F E AT U R E
For one trick he covered an upturned empty
wine glass with a cloth and then, standing
some distance away, he blew vapour towards
the glass.
It looked to be the worst trick ever as the
vapour dissipated before getting anywhere
near the glass but when Nick removed the
cloth the glass was full of vapour. Talk about
targeting your tricks for the audience you
are entertaining.
I have never been part of a live magic act before
until now. I was one of a number of people from
the audience chosen to pick a juice from a
book of juice flavours Nick had collected while
at Vaper Expo UK earlier in the day.
It didn’t take Nick long to correctly guess the
flavours we had all selected. Mine was Apple
Pie in case anyone is interested.
It wasn’t all mayhem magic and madness
though as there was a serious part to the
evening too. The ceremony took place just
four days after suicide bomber Salman Abedi
detonated an explosive divide in the foyer of
Manchester Arena.
He targeted the Ariana Grande concert which
was full of young people, including many
teenage girls. Twenty two people were killed
in the explosion, the youngest of whom was
an eight-year-old girl, and many more people
were seriously injured.
During the awards ceremony a minute’s silence
was held in memory of all the victims of the
attack and their families and a raffle raised more
than £4,000 towards the Manchester Evening
News ‘We Stand Together’ appeal which
was launched in the aftermath of the attack.
So another Vapouround Awards ceremony has
come and gone. It was a night of entertainment,
coming together, fun and laughter and a
celebration of the global vaping industry. It was
also a night when we showed solidarity with
the people of Manchester and demonstrated
that terrorism will never win.
The paper vowed that every single penny
raised would go to the official We Love
Manchester Emergency Fund, set up by the
British Red Cross and Manchester council.
At the time of writing more than £6m had been
donated to the Emergency Fund to help the
families of those who were killed and injured in
the bombing.
Vapouround’s Paul Caplin said: “It is often said
that the vaping community is a very caring
community and this is certainly what happened
when we announced the raffle for this
particular cause.
“People dug deep to do something to help
the victims of this horrific attack and this is
exactly the kind of response we have come to
associate with the vaping community.”
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