Review: PostSecret: The Show
/SAD Mag's Ljudmila Petrovic reviews PostSecret, a two hour interactive show about interconnectedness, common human experiences, and, of course, secrets.
Read MoreSAD Mag's Ljudmila Petrovic reviews PostSecret, a two hour interactive show about interconnectedness, common human experiences, and, of course, secrets.
Read MoreJordan's light sensitive piece, outside of being a great conversation starter, forces visitors to be loud to experience the full effect of the artwork. Being loud? In an art gallery? Strangers become friends while collectively shouting at art, while others frantically snap impeccable silhouette photos.
Read MoreSHAD is an educational program with a focus on STEM (science, technology, entrepreneurship, and math) that recruits top achieving high school students from across Canada. An award-winning alumnus of SHAD '14, Austin Wang currently attends David Thompson High School and works with microbial fuel cells at UBC. In this interview with Katherine Chan, he shares what it's like to be an eighteen-year-old science whiz feeling existential about the future.
Read MoreReady to jump on the podcast bandwagon but not sure where to start? Find out why SAD Mag's Liam Siemens loves these three shows.
Read MoreFor some families, crazy takes its form in a kooky aunt who wears drapey clothes and smells like menthol. The cute kind of crazy. Then there are the not-so-cute crazy kinds, replete with family counselling sessions and passive aggressive comments, raging arguments and hushed conversations.
Read MoreSHAD is an educational program with a focus on STEM (science, technology, entrepreneurship, and math) that recruits top achieving high school students from across Canada. An alumni of SHAD '14, Tiffany Quon is now a first-year Physics Engineering student at UBC with an exceptional drive for design, publicity, and calligraphy. In this interview with SAD Mag's Katherine Chan, Quon shares what it's like to be an insanely talented teenager with a hundred different passions.
Read MoreYou might recognize Amelia Garvin’s striking artwork if you’ve been checking in for our fiction and poetry series over the past few months. This week, she answered questions by Kyla Jamieson about teenage pipe dreams, high school memories, and, of course, her beautiful artwork.
Read MoreLet's get together for some Fast Times at SAD High to revisit the fun parts of adolescence–awkwardness, gangly limbs, amazing music, and prom dresses–while we skip the crying in the bathroom.
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.