SCA | Quick News | June 22, 2026
SMALL FILE MEDIA FESTIVAL 2026 is calling
Get crunching! The Small File Media Festival is calling for submissions: "We invoke our punk-chic call to action with a focus on the vibe-shifting, aura-casting potential of Small File Ecomedia. Artists, activists, media pirates, rogue technologists, and filmmakers alike are invited to take part in a revolutionary mode of creating and consuming moving-image media. This is a call-out, an all-out intervention to save the world one pixel at a time!" The deadline is July 1, 2026, at midnight. More HERE.
Talking about Dancing Through to the Other Side
The SCA's Justine A. Chambers and SCA alumnus Luciana Freire D’Anunciação joined dance artist and curator Jenn Goodwin and Vanessa (VK) Kwan, who's the Director + Curator of the Libby Leshgold Gallery, for a conversation with Charo Neville, the Curator at the Kamloops Art Gallery, presented in support of the exhibition Dancing Through to the Other Side, with Chambers, D’Anunciação, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Andrea Nann, and Dreamwalker, which runs to September 12, 2026. Watch the video HERE.
Fragments and Forms: Attending to the Monumental
The SCA's Raymond Boisjoly and SCA alumni LAIWAN and Ken Lum are in Fragments and Forms: Attending to the Monumental, curated by Tatiana Mellema, which runs June 19 – August 16, 2026, at UBC's Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (1825 Main Mall, Vancouver). More HERE.
Mark's text in Rewiring Narratives
The SCA's Laura U. Marks is a contributor to the new book, Rewiring Narratives: New Media Art from the Arab World, out now from Diriyah Art Futures and Hatje Cantz. More HERE.
Okultistas Eldritch Priest + playing Halocline Trance's summer concert
The SCA's Eldritch Priest was the subject of an episode of the Lithuanian podcast Modus. Listen HERE (in Lithuanian). Also, Priest joins Measure, FROTAE, and Wolfgang Gray for Halocline Trance's summer concert on Saturday, July 11, 2026, at 8:00 PM (doors), at Toronto's Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton St, Toronto). Get tickets HERE.
Modest, artistic, and radical solutions to the environmental impact of image-generating machine learning
The SCA's Laura U. Marks, SCA PhD student Jess MacCormack, and SFU School of Computing Science student Ally Li are presenting their essay, “Modest, artistic, and radical solutions to the environmental impact of image-generating machine learning,” on Thursday, June 25, 2026, at 9:35 AM (PDT), online at LIMITS 2026. Read the draft of their essay HERE, see the full LIMITS 2026 Program HERE, and register HERE.
The Peak on Earth Love: Intended Chiefly for Young Persons
Read SFU's The Peak on the SCA's Denise Oleksijczuk and Salena Wiener's "ecofeminist exhibition," Earth Love: Intended Chiefly for Young Persons, which was presented on May 28, 2026, in the Special Collections area at SFU Burnaby's W.A.C. Bennett Library. Read it HERE.
Help TPE!
Turning Point Ensemble, which has the SCA's Owen Underhill as conductor and Artistic Director, have launched their "first-ever Spring/Summer fundraiser," and are "aiming to raise $6,000 to keep Turning Point Ensemble thriving." If you're able to donate before June 30, 2026, TPE are able to take advantage of "a generous $3,000 matching fund from [their] supporters," so that "every dollar you give will be doubled." Donate HERE.
Cringe in Chicago
The SCA's Ryan Tacata brought some "cringe" to Vanessa Damilola Macaulay's "VIRAL" class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. More HERE.
Hill in Performing Conditions
SCA alumnus Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill is part of the exhibition Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form, which is running to August 2, 2026, at the MIT List Visual Arts Center (20 Ames Street, Bldg. E15-109, Cambridge, Massachusetts). More HERE.
Books for National Indigenous History Month
Because June is National Indigenous History Month in so-called Canada, with National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21, CBC Books shared "20 books to read for National Indigenous History Month and beyond," including A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt, which features work by SCA alumnus Michelle Sound on the cover. See the whole list HERE.
Gray in World at Hand
SCA alumnus Jesse Gray joins Aileen Bahmanipour, Danan Lake, Christian Newby, and Kuh Del Rosario for the exhibition World at Hand, running June 12 – July 25, 2026, at Pale Fire (870 E. Broadway, Vancouver). More HERE.
