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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Kate Story and Ryan Kerr—Death in Reverse: Performance in Precarious Times
DESCRIPTION:Artists Kate Story and Ryan Kerr will share what it means to create meaningful work within conditions of precarity\, and on the unusual\, often improvised ways artists find to stay connected with audiences. They will share experiences from curating a contemporary theatre piece marked by setbacks: limited funding\, collaborative challenges\, shifting resources – while also finding unexpected forms of support through local politics\, partnerships\, and community networks. Reflecting on “Project Baroness” (https://ttok.ca/death–in–reverse-project-baroness/)\, they will also consider festival and DIY theatre\, arts and “non-arts’’ collaborations\, residency models\, and the fragile balance between fundraising and public funding that shapes small-scale performance ecosystems. “As Death in Reverse made its way toward the stage\, our work continually evoked echoes of DADA-era New York: periods of conflict\, displacement\, authoritarian tightening\, censorship\, and the suppression of movements for racial\, gender\, and LGBTQ2IA+ justice. Artists may have been worn down by their circumstances\, yet they continued to create. This conversation invites us to sit with those parallels—and with the quiet insistence of art that persists.” \nRyan Kerr is the founding artistic director of The Theatre on King\, a radical black-box space that\, soon after being established\, became the hub for new and risk-taking performance in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough Ontario. At TTOK\, Kerr oversaw countless original performances as outside eye\, lighting designer\, director\, and mentor\, featuring a wide range of artists – emerging to established\, including theatre artists\, musicians\, writers\, dance artists\, comedy\, and multidisciplinary artists. With Kate Story he co-ran the Precarious Festivals\, four multi-disciplinary\, multi-artist\, multi-week festivals featuring regional artists in collaboration with non-arts groups and initiatives. Kerr is the winner of the Arts Catalyst Award (Peterborough Arts Awards).  \n\nKate Story is a genderqueer writer and performing artist originally from Newfoundland\, now living and working as an uninvited guest in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough\, Ontario. Winner of the Ontario Arts Foundation’s K.M. Hunter Artist Award for theatre\, Kate is a dramaturge/director\, writer\, theatre designer\, and performer. Her one-person shows have been presented in Peterborough\, Toronto\, and St. John’s\, and her climate change story “Animate” was adapted for an international radio drama and virtual reality theatre performance\, performed and broadcast across Europe and as part of MUTEK 2023 in Montréal. They have published 6 novels\, including Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Urchin. She is currently working on a new novel.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-ryan-kerr-and-kate-story-death-in-reverse-performance-in-precarious-times/
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:20260204T133000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Alex Chesney and Dr. Nathan TeBokkel—Storied Social Practice: Improvisation in Farming and Food
DESCRIPTION:Growing and making food are ancient practices yet also scientifically advanced\, necessary for everyday living yet often inaccessible but to experts\, interdisciplinary yet highly specialized. Considering the role of improvisation in farming and cooking\, especially in our chosen subfields of beekeeping and dietetics\, fruitfully foregrounds these tensions. With improvisation as our watchword\, we bring to bear a syncretic mix of lived experience and literary criticism to develop a concept of storied social practice\, which will allow us to attend to social relations\, embodiment\, sensory perception\, and historicity\, without sacrificing\, as so often seems conventional in the long critical post-enlightenment\, individual agency\, the mind\, cognition\, and contemporaneity. Along the way we engage with our own stories and social practices as well as those of philosophers like Sylvia Winter and Ludwig Wittgenstein\, literary theorists like Anne-Lise François and Lenora Hanson\, and food and farming events like eighteenth-century agricultural improvement\, the contemporary Right to Repair movement\, and Leah Penniman’s Soul Fire Farm. \nAlex Chesney is a dietitian and farmer living and working on her family’s fruit and vegetable farm in Southwestern Ontario. Alex’s dietetic practice and farming work go hand in hand; rooted in food and agriculture education and communication\, she creates spaces for people to experience their food at its source\, and teaches them about agricultural production\, food preparation\, and nutrition. She manages pick-your-own fruits and vegetables\, on-farm workshops and tours\, recipe development\, communications (social media\, newsletters\, blog posts)\, and daily produce-subscription delivery (paired with nutrition tips\, recipes\, and techniques for food storage and preservation). Alex is also the current Chair of the Berry Growers of Ontario and is proud to help represent and promote the thriving Ontario berry industry through research and marketing efforts. \nDr. Nathan TeBokkel is a Banting postdoctoral fellow at Western. He’s writing a book\, Working Feeling\, on labour history and lived experience\, and he has a book in press at Cambridge\, Whistling at the Plough\, on agricultural capitalism and romanticism. Nathan’s also training to be a master beekeeper\, managing 160 hives on his family’s melon farm\, and researching requeening. His recent publications include an essay on food labels and technocratic populism in New Literary History.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-alex-chesney-and-dr-nathan-tebokkel-storied-social-practice-improvisation-in-farming-and-food/
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:20251118T120000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Steve Sladkowski—"'What Can I Get Away With Here?': Improvisation in Punk Rock Performance and Community Making"
