SCA | Quick News | April 8, 2022
Congratulations to Daniel and Francis
Congratulations to the SCA's Dr. Henry Daniel and his co-applicant Dr. June Francis from SFU's Beedie School of Business for being awarded funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)'s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF), which "supports world-leading interdisciplinary, international, high-risk / high-reward, transformative and rapid-response Canadian-led research."
Titled "Black Creativity in the Arts, Sciences, Technology and Business," and presented as a constructive, creative challenge to "the culture of White Supremacy" that is widely predominate in Canada and elsewhere, Daniel and Francis' proposed research "seeks to inspire a radical shift in the thinking that supports the current system of inequity, maintains structural racism, and prevents a redefining of Blackness through Black lenses."
They propose a six part plan for their work that includes:
- the formation of a Black Caucus at SFU;
- the building of "transdisciplinary links between the sciences, arts, technology, business, and the humanities";
- the creation of a collaborative "multi-city case study" to comparatively survey current institutional conditions in terms of Black people’s health and the effects of racism and the consequences of transhistorical trauma;
- the organization of an "international conference / symposium" that invites Black scholars and experts to critically discuss institutional life and the outcome of the comparative study, while proposing "ways of dealing with these complex issues";
- the creation of a large-scale "artistic performance work in real and virtual environments that draws attention to these issues while initiating a larger discussion of them to coincide with the conference / symposium";
- and finally, the publication of "a report on this conference / symposium" to share with "the wider Black community locally, nationally, and internationally," which itself will "form the basis for a larger and more comprehensive study at a later date."
We can't wait to see this excellent plan come into full action.
Congratulations again, Henry and June!
Jin-me Yoon: About Time
For your pre-order queue: Jin-me Yoon: About Time. Edited by Zoë Chan and Diana Freundl. With Essays by Tarah Hogue, Sharon Kahanoff, Susette Min, Anne-Marie St-Jean-Aubre, Ming Tiampo, and Diana Freundl. Out October 2022 from Hirmer Publishers. More HERE.
Priest plays – and gets reviewed
The SCA's Eldritch Priest is having a record release show for Omphaloskpesis, out now on Halocline Trance, on April 22, 2022, at 9:30 PM (EDT) at Toronto's Tranzac Club, performing with Ryan Driver (synth) and Rob Clutton (bass). More HERE. Also, read a review of Omphaloskpesis by the The Free Jazz Collective HERE. And if you're local, Priest is playing with his experimental improv duo Alfred Jarry (with Brady Cranfield) tonight – Friday, April 8, 2022 – on a shared bill with the duo of Meredith Bates and Feven Kidane at 8:00 PM at the mighty 8EAST. More HERE.
Schroeder's Stircrazer I reviewed
Stir Vancouver reviewed Music on Main's presentation of Architek Percussion, which featured the world premiere of Stircrazer I by the SCA's Sabrina Schroeder. Read it HERE.
Skoden Indigenous Film Festival online – and announces winners
Congratulations to Carr Sappier, Kathleen Mullen, Akira Iahtail and the students of CA 389 for the 2022 Skoden Indigenous Film Festival. And if you missed a chance to see the films in person, SIFF is running them online until April 10 (at 11:59 PM). More HERE. Also, SIFF announced the winners of this years festival: Gitz Crazyboy and Tito Ybarra's The Peace Pipeline won Best Film and the Audience Choice Award, Terri Calder's Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics won the Trickster Award, and the Audience Award Honourable Mentions went to Abraham Côté's My Indian Name and Courtney Montour's Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again. Congratulations, everyone!
Ybarra talks In-between Identities
SCA alumnus Faune Ybarra is one of the presenters for the artists talk In-between Identities, which is presented as part of Positionality: Symposium on Latin American and Latinx Art in Canada, presented by Toronto's Sur Gallery (39 Queens Quay East, Suite 100). More HERE.
Centre A's 2022 Arts Writing Mentorship
SCA alumnus Rachelle Tjahyana is helping to coordinate Centre A's 2022 Arts Writing Mentorship for self-identifying Asian Canadian youth (16-30). Are you eligible? Act fast: the deadline is April 9, 2022. More HERE.
Gold and Carter in the CanAsian Dance Festival
Ziyian Kwan's Spells For Chinatown, co-presented by Dumb Instrument Dance and Barking Sphinx Performance Society, was presented as part of the 2022 CanAsian Dance Festival, featuring SCA alumni Marisa Antoinette Gold and Shion Skye Carter, as well as Sarah Wong, Justin Calvadores. More HERE.
Bruton, Mion, Shaw, and Goodman talk Graveyards and Gardens
Listen to SCA alumnus and co-artistic director of New Works Calgary Rebecca Bruton in conversation with Springboard Performance’s Artistic Director Nicole Mion and Caroline Shaw and SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman, who are presenting their work Graveyards and Gardens at The Grand (April 15 – 16, 2022). 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.
Klinke teaches Live
SCA alumnus Alexandre Klinke is running an Ableton Live workshop, starting Tuesday, April 12, 2022. More HERE.
