SCA | Quick News | April 22, 2022
Chaput at DOXA
We're excited to be a Community Partner for SCA alumnus Jocelyne Chaput's "Focus on Editing" DOXA Industry conversation with Greg Ng at the DOXA Documentary Film Film Festival on Monday, May 9, 2022, at 4:00 PM (PDT) at The Post at 750 – Startup Studio, co-presented by the Canadian Cinema Editors. Chaput is the editor for Sara Dosa's Fire of Love, Chaput first feature as editor, which is opening the Festival. Grab your FREE / by donation tickets HERE.
Other SCA folks in this year's DOXA include SCA alumnus Teresa Alfeld's newest documentary, Doug and the Slugs and Me, which is also one of DOXA's Special Presentations films this year; SCA alumnus Hannah Dubois' And Ingrid, about sorely under-recognized N.E. Thing Co co-founder Ingrid Baxter, is having it's World Premiere as part of the shorts program Profile Shots; SCA alumni Suzanne Friesen and Kellen Jackson both worked on Sara Wylie's A More Radiant Sphere, which is also having its World Premiere at the Festival; and, of course, the SCA's Nadia Shihab's film Echolocation will also be screening (in-person May 8 and 10), and she (and Teresa Alfeld) will be part of DGC Visionaries on Saturday, May 7, from 12:00 PM – 5:30 PM at The Kent (534 Cambie Street), and also part of the panel discussion Filmmaking and Motherhood on Sunday, May 8, at 1:00 PM, in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre here at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St.).
Yoon at the KAG
If you're in, around, or interested in the trip, the SCA's Jin-me Yoon's exhibition Here Elsewhere Other Hauntings is running April 23 to July 2, 2022, at the Kamloops Art Gallery, curated by Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre, the Curator of Contemporary Art for the Musée d'art de Joliette. More HERE.
Marks for Bodies of Evidence
The SCA's Laura Marks will be talking about "soul-assemblages" as the keynote for the Bodies of Evidence symposium in Brussels on April 28, 2022. More HERE.
Saleken in SFU News
Read SFU News on the SCA's Corbin Saleken, the 2022 SFU Staff Achievement Award winner. Congrats again, Corbin! Read it HERE.
Underhill on In the Distance
Read the SCA's Owen Underhill on sharing the baton with Croatian composer and conductor Berislav Šipuš for Turning Point Ensemble's upcoming concert, In the Distance, on April 29, 2022, at 7:30 PM in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre here at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings. St., Vancouver). Read it HERE.
SCA in Digital Interventions – Part I: Heterotopias
Upcoming at the Massy Arts Society: Digital Interventions – Part I: Heterotopias, running May 10 – July 07, 2022, with SCA folks Kaila Bhullar, Debbie C, Sena Cleave, kathy feng, Vitória Monteiro, Hân Phạm, and Paige Smith. More HERE. Also, don't miss work by Debbie C., Sena Cleave, and Paige Smith in Collecting Plum Blossoms: BFA Graduating Exhibition 2022, which closes April 23, 2022, at SFU Galleries' Audain Gallery (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver).
Kong on Taylor
SCA PhD student Yani Kong contributed an essay about Andrea Taylor sculptural work to the zine that accompanies the Kate Henderson curated group exhibition, We can only hint at this with words, which also includes work by M.E. Sparks and Russna Kaura. The exhibition opens this Saturday, April 23, 2022, from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, and runs until June 25. Preview the zine HERE.
SCA in Same Difference
Theatre Conspiracy’s Same Difference, which runs April 19 – 23, 2022, at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby), is full of great SCA folks: SCA alumnus David Mesiha (Concept, Projection Design, Sound Design and Project Lead), Milton Lim (Projection Co-Design and Co-Development), and Aryo Khakpour (Dramaturgy, Performance and Co-Development). More HERE.
Work the Cinelab
Any SCA folks out there up for working The Cinematheque's summer Cinelab Filmmaking Program, which takes place at our place – and we're co-presenting, too. More HERE.
