May 20
MIKE BENT
Two for one! In addition to being a comedy magician, Mike Bent teaches Emerson College students that are writing for some of the biggest forces in comedy today, including The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. His “Comedy Writing: 101" lecture will be a hands-on workshop about adding original comedy to your act and training your brain to “think funny.” The second half of the lecture will include comedy routines for the kid-show, parlor and close-up performer. Parlour: 3 -5 PM.

May 27
ERIC JONES
Regarded by his peers as one of the rising stars of magic, Eric Jones now presents a new lecture featuring magic that’s knuckle-busting to self-working. Attendees will learn effects that will not only fool and entertain the pants off audiences, but will “fry” magicians as well. Eric guarantees that all material to be presented has been time-tested to work in the real world. Parlour: 3 PM – 5 PM

June 3
ALLAN ACKERMAN
Offering Allan’s new set of lecture notes, this lecture covers over 15 new items with a great new way to do a mental thought of card-to-pocket – with no palming. Also, there is a new Travelers routine with four aces going to four different pockets with only one palm. The lecture items will have material that should interest all close-up magicians at all skill levels from the self-working to the knuckle-busters for those that love to practice.

June 10
JON ARMSTRONG
AMA Board of Trustees Chairman and Close-up Magician of the Year in 2006, Jon now presents an exclusive Magic Castle lecture that will include self-working wonders, amazing-walk around routines and new thoughts on old moves - All of which will be explained in an extremely clear, informative and fun way.

June 17
ROB ZABRECKY
Join Rob Zabrecky, the most recent addition to the Board of Trustees, for “The Alphabet Talk,” an insightful new talk for magicians of all kinds. Rob will explore 26 integral components for presenting magic as theater - in alphabetical order! He will also present and explain material from his working repertoire and discuss other entertaining and illustrated topics on the subject of mystery.

June 24
KENJI MINEMURA
If you appreciate or perform stage magic, this is a lecture for you. Kenji will be talking about his silk magic and the magic of producing a silk, a rose, and a glass of liquid from a newspaper. He will also talk about how he creates his new magic based on old magic and how he solves the problems that arise as he creates his own magic.