SCA | Quick News | July 25, 2025

SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships

Four SCA PhD students (three current and one starting in September) were awarded SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships in the latest round, including Elisa Ferrari, Sasha Langford, Simon Overstall, and Brady Cranfield (that's me?!?). Congratulations team! See all of the award recipients HERE.

Priest Down Under

The SCA's Eldritch Priest is presenting his talk, "On Musement and Radical Thought," as part of the Philosophy Seminar series by the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland on July 25 (more HERE), and for the Media Futures Hub at the University of New South Wales on Monday, August 4, 2025, from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (Sydney local time). More HERE.

Escamillan, Kwan, and Chambers in Dance Central

The latest issue of "Dance Central," the quarterly magazine from The Dance Centre, includes texts by Ralph Escamillan, Ziyian Kwan, and the SCA's Justine A. Chambers, who shares excepts from her work The Brutal Joy. Read it HERE. Chambers is presenting The Brutal Joy from November 20 – 22, 2025, at 7:30 PM in the Arts Court Studio at the National Arts Centre (2 Daly Ave., Ottawa). More HERE.

Outreach and Community Engagement Worker needed

The SCA's Steven Hill shared that the Russian Hall (600 Campbell Ave, Vancouver) is looking for an Outreach and Community Engagement Worker for a (12 hours a week and $35 an hour) part-time contract position (32 weeks, with opportunity to extend), starting September 22, 2025. More HERE.

FRIDAY's Listening Party & der Klang des Sommers

SCA alumnus DEBBY FRIDAY held a Bandcamp Listening Party on Friday, July 25, 2025, for The Starrr of the Queen of Life, her latest record, which is out Friday, August 1 worldwide from Sub Pop and in Canada from Royal Mountain Records. More HERE. Also, Friday was included in VOGUE Germany's list of "five (young) musicians ... providing the sound of the summer." Read it HERE (in German).

Chimerik's Immanent Invocation

Chimerik 似不像, which has SCA alumni (and newlyweds!) Sammy Chien and Caroline MacCaull as Co-Artistic Directors, are presenting Immanent Invocation, "a 3-day progressive movement workshop," from July 30 – August 1, 2025, as part of The Toronto Dance Community Love-In. More HERE.

Bruton's listed

Check out SCA alumnus Rebecca Bruton's new listing as a Canadian Music Centre (Prairie) website as an Associate Composer. See it HERE.

Dusted on Lake Fire

Read a review of Lake Fire, the latest record by SCA alumnus Scott Morgan / Loscil, who is also touring Europe in September, too. Read it HERE.

Sound on the cover

SCA alumnus Michelle Sound's work is on the cover of the Summer 2025 (July–September) issue of First American Art Magazine, and we suspect discussed in Stacy Pratt's article "Native Cyanotypes in Five Parts." More HERE.

Vine Arts Festival

SCA alumnus Liz Oakley and Matthew Ariaratnam (as part of Gong Library Resource with Adrian Avendaño, Irene Senent, and Raj Gill) are participating in this year's Vine Arts Festival, running August 6 –16, 2025, at parks around so-called Vancouver, presented by the Vines Art Society. Read more from Stir Vancouver HERE.

Requiem for Radio: Full Quiet Flutter (RFR: FQF)

SCA alumnus Amanda Dawn Christie's Requiem for Radio: Full Quiet Flutter (RFR: FQF), "a 60-minute live performance for human bodies, electrons, and radio waves," is running July 23 – 26, 2025, in the Azrieli Studio at the National Arts Centre (1 Elgin St., Ottawa). More HERE.

A Magical Time reviewed

The British Columbia Review shared a review of A Magical Time: The Early Days of the Arts at Simon Fraser University, produced by the Simon Fraser University Retirees Association, with Frances Atkinson acting as project leader, and published by Harbour Publishing. Read it HERE. Also, the Faculty of Communication, Arts & Technology shared an article about the booklaunch on June 3, 2025, for A Magical Time, which took place at the SCA in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre. Read it HERE.

Gamelan Trike Trike

Interested in gamelan? Publik Secrets, which includes SCA PhD student George Rahi as one of its members, is calling for new players for their beginner-friendly ensemble, Gamelan Trike Trike, and will be holding a hands-on workshop series in September, 2025, to introduce the various percussion instruments and playing techniques of Balinese gamelan, both traditional and contemporary. More HERE.

Tong's Noise Chapel

SCA alumnus Yi Xin Tong is presenting Noise Chapel from June 22 – August 24, 2025, at imagokinetics in the OōEli complex, Hangzhou, China. More HERE.

