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Meet January’s featured artist @kaija.heitland.tattoos , Kaija Heitland, a Métis multidisciplinary artist hoping to inspire dialogue about traditional indigenous practices. With a full-time job as a tattoo artist to her traditional Métis clothing and wildcraft designs through @indigenousnouveau to her jewellery line @bythethorne. In other words, Kaija is always creating. Kaija’s own self-sustaining practices of using the entire animal also transfers to her art, where she us...es bones and claws in her jewellery from her own ethical hunting or sources them from Métis, First Nations, and Inuit communities. // Read more over at SADmag.ca words by @hannahseraphim_ artwork and jewelry by @kaija.heitland.tattoos See more

Hey Happy Monday! Our Death issue is now restocked at fab @massybooks

Call for submissions What does it mean to be lost, to grapple with what has gone missing, and to reconcile absence? To encounter it, to feel it, to embody it, and to fully understand it, if at all possible? The next issue of SAD explores loss in all of its multi-layered expressions. We want to see your stories, articles, poems, essays and artworks that navigate the space of being lost, in and out of the ordinary. Illustrators or film photographers who want to get introspe...ctive, submit your portfolio to be paired with a story and create an original piece for our 31stissue. This is a paid opportunity. We especially encourage submissions from LGBTQIA2S+ and BIPOC creatives, and editorial support will be provided for emerging writers. Link in bio

@saramolcan is painting the future of selfies Visit SADmag.ca and read an interview with Sára Molan, where she shares that painting selfies doesn't always mean she's painting herself, or at least, not exactly, herself. This painting is also found in our Sex issue, No. 29. words by @whitbrennan ... painting by @saramolcan See more

A close-up of our Death issue cover painted by @alisonannwoodward Head over to SADmag.ca and sign up for a subscription.

Meet October’s featured artist @justinecrawfart , Justine Crawford has had a passion for art since highschool, when she painted and drew in a more realistic and detailed style. While taking on the challenge of inking 31 drawings during Inktober in October 2018, the daily task forced her to simplify her style. Some of my pieces have been inspired directly by my grandpa, so showing my extended family and my grandma these pieces, they think it's a very big tribute to the fa...mily. - Justine Crawford // Read more over at SADmag.ca words by @bexinvcity Illustrations by @justinecrawfart See more

VABF 2020 is hosted on an interactive website featuring 100 artists, publishers, and designers who produce everything from books, magazines, zines and printed ephemera to digital, performative or other experimental forms of publication. A robust program of artist talks, projects and workshops, curated by Vivian Sming of Sming Sming Books, will live stream on each weekend day, including a keynote address from Cecilia Vicuna on Saturday, October 17 at 4pm PST. Surprise digi...tal programming creatively hidden throughout the website will entice attendees to navigate the entire fair experience. VABF is and will always be free and open to the public. (you can make a profile or visit the fair without!) The ninth annual fair will take place October 17- 18 at VANCOUVERARTBOOKFAIR.COM 2020 Brand identity by @organism.zero #VancouverArtBookFair #VABF2020 #VABF See more

Welcome the Death issue'sGuest Editor Alica Forneret is a facilitator, writer, and Grief Guide who creates spaces for people to explore their grief. She is fiercely committed to making sure that we have more conversations about grief, death, and dying - whether that’s at home, at work, or with strangers on the bus. She's down to talk all things Dead Moms Club. She will encourage you to bring mac and cheese (with a side of wine) to a friend's house after their pet dies. A...nd she crosses her fingers every single day hoping employers are out there taking good care of their employees long after bereavement leave is over. Alica is a member of the BC Women's Health Foundation’s Young Women's Council, an Associate Board Member of Our House Grief Center, and hosts end-of-life events across The United States and Canada. [Image interpretation: A profile picture of Alica with her head slightly turned to the left. Alica is sitting in a rattan chair, wearing a mustard yellow label knit sweater and glasses.]

Meet Septembers’ featured artist@sowhereproject , Emilie Borodine, France-born, now Vancouver-based ceramicist who took her first pottery class two years ago and found her inspiration to be the body. Some people will really scream ‘Boobs!’ She says, adding that others have reacted with judgement over humour. It brings a reaction, and I like that because it makes people speak about itnot to necessarily sexualize it, just being comfortable with it. It’s just a body, it’s n...ormal. - Emilie Borodine // Read more over at SADmag.ca words by @bexinvcity ceramics & photography by @sowhereproject See more

The next issue of SAD ponders the theme of death. Send us pitches for your best essays, articles, poems, stories, and artwork that explore the final frontier. Tell us about your encounters with entities that might hint toward an understanding of ulterior dimensions, or near-death encounters that have shifted the way you see the world. What is death to you? How is everyday life affected by the knowledge that the end is imminent? We want to hear your chilling, heartwarming, dee...p, and/or funny insights. Illustrators and film photographers who want to get spooky, submit your portfolio to be paired with a story and create an original piece for our 30th issue. We especially encourage submissions from LGBTQ+ and BIPOC creatives, and editorial support will be provided for emerging writers. Submissions are open from now until September 17th. Check the link in our bio for more information on how to submit!

