If you like photography, parties, and donuts, we've got just the thing! Cartems' West Pender location will be hosting the closing reception for artist Ho Tam's photography series, Curious Cabinets, on display at said location until June 30. See you there!
Read MoreJune has felt a bit strange so far, no? Perhaps you haven't felt the weirdness, and that's okay. We'll bring it to you, anyways. Have a listen to this special SAD mix, inspired by featured artist Nomi Chi's piece, Shed Yr Skin. It's a treat!
Read Morei like the part when she signs the papers: yes, cut.
Our Cheese issue launched in May. Here on the web, we're keeping the theme alive with this poem by Caitlin Baird.
“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.
After a long period of rough astrological weather, November’s astrology forecast invites us to move from introspection to action. Now is the time to embrace chance and reconnect with our truth.
Leah 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.
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.
