SCA | Quick News | February 21, 2025
Congratulations, Hill and Wyss!
SCA alumnus Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill and T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss are the winners of the 2024 VIVA Awards, presented by The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts, with both artists receiving $15,000. Read Stir Vancouver (HERE), Pancouver (HERE), or Galleries West (HERE) for more, and RSVP to attend the awards ceremony at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (520 E 1st Ave., Vancouver) on March 26, 2025, from 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM (doors at 6:00 PM) HERE.
The Undesirables: a bestiary
Edited by the SCA's Kay Higgins, Lisa Robertson and Myfanwy Macleod The Undesirables: a bestiary, published on the occasion of Macleod's solo exhibition, The Undesirables, at Libby Leshgold Gallery, is now available through Art Metropole. More HERE.
Sovereign Small Files
Here a new call from the Small File team:
Small File Media Festival invites Indigenous makers from across Turtle Island to apply to Sovereign Small Files, a workshop on making small-file movies with spots held in priority for those belonging to our host nations, the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations People.
The 5-day workshop will take place at VIVO Media Arts once per week over 5 weeks, every Thursday from March 13–April 10.
To participate, please send a 100-200-word statement of interest self-identifying your connection to Indigenous ancestry and saying why small files are right for you to info@smallfile.ca by February 27.
Participation is free of charge! To get a feel for the soft and elegant, punk and chic small-file aesthetic, check out our festival www.smallfile.ca.
Facing Photographs
The SCA's Allyson Clay and Jin-me Yoon are part of the exhibition Facing Photographs, which runs February 14 - May 4, 2025, at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity's Walter Phillips Gallery (107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, AB). More HERE.
Stir on Gorgeous Tongue
Here's Stir Vancouver on Lara Kramer’s Gorgeous Tongue, performed by SCA alumnus Jeanette Kotowich, which is being presented as part of the 2025 edition of the Matriarchs Uprising Festival, co-presented by O.Dela Arts and The Dance Centre, which runs February 17 – 22, 2025, at the Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver), Morrow (Suite 204 – 910 Richards St., Vancouver), and online. SCA alumni Starr Muranko and Marisa Gold are also part of this year's festival's programing. Read it HERE.
In Launch Pad
SCA alumni Snack Witch Joni Cheung, Noor Ghazal (نور غزال), and Francisco Berlanga all of work on one of five "billboard spaces along the Arbutus Greenway, between Fir Street and Burrard Street on West 6th Avenue" in the current iteration of the City of Vancouver's Public Art Program's Launch Pad programing, which runs to October 2025. More HERE.
Perkins Deneault on BLAC
Tessa Perkins Deneault from the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology shared this post about SFU alumni involvement, including by SCA alumnus Olumoroti Soji-George, in the Black Arts Centre / BLAC (#105 – 10305 City Pkwy, Surrey). Within the Mould; Against the Grain, BLAC's current exhibition, curated by SFU School of Communication alumnus Vanessa Fajemisin and Soji-George, closes today! Read it HERE.
Johal talks with Borden, plus a Q&A
Watch a convsersation by Am Johal, former Director of the now-closed SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement (VOCE), and filmmaker Lizzie Borden, plus a post-screenng Q&A with Borden after the presentation of her film Born in Flames on February 6, 2025, in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at the SCA, co-presented by VOCE and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Watch HERE.
Shiri plays Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Works for the kamancheh, an Iranian bowed string instrument, by SCA alumnus Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi and other Stanford Graduate composers will be performed by Niloufar Shiri on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the CCRMA Stage (660 Lomita Ct., Stanford), presented by the Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. More HERE.
âkwaskitinkewin: an embrace reviewed
Read a review of âkwaskitinkewin: an embrace, an exhibition curated by Adrienne Larocque at Edmonton's Latitude 53 that included SCA alumnus Michelle Sound. Read it HERE.
Franca in An Angel Knocking on my Door
Watch SCA alumnus Maraya Franca, as Amanda, in a "trailer" for An Angel Knocking on my Door, which seems (we think?) to be a demo reel from Skylord Studios. Watch it HERE.
Blenkarn and Lim talk assess.masses for Penny Stamps
Watch SCA alumni Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim talk about assess.masses, their performance video game, as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series, presented by Ann Arbor's Stamps School of Art & Design. Watch it HERE.
A Taste of Hong Kong
With SCA alumni Sophie Tang (Lighting Design), Alex Mah (Sound Design), and Jessica Han (Production Management) behind the scenes, SCA alumnus Derek Chan (陳嘉昊) plays Jackie Z in in Pi Theatre's presentation of A Taste of Hong Kong, which runs March 6 – 15, 2025, at The Cultch's Vancity Culture Lab (1895 Venables St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Langille on the longlist
SCA alumnus Jeffrey Langille is on the longlist for the $20,000 Yukon Prize for Visual Arts. Good luck, Jeffrey! More HERE.
Khakpour performs for TechniCowlour
SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour will be performing on March 1, 2025, at 6:30 PM as part of the exhibition TechniCowlour, an installation and performance work conceptualized and created by elika mojtabaei and Khakpour, in collaboration with Alanna Ho, SCA alumni ellis cheadle and Jaewoo Kang, and SF Ho, which runs to March 15, 2025, at Centre A (205 – 268 Keefer St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Soft Tongues in Brazil
SCA alumbnus Jami Reimer's Soft Tongues, which is running Saturday, February 22, 2025, at 8:00 PM at the Instituto Pavão Cultural in Campinas, Brazil (Maria Tereza Dias da Silva Street, 708 Cid. Barão Geraldo Campinas University), received some local press. Click through!
Below the Radar with Johal and Hennessy
Listen Episode 263: Becoming Anarchival of Below the Radar with Am Johal in conversation with Kate Hennessy, Associate Professor at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts & Technology. Listen HERE.
Be part of Progress Lab
C-Space (Vancouver Creative Space Society) is calling for new resident companies to join them at Progress Lab (1422 William St., Vancouver). Find out more HERE.