This Friday, October 21, marks the triumphant/abundant return of workshop sessions to Friday meetings!

If you’re interested in improving your improv skills, you won’t want to miss it. We’ve done workshop sessions in the past, but we’re going to try something a little different with them now. Instead of focusing on general improv skills, each session will center around a couple of improv games.

In each session, we’ll be looking at how the games work, what makes them run well, and what traps to avoid. Of course, general skills will be brought in as necessary — after all, they wouldn’t be general if they didn’t apply to lots of things, right? In addition to discussing how to play a game well, there will be plenty of practice, to put those skills to good use!

As always, workshops are free and open to anyone who wants to attend, regardless of prior improv experience or skill level.

We look forward to seeing you there!

I’ve rolled out some minor changes to the website layout. The end result: the various layout problems seen when using Internet Explorer should now all be fixed. Or at least, not visibly broken. Things should also look nicer if you’re browsing at 800×600.

Of course, I suggest you at least use [Mozilla Firefox](http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) instead of IE, if only to see the nifty transparency effects you can get with the alpha channel in PNGs in the images at the top of the page that you just can’t do with GIF transparencies.

If it’s been a while since you’ve visited, you may also be interested in [what else has changed](/~improv/wordpress/2005/10/01/complete-website-redesign/).

If you still encounter problems, post them in the comments.

Unless you’re new around here, you’ve probably noticed that there’s been a few changes to the website since last you visited. And by “a few,” I mean “lots.”

The new layout should make it much easier to get the latest news on what we’re up to and what’s going to be happening in the future. The new backend should likewise make it much easier for us to put new information up as it becomes available.

Want a tour of the new features? Read on!

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