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SUMMARY:Bread and Puppet Comes to University of Guelph
DESCRIPTION:IICSI and the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph have teamed up to present a ONE NIGHT ONLY performance of Inflammatory Earthling Rants from the infamous\, the spectacular\, the alluring… Bread and Puppet Theater! Bread and Puppet are well known for their visually rich\, street-theater brand of performance art which revels in music\, dance\, and slapstick-filled celebratory protest. If you want to experience one of the most mind-expanding\, atypical\, and creative shows\, this is for you! \nThe show takes place at War Memorial Hall on Wednesday\, November 8 at 8:00 pm. Tickets are available on a sliding scale pricing model and start at $15 for students. \nReserve yours now: https://bit.ly/3QI57p1 \nAbout the show:\nEarthlings are now aflame and consequently need inflammatory rants\, directed against the arsonist: Western Civilization and its incompetent government. The habitual pragmatic communication jargon won’t do\, so the ranters have to resort to the original language which was tasked to employ the spells\, charms\, and incantations needed to confront the disaster in order to instigate change – with help from Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid ideology. \nAbout Bread and Puppet Theater:\nFounded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side\, Bread & Puppet has been based in the North East Kingdom of Vermont since the early 1970s and is one of the oldest\, nonprofit\, self-supporting theatrical companies in the country. Well known for its visually rich\, street-theater brand of performance art\, Bread and Puppet revels in music\, dance\, and slapstick-filled celebratory protest. Believing that theater is a basic necessity like bread\, the company frequently brings its work to the streets for those who may not otherwise go to the theater. Its shows are political and spectacular\, frequently featuring puppets on stilts\, huge masks with expressive faces\, singing\, dancing\, and a richly elaborated repertoire of iconic characters. \nBread and Puppet is recognized throughout the world and has won distinction at international theater festivals in Italy\, Poland\, Colombia\, and Yugoslavia\, beginning with their break-out performances at the 1968 Nancy Festival in France. Notable awards include the Erasmus Prize of Amsterdam\, 4 Obies\, the Puppeteers of America’s President Award\, and the Vermont Governor’s Award. Bread and Puppet is constantly active\, performing at its farm in Glover\, VT\, and in local churches\, schools and parades. It regularly tours Europe\, Canada\, and the United States and has recently visited El Salvador\, Haiti\, Russia\, Greece and Korea. \n 
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/13835/
LOCATION:War Memorial Hall\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231110T150000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: annais linares\, "Co-Creative Accompaniment: Improvising Re[new]ed Relationships through Arts-Based Kin Making"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, November 10 at 3 pm for Thinking Spaces: “Co-Creative Accompaniment: Improvising Re[new]ed Relationships through Arts-Based Kin Making” with annais linares.  \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via Zoom. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nAbstract / Summary \nIn her colloquium presentation\, annais linares will discuss a socially-engaged art practice that brings together arts-based community making and kinning\, a verb described as ”…reconnecting our bodies\, minds\, and spirits within a world that is not merely a collection of objects but a ‘communion of subjects’…” by Gavin Van Horn\, co-editor of Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations. \nannais describes this bridging as arts-based kin making. Her work studies improvisation and accompaniment as critical processes to ethically activate arts-based kin making in her communities\, and how those practices might lead to re[new]ed relationships between humans\, and between human and more-than-human life. She will discuss the relevance of this practice within the contexts of community health\, [species] loneliness\, and related arts-based community making projects. \nShort Bio \nannais linares is a musician and socially engaged artist who is currently in the Critical Studies in Improvisation PhD program at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on co-creative art-making\, improvisation and collective care. \n\n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/13828/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231122T100000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Joe Sorbara\, "Attending to the Social Space of The Music: Self-Expression as a Site of Pedagogy | Questioning the ways that I teach creative music making"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, November 22 at 10:00 AM for Thinking Spaces: “Attending to the Social Space of The Music: Self-Expression as a Site of Pedagogy | Questioning the ways that I teach creative music making” with Joe Sorbara.  \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via Zoom. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nMore about this talk:\nJoe Sorbara recently contributed a chapter to The Improviser’s Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking\, edited by Daniel Fischlin and Mark Lomanno for Temple University Press. “Attending to the Social Space of The Music: Self-Expression as a Site of Pedagogy” is an exploration of the ways that Sorbara welcomes students into the world of creative music. In preparation for this phase of their work\, which will be to study the ways that other improvisers conceive of the music\, talk about the music\, share the music with others\, Sorbara invites participants in this colloquium presentation to help question\, problematise\, and otherwise unsettle some of the basic tendencies and assumptions that have arisen in the presenter’s writing. \nMore about the speaker:\nCanadian drummer and percussionist Joe Sorbara has spent decades developing a reputation as a dedicated and imaginative performer\, composer\, improviser\, collaborator\, organiser\, listener\, writer\, and educator. A consummate sonic adventurer\, Sorbara’s music draws on a vast array of influences\, most notably the African American Creative Music tradition. They have performed and recorded with Norm Adams\, Ken Aldcroft\, Anthony Braxton\, Jared Burrows\, JP Carter\, Nikita Carter\, Christine Duncan\, Paul Dutton\, François Houle\, Germaine Liu\, Joe McPhee\, Karen Ng\, Evan Parker\, William Parker\, Allen Ravenstine\, Clyde Reed\, Steve Sladkowski\, and Friendly Rich\, among many many others. \nSorbara is a long-time student of master drummer Jim Blackley. They hold an Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music from York University in Toronto and a Master’s degree in English from the University of Guelph. Joe has worked extensively as a workshop facilitator and guest lecturer and has been a sessional lecturer in the School of Fine Art and Music at Guelph since 2007. They\nare currently studying toward a PhD in Critical Improvisation Studies. \n\n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-joe-sorbara-creative-music/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T130000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Dr. Darren Hamilton\, "Exploring and Experimenting with Gospel Vocal Improvisation"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, November 24 at 1:00 PM for Thinking Spaces: “Exploring and Experimenting with Gospel Vocal Improvisation” with Dr. Darren Hamilton.  \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via Zoom. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nMore about this talk:\nGospel music has influenced many genres of music including\, soul\, R&B and pop. While many people appreciate and can recognize the ‘sound’ of gospel music\, there is little research that examines the characteristics and approaches of gospel vocal improvisation. This talk will provide insights into the connections between blues or jazz improvisation and gospel vocal improvisation\, while also identifying nuances that are specific to the gospel style. Come prepared to explore and ‘experiment’ with gospel vocal improvisation. You may even learn a gospel song in the process! \nMore about the speaker:\nDr. Darren Hamilton is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. His research interests lie in gospel music\, hip hop music and popular music education\, in addition to equity\, diversity and social justice in music curriculum. He is also the director of the Faculty of Music Gospel Choir\, an undergraduate course he founded at the faculty in 2019. Dr. Hamilton has over 30 years experience performing gospel music. He has served as a member of the JUNO Award-winning Toronto Mass Choir and the JUNO-nominated Youth Outreach Mass Choir. Dr. Darren Hamilton was the recipient of the 2022 JUNO Award for MusiCounts Teacher of the Year. \n\n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-darren-hamilton-gospel-vocal-improvisation/
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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SUMMARY:Jamming the Classroom: Book Launch & Concert
