CfP – Sound, Meaning, Education: CONVERSATIONS & improvisations
Sound, Meaning, Education (SME) invites researchers, artists, and/or teachers to submit proposals for an in-person conference to be held at the University of Guelph, October 20-22, 2023. The conference will gather all manner of curricular innovators to share research/scholarship, pedagogical strategies, narratives/stories, performances, and imaginings.
Thinking Spaces: Marsha Hinds Myrie, “Improvisation, Plantation Societies and Difficult Conversations”
The purpose of this talk is to invite partnership and mutual sharing in Critical Studies in Improvisation to imagine uses and expansion in plantation societies. Using art to confront complicated social issues is a long accepted and well received practice in plantation societies.
Thinking Spaces: Rebecca Barnstaple, “Fidelity for the Irreplicable: Improvisation in Dance and Health Research”
Improvisation is a core element of some interventions in the emerging fields of dance for health and dance therapy, which have shown potential to slow progress or diminish symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alheimer’s.
Thinking Spaces: Rashida K. Braggs, “Black Women Who Move Jazz Methodologies”
Thinking Spaces, the Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series, considers the ways in which improvisation can provide us with new ways of thinking and acting.
Musical Improvisation at Land’s End / Coin-du-Banc en folie
Musical Improvisation at Land’s End (MILE) is a unique summer camp that will engage musicians in hands-on workshops led by world-class improvising artists.
Thinking Spaces: Darren O’Donnell
Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “Chance as Co-Director: Working with the Whims of Children,” a talk by Darren O’Donnell. This event will take place on Wednesday, January 18 at 10am (ET), online (via Zoom). A moderated Q&A will follow the talk. If you are interested in attending,…
Fillum Circle Presents: “The Great Indian Kitchen” Screening and Discussion
Fillum Circle Presents a film screening and discussion of the 2021 Jeo Baby film “The Great Indian Kitchen” on Thursday, Nov 10, 4-6pm in Mackinnon 019 (Interdisciplinary Hub, University of Guelph). This event is free and all are welcome to attend! Watch the film trailer here. “A terrific, trenchant film, whose director Jeo Baby questions…
Workshop with meLê yamomo: “Post:Migrant Presences”
Friday, December 2 // 10am – 2:30pm EDTRegistration limited—sign up here!8/15 spots reserved for BIPOC participantslunch providedUniversity of Guelph103 Mackinnon Building87 Trent Lane How can ‘presence’ interrupt dominant aesthetics? How could the inhabiting of the here and now be a revolutionary act? If history is a musical score of modernity or a play script of…
