Vic High Improv

Vic High Improv Team 2013-14 Victoria High School is running a combined fundraiser for the Vic High Improv Club and the Vic High Rhythm & Blues Band starting Saturday, January 4th at 9am at Fernwood Auto. Location: Fernwood Auto, 2320 Fernwood Road, Victoria, BC Dates: Saturday and Sunday, January 4th/5th, 11th/12th and 18th/19th Time: 9am to 3pm Suggested $5 donation Part of the proceeds are to help get 12 Vic High students and one Esquimalt High student to Berlin to participate in the Berlin Improv Festival from March 21-31, 2014. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our students and this will be the first time in its 13 year history that the festival has hosted a high school improv troupe!

On Friday, November 22nd, we held a Doctor Who themed fundraiser to help reduce the cost to families to send their your travellers to the Berlin Improv Festival from March 21 - 31st, 2014. We're happy to report that it was a resounding success! 200 people attended the event and we managed to raise just over $3,300 for the trip! The streets of Victoria were witness to the first time ever (to our knowledge) of a full sized TARDIS being wheeled down the Douglas Street sidewalk from the Cineplex Odeon theatre to the Vic Theatre. Many participants came dressed for the occasion and participated in the Doctor Who Themed Costume Contest! Our concession featured a great selection of baked goodies, along with some Doctor Who themed drinks: the Galifrey Double Sunrise and the Regeneration Energy. Outside the Vic Theatre, we had people generously donating money to have their picture taken with the TARDIS.  We raised approximately $70!  Th

Artist: Chris Lynch Join us on Friday, November 22nd for an evening of Dr. Who inspired good times! The Vic High Improv Club is running a fundraiser to help send 16 enthusiastic improv club students to the Berlin Improv Festival in March 2014. The evening starts at 7:30pm and features.... Silent Auction Costume Contest Dr. Who Trivia Contest Live Auction (amoungst other goodies, we're auctioning off a TARDIS !) Airing of one or two Dr. Who episodes It's just $10 to get in! Tickets are available from: Members of the Vic High Improv Club Victoria High School Main Office  At the door Over their 10 day stay in Berlin, our students will participate in 4 days of workshops from two different instructors (not from the US or Canada) and will perform for a local school audience at the end. They also will be enjoying the festival performances and taking time to visit the historic city of Berlin itself. For a group of 16 students, the total cost is $32,000 CDN

Artist: Kevin Koch We start with seven innocents (or seemingly innocent) in a small town we like to call Vic-GORE-ia. Over the space of three "nights", three of our fine townsfolk are eliminated by an unknown assailant and you, the audience, get to figure it out, along with the surviving townsfolk! Where?   Victoria High School , 1260 Grant Street When? Tuesday,October 29 and Wednesday, October 30, 8pm (Doors @ 7:30pm) How much? $5 per person All proceeds go to funding the improv club activities, which for 2014 includes our trip to the Berlin Improv Festival !

Help us send our hard-working Improv Club students to Berlin in March 2014 to participate in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! We are very excited to have been invited to attend the Berlin Improv Festival in March 2014! This will be the first time ever in the festival’s 13 year history where they have hosted a high school improv group and we’re excited to be part of this unique event! Over their 10 day stay in Berlin, our students will participate in 4 days of workshops from two different instructors (not from the US or Canada) and will perform for a local school audience at the end. They also will be enjoying the festival performances and taking time to visit the historic city of Berlin itself. For a group of 16 students, the total cost is $32,000 CDN which includes their return airfare, ground transportation, accommodations, workshops and access to the festival. Our goal is to raise at least $10,000 to help reduce the per student cost to approximately $1,600. How can y

Artist: Chris Lynch Improvisational theatre can be best described as collective storytelling. The skills the students learn will help them in many more ways besides performing - we’re talking public speaking, self confidence (performing in front of audiences starting at 20 people and up to 200 people or more), teamwork, listening skills, presentation skills and the list goes on. We are very excited to have been invited to attend the Berlin Improv Festival in March 2014! This will be the first time ever in the festival’s 13 year history where they have hosted a high school improv group and we’re excited to be part of this unique event! The festival, let by the Berlin Improv company, Die Gorillas , hosts improv artists from all over the world for 10 days of performances and workshops. In the 2013 rendition of the festival, 48 artists from 12 different countries participated in the festival from as far away as India! Over their 10 day stay in Berlin, our students will

From September 13-23 we're holding a scrap metal fundraiser at the Vic High for the improv club.  Our overall fundraising goal is to raise at least $10,000 to help get a group of up to 16 students to the Berlin Improv Festival in March 2014. The trip itself (return airfare, accommodations, local transportation, festival workshops, festival pass for 15 students) will cost just over $32,000 - so anything we raise will help reduce the per student cost. Drop off times at the school (back of the school in the metal recycling bin, off Gladstone) are: Saturday, September 14, Noon to 3pm Sunday, September 15, Noon to 3pm Wednesday, September 18, 5 to 6pm Saturday, September 21, Noon to 3pm Sunday, September 22, Noon to 3pm Monday, September 23,5 to 6 pm If you have materials to be picked up, call (250) 514-3455, or email vichighimprovclub@gmail.com  to arrange for pick-up.  Pick-up days are Saturday, September 14 and 21. The following materials are accepted...

