SCA | Quick News | January 31, 2025
Tolmie's Ovoid Destroyer
SCA alumnus Cody Tolmie's Ovoid Destroyer, inspired by the 80s video game Space Invaders, is showing on the VanLive! video screen at the corner of Granville and Robson at various times throughout the day, with a dedicated daily showing at 12:00 PM, until March 16, 2025, commissioned by the City of Vancouver as part of their Platforms: Nine Places for Seeing program. More HERE.
TPE teases Trikala Jati for JB
Turning Point Ensemble, which has the SCA's Owen Underhill as Artistic Director and conductor, shared a teaser video on their Instagram for the world premiere of Trikala Jati for JB by Curtis Andrews, performed by Jonathan Bernard and Sudnya Mulye, which is part of the program for their concert on February 22 (7:30 PM) & February 23 (2:30 PM), 2025, at the Annex Theatre (23 Seymour St, Vancouver), also featuring Undine Smith Moore’s Afro-American Suite and Before I’d Be a Slave.
Han at UNIT/PITT
SCA student Lauren Han is the UNIT/PITT's Winter 2025 Gallery Assistant Intern, organized through the SCA's Internship Program. If you're SCA and you'd like to do something similar, reach out to Kay Higgins, the SCA's Professional Development Coordinator, HERE.
Clark in the IFFR
The SCA's Joe Clark's short film, Persistence & Loss, is screening as part of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), which runs January 30 – February 9, 2025. More HERE.
Stir on VOCE
Here's Stir Vancouver on the closing down of SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, drawing from our news post, which we've updated to share some "call to action" links. Read it HERE.
Born in Flames
Please join us for a screening of Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames, the last programmed event by our friends and soon-to-be former colleagues SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement (see above), on Thursday, February 6, 2025, at 6:00 PM, in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, co-presented by VOCE and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Get tickets HERE.
Vickers in Ascending Horizons
SCA alumnus Charlene Vickers is part of the exhibition Ascending Horizons, curated by Alex Jacobs-Blum and Kim Anderson, which runs January 8 – June 20, 2025, at the McMaster Museum of Art (Alvin A. Lee Bldg, University Ave., McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W, Hamilton, Ontario). More HERE.
On Inner Sublimity
Read a Stir Vancouver Q&A with SCA alumni Caroline MacCaull and Sammy Chien, who are co-Artistic Directors of Chimerik 似不像, on their work Inner Sublimity, which is running February 6 – 9, 2025, at the Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby St., Vancouver), presented as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Read it HERE. Also, MacCaull and Chien talk about their work as part of THIS ARTICLE in the Source on "Collaborations with sound, technology and sculpture at the PuSh Festival."
Welcome to Senses
Are you an SCA student? Consider applying to be part of the next Welcome to Senses exhibition (here's info on the first one), organized by Adelya Mullasheva. Sign up HERE. And follow them on Instagram, too.
BHM yoga
Celebrate Black History Month this February with SCA alumnus Doaa Magdy, who is combining their Dynamic Diasporas project (presented as part of Winter Fest in 2022) with their yoga practice for a series of by-donation sessions on Saturdays at 4:00 PM at One Yoga Vancouver (156 E 7th Av, Vancouver), with all proceeds going to the Vancouver Black Library. More HERE.
D’Anunciação is a mentee
SCA alumnus Luciana Freire D’Anunciação is one of All Bodies Dance Project's just-announced mentees in their Dancing WITH Teaching Exchange. Check back HERE for more info when it's posted.
Sparvier-Wells' scores
SCA alumnus Virginia Jessica Sparvier-Wells has updated their website to include print and digital copies of new scores of her music, and there is a bunch of other good merch there, too. More HERE.
Matriarchs Uprising Festival
SCA alumni Jeanette Kotowich, Starr Muranko, and Marisa Gold are participating in events and workshops as part of the Matriarchs Uprising Festival, which runs February 17 – 22, 2025, at the Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver), Morrow (Suite 204 – 910 Richards St., Vancouver), and online. See the full schedule HERE.
To Be A Creature
SCA alumnus Wallgrin is having a "To Be A Creature OF LOVE? Video Premiere & Valentine’s Party" on February 14, 2025, at 7:30 (doors) at KW Studios (111 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.
Slow Social Club at UNIT/PITT
The Only Animal, which has SCA alumnus Barbara Adler as Artistic Director, is partnering with the UNIT/PITT gallery for the "winter series" of their Slow Social Club, running February – March, 2025. More info and RSVP HERE.
PuSh 2025
Running January 23 – February 9, 2025, there are many SCA folks in the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, who are celebrating their 20th Anniversary, including: A Wake of Vultures (SCA alumni Nancy Tam, Conor Wylie, and Dan O’Shea), who are presenting SEEING DOUBLE: K BODY AND MIND and Walking at Night by Myself, which also includes SCA alumni Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien, Angela Magpantay, Giselle Liu, and Charlie Cooper in different capacities; SCA alumnus Fay Nass, who's the Artistic Director of the frank theatre company, is curating Club PuSh; Chimerik 似不像 (SCA alumni Caroline MacCaull and Sammy Chien) are presenting Inner Sublimity, with SCA alumni Jonathan Kim as Lighting Designer; rice & beans theatre (which has SCA alumni Pedro Chamale as Artistic Director and Angela Magpantay as Interim Artistic Director) and Boca del Lupo are presenting Lasa Ng Imperyo (A Taste of Empire), which has SCA alumni Andie Lloyd as Video/Surtitle Designer and Mary Jane Coomber as Sound Designer; and SCA alumnus David Mesiha is the co-creator, co-director, and composer and sound designer for Theatre Conspiracy's SWIM, which has SCA student Jillian Jarin as Assistant Stage Manager. Also, SCA alumni Cori Caulfield and current Sessional Instructor Nicole Rose Bond are part of Dances for a Small Stage, the SCA's Erika Latta and SCA alumnus Johnny Wu are on the Board of Directors, and SCA alumnus Brian Postalian is PuSh's Industry Producer. Find out more and grab tickets and passes HERE.
HOLD ON LET GO 2025
Don't miss Theatre Replacement and Company 605’s annual performing-arts festival, HOLD ON LET GO, co-curated by Lisa Mariko Gelley, Josh Martin, and SCA alumnus Maiko Yamamoto, running February 4 – 8, 2025, at the Russian Hall (600 Campbell Ave., Vancouver). HOLD ON LET GO includes SCA alumnus Keely O'Brien's Secret Ingredients as a Main Stage presentation, an In Development presentation of SCA alumnus Anjela Magpantay's it is for when you meet me, SCA alumnus Amanda Sum as curator of the Emerging Artist Series (featuring an Artist Talk, Emergence: Navigating the New, with SCA alumnus Davey Samuel Calderon, and a Panel, Devising Practice: How we make what we do, with O’Brien and Magpantay), a series of Festival Gatherings (including a Accelerator Lab Community Conversation with Kyle Loven, SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour, Calderon, and O’Brien, SCA alumnus Starr Muranko in conversation with members of Dancers of Damelahamid, and a special screening of Looping, a Company 605 Film Directed by Khakpour), and much more. More HERE.