AlakaSam

AlakaSam provides magical performance and balloon sculpting for children of all ages! AlakaSam will appear at your location and provide either close-up or stage magic for your special event. Close-up magic includes cards, coins, money and rope tricks suitable for wandering or table magic. If a stage show for a large group with lots of audience participation better suits your needs, AlakaSam can deliver with illusions such as the Linking Rings and Sword Through Neck! Balloon animals for your guests and volunteers add a festive touch! AlakaSam is quick-witted and ready to adapt his show to your audience. Magic by AlakaSam provides a fun shared experience that will get all your guests - children or adults - asking “How in the world did he do that?”

Sam Chamberlain is AlakaSam the Magician! AlakaSam started studying and practicing magic when he was 10 years old. He was an apprentice magician for five years at Howard’s House of Hocus Pocus in Buffalo, New York. He was the assistant to the shop’s owner Howard Eldridge at magic performances and demonstrated and sold magic tricks to customers at the shop. At Cornell University, Sam completed an epistemological study of magic and developed a magic course curriculum that he has since taught many times. AlakaSam has now been performing comedy magic and twisting balloon sculptures for over 40 years! He incorporates lots of audience participation and it is a very uplifting experience as the volunteers help accomplish the magic. AlakaSam is available to perform wandering magic, twist balloon animals and performs a stage show that includes the Chinese Linking rings, the appearing cane, Sword through Neck as well as card, rope and silk tricks. AlakaSam also works occasionally at the Magic Shop in the Pike Place Market.