SCA | Quick News | May 5, 2023
Reviewing the Dutchman
Read reviews in the and for the Vancouver Opera's presentation of , which runs to May 7, 2023, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre (630 Hamilton St., Vancouver), featuring the SCA's Wladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez on Projection Design duties, working with SCA alumni June Hsu and Isabelle Romas and current SCA undergrad and SCA MFA student .
Marks at the Digital Politics Summer School
The SCA's Laura U. Marks is holding a workshop, Small Files for a Small World, as part of the Digital Politics Summer School's Can we 'reduce, reuse, refuse'.. the digital?, which runs June 5 & 6, 2023, presented by Manchester Metropolitan University's Department of History, Politics and Philosophy. More .
Latta on the BOD
The SCA's Erika Latta has joined the Board of Directors for the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, which also has SCA alumni and . Meet the whole BOD .
As the sun disappears and the shadows descend from the mountaintop
While Friedrich Nietzsche's , ※the unconditional and infinitely repeated circulation of all things,§ might live up to its promise, for both (or perhaps beyond) good and bad, the SCA's 's exhibition, , which explores this provocative notion (and more!), finishes its run at the Contemporary Art Gallery (555 Nelson St., ?Vancouver) on May 7, 2023.
Shihab's Sister Mother Lover Child at DOXA
The SCA's 's Sister Mother Lover Child is screening Saturday, May 6 at 12:00 PM at the VIFF Centre (1181 Seymour St., Vancouver) and Tuesday, May 9 at 3:00 PM in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at 間眅埶AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver) as part of the 2023 DOXA Film Festival. More .
TPE hits the road
The SCA's and the Turning Point Ensemble are going on tour in Europe, including Croatia, Serbia and Spain. Go to for more info and their itinerary.
Welcome, Aimee, Am, and Kimberly!
Welcome Aimee Rigor, the SCA's new New Students Advisor! Also, welcome to Am Johal (Director of 間眅埶AV's Vancity of Office of Community Engagement) and Kimberly Phillips (Director of ) as Associate Members of the SCA's faculty.
Adler talks Spring-Summer 2024
The SCA's is giving an artist talk on Saturday, May 6, 2023, from 3:30 PM 每 4:00 PM in Studio 102 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby) in support of her exhibition , which runs in the Shadbolt Centre's Atrium from May 6 每 9, 2023, presented as part of the Burnaby Festival of Learning. RSVP for the talk .
Saleken's early retrospective
? are presenting a FREE retrospective screening of five early short films by the SCA's Corbin Saleken, including Weekend of Terror (1988), Dummy Circle of Death (1995), The B-Team (2000), When They Were Little (2010), and The Vehicle (2012), on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 6:30 PM in thier Black Box Studio (1131 Howe St., Vancouver). Email education@cineworks.ca for more info.
George and Johal in Summer School on Radical Democracy
SCA alumnus and Artistic Director and 間眅埶AV's Vancity Office of Community Engagement's Am Johal, who's also a newly-joined Associate Member of the SCA, are both Program Faculty for the Summer School on Radical Democracy, which runs May 18 and 25 (from 4:00 PM 每 6:00 PM) via Zoom and then June 4 每 10 in person, co-presented by and 間眅埶AV's Community-Engaged Research Initiative. Read more about the Summer School on Radical Democracy from The Tyee .
Lum wins!
SCA alumnus has won the $50,000 2023 Scotiabank Photography Award. Congratulations, Ken! More .
withintensions' Double Feature Pt. 1
Download Part 1 of a double helping of , the monthly art mag produced by SCA alumni, this time on the theme "Double Feature." Grab it .
Smoke Eater's West Coast Premiere
SCA alumni and Aidan West's short film Smoke Eater had its West Coast Premiere as part of the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival?, which ran April 25 每 30, 2023. More .
Spence and Dora's Magenta
SCA alumnus has a collaborative track, Magenta, with Delphine Dora on ?' Seasonal Diary II: Lush Abundance compilation. Listen .
