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10:30AM Cannabis and cancer: The last resort Joanne Crowther, Steven McKee, Dr. Pippa Hawley, David Hutchinson, Piper Courtenay (Moderator)

Despite nearly two-decades of medical legality, we are only just beginning to grasp the full potential of cannabinoid treatment. Frustrated with conventional medicine, patients are turning to alternatives to aid in their recovery. Two outspoken survivors join the conference to share their cannabis success stories and explain how the plant helped them overcome their disease.

11:30AM Kids, caretakers and cannabis: The story of Kyla’s Quest Terry Roycroft, Elaine Nuessler, Amanda Siebert (Moderator)

Caring for a child with a debilitating medical condition is never easy, but when conventional treatments fail to work and the only remaining option is one shrouded in stigma, the challenges parents and families face can seem insurmountable. In this panel, grandmother Elaine Nuessler speaks to the struggle (and joy) of finding the right treatment for an epileptic child, while local experts weigh on how medical cannabis can be an effective treatment for children suffering from certain conditions.

12:30PM Women and weed: Understanding health and self-care Siobhan McCarthy, Salimeh Tabrizi, Danielle Miz D Jackson, Piper Courtenay (Moderator)

From a history rooted in feminism down to fundamental biology, women have a unique and complex relationship with weed. Three leading ladies of Vancouver’s cannabis industry take the stage to discuss how the flower can play a role in self-healing, empowerment and overall wellness.

1:30PM A safe alternative: Cannabis and the aging body Shega Youngson, Selena Wong, William Hayley, Andrea Dobbs, Amanda Siebert (Moderator)

As we age, our bodies become subjected to an increasing number of conditions that ultimately take away from our quality of life. While Western medicine can offer relief, more and more seniors are turning to cannabis to help relieve their aches, pains, and tremors and reduce unpleasant side effects that often come with other drugs. Join caretakers as well as local and national industry experts for a discussion on how cannabis can provide relief, and ultimately, a softer landing for ailing seniors.

2:30PM Marijuana and matters of mental health Piper Courtenay, Dr. Zach Walsh, Clint Younge, Amanda Siebert (Moderator)

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3:30PM The exit drug? The role of cannabis in the opioid crisis Dr. Philippe Lucas, Dr. MJ Milloy, Sarah Blythe, Amanda Siebert (Moderator)

While much of North America is mired in an opioid crisis, Vancouver is at the forefront of harm reduction efforts that are changing the way people think about addiction. In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a number of grassroots organizations have come together to offer users an alternative to hard drugs: cannabis. Two local experts on the subject will join activist Sarah Blythe for a thoughtful but informative discussion on how cannabis can serve as a substitute for opioids, alcohol, and more.

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As the buzz for legal cannabis has grown, the growers and cultivators of some of B.C.’s finest craft cannabis have been left wondering where their place in the new market will be. Craft growers, local lawyers and a government relations expert will discuss the transitions ahead for smallscale cultivators who are eager to participate in Canada’s burgeoning legal market.

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Mary Jean Dunsdon, Chris Sayegh (The Herbal Chef), Piper Courtenay (Moderator)

What once was relegated to box-mix hash brownies and pot gingersnaps has transformed into a sophisticated culinary art. We sit down with Chris Sayegh, The Herbal Chef, and Mary Jean “Watermelon” Dunsdon, to discuss the evolution and science behind cannabis-infused cooking.

11:15AM Patients with patience: A journey to better health Phil Kwong, Adolfo Gonzalez, John De Villa, Amanda Siebert (Moderator)

While Phil Kwong and John de Villa both have very different stories and suffer from very different conditions, a common theme ties them together: When conventional medicine failed to provide them with ample quality of life, they turned to cannabis— but the road to better health wasn’t as simple as smoking a joint. Find out how these brave men used themselves as “guinea pigs” and what they’re doing now to help other, like-minded patients.

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1:30PM Leaders in weed: A look behind the curtain Dan Sutton, Jonathan Page, Rosy Mondin, Jamie Shaw, Dr. Natasha Ryz, Amanda Siebert (Moderator)

To the outsider, Canada’s burgeoning cannabis industry might seem one-dimensional, but on the inside, it’s anything but: Between laboratories, cultivators, lifestyle brands, lobby groups, processors and manufacturers, it’s an industry rich with diverse perspectives, colourful characters and big dreamers who are eager to change the way cannabis is perceived by society.

2:30PM What new laws mean for you: Driving, youth restrictions, and more Farrell Miller, Rielle Capler, Barinder Rasode, Scott Bernstein, Piper Courtenay (Moderator)

At times, the stream of information coming from the recreational legalization of cannabis seems endless. Despite all the talk, many Canadians are still left wondering what to expect after July 1. Our panel of legal experts and policy makers dissect and define some of the most important changes to the federal and provincial legislation.

3:30PM Our roots: Exploring Vancouver’s cannabis history John Conroy, David Malmo-Levine, Hilary Black, Amanda Siebert (Moderator)

For 95 years Canadians have been fighting to remove the chains surrounding cannabis. It was the perseverance and bravery of advocates from all sectors that managed to gradually shift the culture, community and attitudes toward a more inclusive society. This panel brings together some of Vancouver’s most iconic weed warriors to discuss how the city played a role in shaping the national discourse and ending prohibition.

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This year’s Capture Photography Festival spans provocative looks at demolitions and gentrification and Fang Tong’s wild escapism. > BY LUCY L AU

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SFU professor Shauna Sylvester wants to be our next mayor, and her commitment to democratic renewal, citizen involvement, and the importance of the environment likely won’t hurt her chances.