DESCRIPTION:IICSI is pleased to present a Thinking Spaces presentation by Steve Sladkowski—guitarist for renowned punk band PUP\, and U of G alumnus—in ImprovLab at 12 PM on Tuesday\, November 18th! As with all of our Thinking Spaces events\, this presentation is free and open to all. \nHere’s how Steve describes his talk\, and himself: \n“Over the past 15 years of touring the world in a loud and sweaty punk rock band\, I’ve learned a lot about improvising in musical and physical space by asking the question “What can I get away with here?” Some of the lessons gleaned from repeatedly asking this question are profound; some of the lessons are very\, very silly. Through a lively and open-ended discussion with a healthy dose of Q+A\, I’d like to offer insight into the practical uses of improvisation as it relates to onstage performance\, to music venues as safe spaces\, to the art of songwriting and composition\, and the many other parts of my lived experience as a touring musician in the age of streaming and social media.” \nSteve Sladkowski is a guitarist\, improviser\, composer\, and writer best-known for his lead guitar work in the Juno Award-winning and two-time Polaris Prize-shortlisted Toronto punk rock band PUP. He has performed and improvised in 26 countries since graduating from the University of Guelph’s SOFAM in 2010. When not playing the guitar\, he can be found reading\, cooking\, or cheering on the Blue Jays and Raptors. He resides in Toronto with his wife\, dog\, and cat and remains tremendously uncomfortable writing bios.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-steve-sladkowski-what-can-i-get-away-with-here-improvisation-in-punk-rock-performance-and-community-making/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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SUMMARY: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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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:20250304T120000
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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
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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
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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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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: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:20240927T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240927T123000
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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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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: IICSI Postdoctoral Researchers\, "Same Place\, Same Time\, Different Stories: Creative Interpolations"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, April 5\, at 1p:30 AM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Same Place\, Same Time\, Different Stories: Creative Interpolations” with IICSI Postdoctoral Researchers\, Rebecca Barnstaple\, Shelby Bohn\, and jashen edwards.  \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via Zoom. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nMore about this talk:\nIn this improvisational play session\, current IICSI postdoctoral students (Rebecca Barnstaple\, Shelby Bohn\, and jashen edwards) will demonstrate and discuss ways their research intersects to inform new ways of sensing\, knowing\, and being. Weaving a tapestry of dance\, science\, and music\, our presentation will elucidate how multisensory perceptions may be formed and (re)formed via multidisciplinary approaches to creative arts. \nMore about the speakers:\nRebecca Barnstaple (PhD Dance Studies; Graduate Program in Neuroscience 2020\, York University) is the Manager of Community Initiatives\, Research and Innovation at Centre Communautaire Chigamik Community Health Centre\, Midland\, Ontario\, and an IICSI Postdoctoral Fellow\, University of Guelph. A graduate of the National Centre for Dance Therapy at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens (2015)\, she provides education and training in dance therapy and associated research globally. She has been involved in the development and delivery of improvisational arts and health initiatives in the United States (IMPROVment\, Wake Forest University) and Canada (SingWell\, Toronto Metropolitan University; Piece of Mind\, McGill; Dance for Health\, Nova Scotia) and serves in a leadership capacity for professional organizations including the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Canada (Accreditation and Certification Committee)\, the American Dance Therapy Association (Research and Practice Committee)\, and the International Association of Dance Medicine Science (International Benchmarking Standards Task Force\, Dance for Health Committee). Rebecca directs the Research to Practice Lab for ZOE School of Dance Movement Therapy in Basel\, Switzerland. \nDr. Shelby Bohn\, a post-doctoral researcher at #UofG and lead artist behind College Royal’s 100th-anniversary mural\, aims to bridge the gap between two disciplines that don’t often communicate with each other.\n \njashen edwards‘ research centers around students’ sonic lifeworlds – sound currents streaming at home\, school\, on the streets and cyberspace –examining how sonic encounters may be a conduit and catalyst for creative critical consciousness. Drawing upon the fields of archaeoacoustics\, sound studies\, and sensuous scholarship\, his work seeks to draw connections between music education and social justice arts education through the phenomenon of sound. He has worked in PK-12 schools\, colleges and universities\, juvenile detention centers and homeless shelters in San Francisco\, Oakland\, Chicago\, Berlin\, Deutschland and London\, ON. jashen has published and presented his research internationally and is co-founder of Sound\, Meaning\, Education (SME). Presently\, jashen is a in post-doctoral fellow at the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI). He has earned a Ph.D. in music education from Western University\, an MA in music education from Northwestern and a BA in music (composition) from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-iicsi-postdocs/
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:20240327T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240327T150000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: adam patrick bell "Admiration and Imitation: Toward a Disability-Led Model for Music Education"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, March 27 at 1:30 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Admiration and Imitation: Toward a Disability-Led Model for Music Education” with adam patrick bell.  \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via Zoom. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nMore about this talk:\nIn this presentation\, adam will discuss the disability-led model of Drake Music Lab\, a UK-based organization that brands itself as “leaders in music\, disability\, and technology\,” its influence on his community-based collaborative research projects in Canada\, and the implications of this approach for the profession of music education \nMore about the speaker:\nadam patrick bell is Canada Research Chair of Music\, Inclusion\, and Accessibility and an associate professor of music education at Western University\, Canada. He is the author of Dawn of the DAW (Oxford\, 2018)\, and editor of the Music Technology Cookbook (2020). adam is the editor of Canadian Music Educator and serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Music Education\, Journal of Music\, Technology & Education\, Journal of Popular Music Education\, and Visions of Research in Music Education. Currently\, adam is the principal investigator of three studies funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada that focus on disability and music education \n\n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-adam-patrick-bell-admiration-and-imitation-toward-a-disability-led-model-for-music-education/
