SCA | Quick News | June 13, 2025
Crazybull, Sound, and Vickers in Fellowship
Co-presented by Blouin Division and Macaulay & Co. Fine Art, SCA alumni Lauren Crazybull, Michelle Sound, and Charlene Vickers join Dana Claxton and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun for the group exhibition Fellowship, which opens Thursday, June 26, 2025, from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM, and runs to August 23, 2025, at Blouin Division's Montréal location (2020 William St., Montreal, Quebec). More HERE. A great lineup for a show at any time, but maybe particulalry during so-called Canada's National Indigenous Peoples' Month.
Maier's Deviant Chain
Read an essay / artist statement (with images and embedded video and audio) by the SCA's Stefan Maier in the Orpheus Instituut's online journal ECHO about Deviant Chain, a 2019 "multimedia work of speculative fiction that proposes a constructed language—a conlang—as a potential cognitive interface for human-AI-interaction," produced with Alan Martin Segal (video) and Victor Shepardson (software). Deviant Chain was commissioned by Thorbjørn Tønder Hansen for the Ultima Festival, presented at Oslo's Gamle Museet for Samtidskunst, Nasjonalmuseet, in September 2019. Read it HERE.
Stir on Eyes of the Beast
Read Stir Vancouver on Neworld Theatre's fast upcoming presentation of Eyes of the Beast: Climate Disaster Stories, which includes input from the SCA's James Long, as well as SCA students as performers and SCA alumni behind the scenes. Eyes of the Beast runs June 18 – 22, 2025, in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre here at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). Read it HERE.
Daniel interviewed
The SCA's Henry Daniel was interviewed by Yucatán Magazine. Read it HERE.
Schaufenster project group
The SCA's Sabine Bitter shared an image on her Instagram of a new street poster work by Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, on display until October, 2025, at Kohlenrutsche (Am Tabor 29 1020, Vienna, Austria), presented by the Schaufenster project group (Bitter, Christina Linortner, Helmut Weber, and Julia Wieger), which "invites artists to explore the forms and conditions of coexistence in the city." See it HERE.
Mascall Dance's Lurch
Read Stir Vancouver on Mascall Dance's Lurch, with new choreographic works by the SCA's Justine A. Chambers, Sarah Chase, and Ame Henderson, which runs June 18, 20 & 21 at 8:30 PM in Studio T here at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), presented as part of the 2025 edition of the Dancing on the Edge festival. Read it HERE.
CBC Arts on 1000xRESIST
Read CBC Arts on the recent Peabody Award win (in the "Interactive" category) for 1000xRESIST, the indie video game produced by SCA alumnus Remy Siu and the Sunset Visitor 斜陽過客 team (featuring a bunch of SCA alumni in the production process, including Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Conor Wylie, Maiko Yamamoto, Felicia Lau, Amanda Sum, Anjela Magpantay, June Fukumura, Mahaila Patterson-O'Brien, Erika Mitsuhashi, Alex Mah, Norman Armour, and the SCA's James Long). Read it HERE.
Public Art in Public Space Public Talk
Jordan Strom, SCA PhD student and Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Surrey Art Gallery, is giving a free talk on public art, Public Art in Public Space Public Talk, on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at 2:00 PM at the Inlet United Church at the Springs (2315 Spring St., Port Moody). More HERE.
Eyes of the Beast's silver award
Did you know that the Climate Disaster Project and Neworld Theatre's Eyes of the Beast: Climate Disaster Survivor Stories won a silver medal in the Environmental and Climate Change category from the Canadian Association of Journalists? It's true! Find out why by catching Eyes of the Beast live from June 18 – 22 at 7:30 PM and June 21 & 22 at 2:00 PM in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, here at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Turner on Another Green World
Read Michael Turner in Preview Magazine on Another Green World: Works from the Collection, running June 20 – August 10, 2025, at UBC's Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (1825 Main Mall, Vancouver), which includes work by SCA alumnus Jesse Gray. Read it HERE.
