SAD Mag ventured over to the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre to engage with local talent and expression, all thanks to this year's Queer Arts Festival and the Pride in Art Visual Arts Show. It was a treat, to say the least!
Read More"Last month the Cinematheque put on an event dedicated to Kelly Reichardt’s movies, a director who, after I’d heard so many small bursts of praise, was starting to take on a mythic image in my mind. I knew her as the director who scouted 39 states before choosing the exact Walgreens parking lot she wanted for her scene, who trekked across the Oregon desert for a movie, who made big independent movies but slept on friends’ couches to live, an outsider who made movies about outsiders."
Read MoreWay back when, for our Mad Mad World issue (no. 12), we sent some disposable cameras with a few friends and local musicians while they traveled the world. You may have spotted a few snaps in the Movement issue, and starting now you'll be able to find the rest here, in the Disposable Camera Series.
Read MoreIn advance of what is sure to be a sensory delight for nostalgic spectators, SAD Mag's Helen Wong spoke with artist Anna MacLellan about Welcome Home, a mixed media installation which opens for viewing June 17, 2016 at Untitled Art Space.
Read MoreHoole, or, as her four and a half thousand Instagram followers know her, @missconniehoole, specializes in photographing hyper-hued confectionary. Her photos come off like a psychedelic case of the munchies, all bright colours and hypnotic patterns, and will be on display this month at Brainstaion in Yaletown.
Read MoreUnfortunately, there was one issue with his tribute: the subject wasn’t dead yet. They wouldn’t be dead for a while either.
Read MoreFirst held in 1994, the Music, and Art Waste festival purports itself as a multi-venue, affordable and accessible stage for variations of different artistic mediums and expressions. Originally borne out of retaliation against the heavily commercialized and corporate-backed New Music West festival, Music and Art Waste provided a safe, non-profit, alternative space for music and art lovers of Vancouver. Predominantly volunteer run, this amalgamation of music, visual art, comedy, and local culture quickly expanded into an integral part of the Vancouver subculture scene. Twenty-two years later, Music and Art Waste has proved itself here to stay.
Read MoreMusic/Art Waste has come and gone, leaving Vancouver sweaty and ready for next year's festival. Entirely volunteer run, the festival returns annually and repeatedly outdoes itself, no doubt with thanks to the incredible minds at the helm, but also Vancouver's vibrant and growing art and music scenes.
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