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FU professor Shauna Sylvester has a résumé that would be the envy of most municipal political candidates. She’s the founding executive director of Carbon Talks and Renewable Cities, which have helped cities make the transition to a low-carbon economy. She’s the director of SFU’s Centre for Dialogue and has hosted countless public discussions on housing, transportation, renewable energy, the economy, and other issues. In addition, Sylvester has been on the board of two of Vancouver’s most successful cooperatives, Vancity and MEC. She has distributed indie films. She handed out condoms during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. She has even sat on the board of B.C. Assessment, which does market-based evaluations of buildings that are the basis for the city’s property-tax system. And she graduated from a local high school, raised her family near Commercial Drive, and lives in the West End. Now she wants to be Vancouver’s next mayor. She could become the first female mayor in the city’s history. “I’m running as an independent, hoping for the support of those parties on the centre and left,” Sylvester, 53, told the Georgia Straight by phone. She’s been a member of Vision Vancouver and readily acknowledged that this might present a challenge in wooing the support of the left-wing Coalition of Progressive Electors. But she has had discussions with Vision, the Vancouver Greens, OneCity Vancouver, and the Vancouver & District Labour Council. And she noted that some pieces still have to come into place for her to be able to present herself as a unity candidate to the electorate. First off, she stated that each party will come to its own decision. But she said she believes that the Greens are considering only two options: having Coun. Adriane Carr run for mayor or not having anyone run. The latter choice would open the way for Sylvester to receive an endorsement, given her deep and long-standing commitment to environmental sustainability. As for Vision, she said it’s unclear what it’s going to do. However, she said she has been told that it may ask the membership if it wants to support an independent candidate or if it wants to run its own mayoral candidate.

Independent mayoral candidate Shauna Sylvester says that Vancouver’s tourismbased economy shouldn’t be put at risk by a sharp increase in oil-tanker traffic.

She added that OneCity appears to be in the middle of negotiating with Vision and the Greens. “I can’t speak for any of these political parties,” she emphasized. “I’m announcing to really get going on connecting with people in the city.” She identified housing as the key issue facing voters in the next election, which is scheduled on October 20, and said there is no single solution. “Our kids can’t live here, so there’s the whole issue of housing for young people [and] rental housing for those who have come to this community,” Sylvester said. “The rental stock here is small and we have got to increase that.” In addition, she said there need to be more options for seniors who would like to downsize but can’t find decent alternatives. And she also said the future of South False Creek must be addressed because housing co-ops’ leases will be expiring in the coming years. “This is a multifaceted piece of work,” Sylvester stated. “Anyone who says that they can just go and fix housing is dreaming in Technicolor. This is complex. We’re part of a global system and we’ve got to go and look at what we can do in this context—and really work hard.” Sylvester has studied the history of Vancouver’s deep attachment to sound environmental planning dating back almost a century, to when Harland Bartholomew was designing a comprehensive layout of streets and Ernest Albert Cleveland was the conservation-minded

regional water commissioner. “It is in the DNA of the city,” she said. “We love our oceans. We love our mountains. We love our green spaces. It’s part of who we are. The natural environment is critical here for citizens. If you don’t know and understand that, I’m not sure you’ll get elected.” That connection to the environment and deep concern about climate change are reflected in her opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. If it’s completed, it would increase tanker traffic by almost seven times in Burrard Inlet. She bluntly stated that from an economic standpoint, the city cannot accept the pipeline. “We are a tourist-based economy,” Sylvester declared. “We are an economy that depends on our oceans. You look at how many tankers are already out there and the danger that those tankers present in terms of an oil spill.” Another major concern for her is the lack of connection that many people feel with their city government. When asked about democratic renewal, she replied that this “is core to who I am and what I do”. “I’m very excited about the idea of connecting with people and getting them back involved in their city,” she said. This will be her first attempt to be elected to public office, but she sees that as an advantage. “At this moment, we need a fresh perspective. Right now, we’re fragmented and we need to come together.” -

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atherine Kramer has seen the headlines about veterinarians in Canada decrying the use of cannabis-derived cannabidiol (CBD) on pets. “It’s interesting,� she tells the Georgia Straight by phone from her office at Vancouver Animal Wellness Hospital, where she has practised veterinary medicine since 2011. “A lot of vets are publicly saying, ‘No, there’s not enough research,’ or ‘We can’t use it; it’s illegal,’ but in private, they are saying something else.� For the past five years, Kramer has been speaking about the benefits of CBD with her clients, despite the fact that the College of Veterinarians of B.C. says there isn’t enough research for vets to be prescribing it. “We are limited by the legalities, and—according to the college—we’re not supposed to recommend or prescribe it, which I don’t,� says the vet, who uses a combination of western medicine, veterinary acupuncture, and Traditional Chinese Medicine to treat pets that come to the clinic. “But considering in Vancouver, especially, it [cannabis] is so prevalent, most of my clients come in and they have already got something they want to use.� Kramer says when this happens, she sees it as her job as an advocate for the animals to advise their owners on how to use CBD, which products are ideal, and what the side effects might be. “I can count on one hand the number of pets who haven’t done well with CBD,� she says. “In the last five years, I have had many, many more happy stories than I do toxicities or problems with it. At this point, I can’t imagine practising without it.� While clinical research on pets and CBD has only just begun, Kramer says there’s no lack of anecdotal evidence to show that the cannabinoid can provide effective relief for dogs and cats suffering from a variety of conditions, including chronic pain, arthritis, cancer, anxiety, and epilepsy. She also points out that there are a number of conventional human medications used by vets that haven’t been studied on domesticated animals. She says that in these instances, appropriate doses for pets are simply extrapolated from the recommended human dose. One reason she says so many pet owners are curious about the compound is because their pets often can’t tolerate the side effects associated with regular medication. In other cases, it can have a synergistic effect, making standard medications more effective. “If we have a seizure patient that is on three different medications having seizures weekly, we can add the CBD to that and get a reduction in seizures and, hopefully, reduce the medication that they’re on,� Kramer says. Kramer admits that because the market for cannabis-based pet products is unregulated, quality control is often overlooked by manufacturers, and it can be hard to find out which products are most effective. “A lot of the treats on the market are probably not harmful, but they may not be helpful,� she says. “There are some local products that I’ve found to be really worthless.�

