SCA | Quick News | April 1, 2022
Donate to the Ker Wells Memorial Fund
In Ker Wells' honour, his friends and colleagues have established the Ker Wells Memorial Fund at SFU. Your gift will pay tribute to Ker by supporting performance students in the School for the Contemporary Arts. It is our wish to raise $20,000 in order to create an endowed award at SFU. Donate HERE.
Skoden – it's on!
Don't miss the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival (SIFF), running April 1 & 2, 2022, here at SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC), which is presented as several different programs:
- Opening Program: Stoodis! (Let's Do This!) + Opening Ceremony and remarks and post-screening Q&A | April 1, 5:00 PM
- Evolution Revolution | April 1, 7:30 PM
- Youth / Family Program: Carrying The Fire | April 2, 1:00 PM
- Saturday Matinée: Where We Come From, Where We're Going | April 2, 3:00 PM
- Closing Program: Skoden! (Let's Go Then!) + Witness Ceremony and Award Ceremony | April 2, 5:00 PM
NOTE: Please make sure to purchase a ticket for each program you'd like to attend! Film descriptions and link to tickets HERE. Also, SIFF has been in the news: HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
Boisjoly The Explanatory Void
If you were hoping to see the SCA's Raymond Boisjoly at the recent opening for Everyone is Happening Always, the SCA 2022 BFA Project exhibition he was the faculty supervisor for (which runs until April 2, 2022, at SFU Galleries' Audain Gallery), he was actually unavoidably away to help install and open his own exhibition, The Explanatory Void, which runs July 24, 2022, at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. More HERE.
withintensions' Fable
Download the latest issue of withintensions, that monthly art mag from SCA alumni, on the theme of Fable HERE.
Wood's Dry Rot
SCA alumnus Jordyn Wood is presenting their play Dry Rot, directed by Zac Scott, as part of this year's OR Festival, which runs April 9 & 10, 2022, at the Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre (7646 Prince Albert St., Vancouver). Grab tickets HERE.
Durey and Kozak's Spots
SCA alumnus Lucien Durey and SCA MFA student Katie Kozak's collaborative project Spots in up now on transit shelters throughout Vancouver as part of the city's Platforms: We Are Here, Live programming. More HERE.
Kitsos' scion reviews... food!
The SCA's Rob Kitsos' son Gabriel Kitsos, who's a first year student in the SFU Department of English (like a renegade!), is writing food reviews for SFU's The Peak. Read the latest HERE.
Beauchesne in the house
Kidd Pivot's Eric Beauchesne taught a dance Master Class with us this week. Big thanks to DanceHouse for helping put it together. Don't miss Kidd Pivot's Revisor, which is at the Vancouver Playhouse until April 2, 2022. Read what Stir Vancouver has to say about Revisor HERE.
SCA in Open Stage #2
SCA alumni Anya Saugstad (with SCA alumni Eowynn Enquist and Shion Skye Carter, plus Daria Mikhaylyuk, Nasiv Sall, and Sabine Raskin, with music by SCA alumnus Stefan Nazarevich) and Rachel Maddock join Lamondance and Linda Hayes for Open Stage #2 on Sunday April 3, 2022, at 7:00 PM at The Dance Centre. More HERE.
Kong on Cloud Album
Read SCA PhD candidate Yani Kong on the exhibition Cloud Album, running at The Polygon Gallery until May 1, 2022, for Galleries West. Read in HERE.
TPE's In the Distance
The SCA's Owen Underhill shares the baton with leading Croatian composer and conductor Berislav Šipuš for the Turning Point Ensemble's upcoming concert, In the Distance, on Friday, April 29, 2022, at 7:30 PM (PDT) in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre here at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). Part of a multi-year project involving the exchange of the ensembles and artistic directors of Turning Point Ensemble (Underhill) and Cantus Ensemble (Šipuš) of Zagreb, In the Distance is presented by our friends SFU Woodward's. More HERE.
Chamale's Peace Country
Upcoming: SCA alumnus Pedro Chamale's Peace Country, which is produced by rice & beans theatre (where Chamale is the Artistic Director) in partnership with Playwrights Theatre Centre, and presented by the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, running both live and online from April 27 – 30, 2022. More HERE.
Basanta's Fontaine
SCA alumnus Adam Basanta's exhibition Fontaine, running April 6 – May 7, 2022, at Gatineau's AXENÉO7, is sharing an opening event with exhibitions by aNadège Grebmeier Forget and Juan Ortiz-Apuy. More HERE.
Dickinson's At the Speed of Light
Don't miss the SCA's Peter Dickinson's audio drama At the Speed of Light, streaming via Pi Theatre’s website until April 4, 2022. Listen HERE.
Daniel's Fitting (Out-Fitting) In
Watch the video of the SCA's Dr. Henry Daniel's talk, Fitting (Out-Fitting) In, for the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education at UBC, drawing from his essay with the same title from the book Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning, and Researching While Black (University of Toronto Press, 2022), edited by Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, Malinda S. Smith, and Handel Kashope Wright. Watch it HERE.
Morelli on Hupfield
Read SCA alumnus Didier Morelli on Maria Hupfield’s Manidoowegin/Spirit Skin: Memory and Form in Vie des arts. Read it HERE.
Peters' webwork
Another cool site, this time for CADA/West, designed by SCA alumnus Deanna Peters. Check it out HERE.
Alfred Jarry plays
The SCA experimental improv duo of Alfred Jarry (Eldritch Priest and Brady Cranfield) plays a bill with the duo of Meredith Bates and Feven Kidane on Friday, April 8, 2022, at 8:00 PM at the mighty 8EAST. More HERE.
Saloman Mindel's Landscape & Life
SCA alumnus Gabriel Saloman Mindel curated a "year-long exhibition series" titled Landscape & Life at Santa Cruz's Indexical, which focuses on the notion of "landscape as it relates to race, politics and power in regions around the globe." The series concludes with a presentation of Paul Walde's multichannel audiovisual installation Alaska Variations, opening Friday, April 1, 2022, from 5pm to 9pm (PDT). More HERE.
Clown with the TSU
The SCA Theatre Student Union is hosting a FREE ONLINE CLOWN WORKSHOP with SCA alumnus Anjela Magpantay on Saturday, April 2, 2022, at 2:00 PM! RSVP HERE.
Goodman and Shaw at New Works Calgary
SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman and Caroline Shaw's Graveyards and Gardens is heading Calgary to be New Works Calgary's (where SCA alumnus Rebecca Bruton is co-Artistic Director) "first live, indoor show in over two years," on April 15 & 16, 2022, co-presented by Springboard Performance. For more info and tickets HERE.
Aoki-Bolcsfoldi in Re-Centering/Margins
Dance West Network’s upcoming Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency performances on April 20, 2022, at 7:30 pm, co-presented by Dance West Network and our friends SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs, features SCA alumnus Jen Aoki-Bolcsfoldi. More HERE.