CRUMBS and the Winnipeg if... Improv Festival




The Winnipeg if... Improv Festival is coming up very soon. It all starts on Tuesday, November 9th at the King's Head Pub as part of the Free Laughs Comedy show that happens every Tuesday night there. The opening show will be like a CRUMBS & Friends show... but on STEROIDS! Mostly because we will have some fabulous guests there to help make the show special.

The Festival then continues with shows at the Gas Station Arts Centre for the rest of the week.

Wed, Nov 10th
The local underground comedy showcase. See the best local stand-ups and sketch comedians present their hilarity at the Gas Station.

Thu, Nov 11th
The Dungeons & Dragons live improvised show. Watch warriors, magic users and monsters battle it out for your laughs. Dice included.

Fri, Nov 12th
The Mainstage show featuring Rapid Fire Theatre (Edmonton), Outside Joke (Winnipeg) and Ghost Jail Theatre (Toronto) mash-up their improv shows.

Sat, Nov 13th
The Mainstage show features 4Track (New York City/Los Angeles) and CRUMBS (Winnipeg) join forces and destroy all things that aren't awesome!

Get your tickets today by calling the Gas Station Arts Centre at 284-9477

OR

Go to the Winnipeg if... Improv Festival website

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If you missed the CRUMBS radio show you can catch the podcast HERE.

In the show we honoured June Cleaver from "Leave it to Beaver". We also learned a little from Eddy Haskell.



We talked about New Zealand.

We talked about the Improv Festival.

We talked about the open mic comedy nights on Sundays at the Cavern and Thursdays at the Standard.

We also talked about election time, which in Winnipeg is Oct 27th. We are really hoping that people aren't going to give Sammy another shot at owning our city.

NO not this Sam Katz!

This one:

CRUMBS in New Zealand



So CRUMBS finally popped the Southern Hemisphere cherry. We did the Wellington International Improv Festival thanks mostly to Derek Flores who vouched for us. The festival was fun and we met a bunch of people, mostly Kiwis. People in New Zealand are damn nice... Or should I say "sweet as".

Highlights?

Well we saw a live Kiwi (the bird as well as the people).


We learned to say "sweet as"


Ate Pineapple Lumps


Experienced my birthday a day early and in spring.


Experienced crazy wind in Wellington... c'mon Wellington, can you do something about the wind already?

Experienced a 5.0 Aftershock in Christchurch.


So improv festivals are kind of about the shows and mostly about the people, and we met some good folks. At the festival with us were:

WiT from Wellington

The Court Jesters from Christchurch

Rebecca De Unamuno from Sydney, Australia

The ConArtists from Aukland



We did some fun stuff like:

Go see the Ron Mueck exhibit at the Christchurch Art Gallery, check it out folks.


Played Dinosaurs in our CRUMBS show in Wellington.


Totally rocked the massage chairs in the Hostel in Wellington.

Ate at the Burger Fuel in Wellington.


So all in all, New Zealand did in fact rock (in the case of Christchurch, it rocked back and forth and up and down). CRUMBS will return to the Southern Hemisphere and rock it some more.

CRUMBS in Calgary!



CRUMBS is performing in the Calgary Improv Festival and it just happens to be the very first time that CRUMBS has ever performed in Calgary.

We happen to be staying in the funkiest and swankiest hotel ever (the Hotel Arts) and performing shows in a really nice theatre (the Engineered Air Theatre, which does happen to be the "strangestly" named theatre we have ever performed in).

Calgary is the land of:

Oil


The Stampede


Loose Moose


The Improv Guild


The Saddledome


Tubby Dogs

The Dutch Pancake House

Right Wing Religious Nuts of Canada.


But besides being the capital of all things Right wing, we are having a blast here in Calgary. The audiences are smart and the hosts here are so very "hosty".



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For those that missed the CRUMBS radio show last Monday, you can download podcast and enjoy it on some kind of machine that plays podcasts. The show explored the "hot topics" of Seeing shapes and colours when hearing music, The UN appointed contact person for when the aliens come, and the idea of an arch nemesis.

Download CRUMBS podcast here.


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Next stop for CRUMBS? New Zealand... look out Southern Hemisphere, we are gonna make you flush the opposite direction that you're used to.