SCA | Quick News | January 10, 2025
Wishing on My Falsies
Wishing on My Falsies, an exhibition by SCA alumnus and the collective A Maior, curated by Kiel Torres, opens January 11 from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM, and runs to April 5, 2025, at the Western Front (303 E. 8th Ave., Vancouver). Here's how they describe the exhibition: "Western Front is pleased to present "Wishing on My Falsies", an exhibition of the collective A Maior and the multidisciplinary artist Katayoon Yousefbigloo that explores the mythmaking potential of playing dress-up. Inspired by the superstition of wishing on fallen eyelashes, the exhibition title reinterprets this ritual through a synthetic channel for desire, reflecting A Maior and Yousefbigloo’s interest in the aspirations and delusions that drive modes of self-fashioning." More .
Yoon talks about her selections
Watch the SCA's talk more about her choices for the , where she's presenting her works Untitled 10 (Long Time So Long) (2022) and Carrying Fragments (Untunnelling Vision) (2010) alongside Robert Rauschenberg’s sculpture (1978) in the VAG's Forecourt (750 Hornby St, Vancouver). Watch .
A Day in the Life with Saugstad, and in BLOOM
Read "A Day in the Life” interview in the Vancouver Guardian with SCA alumnus . Read it . Also, Saugstad was announced as one of Mascall Dance's 2025 BLOOM choreographic residencies. More .
Loscil's 2024
SCA alumnus shares "A Year in Music" overview of his busy 2024 with No More Workhorse. Read it .
Darkside in video
Watch a video of Paramirabo and the Thin Edge New Music Collective performing Darkside by SCA alumnus , presented on November 29, 2024, at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. Watch .
?kwaskitinkewin: an embrace
SCA alumnus is part of the exhibition ?kwaskitinkewin: an embrace, curated by Adrienne Larocque, which runs January 8 – February 22, 2025, at Edmonton's Latitude 53 (10130 – 100 Street, amiskwac?w?skahikan / Edmonton). More .
El Shazly's Hyperopia: A Screening Performance
SCA alumnus is holding Hyperopia: A Screening Performance, featuring a live improvisational score by violinist and composer , on January 16, 2025, from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM, at The Polygon Gallery (101 Carrie Cates Ct., North Vancouver). Also, Mena El Shazly and SCA PhD student Casey Wei are both part of the The Lind Biennial, which runs to February 2, 2025, with the recipient of the the Philip B. Lind Prize for Emerging Artists being announced on January 23, 2025, at 7:00 PM, at . More .
VIDF 2025
SCA alumnus and Julio Medina (presenting ), SCA alumnus and Kelly McInnes (presenting , with music by SCA alumnus ), and SCA alumnus and Miya Turnbull (presenting , and a workshop on ), are part of the 2025 edition of the Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF), which has SCA alumnus and Victor Tran as Co-Directors, running March 5 – 15, 2025, at various Vancouver venues, with OFFSITE programming from March 2 – 22, too. More .
PuSh 2025
There are so many SCA folks in the just released 2025 line up for the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, who are celebrating their 20th Anniversary, including: (SCA alumni , , and ), who are presenting SEEING DOUBLE: and , which also includes SCA alumni , , , and in different capacities; SCA alumnus , who's the Artistic Director of , is curating (and is that dancing away in the PR image?); (SCA alumni and ) are presenting , with SCA alumni as Lighting Designer; (which has SCA alumni as Artistic Director and as Interim Artistic Director) and are presenting ); and SCA alumnus is the co-creator, co-director, and composer and sound designer for 's , which has SCA student Jillian Jarin as Assistant Stage Manager. Also, SCA alumni and current Sessional Instructor is part of , the SCA's Erika Latta and SCA alumnus are on the Board of Directors, and SCA alumnus is PuSh's Industry Producer. Find out more and grab tickets and passes .
