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The SCA is an interdisciplinary art school with creative making and critical thinking at the core of all of our programs. Our state-of-the-art performance and presentation spaces are animated year-round with film screenings and visual art exhibitions, dance and performance events, music and sound offerings, design-led creations, and artist and curatorial talks.

Distinct from other postsecondary and conservatory training programs in the fine and performing arts, these productions highlight multi-disciplinary collaboration and derive mostly from students’ own creative research with our award-winning faculty and visiting professional artists. This means that the content and scheduling of work for the public also varies each academic year. Quite literally, each semester means the real-time, student engaged creation and presentation of entirely new events across the different areas in the SCA. While this means we can't offer a predictable "season" of events, we think that this way or doing things makes what we do not only unique, but also exciting, both for the SCA overall and our students and for audiences.

However, what we can promise is that every fall and spring we produce at least two full-length evenings of dance, multiple live performance events, a music and sound festival, a suite of student film festivals, and two visual art exhibitions.  

UPCOMING EVENTS

  • SCA Meet and Greet – April Virtual Session

    Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | Zoom

    More HERE ~

  • HAVE YOU BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH MFA OR PHD?*

    SCA's Graduate Spring Show | Thursday, April 18, 2024 | Doors at 6:00 PM, performances at 7:00 PM SCA Visual Art Studios, Suite #330 – 611 Alexander Street, Vancouver

    More HERE ~

  • The Brutal Joy

    Justine A. Chambers MFA thesis project | April 18 & 19, 2024 | Doors at 7:45 PM, performance at 8:00 PM | Leaky Heaven Theatre studio at the Russian Hall – 600 Campbell Ave., Vancouver

    More HERE ~

  • sad girls who lie in bed, amongst other films.

    Third Year Film Screening | Friday, April 19, 2024 | 7:00 PM | FREE | Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

    More HERE ~

  • Yani Kong's PhD Defence: A Present Bond: A Theory of Enchantment in Contemporary Art

    Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies PhD Defence | Thursday, April 25, 2024 | 9:00 AM | Room 2200 – SFU Harbour Centre, 555 W. Hastings St., Vancouver | ZOOM

    More HERE ~

  • Octophonic SFU-Concordia Exchange Concert

    April 25, 2024 | 8:00 PM | FREE | Studio T – School for the Contemporary Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

    More HERE ~

  • Justine A. Chambers' MFA Defence: The Brutal Joy

    Friday, April 26, 2024 | 12:00 PM | Room 4390 – SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

    More HERE ~

  • 22 : 8

    4th Year Film Screening + Installations | April 26, 2024 | 7:00 PM (Screening) + 8:30 PM (Installations) | Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema + Sites at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

    More HERE ~

  • Nearly touching the promise

    Julian Yi-Zhong Hou | March 8 – April 27, 2024 | The Cabinet | Room 4390 – SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

    More HERE ~

  • Look Both Ways

    BFA Graduating Exhibition 2024 | April 18 – May 4, 2024 | Audain Gallery, 149 W. Hasting St., Vancouver

    More HERE ~

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