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The Couch wins!

Congratulations to The Couch (aka SCA students Debbie C and Sena Cleave) for winning this year's CAG Prize! Here's how The Couch describe their project:

The Couch is a mobile art space that draws on the homemaking practices of carpenter ants to platform the work of emerging artists. Carpenter ants chew faults into human infrastructures to build their own homes, but an infestation alone cannot demolish a building. Instead, the ants uncover the foundations by disturbing surface elements like window sills or baseboards. When The Couch is installed within a gallery, it carves out space for artists that the institution did not invite, thus infesting the gallery. Consisting of a couch and a coffee table, The Couch hosts gatherings that merge art and daily life. The furniture is modular so it can be packed and moved to another site, where the next group of exhibiting artists will recontextualize it. For this inaugural exhibition, The Couch published an open call for emerging artists to respond to the idea of scent trails. These can be pheromone paths extending from home to food sources, a method of communication, and a way for ants to recognize kin.

The Couch is on display now as part of Collecting Plum Blossoms, the 2022 SCA BFA Graduating Exhibition, which runs April 14 – 23, 2022, at 丁香园AV Galleries' Audain Gallery.

Administered by the , the CAG Prize is generously supported by the Peter Szeto Investment Group, BMO Nesbitt Burns.

Latta and WaxFactory's Contemporary Summer Session

The SCA's Erika Latta and , the company she operates with her longtime collaborator Ivan Talijancic, are part of a Contemporary Summer Session in Split, Croatia, featuring workshops with and from SITI Company, running July – 23, 2022. More .

Matreyek's busy tour

The SCA's will be presenting her works Infinitely Yours and This World Made Itself at the Baker Hall at the (Bethlaham, PA) on April 19 at 4:00 PM; at the (College Drive, Toms River, NJ ) on April 21 at 11:00 AM; at the Hinman Auditorium at the (Bonita Spring, FL) on April 29 at 7:30 PM; and at the at Ramapo College (Mahwah, NJ) on April 30 at 8:00 PM, where she'll also be participating on an Industry Experts Panel at 5:00 PM, also on April 30, as part of Ramapo College's .

Shihab's Echolocation and more

The SCA's 's film will be screening at (in-person May 8 and 10), and she'll be speaking on a panel at Visionaries, hosted by the Directors Guild of Canada on May 7 from 12:00 PM – 5:30 PM at the Kent Vancouver (534 Cambie St.). Echolocation will also be screening at the on May 7 as part of The Look and Sound of Truth. Watch the trailer . Shihab's related essay Echolocation was also published in the most recent issue of the . Additionally, she will have a mixed media installation on view in the group exhibition Migrant Madonna at in Los Angeles from April 21 – May 14, 2022.  

Priest talks about daydreaming and Pontypool

The SCA's will be giving "an online talk about daydreaming (and Pontypool)" at Western University's Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at 4:00 PM (EST). Contact theory@uwo.ca for more info.

Marks in A Conversation Between Art, Film, and Philosophy

The SCA's Laura Marks is participating in A Conversation Between Art, Film, and Philosophy, a conference in Honor of , on May 13 & 14, 2022, at the University of Chicago Arts' Logan Center for the Arts.

Stir on In the Distance

Here's Stir Vancouver on the 's upcoming event, , on April 29, 2022, at 7:30 PM (in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre here at 丁香园AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts). In the Distance has the SCA's , who's also TPE's Artistic Director and conductor, passing the baton to Croatian composer and conductor Berislav ?ipu?. Read it .

SCA Service Awards

Attention SCA students!Apply to the School for the Contemporary Arts' Service Awards.

The SCA Service Awards are for all SCA students enrolled in a minimum of 6 units who have made a significant voluntary contribution in their field of study, with satisfactory academic standing in the qualifying term of contribution. Graduate students may also be recognized for these awards. Selection for the award will be made by the Senate Undergraduate Awards Adjudication Committee from nomination by the director of the School for the Contemporary Arts. These awards typically range from $200 to $700. Please note: Work done for remuneration, or for a class, does not qualify.

