IF 2025
IF—our free annual Improvisation Festival—returns to ImprovLab on November 28th and 29th! IICSI Director Dr. Eric Fillion has curated a fantastic bill of artists, including legendary Quebec counter-culture figure and ESP-Disk…
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ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema: Soleil Ô (dir. Med Hondo, 1970)
The Bookshelf Cinema 41 Quebec Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaIICSI Director Dr. Eric Fillion is curating a special Francophone Cinema film series at The Bookshelf Cinema (41 Quebec Street, Guelph). These French-language films (with English subtitles) push the boundaries…
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“Tracing the Life of Violence”— A talk by Dr. Sharon D. Engbrecht, followed by an open discussion
Guelph Public Library 100 Norfolk St., Guelph, Ontario, CanadaBe part of Guelph’s “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” as IICSI 2025-26 Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Sharon D. Engbrecht explores systemic violence in Katherena Vermette’s "The Break." As part…
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cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema presents: L.A. Tea Time (2019, dir. Sophie Bedard Marcotte)
The Bookshelf Cinema 41 Quebec Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaIICSI Director Dr. Eric Fillion is bringing his cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema curated film series back to The Bookshelf Cinema (41 Quebec Street, Guelph, ON). From January through April, Dr. Fillion…
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Life After the PhD: What is a Postdoc?
ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaAre you a graduate student wondering what your post-PhD pathway might look like? Join Dr. Sharon D. Engbrecht (IICSI 2025-2026 Postdoctoral Fellow), Dr. An Kosurko (Musagetes and MITACS Postdoctoral Fellow),…
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Thinking Spaces: Alex Chesney and Dr. Nathan TeBokkel—Storied Social Practice: Improvisation in Farming and Food
ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaGrowing 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…
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Cacophonie | Just Listening: Experiments with Collective Memory with Dr. Jordan Zalis
ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaThis interactive workshop by Dr. Jordan Zalis invites you into the practice of just listening—an approach to storytelling and ethnographic engagement that centres care, attention, and the improvised encounters we create…
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cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema presents: La Grande Noirceur (2018, dir. Maxime Giroux)
The Bookshelf Cinema 41 Quebec Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaIICSI Director Dr. Eric Fillion is bringing his cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema curated film series back to The Bookshelf Cinema (41 Quebec Street, Guelph, ON). From January through April, Dr. Fillion…
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cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema presents: Déserts (2016, dirs. Charles-André Coderre and Yann-Manuel Hernandez)
The Bookshelf Cinema 41 Quebec Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaIICSI Director Dr. Eric Fillion is bringing his cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema curated film series back to The Bookshelf Cinema (41 Quebec Street, Guelph, ON). From January through April, Dr. Fillion…
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Thinking Spaces: Kate Story and Ryan Kerr—Death in Reverse: Performance in Precarious Times
ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaArtists 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…
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IBPOC Artists’ Network Tour: From Words to Action 2025/2026—Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre and Coco Collective
ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaMake your way to ImprovLab on March 26th for a double-bill presentation of spectacular live dance and music! Coco Collective and Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre will visit Guelph for one night only to perform at the ImprovLab. Movement, voice, and percussion harmoniously come together for these individually and culturally expressive dance works. “Calabash,” by Coco…
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Mini Film Festival / Mini festival de film
ImprovLab MacKinnon Room 108, 87 Trent Lane, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaMake your way to ImprovLab on April 1st, for a film festival curated by MA students in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Guelph! The students will present a selection of fiction and documentary films, spanning shorts and feature-length options, all of which are in French with English subtitles. This free event will…
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