6:00PM Doors Open

7:00PM Business Meeting. Nominations for officers for 2018.

8:00PM. Gene Anderson Lecture.
The​ ​Oakland​ ​Magic​ ​Circle​ ​Presents…
Gene​ ​Anderson’s​ ​Lecture:​ ​“The​ ​Book LIVE!”

Free to OMC members! $15 admission for non members

Gene Anderson’s The Book received stellar reviews when it debuted last
year. Teller called it, “A gold mine.” Nine years in the writing, each of its
twenty-three routines are from Gene’s current working repertoire, routined and tightened through many years of live performances for real people. All are described in every tiny detail.

“The Book LIVE!” Lecture builds on The Book in a rather unique way. After performing each routine, its live verbal explanation is the narration for a projected PowerPoint presentation. The resulting information is presented more succinctly, with more clarity, and more entertainingly than you’ve probably ever seen magic explanations before.

Each routine presented offers multiple lessons, but the Big Overall Take-Home Lesson is how overcoming shortcomings and tiny problems can take any published routine to higher ground. Ultimately this will make that chosen effect uniquely your own.

“Gene Anderson has raised the bar for the way all magic lectures should be done. I can honestly say it was the best lecture I have ever seen given.” – Stephen Bargatze

About​ ​Gene​ ​Anderson:

Using his joyful enthusiasm and an impish sense of
humor, the multi-talented Gene Anderson, who has
been a two time nominee for the Academy of
Magical Arts Academy Awards, skillfully weaves
laughter into each performance with an array of
eclectic props. Best known for his torn and restored
newspaper, Gene is far more than a one-trick pony,
a fact that will be immediately obvious and fully
appreciated at his “The Book LIVE!” lecture.

In​ ​this​ ​lecture,​ ​you​ ​will​ ​learn:
● Star of the Show
● Picto Transpo
● Nemo Jumbo Card Rise
● Improving your Routines
● The Hello Trick
● Vanishing Match
● Torn & Restored Newspaper
● Si Stebbins Card Routine
● Anderson Die Box Routine
● Venues and Tables
… and more, if time permits

Everything he lectures on is in
The Book, plus a whole lot more.
Special lecture price is $60 (cash)
or $65 (credit card).

6:00PM. Doors open.

7:00PM. Business meeting.

8:00PM. Christian Cagigal presentation and open performances. Christian Cagigal is Co-Founder of the new Fog City Magic Fest, and the new owner of the San Francisco Ghost Hunt Walking Tour, a 17 year tradition in the city by the bay.

The Oakland Magic Circle invites the best magicians from the Northern California magic clubs to compete with the winner receiving a cash prize and the opportunity to perform at our February 2018 Installation Banquet.

The pasta banquet includes meat and vegetarian entrees, salad, vegetables, garlic bread, beverage, and for dessert a Mark Tarses chocolate dipped cookie.

To buy tickets, go to: Banquet Tickets.

Here’s the event flyer: OMCbanquet9:17

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

6:00PM-Doors open : Gathering of the wizards to share ideas, discuss things and catch up over coffee and cookies.

7:00PM-Business meeting and Card Warp teach-in ; Broken Wand for James Hamilton

Competition 8:00PM

June 2017 Newsletter is full of great articles and news plus a feature article about James Hamilton. They are available on this site.

Close Up Competition

June is our annual Lloyd E. Jones Close Up Contest.

First prize is $100. Second prize is $50.

Here are some of the basic rules:

– All acts are to be 6-12 minutes in length.

– All non-competing OMC members are eligible to vote.

– Voting members must be present for the full duration of the competition.

Please make sure your material is family friendly and keep in mind our setup is on the larger end of close up, as we have a group of around 30 people watching. We will have a close up pad that can be adapted to be at an angle, but please be sure to plan your act accordingly so everybody can see and enjoy.

Best of luck preparing and we are looking forward to seeing your act!

June Post MeetingDinner

After the June competition, we will be going to get a late dinner, and you are invited! This is a great way to get to know other OMC members, session, talk shop, and hang out! We’ll meet at Rudy’s Can’t Fail Cafe at 4081 Hollis Street in Emeryville. Last month we had a great turnout, so the more the merrier! Hope you will be able

TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017

Magic Teach in and Lecture by Kim Silverman

Free to attend!

During the Business Meeting we will be teaching how to make a basic flap card and some different ways of performing it. There will even be some extra cards for people to make their own with!

Next, we have none other than master magician and storyteller extraordinaire Kim Silverman!

This lecture will not teach any new tricks. We all already know too many tricks. And we perform too many of them less well than they, or our audiences, deserve.
When Kim performs magic, people often cry, hug him, look him in the eye and say “Thank you! I needed that!”. We all want to make a deep impact when we perform magic. This lecture will present a number of ways to make our magic more meaningful and memorable for people, to give our audiences a deeper experience of mystery. This will include character, body language, eye contact, timing, articulation and intonation (many magicians don’t really know what these words actually mean!). But most importantly: scripting. Two approaches will be suggested to make our magic touch people more deeply, and both will be demonstrated with a number of performance pieces.

After the May meeting, we will all be going to get a late dinner, and you are invited! This is a great way to get to know other OMC members, session, talk shop, and hang out! We’ll meet at Rudy’s Can’t Fail Cafe at 4081 Hollis Street in Emeryville. Hope you will be able to join us!

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

6:00 PM – Doors Open

7:00 – Business Meeting and Teach-In

8:00 PM – Kim Silverman Lecture

Bjornson Hall
2258 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94602

Don’t miss this year’s Flea Market and Auction! It will be on Tuesday, April 4th. It is always the biggest in the San Francisco Bay Area! Doors open at 5:00 PM for sellers, 5:30 PM for buyers, and the auction starts at 8:00 PM. $15 for a sellers table and $10 for OMC members. See you there!

Sellers: Remember to bring change, $1 and $5 bills. Also, bags for buyers to take home their purchases and price stickers.

Buyers: You should also bring change, $1 and $5 bills. Remember that you cannot pay for auction purchases with credit or debit cards. The Oakland Magic Circle has no way to process card transactions. Some flea market sellers accept credit cards, but most do not.

Bjornson Hall
2258 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94602

Auction Flyer 2017

The next meeting of the OMC will be on Tuesday, March 7th. It will be our general meeting with an open performance, plus a special guest magician who will be stopping by and giving a mini lecture! This is a great opportunity to get to see what our club has to offer and meet other members. I hope to see you there!

6:00 PM – Doors open

7:15 PM – Business Meeting

8:00 – Open Performance

We will have a lecture by Martin Lewis. The lecture is free for dues-paid members of the Oakland Magic Circle. Non-members admission will be $25.00.  For more information about Martin Lewis, go to: Martin Lewis.

Door open 6:00PM

Business meeting 7:00PM

Lecture 7:30PM