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The Victoria Quilters’ Guild shows off fine works of fibre art in support of quilts for cancer patients. Until Sunday at Pearkes Arena.
CRAIG GASS - It’ll be a Gass at Club 9ONE9. Expect the comic and impressionist to reach beyond pun jokes. Tickets, $19.50 advance. Doors at 7pm.
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adventure of finding Momo, an elusive adorable puppy at Russell Books, 734 Fort, 7:30pm. With Andrew Knapp, the author of Find Momo.
Court Theatre opens Margaret Atwood’s re-imagining of Homer’s Odyssey, from Penelope’s perspective. Until May 10.
Eat, drink, check out fashion and hair designs and raise funds to fight childhood cancer at Moxies downtown.
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talented, comic, actor and writer is at the Royal Theatre tonight and in Nanaimo May 13 to showcase his original bluegrass music.
no prisoners in pursuit of the funny during a coast to coast standup tour which includes stops in Victoria and Nanaimo May 12.
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be dancing in the street, Douglas Street, as well as music, floats, community groups and probably a few surprises for the parade.
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act, dance, sing and play for the judges during the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival. The finale is set for tonight at UVic. gvpaf.org.
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Mitchell’s annual recital is set for 7pm at UVic’s Farquhar Auditorium.
legendary wordsmith with fill Alix Goolden with poetry. Fish & Bird bring the tunes.
The soccer club opens their season May 4 against the Vancouver Whitecaps and continues on May 17 and 24 at Royal Athletic Park.
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Renowned choreographer Crystal Pite returns to the Royal for the first time since 2009.
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from across North America come to Intrepid Theatre Club and the Metro Studio during the 17th annual festival May 21 - 31.
Gone are the days of the boy band. Harken the era of the man band! At Mary Winspear with guest Sam Weber. marywinspear.ca.
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Ghosts in the Machine, Liz Marshall’s award-winning animal rights documentary screens at the Victoria Event Centre (and in Toronto), as a continuation of Open Cinema’s hybrid cinema series. The event includes a postscreening panel discussion in person and online. Doors at 5:30. $10/20. opencinema.ca.
Short Circuit film Festival May 2 - 3
The Vic Theatre (808 Douglas) hosts two nights jam-packed with the freshest short films – drama, experimental, animated and even a rock and roll western – from directors in Oregon, Washington and B.C. Tickets are $10 each night, $15 for both at Lyle’s place. No minors, as Driftwood ales will be flowing. Details at cinevic.ca.
Kaleisdocope Theatre’s Family Festival May 1 - 11
intrepid theatre’s Uno Fest May 21 - 31
SNAFU Dance Theatre, Theatre SKAM, Kaleidoscope Theatre’s teen ensemble and Urban Arts Productions present three plays for the whole family. Tickets are $10, with discounts for a festival pass. Somethingville, Runaway and Snow White fill Centennial Square from May 1 - 4, before Robinson Crusoe hits Fort Rodd Hill May 7 - 11. Tickets, $10 for individual shows, with savings on festival passes. kaleidoscope. bc.ca. Greater Victoria Performing arts Festival 2014 Until May 12
For six weeks, more than 5,000 young performers of all stripes take to stages across the city to receive adjudication from experts in the field. The festival culminates in Roberto and Mary Wood Scholarship Concert May 10 at UVic.
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Now in its 17th year, Intrepid Theatre’s annual Uno Fest, is a favourite of local audiences, bringing some of the best solo performers from across North America to Victoria every spring. This year’s stellar line-up includes Hirsch, the Stratford Festival smash-hit from Alon Nashman and Paul Thompson, former local boy Sam S. Mullins (Weak Sauce), Gabriola Island’s Bob Bossin with his sell-out hit Songs and Stories of Davy the Punk, as well as a 14-hour, oneof-a-kind performance as writer Andrew Bailey reads his entire novel (with breaks). Uno Fest is personal, profound, unexpected, heartbreaking and hilarious At Intrepid Theatre Club and Metro Studio. Tickets, $20 or $79 for a five-show pass. Early birds are $17, until May 9. intrepidtheatre. com. 250-590-6291.
First korean cultural fair May 3
Art exhibition, multimedia shows, traditional tea, music, dance and foods of Korea will fill the Greek Community Centre, 4648 Elk Lake from 10am until 4pm. Hosted by the Victoria Korean-Canadian Women’s Association.
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Exhibitors and yachting enthusiasts alike head to the Inner Harbour to check out the show and sale.
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Help fund salmon enhancement projects throughout southern Vancouver Island with the fourth salmon derby presented by the anglers, who have raised more than $36,000 in three years. The two-day event, includes a meetand-greet barbecue and awards dinner at Mary Winspear Centre and draws about 250 guests. $7,500 and a prize package totalling $25,000 is on the line for the best catch. sidneyanglers.ca.
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The Victoria Corvette Club hosts its annual show and shine at 9:30am at the Children’s Health Foundation, 2400 Arbutus Rd. victoriavette.com. Fashion Fights Cancer may 7
High end fashion, hair and makeup design will converge at Moxies Downtown (1010 Yates) in fashion show/auction/foodie/ music event to help children’s health initiatives. Created and orchestrated by YES, the Young Entrepreneurs Society of Victoria, Fashion Fights Cancer brings together local businesses
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Victoria Conservatory of Music fundraiser. Discover Victoria’s most impressive private gardens. Tickets $30 available from the conservatory and Victoria Thrifty Foods locations. vcm.bc.ca/ events/victoria-garden-tour. MOTHER’S DAY PAINT-IN May 11
Arts, artisans, entertainment and more. Hatley Park, 2005 Sooke Rd, 250-391-2666. hatleypark.ca.
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Victoria’s largest parade, complete with marching bands, floats, clowns and more. More than 120,000 spectators watch the parade in person and more on TV. Downtown, along Douglas Street. SWIFTSURE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACE May 24 - 26
Annual race off the Victoria coast, hosted by the Royal Victoria Yacht Club. swiftsure.org. Selkirk Waterfront Festival May 24
A fun, family-friendly festival with live entertainment, rides, games and a vendors market, 10am to 3pm. Selkirk Waterfront Community, Gorge Rd East and Jutland. burnsidegorge.ca
SHane Cook May 3
Giant Oak Bay Village Sidewalk Sale May 24
One of the world’s best fiddlers, is here for the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival and joins Quinn Bachand for a concert in the lounge at Oak Bay Rec on May 3 while he’s at it. Doors at 6pm, show at 7:30. Tickets $15/20.
All of Oak Bay Village is on sale. Find fantastic deals on clothes, jewelery, giftware, housewares and garden décor plus tastings, in-store demonstrations, guest artists, activities and more, all in the 1900 to 2200 blocks of Oak Bay Avenue.
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Victoria International Kite Festival May 31 - June 1
Sara Johnston of Bran Van 3000 – remember those guys?! – comes to Lucky Bar for an early show. Doors at 7 pm. Advance tickets are $20 at Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records and ticketweb.ca.
Brand new family-oriented festival presenting professional kite flyers from across North America with local kiting enthusiasts on the Victoria waterfront. Saturday is Open Skies – all are welcome to join professional flyers to fly kites for the day; Sunday features Kid’s Kiting, making amazingly large kites, acrobatic kite teams and more! Clover Point.
Mother’s Day Concert May 11
The free annual concert at picturesque Playfair Park (1198 Rock) in Saanich runs 2 to 4pm. saanich.ca.
The evening benefiting Victoria Hospice includes a special performance by B.J. Roberts and Yesterday’s Wine. At Alix Goolden Performance Hall. Tickets, $15$30, at rmts.bc.ca. Doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm. Jimmy rankin April 26
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filmmaker Mischa Jakupcak’s The Hero Pose during the annual short film festival May 2 and 3. cinevic.ca.