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:20240313T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240313T150000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Dreams Come True "Improvisation and Radical Accessibility"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, March 13 at 1:00 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Improvisation and Radical Accessibility” with Dreams Come True Music Studio.  \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via Zoom. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nMore about this talk:\nThe International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) is pleased to host an extended Thinking Spaces event focusing on ‘radical accessibility’ (Rice & Besse\, 2020) within arts education. In this moderated discussion/mini-performance\, we are joined by special guests\, Dr. Caroline Blumer (Western University) and Allison O’Connor (Dreams Come True Music\nStudio\, Founder). They will share ways they have merged radical accessibility and improvisational practices in creating and sustaining inclusive musical theater spaces in Brazil and London\, ON Canada. This two-hour special event will feature a mini-performance by members of London\, Ontario’s very own\, Dreams Come True Music Studio (DCT). Come enjoy a live performance by the “dreamers”as they are affectionately called\, and also insightful conversation with the DCT team\, families and caregivers. \nMore about the speakers:\nAllison O’Connor holds a Bachelor Of Music Honours Music Education and Bachelor Of Education from Western University and has been an elementary school vocal and instrumental music teacher since 1988. She has taught for the North York Board of Education and Thames Valley District School Board conducting choirs\, bands\, and school musicals. Allison is founder and artistic director of Dreams Come True Music Studio (DCT)\, a studio focusing on people of all ages and abilities. DCT holds summer\, fall\, and winter music programs\, where “dreamers” learn\, improvise\, and rehearse in preparation for musicals and concerts. Allison and the DCT musicians have received numerous accolades and notable recognition from the community\, including The London Free Press and CTV news for their commitment to inclusion and making a difference through music. \n\nDr. Caroline Blumer holds a Ph.D in Music Education from Western University as well as a Bachelor in Popular Music & Jazz degree and a Master in Music Education degree\, both from the State University of Campinas\, Brazil. As a soloist\, she has performed in “Los Conciertos de Navidad” in Havana and Matanzas (Cuba) accompanied by Brasília Jazz Symphonic. Caroline taught voice in her private studio for 10 years. She was instructor for the “Popular Singing” and “Singing for Actors” courses at Carlos Gomes Conservatory (Campinas). She was Musical Director and Vocal Coach in\nimportant Brazilian musical theater productions such as “Malandro’s Opera”\, “The Lion King”\, “Man of La Mancha”\, “Notre Dame of Paris” and others. Alongside her work as a jazz singer and musician\, she is a researcher and teacher interested in inclusive musical contexts where people with intellectual disabilities experience music-making. Caroline has worked with individuals with disabilities and individuals on the Autistic Spectrum within inclusive musical theatre programs and schools in Brazil. In Canada\, she is engaged as a volunteer and researcher with two inclusive musical programs at L’Arche Community and Dreams Come True Music Studio in London\, ON. \nGet up each day and sing your song. \n\nThese words are near and dear to my heart not only because they were composed by our friend Ken Fleet\, but also because Dreams Come True Music Studio aspires for everyone of all ages and all abilities to be able to get up each day and sing their song. \nThe Dreams Come True Music Studio creates opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to participate in high quality productions and to transform their lives through music. The studio celebrates diversity\, inclusion\, acceptance\, and all abilities. \nIt was April 2018 while walking my dog Max\, that I was chatting with my sister Heather on the phone about my dream to find a music program which was truly inclusive for all; one in which my son Cameron could be successful. He has been surrounded by music all his life and knowing the importance of music in life\, I wanted Cameron to experience success with music. We found our love of sport through Special Olympics but we were missing the music piece. Because of his intellectual disability and FASD\, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder\, he learns differently. But he learns. The goal was for Cameron to experience music and feel confident. Those of you who have been involved in music programs must relish the memories of your rehearsals\, your concerts\, your shows and your friendships made through music. I want that for everyone. \nDuring that walk with Max\, my sister said\, “Stop looking for the program. Create it. You are a music teacher specialist and have been advocating for inclusion since you and Cameron became family.” \nSo began the adventure. We offer Summer\, Fall and Winter programs all culminating in amazing Showcase Concerts. Rehearsals are spent together singing\, moving\, experiencing music and making friendships. We don’t try harder\, we try differently. We are a family. We are not a special needs music group. We are not a kids choir. We are a fantastic\, dedicated and energetic Musical Theatre group! I am so proud of every one of my musicians. It is a privilege to work with our families\, musicians\, caregivers\, local agencies and spectacular volunteers who make our dreams come true. They teach me so much and I am grateful. \nOur musicians: Wow! They are capable and we believe in them. We thank them for pushing themselves personally and musically. They make a difference. \nPlease visit our website\, Facebook\, Twitter and Instagram to learn about our DCT Family and our upcoming programs. \nI want to thank my son\, Cameron for believing in the power of Music. He provided the experiences for me to help to make this happen. Being removed from programs\, being told to look elsewhere\, motivated me to show others what he CAN do. The journey can be lonely but now with our Dreams Come True Family\, we are not alone. We believe. \nWe thank you for believing. This experience will be forever in our hearts.\n#inclusion #abilitiesfirst #singyoursong \n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-dreams-come-true-improvisation-and-radical-accessibility/
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:20240301T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240301T150000
