SCA | Quick News | June 30, 2022
The Alderson Interarts Award
We're very excited about the new Alderson Interarts Award, generously supported by Evan and Ingrid Alderson. Open to all fourth-year SCA BFA majors, the award provides $3,000 to help the recipient complete their studies. Read more about the award and its generous benefactors HERE.
Marks on Daybreak North
The SCA's Laura Marks was a guest on CBC's Daybreak North on June 16, 2022, to talk about the environmental costs of our increasingly online lives. The segment starts at approximately 1:42:50. Listen HERE.
Tacata and For You's Dr. G’s Bingo Extravaganza
The SCA's Ryan Tacata and Erika Chong Shuch and Rowena Richie, his collaborators in the performance group For You, are presenting Dr. G’s Bingo Extravaganza from July 20 – 24, 2022, at Carpenter Hall (15 S Pioneer St, Ashland, OR), 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," plus with all ticket proceeds going to BASE Southern Oregon and Black Southern Oregon Alliance. More HERE.
Listening to Pictures: Cranfield and Slade on Beardslee
Episode 3 of SFU Galleries' Listening to Pictures podcast – and CJSF 90.1 broadcast! – series features the SCA's Brady Cranfield (that's me, your dutiful communicator) and Kathy Slade on Bridge Beardslee's Energy Alignment Sculpture: Pyramid in the Golden Section (1976). Listen HERE.
A Light Footprint in the Cosmos exhibition tours – on video
Organized by the SCA's Laura Marks and members of the Substantial Motion Research Network (SMRN), A Light Footprint in the Cosmos symposium, which included exhibitions, performances, and screenings, ran June 24 – 27, 2022. If you missed the exhibitions, we've posted Marks and Nina Czegledy-led video tours of the shows at Or Gallery, Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, and Studio T (here at SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts) on the A Light Footprint in the Cosmos event page on our site. See them HERE.
SCA in The Cultch 2022 season
The Cultch just announced their season and some SCA folks are among the teams presenting works, including alumnus Amanda Sum as a certain famous someone in the East Van Panto's take on The Little Mermaid, along with alumni Arthi Chandra (Assistant Director), Cindy Mochizuki (Concept Artist and Illustrator), and Sophie Tang (Lighting Designer). Tang (Set Designer) is also part of Ins Choi's Bad Parent, which also includes alumnus Derek Chan (Managing Artistic Director). Alumnus Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg (Choreography) is part of Rick Waines' In My Day, which has regular SCA instructor Norman Armour as co-producer, too. See the whole season's lineup HERE.
Vickers reviewed
Read Robin Laurence in Border Crossings Magazine on SCA alumnus Charlene Vickers and Faye HeavyShield's dual exhibitions – Ancestor Gesture and New Work, respectively – at the Contemporary Art Gallery from September 17, 2021, to January 2, 2022. Read it HERE.
Kanagawa on VO in Stereo
SCA alumnus Hiro Kanagawa was a guest on the VO in Stereo podcast / YouTube show. Listen / Watch HERE.
rice & beans present DBLSPK: Canta Karaokê
rice & beans theatre, which has SCA alumnus Pedro Chamale as its Artistic Director, are presenting Jessie Liang's DBLSPK: Canta Karaokê at 7:00 PM on July 15, 2022, at 7:00 PM at Progress Lab 1422 (1422 William Street, Vancouver), and it's free! RSVP HERE.
Stir on Goodman's Core/Us
Read Stir Vancouver on SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman's Core/Us, featuring SCA alumni Eowynn Enquist and Anya Saugstad, which is running at the Firehall Arts Centre on July 7 at 7:00 PM and July 8 at 9:00 PM, presented as part of the 2022 Dancing on the Edge Festival. Read it HERE.
The Sun on Gamelan Bike Bike
Read the Vancouver Sun on Gamelan Bike Bike, which includes SCA alumnus George Rahi, who are playing the 2022 Coastal Jazz International Jazz Festival on Saturday, July 2, at 1:30 PM at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre. Read it HERE.
Sembatya and Sarah U in All Over the Map
New Works' FREE All Over the Map programing on September 24, 2022, at the Public Market Courtyard on Granville Island features SCA PhD candidate Edward Sembatya, SCA alumnus Sarah U, and Her Tribal Roots. More HERE.
After School E4
Listen to the latest episode of the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology's After School podcast, featuring students from across FCAT, the SCA included, interviewing alumni. This episode features Centre for Digital Media student Chelsea Wei in conversation with alumnus Mars Balisacan. Listen HERE.
Kamikaze Nurse shout out + playing Khatsahlano
SCA alumnus Casey Wei's rock group Kamikaze Nurse gets a good shout out in this Sled Island festival review in Exclaim!. Read it HERE. Also, Wei and the group are playing the 2022 Khatsahlano Street Party on July 9, 2022. More HERE.
Jono lights SHED
Working with sodium light designer Nicolas Brunet-Beaulieu, SCA alumnus Jonathan "Jono" Kim is the lighting designer and technical director for SHED | knowing each other as different and the same, which runs July 15 & 16 (several shows per day), 2022, at Left of Main. More HERE.
