SCA | Quick News | July 28, 2023
Radul is Distinguished
The SCA's has been named as a Distinguished 間眅埶AV Professor, which "recognizes 間眅埶AV research faculty members of distinction who have achieved exceptional performance and distinguished accomplishments relative to their rank and years of service," administered by the 間眅埶AV＊s Provost and Vice-President Academic and the Vice-President, Research and International. Congratulations, Judy! Well deserved! Meet all of the 2023 recipients HERE.
2023 Bill Millerd Artist Fund recipients
The SCA's Wladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez and SCA alumnus are among the 2023 recipients of the Bill Millerd Artist Fund, which is administered by the Arts Club Theatre Company. More .
Matreyek at ArtYard
The SCA's is presenting Infinitely Yours & This World Made Itself at the Live Animation Festival on September 23, 2023, at 7:30 PM at ArtYard (13 Front Street Frenchtown, NJ). More .
Curtain Speech clips
Watch a great collection of clips from the SCA's 's , featuring the SCA's ? and SCA alumnus , presented on Friday, April 21, 2023, as part at the Libby Leshgold Gallery?, which was a set of mini-residencies at the Libby by SCA alumnus , Chambers, and Tacata, with lighting designer James Proudfoot. Click through for the clips on .
Anderson heads back to school
As well as saying goodbye to , SCA alumnus and the SCA's soon-to-be former Professional Development Coordinator, who's leaving us to become the new Artistic Director of , we're also saying goodbye to , SCA alumnus and the SCA's soon-to-be former Graduate Program Assistant, who's leaving us to do a PhD in the stream in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (IGS) program at UBC Okanagan Graduate Studies. Good luck, buddy! And with all that in mind, the SCA's looking for both a new Professional Development Coordinator and a new Director's Assistant (Samantha Diamond, the current Director's Assistant, is moving to become the Graduate Program Assistant, which makes her old position open). Interested? More HERE.
Field Notes x Fireworks Edition
The SCA's joins SCA alumnus & Adrian Avenda?o, M?arina Hasselberg, Alexi Baris, and Sasha J. Langford for Field Notes x Fireworks Edition, a FREE "outdoor sound performance in Hadden Park" (1905 Ogden Ave., Vancouver), on Saturday, July 29, 2023, from 8:00 PM 每 10:00 PM, co-curated by SCA alumnus and Publik Secrets (SCA alumnus and PhD student , Robyn Jacob, I Putu Swaryandana Ichi Oka, and Adrian Avenda?o). RSVP .
Untitled (He didn＊t ask her much＃)
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery? shared a quick introduction to Untitled (He didn＊t ask her much＃) from 1991 by the SCA's , which is part of the exhibition What Is Welcome? that's at the Belkin until August 13, 2023. Click through to for the introduction and head to their site for more about the exhibition .
3rd Annual YIMP FEST
The SCA's (that's me) is doing fill-in drum duties as part of (featuring , , and , who is unable to perform) on this FREE Vancouver indie rock stacked bill, the , tomorrow 每 Saturday, July 28, 2023 每 from 4:00 PM 每 7:00 PM at Falaise Park (3434 Falaise Ave., Vancouver) with , The Here and Now (with ), and a newly reformed , presented by .
Announcing the Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum
Official big news from 間眅埶AV Galleries Director Kimberly Phillips, who's also an Associate Member of the SCA's faculty: 間眅埶AV Galleries is excited to share that construction will soon begin on a new art museum at 間眅埶AV＊s Burnaby campus. When it opens in early 2025, the Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum (the Gibson) will be a purpose-built space, open and informal in design, in recognition of the evolving ways that communities engage with culture. The Gibson will replace 間眅埶AV Gallery in the Academic Quadrangle and extend 間眅埶AV Galleries＊ current suite of programmes, creating new opportunities for multi-generational artist-led learning and cross-disciplinary explorations. The Gibson will also house the 間眅埶AV Art Collection, an invaluable and actively growing resource of over 5,800 works of art: unique in its capacity to trace the complex social and cultural life connected to this region. We recognize the generosity of Marianne Gibson＊s $20 million gift, which, along with contributions from several other lead donors, has made this remarkable project possible. Designed by in collaboration with . More .
Unsettled and softened
In anticipation of the arrival of their Summer 2023 issue, , The Capilano Review have shared "Unsettled and softened," a conversation between Nour Bishouty and SCA alumnus and TCR Art Editor . Read it .
