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Exploring Improvised Scene Work

Our outdoor classes are safe, fun, and engaging!

A person studying improvisation enjoys varying levels of benefits including: gaining confidence on stage (and in life) to react in the moment, improving one’s ability to be thoughtful or witty, a deeper understanding of listening, and much, much more.

Improv artist Billy Tierney leads classes that involve improvised scene work with feedback, notes, and challenges; exercises that enable students to break out of unproductive patterns; and discussion on the fine art of improvisation.

SCHEDULE

Mondays | Aug 10 - Sep 21

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

FEE

$225

ABOUT BILLY TIERNEY

More serious than his name suggests, sometimes silly, nearly always connecting, Billy has been studying, performing, teaching, and living improvisation for more than half his life. He thoroughly enjoys teaching people the art and craft of improvisation, and expressly delights in the observance of the growth of his students’ improv skills.

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Huge Oriental Rug Sale!
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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.