DTSTAMP:20240222T195627Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: MT Space "Multicultural Theatre Space: Intercultural Theatre Creation"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, March 1 at 1:00 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Multicultural Theatre Space: Intercultural Theatre Creation” with MT Space.  \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via Zoom. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nMore about this talk:\nMT Space presents a demonstration of the intercultural theatre creation methodology established by Majdi Bou-Matar\, and engages others in the conversations around devised processes\, ancestry\, and culture clash. This workshop / talk will feature four actors: Nada Abusaleh\, Ahmad Meree\, Brad Cook\, and Jewels Krauss. \nMore about the speaker:\nMT Space (Multicultural Theatre Space) was founded in 2004 by Lebanese-Canadian Majdi Bou-Matar\, who was a trained director\, actor\, and dancer. After receiving the same criticism over and over\, hearing that his accent was too thick or that he “didn’t look the part”\, Majdi decided to create a company that would become a platform for all artists that felt marginalized\, racialized\, and displaced. This is how MT Space was born. \nMT Space has grown from being a company that produces one show every year to an organization that brings culturally and socially relevant work from across the country and around the world to our community of Kitchener-Waterloo. We have challenged the preconceptions of theatre to create\, produce\, and present work that is accessible and affordable to low-income families while creating a space for Indigenous\, immigrant\, refugee\, and marginalized voices to be heard. \nMT Space challenges the definition of theatre to include all disciplines such as dance\, music\, multimedia\, and circus performing arts. As such\, MT Space is becoming a presenter of artists and arts organizations across many disciplines. \n\n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-mt-space-multicultural-theatre-space-intercultural-theatre-creation/
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:20240228T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240228T160000
DTSTAMP:20240221T162341Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Zahra Habib "Lunar Rotations: Eternal Eleutheria
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, February 28 at 2:00 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Eternal Eleutheria” with Zahra Habib.  \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via Zoom. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nMore about this talk:\nZahra takes you on the cosmic experience that is Lunar Rotations\, blending musical selections with narrative overtones that connect the sounds with the theme of arriving at an eternally internal freedom: Eleutheria. \nMore about the speaker:\nAny creation from Zahra Habib is an experience. Zahra is an award-winning DJ\, producer\, radio host\, and multi-faceted creator. Her Lunar Rotations radio show and live experience is a performance of cathartic\, creative force\, and has rocked dance floors in London\, Toronto\, and New York. She has produced countless radio and podcast programs\, and is known for her ability to inspire deep understanding and transformative ideas in her interviews\, viewable on LunarRotations.TV. An advocate an expressive\, creative life for all\, she is a Board Member of TD Sunfest World Music Festival\, the JUNOs Hip-Hop and Rap Advisory committee\, and among many other distinctions\, the owner of Shakti Creative Media Garden.Keep up with Zahra via zahrahabib.ca\, and Instagram: @Zahra.Shakti @Lunar.Rotations \n\n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-zahra-habib-lunar-rotations-eternal-eleutheria/
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:20240208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240208T130000
DTSTAMP:20240221T162515Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Colin Harrington "Improvisation in Sequencer-based Electronic Dance Music"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, February 8 at 12:00 PM for Thinking Spaces: “Improvisation in Sequencer-based Electronic Dance Music” with Colin Harrington.  \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via Zoom. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nMore about this talk:\nThe culture and technology of Electronic Music has seen tremendous developments over the last decade. Thanks to the increased availability\, affordability and accessibility of equipment\, the artform’s popularity has exploded worldwide. One booming area is that of “Sequencer-based Improvisation”\, which entails the synchronizing of one or more instruments together via a “Master Clock”\, then using sequencers\, sound design\, audio mixers\, and effects\, to spontaneously compose fluid and spontaneous music in real-time. \nAlthough many different styles of music can be explored within this medium\, it is most popularly expressed within the stylistic framework and motivations inherent in Electronic Dance Music\, a genre with a rich cultural and technological history\, as well as a unique reciprocal relationship with the audience. \nWe will discuss a brief history of the technology and the cultural history of electronic dance music\, and how specific pieces of equipment changed the genre. As well as how all these factors spawned a unique type of improvisation\, and why it differs from other improvisational artforms.  \nThe presentation will be followed by an open studio session\, workshopping a wide selection of synchronized electronic instruments. \nMore about the speaker:\nColin Harrington is a Guelph based multimedia artist\, A/V technician\, and multidisciplinary musician. He performs in a “live hardware” electronic project called MOONBEAN\, who has toured Canada and Europe playing semi-improvised dance music. He also produces and directs music videos\, and works for IICSI as a technician in their ImprovLab at University of Guelph. \n\n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-colin-harrington/
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:20231206T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231206T153000
DTSTAMP:20231129T020800Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Zane Zalis\, "Head in the Clouds - Feet on the Ground | Improvising and Creating: A Way of Becoming and Being"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, December 6 at 2:00 PM for Thinking Spaces: “Head in the Clouds – Feet on the Ground | Improvising and Creating: A Way of Becoming and Being” with Zane Zalis.  \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via Zoom. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nMore about this talk:\nWith decades of experience as an improvising musician\, composer\, lyricist\, performer\, educator\, and more\, Dr. Zane Zalis will share stories/experiences\, insights\, lessons\, practices\, and ideas that have informed and shaped his artistic and pedagogical journey. The entangled texture of his work\, weaving emotion\, feeling\, reason\, thinking\, motivation and skill development as central to human understanding of self and others\, renders the arts and values creativity/improvisation as indispensable to broad and deep human development. \nMore about the speaker:\nDr. Zane Zalis is a composer/lyricist/writer/producer/educator\, having received the PhD Dissertation Award (CSSE ARTS SIG\, Canada)\, Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence\, Queen Elizabeth II Diamond and Gold Medals\, Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for the Advancement of Inter-Religious Understanding\, Opus Klassik (Germany-six nominations)\, Canon of Culture Prize 2017 (Lodz\, Poland)\, Canada Council for the Arts grant- composer/lyricist/librettist\, and an invitation to become a composer-member of the prestigious BMI Musical Theatre Workshops\, New York. His compositions have been performed in New York (Lincoln Center)\, Toronto (Roy Thomson Hall)\, Lodz (Grand Theatre)\, Scotland\, Mexico\, Stuttgart/Wuppertal/Leverkusen (Germany)\, Murau (Artistic Director of the International Music Festival\, Austria)\, and Winnipeg (Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra\, CBC – Jazz Orch.