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Thinking Spaces: The Guelph ICASP Reading Group and Speaker Series

Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker series runs a reading group session during the academic year every two weeks (currently Fridays 4-6pm). Throughout the year, this group also organizes public talks and workshops. Each reading group focuses on a particular reading circulated in advance, and may also include short informal presentations by current ICASP students, artists or community groups. Readings include articles and chapters, music and performances or other types of “reading”. This group is coordinated by the current ICASP postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Guelph. The group meets at a central location, currently the Guelph Public Library. See below for information on the past readings and past events. The group also organizes social occasions following the reading group sessions and speaker events.

Join us at any time throughout the year. Community, faculty, students…all welcome!

Upcoming Events

Please join us for Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series on Friday March 2nd, 2012. from 4-6pm in the 2nd floor board room at the Main Branch of the Guelph Public Library (100 Norfolk Street).

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Past Speakers and Workshop Events

2012

2011

2010

  • The Improvising Eye Symposium
  • Winfried Simerling "Jazz, Diaspora, and the Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal"
  • Ric Knowles “Deep Improvisation and Dramaturgy Across Difference: “Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way”
  • Monique Mojica and Rob Wallace “Improvising Across Borders: A Workshop”
  • Myra Melford “Aural Architecture: In Conversation with the ICASP Reading Group”
  • Louise Campbell “At the Intersection@ A Workshop on Improvisation in Movement and Music”
  • Student Presentations by ICASP student researchers- Mauricio Martinez, Ronald East

2009

Past Readings

Improvisation implies a deep connection between the personal and the communal, self and world. A “good” improviser successfully navigates musical and institutional boundaries and the desire for self-expression, pleasing not only herself but the listener as well.

– Rob Wallace