SCA | Quick News | September 3, 2021
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.
Chandra, Dai, Meyers, Videla Samper, Halladay, and Van Den Dam in the Passenger Seat
SCA alumni Arthi Chandra, Howard Dai, Hannah Meyers, and Montserrat Videla Samper and Isabella Halladay and Thule Van Den Dam, as The Library Performance Collective, are presenting Passenger Seat at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, from September 9 – 19, 2021. More HERE.
withintensions in Space
Download the latest edition of withintensions, the monthly art mag produced by SCA alumni. The theme this time is Space. Download it HERE.
Our Work Is These Conversations
As part of the exhibition Conditional Belonging, Access Gallery are presenting "Our Work Is These Conversations," which is a "three-episode podcast featuring conversations between the participating artists," including SCA alumni Minah Lee and collaborator Wryly Andherson as Art Action Earwig 예술행동그룹 이어위그. Check out episode one now HERE.
O'Callaghan's Knowns
SCA alumni James O'Callaghan is presenting his video Knowns as part of the Wonderhorse Emerging Arts & Music Festival in the Whitehorse, Yukon, running September 3 – 5, 2021. More HERE.
Morelli on Reframing Natural History
Read SCA alumni Didier Morelli in Vie des arts on the exhibition Reframing Natural History, curated by Aseman Sabet at the Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides. Read it HERE. Morelli has also written about multidisciplinary artist Nadège Grebmeier Forget in Issue 276 – Héroïnes – of Spirale magazine. More HERE.
Loscil's LUX Refractions
SCA alumni Scott Morgan / Loscil has just released LUX Refractions, a limited edition photo book – featuring "36 full page photographs printed and perfect-bound by Hemlock Printers in Vancouver" with a "double-hit of Indigo Black ink on 80lb FSC MIX Lynx Smooth paper" – and CD, which together extend and remake the music of his other great recent release, Clara. More HERE.
Bruton and Ware's We needed to be rescued
SCA alumni Rebecca Bruton and dancer Heather Ware, who is the DSW Artist in Residence, are presenting We needed to be rescued for Dancers' Studio West at various times from Thursday, September 2 to Saturday, September 4, 2021. More HERE.
Carter at the "artist market pop-up"
SCA alumni dancer Shion Skye Carter is selling earrings at an "artist market pop-up" at Primeli Studio (309 Cambie St.) this Saturday, September 4, 2021, from 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM. More HERE.
A Lingering Shadow online
Centre A and The Polygon Gallery have made A Lingering Shadow available online, including video works by SCA alumni Anchi Lin and Cindy Mochizuki and the SCA's Jin-me Yoon. Watch them HERE until September 6, 2021.
Wallgrin on JPod
Listen to SCA alumni Tegan Wahlgren / Wallgrin on episode 51 of the JPod podcast, hosted by Justice McLellan of the band Blue J. Listen HERE.
Clala Dance Project in Emergency!!
SCA alumni Tomoyo Yamada and Clala Dance Project (Yamada and SCA alumni Charlotte Telfer-Wan and Ana Daria Vieru) are presenting Emergency!! as part of "Whalley, What??" on September 10, 2021, from 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM at the Glades Woodland Garden (457 172nd Street, Surrey), presented by Enable: Arts Society. More HERE. Also, read more about Clala Dance Project and the work in the Surrey Now-Leader newspaper HERE.
Prost's Heavy Petting
SCA alumni Brendan Prost's short film Heavy Petting is having its world premiere at the "Academy Award qualifying" Nashville Film Festival in September, as part of their "Graveyard Shift Shorts Competition." Find out more about Prost and his work HERE.
Tong in Durational
SCA alumni Yi Xin Tong was part of Durational, which ran August 21 – September 4, 2021, at the Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai. More HERE.
Wylie on Score Follower
Nice one! SCA alumni Ben Wylie's piece, An inequality: wind flower, is given the Score Follower treatment. Watch and listen HERE.
SCA in Together / Apart Digital Duet Series
Upcoming – Together / Apart Digital Duet Series, running free / by donation from September 24 – October 9, 2021, with a premiere and "artist talk-back" on September 24 at 7:00 PM (PDT), pesented by Co.ERASGA as part of BC Culture Days. Performances include SCA alumni Antonio Somera, Kayla De Vos, Marc Arboleda, and Billy Marchenski, and the series was co-created by SCA alumni Deanna Peters. More HERE.
Bitter at the SAAG
The SCA's Sabine Bitter gave a talk on Thursday, September 2, 2021, about her exhibition with longtime collaborator Helmut Weber, Performing Educational Modernism, which is running at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery until September 12, 2021. More HERE.
The River Clyde Pageant in pictures
Check out this plentiful photo-documentation from Turn of the Tide, the 2021 The River Clyde Pageant, which was co-founded by SCA alumni Megan Stewart and the SCA's Ker Wells (RIP) in 2015. See it HERE.
Latta in 416 Minutes
416 Minutes, directed by Ivan Talijancic and staring the SCA's Erika Latta, who also co-created the film (and both Latta and Talijancic are co-artistic directors of Wax Factory), was screened as part of "Films Like No Others" in Bol, Croatia. Find out more HERE.
Basanta's The Unknown Future Rolls Towards Us
SCA alumni Adam Basanta is presenting The Unknown Future Rolls Towards Us at Écart in Rouyn-Noranda, QC, from September 2 – October 31, 2021. More HERE.
Gold in The Longest Way Round is the Shortest Way Home
SCA alumni Marisa Gold is part of Arts Assembly's The Longest Way Round is the Shortest Way Home, which runs September 18 & 19 + 25 & 26, 2021, from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PDT) at Tatlow Park (2845 W 3rd Ave, Vancouver, BC). Or watch the live-stream on Arts Assembly's Instagram.