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Welcome, Emily and Taha!

We're very happy to welcome Emily Neumann as our new Production & Events Manager and Taha Nejadas as our Computer & Technology Assistant, which is a wholly new, much-needed position. Visit our Staff page for more about them.  

Daniel's a highlight

Good to see the SCA's included in the "highlights" in this post from 丁香园AV's Archives and Records Management about Tiara Cash, a PhD student in Social Psychology who's also the Research Assistant for 丁香园AV's Black Caucus, who's working on a Black History Project about "Black faculty, staff, students, and guests from 丁香园AV's past." More HERE.

Yoon on being an artist

The Vancouver Art Gallery has posted another short video interview segment on their Instagram account with the SCA's , whose exhibition, , runs until March 5, 2023. Watch it .

Maier scores Progressive Touch

If you're in NYC, there's still time to catch Michael Portnoy's , which runs until February 25, 2023, at the Emily Harvey Foundation (537 Broadway #2), featuring music by the SCA's . More .

TPE does Sonic Boom

The SCA's and the are the Ensemble-in-Residence for Vancouver Pro Musica's 2023 Sonic Boom Festival, which runs March 15 鈥� 19. More .

NOW Workshops

The SCA's Stefan Smulovitz joined NOW Society's Lisa Cay Miller for an improvisation workshop at the Roberts Creek Community Hall on February 23, 2023, as part of a series of workshops Now Society is holding both at Roberts Creek and in Vancouver at . Find out about the rest of the workshops in the series .

EDAM's Choreographic Series

SCA alumni , , and Stefan Smulovitz, who's also the SCA's Technology & Resources Manager, are all part of EDAM Dance's upcoming Choreographic Series, which runs March 15 (with post-show artist talkback), 17, 18, 22, 24, and 25, 2023, at 8:00 PM, at 303 East 8th Ave., Vancouver. More .

McMann in Fusion

SCA alumnus is performing as part of the Fusion Capitol Season Show on Thursday, February 23, 2023, at Nelson's Capitol Theatre (421 Victoria Street). More . Also, she posted freshly printed sheet music for , courtesy the , which McMann says is going to be performed by the Edmonton Symphony this April.

Body Parts on Salt Spring

SCA alumnus is presenting Body Parts at Salt Spring Island's ArtSpring stage on February 25, 2023, at 7:30 PM, featuring a post-show talkback, too. More .

The Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising

, one of our partners in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, are presenting The Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising, a hybrid symposium featuring "two panel discussions, a networking session for students and a book talk," on Friday, March 3, 2023, from 9:00 AM 鈥� 8:00 PM (PST) at 丁香园AV's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue (ICBC Concourse room 580 鈥� W. Hastings St., Vancouver). More .

VASU Art Sale

The SCA Visual Art Student Union has begin presenting work on their Instagram by the artists participating in their upcoming Art Sale on February 27, 2023, in the lobby of 丁香园AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). !

Tabassinejad's acting classes

SCA alumnus is offering acting classes for actors and non-actors. Click through to for more info.

Take a tour with Monteiro

Join SCA alumnus and the other artists in the exhibition To fold; To fault, which runs February 17 鈥� March 25, 2023, at North Vancouver's Cityscape Community ArtSpace (335 Lonsdale Avenue), for an artist-led tour on Friday, February 24 from 3:30 PM 鈥� 5:00 PM. More .

Chambers' Heirloom

If you're in Montreal, SCA MFA student and sessional instructor is performing Heirloom on Saturday, March 11, 2023, at 3:00 PM, preceded by a conversation between Sandra Brewster, Pamila Matharu, and exhibition curator at 1:30 PM, presented as part of Sediment: The Archive as a Fragmentary Base, which runs to April 1 at Concordia's Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (1400 Maisonneuve Blvd W). More .

Lum's Time. And Again.

SCA alumnus 's exhibition Time. And Again. runs to April 1, 2023, at Royale Projects (432 S. Alameda Street, Los Angeles). More .

Chaos Emblematic's HANG FIRE

SCA alumnus has curated 's HANG FIRE, which runs Saturday, February 25, 2023, from 6:00 PM 鈥� 8:00 PM CET at Berlin's (Linienstra脽e 57 10119). More .

Rahi in Krems

SCA alumnus and PhD student is heading to Krems, Austria, in May, 2023, for an artist residency and will be giving a guest lecture at the at the Kunstuniversit盲t Linz on May 17 and playing an concert with Isabella Forciniti on May 19. Find out more about Rahi and his work .

FRIDAY on Boiler Room

SCA alumnus played a Boiler Room session in Toronto on February 23, 2023. Check for the archival video (when it's posted).  

