SCA | Quick News | November 29, 2024
SCA Art Sale
The SCA Visual Art Student Union are hosting an art sale on December 4, 2024, from 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM, in Room 3340 here at the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). And if you're an SCA student or alumni and you'd like to include some work, there still might be time to participate. Find out more HERE.
Yoon does 1:1
The SCA's Jin-me Yoon is the latest artist to participate in the Vancouver Art Gallery's 1:1 Artists Select exhibition series, installing her works Untitled 10 (Long Time So Long) (2022) and Carrying Fragments (Untunnelling Vision) (2010) alongside Robert Rauschenberg’s sculpture Publicon – Station 1 (1978) in the VAG's Forecourt. See them until January 26, 2025, and watch a quick video of the install on the VAG's Instagram. More HERE.
Songs of Wars I Have Seen – Blogpost
Read a blog post from the SCA's Owen Underhill, who is also the Artistic Director and Conductor for the Turning Point Ensemble, about TPE's two events, presented by our colleagues in SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, exploring Gertrude Stein’s life and work. First is a FREE panel discussion with Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, Adam J. Frank, Peter Hatch, and moderator Betsy Warland, on Saturday, November 30, 2024, at 5:00 PM in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at 149 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver. Second, and on that same night, is a PAID performance at 7:30 PM in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, also here at the SCA, featuring compositions by Heiner Goebbels and Peter Hatch. Read it HERE.
Smulovitz answers 15 Questions
The SCA's Stefan Smulovitz answers 15 Questions "about Directions in Contemporary Composition." Read it HERE.
It's a Wonderful Life: On the Air
SCA students Maddy Woodley (Stage Manager) and Hailey Gil (Assistant Stage Manager) are part of United Players' production of It's a Wonderful Life: On the Air, which runs November 29 – December 22, 2024, at the Jericho Arts Centre (1675 Discovery St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Sammy's dad, Jackson Chien
The Source spoke with artist Jackson Chien, who's the Senior in Residence for the Coquitlam Heritage’s Intergenerational Sharing Project, as well as the father of SCA alumnus Sammy Chien, who is also the co-Artistic Director (with SCA alumnus Caroline MacCaull) of Chimerik 似不像. And according to Chien, the Intergenerational Sharing Project is also part of Ritual-Spective, an ongoing multi-media interactive art series, produced in collaboration with Chimerik 似不像. Read it HERE.
Sum's pretty and pale
Watch the video for pretty and pale by SCA alumnus Amanda Sum, directed by Jenny Lee-Gilmore. Watch it HERE.
Performing Memories
Listen to Performing Memories, a new record by Micheal J. Park, who plays piano during some of our dance classes. Listen HERE.
Paper Mountains reviewed
Read Stir Vancouver on SCA alumnus Anya Saugstad's Paper Mountains, performed by SCA alumni Eowynn Enquist and Shion Skye Carter and Nasiv Sall, Oksana Maslechko, and Sarah Hutton, which had its world premiere on November 23, 2024, at The Dance Centre, presented as part of Dance in Vancouver 2024. Read it HERE.
interplay_2024
Upcoming! interplay_2024, the festival of live online performance created by SCA alumnus Deanna Peters, which runs December 12 – 15, 2024. More HERE.
Tedlie-Stursberg is one to watch
SCA alumnus Alex Tedlie-Stursberg is included in Vancouver Sun's list of "10 B.C. artists to watch," compiled after a profile of painter Andy Dixon. Read it HERE.
The Longest Way to Eat a Melon pre-sale
Here's a pre-sale link for SCA alumnus Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross' The Longest Way to Eat a Melon, which comes out June 20, 2025, from Sarabande Books.
The Bottom of the Fountain is Painted Turquoise
SCA alumnus Elizabeth Milton's The Bottom of the Fountain is Painted Turquoise is on display in from November 21, 2024 – February 1, 2025, in the Foyer of the School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba (255 ARTlab – 180 Dafoe Road), curated by Blair Fornwald. More HERE.
EDAM Dance's Choreographic Series
SCA alumni Jaewoo Kang, Erika Mitsuhashi, James Maxwell, Alex Mah, Olivia Shaffer, and Antonio Somera Jr. are all part of EDAM Dance's Choreographic Series, which runs December 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, & 14, 2024, at 8:00 PM at EDAM's studio (303 E 8th Ave., Vancouver), featuring choreography by Alexa Solveig Mardon, Rachel Meyer, and Peter Bingham. More HERE.
