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Jessie Richardson Awards

The Jessie Richardson Awards have announced their nominees for 2024/2025, featuring quite a few SCA alumni. Behold: 

LARGE BUDGET NOMINEES

Outstanding Lighting Design

Outstanding Sound Design or Original Composition

MEDIUM BUDGET NOMINEES

Leading Dramatic Role

  • Amanda Sum, Eileen Barrett, Jennifer Copping, Tess Degenstein, Liza Huget, Rami Kahlon, Nyiri Karakas, Nathan Kay, & Todd Thomson - Ensemble - Dance Nation - The Search Party

Lighting Design

Sound Design or Original Composition

Significant Artistic Achievement

  • Outstanding Achievement in immersive intercultural experience - Lasa ng Imperyo (A Taste of Empire) – rice and beans theatre (SCA alumnus Pedro Chamale as Artistic Director)

SMALL BUDGET NOMINEES

Outstanding Performance

Outstanding Design

THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES NOMINEES

Outstanding Performance

Outstanding Design

  • Shizuka Kai, Laura Fukumoto, Randi Edmundson, John Webber, Cindy Mochizuki, Vanka Salim, Malcolm Dow, Monica Emme, & Stephanie Elgersma - Design Team - Otosan - Little Onion Puppet Co.

See all of the nominees HERE. Good luck, everyone!

The Skin of the Film in Arabic

The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses, the first book by the SCA's Laura U. Marks that was originally published by Duke University Press in 2000, is being translated into Arabic by Jessour Publishing for the Saudi Cinema Association.

Wakey, Wakey

The SCA's Wladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez is the Projection Designer and SCA alumnus Mary Jane Coomber is the Sound Designer for Pacific Theatre's presentation of Will Eno's Wakey, Wakey, which runs October 15 – November 2, 2025, at 1440 W. 12, Ave., Vancouver. More HERE.

Pauly's Improv Workshop

The SCA's Mauricio Pauly is holding an "improvisation workshop" tomorrow (October 18, 2025) from 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, at 8 EAST (8 E. Pender St., Vancouver), presented as part of the NOW Society's Fall Improv Workshops Series. More HERE.

BLINK Tomorrow!

Led by co-artistic directors Josh Hite and the SCA's Steven Hill, Leaky Heaven are presenting Blink, "an evening of 37 one-minute performances by some of Vancouver’s most exciting artists," a dance party, and a fundraiser for Leaky Heaven, on October 18, 2025, at 8:00 PM, at the Russian Hall (600 Campbell Ave, Vancouver), which includes a long, long list of performers, many of whom are SCA folks, too. Behold: Music by Dave Biddle + Erika Mitsuhashi, MCs Marita Michaelis + Isabel Aïda Stewart, Liz Milton, Romi Kim, Josh Hite, Jem Noble, Rob Kitsos, Marina Roy, Nial McNeil, Jenn Griffin, Howard Dai, Derek Chan, James Long, Liam Murley, Lucas Bilbro, Irfan Brković, Janelle Reid, Craig Boyko, Arthi Chandra, John Brennan, Max Tyler-Hite, William Woods, Katie Voravong, Stefan Smulovitz, Wake of Vultures, Samantha Walters, Jess MacCormack, Andrew Laurenson, Francisco Berlanga, Christopher Lacroix, Katayoon Yousefbigloo, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Vanessa Mercedes Figueroa, Luciana Freire D’Anunciação, Jillian Jarin + Christian Mendoza, Steven Hill + Neighbourhood Kids, Rianne Svelnis + Andrea Cownden, Jennifer Mascall + Tobias McFarlane, and Ryan Tacata + Justine A. Chambers. Get tickets HERE.

Bridge's Daughters and Sons – featuring Rob Kitsos and his daughter Beatrice

SCA Alumnus Beau Han Bridge's recent short film Daughters and Sons, starring the SCA's Rob Kitsos and his daughter, renowned film actress Beatrice Kitsos, has exclusively premiered on Film Shortage's Daily Short Picks. Here's what Bridge has to say about the film: "Daughters and Sons is a small film about the quiet distances between parents and children. Working with Rob and Beatrice Kitsos — a real father and daughter — we created space for real emotion and improvisation to emerge, letting performance and reality blur. Inspired by the raw spirit of no-budget dogma films, the film became a lo-fi study of inheritance, identity, and the ways we carry our families’ stories, even when we can’t quite speak them aloud. Would love to hear what the film stirred for you, or if something in it echoed your own family ties ~ thank you for watching!" Check it out HERE.

