SCA | Quick News | September 13, 2024
Calderon, Yeats, and Garfinkel lead PTC
SCA alumni Davey Samuel Calderon and Melanie Yeats join Joanna Garfinkel as the new shared leadership trio for the Playwrights Theatre Centre, taking over from SCA alumnus Heidi Taylor (find bios for all HERE). Congratulations, new PTC team! (And P.S., Joanna, we do have a sweet PhD program that might be just what you need to get into the SCA fold, too!) More HERE.
TRACES (after Sophie Calle)
Tickets are now on sale for TRACES (after Sophie Calle) by the WaxFactory (the SCA's Erika Latta and longtime collaborator Ivan Talijancic), a site-specific immersive performance, video installation, and web project, for the Walker Art Center (725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis). Presented in support of the exhibition Sophie Calle: Overshare at the Walker, TRACES (after Sophie Calle) runs October 28 – November 11, 2024, in downtown Minneapolis. More HERE.
Global Climate Strike
The SCA's Laura U. Marks shared a reminder on her Instagram about the upcoming Global Climate Strike march on Friday, September 20, 2024, meeting at 1:00 PM at Vancouver City Hall (453 W. 12th Ave.), then leaving at 1:30 PM for the Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby St.) at 2:30 PM. More HERE.
Gruben's Documentary Creation Workshop
The SCA's Patricia Gruben is hosting a Documentary Creation Workshop on Thursday, September 19, 2024, from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM at The Shoebox Theatre in Nelson, BC (225 Hall St.), presented as part of Kootenay Film's Momentum Masterclass Series. To RSVP, email lynn@kootenayfilm.com.
Precarious Joys
Pre-order Precarious Joys, the "catalogue" for the 2024 edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art, which includes Justine A. Chambers and Laurie Young's collaborative work One Hundred More, from Art Metropole (co-published with Goose Lane Editions). And what a great cover! More HERE.
Small File Media Festival 2024
With series programmed by SCA alumni Joey Malbon, Dr. Yani Kong, and Mena El Shazly and Radek Przedpełski and Joni Schinkel, the 2024 edition of the Small File Media Festival, which runs October 18—19, is now live. Check it out HERE.
Filmable's Filmmaker Spotlight
Filmable shared a great roundup of BC based filmmakers with work in the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival, including SCA alumni Thea Loo (presenting the Canadian Premiere of Inay (Mama)), Liz Cairns (presenting the World Premiere of Inedia), and Devan Scott & Willa Harlow Ross (presenting the World Premiere of Preface to a History). More HERE (with links to their films at VIFF included).
Vancouver Guardian on Loo
Read Vancouver Guardian on SCA alum filmmaker Thea Loo, whose film, Inay (Mama), is having its Canadian Premiere as part of the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival on Wednesday, October 2, at 7:00 PM and Friday, October 4, at 4:00 PM at the International Village Cinemas (88 W. Pender St., Vancouver). Read it HERE.
Mackenzie, Huynh, and Avelino in Catalyst
SCA alumni Cameron Mackenzie, Cathy Huynh, and David Jeric Avelino have all been selected to participate in the Vancouver International Film Festival's Catalyst program. Find out more about them and the rest of the 2024 Catalyst Cohort HERE.
Ensemble Télémaque play O'Callaghan
Ensemble Télémaque will be performing work by SCA alumnus James O'Callaghan from October 10 – 13, 2024, at various locations in Marseille, France, as part of October lab #5 : DiverS/Cities. More HERE.
Fukumura and Zarkalam in vActory Series
SCA alumni June Fukumura and Shervin Zarkalam join Mermaid Li in VACT / Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre's vActory Series, which runs September 20 & 21, 2024, at 7:30 PM (doors at 7:00 PM) at What Lab (1814 Pandora St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Crazybull's in between endings
SCA alumnus Lauren Crazybull's exhibition, in between endings, opens September 19, 2024, from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art (293 E. 2nd Ave., Vancouver), and runs to November 16, 2024. More HERE.
DCMF Songwriter in Residence
The Dawson City Music Festival, which has SCA alumnus Corbin Murdoch as Executive Director, is calling for a Songwriter in Residence for January, 2025, with a deadline of October 18, 2024. More HERE.
Legalize Summer
Liquidation World, the multipurpose space run by SCA alumnus Katayoon Yousefbigloo, SCA PhD student Dave Biddle, and Maya Beaudry, have shared a video, Legalize Summer by Daisies., directed by Yousefbigloo, to promo the upcoming P.L.U.R.O.M.A. Resort '24 fashion show on Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 8:00 PM at the The Polygon Gallery (101 Carrie Cates Ct, North Vancouver), presented to mark the closing of the ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS exhibition. Watch it HERE.
