BREAKING NEWS: The International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Society of American Magicians have announced a unanimous agreement to hold a joint convention in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 1- 5, 2014. The second FISM North American Championship of Magic will be held concurrently with the joint convention.
The five-day event will be held at the Renaissance St. Louis Grand Hotel, with 55,000 square feet of meeting space, located six blocks from the Gateway Arch and adjacent to two theaters under consideration for shows and contests.
The name of the convention will be the IBM/SAM 2014 Combined Convention. The steering committee has named Shawn Farquhar and Mark Weidhaas as co-chairs of the convention.
The last I.B.M.-S.A.M. combined convention was in 2008, in Louisville, Kentucky. That was the first one in thirty-three years, though. The previous joint convention was in 1973, in Miami Beach. Prior to that, there were combined conventions in 1970 (Milwaukee), 1964 (New York City), 1962 (Cleveland), 1960 (Boston), 1959 (Chicago), 1951 (New York City), and the first one, in 1950 (Chicago). The first I.B.M. convention was in 1926.
