SCA | Quick News | May 3, 2024
Khosravi wins Griffin's BIPOC Studio Award
SCA alumnus is the winner of Griffin Art Projects' 2024's BIPOC Studio Award. During the residency, "Khosravi will explore the personal representation of the Persian garden and the underlying politics behind the situation in the Middle East." Congratulations, Homa! More .
Pavsek's As Grey Falls
The SCA's 's As Grey Falls had it's world premiere as part of the "AN ANIMAL GAZE" program of short films on Thursday, May 2, 2024, at The Cinematheque, with Pavsek in attendance for a Q&A, presented as part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. More .
Divest
The SCA's Laura U. Marks asked us to share an update on the effort, that's she's very active in, to get 間眅埶AV to divest its investment portfolio from the handful of companies that, though their own investments, support military production companies (which, in turn, supply the Israel Defense Forces, but not only them): with 400+ signatures from faculty, students, and staff across 間眅埶AV, the "divestment letter" to 間眅埶AV's president and vice-chancellor, Dr. Joy Johnson, is going to be presented to 間眅埶AV's Board of Directors at their May meeting. Even in the complicated, intertwined, and often obscure financial world we have now, it still seems fundamentally wrong for any university to have investments in the manufacture of weapons of war, no matter how secure the return.
Chandra directs Wood
SCA alumnus is the director for SCA alumnus 's play Vascular Necrosis, which is being presented (in association with Bramble Theatre Collective) on May 9, 2024, at 7:00 PM at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver) as part of Realwheels Theatre's scripts-in-development play-reading series Zombies, Mannequins, and Talking Heads. Get tickets .
The New Improvisers Studio
Lead by Shahzad Ismaily, SCA alumnus joins the top-notch team of Sakina Abdou, Meredith Bates, Claire Devlin, Aviva Endean, Mili Hong, Sunny Kim, and Peggy Lee as invited guests participating in The New Improvisers Studio, "a free week-long educational initiative for up to twelve young musicians aged 17 to 24," presented by the Western Front and Coastal Jazz. More .
L?l谷?n?? / Listening-With
SCA alumnus (and Associate Professor at the UBC School of Music) is leading an "open conversation" with France Trepanier and Heather Iglolirte on Friday, May 17, from 6:00 PM 每 9:00 PM at Wingate Studio in Pacific Opera Victoria's Baumann Centre (925 Balmoral Rd, Victoria) as part of Open Space's off-site program L?l谷?n?? / Listening-With, which runs April 22 每 June 2, 2024. Full schedule and more info .
Polyphonic Multilingual Creation Residency: Showcase & Discussion
(which has SCA alumnus Pedro Chamale as Artistic Director) are presenting the Polyphonic Multilingual Creation Residency: Showcase & Discussion with residency artists Carolyn Nakagawa and Yulissa Campos (with ASL interpretation) on Thursday, May 30, 2024, from 7:00 PM 每 9:00 PM at 1422 William St., Vancouver. More .
Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama
Don't miss SCA alumnus 's Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama, which is having its world premiere at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival? on Sunday, May 5, 2024, at The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St., Vancouver) at 4:15 PM (followed by a Q&A moderated by Alejandro Yoshizawa, Assistant Professor of Film, Video Production and Media Arts at University of Fraser Valley＊s School of Creative Arts), and also showing on Thursday, May 9, 2024, 12:30 PM in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at our place (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). Look through the whole DOXA program . Also, listen to Mochizuki talk with Margaret Gallagher on CBC Radio's North by Northwest about the film .
Sound Palace 6
SCA alumnus curated Sound Palace 6, an "Evening of Immersive Music," on Saturday May 11, 2024, at 7:30 PM in Vancouver Community College's Broadway Auditorium (1155 E. Broadway, Vancouver), featuring SCA alumni , , and , presented by the . More .
Chandra is a Directing Fellow
SCA alumnus in one of the ThisGen 2024 Directing Fellows, an initiative by Why Not Theatre in partnership with the National Arts Centre. Also, SCA alumnus , who's the Artistic Director for Theatre Replacement, is one of the 2024 faculty. More .
CHIMERIK'S VIRTUAL LIVE ART DATABASE LAUNCH PARTY
, which has SCA alumni and as co-artistic Directors, is holding a free Virtual Live Art Database Launch Party on Saturday May 4, 2024, from 3:00 PM 每 6:00 PM at Q7 Studios (77 E. 7th Ave., Vancouver), presented by New Works. Space is limited, so RSVP .
