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New book by ICASP researcher Daniel Fischlin and Martha Nandorfy explores global human rights: The Community of Rights - The Rights of Community.

Posted: Friday, October 28, 2011

ICASP researcher Daniel Fischlin and Martha Nandorfy release an important contribution to the discussion about global human rights, The Community of Rights - The Rights of Community.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Sounding the Nation? Diaspora, Indigeneity, and Multiculturalism

Posted: Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Sounding the Nation? Diaspora, Indigeneity, and Multiculturalism IASPM-Canada Annual Conference Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia June 14 - 17, 2012

Le Caribou Sonore Presents/Présente: Workshop with Joëlle Léandre/un atelier avec Joëlle Léandre

Posted: Friday, September 23, 2011

Chers amis, J’aimerais vous parler du prochain événement que je co-produit à Montréal sous la bannière « Le Caribou Sonore ». Certains d’entre-vous m’ont peut-être déjà entendu parler de ceci. Pour ceux à qui je n’ai pas eu la chance d’en parler, « Le Caribou Sonore » est un projet qui explore, produit et propage des musiques créatives passées « entre les mailles du filet ». Autrement dit, nous mettons l’accent sur des musiques qui occupent la périphérie des circuits habituels.

Thinking Spaces: The Guelph ICASP Reading Group and Speaker Series

Posted: Monday, September 19, 2011

Friday, September 23rd, 2011 4pm. University of Guelph, MacKinnon Building 132 Decentralized Dance Party Manifesto: Boomboxes, Anarchy, and the Commons A public talk by Dr. Michael MacDonald

CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on the Art and Politics of Irony (March 2012)

Posted: Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Call for papers The Art and Politics of Irony | L’art et la politique de l’ironie 12-14 April 2012 ~ Montréal, QC An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, in collaboration with Improvisation, Community and Social Practice (SSHRC-MCRI), the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montreal and the Département d’études anglaises, Université de Montréal Keynote Speaker Shoshana Felman (Emory University) Special Session Leaders Brigitte Adiaensen (Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen) Jill Stauffer (Haverford College)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Shift, Mix, Blur: Improvising Across Boundaries (Deadline: July 31, 2011)

Posted: Thursday, June 23, 2011

The Improvisation, Community and Social Practice research initiative invites proposals for presentations at its fourth Vancouver colloquium, “Shift, Mix, Blur: Improvising Across Boundaries,” which will take place on October 20 to 22, 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words — finished presentations and papers should conform to a 20-minute delivery — by July 31, 2011 to Dr. Kevin McNeilly, mcneilly@interchange.ubc.ca or to Dr.

La j'etais (There, I was) by Nicholas Loess: Friday June 24th, 2011

Posted: Tuesday, May 31, 2011

La j'etais (There, I was): Live visuals, text and music by Nicholas Loess, Ben Grossman, Germaine Liu, Mark Zurawinski, & Taylor Moran Friday, June 24 · 8:00pm - 10:00pm Macdonald Stewart Art Centre 358 Gordon Street (at College Avenue) | Guelph, ON

ICASP Executive Member Kevin McNeilly releases debut collection of poetry, Embouchure

Posted: Friday, May 27, 2011

Kevin McNeilly, ICASP Co-investigator, University of British Columbia Site Manager and a Member of the ICASP Executive Committee, has released his debut poetry collection, Embouchure. Embouchure compiles the intertwined lineages of trumpet players who came to prominence in the States during the “pre-bop” era, loosely defined as the period between 1890 and 1939.

Artist Residency in Greece: Deadline for Applications June 25, 2011

Posted: Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Open call for six artists from the fields of new media (musicians, dancers-performers, video artists, photographers, e.t.c.) wishing to participate in our 10 day residency in Greece creating a collective work that will be performed at the Onassis Cultural Center (www.sgt.gr) in Athens Greece. We will consider both the quality of the submitted work, and evidence of the willingness to both cooperate across art-forms, and contribute to the collective project.

Thinking Spaces: The Guelph ICASP Reading Group and Speaker Series

Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Next session: Friday, April 15th - 1 pm at the Guelph Public Library. Contributions: Improvisation in Artistic and Pedagogical Practices An ICASP Symposium With special guests videoconferencing presentations from ICASP's other bases at McGill University and from the University of British Columbia. Keynote: Professor Alan Stanbridge University of Toronto "Don’t Fence Me In: Music, Sampling, and Creativity on the Digital Frontier" More information here

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