Ragas for a Ruptured World
Check out the full schedule for the 2026 edition of Indian Summer Festival, with the curatorial theme "Ragas for a Ruptured World," which has SCA alumnus Laura June Albert as Executive Managing Director and Am Johal as Executive Artistic Director. More HERE.
Apply to the VIFF Amp cohort
Applications are open for "emerging music professionals" to join the 2026 VIFF Amp cohort and attending the Music in Media Summit from October 3 – 8, 2026, in Vancouver. The deadline is June 29, 2026, at 12:00 PM (PT). More HERE.
Tedlie-Stursberg and Karin Bubaš in Under Pressure
Marking global football mania while "examining the emotional pressures behind the world of professional sport," SCA alumnus Alex Tedlie-Stursberg and Karin Bubaš are in the exhibition Under Pressure at Livingspace Interiors (1706 W 1st Ave., Vancouver), presented by Monte Clark. More HERE.
How Effective Is Anti-Fascist Art?
Frieze Magazine asks, "As the far right resurges, can contemporary exhibitions mount a meaningful form of resistance?" Find out HERE.
vAct's 25th Anniversary Celebration
Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre are having a 25th Birthday Celebration on Sunday, July 26, 2026, from 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM, at the Chinese Canadian Museum (51 E Pender St, Vancouver). Space is limited so RSVP now.
Stir on Dancing on the Edge
Stir Vancouver shares some reviews of the 2026 edition of the Dancing on the Edge Festival, which ran June 4 – 13, and had SCA alumni on and off the stage, including Jonathan Kim, Jack Chipman, Nancy Tam, Jennifer Aoki, Jenn Edwards, Tomoyo Yamada, Mary Jane Coomber, and Starr Muranko. Read it HERE.
In a world with a trillionaire and 3,428 billionaires
Read the Guardian on World Inequality Lab's 2026 The Global Justice Report, which "attempts to set out a new vision for global progress in the 21st century: grounding human development and equality in planetary habitability." Read it HERE.
Stir on the Rumpus Awards
Read Stir Vancouver on the inaugural Rumpus Awards, presented by Neworld Theatre, which included some SCA alumni as recipients: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg (Most Perimenopausal Jokes in a Single Season Award), Aryo Khakpour (The Marcus Youssef Shit Disturber Award), Kayleigh Sandomirsky (sharing the Unsung Hero Award), Brianna Bernard (Progress Lab Presents the VIP Award for Very Important Person), Erika Mitsuhashi (sharing as part of Boombox with Francesca Frewer, Sierra Megas, and Kira Radosevic for the Shoebox Award), Johnny Wu (sharing the Multilingual Award for Excellence in More Than One Language), and Daniela Atiencia (What the F*ck Do You Do? Award for Excellence in Dramaturgy). And for good measure, SCA alumnus Amanda Sum performed some tap dancing at the award ceremony on June 1, 2026, at Progress Lab, too. Read it HERE.
Baber in Bridge's Above the Hospital
SCA alumnus Hassan Baber is part of the cast for SCA alumnus Beau Han Bridge's Above the Hospital, which is part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, running July 2 – 12, 2026. More HERE.
Warren at New Works
Nice! SCA alumnus Avery Warren is the 2026 Summer Production Intern for New Works. More HERE.
Basanta's Désobéissance algorithmique
SCA alumnus Adam Basanta's new book, Désobéissance algorithmique, out now from Éditions juste titre, "reimagines law through the lenses of computation, evolution, and art," and includes contributions by researcher and curator Martin Zeilinger and legal scholar Maxime St-Hilaire. More HERE.
Ocean Falls in the VIFF Collection
The Vancouver International Film Festival have launched VIFF Collection, "a permanent online exhibition of short films from the next wave of leading Western Canadian storytellers," including Ocean Falls (2015) by SCA alumni Ryan Ermacora and Jessica Johnson. More HERE.
Obuwoma and Snack Witch in Pathway to Diversity
SCA alumni Ogheneofegor Obuwoma and Snack Witch Joni Cheung are part of Pathway to Diversity, "a national arts project" that includes "exhibitions and workshops across BC, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Quebec" to mark "50 years since Canada’s 1976 Immigration Act," presented by City in Colour Cooperative. More HERE.
