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Marks launching The Fold

The SCA's Laura U. Marks is launching her new book, The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos (Duke University Press?), at the on Friday, March 15, 2024, at 8:00 PM in the Exeter Room at the Sheraton Boston Hotel (39 Dalton St.). More about the book .

Tacata talks and writes about Sherk

The SCA's is presenting at a symposium in support of the exhibition, , on Saturday, March 9, 2024, from 12:30 PM – 6:00 PM at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture's Gateway Pavilion at Pier 2 (2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco), which also marks both the end of the exhibition and the launch of the accompanying , which includes a text by Tacata. More .

Long and Youssef's Do you mind if I sit here?

Talonbooks has just released the text for the multimedia play by the SCA's James Long and Marcus Youssef. More .

Shihab screenings

The SCA's Nadia Shihab screened her Super 8 film our voices in reverse at in Oakland, California, on March 3, 2024, alongside experimental films made over the past 50 years that speak to a spectrum of women’s issues. The screening was held as a prequel and fundraiser for the upcoming film series. She also screened Sister Mother Lover Child on February 29 at the in Scotland as part of the experimental shorts program "Things you May Find Hidden in my Ear." See more about Shihab and her work .

See some Shore

The SCA's is part of the exhibition SIXBYSIX, which runs March 15 – 23, 2024, at THIS_ Gallery (30E – 268 Keefer St., Vancouver). More . Also, Shore is part of the two-day exhibition Dear Mom: A Love Letter to Mother Nature, which runs March 15 & 16, 2024, at the Rivian Space (The Amazing Brentwood – 4501 Lougheed Hwy., Burnaby), presented by One More Life. RSVP .

Creative BC funding SCA filmmakers

SCA alumni and (for Concrete Turned to Sand), (with Nachapol Dudsdeemaytha for Akashi and with Jessica Hallenback and Teri Snelgrove for Nechako), (with Mack Stannard, Sina Nazarian, and Sepideh Yadegar for Constant Battles), and and (for TOJO AND THE TALE OF DARUMA) all received production financing from Creative BC. Congratulations! More .

Dai at Stratford

SCA alumnus is at the 2024 Stratford Festival, playing Gregory in Romeo and Juliet and Ding, Policeman in Salesman in China. Find Howard .

Loscil + English – Chroma

SCA alumnus and Lawrence English are releasing Chroma, a follow up to their excellent collaborative album, , which includes live recordings done at in October 2023 using the organ at the Pacific Spirit United Church. Chroma comes out April 5, 2024, but you can sample the track Indigo .

Peters' Somatic House Dance workshop

If you're in Edmonton, SCA alumnus is running a "Somatic House Dance" workshop on Sunday, March 10, 2024, from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM at Mile Zero Dance (9931-78 Ave., Edmonton). More .

Smith's Black Box Investigations

SCA alumnus 's short film, Black Box Investigations, is screening as part of "Program 1: Something Else" on Friday, April 26th, 2024, at 6:00 PM at the Oklahoma City Museum Of Art (415 Couch Dr.) as part of the Wide Open Experimental Film Festival. More .

Wallace is an Elder-in-Residence

Great news! (St?at?imc & Lil’wat Nations), who also regularly hosts Salish Singing and Drumming Workshops for our friends in 丁香园AV's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, is the newest Elder-in-Residence at the 丁香园AV Indigenous Student Centre (Room 2002 in the AQ at 丁香园AV Burnaby). Meet him there on March 12 & 26, from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, or maybe come down for the next Salish Singing and Drumming Workshop on Wednesday, March 27, at 6:00 PM in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre here at our place (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). More .

Hobson-Dimas and Reimer help launch rEvolver

SCA alumni (as part of Midnight Parade with Natalie Peters and Frannie Warwick) and (presenting Soft Tongues: A bioacoustic opera, her MFA grad work) are part of the 2024 rEvolver Launch Party on March 14, 2024, from 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM at What Lab (1814 Pandora St., Vancouver), presented by . Get tickets .

Reimer in BioSonic! 2024

SCA alumnus (and frog enthusiast)  is participating in Active / Passive's BioSonic! 2024, which runs March 22 – 24 at various sites on Galiano Island, with Reimer performing on March 23 and sharing an artist talk with Hadis Fard on March 24. More .

Art Action Earwig's Pulling To Gather

, the "multidisciplinary performance collective" of SCA alumni , Wryly Andherson, and Tadafumi Tamura, have launched a new "eco-art project" Pulling To Gather, which they say seeks to bring "art and ecological restoration together, mobilizing arts through a series of work parties, community art activities, art installations, teachings from Indigenous story tellers, dialogues with land stewards, farmers, gardeners, scientists, and artists on traditional Snuneymuxw land, Nanaimo." Their first project will involve pulling up , an invasive species in BC, from around Nanaimo's Colliery Dam. Follow for details and more info.

