The mission of the Austin Improv Collective is to promote improvisational theatre in Central Texas and develop sustainable performance, practice, management, and teaching skills for Austin’s improvisational theatre community. We believe that improvisation is a vital and viable art form which provides unique and invaluable benefits to the individual and the community and we strive to raise awareness of improvisational theatre through performance, teaching, and community outreach. – AIC Mission Statement
A few weeks ago, I was elected to the position of Managing Director for the Austin Improv Collective. I look forward to promoting the image of improvisational theater in Austin and helping to further develop our rapidly growing community.
One of my first goals is to make sure the Austin Improv website gets updated and constantly promotes all improv shows from EVERY theater in Austin. The great Jon Bolden is already hard at work on transitioning the site to an identical layout in Wordpress, but with one major exception: a revolutionary new calendar system. We’re trying to find the best way to aggregate all the show information from The Hideout, Gnap!, ColdTowne, and other theaters. Ideally, it would be nice to have a way to constantly export the calendar data from their sites (via an RSS feed) and convert them into our own Google Calendar format. If anyone is extremely familiar with Google Calendar and/or XML, please contact me. Your help would be much appreciated.
