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SUMMARY:IICSI 2025 Improviser-in-Residence Marilyn Crispell in Concert at the ImprovLab
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThese performances will be the culmination of a week of workshops and collaborative sessions Crispell will lead as IICSI’s 2025 Improviser-in-Residence. \nIn her first performance of the evening\, at 7 PM\, Crispell will collaborate with Guelph’s new and as-yet-unnamed Creative Music Orchestra. Having gathered a few times in recent months to explore the compositions and ideas of some of its many members\, the orchestra is beyond excited to work with Marilyn Crispell. For this performance\, the orchestra members will be: \nConnor Bennett – saxophones\nMatt Brubeck – cello\nMatt Endahl – piano\, fender rhodes\nJonathan Kay – saxophones\, esraj\nKayla Milmine – soprano saxophone\nPatrick O’Reilly – guitar\nHeather Saumer – trombone\nJoe Sorbara – drums\, percussion\nTyler Wagler – bass\nClaire Whitehead – violin\nEm Wright – objects\nMark Zurawinski – drums\, percussion \nThe second set\, at 8 PM\, will see Crispell perform in a trio with Joe Sorbara and Jonathan Kay. Sorbara and Kay’s duo project\, The Rest\, invokes the emergence of compelling sound worlds that draw upon memory in different ways: intriguing and transformative sounds\, noises\, spaces\, places\, images\, and affects are made present in the moment alongside intentionally cultivated memories including the musics of Don Cherry\, Ornette Coleman\, Marilyn Crispell\, and Jimmy Lyons\, in addition to original pieces by Kay and Sorbara themselves. All of this means that Kay and Sorbara are as likely to be exploring a sound constellation tripped over in a moment of free improvisation as they are a pre-composed melody\, groove\, or playful rhythmic puzzle. \nAnyone wishing to see what Crispell is working on during her time in residency is free to listen in on her trio workshop session with Sorbara and Kay from 1-3 PM on Tuesday\, October 14th. Crispell will also give an open improvisation workshop for community members and students from 1-3 PM on Thursday\, October 16th. Please reach out to IICSI Project Manager Julia Busatto if you would like to participate! \nMarilyn Crispell has been a composer and performer of contemporary improvised music since 1978. For ten years\, she was a member of the Anthony Braxton Quartet and the Reggie Workman Ensemble. She has performed and recorded extensively as a soloist and with players on the American and international jazz scenes. She has worked with dancers\, poets\, filmmakers\, and visual artists. She also teaches workshops in improvisation. She has been the recipient of three New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship grants\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust composition commission\, and a 2025 NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship award. \nInternationally celebrated for her skill as an improvising pianist\, Marilyn Crispell is not to be missed. In the words of The New York Times’ Jon Pareles\, “Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.”
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/iicsi-improviser-in-residence-marilyn-crispell-in-concert-at-the-improvlab/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Live @ImprovLab
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Lucy Rupert\, Lisa Hirmer\, and Christina Kingsbury "Interdisciplinary Improvisation & Ultrasonic Moth Songs"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, October 7 at 12:00 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Interdisciplinary Improvisation & Ultrasonic Moth Songs” with Lucy Rupert\, Lisa Hirmer\, and Christina Kingsbury.\n \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free and open to all! \nMore About this Workshop:\nIn August 2024\, dancer Lucy Rupert and musician Ben Finley\, along with artists Christina Kingsbury and Lisa Hirmer\, collaborated on the interdisciplinary performance Ultra-sonic Moth Songs. Audiences present on that magical summer evening experienced improvised music and movement among the moths at the Moth Garden! Join us as Lucy\, Christina\, and Lisa reflect on the environmentally inspired multi-disciplinary performance\, and the role of improvisation in creating their evocative work.  \nMore About the Presenters:\nLucy Rupert is a dancer\, choreographer\, art-science researcher\, and artistic director of Blue Ceiling dance (founded 2004)\, through which she has created and produced over three dozen works of contemporary dance and multidisciplinary performance. For the last decade\, Lucy has researched and explored the intimate connection between scientific and artistic processes through interviews\, artistic creations\, and collaborations with scientists. \n“heartless”\, Lucy’s most recent solo production delving into the moral philosophy of robots\, was honoured with three Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations\, including Outstanding performance by an individual and Outstanding original choreogprahy. \nLucy’s work has been presented by dance: made in Canada/fait au Canada festival\, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics\, Dusk Dances\, Guelph Dance Festival\, the Stuttgart International Solo Tanz-Theatre Festival and in unconventional spaces throughout Ontario. \nLucy has performed with noted companies such as Fujiwara Dance Inventions (2010-present)\, Theatre Rusticle (2001-2017)\, Nova Dance\, Theatre Passe Muraille\, Puppetmongers Theatre\, Circus Orange\, Chartier Danse\, Anandam Dance\, Sashar Zarif Dance\, Free Flow Dance Theatre Company (1995-1999)\, and many other independent choreographers and creators. \nWith a Joint Honours BA in Dance and Music from the University of Waterloo\, an MA in History from the University of Toronto\, Lucy is a lifelong learner\, currently studying philosophy through Oxford University’s Continuing Education Department. \nLucy is a mom\, a birdwatcher\, a citizen scientist\, a singer-songwriter and a writer on creative process and dance history. She lives in Toronto with her husband\, her son\, and a feral cat\, in a neighbourhood full of coyotes and old trees. \nLisa Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist who works in visual media\, especially photography; social practice; community collaboration\, and sometimes writing. Her work is focussed on collective relationships both in human communities and in human relationships with the more-than-human world. A lot of her recent work wrestles with what it means to be living inside the climate emergency and on the edge of planetary collapse. Her work finds home both in traditional gallery contexts and an expanded field of other public and semi-public spaces and is always created with a keen awareness that multiple realities exist alongside one another. \nShe has shown her work across Canada and internationally including at Art Gallery of Ontario\, Art Gallery of Guelph\, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery\, Cambridge Art Galleries\, Art Gallery of Mississauga\, Tom Thomson Gallery\, Art Windsor-Essex\, Doris McCarthy Gallery\, Peninsula Arts\, CAFKA\, Queens Museum\, and Flux Factory\, among others. She has done artist residencies with Arts House Melbourne\, the Santa Fe Art Institute\, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World\, KIAC and Camargo Foundation\, and was the 2022 Waterfront Toronto Artist in Residence. She has received numerous grants including from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts and has a Master of Architecture from the University of Waterloo. \nChristina Kingsbury’s (she/her) interdisciplinary art practice is inspired by histories of care and explores themes of place\, ecology and inter-species relationships. Her work takes the form of performance\, installation and social practice. Christina collaborates regularly with poets\, ecologists\, artists\, choreographers and the public-including ecological public – to create relational works that offer a quiet and radical challenge to the commodification of life. Her work is rooted (often literally) in the Grand River watershed and treaty lands of the Mississauga’s of the Credit and part of her practice works through relationships with land as a settler person. Her solo and collaborative work has been shown as public interventions and in curated exhibitions both locally and internationally.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-interdisciplinary-improvisation-ultrasonic-moth-songs/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250911T130000
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SUMMARY:Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium 2025: "Dance with the Music: Movement in the Improvised Arts"
DESCRIPTION: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) and curated by its Director\, Dr. Eric Fillion\, this year’s colloquium is titled “Dance with the Music: Movement in the Improvised Arts.” \nFocused on the interplay of improvised music and dance\, this edition of the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium provides attendees with a great opportunity to engage with world-class academics\, dancers\, and musicians from Canada and the US\, including Heather Cornell\, Patricia Nicholson\, Julie Richard\, and many more. Discussions\, performances\, artist interventions\, and films will all be showcased in IICSI’s state-of-the-art ImprovLab research and performance space. \nThe colloquium program will also highlight two special sessions by US-based artists Ravish Momin\, Val Jeanty\, and Ivvy\, as part of their week-long residency at the ImprovLab\, which will culminate with a performance at the Guelph Jazz Festival. The first of these sessions\, by Momin and Jeanty\, will feature a discussion and examples of their unique take on global music\, an approach that is characterized by the notable absence of traditional instruments and a vision of cultures as dynamic and continuously adaptive. A two-part session\, it will address both Haitian culture and Mumbai street bands. The second session will see Ivvy speaking about the aesthetics of FlexDance\, demonstrating this artform’s interdependence with music while reflecting on the communities that developed around it as an outgrowth of Black urban/working class culture in Brooklyn. \nThis catered event is free and open to all\, with RSVP via Eventbrite.  \n\nFor more about this year’s colloquium\, including artist bios and headshots\, please visit the colloquium page. 