The lead singer, guitarist and songwriting force behind multiplatinum Celtic-pop-rockers The Rankin Family visits the Mary Winspear Centre. Doors at 7pm. Tickets, $26.25 at marywinspear. ca.
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The artists tour in support of their new collaboration, Love Has Come for You, in addition to the unique hybrid of bluegrass and comedy that Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers have been delighting audiences with at their sold-out, critically acclaimed shows. At the Royal Theatre and the evening prior at The Port Theatre in Nanaimo. hightideconcerts.net.
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Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra May 18
Under the direction of maestra Tania Miller, VS anchors a gala performance featuring Pacific Opera Victoria and special guest Ben Heppner, a tenor who has sung in the world’s greatest opera houses. Tickets, from $46.50, rmts.bc.ca.
The orchestra performs Rebel’s Les Elements and Handel’s Water Music. Church of Saint John the Divine. Tickets from GVYO Office, 250-360-1121, and at the door. gvyo.org.
The Victoria Conservatory of Music teams up with the city’s leading chamber choir Vox Humana for a powerful performance at the McPherson Playhouse. Tickets, from $32, rmts.bc.ca. VICTORIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & POV May 23
A west coast roots celebration May 23
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Victoria’s musical history is laid out for a Royal Theatre crowd, by a selection of local favourites, including Vince Vaccaro, Acres of Lions and Kuba Oms. Tickets, $27, rmts.bc.ca.
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VOS celebrates the American musical May 24
VOS remounts its popular Broadway: Decades in Review from 2011 – a showcase of a hundred toe-tapping tunes from Oklahoma, Wicked, Grease and Billy Elliot with at least 20 singerdancers. Tickets, from $32, rmts. bc.ca. destroyer (solo) May 30
Dan Bejar continues his “lyrical and musical assault on all that is stagnant in modern popular music” with layers of guitar and piano at the Roxy Theatre with Blackout Beach. 7pm. Tickets, $22 advance, at Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records and ticketweb.ca. BESTIE May 31
Canoe Brewpub and Atomique co-produce a free show with the joyful sounds of Vancouver’s BESTiE. See why they made it to the top three in Vancouver’s 2013 Peak Performance Project at 9:30pm.
Dance with somebody May 9 - 10
The Karen Clark Dance studio performs their final recital, with dancers from age three through adults at 7pm at UVic’s Farquhar Auditorium. Tickets, $18.75, 250-721-8480. yuk yuks comedy tour May 10
Three Vancouver-based standup comics bring their summer tour back on the road and to the Mary Winspear Centre. Damonde Tschritter, Sam Easton and Toby Hargrave present a 19+ show at 8pm. Tickets, $29.40, marywinspear.ca.
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Freak comedian/actor/ impressionist Craig Gass hits Club 9ONE9 with guests. Doors open at 7pm for the early show. Advance tickets, $19.50 - Available at Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records, The Strathcona Hotel and ticketweb. ca. Shan-E-Punjab showcase May 8
The dance, performing arts and heritage school marks 21 years in the community with their annual year-end show at UVic’s Farquhar Auditorium. Tickets to see the variety of dance styles from India are $8/13, available through UVic’s ticket centre, 250-721-8480.
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Jazz Society presents three-time Grammy Award-winning blues singer/songwriter/guitarist described as a living link to the seminal Delta blues at 7:30pm May 1 at Alix Goolden Hall. Tickets, $48.50, rmts.bc.ca. And the countdown to JazzFest is on, with headliners such as Hiromi already announced for fest, which begins June 20. Full lineup to be released May 1. approved jazzvictoria.ca.
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The comic of stage and screen hits two Island theatres – The Port in Nanaimo May 12 and the McPherson Playhouse in Victoria May 13. porttheatre.com or rmts. bc.ca for details. Dancin’ on May 15
Wendy Steen Mitchell Dance presents their annual recital at UVic’s Farquar Auditorium at 7pm. More information on the all-ages show, available at tiptoesdance. ca. Tickets, $17, 250-721-8480. Equivocation Until May 25
Can William Shakespeare write the “true history” of Guy Fawkes and the thwarted Gunpowder Plot for King James – without losing his head? At the Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone. Tickets to Bill Cain’s ode to art, politics and the perils of negotiating both, start at $25, belfry.bc.ca. the magical garden May 25
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story ballet featuring some 70 students from its fullyear training program at 2pm at the Mary Winspear. Tickets $10/12, at marywinspear.ca. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN until May 10
Canadian College of Performing Arts presents this hilarious musical production based closely on Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy classic, a parody of Hollywood’s horror films. At the McPherson Playhouse. Tickets, from $32, rmts.bc.ca. The penelopiad April 24 - May 10
Brimming with movement, light and song, Margaret Atwood’s brilliant re-imagining of Homer’s Odyssey from the wry eye of longsuffering wife Penelope is a feast for the eyes and mind. Langham Court Theatre, 805 Langham. 250384-2142, langhamtheatre.ca. The marriage of Figaro April 24 - May 4
The screwball comic opera turned study of love, jealousy and forgiveness follows a single tumultuous day as Count Almaviva, his wife, his valet Figaro and his servants spin a tangled web of love affairs, plots and counterplots. At the Royal Theatre. Tickets, from $40, rmts. bc.ca. Cruel Tears/ Lagrimas Crueles April 29 - May 11
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of the most famously melodious and popular operas is a classic of the Royal Opera repertory, starring Maija Kovalevska and Dmytro Popov. It’s also a part of a cinema series of opera productions from the Royal Opera House’s Covent Garden Theatre in London offered at Cinecenta. Tickets. $10-15, ticketrocket. org.
Puente Theatre collaborates with Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre on this modern musical re-telling of Othello, in which the Moor of Venice is a Mexican truck driver who falls in love with his American boss’ daughter. Tickets to the exploration of the tensions between Mexico and the United States are $26.25 - $42 at ticketrocket.org.
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Thoroughly Modern Millie May 2 - 12
Victoria Operatic Society has some fun with this tale set in the fast-paced 1920s when a girl from Kansas moves to New York City to marry a rich man. While sampling the “thoroughly modern” flapper life, she makes friends, finds unexpected romance and a few mishaps! At the McPherson Playhouse. Select dates, rmts. bc.ca. Broadway Showcase May 8 - 9
Variety Fare performs a new stage show featuring an array of Broadway favourites. In May at Charlie White Theatre, Sidney’s Mary Winspear Centre, In June at Victoria’s Metro Studio varietyfare.ca. Atomic Vaudeville’s 10th Anniversary May 8 - 10
Atomic Vaudeville is celebrating their 10-year anniversary this summer with a Summer Cabaret and a 10th Anniversary Special Event Party (date for party still to be announced). Cabaret Ticket Prices start at $15. Expect an after show DJ dance party on the final night, included in the ticket price.
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Carole Sabiston: Everything Below All of the Above until April 28. March 7 to June 15, Alternative Visions: Renditions of Myth, Legend and Folk Tales from China and Japan. Visit 1040 Moss or aggv.ca. deluge contemporary art
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Jean Anouilh‘s modern classic – based on an ancient classic – achieves what few plays do: it presents so deeply both sides of a moral issue that the theatre goer will be challenged to differentiate between antagonist and protagonist. Tickets to the show, presented by Theatre Inconnu, start at $7 at ticketrocket.org. theatreinconnu.com. Puccini’s La Boheme (Royal Opera House Cinema) May 18
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Painter, poet and performance artist Roy Green’s urban folk art paintings are on display at Polychrome (977-A Fort) until April 24 during his Jolly Velocity solo show. WINCHESTER GALLERIES
At Winchester Modern (758 Humboldt): until April 26 Carole Sabiston: New Works. Winchester Oak Bay (2260 Oak Bay): a collection of paintings by Victoria’s Brad Pasutti, accompanied by works from local painter and printmaker Avis Rasmussen until April 29.
