SCA | Quick News | October 11, 2024
Dormitive Virtue
The SCA's Eldritch Priest's new album, Dormitive Virtue, recorded live in Vancouver at 8EAST on April 26, 2023, and mastered by Murat Colak, is out today from Halocline Trance. Listen to it and buy it digitally and on vinyl via Bandcamp HERE.
Encounter EDUCATIONAL MODERNISM
The SCA's Sabine Bitter and collaborators Helmut Weber and Jeff Derksen are having a book launch for Encounter EDUCATIONAL MODERNISM, the third in their Educational Modernism series (published by adocs Hamburg in cooperation with Edition Camera Austria, Graz), on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, at 7:00 PM at Vienna Secession (Friedrichstraße 12, Vienna, Austria). More HERE.
Pauly on Sh*t that Sucks
Watch an animated version of the SCA's Mauricio Pauly talk about an instance of Sh*t that Sucks, produced by animator Angela Guyton. Watch it HERE.
Rodríguez and Thodas in Transient Visions
The SCA's Noé Rodríguez and SCA alumnus Marianne Thodas have films (Frog Moon and Positive Transparencies, respectively) in Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, which runs October 18 & 19, 2024, at the Spool Contemporary Art Space (138 Baldwin St., Johnson City, NY). More HERE.
Honouring A Long View
The SCA's Jin-me Yoon's 2017 photographic series, Long View, originally produced as part of LandMarks2017/Repères2017, has been expanded to become Honouring A Long View, now installed along the exterior South façade of the National Gallery of Canada until the spring of 2026. More HERE.
Maier / Sissy XO / Evicshen & Earthball
The SCA's Stefan Maier is playing a show with Evicshen and Earthball, and Sissy XO on Monday, November 4, 2024, from 8:00 PM – 11:30 PM at Red Gate (1965 Main St., Vancouver). More info and tickets HERE.
Chilemonos Vancouver
The SCA's Miwa Matreyek asked us to share about this upcoming Vancouver mini-version of Chilemonos, an animation festival from Santiago, Chile, running October 21 – 25, 2024, and featuring some free events: a screening of Our Present on Tuesday, October 22, at The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St., Vancouver); a screening of Our Stories on Wednesday, October 23, at UBC's Normand Bouchard Memorial Theatre (6138 Student Union Blvd #130, Vancouver); a workshop by Japanese animator and director Shin'ichirô Watanabe on Thursday, October 24, at Emily Carr University of Art + Design's Reliance Theatre (520 E 1st Ave., Vancouver); and the closing night screening of Our Voices, with a round table with filmmakers on Friday, October 25, at UBC Robson Square (800 Robson St., Vancouver). More HERE.
PTC's Blocks A & D announced
Playwrights Theatre Centre have announced their 2024/2025 Block A and Block D Cohorts, including SCA alumni Garvin Chan 陳嘉泓 and Hannah Meyers in Block A and Erika Mitsuhashi in Block D. More HERE.
On the road with Blenkarn and Lim
Just received an update from SCA alumni and longtime collaborators Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim, creators of the "long form participatory performance" video game assess.masses, about their current activities. Here's what they've shared: they're in Berlin this fall and winter as artists in residence at the Humboldt Forum, where they are collaborating with a group of high school students to create new games and performances as part of Humboldting!; they're also touring theatres and festivals in Germany and Italy with asses.masses, which is premiering in German at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin on October 26, followed by shows on November 10 and January 12 in Münster at Theater im Pumpenhaus; and they're taking assess.masses to Italy, where it premiered at Inteatro Festival in June 2024, to be presented on November 17 as part of the Campania Teatro Festival in Salerno, which also feattures Robert Wilson, Jan Fabre, and more. Whew!
Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency
SCA alumni Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Tin Gamboa, Jeanette Kotowich, and Arash Khakpour are part of the team of mentors supporting the cohort for the Dance West Network's 2024 Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency, which concludes with performances at the Surrey Arts Centre (13750 88 Ave., Surrey) on October 10 at 7:30 PM and at MORROW (Suite 204 – 910 Richards St., Vancouver) on October 12 at 3:00 PM and 7:00 PM. More HERE.
Bourget in The Big Tree
SCA alumnus Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi are providing dance / movement for Vancouver InterArts Collective's The Big Tree, "a provocative sixty minute structured improvisation that combines music, dance, soundscape, sung and spoken word, real-time visual art and creative lighting," with Brad Muirhead (project lead, trombone), DB Boyko (voice), Isaac Rosen-Purcell (clarinet/electronics), Stephen Robb (clarinet), Nick Apivor, and Gary Wideman (percussion), on Thursday, November 7, 2024, from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM at the KW Production Studio (111 W. Hastings ST., Vancouver), presented as part of the Heart of the City Festival. Get tickets HERE.
