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Wow! I’ve got a bunch of exciting news for you this month. So settle back and enjoy what promises to be a longer-than-normal newsletter. S.A.M. New Assembly Member Incentive When your Assembly gets new members, your Assembly gets FREE MAGIC! · Recruit 3-5 new members and your Assembly gets a Creative Magic award package worth $80.00! · Recruit 6 or more new members and your Assembly gets a Creative Magic award package worth $240.00!! · Recruit enough new members and your Assembly could win a Creative Magic award package worth $700.00!!! No extra paperwork! Your Assembly gets credit for every new S.A.M. member added to its roster! Every Assembly can win!! Contest ends April 30, 2011, so go out and recruit a new S.A.M. member today! More details can be found at http://www.magicsam.com/contest.asp It seems like every month I tell you something new about the upcoming S.A.M. Convention in Pittsburgh. This month is no exception. In fact, I have two new tidbits of information about the convention. In addition to all of the other great stuff I’ve already told you about, this year’s convention will also feature comedy magic from the likes of Dave Kaplan (one of my favorite comedy magicians), “Haywire”, comedy juggler Howard Mincone, Bill Cornelius and John Hromada. And, for those of you who are collectors, make sure you bring some of your old pieces of magic. The S.A.M. will have experts on hand to tell you all about your treasures. Think of it as sort of an “Antiques Roadshow” for magicians. You can find an up to date listing of the lectures, shows, performers, events and other fun stuff at www.magicsam.com. Do you know someone who is on active duty in the military and enjoys magic? The S.A.M. is proud to offer a special military discount for those serving our country. The paperless membership is only $35 per year for active Military personnel. For more information, or to find an application form, go to www.magicsam.com. If you do school shows, you know that schools are looking for assemblies with messages on topics like bullying, substance abuse, peer pressure, health and safety to name just a few. The S.A.M. has just started something that I know you’re going to like. It’s a new WIKI site that lets S.A.M. members learn about special presentations and allows you to share ideas and suggestions with one another School show performer and S.A.M. member Bob Carroll and PNP Bruce Kalver have teamed up to create a site that’s full of information and ideas that will help you create a terrific school show...or if you already have a terrific school show, you may find ideas to make it even better. This valuable resource just launched about a week ago, so it’s still rather small, but it’s bound to grow pretty quickly. In fact, I have a few ideas I’m planning on posting in the next day or two. Interested? Go to www.magicsam.com/SAMSAM to register. This is a free site, but you must be an S.A.M. member to access it. Don’t forget that the S.A.M. is still accepting applications from young magicians to be a part of the Stars of Tomorrow show at the National Convention. If you know someone age 7-17 who’s interested in performing in Pittsburgh, let them know they can find an application at www.magicsym.com or by contacting Marlene Clark at 860-349-8149 or at [email protected]. March 11th & 12th, I’m going to be representing you at the National Council Meeting in Orlando, Florida. If you have any items you’d like me to bring to the attention of the National Council, please let me know as soon as possible. I will be unavailable February 16th through March 2nd, but I’ll respond to any messages as quickly as I can after that. Since I am going to be unavailable at the end of the month, my next newsletter will come in early March. Finally, as I mentioned in my last newsletter, I’ve made it a resolution to leave you with something at the end of each newsletter that hopefully you’ll find useful. Here’s my little contribution for this month: Here’s the scenario...You’ve just done a great show and someone comes up to you and asks you for a card. You reach in your wallet...or purse...or wherever you carry your business cards only to find that you’re out. You’re stuck writing your information on the back of a bar napkin and hoping that the person will call you. It’s happened to me, so I decided to do something about it. Get one of those cheap plastic business card holders or even a picture holder for your wallet and put a few business cards in there. Next, get some velcro and attach that holder to the inside of your table or case. Then, every time you load your table or case at home, take a minute to make sure that holder is filled with cards. Trust me, when you can’t find one in your wallet, you’ll be thankful that you have a back-up stash of cards handy. Have a fantastic February everyone! Yours in M-U-M, -Jeff Sikora S.A.M. Midwest Regional Vice President National Magic Week Chair (402) 339-6726
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CIMA NEWSLETTER
Feb 2011 We have a new CIMA web site. Our last host levitated our price so we suspended the contract. The new site is free and as such is much more affordable. http://cimagic.weebly.com/index.html. Chris did a nice job setting it up. ELECTIONS: Club elections are this month. Anyone who wants to be an officer must be a member of both the IBM and SAM as we are a combined group. The proposed roster is as follows: President – Jim Percy Vice President – Professor Rob Higgins Treasurer – Dennis Reed Secretary – Ken Barham Retired Ladies Man, and All Around Nice Guy – JR Thomas The slate was accepted unanimously but can be amended prior to the election. If YOU are interested in being an officer, be there and tell us. I here the Secretary is a bit weak and could be toppled with little to no bloodshed. There are 4 appendices at the end of the newsletter. Be sure to check them out. Reviews of the lectures by Rob Thompson and Don England were enthusiastic and positive. It is great that kind of talent locally. Lectures coming soon to an Urbana Civic Center near you: Keith Fields - March 1st at 6:30. We have had some excellent reviews of his lectures and performances. See below the newsletter for an introduction letter from Keith. Eric Fischer – Sometime in March or April. Aldo Columbini – We may try to get Aldo to stop by on his farewell America tour. He is moving back to Italy. New Magic Web sites to check out: http://magicnewstelevision.com/ http://canadasmagic.blogspot.com/2011/01/eric-leclercs-project-365.html - Eric Leclerc will post a new trick online every day for a year. February’s theme will be Sponge Magic. March will be Magic with liquids. I hear some liquids, if used correctly, can make ugly people attractive and even make their judgement disappear. Chris gave a report on a book he is reading called “Slight of Mind” written by a couple of neuro scientists. You won’t learn tricks per se but it explains the science behind concepts such as misdirection. If you want to know WHY what we do works, this may be the book for you. Andy showed off a ten dollar craft bag that he purchased several of to carry effects around in. It was a handy little thing and I bet Walmart is first going to run out and then overstock them after the rush of CIMA members buying them up. January’s topic was silk magic. Pedro opened with silk ranch using 2 assistants. Kemal gave a history of silk and silk magic. JR took the floor with silk to eraser, left handed knot, ghost knot. Jim did a nice job with Invisible Paint. Prof Higgins followed with Silk through a chair leg. Chris did a color changing silk that becomes a two color silk. Andy came forward with his version of the color changing silk with a slight modification of the gimmick and his version of the move. The next meeting is Wed Feb 16th at 7 PM at Dallas and Company. Bring your sponges and soak up some ideas. See ya at the meeting, Ken Barham Co-Secretary CIMA |
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