May 04, 2022

Cosmic Forecast May 2022

May 04, 2022/ Keagan Perlette

May opens up like a flower-filled valley blooming at our feet after a long hike through a mountain pass. At first, it might feel like a sweet reprieve, but with so much potential for abundance in this place, we need to step up as stewards of the energy of possibility and profound change. April ends with a New Moon Solar Eclipse in Taurus, ushering us into a season of sowing seeds for the future, cultivating what’s precious to us, and nourishing ourselves and our lives.

April 27, 2022

Short & Sweet: A Brief Interview With SUGARFUNGUS

April 27, 2022/ SAD Mag

An interview with the emerging local Vancouver band, Sugarfungus. The five-piece band, comprised of Tess Meckling (lead singer), Alex Marr (bassist), Bradan Decicco (lead guitarist), Jackson Moore (keyboardist), and Ivan Barbou (drummer), describe themselves as “introverts making dance music.”

The band released their first EP Letting Go, Moving Still, a set of warm and fuzzy tracks that blend bright guitar lines and atmospheric synths with pop-driven hooks that capture the feeling of drifting in and out of sweet, mushroomy bliss. The band released a six-part visualizer alongside their EP, in collaboration with local visual artist Harry Sung.

April 25, 2022

Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Megan Bridge

April 25, 2022/ Angela Fama

Sell Out is a series by interdisciplinary artist Angela Fama (she/they), who co-creates conversations with individual artists across Vancouver. Questioning ideas of artistry, identity, “day jobs,” and how they intertwine, Fama settles in with each artist (at a local café of their choice) and asks the same series of questions. With one roll of medium format film, Fama captures portraits of the artist, after the verbal conversations have been had.

April 01, 2022

Cosmic Forecast April 2022

April 01, 2022/ Keagan Perlette

April is a reawakening. Under winter snow, the deadfall decomposed, giving way to nutrient-rich soil for new flowers and budding trees to flourish. With the increased daylight, you might be feeling a little more optimistic, a little more energized. Or, like T.S. Eliot, the spring might bring up deep grief.

March 25, 2022

3 Poems by Harrison Wade

March 25, 2022/ SAD Mag

A series of three poems by Harrison Wade, including: September 1 for Sarah, And then One Day we Stopped, and Old Leo Tolstoy’s Picture. Featuring an illustration by Pamella (Olive) Pinard.

March 23, 2022

In Place, Make Space: Home is An Ever-Shifting Place

March 23, 2022/ Guest User

What happens when home strays from the concept we learned and imagined as children? Local artists Amelia Earhart and Elena Imari Hoh explore this question and the ways that a seemingly simple concept, “home,” is complicated and distorted for mixed children of diaspora. Yet, their recent exhibition, In Place, Make Space, at Slice of Life offers home as something we find and embrace in memories, connections with people, and even foreign places; they celebrate home through the intangible and as something we actively form, rather than something we can lose.

March 17, 2022

Vancouver International Women in Film Festival Review: Esther and Sai Tells the Story of Immigration and Homesickness Through Food

March 17, 2022/ SAD Mag

Esther and Sai presents an unlikely antagonist for a film: mac and cheese. Yet, in a short film about the discomfort, loneliness, and homesickness of migrating to a new country, mac and cheese is actually a perfect analogy of the unfamiliarity of North American foods—and attitudes—to newcomers.