Soji-George on DIANA ROSS DREAM
SCA alumnus (who's also the Curator / Director of and one of Directors of the ) has a review of Aisha Sasha John＊s DIANA ROSS DREAM on The Capilano Review's (which has SCA alumnus Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross as Art Editor) website. Read it .
Co-presenting with DOXA
The SCA Film Area is co-presenting two events in the 2024 edition of the : with SCA alumnus and Gianluca Matarrese on Monday, May 6, at 4:30 PM, here in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), and (who's also an SCA alumnus) on Tuesday, May 7, at 12:30 PM, at The Post (110 每 750 Hamilton St., Vancouver). Check out the full schedule of DOXA Industry events .
PETERS IN GRAND SAUT
SCA alumnus is a "commissioned choreographer, mentor" for Victor V?n Tran / Savage Rock's Grand Saut, which runs May 9 每 11, 2024, at 8:00 PM at Left of Main (211 Keefer St, Vancouver). More .
Goodman in M.O. Show 2024
SCA alumnus is presenting new choreography as part of Modus Operandi's , which runs June 6 每 8 at The Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver). Get tickets .
PTC Open House
(PTC) are having an "open house" on Thursday, May 16, 2024, from 6:00 PM 每 8:00 PM at Progress Lab (1422 William St., Vancouver), hosted by Joanna Garfinkel and SCA alumnus Davey Samuel Calderon (PTC's "talented Dramaturgs for Creative and Public Engagement, respectively"). More .
Think Like An Artist
SCA alumnus joins 66 other Canadian artists (across different creative fields) for ' new virtual "wisdom, inspiration and creative problem-solving" cards, which, like Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's cards (a clear influence), might just be able to help you get out of a creative jam. Check them out .
Jackson's Wilfred Buck
SCA alumnus 's Wilfred Buck, based on Buck's memoir , is screening on Thursday, May 9, 2024, at 7:45 PM at the VIFF Centre (1181 Seymour St., Vancouver), presented as part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. More .
Magpantay subs for Chamale
SCA alumnus Anjela Magpantay is stepping in as interim Artistic Director for while Pedro Chamale, who's also an SCA alumnus, spends the year on paternal leave (congratulations to Chamale and his partner on the birth of their second child!). Click through to read what Magpantay and Chamale have to say about this temporary change .
We Who Have Known Many Shores
SCA alumnus 's exhibition, We Who Have Known Many Shores, opens Thursday, May 9, 2024, from 6:30 PM 每 8:00 PM, and runs to September 1, 2024, at the Art Gallery of Burlington (1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington). Zorlutuna is also having an online public conversation with exhibition curator Noor Al谷 on Thursday, May 16, from 6:00 PM 每 7:00 PM (EDT). More .
Art on the Canada Line
SCA alumnus joins Biliana Velkova, Shaun Dacey, and Cherry Archer for the Keynote Panel, "Art on the Canada Line: Intervening in the Flow of Traffic," on Friday, May 11, 2024, from 5:30 PM 每 6:30 PM, in Room 4900 at the Wilson School of Design at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (5600 Kwantlen St., Richmond), presented as part of Big Pictures: Murals, Billboards and Urban Interventions Conference, the Wilson School of Design's Interdisciplinary Conference of Art + Design. More .
Casa De Vines
(started as the Vine Arts Festival by SCA alumni and Artistic Director Heather Lamoureux) is having an "" on May 18, 2024, at 7:00 PM for Casa De Vines, the new home for the Society at 825 East Hastings in Vancouver. Congratulations on the news space!
Playwrights Panel
, SCA alumnus and Playwright Theatre Centre＊s Dramaturg, Public Engagement, is facilitating the free Playwrights Panel at the event on May 11, 2024, at 12:30 PM, at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver), with panelists Alex Masse, Adam Grant Warren, and SCA alumnus Jordyn Wood. RSVP .
Computational reflections on Art, or What Art could mean to a Computer
SCA alumnus has shared an interesting essay, Computational reflections on Art, or What Art could mean to a Computer, on the Foreign Objekt Posthuman Lab's Posthuman Art Laboratory website. Read it .
What's Your Root Food?