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/guelph-jazz-festival-colloquium-2025-dance-with-the-music-movement-in-the-improvised-arts/
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:20250815T160000
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SUMMARY:MILE Camp Concert: D.D. Jackson + MILE Camp Participants
DESCRIPTION:(Le français suit) \nOn 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 Cultural Museum (294 route 132 East in Coin-du-Banc) for our third and final MILE Camp concert of the year! This performance—a Grand Finale group improvisation—will reflect the collaborative learning and musical exploration that MILE Camp participants have engaged in over the course of their weeklong retreat. \nCome and see a renowned bandleader work with a cohesive unit of gifted improvisers who have come together in the beautiful setting of Coin-du-Banc for a week of close contact and shared experiences! \nAs with all of our public MILE Camp concerts\, this event is free and open to all! \n\nLe vendredi 15 août\, à 16h00\, D.D. Jackson sera rejoint par les participants du camp Coin-du-Banc en folie au Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum (294 route 132 Est à Coin-du-Banc) pour notre troisième et dernier concert de l’année ! Cette performance — une grande finale d’improvisation de groupe — reflétera l’apprentissage collaboratif et l’exploration musicale auxquels se sont livrés les participants de Coin-du-Banc en folie au cours de leur retraite d’une semaine. \nVenez voir un chef d’orchestre renommé travailler avec une unité cohérente d’improvisateurs doués qui se sont réunis dans le cadre magnifique de Coin-du-Banc pour une semaine de contact étroit et d’expériences partagées ! \nComme tous les concerts publics du Camp Coin-du-Banc en folie\, cet événement est gratuit et ouvert à tous !
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/mile-camp-concert-d-d-jackson-mile-camp-participants/
LOCATION:Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum\, 294 route 132 est\, Coin-du-Banc\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,IICSI events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250811T200000
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SUMMARY:MILE Camp Concert: D. D. Jackson Solo Piano Improvisation
DESCRIPTION:(Le français suit) \nOn Monday\, August 11th\, at 8:00 PM\, audiences will have a unique opportunity to see an intimate improvised solo piano performance by D.D. Jackson at the Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum (294 route 132 East in Coin-du-Banc). \nJackson\, who has played with such jazz luminaries as Little Jimmy Scott\, Laila Biali\, Sammy Jackson\, David Murray\, Dewey Redman\, Oliver Lake\, James Carter\, Milford Graves\, Andrew Cyrille\, Jack DeJohnette\, Hamid Drake\, Larnell Lewis\, Pheeroan Aklaff\, Billy Bang\, William Parker\, Ugonna Okegwo\, James Newton\, Jane Bunnett\, Mino Cinelu\, Mor Thiam\, and Kahil el’Zabar\, will have space to demonstrate the individual skills that make him a gifted and sought-after collaborator by some of the biggest names in improvised music. \nAs with all of our public MILE Camp concerts\, this event is free and open to all! \n\nLe lundi 11 août\, à 20 h\, le public aura l’occasion unique d’assister à un spectacle intime de piano solo improvisé par D.D. Jackson au Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum (294\, route 132 Est à Coin-du-Banc). \nJackson\, qui a joué avec des sommités du jazz telles que Little Jimmy Scott\, Laila Biali\, Sammy Jackson\, David Murray\, Dewey Redman\, Oliver Lake\, James Carter\, Milford Graves\, Andrew Cyrille\, Jack DeJohnette\, Hamid Drake\, Larnell Lewis\, Pheeroan Aklaff\, Billy Bang\, William Parker\, Ugonna Okegwo\, James Newton\, Jane Bunnett\, Mino Cinelu\, Mor Thiam et Kahil el’Zabar\, aura l’occasion de démontrer les compétences individuelles qui font de lui un collaborateur doué et recherché par certains des plus grands noms de la musique improvisée. \nComme tous les concerts publics du camp Coin-du-Banc en folie\, cet événement est gratuit et ouvert à tous !
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/mile-camp-concert-d-d-jackson-solo/
LOCATION:Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum\, 294 route 132 est\, Coin-du-Banc\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,IICSI events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250810T190000
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SUMMARY:MILE Camp Concert: Musique du Moment @ Bell House
DESCRIPTION:(Le français suit) \nAs part of this year’s MILE Camp\, a free public concert will be held at the historic Bell House in Percé.  \nOn Sunday\, August 10th\, at 7:00 PM (EDT)\, camp facilitator and multi-Emmy-winning improvising pianist D.D. Jackson will perform in a duo with singer Zoé Jean-Deslauriers. Currently based in New Jersey\, Jackson is a celebrated improviser and composer with numerous awards and nominations on both sides of the border for his work on jazz albums and television scores. \nZoé Jean-Deslauriers is a graduate of McGill University’s Jazz Performance program. The singer and songwriter divides her time between Montreal and the Gaspésie. \nAlso performing will be Montreal harpist Sarah Pagé. A phenomenal solo performer renowned for her skill in going beyond the conventional tonal palette of the harp\, Pagé has also worked in collaboration with musicians spanning several genres\, including Lhasa De Sela\, Nadah El Shazly\, Esmerine\, the Barr Brothers\, and Land of Kush. \nClick here to view the full artist bios! \nAs with all of our public MILE Camp concerts\, this event is free and open to all! \n\nLe dimanche 10 août\, à 19h00\, à l’historique Bell House (167 Route 132 Ouest à Percé)\, D.D. Jackson\, animateur du Camp Coin-du-Banc en folie et pianiste improvisateur plusieurs fois primé aux Emmy Awards\, se produira en duo avec la chanteuse Zoé Jean-Deslauriers. \nActuellement installé dans le New Jersey\, D.D. Jackson est un célèbre improvisateur et compositeur qui a reçu de nombreux prix et nominations des deux côtés de la frontière pour son travail sur des albums de jazz et des musiques de télévision. \nZoé Jean-Deslauriers est diplômé du programme d’interprétation jazz de l’Université McGill. La chanteuse et auteure-compositrice partage son temps entre Montréal et la Gaspésie. \nLa harpiste montréalaise Sarah Pagé se produira également ce soir-là. Interprète solo phénoménale reconnue pour son habileté à aller au-delà de la palette tonale conventionnelle de la harpe\, Sarah Pagé a également travaillé en collaboration avec des musiciens de plusieurs genres\, dont Lhasa De Sela\, Nadah El Shazly\, Esmerine\, les Barr Brothers et Land of Kush. \nCliquez ici pour voir les biographies complètes des artistes ! \nComme tous les concerts publics du camp Coin-du-Banc en folie\, cet événement est gratuit et ouvert à tous ! \n 
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/musique-du-moment-bell-house/
LOCATION:Bell House\, 167 Route 132 Ouest\, Percé\, QC\, G0C 2L0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,IICSI events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250624T183000
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SUMMARY:SOUNDTRACK TO THE REVOLUTION Book Launch (+ Film Screening)
DESCRIPTION:Mark the date! You are invited to The Bookshelf Cinema on June 24th for the launch of Soundtrack to the Revolution by Eric Fillion. This scintillating book tells the story of Quebec’s Jazz Libre\, a radical experiment in musical activism that reveals the meaningful role that the art of spontaneity played in the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. \nThe book launch\, which will include a discussion with writer David Lee (6:30-7:30 p.m.)\, will be followed by a screening of The Cat in The Bag (1964) [in French with subtitles]\, one of the founding films of Quebec national cinema with an original score by John Coltrane’s classic quartet. \nThis event is free and open to all. \nCo-presented by The Bookshelf\, Véhicule Press\, and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. \n* Eric Fillion is director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation and assistant professor at the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Distant Stage: Quebec\, Brazil\, and the Making of Canada’s Cultural Diplomacy. With Sean Mills and Désirée Rochat\, he co-edited Statesman of the Piano: Jazz\, Race\, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper. He lives in Guelph\, Ontario. \n*Hamilton-based writer David Lee wrote his 2017 University of Guelph dissertation on Toronto improvised music. His other writings include The Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field\, and with the late pianist Paul Bley\, Stopping Time.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/soundtrack-to-the-revolution-book-launch-film-screening/
LOCATION:The Bookshelf Cinema\, 41 Quebec Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,IICSI events
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250610T160000
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SUMMARY:Improvnetics: Post-anthropocentric performance and improvisational modes for human-AI play\, or: What we talk about when we talk about Intersentient empathy. | IMPR Colloquium by Michael Bergmann
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Zoom or in the ImprovLab for a hybrid presentation of an IMPR Student Colloquium by Michael Bergmann! \nMichael Bergmann is a Canadian artist and scholar. He is a tenured Associate Professor in Performance at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research-creation work explores the integration of AI and robotics into performance and storytelling\, fostering post-humanist and post-anthropocentric thinking through improvisational collaboration with synthetic intelligences. He holds an MFA in Design from the Yale School of Drama\, where he was supervised by Wendall Harrington. \nMichael’s research proposal is called “Improvnetics: Post-anthropocentric performance and improvisational modes for human-AI play\, or: What we talk about when we talk about Intersentient empathy.” It is centred around key questions: How can improvisational practices foster empathy in human-robot and human-AI interactions? What role does performance play in shaping these interactions? And how can we better understand non-human sentience? The primary objectives are to develop a framework for human-robot / human-AI improvised performance that treats each as equals; examine representation of robots beyond language performance; explore potential live interactive performances as mediums for human-robot interaction. \nFull Zoom information: \nMichael Bergmann Colloquium \nTime: Jun 10\, 2025 01:00 PM America/Toronto \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://zoom.us/j/96432136617?pwd=vEOnvHOEbFXxVxymfnRqf6nLj8si92.1 \nMeeting ID: 964 3213 6617 \nPasscode: 659113 \n— \nOne tap mobile \n+15873281099\,\,96432136617# Canada \n+16473744685\,\,96432136617# Canada \n— \nDial by your location \n• +1 587 328 1099 Canada \n• +1 647 374 4685 Canada \n• +1 647 558 0588 Canada \n• +1 778 907 2071 Canada \n• +1 780 666 0144 Canada \n• +1 204 272 7920 Canada \n• +1 438 809 7799 Canada \nMeeting ID: 964 3213 6617 \nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/avLPzK8WY
