In this session, Dr. Lauren Michelle Levesque will discuss her research on the intersections between conflict transformation and improvisation. A principal question for dialogue will be: How can improvisation contribute to the ways local communities creatively engage with violence and social healing? Insights for answering this question from local activists, artists, community members as well…

October 25th starting at 3 pm in the boardroom at the Guelph Public Library at 100 Norfolk Street (at Paisley). The focus of this session is the use of improvisation and other forms of music in contributing to local community building. Members of the Guelph Ukulele Club will share experiences creating fun and inclusive musical…

What? Spirit(s) Improvise: A Symposium on Improvisation and Spirituality When? Friday December 6, 2013 Where? Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 358 Gordon Street, Guelph, ON All events are free and open to the public. Overview of the Symposium “Spirit(s) Improvise” brings together distinguished scholars, musicians and spiritual practitioners to explore the relationship between improvisation and spirituality. How can improvisation…

The next meeting of the Thinking Spaces Reading Group and Speakers Series will occur Thursday November 21, from 8-10 pm in the Mackinnon building on the University of Guelph campus in room 103. We will continue our theme of “Improvisation and Community Music Making” by exploring the topic “Improvisational Methods and Choral Communities.” We will be…

Craig Pedersen Quartet and Mark Molnar on January 24th at 8:00pm ($10 or pwyc). Silence began back in October 2012 and remains an exciting portal in Guelph for adventurous and innovative sound events. Silence includes an ongoing concert series, occasional improvisation sessions, and handmade music nights and workshops.

Hosted jointly by the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and Mannes College The New School for Music, the event will enable ISIM to direct its global vision not only toward the professional improvised music world but also to the field of musical training in which recognition of the need for improvisatory experience for…

CALL FOR PROPOSALS The International Society for Improvised Music is happy to announce its seventh festival conference and welcome proposals for performances and presentations. Continuing its theme of Cross-cultural Improvisation that guided recent events at the University of Michigan and York College/Roulette, the upcoming event will bring together musicians from disparate cultures to perform together…

Improvising Across Borders is an inter-disciplinary festival and symposium on improvisation, which will be held July 17-19, 2014 at The New Town Hall, Prague, Czech Republic. The symposium will include paper and panel sessions, workshops, sound and text installations, dance, film, and concerts. The keynote address is by distinguished composer and scholar, George E. Lewis (Edwin H.…

The Center for Improvised Arts, Performance and Research, which is sponsored by the Agosto Foundation, invites proposals for papers and presentations at Improvising Across Borders (IAB 2014), an inter-disciplinary festival and symposium on improvisation, which will be held July 17-19, 2014 at The New Town Hall, Prague, Czech Republic. The symposium will include paper and panel sessions,…

As a demonstration of the vitality and diversity of Toronto’s creative music scene, the Somewhere There Festival will include performances by over 60 performers and composers doing important, boundary-pushing work in the city of Toronto, along with a speakers’ series featuring a number of prominent thinkers, educators, and music presenters. http://somewherethere.org/festival/index.php