Block Party: Baltimore's Best Black Improv Comedy

Schedule

Fri Dec 13 2024 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Maryland Art Place | Baltimore, MD

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Get ready for a true variety comedy show that is sure to get you laughing, clapping, out of your seat, and possibly on stage yourself! Blue Cavell-Allette, Desi Rawlerson, and Tashika Campbell are your hosts and producers, and your party MCs - there will be music, jokes, comedy games, interviews, sitcom tropes, audience participation, and non-stop laughs. They also bring their friends along for some surprise guest appearances!
Presented by Highwire Improv, Block Party is 90 minutes of the funniest improv in Baltimore and a true showcase of Baltimore's best Black improv comedians!
Doors will open at 7:30, show runs from 8pm-9:30pm. Free street parking is available throughout the area after 6pm, including a parking lot accessible from Tyson Street or Howard Street.
This is a BYOB event - feel free to bring your favorite drink!
Get your tickets in advance, this event will sell out - and tickets are $12 online, $15 at the door!
What is an improv show, exactly?
Improv is live theater created spontaneously by the performers with the inspiration of the audience. Unless noted otherwise, it’s a comedy show, made even more exciting, intriguing, and hilarious by the fact that none of it is pre-scripted! At an improv show you’ll see a wide range of creative and fascinating humans perform a highwire act by making comedy out of thin air! It can take many forms, including short competitive games, slice of life scenes, and full length sitcom or movie style performances!
A Highwire Improv show is truly a once in a lifetime performance, never done before and never to be done again!
About Tashika Campbell:
Tashika is a veteran improviser, originally from Charlotte, North Carolina. Co-founder of the award-winning troupe Cake Walk, Tashika is a sought-after performer, facilitator and teacher. Currently, she serves as the lead coordinator for the 1st Improv festival dedicated to performers of the global majority, in the Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia area, known as "F.A.M. Fest." A leader in the community, Tashika also serves on the board of directors at the Baltimore Improv Group as President.
About Blue Cavell-Allette
Blue Cavell-Allette is an award winning interdisciplinary artist from Baltimore who has been featured as a performer and teacher at theaters across North America. Blue has created and produced popular long running shows that highlight black improv performers including Block Party, Blue is currently the co-facilitator of The Arts and Social Justice Fellowship with Strathmore Cultural Institute and Woolly Mammoth Theater and a professor of Applied Improv at Morgan State University.
About the venue, Maryland Art Place:
Maryland Art Place inspires, supports, and encourages artistic expression through innovative programming, exhibitions, and educational opportunities while recognizing the powerful impact art can have on our community. MAP creates a dynamic environment for artists of our time to engage the public by nurturing and promoting new ideas. MAP has served as a critical resource for contemporary art in the Mid-Atlantic since 1981.
MAP is an accessible venue (the show is in the basement, with elevator access) - for more details, reach out to us at [email protected]
Learn more at https://www.mdartplace.org/
About Highwire Improv:
Highwire Improv’s mission is to steward a community of artists committed to growth, collaboration, joy, and justice — in Baltimore and around the world — through improvisational theater.
Learn more at https://www.highwireimprov.com
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Maryland Art Place, 218 W Saratoga St,Baltimore,MD,United States

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