Ellusionist Convention

It's happening

For years we’ve sat back and watched really big conventions go downhill.

We used to be attendees - but they’ve become too commercial.

We used to run parties with free drinks and free decks - but companies just copied and it became gross and competitive.

Lectures started turning into glorified sales pitches… Btw, the reason lectures become sales pitches is because speakers & magicians aren’t paid enough. So they need to make their money from you.

It shouldn’t be a sales pitch, it should be a tax-deductible holiday with your new buddies. The bar shouldn’t close early and the destination should be as beautiful outside the convention as it is inside.

And it shouldn’t be about huge numbers of attendees and sell-outs. It should be intimate and small enough for EVERYONE to meet their magic heroes.

There is a saturation point for attention… and some people get none.

I once saw a young guy, on his own, crying on the steps of one convention and invited him to come play cards against humanity with us. He was made to feel excluded until that moment… It’s always stuck with me. How lonely it can be for someone to be on their own in those crowds.

ANYWAY

We have a better idea for a convention, but we just want to know if there’s an appetite for it before we pull the trigger on 2024.

We’ll make this clear right now. If we do this, it’s going to lose us money - because we’re not doing it to make money. We’d be doing it to give people the best time of their life.

Everything you’re seeing on our socials lately is the great times we have when the cameras aren’t running. We’d love to bring people into that circle.

- G from

Ellusionist.com

p.s. I would like to add that I recently attended both Olmac’s convention in NICE (Goldfinger) and @MagicDreamParis’ convention in Paris - and both were intimate and incredible. Plus they are destination venues. This post isn’t about them. It’s about our opinions on big conventions after a few decades of attending them. And how good they used to be.