SCA | Quick News | September 6, 2024
Shihab and Marks in the Routledge Handbook on Arab Cinema
The SCA's Nadia Shihab ("Home and back home") and Laura U. Marks ("Can cinema slow the flow of blood?") contributed to the Routledge Handbook on Arab Cinema (2024), edited By Noha Mellor. More HERE.
And We Cheerfully Put the Gods to Death
The SCA's James Long is in Norway presenting And We Cheerfully Put the Gods to Death, created by Spreafico Eckly with Helga Guren and Long, from September 5 – 7, 2024, in Bergen at Studio Bergen (Carte Blanche – Nøstegaten 119, 5011 Bergen) and on September 12 & 13 in Stavanger at RIMI/IMIR SceneKunst (Badehusgata 25, 4014 Stavanger).
El Shazly and Wei up for the Lind
SCA alumnus Mena El Shazly and SCA PhD student Casey Wei join Karice Mitchell, Dion Smith-Dokkie, and Parumveer Walia have all been nominated for the 2024 Lind Prize, administered by The Polygon Gallery, the endowment for which the Lind family has increased to $1-million. All of the nominees will be included in The Lind Biennial, which is set to run November 9, 2024 – February 2, 2025, at the Polygon (101 Carrie Cates Ct., North Vancouver). More HERE.
They're #2 & #3
The SCA's Jin-me Yoon (#2 Visual Artist) and Turning Point Ensemble (#3 Classical Music Ensemble), which has the SCA's Owen Underhill as conductor and Artistic Director, are included as winners in The Georgia Straight's annual "Best of Vancouver" listings. See all of the 2024 winners for Arts & Entertainment HERE.
Low’s anthology a City of Vancouver Book Award Finalist
What Are Our Supports? is a finalist for the 2024 City of Vancouver Award. Co-edited by SCA PhD student and curator Joni Low and art historian Jeff O’Brien, the anthology features 23 contributors, including Jeff Derksen (SFU Department of English), Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Alexa Solveig Mardon, SCA alumnus Charlene Vickers, Michele Helen Mackenzie, incoming SCA PhD student Eliza Ferrari, and Shadbolt Fellow Germaine Koh. The awards ceremony will take place during the Vancouver Writers’ Festival on October 25, Granville Island’s Revue Stage. Congratulations, Joni and team! Read more about the book HERE.
Sound activates FLEET
The Burnaby Art Gallery announced SCA alumnus Michelle Sound and Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun as the next Visiting Artists "activating the FLEET mobile art studio in Edmonds Park from September to November 2024." Also, Sound and White-Hill, Kwulasultun are holding an artist talk and gathering on September 14 at 4:00 PM at Edmonds Park (corner of Humphries Ave. and Rosewood St.) More HERE.
RAG screening Wilfred Buck
The Richmond Art Gallery is presenting a free screening SCA alumnus Lisa Jackson's "award-winning hybrid documentary feature" Wilfred Buck (2024), on Thursday, September 26, 2024, from 6:15 PM – 8:30 PM at the Richmond Cultural Centre Performance Hall (7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond), featuring introductory remarks (via Zoom) by Jackson, presented with support from the National Film Board and Door Number 3 Productions.RSVP and more info HERE.
Generations funded
Kinesis Dance, which has SCA alumnus Rachel Helten as Artistic Director/Choreographer, announced that they received funding from the Government of Canada's New Horizons for Seniors Program for their project Generations, which they describe as "a multifaceted dance project rooted in the transformative power of contemporary dance and music, specifically tailored for underserved populations in care facilities of Metro Vancouver." Find out more HERE.
Khakpour Looping Company 605
A new video by SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour called Looping is coming soon from Company 605? While we wait, check out what they've done so far, Looping-wise, HERE.
Palad on Girard
Watch a video HERE with SCA alumnus and Richmond Art Gallery Curatorial Assistant Maria Filipina Palad talking about Greg Girard's Meditation, No. 3 Road, which is being presented as part of the RAG's new initiative, "Collection Close-up." Find out more about "Collection Close-up" HERE.
a root or mirror, blossom, madder, cracks; together
Quatuor Bozzini and junctQín keyboard collective have released a root or mirror, blossom, madder, cracks; together, a record of work by SCA alumnus Rebecca Bruton and Jason Doell. Check it out on Bandcamp HERE.
The Soldier's Lagoon
SCA alumnus Pablo Álvarez-Mesa's The Soldier's Lagoon is screening as part of the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival on Monday, September 9, 2024, at 5:15 PM at The Cinematheque (131 Howe St., Vancouver). Grab tickets HERE.
