This February Kevin Spencer, an award- winning magician, will be performing sensory inclusive magic shows at the Fox Theatre in downtown Tucson. There will be two school matinee performances on Friday, Feb. 14. There will also be a special FREE performance for the community on Saturday Feb. 15 at 11 a.m. thanks to the generous support of Angel Charity for Children. Although the event is free, you need to visit www.foxtucson.com to reserve seats.

Editor's Note: This performance is sold out now.

Spencer has been performing worldwide for decades. His parents bought him a magic set when he was about 8 years old, and he learned all the little tricks and ended up continuing to practice throughout college. He then became an apprentice to a “really great teacher” who helped him learn all about doing the big magic tricks.

Spencer enjoys having volunteers come on the stage during his shows to help him do the magic, because he believes that makes the show so much more fun when the magic happens in our hands instead of only in his hands.

Spencer’s advice to learn a magic trick is to go to the library in your school or town and ask to check out some magic books because when you read about them in the books and you see the pictures, it’s so much easier to learn the magic trick. Then you should always practice the trick well before you show someone.

Several years ago, while Spencer was touring around the world with his magic show, he was in a bad automobile accident. He woke up in the hospital in the neurological intensive care unit with a closed brain injury and a lower spinal cord injury. The experience of what he went through during recovery is what inspired him to create his sensory inclusive shows. Sensory inclusive in his performances means the house lights at the venue will be on and will never go all the way down; no one will ever sit in the darkness. There’s not going to be any loud music playing and if somebody decides that they need to get up and move around, they can feel free to during the show.

Spencer says, “I want everybody to be able to come to the show and just be themselves and have a good time and be accepted for who they are.”