Magical sojourn for NIT campus

How magicians engineer fabulous effects is being explained by Gopinath Muthukad at the National Institute of Technology, Kozhikode.

Kozhikode: Students and staff members of the National Institute of Technology here found a magical sojourn on 6th of February. Thanks to a Workshop on Magic organised by the Forum for Dance and Dramatics and CAD Centre of the campus in association with the Magic Academy. The workshop was a great success, says Hariram Shankar a participant. Impressive faces of magic and its interesting aspects were unveiled by the Executive Director of the Academy, Gopinath Muthukad and Honorary Director, R. Raja Moorthy.

About 300 students of the NIT, their faculty members and their family attended the 3-hour-long event. The programme began with a video show titled, 'India: Magic of Harmony' a national integration travelogue based on Mr. Muthukad's Vismay Swaraj Yatra of 2007. Magician Muthukad performed a few tricks and he didn't forget to teach how to do some of the tricks. Kept enthralled by this beginning session, the audience was then led to a still captivating second part of the event. It was an interesting lecture cum demonstration by Mr. Moorthy who clearly showed the tricks, technology and science behind magnificent magic tricks. "In total, it was an infotainment show which satisfied all the participants" said Mr. Shankar.

Summer magic camp begins

Children curiously look at as wonder blooms at the magic class. A scene on the inaugural day of the Summer Vacation Magic Camp at the Magic Academy.

Thiruvananthapuram: Summer magic training at the Magic Academy began with all fun and frolic. Gopinath Muthukad was the teacher for the first day. For the first class, he taught the children a trick wherein a coin vanishes into thin air on rubbing over one’s body. Children liked the trick very much. Even though their first attempt to do the trick at their own failed, glitches vanished during their consecutive trials. “Magic is like this. Practice, practice and practice only make a magician perfect”, the magic teacher said to the enthusiastic disciples. The first class also gave them the key principles of misdirection, essential for keeping things from the attention of the audience.

Magic uncle's session: Inaugural class by the Academy's Executive Director, Gopinath Muthukad.

The summer magic camp offers training in yoga and magical art during forenoon. Language, science, personality development, juggling and memory enhancement are trained in the afternoon.

Language expert, Dr. Ezhumattur Raja Raja Varma inaugurated the camp. Mr. Muthukad, who is also the Executive Director of the Academy, presided over. Directors, Chandrasenan Mithirmala and R. Raja Moorthy spoke on the occasion. The camp woudl conclude on 31st of May.

Magic of Malayalam: Language expert, Dr. Ezhumattur Raja Raja Varma addresses children after inaugurating the summer magic camp.

Monsoon Magic Camp for kids

Cloudy skies, gloomy days and naughty rains… still, monsoon is a festival in Kerala. It's exactly the season when the nature shows its prowess to cast a charming spell – of wilderness and might; compassion and consolation – after a sweltering summer.
Now kids in Kerala have another reason to enjoy the rain battered monsoon days. Magic Academy has set the stage ready at its Wonder World auditorium for a one-day Monsoon Magic Camp (MMC) for kids on 14th of July.

Besides lunch and refreshments, the participants will get one year membership in the Magic Club and a packet containing magic equipments and books.

The camp will start at 10a.m. with their darling Magic Uncle, Gopinath Muthukad taking a class on 'Basics of Magic'. Other magic teachers including Rajamoorthy and Chandrasenan Mithirmala will lead kids to some more engrossing arenas of the awesome art. The camp concludes at 6p.m. with a magic show by Leons George, a school teacher turned magician.

Children who haven't yet attended a Magic Camp can register for the full day session by submitting their bio data along with a fee of Rs.200. Magic Club members should pay only Rs.150. Bio data can be submitted either by fax 0091 471 2355920 or email: magicacademy@gmail.com. Payments may be done as per the instructions received from the email.

Little wizards who are already active on the magic stage, should in turn pay just Rs.200 for attending a Magician's Perfect Performer Course in the forenoon and MMC in the afternoon.
So kids, come to the MMC and earn the magic power to make your dull monsoon days shiny and bright.