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Improv in Newfoundland
Chris Tonelli’s Improvising Spaces series continues to bring participatory improvisation to St. John’s. Early in September, English composer Trevor Wishart came to town to work with local performers. Later in…
Jazz at ISME, Glasgow 2016
The Jazz Special Interest Group (Jazz SIG) within the International Society of Music Education (ISME) invites you to present your jazz related research at the ISME conference in Glasgow, July 24-29,…
CFP: Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation (CSI-ÉCI)
Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation (CSI-ÉCI) invites submissions for a special issue with the theme, “Just Improvisation: Enriching child protection law through musical techniques, discourses, and pedagogies,”…
CFP: What’s In A Name? 2015, London UK
A symposium investigating improvisation across disciplines is being organized by the TransDisciplinary Improvisation Network (TIN), an international research group operating out of the School of Media and Performing Arts, Middlesex…
Just Improvisation: May 2015
Just Improvisation: Enriching Child Protection Law through Musical Techniques, Discourses, and Pedagogies This UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-sponsored international symposium was held at Queen’s University Belfast in May 2015. It…
At the Edges: Improvising Turtle Island
University of Regina September 18 & 19, 2015 Regina Improvisation Studies Centre proudly presents a stream of academic and artistic explorations investigating improvisation during the Performing Turtle Island Conference. Friday…
ImprovNotes August 2015 Artist of the Month: Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)
There are many more books to be written about Ornette Coleman, who passed away June 11 at the age of 85. He and his music rose to international prominence in…
ImprovNotes July 2015 Artist of the Month: Nonoko Yoshida
Japanese alto saxophonist Nonoko Yoshida recently toured several cities in eastern Canada, performing in Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal and Ottawa. Currently active in the downtown New York improvisation scene, Yoshida plays…
IICSI People: Gregory Shupak and Paul Watkins
Two former ICASP/IICSI GRAs have recently successfully defended their dissertations: congratulations to Gregory Shupak and Paul Watkins, the newest Ph.D graduates from Guelph’s School of English and Theatre Studies. Dr.…
AUMI Research Consortium at McGill Colloquium
The two-day (June 7/8) conference“Improvisation and Community Health / «Improvisation et santé communautaire»,sponsored by IICSI, the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy (IHSP), the Société des Arts Libres et…
