Jack Ramsey
Monthly Interdisciplinary Collaboration Session
Thu, Apr 09
|Ballard Homestead
Seattle Collaboration Society hosts free monthly improv/exploration sessions where musicians, dancers, painters, and other artists of all types can experiment and improvise across discipline.


Time & Location
Apr 09, 2026, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Ballard Homestead, 6541 Jones Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117, USA
Guests
About the event
Interdisciplinary improv/exploration sessions welcome musicians, dancers, movers, painters, writers, and artists of all types in any stage of their career into a shared space where they can explore, improvise, and experiment together.
Come prepared to:
Explore free improvisation practices across discipline and genre, in open jam formats, and guided prompts led by musician/composer Jack Ramsey. No prior improv experience is required, just an interest to explore and experiment. Examples might be a violinist, pianist, cellist, guitar with effects pedals, building worlds of sound together in response to a live painter or dancer. Another example might be a writer improvising one sentence prompts that form the basis for a group improvisation.
Learn from other artists of other genres and disciplines. How does a painter apply a musical concept like crescendo to their work? What are analogies to melody and harmony in movement? How do we construct phrasing as artists? Do w…