ONLINE: Migration of Dalit Women Domestic Workers from Andhra Pradesh to the Gulf Countries
2022-02-09 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Toronto) | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
This webinar will present findings from a study that sought to understand the local forces and challenges that induce women to migrate from villages in India to Gulf countries as domestic workers. Comparing Dalit and non-Dalit women, the study used quantitative and qualitative data to understand changes in socio-economic status of women migrant workers.
Speakers:

Shailaja Menon, Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Studies of Ambedkar University Delhi
Yamanapalli Sreenivasulu, Faculty in the Centre for Economics and Social Studies (CESS) Hyderabad.

Learn more online.
Presented by: Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) & Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI)

ONLINE: Education in India 2047
2022-02-09 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
EDUCATION IN INDIA 2047
8:30-10:00 p.m. IST | 10:00-11:30 a.m. EST
The India 2047 series commemorates 75 years of India’s independence.
Nandini Sundar, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics
Universities in India 2047
Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
India 2047: Gender Equality at Work and at Home
Rukmini Banerji, CEO, PRATHAM
Every child in school and learning well: From vision to reality by 2047
Moderator: Franco Vaccarino, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and former President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Guelph
Learn more online.
Presented by: Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) with support from:

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Guelph Institute of Development Studies
Guelph Institute for Environmental Research
International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation
Office of International Strategy and Partnerships
One Health Institute
Ontario Veterinary College

ONLINE: Education India - India 2047 Speaker Series
2022-02-09 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The India 2047 lecture series commemorates 75 years of India’s independence.
The Education in India webinar will feature:

Nandini Sundar, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics
Ashwini Deshpande, Professor of Economics, Ashoka University
Rukmini Banerji, CEO, PRATHAM
Moderator: Franco Vaccarino, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, and former President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Guelph

Register online.
Presented by: Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)

ONLINE: Dairy cattle behavior in modern production systems. Are we forgetting about the cows’ individuality?
2022-02-09 12:30 - 13:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare is hosting monthly seminars on animal welfare. February’s seminar will be given by Dr. Joao Costa and will discuss dairy cattle behavior in modern production systems. Are we forgetting about the cows’ individuality?
Join the Zoom meeting online.

ONLINE: Black History Month Workshop - Mapping Out Your Pleasure and Liberation
2022-02-09 19:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by sexual health educator Natty Love as part of our Black History Month programming, this workshop is an interactive and explorative guide on how to begin liberating your sexual pleasure through a trauma-informed, African, Caribbean, and Black lens.
Please note that this event is exclusive to Black-identifying students in the U of G community. If you are a Black-identifying student at the U of G, register by Feb. 3 to receive a swag bag filled with pleasure-positive goodies!
Learn more about Black History Month programming at U of G.

ONLINE: Black History Month - Who's Got Game? Virtual Games Nite
2022-02-10 18:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
This Black History Month we are excited to host a virtual gamesnight featuring options from Jackbox Games®. There will be lots of prizes, so you don’t want to miss out!
Learn more about Black History Month programming at U of G.

ONLINE: Black History Month - “Our Dance of Revolution” Doc Screening and Discussion
2022-02-11 20:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
As part of our Black History Month programming in collaboration with Guelph Pride, we present a screening of “Our Dance of Revolution” — a documentary that tells the story of how Black queer folks in Toronto resisted the forces of marginalization and rose up to become a vibrant, fierce community. If you are a BIPOC-identifying student at the U of G, register by Feb 9 to receive an UberEats gift card for the purchase of a meal to enjoy during the event!
Learn more about Black History Month programming at U of G.

ONLINE: Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture - "Recent Works by Walter Hood" of Hood Design Studio
2022-02-14 13:00 - 14:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The Landscape Architecture program in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development presents a guest lecture on recent work by Walter Hood, Creative Director and Founder of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California. HDS is a cultural practice, working across art, fabrication, design, landscape, research and urbanism.
All are welcome to attend.
Learn more online.

