SCA | Quick News | June 18, 2021
SCA @ Dancing on the Edge
There are many SCA folks in this year's Dancing on the Edge Festival, including light-bearer by SCA alumni Billy Marchenski; PAM by CAMP, which includes SCA alumni Eowynn Enquist; Two by Wen Wei Dance, featuring music by SCA alumni Stefan Nazarevich; Mama, do we die when we sleep? by Rachel Meyer, which includes music by SCA + SIAT alumni James Maxwell; Initial Response and Reconfiguration by Peter Smida, which includes music by SCA alumni Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi; Flow Tide by SCA alumni Shion Skye Carter and Stefan Nazarevich; Become, this earthly plane by Kelly McInnes, which includes music by SCA alumni Alex Mah and Cinematography and Editing by SCA alumni Luciana D’Anunciação; TUNING by SCA alumni Vanessa Goodman; and last but not least, The Threshing Floor, which is pictured above, by the SCA's Rob Kitsos and Mauricio Pauly and SCA student Beau Han Bridge, with SCA alumni Anya Saugstad as one of the performers. More HERE.
Fraser's Juicy Jems Cabaret
SCA alumni Alexa Fraser, Dominique Samuels, and theatrecorps have announced Juicy Jems Cabaret, which aims "to celebrate and elevate plus sized and fat professional cabaret artists," set to take place online this July. Find out more HERE.
Hill reviewed
Read a good review of SCA alumni Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill's exhibition, Projects: Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, which is at The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, until August 15, 2021. Read it HERE.
Mutable Subject's interplay_2021
SCA alumni Deanna Peters' Mutable Subject, working with fellow co-curators SCA alumni Sammy Chien, Tasha Faye Evans, and khattieQ, have announced the participants in their interplay_2021 programming, with online events scheduled for September 23 & 24, 2021: "Sidi Chen (ritual performance); Find Mutya (experimental video, music, movement, poetry, textiles); Brandy Leary (choreographic research, videography); Kıvanç Tatar w/ Tamar Tabori (creative artificial intelligence, dance); Raj Gill (multidisciplinary performance art); Stéphanie Cyr w/ Ted Littlemore (site-specific performance)." More HERE.
Vines' Symbiotic Artist Care Fund
Read about the launch of the "Cultivating the Creative: A Symbiotic Artist Care Fund" by Vines Art Festival, which is directed by SCA alumni Heather Lamoureux, in Stir Vancouver. Read it HERE.
Gartlan-Close in the EPU
Congratulations to SCA alumni (and SFU - School of Communication alumni, too!) Katie Gartlan-Close, who's part of Arts Club Theatre Company's 2021 Emerging Playwrights’ Unit (EPU)! More HERE.
Congrats to Robinson – and talks historical musics & Indigenous resurgence
Congratulations to SCA alumni Dylan Robinson, whose excellent, crucial, and timely 2020 book, Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies, published by University of Minnesota Press, has won both the "best first book" award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and "best book" award from Canadian Theatre Research and Performance Association! Also, watch SCA alumni Robinson in conversation with Early Music Vancouver's 2021 summer artist-in-residence, Jonathon Adams, mezzo-soprano Marion Newman, and multi-disciplinary theatre artist Reneltta Arluk, about historical musics & Indigenous resurgence for Early Music Vancouver. Watch HERE.
Morgan on Gould
Read a thoughtful meditation on Glenn Gould’s recording of Aria da Capo, from Gould’s famous 1981 interpretation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, by SCA alumni Scott Morgan (Loscil), for The Predatory Wasp site's "One Track Mind" column. Read it HERE.
SCA @ GVPTA's Making a Scene Forum
There are many SCA folks presenting as part of the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance's 2021 "Making a Scene Forum: Seizing Opportunities," including Anjela Magpantay, Daniela Atiencia, Davey Samuel Calderon, Derek Chan, Eddy van Wyk (xoma-leon phîlip babur), Fay Nass, Keely O'Brien, Lisa Cooke Ravensbergen, and Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg. More HERE.
Yousefbigloo, Biddle, and Beaudry in STAFF ONLY
SCA MFA student Katayoon Yousefbigloo, SCA alumni Dave Biddle, and Maya Beaudry are part of the exhibition STAFF ONLY, which runs June 19 – 27, 2021, at the Liquidation World Gallery (1120 E. Georgia St.).
Escolán and Wakeland in conversation
Read a conversation between SCA alumni María Escolán and Dominique Wakeland about their experiences as part of the Playwrights Theatre Centre’s Dramaturg Launch Pad (DLP) program. More HERE.
Koochakzadeh-Yazdi for Yarn/Wire
Watch the archived Twitch stream of SCA alumni Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi performing as part of Yarn/Wire's online Late Night programming. Watch it HERE.
Kotowich's Free Rein
SCA alumni Jeanette Kotowich will be taking part in the National Arts Centre / Centre national des Arts' summer "Free Rein" residency. More HERE.
yellow objects in Prague
SCA alumni Derek Chan's yellow objects is running as part of the 1841 1941 2041 - Hong Kong the future through the past exhibition in Prague, Czech Republic, until June 19, 2021. More HERE.
Calderon on Dramaturgy Now
SCA alumni Davey Samuel Calderon is part of an upcoming panel, "Dramaturgy Now," on Saturday, June 26, 2021, at 12:00 PM (PDT) as part of safeword.arts' Flip the Script! Summer Symposium Series, which also includes Sadie Berlin, Lindsay Lachance, and Taiwo Afolabi. More HERE.
Sounds' WEDGE RESIDENCY
SCA alumni Michelle Sound is beginning a WEDGE RESIDENCY, which is an initiative by the Contemporary Art Gallery and Ground Floor that provides "participants with a stipend, semi-private studio space, and support to further develop their practice, as well as the opportunity to expand their connections to a wider arts community in Vancouver." Congrats, Michelle! Find out more about Sound's work HERE.
Submit to ReIssue
Consider submitting to ReIssue magazine, "an interdisciplinary art writing platform focused on shaping and sustaining a contemporary west coast discourse rooted in critical engagement with experimental art practices," edited by SCA alumni Casey Wei. They accept "content pitches on an ongoing basis for the following sections: Interviews, Essays, Creative, Moving Image, Reviews." More HERE.
BLOT in Lisbon
BLOT by SCA alumni Vanessa Goodman and Simona Deaconescu is part of the Biofriction Exhibition, running June 17 – August 1, 2021, at Ectopia in Lisbon, Portugal. More HERE.
Sum's is the Next Generation
SCA alumni Amanda Sum is included in this survey of the "Next Generation of Jazz & Beyond" by Coastal Jazz and Blues Society. Read it HERE. Don't miss Sum and band at this year's Coastal Jazz Festival. More HERE.
Siu's Sunset Visitor 斜陽過客
SCA alumni Remy Siu has started a new independent video game studio called Sunset Visitor 斜陽過客, which has started working on their debut game, 1000xRESIST.