SCA | Quick News | October 4, 2024
"No dick makin’ me stupid"
The SCA's Kay Higgins will be presenting the paper "No dick makin’ me stupid" as part of the panel discussion “The Crisis of Masculinity,” on Sunday, October 20, 2024, from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, in Room 1700 at SFU Harbour Centre (555 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), presented as part of SFU's Institute for the Humanities' Fascist Neo-liberalism and the Fate of Radical Democracy Conference, which runs October 17 – 20, 2024. More HERE.
Maier's Inhuman Listening
The SCA's Stefan Maier is holding a 5-session online workshop series, Inhuman Listening, running November 4, 18, & 25, and December 2 & 9, 2024, presented by CAMP, which is operated by the Fuse Art Space in Bradford, England. More HERE. Also, don't miss Maier playing 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 HERE.
Matreyek on Below the Radar
The SCA's Miwa Matreyek is the guest on the latest episode of Below the Radar, produced by our friends SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Listen HERE.
Welcome to Speakable
Listen to the premiere episode of Speakable, the new podcast from the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, featuring host Milena Droumeva in conversation with the SCA's Arne Eigenfeldt and SIAT's Phillippe Pasquier about FCAT’s new Certificate in Sound. Listen HERE.
Cantus Ensemble
Turning Point Ensemble, which has the SCA's Owen Underhill as Artistic Director and conductor, is opening their 24-25 season with two "powerful and engaging" concerts by the Zagreb’s Cantus Ensemble, led by the acclaimed conductor and composer Berislav Šipuš, on Saturday, October 26 at 7:30 & Sunday, October 27, at 2:30 PM, at the Annex (823 Seymour St., Vancouver). More info and tickets HERE.
Bandcamp Friday
Have your ears on something good, perhaps by someone from the SCA, like Arne Eigenfeldt, Stefan Maier, Mauricio Pauly, Eldritch Priest, or Sabrina Schroeder? Today's the day!
Galleries West on SFMF 2024
The upcoming edition of the Small File Media Festival, running October 18–19, 2024, at The Cinematheque, was profiled in Galleries West by John Thomson. Read it HERE.
Meet Sydney Laiss
Read a profile of Sydney Laiss, SFU Galleries' Collections Manager. Read it HERE.
Salish Singing and Drumming Workshop with Russell Wallace
Our friends in SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and SFU’s Office for Aboriginal Peoples are co-presenting Salish Singing and Drumming Workshop with Russell Wallace on October 9, 2024, at 6:00 PM, here in the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). It's free and no RSVP is required, but you can find more info HERE.
StudioSIAT open house
Our friends and colleagues in the School of Interactive Arts + Technology are having an "open house" on Tuesday, October 8, 2024, from 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM to show off their new StudioSIAT production studio, They'll also be launching two new initiatives: the virtual ambassador program and a set of micro-credit and non-credit courses covering topics related to motion capture production and post-production. After the open house, SIAT is also presenting Motion Capture & Animation: Present & Future from 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM, featuring J. Tseng (StudioSIAT Manager), Steve DiPaola (Professor, Graduate Program Chair, and Director of iVizLab at SIAT), Derrick Carter (Founder and Managing Director of The Sawmill Motion Capture Studio), and Marina Antunes (Festival Director of SPARK ANIMATION and President of Spark CG Society & Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH). Find out more about those events and more HERE.
Tour stories best told at twilight
Upcoming from the Art Gallery at the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Wy #1, Coquitlam): a Curator’s Tour of SCA alumnus Cindy Mochizuki's exhibition, stories best told at twilight, on Friday, October 4, 2024, at 12:30 PM. Cindy Mochizuki: stories best told at twilight runs to November 17, 2024. More HERE.
Re:Location Season 2
Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre (VLACC) is presenting a premiere screening of Re:Location Season 2, which showcases "the vibrant and evolving presence of Latin American culture in Canada through the eyes of five mid-career artists," including SCA alumnus and rice & beans theatre Artistic Director Pedro Chamale, on October 10, 2024, from 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM, at VIFF Centre (1181 Seymour St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Bursting Pipedreams in Candyland: Expo 86’s Counter Exhibitions
SCA / INS PhD student Jordan Strom is presenting the talk, "Bursting Pipedreams in Candyland: Expo 86’s Counter Exhibitions," at the Contemporary Art & the Peripheries conference on October 4, 2024, in Porto, Portugal, which was organized in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of The New Centre for Research & Practice, and in partnership with ESAP (Escola Superior Artística do Porto). More HERE.
Everything Has A Hole
SCA alumnus James O'Callaghan and Lois Brown premiered Everything Has A Hole on October 1, 2024, at LSPU Hall (3 Victoria St., St. John's, NL), presented as part of the Festival of New Dance 2024. More HERE.
O'Brian's Secret Ingredients
SCA alumnus Keely O'Brian's Secret Ingredients, "a theatre project that uses cake to explore the intricacies of human relationships," is accepting orders. The full realization of the project, which O'Brian is developing as part of Theatre Replacement's Acclerator Lab, will be presented at TR's HOLD ON LET GO, running February 4 – 8, 2025, at The Russian Hall (600 Campbell St., Vancouver). Find out more about Secret Ingredients HERE.
