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Improv(e): Improv Comedy meets Social Activism at International Human Rights Art Festival

Dates: (9/11/2018 - 11/8/2018 )

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International Human Rights Art Festival

39 W 29th Street (Second Floor)
New York,NY 10001

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Phone: 240-305-6742

Tickets: $200 for all 8 classes

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The International Human Rights Art Festival breaks new ground in both improv comedy and social activism. Working in conjunction with comedy writer, actor and improv teacher Katie Hutch, we offer a course which will not only teach the principles of improv, but also break new ground in using the medium as an activist tool.
Classes will be held at:
3929 Studios
39 W 29th Street (Second Floor)
New York, NY 10001

Total cost is $200.

Specifically, each class will look like this:
Open with an intro to the activist theme for the week.
Review of core improv “rules” and tools.
Discovery of original stories and bios aligned with weekly theme.
Focus on finding your individual voice to share through the lens of activist themes, characters and traditional improv forms.
Themes treated (one per class) will include (but not be limited to):
shared Jewish-Sufi teaching tales
stories of immigrants
philosophy of Greek Stoic thinkers (Marcus Auerlius, Epictetus, Seneca etc.)
mystical thinking of medieval mystic and Catholic heretic Meister Eckhart
musings of activist farmers such as Wendell Berry, Kristin Kimball etc.
short biographies of 20th-century hero/activists such as Gandhi, MLK Jr., and Nelson Mandela
Buddhist stories of wisdom
biographies of great activist Americans, such as Cesar Chavez, Sojourner Truth, Angela Davis, Saul Alinsky etc.
We build toward creating an International Human Rights Art Festival improv team: "The Impractivists." This team will perform social-activist improv at conferences, businesses and theaters around NY and the USA!

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