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Chen and Chan talk Jade Circle 玉環

Jasmine Chen and SCA alumnus were on CBC Radio's On The Coast to talk about Chen's , which runs March 6 – 17, 2024, at Gateway Theatre (6500 Gilbert Road, Richmond). Produced by in association with , Jade Circle 玉環 has many SCA alumni behind the scenes: including Chan (Director), (Movement & Mandarin Consultant), (Video Designer), (Lighting Designer), (Production Manager), (Technical Director Assistant), and and (Sound Designers / ). Listen link . Also, Chen was interviewed by Pancouver. Read it .

Lin / Tahos in Seventh Cinema

SCA alumnus ' Perhaps, She Comes From/To ____ Alang screened on March 7, 2024, as part of the 's "Seventh Cinema" programming. More .

Gottung talks with Hou and Wu

Read (or listen to) a conversation between Amy Gottung and and Fan Wu in ReIssue, the "interdisciplinary art writing platform" edited by SCA PhD student , about Hou and Wu's album, , released on Hou's label . Find it .

Yousefbigloo live, live, and live  

SCA alumnus Katayoon Yousefbigloo is busy again with music-making. Catch her in  (the duo of Yousefbigloo and SCA PhD student ) with Careen, Material, and Blimp at KW Studios (#10 – 111 Hastings St W, Vancouver) on March 10, playing a solo set as at The Beaumont Studios (316 W. 5th Ave., Vancouver) on March 15, and again as Big City with Special Interest at Green Auto (1822 Pandora St., Vancouver) on March 17. Considering that that's just part of March (whew!), maybe just go ahead and follow or check her .

Bergonzoni and Yassine talk Future Losses and Resisting Disciplines

Join SCA alumni Carolina Bergonzoni and and the other 2023-24 Fellows for the Jack & Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities (including Germaine Koh, jaye simpson, and Sam Wiebe) for Future Losses and Resisting Disciplines, a FREE "evening of conversation moderated by 丁香园AV English professor and poet Clint Burnham, followed by a Q&A session and a catered reception," on Thursday, March 21, 2024, from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM in Room 1400-1430 at 丁香园AV Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). RSVP .

D’Anunciacao and Bergonzoni's Passing Through (Meeting Points)

SCA alumni and Carolina Bergonzoni are having a FREE "dance work-in-progress" presentation of Passing Through (Meeting Points) on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, from 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver). RSVP .

After School S03E05

Here's the latest episode of After School, the podcast from Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, this time featuring student host Emma Jean in conversation with School of Interactive Arts + Technology alumnus Jay Vidyarthi. Listen HERE.

Johal talks with Clark

Am Johal, the Director of 丁香园AV's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and an SCA Associate Member, talks with former BC Premier Glen Clark on the latest Below the Radar. Listen HERE.

Support Vines' Artist Survival & Healing Fund

Founded (as Vines Art Festival) by SCA alumnus and Vines Artistic Director Heather Lamoureux, Vines Art Society, set to celebrate its tenth anniversary in August, is asking for donations to help support their Artist Survival & Healing Fund, with a fundraising goal of $40,000. Donate before August 17, 2024, .

滨苍惫颈蝉颈产濒别无形

SCA alumnus is presenting 滨苍惫颈蝉颈产濒别无形 on March 6 – 9, 2024, at 6:30 PM at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver), presented as part of the Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF). More .

Boombox calling for Odd Numbers

Boombox, a performance space run by SCA alumnus and Francesca Frewer and Sierra Megas in a 53 foot shipping container (currently located in the parking lot of The Birdhouse at 44 W. 4th Ave., Vancouver), is calling for short works for their Odd Numbers fundraiser, which involves a game-like scenario for 1, 3, or 5 minute long performances, as determined by a roll of dice and a timer. Set to take place March 28, 2024, at The Birdhouse, if you'd like to participate, message Boombox on Instagram or email them at vancouverboombox@gmail.com.

Make Cold Road #1

SCA alumnus Kelvin Redvers' film, , which was also produced by Redvers' production company , is now available to rent or buy on Apple TV, Prime Video, and YouTube. Head to your platform of choice and help make Cold Road the "#1 online movie in Canada!"

Fredriksson's Working Class

SCA alumnus is running a Working Class for the Training Society of Vancouver on March 11, 13 & 15, 2024, from 10:00 AM – 11:30 Am at the Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver). More .

Watt and Hardie's PORTHOLE

SCA alumnus and Hamish Hardie co-edited a new publication PORTHOLE, which "collects new writing from and about the Lower Mainland compelled by tropologies of the local and an erotics of specificity," including a text by Watt. Copies are available, while supplies last, at Unit 17? Gallery (Suite 310 / Buzz 596 – 207 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). More .