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Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium

Throughout the duration of the ICASP Project, the University of Guelph will present seven international colloquia on a number of exciting aspects of improvisational research.

The Colloquium is presented by the Guelph Jazz Festival, in conjunction with the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice project, the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, and the University of Guelph.

Current Colloquium

2015 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: Among the People: Arts, Improvisation, and Well-Being

Past Colloquia

2014 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: Sounding Futures

2013 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: Sound Knowledges: A World Artist Summit

2012 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: Pedagogy & Praxis: Improvisation as Social Justice and Social Responsibility

2011 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: Sound Practices: Improvisation, Representation, and Intermediality

2010 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: Improvising Bodies

2009 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: Improvisation, the Arts, and Social Policy

2008 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: Diaspora, Dispersal, Improvisation, and Imagination

2007 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: People Get Ready: the Future of Jazz is NOW!

So one of the things that improvisation has come to mean in the context of highly technological performance is that improvisation is the last claim to the legitimate presence of a human in the performance of music.

– Bob Ostertag