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3 Dalmatian Coast – Croatia 4 Causeway Coastal Route – Ireland

Europe’s great waterways are a perfect alternative to overland sightseeing and river cruising has become an increasingly popular way to see the continent from an entirely new vantage point. Mediterranean and Aegean Sea cruises add yet another element to the European experience as ports of call explore both laid-back beach towns as well as major, historical city centres. With so much to see, there’s something to be said for unpacking only once.

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NEWS

From health and housing in the Downtown Eastside to environmental battles across B.C., women take top spots in Vancouver nonprofits. > BY TR AVIS LUPICK

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Vancouver–Mount Pleasant’s NDP MLA, Melanie Mark, is the city’s 20th sitting female politician after being sworn in last month. > BY CHARLIE SMITH

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HEALTH

Dr. Danuta Skowronski planned to take on the flu portfolio for six months but ended up devoting 15 years to the contagious virus. > BY GAIL JOHNSON

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WOMEN’S DAY

Vancouver has lots of feminists who have been leading the charge in advocacy for equality, and here are six of them. > BY LUCY L AU

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Star soprano Mihoko Kinoshita finds the strength, sense of humour, and passion in one of opera’s most famous characters. > BY JANE T SMITH

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Siobhan Devine talks about The Birdwatcher, her entry in this year’s Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. > BY LUCY L AU

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Atira Women’s Resource Society CEO Janice Abbott says that she takes “a lot of shit� in her efforts to increase housing options for women. Travis Lupick photo.

housing. And at the Drug Users Resource Centre, Kailin See can be found miraculously bringing order to a whirlwind of activity.

Outside the Downtown Eastside, two of Vancouver’s most prominent legal nonprofits have filled their top ranks with women.

At the B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA), women hold six of eight staff positions, including policy director Micheal Vonn. In a telephone interview, Grace Pastine, the organization’s litigation director, said this has had an inevitable impact on the sorts of cases the BCCLA has taken up.

She highlighted successes concerning allowing imprisoned women to keep their babies, access to abortion, and increased legal protections for women engaged in sex work. “I’ve always been a feminist,�

Pastine said. “Women’s rights have always been a deep and abiding concern of mine.�

Pivot Legal Society’s senior staff is split 50-50 between men and women, plus one transgender individual who prefers the pronoun they. Its executive director, Katrina Pacey, said being a woman has helped with her toughest cases, allowing her to listen to and understand new ideas in ways that men might not. “I’ve never done anything in my career that has been as challenging as the work I’ve done around sex workers’ safety and rights,� she told the Straight.

Pacey explained that this effort began with an internal struggle. “I had a whole lot of unlearning to do back in 2002,� she recalled. “It was many, many years of deep listening and working with sex workers and

building an evidentiary foundation, going to Ottawa and filing lawsuits and being in the media as much as possible and public speaking, even when it didn’t feel that safe to do so.�

Pacey credited her interest in feminist issues to Anita Roberts, a Vancouver woman who founded Safeteen.

Today that antiviolence organization operates on five continents. In Vancouver courtrooms, Pacey said, there’s still a need for the sort of empowerment that Safeteen embodies. “The profession itself still has a lot of work to do around being inclusive and supportive of women’s needs,� she said. “It’s a very inflexible work environment for women.�

Striking a more positive tone, the Wilderness Committee’s lead policy director, Gwen Barlee, told the Straight that the environmental sector is actually very friendly to women.

She noted that West Coast Environmental Law is led by Jessica Clogg, and the Georgia Strait Alliance has Christianne Wilhelmson at its helm.

Barlee said the extent to which women appear in the top ranks of B.C.’s environmental nonprofits is likely no coincidence. “A lot of what the environmental movement does is about breaking down barriers and challenging the status quo,� she explained. “I think when you are used to challenging the status quo and really engaging in critical thinking, that doesn’t just stay within the environmental sector.� -

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nce a month, the heads of the Downtown Eastside’s larger nonprofits meet to share information and coordinate services. Usually eight or nine people show up, Janice Abbott told the Straight. And she’s almost always the only woman. “It’s still a bit of a boys’ club, to be perfectly honest,� the CEO of Atira Women’s Resource Society said in a telephone interview. “I mean that in a factual way,� she added. “The other CEOs are doing good work, and I’m not suggesting they are not. But it just is a boys’ club.�

(Kettle Friendship Society executive director Nancy Keough also sometimes attends, Abbott noted.)

As a woman, it’s not easy running one of the largest nonprofits in Vancouver. “I take a lot of shit,� Abbott said. “There are men in the Downtown Eastside who harass me by email, and send me vile, vile emails. It’s typically wishing I was raped and those sorts of things.�

In the Downtown Eastside, Abbott said, violence against women remains “absolutely rampant�, so female leadership is a necessity. “We made a decision in the mid’90s that we wanted to reflect the women we were housing,� she said.

Today, Atira’s staff of 230 is 100 percent female and roughly 50 percent First Nations, MÊtis, and Inuit.

Although the Downtown Eastside’s larger nonprofits could use more women in their upper echelons, many female leaders have made headlines with smaller organizations.

Mabel Nipshank, housing outreach worker for the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre and cochair of the Women’s Memorial March committee, deserves a spot at the top of that list. The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) is headed by Marion Allaart; before her, that position was held by Ann Livingston, Melissa Eror, and Dianne Tobin. Lorna Bird also merits a mention for her work with VANDU in pushing the government to adopt harm-reduction programs. Laura Shaver is president of the B.C. Association of People on Methadone. As president of the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society, Tracey Morrison has fought city hall for improved low-income

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Left to right: Vancouver Centre Liberal MP Hedy Fry has witnessed tremendous progress for female politicians since she was first elected in 1993; Vancouver–Mount Pleasant NDP MLA Melanie Mark says her two daughters, Maya and Makayla, motivate her when the chips are down (Amanda Siebert photo); Vision Vancouver councillor Andrea Reimer and the NPA’s Elizabeth Ball (below left) still see room for improvement.

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In the Super Tuesday (March 1) U.S. primaries, praised that era’s prime minister, Jean Chré- Hillary Clinton extended her lead over Senator tien, for ensuring that Bernie Sanders, making her the likely Democratic women would run in Party nominee for president. Ball argued that the winnable ridings and former U.S. secretary of state isn’t judged by the that 25 percent of his same standards as her male counterparts.

“I mean, the things that people hold against cabinet would be female. Fry also credited Hillary Clinton are astounding to me when you female MPs elected in compare them with the other candidates who can the 1990s for lowering say any kind of awful thing about every other perAs we approach International Women’s Day, more Vancouver female financial barriers for son in the world,” Ball said. “And yet, somehow, politicians are shattering a glass ceiling that’s existed for centuries women seeking nomin- that doesn’t matter.”

Several female politicians interviewed by the ations. This came from When Melanie Mark delivered her maid- imposing a spending limit under the Election Act. Straight, including Ball, said there are more deen speech in the legislature as the new NDP MLA And she lauded her current boss, Justin Trudeau, mands on women than men to appear fashionable

BY CHARL IE SM IT H for Vancouver–Mount Pleasant, she spoke about for mandating equal representation in cabinet. and to look smart. Vision Vancouver councilsome of the pioneers in B.C. political history.

“It takes about 33 percent to gain critical lor Andrea Reimer said that journalists still talk She mentioned that Frank Calder was the first mass,” she said. “In our Parliament, we’ve about politicians’ hair and clothes more than MLA of aboriginal descent and that Rosemary reached that critical mass and we’ve reached necessary. She pointed out that when it concerns Brown was the first black female MLA. Mark also a critical mass in cabinet.”

Mayor Gregor Robertson, however, “it doesn’t referred to Moe Sihota as the first MLA of South However, Fry maintained that women in pol- diminish the way people think about him.”

Asian descent, Jenny Kwan as the first of Chinese itics are still judged by a “completely different Reimer received a tremendous response from origin, Mable Elmore as the first of Phil- yardstick”. According to her, women have to excel women after posting an article on Facebook about ippine ancestry, and Jane Shin as the first or else they’ll pay a high political price. things all females face at work. One universal realKorean Canadian in the legislature.

She also emphasized that although many women ity was that women are interrupted more often. The Mark is of Nisga’a, Gitksan, Cree, Ojib- tend to work by consensus, she didn’t want to article also stated that people take women’s ideas, wa, French, and Scottish heritage. Her stereotype people by their gender. “I don’t want to either forgetting where they originated or “actively late grandmother and mentor, Thelma say that all women are good or all women are per- stealing them”. The article’s third point, Reimer Mark, attended St. Michael’s Residen- fect,” Fry said. “This is not true.…A lot of women, noted, was that women are more likely to be subtial School; the new MLA described that in order to become accepted, play by the old rules— jected to patronizing explanations in the workplace. period as “the darkest days of her life”.

“I always find it funny,” she said. “We’re and don’t get inside and change the rules.”

“In fact, my maternal grandparents all reading the same Internet…we’re Vancouver Green school trustee Janet couldn’t vote until they were 30 and 32 Fraser told the Straight by phone that getting information from the same Check out… years old,” Mark said. “We have come a she grew up in Britain when MarSTRAIGHT.COM places, so why do you think women long way, given that indigenous com- garet Thatcher was prime minister. need a slower, more patient explanaHave an opinion? munities were on the verge of extinction.” According to Fraser, the Iron Lady tion of something?”

Visit our website In a bygone era, all the MLAs in the didn’t do politics any differently than One of the younger elected women to comment on this story B.C. legislature were white males. In the men of her era. And the Vancouin Vancouver, NPA park commissioner a phone interview with the Georgia ver trustee stated that she’s “not aware” Erin Shum, told the Straight by phone Straight Mark said she was motivated of being treated any differently than male Straight, that because she has a youthful appearance, to run for office because there’s “not politicians would have been. she has to work “extra hard” to offset people’s perenough balance in the legislature”.

However, Fraser acknowledged that she’s “fol- ceptions. “I do have a lot of experience, from own“I want to level the playing field lowing in the footsteps of many pioneering women ing my own small business to working with children by way of public policy,” she stated. “There’s politicians who did face gender discrimination”. with special needs with the school district as an edulots of areas that I’m interested in and that I’m She noted that there’s a plaque celebrating the cational support worker for children with autism.” passionate about, but I’m going to do so under a opening of an old elementary school in her area Fry, the dean of Vancouver’s political women, human-rights framework. People have a right to that identifies female trustees by their husbands’ emphasized that the situation is far worse for fesafety. People have a right to housing. People have first names. male candidates in other countries. “I am very ina right to access justice.”

“It always reminds me that…there’s been a lot volved in gender issues in the Americas,” she said, Mark won the seat in a February 2 byelection, the of work to get to where we are now,” Fraser said. “and women politicians are being killed. They’re same day that another female NDP candidate, Jodie being murdered. So women who want to go into Wickens, was elected in Coquitlam–Burke Moun- ANOTHER LOCAL politician, NPA councillor politics in some parts of the world are taking their tain. It’s yet another reflection of a growing number Elizabeth Ball, told the Straight by phone that she lives into their own hands to do so.” still sees barriers for women who want to enter of women in local, provincial, and federal politics.

Many of the women interviewed for this article Nowadays, the elected premiers of the three politics. For example, she said that neophyte fe- cited important mentors, sometimes their parents largest anglophone provinces, including B.C., male politicians encounter more difficulty when and sometimes their kids. Mark said that she has are female. Fifty percent of federal cabinet min- trying to raise money for their campaigns. been inspired by her grandmother, her mother, “Men don’t give to women, and women don’t and two powerhouse women of aboriginal desisters and more than 40 percent of provincial cabinet ministers are female. Half of Vancouver give to women, by and large,” Ball said. “They give cent: Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the provincial city councillors are women. Four of Vancou- to male candidates, and so that is very difficult. So representative for children and youth, and Cindy ver’s six members of Parliament are women. In when you’re faced with a very small budget, you Blackstock, a Gitksan woman who spearheaded all, 45 percent of the city’s elected politicians at have to be extremely clever and careful so that a Supreme Court of Canada victory on behalf of you can get your message out to as many people as 150,000 indigenous children in Canada. all levels are female.

So as we approach International Women’s possible. And that requires more work.”

Mark also finds inspiration in her two daughBall also said it takes more time for women’s ters, 12-year-old Maya and five-year-old Makayla.

Day on Tuesday (March 8), does this mean that women have finally achieved that elusive “equal opinions to be valued at the same level as those “They’re a big, big motivator,” she acknowledged. voice”, which has been advocated for years by of men, whether it’s in politics or on boards of “They definitely give me the strength that I need an organization of the same name? The longest- directors. “I’ve noticed this, when I have served when I feel like I’m tired and I’m feeling discourserving female MP in Parliament, Liberal Hedy with all-women’s groups, that there’s much more aged. We’ve just got to keep pushing so that their Fry, acknowledged to the Straight by phone that opportunity, faster, to be able to be part of a group future looks brighter.” the situation has improved dramatically since she and affect a group and have your thoughts With files from Carlito Pablo. was first elected in Vancouver Centre in 1993. She valued,” she stated.

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Several years ago, Skowronski, That was 15 years ago, and Skowron- a Quebec colleague, and a team of ski has been studying the highly con- BCCDC virologists—all women— tagious viral infection ever since. The developed what is known as the testinfluenza virus is a classic case of “the negative design (TND). It’s a form of more you learn, case-control study the less you know,” that helps monitor she explains. f lu-vaccine pro“I started out tection, and it was Gail Johnson doing work on a piloted here. multitude of different vaccine-pre- “We’re part of a global influenzaventable diseases,” she says over a latte vaccine-effectiveness network that at a café near the BCCDC in Vancou- is using methods that we developed ver, where she is epidemiology lead of here in B.C.,” Skowronski says. “We influenza and emerging respiratory had no idea how well the vaccine pathogens. “I knew of all the gaps in actually protected every year till we knowledge around influenza. There developed test-negative design. It are so many uncertainties, from vac- has been adopted by the U.S. CDC cines to antivirals.…The issues have [Centers for Disease Control and only grown in terms of prevention Prevention] and the ECDC [Euroand control. The deeper you dig, pean Centre for Disease Prevention the more you find there are hidden and Control] and is used by multiple treasures or hidden bones—things countries worldwide. that need to be resolved.

“In the influenza world, it is no ex“It’s a really complex virus,” adds aggeration to say that the TND has the Winnipeg native, who studied revolutionized global capacity to medicine at Queen’s University. “It’s monitor influenza-vaccine performprobably the least well controlled of ance and has opened our eyes to all vaccine-preventable diseases. It’s a sorts of variability in vaccine protecmoving target all the time.” tion—by age, prior vaccination hisSkowronski, who provides policy tory, type of influenza virus—that we advice to provincial, national, and had been blind to for decades,” she international health bodies, has wit- adds. “That’s what I’m most proud of.” nessed the flu’s effects on the B.C. Skowronski met her husband at population at various crisis points Queen’s and moved to Vancouver over the years: SARS hit in 2003; for his residency. One of four chil2004 was avian influenza in the Fra- dren of a Polish veterinarian father ser Valley; 2005 saw H2N2; and 2009 and British artist mother, she studbrought a pandemic. ied public health at UBC. Her work “Last year was also quite an ex- in medicine allows her to draw from ceptional season, with vaccine ef- her dad’s analytical side and her fectiveness being so low,” she says. mom’s creative side.

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She says that although the decision to get a flu vaccine is an individual one, those who are at high risk of complications—which can include hospitalization or death—such as seniors, infants, and people with lung or heart conditions or compromised immune systems, should do whatever they can to prevent getting sick.

“For most healthy young people, we’re going to fully recover from influenza without any intervention at all,” she says. “But it’s still a miserable illness. What remains certain is that for the high-risk individuals who are facing serious outcomes, the vaccine will provide protection. Even modest protection is important in that context.

“My patients are the population of B.C.,” she adds. “That’s what you choose when you go into public health. When we’re making decisions, those decisions affect hundreds and thousands of people. It’s clinical practice writ large. You have to be very thoughtful in this role. You also have to be skeptical and questioning.”

Skowronski is one of numerous female health professionals in the province who are making important contributions to the field. Among the many others are: MARY ACKENHUSEN (president and CEO of Vancouver Coastal Health) An engineer by training, Ackenhusen leads the province’s largest health authority, with a budget of $3.4 billion for one million people.

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Dr. Danuta Skowronski worked with B.C. Centre for Disease Control virologists and a Quebec colleague on a flu-protection system used in several countries.

INSEAD, an international business DIANNE DOYLE (president and CEO school based in Fontainebleau, France. of Providence Health Care) A former staff nurse, Doyle has more LORI BROTTO (director of the UBC than 25 years of senior-executive Sexual Health Laboratory) An associ- experience in health care. Under ate professor in UBC’s department of her leadership, Providence earned obstetrics and gynecology, Brotto, a nods for its corporate culture and registered psychologist, treats sexual patient-centred care. difficulties and conducts research in areas like hormones and sexual desire, KATE SHANNON (director of the Gender and Sexual Health Initiacancer and sexuality, and asexuality. tive at the B.C. Centre for ExcelPATRICIA DALY (chief medical lence in HIV/AIDS) An associate health officer and vice president of professor of medicine in UBC’s public health for Vancouver Coastal school of population and public Health) A public-health physician, health, Shannon leads research Daly is a clinical professor in the on social determinants of sexual school of population and public health, HIV/AIDS, and access to health in UBC’s medical faculty. care among marginalized popuAmong other roles, she is responsible lations, particularly youth, sex for communicable-disease control, workers, and women at risk of, and including management of outbreaks. living with, HIV. -

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Torofuku’s hard-working Sandy Chen won the B.C. Chefs’ Association Iron Chef competition (Fahim Kassam photo); Bao Bei owner Tannis Ling has helped boost Vancouver’s culinary reputation around the world.