For the most part, Kramer tells her clients to look for human-grade CBD products, like the ones made by B.C.– based manufacturer Isodiol, which come in higher concentrations of CBD than most products made for pets. Smaller animals might benefit from Green Island Naturals’ Medico for Pets tincture, but Kramer says anyone with a 45-kilogram (100-pound) dog would require a fairly large dose of the diluted product, which contains two milligrams of CBD per millilitre. Although she says infused dog treats are often too low in CBD to be helpful for patients with serious conditions like cancer, she’s a fan of one local company whose line of dog treats caters to conditions like anxiety and arthritis. “I started working with Creating Brighter Days because I like all of the other ingredients they are putting in their treats: they are doing their due diligence, trying to get quality control and analyses,� she says. She refrains from suggesting anything that comes in capsule form, after a few cases where budtenders accidentally dispensed THC capsules to clients instead of ones containing CBD. (Although she says CBD is largely safe for animals, THC can cause pets some serious discomfort.) “I’ve had a couple patients put into the emergency room because of that,� she says. “If I have that kind of experience with a dispensary once, then I’m done. I can’t in good faith send anybody to you after that.� Kramer understands she might be the exception among veterinarians, but she says pet owners should always notify their vets if they are thinking about giving their pets CBD—even if they’re afraid their vet might advise against it. If a vet is asked enough questions about CBD treatment, Kramer says, they’ll do the research. She hopes that one day she can go to her pharmacy shelf and pull down a Health Canada–approved CBD product that is controlled and safe, but she says that’s not going to happen if it’s not driven by pet owners. Despite the controversy around the topic, Kramer’s success stories are enough to bring a tear to the eye of any animal lover. In many instances, she’s watched sick pets get to spend up to a few extra years of quality time with their owners. Her first patient to use CBD, an 18-year-old cat, experienced a return in appetite, was able to stop taking opioids, and lived comfortably for a few more years. In her favourite story, Kramer remembers a Labrador with lymphoma whose owners had already booked the appointment to euthanize him. “He wasn’t eating and didn’t want to do anything,� Kramer says. “But one dose of CBD, and the next morning he woke up, grabbed his leash, and dragged his owners to Stanley Park for a walk. He lived for six more months.�-

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e are now over the halfway mark of Mercury retrograde. During the past few days, Mercury retrograde has been working to establish a better foothold with Mars (the action) and Saturn (the limitation or requirement). While the three will put in more time before they get it fully sorted out, as of Thursday, the pressure eases off. You should feel that you are gaining some traction, or that for now it is time to let it run its course while you shift into something else or next. Mercury and Saturn are working on a completion timetable that will extend to the last week of April. Mercury and Mars will hit their next action checkpoint by the second week of May. You may recognize the time frame as relevant to what’s going on for you. Saturday, slow-and-steady gets the job done well. Venus/Saturn makes for good organization, reasoning ability, productivity, and accomplishment. Aim for good quality relaxation or romance Saturday night. As of Sunday, the transiting moon gains an energy perk from Jupiter and Uranus. The coming week is less of a grind and more of an upswing than the one just past. Monday through Wednesday, the moon in Aquarius stirs up the conversation, the politics, and commerce trends. Tuesday/Wednesday, something important gets said, done, singled out, or instigated. Sun/Pluto can produce an official announcement or an event of note or set a power play into action. It’s a good time to ditch the things or people that bog you down and to launch a new initiative. Venus/Mars optimizes money matters and relationship accord.

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a sense of accomplishment. While Mercury retrograde is a backtrack cycle, it is likely to keep you focused on figuring out what comes next. You can’t push time; work with it instead. Having said that, Sunday through Wednesday, you’ll pick up better speed.

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Don’t force what isn’t coming naturally. Things have a way of working themselves out. Thursday lifts pressure and/or sees you over the hump. A reconnection is well-timed. It can be a chance to say something important or gain better closure. Something from your past could be relevant or useful to you now. Sunday onward, the getting is good. October 23–November 21

As of Thursday/Friday, you’ll gain a reprieve from the pressure. Make sure to go easier on yourself (or another) too. Saturday, once you have one thing completed, you’re quickly onto the next. For the most part, the stars continue along a smooth-rolling, productive track for most of the week ahead. Monday and Tuesday are good for connecting, brainstorming, and spontaneity. November 21–December 21

