SCA | Quick News | February 2, 2026
Solum I Soil screening
Solum I Soil, a dance film by the SCA's Rob Kitsos and SCA alumni Meagan Woods and Beau Han Bridge, is screening as part of the Flatlands Dance Film Festival on Friday, February 6, 2026, at 7:00 PM in the Knight Auditorium at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL). More HERE.
The Fold reviewed
Read a very thoughtful review of the SCA's Laura U. Marks' book The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos (Duke University Press, 2024) by Amber Patrice Sweat in Senses of Cinema. Read it HERE.
Marks in Agora
Joining Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Nicolas Jaar, Jota Mombaça, Nora N. Khan, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hito Steyerl, and John Tresch, the SCA's Laura U. Marks is one of the teachers for "Agora: A Gathering of Art and Philosophy," which is a "fully-funded online program ... designed to confront the challenges of our time by combining two disciplines uniquely capable of reimagining the future: art and philosophy," conceived by Andrea Bellini and Federico Campagna and presented by the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève. As the project's site explains, "Agora will offer semester-long free programs of English-language lectures made available for free on the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève’s digital platform, the 5th floor. The contents will be uploaded starting from March 2026, with a rhythm of three videos per month, accessible at all times." More HERE.
Chambers talks The Brutal Joy
Read an interview with the SCA's Justine A. Chambers in Stir Vancouver about The Brutal Joy, her work created and performed in collaboration with the SCA's Mauricio Pauly and James Proudfoot, which runs as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival on February 5 & 6, 2026, at 8:00 PM, at the The Dance Centre (677 Davie St, Vancouver). Read it HERE.
Helten, Mak, Walker, and Low at Deer Lake
Congratulations to SCA alumni Rachel Helten, Lauraine Mak, and Taryn Walker, and SCA PhD student Joni Low, who were all selected for 2026 Deer Lake Artist Residencies. More HERE.
Morrison and Waddle in the Cohort
Congratulations to SCA alumni Megan Morrison and Perelandra Waddle, as well as all the artists in New Works' Cohort 2026! More HERE.
Stringband Tuesdays
Keep your eyes peeled (and your ears ready) for upcoming "Stringband Tuesdays" nights (often including SCA alumnus Ben Rogalsky!), at the Heatley (696 E. Hastings St, Vancouver). More HERE.
Mindel on Phantom Power
SCA alumnus Gabriel Saloman Mindel, who's also faculty at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and one half of the great group Yellow Swans, was a guest of two recent episode of the interesting podcast Phantom Power. Search them out HERE.
Stir on WAIL
Read Stir Vancouver's review of SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman / Action at a Distance's WAIL (with SCA alumni Anya Saugstad, Shion Skye Carter, and Marisa Gold as Artistic Performers, and SCA alumni Fay Nass as Dramaturge and Jack Chipman as Technical Director), which had a sold out run as part of the 2026 edition of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, co-presented by Music on Main and The Dance Centre. Read it HERE.
Stir on it is for when you meet me
Read Stir on SCA alumnus Anjela Magpantay's it is for when you meet me (which has SCA student Czarina Agustines and SCA alumni Alexandra Caprara, Nancy Tam, and Bernice Paet working behind the scenes), which is running as part of Theatre Replacement and Company 605's SCA-packed HOLD ON LET GO, running February 3-7, 2026, at the Russian Hall) 600 Campbell Ave, Vancouver). Read it HERE.
Trần in the Test Kitchen
Featuring Cathy Ngọc Hân Trần, a PhD candidate in SFU's Department of Archaeology, this week's Test Kitchen at the Gibson Art Museum is Wednesday, February 4, 2026, at 12:00 PM. More HERE.
Gathering Medicine Symposium
The Vines Art Society, founded as the Vines Art Festival by SCA alumnus Heather Lamoureux (who remains Vines' Co-Artistic Director), has a spin-off project called ecosystems, which is presenting the Gathering Medicine Symposium from April 9 – 11, 2026, at the Vines Den (825 E Hastings St., Vancouver). Find out more HERE.
Offending the Audience
SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour and his company The Biting School Society (run with his brother, Arash, as Co-Artistic Director) have a Casting Call for a new theatre production, Offending the Audience, with submission deadline of February 7, 2026 at 11:59 PM. More HERE.
Visionview w/ Deanna Peters
Staring off their "Living Room" series of "in-house dialogues around festival artists and their work," presented as part of the Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF), Living Room Producer Ileanna Cheladyn speaks with SCA alumnus and VIDF Artistic Director Deanna Peters about her vision for the 2026 edition of the VIDF. Read is HERE.
