Free magic workshop for all ages coming to Odd Fellows

||| FROM DIDIER GINCIG for ODD FELLOWS HALL ORCAS |||

This May 2 at 4:00 pm, the Orcas community gets to particiate in an inspiring magic workshop at the Odd Fellows Hall led by second generation award-winning performer/magician, Phina Pipia. “This is a program that’s as fun as it is educational, with an impact that lasts long after the hour is over,” says Pipia. The hour starts with a short magic demo in which youngsters are wowed with original illusion work. Then, Pipia says the real magic words: “Do you want to learn how to do that yourself?”

Together, the class dives in, learning how to perform two world-class magic tricks and gaining the skills to make them from scratch. The workshop was directly inspired by Pipia’s touring illusion, music, puppetry, and theater show, Ha Ha Da Vinci which has been on the road in Europe, the US, and Canada for more than four years and will be at the Orcas Island Odd Fellows Hall on May 3, “The goal is to help students learn magic, while also discovering how to unlock their own creative potential.” 

The daughter of a professional magician, Pipia grew up in a house where the laws of physics were defied on a daily basis. “I sometimes joke that I have a permanent suspension of disbelief”, she says, “as a toddler, I never learned that objects tossed into the air would come down, or that a coin closed in my hand would be there when I opened it. Illusion was a part of everyday life. As a result, I believe that just about anything is possible.” Her magic workshops are steeped in that sense of wonder. 

The class is free and lasts an hour.