SCA | Quick News | December 15, 2025
Be True to Your School
We hope everyone had a good time at the closing reception for Be True to Your School on Saturday, December 13, 2025. We certainly did! More than that, what we earned through the auction will go a long way towards supporting student-focused programing in the SCA's Audain Gallery. So, thank you again to everyone who bid, and another huge thank you to all of the SCA alumni artists who offered their works up for auction.
Closed for the Holidays
The SCA will be closed from December 24, 2025, to January 2, 2026, with Spring Term classes commencing Monday, January 5. Also, this is the last Quick News of the year. See you all in 2026!
Kitsos on the screen
A Moving (2012/13), a video by Paul Wong featuring choreography by the SCA's Rob Kitsos – with Kitsos, Katie DeVries, and Kim Stevenson performing in front of "eight monumental Letter paintings" by Michael Morris, plus a score by the SCA's Martin Gotfrit – is on the outdoor screen at UBC's Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (1825 Main Mall, Vancouver) from December 8, 2025, to January 7, 2026, running daily between 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM. More HERE.
The Structure of Smoke
The SCA's Kathy Slade is part of the exhibition The Structure of Smoke, which opens Thursday, January 8, 2026, from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, and runs to April 12, 2026, at UBC's Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (1825 Main Mall, Vancouver). More HERE.
Anthropic steals!
The SCA's Laura U. Marks discovered that two of her books – The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses (2000) and Touch: Sensuous Theory And Multisensory Media (2002) – are listed in the Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website database. If you're a published author, check to see if your work has also been digested HERE. You and your publisher may be entitled to part of the $1.5B (US) settlement Anthropic have agreed to pay.
Meet Sara van Gaalen!
A few weeks back, Sam Smith, Gabriel Colome, and Hans Goksoyr from SFU's media team came down to interview SCA Theatre & Performance student Sara van Gaalen, and it's out today! We're big fans of Sara, too, so this is a special treat! The interview also includes an embedded video that features a few other SCA T&P students, too. Read it – and watch it – HERE.
Smulovitz for a minute
Watch a one minute improvisation on the SOMA Labs Terra by the SCA's Stefan Smulovitz, performed as part of Leaky Heaven's Blink, featuring "an evening of 37 one-minute performances by some of Vancouver’s most exciting artists." Watch it HERE.
HOLD ON LET GO 2026
Theatre Replacement's HOLD ON LET GO, running February 3 – 7, 2026, at the Russian Hall (600 Campbell Ave., Vancouver), includes the SCA's Justine A. Chambers and SCA alumni Lucien Durey, Anjela Magpantay (working with SCA alumni Alexandra Caprara, Nancy Tam, and Bernice Paet), ellis cheadle (working with SCA alumni Keely O'Brien, Marc Arboleda, and Aryo Khakpour), Maiko Yamamoto, Conor Wylie (working with SCA alumni Davey Samuel Calderon, Keely O'Brien, Nancy Tam, and Aryo Khakpour), Dylan Robinson, and the SCA's Mauricio Pauly. More HERE,
Vickers' Open Studio
SCA alumnus Charlene Vickers is hosting her Annual Holiday Open Studio on Saturday, December 13, 2025, from 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM, on the 3rd floor at 237 Keefer St., Vancouver. More HERE.
Murdoch heads the Folk Fest
SCA alumnus Corbin Murdoch is the new Executive Director of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, leaving his position as the Executive and Artistic Director of the Dawson City Music Festival. Read more from Stir HERE.
Gamelan Bike Bike & Piu
Gamelan Bike Bike, which includes SCA PhD student George Rahi, are sharing a bill with Piu on January 24, 2026, from 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM, at the Revue Stage (1601 Johnston St, Vancouver), presented by Publik Secrets. Get tickets HERE.
Kotowich and Chimerik 似不像 in VIDF 2026
SCA alumni Jeanette Kotowich and Caroline and Sammy Chien-MacCaull of Chimerik 似不像 are part of the programming for the 2026 edition of the Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF), which has SCA alumnus Deanna Peters as Artistic Director. See the whole lineup HERE.
Apply to Vines
With a deadline of February 9, 2026, at 11:59 PM (PST), Artist Applications are now open for the 2026 edition of the Vines Art Festival, which has SCA alumnus Heather Lamoureux as Co-Artistic Director. More HERE.
Gibson Art Museum Volunteer Program
The Gibson Art Museum at SFU Burnaby is looking for volunteers to "work across many of the Gibson’s core departments including Visitor Experience, Learning & Research, Collections Management, and Preparation.. More HERE.
Plastic Orchid Factory's Left of PuSh RELAY
Plastic Orchid Factory have teamed up with Edmonton's Mile Zero Dance, Montréal's Studio 303, and the CanDance Network for RELAY, which they describe as "a tri-city handoff where three mid-career artists will carry their works from Montreal, to Vancouver [as part of POF's Left of PuSh programming] and then Edmonton." Find out more HERE.
Durey’s So Many Feelings – live!
SCA alumnus Lucien Durey’s So Many Feelings, "an embodied call-and-response with live singing and projected video" that includes Caroline Ballhorn, Chance Lovett, SCA alumnus Amanda Sum, and Mark Wolf, is being performed live on January 22, 2026, from 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM, in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre here at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), presented by the Gibson Art Museum in support of the exhibition Edge Effects. More HERE.
Black Arts' DJ Workshop
The Black Arts Centre (Unit #105 – 10305 City Parkway, Surrey), which has SCA PhD student Nya Lewis and SCA alumnus Ogheneofegor Obuwoma as board members, is running a two-part "DJ Workshop" with Donna Dada on Saturday, December 20, 2025, with a session dedicated "EXCLUSIVELY to Black women, femmes, and GNC (gender non-conforming) individuals" from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, and an all-inclusive session from 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM. Signup HERE.
Obuwoma on Akhava
Read SCA alumnus Ogheneofegor Obuwoma on Abbas Akhavan's exhibition, One Hundred Years, at the Belkin Art Gallery. Read it HERE. Also, read Obuwoma's contribution to Akimbo's "2025 Critics’ Picks" post HERE.
Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?
Through the Wormhole Theatre Co. is presenting Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?, featuring SCA folks Rosemary Morrison, Zoë Braithwaite, Lachlan Harris-Fiesel, Katie Gherasim, Jae Gonzales, Lauren Han, Ruby Maher, TJ Tan, and Aisha Wewala, from January 29 – 31, 2026, at Whatlab (1814 Pandora St, Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.