Welcome to the sort-of archives of the pages of Beyond magazine, the once-upon-a-time no-ads arts and culture magazine. We ceased publishing in 2008 but many of our contributors now blog at Hedge Society, (a name taken from one of Beyond’s editorials). We continue to share some of the goodness from hour past pages here and hope you will keep up with some of the contributors and good folks that helped make Beyond so much fun.
In this issue:
And Today: featuring Architecture for Humanity (“design like you give a damn”), Denman Island Chocolate (“Canada’s organic chocolate company”), and Barefoot College (“a place of learning and unlearning”).
Kinbrace House, by Giselle Culver
In Vancouver, British Columbia, a small apartment building shelters refugees:”The people who gather for this meal bring stories of danger, fear, loss, hardship and survival from all over the world: Mexico, Romania, Israel, Russia, Ivory Coast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.”
Dedications, by Adrienne Rich
“I know you are reading this poem late, before leaving your office…”
Past Life: Sir George, by Mary Jo Leddy
“He seemed rather tall, even patrician, when he first arrived with his arms flung over the shoulders of his two friends…”
In Conversation: with Nelofer Pazira, by Matthew Francis
“I no longer want to fight with guns. I want to educate myself and to fight with words…”
Film Journey: Los Angeles Plays Itself, by Doug Cummings
“Having lived in Los Angeles for several years, I can attest to the rich culture(s) that lie just beneath the surface of the ‘entertainment capital of the world’…”
Adventure: Diary of a Wilderness Dweller, by Chris Czajkowski
“It is two days since I left my truck at the end of a logging road twenty miles east of here. I have hiked through unmarked forest and over a mountain, through country I have never seen before, to reach a point of land jutting into an un-named lake, five thousand feet high in the Coast Range of British Columbia…”
Be The River, by Maureen Scott Harris
“Be the river then, straight or crooked…”
In Conversation: with K’Naan, the Dusty Foot Philosopher, by Karen Neudorf
“He’s from Somalia. He came to North America at age thirteen on the last available commercial airplane as the country dissolved into chaos…”
And more!
Artwork by Chris Jordan, Karin Bubas, Adrian Fish, Sebastiao Salgado, Stefanie Augustine, and Elise Engler.
In this issue:
Past Life: Fragments From a Childhood, by Gwendolyn MacEwen (1941-1987)
“You are eleven years old and have finally decided you can fly…”
In Conversation: The Bean and Its Story, by Flora Stormer
“Coffee – black gold – has a history shot through with smuggling, slavery, riches, poverty, speculation, and intrigue…But not everybody knows that the beans are being used to brew relationship coffee – an alternative to fair trade – linking people all over the world with coffee farmers in South America…”
Marginalia Found in Books at the Vancouver Public Library, by Aislinn Hunter
Small Art Revolution: by Karen Neudorf
“Away from the headlines, a thriving community of artists and art lovers are developing their own connections, using the internet to create distribution channels that allow independent publishers, artists and musicians to get their work in front of the small audience that just might help them pay the rent and afford those necessary trips to the dentist…”
Film Journey: Original Frankensteins, by Doug Cummings
“Now that rampaging dinosaurs, epic catastrophes, and superheroes have become ubiquitous in movies, animation seems as commonplace as news footage. But…its practitioners were often the most solitary and obsessive of filmmakers…”
Adventure: analog kids and teen age riots, by Darren Hughes
“This will be the first year in nearly two decades that I will have bought more new music on vinyl than on CD…”
And more!
Artwork by Marc Johns, Katie Radke, Stefan Thompson, Byron Eggenschwiler, James Mejia, Erin Robertson, and Gordon Wiebe.
