787: TAOM 2023 Convention - Day Three Report

Sunday September 3, 2023

6:00 AM until 8:00 AM Invisible Lodge

7:00 AM until 8:00 AM Religious Meeting

8:00 AM until 8:30 AM General Meeting

8:30 AM until 6:30 PM TAOM 2024 Registration

9:00 AM until 6:30 PM Registration Desk Open

9:00 AM until 11:30 AM Stage Contest

10:00 AM until 5:00 PM Dealers Room Open

10:30 AM until 12:00 PM Magical Katrina Lecture

12:00 PM until 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM until 5:00 PM Professional Close-up

* Eric Tait

* Doug Conn

* Chad Long

* Katrina

* Brent Braun

5:00 PM until 7:00 PM Dinner

7:00 PM until 9:00 PM Awards & Stage Show Contest Awards Transfer of Power

* Michael Finney

* Rob Lake

9:15 PM until midnight Strolling Magic

9:30 PM until 11:00 PM Steve Valentine Lecture

11:30 PM until 1:00 AM President’s Party

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635: 2021 Austin T.A.O.M. - Day Two Report

Saturday September 4, 2021

9am-5pm: Registration Desk Open

9am-12pm: Dealers Room Open

9am-11am: Stage Contest

11am-1pm: Order of Willard Brunch with guest speaker, Dr. Eric Colleary

11am-1pm: Lunch Break

1pm-7pm Dealers Room Open

1pm-2.30pm: Lecture: Brian Brushwood

2.30pm: Dealer Show 6

3pm-4pm: Lecture Kent Cummins

3pm-4pm: Lecture: JD Stewart

3.30pm: Dealer Show 7

4.30pm-6pm: Close Up Gala Show

6pm-8pm: Dinner Break

8pm-10pm: Theater Gala Show

10.30pm-11.30pm: Invisible Lodge

11.30pm-12.30pm: S. Ravencraft’s “TAOM after Dark” – Bizarre Show: Paul Prater

Time stamps for this episode:

00:00:17 - In the stage contest we have brief conversations with several guests in between introductions of the contestants. We visit with Hannah Ammar, Pattrick Pryzysiecki, Dr. Eric Colleary and Doug Gorman.

00:22:17 - Brian Brushwood talks about his participation in this year’s TAOM convention

00:27:40 - Dal Sanders reports on last night’s TAOM After Dark Show

00:35:58 - we visit with a room full of registrants during the professional close-up show

531: Mark Connelly Wilson - Developing a Character

Mark C. Wilson is an actor, musician, filmmaker, producer, teacher and magician but perhaps best known in Texas as “Merlin the Wise” at the Sherwood Forest Faire near Austin. In this week’s episode, Mark talks about something that only has been discussed by a handful of previous guests: developing his character. Merlin is an iconic character so how does one pull it off? Mark has an acting background and has spent much time on developing this persona. You may not plan to every perform at a Renaissance Festival, but you will do well to take to heart the lessons he learned and teaches here. For more information, please visit his Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/MerlinTheWise/

Magician, actor, and musician Mark Connelly Wilson performs as "Merlin The Wise" with "Nimue" played by Lydia Kettle, and "Newt" played by his daughter Elissa Wilson, during the 2010 opening season of Sherwood Forest Faire on the Greenwood stage.

This was the movie discussed at the end of our podcast. The music and singing in this trailer was provided by Mark C. Wilson.

For a more in-depth article about developing a character, then read the article by Kent Cummins in the June 2019 issue of The Linking Ring entitled, “Storytelling is the Secret Sauce.” Click Here to see a PDF of that article.

787: TAOM 2023 Convention - Day Three Report

Sunday September 3, 2023

635: 2021 Austin T.A.O.M. - Day Two Report

531: Mark Connelly Wilson - Developing a Character

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