DESCRIPTION:-IICSI is pleased to present a book launch & concert by Ajay Heble & Jesse Stewart! Please join us at the ImprovLab at 3 PM on Saturday\, November 25th for this free event\, open to all!  Please RSVP here to confirm your attendance. \nBooks will be on hand for purchase! \nFor those who cannot make it in person\, the concert will be live-streamed on IICSI’s official Twitch stream! \n— \nAbout the book: \nJamming the Classroom: Musical Improvisation and Pedagogical Practice \nDrawing on a mix of collaborative autoethnography\, secondary literature\, interviews with leading improvisers\, and personal anecdotal material\, Jamming the Classroom discusses the pedagogy of musical improvisation as a vehicle for teaching\, learning\, and enacting social justice. Heble and Stewart write that to “jam the classroom” is to argue for a renewed understanding of improvisation as both a musical and a social practice; to activate the knowledge and resources associated with improvisational practices in an expression of noncompliance with dominant orders of knowledge production; and to recognize in the musical practices of aggrieved communities something far from the reaches of conventional forms of institutionalized power\, yet something equally powerful\, urgent\, and expansive. With this definition of jamming the classroom in mind\, Heble and Stewart argue that even as improvisation gains recognition within mainstream institutions (including classrooms in universities)\, it needs to be understood as a critique of dominant institutionalized assumptions and epistemic orders. Suggesting a closer consideration of why musical improvisation has been largely expunged from dominant models of pedagogical inquiry in both classrooms and communities\, this book asks what it means to theorize the pedagogy of improvised music in relation to public programs of action\, debate\, and critical practice. \nAbout the authors: \nAjay Heble is Professor of English and Director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of Guelph. In 2023 he was awarded the Killam Prize in the Humanities.  \nJesse Stewart is Associate Professor of Music at the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University. He is also the founder of We Are All Musicians\, an organization dedicated to fostering inclusive music making.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/jamming-the-classroom-book-launch-concert/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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SUMMARY:Dans les arbres Workshop
DESCRIPTION:IICSI is pleased to present a workshop by Dans les arbres! Please join us at the ImprovLab at 2 PM on Thursday\, November 30th for this free event\, open to all! \nDans les arbres is an improvising ensemble comprising French clarinetist Xavier Charles alongside three Norwegians: pianist Christian Wallumrød\, guitarist Ivar Grydeland\, and percussionist Ingar Zach. One of the main focuses for Dans les arbres has been to develop an “ensemble sound.” In this workshop\, Dans les arbres will demonstrate their methods and invite participants to join in improvising together in a large ensemble–an extended Dans les arbres. Bring your instruments! \nThe workshop will be followed by a free concert by Dans les arbres at 8 PM. \nPlease RSVP here to reserve your slot! \n 
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/dans-les-arbres-workshop/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231130T200000
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SUMMARY:Dans les arbres In Concert
DESCRIPTION:Following their free workshop earlier that day\, Dans les arbres will be performing a free concert at 8 PM on Thursday\, November 30\, in the ImprovLab! As with the workshop\, this event is free and open to all. \nDans les arbres is an improvising ensemble comprising French clarinetist Xavier Charles alongside three Norwegians: pianist Christian Wallumrød\, guitarist Ivar Grydeland\, and percussionist Ingar Zach. \nThe group’s idiosyncratic inhabitants form unusual combinations of airy\, wooden\, metallic sounds\, prepared strings\, and tampered drumheads. Their world of sounds and fine sense of communication lead to collective playing and spontaneous group-composing said to be in a “class of its own.” Their music moves gently but steadily ahead on broad planes of sound. The dynamic textural scenery evolves as Dans les arbres harnesses its wealth of unorthodox extended techniques. \nSince the recording of their first album in 2006\, Dans les arbres has performed more than 150 concerts around the globe. The group’s releases Dans Les Arbres (ECM 2008)\, Canopée (ECM 2012)\, Phosphorescence (HUBRO 2017)\, and Volatil (SOFA 2019) have received praise from reviewers and audiences alike. In 2019\, Dans les arbres started releasing music from special projects on the group’s Bandcamp profile. Dans les arbres was nominated for the prestigious Nordic Music Prize in 2015. Dans les arbres has performed with guest musicians such as Yumiko Tanaka\, Otomo Yoshihide\, Jim O’Rourke\, the Norwegian duo Vilde & Inga\, and The Norwegian Wind Ensemble. Together with singers and the Oslo Sinfonietta\, the group performed the piece About Nature by Henrik Hellstenius at the Oslo Opera House in 2015. \nPlease RSVP here to reserve your concert ticket!
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/dans-les-arbres-in-concert/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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