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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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SUMMARY:Cacophonie | Just Listening: Experiments with Collective Memory with Dr. Jordan Zalis
DESCRIPTION:This 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 together. Through personal narratives about sports\, games\, and gaming\, we’ll examine how play shapes our memories\, identities\, and communities. \nThe workshop unfolds in three movements: 1) a brief introduction to just listening as a practice with some simple listening exercises\, 2) sharing stories about moments of play that stick with us\, listening attentively to each other’s experiences\, and then 3) playing together! We’re interested in the sensorial\, the feelingful\, and\, of course\, the relationships that emerge when we play\, compete\, watch\, game\, or recall—from our experiences playing pickup basketball to board game nights\, from video game marathons to the World Cup. \nWho should come? Everyone is welcome. We especially invite folks with strong connections to sports (basketball\, hockey\, soccer\, etc.)\, games (chess\, trivia\, board games)\, or gaming (video games\, e-sports\, gambling). We aim to make these events as accessible as possible\, and they are open to everyone regardless of age\, ability\, ethnicity\, religion\, language\, sexual orientation\, gender identity\, political beliefs\, or status. Folks with children are also welcome to bring them along and their participation will not be part of the study. \nOn workshop day\, we all play! \nCome ready to share a story\, listen generously\, and learn from each other. \nTo confirm participation and/or for more information\, including about consent forms\, please email Cacophonie’s curator\, Dr. Sharon D. Engbrecht\, at sharon.engbrecht@uoguelph.ca. \nIf you decide to join us spontaneously\, please do. Doors will be open 30 minutes before the event!
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/cacophonie-just-listening-experiments-with-collective-memory-with-dr-jordan-zalis/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema presents: La Grande Noirceur (2018\, dir. Maxime Giroux)
DESCRIPTION:IICSI Director Dr. Eric Fillion is bringing his cinéma FRANCOPHONE cinema curated film series back to The Bookshelf Cinema (41 Quebec Street\, Guelph\, ON). \n\nFrom January through April\, Dr. Fillion will present one film per month. These four films share the common theme of Quebeckers on road trips through the deserts of the southwestern United States. This theme has a personal significance for Dr. Fillion\, and so he looks forward to sharing these films with the local community. Intended for cinephiles and Francophones alike\, these films (in French with subtitles) depict young protagonists as they hit the road as an escape and a respite\, in search of thrills and adventure\, connection and purpose\, meaning and closure. The second film in this iteration of the series will be La Grande Noirceur (2018)\, directed by Maxime Giroux. \nEach screening begins at 7 PM\, with regular tickets costing $14 and member or student tickets priced at $11 (both are inclusive of taxes and fees). Dr. Fillion will introduce each film ahead of its showing. \nLa Grande Noirceur \nDirector: Maxime Giroux \nYear: 2018 \nCountry: Canada (Quebec) \nRunning Time: 94 minutes \nWhile a world war rages\, Philippe\, a draft-dodger from Quebec\, takes refuge in the American West\, surviving by competing in Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests. As Philippe makes his long journey home\, he encounters various characters under the sway of a destructive madness borne of the chaotic times. His voyage\, both violent and fascinating\, is a hallucinatory initiation to the darker side of the American dream.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/cinema-francophone-cinema-presents-la-grande-noirceur-2018-dir-maxime-giroux/
LOCATION:The Bookshelf Cinema\, 41 Quebec Street\, Guelph\, Ontario\, Canada
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