Scott Thompson brought Vancouver the same boisterous Buddy Cole that Kids in the Hall fans were introduced to in 1995. Whether you enjoy certain tropes generally presented by older, white male comics, Thompson is an excellent performer and easily commands the stage solo in this nostalgic show.
Read MoreLast Stand to Nowhere is a stunning re-capturing of the classic Western genre by filmmaker Michelle Muldoon. With an all-female cast, the age-old struggle for law and order takes centre stage in this BC director's award-winning short film endeavour.
Read MoreEvery year, more than 100 acclaimed authors attend the Vancouver Writers Fest—an electric, week-long whirlwind of today’s most pressing issues and exciting new books. Not only is it an opportunity celebrate talented wordsmiths, the festival holds space for people to learn and be inspired by writers—both emerging and established. For the writer in all of us, here are six events to check out from October 21-27.
Read MoreRelatable trials and tribulations of parenting combine with nuanced barriers facing queer folks in My Dads, My Moms and Me - a touching work by filmmaker Julia Ivanova that revisits families she profiled in her 2007 work Fatherhood Dreams.
Read MoreIf you caught the premiere of Mx at the 2019 Fringe Festival—a mounting that won the New Play Prize—you’d know it’s far from a relaxing theatre experience. The show serves audiences with a challenge to confront the unsettling truth that white supremacy is alive and well within us, our surroundings and our cultural narrative. SAD sat down with creator Lilli Robinson to talk about the issues of race and intersectionality that her piece tackles.
Read MoreStudio 58 opens its season with a gender-reversed twist on a Shakespearean classic that shows astounding vulnerability, strength and dedication. The outcome was an edgy and interesting boundary pushing performance that you can see now until October 13th.
For this artist, graphic design came first, and ceramics came later. Lindsey Hampton took up a six-week ceramics course as a hobby, and what started as “just something to do” evolved into a business selling ceramics both online and through local and international stockists such as Vancouver Special, Easy Tiger Goods (Toronto), and Coming Soon (New York City).
Read MoreSpeakEasy Theatre’s powerful and provocative remount of The Shipment is a brazen mash-up of black stereotypes that forces audiences to confront our own bias and shift the lens through which we perceive race.
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.
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.
