Women in Magic Panel Discussion & Performance | Oakland

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‘Women in Magic,’ is a panel discussion with performances featuring award-winning bay area masters of legerdemain: Heather Rogers, Meriam Al Sultan, Paula Ramsey, Cynthia Yee and a special guest Carisa Hendrix from Calgary, Canada; moderated by Dagmar Theison. Presented by the Oakland Magic Circle in collaboration with AAUW.

There have historically been few female magicians and therefore few role models in the craft. Most women have been relegated to being assistants, often in skimpy costumes and the “victim” of torture effects. How many women have sawed a man in half?

But there have been some great performers as early as Adelaide Herrmann in the late 1890s. Recently more are appearing on the scene.

And San Francisco is home to some of the best who will share their journeys to success in a traditionally male-dominated art and perform some of their favorite magic.

Hear about Meriam breaking the Saudi rules against women performing magic, Heather performing at President Obama’s Inaugural Ball and Jade being the first women to win magic’s top award and going on to a command performance for the Royal Family of Monaco at the Princess Grace Theater as well as appearing on Penn & Teller: Fool Us.

Jade and Heather Rogers are two of the top professional magicians performing today from Las Vegas to Atlantic City and everywhere in between. Meriam is starting her career rise.

Presented by AAUW and Oakland Magic Circle

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