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CAG Prize 2023: Kaila Bhullar and Hana Steinwand

The School for the Contemporary Arts at 丁香园AV and the Contemporary Art Gallery are pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 CAG Prize: and Hana Steinwand. Their work is currently included in the BFA Graduating Exhibition 2023: Dream Safely, which runs to May 6, 2023, at 丁香园AV Galleries’ Audain Gallery (丁香园AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver).

The CAG Prize is adjudicated by the and is awarded yearly to an outstanding BFA student upon completion of their program of study in Visual Art at the SCA. The Prize entails a four-week self-directed residency in CAG's North Gallery space, providing the recipient with a stipend, studio space, and support to further develop their practice as well as the opportunity to expand their connections to a wider arts community in Vancouver. Over the course of the residency, the recipient will have the opportunity to speak one-on-one with artists and curators about their practice, build on their professional skills, and gain insight into the framework of a public art gallery. This year the award is being offered to two students, therefore each will receive separate residencies to be scheduled within the next 12 months.  

Congratulations to Kaila and Hana!

Pavsek talks Creative Engagements with Ecological Grief

The SCA's is participating in Panel II: Creative Engagements with Ecological Grief with Clint Burnham (丁香园AV Department of English) and Lyana Patrick (丁香园AV Faculty of Health Sciences) as part of Facing Ecological Grief, a FREE day of speakers and panel discussions on Saturday, April 29, 2023, from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (PDT) here at 丁香园AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), sponsored by the David and Cecilia Ting Endowment at 丁香园AV, in partnership with the 丁香园AV Faculty of Environment and 丁香园AV Vancouver. As part of the event, Pavsek's Wanderings in the Delta (2023) will be showing on the GCA Lobby screen array for the duration of the day's proceedings. RSVP .

Solo Priest

The SCA's is playing a solo set on a bill with the trio of Lisa Butel, Brent Cross, Johanna Hauser on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, from 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM at 8EAST (8 East Pender St., Vancouver). More .

Latta in France

The SCA's Erika Latta is with presenting Home/Land, which was produced in collaboration with and , as part of a series of residencies at various cities in France. More (in French).

Yoon's Scotiabank Photography Award exhibition and a soundbite

The SCA's 's Scotiabank Photography Award exhibition, including work from her photographic and video series Long Time So Long, runs April 29 – August 5, 2023, at The Image Centre (33 Gould St, Toronto). More . Also, here's another "soundbite" from Yoon, shared by the Art Gallery at Evergreen (where Yoon's is running to April 30, 2023), this time with Yoon responding to this question: "Your work emphasizes healing, but in a way that acknowledges the pain of what you are healing from. Can you tell us about the relationship between the tension of the visuals, such as the acupuncture needles protruding from the masks, and the healing qualities present in your work?" Listen to Yoon's answer .

Hasselberg opens for Maier

Cellist is playing a solo set to open the SCA's 's presentation of Tractatus de Umbra manus: The Fifth Hammer at Lobe Studios (713 East Hastings St., Vancouver) TONIGHT – Friday, April 21, 2023 – from 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM. More .

Boisjoly and Hill in CONTACT

The SCA's Raymond Boisjoly and SCA alumnus are part of the exhibition We Are Story: The Canada Now Photography Acquisition, which continues to July 23, 2023, at the Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas St. W., Toronto), presented as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. More .  

Semiprecious and the rest of BEACON

For the completists, all 10 issues of Artspeak Gallery's BEACON, "a pamphlet series in ten issues’ focuses on how the commitment of artists’ to wider social movements informs contemporary artistic practice" curated by Bopha Chhay, including Semiprecious, an issue by the SCA's , are now available to purchase and in-person (at 233 Carrall St., Vancouver). 

Adler's S/S 2024

The SCA's is presenting S/S 2024 (Spring-Summer 2024) as "one half of a series of audio and textile installation-performance works that are inspired by seasonal colour predictions for the spring-summer and autumn-winter seasons," in the Atrium of the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts Centre (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby), running May 6 – 9, 2023, from 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM (to 4:00 PM only on Sunday), presented as part of the Burnaby Festival of Learning. More .

