As much as I love cville, seeing this many people banding together for unified entertainment makes me uber jealous of the real big cities. Would anyone be interested in doing something like this in cville?
would you participate in an improv anywhere-like event in cville?
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I’ve always wanted to do this, and wondered if something similar would do well in C’ville.
participate in the Red Dress Run in D.C. every october. everyone runs around in red dresses to bars and traffic stops and tourists stare at you.
isn’t the red-dress marathon all men wearing women’s clothes, running to raise awareness of AIDS or LGBT issues? the one time i accidentally got caught in it on the Mall (if it was the same event you describe), it was all dudes wearing dresses.
no, this is a 1000 drunk men and women running to promote drunkenness and tomfoolery. google image it.
Nice!!
i have no effing clue what the thing I saw may have been–maybe a one-time event.
I’m going to start a Santa-thon in DC. I stole the idea from London. It’s like a marathon except everyone dresses up like Santa and instead of running, you get really drunk in a park singing naughty Christmas carols.
the people who do the RDR have Santa-themed pub crawls too. you should hang out with one of the area’s many Hash groups. there’s the White House H3, Every Day is Tuesday H3, and Over the Hump? H3.
Every Day is Tuesday sounds like my kind of people.
Fuck the lot of you. I bought 2 green snuggies for a Paddies Day snuggy pub crawl that never happened.Tits.
not buying a snuggie until they make hot pink ones. cuz i wanna look sexy while i’m covered in a huge backwards robe. wait, what?
Yeah, the colors are shite. But then so is the product, so it kind of works.
Well that’s a thought. I wish I had upgraded to the one with pockets…. one should never attend an orgy without pockets.
I don’t know about this…some guy with the “Saw” voice playing Simon Says…could be creepy. What if the voice tells you to do something bad???
I like this idea for confusing people in public places.
That’s one of the better ones. I love the old dude at :54.
But thats an ad – and the idea was straight ganked from improv everywhere.
I liked improv everywhere’s record store listening station synchro dance, and their fake U2 concert… both available for viewing on their website.
http://improveverywhere.com/
what were they advertising?
A&E TV. I think its a cable channel.
The rush to find the next viral hotness has lead the corporate world to basically rape and pillage the original creative thinkers. Whereas I think the video is funny and clever, it is hard for me to support such ideologically – but thats just me… Fortunately, I think the machine will always be a step or two behind the visionaries.
i’ve had trouble with the po-pos for trying to do things like this—here and at college.
evidently there’s some sort of municipal law about organizing mass events in public spaces without applying for a permit, arranging for proper security, clearing it with ‘park officials’ (an excuse they used to shut-down one thingee on the Downtown Mall i tried), etc. I’ve had a couple idiot ‘happenings’ dispersed during the event, and on one occasion i was forced to take down a Mall’s-worth of flyers that were proposing such an event. apparently ‘right to peaceable assembly’ governs only accidental/incidental events involving fewer than three or four persons. this all may have changed… i assume all the freedom-wall gatherings and various ‘marches’ are un-regulated and don’t have to be cleared with the City?
just a tip: if you get together with a bunch of runners in the woods behind circuit city to drink beer and sing songs, the circuit city employees will call the cops on you. dicks.
just the tip: if you advertise it online only, you are far less likely to have a bunch of old-ass cops breaking the shit up.
troot. back then all we had was xerox-machines.
Count me in for anything like this. I would love to do this kind of stuff.