PAUL SCHRAG: GEOFF KANICK WILL BLOW YOUR MIND >>>

Tacoma-born magickian Geoff Kanick invites you to follow him down the rabbit hole this weekend. A master of many arts, Kanick’s talents will be offered this weekend as part of Hypothesis, a synthesis of illusion, comedy, sideshow feats, juggling and vaudeville variety. As he describes it, Tacoma should prepare to get its mind “blowed.”

Kanick spells magick with a “k” to distinguish his art. Magick with a “k” is a linguistic signal pioneered by Victorian bad boy, mountain climber and legendary mystic Aleister Crowley, who used the word magick, with a “K,” to distinguish his explorations of consciousness and other psychonautic systems from the stage work of everyday magicians. Kanick, like Crowley, is no everyday magician, and says his goal is to take people out of their comfort zones to a place where magick is more than an act.

Pick up the Weekly Volcano Thursday for the full story on his magick.

[McAstocker Theater, June 13 7:30 p.m., June 14 7:30 p.m., and June 15 2 p.m., $10 available at Brown Paper Tickets or at the door, Bellarmine Preparatory School, 2300 S. Washington St., Tacoma]