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/improvnetics-post-anthropocentric-performance-and-improvisational-modes-for-human-ai-play-or-what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-intersentient-empathy-impr-colloquium-by-michael-bergmann/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250424T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250424T173000
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SUMMARY:Why Arts Matter Research Speaker Series: Technology
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, April 24 at 4:00 PM (ET) for Technology\, the third and final event of the Winter 2024 Why Arts Matter Research Speaker Series. \nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. The event is free\, although seating is limited. Reserve your spot here! \n\nMore About the Event\nThis panel will explore the transformative impact of technology on culture\, the arts\, and our understanding of the world. Featuring Dr. Peter Kuling\, Dr. Susan Brown\, Dr. Rozita Dara\, and Dr. Donald Bruce\, this discussion will examine how digital performance\, virtual reality\, and artificial intelligence are reshaping cultural engagement and artistic expression. The panelists will delve into the ethical implications of emerging technologies\, the role of digital humanities in fostering collaboration\, diversity\, and inclusivity\, and the ways science and technology are portrayed in media. \nThis series will be video recorded for later distribution. Following the panel\, audience members can engage in a Q&A session. This series will be video recorded for later distribution. Audience members will not be on camera\, however will be asked to sign a release for their voice to be included in the recording if they choose to ask a question. \nMore About the Series\nThe “Why Arts Matter” research speaker series is hosted by the College of Arts in partnership with the International Institute for Critical Studies and Improvisation (IICSI)\, and explores the intersection of disciplines to address individual experience\, social life\, and culture. This series highlights the importance of the arts in shaping our understanding of the world. \nFor more information\, follow this link.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/why-arts-matter-research-speaker-series-technology/
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:20250403T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250403T173000
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SUMMARY:Journée d’étude: Improvisation\, Pedagogy\, and Cocreative Worldmaking
DESCRIPTION:—”An adept improviser can find ways forward amid impasse\, agency amid oppression\, and community amid division.”\n– The Improviser’s Classroom \nJoin us on April 3\, 2025 at ImprovLab for a full-day symposium investigating ways to re-imagine pedagogy through the prisms of activism\, reciprocity\, and communal care. This free\, open-to-everyone event is focused around the launch of The Improviser’s Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking\, the new collection edited by Daniel Fischlin and Mark Lomanno and published through Temple University Press.\n\nDemonstrating how improvisation can inform scenes of teaching and learning\, The Improviser’s Classroom also outlines how improvisatory techniques offer powerful\, if not vital\, tools for producing connection\, creativity\, accompaniment\, reciprocity\, meaningful revelation\, and lifelong curiosity. This event will explore the ideas brought up in this book through several offerings\, including: \n• presentations by the Critical Studies in Improvisation graduate program’s newest cohort: Simon Flint\, Mark Leroy\, Emma Bortolon-Vettor\, and Georgia Simms \n• the book launch for The Improviser’s Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking\, featuring a conversation with jashen edwards\, Daniel Fischlin\, Mark Lomanno\, and Carey West \n• a keynote by David L. Clark\, featuring improvised musical responses by annais linares and Germaine Liu \n• closing reflections by Fred Moten\, professor of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University \nFind the full schedule for the day’s events below:\n9:00-9:30 AM—Coffee and Gathering  \n9:30-9:45 AM—Welcome (IICSI) \n9:45-11:45 AM—IMPR 6010/6410 Student Presentations on Emergent/Embodied Teaching Philosophies and Multidisciplinary Approaches to Improvisation; moderated by jashen edwards and Daniel Fischlin; \n11:45 AM-1:00 PM—Lunch Break   \n1:00-2:30 PM—Book Launch: The Improviser’s Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking (“Insubordinate Spaces” series edited by George Lipsitz; Temple UP\, Edited by Daniel Fischlin and Mark Lomanno; featuring contributors Carey West and jashen edwards) \n2:30-2:45 PM—Coffee Break   \n2:45-4:15 PM—Keynote David L. Clark “I do not know how to teach: scenes from a life\, made up” with improvised musical response from annaïs linares and Germaine Liu. Moderated by Daniel Fischlin. \n4:15-4:30 PM—Break  \n4:30-5:15 PM—Fred Moten (Closing Reflections). Moderated by Mark Lomanno. \n6:00 PM—Downtown Gathering for Food and Conversation – TBA \n \n 
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/journee-detude-improvisation-pedagogy-and-cocreative-worldmaking/
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:20250304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250304T133000
DTSTAMP:20250225T152551Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Fron Reilly\, “Acoustic Innovation: Is There Anything Left to Invent?”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, March 4 at 12:00 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Acoustic Innovation: Is There Anything Left to Invent?” with Fron Reilly—“Is there still room for Innovative Design in the field of purely acoustic musical instruments in an age of digitization?”\n \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \nTo attend the talk\, RSVP via our Google Forms. \nMore About this Presentation:\nIn his talk/workshop\, Fron Reilly will showcase his latest musical invention—the fron2\, a ten-string rotating bowed zither—while sharing the story behind its creation. He’ll also explore the acoustics behind its distinctive sound and explain what sets it apart from electronically generated tones. Afterwards\, audience members are invited to join a live improv session. Bring your instrument! \nMore About the Presenter:\n\nFron Reilly is a maker\, designer\, builder\, and inventor living in Guelph. He holds a BSc in physics from the University of Waterloo. Now retired\, he has worked in many fields including teaching\, industrial automation\, and electronic transformer design. In addition\, he has always been and remains busy in his workshop creating things that work\, including wooden sculptural clock mechanisms\, musical instruments\, kinetic sculptures\, stirling engines\, and sundials. You can see many of his innovative instruments in action on his YouTube channel\, @fronreilly4787\, which has garnered over two million views. \n\nTo attend the talk\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-fron-reilly-acoustic-innovation-is-there-anything-left-to-invent/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250211T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250211T133000
DTSTAMP:20250128T161939Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Andrew Goldman\, "The Cognition of Musical Improvisation: Theories and Experiments"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, February 11 at 12:00 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “The Cognition of Musical Improvisation: Theories and Experiments” with Andrew Goldman.\n \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \nTo attend the talk\, RSVP via our Google Forms. \nMore About this Workshop:\nImprovisation is a challenging topic to study using the theories and methods of cognitive science owing to the difficulty of defining it\, and the diversity of improvisatory practices. I share my theoretical frameworks for engaging this challenge as well as the results from some behavioral and neuroscientific studies. Ultimately\, I draw upon improvisation as a case study for exploring the difficulties of using science to understand music more generally. \nMore About the Presenter:\nAndrew Goldman is a music theorist and cognitive scientist\, and is currently Assistant Professor in Music Theory and Cognitive Science at Indiana University\, where he also directs IU’s Music and Mind Lab. He received his PhD in 2015 at the Centre for Music and Science at the University of Cambridge. He was in the inaugural cohort of Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience at Columbia University\, and also held a postdoctoral position with the Music\, Cognition\, and the Brain initiative at Western University before joining the faculty at Indiana University.  \nHis research considers how we can (and cannot) use scientific methods to learn about musical perception and cognition in theory\, and he also designs and conducts behavioral and neuroscientific experiments on music perception and cognition. Goldman’s research has focused on improvisation in music and dance\, and more recent work has addressed the perception of musical form\, melodic contour\, metrical perception\, and embodiment in music. His work has been published in both music and psychology journals\, and has been presented at national and international conferences including the Society for Music Theory\, the International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition\, and the American Psychological Association. Goldman is also a pianist and composer. His original musical\, “Science! The Musical” provides an alternate platform to explore the worlds of music and science. Musical numbers include “The Interdisciplinary Rag\,” “The Real World\,” “Publish or Perish\,” and more!\n \nTo attend the talk\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-andrew-goldman-the-cognition-of-musical-improvisation/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250121T133000
DTSTAMP:20260220T152229Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Justine Woods\, “Re-stitching as Methodology: Garment-making as a Transformative Practice in Research-creation”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, January 21 at 12:00 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Re-stitching as Methodology: Garment-making as a Transformative Practice in Research-creation” with Justine Woods.\n \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \nTo attend the talk\, RSVP via our Google Forms. \nMore About this Workshop:\nIn this combined presentation and workshop\, Justine Woods will discuss garment-making as research-creation with particular focus on the role garments play in resisting settler colonial displacement of Indigenous ontologies and bodies to place. Informed by her PhD dissertation research\, Justine will expand upon the concept of ‘re-stitching’ as both a theoretical framework and embodied practice in exploring how the act of garment-making done by the Indigenous body can regenerate Indigenous ontology and re-stitch new worlds and futurities. \nTo support the workshop component of the talk\, attendees are encouraged to bring an article of clothing that they do not mind making permanent changes and or adjustments to. \nMore About the Presenter:\nJustine Woods is a garment-artist\, creative scholar\, educator\, and curator. Stretching across fields of study\, including but not limited to\, fashion studies\, performance and embodiment\, and research-creation\, Justine’s work passionately situates fashion as a pluriversal phenomenon. Her research centres garment-making as a practice-based method of inquiry toward re-stitching alternative worlds that prioritize Indigenous resurgence and liberation. To learn more about Justine\, please visit her website: www.justinewoods.com\nTo attend the talk\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-justine-woods-re-stitching-as-methodology/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241205T203000
