IMPROV: ADVANCED LAUGHTER

WORKSHOP AT THE VARSITY THEATRE ON FRANKLIN

A once in a lifetime experience featuring one of the world's top experts on laughter and the man with the "most contagious laugh in the world" together in a hilarious cutting edge new laughter workshop.

* Features The Laughman, Doug Collins
* Laughology Screening at the NC Comedy Arts Festival

Laughologist Albert Nerenberg director of Laughology, gives a interactive demonstration new and often high intensity forms of laughter. Learn new the laughter techniques Laughter Yoga and the Laughter Party on the spot. Experience laughter phenomenon such as Laughercize and Laughter Paralysis.

BE READY TO LAUGH, ONLY $10!

Our Advanced Laughter Workshop runs from 5pm - 630pm and was made possible because of the NC Comedy Arts Festival. Laughology screens at 7:15pm on Saturday after the workshop. These are two separate events but you are more than welcome (and encouraged) to enjoy both.

Class Dates and Times*

* All classes are 3 hours long unless otherwise noted above.

Instructor: Albert Nerenberg

Albert Nerenberg is a Canadian independent filmmaker, actor, journalist, and laughologist. His films include Stupidity (2003), Escape to Canada (2005), Let's All Hate Toronto (2007), and Laughology (2009). Both Stupidity and Laughology are the first feature length documentaries to discuss the topics of stupidity and laughter.

Nerenberg studied English Drama at McGill University in Montreal, where he formed Theatre Shmeatre, an improvisational theatrical company.

Formerly a newspaper reporter with the Montreal Gazette and talk radio host, Nerenberg told the Montreal newspaper, La Presse, that he became a filmmaker after he smuggled a video camera through army lines during the 1990 Oka Crisis – a standoff between armed Mohawk Warriors and the Canadian military. The footage was later turned into his first documentary, entitled Okanada.