ONLINE: Black History Month - The Black Experience Workshop
2022-02-15 18:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
As part of our Black History Month programming, join us for an experience of radical awakening, relearning, and celebration in The Black Experience Workshop led by local anti-racist educator Selam Debs.
Learn more about Black History Month programming at U of G.

ONLINE: Women in Sports Analytics - Journeys into Data Science Featuring Gabrielle Campos
2022-02-17 16:00 - 17:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The Center for Advancing Responsible and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (CARE-AI) Presents: Entering the Field of Baseball Analytics
Major League Baseball teams have pioneered the use of analytics in sport. As a result, front offices need to continuously increase the sophistication of their analytics pipelines to remain competitive. Gabrielle Campos will describe her experience working in this both exciting and challenging environment having entered the field relatively recently. She will talk about her pathway into Sports Analytics building on her quantitative knowledge gained from her background in Computer Engineering.
This presentation is part of the CARE-AI, Master of Data Science, and She’s Got Game Women in Sports Analytics – Journeys into Data Science seminars.

ONLINE: Dislocation and Lost Identity in 'Beatrice and Croc Harry': A Conversation with Lawrence Hill
2022-02-17 17:00 - 18:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Join us virtually for a conversation with Chioma Nwebube, 4th year student, former president of the Guelph Black Students Association, and member of the President’s Anti-Racism Advisory Committee and Lawrence Hill, author and professor of creative writing in the School of English and Theatre Studies.
Lawrence Hill is an award-winning and internationally bestselling author of eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Book of Negroes and The Illegal, both of which won CBC Canada Reads. Hill is the winner of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, and both CBC Radio’s Canada Reads and Radio-Canada’s Combat des livres. He helped to create and has chaired Gryphons Read, the University’s common reading program. Last year, he initiated a third-year creative writing course which he taught (to students and to prisoners, together) in the Grand Valley Institution for Women, a federal penitentiary in Kitchener. Much of his volunteer work has been of service to Black communities, through groups such as the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, the Ontario Black History Society, The Writers’ Union of Canada, The University of Toronto Schools, and Crossroads International, for which he remains an honorary patron.
Hill’s most recent book, Beatrice and Croc Harry published by Harper Collins, has been described as “A book to treasure and share across generations” (David Chariandy), and “A journey of epic proportions” (Nadia L. Hohn). Beatrice and Croc Harry is now available in bookstores across Canada.
Please register on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link.

ONLINE: Thinking Spaces with Catharine Cary "The Upside Down Protocol"
2022-02-25 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
You’re invited to join us for the inaugural Thinking Spaces presentation for the 2022 series via Zoom with guest speaker Catharine Cary!
This presentation, entitled “The Upside Down Protocol,” will see multi-modal improvisational practitioner Catharine Cary consider the question: “How can we turn on its head everything we think we know, and provoke play by having a mind and body subtle and supple enough to always see the ‘upside down’ of things?”
If you are interested in attending, please register online at https://uoguel.ph/thinkingspacescatharinecary.
Through her talk, Catherine aims to “open the present,” activating a session of looking in at nonsensical ways to jump into the synaptic divide, fall off the liminal edge, dip our toes into that indescribable soup, smell the bigger body, eat into the space in between, or the void, or the now, or the moment: We will fit in and have a fit, cut to the chase, find intervals or the relative pitch—a breaking of habit. In a 90-minute zoooooom between word plays, drawing, mirroring, movement, and improvisation, you may be inspired to reconsider the prism through which you look at yourself and this world.
Catharine is co-founder of WHAT IIIF? festival that asks the absurd question, “Can improvisation be documented?” She animates a weekly improvisation practice via Zoom. She also contributes a monthly “Letter to my Original Geography” for IICSI’s ImprovNotes.
Trained as an economist and diplomat, her life has taken many turns, and it’s often better when she stands on her head. She writes a letter daily and she is a contributor to the German still paper annual magazine Improfil, Critical Correspondence, and the Journal of Embodied Research. Her current Upside Downing puts into practice each and every counsel to end the hegemony of heteronormativity in our society (#juststop). You can learn more about Catharine at https://catharinecary.wordpress.com
As always, Thinking Spaces is free and open to all.

