SCA | Quick News | May 9, 2025
rEvolver Festival 2025
There is massive SCA participation in Upintheair Theatre's rEvolver Festival, including SCA alumni Zoë Braithwaite (Creator/Director/Performer), Jae Gonzales and TJ Tan (Performers), and Tamlin Vetter (Stage Manager) in The Mechanics of Intimacy; SCA alumnus Arthi Chandra as Director of Woman Against Gravity; and SCA alumnus Garvin Chan as both the Co-Creator/Co-Director/Translator for 羅密歐與茱麗葉 | Romeo & Juliet and Co-producer for The Yoko Ono Cult, all as part of the festival's Works in Progress Series. Also, the festival's Mainstage Performances include ButtHEAD, which has SCA alumni Jaewoo Kang as a Performer/Creator and Erika Mitsubishi as a Performer; and SCA Candy Van, a showcase of new work from SCA folks, including Viviane Wu's WORD VOMIT (with SCA students Wu, Camille Millar, and Inkara Julmagambetova as Performers and Video Design by SCA alumnus Kaila Bhullar); Katie Gherasim's Nostalgia and Nostalgia (with Gherasim, SCA alumnus Emma Ciprian, and Elie DeCorby as Performers, Music/Sound by SCA student Kai MacDonnell, Video Design by SCA alumnus Theo Badzio and SCA students Anastasia Shatska and Diana de Leyssac); and Ruby Maher's Output (with Maher and SCA students Czarina Agustines, Grace Byman, Gabrielle Comartin, Christina Evans, and Sara Van Gaalen, and Kira Cooper and Kaitlin Leitch). Whew! That's confusing, and we hope we got everyone! Altogether, the rEvolver Festival runs May 21 – June 1, 2025. Find everything you need to know about locations, times, tickets, and more HERE.
Chambers and Sachar collaborate for Indian Summer
In their first choreographic collaboration, the SCA's Justine A. Chambers and Simran Sachar are presenting Today is the evening to strike lightning / Aaj To Bijiliyan Girane Ki Shaam Hai on Saturday, July 5, 2025, from 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM at the Annex (823 Seymour St., Vancouver), presented as part of the Am Johal curated edition of the Indian Summer Festival, co-presented with the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, and supported by Vancouver Civic Theatres and the Hari Sharma Foundation. More HERE.
Marks talks Enfolded Media
The SCA's Laura U. Marks gave the keynote talk, "Enfolded Media, from Glissant to Small Files," for the OPACITIES seminar, running May 6 & 7, 2025, in the Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre at National College of Art & Design, Dublin, convened by the Frugal Media Research Group. More HERE.
Wong in Dream Factory
Ming Wong, who was our Fall 2023 Audain Visual Artist in Residence, is presenting a "show-stopping stage installation" as part of Dream Factory: Cantopop Mandopop 1980s-2000, which opens May 28, 2025, at the Chinese Canadian Museum (51 E. Pender St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Smith inaugurates the 3rd Thursday
The SCA's Albert St. Albert Smith joins Tʼuyʼtʼtanat-Cease Wyss, Johanna Hauser, Lisa Cay Miller, and Themba Tana for the inaugural 3rd Thursday, a new improvised music series, on Thursday, May 15, 2025, from 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM at 8EAST (8 East Pender St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Congratulations, Vanessa!
SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman (Action at a Distance) was announced as the recipient of the annual Isadora Award from The Dance Centre, along with Eric Cheung, who received the biennial Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award. Congratulations! Find out more HERE.
Tremors 2025
SCA alumnus Howard Dai's Dream Machine is running as part of Rumble Theatre's Tremors Festival, which runs June 6 – 8, 2025, at Progress Lab (1422 William St, Vancouver BC). SCA alumni Jacob Zimmer (Collaborator for Christine Genier's Dear Star Trek), Brianna Bernard (Lightning Designer for Kern Albert & Donna-Michelle St. Bernard's Panoptikon), and June Fukumura (Dramaturg for Paige Louter's Nod) are also part of the programming, while Conor Wylie (Lead Producer), Christian Ching, and June Hsu (Venue Technicians) are part of the Festival Team. More HERE.
