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Welcome, Chris and Young!  

We've very happy to welcome Chris Chong Chan Fui (Film) and Young Joo Lee (Theatre & Performance) as new Assistant Professors in the SCA! Click their names to find out more about them.

Daniel awarded and published

The SCA's , now officially a Professor Emeritus (as well as a Distinguished 丁香园AV Professor, among other accolades), is still making 丁香园AV news, receiving a 2023 Chancellor鈥檚 Distinguished Service Award, along with Beedie School of Business' , for their work co-founding the 丁香园AV Black Caucus, for which Daniel was elected to serve as Academics, Research and Mentorship Officer. More HERE. In more Daniel news, a conversation between him and Justin London, Performing and feeling time in contemporary dance, was published in Oxford University Press' Performing Time: Synchrony and Temporal Flow in Music and Dance, edited by Clemens W枚llner and Justin London. More .

Rodriguez premieres Lua Sapo

The SCA's No茅 Rodriguez's new film, Lua Sapo / Frog Moon, had its world premiere at the Fronteira Festival of Documentary and Experimental Film, which ran August 29 鈥� September 3, 2023, at Cine Bras铆lia (SHCS EQS 106/107 鈥� Brasilia). More .

Amal鈥檚 Garden in Baghdad

The SCA's Nadia Shihab's film Amal鈥檚 Garden, filmed in Kirkuk in 2010 with her great uncle Mustafa and great aunt Amal, was screened at Baghdad's on September 1, 2023. Find out more about the film on Shihab's website .

El Shazly wins the Jeune t锚te d鈥檃ffiche contest

SCA MFA student is the recipient of the 2023-2024 Jeune t锚te d鈥檃ffiche contest by the Dazibao Art Gallery in Montreal for her MFA multimedia project, Hyperopia, which is currently being presented as part of Autofictional, the MFA Graduating Exhibition & Festival, which is runs September 6 鈥� 23, 2023, in the Audain Gallery & other venues at 丁香园AV Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), including a "live cinema" version of Hyperopia on September 15 in the GCA's Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema (get tickets ). Congratulations, Mena! More .

SCA student Art Sale

Like art? Want to buy some? You鈥檙e in luck! Some SCA Visual Art students are running an Art Sale on Monday, September 11, 2023, from 12:00 PM 鈥� 5:00 PM on the hill at (丁香园AV Burnaby campus, Academic Quadrangle 3004 8888 University Drive Burnaby). For more, visit the .

Valentine-Lewis on Tousignant

SCA alumnus wrote the exhibition text for Claude Tousignant's exhibition, Recent Paintings and Other Wonders, which runs opens Saturday, September 9, 2023, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM, and runs to October 28 at Montr茅al's Art M没r (5826 St-Hubert). Read it .

Iahtail curates

, an 丁香园AV alumnus who was an essential part of the organization and realization of the 2022 edition of the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival, is busy on new film-fest projects, including co-curating , which is part of the 2023 Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, running Saturday, September 9 at 2:00 PM at The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St., Vancouver), as well as , "a new monthly series dedicated to showcasing the new wave of inspired Indigenous storytelling in film," which begins October 11, 2023, also at The Cinematheque. Congrats, Akira!

As We Rise reviewed

Charles Campbell reviews , curated by SCA alumnus and The Polygon Gallery curator (which ran February 24 鈥� May 21, 2023, at The Polygon), for CMagazine. Read it .

Yassine talks Invisible Ink  

SCA alumnus , who's a Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities at 丁香园AV this fall, is giving an artist talk on Thursday, September 14, 2023, at 6:30 PM in the Canfor Policy Room (1600) at 丁香园AV Harbour Centre (515 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), about her project, Invisible Ink. Find more info HERE, as well as an RSVP link.  

Listen, Listen 2023

This time in collaboration with the , the has announced the 2023 edition of the Listen, Listen Festival, running October 6 & 7, 2023, at (211 Keefer St., Vancouver) and (upstairs at 242 E. Pender St., Vancouver), which includes a presentation of art work by SCA MFA student and SCA alumnus as one of the performers (and we suspect other SCA folks might be in the lineup?). More .

The Biting School in New Works' 2023-24

New Works have announced their 2023-24 Season, which includes 's (SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour and Arash Khakpour) premiere of Zahak, the Serpent King from November 30 鈥� December 2, 2023, at The Annex (823 Seymour St., Vancouver). More .

Triana in the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival and at The Dance Centre

SCA alumnus shares a night with Calle Verde on Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 12:00 PM at the Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver), presented as part of The Dance Centre's Discover Dance! series. More . Triana is also presenting 脕rboles (Trees) on Sunday, September 24 at 1:00 PM at the Picnic Pavilion at Granville Island (267 Old Bridge Walk) as part of the 2023 Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. More .