DTSTAMP:20241104T195229Z
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SUMMARY:[Postponed until Spring 2025] Thinking Spaces: Eric Fillion\, Sean Mills\, and Désirée Rochat\, "Statesman of the Piano: A Conversation on the Politics of Archiving\, Curating\, and Music Making"
DESCRIPTION:*Postponed until Spring 2025* \nPlease join us for Thinking Spaces: “Statesman of the Piano: A Conversation on the Politics of Archiving\, Curating\, and Music Making” with Eric Fillion\, Sean Mills\, and Désirée Rochat.\n \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via IICSI’s new Twitch Stream. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms. \nMore About the Roundtable Discussion\nPlease join co-editors Eric Fillion\, Sean Mills\, and Désirée Rochat for a conversation around and about Statesman of the Piano: Jazz\, Race\, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper (MQUP\, 2023). The book “sparks new conversations about Hooper’s legacy while shedding light on the cross-border travels and wartime experiences of Black musicians\, the politics of archiving and curating\, and the connections between race and music in the twentieth century.” \nMore About the Presenters\nEric Fillion is director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) and assistant professor at the School of Languages and Literatures (SOLAL) at the University of Guelph. His research explores the social and symbolic importance of music\, within countercultures and in Canadian international relations. His ongoing work on cultural diplomacy and Canadian-Brazilian relations builds on the experience he has acquired as a musician. It also informs his current research on the postwar Canadian cultural public sphere: his two main projects examine the emergence of the music festival phenomenon in Canada and the entangled sonic histories of diasporic social movements. An affiliate of the North American Cultural Diplomacy Initiative (NACDI)\, Eric Fillion is the founder of the Tenzier archival record label and co-editor of the journal Critical Studies in Improvisation. He is the author of JAZZ LIBRE et la révolution québécoise: musique-action\, 1967-1975 and Distant Stage: Quebec\, Brazil\, and the Making of Canada’s Cultural Diplomacy. His latest book\, Statesman of the Piano: Jazz\, Race\, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper (co-edited with Sean Mills and Désirée Rochat)\, is now available through McGill-Queen’s University Press \nSean Mills is professor and Canada Research Chair in Canadian and Transnational History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal\, and A Place in the Sun: Haiti\, Haitians\, and the Remaking of Quebec. Most recently\, Mills is the co-editor (with Eric Fillion and Désirée Rochat) of Statesman of the Piano: Jazz\, Race\, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper (2023). Mills is a Member of the College of New Scholars\, Artists\, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada and a 2024 Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.\n \nDésirée Rochat is a community educator and transdisciplinary scholar with a PhD in Educational Studies from McGill University. Guided by an integrative approach connecting historical research\, community archival preservation and education\, her work aims to document\, theorize and transmit (hi)stories of Black communities’ activism. Rochat is a FRQSC Post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-eric-fillion-sean-mills-and-desiree-rochat-statesman-of-the-piano-a-conversation-on-the-politics-of-archiving-curating-and-music-making/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241122T133000
DTSTAMP:20241108T173954Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Priya Zalis\, "Clinical Improvisation in Music Psychotherapy"
DESCRIPTION:*** Rescheduled to 12:00 PM (ET) *** \nPlease join us on Friday\, November 22 at 12:00 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Clinical Improvisation in Music Psychotherapy” with Priya Zalis.\n \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms. \nMore About this Workshop:\nIn this workshop\, Priya will introduce her approach to music psychotherapy in the context of adult mental health\, inviting attendees to participate in exploring the role that clinical improvisation can play in accessing and processing emotions\, building social connection\, and developing personal insights and growth.  \nMore About the Presenter:\nPriya Zalis (RP\, MTA\, MMT) is a music therapist\, psychotherapist\, and educator working in adult inpatient mental health and addictions in Guelph\, Ontario\, Canada. She holds a Master’s in Music Therapy (Wilfrid Laurier University) and a Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapy (Gestalt Institute of Toronto)\, and has prior experience in hospice\, oncology\, long-term care\, and community mental health settings. Current research explores the impacts of group music therapy in trauma processing and issues related to diversity\, equity\, inclusion\, and belonging in Canadian music therapy. She loves spending time with her family and getting lost in a good book. \nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-priya-zalis-clinical-improvisation-in-music-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241115T133000
DTSTAMP:20241108T174031Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Phil Mullen\, "Ways Into Improvisation"
DESCRIPTION:*** Rescheduled to 12:00 PM (ET) *** \nPlease join us on Friday\, November 15 at 12:00 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Ways Into Improvisation” with Phil Mullen. \nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms. \nMore About the Workshop\nIn this participatory workshop\, Dr Mullen will look at three approaches to group improvising—1) improvising with pulse and rhythm\, 2) using stimuli such as text\, visuals and thematic starting points\, and 3) the Search and Reflect methodology as pioneered by Phil’s mentor John Stevens\, a key figure in European Free Group Improvisation. Please bring an instrument if possible. \nMore About the Presenter\nPhil Mullen has worked for forty years developing music with people who are socially excluded. He specializes in working with excluded children and young people at risk. He has run workshops\, seminars and training in 28 countries across Europe\, North and South America\, Australia and Asia. \nPhil has a PHD from Winchester University and has written a number of book chapters on musical inclusion including for the Oxford Handbook of Community Music (2018). Phil’s book “Challenging Voices: Music making with young people excluded from school” is published by Peter Lang.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-phil-mullen-ways-into-improvisation/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241113T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241113T141500
DTSTAMP:20241107T211904Z
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SUMMARY:On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace—Reading and Conversation with Dr. Phanuel Antwi (UBC)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, November 13 at 1:00 PM (ET) for On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace—a Reading and Conversation with Dr. Phanuel Antwi (UBC) \nThis event will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. This event is free and open to everybody!\n \nMore About the Event\nRanging from the terrifying embrace of the slave ship’s hold to the racist encoding of ‘cuddly’ toys\, On Cuddling is a unique combination of essay and poetry that contends with the way racial violence is enacted through intimacy. Informed by Black feminist and queer poetics\, Antwi focuses his lens on the suffering of Black people at the hands of state violence and racial capitalism. As radical movements grow to advance Black liberation\, so too must our ways of understanding how racial capitalism embraces us all. Antwi turns to cuddling\, an act we imagine as devoid of violence\, and explores it as a tense transfer point of power. \nMore About the Presenter\nDr. Phanuel Antwi is the Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia. He is an artist\, teacher and organizer concerned with race\, poetics\, movements\, intimacy\, and struggle. He works with text\, dance\, film\, and photography to intervene in artistic\, academic\, and public spaces. He is a curator\, activist\, and associate professor. He is an alumnus of the U of G and a research team member with the IICSI. \nPresented by Interdisciplinary Programs\, the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation\, and the Office of Academic Equity and Anti-Racism
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/on-cuddling-loved-to-death-in-the-racial-embrace-reading-and-conversation-with-dr-phanuel-antwi-ubc/
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:20241025T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241025T123000
DTSTAMP:20241016T173909Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Melissa Noventa\, "Movement Across Borders: Improvisation\, Diplomacy\, and Transcultural Dialogues"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, October 25 at 11:00 AM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Movement Across Borders: Improvisation\, Diplomacy\, and Transcultural Dialogues” with Melissa Noventa\, accompanied by percussionist Mario Allende.\n \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via IICSI’s new Twitch Stream. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms. \nMore About the Workshop\nIn a world with ever increasing migration and cultural exchange\, dance holds a unique power to facilitate dialogue across cultural and political boundaries. Combining an informal talk with an interactive movement session\, we’ll dive into how movement can act as a tool for diplomacy\, offering new ways to engage with people from different backgrounds and experiences. Participants will be encouraged to engage with the nuances of improvisation as both a personal and collective practice\, experiencing how movement can communicate across borders. Whether you are a seasoned dancer\, or someone just curious about how the body communicates\, come ready to move\, experiment and reflect. No prior experience is required—just a willingness to move and explore new ideas! \nMore About the Presenter\nMelissa Noventa is a dancer and ethnographer originally from Guelph\, Ontario. She has over 15 years of experience performing and teaching a wide range of dance genres\, including classical\, contemporary\, urban\, West African\, Latin\, and Afro-Caribbean vocabularies. Melissa has collaborated with renowned institutions such as NYU Tisch and performed alongside a diverse range of artists from Canada’s Arcade Fire to some of Cuba’s premier folkloric ensembles. Most recently\, she performed in the Obeah Opera which toured South Africa over the summer. Melissa holds a BFA and MA in Dance from York University and is currently a PhD candidate at Queen’s University where her research focuses on cultural diplomacy through music and dance\, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between Canada and Cuba. \nFor this presentation\, Melissa will be accompanied by percussionist Mario Allende.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-melissa-noventa-movement-across-borders-improvisation-diplomacy-and-transcultural-dialogues/