Venus Revolution in VSFF
Venus Revolution by Daria Mikhaylyuk's project, featuring SCA alumni , , , and and Isak Enquist, Brenna Metzmeier, Sabine Zoe Raskin, Nasiv Kaur Sall, and Ralph Escamillan, is screening as part Vancouver Short Film Festival?'s After Dark Double Block series on Saturday, June 3, 2023, at 8:30 PM at the VIFF Centre (1181 Seymour St., Vancouver), and online from June 2 每 11. More .
C New Critics Award
SCA alumnus joins Tiana Reid as jurors for C Magazine?'s 2023 C New Critics Award, which is accepting submission to May 30. More .
Rehearsal for a Forest
Branching Songs Ensemble 每 SCA PhD student , with Julie Andreyev, Keira Madsen, and Thomas Myles Feltenberger 每 performed Rehearsal for a Forest on April 29, 2023, at the New Media Gallery? (777 Columbia St., New Westminster), presented as a Creative Exhibition Response to the exhibition a B I O T I C with Verena Friedrich, LABOFACTORY, and Finnbogi P谷tursson, which ended its run on April 30, as well as to celebrate Earth Day (April 22, 2023). More .
Body Parts & New Age Attitudes trailers
Watch a trailer for SCA alumnus ?'s , which runs May 3 每 6, and one for SCA alumnus 's , which runs May 11 每 14, both at The Cultch's Historic Theatre (1895 Venables St., Vancouver), presented as part of the 2023 . For more, here's , and here's .
Calderon advocates
SCA alumnus Davey Samuel Calderon, who's also the Dramaturg, Public Engagement for the (PTC) and a cofounder of the (which also includes SCA alumni and , and Avyen von Waldenburg), was part of a news conference advocating for a new Filipino cultural centre in Vancouver. .
Charles in Transmissions
SCA alumnus joins Jonathan Alfaro, Katherine Boyer, Emily Hermant, Damla Tamer, and Val谷rie d. Walker in Transmissions, which runs May 13 每 July 23, 2023, at the Art Gallery at Evergreen? (205 Pinetree Way #1, Coquitlam). More .
Kong on Arseneault and Doyle
Read SCA PhD student in Galleries West on Robin Arseneault and Maura Doyle's Iodame, which is at (866 E. Broadway, Vancouver) to June 3, 2023. Read it .
PantoLand / PantoTown
Have some / know some kids into theatre & performance? Consider Theatre Replacement's week-long summer camps, PantoLand (5-10 years) and PantoTown (11-13 years), running this July. Registration is now open! More .
The Experimentalists
SCA alumni () and Aryo Khakpour () joined Tim Carlson (Theatre Conspiracy) and host and SCA alumnus Maiko Yamamoto () for The Experimentalists: Adventures in Devised, Creation-based, and Experimental Theatre on Thursday, May 4, 2023, at the BMO Theatre Centre (162 West 1st Ave., Vancouver, presented as part of the Arts Club Theatre Company's Incubator Series. More .
Wu's working
SCA alumnus ?, who shared an impressive list of recent credits on his Instagram, is a one person celebration! Click through to see the full list of projects, including Adele Lim's , .
Dance Showcase: Flamenco & Contemporary
SCA alumni and and Isak Enquist are performing in the Evergreen Cultural Centre?'s (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam) Dance Showcase: Flamenco & Contemporary on May 27, 2023, at 8:30 PM. Get more info and tickets .
SCA in rEvolver
SCA alumnus & Ashley Whitehead, aka , are presenting as part of Upintheair Theatre?'s rEvolver Festival, which also includes SCA alumnus 's and SCA alumni 's in the programming. Find the full schedule, more info, and tickets .
PI?A trailer
Watch the trailer for Ralph Escamillan?'s , featuring SCA alumnus , which runs May 4 每 6, 2023, from 8:00 PM 每 9:00 PM, with a post-show Talkback on May 5 & 6, in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre here at 間眅埶AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), presented by 間眅埶AV Woodward's. Watch it .