\, Queen Elizabeth II gala concert\, et al). His oratorio\, I Believe\, has been recorded by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the Bayer Philharmoniker (Ars Produktion-Germany). He has also worked in the commercial music field; radio\, television\, music theatre\, and music production.  He has taught at secondary and post-secondary levels\, having founded and created innovative programs and methods that address creative/skill development\, performance\, and pedagogy. \n\n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-zane-zalis-improvising-and-creating/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231124T143000
DTSTAMP:20231115T204524Z
CREATED:20231115T195031Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Dr. Darren Hamilton\, "Exploring and Experimenting with Gospel Vocal Improvisation"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, November 24 at 1:00 PM for Thinking Spaces: “Exploring and Experimenting with Gospel Vocal Improvisation” with Dr. Darren Hamilton.  \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via Zoom. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nMore about this talk:\nGospel music has influenced many genres of music including\, soul\, R&B and pop. While many people appreciate and can recognize the ‘sound’ of gospel music\, there is little research that examines the characteristics and approaches of gospel vocal improvisation. This talk will provide insights into the connections between blues or jazz improvisation and gospel vocal improvisation\, while also identifying nuances that are specific to the gospel style. Come prepared to explore and ‘experiment’ with gospel vocal improvisation. You may even learn a gospel song in the process! \nMore about the speaker:\nDr. Darren Hamilton is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. His research interests lie in gospel music\, hip hop music and popular music education\, in addition to equity\, diversity and social justice in music curriculum. He is also the director of the Faculty of Music Gospel Choir\, an undergraduate course he founded at the faculty in 2019. Dr. Hamilton has over 30 years experience performing gospel music. He has served as a member of the JUNO Award-winning Toronto Mass Choir and the JUNO-nominated Youth Outreach Mass Choir. Dr. Darren Hamilton was the recipient of the 2022 JUNO Award for MusiCounts Teacher of the Year. \n\n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-darren-hamilton-gospel-vocal-improvisation/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231122T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231122T113000
DTSTAMP:20250130T185224Z
CREATED:20231121T011656Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Joe Sorbara\, "Attending to the Social Space of The Music: Self-Expression as a Site of Pedagogy | Questioning the ways that I teach creative music making"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Wednesday\, November 22 at 10:00 AM for Thinking Spaces: “Attending to the Social Space of The Music: Self-Expression as a Site of Pedagogy | Questioning the ways that I teach creative music making” with Joe Sorbara.  \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via Zoom. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nMore about this talk:\nJoe Sorbara recently contributed a chapter to The Improviser’s Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking\, edited by Daniel Fischlin and Mark Lomanno for Temple University Press. “Attending to the Social Space of The Music: Self-Expression as a Site of Pedagogy” is an exploration of the ways that Sorbara welcomes students into the world of creative music. In preparation for this phase of their work\, which will be to study the ways that other improvisers conceive of the music\, talk about the music\, share the music with others\, Sorbara invites participants in this colloquium presentation to help question\, problematise\, and otherwise unsettle some of the basic tendencies and assumptions that have arisen in the presenter’s writing. \nMore about the speaker:\nCanadian drummer and percussionist Joe Sorbara has spent decades developing a reputation as a dedicated and imaginative performer\, composer\, improviser\, collaborator\, organiser\, listener\, writer\, and educator. A consummate sonic adventurer\, Sorbara’s music draws on a vast array of influences\, most notably the African American Creative Music tradition. They have performed and recorded with Norm Adams\, Ken Aldcroft\, Anthony Braxton\, Jared Burrows\, JP Carter\, Nikita Carter\, Christine Duncan\, Paul Dutton\, François Houle\, Germaine Liu\, Joe McPhee\, Karen Ng\, Evan Parker\, William Parker\, Allen Ravenstine\, Clyde Reed\, Steve Sladkowski\, and Friendly Rich\, among many many others. \nSorbara is a long-time student of master drummer Jim Blackley. They hold an Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music from York University in Toronto and a Master’s degree in English from the University of Guelph. Joe has worked extensively as a workshop facilitator and guest lecturer and has been a sessional lecturer in the School of Fine Art and Music at Guelph since 2007. They\nare currently studying toward a PhD in Critical Improvisation Studies. \n\n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-joe-sorbara-creative-music/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231110T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231110T163000
DTSTAMP:20231106T185205Z
