University of Regina September 18 & 19, 2015 Regina Improvisation Studies Centre proudly presents a stream of academic and artistic explorations investigating improvisation during the Performing Turtle Island Conference. Check out the full schedule, online!

The 2015 edition of the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, Among the People: Arts, Improvisation, and Well-Being, will take place from September 16-18th. 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a groundbreaking organization with a commitment to fostering musicians’ growth and to the development of…

The TransDisciplinary Improvisation Network (TIN) presents What’s in a Name?, a conference at Middlesex University, October 23-24, 2015. Strongly grounded in the creative arts and led by expert improvisers, this event will be an opportunity to articulate and elaborate practices and contribute to the emerging critical discourses of all things improvisatory, refining understandings of creative…

An afternoon with composer, musician, visual artist, craftsman, inventor, and educator Douglas R. Ewart. Mr Ewart will talk about his transdisciplinary project, Crepuscule, which he has expanded globally during the past decade.

Friday, November 20th, 3-5 pm University of Guelph, MacKinnon 303 FREE AND OPEN TO ALL The next session of Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series will be held this Friday, November 20th. Please join us for a screening and discussion of the 2009 documentary Amplified Gesture. Directed by Phil Hopkins, this film illuminates the…

Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2016-2017 The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI)’s mandate is to create positive social change through the confluence of improvisation arts, innovative scholarship, and collaborative action. For the 2016-17 academic year, we invite applications of postdoctoral researchers for two residential fellowships. The fellowship may be held at the University of…

  Call for Submissions Race, Sound, and Technology Issue Deadline: January 29, 2016 Current Musicology invites submissions for a special interdisciplinary issue on the intersections of race, sound, and technology. While scholars have written at length about the cultural uses of sound and music technology, many of these discussions exclude race as a category for…

Improvisar En Tiempos Atroces (To Improvise in Atrocious Times) is the title of the 20th international symposium of Mexico City’s Institute of Critical Studies, January 13-16 at Biblioteca Vasconcelos (Buenavista). Covering topics of international violence, unrest, protest, and surveillance, the symposium will query, among other things, “how improvisation is not antithetical to the law but…