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Law of Attraction trainer, author and radio host Michael Losier teaches us how to apply the Law of Attraction to our advantage so we can attract more of what we want and less of what we don’t. Register at events@russellbooks. com, 7:30pm at Russell Books, 734 Fort. At the mike: Mystery night May 13
The monthly celebration of authors and ideas offers a panel of both veteran and new mystery authors. 7pm at Russell Books, 734 Fort. buddy wakefield May 16
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Courteney Cox Dancing in the Dark with The Boss. Björk sporting a swan dress at the Oscars. The Beatles: Shea Stadium, 1965. Every performer experiences a defining moment. For Victoria band Isobel Trigger, now is that moment – at least locally. Isobel is a shimmering alt pop/rock gem that caught the eye of Victoria’s music scene makers at exactly the same time, one shining 24-hour period. Late one evening Ariel Tseng, drummer of the synth-driven four-piece opens an email offering a gig at
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the UVic graduation party – a show she really wanted to let up. The band soon landed their first fly date for the land as a grad herself. The next morning, Tseng awakes Smithers Midsummer Music Festival, their latest music to a text from vocalist, synth and guitarist Felicia Harding: video just went live and come July, they’ll release their latthey were named Zone Band of the Month for April. est EP, Nocturnal. “I’m screaming,” Tseng says. “I can’t go to school. I But good fortune didn’t follow them straight out of can’t handle anything. I need to go in an isolation chamthe gate. Former Selkirk College classmates Harding and ber, I’m so excited. And I’m like: ‘What am I going to lead guitarist Brett Faulkner have been developing Isobel wear? I need all new rockstar clothes. We’re blowing up Trigger since 2009. Isobel – for softness and femininity – right now.’” and Trigger – a symbol of explosive rock – began with a While at Uptown to purchase said attire, Harding calls jazzier sound, built on the foundation of Harding’s solo Tseng with more big news: the group will be among acts songwriting efforts. Since bassist Kyle Lowther joined playing the historic Royal Theatre as a part of the Royal & two years ago and Tseng in 2013 – via “Craigslist: online McPherson Theatres Society 100th anniversary. dating for bands” – the writing process has become a “No. Stop it. This is too much in one day,” says Tseng, collaborative, organic experience and their complemenwearing what can only be described as head-totary musical interests have yielded super-charged toe classic rock star black, in the moments danceable beats with unexpected vocals all before soundcheck for the grad party at the their own. Strathcona. “I can’t handle this. I’m having “As a songwriter, I always felt like I Isobel Trigger a meltdown.” wanted a band,” says Harding, rising to rocks the Royal The windfall continued that evening, Tseng’s stage fashion standards in glistenMay 24 when Isobel Trigger was offered a spot ing body paint and gold-studded boots. “I rmts.bc.ca at the Tall Tree Music Festival and hasn’t enjoy doing solo stuff from time to time,
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s the sound of cymbals rang out marking the end of the free skate, their right hands fell in unison across their hearts and the Sochi crowd erupted in applause for Canada’s ice dance sweethearts. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir felt the gratification of living a dream they chased since becoming the youngest pair to win ice dance gold in 2010 – and the reverie may be through. Champion figure skater Kurt Browning, commentating at the time, was reluctant to accept the finality of that moment, which Virtue and Moir admitted may be their last at the Olympic Games. The iconic performance would live on forever, he said, by a pair matured to the pinnacle of their ability. “We looked at each other with a kiss and cry and said if that’s it, that’s the way to go,” says Moir, on the phone from Japan with the Stars on Ice tour. “Our plan has always been to take some time, do these tours, enjoy skating and see where our lives take us. We like to sit down and talk about how great the Olympics were. It’s almost a romantic connection. It’s hard to say that you won’t do the next Olympic Games after going through the experience that you’ve gone through in Sochi, which was probably the best month in our lives.” Had Virtue learned, as she trained to defend their gold, that the longtime pair would come in second to their rivals, Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White, she figures she would have been heartbroken. But while Virtue has come to acknowledge doubts she felt about training with Marina Zoueva, who was also coaching Davis and White in the run-up to the Olympics, she has never once second-guessed the quality of the show they put on in Russia. “I haven’t gone back to watch our performances yet and I think that’s probably for the best because I’m holding on to the feeling that I had when I finished both programs,” says Virtue. “I really don’t feel like I could have skated any better. … I truly felt better getting off the ice in Sochi than I did getting off the ice in Vancouver, even with the gold.” The skate was a culmination of a lifetime of work together. Virtue and Moir, now 24 and 26, began skating together in rural Ontario when she was seven and he was nine, a year after Virtue began skating lessons and landed under the direction of Moir’s aunt. Virtue’s grandmother dropped her off at the first lesson – which she had initially requested in preparation for a class field trip – in an origin story now legendary for her grandmother’s take on where her little one was headed. “My grandma said, ‘You know Tessa’s not taking this very seriously. This is just what she’s doing for fun, so there will be no tests, no competitions. This is just her activity for her enjoyment,’” Virtue says. “Obviously, that didn’t last very long.” The duo have consistently thrived under the pressure of competition, claiming national and world titles. In 2009, they made history by becoming the first to receive a 10.0 in dance in international competition. Whether side-by-side during training, touring with Stars on Ice or filming Tessa & Scott a documentary-style television series about their lives now airing on W Network, Virtue and Moir are bonded, not just by a work ethic that sees them on the ice five hours a day mid-season, but a passion for ice dance rooted in the same appreciation for storytelling executed through precise skill. At the 2009 Skate “It’s kind of that marriage between art and athCanada, competition, leticism that I really love and I think that’s what makes the sport special,” Moir says. “With the Virtue and Moir great champions who have come before us and received the first the champions who are going to come after us, 10.0 awarded in people see that and fall in love with ice dance as much as we have.” dance in international Where Moir is very linear, with a greatcompetition. er understanding of points and certain technical requirements, Virtue is drawn more to exploring the creative side of their programs. With the acrobatics involved in the increasingly technically demanding lifts, Virtue and Moir have sought the guidance of Cirque du Soleil acrobats and lift coaches. As for the primary coach leading them to Sochi, Zoueva, and the dynamic between her and her two competing ice dance pairs – while not uncommon in skating, remains a point of great fascination for audiences. For the majority of their relationship, the close proximity to their rivals created healthy competition. Eventually, their efforts to separate themselves from Davis and White, left the pair feeling very alone in the last season leading into the Olympics, Virtue says. “It’s impossible to ignore the feelings of doubt, especially when our coach travelled to the US Nationals and not the STEPHAN POTOPNYK PHOTO Canadian Nationals, or she marched with the American
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Stars on Ice is at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre May 13, 7 p.m. Tickets at selectyourtickets.com team and not the Canadian as she usually does. There were certainly red flags and when you’re in it, it’s hard to step back and get perspective, but looking back there were some moments that we questioned.” They don’t allow regrets to taint their memories of the event. Instead, they’re twizzling about in the creative opportunities to arise once competition ends and Stars on Ice dates are booked. When Virtue and Moir grace the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre ice May 13 (along with Browning and Olympic silver medallist Patrick Chan among others), they’ll bring with them a rare piece of choreography they crafted together. The first steps to Van Morrison’s Into the Mystic, their feel-good song, used to close training sessions, came about during an informal dance at Moir’s house. “We started by dancing around his kitchen, playing the music,” Virtue says. “This is a song that’s very meaningful to us because we listened to it a lot before Sochi. Even the lyrics are appropriate to us at this transition in our lives.” But whether magnificently they will flow into a mystical future on the ice together in the years to come, and whether Sochi truly was their final Olympic dance, is a question to which neither quite has the answer. Virtue is three-quarters of the way through a psychology degree, which she plans to continue online while on tour. Moir indulges in weighing all the possibilities left for him to explore in the world outside skating. “There’s a lot of sacrifice that comes with being an Olympian,” he says. “I’ve really put school on the sidelines, embarking on this dream of ours. I’d like to go back to school and help some of the younger athletes, hopefully help some of them have some of the experiences that we’ve had. That to me, would be completely fulfilling.” “This is a time to say yes to things and explore, step out of our comfort zones, basically to see what we like and where our passions lie outside of the confines of the four boards of an arena,” Virtue says. Given their close relationship and on-ice chemistry, fans have channelled plenty of energy into questioning if it translates into an off-ice romance. It’s so much more than that. “When we stepped on the ice in Sochi, we looked at each other and said: ‘How cool is this that we get to live this experience with a best friend?’” Virtue says. “I always say that there is only one person on the planet who has lived what I have lived and has experienced our skating career in the same way. That’s Scott, and there’s something really special and unique about that dynamic. We’ll be forever bonded, obviously, just by the sheer amount of time that we’ve spent together, but also because of everything that we’ve gone through as a pair.” mondaymag.com MONDAY MAGAZINE MAY 2014
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In addition to sharing the skies with hundreds of other kites of all shapes sizes, some of which cost upwards of $1,000, there will be a kids’ zone featuring kite making, a food village and a world-renowned kite collection from Dale Ray, an extravagant collection valued at more than $250,000. Terry Wiggill, a sales representative by day and serious kiting enthusiast by night, travels across North America to approximately 10 festivals a year. The leader of kiting foursome Island Quad performs with three others carrying out synchronized kiting where their kites loop-de-loop and dive to the earth within an inch of the ground May 31 is before flying back into the sky in Open Sky tandem. Wiggill Saturday – is excited to public welcome finally be perto fly kites forming at a fesall day tival in his home town. “I love it. Flying kites you are looking up rather than down, you get to fly in some beautiful places. This is an easy thing to like,” he said. “People love to fly kites – and fly together.” For more information go to victoriakitefestival.com.
