SF Bay Area AIN Chapter

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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!

:)

Comment by William Hall on September 22, 2008 at 9:49pm

This is a photo taken at one of our meetings...where I brought in a little bit of mask work.

Comment by William Hall on September 2, 2008 at 8:12pm

thanks for the notes Ann...sounds like a lot of fun.

Comment by Ann Feehan on September 2, 2008 at 2:13pm

About our 8/28/08 SF Bay Area meeting:

My takeaway: it is so fun to get together with the wise and playful AIN group.

We played Thiagi's "35" game to get the answer to the question “what would bring us to AIN meetings”. The overall winner was to “play new games”. And we agreed on a minimum of three games each meeting. There was also a strong interest in case study whether in looking at design, soliciting exercises, getting feedback on an exercise. An underlying theme was the desire to learn from each other.

Talia made a great suggestion to keep it all in our bodies by trying to balance the time spent experiencing/debriefing a game with the time analyzing the uses of the game and further game design. I suggested that we all post our “takeaway” on the AIN website for our SF Group so that others who are considering coming have a sense of the meetings and create momentum.

We ended up with not three but six games/exercises for the evening. Jill introduced us to a fun ice breaker “Fruit Salad” (find your “strawberry” partner and put your hands together, find your “watermelon” partner….). Christopher brought us a group sound concert where we matched tones. Our two closing exercises: the “learning cauldron” formed by hooking our thumbs together and the other was a challenge where we had to move ourselves 180 degrees around a circle while keeping our feet touching our neighbor.

Still need a space for our next meeting – which will be after the AIN Conference in Chicago.

Attending: Sue Walden (host and co-leader), Cheryl Gould (co-leader), Kurt Bodden, Talia, Yael Schy. New faces: Jill Eickmann, Christopher Eickmann, Rich Cox and Lou Hie visiting SF from Hong Kong.

My post meeting take-away: there is a cool bar on Polk and Broadway and you really can talk for hours about improv.

Comment by William Hall on August 20, 2008 at 7:01am

MEETING: August 28 at 6:30pm!
COME & PLAY!
Whether you're a resident of the Bay Area or travelling through (like Lou Hie is!), everyone is welcome.
Thursday, August 28, 2008; 6:30 til 9:30 pm
6:30 - 7 pm arriving, connecting and snacking - please arrive in time for this... it is an important part of our gathering.
7-9:30 pm - evening program (includes a break)

Lou Hie, the hostess for the AIN conference in Japan in March of 2009 will be in town, staying with Yael. It would be great for you to meet her and hear about some of the plans.

There are a lot of new members to the Regional group, so it seems the right time, after 2 years, to revisit the objectives of our Regional Gatherings with a game of "35" -- to help us identify the top 5 things that would make us eager to attend.

Please RSVP "yea" for this date to suewalden@sbcglobal.net ... the numbers will help define the gathering location.

Don't forget to bring either a finger food or beverage to share.
Hope you can make it!
Sue Walden& Cheryl
Regional Gathering coordinators

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