Call for Papers: Deadline October 15, 2013
Posted: Friday, October 4, 2013Sound Changes: Improvisation, Social Practice, and Cultural Difference
Self-Made Instruments and Telepathy in Improvisation
Posted: Friday, September 20, 2013A Public Talk and Discussion with Tomomi Adachi September 27, 2013 8 pm - 10 pm at 10 Carden, downtown Guelph
Time Forms: The Temporalities of Aesthetic Experience
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2013September 18-21, 2013 McGill University and the Phi Centre
Musagetes Guelph Café - September 25-28, 2013
Posted: Tuesday, September 10, 2013Performances / Workshops / Live Music / Discussions / Debates All events are free! Find the full program of events here. With performances, workshops, live music, discussions, hands-on publishing, outdoor interventions, debates, and a neighbourhood audio zine, the Café will focus on co-creating, bridge-building across communities, and recognizing alternative social spaces. Here is what we’ll be talking and thinking about:
Open Invitation: Launch of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation
Posted: Monday, August 12, 2013INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL STUDIES IN IMPROVISATION
TACET : Appel à contribution : Call for papers
Posted: Friday, August 2, 2013TACET, EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC REVIEW (English version below) DE L'ESPACE SONORE
“we tellin’ stories yo”: A Performance and Interview with Renowned Dub Poet d’bi.young
Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2013Featuring an opening DJ Set by DJ Techné FREE and Open to the Public Thursday, August 8th, 2013 (7-9 pm) Paintbox Bistro (555 Dundas Street East, Regent Park, Toronto) ICASP (Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice) and Paintbox Bistro present Jamaican-Canadian dub poet, monodramatist, educator, and Dora Award-winning actor and playwright, d’bi.young.anitafrika in an intimate free performance. Following the performance there will be an interview with the poet conducted by Paul Watkins (DJ Techné). Make sure you catch this event with one of Canada’s most visionary storytellers.
New Special Project: Think Pieces
Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2013This month, ICASP announces the beginning of a new Special Project aimed at exploring the boundaries, borders, and possibilities of critical improvisation studies as it applies to a number of divergent social issues, research fields, and contemporary ideas. The Think Pieces project will bring a monthly discussion and debate to the ICASP community (and beyond) in an attempt to explore a number of provocative questions: How can theories of improvisation re-imagine and redefine the roles of intellectuals?
Program Announced for 2013 Guelph Jazz Festival, Celebrating 20 Years
Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Call For Papers: Sound Changes: Improvisation, Social Practice, and Cultural Difference
Posted: Friday, June 28, 2013As part of Duke University Press’s Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice series, two volumes of which have already been published, this volume proposes an enhanced, interdisciplinary understanding of improvisation as a multivalent, global social practice found within and across different cultural and historical contexts, different national sites and traditions.
