Canadian Improv Games Kingston Regional Tournament

Event Description

Regional Tournament:
Preliminary Nights: February 19th-21st, 2025
Finals: February 22, 2025
Doors @ 6:30pm
Show@ 7:00pm
In the Performance Hall of The Spire
The Canadian Improv Games (CIG) is a national charity dedicated to enriching the lives of youth through improvisational theatre programs that promotes invaluable skills including Positivity, Communication, Leadership, Commitment and Teamwork through a variety of annually programmed workshops, training sessions and performance opportunities.

The Canadian Improv Games is a loving competition between teams of high school students trained to perform spontaneous, improvised scenes. Thousands of students in hundreds of high schools across Canada play in the CIG every year. Teams compete in Regional Tournaments, all in hopes to attend the week-long National Tournament & Festival in Ottawa. In addition to our competitions, the CIG offers workshops, training, and week-long summer camps throughout the year.

From its humble beginning as an educational adventure into a new style of theatre learning, The Canadian Improv Games got its start in Ottawa in 1977.

The Canadian Improv Games were created by Howard Jerome and Jamie “Willie” Wyllie based on a concept (The Improv Olympics) created by David Shepherd and Howard Jerome. Willie and his improv team Stage Fright produced the first matches in 1977 continuing into the early 80s. By the 1990s with the efforts of Willie and Johnson Moretti, the games had exploded into a national phenomenon, so popular they were even given hour long live coverage on YTV.

Today, CIG is home to one of the largest and most geographically dispersed theatre festivals in Canada with 14 regional programs and over 100,000 alumni participants. Each year students gain access, through their high school, to a variety of immersive workshops, training sessions and performance opportunities that are formatted to build and promote invaluable skills.

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