The Kingston Improvising Musicians Collective (KIMC) is proud to present a series of 6 featured artists and ensembles that will give a public performance and lead a public workshop on their artistic practice and process, including instruction and/or group improvisation. Each concert event will include a Kingston-based artist. Three of the featured artists or ensembles will be Kingston-based. As many as possible artists in the programming will be members of traditionally marginalized groups, and we commit to 40% minimum of featured artists are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or Persons of Colour). The programming will take place over two seasons (beginning April 2023 and finishing November 2023). Each event will be presented as a pair: a public workshop by the featured artist, and a public performance including the featured artist and a supporting locally-based artist or ensemble. The focus will be on improvising musicians and composers, but may also include improvising artists in other disciplines such as dance and inter-media. Both types of events will be open to the public and will be ticketed. We hope to grow a local audience that appreciates the types of music that we present (experimental music, free jazz, spontaneous composition), and we hope to develop new interest and appreciation for exploratory, improvised and experimental musical and artistic forms.
Below is a list of Artists and Resources in the database. We have worked hard to collect as many individuals and bands as possible, though we are certainly aware that this list is incomplete. There may be inaccuracies in the collected information. Please contact us if you find anything that needs correcting, or click the + sign at the top right of this page to add People and Resources who are missing from the listings.
