“Suzette Amaya contains multitudes. She is at once urban and rural, traditional and contemporary, her indigenous identity—as it is with all other Indigenous people in Canada—an amalgamation of the pain of the past, the present uphill battle of passive racism, and a future focused around healing from the past and creating a better, more equitable society.”
Read MoreThis month, we’re launching an exciting new initiative on SAD Web—we’re kicking off our monthly Featured Artist program! This month, we’re excited to be bringing you the work of Vancouver-based artist and tattoo-artist extraordinaire, Nomi Chi.
Read MoreSo much of my youth was shrouded in silence: the silence of my parents’ experiences in World War II; the silence of sexual abuse; the silence of family dysfunction; the silence of growing up gay at a time when homosexuality had only recently been decriminalized and declassified as a mental illness; the silence of spending six years in a therapy that sought to change me into something that I wasn’t.
Read MoreWe opted not to fact-check this humour piece by Chelsea Campbell, one of the funniest and brightest writers we know.
Read More“I once read an article that suggested the pleasure derived from cheese operates along similar lines as hard drugs.”
Our Cheese issue launched May 27th at Make and features this piece by Adèle Barclay accompanied by Aimee Young's illustration. A taste of our new issue, here on the web.
This restraining tether to an origin is a common theme in the art world’s discussion of photoconceptualism broadly, especially in Vancouver: today, 40 years after Girard began capturing incredible colour photography of the city’s neon lights at night, we are still invited to major gallery openings to look at art that perpetuates the same narrative, and celebrates the same people. Jeff Wall owns the lightbox, and the “pioneers” of photoconceptualism own Vancouver photography and in some ways, Vancouver art.
Read More“It is obvious to me that this show was created and presented in a spirit of fierce compassion and hope, as is evidenced in the writing, the direction, and the provision of emotional support workers and a talkback. As such, this show is a salve.”
Read MoreOur Cheese issue launches May 27th at Make and features a poem by Selina Boan. Here on the web, we've got another poem by this brilliant young poet for you.
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