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Convocation time!

Hello, soon-to-be SCA grads! The Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology Convocation & Reception, featuring 2023 FCAT Dean's Convocation Medal winner Emma Savi? Kalles?e as the student speaker, is Friday, June 9, 2023. RSVP .

Yoon tours and talk

Vicki Kwon, Associate Curator of Korean Art & Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, is holding a tour of the SCA's Jin-me Yoon's Scotiabank Photography Award exhibition on Wednesday, May 24, 2023, at 6:00 PM at The Image Centre (33 Gould St., Toronto). Kwon is also holding a tour of the exhibition in Korean on Wednesday, July 19, as well. Yoon will also be in conversation with , Assistant Curator of the Photographs Collection at the National Gallery of Canada, on June 14 at 4:00 PM (EST) via Zoom. is at The Image Centre’s Main Gallery and University Gallery until August 5, 2023. More .

Marks and Kong on The Aesthetics of Small-File Cinema

The SCA's Laura U. Marks collaborated with SCA PhD student on the text, “You can’t look into my eyes.” The Aesthetics of Small-File Cinema, for Unthinking Photography, which is "an online platform produced by the digital programme at ." Read it .

Through My Lens and asses.masses in FOLDA

The fast upcoming 2023 Folda: Festival of Live Digital Art includes by Amy Amantea and the SCA's James Long (), which runs June 7 – 10 at various times in the Gordon Vogt Film Screening Room at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts (390 King St. W., Kingston), and SCA alumni and 's on June 8 at 4:00 PM in the Power Corporation of Canada Studio Theatre, which is also in the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. More .

Shihab's Jaddoland and Familial(ar)

For folks in the USA (and those savvy internet users elsewhere), the SCA's 's film Jaddoland is streaming for FREE on the WORLD Channel's America ReFramed. (And belated happy 100th birthday to Shihab's grandfather, who appears in the film.) More . Also, if you're in Michigan, it's your last chance to catch at the Anton Art Center (125 Macomb Pl, Mt Clemens), featuring work from the SCA's Nadia Shahib. 

TPE tour update

Read a tour update from the SCA's , who's on a European tour with the Turning Point Ensemble, which he's the Artistic Director and conductor for. Read it .

DOXA winners

With juries that included the SCA's (DOXA Feature Documentary Award) and SCA alumnus (the inaugural Elevate Award), the 2023 DOXA Documentary Film Festival has announced this year's winners. Read the list .

Saugstad and Raven Spirit Dance win

The Dance Centre announced SCA alumnus is the recipient of the biennial , and the , which has SCA alumnus as co-Artistic Director (with Michelle Olson) and SCA alumnus as an Artistic Associate, as the winner of the . More . Also, here's on the winners, too.

Make rice balls and seed bombs with Art Action Earwig

, the "multidisciplinary performance collective" of SCA alumni , Wryly Andherson, and Tadafumi Tamura, are holding a "rice balls and seed bombs" workshop (cook-shop?) on Friday, June 2, 2023, from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM, in the outdoor farm classroom at Nanaimo Foodshare Society's Park Avenue Farm (933 Park Ave.), presented in support of their exhibition at the Nanaimo Art Gallery, which runs to June 25, 2023. RSVP .

Double book launch

is holding a double book launch for 's Year 2 Anthology, which has SCA alumns and PhD student as editor, and a "Project Catalogue 2020–2022" for UNIT/PITT's exhibition series on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at 5:00 PM at the Or Gallery's bookstore (236 E Pender St., Vancouver).

Saragih's signage  

Check out these great crocheted signs by SCA visual art student Kira (Kinar) Saragih, titled Iklan sedot WC di tiang listrik (2023), which she produced for the summer intersession studio class run by the SCA's Raymond Boisjoly. See them .

Peripheral Review? – extended spring sale

Founded by SCA alumnus ? and Adriana Lademann and edited by Lavery, Peripheral Review? has extended their Spring Sale until Friday May 31, 2023. Even more, you can purchase anything on their site for 20% off using the coupon code MAKEROOM!  

Order of the New Hyphae

SCA alumnus ' Order of the New Hyphae is part of Rumble Theatre's upcoming Tremors Festival, which runs May 18 – 20, 2023, at Progress Lab 1422 (1422 William St., Vancouver). More .

Win BIG QUEER FILIPINO KARAOKE NIGHT! tix

Win two tickets to SCA alumnus 's , which runs Friday, June 2, 8:00 PM & Saturday, June 3, 8:45 PM, presented as part of Upintheair Theatre's rEvolver Festival. All you need to do is follow Upintheair Theatre (on and / or ) and tag a friend in their BIG QUEER FILIPINO KARAOKE NIGHT! posts.  

