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FRIDAY JULY 8
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Always wanted to know what it’s like to laugh? Then we’ve got great news! We developed the Supersonic Satire workshop especially for creative people like you. In the workshop, hosted by writers and performers from Dutch satirical giant De Speld, you will learn how to write humorously in a few hours. Naturally, the presentation is packed with examples of De Speld’s best humor. Workshop is in Dutch, the only funny languange in the world.
Janneke Rinzema grew up as a minister’s daughter. She turned this childhood trauma into comedy as part of cabaret duo Matroesjka, with whom she toured all the theaters, tiny venues and festivals in the Netherlands for years. She has been writing for De Speld and funny TV shows such as Dit Was Het Nieuws and Spaanders, and is chief editor of De Pin.
Martine just published her book “Ik durf niets maar doe alles” in January 2022. An inspiring story full of humor, guts, and creativity telling her story as she took on the endeavor of performing as a stand-up comedian for a year.Time: 14:30 | Language: Dutch
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SATURDAY JULY 9
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A stimulating, engaging format that focuses on relationships and emotional change to tell the story. Improv doesn’t have to be funny. It is possible to forgo the laughs in order to tell the story so that when the laughter does come, you’ve truly earned it. Some of the best comedy and the best theater in the world has both laughter and emotional change at its heart, and that’s what we’ll be aiming for in this workshop. Improvising narrative is hard. Sometimes you can get so caught up in the plot that you forget to play the moment. So rather than worrying about a specific narrative format, we’ll be focusing on; emotional connection, listening to emotional offers and making bold choices to serve the story.
*There will be a lunch break from 1:30-2:30
*This workshop will have a performance at 6PM on Saturday, July 9thTime: 11:00-17:00 | Language: English
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Workshop for people who have imposter syndrome and stage fright: Learn how to fake it until you make it. This workshop will focus on tricking yourselves into acting confident even if you feel like an imposter. We will work on reframing failure into bravery. Nadege will be able to share her tricks of the trade on how to cope with performance anxiety and how she hacked her way into pretending to be confident in front of hundreds of people.
Time: 11:30-13:30 | Language: English
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Looking at how to go about formulating and executing an Unscripted Idea for Online/TV.
Time: 14:00-17:00 | Language: English
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SUNDAY JULY 10
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A 2-hour workshop with exercises designed to hack your way into long-form scenes.
Time: 11:30-13:30 | Language: English
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A fun improv jam, with some long-form exercises sprinkled throughout. Open only to Global Majority players!
Time: 14:00-17:00 | Language: English
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Good acting comes from being in the moment, and in this workshop, we’ll hold a space where participants can do just that; where they can connect with each other, put aside the rules of form and structure, and simply play. We’ll look at playing relationships, listening, connecting, sitting in the pauses and giving and receiving emotional offers.
Time: 14:30-17:30 | Language: English
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WEDNESDAY JULY 13
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Collaborate, Work and Have Fun TogetherThis two-hour session will get your teamwork skills humming again. Whether you are working face to face with your team for the first time in months or you’re still doing most things over Teams, it’s the perfect time to focus on the skills that allow the most effective collaboration and innovation. We’ll work on actively listening to teammates and building on what they suggest. Being open to new ideas and new information – and creating a positive environment where new ideas can flourish and grow. And supporting good ideas when you hear them and being able to give and receive feedback when needed.Plus you’ll have fun and take some risks with everyone else. And at the end of the day, isn’t that what teamwork is all about? This session works as well for a group from the same team as it does for a room full of people who have never met but want to learn how to collaborate better and have a great time.
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Time: 16:30 | Language: English
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THURSDAY JULY 14
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Boom Chicago’s Pitch & Present with PowerThe future of work belongs to those who can communicate well. Leading, inspiring and closing the deal all require you to present and pitch your ideas effectively and engagingly.
In this two-hour session, Boom Chicago will help you hone those skills, the skills of effective, powerful presentation. From the basics of body language and emotional connection to choosing your words in a way that will reach and win over the audience – and tailoring those words to the people to whom you’re speaking – we’ll boost your confidence and your ability. And you’ll have fun!
For a decade we have worked with CEO’s and Prime Ministers as well as front line sales teams, financial and legal advisors and IT product designers. In each case, we made sure their presentations were effective, their messages landed and stuck – and their jokes were funny. Let us show you what we can do for you.
Certificate included
Time: 16:30 | Language: English
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FRIDAY JULY 15
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Bold Brazen and Beautiful – Sharpen your improv by having wonderful initiations that are a gift to yourself and your partner! This workshop will increase your reaction time and help you create moves you can be proud of. Never hesitate again or be at a loss of what to bring into the scene. Trust your heart and play with a deliberate POV that works and can be easily heightened.
Time: 14:30-17:30 | Language: English
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New York City’s premier hip hop improv comedy team, North Coast, is a unique collaboration of improvisational comedy, hip hop, beatboxing, and music. This musical improv workshop will get even the most beginner performers comfortable and confident with freestyle rapping and will teach you how to really drill into the deal of your scene and its characters. Learn how to set yourself up, find your flow, and weave your rapped verses in and out of your improv scene-work.
Time: 14:30-17:30 | Language: English
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Learn the basics of Sketch Comedy in a TV writers’-room type environment, including finding the game of your sketch and learning the different sketch formats (premise, parody, character, satire, absurd). Over the course of the workshop, you’ll be taught how to find inspiration for comedy sketches, as well as tools for vetting those ideas and refining your comedic voice. Through comedy inspiration exercises, discovery-oriented games and a whole lot of delving into your own weird and wonderful brain, you’ll leave with an enviable heap of ideas to help inspire sketches you’ll love to write.
Time: 14:30-17:30 | Language: English
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SATURDAY JULY 16
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Go from a sheep with no flow to the G.O.A.T.! This intensive musical improv class will get you comfortable and confident with freestyle rapping and will teach you how to weave your rapped verses in and out of your scenes. You’ll get a feel for rhyme scheme basics, creating musical and rhythmic hooks, and you’ll learn three different ways to get into a hip hop improv song. The second half of the class will continue to take your hip-hop improv skills to the next level using polysyllabic rhymes, second beats, and dynamic scene structures. We’ll use exercises designed to expand rhythm, make bold hook choices, and expand upon scenic heightening and side support. At the end of the class, students will have a performance to showcase what they’ve learned!
*There will be a lunch break from 1:30-2:30
*This workshop will have a performance at 6PM on Saturday, July 16thTime: 11:00-17:00 | Language: English
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Throw yourself into the joy of Narrative Improv by embracing larger-than-life characters, over-wrought metaphors, drunken revelations, sexy humidity and so much sweet tea in this workshop that will show you how to produce hysterical laughter from hysterical sadness. Learning to improvise in the style of Tennessee Williams is not only wildly fun but will also strengthen your character work, commitment and world-building as a well-rounded Improviser. Learn the conventions of Improvised Tennessee Williams as well as the crowd-pleasing form itself as created and performed by ‘The Kind Strangers.’
“Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.”― Camino Real
*There will be a lunch break from 1:30-2:30
*This workshop will have a performance at 6PM on Saturday, July 16thTime: 11:00-17:00 | Language: English
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SUNDAY JULY 17
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Musical Improv can be charming, beautiful and entertaining, but sometimes you gotta give it that OOMPH! Rapping the bridge of your song is an amazing opportunity to surprise the audience, get some sweet rhymes in, and go deeper into your character’s deepest fears, motives, and philosophies. This workshop will also contain exercises that will demystify what to sing about in your verses, so that your songs can contain a focused message.
Time: 13:00-16:00 | Language: English
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