Venue: daphne Indigenous artist-run centre (5425 Av. Casgrain Unit 103, Montreal, Quebec H2T 1X6) Date: October 3, 2026 Time: 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Co-presented with daphne Indigenous artist-run centre and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation.
Join us for a keynote presentation by George Lewis entitled
‘Archiving The future: There Are Black Composers In The Future: Afrodiasporic New Music and the Heterogeneous Sound Ideal.’
George Lewis is one of the most formidable figures in modern music: a composer of international renown, legendary improvising trombonist, computer-music innovator, professor at Columbia, and a longtime member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM).