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Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium

Guelph University will present seven International colloquia as part of the ongoing Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Project.

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.

Past Colloquia:

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

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

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

2010 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: Improvising Bodies

Upcoming Colloquia at Guelph:

2011 Improvisation, Text, and Media Colloquium

2012 Improvisation and Pedagogy Colloquium

2013 Improvisation and Transcultural Understanding Colloquium

Listening itself, an improvisative act engaged in by everyone, announces a practice of active engagement with the world, where we sift, interpret, store and forget, in parallel with action and fundamentally articulated with it ("Mobilitas Animi" 113).

– George E. Lewis