VIIF, meet Performance Works. Performance Works, meet VIIF. Now kiss.

The 13th Annual Vancouver International Improv Festival takes place at Performance Works on Granville Island (1218 Cartwright Street, next to the Granville Island Hotel).

The VIIF Box Office will open one hour before showtime every night, and is located in Performance Works. For more information on tickets and passes, please visit our Tickets page.

To get to Performance Works from Downtown Vancouver: Take the Granville Street Bridge south and stay in the far right lane, exiting to 4th Avenue. At the first light (Fir Street), take a right. Turn right again at 3rd Avenue and follow the road down onto Granville Island. Once on the island, stay in the right lane and continue down Cartwright Street and go straight until you see the Granville Island Hotel straight ahead. Performance Works is to your right. Welcome!

A Brief History of VIIF, and a mandate, too

For over a decade, the Vancouver International Improv Festival has been bringing the world’s best improvisers to Vancouver for a week of shows and workshops in the name of bettering the improvisational theatre community, both here and internationally. From humble beginnings as a small tournament run by !nstant Theatre, the festival has grown away from competition and towards collaboration and heightening of the improv art form across Vancouver, Canada and the world.