LOCATION:Ontario
CATEGORIES:Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241024T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241024T213000
DTSTAMP:20241016T172852Z
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SUMMARY:"SAVE THE DATE!" A Creative Community Concert with Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, October 24 at 7:00 PM (ET) for the culminating event of our Fall 2024 Improvisers-in-Residence Series: “SAVE THE DATE!” A Creative Community Concert with Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon.\n \n\nThis community concert will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. The event is FREE and open to everybody.\n \nMore About the Event\nAfter an inspiring series of six “Open Sessions” workshops\, IICSI’s 2024 Improvisers-in-Residence are thrilled to invite you to a two-part evening of creativity and surprise: \n“SAVE THE DATE! A Creative Community Concert with Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon” \nThe night kicks off with an interactive\, behind-the-scenes look at how multidisciplinary collaboration comes to life\, as  Jimmy and Lilly\, along with an ensemble of creative community members from diverse artistic traditions\, invite you to “peak behind the curtain” and witness their creative process. \nIn the second half\, Jimmy and Lilly will take the stage for a more formal\, concert-style performance with VERY special guests. (We can’t spill the beans yet\, but you won’t want to miss it!) \nMore About the Performers\nJimmy Weinstein / drums\, piano\, guitar\, composer \nBorn in Chicago\, Jimmy moved with his family to California and Spain. A Berklee College of Music alumnus ’89 and leader of a consortium of New York based ensembles\, Jimmy has been on the move for over 25 years\, touring the US\, Europe and Japan.  Major associations include recordings and tours with virtuoso improvisers\, Ahmed Abdullah\, Chris Cheek\, Ben Monder\, Satoko Fujii\, Alex Harding\, Jeff Parker\, Oscar Noriega\, Natsuki Tamura\, Frank Carlberg\, Elie Massias\, Dan Fox\, Sten Hostfalt\, Masa Kamaguchi and Matt Renzi.  As a sideman he has worked supporting Sheila Jordan\, Noah Preminger\, Rachel Gould\, Greg Burk\, Marcello Tonolo and Reggie Veal.  \nIn collaboration with Abdullah\, Harding and Kamaguchi he founded the adventurous and highly acclaimed melodic quartet NAM\, whose album Song of Time was voted among the top 25 all time live performances by critic Kevin Whitehead. As a leader\, his discography contains albums released by Fresh Sound\, Clean Feed\, Accurate\, CIMP\, El Gallo Rojo and Gunther Schuller’s GM Recordings.  Among Weinstein’s current projects\, is a quartet featuring the pianist extraordinaire Satoko Fujii\, in addition to trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and vocalist Lilly Santon . As a teacher\, Weinstein’s experience has brought forth TRAVELING SCHOOL PLAYJAZZ\, an organization dedicated to conducting jazz workshops where he often performs with his students.  Jimmy’s new quintet features Chris Cheek\, Ben Monder\, Tom Beckham and Dave Ambrosio\, all musicians who he has worked with over the past 25 years\, coming together to perform Jimmy’s new compositions on his latest album “Sobrinos”.  \nTraveling School Playjazz has been organizing the yearly jazz workshop at the acclaimed Mallorca Jazz Sa Pobla Festival since 2006.  Over the years Jimmy has coordinated workshops with leading artists including Lee Konitz\, Sheila Jordan\, Chris Cheek\, Dennis Irwin\, Matt Garrison\, Noah Preminger\, Dan Fox\, Toni Miranda\, Pedro Cortejosa\, Perico Sambeat\, Marco Mezquida\, Paolo Porta and Carlo Cattano.  \nLilly / Liliana Santon / vocalist \nLilly Santon trained as an architect before venturing into the world of jazz and energy therapy. After spending her formative years in Brazil\, she attended middle and high school in Padua\, Italy and received her degree in architecture from the University of Venice. \nLilly lived in New York and Munich between 1980 and 2003 where she worked as an architect and studied jazz with the likes of Barry Harris\, Sheila Jordan\, Mark Murphy and Jay Clayton. During the 80’s in New York she performed with Don Cherry’s Collective Ensemble alongside Jim Pepper\, Bob Moses\, Dennis Charles and Clarence “C” Sharpe. While deepening her musical studies\, she trained in bio-energetic therapy\, which has been integrated into her teaching methods in private classes and workshops. In 2003\, she moved to Italy and Spain\, and co-founded the Cultural Association Traveling School. Lilly performs regularly with Satoko Fujii\, Jimmy Weinstein Quintet\, and different formations of the Traveling School Band. \nProjects include Sten Hosfalt’s Microtonal Ensemble Dimensional States; vocal duet improvisations with renowned composer Constance Cooper; 2014 appereances in NYC recording sessions with Jimmy Weinstein Quintet\, Noah Preminger. New collaborations 2016/2017 include Johnny Lapio’s Porta Palace featuring Satoko Fukjii\, Giancarlo Schiaffini and Natsuki Tamura.  Story Told By Sound a multi-media project with Elie Massias and Jimmy Weinstein.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/save-the-date-improvisers-in-residence-community-concert/
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:20241023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241023T130000
DTSTAMP:20241016T175232Z
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SUMMARY:SOAN and IICSI Present: "Deference Rituals and Creative Buzz: Theorizing the Creative Trajectories of Songs and Songwriters" with Taylor Price.
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, October 23 at 12:00 PM (ET) for the first event in the 2024–2025 SOAN Seminar Series: “Deference Rituals and Creative Buzz: Theorizing the Creative Trajectories of Songs and Songwriters” with Taylor Price.\n \n\nThis presentation will take place in person inside MCKN 621 at the University of Guelph (6th floor\, next to the elevators). The event is free and open to everybody!\n \nMore About the Seminar\nTaylor Price will dive into the dynamics of culture creation in songwriting teams\, exploring how cognition\, interaction\, and relationships shape the creative process. Drawing from his ethnographic observations in music studios and interviews with music producers\, he will discuss the social interactions that drive both the linear and nonlinear paths of creativity. \nMore About the Presenter\nTaylor Price is a postdoctoral fellow in New York University’s Department of Sociology. He completed his PhD at the University of Toronto\, where he wrote a dissertation exploring how cognition\, interaction\, and relationships facilitate culture creation in songwriting teams. His postdoctoral research draws on ethnographic observations in music studios and interviews with music producers to understand how social interactions facilitate the linear and nonlinear dimensions of the creative process. Beyond his research on creative situations\, he has also written about cultural consecration\, knowledge production\, and qualitative social research methods. \nFor more information\, contact Prof. Mervyn Horgan (mhorgan@uoguelph.ca).
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/saon-and-iicsi-present-deference-rituals-and-creative-buzz-theorizing-the-creative-trajectories-of-songs-and-songwriters-with-taylor-price/
LOCATION:MCKN 621\, 87 Trent Lane\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241022T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241022T124500
DTSTAMP:20241016T182124Z
CREATED:20241016T182124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241016T182124Z
UID:15052-1729599300-1729601100@improvisationinstitute.ca
SUMMARY:"Singing in the Circle\," with the GCVI Chamber Choir\, Carey West\, and Joe Sorbara
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, October 22 at 12:15 PM(ET) for “Singing in the Circle\,” with the GCVI Chamber Choir\, Carey West\, and Joe Sorbara. This concert will take place at the “How To Draw A Tree” Wellness Circle\, at the SW corner of Johnson Green\, University of Guelph Campus (across from the Reynolds Building near Gordon Street). The event is free and open to all students and community.\n \nDon’t miss the GCVI Chamber Choir (directed by: Lane Osborne) improvising with vocalist Carey West and percussionist Joe Sorbara in a special collaboration with the IICSI! \nRain Date: Thursday\, October 24. \n\n“Singing in the Circle” is presented by HowToDrawATree.ca with support from the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation\, UG Grounbds\, and the “Activating Art Microgrant” through the Guelph Arts Council.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/singing-in-the-circle-with-the-gcvi-chamber-choir-carey-west-and-joe-sorbara/
LOCATION:“How to Draw a Tree” Wellness Circle\, Johnson Green\, Gordon Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240927T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240927T123000
DTSTAMP:20240927T115135Z
