CRUMBS and the Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival!

The summer sets like the sun and the autumn falls upon us like a warm blanket.
-a poem

The fall means several things:
-We "fall back" and screw with our clocks.
-We launch the theatre season and comedy season and improv season of shows.
-We get excited about the 15th Annual Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival

CRUMBS has always worked at spreading improv across Canada and the world. We've toured our show and taught our master classes in so many cities and to so many people. CRUMBS has also grown improv here at home in Winnipeg. One of the ways we do that is by bringing improv players and improv ideas right here to our hometown.

The 15th Annual Winnipeg IF... Improv Festival is one of the best times to bring all these players and ideas and shows and workshops and parties together... I suppose that is what a festival really is.

This year CRUMBS is excited about doing a full show with Kevin McDonald (The Kids In The Hall). This show is sure to become legendary and everyone should probably get their Tickets NOW to ensure you are among the hundreds left without tickets huddled around the doors to try and catch a glimpse.

CRUMBS with Kevin McDonald
Sat, Oct 4th at 11PM
Gas Station Arts Centre

ONLINE TICKETS


Other cool things happening at this year's festival:

Collaboration with la Lim (the French improv in Winnipeg)
Thu, Oct 2nd at 8pm

Collaboration with the Winnipeg Spoken Word Festival
Sat, Oct 4th at 8pm

Collaboration with the Manitoba Association of Playwrights
Sat, Oct 4th at 8pm

Collaboration with the local Stand-up Comedy scene
Fri, Oct 3rd at 8pm

Collaboration with improv players from Germany, Edmonton and Vancouver with the amazing local players from right here in Winnipeg...

Every night of the festival from Sept 30th to Oct 4th!

CRUMB & Friends

Improv in Winnipeg is alive and well. Here's what shows you can look forward to.

The next show at the King's Head is

Tuesday, March 18th

CRUMB & Friends!

It will feature:

Stephen Sim and Dj Hunnicutt

as well as the special guests:

Gord Tanner

Alix Sobler

Toby Hughes

Caitlin Curtis

Fraz Wiest

The next next show at the King's Head is

Tuesday, April 1st

It will be a Bizarro Comedy Show!

What is that? Well, that is where the Stand-up Comics do the improv and the Improvisers do the Stand-up comedy. It's like Freaky Friday but on a Tuesday... and with Comedy.

The next next next show at the King's Head is

Tuesday, April 15th

It will again be a CRUMB & Friends show.

But you know that I'm just talking about the IMPROV right?

You do know that EVERY Tuesday there's a show? We rotate the show and bounce between IMPROV

and STAND-UP comedy. Every single Tuesday night

there's a show and every single Tuesday night is great.

What other shows do I need to know about?

#1
What other regular shows are out there?

Well, Wednesdays at the Cheer in Osborne Village hosted by Ben "OBC" Walker. You can also be a part of a new night happening on Thursdays at the Times Changed on Main Street hosted by Chantal Marostica. More? Are there more shows? Probably.

#2

The CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival

This wonderful festival is coming up in April and that means that Winnipeg becomes the funniest place on Earth for one week. There will be some amazing comedy converging in this city and you all need to be a part of it. There will also be some improv happening, Mark Meerfrom the Irrelevant Show on CBC radio will be doing some improv and YOU simply MUST experience the BRILLIANCE of this show.

Here is the show LINK for you to CLICK

#3

Friday, April 18th at the Park Theatre

The Winnipeg Comedy Showcase featuring the stand-up amazingness of:

John B Duff, Mike Green, Dan Verville, Ryan Ash, Dan Glasswick and Keener. Get your tickets and then get your laugh on.

Here is the LINK for this SHOW

Ford Nation? More like Spacey Nation. The asshole brothers just cannot compete with class and wit. Here's the LINK for context.

The CRUMBS radio show has been ongoing weekly for about a decade and just because Lee is away touring Europe doesn't mean the radio show is a no-go. No, in fact, Stephen has just decided to bring on special guests to fill the void. Here we see last week's guests John Wilson and Tim Grey from The Week Thus Far TV show. Great guests.

Now just a couple pictures of Winnipeg. Just nice pictures of Winnipeg. 

First a sunrise...

A cloud maker making clouds.