ONLINE: Black History Month Workshop - Dancing Through the Diaspora
2022-02-28 12:00 - 13:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Celebrate the final day of Black History Month with a lunctime dance workshop featuring various styles from the African Diaspora, including soca, dancehall, and afro styles. This event will be led by Guelph-based dance instructors Kween and Binty.
Learn more about Black History Month programming at U of G.

ONLINE: Honouring International Women’s Day Conference 2022
2022-03-08 09:00 - 16:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
This FREE one-day virtual conference, titled “Honouring International Women’s Day 2022: Research, Recognize & Reimagine” is meant to showcase research that celebrates achievements of women and/or brings awareness to gender-based disparities, with an emphasis on BIPOC futurities and intersectionality.
The conference will feature excellent keynote speakers, student presentations and feminist entertainment!

Layla Staats shares her experiences defending the water in the Wet’suwet’en Territory, and the importance of unity, especially as women, in empowering ourselves and in defending our truths.
Kween explores the shift from Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, to Violence, Harm and Oppression and looks to a more intersectional lens that is uncomfortable and supports experiences that BIPOC communities are facing.
Dr. Srinivasan presents a conversation about her research spanning 25 years on daughter discrimination in India and Canada, root causes of such discrimination, and the emergence of daughter preference.

Register for our FREE virtual event!

ONLINE: India and the World
2022-03-09 09:00 - 10:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The India 2047 series commemorates 75 years of India’s independence.
Speakers:
India’s Foreign Policy in 2047: Aligned or Balanced?
Suhasini Haider, Diplomatic Editor, The Hindu
India and China: Will they be friends in 2047?
Kanti Bajpai, Wilmar Professor of Asian Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
India in 2047: At the center of an interdependent neighborhood
Rohan Samarajiva, Founding Chair, LIRNEasia
Moderator: John Harriss, Professor Emeritus of International Studies at Simon Fraser University
Presented by: Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) with support from:

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Guelph Institute of Development Studies
Guelph Institute for Environmental Research
International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation
Office of International Strategy and Partnerships
One Health Institute
Ontario Veterinary College

Learn more online.

ONLINE: China - Its Rise and Consequences
2022-03-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Ontario
The Olympics returned to a new and emboldened China. What should we learn from China’s transformation?
Featuring:

Michael Szonyi – Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Frank Wen-Hsuing Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University
Theresa Lee – Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Guelph
Norman Smith – Professor, Department of History, University of Guelph

Virtual EventRegister at uoguel.ph/pols-mar11
Hosted by the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences and the Department of Political Science

ONLINE and IN-PERSON: College Royal 2022
2022-03-19 09:00 - 16:00 | ONLINE and IN-PERSON, Ontario, Canada
The College Royal Society invites you to venture into the Royal Forest March 19 and 20! Check out barn tours, livestock shows, art shows, live club displays and more! There are plenty of events for everyone to enjoy!
During COVID-19, in-person College Royal events are open to students, faculty and staff and their immediate families. The external community is welcome to attend online events. Find the full event listing at www.collegeroyalsociety.com! Those attending in-person events must follow all COVID-19 safety protocols including adhering to U of G’s vaccination policy, wearing a mask, completing the COVID-19 Daily Screening Form, staying home if unwell, etc.
Catch all of the details by exploring our website, or check us out on Facebook and Instagram @collegeroyalsociety!

