Thinking Spaces: Eric Lewis

The IICSI House - 9 University Ave 9 University Ave E, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

https://vimeo.com/771749016 Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “Improvising the Archive: Medea Electronique's Archive of Digital Art,” a talk by Eric Lewis. This event…

Thinking Spaces: Darren O’Donnell

online

https://vimeo.com/790578811 Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “Chance as Co-Director: Working with the Whims of Children,” a talk by Darren O’Donnell. This event…

Thinking Spaces: “Improv for Scientists”

University of Guelph, MacKinnon Building 87 Trent Ln, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Improvisational exercises have been a key element of theatre training for decades. With minor modification, these same exercises can be used in training scientists (and future scientists) to be better communicators. I’ll discuss my use of improv with our physics majors at U of G and give some examples of the science-y twists we throw on the activities to suit our purposes.

Thinking Spaces: Sophie Brown, “Improvisation, Pedagogy and Pre-Texts”

ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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. 

Sophie'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.

Free

Thinking Spaces: François Houle & Benoît Delbecq, “POISE”

ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

As 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.

Free

Thinking Spaces: Karamjeet Dhillon, “The Body as Knowledge Incubator: Creativity, Improvisation & Embodiment”

ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

For 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 the nature of lived experience, sensory ethnography, and post-intentionality phenomenology. This talk takes place in-person in ImprovLab, University of Guelph. Registration is required to attend. Sign up now!

Free

Thinking Spaces: Kim Solga, “Women Making Shakespeare Now: Decolonizing the Creation Room”

University of Guelph, MacKinnon Building 87 Trent Ln, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

In 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.

Free

Thinking Spaces: Bob Wiseman, “The Black Sqaure”

Tranzac Club 292 Brunswick Ave., Toronto, ON, Canada

For 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!

Free