The airport’s fire alarm had been going off for nearly twenty minutes before I finally started getting into its rhythm. Not once did anyone around seemed worried by the 90s drum-and-bass styled warning for us to get to safety.
Read MoreMake 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. This week, we talked to Laura Uy, illustrator, painter, and self-proclaimed foodie.
Read MoreSAD Mag is seeking poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction pieces of up to 1,000 words related to the theme of Secrets. Successful submissions will be published online alongside an illustration by one of our featured artists, and some pieces will appear in our print issue.
Read MoreNathaniel G. Moore is a Canadian journalist, new media artist, designer, musician, and award-winning novelist. In this interview with SAD Mag, Moore tells Navneet Nagra all about his forthcoming short story collection Jettison (Anvil Press) and its pop synth companion soundtrack Proper Concern,.
Read MoreMake 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. This week, we talked to Lia Padgett, owner of the deliciously natural Thirsty Whale Elixirs.
Read MoreNana Heed checks out "So You Want to Be a Writer?", a free film and TV writing workshop presented by Vancouver Film School. The workshop is one of a the six Why Story Matters lectures that run from now until May 28.
Read MoreWhen the people in your life think your only skill is killing, eventually you start to believe them. The events of George F. Walker’s comedy, Dead Metaphor, are what comes next.
Read MoreThere are a number of platforms across Canada that publish queer and women’s voices, so why a platform specifically for queer women?
Vici Johnstone's response to this question was met with cheers and hoots from the crowd: “Being included in the party is not the same as having your own party.”
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.