Mitochondrial Ontologies
SCA MFA student is part of the "ongoing collaborative project" Mitochondrial Ontologies: Deep Time and the Digital, which has a feature-packed website, presented by the School of Interactive Arts + Technology's criticalmediartstudio, which is directed by SIAT's Gabriela Aceves Sep迆lved. More .
Friendship, Camaraderie & Co-Creation playlist
The SCA's ' episode with Laurie Young is included in this Friendship, Camaraderie & Co-Creation themed retrospective playlist of episodes of 間眅埶AV's Vancity Office of Community Engagement's podcast Below the Radar. Listen .
Presence of Ancestors
Here's The Georgia Straight on SCA alumnus ' Presence of Ancestors project, which is raising "five specially-carved house posts" in so-called Port Moody's Rocky Point Park. More .
The Seventh Fire at SummerWorks
SCA alumnus 's "immersive audio performance" , running various times from August 3 每 7, 2023, at Daniels Spectrum's Aki Studio (#250 每 585 Dundas St. E, Toronto). is being presented as part of the SummerWorks? Performance Festival, which runs August 3 每 13, 2023. More .
We Were One
, co-run by SCA alumni and , are presenting a FREE "informal studio showing" of We Were One, "a movement and new media research project which investigates human connections and questions the prejudices we experience as a society," on Monday, July 31, 2023, at 5:00 PM at the Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver). More . Also, Chien and MacCaull did a quick Q&A for the Dance Centre's blog about their work. Read it .
Dance International on Dancing on the Edge
Read Dance International on the 2023 , including SCA alumnus 's Silent Crawl, which featured projections by SCA MFA student . Read it .
Spotlight Canada: The Pitch Session
, co-founded by SCA alumni Pedro Chamale, who's the artistic director, and Derek Chan, who's now the Managing Artistic Director at , are pitching Chan's , and SCA alumnus and are pitching Kotowich's in the 2023 Spotlight Canada: The Pitch Session on Monday, August 21, supported by Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom, with the goal of participating in the Edinburgh Fringe. More .
New Sound mural
SCA alumnus will be in Edmonton celebrating a new mural on the Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre (10124?每?96 St.) on Friday, August 11, 2023, from 9:45 AM 每 2:00 PM. RSVP to rsvp@?edmontonarts.?ca by August 4. More .
Bukhari and Rahmanian in conversation
Read an interview with SCA alumnus and Sahar Rahmanian, discussing Bukhari's , which ran at the Burrard Arts Foundation from January 12 每 March 18, 2023. Read it .
Walters' not interim
Marking it as official, our colleagues in 間眅埶AV's Vancity Office of Community Engagement have shared this interview with SCA alumnus , who's their new Programs Assistant. Read it HERE.
The Book of Imaginary Beings
SCA alumnus is part of the exhibition The Book of Imaginary Beings with Sai Di, Marcy Friesen, Woojae Kim, and Josh Steinhauer, curated by Ophelia Yingqiu Zhao at the Access Gallery, opening Friday, August 4, 2023, from 7:00 PM 每 9:00 PM, and running to September 9. More .
Echoes of a Circle
SCA alumni and join Pegah Ahmadi, Jordanna George, Alia Hijaab, and Juan Imperial for Echoes of a Circle, which opens Thursday, August 3, 2023, from 6:00 PM 每 8:30 PM and runs to September 3, presented as part of the Emerging Creators Incubator at the Art Gallery at Evergreen (1205 Pinetree Way #1, Coquitlam). More .
Fashion Fictions book
SCA alumnus ? is one of the contributors to the publication for the exhibition , which is at the Vancouver Art Gallery? to October 9, 2023. More .
Sound of the Sun on cassette
Good news / bad news: tonight's performance by Jane Harms and Ian Davies at (866 E. Broadway, Vancouver) celebrating the release of the limited-run audio cassette version of , featuring tracks by SCA alumni Ogheneofegor Obuwoma and , is sold out! But perhaps chance by the to see if any copies make it past the show's merch table. More .
Peace Country and Pants at the Firehall
The Firehall Arts Centre (280 E Cordova St., Vancouver) has announced their 2023/24 season, which includes SCA alumnus Pedro Chamale's () from October 13 每 22, 2023, and SCA alumnus 's from January 17 每 20, 2024. More .
How Would Lubitsch Do It S3E02
Listen to S3E02 of the podcast How Would Lubitsch Do It about Ernst Lubitsch's 1924 film , with SCA alumnus host and guest . Listen .