Mahdi’s Magic Club
📅 Monday, July 21st at 7:30PM 📍 Cactus Club Cafe (Yonge Sheppard Center)
Join us at Mahdi’s Magic Club for an evening of magic tricks, sharing secrets and conjuring camaraderie.
7:30PM ♥️ Meet and Greet
Order a drink and/or food while you make new friends and catch up with old ones.
8PM ♠️ Katterfelto Lecture
Mahdi The Magician presents one of the most interesting characters in the history of magic. Magician, Quack Doctor Pseudo-Philosopher, and diabolical Charlatan extraordinaire:
Katterfelto
and his notorious Black Cat.😼
Discover the scams and schemes of one of the great rogues of the 18th century based on the groundbreaking research of the legendary Harry Houdini.
8:30PM ♦️ SPECIAL GUEST
Jeff Hinchliffe Teaches Magic
One of the best magicians in Canada will teach an easy and powerful magic trick that anyone can do!
9PM ♣️ Session
Sit back an enjoy the magic, workshop a new trick & try to fool magicians.
LOCATION
CACTUS CLUB CAFE
@ Yonge Sheppard Center
Unit 309 – 4841 Yonge Street
Welcome to Mahdi’s Magic Club! Learn about magic, connect with amateur & professional magicians and immerse yourself into the world of magic. We have something for everyone! No matter if you’ve never held a deck of cards in your life or you are a master of the art you will learn something new and have a safe place to practice and share magic.
This is a free event but we ask that you support the spaces we use by ordering food and drinks. We also ask that you PWYC if you are so inclined as your support helps cover the talent we bring in to present to you.
Questions? Reach out 📞 530-903-0203 ✉️ m@mahdithemagician.com
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A MODERN CLASSIC
Hidden Leaves playing cards feature original vintage artwork by Mahdi The Magician.
Hidden Leaves Playing Cards by Mahdi The Magician are painted pieces of cardboard with suits of dreams, lies, and love.
Within the majestic blue back design lives the tree of life whose branches contain all the colors of the rainbow and seasons of life and death. The roots, branches, and leaves all represent the story of humanity’s heartbeat.
Features no indices just like playing cards used to be made. This unique feature allows you to explore all sorts of forgotten card transformations, hypnotize your audiences with hallucinations of duplicates, renders well-known prearranged stacks completely invisible.
Lovingly printed by The United States Playing Card Company with our bespoke thin stock and premium smooth finish.
“Riderbacks, Reimagined.” - Dan & Dave Buck
Embracing The Rainbow,
Painted Strokes
Drawn from & Bringing color
to Life, Lies, & Love.
REAL MAGIC
Emanations Playing Cards by Mahdi The Magician are a physical manifestation of his exploration of early magic.
The crimson red on white Mondrian back design is stamped with Charles T. Jordan’s Monogram to represent the sacred union between the modern and the primitive. These seemingly prehistoric pasteboards evoke a sensation of timeless elegance.
Features no indices just like playing cards used to be made. This unique feature allows you to explore all sorts of forgotten card transformations, hypnotize your audiences with hallucinations of duplicates, renders well-known prearranged stacks completely invisible.
Lovingly printed by The United States Playing Card Company with our bespoke bee stock and premium smooth finish.
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*includes two aid cards.
INCLUDES TWO AID CARDS
MAHDI THE MAGICIAN
FIRST EDITION
BOOKLET | 40 PAGES
Witness Mahdi’s incredible life story from his first miracle to growing up without hands or feet. Mahdi takes you through his childhood and his discovery of magic in this deeply personal memoir in which he shares some of the most important and transformative moments in his life in magic.
FIRST EDITION
BOOKLET | 48 PAGES
For the first time, Mahdi The Magician reveals some of the mysteries of his life and philosophy as he takes you behind the scenes so you can learn the meaning of the cards and how to read them as easily as you are reading these words. You will be able to understand the messages Hidden in The Leaves waiting for you.
FIRST EDITION
BOOKLET | 40 PAGES
Imagine if you could walk into any room filled with strangers and within minutes turn them into friends while blowing their minds with magic. This is your initiation into the world of card magic. Mahdi The Magician, one of the greatest magicians who ever lived, teaches you powerful & easy card tricks that you can do!
Mahdi The Magician Souvenir Booklet
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Cartomancy Booklet
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Learn Card Tricks Booklet
Digital Books
MAHDI THE MAGICIAN
First Edition
PDF | 194 Pages
Learn how to entertain your family & friends with easy card tricks you can do!
For the first time Mahdi The Magician reveals some of the mysteries of his life and philosophy as he takes you behind the scenes so you can learn the meaning of the cards and how to read them as easily as you are reading these words. You will be able to understand the messages Hidden in The Leaves waiting for you.
Classic of Magic
Sleight of Hand by Edwin Sachs
First published in 1885, this classic treatise on the art of prestidigitation has initiated and will continue to serve as an introductory guide to countless magicians.
