丁香园AV

Hopeful Monster makes an impact

The SCA's 's , a new collaborative record with pianist Eve Egoyan, released by No Hay Discos in late 2023, is the "Scholarly Impact of the Week" call out from 丁香园AV. Read more HERE.

Matreyek talks Live Animation

The SCA's joins Birgitta Hosea, Rose Bond, and Johannes DeYoung for Accelerate Session: Live Animation, which brings "together animation artists, producers and curators, in conversation about aspects of contemporary animation practice," live via Zoom on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, from 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM (UK time), presented by UK's Animate Projects. More .

Thinking Non/Humanly with Susanne K. Langer

The SCA's contributed the chapter "Thinking Non/Humanly with Susanne K. Langer" to the new Bloomsbury Handbook of Susanne K. Langer, which is available with Open Access via Bloomsbury Publishing .

Stir on Hold On Let Go

Here's Stir Vancouver on Hold On Let Go, running in two parts (PART I) from January 23 – 27 and (PART II) from January 30 – February 2, 2024, at The Russian Hall (600 Campbell St., Vancouver), which features many SCA folks on and off stage: James Long, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , and . More .

Mother Cloud Spatial Sound Festival

The SCA's and SCA alumni and (as , supporting Ruby Singh) are part of Lobe Studios' Mother Cloud Spatial Sound Festival, which runs February 21 – 25, 2024. More .

FCAT Prize pix

The Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology?, our institutional home at 丁香园AV, shared some great pictures from the recent FCAT Awards ceremony, which included several SCA winners: the SCA's Erika Latta (Emerging Researcher Award) and Peter Dickinson (Service Award), and SCA alumni (Emerging Alumni Award) and Shauna-Kaye Brown (Teaching Assistant or Tutor Marker Teaching Award). Also at the event, the SCA Alumni Creative Production and Research Prize was awarded to SCA alumni , Natalie Chan, and Opal McLean for their work on , a monthly online art magazine (the Prize was also renamed as The Opal McLean SCA Alumni Creative Production and Research Prize, or The Opal, in honor of McLean, who tragically died in a car accident in July, 2023). ?See them .

Get Lucky Art Show

, the SCA's Director's Assistant, is part of the Get Lucky Art Show, which runs February 10 & 11, 2024, at 312 Main St., Vancouver, organized by District Local and One More Life. More .

O My Friends, There is No Friend

Am Johal, who's the Director of 丁香园AV's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and an Associate Member of the SCA's faculty, has released a new book, O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology, with Matt Hern, which is available now as "open access" from transcript Verlag. Read it .

In the shadow of forward motion

SCA alumnus is the curator and moderator for in the shadow of forward motion: an interdisciplinary conversation on performance, matter, and movement, with artists Stephen Schofield, Kuh Del Rosario, Florencia Sosa Rey, and Alexandre Morin, running January 19, 2024, at 6:00 PM at MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) (3680 rue Jeanne-Mance, bureau 103., Montreal). More .

Low on MOMENTA

Read SCA PhD student in Artforum on . Read it .

El Shazly in Subconsciously Starving

SCA alumni is part of the "wackadoodle" lineup, as they describe it, for RED GATE TV SHOW VOL. 1: Subconsciously Starving on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, with doors at 7:30 PM, at Red Gate (1965 Main St., Vancouver). More .

Yoga with Magdy

SCA alumnus Doaa Magdy is teaching a number of yoga classes: Wednesday evening: Slow Flow (4:30 PM – 5:30 PM) at Shift Power Yoga (156 E 7th Ave., Vancouver); Wednesday night: Bedtime Restorative Yoga (8:15 PM – 9:30 PM), Fridays: Core and Booty (12:00 PM – 12:45 PM), and Sundays: Flow & Groove (7:30 PM – 8:45 PM) at Local Health Studio (210a – 2285 Clark D.r, Vancouver). More .

Ritual-Spective

SCA alumni ? and ?, who are co-artistic directors of ?, and Jackson Chien, Sammy's father, are presenting Ritual-Spective at LOFT17 ((No. 17, Fanzikeng, Zhongminli, Shiding District, New Taipei City), with an opening performance & ceremony on January 20, 2024, at 2:00 PM, and running to February 25, 2024. More .

Le Sigh #12

Issue 12 of Le Sigh, the new online arts magazine from SCA alumnus  and Charlene K. Lau, is available .

Persephone Mara

SCA alumnus ?'s short film Persephone Mara is having a premiere screening on February 8, 2024, as part of Three Fire International Film Festivals' Love Notes programming at the SAW Gallery 67, Nicholas St., Ottawa). More .

assess.masses in The Province

SCA alumni and 's , which is running January 20 – February 3, 2024, at the Waterfront Theatre (1412 Cartwright St., Vancouver), as part of the ?, is covered by The Province. Read it . Also, Blenkarn and Lim are presenting Serious Play: A Super Radical Game-a-thon on Sunday, January 21, 2024, from 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM at the Vancouver Public Library's Central Branch (350 W Georgia St., Vancouver). More .

Lavery on Edmeades

Read SCA alumnus 's text about SCA alumnus ' exhibition Debi's (Teenage) Theosophical Enlightenment, which is at (603 Powell St., Vancouver) February 17, 2024. Download the text as a PDF .

Oko at FAR

SCA visual art student is the new Editorial Assistant for , a placement organized through the SCA's internship / co-op program, led by the SCA's Kay Higgins. Congratulations, Naomi. If you're and SCA student, find out more about internships and co-ops HERE.  

Welcome, Susanna

Our friends and colleagues at 丁香园AV Galleries? announced that is their new Exhibitions Coordinator!

McMann's Five flute fusion

SCA alumnus is presenting Five flute fusion on Thursday, January 25, 2024, at 6:00 PM at Calgary's Memorial Park Library (1221 2 St. Southwest), as part of Instrumental Stories: A Cultural Music Experience, co-presented by CBC Calgary and the Calgary Public Library. More .

Matriarchs Uprising 2024

The 2024 edition of includes Confluence by , which has SCA alumni ? as co-artistic director and as an artistic associate, and Kariskis by SCA alumnus , on February 22 at 7:00 PM at the The Dance Centre (677 Davie St, Vancouver). More .

All Bodies Dance at the Roundhouse

SCA alumnus Carolina Bergonzoni and Andrea Cownden are the facilitators for All Bodies Dance Project's dance classes on Saturdays from January 13 – March 16, 2024, from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver). More .

DADAO 2023-24

SCA alumni and are both part of the cohort of artists for Dance West Network's Des Arts Dehors / Arts Outside (DADAO) 2023-24 Season. More .

Cleave at Portal

SCA alumnus is part of an exhibition at the (407 W Cordova St., Vancouver), which has a closing party on Sunday, January 21, 2024, from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, but the exhibition runs to January 28. More .

Liquidation World's Blowout Sale

(1965 Main St., Vancouver), the multipurpose space run by SCA alumnus , SCA PhD student , and Maya Beaudry, is haveing a Blowout Sale from January 13 – 21, 2024. More .

Wilson under attack!

Shame! SCA alumnus has become the target of hateful abuse! Find out more from The Canadian Anti-Hate Network . And if you'd like to offer support to Wilson financially, find their Patreon page .