Mood Swing (June 30-July 6, 2026)
/Celebrate one whole year of Mood Swing with another list full of the city’s best art events! A trans strip night, an all femme fronted rock show, SAD’s own launch party and more!
Read MoreCelebrate one whole year of Mood Swing with another list full of the city’s best art events! A trans strip night, an all femme fronted rock show, SAD’s own launch party and more!
Read MoreEscape FIFA fever with five of the best arts and culture events Vancouver has to offer.
Read MoreCheck out some indie movies, appreciate a new artist, or hunt for new treasures at the city’s biggest garage sale. Keep reading for Vancouver’s hottest arts and culture events of the week!
Read MoreMood Swing may be on a day but it’s still offering up the same list of the city’s hottest and cheapest arts and culture events all summer long! This week features a comedy show for singles, a Philippine Independence Day drag show and so much more.
Read MoreStart your Vancouver summer off right with this week’s list of the city’s most engaging, inspiring and unique arts and culture events! Get involved at an anti-FIFA art build, refresh your wardrobe at a clothing swap or bounce at a high energy hyperpop rave.
Read MoreStart your summer off right with a heartbreak art show, a special Asian Heritage Month film screening and the year’s biggest flea market. Keep reading for five low cost arts and culture events this week in Vancouver!
Read MoreAuthor Rafeed Elahi Chowdhury reflects on their journey from magazine writer to live performer while preparing for the Surrey Muse May showcase, exploring how audience connection reshaped their storytelling.
Read MoreConcrete Turned to Sand, directed by Jessica Johnson and Ryan Ermacora, is a meditative documentary featured at DOXA Documentary Film Festival that explores oyster farming on Cortes Island through haunting nocturnal imagery and literary echoes of Ursula K. Le Guin. Blending environmental portraiture with poetic reflection, the film captures the rhythms of labour, darkness, and interconnected worlds.
Read MoreIn 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.
Blue Heron director and guest curator or VIFF's "Leading Lights" series, Sophy Romvari, sits down with SAD Mag to discuss the series, her reflections on Blue Heron and the unique powers of film as an art form.