Magician Ryan Joyce is well-known for his skills and dedication to our Art.He put both of those attributes to good use in performing at a benefit show for Cystic Fibrosis in Fort Frances, Ontario, Canada.
Mr. Joyce is from Fergus, just a few miles north of Kitchener, Ontario, but has spent much of his time recently traveling and performing.The 23 year-old magician has been performing since he was eight.He received a magic kit for Christmas and was ready to present a show for his family on New Year?s Eve.
Five years later, Mr. Joyce won three awards in New York including the prestigious Slydini Scholarship.The Slydini Scholarship is awarded to only three magicians world wide.Mr. Joyce took to the road as part of his 15-week, 82-city tour with his show ?Incantation.?
Ryan Joyce – Kendra Hughes
Mr. Joyce estimates that he travels more than 50,0000 kilometers a year.In addition to performing professional shows, he raises about a half-a-million dollars for charities and
non-profit organizations.
What a good guy.We?re lucky to have him in our Art.
Read the full article in the Fort Frances Times here.
Veronique (?Vera? or?Neek? to friends) Booher joins the Inside Magic staff.Ms. Booher is from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and is currently attending the University of Michigan School of Business for her MBA in Personnel/Finance.Her father was the great cardman, Paul Bland.
Mr. Bland was the close-up magician in Palm Beach during the 1950?s and 1960?s. He worked at the Kenya Club until the time of his death in 1988.It was by pure chance that Vera came to our attention. I posted an advertisement at the business school seeking an editor and free-lance writer.
I said I was looking for someone with an interest in Magic and who could dedicate 10 to 20 hours a week. Vera was the best candidate ? even before I knew who her dad was.
We welcome her to the staff.I hope you enjoy her takes our Art. I am begging her to put together some history of her father and all the great people he met.I?ll let you know if I wear her down.
Without further ado, let me introduce Ms. Booher’s first story for Inside Magic.
Said in Seance, “I Haven’t Picked a Candidate Yet.”
The Ventura Wellness Community is a group of volunteers and staff dedicated to helping cancer patients develop an extended family as well as learning tools to cope with physical and emotional problems associated with their sickness.
Magicians Jon Armstrong, Dave Cox and Handsome Jack, performed close-up and stage magic to help The Wellness Community raise $10,000.00 at their October 9th benefit.
Read the full article from the Ventura County Star here.
Bearwin Meily is a comedian/magician and together with young illusionists headed by Erik Mana, will take on the world of magic in a guerrilla way on NAKS! (?Nakabibilib at Kakaibang Show?). The team features Mr. Mana as well as folks known only by their first names: Ron, Ethel, Con, JB and Slydon.
Mr. Meily?s inspiration is familiar to North American magicians.“It was David Blaine?s street magic that inspired me. I practice with cards and coins everyday. I keep a deck of cards in my pocket all the time. In fact, I have even ventured into hypnosis and mind reading.?Not too shabby for a man who was a comedian by training and has only been involved in magic for the last nine months.
Mr. Meily believes the discipline necessary to perform magic has helped him be a better comedian, a better performer.“Since magic entails speed and rapport with the audience, I?ve learned to think faster and interact better with the crowd.?
In a cautionary note that would likely not appear in the U.S. press, he notes that magic ?can go overboard? and he promises to never venture into ?black magic, like sorcery or witchcraft. He will never delve into something that has the telltale signs of the devil.?
In the show, Mr. Meily and his cohorts will visit shopping areas to locate their audience and volunteers.Unbeknownst to the poor, innocent trickee, they will videotape ?every drop of the jaw, surprised scream or baffled look from the “victim.?
Check out the full article in the Philippine Star here.
You gotta love a magician who comes up with a new presentation of the Torn and Restored Newspaper.Read the description of Bill Heh a/k/a Oztier:
A pretty young girl is sitting at a bus stop, reading the morning paper, when a sloppily dressed man notices her. His eyes light up as he approaches the woman, who moves away from his advances. As the girl tries to read her paper, the man ends up ripping it in half, then in eighths in frustration.
“Then, before her eyes, she watches in amazement as the hobo stares at the pieces of newspaper, waves his hand, and suddenly it becomes one solid page again.
Excellent!
It gives a reason for the destruction and restoration of a newspaper.
I knew after reading the description in the Daily News of India that I would be interested in this magician.
After reading the article, though, I am absolutely fascinated.
Mr. Heh, 25 years-old, loves performing magic, enjoys working with great assistants and for welcoming audiences.But after all he has been through, he probably would still be happy if he was demonstrating Svengali Decks out of a station-wagon at the Swap-Shop.
Mr. Heh believes “anything is possible if you believe it can happen.”
When he was 10, he rode a four-runner ATV over a 100-foot cliff.
He landed on a highway and suffered a closed-head injury and lapsed into a coma.As if scripted in Hollywood, on the day before he was to be committed to a convalescent home, he awoke.
While he was conscious again, he was not in control of his motor skills.He had to retrain himself over the next two years.I cannot imagine how painful emotionally and physically it must be to learn to walk all over again.Regardless of the intensity or type of pain he suffered, he persevered.
His parents and therapists wanted to find something to build his hand-eye coordination and motor skills.They recalled his love for David Copperfield and the master illusionist?s shows.”They said, ‘Let’s try to work this into his therapy,’ and they started me doing card and coin tricks.”
His love for magic grew and the hours of practice filled the time he used to dedicate to sports.
That is enough for one life, we think.But you know what? No one asks us.
At the age of 16, he was again involved in a life-threatening accident.This time, he was struck by a car as he attempted to board his school bus.The collision crushed his legs, broke his back and necessitated nine operations and two years – including seven months of bed rest and five months on crutches – to recuperate.
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