Events

10th International Convention


Held in Birmingham, at the Birmingham and Midland Institute, Friday 28th to Sunday 30th April 2017.

The Convention took place over three days attracting members old and new. As well as the usual packed programme of lectures and shows, exhibition, collectors' market, Gala dinner, and auction, it also featured for the first time a ticketed event open to the public.

The Twitter hashtag, #MLSconvention was used for the first time at this convention.

A report of the 10th convention was published in The Magic Lantern No. 11.


Programme (open/close)

Friday 28 April 2017

9.30am-1.30pm

Registration
Cabinet of Curiosities / Market / The Raree Man's Peepshow / Sideshows

1.30pm-2pm

Chairman's Welcome

2pm-2.45pm

Picture the Songs: Rum-ti-tum and Fiddle-dee-dum: notes from American Illustrated Songdom
Margaret Bergh

3pm-3.30pm

The Raree Man and his Peepshow: "Lucky Dicky Crangle & the Cinnabar Moth"
Tony Lidington

3.30pm-4.30pm

Tea break
Exhibition / Cabinet of Curiosities / The Raree Man's Peepshow / Sideshows

4.30pm-5pm

Seditious Images
Jacques Prenez

5pm-5.30pm

The life and inventions of Christiaan Huygens: a secret history of lantern slides
Sarah Dellmann & Gwen Sebus

5.30pm-8pm

Dinner break
Exhibition / Cabinet of Curiosities / The Raree Man's Peepshow / Sideshows

8pm-9.30pm

Crescent Theatre Show (public ticketed event)
The Magic Lantern Society presented Magic and the Muse, a unique combination of contemporary music, performance and projection, introduced by Mervyn Heard. Musicians Richard Navarro and Nicholas Thurston created magic with actress Miriam Gould, lanternists Jeremy & Carolyn Brooker. The show featured 'living pose' slides previously used by the parents of actor Peter Sellers in the 1930s, along with other stunning images hand painted onto glass, filling the Crescent Theatre with colour, light and sound.

Saturday 29 April 2017

10am-10.15am

Chairman's Introduction

10.15am-10.45am

When Grim Senji Grinned lantern filmstrip (1956): a story of solidarity in a Japanese colliery
Yoriko Iwata & Hana Washitani

10.45am-11.15am

Farewell to Old England Forever: slides from "Rev. Percy Edwards' Visual Archive"
Margaret & Ian Edwards

11.15am-11.45am

Tea break

11.45am-12.15am

Reverend Smithurst's Wish List
Mary Borgo

12.15pm-1pm

Bringing light to Stanley's "In Darkest Africa"
Dick Moore

1pm-3pm

Lunch break
Exhibition / Cabinet of Curiosities / The Raree Man's Peepshow / Sideshows

3pm-3.15pm

Introduction

3.15pm-3.45pm

The Life, Loves and Lies of an Australian Lanternist: the scandalous activities of Albert James Abbott
John Hyett

3.45pm-4.30pm

Friedrich August Boettcher: the greatest lantern exhibitor in Europe
Bernd Scholze

4.30pm-5pm

Cabinet of Curiosities / Market / The Raree Man's Peepshow / Sideshows

6pm-7.30pm

Buffet Dinner - Council Chamber

7.30pm-8.30pm

Magic Lantern Cabaret
Not one but three very distinct shows to entertain us! Sergi Buka, Dick Balzer and Martin Gilbert.

Sunday 30 April 2017

10am-12pm

Grand Auction
John Townsend (Auctioneer)

12pm-2pm

Lunch break
Sideshows

2pm-2.30pm

Chairman's Closing Announcements

2.30pm-3pm

Making "The Magic Lantern" opera
Omar Shahryar and Judi Sissons, piano and singers

3m-3.45pm

Le Sablais and his slides for Maison de la Bonne Presse
Annet Duller, piano and singers

3.45pm-4.45pm

Tea break

4.45pm-5.30pm

Feel the Magic: wondrous surprises for young and old
Keith Utteridge and company, piano and singers