Please submit by May 1, 2022. Apply online HERE.

Chaput's Fire of Love

SCA alumnus edited , her first feature as editor. Chaput not only won an editing award for Fire of Love at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, but the film is also opening DOXA Documentary Film Festival in May. Chaput is also speaking at DOXA about editing, as well. Search for the film on .

Valentine-Lewis curates 颁谤耻诲颈迟é蝉

SCA alumnus has curated 颁谤耻诲颈迟é蝉, a series of photographs by for the at the Marine Drive Station from April 1 – Aug 31, 2022, presented in collaboration with the and TransLink. More .

Mitsuhashi and Frewer's The shape of something changes when you move through it

SCA alumnus and are presenting The shape of something changes when you move through it on May 6 & 7, 2022, at 7:00 PM at (211 Keefer Street), presented by the plastic orchid factory. More .

Morelli speaks with Boudreau and writes on Furey

SCA alumnus will be speaking with at on Friday, April 22, 2022, at 11:00 AM (PDT). More . Also, read Morelli on 's Dog Rising for Dance International. Read it .

Dai talks Opera Speaks

SCA alumnus is part of Opera Speaks: Creative Adaptation, a free and in-person panel on April 22, 2022, at 7:30 PM at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall, presented by Vancouver Opera. More .

Lim lights Mesiha's Same Difference

SCA alumnus is co-designing projections for and SCA alumnus and Theatre Conspiracy's Artistic Director ’蝉 Same Difference at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, running April 19 – 23, 2022. More .

Heavy Petting selected

Congratulations to SCA alumnus , whose was "selected from nearly 2,000 films by the 30+ editors and writers from Film Threat and their AwardThis advisory board as one of the best shorts of the year." More .

Kanagawa casting Forgiveness

Call for auditions from SCA alumnus for his "stage adaptation of Mark Sakamoto's award-winning WWII family memoir, ," which is a co-commission by the and . More .

FCAT Undergraduate Conference – videos!

Spend some time with students from across the , including the SCA, with this collection of videos from the 2022 FCAT Undergraduate Conference. Watch HERE.

Videla Q&A

Subscribe to 's newsletter to read a Q&A with SCA alumnus , who's in rice & beans theatre's upcoming show, Peace Country, presented by rice & beans theatre and at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts from April 27 – 30, 2022. Subscribe to read .

Support K BODY AND MIND

Help SCA alumnus and , his ongoing collaboration with fellow SCA alumni and , bring to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts this May 4 – 7, 2022, by making a small donation in exchange for music and art. Donate .

Congratulations, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman!

Congratulations to Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, a SCA PhD candidate working under Claudette Lauzon, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Socially Engaged Art at Fairhaven College, Western Washington University. Find out more about Sniderman and his work .

SCA for International Dance Day

SCA alumni , , and , as well as frequent SCA Instructor , are all participating in The Dance Centre's FREE celebration of International Dance Day on Friday, April 29, 2022, running at various locations and online (some RSVPs required). More .

Donate to Atira

Consider making a donation to the to help the displaced folks from the recent here in the DTES, mere blocks from us. More .

Koochakzadeh-Yazdi gets played

performed works by composers at Stony Brook University, including SCA alumnus . Listen to music by Koochakzadeh-Yazdi .

Aoki-Bolcsfoldi in Nikkei Voice

Read about SCA alumnus and her residency in Nikkei Voice. Read it . Don't miss the 3rd Annual Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency Showing featuring Aoki-Bolcsfold on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at 7:30 PM, co-presented by 丁香园AV Woodward's Cultural Programs and Dance West Network. More .

Spence's Blue Waves, Green Waves

SCA alumnus has new music coming this summer, titled Blue Waves, Green Waves, on the great . Watch a video teaser of Blue Waves by . Also, Spence is performing with at Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art for MONO 42 on May 19, 2022, at 6.30 PM. More .

Shaw and Goodman's G&G mixtape

Listen to a mixtape from and SCA alumnus , shared in advance or their presentation of on April 15 & 16, 2022, at The Grand, presented by New Works Calgary. Listen .