Displacement displays a myriad of unique experiences artists have with the theme—the different ways they struggle and survive. Ultimately, Eastside Culture Crawl’s new exhibit hopes to underscore the artistic loss to Vancouver’s community.
Read MoreAhead of the second annual Vancouver Podcast Festival, SAD sat down with three local hosts to discuss the role women and non-binary people play in transforming this emerging medium.
Read More“Sometimes I struggle with directness of words to describe this, but it’s not like, here is my music and then here is me. It’s just, well, all together.”
Read MoreNovember’s Featured Artist is Sylvie Ringer, a visual artist who works with drawing, print media, and painting to tell stories through landscapes.
Read MoreThroughout Elee Kraljii Garinder’s anthology, curated authors give unapologetic details of what it means to be near death—whether coming back from the other side, or in the throes of mourning and grief.
“To be against something can be to reject or refute it,” says Garinder. “But to be against death can also mean to be in contact with, pressed up next to, to be intimately proximate with mortality.”
Read MoreAlways exaggerated and altogether ambiguous, the characters contained within these portraits nonetheless offer a comprehensive look at a fruitful and formative 40+ years of trajectory that continues to provoke and reveal to this day.
Read MoreRich Aucoin is one man party on a cross-country mission to bring us together.
Read MoreTaking their inspiration from previous iterations of punk genres, Mannequin Pussy is spearheading a new wave of the punk movement through their musical ouevre, renegade aesthetic, and inclusive representation.
Read MoreSeptember’s forecast invites us to take stock of our strategies and deepen our understanding of who we want to be. With several intense planetary movements taking place this month, September is a time for recalibrating our needs and capacities—and recognizing which cups to fill and which ones to drain.
We speak to Thomas Maxey, DJ and founder of No Stress Chess, Vancouver’s own casual pop-up chess club, about the importance of connecting with strangers, finding community outside of your own spaces, and how chess can build those bridges.
Shanthini Balasubramanian, creative producer of the Mighty Asian Movie Making Marathon, sits down with SAD Mag to discuss how this film incubator program is fostering local talent.
Chris Cheung, author of Very Vancouver: Uncovering the Soul of a West Coast City, takes us behind the scenes of his writing process as a journalist, reflects on growing up in the city, and shares his close-up view of Vancouver.
August’s Forecast offers opportunities for connection, inviting us to go deeper with ourselves and with one another. Emotional honesty continues to be at the forefront this month, encouraging us to hash things out and make amends. Thanks to the bright energy of Leo, now is a good time to get honest about what we want and celebrate who we are.
