Thinking Spaces

Thinking Spaces – George Lipsitz

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

Thinking Spaces – Plastic Time, Optimistic Criticism

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

Improvising Bodies: Sounding Creative Critical Practices in Education

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.

Thinking Spaces: Music and Dance as Community Building and Treatment for Trauma

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.

Thinking Spaces: Sounding the City

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: Francesco Paradiso

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

Thinking Spaces Improvisation Reading Group & Speaker Series Presents: Ellen Waterman

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.