Ring 101 Holiday Dinner & Magic Show

Ring 101 invites members of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, their family, and friends to our annual holiday dinner party and magic show. It will be held on January 22nd, 2012 at the Club Monarch (16 Erie Street, Yorkville, NY) starting at 1pm.

Dinner will be served at 2pm and a magic show featuring members of Ring 101 will follow at 3:30pm.

The menu will tickle your taste buds! We will have a crisp tossed salad, Roast Beef au jus, Slow-Roasted Turkey with homemade stuffing, Hats with Broccoli, a hot vegetable, and mashed potatoes and gravy. Of course, there will be rolls with butter and coffee, tea, decaf, and soda.

We look forward to you joining us!

View the full flyer with registration form.

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Ring 101 Magic Sale & Auction

We are trying something new this year at our regular November (2nd) meeting at the Rome VFW — a magic sale and auction. Bring your magic before 7pm and set it out on a table for sale from 7pm to 7:30pm. Then sharply at 7:30pm we will conclude sales, and you can either pick 5 of your remaining items, or group all your remaining items into 5 lots for sale. Then at 7:45pm, we will hold a magic auction, with 10% of the proceeds going to Ring 101.

We expect to have several new and lightly used items from Flower the Clown for this event.

Click here for the PDF version of the advertisement flyer.

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Shaun Robison introduces Cinch

Ring member Shaun Robison has recently introduced his bill change effect “Cinch” to the magic community. Check out this introductory video!

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Lance Pierce Lecture

Lance Pierce

Ring 101 welcomes Lance Pierce on October 19th, 2011 for a magic lecture!
The lecture will be held at Denny’s in Rome, NY at 7pm.
Join us at 5:30pm for dinner before the lecture.

Lance Pierce is a performer, author, editor, teacher, creator, consultant, and magician specializing in the practice of sleight of hand in close-up and platform venues. He was a featured entertainer at the world-famous Malone’s Magic Bar at the Boca Resort and Hotel in Boca Raton, Florida, and is a prolific writer of books, booklets, magazine articles, and essays.

A lecture with Lance Pierce is like a table-side conversation, a session, an exploration of effects both close-up and platform. It’s a discussion about sophisticated magic at its root level with every detail exposed in a relaxed and easy-going manner. During any given talk, you may see tricks using cards, coins, silks, knives, rings, or anything else. What you’ll see are effects that have been honed over decades of experimentation and analysis. You’ll get the reasons behind everything and everything behind the reasons. The content may run the gamut from platform stand-up routines to bar magic to formal close-up table effects. There’s surely something for everyone.

More info can be found in this PDF flyer.

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Picnic Canceled

Due to high winds and flooding related to Hurricane Irene, the Ring 101 Summer Picnic scheduled for today has been cancelled.

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