SCA | Quick News | September 17, 2021
Boisjoly talks with Fung
Read an excellent, wide-ranging conversation between writer and critic Amy Fung and the SCA's Raymond Boisjoly, touching on Boisjoly's background and approach to teaching, the corporatization and cost of higher education, choosing a grad school, Indigeneity, and the issue of "race shifting," including the still-unresolved controversy surrounding the Audain Gallery's curator. Read it HERE.
Congratulations, Cheryl Prophet!
Much appreciation and great thanks to Cheryl Prophet, a long-time faculty member in our dance area, who has retied from the SCA after over 30 years at the school. Keep up with Cheryl and her move towards teaching yoga at her website HERE.
Schroeder gets played
The SCA's Sabrina Schroeder's work He Cuts Snow is on the program for hand werk's upcoming 'Warsaw Autumn' concert on September 20, 2021, at 7:30 PM, presented as part of the Young Ensembles program of the Ulysses Network. More HERE. Also, Schroeder's work Underroom is part of the program for the JACK Quartet's upcoming performance on Sunday, September 26, 2021, at Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna. More HERE.
SCA in The view from here
The SCA's Jin-me Yoon, Allyson Clay, and Brady Cranfield and Kathy Slade are included in SFU Galleries' exhibition The view from here: Selections from the SFU Art Collection, which opens today, September 14, and runs to December 3, 2021. (And full disclosure: Brady Cranfield is me, your dutiful SCA Communications agent.) More HERE.
Yoon in Art Mamas
The SCA's Jin-me Yoon will be joining Elizabeth MacKenzie, Karen Knights, Elizabeth Vander Zaag, Margaret Dragu, and LaTiesha Fazakas on Saturday, September 18, 2021, from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM (PDT), for an online "intergenerational dialogue" about "working within the intersections of feminism(s), motherhood, as well as reproductive and artistic labour," presented as part of "Art Mamas'" PLOT Residency at Access Gallery. More HERE.
Meet our PhDs!
Read the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology's Tessa Perkins Deneault on the inaugural cohort for our new PhD in Contemporary Arts. Very exciting! Read it HERE.
SCA vying for the Lind
Upcoming: The Lind Prize 2021 Opening Celebration, with SCA alumni Hannah Campbell, Suzanne Friesen, Graeme Wahn, and Qiuli Wu all in the running, takes place Tuesday, September 28, 2021, from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (PDT). More HERE.
Saloman Mindel on The Drums of Occupy
Read SCA alumni (and current PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz) Gabriel Saloman Mindel in Smithsonian's online Folklife magazine on "The Drums of Occupy," in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Read it HERE.
Amanda Sum + Justin Calvadores's WIDE STANCE DANCE
Commissioned by Company 605, SCA alumni Amanda Sum and Justin Calvadores are presenting the "world premiere screening" of WIDE STANCE DANCE, featuring music by SCA alumni Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, at F-O-R-M 2021 on Friday, September 17, 2021, at 5:00 PM (PDT), followed by a live artist talkback facilitated by Aria Evans. More HERE.
Tam's in Digital Connections
SCA alumni Nancy Tam joins C.E. Gatchalian, Christina Orjalo, and Kodie Rollan for Digital Connections, which is a set of "solo digital works" presented by fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company. More HERE.
Silverfox untangling
Click through to see a good picture of SCA alumni Krystle Silverfox untangling her work All that glitters is not gold... in preparation for the Yukon Prize finalists exhibit, which opens September 18, 2021. More HERE.
Novarumori plays O'Callaghan
Works by SCA alumni James O'Callaghan will be performed as part of Novarumori's Cross-residency - musical residencies and creations Quebec/Europe on October 8, 2021, at 4:30 PM (PDT), co-produced by Groupe Le Vivier, EUNIC, Innovations en concert (IEC) and Ensemble Novarumori as part of the Résonance croisée event. More HERE.
withintensions calls for Movement
withintensions, the art mag started by SCA alumni, is calling for submissions for their next issue on the theme of Movement. Here's what they have to say: "How do our movements affect the world? What ripples do we set in motion? We are looking for visual or written works that deal with the theme. Be sure to send in your submissions by September 27th." More HERE.
Ho talks Paprika Festival
Watch SCA alumni Kimberly Ho in conversation with Join Keshia Palm (Artistic Producer) & Jay Northcott (Indigenous Arts Program Producer) about the 2021 edition of the Paprika Festival, which is now accepting applications – deadline is October 3 at 11:59 PM (EST). Watch it HERE.
Milton's Deer Lake Artist Residency
We're excited to see what comes out of this great set design for SCA alumni Elizabeth Milton's ongoing work, produced while doing a Deer Lake Artist Residency. Check out some images HERE.
Could you be our Social Media Ambassador?
Come work for us – via the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, our institutional home at SFU – as a "Social Media Ambassador," and get paid – money! – to make content. Deadline to apply: September 20, 2021! More HERE.
Kotowich in Matriarchs Uprising
SCA alumni Jeanette Kotowich is performing as part of the Matriarchs Uprising: Harvest Moon Showcase 2021, streaming free online from September 18 – 30, 2021. More HERE.
Yassine in The Train Wreck Session
SCA alumni Ghinwa Yassine is part of The Train Wreck Session on Sunday, September 26, 2021. More HERE.
Terris' Like a Bridge
If you're in or around Whistler or fancy a day trip, go check out SCA alumni Reece Terris' Like a Bridge "micro-exhibition" at the Audain Art Museum, running September 9 to October 17, 2021. More HERE.
SFU does good
Good top-level news from Simon Fraser University: "Simon Fraser University moves to significantly increase Black representation among faculty." More HERE.
Bridge's Persephone Mara
Written and directed by SCA alumni Beau Han Bridge, don't miss this "original cinematic film-play adaptation" of Persephone Mara, running online from Thursday, September 9, to Sunday, September 19, 2021, as part of the 2021 Vancouver Fringe Festival. Tickets ($15 + Fringe pass) available HERE.
Read some Morelli
SCA alumni Didier Morelli has two reviews – one on Francisco-Fernando Granados and one on Maria Hupfield – in issue #157 (August 2021) or Border Crossings Magazine, which is focused on photography. Click through to read them – and much more – HERE.