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SUMMARY:The Stratford Festival Presents "Take the 'A' Train... to Stratford\," featuring Dr. Eric Fillion\, Melvin Gibbs\, and Garvia Bailey
DESCRIPTION: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 Melvin Gibbs\, and journalist\, producer\, and Jazzcast co-founder Garvia Bailey! \nThese three will discuss the period from 1956 to 1958\, when the Stratford Festival’s stages branched out beyond Shakespearean programming to host concerts by such legendary jazz figures as Duke Ellington\, Oscar Peterson and Billie Holiday. Why did these artists venture to Stratford? What what was the cultural significance of these concerts? What broader implications did these events have for the Canadian jazz scene? Come find out! \nThis Meighen Forum event will take place at 5:30 PM on Saturday\, July 11th\, in the Lazaridis Hall at Tom Patterson Theatre. Tickets for the event are $39\, and available through the Stratford Festival website! This talk is generously supported by the T.R. Meighen Family Foundation.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/take-the-a-train-to-stratford/
LOCATION:Lazaridis Hall\, Tom Patterson Theatre\, 111 Lakeside Dr.\, Stratford\, Ontario\, . N5A 7K5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium 2026: Artists On/Off the Record: Living Archives and Embodied Memory
DESCRIPTION: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 of cultural memory? How can/do they generate new\, future-oriented archives through creative practice\, research\, and community-based work? To what extent can/do they enact and expand repertoires of embodied memory to build and sustain community? \nThe 2026 edition of the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium explores archival heritage as a dynamic\, open-ended process. Bringing together artists\, scholars\, and community practitioners\, it considers how archives are constituted\, activated\, contested\, and transformed by—and in the hands of—artists engaged in improvisatory worldmaking. \nApproaching archives as both accrued and curated\, inherited and self-generated\, the colloquium also attends to archives as living and embodied. Through presentations\, creative works\, and discussion\, it foregrounds diverse perspectives\, community engagement\, experimental practices\, and innovative methodologies that illuminate the aesthetic and political dimensions of cultural memory while imagining archives as sites of future possibility. \nVisit the colloquium page for more information!
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/guelph-jazz-festival-colloquium-2026-artists-on-off-the-record-living-archives-and-embodied-memory/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,IICSI events
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