SFU School for the Contemporary Arts

19/06/2026

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/

19/06/2026

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:

toys, tapes, and recollections.

19/06/2026

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:

A group exhibition examining the vexed relationships between art, labor, debt, and dependency.

19/06/2026

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

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19/06/2026

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

8 track album

19/06/2026

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/

19/06/2026

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:

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...

19/06/2026

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

19/06/2026

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:

June 26

19/06/2026

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."

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.