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“If You Have To Ask” aims to bring together neuroscientists, psychologists, music cognition specialists, anthropologists, social scientists, scholars of creativity, improvising artists across art-forms, and scholars of improvisation, all directed towards understanding how minds-in-bodies-in-cultures interact to produce improvisatory gestures and acts often rich with social, communicative, political, aesthetic, interpersonal and cognitive meaning and value.

We’re curious about how improvised arts events like Crepuscule in Guelph 2016, affect you and your community. We’d love it if you would share your experience at Crepuscule with us. We’ve put together a short survey for everyone who attended and/or participated and your answers will help us to understand the impact and importance of an event like Crepuscule and improve our events in the future.

Crepuscule events include a broad combination of community groups and artists organized as “pods” for the event. Participate in Crepuscule with one of the pods and bring your instrument(s), body to move, dance, speak or sing. Or come and experience Crepuscule as an active audience member.

IICSI and Musagetes Improviser-in-Residence, Douglas R. Ewart’s rationale for the finale event of his residency: Crepuscule in Guelph 2016.

A Roundtable on Improvisation & Policy will be convened by ArtsEverywhere, Musagetes, and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) on May 7, 2016.

The roundtable will be moderated by George Lipsitz. The respondents will be Parmela Attariwala, Charles C. Smith, Roger Dean, and Sara Ramshaw. A full video of the roundtable, as well as video and written synopses, will be uploaded to ArtsEverywhere in late May.

Composer, sculptor, maker of masks and the 2015-16 Improviser-In-Residence Douglas R. Ewart, is hosting 2 instrument building workshops this weekend! Participants will have the opportunity to make their own percussion instruments and make music together.

Both workshops are free and family friendly.

The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, the Laurier Centre for Music in the Community, and Musagetes are pleased to present Crepuscule 2016, an improvised collaboration led by the 2015-16 Improviser-in-Residence, Douglas R. Ewart. The Guelph Crepuscule will take place in the Arboretum at the University of Guelph on Saturday, May 14, 2016 from 2 to 5 pm.

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