SCA | Quick News | November 13, 2020
Kathy Slade on show
The SCA's Kathy Slade is part of an exhibition with Nadia Belerique and Jeneen Frei Njootli at the Kunstverein Braunschweig in Braunschweig, Germany, running November 7, 2020 – February 14, 2021. Read more HERE. Slade and artist Tammy Rae Carland are part of One Love Leads to Another: Methodologies, Legacies and Self-determinations, which includes a display of "selections from their personal archives related to zine culture and underground publishing" in the gallery window of Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and a video conversation with TBG+S Studio Artist Sarah Pierce. Read more HERE.
SCA in The Array
Popcorn Galaxies (SCA alumni June Fukumura and Keely O’Brien) and rice & beans theatre (SCA alumni Derek Chan and Pedro Chamale) are part of Upintheair Theatre's upcoming commissioning series, The Array, running December 3 – 5, 2020. Read more HERE.
SCA on the streets of Graz
The SCA's Sabine Bitter, with SCA Teaching Instructor Aakansha Ghosh, and Karina Nimmerfall from the Laboratory for Art and Research at the Institute for Art and Art Theory, University of Cologne, working with Camera Austria, Labor für Fotografie und Theorie and The City and the Good Life, have organized Time Scapes, a student public art / poster wall exhibition in Graz, Austria, running Nov. 11 – 22, 2020. Read more HERE.
Murao's NO MORE PARTIES
SCA film alumni Natalie Murao's NO MORE PARTIES is screening online at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival from November 12 – 19, 2020, as part of the Discomfort Zone shorts program. Murao tells us that she worked with a "long list of collaborators" she met while at the SCA, "including Kimberley Yip (actor), Kimberly Ho (actor), Thea Loo (producer), Suzanne Friesen (director of photography), Athena Han (production designer), Kellen Jackson (assistant director), and many more! The full list is available on IMDB." NO MORE PARTIES also screened at the San Diego Asian Film Festival and will screen at the Sunday Shorts Film Festival this December. Read more HERE.
Fredriksson's new work
Watch a sneak peak of guest choreographer and SCA alumni Emmalena Fredriksson's new work, Wind Eye, which will be part of Interleaving: SCA Repertory Dancers Go Digital on December 4, 2020, at 6pm. Watch it HERE. Fredriksson will also be presenting Ecdysis, a new solo work that explores the "transformational journey of a female cyborg," for Going Solo Together on December 4, 2020, in Örebro, Sweden. Read more HERE.
Cairns has been selected
SCA alumni Liz Cairns joins seven other Canadian directors selected to develop feature films and series as part of Women In the Director’s Chair's Story & Leadership "script development and director mentoring program." Read more HERE.
Calderon on writing the body
Kathleen Flaherty (Dramaturg Emeritus/Project Dramaturg) talks with SCA alumni Davey Samuel Calderon (Dramaturg, Public Engagement) about "writing the body" on the Playwrights Theatre Centre's blog. Read it HERE.
Support the IPS!
Headed by the SCA's Peter Dickinson, the Institute for Performance Studies has recently established an endowment to support its activities, increase its research initiatives and capacity, engage students and faculty interested in its methods, and strengthen our contributions to the communities we serve. Please consider supporting the IPS!
Fukumura's Basics
SCA alumni and member of the New(to)Town Collective June Fukumura is presenting Online Training Jam 3: Basics. Read more HERE.
Wahn on show
SCA alumni Graeme Wahn has a solo exhibition, Lamp in the Hand, at Toronto's Pumice Raft project space, running until November 28, 2020, which includes work from his MFA thesis project. Read more HERE.
SCA for Made in BC
Made in BC – Dance on Tour's Arts in Site 2.0 Virtual Symposium features SCA alumni dancers Isabelle Kirouac, Erika Mitsuhashi, and Anya Saugstad. Read more HERE.
Skoden's on TikTok
Skoden Indigenous Film Festival is now on TikTok! Their inaugural video features the festival's co-founder, Carr Sappier, who will also be co-teaching this year's Skoden course (CA 389: Selected Topics in the Fine and Performing Arts) with Kathleen Mullen, which is open to all SFU students. Follow Skoden on TikTok HERE and find out more about the festival and course HERE.