Sum's New Age Attitudes
Give SCA alumnus Amanda Sum's new track, New Age Attitudes, released today, a listen HERE.
Apply to Launch
Apply to SFU Woodward's Launch Festival of Emerging Artists. Apply HERE.
Proctor on Lum
Read Maxine Proctor in Galleries West on SCA alumnus Ken Lum's Death and Furniture, running at the Remai Modern, Saskatoon, until May 15, 2022. Read it HERE.
Gagnon on Laiwan
Read Olivia Michiko Gagnon on SCA alumnus Laiwan's Traces, Erasures, Resists, which ran at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery from January 7 – April 10, 2022. Read it HERE.
Mitsuhashi and Frewer's The shape of something changes when you move through it
SCA alumnus Erika Mitsuhashi and Francesca Frewer are presenting The shape of something changes when you move through it on May 6 & 7, 2022, at 7:00 PM at Left of Main (211 Keefer Street), presented by the plastic orchid factory. More HERE.
SFU's Convocation redo
To all the grads who had a virtual Convocation during the COVID lock down, SFU is holding a mega-Convocation on Friday, May 6, 2022. And if you're part of the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, our institutional home here at SFU, then click through to also RSVP for the FCAT special celebration after the main ceremony. RSVP HERE.
Silverfox's RRR
Follow along with the work SCA alumnus Krystle Silverfox is doing for her Remote Research Residency with Arts Assembly on the Arts Assembly website HERE.
Ariaratnam plays Auditory Borderlands
SCA alumnus Matthew Ariaratnam joins Adrian Avandaño, Ross Birdwise, Soressa Gardner, and prOphecy sun for Auditory Borderlands – sounding The Dusk Meridian, a FREE Offsite performance on Thursday, April 28, 2021, presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery. More HERE.
SFU Galleries is seeking
Our friends and colleagues at SFU Galleries are looking for a Communications and Access Manager. More HERE.
Songs for a Lost Pod is on
Great news! Lean Abramson’s Songs for a Lost Pod is back on, running May 28 – 29, 2022, featuring the SCA’s Barbara Adler (Narrator) and SCA alumnus Megan Stewart (Director), presented by Music on Main. More HERE.
Smokes, Sings Loud catalogues
Catalogues are now available for SCA alumnus Michelle Sound and Lori Blondeau's joint exhibition Smokes, Sings Loud, which ran February 4 — March 12, 2022, at the grunt gallery. More HERE.
Andreyev and Overstall's EPIC_Tom ++
Upcoming! Julie Andreyev and SCA PhD student Simon Overstall's EPIC_Tom ++, which "features three works of live musical improvisation and generative media from Julie Andreyev and Simon Overstall’s multispecies projects with dogs, crows, and forest communities," performed by an ace group of players, including Andreyev, Overstall, the SCA's Stefan Smulovitz, Adrian Avendaño, Marina Hasselberg, Giorgio Magnanensi, and Anju Singh. Co-presented by Vancouver New Music and Emily Carr University of Art + Design, EPIC_Tom ++ runs on Saturday, May 7, 2022, at 7:30 PM at ECU's Integrated Motion Studio (520 E 1st Avenue, enter from Carolina Street). More HERE.
withintensions' Sincerely Yours
withintensions, the monthly art mag produced by SCA alumni, is calling for their next issue on the theme of Sincerely Yours. The deadline to submit is the April 26, 2022. More HERE.
Ho – outreach coordinator
SCA alumnus Kimberly Ho is Pi Theatre's "outreach coordinator" for Close Encouters, which is "a series of community events" connected to Pi Theatre's presentation of Lampedusa, which runs May 5 – 21, 2022, at the Vancity Culture Lab (1895 Venables St, Vancouver). More HERE.
Benchin with Vickers
Read Stacy Ho in C Magazine on SCA alumnus Charlene Vickers and Neil Eustache's Cool Indians "benchin" project. Read it HERE.
Kanagawa in the Lab
SCA alumnus Hiro Kanagawa is at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity as part of the 2022 Banff Playwrights Lab. More HERE.