This meeting had as its theme, "Silks, Handkerchiefs and Ribbon Magic", with Steve Irwin as Host.
The Ghost tube is a brilliant piece of gear, and David Whitson handled it nicely,
producing a bunch of silks from the Ghost cylinder, which had previously been shown
empty – we could see right through it. Then he did an open-handed Blendo in
which four silks were clearly shown and then blended in mid air into a four
panel multicoloured silk. Using a change bag with two volunteers, he produced
three enormous silks from nothing, and then draped them across the front of the
two volunteers and himself, showing all three persons transformed into circus
animals and performer.
Joel Howlett started with a silk in his hand, shook
it, and other coloured silks edged their way up from the centre of it, like a
silk fountain, and then suddenly there was a bottle in the middle of it
all! He also did the 20th Century
silks (should it be called 21st Century now?).
Four colour changes were shown us by Noel Clair ! He
pushed a coloured silk into his hand and it changed colour as it went through
his hand – and changed colour again, and changed colour again, and changed
colour again ! Yes, four colour changes
!
Our newest member, Josie Yan, delighted us all by
“having a go”, getting up to present us with a magic trick – the torn and
restored tissue. It went well. Congratulations!
The Host for the evening was Steve Irwin. He kept doing amazing items throughout the
evening in between the others' presentations. Leading off with a very neat colour changing silk, he later did a nice flash paper effect. It is always effective to mix the sheen of
silk with the fire of flashpaper. Another
brilliant item was appearing flowers from finger tips – both pretty and
unexpected. He also surprised us with
silk appearing tied on wand.
A really great evening, in all. I hope I have whetted your interest, and that if you missed this
evening, you’ll make a point of being there at the next one !
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