CREATED:20240917T235606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240927T115135Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon\, "Building a Safe Creativity Environment"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, September 27 at 11:00 AM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Building a Safe Creativity Environment” with Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon\, a featured event in the Ontario Culture Days calendar! \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via IICSI’s new Twitch Stream. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms. \n\nMore about this talk:\nJimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon founded Travelling School in 2002 in Padova\, Italy with the mission to teach jazz and improvisation as applied to general education. Many different projects grew out of this initiative. Drawing on their life in music and in association with other musicians\, they create workshops at jazz festivals\, music schools and regular schools.Over the course of twenty-two years since the founding of Travelling School\, Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon have developed a highly effective methodology for introducing concepts taken from jazz improvisation. These concepts can be applied to general and special education situations and dynamics. Today\, their introduction to these creative and educational concepts takes the shape of their workshop: Building a Safe Creativity Environment. \n\nSome of the points that will be outlined in this workshop could be: \n1. Inclusion with the self: Self inclusion exercises (most evident when one feels embarrassed). \n2. High Energy Encouragement: Positive high energy received in the moment of improvisation as a teacher. Real ability to improvise a class\, and how to develop this. \n3. Inclusion of conflict and disruption: Using disruption as catalyst for the improvising teacher applied in real life class dynamics. \n4. The Concert Game: The game of the 30 second concert presented as a game for kids. \n5. Listening to jazz pieces and transposing the emotion into a solo or interactive performance/concert. \nMore about the Speakers:\nJimmy Weinstein / drums\, piano\, guitar\, composer \nBorn in Chicago\, Jimmy moved with his family to California and Spain. A Berklee College of Music alumnus ’89 and leader of a consortium of New York based ensembles\, Jimmy has been on the move for over 25 years\, touring the US\, Europe and Japan.  Major associations include recordings and tours with virtuoso improvisers\, Ahmed Abdullah\, Chris Cheek\, Ben Monder\, Satoko Fujii\, Alex Harding\, Jeff Parker\, Oscar Noriega\, Natsuki Tamura\, Frank Carlberg\, Elie Massias\, Dan Fox\, Sten Hostfalt\, Masa Kamaguchi and Matt Renzi.  As a sideman he has worked supporting Sheila Jordan\, Noah Preminger\, Rachel Gould\, Greg Burk\, Marcello Tonolo and Reggie Veal.  \nIn collaboration with Abdullah\, Harding and Kamaguchi he founded the adventurous and highly acclaimed melodic quartet NAM\, whose album Song of Time was voted among the top 25 all time live performances by critic Kevin Whitehead. As a leader\, his discography contains albums released by Fresh Sound\, Clean Feed\, Accurate\, CIMP\, El Gallo Rojo and Gunther Schuller’s GM Recordings.  Among Weinstein’s current projects\, is a quartet featuring the pianist extraordinaire Satoko Fujii\, in addition to trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and vocalist Lilly Santon . As a teacher\, Weinstein’s experience has brought forth TRAVELING SCHOOL PLAYJAZZ\, an organization dedicated to conducting jazz workshops where he often performs with his students.  Jimmy’s new quintet features Chris Cheek\, Ben Monder\, Tom Beckham and Dave Ambrosio\, all musicians who he has worked with over the past 25 years\, coming together to perform Jimmy’s new compositions on his latest album “Sobrinos”.  \nTraveling School Playjazz has been organizing the yearly jazz workshop at the acclaimed Mallorca Jazz Sa Pobla Festival since 2006.  Over the years Jimmy has coordinated workshops with leading artists including Lee Konitz\, Sheila Jordan\, Chris Cheek\, Dennis Irwin\, Matt Garrison\, Noah Preminger\, Dan Fox\, Toni Miranda\, Pedro Cortejosa\, Perico Sambeat\, Marco Mezquida\, Paolo Porta and Carlo Cattano.  \nLilly / Liliana Santon / vocalist \nLilly Santon trained as an architect before venturing into the world of jazz and energy therapy. After spending her formative years in Brazil\, she attended middle and high school in Padua\, Italy and received her degree in architecture from the University of Venice. \nLilly lived in New York and Munich between 1980 and 2003 where she worked as an architect and studied jazz with the likes of Barry Harris\, Sheila Jordan\, Mark Murphy and Jay Clayton. During the 80’s in New York she performed with Don Cherry’s Collective Ensemble alongside Jim Pepper\, Bob Moses\, Dennis Charles and Clarence “C” Sharpe. While deepening her musical studies\, she trained in bio-energetic therapy\, which has been integrated into her teaching methods in private classes and workshops. In 2003\, she moved to Italy and Spain\, and co-founded the Cultural Association Traveling School. Lilly performs regularly with Satoko Fujii\, Jimmy Weinstein Quintet\, and different formations of the Traveling School Band. \nProjects include Sten Hosfalt’s Microtonal Ensemble Dimensional States; vocal duet improvisations with renowned composer Constance Cooper; 2014 appereances in NYC recording sessions with Jimmy Weinstein Quintet\, Noah Preminger. New collaborations 2016/2017 include Johnny Lapio’s Porta Palace featuring Satoko Fukjii\, Giancarlo Schiaffini and Natsuki Tamura.  Story Told By Sound a multi-media project with Elie Massias and Jimmy Weinstein. \nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-jimmy-weinstein-and-lilly-santon-building-a-safe-creativity-environment/
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:20240914T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240914T163000
DTSTAMP:20240806T211118Z
CREATED:20240806T205842Z
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SUMMARY:KidsAbility Play Who You Are Ensemble - Final Performance at the Guelph Jazz Festival
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Saturday\, September 14 at 3:00 PM (ET) for a public performance by the “KidsAbility Play Who You Are Ensemble” at the Guelph Jazz Festival.\n \nThis performance will take place in person at TD Market Square\, Downtown Guelph. The event is free and open to everybody.\n \nMore About This Event:\nSince 2007\, KidsAbility and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) have partnered to bring award-winning musicians to support youth with varying developmental and physical needs. Play Who You Are includes a FREE series of musical improvisation workshops which culminate in a FREE public performance at the Guelph Jazz Festival. The KidsAbility Play Who You Are Ensemble will be facilitated by Ben Finley. \nThis year\, the workshops take place on August 12th (info session)\, 14th\, 19th\, 21st\, and September 4th from 7-8 pm at ImprovLab\, located on the University of Guelph Campus. The final culminating performance will take place at the Guelph Jazz Festival on Saturday\, September 14th. \nMore About the Facilitator:\nBen Finley is an experienced collaborative and solo performer\, composer\, singer\, improviser\, and writer grounded in creative acoustic and electric bass playing. He leads and co-leads several ensembles and grew up on a music festival farm – Westben! He is a current Ph.D. candidate in the Critical Studies in Improvisation program at the University of Guelph. \nThe KidsAbility Play Who You Are Ensemble will also be joined onstage by the IICSI Improvisers-in-Residence\, Jimmy Weinstein (drums\, piano\, guitar\, composer) and Lilly Santon (vocalist\, visual arts). \nFor more information\, and to register to participate in Play Who You Are\, contact Taylor Graham at improvce@uoguelph.ca.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/kidsability-play-who-you-are-ensemble/
LOCATION:TD Market Square\, Guelph\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240911T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240911T170000
DTSTAMP:20250421T172408Z
CREATED:20240808T175008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T172408Z
UID:14689-1726045200-1726074000@improvisationinstitute.ca
SUMMARY:2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: "Sheets of Sound: Jazz\, Improvisation\, and Liner Notes"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us from Wednesday\, September 11–Saturday\, September 14 for the 2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium in Guelph\, Ontario\, Canada. \nThis year’s event\, titled “Sheets of Sound: Jazz\, Improvisation\, and Liner Notes\,” draws inspiration from jazz critic and historian Ira Gitler’s description of legendary jazz saxophonist John Coltrane’s 1958 recording Soultrane. Gitler famously coined the phrase\, “sheets of sound” to describe Coltrane’s playing. The event also takes its cues from Daphne Brooks’ recent work\, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound\, highlighting the overlooked contributions of Black women in the history of popular music. Dr. Brooks\, one of the colloquium’s keynote speakers\, will present a compelling new work on Friday from 2:30–3:45 PM\, titled “Liner Notes for the Hurricane: Crate Digging for Porgy and Bess.” The other keynote speaker\, Ashley Kahn\, a prolific American music historian\, will deliver a presentation on Thursday from 3:45–4:45 PM\, titled “Liner Noting in the Time of Streaming.”\n \nThis colloquium will take place in person at ImprovLab (Room 108 MacKinnon Building) on the University of Guelph Campus. The event is free and open to everybody. \n\nMore About This Event:\nSince 1996 the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium\, co-presented by the University of Guelph in partnership with the Guelph Jazz Festival\, has brought together diverse communities of interest by providing a scholarly forum for dialogue among researchers\, creative practitioners\, arts presenters\, and members of the general public. \nThe focus of this year’s colloquium is “Liner Notes” \nIn what ways have liner notes shaped the way the music is received? To what extent do liner notes contribute to the ways in which we negotiate and construct meaning about the music\, how we understand history\, how and why we listen? In what ways have digital dissemination and streaming services disrupted our notions of liner notes? And how has this shifted listener/audience understanding about their favourite artists? \nThe learn more about this year’s presenters and to see a full schedule\, please follow this link to the colloquium web portal.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/2024gjfc-sheets-of-sound-jazz-improvisation-and-liner-notes/
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:20240911T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240911T170000
DTSTAMP:20250421T172408Z
CREATED:20240808T175008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T172408Z
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SUMMARY:2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: "Sheets of Sound: Jazz\, Improvisation\, and Liner Notes"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us from Wednesday\, September 11–Saturday\, September 14 for the 2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium in Guelph\, Ontario\, Canada. \nThis year’s event\, titled “Sheets of Sound: Jazz\, Improvisation\, and Liner Notes\,” draws inspiration from jazz critic and historian Ira Gitler’s description of legendary jazz saxophonist John Coltrane’s 1958 recording Soultrane. Gitler famously coined the phrase\, “sheets of sound” to describe Coltrane’s playing. The event also takes its cues from Daphne Brooks’ recent work\, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound\, highlighting the overlooked contributions of Black women in the history of popular music. Dr. Brooks\, one of the colloquium’s keynote speakers\, will present a compelling new work on Friday from 2:30–3:45 PM\, titled “Liner Notes for the Hurricane: Crate Digging for Porgy and Bess.” The other keynote speaker\, Ashley Kahn\, a prolific American music historian\, will deliver a presentation on Thursday from 3:45–4:45 PM\, titled “Liner Noting in the Time of Streaming.”\n \nThis colloquium will take place in person at ImprovLab (Room 108 MacKinnon Building) on the University of Guelph Campus. The event is free and open to everybody. \n\nMore About This Event:\nSince 1996 the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium\, co-presented by the University of Guelph in partnership with the Guelph Jazz Festival\, has brought together diverse communities of interest by providing a scholarly forum for dialogue among researchers\, creative practitioners\, arts presenters\, and members of the general public. \nThe focus of this year’s colloquium is “Liner Notes” \nIn what ways have liner notes shaped the way the music is received? To what extent do liner notes contribute to the ways in which we negotiate and construct meaning about the music\, how we understand history\, how and why we listen? In what ways have digital dissemination and streaming services disrupted our notions of liner notes? And how has this shifted listener/audience understanding about their favourite artists? \nThe learn more about this year’s presenters and to see a full schedule\, please follow this link to the colloquium web portal.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/2024gjfc-sheets-of-sound-jazz-improvisation-and-liner-notes/
