Make It is a non-traditional craft market devoted to fostering creativity, connection, and conscious shopping. In this three-part interview series, we asked Make It vendors about creativity, inspiration, and all things maker. First up is Ann Glauser, the creative force behind handmade jewelry line Blue Trimble.
Read MoreLocal bibliophiles Rod Clarke and Kim Koch tell Keagan Pearlette the story behind The Paper Hound, the bookshop they started together in downtown Vancouver.
Read MoreFor seven days each year, Vancouver becomes a spring board for emerging talents—a warm and supportive space where they can showcase their work, sometimes for the first time. Highlights from this year's Vancouver Fashion Week? We checked out Noctex, Sally Omeme, and 44511234.
Read MoreJillian Christmas is the Artistic Director of Verses Festival of Words, Canada's largest alternative literary festival. In this interview with SAD Mag, she shares some of her personal experiences with the festival and offers a special sneak peek of what to expect from this year's lineup.
Read MoreMeredyth Cole reflects on diversity and plaid at the 27th annual Vancouver Fashion Week Opening Gala. This March, VFW will feature more than 100 runway shows by international and Canadian designers.
Read MoreSAD Mag’s Shannon Tien chatted with Michael DeForge about his newest graphic novel Big Kids. The duo cover a lot of ground in this sweet little interview: from teenage growing pains to philosophies of graphic representation to the challenging art of drawing “tree sex”.
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This spring, screenwriter Michael Baser is offering his expertise to aspiring and developing writers at VFS’s Why Story Matters lecture series. In this interview Baser tells Nana Heed about his take on life as a writer and what to expect from Why Stories Matters.
Read MoreLast year, Vancouver designer Gaby Bayona earned at spot in BC Business’s 30 Under 30, opened up the first bridal storefront in Gastown, was shortlisted for Western Living Designer of the Year, and began investing in a new bridal business venture...all at age 23.
Read MoreLeah Nelson and Sarah Leavitt shows us the labour of love, loss, and life in striking film Tangles at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2026.
In Experiments in a Failed Repair, an art exhibition that deconstructs and decolonises the monumentalisation of violence, Ghinwa Yassine challenges viewers to confront human violence through the rubble and remains of homes destroyed by war—and to imagine the lives that once existed within them.
Writer Brett Nelson reviews 'The Effect,' the latest production from The Cultch that explores the chemical nature of love and grapples with depression.
In this review of Frequencies: A Novel, Sophie Ganic’s debut, we explore a chilling blend of dystopian science fiction and feminist horror. Set in the aftermath of a deadly global outbreak, the novel examines isolation, psychological unraveling and past trauma.
Jill Goranson and Kelsi James presents Burn Blue, a multidisciplinary performance, at the 2026 Vancouver Fringe Festival, exploring water, memory, migration and colonisation, and the meaning of home through dance, music, poetry, and puppetry.
