Wisconsin schools, PTOs & family nights
School assembly entertainment that holds every grade at once. High-energy magic shows for schools, PTO family nights and community festivals across Wisconsin, northern Illinois and the wider Midwest. "Students thought they had him figured out and he tricked them again and again." (St. Catherine Elementary)
In the gym
A magic assembly is the rare event that works for every grade band at once. The illusions hold kindergartners spellbound while the "I know how he did it" fifth graders get fooled hardest of all. Shows run 30 to 45 minutes with huge audience participation, and multiple back-to-back assemblies fit any school schedule.
PTO family nights get the same treatment with parents in the room: a fundraising-friendly event families actually show up for.
Out in the community
Caleb is a regular at community family events across the region. He's performed Edgewood Elementary's Color Run, Harvest Fest at Buechler Farms, and Oak Creek's 4th of July celebration. Jaw-dropping illusions and uproarious comedy, tuned for all ages.
Every joke, every effect, every volunteer moment is age-appropriate, teacher-safe and principal-approved.
Gym, cafeteria, or auditorium; a mic for bigger groups. Setup is fast and Caleb brings everything else.
Students on stage, whole-crowd moments, and a room that stays engaged from first trick to final reveal.
How far Caleb travels
Milwaukee is home, so most weeks are Wisconsin schools. But an assembly is a morning booking, and plenty of the Midwest is a comfortable drive. Northern Illinois is close enough that a Chicago-area school is an ordinary weekday date with no travel premium at all.
Milwaukee, Madison, Waukesha, Racine, Kenosha, Green Bay, Appleton and everywhere between. Home ground, and no travel to arrange.
Chicago and Rockford are about 90 minutes away, which makes a morning assembly a same-day trip. Peoria and Champaign work too.
Kalamazoo and South Bend are around three hours around the bottom of the lake. Grand Rapids, Lansing and Fort Wayne are a straightforward overnight.
Davenport and the Quad Cities are three and a half hours; Minneapolis and Cedar Rapids are worth booking alongside a second date to make the trip work.
Further afield is possible for the right event, and Caleb flies to bookings across the country. See every area or just send your date and your town and he'll tell you honestly whether it works.
High Interest Days & choice days
If you run a High Interest Day (choice day, enrichment day, interest rotations, club day, whatever your school calls it), you already know the hard part isn't filling the schedule. It's filling it with sessions students actually want. Put magic on the sign-up sheet and watch which list fills first.
Caleb runs the day in back-to-back sessions rather than one big assembly, so group after group gets the show. Tell him your block length and how many rotations you need, and the show flexes to fit the bell schedule instead of the other way around.
A classroom or library beats a gym for this. Close-up magic happens inches from their faces, in their own hands. No stage, no distance, nowhere to hide the method. That's the version students talk about for the rest of the year.
No stage, no A/V, no tech rider, no cafeteria table rearranged at 7am. Caleb brings everything, works in whatever room you give him, and is ready before the first group walks in.
Every session is 100% clean and teacher-safe, the same standard as the assembly show, in a smaller room. Students volunteer, hold the cards, and get fooled holding them. And because it's real skill rather than a screen, it lands as something a person actually learned how to do, which is a decent message on a day that's supposed to be about discovering what you're into.
Coordinators: send your date, block length, number of rotations and rough group size, and Caleb will come back with what fits and what it costs, usually the same day.
Good to know
A magic assembly checks every box on a principal's list: it holds K-12 attention for the full 30 to 45 minutes, it's 100% clean and curriculum-friendly, and it needs nothing but a gym and a mic. Unlike a video or a speaker, every student is leaning forward trying to catch the trick, and talking about it at dinner.
Elementary through high school. The pacing, humor, and participation adjust to the room. At St. Catherine Elementary, "students thought they had him figured out and he tricked them again and again."
Assemblies typically run 30 to 45 minutes: long enough to captivate, short enough to fit a school schedule. Multiple back-to-back assemblies for different grade bands are no problem.
A gym, cafeteria, or auditorium space and (for larger groups) a microphone. Caleb handles the rest. Setup is fast and the show is 100% clean and age-appropriate.
Yes. Family nights, color runs, harvest festivals, and parades are regulars on the calendar, including Edgewood Elementary's Color Run and Oak Creek's 4th of July celebration.
Yes. Milwaukee is home, so most weeks are Wisconsin schools, but northern Illinois is close enough that a Chicago or Rockford assembly is an ordinary same-day booking with no travel premium. Kalamazoo, South Bend and the Quad Cities are around three hours; Minneapolis, Cedar Rapids, Grand Rapids and Fort Wayne work as an overnight, and are easier to justify if you can pair with a second school nearby. Further afield is possible for the right event. Send your date and your town and Caleb will tell you honestly whether it works.
Magic is one of the few choice-day sessions that sells itself on the sign-up sheet and still delivers once students are in the room. Caleb runs High Interest Days as back-to-back rotations rather than one assembly, so group after group gets a close-up show, performed inches from their faces, in their own hands, with no stage and nothing to set up.
Yes, that is the usual shape of a High Interest Day, choice day or enrichment day booking. Tell Caleb your block length, how many rotations you need and the rough group size, and the show is built to fit your bell schedule.
Smaller is better for this format. A classroom or library group sees close-up magic happen in their own hands, which lands harder than the same material from a gym stage. For whole-school audiences the 30 to 45 minute assembly is the better fit.
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