SCA | Quick News | June 24, 2022
Yoon's Office Hours
Read an engaging "Office Hours" interview with the SCA's Jin-me Yoon as part of Art & Educations' School Watch series of profiles, surveys, and dialogues. Read it HERE.
Dickinson's Honourable Mention
The SCA's Peter Dickinson's book My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community (McGill-Queen's University Press | 2020) received an Honourable Mention for the 2022 Ann Saddlemyer Award for Best Book in Theatre and Performance Studies from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. Congrats, Peter!
Anderson and Eigenfeldt at ICMC 2022
The SCA's Christopher Anderson, our Graduate Program Assistant and also an alumnus, is presenting OntoTheNextCount, a new piece for trombone and an interactive generative system at Flannery's Pub in Limerick, Ireland, on July 5 as part of the 2022 International Computer Music Conference. The SCA's Arne Eigenfeldt will also have an installation at the conference. More HERE.
Maier plays Red Gate
The SCA's Stefan Maier is part of a nicely stacked bill with Strange Loops (Merlyn Chipman, Andromeda Monk, and Sara Gold), Jacob Audrey Taves, Seffrika, Hitori Tori, and RiDylan at Red Gate Arts Society (1965 Main St., Vancouver) on Saturday, July 23, 2022. More HERE.
On Listening to Pictures
Read West Coast Curated on SFU Galleries' Listening to Pictures podcast project, which includes (as either host or subject) SCA folks Lucien Durey, Allyson Clay, Brady Cranfield, Kathy Slade, Ken Lum, Laiwan, and Jin-me Yoon. Read it HERE. Also, listen to the latest episode, this time with Christian Vistan and Kiel Torres on Roy Kiyooka, HERE.
Mermaid Spring in the mail
Mermaid Spring, the ongoing project by The Public Swoon (the SCA's Barbara Adler and Kyla Gardiner), are sharing a "special gift" – via the mail! – inspired by their recent Visible Mending Workshop with Heather Cameron, offered with support from Playwrights Theatre Centre. Sign up HERE.
Lin's Perhaps she comes from/to__Alang + in documenta 15
SCA alumnus Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos) is presenting Perhaps she comes from/to__Alang from June 23 – July 10, 2022, at the Ō Papa Gallery (ground Floor of CoCA at 66 Gloucester Street, Christchurch), presented by New Zealand's The Physics Room. More HERE. Also, Lin was part of the Yipei Lee curated Wagiwagi Art Labs exhibition at documenta 15, which grabbed a mention in Germany's Der Spiegel (paywall!).
SCA in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
SCA student dancers Emily Bosak, Emma Miebach, Polina Olshevska, Elyza Samson, Shäolin Temrick-Young, and Anna Wang-Albini and SCA alumni Billy Marchenski (Philostrate/Oberon), Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg (Choreographer & Movement Coach), and Tasha Faye Evans (Creative Consultant) are all part of Bard on the Beach’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which runs June 8 – September 24, 2022. More HERE.
withintensions call for food
The latest call from withintensions, the monthly art mag from SCA alumni, is on the theme of "food." The submission deadline is June 26, 2022. More HERE.
Ramsey talks with !Kona Katranya
SCA alumnus and Polygon Gallery Curator Elliott Ramsey will be in conversation with !Kona Katranya on July 14, 2022, at 7:00 PM, about themes in the Polygon's exhibition Ghosts of the Machine, which runs until August 14. More HERE.
Popcorn Galaxies' Perfect Strangers
Popcorn Galaxies (SCA alumni June Fukumura and Keely O’Brien), working with SCA alumni Cindy Mochizuki and Daniel O’Shea and Sophia Wolfe, are presenting Perfect Strangers, "a site-responsive micro-performance which explores themes of intimacy, human connection, and friendship," at Common Ground Arts Society's Found Festival, which runs July 7 – 10, 2022, at various sites in so-called Edmonton. More HERE.
Sound in Group Show
Support the Seymour Art Gallery and own a Black Rabbit Fur drum by SCA alumnus Michelle Sound at Group Show, an exhibition and silent auction on Saturday, June 25, 2022, from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM. More HERE.
Jeffery's FREE RANGE
Watch SCA alumnus Daniel Jeffery's documentary short FREE RANGE, which chronicles his family's "impromptu trip to the abattoir after capturing four unruly roosters from our chicken coop," presented in honour of father's day. Watch it HERE.
Mesiha's Same Difference in Edinburgh
SCA alumnus and Theatre Conspiracy Artistic Director David Mesiha's Same Difference is one of the projects selected to be showcased at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom. Congratulations, David! More HERE.
Bourcheix-Laporte sorts the fees
Valuable reference! SCA alumnus Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte helped with the research and creation of the latest fee schedule for the 2022 Independent Media Arts Alliance. More HERE.
Inverso Summer Intensive
Inverso Productions is running a Summer Intensive in our studios at SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts from August 8 – 13, 2022, from 10:00 Am – 3:00 PM, co-presented by SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs and us. More HERE.
Next After School
Listen to the latest episode of After School, the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology produced podcast featuring current FCAT students interviewing FCAT alumni, including folks from the SCA. This episode features SFU’s School of Interactive Art and Technology student Amena Salman in conversation with SIAT alumnus Sofia Bautista. Listen HERE.