CREATED:20231103T152223Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: annais linares\, "Co-Creative Accompaniment: Improvising Re[new]ed Relationships through Arts-Based Kin Making"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, November 10 at 3 pm for Thinking Spaces: “Co-Creative Accompaniment: Improvising Re[new]ed Relationships through Arts-Based Kin Making” with annais linares.  \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via Zoom. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \n\nAbstract / Summary \nIn her colloquium presentation\, annais linares will discuss a socially-engaged art practice that brings together arts-based community making and kinning\, a verb described as ”…reconnecting our bodies\, minds\, and spirits within a world that is not merely a collection of objects but a ‘communion of subjects’…” by Gavin Van Horn\, co-editor of Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations. \nannais describes this bridging as arts-based kin making. Her work studies improvisation and accompaniment as critical processes to ethically activate arts-based kin making in her communities\, and how those practices might lead to re[new]ed relationships between humans\, and between human and more-than-human life. She will discuss the relevance of this practice within the contexts of community health\, [species] loneliness\, and related arts-based community making projects. \nShort Bio \nannais linares is a musician and socially engaged artist who is currently in the Critical Studies in Improvisation PhD program at the University of Guelph. Her research focuses on co-creative art-making\, improvisation and collective care. \n\n\nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/13828/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231030T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231030T123000
DTSTAMP:20231023T212344Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Bob Wiseman\, "The Black Sqaure"
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Spaces\, “The Black Square” is presented by Bob Wiseman\, and takes place Monday\, October 30 at 11am ET. The talk includes a presentation followed by a guided Q&A and conversation period. \nFor our fourth Thinking Spaces session\, we are excited to welcome IMPR graduate student\, Bob Wiseman. Join us on Monday 30 October 2023\, 11:00AM-12:30PM to listen to this musician\, author and educator discuss and share ideas from his novel in process. This talk takes place in-person in the Tranzac Club\, Toronto\, Ontario (292 Brunswick Avenue) and will be streamed online. Registration is required to attend. Sign up now! \nMore about this talk:\nBob will provide excerpts of his novel in process read by Rebecca Campbell. “I am in\nengaged in two pieces of writing. The first is a work of fiction\, the second a framing document.\nThe fiction is what we will be reading on October 30th. It is about a musician studying\nimprovisation and how that alters his consciousness.” Bob is introducing it and answering\nquestions. Guest Rebecca Campbell will read the actual story instead of Bob\, “I like the sound of\nher voice more than the one in my head.” Guest John Oswald will be present and supply first\nquestions/ responses. \nMore about the speaker:\nBob Wiseman is a PhD student in Critical Studies in Improvisation. He is also a teacher at the\nUniversity of Western Ontario and Seneca Polytechnic. At Western he teaches improvisation\,\nmusic business and songwriting\, at Seneca media and censorship studies. In addition to being at\nthe University of Guelph at IICSI\, Bob is the author of the 2020 book Music Lessons\, “Each\nentry is unique and compellingly written\, but the themes throughout ― on improvisational\nmusic\, life lessons\, and conflict ― are ubiquitous.” Jack David
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-bob-wiseman-the-black-sqaure/
LOCATION:Tranzac Club\, 292 Brunswick Ave.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2M7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231027T153000
DTSTAMP:20231023T213143Z
CREATED:20230919T141326Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Kim Solga\, "Women Making Shakespeare Now: Decolonizing the Creation Room"
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Spaces\, “Women Making Shakespeare Now: Decolonizing the Creation Room” is presented by Dr. Kim Solga\, and takes place Friday\, October 27 at 2pm ET. The talk includes a presentation followed by a guided Q&A and conversation period.  \nFor our third Thinking Spaces session\, we are excited to welcome Dr. Kim Solga. Join us on Friday 27 October 2023\, 2:00PM-3:30PM to listen to this critically acclaimed teacher and scholar discuss and share ideas about decolonizing the Shakespeare Industry. This talk takes place in-person in the MacKinnon Building\, Room 103\, University of Guelph. Registration is required to attend. Sign up now! \nMore about this talk:\nIn the wake of BLM\, MeToo\, the COVID-19 pandemic\, and changing audience and creator dynamics\, the Shakespeare Industry (arts organizations and academic institutions alike) has finally realized that Shakespeare wasn’t just a basic white guy; “Shakespeare” can be – indeed\, *is* – Black\, trans\, Indigenous\, gender queer\, disabled. While historians like Sawyer Kemp\, Andy Kesson\, Ayanna Thompson\, and more work to uncover the previously invisible histories of Shakespeare’s own queer and coloured worlds\, artists like Emma Frankland\, Dawn Jani Birley\, Reneltta Arluk\, Nataki Garrett\, and more are devising creation room practices that not only permit\, but *rely upon*\, the whole selves of equity-deserving artists previously excluded from Shakespearean spaces to shape the worlds of rehearsal and the plays in performance. I’ve just completed a book called Women Making Shakespeare in the 21st Century (CUP\, 2024)\, for which I interviewed more than a dozen directors\, playwrights\, actors and scholar-artists about how they approach the hot potato we call “Shakespeare” in ways that are fundamentally disruptive of the colonial norms that historically shaped Shakespearean production and reception. In this talk I’ll share some of the most inspiring of my learnings\, and I’ll also talk about the obstacles that still lie in the way of this work and how we\, scholars and artists\, might address them together. \nMore about the speaker:\nKim Solga is Professor of Theatre Studies and English Studies at Western University. She is the author of four books\, including Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance (2009) and Theatre & Feminism (2015)\, and the editor of six more\, including the award-winning Performance and the City (2009) and Performance and the Global City (2013)\, with D.J. Hopkins and Shelley Orr. Kim is also a decorated teacher\, and she currently holds the Arts and Humanities Teaching Fellowship (2021-24) at Western’s Centre for Teaching and Learning.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-kim-solga/
LOCATION:University of Guelph\, MacKinnon Building\, 87 Trent Ln\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231002T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231002T153000
DTSTAMP:20230925T180948Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Karamjeet Dhillon\, "The Body as Knowledge Incubator: Creativity\, Improvisation & Embodiment"