SCA judging BCSFF
With a jury of SCA film students, including Anastasia Shatska, Diana de Leyssac, Quinn Masselink, and Carissa Toledo, the British Columbia Student Film Festival, open to students from grades 8-12, is having its Awards Gala and Winning Film Screening on Saturday, May 24, 2025, from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at the School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), presented with support from the Vancouver Film School. More HERE.
Prairie Dusk in Concert
If you're in Calgary, don't miss SCA alumnus Virginia Jessica Sparvier-Wells' Prairie Dusk in Concert on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM (doors at 6:30 PM, at Congress Coffee Company (215 36 Avenue Northeast #1A Calgary). More HERE.
Congratulations, Cheadle!
Theatre Replacement announced SCA alumnus ellis cheadle as their 2025 COLLIDER Artist. As TR describe it, COLLIDER is "a project-centered incubator that provides key opportunities for experimental artists through mentorship, access to studio space, a commissioning fee of $5,000 as well as presentation opportunities in HOLD ON LET GO." Congratulations! Find out more about COLLIDER HERE.
The Frontliners reviewed
Read Stir Vancouver's review of Zahida Rahemtulla's The Frontliners, running May 1 – 11, 2025, at the Firehall Arts Centre, with SCA alumnus Derek Chan 陳嘉昊 as director, and SCA alumni Jonathan Kim (Lighting Designer), June Hsu (Associate Sound Designer), Bernice Paet (Apprentice Stage Manager) Jamie Sweeney (Production Manager) behind the scenes. Read it HERE.
Lake Fire reviewed
Read a review of Lake Fire, the new record by SCA alumnus Scott Morgan / Loscil, out now from Kranky Records. Read it HERE. Also, Leeds UK based online record shop Norman Records shared this good "album of the week" review, too. Read it HERE.
Dálava at Zameen Art House
SCA Instructor Aram Bajakian and Julia Ulehla's Dálava project is having a set of shows to celebrate the release of their new album, Understories, out now on Pi Recordings, on May 31, June 1, and June 7, 2025, at Zameen Art House on Granville Island (1515 Anderson St, Vancouver). More HERE.
Shaffer's Foundations in Contact
Olivia Shaffer , an SCA alumnus and Associate Artistic Director of EDAM, is running beginner-friendly Foundations in Contact classes on Thursdays from May 22 – June 26, 2025, from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM at EDAM Dance (303 East 8th Ave, Vancouver). More HERE.
Brkovic plays Grad Party
SCA alumnus Irfan Brkovic / HYPERMOSH joins Lunr Girl, The Ryze, nic, Video, Media Resources, and ALL Y0R BA55 for Grad Party on Saturday, May 10, 2025, starting at 9:00 PM at Hargrove Studios (150 E 3rd Ave, Vancouver, Back Alley Entrance), presented by Radio Emily and Emily Carr Student Union. More HERE.
Rahi and Po's Music for Augmented Pipe Organ
SCA PhD student George Rahi and Angelique Po (organist and Director of Music at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church) are presenting an evening of Music for Augmented Pipe Organ on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, from 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM at St. Andrew's Wesley United Church (#100 – 1022 Nelson Street, Vancouver). More HERE.
HEAVEN FM at the VAG
Read Stir Vancouver on the world premiere of HEAVEN FM by Hong Kong Exile (the interdisciplinary arts company formed by SCA alumni Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Milton Lim, and Remy Siu) on Sunday, May 18, 2025, from 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM, in Courtroom 302 at the Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby St, Vancouver). HEAVEN FM is developed and led by Gan, working with SCA alumni ellis cheadle, Alex Mah, and Alex Tam, and Juolin Lee as co-creators and performers. Read it HERE.
Mountain Jade
SCA alumnus Lam Tung Pang is presenting Mountain Jade from September 24, 2024 – June 27, 2026, at the he Crow Museum at the The University of Texas at Dallas. More HERE.
