SCA | Quick News | February 19, 2021
Vickers and Ramsden in Rain Shadow
Here's a quick preview of the Nanaimo Art Gallery's upcoming exhibition, Rain Shadow, which runs February 26 – April 25, 2021, featuring SCA alumni Charlene Vickers and former SCA faculty Anne Ramsden, along with Jonathan Forrest, Todd Gronsdahl, lessLIE, lichen with Natassia Davies and Danielle Stevenson, Jerry Pethick, and Eliot White-Hill Kwulasultun. Read it HERE.
Solo Sum trailer 2
Watch the Second trailer for SCA alumni Amanda Sum's upcoming Amanda Sum Solo Livestream event on Thursday, February 25, 2021, from 7:00 – 8:15 PM (PST). Watch it HERE.
Browne's six questions
The SCA's Colin Browne does a "six questions" interview with Chaudiere Books. Browne's latest book of poems, Here, is out now from Talonbooks. Read it HERE.
Priest on the radio
The SCA's Brady Cranfield (me, your dutiful SCA Communicator) talks with the SCA's Eldritch Priest on Vancouver Co-op Radio (CFRO)'s Soundscape about Priest's new work Omphaloskepsis and other Boring Formless Nonsense. Listen HERE.
CMA Journal updates
The Comparative Media Arts Journal's Issue Nine: Relations, edited by Wei-hsin Lee, Israt Taslim, and Mohammad Zaki Rezwan and featuring contributions from Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen, Grayson Chong, Sanja Dejanovic, Rebecca Howard, Dr. Elizabeth Johnson & Dr. Donald Culverson, Alla Myzelev, Ijeoma D. Odoh, and Maj Ørskov & Mikkel N. Jørgensen, is now online. Read it HERE. Also, the submissions deadline has been extended for Issue Ten: Enchantment, Disenchantment, Reenchantment: Rethinking practices of interconnection in a century of crisis to March 31, 2021. More HERE.
New Red Order on Below The Radar
The latest episode of the Below The Radar, the podcast produced by Am Johal and the folks in SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, features New Red Order, whose exhibition Give it Back is in the windows of SFU Galleries's Audain Gallery until March 6, 2021. Listen to it HERE.
Ueda @ Festival MNM
The Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra premiered As the first spring blossoms awaken through the snow, a new work by the SCA's Rita Ueda (Term Lecturer: Music), at the opening concert for the Festival MNM 2021. More HERE.
McMann in Dancing Across Borders
SCA alumni Jessica McMann joins Stéphanie Cyr, Simran Sachar, and Zahra Shahab for Dancing Across Borders on Saturday, March 6, 2021, at 8:00 PM (ET) to "share recent works that question and proclaim." Moderated by Alicia Bauman-Morales, curated by Jane Gabriels, and presented in collaboration with BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance and Pepatian South Bronx. RSVP HERE.
Wei's Friend Poems
SCA alumni Casey Wei is a contributor, participant, and co-organizer (jointly by Wei's Agony Klub and Publication Studios Vancouver) of the launch of Friend Poems on Friday, February 26, 2021, at 5:00 PM (PST), also featuring readings by contributors Kay Higgins (Publication Studios Vancouver), Tiziana La Melia, Steffanie Ling, and Colin Osler. More HERE.