The Bad Dog Theatre is a popular local improv theatre.  Since everything is improvised, the composition of the audience has an enormous effect on where the show goes.  So, it’s often funniest when you go as a group.  When your friends get involved or the ideas you have in common get picked up, you all laugh together.  A number of us experienced this during the election when the Bad Dog hosted a “Mock the Vote” show and half the audience were Green Party supporters.

So I’ve been wanting to have a Green Party outing to the Bad Dog for several months, and finally I’ve just decided to pick a date.  The Bad Dog Sessions builds on a single audience suggestion so you won’t be hauled up on stage to participate.  That makes it somewhat less hilarious for a group, but means you won’t be put on the spot.  Bad Dog Sessions also has some of the best improv in the city and is a pay-what-you-can event.  So let’s get a crowd to go out and laugh together.

Bad Dog Sessions
Saturday, 2006 November 11, 10-11 pm
Bad Dog Theatre
138 Danforth Ave (just east of Broadview)
PWYC

This will be the most fun event this month.  What could be Greener than planting trees?  It’s outside, on a beach.  Event will proceed rain or shine.

Community Tree Planting Event
Sunday, 2006 October 22 at 10am.
Clarke Beach Park (Cherry Beach). Free.

Tools will be provided.

Meet just inside the main entrance to the park, at the foot of Cherry Street.

For more information, go to http://www.towaterfront.ca/dbdocs//45338e4ae500f.pdf

A green paperclip event.

Colleen Perrin wrote to me a month ago or so with her concerns about the treatment of elephants at the Toronto Zoo.  Although the life expectancy of Toronto’s elephants is the same as that of wild elephants, there are concerns that it should be higher, since zoo elephants do not face dangers such as droughts and poaching.  The matriarch elephant was recently euthanized due to pain from a bone cyst, and there is reason to believe that lack of winter exercise and socialization may be a contributing factor.  Colleen is asking everyone to find out more at:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/the-long-goodbye-of-the-toronto-zoo-elephants-1.1894496

and then to write a letter asking for improvements to the elephant exhibit.