Zula Music & Arts Collective Hamilton presents Linsey Wellman / Bennett / Lee Palmer trio

“If you have to ask”: The Cultural, Cognitive, and Neural Underpinnings of Improvisatory Behavior in the Arts and Beyond McGill University, Montreal, Quebec May 27-28, 2016 Louis Armstrong famously said that if you have to ask what improvisation is, you’ll never know. The time has come to ask, but what precisely is the question, or…

This conference aims to bring together neuroscientists, psychologists, music cognition specialists, anthropologists, social scientists, scholars of creativity, improvising artists across art-forms, and scholars of improvisation, all directed towards understanding how minds-in-bodies-in-cultures interact to produce improvisatory gestures and acts often rich with social, communicative, political, aesthetic, interpersonal and cognitive meaning and value.

Dear all, I’d like to invite you to our next Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series session. Please join us for a workshop with modern dancer, choreographer, and educator Georgia Simms at Silence (46 Essex St.) on January 29 between 2:30 and 4:30 pm. This workshop will frame movement improvisation as a…

Today is the deadline for the IICSI-MUN Colloquium titled Improvisation as Intercultural Contact and Dialogue taking place at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, July 6-8, 2016.    

Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians is presenting its concluding 50th anniversary celebration performances in December. December 27, as part of the Annual Kwanzaa celebration, Ann Ward’s Matrix at Space 1858.