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Hexaphone is a unique, award-winning six-voice a capella ensemble. Mermaid in the Parlour (May 10 in Victoria, May 24 in Sidney) is Hexaphone’s version of a ‘house concert’ with songs by Schumann, Finzi, Brahms, Elgar and others, plus a new composition by Nicholas Fairbank. hexaphone.org. Gotta Getta Gimmick’s Chorus line Cabaret (May 12) highlights the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein, at the Belfry Theatre. When I attended the last cabaret in January, the place was packed with musical-theatre fans and practitioners, so be sure to get tickets early if you’d like to hear the great hits and lesser-known tunes of these fabulous writers. gggarts.org. Victoria’s Youth Poet Laureate, Morgan Purvis, has been hard at work securing legendary spoken-word artist Buddy Wakefield, who performs his World Tour May 16 at Alix Goolden Hall. Joining him are musical acts Mike Edel and Fish&Bird. Wakefield also offers a workshop May 17. Tickets at Eventbrite.ca – search Buddy Wakefield. Founded in 2012, Fear No Opera is Victoria’s opera company for emerging artists. Its main goal is to help people love opera as much as they do. As a relative opera neophyte, I appreciate their approach to the discipline. On May 24 they stage Mozart’s well-known Cosi Fan Tutte or School for Lovers. Hilarity is promised. Fearnoopera.com. The Belfry Theatre’s 2013/14 season – dedicated to Shakespeare – ends with Equivocation (April 22-May 25), a co-production with Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach that promises palace intrigue and backstage comedy in an ode to art and politics. Belfry.bc.ca. Margaret Atwood’s excellent retelling of the Odyssey – from Penelope’s point of view – is featured at Langham Court Theatre (April 23-May 10). Langham’s considerable pool of talent makes casting large shows like this possible. Langhamtheatre.ca. Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre finishes its first regular season at the Roxy Theatre in Quadra Village with a Canadian classic – the Tex/Mex retelling of Shakespeare’s Othello – Làgrimas Crueles/Cruel Tears, originally written in the 1970s, and lovingly reworked by Puente Theatre’s artistic director Mercedes Bátiz-Benét. (April 29-May 11) Tickets at TicketRocket. org.
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Cool, salty air and the gentle movement of ocean underfoot during the skipper’s run-down of man overboard protocol make the prospect of time over the guardrails entirely more appealing than dealing with my overstuffed email inbox. Before we’ve even untied Rob Tape’s 38-foot racer-cruiser Riot from the Royal Victoria Yacht Club to take part in the William Head Trophy Race, something about the impermeable pants, the closeness to the sea and the anticipation of the unknown, of a pelagic place very close to my daily wanderings, but so different, melts into one maxim: nothing’s better than a day on the water.
Marni Fedoruk, a sailor of 15 years, commodore of the Turkey Head Sailing Association and my mentor is in pit, meaning she’s responsible for all lines leading to the cockpit. With an instrument around her neck to measure speed and her eye on the clock, Fedoruk counts us down to the start. The crack of air horn shatters the calm before the 10 boats circling Cadboro Bay depart for Metchosin. Clinging to a handrail I expect to be more frightened by Riot’s lean. Fedoruk tells me the hull is infused with lead, that the angle we’ll ride the water is entirely safe. My feet dangle over the high side of the boat in a position that feels more like carnival ride than marine transport. The wind catches the main sail and all the day’s anxieties, the clatter of the morning hustle-bustle, are blown away by the rushing wind and surf. In front of us, Oak Bay from a new angle: the hotel, golf course, rocky shoreline, coastal birds. Porpoises and a pod of orcas rise from the depths, slide along the surface long enough to catch our eye and dip back into the deep. A couple of avid sailors visiting from the UK, Jennifer MacGregor and her husband Bruno De Deckere arranged to join the race and both offer tips along the way. With a brief tutorial on how to crank a winch and trim a sail, MacGregor pulls me into the action. De Deckere is the first to underline the importance of shifting your weight to the edge
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of the boat, a balancing act Fedoruk calls “on board pilates” and what I will Have your own high come to see as my priseas adventure. Visit mary role here: movable weight. Every rvyc.bc.ca for a list of so often Daragh events and information Nagle, a sailor who on sailing programs has left his own boat and crewbank to winter in Maryland, emerges from his post registration. inside the cabin with a digital view of the course, thanks to a GPS and navigation software. Assisted by Paul Jenkins – a man with some 50 years of sailing experience himself – Tape stands at Riot’s steel wheel and sets us out on good footing for the first leg of the race. I’m perched on the starboard side where the final crew member in this cast, Jan Schorer, a German engineer studying at UVic explains to me velocity made good, a measure of the boat’s speed in the direction of the mark, in our case a buoy in the waters off William Head. We tack back and forth towards our destination and with each move, I clamber overtop the deck, below the main sail and set my movable weight back down. For a couple of hours, I succumb to the meditative nature of the experience: the wind, the waves, the tranquility – untainted by a growing awareness that we have fallen far from our place near the front of the pack. At one point near our destination, I believe we actually went in reverse – funny to me only because it didn’t affect the attitude of the crew or their desire to keep making the best moves possible at the time. A change in wind direction saw a delay in deploying the spinnaker until well past our turnaround – but still early enough to experience Jenkins’ smooth manoeuvring with the parachute-like sail in full effect, around the inside of Race Rocks in the afternoon sun, delicately past a competitor without falling victim to its wind shadow and back to the marina. Riot may have spent five hours and 13 minutes to cover 36.76 miles, at a speed up to 9.3 knots. She may have charted a course map reminiscent of three-year-old with a Spirograph at our mark and she may have technically came in last place. But she also underlined Fedoruk’s claim that people are so generous, because they want to spread the word, that the sailing community, though often perceived as elitist, always welcomes prospective crew – even the ill-equipped. So long as they share the view, that nothing quite tops a day on the water.
