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LOGISTICS
Discussion space takes place on Zoom from 7-8:15pm every other Thursday starting June 10th. An impromptu, less structured discussion space about creative/studio practices will be improvised in between meetings through Zoom at the discretion of the group.
THURSDAY, JUNE 10th 7-8:15PM: Introduction Conversation
THURSDAY, JUNE 24th 7-8:15PM: 1st Section “Sources”
THURSDAY, JULY 8th 7-8:15PM: 2nd Section “The Work”
THURSDAY, JULY 22nd 7-8:15PM: 3rd Section “Obstacles & Openings”
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5th 7-8:15PM: 4th (Final) Section “The Fruits”
June 10th - August 5th, 2021
*Meetings occur every other Thursday from 7-8:15pm PDT. These sessions are 75 min in duration. Full schedule follows.
Creative improvisation
What is it to improvise in creative practice? Can you practice improvisation or is it simply that improvisation must be improvised?
Let’s read “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art” by Stephen Nachmanovitch and collaboratively explore what it means to improvise and just how improvisation can be utilized to help explore, investigate, and transverse our creative boundaries. This is a book that explores improvisation through musical practice as expanded to wider creative fields.
What is it and what will we do?
This is a virtual book club and communal studio sharing space to explore the idea of improvisation and how it relates to our practice of making, to our craft.
We’ll meet on Zoom. Each meeting will use the reading material (however pertinent or impertinent) as a spring board to explore how improv interacts with creativity and any tangents that may follow. Supplemental reading resources may be made available for each meeting. Part of each meeting will be focused on discussing how the material relates back to each of our unique creative practices.
There are no specific objectives, except to share. Furthermore, this is a a non-judgmental and guilt free space with no hierarchies. We will take impromptu journeys and meet with the idea of sharing, communicating, and ultimately exploring and relating to our practices.
We are like minded people emboldened by our creative pursuits. Let’s explore where the rhythm of improv takes us.
RESOURCES
“Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art” by Stephen Nachmanovitch, 1991, 224p
Additional resources to follow
HOSTED by: RYAN RISS
Ryan likes to draw and think about the world we live in. He lives and works in Portland.