Improviser-in-Residence Program

For the inaugural Improviser-In-Residency, Jane Bunnett was invited to Guelph to conduct a variety of music-based community activities. A Toronto-based soprano saxophonist, flutist, and bandleader, Bunnett is a multiple Juno…

As IICSI’s 2025 Improviser-In-Residence, Marilyn Crispell hosted a series of public workshops and performed a collaborative performance at ImprovLab. Crispell performed as part of a free night of performances in…

In late September 2024, IICSI and Musagetes invited the renowned improvisers and educators Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon to Guelph, Ontario, to continue building their 25+ year project exploring the ways in which improvisation can help build safe creativity environments.

The IICIS/Musagetes 2019-2020 Improviser-in-Residence, Marianne Trudel performs at the 2020 ArtsEverywhere Festival Guelph Lecture On Being.

Each year the IICSI and Musagetes invite an improvising performer(s) to spend time in Guelph-Kitchener-Waterloo to develop a large improvisational community project.

Poet and interdisciplinary artist Kade. L Twist was the 2017 IICSI/Musagetes Improviser-in-Residence.

Montreal sound-artists Jen Reimer and Max Stein were the 2018 IICSI/ Musagetes Improvisers-in-Residence.

Sounding The City – Guelph 003 is the accompanying publication for the IICSI/Musagetes 2018 Improvisers-in-Residence Jen Reimer and Max Stein’s culminating eponymous residency project and exhibition held at the Boarding House Gallery in September 2018.

Excerpts from IICSI’s 2016 Improviser-in-Residence Kid Koala’s conversation with Mark V. Campbell (Ryerson University), during the 2016 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium.

The Improviser-in-Residence 2015-16 Douglas R. Ewart, Feedback and Reflections report is an amalgamation of the feedback gleaned from the Crepuscule participant surveys and the post-event, Crepuscule team focus-group evaluation.