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Oral Histories: George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke is one of Canada’s most prolific poets. He is also a renowned essayist, scholar, playwright, and, in many ways, a songwriter. His work largely explores and chronicles the experience and history of the black Canadian community of Nova Scotia, creating a cultural geography that Clarke refers to as “Africadia.” Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia in 1960, near the Black Loyalist community of Three Mile Plains, as a seventh-generation Canadian of African American and Mi’Kmaq Amerindian heritage.
Oral Histories: d’bi.young anitafrika
d’bi.young anitafrika is a Jamaican-Canadian dub poet, monodramatist, educator, and Dora Award-winning actor and playwright. In this month’s Oral History we are gifted with an on stage interview with d’bi.young, and we get to witness the power of dub poetry in action by one of Canada’s most renowned dub poets.
Big Ideas In Improvisation 2023: Vijay Iyer and Hafez Modirzadeh in Conversation
On Saturday, October 21st, 2023, IICSI and Musagetes presented the Big Ideas in Improvisation lecture, “Vijay Iyer and Hafez Modirzadeh: in Conversation” as a part of IICSI’s fourth annual Improvisation Festival: IF 2023. The event was recorded in its entirety, and is now available to watch below.
Thinking Spaces 2022: “Why Music Festivals Now? Ellen Waterman and Ajay Heble in Conversation”
This Thinking Spaces session, “Why Music Festivals Now?: Ellen Waterman and Ajay Heble In Conversation,” took place on April 21, 2022. Description: Festival studies has become a vital and growing…
Reflection – Freddie Stone: Musical Phenomenologist
This reflection was written by Bob Wiseman, and appeared in the April 2022 edition of the ImprovNotes newsletter. It was in Toronto in the 1980s. I was searching for meaning…
Big Ideas In Improvisation 2021: Fred Moten and Vijay Iyer in Conversation
On May 28th, 2021, IICSI and Musagetes presented the inaugural Big Ideas in Improvisation lecture, “Fred Moten and Vijay Iyer: in Conversation.” This online event brought these two artistic visionaries,…
“Sounds that Emerge from You”
“Sounds that Emerge from You” is an interview with musician and writer David Lee, conducted by IICSI Research Paul Watkins about what led Lee to improvised music.
Improvisation and Arts Education in Uganda
A short interview with Allen Tush Naturinda about the role of improvisation in the transformative art workshops for youth in Uganda.
Team Interviews: Lisa Lorenzino
IICSI researcher Lisa Lorenzino talks about her work and its relation to improvisation at the IICSI team gathering in Guelph, ON.
Team Interviews: Kristin Harris Walsh
IICSI researcher Kristin Harris Walsh talks about her work and its relation to improvisation at the IICSI team gathering in Guelph, ON.
