SCA | Quick News | June 20, 2025
Sparvier-Wells featured
Read a MUSE composer feature with SCA alumnus on the Canadian Music Centre website. Read it .
Entirely unfed
Listen to Entirely unfed by the SCA's (lap steel + synth), Mabel Kwan (accordion + synth), and Carrie Shaw (voice + synth), from the their upcoming new album, Lunches for the Week, which is part of Out Of Your Head Records' new "Beacons" series. Listen to it on Bandcamp .
Don't miss Today is the evening to strike lightning / Aaj To Bijiliyan Girane Ki Shaam Hai
The Indian Summer Festival, this year curated by , shared a quick video on the Instagram with the SCA's and Simran Sachar talking about , their new choreographic collaboration, which is running as part of the Festival on Saturday, July 5, 2025, from 7:30?PM – 9:00 PM, at the Annex (823 Seymour St., Vancouver). Watch it .
Egoyan / Pauly / Loewen / Miller
The SCA's (Chromaharp, Lapsteel, Live Sampling and Processing, Bass) joins Eve Egoyan (Acoustic and Augmented Piano), Lisa Cay Miller (Piano, Nord, Moog Matriarch), and Kenton Loewen (Drums) for an evening of mix-and-match improvised music with the players in different combinations on July 26, 2025, from 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM at 8EAST (8 E. Pender St., Vancouver). More .
Eyes of the Beast press
Read The Georgia Straight (), the Globe and Mail (), and the Vancouver Sun () on Neworld Theatre's presentation of , which includes input from the SCA's James Long, as well as SCA students as performers and SCA alumni behind the scenes, running June 18 – 22, 2025, in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre here at SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver). Don't miss it!
Holding Water on video
Watch SCA alumnus perform his work Holding Water, which premiered October, 2025, as part of the Neighbourhood Dance Works Festival of New Dance in St. John's. Watch .
FOREIGN | FUTURES
Created by SCA alumnus and Stephanie Wong (and including SCA alumni and behind the scenes), FOREIGN | FUTURES, "a meeting place for disparate timelines, where protopic possibilities dance sweaty and euphoric to the pulsating beat of the revolution," runs July 3 – 4, 2025, at 7:30 PM (doors at 7:00 PM), at What Lab (202-1814 Pandora St., Vancouver). More .
Lake Fire reviewed
Read reviews by Everything Is Noise () and Igloo Magazine () of , the latest release by SCA alumnus , released by .
El Shazly on the court
SCA alumnus is also a serious tennis player, and was once ranked as #5 in Egypt as a teen. Check out her listing on the International Tennis Federation's site .
The Midnight Parade
So far, we've confirmed that SCA alumni (director, co-creator, and performer) and (performer) are part of The Midnight Parade, co-presented by and (with Hobson-Dimas as Artistic Director / Lead Costume Designer), which runs July 4 – 6, 2025, at The Shop Theatre (8877 Selkirk St., Vancouver. More info and get tickets .
Five Alarm
SCA alumnus is directing the Deep Cove Stage Society's production of Kristen Da Silva's Five Alarm, running June 6 – 20, 2025, at 7:30 PM, with 2:00 PM shows on June 8, 15, and 21 at 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. More .
Spirit Gravity
SCA alumnus has launched Spirit Gravity, a new "independent label and music publisher located in Calgary, Alberta, with a focus on creating live scores for screen-based media," starting with three collaborative recordings Bruton made with Meredith Bates, Kurt Newman, and Katie Streibel, respectively. Find everything on Bandcamp .
Access and Disability Justice: Mosaic Mending
, which has SCA alumnus as Artistic Director, is hosting the free event, , on Sunday, June 22, 2025, from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM, at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre (5714 Medusa St., Sechelt). More . In other The Only Animal news, SCA alumnus hosted an open studio at the Kiosk Mobile Studio, located in the surrounding growing space at (1053 Stewart Rd., Gibsons), where he worked with various eco-dyes for fabrics and did field recordings. More .
Nechako: It Will Be A Big River Again
Produced by (the production company formed by SCA alumni Kathleen Hepburn & Tyler Hagan), , written directed by Lyana Patrick, is screening at the VIFF Centre (1181 Seymour St, Vancouver) from June 6 – 21, 2025, the last night coinciding with . More .
VBTAF celebrates Juneteenth
In recognition of Juneteenth, a federal holiday in the United States also celebrated by Black Canadians that commemorates June 19, 1865, when () "Major General Gordon Granger "ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War," the , with new SCA alumnus as Founder & Director, shared a summary of some of their accomplishments on as they also mark 5 years of good work – so far! If you're able and would like to support the VBTAF, you can make a donation . Also, Mulat "shared her insights on how the surge of allyship has masked a deeper, systemic issue in the long-standing underinvestment in Black communities" in a recent article, "The True Cost of Performative Allyship," by the Network for the Advancement of Black Communities. Read it .
Stitched closing
Last chance to see Stitched: Merging Photography and Textile Practices, including work by SCA alumnus , which closes June 21, 2025, coinciding with , at the The Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art (2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver), and presented as part of the 2025 Capture Photography Festival. More .
Thompson's Working Classes
SCA alumnus is holding Working Classes on June 23 & 27, 2025, from 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM, at The Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver), presented by the . More HERE.
Siu's Peabody remarks
Watch SCA alumnus 's acceptance remarks at the 85th Annual Peabody Awards, where , the indie video game produced by Siu and the team (featuring a bunch of SCA alumni in the production process, including , , , Felicia Lau, , , , , , , , and the SCA's James Long), . Watch .
Mapping a Creative Project: Out of your head and into the world
Presented by (PTC), Mapping a Creative Project: Out of your head and into the world, led by SCA alumnus (and PTC's Artistic & Executive Director Emeritus) , runs June 24, 2025, from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM, at Progress Lab 1422 (1422 William St., Vancouver). More .
Strauss in Risk/Reward
SCA alumnus is performing on the Mainstage as part of the 2025 Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance, which runs June 20 – 22, from 7:00 PM – 9:15 PM, at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (15 NE Hancock St. Portland, OR). More .
Hammond's HINDSIGHT 2020
SCA alumnus is presenting HINDSIGHT 2020, "a gloriously big and beautiful text that chronicles the whole year from top to tail," on Sunday, June 22, 2025, from 10:00 AM –7:00 PM (or so), at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (15 NE Hancock St. Portland, OR), as part of the Risk/Reward Festival of New Performance, with contributions from SCA folks , , , , , and , plus many, many others. More .
Lefan's itinerary
Click through to SCA student 's Instagram for her itinerary of shows, including multiple Lower Mainland gigs and more. See it .