SCA | Quick News | March 26, 2021
Huang and Gagne @ the Or
SCA alumni Phoebe Huang and Stephanie Gagne are presenting If we say things simply in the windows of the Or Gallery from March 30 to May 8, 2021, curated by Asia Jong. More HERE.
Skoden Indigenous Film Festival press
Listen to the SCA's Carr Sappier and Kathleen Mullen, co-teachers and co-directors of this year's Skoden Indigenous Film Festival, talk about the festival on SFU's CJSF 90.1's Oh No Radio, hosted by SCA MA student Joseph "Joey Chaos" Malbon . Listen HERE. Skoden was also featured in the Vancouver Sun. Read it HERE. And Sappier spoke with film-maker Diana Hellson, who's featured in the festival, for the Source. Read it HERE. Most of all, don't forget: the festival starts tonight, March 26, runs tomorrow, March 27, and stays online until April 5! RSVP HERE.
SCA F2F
Here's something from Simon Fraser University's News team about the very careful, fully safety-vetted in-person classes we're running this term, featuring the SCA's Steven Hill, Mauricio Pauly, and Marla Eist. Read it HERE.
Aoki profiled
Read a great profile of SCA alumni dancer Jennifer Aoki by the Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall. Read it HERE.
Alzamora-Rivera and Chin's Green Alter Egos
SCA MA student Mar Alzamora-Rivera (text) and collaborator Pablo Santiago Chin (music and video) are debuting their work Green Alter Egos, "an opera in miniature that explores insects' vulnerabilities," for the Americas Society/Council of the Americas on Friday, April 2, 2021, at 7:00 PM, made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC. Also on the bill for the event is the SCA's Mauricio Pauly and Zach Moore's Dust Unsettled. More HERE.
Koochakzadeh-Yazdi's SONIC LUSTER
SCA alumni (and incoming Stanford PhD candidate) Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi has just released her first album, SONIC LUSTER, on Bandcamp. Listen to it HERE.
Hekademia screening
SCA alumni Gloria Mercer's Hekademia will be screening at the Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth, which runs April 14 – 23, 2021, and the Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival on March 27, 2021, at 11:45 AM (PST). Find out more about Mercer and her work HERE.
Marks @ New Materialist Informatics
The SCA's Laura Marks gave a keynote, "Tackling the Carbon Footprint of Streaming Media (TCFSM): A Transdisciplinary Laboratory for New Media Informatics (4D)," at New Materialist Informatics 2021, which is an "international conference that connects informatics and the humanities & social sciences through the innovative field of new materialist research." More HERE.
Jeffery talks A New Leash on Life
SCA alumni Daniel Jeffery talked about his film A New Leash on Life, on March 22, 2021, for the British Columbia Professional Videographer Association. Watch a trailer for the film HERE.
Gotfrits in concert
The SCA's Martin Gotfrit and his son Noah are supporting Harriet Frost for a concert on Saturday, April 10, 2021, at 8:00 PM, presented by Or Shalom Synagogue. More HERE.
Made in Canada: an agricultural podcast
Not only an EP and an LP, but also a podcast! Here's episode one of rice & beans theatre's Made in Canada: an agricultural podcast. Listen HERE.
Everybody's working for the...
Well, well. If it isn't me, Brady Cranfield, your faithful SCA Communicator and SCA alumni, with a little press for Weekend Chime, my new public art work located at Robson Square. Read it HERE.