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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.
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