Dry Happy Hour
The Only Animal, which has SCA alumnus Barbara Adler as Artistic Director, and the Barking Sphinx Performing Society are presenting Dry Happy Hour, an evening of "music and (soft) drinks," on September 22, 2024, starting at 4:30 PM at The Hargrove (150 E. 3rd Ave., Vancouver). More HERE.
Sound in Nanaimo
SCA alumnus Michelle Sound is the fill-in guest speaker for the Nanaimo Art Gallery's (sold out!) event, Making Waves: Indigenous Takeover, which is set to run tonight (September 13, 2024) from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM at the Gallery. Sound is also in the Gallery's upcoming exhibition, shnu’a’th, ᐊᑳᒥᕽ akâmihk, the other side, which runs October 5, 2024 – January 12, 2025. More HERE.
Radif of Iranian Music: Noor-e Tāreek
Listen to SCA alumnus Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi's new album, Radif of Iranian Music: Noor-e Tāreek, released by Post Orientalism Music, on Bandcamp HERE.
All Yesterday’s Parties
Vancouver New Music's rescheduled 50th Anniversary event, All Yesterday’s Parties, featuring SCA alumni Matthew Ariaratnam and (the newly engaged!) Cindy Kao and Aysha Dulong (Sapphire Haze) and Andromeda Monk and Anju Singh, runs Saturday, November 23, 2024, at 7:30 PM at VIVO Media Arts Centre (2625 Kaslo St., Vancouver). More HERE.
PROPULSION
SCA alumnus Toni-Leah C. Yake is performing (as baptized.in.prison) on Friday, October 18, 2024, at 8:00 PM (with doors at 7:00 PM and an Artist Talk at 7:15 PM) at (and co-presented by) VIVO Media Arts Centre (2625 Kaslo St., Vancouver), presented as part of PROPULSION, Vancouver New Music's 2024 festival. More HERE.
Joey Chaos and the Ghosts
SCA alumnus Joey Malbon's "dungeon-grunge" trio, Joey Chaos and the Ghosts, is playing with Rougaroux and Phuture Memoriez on September 29, 2024, at 7:30 PM at The Cobalt (917 Main St., Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.
What on EARTH
Co.ERASGA Dance's What on EARTH, with SCA alumni Jusan Villagas, Avery Ebenal, and Lily Wallman, runs September 18 – 20, 2024, at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.
Sarbaz
Sarbaz, SCA MFA student Ghazal Majidi's collaboration with the instrumental, experimental trio kry, premiered at the 2024 edition of Spain's Girona Film Festival, where it was a finalist in the experimental video section. More HERE.
Would Lubitsch Do It? S5E08
Listen to S5E08 of How Would Lubitsch Do It?, the podcast hosted by SCA alumnus Devan Scott, this time featuring guest David Cairns, on the end of Lubitsch's career, covering Dragonwyck (1946), A Royal Scandal (1945) That Lady In Ermine (1948), and his death. Listen HERE.
Speakable
Listen to the trailer for Speakable, a new podcast from the Faculty of Communication Art and Technology, with host Milena Droumeva, Glenfraser Endowed Professor in Sound Studies and Director of SFU's School of Communication, which is launching on October 2, 2024, presented in partnership with SFU's CJSF Radio (90.1 FM). Listen HERE.
25,000 x 1000xRESIST
1000xRESIST, the video game developed by SCA alumnus Remy Siu and the Sunset Visitor 斜陽過客 crew and their collaborators (including a bunch of other SCA alumni: Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Conor Wylie, Maiko Yamamoto, Felicia Lau, Amanda Sum, Anjela Magpantay, June Fukumura, Mahaila Patterson-O'Brien, Erika Mitsuhashi, and Alex Mah), has sold 25,000 copies! Find out more about the game HERE.
Empty-Handed
Watch a little behind-the-scenes / promo video for Empty-Handed by the The Biting School (SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour and Arash Khakpour), which is running October 2 – 5, 2024, at the Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova St., Vancouver). Watch it HERE.
Flowing Verse: Dance, Breath + Poetry
SCA alumnus Rachel Helten, the Associate Artistic Director of Soma Anima Arts (aka Kinesis Dance), is leading the workshop Flowing Verse: Dance, Breath + Poetry on Saturday, September 14, 2024, from 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM, as part of the Dance Centre's 23rd Annual Open House (677 Davie St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Here For Now vol. 4
Boombox (44 W. 4th Ave., Vancouver), a performance space run by SCA alumnus Erika Mitsuhashi and Francesca Frewer and Sierra Megas in a 53 foot shipping container, is hosting Here For Now vol. 4, featuring SCA alumni Hayley Gawthrop and Santi Henderson and Ellis Cheadle, plus mural art by Katie Green, on September 26 – 28 and October 3 – 5, 2024, presented with support from Company 605. More HERE.