After a few weeks holiday to recover from the Convention it was back into the thick of it with my many corporate magic shows and events. I was invited to lecture for Bradford Circle Of Magicians and also appear in their Theatre show at the theatre in Bingley. I love doing these kind of shows as they are always light hearted and great fun to be a part of. The line up of acts were a mixture of semi professional and amateur performers with myself topping the bill as the professional magic act.

I had a my assistant/ dancer Stacey join me again and we had a great show.

With the success of the Blackpool Magic Convention 2009 in the bag I received the exciting news that Derek Lever on behalf of the  Blackpool Magicians’ Club was planning to bid to become the 2012 host for the FISM World Championships of Magic.

These championships held every three years in a different host city/ country each time, this years being in Beijing, China. It brings together the finest magicians across the world who compete in different categories of magic to win the title of World Champion of Magic’

The many areas of magic included are:

Stage/ General Magic

Illusion

Close Up Table Magic

Parlour Magic

Micro Magic

Mentalism

Comedy Magic

Manipulation Magic

So a small delegation including myself was put together to head to Beijing to present the bid for Blackpool at the end of July. We headed over to the Asian capital via numerous long flights and finally reached the amazing hotel close by to the enormous convention centre.

The championships kicked off with some amazing 2000 delegate social banquets and exotic Chinese acrobatic displays Watch Here along with the impressive opening stage and close up magic competition rounds.

We had our exhibition stand and after numerous calls to UPS in Beijing in order to clear our display materials through customs we were able to create our trade show area.

We did plenty of networking and meeting of the many international delegates throughout the week along with catching the numerous competitions in order to spot the quality acts worth bringing to Blackpool in the coming years.