SCA | Quick News | March 9, 2026
Sound's Gussied Up – and more!
SCA alumnus Michelle Sound's exhibition Gussied Up is at the Ceremonial / Art gallery from March 7 – April 25, 2026. More HERE. Also, Sounds' Range Road 100 (2024) and Swan River 150E (2024) have been recently added to the collection of the National Gallery in Ottawa. Download a PDF about the National Gallery's recent acquisitions from November 2025, including Sound's works, HERE. And upcoming for Sound is the installation of Wherever You Are on the outside of the BC Hydro Dal Grauer Substation from April 1, 2026 – March 1, 2027, presented as part of the Capture Photography Festival. More HERE.
Slade talks Famille Rose
The Audain Gallery + SCA's Kathy Slade talked to The Source about her exhibition, Famille Rose, which is in The Cabinet (beside room 4390 here at the SCA at 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver) until April 30, 2026. Read it HERE.
Stir on Chambers' & Brown's awards
Read Stir on the SCA's Justine A. Chambers and SCA alumnus Lorna Brown, who have been awarded the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts’ 2025 VIVA Award and Alan Balkind Curators’ Prize, respectively. Congratulations and much deserved! Read it HERE.
Crimson Coast thanks Garay
The Crimson Coast Dance Society shared an Instagram post in appreciation of their support from a fund established by the SCA's Judith Garay through the Vancouver Foundation. See the post HERE and make a donation to the fund HERE.
Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine
The SCA's Laura U. Marks is part of the Scholars in Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine (SCMSSP) Conference Organizing Committee, presenting the "Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine" (CMSSP) 2026 Conference, running March 25 – 29, 2026, both online and at Northwestern University, shared as an alternative scholarly conference to the one by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. More HERE.
Stir on Gagnon and Smulovitz's being
Read Stir Vancouver on Vision Impure's Noam Gagnon and the SCA's Stefan Smulovitz collaborative performance, being, running March 11 – 14, 2026, at the KW Production Studio (111 – W. Hastings St., Vancouver), presented by the Kokoro Dance Theatre Society and KW Studios. Read it HERE.
TPE previewed (but past) and upcoming
Read The Source (HERE) on Turning Point Ensemble's previous concert, Concerti Premiere, which ran February 21 & 22 (and included world premieres of new works by the SCA's Eldritch Priest and Owen Underhill, who is also TPE's conductor and Artistic Director). Also, get ready for TPE's next concert, Tubular Bells and El Amor Brujo, with the Bergmann Piano Duo, on April 12, 2026, at 2:30 PM, at the Annex Theatre. More HERE.
Sxelxéles Te Tl'etl'áxel / Designs For Inviting
Working with the SCA's Justine A. Chambers, Neven Lochhead, Pamela Reimer, Wesley Shen, and Anna Atkinson, SCA alumnus (and Professor at UBC's School of Music) Dylan Robinson presented the concert, Sxelxéles Te Tl'etl'áxel / Designs For Inviting, on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at Montreal's Espace Orange | Édifice Wilder, which was part of the two-day Symposium Sq'eq'íp St’elti’telem (Songs For Gathering People Together), organized by Robinson, Candice Hopkins, and Raven Chacon.
Priest at The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network's symposium
The SCA's Eldritch Priest is presenting the paper "Earworms and the Fate of Useless Thinking" as part of "Session 4: Mental replay and distraction in inner music," at The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network's International Symposium on May 18 & 19, 2026, at Durham University in the UK. More HERE.
Dream Factory wins!
According to Scout Magazine, the Chinese Canadian Museum’s exhibition Dream Factory, featuring work by SCA Adjunct Professor Ming Wong (developed partly while he was our Fall 2023 Audain Visual Artist in Residence), has been recognized with a 2025 Canadian Museum Association Award. More HERE.
Tabassinejad up for the Lind
Congratulations to SCA alumnus Pegah Tabassinejad and the other finalists who are up for the 2026 Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize. Don't miss the Lind Biennial exhibition with all of the finalists at The Polygon Gallery from December 4, 2026, to February 7, 2027, or the announcement of the winner at a ceremony on January 21, 2027. More HERE.