BC Arts Council calling
The BC Arts Council are calling "artists, arts organizations, service organizations, funders, and sector partners from across British Columbia to help shape its future Strategy and Action Plan" by completing an "online survey by July 31, 2026." More info and link to the survey HERE.
Queer Printmakers Meet-Up
SCA alumnus Taryn Walker and Christina Radvak are holding Queer Printmakers Meet-Up, a free "afternoon of collaborative, low-pressure printmaking," on Saturday, June 27, 2026, from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM, at Dundarave Printshop & Gallery (1640 Johnston St., Vancouver). More HERE.
DREAM TECH schedule
Co-curated by SCA alumnus Toni-Leah C. Yake and The Only Animal (with SCA alumnus Barbara Adler as Artistic Director), DREAM TECH is "a series of interdisciplinary performances and workshops inspired by Kanyen’kehà:ka dream technology, unfolding on BC’s Sunshine Coast." See the whole schedule of events HERE.
GutterClown Cabaret #12
SCA alumnus Salomé Nieto is performing as part of GutterClown Cabaret #12 on Friday, June 26, 2026, at 7:00 PM, at the Revue Stage (1601 Johnston St, Vancouver), presented by Savage Creampuff Productions. More HERE.
Sundin's Other Days
SCA alumnus Vilhelm Sundin's Other Days ran May 23 – June 20, 2026, at Monte Clark Gallery (#130 – 1706 W 1st Ave., Vancouver). More HERE.
U's Us Beneath the Currents
SCA alumnus Sarah Hin Ching U 余衍晴 developed her interactive performance-installation, Us Beneath the Currents, during her Plug N Play residency at Toronto Dance Theatre. More HERE.
Goodman and Martin are Inverso's PRP guests
Inverso Productions announced that SCA alumnus Vanessa Goodman and Josh Martin are their 2026 Performance Research Project (PRP) Guest Artists, and, with Lesley Telford, will be holding a 10 week intensive from September 21 – November 27, from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM, at The Dance Centre (677 Davie St., Vancouver). The deadline to apply to participate ends June 30, 2026. More HERE.
Blessing & a Curse & a Practice – open studios
SCA alumnus Ghinwa Yassine, Romi Kim, and Xinwei Che, who are participating in Centre A's Blessing & a Curse & a Practice, their "second biennial residency program supporting local emerging 2SLGBTQIA+ BIPOC artists," are holding open studios from 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM on Thursdays from June 18 & 25. July 2, 9, 16, & 23, 2026, at Centre A (205-268 Keefer St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Sparvier-Wells at The Venue and in HOME
Performing under the name VEE, SCA alumnus Virginia Jessica Sparvier-Wells is playing on Saturday, June 27, 2026, at 7:00 PM, at The Venue (125 5th Avenue SW; High River, Alberta). More HERE. Also, Sparvier-Wells participated in HOME, ArtistSpeak*'s "pop-up" event at cSPACE Marda Loop (1721 29 Avenue SW, Calgary), on Thursday, June 18, 2026. More HERE.
Morelli's writings roundup
SCA alumnus Didier Morelli shared a roundup of recent texts across a number of publications, including: entries on Sylvie Tourangeau and Tanya Mars for Routledge's Fifty Key Performance Artists, edited by T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko and Adriana Disman; a text on zipertatou for Galerie B-312's 30 ans. Conjuguer l'espace au temps, which looks back over the history of the gallery on its 30th anniversary; the essay "Walking after Kim Jones and Papo Colo" in the special issue on “Walking as Applied Critical Practices,” edited by Deidre Heddon, Stephanie Spinggay, and Harry Wilson, from RiDE: Research in Drama Education, The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance; and an essay in Duologies, the first monograph for the artist Lucie Rocher. Great work!
McKinney and Meyer on Mayor of the Village
Cait McKinney and Hazel Meyer are holding a "Saturday Session" on SCA alumnus Douglas Watt's Mayor of the Village on June 27 at 12:00 PM at the Contemporary Art Gallery (555 Nelson St., Vancouver). More HERE.
Juneteenth (and Emancipation Day)
June 19 is recognized as Juneteenth in the USA, and is increasingly also recognized up here in so-called Canada, as well. Juneteenth marks the delayed reception of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. In Canada, August 1 is recognized as Emancipation Day, which "marks the actual day in 1834 that the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into effect across the British Empire." More HERE.
