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An Improvised Curtain-Raiser at #EMWF2019
The IICSI is delighted to present a reading and improvised musical performance that will pay tribute to artistic freedom and collaboration for the opening event of the Eden Mills Writer’s Festival: In Conversation: Marina Endicott and Guy Gavriel Kay happening September 6, 2019 at the Guelph Arboretum.
Into the Light @ Guelph Civic Museum
Former IICSI Postdoctoral Fellow Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning, an Anishinaabe contemporary artist, is co-curator for an upcoming exhibition at the Guelph Civic Museum. Into the Light: Eugenics and Education in Southern Ontario examines local histories and the ongoing legacies of racial “betterment” thinking in Southern Ontario—a movement that de-humanized and disappeared those who did not fit the normative middle-class lives of white, able-bodied settlers.
Artist of the Month: Cecil Foster
IICSI Researcher Cecil Foster is the ImprovNotes artist of the month!
A series of public concerts in the Gaspésie region
The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation will be presenting a series of public concerts and events as part of our two initiatives in the Gaspésie region this summer:…
IICSI Researcher Wins Doris Duke Award
IICSI researcher George E. Lewis has been granted a Doris Duke Artist Award “as a composer and trombonist whose audacious experimentalism has pushed both jazz and contemporary classical music forward.”
Short Takes – ImprovNotes July 2019
Shorts Takes from the July 2019 edition of ImprovNotes, the IICSI’s monthly newsletter.
Ajay Heble granted Honorary Doctorate in Mexico City by 17, Institute of Critical Studies
17, Institute of Critical Studies, in Mexico City, Mexico, awarded an Honorary Doctorate to Canadian jazz musician, University of Guelph professor and IICSI Director Dr. Ajay Heble.
Short Takes – ImprovNotes June 2019
ImprovNotes Short Takes June 2019 – Call for participants! Toronto Symposium / Gathering, Spontaneous Acts in Jazz & Culture & Improvisation in Rural Ontario.
Agile Futures at Western Front
Agile Futures: Approaching Improvisation, takes place June 22-23 during the opening weekend of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival at the Western Front, one of Canada’s leading artist-run centres for contemporary art and new music.
IICSI postdoc Teresa Connors at rOGUE Gallery
IICSI Postdoctoral Fellow, Teresa Connors’ exhibition Patterns opens Friday, April 26 at rOGUE Gallery in St. John’s Newfoundland!
