SCA | Quick News | August 6, 2021
CMA Journal – Issue Ten: Enchantment, Disenchantment, Reenchantment
Read Issue Ten: Enchantment, Disenchantment, Reenchantment of the SCA's open-access, peer-reviewed Comparative Media Arts Journal, edited by SCA PhD candidate Yani Kong. Responding to "a sociological tradition that is reactive to the advance of industrialism at the beginning of the twentieth century," a tradition that runs, for example, from Max Weber to the Frankfurt School to the Postmodernism of the 1980s, Issue Ten: Enchantment, Disenchantment, Reenchantment includes essays and works by Cristina Albu, SCA alumni Dave Biddle, Elvira Hufschmid, Ella Tetrault, Martabel Wasserman, Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan, and Bryan Shawn Wang, Sandy Feinstein, and Samantha Kavky. Read it HERE.
Sounds' Seventies Mama
SCA alumni Michelle Sound is currently using the Fazakas Gallery's Downtown Vancouver pop-up gallery at 850 Granville Street, Vancouver, as temporary studio space, working on "a series of drums titled 'Seventies Mama' that celebrates the style of her mom and aunties when they were young mothers in the 1970s." Head over to Sound's Instagram to see pictures of the work in progress HERE.
Lee at Griffin Art Projects
Incoming SCA PhD candidate Josephine Lee (that's right: we have a still-new PhD program now). is the "BIPOC Residency Award Winner and Worldings Residency Co-hort: Onsite Artist" at Griffin Art Projects. Congratulations and welcome, Josephine! More HERE.
Silverfox in Whitehorse
SCA alumni Krystle Silverfox is the Shakaat Artist-in-Residence at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, Whitehorse. More HERE.
Ng's Touching Unseen Sound
SCA MFA student Silas Ng will be presenting Touching Unseen Sound: Spatial Sound Sessions, developed in collaboration with SCA MFA student Jami Reimer and Edo Van Breemen, Sean Evans, and Alex Penney in and for the Lobe Spatial Sound Studio. The show runs August 6 & 7 and 13 & 14, 2021, at various times. Tickets are $15-30 (suggested donation). More HERE.
Wallgrin's Silver Trail
SCA alumni Tegan Wahlgren, aka Wallgrin, is releasing a new single, Silver Trail, on Friday, August 13, 2021. Pre-save it on Spotify or Apple Music HERE.
Yamamoto's "soothing voice"
Read a review of the Electric Company Theatre's The Magic Hour: An Immersive Theatrical Experience, which features the "soothing voice" of Maiko Yamamoto, who's an SCA alumni and co-founder (with SCA alumni James Long) of Theatre Replacement. Read it HERE.
Sum and Rekrut in East Van to Edinburgh
The Cultch's collaborative online programming East Van to Edinburgh (August 8 – 28, 2021), developed with Richard Jordan Productions and ZOO Venues in Edinburgh, includes do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata, which features SCA alumni Amanda Sum, and a performance by the "multi-disciplinary, non-binary drag performance collective" The Darlings, which includes SCA dance alumni Desi Rekrut, whose stage-name is P.M.. More HERE.
Atiencia on the Flying Start Program
SCA alumni Daniela Atiencia, who's also Touchstone Theatre's Associate Artistic Director, is hosting an info session for Touchstone's Flying Start Program on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, from 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM (PDT). RSVP HERE.
Sum in Van Mag
Vancouver Magazine's profile of SCA alumni Amanda Sum is now online! Read it HERE.
Vines Art Festival: remove the fences!
Sharing this call to the city remove the restrictive fencing around CRAB Park, Oppenheimer Park, and Strathcona Park and a link to a template letter from Vines Art Festival, which was founded by festival Artistic Director and SCA alumni Heather Lamoureux in 2015. More HERE.
Smulovitz techs CREEK DAZE
If you're in Robert's Creek, BC, Stefan Smulovitz, the SCA's Manager, Technology & Resources, will be doing tech duty for CREEK DAZE 2021 on Sunday, August 22, 2021. Make sure to go ask him to turn the bass up! Info HERE.
Lim and Blenkarn's [arcade.asinus]
SCA alumni Milton Lim and Patrick Blenkarn's just concluded a residency at VIVO Media Arts Centre to work on their [arcade.asinus] project, Here's the project brief from Lim: "It’s an arcade installation that combines documentary and video game aesthetics and design languages. It engages with contemporary geopolitics, digital labour, and the obsolescence of the manual labourer through the lens of the donkey." Check back HERE for updates.
SFMF in FCAT News
The Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology just posted some great press for the upcoming Second Annual Small File Media Festival, which runs August 10 – 20, 2021. Read more about the how and why of the festival HERE.
Hsu and Lane work The Tempest
SCA Theatre Production & Design students June Hsu (sound designer) and Megan Lane (set & props designer) are working on Carousel Theatre for Young People's presentation of The Tempest, running July 31 to August 7, 2021, as part of their Teen Shakespeare Program. More HERE.
Lavery's Sunday Summer Readings
Join SCA alumni and Peripheral Review editor Lauren Lavery for the first in a series of Sunday Summer Readings. Check out the whole schedule HERE.
Klinke's Playback Head
Watch the Twitch stream archive of SCA alumni Alexandre Klinke performing as Playback Head as part of Wonderment 2021. Watch it HERE.
Kotowich, Shaffer, Geremia's multidisciplinary intensive
SCA alumni Jeanette Kotowich and Olivia Shaffer and expressive arts therapist Julie Geremia are running a "multidisciplinary intensive" on Lasqueti Island, BC. Here's the basic info and cost: "Arrive on Sunday, Aug. 15 in the afternoon for orientation. This intensive begins on Mon, Aug 16 morning at 10am. Depart on Sat, Aug21 at 8am or 11am ferries. $600 includes all meals, camping/dormitory, tuition, taxes, and transportation from the ferry." More HERE.