Hebden Impro(ve) Jam!

Hope Baptist Church

The Bridge, HX7 8AD, Hebden Bridge, England, United Kingdom

Impro(ve) Your Soul

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Our events are all Improvisation based, whether for performance or for training and personal/professional development.Impro(ve)...In our sessions people laugh... a lot.We run weekly: refugee, 55+ and recovery sessions for free. We also run open sessions for anyone to join.Becoming a supporter means you help build an ImprovNHS (free to use). It'll be free because of this platform:https://ko-fi.com/improveyoursoul.#improvNHS #monkeyphilosophyHelp us open up access to improvisation for more humans... help us keep our community support sessions free at the point of use (an ImprovNHS if you will), so more humans can access the benefits of Improv. and all of its lovely social and health related brilliance. We run sessions for refugees and asylum seekers, humans in recovery from addiction, older humans, younger humans, humans with diabilities, humans in need of mental health support EVERY WEEK.We don't think availability to cash should be a barrier to our sessions. The more we have as a fund on here (https://ko-fi.com/improveyoursoul), the more we can do in the real world.A new model of community funding... each donation or monthly addition to this opens up our ability to deliver sessions to those in our society who have less advantages and more barriers to living their best life.https://ko-fi.com/improveyoursoulTestimonials:"... a distinctive flavour full of subtle herbs and spicy kebab.""It's a rare opportunity for me to engage in whimsey, in contrast to the dour grey pragmatism of modern existence."Website:https://www.monkeyheads.co.uk/Monkeyheads...Duncan and Colin combine to create a surreal soup of silliness, where there can be love, laughter, tears and tantrums. Improvised theatre that teeters on the edge of calamity and tweaks the beak of impending doom.We are regular visitors at the British Improv Project, Nottingham Smash Night and performing throughout Yorkshire for over 10 years. We combine over 90 years of improvising experience (aka living and existing) to bring you a menagerie of badgers, dinosaurs and occasionally humans.Testimonials:"If Samuel Beckett did Improv, this is what it would look like” UK Improv Project“11/10 Genuinely incredible”, “Delightfully strange” Nottingham Scratch Night Audience“It broke all the Improv rules... but it was compelling” Jon Trevor, Director, Birmingham Improv FestivalWebsite:https://www.monkeyheads.co.uk/ThreadBear Theatre...Our events are a chance for people to reflect on their time together, or on a specific theme they wish to explore. For anyone interested in developing skills of listening, improvisation, fluidity, personal storytelling and music that are intrinsic to this form of theatre.We create a ritual space where any story however ordinary or extraordinary can be told and immediately made into theatre.Testimonials from audience and workshop participants:"Absolutely brilliant. Please come back again and again and again.""The effect from the four people on the stage was amazing – funny, sad, despairing, baffling, miniscule but overwhelming. The way these actors re-enacted the emotions and the essence of the story in just a few minutes was uncanny in its clarity..."Website:http://www.threadbeartheatre.com/Flithy Shakespeare Company...Not Enough people know that Shakespeare is Censored. We are changing that by liberating our performances, re-introducing the Ribaldry, LGBT+ and Filth from his original scripts.We have a deep passion to have our community's voice re-attributed to our most important writer. To stand in testament that when Shakespeare wrote of love he spoke of LGBT+ love too.We are an LGBT+ theatre company that combines academic research with our creative skills to reveal the original intent of Shakespeare in our Performances.We are a small ensemble Theatre Company working across the M62 Corridor with discussions across the socials.You can follow our efforts via our Weekly Vlog, Facebook. and Website.http://www.filthyshakespeare.company/about/4594353143https://www.facebook.com/filthyshakespearecompany/playlist/648337375692422/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ9GDoyxa1QZyrc7M4kwo4Q/featured