This talk discusses how socially-engaged and public artists work with improvisation as a strategy for innovative, collective creation; sharing lived experience; preserving and innovating across cultural practices; and developing new forms of living heritage.

Artist and improvisation scholar Dr. Rebecca Caines will share a little on the history of improvisation as a tool for communities and artists to hold onto and share their own stories, and collectively respond to social injustice. She will then discuss her current project "multiPLAY". The multiPLAY project (2019-2021) is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Strategies Initiative. It explores new digital tools for improvising and collaborating across music and sound art, theatre, and visual art, and involves artists, community groups and artistic organizations across Canada.