SCA | Quick News | June 4, 2021
Congratulations, Shion!
Congratulations to SCA alumni , who has won the 2021 Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award! Administered by , the award "is presented every two years to a senior dance student or emerging dance artist between 19 and 35 years of age who demonstrates exceptional choreographic ability and the potential to realize a future in the creative realm of dance." More .
Ghimire on CBC Arts
Check out this great article about "photography from a pandemic year" by the "Class of 2021," including SCA student (soon to be grad and allumni!) Jana Ghimire, whose work was presented as part of Supercharged, the recent BFA Graduating Exhibition, which ran from April 15 ¨C 24, 2021, at The Audain Gallery. Congrats, Jana! Read it .
Woods' ONCE SHE DRIES
Upcoming: ONCE SHE DRIES, an experimental opera by SCA alumni , working with SCA alumni , , and , current SCA MFA student , and Katerina Gimmon. More .
Kang in ??; Hwatu; hWA- too; »¨ô^; Flower Fight
Tonight, June 4, 2021, at 7:00 PM at part of : ??; Hwatu; hWA- too; »¨ô^; Flower Fight, featuring SCA alumni Jaewoo Kang / James Q Parker. More .
Edwards' Dance and Activism
Read SCA alumni ' essay Dance and Activism: Moving bodies as catalysts of change in Dance International. Read it .
Mitsuhashi's XR Pilot Program
New Works and SCA alumni , dance artist Sierra Megas, and "a team of consulting artists and technologists working at the intersection of performance and XR technologies," are developing a new XR Pilot Program 2021. Read about it .
Mochizuki's Autumn Strawberry and in conversation
SCA alumni will be in conversation with Henry Tsang on Saturday, July 17, 2021, from 7:00 Pm ¨C 8:00 PM (PDT), talking about their work and practices for Surrey Art Gallery, where they will both be having exhibitions this summer. More . Mochizuki's multimedia installation Autumn Strawberry, which "takes visitors back in time to Japanese Canadian farms in the twentieth century prior to WWII," runs from June 26 ¨C August 28, 2021. More .
Q&A with Underhill on TPE Interactive
Read a Q&A with the SCA's , who's also the Artistic Director of the , in advance of the TPE's upcoming event, (streaming online Friday, June 11, 2021, at 7:30 PM), which includes work by the SCA's . Read it .
Lord wraps!
SCA alumni wrapped shooting , her first feature, which was funded by Canada Council for the Arts, too. Follow the film on and for more news!
Ariaratnam's dumbpop
Need a little (and we're talking one minute or less here little) dumb pop in your life? SCA alumni has a new dumbpop record, Take Good Care, out today! Listen to it .
McMann's Incandescent Tales
SCA alumni released her new record, Incandescent Tales, today. You can sample and purchase it .
Koochakzadeh-Yazdi for Wasteland Music
SCA alumni will be presenting music as part of 's Season 8, on June 12, 2021. More .
Loscil's Clara reviewed
Read a review of SCA alumni Scott Morgan's latest record, , as , which is out now from . Read it .
Tsay's Stalinism in Kazakhstan ¨C in English!
Stalinism in Kazakhstan: History, Memory, and Representation, co-edited by SCA MA student Alexandra Tsay, has been newly published in English by Lexington Books. More . The book was orginally accompanied by the exhibition Living Memory, presented at Almaty City Museum, Kazakhstan, in 2019. In 2020, Tsay curated a VR version of the exhibition in Mozilla Hub, which was also accessible for English readers. Check it out .
Collider with Dia reviewed
Read a eview for , featuring SCA alumni , which is part of Upintheair Theatre's rEvolver Festival, co-presented by Spiderwebshow's FOLDA: Festival of Live Digital Art. Read it . Also, hang out virtually with Dai at the SuperSymmetry VR Mixer, Sunday, June 6, 2021, from 8:00 PM ¨C 10:00 PM. More .
Read Kong x 2
Read the SCA's on the exhibition MirNs at the in New Westminster for Akimbo and read her in conversation with the artist Michelle Nguyen for Public Parking.
Projects: Gabrielle L¡¯Hirondelle Hill in Artforum
Read a review in Artforum for SCA alumni 's exhibition, , at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, which runs to August 15, 2021. Read it .
Good K BODY AND MIND press
Read some good press for SCA alumni and the (SCA alumni and ) crew's , which is running as part of the from June 4 ¨C 6, 2021. Read it .
Made in Canada E7
Episode 7 of 's Made in Canada: an agricultural podcast is up. Listen to it .
Kanagawa's nominations
Congratulations to SCA alumni (MFA 1994!) for his two nominations! Good luck! More .
Evans' Welcome Post Project
Read about SCA alumni ' ongoing Port Moody Welcome Post Project .
Sum's COLLIDER
SCA alumni is the next COLLIDER Artist-in-Residence for (SCA alumni James Long and Maiko Yamamoto), developing her new performance work, New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert. More . Also, make sure to watch Sum's new video for her new song, Hot Headed Egos, Watch it .
Friesen's camera work
Watch the documentary As the Smoke Rises by Sharon Heigl and Jennifer Ille, for which SCA alumni was the Director of Photography on . Watch it .
Murao on TIFF online and in Palm Springs
SCA alumni 's short film No More Parties (with was the Director of Photography) is streaming on the Toronto International Film Festival's digital platform. Watch it for FREE . The film will also have its first in-person theatre screening on June 26, 2021, at the 's ShortFest in their 'Social Animals' programme. Congratulations, Natalie!
Chan and Lim for the Arts Club
SCA alumni Derek Chan () was part of a workshop / panel on June 1, 2021, discussing the possibility of "Theatre as an Agent of Social Change" with Marcus Youssef, Lili Robinson, and Quelemia Sparrow, with facilitator Carmen Aguirre. Also, SCA alumni will be part of a workshop / panel called "Beyond Panels: The Radical BIPOC Creators Changing the Face of Canadian Theatre" on June 15 at 5:00 PM, with Laara Sadiq and Lori Marchand and facilitator Omari Newton. Both panels are part of an ongoing series presented by the . More .
Nazarevich's Drip Neon
SCA alumni has something new ¨C Drip Neon ¨C coming out on June 25, 2021. Keep track .
Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echo reviewed
Read a review of , at the Vancouver Art Gallery until January 2, 2022, which includes SCA MFA student Katie Kozak. Read it .
On the horror at Kamloops
We're disgusted and angered by the terrible news of the discovery by the Tk¡¯eml¨²ps te Secwe?pemc First Nation of an unmarked grave with the remains of 215 children at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops. The truth is that this horror not only exemplifies a deep, even foundational part of the history of Canada, which is defined by settler-colonialism, it's also an ongoing reality. Settler-colonialism permeates Canadian society and it's institutions, including SFU and the SCA. One thing everyone can do is materially support and contribute to Indigenous communities, such as by donating to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society at , or by phone at 1-800-721-0066. For Indigenous folks who need support after this traumatizing discovery, they also operate a 24-hour crisis line at 1-866-925-4419. ?Also, consider writing directly to the politicians that represent you at all levels of government to ask them to address the long and ongoing institutional and systemic legacy of settler colonialism in Canada. To help make this easier, consider this , shared by SCA alumni . While online petitions and social media posts can help start conversations and spread awareness, much better is an actual, old style letter sent in the mail. Reconciliation and decolonization are starting points for a better, transformed future.? Much work needs to be done.