Colloquium Day 2

PANEL: "Free Improvisation, Education, and Cultural Dynamics"

Melvin Backstrom (McGill U.) - Improvisation as Freedom? A Bourdieuian Critique of Creative Action
Simon Rose (Middlesex U.) - Articulating Perspectives on Free Improvisation for Education

Venue:

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Gallery 6

Type:

Panel

Price:

Free

Time:

9 - 10am

Colloquium Day 2

PANEL: "The Great Divide?: Eurological and Afrological Perspectives on Improvisation"

Alexandre Pierrepont (Université Paris 7 ) - Cultural Triangulations – Yorubas and New Yorubas Across the Black Atlantic
Brent Mix (Northwestern U.) – Idiom and Empire: The Historicity of Free Improvisation
Alan Stanbridge (U. Toronto) - The Day will Come: Discourses of African-American Authenticity and European Improvised Music
Mark Laver (U. Toronto) – America’s Classical Music: Jazz, Elitism, and the Meaning of Blackness

Venue:

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Lecture Room

Type:

Panel

Price:

Free

Time:

9 - 10:30am

Colloquium Day 2

WORKSHOP
Improvising Across Borders: Approaches to Cultural Expression

Sal Ferreras (host), François Houle, Amir Koushkani, René Lussier, Kevin Breit, John Kameel Farah

Venue:

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre

Type:

Workshop

Price:

Free

Time:

10:45 - 11:45am

Matana Roberts’s Coin Coin: Prologue (New York)

The best jazz and creative music have always had to do with much more than technical displays and impressive musicianship. While saxophonist Mantana Roberts is no doubt in possession of such musicianship, it is always in the service of something greater, deeper, and more powerful.

Venue:

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre

Type:

Concert

Price:

Free

Time:

1pm

Colloquium Day 2

PANEL: "Fostering Dissent, Building Communities"

François Mouillot (U. Guelph) – Resisting Poems: Expressions of Dissent and Hegemony in Modern Basque Bertsolaritza
Lee Veeraraghavan (U. Western Ontario) – Improvised Hip Hop and Community Building among First Nations Youth

Venue:

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Gallery 6

Type:

Panel

Price:

Free

Time:

2:15 - 3pm

Colloquium Day 2

PANEL: "Transcending Genre and Language"

François Houle and Sal Ferreras (Vancouver Com. Coll.) – SAFA and the Crosspollination of Ideas and Cultures
Rob Wallace (UC, Santa Barbara) – “In a Troubled Key”: Langston Hughes in Performance
Maria Farinha (York U.) - The Other Side of Jobim
Hafez Modirzadeh (San Francisco State U.) - Rising Partials Realizing Sound Come-Unity: Makam X and the Afro-Diasporic Un-Conscious

Venue:

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Lecture Room

Type:

Panel

Price:

Free

Time:

2:15 - 3:30pm

Colloquium Day 2

KEYNOTE (co-presented with the TransCanada Institute)

Linda and Michael Hutcheon (U. Toronto) - Jazz/Opera and the Staging of Race

Venue:

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre

Type:

Keynote

Price:

Free

Time:

3:45 - 4:45pm

Rouge Ciel (Québec)

Featuring instrumentation that suggests an electro-acoustic chamber ensemble, Rouge Ciel plays a balanced mix of composed material and thematic improvisation in a style that is both folkloric and contemporary in character.

Venue:

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre

Type:

Concert

Price:

Free

Time:

5pm

René Lussier (Québec) and Kevin Breit (Ontario)

These two guitarists have fertile imaginations and are technical polymaths with command of countless musical styles. In short, they can go just about anywhere they want and a good chunk of the fun, for listeners, will be to keep up with them. BUY TICKETS

Venue:

River Run Centre, Co-operators Hall

Type:

Concert

Price:

$30 / $25

Time:

8pm, first half of double bill

Kidd Jordan, Joel Futterman, Buddy Mohmed, and Alvin Fielder (Louisiana, Virginia, Texas, Mississippi)

The Guelph Jazz Festival welcomes back Edward “Kidd” Jordan, the septuagenarian reed master from New Orleans. Jordan will perform with long time co-players Joel Futterman (piano), Buddy Mohammed (bass) and Alvin Fielder (drums). BUY TICKETS

Venue:

River Run Centre, Co-operators Hall

Type:

Concert

Price:

$30 / $25

Time:

8pm, second half of double bill

John Kameel Farah (Ontario)

In performance, keyboardist John Kameel Farah ranges all over his instruments while setting up textures and countertextures, moving deftly from acoustic to electronic episodes, and testing and deploying his materials with a mixture of scientific care and wild abandon. BUY TICKETS

Venue:

Mitchell Hall, St. George’s Anglican Church

Type:

Concert

Price:

$20 / $15

Time:

11pm, first half of double bill

Kid Koala (Québec)

Conventions dictate that flashy demonstrations of speed are the hallmark of turntable artistry; instead, Kid Koala uses his instrumental palette to weave stories through sound. BUY TICKETS

Venue:

Mitchell Hall, St. George’s Anglican Church

Type:

Concert

Price:

$20 / $15

Time:

11pm, second half of double bill