Allan Slaight Awards 2018
June 21, 2018The Allan Slaight Awards recognize outstanding achievement in the pursuit of the impossible. Find out who this year's recipients are!
Chan-tatachán
June 07, 2018Over eighteen hours of magic performances added to The Screening Room.
The Great Tomsoni & Co in Spain
June 04, 2018We are pleased to share a special television performance of The Great Tomsoni & Co. in Spain in the early 1990s courtesy of Juan Tamariz.
Repertoire
May 28, 2018I daresay the majority of close-up magicians will readily improve their standard of work by adopting just one selection from Mr. Wind’s professional repertoire; adopt two or three such pieces and you will drive yourself toward matching standards that might well serve to raise the caliber of your work for the rest of your life.
The Walrus LIVE
May 22, 2018David Ben will be presenting (and maybe sharing some trade secrets) at The Walrus LIVE The Future of Everything June 14-15 at the Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto. Discount code available in this post.
Upcoming Auction: Haversat & Ewing Galleries in May
May 14, 2018Take Two #56: Silvan
May 01, 2018Silvan’s performing record as a “general practitioner” reflects a tremendously accomplished career, including as the author of a dozen books for both magicians and the public, not to mention the sale of more than a million magic kits for beginners.
Review: Tomsoni The Boxed Set, Little Egypt Magic
May 01, 2018“How do you even begin to review The Magic of Johnny Thompson Volumes I and II? First, I suppose, you drive down to the word store and load up on superlatives. Every aspect of these books is first rate, and their contents constitute a graduate course in close-up and platform magic.”—STEVE BRYANT
Second Printing
April 28, 2018We are pleased to announce that, with the sell-out success of The Magic of Johnny Thompson, Magicana is now preparing a second printing of this historic book.