Well, school started this week and already we've got lots coming up...! Our TARDIS builder, Alex, will be back working on the project starting tomorrow (Wednesday).  Our plan is to auction it off during a live auction at our November 22 fundraiser - stay tuned for details! Alex - TARDIS Builder Next we are holding a scrap metal drive from September 13 to 23 at the school.  You can either drop off your scrap or call (250) 514-3455 to arrange for a pick-up. Then, in late October, just before Halloween, we're presenting our improvised murder mystery, Vic-GORE-ia. All this and more is going toward our main focus for this year, the Berlin Improv Festival!  We're traveling to Berlin on March 21, 2014 and spending 10 days doign a variety of activities - workshops, performance, sight-seeing and seeing various improv festival performances!  If we're lucky, we'll get to meet some of our sister improv club members, Obi Vic Kenobi, from Ljubljana, Slovenia. Arti

This year has been a fantastic adventure for the Improv Club!  The Bellingham Trip Team! It began with a field trip to the Upfront Theatre in Bellingham Washington where we watched "Hellingham" (an improvised murder mystery) and had a workshop delivered to us by the Upfront Theatre's Artistic Director, Billy Tierney.  All the students who participated thoroughly enjoyed their time on this trip and we came back a better team! Alan Penty (Victoria), Sara Šoukal (Slovenia) and Jonathan Argue (Victoria) Through connections fostered by one of our dedicated improv coaches, Jonathan Argue, we twinned our club with a similar improv club at a school in Ljubljana, Slovenia called " Gimnazija Vič " (which translates to "High School Vic").  We exchanged videos we created about our respective schools and issued each other challenges.  Our Slovenian friends became tied up with their studies and will be finishing publishing their challenges o

Vic High Improv Club presents an evening of intrigue, suspense and murder! We start with seven innocents (or seemingly innocent) in a small town we like to call Vic-GORE-ia.  Over the space of three "nights", three of our fine townsfolk are eliminated by an unknown assailant and you, the audience, get to figure it out, along with the surviving townsfolk! Where?  Intrepid Theatre Club, 2 - 1609 Blanshard Street (at Fisgard) When? Thursday, May 2 and Friday, May 3, 8pm (Doors @ 7:30pm) How much? $12 per person All proceeds go to funding the improv club activities, which for 2014 includes a trip to the Berlin Improv Festival !

Here it is! Our response to challenge #3 - The Match! This challenge was about explaining the competitions that each school team partakes in.  In Canada, there is a national competition called the Canadian Improv Games (CIG) which has been going on for over 30 years.  It is a Olympic-style competition aimed at high school students in grades 9 through 12 which happens across the country.  Each team has a choice of 5 events they can present - only 4 events have to be performed.  Events have a time limit (four minutes for the senior teams and  three minutes for the junior teams) and are scored by a panel of judges.  While it is "competitive", the CIG promotes this as as a "loving competition" which is reflected in the way that all teams support each other. Our response has various team members explaining the events in their own words mixed in with footage from the events themselves.

Friday, February 22nd was our 3rd Improv Jam! It featured performances from the Junior & Senior Improv teams, plus special guest Chaz David who represented Esquimalt High's improv team. We opened with an improv warm-up set... Vic High Sharks Improv Jam #3 from The Vic High Sharks Improv on Vimeo . Followed by our CIG Online Wildcard Entry ...then a presentation of the One Act Play titled "Sacrificial Ritual" by Cole Bodin... We finished off the evening with an improvised story presented by Conall Argue and Joe Traill entitled The Mobster Tragedy . The Mobster Tragedy starring Conall Argue and Joe Traill from The Vic High Sharks Improv on Vimeo .

Friday, February 22nd had the Senior Improv Team on stage filming their entry for the Canadian Improv Game's (CIG) Online Wildcard tournament.  It is open to any school group in Canada who wishes to participate in the Game's by submitting their events filmed before a live audience. Entries are judged and the winner has the opportunity to travel to Ottawa, Ontario for the CIG National Festival which runs March 26-30, 2013. Big thanks to Scott Thompson, Kevin Koch and Chaz David for being our CIG officials during the filming.

We're an equal opportunity club.... so come and meet our newest member... Ned the Shark! Look for his performance debut at the Improv Jam #2 on Jnauary 25th.

Courtesy of Kevin Koch, Improv Club Coach

Join us for an evening of improv fun! Along with members of the Vic High Improv Club, we've got the Vic High One Act Plays "Between Floors" by Amy Foshay and "Sacrificial Ritual" by Cole Bodin. Just $5 at the door with proceeds going to support the Vic High Improv Club. What: Improv featuring members of the Vic High Improv Club and the Vic High One Acts When: Friday, January 25 Doors: 7pm Show: 7:30pm How much? $5

An impromptu battle takes place on the Vic High stage.... The Battle from The Vic High Sharks Improv on Vimeo .