How will the twinning work?

In our last post we let you know that we'll be twinning our club with a similar improv club at a school in Ljubljana, Slovenia called "Gimnazija Vič" (you can also find the school on Facebook).

Fun fact - "Gimnazija Vič" stands for "High school Vic"

So, you are probably wondering "Just how will this be done?"

Well, let's give you some back story first.  Back in June 2012, one of our coaches, Jonathan Argue, went to an international improv festival that is hosted by Unexpected Productions in Seattle, Washington.  Improvisors from all over the world come to this festival to spend a week taking workshops together and performing.  It was during this time that he met Sara Šoukal, who happens to also be an improv coach at Gimnazija Vič.

Jonathan and Sara mused about how fantastic it would be to find a way for both teams to share ideas about improv and together they came up with the idea of twinning the teams.

Sara wrote up a project proposal in August 2012 and emailed it to Jonathan.  In it she proposed a series of exchanges of videos online and ending the year with a interactive conference using Skype.

She proposed the following set of events:

• October: Presentation Video - each team presents something about the city they live in, their school, their teachers and themseleves.
• November: Improv Challenge - each team emails the other team an improv challenge.  The team then videos their response to the challenge and posts by then end of November.
• December: Holiday Album - each team makes and online photo album, with photos representing the holiday spirit at their schools. The team must also make a short sketch scene in which they show the typical celebration of the holidays.
• January: Improv Challenge 2
• February: The Match - As there are different systems in the High school improv league, each team will record their official match and send it to the other team.
• March: Improv Challenge 3
• April: Improv Challenge 4
• May: National Holidays - As both countries are celebrating a national holiday in May (Labor day in Slovenia and Victoria day in Canada), each team will prepare a video about the holiday of the other country. They must not, however, do any research about the other country's holiday; we must see a video that represents what the team thinks is the holiday about. At the end of the video there must be a short explanation of the holiday from their country so the other team does get the right information in the end.
• June: Internet Conference - Both teams meet through Skype conference in which each team plays a improv game.

Jonathan presented the proposal to Mr. Penty who then presented it to our Principal, Ms. Randi Falls, who loved it!

And so there you have it, this is how it's going to be done!  Don't worry - as soon as the first videos are available, we'll post the links.