{"id":940,"date":"2011-03-07T13:12:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T12:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=940"},"modified":"2011-03-07T13:12:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T12:12:38","slug":"countdown-to-south-tynesides-international-magic-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/countdown-to-south-tynesides-international-magic-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to South Tyneside&#8217;s International Magic Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to a workshop with a difference next week &#8211; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magicconventionguide.com\/guides\/south-tyneside-international-magic-festival\/\">2011 South Tyneside Magic Festival<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0I get to talk to a bunch of magicians about speech, or, more importantly, how to look after their voice during a performance. \u00c2\u00a0 Now in it&#8217;s eighth year, \u00c2\u00a0the week-long festival is packed with a magic convention for enthusiasts, a family magic extravaganza and a showcase of magic in local schools. \u00c2\u00a0 The event is expected to be attended by \u00c2\u00a0magicians from all over the world. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m looking forward to showing them a voice trick or two.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d better impress them &#8211; otherwise\u00c2\u00a0they might turn me into a rabbit, or something&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It all started some years ago when I was asked to help a magician doing so many kids parties a day he was losing his voice. Frankly, the number of gigs a day he was doing, he needed a psychotherapist, not a voice coach! :)<\/p>\n<p>The best bit of advice I gave him? \u00c2\u00a0Take a flask of warm &#8216;hot chocolate&#8217; (made with milk) with you to sip between gigs &#8211; it&#8217;ll help lubricate your throat and stop you drying out. \u00c2\u00a0Better than water in some ways&#8230; and a lot better than the tea he was drinking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to a workshop with a difference next week &#8211; at the 2011 South Tyneside Magic Festival. \u00c2\u00a0I get to talk to a bunch of magicians about speech, or, more importantly, how to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-blog-related","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}