Cason Sharpe

Oct 23, 2024 | threemagazine.com | Noel Ransome |Paola Lisbert Garces |Andrea Yu |Cason Sharpe

The main stage at Porsche SCOPES may need more grass. Before festivities even begin, it’s already made for a peculiar setting for Vancouver-born interdisciplinary artist Alyssa Alikpala, whose environmental installation’s sheets of vivid green grass share space with urban walls. And that’s without mentioning the Porsche branding within the venue—wholly man-made. The manufactured aesthetic is somewhat out of place against the untamed edges of Alikpala’s work.

Oct 7, 2024 | threemagazine.com | Andrea Yu |Noel Ransome |Paola Lisbert Garces |Cason Sharpe

When Vancouver-born Tannis Ling left her hometown in 2001 to work as a bartender in London, U.K., she immersed herself in the city’s concept-driven bars and restaurants, which she says were years ahead of Vancouver’s bar scene at the time. “Every detail has been thought of, the design, music, art, uniforms,” Ling explains.

Oct 2, 2024 | threemagazine.com | Cason Sharpe |Katherine Singh

On occasion, I get so lost in the glowing abyss of my phone that the only thing that can bring me back to my body is a car honking, a reminder that I’m only halfway finished crossing the street. It’s not an uncommon scenario, especially in a world in which digital innovations move at a faster pace than the human brain can comprehend.

Sep 25, 2024 | threemagazine.com | in Karachi |Cason Sharpe |Katherine Singh

In her debut book, In Exile: Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life, Pakistani Canadian journalist Sadiya Ansari chronicles a years-long investigation into one big secret that has long haunted her family: Why did her daadi (grandmother) abandon her seven children to follow a man from Pakistan’s Karachi to a tiny village in Punjab?