The 11th Annual Vancouver International Improv Festival takes place October 5-9, 2010 at the beautiful Performance Works Theatre on Granville Island.

It’s been an amazing decade, and we wouldn’t be here without the support of our community, our sponsors, and most of all you, our audience.

This year VIIF, like many BC-based arts organizations, watched our government funding vanish into thin air. BC now only designates $4.50 per person towards arts funding, which is less than 20% of the national average, and the lowest in the country. (For more information, may we recommend Stop BC Arts Cuts?)

Improvisers are, by nature, creatures of action. That’s why, in the spirit of our friends at Ghost Jail Theatre and their fundraising initiative, the Ghost Jail 100, we’re asking for your help with the VIIF 200. We want 200 people to give $20 each, an amount of money that makes up for any provincial funding VIIF might have received this year.

What does your $20 buy? The venue, for one. The refreshments for guests like yourselves. The staff. But moreso: your $20 helps pay the artists’ fees to bring great improvisers to the fest from all over the world. It pays the directors to travel here and teach (both to our guests and to the local theatre and arts community). And it allows those improvisers and directors (and you!) to take what they’ve learned and created back to their own communities across the globe.

In other words, your $20 does something incredible: It recognizes the value of theatre and art in the community, in Canada, and internationally.

But it doesn’t stop there—$20 is a generous donation, but we welcome your contributions at any level. Take a look at the options, and feel free to email us at viif200@gmail.com with any questions you might have.

If you’d prefer to send your donation directly, please make a cheque out to the Vancouver Improv Festival Society and send it with your name and address to:

610 E. 13th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5T 2L1

Welcome to the VIIF 200.
VIVE LE VIIF!