Ken Trombly to Lecture at October Meeting

The October 6th meeting features a lifelong magic enthusiast and longtime magic collector, Ken Trombly. He has been performing magic since the age of 10 and has been a serious collector of magic posters and related items for at least the last couple of decades when he began collecting "original magic posters from the :Golden Age of Magic". Trombly will be sharing his knowledge of magic posters with us at the meeting. He has lecture at the Magic Collectors Association conventions, and given his slide show presentation to other magic clubs as well. He has publishd articles on magic posters and collecting in Paper Collectors Marketplace, Collectors Showcase, MUM, and MAGIC magazines. Come out an enjoy the presentation.

September Magi-Gram is here!

Thanks to Bob Patterson for another brilliant job and in-depth coverage of the September New Performers Show. You can read all about it here.
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Magic by First Time Performers at September 1st Meeting

For our September 1st meeting will be entertained by the members that have never performed for the Ring thus called “Magic by First Time Performers” night. Let’s get some new faces to perform at the meeting. For the September meeting we will have an opportunity for people who don’t normally perform at the meetings to show their stuff. If you have not performed or it’s been a long time since you performed for the Ring you are invited to bring a trick or two and perform for the Ring members. This will help develop their skills and provide encouraging feedback. Contact President Arnie Fuoco at (afuoco2@Yahoo.Com) or 703-521-6286 so he can put you on the program.

August Magi-Gram is Here!

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Alain Nu - The Man Who Knows

August's meeting kicked off with the members approving President Arnie Fuoco's proposal to purchase a portable stage light set and a portable wireless PA.We also voted in two new members. Magi-Whirl Chairman Theo Rushin announced that MAGI-WHIRL 2011 will take place on April 29 & 30 at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, Virginia. He also announced our headliners: Dirk Losander and Luna Shimada, along with legendary UK street magician Keith Fields. We have more surprises, and you can keep up with the news at www.Magi-Whirl.org.

Our lecturer was a longtime friend of Ring 50, international star and local resident Alain Nu, who had done a special intensive mentalism workshop earlier in the evening.

Alain's lecture was quite unusual, not only for his focus on mentalism, but also for his teaching style. He teaches principles which form the basis for numerous tricks and routines, limited only by the performer's imagination. He performed "Nu Wave," his take on "B'Wave;" did an excellent book test; did his version of Any Card at Any Number; divined an audience member's zodiac sign and bent ordinary spoons in the extraordinary fashion for which he is so justly famous.

Nu then spent the next 90 minutes going into great detail on the principals and variations involved in the first three items. This was really a master class in routine construction, teaching how to craft the script and the action to cancel out the method. He spent a brief time on the zodiac divination, which is found in one of his manuscripts, which are available at his lectures. As he had warned us, he did not teach his spoon-bending secrets, although he does a special workshop on just this topic the day before Mindvention each year. You can get more info by contacting Alain at alainnutv@yahoo.com. Alain Nu is a deep thinker who has much of value to teach any magician or mentalist.