Francine Cunningham’s debut collection of poetry on/me is a beautiful balancing act of heartbreak and joy, survival and pain, humour and grief, belonging and loss. Deceptively small, the poems hum with power on the page.
“I wanted a book you could re-read and get something different and get something out of it depending on how [the reader] approached it,” Cunningham explains.
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PHOTO: DEUPHINE APEDAILE, KODAK 35mm. DISCOVER MORE ART THROUGH HER INSTAGRAM @the.dirtbag.princess
Featured Artist of the Month, Deuphine Apedaile describes in her interview with Becca Clarkson how she, from a very early age, started to explore how the term 'Artist' played into her identity and interest of capturing little parts of her body. Deuphine's photos have become a way for her to connect with other women and create a safe space where they get to be free and reclaim what it means to be powerful, sexy, and soft.
The photo chosen to inspire this month's mix is earth-shaking. The fire – The wind – The water, and the body-ody-ody, bearing witness to the fact that women are some kind of REAL magic. I'm willing to call it the rebirth of witches because the tunes will have all the elements moving with empowering verses. It's time to get undressed, walk barefoot, drink in the moon, and be magick – this is bitchin witchy!
xoxo,
Lisa
“We’re used to facing down health crises, from AIDS to a general lack of medical care. And here we are, again, facing a larger threat, using the web to reach our siblings and allies wherever they are.”
Actor Amy Fox on the choice to shorten the run of Trans Scripts amid COVID-19 concerns.
Read More“There's a connection with that sort of demand for vulnerability from not only [women I photograph] but me as well—to create that safe space where we get to have fun, be free and reclaim whether we want to be powerful, sexy, soft or all of those things at the same time. “
Read More“Five centuries of wrongdoing will take time to undo. That’s where cultural industries can pave a way for better understanding of each other,” says filmmaker Gordon Loverin. “The work has only begun and there still is a lot more that both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples need to do to find balance with each other.”
Read MoreAhead of her appearance at the 2020 Growing Room Literary & Arts festival alongside Métis filmmaker Justin Ducharme, Room magazine’s managing editor, Jessica Johns, sat down with Jade Baxter to talk about Indigenous film, anti-colonial practices on film sets, and the art of filmmaking.
Read MoreLes Ballets Trockadéro de Monte Carlo takes on the monumental task of making century-old ballet performances exciting for a contemporary audience, and does so with a sharp wit and an ingenious reconfiguration of what it means to experience, gawk at, and appreciate the discipline of ballet.
Read MoreThis fall, a new musical is hoping to melt the heart of Vancouver audiences at the 2020 Fringe Festival. Before this can happen, however, the dream team behind the queer production will have to dig deep into their pockets. SAD sat down with David Cutting, the non-binary writer behind Now That I Found You to talk about how a Ru Paul superstar is swooping in to save the pop-infused play.
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.
