GII SYMPOSIUM 2026

Theme: Activate the Possible

July 8-11, 2026
Portland, Oregon, USA

with International Remote Options

Hosted by Portland State University

College of the Arts
School of Music & Theater

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Join us! To register for the symposium, go to:

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From the submissions received via our CALL FOR PROPOSALS, we've curated an exciting line-up for GII26!

Here is a sneak peak at some of the sessions:

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• Teaching Beyond Fear: Improv as Change Practice

• Making DAME: Exploring under-represented aspects of female identity through improvisation and community connection

• The Resistance Will Not Be Scripted: Improv as Anti-Authoritarian Practice

• Del and Keith at Work: Foundational Tools for Improvisers

• Using Applied Improv for Speech, Language, and Cognitive Challenges

• Improvising Shakespeare

• Theatre as a Tool to Learn the Seven Zapatista Principles

• An Epic Disney Armando: An Armando using current events woven with Epic Theater & characters that could exist in a Disney Fairytale

• Intimate Possibilities: Exploring the development of intimate, emotionally grounded, truthful relationships, both on stage and off

• Premiere showing of "Keith Johnstone's Master Class" filmed at the first GII Symposium in 2017

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Full Schedule Coming Soon!

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