The RMC Code of Ethics Raleigh Magic Club

Code of Ethics

The Raleigh Magic Club is a community of people who share a love of magic. We strive to create an environment where magicians of all backgrounds, experience levels, and abilities can learn, perform, experiment, and grow together.

Membership in RMC carries with it a responsibility to treat fellow members, guests, performers, and the art of magic with respect. To that end, we ask all members to uphold the following principles:

Protect the Mystery

We respect the secrets and methods that make magic possible.

Members should not intentionally expose the methods of magic to the public, whether in person, online, through social media, video platforms, or other means. This includes refraining from creating, engaging with, commenting on, or sharing content whose purpose is to expose the methods of another magician's performance.

When in doubt, protect the mystery.

Respect the Performer

When someone is performing, we give them our attention and our respect.

Members should refrain from side conversations, disruptive behavior, or other distractions during performances. We encourage performers through our attention, applause, and enthusiasm, and when a performance doesn't go as planned, we support the performer rather than making them feel embarrassed or diminished.

A missed move, failed trick, or unexpected moment is part of being a magician. We know how vulnerable it can feel to perform. We take care of one another.

Laugh With, Not At

Magic is supposed to be fun.

We joke, tease, celebrate, and laugh together, but never at the expense of another person's dignity. We do not use someone's mistakes, inexperience, appearance, identity, or vulnerability as a source of ridicule.

Whenever possible, be the person who makes someone feel more welcome, not less.

Offer Feedback with Consent

We recognize that feedback is valuable, but so is the choice of when and how to receive it.

Unless feedback or critique has been specifically requested, members should not offer unsolicited criticism or opinions about another person's performance, routine, presentation, or creative work.

If you have something you think might be helpful, simply ask:

“Would you like some feedback?”

If the answer is no, respect that answer.

Our goal is to help one another grow, not to prove that we know better.

Practice Compeer

Within RMC, we are compeers: people who share the same pursuit and stand alongside one another as equals.

Experience, skill, reputation, age, or level of mastery does not determine a person's worth within our community. A beginner has something to learn, but they also have something to contribute. A seasoned professional has much to teach, but remains a fellow magician.

We approach one another with humility, curiosity, and respect.

There are no little magicians in RMC.

Act with Integrity

Members are expected to conduct themselves lawfully and responsibly, both within RMC and in their activities as representatives of the magic community.

We do not condone illegal or intentionally harmful behavior.

Our Standard

The Code of Ethics is not intended to tell members how to be perfect. Magicians are people, and people make mistakes.

It is a statement of the kind of community we want RMC to be:

Protect the mystery.
Respect the performer.

Laugh together, never at one another.
Ask before offering criticism.
Treat your compeers as equals.
Act with integrity.

We are here to make each other—and magic—better.