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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,…
ImprovNotes January 2016 Artist of the Month: Paul Bley (1932-2015)
Canadian jazz artist Paul Bley, who died January 3 at the age of 83, was an improvising pianist, and proudly so. “In jazz, the composers were generally inept pianists,” he…
Open Waters Festival, Halifax
The annual Open Waters Festival of new and improvised music took place January 7-10 at Sir James Dunn Theatre, the Atlantica Hotel, the Central Library, and The Company House in…
Open Waters Festival
Open Waters Festival: 4 Halifax locations – 14 extraordinary events – Sir James Dunn Theatre, Dalhousie Arts Centre – The Atlantica Hotel, Commons Room – The Halifax Central Library – The…
CFP: MUN Colloquium 2016, St. John’s NL
IICSI-MUN Colloquium Memorial University of Newfoundland July 6-8, 2016 Improvisation as Intercultural Contact and Dialogue The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation at Memorial University (IICSI-MUN) invites proposals for…
ImprovNotes on Southwestern Ontario Performance
A circuit around Toronto is beginning to provide an unprecedented infrastructure for improvising musicians in southwestern Ontario. This autumn, the Admission of Guilt series presented Diatribes (from Switzerland); the Hamilton…
