Our first member of the year was appointed by the executive board. Future MoYs will be picked by a points system. Secretary Bob Nixon is formulating a point system and will present it at the Dec meeting.
How can you become the member of the year for 2007? Here are some of the ways to gain points.
Attend meetings
Participate in meetings
Write a piece for the newsletter
Bring a new member into the club SAM or SYM
Organize a club function, bbq, banquet,
Organize a club show
Organize a club fund-raiser
Participate in a club show
Participate in a club fund-raiser
Lecture for the SYM
Make a donation to the lending library
Teach a sleight of the month
Participate in Magic Week - library display - Perform a free show for the less fortunate - Donate book(s) to your local Library or school
What are the rewards for being chosen as member of the year?
Local dues paid - $20
National Dues reimbursed - $50
Lectures are paid for the following year - value$10-$20 each
MoY chair, front, center for the lectures
$100 credit to Diamonds Magic
MoY page at www.sam174.com
MoY Certificate and/or plaque
What are the criteria?
Must be a member in good standing to local SAM for the complete year (starting this January)
Must be a member in good standing to national SAM for the complete year (starting this January)
Must have most points in one calendar year September to September, or Banquet to Banquet (this years points start in January)
Award will be presented at our annual banquet along with installation of officers
ASSEMBLY 174 next meeting
Meeting Date: Sunday, February 10th
Meeting Time: SYM @ 2:00PM / SAM @ 5:00 PM
February Meeting is on Sunday February 10th to accommodate those who choose to watch the Super Bowl on the 2nd
4:00 - 5:00 eboard meeting
5:00 - 5:30 social (if you bring a snack to share that's great!)
5:30 quick business meeting
immediately followed by...
SAM 174 presents....
Round Table Card Foolery (an instant competition)
WARNING!! This contest is for fun only, and may be great practice for those who would like exposure to showing card magic to other magicians as practice for IBM Ring #362's Elliott Card Challenge held in Rumford "Maine's Capital of Magic" on April 20th.
Members who wish to participate - You have three minutes to perform card effect(s) in a round table setting (similar to what you would do at camp).
There will be one deck of cards containing of all 52 cards, no jokers (similar to what you would find at camp).
You must not crease, rip, cut, mark, deface, or otherwise ruin the cards. (They must be able to be put back into use at camp). Doing so will be cause for elimination.
Starting magician will be chosen by a pick of high card - ace to king. Participating magicians must keep the seat they started with.
The deck will go around the table clockwise with each magician doing their best within the 3 minute time limit
The cards will be taken from you by the next magician if you go over 3 minute time limit, overtime will be called by the contest official.
All members present will vote on their favorite presentation, but you cannot choose yourself. Most popular name wins the prize package
Contest official will provide one deck to be used by all, tally the votes, keep time and officiate any discrepancies.
The prize package will contain, but not limited to - a regular Medium size Jumbo Deck, a Reverse Color Deck and R.W. Hull's Mental Photography Deck made by Haines House of Cards (Second-hand but in good shape). In the event of a tie we will divide the package by a random chance method, (High card picks first, ace to king).
Good Luck
Sleight of the Month - The Great Stephan will workshop Four Card Forces while the votes are tallied.
The floor will then be open for anyone else that has other magic to present or share.
Hope to see you then!
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In March we are having Eric Evans come to lecture!
Details are as follows.
Who: SAM #174 Ralph Greenwood Assembly invites you!
What: THE ERIC EVANS LECTURE
Where: Labbe's House of Magic, Westbrook Maine Directions
When: March 2nd - 5:00 social, lecture at 5:30
How much: $10 for SAM#174, and SYM#130 - $25 other magicians
The Magicians Lecture Network is proud to present the Eric Evans Lecture. Eric is one of today's top street performers. Eric resides in Plainview, Texas. Eric makes his living
performing in a wide variety of venues from restaurants to theaters to performing street magic. Eric is also co-author of the highly acclaimed book, "The Secret Art Of Magic."
I am confident that your group will enjoy seeing Eric perform and lecture. Thanks.
Magically Yours,
John Luka
Magicians Lecture Network
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Eric Evans
This lecture is about crowds, it's about the kind of refined power that attracts them: Magnetic magic en masse. Drawing upon strategies Nowlin discusses in the second half of their book, Eric will
be performing and teaching his street-tested working repertoire of "take no prisoners" magic. Magic that features: Coins, cards, balls, wand, hat, and a lot of "know-how" * all for your pleasure.
· His work on the Miser's Dream sequence, including several soon-to-be-classic bits with a young volunteer that always brings huge laughs.
· Eric's single-coin routine that is a mainstay of his award-winning stage act; including an original addition that is sure to fool, and more certainly to please, even the most reserved spectator.
· Coins, Coins, Coins and more coins*A virtual unending number of jumbo coins from the hand that Eric calls Mephisto's Mitts. Plus the production of a countless stream of dollar sized coins
emanating from*you'll have to see it to believe it.
· Eric's version of the Kangaroo Card (a chosen card "hops" from out of a hat) that has fooled even the most knowledgeable card men.
· His version of Johnny Brown's "Balls from Mouth" that creates the illusion of far more balls than are used.
· The Closer to his street show * the trick he uses to get the money! It uses a borrowed bill in a combination of classic effects that makes them both seem new, including a hilarious destruction
of the bill that is completely safe and legal. The simplified handling and the psychology that makes it work is easily worth the price of the lecture itself.
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"Eric*is one of the finest magicians ever to practice the art of street deception." *- Cellini, "King of the Street"
"He came. I saw. He conquered." -- Lee Asher on Eric's lecture.
"I received more unsolicited positive comments about Eric's lecture, than any other lecture tour I've booked." * Scott Wells, past president of TAOM
Magicians who have visited us here in Maine at SAM #174
Past Lecturer's at SAM #174
Jay Scott Berry - 2 visits
Jim Pace - Rumford
Joshua Jay 2006 Banquet
Tom Craven - 2 visits
Ken Scott
Dan Garrett
Bill Abbott
Marlene Clark - Ventriloquism
Angelo Stagnaro - Mentalism
Bruce Kalver
Aldo Columbini - 2 visits
Max Howard - 2005 Banquet
Gazzo - Westbrook
John Calvert
Michael Ammar
Troy Hoosier
Bob Bengal
Andrew Pinard
Yves Doumergue and Laurent Beretta
Chad Long
Did I miss any?
Ah yes, Dealer Shows
Diamond's Magic - Eddie Gardner - 2 visits
Labbe's House of Magic - Dennis Labbe
Did you miss any?
Future Lectures
Eric Evans BOOKED for March
Nathan Kranzo - BOOKED for September
S.A.M. Local membership means discount lectures!
S.A.M. national membership means the M.U.M. magazine!
and of course, much, much more!
Visiting magicians and potential members, are welcome to attend the February meeting at no cost or obligation.
Hope to See you on the second floor of the Cummings Center at the top of Munjoy Hill in Portland.
(If you would like, bring your favorite snack to share.)
Park in the small adjacent parking lot beyond the Cummings Center.
