Bring open hearts, open minds, voices, feet, bodies, ears, instruments, curiosity, and joy to this event. Both audience members and performers welcome. No prior experience necessary. Free. Session #6: Composition in Improvisation – Tuesday, November 18th 7-9 pm. Silence, 46 Essex St., Guelph.

This is the deadline to submit art works and scholarly articles that consider expectations, rationales, tensions, and risks embedded in efforts to use the arts to foster more just social relationships to InTensions. 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.

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Mrdangam virtuoso Trichy Sankaran leads a workshop on South Asian musical traditions. With Autorickshaw Trio. ………………… Professor Trichy Sankaran is a world-renowned percussion virtuoso, Indian music scholar and composer, and the founding director of Indian music studies at York University. Over the years, Prof. Sankaran has bridged eastern and western pedagogical styles and has influenced generations of students who have become noted…

Zulapresents is bringing a variety of improvised music to Hamilton this spring, including Sonoluminescence (David Mott, Jesse Stewart, William Parker) with Dave Gould solo Sunday, March 20, 2 p.m. at the Art Gallery of Hamilton,

Zulapresents is bringing a variety of improvised music to Hamilton this spring, including the Michael Vlatkovich Quartet (with David Mott, Jonathan Golove, Christopher Garcia) and Ken Aldcroft/Mike Gennaro Thursday, March 31, 7 p.m. at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre.

The International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) is happy to issue a call for proposals for its 10th Anniversary Festival/Conference in Korea, hosted by Jeonju International Sori Festival 2016 (전주세계소리축제) in Jeonju province, South Korea, September 27-October 2, 2016.  Program Director Jin Hi Kim welcomes proposals from current and new ISIM members, including those who…

The Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation – JEN Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. is looking for a serious educator / student / music historian (such as senior researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students) to conduct a directed research project associated with the archival collections at the Smithsonian Institution.…