Category: Meeting Announcements

Welcome back! We hope you enjoyed your summer. 

Time for the first meeting of the 2025-26 SAM Assembly #12 Meeting Season!! The meeting is at 7:00 on Friday, September 19th, at Eagle Magic and Joke Store. (Eagle Magic is in Burnsville, MN, 4 lights east of 35W on Hwy 13, southeast corner, next door to the BP gas station.) 

Our theme this month is our usual September theme: “What I Did This Summer, Magically Speaking.” Talk about the conferences you attended, the books you read, show us what you’re working on or what you performed. As always, be prepared to demonstrate, teach, and provide guidance and suggestions for others.

We’re also kicking off our SAM #12 Book Club! Remember, the plan for the book club is to spend 15 minutes after the performance section of our meeting to discuss a magic book, one chapter at a time. We’ll take turns leading the discussion and teaching or demonstrating moves and effects. Participation is optional! 

Our first book is the Jean Hugard and Frederick Braué classic intro to card magic, The Royal Road to Card Magic. We’ll be discussing Chapter I: The Overhand Shuffle. I’ll be demonstrating the sleights and some of the tricks described. Please try and read Chapter I prior to the meeting–you’ll get more out of the discussion! Also, if any of you do not have a copy of the book (digital or physical) please let us know!

Bring potluck snacks to share. Connection information for the virtual view of the meeting will be emailed before the meeting. 

On Friday, May 16th, in lieu of our normal meeting, there will be an Assembly 12 meet-up at AbraCORNdabra in Des Moines, Iowa. We will meet during the dinner break (4:30–6:00 p.m.) at Bennigan’s, located in the convention hotel. See details.

If you’ll be joining us, please RSVP so that we reserve a big enough table.

Larry Anderson will join us live via Zoom on Friday, April 11th, at 7:00 PM to tell us about shooting The Magician TV series with Mark Wilson and Bill Bixby. Following that, we’ll watch an episode!

Before the meeting, please read an article by Larry accompanied by photos from his collection, the Genii cover story, and a script for one of the episodes. (Access details were sent via email.)

Assembly 12 will provide popcorn and pop. Bring other movie theater snacks to share. Connection information for the virtual view of the meeting will be emailed prior to the meeting.

Location address:
Discovery Methodist Church
275 Lake Drive East
Chanhassen, MN 55317

See you “on the set” on April 11th!

It’s time for the March 2025 hybrid SAM 12 Assembly meeting! The meeting is at 7:00 this Friday at Eagle Magic and Joke Store. (Eagle Magic is in Burnsville, MN, 4 lights east of 35W on Hwy 13, southeast corner, next door to the BP gas station.)

[NOTE: We originally planned to have our annual Movie Night during the March meeting, but our guest of honor has a conflict, so we’re shifting it to April. Plus, we’ll need to move our April meeting because of Easter weekend, so we’ll let you know as soon as the date is confirmed.]

In honor of the last-minute nature of this meeting, the Theme for March is Spur-of-the-Moment Magic, or Impromptu Magic With Everyday Objects. Show us effects you’d perform if you had to scrounge for props or use borrowed items. As always, be prepared to demonstrate, teach, and provide guidance and suggestions for others.

Bring potluck snacks to share. Connection information for the virtual view of the meeting will be emailed before the meeting. See you there or online!!

This month’s meeting will be the Assembly #12 Auction!

Happy New Year!! It’s time for the SAM Assembly #12 Hybrid meeting!

We’re meeting on Friday, January 17, at 7:00 PM. Our theme this month, chosen by December attendees, in anticipation of next month’s holiday, is “Magic with Heart! (Or Valentine Magic)” We never get to use this theme during February because of the auction (see below), so this year we’re doing something different…

We’ll meet at Eagle Magic and Joke Store. (Eagle Magic is in Burnsville, MN, 4 lights east of 35W on Hwy 13, southeast corner, next door to the BP gas station.) Bring potluck snacks to share. Connection information for the virtual view of the meeting will be sent before the meeting.

See you on Friday, either in person or online!

P.S. Annual Auction–gather items to sell next month!

We are hosting an auction in February, and now’s the time to find the magic props, books, videos, collectibles, etc. that you’d like to sell. This will help give your fellow magicians a nice selection of items to bid on and, the more you sell, the more new-to-you treasures you can win!

It’s time for our annual Holiday Party! It will be held on Friday, December 20th at 7:00 PM at Discovery Methodist Church in Chanhassen.

There will be chili, salad, cornbread, and dessert! Bring your own non-alcoholic beverage. Special thanks to Sandy Meyer for doing all of the cooking, and arranging the location, too!

Like last year, there’s no performance theme this month, so it’s entirely up to you if you want to perform anything.

We’ll be setting up the Zoom camera setup in case anyone wants to attend virtually — although technology hasn’t advanced enough for virtual chili eating. We’ll send out connection information before the event. If you plan on attending the in-person party, please RSVP here. Sandy needs to know how much chili to make!

Location address:
Discovery Methodist Church
275 Lake Drive East
Chanhassen, MN 55317
We’ll see you at the party!

It’s time for the November hybrid SAM 12 Assembly meeting!

NOTE: Due to several conflicts, we had to shift our meeting back one week, so we’ll meet on Friday, November 22nd, at 7:00 PM at Eagle Magic. (Eagle Magic is in Burnsville, MN, 4 lights east of 35W on Hwy 13, southeast corner, next door to the BP gas station.) Bring potluck snacks to share. Connection information for the virtual view of the meeting will be sent prior to the meeting.

Our theme this month, in honor of Turkey Day, is “Fowl/Foul Magic.” You can either perform magic using birds or with a bird theme (that’s the “Fowl” part) or perform/show/demonstrate a really bad trick (that’s the “Foul” part). We’ll leave it up to you to decide what a “Foul” trick might be….

As always, be prepared to demonstrate, teach, and provide guidance and suggestions for others.

See you on the 22nd, either in person or online!

Greetings!  Time for our October hybrid SAM assembly meeting!

We’ll meet on Friday, October 18th, at 7:00 PM at Eagle Magic. (Eagle Magic is in Burnsville, MN, 4 lights east of 35W on Hwy 13, southeast corner, next door to the BP gas station.) Bring potluck snacks to share. Connection information for the virtual view of the meeting will be sent prior to the meeting.

Our theme this month, in honor of the Halloween season, is “Spooky Magic.” Time to tell us a scary story with magic, show us your best Halloween show prop, or give a book report on your favorite Bizarre Magic book. Or even make the Professor’s Nightmare live up to its name! Muahahaha!!

As always, be prepared to demonstrate, teach, and provide guidance and suggestions for others.

See you on the 18th, either in person or online!

Welcome back! It’s time for our September hybrid SAM assembly meeting!

We’ll meet on Friday, September 20th, at 7:00 PM at Eagle Magic. (Eagle Magic is in Burnsville, MN, 4 lights east of 35W on Hwy 13, southeast corner, next door to the BP gas station.) Bring potluck snacks to share. Connection information for the virtual view of the meeting will be sent prior to the meeting.

Our theme this month, in honor of Back to School season, is “What I Did This Summer, Magically Speaking.” Talk about the conferences you attended, the books you read, show us what you’re working on or what you performed. 

As always, be prepared to demonstrate, teach, and provide guidance and suggestions for others.

See you on the 20th, either in person or online!