Journée d’étude: Improvisation, Pedagogy, and Cocreative Worldmaking
“An adept improviser can find ways forward amid impasse, agency amid oppression, and community amid division.” – The Improviser’s Classroom Join us on April 3, 2025 at ImprovLab for a full-day symposium investigating ways to re-imagine pedagogy through the prisms of activism, reciprocity, and communal care. This free, open-to-everyone event is focused around the launch
Re-stitching as Methodology: Garment-making as a Transformative Practice in Research-creation with Justine Woods
In this combined presentation and workshop, Justine Woods will discuss garment-making as research-creation with particular focus on the role garments play in resisting settler colonial displacement of Indigenous ontologies and bodies to place. Informed by her PhD dissertation research, Justine will expand upon the concept of ‘re-stitching’ as both a theoretical framework and embodied practice
Interactive Workshop: Racialized Student Food Insecurity in Digital Stories
Food Justice on Campus: Racialized Student Food Insecurity in Digital Stories Date: Thursday, November 28, 2024 Time: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Location: ImprovLab at the University of Guelph (MacKinnon
Thinking Spaces: Priya Zalis, “Clinical Improvisation in Music Psychotherapy”
In this workshop, Priya will introduce her approach to music psychotherapy in the context of adult mental health, inviting attendees to participate in exploring the role that clinical improvisation can
Thinking Spaces: Phil Mullen, “Ways Into Improvisation”
In this participatory workshop, Dr Mullen will look at three approaches to group improvising—1) improvising with pulse and rhythm, 2) using stimuli such as text, visuals and thematic starting points, and 3) the Search and Reflect methodology as pioneered by Phil’s mentor John Stevens, a key figure in European Free Group Improvisation. Please bring an
On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace—Reading and Conversation with Dr. Phanuel Antwi (UBC)
Ranging from the terrifying embrace of the slave ship’s hold to the racist encoding of ‘cuddly’ toys, On Cuddling is a unique combination of essay and poetry that contends with the way racial violence is enacted through intimacy. Informed by Black feminist and queer poetics, Antwi focuses his lens on the suffering of Black people
Call for Participants: “Open Sessions” with Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon (Padua, Italy) – IICSI’s Improvisers-in-Residence Fall 2024 (ImprovLab)
ImprovLab Guelph, Ontario, CanadaIICSI’s Improvisers-in-Residence "Open Sessions" When: Tuesdays and Thursdays, Oct. 3 to Oct. 22 (Six Workshops) Where: ImprovLab (108 MacKinnon Building) Time: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Who: Ages 16 and up—all skill levels and experience welcome! Cost: Free! Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon (Padua, Italy), IICSI’s Improvisers-in-Residence for the Fall 2024 season, invite you to
2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: “Sheets of Sound: Jazz, Improvisation, and Liner Notes”
Please join us from Wednesday, September 11 to Saturday, September 13 for the “2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, Sheets of Sound: Jazz, Improvisation, and Liner Notes." This colloquium will take place in person at ImprovLab (Room 108) in the MacKinnon Building. The event is free and open to everybody. Since 1996, the Guelph Jazz Festival
Thinking Spaces: Zahra Habib “Lunar Rotations: Eternal Eleuthia”
Please join us on Wednesday, February 28 at 2:00 p.m. (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Eternal Eleutheria” with Zahra Habib. This presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab, MCKN 108
Anxiety Skills & Strategies
Learn powerful strategies, tips, and information on how to respond and calm down the uncomfortable sensations of anxiety. A variety of long and short self-calming strategies are introduced, along with behaviours that can help prevent the escalation of anxiety. This three-session skills program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management & High Performance Clinic meets
Movement Monday – Chair Yoga: Get Fit Where You Sit
Chair Yoga is the way to go when you are reluctant to get into the yoga clothes and get on the mat - challenge yourself with Chair Yoga. Chair Yoga is a gentle yoga practice that adapts various traditional postures for practice in the chair or with the support of a chair. It is a
Landcape Architecture Guest Lecture: “The Works of West 8” by Adriaan Geuze
The Landscape Architecture program in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development presents a guest lecture entitled “The Works of West 8” by Adriaan Geuze. Adriaan is the Principal
Guelph Food Safety Seminars 19th Annual Symposium
ImprovLab Guelph, Ontario, CanadaWelcome to the 19th (and 3rd virtual) Guelph Food Safety Seminars (GFSS) Symposium. Inflation: The New Foodborne Illness? What effect does inflation have on the safety and security of our food? Composed of a series of seminars, this year’s Symposium will examine how rising costs are affecting food safety along the food supply chain; the
Landcape Architecture Guest Lecture “Process & Practice at MNLA” by Molly Bourne
The Landscape Architecture program in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development presents a guest lecture entitled "Process and Practice at MNLA." Bourne is a Landscape Architect and principal at MNLA in New York City. Bourne sees landscape architecture practice as a medium to celebrate and explore the environment and our place within it.
Emotional Resiliency and Customer Service
Whether it's registering new students, supporting technology, or checking out workout equipment, customer service is one of the most common, important and challenging roles on campus. It takes perseverance and commitment to meet with staff, faculty and students all day, every day to keep the wheels turning. The role can be very rewarding, but the
ONLINE: Better Sleep for Mid-Life Women
Learn drug-free tips to help cope with mid-life sleep changes, hot flashes and the frustration of being awake through the night. This two-hour skills workshop meets online with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic. Your link will be e-mailed to you upon registration in the workshop. Register online.
ONLINE: Stress Less for Tests
Learn practical skills and strategies to decrease test anxiety and enhance energy and performance during exam periods. Go at your own pace through the series of 5 to 15 minute lessons (3 hours of training in total) in this special online, on-demand program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic. You
ONLINE: Arboretum Workshop – Virtual Tree Identification
Do you love trees but can’t tell an ash from a walnut, a birch from a beech, or a spruce from a fir? Are you looking to connect more with the natural world around you? Join Shelley Hunt, University of Guelph course instructor and former Arboretum Director, for a virtual, interactive tree identification workshop. There
ONLINE: Provost Budget Townhall
Provost and Vice-President (Academic), Dr. Gwen Chapman, will host a public forum on 2022-2023 priorities and the current budget plan. This is an opportunity for the University community to ask
ONLINE: Thinking Spaces with Aruna Antonella Handa
Thinking Spaces: The Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “Untitled or how free is free anyway? Unpacking the ceteris paribus clauses in free improvisation,” a talk by