“I headed into the show with multiple questions surrounding these concerns on my mind, specifically: can empathy be taught? This was a complex question that Hidden Stories answered by disassembling cultural power structures, and stripping down to the core elements that define our humanity as a unified group.” Oh, how we love the Fringe Festival.
Read MoreThis year's Vancouver Fringe is well underway and we're excited at this year's programming. SAD contributor and theatre aficionado Jasmine Ruff takes us through her top five must see shows of this year's festival.
Read More“Marrow is a play that does more than entertain, it challenges the audience to think. The script left me contemplating competition between people who, in ideal circumstances, would be each other’s champions. The play spoke to identities we inhabit relative to our siblings, forgiveness, mental health and more.”
Read MoreSo many festivals, so little time! We're excited to share some reviews from this past Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, a not-so-hidden gem in the city's film scene. If only we could watch them all over again!
Read MoreYes, Vancouverites can be anti-social and no we don’t want to talk about it—unless you’re Bon Dos and the creatives behind the performance art team, ARC Works. In which case, you’re trying to entertain, connect, and reunite Vancouverites through festivals like the Fringe.
Read MoreWe interviewed Brendan Megannety of Explorer's Press, in anticipation of his PechaKucha presentation this Thursday, September 8. One of several talented presenters in the upcoming event, Megannety talks brand beginnings, inspirations, and trajectories. Catch him and his fellow creative types on the Granville Island Stage, as they put their art and design in the hot seat! It's not a night to be missed!
Read MoreUsing the words ‘environment’ and ‘Vancouver’ in the same sentence can result in some agonizing eye-rolling, so what better way to initiate conversation than through humour. My Ocean is the latest theatre piece drawn up by playwright Sasha Singer-Wilson which stars Nadeem Phillip (Rumble Theatre’s Cock, Neworld’s Doost) as the play’s only lead; a twelve year old environmental activist named Lenny.
Read MoreWe're still lamenting the end of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. But if what we're left with is writer Liam Siemens' reviews, we're pretty darn lucky. Mark Kenneth Woods & Michael Yerxa's Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things and Catherine Corsini's Summertime (La Belle Saison) are examined and ultimately revelled in. These are two films you'll definitely want to know about.
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.
