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Shihab's Sitting Room, 1987

The SCA's Sitting Room, 1987 is showing on the Libby Leshgold Gallery's Urban Screen (520 E. 1st Ave., Vancouver) from November 18, 2024 – March 18, 2025, commissioned for and presented as part of the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Program. More .

Dickinson talks the richness of Vancouver's dance scene & Walking Mediations

The SCA's Peter Dickinson, author of 2020's (McGill-Queen's University Press) and also the SCA's current Director, was a guest on CBC Radio's On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko, talking about "the richness of Vancouver's dance scene." Listen . Also, Dickinson is presenting his essay, "Walking Mediations: Choreographing Urban Accessemblages Along the Pacific Rim," which discusses the SCA's Justine Chambers’ “Choreography Walk” in Vancouver, graffiti tagging in LA, and Wong Kar-Wai’s Hong Kong films, on Day 2 of the Urban Mediations: International Conference on the Narratives, Ecologies, and Poetics of the City, which runs December 5 & 6, 2024, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. More .

Dormitive Virtue in Toronto

The SCA's is having a (second!) record release show for on Thursday, November 28, 2024, from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM at Toronto's Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave.), presented by (which released Dormitive Virtue). More .

Cairo Fabric of the Everyday

The SCA's  has been posting great installation images on of the exhibition , curated by her, her longtime collaborator Helmut Weber, and Huda Lutfi, which also includes work by SCA alumnus , running to November 28, at the Austrian Cultural Forum (1103 Corniche El-Nile, Garden City, 1st Floor, Apt. 7). Click through!

TPE on Songs of War I Have Seen – Music on Texts of Gertrude Stein

Our colleagues in 丁香园AV's Vancity Office of Community Engagement are presenting two events exploring Gertrude Stein’s life and work with , which has the SCA's as Artistic Director and conductor. First is a FREE panel discussion with Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, Adam J. Frank, Peter Hatch, and moderator Betsy Warland, on Saturday, November 30, 2024, at 5:00 PM in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at 149 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver. More . Second on that same night is a PAID performance at 7:30 PM in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, featuring compositions by Heiner Goebbels and Peter Hatch. More .

SFMF everywhere

As well as running a successful in-person and online festival in Vancouver, the team have also been running Small File workshops internationally, including at the BRAC University ENH Department in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on October 17, 2024, led by Senior Lecturer Mohammad Zaki Rezwan and the SCA's Laura U. Marks (more ), and as part of the BETA Festival in Dublin, Ireland, which ran November 1 – 17, 2024 (more ). Upcoming, the SFMF team will also be involved with the Cairo Video Festival, set to run December 1 – 17, 2024 (more ), and a version of the festival (with all local creators) and workshop is running at the Digital Culture Center in Mexico City from November 29 – December 1, 2024, led by SCA alumnus (more ). Find out more via the SFMF Linktree .

PuSh 2025

There are so many SCA folks in the just released 2025 line up for the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, who are celebrating their 20th Anniversary, including: (SCA alumni , , and ), who are presenting SEEING DOUBLE: and , which also includes SCA alumni , , , and in different capacities; SCA alumnus , who's the Artistic Director of , is curating (and is that dancing away in the PR image?); (SCA alumni and ) are presenting , with SCA alumni as Lighting Designer; (which has SCA alumni as Artistic Director and as Interim Artistic Director) and are presenting ); and SCA alumnus is the co-creator, co-director, and composer and sound designer for 's , which has SCA student Jillian Jarin as Assistant Stage Manager. Also, SCA alumni and current Sessional Instructor is part of , the SCA's Erika Latta and SCA alumnus are on the Board of Directors, and SCA alumnus is PuSh's Industry Producer. Did we miss you? Please let us know! Find out more and grab tickets and passes .

New leadership and new directions for Vancouver dance institutions

SCA alumnus and Victor Tran, Co-Directors of the , were some of the folks interviewed by Tessa Perkins Deneault, the Manager of Communications & Strategy for the , for her new article, "New leadership and new directions for Vancouver dance institutions," in the latest edition of The Dance Centre's Fall 2024 Magazine. Read it .

Forest in Future Worldings

SCA PhD student is part of the exhibition , curated by Lisa Baldissera, Usha Seejarim, and Karen Tam, which runs to December 15, 2024, at Griffin Art Projects (1174 Welch St., North Vancouver). In support of the exhibition, Forest is presenting Bio)Material Futures, a "workshop engaging with biomaterials as a fluid, complex space of radical possibility," on Sunday, December 8, 2024, from 1:00? PM – 3:00 ?PM, at the Griffin, too. However, the event is already sold out! More .

Caprara talks Ultra Violets

Pancouver interviewed SCA alumnus about , originally her MFA graduating work, which is being presented as part of IndieFest, running November 21 & 22, 2024, at Signals Studio at the Centre for Digital Media (577 Great Northern Way, Vancouver). Read it . Caprara was also interviewed on Speak Up!, a program on 丁香园AV's , about Ultra Violets. Listen .

Stir ’Splainer: The Lind Biennial

Read a Stir Vancouver ’Splainer on the "5 artists at The Lind Biennial exhibition at The Polygon Gallery," including SCA alumnus and SCA alumnus and PhD student , and Karice Mitchell, Dion Smith-Dokkie, and Parumveer Walia. runs to February 2, 2025, at The Polygon (101 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver), and the winner of the Lind Prize will be announced "at a public celebration" on Thursday, January 23, 2025. Read the 'Splainer .