You can find yourself on a good bounce-back Thursday/Friday. For the weekend, ditch the extras or marginal; go for the best. Economize on output; maximize on the benefits package. Rapport, good entertainment, and satisfaction are readily found. Monday begins a productive, fresh-page week. Relationships and TAURUS communication tracks can improve. April 20–May 20 Your creativity, attitude, mood, and No doubt you have had a lot energy do too. to think about. Mercury retrograde CAPRICORN has kept you pushing rocks uphill. As December 21–January 19 of Thursday, you’ll get a better handle Past Thursday, the stresson it. Venus in Taurus, an attraction transit, is in good shape with Saturn ful aspects between Mercury retrothrough Saturday and Mars through grade, Mars, and Saturn are surTuesday. Call in a favour; make your passed. Friday to Sunday, the moon pitch. You should be easily able to in Capricorn has you replenished and back in the driver’s seat again. make it look and sound appealing. Saturday is your best day for makGEMINI ing the most of it. Monday onward, May 21–June 21 your people skills are doing you As of Thursday, Mercury good. Let spontaneity guide you. retrograde is over the hump with AQUARIUS Mars and Saturn. It should bring January 20–February 18 you relief. Saturday can bring you to Thursday/Friday, go exa well-timed wrap-up or finish line. Venus/Saturn, a quality-over-quantity ploring; try it on for size; get fresh duo, helps you spend both your money air. An insight, conversation, or piece and your time well. Choices are clear. of news gets you thinking along new Given or received, a show of appre- lines. The weekend goes pretty much ciation feels good. Monday/Tuesday, according to plan. Saturday can be quite productive. Sunday gets you connect, share; think creatively. going on something more. Monday CANCER and Tuesday are your best days to June 21–July 22 start, stir it up, connect, or create. Too much on your plate? PISCES While reality continues, overall the February 18–March 20 going is good through the weekEven though you have a end. You can start to feel an energy perk-up as early as Friday. The moon lot on your plate, you should find in Capricorn holds you steady. If it the going easier to take thanks to brings you to a full stop on Saturday, Mercury mostly over the hump with it isn’t for long. Venus/Saturn sets the Saturn. And though the work is dial to reasonable and doable. Sun- piled up and waiting for you, you’ve day onward runs on a fresh battery. earned a break. Do something social; reward yourself this weekend. LEO Monday, go onto something fresh. July 22–August 22 Tuesday is a full-on day. At work or at play, Venus/ Saturn keeps the get-go on a rela- B o o k a re a d i n g o r s i g n u p f o r tively smooth track through week- Rose’s free monthly newsletter at end. Saturday’s finish line brings rosemarcus.com/.

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Left, Carolina de la Cajiga’s Cypress Bowl Development 2017 edits new homes with snow-dusted trees; Larry Wolfson’s melancholic works, like this shot in Point Grey (right), depict the last days of Vancouver teardowns.

Portraits of a city’s sea change

herself an “illusionist” or “reinterpreter” rather than a traditional photographer, de la Cajiga will present a series of conceptual digital prints that warp and play with the region’s landscapes and structures to provoke conversation and suggest ways in which we At this year’s Capture Photography Festival, diverse artists can create more livable document local developments, demolitions, and gentrification space for Vancouverites. Each consisting of up To be a Vancouverite in 2018 means liv- to 80 images that have been manipulated, layered, ing in a state of constant concern for one’s future. or stitched together, the scenes portrayed in de la BY LUCY LAU While the city continues to top livability and Cajiga’s work aren’t always practical. Displayed as quality-of-life indexes, it’s becoming harder to part of an exhibition titled City in Flux: Work in feel at home in a place where housing prices have Progress, Lions Gate Bridge Development: Future? grown exorbitantly out of reach; sites of heritage, shows a panoramic shot of the Lions Gate Bridge culture, and small business are being bulldozed from Ambleside Beach, a row of futuristic buildfor shiny new developments; and long-time resi- ings lining both sides of the water so that they obdents are being pushed out—to neighbouring struct views of Stanley Park and downtown Vanmunicipalities, provinces, and elsewhere—by couver. The properties depicted here are not real, general unaffordability and a lack of space. but rather have been dreamed up by de la Cajiga, It’s a grim and thorny topic that dominates who combines photographs of a development in news headlines, politics, and day-to-day talk, and Vancouver’s Oakridge area and of the dramatic it certainly hasn’t gone unnoticed by the region’s glass-bottom pool found at a condominium comcreative set—particularly, a number of partici- plex nearing completion in Yaletown. Aestheticpants in this year’s Capture Photography Festival. ally, the resulting edifices fit right in with the slew “I think we live in a very special part of the world of luxury sites that have sprung up around Vancouand many people want to come here, and there’s ver in recent years, but their placement so close to a struggle in what we can do,” local photographer Burrard Inlet betrays the picture’s otherwise conCarolina de la Cajiga tells the Straight by phone. vincing nature. “We are bound by water and mountains; there’s “In a whimsical way, I try to do something to not much land available in Metro Vancouver. call attention to the fact that all of this is hapAnd yet, many people are wanting to come.” pening,” explains de la Cajiga. “So I build imA Mexican-born artist who has called Van- possible buildings in the hope that people will couver home for more than 30 years, de la Cajiga pay attention to the issue.” is one of a handful of curators and photographIn Cypress Bowl Development 2017, the arters who are tackling issues of gentrification— ist employs similar tactics, photographing and both explicitly and inadvertently—in Capture’s editing partially completed homes on West 4th 2018 iteration, which celebrates lens-based Avenue, and then presenting them atop snowart through 90-plus exhibitions and public- dusted trees against a modified backdrop of Cyart installations taking place around Metro press Mountain. Other images in City in Flux Vancouver until April 30. (Some pieces are show construction workers and f laggers toilon view until as late as September.) Fancying ing away in their hardhats and neon vests—the

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prints often replicated so that they form striking five-by-five grids—to underline the role these individuals play in Vancouver’s shifting cityscape. “They’re people that we totally ignore in general,” de la Cajiga says of the labourers. “So it’s about bringing this emphasis of ‘We don’t see them, but they’re there,’ and communicating that through repetition, repetition. You go past [a construction site] a few months later, and suddenly everything has changed.” SINCE 2013, Vancouver-based photographer Larry Wolfson has had a front-row seat for such urban transformations. Preferring to highlight empty, desolate spaces in his work, the Winnipeg native began snapping sold, vacated, and soon-to-be-demolished homes when he noticed that many of the abodes in his Point Grey ’hood were meeting this fate. Wolfson estimates that, in five years, at least five detached single-family houses have been torn down to make room for new residences or developments within a two-block radius of his own dwelling at West Broadway and Alma Street. “It was a short distance from my front door to a number of them,” he says by phone. “So I thought, ‘This is a good opportunity [to photograph them]; I don’t have to go very far.’ ” At times, getting the perfect shot—whether the subject was a deserted living space, stripped save for a 1930s black-tiled fireplace, or a yard strewn with trash-filled bags, abandoned mattresses, and piles of wood and drywall—meant trespassing onto sites or strategically scheduling shoot times to avoid being spotted by construction personnel. Even when he expanded the scope of his project to include empty homes that had sold as part of land assemblies on Vancouver’s East Side, Wolfson remained unscathed and largely undetected, aside from a few close calls involving a chainlink fence and, on another occasion, deteriorated f loorboards that almost sent the photographer tumbling into the basement of a house. “I generally would go out when the sun was out at an angle, so there would be light coming through some of the see next page