Aoki-Bolcsfoldi on Observing Dancing the Parenting
Read SCA alumnus Jen Aoki-Bolcsfoldi, who's currently completeing the Recreation Leadership Diploma Program at Langara College, on Observing Dancing the Parenting HERE.
Calderon's Embodied Character Making
Don’t miss this upcoming workshop on Embodied Character Making with SCA alumnus and Playwrights Theatre Centre’s Dramaturg, Public Engagement Davey Calderon on Friday April 22, 2022. More HERE.
O'Callaghan's Mercyry + Echo screening
If you’re in Toronto, check out SCA alumnus James O'Callaghan's launch for his new record as Mercyry on April 16, 2022, at 9:00 PM at Tibet Street Records with live visuals by Laura Margaret Ramsey. Also, Edouard Lock's film Echo, which features dancer Rachele Buriassi and music by O'Callaghan, is screening as part of the 2022 edition of Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, running April 20 – 30, 2022. More HERE.
Apply to interplay_2022
The deadline coming fast – April 15! – to apply for interplay_2022, which has SCA alumnus Deanna Peters as co-curator. More HERE.
Woyno Rodriguez does Morag, You're A Long Time Deid
Long view upcoming: the World Premiere of Claire Love Wilson & Peter Lorenz's Morag, You're A Long Time Deid, running June 10 – 19, 2022, at The Russian Hall (600 Campbell Ave), presented in association With Touchstone Theatre, featuring the SCA's Wladimiro A. Woyno Rodriguez on Set & Lighting Design. More HERE.
Chamale Q&A
Read a Q&A with SCA alumnus and rice & beans theatre Artistic Director Pedro Chamale about his latest play Peace Country, presented by rice & beans theatre and Playwrights Theatre Centre at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts from April 27 – 30, 2022. Read it HERE.
The Straight on Sapphire Haze
The Georgia Straight covers the fast upcoming gig – April 12, 2022, at 7:00 PM at the Fox Cabaret – by Sapphire Haze (SCA alumni Cindy Kao and Aysha Dulong), presented by the good folks at Music on Main. Read it HERE.
Adler's woozy feeling
Read a thoughtful, deeply relatable post by the SCA's Barbara Adler about the sometimes "woozy feeling" of working – and hustling – in the arts. Read it HERE.
Alfeld's Doug and the Slugs and Me
SCA alumnus Teresa Alfeld's newest documentary, Doug and the Slugs and Me, which examines the life and rock career of Doug Bennett, is one of the Special Presentations films in this year's DOXA Documentary Film Festival. More HERE.
Sum's New Age Attitudes
SCA alumnus Amanda Sum is releasing New Age Attitudes, the lead single / title track off of her debut album, on April 22, 2022, with the full record due in the fall. More HERE.
Clean/Espejos on RE/PLAY
Neworld Theatre's presentation of Clean/Espejos, co-directed by Chelsea Haberlin and SCA alumnus Daniela Atiencia, can be streamed through The Cultch's RE/PLAY "digital playground" from April 5–10, 2022. More HERE.
Vancouver Art Blog on Everyone is Happening Always
Did you miss Everyone is Happening Always, the 2022 BFA Project that ran March 24 – April 2, 2022, at SFU Galleries' Audain Gallery, featuring work by Tanha Binte Azam, Ayesha Beg, Kaila Bhullar, Karry Hon, Marwah Jaffar, YanJun Li, Huong Anh Pham, iver smith, and Hana R. Steinwand? The good folks at Vancouver Art Blog captured some nice install shots. Head over to their Instagram for a look-see.
Wallgrin's new tunes
SCA alumnus Wallgrin has an upcoming double single release on April 29, 2022, for Yet Again The Wheel Turns and PseudoReligion from her forthcoming new album. Click through to click through again to pre-order on Bandcamp HERE.
MacCaull and Chien's We Were One
See some pictures from SCA alumni Caroline MacCaull and Sammy Chien's week long Deer Lake artist residency, where they worked on their "spiritual dance project" We Were One. Check them out HERE.
K BODY AND MIND in Entry/Exit
SCA alumnus Conor Wylie and A Wake of Vultures' (SCA alumni Nancy Tam, Daniel O'Shea, and Wylie) K BODY AND MIND will be shown as part of Entry/Exit: A Film Screening at Centre A’s Living Room on Saturday, April 23, 2022, from 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM (PDT). More HERE.
Part three of Zvonar, Kong, Roy in conversation
Watch part three of the Roundtable about Elizabeth Zvonar's exhibition Knock on Wood + Whistle at SFU Galleries's Audain Gallery, with Zvonar in conversation with SCA PhD candidate Yani Kong and artist Marina Roy. Watch it HERE.
TSU Spring Gala
Attention SCA theatre folks! The TSU is holding a Spring Gala on Saturday, April 8, 2022, at 8:00 PM at 136 East Hastings Street. They say "dress your best" for "snacks, drinks, and a karaoke / open mic setup." Come ready with your "vaccine passports at the door!" More HERE.