SCA | Quick News | October 27, 2023
Kanagawa up for a Governor General's Literary Award
SCA alumnus 's adaptation of Mark Sakamoto's book has been nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama. We're rooting for you! More .
Hopeful Monster reviewed – and live
Read a review in The Belleville Intelligencer of , the new collaborative album by the SCA's and Eve Egoyan, released by . Read it . And don't miss Pauly and Egoyan on Saturday, November 4, 2023, at 7:30 PM (doors) at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver), presented as part of Music on Main's Modulus Festival. More . Also, if you're in or around Montreal, you can catch Pauly and Egoyan on Monday, November 13, 2023, at 7:30 PM (doors) at La Sala Rossa (4848 St Laurent Blvd, Montreal). More .
Matreyek at ECUAD
The SCA's gave an artist talk on October 26, 2023, in The Reliance Theatre at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver). More .
TPE play Harmony of the Spheres
Turning Point Ensemble, which has the SCA's Owen Underhill as Artistic Director and conductor, is presenting Harmony of the Spheres on November 25 at 7:30 PM & November 26 at 2:30 PM at UBC's Telus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver). More .
Magdy talks horror on the CBC
SCA alumnus was on CBC Radio's On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko to talk about the upcoming festival, dedicated to 60-seconds-or-less horror shorts from emerging BIPOC filmmakers in Canada, which opens November 22 at the Fox Cabaret (2312 Manin St., Vancouver), and runs at various venues to November 26, 2023. They also talked about the Magdy ran on Tuesday, October 24, at the Vancouver Public Library's Central branch. Listen .
Congratulations, Shaffer
SCA alumnus has been announced as the new Associate Artistic Director of EDAM Dance, and eventually the successor of Peter Bingham as Artistic Director. More .
âɲ in Calgary
SCA alumnus is presenting on October 25 & 26, from 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM, at cSPACE Projects (Suite 125 – 1721-29th Avenue SW, Calgary), as part of Springboard Performance's Fluid Fest. More .
Triana and Harding talk to The Dance Centre
In advance of their show on November 9, 2023, at 12:00 PM at the Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver), The Dance Centre spoke with Michelle Harding of Calle Verde and SCA alumnus on their blog. Read it .
Graveyards and Gardens
SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman () and Caroline Shaw's collaborative is running November 1 – 3, 2023, at 8:00 PM at Salle Multi de Méduse (591 Rue de Saint-Vallier Est, Quebec), presented by La Rotonde. More .
Stir on STARBABY
Read Stir Vancouver on STARBABY by (SCA alumni and , and SCA MFA student ), which is running as part of Upintheair Theatre's , which runs October 26 – 28, 2023, at 7:30 PM, at What Lab (1814 Pandora St., Vancouver). Read it .
Bergonzoni talks Translating Movement
SCA alumnus , who is a 2023 Shadbolt Fellow with AV Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, is presenting Translating Movement, a FREE talk "about audio described projects she has been involved with in partnership with the inclusive dance company, ," on November 16, 2023, at 6:30 PM in Room 2245 at AV Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). RSVP and more .
Berlanga talks Material Miracle of Craft
SCA alumnus is giving an artist talk, Material Miracle of Craft, on November 2, 2023, at 7:30 PM at the Surrey Art Gallery (13750 88 Ave., Surrey). More .
What the F-Word is Going On?
Working with Mikeeto Zavorotny and Cece Ludwar, SCA alumni and are at workshopping What the F-Word is Going On?, which is a "primarily improvised panel show about where Garvin Chan (our asexual panel host), learns about sex via our panelists through word games, banter, and more things they'll come up with during the workshopping process." Follow for updates.
SCA at the Toronto Art Fair
If you're in Toronto for the Art Fair, catch the work of SCA alumni at 's booth, at 's booth, and at 's booth, and at 's booth, and the SCA's Raymond Boisjoly at ' booth. More .
Obuwoma on Practice as Ritual / Ritual as Practice
Read SCA alumnus on Akimblog about at the Libby Leshgold Gallery. Read it .
Irvine at ReIssue
AV Galleries' is the new Publisher of , the virtual / print anthologized "interdisciplinary art writing platform" that has SCA alumnus and current PhD student as Editor. Congratulations all round!
Bridge's Persephone Mara
Watch Persephone Mara (2022 | 19mins), directed by SCA alumnus , which he describes as "A dear passion project I shot with my close film undergraduate colleagues at the School for the Contemporary Arts pre-covid 2021," on Here TV. Watch it .
Helten at Kinesis Dance
SCA alumnus is the new Associate Artistic Director of . Congratulations, Rachel! More .
Basanta's Rough Beast
Produced during his artist residency at Ubisoft Montreal, SCA alumnus has shared the new video work Rough Beast, which he describes as "A work of speculative auto-fiction on the future of artificial intelligence and labour, network science and data rights; on personal doubts and collective memories; on the role of the artist in a corporate environment. On being sad and wondering what sadness actually is." Watch it .
FRIDAY in the NME
SCA alumnus is on the cover of the NME! Read it .
Ariaratnam and Ivanochko's The view from here
SCA alumnus produced the music and SCA alumnus did the choreography for The view from here, which is being performed by Jillian Peever on October 26 – 28, 2023, at 7:30 PM (doors) at the Ottawa Dance Directive (2 Daly Ave., Ottawa). More .
Maddock writes Ripple Effects
SCA alumnus wrote the didactic texts for Ripple Effects: 30 Years of New Works, which is on display from October 21 – November 18, 2023, at The Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver), and online via .
Kong on Terada
Read SCA PhD student in Galleries West on . Read it .
Sum and Mochizuki in Intersecting: Interdisciplinary Artist Series
SCA alumni and are participating in Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance's online Intersecting: Interdisciplinary Artist Series, with Sum and Veda Hille on October 30, 2023, from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM, and Mochizuki and co-host CS Fergusson-Vaux on November 13, 2023, from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM. More info and RSVP links .
Standing Wave plays Tam
Standing Wave is performing I forget when we last touched by SCA alumnus (along with liminal spaces by Giorgio Magnanensi and Of All Things Elusive by Dorothy Chang) on Monday, November 6, 2023, at 7:30 PM at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver), presented by the good folks from Music on Main. More .
Winning – with your help!
Attention SCA folks! We're not saying we deserve to rule the FCAT Excellence Awards again, which were "created to honour the hard work, dedication, and excellence that occurs across FCAT and beyond," but we're also not saying we don't deserve to rule them. But really, it's up to you! Nominations are open to all FCAT faculty, staff, alumni, and students, with an extended deadline to November 3, 2023. More HERE.