Vic High Improv

Vic High at the CIG Exhibition Rounds Fundraising for the Improv Club for 2014-15  We have a number of activities to raise funds for this year: Hoodies for the team Year end performance at Intrepid Theatre Club In order to help make these happen, we need to raise at least $350. How can you help? It's easy! It's simple! When you drop off your bottles at the following  Bottle Depots  (in Victoria, BC Canada): 4261 Glanford Ave 3961 Quadra St 655 Queens Ave Before you hand over the bottles, tell the cashiers at the beginning of the transaction that you want the proceeds donated to the  Vic High Improv Club . The Bottle Depot will issue payments to the club on a monthly basis.... it's just that easy!

Come one, come all! On Wednesday, December 17th we are featuring an evening of Dance and Improv! The Vic High Dance Department, in collaboration with the Vic High Improv Club and putting on a 90 minute improv & dance extravaganza! Doors open: 6:45pm Show starts: 7pm Show length: 90 minutes (plus intermission) Admission by Donation Location: Victoria High School Auditorium More info? Email imagination@vichighimprov.ca

We were met at the guest house by one of festival volunteers, Hendrik (on the right) who guided us to the workshop. Our first workshop with Simone focused on getting us to work with what's in front of us.  She started with a number of trust and team-building type exercises, a few which we had not seen before.  In the picture below, we are playing the "Zombie Game" which had the person in the middle of the circle being the Zombie.  As they approach their "victim", that person makes eye contact with someone else in the circle. That person would then call out the name of someone else in the circle who would become the Zombie's next victim.  If the Zombie touched their victim without being redirected, that persons became the new Zombie and the old Zombie returns to the circle and the cycle continued. We moved into exercises where the students explored the space, giving focus to different body parts.  They then moved onto naming objects in the sp

It's our first "official" day of the trip.  Everyone has rested up and is starting to get over jet lag.  Most of us were up at 2am local time and had to force ourselves to go back to sleep. Our guest house is very European in that it's closer to an actual living space than what we might think of when we think about the hotels we are used to seeing.  This is actually nice as it feels a little more "homey".  In the above picture, you are seeing the inner courtyard and the entrance way pictured takes you to the apartment where our female students are staying and the other 2 rooms where the make students are staying. Our chaperones have the apartment which overlooks this courtyard so nobody can leave the compound without being seen :-) Today we spend a short time exploring the local neighbourhood and learned that on a Sunday, most shops are closed which Harkness back to the times in BC and other provinces where Sunday shopping wasn't avai

It's 6am and most of our Travelers are already at the ferry terminal milling around. Most of them have figured out the technique of packing to miniseries the size of their bags... Well, almost all of them!  They might have second thoughts about their packing habits once we get to the airport in Berlin and have to drag our bags on a 45 minute journey to the guesthouse where we are staying. A few of us were still trying to catch up on their sleep... If you are tired enough, even stretching out on a bench is worth it. Next stop... The airport where we hang out until 5pm PST until we board our plane....

During our stay in Berlin, we'll be attending four days of workshops delivered by two different workshop leaders.  Let's meet them... Simone Schwegler Simone Schwegler , well known for her physicality and playfulness on stage, is the artistic director and member of Harri Olli and theater anundpfirsich, two of the biggest and most succesfull improvtheatre companies in Switzerland. Simone’s main interest and artistic focus lies on longform and theatrical improv performances which results in Harri Olli’s unique style: theatrical, charming, physical and emotional improvisational theatre. Beside touring and teaching a lot at festivals and with many groups in Europe and America within the last years, Simone has been performing as a resident at Keith Johnstones Loose Moose Theatre in Calgary/Canada. Simone is an experienced and passionate improv and acting coach, amongst others at an acting school in Zurich. She teaches improv, physical theatre, acting skills, storytelling, wo

Artist / Graphic Designer: Chris Lynch Join us for an evening of improv fun! Along with members of the Vic High Improv Club, we'll be joined on stage by Esquimalt High and Pacific Christian High! Just $5 at the door with proceeds going to support the Vic High Improv Club's trip to the Berlin Improv Festival from March 21 to 31, 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 four 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. What : Improv featuring members of the Vic High Improv Clug, Esquimalt High Improv, Pacific Christian Improv Club When : Thursday, February 20 Doors : 7

We are selling tickets for the Friday, April 25th performance of Langham Court  Theatre's production of The Penelopiad . We're priced tickets at: $15 for adults $10 for students/seniors You can purchase tickets by: emailing us at vichighimprovclub@gmail.com calling the Victoria High School at (250) 388-5456 and ask for Mr. Penty (drama teacher) We are able to accept cash and cheques made payable to Victoria High School (put "Improv Club" in the subject line) . The Penelopiad is Margaret Atwood’s brilliant re-imagining of Homer’s Odyssey from the wry eye of Penelope, Odysseus’s devoted and long-suffering wife. Brimming with movement, light, and song, the play is a feast for the eyes and mind. Audience Advisory : Some Violence, Sexuality, and Mature Themes. Suitable for ages 15+ Here's the seating plan for the theatre: Highlighted seats being sold by the Improv Club

CIG Workshop with Steven Ray Orr ...and Mister P? We currently have approximately $7,000 raised to help reduce the cost of getting our 12 students (11 from Vic High, one from Esquimalt High) to the Berlin Improv Festval   from March 21 to 31, 2014 - yay!  This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our students - we just learned that they'll doing their performance on one of the festival stages ! But, in order to get the cost to our travelers lower (we're desperately trying to get the total cost down to $1,600 or less), we need to raise at least another $3,000 or more... and with your help, WE CAN DO IT! We have reserved space for an ad in the March 18th edition of the Times Colonist .  Our goal is to sell 21 business card sized ads so we can run a full page colour ad that day.  The ad would feature a picture of the team and a short write-up.  The business card ads would appear directly underneath the photo. For a minimum donation of just $175 you get a business car

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. We spent this past weekend (January 4-5, 2014) collecting Christmas Trees as a fundraiser for the trip. Day #2 Crew: Conall, Fletcher, Jac