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Vincent Gambini: Close-up
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Vincent Gambini: Close-up

Tue 29 Dec · 16:40

Scottish Storytelling Centre

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About This Event

Vincent Gambini presents a fifteen-minute close-up magic performance at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh on 29 December 2026. The show combines sleight-of-hand with audio elements to create an illusion of reality within a café setting. Tickets are priced at £20 for early bird or £30 standard, plus a booking fee.

Inside a café, surrounded by unsuspecting customers, you are invited to sit at a table and watch a 15-minute performance. In front of your very eyes, playing cards transform inexplicably and sugar cubes vanish without a trace. But as you listen to the performer’s voice and the sounds of the café on headphones, the line between reality and fiction becomes increasingly thin: is this a real café, or a film set filled with actors? Combining expert sleight-of-hand magic with the dreamlike nature of cinema, Close-up invites you to briefly reimagine everyday life as an uncanny illusion. Supported by Farnham Maltings’ New Popular, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, the University of Sussex, and Arts Council England.

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Vincent Gambini: Close-up takes place on Tuesday, 29 December 2026 at 16:40.

Vincent Gambini: Close-up is held at Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh (43 - 45 High Street, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 1SR).

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Tickets for Vincent Gambini: Close-up can be booked via whatsoninedinburgh.co.uk using the "Check Tickets & Live Prices" button on this page, which opens the official booking site in a new tab.

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