#keith fields

Keith Fields and his wife, The Lady Sarah, are award-winning performers, each in their own right. They co-chair the Contest Committee for the I.B. M. and also host their own weekly productions of “The Magic Soiree” that features not only their magic, but that of local magicians as well.

As we enter the season of magic conventions, it is not too late to consider preparing an act for competition. This week Keith Fields and Lady Sarah offer great ideas, tips, advice, and perspectives on getting your act together for a contest. Keith also shares ideas from his own award-winning act on the reasons that you should consider competing. Keith and Sarah also perform their own weekly show, “The Magic Soiree” near Detroit, Michigan, and share ideas on how you can find venues to present your act on a regular basis in your own town.

Friday, August 4th

9:30AM REGISTRATION OPENS at the Abbott Plant 9:30AM ABBOTT'S TALENT CONTEST (more info ) at High School (requires registration) 10:00AM ABBOTT'S DEALERS ROOM OPENS (requires registration) 11:00AM - 5:00PM COLON ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR (Craft Show/Vendor Info) 12:00PM FREE STREET PERFORMANCE (Odd Cory & JuJu Sideshow at Grannys) 1:00PM LECTURE - MAC KING (requires registration) 1:00PM MAGIC SHOW featuring Tim Wright at Abbott's Magic Theatre $5 2:00PM JAY BLACKWELL JUGGLING/FIRE EATING & MORE at Sterlini Magic & Theater $10 2:30PM ABBOTT'S CLOSEUP SHOW (requires registration) 3:00PM FACE PAINTING till 6PM outside 5 Star Pizza by Award Winning Artist Carol Hendrix (Standard Fees) 3:00PM-5PM COLON HISTORICAL MUSEUM is open (Colon Museum Webpage) 4:00PM FREE STREET PERFORMANCE (Gordon Russ at Colon Library) 4:30PM MAGIC SHOW featuring Rocky Clements at Abbott's Magic Theatre $5 5:00PM LIVE AT 5 WITH THE STERLINI'S at Sterlini Magic & Theater $10 5:30PM FREE STREET PERFORMANCE (Trino at Curlys) 6:00PM-7:45PM DINNER (on your own) 7:45PM PRESHOW LIVE ORGAN MUSIC - by John Sturk 8:00PM ABBOTT'S STAGE SHOW - THE FAR EAST MAGIC GALA           Featuring Kento Mukai (Japan), Shimpei Katsuragawa (Japan), Takehito Inoue (Japan), Yukihiro Katayama (Japan), Yu Komohara (Japan), Shouma (Japan) 10:00PM ABBOTT'S DEALERS ROOM OPENS (requires registration) 10:15PM DAVID MCCREARY at Sterlini Magic & Theater $15 10:30PM ABBOTT'S TALENT CONTEST AWARDS (requires registration)

Saturday July 30th 2022

8:15-11:00 - Stage Contest

8:00 - 9:00: Ekaterina Dobrokhotov

9:00 - 10:00: Michael Ammar

10:00 - 11:00: Eric Jones

11:30 - 12:30: Max Maven presents Erika Larsen: The Story of the Magic Castle

12:00 - 13:00: Miguel Munoz

13:00 - 15:00: Raphaël Navarro and Valentine Losseau

14:00 - 15:00: Julie Eng

16:00 - 18:00: The Winners Gala

18:30 - 19:30: Alexandra Duvivier

19:30 - 20:30: Special Lecture - Luis Piedrahita

21:00 - 23:00: Awards Gala

Winners

Stage Illusion

1. Yunke - Spain - 2. Doble Mandoble - Belgium 

Card magic

1. Markobi - France -

2. Pere Rafart - Spain 

3. Erik Tate - U.S.

Micro magic 

1 Luis Olmedo- Spain -  tie with Simon Coronel- U.A. Micro magic

2 Jacob Schenstrom - Sweden

3. Mr. Triton - France 

Parlour magic

1. Shoot Ogawa - U.S. -

2.Javi Rufo - Spain and Vincent - Australia 

3.  Jonio - Japan 

Mental magic

1. Anca & Lucca - Austria -

2. Rob & Emiel - Netherlands 

3. Magic Larry - Argentina and Andrea Rizzolini - Italy 

Manipulation

1. Junwoo Park - Japan -  tie with And Artem Shchukin - Russia

2. Eden - Korea 

3. Francesco Della Bona- Italy 

Comedy magic

1. Mortenn Christiansen - Denmark -

2. Ramo & Alegria - Spain 

3. Marie Helene - France 

General magic

1. Laurent Piron - Belgium

2. Ding Yang - China 

3. Zhu MingHu - China 

Close up most original act- 

Gleb - Lithuania - 

Close up Invention award - 

Martin Eisele - Germany and Daniel Mormona - Argentina - 

Stage magic - most original act - 

Ding Yang - China 

Stage magic - invention - 

Ramo & Alegria - Spain and HJ - Taiwan and Zhu Mingzhu - China - 

Special Awards Presented by Max Maven

Creativity & artistic vision - Special Awards - Topas - 

 History, Research & Scholarship     Richard Kaufman -  

 Theory & Philosophy      Dani DaOrtiz -

Close-up Grand Prix - Simon Coronel - U.S.

Stage magic Grand Prix - Laurent Piron - Belgium 

Time stamps for this episode:

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Tuesday July 3, 2018

9 AM - 9 PM Lance Burton Teen Seminar

9 AM - 5 PM Dealer Load In

4:30 PM - 9 PM Early Bird Registration Open

5 PM - 7 PM Dealer's Room Open

7 PM - 8 PM EDF Distinguished  Lecture - Gary Brown

9 PM - 10 PM Lecture - Rick Merrill  

Wednesday July 4, 2018

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Stage Contestants Meeting

9 AM - 10 AM Stage Contest Judges Briefing

9 AM - 12 NOON Registration Open

9:30 AM - 1 PM Lance Burton Teen Seminar

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Stage Contest Rehearsal

8 AM - 10:30 AM Dealers last minute load in

10:30 AM - 5 PM Dealer's Room Open

11:00 AM I.B.M. Board Meeting

1 PM - 3 PM Stage Contest - Part 1

1 PM - 5 PM Registration Open

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Lecture - Pop Hayden

6:15 PM Autograph Session  & Welcome Reception

7:30 PM - 9 PM Welcome Show/June Horowitz Honoree

10 PM - 11 PM Lecture - Steve Valentine

11:30 PM Eugene Burger Legacy Lecture

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Time stamps for this podcast:

00:02:45 - I.B.M. International President Bob Patterson and First Lady, Nancy Patterson

00:05:40 - Gay Blackstone talks about the new season of "Masters of Illusion" on the CW Network.

00:12:13 - Jeff McBride talks about the youth seminar

00:19:42 - Bill Cook also talks about the youth seminar.

00:26:25 - Larry Wilson will part of the upcoming show "Legends of Comedy Magic" on Thursday July 5th with Jeff Hobson, Michael Finney and Nick Lewin

00:47:57 - Tim Stolba with Iowa Magic Shop in the Dealer's Room talks about brick and mortar shops

00:52:37 - Lance Burton talks about his youth seminar that was held over the past couple days

00:58:17 - Keith Fields talks about working at magic theaters around the U.S.