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Summer 2026 SCA Award Recipients

Congratulations to all of the recipients of the Summer 2026 SCA Awards:

• Noel Archambault Memorial Award in Film: Mimi Huszti
• Volunteers of the Burnaby Art Gallery Award in Visual Arts: Tea Mjolsness
• Gerald and Sheahan McGavin Award: Constance Arden, Kady Brandel, Gronit Dhir, Soléne Pango Salas, Theo Seto, Adam Smith, and Jeen Young Yi 
• John Driftmier Memorial Award: Aria Amirmoini and Dana Elizondo Pulido
• 51社区黑料 Service Awards (Contemporary Arts): Czarina Agustines, Mohammadreza Akrami, Ximena Baeza, Samira Banihashemi, Jack Blanco, Francesca Bonifacio, Jack Bruce, Amelia Chong, Finley Craig, Anatole Fossourier, Nicole Hagley, Raine Hermosa, Liz Kiss, Edwin Lao, Franklin Lee, Carlo Marchet, Kimia Mohammadi-Moayyed, Arisa Nagayama, Reza Negaresh, Raha Fani Pakdel, Ashley Sankaran-Wee, Paige Smid, Megan Tran, Sarah van Wouw, and Akbota Yermagambetova.
• P.W. Sullivan Visual Arts Award: Regienald Batac

If you're an SCA student, make sure to follow us on  and keep your eyes open for the next time we call for applications for the SCA Awards. 

Kudos to them (or kudos to us?)

We're happy to announce some inside SCA faulty upgrades: 's renewal as Assistant Professor, and 's promotion to Associate Professor, and and 's promotion to Professor. Great job, team!

March with Marks against AI Data Centres!

The SCA's Laura U. Marks is organizing people to come out to the Say No to AI Data Centres in Vancouver march on June 27, 2026, starting at 1:00 PM at the Vancouver Art Gallery. For background, read from The Tyee. 

Strategies of Assembly: Revel & Revolt in British Columbia

Strategies of Assembly: Revel & Revolt in British Columbia, one of the upcoming summer exhibitions at the Gibson Art Museum (8888 University Drive, Burnaby) that opens on July 4, 2026, from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM, is curated by SCA alumnus Joshua Segun-Lean, who is also the Gibson’s 2025-26 curatorial resident. Here's how the gallery's website introduces the exhibition: "Strategies of Assembly presents print matter documenting over four decades of social, cultural and political life in this province, drawn from two collections held by SFU’s Special Collections & Rare Books: an expansive poster archive collected by Perry Giguere (aka “Perry the Poster Man”), and a series of photographs taken for the weekly Vancouver labour newspaper, the Pacific Tribune. A singular print by Black Canadian artist Deanna Bowen punctuates the installation." More .

Crazybull's memory, atrophy

SCA alumnus 's exhibition, memory, atrophy, uns June 4 – July 23, 2026, at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art (3712 W. 10th Ave., Vancouver). More .

Stir on Me & The Forest

Read Stir Vancouver's review of and 's co-production of , which ran May 29 – 31, 2026, at Ron Basford Park on Granville Island as part of the Vancouver International Children's Festival, featuring SCA alumnus as the voice of Mitig. Read it .

Working the Rumpus Awards

SCA alumni  and provided "tech" for Neworld Theatre's inaugural Rumpus Awards on Monday, June 1, 2026, at Progress Lab, celebrating "the gloriously weird, heartfelt, and chaotic moments that make our theatre community what it is." More .

Goodman and Carter at the Art Party

SCA alumni  and presented Landings for Six and In the wake of a sleeping machine, respectively, as part of the Vancouver Art Gallery's Art Party: Ancient Futures on Saturday, June 6, 2026. More .

Mochizuki in Lure

SCA alumnus joins Jordan Bennett, Eric Allan Cameron, Eugene Isaac, Carley Mullally, and Couzyn van Heuvelen in the exhibition Lure, running June 6 – August 23, 2026, at the Art Gallery at Evergreen. (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam). More .

