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<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_1614d5ab4e49644c" alt="Inline image 1" width="243" height="207" class="gmail-CToWUd"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center"><font size="4">Albany Improv is offering two new classes running in February and March:</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:14.72px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Story Theater</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Come peel back some of those acting chops you have picked up, and toy with the Story Theater style. Think of Story Theater as proto-western Theater. The Theater somewhere in that never existed time between minstrels and the contemporary theater, where the story is all important and all performers are all things-plus the music. Folk tales, fables and mythic stories are rediscovered and retold, and sometimes rewritten to hold truths up to the audience’s bright light of engagement and understanding. Often used as and misunderstood as only a children’s theater device, this style has seen the lights of Broadway and some of the best theaters in the land. Basic stories are quite revealing!<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Come play and grow your storytelling chops.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The nature of improvisation here is sometimes in the playing, but always very much in the development and rehearsals. <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">5-Week Class with Graduation Performance<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Starts Tuesday, February 20th<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Class Time from 7:00 - 9:00pm <span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11p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