SCA | Quick News | July 5, 2024
Welcome, Chambers!
We're very excited to announce that Justine A. Chambers is a new Assistant Professor in the Dance Area here at the SCA. As well as her deep, smart, sometimes irreverent, and well-established practice, Chambers also has an MFA from us. Find out more about Chambers and her practice .
The Fold Virtual Book Launch
The SCA's Laura U. Marks is having a Virtual Book Launch via Zoom for (Duke University Press), which will also be the Inaugural Public Lecture for the , on Friday, July 19, 2024, starting at 9:00 AM (PDT), with moderation by SCA Postdoctoral Fellow . Find the Zoom link .
Accelerator Lab International Fellows
SCA alumni , , and , and (hey why not check out our grad programs, Kyle?) were just-announced as the "cohort members" for 's Accelerator Lab International Fellowship. Congratulations, everyone! Find out more about the Fellowship .
DBLSPK: Emberr矇 V獺ltam / I've Become Human Again
Presented by (which has SCA alumnus Anjela Magpantay filling in as interim Artistic Director while SCA alumnus Pedro Chamale is on paternity leave), are presenting DBLSPK: Emberr矇 V獺ltam / I've Become Human Again on Sunday, July 7, 2024, from 7:30 PM 9:00 PM at Progress Lab (1422 William St., Vancouver). More .
Lum Talk
If you're in or around Toronto, SCA alumnus is giving an artist talk on July 9, 2024, from 6:00 PM 7:30 PM at The Image Centre (Lecture Hall IMA-307 33 Gould St., Toronto), presented in support of Lum's , which is at The Image Centre until August 3, 2024. RSVP .
Stream Monkey Beach
SCA alumnus 's film version of Eden Robinson's is free to stream via the Vancouver Public Library's online Indigenous Film Collection. Use your VPL library card to login .
Sum in Stir and at Green Auto
Here's Stir Vancouver on SCA alumnus , who played July 4, 2024, at to celebrate the launch of her new "suite" of songs, Stir also include Sum in their "," which runs all day on July 6. Read it . And for a third chance to catch Sum, she's also playing Sunday, July 21, 2024, as part of Green Auto Fest, which runs July 18 July 21, 2024, at (1822 Pandora St., Vancouver). Grab tickets or a whole Deluxe Bundle .
Stir on Piece Lily
Here's Stir Vancouver on Odd Meridian Arts' , "an improvised mandala of movement, music and musings," devised and performed by SCA alumnus , Ziyian Kwan, and Peggy Lee, with lighting design by SCA alumnus , which has the second half of its run from July 5 7, 2024, at 7:00 PM at Odd Meridian's Morrow (Unit 204 910 Richards St., Vancouver). Read it .
Stir on Kokoro's Wreck Beach Butoh
Here's Stir Vancouver on the call from Kokoro Dance (which has SCA alumnus as co-Artistic Director) for participants for the 30th annual , running July 8 21, 2024, at Wreck Beach. Read it .
Nass directs The Last of the Pelican Daughters
SCA alumnus is directing The Wardrobe Ensemble's The Last of the Pelican Daughters, set to run March 19 29, 2025, as part of UBC's Department of Theatre and Film's just-announced . Once again, while we'd maybe like to announce a "season" like the good folks at UBC, our Theatre & Performance events (indeed, like virtually all of the events across the SCA) are devised, developed, and produced in real time and term-by-term. Check back HERE to see what we come up with!
Caufield in Summer Splash
SCA alumnus is performing as part of Dances for a Small Stage's Summer Splash, which runs July 16 & 17, 2024, at Please Beverage (222 W 5th Ave., Vancouver). More .
Sleuth at Green Auto
SCA alumni and are playing their "final(ish) show" as part of the "indiepop" group , which they joined as third-year SCA students, on July 8, 2024, at Green Auto (1822 Pandora St., Vancouver), along with LA's and locals and . Tickets . Also, you can sample them on CITR's Live From Thunderbird Radio Hell .
Friday's sale
SCA alumnus is having a merch sale. More .
Calderon hosts The Show Will Go On
Ending 's Workshop Series 2024, SCA alumnus (PTC's Dramaturg, Public Engagement) is presenting "The Show Will Go On: The Basics of Running a Smooth Event" on Friday, July 12, from 6:00 PM 9:00 PM, which runs online and at Progress Lab (1422 William St., Vancouver). More .
Boombox triple bill
SCA alumni Kayla De Vos and join Rhyan McCorkindale and Calder White for a "triple bill" on July 17 19, 2024, at Boombox (44 W. 4th Ave., Vancouver), a performance space run by SCA alumnus and Francesca Frewer and Sierra Megas. Follow for more.