Say goodbye to old-boys’ club

to pursue a career in cooking even though her parents frowned upon the idea and insisted she go to university.

Chen got her BA in psychology and, undaunted by her parents’ disapproval, went on to study in the culinary Once upon a time, men ruled the roost in restaurant kitchens program at Vancouver across Vancouver, but hey, it’s 2016 and that’s no longer true Community College.

Chen, 30, regularly puts Sandy Chen knew from a young age that in 14- to 16-hour days. She wouldn’t have it any she wanted to pursue a career in cooking. In a field other way; she’s never been happier. She considers still dominated by men, the local chef found her- Chan her mentor and also looks up to Torafuku’s

BY GAIL JOHN SON self undaunted after a difficult first day on the job female sous-chef, Danvee Kwok. She says women four years ago. Overwhelmed by the hotel kitch- who are considering chef training shouldn’t be en’s intense heat, she faced a senior chef with some dissuaded by the fact that even though women unsavoury choice words for her. still do most of the cooking at home, they are vast“On the station I was working on that first day, ly outnumbered by men in restaurant kitchens.

I got heat stroke,” Chen says in a phone call. “The “If you have a goal, you should never give up,” chef said I couldn’t take it. He called me a muffi n Chen says. “I want to tell all the ladies: ‘You can do cup.” In other words, he considered her a light- this. We’re equal.’ weight, literally telling her that if she couldn’t take “It’s been a tough journey but I’ve learned so the heat, she should get out of the kitchen. much,” she adds. “I try to make food better every His reaction just made her more determined to single day. When a customer finishes a meal and prove herself. “After that, I said: ‘Chef, you’re wrong. says it was the best they’ve ever had, it makes me I’m going to prove to you I can do it,’ ” she says. feel like I chose the right career. I love it.”

Sure enough, she went back the next day and Chen is just one of dozens of women who wowed him. are rocking Vancouver kitchens, bringing their Chen has been wowing people ever since. Af- skill and enthusiasm to a labour force that is ter working at the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel for gradually diversifying. The hours make it chalthree years, she joined the team at Clement Chan lenging for women who want to have kids, but and Steve Kuan’s Le Tigre food truck, and now the days of the local restaurant industry being she’s junior sous-chef at the pair’s Torafuku res- an old-boys’ club are changing. taurant. In 2014 she won the title of B.C. chef of The list of inspiring women in the city’s food the year and placed third in the National Chef of scene is long. Dana Hauser, executive chef at ARC the Year competition. Last year, she won the B.C. Restaurant in the Fairmont Waterfront, is the first Chefs’ Association’s Iron Chef competition. female head chef in the history of the Fairmont All this from someone who just completed her chain. Bistro Sakana’s Etsuko Needham is the culinary training four years ago. After moving to city’s first female executive sushi chef.

Vancouver from Taiwan at age 12 with her older Some have been at it for decades. Maria Tadoglou sister, Chen took on most household cooking dut- established Maria’s Taverna on West 4th Avenue in ies: her sibling couldn’t find her way in the kitchen, 1987. Kaeta Vazquez opened Ponchos in the West and her guardian’s culinary repertoire consisted of End 28 years ago. Patti Lombardo launched Lomfrozen entrées from Costco. She discovered a pas- bardo’s Pizzeria and Ristorante on Commercial sion for all things food-related and was determined Drive 30 years ago and runs the restaurant with her

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three daughters. Chef Caren McSherry’s Gourmet Warehouse has been in business since 1998.

Karen Barnaby, formerly of the Fish House in Stanley Park, Alessandra Quaglia of Provence Marinaside, Bao Bei’s Tannis Ling, the Acorn’s Shira Blustein, Burdock & Co’s chef-owner Andrea Carlson, and the late veteran chef Tina Fineza have all helped put Vancouver’s restaurant industry on the map. There are many more.

Sarah Stewart recently joined the ranks of notable local kitchen mavens. A native of Smiths Falls in Ontario’s Rideau Canal region, she’s executive chef of Juniper Restaurant, which showcases the cuisine of the Pacific Northwest, her dishes full of colour and flavour. Her kitchen staff of 12 is half men and half women. She credits the team she worked with at the Art Gallery of Ontario for providing outstanding leadership in supporting women in the field.

“The executive chef, chef de cuisine, sous-chef, and event sous-chef were all women,” says Stewart, formerly of Edible Canada. “The executive chef took it as a personal responsibility to mentor anyone, but especially women, to give them confidence and make it a level playing field.”

Aside from the gruelling hours that make it difficult for chefs to juggle motherhood and career, women in the dining scene face other challenges: as it does anywhere else, sexual harassment still happens. It’s far from a perfect world, but Stewart says things are getting better.

“Women thinking about having children have to think about keeping their place [in the industry],” she says. “How do you maintain that balance with a demanding hourly job and time commitment?

Women shouldn’t have to choose between those things. I don’t have the answers, but I’m very curious and it’s a conversation that needs to happen.

“There’s also so much more awareness of hazards of different types of joking in the kitchen— what’s acceptable and what’s not,” she says. “More and more men [who lead kitchens] are saying, ‘These are the boundaries.’ You want to have good kitchen banter, and you need to have an open dialogue amongst your team about not crossing boundaries. It’s happening more and more. As I’ve grown up in this industry, I do see positive changes in equality in the kitchen and lots of open dialogue about it.” -

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Meal ticket CURRY COMPETITION The Chefs’ Table Society of B.C. is hosting its third annual Curry Cup Competition on Monday (March 7) from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Heritage Hall (3102 Main Street). Eight Vancouver chefs—who don’t typically create curry in their restaurants—will present their version of a curry dish to a panel of judges. Guests will be able to sample curry creations from each team, as well as sip wine, beer, and nonalcoholic drinks. Gelato from Bella Gelateria will be on-site, in case anyone wants to binge-eat dessert after the meal.

The evening will be hosted by Fred Lee, and part of the proceeds will support Growing Chefs, which teaches children how to grow and cook food. Tickets ($60) can be purchased online at www.eventbrite.ca/. -

Five dainty places to find afternoon tea.

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ROSE HOUSE VANCOUVER (5687 Balsam Street) Afternoon tea, light meals, and desserts in an elegantly decorated teahouse.

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SECRET GARDEN TEA COMPANY (5559 West Boulevard) Delectable house-made miniature sweets and scones with a variety of blended teas.

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SOIRETTE (1433 West Pender Street) Afternoon tea featuring its popular macarons, savoury treats, and loose-leaf varieties is served only on weekends.

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BACCHUS RESTAURANT & LOUNGE (845 Hornby Street) Indulge in exquisite tea, minitarts, and fresh scones at the Wedgewood Hotel.

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PÂTISSERIE FÜR ELISE (847 Hamilton Street) French pastry and afternoon tea served in a beautiful Victorian heritage house.

Cocktail of the week

EL RITMO Local bar star Giancarlo Quiroz Jesus’s piña-coladainspired concoction, which took first place in the Canadian leg of last week’s Bacardi Legacy Cocktail Competition, will remind you of sunny afternoons spent lounging beachside in the Caribbean. The tropical cocktail uses Bacardi Superior rum, artichoke liqueur, fresh pineapple juice, and coconut milk for a refreshingly pared-down taste that’s fit for all hours. Jesus will rep Canada with the drink at Bacardi’s global competition in April, but in the meantime, you can charm him into shaking one up at the Diamond (6 Powell Street) or make your own from the surprisingly simple recipe, available now at Straight.com. MARCH 3 – 10 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 17

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FAMILLE PERRIN 2013 CÔTES DU RHÔNE CAIRANNE PEYRE BLANCHE (Rhône Valley, France; $20

to $24, private liquor stores) Cairanne has only become an officially designated cru in the Côtes du Rhône in the last few weeks, so rather than being tucked within the Côtes du Rhône Villages appellation, it enjoys the same designation as household names like Châteauneuf-du-Pape and CrozesHermitage. For generations, the Perrin family has had a good track record for harnessing the unique Rhône Valley terroir, here with a full-figured ode to the sun-soaked clay and silty soils of the cru, a Grenache and Syrah blend that’s at once earthy and peppery, yet fruit-driven with Italian plum, mulSPECOGNA 2014 COLLI ORIEN- berry, and blueberry. Available at TALI DEL FRIULI FRIULANO (Friuli- Everything Wine on the North Shore.

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Mihoko Kinoshita, who stars in Vancouver Opera’s Madama Butterfly, says she finds something new about the title role in every production she does around the world. Amanda Siebert photo.

Becoming Butterfly

like Tosca, but she does “I love Houston, where I live now, but I can’t eat not show it on the exter- sashimi there because it won’t be fresh,” she says ior,” she adds, referring with a laugh. to the jealous superstar Kinoshita has travelled the world since studyof Puccini’s other war- ing singing in Japan—something she always horse opera. loved more than the piano lessons she had as a Kinoshita says she kid. And one of her favourite parts of her job is fi nds new shades to the comparing the audiences in different parts of the character in every pro- globe, and how they relate to Cio-Cio San. duction she does, work“When I sang Butterfly for the first time in Soprano Mihoko Kinoshita brings both a Japanese and ing with new directors Italy, they knew every word and I felt the emotion an Italian sensibility to one of opera’s most famous roles and conductors, not to of the audience—I was very much together with mention new versions the audience,” she explains. “After that, I immediIt’s hard to think of a background bet- of Pinkerton, the U.S. naval officer who falls in ately performed it in Japan. And Japan is so quiet! ter suited to playing the tragic title character in love with his beautiful “butterfly”, Cio-Cio San, In Italy, it’s a different kind of quiet.

Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s Madama and then dumps her for a proper American “Then I did it in the U.S. and the audience

BY JANET SM IT H Butterfly than Mihoko Kinoshita’s. wife. When Kinoshita appeared in Vanis laughing a lot at the funny scenes. I was Born in Japan and raised by a music teacher, couver Opera’s previous production of shocked. At the curtain call, they were she has the kind of innate understanding of a cul- Madama Butterfly in 2010, she was yelling ‘Bravo!’ very, very loud. They Check out…

STRAIGHT.COM were showing that they were enjoyture that only comes through blood. But it was the centre of a contemporary visual Visit our website the soprano’s five-year stint in Italy, where she feast, with sculptor Jun Kaneko’s ing the show. Maybe in Japan they are for morning-after debuted in the role a decade ago, that brought her multicoloured parasols, geometricenjoying it, but they are not showing it. reviews and local a fuller perspective. patterned kimonos, and ribbons of “And then, after living in the U.S., arts news “The story is Japanese and the background blood that poured from Cio-Cio San I sang Butterfly in Japan again and the is Japanese, but this is Italian grand opera,” she in the unforgettable fi nale. Th is Butteraudience was so quiet again, and I said, emphasizes to the Straight, taking a break at Van- fly, she reveals, will be much more classical ‘Oh!’ ” she continues, feigning surprise and then couver Opera’s East Side headquarters before re- in tone, allowing the characters, under director laughing at her new sense of culture shock. hearsals begin for the day. “I have to think, ‘This is Michael Cavanagh, to really come to the fore.

From all those performances, Kinoshita knows not Japanese drama; it’s Italian music.’ And for me “There’s a little more of the Japanese style,” Butterfly through and through, but last year anthe language is so important. I try to find the mean- she says, adding she has studied Japanese clas- other profound experience brought her an entirely ing inside the meaning and express it so deeply. sical dance for the part so she knows how to new light on Cio-Cio San: she gave birth to a child.

“I used to take Japanese sensitivity into it, but move authentically, “and there is more acting. “I’ve been very interested in how different it is bethat’s completely wrong!”

It is very intense.” Just how intense? In a typ- fore having the baby and now after the baby,” she Kinoshita, who has made this her signature role, ical Butterfly performance, Kinoshita reveals, says of the rare opera role that requires a character has also developed more insights into Cio-Cio San, she loses two full kilos, not just from sweat and to express a complete bond with a child—the risk the young woman betrayed in the famous opera. exertion, but from the fact she doesn’t like to eat of losing him can make the tragedy all the more “Cio-Cio San is a Japanese girl and very soft and much before taking the stage. That and the emo- achingly overwhelming. timid and too much shy, but sometimes she is so fun tional catharsis mean she’s tired, but she loves to and has deep love for Pinkerton, for her baby boy, and feast late after a show—always on Japanese food, Vancouver Opera presents Madama Butterfly for [her maid] Suzuki. So the contrast is so good,” the if she can fi nd it. And happily, she’s got a lot to at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Saturday and Sunday (March 5 and 6) and March 10 to 13. affable diva relates. “She’s very strong—inside, she is choose from in this town.

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ARTS High five

Editor’s choice DANCE MEETS DIGITAL Those who saw Tel Aviv–based group Maria Kong’s surreal spectacle/rock concert of sailors and sirens at the Red Room Lounge last winter are about to see a drastically different side to the dance troupe. On the interdisciplinary collective’s second visit to the Chutzpah Festival, it brings Open Source to a proscenium stage to showcase some of Maria Kong’s high-tech innovations. In the piece, a magical character controls the lights and sounds with wireless gloves. The whole premise surrounds a man and woman on their wedding night. The Chutzpah Festival presents Open Source at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre from Saturday to Monday (March 5 to 7).

Five events you just can’t miss this week

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RUSSIAN CLASSICS (March 5 at the Orpheum, March 7 at Centennial Theatre) Lush VSO music under crack young Brit maestro Rory Macdonald.

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MASHUP (To June 12 at the Vancouver Art Gallery) Where else can you see Picasso alongside Tarantino?

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ANTISOCIAL MEDIA (To March 19 at Hot Art Wet City) iHeart and other big names in the local street-art scene.

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KLEZMERSON (March 3 at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre) Mexico City band mashes hip-hop, rock, and Jewish and Roma tradition.

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THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECT (To March 19 at the Cultch) History like you’ve never heard it.

Guest pick

TO COLOUR THOUGHT Julie-anne Saroyan is the artistic producer of Dances for a Small Stage, which is launching its Salon Series at the Emerald at the end of March. Here’s her choice of the week: “Vanessa Goodman is in the process of developing a piece that will see its premiere in 2017. She’s tinkered with sections of the piece at Small Stage this year and I’m excited to see her quirky aesthetic and what she’s been experimenting with. To Colour Thought will be the interim step before the premiere next year. I’m excited to see what she is working on and has come up with, as well as to see how the piece is going to grow and change.” Action at a Distance’s To Colour Thought is at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on Saturday (March 5).

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PRESENTS Kim Gaynor (left) is preparing to take over Vancouver Opera as it switches to a festival format, while Kelly Tweeddale is now president of the VSO.

Women take the helm at major arts groups > B Y JAN ET SMITH

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COMPANHIA URBANA DE DANÇA (BRAZIL) ID: ENTIDADES & NA PISTA “...SO WONDERFUL THAT IT SEEMS MIRACULOUS.”—NEW YORK TIMES

hursday (March 3) is International Women’s Day, and while there’s often a lot of attention paid to successful women in business and politics, rarely do we step back and marvel at women’s contribution to arts.

The fact is a sea change is going on in the biggest cultural institutions in the city—almost all of which are, or are about to be, run by women.

Kathleen Bartels already serves as director at the Vancouver Art Gallery and is spearheading its move to a new landmark. Emily Molnar is artistic director at Ballet B.C., and has steered the company toward growth—including tours to the U.S. and Europe. And the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra recently brought in Kelly Tweeddale, former executive director of Seattle Opera, as president.

Meanwhile, Kim Gaynor, who currently runs Switzerland’s classicalmusic Verbier Festival, is getting ready to take the reins of Vancouver Opera on July 1 as it switches to a new spring-fest format.

Those are the people shaping the future of the major players on our cultural scene. But the contributions don’t end there.

Here’s a list of 20 more achievers who are energizing and shaping the arts in this city: LEILA GETZ, founder and artistic dir-

MORNA EDMUNDSON , artistic director of the Elektra Women’s Choir CHAN HON GOH, director of the Goh Ballet Academy KATRINA DUNN, director, dramaturge, producer, and artistic director of Touchstone Theatre LIZ MAGOR, sculptor, photo artist, and public artist whose work has been exhibited at places like the Venice Biennale and the National Art Gallery MARGO KANE, actor, interdisci-

plinary artist, founder of Full Circle: First Nations Performance, and artistic managing director of the Talking Stick Festival

HEATHER WALLACE, festival direc-

tor of JFL NorthWest

CRYSTAL PITE, choreographer, artistic director of Kidd Pivot, associate choreographer at Nederlands Dans Theater, associate artist at London’s Sadler’s Wells, and associate dance artist at the National Arts Centre RACHEL DITOR, dramaturge, director, and literary manager at the Arts Club Theatre BARBARA BOURGET, cofounder

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ou can’t tell from this photo, but this is the very end of our marriage,” Itai Erdal says, standing next to a large, projected picture of himself and his childhood sweetheart turned ex-wife. They are smiling and happy, and it’s not a lie, but it’s not quite the whole truth, either.

This is the first run-through of his new autobiographical show, A Very Narrow Bridge, which makes its debut as part of the Chutzpah Festival. Erdal attempts to make sense of the most complicated relationship in his life—his connection to Israel, where he grew up, and his identity as a secular Jew—by telling the story of his divorce. The amount of emotional and political ground Erdal covers in just an hour is remarkable, and with cowriters (and directors) Maiko Yamamoto and Anita Rochon, he digs deep inside himself, his family, and their shared history and culture. It’s intimate and thrilling and occasionally funny, but never salacious.

“There are a lot of hard things in this show,” Erdal says. “When something is hard to say, that’s why you should say it. And when something is hard to admit, that’s what makes for a good piece of theatre. So I’m not afraid to tackle the hard things, because that’s what makes for interesting art.”