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The power of Uno Bold, independent and alone with the audience NATALIE NORTH arts@mondaymag.com Andrew Bailey wants to tell you a story. A whole novel, actually. And he wants to cook your meals and hunt for Easter eggs and make some tea. He wants to create the kind of communal experience people used to find at church through The Rite of James Biddle, when he reads his 70,000 word -debut novel in its entirety and welcomes the audience into activities and meals born from the text at Intrepid Theatre’s 17th annual Uno Fest. “I hope to create a full-on shared, unique experience and make people feel that they were a part of something,” says the Uno Fest veteran known for 10 years of work with Atomic Vaudeville. “On a creative level I hope for that. I also hope that people will buy the book.” The Rite of James Biddle is the fictional tale of an Anglican priest, “born in tweed,” lacking connection with those younger than 80 and rejecting such technologies of the day. When he falls in love and loses track of a loved one, he’s forced to face the modern world and its changes. The writer/actor has crafted an elaborate event around the reading, presented as a service, “a giant secular Eucharist.” At the close of each chapter, which runs about an hour, Bailey offers meals and diversions. It’s also an opportunity for guests to come and go. The day begins with a breakfast germane to the story, baked orange french toast, and includes a bake sale and other Biddle-inspired creations, lunch and dinner before a post-show cake and tea. “It’s appealing to more than just the sense of sound from the book itself, but also, to actually share in some of the stuff that people are eating and to know, when I’m describing something, what that thing is like,” he says. “If I end up breaking even, I’m happy. If I don’t, that’s fine too. I just want to make it as cool and interesting and unique as possible.” Even though the main character is Anglican, the guests along for the roughly 12-hour ride don’t have to be, Bailey says, noting two of the project’s early supporters were a borderline communist-Catholic and an atheist libertarian. They just have to be appreciative of Bailey’s work, which in recent days has become somewhat of a worldwide trend. On March 26 Bailey posted a video to YouTube entitled Why Rape is Sincerely Hilarious that soon made its way to the front page of Reddit
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and had attracted more than 500,000 views by the time of publication. The monologue, though delivered through a character, is written in response to a recurrent theme in comedy films that disturbed Bailey, the trope that guys like it if they get sexually assaulted, so long as an attractive woman is the perpetrator, and his own experience with sexual harassment as a 13-year-old. Bailey’s words connected powerfully with viewers, hundreds of whom Another expressed amazing Uno Fest their gratis on May 21itude for the 31 at the Metro work and Studio and Intrepid shared Theatre Club. their intrepidtheatre.com personal stories of abuse. Unable to respond individually, Bailey eventually chose to disregard advice to monetize the video with advertising, and allowed himself permission to stop answering the messages. The feedback was at times overwhelming and emotional – yet incredibly validating to the artist responsible. “I’m always concerned that people are just being nice to me when they say they like something – even reviews,” he says. “When it’s that helpful to that many complete strangers, like complete strangers, like there are people watching it in Saudi Arabia – I’m like okay. Maybe over the 15 years I’ve been doing this, I’ve developed some skills and abilities.” The one-time shared experience of Bailey’s The Rite of James Biddle is set for 9am May 24 at Intrepid Theatre Club (1609 Blanshard) with hourly entrances until 9pm. Tickets are $20, with meals by donation. To learn more about the long-running festival, visit intrepidtheatre.com. For details on the full schedule, individual tickets and passes, visit ticketrocket.org. The Rite of James Biddle is soon to be released by Bayeaux Arts.
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the endangered species on 1980’s Baby Beluga and are now enrolling the next generation in the timeless school of Raffi. And that’s exactly where Raffi’s “accidental career” as a children’s entertainer began, as a folk-singer in his mother-in-law’s preschool classroom, where he first sang for her students and opened the door to an unexpected world. “The initial experience of singing with kids on a rug on the floor of a nursery school was quite charming, apparently for both me, the kids and their teachers and it led to more. Along the way my desire to understand kids grew. As I was helped to see children as people worthy of respect, that was the key for the rest of my music to unfold. That feeling has never left me, the feeling of respect for the child as a whole person and it has guided my entire career and the decisions that I’ve made.” Passing on any project marketed to kids, and defending the environment along the way, the Egyptian immigrant’s ethics eventually led him to develop child honouring. The philosophy of nine principles aimed at putting children first to heal communities – including diversity, this also guides his work at The Centre for Child Honouring, a charitable organization on Salt Spring. “The success that I’ve had in my career offers me opportunities – a platform from which to keep spreading a message of joy and that the child embodies joy, is an inspiration to all of us. The young of every culture are the same biological creatures. If you have a newborn baby – whether that’s an Irish baby, or an East Indian baby, or an Eritrean baby – that’s the same heart-beating, beautiful, vulnerable, intelligent biological creature the world over. That universality of the human condition is best seen in the young child.”
Raffi plays The McPherson May 25. “It’s going to be a wonderful sing along. There will be some banana puns. It’s a show with appeal.”
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e’ve all seen them on highways and rural byways, massive roadside attractions that elicit a gasp or a guffaw – buffalo as big as locomotives, a helicopter-sized mosquito or a cowboy boot that would fit King Kong. Everybody loves a road trip and these kitschy, small-town landmarks are part of the fun. While they may not be a destination on their own, they offer a quirky target to aim for with the goal of exploring the surrounding region. British Columbia has its share of mammoth landmarks and – since this is Canada – the Guinness Book of World Records’ holder for the world’s largest hockey stick (and puck), seems a good place to start. Recognized by the Hockey Hall of Fame, the 207-foot (63metre), 33-tonne wooden goal-maker was created for Vancouver’s Expo ‘86 and now graces the community centre in Duncan, north of Victoria. And when hockey fans need to refuel? You’re in the heart of the Cowichan Valley, where produce is showcased weekly at the town’s lively Saturday farmers market. A short drive from Duncan promises a lush mini-Provence, where you can navigate scenic, winding country roads along “Gourmet Trail” tasting routes, dropping in on cheesemakers, wineries, cideries and organic farms. If adventure is your game, head west of Duncan for hiking and paddling around Cowichan Lake; 20 minutes to the south, Shawnigan Lake is the site of the historic Kinsol Trestle, Take in some of one of the world’s largest free-standing Vancouver Island’s wooden trestles at 187 metres (614 feet) in length and 46 metres (150 feet) in unique scenery height. With views of the Koksilah River, on your next this eye-popper can be found on a hikroad trip ing/biking route that is part of the TransCanada Trail.
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Island getaways are rare in my life, but one of my favourites – after a quick daytrip to Coombs to ogle the goats on the roof – is Port Renfrew. Only two hours west of Victoria lies this little community at the end of the Juan de Fuca trail. It looks bigger on a map than it really is and places to stay are limited and eclectic, but if the great outdoors is your thing – Port Renfrew has it in spades. Pack a picnic and hike the trails – Port Laura Lavin Renfrew is also the southern end of the West Coast Trail – walk the beach or just stand in awe of some of the oldest and biggest trees in North America. Botanical Beach is one of the most spectacular places on the planet for tide pools brimming with sea life. For an up-close look at sea stars, urchins, barnacles, crabs and tiny little fishies this is the place to be. Don’t forget your camera.
Put Spring in your step My preferred Island hideout begins with a luxe cruise aboard the only queen with which I’m familiar, the Skeena, on a course to Salt Spring Island. Few things in life are as comforting as a run along North End Road, a reclaiming of those calories in ice cream at Penny’s Pantry and a lazy Saturday stroll through the park once the height of the market has died down but its characters remain. An active game plan for a hometown check-in may involve hiking to the peak of Mount Erskine, Natalie North while the lazier route could lead to Vesuvius Beach or St. Mary Lake. Then there’s the unparalleled only-on-Salt-Spring experience of catching a flick in the church hall-
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turned movie theatre, and enough garage sale and thrift shopping finds to get crafty junk hunters like me buzzed. (If garage sale-ing isn’t your drug of choice, there are other options.) I may just take my $5 road bike for a regal ride back to her hometown this weekend.
