Highway of Tears by Brandi Morin
/As seen in Sad Mag’s 2020 Death Issue.
Read MoreSpenser Smith, the poet of “Fruit Fly Trap”, published in SAD Mag’s Death Issue shares three new poems for the blog.
Read MoreThe unique mix of traditional artistic style with Hall’s colourful and abstract additions makes for eye-popping art. Two themes you’ll always find in his pieces are the Raven and a rope. “I use [the Raven] because it is part of my family crest and our lineage. The Raven has so many different stories behind what he’s done. The rope signifies every single thing I have created is tied together as one,” says Hall.
Read MoreLive from your couch! The SAD Mag Death Issue Launch Party.
Read MoreDancer Antonio Somera is onscreen, wearing a yellow tunic with jagged fabric down one arm like feathers. He lunges deeply, shouting into his hands under a shining spotlight. The sheer intensity of the act jolts me out of my thoughts, transforming my living room into a theatre. So starts Offering, Co.ERASGA’s live digital performance for their 20th anniversary season.
Read MoreKevin Lanthier is a Vancouver based photographer whose work seeks to tell stories about everyday life through the archetypal. Using composite images and juxtaposition, Lanthier tailors narratives in ways that reflect and heighten his concept-driven projects. His current project HUMAN:NATURE turns the lens on urban wildlife and highlights the lives and contrasts of the animals that call Vancouver home.
Read MoreThe inspiration for this month's playlist is the illustration 'Cortex Prime'. This mix is curated with Afrofuturism as a theme. Find genre-bending Black artists envisioning the future through music. Listen and board the mothership of possibilities.
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.