SCA | Quick News | July 29, 2022

FCAT profiles Carter

Great choice! The Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, our institutional home base her at SFU, has shared a video profile of busy SCA alumnus Shion Skye Carter. Watch it HERE.

Dongnier at the abC Art Book Fair

The SCA's NiNi Dongnier is participating in Go Nomadic Together —— Rituals and Daily Life, a special project presented as part of the abC Art Book Fair, which runs July 28 – 31, 2022, at the Beijing Quanyechang Cultural Arts Center. More HERE.

Karen Jamieson Dance archive

Check out this great project by Emma Metcalfe Hurst and Charlotte Leonard, who are both archivists for Karen Jamieson Dance, about the story of Karen Jamieson Dance. As Metcalfe Hurst told us in an email, "Chapter 1: Before Chaos, focuses quite heavily on the early days of SFU and the development of the dance department and SCA in particular." Also, the SCA's Peter Dickinson was interviewed for the project, too! Check it out HERE.

Sum's Awkward Bodies in Exclaim!

SCA alumnus Amanda Sum's new song and video, Awkward Bodies, if featured in this quick Exclaim! article, which also includes the video. Read and watch it HERE.

Vines in the Straight

The 2022 edition of the Vines Art Festival, created by SCA alumni and festival director Heather Lamoureux in 2015, is featured in The Georgia Straight. Read it HERE.

Kong on the 2022 Venice Biennale

Read SCA PhD candidate Yani Kong on the 2022 Venice Biennale for Galleries West. Read it HERE.

Kozak in Around Us

Click through to the Burrard Arts Foundation's Instagram to see some photos they shared of the latest permutations of SCA MFA student Katie Kozak's ongoing series everything is borrowed and must be returned, which is part of the the exhibition Around Us, co-curated by Jenn Jackson and SCA alumni Andrea Valentine-Lewis and Lucien Durey and produced collaboratively by Burrard Arts Foundation and Project Society. Also featuring work by Olga Abeleva & Shizen Jambor, Rebecca Bair, Jeff Downer, Dennis Ha & Sylvain Sailly, Jake Kimble, and Gloria Wong, Around Us runs until August 6, 2022. See them HERE.

After School with Ukrainetz and Mercer

Listen to the latest episode of After School, the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology produced podcast that has FCAT students in conversation with FCAT alumni, including folks from the SCA. This time, SCA student host Ethan Ukrainetz talks with SCA alumnus filmmaker Gloria Mercer. Listen HERE.

Lin reviewed

SCA alumnus 林安琪 Anchi Lin's solo exhibition at Auckland's Artspace Aotearoa – mgluw tuqiy na Temahahoi / 找尋迭馬哈霍伊的路徑 / Finding Pathways to Temahahoi, which runs until August 6, 2022 – is reviewed in the latest issue of The Art Paper.

Ghost Forest online

Filmed and edited by the SCA's Joseph Malbon, the video archive of Ghost Forest, the collaborative performance between students and fuculty from the SCA's Dance, Music + Sound, Theatre Production & Design areas that ran April 7 – 9, 2022, here in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, if now online. Watch it HERE.

Sum and Wallgrin play Slice of Life

SCA alumni Amanda Sum and Wallgrin (Tegan Wahlgren) are playing Slice of Life (1636 Venables St., Vancouver) on August 27, 2022, along with Miguel Maravilla and Cain Price. More HERE.

Big City's Liquid Times

Big City, the duo of SCA MFA student Katayoon Yousefbigloo and PhD student (and MFA alumnus) Dave Biddle, is releasing Liquid Times on September 9, 2022, courtesy Perennial and K Records. Listen to the lead single, Vicious, NOW.

Fire of Love plays The Rio

Sara Dosa's Fire of Love, edited by SCA alumnus Jocelyne Chaput (her first feature!), is playing The Rio Theatre on Sunday, July 31, 2022, at 4:15 PM. More HERE.

