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Photographs of Improviser-in-Residence, Kade L. Twist and collaborators, Priya Shah, Jeji Varghese, Madhur Anand, Cherish Blood, Lacey Hill and Heather Majaury, performing “That’s Just Indians Being Indians.”

Ajay Heble receives $2 million to build an “ImprovLab” at University of Guelph – article in The Ontarian.

Poet and interdisciplinary artist Kade. L Twist is the 2017 IICSI & Musagetes Improviser-in-Residence. During his time in Guelph, Kade will be working with members of the Indian and Indigenous communities to workshop and create a score for a collaborative vocal performance that will premiere at Silence, 46 Essex Street in Guelph on Friday December 8th from 7-9 pm.

Short Takes … from the November 2017 edition of Improv Notes. As of October 2014, Improv Notes is edited and written by David Lee and assembled by administrative assistant Rachel Collins. If you have anything improvisation related that you would like included in the newsletter, please send an email to [email protected]

In his role as 2017 Improviser-in-Residence, Kade L. Twist is recruiting participants for a project tentatively titled “That’s Just Indians Being Indians.” This project seeks to bring participants of Indigenous and Indian backgrounds together, to collaborate on a generative, socially-engaged sound piece. 

In celebration of its 10th Anniversary, the Adaptive Use Musical Instruments (AUMI) project has also launched a new website at aumiapp.com.

The New Orchestra Workshop (NOW) Society will commemorate their 40th year with performances of new works in a four-day interactive archival and performative installation.

Dr. Caines is a visiting research fellow at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) in the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queens University, Belfast, starting this October 2017, through August 2018!

IICSI Director Ajay Heble has been invited to give a keynote lecture at “Out of the Blue: From Provisional to Improvisation,” a Symposium with performances, concerts and workshops in German or English, being held October 27-29, 2017, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt , in Berlin, Germany.

We are delighted to share the good news that IICSI has received a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation for the building of our ImprovLab research and performance facility.