Gachet's shows closing!

SCA alumnus and Gallery Gachet? Artistic Director gave a tour of and on Friday, May 19, 2023. If you missed the tour, you can still catch the shows: both exhibitions close Saturday, May 20!

Different Than Before director interviewed

Pancouver interviewed , who directed the Juno-nominated video for SCA alumnus 's song . Read it .

Stir on Ermacora and Johnson

Here's Stir Vancouver on SCA alumni and 's upcoming retrospective of solo and collaborative documentary shorts at (1131 Howe St., Vancouver), as well as their 2022 feature Anyox and Sharon Lockhart's N?, which Ermacora and Johnson selected to screen, as well. Read it .

Murao screens and curates

SCA alumnus 's film Blue Garden is screening at the on May 18 at 7:15 PM at the Scotiabank Theatre Toronto (259 Richmond St. W), the on May 20 at 12:00 PM at the SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (151 3rd St.), and the on June 4 at 5:00 PM at the VIFF Centre (1181 Seymour St.). Also, Murao is the curator of , a screening of of Japanese Canadian short films, including SCA alumnus Cindy Mochizuki's Amabie, which runs Thursday, May 25, 2023, at 7:00 PM at The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St., Vancouver), co-presented with the Powell Street Festival.

The Tyee and Stir on Happy Valley

Read The Tyee () and Stir Vancouver () on SCA alumnus 's Happy Valley, which runs May 25 – June 4, 2023, at the (280 E Cordova St., Vancouver), presented with , and featuring SCA alumni  (Director), (Dramaturg), (Set/Props/Costume Designer), (Video Designer), (Lighting Designer), and and / (Sound Design) behind the scenes.

Hill's M? at the CAG

SCA alumnus is opening her exhibiiton, M?, on May 25, 2023, from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM at the Contemporary Art Gallery (555 Nelson St., Vancouver), alongside openings for Sesemiya's s7ulh wa?áy?stn iy ta stamsh cht and Dionne Lee's Ratios. All three exhibitions run May 26 – September 3. Also in support of their exhibitions, Hill, Lee, and Sesemiya are having a public conversation with SCA alumnus on May 27 at 12:00 PM, and CAG Curator Godfre Leung is holding a tour on June 6 at 6:00 PM. More info and RSVP links HERE.

Small File deadline!

The deadline for the 2023 is July 1, 2023. Crunch your stuff – – and submit! More . Also, in good news / bad news, the Small File team is holding a free , who will be hosting the 2023 edition of the festival, on May 20 + 21, 2023, but it's already sold out! Alas!

Jardins sans murs / Gardens Without Walls

SCA alumnus , taking over from Ji-Yoon Han, curated Jardins sans murs / Gardens Without Walls, "an online platform dedicated to presenting five performance videos made during the winter of 2023," including Rachel Echenberg, Kadi Lavoie-La, Pascale Théoret-Groulx, Cynthia G.Renard, and Eve Sage-t, for the Fondation Grantham for the Arts and the Environment. Check back each Wednesday in May for a new film .

丁香园AV Woodward's Artscape

The good folks in 丁香园AV Woodward's have a podcast, Artscape, where they talk to performers and groups they work with, like this episode featuring SCA alumnus talking about , her collaborative work with Caroline Shaw, which 丁香园AV Woodward's co-presented with this April. Listen .

Voices of the Street Launch

Our friends and colleagues in 丁香园AV's Vancity Office of Community Engagement are co-hosting 's 2023 Voices of the Street Launch: Losing Hope, Finding Home on May 26 at 6:30 PM in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre here at 丁香园AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), featuring "heartfelt stories and readings from a handful of Voices of the Street writers, insight from community photographers, and a special poetry reading from Vancouver's Poet Laureate, Fiona Tinwei Lam." More .

Work (with) The River Clyde

If you're in Prince Edward Island (or planning to relocate), , founded by SCA alumni and dearly missed faculty member in 2015, is looking for a Season Producer, Volunteer Coordinator, and an Accessibility Coordinator. Full info .

McMann up for two SSIFs

SCA alumnus is nominated in the categories MUSIC IN THE ARTS (for Muskwa's Mountain Home) and POW WOW / HAND DRUM / FIDDLE / INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR (for ) at the 2023 Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival awards. Good luck! More .

Yoshida interviewed

Pancouver interviewed , who directed the Juno-nominated video for SCA alumnus 's song . Read it .

Dear Friends & 2

The second edition of the and FREE monthly reading series, Dear Friends &, hosted by SCA alumnus and Kiel Torres, in on Thursday, June 1, 2023, at 7:30 PM, featuring Leanne Dunic, Cristina Holman, and Dallas Hunt, presented with support from . RSVP .

