Staff

Sam Boer (M.A., Ryerson) is a musician, writer, and teacher born and raised in Guelph, Ontario. Dedicated to pushing boundaries in folk music, he has released his debut album Pigeon under the moniker Samson Wrote. Pigeon received funding from the Ontario Arts Council and was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award in 2019. He has toured Canada…

Marie Zimmerman has worked in the realms of both theory and practice in cultural studies, having been both an academic and a festival director for over twenty years.  She has worked for five Canadian arts festivals in music, dance, jazz, film, and literature, acting as Artistic Director, publicist, HR consultant, emergency plan architect, strategic planner…

Richelle Forsey is an artist and photographer. Her work has been shown in Canada, the U.S. and abroad, as well as collaboratively in the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, and Scotiabank Nuit Blanche (Toronto). Forsey is also a founding member of the photography collective TLR Club, a member of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, and…

Rachel Collins is Project Manager for the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. She formerly held the role of Administrative Assistant with the Institute and with its predecessor, the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice research project. Throughout her time with ICASP and IICSI, Rachel has been involved in a wide breadth of Institute activities,…