Nieto in the Salon

SCA alumnus Salome Nieto joins Vidya Kotamraju and Ysadora Dias for Co.ERASGA's Fall Studio Salon 2025 on November 1 at 5:00 PM at What Lab (1814 Pandora St, Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.

Stir on the Modulus Festival

Read Stir Vancouver on Music on Main's Modulus Festival, which runs November 7 – 10, 2025, and features The Only Animal's Luddite Land Assembly Sessions and Concert. Read it HERE.

Simard and Cafferata in Block A

SCA alumni Amélia Simard and Torien Cafferata are part of Playwrights Theatre Centre's 2025/2026 Block A Cohort. Meet them and the rest of the cohort HERE.

Eternal Gestures in Stir and on APTN

Read Stir Vancouver's review of Co.ERASGA’s Eternal Gestures, which featured commissioned choreography by SCA alumnus Starr Muranko, Michelle Olson, and Margaret Grenier, presented as part of as part of The Dance Centre's Global Dance Connections series. Read it HERE. Also, APTN National News shared a video about Eternal Gestures on their YouTube channel. Watch it HERE.

asses.masses in Victoria

Attention Victoria! asses.masses, the interactive video game / theatre performance by SCA alumni Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim, is running November 15 & 16, 2025, at 1:00 PM, at Intrepid Studio (2 – 1609 Blanshard St., Victoria), presented by Impulse Theatre as part of Peek Fest 2025. Get tickets HERE.

BLOT at Morrow

BLOT - Body Line Of Thought, the collaborative work by Action at a Distance (SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman) and Tangaj Collective (Simona Deaconescu), is running October 23 & 24, 2025, at 7:00 PM, at Morrow (Suite 204 – 910 Richards St., Vancouver), presented with the support of The Dance Centre’s Special Projects and Partnerships program. More HERE.

Hangout for Black Theatre Artists

Adonis Critter King shared with us that they're hosting a free Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance "Hangout for Black Theatre Artists" on Monday, October 27, 2025, at 6:00 PM, at The Boxcar (917 Main St., Vancouver). If you're part of this community, RSVP HERE.

Lacroix talks to Gibson and profiles Watt

SCA PhD candidate Christopher Lacroix interviewed artist Alex Gibson for Public Parking. Read it HERE. Also, Lacroix has a text on SCA alumnus Douglas Watt in the October 2025 issue of BlackFlash Magazine on the theme of "Domestic." Order your copy HERE.

UNIT/PITT's 50th Anniversary Exhibition and Publication

Jefferson Alade and SCA alumnus Kaila Bhullar are presenting live audio and visual performances to celebrate Unit/Pitt Society for Art & Critical Awareness' 50th Anniversary Exhibition and Publication launch, 50: Half a Century of UNIT/PITT, on November 7, 2025, from 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM. More HERE.

New SFMF merch!

The Small File Media Festival, which is running October 17–18, 2025, at The Cinematheque (200 – 1131 Howe St., Vancouver), has some cool new gear, including a "lo-fi slime shirt" that features stills SCA alumnus Mena El Shazly's small file film, Hostotipaquillo (which has music by SCA alumnus Jami Reimer), and a bucket hat with "an ultra cute bug" drawn by the SCA's Laura U. Marks, who's also the Small File Media Festival's director. Check them both out HERE.

Watt's Saturday Session on Atlas

SCA alumnus Douglas Watt is hosting a "Saturday Session" on Charles Atlas⁠ for the Contemporary Art Gallery (555 Nelson St., Vancouver) on October 25, 2025, at 12:00 PM, presented in support of Atlas' exhibition, Hail the New Puritan, which is at the CAG until February 28, 2026. More HERE.

Fundamentals of Contact Improvisation with Gan

SCA alumnus Natalie Tin Yin Gan is running a "Fundamentals of Contact Improvisation" dance workshop on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, at 6:30 PM, at the Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave, North Vancouver), presented as part of the Stand Festival. More HERE.

Popcorn Galaxies read The OC S01E01

Save the date! Popcorn Galaxies (SCA alumni June Fukumura and Keely O'Brien) are presenting The OC Season 1 Episode 1: A Table Read Fundraiser on December 7, 2025, from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM, at Vines Art Society's Den (825 E. Hastings St., Vancouver). More info coming soon HERE.

