SCA | Quick News | November 20, 2020
Yousefbigloo in 360°
SCA MFA student Katayoon Yousefbigloo, as Puzzlehead, is having a "360°" show on Friday, December 4, 2020, at 8:30 PM (PST), presented by VIVO Media Arts Centre. Read more HERE.
Tacata and For You: Artists & Elders
Read some good press in the Chicago Tribune about the For You: Artists & Elders project, which includes the SCA's Ryan Tacata. The project "brings artists and elders together" in order to "create and exchange art in the spirit of gift-giving, and inspire new forms of distant socializing." Read it HERE.
Kitsos remotely
The SCA's Rob Kitsos answers the question, "Can you teach dance remotely?," for SFU's Centre for Educational Excellence. Read it HERE.
Sappier project on Gem
Watch The Capital Project - My Song is My Name on CBC Gem, co-produced and camera-operated by SCA alumni Carr Sappier, who's also co-teaching this year's SCA course, CA 389, that will realize the 2021 Skoden Indigenous Film Festival. Look for it on CBC Gem HERE.
Wong's Yes Nice
SCA alumni Nathaniel Wong has new music out as Yes Nice. Listen to it HERE.
Meyers and Ritter talk sh*t with Friedenberg
SCA alumni Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg has an instructive and lively Q&A with SCA alumni Hannah Meyers (theatre) and Jaqueline Ritter (dance) and dancers Kate Franklin and Sarah Hutton, talking about life and work after school. Listen to it HERE.
Berlanga wins
Belated congratulations to SCA alumni Francisco Berlanga for winning the $10,000 Fluevog Artist Grant for 2020! Read more HERE.
Gemmel / Klinke
SCA MA alumni Mallory Gemmel interviews SCA MFA alumni Alexandre Klinke for Arts Help. Read it HERE.
Koochakzadeh-Yazdi x 2
Watch SCA alumni Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi's collaboration with Peter Smida and Kiana Jung for Ballet BC, presented as part of Vancouver Culture Days. Watch it HERE. Koochakadeh-Yazdi also has a track on R e : W o r k s (vol. II), a new collection of "composers remixing composers." Listen to it HERE.
Pauly x 2
Great article about composers who "balance openness and structure" and "composition and improvisation" by Eric Wubbels for the online music magazine Wet Ink Archive that includes the SCA's Mauricio Pauly among some impressive musical luminaries – and rightly so! Has links to music, too! Read it HERE. Pauly is also releasing new music, Charred Edifice Shining, with UK ensemble Distractfold, on November 27, 2020. Get Spotify pre-access HERE.
Tam & Siu with Young
SCA alumni Nancy Tam and Remy Siu joined artist Samson Young, who also spoke as part of our VISUAL ART FORUM series of talks, in an online conversation for the Vancouver Art Gallery. Watch it HERE.
MENA Fest panel
The 2020 MENA Film Festival, which was co-founded by SCA MFA student Ghinwa Yassine, is presenting a panel discussion, In and Out of the Loop: Lebanese Art, History and the City, on November 21, 2020, at 11:00 AM (PST). RSVP HERE.
Mercer's Best Sci-Fi
SCA alumni Gloria Mercer's most recent short film, Hekademia, won an award for "Best Sci-Fi" at the HollyShorts Film Festival. Congratulations, Gloria! Read more about the film HERE.
Sum in a craigslist cantata
Read press for The Cultch's do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata, written by Veda Hille, Bill Richardson, and Amiel Gladstone, which runs November 19 – 22, 2020, featuring SCA alumni Amanda Sum. Read it HERE.