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H :// 02 Eb. . /J/83018063256 December 2020 Oakland Magic December 2020 Oakland Magic Circle Newsletter Official Website:www.OaklandMagicCircle.com ​ ​ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/42889493580/ ​ This Month’s Contents Anna DeGuzman Lecture- page 1 OMC Membership and Board Openings - page 3 OMC Magic Contests- Win Cash!- page 4 Anna DeGuzman Answers Five Questions- page 5 Magical Resource of the Month- page 6 Performing Virtually- page 6 News You Can Use – page 8 Who Was Lulu Hurst? - page 9 Magic in the Bay Area – page 10 Beyond the Bay- page 20 Northern California Magic Dealers- page 24 Highlighted and underlined names and words should provide a link for more information. ANNA DEGUZMAN Lecture on Tuesday, December 1 The Oakland Magic Circle and IBM Ring 216 will co-present Anna DeGuzman lecturing and teaching on Tuesday, December 1 at 7pmPST. This is another night you do not want to miss. Free. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83018063256 Oakland Magic Circle December 2020 Newsletter Come early for online social time. “Doors open” at 6:30. The lecture starts at 7pm and will be over around 8:30.. Stay after the lecture and perform some magic. Some members have already promised to do magic. We hope that you will too. What Anna DeGuzman can do with a deck of 52 cards will make your head spin! Manipulating cards into ​ ​ impossible 3-D configurations, she cuts, flings, flips, rotates, juggles and shuffles playing cards in the middle of the street, along train tracks and in close-up shows at the most prestigious magic venues in the world including for The Magic Castle, Liberty Magic and the Chicago Magic Lounge. Anna will discuss Cardistry and incorporating it into your magic. Anna uses money, rings, Rubik's Cubes and more in addition to cards. She will teach us some basic moves and signature effects, talk about her success using social media, tell behind-the-scenes stories on TV’s “Masters of Illusion” and ”Fool Us,” and the challenges of being a woman in magic. She learned her first trick at 11 and now this 22-year-old has gone from street magic to her recently created stage act. She has also appeared on MTV's “Amazingness” and even has a part in a recent Windows Surface commercial showcasing her talent! She has over 150,000 followers on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. Anna will also answer your questions. Watch her appearance on Fool Us (2019) ​ ​ Jason Parker reacts to her performance on Fool Us ​ ​ ​ A Video session of Street Magic (2019) ​ ​ Anna Gets to Shop and leads a Tour of the Murphy’s Magic Warehouse (2018) ​ ​ ​ The Oakland Magic Circle December 2020 Newsletter 2 ​ On Masters of Illusion (2019-20) ​ ​ ​ ​ Join Anna reacting to Reacting to Shim Lim on AGT ​ ​ Take a tour of the Magic Castle with Anna. ​ Appearing in a Windows Surface Commercial (2020) ​ ​ Read about her appearance at Liberty Magic Monday Magic/(2020) ​ ​ Watch the Kings basketball team react to her magic (2018) ​ ​ ​ Facebook Short Videos ​ Anna reacts to her 2014 first video four years later ​ ​ Appearing on video podcasts for lengthy interviews: Unplugged with Luke Dancy (Nov. 2020) ​ ​ ​ Discourse in Magic: Cardistry, Community and Content Creation (2017) ​ ​ OMC MEMBERSHIP and BOARD OPENINGS DUES 2021 dues are $20.00 for the year. Youth Membership- under 15-year-olds: $10 Please mail them to: Oakland Magic Circle c/o Marc McGuire 1737 Alhambra Lane Oakland CA 94611 ————————————————— The Oakland Magic Circle December 2020 Newsletter 3 ​ If you wish to use your PayPal account to pay your dues, enter the following information to send your $10 or $20 payment to Oakland Magic Circle: 1) Sign in to your PayPal account here, or register for one: www.paypal.com/home ​ ​ 2) Send money to: [email protected] ​ ​ If you want to apply for membership send an email to President Robert Herrick [email protected] or ​ ​ our secretary Byron Walker at [email protected]. ​ ​ Joining or renewing now will get you Exclusive Members Only benefits through December 2021 including access to selected past lectures (you’d pay more than the dues fees just to see one of them from a dealer), eligibility to compete for cash prizes and trophies in OMC contests and access to our large library of books and DVDs (when we can meet in person again). Your modest dues (we have kept them low for years) help us present monthly events including lectures, contests,and when in person returns, our auction/flea market, dinner shows, renting a meeting place with a stage, all while providing a forum for local magicians to meet and share. It isn't just about paying your dues but helping build our club, the oldest independent magic club west of the Mississippi, operating continuously since 1925. We want you to help keep the club