improvisation

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Latest Past Events

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

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…

Free

Sharon D. Engbrecht: “World-Building: Improvisation and Narrativity” Public Lecture

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

We are pleased to announce that IICSI Postdoctoral Fellow Sharon D. Engbrecht will be delivering a public lecture in ImprovLab at 10 AM on October 27. This event is free and open to all! Dr. Engbrecht's lecture will explore the dynamic between improvisation and narrativity. Both share elements of world-building or of negotiating how the…

Free

Thinking Spaces: Lucy Rupert, Lisa Hirmer, and Christina Kingsbury “Interdisciplinary Improvisation & Ultrasonic Moth Songs”

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

In August 2024, dancer Lucy Rupert, musician Ben Finley, as well as artists Christina Kingsbury and Lisa Hirmer, collaborated on the interdisciplinary performance Ultra-sonic Moth Songs. Audiences present that magical summer evening experienced improvised music and movement among the moths at the Moth Garden! Join us to watch some of the beautiful archival video of the event and talk about the process of creating this environmentally inspired, multi-disciplinary improvised performance.

Free