Friedenberg's Talking Shit Show in Victoria
SCA alumnus Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is bringing The Talking Shit Show, the live version of her long-running podcast, Talking Shit with Tara Cheyenne (the latest episode features Maria Zarrillo, Managing Director of Rumble Theatre), to the Dance Victoria Studios (2750 Quadra St, Victoria), on June 26, 2026, at 12:30 PM. More HERE.
Ross talks The Beginning Space
SCA alumnus Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross is giving a free public talk, "The Beginning Space," on Saturday, July 4, 2026, from 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, at Centre A’ (205-268 Keefer St., Vancouver), presented as part of their 2026 Art Writing Mentorship program programming. More HERE.
Langford talks Spontaneous Prayer in a Time of Polycrisis
SCA PhD student Sasha J. Langford gave the online talk, "Listening to the Here and Now: Spontaneous Prayer in a Time of Polycrisis," on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, which closed the Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture’s 2026 Doikayt Speaker Series. More HERE.
Reveal Yourself's love deluxe
Listen to love deluxe, the new album by Reveal Yourself, featuring SCA alumnus Marita Michaelis, on Bandcamp.
Saugstad in the Spotlight
The Dance Centre puts SCA alumnus Anya Saugstad in the Member Spotlight. Read it HERE.
Klinke / Torres on Bandcamp Live
SCA alumnus Alexandre Klinke did a Bandcamp Live performance on June 13, 2026, with Sam Torres, presented by Exposure Therapy. Let's hope a recording of it shows up somewhere! In the meantime, sample Klinke's work as Playback Head HERE.
Kong at Movie Night
SCA alumnus Yani Kong will be leading a discussion after a screening of clips from "movies, short films, and videos that have influenced the work of Andrea Taylor," at "Movie Night" on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, at 7:00 PM, at 1129 East Hastings St., Vancouver. More HERE.
Jury duty for Hubert
SCA alumnus Steven Hubert joins Lorilee Wastasecoot and Hangama Amiri on the Jury Panel for the 4th Annual VIVA Alliance Exhibition on the theme of Plasticity, which is set to run September 9 – 16, 2026, at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver). And if you're reading this today (June 19, 2026), the submission deadline was extended to June 22 at 11:59 PM! More HERE.
Sound's We all go home to the stars
SCA alumnus Michelle Sound's exhibition, We all go home to the stars, curated by Tyler Durbano, opens June 25 from 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM, and runs to October 25, 2026, in the Janice Laking Gallery at the MacLaren Art Centre (37 Mulcaster St., Barrie, ON). More HERE. Also, CBC Arts shared a clip on their Instagram of Sound talking about her work in the McMichael Canadian Art Collection's exhibition, Fresh Air: New Acquisitions in Context, which runs to July 5, 2026 (10365 Islington Ave., Kleinburg, ON). Watch it HERE.
Postcards to My Younger Transexual Self (or YTS), Ages 0-119
Neworld Theatre just announced the World Premiere of Christina Cook's Postcards to My Younger Transexual Self (or YTS), Ages 0-119, with SCA alumni Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg as Performer and Choreographer, Sarah Finn on Live Scenography, and Jamie Sweeney on Set Design and as Technical Director, running August 25 – 30, 2026, at the PAL Studio Theatre (300 – 581 Cardero St, Vancouver). More HERE.
A Safe Distance screenings
After its World Premiere at 2026's SXSW in March, SCA alumnus Gloria Mercer's A Safe Distance, with Mercer as Director and Co-Producer (with Nic Altobelli and SCA alumni Aidan West), and SCA alumni West as Screenwriter and Devan Scott as Cinematographer, the film has had a number of screenings, including its West Coast Premiere at Frameline50 and its Canadian Premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival. See the film's past and upcoming schedule HERE.
Horror in Seconds calling for monsters
Horror in Seconds, the 60-seconds or less horror film fest for "filmmakers of colour," founded and directed by SCA alumnus Doaa Magdy, is calling for films on the theme of "monsters" to show in the Brooklyn, New York, or Vancouver edition of their next run, with a deadline of September 22, 2026. More HERE.