Erdal is quick to point out that he is not a professional actor, having worked in theatre primarily as a lighting designer. “I’m very comfortable on-stage, I’ve always been comfortable talking in public, and I’m a bit of an exhibitionist. It’s not hard for me to be me, but I don’t think I could do Shakespeare or pretend that I’m somebody else,” he admits with a laugh. “So far, I draw all my stories from my life experiences. I served in the army and my life is different from people in North America, and

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they find it all so interesting. I also love documentaries and this is just like documentary theatre.”

His divorce drama gives Bridge its frame. In 2006, Erdal returned to Israel to give his ex a get (a divorce) so that she could remarry. He had no idea what he was getting into.

“They interrogated me for hours,” Erdal says. “Four or five hours and the whole time nobody talked to my ex once. They didn’t talk to her, they only talked to me. They don’t acknowledge her, they don’t refer to her, that’s how it works. The wife can ask for it and the man can give it or not give it as he chooses. I think all religions, if I may, were written by men and are somewhat sexist towards women. All religion. Judaism is not much different, it’s a very masculine religion, and you can see that in this crazy ceremony.”

There’s an element of the absurd in Bridge’s depiction of the divorce proceedings, but it also provides the perfect jumping-off point for Erdal to talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how he distinguishes Judaism from Jewish culture, and his fears that his sister Talia’s deepening faith will

widen the divide between them. Talia, a talented cellist, is actually on-stage, playing throughout the show, and the moments when she’s participating in dialogue with her brother are among the most affecting.

“Me and my sister were always pretty close, but her being religious, I completely don’t understand religion,” Erdal says. “I am an atheist and I feel very Jewish. I don’t think atheist Jew is a contradiction in terms.

For me, Judaism is language, history, culture, customs, holidays—many, many things that have nothing to do with religion. I feel in many ways like religious people hijack Judaism. But religion is something that I cannot comprehend, so making this piece with her definitely gives me insight about how she sees the world and makes me feel closer to her.”

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f “Less is more� is the mantra of the moment, Lori Freedman must seem very much like Satan with a bass clarinet. In this age of the great uncluttering, who else would title their solo tour The Virtuosity of Excess?

It’s not that Freedman, a former Vancouverite now living in Montreal, is arguing that we should fill our homes with owl figurines, cracked jewel cases, and back issues of the New Yorker. Instead, the excess she’s advocating revels in complexity, saturation, and abstract polyphony —ideas she’ll expound on in her upcoming Music on Main concert. “In North America, and perhaps in the western world, we’re all trying to cut back,� she says, in a telephone interview from a San Francisco tour stop. “Less is more: that’s what we’re brought up on. Economize. Ecologize.

As you know, in this day and age excess is so frowned upon, but I just thought, ‘Whoa, if you go beyond the excess, go even further, you’ve got abundance.’ �

Arguably the most demanding piece on Freedman’s concert program is also the oldest: Brian Ferneyhough’s Time and Motion Study #2, from 1977. It’s deliberately impossible to play, with the British composer expecting only 60 to 85 percent accuracy in performance. “It’s maniacally detailed, as Ferneyhough always is,� the clarinetist says. “But even if I go in there and find myself somewhere that’s not precisely, perfectly as he wrote it, I still have to make it sound like something that makes sense.�

With RaphaÍl Cendo’s DÊcombres, on the other hand, the complexity is generated electronically. Freedman’s

Bass clarinetist Lori Freedman goes to extremes. Martin Morissette photo.

playing—and singing—will be digitally processed to generate real-time but random-sounding counterpoint. “Saturation is what it sounds like; it’s just in-your-face to the max.

But unlike the noise genre of music, Cendo’s got this really beautiful way of sculpting, so that it’s almost too much, but it never is too much.�

Also on the bill are Richard Barrett’s ritualistic Interference, Paolo Perezzani’s Achilles-inspired Thymos, and Paul Steenhuisen’s Library on Fire, in which Freedman will be asked to interpret a graphic score based on improvisations that she recorded and sent to the composer. “It’s very trippy...and that piece fits beautifully into the idea of excess, because I go beyond, way beyond, what I can understand, she says.�

Freedman will likely have the last word, however, by ending the concert with her own Solor, an improvised response to the rest of the program. “It feels really good to get rid of all of the notes and the stand and just go inside another place,� she says—a very human response to fiendish complexity, and not at all satanic. Lori Freedman plays the Fox Cabaret on Tuesday (March 8).

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gift, for instance, which prompts Hong to ask “Why not lilacs?� But Ly admits he would like to write a complete script about it because it’s so pervasive. He points out that, on apps and dating sites, many men feel no compunction about saying “Not into Asians.�

And, just by existing, Ga Ting challenges the pervasive whiteness of Canadian theatre. Ly says that the successful Richmond run “attracted one of the most diverse audiences I’ve ever seen.

There was Asian, white, gay, straight.�

The frank theatre company, which is producing this rewritten version of Ga Ting at the Cultch, is being strategic about attracting its audience.

The story unfolds in both English and Cantonese; there are surtitles.

And the actors playing Mai and Hong have huge pull in Vancouver’s Asian community. Alannah Ong is a Hong Kong film star and B.C. Lee is a former Vancouver city councillor.

Going back to coming out to his mom, Ly remembers the day of her arrival. “The plan was for me to go and meet them at their hotel once they got here,� he says. “It was interesting. My mom got out of the taxi and we said hi, and nothing was different. But by the end of that visit, I took her aside, and I was like, ‘Mom, we need to talk.’ And she said, ‘Is this for real?’ This was after she’d seen Ga Ting twice. She was like, ‘Is it true?’ And I said, ‘Yes, Mom. It’s true.’ And then she said, ‘You’re still my son and I’ll always love you.’ So my mom took it okay, but I think she’d always suspected. I think parents know. I haven’t officially told my dad, but I think he knows as well. I live with my partner and he’s been over to their house for dinner. It’s just kind of unspoken at this point. I feel like, for me, it’s enough for my mom to know.� -

oronto artist Minh Ly wrote a play called Ga Ting, which means “family� in Cantonese. Two of the characters are the Chinese-Canadian parents of a gay man, and the script is about the importance of communicating with your kids—including your queer kids. When Ga Ting was first produced at the Richmond Arts Centre two years ago, Ly had a little more communication with his immigrant parents than he was bargaining for: his sister outed him to their mom.

Chatting with the Straight in the rehearsal hall above Pacific Theatre, Ly remembers the day that his mother, his sister, and his sister’s family were flying out for the premiere: “That morning, just before they got on the plane in Toronto, I was in bed. My sister texted me and was like, ‘Mom asked me if you were gay. I said yes.’ “My mom’s Vietnamese,� Ly goes on. “My dad’s Chinese. And they’re both from Vietnam.� The family moved to Canada when Ly, who is now 32, was a one-year-old. He says that, especially for Asian immigrants, accepting queer offspring can be challenging: “It’s like ‘Maybe we can fix it.’ ‘It’s a phase. You’re not really gay.’ Or ‘I don’t want to hear about it. Just stop.’ �

In Ga Ting, Ly explores homophobia within the Asian-Canadian community. We find out early on that Mai and Hong Lee had a son named Kevin who committed suicide. Mai and Hong didn’t invite Kevin’s Caucasian lover, Matthew, to the funeral.

When Matthew shows up to challenge them, Mai tries to be openminded, but Hong is convinced that Matthew turned his son gay.

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alk to Andrea Miller about the multiple sources that inspired Wonderland, and you can understand why the New York City sensation’s work speaks so directly to the here and now.

The artistic director of Gallim Dance, last here with the rock-concertlike rush called Blush at DanceHouse in 2012, absorbs everything happening around her: cutting-edge contemporary art, politics, wars abroad—and the zeitgeist they all trigger.

The stylized, disturbing world of Wonderland stems from Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s massive installation Head On, which she saw at the Guggenheim Bilbao. It depicts a roomful of 99 life-sized stuffed wolves charging and smashing into a glass wall.

“I love that instead of a brick wall, he uses glass, suggesting that the contemporary walls we build are more invisible and less obvious than a brick wall—and probably more dangerous,” Miller tells the Straight over the phone. She’s on a lunch break in her troupe’s atmospheric headquarters in a historic, highceilinged Brooklyn church. “It was a time when I was questioning our involvement in Iraq, and September 11, which I was in New York for. It brought us to a point of alarm.…I felt very fooled, I felt horrible. I felt like one of those wolves, basically.

“It’s the idea of the movement of wolves in packs, and that pack mentality: people’s ethics change when they move as a mass. They’re less empathetic and they make less ethical choices.”

When you see Wonderland in its Vancouver debut at the Chutzpah Festival, don’t expect any literal lupine interpretations: instead, Miller conjures a dark, surreal circus arena where the herd instinct can play out. Think bizarre acrobatics, body suits that are a mix of turn-of-the-last-century corsets and

Gallim Dance’s Andrea Miller is inspired by contemporary art, politics, and wars abroad, but mostly by the zeitgeist those things trigger. Peggy Jarrell Kaplan photo.

Esther Williams swimwear, archetypal characters, and exaggerated grins.

“I thought of the masks of circus as different kinds of smiles: propaganda smiles, politician smiles, Coca-Cola smiles, authentic joy, the smile that’s hiding something,” she says.

As ever, the artist’s work relies on the full-on commitment of dancers willing to travel to sometimes brutal extremes with her. “There’s a sense of urgency from what we want from our artistry, from our bodies, and our collaborations,” she explains.

It’s all part of a consciously different approach to the art form by Miller, who trained at both Juilliard and Israel’s world-class Batsheva Dance Company.

“I want to make a language that is going to make sense to anybody watching, so I’m moving away from creating dance phrases and making more of a series of events,” she explains matterof-factly. “I want to make work that is legible for nondance audiences and technically virtuosic and surprising and exhilarating for dance audiences, so I’m not dumbing it down. I’m just

not interested in, I don’t know, keeping up what’s already happened in dance.”

Her philosophy is revealing, but it only goes partway toward explaining the impact of her work when you watch it. Miller is getting at something real and pressing, and that’s the main reason she’s created such a buzz since launching her company in 2007.

These days, Gallim performs its raw, visceral dance before 20,000 audience members a year at venues including the Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. What’s unique, though, is that Vancouver audiences, who first saw her work at Chutzpah in 2010, have been able to follow Gallim’s rise.

“There’s really no other place... where we’ve been able to grow as a company outside of our home base,” Miller says, “so I’m grateful Vancouver has become a home for us.” The Chutzpah Festival presents Gallim Dance’s Wonderland at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre from next Thursday to Sunday (March 10 to 13).

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Why, yes, he did, in his oddly sexualized valedictory banter with VSO composer in residence Jocelyn Morlock. Of course, the VSO’s music director went on to clarify that he meant “a living organism”, a conceit that the last work on the last night of the VSO’s New Music Festival fully justified. Keeping Tovey’s Freudian slip in mind, it’s also fair to say that EsaPekka Salonen’s LA Variations provided the festival, the orchestra, and the audience with an exquisite climax.

The former Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor’s piece certainly reminded us that intelligence is a crucial part of sensuality. LA Variations is a deeply intellectual work, based as it is on a pair of hexachords that, between them, cover all 12 notes of the chromatic scale. Around them, Salonen has spun a glorious skein of constantly shifting instrumental textures, illuminated, I think, by subtle nods toward various SoCal icons. Salonen’s orchestral writing occasionally evokes Igor Stravinsky or film composer Bernard Herrmann; the percussion parts were dense and brilliant enough to suggest Edgard Varèse.

All of these varied references and techniques were vividly realized by Tovey and the VSO musicians.

Thursday night’s opening concert found several of the orchestra’s stalwarts appearing as members of the Standing Wave sextet, playing an almost all-Canadian program yet sounding just as accomplished and

eclectic as the new-music superstars in the Kronos Quartet, who followed on Friday with a tour through South India, Lebanon, Armenia, the English countryside, and the boisterous coliseums of classic rock. Standing Wave arguably had the edge in audio fidelity, its rendition of future Music on Main composer in residence Nicole Lizée’s Hitchcock Etudes sounding crisper than Kronos’s version of the same artist’s The Golden Age of the Radiophonic Workshop (Fibre-Optic Flowers). Kronos’s occasionally blurry sound actually improved Michael Gordon’s Clouded Yellow, though, turning a relatively simple score into a timeless dream.

The VSO itself took to the stage on Saturday, in a concert mildly marred by a programming gaffe: three subdued, reflective pieces in the first half were one too many. But the energy displayed in a take on Mark-Anthony Turnage’s turbulent Three Screaming Popes impressed—and was an enjoyable contrast to the stark poetry of Rodney Sharman’s study for a crouching figure, scored for dancer, piano, and amplified string quartet, and also inspired by the paintings of Francis Bacon.

Turnage and Sharman aside, the second night of orchestral programming was the better one. In addition to LA Variations, Sunday featured the minor success of film composer Thomas Newman’s It Got Dark, a concerto for string quartet and orchestra with Kronos in the starring role; a lovingly attentive reading of the tonally conservative but captivating Regenerations, by VSO associate principal trumpet Marcus Goddard; and the uncanny yet toothsome beauty of Morlock’s Earthfall, a world premiere that deserves an encore soon.

The only sorrow we felt on leaving the hall is that it will be 12 months before we hear such richness again. > ALEXANDER VARTY

Betroffenheit deals in devastating imagery DANC E BETROFFENHEIT A Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theatre production. A DanceHouse presentation. At the Vancouver Playhouse on Thursday, February 25.

No remaining performances

In Crystal Pite and Jonathon riveting Betroffenheit, posttraumatic stress takes the form of a room with no exit, where overwhelming personal pain is only temporarily relieved by a parade of sinister vaudevillian entertainers and eerie clowns.

Young’s voice echoes through speakers, phones, and electrical boxes around the stage, frantically spouting self-help mantras as he tries to escape his confines.

With its harsh lights, grimy walls, and snaking wires, the room becomes a perfect metaphor for a certain exquisite anguish. Betroffenheit dissects the way that the more you try to suppress a painful memory, the more obsessively it pushes to the surface.

The beauty is that the piece is not just a vehicle for playwright-performer Young’s own, achingly specific distress—the loss of his daughter and her cousins in a cabin fire—but something we can all relate to.

The production tracks how the mind sometimes ends up on an endless tape loop, leading to depression, addiction, self-harm, or worse.

Betroffenheit is a German word for a kind of shock that defies words, and fittingly, this is a show that will leave you speechless. The dance-theatre hybrid is visually stunning and intensely moving, and on opening night prompted an extended standing O from Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theatre’s hometown crowd.

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in its first half—part Franz Kafka, part David Lynch. The glittery Show—a stand-in for your drug or drink of choice—is all that relieves the protagonist’s agony. Here, Pite gets mindblowingly creative with her performers: among them, a bowler-hatted David Raymond turns tap dance into a truly malevolent force as he sidles in from the dark, and Tiffany Tregarthen is exquisitely grotesque as a white-pancaked clown, her capering a bizarre mix of the slapstick and the supernatural.

Salsa dance, a magician’s box, tawdry feathers: they’re all here in a chorus line of macabre surprises.

It’s an unforgettable spectacle, thanks to mesmerizing stagecraft, the haunting soundscape (by Owen Belton, Alessandro Juliani, and Meg Roe), and truly out-there performances.

In the second half, Pite clears the stage and sets in motion pure dance that works through the themes set up in the first part. Here’s where you really get to see the versatility and depth of her dancers, now trembling together like some conjoined organism and pressing down each other’s convulsing limbs. What’s new is the way she sets movement to Young’s words, using them as an intricate rhythm for every flinch of her dancers’ muscles.

By the end we are in a vast, dark hole, and Young is alone with his selfblame. It’s heart-wrenching on a whole other level than the horror-circus, but there is a way out. The language that has looped and vexed Young now returns to his control, and the effect is quietly devastating.

After all of its early, eye-popping chaos and carnival-of-souls imagery, the emotional hurricane relents.

And if one man can survive the unsurvivable, then maybe so can you.

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Robert Rauschenberg, whose Revolver II is shown here, is one in a massive array of artists who combine and collage in MashUp. Amanda Siebert photo.

Women emerge as a force in MashUp history V IS U AL A R TS MASHUP: THE BIRTH OF MODERN CULTURE

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At the Vancouver Art Gallery until June 12

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guide a mob of journalists through the biggest and most ambitious show the Vancouver Art Gallery has ever produced, a few of us puzzled over how to wrap a review around the enormous scale of it all.

Because, yeah, there are 371 works by 156 artists to be contemplated here—although contemplation was not exactly the priority of the media preview. We trotted and sometimes cantered through the VAG’s four, artstuffed f loors, with brief, feverishly narrated stops at a few select artworks—a Kurt Schwitters collage here, a John Heartfield photomontage there, a Marcel Duchamp readymade around the corner.

Happily, the Straight was able to stay on after the preview and spend some contemplative time with the marvellous array, including Andy Warhol silkscreens, Robert Rauschenberg “combines”, a Doris Salcedo sculpture, a Stanley Wong installation, a Joyce Weiland film, a Tom Dixon chair, a grouping of Sherrie Levine photographs and watercolours, and a series of Brian Jungen masks. This huge show is hugely engaging, in both concept and execution.

MashUp’s curatorial theme is that the 1912 to 1914 cubist collages of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque broke the ground for the modern age’s bringing together of found and original images, objects, materials, texts, sounds, media, and modes of production. The curators argue, too, that digital culture has so thoroughly absorbed and disseminated once-radical mashup methods that we’re now scarcely aware of them. The show, organized into four sections, includes crosspollinating examples of literature, design, architecture, film, dance, fashion, music, and street culture.

Audio elements are a forceful presence here: as you enter the VAG rotunda, through Barbara Kruger’s striking text installation, you hear a kind of composite soundscape—a low, oceanic roar.

