Laughter For A Change
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| Description: | The mission of Laughter For A Change (L4AC) is to increase communication through creativity and collaboration using improvisational theater techniques. Through theater games and improvisational comedy training, individuals experience the power of laughter and play to open the imagination and free the spirit. When people laugh together, they are making a connection. With a laugh, they transform their shared environment into a place of possibilities where learning and healing can happen. Laughter For A Change is about making these connections locally, globally and community to community. Laughter For A Change is a rich and diverse initiative. Two recent examples of Laughter For A Change programs include “Senior Reflections: Bridging The Gap” and “Comedy in Rwanda.” Senior Reflections is a multi-generational improv troupe sponsored by the Los Angeles Unified School District and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. It connects older actors with theater students from Birmingham High School in Los Angeles for an improvisational comedy show poking fun at the supposed “gap” between generations. The 2006 and 2007 casts ranged in ages from fifteen to eighty-three. During the ten-week trainings, rehearsals and shows, long-held stereotypes melted away and long-term friendships were formed. “Comedy in Rwanda” is a workshop that uses comedy to promote leadership with youth in a country that is still recovering from the atrocities of genocide. In a two-week intensive workshop, Laughter For A Change trained twenty young Rwandans from the first generation after the 1994 genocide. A “Part Two” of the “Comedy In Rwanda” workshops, consisting of an extended four-week program, will expand on the initial work and focus on developing skills to do ongoing live shows and comedy films. |
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| Location: | Los Angeles, CA |
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Del Close, Ed Greenberg, and H.P. Lovecraft!
http://www.youtube.com/wat
This video was filmed during Del Close's combination living wake/birthday party. At the 4:28 mark in video, Ed Greenberg (The Committee, Laughter for a Change, Hammerspace) is there reading H.P. Lovecraft's poem: "Nyarlathotep". It is a very wonderful reading from one inspirational comic genius to another. Please watch and enjoy. I have included the text below in case you wish to read along.
"Nyarlathotep"
And at the last from inner Egypt came
The strange dark one to whom the fellahs bowed;
Silent and lean and cryptically proud,
And wrapped in fabrics red as sunset flame.
Throngs pressed around, frantic for his commands,
But leaving, could not tell what they had heard:
While through the nations spread the awestruck word
That wild beasts followed him and licked his hands.
Soon from the sea a noxious birth began;
Forgotten lands with weedy spires of gold;
The ground was cleft, and mad auroras rolled
Down on the quaking citadels of man.
Then, crushing what he had chanced to mould in play,
The idiot Chaos blew Earth's dust away.
http://www.youtube.com/wat
This video was filmed during Del Close's combination living wake/birthday party. At the 4:28 mark in video, Ed Greenberg (The Committee, Laughter for a Change, Hammerspace) is there reading H.P. Lovecraft's poem: "Nyarlathotep". It is a very wonderful reading from one inspirational comic genius to another. Please watch and enjoy. I have included the text below in case you wish to read along.
"Nyarlathotep"
And at the last from inner Egypt came
The strange dark one to whom the fellahs bowed;
Silent and lean and cryptically proud,
And wrapped in fabrics red as sunset flame.
Throngs pressed around, frantic for his commands,
But leaving, could not tell what they had heard:
While through the nations spread the awestruck word
That wild beasts followed him and licked his hands.
Soon from the sea a noxious birth began;
Forgotten lands with weedy spires of gold;
The ground was cleft, and mad auroras rolled
Down on the quaking citadels of man.
Then, crushing what he had chanced to mould in play,
The idiot Chaos blew Earth's dust away.
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A NEW EIGHT WEEK SESSION BEGINS
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We do a Harold every Wednesday night at 10pm in the iO West Andy Dick Black Box.
We are coached by Mike Betette.
We make you laugh.
THE LIST is:
Abhaya Hess
Dawn Hunnicutt
Patrick Ian Moore
Justin...
We are coached by Mike Betette.
We make you laugh.
THE LIST is:
Abhaya Hess
Dawn Hunnicutt
Patrick Ian Moore
Justin...
This Harold team features both Ric Rosario and Patrick Ian Moore (both of L4AC). THE LIST performs every Wed @ 10PM in the Andy Dick Experimental Theater @ iO West in Hollywood. The show is FREE!