ONLINE: Experiences of Discrimination in Guelph Wellington - A Discussion of Research Findings and Community Reflections
2022-03-21 12:00 - 13:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The Guelph Wellington Local Immigration Partnership (GWLIP), the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute, and the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph are hosting a webinar on the International Day of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. This webinar will discuss the findings and methodology of a recent study entitled “Discrimination Experienced by Immigrants, Visible Minorities, and Indigenous Peoples in Guelph and Wellington County”. This research was developed in partnership with the Network for Economic and Social Trends (NEST), Western University, and the City of Guelph. It explores the extent and context of discrimination experienced by the residents of Guelph and Wellington County with the goal of supporting the development of evidence-based anti-discrimination initiatives at the local level.
This session will include the following panelists:

Hoda Ghonim, Newcomer Health Programs | SHORE Centre
Ingrid Brand, Principal | Brand Intercultural
Kayla, CEO | The Kween Company
Sara Sayyed, Senior Advisor of Equity, Anti-Racism and Indigenous Initiatives | City of Guelph
Hosted by Samantha Blostein, Global Engagement Specialist, Community Engaged Scholarship Institute / Guelph Institute of Development Studies / College of Social and Applied Human Sciences

Register online.

School of Fine Art and Music MFA Open Studios
2022-03-23 15:00 - 17:30 | Ontario, Canada
MFA students in our Studio Art program will host Open Studios, giving the community a chance to tour studios and become acquainted with this dynamic, unique program and its award-winning students. This year’s students include: Megan Arnold – Alicia Barbieri  – sophia bartholomew  – Yan Wen Chang  – Rihab Essayh  – Julien Fisher  – Samuelle Grande – Meg Ross  – Chelsea Ryan  – Michael Thompson  – Kelly Uyeda  – Thomas Weir
MFA Open studios takes place in Alexander Hall, Blackwood Hall and Fire Hall. There is a free shuttle bus service between parking lots, Blackwood Hall and Alexander Hall, every fifteen minutes from 2 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. and from 7:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
Please plan to join us for the MFA Open Studios before and after the Shenkman Lecture: 3 to 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art
2022-03-23 18:00 - 19:30 | War Memorial Hall, 390 Gordon Street, Guelph
14th annual Dasha Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art
Featuring artist, writer and film maker Chris Kraus – “Art Outside the Centre”
War Memorial Hall
Admission Free – Everyone Welcome!
Register online.
Presented by the College of Arts, the School of Fine Art and Music, Manulife and Corus

ONLINE: Thinking Spaces with Aruna Antonella Handa
2022-03-25 10:00 - 11:30 | ImprovLab, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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 Aruna Antonella Handa. The event will take place via Zoom. A moderated Q&A will follow the talk.
If you are interested in attending, please register online.
A Zoom link will be sent the day before the event.
Description
I want to be free, but so often i feel embarrassed as i find myself grasping for the scaffolding. I want to be free and then i hear the tropes i hear so often and it’s me, my voice. I want to be free and yet somewhat paradoxically, i need to be tied up in rules to experience freedom, to break free of the invisible limits to my expression. I spy those ceteris paribus clauses in the world of free improv though. I can see that they are super packed, the contents all pressed and folded with such precision that it’s actually staggering when you see how much they managed to fit in there. So, how free is free anyway?
More about Aruna
Aruna Antonella Handa creates theatre, music and performance art, exploring the nexus of social justice, environmental and intimate themes. Her work investigates fault lines between composed and improvised, personal and social, addictive and temperate, artist and audience, here and somewhere there. Salonnière of the Future Food Salon, Aruna plans to launch the third series in Guelph at the Arboretum in late 2022 (Covid Mist Date: late 2023). A five-act immersive musical comedy, Voyage to Anthropocene will explore the third kingdom of life: Fungi. Previous series which toured Toronto, New York, Austin and Montreal explored edible insects. With ensembles and as a solo artist, Aruna has performed in Canada and the US at festivals and venues including the Mariposa Folk Festival, Tarragon Spring Festival, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Canadian Music Week, the Monarch Club, and the Tranzac in Toronto. This year, Aruna & the Sirens, will release the LP Of Bones & Addicts, and two singles including “City Hotel” which chronicles racist attacks in Ontario following the Trump electoral victory. Extending the work on gender-based violence she began with Have You Seen My Sister?, which launched at Nuit Blanche in 2017, Aruna addresses what the UN has labelled the ‘shadow pandemic’, the global surge in domestic violence, with a series of live performances of her song cycle, and the release of a single recorded in socially distanced ways with musicians from across Canada and the US. Aruna had three degrees in philosophy (BA at McGill and an MPhil and PhD from University of London (King’s) but she ate them.
Websites:
www.futurefoodsalon.com
www.haveyouseenmysister.ca
www.aruna.ca
This event is being co-presented with the Music Students’ Association (MSA) during their 16th Annual Creative Music Symposium.
As always, Thinking Spaces is free and open to all.