Mixing with O'Callaghan

SCA alumnus is holding another mixing course, running weekly for five weeks starting Tuesday, June 16, 2026, at 10:00 AM (EST) / 4:00 PM (CET). For fees, more info, and to register, go .

Gibson Art Museum Volunteer Program 

Our colleagues at the Gibson Art Museum are calling for volunteers to help support their exhibitions and programming. Apply until June 16, 2026! More .

Kotowich's Bolt in Quebec

Featuring SCA alumni (Performer), (Lighting Design and Technical Director),  (co-Set Designer and Production Manager), SCA alumnus 's Bolt is having its Quebec premiere from May 30 – June 3, 2026, at Montreal's Centre du Thé?tre d'Aujourd'hui, presented as part of the 2026 edition of the Festival TransAmériques. More .

Silverfox in Qillaniq

SCA alumnus is part of the exhibition Qillaniq, featuring Indigenous artists and co-curatorial team from the circumpolar world, running June 12 – September 20, 2026, in the Special Exhibitions Galleries of the National Gallery of Canada (380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa). More .

Nieto and mojtabaei's Refusal to Disappear

SCA alumnus and elika mojtabaei ??????? ????? are New Works' Summer Artists in Residence, working together (and with SCA alumni on  as Lighting Designer and  as Dramaturge) a research-driven collaboration, Refusal to Disappear, which seeks to place "historical and contemporary feminist struggles from different parts of the world in dialogue." Find out more .

Romain in the Jazz Fest

SCA MFA student and Caley Watts are playing a PWYC show on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, at 2:30 PM, at Zameen Art House (1515 Anderson St, Vancouver), presented as part of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. More .

The Only Animal's Dream Tech

Dream Tech, a series of "digital offerings" from , which has SCA alumnus as Artistic Director, includes SCA alumni , , and Adler as contributing participants. Find out more . And if you'd like to receive these "offereings," email dr3am.t3chno@gmail.com.

Martineau's Generative Fabrics and slug

SCA alumnus is presenting two events as part of her 2026 DJD Dance Centre Creative Residency: Generative Fabrics: Textile and Movement Workshop on June 5, from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, and a Work-in-Progress Showing of slug, followed by a short talk-back, on June 12 from 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM, both at the DJD Dance Centre (111 12th Ave SE, Calgary). Sign up for the workshop , and the showing .

Wallgrin in the Jazz Fest

SCA alumnus is sharing a bill with Devours on Sunday, June 28, 2026, at 8:30 PM, Ocean Artworks (1531 Johnston St, Vancouver), presented as part of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. More .

Franky's I want to be

SCA alumnus 's new single, I want to be, is out now on your favourite streaming platform. Try it out on YouTube .

June is Pride Month

While, as usual, Vancouver's big Pride celebrations start July 25 and end with the annual on August 2, June is widely recognized as to commemorate the , which began on June 28, 1969. Here's a link to a great two-part miniseries by Working Class History on "The Stonewall riots and Pride at 50." Listen .

Apply to PTC's Block A

is calling for applications for the Fall cohort of their Block A program, designed for "emerging playwrights/theatre creators and established writers of other mediums excited to write for the stage to work together in a cohort to develop their writing with the support of a senior playwright mentor," who will be David Geary. The application deadline is July 7, 2026, at 11:59 PM. More .

Stir on In The Shadow of the Pavilion

Here's Stir Vancouver on , curated by , an SCA PhD student and the curator at the Surrey Art Gallery, which ran April 18 – June 7, 2026, at the Surrey Art Gallery. Read it .

Read's second degree

Read this quick story from SFU's Faculty of Environment about SCA alumnus , who is graduating this June convocation with a (second!) degree in environmental science. Great work, Larissa! Read it HERE.

Samper in Deep Blue Sound

In a recent Instagram post, Goddard Institute of Dramatic Arts (GIDA) in Plainfield, Vermont, described SCA alumnus as their "production assistant, producing assistant, company mother, and hugely responsible for keeping us on track." Plus, she's also performing in the production of Abe Koogler's Deep Blue Sound, which runs July 31 – August 8, 2026, in The Haybarn Theatre at GIDA (123 Pitkin Rd, Plainfield, VT). More .