Tam's Sound Palace

Curated by SCA alumnus , the third edition of Sound Palace, "a sonic and visual exploration of pop, electronica, jazz, composition, noise, video-music installation and projections" on Saturday, May 20, 2023, from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM at Vancouver Community College (1155 E. Broadway, Vancouver), features SCA alumni , , and , SCA MFA student , and . Tickets .

withintensions' green

, the online art mag produced by SCA alumni, is calling for submissions for its next issue on the theme of Green. Submit by May 31. More .

Magdy's Restorative Yoga

Starting June 2, 2023, SCA alumnus is holding Restorative Yoga on Fridays at 7:00 PM at (2645 E Hastings St, Vancouver).

Kong? on Tergesen

Read SCA PhD student ? on Svava Tergesen for Galleries West?. Read it .

Maddock's Clear in the River

SCA alumnus ? is presenting Clear in the River on Sunday, May 28, as part of North Van Arts?' Arts in the Garden. More .

Ask a Pro with Peters? and Tran

reps SCA alumnus ? and Victor “Savage” Tran are hosting ASK A PRO on June 3, 2023, at Saskatchewan's Danceland Ballroom (511 Lake Ave., Manitou Beach) as part of the LEAD conference, presented by Dance Saskatchewan?. More .

Jesuino's Creative Residency

SCA MFA student is developing his work Variac?es during his Creative Residency with , which is an initiative led by the ?. Find out more about Jesuino and his work .

Congratulations, Fegor!

SCA alumnus is the recipient of 's 2023 Emerging Curatorial Residency! Congratulations, Fegor!

Sum and Wallgrin play TO

SCA alumni and are performing as part of ?'s Toronto Showcase & Networking Event on Monday, June 5, 2023, from 5:30 PM – 10:30 PM (EDT) at The Baby G (1608 Dundas St., W.). RSVP .

Aoki at Open Space

SCA alumnus is presenting her dance film Echoes of Silence: A Conversation, featuring Aoki, Carolyn Nakagawa, and Andrea Mariko Grant, on May 24, 2023, at 7:30 PM at Victoria's Open Space (510 Fort St., 2nd floor), followed by a poetry reading by Carolyn Nakagawa, and a conversation moderated by Dr Andrea Mariko Grant. More .

Gan's BIPOC Workshop + Jam

SCA alumnus is hosting a BIPOC Workshop + Jam w/ Natalie Tin Yin Gan on Sunday May 28, 2023, from 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM at EDAM Dance? (303 East 8th Ave., Vancouver). More .

VAB photographs Endless Summer

Vancouver Art Blog shared some installations shots on of SCA alumni and 's exhibition , which is at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art (2121 Lonsdale Ave,, North Vancouver) until June 17, presented as part of the 2023 Capture Photography Festival.  

EGG winners at Green Auto

Catch  (we assume featuring SCA students and / or alumni), the recipients of , at Green Auto Body (1822 Pandora St., Vancouver) on Saturday, May 20, 2023, at 8:00 PM, celebrating the release of their EGG-supported album . More .

Coming Out of Chaos: A Vancouver Dance Story

Congratulations on winning the Award for Living Heritage at the to the team at ? behind , "an archival research and oral history project that reflects on the collaborative performance work Coming Out of Chaos (1982) to unravel its influence and its place in the emergence of contemporary dance in Vancouver from the 1960s to the present day," which intersects with the early development of the dance department here at the SCA.  

All Over the Map 2023

SCA alumni and and SCA PhD student Edward Sembatya are all participating in New Works' FREE All Over the Map 2023 programing, which runs Sunday, July 16, and Sunday, August 13, 2023, at 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM, at the Granville Island Picnic Pavilion (267 Old Bridge Walk, Vancouver). More .

U in Lions Park

SCA alumnus has started her residency at Lions Park (2300 Lions Way) as part of the City of Port Coquitlam's Artist-in-Residence program, where she'll be working on Stratum, "an outdoor performance installation combining dance and textile arts," and running a few free public workshops. More .

Basanta's Every Beloved Object

SCA alumnus 's exhibition Every Beloved Object is at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington? (143 Simpson Ave., Bowmanville, Ontario) from May 13 – August 27, 2023. More .

Maddock and Gamboa in Dance Central Spring 2023

SCA alumni and both contribute to The Dance Centre at Scotiabank Dance Centre's Dance Central Spring 2023 magazine. Read it online .

How Would Lubitsch Do It? S2E08

SCA alumnus host and guest Kristin Thompson discuss Lubitsch's The Loves of the Pharaoh (1922). Listen .