Project SOY Plus Competition Finale
2022-03-25 10:00 - 13:00 | University Centre, 150 Research Ln, Guelph, Ontario, N1G2W1, Canada
After months of work, student teams involved in the 2021-2022 Project SOY Plus competition are ready to showcase their creative and potentially industry-altering plant-based products. Contestant entries will be open for viewing by the public and judged by industry representatives. Cash rewards of $2,500, $1,000 and $500 will be awarded to first, second and third place, respectively in three categories.
Initially introduced in 1996, Project Soy served as a way to help maintain the momentum of the soybean industry, raise the production and awareness of the crop, and find diversified uses and markets for soybeans. Since then, the program has expanded into Project SOY Plus and now includes a wide variety of plant-based products with the ultimate goal of making a positive and lasting impact on the environment.
The Project SOY Plus Finale takes in the University Centre on Friday, March 25 with an open house to showcase projects from 10 a.m. until noon and an awards announcement between 12:30-1 p.m. The event is free to attend.

ONLINE: Campus Day
2022-03-27 12:00 - 15:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
This event is open to all future students! You do not need an offer of admission to participate. It is your chance to get more familiar with our academic programs and student services! Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with faculty, staff and current U of G students.
Register now!

ONLINE: Deep Dish Dialogues with Nourish by 10C
2022-03-31 12:00 - 13:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Join us for the next episode of Deep Dish Dialogues. This month features Jess Barrie and Kalia Lenaghan of Nourish, Mike Oosterveld of Fixed Gear Brewing and Dr. Audrey Jamal of the University of Guelph. Nourish will be showing us how to bake bread using spent grain from Fixed Gear Brewing while we discuss circular food systems.
This online event will be broadcast live from the Anita Stewart Memorial Food Laboratory at the University of Guelph. To receive the viewing link, please register.
Deep Dish Dialogues is a monthly live web series designed to showcase chefs and food experts diving into impactful subjects. The series is brought to you by the University of Guelph’s Arrell Food Institute and the School of Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management at the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics.

Taunton House - A Theatre Studies Ensemble performance
2022-04-01 19:00 - 2022-04-03 13:00 | U of G’s Massey Hall Theatre, 478 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Taunton House is the final product of the fourth year theatre students’ Ensemble creation – fully student-run, with support from the faculty.
ABOUT: Amelia Taunton is trying to publish her work in the 1890s and meets Serena Whitlock, an agent who can help her achieve her dream. Ambition and sexuality collide as they navigate their work and their relationship to each other.
Location: Massey Hall
Dates & Times:
April 1 – 7PM
April 2 – 1PM, 7PM*
April 3 – 1PM
* ASL Interpreter in attendance April 2, evening performance.
Vaccine QR Codes will be mandatory, audience members are expected to bring proof of vaccine and any type of government issued ID.
The event is pay what you can. All proceeds going to support the Red Cross, Black is Polish, and Queers for Ukraine, all doing humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
Reserve tickets online.
CAST:
Amelia Taunton – Colleen Moodie
Serena Whitlock – Megan van der Merwe
Edmund Taunton – Benjamin Rosenberg
Hugh Ashmore – Ryan Ahlers
Understudies
Amelia Taunton – Simone Shaw
Serena Whitlock – Chelsea Evason and Rainbow Kester
Edmund Taunton and Hugh Ashmore – Stephen McLellan
CREW:
Director: Emma Parsons (Assistant: Meagan Downes)
Stage Manager: Hayden Phillips (Assistant: Sophie Hughes)
Playwright: Megan van der Merwe
Dramaturge/Writing Support: Fiona Miller (Assistant: Chandra Menezes)
Costumes: Ash Buckley (Assistant: Catherine Leis)
Set Design: Hannah Catherine Carr (Assistant: Sophia Lavergne)
Lighting Design: Chelsea Evason (Assistants: Stephen McLellan and Gemma Kraehling)
FACULTY:
Dr. Peter Kuling – Professor
Chris Clifford – Set Supervisor
Yvan Castonguay – Costume and Hair Supervisor
Erin Boulter – Teaching Assistant

