SCA | Quick News | July 30, 2021
Congratulations, Henry Daniel!
The SCA's Dr. Henry Daniel was named a 2021 Distinguished SFU Professor! Congratulations, Henry! Find out more about Daniel and his work HERE. And see all of this year's Distinguished Professors HERE.
Radul films crows
The SCA's Judy Radul is one of six artists selected to produce a new public art work for the City of Vancouver's 2021 Artist-Initiated Projects program. Congratulations, Judy! Read about Radul's plan to film the daily local transit of Northwestern crows, and about all of the other selected artists HERE.
Chien's Ritual-Spective 迴融
Watch the trailer for SCA alumni Sammy Chien's latest "audiovisual poem," Ritual-Spective 迴融, featuring a few SCA folks – Hân Phạm, Caroline MacCaull, Gonu Kim, and Brian Postalian – behind the scenes, too. Find out more and watch the trailer HERE.
Hou's Country Balance
SCA alumni Julian Yi-Zhong Hou will be presenting the exhibition Country Balance, from July 31 – August 28, 2021, at Toronto's Zalucky Contemporary. More HERE.
Kong on Tanabe
Read the SCA's Yani Kong on Takao Tanabe for Galleries West. Read it HERE.
Perkins Deneault on Dancing on the Edge
Read the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology's Tessa Perkins Deneault on this year's Dancing on the Edge festival, which featured many, many SCA performers. Read it HERE.
Together Again virtually
Take the "virtual tour" of the Burrard Arts Foundation's group exhibition, Together Again, which features SCA alumni Lucien Durey, Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, and Charlene Vickers. Or go visit the show in person until Aug 24, 2021. Take the tour HERE.
Joey Chaos and The Ghost's deluxe Immolation
Joey Chaos and The Ghosts, fronted by SCA alumni Joseph "Joey Chaos" Malbon, have just issued a "deluxe" edition of their Immolation EP on their new label home, Surkeus Records. Listen HERE.
Postalian at X University
SCA alumni Brian Postalian will be the Lecturer for Advanced Performance Tech I: Acting (Module: Conversations) at X University's School of Performance this fall. For more on X University, please read this open letter shared by the Yellowhead Institute.
Sum and Vines funded
Congratulations to SCA alumni Amanda Sum and the Vines Art Festival, founded by SCA alumni and festival Artistic Director Heather Lamoureux in 2015, who were amongst the recipients of funding from the 2021-22 Vancouver Music Fund. More HERE.
Durey's Golden Eagle
From last year, but we're so sorry to have missed this great video featuring SCA alumni Lucien Durey presenting about his neon public art work Golden Eagle in Chilliwack, BC, which was commissioned by the Salish Plaza and Anthem Properties Group Ltd. Watch it HERE.
Aoki-Bolcsfoldi in the love bubble
SCA alumni Jen Aoki-Bolcsfoldi is participating in Small Stage's 2021 summer "love bubble" PRIDE programing, including the "Diva Show" on Friday, July 30, from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM in Gastown (Maple Tree Square at 200 Carrall Street) and on Saturday, July 31, from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM on Robson Street at the Bute Plaza. More HERE.
Kotowich's Traning Jam and in Dub This Road (TAIKOPERA) | ダブ・ディス・ロード (たいこペラ)
Join SCA alumni Jeanette Kotowich for a Training Jam on Sunday, August 29, 2021, at 2:00 PM at the Vines Art Festival, presented by the New (to) Town Collective (SCA alumni Anjela Magpantay, Davey Calderon, and June Fukumura, and Avyen von Waldenburg). More HERE. Also, Kotowich performs in Dub This Road (TAIKOPERA) | ダブ・ディス・ロード (たいこペラ) by Denise Sherwood and the drum groups Sawagi and Onibana Taiko, with production by Adrian Sherwood (On-U Sound Records), produced and directed by Don Chow for the 2021 Powell Street Festival. Watch it HERE.
