Card Clinic | Close-up Clinic

A New Kind of Learning Experience

Card Clinic, Close-up Clinic, and Stack Clinic are intensive, intimate, exclusive three-day retreats focussed on sleight-of-hand with two of the world's top professional sleight-of-hand artists. It is a new kind of learning experience: a pathway and a process designed to effectively bring your magic to a higher level, with focus and intelligence, art and appreciation. Card Clinic, Close-up Clinic, and Stack Clinic will transform the way you think about and perform sleight-of-hand close-up magic forever.

The Clinics will combine a fascinating mix of professional effects, sleight-of-hand technique, specific theoretical subjects, and performance skills - every aspect of the art of magic with playing cards. You will be entertained by performance, you will be personally and patiently instructed at your own pace, there will be jam sessions and late-night chats, in-depth coaching and personalized tutoring, formal instruction and casual socializing, and - magic, magic, magic!

Card Clinic, Close-up Clinic, and Stack Clinic are all hosted and produced by Jamy Ian Swiss. Card Clinic features special guest Roberto Giobbi of Switzerland. Close-up Clinic features special guest David Ben of Canada. Stack Clinic features special guest Michael Close.

WHAT
Introducing Card Clinic, Close-up Clinic, and Stack Clinic – a new kind of learning experience.

Who may attend: Your only prerequisites are a love of magic and a sincere desire to learn.
Each Clinic is strictly limited to 20 registrants. First come, first served.
Tuition is $695.00 U.S.

WHO are we?
Card Clinic, Close-up Clinic, and Stack Clinic are created and produced by Jamy Ian Swiss. Card Clinic features special guest Roberto Giobbi of Switzerland, author of the landmark four-volume instructional texts, Card College. Close-up Clinic features special guest David Ben of Canada, creator of The Conjuror and The Conjuror's Suite, author of the Ross Bertram issue of Genii magazine, and currently at work on an ambitious biography of Dai Vernon. Stack Clinic features Michael Close, ten-year book and product reviewer for Magic magazine, resident performer at the Houdini Lounge in the Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino, and author of the 5 volumes of Workers, and of the new ebook, Closely Guarded Secrets.

WHO are you?
Card Clinic, Close-up Clinic, and Stack Clinic are for experienced amateurs, enthusiastic novices, working professionals - anyone with a deck of cards and a love of magic. The Clinic is for anyone who enjoys establishing and attaining new goals and who understands that the learning process is at least as important as that which is learned. We encourage a stimulating mix of people with varied levels of experience and skills.

WHERE
The next Clinic - the first Stack Clinic - will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, in mid-October of 2004. Room reservations will be booked and charged through Stack Clinic and must be paid in advance in full. (Important note: If you choose not to stay at the Clinic hotel, there will be an addition $100 fee to cover production costs.)

WHEN
Mid-October, 2004, dates as yet to be finalized.

WHY
Because now is the time to take your magic to a higher level. And if not now - when?