The Effie

Kamloops Comedy Open Mic
2024-03-27 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-03-13 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-02-28 20:00 - 22:00, 2024-02-14 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Vancouver) | The Effie, 422 Tranquille Road, Kamloops, British Columbia, V2B 3G8, Canada
1/$10 General Admission

Free for Performers & Eff Buddies
Doors 7:30pm
Comedy 8-10pm
16+

Kamloops Comedy Open Mic provides comedians with opportunities to get out in front of a crowd and work on their craft. It is a safe space for comedians (fans may be triggered) to get up and put it all out there.

Dance Classes with Ms Coco Crème
2024-03-26 17:30 - 21:30, 2024-03-19 17:30 - 21:30, 2024-03-12 17:30 - 21:30, 2024-03-05 17:30 - 21:30, 2024-02-27 17:30 - 21:30, 2024-02-20 17:30 - 21:30, 2024-02-13 17:30 - 21:30
**WINTER SEMESTER**

Winter Semester will run for 11 weeks – Jan 9 – Mar 26
No class on the Family Day stat – Tue Feb 20

Base Class Costs:
$150 (or $50/mo)
*each additional class is an extra $75 (or $25/mo)

Tuesdays:
Level 2 Bellydance: 5:30 – 6:20pm
Level 1 Bellydance: 6:30 – 7:20pm
1960’s Go-Go Dance: 7:30 – 8:20pm
The Conjuring (private): 8:30 – 9:20pm

To register email misscococream@gmail.com

Dance Classes with Ms Coco Crème
2024-03-25 17:30 - 21:30, 2024-03-18 17:30 - 21:30, 2024-03-11 17:30 - 21:30, 2024-03-04 17:30 - 21:30, 2024-02-26 17:30 - 21:30, 2024-02-19 17:30 - 21:30, 2024-02-12 17:30 - 21:30
**WINTER SEMESTER**

Winter Semester will run for 11 weeks – Jan 8 – Mar 25
No class on the Family Day stat – Mon Feb 19

Base Class Costs:
$150 (or $50/mo)
*each additional class is an extra $75 (or $25/mo)

Mondays:
Beginner Burlesque – 5:30 – 6:20pm
Queer Burlesque (semi-private safe space): 6:30 – 7:20pm
Lapdance: 7:30 – 8:20pm
Burlesque Level 2: 8:30 – 9:20pm

To register email misscococream@gmail.com

Flowshine with The Houses Where We Grew Up
2024-03-23 19:00 - 22:00
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/849939420687
Flowshine with The Houses (WWGU) at The Effie – Kamloops
Doors 630pm
Show 7- 10pm
Minors allowed accompained by an Adult
Licensed Venue
Join us for a night of Flowshine with the incredible band The Houses (Where We Grew Up) and special guests Jade the Babe at The Effie Arts Collective in Kamloops! Get ready to groove to their amazing tunes and enjoy a fantastic live music experience.
Flowshine has spent the last decade carving their own path a little left of centre. Their love of adventure, experience, and bringing people together with music has taken them from their home in Calgary to oft overlooked corners of the country. Their openness to experimentation and desire to make something wondrous has left their peers unsure of how to characterize their brand of hooky indie/alternative. Their songs demonstrate strong musicianship, relatable storytelling, and often feature musical guests lending their signature to the Flowshine whole. Guitarist and vocalist Jeremiah Erhardt has said, “We want our music to be fun and emotive; we want people to jump in our canoe and let us guide them down the river, showing them things they’ve never experienced.”
They have been cutting their teeth, sharing stages with bands like Five Alarm Funk, The Wooden Sky, and Chilliwack. They have spent thousands of hours in a van and have performed in an eclectic and extensive list of pubs, clubs, campfires, farm fields, cafes, basements, community centres, festival stages, street corners, and the like; from Dawson City, Yukon to the heart of Halifax, NS.
The Houses (Where We Grew Up) are timeless like lawn darts, hopeless like -insert local sports club here- and heavenly like the roof of the Sistine Chapel, riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo like a rhinestone cowboy.
With interests ranging from the 2013 science fiction film Cowboys vs Aliens to Vanilla Ice (cream), their sound is described by some as definitely audible. And if there is one thing a cowboy knows, it’s jazz.
A drummer who hits the drums like he’s trying to kill all the bugs crawling on his kit and a guitarist who caresses his guitar like a man who’s never experienced the touch of a woman, these two rad dudes are somehow both cool and rude at the same time. Amazing!
Holding the title for the “Longest Rock Record by a Kamloops Duo”, they are simplicity juxtaposed with chaos, anarchy with balladry, the quiet and the calamity, the Rob and the Sean, The Houses (Where We Grew Up).
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/849939420687

