Thinking about Dying and Learning How to Live: An Interview With Still Depths On Best plan for your life 

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Thinking about Dying and Learning How to Live: An Interview With Still Depths On Best plan for your life 

I am back at a DIY venue and still getting used to it. It’s the first one I’ve been to since I was seventeen, and since then, new bands have emerged to play shows with ones I already know. Events shared via Instagram posters instead of Facebook pages have brought in a new crowd eager for live music. New venues like this one (Green Auto Body) have popped up, and old ones have been renamed. I am now much older than when I first experienced them, but in a way it’s nice to feel like I’m revisiting an old version of myself through the power of cheap PBR and second-hand smoke.

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Nancy Lee

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Nancy Lee

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 their conversations.

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An exercise in revealing & withdrawing at Amanda Sum’s New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert

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An exercise in revealing & withdrawing at Amanda Sum’s New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert

Minutes before her solo performance, theatre artist, songwriter, and musician Amanda Sum sat in the lobby of the Cultch’s Historic Theatre as the crowd poured in. There, she individually handed out an envelope containing a pop-up book, a pen, and a piece of white rabbit candy to each person in attendance.

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Live Music Roundup: SUGARFUNGUS, Rosemary Ginger, Nonarchy at 648 Kingswa

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Live Music Roundup: SUGARFUNGUS, Rosemary Ginger, Nonarchy at 648 Kingswa

On April 13th, three bands—Nonarchy, Rosemary Ginger, and SUGARFUNGUS—took 648 Kingsway on a slow journey into space, surrounded by synths and smooth vocals. In an interview with all three bands, SAD Magazine was able to delve into each bands’ musical journeys, experiences in the Vancouver music scene, and much more.

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Cosmic Forecast May 2023

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Cosmic Forecast May 2023

May’s energy centers around earth and water, Taurus and Cancer, where all of the personal planets—the Sun, Mercury, Mars, and Venus—are stacking up. May will give us the chance to really take a step back and integrate the transformations that we’ve been invited into since the beginning of the year. Things might feel too slow for comfort, or they might feel like a deeply needed sigh of relief. This is a month to go very easy on yourself, to practice gentleness, and to sort through the places where you judge yourself for needing to take things at your own pace. 

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Aileen Bahmanipour

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Sell Out, A Series: 5 Questions with Aileen Bahmanipour

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 their conversations.

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In the Weeds at The Willful Plot

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In the Weeds at The Willful Plot

If you think about it, a gallery is a lot like a garden. The Willful Plot, curated by Melanie O’Brian at the Belkin Art Gallery, explores how cultural narratives of wilderness and civilization propagate in the site of the garden. Critical queer theorist Sara Ahmed’s articulation of willfulness as a form of anti-authoritarian resistance is at the root of O’Brian’s curation: to be self-willed rather than being full of will, of someone else’s will. Yet the tensions that germinate in the garden—between private and public, cultivation and chaos—occupy the white space of the gallery, too. 

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