Episode 45: MailBag episode June

This marks the temporary end of our MWB Conversations, this episode marks a year of wonderful, inspiring and thoughtful conversations with amazing guests that highlight "social magic" not only done by us, but by many people around the world, what a amazing ride this has been, we wrap up a year of this conversations on this episode, stay tuned to see the evolution of MWB Conversations Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder where we will be looking back at a year of MWB Conversations, we will talk about our main takeaways and revisit the wonderful guests we've had in the show, and we will discuss some ideas about the future. What subjects/topics/etc do you think we should tackle in the future in this space?

Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder where we will be looking into the short term future of our programs in El Salvador and Colombia, we will be joined by our head local magician from El Salvador: Mario Sierra and one of his students Raul to hear from them what's coming and what they have learned in the process.

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner where we get to discuss how meeting our new Head Local Magician from Brazil is a breath of fresh air for our program. We will be joined by Alejando Muniz, a world renowned magician, FLASOMA (Latinamerican FISM) Grand Prix, a great mentalist and an awesome human being that wants to dedicate his live to help other fellow magicians and more importantly using magic to create a just world full of possibility in communities around his adoptive country Brazil.

Join us this week for a very special conversation with Carlos López the Global Programs Director of Magicians Without Borders, and our founder Tom Verner to answer your questions and comments and also to talk to our wonderful guest Tim Webster aka Timbadim the Clown founder of Humanitarian Clowns whos mission is to support NGOs around the world with projects combining social clowning and performing arts to bring either emotional support, distraction, entertainment with educational values, creating circus and lifestyle events, supporting other not for profit organisations and a focusing on Community development projects to disadvantaged communities/individuals.

On this episode our Founders Tom Verner and Janet Fredericks talk about the challenges and achievements of MWB

On this episode Carlos López continues to talk about the performance of In and of itself from Derek del Gaudio guided by the line: "Tricks are a means to an end", we will be joined by Pollo and Diego Vargas. To learn magic from us, go to: https://learn.magicianswithoutborders.com/

On this episode Tom Verner and Carlos López sit down to talk about the performance of magic, and how we believe in it's power and how important it's to develop it through the magic learning process. We share our 90-10 motto when it comes to performance and how on our education chapters that is taught. Plus se react to one of magics most recent and memorable performances in magic, Derek del Gaudio's In and of it's self, and for the second part of the show we are joined by Felipe Costa (Pollo) who got the chance to see the show live and in video.

This episode is sponsored by HomeLight www.homelight.com Join us this week in a conversation with Carlos López our Global Programs Director and Tom Verner our founder where we will be answering questions raised from the great short film: To Gerard from dreamworks, plus we are joined by our friend Elise Fried from E-Z Magic. We encourage you to go watch the film and if you have a comment or question for us, please mail them in at [email protected] or tweet them @magicianswb.

On this episode Tom Verner and Carlos López sit down with Diego Vargas our Head Local Magician in Costa Rica, who is also a great history buff, more particularly a magic history buff. we does a very successful series via Stories called "Lunes de Historia de la Magia" on his instagram @diegovargascr every Monday. Plus he has visited many magic history museums and recently was with Mike Caveney and Tina Lenert in their own museum, we will hear his stories and personal takes on why the history of magic is so important.

On this episode we will continue our conversation with Tom Verner, Carlos López and our friends from India Conversations with our friends from India: Kalyani and Dhananjay with whom we talk about a great new project born from our collaboration: "Learning Beyond" a wonderful camp with at-risk youth where they get to learn amongst other things: Magic, Juggling, and many more.