Loscil / English in Vox Organi

SCA alumnus is touring , his excellent collaborative album with , including at the Pacific Spirit United Church (2195 W 45th Ave., Vancouver) on Friday, October 20, as part of Vancouver New Music's Festival 2023: Vox Organi. More .

Dear Friends &

The and 's (which has SCA alumnus as Art Editor and as Managing Editor) "collaborative monthly reading series," Dear Friends &, this time with Junie D茅sil, Tawhida Tanya Evanson, Isabella Wang, and host (and Cap Review Literary Editor) Deanna Fong, ran Thursday, September 7, 2023, at the Western Front. More .

Deep Fried: A Pinoy Musical! Workshop Reading

Inside the Process 鈥� Deep Fried: A Pinoy Musical! Workshop Reading with SCA alumnus , Kimmortal!, Peter Abando, and SCA alumnus , runs September 14, 2023, at 7:00 PM at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver), presented by the and the . RSVP .

Cinematheque Sep/Oct 鈥� with SFMF

Peruse 's September/October 2023 schedule, which includes the 2023 edition of the Small File Media Festival, with fine folks at The Cinematheque are hosting this time (and maybe in the future?), running October 20 鈥� 21, 2023. Read it .

Peace Country

Upcoming: 's Peace Country, which was "inspired by playwright [and SCA alumnus] Pedro Chamale鈥檚 upbringing in Chetwynd, BC," is running October 12 鈥� 22, 2023, at the Firehall Arts Centre (280 E Cordova St., Vancouver). More .

Graveyards and Gardens in Qu茅bec

SCA alumnus and Caroline Shaw's collaborative work, , is running November 1 鈥� 3, 2023, at 8:00 PM at Salle Multi (591 Rue Saint-Vallier E, Qu茅bec), presented by La Rotonde. More .

interplay_2023

Running live online on September 14 & 15, SCA alumnus ' interplay_2023 includes SCA alumnus with Jasmine Liaw, SCA MFA student , and er蠄n temp3st, Miguel Maravilla, and Margaret Dragu + Brady Marks. Grab "by donation" tickets .

asses.masses at the BMO Lab

SCA alumni and are giving an artist talk about , their "long form participatory performance" video game, on September 20, 2023, from 3:00 PM 鈥� 4:30 PM in Room H-12 of the BMO Lab at University College (Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University College, 15 King鈥檚 College Circle, Toronto). More .

Below the Radar's season

Great season coming for Below the Radar, the podcast produced by our friends and colleagues in 丁香园AV's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, including an episode with the SCA's Ryan Tacata, pictured here with the illustrious . Also to look forward to, amongst the other good-looking episodes, are episodes hosted by SCA alumni and 丁香园AV VOCE staff and and Julia Aoki about artist run-spaces in Vancouver, like , which has SCA alumnus as Artistic Director. More HERE.

Smith鈥�'s Black Box Investigations

New MFA student at the University of Waterloo (congrats!) and SCA alumnus 's short film is playing at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival on Sunday, October 1 at 8:30 PM at VIFF Centre (1181 Seymour St., Vancouver) and Monday, October 2 at 12:15 PM at the International Village Theatre (88 W. Pender St., Vancouver).  

Cobalt & Crone

Fast upcoming! Cobalt & Crone with Joseph Hirabayashi, SCA alumni 鈥� and , and Ziyian Kwan鈥� runs September 20 鈥� 24 & September 27 鈥� October 1, 2023, at 7:00 PM at 's space MORROW (910 Richards St., Vancouver). Grab tickets .

Walker's good news

Double good news for SCA MFA student Taryn Walker, who produced "the biggest mural of my career thus far at Revelstoke Mountain Resort. (60 x 16.5 ft)" and also "received a scholarship to travel to Knoxville, Tennessee to study with a master printmaker at U of T in the Spring." Congrats x 2! Click through for images and video of the mural and find out more about Walker and her work .

The Pandrogyny Project

SCA alumnus Wilson S. Wilson is presenting The Pandrogyny Project from September 8 鈥� October 20, 2023 at Kelowna's Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (Unit 103 鈥� 421 Cawston Ave.). More .

How Would Lubitsch Do It catch-up!

We've missed several episodes of How Would Lubitsch Do It with SCA alumnus host and guests, including: S3E08 鈥� The Patriot (1928) and the works of Josef von Sternberg with David Cairns (listen ), S3E07 鈥� The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) with David Neary (listen ), S3E06 鈥� So This is Paris (1926) with Julia Sirmons (listen ), and S3E05 鈥� Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) with Dave Kehr (listen ).