Alzamora-Rivera on Deep Listening
SCA alumnus Mar Alzamora-Rivera gave a talk and hosted a workshop about the benefits of Deep Listening in musical performance on November 21, 2024, at the School of Musical Arts at the University of Costa Rica. Find out more about Alzamora-Rivera and her work HERE.
A/zar at What Lab
SCA MFA students Niloufar Samadi and Avideh Saadatpajouh are presenting A/zar, "an interactive performance and installation that invites the audience to step into a world of misplacement, migration, and the tender spaces in between," from December 13 – 14, 2024, at 7:30 PM at What Lab (202-1814 Pandora St., Vancouver), presented as part of their "Not a Stage series." More HERE.
Friedenberg talks sh*t with Kwan
The Libby Leshgold Gallery's Vanessa Kwan is the latest guest on SCA MFA student Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg's podcast, Talking Sh*t With Tara Cheyenne. Listen HERE.
Slow Socials: Around Sound
Music on Main and The Only Animal, which has SCA alumnus Barbara Adler as Artistic Director, are co-presenting Slow Socials: Around Sound with SCA alumnus Toni-Leah C. Yake on December 2, 2024, at 7:00 PM at The Post (110 – 750 Hamilton St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Sample Speak The Weather
SCA alumnus Lucien Durey shared a quick sample video on his Instagram from his performance, Speak The Weather, with ran November 23 & 24, 2024, at Lobe Studio, presented as the culmination of his Lobe studio artist residency.
Muranko in Let's Unpack That
SCA alumnus Starr Muranko was part of the first of three public panels in the "Let's Unpack That" series hosted by Cameron Peal, on Thursday, November 28, 2024, at The Cultch (1895 Venables St., Vancouver). Find out more HERE.
UnderCurrents in the archive
SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour was part of the research group for UnderCurrents: Experimental BIPOC artists in Vancouver 1970 to 2020, which has joined Currently Arts Society's Experimental Artist Archive. Check out the archive HERE, and submit yourself if you're eligible.
Le Chauffage Issue Three launch
SCA alumnus Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross will be reading from her contribution to the third issue of Le Chauffage, which is launching on Saturday, November 30, 2024, from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM at 4277 Fraser St., Vancouver. More HERE.
Somatic Camp
Mascall Dance are presenting a Somatic Camp with Alexa Mardon, Francesca Frewer, and Jennifer Mascall, from January 13 – 18, 2025, at Left of Main (211 Keefer St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Soft Tongues at Lobe
SCA alumnus Jami Reimer completed a Lobe Studio residency with a performance of Soft Tongues on November 22, 2034, at Lobe Studio (713 E. Hastings St., Vancouver), presented as part of Re:Naissance's IndieFest. See images from the event on Reimer's Instagram HERE.
Coptic Bookbinding Workshop 101
SCA alumnus Hân Phạm is presenting Coptic Bookbinding Workshop 101 on Sunday, December 8, 2024, from 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM, at the James Black Gallery (144 E. 6th Ave., Vancouver). More HERE.
Khakpour directs DBLSPK
rice & beans theatre are presenting the first DBLSPK event of their season: elika mojtabaei's Draw Me a Home, directed by SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour, on Wednesday, December 4, 2024, at 6:00 PM in the Montalbano Family Theatre at the Vancouver Public Library's Central Library (350 West Georgia St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Big City at Red Gate
Big City, the duo of SCA alumnus Katayoon Yousefbigloo and PhD candidate Dave Biddle, are playing on Saturday, November 30, 2024, from 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM, Red Gate (1965 Main St., Vancouver), presented as part of Good Luck Studios' 3 Year Anniversary Show. More HERE.
Speakable S01E05: Can ChatGPT be a learning tool?
Listen to Episode 5 of Speakable, the podcast from the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, this time host Milena Droumeva is joined by Leanne Johnson (SFU Publishing) and Jennesia Pedri (SFU's School of Communication) to discuss the current landscape of AI and ChatGPT in the academic classroom. They discuss the way they use AI in their classrooms, and goals for the future of AI as a learning tool. Listen HERE.
Song at Lobe
SCA alumnus (and Lobe Artist Residency Technician) Stella Da Yun Song and the K-Sonic Collective presented HAN on Wednesday, November 27, 2024, at Lobe studio (713 E. Hastings St., Vancouver). More HERE.