My guest post for lauraroeder.com, “Improv Tips for Entrepreneurs”, dropped today. Use improv comedy skills to boost your creative output - even on your own!
Give it a read & let me know what you think.
- Jay
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Session 1 of GET PHYSICAL! for the iO Theater Summer Intensive is sold out. A second session has been added on Saturday, July 30th.
Contact the iO Training Center to reserve a spot: classes@ioimprov.com or (773) 880-0199.
GET PHYSICAL! for regular iO students happens on Saturday, August 20th. Hope to see you there!
I plan to lose 30 pounds just from teaching this workshop 3 times in a row. Realistic?
- Jay
I am teaching my GET PHYSICAL! improv workshop especially for iO Theater Summer Intensive students.
Friday, 7/22, 12pm-2:30pm. $20.
Contact the iO Training Center to sign up: classes@ioimprov.com or (773) 880-0199. Not a summer intensive student? You’ll get your chance in August! Stay tuned…
When plugged into the Improv Matrix we can do anything we want. So why are we standing in a line talking – again? From blocking a simple 2-person scene to creating full-cast spectacle, emotion will be our guide to creating scene work – that moves. Talk less, do more, go further. GET PHYSICAL!
“I LOVED your workshop!! It was awesome, and I still have the carpet burn to prove it! :-)” – Amanda Chapel Hill, NC
“Jay’s energy is infectious and his ability to read and critique scenes is one of the best I’ve worked with…his coaching is like injecting improv adrenaline straight into your mind veins.” – Bethany Chicago, IL
“Thanks a bunch for a GREAT class! I learned and re-learned a lot thanks to your brave, profanity-laden insights.” – Steve Chicago, IL
“I loved the positive energy and positive approach…Longer longer longer. More more.” – Hannah Oxford, England
Across diverse industries, such as health, finance, retail and marketing, a movement is taking shape to bring game mechanics and fun to everyday work.(via Work While You Whistle | Gamification Blog)
Decades late, but we’ll take it!
“The Modern Educator Is Not a Teacher”: Updating Learning for the 21st Century
Why do classrooms and schools operate almost the same way they did 100 years ago? A group of middle schoolers from the Dallas-Fort Worth area began asking themselves this question during a class discussion of Orson Scott Card’s science fiction novel Ender’s Game. More importantly, they began to wonder, “Could children, using the internet, have a dramatic impact on the world around them? Could they influence public opinion, and make a mark on their world?” Thus began “Education Evolution,” a class video project that brings a student perspective to what’s going wrong in the modern classroom, and offers up ideas of how it can be fixed.
» via Good
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
- J.R.R. Tolkein
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
- Martin Buber
I am offering the new Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, improv training for Chicago city employees of all levels - free of charge.
Follow me on Twitter @jay_olson and please also Tweet Mayor @rahmemanuel telling him what a great idea it is to empower Chicago with new ideas about teamwork, creativity and flexibilty.
What if he says yes? And then other cities follow his lead? And states?
I believe in the power of our homegrown artform, improvisation. I believe in Chicago. I want the whole world to be better for my sweet baby boy.
NEW MAYOR. NEW CHALLENGES. NEW ERA.
Thanks,
- Jay
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Get up on this, improv land!
If you haven’t heard, submissions are open for this year’s Boston Improv Festival in September - www.bostonimprovfest.com.
Sooooo…this advertisement featuring my big head is up at a Chicago Northside CTA station near you.
Take your picture next to one of the CTA posters (I’ve seen them at Belmont and Fullerton stops) doing your best impression of me.
Send it to me at jayolson AT me DOT com.
I’ll select two winners* and give them passes to ComedySportz Chicago.
* Based on my own citeria. Probably ones that make me laugh most. Go nuts!
