The Sad Mag family is so excited to offer up a fresh issue of the magazine, launching Wednesday, August 4 at the Cobalt. Check out a sneak peek from the latest issue, written of theatre legend Yayoi Hirano by Michelle Reid.

Yayoi Hirano and I sit at a card table in an empty room, while outside there are the familiar sounds of Granville Island on a weekend afternoon: ducks, children, cars faintly thundering across the bridge overhead. Yayoi is wearing black sunglasses and low black heels, dressed in layers of black fabric. She is composed and elegant, her youthful appearance belying the longevity of her career as a dancer, mask-maker, mime artist, storyteller and founder of the Yayoi Theatre Movement Society, which is now two decades old.

—Michelle Reid

Illustration: Kristina Fiedrich