SCA | Quick News | April 30, 2021
Goodman & Morgan's Cobalt
Watch Cobalt by SCA alumni Vanessa Goodman (Action at a Distance) and Scott Morgan (Loscil), which was presented as part of The Dance Centre's International Dance Day programing. Watch it HERE.
Marks is busy
The SCA's Laura Marks and collaborator Azadeh Emadi's film Gerard Caris: Unfolding from Pentagons was accepted to the FilmArte Festival. Watch the trailer HERE. Marks also participated in an online book launch on April 29, 2021, for Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar, published by Indiana University Press, which includes her contribution, The Scent of Places. More HERE. On the same day, Marks also presented on the Small File Media Festival for the Iran-based Animation; Experiment collective.
Cheyenne on Coffee Chats
Watch SCA alumni Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg as the inaugural guest on Stir Vancouver's new Coffee Chats series. Watch it HERE.
Smulovitz's new music
Here's some music by the SCA's Stefan Smulovitz. First, the music for Isabelle Kirouac's Megafauna (watch it HERE). Second, his new track Mr Wolf And The Lonzi, inspired by Donna Balma's "Lonzi" paintings (listen HERE.)
rice & beans theatre's job offer
rice & beans theatre (SCA alumni Pedro Chamale and Derek Chan) are looking for an Operations Manager. Could this be you? Find out more HERE.
FCAT gigs
Three $20-an-hour gigs for student film makers in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, working in Surrey schools. Applications are due May 10, 2021. Download the job postings here: Film instructor and Sound instructor.
BLACK BOX PIZZA BOX reviewed
Read Kristen Lawson in the The Vancouver Arts Review on BLACK BOX PIZZA BOX, created by Breanne Birk, Sean Bray, Mau Garcia, Rebecca Kabesh, Alexandra McDougall, Haylee Turner, and Alexander Zavorotny, with teacherly direction from the SCA's Ryan Tacata and Montserrat Videla, which ran on April 14, 2021. Read it HERE.
Koochakzadeh-Yazdi & McGregor's Brimming Air
Listen to Brimming Air, a new work from SCA alumni Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi and collaborator Mark Takeshi McGregor. Watch it HERE. Koochakzadeh-Yazdi is also playing as part of Music on Main's upcoming Listening. Together. festival, which runs May 14 – 18, 2021. Watch the trailer HERE.
Donck on Images that Take, Images that Give
Read SCA student Teresa Donck (who's in her third year in our Art, Performance, & Cinema Studies area) in Sad Mag on the recent SCA visual art student exhibition, Images that Take, Images that Give, that ran in the Audain Gallery from March 18 – 27, 2021. Read it HERE.
Seaborn's Q&A with olive theory
Read a Q&A in Stir Vancouver by SCA student Mackenzie Seaborn (who's written many great things in Stir Vancouver) with SCA alumni Stefan Nazarevich and Shion Skye Carter, a.k.a. olive theory. Read it HERE.
Read Chan
Read Writing Hong Kong from a distance — yellow objects．黃 色 物 件, an essay by SCA alumni Derek Chan (rice & beans theatre) for We Are HKers. Read it HERE.
SCA dancers dancing for Swatez
Watch SCA dancers Bronwyn Pollock, Kenzie Skoglund, and Paige McConnell dancing in Melissa Swatez's "directed study" work with the SCA's Rob Kitsos. Watch it HERE.
Alfeld in Hot Docs
SCA alumni Teresa Alfeld's documentary short, Jean Swanson: We Need a New Map, about the estimable Jean Swanson, a long-time Vancouver activist and current member of Vancouver's city council, is showing – for free! – as part of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Watch it HERE.
TENDER reviewed
Read a review of SCA alumni Laiwan's 2020 book TENDER, published by Talonbooks, by Clayton Longstaff in PRISM international. Read it HERE.
IBPOC Theatre Grad Fair
We're part of an upcoming free IBPOC Theatre Grad Fair on May 3, 2021, from 1:00 – 3:00 PM (EDT), featuring these participating artists: Ghazal Azarbad, Nina Lee Aquino, Kat Chin, Lisa Karen Cox, Miriam Fernandes, Jeff Ho, Jordan Laffrenier, Shaista Latif, Owais Lightwala, Matthew MacKenzie, Erin Macklem, Davinder Mahli, Sanskruti Marathe, Marilo Nuñez, Tarndeep Pannu, Jiv Parasaram, Luke Reece, Jamie Robinson, Tetsuro Shigematsu, Quelemia Sparrow, Tanisha Taitt, and Syrus Marcus Ware. The host is Malina Patel, the ASL interpreters are Aneesa Mustafa and Nahed Dajjani, and the event assistant is Diego Blanco. RSVP HERE.
Beley in Awakening the Body's Voice
Lisa Beley, a former SCA instructor who "developed and integrated the voice curriculum for the BFA acting program" for us, is presenting as part Awakening the Body's Voice, an online workshop series that runs Saturdays from May 1 – 29, 2021, from 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM (EDT). More HERE.
Hekademia in Milwaukee
SCA alumni Gloria Mercer's Hekademia will be screening at the Milwaukee Film Festival, which runs May 6 – 20, 2021. More HERE.
Gamboa in Paguugnay-ugnay – Interconnecting
SCA MFA student Tin Gamboa will be part of Paguugnay-ugnay – Interconnecting on May 2, 2021, from 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM, presented FREE / PWYC by Co.ERASGA and the National Pilipino Canadian Cultural Centre in celebration of Asian Heritage Month. More HERE.
Sawdust Collector's back!
Sawdust Collector, the "curatorial & producing collective" of SCA alumni (and the SCA's Professional Development Coordinator) Barbara Adler and Cole Schmidt and James Meger, is – sorta! – back with FieldTrips May 2021, in collaboration with Barking Sphinx Performance Society. More HERE.