Murdoch at the Folk Canada Conference

SCA alumnus , who's also the Executive Director of , will be a delegate at the 2026 Folk Canada Conference, running October 14 – 18 at the Sheraton Hamilton Hotel in Hamilton, Ontario (116 King Street West). More .

Fashion x Electronics' Workshop at Stanford

SCA alumnus and Kayla Yazdi, who collaborate as , are holding a five-day Textile, Music, and Physical Interaction Workshop from July 27 – 31, 2026, at The Knoll (660 Lomita Court, Stanford, CA), presented by the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. More .

Walker in Varied Editions

SCA alumnus is part of the exhibition Varied Editions: Queer Printmakers Exhibition, which runs June 5 – 27, 2026, at On Main Gallery (#427 – 268 Keefer St, Vancouver), presented as part of the Queer Arts Festival. More .

Dancing on the Edge Festival

The 2026 edition of the , running June 4 – 13, not only includes SCA alumni  (Lighting Designer for ),  (Lighting Designer for ), and and (Sound Designer and creative collaborator and performer, respectively, for Method Dance's ), but also SCA alumnus 's , which runs June 5 at 8:30 PM & June 7 at 3:00 PM in Studio T here at the School for the Contemporary Arts (149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver), which also has SCA alumni  and  as performers and  as Composer. Also, SCA alumnus and Alvin Tolentin ran , a free "collaborative land-based dance workshop exploring the question of home, both physically and metaphorically," on June 6 in the Historic Studio at The Firehall Arts Centre.

Mayor of the Village events

Matthew Hyland?, Executive Director of the Contemporary Art Gallery, gave a walkthrough tour of the CAG's spring 2026 exhibitions, including SCA alumnus 's , on June 6. if you missed that, Cait McKinney and Hazel Meyer are holding a "Saturday Session" on the exhibition on June 27 at 12:00 PM at the CAG (555 Nelson St., Vancouver). More . 

The Delfines' Hadalpelagic Wounds

, the "contemporary experimental music duo" of SCA students and , have released their first single, Hadalpelagic Wounds. Sample it on YouTube .

BODY HEART VOICE with Gan and Postl

SCA alumnus and Em Postl are facilitated BODY HEART VOICE, a three-day introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework and Vocal Embodiment, from June 5 – 7, 2026, at Morrow (Unit 204 – 910 Richards St., Vancouver). More .

Inherited Forms, Reimagined Futures

SCA alumnus joins Sujit Vaidya and Sasha Ashwini for Inherited Forms, Reimagined Futures, on Sunday, July 12, 2026, from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (doors at 5:30 PM), at Ocean Artworks Pavilion (1531 Johnston St., Vancouver), as part of Indian Summer Festival's Tiffin Talks. ?More .

Hearse Chasing reviewed

Read reviews of , a new documentary from director and SCA alumnus , from The Georgia Straight and SFU's The Peak .

A DBLSPK Workshop showing of Camino Y Despedida

, which has SCA alumnus as Artistic Director, is presenting a DBLSPK Workshop showing of Camino Y Despedida, "an interdisciplinary performance embracing culture, language, and identity, co-created by six Latin American artists from Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia which interweaves dance, live music and multilingual text to explore the emotional landscapes of migration and hope," on Friday, June 19, 2026, at 7:30 PM, at Progress Lab (1422 William St., Vancouver). RSVP .

Finn's The Right Thing To Be Doing in Risk/Reward & Screening

SCA alumnus is presenting The Right Thing To Be Doing, the "full-length solo performance" they completed for their MFA with us, on Thursday, June 11, at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, June 14, at 2:00 PM, at The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (15 NE Hancock St. Portland, OR), presented as part of the 2026 edition of . More . Also, Finn is screening her work Shiphead along with Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep, and talking about both, on Saturday, June 13, 2026, at at 2:30 PM at the Portland Art Museum // Center for An Untold Tomorrow (PAMCUT). More .

