The evening of “Silk Magic” was kicked off by our host, Joel
Howlett. He produced a streamer from his bare hands, made a sponge ball appear and vanish,
changed a sponge ball into a silk, and passed white and red silks through his bare hands to produce a striped silk. It was all very smoothly done and
surprising. There was a lot of hard
work and diligent practice displayed here.
Steve Irwin did a silk Colour Change in the hand, and
repeated it. This was well
received. We know the equipment for
this production is challenging – and Steve is well used to using it.
David Whitson set out to show fun, surprise, mystery,
reminiscence & poignancy – what a lot of emotions to display with
magic! Part of this was sheer fun, and
he became even more surprising when he tore paper into strips, placed these in
a box and produced a coloured streamer from it.
Eric, visiting us for only the second time, volunteered to
do an item for us – thank you, Eric! He
had a card selected, and then replaced in the deck. When the spectator looked for his card in the deck, it had
vanished, to reappear in the card box.
Generously, Eric then proceeded to workshop this item for us.
