10 Nights of Gong Performance and research from Stacey Bliss

 Do not miss postdoctoral research fellow Dr. Stacey Bliss as she presents her final research in immersive performative events outdoors for 10 days!



Register here!

https://www.facebook.com/events/505583867553450?ref=newsfeed

RISC Speaker Series - Common Weal "Respond to Racism" Tuesday February 2, 1:30PM

 


Deep Listening Sessions with Stacey Bliss


 

Thanks to Rick Kotowich for our Improv Circle

 Thanks so much to RISC research associate Rick Kotowich, who ran sessions exploring improvisation games in Fall 2020.



Rebecca Caines "multiPLAY:Improvised Art Practices as Living Heritage talk

 


Updates and Invites

 Hope you are all having a lovely summer, despite these tricky times

 1. We are planning an online meeting with Centre researchers, partners, artists later in August to plan our next steps. The incredible Michelle Stewart will be joining Rebecca Caines as co-director as the Centre moves forward (hurrah!)

 2. A number of RISC researchers and partners are involved in the fantastic IF: Improvisation Festival coming up very soon. It is a festival of improvised arts, all viewable online August 8, 2020, hope you can be part of it!



 Watch your email for an invite to the August sharing meet up, or contact Rebecca Caines for info:


Annual Reports now online

Our 2019- 2020 was another busy year, with the continuation of a number of initatives, and the launch of new projects. We also spent considerable time planning for the next phase of the Centre, including joining in a national grant to continue the work of the IICSI network (fingers crossed!)

We have now put our local annual reports online here, but remember to contact us, or visit the project websites for full information and to learn more about what our researchers and partners are up to!

The full IICSI website has all the information on the activities of the whole international research network.

And check out the newest project from 2019 called"multiPLAY."

 It is a national project that involves many of RISC researchers and partners.

First event in a new series featuring the improvised work of Faculty, grads, post-docs with visiting artists!


Visiting IICSI Postdoctoral Research Fellow in a Interdisciplinary Performance on Improv, Trauma, and Memory


Don't miss this fascinating performance with excerpts from Irene Oore's book, and free improvisation from musician Daniel Oore. 7pm, ED242 on campus at the University of Regina. Nov 23, 2019.See more about this event and the Canadian tour here:
http://dani.oore.ca/genocide/

Gong Bath with new postdoc Stacey Bliss



We are very happy to welcome new postdoc Stacey Bliss, who will be working with RISC for the next two years. She is studying gongs and their social spaces.
 Join her this Tues September 24th, 2019, at 7pm in the Sound Studio, ED242, at the University of Regina, she will be offering a "gong bath" an immersive sound and meditation session, free and everybody is welcome.

Major funding for RISC Research Dr. Michelle Stewart

Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Stewart who has secured almost 1 million dollars in government funding to supoprt Indigenous people with FASD facing discrimination and overrepresentation in the justice system in Canada. This work will directly improve the lives of people living with this misunderstood cognitive disability. Stewart is also working on numerous projects using improvised art forms to support people with FASD in many settings, and we are incredibly impressed with her important research and interventions.



Congratulations to Helen Pridmore for Subscription Opus



RISC member Helen Pridmore started the semester with a concert of works from the US graphic score composer Jude Weirmeir. These beaiful scores. like the ones in this image, were posted to Pridmore in the mail, who interpreted them for performance using expanded vocal techniques, and the live use of scores and interaction using a document camera. The concert was recorded and livestreamed on Facebook, you can watch it in full 360 Degree footage here:
Link to livestream and recording

 Congratulations Helen for your ongoing research into practice-based exploration of innovative improvisatory forms!

Regina students and Faculty at the IICSI Summer Institute

Regina students and postdocs Mia Bell and Stacey Bliss, along with Faculty member Dr. Rebecca Caines attended the recent Summer Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisaiton held in Gaspe, Quebec.  This was a fantastic opportunity for all involved to meet researchers and new students from across the IICSI sites, as well as welcoming some of the new cohort in our brand new MA/PHD program in Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of Guelph.

 Students attended the At Land's End Music Camp, and had lectures and workshops from leading shcolars and practittioners in the field. A final showcase presented music, performance, installation and academic presentations.

RISC and IICSI at Congress at University of British Columbia 2019


New improv tool project launches!

Exciting news, the "Playing to Our Strengths Community Improv Toolkit" has gone national! People allover Canada are using the new set of cards to build their own projects. Please visit the site and spread the word about this free resource.

http://improvenabled.ca/

Whitehorse Star features the Playing to Our Strengths Improv Project


http://whitehorsestar.com/News/strengths-of-people-with-disabilities-emphasized

Helen Pridmore- Acting Director of RISC- 2017-2018

Rebecca Caines is on sabbatical July 2017-July 2018, so Helen Pridmore will be taking on the role of acting director, please contact her for more information about the Centre.

 Check out her professional website here to see some of her inspiring improvised work:
http://www.helenpridmore.ca/


Improvisation and Mobility Conference a huge success

Thanks to everyone who made the Improvisation and Mobility Conference and Festival a huge success.

 You can still see the schedule and speaker bios here:

https://improvmobility.blogspot.com/ 

 We will let you know when the videos are available online.


Looking forward to the conference and festival this week!

It is getting close, we look forward to welcoming international researchers and artists to Regina May 10-15, 2017. Visit the conference website for the schedule and details.


Improvisation and Mobility Conference and Festival May 2017



We welcome applications to join us for the RISC/IICSI conference in May 2017. 


Call for Papers
Improvisation and Mobility
Interdisciplinary Conference and Festival
May 10-15, 2017
The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) invites interdisciplinary contributions to the 2017 IICSI conference and festival at the University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, on the theme of “Improvisation and Mobility”. The program will take place from May 10-15, 2017, with most events occurring from May 10-14, 2017.  We are interested in the connections between critical studies in improvisation, contemporary improvisatory practice, and concepts of artistic, physical, technological and cultural mobility.  We invite proposals for conference papers, panels, artistic contributions and other research formats. Presenters will be drawn from the fields of dance and performance studies, theatre, community-engaged art and music, ethnomusicology, creative technologies/new media art, intermedial studies, and critical studies in improvisation. Keynote speakers include George Lipsitz, Ajay Heble, Vida Midgelow, Isabella Stefanescu, and Frederique Arroyas.
We are particularly interested in presentations that address questions such as:

·      How (and why) do improvising artists and scholars of improvisation engage with mobility in and through their practice?

·      How can notions of real-time decision-making, risk, collaboration, active listening and the reconfiguration of mistakes into productive material model new types of engagement with difference and culture, through new kinds of mobility?

·      What are the new possibilities for improvisation opened by the ubiquity of hand-held mobile devices and new types of mobile interfaces for creative expression?

·      What are the possibilities for intersections between literatures and practices in somatic work, disability cultures, and improvised movement and performances?

·      Who is brought in, and who is left out, when improvisation mobilizes?

·      What are the possibilities and issues with improvisatory mobilization across disciplines?

Abstracts of 250 words, plus artist/author bio and web links, and including all tech requirements, should be emailed to Rebecca Caines and Helen Pridmore
 
 With the subject line “Improvisation Conference Abstract”, to by January 10. 2017.   EXTENDED TO FEB 1


 NOTE: Graduate students from IICSI sites may be eligible for some limited support/reduced costs: please indicate on your proposal if you require this.
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