The M.A.G.I.C Certificate

Becoming a success as a magician means much more than just learning tricks. That's why The Magic College has prepared the M.A.G.I.C. Certificate program.

To earn your M.A.G.I.C. Certificate, you must display a wide range of magical knowledge and skill. In fact, M.A.G.I.C. stands for:

Mastery, Artistry, Growth, Innovation, Career

Here's why each one is crucial to your success as a magician...

Mastery

Learning tricks and techniques is a very important part of being a magician. Magical principles, sleights, and secrets are the foundations of becoming a magician. Without them, there would be nothing to structure a magical act around.

Someone who has a M.A.G.I.C. Certificate not only "knows" how to do a wide variety of tricks and sleights, but they have achieved "MASTERY" over them.

However, this is just the beginning. Once you have mastery over the "technical" aspect of magic, it's time to dive into...

Artistry

Performance isn't an exact science (just like the rest of life). In order to make your presentations exciting, entertaining, and engaging, you must learn about the artistic side of magic.

Make your tricks interesting, dramatic, funny, emotional, sentimental, or whatever else fits your artistic style.

All forms of entertainment MUST connect with the audience - Otherwise, they just won't care.

Someone with a M.A.G.I.C. Certificate, has taken their hobby of magic and turned it into an art form.

Growth

At the center of everything that The Magic College does, is your own personal growth as a performer.

You should ALWAYS be growing as a magician. Your growth is at the center.

Someone with a M.A.G.I.C. Certificate has the humility to understand this, and the tools to continue growing.

Innovation

Magic is ever-changing. So are audiences. You can either change with the times or be left in the dust.

That doesn't mean you have to be like everyone else and "go with the flow" - Actually it means quite the opposite. If you want to stand out from other magicians, you have to be ORIGINAL.

Someone with a M.A.G.I.C. Certificate doesn't do the same tricks in the same way that every other magician does. They add in their own personal originality. Or perhaps they invent their own effects and methods altogether.

That takes innovation.

Career

All the magic knowledge and skill in the world doesn't mean squat if nobody ever sees you perform.

In show business, the bigger word is BUSINESS. As magicians, we need to understand how the "game" works so that we can take our magic to our audiences.

Someone with a M.A.G.I.C. Certificate understands the value of business knowledge and training as it applies to magic.

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