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RawMinds Spring 2018 Improv Comedy Project

It was a lot of fun. I always really looked forward to going to the sessions in the morning.

Jim

Photograph of a group of young people taking part in an improv comedy performance as part of the Wellcome Collection Raw Minds programme.
Raw Minds improv comedy, Camilla Greenwell. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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In this project, Camila, Saki, Ananta, Josh, Jim, Percival, Carol, Conor, Alexander, Max and Dylan created and performed an improv comedy show.

Photograph of a group of young people taking part in an improv comedy workshop as part of the Wellcome Collection Raw Minds programme.
Raw Minds improv comedy, Benjamin Gilbert. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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The group took part in an seven-day intensive workshop with London Improv Theatre Training League and spent time in Wellcome Collection's galleries taking inspiration from objects.

Photograph of ten of the RawMinds Improv Comedy youth group surrounding and looking at science comedian, Simon Watt who is centre frame.
RawMinds Improv Comedy group working with Simon Watt, Benjamin Gilbert. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
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They performed with stand-up comedian Simon Watt, who has been a biologist, broadcaster, podcaster, writer and comedian. He is best known as the head of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society and presenter of the BAFTA-winning ‘Inside Nature’s Giants’.

You can see films of the show and sample exercises on YouTube.

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