Jay recently performed in Pentre Mawr sheltered housing scheme in Abergele at their Christmas tea party. The following article appeared in The Journal.
A touch of magic for party
A touch of festive magic united the generations at Pentre Mawr in Abergele this week when school children joined residents at the Sheltered Housing Scheme for older people for their Christmas party.
Warden Alison Pring said: “Pupils from Ysgol Glan Gele kindly joined us to perform carols and songs then stayed to be completely mesmerised along with our residents by magician Jay Gatling.
“It was lovely to see an intergenerational audience enjoying this experience together. Thanks to a generous grant from Age Cymru we had a truly wonderful Christmas tea party. Many thanks as well to Jan Williams Tesco Community Champion, for her donation of goodies for the children and to everyone who helped to prepare and serve the buffet.
Alison also paid tribute to Mrs Anne Rothwell, Chair of the Pentre Mawr Residents’ Association not only for her support for the Christmas Party but also for her contribution and support throughout the year, helping to make life happy and comfortable for all the residents at Pentre Mawr.
Jay took part in the North Wales Magic Circle close up competition in Abergele on Tuesday. There were ten competitors in total, who each entertained the audience with ten minutes of close up magic.
The standard was very high, and Jay was speechless when he was announced as the winner!
We’ve been rather busy of late, so I’m a little behind with the blog posts. (If you’re wondering what it was that kept us so busy, visit the blog again later in the week, and there’ll be a post all about it.)
Today’s blog is a combination of two of our recent events, that share a common strand.
Firstly, back in June we performed at a James Bond themed evening for the Venue Cymru Fundraisers and the Llandudno Lions. It was a great chance for us to try something new, and we themed our magic using ideas and music from the James Bond films.
We almost also ended up with a stowaway, when Bernie tried to sneak into one of our bags when we weren’t looking. We managed to persuade him to stay at home, but he wasn’t very happy about it!
At the beginning of July we took part in the North Wales Magic Circle’s annual stage and cabaret competition.
Inspired by the themed show that we’d just done, we put together a new act specially for the competition. The ten minute act used music from the James Bond films as a backdrop to the magic.
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