College of Magic
 |
|
| Type | NPO |
|---|---|
| Established | 1980 |
| Director | David Gore |
|
Administrative staff
|
|
| Students | 150 |
| Location | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Website | www.collegeofmagic.com |
College of Magic is a non-profit organization (007-517 NPO/NGO) based in Cape Town, South Africa that teaches magic to people from various levels of society with the goal of creating social empowerment. College of Magic addresses key community concerns at grassroots level.
The Director, David Gore, has been with the organization since its inception.
It is the current holder of 17 national and 2 international awards. College of Magic graduates perform throughout South Africa and the world. College of Magic is a member of the International Jugglers' Association (IJA).
College of Magic opened its doors on 23 February 1980 and is the only one of its kind in the world. It was established with the aim of providing performance-arts training for aspirant entertainers from all sections of Cape Town’s community.
In 1992, College of Magic moved into its present home, a renovated Victorian house in Claremont, Cape Town. It was officially opened in 1995 by the Ministry of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology as the Magical Arts Centre. The College – with the help of the community – has restored the building and developed its facilities for its unique teaching and training needs.
College of Magic is engaged in performing-arts education and training and specializes in training young people – children from the age of 10 years and upwards – in the art of magic and the allied arts of juggling, ventriloquism, mime and clowning.
The unique curriculum consists of six core courses that are structured hierarchically, with each course increasing in complexity, expectations of the learner and skill mastery. In the first three years, students are introduced to the basics of magic including presentation skills, the theory of entertainment and the essential elements of controlling an audience. During the fourth, fifth and sixth years, the curriculum becomes substantially more demanding in terms of the technical requirements and the theoretical aspects of entertaining. Students focus on entertaining children, sleight of hand, close-up magic, stage magic, magic with animals and stage illusions.
...
Wikipedia