It’s official – our tenth Melbourne Magic Festival was the best one yet.

• We broke our ticket sales record with over 10,500 in attendance.
• Joshua Jay broke the lecture attendance with 120.
• All three of our international guests had sell out shows.
• We received more ‘reviews’ of MMF shows than the past 9 years combined.
• We had a record eight satellite venues including an exhibition, a workshop and a university lecture!

AWARD WINNERS FOR 2017 WERE:

• THE AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR CHAMPION OF STAGE MAGIC – Prue Spencer
• THE AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR CHAMPION OF CLOSE UP MAGIC – Prue Spencer
• MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL AWARD – Carisa Hendrix for ‘The Ladies Guide to Deceit & Debauchery.’
• BEST NEWCOMER – Micky Trickstar
• MMF KIDS SHOW AWARD – Nicholas J Johnson for ‘Tricky Nick is a Super Bad Guy’
• CANDLELIGHT AWARD FOR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE – Josh Staley
• MMF DIRECTOR’S AWARD – Lawrence Leung for ‘Very Strange Things’

To help you recreate the memories, here are a few images for 13 amazing days of magic. (Click on the images to see them enlarge).

ANTHONY DEMASI: I LOVE MAGIC

THE BEST OF THE MAGIC FEST

THE LADIES GUIDE TO DECEIT & DEBAUCHERY

100% DANI DAORTIZ

DANI LECTURE & WORKSHOP

THE FAIRY MAGIC SHOW

GONE GIRL

GUY LE MAGICIEN/MONSIEUR ET MADAME RAGUIN

JOSH STALEY – ENIGMA

JOSHUA JAY – THE SHOW

LAWRENCE LEUNG – VERY STRANGE THINGS

THE AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

META ILLUSION WITH E G LEE

MAGIC SCHOOL WITH TIM CREDIBLE

MAGICSPORTS

META ILLUSION WITH E G LEE

PROFESSOR GOOGALFITZ EXPLAINS IT ALL

SIMON CORONEL – THINGS BY SIMON

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MAGIC

THIS IS MAGIC!

TIM CREDIBLE’S FAMILY MAGIC SHOW

TRICKY NICK IS A SUPER BAD GUY

ALEX THE MAGICIAN

AROUND THE FESTIVAL

SPREADING THE WORD