SCA | Quick News | April 1, 2022
Donate to the Ker Wells Memorial Fund
In Ker Wells' honour, his friends and colleagues have established the Ker Wells Memorial Fund at SFU. Your gift will pay tribute to Ker by supporting performance students in the School for the Contemporary Arts. It is our wish to raise $20,000 in order to create an endowed award at SFU. Donate .
Skoden 鈥� it's on!
Don't miss the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival (SIFF), running April 1 & 2, 2022, here at SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC), which is presented as several different programs:
- Opening Program: Stoodis! (Let's Do This!) + Opening Ceremony and remarks and post-screening Q&A | April 1, 5:00 PM
- Evolution Revolution | April 1, 7:30 PM
- Youth / Family Program: Carrying The Fire | April 2, 1:00 PM
- Saturday Matin茅e: Where We Come From, Where We're Going | April 2, 3:00 PM
- Closing Program: Skoden! (Let's Go Then!) + Witness Ceremony and Award Ceremony | April 2, 5:00 PM
NOTE: Please make sure to purchase a ticket for each program you'd like to attend! Film descriptions and link to tickets HERE. Also, SIFF has been in the news: , , , and .
Boisjoly The Explanatory Void
If you were hoping to see the SCA's Raymond Boisjoly at the recent opening for Everyone is Happening Always, the SCA 2022 BFA Project exhibition he was the faculty supervisor for (which runs until April 2, 2022, at SFU Galleries' Audain Gallery), he was actually unavoidably away to help install and open his own exhibition, The Explanatory Void, which runs July 24, 2022, at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. More .
withintensions' Fable
Download the latest issue of withintensions, that monthly art mag from SCA alumni, on the theme of Fable .
Wood's Dry Rot
SCA alumnus Jordyn Wood is presenting their play Dry Rot, directed by Zac Scott, as part of this year's , which runs April 9 & 10, 2022, at the Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre (7646 Prince Albert St., Vancouver). Grab tickets .
Durey and Kozak's Spots
SCA alumnus and SCA MFA student Katie Kozak's collaborative project Spots in up now on transit shelters as part of the city's Platforms: We Are Here, Live programming. More .
Kitsos' scion reviews... food!
The SCA's ' son Gabriel Kitsos, who's a first year student in the SFU Department of English (like a renegade!), is writing food reviews for SFU's The Peak. Read the latest .
Beauchesne in the house
's Eric Beauchesne taught a dance Master Class with us this week. Big thanks to for helping put it together. Don't miss Kidd Pivot's Revisor, which is at the Vancouver Playhouse until April 2, 2022. Read what Stir Vancouver has to say about Revisor .
SCA in Open Stage #2
SCA alumni (with SCA alumni and plus Daria Mikhaylyuk, Nasiv Sall, and Sabine Raskin, with music by SCA alumnus ) and join Lamondance and Linda Hayes for Open Stage #2 on Sunday April 3, 2022, at 7:00 PM at . More .
Kong on Cloud Album
Read SCA PhD candidate on the exhibition , running at The Polygon Gallery until May 1, 2022, for Galleries West. Read in .
TPE's In the Distance
The SCA's shares the baton with leading Croatian composer and conductor Berislav 艩ipu拧 for the 's upcoming concert, In the Distance, on Friday, April 29, 2022, at 7:30 PM (PDT) in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre here at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). Part of a multi-year project involving the exchange of the ensembles and artistic directors of Turning Point Ensemble (Underhill) and Cantus Ensemble (艩ipu拧) of Zagreb, In the Distance is presented by our friends SFU Woodward's. More .
Chamale's Peace Country
Upcoming: SCA alumnus Pedro Chamale's Peace Country, which is produced by (where Chamale is the Artistic Director) in partnership with , and presented by the , running both live and online from April 27 鈥� 30, 2022. More .
Basanta's Fontaine
SCA alumnus 's exhibition Fontaine, running April 6 鈥� May 7, 2022, at Gatineau's AXEN脡O7, is sharing an opening event with exhibitions by aNad猫ge Grebmeier Forget and Juan Ortiz-Apuy. More .
Dickinson's At the Speed of Light
Don't miss the SCA's Peter Dickinson's audio drama At the Speed of Light, streaming via Pi Theatre鈥檚 website until April 4, 2022. Listen .
Daniel's Fitting (Out-Fitting) In
Watch the video of the SCA's 's talk, Fitting (Out-Fitting) In, for the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education at UBC, drawing from his essay with the same title from the book (University of Toronto Press, 2022), edited by Awad Ibrahim, Tamari Kitossa, Malinda S. Smith, and Handel Kashope Wright. Watch it .
Morelli on Hupfield
Read SCA alumnus on in Vie des arts. Read it .
Peters' webwork
Another cool site, this time for CADA/West, designed by SCA alumnus . Check it out HERE.
Alfred Jarry plays
The SCA experimental improv duo of ( and ) plays a bill with the duo of and on Friday, April 8, 2022, at 8:00 PM at the mighty . More .
Saloman Mindel's Landscape & Life
SCA alumnus curated a "year-long exhibition series" titled Landscape & Life at Santa Cruz's Indexical, which focuses on the notion of "landscape as it relates to race, politics and power in regions around the globe." The series concludes with a presentation of Paul Walde's multichannel audiovisual installation Alaska Variations, opening Friday, April 1, 2022, from 5pm to 9pm (PDT). More .
Clown with the TSU
The is hosting a FREE ONLINE CLOWN WORKSHOP with SCA alumnus on Saturday, April 2, 2022, at 2:00 PM! RSVP .
Goodman and Shaw at New Works Calgary
SCA alumnus and 's is heading Calgary to be New Works Calgary's (where SCA alumnus is co-Artistic Director) "first live, indoor show in over two years," on April 15 & 16, 2022, co-presented by Springboard Performance. For more info and tickets .
Aoki-Bolcsfoldi in Re-Centering/Margins
鈥檚 upcoming Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency performances on April 20, 2022, at 7:30 pm, co-presented by Dance West Network and our friends SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs, features SCA alumnus . More .