relevant and contemporary while learning from past and present trends and looking to the future. There are currently about 70 members including working professionals, aspiring pros, hobbyists and collectors. The annual election of officers occurs in December. One can self-nominate or be nominated by others and ​ ​ the last day for nominations is Monday, December 14. Nominations and/or questions should be directed to Robert Herrick at [email protected]. The current Officers/Board can be seen here. As of this writing there ​ ​ ​ ​ are no nominations for Historian, Sgt. At Arms, two Members at Large positions and our new Technical Officer. WE NEED YOU. OMC CONTEST- CASH PRIZES and TROPHIES The Oakland Magic Circle is pleased to announce that the Annual OMC Magic Contests will be conducted via Zoom meetings early next year. Now is the time for Members to polish their acts for presentation during the Contest. Cash prizes of will be awarded in the amounts of $150 for First Place, $100 for Second Place and $75 for Third Place. Close-Up Magic: Tuesday, February 2, 2021. ​ Parlor & Stage Magic: Tuesday, March 2, 2021. ​ Each contest session will begin at 7:00 pm. Eligibility: All OMC Members and Membership Applicants ​ who have paid their 2021 dues. Non-Members may apply to qualify. Basic Rules: Performances may be either “live” or ​ pre-recorded for presentation during the Zoom meetings and run between 6 and 15 minutes. Watch for more details in mid-December but start thinking about developing your act now. The Oakland Magic Circle December 2020 Newsletter 4 ​ ANNA DEGUZMAN ANSWERS OUR FIVE QUESTIONS 1. Please tell us the first magic trick(s) you were proud to perform and about how old were you? It was a simple key card method trick. I was maybe 11. My cousin showed me a trick he learned on YouTube and I had to figure it out. So I looked up his YouTube search history and found out how the trick worked and taught myself. I started fooling everyone with that effect. To this day I think it is still powerful. (left: 16-year-old Anna) 2. And the first important magic book(s)? Expert at the Card Table, Royal Road to Card Magic, Practical Mental Magic, 5 Points in Magic by ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Juan Tamariz... so many more I can’t think to name them all. 3. If you were going to a desert island for six months to do a deep dive into your magic what three effects would you take with you to perfect? And what three books would you bring along? The Encyclopedia of Magic or Card College collections, ​ ​ ​ ​ Corinda’s 13 Steps to Mentalism. But to be honest I'm not too ​ ​ sure. Cards, coins, hypnosis for sure 4. You are planning a dinner party followed by your magic show. Among the guests can be any five people from history (living or dead, magician or not). Who would you invite? David Blaine obviously, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner 5. What are words of wisdom or advice you can offer for aspiring prestidigitators? It’s okay to take breaks. You will find a greater appreciation for the art when you take space and look at it after taking some time to gain perspective. The Oakland Magic Circle December 2020 Newsletter 5 ​ MAGICAL RESOURCE OF THE MONTH- Best Magic Books “This site was created to select some of the most important books in the field of magical entertainment. We asked a few prominent magicians to list the top-ten magic books they would take to the desert-island. The magicians were not allowed to select their own books and multi-volume books (such as The Tarbell Course in Magic) count as one book.” The magicians who contributed ​ ​ were Daryl, David Regal, Eugene Burger, George Schindler, J.C. Wagner, Jared Kopf, John Carney, Marc ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ DeSouza, Richard Osterlind, Shawn Farquhar, Mike Caveney, Max Maven, Asi Wind, and Jon ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Racherbau​ mer. If you click on​ any of their name​ s you will see th​ eir choices. ​ The top ten bo​ oks are here. ​ ​ ​ If you want to purchase any of the books mentioned in “Five Answers” or “Best Magic Books” we urge you to check with OMC member Byron Walker, one of the world’s foremost magic book dealers/collectors. Write him at [email protected]. His website only shows a ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ fraction of what he sells. PERFORMING VIRTUALLY Most of the lectures we have featured since April have included some discussion about virtual shows. They are working well for some performers and others are not comfortable with them. You miss that immediate audience interaction and there many effects that do not adapt to the medium. Yet there are effects that benefit from the format and you instantly know the names of most of your Zoom audience.
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