Daytona Magic Convention

When we talk about magic conventions in Florida, The Daytona Magic Convention has its own signature in the Sunshine State. Every November in Daytona, Florida, The Daytona Magic Convention brings the best magic experience for the whole audience – magicians and non-magicians alike.
Attendees can experience all types of shows: Comedy Magic shows, illusions, Vegas-style shows, Close-up Magic, Kid’s Magic shows, Magic Card tricks and more!Although magic conventions are rarely ordinary, the Daytona Magic Convention is particularly special. It attracts both aspiring magicians and magic lovers in a remarkable three-day event. 
Organized by Daytona Magic Inc., one of the best magic shops in the state, this convention has been one of the most popular magic conventions in the country for nearly 20 years. Attendees can participate in auctions of used and new magic products, compete in various contests for magic stage performers (including kid magicians!), and view the Las-Vegas style shows on Friday and Saturday nights, performed by some of the biggest names in magic. It is a Magic festival of stars under a sunny and blue Florida sky.

Check the 2022 version: Daytona Magic convention 2022.

The talent at the Daytona Magic Convention is always spectacular, with the very best magicians and performers demonstrating their skills and lending their knowledge to attendees. This year’s performers and lecturers include Jeff McBride, Harry Allen, Andi Gladwin, Scott Humston, and many more. On Friday and Saturday nights, two stage shows will take place, where you won’t believe your eyes at the incredible talent that you’ll see and the takeaways you can glean from each performer’s original and unique stage presence. 
Over the course of the weekend, attendees can expect to take part in various lectures delivered by renowned industry experts, including Jeff McBride, Harry Allen, and Mickey Silver, where they can learn the best tips and tricks of the trade from those who know it best. Experiencing the latest trends in magic by the industry’s top performers provides an invaluable opportunity to attendees, whether they’re looking to expand their knowledge for their own performances, or they’re just seeking some magical entertainment. 

During the auctions throughout the weekend, attendees get a chance to purchase new and used magic products sold at an incredible bargain by other attendees of the convention. It’s a great chance to snag some good deals on stock items, or just browse the types of products available to get ideas for your own collection.

Daytona Magic - The Contest:
If you or the little magicians in the family are interested in taking part in one of the contests during the convention, there are several avenues through which you all can participate. You can show off your talents at the close-up magic competition, the stage magic show competition, the senior stage magic competition, or the junior stage competition. For more contest rules and guidelines, visit the convention website.
The convention itself is held in the Daytona Beach Resort and Conference Center, a stunning beachfront resort with a lounge, restaurant, and beautiful rooms for guests of the convention. Attendees of the Daytona Magic Convention can receive a special discount through a promotional code available on the convention’s website, making it convenient and easy to book a room for the weekend in the venue. If you’re staying somewhere offsite, the convention website has directions for your safe and timely arrival to the convention.

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Daytona Magic Convention 2019:

If you’re looking for a magical experience this fall, plan to attend the 19th annual Daytona Magic Convention November 1 - 3, 2019.
STARS FEATURING: LANCE BURTON! - HARRY ALLEN, LANCE BURTON, SCOTT HUMSTON, KYLE & MISTIE KNIGHT, GIOVANNI LIVERA, MONDRE, STUART MACDONALD, ERICK OLSON, FIELDING WEST, and MORE!

Where: Daytona Beach Resort and Conference Center:

2700 N Atlantic Ave, Daytona Beach, FL 32118

Remember: The Daytona Magic Convention is every year around November

Daytona Magic Shop 136 S Beach St, Daytona Beach, FL 32114

Website: https://www.daytonamagic.com/

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The Prestige, movie about magicians

The Prestige is a great movie!

It’s one of my favorite movies about magicians. 

It shows the realistic world of the competition of magicians that exists behind the scenes of all stagecraft.

The Prestige - a movie about Magicians

It is not my intention in this blog post to review a movie about magicians. Instead, the movie helps open the door to a larger point: what happens sometimes behind the scenes of magic.
Ever since I started practicing the art of magic my mind was crazy to find the best way to invent a magic trick and present a magic act. Not much has changed since that day. 

Every human being working toward prestige in their profession needs to pass through steps. They study and practice toward acquiring knowledge of an art or profession. With this knowledge, they work toward not just perfection of the art or profession but a way they can practice it that is different and unique. 

Are magicians competing to be the best in magic arts or simply for prestige and their own egos?

The movie: The prestige shows the competition as an obsesion. Competition is good. There’s nothing wrong with competing. Actually competition is one of the ways that magic clubs let the magicians show their skills, inventions and talents on stage. But sometimes in the field of competition the evaluation of our expectations needs to be reevaluated. Having a spirit of competition in the right way can encourage self-esteem and creativity at any level for people in any profession. 

The dark side of our ego: But the movie Prestige shows how magicians can enter competition for the sake of prestige, and in the process, they lose the joy of the art. And here is my point today. When we involve our egos in the wrong way looking more for the fame and name recognition, we lose our north. We stop enjoying what we do for the love of it. This is true of people in any profession of any age. 

I am no stranger to this magician's competition.

In my 20s, I was focusing all the time to learn and perform magic and the best tricks. Like any other human being, I felt feelings of competition. Sometimes other magicians cut me out of opportunities and the tight circle they created. Like other young magicians, I tried to outdo my peers.

 

But more recently I’ve noticed a different side to the profession. When I moved to Tampa, I heard about the Tampa Bay Magic Club. I figured I didn’t need it. What do I need with a club?

Magician's competition, just for fun!

But I started to attend the monthly meetings. Most of the magicians were much older than me, in their 60s, 70s and 80s. They are from a generation when magicians toured the circuit, traveling the country in RVs and campers, booking shows in cabaret rooms and state fairs when live entertainment shows were a popular thing. They had colorful stories and interesting names – like Windy and Sunny. Even more colorful were their personalities. They performed magic tricks at the club meetings and made mistakes, but would keep right on going. They encouraged each other. What mattered was the magic, not their egos. 

They brought in speakers and organized fundraisers, but more than that, whenever one of the members had a show, they’d get the word out so everyone would go to support them. At more than one of my own shows, I’d see their faces in the audience, whether or not I had been making the monthly club meetings on a regular basis. Recently, the spouses of several members have died. All of the club members spread the news and rallied around their friends, attending the funerals. Sometimes sitting in a group, sometimes spread out in different places in the pews at the funeral service. Always letting their club member and friend know they were there, to bring food, for companionship, to take them to a show. 

They taught me something, a new way of being a magician and the concept for competition.

To be humble and to listen in order to learn, instead of being so quick to make myself heard and seen. To be supportive and gracious, because there is enough magic and wonder out there for everyone.

Through their example, I learned that there is much more to the magic world than the prestige we younger magicians tend to seek. The older magicians have taught me the real meaning of brotherhood in the brotherhood of magicians. 

The Prestige: a competition of magicians - The Prestige - movie.

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