Organizing Equality is an international conference hosted by members of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Initiative for the Study of Social and Economic Inequality at the University of Western Ontario, planned for 24 – 26 March 2017.

This special issue of InTensions begins from the claim that the arts (or specific art forms, or artworks) have a particular capacity to facilitate just and ethical social relations. Such claims typically rest on ideas about identification – that art enables us to imagine our way into, and also to feel, something of another person’s…

This special issue of InTensions begins from the claim that the arts (or specific art forms, or artworks) have a particular capacity to facilitate just and ethical social relations. Such claims typically rest on ideas about identification – that art enables us to imagine our way into, and also to feel, something of another person’s…

On Saturday, May 14, IICSI Improviser in Residence Douglas R. Ewart and Community Orchestra Inventions will present the Canadian premiere of Ewart’s community-involved performance piece Crepuscule. Since its Minneapolis debut in 1993, Crepuscule has evolved from its original incarnation—as an orchestra with a relatively passive audience—into an orchestra of community and activities, and an active…

IICSI & The Laurier Centre For Music In The Community Present Crepuscule in Guelph, 2016 – Improviser-in-Residence Douglas R. Ewart & Community Orchestra Inventions at The Arboretum, University of Guelph College, Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 2:00 pm. The event is free & family friendly.

We’ll kick-off this year’s events with a visit from vocal improviser, composer, & sound poet, Tomomi Adachi (see below for more information). This opening event will happen at an irregular time & place: 10 Carden (www.10carden.ca), 8-10pm. Self-Made Instruments and Telepathy in Improvisation: A Public Talk and Discussion with Tomomi Adachi. Tomomi Adachi will discuss…

This next issue of TACET seeks to address these different points from an interdisciplinary perspective and to bring together an ensemble of studies (cross-disciplinary, general or focusing on the analysis of specific cases), examining sound space through the multiple problems which represent it and seek to define it. Among these focal points are: the strategies…

As part of Duke University Press’s Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Series, two volumes of which have already been published, this volume proposes an enhanced, interdisciplinary understanding of improvisation as a multivalent, global social practice found within and across different cultural and historical contexts, different national sites and traditions. Books in this new series generally posit…

Lawrence Hill will be coming to Guelph on Oct. 29th to give a talk based on his Massey Lectures, Blood: The Stuff of Life. Further, he will be in conversation with Dionne Brand (ICASP Advisory Board Member).  7pm Lakeside Hope House. Advance tickets available at The Bookshelf now!  

September 26 to December 15, 2013.  “Sound Check”: the first major exhibition of storyteller Thomas King’s jazz photography. King’s contribution to the discourse of contemporary Canadian photography focuses an acute eye and a behind-the-scenes perspective on twenty years of The Guelph Jazz Festival. In celebration of the Festival’s 20th anniversary, the MSAC’s 35th anniversary, and…