SCA | Quick News | June 8, 2026
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
- Simon Fraser University 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 Instagram 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: Chris Chong Chan Fui's renewal as Assistant Professor, Erika Latta and Ryan Tacata's promotion to Associate Professor, and Chris Pavsek and Simone Rapisarda'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 THIS ARTICLE 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 HERE.
Crazybull's memory, atrophy
SCA alumnus Lauren Crazybull's exhibition, memory, atrophy, uns June 4 – July 23, 2026, at Macaulay & Co. Fine Art (3712 W. 10th Ave., Vancouver). More HERE.
Stir on Me & The Forest
Read Stir Vancouver's review of Boca del Lupo and ArtstageSAN's co-production of Me & The Forest, 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 Hiro Kanagawa as the voice of Mitig. Read it HERE.
Working the Rumpus Awards
SCA alumni Brianna Bernard and Howard Dai 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 HERE.
Goodman and Carter at the Art Party
SCA alumni Vanessa Goodman / Action at a Distance and Shion Skye Carter 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 HERE.
Mochizuki in Lure
SCA alumnus Cindy Mochizuki 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 HERE.
Mixing with O'Callaghan
SCA alumnus James O'Callaghan 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 HERE.
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 HERE.
Kotowich's Bolt in Quebec
Featuring SCA alumni Deana Peters (Performer), Gillian Hanemayer (Lighting Design and Technical Director), Kayleigh Sandomirsky (co-Set Designer and Production Manager), SCA alumnus Jeanette Kotowich's Bolt is having its Quebec premiere from May 30 – June 3, 2026, at Montreal's Centre du Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui, presented as part of the 2026 edition of the Festival TransAmériques. More HERE.
Silverfox in Qillaniq
SCA alumnus Krystle Silverfox 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 HERE.
Nieto and mojtabaei's Refusal to Disappear
SCA alumnus Salomé Nieto and elika mojtabaei مجتبایی الیکا are New Works' Summer Artists in Residence, working together (and with SCA alumni on Alexandra Caprara as Lighting Designer and Nancy Tam 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 HERE.
Romain in the Jazz Fest
SCA MFA student Kevin Romain 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 HERE.
The Only Animal's Dream Tech
Dream Tech, a series of "digital offerings" from The Only Animal, which has SCA alumnus Barbara Adler as Artistic Director, includes SCA alumni Toni-Leah C. Yake, Isabelle Kirouac, and Adler as contributing participants. Find out more HERE. And if you'd like to receive these "offereings," email dr3am.t3chno@gmail.com.
Martineau's Generative Fabrics and slug
SCA alumnus Natalia Martineau 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 HERE, and the showing HERE.
Wallgrin in the Jazz Fest
SCA alumnus Tegan Wahlgren / Wallgrin 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 HERE.
Franky's I want to be
SCA alumnus Ezra Franky's new single, I want to be, is out now on your favourite streaming platform. Try it out on YouTube HERE.
June is Pride Month
While, as usual, Vancouver's big Pride celebrations start July 25 and end with the annual Pride Parade on August 2, June is widely recognized as Pride Month to commemorate the Stonewall uprising / rebellion / riots, 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 HERE.
Apply to PTC's Block A
Playwrights Theatre Centre 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 HERE.
Stir on In The Shadow of the Pavilion
Here's Stir Vancouver on In The Shadow of the Pavilions: Expo 86 and Contemporary Art, curated by Jordan Strom, 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 HERE.
Read's second degree
Read this quick story from SFU's Faculty of Environment about SCA alumnus Larissa Read, 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 Montserrat Videla Samper 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 HERE.
Murdoch at the Folk Canada Conference
SCA alumnus Corbin Murdoch, who's also the Executive Director of The Vancouver Folk Music Festival, 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 HERE.
Fashion x Electronics' Workshop at Stanford
SCA alumnus Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi and Kayla Yazdi, who collaborate as Fashion x Electronics, 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 HERE.
Walker in Varied Editions
SCA alumnus Taryn Walker 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 HERE.
