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  • January 2026

  • Wed 21
    Poster for the second iteration of Dr. Eric Fillion's cinema Francophone cinema series, featuring a black and white image of a desert landscape with inset black-and-white stills from the four different films. Text is replicated in the event listing.

    cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema presents: L.A. Tea Time (2019, dir. Sophie Bedard Marcotte)

    January 21 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    The Bookshelf Cinema 41 Quebec Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    IICSI Director Dr. Eric Fillion is bringing his cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema curated film series back to The Bookshelf Cinema (41 Quebec Street, Guelph, ON). From January through April, Dr. Fillion will present one film per month. These four films share the common theme of Quebeckers on road trips through the deserts of the southwestern United…

    $11 – $14
  • February 2026

  • Thu 5
    An image of hundreds of instances of the word CACOPHONIE overlaid on each other in different black fonts on a white background, giving the impression of a chaotic black cloud.

    Cacophonie | Just Listening: Experiments with Collective Memory with Dr. Jordan Zalis

    February 5 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    This interactive workshop by Dr. Jordan Zalis invites you into the practice of just listening—an approach to storytelling and ethnographic engagement that centres care, attention, and the improvised encounters we create together. Through personal narratives about sports, games, and gaming, we’ll examine how play shapes our memories, identities, and communities. The workshop unfolds in three movements:…

    Free
  • Wed 11
    Poster for the second iteration of Dr. Eric Fillion's cinema Francophone cinema series, featuring a black and white image of a desert landscape with inset black-and-white stills from the four different films. Text is replicated in the event listing.

    cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema presents: La Grande Noirceur (2018, dir. Maxime Giroux)

    February 11 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    The Bookshelf Cinema 41 Quebec Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    IICSI Director Dr. Eric Fillion is bringing his cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema curated film series back to The Bookshelf Cinema (41 Quebec Street, Guelph, ON). From January through April, Dr. Fillion will present one film per month. These four films share the common theme of Quebeckers on road trips through the deserts of the southwestern United…

    $11 – $14
  • March 2026

  • Wed 11
    Poster for the second iteration of Dr. Eric Fillion's cinema Francophone cinema series, featuring a black and white image of a desert landscape with inset black-and-white stills from the four different films. Text is replicated in the event listing.

    cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema presents: Déserts (2016, dirs. Charles-André Coderre and Yann-Manuel Hernandez)

    March 11 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    The Bookshelf Cinema 41 Quebec Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    IICSI Director Dr. Eric Fillion is bringing his cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema curated film series back to The Bookshelf Cinema (41 Quebec Street, Guelph, ON). From January through April, Dr. Fillion will present one film per month. These four films share the common theme of Quebeckers on road trips through the deserts of the southwestern United…

    $11 – $14
  • Thu 26
    Poster for IBPOC Artists' Network Tour, titled "From Words to Action 2025/26," featuring a photograph of performers from Coco Collective and Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre in dance poses. Event details include date, time, and location at University of Guelph, with logos of supporting organizations and sponsors displayed at bottom.

    IBPOC Artists’ Network Tour: From Words to Action 2025/2026—Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre and Coco Collective

    March 26 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Make your way to ImprovLab on March 26th for a double-bill presentation of spectacular live dance and music! Coco Collective and Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre will visit Guelph for one night only to perform at the ImprovLab. Movement, voice, and percussion harmoniously come together for these individually and culturally expressive dance works. “Calabash,” by Coco…

    $15 – $25
  • April 2026

  • Wed 8
    Poster for the second iteration of Dr. Eric Fillion's cinema Francophone cinema series, featuring a black and white image of a desert landscape with inset black-and-white stills from the four different films. Text is replicated in the event listing.

    cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema presents: Un 32 août sur terre (1998, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

    April 8 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    The Bookshelf Cinema 41 Quebec Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    IICSI Director Dr. Eric Fillion is bringing his cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema curated film series back to The Bookshelf Cinema (41 Quebec Street, Guelph, ON). From January through April, Dr. Fillion…

    $11 – $14
  • Fri 10
    An image of hundreds of instances of the word CACOPHONIE overlaid on each other in different black fonts on a white background, giving the impression of a chaotic black cloud.

    Cacophonie | choreographies of choice with Ms. Georgia Simms

    April 10 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    We'll see you in ImprovLab on April 10th at 10 AM, when Ms. Georgia Simms (she/her) will lead this creative, interactive workshop that invites participants to engage in movement research…

    Free
  • Thu 16
    An image of hundreds of instances of the word CACOPHONIE overlaid on each other in different black fonts on a white background, giving the impression of a chaotic black cloud.

    Cacophonie | Bridge to Terabithia: A Somatic Exploration of Childhood Self—A Creative Workshop with Mark LeRoy

    April 16 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Join us at ImprovLab for a workshop by Mark LeRoy, PhD student in Critical Studies in Improvisation, as part of Dr. Sharon D. Engbrecht's "Cacophonie" series! For this event, prospective…

    Free
  • July 2026

  • Sat 11
    A black and white photo collage of various jazz artists of the 1950s, with the words TAKE THE A-TRAIN... TO STRATFORD over the image in white.

    The Stratford Festival Presents “Take the ‘A’ Train… to Stratford,” featuring Dr. Eric Fillion, Melvin Gibbs, and Garvia Bailey

    July 11 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
    Lazaridis Hall, Tom Patterson Theatre 111 Lakeside Dr., Stratford, Ontario, Canada

    Join us on July 11th for this exciting Stratford Festival event! Titled "Take the 'A' Train... to Stratford," this conversation will feature IICSI Director Dr. Eric Fillion, musician and writer…

    $39
  • September 2026

  • Thu 10
    Poster for the 2026 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium with black and red text on white rectangles, imposed on an orange kaleidoscopic background. A QR code is in the lower-right third of the image, also against a white rectangular background. Sponsor logos are in white space at the bottom.

    Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium 2026: Artists On/Off the Record: Living Archives and Embodied Memory

    September 10 @ 1:00 pm - September 11 @ 4:00 pm
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    In what ways can/do artists engage with archival materials—those held in institutional and community archives as well as those typically referred to as ephemera—to interrogate the aesthetic and political dimensions…

    Free
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