HOLD ON LET GO 2025
Tickets are no on sale for and ’s annual performing-arts festival, HOLD ON LET GO, co-curated by Lisa Mariko Gelley, Josh Martin, and SCA alumnus , running February 4 – 8, 2025, at the Russian Hall (600 Campbell Ave., Vancouver). HOLD ON LET GO includes SCA alumnus 's Secret Ingredients as a Main Stage presentation, an In Development presentation of SCA alumnus 's it is for when you meet me, SCA alumnus as curator of the Emerging Artist Series (featuring an Artist Talk, Emergence: Navigating the New, with SCA alumnus , and a Panel, Devising Practice: How we make what we do, with O’Brien and Magpantay), a series of Festival Gatherings (including a Accelerator Lab Community Conversation with Kyle Loven, SCA alumnus , Calderon, and O’Brien, SCA alumnus in conversation with members of Dancers of Damelahamid, and a special screening of Looping, a Company 605 Film Directed by Khakpour), and much more. More .
Omote (?) in Halifax
SCA alumnus and Miya Turnbull are presenting their collaborative work Omote (?) on February 28 at 8:00 PM, and March 1 at 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM at the Bus Stop Theatre (6086 Quinpool Road, Halifax, NS.), presented by Live Art Dance. More .
Hill in Town + Country
SCA alumnus is part of the exhibition Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital, which runs January 10 – April 13, 2025, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (1825 Main Mall, Vancouver). More .
Browne reads
The SCA's joined Steff Huì Cí Ling 林惠慈, Tiziana La Melia, and Aaron Peck for a Poetry Reading on Saturday, January 4, 2025, at the Historic Joy Kogawa House (1450 W 64th Ave., Vancouver). More .
Dear Plastic
SCA alumnus is part of the exhibition Dear Plastic, which runs January 18 – March 23, 2025, at the Richmond Art Gallery (Richmond Cultural Centre, 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond). More .
Within the Mould: Against the Grain
Vanessa Fajemisin and SCA alumnus co-curated the exhibition Within the Mould: Against the Grain, featuring Tati au Miel, Odartey Aryee, Isabel Okoro, and Deforrest Brown Jr., which is on now at the Black Arts Centre (10305 City Pkwy #105, Surrey). More .
Sum and Sandomirsky at TR
just announced SCA alumni and as their 2025 Creative Producer Intern and Festival Producer for , respectively. Great choices! More .
Friedenberg talks Sh*t with Denham
Alison Denham is the latest guest on Talking Sh*t with Tara Cheyenne, the podcast from SCA MFA student . Listen .
Chirp and Crawl
(SCA PhD candidate ) and SCA alumnus are performing as part of Chirp and Crawl on January 18, 2025, from 10:00 PM to late, at Red Gate (1965 Main St., Vancouver). Get tickets . And to help you warm up, listen to this by ? Linda Fox on "the future of AI in the workplace," which promises to "make you feel better in every single way."
HOT DYKE PARTY in Calgary
, the rocking party group with SCA alumni , , and (plus Blue Chu, Hayley Sullivan, and Thule van den Dam), are playing January 16, 17, 18, 2025, with lights and visuals by SCA alumnus , at Arts Commons' Engineered Air Theatre (205 - 8 Avenue SE, Calgary). More .
Mitsuhashi on the The Dance Centre Podcast
SCA alumnus talks with host Claire French on the latest episode of . Listen .
Murley in SUM-AiR
SCA alumnus is participating in the January SUM-AiR artist residency at the SUM Gallery (Suite 425 – 268 Keefer St., Vancouver), which will culminate in a group exhibition in the fall of 2025. More .
BIPOC | FOUNDATIONS IN CONTACT
SCA alumnus is hosting BIPOC | FOUNDATIONS IN CONTACT for "BIPOC dancers and movers" on Sundays from January 12 – February 16, 2025, starting at 3:30, at EDAM Dance (303 E 8th Ave., Vancouver). Sign up .
Candelabra in Beckon
SCA alumni and 's video work Candelabra is part of the exhibition Beckon, organized by Pamela Meredith, which opens January 16, 2025, at the (137 Tecumseth St., Toronto).
Tsai gets a scholarship
SCA alumnus is one of the recipients of 's scholarships. Congratulations! More .
Become an FCAT Mentor!
The FCAT Mentor program is a new alumni mentorship program from the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology.? Here's the pitch: Are you a current FCAT student or recent alumni looking for guidance in preparing for life after graduation? or an established FCAT alumni looking for a way to give back?? The FCAT Mentors program connects FCAT students and recent alumni with established community practitioners and professionals to provide additional support and guidance in preparing for their community practice and career.? More HERE.