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When a friend in the Maritimes heard I was moving to Victoria she said, “Make sure you walk the breakwater.” So when we arrived here and I was feeling a little overwhelmed (Moving two jobs and three of our four children, ages 12, 14 and 16, can be a bit overwhelming!) we took an excursion to Dallas Road. And there it was … a concrete road out to the lighthouse at Ogden Point. We loved it. It was good for the soul. When we first walked the L-shaped walkway there were no hand rails but despite worries that the railings would spoil the breakwater, it didn’t for us. It continues to be the one thing we try and do when the family returns to Victoria for Thanksgiving Jo-Ann and Christmas. Built in 1918, you get a sense that the breakwater is timeless. On the 1.6 kilometre return trip you see the most amazing things: cruise ships, divers, sea stars and squid. There’s also tugs, container ships and ferries coming and going. When I need a convenient way to be reminded of the beauty of the mountains and the sea and feel connected to nature and the divine, I walk the breakwater at Ogden Point. It’s even better when I am joined by the rest of the family. The café at the start of the walk is the icing on the cake.
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I am currently on my laptop in public. Yeah, I’m that guy! And I know what people think when they see that: “Oooo look at you! Drinking your caramel macchiato and writing some kind of modernist novela about the strife you have witnessed in your 22 years on this planet on a Macbook your parents bought for you.” … Or at least that’s how I feel when I see people in public on their computers. And by feel I mean quietly yell under my breath. I like to write in restaurants. It allows me to eat my meal alone and also get work done. And while the act of having a laptop out in public still has a similar douche canoe effect that it would if I was in a coffee shop, I still feel okay with it. I may openly admit that it is still a dink move, but it’s what I do. Don’t judge me! Another macchiato please. I am in a quiet restaurant and the waiter, while talented, has left me alone for a good amount of time during my meal. Today, unexpectedly, I am having
a bout of horrific, but quiet, gas. It also seems that my ill-timed flatulence is acting like a servant bell because every time I try to release the pressure the guy comes running over. “Do you need a top up on your coff …” and then I see the look on the face. It’s subtle, but it’s there. That simple flash of eye contact that says in a moment: “Is that you? Are … are you dying?” And the truth of the matter is yes, yes I am. Mostly of embarrassment. I’m in a strange place. I’m going through a bit of a personal crisis realizing that I have never been truly honest with myself about a lot and realizing that the life I have attempted to build needs some big improvements. It’s hard to be funny when you are feeling this way. The other day I had a headlining gig and I was so unfocused on the task at hand that I didn’t think the show did very well. Lots of people came and lots of people laughed, but I still couldn’t help but feel that I bombed. In reality, I know I didn’t because when you bomb – you know it. When you bomb on stage you spend your time scrambling to
find a joke that will get a laugh, you ruin set ups and punchlines because you’re nervous and sweaty and then you remember that painful silence of a room void of laughter for a very long time. There wasn’t any scramble or lack of laughs at my show, but I still felt it. This week I fly down to Los Angeles to meet with some agents for the first time to get their advice on where I should go next. I had a meeting with these same agents a year ago over the phone and it helped me focus a great deal, and now, a year later, I am going to see them in person. After I am done in Los Angeles I fly to Halifax to film the opening and closing galas of the Ha!ifax ComedyFest which will be my very first appearance on national television. It’s an exciting and terrifying month. So how does a comedian who is having a crisis, go to Hollywood and be funny for the big guns? Well, I guess he shuts his mouth, puts on his man pants, and does his job. Right now I think the bigger questions is … what should I wear?
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Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival takes over the town Playing Flight of the Bumblebee at a ridiculous 300 beats per minute in the comfort of your living room is one thing, but doing it before a live audience is a different story; just ask any tipsy open-mic’er who has impulsively wandered onstage to belt out Janis Joplin’s Me and Bobby McGee and collided with the difficult and unexpected key change. The art of live performance, like sight-reading or improvising, is a skill only mastered through steady practice. Now in its 87th year, the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival provides young artists with an opportunity to experience the volatility of live performance and to be critiqued by professionals. There will be 15 disciplines represented, from fiddle to ethnic dance, and more than 5,000 artists of all ages will showcase their talents before experts who will give honest feedback about the performances. “Learning how you can grow and how you can get better, that’s really important,” says Lana The GVPAF is a Denoni, GVPAF board memnon-profit society ber. “We try to get really incorporated in 1927. good adjudicators that have expertise in each It is supported by field. It’s all about learnapproximately 300 ing.”
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Ceilidh Briscoe will be among the 5,000 musicians and artists performing at the Greater Victoria Performing Arts Festival.
Receiving honest critique is a tough step on the road to professionalism. For many, the GVPAF will be the first time performers receive professional feedback about what they are doing right, and what elements they need to work on. This can be tough for young artists who aren’t used to criticism. They’ll need to bring their thickest skin and leave their egos at the door. Though many of the venues have remained the same, there have been changes in the adjudication. “They used to (rank) each person first, second, third, but they don’t do that now,” says Denoni. “Now, they give each individual person adjudication on how they’ve performed. I think that helps people grow, rather than leaving them thinking, ‘Oh, I did really bad.’” Some musicians in the festival are already at a near-professional level. Ceilidh Briscoe, 19, has been playing violin for 14 years and is currently working
on Paganini’s notoriously difficult Caprice No. 24. She’s no stranger to critics, and knows the difficulties endemic to live performance are all mental. “You’re working with your mind,” says Briscoe after class at the Victoria Conservatory of Music. “You get more experienced with it. When I started I was really young. I always think, ‘I‘m going to have fun with this’ as opposed to ‘I’m being judged.’” The festival’s top singers and instrumentalists will be selected by judges to perform at the Roberto and Mary Wood Scholarship Concert on May 10. Each musician will have 20 minutes to dazzle a three-member panel, and one performer will receive a sizeable scholarship. To add a bit more pressure, Victoria dignitaries including Lt. Gov. Judith Guichon will be in attendance. This year’s festival began April 1, and ends with the dance honours concert on May 12. Visit gvpaf.org for a full schedule.
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Tucked away in the small courtyard of 633 Courtenay St., fresh Japanese flavour awaits. The staff of Uchida Eatery welcome people warmly with wide smiles and hellos to the backdrop of the small kitchen where Yasunobu Uchida is hard at work. It’s not yet noon and the handful of tables are already quickly filling while to-go orders walk out the door. The eatery is an industry favourite and my lunch companion, chef Jamie Cummins of Relish, greets people by name, offering bits of his or her resumé to me as an aside. He was quick and decisive choosing the luncheon site. “It’s just one of the best places to eat,” he says. “It’s inspiring to eat here because it’s how I think about food too.” Uchida (greeted enthusiastically as Yasu by most) is among those who seek quality ingredients when cooking. Most of his organic Asian veggies come from Umi Nami Farm in Metchosin. “He doesn’t talk about it, but he’s pretty true to it,” Cummins says. Cummins orders the special of the day and the mainstay tuna don. “A lot of traditional Japanese cooking happens here. That’s unique,” he says, grabbing a couple of glasses of water
and utensils – chopsticks, or hashi to the can be challenging, Cummins says. But Japanese. limitations force a chef into creativity. A We start with a pair of salad staples that savoury egg custard rounds out the plate come quickly, doled out from family-sized and palate. bowls and brought over by the smiling “It’s always good here, stuff like this young woman who greeted us and took you would never be able to find in any our order. other restaurant,” he says upon first bite. One is spinach and cannellini bean with “Perfectly seasoned, super delicious. usuage (think fried tofu) cooked with miso “He’s trying to create a balance here and organic soy milk. with the sweet and saltiness of Chef The second salad I love; this dish.” Komatsuna (Japanese musThe pork is local, raised at Yasunobu tard spinach) blended with Stillmeadow Farm in Metchosin Uchida takes organic rainbow chard and and that just adds to Cummins’ eating locally carrot, plus enoki mushconfidence in any dish served at to heart rooms, all dosed lightly with Uchida. Yasu even buys organic a mustard dressing. brown rice then mills it himself. Then the mains are delivered from the “It’s super fresh and super nutritious,” open kitchen. Fresh-milled sushi rice lays Cummins says. Anyone who cares that a foundation for the popular tuna don; much is far more likely to keep the kitchen seared tuna with grated ginger, green clean and organized (pretty hard not too onion, nori, wasabi, organic greens. The when it’s out in the open like at Uchida) menu regular is “just really satisfying” and take food safety practices such as Cummins says. refrigeration temperature seriously. The special buta nira itame, is a marinat“When you’re using the best ingredied pork stir fry with umami, bean sprouts, ents you can buy you want to showcase shiitake mushrooms and cabbage. The them,” he says. “I think it’s a healthier side of cauliflower and parsnip roasted and way of being, and if you’re buying seasondressed with a slight vinegar flavour highal you’re supporting local people. I know light the last vestiges of winter crops as we he’s going to be serving me things picked settle on the cusp of seasons, a time that yesterday.”