Morelli's Traversée/Crossing
Featuring Lori Blondeau, Chris Boyne, Michelle Furlong, Mark Igloliorte, Hazel Meyer, François Morelli, Nadia Myre, and Derrick Woods-Morrow, SCA alumnus Didier Morelli curated Traversée/Crossing, running July 10 – August 28, 2022, at Pointe-Claire, Québec's Stewart Hall Art Gallery, which "explores the rich connections between water-sports and contemporary art." More HERE.
Ramsey and The Darlings at The Polygon
Not only does The Polygon Gallery's Ghosts Of The Machine Summer Programming include a conversation between Polygon curator and SCA alumnus Elliott Ramsey with !Kona Katranya about Art & the Blockchain on Thursday, July 14, 2022, from 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM, but it also offers Ramsey leading a Closing Tour on Saturday, August 13 at 1:30 PM with "multidisciplinary, non-binary drag performance collective" The Darlings, which includes SCA alumnus Desi Rekrut (aka P.M.). More HERE.
Chien for Indian Summer
SCA alumnus Sammy Chien and Chimerik 似不像 are providing "digital magic" for Indian Summer Festival's closing party on Saturday, July 1, 2022, from 8:00 PM – 11:30 PM at Performance Works (1218 Cartwright St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Field Notes on Hill
Read an Art & Education "Field Notes" text by Leo Cocar on SCA alumnus Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill's work presented in The Milk of Dreams, the 59th Venice Biennale. Read it HERE.
SCA in 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, Around Us, featuring work by SCA MFA student Katie Kozak and Olga Abeleva & Shizen Jambor, Rebecca Bair, Jeff Downer, Dennis Ha & Sylvain Sailly, Jake Kimble, and Gloria Wong, runs June 30 – August 6, 2022. More HERE.
Theatre Replacement’s Town Choir
Directed by SCA alumnus and Theatre Replacement’s Artistic Director, Maiko Yamamoto, Town Choir, presented by City of Vancouver as part of the Sea2City Design Challenge on July 17, 2022, at 1:00 PM in Vancouver's Olympic Village Square, is accompanied by "a citizen-led photo project," featuring photography by Liam Wake and design by Stephanie Wong, facilitated by SCA alumnus James Long. More HERE.
Maddock talks with Svelnis
SCA alumnus Rachel Maddock talks with Rianne Svelnis about Symbiotic Forms and Dumb Instrument Dance's Ziyian Kwan's cultural space Morrow in The Dance Centre's Dance Central. Read it HERE.
Mitsuhashi on glint
The Dance Centre's latest blog post features quick interviews with SCA alumnus Erika Mitsuhashi, Francesca Frewer, and Alexa Mardon, who are presenting glint, a 'unique triple bill,' on July 14 – 16, 2022, from 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, as part of the 2022 Dancing on the Edge Festival. Read it HERE.
O'Callaghan's Reasons
Watch a video performance of SCA alumnus James O'Callaghan's Reasons for amplified books and electronics. Watch it HERE.
Basanta's The Unknown Future Rolls Towards Us
Check out some great installation shots from SCA alumnus Adam Basanta's The Unknown Future Rolls Towards Us, presented as part of the 10th edition of Centre d'art Jacques et Michel Auger artist Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine from June 15 – September 3, 2022. See them HERE.
New(to)Town Collective presents...
New(to)Town Collective (SCA alumni Anjela Magpantay, Davey Calderon, and June Fukumura, and Avyen von Waldenburg) are running a PWYC Artist Talk with Acrobat of the Heart author Stephen Wangh on Saturday, July 9, 2022, at 7:00 PM, in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre here at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, presented in partnership with us and SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. RSVP HERE. Also, the collective are holing a FREE Summer Training Jam in Room 4270 here at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on July 9, 2022, from 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM. RSVP HERE.
The Straight on Confluence
Read the Georgia Straight on Raven Spirit Dance's Confluence, which features SCA alumni Jeanette Kotowich, Starrwind Muranko, and Tasha Faye Evans, which is having its premier at the Firehall Arts Centre on July 8 & 9 as part of the 2022 Dancing on the Edge Festival. Read it HERE.
SCA win Jessies
There are several SCA alumni recipients in the 2022 The Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, including Daniela Atiencia (and co-director Chelsea Haberlin) for Outstanding Direction for Clean/Espejos, Sophie Tang for Outstanding Lighting Design for we the same, and Sammy Chien and Chimerik 似不像 for Significant Artistic Achievement: Outstanding Video Design for we the same, Derek Chan's yellow objects (with rice & beans theatre) for an Innovation Award, and Fay Nass winning a Special Award for Vancouver NOW Representation and Inclusion. See the full list of winners HERE.
A playlist from Hou
Help enjoy the summer with this SSSummerSolsticeMixtape222 FACE/OFF playlist from SCA alumnus Julian Yi-Zhong Hou and Second Spring. Listen HERE.
The Peak on A Brief History of Ballroom
Read SFU's The Peak on A Brief History of Ballroom, a public talk and vogue workshop with Michael Roberson and Ralph ‘Posh’ Gvasalia, that ran June 16, 2022, here at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, co-presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement and us, with support by the Musagetes Foundation. Read it HERE.
Silverfox's CBC Q&A
SCA alumnus and 2022 Sobey Art Award finalist Krystle Silverfox does a Q&A with CBC Arts. Read it HERE.