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The Andrew Mayne Magic Lecture

September 8th, 6 PM
Birmingham, AL
North Shelby Public Library
5521 Cahaba Valley Rd., Birmingham, AL 35242
Judge Arnold Drennen Ring 35 of the IBM also known as the Magic City Magic Club
$20 for members, $25 for non-members, under 18 is $10, spouses are free.

September 9th, 7 PM
Memphis, TN
Coletta’s Italian Restaurant
2850 Appling Rd.
Memphis, TN 38133
$20 for IBM Ring 16 Members, $35 (for Non-Members,with $15.00 of this going to your Ring 16 dues)

September 10th, 7 PM
Murfreesboro, TN
North Boulevard Church of Christ, 1112 N. Rutherford Blvd.
Murfreesboro, TN
IBM Ring 252 Middle TN Magic Club (The Sam Walkoff Ring)
IBM Members is $5, Non IBM Members is $10

Here are my Northern California lecture dates. Please pass them around. I expect all of you to be there.

Fresno
June 27th 7 p.m.
Hocus Pocus
1492 N. Clark St. #104 Fresno, CA 93703

San Francisco
June 28th 7 p.m.
Miraloma Park Improvement Club
350-O’Shaughnesy Blvd., San Francisco

Sacremento
June 30th 7:30 p.m.
Grand Illusions
7704 Fair oaks Blvd. Carmichael, CA. 95608-1706

I had a lot of fun bringing my lecture to the North East. It was great to have Mr. Justin Robert Young along as my interpreter and Mr. Cameron Ramsay as our host. Boy did we give Cameron a hard time. We gave him several nicknames and reenacted painful scenes from his childhood at every opportunity. I’m still laughing at the thought of a chubby kid Cameron getting stuck in a subway turnstile with his toy plastic trumpet. Justin and I will be performing that as a play on the dinner theatre circuit. Of course, Cameron is grown up now and we jealously watched as half the cougars on Rhode Island tried to set him up with their teenage daughters. That might be why someone loaded his internet browser with obscene bookmarks when he wasn’t looking. I know it’s the reason I’m posting the goofy photo of him trying to ride a stationary bicycle.

The first lecture was at the fantabulous Diamonds Magic Shop in Peabody, Massachusetts. It’s the kind of shop that actually has the stuff you’re looking for in stock. A rarity nowadays, I know. Eddie and his wife are the owners and super nice folks. Please stop by the shop if you’re even remotely in the area. Thanks to everyone who showed up. We actually ran out of chairs!

That night we ended up where every magic lecture ends up: TGI Fridays. The waitress was politely amused by our magic tricks and seemed unphased when Cameron and I screwed up basic tricks in the most basic ways. For future reference to anybody reading this; if I hand you a deck I openly shuffled with the aces culled to the top, please do a miracle for the waitress with the godsend I gave you and don’t just shuffle the cards like some idiot who gets stuck in subway turnstiles holding a toy trumpet.

The next day we took a trip to Boston and actually parked a car in Harvard Yard (well, close to it). No trip to Boston isn’t complete without a trip to the Boston Apple Store. For MacHeads like me it’s like visiting Cathedrals in Europe, or In-N-Out Burgers in LA.

While walking through Boston we came across this rather inexplicable metal plate on the ground.

Speaking of borderline obscenities, we got to watch Justin co-host the NSFW show from Cameron Ramsay’s living room.

The next day was the Rhode Island lecture at Cameron’s magic club. We had a much larger turnout than was expected and I’d like to thank everyone who showed up. A special shout out to Todd Migliacci (@upcomingmagicia) who may be the only person to have seen my lecture in two states.

After the lecture we took a stop by the infamous Lizzy Borden house where the spinstress (probably) murdered her family in 1892. While there we conducted an impromptu ghost hunting investigation and made a startling discovery. I caught the whole thing on video:

We spent most of Wednesday waiting for our plane at the airport. In an attempt to entertain ourselves we made a video for Katie Kenner who was thousands of miles away at the World Magic Seminar handing out Theory 11 decks to any shemp who showed her a card trick. Not wanting to be left out, I concocted this. It was shot in one take and on the first take:

That was pretty much our entire adventure. Oh, and I also ate 12 Boston creme donuts for no apparent reason. Thanks again to Big Pasta a.k.a Trumpet Boy a.k.a. Cameron Ramsay for being an awesome host.

I’ve got three lectures coming up in the near future and would love to see anybody nearby come out to one of them. Here’s where and when I’ll be:

Peabody, Massachusetts – February 28th

Sunday 7:00 pm
Diamonds Magic
515 Lowell Street
Peabody, MA 01960 (978) 535-8950

Rhode Island – March 2

Tuesday 7:00pm
Rhode Island Society of Magicians
American Legion Auburn Post 20
7 Legion Way, Cranston, RI 02921-2730

Atlanta, Georgia – March 28th (all-day)

http://magiccomedyjam.squarespace.com/
Sheraton Atlanta Perimeter North 800 Hammond Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30328

Thanks to Cameron Ramsay I’ll be speaking at the following locations. I’ll also have Mr. Justin Robert Young in tow. If you’re in the same hemisphere you should come visit.

Sunday Feb 28 at 7;00 pm
Diamonds Magic
515 Lowell Street
Peabody, MA 01960
(978) 535-8950

March 2 7;00pm
Rhode Island Society of Magicians
American Legion Auburn Post 20
7 Legion Way, Cranston, RI 02921-2730

From iTricks:

If you live in the South Florida area, make sure you head up to Margate to see Andrew Mayne get his lecture on tonight. It all starts at 7 p.m. and here is the address:

Northwest Focal Point Center
6009 NW 10th Sreet
Margate, FL 33063

Don’t miss your chance to see a lecture where you can learn several top AM effects, hear about his creative process as well as one or two jokes about Joshua Jay.

Again, things begin promptly at 7 p.m. See you there!

I’ll be bringing my lecture to the Tampa Bay Magic Club December 17th at 7:30 PM. This will be at the Largo Cultural Center.
LARGO CULTURAL CENTER
105 Central Park Drive, Largo, FL

For more information:

http://tampabaymagicclub.com

7:30 p.m. Saturday
Denny and Lee’s Magic Studio
5115 Dean Martin Drive #907
Las Vegas, NV 89118

I’ll be lecturing Thursday (April 2nd, 2009) at 7 PM.

Temple Beth Sholom Synagogue (House of Peace)
1050 S. Tuttle Ave
Sarasota Fl 34237

http://local.yahoo.com/info-14604042-temple-beth-sholom-sarasota