A major contributor to that roar is Jack Goldstein’s endlessly repeating film of the MGM lion, vocally declaring and redeclaring his dominion over the secondf loor landing. As with many surveys of historic and contemporary art, the question of dominion— whether sexual, cultural, or socioeconomic—is loaded. Despite the

large number of women among the show’s 28 collaborating curators, female artists are dramatically underrepresented in MashUp. By my count, they number 36 out of the 156 listed in the show’s media kit. Nonetheless, an interesting subtheme emerges here: the important, if not always acknowledged, role women played in pioneering collage and photomontage techniques.

On the VAG’s fourth f loor, where the early-modernist works are installed, a couple of didactic panels alert us to the photo-collages that were produced by aristocratic Englishwomen during the Victorian era. “Decades before the collage experiments of.…the 20th century European avant-garde,” the text tells us, “the manipulation of photographs had already become a popular technique.” The greatly enlarged example of a genteelpastime precursor to photomontage is a late-1870s work by Kate Edith Gough. Her homely watercolour scene of a pond is given a surreal twist by cut-out photos of women’s heads mounted onto the necks of painted ducks.

The show doesn’t allude at all to Mary Delany, the 18th-century “gentlewoman” credited with inventing mixed-media collage, an art form she described as “papermosaicks”. An accomplished amateur artist, Delany created, in her 70s and 80s, an extraordinary series of botanical drawings using cut paper and watercolour mounted on a black ground. (Not only are they extremely beautiful and dazzlingly detailed, they are also scientifically accurate.) But perhaps she was too botanically inclined and too far in advance of the modern era to be considered here—more’s the pity.

The exhibition text does credit Hannah Höch, the sole female member of the Berlin Dada group, with being a pioneer of photomontage. This may or may not explain why she is the only female artist represented on the fourth floor.

Among her four works on view is a masklike woman’s face placed over another and radiating f lowers and dancing feet. A second work overlays a half-male, half-female face on the silhouette of a man f lexing his muscles. An ardent feminist, Höch worked in graphic design early in her career, and became aware of the unrealistic ways women were represented in the print media. In her politically charged borrowings from newspapers and magazines, she anticipated the appropriation and deconstruction strategies of the 1980s. Her mashup techniques became ours. > ROBIN LAURENCE

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MR. KETTLE AND MRS. MOON Western Gold Theatre presents J.B. Priestleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play about a man who decides that he will not be going back to work ever again. Mar 4-6, 7:30 pm, PAL Theatre (8th floor, 581 Cardero).

Tix $25, info www.westerngoldtheatre.org/.

THEATRE 2OPENINGS THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECT Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir present a moving homage to the gay people who came before us and the events that continue to shape our lives.

Mar 2-19, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix from $20, info www.thecultch.com/.

JUNIE B. JONES: THE MUSICAL Vancouver Performing Stars presents a kid-friendly stage production based on the books by Barbara Park. Mar 5, 2-3:30 pm; Mar 5, 6-7:30 pm; Mar 6, 2-3:30 pm; Mar 6, 6-7:30 pm, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston, Granville Island). Tix $1220, info www.performingstars.ca/tickets/.

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A VERY NARROW BRIDGE Itai Erdal, Anita Rochon, and Maiko Yamamotoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play sees Erdal relive a trial in order to

obtain a divorce document. Presented as part of the Chutzpah Festival. Mar 5-13, 7 pm, Jewish Community Centre (950 W. 41st). Tix $29/25/21, info www.chutzpahfes tival.com/performances-tickets/theatre/avery-narrow-bridge/.

4000 MILES The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a play about a sprightly 91-year-old New Yorker and her 21-yearold grandson. Mar 7-8, 8 pm, Kay Meek Centre (1700 Mathers Ave., West Van). Info www.kaymeekcentre.com/on_stage/2138/.

GA TING The frank theatre company presents Minh Lyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story about an immigrant Chinese couple trying to come to terms with the death of their son. Mar 8-19, Vancity Culture Lab (the Cultch, 1895 Venables). Tix $25, info www.thecultch. com/events/ga-ting-family/.

TU TE SOUVIENDRAS DE MOI François Archambaultâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play tells the story of a retired history teacher who has started to lose his memory. Mar 8-12, 8-9:45 pm, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). Tix $25-28, info bit.ly/1PAHdWA. REDPATCH Hardline Productions presents the story of a young MĂŠtis soldier who fights for Canada in World War I. Mar 9-12, Presentation House Theatre (333 Chesterfield Ave., North Van). Tix $15-28, info www.phtheatre.org/show/redpatch/.

ANTHROPOCENE, OR THE NATURE OF WONDER Play explores the story of Homo sapiens, including what they did and the stories they told, after they changed everything and were the only ones left. Mar 9-13, Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre (149 W. Hastings). Tix $15/5, info www.face book.com/events/1107640785914276/.

THE HOOKER MONOLOGUES Production sees Vancouver sex workers and their allies bring audiences straight into the hidden world of sex work. Mar 9-13, 8 am, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix $15, info www.hookermonologues.ca/.

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Tix from $23, info www.firehallartscentre.ca/.

BRIGHT BLUE FUTURE Hardline Productions presents a play that explores one pivotal night in the lives of four 20-somethings and the decisions they make that will affect their futures forever. To Mar 5, 8-9:30 pm, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix from $15, info tickets.pacifictheatre.org/.

FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS Metro Theatre presents director Don Briardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of Alan Ballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedy about female friendship and the power of the uniform. To Mar 12, 8 pm, Metro Theatre (1370 SW Marine). Tix $24/21, info www.metrotheatre.com/.

LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS Lovebird Artists Collective presents director Ian Farthingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story about a seafood-restaurant owner with growing concerns about his own desirability. To Mar 6, Studio 16 (1545 W. 7th). Tix $25/20, info lovebirdartists.bpt.me/.

RED Play about American abstract painter Mark Rothko, who was commissioned to create murals for the posh Four Seasons restaurant in New York in 1958. To Mar 12, 8-10 pm, Deep Cove Shaw Theatre (4360 Gallant Ave., North Van). Tix $18/16, info www.firstimpressionstheatre.com/.

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VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL Annual celebration of dance features performances by Circadia Indigena, Compagnie Virginie Brunelle, Sujit Vaidya, Natsu Nakajima, Memory Wax/Danza Teatro Retazos, Project Soul, EDAM, Dumb Instrument Dance, Company 605, Kokoro Dance, Mascall Dance, and Raven Spirit Dance. To Mar 19, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews). The event also runs at Vancouver Playhouse and Woodward’s Atrium. Tix start at $20, info www.vidf.ca/.

COASTAL FIRST NATIONS DANCE FESTIVAL Dancers of Damelahamid and the Museum of Anthropology at UBC present the annual celebration of indigenous stories, songs, and traditional dances, as performed by artists from across coastal B.C., Alberta, Ontario, Yukon, and Washington. Mar 1-6, 10 am–4 pm, Museum of Anthropology (6393 NW Marine Drive).

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TO COLOUR THOUGHT Choreographer Vanessa Goodman’s company Action at a Distance presents a mixed program of new contemporary-dance works. Mar 2-5, 8 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby). Tix $25-35, info www.shadboltcentre.com/.

THE IRISH ROVERS Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the international ambassadors of Irish music on their last world tour!

THURSDAY, MARCH 17, VOGUE THEATRE VANCOUVER WELSH MEN'S CHOIR w/ De Danaan Irish Dancers, piper Tim Fanning & Ballyhooley FRIDAY, MARCH 11 ST. ANDREW'S WESLEY CHURCH CELTICFEST CEILIDH w/ Blackthorn, Mairi Rankin, BC Regiment Irish Pipes and Drums, Pat Chessell, Shot of Scotch dancers + many more!

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FOUTREMENT As part of the Vancouver International Dance Festival, Quebec contemporary-dance company Compagnie Virginie Brunelle makes its West Coast premiere. Mar 3-5, 8 pm, Yaletown Roundhouse Exhibition Hall (181 Roundhouse Mews). Tix $25-30, info www.vidf.ca/.

UBC GALA BALL Event hosts the B.C. Open Adult and Senior Standard and Latin Championships as well as a full slate of amateur standard and Latin events from newcomer to championship levels.

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WAIT UNTIL DARK Play about a recently blinded woman who attempts to outsmart the three con men who are after a doll filled with heroin that she unwittingly has in her possession. To Mar 12, 8 pm, Havana Theatre (1212 Commercial). Tix $25/20, info www.nakedgoddessproductions.com/.

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OLD MEDIA Multimedia art is nothing new—even in the 17th century it was possible to look at beautiful pictures while listening to stirring music. And that, with a 21st-century twist, is the basic idea behind the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra’s House of Dreams program, which the Toronto-based early-music group will present at the Vancouver Playhouse on Friday (March 4). While the award-winning musicians focus on time-tested scores by J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frederick Handel, and others, listeners can enjoy a projected panoply of the stately homes of Europe and the paintings they contain, courtesy of media artist Alison Mackay. Who, it should be noted, is also Tafelmusik’s bassist. Now that’s a Renaissance woman, even if her speciality is the Baroque.

Heights United Church (1550 W. 33rd).

Tix $10-32, info www.vancouverchamber choir.com/.

MADAMA BUTTERFLY Vancouver Opera presents Giacomo Puccini’s opera about a young Japanese girl who falls in love with an American naval officer. Mar 5-13, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $45, info www.vancouveropera.ca/.

YOUR ONE AND ONLY LIFE: THE CHORAL MUSIC OF STEPHEN SMITH Elektra Women’s Choir and the Vancouver Men’s Chorus celebrate the choral music of Vancouver pianist-composer Stephen Smith. Mar 5, 7:30 pm; Mar 6, 3 pm, Ryerson United Church (2195 W. 45th). Tix $15-30, info www.elektra.ca/.

OUT OF DARKNESS INTO LIGHT The Borealis String Quartet Society presents a performance of music by Georg Freidrich Haas, Farshid Samandari, Shostakovich, Gorecki, and Danker. Mar 5, 8-10 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $30/15, info www.borealisstringquartet.com/.

CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI The Gallery Singers present the music of Claudio Monteverdi, including selections from Selva Morale e spirituale. Mar 6, 3 pm, Holy Trinity Anglican Church (1440 W. 12th).

Tix $26/13/kids under 12 free, info www. gallerysingers.ca/.

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VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. Improv After Dark (every Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Off Leash (every Wed and Thu 9:15 pm); Rookie Night (every Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (every Wed,Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm; every Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm). Mar 2-9, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Tix $8-22, info www.vtsl.com/.

2THIS WEEK TEENAGE DIRTBAG Standup comics Jacob Samuel, Ross Dauk, Adam Pateman, Fatima Dhowre, and Katie Burrell explore the follies of youth. Mar 5, 8 pm, Hot Art Wet City Gallery (2206 Main). Tix $10/7, info www.hotartwetcity.com/teenagedirtbag2/.

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THE GAME’S AFOOT: STORIES FROM SHERLOCK HOLMES Storytellers Kathie Kompass and Mary Wiggin tell stories drawn from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes canon. Mar 3, 8 pm, The Emerald (555 Gore). Tix $10, info www.talesforthetelling.org/.

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WOMEN’S DAY

In an industry where women are consis-

BY LUCY LAU

tently reduced to empty, one-dimensional figures, where their worth is weighed on how fuckable they look in a pair of heels and just how much skin they’re willing to show alongside their decidedly better-written male counterparts, it’s easy to see why local filmmaker Siobhan Devine is so enamoured of her latest work.

“It was all women in it,” Devine tells the Straight by phone, describing her initial reaction to The Birdwatcher’s screenplay. “They were strong, normal women, you know? There was not a single, ‘And she sat down in her smouldering red dress,’ nothing like that. They were just regular women trying to live their lives.”

The story of Saffron (Camille Sullivan), a terminally ill mother who decides to track down her birth mom (the titular ornithologist, played by a cold Gabrielle Rose) to guarantee the welfare of her two kids, The Birdwatcher came to Devine’s attention with uncanny timing. The director knew a friend and mother who had recently died of cancer, though it should be noted that The Birdwatcher—making its Vancouver premiere at this year’s Vancouver

The amazing female gaze

Gabrielle Rose and Camille Sullivan are a mother and daughter forced into an uncomfortable reunion in Siobhan Devine’s debut feature, The Birdwatcher.

At the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, the distaff side of a male-dominated industry calls all the shots International Women in Film Festival (March 8 to 13)—is far from being a disease-centred sob story.

“I don’t really see it as a movie about cancer,” she says. “It’s really about the woman looking for her birth mother and then how all these women relate to each other in terms of mother-daughter. And the fact that she’s dying of cancer is just a fact.”

At its most superficial level, the Vancouvermade film passes the Bechdel test with flying colours, but Devine’s female-fronted crew (local writer Roslyn Muir penned the script, and women filled behind-the-scenes roles that range from producer to composer to camera operator) ensures that the gender-specific themes are explored with deft precision from the perspective of women.

Considering these mechanics, The Birdwatcher makes an apt headliner for the 11th annual VIWIFF, which will spotlight almost 50 female-backed films at the Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street) in the span of just six days. Among the screenings are features, documentaries, and shorts from both at home and abroad that deal with the struggles of parenthood, female experiences of love and sex, and a fictional tale of a murderous woman who hilariously targets men covered in facial hair, among others.

A series of Q & A sessions, panel discussions, networking events, and workshops will serve to further illuminate and connect women working in film production. For Devine, it’s a vital feat, one that defies Hollywood’s perception of women and highlights what female filmmakers can bring to the often male-dominated table.

“Sometimes I’m mystified by how many women’s films are directed by men,” she says. “Not that men can’t do it, but I do think that we have a different way of looking at the world and I think that women see other women in a more threedimensional way—or 18-dimensional way maybe is a better way of putting it.”

For more information about the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, or to purchase tickets, visit www.womeninfilm.ca/ . -

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Starting in 2006, the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival has provided a vital hub for the city’s established female filmmakers and a warm welcome to those on their way up. Here are some of the key names returning for this year’s edition, and a few other sisters making things happen on both sides of the projector.

SHARON MCGOWAN/PEGGY THOMPSON

The powerhouse team behind Bearded Ladies: The Photography of Rosamond Norbury (screening next Wednesday [March 9] ) boasts credits stretching back to the ’80s, although they’re probably best known for the 1999 feature Better Than Chocolate.

MONK Recognized across Canada for her film criticism, Monk debuted behind the camera last year with a short film about another local institution: DJ Rhiannon.

“Rock the Box” will bring a whole different set of beats to VIWFF when it screens next Thursday (March 10).

KATHERINE

After many years at the NFB, Friesen recently served as executive producer on the acclaimed doc Hadwin’s Judgement. Her presentation titled Story Money Impact: Funding Media for Social Change takes place next Friday (March 11).

TRACEY FRIESEN

“I don’t just make entertainment; I have some things to say. Otherwise, I wouldn’t put myself through this.” That’s what Karen Lam told the Straight when her feature, Evangeline, opened 2014’s VIWFF. Lam’s new short, “Chiral”, screens next Friday (March 11).

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What to see and where to see it

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THE WITCH Writer-director Robert Eggers’s decidedly literal take on the 17th-century witch craze has polarized horror fans. Decide for yourself if it’s Shining brilliant or Exorcist II terrible when The Witch comes to the Rio Theatre for a weeklong run starting Friday (March 4).

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SPARTACUS Bryan Cranston’s Oscarnominated performance as screenwriter Dalton Trumbo has brought attention yet again to this timeless Kirk Douglas epic—the first film to credit Trumbo after the Hollywood blacklist. See the restored version at Cinematheque, starting Saturday (March 5).

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ERBARME DICH—MATTHÄUS PASSION STORIES Performers in a rundown church in the Netherlands consider the personal impact of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sacred oratorio St. Matthew Passion in this kaleidoscopic doc. Starts at the Vancity Theatre on Sunday (March 6).

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ELLE-MÁIJÁ TAILFEATHERS Her work as a writer-director has brought international recognition to Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, whose new short, “Rebel (Bihttoš)”—a multidisciplinary doc that landed on this year’s list of TIFF’s best Canadian shorts—screens next Saturday (March 12).

The recipients of 2014’s artistic innovation award (chosen by VIWFF’s founding body, Women in Film + TV Vancouver), Jen and Sylvia Soska drew global attention last week with the announcement that they’d signed on to direct the remake of David Cronenberg’s 1977 classic, Rabid .

THE SOSKA SISTERS

CORINNE LEA Back in 2012, Rio Theatre owner-manager Corinne Lea mounted a loud and quixotic campaign to amend the venue’s liquor licence. She won, and the Rio has brought a steady diet of first-run, revival, and cult hits to a cinema-starved East Vancouver ever since, along with an equally steady diet of hops and barley.

JACQUELINE DUPUIS Joining VIFF as its executive director in 2012, Dupuis really made her mark by expanding the festival’s trade forum into the VIFF Industry Conference, pushing for greater engagement with the thousands of Vancouverites who make their living in B.C.’s booming creative sector.

DOROTHY WOODEND Besides being one of

the brightest film critics around, Woodend has brought a sense of playfulness and wide-ranging curiosity to her work as director of programming at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, creating a vital annual landmark in every local cinephile’s calendar. -

MOVIES

The projector

FSM Even as it focuses on the downside of hook-up culture, FSM exudes a winning ease and brightness. For one thing, Vancouver hasn’t been this lovingly called upon to play itself since Ben Ratner’s Down River in 2013, while Vanessa Crouch provides a warm centre to its tale of an up-and-coming DJ whose love life could use a bit more flow. FSM has its flaws, but a lack of self-possession isn’t one of them. Melanie M. Jones’s feature screens at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival next Thursday (March 10). -

The view from the top

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WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT Tina Fey goes to war in

this witty adaptation of Kim Barker’s bestseller The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan, opening Friday (March 4). “It captures my narrative arc. It captures the absurdity of what it was like to live in that ‘Kabubble’,” Barker told the Straight, referring to Kabul’s adrenalized bedlam of militants, hard-assed military types, and horny local politicians. Look for our review and an interview with the author at Straight.com. MARCH 3 – 10 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 31

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WORLD POETRY READING SERIES Literary event features multicultural and multilingual poets, writers, and musicians.

