# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Talk to Strangers:  Improv for Powerful Interpersonal Communication
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 01:00 pm – Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 02:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Tired of being so caught up in all the jibber-jabber that you lose your true human connection?  This workshop introduces principles of improv for richer and more effective personal communication.  Whether you're shy and looking to open up,  gregarious but want conversations deeper than sports and weather, or need to act friendly while dealing with difficult people, a few simple improv techniques will open up vast new vistas of interpersonal experience!

For Any Interested Student, no experience or interest in performance required
Cité des Arts, 109 Vine Street, Lafayette, LA
Saturday, Nov. 8, 1:00 - 2:30 PM
$20 per Student

Your Teachers!!!
Dr. Nico Zaunbrecher has performed, directed and taught improvisational theatre in over 400 shows over the last 25 years. Starting with the still-running Cult of the Stage Monkey at University of Louisiana–Lafayette in 1999, he completed a Ph.D. in Performance Studies at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, focusing on culture, theory and history of improvisation and spontaneity. He has taught communication and performance at Lenoir-Rhyne University, South Louisiana Community College, and Southern University, and published research on improv and social theory in the journals Theatre Topics and Human Studies. He is currently Artistic Director of Silverbacks Improv Theatre and one-half of the improv duos Two for the Road, Lonelycrowd and Encounter En-Canto.

Tara Rivers has been performing improv for about five years as a member of the improv duo Marvelous Misfits and the group Flywheel. She holds an MA in Higher Education Administration and Counseling; while no longer practicing professionally in this field, she continues to use these skills every day.  When not doing improv she is a financial advisor for a major financial company, where she uses improv skills in her day to day communications with clients and colleagues. She is looking forward to helping others enrich their daily communications using improv techniques.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/lafayette/talk-to-strangers-improv-for-powerful-interpersonal-communication/200029156239246
- **Event Categories**: art, theatre, performances, sports, workshops, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 49

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.citedesarts.org/events/workshop-improving-personal-communications-through-improv?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=lafayette-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Lafayette
- **state**: LA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 109 Vine Street, Lafayette, LA, United States, Louisiana 70501
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- **long**: -92.01705
- **full address**: 109 Vine Street, Lafayette, LA, United States, Louisiana 70501

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Silverbacks Improv Theatre (https://allevents.in/org/silverbacks-improv-theatre/26334653)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 08 Nov, 2025 at 01:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 109 Vine Street, Lafayette, LA, United States, Louisiana 70501
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Silverbacks Improv Theatre
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, theatre, performances, sports, workshops, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Talk to Strangers:  Improv for Powerful Interpersonal Communication ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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