SCA | Quick News | July 8, 2022
Liquidation World's Wrong Wave Festival
Whoa! Presented by the Unit/Pitt Society for Art & Critical Awareness, the multi-event, multi-site 2022 Wrong Wave Festival is curated by Liquidation World, a.k.a. SCA MFA student Katayoon Yousefbigloo, SCA PhD student Dave Biddle, and Maya Beaudry. The festival's spiffy website shows participation by the SCA's Wladimiro Woyno Rodriguez and SCA PhD student Edward Sembatya in Liquid Loung on Saturday, July 9, from 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM, at Sunset Terrace (2028 Clark Drive, Vancouver); The Couch – a.k.a. SCA alumni Debbie C and Sena Cleave – opening Just Out of Reach on Friday, July 15, from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM at 2557 E 3rd Ave., Vancouver; and Andrea Valentine-Lewis, kathy feng, Vitória Monteiro, Hân Phạm, and Paige Smith (with Debbie C, Cleave, feng, Monteiro, Phạm, and Smith, plus Kaila Bhullar, in DIGITAL INTERVENTIONS PT 2: Mediating Vessels at Massy Arts Society, which just closed on July 7). Also, Liquidation World have programmed an outdoor concert with early underground industrial music bellwethers Tunnel Canary (featuring Ebra, their original vocalist), Mouring Coup, and Gretchen Snakes on July 23, at 8:00 PM at Sunset Terrace. And if you act fast, you can secure a $5 copy of THE LIQUIDATION WORLD GUIDE TO MAXIMIZING YOUR AUTONOMY, designed by Cora Yiu and riso-printed by Moniker Press, which not only serves as a festival guide, but also includes texts and art by Olga Abeleva, Jim Carrico, Jeffrey Cheung, TJ Felix, Liquidation World, Andrea Lukic, Eris Nyx, Alex Shen, and Unity Skateboarding. Grab yours at Sunset Terrace this month (open July 9, 23, 24, & 27) or by mail via UNIT/PITT's website. Really, there's SO MUCH MORE to check out, too! Wrong is too right!
For You's Dr. G digital X-mas tree
The SCA's Ryan Tacata and Erika Chong Shuch and Rowena Richie, his collaborators in the performance group For You, have launched a "digital X-mas tree" to help hype their event, Dr. G’s Bingo Extravaganza, from July 20 – 24, 2022, at Carpenter Hall (15 S Pioneer St, Ashland, OR). Both are presented in recognition of Oregon's Dr. Geneva Craig, "a civil rights leader, frontline nurse, and action movie lover with a penchant for Vegas glitz," and apparently a "love of Christmas." More HERE.
Goodman's Core/Us
Read Stir Vancouver and The Province on SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman's Core/Us, featuring SCA alumni Eowynn Enquist and Anya Saugstad, which ends its run at the Firehall Arts Centre tonight, July 8, at 9:00 PM, presented as part of the 2022 Dancing on the Edge Festival. Read Stir HERE, and the Province HERE.
Lui and Sembatya – and a few jobs – at the Richmond Arts Centre
SCA student Rachel Lui is the Summer Program Leader at the Richmond Arts Centre. She'll be participating in the Centre's summer Interdisciplinary Arts Experience Camps and various events, like Printmaking for Pride on July 23. Also, SCA PhD candidate Edward Sembatya is currently an instructor there, as well. Even more, the Centre is hiring a Media Arts Instructor, a Visual Arts Instructor, and a Hip Hop Dance Instructor. But act fast: the application deadline is July 11, 2022.
Ghosh's Images as Found Objects
SCA alumnus Aakansha Ghosh is presenting "Images as Found Objects" as part of the the Contemporary Art Gallery's Open Studio programming on August 13, 2022, from 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM. It's FREE but space is limited, so RSVP ASAP! More HERE.
Capilano Review celebrates 50
The Capilano Review, which has SCA alumni Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross as Art Editor and Lauren Lavery as Managing Editor, is celebrating 50 years of good work on July 20, 2022, at 7:00 PM at The Polygon Gallery. The event is also the launch of their Quarto Series fundraiser "of collaborative, limited-edition prints by artists and poets," including SCA alumnus Charlene Vickers and Billy-Ray Belcourt's I Am Constantly Astonished, SCA alumnus Laiwan and Patrick Cruz's Toward the boundless (fruit of the conqueror), and Moyra Davey and Lisa Robertson's Sara Hutchinson’s Hand. The event is free but requires your RSVP. More HERE.
Fire of Love reviewed
Read a review of Sara Dosa's Fire of Love, edited by SCA alumnus Jocelyne Chaput (her first feature!), which opened the 2022 DOXA Documentary Film Festival. Read it HERE.
Kozak's everything is borrowed and must be returned
Burrard Arts Foundation shared some images (see them HERE) of older work by SCA MFA student Katie Kozak from her ongoing series everything is borrowed and must be returned, which she's continuing in 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, running June 30 – August 6, 2022.
Edwards on ice
Read SFU's The Peak on SCA alumnus Jenn Edwards and her journey from figure skating, to dance and English at SFU, to figure skating again with Le Patin Libre. Read it HERE.
Le Sigh 03
Le Sigh, the online arts magazine from SCA alumnus Didier Morelli and Charlene K. Lau, has released Issue 03. Read it HERE.
