The Only Trust

We’re the Only Trust.

We publish OnlyMagazine.ca online and a fortnightly magazine entitled Only distributed throughout Vancouver; organise the annual Music Waste independent music festival; and present the annual Victory Square Block party in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. We do some other things, too, as the mood strikes us.

We’re not a trust in the legal sense—it’s just a nickname. Each of our projects have varying degrees of autonomy but share the same core group of people. More importantly, they share the same values of excellence, focus on independent culture, and avoidance of exploitation.

Onlymagazine.ca
Published weekdays, the Only online reports on independent music, art, film, science, and media.

Only Magazine
Published on the first and fifteenth of each month from September to May, Only focuses on independent music, film, and art from a Vancouver perspective.

How To Contribute

  1. Read Only.
  2. We’re interested in reviews, interviews and features, original photography and art for the cover.
  3. Use this email. Email submissions are sent to the entire editorial board.
  4. We don’t yet have a style guide online for you to read but you could do worse than study this one

Only & Only Online share a joint editorial desk and all submissions are considered equally for print or online.

Please feel free to send poetry to this email.

Music Waste
Founded by seminal Vancouver bands SMAK and Zolty Cracker in 1994, this annual festival showcases independent and experimental music in 64 events over four days. Festival Director Kris Mitchell passed the reins of Music Waste to the Only Trust in 2005.

How To Volunteer
Send us an email here. Tell us why.

Victory Square Block Party
2,000 block partygoers consider the summer has officially ended when the Victory Square Block Party wraps up. Held each Labour Day at Victory Square, natch.

How To Volunteer
Send us an email here. Sprinkler system experience, an asset.


A Preamble

We, the undersigned assembled at the Manhattan Apartments in Vancouver, agree to the following :

  1. To regularly create an independent publication entitled Only free from any form of personal or of party political, commercial, religious or other sectional control; and through that publication and other projects:
  2. The progressive achievement of social justice between people and the discouragement of discrimination of all kinds;
  3. The promotion of a society where the quality of life is enriched by the standards of its education, its art, its culture, and the promotion of civil liberties;
  4. The promotion of peace and tolerance and opposition to all forms of violence and hatred;
  5. To be agents of social change.

Or something like that.


Only
142 757 W. Hastings Suite 611
Vancouver
British Columbia
V6C 1A1

Phone 604 630 2438

Email
Letters, submissions
Calendar Listings
Advertising Inquiries

Editor
Chuck Ansbacher

Managing Editor
Adam O. Thomas

Arts Editor
Lili Yacub

Film Editor
Adam O. Thomas

Music Editor
Music Editor

Science Editor
Alan Hindle

Eastern Editor
Amil Niazi

Web Design + Programming
Darren Atwater
David Look

Advertising
Ads

Contributing Editors
John Cow, Sarah Albertson, Darren Atwater, Chris-a-riffic, Sean Condon, Curtis Grahauer, Ben Lai, David Look, Naomi MacDougall, Phil Oats, Martin Thacker, Rhek, Asher Penn,
Kevin Spenst, Mayana C. Slobodian, Cameron Reed, Chloe Stevenson, Brynna Childs

Contributing Photographers
Logan Sturrock

Publisher
Darren Atwater

ISSN 1712-9869

Immaculate Host
Leslie Smith on Textdrive
Published with Textpattern

Only
142 757 W. Hastings Suite 611
Vancouver
British Columbia
V6C 1A1

Phone 604 630 2438

Email
Letters, submissions
Calendar Listings
Advertising Inquiries

Editor
Chuck Ansbacher

Managing Editor
Adam O. Thomas

Arts Editor
Kayla Guthrie

Film Editor
Adam O. Thomas

Music Editor
Chuck Ansbacher

Science Editor
Alan Hindle

Eastern Editor
Amil Niazi

Web Design + Programming
Darren Atwater
David Look

Print Production
Tome Jozic
Naomi MacDougall

Advertising
Ads

Contributing Editors
Sarah Albertson, Darren Atwater, Chris-a-riffic, Sean Condon, Curtis Grahauer, Ben Lai, David Look, Naomi MacDougall, Phil Oats, Martin Thacker, Rhek, Asher Penn,
Kevin Spenst, Cameron Reed

Publisher
Darren Atwater

ISSN 1712-9869

Immaculate Host
Leslie Smith on Textdrive
Published with Textpattern