Current Program (subject to change)
Wednesday May 10
Doors and bar open at 7:00, show from 7:30 - Improvised Performance "What's At Hand" (Jayden Pfeifer with Joanna Bundon and Jon Neher)- The Artesian
Thursday May 11
Main conference talks held in RiC208 and RiC 209 (unless indicated)
12:00 - 12:30- Registration and performance by the University of Regina New Music Ensemble
12:30 -1:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
1:00 - 2:00 - Keynote: Vida Midgelow – performance lecture held in Sound Studio
"Everywhere and Nowhere: Dance Improvisation as Un/disciplinary knowledge"
Introduction: I-Ying Wu
2:15 - 3:45 - Research Panel by QimprovGround: Yi-Chen Wu, Yi-Jung Wu, I-Ying Wu- return to
RiC 208 and 209
"The Encountering Grounds of Dance improvisation: Explorations through Studies in
Culture, Performing Arts, and Dance Education"
Chair: Paula Weber
3:45 - 4:15 - Coffee and Round-table talk-back
4:15 - 5:30 - Darci Anderson- The Human Condition- movement workshop
Break for Dinner
8:00- Creative Work-in-Progress Showing- Sound Studio
Dance Improvisation Performance: Dominic Gregorio & I-Ying Wu - "無 un 意 conscious"
Paula Weber- Student Presentation
Garry Wasyliw Student presentation + jam
REACTING Jam- interdisciplinary improvisation
MC: Garry Wasyliw
Friday May 12
Main conference talks held in RiC208 and RiC 209 (unless indicated)
(Special schools only programming "The Prairie Heartbeat Project" runs 11:15AM-3PM- Shubox Theatre and surrounding classrooms, pre-registered school groups only. With Daya Madhur, Clinton Ackerman, Chris Merk, Misty Wensel, Cat Abenstein, and The Miller Team)
9:30- Registration, coffee
9:45-10:00 Meet and greet with the Dean of Faculty of Media, Art, and
Performance- Dean Rae Staseson
10:00 - 11:00 - Keynote: Frédérique Arroyas: "Study abroad: Exploring intercultural understanding through Forum Theatre"
Introduction: Rebecca Caines
11:00 - 12:00 - Coffee and Round-table talk-back with Dr. Sara Schroeter
Break for Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 - Public Performance-"Prairie Heartbeats Schools Project"
with Clinton Ackerman and Daya Madhur and Grade 7 & 8 students- held in Shubox
Theatre
1:45 - 2:00 - Break
2:00 - 4:00 - Papers (return to RiC 208 and 209)
Fleur Hughes: "Mobility within the approach of community music therapy. How does the process of group improvisation bring us all together?"
Mark Lomanno: "Moan Flow: Chronic Pain, Intimacy and Modulating Flawed Bodies"
Jaime Williams and William Smythe: "Knowing the Unknowable"
Chair: Ellen Ringler
4:00 - 4:45 - Grad presentation and exhibition: Jason Cullimore
5:00-7:30 - Conference Dinner- Skye Bistro, Saskatchewan Science Centre
8:00 - Word Up Open Stage Poetry & Jam - Creative City Centre
Saturday May 13
Improvise & Mobilize- Moderated by Dr. Elizabeth Jackson (IICSI- Guelph)
Main conference talks held in RiC208 and RiC 209 (unless indicated)
8:30-9:00 Registration, coffee
9:00-10:00 "Come Play With Our Merry Band of Improv'rs" John McCallum and local
recreational improvisation group
10:00 10:30- Opening Address: George Lipsitz "The Creative, Political, and Academic Potential for Improv to Mobilize Communities"
Break: Community partner meet and greet over coffee
10:45-11:45- Roundtable "Exploring different methods for community-engaged improvisation
projects"
Rick Kotowich, Amanda Schenstead (Wascana Rehabilitation Centre), Jayden Pfeifer
and Johanna Bundon (independent artists)
Lunch provided: All welcome, mentorship lunch for IICSI graduate students from partners and
researchers (RiC Atrium)
12:45-1:30- Workshop Forum Theatre and Indigenous Games- Dustin Brass and Erin Goodpipe
(Indigenous People's Health Research Centre)
1:30-2:30- Roundtable "Improvisation and Mentorship"- Risa Payant (Common Weal Community
Arts), Charity Marsh (Canada Research Chair and IMP Labs), Cat Abenstein (Creative City
Centre)
2:30-3:15- Research project workshop: "Addressing social isolation through applied research
and arts practice" Rebecca Caines and Michelle Stewart (University of Regina)
3:15 - 4:00 Performer talks: Isabella Stefanescu, Norman Adams
Introduction: Helen Pridmore
4:00-4:45- George Lipsitz and Ajay Heble "An Interview with Two Leading Improvisation Scholars"
Introduction: Rebecca Caines
Break
5:00 - WL Altman Multi-channel Installation and Artist Talk- Sound Studio
Break for Dinner
8:00 - Mainstage Performance - The Artesian
MIRROR with Isabella Stefanescu and Helen Pridmore
Norman Adams with WL Altman and Helen Pridmore
Jam
Sunday May 14
Main conference talks held in RiC208 and RiC 209 (unless indicated)
9:30 Registration, coffee
10:00 - 12:00 - Papers:
Raymond Ambrosi: "Merging Self, Body and Place: Improvisation in the teachings of martial arts sects in North China"
Bruno Hernani: "When Engineering Meets Improvisation"
Kathryn Ricketts: "What is a LUG?" performance
Chair: Mary King
Break for Lunch
1:00 - 3:30 - Papers:
Kathleen Irwin and Traci Foster: "We Are All Involved in Disability Now"
Sheila Petty: "Mapping Mobility as Migration, Displacement and Exile in the Video Installation Artwork of Nadia Seboussi"
Christina Stojanova and Sarah Ferguson: "Conversations with the Divine Object: Creative Improvisation, Surrealism, and the ideas of C.G.Jung"
Chair: Jason Cullimore
3:30-4:00 - Closing Round-table: Where can we move to now?
4:00 onwards - Please stay if you can, as there will be social events this afternoon and evening