Kanagawa on the panel
SCA alumnus Hiro Kanagawa joins Mark Crawford, Marcia Johnson, and moderator by Colin Rivers as part of the "Trackways from Theatre Sector to TV-Film Industry – Sharing Experiences from a Canada Arts Council Sector Innovation Project" panel discussion on Monday, October 28, 2024, at 11:30 AM (ET), at the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre (189 Yonge St., Toronto), presented as part of the Playwrights Guild of Canada's 2024 PGC Conference. More HERE.
baptized.in.prison
Read a profile of SCA alumnus Toni-Leah C. Yake, who is performing as baptized.in.prison on October 2 at 8:00 PM, the second night of Vancouver New Music's Festival, PROPULSION, which runs October 17 – 19, 2024, at VIVO Media Arts Centre (2625 Kaslo St., Vancouver), who's also the co-presenter. Read it HERE on VNM's Instagram.
Voices for Freedom and Democracy
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (vAct) is presenting Voices for Freedom and Democracy, "a night to share our hopes, fears, dreams, truths, and the complex realities we face as individuals and communities," on Friday, October 11, 2024, at 7:30 PM (doors at 7:00 PM) at Notional Space (1523 E. Pender St., Vancouver), hosted by SCA alumnus and vAct Artistic Director Derek Chan. Good news / bad news: the event is full!
Obuwoma talks careers
SCA alumnus Fegor Obuwoma joins Kiel Torres and Dana Qaddah for the "Emerge Careers Panel" on Thursday, October 17, 2024, from 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM in Room 1002 of UBC's Audain Art Centre (6398 University Boulevard, Vancouver). Space it limited, so please RSVP via email to naomi.sawada@ubc.ca with your name, pronouns, your major (art history, visual arts, psychology, etc.) and the name of the event: "Emerge Careers Panel."
Maté wins the Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy
Congratulations to Dr. Gabor Maté, who was awarded the 2024 Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy by SFU for his inspiring ongoing work on the links between trauma and health. The Prize honours and encourages work that provokes or contributes to the understanding of controversy. To celebrate the Prize, there will be a free lecture by Dr. Maté on Wednesday, November 27, 2024, from 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM, in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver (RSVP HERE). On the theme of trauma and health (and much more) that draws on Dr. Maté's own history as an "infant survivor of the Nazi genocide," here's a deeply-felt opinion piece he wrote in 2014 for the Toronto Star, titled "Beautiful dream of Israel has become a nightmare." Read it HERE.
VIDF's new look
Read SCA alumnus and Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF) Co-Director, Deanna Peters, who is also a very skilled and resourceful web designer, on the new website she "wrote, designed and coded" for the VIDF. Read it (and see it) HERE.
Soft Currents
Tickets are now on sale for Soft Currents by Action at a Distance (SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman) on Saturday, November 23, 2024, at 9.30 PM at The Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver), presented as part of Dance In Vancouver. More HERE.
East Van Panto: Robin Hood
Theatre Replacement (with SCA alumnus Maiko Yamamoto as Artistic Director) announced that tickets are on sale for their popular annual holiday show, the East Van Panto, this time with their version of Robin Hood, running November 20, 2024 – January 5, 2025, at The Cultch's York Theatre (639 Commercial Dr., Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.
Knight at the Libby
Our colleagues from another institution at the Libby Leshgold Gallery are hosting Autumn Knight as their Audain Distinguished Artist in Residence from October 1 – December 7, 2024. As part of Knight's residency, she'll be giving an Artist Talk on October 30 at 6:00 PM in the Reliance Theatre at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and a Performance on November 22 at 6:00 PM in the Libby (520 E 1st Ave., Vancouver). We're also fortunate to have Knight as one of the choreographers for The Middle of Everywhere, the upcoming SCA Repertory Dancers performance, running November 21 – 23, 2024, in the Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre here at 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver. We'd like to thank the team at the Libby for helping make this happen! More on the Knight's residency at the Libby HERE.
Mascall Dance Party
Mascall Dance is holding a Dance Party on Friday, October 18, 2024, from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM at Left of Main (211 Keefer St., Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.
Villains & Vamps
Horror in Seconds, the festival dedicated to minute-or-less horror videos by BIPOC filmmakers created by SCA alumnus Doaa Magdy, is holding Villains & Vamps, a Horror Drag show featuring Batty Banks, on Friday, December 13, 2024, at the Fox Cabaret (2321 Main St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Hot Snack in PROPULSION
As well as SCA alumnus Toni-Leah C. Yake performing on the second night of PROPULSION (see above!), Vancouver New Music's festival, running October 17 – 19, 2024, at VIVO Media Arts Centre (2625 Kaslo St., Vancouver), we've just learned that SCA alumnus Ryan Clough-Carroll, who is one half of Hot Snack (with Sol Chiniquay), is performing on the first night of PROPULSION, too. More HERE. (P.S. If you're SCA, please let us know what you're up to HERE.)
