When our club hosts a lecture, we’ve found it helpful to ask the members to submit questions ahead of time as to what topics they wish the lecturer to address. And I must confess that I’m certainly not above submitting… Read More ›
Meeting Activities
Meeting Activity: Interviews
When you want a member to share their knowledge on a given subject – knowing that member’s tendency to ramble; don’t hand them the microphone while you go sit down. Interview them instead. You will maintain control of the direction… Read More ›
Governance/Meeting Activity: Start, Stop, Continue
Here’s a proven process for a group debriefing regarding the effectiveness of a club project or event as a group. As a club, we also use this structure in our every other year club-wide online survey too. When this processing… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Zingo Bingo!
At the end of one of your next meetings, you bring out some Bingo cards – setting up a game of Bingo with your members “for some fine prizes” you say. The cards are distributed and the calling of the… Read More ›
Meeting Theme/Activity: Artificial Intelligence and Magic
In a previous post, we looked at the use of artificial intelligence to create graphics for our clubs’ newsletters. Here’s actually the prequel to that post where we challenged our members to use the ChatGPT app to explore ways to… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Managing Audience Energy
The bell shaped curve remains a classic visual depiction of data. However, truly great performers know it also accurately depicts an audience’s laughter or applause energy too. Both start quietly, build to a crescendo, and then taper off. Savvy comedians… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Script, Switch, and Solve
This activity generates its energy from problem solving as a component of a monthly meeting. Each table team writes on a piece of paper a legible paragraph of three or four sentences describing a real-world problematic scenario that a magician… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Agree/Disagree Statements
Consciously choosing to eliminate a litany of announcements to begin the meeting, you instead walk to the front of the room and begin unexpectedly by saying something like “I need everyone to please stand up. I’m going to read a… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Facebook Polling
In one of our recent Monday Night Magic monthly events, we had a little friendly team competition between four table teams – each presenting a short magic routine with items found in a common restaurant place setting. The winner would… Read More ›
Meeting Activity: Work In Progress
THANK YOU David Sandy and the Kansas City club for this idea. After hearing their idea, we now periodically provide an opportunity for any member to sign up ahead of time to perform a trick on which they’re working –… Read More ›
Magic Club Leadership Resources 