Butterfly Wondercon 2026 - Roberto Giobbi's Workshop

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A three-hour workshop with Roberto Giobbi for only 12 attendees!

Let’s hear what Roberto has to say about his workshop:

Theory is about knowledge and understanding, practice is about their implementation. In my seminars and books, which I consider to be conceptual as opposed to commercial (I’m not trying to sell you things you don’t need), every thought is practically demonstrated and discussed in-depth with tricks, techniques, and presentations from my professional repertoire.

A magic piece takes place on three levels:

1. the technical construction (the mechanics of the trick)
2. the dramatic construction (the staging of the trick, its presentation, everything the spectator sees)
3. the psychological construction (all the principles that keep the intelligent spectator from penetrating the secret)

The vast majority of books, DVDs, lectures etc. talk about the first two levels, only very few about the third level, the psychological construction, as it is the most complex and most difficult to understand and to put into practice.

In order to make the spectator experience the emotion of wonder, the spectator has to be deceived by constructing in his mind a false reality; he must neither see nor imagine the trick’s secret, but live it as an impossibility. This is the emotion of astonishment and the goal of all artistic magic.

In this Masterclass, we will discuss all those principles, which help the spectator to fall into Wonderland. We will do this by identifying the individual concepts, define them, name them, and then study how to practically implement them in several tricks, techniques and presentations. We will explore:

• how the spectator perceives what we say and what we do
• how he creates his (false) reality
• how to influence the way things are remembered and recalled
• how the presentation relates to this process
• why technique, management, and handling are important
• what the types of misdirection are
• what an «in-transit action», «conditioned naturalness», «positive & negative insertions», «actus interruptus», and a large etcetera are
• and a lot more…

This will result in a holistic approach, which starts out with the mechanics of a trick, discusses how to marry sleight-of-hand to sleight-of-mouth, how to creatively interpret a piece of magic, how to use words, spaces and gestures to better deceive, how to communicate more effectively during a performance, how to successfully manipulate the spectator’s perception, intelligence and memory to create that memorable moment of wonderment we are all looking for, and how to do this in an entertaining way, without ever having to resort to inappropriate comedy or other cheap means.

This will be an interactive, hands-on Masterclass on the principles, concepts, strategies, techniques, effects, and presentations of magic. We will often be using playing cards, based on my Card College Volumes 1 & 2. But we will also look at effects using coins and cups & balls.

Refund Policy

Cancel before July 31, 2026

• Full refunds will be issued for cancellations made before the end of July.

Cancel between August 1 and August 31, 2026

• Cancelations made in August will receive a 50% refund.

Cancel on or after September 1, 2026

• No refunds will be issued for cancellations made on or after September 1, 2026.

Note: No additional discounts apply to the ticket for Víctor Piña's workshop.

Note 2: The free deck you might get while purchasing the registration will be given to you at the event.