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OAK BAY MARINA RESTAURANT Enjoy the fresh tastes of the West Coast in a spectacular oceanfront setting at the award-winning Marina Restaurant. Our dining room menu is 100% certified Ocean Wise and 75% gluten free. Come in from May to June and experience the pleasures of the Spot Prawn Season. 250 598 8555 www.marinarestaurant.com 1327 Beach Drive at the Oak Bay Marina
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the hammy panache and plummy vowels of an over-reaching Shakespearean actor. Happily, Nigel is back and thirsting for revenge, although he has to share screen George Lopez is the voice of Rafael in Blue Sky Studios’ Rio 2. time with a new villain, an unscrupulous mogul his need to carry a GPS, electric toothbrush, who is illegally strip-logging the Amazon and Tic Tacs in a fanny pack. Needless to rainforest. As luck – or, more properly, plot say, lessons are learned on both sides as contrivance – would have it, these arboreal these noble birdbrains ultimately unite to depredations are occurring in the same part save their wild home. of the rainforest where a large, previously Although no one is going to mistake unknown flock of blue macaws has just this for Finding Nemo, the boisterous Rio been discovered. And as Blu and Jewel and movies are notable for their fun characters their three cute fledglings head north from and wacky sense of humour as much as Rio to discover their ancestral roots, they are the vivid set design and bold colours. Rio 2 destined to collide with the perfidious Nigel is also a tropical musical, and a few of the as well as a gang of murderous tree poachmany elaborate set pieces cheekily reference ers. But not before the citified Blu has to Carmen Miranda as well as the choreogconfront his true nemesis: Jewel’s father, a raphy of Busby Berkeley. The eco theme tough old bird with no patience for Blu and and Blu’s concerns about where he belongs
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The latest from Victoria-raised director Atom Egoyan is a true-life look at the witch hunt that erupted in an Arkansas town when three eightyear-old boys were brutally murdered and three “goth” teenagers were soon on trial as Satanists. With Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon. Jon Hamm (Mad Men) stars in a true story about a fading sports agent who travels to India to search for young cricket players with pitching arms good enough to get them a contract in major league baseball back in the States. This genial comedy-drama co-stars Alan Arkin and Bill Paxton.
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Those pesky April showers have rained great films upon us for the month of May. If you missed Devil’s Knot at the Victoria Film Festival then head to Cinecenta. They’ve also scooped up Enemy a complicated film that challenged audiences who either were mad KATHY KAY for it or at it. If you are a @VicFilmFestival downtown film afficianado, head to The Vic Theatre. I’m most excited by Errol Morris’ latest The Unknown Known. Morris deserves so much credit for lifting documentary above dryly presented facts to something that oozes with life. I must confess I’ve seen Fog of War four times and could watch it again. My absolute favourite? Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter. But back to Morris’ latest, the focus is Donald Rumsfeld, jaw dropping, insightful, and delivered with great rhythm. It’s incredibly watchable. If you are up for a strikingly strong female lead, I recommend Rhymes for Young Ghouls also at The Vic.
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Of course the only thing that matters right now is Mad Men is back, but I could mention that every column (I do). I’d also like to have a good hash-out on the end of True Detective, as it aired after my last deadline, but seeing as this won’t be printed until over a month later, well, we’ll all probably be tired of hearing about it. All I’ll say is even though the show had some plot hole JONATHAN HESSION/SHOWTIME issues, and could have used Eva Green as Vanessa in Penny Dreadful. some more rounded female characters, the acting and tone of the show won me over. It had some of the most spellbinding, exciting and rich sequences I have seen on TV in some time. If you somehow missed it, I certainly recommend catching up. So let’s all move on and take a look at some of the other shows premiering and returning to TV over the next month. The new series I’m easily most excited to watch over the next month is the intriguing Penny Dreadful, premiering on Movie Central May 11 at 9 p.m. The show, starring Josh Hartnett and Small Screen Official Crush Eva Green, takes its title and inspiration from a trashy genre of 19th century British literature focused on lurid and dark tales. Creator John Logan has a solid track record in film (Gladiator, Hugo, Skyfall) so hopefully that talent for storytelling and intrigue translates well to the small screen. His new TV show looks to be similar in spirit to its namesake, with promises of erotic Victorian horror mixed with supernatural mysteries, and Eva Green. Sold. Fans of the Daily Show will already be well familiar with John Oliver, who is bringing his dry political humour to HBO on Sunday nights starting April 27 with Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Stephen Colbert may be a hard act to follow in terms of Daily Show expats, but with a new network and an already well branded form of funny, Oliver’s show could be a must see for comedy news junkies. For those of you who for some reason or another couldn’t get enough of 24, well, it’s back. Keifer Sutherland returns as Jack Bauer in the painfully obviously titled 24: Live Another Day. The limited series will stick to the real time format which defined the original series, but it will occasionally skip forward to allow the show to cover 24 hours in 12 episodes. Look for its two-hour premiere on Global May 5. Some other favourites are also returning, including Canadian science fiction fan favourite Orphan Black, with Season 2 coming to the Space Channel on April 19 and frumpy philosophical standup comedian Louis CK returning with the fourth season of his critically acclaimed show Louie, premiering May 5 on FX Canada.
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Decora also has a great choice of glass or marble round tiles that come in penny size and larger. Loki Tiling is a flooring store at 3164 Gamma St, which also has a great selection of floor and wall tile. Here, I found a diamond shaped glass accent tile that comes in four colours. These too, would be a groovy backsplash tile or accent in a bathroom. I think they would look fantastic laid horizontally as an accent band above or below rectangular tile. Here’s what’s important in laying out a tile pattern, keep in mind what is going on around the tile. If the countertop is plain, go for some pattern, a different shape and punch in the tile backsplash. Sheri Peterson has been an interior designer for 22 years in Victoria. She designs for commercial, residential and hospitality clients.
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HAVE FUN ON THE RUN I’m not really a runner. In fact, I really don’t like running, but I run. Let’s be honest here, I run just fast enough that you can’t call it walking. So why do I do it? I’ve been asking myself that question a lot lately since I’m registered to run the TC 10K again this year, something I first did six years ago. Here are a few of the reasons I still run: You meet the most amazing people when you run. I’ve trained with a number of clinics: Juan de Fuca, Esquimalt Rec., and Sole Sisters. You discover that your running buddies are just like you. They have the same challenges, the same insecurities; they are there to offer encouragement and reward you for just showing up, no matter how fast you run. Finishing is a fabulous feeling. There is always a point in every run when you think you could run forever, then there is a point when you don’t think you can take one more step and then you finish and realize that you accomplished your goal. I have a good friend who runs with me. She’s the reason I show up on days when I know I wouldn’t show up if it was left to me. There’s coffee and conversation after every run. It’s the best coffee of the week.