Raven Spirit Dance's Confluence
Raven Spirit Dance's Confluence, which features SCA alumni Jeanette Kotowich, Starr Muranko, and Tasha Faye Evans, has its premier tonight, July 8, and also runs tomorrow, July 9, at the Firehall Arts Centre, presented as part of the 2022 Dancing on the Edge Festival. More HERE.
FCAT Summer Social
Attention SCA folks! Go hang out with students (and perhaps faculty and staff) at the upcoming FCAT Summer Social on July 15, 2022, from 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM at Kitsilano Beach. Games, food, hi-jinks – good times! RSVP by July 11 HERE.
After School with Ukrainetz, Carter, and Nazarevich
Listen to the latest epsiode of After School, the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology produced podcast featuring FCAT students in conversation with FCAT alumni, this time featuring SCA student student Ethan Ukrainetz speaking SCA alumni Shion Skye Carter and Stefan Nazarevich, who perform together as the interdisciplinary artistic duo Olive Theory. Listen HERE.
MacCaull / Chimerik 似不像's 003_playback
SCA alumnus Caroline MacCaull and Chimerik 似不像's 003_playback, "an interactive online dance-technology performance," featuring SCA alumni Sammy Chien and Kayleigh Sandomirsky as part of the cast and creative team, is being presented online as part of Common Ground Arts Society's FOUND Festival on July 9 at 7:00 PM (PST) and July 10 at 1:00 PM (PST). More HERE.
Roberson and Salway's Ballroom event – now online
Did you miss the free talk Arts, Health, & Liberation: What Can the Black Queer & Trans House/Ballroom movement teach us about public health intra-vention? with Michael Roberson and Travis Salway we co-presented with SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, SFU Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity, with support from the Musagetes Foundation? No problem! It's now online to watch HERE.
Jugdeo and vqueeram on Friendship is a method
SCA alumnus Vishal Jugdeo and his collaborator vqueeram wrote a text reflecting on their work Does Your House Have Lions, which was presented as part of MoMA The Museum of Modern Art's hybrid Doc Fortnight 2022: Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media. Read it HERE.
Koochakzadeh-Yazdi's Fidelity to Rumble
Listen to the premiere of SCA alumnus Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi's Fidelity to Rumble, performed by loadbang, with thanks to the Iranian Female Composers Association (IFCA). Listen HERE.
withintensions' food
The latest issue of withintensions, the month art mag from SCA alumni, is available to download. This month's theme is "food." Dig in HERE.
Tong's Petrified Seas
SCA alumnus Yi Xin Tong is presenting Petrified Seas from July 9 – August 27, 2022, at Shanghai's Vanguard Gallery (Rm 204, Bldg. 4A, 50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai). More HERE.
Ramsey talks Gathering Darkness on the CBC
Watch Elliott Ramsey, the Curator of The Polygon Gallery and an SCA alumnus, on the CBC Evening News talk about Alexander Glyadyelov's exhibition, Gathering Darkness, which has been extended until July 31, 2022, at the Polygon. Watch it HERE.
Debbie C at the CAG
SCA alumnus Debbie C hosted "Ghosts, Pigments and Plastics" as part of the Contemporary Art Gallery's Open Studio programming today (July 9, 2022, from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM), inspired by the CAG’s current exhibition with Michelle Bui, Mutable Materialism, which runs to August 22. More HERE.
Klinke at Red Gate
SCA alumnus Alexandre Klinke / Playback Head is performing tonight – Friday, July 8, 2022, at 8:00 PM – with Matthew Ryals and Emma Tomic at Red Gate Arts Society (1965 Main St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Vines' Lake of Dreams
The Vines Art Festival, founded by director and SCA alumnus Heather Lamoureux in 2015, is holding Lake of Dreams, "a series of eight elders stories curated by Nlaka'pamux Elder Mechelle Pierre," in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on July 17, 2022, at 6:00 PM. More HERE.
FRIDAY's Focus
The video for SCA alumnus DEBBY FRIDAY's Focus, co-directed by SCA alumnus Ryan Ermacora and Debby Friday, is one of the Top 10 finalists for the 2022 Prism Prize, screening July 9, 2022, at the VIFF Centre theatre (1181 Seymour St., Vancouver). More HERE.
The Straight on glint
Read The Georgia Straight on glint, the triple bill featuring Francesca Frewer, Alexa Mardon, and SCA alumnus Erika Mitsuhashi, running July 14 – 16, from 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM at The Dance Centre, presented as part of the 2022 Dancing on the Edge Festival. Read it HERE.
Thompson, Somera Jr., and Arboleda in Dancing on the Edge
SCA alumnus and current PhD student Daisy Thompson is performing in O.Dela Arts / Pepper's Ghost New Media & Performing Arts Collective's Maamawi: Together Through The Fire, which is running July 13 & 14, 2022, at 8:00 PM at the Firehall Arts Centre as part of the 2022 Dancing on the Edge Festival. Maamawi: Together Through The Fire shares a bill with Co.ERASGA's folding&unfolding, featuring SCA alumni Antonio Somera Jr. and Marc Arboleda. More HERE.
Kim 'hearts' Surrey for charity
SCA alumnus Michelle Kim and her BFF Rebecca Bollwitt have collaborated on a range of "I 'heart' Surrey T-shirts, hoodies, water bottles, mugs and tote bags" for charity work supported by Women of Options, "a campaign that involves 50 prominent women each tasked with raising $25,000 to help Surrey-area youth in need." More HERE.