Sierra Skye Gemma is an award-winning and self-described “mildly funny” writer and journalist. She interviewed her 15-year-old son, Liam Lindley, a “much funnier” writer and artist, about friendship, his future, and why homework sucks.
Read MoreAnxietyBC is looking for writers, poets, and multimedia artists ages 17 to 29 who have something to say about anxiety.
Read MoreWith a penchant for light erotica and general horseplay, BurnAfterShooting is a photo series that braves Vancouver’s seedy underbelly, striving to push the boundaries of what can be considered tasteful and proper.
Read MoreWomen are “rarely the creators of [their] own depiction,” says writer and art curator Genevieve Michaels. Ayden Gallery's upcoming exhibition GAZE, which exclusively features art by women, about women, aims to change that.
Read MoreJoin your pals at SAD for the third instalment of our Movement exhibition! Friday, January 15th from 7PM til 12AM at Untitled Art Space, 436 Columbia St.
Read MoreAll winter, any time he saw me, Brian would push my head deep into the snowbank, his body pressing against mine, my face buried in the snow, while he whispered, Say you’re a fag. Say it, Lardo. Fat fag.
A new short story by Matthew Walsh in celebration of our upcoming High School issue, with an original illustration by Amelia Garvin.
Read MoreFor Colombian artist Andrés Kal, school never let out. SAD Mag talked to Kal about a life full of art, learning, and occasionally, mariachi bands.
Read MoreAfter a ten-year absence, legendary dance company The Holy Body Tattoo returns with a multi-city international tour, starting at Vancouver’s own PuSh Festival. In anticipation of what promises to be an incredible one-night-only performance, SAD Mag spoke with renowned choreographer and Holy Body Tattoo co-founder Noam Gagnon about what to expect from monumental.
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.
