The Registration form will open on January 2, 2025

This is a 6 day hands-on examination and exploration of an act. We will work on your act from early morning to late night and you’ll find it both challenging and rewarding.
The workshop itself is free of charge, as education is free in Sweden. But there are costs for room + meals.

Required prerequisite knowledge

This workshop is not for beginners, but is open to anyone who have a general knowledge about conjuring techniques and some performing experience. All from happy hobbyists to experienced professionals.
It is not a requirement, but it is recommended that you have taken any of our Conjuring workshops, Art of Magic workshop, or the Magic 1 or 2 course at Stockholm University of Arts.

You also need to bring an act, or an idea to an act, of a length between 3 and 20 minutes.

Venue

The venue is “Sigtuna Folkhögskola” (Sigtuna folk highschool), located in the beautiful small village Sigtuna, not far from Arlanda Airport, in Stockholm, Sweden.

Facilitators

The workshop is led by Peter Rosengren.

Peter Rosengren has been a magician since beginning of time, and is the originator of the teaching model used for the Conjuring Workshops. Besides being an award-winning magician, and the founder of the group “Malmoe Magic Mafia”, he’s a truly decent human being.

Learning objective:

On completion of the workshop, the student should:

• Have a better understanding of how a magic act is constructed.
• Feel more comfortable with indepth artistic research.
• Have an increased ability to give and take direction.

Schedule

Still under development

Monday
• 8.00 Breakfast for those who arrived on Sunday.
• 9.00 Check-in.
• 9:30 Introduction of the courses.
• 10:30 Diningroom: Fika (coffee & snacks)
• 11:00 Reviewing the tools
• 12:30 Lunch
• 13:30 Presentations participants, the work methods, goals and rules
• 15:00 Fika (coffee & snacks).
• 15:30 Act/number-talk: This is what I bring
• 16:30 Act/number work in groups
• 18:00 Dinner
• 19:00 Extra event: (To be announced)
• …In the evening, there’s a bar. There’s also a lake nearby for those who want to swim.

Tuesday
• 8.00 Breakfast.
• 9.00 Warm-up, reflections, documentation, setting goals
• 10:30 Fika.
• 11:00 Tommy Wonder’s dream method
• 11:45 Act/number work in groups
• 12:30 Lunch
• 13:30 Act/number work in groups
• 15:00 Fika.
• 15:30 Creating a new segment
• 17:00 Documentation
• 18:00 Dinner
• 19:00 Extra event: (To be announced)
• …The bar is open.

Wednesday
• 8.00 Breakfast.
• 9.00 Warm-up, reflections, setting goals. Audience centricity and the surrounding world
• 10:30 Fika.
• 11:00 Work on Audience centricity vs own Act/number in groups
• 12:30 Lunch
• 13:30 Identify and raise the weakest part
• 15:00 Fika.
• 15:30 Limiting procedure and exposition. Blocking
• 17:00 Documentation
• 18:00 Dinner
• 19:00 Extra event for women: “Towards a mutual body of knowledge”
• …The bar is open.

Thursday
• 8.00 Breakfast.
• 9.00 Warm-up, reflections, setting goals. The first and the last 30 seconds.
• 10:30 Fika.
• 11:00 Act/number work solo
• 12:30 Lunch
• 13:30 Act/number work solo
• 15:00 Fika.
• 15:30 Inventory. Talk about final presentations
• 17:00 Documentation
• 17:40 Dinner
• 19:15 Extra event: Open stage in the dining room. You are welcome to perform. (see note below)
• …The bar is open.

Friday
• 8.00 Breakfast.
• 9.00 Rehearsals 1
• 10:30 Fika.
• 11:00 Rehearsals 2
• 12:30 Lunch
• 13:30 Rehearsals 3
• 15:00 Fika.
• 15:30 Rehearsals 4
• 18:00 Dinner
• 19:30 Final presentations
• …The bar is open.

Saturday
• 8.00 Breakfast.
• 9.00 Reflections, feedback, learning discoveries, documentation
• 12:30 Lunch
• 13:00 Discussion (All groups): Bringing it home.
• 14:00 End

Loose guidelines.

The following are just advice, not rules or demands.

In general:
Make sure you have pen and notepad. You will get hundreds of ideas, and any idea not written down will be instantly forgotten.
You will probably want to document some of the work you do, so make sure you have plenty of free memory in your devices so you can film and photograph your ideas. One hour each day is dedicated to Documentation, at 5 PM.
It might also be nice to share one’s notes with the group, via some internet solution; Google Docs, Dropbox…

For the explorations:
Bring a small kit of your favorite solutions.
If you like to use magnets and strings to solve magic problems, bring magnets and strings.
If you often solve magic problems by gluing stuff together; bring glue.
If you tend to use black art; bring black material.
…

Music:
You might want to add music, so load up your devices with a good assortment of music in various moods; upbeat, sad, happy, spooky, dramatic, soft, rhythmic…et cetera.

Open Stage
This is just for fun, but we’ll cap the total length of the show to 90 minutes, to be sure the energy is kept up. Some might want to try out something new that have emerged during exercises, others might want to show off something they enjoy performing. Still others might just want to relax and be entertained. To be in the Open Stage, you sign up on a list during Thursday dinner. First come first served.

Safe space
We have a good track record in creating safe spaces to experiment and be vulnerable in. One component in feeling safe, is to know what to do in case something goes wrong. Please browse our harassment policy guide.

Finally
In the evenings, a make-shift pub will be open and the participants in the Conjuring workshops can socialize with each other. Improvised magic performances and sessions are very welcome.

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