Open Studio Saturdays at the Gibson

Gibson Art Museum has a series of family and kid friendly Open Studio Saturdays, running October 4 – November 1, 2025, led by artist Karen Thảo La, and presented in support the exhibition Edge Effects (featuring work by a few SCA folks!), which is at the Gibson until February 15, 2026. More HERE.

Halloween Party!

Attention SCA students! The SCA Visual Art and Music & Sound Student Unions are teaming up for a Halloween Party on October 30, at 6:30 PM, in Room 4210 here at the SCA (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). Here's what the have to say:

Come dressed in your best costume and ready to tear it up in karaoke and other fun things we have planned ;)

Don’t forget to bring your student ID and a non perishable food item to donate. (It will be donated to a local food bank in the DTES)

Echoes of the Hunt

The SENSES Artists Collective, initiated by SCA student Adelya Mullasheva, is hosting the exhibition and event, Echoes of the Hunt, on October 25, 2025, from 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM, at Lobe Studio (713 E Hastings St., Vancouver), featuring "22 artists, including current and graduate students from SFU and UBC, as well as artists from across Canada and beyond." Get tickets HERE.

Portals, Gateways & Hesitations postcard

Now on sale at READ Books (520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver), SCA alumnus Ogheneofegor Obuwoma has produced a postcard in support of her work Portals, Gateways & Hesitations, which is running on Emily Carr University's Urban Screen until November 17, 2025. See it HERE and go grab yours now!

Triana's flamenco workshop

SCA alumnus Jhoely Triana is holding a beginner-friendly flamenco dance workshop on Monday, October 27, 2025, at 6:30 PM, at the Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave, North Vancouver), presented as part of the Stand Festival. More HERE.

Ross and Carranza in conversation

Read an interview / conversation between SCA alumnus Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross and Fabiola Carranza in Bomb Magazine. Read it HERE.

Bethlehem's Rev Up

Watch the video for Rev Up, the new single from SCA alumnus Bethlehem Mulat, out now from Violation Records. Watch it HERE.

CENOBITE CEREMONY

SCA alumnus Claine "Gorgoth" Lamb is presenting INFERNO, "a fully spatialized soundscape album," with visuals by SCA alumnus Kaila Bhullar, on a bill with Vibraphenomenology (SCA MFA student Alex Calcagno), GluexSniffer, and Flesh Error, on Friday, October 24, 2025, from 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM, at Lobe Studio (713 E. Hastings St., Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.

Designing Cooperative Play for The Gameful Revolution

Laurel Green and SCA alumnus Milton Lim are presenting the workshop, Designing Cooperative Play for The Gameful Revolution, on November 18, 2025, from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM, at SKAM Studio (846 Broughton St., Victoria), presented by Impulse Theatre as part of Peek Fest 2025. Get tickets HERE.

Wong's SmartSmart

SCA alumnus Adrienne Wong is presenting SmartSmart from November 5 & 6 at 7:00 PM and November 9 at 4:00 PM, 2025, in the Robin and Winifred Wood Recital Hall at the Victoria Conservatory of Music (900 Johnson St., Victoria), presented by Impulse Theatre as part of Peek Fest 2025. Get tickets HERE.

Brown, Hertz, and Huizenga talk Crafty Play

SCA alumnus Lorna Brown joins Garnet Hertz and Christian Huizenga for Crafty Play, "a discussion around the subversive potential of craft and hand-making," on Wednesday, October 22, from 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM, at UBC's Green College Coach House (6201 Cecil Green Park Rd., Vancouver). More HERE.

Autonomous Apes / Anteater Eater / Deaf Dogs

Autonomous Apes, which includes SCA students Egor Kopshar and Erin Docherty and SCA alumni Marissa Chan, are playing Anteater Eater and Deaf Dogs on Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 8:00 PM, at Red Gate (1965 Main St., Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.

Carter in Practice Lab: Thereness and Thatness

SCA alumnus Shion Skye Carter joins Mayumi Lashbrook, Masumi Rodriguez, and Elena Kirby for Practice Lab: Thereness and Thatness, a Toronto Dance Love-In, on November 1, 2025, from 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM at 101 Florence St., Toronto. More HERE.

Kong and Lacroix at UAAC-AAUC

SCA alumnus Yani Kong participated in the panel, "Manifesting Reciprocity: fertile practices of engagement with the more-than-human world" at the 2025 UAAC-AAUC conference, hosted by the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) at York University in Toronto. Also at the conference, SCA PhD candidate Christopher Lacroix co-chaired the panel "Queer Operatives: Writing, Making, and Transmitting Queer Canadian Art Histories." See the full program as a PDF HERE.

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