Category Archives: Performances

Finishing up 2022…

December 31, 2022 | Brazil,Camps,Colombia,Costa Rica,Education Chapter,El Salvador,Featured News,Fundraisers,Magic in India,Our Travels,Performances

And before we start gearing up for a magical 2023, we wanted to recap what was a fantastic year. Our education chapters in El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Colombia are still going strong with weekly classes, more local shows have ensued this year, and these shows have become a new source of income for our students; this is something that has us very happy. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Show de Magia/ Magia de cerca MSFCR (@magos_sin_fronteras_cr) View this post on Instagram A post shared by MSF SV🇸🇻 (@magossinfronteras_sv) View this post on Instagram A post …
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Magicians Without Borders Thanks you for 2022

PTW Happenings 2020

August 2, 2020 | Featured News,Performances

We had a plan….. this is how most stories start this year. No different for us, we had a plan to travel to New York City with 2 of our teacher/students pairs (from the slums of Costa Rica and Colombia) to do a performance in the Perfoming The World Conference, but as fate would have it the conference, as everyone and everything moved online, and that gave us the opportunity to put together a performance with 3 pairs of teacher/student including Mario and Kimberly from El Salvador. They joined Diego and Abraham from Costa Ria and Tamara and Jaider from …
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Bringing a bit of love, laughter, magic and hope to the US-Mexico Border

December 18, 2018 | Featured News,Our Travels,Performances

Janet/LaFleur and Tom recently returned from a two week trip to the El Paso-Juarez border. They did 25 magic performances in many places on both sides of the border: +Detention Centers for children separated from their families; We worked for months to get into these SW Key centers, but we finally did and after our last show in one of the Detention Centers, the director, who organized our performances, wrote: “It was a joy to see how much the children enjoyed the magic, how they laughed with delight. They spoke about the show …
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Wizards of PRCH: Summer Update

August 13, 2018 | Featured News,Our Travels,Performances,Uncategorized,Upcoming,Wizards of PRCH

This past June marked the completion of another excellent “Wizards of PRCH” workshop in New Haven. The Wizards of PRCH Project—a collaboration between the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH), the Yale Magic Society, and Magicians Without Borders—brings together adults recovering from drug abuse and mental illness to study the art of magic and perform throughout the New Haven community. Now in its third year, the initiative aims to help participants develop self-confidence and public speaking skills, promote creativity and self-discipline, equip participants with a remunerative trade and entrepreneurial skills, and inspire hope that the seemingly impossible is …
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Official Launch – Magicians Without Borders Costa Rica

May 24, 2018 | Costa Rica,Featured News,Our Travels,Performances

On May 17th 2018, we did our first official launch for an education program in a Latin american country. It was to conmemorate our legal status in Costa Rica, from now own the foundation: Magos Sin Fronteras Costa Rica is now open for social change in the country! Plus we launch a website: cr.magossinfronteras.org We did the launch on the traditional cinema called Cine Magaly, in a VIP movie room for 70 people. In the audience we invited several potential allies and sponsors. All of this was mainly put together by Diego Vargas, our country director in Costa Rica, who …
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Magicians Without Borders Live from NYC!

September 29, 2016 | Colombia,Featured News,Our Travels,Performances

We just got back from one of our biggest adventures yet! We had the opportunity to take 6 kids from the Colombian program to New York! We had a blast! We went sight seeing, and did 2 performances, one at the international conference Performing The World. And another one in the P.I.T. thanks to the support from Vanishing INC the company of the magicians Joshua Jay and Andi Gladwin with all the support and diligence of Eli Bosnick. The kids also got invited to one of the most famous magic stores in the world, Tannen’s Magic Store in NYC where …
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Kids of Magicians Without Borders in Tannen's magic in New york city

“Fun Raiser” organized by sixth grader, Jade Edwards

February 14, 2016 | Featured News,Fundraisers,Media,Performances,Uncategorized,VT Shows

There was a wonderful night of Fun(d) Raising for a packed house at the Lincoln, VT Community Library on January 29th. The event was organized by Jade Edward, a sixth grader at The Lincoln Community School, as part of the Positive Change Project. His teacher, Molly Sprague, created the project for sixth graders to research and support a local non-profit organization of their choosing. And Jade Edwards selected Magicians Without Borders. After reading articles and blog posts on the Magicians Without Borders web site, Jade decided to organize a Fun(d) Raiser to be held at the local library. He designed the program, …
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Magic at Maher

November 11, 2015 | Featured News,Magic in India,Performances

Tom and Chris Yerlig spent four days in Pune performing for the Maher Foundation —Maher has over thirty homes for abused and battered women and their children. There were many marvelous and moving shows, among them: a show for 200 + women with severe mental disabilities, the hall was filled with smiles and squeals of laughter and delight. performances out in the villages where Maher has centers. We felt honored to be there performing in these beautiful places for calm and excited audiences; old and young alike have a childlike spirit that is a joy to perform for. We had an exhausting …
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Magic and Hope are alive in El Salvador

October 31, 2015 | El Salvador,Featured News,Our Travels,Performances,Uncategorized

In 2005, we met Maricela Medina and Peter Rodriguez in Santa Ana, El Salvador. We were collaborating with Asaprosar, an organization that works with very poor children who live and work in the market place and the garbage dump. We were training these children to become magicians and Maricela and Peter were exceptional magic students; enthusiastic and talented. Together with Asaprosar and our Scholarship Fund they finished high school and went on to graduate from the best Culinary School in El Salvador. They are working as cooks and still performing as magicians. In the spring of 2015 they wrote us and said, …
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Colombia’s young magicians at TEDxCESA

May 29, 2015 | Colombia,Performances,Uncategorized

We could have not been more proud of the young magicians of Bogotá, Colombia, the kids of the Colombian chapter got another once in a life time experience. To be the performing act in TEDxCESA. TEDxCESA was held in one of Colombia’s most elite universities, with the tag line “actions that transform lives“. That is why the magic club from the slums of Bogotá got invited to perform, because the actions of teaching this young kids magic, has truly transformed their lives. They did an 18 minute presentation and got a long long standing ovation!! It was amazing!