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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: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZc_zmppMaR/

Wednesday June 24 7pm. 1129 East Hastings Street, Vancouver.   Movie night at the gallery- a selection of clips from movies, short films and videos that have influenced the work of Andrea Taylor, followed by a discussion led by Yani Kong. The evening is brought to you courtesy of Robert Kardosh and Jeff Hallbauer.  The idea for the event came about through a discussion between Robert Kardosh and Andrea Taylor during the installation of her recent solo show at his gallery. When Jeff Hallbauer offered to host at his 1129 East Hastings, "Movie Night" was born. The evening will be 40 minutes of movie clips selected by Andrea and followed by discussion led by Yani Kong. Andrea is making 20 new drawings to install just for the evening! We hope that you will join us. Popcorn and drinks will be served.    Yani Kong is a writer, editor, and scholar of contemporary art in Vancouver, Canada. Kong is a faculty member at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Culture and Community. @yanikong @jeffhallbauer @marion_scott_gallery

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:

Playback Head toys, tapes, and recollections.

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:

Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form | MIT List Visual Arts Center A group exhibition examining the vexed relationships between art, labor, debt, and dependency.

The Dance Centre puts SCA alumnus Anya Saugstad in the Member Spotlight. Read it HERE:

Member Spotlight: Anya Saugstad - The Dance Centre Interested in becoming a Dance Centre Member? We support the development of dance in BC as a resource centre providing programs and services for dance professionals

Listen to love deluxe, the new album by Reveal Yourself, featuring SCA alumnus Marita Michaelis, on Bandcamp:

love deluxe, by Reveal Yourself 8 track album

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: https://www.instagram.com/p/DY2qjM-gVbB/

Next in the Peretz Centre’s Doikayt Speaker Series, local artist and scholar Sasha J. Langford asks how sound can open up possibilities for communal life in a time shaped by rising nationalism and ecological crisis. 🔴 LISTENING TO THE HERE AND NOW: Spontaneous Prayer in a Time of Polycrisis 🔴 Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 🔴 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET 🌐 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Registration required (by donation, no minimum) link in bio In a time shaped by rising nationalism and ecological crisis, how might the act of listening help us trace the embodied realities of these conditions? How can sound help us attune to one another, and open up possibilities for communal life? Through performance, installation, and text-based visual and sound works, local artist and doctoral fellow (@sfucontemporaryarts ) Sasha J. Langford explores how sound moves through the world and affects the bodies within it. Inspired by Yiddishist musician and scholar Gabriel Levine’s idea of the “radical vernacular”—a way of engaging with tradition that is both rooted and experimental—she draws from older Jewish prayer practices like Yiddish tkhines and contemplative hisbodedus to connect past and present. In this talk, Sasha will reflect on a recent work, or eternity (2026), which brings elements of spontaneous prayer into a post-secular, digitally mediated context. Through this piece, she considers how practices from her Ashkenazi ancestors might carry forward, helping shape new ways of listening and creating moments of shared connection among audiences. ***** “Listening to the Here and Now” is the closing event in the Peretz Centre’s new Doikayt Speaker Series (2026): four public, online talks with local scholars and organizers to help us think about what it means to be here, right now — and how we can be part of the work to sustain and initiate change for the sake of a better, more beautiful world for all. We acknowledge the support of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation with funding provided by the Government of Canada. 🔊 Audio clip from “or eternity” by Sasha J. Langford (2026) Poster credit: Adi Burton, with photos by Rachel Topham (or eternity installation, 2026) and Pascha Marrow

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:

The Beginning Space with Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross Join us for the second public workshop in Centre A’s 2026 Art Writing Mentorship program with writer and editor Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross for a public talk, The Beginning Space, on Saturday July 4 at Centre A How does one “begin” to write? And from what does one draw on “in the beginning”? In...

The Vancouver Black Therapy & Advocacy Foundation, which has SCA alumnus Bethlehem Mulat as its Founder / Director, is holding a JUNETEENTH BLACK FLEA MARKET + 6 YEAR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION today (Friday, June 19, 2026) from 4:00 PM – 10:00 PM at Beaumont Studios (316 W 5th Ave, Vancouver). Get tickets HERE: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/vbtaf-juneteenth-black-flea-market-6-year-birthday-celebration

SCA alumnus Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is bringing The Talking S**t Show, the live version of her long-running podcast, Talking S**t with Tara Cheyenne, to the Dance Victoria Studios (2750 Quadra St, Victoria), on June 26, 2026, at 12:30 PM. More HERE:

Dance Victoria — Tara Cheyenne Performance June 26

Today – June 19 – is recognized as Juneteenth in the USA, and is increasingly also recognized up here in so-called Canada, as well. Juneteenth recognizes 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."

Emancipation Day — August 1 - Canada.ca On March 24, 2021, the House of Commons voted unanimously to officially designate August 1 Emancipation Day. It marks the actual day in 1834 that the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 came into effect across the British Empire.