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SFU School for the Contemporary Arts The School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Visit us at www.sfu.ca/sca.

Part of the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology at Simon Fraser University, the School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA) offers a dynamic and integrated arts curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate level. Our undergraduate programs in visual culture and performance studies, dance, film, music, theatre, and visual art are focused on developing creative artists and scholars who are equip

ped to excel in a transforming world. Over its thirty-eight year history, the SCA has produced outstanding alumni who have gone on to play a major role in redefining the arts in Canada. The interdisciplinary MFA program is widely recognized internationally as a unique opportunity where graduate students can explore connections between art forms and develop their own creative voice.

04/09/2026

Meet the facilitators 👋 Our final Springboard workshop is less than 2 weeks away!! Check out who's leading Day 1 of the Emerging Artistic Producers lab 👇

Davey Samuel Calderon (he/they/siya) is a dramaturg, writer, producer, performer, director, and settler on the ancestral and stolen lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. His diverse skill set in arts work has led him to work for nationally recognized arts organizations and individuals- including Neworld Theatre, Alley Theatre, Paul Wong, rice and beans theatre, and the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Association. He also self-produces his own work; he's known for his theatre-drag-karaoke experience, Big Q***r Filipino Karaoke Night! and lead artist for his Filipino and racialized service workers musical, Deep Fried: A Pinoy Musical! Currently, he is Playwrights Theatre Centre’s Artistic Producer and Dramaturg and on the editorial committee for Playwrights Canada Press.

Davey will be kicking things off with Clarifying the Ask: Grant Writing Foundations on Tuesday, September 15th! ✍️

"too, so like nothing," the new album of piano works by the SCA's Eldritch Priest (out now via Halocline Trance), is inc...
03/09/2026

"too, so like nothing," the new album of piano works by the SCA's Eldritch Priest (out now via Halocline Trance), is included in the August 2026 "Best Contemporary Classic Music on Bandcamp" roundup. Read it HERE:

Our guide to the month’s crucial contemporary classical releases.

02/09/2026

It's the SCA's Justine A. Chambers!

02/09/2026

🧟‍♀️ COMING THIS OCTOBER: VASCULAR NECROSIS
Jordyn Wood’s darkly comic new play, directed by Daniela Atiencia
🎟️ Tickets now on sale!

Blending zombie lore, q***r romance, and dark comedy, Vascular Necrosis puts a fresh spin on the zombie apocalypse, exploring what it means to rebuild a life in the aftermath of trauma.

Five years ago, Penelope killed herself. Shortly after, she rose from the grave as a flesh-eating monster. Now, with the help of “de-necrotizers”—medication designed to suppress her zombie instincts—she gets to rejoin society in the land of the living. But how do you exist in a world you never wanted to be a part of?

🧟 October 7–18, 2026
📍 The NEST, Granville Island
🎟️ Get your tickets: https://touchstonetheatre.com/2026-2027-vascular-necrosis/

A Touchstone Theatre and .theatre co-production.
Playwright: Jordyn Wood
Director: Daniela Atiencia
Performers: Gabrielle Nebrida-Pépin, Evelyn Chew, Marguerite Hanna, Brynna Drummond, Terrence Zhou
Set Design: Paula Viitanen Aldazosa
Costume Design: Emily Friesen
Lighting Design: Jonathan Kim
Sound & Video Design: David Mesiha
Stage Manager: Julia Lank
Apprentice Stage Manager: Claire Brown
Production Manager: Kayleigh Sandomirsky
Technical Director: Jack Chipman
Intimacy Director: Lisa Goebel

Show image design by
Photography by

***rTheatre

02/09/2026
SCA | Quick News | August 31, 2026rhymes with rain at Morrow | The Fold reviewed | Maier's Speculative Auralities and + ...
31/08/2026

SCA | Quick News | August 31, 2026

rhymes with rain at Morrow | The Fold reviewed | Maier's Speculative Auralities and + 100,000,000 Unread Messages | SCA at the Fringe: LIVE IN HELL, The Walk of Shame, Las Mujeronas, and MoonSwine: To-Dance-Dream-To-Poem-To-Pig | El Mashup Collective's Current Primordial Futures | Ariaratnam & Avendaño @ Red Gate | Dance Central: Volume 41 / Issue 2 | Polygon's Parallelogram online | Wood's Vascular Necrosis | Spotlight on Sunset Visitor 斜陽過客 | Red Demon at the Firehall | Mah’s birdcage | Ghamar Collective in BOOM around the BOX | dreaming of Paradise 5 in the auction | MacCormack in Under Construction | Sumiko in Nature: Concept to Realization | Vickers in Touching Down | Nieto's Butoh Workshop | vAct presents The Coward | Postcards to My Younger Transexual Self reviewed | Lefan going to Helsinki with Re:Naissance Opera | Submit to GEMFest | Ferrari and Bracewell on CFRO | Ballet Vancouver's inaugural season | Silverfox's every memory is a piece of me | To Make Ends Meat 心頭肉 | Easy Feat play Victory Square | Tabassinejad's Game [here/there] | Gan's BIPOC-only Contact Improvisation | Echevarría's Mateo y la Yaya in Shorts Mexico | Puzzlehead at Red Gate | Yassine in Unstable Ground

https://www.sfu.ca/sca/events---news/news/sca---quick-news---august-31--2026.html

SCA alumnus Ghinwa Yassine joins Romi Kim and Xinwei Che in Rituals for Unstable Ground, the culminating exhibition of C...
31/08/2026

SCA alumnus Ghinwa Yassine joins Romi Kim and Xinwei Che in Rituals for Unstable Ground, the culminating exhibition of Centre A's biennial emerging artist residency, a Blessing & a Curse & a Practice, opening September 12, from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (with a performance by SKIM at 6:00 PM), and running to October 10, 2026, at Centre A ( #205-268 Keefer St., Vancouver). There's also an Artist-led Exhibition Tour on September 24 from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM; a Workshop, Tracing lines on unstable ground, with Xinwei Che, on October 3 from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM; and an Artist Talk and Q&A with Ghinwa Yassine on October 8 from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM. More HERE:

Centre A is delighted to announce Rituals for Unstable Ground, the culminating exhibition of Centre A’s biennial artist residency, Blessing & a Curse & a Practice. This exhibition features new works by Vancouver-based artists Xinwei Che, Romi Kim, and Ghinwa Yassine. Blessing & a Curse...

SCA alumnus Katayoon Yousefbigloo's Puzzlehead project is playing with Rose Melberg, Love of My Life, and Wut, on Septem...
31/08/2026

SCA alumnus Katayoon Yousefbigloo's Puzzlehead project is playing with Rose Melberg, Love of My Life, and Wut, on September 3, 2026, at 8:00 PM, at Red Gate (1965 Main St, Vancouver). More HERE: https://www.instagram.com/p/DcWd46lKeem/

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