SCA | Quick News | January 27, 2023
SCA dancers in Kaleidoscope
Please join us for Kaleidoscope, a FREE performance by first & second year SCA dancers on January 27 & 28, 2023, at 7:00 PM in Room 4650 (known as the Blonde Studio because of the wooden floor beneath the Marley surface) here in SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). Come out! Also, if you're considering the SCA for your undergrad dance studies, this is a good chance to see some of our newest students at work, as well as some of the studios here at the GCA.
Radul's Warmer Than The World Around Us
The SCA's Judy Radul is presenting Warmer Than The World Around Us, which was "originally produced onsite in Gwangju, South Korea, for the occasion of the 13th Gwangju Biennale," from February 9 – April 8, 2023, at Montréal's Dazibao gallery (5455, de Gaspé Ave., suite 109). More HERE.
PushOFF 2023 INDUSTRY CONVOS
The SCA's Miwa Matreyek and SCA alumni Amanda Sum, Adrienne Wong, Jeanette Kotowich, Luciana D'Anunciação, and Natalie Tin Yin Gan join Kelly McInnes and facilitator Dani Fecko for a roundtable discussion, The Emergent Realities of Care, on Saturday, February 4, at 3:00 PM at the Russian Hall (600 Campbell Avenue, Vancouver), presented as part of Theatre Replacement and Company 605's PushOFF 2023 INDUSTRY CONVOS, organized in partnership with Fascinator Management. Also, Matreyek, Sum, Wong, Kotowich, D'Anunciação, and Gan are all performing as part of PushOFF, as well.
Min on Yoon
Susette Min, Associate Professor at UC Davis, is giving a talk about the SCA's Jin-me Yoon’s work on Sunday, February 5, 2023, at 2:00 PM in Room 4East at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where Yoon's exhibition, About Time, runs to March 5, 2023. More HERE.
Capture's schedule
Capture Photography Festival has announced its 2023 exhibition schedule, which includes Jin-me Yoon's Long Time So Long at the Art Gallery at Evergreen Cultural Centre from February 18 – April 30, SCA alumnus Vilhelm Sundin in a group exhibition with Roy Arden and Owen Kydd at Monte Clark from March 18 – April 20, and SCA MFA student Katie Kozak and SCA alumni Lucien Durey's Endless Summer at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art from April 15 – June 17.
SCA in the PuSh Youth Assembly
With Solid State Community Industries and our colleagues SFU Woodward's, we're co-presenting the 2023 PuSh Youth Assembly, which takes place Saturday, January 28, from 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM, in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre here at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). SCA folks in the day's schedule are MA student Olumoroti Soji-George and SCA alumnus Ogheneofegor Obuwoma on the panel Centring Community Arts and the SCA's James Long, Erika Latta, and Ryan Tacata on the panel Intersections of Contemporary Performance Creation. More HERE.
Daniel's Licht
The SCA's Dr. Henry Daniel is presenting a new work, Licht, on the theme of "light" on Saturday, January 28, 2023, at Theater Pforzheim (Waisenhausplatz 5, 75172 Pforzheim, Germany). More HERE.
Fredriksson leads a Working Class
SCA alumnus Emmalena Fredriksson is leading a Working Class for Training Society of Vancouver on January 30 and February 1 & 3, 2023, from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM, at The Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver). More HERE. The last set was lead by SCA alumnus Shion Skye Carter, and an upcoming set will be lead by SCA alumnus Jeanette Kotowich.
Tong's open studio
If you're in or near Bornholm Island, Denmark, SCA alumnus Yi Xin Tong is having an open studio to show his work-in-progress, Circular Dance to Death at Sea, on Saturday, January 27, 2023, at 7:00 PM with writer Steen Anderson, presented as part of Tong's Beast Residency.
Lee at the Queer Arts Festival
Great news! SCA alumnus Tamara Lee is the new Director of Development at the Queer Arts Festival! Congratulations, Tamara, and great choice, Queer Arts Fest! Also cool about this is that Tamara did a practicum with the Festival while a student with us, organized by Barbara Adler, the SCA's Professional Development Coordinator.
Muranko's Chapter 21
Upcoming: SCA alumnus Starr Muranko's Chapter 21, directed by Yvette Nolan, on Friday, March 17, 2023, at 7:30 PM at Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver). More HERE.
The Library Performance Collective's Passenger Seat
Starting tonight! Passenger Seat by The Library Performance Collective – which includes SCA alumni Arthi Chandra, Howard Dai, Hannah Meyers, and Montserrat Videla Samper and Isabella Halladay and Thule Van Den Dam, plus with SCA alumnus (and current SCA Production & Events Manager) Gillian Hanemayer on lights and stage managing – is running January 27 & 28, 2023, at 7:30 PM at the Metro Studio Theatre (1411 Quadra Street, Victoria), presented as part of Intrepid Theatre's OUTstages festival. More HERE.
Alzamora in the laboratorio colectivo de creación musical experimental
SCA alumnus Mar Alzamora is participating in T R A M A S - espacios de experimentación artística's upcoming laboratorio colectivo de creación musical experimental, which is calling for participants. More HERE (in Spanish).
