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Thinking Spaces: Zahra Habib “Lunar Rotations: Eternal Eleutheria

Please join us on Wednesday, February 28 at 2:00 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Eternal Eleutheria” with Zahra Habib. 
This presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph, as well as online via Zoom. As always, our Thinking Spaces events are free!

Thinking Spaces: Colin Harrington “Improvisation in Sequencer-based Electronic Dance Music”

Please join us on Thursday, February 8 at 12:00 PM for Thinking Spaces: “Improvisation in Sequencer-based Electronic Dance Music” with Colin Harrington. 

Thinking Spaces: Zane Zalis, “Head in the Clouds – Feet on the Ground | Improvising and Creating: A Way of Becoming and Being”

Please join us on Wednesday, December 6 at 2:00 PM for Thinking Spaces: “Head in the Clouds – Feet on the Ground | Improvising and Creating: A Way of Becoming and Being” with Zane Zalis. 

Thinking Spaces: Joe Sorbara, “Attending to the Social Space of The Music: Self-Expression as a Site of Pedagogy | Questioning the ways that I teach creative music making”

Please join us on Wednesday, November 22 at 10:00 AM for Thinking Spaces: “Attending to the Social Space of The Music: Self-Expression as a Site of Pedagogy | Questioning the ways that I teach creative music making” with Joe Sorbara. 

Thinking Spaces: Dr. Darren Hamilton, “Exploring and Experimenting with Gospel Vocal Improvisation”

Please join us on Friday, November 24 at 1:00 PM for Thinking Spaces: “Exploring and Experimenting with Gospel Vocal Improvisation” with Darren Hamilton. 

Thinking Spaces: annais linares, “Co-Creative Accompaniment: Improvising Re[new]ed Relationships through Arts-Based Kin Making”

Please join us on Friday, November 10 at 3 pm for Thinking Spaces: “Co-Creative Accompaniment: Improvising Re[new]ed Relationships through Arts-Based Kin Making” with annais linares.

Thinking Spaces: Rashida K. Braggs, “Black Women Who Move Jazz Methodologies”

Thinking Spaces, the Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series, considers the ways in which improvisation can provide us with new ways of thinking and acting.

Thinking Spaces: “Improv for Scientists”

Improvisational exercises have been a key element of theatre training for decades. With minor modification, these same exercises can be used in training scientists (and future scientists) to be better communicators. I’ll discuss my use of improv with our physics majors at U of G and give some examples of the science-y twists we throw on the activities to suit our purposes.

Thinking Spaces: Why Music Festivals Now? Ellen Waterman and Ajay Heble in Conversation

Thinking Spaces: The Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “Why Music Festivals Now?: Ellen Waterman and Ajay Heble In Conversation.” The event will take place on Thursday,…

Thinking Spaces: “Untitled, or, how free is free anyway?” with Aruna Antonella Handa

Thinking Spaces: The Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “Untitled or how free is free anyway?  Unpacking the ceteris paribus clauses in free improvisation,”  a talk by…