The pressing and complex problems of this age require creative and innovative solutions. On Thursday October 25th, a diverse set of experts—including an award-winning actress and activist, professors of improvisation, a community engaged scholar and facilitator, and members of a local improv education centre— will gather together to share inspiring stories of the power of improvisation for effective and lasting social change.

The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series considers the ways in which improvisation can provide us with new ways of thinking and acting. Readings may include music, performance, film, academic texts, fiction, etc., based around critical thinking on improvisation. Throughout the academic year, this group also organizes public talks and workshops. Thinking Spaces is open to all—community members, faculty, and students and we welcome new participants at any time throughout the year.

Join The Fertel Foundation for conference Improvisation, New Orleans’ Gift to the Modern World, bringing together internationally known performers, artists and scholars in an exploration of improvisation across the arts – cuisine, music, literature, visual arts, politics and oral history.

Apply now for the 2019 Artist-in-Residence program at Coastal Jazz!

The 11th Festival and Conference of the International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) will take place May 16-19, 2019 and invites proposals from new and current ISIM members for performances, workshops, academic papers, and panel discussions related to any aspect of improvised music.

Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music is an emerging and exciting postgraduate journal at Birmingham City University is seeking submissions for Vol. 3.1, “Ideas of Noise.”