Please join us on Friday, August 16 at 4:00 PM (ET) for “François Houle and MILE Camp Participants LIVE at the Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum.”

This performance will take place in person at the Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum, located at 294 route 132 est in Coin-du-Banc. Tickets cost $10 and will be available for purchase at the door (cash only). Please note that seating is limited.

Please join us on Monday, August 12 at 8:00 PM (ET) for “François Houle at the Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum.”

This performance will take place in person at the Musée culturel de Coin-du-Banc / Corner of the Beach Cultural Museum, located at 294 route 132 est in Coin-du-Banc. Tickets cost $10 and will be available for purchase at the door (cash only). Please note that seating is limited.

Please join us on Saturday, July 20 at 10:00 PM (ET) for “The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis” at Hillside Festival 2024!
This performance will take place in person on Guelph Lake Island. Tickets are available on the Festival Website.

“IF 2024: Silence-Producing Machine” takes place from Wednesday, June 26th to Saturday, June 29th, 2024 at the Fonoteca Nacional de México, Mexico City (Part of the XXXVII International Colloquium, “Silence-Producing Machine: Improvisation in and Beyond Music and the Arts“).

Improvising Care
McGill/Montreal
Oct 5-9, 2024

Please join us starting from Monday, May 27 , at 10:00 AM(ET) for “Has it Started…?” with IICSI Postdoctoral Fellow Rebecca Barnstaple. There will be a schedule of events each day until May 30th.  “Has it started…?” is a 4 day open-door artist residency and practice-based inquiry at the ImprovLab, University of Guelph. 

On May 31, at 11:00 AM (ET), Dr. Barnstaple has scheduled an Open Class, preceded by a lecture/webinar on adapted dance (Danse adaptee pour le bien-etre). Register here for the Open Class!

Please join us on Sunday, May 5th, from 8–9 pm (ET) for a live music performance by the Anne Bourne/Joe Sorbara/Ajay Heble Trio. The performance will take place in person at ImprovLab, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. The event acts the finale of the ArtsEverywhere Festival.

Please join us on Sunday, May 5th, from 4–7 pm (ET) for a screening of  “Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros.” The screening will take place in person at ImprovLab, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. The event is part of the ArtsEverywhere Festival. A post-screening conversation with director Daniel Weintraub (remote), executive…

The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI), in partnership with the Guelph Jazz Festival and the University of Guelph, invites proposals for presentations at our annual interdisciplinary international conference. The colloquium will take place September 11-13, 2024, as part of the 31st annual Guelph Jazz Festival. Featuring panel discussions, debates, performances, workshops, keynote presentations, and critical conversations among researchers, artists, and audiences, the colloquium fosters a spirit of collaborative, boundary-defying inquiry and dialogue, and an international exchange of cultural forms and knowledges.

Please join us on Wednesday, March 27 at 1:30 PM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Admiration and Imitation: Toward a Disability-Led Model for Music Education” with adam patrick bell.