Did You See?
SCA student Vanessa Lefan 樂凡 has released a new song, Did You See?, and collaborated with Zir Ziyadeh and Mona Al Kurdi on some related clothing to raise funds for Human Concern International and Project Olive Branch, which are both working to support the people of Gaza. More HERE.
It's Gorgoth season
SCA student Claine 'Gorgoth' Lamb has two upcoming events: Inferno III, "a spatialized auditory horror experience" based on Dante's Inferno, and a special spatialized playback of Kingdom of Misery by Lamb's band Misyrion, on October 26 at 6:00 PM and 8:30 PM at Lobe Studio (713 E. Hastings St., Vancouver), and a curated "double feature horror movie night," featuring Evil Dead (2013) at 7:00 PM and Army of Darkness (1992) at 9:00 PM, also at Lobe Studio. Find links for everything Gorgoth HERE.
AGE Artist Interview #1 with Mochizuki
Watch Part 1 of the Art Gallery at Evergreen's "AGE Artist Interview" with SCA alumnus Cindy Mochizuki, whose exhibition, stories best told at twilight, is at the gallery until November 17, 2024. Also, join a tour of the exhibition on Saturday, October 26 at 2:00 PM (1205 Pinetree Wy. #1, Coquitlam).Watch it HERE.
SFMF brings the Wormhole to the Lido
Celebrate the launch of the 5th annual Small File Media Festival (which runs October 18 – 19, 2024, at The Cinematheque, and then online from October 21 – 27) on Thursday, October 17, at 7:00 PM at the Lido (518 E. Broadway, Vancouver), featuring a presentation of Wormhole, October 11, 2022 by the SCA's Stefan Smulovitz and XEL (Hadis Fard) and DJing by Dandelion Record's finest – Ian Prentice and Grey Paul. And while we're on the SFMF subject, read Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora on the festival for ReIssue, the "interdisciplinary art writing platform" edited by SCA PhD student Casey Wei, HERE.
Kesh! at Tyrant
SCA student Devon Furtado / Kesh! is performing November 9, 2024, at 9:00 PM at Tyrant Studios (1019 Seymour St., Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.
Congratulations, Sound!
SCA alumnus Michelle Sound's public artwork, Sipikiskisiw (Remembers Far Back), presented on the Telus Transit Shelter in downtown Edmonton, won a Public Art Sustainability Award from the Creative City Network of Canada. Find out more about the work HERE.
P.L.U.R.O.M.A. Resort '24 in pictures
Did you miss the P.L.U.R.O.M.A. Resort '24 show at the The Polygon Gallery? Catch all the looks on Liquidation World's Instagram, including this set by SCA alumnus and P.L.U.R.O.M.A. (Peace Love Unity Respect Oxygen Music and Autonomy) Creative Director Katayoon Yousefbigloo. Keep your eyes open for work by Second Spring Apparel (which includes SCA alumus Julian Yi-Zhong Hou), as well as the SCA's Stefan Maier and SCA alumnus and Polygon curator Elliott Ramsey on the, uh, cat stairs? See it all HERE.
Inedia in Montréal
SCA alumnus Liz Cairns' Inedia, co-produced by Experimental Forest Films (SCA alumni Kathleen Hepburn and Tyler Hagan), is screening as part of Montréal's Festival du nouveau cinéma, which runs October 9 – 20, 2024. More HERE.
Art Action Earwig on Jeju island
Art Action Earwig, the "multidisciplinary performance collective" of SCA alumni Minah Lee and Wryly Andherson, are performing on Korea's Jeju island on October 11, 2024, as part of Small Concert for the Millet and You, which is part of the larger project Gifts sent from the lost village, to "remember the 4.3 Massacre on Jeju island." More HERE.
Basanta does covers
SCA alumnus Adam Basanta's work is on the covers of two recent books: Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media (2024) by Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka on MIT Press, and Post-Mortem of The Event (2024) by Klara du Plessis on Palimpsest Press Books' Anstruther Books poetry imprint. More HERE.
Peace Country in print
SCA alumnus and rice & beans theatre's Artistic Director Pedro Chamale's Peace Country was published by Playwrights Canada Press. Congratulations, Pedro! More HERE.
How Would Lubitsch Do It? S5E09a
Listen to S5E09a of How Would Lubitsch Do It?, the podcast hosted by SCA alumnus host Devan Scott, this time with guest Mateusz Pacewicz on Lubitsch and Poland, and also with a quick visit by David Neary on Heaven Can Wait. Listen HERE.
Hou in Enchantment
SCA alumnus Julian Yi-Zhong Hou joins Rebecca Bair and Byron Peters in the exhibition Enchantment, curated by Phanuel Antwi, which runs at the Or Gallery (236 E. Pender St., Vancouver) from October 9, 2024 – January 11, 2025. More HERE.