SCA | Quick News | September 19, 2025
Light of a Thousand Stars
The Bucket Collective, which includes the SCA's Chris Chong Chan Fui, is presenting a "shorts program," Light of a Thousand Stars, on Saturday, September 27, 2025, from 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, at The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St., Vancouver). Scott Miller Berry and Faraz Anoushahpour, who are part of of the programming collective for the Diffusion Festival, will be in attendance to present the films, and they'll hold a "talk back" session after the screenings, too. Get more info and tickets HERE.
Shihab in Regarding Land
The SCA's Nadia Shihab is part of the exhibition Regarding Land, curated by Amin Alsaden, which runs September 19 – November 23, 2025, at the Dalhousie Art Gallery (6101 University Ave., Dalhousie Arts Centre). More HERE.
Maier and May's Bellows in Paris
The SCA's Stefan Maier and Ragnhild May are premiering a new version their concert installation, Bellows, on September 30, 2025, at Église Saint-Eustache (146, rue Rambuteau 75001 Paris), presented as part of the Festival d'Automne. Also on the bill: Stephen O’Malley and Hampus Lindwall! More HERE.
Boisjoly excerpted
The SCA's Raymond Boisjoly is part of the exhibition All Around Me, All Around You, which is ongoing at the Museum London (421 Ridout Street North London, Ontario). You can listen to quick interview excerpts by Boisjoly and the other artists talking about their work in the exhibition HERE.
Edge Effects opens the Gibson!
Edge Effects, the inaugural exhibition of the Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum at SFU's Burnaby Campus, opens Saturday, September 20, 2025, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM, and includes work by SCA alumni Lorna Brown, Lucien Durey, and Cindy Mochizuki, SCA PhD student Elisa Ferrari, the SCA's Justine A. Chambers and Jin-me Yoon – and many others. Watch a quick video from BCLiving (with a sweet easy listening soundtrack) of the exhibition HERE.
Xu talks SCA & SIAT
Watch a great, quick interview, produced by the media team at Simon Fraser University proper, with 4th Year joint SCA / SIAT student Clara Xu, who talks about the unique kind of flexible interdisciplinary studies possible with us and our colleagues in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology. watch it HERE.
FRIDAY plays NightLife
If you're in San Francisco, SCA alumnus DEBBY FRIDAY is playing on September 25, 2025, at 6:00 PM, at NightLife at The California Academy of Sciences (Golden Gate Park, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco), with Magi Merlin as opener. More HERE.
Sum and Tudor
SCA alumnus Amanda Sum and Sam Tudor play tonight (September 19, 2025) at 7:00 PM, at The Cultch's York Theatre (639 Commercial Dr, Vancouver). More HERE.
Cheung's My Dad is an Astronaut
SCA alumnus Bianca Cheung's My Dad is an Astronaut is having its World Premiere screening in The Absurd & Spiritual program of the VIFF Short Forum on October 7 & 8, 2025, at International Village 7 (88 W Pender St 3rd floor, Vancouver). More HERE.
Stir on The Array: Less Than Zero
Here's Stir Vancouver with a quick introduction to the 2025 edition of Upintheair Theatre's The Array: Less Than Zero, "the ultimate fusion of sci-fi thrills with new, experimental performances," featuring three new works by The Biting School (SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour and Arash Khakpour), SCA alumnus Anjela Magpantay, and Abi Padilla and Argel Monte de Ramos, running October 9 – 11, 2025, at What Lab (1814 Pandora St., Vancouver). Read it HERE.
Fitzsimmons' Mullein
4th year SCA Film student Will Fitzsimmons' Mullein is screening as part of the Pan-Canadian Student Film Festival, which runs October 8 – 19, 2025, as part of Montréal's Festival du nouveau cinéma. More HERE.
Blenkarn and Lim interviewed
SCA alumni Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim, who's collaborative performance / video game assess.masses is seemingly touring everywhere, were interviewed by Catharine Stimpson, a University Professor at New York University and Dean Emeritus of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, for NYU Skirball. Listen / watch HERE.
Rahi's Building Together II and at the New Media Gallery
SCA PhD student George Rahi is facilitating a 4-part self-made instrument workshop series, Building Together II: Acoustic Reactions, presented by the Currently Arts Society, which is now accepting applications – and no experience is required! What you create will be presented at the 2025 edition of Music on Main's Modulus Festival, which runs November 7 – 10. The series runs October 6 – November 10, and the application deadline is September 23, 2025. More HERE. Also, Rahi is the Artist in Residence at the New Media Gallery (777 Columbia St., New Westminster), and is hosting a "studio visit" on October 4 from 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM, leading up to an exhibition opening on Thursday, November 13 and a reception and artist talk on November 17, 2025, from 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM. More HERE.
Indigenous Protocols for the Visual Arts
Indigenous Protocols for the Visual Arts is a new website full of useful resources and links to a podcast, hosted by Liz Barron, from CARFAC and an Advisory Circle of "First Nations, Inuit, and Métis artists and Traditional Knowledge Keepers and Practitioners." Check it out HERE.
Brainwashed
Watch the video for Brainwashed, the second single from The Ultra Hidden (Cryptic) Doctrine, the forthcoming release by Copyright Linda Fox (SCA PhD candidate Dave Biddle) and Jack J, featuring puppets by the SCA's Miwa Matreyek and SCA alumni Marissa Capron, Marita Michaelis, and Niloufar Samadi, and Patrick Macka. Watch it HERE.
Stir on VIFF Live
Read Stir Vancouver on the Vancouver International Film Festival’s VIFF Live programming for 2025, which includes SCA alumnus Scott Morgan / Loscil playing with Julianna Barwick on October 9, 2025, at 8:30 PM at the The Rio Theatre (1660 E Broadway, Vancouver). Read it HERE.
Fold, Knot, Dye with Cleave
SCA alumnus Sena Cleave is hosting a Fold, Knot, Dye workshop on Saturday, September 27, from 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM, presented as part of the UNNAMED BAND's FLEET Residency at Edmonds Park (7433 Humphries Ave, Burnaby). FYI: the UNNAMED BAND is SCA alumni Barbara Adler and Toni-Leah C. Yake and Anju Singh and Julia Úlehla. More HERE.
Crazybull at Sweet Cereal Mountain
SCA alumnus Lauren Crazybull is presenting new work on Saturday, September 20, 2025, at Sweet Cereal Mountain (inside the Robson Public Market (1610 Robson St, Vancouver). More HERE.
Art Connects with the Huberts
SCA alumnus Steven Hubert and Meg Hubert are presenting Art Connects: Expanding Your Practice on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, at the South Surrey Art and Recreation Center (14601 - 20 Avenue Surrey). More HERE.
Companionship and the Cosmos
Companionship and the Cosmos, a two person exhibition with SCA alumnus Quinton Qiu and Sofiya Mukhachova, runs September 15, 2025 – January 4, 2026, at the Richmond Art Gallery's Annex Gallery (Richmond Cultural Centre Annex, 7660 Minoru Gate). More HERE.
Congratulations, Nancy!
SCA Nancy Li is one of the 2025 Scholarship Recipients from the Training Society of Vancouver. More HERE.