SCA | Quick News | August 29, 2025
Shihab's Reassemblage in the Relational Film
The SCA's is presenting Reassemblage in the Relational Film, a screening and lecture performance that includes her films our voices in reverse (portrait of mama), Sister Mother Lover Child, and Echolocation, on Sunday, September 28, 2025, at 3:30 PM, at the Walker Art Center (725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN), presented as part of Mizna鈥檚 Twin Cities Arab Film Festival. More .
TPE's Strange Beauty
Strange Beauty, the first gig of the new season for the Turning Point Ensemble, which has the SCA's as Artistic Director and conductor, runs September 19 & 20, 2025, at 7:30 PM, at the Annex Theatre (823 Seymour St, Vancouver). More .
Loscil on tour and at The Rio
SCA alumnus Scott Morgan / Loscil, who is heading off on a European tour (visit for more), will be playing with Julianna Barwick on October 9, 2025, at 8:30 PM at the The Rio Theatre (1660 E Broadway, Vancouver), presented as part of the Vancouver International Film Festival's Live programing. More .
Morelli on the Bonavista Biennale
Read SCA alumnus on the 2025 for CBC Arts. Read it HERE.
Glitch Theatre
Realwheels Theatre, newly re-branded as Glitch Theatre, and with SCA alumnus as producer, has announced its 2025-26 season. Read more at Stir Vancouver .
Jesuino directs Dance Floor Memoirs
's Dance Floor Memoirs, directed by SCA alumnus , who's also Theatre Terrific's Artistic Director, is running on Granville Island's Picnic Pavilion as part of the 2025 edition of the Vancouver Fringe Festival. Showtimes and dates and more info .
Stir Q&A with Carter
Stir Vancouver did a Q&A with SCA alumnus in advance of the presentation of their work, , at Odd Meridian Arts' Morrow (Unit 204 鈥� 910 Richards St., Vancouver), running from September 4 鈥� 7 as part of Odd Meridian's Bring Your Own Body series programming. Read it . Also, you can watch Carter talk about the work via short video on Odd Meridian's Instagram.
Ariaratnam/Avenda帽o playing Big Fun on the Corner
The great duo of SCA alumnus and Adrian Avenda帽o are playing with JPC & the BATTERY (still fresh off their gig with Bill Orcutt) on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, at 8:00 PM, presented as part of NOW Society's Big Fun on the Corner series at 8EAST (8 E. Pender St., Vancouver). More .
H0rr0r Open Mic night
SCA alumnus 's expanding universe beyond the annual festival of BIPOC-created horror short films is soon to include their upcoming "H0rr0r Open Mic and H0rr0r Trivia Night" micro events in October. And if you'd like to participate in the H0rr0r Open Mic night, the application deadline is September 4, 2025. Here's the .
Triana's Las Mujeronas
Directed and choreographed by SCA alumnus , Las Mujeronas runs November 1, 2025, at 7:30 PM, at the Annex (823 Seymour St, Vancouver), presented as part of the Stand Festival. More . Also, Triana is performing on Friday, September 19, from 12:00 PM 鈥� 1:00 PM at the Vancouver Public Library's Central Library (350 W. Georgia St, Vancouver), presented as part of the New Work's Pop Up Dances Festival. More .
Darwin gears up for the show
SCA Production & Design student Darwin shared a montage on Instagram of their work creating their outfit for our upcoming HOUSE-HOLD FASHION SHOW, which runs Friday, September 26, 2025, from 7:00 PM 鈥� 8:00 PM, in our Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre here at 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver. Watch it .
Kang dresses Soar
SCA alumnus did the Styling and Costume Design鈦� for Lamont and Lyzah's Soar, which runs August 29 & 30, 2025, at 7:00 PM (doors at 6:30 PM), at What Lab (202 鈥� 1814 Pandora St., Vancouver). More .
Snack Witch's 2033 Essex Rd
SCA alumnus is having a solo exhibition, 2033 Essex Rd, at aceartinc. (206 Princess St., Winnipeg, Manitoba), opening September 5 and running to October 24, 2025. More .
Nieto and Reimer in Methuselah
SCA alumni and are presenting Methuselah, Nieto's new Butoh opera for , on Friday, October 3, 2025, at 8:00 PM (doors at 7:30 PM), at MUNGANGA (Schinkelhavenstraat 27, 1075 VP Amsterdam, Netherlands), presented as part of Butoh Festival Amsterdam. More . Also, they're having a free "studio showing" on Saturday, September 27, from 7:00 PM 鈥� 8:00 PM, at KW Studios (111 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), presented as part of BC Culture Days. More .
Wallgrin in Toronto
SCA alumnus is playing September 30, 2025, at 8:00 PM (doors at 7:30 PM), at the Burdock Music Hall (1184 Bloor St W, Toronto). More .
SFMF 2025
The 2025 edition of the , now on its sixth year, is running October 17 鈥� 18, 2025, at the estimable The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St., Vancouver). More .
