May 2019 Ring Report
- Ring Report submitted by Dennis Chan -
The May meeting started off with a teaching session for juniors. The session was started to help and guide juniors with their magic. Gabriella Lester, our new junior director is in charge of this program. Adam Blanchard was the only other junior there.
Then the meeting began with a teach a trick learn a trick session. The instructors were James Hanson, Kelvin Ng and Gabriella Lester. James taught rubber band magic and coin magic, Kelvin demonstrated card magic and card sleights and Gabriella showed how not to get caught off guard by showing puzzles and self working bets or scams.
After the teach a trick session, Lon Mandrake gave an excellent workshop on science magic and mentalism. Everyone enjoyed the new format of the teach a trick, learn a trick program and the workshop.
May is when the two close-up competitions take place. The first competition is for the Dick Gardner trophy. This is a competition for juniors. In this competition playing cards are permitted. The second competition is for the H.B. McLean trophy which is a competition for adults. No playing cards are permitted. Yoosik Oum, our competition chair coordinated the competitions. Last year’s winner, Rod Boss was the host and M C for the competitions and he read the rules.
The competitors for the Dick Gardner trophy were Gabriella Lester and Adam Blanchard. Gabriella Lester was the winner of the Dick Gardner trophy. The competitors for the H. B. McLean trophy were Joji Yamashita, John Stenning, and Cameron Minty. John Stenning was the winner of the H. B. McLean trophy. Congratulations to the winners and to the competitors.Rod told stories and jokes and performed some magic in between the acts to keep the competition flowing.
After the competitions, new member Roy Hopwood performed some very interesting and entertaining magic while Yoosik Oum tallied the scores. Well done and thank you.
The business portion of the meeting included the Children’s Magician of the Year contest. Steve Braybrooke provided the refreshments. There were submarine sandwiches, cookies, and a pop corn machine. The sandwiches were served on china plates. Everyone enjoyed the refreshments. Thank you Steve.
Bryn Williams, Rod Boss, and Gabriella Lester took photos of the evening’s events. Graham Kita did the videography. Dennis Chan sold raffle tickets. There were 31 members and 6 guests in attendance.
