Program: Alyx Hilshey Lecture
Date: Monday, December 9, 2024
Time: Doors open 6:30 PM, Program 7:00 PM
Location: Knights of Columbus, 2735 Union Rd, Cheektowaga, NY 14227 – Enter Justin Hall doors, lounge to the left

Alyx Hilshey is a corporate magician with roots as a full time street performer, family entertainer, and theme park magician. Alyx has been featured on Penn & Teller Fool Us, at the Chicago Magic Lounge, The Magic Castle, and on board the Princess Cruise Line’s Conjuring Cruise (in partnership with The Magic Castle). Alyx also regularly headlines her full evening show at the Philadelphia Smoke & Mirrors theater (7x performances) and is a frequent guest co-star in Washington DC’s number one comedy show, The Magic Duel.

With seven years of experience as a college instructor, Alyx is a strong lecturer and includes hands-on learning techniques not featured in other lectures.

She will cover 1.) routines developed in thousands of street show performances; 2.) theories in mis-direction using the body and the gaze to amplify deception with practical examples; 3.) methods to easily incorporate highly technical sleight of hand into every day performances without fear (also with practical examples); 4.) sleight of hand routines for the real world; 5.) easy to perform routines for the family entertainer; and 6.) her secret to deceptively producing a massive 7″ jumbo coin in any performing situation including street, strolling and stage.

There’s something for everyone. Plus, she’s just good at entertaining magicians. She performed a 30 minute one woman show at MAES, the Yankee Convention, and Kapital convention. She’s performed at the IBM 100 anniversary convention, MAWNY and FFFF. She’s also booked to perform at Blackpool (with lecture and show) and the brand new Mystify Convention.

We hope you can join us for this special lecture event on December 9! For those of you that attended MAWNY last year, you saw Alyx perform in the close-up sessions and she was fantastic!