Mar 5, 1-3 pm, Vancouver Public Library Britannia Branch (1661 Napier). Free admission, info www.vpl.ca/.

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AN EVENING OF STORYTELLING Don Simpson, Emily Kelsall, Johnny Scoop, Susan Dickson, Elen Ghulam, Al Tee, Marylee Stephenson, Skye, Akira Dowd, and Troy Riley share original stories. Opens with a tale by 2014 Story Slam champion Bryant Ross. Mar 8, 8-10 pm, Cottage Bistro (4470 Main). Tix $5, info www.facebook. com/events/1195528510464363/.

ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK CHUTZPAH FESTIVAL Dance, theatre, comedy, and music highlight this year’s festival with performances and workshops by international, Canadian, and local artists. To Mar 13, various Vancouver venues. Tix $21-36, info www.chutzpah festival.com/.

“When you’re done laughing, ‘Where to Invade Next’ is a movie that stings.”

SALT SPRING IN THE CITY Event features rustic, modern, chic, and traditional wares from over 30 Salt Spring Island artisans. Mar 4-6, 4-5 pm, Heritage Hall (3102 Main). Tix $4/kids under 12 free, info www.saltspringinthecity.com/.

“Impassioned.”

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LOVE HURTS It’s provocative enough that Quebec choreographer Virginie Brunelle pairs hockey pads and pointe shoes in her dance work Foutrement. But then the artist pushes her three dancers into a truly soul-baring exploration of the brutality of love. The Guardian called the painful love triangle that unfolds “a nearly naked exposé on the physicality of dance and delicacy of relationships”. Whether you’re recently jilted or still feel the burn of an old flame, dare to catch it at the Vancouver International Dance Festival, Thursday to Saturday (March 3 to 5) at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre theatre. pose environmental threats to the region) to Jan 31, 2017

MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER 1100 Chestnut Street, 604-736-4431, www.museumof vancouver.ca/. 2YOUR FUTURE HOME: CREATING THE NEW VANCOUVER (major exhibition engages visitors with the bold visual language and lingo of real-estate advertising as it presents the visions of Vancouver designers about how we might design cityscapes of the future) to May 15

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BEARDED LADIES Bearded Ladies is an engaged and engaging documentary following Vancouver photographer Rosamond Norbury, as she creates a series of surprising and often hilarious portraits of women donning male drag for the first time. We also look at Norbury’s past work and go out on the town with her charming alter ego’s, the gay erotic photographer, Rod Bush, and the glamorous drag queen, Rose Bush.

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CRUSHED Elliot returns to the family home and business, a 100-year-old vineyard on the brink of bankruptcy, where she unravels the mystery of her father’s death by facing her own traumatic past.

This “environmental thriller” explores themes of loss, memory, and renewal, while paralleling the disintegration of a family with the corporate abuse of a landscape.

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Marie Avgeropoulos and Aleks Paunovic search for treasure and some warmer footwear in the B.C.-set thriller, Numb.

There’s gold in them glaciers RE VIEW S NUMB Starring Jaimie Bamber. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 25

Fargo meets Kalifornia in this crime drama about two couples who stumble onto a potential—and potentially lethal—pot of gold.

No rainbows decorate wintry northern B.C., where forestry specialist Will (Battlestar Galactica’s British-born Jamie Bamber) has gone for an oil-patch job that almost happened. His orderly blond wife (Stefanie von Pfetten) is facing her own financial problems, and we soon learn that these two tend to gloss over their problems. That won’t help when, while driving back to Vancouver, they pick up two distressed travellers, in the form of dark-haired siblings who are no strangers to the law—just as Aleks Paunovic and Marie Avgeropoulos are highly familiar to viewers of Canadian-made TV. Too lightly dressed for snowstorms, the newcomers seem dangerous right from the start. That’s before they come upon an old-prospector type wandering in the night. He croaks from exposure, and the back-seaters find some mysterious GPS numbers in his wallet. They put this together with a recently stolen trove of gold coins and pressure the more genteel, if entirely broke, couple to go into the part-time treasure-hunting business. (The gold’s worth an extra-cool four million, but they never explain if that’s Canadian or U.S.—important when assessing risk.)

Good thing Will knows the woods.

Bad thing they have such insufficient gear and clothing. Our Numb nuts soon have some frosty accidents; the worst involves bumping into a psychopath played menacingly well

by Vancouver’s Colin Cunningham.

These twists, and some bigger ones to come, are impressively handled by director Jason R. Goode and writer Andre Harden, both making their feature debuts. It has to be said that Bamber and Paunovic get the best and make the most of the script, which doesn’t bother to round out the female characters beyond overly familiar archetypes. Still, this lowbudget chiller has enough substance to suggest hotter things to come.

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THE CLUB Starring Roberto Farías. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable.

For showtimes, please see page 25

If you thought Spotlight went

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Catholic Church, this is the movie for you. The club of this blandly titled but darkly disturbing Chilean effort is a retreat for defrocked priests; by extension, it includes the hierarchy of the church itself.

Directed by Pablo Larraín and written by him and two others, the film is immediately marked by the

purposeful haziness of its exposition.

(Its f lare-ridden cinematography comes across as widescreen VHS.) We’re gradually introduced to a band of men hovering around the edges of La Boca, a forlorn seaside town on the wintry southern coast of Chile.

They’ve been banished to this desolate place because of sexual abuse of children, and one priest (Jaime Vadell) was seemingly complicit with army torture under the Pinochet regime.

The men are looked after by an eversmiling nun (Antonia Zegers, married to the director) who harbours her own secrets. She races their pet greyhound for extra booze money, and overall they live better than they should. That changes with the arrival of another disgraced cleric (José Soza), looking like an Old Testament patriarch but followed by a Santiago disciple (Roberto Farías) who yells out his specific crimes for all to hear. The church sends a young reformer (Marcelo Alonso) to investigate the ensuing mess, but things keep getting more complicated.

Most of the superb cast here was in Larraín’s previous and best-known feature, No, about the democratic defeat of Pinochet. There’s no doubt that the filmmaker is drawing parallels between unpunished government crimes and Catholic cover-ups. (His next effort will be about poet Pablo Neruda.)

The Club’s unfolding is a marvel of carefully calibrated suspense, heightened by stark music from Arvo Pärt.

But its final third is so burdened by metaphor and gruesome plot contrivance, viewers can be forgiven for wanting an early exit from the confessional.

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EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT Starring Nilbio Torres. In Spanish, German, and Portuguese, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable.

For showtimes, please see page 25

“Does all your science lead to an Amazonian shaman asks a wild-eyed botanist in the Oscar-nominated Embrace of the Serpent. (It lost to Son of Saul, as expected.) That central question is not answered definitely in this magisterial black-and-white journey up the river of human history. Shot in Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina, it’s just as ambitious as The Revenant, and a lot more useful for understanding why we’ve landed where we are today.

This is the third wide-ranging drama for director Ciro Guerra, here inspired by the still-studied diaries of Theodor Koch-Grünberg, a German scientist and ethnographer who died of malaria in 1924.

The fictionalized Theo (played by Belgium’s Jan Bijvoet) searches for fabled medicine man Karamakate (amazing non-pro Nilbio Torres), who can lead him to a rare flower.

Joining with Theo’s loyal pal Manduca (Yauenkü Migue), who speaks several local languages, they paddle upriver to the village where lone

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wolf Karamakate lived until it was destroyed by Spanish rubber barons.

This heart-of-darkness tale is paired with another river voyage about a quarter-century later—neither time period is firmly established—with a similarly bearded man of science (American Brionne Davis) seeking out old Karamakate (Antonio Bolívar), now starting to lose his visions and memories. The visitor is also searching for that fabled flower; they have parallel encounters, and their visit to a Christian mission is even more nightmarish the second time around.

But there’s also a deep spiritual core to both journeys, built around the love of nature and ritualized use of natural drugs (especially an ayahuascalike potion). This movie is a two-hour trip you’ll remember for years to come.

END OF DAYS Promising cash bonuses and a party, the boss of a closing company tricks his unenthusiastic employees into working one more night. The employees quickly begin to realize that their work is having catastrophic consequences on the outside world. As the bribes turn into threats, will this smorgasbord of antiheroes have what it takes to save the world?

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THE LEGEND OF BARNEY THOMSON

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Starring Robert Carlyle. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 25

Fans of Robert Carlyle, gruesome murders, and indecipherable Glaswegian slang will find much to enjoy in The Legend of Barney Thomson, which plays as a Caledonian Sweeney Todd.

With greased-back mullet and a perpetual rictus of guilt before he’s done anything wrong, Carlyle—also making his directorial debut—plays the demon barber here. Our titular antihero grumbles that he “ne’er had a kick at the can”. Indeed, Barney has the worst chair at a sad hairchopping shop in the worst part of Glasgow. And things go pear-shaped when he accidentally kills his boss just as he’s about to get sacked.

Barney’s something of a mama’s lad, and the movie really could be called The Legend of Emma Thompson. Yes, the versatile Brit (exactly two years older than Carlyle) plays his chainsmoking mum, seen here in Jiminy Glick makeup. He goes to her for help, with a body in his car trunk, but she’s more interested in getting a ride to see her friends. “Maybe you didnae hear me,” she spits. “It’s ma bingo night!”

Meanwhile, local police are looking for a serial killer, and a detective from down south (the great Ray Winstone) latches on to the hapless Barney, whose idea of joking around with coppers is to say “It’s not like I stabbed him with a pair of scissors or anythin’.”

Among the constabulary there’s also Tom Courtenay as a chief superintendent who can only remember numbers, not names, and Ashley Jensen as the kind of ball-busting female DCI often found in U.K. crime flicks.

Not that anyone is allowed a shred of dignity in this breezy tour of hideous housing estates and sorry chip shops.

Underscored by its typically ironic use of 1950s pop songs, the film goes for easy targets and hits them with moderately convincing gusto.

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All that, and there’s an inspiring THE WAVE > KEN EISNER message that anyone can be anything—even if it’s a tiny rodent Starring Kristoffer Joner. In Norwegian, ZOOTOPIA becoming the Godfather. with English subtitles. Rated PG. For

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Having survived Nazi zombies in the Dead Snow movies, Kristoffer Joner and Ane Dahl Torp face an even more relentless enemy in The Wave. It’s not football-bleacher choreography they’re worried about, but a tsunami threatening to wipe out their little Norwegian town, as one did 80 years earlier.

Ultracharming Geiranger is at the base of famously unstable Åkerneset Mountain, which must be watched for rockslides capable of sending waves as high as 250 feet charging up an otherwise bucolic fiord. Fortunately, there are high-tech sensors inside the mountain, and a team to monitor it.

Because socialism.

Joner, who also roughed it in The Revenant, is Kristian, the lead geologist at this remote observation post.

As luck would have it, this day is his last on the job; he’s due in the big city to work for an oil company. Yeah, like that’s gonna happen. Torp, an icy blond scientist in the comic 1001 Grams, plays Kristian’s wife, employed at the town’s busiest tourist hotel. Their teenage son (Jonas Hoff Oftebro) isn’t a jerk, unusually, and their darling small daughter is not an escaped Fanning sister, although Edith HaagenrudSande sure looks like one.

Kristian’s all packed, but hesitant to leave. The mountain is rumbling, and the meters are jumping, but do his coworkers listen? They should, because after director Roar Uthaug spends the film’s smoothly shot first half building thoughtful suspense, he unleashes his inner Hollywood.

In this season of political free fall, you get every disaster trope you need, plus some grimmer effects than expected (minus Shelley Winters and George Kennedy). It should be no surprise, then, that Uthaug is

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It’s hard to create wonder with animation these days, but with its mix of the detailed storybook, the 3-D stuffy, and the retro-Disney cartoon, Zootopia conjures an animal kingdom that still manages to astonish.

In the metropolis of the title, predators and prey have evolved to live harmoniously in a city that looks like a theme park designed by Fritz Lang and Dr. Seuss.

In this eye-popping world where rabbits and hamsters have to avoid elephant feet on the sidewalk, our metaphorical story takes place. Prejudice exists in Zootopia, with critters of certain species facing stereotyping. And when furry little Judy bunny (voice of Ginnifer Goodwin) doesn’t want to stay on the carrot farm with her 200 brothers and sisters, she dreams of becoming a cop in the big city. But she’ll have to prove herself to the muscular pachyderms, Cape buffalo, and other meaty mammals on the force. (Note how politically incorrect it is for them to call her “cute”.)

She has to solve a complex crime, teaming up with a crafty fox named Nick (Jason Bateman). The plot soon gets as long and twisty as old film noir—and occasionally feels as dragged out as the movie’s funniest scene, in which sloths run the department of motor vehicles in infuriating slo-o-ow mo-o-o-tion.

But then Zootopia rolls out another of its brilliantly lifelike and seemingly endless anthropomorphic treats, whether it’s an Arctic shrew as a Don Corleone–like Mafia boss, or a shaggy, yoga-loving yak voiced

by Tommy Chong. Or Judy and Nick zoom into some colourful new microclimate-corner of Zootopia, like the miniature Little Rodentia, the Dubai-

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LONDON HAS FALLEN Starring Gerard Butler. Rated 14A. For showtimes, please see page 25

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endless string of explosions? Well, according to London Has Fallen, no fewer than four. They have the eager assistance of director Babak Najafi, who layers on the violence with such relish that we become slaves to a kind of gunbarrel porn, where mindless sex is replaced by the constant spray of bullets.

This is the completely superfluous sequel to 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen, in which Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) saved American president Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) from a relentless wave of swarthy terrorists. This time around, Banning and President Asher are in London to attend the funeral of Britain’s prime minister. Within minutes of the opening, the obligatory onslaught of swarthy terrorists—disguised this time as London cops—blows up five attending heads of state while destroying virtually all of the city’s major landmarks.

Local moviegoers may be upset that Canada’s fictional prime minister, who looks as if the casting people took their cue from watching old clips of Brian Mulroney, is one of the first to go. Luckily, Asher manages to survive through a virtual orgy of violence.

From there, Banning and the president must make their way along the ruined streets in search of sanctuary. Despite the long-distance technical support of the vice-president (Morgan Freeman), things get rough for democracy.

After a while, you begin to welcome yet another explosion, if only because it drowns out the sporadic bursts of jingoistic dialogue. While beating the crap out of a terrorist, Banning tells him: “Here’s what you guys don’t understand. We’re going to be around for the next thousand years!” Fine by me, as long as they quit making movies like this. > JOHN LEKICH

GODS OF EGYPT Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Rated PG. For showtimes, please see page 25

The gods walk among us in this

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Egypt and its awesome achievements in science, architecture, and the excessive use of computer-generated imagery. It’s the one faintly interesting idea in a virtually unwatchable “epic”, in which the riddle of the Sphinx meets the Uncanny Valley of the Kings inside a gold-saturated Matrix of brain-scrambling visual noise and lots of white people. Sound appealing?

A white, bland Nikolaj CosterWaldau stars as Horus, about to be crowned king of Egypt by his father, Osiris (Bryan Brown—white, humiliated), when the ceremony is rudely interrupted by Uncle Set (Gerard Butler— white, Scottish). Set kills his brother, rips out Horus’s eyes, and then plunges Earth into darkness and chaos. All very familiar if you know your Egyptian cosmology or have ever spent a Saturday night in Glasgow. Thus Horus wastes the next few years in exile, crawling around the floor of his unkempt pyramid, waiting for the plucky mortal Bek (Brenton Thwaites—white, annoying) to show up and cheerlead him out of early retirement and into Tomb Raiders of the Lost Ark. Director Alex Proyas must have been staring into the sun for too long before signing on to this infantile and offensive disaster, while nobody seems to have considered who Gods of Egypt is actually for. Kids will be frazzled and bored within an hour, or when Geoffrey Rush shows up in a cosmic boat as tetchy, pink-skinned sun god Ra. Grownups will yearn for the innocent charms of a Ray Harryhausen flick, or maybe just a better world in general. > ADRIAN MACK

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WHITE LAKE Director Colin Browne’s film examines family, memory, landscape, and absence. Includes a screening of Browne’s 1979 short film “Strathyre”. Mar 7, 7 pm, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Tix $12/10 (plus membership fee), info www.thecinematheque.ca/.

VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN FILM FESTIVAL Event showcases short, mid-length, and feature films (narrative, documentary, experimental, and animation) by established and emerging women filmmakers from around the world. Mar 8-13, Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour). Info www. womeninfilm.ca/cgi/page.cgi/FilmFest.html.

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NEW THIS WEEK EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, and Antonio Bolivar star in The Wind Journeys writer-director Ciro Guerra’s drama about the relationship between an Amazonian shaman and two scientists who search for a sacred healing plant. 123 mins. Vancity Theatre LONDON HAS FALLEN Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman star in Sebbe director Babak Najafi’s action flick about a man who discovers a plot to assassinate all world leaders attending the English prime minister’s funeral. Rated 14A. 99 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford, Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill, Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas, SilverCity Riverport Cinemas NUMB Jamie Bamber, Marie Avgeropoulos, and Aleks Paunovic star in director Jason R. Goode’s thriller about a man and a woman who journeys into the wilderness to retrieve a hoard of stolen gold coins. Rated PG. 90 mins. Landmark Cinemas 10 New Westminster THE CLUB Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers, and Alfredo Castro star in Post Mortem writer-director Pablo Larraín’s drama about disgraced priests and nuns who live in a small Chilean beach town.