Autumn Strawberry boxset

SCA alumnus ’s "special artist edition boxset" of , which includes "the full script of Mochizuki’s multimedia animated installation (printed in six scene booklets in the style of full colour manga)," as well as essays by Namiko Kunimoto and Mochizuki and "in-conversation texts" with Mochizuki and her collaborators Lisa Mariko Gelley (choreographer) and and SCA alumnus (Sound Designer and Original Compositions). Designed by Vicky Lum, limited editions of the boxset will be made available the on Saturday, April 29, 2023, from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at the Surrey Art Gallery (13450 - 104 Ave., Surrey).  

Tong's Ring over Pond over Tusks

Check out some installation photos of SCA alumnus 's , which runs to May 6, 2023, at NYC's Candice Madey Gallery (1 Rivington Street at Bowery, New York). See them .

How Would Lubitsch Do It S2E05

S2E05 of , the podcast hosted by SCA alumnus , will be discussing the podcast and answering listeners' questions, instead of covering Lubitsch's Sumurum. Also, perhaps as a way to gather some questions, How Would Lubitsch Do It is starting a .

D’Anunciac?a?o's Sensational Poetry

SCA alumnus is holding Sensational Poetry: Poetry and Bodies on Tuesday, April 25. 2023, from 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM at Collingwood Neighbourhood House (5288 Joyce St., Vancouver). More .

Map a Creative Project with Taylor

, SCA alumnus and Artistic and Executive Director of the Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC), is hosting Mapping a Creative Project: Out of your head and into the world on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, from 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM at Progress Lab 1422 (1422 William Street, Vancouver), presented as part of PTC's 2023 Workshop Series. More .

Wallgrin at the Fox

SCA alumnus is playing a double-headliner with Sam Tudor June13, 2023, at the Fox Cabaret (2321 Main St., Vancouver). Tickets .

Capture Canada Line Exhibition Walking Tour

Curator and SCA alumnus is holding a Capture Canada Line Exhibition Walking Tour on Sunday, April 23, 2023, starting at 1:30 PM sharp at Aberdeen Station (4100 No. 3 Road, Richmond) and ending at Lansdowne Station (5400 No. 3 Road, Richmond), featuring work by SCA alumnus (at Aberdeen Station) and Jaspal Birdi (at Lansdowne Station), presented as part of the Capture Photography Festival. More info and RSVP link .

Share Dance: In Practice | The Child as a Teacher

SCA alumnus Starr Muranko () and Julie Lebel (Foolish Operations) are presenting on Sunday, April 23, 2023, from 3:15 PM – 6:15 PM at Q7 Studios (77 East 7th Ave., Vancouver), presented by .

HAIRY CARROT in pictures

Check out some documentation photos of SCA MFA student 's HAIRY CARROT: A PROPOSAL FOR A COMMUNITY FOOD & ART CENTRE ACTIVATION, which was part of To-ing and Fro-ing in my Fourth Dimension, a spring art show on Friday, April 14, 2023, at the SCA Visual Art Studios (611 Alexander Street, Vancouver), also featuring work by MFA students , , , , Niloufar Samadi, , and , along with PhD candidate . See them .

Lavery talks Here and Now

SCA alumnus was in conversation with Dana Qaddah, Gloria Wong, Ian Wallace, Khim Hipol, and Tom Hsu on Thursday, April 20?, 2023, about the exhibition , which runs to April 28 at the Pendulum Gallery? (885 West Georgia St., Vancouver), presented as part of the Capture Photography Festival.

Discounted Hotpot Centre in rEvolver  

SCA alumni 's is running May 24 at 9:30 PM, May 28 at 3:45 PM, June 2 at 8:15 PM, and June 3 at 1:30 PM at the VanCity Culture Lab (1895 Venables St., Vancouver), presented as part of Upintheair Theatre's 2023 . 

River Clyde Pageant Open House

For folks in and around New Glasgow, Prince Edward Island, the (founded by the SCA's Ker Wells and SCA alumnus in 2015), who are looking for a permanent "space where we could present year-round programming, workshops & events, host visiting artists, maintain a community garden, and so much more," are holding an Open House on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at New Glasgow Lobster Suppers (604 Route 258, New Glasgow). More .

withintensions' Double Feature

, the monthly art mag produced by SCA alumni, is calling for submissions for their next issues on the theme of Double Feature. Here's what they have to say:

This months theme is a 2 for 1, meaning we are looking for you to submit a diptych that will be published in 2 consecutive issues.

