Full Schedule
Wednesday, Day 1
Colloquium Day 1
WELCOME
Steven Liss (Assoc. VP Research, U. Guelph)
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Type:
- Welcome
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 9am
Colloquium Day 1
KEYNOTE
George Lipsitz (UC, Santa Barbara) – Improvisation and Diaspora: Why New Orleans Matters
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Type:
- Keynote
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 9:15 - 10:30am
Colloquium Day 1
PANEL: "Improvising Cities: Civic Space and Collective Agency"
Tamas Dobozy (Wilfred Laurier U.) - Improvising Chicago
Natasha Pravaz (Wilfred Laurier U.) - Brazilian Music and Community Building in Toronto
Sally Booth (U. Guelph) – Interrupted Cityscape: David Wojnarowicz, Camouflage and Recognition
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Type:
- Panel
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 10:45am - noon
Colloquium Day 1
PANEL: "Improvising Digital Culture"
Vijay Iyer (New York)
DJ Spooky (New York)
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Type:
- Panel
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 1 - 2pm
Colloquium Day 1
PANEL: "Rebuilding Community: New Orleans Perspectives"
Clyde Woods (UC, Santa Barbara) – The New Orleans Blues Epistemology after Katrina
George Lipsitz (UC, Santa Barbara) – discussion
Sunni Patterson (New Orleans) – discussion/performance
Kidd Jordan (New Orleans) - discussion
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Type:
- Panel
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 2:15 - 3:30pm
Colloquium Day 1
PANEL: "The Writing’s Off the Wall: Improvisation and Theories of Discourse"
Cesar Villavicencio (U. East Anglia) – The Discourse of Free Improvisation: A Rhetorical Perspective on Free Improvised Music
Mark Zurawinski (York U.) – Dialogue as an Aesthetic Dimension of Improvised Music
Peter Johnston (York U.) – Getting the Music off the Page: Practice-based Research and the Construction of the Practitioner-Theorist
Yvan Tétreault (McGill U.) – Witty Music?
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Type:
- Panel
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 3:45 - 5pm
Colloquium Day 1
RECEPTION AND POSTER SESSION
Participants in the Summer Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation
Jennifer Mc Manus (McGill U.)
Chris Cogburn (Austin, Texas)
Karl Coulthard (U. Guelph)
Jason Wilson (U. Guelph)
Marielle Groven (McGill U.)
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Gallery 4 and Lecture Room
- Type:
- Reception
- Price:
- Free
- Time:
- 5 - 6:30pm
DJ Spooky & Vijay Iyer (New York)
This collaboration between DJ Spooky and Vijay Iyer brings together two of the keenest musical imaginations at work in America, as well as two insightful, articulate, and creative respondents to the musical culture in which they work. BUY TICKETS
- Venue:
- Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
- Type:
- Concert
- Price:
- $25 / $20
- Time:
- 8pm