96 mins. Vancity Theatre THE LEGEND OF BARNEY THOMSON Emma Thompson, Robert Carlyle, and Ray Winstone star in director Carlyle’s comedy about an awkward Glasgow barber who enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.

Rated 14A. 96 mins. Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas THE WAVE Kristoffer Joner, Thomas Bo Larsen, and Ane Dahl Torp star in Escape director Roar Uthaug’s action flick about a community that’s caught in the path of an 85-meter-high tsunami. Rated PG. 105 mins.

Vancity Theatre WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, and Martin Freeman star in a comedy by directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa about a journalist who recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Rated 14A. 111 mins. Cineplex Cinemas Langley, Cineplex Fifth Avenue Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas, SilverCity Mission and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas ZOOTOPIA The voices of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, and Idris Elba are featured in an animated film about a city that’s populated by animals. Rated G. 108 mins. Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Meadowtown Cinemas, Cineplex Odeon Park & Tilford, Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill, SilverCity Coquitlam & VIP Cinemas, SilverCity Metropolis Cinemas, SilverCity Mission and SilverCity Riverport Cinemas

REPERTORY CINEMAS Times are current as of Friday, March 4

THE CINEMATHEQUE 1131 Howe St., Vancouver, 604-688-3456, www.thecinematheque.ca 2HER SISTER’S SECRET Thu 8:15 2MEN IN WAR Fri 8:30 2SPARTACUS SatSun, Wed 7:00 2THE FIRST LEGION Thu 6:30 2THE LONG VOYAGE HOME Fri 6:30 VANCITY THEATRE 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, 604-683-3456, www.viff.org/ theatre 2EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT Fri 8:20; Sat 4:00; Sun 5:15; Mon 8:30 2ERBARME DICH -- MATTHäUS PASSION STORIES Sun 7:45 2THE CLUB Fri, Mon 6:30; Sat 8:30 2THE WAVE Fri 10:45; Sat 6:30; Sun 3:00; Mon 4:20

SPECIAL EVENTS UCLA FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION The Archive’s important preservation and restoration work is showcased in its biennial festival, featuring glorious new 35mm prints of important classics, nearly-lost masterworks, and rediscovered rarities spanning more than a century of American film history. Mar 4-17, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Info www.thecinematheque.ca/.

THE OUTLAW LEAGUE The Kids Culture Film Series presents a screening of the French Canadian film about a children’s baseball team. Mar 6, 12:45-2:15 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $5-9, info www.facebook.com/kidsculture/.

SUFFRAGETTE The Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter hosts a screening of Suffragette in support of International Women’s Day. Mar 8, 6:30 pm, The Cinematheque (200 - 1131 Howe Street). Admission by donation, info www. rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/.

REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM Documentary sees intellectual Noam Chomsky discuss the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. Mar 8, 7 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.riotheatre.ca/.

THE GENTLEMEN HECKLERS PRESENT: AMERICAN NINJA Eric Fell, Patrick Maliha, and Shaun Stewart provide live comedic commentary at a screening of Sam Firstenberg’s 1985 martial-arts movie. Mar 9, 7 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $12/10, info www.riotheatre.ca/.

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Just when it seems Bridie Monds-Watson

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can’t be any more charming, the artist formally known as SOAK comes out with something that’s pure gold. Cartoon-addicted 10-year-olds aside, it’s not every day you come across someone with a voracious appetite for the most magically delicious of breakfast cereals.

“I have a really big thing for Lucky Charms,” Monds-Watson says with a laugh. “That’s one of the best things about touring in America—the Lucky Charms. They have them in Ireland, but they are really expensive. In America, they are cheap as hell.”

The 19-year-old singer-songwriter has, of course, more on her mind these days than Lucky the Leprechaun’s most prized possessions. When the Straight reaches her in her hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland, she’s busy in the studio, working on a follow-up to 2015’s much-celebrated, Mercury Prize– nominated Before We Forgot How to Dream.

That breakthrough was built on echo-bathed guitar, atmospheric vocal washes, and widescreen string arrangements, and it got SOAK glowingly profiled by tastemakers like the Guardian and NME. Monds-Watson’s new songs are shaping up to be heavier.

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Not only does Bridie Monds-Watson (aka SOAK) enjoy Lucky Charms, she also models her wardrobe after that of the cereal’s leprechaun mascot.

Monds-Watson’s siblings briefly lost his way just as her career was lifting off, meanwhile, adds extra poignancy to “Oh BrothWhile her peers figure out what to do with their er” lyrics like “Oh Brother, lives, the 19-year-old rising star has found her calling can you stay with me?/ “I’ve been listening to a lot of Sonic Youth and Where my fears aren’t real/Pretend we are who we Nada Surf and Death Cab for Cutie,” she reveals. used to be/Before we forgot how to dream.”

“That’s making me want to write big, loud, hefty But in the grand tradition of the immortal Steven songs at the moment.”

Patrick Morrissey, Monds-Watson is also able to The possible shift in direction marks Monds- see the humour in life’s various miseries. Consider Watson as an artist with little interest in repeating “Sea Creatures”, a vintage-sounding twee-pop song herself. She comes across as wise beyond her dealing with being gay and bullied, something that years, an impression backed up by the maturity the singer is familiar with. Her great trick on the she shows on Before We Forgot How to Dream. track—which contains lines like “I know you get it Lyrically, the album’s songs are inspired by bad/You don’t deserve this/And I won’t put up with personal experience, intelligently exploring teen- their ignorance”—is turning her own experience age alienation, family discord, and the challenges into something uplifting. of growing up gay in a place where acceptance is Despite golden memories like appearing on a work in progress. Musically, think grey-days Later… With Jools Holland and touring with the drama and melancholy introspection. hugely inspirational Tegan and Sara, MondsThat Monds-Watson is happy to field all questions Watson confesses that everything hasn’t come thrown her way might surprise those who’ve heard easy to her. Introverted as a child, and suffering SOAK. (The name combines parts of soul and folk, from dyslexia she worked hard to overcome, the neither of which she seems particularly indebted to.) singer was eventually dragged out of her shell by Far from coming across as downbeat and sad, her love of music. After picking up a guitar at 13, the singer gamely turns even the most mundane she quickly found a like-minded community. queries into interesting answers. Take, for example, “You know when you’re a kid, and you’re like, what she’s looking forward to on her upcoming ‘Music is my thing’?” she asks. “I was one of those North American tour. Seeing the continent from a music kids. Finding that out, and then making window seat is at the top of her list. mutual friends through playing in bands and “I love when we tour on buses because I feel stuff like that, really put me out of my comfort a million times more comfortable,” she says. zone in a nice way. I was learning about music “You’ve got your own space—your own kind of and making friends through going to concerts. moving house, whereas a hotel room can be really Eventually, I started loading songs onto the Interanxiety-producing because you never know where net when I was 14 or 15, and when I got a positive you’re going to be that night. In a hotel room you reaction from that, it made me confident enough can’t go and get a cup of coffee if you want. And to perform live.” you can’t have a bowl of Lucky Charms.”

She doesn’t mind confirming that living up to the Monds-Watson’s playful side is surprising be- hype of being a U.K. Next Big Thing can be stressful. cause, like her previously released indie EPs, Be“I’ve been touring for the past two-and-a-half fore We Forgot How to Dream sounds like someone years. Things just started getting more and more inspent plenty of nights alone with a diary as a kid. tense until we were away for two months at a time.

Piece together the lyrics, and it starts to seem life Being this age and not really having a normal rouwasn’t exactly a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. tine, travelling so much, and being under pressure to Anyone who’s ever listened to their parents fight perform every night is strange. I feel very blessed to will relate completely to the “Blud” lines “You’ve got be able to do what I do, but it’s also very tiring. Most a problem I cannot fix it/Hear the anger through kids my age are out with their friends all the time. the ceiling/I wish I missed it.” Knowing that one of These are the years that most people spend with

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Pusha T is a traditionalist. Recognizing that no one gives a shit about albums anymore, the 38-year-old has focused heavily on singles—a whopping 29 of them—since splitting from Clipse a half-decade ago. Along the way there have been mix tapes, EPs, and a couple of albums. Anyone with a laptop can make 29 singles and sporadic albums these days. They don’t, however, end up getting anointed by Kanye West to run GOOD Music. Yeezy probably loves the fact that Pusha T—at the Vogue on Thursday (March 3)—isn’t a traditionalist. Either that, or he likes singles. -

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Bridie Monds-Watson sounds off on the things that enquiring minds want to know.

On pet peeves: “I don’t like when artists directly write about being on tour. I get the travel aspect, but I feel that’s why so many musicians have songs with ‘home’ in them. So I try not to write about being away, or, if I do, make it obscure enough that it sounds like something else.”

On her friends: “I’ve grown up with people who knew me before I ever started playing music or got signed, so I think that if I ever tried any popstar shit they’d definitely shut me down. Which is great—I’m really lucky to have friends like that.”

On Lucky Charms: “I always like to come back from America with at least one or two boxes, so it’s not that bad. It’s more like a special thing when I go to America, to make sure I get Lucky Charms.”

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their friends while trying to figure out what they are going to do with their life. I imagine that I’m ahead a bit because I’ve kind of got it sorted out.”

A better way of putting things might be to say that she’s got things mostly sorted out—and that the stakes are now higher than she ever dreamed.

“Because the first album won awards and we got nominated for stuff, I feel the pressure now,” Monds-Watson admits. “And everyone says the second album is the hardest.”

There’s a good reason she’s worried, in some ways, about a follow-up. Imagine making a record that’s all about personal traumas and experiences, and then trying to find something to write about while spending a year in planes, buses, and greenrooms.

“I think I’m now writing songs about subjects that don’t have much to do with me,” MondsWatson says. “I write all the time. I never stop—I fill up one of those little pocket Moleskine journals once a month.”

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Want the hard copy? That’ll be $1,000. Here’s hoping the dude has a lot of space to store unsold albums.

POSTPUNK FURY When Mad Max: Fury Road won an Oscar for best sound editing on Sunday, punk legend Kira Roessler shared in the glory, the amazing thing being that she can still hear after five albums as Black Flag’s bassist.

IT’S ALL RELATIVE Crooner Sam Smith wasn’t a fan of

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Fresh and local BRE M C DANIEL LIGHT POLLUTION Bre McDaniel seems to prefer things that shimmer and sparkle. That’s an observation based on the fact that all the songs on this EP were inspired by light in some way. It’s also based on the record’s aesthetic, an ethereal but intimate dream-folk sound, augmented by shivering strings on “Stardust” and “Swoon”. The title track follows suit, but then ramps up the tempo and the dynamics in a flurry of bongos and acoustic-guitar strums.

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or an underprivileged, overanxious teenager growing up in the car-theft capital of North America—aka Surrey—music was the sweetest escape.

While getting ready for school, I blasted David Bowie, the Libertines, and the Smiths, stabbing pins through my clothes and squeezing into leather in juvenile imitation of the male rock stars I admired.

I felt a kindred spirit in music history’s androgynous punks. Coming of age in a woman-hating culture dominated by acts like Limp Bizkit and Eminem, I internalized and reacted to society’s strict gender roles by rejecting femininity. Instead, I embraced rock ’n’ roll’s masculinity.

I used to pore over every music magazine I could find, looking up the It bands of the day, almost all of them male-dominated. In retrospectives, influential women like Debbie Harry and the Runaways were consistently side-noted or drooled over for their visual appeal, not their talents.

Switching on CFOX-FM, I once overheard the DJ poll his listeners: “Who is the biggest whore in rock This is actually surprisingly little ’n’ roll?” Of course, Courtney Love makeup by Siouxsie’s standards. came out on top, so to speak. All famously philandering male musi- in my covertly stealing my brother’s cians were spared the humiliation. guitar, holding it, and weeping like a As a 16-year-old girl, and an aspiring pitiful loony, because I couldn’t play. artist, I was not.

My parents wanted me to play piano Incessant exposure to the ugli- instead, as it was more feminine. ness of misogyny Whenever I tried resulted in my to strum a riff, torturous desire my small, girlish to become a male hands struggled to Vivian Pencz rock star. Obmanoeuvre an inviously, there was a slight problem strument clearly not designed for me, with this plan. But I barely had any its body bulky and awkward against significant female role models in my own. And then my self-esteem my life, as almost all options were would take another epic swan dive. either belittled or ignored by the It took five years of this viciousmusic press and society at large. ly sad cycle before I stockpiled Consequently, I viewed myself enough self-confidence to break through the same tarnished lens. And free. Eventually, I did teach myself so my musical ambitions culminated to play guitar, but my sonic output

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The summer I moved to Vancouver, the universe dealt me a nauseating sucker punch. A guy in the local music scene sexually assaulted me, and I plunged into a self-destructive depression. For the first time in my life, I was forced in such a visceral way to assess both my self-worth and my womanhood, entities that were intimately linked.

Suddenly, all I wanted to hear were female voices, to feel their strength and support like lifeblood. I began listening obsessively to artists like Siouxsie Sioux, Lydia Lunch, Bikini Kill, and PJ Harvey, whose songs spoke out about sexual abuse, prostitution, and other harsh realities for women. Their distinctly, fiercely female perspectives reflected the truths of my life more fully than Bowie or Morrissey ever could.

Siouxsie and Co. taught me lessons in rebelling and surviving as a woman in a world so dismissive and hostile toward us. They showed me what was possible if I realized the value of my self-worth and womanhood, in that supernatural way that music reaches out its guitar-callused hand to those in need.

Inspired to action, I wrote my first-ever song and discovered the pure elation of creating my very own noise. One day, while I was working on this song, my sister entered the room and asked, “What’s that you’re playing? New Order?”

It may seem trivial, but scarcely before had I felt such confidence that I could someday create music as worthwhile as that of the men I had idolized as a kid.

Female voices are as worthwhile as male voices, be it in rock ’n’ roll, the political arena, or the living room.

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This Dempsey’s no bruiser It’s tempting to think Damien may be related to legendary U.S. pugilist Jack Dempsey. After all, the singer-songwriter from the rough northern fringe of Dublin is built like a boxer, and as a teenager he used to fight in the ring.

But according to Dempsey he never identified with being a bruiser—in truth, he was more like a secret hippie, tired of being bullied in his home neighbourhood of Donaghmede, and just wanting to protect himself.

“The Dempseys went to America during the Irish Famine, I believe, and some of them came back,” says Dempsey, reached in Kilburn, the heart of London’s Irish community. “So I often tell people that I could be Jack Dempsey’s relation. Many people moved out to Donaghmede from the inner city, where lots of tenements were knocked down. I got bullied. If you had a guitar and walked around, the gangs on the corners would give you a few slaps.

“So I took up boxing, and it came in very handy. I loved the sparring—but fights were different. I did a good few but I didn’t really like fighting. The coach would say ‘It’s a war, you have to hate the guy!’ and I’d say ‘But he’s a nice fella’ and he’d say ‘Shut up, it’s a war!’ I think I’m a bit too much of a hippie to have ever been a good boxer.

But I was left alone because they knew I could knock them out if I had to.

Donaghmede’s a good place—there’s been a lot of gun murders there, drugs, and problems, but they’re a great community, great neighbours.”

The music Dempsey heard growing up in the late ’80s and early ’90s, was mainly at gatherings of neighbours and family. “My father sang, and my mother, and the neighbours. My uncles would get together and have parties on the weekend where people would sing. It could be all sorts— country and western, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Patsy Cline, Ella Fitzgerald, or all the old Irish songs and ballads that my granny used to sing.

A real mixture. When you sang you could pick who was going to sing next.

Everybody had to have a party piece.”

As a writer and performer, Dempsey has taken his inspiration from the usual suspects of Dublin song: Ronnie Drew and Luke Kelly from the Dubliners, Christy Moore from Planxty and Moving Hearts, Shane MacGowan from the Pogues. Dempsey first created a stir with the single “Dublin Town” in 1997, and three years later released his provocative debut, They Don’t Teach This Shit in School. As the title suggests, he was— and remains—unafraid to tell unvarnished truths about social issues in Ireland such as homelessness and the fetters of history. And he’s continued to do so over six studio albums.

Dempsey has been friends with Sinéad O’Connor since 2002, and he’s opened for the singer on tour.

“It’s basically Sinéad’s band playing with me in Vancouver,” he says. “It’s a busy time now. In March I release a mini-album for the 1916 [Easter Rising] centenary in Dublin. A few of my ancestors fought, and my great-aunt Jenny was head of the Irish Citizen Army Women’s Section. Their vision for Ireland was different to what the country is now. It’s become all about big business. I want to get the conversation going about what these people saw for Ireland’s future.”

one last time in the interview. “I had a group of friends when I was younger with the same values as me,” he says in closing. “We were into French-Canadian hippie songs—I don’t know how else to put that. We were fascinated by French-Canadian identity and with the ’70s. We’d build shows, and that started to become the core of how I think. I don’t feel like I’m a flag-bearer.

I feel that I’m exploring my identity.”

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Damien Dempsey plays the Imperial on Saturday (March 5) in a CelticFest Vancouver pre-festival concert.

Quebec’s MAZ aims to build cultural bridges At the end of an interview that’s on topics like cultural bridge-building and the endless benefits of travelling, MAZ multi-instrumentalist Marc Maziade suddenly lets out a huge laugh and exclaims: “I don’t know, man—I don’t know what you’re going to write.”

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2 Marchand, and Normand MirUnlike boxer Jack, Damien Dempsey just wants to hit you with melodies.

“One thing that I would really appreciate would be if you can put a little word in for each of the band’s members,” the outgoing Quebec musician says, on the line from Montreal. “I’m still fathering, in some kind of way, this project, but it’s not a child anymore. It’s an adolescent that’s left home. Every band member brings in great insight to the process.”