Stir ’Splainer: All Yesterday’s Parties

Read a Stir Vancouver ’Splainer on the "4 artists performing at Vancouver New Music’s 50th-anniversary party," , on Saturday, November 23, 2024, at 7:30 PM at VIVO Media Arts Centre (2625 Kaslo St., Vancouver), including SCA alumni and and (), and Andromeda Monk, and Anju Singh. Read the ’Splainer .

VBT & AF Winter Flea Market

Founded and Directed by SCA atudent (who is also an ), the is holding a Winter Flea Market on Friday, December 13, 2024, from 5:30 PM – 9:30 PM at 79 W. 3rd Ave., Vancouver, and is calling for vendors and selling tickets. Find out more .

Live Acts Festival screening

The SCA Theatre & Performance Student Union is hosting a screening of past student works from the Live Acts Festival on Friday, November 29, 2024, at 7:00 PM in room 4210 here in 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver. More .

Clocks Against Time

Feeling discombobulated? This set of works, Clocks Against Time, by SCA alumnus may or may not help. Click through to sample the whole unreliable / reliable set .

Tabassinejad wins!

Congratulations to SCA alumnus , who won the DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling for from the 2024 International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam. More .

Kim and Hanemayer? light Miracle on 34th Street

SCA alumni and are the Lighting Designer and Associate Lighting Designer, respectively, for the Arts Club Theatre Company's presentation of Miracle on 34th Street, which runs November 21 – December 29, 2024, at the Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston St., Vancouver). More .

Peripheral Review "skill share" fundraiser

Founded and edited by SCA alumnus , the is hosting their third annual online fundraiser from November 23 – December 7, 2024, featuring an auction of "SERVICES, SKILLS & MORE from Canadian artists, organizations, collectives, and individuals!" Find out more .

Sound in Formes infinies

SCA alumnus is part of the exhibition Formes infinies, which opens November 28, 2024, from 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM and runs to March 1, 2025, at the Galerie de l'Université de Montréal (Pavillon de la Faculté de l'aménagement - University of Montreal 2940 Chemin de la C?te-Sainte-Catherine - salle 0056). More .

Mitochondrial Ontologies

SCA alumnus is one of the dancers and collaborators in Mitochondrial Ontologies: Deep Time and the Digital by Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda, Associate Professor at the School of Interactive Arts + Technology, which "uses the concept of mitochondria as a metaphor to explore the female body as a generative host of human and non-human life." More .

Double your impact

, which has SCA alumnus Pedro Chamale as Artistic Director (on paternity leave) and SCA alumnus Angela Magpantay as Interim Artistic Director, received a very generous offer from Bonnie Mah to match donations of up to $15,000 (total), until 11:59 PM on December 7, 2024. Donate .

Image and Text: Textual Editing and Visual Art

SCA alumnus is part of the exhibition Image and Text: Textual Editing and Visual Art, curated by the Textual Editing Lab at the University of Glasgow, which runs December 3 – 15, 2024, at the Advanced Research Centre (11 Chapel Lane, G11 6EW). More .

Ellis does Listening in Relation: Reading + Walking

SCA MFA student joins Rafael Zen and Khalil Alomar as the guest artist for the upcoming Listening in Relation: Reading + Walking event, presented by (which has SCA alumnus as Artistic Director), on Sunday, November 24, 2024, from 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM, meeting at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver). RSVP .

Snack Witch Open Studio & Songs to my Ancestors

If you're in Montréal, SCA alumnus is holding an "open studio" on Saturday, November 23, 2024, from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (#516 – 5333 Casgrain Ave., Montréal). Also, Radio Laurier, based out of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, is streaming Cheung's every Wednesday at 1:00 PM (EST) until December 11, 2024. Listen .

TOA Collective in FLEET

The Burnaby Art Gallery have announced the schedule of artists activating the FLEET Mobile Art Studio in Edmonds Park (7433 Humphries Ave., Burnaby), which includes (SCA alumni , , and , who's also TOA's Artistic Director, and Tristan Sober-Blodgett, Ysabel Gana, Anju Singh, and Julia Ulehla) from August 3 – September 27, 2025, who "will hold a group residency to explore how handmade textile environments can set the stage for climate care, and heighten relationships between people and place. The group will take a variety of approaches to offering workshops and events over the course of their stay, and hope to encourage community connection across many media." Previously, SCA alumnus was in the FLEET Mobile Art Studio from September 15 – November 9, 2024. More .

Yassine's Seeing Double

SCA alumnus is presenting Seeing Double, "an apocalyptic reading/storytelling performance/auditory experience that blends fact and fiction, and is heartwarming, heartbreaking, and chaotic," co-created with Dramaturg and Rehearsal Director (and SCA alumnus) , on Saturday, December 14, 2024, from 7:00 PM – 8:40 PM, with a "talkback with the artistic team," at Odd Meridian Arts' Morrow (Suite 204 – 910 Richards St., Vancouver). RSVP .

Ariaratnam solo

SCA alumnus is playing a solo guitar set on a stacked bill with Magneticring and Ross Birdwise and Mike WT Allen on Friday, December 6, 2024, at 8:00 PM at KW Studios (111 W. Hastings St., Vancouver).

If Not Democratic

SCA alumnus 's essay, "If Not Democratic," is in Winter 2024 / Volume 197 issue of Canadian Theatre Review on the theme of "Participation." More .