SCA | Quick News | May 27, 2022
Abahmed wins!
Congratulations to soon-to-be SCA alumnus for winning the Dean's Undergraduate Convocation Medal, which will be awarded to him at the upcoming SFU Convocation ceremony. Abahmed is a Vancouver based composer and audio engineer with an extensive background as a multifaceted film technician (IATSE Local 891). He's produced music for film and theatre and also interned with the SCA's . While completing his studies at the SCA, he composed music for several student productions, including ASCENSION 2021 and most recently Ghost Forest. Outside of school, his CV includes work for a number of projects and clients, both local and international. Congratulations, Alex!
SCA at Open Ears
SCA alumnus will be presenting Music for the Augmented Pipe Organ (more ) and , the "project-based interdisciplinary performance collective" of SCA alumni , , and , will be presenting Tam's Walking at Night by Myself and …wreckage upon wreckage… (more ) as part of Kitchener's , which runs June 2 – 5, 2022. Joining the Vultures' crew for the shows are SCA alumni , , , and .
Ybarra at Griffin
SCA alumnus is ' new Public Programming and Residency Coordinator. Congratulations – and great choice!
Vanden Heuvel does BODYTRAFFIC
SCA alumnus will be one of the instructors for BODYTRAFFIC’s Summer Program in LA. More .
Gestural Symphony No.1 trailer
Watch a trailer for SCA alumnus Alexa Fraser's Gestural Symphony No.1, commissioned by as part of Fraser's / ' “The Deep End” residency, including other SCA alumni – , , and Dominique Samuels – as part of the project. Gestural Symphony No.1 runs June 23 – 26, 2022, at What Lab. Watch .
Pipe organ press
Read Stir Vancouver's quickie preview on 's fast-upcoming pipe organ show on Saturday, May 28, 2022, at 8:00 PM (plus an artist chat at 7:15 PM) at the Pacific Spirit United Church (2195 W 45th Avenue), featuring , SCA alumnus , and the SCA's . Read it .
Postalian introduces New Societies
Watch SCA alumnus introduce the upcoming show, presented as part of 's 2022 rEvolver Festival, which is chockablock with SCA folks, including Postalian, , , , , , , (here with a "snack cameo"), , , , and . Watch it .
Redvers' red carpet slight
Good grief! SCA alumnus and filmmaker was initially "turned away from a red carpet screening at the Cannes Film Festival for wearing moccasins with his tuxedo." Telefilm Canada and the Indigenous Screen Office (ISO), who "called on Cannes to update its red carpet fashion policy, offering to provide more information on Indigenous attire," had to step in. More .
Tham conductors Bright Moon
Read Stir Vancouver on SCA alumnus 's upcoming performance as guest conductor for the Vancouver Chamber Choir’s season finale, , on June 3, 2022, at 7:30 PM at Fraserview Church (11295 Mellis Drive, Richmond). Read it .
Walkley's workshop
SCA alumnus Helen Walkley is running The Presence of Mind in Motion: an improvisation intensive from July 22 – 25, 2022, from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM, in the 4th floor "Blonde studio" here at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). More .
Listening to Paint Dry with Kujala
Presented by , join SCA alumnus Jorma Kujala for a Soundwalk: Listening to Paint Dry on Sunday, May 29, 2022, at 2:00 PM, starting at the NE corner of East 8th Avenue and Kingsway. More .
Kuebler's Summer Intensive
's Shay Kuebler is running a Summer Intensive here at our place (SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver) from July 22 – 25, 2022, from 10:00 – 5:00 PM. More .
Songs for a Lost Pod in The Straight
Read The Georgia Straight on by , featuring the SCA's (Narrator) and (Lighting Design) and SCA alumnus (Director & Dramaturg). Songs for a Lost Pod runs May 28 & 29, 2022, at 7:00 PM, here in Studio T at SFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver), presented by the good folks at Music on Main. Read it .
SCA in EDAM's Pile On II
SCA alumni , , and join Anne Cooper, Francesca Frewer, Hayley Gawthrop, Arash Khakpour, and Diego Romero in ’s Artistic Director Peter Bingham's Pile On II, presented as part of EDAM's on May 25, 27, 28 + June 1, 3, 4, 2022, at 8:00 PM at 303 E 8th Ave, Vancouver. More .
Carter and Kisyuu's Flow Tide
SCA alumnus 's collaborative work Flow Tide – created/performed with Japanese calligrapher , with music by SCA alumnus , and filmed by jo passed – is screening as part of Montréal's Festival Accès Asie on May 27, 2022, at 7:30 PM. More .
Koochakzadeh-Yazdi on the ADP
Listen to a live set from SCA alumnus from Podcast .
ReIssue's Year 1 Anthology
The Year 1 Anthology from , the otherwise online "interdisciplinary publication platform" edited by SCA alumnus . Order it directly from the ReIssue website or look for it soon at better bookstores and shops. More .
Kotowich's workshop – act fast!
Early bird pricing for SCA alumnus 's De-colonial Perspectives to Creative Embodiment workshop on Saturday June 11, 2022, at 2:00 – 4:00 PM, presented by The Dance Centre, ends today (May 27, 2022)! More .
Kanagawa and Friesen up for Leos
Alongside co-star Carmen Moore, SCA alumnus was nominated for a 2022 for his performance in Luvia Petersen's short film . And SCA alumnus was also nominated for a Leo Award for Best Cinematography for her work on Elizabeth Lazebnik's . Congratulations!
Khakshoor programs Iranian Experimental Film
SCA alumnus was the was the guest programmer for Iranian Experimental Film, Part 1: The Artistic Radicals, an evening of "radical, experimental Iranian short films made between 1964 and 1988" at The Cinematheque on May 25, 2022. More .
SCA in Esse
Issue 105 "New New Age" of includes Jayne Wilkinson on SCA alumnus and Zadie Xa and SCA alumnus on SCA alumnus 's Centre d'art daphne exhibition . More .
Goodman's Core/Us
SCA alumnus is presenting Core/Us at Seattle's On the Boards (100 West Roy Street) on June 23 and 26, 2022, at 8:00 PM. More .
Alzamora-Rivera in Listening, Attuning
SCA alumnus is participating in FEELed Lab's Listening, Attuning, a "A Feminist Environmental Humanities Summer Symposium," running May 23 – 31, 2022. More .
rEvolver in the Sun
The Vancouver Sun previews 's 2022 rEvolver Festival, which has good SCA alumni representation, both on and off stage: including in ; , , , and in ; sound design support for by ; , Howard Dai, , , Hannah Meyers, , , Amanda Sum, , Montserrat Videla Samper, , and Stefan Nazarevich in ; and and as participants in . Read it .