Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium
Convened by International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation
Venue: ImprovLab (MacKinnon Building, Room 108, University of Guelph)
Artists On/Off the Record: Living Archives and Embodied Memory
Day 1 – Thursday, September 10, 2026
| Start Time | End Time | Session Title | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 PM | 1:10 PM | Opening Remarks | Eric Fillion |
| 1:10 PM | 1:40 PM | On the Exhibit XRoads | LuFuki |
| 1:45 PM | 2:30 PM | The Improvising Archive: Reanimating Sonic Memories | Jesse Stewart |
| 2:35 PM | 3:05 PM | A Radio Active Community: Remix Storytelling | David Dacks and Sydney Dacks |
| 3:05 PM | 3:20 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 3:20 PM | 4:35 PM | Archiving the Scene: Jazz Musicians and the making of Community Memory | Keisha Bell, Brandon Hocura, Brian Edward Jones, Miles B. Jordan |
| 4:40 PM | 5:30 PM | Statesman of the Piano: The Music of Lou Hooper | Sean Mills, Eric Fillion, and Désirée Rochat With piano performance by (TBC) |
| 5:30 PM | 7:15 PM | Dinner | |
| 7:15 PM | 9:15 PM | Big Ideas in Improvisation | Ahmed Abdullah and Monique Ngozi Nri |
| 9:30 PM | 11:00 PM | Film Screening | Sun Ra: Do the Impossible (Christine Turner, 2026) |
Day 2 – Friday, September 11, 2026
| Start Time | End Time | Session Title | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Coffee and Refreshments | |
| 9:00 AM | 9:50 AM | Workshops (Parallel Session) | Lara Hill, “Seeing Like an Improviser: Building a Living Archive” Mike Hansen, “Disruptor, the Archive as a Constructed Fiction Through the Act of Co-Authorship” |
| 9:55 AM | 11:05 AM | Secret Lives of Colour: A Conversation | Myra Melford, François Houle, Joëlle Léandre, Gerry Hemingway, and Gordon Grdina |
| 11:10 AM | 12:00 PM | Improvising the Archive/Archiving the Improvisatory: Medea Electronique and the Archive in the Post-Digital Age | Eric Lewis |
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM | 1:45 PM | Artist Communities and the Living Archives | Michael Palumbo, Curtis Sassur, and Simon Rogers |
| 1:50 PM | 3:10 PM | Resonant Bodies, Living Memory | Megan Harton, kat estacio, Monika Herzig, Kathryn Ladano |
| 3:15 PM | 3:50 PM | We Are Archives | Georgia Simms and Heather Cornell |
| 3:50 PM | 4:00 PM | Remarks | Eric Fillion |
| 4:00 PM | 6:00 PM | Colloquium and Festival Reception | Hosted at Brothers Brewing Company (5 Wyndham St. N., Unit A, Downtown Guelph) |