It’s a good excuse to enjoy some of the most beautiful scenery in Victoria. My kids admire me for doing this, and they all run as well – just much faster. It gives me something to talk about with other runners. You quickly discover it’s a generous community that welcomes all comers. It’s a good excuse to buy cool gear. The TC 10K and the Victoria Marathon 8K are my goals. I really don’t think I’d have started again and again without these events. I love the thrill of being part of such big events. Because I can (thank you Sole Sisters). It’s true, I am grateful that I am healthy and still able to run (even if it is slowly). If you have a chance to cheer on the runners at any race let me tell that you that every word of encouragement is appreciated and it does make a difference. And for everyone who makes it to the start line, congratulations. I know how hard it is to just show up. Have a good run. Jo-Ann Roberts is an award-winning, veteran journalist who is host of CBC Radio’s All Points West, 3-6 pm weekday afternoons, 90.5 fm.
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ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)
It’s time to monitor your assets. Do you know what you own? Do you have stuff you haven’t used in years? What about your “ongoing, projects”? Figure out what you own, what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of. This is the best time of year to examine how you use your resources. The trick is what you own should make your life easier and not the other way around. Think of the peace of mind and increased energy you will have once you organize your finances and your stuff.
TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20)
Happy birthday! This month boosts your energy and gives you a chance to recharge your batteries for the rest of the year. It also attracts important people to you as well as favourable situations. This is the one time of year when you should put yourself first. Because you like your creature comforts and you like quality, treat yourself to some of your favourite goodies – the best bread, coffee, wine, or your favourite restaurant. Creative friends are in your life now, which means you can enjoy scintillating conversations over a great table.
GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)
Since your personal year is coming to an end, this is the perfect time to reflect on the past year and think about how you want your new year to be different. Studies claim if you set goals, with deadlines, your odds of achieving those goals are greater than if you just muddle forward, reacting to life. It’s like going to the supermarket with a list instead of just wandering through the aisles buying maraschino cherries and tonic water. Basically, this month is a reality check. It’s time to see how well you are doing at the art of living.
CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22)
This is a popular month! Not only will you socialize extensively, you will also receive help from others. That’s why it’s wise to form working units and accept the assistance of others, or in turn, offer assistance. The next six weeks are an excellent time to think about future goals. What do you want to achieve in the next five years? If you imagine yourself five years in the future, what does the perfect picture look like? Always start with perfect and then scale back as reality dictates. It’s something to shoot for.
LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22)
Lucky Leo! This month, the Sun slowly crosses the top of your chart, acting like a spotlight on you and this light is flattering! Bosses, parents, teachers and VIPs will notice you more and see you as competent and capable. This is why you will be asked to take on increased responsibilities. Say yes because you won’t have to be an action hero to satisfy their expectations. Hey --you look great, remember? This is also a good time to examine your life direction. Are you headed where you want to go?
VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22)
Travel opportunities and chances to get further education will fall in your lap this month, which is great because you’re keen to explore new, unfamiliar situations. Even a casual encounter might be fascinating or prove to be a positive learning experience. Therefore, do anything different! If you can’t travel, then explore your own city. Do anything that stimulates your intellect and gives you a new take on things. Some of you will be involved with the law more than usual. (“Step away from the fridge.”)
LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22)
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SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21)
This month the Sun is opposite your sign, which means you will need more sleep. Factoid. However, this opposition Sun will also draw your focus to partnerships and close friendships. Examine these relationships. Essentially, for a partnership to be successful, you have to be as good for your partner as he or she is for you. According to a Chinese proverb, “Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.” (Pssst. This hand signal means “Take out the garbage.”)
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21)
You want to turn over a new leaf and reorganize your world. Get on the stick and give yourself the right materials to do a great job. This marvelous spring energy will energize you to not only clean and sort where you live, but also to apply this same effort to where you work. In fact, by extrapolation, you will be gung ho to improve your health. Yes, you want it all! Physical, smooth running efficiency! Not only will you refine your techniques for staying on top of your scene, you will enjoy being of service to others.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19)
It’s fun city! The placement of the Sun this month makes you want to seek out pleasure. This is the perfect time for a vacation. Enjoy playful times with children plus sports events. Expect romance to be revved. Existing relationships will be recharged with fun energy, while new romance might enter your world. Express your creativity and explore the arts or any creative expression that appeals. (Yup. Show me an optimist, and I’ll show you a happycondriac.)
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18)
Now your attention turns to home, family and your domestic world. Some will be involved with a parent; but all of you will focus more on your personal life. You might entertain at home and be involved with family, or you might want to cocoon at home with junk food, good TV, interesting books and games. You want to be among familiar surroundings. Expect to be contemplative about the past. You might do something that takes you on a trip down memory lane.
PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)
The pace of your days accelerates in the next six weeks with errands, short trips and schmoozing. You might be involved with a sibling or relative plus you will read and write more. Basically, you want to get outta town and do something stimulating! Note: This is a good time to buy wardrobe goodies because you like what you see in the mirror, plus you’re eager to socialize. You are aware of your daily world because you are interested in everything going on around you.
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Bi-weekly on a 60 month term with 130 payments. MSRP $16,130** includes freight and PDI
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$2500 Cash Purchase Incentive Model Shown: GE8G2EEX
2014 CIVIC DX
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#1
SELLING COMPACT CAR IN BC†
Lease for
85 $0 down
$
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1.99% APR#
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freight and PDI included.
Bi-weekly on a 60 month term with 130 payments. MSRP $17,185** includes freight and PDI
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$1000 Cash Purchase Incentive
2014 CR-V LX
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Lease for
134 $0 down
$
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1.99% APR¥
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freight and PDI included.
#1
SELLING COMPACT SUV IN BC†
Bi-weekly on a 60 month term with 130 payments. MSRP $27,685** includes freight and PDI
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$2500 Cash Purchase Incentive
Campus Honda 506 Finlayson Street, Victoria, BC V8T 5C8
250-388-6921 • www.CampusHonda.com
DL 27136
†The Fit, Civic and CR-V were the #1 selling retail subcompact car, compact car, and compact SUV respectively in BC in 2013 based on Polk 2013 Dec YTD report. ‡In order to achieve $0 down payment, dealer will cover the cost of tire/battery tax, air conditioning tax (where applicable), environmental fees and levies on the 2014 CR-V LX, Accord LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only on behalf of the customer. £Limited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 Fit DX model GE8G2EEX. €0.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDl, is $67.49 based on applying $1,100.00 lease dollars and $4 dealer contribution (which are deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes); and $1,000.00 consumer incentive dollars (which are deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes) Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $8,773.70. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. *Limited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX. #1.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, induding freight and PDI, is $84.63 based on applying $600.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $11,001.90. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km lor excess kilometres. ΩLimited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES. ¥1.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDl, is $133.83 based on applying $1,000.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes) Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $17,397.90. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. **MSRP is $16,130/$17,185/$27,685 including freight and PDl of $1,495/$1,495/$1,695 based on a new 2014 Fit DX model GE8G2EEX / new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX / 2014 CR-V LX 2WD model RM3H3EES. License, insurance, registration and taxes are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. ¥/£/€/Ω/#/* Prices and/or payments shown do not include a PPSA lien registration fee of $30.31 and lien registering agent’s fee of $5.25, which are both due at time of delivery and covered by the dealer on behalf of the customer on the 2014 CR-V LX, Accord LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only. ‡/#/*/Ω/€/¥/£/**’ Offers valid from Apri1 1st through 30th, 2014 at participanng Honda retailers. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer trade may be necessary on certain vehicle. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents at BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your Honda retailer for full details.