December 07, 2016

Sayulita: because it's time to get out of rainy Vancouver

December 07, 2016/ Guest User

From the slightly still sand-crusted heads of three Vancouver ladies, here some Do's and Don'ts for a long weekend in Sayulita:

DO secure a reasonably priced Casita (sleeps 3) with a home-made infinity pool which you use as a makeshift bathtub to rid your bits of sand after a sweaty day out and aboot.

DON'T allow your conservative American Casita-neighbours shame you out of an evening skinny-dipping just because they're already in the pool.

December 04, 2016

Review: CREEPS

December 04, 2016/ Becca Clarkson

“CREEPS took me back in time and shocked me into a new found reality. The script and its execution will entertain, inspire, and maybe even change you. A warning for mascara wearers—consider using waterproof for this show.”

November 28, 2016

Pennylane Shen on Happiness and Success

November 28, 2016/ Katherine Chan

Pennylane Shen’s apartment represents her well: it's warm, artful, lively, and colourful. Antiques, taxidermy, and mixed media works by her friends filled the brick walls; a clever digital image of fire in the fireplace, and a birdcage with a ceramic Mao candle that stands imprisoned within.

November 24, 2016

Review: Brothel #9 at Diwali Fest

November 24, 2016/ Ljudmila Petrovic

As part of Vancouver's Diwali Fest, Anusree Roy's award winning play, Brothel #9, puts the grittier aspects of human struggle and resilience on stage, front and centre. Skillfully written and directed, with the outstanding talent of its players, this production is one to know about. Ljudmila Petrovic reviews.

November 23, 2016

Review: Miss Shakespeare

November 23, 2016/ Sagal Kahin

In a time when positivity and lightness of being are in danger of becoming scarce, it seems Tracey Power's Miss Shakespeare reaches us with necessary intention. Writer Sagal Kahin reflects on the immeasurable value of women's voices, and on the weight of this message as told by Power's pertinent production.

November 17, 2016

Interview with Poet Adèle Barclay

November 17, 2016/ SAD Mag

I love the worlds we build with other people through language—how letters, poems, text messages, emails are not only evidence of our rapports, but they also actively shape them. Each relationship has its own vocabulary and texture and I like to think epistolary poems allow me to pay tribute to those idiosyncrasies. It’s also a way to conjure the addressee; it creates a wormhole that doesn’t exactly bring that person closer, but it does bring into relief that realm you’ve created together.

November 04, 2016

Preview: Juxtapoz x Superflat at the Vancouver Art Gallery

November 04, 2016/ Guest User

The exhibition is on view from November 5th through February 5th, 2017, and begs an afternoon’s worth viewing for art lovers and casual internet browsers alike. Juxtapoz x Superflat accomplishes a truly respectable feat: creating an accessible portal for the appreciation of “high-art” technique melded with “low-art” content.

November 04, 2016

The Pianist: A Concert Catastrophe

November 04, 2016/ Emma Harwood

The Pianist: A Concert Catastrophe is a unique performance of physical theatre combined with a farcical comedy of errors that results in a mesmerising tale of one man’s journey to, at base, play the piano. Through mime and a Charlie-Chaplin-meets-Houdini set of fantastical flourishes and stunts, the old adage that 90 percent of communication is non-verbal has never rung truer.

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