Class Ceiling
Read a report by Nazir Afzal (University of Manchester) and Avis Gilmore (the former deputy general secretary of the UK's National Education Union) that examines the chronic under representation of working-class people in the arts and culture. Read it HERE (PDF download). Although directed towards Greater Manchester in North West England, the key issues and the overall pattern is a common reality in the arts and culture everywhere, including in Canada.
Terra Invicta book launch
SFU's Institute for the Humanities is hosting a book launch for Terra Invicta: Ukrainian Wartime Reimaginings for a Habitable Earth (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025), edited by Adrian Ivakhiv (J. S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University), on Sunday, February 8, 2026, from 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM, in Room 1400–1410 at SFU Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), sponsored by the SFU Institute for the Humanities, the J. S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities, EcoCultureLab Vancouver, and the Olga M. Ciupka Memorial Fund. More HERE.
Wong featured
The Playwrights Guild of Canada shared a "Featured Member" interview with SCA alumnus Adrienne Wong. Read it HERE.
Platforms: The Teachers Among Us
SCA alumni Ken Lum and Deborah Edmeades have public artworks showing as part of the City of Vancouver's Platforms: The Teachers Among Us series. See Lum's The Yawn of Man on display on various transit shelters throughout the city until the week of February 15, 2026, and Edmeades' There We Would Now Have Been on the glass wall of the Olympic Village Station until March, 2026. More HERE.
Act 3 (Revisited): To Be Seen
With screenings of Ayoka Chenzira's Alma’s Rainbow (Thursday, February 26, 2026, at 6:30 PM, at the Cinematheque) and Johanné Gómez Terrero's Sugar Island (Friday, February 27, 2026, at 6:30 PM, in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at the SCA), the Akojo Film Collective (Kika Memeh and SCA alumnus Ogheneofegor Obuwoma) have curated the film series, Act 3 (Revisited): To Be Seen, as part of Gallery Gachet's programing for February (recognized in Canada as Black History Month), which also includes the exhibition Act 3: As Visible as Blood, curated by Olumoroti George, an SCA alumnus and Gachet's Director and Curator. Follow Gallery Gachet on Instagram for updates about other programming and more.
Thiessen at the VIDF
SCA dance student Jeya Thiessen is the new Youth Engagement Coordinator for the Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF), and she'd like to remind everyone that the VIDF has "$10 tickets to shows in the festival for youth aged 25 and under." More HERE.
Small Stage: Valentine's Edition
With works by SCA Sessional Instructor Nicole Rose Bond, Jessica Dawn Keeling, Vidya Kotamraju, Rebecca Margolick, Nasiv Kaur Sall, and AJ Simmons, Small Stage: Valentine's Edition runs February 14 & 15, 2026, from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM, at the The ANZA Club (3 W 8th Ave, Vancouver). More HERE.
Relieving Death
Listen to Relieving Death, a blistering new metal tune by first year SCA student Ali Mozneb on Bandcamp HERE.
TRUTH is out now!
The latest issue of withintensions, the artist-run monthly founded by SCA alumni Opal McLean, Francisco Berlanga, and Yihk Qu (Natalie) Chan, on the theme of TRUTH is out now! Get it HERE.
Through the Flow of Summer Snow
SCA alumnus Sophia Santos English's film Through the Flow of Summer Snow, produced as her 4th year grad film here, is an official selection for the Sundar Prize Film Festival 2026. More HERE.
Patel's Studio Conversation
SCA alumnus Mansi Patel was a guest on the Arrieta Art Studio's "Studio Conversations" podcast. Listen HERE.
Malbon and Kong talk SFMF
Read an interview with SCA alumni Joey Malbon and Yani Kong, who are also the Programming Director and Managing Director, respectively, of the Small File Media Festival, in Discorder Magazine. Read it HERE.
FRIDAY and O'Callaghan in the Junos
SCA alumni DEBBY FRIDAY (for Dance Recording of the Year) and James O'Callaghan (albeit indirectly: his composition, in an archipelago, gave Standing Wave the title for their album that's nominated for Classical Album of the Year by a Small Ensemble) are up for a Juno. See all of the nominees HERE.
Sound Journey #2 with Ramos and Smulovitz
The SCA's Stefan Smulovitz and Alcvin Ramos are presenting (sharing? offering? holding?) a "sound journey" on Sunday, February 15, 2026, from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM, at High Beam Dreams (350 Glassford Rd, Gibsons). More HERE.
Elisa Ferrari: Alas (listening to Dennis Roberts' cassette tape collection)
The last event presented in support of Edge Effects, the inaugural exhibition at the Gibson Art Museum, featuring SCA PhD student Elisa Ferrari talking about her work in the exhibition, Alas (listening to Dennis Roberts' cassette tape collection), on Sunday, February 15, 2026, from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM, which is also the last day to see the exhibition. More HERE.