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  • August 2025

  • Fri 15
    Poster for 2025 MILE Camp Concerts depicting concert and sponsor information as well as a photo of Rocher Perce.

    MILE Camp Concert: D.D. Jackson + MILE Camp Participants

    August 15, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
    Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum 294 route 132 est, Coin-du-Banc, Quebec, Canada

    (Le français suit) On Friday, August 15th, at 4:00 PM, D.D. Jackson will be joined by MILE Camp participants at the Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach…

  • September 2025

  • Thu 11
    Featured image for Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium 2025. White, black and green text on a light blue background with colourful squiggly lines and dots. Text reads "Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium 2025. Dance with the Music: Movement in the Improvised Arts. September 11-12 + Special GJFC Open Session September 13. ImprovLab, U of Guelph"

    Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium 2025: “Dance with the Music: Movement in the Improvised Arts”

    September 11, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - September 13, 2025 @ 11:00 am
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    The 2025 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium will take place in the ImprovLab at the University of Guelph from September 11-13, 2025. Presented by the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI)…

    Free
  • October 2025

  • Tue 7
    Poster for Moth Garden Thinking Spaces event, featuring a blue background with vertical dashed green lines, a QR code, colourful dots, an orange circle with the greyscale image of a moth over top. Text is replicated in the event listing.

    Thinking Spaces: Lucy Rupert, Lisa Hirmer, and Christina Kingsbury “Interdisciplinary Improvisation & Ultrasonic Moth Songs”

    October 7, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    In August 2024, dancer Lucy Rupert, musician Ben Finley, as well as artists Christina Kingsbury and Lisa Hirmer, collaborated on the interdisciplinary performance Ultra-sonic Moth Songs. Audiences present that magical summer evening experienced improvised music and movement among the moths at the Moth Garden! Join us to watch some of the beautiful archival video of the event and talk about the process of creating this environmentally inspired, multi-disciplinary improvised performance.

    Free
  • Sat 18
    Poster for Improviser-in-Residence events featuring Marilyn Crispell. Orange, white, and green text on a blue background replicates information contained in the event listing. Colourful dots and squiggly lines are present as decoration.

    IICSI 2025 Improviser-in-Residence Marilyn Crispell in Concert at the ImprovLab

    October 18, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    IICSI is thrilled to announce that a free night of performances by renowned pianist Marilyn Crispell will take place in ImprovLab on Saturday, October 18th. These performances will be the…

    Free
  • Tue 21

    IMPR Student Colloquium: Mike Hansen—”The First Experience: A Noise…”

    October 21, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Mike Hansen will present his IMPR PhD Student Colloquium at 3 PM in ImprovLab on October 21. This hybrid presentation is titled "The First Experience: A Noise..." and will be…

    Free
  • Mon 27
    Poster for Dr. Sharon D. Engbrecht's lecture, featuring a fantasy image of a globe with a cityscape against a partly cloudy sky. A photo of Dr. Engbrecht is inset next to text describing their bio.

    Sharon D. Engbrecht: “World-Building: Improvisation and Narrativity” Public Lecture

    October 27, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    We are pleased to announce that IICSI Postdoctoral Fellow Sharon D. Engbrecht will be delivering a public lecture in ImprovLab at 10 AM on October 27. This event is free…

    Free
  • November 2025

  • Tue 18
    Poster for Steve Sladkowski's Thinking Spaces presentation. Dark blue background with colourful dots and squiggly lines, featuring light blue and green text describing the event. An orange-filtered circular inset portrait of Steve Sladkowski is present in the bottom right, below an orange circle with the date, time, and location of the event contained in blue and white text within it. Sponsor logos for IICSI and SSHRC are present at the bottom of the poster, against a white background.

    Thinking Spaces: Steve Sladkowski—”‘What Can I Get Away With Here?’: Improvisation in Punk Rock Performance and Community Making”

    November 18, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    IICSI is pleased to present a Thinking Spaces presentation by Steve Sladkowski—guitarist for renowned punk band PUP, and U of G alumnus—in ImprovLab at 12 PM on Tuesday, November 18th!…

    Free
  • Sat 22
    Poster for Satch Hoyt event in ImprovLab. Black, green, blue, and orange text replicates information in the listing below. A portrait of Satch Hoyt seated in front of a painting and taken by Dale Grant takes up the right side of the image, while an inset image of an abstract blue and yellow painting with a beige background occupies space in the upper left quadrant. Colourful squiggly lines and dots are featured throughout the poster, which has a white background. Sponsor logos for IICSI, the University of Guelph's College of Arts, and the Art Gallery of Guelph are featured at the bottom of the poster.

    Un-Muting Sonic Restitutions: An Afternoon of Afrosonic Explorations and Improvisations with Satch Hoyt

    November 22, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    IICSI is thrilled to share an exciting and informative afternoon of conversation and an open improv jam session with internationally-acclaimed visual artist and musician, Satch Hoyt! Curated by former IICSI…

    Free
  • December 2025

  • Mon 8
    A poster for Dr. Sharon D. Engbrecht's talk "Tracing the Life of Violence" at the Guelph Public Library. The poster has a white and black backgound with black and white text describing event details. The logos for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, IICSI, and the Guelph Public Library are present. The cover of Katherena Vermette's novel, "The Break," occupies the left side of the poster.

    “Tracing the Life of Violence”— A talk by Dr. Sharon D. Engbrecht, followed by an open discussion

    December 8, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
    Guelph Public Library 100 Norfolk St., Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Be part of Guelph’s “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” as IICSI 2025-26 Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Sharon D. Engbrecht explores systemic violence in Katherena Vermette’s "The Break."  As part…

    Free
  • January 2026

  • Wed 28

    Life After the PhD: What is a Postdoc?

    January 28 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Are you a graduate student wondering what your post-PhD pathway might look like? Join Dr. Sharon D. Engbrecht (IICSI 2025-2026 Postdoctoral Fellow), Dr. An Kosurko (Musagetes and MITACS Postdoctoral Fellow),…

    Free
  • February 2026

  • Wed 4
    Poster for Thinking Spaces event featuring Alex Chesney & Dr. Nathan TeBokkel. Blue vertical rectangular background with white, navy, and black lettering providing event information. Green, orange, and red wavy lines and dots decorate the image. Blue and orange filtered circular inset images show Dr. Nathan TeBokkel and Alex Chesney.

    Thinking Spaces: Alex Chesney and Dr. Nathan TeBokkel—Storied Social Practice: Improvisation in Farming and Food

    February 4 @ 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Growing and making food are ancient practices yet also scientifically advanced, necessary for everyday living yet often inaccessible but to experts, interdisciplinary yet highly specialized. Considering the role of improvisation…

    Free
  • March 2026

  • Wed 25
    Poster for Thinking Spaces event featuring Kate Story and Ryan Kerr. Blue vertical rectangular background with white, navy, and black lettering providing event information. Green, orange, and red wavy lines and dots decorate the image. Orange filtered circular inset photo shows Kate Story and Ryan Kerr striking dramatic poses against a dark background.

    Thinking Spaces: Kate Story and Ryan Kerr—Death in Reverse: Performance in Precarious Times

    March 25 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
    ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Artists Kate Story and Ryan Kerr will share what it means to create meaningful work within conditions of precarity, and on the unusual, often improvised ways artists find to stay…

    Free
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