SF Bay Area AIN Chapter

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Comment by Sue Walden 18 hours ago

Hey Local Tribe Members: Next gathering is on Thursday, July 16; usual Bat-Time: 6:30-9:30. Location decided as soon as you RSVP - either SF or San Rafael depending on who's coming.

Respond here or email me direct: Sue@improvworks.org.
Hope to see you.

Comment by Ann Feehan on April 11, 2009 at 5:05pm

Most important comment first:
Next date of the Bay Area AIN Chapter is Monday evening, May 18th in San Francisco.

3rd most important comment next: From last meeting, I tried out Alphabet Charades and had a great time with that.

Throw away line; Thanks, Paul for arranging meeting space for next meeting.

Second most important comment: We took pix! We can post an Event now!

Comment by Rich Cox on March 9, 2009 at 10:33am

I can't figure out how to send a message to the group - perhaps this will.

The Regional Meeting was last Friday, thanks to Paul and Rita for hosting in Berkeley!!

I started a discussion that listed the games and people in attendance. If you were there - please add your takeaways and impressions.

According to Sue our next meeting is: Monday, May 18 in San Francisco (somewhere)

And sceeeeeene......

Comment by Rich Cox on February 5, 2009 at 12:41pm

Here is a Bay Area Special Event

An Interview with Book Author and Stanford Professor Patricia Ryan Madson.

http://appliedimprov.ning.com/events/improv-interview-special-event

Invite anyone - it's an open event.

Comment by Andrew Gaines on January 30, 2009 at 8:39am

Hi all,

Discovered the AIN a few days ago and am pleased to have it in my life. Just yesterday conversed with a member who lives in Beirut, just after seeing the raw, powerful Waltz with Bashir.

Just last night a friend informed me of a "Moment's Notice" -- a Performance Series devoted to improvised music, dance and theater in the Bay area.

http://momentsnoticeimprov.blogspot.com/

Next evening is February 21 in Berkeley.

Looking forward to connecting with y'all soon.

Andrew Gaines

Comment by Kare Anderson on November 21, 2008 at 10:25am

Idea: I'd like to explore showcasing the talents of members here in the Bay Area next June when the international conference of IABC meets in S.F. & I speak at it again - this time on Communicate to Collaborate.

Those interested; we could set up a time to talk by phone and then in person if it seems worthwhile.

To learn a bit about IABC (many members are in a position to refer you for paid sessions for their organizations) peruse these if you like:

http://www.iabc.com/ic/nyAS3.htm
http://www.iabc.com/ic/
http://mn.iabc.com/?p=220

http://www.networkpr.co.nz/e_people_in_focus/july_08_kare_anderson_communicator.aspx

Comment by Ann Feehan on November 14, 2008 at 6:58pm

More notes re Bay Area Regional AIN Meeting
Wed 12/12/08 in Berkeley, CA

In attendance - Rita Venturini, Paul, Sue Walden, Cheryl Gould, Cort Worthington, Matt Weinstein, Talia, Blue Venturini, Lynn Travis, Ann Feehan

Theme: Bringing back exercises and experiences from the Chicago AIN Conference

It was a special meeting. We played 10 exercises – most from the Chicago conference! And debriefed them. In rather sublime ways. In the second half of the meeting, we took time out to sit on the floor/bench, and people talked about their experience at being at the conference and how unique the feeling is to be with others who are so open about learning, sharing, and discovering.

Had a discussion about how the background we have affects our perspective and vocabulary. Besides representations of main “performer” and “business” perspectives, at the meeting we had a therapist, a PhD in neurology, a scientist, an MBA/filmmaker, an educator and an eight-year old. A simple game like French telephone was raised from a fun, almost decadent, exercise to a learning experience about perception of nonverbal behavior, understanding group momentum, a method to enable a group to overcome resistance for the next piece of the training, or a way to explore the obstacle that self-consciousness can bring to keeping focus,

Matt has explained 3 exercises in wonderful detail in his entry. The entire ten exercises were: French telephone, the Samurai game (with gushes of sound as you throw sounds from person to person), the 1 jump-2 clap-3 wave game (see Matt’s entry), playing the James Bond spy dance, an amazing slow-motion pie throw, the Evolution game (the “egg game” Matt describes), the Shoot Out. I loved the Roshambo exercise where whoever “loses” roshambo becomes the cheerleader for the winner in that person’s next match.

Cheryl demonstrated a fun, new exercise where as pairs we found a two-syllable word. Each member of the pair “took” their syllable in search of other word pairings as part of a larger group. You could have participants give the definition of new syllable pairings.

And we closed with the “cauldron of learning” where we linked thumbs and shared what we had got from the night. Blue (Rita & Paul’s son, took a photo of us through the learning cauldron that will be posting sometime before our next meeting!

Comment by Matt Weinstein on November 13, 2008 at 7:12pm

Three games we played at the Regional AIN meeting:

Shoot First (On Your Feet from Sean Kinley)---
Circle. Call out someone’s name. That person ducks while the two people on either side of them pivot towards them and pull out their “guns” and shoot at each other.
If they both shoot at the same time, call another name.
The one who dies calls out the next name.
If the person whose name is called gets caught in the crossfire, s/he dies.
If you draw your weapon when it is not your turn, you die.
Cort’s version: the “dead” person steps into the center and calls out the name, and then steps back into the circle and continues to play after the next person is shot and steps into the center.

Henk: 1-2-3
Partners: Alternate saying 1-2-3-1-2-3….etc
Substitute clap for one
Then (after a short while) jump for two
[clap-jump-three]
Then (after a short while) wiggle/shake for three
Keep “counting”/ alternating
We also tried this around a circle.

Liselotte: Egg, Bird, Human
Everyone starts out as eggs, and mills around making the egg motion (hand over head) and egg sound (beeping)
Then practice the bird sound and motion, and the human sound and motion (these can be solicitated/co-created with the players)
Everyone starts the game as an egg.
Two eggs meet up and have combat:
each person puts out fingers on one hand from zero to five and adds them up. If the total is odd, the person with the higher # of fingers out is the winner. If it's even, the person with the lower # of fingers is the winner.
The winner evolves into a bird. Birds find each other and have combat until one evolves into a human and the other devolves back into an egg.
All (evolving) eggs, birds, and humans do battle with each other over and over.
After two minutes all remaining humans are the winners.

Comment by Ann Feehan on November 8, 2008 at 1:22pm

Just mentioning that we have a meeting this Wednesday evening, Nov 12 2008. East Bay Location...

Comment by Dan Weiss on October 3, 2008 at 5:01pm

HI, All:
I am planning some local (South Bay) games for non-theater people and was wondering if you all had experienced any good formats, etc for getting the newer players into the game...
is there a resource for creating events and classes?
I have experience in the doing but in the facilitating not so much.

Comments welcome, and I hope to be able to come to the city sometime for fun!

Regards,

Dan

PS: I hope this is an open group and I am not crashing - let me know if there is some vetting or hazing that happens to be in the SF group!

:)

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