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CFP: McGill Colloquium 2016, Montreal QC
“If You Have to Ask”: The Cultural, Cognitive, and Neural Underpinnings of Improvisatory Behavior in the Arts and Beyond CALL FOR PAPERS IPLAI/IICSI McGill Colloquium McGill University, May 27-28, 2016…
CFP: UBC Colloquium 2016, Vancouver BC
Breathturns: Improvisation and Freedom June 25 – June 26 The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation and Coastal Jazz invite proposals for papers and presentations for our eighth colloquium…
CFP: 2016 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, Guelph ON
The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, in partnership with the Guelph Jazz Festival and the University of Guelph, invites proposals for presentations at our annual interdisciplinary international conference. The…
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2016-17
Applications for the 2016-17 Postdoctoral Fellowship Program accepted until April 15, 2016. Please follow this link for more details: IICSI Postdoctoral Fellowship 2016-17 Program Notice
Call for Submissions: Race, Sound, and Technology Issue
Call for Submissions Race, Sound, and Technology Issue Deadline: January 29, 2016 Current Musicology invites submissions for a special interdisciplinary issue on the intersections of race, sound, and technology. While…
Register to participate in Refuge!
Join youth from diverse backgrounds to work with spoken word artist and educator, Kevin Sutton; guest artists, Mosa McNeilly, Truth IS…, Brent Rowan & Joni Nehrita to create a public…
Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series Presents Georgia Simms
The next Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series session is a workshop with modern dancer, choreographer, and educator Georgia Simms at Silence (46 Essex St.) on January…
ImprovNotes on House of Dracula: “It Wasn’t Anything. I Was Just Improvising.”
The response from readers was enthusiastic when, in the March 2015 Improv Notes, we described a sequence from the 1945 film House of Dracula that offered a unique context for…
Canada’s Latest Poet Laureate
Toronto poet George Elliott Clarke has been appointed Canada’s new parliamentary poet laureate. The poet laureate is asked to write poems “especially for use in Parliament on important occasions,” sponsor…
Jazzing the Data
Jazzing the Data – Jazz Discographies in the Digital Age takes place at McGill University on Friday, January 29. Organized by the Columbia Center for Jazz Studies J-Disc task force,…
