Sad Mag celebrates one year of publishing magic on Saturday, October 9 with SAD MAG LIVE!

We’re bringing the magazine to life on stage, spotlighting some of Vancouver’s most innovative young artists, organizers and performers.

Hosted by CBC Radio 3‘s Lana Gay, SAD MAG LIVE features live, on-stage interviews with:

CAMERON REED (Director, Music Waste)
GRAEME BERGLUND (Founder and Creative Director, The Cheaper Show)
LIZZY KARP (Co-Founder, Rain City Chronicles)
DAVE DEVEAU (Managing Director, Zee Zee Theatre)

With performances by:

BARBARA ADLER (Accordion, stories, poems)
JASPER SLOAN YIP (Singer-songwriter)
SAMMY CHIEN (With guests—New media artist)
ISOLDE N. BARRON (Drag sensation)

This event is a fundraiser benefiting the Sad Mag Writers & Artists Fund. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased from www.thecultch.com or at the box office. The cost of your ticket includes a copy of Sad Mag issue 5.

SAD MAG LIVE is generously sponsored by The Cultch and CBC Radio 3.

Sad Mag profiles local trailblazers in art and culture at Granville Magazine’s Secret City blog twice per month. Read the latest post about Malcolm Levy, head curator of the New Forms Festival.


“It allows people to think about participating in the art,” says Levy of the New Forms Festival. “It allows people to think about creating their own little piece for that moment in time.”

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