SCA MFA student is presenting the What's Your Root Food? project as part of the Trico Studio's Artist as Changemaker Fellowship in partnership with in Calgary, Alberta. More .
Silverfox and Sound in BACA
SCA alumni and are participating in the 7th edition of the Contemporary Native Art Biennial / Biennale d＊art contemporain autochtone (BACA), which is "a multi-venue exhibition that explores the deep-rooted theme of Creation Stories through the eyes of a talented collective of four curators:" Lori Beavis, Emma Hassencahl-Perley, Jake Kimble, and Teresa Vander Meer-Chass谷. Full info .
Maamawi (???): Together Through The Fire
SCA PhD student (Dance Artist) and SCA alumni (Dance Artist), & (co-artistic directors of as the Lighting Design, Projection & Audiovisual Playback System Support Team), (Lighting Designer), (Stage Manager), and (Producer) are all part of ' Maamawi (???): Together Through The Fire, which runs May 17 & 18, 2024, at Animatrik Studios (4088 1st Ave., Burnaby). More .
ahmm 2024
SCA alumni , (with the , which includes SCA alumni , , and , and Jasmine Chen and Robyn Jacob), and are all participating in ahmm 2024, "a month of intimate small batch events at " (Unit 204 每 910 Richards St., Vancouver) to celebrate Asian Heritage Month in May, presented by . Much more .
Pulsive Party's Intro to Play & Interaction Through Clown
Pulsive Party (Ashley Whitehead and SCA alumnus ) are presenting a workshop series, Intro to Play & Interaction Through Clown, on Wednesdays in June (5, 12, 19, & 26), 2024. Find out more .
UNIT/PITT and ReIssue are going their own ways
Originally a join project with , , the "interdisciplinary art writing platform" edited by SCA PhD student , is becoming an "independently-run project." Read UNIT/PITT's post on .
Vancouver Art Blog looks at Look Both Ways
The good folks at have shared some nice photographs of Look Both Ways, the SCA BFA Graduating Exhibition, which closes Saturday, May 4, 2024, at the Audain Gallery (149 W. Hasting St., Vancouver). See them , and then make the trip to see them in person tomorrow between 12:00 PM 每 5:00 PM.
Yousefbigloo makes Blood
SCA alumnus produced the video for Blood, the second single from Hotspring's forthcoming LP , out May 10, 2024 from Vancouver taste-makers, Mood Hut Record. Watch it .
Bruton joins the Closing Night Improv Jam Party
SCA alumnus is one of the ace players in the West Coast String Summit＊s "Closing Night Improv Jam Party" on May 26, 2024, at 8:00 PM at the mighty (8 E. Pender St., Vancouver), co-presented by the and the . Plus, the West Coast String Summit also includes SCA alumnus and 's FREE Slow Social #4 (featuring SCA alumnus , Anju Singh, and Julia Ulehla) on Saturday, May 25, from 5:00 PM 每 7:30 PM, in the backroom at The Ironworks (235 Alexander St., Vancouver). More .
How Would Lubitsch So It? S5E0.5
Listen to S5E0.5 of How Would Lubitsch So It?, now on their last season, with SCA alumnus host and guest Imogen Sara Smith on Lubitsch's (1936). Listen .
Loscil's Umbel
SCA alumnus is releasing a Umbel, a new "photo zine" and album, on May 31, 2024, limited to 300 copies. Also, Morgan is having a "series of deep listening sessions in 4DSOUND" at (713 E. Hastings St., Vancouver) on May 31 & June 1, 2024, at 6:00 PM and 7:45 PM each night. Head HERE for more about Umbel, and head for tickets for the deep listening sessions.
MacCormack in Spells
SCA PhD student is part of Spells, a print-based "compendium of today＊s most powerful AI image prompts" produced by "over 50 leading AI Artists in photography, design, art, fashion, and architecture," which is available now, edited by Max Kuwertz and designed by RAM. Grab one .
Wallgrin in Europe
SCA alumnus is heading off to Europe for tour. Follow them on to see the itinerary.
Advice on thorny topics
SCA alumnus , who's the Artistic Director of , asked SCA alumnus , who's the Artistic & Executive Director of the Playwrights Theatre Centre, for some "advice on thorny topics" as part of The Only Animal's new, ongoing project, Impossible Ordinary. Hear what advice Taylor shares .