If you're looking for something fun to do this weekend, make sure to check out this list and find some exciting events taking place locally; save gas money, support East Texas business, arts and music, and most of all, have a great time!

Tyler:

Improv comedy workshops will be offered during the East Texas Comedy Festival at Liberty Hall on Saturday, June 15. Workshops will cover “Techniques of Scenic Improvisation” at 9 a.m. and “Building Characters” at 2 p.m. These workshops are designed to help build confidence and to learn to trust one's instincts. Through different exercises participants will learn character development and scene work. This is to help participants become comfortable as a character through childlike play. Register for the workshops at www.LibertyTyler.com.  Each workshop is $30 or $50 to take both. For more information, call Liberty Hall Manager Anne Payne at (903) 595-7274

From the City of Tyler:

Liberty Hall is proud to announce the second annual “East Texas Comedy Festival” June 14 and 15.  The festival will include a contest for “East Texas Funniest Comic “ which will begin at 8 p.m. on Friday, two Comedy Workshops at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, and the final performance will be standup comedy by our headliner comedian, Daryl Felsberg.

This year’s contest features nine standup comics who were chosen by a panel of judges from more than 30 submissions.  Friday night each comic will have five minutes to win the crowd over.  The winner will be determined by an audience vote and our judges, and will be crowned the 2013 “East Texas Funniest Comic”.

“We have some amazing talent this year,” said Anne Payne, Liberty Hall Manager. “Their chemistry and fast paced brand of improv will make you laugh until you cry!”

From the Tyler Museum of Art:

The first exhibition outside of Tokyo to spotlight the vastly influential style of Japanese Art Deco is set to roll into East Texas as the Tyler Museum of Art’s major show of the 2013 summer and fall seasons. Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945 opens to the public Sunday, June 23, continuing through Oct. 20 at the TMA, 1300 S. Mahon Ave. on the Tyler Junior College campus. Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and students, and free for TMA Members and children 12 and under.