Private events · Montreal
The close-up magic and mentalism Bao performs for Montreal’s biggest companies, in your living room, terrace, or reception hall. Inches away. Impossible to forget.
Watch what your guests will experience. 2 minutes 46, sound on.
Trusted by the companies you know
The difference
Most parties are lovely. A great venue, good food, warm company. The ones people still talk about years later share one extra ingredient: a moment of real astonishment, felt together.
That is what Bao builds. This is not entertainment your guests watch from a distance. It is interactive: it happens to them, in their hands and in their minds, and it is designed for the kind of high emotion that makes a night impossible to forget.
People remember how they felt. Bao makes them feel the impossible.
What happens
Bao moves through your celebration group by group. A guest thinks of any word, and he names it. Another hands over their locked phone and, with their permission, watches him type in the passcode. Mind reading and psychological illusions, inches away, in your guests’ hands and minds.
The freak-outs are the spectacle. The real craft is what stays: moments your guests will retell for years. And it fills exactly the stretches hosts worry about:
When guests do not know each other yet and the room needs an ice-breaker.
Where energy usually dips. Instead, tables erupt one by one.
A personalized piece built around the person the night is for.
Guests leave with a moment they will retell at every dinner for months.
Your guests do not watch the entertainment. It happens to them.
In their words
150+ Google reviews. 5.0 rating.
“Bao is not only kind and professional but also truly amazing! He was the highlight of my party. All the guests were impressed and asked for his contact.”
“Bao put on the most INCREDIBLE show for my best friend’s bachelorette! We all agreed we have never been so amazed by a performer before. His show was the highlight of our weekend.”
“Our guests were flabbergasted and we will all be talking about him for years. He will beat any photobooth or other entertainment you’re thinking of.”
“Bao was just amazing! He's very skillful and entertaining. My guests without exception were all entertained, impressed and happy! I recommend him without hesitation.”
“I had a bachelorette of 9 girls and Bao gave us a private, intimate show. It was so much fun and he made it such a memorable experience for everyone!”
“Bao brought so much mystery, charm, and energy to my private party — everyone was captivated and amazed. It was the perfect touch to make the night feel truly magical.”
What your booking includes
The same performance companies like L’Oréal, Mark’s, and Indeed book. Nothing simplified, nothing held back.
Tell us who the night is for. Bao builds pieces around their name, their story, their disbelief.
Sophie coordinates every detail by email from the moment you book. You plan nothing extra.
Bao coordinates his arrival with you or your planner and shows up early, ready. Nothing to set up, nothing to manage.
The rate you see is the rate you pay, plus tax. No mileage surprises, no add-ons.
Corporate clients book this exact package from $2,500.
Why the private rate exists
Most of Bao’s bookings are corporate: galas, holiday parties, and client events. Companies pay $2,500 to $6,500 and beyond for an evening with Bao, because they trust him with their hardest rooms: executives, clients, the people who have seen everything.
The 90-minute package on this page is the entry point of that corporate calendar, booked from $2,500. Private celebrations get it at a private rate, kept within reach while he still can. Same performer. Same performance.
There is cheaper entertainment out there. But you are not shopping for entertainment. You are deciding how your guest of honour gets celebrated, and the hosts who want the best in the room book the performer companies trust with theirs.
When availability allows, this is exclusive private-event pricing: offered when Bao can be flexible, so very special occasions stay within reach.
Choose your evening
3 hours of close-up magic & mentalism
The experience woven through your entire evening: arrival, dinner, and the after-glow. Every table, every group, multiple encounters.
90 minutes of close-up magic & mentalism
The arrival hour, transformed. Bao moves through your party: small groups, inches away, reactions your guests will talk about for months.
Rates are for Greater Montreal, plus tax. High-demand dates, notably Fridays and Saturdays in the holiday season, are quoted at the seasonal rate. Hosting fewer than 20 guests? See The Magic & Mentalism Show, a private show built for intimate groups.
Reserve your date
Pick your date and share the details. Two minutes, all online.
Generated on the spot. Pay in full by card in one tap, or start with a 50% deposit.
Your service agreement arrives by email the same day. Signed contract + payment in, and the date is off the calendar.
Until a contract is signed and a payment received, a date stays open. If another client completes both first, it goes to them.
Setting up your booking…
One step left
Your booking is in and your invoice is ready. Settle it now and the only thing left is a signature.
One tap: the secure payment page opens at the full amount, and your booking is fully settled. Prefer to split it? Tap Edit amount on the payment page and pay a 50% deposit of now, with the balance due on event day.
A copy of invoice with the same payment link was just emailed to you. Your invoice number is , payable through the link above any time. Your service agreement arrives by email the same day. The date is officially yours once your payment and the signed contract are both in.
Request received
Questions in the meantime? Write to info@baomagic.com and Sophie will take care of you.
Questions hosts ask
The mingling packages on this page shine from about 20 guests up, when there are groups to move between. For intimate gatherings under 20, the better fit is The Magic & Mentalism Show: a private performance built exactly for small rooms.
Nineteen years on stage builds a repertoire far deeper than any single evening can show. Every set is assembled for the room in front of it, so even repeat guests are met with material that is new to them.
Both work, and we plan either with you. A well-hyped surprise lands. What often works even better is announcing a special guest, or announcing Bao himself: guests look up his work and the anticipation becomes part of the experience, the way the build-up to a big trip is half the joy.
None to speak of. Close-up magic happens between your guests: living rooms, restaurants, terraces, boats, backyards. Nothing to install, no stage to build.
The hard-to-impress rooms are the favourites. Bao spends most of the year in front of executives and engineers who walk in skeptical. It happens in your guests’ own hands, with their own objects, so there is nothing to dismiss. The bigger the skeptic, the louder the reaction.
Your invoice arrives instantly, payable by card through the secure link. Pay in full in one tap, or start with a 50% deposit and settle the balance on event day. The deposit portion is a non-refundable retainer: it is what takes your date off the market.
Availability is confirmed as part of your booking. In the rare case a date is already contracted, you hear from us within hours and nothing is charged; any payment already made is returned in full right away.
Your date, your people, and ninety minutes they will never explain.