WHEN: Sunday, June 28th from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

COST: $100 + Tax

INSTRUCTOR: Cale Bain

LOCATION: Comedy Bar Danforth

It's part lecture, part seminar, part workshop. 

The lecture part is an examination of satire, a look at what it is, what conditions are needed for it to exist, what it can (or does not) achieve. It's part sociology, part literature studies, part comedy studies. 

The seminar puts pen to paper and gives people a chance to see how satire works by putting it into practice in groups using fairytale structures to challenge hegemonies, looking at using familiar genres and tropes to interrogate patriarchies and supremacies, for testing power structures on the whole. 

Finally, after putting this stuff in on paper, we get up and try to put it into place in scenes. 

See, the ultimate thesis is that every act is a political one, whether we're aware of the politics engaged in those acts or not. I'm trying to get people to be aware and to try to say something clear, or be able to choose to say something clear if they're inclined to.  

Cale Bain was the founding Artistic Director of Improv Theatre Sydney and a journalism and comedy scholar from the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. He’s performed, taught and directed improv all over the world. 

Bring a pencil and paper and a newspaper or magazine.