Third Thursday Improvised Music Series
SCA alumni Aysha Dulong and Cindy Kao are performing on Thursday, June 19, 2025, from 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM at 8 EAST (8 E. Pender St., Vancouver), along with Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Johanna Hauser, and Torsten Müller, as part of 8 East's next Third Thursday Improvised Music Series. More HERE.
Apply to Block A
Apply to Block A with Playwright Theatre Centre (which has SCA alumni Melanie Yeats as Creative Managing Director and Davey Samuel Calderon
Artistic Producer & Dramaturg). Here's what they say about it:
Block A is for emerging playwrights/theatre creators and established writers of other mediums excited to write for the stage to work together in a cohort to develop their writing with the support of a senior playwright mentor.
Each Block A cohort of six writers meet for ten weeks with their mentor who offers fundamentals of writing for performance and helps engage their cohort to be creatively generative and supportive of each other’s writing. The content and flow of Block A depends on the varied interests of the writers and the playwright mentor, who integrates their own practices and inspirations into the sessions. They learn from each other and get a sense of the collaborative nature of theatre-making. We nurture socially-engaged and aware theatre artists within our current theatre landscape.
More information and apply HERE.
Carter's Working Class
SCA alumnus Shion Skye Carter held "Working Class" sessions for the Training Society of Vancouver from June 9 – 13, 2025, at The Dance Centre (677 Davie St, Vancouver). More HERE.
Lavery at the Book Fair
SCA alumnus Lauren Lavery, who's also the Assistant Director at Catriona Jeffries Gallery and the editor and founder of Peripheral Review, is participating in the Magazines and Criticism Roundtable with CMagazine's Joy Xiang and Esse arts + opinions' Alexandra Dumais, on Sunday, July 6, 2025, at 2:30 PM in the at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver). More HERE.
SFU Francophone World Film Festival
Loïc Million, a PhD candidate in SFU's Interdisciplinary Studies program (working with SFU's Department of French, and with the SCA's Laura U. Marks as a committee member), is presenting the SFU Francophone World Film Festival, a free all-day screening of films, on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, from 9:30 AM – 5:15 PM, in Room 4955 (our small screening room) here at the School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Moser on Zorlutuna
Read Gabrielle Moser in C Magazine on SCA alumnus Alize Zorlutuna's We Who Have Known Many Shores, which ran May 10 – September 1, 2024, at the Art Gallery of Burlington. Read it HERE (free registration might be required).
Photorama: B-sides + Outtakes
SCA Katie Kozak & Lucien Durey and Michelle Sound are in Photorama: B-sides + Outtakes, which runs June 13 – 28, 2025, at Gallery TPW (170 St. Helens Ave., Toronto). More HERE.
Nieto in All Over the Map
SCA alumnus Salomé Nieto (representing Kokoro Dance) is performing on Sunday, July 20, 2025, at 1:00 PM & 3:00 PM at the Picnic Pavilion on Granville Island, as part of New Works' All Over the Map series. More HERE.
Ariaratnam & Avendaño at 8 East
The duo of SCA alumnus Matthew Ariaratnam and Adrian Avendaño share a bill with Night Bus Nap and Laura D on June 14, 2025, from 8:00 PM – 11:30 PM at 8EAST (8 E. Pender St., Vancouver). More HERE.
ARRAY
SCA student Gronit Dhir, who is currently an intern at VIVO Media Arts Centre (organized by the SCA's Kay Higgins, our Professional Development Coordinator), shared about Eric Cheung and Cristian Gonzalez's ARRAY, a laser-based motion capture installation, running Thursday, June 19 – 29, 2025, at VIVO (2625 Kaslo St., Vancouver). More HERE. Also, like Dhir, if you'd like to do an internship as part of your studies at the SCA, make sure to reach out to Kay!
Unity Consciousness
SCA alumni Sammy Chien and Caroline MacCaull, who are Co-Artistic Directors of Chimerik 似不像, have curated Unity Consciousness, "an experimental, interdisciplinary group exhibition," running June 29 – July 1, 2025, in the Exhibition Hall at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver), who are also co-presenting the event. More HERE.
Zorlutuna in Flash Sale!
