Kayan Hamadeh created this collection of oil paintings as a love letter to happy places and past travels. Hamadeh’s paintings spark a feeling of sweet escape, and serve as a vision board for life post-pandemic.
Read MoreGrowing up as an Afro-Latinx queer in Puerto Rico, Ramos dreamed of imaginary worlds as a way to escape the confines of his physical reality. Now, a full-time illustrator based in Vancouver, Ramos is getting to live within those dreams—empowering himself and others through his artwork.
Read MoreJuly starts with toes dipped into Cancer season, the best time of year for slowing down and returning home to yourself.
Read MoreGrab your glitter, disco balls and dress to express, Vancouver. Underground electronic music venue Dolly Disco is back, going live after more than a year in public health order hibernation.
Read MoreKim Senklip Harvey is a proud Syilx and Tsilhqot’in Indigenous cultural evolutionist, storyteller, director, and producer. She is the first female Indigenous author to be awarded a Governor General’s Literary award in this category.
Read MoreJune comes in on the heels of the powerful Full Moon eclipse in Sagittarius that happened on May 26th. Eclipses occur in pairs, and this event typically referred to as an Eclipse Portal, wraps up with the New Moon in Gemini on June 10th. In my experience, eclipse portals can feel very intense. The Moon is about the body and what’s happening on our emotional plane. The communication we get via the Moon is through our feelings. I find that it can be challenging to rustle up the energy to do spells and rituals that aren’t honouring my feelings during the Full and New Moons, but especially during Eclipse Portals.
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AMBROSIA BY ANDRE BARNWELL
Featured artist of the month Andre Barnwell creates mesmerizing figures in bright colours that intimately meld together, transmitting sensual energy and connection. In Barnwell's interview with SAD web editor Hannah Seraphim he shared that he finds R&B music really influential to his experimental art approach.
“Time and time again, I will be listening to R&B music, and they’ll be talking about sex. They’ll be talking about that with regards to flowers or even animals, and just things that are primal in nature.” - Andre Barnwell
This month's playlist is oozing sensual beats. It got rhythm, blues, smooth jazz, and mood lighting. Barnwell's illustration, Ambrosia, inspired this comforting mix that will help release some tension. Light a scented candle, lean back, and relax.
A new documentary, Fanny: The Right to Rock, shares the untold story of the band that was once touted as the next Beatles; but, due to sexist and racist discrimination in the music industry, their legacy has been virtually erased from history.
Read MoreIn 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.
Blue Heron director and guest curator or VIFF's "Leading Lights" series, Sophy Romvari, sits down with SAD Mag to discuss the series, her reflections on Blue Heron and the unique powers of film as an art form.