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Editor’s choice LOGO MANIA In his new show, called brand, Vancouver-based multimedia artist Andre Petterson cleverly captures the ubiquitous global-corporation logos that emblazon billboards, posters, and signage in far-off corners of the earth. The artist works by combining elements of photography, painting, and drawing, all driven by his wide travels. The effect is imagery that’s by turns absurd, humorous, and downright scary, as Colonel Sanders (see Chicken, here), the Starbucks siren, and the omnipresent Coca-Cola logo take over the world. Brand is at the Bau-Xi Gallery from April 14 to 28 as part of the Capture Photography Festival.

Five more Capture events you won’t want to miss

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NATIONAL PICTURES OF THE YEAR NOMINEES (April 8 to May 4 at the Pendulum Gallery) The News Photographers Association of Canada asserts the power of photojournalism.

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I WAS A TEENAGE SKATEBOARDER IN THE ’90S (April 8 to 15 at the Pipe Shop in North Van) A cool roll through ’boarding’s subculture.

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OWEN KYDD: MOUNTAIN LAKES (April 7 to May 5 at Monte Clark Gallery) Ever upending the photographic form, Kydd explores SoCal suburbs.

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CHILCOTIN RODEO (April 5 to May 12 at New West’s Gabor Gasztonyi Studio) Loving portraits of the cowboys of small-town, First Nations rodeos.

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EXPOSURE (April 6 to 27 at SFU Woodward’s in the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts) Students and local artists lens the campus in varied new lights.

Grand opening TURNING BLUE The 2018 Capture Photography Festival launches Thursday night (April 5) with the opening of a feature exhibition that pushes the medium squarely into the future. The Blue Hour, held in partnership with the Contemporary Art Gallery, presents work by five Canadian and international artists who challenge the notion of the photo as a document of the past or the lost. Amid the images that will question the relationship between time and the camera are Joi T. Arcand’s Northern Pawn, South Vietnam—North Battleford, Saskatchewan (shown here), which depicts a world where all signage is written in Cree. Other artists taking part are Kapwani Kiwanga, Colin Miner, Grace Ndiritu, and Kara Uzelman. On Saturday (April 7), CAG curator Kimberly Phillips hosts a public conversation with the exhibiting artists about the ideas behind The Blue Hour, titled On Time and the Futurity of Photography. APRIL 5 – 12 / 2018 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 13

In The Great Big Vancouver Paradox exhibition, Emilia Wilson’s depictions of Downtown Eastside displacement (Mess?, left) juxtapose with Vitor Leão’s tranquil local landscapes (White House, right).

A city’s sea change

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windows,” Wolfson explains. “Around my neighbourhood, I would go out at the best times because I just had to walk up the block.” An artist whose work leans toward the still and stoic, Wolfson enjoys the nostalgia that comes from seeing a hollow, onceoccupied space. Showcased in a digital exhibition dubbed Slated for Demolition—Vancouver Teardown, the pieces evoke a “melancholy of transition”, he says, a period of perturbing calmness before the excavator arrives to usher a ghost-town site into its next life. Although Wolfson now realizes that these photographs help to fuel a larger conversation surrounding Vancouver’s housing crisis, he asserts that this is not the aim of the series. “There was no political intent on my part, though I was certainly aware of it when I was taking them toward the end,” he says, “and it was something that was appearing in the news a lot.”

By contrast, curator Krystal Paraboo couldn’t have had a clearer objective when putting together The Great Big Vancouver Paradox, an exhibition at nonprofit coworking space HiVE Vancouver Society that will juxtapose the city’s green and grittier dimensions. “Vancouverites very much get behind creating the best, sustainable city,” Paraboo, who also serves as HiVE’s director of community and culture, explains in a phone interview. “But every day, when I come to work, or when I talk to people who are working with drug users in the Downtown Eastside, or when I talk to people in the First Nations community, you see fi rsthand that those people are struggling. And their presence essentially becomes normalized. “So my idea was to kind of bring this under one roof, in one exhibition,” she continues. “To show that, simultaneously, not only are we really rallying in numbers to create a very progressive, sustainable culture, but…we’re also ignoring the people in these impoverished communities.”

Featuring a mix of landscape shots by Vitor Leão that show off Metro Vancouver’s tranquil beauty and a series of raw images by Emilia Wilson that offers an intimate look at the DTES, the 16-piece presentation will draw attention to the disparity between the region’s carefully conserved natural environments and the groups that remain an afterthought in our endeavour to become the world’s greenest city. Leão’s photographs of Vancouver and the North Shore will be displayed in large formats and brilliant colour, while Wilson’s snaps of DTES streets and the folks that inhabit them will be reduced in size and shaded in black and white. “All of that is intentional in terms of the visual-literacy aspect,” notes Paraboo. “When someone is kind of reading the exhibition, they’re going to see the grand, beautiful nature of Vancouver that’s huge…and then, bam, you’re going to have a smaller one that’s in black and white, and that’s a little controversial—that, all of a sudden, comes out of nowhere and makes you feel uncomfortable.”