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:20240911T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240911T170000
DTSTAMP:20250421T172408Z
CREATED:20240808T175008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T172408Z
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SUMMARY:2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: "Sheets of Sound: Jazz\, Improvisation\, and Liner Notes"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us from Wednesday\, September 11–Saturday\, September 14 for the 2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium in Guelph\, Ontario\, Canada. \nThis year’s event\, titled “Sheets of Sound: Jazz\, Improvisation\, and Liner Notes\,” draws inspiration from jazz critic and historian Ira Gitler’s description of legendary jazz saxophonist John Coltrane’s 1958 recording Soultrane. Gitler famously coined the phrase\, “sheets of sound” to describe Coltrane’s playing. The event also takes its cues from Daphne Brooks’ recent work\, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound\, highlighting the overlooked contributions of Black women in the history of popular music. Dr. Brooks\, one of the colloquium’s keynote speakers\, will present a compelling new work on Friday from 2:30–3:45 PM\, titled “Liner Notes for the Hurricane: Crate Digging for Porgy and Bess.” The other keynote speaker\, Ashley Kahn\, a prolific American music historian\, will deliver a presentation on Thursday from 3:45–4:45 PM\, titled “Liner Noting in the Time of Streaming.”\n \nThis colloquium will take place in person at ImprovLab (Room 108 MacKinnon Building) on the University of Guelph Campus. The event is free and open to everybody. \n\nMore About This Event:\nSince 1996 the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium\, co-presented by the University of Guelph in partnership with the Guelph Jazz Festival\, has brought together diverse communities of interest by providing a scholarly forum for dialogue among researchers\, creative practitioners\, arts presenters\, and members of the general public. \nThe focus of this year’s colloquium is “Liner Notes” \nIn what ways have liner notes shaped the way the music is received? To what extent do liner notes contribute to the ways in which we negotiate and construct meaning about the music\, how we understand history\, how and why we listen? In what ways have digital dissemination and streaming services disrupted our notions of liner notes? And how has this shifted listener/audience understanding about their favourite artists? \nThe learn more about this year’s presenters and to see a full schedule\, please follow this link to the colloquium web portal.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/2024gjfc-sheets-of-sound-jazz-improvisation-and-liner-notes/
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:20240911T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240911T170000
DTSTAMP:20250421T172408Z
CREATED:20240808T175008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T172408Z
UID:14689-1726045200-1726074000@improvisationinstitute.ca
SUMMARY:2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: "Sheets of Sound: Jazz\, Improvisation\, and Liner Notes"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us from Wednesday\, September 11–Saturday\, September 14 for the 2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium in Guelph\, Ontario\, Canada. \nThis year’s event\, titled “Sheets of Sound: Jazz\, Improvisation\, and Liner Notes\,” draws inspiration from jazz critic and historian Ira Gitler’s description of legendary jazz saxophonist John Coltrane’s 1958 recording Soultrane. Gitler famously coined the phrase\, “sheets of sound” to describe Coltrane’s playing. The event also takes its cues from Daphne Brooks’ recent work\, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound\, highlighting the overlooked contributions of Black women in the history of popular music. Dr. Brooks\, one of the colloquium’s keynote speakers\, will present a compelling new work on Friday from 2:30–3:45 PM\, titled “Liner Notes for the Hurricane: Crate Digging for Porgy and Bess.” The other keynote speaker\, Ashley Kahn\, a prolific American music historian\, will deliver a presentation on Thursday from 3:45–4:45 PM\, titled “Liner Noting in the Time of Streaming.”\n \nThis colloquium will take place in person at ImprovLab (Room 108 MacKinnon Building) on the University of Guelph Campus. The event is free and open to everybody. \n\nMore About This Event:\nSince 1996 the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium\, co-presented by the University of Guelph in partnership with the Guelph Jazz Festival\, has brought together diverse communities of interest by providing a scholarly forum for dialogue among researchers\, creative practitioners\, arts presenters\, and members of the general public. \nThe focus of this year’s colloquium is “Liner Notes” \nIn what ways have liner notes shaped the way the music is received? To what extent do liner notes contribute to the ways in which we negotiate and construct meaning about the music\, how we understand history\, how and why we listen? In what ways have digital dissemination and streaming services disrupted our notions of liner notes? And how has this shifted listener/audience understanding about their favourite artists? \nThe learn more about this year’s presenters and to see a full schedule\, please follow this link to the colloquium web portal.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/2024gjfc-sheets-of-sound-jazz-improvisation-and-liner-notes/
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:20240820T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240820T213000
DTSTAMP:20240815T134211Z
CREATED:20240814T143648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T134211Z
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SUMMARY:Ultra-Sonic Moth Songs
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, August 20 at 7:30 PM (ET) for “Ultra-Sonic Moth Songs” with Lucy Rupert\, Lisa Hirmer\, Christina Kingsbury\, and Ben Finley.\n \nThis performance will take place in person at the Moth Garder\, located at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre\, 5420 Highway 6 in Guelph. Attendees will meet at the Ignatius Farm Workshop parking lot at 7:30pm and walk out to the garden for the performance. The event is free\, although seating is very limited. Preregistration is required. Please book your ticket on the Moth Garden Eventbrite page.\n \nMore About This Performance\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us at the Moth Garden. At dusk on August 20th\, experience improvised music and movement amoung the moths. Created by artists Lisa Hirmer and Christina Kingsbury\, the Moth Garden is dedicated to the often underappreciated\, yet vitally important nocturnal pollinators of our world. Did you know moths make music that human ears can’t hear? As the sun sets and the moths come out to play\, you are invited to experience dancer Lucy Rupert and bassist Ben Finley’s interpretation of ultra-sonic moth songs. \nWe will meet at the Ignatius Farm Workshop parking lot at 7:30pm and walk out to the garden for the performance. The garden is a 10-15 minute walk along a gravel roadway and then mowed grass paths which have some uneven surfaces and slight inclines. The walk is less than 1km. Please let us know if this is an access barrier as we can arrange to shuttle some folks to the garden if needed. There are several straw bales and blankets around the garden for informal seating. Please contact us if you have any other access needs that we can support with. \nBecause the garden and event are centred around meeting other beings in their own sensory worlds\, and to support human access considerations\, we ask that you avoid the use of insect repellents and other scented products. We will have bug suits available\, or let us know if you will bring your own. We also recommend long sleeves and pants to protect from the mosquitoes. \nThis workshop is part of the project Moth Garden by artists Lisa Hirmer and Christina Kingsbury. \nMore About the Performers\nLucy Rupert is a dancer\, choreographer\, art-science researcher\, and writer. She has performed with Fujiwara Dance Inventions\, Theatre Rusticle\, Nova Dance\, Anandam Dance\, Sashar Zarif Dance\, Puppetmongers Theatre\, Circus Orange\, and Chartier Danse\, among others. In 2004 Lucy founded Blue Ceiling dance\, an umbrella for her choreography and commissions\, performing throughout Ontario\, in New York\, Montreal and Stuttgart\, Germany. Her creations are inspired by cosmology\, biology and philosophy – anything from monsters to photons to the end of the universe. Lucy has a Joint Honours BA in Dance and Music (University of Waterloo)\, an MA in History (University of Toronto)\, and currently studies philosophy through Oxford University. She lives in Toronto with her husband and son\, and two feral cats\, in a magical neighbourhood full of coyotes and old trees. \nLisa Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist who works in visual media\, especially photography; social practice; community collaboration\, and sometimes writing. Her work is focussed on collective relationships both in human communities and in human relationships with the more-than-human world. A lot of her recent work wrestles with what it means to be living inside the climate emergency and on the edge of planetary collapse. Her work finds home both in traditional gallery contexts and an expanded field of other public and semi-public spaces and is always created with a keen awareness that multiple realities exist alongside one another. \nShe has shown her work across Canada and internationally including at Art Gallery of Ontario\, Art Gallery of Guelph\, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery\, Cambridge Art Galleries\, Art Gallery of Mississauga\, Tom Thomson Gallery\, Art Windsor-Essex\, Doris McCarthy Gallery\, Peninsula Arts\, CAFKA\, Queens