Comedy Fundraiser for The LOOP Starring Big Daddy Tazz
2024-03-22 19:00
$20 +fees
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/809678398887
EARLY SHOW: Doors 6:30 Comedy 7pm
LATE SHOW: Doors 8:45 Comedy 9PM
Come together as a community to laugh and raise money for The LOOP!

The LOOP is a Community Resource & Drop in Centre in its fifth year of operations providing meals, clothing, advocacy and supports to Kamloops Homeless and others living in poverty with mental, physical and substance use challenges.

Big Daddy Tazz turns mundane events into side-splitting
stories! He is the act that has no act. His quick wit,
improv style, crowd interaction, clean show and
amazing stage presence bring audiences to their knees
in laughter and to their feet with applause and
adulation, with no two shows being the same.
His amazing stand-up comedy shows have been
featured on Just for Laughs, the CBC Winnipeg Comedy
Festival, CBC’s “The Debaters” and the Comedy
Network. Tazz once set a record for the longest standup
comedy show at 8 ½ hours as a fundraiser for one of
the many charities he supports.
After thirty years of denying he had the mental illnesses
that were controlling his life, Tazz realized that being a
manic-depressive, attention deficit, socially-anxious,
obsessive-compulsive dyslexic could either destroy or
enhance his life: the choice was his. Today, audiences
are happy to join him on his rapid cycle ride down the
road to recovery that has led him from the psych ward
at the Calgary Foothills Hospital to speaking
engagements across North America.
Whether it’s a corporate event or charity fundraiser,
comedy show or keynote seminar, Tazz will make you
laugh until you cry and then laugh some more, it’s the
bi-polar way.
“It was so nice to have an evening where everyone
could laugh and no one felt uncomfortable. Tazz proves
that you can get laughs without being foul or offensive”
CBC’s Winnipeg Comedy Festival
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/809678398887

Spring Equinox Sound Healing
2024-03-21 19:00 - 20:00
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/spring-equinox-sound-healing-tickets-853154617427?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1
Join husband and wife duo, Quinton and Kendra Armstrong to welcome in the season of renewal and growth, to release what is no longer serving you and experience an expansive, meditative journey through sound healing.
Reiki master, reflexologist and sound healer, Kendra will guide you through breath work as she plays quartz cystal and tibetan singing bowls. Professional musician, Quinton will play relaxing and psychedelic guitar riffs with a variety of pedals.
The pure tones offered in a sound bath facilitate DEEP REST & RESET for the nervous system.
Each singing bowl (note) corresponds with a different chakra/energy center in the body, bringing alignment to the physical and energetic body. The vibration frequencies of crystal singing bowls have the ability to move through skin, fluid and bones of the body, creating a full body relaxation and re-calibration down to the level of cellular structure. In addition, your brainwave frequency and state of consciousness can be re-wired, and regulated causing a positive and stable state of mind, by the vibrations that are created during sound healing.
Please bring a yoga mat and any other props you’d like to get cozy (blanket, pillow, bolster, crystals). The more relaxed you are the better experience you will have, we highly reccomend getting cozy.
If pre sale tickets sell out, we will add a 5pm sound bath as well.
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/spring-equinox-sound-healing-tickets-853154617427?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1

Stand Up Comedy Starring Jamie Charest
2024-03-15 20:00
Doors 7:30 Comedy 8pm
$20+fees
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/841288786407
Jamie Charest has performed at every major comedy club in Western Canada. His self observational stand up comedy has been featured on CBC Radio, and he has made several T.V. and movie appearances. He has shared the stage with Tom Green, Tom Segura and Steve O from Jackass.
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/841288786407
Doors 7:30 Comedy 8pm
$20+fees

Improv Class with The Freudian Slips
2024-03-14 18:00, 2024-03-07 18:00, 2024-02-29 18:00, 2024-02-22 18:00