IN-PERSON and ONLINE: Are Politicians Democratic Realists?
2022-04-04 13:00 - 14:00 | ONLINE and IN-PERSON, Ontario, Canada
Please join the Political Science department for our next speaking event: Are Politicians Democratic Realists?
What do Canadian politicians actually think about democracy, voting and elections? Join us for a Presentation by Dr. Jack Lucas on the consequences of politicians’ theories of democracy.
Featuring: Dr. Jack Lucas, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Calgary
Where: Limited seating in MCKN 233, event will also be streamed over Zoom
Registration required: Please register at uoguel.ph/pols-Apr4

ONLINE: Deep Dish Dialogues with Chitra Saravanan
2022-04-21 12:00 - 13:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Join us remotely for the next episode of Deep Dish Dialogues. This month features Chitra Saravanan of Krisha Indian Cooking School and Katherine Eckert, Arrell Scholar and Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Guelph. Chitra is the owner and instructor at Krisha Indian School and she will show us how to make peas pulao and coconut chickpea curry. Our discussion will revolve around nutrition and how culture and cooking education impacts acceptance of a plant-based diet.
This event will be broadcast live from the Anita Stewart Memorial Food Laboratory at the University of Guelph. Register now and you will receive the link to watch the day before the event. Register online.
Deep Dish Dialogues is a monthly live web series designed to showcase chefs and food experts diving into impactful subjects. The series is brought to you by the University of Guelph’s Arrell Food Institute and the School of Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management at the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics.
View previous episodes of Deep Dish Dialogues.

ONLINE: Thinking Spaces - "Why Music Festivals Now? Ellen Waterman and Ajay Heble in Conversation"
2022-04-21 15:00 - 16:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Thinking Spaces: The Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “Why Music Festivals Now? Ellen Waterman and Ajay Heble In Conversation.” The event will take place via Zoom. A moderated Q&A will follow the talk. Please note the Thursday day change from our usual Fridays.
If you are interested in attending, please register online. A Zoom link will be sent the day before the event.
Festival studies has become a vital and growing field of research that draws insights from cultural studies, music, sociology, anthropology, ecology, geography and history, among others. It has arguably emerged as a discipline in its own right. The socio-musicologist Simon Frith pertinently notes that “Festivals seem to attract more academic attention across more disciplines than any other popular music topic.” Drawing on their histories of involvement as festival organizers and researchers, Ellen Waterman and Ajay Heble will engage one another in conversation about the opportunities and challenges that music festivals can offer to our understanding of how, where and why we (as artists, academics and arts presenters) do our work. In light of recent international crises – the COVID-19 pandemic, protests against racialized violence, ecological degradations spurred by climate change, sustained threats to democratic governance – might festivals play a role in positioning us to respond to the social, political, and ecological threats we face, and to meet the challenges, and the unknowns, of the future? Please join us for this session about the role that music festivals can play in our current moment.
Biographies
Ellen Waterman is professor in the School for Studies in Art and Culture and holds the Helmut Kallmann Chair for Music in Canada at Carleton University. She is both a music scholar and a flutist specializing in creative improvisation. With Gillian Siddall, she is co-editor of Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity (Duke). Ellen is founder and director of the Research Centre for Music, Sound, and Society in Canada, dedicated to exploring the complex and diverse roles that music and sonic arts play in shaping Canadian society. Between 2003 and 2019, Ellen conducted a cross-Canada comparative research project on experimental music festivals. Currently, she is the primary investigator for two collaborative research-creation projects on themes of accessibility and equity funded by the SSHRC and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Ajay Heble is the founding Director of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI), and professor of English in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. His research has covered a full range of topics in the arts and humanities and has resulted in 15 books published or in press, numerous articles or chapters, and over 100 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows trained and mentored. He was the founding Artistic Director of the award-winning Guelph Jazz Festival and Colloquium (he served in that capacity for 23 years, retiring in 2016), and is a founding co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation. Dr. Heble is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2016 SSHRC Impact Award in the Partnership category, the 2014 Dr. Winegard Exemplary Volunteer Award, and a Teaching Excellence Award from the Student Senate Caucus at the University of Guelph. In 2019, he was awarded an honorary degree (Doctor honoris causa) from 17, Instituto de Estudios Criticos in Mexico.
As always, Thinking Spaces is free and open to all!
http://improvisationinstitute.ca/

