2013-2014 Ring 50 Meeting Schedule

Our meeting location is:

Bishop Ireton High School
201 CAMBRIDGE ROAD
ALEXANDRIA, VA 22314.

PLEASE NOTE: Please enter at the doors for the Whaley Auditorium, which face Duke Street and have a bog parking lot. Do NOT enter at the main school entrance facing Cambridge Road.

6:00 p.m.  Counts of Conjuring (Magic Youth International)
7:05 p.m.  Teach-in
7:30 p.m.  Meeting starts
9:30 p.m.  Meeting ends

The many fine restaurants nearby Bishop Ireton make it easy to visit with your friends before the meeting!

Jan 8 .......... Hocus in Focus Night
Feb 5 ......... Auction Night
Mar 5 ......... Richard Osterling Lecture (NOTE: Mtg starts at 7 PM)
Apr 2 ......... New Members Perform

Apr 25 & 26 ....... Magi-Whirl 2014

May 7 ........ Dan Lacey Contest
Jun 4 ......... Bob Sheets Lecture

July ........... No meeting in July, see you at the IBM/SAM Convention

Aug 6 ....... Teach-in by Ring 50 members
Sep 3 ........ Mentalist Perform
Oct 1 ........ Lecture of Event (TBA)
Nov 5 ....... "My favorite trick(s) and why"
Dec 3 ....... Annual Holiday Children's Magic Show – donations

TLR Reviewers to Perform at January Meeting

     The January 8^th meeting will be demonstrations of the latest magic items on the market by our Ring 50 Hocus in Focus Linking Ring reviewers. New items arrive at the I.B.M. TLR editor’s office for review. He sends them to the associate editor, Jason Goldberg, for his reviewers to examine, tear apart, perform and evaluate. Many are new items, books, DVDs, and some are revisions or modifications to classic magic effects. This will be a good chance to see a demo of an item you saw advertise and wanted to know more about it.

     So come to the meeting on January 8^th at Bishop Ireton High School 201 Cambridge Rd, Alexandria VA, 7:30 PM and see the newest in magic.

Children's Holiday Magic Show Dec 4th

Ring 50 Magicians Featured in the Holiday Show:

Wednesday, December 4^th at 7:00 PM at the Bishop Ireton High School, 201 Cambridge Road, Alexandria, VA there will be a "Children's Holiday Magic Show" sponsored by I.B.M. Ring 50 featuring four of Washington's finest children's magicians with Danny Selnick as the emcee. We expect 100 children or more and their parents. You saw how successful it was last year for the children and the community!

Admittance is FREE -- with donation of toy (preferred) or can of food for a local charity group. The Holiday show starts at 7:00 PM and will be about 1 hour in duration. Be sure to bring the kids and see a great Holiday show compliments of Ring 50 and Bishop Ireton High School!

Jay Scott Berry to Lecture at November 6th Meeting

The Elegance, the Artistry, the Wonder

     Jay Scott Berry is a modern day Merlin and Renaissance man, widely recognized as one of the world's finest magicians. He has travelled the globe delighting audiences with an elegant, sophisticated style that can best be described as “Pure Magic”. What sets him apart from almost every other magician is that he performs original illusions that actually "look like real magic".

    In this new lecture, Jay pushes the frontiers of the Art even further with powerful magic that is both practical and versatile. Everything in the lecture is directly from his personal “A” list of effects and, as such, is time-tested in real world conditions. His original methods are ultra-smooth, starting clean and ending clean.

     Ring 50 meets at Bishop Ireton High School, 201 Cambridge Road, Alexandria, VA at 7:30 PM. The lecture is free for Ring 50 members and all other magicians are welcome to attend for a $15 fee.

 

Ring 50’s Children's Holiday Magic Show

      Wednesday, December 4^th there will be a "Children's Holiday Magic Show" sponsored by I.B.M. Ring 50 featuring Washington's finest children's magicians. We need Ring 50 magicians for the show and if you might be interested in performing at the annual Holiday Magic Show send Danny Selnick an email (daniel.selnick@yahoo.com).

     We expect 100 children or more and their parents. You saw how successful it was last year for the children and the community!  Admittance is FREE -- with donation of toy or can of food for the Salvation Army Alexandria Citadel. The Holiday show starts at 7:00 PM and will be about 1 hour in duration. Be sure to bring the kids and see a great Holiday show compliments of Ring 50 and Bishop Ireton High School!

      The Ring 50 Children’s Holiday Magic Show will be at the Bishop Ireton High School, 201 Cambridge Road, Alexandria, VA at 7:00 PM, December 4^th.

Aldo & Rachel Colombini Ring 50 Lecture - Oct 2

    Coming to Ring 50 on October 2^nd to present his current lecture will be Aldo & Rachel Colombini. Aldo lectures on magic worldwide and was nominated by the Academy of Magical Arts twice Lecturer of the Year. He is a F.I.S.M. prizewinner, one of the most prestigious awards in the world of magic. When he is onstage, audiences from all over the world are mesmerized by his wonderful mix of magic, comedy and Italian charm. Aldo was voted by the Academy of Magical Arts, Hollywood, California: twice Parlor magician of the year, nominated for best Close-up magician of the year, Best stage performer of the year, Best Bar magician of the year and for Best Comedy act of the year. He appeared on “Masters of Illusion,” a series of weekly magic specials on TV. Aldo has written and published several books on magic and created many magical effects used by magicians all over the world. In the history of the Magic Castle, he is the only magician to be nominated in all six categories: Comedy, Stage, Close-up, Parlor, Bar magician and Lecturer.

    Ring 50 meets at Bishop Ireton High School, 201 Cambridge Road, Alexandria, VA at 7:30 PM. The lecture is free for Ring 50 members and all other magicians are welcome to attend for a $15 fee.