40th Edition
Annual Montreal Jam

PRICING ANNUAL JAM

EARLY-BIRD PRICES (until October 19, 2025 – 11:59 PM):
Includes pool access and breakfasts. Lunches must be purchased through the caterer (see details below).
🔸 $105 – Friday evening jam session (9pm to 10:30pm) - Saturday and Sunday
🔸 $80 – Friday evening jam session (9pm to 10:30pm) - Saturday and Sunday (BIPOC, visible minorities, people of color, etc.)

REGULAR PRICES (starting October 20, 2025)
Includes pool access and breakfasts. Lunches must be purchased through the caterer (see details below).
🔸 $125 – Friday evening jam session (9pm to 10:30pm) - Saturday and Sunday
🔸 $100 – Friday evening jam session (9pm to 10:30pm) - Saturday and Sunday (BIPOC, visible minorities, people of color, etc.)

À LA CARTE PRICES:
Please note: meals are not included in à la carte prices.
🔸 $65 – Full Saturday WITH evening (includes pool)
🔸 $55 – Full Saturday WITHOUT evening
🔸 $55 – Full Sunday
🔸 $25 – Saturday evening only: Performance & Jam (7:00–10:30 PM)

FRIDAY EVENING – MASTER CLASS with K.J. HOLMES & JAM (See biography of K.J.)
🔸 $55
👉 Registration FRIDAY EVENING - A LA CARTE: HERE
Class 7:00–9:00 pm
Jam 9:00–10:30 pm
At the Annual Jam venue – Centre Jean-Claude Malépart.
* We will have microphones this year.

LUNCHES > NEW: CATERING
👉 Order your lunches (catered). Deadline October 31: HERE
After October 31, you will need to plan your own lunches.

LUNCH PRICES
🔸 $15 Saturday: poke bowls – choice of tofu or chickpeas
🔸 $15 Sunday: choice of vegan Indian meal or vegetarian lasagna
🔸 $3.50 optional extra salad
Notes: Breakfast is included with your Annual Jam registration (Saturday & Sunday mornings). As usual, everyone must bring their own plates, bowls, utensils, and mugs. We aim to reduce waste and maintain the ecological spirit of the jam.
Saturday evening dinner: The Centre Jean-Claude Malépart is surrounded by many affordable restaurants, just a short walk away. There is also a grocery store right across the street. Plenty of options for you to choose from.

HOUSING:
If you can offer or need housing during the Montreal Annual Jam Festival, please fill out this form. The information will be gathered into a shared spreadsheet where participants are invited to self-organize.
Please keep both the form link and the spreadsheet link handy and check back regularly to connect with others.
👉 HOUSING GOOGLE FORM: HERE
👉 HOUSING EXCEL SHEET: HERE

CARPOOLING
If you can offer or need a ride to any part of the Montreal Annual Jam Festival, please fill out this form. The information will be gathered into a shared spreadsheet where participants are invited to self-organize.
Please keep both the form link and the spreadsheet link handy and check back regularly to connect with others.
👉 CARPOOLING GOOGLE FORM: HERE
👉 CARPOOLING EXCEL SHEET: HERE

SCHEDULE

Biography of K.J. Holmes

K.J. Holmes has been practicing Improvisational forms as process and performance since 1981. These practices have deeply informed her journey as an independent dance artist as well as an actor, vocalist, writer and teacher. An avid improviser and creator of solo/duo and ensemble work, she has studied with the early pioneers of contact improvisation including Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and Daniel Lepkoff, has collaborated and led work with and of Simone Forti and Troupe, and was a member of Image Lab performing the Tuning Score of Lisa Nelson. Other collaborators include poets Julie Carr and Edwin Torres, dancer Karen Nelson, drummer Jeremy Carlstedt, trumpeter Roy Campbell, Jr., actor Keith Biesack, and the Feel Trio (violinist Ramsey Ameen and poet/writer Fred Moten).

Her influences include Body Mind Centering ® and the work of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Ideokinesis with Andre Bernard, Meisner acting work with Terry Knickerbocker, voice and singing with Richard Armstrong, Barbara Maier Gustern and Samita Singha, among others. K.J. is a certified Yoga teacher through her studies with Sondra Loring, and a certified Ayurvedic Holistic Health Counselor through her studies with Dr. Naina Marballi.

She teatches at NYU/Experimental Theatre Wing and Movement Research in NYC, as well as traveling nationally and internationally teaching, performing and creating, most recently at the Italy Contact Festival and at TicTac Art Center in Brussels.

K.J. has performed in the work of filmmaker/artist Matthew Barney, dancer/writer Karinne Keithley Seyers, music video of Mitski, Miguel Gutierrez, Xavier Le Roy, among others, as well as developing her own solo and group work.

She is currently conducting a new ensemble piece, Blu/print, that began Fall 2023 with a grant from the New York State Choreographers Initiative through the New York State Dance Force and with the mentorships of composer/instrumentalist Henry Threadgill.