Thinking Spaces

You’re invited to join us for the inaugural Thinking Spaces presentation for the 2022 series at 10am (EST) on Friday, Feb. 25th via Zoom with guest speaker Catharine Cary! This presentation, entitled “The Upside Down Protocol,”…

Thinking Spaces: The Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “ Living Ball of Fire: Peter Brötzmann, Black Experimentalism, and Politics in 1960s West Germany,” a virtual talk by…

IICSI and Sociable Cities present a virtual Thinking Spaces with George Lipsitz, Insubordinate Spaces: Why Improvisation and Accompaniment Matter Now, Friday, Oct. 23.

James Wood will discuss Plastic Time, relating to a practice he calls Optimistic Criticism – a method of rhythmic and temporal analysis and notation that incorporates artistic research and a questioning of institutional biases of justification

Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group & Speaker Series Presents: Improvising Bodies: Sounding Creative Critical practices in Education with Lisa Sandlos, Jashen Edwards and Carey West.

SOFAM faculty member Jim Harley presents on the efforts of internal refugees affected by the years-long conflict in Northern Uganda who have formed an association for traditional music and dance, which has become an important part of their trauma recovery.

Come meet the IICSI and Musagetes 2018 Improvisers-in-Residence Jen Reimer and Max Stein, and learn about their residency plans at a session of Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series on Friday, March 2, 1:30 pm, at the IICSI House.

Thinking Spaces, the Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series presents Francesco Paradiso – Hospitable Offbeats: Jazz Improvisation and the Unconditional Welcome.

Join us for an afternoon discussing improvisation and multiculturalism with Ellen Waterman. Ellen Waterman is a flutist and professor of ethnomusicology at the School of Music at MUN.