Dancing on the Edge Festival
The 2026 edition of the Dancing on the Edge Festival, running June 4 – 13, not only includes SCA alumni Jonathan Kim (Lighting Designer for O.Dela Arts X Musica Intima's Where You Go), Jack Chipman (Lighting Designer for Dance//Novella's Soft Animals), and Nancy Tam and Samantha Presley (Sound Designer and creative collaborator and performer, respectively, for Method Dance's CHAR), but also SCA alumnus Jennifer Aoki's Eighty Years, 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 Jenn Edwards and Tomoyo Yamada as performers and Mary Jane Coomber as Composer. Also, SCA alumnus Starr Muranko and Alvin Tolentin ran What/Where is home?, 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 Douglas Watt's Mayor of the Village, 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 HERE.
The Delfines' Hadalpelagic Wounds
The Delfines, the "contemporary experimental music duo" of SCA students George Bastian and Cléo Luna June, have released their first single, Hadalpelagic Wounds. Sample it on YouTube HERE.
BODY HEART VOICE with Gan and Postl
SCA alumnus Natalie Tin Yin Gan (顏婷妍) 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 HERE.
Inherited Forms, Reimagined Futures
SCA alumnus Tasha Faye Evans 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 HERE.
Hearse Chasing reviewed
Read reviews of Hearse Chasing, a new documentary from director and SCA alumnus Teresa Alfeld, from The Georgia Straight HERE and SFU's The Peak HERE.
A DBLSPK Workshop showing of Camino Y Despedida
rice & beans theatre, which has SCA alumnus Pedro Chamale 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 HERE.
Finn's The Right Thing To Be Doing in Risk/Reward & Screening
SCA alumnus Sarah K. Finn 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 Risk/Reward: Festival of New Performance. More HERE. 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 HERE.
SFU Tiny Desk Vol. 1
Watch a video archive of the first edition of SFU 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 HERE.
Campbell and Outten on Outten
Charles Campbell and SCA MFA student Christopher Outten 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 HERE.
Tong's Buzzer Music
SCA alumnus Yi Xin Tong just posted on his Instagram about an episode of the podcast Small Enemy from last year that has a "guided experience through selected tracks" of Tong's Buzzer Music, 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 HERE (in Chinese).
Khakpour is a Bridge Builder
SCA alumnus Aryo Khakpour is one of the recipients of Pancouver's first annual Bridge Builders Awards. Congratulations! More HERE.
Baron at the Portside
SCA student Rowan O'Callaghan's band Baron is playing Friday, June 19, 2026, at 7:00 PM, at The Portside Pub (7 Alexander St, Vancouver). Get tickets HERE.
Jesuíno's The Nature of Us and Tender City
SCA alumnus Kevin Jesuíno is presented the 6-channel "immersive, site-specific sound installation," The Nature of Us, 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 Instagram. 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 HERE.
Spitzer's Cineworks screening
SCA alumnus Aubin Spitzer 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 HERE.
Reimer and Bigland-Pritchard's hum
SCA alumnus Jami Reimer 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 HERE.
Film Formally is back
Film Formally, the podcast by SCA alumni Devan Scott and Willa Harlow Ross, is back in action. Find links to your platform of choice, including YouTube, HERE.
Scott on film lighting in the digital era
SCA alumnus Devan Scott final lecture in his Film Studies: Motivated Lighting series at VIFF Centre (1181 Seymour St., Vancouver), this time on the digital era, is available on YouTube. Watch it HERE.
Yassine's Seeing Double & A Dream Pointing to Aadchit
SCA alumnus Ghinwa Yassine 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 HERE. 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 HERE.
Wallgrin for hire!
SCA alumnus Wallgrin, 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 HERE.
The River Clyde Pageant: A Ten-Year Retrospective
The River Clyde Pageant, co-founded by the SCA's Ker Wells (dearly departed) and SCA alumnus Megan Stewart, who is the Pageant's artistic director and lead producer, is producing a commemorative book: The River Clyde Pageant: A Ten-Year Retrospective. More HERE.
Fukumura, Long, and Garfinkel talk Dramaturgy
SCA alumnus June Fukumura and danielle Mackenzie Long, who are PTC’s 2026 WrightSpace 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 HERE.