Modern Magic: An Evening of Bespoke Conjuring
In 2014, Mahdi Gilbert and Shane Cobalt set out to create a groundbreaking new magic show. It would be named after a classic magic book, Modern Magic by Professor Hoffman and feature centuries old magic that has never been seen by anyone alive.
Mahdi The Magician: Live
Mahdi The Magician: LIVE is a combination of Mahdi telling his life story, bringing to life the stories of the great magicians, and his unique brand of magic & mind reading.
Mahdi Presents Magic In Your Hands
Magic In Your Hands is magic in your hands. Magic happens in your hands. The magic show takes place in your hands. It’s unimaginable, unbelievable, indescribable and must be experienced.
Mahdi’s Dream Comes True
Mahdi The Magician talks about his lifelong dream of playing the piano and how he was able to fulfill this dream on a trip to Shanghai in front of an audience of 10,000 people. Dreams are worth discussing and realizing.
How Magicians Think: Overcoming Obstacles
This is podcast episode about seeing beyond limitations and succeeding despite enormous obstacles. Bring a tissue and tune in. Let this episode serve as your spiritual nourishment for the week.
Playing The Hand You’re Dealt Feat. Mahdi Gilbert
In those moments you have two choices, you can either push through or you can give up…
How Mahdi Gilbert’s Magic was First Aired on Television
I never wanted the video to be published online but it ended up online and went viral. Before I knew it ended up on this Right This Minute and was technically the first time my magic was seen on television.
What is Hidden Leaves?
I wanted to design a deck that was mysterious and filled with secrets, secrets that had to be earned through time, practice, and study. The name of the deck itself eludes to this. Throughout history a sheet a paper was referred to as a leaf of paper.
This Magician’s Empowering Story Has a Surprising Twist
I encourage anyone who has doubts about themselves and their potentials. I would tell them to stop thinking and start doing, stop calculating and start living, and yes, you are going to experience failure along that way, but that is what life and what is all about.
STARKING Presents Mahdi Gilbert, a magician without arms and legs
"I have no arms or legs since birth," appears. Mahdi overcame his physical condition and began to perform magic that is hard to believe even when seen before your eyes.
Top Canadian Magicians and the Tricks that Made Them Famous
Born without hands or feet, Toronto’s Mahdi Gilbert had to start from scratch when it came to magic. Because all the magic books he read were for performers who had hands, the crafty illusionist came up with entirely original routines only he knows the trick too, which makes the manipulations all the more enticing and exciting to watch.
Magician With No Hands Shows Off His Incredible Skills In Video
Based in Toronto, Magician Mahdi Gilbert has been performing magic for a number of years with an obvious disability that could have held him back.
Canadian Embassy Presents Mahdi To Beijing
Inspirational speaker and magician Mahdi Gilbert was invited by the Canadian government to Beijing, China. As part of this engagement he was introduced to Chinese students in Beijing to share his message of hope and life story.
Spectacle: The Magic Show arrives at the Comédie-Française
Today, it is the new magicians who offer the most creative shows," confirms its director, Jean-Michel Ribes. At a time when new technologies perform real miracles on a daily basis, the success of such a discipline, let's say more artisanal, can be breathtaking.
The Illusions Festival Blows Out Its Second Candle
The second edition of the Châlons-en-Champagne magic festival takes place until the end of the week at La Comète. As visual as it is sound, this festival aims to address both children and adults.
Mahdi Stars Dans Le Cadre D’Illusions, Festival De Magie
Seeing Mahdi Gilbert on stage is an experience like no other. While he is an outstanding magician, he is even more an extraordinary personality. His show is the odyssey of a child born without hands.
Magic On The Robert Elms Show
Magician Mahdi Gilbert visited BBC Radio Headquarters in London, England to make an appearance on The Robert Elms Show. They discuss his life and career as well as what he is doing in London on this trip to the UK.
Magician Without Hands Set To Fool Them
"Mahdi is one of a number of incredible acts we have lined up for this year's event, and we have had a lot of interest in him already. His story is incredible, but his talent goes much further.”
Magician With No Hands Is Set To Wow Audiences With Card Tricks
Mahdi has developed every single technique he employs in his illusions from scratch. And, despite having no hands, he has become one of the world’s finest sleight of hand magicians.
Ricky Jay’s ‘Matthias Buchinger’
Ricky Jay cites a present-day performer who gives us some sense of how Buchinger might have worked as a magician. The 26-year-old Canadian Mahdi Gilbert is limbed much as Buchinger and does exquisite card magic using techniques of his own invention that baffle even other magicians.