Kindred Tracings book launch
FLEET Mobile Artist Studios are hosting a book launch on October 17, 2024, at 5:30 PM at Edmonds Park (at the intersection 7433 Humphries and Rosewood Ave., Burnaby) for the exhibition catalogue for Kindred Tracings, featuring SCA alumni Minahil Bukhari and Michelle Sound and Dallas Hunt. This event also celebrates Sound’s visit to FLEET. Kindred Tracings runs October 13, 2023 – January 21, 2024, at the Burnaby Art Gallery. More HERE.
We Made This Mostly at Home with Stuff We Already Had in Our Apartment
SCA alumnus Elizabeth Milton is part of the exhibition We Made This Mostly at Home with Stuff We Already Had in Our Apartment: Prop Performance and Camp in Contemporary Canadian Video Art, curated by Chloë Lum & Yannick Desranleau, running October 8 - November 2, 2024, at the FAB Gallery (8807 112 St. NW, Edmonton, AB), with a reception on Thursday, October 10, from 7:00 PM – 9:00. More HERE.
The Biting School's Empty-Handed
Empty-Handed by The Biting School (SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour and Arash Khakpour), is running October 2 – 5, 2024, at the Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Silverfox in Up Here
SCA alumnus Krystle Silverfox was profiled in Whitehorse's Up Here magazine. It's print only for now, but hopefully should show up HERE soon.
The Darlings Halloween
The Darlings, the "multi-disciplinary, non-binary drag performance collective" that includes SCA dance alumni Desi Rekrut (P.M.), are presenting a Halloween drag show on October 31, 2024, at The Birdhouse (44 W 4th Ave., Vancouver). Doors open at 7:00 PM, and the show starts at 9:00 PM. More HERE.
How Would Lubitsch Do It? S5E8.75
Listen to S5E8.75 of How Would Lubitsch Do It?, the podcast hosted by SCA alumnus host Devan Scott, this time with guest Matt Severson, on Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Listen HERE.
Adult Beginner Flamenco Dance classes
SCA alumnus Jhoely Triana is holding Adult Beginner Flamenco Dance classes from November 2 – December 7, 2024, at the Canuck Family Education Centre (1655 William St., Vancouver). More HERE.
ORGANOSIS
Produced collaboratively by the SCA's Steven Hill, SCA PhD student Dave Biddle (© Linda Fox), SCA alumni Erika Mitsuhashi, Jae Woo Kang, Katayoon Yousefbigloo, and Shervin “Williams” Zarkalam, and Thomas Nugent, David Ullock, Sidney Gordon, Edo Van Breemen, Dave Ehrenreich, and Alex Penney, ORGANOSIS, a multi-dimensional, transformative artwork, runs October 12, 2024, at 7:00 PM, at the Russian Hall (600 Campbell Ave., Vancouver,). More HERE.
asses.masses in Münster
asses.masses, SCA alumni Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim's "long form participatory performance" video game, is running Sunday, November 10, 2024, at 2:00 PM at Theater im Pumpenhaus (Gartenstraße 123, 48147 Münster, Germany). More HERE.
Listening in Relation: Reading & Gathering
The Only Animal, which has SCA alumnus Barbara Adler as Artistic Director, and Julie Andreyev are presenting Listening in Relation: Reading & Gathering, a series of events featuring "sound walks, improvisation workshops, a reading group, natural dye workshops, botanical printmaking, and more," facilitated by Rita Kompst, SCA alumnus Toni-Leah C. Yake, Anju Singh, Adrian Avendaño, Lara Felsing, and the Branching Songs Ensemble. Events run 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM on October 27 & November 24 at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver) and January 26 & February 23 at Emily Carr University of Art + Design (520 E 1st Ave., Vancouver). Listening in Relation is supported through: an Art + Design Mobilize: Creativity and Innovation for Partnered Research grant, ECU-RIO NSERC Mobilize; and The Basically Good Media Lab. More HERE.
Nieto and Medina's Nepantla: Magia Ancestral
SCA alumnus Salome Nieto and Julio Medina are performing Nepantla: Magia Ancestral on Sunday, October 6, 2024, from 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM at The NEST (Third floor – 1398 Cartwright St., Vancouver), followed by a Q&A session with Nieto and Medina led by the SCA's Peter Dickinson, presented by the Vancouver Latin America Cultural Centre's Latin Expressions 2024. More HERE.
Afrorack in-class
Before his show at Red Gate on Friday, September 27, 2024, presented by Vancouver New Music, Afrorack (aka Bamanya Brian) did an in-class visit with our Music & Sound students. One of the perks of our Music & Sound area are visits, live and virtual, by interesting performers and composers like Afrorack, and others. Watch a quick montage of his visit on the Music & Sound Student Union's Instagram HERE, and find out more about our Music & Sound area HERE.