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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.

Capturing the ABCs of Magic

A journalist with American television, ABC News, who has made a number of reports on sports, arts and culture, Ben Barnier and his cameraman, Gallagher were at the Magic Academy the other day. Mr. Ben was assigned with a new job of introducing some magical faces of great Indian democracy before the world. With this aim he landed in Mumbai on 16th and immediately rushed to Thiruvananthapuram some 2000 kms towards the south, to meet India’s own Houdini, Gopinath Muthukad, who has been upholding the motto, ‘magic with a mission’.
Camera's first blink
Mr. Gallagher’s camera winked its eyes for the first time in India for taking the footages of an active magic class that was going on at the Academy’s upstairs classroom. The trainer was Mr. Muthukad and the trainees comprised of a 64-year-old Rajan to 10-year-old Vivek. The ABC TV crew was just baffled to find the degree of enthusiasm the group of students had earned through the means of magical art, in spite of age differences.
“Their [students’] eyes gleam in happiness and I understand how much does magic rejuvenate their minds. It’s just beautiful to watch their performance that surely gifts a sense in life”, says Mr. Ben. Mr. Ben has earlier made a memorable production based on a French couple at their 80s celebrating 50th anniversary of their marriage. Magic could be a practical means for defending our elders from the menacing consequences of aging, he believes.

Reasonable dreams
The Ben-Gallagher duo has now trimmed their dream into a reasonable size. “India is a vast country of umpteen diversities. We don’t expect that we can take home all these magnificence with our short stay this time. Now we have made our objective reasonable and to visit a few cultural and devotional centres in south and north India starting from covering the natural springs of medicated water at Varkala’, Mr. Ben told.