Merit - Rena Cui - Fresh Meadows, New York

Youth Stage First Place - Anya Steyn - Cape Town, South Africa

Adult Stage Award of Merit: The Wushuong - The People’s Republic of China

Adult Stage First Place: Artum Shchunik - Moscow, Russia

Gold Medal: Artem Shchunik - Moscow, Russia

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:16 - Award winners names announced

00:03:22 - Stuart MacDonald talks to the Order of Merlin group with his speech on his Journey to FISM

00:24:18 - David Garrard and Tommy Ellison recap the previous evening’s contest show

00:35:33 - Jeff and Tessa Evason talk about this and other magic conventions they have performed in plus what they did during COVID

00:45:53 - Jeffrey Alan (an I.B.M Board member and American Museum of Magic Board Member) and his assistant, Angela, talk about this convention and the museum

00:52:54 - Trigg Watson was one of the evening’s performer who can now relax. He chats about his experience as well as part of what he talked about at the Youth Seminar

00:57:53 - Past International President of the I.B.M., David Sandy, has also chaired and produced several magic conventions. We recap this convention including the final night’s gala show.

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July 17, 2022 by Scott Wells.
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683: MAGIC Live! 2022 - Day Three Report

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

  • 9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. - Registration open

  • 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. - General Session for YELLOW lanyard

  • 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Focus Sessions for GREEN lanyards

    • Rules of Engagement by R. Paul Wilson

    • Details in Adapting by Alex Ramon

    • Close-Up Clinic: Cris Korn, Eric Mead and Erik Tate

  • 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. - The Magic Shop (Dealers) Open

  • 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Focus Session for GREEN Lanyards

  • 2:15 - 4:15 p.m. General Session for GREEN Lanyards

  • 2:15 - 3:15 p.m. Focus Session for YELLOW Lanyards

  • 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Focus Session for YELLOW Lanyards

LIVE Tonight!

  • Truth, Truth, Lie! 60 minutes: 6:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:30 p.m.

  • The Close-Up Experience 70 minutes: 6:00, 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 p.m.

  • In Concert: The Historie of Magic 60 minutes: 6:00 7:45 9:45 p.m.

  • Exhibit: Museum of the Arcane 6:30 until 10:30 p.m.

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Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:16 - Daniel Will and Scott recap last evening’s show plus some other highlights of the convention

00:15:00 - Nick Diffate tells us a bit about his new book and his recent presentation during the General Session about queuing your stage volunteers

00:17:35 - Gabe Fajuri is another dealer talking about the room and what’s been a big seller plus upcoming Potter & Potter Auctions

00:22:08 - Rudy Coby talks…just talks. :)

00:29:23 - Niels Duiner is a juggler who is also a magician who is looking for a story line for his juggling act here at MAGIC Live!

00:38:07 - Seth Kramer tells us why he attends MAGIC Live and David Regal gives us a summary of his talk in the General Session

00:45:17 - Tom Cutts used to work with L&L Publishing and their video production crew. He has a unique perspective on what went on back then. He shares some good memories from those days.

00:53:17- Alex Boyce tells us about his view of the convention

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May 18, 2022 by Scott Wells.
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682: MAGIC Live! 2022 - Day Two Report

Monday, May 16, 2022

  • 9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. - Registration open

  • 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. - General Session for YELLOW lanyard

  • 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Focus Sessions for GREEN lanyards

    • Talk About Tricks: Very Best of by Joshua Jay

    • A Perilous Tightrope by Christopher T. Magician

    • Rediscovering Wonder with Michael Weber

  • 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. - The Magic Shop (Dealers) Open

  • 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Focus Session for GREEN Lanyards

  • 12:30 - 1:40 p.m. The Close-up Experience

  • 2:15 - 4:15 p.m. General Session for GREEN Lanyards

  • 2:15 - 3:15 p.m. Focus Session for YELLOW Lanyards

  • 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Focus Session for YELLOW Lanyards

LIVE Tonight!

  • Documentary Live 70 minutes: 6:00, 8:00, 10:30 p.m.

  • The Close-Up Experience 70 minutes: 6:00, 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 p.m.

  • In Concert: The Historie of Magic 60 minutes: 6:00 7:45 9:45 p.m.

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Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:42 - Trigg Watson talks about this convention and Masters of Illusion and Matthew O’Niell (20 year old member of Magic Castle Juniors) talks about this being his first MAGIC Live convention

00:08:03 - Diamond Jim Tyler talks about some of the events we attended so far today, plus an update on his “Bamboozlers 4” book

00:16:14 - Joseph Daniels is one of the dealers and chats about Arcane Relics and some future “Bizzare” conventions coming this year.

00:22:09 - Chris Philpott (creator of “100 Monkeys”) moved to Canada during lockdown but has been working on other projects during that time.

00:29:05 - Ben Dentika is another person who is attending MAGIC Live! for the first time and shares his experience

00:35:21 - Earl Chaney is one of the original Ronald McDonald clowns and is a chronicler of old Las Vegas

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May 17, 2022 by Scott Wells.
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