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Like de la Cajiga, Paraboo hopes that the exhibition will spark a discussion among Vancouverites, particularly about whom or what civic initiatives may be serving. “I want people to understand all of Vancouver, not just parts of it,” she says. “I want them to leave asking themselves, ‘Is Vancouver a really good place to live in? Are we really in one of the best cities in the world?’ I also want people to start thinking about the government and different organizations, and the processes of them determining what issues we should prioritize over others.” OTHER CAPTURE exhibitions that

examine issues of urbanism and redevelopment include X2, which provides a time line of f luctuating spaces in the region by joining realistic and surreal elements, and Ghost Buses, a visual farewell of sorts to the old, rounded electric trolley buses that previously roamed Vancouver streets. And while the artists don’t necessarily offer answers to

Vancouver’s housing crisis—or to the precarious place the city finds itself in as it works to accommodate new and established residents while somehow maintaining its spirit— they hope they can, at the very least, inspire a dialogue among locals that will ignite change. “I don’t claim to have any knowledge or any idea of ‘This is what we should be doing,’ ” states de la Cajiga. “It’s a question of getting people paying attention, so we, as a whole, find a solution.” The Capture Photography Festival presents Carolina de la Cajiga’s City in Flux: Work in Progress at the Ferry Building Gallery from Tu e s d a y ( A p r i l 1 0 ) t o A p r i l 2 9 , a n d a t t h e D i s t r i c t L i b ra r y G a l lery (1277 Lynn Valley Road) until M a y 1 3 ; L a r r y Wo l f s o n ’s S l a t e d for Demolition—Vancouver Teardown online at truthandbeauty. ca/ until May 30; and Vitor Leão and Emilia Wilson’s The Great Big Va n c o u v e r P a r a d o x a t H i V E Vancouver Society from Friday (April 6) to June 30.

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Fang Tong lenses the dreamlike and cinematic Through shots along Route 66 and her string-happy “Marionette” series, the photographer explores escapism at Capture fest > BY L UC Y LA U

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hether it’s capturing a family of five in quiet contemplation, a luggage-toting woman standing listlessly outside SkyTrain doors, or a couple in turmoil at a roadside motel, local photographer Fang Tong’s work exudes a theatrical quality suited to the big screen. The Shanghai-born artist takes great care in producing imagery that straddles the line between the strange and the mundane, carefully sketching scenes out with pencil and paper beforehand, location scouting and dressing her models, and meticulously orchestrating every last prop. For one of her more recent projects, however, Tong tossed caution, along with her usual checklist of preparations, to the wind. The formally trained sculptor and painter hit the road with two friends—and a red dress, blond wig, and pair of four-inch pumps stowed in the trunk of a rental car—for a two-week, 3,000-kilometre-plus trip along U.S. Route 66. Beginning in Chicago and travelling through states such as Missouri, Texas, and Arizona, the threesome took breaks to photograph Tong only when they felt like it. “We pretty much followed that road and stopped whenever we saw a location that would be good for a photo,” the photographer tells the Straight by phone. In each of the 13 images she and her team snapped, Tong dons the same outfit and wig she brought along, her lips stained a matching scarlet and her face emotionless in the rare occasion it faces the camera. Posing on deserted thoroughfares, in cornfields, and alongside tractors and wind turbines, the artist presents a picture of small-town America coated

Armed with a blond wig, a red dress, and high heels, Fang Tong took pictures like Escape #3 on her extended road trip.

in a sheen of her signature surrealism. By styling herself the same way in every photograph—the rouge frock and blond bob wig look like a badass disguise any one of Charlie’s Angels would’ve rocked—and employing two portable flashlights as additional light sources, Tong portrays real-life settings in dramatic, cryptic prints that could easily be mistaken for paintings. “The idea is kind of this temporary escape from normal life.…It’s a mental escape more than a physical one,” she says. The last shot in the series, which is aptly titled Escape, shows a man carrying a mannequin dressed in the identical clothing and hair on

the streets of downtown Vancouver. The photo causes viewers to pause and ask if Tong was a real person or actually the said dummy in previous stills. “There’s a little humour in that,” Tong notes, “and it also adds to this surreal element.” The former video-game designer, who studied fine arts in both Shanghai and Paris before immigrating to Canada in 2001 and settling in Vancouver five years later, explores themes of escapism with a touch of whimsy in her “Marionette” series, too. In these pieces, figures such as a bearded businessman and a young dancer are pictured midair, their limbs tied to strings as if they were

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puppets. They’re then Photoshopped onto snapshots of recognizable backdrops like Vancouver’s Chinatown and UBC. “People want to run away, but they have the strain on their bodies from the things in life they have to deal with,” says Tong, who describes the feeling as a “very typical Vancouver city scene”. As she does in her other works, Tong plays with and manipulates the lighting to create her desired dreamlike effect. The result is cinematic, combining romance, comedy, and, at times, an unsettling suburban stillness to tell one part of a larger story taking place beyond the lens. “Those photos, when you

see them, it’s a totally real scene,” she says. “The location is real, the people are there. But then people ask, ‘Why is it so surreal?’ and I think it’s the lighting I use. I make the lighting soft, a little strange. It’s not totally natural light.” Pieces from Tong’s “Escape” and “Marionette” series make up Escape, one of 90-plus exhibitions happening around town as part of this year’s Capture Photography Festival. Curated by Toni Zhang McAfee, the show will also include other works by Tong, each of which demonstrates her ability to depict ordinary people in ordinary settings—staged or otherwise—in a way that demands a second, third, and even fourth glance. “When I did painting, I did lots of portraits. Even when I did landscapes, I always had people in them,” Tong says. “I like the person in the photo because I think the person is adding the mood.” Although her work is often described as movielike, Tong maintains that still images cannot tell stories as well as film. She prefers to conjure what she calls a “strong feeling” instead, letting viewers come up with their own imaginative ideas of what may be unfolding in her meticulously thought-out and photographed scenes. Their mysterious, slightly bizarre side helps them stand out from the crowd, too. “With a painting, you can do whatever you want,” notes Tong. “But with a photo, you click and a table is a table, a chair is a chair—it’s very real. So I think I just like to do something a little different.” The Capture Photography Festival presents Fang Tong’s Escape at the Vancouver Lipont Art Centre from Saturday (April 7) to April 30.

