Ways to learn how to be engaging, smart and funny about stuff that matters
Warning: Learning may include belly laughing and meeting delightful, like-minded people
Canberra & Melbourne Australia
Sustainable Stand Up:
Science Style SOLD OUT
July 21 - End of August
This is an innovative science communication workshop for scientists, engineers, and sustainability consultants who make the world better, comprising workshops leading up to a comedy show. It will equip participants with a powerful form of humour that engages, illuminates complex issues in clear ways, and inspires audiences to think differently. Transferable skills include:
- Increased confidence and skill in presenting to any audience, including young people, professionals, industry, policy/government personnel
- The ability to link a personal, human narrative to big issues that matter
- Finding ways to have a more positive outlook, and
- The ability to bring humour that connects and illuminates into work and life
When
Online classes are for both Canberra and Melbourne together:
Friday July 21, 28, Aug 11 & Wednesday Aug 16, all from 1700-1815 local time.
In person classes Melbourne:
Friday Aug 18, 1800 - 2100
Saturday Aug 19, 1000 - 1300
In person classes Canberra:
Thursday Aug 24, 1000 - 1300
Friday Aug 25, 1600 - 1900
Melbourne show: Sunday August 20, 1715 - 1830
Canberra show: Saturday August 26, 1900 - 2100
Where
Online classes are live via Zoom
Venues for the in-person classes are on the Campuses of University of Melbourne for Melbourne, and ANU for Canberra.
Show venue for Melbourne: The Butterfly Club
Show venue for Canberra: Smiths Alternative Bookshop, 76 Alinga St Civic 2601
How much: $275 (AUD)* . (Note: Canberra participants will receive a small fee refund depending on participant numbers from the grant we received.)
SOLD OUT
If you have any questions, please contact us.
London, England
Sustainable Stand Up:
Autumn stand to make the world better
September 9 - October 22
The intention of this course is to help people who do good in the world to learn to:
- Be engaging, generous, and confident when afraid
- Articulate important, complex ideas in very human, engaging, and funny ways
- Cultivate an irresistible form of humour as a healing force in work and life
This course culminates in a very supportive public comedy show, with each participant performing their own 5-minute set at a show arranged as part of the course.
Although most participants do not intend to continue performing, what is learned in class helps to transform future presentations, meetings, and daily experiences into ones with more humour, playfulness and engagement.
When
In-person Saturday September 9, 10:00 - 17:00
Saturday October 21, 10:00 - 13:00 UK time.
Online Saturday September 16, 23, 30, Oct 7, Oct 14, 11 - 1215 UK time.
Show Sunday October 22, 1900-2030 UK time. (You will need to get there at 1800).
Where
In-person classes, 5-minute walk from London Bridge Station, online via Zoom, and the show in London near Leicester Sq.
How much: £325 regular price.
£162.50 for alumni of previous SSU courses.
For whom Change agents, sustainability & CSR professionals, humanitarian workers, and anyone else trying to make a positive difference in the world.
If you have any questions, please contact us.
We are delighted to be supported by the Australian Government Initiative to deliver our course in Canberra during National Science Week
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Four things
Our project does 4 things...
Courses
We create inspiring courses where you discover a safe environment and new friends. Where you develop and hone stand up material, in a loving, clear way, on stuff that matters.
Shows
We showcase our course participants, as well as the best of today's and tomorrow's stand up comedy on sustainability issues.
Connections
We help stand up comics work with the best scientists, economists & sustainability experts.
Conferences
We offer our stand up comics to major sustainability events and conferences.
Success stories
Our participants include improvisers, comedians, NASA climate scientists, medical researchers, architects, military servicemen and women, and people like you. Here's what some of them say:
PETER, THE NASA CLIMATE SCIENTIST SAYS...
"I need to reach people about the deadly serious impacts of climate change. But I don't want to drive them away with gloom and doom. Belina and my wonderfully supportive classmates helped me discover the hilarity in my work and connect with the audience about something that really matters, to me and the world."
KRISTY, THE MILITARY SERVICEWOMAN SAYS
"I absolutely loved the supportive atmosphere and the we're all in it together mentality that was built into our class... I was able to create a solid five minute set and muster the courage to get up on that stage alone. Thank you Belina for starting my stand up journey on a high note!"
MATT, THE COMPUTER ENGINEER SAYS
"... gave me the confidence to get up in front of people, the tools for success in stand up and to break into doing improv. Belina is just an amazing teacher..."
More details about the in-person six-week workshop in London and Berlin
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Our course...
Whether you plan a career on the stand up stage, want to speak more powerfully on issues that matter to you, or just want to build your confidence and presence, no experience of stand up or improvisation is necessary. Register now below.
The introductory course focus on writing and performing stand up comedy, while using the practice of improvisation to help cultivate:
- playfulness and creativity in crafting your material
- confidence and ease on stage, and
- generosity and connection with your audience.
It emphasises creating content that tackles the big issues in a funny, smart and loving way.
In the workshop sessions you will:
- with our support, develop your own 5 minute set of stand up material
- practice connecting with the audience in delightful, powerful and generous ways
- introduce good mic and presentation techniques
- explore positive ways to deal with failure and the unexpected
- at the end of the course, showcase your set live on stage in a theatre
The SusStandUp Team
Let's play!
Belina
Founder, DirectorBelina began her stand up and improv in 1996 through classes and performances in New York City, continuing her studies at the Loose Moose School of Improvisation. She performs in Baltimore, NY. London and - soon - Berlin. She is a Director of the global Applied Improvisation Network and a consultant with an MBA. Belina spends most of her time teaching social entrepreneurs and business people improvisation skills to bring about a more delightful, sustainable form of business.
Steve
Advisor/Connector, UK
Steve is a geek comedian and founder of Science Showoff (http://www.scienceshowoff.org) and Bright Club (http://www.brightclub.org). He's trained hundreds of people to be funny about science and hosts gigs all over the UK where clever folk get to make funny for the first time.
Photo credit: Ed Moore
Adam
Advisor, Germany
Adam is a professional actor, improviser and stand-up for corporate audiences. He has been performing, teaching and directing since the mid 1990s, mostly in central Europe.
With a background in psychology, he is also a presentation coach, consultant and adjunct professor who uses techniques stolen from theater to help companies and governments all over the world make their staff and customers smile.Katie
Performer/Advisor
Katie Goodman is an award-winning musical comic, improviser, actress, author, creative coach, and social activist. She is the author of “Improvisation For The Spirit: Live a More Creative, Spontaneous, and Courageous Life Using the Tools of Improv Comedy.” Her comedy music videos can be seen, having amassed over 1.5 million hits on Youtube. www.KatieGoodman.com
Peter
Advisor, Climate Scientist
Peter is the founding director of NASA’s Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Office, supporting the North American Carbon Program (www.nacarbon.org); ABoVE, the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment, a major field campaign (http://above.nasa.gov); and the Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Focus Area at NASA HQ (http://cce.nasa.gov). He's also an improviser and was part of our first show in Baltimore of Sustainable Stand Up.
Pablo
Advisor, Climate Scientist
Pablo is Associate director for research and innovation at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. As a researcher and consultant on climate, disasters and development he has worked with over thirty organizations in more than 50 countries. His current work addresses the use of innovative tools for climate risk management – including applied improvisation for learning and managing complex dynamic systems.
Prescott
Green building Expert/Improviser, Baltimore
Prescott is a sustainability innovator by day, and talented improvisation performer and show director by night.
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