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SUMMARY:Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium 2026: Artists On/Off the Record: Living Archives and Embodied Memory
DESCRIPTION:In what ways can/do artists engage with archival materials—those held in institutional and community archives as well as those typically referred to as ephemera—to interrogate the aesthetic and political dimensions of cultural memory? How can/do they generate new\, future-oriented archives through creative practice\, research\, and community-based work? To what extent can/do they enact and expand repertoires of embodied memory to build and sustain community? \nThe 2026 edition of the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium explores archival heritage as a dynamic\, open-ended process. Bringing together artists\, scholars\, and community practitioners\, it considers how archives are constituted\, activated\, contested\, and transformed by—and in the hands of—artists engaged in improvisatory worldmaking. \nApproaching archives as both accrued and curated\, inherited and self-generated\, the colloquium also attends to archives as living and embodied. Through presentations\, creative works\, and discussion\, it foregrounds diverse perspectives\, community engagement\, experimental practices\, and innovative methodologies that illuminate the aesthetic and political dimensions of cultural memory while imagining archives as sites of future possibility. \nVisit the colloquium page for more information!
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/guelph-jazz-festival-colloquium-2026-artists-on-off-the-record-living-archives-and-embodied-memory/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Ahmed Abdullah Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium Big Ideas in Improvisation keynote is by Ahmed Abdullah and Monique Ngozi Nri\, in which they discuss Abdullah’s memoir. Titled A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra (published through Blank Forms Editions)\, the book is grounded in artists’ journals\, oral histories\, and embodied experiences. \nOn Saturday\, September 12th\, from 5-6:30 PM\, you can meet Ahmed Abdullah at the Bookshelf (41 Quebec Street) and have him sign your own personal copy of the book! Since the Guelph Jazz Festival is mostly taking place right across the street\, it should be easy enough to slip away. We’ll see you there! \n\nAhmed Abdullah is one of the central figures in 21st-century Brooklyn Jazz and performed with the Sun Ra Arkestra between 1975–1997. While performing at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London\, he met poet\, writer\, and educator Monique Ngozi Nri\, his wife and creative collaborator of thirty-four years. In 1995\, they established Melchizedek Music Productions to help preserve and extend Sun Ra’s message. They subsequently helped build Sistas’ Place\, an enduring cultural institution in Bedford-Stuyvesant\, Brooklyn.\n \n\n\nSun Ra (1914–1993) described his music and “equations” as a way of living for the 21st century. He mentored generations of musicians to continue this work\, whether through the still-thriving Arkestra or through education\, writing\, and community cultural practice.
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LOCATION:The Bookshelf\, 41 Quebec Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,IICSI events
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