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ranian-born Canadian Nobahar Dadui was getting ready to hang up her skates when she got a surprise phone call from an unexpected company: Cirque du Soleil. The famed contemporary-circus troupe was workshopping a new show on ice and was looking for talent. Dadui, still a young 26 after years of competitive figure skating and professional shows on cruise ships and in theme parks, was game for a change. Now, the athlete has become an acrobat, taking a starring role as the title character in Crystal, Cirque’s first show set on a frozen surface—an NHL–sized one, to be exact. “What I found out was that I would be flying, and I was going to be in straps,” she says of the aerial routine she performs in the show—while wearing skates. Dadui is speaking to the Straight from a tour stop in Arizona, before Crystal heads to Abbotsford, the closest it will get to Vancouver. “It took me out of my comfort zone—but what’s good is that I don’t care about comfort zones,” she adds with a laugh. Even after years of competition in her chosen sport, the physical challenges of the acrobatic show were formidable: “I had done gymnastics when I was young, but it took me long hours to get upper-body strength. I couldn’t even do half a pull-up when I started.” The show’s artistic director, Parisborn former ballet dancer Fabrice Lemire, explains that Cirque’s first challenge was to understand and “tame” the ice surface—and find fresh ways to use it. “It wasn’t ‘Let’s do another skate show’ like was being done elsewhere. It was about finding the right creative team, finding the right experts on the ice domain, but also to find the right performers,” he tells the Straight in a separate interview from the same site. The ever-innovative Cirque explored a variety of technical elements, like finding the right density of ice for both tumbling and skating, and developing new crampons for gloves and shoes so that acrobats could spring across the ice, Lemire explains. From there, salchows and highwire work began to meld, with skaters learning acrobatic techniques and some acrobats—even the juggling clown—donning skates for the first time. Hockey even managed to cross-check its way into the mix. “I’ve never worked with such a supportive, resilient cast as there is here. The acrobats were helping the skaters and the skaters were helping the acrobats, and it was really nice to see those two worlds collide and work together,” says Dadui. The result is a show that blends ice work with Cirque’s mashup of music, tricks, and narrative, telling

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Nobahar Dadui has added acrobatics to her repertoire. Matt Beard photo.

the story of a young woman named Crystal who feels alone and misunderstood. One day, while strolling on a frozen pond, she falls through the ice and ends up in a parallel world, where she learns to trust her own creativity. “She’s so relatable,” Dadui says of Crystal. “When you’re young, you’re seen as weird if you have a different imagination. For me, the worst times were middle school and high school. Then she falls into the pond and she’s able to create this world. “At the end she doesn’t need to fall in love. She doesn’t need anything other than her strength. So she’s not a beautiful Disney princess,” she adds, suggesting that Crystal is far from a traditional ice show. During her physically pummelling performance, Dadui finds she has to call on a sort of hyperalertness that goes beyond even what she needed in competitive skating. “You cannot get comfortable doing this. You have to have this certain focus,” she explains. “When I’m skating and everybody is tumbling around me doing tricks, and the acrobats are sliding around on the ice, I’m 100 percent aware. I mean, we have knives on our feet! “So you need to do whatever you have to do—like have an espresso shot or eat an apple or have some chocolate or do a headstand.” In the end the show has a much different feel than other shows over Cirque’s three-decade-plus history, Lemire observes. “The ice is giving us something we didn’t have before,” he says. “Sometimes, you forget that it’s an ice rink because it gives us a beautiful palette for projection. “And there’s a notion of speed we didn’t have before, watching them glide,” he adds. “There’s a different kind of energy.” Cirque du Soleil: Crystal is at the Abbotsford Centre from next Wednesday to Sunday (April 11 to 15).

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ome artists want to continually reinvent themselves, but U.S. vocal group Take 6 has another aim: familiarity. Or at least that’s the idea behind its upcoming album Iconic, due for release on April 27. “What we’ve done,” the a cappella sextet’s founder and leader Claude McKnight explains from his Los Angeles home, “is we’ve taken some really amazing songs from over the years—I mean, everything from the ’50s to right now—and we’ve voted on those songs. And all the ones that got at least four votes—and most of them got five or six votes—got onto the album. We figured we could take any one of the songs from this album and sing it anywhere in the world, and someone would probably know the song.” McKnight isn’t about to spill all the beans about what’s going to be on Take 6’s new LP—surprise is a value, too—but he’s willing to admit that he and his fellow singers have worked up some of them for their upcoming Vancouver appearance, sponsored by Chor Leoni. (The local men’s choir will also join Take 6 on-stage for at least a couple of numbers.) One, at least, will be the Beatles staple “Got to Get You Into My Life”, a favourite of R&B singers since the Four Tops covered it in 1969. “We’re basically doing the Earth, Wind & Fire version of it,” McKnight says, a fact that attests to his ensemble’s uncanny ability to replicate a full band with just its voices and, occasionally, percussion. “I started the group as a quartet, with what would be considered almost barbershop-style harmonies, way back in the day when I was a freshman at Oakwood College, a Seventh-day Adventist university

