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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
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230913T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230306T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230306T143000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Rashida K. Braggs\, "Black Women Who Move Jazz Methodologies"
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Spaces\, the Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series\, considers the ways in which improvisation can provide us with new ways of thinking and acting. The group is open to all—community members\, faculty\, and students—and presents several in-person and online events per semester. \nOur next session\, “Black Women Who Move Jazz Methodologies”\, is presented by scholar Dr. Rashida K. Braggs. The talk takes place Monday\, March 6 from 1-2:30 pm in-person at MacKinnon 103\, University of Guelph\, and online via Zoom. Sign up through our registration form to attend in-person or online. A Zoom link will be sent to participants email address the day before the event. \nMore About this Talk:\nHow do you make a book move? Move to depart and return to the diverse homes of Black African diasporic women… move in the word-sound-mood tones of the jazz they perform… move readers to resonate and sense their experiences beyond static pages of academic prose. \nIn this presentation\, Rashida K. Braggs discusses her methodological moves that mix dance ethnography\, songwriting\, and playwriting in her book-performance in progress on the migrations of black women jazz performers to Paris\, France. Braggs guides us through an early chapter where she weaves her material and embodied research on the Malagasy-Senegalese singer MFA Kera and Beninese singer Angelique Kidjo as they first migrate to Paris in 1969 and 1983 respectively.  \nMore About the Speaker:\nRashida K. Braggs is Associate Professor in Africana Studies and a faculty affiliate in Comparative Literature at Williams College. Her book Jazz Diasporas: Race\, Music and Migration in Post-World War II Paris investigates the migratory experiences of African American jazz musicians in 1946-1963 Paris. In her current manuscript and accompanying performance project “Move Jazz\, Black Woman Move\,” she explores how and why black women jazz performers of African descent migrate to and from Paris from 1969-2019. \nRashida K. Braggs is also a scholar-performer who acts\, dances\, sings\, composes music and performs spoken word. Trained in Performance Studies\, Communications\, Theater Studies\, and English\, she consistently weaves performance through her pedagogy and scholarship. Jacob’s Pillow\, the Williams College Museum of Art\, the Tapir gallery and the United Solo Theatre Festival have featured her performances. 
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-rashida-k-braggs/
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:20230208T130000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: "Improv for Scientists"
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “Improv for Scientists”: Joanne O’Meara in conversation with Shoshanah Jacobs. This event will take place on Wednesday\, February 8 at 1pm (ET) in-person (MacKinnon building\, room 103\, University of Guelph) as well as streamed online (via Zoom). A moderated Q&A will follow the talk. If you are interested in attending in-person or online\, please register via this link: https://uoguel.ph/thinkingspacesimprovforscientists. A Zoom link will be sent to your email the day before the event. MORE ABOUT THIS TALK: 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. MORE ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS: Dr. Joanne O’Meara has been a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Guelph for more than 20 years\, serving for almost 10 of those years as the Associate Chair (undergraduate). Joanne earned her PhD in Medical Physics from McMaster University and has since transitioned to a focus on Physics Education in her scholarly work. She is an award-winning educator with a deep commitment to her students.  Her most recent project involves the launch of a non-profit organization\, Royal City Science\, with the ultimate goal of building a new\, state-of-the-art\, science centre for southwestern Ontario. Dr. Shoshanah Jacobs takes a systems approach to answering questions that are relevant within the communities that they work with. It means that they spend a lot of time learning about other disciplines. Their research expertise includes eco-physiology and biomimetics (aka biomimicry) and they apply this training to help communities develop nature-inspired solutions to challenges. They have worked with the community of Guelph in identifying ways to accessibly reduce the use of single-use plastics\, and have tracked the way that personal-protective equipment (PPE) moves through and away from the waste stream to affect wildlife around the world. Dr. Jacobs started the BioM Knowledge Access Lab research group in 2012 to make science knowledge more accessible to community members and to engage the community in designing more inclusive ways of collecting information. They are an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology. Ask them why Gentoo Penguins are simply the best. 
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-improv-for-scientists/
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:20230118T100000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Darren O'Donnell
DESCRIPTION: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 will take place on Wednesday\, January 18 at 10am (ET)\, online (via Zoom). A moderated Q&A will follow the talk. \nIf you are interested in attending\, please register via this link: https://uoguel.ph/tsdarrenodonnell. A Zoom link will be sent to your email the day before the event. \nMORE ABOUT THIS TALK: \nIn this talk\, Darren will discuss how a number of projects developed and presented through Mammalian Diving Reflex—the research-art atelier that Darren directs—were conceived through chance encounters with kids\, and then how they were shaped and how they evolved in response to the interest of the kids. \nDarren will discuss how Mammalian Diving Reflex works with young people in the long term\, accommodating the specific youth who come to us\, rather than through an audition or hiring process. There’s a good deal of chance and\, in fact\, faith in that. \nDarren will also introduce a model he uses to evaluate the various dimension of rigour in a project and\, specifically\, how social rigour relies on being very open to chance\, as opposed to physical rigour (think cirque du soleil as the ultimate in physical rigour) where chance is absolutely the enemy—in performance\, at least. \nMORE ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: \nDarren O’Donnell is an urban cultural planner\, novelist\, essayist\, playwright\, filmmaker\, performance director and the Artistic and Founding Director of Mammalian Diving Reflex. His books include: Your Secrets Sleep with Me (2004); Social Acupuncture (2006)\, which argues for an aesthetic of civic engagement; and Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract (2018)\, which proposes the cultural sector as a site to pilot a new social contract with children. His performance works include Haircuts by Children\, All the Sex I’ve Ever Had\, The Children’s Choice Awards and Teentalitarianism. His model for long-term collaboration with young people is being applied in London\, Bochum\, Milan\, and Berlin. He is interested in expanding and rethinking the role that cultural intuitions play in the world\, particularly around long-term engagement and collaborative friendships that extend into the community. \nHis institutional collaborators have included the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria\, the Humboldt Forum\, the Tate Modern and Tate Britain\, the West Kowloon Cultural District\, the London International Festival of Theatre\, the Metropolitan Region of Rhine-Neckar\, the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-darren-odonnell/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221116T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221116T143000
DTSTAMP:20230126T211553Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Eric Lewis
DESCRIPTION: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 will take place on Wednesday\, November 16 at 1pm (ET) in person (The IICSI House\, 9 University Avenue E.\, University of Guelph) as well as streamed online (via Zoom). A moderated Q&A will follow the talk. Please note that Eric will be joining this session online. \nIf you are interested in attending online\, please register via this link: https://uoguel.ph/thinkingspacesericlewis. A Zoom link will be sent to your email the day before the event. \nMORE ABOUT THIS TALK: \nEric will discuss assorted ways the digital domain opens up archives for more improvisatory ways of interacting with their contents\, and will describe the Medea Electronique archive\, and the thinking behind the recent project by co-authored by Eric called From Fruit to Root\, concerning this archive\, and theories concerning interactive archive and improvisational archive theory. \nMORE ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: \nEric Lewis is a professor of Philosophy at McGill University\, who specializes in the philosophy of improvisatory arts. He is also the President of AIM (Arts in the Margins)\, the Director of LUC (Laboratory of Urban Culture)\, and sits on the managment committee of IICSI. He is a member of Medea Electronique\, and an active improvisor on brass and electronics.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-eric-lewis/
LOCATION:The IICSI House – 9 University Ave\, 9 University Ave E\, Guelph\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Thinking Spaces
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