51社区黑料Tiny Desk Vol. 1

Watch a video archive of the first edition of 51社区黑料Tiny Desk, a new series organized and produced by SCA students (Nellie Warnick, Caris Cheuk, Jade Lai, Aya Maranda, Grace Murphy, Alyssa Kahya, Luca Pauly, and Maria Galeeva), featruing Caitlin Terrell, Grace Murphy, swordslay3r, Libra Baby, on YouTube . 

Campbell and Outten on Outten

Charles Campbell and SCA MFA student will be in conversation on June 18, 2026, at 6:00 PM, about Outten's exhibition Monologue: Whispers Against the Current, which is at Artspeak (233 Carrall St., Vancouver) until July 4, 2026. More .

Tong's Buzzer Music

SCA alumnus  just posted on about an episode of the podcast Small Enemy from last year that has a "guided experience through selected tracks" of Tong's , which is a set field recrodings done "through an old apartment buzzer in NYC" as "a subtle act of eavesdropping on the public space in front of the building." Listen (in Chinese). 

Khakpour is a Bridge Builder

SCA alumnus  is one of the recipients of Pancouver's first annual Bridge Builders Awards. Congratulations! More . 

Baron at the Portside

SCA student 's band is playing Friday, June 19, 2026, at 7:00 PM, at The Portside Pub (7 Alexander St, Vancouver). Get tickets .

Jesuíno's The Nature of Us and Tender City

SCA alumnus is presented the 6-channel "immersive, site-specific sound installation," , on Saturday, June 06, 2026, at Bowen Park, 500 Bowen Rd, Nanaimo, presented with the Crimson Coast Dance Society and Nanaimo Pride. See and hear a sample on Jesuíno . Jesuíno's Tender City: The Slow Dance Project, also presented by the Crimson Coast Dance Society, is taking place Saturday, June 13, 2026, at 10:00 AM, at Dallas Square Park (85 Front St, Nanaimo). More . 

Spitzer's Cineworks screening

SCA alumnus is presenting an evening of short films produced while at the SCA on Thursday, June 18, 2026, at 7:00 PM, at Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society's black box theatre (alley entrance – 1131 Howe St., Vancouver), followed by a Q&A. More .

Reimer and Bigland-Pritchard's hum

SCA alumnus and Anna Bigland-Pritchard presented hum, a "pollinator-oriented micro-opera, on May 17, 2026, at 1:00 PM & 2:00 PM, at the Gorge Waterway Nature House in Esquimalt Gorge Park (Tillicum Rd, Victoria), presented by The Gorge Waterway Action Society. More .

Film Formally is back

, the podcast by SCA alumni and , is back in action. Find links to your platform of choice, including YouTube, .

Scott on film lighting in the digital era

SCA alumnus  final lecture in his series at VIFF Centre (1181 Seymour St., Vancouver), this time on the digital era, is available on YouTube. Watch it .

Yassine's Seeing Double & A Dream Pointing to Aadchit

SCA alumnus presented her apocalyptic performance work Seeing Double on June 1 & 2, 2026, at Tangente Danse (1435 Rue de Bleury, Montreal), presented as part of the OFFTA Live Art Festival. More . Also, Yassine's documentary short, A Dream Pointing to Aadchit, screened on June 7 as part of the Lebanon Cinema Days: Shorts programme, presented by London's The Garden Cinema. More .

Wallgrin for hire!

SCA alumnus , now based in Toronto, wants "to produce your song, sing your bg vox, play backing strings, compose your film score, or arrange your music for an ensemble." If you need a music producer, vocalist, violinist, or composer, including for film scoring, get in touch! More .

The River Clyde Pageant: A Ten-Year Retrospective

The River Clyde Pageant, co-founded by the SCA's (dearly departed) and SCA alumnus , who is the Pageant's artistic director and lead producer, is producing a commemorative book: The River Clyde Pageant: A Ten-Year Retrospective. More .

Fukumura, Long, and Garfinkel talk Dramaturgy

SCA alumnus and danielle Mackenzie Long, who are PTC’s 2026 artists, were in conversation with Joanna Garfinkel, PTC's Artistic Director & Dramaturg, on June 7, 2026, at Presentation House Theatre's Black Box Studio (333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver). More .