2025/26 at The Cultch
The Cultch have announced their 2025/26 season and it includes the Electric Company Theatre's presentation of Carmen Aguirre's Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project, which has SCA alumni Tasha Faye Evans in the cast and Jack Chipman on Technical Direction & Media Integration; Theatre Replacement's East Van Panto: West Van Story, written by Marcus Youssef with SCA alumnus Pedro Chamale (Artistic Director of rice & beans theatre); the frank theatre company's (which has SCA alumnus Fay Nass as Artistic & Executive Director) production of Anais West's Tomboy (Chłopczyca); Theatre Replacement's production of Veda Hille and SCA alumnus Maiko Yamamoto’s End of Greatness; and so much more. See the whole season and some ticket package options HERE.
Wylie is a 2025-28 PTC Associate
Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC) have announced Christina Cook and SCA alumnus Conor Wylie as their incoming 2025-28 Associates, who will be residence with them to work their projects Proof Enough and Lost Season, respectively. Congratulations! More HERE.
SCA at Cannes
SCA alumni Jessica Johnson and Ryan Ermacora are presenting Concrete Turned to Sand as part of the Canada Showcase in Cannes Docs | Docs-in-Progress programming, and SCA alumni Athena Han's Sitting Bird and Lauren Marsden's The Palace are part of the Canada: Not Short on Talent 2025 programming at the 2025 edition of the Cannes Film Festival. More HERE.
Momo in NYC
SCA MFA student Mohammadreza (Momo) Akrami and Belinda He are presenting IN ABStENTIA on Monday, May 12, 2025, as part of Movement Research at NYC's Judson Memorial Church (243 Thompson St., New York). More HERE.
Sloth Canon
The good folks at The Dance Centre asked us to shared about the upcoming world premiere of Sloth Canon, which they describe as "a thrilling new international creation by Vancouver’s Company 605 and Singapore’s The Human Expression (T.H.E) Dance Company which is inspired by the idea of building – and breaking apart." Company 605 Co-Director Lisa Gelley is a regular Sessional Instructor here at the SCA, and we're told SCA dance students Ashley Sankaran-Wee and Emily Lee were both interns during the creation of the work. Catch Sloth Canon from June 5 – 6, 2025, at 8:00 PM & June 7, 2025, at both 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM at The Dance Centre (677 Davie St, Vancouver). Find out more HERE.
Arts & Health's Exhibition & Gala Showcase
Inviting "artists, seniors and Elders to dance, sing, weave, write, paint, and develop collaborative art projects of all kinds," SCA MFA student Caroline Liffmann, who's also part of the team at Arts & Health: Healthy Aging Through the Arts, shared that Arts & Health are holding their 19th annual Exhibition from May 27 – June 5, 2025, and Gala Showcase on Friday, May 30, from 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM, at the Roundhouse Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver). More HERE.
Growing Pains – Dance Party
SCA alumnus Kaila Bhullar is providing "glitchy video art projections" for Unity Arts Collective's Growing Pains – Dance Party tonight – Friday, May 9, 2025, at 9:30 PM – at the Cobalt (917 Main St., Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.
Smith's I Saw You in the Archive
SCA alumnus Paige Smith is presenting her MFA Thesis exhibition, I Saw You in the Archive, from May 15 – 31, 2025, with an opening on Thursday, May 15, from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM, in Gallery One on the University of Waterloo Art Gallery (263 Phillip St, Waterloo, ON). More HERE.
Through the Flow of Summer Snow
SCA alumnus Sophia Santos English's Through the Flow of Summer Snow is screening as part of Program Two: Let Mama Go at the Vancouver Short Film Festival on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at 1:00 PM in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). More HERE.
D’Anunciação's Becoming
Presented by the Festival of Recorded Movement, SCA alumnus Luciana Freire D’Anunciação is premiering Becoming, "an immersive multi-screen installation exploring memory and transformation," on June 4 & 5, 2025, from 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM, with at an opening reception, public screening, and conversation on June 4 at 7:00 PM and a Dance workshop on June 5 from 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM, at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver). More HERE.
Goodman's Tuning
SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman / Action at a Distance is presenting the European premiere of Tuning on May 15 & 16, 2025, at T-Werk (Schiffbauergasse 4 E 14467, Potsdam), presented as part of Potsdamer Tanztage 2025. More HERE.
