The international colloquium on Indigenous Improvisation will be held at the MMaP Research Centre, Arts and Culture Centre, in St. Johns, Newfoundland on July 4 and 5, 2018. Indigenous scholars and musicians from Canada, the United States, Taiwan, and Norway will present talks and discussions. The colloquium is free and open to the public, and takes place between 9 am and 5 pm each day.

Koumaria invites Applications from artists, musicians, composers, video artists, designers, dancers and anyone who designs, builds and/or employs new interfaces or preexisting interfaces in innovative ways, and performers who are excited by the prospect of working with new interfaces, or becoming one.

Neighbourhood Arts Network invites artists, arts organizations, curators, and arts practitioners at any stage in their career to submit proposals for art activation, artist talks, and workshops. DEADLINE: JUNE 10, 2018 The 2018 Emergence Symposium begins on November 19 with 4 days of community arts activations and culminates with a full-day conference on November 23. Over 200 community engaged arts…

Wolf Lake Tones, a night of poetry and music with artists Madhur Anand, Gary Barwin, and Phil Hall at Silence, in Guelph Ontario.

Join us for a special presentation by Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning who is a 2018 postdoctoral fellow at the IICSI, and Bodies in Translation researcher, Dr. Manning will discuss her dissertation on mnidoo-worlding or mnidoo-consciousnessing and its temporal bending interrelational ethics, specifically its implications for disability studies.

Hafez Modirzadeh (San Francisco State University) will lead a seminar on his research at the intersection of improvisation, composition, performance, and pedagogy. This event will be of interest to composers, performers, and individuals interested in pedagogy.

This is a call for AUMI users of all abilities and occupations to submit proposals with a title, brief bio of author/co-authors, and 500-word description of what you would like to write for Improvising Across Abilities.

The Creative Music Symposium, presented by the University of Guelph’s Music Student’s Association happens March 6 – 9, 2018.

The deadline to apply for a Doctoral Research Fellowship in the Cultural Study of Music, supervised by associate professor Kyle Devine at the University of Oslo is March 12, 2018.

Come meet the IICSI and Musagetes 2018 Improvisers-in-Residence Jen Reimer and Max Stein, and learn about their residency plans at a session of Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series on Friday, March 2, 1:30 pm, at the IICSI House.