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Sad Mag is prepping for Issue 7, our celebration of Vancouver Queer History. The issue launches November 3rd and we are going through archives, interviewing and shooting the final stories. Lucky for us, our theatre friends have put together a show on the colourful history of Vancouver’s Drag Queens: Tucked and Plucked: Vancouver’s Drag History Live On Stage!
Isolde N. Barron, talk show hostess with the mostess.
You’ll find out about Vancouver’s rich drag queen history as Sad Mag’s favourite drag queen, Isolde N. Barron becomes our very own Oprah as she hosts a live talk show featuring stories and performances by queens from our glamourous past. You’ll find Joan-E, Jaylene Tyme, Mona Regina Lee and newcomer Peach Cobblah, which sounds like enough personalities to rival the squawkfests on The View.
This Friday and Saturday
September 23 & 24 – 8PM
PAL Vancouver Studio Theatre (581 Cardero Street @ West Georgia)
Tickets: $10
BOX OFFICE: 604.684.8028 Tickets Online
One weekend down and one more to go! The 23rd edition of Vancouver’s second largest film festival is going on around town. We kicked off our festivities with Spork last night at the Rio. Come paint the town pink with our choices for the remainder of the festival. Check www.queerfilmfestival.ca for listings.
Sad Mag is a proud sponsor for the debut Vogue Ball, Evolution! This packed event is a fundraiser for local charity A Loving Spoonful.
The event promises “a glamorous night celebrating life, fun, creativity and inspiration. Ogle sexy lingerie fashions, avant-garde gowns, and jaw-dropping dance moves set to electro-pop-funk grooviness.” Count Sad Mag in!
Celebrated Guests include Princess Xtravaganza from New York's legendary House of Xtravaganza!
Sad Mag Issue Five! We still can’t believe it either! Bring out the champagne, caviar, where are my gold cups? KIDDING! We raise our chipped wine glass to you, Sad Mag readers! Without your continued support, we wouldn’t be able to do anything.
While we are up late getting the Historic Theater all ready, you may be losing sleep over the anticipation of our newest issue! Be the first to hold our biggest, boldest and beautifulest issue tomorrow evening! All attendees of Sad Mag Live will be able to smell the vegetable ink before subscribers and retail customers.
SAD MAG LIVE
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
JASPER SLOAN YIP
SAMMY CHIEN (+ guests)
ISOLDE N. BARRON
It is a great day! Our magazines are coming and we are getting the final preperation for Sad Mag Live done! We are so excited to see all our friends and our Sad Family this weekend. And it is Thanksgiving! Double Life BONUS!
Check out what the internet has to say about it:
Last night Sad Mag attended the opening of Fair Enough: A Little Mountain Art Show. Showcasing the work of Little Mountain’s artists who live and work in the Mount Pleasant Community. The show is open this weekend for the Drift-Art on Main Street festival.
Kathryn Best
Helen Eady
Dan Elstone
Kristina Fiedrich
Robert Fougere
Tanya Goerhing
Tina Krueger Kulic
Scott Lewis
Justin Longoz
Korey Moran
Marina Nazarova
Eric Thompson
Xiaoyu Zhang
Nicholas E. Zirk
Daniel Zomparelli
Made Possible by the Vancouver Foundation and
Mount Pleasant Community Centre Neighbourhood Grants Initiative
The Vancouver’s International Burlesque Festival kicks off this evening at the Rickshaw Theatre. Sad Mag‘s issue three cover star, Crystal Precious, is the festival’s President and one of the many talented performers slated to take the stage this weekend. Stopping for a moment in the busy week before the launch, Crystal answered some of our questions about the 2010 festival and the resurgence of all things Burlesque.
Our centerfold and Queen of Sass, Crystal Precious. Photograph by Brandon Gaukel
Sad Mag: Tell me about how the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival got started. Were you involved at that time?
Crystal Precious: Basically Screaming Chicken wanted to do this type of festival and came to me and we made it work—a collaboration to get all the troupes together. We are all volunteer run, non-profit, [and] our community [came] together to showcase.
SM: You’ve been on hiatus from the Board for a couple of years—what has changed in that time for the Festival? What’s new?
CP: The biggest and best change for this year is the fact that the entire festival is at one location, The Rickshaw Theatre. Instead have having all the venues all around the city and having the troupes produce, perform, and promote their own show, all they have to do is come down to the Theatre and be fabulous.
SM: Makes it easier for the crowd and festival goers, too!
CP: Yeah!
SM: Burlesque has become phenomenally popular among general audiences in Vancouver in the past few years. To what would you attribute its resurgence, and its success in Vancouver?
CP: There was need, obviously. [Giggle]. People are into it and there is something for everyone—[from] classic to weird performance art.
SM: Yeah sexual or humorous. I love it. Vancouver seems very supportive of the Burlesque community.
CP: Vancouver has been a huge support for us.
SM: You guys are saucy bitches with talent. To quote RuPaul, “Creativity, uniqueness, nerve, and talent.” What do you hope audiences will take away from the shows and workshops at the Festival this year?
CP: The main thing is that I want the audience to view Burlesque as a medium not a genre. For someone to say “oh yeah, I have seen burlesque before,” is like me saying I have seen music. Burlesque has different genres, like music has jazz, rock, et cetera.
SM: The Festival is less than a week away. What are you doing now to prepare?
CP: Well the festival is pretty much all ready. I am mostly getting ready for guests at my house. Cleaning and things like that.
Crystal Precious and Sweet Soul Burlesque perform their showcase on Friday at 11pm. RSVP on Facebook. Sad Mag will be present to support this amazing talent and give away lots of copies of issue three!
SAD MAG ISSUE THREE LAUNCH PARTY
Friday, March 19 8pm
The ANZA Club
This is a 19+ event
Get a first look at the new issue, and meet the emerging artists beyond the pages of the magazine.
We are back at the Legendary Anza Club and we promise glamour, cheap beer, amazing entertainment, our best issue yet and Sad Smiles.
Enjoy performances by Vancouver’s “Queen of Sass,” our beautiful covergirl, Ms. Crystal Precious, the music of ok vancouver ok, DJ Lazerbomb! and DJ Tina’s Husband, and visuals by Sammy Chien.
Tickets are $10 (at the door). Grab the first copies of the magazine and party with us! Cheap booze! RSVP on Facebook
Creative Director Brandon Gaukel photographs Crystal Precious. The Queen of Sass. Photograph by Tina Kulic.
Check out photographer Tina Kulic‘s behind the scene photographs of Issue Three’s cover shoot. Sad Mag’s Brandon Gaukel photographs our cover star, Crystal Precious on location at Vancouver’s legendary after hours club, The Dollhouse. Watch here, or on YouTube.
Special thanks to The Dollhouse, writer Jeff Lawrence and photographer Tina Kulic.
Issue Three comes out March 19, 2010 and is filled with shiny black and white art. With of course some shades of grey!
