What is it?

It might be best to say what this isn’t! This is not an improv class, nor is it therapy. We’ll be using your existing improv skills to help you connect with yourself, the rest of the group and with the natural cycles of the year.

This is a year-long journey of discovery anchored in eight live Zoom meetings throughout 2024. Each session is part self-enquiry with solo and group prompts, some lecture/storytelling around folklore and pagan celebrations and around half of each session will be improvisation; using our art form to dig a little deeper and to have fun while we do.

The dates are based on the pagan Wheel of the Year and we’ll be inspired by a variety of stories from Norse, Greek, Roman, Celtic and other mythologies.

All classes are 7-9pm UK-time throughout 2024:

Thursday 1st February, Imbolc

Thursday 21st March, Ostara

Thursday 2nd May, Beltane

Thursday 20th June, Litha

Thursday 1st August, Lughnasadh

Thursday 19th September, Mabon

Wednesday 30th October, Samhain

Wednesday 18th December, Yule

Unfortunately, this course is currently exclusive to those based in the Northern Hemisphere because we’re working with the seasons.

Who is this for?

Improvisers who would like the opportunity to revisit one group over the course of a year, who are interested in self-discovery, group connection and in being present in the natural ebb and flow of a full year. Perhaps you’ve taken a lot of classes and now you’d just like to play, or maybe you feel like it's time to experiment, using improvisation in a different way.

If you have never done long form improvisation before, I suggest you try some drop-ins and courses in improvisation and come and join us next time.

Who is leading it?

Katy Schutte is an award-winning improviser, writer and theatre-maker and author of The Improviser’s Way: A Longform Workbook published by Nick Hern Books. She co-founded The Improv Place and was a member of The Maydays for 18 years. She has taught and performed all over the world. She has been teaching improvisation for around 19 years. 

Katy learned witchcraft in her early 20s in a Brighton-based coven. She has suffered with anxiety and depression and finds mythic self-enquiry a great way to learn and grow. She loves community, nature and improv. She is studying Druidry with OBOD and a Folklore Studies MA at the University of Hertfordshire.

The class is limited to 14 students.

If you have any queries about course content, payment or anything else, please email katy@katyschutte.co.uk