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Spaces\, “The Body as Knowledge Incubator: Creativity\, Improvisation & Embodiment” is presented by Dr. Karamjeet Dhillon\, RISE-R project manager at the Centre for School Mental Health at Western University and independent scholar\, and takes place Monday\, October 2 at 2pm ET. The talk includes a presentation followed by a guided Q&A and conversation period.  \nFor our fourth Thinking Spaces session\, we are excited to welcome Dr. Karamjeet Dhillon. Join us on Monday October 2 2023\, 2:00PM-3:30PM to listen to this award-winning scholar discuss and share ideas about embodied ways of sensing\, knowing and being in the world. This talk takes place in-person in ImprovLab\, University of Guelph. Registration is required to attend. Sign up now! \nMore about the speaker:\nDr. Dhillon keenly documents the nature of lived experience through sensory ethnography and post-intentionality phenomenology. Her arts-based approaches include visual research within the framework of physical activity. Moreover\, her philosophical practices are identified at the intersections of inclusive inquiry through methodologies and pedagogies. She locates her work at the juncture of qualitative investigations\, theoretical frameworks and applied research. She is passionate about researching real-world settings and working with underserved populations such as immigrants and refugees\, 2SLGBTQIA+\, global indigenous cultures and neuro-diverse populations. Dr. Dhillon has over a decade of experience in program evaluation\, organizational change management\, community curriculum programming and project development. She has actively supported local organizations to receive substantial grants to accomplish their important work.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-karamjeet-dhillon-the-body-as-knowledge-incubator-creativity-improvisation-embodiment/
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:20230918T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230918T120000
DTSTAMP:20230914T130824Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: François Houle & Benoît Delbecq\, "POISE"
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Spaces\, “POISE” is presented by François Houle & Benoît Delbecq\, and takes place Monday\, September 18 at 10am ET. The talk includes a presentation followed by a guided Q&A and conversation period.  \nFor our second Thinking Spaces session\, we are excited to welcome Clarinetist François Houle and Parisian pianist and composer\, Benoît Delbecq. Join us on Monday 18 September 2023\, 10:00AM-11:30AM in the Improv Lab to listen to these two critically acclaimed improvisers discuss and share their unique approach to musical improvisation. \nThis talk takes place in-person in ImprovLab\, University of Guelph. Registration is required to attend. Sign up now! \nMore about this talk:\nAs the music unfolds\, composition and improvisation seem to flow together into a dream-like continuum where jazz and new music meet. To reach this place\, Delbecq and Houle have worked for years extending the techniques of their instruments and creating their own language of musical gestures for purposes of spontaneous musical composition. Delbecq’s contemplative piano “fabrics” draw on Cage\, Ligeti\, and African timbres and polyrhythms\, and are characterized by unexpected juxtapositions and patternings. Houle’s approach has been inspired by Evan Parker and clarinetist William O. Smith’s multi-layered sonic explorations\, and combines a thoroughgoing reinvention of the clarinet’s expressive possibilities with an exceptional melodic lyricism. The duo’s rapport results in a highly ordered yet intuitive discourse\, echoes and undercurrents of other music continually opening up new directions \nMore about the speakers:\nClarinetist François Houle has followed a musical path few others have travelled. He is a true innovator and pioneer of the instrument\, opening sonic vistas in the most imaginative ways possible. François has released CDs on several labels and has toured internationally. He has been listed on multiple occasions by Downbeat magazine as a “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition” and was hailed as a “Rising Star” in Downbeat’s Critics’ and Readers’ Polls. He is “a spectacularly versatile clarinetist who appears to have no limitations stylistically or sonically” (Mark Swed\, LA Times). \nBenoît Delbecq is a multi-awarded Parisian pianist and composer\, a trendsetter who persists in developing his ideas in a very rhythmic and multi-layered approach\, bringing the soul of jazz to John Cage’s prepared piano. Delbecq may prepare just a few strings with wood sticks\, then sit at the piano transforming the instrument into a percussion-and-piano ensemble.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-houle-delbecq/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Sophie Brown\, "Improvisation\, Pedagogy and Pre-Texts"
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Spaces\, “Improvisation\, Pedagogy and Pre-Texts” is presented by Sophie Brown\, and takes place Wednesday\, September 13 at 4pm ET. The talk includes a presentation followed by a guided Q&A and conversation period.  \nSophie will provide an interactive overview of Pre-Texts\, a creative teaching protocol integrating civics\, literacy\, and innovation. Based on her recently published co-authored chapter\, “Counter-Melodies and Creativity: Filling the Gaps in a Rural Colorado School\,” Sophie will reflect on the improvisatory nature of Pre-Texts and how the application of this approach can close the gap between the idealism and practicality of a creative\, collaborative\, and co-owned classroom experience.  \nJoining us for this session of Thinking Spaces is Sophie’s external respondent\, the renowned scholar\, Dr. Georgina Barton. \nThis talk will be a hybrid event\, taking place in-person in ImprovLab\, University of Guelph\, and virtually\, via Zoom (a Zoom link will be emailed to all virtual attendees on the morning of the event). Registration is required to attend in person and via Zoom. Sign up now! \nMore about this talk:\nSophie’s talk is based on her recently published chapter about Pre-Texts\, and offers an overview of the method for integrating civics\, innovation\, and literacy in the classroom. It draws on the experience of Lindsay Bobyak and Sophie Brown in using Pre-Texts with elementary students as part of Creative Roots Collective\, which provides educational opportunities in rural Colorado. Sophie will outline tangible strategies for elementary teachers and educators which can improve literacy and oracy outcomes for students and bridge the gap between the idealism and practicality of a creative\, collaborative\, and co-owned classroom experience. The presentation includes vignettes of the arts-based protocol in action and breaks down the component Pre-Texts activities. Finally\, Sophie will look at positive changes in student behaviour and provide guidance for integrating Pre-Texts into the classroom. \nMore about the speaker:\nSophie Brown is a PhD student in Critical Studies in Improvisation with a collaborative specialization in International Development Studies. In partnership with the British-Academy funded Education\, Peace\, and Politics research network\, she is conducting research on higher education pedagogy at Koya University in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In addition to graduate studies at the University of Guelph\, Sophie is part of the 2023 MBA Cohort at the Global Leaders Institute for Arts Innovation. The program focuses on social entrepreneurship\, cultural management\, sustainable impact\, and community development. This is the first executive MBA in Arts innovation in the world\, and Sophie is a part of the first graduating cohort.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-sophie-brown-improvisation-pedagogy-and-pre-texts/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230329T140000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Marsha Hinds Myrie\, "Improvisation\, Plantation Societies and Difficult Conversations"