Saugstad's Ocean Roaring
SCA alumni Anya Saugstad is presenting Ocean Roaring, a piece choreographed in collaboration with SCA alumni Eowynn Enquist, Shion Skye Carter, Samantha Priya Wright, and Cindy Kao and dancers Sabine Raskin and Daria Mikhaylyuk, on August 5 (at 8:00 PM) and 6 (at 12:00 PM) at Tugboat Bay Beach in Kelowna (1200 Water St. at Waterfront Park), presented by the Rotary Centre for the Arts and Made in BC – Dance on Tour. More HERE.
Mercer on making Hekademia
Read SCA alumni Gloria Mercer on "The Making of Hekademia" for the Indieactivity Filmmakers Community. Read it HERE.
Long, Yamamoto, Siu, Mochizuki, and Kwan at the Skytrain Station
Theatre Replacement (SCA alumni James Long and Maiko Yamamoto) will be working with SCA alumni Remy Siu and Cindy Mochizuki and artist Vanessa Kwan on a new work for the Broadway-City Hall Skytrain Station. More HERE.
Rahi and Klinke @ Wonderment
If you're in Victoria, SCA alumni George Rahi will be presenting his sound sculptures in Fisherman's Wharf park on Saturday, July 31, 2021, from 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PDT) as part of Wonderment. Also, SCA alumni Alexandre Klinke will be playing live there from 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, along with Meredith Bates. Klinke is also performing on Sunday, August 1, at 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM (PDT) at Beacon Hill Park's Cameron Bandshell as his alter ego Playback Head, with Adham Shaikh. More HERE.
Ho's tou saang zhu 土生豬
SCA alumni Kimberly Ho will be presenting their work tou saang zhu 土生豬 from August 5 – 15, 2021, as part of the exhibition (Re)Visions at the Art Gallery at Evergreen, presented as part of the Evergreen Cultural Centre's inaugural Emerging Creators Incubator residency. More HERE. Also, don't miss the interview with Ho in La Source Newspaper. Read it HERE.
McFarlane and Humphreys-Stinson's Bicycle Puppet Circus
If you're in Nova Scotia, SCA alumni Ian McFarlane and Laura Jane Humphreys-Stinson (North Barn Theatre Collective) are touring their Troubling Joy: A Bicycle Puppet Circus. Follow their schedule HERE.
Mochizuki's Autumn Strawberry
Read about SCA alumni Cindy Mochizuki's exhibition Autumn Strawberry, which is at the Surrey Art Gallery until August 28, 2021, in the Georgia Straight. Read it HERE.
Carter and Kisyuu's Flow Tide
Watch the full filmed version of the collaborative project Flow Tide by SCA alumni Shion Skye Carter and calligrapher Kisyuu on the Powell Street Festival's website HERE.
Marks and the Streaming Carbon Footprint
Did you know that streaming media is calculated to contribute a surprising 1% of global greenhouse gases? It's true. Read more about the ongoing research by the SCA's Laura Marks and the rest of the Streaming Carbon Footprint crew in this news report by FCAT's Tessa Perkins Deneault for SFU News. Read it HERE.
Congratulations, Murao!
SCA alumni Natalie Murao was selected to be a 2021 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellow. Congratulations, Natalie! More HERE.
L'Hirondelle Hill reviewed
Read Aruna D'Souza in Galleries West on SCA alumni Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill's exhibition, Projects: Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, at the The Museum of Modern Art until August 15, 2021. Read it HERE.
SCA for DOXA – outdoors!
Films by SFU alumni Sophia Biedka, Lisa Jackson, and Hân Phạm are part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival's Outdoor Summer Screenings on August 12 & 13, 2021, at the South Plaza of the Vancouver Public Library's Central Branch – co-presented by the VPL, too! More HERE.
McMann moderated Voices Carrying Forward
SCA alumni Jessica McMann moderated "Voices Carrying Forward: Indigenous Futures in Contemporary Music," a panel conversation with Jeremy Allen, Jonathon Adams, Sandrine Masse-Savard, Marion Newman, Russell Wallace, and Elder Marina Crane on July 29, 2021, presented by Queen’s University. Read about the event HERE.