The Magic Space to host a Kudroli Ganesh session

International Magic Award Winner and Mega Magic Star Kudroli Ganesh from Mangalore, Karnataka hosts the second Expert Magic Session for Magicians at The Magic Space. This session will be held on Sunday the 13th of July from 9 AM to 2 PM.

The winner of the first-ever "Mega Magic Award" at Vismayam 2000, Ganesh also won two of the four categories (Close-Up Magic and Best Entertainer) at the recently convened Vismayam 2008 - the international magicians' convention.

An accomplished magician and illusionist, Kudroli Ganesh will share his unparalleled experience in professional entertainment, especially Close-up Magic.

This is a must-attend session for anybody seriously interested in Close-up and Impromptu Magic. Attendance is strictly limited to 25 seats, so act now to avoid disappointment later!

For more details contact The Magic Space.

Creating magical moments...

A journalist recently asked me the age-old question: "What is Magic?"

Without batting an eyelid, I replied: "Something that creates wonder!"

And thoughts raced through my mind... Thoughts I had not listened to before.

When you witness a Hariprasad Chaurasia or a Zakir Hussain perform, you are so wonderfully impressed, and can only say, “It was magical”!

The maestros create magic with their music. They create a wonderful and mystifying feeling that touches one and all, and leave us in a state of enchantment, of magic.

And then there is this field we are associated with – called Magic. Most of us perform magic, only because that is the name: like music.

But as the maestros take Music to the level of Magic, shouldn't we who call our craft by that name, try to make our performances wonderful, mystifying and of course enchanting; in another word, Magical?

Should we not aspire to take our craft and its performance to the levels of Magic?

Should we not be looking at creating a magical moment for our audience each time we are performing something?

Should we not be touching our audiences’ lives and minds in a way, that they remember being entertained by us for the rest of their life?

PS: This article originally appeared in the June 2008 issue of the VMN.

Comedy Magic prevails at The Magic Space

BANGALORE, JUNE 13: Pravin Tulpule a.k.a. Mysto Pinto conducted the first Expert Magic Session at The Magic Space on Saturday, June 7, 2008. The 25-seat session played to a full-house, with magicians from Bangalore, Mysore, and other nearby areas attending this interesting session on Clowning and Comedy Magic.

Appearing in the guise of an auguste clown, Mysto Pinto shared some of the basic aspects of clowning, and fielded questions on the topic from the gathered audience.



The session itself was more focussed on using comedy in magic, and Pinto explained that quite well by sharing his personal pet presentations. Many of these were about the varying kind of gags and puns that play well for child and adult audiences.

Pick a card (that promptly jumped out to be picked!), the flying rubber chicken (that picks the selected card along with some other things!), The Vanishing Onion (Did it finally vanish?!), The tear and restored (almost!) newspaper, were some of the memorable and rib-tickling effects performed and elucidated upon by Mysto Pinto.

The evening began with Prahlad Acharya welcoming the gathering and introducing the session, and concluded with a vote of thanks by Nakul Shenoy, and a home-cooked dinner that was relished by all the participants.

Each session conducted at The Magic Space is rated based on audience feedback, and this being the first Expert Magic Session was no different!

Overall, the Comedy Magic Session was rated at 3.76 (out of 5) by the participants, and it's usefulness was rated at 3.57. While 100 per cent of the participants said they would recommend The Magic Space-run Expert Magic Sessions to their magician friends, the participants' liking of the session was rated at 96.19 per cent.

Knowing that up to 97.14 per cent of the participants say that would like to come back to The Magic Space to attend future sessions, it is safe to conclude that the Comedy Magic session by Mysto Pinto was well-liked and appreciated by those that attended it.



Mysto Pinto alias Fooling You will be conducting a full-day Master Class on Clowning, which would include detailed understanding of different types of clowns, including the White Face, Auguste, and Character clowns.

The Master Class Session is strictly restricted to 15 participants, and will be run as a hands-on training in clown make-up and clowning per se.

For more details, contact The Magic Space.

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Magic in the News!

Shailaja Tripathi Taneja presents a well-written article in The Hindu today on how "Magic is in the air — on telly, websites and dedicated shops".

The article With a wave of that wand which appears on the front page of The Hindu's magazine supplement Metro Plus Bangalore features quotes from Magician Chandrashekar, Illusionist Prahlad Acharya, and of course, yours truly.

In an adjoining article Charmed circle, Shailaja about The Magic Space, where "you can watch magic, read about it, buy magical wares and even learn it".