Kanagawa's first draft and Finding Forgiveness
SCA alumnus finished the "first draft of a new play commission for the Banff Centre and the Stratford Festival," marking a very busy five months of activity, which included the Vancouver (January 12 每 February 12, at the Arts Club Theatre) and Calgary (March 7 每 April 1, at Theatre Calgary) presentation of his adaptation of Mark Sakamoto's memoir Forgiveness, which featured SCA alumni in the cast, as Video Designer & Animation, as Assistant Director, and and as co-Video Systems Designer. We'll share news about Where Waters Meet the Land is Sacred, which appears to be the working title of this new project, when we see it. In the meantime, enjoy this image (and more update info) on . Also, marking May as , the Museum of Vancouver has released a "limited-time recording" of , which was a "special preview" of Forgiveness, which was followed by a moderated panel with "playwright and museum educator Carolyn Nakagawa; community elder and educator Vivian Rygnestad; and community elder, writer, curator, and activist Grace Eiko Thomson." Watch the video while it's available on the MOV's YouTube channel .
Jeffery and Faint's Way Down Bad
Congratulations to SCA alumnus and Peter Faint, whose "dark comedy" Way Down Bad, which "follows a disillusioned young adult who quits his life in the city to go tree planting in the interior of British Columbia where he unintentionally disrupts the social order just as encroaching fires postpone the work, leaving chaos to reign," was selected by for the Main Component stream of Telefilm Canada's 2023 program.
BLOT in Bucharest
SCA alumnus and Simona Deaconescu's BLOT 每 Body Line of Thought, this time performed by Simona Dabija and Maria Luiza Dimulescu, is running May 13 & 14, 2023, at the Centrul Na?ional al Dansului Bucure?ti. More .
Improv Karaoke
SCA alumnus is co-hosting Improv Karaoke at 8 EAST (8 East Pender St., Vancouver) on Wednesday, May 10, at 6:00 PM. More .
IGNITE! 2023
Some SCA folks in the 2023 IGNITE! Youth-Driven Arts Festival, which runs May 17 每 20 at the 's Historic Theatre (1895 Venables St., Vancouver), including alumnus , who's presenting her short film The Big Reveal as part of Solstice Opening Party on Monday, May 15; alumnus and current student as part of the Golden Hour program on Friday, May 19; and alumnus as part of the Solar Flair / The Big Finale / Telling it Bent Showcase on Saturday, May 20. More .
O＊Callaghan and Paterson do Encounters 每 Samplings
SCA alumnus is collaborating with turntablist Cheldon Paterson () for Soundstreams' Encounters - Samplings event on Saturday, May 13, 2023, at 8:00 PM, at The Redwood Theatre (1300 Gerrard St. E., Toronto), "remixing from a joint library of their own unique sounds," which will then be shared as "a sample pack so that Soundmakers far and wide will have an opportunity to create their own mixes." More .
On Morelli 每 for a change!
Download Charlene K. Lau's text on SCA alumnus 's solo exhibition, , which runs to May 29, 2023, at Centre Skol (372 Saint-Catherine St W, Montreal). Get it .
ALTA render + an interview
Just in time for your Bandcamp Friday considerations, SCA alumnus has issued a "40+ minute render of ALTA," which is a "generative music piece" that was originally presented as part of , a set of 'mini-residencies' at the Libby Leshgold Gallery in March & April, 2023, that also featured performances by the SCA's and . Get it . Also, read an interview with Loscil by Data.Wave. Read it .
Artist Survival & Healing Fund
, which was created by SCA alumnus and festival director Heather Lamoureux in 2015, is holding a fundraiser for their on Thursday, May 11, 2023, at 6:30 PM at Heritage Hall (3102 Main St., Vancouver), with the goal of raising $40,000 by July 15, 2023. More .
Omote (醱) in Montreal and Toronto
Read Nikkei Voice on SCA alumnus and Miya Turnbull work Omote (醱), featuring music by SCA alumnus , which they're presenting as part of , running both at Montreal's ?difice Wilder (1435 Rue de Bleury), in collaboration with and the , from May 6 每 9, and in the Greenwin Theatre at the Meridian Arts Centre (5040 Yonge Street, North York) from May 12 每 14, co-presented with . Read it .
S2E06.5 How Would Lubitsch Do It
SCA alumnus host and guest Paul Cuff discuss Lubitsch's (1927). Listen .
Ho's DOXA picks
Check out SCA alumnus 's picks for the 2023 on .