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Just in time for long weekend viewing, the Decolonial Imaginings: Small Group Sessions are now online. Listen in as workshop participants discuss the process and reflect on creating their imagined compositions. The three conversations have been archived and you can find the videos on our website. www.of-the-now.ca/small-group-sessions/... Do you have questions about Decolonial Imaginings as a project or the imagined compositions themselves? Where do you see settler-colonial structures in your own practice or in the artistic community? Please share any questions or reflections by email to [email protected] and we’ll respond in our concluding conversations. Decolonial Imaginings is produced by of-the-now and co-produced by the Canadian Music Centre in BC, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada.

Now available on Bandcamp: Imagined Compositions (2020) from participating artists jake moore, Jocelyn Morlock, Luke Nickel, Juliet Palmer, Mitch Renaud, and Kelly Ruth. You can download Imagined Compositions on Bandcamp for free, or find the recordings and explore the entire project on the Decolonial Imaginings website. https://of-the-now.bandcamp.com//imagined-compositions-2020... We want to hear from you: Do you have questions about Decolonial Imaginings as a project or the imagined compositions themselves? Where do you see settler-colonial structures in your own practice or in the artistic community? Please share any questions or reflections by email to [email protected] and we’ll respond in our concluding conversations. We hope you will be as fascinated by the Imagined Compositions as we are. Watch the website for updates and newly archived video conversations from this ongoing workshop. Decolonial Imaginings is produced by of-the-now and co-produced by the Canadian Music Centre in BC, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada

Decolonial Imaginings: First Group Conversation As part of our ongoing workshop, on July 22, 2020, the curators and participating artists spent two hours sharing in a talking circle model, with each artist presenting a prompt and others responding in turn. You can find the six videos from this first group conversation on our website (link in bio and below). Watch for more videos, small group sessions, and imagined compositions coming soon!... www.of-the-now.ca/decolonialimaginings Co-Produced with the Canadian Music Centre in BC and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Decolonial Imaginings: First Group Conversation As part of our ongoing workshop, on July 22, 2020, the curators and participating artists spent two hours sharing in a talking circle model, with each artist presenting a prompt and others responding in turn. You can find the six videos from this first group conversation on our website (link in bio and below). Watch for more videos, small group sessions, and imagined compositions coming soon!... www.of-the-now.ca/decolonialimaginings Co-Produced with the Canadian Music Centre in BC and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

What would it be like to listen decolonially? How can creative sonic practices be thought in light of inherent structures in settler colonial aesthetics? In this workshop project, Stó:l/Skwah scholar and author Dylan Robinson leads six settler-artists in reading, discussing, and responding to text and concepts from his new book "Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies." Video excerpt is taken from the project introduction by curators Dylan Robinson and... Mitch Renaud. Full video and more details on the participating artists can be found on the website: https://www.of-the-now.ca/decolonialimaginings/ Decolonial Imaginings is produced by of-the-now, co-produced by the Canadian Music Centre BC Region, and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.