Sound in the collection and Cherish
SCA alumnus 's 2023 work, Theresa Sound, age 12, which is part of Sound's series, is now part of . Great choice! Watch a video on UBC Okanagan Gallery's Instagram presenting the work . Also, Sound is presenting Cherish from September 4 鈥� 28, 2025, at the The Ferry Building Gallery (1414 Argyle Ave, West Vancouver), with an Opening Reception on Thursday, September 4, from 6:00 PM 鈥� 8:00 PM, a "Meet The Artist" opportunity on Saturday, September 6, from 2:00 PM 鈥� 3:00 PM, and a tour in Mandarin on Saturday, September 20, from 2:00 PM 鈥� 3:00 PM. More .
PTC's Dramaturgical Reading Program
The Playwrights Theatre Centre (PTC), which has SCA alumni , is accepting applications for their Dramaturgical Reading Program. More .
Cafferata is a collaborating performer
SCA alumnus one of the "collaborating performers" working behind the scenes with Nina Davies, the Western Front's upcoming artist-in-residence, for her January exhibition in their gallery space. See some work-in-progress images on WF's Instagram .
Wei, Mak, and Kang's World as Tripod!
SCA alumni , , and are presenting the exhibition, World as Tripod!, opening Saturday, September 13, from 5:00 PM 鈥� 8:00 PM, and running to November 15, 2025, at (Unit 205 鈥� 268 Keefer St., Vancouver), which also includes a curated film screening on Monday, October 20, at 7:00 PM, hosted by DIM Cinema at The Cinematheque (1131 Howe St, Vancouver), and a public artist talk at Centre A on Saturday, October 25, from 2:00 PM 鈥� 3:00 PM. More .
Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading is a new, we hope recurring part of our weekly Quick News posts that shares readings and other sharable media from SCA faculty, graduate students, and staff. If you're SCA like that and would like to share something, please email us HERE with your picks and a sentence or two to whet readers' interest. This week, please enjoy these selections from the SCA's Emily Neumann and Laura U. Marks.
First, here's a trio of recommendations from Emily Neumann, the SCA's Manager, Production & Events and beloved resident gremlin:
Kaiju No. 8 by Naoya Matsumoto (published by Shueisha)
Within the guts and gore of this (admittedly violent) manga is a core of wholesomeness: strength in community, powerful women, intergenerational friendships, exploring ones鈥� potential, and many other themes that will leave you feeling warm and fuzzy even as a giant axe comes crashing down on the page. Find out more about the series .
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (published Tom Doherty Associates)
Self-named 鈥淢urderBot鈥� (it/its) navigates what it means to be a free person in its free time between watching epic telenovelas and adeptly saving the lives of the soft humans around it. Find out more .
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Dr. Devon Price, published by Harmony Books.
This book is a breath of fresh air, especially when compared to the many books about Autism from allistic perspectives which often vilify perfectly reasonable 鈥渜uirks鈥� associated with the Autistic neurotype. Find out more .
And second, here's a serious list from the SCA's Laura U. Marks, which could also easily serve as a fantastic course reading list or a solid first foundation for a graduate thesis or two (and, by gum, I'm going to dig into some of these myself):
Beller, Jonathan. 2021. . Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Bergson, Henri. 1998 [original French publication 1907]. . Translated by Arthur Mitchell. Mineola, NY: Dover.
Bohm, David. 2006. . London and New York: Routledge.
Deleuze, Gilles. 2001. . Translated by Anne Boyman. New York: Zone Books.
Eglash, Ron. 1999. . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Eshun, Kodwo. 1998. . London: Quartet Books.
Federici, Silvia, and Peter Linebaugh. 2019. . Oakland: PM Press.
Flusser, Vil茅m. 2002. 鈥�,鈥� Vil茅m Flusser: Writings, ed. Andreas Str枚hl, trans. Erik Eisel (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press), 51-57.
Furuhata, Yuriko. 2019. 鈥�.鈥� Media+Environment 1: 1
Gell, Alfred. 1998. . Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Grosz, Elizabeth. 2008. . New York: Columbia University Press.
Hartman, Saidiya V. 2019. . New York: Norton.
Irani, Lilly. 2021. 鈥�.鈥� Mind, Culture, and Activity 28:3 (October 11): 280-284.
Marks, Laura U. 2023. 鈥�.鈥� In Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies. Edited by Alenda Chang et al. New York: Routledge.
Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 61-62 (2021), 鈥�.鈥� Edited by Jacob Lund
Pingree, David. 1987. 鈥淭he Diffusion of Arabic Magical Texts into Western Europe.鈥� In La Diffusione delle scienze islamiche nel medio evo europeo. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. 57-102.
Saad, Bashar, and Omar Said. 2011. (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated)
Shiner, Larry. 2020. , Oxford University Press, 2020.
Simondon, Gilbert. 1992. 鈥淭he Genesis of the Individual.鈥� In . Edited by Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter. New York: Zone Books, 1992.
Steyerl, Hito. 2019. . London: Verso.
Uno, Kuniichi. 2012. . Translated by Melissa McMahon. Helsinki and Sa虄o Paulo: n-1 Publications.
Whitehead, Alfred North. 1978 [originally published 1929]. , corrected edition. Edited by David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherbourne. New York: The Free Press.
Yellowhorn, Eldon, and Kathy Lowinger. 2022. . Toronto and Berkeley: Annick Press.
Zorn, John, ed. 2020. . Distributed Art Publishers.