SCA alumnus Alize Zorlutuna has contributed to Flash Sale!, Images Festival's 38th Birthday Party Fundraiser on Thursday, June 26, 2025, from 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM at Space Unltd, 1213 Bathurst St., Toronto). More HERE.
RELAY
the plastic orchid factory, in partnership with Montreal's Studio 303, and Edmonton's Mile Zero Dance are calling for applicants for RELAY, which they describe as "a joint initiative that nurtures artistic creation, fosters local dialogue and exchange, and expands touring opportunities across Canada." Find out more HERE.
O'Callaghan in the little big bang
SCA alumnus James O'Callaghan is mentioned in this article by Esther Bourdages, "Trajectoire de l'électroacoustique au Québec: petits big bang," in Vie des arts. Read it HERE.
Enquist in If I were 2
SCA alumnus Eowynn Enquist is performing in Inverso Productions' If I were 2, choreographed by Lesley Telford, on June 12 & 13 at the Firehall Arts Centre, presented as part of the 2025 Dancing on the Edge festival. More HERE.
Ground Grooves Workshop
Ground Grooves are running a workshop for "Intermediate + Advanced" dancers on their "floorwork approach and movement mindset that will heighten your physical sensitivity and soften your relationship with the floor" on July 5 & 6, 2025, daily from 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM, in our studios here at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). More HERE.
The Encampments screening
SFU's Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies is presenting a screening of The Encampments, a documentary about the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University, on Thursday, June 26, 2025, from 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre here at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.
Senses x Lobe
The Senses x Lobe Multimedia Art Exhibition, organized by SCA student Adelya Mullasheva and featuring a cavalcade of other SCA folks (basically everyone involved!), takes place Saturday, June 14, 2025, from 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM at Lobe (713 E. Hastings St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Goodman at TSV's Community Week & in The Dance Deck
SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman (Action at a Distance) is running a class on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, a 11:30 AM at The Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver), presented as part of the Training Society of Vancouver's Community Week. More HERE. Also, Goodman is participating in Belle Spirale Dance Projects' The Dance Deck, which runs July 19 & 20 and 26 & 27, 2025, from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM at 1745 Napier St., Vancouver. More HERE.
BEE in our lobby
BEE, a mixed media animated film from unladylike co. (the interdisciplinary multi-media production company formed by SCA alumni Jessica Hood and Rachelle Miguel), which has music and Foley work by SCA alumnus Cindy Kao, SCA alumnus Pedro Chamale as Director of Photography and Editor, and animation by Hood and Via Litz, is screening on the Lobby Screen Array here at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver) during the run of Neworld Theatre's Eyes of the Beast from June 18 – 22 in our Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre. More HERE.
Slow Socials: How We Gather
The Only Animal, which has SCA alumnus Barbara Adler as Artistic Director, are presenting Slow Socials: How We Gather on June 14 & 15 from 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM at the Salmon Arm Arts Centre (70 Hudson Ave NE, Salmon Arm, BC), presented as part of the 2025 edition of the Theatre on the Edge Festival. More HERE.
FRIDAY's Lipsync
Watch the video for Lipsync by SCA alumnus DEBBY FRIDAY, out now on YouTube HERE.
The Longest Way to Eat a Melon
SCA alumnus Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross’ The Longest Way to Eat a Melon is out now from Sarabande Books. 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.
Sum in ArtsWells
SCA alumnus Amanda Sum is performing at the ArtsWells Festival, which runs June 27 – 29, 2025, at multiple venues in Wells, BC. More HERE.
Stir on Portals
Read Stir Vancouver on Portals, the 2025 edition of the Queer Arts Festival, which includes SCA alumni Kaila Bhullar, Liz Oakley, Niloufar Samadi, and Taryn Walker, and the SCA's Suze Shore as part of the Community Art Show, opening June 14 from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM at the SUM gallery (#425 – 268 Keefer St, Vancouver), and running to June 28, 2025, as well as SCA alumnus Sena Cleave in the Curated Visual Art Exhibition: PORTALS at Centre A (Unit 205 – 268 Keefer St., Vancouver), which opens with their ArtParty! event on Saturday, June 21, from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM, and running to August 23, 2025. Read it HERE.