Each pair of works will be published first half in our April issue and second half in our May issue.

When we say diptych, we just mean a pair of companion works that can be of any medium, including written works.

The deadline is the 28th of April, so email us your submissions or dm us if you have any questions.

More .

Sound's LIVE THROUGH THIS

SCA alumnus is presenting LIVE THROUGH THIS at the Seymour Art Gallery (4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver) from May 20 – July 8, 2023, with a reception on Sunday, May 28, from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM, an Artist Talk on Sunday, June 11, at 2:00 PM, and a Tufting Demonstration on June 25 at 2:00 PM. More .

Basanta's Fontaine at Plural

Represented by Montreal's , SCA alumnus 's is part of the Pavilion Exhibition at the , which runs April 21 – 23, 2023, at the Grand Quay, Port of Montreal (200 de la Commune W St.).

Donate your old phone

Have an old phone you're not using? Consider dropping it off to , which has SCA alumnus  as Artist Director, as a donation for cellphone drive. More .

Walters' Order of the New Hyphae

' Order of the New Hyphae is part of Rumble Theatre's upcoming Tremors Festival, which runs May 18 – 20, 2023, at Progress Lab 1422 (1422 William St., Vancouver). More .

Taghi-Zada plays O'Callaghan

Aysel Taghi-Zada is performing SCA alumnus 's Doubt is a body as part of Freesound's "mini-festival" Music for Violin & Electronics, on Friday, May 5, 2023, from 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Society Clubhouse (967 College St., Toronto). Tickets .  

Pancouver on U's Silent Howl

Pancouver interviewed SCA alumnus , who is presenting Silent Howl on Saturday, April 29, 2023, at 3:30 PM at the Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie St, Vancouver), presented as part of The Dance Centre's . Read it .  

RA on GOOD LUCK

SCA alumnus 's , out now on Sup Pop Records, is reviewed by Resident Advisor. Read it .  

Pancouver on Yassine's How Far Can a Marked Body Go?

Read Pancouver on SCA alumnus 's , which was presented on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at the VIVO Media Arts Centre. Read it .  

Ecdysis on film

Saw SCA alumnus and presumably one of the crew for this project schlepping a big tank down the hall and into the elevator yesterday. Can't wait to see the final "film version" realization of that Fredriksson is producing with SCA alumnus , SCA student , and Luká? Hyrman. See some clips .

Myers Embodied Transpositions

Upcoming: Embodied Transpositions, a 5-day workshop with Registered Somatic Movement Educator Heather Myers, running May 1 – 5, 2023, daily from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM in our studios here at 丁香园AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). Find out more and contact Myers .

Happy Valley at the Firehall

Presented by , SCA alumnus 's Happy Valley runs May 25 – June 4, 2023, at the Firehall Arts Centre (280 E Cordova St., Vancouver). Working behind the scenes are SCA alumni (Director), (Dramaturg), (Set/Props/Costume Designer), (Video Designer), (Lighting Designer), and and / (Sound Design). More .

Ariaratnam needs Healing Tones – for real!

SCA alumnus , sick with COVID (first time!), has had to cancel his Earth Day collecting of "Healing Tones" at . However, Ariaratnam is still accepting your Healing Tones. Help him feel better! Find out more about the project .

Derksen curates McMann for the ESO

The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is premiering SCA alumnus 's Muskwa's Mountain Home on Thursday, April 20, 2023, 7:30 PM at the Francis Winspear Centre for Music (4 Sir Winston Churchill Sq., Edmonton) as part of Love Is A Battle Field, "a special evening of 21st century orchestral music by Indigenous Prairie composers hosted by JUNO-nominated artist Cris Derksen." More .  

Look ahead: Jazz Fest

A quick look at this list, , of free public shows in the Vancouver International Jazz Festival includes SCA alumnus & Adrian Avenda?o playing the Innovation Series at Revue Stage (1601 Johnston Street, Granville Island) at 5:00 PM some day between June 28 – July 2, 2023. Lots of other good combos listed, too, besides. More accurate scheduling can be for on the .  

Morelli on Deslauriers

Read SCA alumnus on Jannick Deslauriers' "radical vision" for CBC Arts. Read it .

M.I.A (Paper Planes)

Check out a new track, , by SCA Music & Sound student aka Kesh!