Whenever I think about why I’m an artist, it’s because it saves me…We live in a society that doesn’t protect art or even really advocate it, so, when people tell me no, I want to do it even more.
Read More“One can’t help but have a sense that whatever the BS of the current times and political landscape, there is within the community the strength to resist and persist towards a better and more inclusive, compassionate future.”
Read MoreJoin us SAD Mag babes as we launch our 10th year anniversary issue, Nostalgia! We couldn’t be more proud of where we’ve come in the last 10 years, so come out for another stellar party at our 1st ever party venue, the Anza Club!
Read MoreIf you haven’t yet read our interview with June’s Featured Artist, Dane Murner, please do! Then, come back and listen to this playlist inspired by his Nightcrawl series. I hope you listen while out for a long walk in evening glow.
Read MoreEveryone on TV gets “the talk.” Usually it’s a stumbling, awkward, five-minute well of comedy that has been returned to so many times, it’s drier than the bird vagina in the metaphor the fictional parents use when talking to their fictional kids about sex.
Read More“Vancouver is flakey as hell—that stereotype is definitely true. To support people is to show yourself. Just go. Even if it’s just a short time. Go to the show.“
Read MoreCaptured on dark winter evenings, these images depict the way artificial light can draw attention to ordinary objects. Using long exposures on a tripod, Dane will take and review many of variations of the same scene, often spending up to an hour to get the right shot.
Read More“I was thinking, ‘What do I hate about going to dance classes, [and] why do I still go? I go for the discipline and growth and expression. But I hate that I feel invisible.’ So, I wanted to do the opposite of that.”
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.
