This is an archived event from Culture Days 2024.
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Thinking Spaces: Building a Safe Creativity Environment
In-person
Intercultural Interdisciplinary Music Singing Performance Visual artsDate and time
Location
ImprovLab - MacKinnon Building, Room 108, Arts Research Centre, University of Guelph (ImprovLab)
87 Trent Lane
Wellington County, ON
Directions: ImprovLab is research and performance facility that is part of a major renovation of the performing arts wing of the MacKinnon Building at the heart of the University of Guelph campus. ImprovLab is a reasonable walk (35 minutes) or bicycle ride (10 minutes) from downtown Guelph. There are also several bus routes (through Guelph Transit, GO, and Megabus) that can help get you to ImprovLab. If you are planning to drive, you can find information about visitor parking at the University of Guelph on the University’s Parking Website.
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
This event is an inclusive workshop for all ages and abilities
About
Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon founded Travelling School in 2002 in Padova, Italy with the mission to teach jazz and improvisation as applied to general education. Many different projects grew out of this initiative. Drawing on their life in music and in association with other musicians, they create workshops at jazz festivals, music schools and regular schools.
Over the course of twenty-two years since the founding of Travelling School, Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon have developed a highly effective methodology for introducing concepts taken from jazz improvisation. These concepts can be applied to general and special education situations and dynamics. Today, their introduction to these creative and educational concepts takes the shape of their workshop: Building a Safe Creativity Environment.
Some of the points that will be outlined in this workshop could be:
1. Inclusion with the self: Self inclusion exercises (most evident when one feels embarrassed).
2. High Energy Encouragement: Positive high energy received in the moment of improvisation as a teacher. Real ability to improvise a class, and how to develop this.
3. Inclusion of conflict and disruption: Using disruption as catalyst for the improvising teacher
applied in real life class dynamics.
4. The Concert Game: The game of the 30 second concert presented as a game for kids.
5. Listening to jazz pieces and transposing the emotion into a solo or interactive performance/concert.
This inclusive, participatory, creative workshop is free and open to everybody!
Links
- IICSI Website improvisationinstitute.ca
- ImprovLab Website theimprovlab.ca
Organizer
International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI)
The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) is a partnered research institute, funded through a SSHRC partnership grant, that investigates how improvisation can improve life. IICSI’s mandate is to create positive social change through innovative scholarship, impactful arts events, and community-oriented activities. Our Institute works with scholars, students, creative practitioners, and community partners to practice and study improvisation as a model for social change. This research has resulted in the development of new technologies for making sound; large-scale celebratory community gatherings; numerous publications, including hundreds of articles published through our Institute’s peer-reviewed journal; workshops for youth; artist talks; and academic conferences. The IICSI team and affiliated research projects continue to grow and expand as new research initiatives are developed.
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