SCA | Quick News | April 4, 2025
Peters passes interplay_ to MacCaull
Making it official, SCA alumnus "passed the torch" to SCA alumnus for interplay_ during on Sunday, March 30, at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre. interplay_ also launched their new Peters-designed website, announced a partnership with New Works' XR program, and opened the call for interplay_2026. More .
Chambers, Goodman, and Helten for International Dance Day
The Dance Centre's 2025 International Dance Day programing on Tuesday, April 29, includes the SCA's ' "performative lecture" The Brutal Joy from 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM, and SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman's () between the landings (also running as a video installation version at the Dance Centre until April 30) and SCA alumnus 's Artemis’ Embrace at 800 Robson Plaza. There's more, too! See the whole schedule .
Marks talks at UBC
The SCA's Laura U. Marks is the guest for UBC's Department of Theatre & Film final "Spring Critical Thinkers Series" talk on Friday, April 11, 2025, from 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM in the Dodson Room at UBC's Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall, Vancouver). More .
Raymond Roussel gets weird
Raymond Roussel, the new "weird jazz" trio of the SCA's and and ) is opening for the Tom Wherrett on April 13, 2025, at 8:00 PM (doors at 7:30 PM) at The Hargrove (Back Alley Entrance, 150 E 3rd Ave, Vancouver), presented as #5 in the Lost Dog Sundays series. More .
Slow Fashion Show pix
If you missed Germain Koh's at the Museum of Anthropology on Thursday, March 27, 2025, which included the SCA's Laura U. Marks and SCA alumnus and The Polygon Gallery curator as models, check out a collection of fabulous images from the event .
La noire de... at the Libby
SCA alumnus and curator in collaboration with the good team at ECU's Libby Leshgold Gallery are presenting a screening of Ousmane Sembène's (1966) and a talk by Africanist film theorist on April 14, 2025, from 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM at ECU's Reliance Theatre (Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 520 E 1st Ave., Vancouver). This event is presented in support of , an exhibition of public art by Afi Venessa Appiah, Kariyana Calloway-Scott, and Praise Etiosa Godswill, curated by Moroti George. More .
Fool’s Paradise Cabaret
SCA student Jack Adrian, and SCA alumni , , , , , , , and are all participating in Rumble Theatre's Fool’s Paradise Cabaret, running April 26 & April 27, 2025, at 7:30 PM (doors at 7:00 PM) at Progress Lab (1422 William St., Vancouver). More .
Koochakzadeh-Yazdi's Seeds IV
Watch SCA alumnus 's Seeds IV (for kamancheh and tape), which was written for and premiered by Niloufar Shiri. Watch it .
Prairie Thunder in Flash
Running April 3 – May 31, 2025, , the exhibition at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Unit 2 – 710 Rosser Ave., Brandon) that includes SCA alumnus , is also part of the Flash Photographic Festival, which spans multiple galleries and spaces. More .
Kong curates for Who Roams the Earth
SCA alumnus collaborated with Cinevolution Media Arts to curate Who Roams the Earth, a full day of free screenings in celebration of National Canadian Film Day, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at the Richmond Cultural Centre (7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond). As , "This year’s program is both a foray into filmmaking in Canada, and a cinematic journey into living worlds beyond the human universe, from alpine pastures to desert skies to otherworldly perspectives." More .
Speculations Within and Beyond the Black Fantastic
, an SCA alumnus and Co-Director of Surrey's , wrote a text about Speculations Within and Beyond the Black Fantastic, a public art exhibition with Kriss Munsya and Ngadi Smart, running April 1 – July 21, 2025, at the Black Arts Centre (#105 – 10305 City Pkwy., Surrey), that's presented as part of this year's Capture Photography Festival. Read it .
Sethi for IGNITE!
SCA student is the Media Team Coordinator for the 2025 , which runs May 13 – 18 at The Cultch’s Historic Theatre (1895 Venables St., Vancouver). Find out more about Sethi on the IGNITE! Youth Arts Festival's Instagram .
Silverfox and Sound at Ch?teau de Cerisay
by SCA alumnus done while on an artist residency at the Ch?teau de Cerisay, a "sprawling French estate just north of Le Mans, France." Based on her , it seems SCA alumnus was participating in the residency at the same time, too. Find out more about the Ch?teau de Cerisay, which looks bonkers nice, .
Saugstad's Mountains
SCA alumnus is presenting her dance film Mountains, which includes SCA alumni and with Daria Mikhaylyuk, Nasiv Sall, and Sabine Raskin as dancers, as part of New Works' International Dance Day on Screen event on April 29, 2025, from 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM, in the Montalbano Family Theatre at the Vancouver Public Library's Central Library (350 West Georgia St., Vancouver). More info and RSVP .
DOXA 2025
Tickets for the 2025 edition of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, running May 1-11, with a few events here at our place (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver) are now on sale. More .
Nechako – It Will Be A Big River Again
Produced by (the production company by SCA alumni Kathleen Hepburn & Tyler Hagan), Nechako – It Will Be A Big River Again is having its World Premiere as part of the Justice Forum at the 2025 edition of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at 5:00 PM at the VIFF Centre (1181 Seymour St., Vancouver). More .
Mermaid Masquerade Gala
Attention SCA students! The SCA are having a Mermaid Masquerade Gala on April 9, 2025, at 6:30 PM in Room 4270 here at the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver).
PTC's Public Workshops
Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC) have announced their next series of Public Workshops hosted by the PTC team, past and present, including SCA alumnus 's "The Show Will Go On: The Basics of Running a Smooth Event" on May 29, SCA alumnus ' "Writing Scenes of Intimacy… beyond 'they kiss'" on June 5 & 12, and 's TBD "Mapping a Creative Project: Out of your head and into the world," plus Joanna Garfinkel's "Writing From Real History – Including Your Own" on June 19 & 26, and Deborah Vogt's "Writing Book and Lyrics for New Musicals 101" on June 24 and "Book, Music, Lyrics… and Dramaturgy: Collaboration in Musical Theatre" on June 25. Complete details .
UNIT/PITT's Noise Party Fundraiser
are holding a Noise Party Fundraiser at Lobe Studio (713 E Hastings St., Vancouver) on April 6, 2025, at 7:00 PM (doors at 6:30 PM), including SCA student as one of the performers and visuals by SCA alumnus (what film of very bad cats is , Kaila?). More .
Steinwand in It's Time to Come Home
SCA alumnus joins Jake Kimble and Laura Grier in the exhibition It's Time to Come Home, running April 26 – July 25, 2025, at the Art Gallery of NWT (Yellowknife Visitor Centre, 5022 49 St, Yellowknife). More .
Nieto's spring butoh classes
SCA alumnus is teaching spring classes on butoh on Wednesdays at 5:30 PM at KW Studios (111 Hastings St W, Vancouver) and on Saturdays at 2:30 PM at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby). Best to consult for the former and for the latter.