PDF | 418 PAGES
EDWIN SACHS
Before Magic (Second) Edition
PDF | 418 Pages
First published in 1885, this classic treatise on the art of prestidigitation has initiated and will continue to serve as an introductory guide to countless magicians.
This Before Magic edition is based on the Second, and greatly expanded, Edition of this timeless work. The Editor, Mahdi Gilbert has corrected typos and grammatical errors in the original publication as well as added many supplementary notes in the hopes of bringing new life to this masterpiece and instructing the future generation of conjurors.
"It is my intention to give, in the following pages, such instruction as shall enable the merest tyro to become an adept in the art of Legerdemain, providing that a due degree of attention is given and a reasonable amount of practice undertaken." - Edwin Sachs
The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase
First published in 1902, this is the most influential book in gambling and magic history and is passionately studied and debated to this day.
PDF | 142 PAGES
S. W. ERDNASE
Before Magic Edition
PDF | 142 Pages
First published in 1902, this is the first book to teach Slight of Hand with scientific precision and as high art.
The Expert at the Card Table was originally titled Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Manipulating Cards. The identity of S.W. Erdnase has been a mystery to magicians since it’s publication. This is the most influential book in gambling and magic history and is passionately studied and debated to this day.
"The passion for play is probably as old, and will be as enduring, as the race of man." - S.W. Erdnase
Book of Magic by Jasper Maskelyne
Jasper Maskelyne, the famous illusionist, presents a practical book that enables the curious to become expert entertainers in the art of magic.
PDF | 301 PAGES
JASPER MASKELYNE
Before Magic Edition
PDF | 301 Pages
Jasper Maskelyne, the famous illusionist, presents a practical book that enables the curious to become expert entertainers in the art of magic. A guide filled magic effects you can perform with cards, coins, handkerchiefs, pieces of paper, rope and other common objects are described in detail. Chapters are also provided on stage management, thought-reading, disappearing tricks, apparatus, chemical tricks, entertaining in dress-clothes, jugglery and ventriloquism, and the art of make-up.
Coming from the famous Maskelyne family of magicians, Jasper also shares some excellent advice on rehearsing, structuring, writing, and booking a magical performance.
Alexander & The Magic Crystal by Alexander, The Man Who Knows
Alexander & The Magic Crystal is your initiation into the secrets hidden in The Lost Library of Alexander.
PDF | 182 PAGES
CLAUDE ALEXANDER CONLIN
Mahdi The Magician Edition
PDF | 182 Pages
Alexander & The Magic Crystal, is your initiation into the secrets hidden in The Lost Library of Alexander.
C. Alexander’s story starts in Benares, that ancient and mysterious city where he discovers the secret of the crystal. The hidden knowledge that he will use to astound millions around the world as The Crystal Seer and The Man Who Knows.
This is a compilation of books that Alexander created to help his audience develop their intuition, master their mind, and silently influence the world around them.
Bonus: Alexander’s Astrological Readings
Card Manipulations by Jean Hugard
Discover seldom seen gems from Cardini, Francis Carlyle, Nate Leipzig, Dr. Daley, and others.
PDF | 168 PAGES
JEAN HUGARD
Before Magic Edition
PDF | 168 Pages
Jean Hugard was a prolific author of magic in his era and published some of the finest magic of his contemporaries. This work is a series of five booklets he published titled, Card Manipulations. There is something for everyone; from the beginner just picking up a deck for the first time to the seasoned cardman who wants to discover seldom seen gems from Cardini, Francis Carlyle, Nate Leipzig, Dr. Daley, and others. You will surely find something to add to your repertoire that no one else knows about.
The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist by Harry Houdini
Meet the man behind the legend. A very personal guided tour into Houdini’s amazing life and career.
PDF | 48 PAGES
HARRY HOUDINI
Before Magic Edition
PDF | 48 Pages
In The Adventurous Life of a Versatile Artist, Harry Houdini gives you a very personal guided tour into his amazing life and career.
Houdini leads you through his childhood dreams and his start in the dime-museums through his international tours and amazing performances for the leaders of the world and, more importantly, the common men and women who cared for him and saw him as a hero.
This intimate book shows Harry Houdini as much more than the man who could escape anything; you really get the sensation when reading it that you are getting to know Houdini on a human level. Enjoy this candid reflection on an extraordinary life.
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Conjuring Arts Research Center
is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of magic and its allied arts, which include psychic phenomenon, hypnosis, deceptive gambling, mentalism, ventriloquism, juggling, and sleight-of-hand techniques. Currently, Conjuring Arts functions primarily as a research library, of over 11,000 book and magazine titles, dating back to the 15th century and representing multiple languages. However, the library itself is only the first in a long list of roles Conjuring Arts plays. By providing its holdings, online database, semi-annually published journal, and performance component to the public, Conjuring Arts strives to preserve the rich histories and traditions of this ancient performing art.
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