The University of Guelph Choirs Present: Here the Bird Abides and Sings
2022-04-23 12:00 - 18:00 | Arboretum Centre, 250 Arboretum Rd, Guelph, N1G 2W1, Canada
The University of Guelph Choirs present: Hear the Bird Abides and Sings!
Featuring the World Premiere of Hear the Bird Abides and Sings by James Harley!
The University of Guelph Choirs team up with the birds of The Arboretum to immerse you in song! Optional walking tours (weather permitting), bird-song games, glorious choral music, and the World Premiere of Here the Bird Abides and Sings by James Harley – offer an uplifting experience for music/nature enthusiasts of all ages.
Featuring: Henry Janzen, Viola; Ben Grossman, Hurdy-Gurdy; Betty Maher, Piano; Marta McCarthy and Lanny Fleming, Conductors.
Find more information and register online for a specified time on April 23:
Noon concert; 1 p.m. – Guided nature walk*
2 p.m. concert; 3 p.m. – Guided nature walk*
4 p.m. concert; 5 p.m. – Book launch
Ticket prices: $0-$11.34
*We suggest wearing comfortable shoes for the optional nature walk.
(Please note that proof of vaccination and medical-style masks are needed to attend the performance, as per University of Guelph policy.)

RBC Training Ground Olympic Talent Search
2022-04-24 09:00 - 12:00 | Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre, AZ
The RBC Training Ground Olympic talent search, with scouts from nine Olympic sports, is holding a free event in Guelph for the first time ever.
Now entering its seventh year, RBC Training Ground has already found and funded seven Canadian Olympic medallists, and put hundreds more into Canada’s Olympic talent pipeline.
On Sunday April 24, area athletes are invited to see if they might be suited for an Olympic sport, even one they’ve never considered, and potentially earn funding for their own Olympic journey. At each qualifying event participants will perform speed, strength, power and endurance benchmark testing in front of National Sport Organizations
In year six of the program University of Guelph student Talia Hoffman was identified through the talent search and awarded Future Olympian funding by Rugby Canada.
The Guelph event is one of 14 happening across the country this Spring.
The top 100 athletes will be selected to compete in the RBC Training Ground National Final, and potentially earn funding support as an RBC Future Olympian. The National Final will take place in a time and format that places the utmost priority on the healthy and safety of participants.
WHEN AND WHERE: On Sunday April 24, this FREE opportunity for any local athlete (14-25) comes to the University of Guelph’s Guelph Gryphons Athletics Centre, 175 Reynolds Walk, in Guelph. The event will run from 9 am.. to approximately noon.
Local athletes are encouraged to register at RBCTrainingground.ca and have the chance to meet and show their core speed, power, strength and endurance to Olympic talent scouts from nine different sports.