Maziade is enthusiastic enough about life that it would be wrong to disappoint him, so here’s a big shoutout to his insanely talented bandmates in MAZ: fiddler Pierre-Olivier Dufresne, keyboardist Roxane Beaulieu, and bassist Mathieu Royer.

Together, the four musicians are on an ambitious mission, namely to blend authentic Quebec roots music with classic rock, progressive jazz, and vintage electronica. That’s another way of saying that the band’s two playful and wickedly accomplished albums to date—Télescope and 2013’s Chasse-Galerie—will leave you wondering who’s a bigger influence: Pink Floyd, Air, John Zorn, or Le Rêve du Diable.

“The core is to try and start from French-Canadian traditional music,” Maziade says. “But there’s this big question about blending or melding in my mind—I didn’t want to force things together quickly and go, ‘Here you go! French-Canadian music with an Arabic twist!’ What I wanted to do was reflect on our French-Canadian traditional music heritage, but reflect on it from a universal perspective. So the idea was to meld French-Canadian music, which implies spending time with its rituals and cultures and history, and then melding it with what we have inside—things like rock and jazz and electronic music, which stretch out to a universal identity.”

If that blending of different influences has a spinoff effect, it’s to make a regional musical tradition accessible to those outside of Quebec’s borders.

And that’s important to Maziade as a proud Quebecer.

The idea of building bridges to new cultures is important to Maziade because of his upbringing. The son of a French-Canadian mother and a father born to Syrian immigrants, he remembers growing up not knowing much about his lineage.

“There were some French-Canadian rituals on my mother’s side, but they sort of skipped a generation,” he says.

“So there was a curiosity about my mother’s French-Canadian culture, and also my father’s French-Canadian–Syrian point of view, which didn’t exist. So I believe that I started reflecting on ‘What is my identity?

Where can I find it in a national spectrum—national as in French-Canadian nation—and then explore that while trying to build bridges?’ ” And bringing folks together, he stresses once again, is the big goal of MAZ, and something that’s interested him ever since he started playing music.

That and, one imagines, making sure he gives journalists plenty of material to work with, something he does

on spent their lives playing popular music that’s rooted in another time?

Bluntly, why the folk (or, more accurately, the trad)? Speaking via Skype from Normandy, France, where they’re on tour, the three veterans of the Quebec folk revival of the ’70s— who play together as Le Bruit Court Dans la Ville—lay bare their attachment to a genre often dismissed back home as old chapeau.

“I discovered this music quite late,” says singer and guitarist Marchand, former member and cofounder of Quebec’s leading roots band, La Bottine Souriante, and currently with a cappella quintet Les Charbonniers de l’Enfer. “I was around 20 when I ran into Normand, in whose family people still sang, and I heard a way of doing something that was transmitted from way back right up to the present day. I liked it so much that I didn’t want to do anything else. It resists time.”

There was music in the house where fiddler Ornstein—also an early member of La Bottine Souriante— grew up in Illinois, but it wasn’t folk.

Her mother played Renaissance airs on the harpsichord.

“When you’re young it’s no big deal; I thought all moms played harpsichord,” she says. “People were coming in and out with all sorts of weird instruments—like crumhorns and lutes and viola da gambas. They had so much fun together, and it all happened in the ambiance of a house and with a small ensemble.”

Ornstein was impressed. She started playing violin at age nine. “I came to discover that classical music—it was the ’60s—involved great discipline in a milieu that was very hierarchical, super structured, and ultracompetitive, where musicians were given no room to provide interpretation but regarded as technicians. I clashed with that without realizing that it just didn’t suit me. When I discovered traditional music, it was a revelation. Being the Midwest, it was old-time and not Québécois music. It worked for me.”

Ornstein breathes a huge sigh, as of relief. “At the same time, I thought it was just as rich as the Renaissance music I knew from home.”

As for Miron, the tunes he plays on accordion and the songs he sings didn’t need finding. They were part of the fabric of life in his family and community. “The simple reason why I do it is that one day I realized it was important,” he says with a country accent thick enough to slice. “It comes from my family. I was born into that music and it wasn’t until I left my family that I realized how big it was. For me it was something quite banal, but when I heard other people singing and becoming interested in it I realized I’d been privileged. There were many artists in my family. They were farmers, and they didn’t know that they were artists. I’m a carrier of their tradition.”

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MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS Grammy-winning hip-hop duo from Seattle (“Thrift Shop”) performs tunes from new album This Unruly Mess I’ve Made. May 25, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, PNE Forum (2901 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Mar 4, 10 am, $60.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

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DE DANNAN In collaboration with CelticFest Vancouver, the Rogue Folk Club presents Irish folk-traditional group touring in support of new album Wonderwaltz. Mar 22, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $36/32, info www. roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ev16032220/.

DAVID FRANCEY The Rogue Folk Club presents Canadian folk singer-songwriter touring in support of new album Empty Train. Apr 7, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $30/26, info www.roguefolk. bc.ca/concerts/ev16040720/.

KATCHAFIRE New Zealand roots-reggae band performs on its Burn It Down Tour 2016, with guests Mystic Roots Band. May 7, doors 7:30 pm, show 8:30 pm, Venue (881 Granville). Tix on sale Mar 4, 10 am, $27.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Highlife, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

MAYER HAWTHORNE American R&B-soul singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release Man About Town. May 9, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix on sale Mar 4, 9 am, $27.85 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketweb.ca/.

CATE LE BON Los Angeles–based Welsh singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release Crab Day. May 12, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Mar 4, 10 am, $14 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

CHELSEA WOLFE California gothic-rock singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release Abyss. May 29, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, The Imperial (319 Main).

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THE KILLS Indie-rock band composed of American singer Alison Mosshart and British guitarist Jamie Hince, with guests L.A. Witch. May 31, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville).

Tix on sale Mar 4, 10 am, $35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

JMSN Detroit R&B singer-songwriter tours in support of latest release It Is. Jun 20, doors 9 pm, show 10 pm, Alexander Gastown (91 Powell). Tix on sale Mar 3, 10 am, $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS New Zealand-based comedy band composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Jun 23, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix on sale Mar 4, 10 am, at www.ticketmaster.ca/.

BRIT FLOYD Pink Floyd tribute group performs hits from classic albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall on its Space and Time Continuum World Tour 2016. Jul 16, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix on sale Mar 4, 10 am, $75/59/39 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

2THIS WEEK ED KOWALCZYK Frontman from Live celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Live album Throwing Copper. Mar 3, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (2080 United Blvd., Coquitlam). Tix $34.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/, info www.hardrockcasinovancouver.com.

MIKE STUD Rhode Island hip-hop artist performs on his Back 2 You tour, with guests Moosh & Twist: OCD & Futuristic.

Mar 3, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender).

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FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS U.K. folk-punk artist and his band tour in support of latest release Positive Songs for Negative People, with guests Northcote and Mo Kenney. Mar 3, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom

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Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $25, info www.rickshawtheatre.com/.

THE BILLS The Rogue Folk Club presents Canadian acoustic-folk group. Mar 3, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $24/20, info www.roguefolk.bc.ca/ concerts/ev16030320/.

CHAMPIAN FULTON QUARTET PLUS MAYA RAE American jazz group performs with Vancouver vocalist and her band. Presented by Coastal Jazz as part of its Women in Jazz series. Mar 4-5, 7:30 pm, Frankie’s (765 Beatty). Tix $25, info www.coastaljazz.ca/.

JOSEPH Portland indie-folk-pop sister trio tours in support of debut release Native Dreamer Kin. Mar 4, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

CANNIBAL CORPSE American deathmetal band tours in support of latest release A Skeletal Domain, with guests Obituary, Cryptopsy, and Abysmal Dawn. Mar 4, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $32.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER American singer-songwriter and Fiery Furnaces vocalist tours in support of upcoming solo release New View Mar 4, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Cobalt (917 Main).

Tix $15 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

FESTIVAL DU BOIS Francophone folk, roots, and blues music by Le Bruit court dans la ville, ReVeillons, MAZ, Sonerion & Les Bretons de Quebec, Danny Boudreau, Yoro Noukoussi, Jean Pierre Makosso, Annette Campagne, and Raine Hamilton.

Mar 4-6, Mackin Park (1046 Brunette, Coquitlam). Info www.festivaldubois.ca/.

BONGZILLA & BLACK COBRA Wisconsin stoner-metal band coheadlines with San Francisco sludge-metal band, with guests Lo-Pan and Against the Grain. Mar 4, 7 pm,

LENNIE GALLANT The Rogue Folk Club presents Nova Scotia folk-rock singersongwriter. Mar 4, 8 pm, St. James Hall (3214 W. 10th). Tix $24/20, info www.rogue folk.bc.ca/concerts/ev16030420/.

DELHI 2 DUBLIN Canadian world-fusion group tours in support of latest studio release We’re All Desi. Mar 5, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $30/27.50/20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

ANI DIFRANCO American alt-folk singersongwriter and guitarist, with guests Rupa and the April Fishes. Mar 5, 8 pm, Vancouver Playhouse (600 Hamilton). Tix $60 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketstonight.ca/.

APRIL VERCH Canadian bluegrass-folk fiddler tours in support of latest release The Newpart. Mar 5, 8 pm, Anvil Centre (777 Columbia St., New Westminster). Tix $35/25 (plus service charges and fees), info www.anvilcentre.com/.

DAMIEN DEMPSEY Irish folk musician performs in a pre-CelticFest Vancouver concert.

Mar 5, 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main). Tix $75/50, info www.celticfestvancouver.com/.

SHE Celebrate International Women’s Day with music by DJ Kookum, DJ Guilty Pleasures, Jillian Christmas and Chelsea Johnson, Tasha Receno, Okalani, Quanah Style, Mama Rudegyal, Miss Christie Lee,

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JACLYN GUILLOU Canadian jazz vocalist performs at a release party for latest release This Bitter Earth. Mar 5, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway).

Tix $15-30 at www.riotheatretickets.ca/.

REBELUTION California roots-reggae band tours in support of latest release Count Me In, with guests Proteje. Mar 6, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $23.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.com modoreballroom.com/.

BLACK SABBATH Legendary heavy-metal band from Britain, featuring guitarist Tony Iommi, singer Ozzy Osbourne, and bassist Geezer Butler, with guests Rival Sons. Mar 7, 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena (800 Griffiths Way).

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SOAK Irish soul-folk singer-songwriter tours in support of debut album Before We Forgot How to Dream. Mar 7, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, The Imperial (319 Main).

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HEART Rockers from the ‘70s (“Barracuda”, “Magic Man”), featuring sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, with guests Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Mar 8, 7:30 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $135/85 (plus service charges and fees) at www.ticketmaster.ca/.

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“With home inspection, you are climbing on ed in this elite circle.

Despite her demanding work schedule, roofs, in attics, in crawl spaces, and with that Shaw devotes a lot of time to charitable activ- comes many things you may not want to see,” Skare told the Straight in a ities. At least twice a week, phone interview. she delivers food items The owner of Vancouto transitional- and supver-based Need to Know portive-housing facilities Carlito Pablo Home Inspection Services in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Every year, she collects about Ltd. noted that getting a start in the profession 2,500 boxes of fruit, vegetables, baked items, is not always easy. She said there are some and sometimes flowers from Choices Mar- people who still think women shouldn’t be in the trades. kets to give away.

Skare is one of a handful of women who be“I’ve been going to the Downtown Eastside since my kids were about five years old. And long to the Canadian Association of Home and they’re now in their mid-30s,” Shaw related in a Property Inspectors B.C. (CAHPIBC).

According to the association’s execuphone interview with the Georgia Straight.

Shaw also gathers furniture for the Home- tive director, Helene Barton, CAHPIBC has Start Foundation, a nonprofit that provides about 300 members, and only about 10 of free home furnishings for people in need. She them are women.

“There’s certainly no reason that women has persuaded other realtors to do the same.

She is the longest-serving volunteer with the cannot do the same job as a man in the homeannual blanket drive by the REBGV, Fraser Val- inspection industry,” Barton told the Straight ley Real Estate Board, and Chilliwack and Dis- in a phone interview.

Other home inspectors are affi liated with trict Real Estate Board. “We were brought up really poor,” Shaw recalled. “And it’s giving back. the Applied Science Technologists and Technicians of B.C. (ASTTBC).

I’ve been very fortunate to be very successful.”

According to Erin Macedo, a coordinator Shaw also has a soft spot for animals.

In 2008, she helped save Big Dee-Dee, a with ASTTBC, the association has 175 home 10-kilogram lobster, from the boiling pot. The inspectors, and only one is a woman. Macegiant crustacean is currently at a public aquar- do told the Straight by phone that home inspection works well as a job for people with ium in New Brunswick.

At least 1,000 feral rabbits were saved from a construction background.

For Skare in Vancouver, shifting to home a cull at the University of Victoria in 2011 because of her efforts. She drove hundreds of the inspections in 2013 made a lot of sense. She had more than 20 years of experience in bunnies to a sanctuary in Texas.

She’s the executive director of the Ani- construction and renovations. As a kid, she mal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society watched her grandparents build and work of B.C. She opposes the use of animals for in their own house.

Skare wants to see more women enter the experiments.

Last year, Shaw moved out of Vancouver profession. As she said she has personally to a farm outside the city so she can provide experienced, many real-estate agents and homebuyers are glad to see that there’s a space for the animals she rescues.

The realtor also has run three times for the woman inspector who’s going to check out a house they’re buying. provincial and federal Green parties.

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THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 45

savage love Are you incapable of

concision? Your answers are too long!

You blather on, often rehashing the problem (unnecessary!) before giving four words (at most!) of (rarely!) useful advice. I’ve heard you say you have to edit letters down for space. Try this instead: edit yourself! I want more of the letters—more from the people asking questions—and less of you. > KEEP IT SHORT, SAVAGE, EXPRESSED SINCERELY

Feedback is always appreciated, KISSES.

I’m 30, happily married,

with my husband since I was 17. First boyfriend, kiss, etc. I never had sex with anyone else. Th is never bothered me because I wasn’t really into sex—but there have been big changes in the last year. I guess I am having a sexual awakening. My sex drive increased, and I’ve started reading erotica and fantasizing about getting kinky. I’ve also been having very strong urges to fuck someone else.

As someone who always had strong values and opinions when it comes to sex and marriage and cheating, these feelings really confused me! So I found a safe and harmless outlet: Second Life. I created a hot avatar and have been role-playing, talking dirty, and banging people across the world for six months. I love it. I get to experience scenarios I fantasize about but would never do in real life. Before your readers start pulling the cheater card: I have talked about this with my husband, and I

have his blessing. He knows I have an SL account and I’m having cybersex.

Here’s where it gets murky. Most of my SL friends haven’t asked if I’m taken in RL, and I haven’t told them that I am. I fl irt as if I’m single, though, because I’m worried people will treat me differently if they know I’m married. I do not wish to meet or have RL sex with anyone I meet on SL, and I make that clear to everyone. I don’t do photos/voice chat/ Skype. But if someone asks me if I’m married in RL, I always tell the truth. I’m writing because I’m worried about this one guy. The cybersex is super hot, and he’s sweet. He’s my go-to guy, and I’m his go-to girl. He knows I have cybersex with other people in SL, and I have told him he is obviously allowed to have sex with others too. But I’m worried our SL relationship has become a bit more.

He leaves me messages when I’m not online, telling me he misses me and “loves being with me”, and I’ve said the same to him. I’ve also made it clear I have no intention of meeting anyone from SL in RL, ever. Regardless of my intentions, I’m worried that I’m crossing the line and being unfair to my husband. I’m also worried that I’m being unfair to my guy in SL, because I’m sure he must think I’m single, even though he has never asked. Am I crossing the line and at risk of hurting my husband/SL guy? Or am I just having some harmless fun that helps me satisfy this strange new itch that’s driving me crazy?

> BY DAN SAVAGE P.S. It’s important to note that SL has not negatively impacted my RL sex life and, if anything, has made it better. It has also made me happier and less cranky at home.

You’re doing nothing wrong, SLASH.

I am a kinkster. I have been since I can remember (I am now 21 years old), and I’ve never told anyone about my deep, dark desires until the last year. During my time at university, I made good friends with a guy who I was able to open up to about my preferences, as he had similar desires. We created a beneficial arrangement. I suddenly no longer felt like I needed to suppress my “fucked up” masochistic needs and became extremely happy and more comfortable with them. I keep a journal, and naturally I wrote about this arrangement and a lot of the explicit details. Last summer, my mother read my entire journal and was horrified. After she read it, I received a very nasty text message from her about how our relationship was over, she couldn’t believe what I had done, and she was no longer going to help pay for my postgraduate courses, etc.

She was deeply disturbed to learn that some money she had given me for my 21st birthday was spent on a hotel room where I met up with my kinky friend. (It wasn’t like we could meet in my family home!) I never wanted my mother to know about any of this, and I feel bad for > SECOND LIFER AND how it upset her, but this was also SPOUSE HAVER a huge violation of my privacy. The

only way to resolve the situation was for me to pretend that I deeply regretted everything, tell her I can see now how messed up those “weird” sex practices are, and say that I’m cured and will never engage in them again. Months have passed and I’m still angry with her for having read my diary. I feel sad about the lies I told and having to pretend—still—that I regret what I did. Because the truth is I’ve never felt more like myself than when I am doing BDSM. It’s not my entire world, but it is an important part of who I am. How do you think I should take things from here? She’ll never understand, so telling her isn’t an option, but that means suppressing my deep upset at her as well. > MOTHER UNFAIRLY DESTROYED DAUGHTER’S LIBIDO ENTIRELY

Fuck Mom; be you, MUDDLE.*

My husband and I met our “soul-mate parents” at our daughter’s preschool a few years ago, i.e., that rare couple with a kid the same age and the same artistic interests and political values. Our kids instantly bonded and are now BFFs. They have sleepovers, go trick-or-treating together, sled together—little-girl heaven. Early on, the guy called my husband and they had a harddrinking lunch. The guy spilled his guts about a painful previous relationship. It was weird, but we wrote it off. Th ree years of normal interactions and a kid later, we’re really good friends with the wife, while the guy stays in the background. I

decided to start up a FetLife profi le for fun—my husband and I are monogamish, and this is with his okay— and I fi nd the guy’s profi le, which clearly states that his wife does not know he’s on this site. What do I do?