TONIGHT!! EVENT LINK IS LIVE find it in our bio! https://www.crowdcast.io/e/a-sad-sexy-digital Let’s talk about sex, SAD friends! #SADnSEXY... We’re launching our extra-sexy 29th issue with a virtual event you can join from the comfort of your couch. Introverts rejoice! Tune in to watch the best of Vancouver’s performers tackle this theme from a variety of positions. You’ll also hear about the latest issue of the mag, and get to cruise our online gallery. Hosted by none other than Jackie Hoffart. ***ADMISSION IS FREE*** FEATURING: DRAG COMEDY BURLESQUE YOUR SEXY QUESTIONS ANSWERED FIRST LOOK AT OUR LIMITED EDITION MERCH FEATURING ART FOR SALE BY: Stephanie Joo Tombari (@joocy.jpg Bryce Aspinall (@painintheaspinall Jane Cheng (@whojanedoe Kiranna Marie (@kirannamarie Hayley Schmidt (@fleshandbone__ Nadia So (@nsogallery Fiona Dunnett (@fionadunnett Erin Green (@artbyeringreen Bronwyn Schuster (@nywnart Amanda Smart (@amandasmartart Vincent Lin (@vincentlins Sara Molcan (@saramolcan Jean Paul Langlois (@jeanpaullanglois Joy Gyamfi (@roughclub Annaliese Feininger @postmodernsorrow SPECIAL THANKS TO: Wize Coffee Leaf @drinkwize 33 Acres Brewing @33acresbrewing

Good news everyone! We are so excited to share that @jtsung will be sensually tickling our funny bones at our virtual issue launch. Joanne hails from the unceded territories of the xmkym, Skxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Fat, queer and tattooed, Joanne has found solace and community in writing comedy and has performed for New Moon Comedy and Millennial Line in Vancouver and Virtual Model Minority in Seattle. Catch Joanne's performance- and more to come! - at our digital launch party happening Thurs Aug 6th from 6-7pm. Link to the FREE event will be posted on social media and our website the day of the event.

If you’ve ever thought the world needs more adorably animated buttholes and shorts about consent, don’t fret! The extremely talented @karlamontz has delivered. Karla Monterrosa (she/her) is a queer animation filmmaker, illustrator, and comedian born and raised in San Salvador, El Salvador. In 2009, she relocated to the unceded, ancestral, and occupied traditional lands of the xmkym (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Slílwta (Tsleil-Watuth) Nations of the Coas...t Salish peoples. karla graduated from Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a BFA in Animation. She got her first period on October 11th, 2001 and hasn’t stopped talking about that (or any other body fluid, really) since. She’s obsessed with the awkwardness of the human body (especially her own), and aspires to create images that reflect a world in which shame doesn’t exist. See Karla’s amazing animated short during our digital launch party happening Thurs Aug 6th from 6-7pm. Link to the FREE event will be posted on social media and our website the day of the event.

Be honest - who hasn't rolled around in bed pretending to be Christina Agueliera in Burlesque. But if, like us, your bedroom choreography skills leave a little to be desired - have no fear! @bootyfreedom is here to teach you the ways of the mattress mambo. Catch this titillating performance- and more to come! - at our digital launch party happening Thurs Aug 6th from 6-7pm. Link to the FREE event will be posted on social media and our website the day of the event.

We are humbled and fortunate to have the lovely @paisleyeva acknowledging that we are hosting our event, working, learning, and living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xmkym (Musqueam), slílwta (Tsleil-Waututh), and Swxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) Nations. Paisley Eva Nahanee is from the Swxwú7mesh Nation. She started DJing vinyl in Vancouver at 19 and soon afterwards founded Dame Music Society, an organization that trains self id...entifying women, non-binary and trans folks to DJ vinyl in effort to combat a white male dominated industry. Catch Paisley at our digital launch party happening Thurs Aug 6th from 6-7pm. Link to the FREE event will be posted on social media and our website the day of the event.

Introverts rejoice! The hilarious @andreajin will be performing at our Issue 19 Digital Launch Party, and you don’t even have to change out of pyjamas. Andrea Jin is one of the fastest rising comedians in the country. Born in Shanghai, she immigrated to Canada at 10 years old, where she taught herself English through watching sitcoms and standup on TV. Andrea uses her subtle delivery and hard-hitting punchlines throughout stories and observations about family, friends and the world around her to establish a voice that is genuine, unique, yet still incredibly funny and relatable. Catch this performance- and more to come! - at our digital launch party happening Thurs Aug 6th from 6-7pm. Link to the FREE event will be posted on social media and our website the day of the event.

Please rise for the arrival of the SAD Mag Issue 29 Digital Launch Party host and formidable talent @ostensiblyclear ! Jackie Hoffart (she/they) really loves the smell of her own armpits. She is a comedian, producer, writer, and editor who was selected as one of ten judges for Best Comedy Album at the 2020 Junos. In the Before Times, they hosted New Moon Comedy, a weekly stand-up comedy show with a mission to increase diverse representation in comedy. She has mixed European ancestry and grew up on the prairies on the territories of the nêhiyawak, Anihšinpk, Dakota, Lakota, Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis. They are a cat person. Catch Jackie hosting our digital launch party happening Thurs Aug 6th from 6-7pm. Link to the FREE event will be posted on social media and our website the day of the event.

Good news! Your Thursday at home is no longer a total drag. Well, okay, a little bit of a drag - but the absolute best kind with the amazing @operatwink . Toddy is a Vancouver based drag performer, standup comic and musician. They've been featured on CBCLOL, the Portland Queer Comedy Festival and the YYComedy Festival. He is the co-host of Off Tune, an all live singing drag show! Trained as an opera singer, Toddy is known as "Opera Twink" for reimagining old arias in a new way! You may have heard of them as the self proclaimed "Vancouver's Next Eliminated Drag Icon". Catch this performance- and more to come! - at our digital launch party happening Thurs Aug 6th from 6-7pm. Link to the FREE event will be posted on social media and our website the day of the event.