Impride Workshops at Finest City Improv!
IMPRIDE Festival – Workshops
July 1st and 2nd
IMPRIDE Comedy Festival, the nation’s first LGBTQIA+ improv comedy festival! This year’s festival will feature 3 days of LGBTIA+ shows between both Diversionary Theatre and Finest City Improv! Workshops hosted at Finest City Improv!
We have IMPRIDE Inclusion Scholarships for each of the workshops click the link for more info! Happy Pride ya’ll! 🙂
All Impride workshops are avalible for purahcse on the Finest City Improv website.
Saturday, July 1, 2023 @ 2:00 PM
Mindful Menace(Scene-Saving Antagonism)
In this workshop, Velvet Wells (they/them) helps performers access antagonism as a positive tool for creating more nuanced, collaborative improv scenes.
Velvet will facilitate a consent-informed space for mindful improvisers to practice:
-Identifying the Protagonist by expressing “the Want”
-Frustrating the Want
-Finding your level of antagonism
-Playing to win (and still losing)
Workshop prerequisite: Completed Level 3 at Finest City Improv or Course equivalent. specifically:
Beyond familiar with improvisation, workshop attendees are comfortable with the concept of scenic storytelling and taking on character attributes, either in the workshop or stage setting
This workshop is $40
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Save $5 by registering before 9pm on Sunday, June 18th.
IMPRIDE Inclusion Scholarship
Donate a workshop to someone who needs it! Pay it forward in the best way possible. You can donate a spot in any IMPRIDE workshop to someone who otherwise may not be able to afford it. IMPRIDE’s mission is to help create connections and support the LGBTQ+ community.
Students who would like to take advantage of the Impride Inclusion Workshop please email info@finestcityimprov.com with your contact information and the name of your workshop and you will receive a response
There are 3 IMPRIDE Inclusion Scholarships available for this workshop
Saturday, July 1, 2023 @ 10:30 AM
Kat Dudley has four of her houses in Scorpio. What does that mean? She has spent the last 10 years in improv honoring, celebrating, idolizing, and sometimes fearing THE ROOT. Our Root chakra is where we hold the darkness, the eros, the very thing that makes us passionate, petty, and purposeful people. This workshop will invite participants to wine and dine and 69 their shame, embarrassment, fears, or anything that is preventing them from being honest, vulnerable, and badass as hell. You will leave this workshop feeling lighter, happier, and more easeful in your scenes. Get out of your head and into your body. Trust yourself and your instincts. Dip your feet into the earth and swim in the cool waters of group play and support. Believe in the magic and get rid of your toxic sh*t!
We promise this workshop will only be as hippie woo woo as the class wants it to be. But open minded and honest folks are encouraged to play.
Workshop prerequisite: Open minded, fearless, and playful. If the idea calls to you, you are welcome. Preference to feeling open to jumping in vs experience needed.
This workshop is $40
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Save $5 by registering before 9pm on Sunday, June 18th.
IMPRIDE Inclusion Scholarship
Donate a workshop to someone who needs it! Pay it forward in the best way possible. You can donate a spot in any IMPRIDE workshop to someone who otherwise may not be able to afford it. IMPRIDE’s mission is to help create connections and support the LGBTQ+ community.
Students who would like to take advantage of the Impride Inclusion Workshop please email info@finestcityimprov.com with your contact information and the name of your workshop and you will receive a response
There are 3 IMPRIDE Inclusion Scholarships available for this workshop
Saturday, July 1, 2023 @ 2:00 PM
Whether you’re looking to grow beyond your stock characters, or don’t yet know who your stock characters are, this course will help break through and heighten who you can be onstage. This two hour workshop will help you listen to yourself,and realize how you are effects who you are. Learn to discover real, honest, believable, fun to play characters, in the moment that will stand the test of time.
Workshop prerequisite: All levels welcome
This workshop is $40
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Save $5 by registering before 9pm on Sunday, June 18th.
IMPRIDE Inclusion Scholarship
Donate a workshop to someone who needs it! Pay it forward in the best way possible. You can donate a spot in any IMPRIDE workshop to someone who otherwise may not be able to afford it. IMPRIDE’s mission is to help create connections and support the LGBTQ+ community.
Sunday, July 2, 2023 @ 11:00 AM
Improv Triage
Diana Brown will create/curate exercises on the spot to address whatever is challenging the improvisor in the moment.
This 2.5 hour workshop will:
Help you respond to your scene-partner in a deeply visceral and truthful way.
Explore where your current choices lead you and help you make choices that are even more satisfying to play out.
Increase your trust in your own instincts.
This fun and focused lab will expand your confidence and creativity and help you make more intentional choices.
Workshop prerequisite: All levels welcome
This workshop is $40
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Save $5 by registering before 9pm on Sunday, June 18th.
IMPRIDE Inclusion Scholarship
Donate a workshop to someone who needs it! Pay it forward in the best way possible. You can donate a spot in any IMPRIDE workshop to someone who otherwise may not be able to afford it. IMPRIDE’s mission is to help create connections and support the LGBTQ+ community.
Students who would like to take advantage of the Impride Inclusion Workshop please email info@finestcityimprov.com with your contact information and the name of your workshop and you will receive a response
There are 3 IMPRIDE Inclusion Scholarships available for this workshop
Sunday, July 2, 2023 @ 2:30 PM
BREAK THE STEREOTYPE
BREAK THE STEREOTYPE – An improv tool kit to help to dispel unconscious biases. In this workshop we will explore gender* and ageism, two areas in which are often stereotyped, which can greatly affect our improv journey. You will be provided with tools to guide you towards identifying and breaking others stereotypes of you, as well as your own stereotypes that can hinder improv play. You will gain tools to empower you to play any gender or age with love, care and compassion.. *The term gender is used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female..
Workshop prerequisite: All levels welcome
This workshop is $40
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Save $5 by registering before 9pm on Sunday, June 18th.
IMPRIDE Inclusion Scholarship
Donate a workshop to someone who needs it! Pay it forward in the best way possible. You can donate a spot in any IMPRIDE workshop to someone who otherwise may not be able to afford it. IMPRIDE’s mission is to help create connections and support the LGBTQ+ community.
Students who would like to take advantage of the IMPRIDE Inclusion Scholarship please email info@finestcityimprov.com with your contact information and the name of your workshop and you will receive a response
There are 2 IMPRIDE Inclusion Scholarships available for this workshop