SCA | Quick News | January 21, 2022
Dai's 菠蘿麵包Pineapple Bun is a choice pick
Daily Hive Vancouver says SCA alumnus Howard Dai's DBLSPK: 菠蘿麵包Pineapple Bun is an event to "check out" to help celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year (go tigers!). To this we say: of course! While the in-person show is sold out, it's still possible to hit the livestream on January 29, 2022, at 4:00 PM. Read Daily Hive's list HERE.
PuSh Virtual Youth Assembly
Running online on Saturday, January 29, 2022, from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM (PST), the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival's Virtual Youth Assembly, presented in partnership with SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs and Solid State Industries, includes a "free virtual showing of a 20-minute excerpt" of SCA alumnus Howard Dai's DBLSPK: 菠蘿麵包Pineapple Bun, plus post-show discussion. More HERE.
Strom and Vashist talk P.Mansaram
Jordan Strom, SCA PhD student and curator of exhibitions and collections at the Surrey Art Gallery, and exhibition co-curator Indu Vashist (with Toleen Touq) talk to Stir Vancouver about the Surrey Art Gallery's presentation of P.Mansaram: The Medium is the Medium is the Medium from January 22 to March 20, 2022, co-organized by the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and South Asian Visual Arts Centre, and with community support from the Indian Summer Festival. Read it HERE.
TPE play RRP
The Turning Point Ensemble, featuring the SCA's Owen Underhill as Artistic Director and conductor, will be presenting new classic compositions from Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on February 26, 2022, at 7:30 PM. More HERE.
Van Loon / Ahnahktsipiitaa talks This Is Not A Ceremony
Windspeaker speaks with SCA alumnus Colin Van Loon / Ahnahktsipiitaa about his new cinematic VR work, This Is Not A Ceremony, which is being shown at the Sundance Film Festival, running January 20 – 30, 2022. Read it HERE.
Landers' For Coloured Girls: Out of the Womb
SCA alumnus and current SCA Sessional Instructor Marion Landers' For Coloured Girls: Out of the Womb is streaming live and for free from KW Studios at 7:00 PM tonight (January 21, 2022) as part of 2022 Vancouver International Dance Festival. RSVP HERE.
Sound, Yassine, Liu, and Obuwoma in Response: Soft Action
Video works by SCA alumni Michelle Sound, Ghinwa Yassine, and Xinyue Liu, and current SCA student Ogheneofegor Goodness Obuwoma are included in the exhibition Response: Soft Action, the "culmination of the Response program, a collaboration between The Polygon Gallery and First Nations Student Services and the Indigenous Digital Filmmaking Program at Capilano University," at The Polygon Gallery from January 26 – February 6, 2022. More HERE.
Basanta's Futurs Possibles book & in The Politics of Sound
The publication produced in support of SCA alumnus Adam Basanta exhibition Futurs Possibles, which Basanta describes as a "sketchbook/carnet d'artist, containing an experimental collaborative text with curator Ariane Plante, excerpts from conversations with Iliana Antonova, production sketches, work-in-progress, and several machine-generated poems," has arrived at the Maison des arts de Laval. Check it out HERE. Basanta is also in the exhibition The Politics Of Sound at Two Rivers Gallery in Prince George, running January 20 – April 10, 2022. More HERE.
Rodriguez's Struck work in pix
See some nice photos of Eric Rose's Struck, which is currently running a workshop at West Village Theatre in Calgary, showcasing the work of the SCA's Wladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez, who's the Projection Designer for the show. Check them out HERE.
SCA in PTC's Block A
Great to see three SCA students – Jordyn Wood, Marita Michaelis, and Bana Biltaji – in Playwrights Theatre Centre's Winter Cohort of Block A 2022, a program PTC say is "for artists who write for all kinds of performance, including script driven theatre, from spoken word to performance art to songs – we’ve even had a few screenwriters." More HERE.
Be the SCA Student Social Media Ambassador!
Hey, SCA students! We're hiring a Student Social Media Ambassador. The job is through FCAT, our faculty at SFU, and it's a paid position, but you'll be slinging content for the SCA. Application deadline in January 24, 2022. Interested? Read on and click through HERE.
Jeffery's A Leash on Life on CBC Gem
SCA alumnus Daniel Jeffery's film A Leash on Life is now available to stream free via CBC Gem. Check it out HERE.
Matriarchs Uprising's new site
SCA alumnus Deanna Peters did the new website for Matriarchs Uprising 2022, which runs February 14 – 19, 2022, featuring a “live double bill” with SCA alumnus Jeanette Kotowich and dancer Maura Garcia. Check it out HERE.
Hekademia wins
Congratulations to SCA alumnus Gloria Mercer and the Hekademia team for winning Best Script at the Chilliwack Independent Film Festival. Find out more about the film HERE.
Cheyenne's Body Parts
SCA alumnus' Tara Cheyenne's Body Parts is being presented at the Revelstoke Performing Arts Centre (1007 Vernon Avenue, Revelstoke, BC) on February 5, 2022, at 7:30 PM. More HERE.
PushOFF update
Read an update on Theatre Replacement and Company 605's PushOFF 2022, which is full of great SCA representation, HERE.
Dancing Resilience deadline
The SCA's Peter Dickinson and Hari Krishnan and Allana Lindgren are the 2022 Conference Chairs for the Dance Studies Association's upcoming conference in Vancouver, Dancing Resilience: Dance Studies and Activism in a Global Age, hosted by us. Deadline for submission is February 15, 2022. More HERE.
Phạm supports Sick Boss
SCA alumnus Hân Phạm is presenting her film To: you, to night as part of Sawdust Collector, act·art·mgt, and Star System Curation's free and online FEED TRIP, which also includes a "listening party of some works in progress" by James Meger's mighty, bombastic Sick Boss.
Wei's review writing workshop
SCA alumnus Casey Wei is running an online multi-session "FreeSchool" workshop for ReIssue, an "interdisciplinary art writing platform" (which Wei also edits), on "methods of approach on review writing." More info HERE.