SCA | Quick News | June 25, 2021
Congratulations x 2, Silverfox!
Congratulations to SCA alumni , who's both a finalist for the 2021 Yukon Prize for Visual Arts (more ) and one of the three "inaugural artist-researchers" in the Art Gallery of Ontario's new Emerging Artists Exchange program (more ).
Congratulations, Hatalova!
Congratulations to soon-to-graduate SCA student Dalia Hatalova for winning a Graduate Dean’s Medal, which recognizes "graduating students from each faculty whose cumulative grade point average places them in the top five per cent of their class." Read about Dalia and all of the other winners – congrats to all! – who'll be recognized at Convocation on Tuesday, June 29. More .
Final Made in Canada
Listen to the final episode of 's (founded in 2010 by SCA alumni Pedro Chamale and Derek Chan) Made in Canada: an agricultural podcast. Listen .
Vickers talks
Watch SCA alumni talk about her recent paintings, which are showing as part of a two-person exhibition with Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art until August 7, 2021. Watch it .
Siu and Tatar on Technical Sharing
SCA alumni and School of Interactive Arts + Technology alumni Kivanç Tatar will be presenting on "Technical Sharing: Creative Artificial Intelligence and Reinforcement Learning for Co-Creation" for the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday, June 27, 2021, from 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM (Taiwan time). More .
McMann in The Dance Current
Pick up the latest issue of The Dance Current, which includes a profile of SCA alumni by Abeer Khan as part of the issue's "I Am Pride" feature. Hope it'll end up online eventually, too! More .
SCA @ Dancing on the Edge
Grab tickets for the 2021 Dancing on the Edge Festival, which is full of works by SCA folks, including by SCA alumni Billy Marchenski; by CAMP, which includes SCA alumni ; by Wen Wei Dance, featuring music by SCA alumni ; by Rachel Meyer, which includes music by SCA + SIAT alumni ; by Peter Smida, which includes music by SCA alumni ; by SCA alumni and ; by Kelly McInnes, which includes music by SCA alumni and Cinematography and Editing by SCA alumni ; by SCA alumni ; and last but not least, , which is pictured above, by the SCA's and and SCA student , with SCA alumni as one of the performers. More .
Nazarevich's Drip Neon
Listen to SCA alumni 's (as SAN) new track Drip Neon. Listen to it .
Mochizuki behind-the-scenes
Check out some behind-the-scenes images from the Surrey Art Gallery of the exhibitions by SCA alumni , , and Henry Tsang, Hastings Park, which open June 26 and run to August 28, 2021. More .
Hou's new glass work
SCA alumni has a beautiful stained glass-based new work (manufactured by ) on the condo development, Bordeaux by Solterra, at 4488 Juneau Street, Burnaby. See images .
Culture Day Protest
SCA alumni shared an invite to a Culture Day Protest 2021 at 857 Malkin Ave, Vancouver, on Sunday, June 27, 2021, organized by . More .
Boisjoly mentors Konadu
The SCA's served as a mentor for artist Luther Konadu as part of the Art Gallery of York University's Lead Time program, which supports "emerging artists and their working processes." More .
Powderface at the Siksika Virtual Youth Mental Health Summit
SCA alumni Darylina Powderface (who's also the Community Engagement Coordinator at ) participated in day one of a two-day Siksika Virtual Youth Mental Health Summit on Thursday, June 24, and Friday, June 25, 2021, for . More .
Hekademia heads to Durban
Cool! SCA alumni 's film will be screening at the Durban International Film Festival, which runs July 22 – August 1, 2021. More . It also screened as part of the Oakville Festivals of Film & Art today, June 26, 2021, at 4:00 PM (EDT).
Tacata's Print Off
The SCA's and his collaborative production company (with Erika Chong Shuch and Rowena Richie) are presenting The Great AAPI Elder Print Off on June 26 & 27, 2021, as part of their larger, ongoing Artists & Elders projects and programing. More .
Rest in Power, Jerry Zaslove
We're very sorry to hear of the passing of , who was Professor Emeritus of SFU Humanities and the SFU Department of English and Director Emeritus of the SFU Institute for the Humanitie. Watch him deliver a lecture in 2015 on "The Aesthetics of Violence and Culture as an Enigmatic Signifier” for the Vancouver Institute for Social Research's free school .
Dai and Hallwas' update video
Head over to the Anvil Centre's site to watch some videos by SCA alumni and his collaborator Logan Rhys Hallwas about their ongoing work for their installation the "PresentMaking Project." More .
SCA @ HIVE 2021
Make sure to check out some of the great projects by SCA alumni in the 's HIVE 2021: Flight Paths series, which runs July 1 – 4, 2021, from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM (PDT), including Re:Current Theatre's The Marker of Nothing (, , and ), Tributaries ( and ), Follow Me ( and ), and Please Hold (Aliya Griffin, , ), as well as (Assistant Technical Director) and (Production Manager) behind the scenes. Design your "flight path" .
Vines' survey help
Help the , created by SCA alumni and festival director Heather Lamoureux in 2015, by answering their survey for their "Advocacy League - Centering Artists in Accountability and Repair." Take the survey .
Evans profiled
Read a good profile from Bard on the Beach about SCA alumni in celebration of National Indigenous Peoples Day. Read it .
McFarlane and Humphreys-Stinson's Troubling Joy
SCA alumni Ian McFarlane and Laura Jane Humphreys-Stinson, as The North Barn Theatre, are touring Troubling Joy: a bicycle puppet circus around Nova Scotia this August and September, 2021. More .
Spence @ Open Frame
SCA alumni Alexandra Spence will be playing with Elia Bosshard on August 26, 2021, as part of Open Frame, "an immersive experimental program of transgressive sound and light" curated by Lawrence English, that's part of the Vivid Sydney festival. More .
Wu on Taiwanese representation in the arts
Read a thoughtful post by SCA alumni about Taiwanese representation in the arts and his recent work , developed with the support of Gateway Theatre. Read it .
Yassine's The Artist as Artwork
SCA alumni is rerunning her "The Artist as Artwork" workshop on July 8, 2021, from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM. More .
Sum's latest Jazz Fest trailer
Watch a trailer for SCA alumni 's upcoming on Saturday, June 26, 2021, at 1:30 PM, as part of the Coastal Jazz Festival. Watch it .