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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.

30/05/2026
27/05/2026

Lauren Crazybull - memory, atrophy
Opening June 4th, 4-7pm

Macaulay + Co is thrilled to present our second exhibition of new paintings by artist Lauren Crazybull. Lauren (b. 1994) is a Niitsítapi (Member of Kainai First Nation), Dené artist currently living in Vancouver, BC. In her work, Lauren considers Indigenous presence and multiplicity through paintings, creating worlds where honest portrayals trespass onto romantic representations of Indigeneity.

SCA | Quick News | May 25, 2026HeadlinesOutten's Monologue: Whispers Against the Current and in Simorgh: a self-portrait...
26/05/2026

SCA | Quick News | May 25, 2026

Headlines

Outten's Monologue: Whispers Against the Current and in Simorgh: a self-portrait | Dancing Through to the Other Side | Marks talks Tiny machine-learning models, or none at all | Dérive – Horizont Stadt: 26 Artists for 26 Years | Building the World Anew: An Evening with Noura Erakat | Toward a sustainable future for critical dance writing in Canada: A survey for the dance community | Franca is Margot | Stir on Corporeal Imago's Drift | Artists in Conversation: Contemporary Landscape in Canadian Art | Jade Circle at Kay Meek | Stir Q&A with Khakpour | The Flash of Fireflies: Writing the Short Story | Stir on Me & The Forest | O’Callaghan wins the Museond Prize for Creativity in Mixed Music | Neworld Theatre jobs | Experiments in Photography: Image and Object | Mullasheva at Music on Main | Momo's Noguchi Taiso class | Dancing on the Edge Festival | Introduction to Visual Thinking & Graphic Recording | Pulsive Party's Lip Service | Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change | Jenny Yu on immigration, labour, and the Canadian Dream | Work with The Only Animal this summer | Strom tours In the Shadow of the Pavilions | Reading Above the Hospital | Oakley's Kaleidoscopes and Viewfinders Workshop | Watt and Crable talk Mayor of the Village | Walker in two | Thiessen collaborates with Jordi and Abdala | Loscil talks to INOTA | BUTOH JAZZ and on Wreck Beach | Sum's upcoming Comedy Special | SUMUD: Art for Gaza and Sudan | Simard's Familiar Unknowns | Friedenberg's Interdisciplinary Devising Workshop | from ear to breath to sound with Mah | Dar Golestaneh Synthesized | Valentine-Lewis moderates Gibson and Gibson | Art at Work with Chan and Palad | Jesuino's Tender City in Kelowna | Ross on Books on the Bed | Touch Me Hold Me Let Me Go with Lee | Scott talks Motivated Lighting | MacKay's Borrowed Intimacy | SCA in Community Moves

Image: Christopher Outten with SCA PhD student and Artspeak Curator / Director Nya Lewis

https://www.sfu.ca/sca/events---news/news/sca---quick-news---may-25--2026.html

Method Dance Society's 2026 Community Moves programing, which ran May 17 – 23, featured works by a number of SCA alumni,...
26/05/2026

Method Dance Society's 2026 Community Moves programing, which ran May 17 – 23, featured works by a number of SCA alumni, including Jhoely Triana's Las Mujeronasz, Giselle Liu's Left Unsaid: 盡在不言中 (with Sound Design and Composition produced collaboratively with Charlie Cooper), Anya Saugstad's The Moon, which included Shion Skye Carter as one of the dancers, and Scott Morgan (Loscil) provided Sound Design for James Gnam's Entre Chien et Loup. More HERE:

community moves info page

SCA alumnus Devan Scott has shared YouTube videos of the first two talks from Film Studies: Motivated Lighting, in a ser...
26/05/2026

SCA alumnus Devan Scott has shared YouTube videos of the first two talks from Film Studies: Motivated Lighting, in a series of talks he's presenting at the VIFF Centre (181 Seymour St, Vancouver), with the last one on Thursday, May 18, at 11:00 AM.

Vancouver educator, colourist & cinematographer. I teach film at the University of British Columbia, Emerson College, and the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. u/chrisjokeaccount

SCA MFA student Lee Su-Feh is running the workshop Touch Me Hold Me Let Me Go on June 4, 2026, from 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM, a...
26/05/2026

SCA MFA student Lee Su-Feh is running the workshop Touch Me Hold Me Let Me Go on June 4, 2026, from 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM, at Studio Allegory (386 Powell St., Vancouver). More HERE:

Touch Me Hold Me Let Me Go Come explore breath, impulse, voice and movement through a somatic algorithm called Touch Me Hold Me Let Me Go Details Date: June 4, 2026 Time: 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM Fee: $35 (Low barrier options available at the door) Doors open: 6 PM Duration: 3 hours Prerequisites: None M...

List to SCA alumnus Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross on the Books on the Bed podcast.
25/05/2026

List to SCA alumnus Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross on the Books on the Bed podcast.

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