This year's Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium Big Ideas in Improvisation keynote is by Ahmed Abdullah and Monique Ngozi Nri, in which they discuss Abdullah’s memoir. Titled A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra (published through Blank Forms Editions), the book is grounded in artists' journals, oral histories, and embodied experiences. On…
In what ways can/do artists engage with archival materials—those held in institutional and community archives as well as those typically referred to as ephemera—to interrogate the aesthetic and political dimensions of cultural memory? How can/do they generate new, future-oriented archives through creative practice, research, and community-based work? To what extent can/do they enact and expand…
For the eighth year, our Musical Improvisation at Land’s End (MILE) Camp is taking place in Québec’s Gaspésie Region, complete with a series of public concerts. This year, these public…
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