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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Sophie Brown\, "Improvisation\, Pedagogy and Pre-Texts"
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Spaces\, “Improvisation\, Pedagogy and Pre-Texts” is presented by Sophie Brown\, and takes place Wednesday\, September 13 at 4pm ET. The talk includes a presentation followed by a guided Q&A and conversation period.  \nSophie will provide an interactive overview of Pre-Texts\, a creative teaching protocol integrating civics\, literacy\, and innovation. Based on her recently published co-authored chapter\, “Counter-Melodies and Creativity: Filling the Gaps in a Rural Colorado School\,” Sophie will reflect on the improvisatory nature of Pre-Texts and how the application of this approach can close the gap between the idealism and practicality of a creative\, collaborative\, and co-owned classroom experience.  \nJoining us for this session of Thinking Spaces is Sophie’s external respondent\, the renowned scholar\, Dr. Georgina Barton. \nThis talk will be a hybrid event\, taking place in-person in ImprovLab\, University of Guelph\, and virtually\, via Zoom (a Zoom link will be emailed to all virtual attendees on the morning of the event). Registration is required to attend in person and via Zoom. Sign up now! \nMore about this talk:\nSophie’s talk is based on her recently published chapter about Pre-Texts\, and offers an overview of the method for integrating civics\, innovation\, and literacy in the classroom. It draws on the experience of Lindsay Bobyak and Sophie Brown in using Pre-Texts with elementary students as part of Creative Roots Collective\, which provides educational opportunities in rural Colorado. Sophie will outline tangible strategies for elementary teachers and educators which can improve literacy and oracy outcomes for students and bridge the gap between the idealism and practicality of a creative\, collaborative\, and co-owned classroom experience. The presentation includes vignettes of the arts-based protocol in action and breaks down the component Pre-Texts activities. Finally\, Sophie will look at positive changes in student behaviour and provide guidance for integrating Pre-Texts into the classroom. \nMore about the speaker:\nSophie Brown is a PhD student in Critical Studies in Improvisation with a collaborative specialization in International Development Studies. In partnership with the British-Academy funded Education\, Peace\, and Politics research network\, she is conducting research on higher education pedagogy at Koya University in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In addition to graduate studies at the University of Guelph\, Sophie is part of the 2023 MBA Cohort at the Global Leaders Institute for Arts Innovation. The program focuses on social entrepreneurship\, cultural management\, sustainable impact\, and community development. This is the first executive MBA in Arts innovation in the world\, and Sophie is a part of the first graduating cohort.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-sophie-brown-improvisation-pedagogy-and-pre-texts/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: François Houle & Benoît Delbecq\, "POISE"
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Spaces\, “POISE” is presented by François Houle & Benoît Delbecq\, and takes place Monday\, September 18 at 10am ET. The talk includes a presentation followed by a guided Q&A and conversation period.  \nFor our second Thinking Spaces session\, we are excited to welcome Clarinetist François Houle and Parisian pianist and composer\, Benoît Delbecq. Join us on Monday 18 September 2023\, 10:00AM-11:30AM in the Improv Lab to listen to these two critically acclaimed improvisers discuss and share their unique approach to musical improvisation. \nThis talk takes place in-person in ImprovLab\, University of Guelph. Registration is required to attend. Sign up now! \nMore about this talk:\nAs the music unfolds\, composition and improvisation seem to flow together into a dream-like continuum where jazz and new music meet. To reach this place\, Delbecq and Houle have worked for years extending the techniques of their instruments and creating their own language of musical gestures for purposes of spontaneous musical composition. Delbecq’s contemplative piano “fabrics” draw on Cage\, Ligeti\, and African timbres and polyrhythms\, and are characterized by unexpected juxtapositions and patternings. Houle’s approach has been inspired by Evan Parker and clarinetist William O. Smith’s multi-layered sonic explorations\, and combines a thoroughgoing reinvention of the clarinet’s expressive possibilities with an exceptional melodic lyricism. The duo’s rapport results in a highly ordered yet intuitive discourse\, echoes and undercurrents of other music continually opening up new directions \nMore about the speakers:\nClarinetist François Houle has followed a musical path few others have travelled. He is a true innovator and pioneer of the instrument\, opening sonic vistas in the most imaginative ways possible. François has released CDs on several labels and has toured internationally. He has been listed on multiple occasions by Downbeat magazine as a “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition” and was hailed as a “Rising Star” in Downbeat’s Critics’ and Readers’ Polls. He is “a spectacularly versatile clarinetist who appears to have no limitations stylistically or sonically” (Mark Swed\, LA Times). \nBenoît Delbecq is a multi-awarded Parisian pianist and composer\, a trendsetter who persists in developing his ideas in a very rhythmic and multi-layered approach\, bringing the soul of jazz to John Cage’s prepared piano. Delbecq may prepare just a few strings with wood sticks\, then sit at the piano transforming the instrument into a percussion-and-piano ensemble.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-houle-delbecq/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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