IMPROVFEST.CA THERE is no doubt that we live in challenging times. But challenges can also lead to opportunities and lessons about how we might live our lives differently. Referencing the life-changing moment in which we are living, author and activist Arundhati Roy writes: “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.” Music, too, has long been an important catalyst for imagining, and indeed often enacting, new ways of living together in the world. Social theorist Jacques Attali famously wrote in his book