Pretend I never saw it? What if the wife fi nds out I knew? Do I tell him that I know? Most of all, I worry about the strain this would place on my daughter’s friendship. Her heart would be broken. > HAS EVIDENCE LOUSE PARENT MAKING ARRANGEMENTS

Mind your own business, HELPMA. * Shit, I really can’t do this one in four words. Confront your fucking mother, MUDDLE, once you’re out of grad school (priorities!), about the awful, shitty things she did to you: reading your journal; shaming you for your sexual interests and your private, consensual, respectful, and healthy sexual explorations; and her unforgivable acts of emotional and financial blackmail. And you should wave the results of this study under her nose when you confront her: livescience.com/34832-bdsm-healthypsychology.html. It’s just one of several studies showing that people who practise BDSM—not just fantasize about it but actually practise it—are psychologically healthier than vanilla people. On the Lovecast , Dan chats with Seattle journalist Eli Sanders: savage lovecast.com/. E-mail: mail@savage love.net . Follow Dan on Twitter at www.twitter.com/fakedansavage/.

> Go on-line to read hundreds of I Saw You posts or to respond to a message < VANWINEFEST 2016

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 25, 2016 WHERE: Vancouver We met at the VIWF2016 water cooler & you lent me your pass so we could wander together with our enviably huge glasses sipping CabFranc for the rest of Thursday night of wine festival. Sorry for pulling a Cinderella. I had an incredible evening / festival & hope you did too!

ROYAL OAK BLOOPER...

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 18, 2016 WHERE: Edmonds Station I leapt back onto the SkyTrain just in time as I realized my mistake and ended up standing next to you. Only later did I wonder if you might have been flirting? It was an easy chat and we both have a similar safety dress sense, lol - coffee?

SHEEPDOGS CONCERT

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 18, 2016 WHERE: The Commodore We met at the concert on level 2 of the Commodore while the warm up band was still on. Your name is Joseph and your adorable young nephew introduced us. I looked for you on the dance floor as you suggested but didn’t see you. Hope you and enjoyed the concert! Would be great to see you again and chat further. :)

STARLIGHT CASINO

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 6, 2016 WHERE: Starlight Casino Saturday 10pm, February 6th you spoke to me. I wish I wasn’t somewhere else when you did. These past 2 weeks have been absurd for me, not saying hi to you. "Are you getting lucky?" you asked. And you mentioned Vegas. Wow I cannot believe I turned away from you smiling at me.

Please universe have his eyes see my ad. I can only leave it up to the universe now. Peace.

135 MEETS 160 LAST FRIDAY AFTERNOON

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 19, 2016 WHERE: Cambie / Hastings Waiting for the bus on the wrong side of town last week, we exchanged a few words before I left. You were friendly and handsome, I should have asked you out on the spot but... of course I didn’t or I wouldn’t be here now.

BROWN GIRL IN GLASSES AT THE ULTIMATE TEXAS HOLDEM TABLE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 23, 2016 WHERE: Starlight Casino You were sitting beside me at Starlight Casino, on Tuesday Feb 23 around 8PM I didn’t stare at you much but you were beside me, weren’t doing that good on the table. You wore glasses, were quickly getting $100 bills from side pocket. I felt a connection, actually can’t stop thinking about you. There was no ring on your finger. You had a very cute smile, black jeans/top with a purple patch, I think. Me: Bulky fair guy, Mexican looking but I am Indian - you probably heard my name when dealer confirmed the encore card. I left as I wasn’t doing well. I don’t know your name, hoping destiny finds this post.

AT THE INUKSHUK ON THE SEAWALL ON SATURDAY

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 20, 2016 WHERE: Inukshuk Statue, English Bay You were sitting on a bench with a remarkably adorable and quiet black dog, and a friend who wouldn’t stop talking. I couldn’t stop *looking* - - - at you. Long dark hair, baseball cap, black (p?) leather jacket, eyes that pierced my soul, I didn’t even know that was a thing before I saw you...? Everything you were wearing was black, but your eyes were the brightest I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Your dog was shivering, and as you pulled him / her (I’m not the gender-specific-type), into your lap, you briefly met my eyes. I was too chicken to say it at the time, but...

“Wow. To be that dog...” I’d love to talk binaries with you.

PLUS SIZE QUEENIE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 22, 2016 WHERE: Winners Beautiful big blondie trying on pants at Winners. I wanted to sweep you off your feet, but you disappeared into the changing rooms for over 45 mins and I had to get back to the hot dog stand.

Hit me up through here - would love to buy you more than just some pants.

144 THIS AFTERNOON

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 23, 2016 WHERE: Metrotown Sat next you on the 144 this afternoon. I told you that you are pretty as I was getting off. Regretting not asking for your number now. Maybe you’ll see this?

HOME SENSE GIRL.

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 11, 2016 WHERE: Robson Street I found every piece of garbage in my car so I can pretend to have to throw it and get myself out of my car to talk to you. You were with your friend who was being nice to me as I was trying to talk to you. I know you’re busy getting settled in the city but I really wanna grab a bite with you.

WOMAN OF MY DREAMS. TWICE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 20, 2016 WHERE: Open Studios We first met and danced together at Mark Farina at the Commodore. Five or so years later, this past weekend at DJ Heather. I love the way you move and I wish we could see where this could go.

I’m now single. I can’t wait another five years to see you again.

UNICORN HORN

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 20, 2016 WHERE: Parkay Quartz @ Rickshaw I’d like ta get to know ya.

I DRANK YOUR WINE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 21, 2016 WHERE: Kits You: beautiful woman who brought the dreamy cake to our friends birthday potluck. Me: the handsome weirdo who mistakenly finished your wine. I’m sorry, but maybe you’d be up for a date one day if I get the wine? I donut promise to not be unweird, but I might possibly become your favourite!

FASHIONABLE BEAUTY IN THE CONDIMENT AISLE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 20, 2016 WHERE: IGA, 14th and Main About an hour ago: You were so impossibly cute that I forgot my cider vinegar on the shelf. While passing you, I blurted out a dorky compliment about your outfit and you gushed a thank you. I was paying for my veggies unbeknownst to the fact you were in line behind me. When I whipped out my debit card and saw you smiling at me I almost had a panic attack. Okay, maybe not that bad but I definitely had some butterflies. I must have looked back at you five times in the fifteen steps between the register and the exit and you were still grinning. I don’t normally freeze up in such situations and, if you’re reading, I’d love a chance to redeem myself.

EYES LOCK AT THE BISMARCK BAR

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 20, 2016 WHERE: Bismarck Bar Me-attractive Asian female with a couple of friends. You: dark haired handsome male with a group of friends/family. Normally I would never be so shameless. But I couldn’t help myself that night. I had a really strong attraction to you and couldn’t stop staring. Our eyes locked a few times and I’m quite certain you stared back as you were leaving. It’d be a pleasure to become acquainted.

CHRIS AT THE MET

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 20, 2016 WHERE: The Met I came to the Met for some drinks with my brother and his gf and I was shooting you looks the whole night. Pretty sure you were shootin’ em right back at me.

This is the second time. I don’t have the guts to ask for your number :( you’re adorable though. Dying here. SO hot.

SMOKING AND SWIMMING

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 18, 2016 WHERE: Aquatic Center Tina, Lisa?... Tuna that’s it. You came out of the dark and made my morning. Nice brain in a beautiful wrapping, your insights and complements had me dazing. Wish to take you out for breakfast. Smarter I would be. Had I asked thee then, or your number when, you said good bye but I had no pen. Left me alone in the shallow end. Wanna do it again... I Do.

EYE CONTACT ON THE CANADA LINE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 20, 2016 WHERE: Canada Line I got on at Cambie Station around 5:00 PM, you were around my height, had shoulder length blonde hair and red lipstick. I was the tall guy wearing a blue coat with a burgundy scarf, if I’m not mistaken, we made eye-contact for a split second before turning away from each other. We both got off at Granville station before going our separate ways. It’d be great if we got have a chat sometime.

THE SOUND AND THE FURY

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 20, 2016 WHERE: 99Bus Redhead in black jacket reading this classic on the 99bus Sat Feb 20th. I’d love to learn more about Faulkner coffee sometime?

ADORABLE BOY IN GYM CLOTHES

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 18, 2016 WHERE: Trapp & Hollbrook Building, New Westminster.

On a Thursday afternoon after walking my tiny white and brown dog. You were smiling at me as I almost got off the wrong floor while you were getting in.

You kept smiling and I was frozen. You are so young, my tongue was tied. You were absolutely adorable. I got off on the 19th floor and I noticed you live in a penthouse. Next time please say hello.

STEALING GLANCES ON THE 99

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 18, 2016 WHERE: 99 B-Line CommercialBroadway We were riding the 99 B-Line headed east to Commercial Drive. I was sitting at the front of the bus and you were two seats away to my right sitting behind a couple. I think you were coming from UBC. I noticed lingering glances from you a couple of times before I got off at Heather Street. You’ve got mesmerizing eyes. You appear tall, have long hair and were wearing a dark jacket and dark jeans. I’m medium complexioned, have salt and pepper hair and wear glasses.

Let’s continue glancing over coffee - at a stop along the B-Line of course.

CROSSED PATHS A FEW TIMES AT THE INDIGO ON BROADWAY & GRANVILLE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 18, 2016 WHERE: Indigo (Chapters) on Broadway & Granville I first saw you coming up the escalator.

You are blonde, have very expressive eyes and you were wearing a pink jacket, if I correctly remember. We glanced at each other and then crossed paths a few more times. I was on the phone at the time, but wished I came and talked to you. I particularly remember the way you were wearing your boots - unzipped on both sides - was very cute. You seemed very laid back. If you see this message and know who I am, I’d love to get in touch with you.

YOU WERE SO STUNNING

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 15, 2016 WHERE: JJ Bean You asked if you could sit at the table with me at JJ Bean while I was working on my laptop. I noticed we were having the same coffee! I was too shy to talk to you and tell you how gorgeous you are.

YOU: PERSONAL TRAINER (FEMALE) ON #20 BUS

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 10, 2016 WHERE: Commercial Drive #20 Bus We were going south on Commercial Drive. You were standing, I was sitting. We started to chat, and were especially surprised about our mothers’ names. (You know what I mean). I was very taken by your smile and your intelligence and your attitude to life. I would really like to get to know you! And... who knows? You are a real gem. Coffee? Dinner? Etcetera?

WAIKIKI BOUTIQUE HOSTEL HONOLULU

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 17, 2016 WHERE: Honolulu Int’l Airport I bumped into at our hostel in Waikiki a few times. Then I bumped into at Air Canada Rouge (HNL to YVR) check-in last night. You were sitting beside my friend in seat 28H. You’re blonde & Dutch. I think you’re cute. Care to swap Hawaii stories sometime?

SOUTH RICHMOND CONNECTION

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 14, 2016 WHERE: Ironwood Save-On-Foods Valentines Day at the Ironwood SaveOn-Foods in the afternoon. I was exiting an aisle and there you were, a stunning brunette, 5’7” ish, glasses, wearing a hoodie and jeans. Our eyes locked for a bit and you gave me a little smirk. I was thinking about you all day. I should’ve said something, but it happened all too fast. We should link up sometime.

WE WERE DRESSED THE SAME!

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 15, 2016 WHERE: JJ Bean - Woodwards Building I commented in line that we were dressed the same and my friend working said we looked like we were related. I guess if I find you attractive and we look alike, then I think I’m attractive. That’s cool. I wanted to let you know that was funny and it definitely made my day. I look forward to the family reunion as well.

SUPER CUTE WINDOW WASHING GIRL KERRISDALE

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: FEBRUARY 11, 2016 WHERE: Kerrisdale You were washing windows at my job site and I was the painter guy who opened the door for you when you were leaving. I wish we had a chance to talk. Your beautiful smile made my day.

Maybe we can have dinner sometime.

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straight stars March 3 to 9, 2016

D

o you have a sense that you’ve reached some kind of completion or turning point, that you are coming to the end of a circumstance or cycle? If so, then you are on track with the stars.

Friday’s Capricorn moon is driven to get down to business from the day’s start with little time wasted.

Friday evening, Mercury/Mars are in the mood for live action. This is a bust-it-loose, get-it-out-in-theopen, spontaneous, impulsive, and flirtatious combination. Aim for constructive ways to channel the energy. Don’t go looking for a fight.

Ideal for lovers and dream-time beauty rest, Mercury slips into Pisces in the early hours on Saturday.

By Saturday night, Mars treks into Sagittarius. For the next two weeks, Mercury sparks potentials, creativity, and imagination. It can stir up more confusion or loss, too. For the next seven weeks, Mars in Sagittarius puts everything on the move and the increase.

Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday, the sun is on a major bring-it-to-life initiative. The U.S.’s Super Tuesday has come and gone, but the real one is this Tuesday. The solar eclipse, a super new moon in Pisces, happens at 5:54 p.m. PST. Whenever Pisces is the feature, we will witness events that affect the masses, that have global repercussions, that involve the famous, the iconic, or the previously hidden, unseen,

> BY ROSE MARCUS

or forgotten. If it can’t hold up, it yourself someplace good. Tuesday’s won’t. If it’s destined to be, it will eclipse can bring loss mixed with happen. There are losses, but more gain. See it as a saving grace. importantly, there’s good potential CANCER for gains, more effective solutions, June 21–July 22 and healing, even for saving graces.

Sometimes you just have ARIES to let it go or to give in. It can be March 20–April 20 hard to hold back on Friday. While Friday evening could Mercury in Pisces, starting Satbring a welcome release, a jolt, or a urday, is an ease-up influence, the kick start. By early Saturday, Mer- rest of the stars are gearing up for cury dips into a more chill position, action. A lot can happen in a short but by later in the day, Mars treks into span. Eclipse Tuesday is optimal, game-for-it Sagittarius. Mars will perhaps even momentous. Watch continue to stoke a good fi re through for big news or results. mid next month. Regarding work, LEO healing, and necessary improveJuly 22–August 23 ment, Tuesday’s super eclipse is full You’ll now take it deeper or of hidden promise. it/they will take you deeper. Starting TAURUS Saturday, Mercury’s advance into April 20–May 21 Pisces calls for the full-immersion Moving past the past has program. Mars into Sagittarius is been a struggle, but you’ll find your- terrific for taking aim, putting yourself on a better move-along now. As self out there, and exploring options. much as you know, it’s for the best; Tuesday’s solar eclipse could surperhaps it is largely a matter of no prise you with the need to do more choice and coming to an acceptance. repair, troubleshooting, or healing.

Mars in Sagittarius urges you to take Surprise expenses could get the betbigger steps. Whether now or later, ter of you, too.

Tuesday’s exceptionally opportune VIRGO eclipse gifts you.

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GEMINI

May 21–June 21

Friday night, Mercury/ Mars are in the mood to let off steam.

Saturday has a lot going for it too. By the end of the day, you should feel you have figured out more. Sunday and Tuesday onward are prime for getting

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August 23–September 23

Thanks to Mercury, Mars, Sun, and Saturn, Friday/Saturday can be trigger days for next Tuesday’s super new moon. Th is stage-setting eclipse can bring a major release or a major heart-opening. It can open up or reveal something that gives you fresh insight into yourself or

into another. It offers a momentous chance to heal, correct, or gain.

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LIBRA

September 23–October 23

Perhaps it was just beyond your grasp or your vision. Perhaps you couldn’t see it or tap into it previously, but you will put your finger on it now. Tuesday’s solar eclipse fi lls in a major missing blank. To the plus, the super eclipse could present a dream-come-true job opportunity, or a chance to study/consult with a teacher or healer of note.

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SCORPIO

October 23–November 22

Mars leaves your sign on Saturday, but it will be back your way again soon. In the meantime, Mercury’s advance into Pisces and Tuesday’s super-new-moon eclipse shower you with added opportunity and adoration. It’s a time to make yourself better seen and heard, especially Sunday through Tuesday.

Now or soon, watch for something or someone special to show up.

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November 22–December 21

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PISCES

December 21–January 20

Friday/Saturday, it’s time to switch tracks. While you’ll still stay engaged and active, for the next six weeks Mars in Sagittarius diverts your primary attention away from your social life and keeps you more occupied with personal and private matters. Tuesday’s super eclipse can stir up something added, unexpected, and opportune. Watch for news or answers.

January 20–February 18

Mercury now takes an exit out of Aquarius but Venus will benefit you through next weekend. Of course, Mercury in Pisces is also good for a boost, as is Mars into Sagittarius.

Sunday, your stars, like your timing and your touch, are at peak. Tuesday’s eclipse could be big regarding money, love, hello, or let it go.

February 18- March 20

Destiny comes calling.

Friday/Saturday could get it started. By Sunday onward, it could be in full swing. Tuesday’s super new moon is especially potent if your birthday falls on it or near it.

Whether the eclipse delivers now or in a while, for all it’s a momentous time to allow something or someone new to enter your life. -

You’ll feel it building as of Friday, but even if there’s a slight time delay on that full battery recharge, know you’ll get there soon enough.

Look to Mars in Sagittarius to supply you with ample horsepower over the next six weeks. Tuesday’s super eclipse puts something significant Book a reading or sign up for Rose’s into action regarding health, wealth, free monthly newsletter at www.rose marcus.com/astrolink/. career, or family.

MARCH 3 – 10 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 47

48 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT MARCH 3 – 10 / 2016