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  COMEDY COURAGE
COMEDY COURAGE TM
Canada's 1st & Largest Comedy Benefit Concert
In Support of Mental Health

"Helping Our Mental Health Community
Help Themselves Through
LAUGHTER, COMEDY & COURAGE"

PHASE ONE

Comedy Courage Phase One
Initial Three Month Course And Showcases

Screening: Each potential student undergoes a 30 minute screening interview to make sure he or she meets the criteria for participation in Comedy Courage. The criteria includes having stable housing, a support system of both peers and professionals, being stable on any medication he or she may take, a reasonable command of written and spoken English, and the motivation and desire to create healthy change.

Classes: Classes take place once a week for the first month, then twice a week for the following two months. Students learn how to write, perform, structure and edit a comedy act of between 3-10 minutes.

Materials: Each student receives the Comedy Courage workbook.

Showcase #1: This showcase is for people living with mental health diagnoses, friends, family, employers and the general public. Playing to a friendly and supportive audience gives the students confidence for showcase #2.

Gala Showcase #2: This showcase is for an audience of 600 and is part of a gala dinner and live & silent auction designed to raise money for the next year's Comedy Courage class and our sponsored endeavour 2008 Canadian Mental Health Association - Simon Fraser Branch's Blue Bird House.

Comedy Courage Gala Showcase
"Laughing and Giving from the Heart”

will take to stage before a live audience
8:30 P.M. - May 27, 2008 at the downtown Vancouver
Westin Bayshore Hotel
Downtown Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada.


T H A N K    Y O U    2 0 0 8   S P O N S O R S !

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