Short & Sweet: A Brief Interview With SUGARFUNGUS

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Short & Sweet: A Brief Interview With SUGARFUNGUS

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.



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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Megan Bridge

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Megan Bridge

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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manchester by Tasheal Gill

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manchester by Tasheal Gill

i saw manchester when i closed my eyes: velvet sofas, drowning bluffs, a sunset clouded by emotions.

i’m no stranger to stumbling down unfamiliar streets and daydreaming at midnight. it’s become a haven.

at 16, i was all knowing, no worship.

i studied god at the bottom of my glass and said my prayers between each panting breath. maybe i look back too often, i’m not sure.

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ARTIVISM: A Photo Series of Queering the Arts

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ARTIVISM: A Photo Series of Queering the Arts

It’s often hard to see formal institutions like universities as places that could hold space for the celebration of Queer and BIPOC arts. But even within these institutions, we can see a shining shift towards highlighting voices of underrepresented groups.

The UBC club Exposure intends to do just that. The student-led organization looks to build a conscious, creative community and accomplished exactly that through a month-long event called ARTIVISM: Queering the Self.

This series, directed by Bianca Santana, was a festival of creative resistance that explored ways of being in the digital era. Through student performances, webinars, parties, art exhibitions, drag shows and more, ARTIVISM showcased diverse activist art practices and dialogue

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