Silverfox interviewed and represented
Read an interview by Wahsontiio Cross with SCA alumnus Krystle Silverfox in the National Gallery of Canada's magazine HERE. In the interview, Cross and Silverfox talk about Silverfox's works that the National Gallery recently added to their collection, which she originally produced for the 2022 Sobey Art Award Exhibition. In other Silverfox news, she's now being represented by Toronto's United Contemporary, where her exhibition, Distant Relatives, runs to March 14, 2026. More HERE.
Two SFU faculty appointed to the Order of Canada
Tessa Perkins Deneault, the Associate Director of Marketing & Communications for the Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology (our institutional home base at SFU), writes about new Order of Canada recipients Barry Truax, who is professor emeritus in the School of Communication and a good friend of the SCA (almost faculty!), and John Willinsky, who is a university research associate in the Publishing Program. Read it HERE.
The Chien-MacCaulls in the spotlight
SCA alumni Sammy & Caroline Chien-MacCaull, who are Co-Artistic Directors of Chimerik 似不像) are in The Dance Centre's "member spotlight," where they talk about their project SI(x), running as part of the 2026 edition of the Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF), which has SCA alumnus Deanna Peters as Artistic Director. Read it HERE.
More new B-Sides from VOCE
Adding to the Below the Radar podcast collection, check out new B-Sides featuring Ivana Filipovich and Farheen Haq. We miss you, VOCE!
Basanta's Database Paintings
SCA alumnus Adam Basanta's Database Paintings are on display at Espace Mach in the Law Library at the University of Sherbrooke until April 2026, curated by Myriam Yate. More HERE.
New at the Gibson
Now on at the Gibson Art Museum: Hannah Rickards' I am the infant and I am the bird and Maggie Groat's S Lower F: Activity Book, both from March 7 – Jun 14, 2026. Also, don't forget to check out the Gibson's upcoming talks, events, and workshops, too.
Jupiter’s Moon: echoes in transformations
Could there be a better deal? SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman / Action at a Distance, working with Boca del Lupo (as an artist-in-residence), is sharing a "FREE/By donation" presentation of Jupiter’s Moon: echoes in transformations in The Fishbowl on Granville Island (#100 – 1398 Cartwright St., Vancouver), co-presented by Boca del Lupo (as part of their Micro Performance Series) and the Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF), which has SCA alumnus Deanna Peters as Artistic Director. Described as an "immersive, interactive sound installation that invites audiences to experience sound as a living, spatial practice shaped by movement and attention," Jupiter’s Moon: echoes in transformations runs from March 10 – 14, 2026, daily from 2:30 PM –5:30 PM.
The Chromophiliacs reviewed
Read Michael Turner in Preview Magazine on The Chromophiliacs, at the Richmond Art Gallery (7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond) until April 4, 2026, which includes work by SCA alumnus Charlene Vickers. Read it HERE.
FRIDAY in Amplify
Amplify, the online magazine from Calgary's National Music Centre (NMC), shared a profile and interview with SCA alumnus DEBBY FRIDAY. Read it HERE.
Kotowich and Cheladyn in the Living Room
Read an interview with SCA alumnus Jeanette Kotowich by Ileanna Cheladyn, who's the Living Room Producer for the Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF), which has SCA alumnus Deanna Peters as Artistic Director. Among other topics, Kotowich and Cheladyn discuss Kotowich's Bolt, which ran as part of the VIDF. Read it HERE.
Stir on Fall(se) Circ(us)
Read Stir Vancouver on the world premiere of Fall(se) Circ(us), choreographed by Isak Enquist, and with SCA alumnus Eowynn Enquist as one of the performers, is at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre on March 21, 2026, at 7:30 PM, presented by Little Room Productions, in partnership with New Works and the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre. Read it HERE.
