Allan Slaight Awards

We continue the celebration of up-and-coming artists, this time recognizing a talent from the global community. Meet Nikola Arkane—this year's International Rising Star!

Welcome to the first of five awards! Meet this dynamic magician from Calgary, who made his way to the finale of Canada's Got Talent, Atsushi Ono.

Next week, we will announce the 2023 Allan Slaight Award recipients! Who will be recognized for their achievements in the pursuit of the impossible?

Since 2015, the Slaight Family Foundation has given away $410,000 through the Allan Slaight Awards. The foundation recognizes the intense dedication and devotion it takes to create art.

The Slaight Family Foundation gives away $50,000 each year to acknowledge shining stars, magic makers and wonder sharers, to support and encourage magic. Nominations are now open.

Today's Allan Slaight Award 2022 recipient certainly shares wonder in spades... and, in clubs, hearts and diamonds, too! He is a Spaniard well-known for embracing chaos while creating the impossible. Meet our this year's wonder sharer...

This, our first year where we have two $10,000 Sharing Secret recipients, we are thrilled and delighted to extend the acknowledgment to our second recipient in this category, LAWRENCE HASS for his work on Eugene Burger: Final Secrets.  

An exciting first for the Allan Slaight Awards: we have two recipients for the Sharing Secrets category this year, and today we celebrate the dedicated efforts made by Kayla Drescher for her podcast, Shezam.