Can I Call You Back?
MFA Graduating Exhibition & Performances
Exhibition: September 4 鈥� October 4, 2025 | Opening: Wednesday, September 3, 6:00 PM 鈥� 8:00 PM
Audain Gallery, Lobby, Studio D & T 鈥� 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Progress Lab 鈥� 1422 William St., Vancouver | Performance times & dates below
Sarah K. Finn, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Caroline Liffmann, Chelsea MacKay, Avideh Saadatpajouh, Alexis Chivir-ter Tsgeba
Please join us for the SCA MFA Graduating Exhibition & Events, featuring Sarah K. Finn, Chelsea MacKay, Avideh Saadatpajouh, and Alexis Chivir-ter Tsgeba exhibiting works in the Audain Gallery and SCA Lobby, and Sarah K. Finn, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, and Caroline Liffmann presenting performances.
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Can I Call You Back? is presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts.
Presented by the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU.
Exhibition
Sarah Finn, Chelsea MacKay, Avideh Saadatpajouh, Alexis Chivir-ter Tsgeba
Performances
Sarah K. Finn
The Right Thing to be Doing
Thursday, September 4 at 7:00 PM & Friday, September 5 at 8:00 PM
Studio D 鈥� 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
The Right Thing to be Doing is a lecture performance, fungal-fantasy, and love story. Set mutably at an ecology conference, Finn plays a rotating cast of shapeshifting characters: a fumbling academic facing technical error, a lamenting cargoship, a keynote speaker-turned-mushroom, and themselves caught between facts and fiction. Each character/version of self grapples with the uncertain grief and hope of siloed living amidst disaster. Featuring wearable sculpture, miniatures, surreal storytelling and physical theatre, the work humorously questions humans鈥� entangled place in the world and asks what might we learn from the non-human networks growing beneath our feet, andcirculating around us. This performance is Finn鈥檚 final MFA project.
Content warning: Sexual content, flashing lights, profanity.
CREDITS
Created and performed by Sarah K. Finn
爻賲蹖乇丕 ( Sound Design: Samira Banihaand Adam Smith ) 亘賳蹖
Lighting Design: Czarina Agustines and Alexandra Caprara
Cargo Ship Design + Fabrication: Marianne Gagnon and Sarah K. Finn
Design Consultants: Wlad Woyno and Andrew Curtis
Scenic Design + Fabrication: Hailey Gil
Tarp Suit Tailoring: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
Mushroom Costume Design: Rowan Adams and Sarah K. Finn
Stage Manager: Maddy Woodley
Assistant Stage Manager: Vania Ngok
Outside eyes: Joanna Garfinkel, Kira Radosevik, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
Supervisor/Committee: Miwa Matreyek and Justine Chambers
SPECIAL THANKS
Miwa, Justine, Wlad, Tara, Kira, Avideh, Joanna, Jason Wilbee, Puppetmongers for the shadow lamp, Neil, Lauren, Santi, Ben, Kyla, Miles, Rob, Sabrina, Stefan, Taha, Judy, Nadia, Judee, Alexis, Chelsea, Caroline, Risk/Reward, Boombox/Here for Now, Mama, Dude & Mo <3
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
Carry the One: a performance-lecture towards rewilding the self
September 11 鈥� 13 at 7:00 PM
Progress Lab, 1422 William St., Vancouver
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Carry The One is a performance lecture featuring Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg rewilding the self. The 鈥渓ecture鈥� winds through a performative practical exploration of emotional labour, filtered through a middle-aged femme body that鈥檚 in the process of trying to shed the chronic debilitating imposition to take care of the atmosphere, the group, the mood, and the needs of literally everyone else.
Caroline Liffmann
ish
Thursday, September 4 at 3:00 PM & Friday, September 5 at 6:30 PM
Studio T 鈥� 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Note: Limited seating, both showings are for invited guests only
ish is a devised performance solo exploring opacity, identity, hide and reveal. Themes and references may or may not include: things that roll, a television set, my cat, Kevin Bacon, police brutality, Judensau, occupation, sexual violence, chairs, cultural dances, cultural erasure, argument culture, war crimes, Donald Trump, Pat Benetar, Miss Piggy, Pigs in Space, a top Russian journalist, a shampoo commercial, Coastal Gas Link, yiddish folk songs, white noise sleep sounds, White Nights, and/or a foley station.
CREDITS
Creator and Performer: Caroline Liffmann, with
Composer: Stefan Smulovitz
Lighting Design: James Proudfoot
Dramaturg: Melanie Yeats
Stage Managers: Kady Brandel, Sara van Gaalen
Assistant Stage Manager: Hannah Azam