Tuesday 29 April 2008

BEER & MYSTICAL CONVERGENCE

So there we are as per, in the Velo Lounge: me and my mate Jon, self-professed Genius. As previously, it turns out - he actually IS.

Both my readers will already know, this Churchill Trust Award means I'm off to Las Vegas soon, to learn about magic, and - crucially - teaching magic. Vector One. (Well, I do have a Maths Magic show...).

Vector Two: I have a Maths Magic show. (Did I mention that already?)

Vector Three: I'm performing recently for a very nice lady and her equally charming friends. She, and several of the friends too, are Maths Teachers. They love the magic, hear about the - well, you know which Show - and wonder if there is anything I can teach them, to liven up a rainy Friday afternoon double maths class with the bottom set year nines? Or indeed any others. Obviously, I say that I could come in and perform the - yup, that. They're very interested, but also want something more personal and permanent, which they can continue to do after I've disapparated again.

Vector Four (is four allowed? Hey - I just do the tricks, it's not like I'm Einstein, OK?): On return from the US, I will be actively looking to teach magic more as well as perform it. Some of this will be gratis, for charity, some of it more along the lines of professional Training, for adults, using magic.

Vector Five (this is getting WAY out of control now, surely? Ed.): I was inspired not long ago at a Corporate Magic seminar, to consider the use of magic for corporate team-building days etc.

So. Still only on his first Leffe, Jon says here's an idea: why don't you offer Teacher Training in Maths Magic? I realise - I don't know. Why don't I? So - I am. Cool eh? In a Mystically Convergent kind of way...

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, good to see you in the world of cyber time wasting. I think teaching this stuff sounds great. I have used the healed and sealed soda trick of Anders Moden before in a christmas service. Having someone to teach this kind of stuff i think is invaluable. There is only so much from a book that you can understand.

Perhaps i should pick your brain when i next come down!

Holy Famoley said...

How d'ya do, Ian. I thought you guys were supposed to be bound on pain of death to keep the secrets of the Magic Circle?
Carole.

Anonymous said...

Hey ian, I was chatting to Jon who says that you were doing a small show in Bath, and were going to see if it was something you could do a bit more regularly. How did it go? Did you get a good response?

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