Museum\, and Flux Factory\, among others. She has done artist residencies with Arts House Melbourne\, the Santa Fe Art Institute\, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World\, KIAC and Camargo Foundation\, and was the 2022 Waterfront Toronto Artist in Residence. She has received numerous grants including from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts and has a Master of Architecture from the University of Waterloo. \nChristina Kingsbury’s (she/her) interdisciplinary art practice is inspired by histories of care and explores themes of place\, ecology and inter-species relationships. Her work takes the form of performance\, installation and social practice. Christina collaborates regularly with poets\, ecologists\, artists\, choreographers and the public-including ecological public – to create relational works that offer a quiet and radical challenge to the commodification of life. Her work is rooted (often literally) in the Grand River watershed and treaty lands of the Mississauga’s of the Credit and part of her practice works through relationships with land as a settler person. Her solo and collaborative work has been shown as public interventions and in curated exhibitions both locally and internationally. \nAt the age of 14\, Ben Finley plucked his first bass string. Everything changed! Immediately\, things fell still\, without worry\, in playful possibility. Miraculously\, that feeling remains. Ben Finley is a collaborative and solo performer-composer\, singer\, improviser\, and writer grounded in creative acoustic and electric bass playing. He leads and co-leads several ensembles that cross compositional boundaries\, drawing inspiration from chamber music\, song forms\, improvisational music making\, electronics and the sound worlds of local environments. He grew up on a music festival farm (Westben) where he witnessed many ways of making music\, entwined with land and creatures. Ben is the co-founder and creative director of the Westben Centre for Connection & Creativity’s Performer-Composer Residency\, which since 2018 has welcomed many diverse sound explorers to collaborate\, share creative music and exchange perspectives. He is also Westben’s Sustainability Coordinator\, working on various environmental care initiatives on the Westben grounds. He is a current Ph.D. candidate in the Critical Studies in Improvisation program at the University of Guelph\, studying music festivals and creative music practices as sites of eco-cultural regeneration. Please find more about Ben’s projects at benfinleymusic.com. \nBe sure to book your ticket on the Moth Garden Eventbrite page.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/ultra-sonic-moth-songs/
LOCATION:The Moth Garden (Ignatius Jesuit Centre)\, 5420 Highway 6\, Guelph\, Ontario\, n1h6j2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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SUMMARY:François Houle and MILE Camp Participants LIVE at the Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, August 16 at 4:00 PM (ET) for “François Houle and MILE Camp Participants LIVE at the Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum.”\n \nThis performance will take place in person at the Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum\, located at 294 route 132 est in Coin-du-Banc. Tickets cost $10 and will be available for purchase at the door (cash only). Please note that seating is limited. \nMORE ABOUT THIS EVENT:\nOn Monday\, August 12th\, at 8:00 PM (EDT)\, camp facilitator François Houle—improvising clarinetist extraordinaire—will perform a concert at the Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum\, located at 294 route 132 est in Coin-du-Banc. The Vancouver-based musician is one of Canada’s most renowned and innovative improvisational musicians\, and his performance in this wonderful space is not to be missed. \nMORE ABOUT THE ARTIST:\nClarinetist François Houle has established himself as one of today’s most inventive musicians\, in all the diverse musical spheres he embraces. Inspired by collaborations with the world’s top musical innovators\, François has developed a unique improvisational language\, virtuosic and rich with sonic embellishment and technical extensions. He has worked with Dave Douglas\, Mark Dresser\, Joëlle Léandre\, Benoît Delbecq\, Evan Parker\, Samuel Blaser\, Gerry Hemingway\, Marilyn Crispell\, Myra Melford\, René Lussier\, Alexander Hawkins\, John Butcher\, Kris Davis\, Georg Graewe\, Håvard Wiik\, Guillermo Gregorio\, Eyvind Kang\, Hasse Poulsen\, and many of Canada and the International scene’s top creative music artists. \nHis extensive touring has led to solo appearances at major festivals across Canada\, the United \nStates\, Europe and Australia. A prolific recording artist\, he has released over twenty recordings as a leader\, earning multiple Juno Award and West Coast Music Award nominations. He is the founder of Afterday Audio\, a record label dedicated to the documentation and dissemination of his many musical projects and collaborations. In addition\, he has appeared on numerous recordings on the Songlines\, Red Toucan\, Leo Records\, Drip Audio\, PSI\, Between-the-Lines\, Nuscope\, Spool\, hat[now]ART\, Redshift\, and CRI labels\, among others. \nHe has been listed on numerous occasions in DownBeat magazine’s Readers and Critics’ Polls  as a “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition” and a “Rising Star”. \nFrançois studied at McGill University\, went on to win the National Debut competition\, and \ncompleted his studies at Yale University. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria\, Italy\, and was a featured soloist in the International Clarinet Association’s 2007 and 2008 ClarinetFests. He is a faculty member at the Vancouver Community College School of Music\, and a former graduate clarinet studio instructor at the University of British Columbia. He served as Artistic Director of the Vancouver Creative Music Institute for five years. In 2008 he was appointed as “Associate Composer” of the Canadian Music Centre. \nFrançois Houle is a Backun artist and clinician. He plays Backun clarinets\, mouthpieces\, bells\, and barrels. He is also a Légère Artist\, performing on Signature European cut reeds. \nVisit François on-line at www.francoishoule.ca \nThese events at Musical Improvisation at Land’s End / Coin-du-Banc en folie are made possible thanks to the generous support of the Musagetes Foundation\, La société historique de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Historical Society\, La MRC du Rocher-Percé\, La Ville de Percé\, the Vancouver Community College Faculty Association\, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/francois-houle-and-mile-camp-participants-live-at-the-musee-culturel-de-coin-du-banc-corner-of-the-beach-cultural-museum/
LOCATION:Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum\, 294 route 132 est\, Coin-du-Banc\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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SUMMARY:"Aerials" with François Houle LIVE at the Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday\, August 12 at 8:00 PM (ET) for “Aerials with François Houle at the Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum.”\n \nThis performance will take place in person at the Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum\, located at 294 route 132 est in Coin-du-Banc. Tickets cost $10 and will be available for purchase at the door (cash only). Please note that seating is limited. \nMORE ABOUT THIS EVENT:\nAerials is a set of improvisations exploring the clarinet’s uncharted territories. Developed during a five-week residency in Italy at the 15th century Castello Civitella Ranieri\, the music is complex and seductive\, taking the listener inside the instrument. Technically\, this project taps deeply into the clarinetist’s inclination for the unexpected\, from disembodied clarinets played simultaneously to flute-like melodies. Examining the way the instrument “reacts” to various acoustical spaces\, this program is virtuosity coupled with stunning lyricism. \nMORE ABOUT THE ARTIST:\nClarinetist François Houle has established himself as one of today’s most inventive musicians\, in all the diverse musical spheres he embraces. Inspired by collaborations with the world’s top musical innovators\, François has developed a unique improvisational language\, virtuosic and rich with sonic embellishment and technical extensions. He has worked with Dave Douglas\, Mark Dresser\, Joëlle Léandre\, Benoît Delbecq\, Evan Parker\, Samuel Blaser\, Gerry Hemingway\, Marilyn Crispell\, Myra Melford\, René Lussier\, Alexander Hawkins\, John Butcher\, Kris Davis\, Georg Graewe\, Håvard Wiik\, Guillermo Gregorio\, Eyvind Kang\, Hasse Poulsen\, and many of Canada and the International scene’s top creative music artists. \nHis extensive touring has led to solo appearances at major festivals across Canada\, the United \nStates\, Europe and Australia. A prolific recording artist\, he has released over twenty recordings as a leader\, earning multiple Juno Award and West Coast Music Award nominations. He is the founder of Afterday Audio\, a record label dedicated to the documentation and dissemination of his many musical projects and collaborations. In addition\, he has appeared on numerous recordings on the Songlines\, Red Toucan\, Leo Records\, Drip Audio\, PSI\, Between-the-Lines\, Nuscope\, Spool\, hat[now]ART\, Redshift\, and CRI labels\, among others. \nHe has been listed on numerous occasions in DownBeat magazine’s Readers and Critics’ Polls  as a “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition” and a “Rising Star”. \nFrançois studied at McGill University\, went on to win the National Debut competition\, and \ncompleted his studies at Yale University. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria\, Italy\, and was a featured soloist in the International Clarinet Association’s 2007 and 2008 ClarinetFests. He is a faculty member at the Vancouver Community College School of Music\, and a former graduate clarinet studio instructor at the University of British Columbia. He served as Artistic Director of the Vancouver Creative Music Institute for five years. In 2008 he was appointed as “Associate Composer” of the Canadian Music Centre. \nFrançois Houle is a Backun artist and clinician. He plays Backun clarinets\, mouthpieces\, bells\, and barrels. He is also a Légère Artist\, performing on Signature European cut reeds. \nVisit François on-line at www.francoishoule.ca \nThese events at Musical Improvisation at Land’s End / Coin-du-Banc en folie are made possible thanks to the generous support of the Musagetes Foundation\, La société historique de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Historical Society\, La MRC du Rocher-Percé\, La Ville de Percé\, the Vancouver Community College Faculty Association\, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/francois-houle-at-the-musee-culturel-de-coin-du-banc-corner-of-the-beach-cultural-museum/
LOCATION:Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum\, 294 route 132 est\, Coin-du-Banc\, Quebec\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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