Meg Stuart Master Workshop

The Biting School (SCA alumni Aryo Khakpour and his brother Arash), in partnership with EDAM Dance, are presenting Meg Stuart's Master Workshop from August 12 – 14, 2025, at 303 E. 8th Ave., Vancouver. More HERE.

True life tales of the climate crisis

Read a review of (or maybe more of a reflection on) Neworld Theatre's Eyes of the Beast, which ran June 18 – 22, 2025, in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre here at the SCA, by Megaphone Magazine storytellers Jules Chapman and Mike McNeeley, whose "own climate disaster stories" were included in the text of the play. Read it HERE, republished from Megaphone by the Penticton Herald, or grab a copy of the July 2025 issue from your local Megaphone vendor.

Momo's Low Flying Technique

SCA MFA student Mohammadreza (Momo) Akrami is presenting MIAO MASTER: Flying Low Technique (Open Level) workshops on August 23 & 24, 2025, from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM, at MIAO DANCE 淼舞 (18 Boon Lay Way, #10-123, TradeHub 21 609966, Singapore). More HERE.

Meant to Be

Listen to Meant to Be by Jack J and © Linda Fox (SCA PhD candidate Dave Biddle). Listen HERE. Also, if you're in Europe, catch Biddle on stage with Jack J. See their tour itinerary HERE.

Joey Chaos and the Ghosts

Joey Chaos and the Ghosts, fronted by SCA alumnus Joey Malbon, are playing Saturday, August 23, 2025, at The Cobalt (917 Main St., Vancouver). More HERE.

Swamp Life Parade

North Barn Theatre, co-founded by SCA alumnus Ian McFarlane, are holding a Swamp Life Parade on Saturday, August 2, 2025, at 3:30 PM, presented as part of Sappyfest, which runs August 1 – 3 in the downtown district of Sackville, NB. More HERE.

Vickers' summer ovoids

SCA alumnus Charlene Vickers has a "new catalogue of ovoid works available." Reach out via her Instagram if you'd like to know more.

Silverfox's Composition & Collage Workshop

SCA alumnus Krystle Silverfox is holding a "Composition & Collage Workshop" on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre (1171 Front St., Whitehorse, Yukon), where Silverfox is a Shakaat Artist-in-Residence. More HERE.

Cloud-Making Workshop

SCA alumnus Liz Oakley and Diana More are holding a drop-in "Cloud-Making Workshop" on July 26 & 27, 2025, from 12:00 PM – 4:30 PM at Patchwork Repair Hub (Slocan Hall – 2750 East 29th Ave., Vancouver). More HERE.

2025 Wreck Beach Butoh Performance Workshop

With SCA alumni Barbara Bourget as Artistic Director and Salomé Nieto as Associate Artistic Director, Kokoro Dance's are running their "2025 Wreck Beach Butoh Performance Workshop" from July 28 – August 10, 2024, at KW Studios (111 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), culminating at Wreck Beach. More HERE.

Walker at LEÑA

SCA alumnus Taryn Walker is at the LEÑA Artist Research and Residency Centre on Galiano Island, BC. Here's their "guest book" post on the LEÑA Instagram account.

© Linda Fox (SCA PhD candidate Dave Biddle) and Big City (Biddle and SCA alumnus Katayoon Yousefbigloo) are playing as part of "TA-DAA! A summer party at the circus" on Saturday, August 9, 2025, from 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM, at LATIBUL | Zirkusgelände (An der Schanz 6 50735 Köln). More HERE.

The Perelandra Project

SCA alumnus Perelandra Waddle has a Kickstarter campaign for The Perelandra Project, "an interdisciplinary decolonial feminist retelling of the CS Lewis book Perelandra. Find out More HERE.

Friedenberg's Goggles

SCA MFA student Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is presenting a screening of the film adaptation of her "comic creep-fest" Goggles on July 30, 2025, from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM at Progress Lab (1422 William St., Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.

U's Stories on the Bus

SCA alumnus Sarah U 余衍晴 is looking for participants for Stories on the Bus, an "outreach initiative for Next Station," a "dance-theatre performance that explores public transit as a shared social experience," which she's developing as part of her summer residency project The Dance Centre. Interested? Sign up HERE.

Quinceañera!!!

rice & beans theatre, which has SCA alumnus Pedro Chamale as Artistic Director, is throwing Quinceañera!!!, a 15th Birthday Fundraiser on August 23, 2025, from 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM, at Progress Lab (1422 William St., Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.

Candle Smoke With a Long Draw

SCA alumnus Francisco Berlanga and Tiffany Law are presenting Candle Smoke With a Long Draw, a "a one-day collaborative exhibition of sculptural shrines and ritual gestures," on August 3, 2025, from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM, at THIS Gallery (108 E. Broadway, Vancouver). More HERE.