Mood Swing (June 16-22, 2026)
/Check out some indie movies, appreciate a new artist, or hunt for new treasures at the city’s biggest garage sale. Keep reading for Vancouver’s hottest arts and culture events of the week!
Read MoreCheck out some indie movies, appreciate a new artist, or hunt for new treasures at the city’s biggest garage sale. Keep reading for Vancouver’s hottest arts and culture events of the week!
Read MoreNostalgia is present everywhere, and Whitney Brennan sums that up perfectly in her profile of “Bebop Ink”. Having previously explored the art of tattoos during her Masters in Art History, she dives deeper into a tattooist’s ability to work meaningful memories onto their clients’ skin, creating a sense of permanence.
Read MoreMood Swing may be on a day but it’s still offering up the same list of the city’s hottest and cheapest arts and culture events all summer long! This week features a comedy show for singles, a Philippine Independence Day drag show and so much more.
Read MoreA social and lighthearted month filled with connection, celebration and summer fun. While the energy encourages indulgence and saying all the right things, this month closes with important reminders around finances, grounding and staying true to what’s real beneath the surface.
Read MoreStart your Vancouver summer off right with this week’s list of the city’s most engaging, inspiring and unique arts and culture events! Get involved at an anti-FIFA art build, refresh your wardrobe at a clothing swap or bounce at a high energy hyperpop rave.
Read MoreStart your summer off right with a heartbreak art show, a special Asian Heritage Month film screening and the year’s biggest flea market. Keep reading for five low cost arts and culture events this week in Vancouver!
Read MoreIf you have ever looked to the stars for advice— perhaps even watched one too many ‘this is what your star sign says about you’ videos, like me– you are bound to take something from Alice Fleerackers’ “Star Struck”, published in SAD’s 24th Issue: Space.
Read MoreAuthor Rafeed Elahi Chowdhury reflects on their journey from magazine writer to live performer while preparing for the Surrey Muse May showcase, exploring how audience connection reshaped their storytelling.
Read MoreWriter 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.
October’s astrology forecast invites us into the shadows, asking us to sit with uncomfortable emotions and face the darker sides of our relationships. Now is the time to reflect deeply, embrace solitude and emerge with a better understanding of ourselves.