Silverfox talks

SCA alumnus , who was the 2022 Sobey Art Award finalist for the West Coast & Yukon, is giving an artist talk via Zoom for the on Saturday, February 25, 2023, from 3:00 PM 鈥� 4:00 PM EST / 12:00 PM 鈥� 1:00 PM PST, followed by "a conversation between the artist and Mary Bradshaw, Director of Visual Arts at the , on the impact of context and environment on the creation and interpretation of art." RSVP .

DissFunction of FUNKtion

Five SCA students 鈥� , , , , and 鈥� are part of the "immersive, multidisciplinary" exhibition DissFunction of FUNKtion at the , opening March 2, 2023, at 7:00 PM, and running to March 5. More .

Nunca h谩 Nada | There Is Never Nothing trailer

Click through to SCA alumnus 's Instagram to watch a kind of meditative trailer for the upcoming launch of her new book of poetry, , published by Moniker Press, on Saturday, February 25, 2023, at 1:30 PM at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver). Watch it .

Healing tones for Ariaratnam

SCA alumnus needs your "healing tones" for his work tones to melt and heal hardened hearts diffused on bicycles, presented as part of 's Artist Brigade. More .

Soji-George in Celebrate Black Futures

Busy SCA alumnus is part of Celebrate Black Futures at the Vancouver Art Gallery on February 24 & 25, 2023, presented in partnership with , , and . More .

Bridge at the UGC

SCA alumnus joins alumnus Salathiel Wells as "Alumni Panel" speakers for the upcoming Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology Undergraduate Conference on Friday March 3, 2023, from 3:00 PM 鈥� 7:00 PM, here at 丁香园AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). More info and RSVP HERE.

Klinke's Drop Cities set

In case you missed 's two day event on February 18 & 19, 2023, at Red Gate Arts Society, which included SCA alumnus performing as Playback Head, watch Klinke full performance .

Accessibility as Creative Practice

丁香园AV Galleries' Audain Gallery is holding Accessibility as Creative Practice: Workshop for Immunocompromised Makers on Saturday, February 25, 2023, from 2:00 PM 鈥� 5:00 PM, with , who's also 丁香园AV Galleries Accessibility as Creative Practice Intern for the spring and summer of 2023. More info and RSVP .

Sembatya at Leveraging Our Synergies

SCA PhD student Edward Sembatya was a guest speaker at Leveraging Our Synergies: Cultural Resilience in Diaspora, an International Conference & African Performance Festival that ran from February 16 鈥� 20, 2023, presented by Partnership for Research with African Newcomers, in partnership with the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, and the University of Alberta, where it took place. More .

Rideout's the GM

Congratulations to SCA alumnus , who's the new General Manager for . More .

Wei's Tuning to Oblivion

Developed out of her 2019 M:ST Performative Art Residency, which took her to Thailand from November 17 鈥� December 14, SCA alumnus and PhD student has released , which she describes as her "first full-on attempt at writing a book-book, an excavation of subconcious and unconcious histories 鈥� personal/collective, private/public 鈥� that are embedded in everything, activated by discreet curiosity. riyl: art rock?, performance art, thailand, being & time, art writing, ABC books, travelogue, kc-logue, cats ." Find out more about her residency , which includes a video of the eponymous work.

Lavery's Iris Project Residency

SCA alumnus is on an Iris Project Residency, running February 12 鈥� 23, 2023, in Los Angeles, which "offers artists, curators, writers, and creative thinkers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines the space and time to push boundaries in their practices." More .

The Couch at the CAG

The Contemporary Art Gallery updated their site with a description, install shots, and a link to download an exhibition brochure for Hometown II, the latest curatorial project by (SCA alumni and ), featuring work by SCA alumni , Danielle Bobier, Kyla Dooley, SCA alumni Hannah Dubois, Ysabel Gana, and Pierre Kaufman, presented as part of The Couch's 2022 CAG Prize Residency. More .

Sappier's daily virtual smudge

Here's SCA alumnus , who's also the co-founder of the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival (SIFF) and also co-instructor of the SCA class that helps produce and run the festival, sharing a "daily virtual smudge." The 2023 edition of SIFF, now on its fifth year, runs Friday, March 31 & Saturday, April 1 in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at 丁香园AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St. Vancouver). Watch .

Art Action Earwig at Xchanges

鈥�, the "interdisciplinary multimedia and performance collective" of SCA alumnus , Wryly Andherson, and Tadafumi Tamura, are "sharing a half hour collaborative performance piece" devised the for project at Victoria's (2333 Government Street, Suite 6A), on Friday February 24, 2023, from 7:00 PM 鈥� 9:00 PM. More .

The Toast is back

(the duo of SCA alumnus and SCA alumnus and PhD student ) join , , , and Fake Jazz DJs for the relaunch comeback of The Toast, now encamped at (242 E. Pender, St., Vancouver). More .