Young talks An Undeveloped Sound
Electric Company Theatre's Jonathon Young was on CBC/Radio-Canada's North by Northwest to talk about An Undeveloped Sound, featuring SCA alumni Sophie Tang (Lighting Designer) and Scott Morgan / Loscil (Composer & Sound Designer) and current SCA students Jack Chipman (Media Integration) and Ruby Henderson (Performer). An Undeveloped Sound has PWYC previews on January 30 & 31 at 7:30 PM, its World Premiere on February 1 7:30 PM, and performances on February 2 – 4 & February 7 – 11, 2023, at 7:30 PM, co-presented with SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs & the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Listen HERE.
Listen to Handshake 2022
Undecimals, the "mail art exchange project" that includes SCA alumnus Lucien Durey as one of the "admin," have shared a playlist of all the tracks exchanged through Handshake 2022, with participants Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Antoine Bédard, Bopha Chhay, Brennan Kelly, Chance Lovett, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Lillian O'Brien Davis, Lyndl Hall + Richard Clements, Nina Platiša, Patrick Cruz, Rose Butch, and Vanessa Brown. Listen HERE.
Kong on The Willful Plot
Read SCA PhD student Yani Kong in Galleries West on The Willful Plot, the Melanie O’Brian curated group exhibition at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery until April 16, 2023. Read it HERE.
I SPY… online exhibition
SCA alumnus Snack Witch / Joni Cheung is one of the contributors to Unit/Pitt Society for Art & Critical Awareness' I SPY… online exhibition, which is running to February 28, 2023. Click through to the Unit/Pitt's Facebook or Instagram to see the rest of the works in the show, which also includes SCA alumni Hannah Dubois, Kaila Bhullar, kathy feng, and Samantha Walters.
Soji-George interviewed
Read an interview in Pancouver with SCA MA student Olumoroti Soji-George, who's also the Artistic Director of the Gallery Gachet, about the programing he and The Black Arts Centre are presenting as part of the 2023 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Read it HERE.
The New Aesthetics Performance Intensive
The application deadline for Theatre Replacement's 2023 New Aesthetics Performance Intensive 2023, which takes place here with us from July 17 – 28, with guest instructors Autumn Knight and keyon gaskin and guest curator Justine Chambers, who's an SCA MFA student and current Instructor, ends March 15, 2023. More HERE.
Bukhari on the Vancouver Art Blog
The Vancouver Art Blog has posted a bunch of photos of the exhibitions up now at the Burrard Arts Foundation (2 – 258 East 1st Ave., Vancouver), including SCA alumnus Minahil Bukhari's Land & Marks, which runs to March 18, 2023. See them HERE.
Designed by Peters
SCA alumnus Deanna Peters, who hosted a Small File DIY Web workshop with us today, co-designed this new cassette release, play Symbiotic Instruments, by Roxanne Nesbitt, Ben Brown + Marielle Groven. Listen (and see it) HERE.
Talking Shit With Tara Cheyenne
The latest episode of SCA alumnus Tara Cheyenne's Podcast,Talking Shit With Tara Cheyenne, features Amanda Testini. Listen HERE or subscribe via your favourite podcast platform.
Smulovitz plays One-Page Scores with the Plastic Acid Orchestra
The SCA's Stefan Smulovitz is playing as part of the Plastic Acid Orchestra for the Vancouver New Music's upcoming FREE One-Page Score Project concert on Saturday, January 28, 2023, at 8:00 PM at the Christ Church Cathedral (690 Burrard Street, Vancouver). There's also an artist chat with the VNM's Giorgio Magnanensi and Bryan Deans and Doug Gorkoff at 7:30 PM. More HERE.
Future Futures reviewed
Read a review in Dance International of director Brian J. Johnson and Company 605's Future Futures, which features SCA alumni Shion Skye Carter, Antonio Somera Jr., and Billy Marchenski, and SCA MFA student and current SCA instructor Justine A. Chambers. Read it HERE.
A Year of Blessings: Bun Fun New Year
Listen to A Year of Blessings: Bun Fun New Year by the Five Blessings Collective, which includes SCA alumni Derek Chan, Howard Dai, and Nancy Tam, and Jasmine Chen and Robyn Jacob, produced in collaboration with SCA alumnus Amanda Sum (who did the theme song!), presented by Gateway Theatre. Listen HERE.
Fire of Love up for an Oscar
Sara Dosa's Fire of Love, edited by SCA alumnus Jocelyne Chaput, has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2023 Academy Awards. Congratulations – and good luck!
Silverfox soundbite
Click through to the Art Gallery at Evergreen Cultural Centre's Instagram to listen to the last in a series of "soundbites" with SCA alumnus Krystle Silverfox, whose 2020 work, Hats'adän echo (Elder's teachings), is on exhibition on the Centre's exterior windows. Listen HERE.
Gamelan Bike Bike's 10th
Founded by musician Robyn Jacob and SCA alumnus and PhD student George Rahi, Gamelan Bike Bike are holding a concert to celebrate their 10th anniversary on Friday, March 24, 2023, at 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver). More HERE.