Malbon's Bill C-233: A Call to Action video
Watch a video produced by SCA alumnus Joey Malbon for NDP MP Jenny Kwan arguing why the Parliament of Canada "must pass Bill C-233, the End the Loopholes Act," which, Kwan notes, allows "a massive gap in our laws" for Canadian "military exports to the U.S. to bypass the oversight we apply to the rest of the world." Watch it HERE.
Rahi's Saunica
SCA alumnus George Rahi presented a Saunica, a sound installation that transformed a sauna "into a resonant, listening space where sound and heat become entwined," presented by Public Sweat in their "mobile sauna pop-up" as part of the Geary Art Crawl on March 7 & 8, 2026.
Hille and Yamamoto's End of Greatness
Upcoming: the world premiere of Veda Hille and SCA alumnus Maiko Yamamoto End of Greatness, featuring "Songs, music, dialogue, mythology, art, choreography and… cake!," runs April 16 – 19, 2026, at The Cultch's Historic Theatre (1895 Venables St, Vancouver). Get your tickets before they sell out HERE.
Dai profiled
Read a nice profile of SCA alumnus Howard Dai by the Siminovitch Theatre Foundation, prepared because Dai was selected by 2025 Siminovitch Prize Finalist (and SCA alumnus) Adrienne Wong, who selected Dai as her Protégé. Read it HERE.
Feral Archive and 'Decompositional Writing'
Upcoming: SCA alumnus Sarah Finn's free Feral Archive and 'Decompositional Writing' workshop on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, from 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM, meeting at What Lab (202 – 1814 Pandora St., Vancouver), presented as part of The Only Animal's Slow Social Club programing, which is part of their version of What Lab's Exquisite Pressure series. Here's what they say: "Together, we’ll take a walk from What Lab to the nearby Feral Archive, where we’ll engage in decompositional writing inspired by our sensory encounters. Loose themes of decomposition and scale will guide a soft discussion. Please bring walking shoes, a notebook and something to write with. RSVP: Free to attend but space is very limited. Please RSVP to reserve your spot." More info, bios, and necessary links HERE.
Nowruz: Golchin Vol. 03
Nowruz: Golchin Vol. 03, running March 19, 2026, from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM, at The Polygon Gallery (101 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver), includes SCA MFA student Avideh Saadatpajouh (as part of the Ghamar Collective with Samira Banihashemi) and SCA alumnus Niloufar Samadi as performers. More HERE.
Morelli on Fuoripista
Read SCA alumnus Didier Morelli for CBC Arts on Fuoripista, an exhibition that examined "the history, culture and politics of hockey, skiing, skating and more" that was presented alongside the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games, HERE.
Strom on Under Satellites, the Exploded View
SCA PhD student Jordan Strom gave a talk, "Under Satellites, the Exploded View: Contemporary Art at the Edges of Expo 86," on March 2, 2026, presented as part of Emily Carr University of Art + Design's Art Forums series. More HERE.
One Hundred Artists Deep
Upcoming: One Hundred Artists Deep, curated by SCA alumnus Andrea Valentine-Lewis (developed during her year-long Curatorial Fellowship at the Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation for Young Artists), opening April 10, from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, and running April 11 – June 20, 2026, at the Gordon Smith Gallery (2121 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver). Included in the exhibition are works by SCA alumnus veto monteiro, Corey Bulpitt, Andrew Dadson, Alex Gibson, Chantal Gibson, Tiziana La Melia, Bill Reid, Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith, Manuel Axel Strain, and Isabel Wynn. Valentine-Lewis will also be moderating "Artistic Approaches in Dialogue with Jack Shadbolt," a conversation between Alex Gibson and Chantal Gibson (no relation), on June 6, 2026, from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (doors at 12:30 PM). More HERE.
LIVE IN HELL's JUST LIKE HEAVEN
Upcoming: JUST LIKE HEAVEN, a "perfect evening" and fundraiser with "performances by local artists, ethereal pole dancing, holy jello shots, a piss fountain, and an appearance from God herself," on March 22, 2026, from 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM, at Progress Lab (1422 William St., Vancouver), presented by LIVE IN HELL (SCA alumni Marita Michaelis, Lauren Han, and Ali McDougall). Get tickets HERE.