Reduce, Reuse, Tetra Pak Intaglio
SCA alumnus Taryn Walker is offering the workshop, Reduce, Reuse, Tetra Pak Intaglio, on June 21 & 22, 2025, from 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, at Dundarave Print Workshop (1640 Johnston Street, Vancouver). More HERE.
XINEMA's Image After Stone
Ocean Falls by SCA alumni Ryan Ermacora and Jessica Johnson and Aidan Whitele and Ermacora's Empire Valley are screening as part of XINEMA's Image After Stone on Thursday, May 15, 2025, from 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM at the Fieldhouse in Norquay Park (5050 Wales St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Magnanensi & Smulovitz at the Gumboot
Giorgio Magnanensi and the SCA's Stefan Smulovitz are opening for Lunr Girl on Friday, May 16, 2025, at 8:00 PM at the Gumboot Cafe (1053 Roberts Creek Road, Roberts Creek, BC). More HERE.
Calderon's Playwrights Hangout
SCA alumnus Davey Samuel Calderon, who's also the Artistic Producer & Dramaturg for Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC), is hosting a "Playwrights Hangout" on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM at Luppolo Brewing Co. (1123 Venables St., Vancouver), presented by Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance (GVPTA). More HERE.
Koochakzadeh-Yazdi plays in Toronto
SCA alumnus Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi is performing as part of the Link Music Lab Label Release Party on Saturday, May 10, 2025, from 8:00 PM – 2:00 AM at Cafeteria (1650 Dupont St, Toronto). More HERE.
Hot Dyke Party at the Astoria
Hot Dyke Party, the band with SCA alumni Arthi Chandra, Cindy Kao, and Hannah Meyers, and Blue Chu, Hayley Sullivan, and Thule van den Dam, are playing Friday, May 23, 2025, at 8:00 PM at the Astoria (769 East Hastings St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Small Files in a Small Theatre
East Van Vodeville, a free miniature theatre, presented a screening of Small File films. See some documentation HERE.
Tsai's Another glass of wine
SCA alumnus Krystal Tsai is performing Another glass of wine, a duet with Max Hanic, and featuring production design by SCA student Czarina Agustines, on Monday, May 12, 2025, at 7:00 PM, at The Dance Centre (677 Davie St, Vancouver), presented as part of The Dance Centre's Open Stage #5. More HERE.
Reimer at the Cluster Festival
SCA alumnus Jami Reimer is performing as part of the Cluster Festival on Friday, June 6, 2025, with doors at 7:30 PM at The West End Cultural Centre (586 Ellice Ave., Winnipeg). More HERE.
Patchbay's Satellite
SCA alumni Olivia Valenza and Charlie Cooper's Patchbay project is hosting Satellite, "a free, outdoor ambient music concert and stargazing event in Elm Park," on Saturday, May 31, 2025, from 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM, at the Elm Park Fieldhouse (5837 Larch St., Vancouver). RSVP HERE.
Friedenberg's workshop at LIFT
SCA MFA student Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is running a workshop on May 22, 2025, from 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, presented as part of LIFT: Inverso Intergenerational Festival. More HERE.
Resonance Beneath the Maple Tree
SCA alumnus Alexandre Klinke / Playback Head is performing Resonance Beneath the Maple Tree, the 10th Anniversary of the great label Hotham Sound Recordings, on Saturday, June 21, 2025, from 4:00 PM – 7:30 PM, at the Salty Pear Studio Gallery (279 Rainbow Road, Salt Spring Island). More HERE.
Chan talks A Taste of Hong Kong on Q
SCA alumnus SCA alumnus Derek Chan 陳嘉昊 was a guest on CBC's Q to talk about A Taste of Hong Kong, running May 13 – 17, 2025, at the Theatre Passe (Muraille, 16 Ryerson Ave., Toronto), which also has SCA alumni Sophie Tang (Lighting Design), Alex Mah (Sound Design), and Jessica Han (Production Management) behind the scenes. Listen HERE.
Chimerik 似不像 are Associate Artists
Chimerik 似不像, which has SCA alumni Sammy Chien and Caroline MacCaull as Co-Artistic Directors, are part of SummerWorks' inaugural 2025/26 Associate Artists program. More HERE.