Slow Socials: Around Sound
Music on Main's just-announced 2024/25 season includes a team-up with The Only Animal, which has SCA alumnus Barbara Adler as Artistic Director, on Slow Socials: Around Sound, which will bring artists from both MoM's season and TOA’s sound installation project AWSS (Autumn-Winter, Spring-Summer) together for artistic exchanges and informal discussions. More info is to come, but in the meantime, here's the full season announcement. The Only Animal is also working in partnership with the Vancouver Park Board, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, and the Roundhouse to present another round of free Slow Social Club events from September 29 – November 24, 2024. With more info to come (and perhaps there'll be crossover with MoM's events?), you can find out more about their Slow Social project HERE.
Homebuddies
We missed this one at the time (sorry!), but SCA alumnus Torien Cafferata was part of Homebuddies, a collaborative project by It’s Not A Box (the interdisciplinary performing arts company Cafferata is part of) and So.Glad Arts. Homebuddies was presented this August at Toronto's Lisgar Park / Evergreen Brick Works as part of the SummerWorks Performance Festival. More HERE.
Making A Scene – videos
Stir Vancouver collected all of the archive videos from Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance's annual Making A Scene programming, which included participation by SCA alumni Maiko Yamamoto, Derek Chan, Fay Nass, Tasha Faye Evans, Jeanette Kotowich, and Keely O'Brien. Watch the videos HERE.
Whispers in the Wind
SCA student Van Lefan's Whispers in the Wind was reviewed by Indie Boulevard Magazine. Read it HERE.
grunt's 40th!
The grunt gallery, which has SCA alumnus Katrina Orlowski as Program Director, is having their 40th Anniversary Party on Friday, September 20, 2024, from 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM at the grunt (#116–350 East 2nd Ave., Vancouver). More HERE.
Graveyards and Gardens in BC
In a quick BC tour, SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman & Caroline Shaw's Graveyards and Gardens is running September 5 at the Port Alice Community Centre (951 Marine Dr., Port Alice), September 5 & 6 at the Sointula Athletic Hall (1 St., Sointula), and September 8 at the Powell River Evergreen Theatre (5001 Joyce Ave., Powell River). More HERE.
The Lo-fi Revue
SCA alumni Jaqueline Ritter, Jay Gignac, Dawn Briscoe, and Camryn Frisk are part of The Lo-fi Revue, "an intimate evening of interdisciplinary performance made by local emerging artists!," on Saturday, September 7, 2024, at 7:00 PM at the Victoria Drive Community Hall (2026 43rd Ave., Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.
Soba's Corner at TOPO
SCA alumnus Snack Witch Joni Cheung is presenting Soba's Corner: A Chinese-Canadian Cooking Show as a window installation from September 6 – October 26, 2024, at TOPO (5445, avenue de Gaspé, local 608, Montréal), featuring a "participatory performance" on Friday, September 6, from 5:30 PM – 9:15 PM. More HERE.
Treasured Trash
SCA alumni Blake Hobson-Dimas, Krystal Tsai, Samantha Walters, and Torien Cafferata are participating in Treasured Trash, What Lab's July Project Showcase, on September 8, 2024, starting at 4:00 PM at What Lab (202 – 1814 Pandora St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Cairns' Inedia
Co-produced by Experimental Forest Films (SCA alumni Kathleen Hepburn and Tyler Hagan) SCA alumnus Liz Cairns' Inedia is having its world premiere as part of the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival on Friday, September 27, at 6:00 PM in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver) and on Sunday, September 29, at 12:45 PM at the International Village 9 (88 W Pender St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Kong on It Begins With Knowing And Not Knowing
Read SCA alumnus Yani Kong on It Begins With Knowing And Not Knowing, which includes work by SCA alumni Ogheneofegor Obuwoma and Michelle Sound, for Galleries West HERE.
Saugstad in In the Wake
SCA alumnus Anya Saugstad is premiering new work for the Edmonton Ballet as part of In the Wake on October 18 & 19, 2024, at 7:30 PM in the Allard Hall at the Triffo Theatre (11110 – 104 Ave., Northwest), featuring sound design by SCA alumnus Stefan Nazarevich. More HERE.
BODY PARTS in Oliver
SCA MFA student Tara Cheyenne is presenting BODY PARTS on Friday, September 27, 2024, at 7:30 PM at the Venables Theatre in Oliver, BC (6100 Gala St.). More HERE.
Hardy and Tedlie-Stursberg's Float
Evan Hardy and SCA alumnus Alex Tedlie-Stursberg have released Float, "a sculptural sound collaboration" produced using Tedlie-Stursberg's bronze sculptures made from "found marine wreckage" as a sound source. Listen HERE.
Residuals (住み・墨) on tour
SCA alumnus Shion Skye Carter is presenting Residuals (住み・墨) on September 30, 2024, at 6:30 PM at Halifax's Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St.), presented as part of the Prismatic Arts Festival, and on October 5, 2024, at 7:30 PM at St. John's LSPU Hall (Resource Centre for the Arts – 3 Victoria St.), presented as part of the Festival of New Dance. While at both locations, Carter will be presenting Movement + Calligraphy Workshops, as well. Find out more HERE.