The Biting School workshops
As well as co-running the on July 6 & 7, 2024, from 10:30 AM 4:15 PM at hopbopshop (150 McLean Dr., Vancouver) as (SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour and Arash Khakpour), Arash Khakpour is also running the on Thursday, July 11, from 6:00 PM 8:00 PM at EDAM Dance (303 E 8th Ave., Vancouver).
Saugstad in Love-Ins Summer Festival
Presented as part of the Toronto Dance Community's Love-Ins Summer Festival, SCA alumnus is leading "Research/Methods" sessions from 11:45 AM 12:45 PM and "Creation and Choreography" sessions from 1:30 PM 3:30 PM, with both sets of sessions, from July 29 August 2, 2024, at TRAC (35 Golden Ave Suite 108, Toronto). More .
How Would Lubitsch Do It? S5E05
Listen to S5E05 of How Would Lubitsch Do It?, the podcast hosted by SCA alumnus , this time with guest Lance St. Laurent on Lubitsch's (1941) and Comedic Theory. Listen .
Vines' lineup
The Vines Art Society, founded by SCA alumnus and Vines Artistic Director Heather Lamoureux, has announced the lineup for the 10th Annual Vines Art Festival, which is running August 7 17, 2024, at various parks in so-called Vancouver. More .
Kotowich at Bass Coast
SCA alumnus is holding a "Movement Healing" workshop as part of this year's Bass Coast (running July 12 15 in in Merritt, BC) on Saturday, July 13, 2024, at 2:30 PM on the Slowtempo stage. While you're there, don't forget to see the SCA's Stefan Smulovitz and Hadis Fard's Tao of Phiel, "a collaborative interactive sound and visual art installation inspired by elephant communications." More .
Soil to Stage Production Parties
SCA alumnus , who's the Artistic Director of , is presenting a series of "Soil to Stage Production Parties" as part of The Only Animal's summer residency at The Sunshine Coast Arts Centre (5714 Medusa St., Sechelt, BC ). Here's the schedule: July 7: Introduction to Cordage & Spinning; July 21: Introduction to Fresh Leaf Indigo Dyeing; July 28: Processing Raw Fleece; August 6: Driftwood Gathering Walk; August 11: Help us build our driftwood loom; and August 18: Soil to Stage Finale with The Only Animal, The Sunshine Coast Fibreshed, and Vancouver Improvised Arts Society (featuring music and stories by SCA alumnus Toni-Leah C. Yake, Meredith Bates, Lara Aysal, Brenda Leadlay + fibre skills shares and demos by The Sunshine Coast Fibreshed). Full info .
Submit to Horror in Seconds
Submissions are now open for the 2024 edition of , a festival dedicated to "60 seconds or less" horror shorts by emerging BIPOC filmmakers organized by SCA alumnus . See all of the details on the .
Finding Pathways to Temahahoi
SCA alumnus is presenting Finding Pathways to Temahahoi from August 30 September 28, 2024, from 10:30 AM 4:30 PM at the Arts House (North Melbourne Town Hall, 521 Queensberry St., North Melbourne), presented by Arts House as part of BLEED 2024. More .
Sipikiskisiw (Remembers Far Back) in Paris
SCA alumnus shared some installation pictures of her work on display at the Canadian Embassy in Paris. See them .
Tedlie-Stursberg does commissions
Need a unique water feature? SCA alumnus does commissions, like his newly installed Fortune Fountain II, which you can see on .
Oke guests
SCA alumnus was a guest artist for Dance West Network's 2024 Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency Dance Artists' "Gulf Islands tour" to Salt Spring Island on Friday, July 5, at the Antler Ridge Dance Studio, and to Victoria on Saturday, July 6, at Dance Victoria Studios (2750 Quadra St, Victoria). More .
The Nature of Us
SCA MFA student and collaborators Cass Bessette and Jean Louis Bleau are presenting The Nature of Us from July 5 7, 2024, in Edmonton's Queen Elizabeth Park as part of Common Ground Arts' Found Festival. More .
Ling's Preambling the art workers' inquiry
The next free public event in Centre As 2024 Art Writing Mentorship, (which is facilitated by SCA alumnus , with SCA alumni and as participants), is on "Preambling the art workers' inquiry," on July 19, 2024, from 2:00 PM 3:30 PM via Zoom. More .
Playback Head's Body of Water
SCA alumnus 's second record as Playback Head, Body of Water, is being released on July 25, 2024, by . Sample the music and pre-order the cassette on Hotham Sound's Bandcamp page .
Klinke on Sixteen Chimes
Watch a video about SCA alumnus 's , which is running to September 23, 2024, at New Adventures in Sound Art's North Media Arts Centre (313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario). Watch it .
It begins with knowing and not knowing
SCA alumni and are part of the exhibition It begins with knowing and not knowing, which opens (with a tour and reception) on Saturday, July 20, from 2:00 PM 4:00 PM, at the Richmond Art Gallery (7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond), and runs to September 29, 2024. More .