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Spaces\, “Improvisation\, Plantation Societies and Difficult Conversations” is presented by Marsha Hinds Myrie\, and takes place Wednesday\, March 29 at 2pm ET. The talk includes a presentation followed by a guided Q&A and conversation period.  \nMarsha will present a brief overview of literature about the plantation society and the presentation of social injustice as a remnant of plantation and post coloniality.  She will be joined virtually by Barbadian film producer\, Russell Watson\, to discuss the question of using art as an advocacy tool. The presentation will conclude with a closer analysis of the activist theatre run by the National Organization of Women for its successes and possibilities.  \nThis talk takes place in-person in MacKinnon room 103\, University of Guelph. Registration is required to attend. Sign up now! \nMore about the talk:\nThe stated purpose of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation is “…to create positive social change through the confluence of improvisational arts\, innovative scholarship\, and collaborative action.” The purpose of this talk is to invite partnership and mutual sharing in Critical Studies in Improvisation to imagine uses and expansion in plantation societies.  Using art to confront complicated social issues is a long accepted and well received practice in plantation societies. Drumming\, calypso\, reggae music and parodies have been used by populations where other forms of expression such as newspapers and even social media are heavily policed to control dissent or calls for justice.  \nIn 2018\, just before the global COVID pandemic the National Organization of Women of Barbados reactivated the connection between women’s social justice organizing and art – specifically theatre.  The practice of using theatre to focus and engage women themselves and the general public has been in vogue since the 1970s when the Women’s collective\, Sistren was formed in Jamaica.  By putting Critical Studies in Improvisation in conversation with the Caribbean women’s organizing strategies I hope to encourage both groups to continue to think about the importance of their work specifically for modern day plantation societies.    \nMore about the speaker:\nMarsha Hinds Myrie’s life and work are an embodiment of dualities and intersections. She is a Barbadian/Canadian citizen with an ancestral\, cultural and intellectual home in Africa. Her career unfolds\, sometimes spectacularly and sometimes confusingly at the intersections of activism and education with research being a forced endeavour to maintain the grace of the academy. \nHinds Myrie is President’s Gender Equity Committee postdoctoral fellow with a focus on women’s leadership at the University of Guelph and the immediate past president of the National Organization of Women of Barbados. She spent 22 years developing an advocacy model to address the issues of underprivileged groups of women in Barbados and the Commonwealth Caribbean. The major focus of the work is to develop and encourage the use of victim defined services for women and girls affected by various types of gender-based violence while at the same time removing the burden of eradicating violence from women and victims by forcing a stronger lobby in policy spaces. \nThe philosophical mooring for Marsha’s interaction with equity work come partly out of her PhD research which focused on the ways in which political and cultural experiences shaped the development and creation of intellectual spaces and intellectual thought in Commonwealth Caribbean tertiary institutions. The epistemological valleys that create disciplines in the Western academy are still immensely uncomfortable for Hinds Myrie but if forced she would classify her work as womanism\, Black Studies\, philosophy as praxis and intellectual history. \nMarsha is mother to four biological children\, godmother to one amazing godbaby and aunty to scores others.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-marsha-hinds-improvisation-plantation-societies-and-difficult-conversations/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Rebecca Barnstaple\, "Fidelity for the Irreplicable: Improvisation in Dance and Health Research"
DESCRIPTION:Our next Thinking Spaces session\, “Fidelity for the Irreplicable: Improvisation in Dance and Health Research” is presented by Rebecca Barnstaple\, and takes place Wednesday\, March 15 at 2pm ET. The talk includes a movement demonstration and takes place in-person in our brand new ImprovLab. \nRegister through our google form to attend! \nMore about the talk:\nImprovisation is a core element of some interventions in the emerging fields of dance for health and dance therapy\, which have shown potential to slow progress or diminish symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alheimer’s. IMPROVment® is a dance-based improvisational movement practice for brain-body health developed at Wake Forest University. It has been used in several research studies\, including a recently completed RCT (2017 – 2020) and a just-launched 5-year RCT investigating dose and frequency effects of dance interventions for adults with subjective memory loss. This talk explores how tools related to improvisation can be adapted to a research-ready scientific protocol while preserving their integrity and magic – includes a demonstration. \nMore about the speaker:\nRebecca Barnstaple is the Manager of Community Programs and Engagement at Chigamik Community Health Centre in Midland\, Ontario\, a tri-cultural agency offering a range of services from Traditional Healing and social prescribing to mental health and primary care. Rebecca recently completed a PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship at York University investigating the neurobiological effects of dance in health and disease and is adjunct faculty in the dance department. A graduate of the National Centre for Dance Therapy at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal (NCDT 2015)\, she offers dance-therapy based programs for people with Parkinson’s\, Alzheimer’s\, and Chronic Pain\, and provides education and training in dance therapy and dance interventions for the NCDT\, Dance for Health Nova Scotia\, and IMPROVment (Wake Forest University\, North Carolina). \nRebecca co-chairs the Certification and Accreditation committee of the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Canada (DMTAC) and serves on the Research and Practice committee of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA)\, the Research Group of the NCDT\, and the Dance for Health committee of the International Association of Dance Medicine Science (IADMS). 
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-rebecca-barnstaple-fidelity-for-the-irreplicable-improvisation-in-dance-and-health-research/
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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