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At the Edges: Improvising Turtle Island
University of Regina September 18 & 19, 2015 Regina Improvisation Studies Centre proudly presents a stream of academic and artistic explorations investigating improvisation during the Performing Turtle Island Conference. Friday…
ImprovNotes August 2015 Artist of the Month: Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)
There are many more books to be written about Ornette Coleman, who passed away June 11 at the age of 85. He and his music rose to international prominence in…
ImprovNotes July 2015 Artist of the Month: Nonoko Yoshida
Japanese alto saxophonist Nonoko Yoshida recently toured several cities in eastern Canada, performing in Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal and Ottawa. Currently active in the downtown New York improvisation scene, Yoshida plays…
IICSI People: Gregory Shupak and Paul Watkins
Two former ICASP/IICSI GRAs have recently successfully defended their dissertations: congratulations to Gregory Shupak and Paul Watkins, the newest Ph.D graduates from Guelph’s School of English and Theatre Studies. Dr.…
AUMI Research Consortium at McGill Colloquium
The two-day (June 7/8) conference“Improvisation and Community Health / «Improvisation et santé communautaire»,sponsored by IICSI, the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy (IHSP), the Société des Arts Libres et…
KISMIF in Portugal
“Keep It Simple, Make It Fast! (KISMIF), Crossing Borders of Underground Music Scenes” took place in Porto, Portugal, July 15-17, welcoming academic researchers working in all areas of sociology, anthropology, history, cultural…
Halifax, NS: Upstream Music
On June 27, the Upstream Music Association presented the performance piece “Diving for Pearls” to celebrate co-founder Paul Cram’s 19 years as director of the Halifax new music collective. Instrumentalists…
Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: Schedule Now Available
The schedule for the 2015 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, Among the People: Arts, Improvisation, and Well-Being is now available online and presenter bios and paper abstracts are available here. The colloquium features a…
New Vertical Squirrels CD
IICSI is excited to announce the new Vertical Squirrels CD, Time of the Sign. The Vertical Squirrels members include Ajay Heble and Daniel Fischlin (both IICSI team members), as well as Ted…
Successful PhD Defense, Gregory Shupak
IICSI would like to congratulate Gregory Shupak (former IICSI Graduate Research Assistant) who successfully defended his PhD thesis, Literature and Social Change: Writing, Criticism, and Teaching in Neoliberal Canada on May 22nd, 2015. Congratulations,…
