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
Our annual Intra-club stage contest is August 1st. The winner will receive $100 and the right to represent the Oakland Magic Circle in the Inter-Club Stage Contest on September 5. The runner-up will receive $50. Contestants must be dues-paid members of the Oakland Magic Circle.
6:00 PM Doors open
7:00 PM Business Meeting
8:00 PM Contest begins
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
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
Come join us for our annual dinner and installation banquet show!
Oakland Magic Circle’s annual Installation Banquet to honor the incoming officers will take place Tuesday February 7, 2017 at Bjornson Hall on MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland.
Tickets are available now and can be purchased at omcbanquet.brownpapertickets.com.
The Banquet offers a choice of Salmon, Tri-Tip Beef or Chicken main course, salad, vegetable and potato, and a Mark Tarses chocolate dipped cookie for dessert. A vegetarian main course is also offered.
The magic entertainment will include Larry Wilson, an Emmy-nominated magician who has appeared on hundreds of TV shows, Perry Yan, winner of 2016 Northern California Inter-Club Stage Competition, and Magical Nathaniel, your MC and incoming President of the Oakland Magic Circle for 2017.
Schedule of events:
6 PM Doors Open
7 PM Dinner is Served
8 PM – Showtime!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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
We will be electing officers for 2017 at tonight’s meeting. Only dues-paid members of the Oakland Magic Circle can vote. The following people were nominated at the November meeting.
President – Nathaniel Segal
Vice President – Mark Tarses
Secretary – Byron Walker
Treasurer – Robert Herrick
Sergeant at Arms – Dagmar Theisen
Historian – Doug Eakin
Librarian – Gary Meyer
6:30PM Doors open
7:15PM Business meeting begins
8:00PM Performances
6:30PM Doors open
7:15PM Business meeting begins
8:00PM Performances
Nominations for OMC Officers. If you would like to run for office in the OMC for 2017, come to the November meeting and place your name in nomination. You must be a dues-paid member of the OMC to run for office. The election will be held at the December meeting.
This will be an open performance night. Tricks with a political, Halloween, or Houdini theme would seem appropriate.