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Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium 2025 Simplified Schedule

DAY 1 (1 pm to 9:30 pm) 

1 to 1:10 pm – Opening Remarks 
Eric Fillion

1:10 to 2:15 pm – Intersection of Ritual, Folk Rhythms, Improvisation, and Music Technology
Val Jeanty and Ravish Momin
Moderated by Joe Sorbara

2:15 to 4:00 pm – Show Girls: On the Politics of Dance in Jazz Culture and Beyond
Vanessa Blais-Tremblay, Emilie Jabouin, and Désirée Rochat
Moderated by Alyssa Woods

4:00 to 4:20 pm – Coffee Break 

4:20 to 6:00 pm – Shirley Graham Du Bois’ Tom Tom: Film Screening and Conversation Around and About the Reimagining of a 1932 Opera
Julie Richard with Liberté-Anne and Yesenia Fuentes 
Moderated by Marsha Myrie Obi

6:00 to 7:15 pm – Dinner 

7:15 to 8:30 pm – Big Ideas in Improvisation: Improvising in this Moment
Patricia Nicholson 
Moderated by Daniel Fischlin

8:30 to 9:30 pm – Krik? Krak! Chant Lakansyèl!
Julie Richard, Liberté-Anne, and Yesenia Fuentes Trio
Introduced by Eric Fillion

DAY 2 (9 am to 4 pm) 

9:00 to 9:30 am – Coffee and Refreshments 

9:30 to 10:30 am – Dance with the Music: On the Interplay of Movement and Sound
CoexisDance (Raphael Roter), Pratibha Arts (Bageshree Vaze), and Classic Roots (Joshua DePerry)
Moderated by Leslie Fisher

10:30 to 11:15 am – The Flex Movement Bloc
Ivvy
Moderated by Jordan Zalis

11:15 am to 12:15 pm – Archiving Performance and Dance History
Amy Bowring and Robert VanderBerg
Moderated by Sharon Engbrecht

12:15 to 1:30 pm – Lunch 

1:30 to 2:30 pm – Time Frequency Conversions: EEG Applications in Music and Dance
Andrew Staniland and Rebecca Barnstaple
Moderated by An Kosurko

2:30 to 3:50 pm – Untitled: What’s in a Name? Healing the Chasm
Heather Cornell, Aimée Dawn Robinson, and Georgia Simms
Moderated by Kimberley McLeod

3:50 to 4:00 pm – Closing Remarks 
Eric Fillion

4:30 to 6 pm – GJF Reception 
Hosted at Miijidaa (41 Quebec Street in Downtown Guelph)