Sappier's JEDI profile

Read a profile of SCA alumnus Carr Sappier, who's also co-founder of the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival and has also been co-teaching the SCA class that helps organize the festival, shared by the Joint Economic Development Initiative, "a leading Indigenous organization dedicated to working with partners to foster Indigenous economic development in New Brunswick." Read it HERE.

Kanagawa's Mizuko

Scare the heat away with SCA alumnus Hiro Kanagawa's Mizuko, "a kaidan and J-horror-inspired radio drama" on the CBC. Listen online HERE.

Angus' Apollonian Chaos

Developed with support from The James Black Gallery (and then moving on for more work at the LEÑA Artist Research & Residency Centre), SCA alumnus Britt Angus has shared an "upcoming reel" sample of Apollonian Chaos, which includes visuals by SCA MFA student Mena El Shazly. Watch it HERE.

Charlene Vickers in FULL CIRCLE

The Thought Train Collective's FULL CIRCLE project, featuring work by SCA alumnus Charlene Vickers, opens today – Friday, July 29, 2022 – on the windows of the 374 Engine Pavillon at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre. Follow the Thought Train Collective on Instagram for more.

Listening to Pictures: COSINIYE Paul and Sage Paul on Susan Point

Episode 7 of SFU Galleries' Listening to Pictures series features COSINIYE Paul and Sage Paul on Susan Point is available on SFU Galleries' site HERE.

Hou reviewed

Not (yet?) free to read online, Jayne Wilkinson writes about SCA alumnus Julian Yi-Zhong Hou and Zadie Xa in issue 105 – "New New Age" – of Esse arts + opinions. More HERE.

Cleave in Inverted Pyramid Series: intend to upend

SCA alumnus Sena Cleave joins Shay Gavina, Naatoíyiki, Virgil Riviera, Sev Shabankareh, and Jason Young in the group exhibition Inverted Pyramid Series: intend to upend at The James Black Gallery from August 4 – 12, 2022, which "celebrates the desires of artists' and the conversations they would like to have with the viewer." More HERE.

Spence played the Oratory

SCA alumnus Alexandra Spence played July 24, 2022, in the Oratory at the Abbotsford Convent in Victoria, Australia, with Adam Golebiewski and Eva Birch with J, as part of Liquid Architecture's Ritual Community Music series. More HERE.

New Societies on tour

Re:Current Theatre's New Societies, created and performed by a super group of SCA alumni, is heading out on tour from July 28 – August 14, 2022:

• ST. CATHARINE'S: July 28-30 at In The Soil Festival
• KINGSTON: August 2-6 at Kick & Push Festival
• TORONTO: August 11-14 at SummerWorks Festival

And did we mention they have merch? Check it out HERE.

Edmeades in Hasten slowly

SCA alumnus Deborah Edmeades joins Patrick Cruz, Max Keene, Baltimore Loth, Christian Vistan, and Graham Wiebe in the exhibition Hasten slowly at afternoon projects (603 Powell St, Vancouver) from July 16 – August 11, 2022. More HERE.

Dancing Resilience homework

The Dance Studies Association, which is holding its 2022 conference, Dancing Resilience: Dance Studies and Activism in a Global Age, in Vancouver from October 13 – 16, with us as hosts (and with the SCA's Peter Dickinson on the Program Committee), has shared a little preparatory homework: "Turning Around Dance Research" from Vol. 5 No. 1 (2019): Backspace: A Special Issue on Dance Studies. Read it HERE.

Morelli interviews Adjutor Provost

SCA alumnus Didier Morelli's interview with Guillaume Adjutor Provost for Public Parking magazine is now online. Read it HERE.

Read Reed on the 2021 Yukon Prize

Read Reed H. Reed in C Magazine on the 2021 Yukon Prize Exhibition, which included SCA alumnus Krystle Silverfox. Read it HERE.

Yassine and D'Anunciação in Peters' interplay_

SCA alumnus Deanna Peters has announced the participants in the 2022 edition of interplay_, an online festival of performance running September 15 & 16, including SCA alumni Ghinwa Yassine and Luciana Freire D'Anunciação. More HERE.