SCA | Quick News | January 31, 2025
Tolmie's Ovoid Destroyer
SCA alumnus Cody Tolmie's Ovoid Destroyer, inspired by the 80s video game , is showing on the VanLive! video screen at the corner of Granville and Robson at various times throughout the day, with a dedicated daily showing at 12:00 PM, until March 16, 2025, commissioned by the City of Vancouver as part of their Platforms: Nine Places for Seeing program. More .
TPE teases Trikala Jati for JB
, which has the SCA's as Artistic Director and conductor, shared a teaser video on for the world premiere of Trikala Jati for JB by Curtis Andrews, performed by Jonathan Bernard and Sudnya Mulye, which is part of the program for on February 22 (7:30 PM) & February 23 (2:30 PM), 2025, at the Annex Theatre (23 Seymour St, Vancouver), also featuring ’蝉 Afro-American Suite and Before I’d Be a Slave.
Han at UNIT/PITT
SCA student is the 's Winter 2025 Gallery Assistant Intern, organized through the SCA's Internship Program. If you're SCA and you'd like to do something similar, reach out to Kay Higgins, the SCA's Professional Development Coordinator, HERE.
Clark in the IFFR
The SCA's 's short film, Persistence & Loss, is screening as part of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), which runs January 30 – February 9, 2025. More .
Stir on VOCE
Here's Stir Vancouver on the closing down of SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, drawing from our news post, which we've updated to share some "call to action" links. Read it .
Born in Flames
Please join us for a screening of Lizzie Borden's , the last programmed event by our friends and soon-to-be former colleagues SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement (see above), on Thursday, February 6, 2025, at 6:00 PM, in the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema here at 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, co-presented by VOCE and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Get tickets .
Vickers in Ascending Horizons
SCA alumnus is part of the exhibition Ascending Horizons, curated by Alex Jacobs-Blum and Kim Anderson, which runs January 8 – June 20, 2025, at the McMaster Museum of Art (Alvin A. Lee Bldg, University Ave., McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W, Hamilton, Ontario). More .
On Inner Sublimity
Read a Stir Vancouver Q&A with SCA alumni and , who are co-Artistic Directors of , on their work , which is running February 6 – 9, 2025, at the Vancouver Art Gallery (750 Hornby St., Vancouver), presented as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Read it . Also, MacCaull and Chien talk about their work as part of in the Source on "Collaborations with sound, technology and sculpture at the PuSh Festival."
Welcome to Senses
Are you an SCA student? Consider applying to be part of the next Welcome to Senses exhibition (here's info on the first one), organized by Adelya Mullasheva. Sign up . And follow them on , too.
BHM yoga
Celebrate Black History Month this February with SCA alumnus , who is combining their project (presented as part of Winter Fest in 2022) with their for a series of by-donation sessions on Saturdays at 4:00 PM at (156 E 7th Av, Vancouver), with all proceeds going to the . More .
D’Anuncia??o is a mentee
SCA alumnus is one of All Bodies Dance Project's in their Dancing WITH Teaching Exchange. Check back for more info when it's posted.
Sparvier-Wells' scores
SCA alumnus has updated their website to include print and digital copies of new scores of her music, and there is a bunch of other good merch there, too. More .
Matriarchs Uprising Festival
SCA alumni , , and are participating in events and workshops as part of the , which runs February 17 – 22, 2025, at the Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver), Morrow (Suite 204 – 910 Richards St., Vancouver), and online. See the full schedule .
To Be A Creature
SCA alumnus is having a "To Be A Creature OF LOVE? Video Premiere & Valentine’蝉 Party" on February 14, 2025, at 7:30 (doors) at KW Studios (111 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). Get tickets .
Slow Social Club at UNIT/PITT
, which has SCA alumnus as Artistic Director, is partnering with the gallery for the "winter series" of their Slow Social Club, running February – March, 2025. More info and RSVP .
PuSh 2025
Running January 23 – February 9, 2025, there are many SCA folks in the , 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 ; (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 , which has SCA alumni as Video/Surtitle Designer and as Sound Designer; 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 are 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
Don't miss and ’蝉 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 .