The 2025 AbraCorndabra highlights CLOSE-UP *AND* PARLOR MAGIC! Featuring quality mini performances by the stars, showcase show, talks and lectures, contests including The MIDWEST CHAMPIONSHIP OF CLOSE-UP MAGIC, exciting dealers room, and unique new events & happenings. AbraCORNdabra is KNOWN far & wide as being a “different” & “uniquely fun” type of magic convention, as well as the “Magical Family Reunion” for magi across America!
(timings and running orders are subject to change without notice).
| Friday May 16th, 2025 | AbraCORNdabra ~ The Midwest’s PREMIER Magic Convention |
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| 11:00 AM | CHECK-IN TO PICK UP REGISTRATION PACKETS *(You must pick up your registration packet AND badge BEFORE entering the Flea Market!)* |
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Registration Opens
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| 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Flea Market | |
| 12:45 PM | Grand Opening / Welcome Greeting/ FREE MAGICAL GIFT |
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| 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Show & Lecture #1 PETER SAMELSON  |
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| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Break | |
| 2:30 PM – 7:30 PM | magiK-MART Opens
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| 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM |  |
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| 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Dinner on your own | |
| 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM | LECTURE (Lecture #2) ???????????  |
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| 7:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Break | |
| 7:30 PM | magiK-MART closes |
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| 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Show & Lecture #3 THE COSMIC ROMANTICS  |
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| 9:00 PM – ???? | POPCORN JAM – NEW FOR 2025 Super Special Late Night Jam Session featuring some very popular “name” magicians! If you are a “nite-owl” – you will enjoy “hanging out” with fellow magi trading magical secrets & such. This special room for late-night jamming of magic is set up JUST for you & your magical friends! Enjoy free flavored popcorns and soda! |
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| Saturday May 17th, 2025 | AbraCORNdabra ~ The Midwest’s PREMIER Magic Convention |
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| 9:00 AM | magiK-MART Opens with FREE DONUTS with the dealers! (Bring your own drink)
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magiK-MART Dealers Room |
| 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Lecture #5 ???????? |
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| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Break | |
| 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM | The WORLD FAMOUS F.O.V. SILENT MAGIC AUCTION – raising funds for the Young Magician’s Fund. |
SIDE LOBBY |
| 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | The Kernels Showcase Show |
BALLROOM WEST |
| 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | FREE PIZZA LUNCH ON ABRACORNDABRA! (Kernels & Parents Pizza & Pop Lunch critique in private dining room) |
Enjoy an AbraCORNdabra |
| 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Show & Lecture #6 JEKI YOO
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| 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM | Break LAST CHANCE TO BID ON SILENT AUCTION ITEMS! (Silent auction closes at 3:15 PM) |
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HEARTS, DIAMONDS, CLUBS, SPADES, JOKERS, GAFFS |
THE MIDWEST CHAMPIONSHIP OF CLOSE-UP MAGIC
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Downstairs TWELVE Performers SIX rooms TWO Awards ONE CHAMPION! “Who will it be? Will it be YOU?” |
| 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Pay & Pick up Auction Winnings | |
| 6:00 PM | magiK-MART Closes |
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| 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM | Dinner on your own | |
| 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM | OscEARs Awards Party Doors open – mingle with magical friends – cash bar
Come dressed in your best Gangster’s outfit or Flapper attire! You may take your own photos in front of the “Police Line-up Wall”, find the Maitra D’ who will show you the “back alley entrance.” Figure out the password to gain entrance into the SPEAKEASY where surprises await you! |
Hotel Lobby |
| 8:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Old Maid’s Staff Show | |
| 9:00 PM -9:30 PM | Awards Presentations with surprise guest |
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| 9:30 PM – 10:00 PM | The OscEARs Wrap Party MYSTERY MAGICIAN & GUESTS SHOW! THIS WILL BE THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS OSCEARS PARTY EVER! (What happens at THIS YEAR’S OsEAR’s Awards Party will be talked about for years to come!)  |
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| 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM | Meet & Great with the Magical Stars – Souvenir Poster Signing | |
| ENCORE SUNDAY May 18th, 2025 |
AbraCORNdabra ~ The Midwest’s PREMIER Magic Convention |
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| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Intense Lecture #6 DAN FLESHMAN  |
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| 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM | Interview #8 MYSTERY MAGICIAN LECTURE  |
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| 11:30 AM | AbraCORNdabra 2025 closes! THANK YOU FOR COMING! SEE YOU NEXT YEAR FOR AbraCORNdabra’s 16th year with a theme of
MAGIC AROUND THE WORLD |
