Sunshine Terrace Fundraising Magic Show at USU Wednesday March 20th

March 11, 2013 - PRLog -- On Wednesday, March 20th, the USU Management 3110 class's Team 4 will be hosting a magic show featuring deceptionist Richard Hatch and USU Illusionist Steven Viator to raise funds for the Sunshine Terrace Foundation Scholarship Fund. This family friendly performance will begin at 7 p.m. at the Taggart Student Center (TSC) Auditorium. At 8:30 p.m., immediately following the performance, Richard will be available to sign copies of his new bilingual (Japanese and English) illustrated children's book, Taro-san the Fisherman and the Weeping Willow Tree, which are also being sold by the students to help meet their fundraising goals.

The performance will include classic feats of magic with opportunities for audience participation both onstage and in the comfort of the auditorium seats. Hatch has promised to perform "the most romantic card trick in the world", created by his good friend Axel Hecklau of Berlin, which received it's North American debut at the American West Heritage Center Valentine evening performance last month. This will be only the third time this feat has been demonstrated publicly in Utah.

Both Hatch and Viator are donating their services for this event, as are all the students, so that all the funds raised will go to the Sunshine Terrace Scholarship Fund, which supports Sunshine Terrace staff in meeting educational goals that will enhance their service at Sunshine Terrace. The Sunshine Terrace Foundation is a non-profit organization that has been serving Cache Valley for sixty-five years, providing a continuum of care to its clients and residents. For more information on the Foundation, check out their website http://www.sunshineterrace.com or call them at (435) 752-0411.

Tickets to the 7 p.m. Wednesday night performance are just $8 for non-students, just $5 for any students from elementary to graduate school! Tickets may be reserved in advance by calling or texting 435-554-8209.

Performer's biographies:

Magician Richard Hatch holds two graduate degrees in Physics from Yale University, but finds it easier apparently to violate the laws of nature than to discover them. A childhood interest in magic became a lifelong obsession after he met and was encouraged by the German magician Fredo Raxon in 1970. A full time professional “deceptionist” since 1983, Richard moved with his wife, violinist Rosemary Kimura, to Houston, Texas in 1985, shortly after winning first place in the annual New England Close Up Magic Competition in Worcester, Massachusetts. For several years he honed his craft entertaining the guests as one of the house magicians at Houston's Magic Island Nightclub before devoting himself exclusively to private and corporate work, traveling internationally on behalf of his clients. Richard and his wife Rosemary moved to Cache Valley in October 2010 and opened the Hatch Academy of Magic & Music (http://www.hatchacademy.com/)   in Logan's historic 1878 Thatcher-Young Mansion in January 2011. Richard serves on the board of the Sunshine Terrace Foundation. His first book, Taro-san the Fisherman and the Weeping Willow Tree, published in December, has just been nominated for a Utah Book Award in the children's literature category. For more information on Richard, check out his website: http://www.richardhatchmagic.com/

Magician Steven Viator is a student of USU and the Hatch Academy of Magic & Music. In the first annual Cache Valley Magic Competition held in October 2011, he was awarded third place, besting more experienced performers from Idaho and Salt Lake City. He is the founder and a past president of the USU Illusionists, a student organization dedicated to fostering an increased interest in the art of magic.