Pop Up Concerts @ ImprovLab – vol. I: AJAY and REZA

Please join us Saturday, February 3rd, at 2:00 PM for the first in a series of small-scale, largely acoustic Pop Up Concerts @ ImprovLab. Volume 1, featuring AJAY and REZA.

Thinking Spaces: Colin Harrington “Improvisation in Sequencer-based Electronic Dance Music”

Please join us on Thursday, February 8 at 12:00 PM for Thinking Spaces: “Improvisation in Sequencer-based Electronic Dance Music” with Colin Harrington. 

Thinking Spaces: Zane Zalis, “Head in the Clouds – Feet on the Ground | Improvising and Creating: A Way of Becoming and Being”

Please join us on Wednesday, December 6 at 2:00 PM for Thinking Spaces: “Head in the Clouds – Feet on the Ground | Improvising and Creating: A Way of Becoming and Being” with Zane Zalis. 

Thinking Spaces: Joe Sorbara, “Attending to the Social Space of The Music: Self-Expression as a Site of Pedagogy | Questioning the ways that I teach creative music making”

Please join us on Wednesday, November 22 at 10:00 AM for Thinking Spaces: “Attending to the Social Space of The Music: Self-Expression as a Site of Pedagogy | Questioning the ways that I teach creative music making” with Joe Sorbara. 

Jamming the Classroom: Book Launch & Concert

IICSI is pleased to present a book launch & concert by Ajay Heble & Jesse Stewart! Please join us at the ImprovLab at 3 PM on Saturday, November 25th for this free event, open to all!  Please RSVP here to confirm your attendance.

Books will be on hand for purchase!

For those who cannot make it in person, the concert will be live-streamed on IICSI’s official Twitch stream!

Thinking Spaces: Dr. Darren Hamilton, “Exploring and Experimenting with Gospel Vocal Improvisation”

Please join us on Friday, November 24 at 1:00 PM for Thinking Spaces: “Exploring and Experimenting with Gospel Vocal Improvisation” with Darren Hamilton. 

Dans les arbres Workshop

IICSI is pleased to present a workshop by Dans les arbres! Please join us at the ImprovLab at 2 PM on Thursday, November 30th for this free event, open to all! Dans les arbres is an improvising ensemble comprising French clarinetist Xavier Charles alongside three Norwegians: pianist Christian Wallumrød, guitarist Ivar Grydeland, and percussionist Ingar…

Dans les arbres In Concert

Following their free workshop earlier that day, Dans les arbres will be performing a free concert at 8 PM on Thursday, November 30, in the ImprovLab! As with the workshop, this event is free and open to all. Dans les arbres is an improvising ensemble comprising French clarinetist Xavier Charles alongside three Norwegians: pianist Christian…

Bread and Puppet Comes to University of Guelph

IICSI and the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph have teamed up to present a ONE NIGHT ONLY performance of Inflammatory Earthling Rants from the infamous, the spectacular, the alluring… Bread and Puppet Theater! 

Thinking Spaces: annais linares, “Co-Creative Accompaniment: Improvising Re[new]ed Relationships through Arts-Based Kin Making”

Please join us on Friday, November 10 at 3 pm for Thinking Spaces: “Co-Creative Accompaniment: Improvising Re[new]ed Relationships through Arts-Based Kin Making” with annais linares.