SCA | Quick News | July 30, 2021
Congratulations, Henry Daniel!
The SCA's Dr. Henry Daniel was named a 2021 Distinguished SFU Professor! Congratulations, Henry! Find out more about Daniel and his work . And see all of this year's Distinguished Professors .
Radul films crows
The SCA's is one of six artists selected to produce a new public art work for the City of Vancouver's 2021 Artist-Initiated Projects program. Congratulations, Judy! Read about Radul's plan to film the daily local transit of Northwestern crows, and about all of the other selected artists .
Chien's Ritual-Spective Þ’ÈÚ
Watch the trailer for SCA alumni 's latest "audiovisual poem," Ritual-Spective Þ’ÈÚ, featuring a few SCA folks ¨C , , , and ¨C behind the scenes, too. Find out more and watch the trailer .
Hou's Country Balance
SCA alumni will be presenting the exhibition Country Balance, from July 31 ¨C August 28, 2021, at Toronto's Zalucky Contemporary. More .
Kong on Tanabe
Read the SCA's on Takao Tanabe for Galleries West. Read it .
Perkins Deneault on Dancing on the Edge
Read the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology's Tessa Perkins Deneault on this year's festival, which featured many, many SCA performers. Read it .
Together Again virtually
Take the "virtual tour" of the Burrard Arts Foundation's group exhibition, , which features SCA alumni , , and . Or go visit the show in person until Aug 24, 2021. Take the tour .
Joey Chaos and The Ghost's deluxe Immolation
, fronted by SCA alumni , have just issued a "deluxe" edition of their Immolation EP on their new label home, Surkeus Records. Listen .
Postalian at X University
SCA alumni will be the Lecturer for Advanced Performance Tech I: Acting (Module: Conversations) at X University's School of Performance this fall. For more on X University, please read this shared by the Yellowhead Institute.
Sum and Vines funded
Congratulations to SCA alumni and the , founded by SCA alumni and festival Artistic Director Heather Lamoureux in 2015, who were amongst the recipients of funding from the 2021-22 Vancouver Music Fund. More .
Durey's Golden Eagle
From last year, but we're so sorry to have missed this great video featuring SCA alumni presenting about his neon public art work Golden Eagle in Chilliwack, BC, which was commissioned by the Salish Plaza and Anthem Properties Group Ltd. Watch it .
Aoki-Bolcsfoldi in the love bubble
SCA alumni is participating in Small Stage's 2021 summer "love bubble" PRIDE programing, including the "Diva Show" on Friday, July 30, from 5:00 PM ¨C 7:00 PM in Gastown (Maple Tree Square at 200 Carrall Street) and on Saturday, July 31, from 12:00 PM ¨C 2:00 PM on Robson Street at the Bute Plaza. More .
Kotowich's Traning Jam and in Dub This Road (TAIKOPERA) | ¥À¥Ö?¥Ç¥£¥¹?¥í©`¥É (¤¿¤¤¤³¥Ú¥é)
Join SCA alumni for a Training Jam on Sunday, August 29, 2021, at 2:00 PM at the , presented by the (SCA alumni Anjela Magpantay, Davey Calderon, and June Fukumura, and Avyen von Waldenburg). More . Also, Kotowich performs in Dub This Road (TAIKOPERA) | ¥À¥Ö?¥Ç¥£¥¹?¥í©`¥É (¤¿¤¤¤³¥Ú¥é) by Denise Sherwood and the drum groups Sawagi and Onibana Taiko, with production by Adrian Sherwood (On-U Sound Records), produced and directed by Don Chow for the 2021 Powell Street Festival. Watch it .
Saugstad's Ocean Roaring
SCA alumni is presenting Ocean Roaring, a piece choreographed in collaboration with SCA alumni , , Samantha Priya Wright, and and dancers Sabine Raskin and Daria Mikhaylyuk, on August 5 (at 8:00 PM) and 6 (at 12:00 PM) at Tugboat Bay Beach in Kelowna (1200 Water St. at Waterfront Park), presented by the Rotary Centre for the Arts and Made in BC ¨C Dance on Tour. More .
Mercer on making Hekademia
Read SCA alumni on "The Making of Hekademia" for the Indieactivity Filmmakers Community. Read it .
Long, Yamamoto, Siu, Mochizuki, and Kwan at the Skytrain Station
(SCA alumni James Long and Maiko Yamamoto) will be working with SCA alumni and and artist Vanessa Kwan on a new work for the Broadway-City Hall Skytrain Station. More .
Rahi and Klinke @ Wonderment
If you're in Victoria, SCA alumni will be presenting his sound sculptures in Fisherman's Wharf park on Saturday, July 31, 2021, from 12:00 PM ¨C 5:00 PM (PDT) as part of . Also, SCA alumni will be playing live there from 2:00 PM ¨C 3:30 PM, along with Meredith Bates. Klinke is also performing on Sunday, August 1, at 2:00 PM ¨C 6:00 PM (PDT) at Beacon Hill Park's Cameron Bandshell as his alter ego Playback Head, with Adham Shaikh. More .
Ho's tou saang zhu ÍÁÉúØi
SCA alumni will be presenting their work tou saang zhu ÍÁÉúØi from August 5 ¨C 15, 2021, as part of the exhibition (Re)Visions at the Art Gallery at Evergreen, presented as part of the Evergreen Cultural Centre's inaugural Emerging Creators Incubator residency. More . Also, don't miss the interview with Ho in La Source Newspaper. Read it .
McFarlane and Humphreys-Stinson's Bicycle Puppet Circus
If you're in Nova Scotia, SCA alumni and Laura Jane Humphreys-Stinson () are touring their Troubling Joy: A Bicycle Puppet Circus. Follow their schedule
Mochizuki's Autumn Strawberry
Read about SCA alumni 's exhibition , which is at the Surrey Art Gallery until August 28, 2021, in the Georgia Straight. Read it .
Carter and Kisyuu's Flow Tide
Watch the full filmed version of the collaborative project Flow Tide by SCA alumni and calligrapher Kisyuu on the Powell Street Festival's website .
Marks and the Streaming Carbon Footprint
Did you know that streaming media is calculated to contribute a surprising 1% of global greenhouse gases? It's true. Read more about the ongoing research by the SCA's Laura Marks and the rest of the Streaming Carbon Footprint crew in this news report by FCAT's for SFU News. Read it .
Congratulations, Murao!
SCA alumni was selected to be a 2021 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellow. Congratulations, Natalie! More .
L'Hirondelle Hill reviewed
Read Aruna D'Souza in Galleries West on SCA alumni 's exhibition, , at the The Museum of Modern Art until August 15, 2021. Read it .
SCA for DOXA ¨C outdoors!
Films by SFU alumni , , and are part of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival's Outdoor Summer Screenings on August 12 & 13, 2021, at the South Plaza of the Vancouver Public Library's Central Branch ¨C co-presented by the VPL, too! More .
McMann moderated Voices Carrying Forward
SCA alumni moderated "Voices Carrying Forward: Indigenous Futures in Contemporary Music," a panel conversation with Jeremy Allen, Jonathon Adams, Sandrine Masse-Savard, Marion Newman, Russell Wallace, and Elder Marina Crane on July 29, 2021, presented by Queen¡¯s University. Read about the event .