More DOXA preview coverage for our devoted readers. Read up on Primas and Minding the Gap, then buy your tickets for the festival screenings with time to spare! You’ll thank us later.
Read MoreThe Frank Theatre Company presented The Explanation in the Vancity Culture Lab from April 17th to 29th. The Explanation is a tender, playful, introspective story about identity, relationships, and the questionable necessity of labels. SAD writer Ella Adkins reviews!
Read MoreOur second round of early-bird DOXA film reviews includes the festival’s opening and closing films—The Rankin Film: Legacy of a Radical and Kusama - Infinity. Both are flicks you won’t want to miss. Read, and be intrigued!
Read MoreAs you begin to form your DOXA Documentary Film Festival must-see list, we’re here to help you. Marie Dumora’s Belinda and Rami Katz’s The Issue of Mr. O’Dell are both films that you should certainly consider. You’re welcome!
Read More2018’s DOXA Documentary Film Festival is in the very near future, so to kick off our DOXA coverage this year, SAD writer Becca Clarkson interviewed the fest’s new Director of Programming, Selina Crammond. She offers some excellent advice on how to start your festival adventures, and where to find outstanding cinematic content! We approve.
Read MoreThis month's Featured Artist mix takes the silly and turns it into the strange, happily. Check out Anna Kasko's found-photography piece, BBQ, and discover its suburban absurdity. We can practically smell the barbecue sauce and freshly-mown grass—all we need are The Stooges to serenade us there.
Read MoreThe bi-annual Shooting Gallery Performance Series is a “breeding ground for raw works of dance and performance art”, said co-curator Julie Chapple at Saturday night’s performance. Produced with Sarah Gallos, the two women sift through submissions of established and emerging performance artists interested in exploring new approaches performance. Held at the artist collective The Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret, the series offers a much needed experimental clearing for Vancouver’s performance-based artists.
Read More“Introducing Anna Kasko, SAD's Featured Artist for the month of April, just in time for the Capture Photography Festival. She's one of the talented and expressive photographers exhibiting work in the fest, and I just can't get enough! A few words one could use to describe her photographs are: subdued, familiar, contemplative. I'm in love.”
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.
