Dublin · County Dublin · Ireland
Mind reading for a city of storytellers.
Christmas party, conference or gala dinner: wherever your Dublin guests gather, Isma Zmerli turns the room into an audience with mentalism and close-up magic, in English.
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Three formats
A Dublin event can be a full-day conference in the Docklands, a black-tie dinner in a Georgian hotel or a Christmas party for a whole office. Choose the format by the moment you want to change.
Drinks reception
As guests arrive, Isma works the room in small groups: a name he could not have known, a card that ends up where it should not be. It hands everyone a story to tell before the speeches even begin.
For arrival drinks, Christmas parties and client nights.
After the speeches
Once dinner is served, a stage segment, 20 to 45 minutes long, invites volunteers up while the rest of the room plays along. It suits an awards night or the Christmas party as much as a conference session.
Technical needs: sound with a microphone, plus a stage area.
Silicon Docks
Around Grand Canal Dock, where many technology companies have their European offices, Isma, an AI engineer as well as a mentalist, stages a playful duel between intuition and prediction. See the AI magic show.
For tech conferences, team days and product launches.
Tell Isma about your audience and running order: he will help you choose, with no commitment. For a company event, see also corporate magician and mentalist.
Dublin and the east coast
Dublin is under two hours from Paris by air, and the show is in English, so it feels as natural to an Irish team as to an international audience.
Conference centre, stadium suite, Georgian ballroom or country house: the performance is adapted to the room, the running order and the size of the crowd.
Conferences
Conferences at the Convention Centre Dublin on the Liffey, exhibitions in the RDS halls in Ballsbridge or meetings in the Croke Park conference suites: stage mentalism can launch the plenary, and close-up gives the evening reception its buzz.
Galas and parties
Gala dinners in the Round Room at the Mansion House, corporate receptions in the State Apartments of Dublin Castle, or a party in the Arrol Suite or the Gravity Bar at the Guinness Storehouse: close-up warms up the drinks before a stage segment timed between courses.
Hotels and estates
The Great Room at The Shelbourne on St Stephen’s Green, the conference halls of the Clayton Hotel Burlington Road, or a country estate such as Carton House in Maynooth or Powerscourt in County Wicklow for off-site days and incentives.
Docklands, IFSC, Grand Canal Dock, St Stephen’s Green, Temple Bar, Ballsbridge, Donnybrook, Ranelagh, Rathmines, Smithfield, Drumcondra, Sandyford
Howth, Malahide, Swords, Dún Laoghaire, Dalkey, Killiney, Bray, Enniskerry, Maynooth, Straffan, Kildare, Wicklow, Meath
Under two hours from Paris on a direct flight, with travel set out in the quote. Dublin is one hour behind Paris all year.
Good to know: Dublin’s Christmas party season starts in late November, and the Thursday and Friday nights of December are taken first, in hotels and in venues. Big match days at the Aviva Stadium or Croke Park also fill the city, so check the fixtures before fixing your date.
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What clients say
Corporate event · Mentalism
★★★★★
“A huge thank you to Isma! An incredible performance: our clients absolutely loved it. Professional, astonishing and incredibly friendly. We recommend him wholeheartedly!”
Corporate event · VIP guests
★★★★★
“Isma is fascinating and charismatic: the perfect experience and wow factor for our event with VIP guests. We were all amazed by his talent, and the guests are still talking about it.”
Company plenary · 200 employees
★★★★★
“Everyone loved the entertainment! […] He was very accommodating and tailored his performance to our company’s needs and industry.”
Meet Isma
On stage or up close with your guests, Isma turns surprise into an experience people share.
The art of capturing attention and getting your guests involved.
Trained in machine learning and deep learning.
A master’s degree exploring perception, attention and decision-making.
Easy to organise
One conversation is enough to get started, even if your programme is still taking shape.
Your questions
Yes, and December fills fast. Close-up at the drinks and a stage segment after dinner combine well for an office party. Send your preferred date and a back-up, and you will have an answer within a day.
Yes. In a conference programme, the stage segment can open the morning or wake the room up after lunch; at an exhibition in the RDS halls, close-up draws people towards your stand, as described on the trade show page.
Yes. Off-site days and incentives often take place on country estates such as Carton House, The K Club or Powerscourt. Isma also travels further, to Galway, Cork or Belfast; just add the venue to your enquiry.
Yes. The show is in English, volunteers choose to take part and nobody is put in an awkward position. It suits Dublin’s international workforce as well as local teams, and French-speaking groups can have it in French.
December for Christmas parties, the weeks around St Patrick’s Day in March, and the weekends of big Six Nations or All-Ireland matches, when visitors fill the hotels. Outside those periods, there is usually more choice.
Every Dublin quote starts from your date, the chosen format, the running time and your guest numbers, and sets out the flight from Paris. As a guide, close-up normally covers one to three hours and the stage segment 20 to 45 minutes.
Let’s talk about your event
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