"In terms of causes, I think many folks are asking how the DIY arts community can do better to centre Indigenous creators, how Black and other POC artists in our communities can access crucial resources and autonomy, and how to make sure we can do our best to take down the barriers people may face."
Read More"Performance art is unpredictable and ephemeral, which makes it entirely an experience and a kind of art that falls flat when reproduced on Instagram stories or social PR strategies. The truth is, entering the space for performance art is daring; it’s consensual to receiving, witnessing, and participating in an experience impossible to experience once more. The experience could be anything.
Read MoreThe last two performances of Navarasa Dance Theatre's Encounter will fly by before you know it, so quick! Read this review, and then hurry on over to the Cultch's website and grab tickets! You can thank us later.
Read MoreDear SAD readers/listeners, we have another mix for you! Kari Kristensen's work occupies the mind for hours on end, if you stare deep enough. Hopefully these songs compliment that dreamscape well.
Read More“My years of writing school and traditional ideas about theatre come barging in; when is the performance going to start? When will the curtains draw and the acting begin? I soon realize that this isn’t a red velvet curtain masquerade. I’m not here to see a re-enactment, neither am I here to witness a reproduction of memories. I’m here to see how Tetsuro interprets, responds to, and shares [a] fascinating life... in real time.”
Read MoreVIFF, you've nearly come and gone. We still have a few more days of bliss! As it turns out, festival season is busy (didn't you know?), and so we're very lucky to have writers who dedicate their spare time to reflecting on great cinema. Here's a reflection on Yorgos Lanthimos' latest feature, The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Read More"Some of the rushed quality in the work actually takes a long time to get right! It’s hard work to sound as stupid as I do. I’ve always liked imperfect poems, or poems that are intentionally inelegant and awkward in rhythm, because to me that’s more exciting than a beautiful thought succinctly expressed. If you refine something too much, I think it loses some of its naked horse death energy, which is what I love poetry for. That’s one of the reasons Emily Dickinson is so great, because there’s something uniquely off about her work. I also am interested in unfunny jokes that go on for too long, which is something I stole from Stewart Lee.
Read MoreKari Kristensen came to Vancouver from Ontario for vacation and—lived the story we all hear occasionally—never left.
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.