O’Callaghan and Valentine-Lewis get updated
Click through for website updates from busy SCA alumni James O’Callaghan and Andrea Valentine-Lewis, who always have new and interesting projects underway.
Walkley's The Presence of Mind in Motion
SCA alumnus Helen Walkley is presenting The Presence of Mind in Motion: Improvisation Intensive from July 22 – 25, 2022, from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM, in our 4th floor "Blonde studio" here at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. More HERE.
Van Mag on Fraser's Gestural Symphony No.1
Read Vancouver Magazine on SCA alumnus Alexa Fraser's Gestural Symphony No.1, commissioned by What Lab as part of Fraser's / THEATRE CORPS.' “The Deep End” residency, including other SCA alumni – Matthew Winter, Paula Viitanen, Linnea Antos, and Dominique Samuels – as part of the project. Gestural Symphony No.1 runs June 23 – 26, 2022, at What Lab. Read it HERE.
Theatre Replacement’s Town Choir
SCA alumnus and Theatre Replacement’s Co-Artistic Director, Maiko Yamamoto, is directing this "special presentation" of Town Choir, "presented by City of Vancouver as part of the Sea2City Design Challenge" at the Olympic Village Square on July 17, 2022, at 1:00 PM. More HERE.
Spence’s Blue waves, Green waves
SCA alumnus Alexandra Spence’s Blue waves, Green waves is out Friday, June 24, 2022, on the always-good Room40. More HERE.
Kong talks We Can Only Hint at This With Words
Newly reorganized! SCA PhD student Yani Kong will be in conversation with artists Russna Kaur, M.E. Sparks, and Andrea Taylor, curator Kate Henderson, and writer Jayne Wilkinson on Sunday, July 17, 2022, from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (PST) via Zoom, in support of We Can Only Hint at This With Words, which runs April 23 – June 25 at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art. RSVP HERE.
Gamelan Bike Bike at the Jazz Fest
Gamelan Bike Bike, which includes SCA alumnus George Rahi, is playing Coastal Jazz & Blues Society's Vancouver International Jazz Festival on Saturday, July 2, at 1:30 PM at the Roundhouse. Tix are $10 at the door. More HERE.
Silverfox's FCAT interview + RRR update
Read an excellent interview with SCA alumnus and 2022 Sobey Art Award shortlist nominee, Krystle Silverfox, by the folks in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, our institutional home-base here at SFU. Read it HERE. Also, read the latest update from Silverfox's Remote Research Residency with Arts Assembly HERE.
SCA in the 2022 Wrong Wave Festival
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. Digging through the dazzling website reveals participation by the SCA's Wladimiro Woyno Rodriguez, SCA PhD student Edward Sembatya, The Couch (aka SCA alumni Debbie C and Sena Cleave), Andrea Valentine-Lewis, kathy feng, Vitória Monteiro, Hân Phạm, and Paige Smith (specifically, with Debbie C, Cleave, feng, Monteiro, Phạm, and Smith, plus Kaila Bhullar, in the exhibitiion DIGITAL INTERVENTIONS PT 2: Mediating Vessels at Massy Arts Society from June 14 – July 7). Dig in HERE.
SCA in Dancing on the Edge
The 34th annual Dancing on the Edge Festival, which runs July 7 – 16, 2022, at the Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova), The Dance Centre (677 Davie Street), and various off-site locations in Vancouver, features SCA alumni Vanessa Goodman / Action at a Distance, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Starrwind Muranko, and Erika Mitsuhashi. More HERE.
Goodman's Core/Us
Read the Georgia Straight on SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman's Core/Us, featuring SCA alumni Eowynn Enquist and Anya Saugstad, which will have its Canadian premiere at the opening night of the Dancing on the Edge Festival, which runs July 7 – 16, 2022. Read it HERE.
Kozak in Around Us
SCA MFA student Katie Kozak is part of the upcoming exhibition Around Us, running June 30 – August 6, 2022, at the Burrard Arts Foundation, co-produced with Project Society. More HERE.
Powderface at the Summer Gateway Academy
SCA alumnus Darylina Powderface is one of the instructors for Gateway Theatre's upcoming Summer Gateway Academy classes for kids aged 6 to 13. More HERE.
New Sappier video
Carr Sappier, SCA alumnus and co-founder of the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival, and their sister Samaqani Cocahq contributed to a video project by The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund, presented in honour of Indigenous History Month. Watch it HERE.
Wallgrin plays Active / Passive
SCA alumnus Tegan Wahlgren / Wallgrin is playing Galiano Island's Active / Passive Vol. 4, "an annual outdoor slow concert," on Sunday, August 21, 2022, from 1:00 PM – 9:00 PM. More HERE.
Tong's Environment mon amour
Check out some installation images from SCA alumnus Yi Xin Tong's joint exhibition, Environment mon amour, with Suzanne Husky at Beijing's Today Art Museum, curated by Jess Zhang and Mehdi Brit. Both Tong and Husky were winners of the 2021 Jonathan KS Choi Foundation Contemporary Art Prize, which culminated with this exhibition. See them HERE.
Lim and Blenkarn in Berlin
Chek out a collection of images from SCA alumni Milton Lim and Patrick Blenkarn's "ongoing 5-year project" with April Leung, Alice Fleming, Darren O'Donnell, and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. See them HERE.