OUR OFFICIAL GRAND OPENING/FUNDRAISER EVENT
2024-02-24 11:00 - 23:00
The stonefruits and the effie are proud to present the Grand Opening of the effie. With a day full of local vendors, music and comedy!
Vendors and acoustic music from 11-4 with suggested donation of 10$(pwyc)
Music and comedy from 6-11 20$
Featuring
The Stonefruits
Early Work
Let’s Go
We are not a cult
Augur
Padova
With Kamloops open mic comedians in between.
Door prizes, 50/50 and everything in between you don’t wanna miss this!
TICKETS
https://www.eventbrite.ca/…/the-effie-grand-opening-and…
All proceeds will be donated to the effie so we can continue to have a space to create and perform

Kamloops Burlesque Presents Under The Covers
2024-02-17 19:00
It’s time to get Under the Covers with Kamloops Burlesque.

19+ show
$20+fees

Early Show – Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7pm –
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/…/kamloops-burlesque-presents…

Late Show – Doors at 9:00pm, show at 9:30pm –
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/…/kamloops-burlesque-presents…

Join us Saturday, Feb 17 at The Effie Arts Collective as we celebrate the month of LOVE by getting Under the Covers! Not just bedroom talk, this show will be 100% cover tunes!

Our lineup of local talent includes, Ivy Nyx, Macabre Dance, Mona Moore, Coco-A-Gogo, Wilder DeFleurs, Rosie Bubbles, The Conjuring, Clea Max, Babe Maverick, Humphrey Cockburn, and Ms Coco Creme!

Dress up and join our best dressed contest to win a sexy prize from our sponsors at The Scarlet Apple, Exposed Wax Arts, and Studio Micah!

As we celebrate Under the Covers, we’re also very aware of the folks in our community who don’t have covers to get under. We will be collecting donations of blankets, new or gently used, for our friends at The Loop to distrubute to folks in need.

Join us at The Effie Arts Collective at 422 Tranquille Rd on Saturday Feb 17, for an incredible time in support of an incredible cause!

19+ show
$20+fees

Early Show – Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7pm –
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/…/kamloops-burlesque-presents…

Late Show – Doors at 9:00pm, show at 9:30pm –
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/…/kamloops-burlesque-presents…

Sponsored by RDC Photography, Instinct Adornment, The Scarlet Apple, Studio Micah, Exposed Wax Arts, The Book Place, and Infernol Art Productions!

WCW Comedy Tour w/ Jared Nathan
2024-02-16 20:00
Kamloops, let’s get our laugh on!
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/wcw-comedy-tour-w-jared-nathan-kamloops-tickets-790719101117
Doors 7:30 Comedy 8pm
The hilarious Jared Nathan is coming out West for a comedy a show you do not wanna miss!
That’s right ‘Kill Tony’ legend, Jared Nathan will be in Kamloops Family Day Long Weekend Friday, February 16th.
For those who don’t know, Jared Nathan, is a comedian with ‘special needs‘ based out of Toronto, Ontario – who is now one of North America’s rising comics attributed to his numerous appearances on the world famous, Kill Tony Show, recorded live in Austin, Texas.
Jared’s meteoric rise to fame began when he took the comedy world by storm on the Kill Tony show. His razor-sharp wit, infectious charm, and fearless approach to comedy have won over audiences from globally.
Having already shared the stage with comedy heavyweights like Joe Rogan and Tony Hinchcliffe, Jared Nathan is now bringing his comedy across the country.

FEATURE ACT: HIMANSU PATEL
Originally from Montreal, Himansu Patel has been performing stand up comedy for the last six years and thoroughly enjoys making all types of audiences laugh.
Noted as the ‘class clown’ earning him “Funniest” in his High School Yearbook , Himansu discovered his love for comedy when he worked for Just for Laughs during its festival season, and finally decided to give it a try by enrolling in Second City’s Stand Up Comedy program in 2017.
With a personal and observational style of comedy – Himansu shares his funny takes from being a single Dad, relationships, working a corporate job, to growing up in an Indian household.
Currently, Himansu performs and produces monthly shows all over Toronto, tours the country, and has worked at reputable comedy clubs such as the Comedyworks and Comedy Nest in Montreal to the renowned Broadway Comedy Club in New York City.
Instagram & TikTok: @himansucomedy
Doors 7:30 Comedy 8pm
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/wcw-comedy-tour-w-jared-nathan-kamloops-tickets-790719101117

THE FREUDIAN SLIPS DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS IMPROV
2024-02-15 20:00
TICKET LINK COMING SOON