in Huntsville, Alabama,” McKnight explains. “And because we all had a love for jazz, we decided to add a couple more people to the group, because that enabled us to do chords that had more notes in them. So we’re basically what we consider to be a jazz vocal group that happens to be a cappella.” Standard operating practice, he continues, is for one of the sextet’s lower voices to take on a jazzy bass line, while the others divide up between melody, harmony, and chordal accompaniment. “We can have two or three guys on top, doing horn parts, and then a couple of other guys who are filling in the chords,” McKnight says. “Or you can have block chords where all six of us are basically the piano, as it were—where you have the entire chord being spelled out in kind of a linear fashion by all the guys. Or you can have a solo on top, a walking bass line, and still have four notes within the chord moving. There’s all kinds of ways to skin a cat as far as the arrangements are concerned.” One thing that has remained the same since 1980, however, is the group’s engaging, up-with-people demeanour, which the genial McKnight attributes to a combination of temperament and gospel roots. “Who you are always comes through, whatever kind of music you do,” he says. “If you’re being honest with yourself and authentic, then that comes out. So whether we’re singing a pop-style song or jazz or whatever, there’s always a soulful spirituality to what it is that we do—and, yeah, we can’t get away from that.” -

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he third Sound of Dragon Music Festival—a biennial event examining the many and varied offshoots of intercultural music in Canada, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan— opens this week with a pair of concerts featuring Vancouver’s own Turning Point Ensemble and Taipei’s Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra. In more ways than one, they’re emblematic of the festival as a whole, both in terms of repertoire and, perhaps even more importantly, in terms of the division of labour. Neither the Chinese nor the Canadian element will be prioritized, says Turning Point’s conductor and artistic director Owen Underhill, reached at his SFU Woodward’s office. “We’re basically splitting the conducting down the middle, and sharing it so that [Little Giant’s] Chih-Sheng Chen conducts some of the Canadian repertoire, and I’m conducting some of the Taiwanese music. “There are also two separate programs, so people should try and come to both nights, April 5 and April 6,” he adds. “There’s a total of 12 pieces: two of them are for Turning Point alone, and two of them are for Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra, but there are eight pieces that are integrated, including four premieres. So most of the program will include different combinations of the two ensembles.” Those attending the second night are in for a special treat: featured will be Underhill’s Cello Concerto, written for former Vancouver Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Ariel Barnes, who’s returning from Nuremberg, Germany, to appear as soloist. “Its subtitle is The Curio Box, because it’s based on Chinese curio boxes from the Tang Dynasty that had many compartments—as many as 48 compartments, and within each compartment would be put pieces of jade or poetry or other special objects,” the composer explains. “They were like miniature museums, so in my piece it’s kind of like an unfolding—particularly in the first part of it, where you discover all these different types of musical styles and musical objects.” Elements of Chinese history also inform Sound of Dragon artistic director Lan Tung’s Ma Cao, which will be performed on opening night, and Little Star, which the Toronto Chinese Orchestra Chamber Players and the all-star Sound of Dragon Ensemble

Erhu star Lan Tung draws inspiration from old Cantonese teahouse music.

will premiere on Sunday (April 8). The first, based loosely on a clarinet motif from folk agitator Geoff Berner’s “Victory Party”, tells of an eminent philosopher who spoke out against military rule at the end of the Han Dynasty, approximately 1,800 years ago. The second draws its inspiration from a less elevated source: Cantonese teahouse music of the early 20th century. “I’m using some of the sounds of that era, especially from a very famous singer whose nickname was Little Star,” Tung explains in a separate telephone interview. “She had her own style, a soft style that became a particular school that people imitated. Today, it’s not very often heard, because the poetry is beautiful, but it’s not easy. “When I listen to recordings from that era, recordings of early pop music from Asia, they all have a similar feel, because they were starting to learn western music,” the erhu virtuoso and singer continues, citing this urban sound as a precursor to the kind of intercultural music that’s a Sound of Dragon focus. “Cantonese music mixed with western music from very early on. So when I listen to these old recordings, I can hear saxophone, I can hear guitar, but the singing is in a traditional style, like Cantonese opera. Together, it’s not like anything else I’ve ever heard.” The Sound of Dragon Music Festival runs at various Vancouver venues from Thursday to Sunday (April 5 to 8).

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Tolstoy taught us that “happy are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The Blake family in Stephen Karam’s The Humans is the latter, and their collective unhappiness is both familiar and strange. Irish Catholic boomers Erik (Kevin McNulty) and Deirdre (Nicola Lipman) are visiting their daughter Brigid (Samantha Rose Richard) and her boyfriend, Richard (Parm Soor), in their grotty apartment in New York’s Chinatown. They’ve brought their other daughter, Aimee (Briana Buckmaster), and Erik’s dementiastricken mother (Gina Stockdale). They’ve also brought a porcelain pig, a statue of the Virgin Mary, and a lifetime of emotional baggage. The family settles in for Thanksgiving dinner, catching up on news and reopening old wounds. Karam’s dialogue is very naturalistic, full of interruptions and half-finished sentences. Unusually, the play’s script is often divided into two columns, ref lecting lines that overlap or happen on different parts of the stage. That sounds like it might be hard work, but director Amiel Gladstone’s playful style manages the mayhem and the audience’s attention well. And you want to listen closely, because the play is often hilarious. Lipman and Buckmaster have the best handle on the patter, and they also get the funniest lines. Deirdre insists that Brigid keep the Virgin Mary: “She’s appearing everywhere now, not just in Fatima but in West Virginia and—just keep it for my sake, in the kitchen or even if you just put it in a drawer somewhere, okay?” Describing her family, Aimee asserts that, in lieu of actual depression, “we just have stoic sadness.” At one point, Richard describes a comic book about space monsters and how “the horror stories for the monsters are all about humans.” Those on-stage are only occasionally monstrous to each other. However, the off-stage humans loom larger. Brigid and Richard’s old apartment building is beset by a classic New York soundscape— the noisy upstairs neighbour, the laundry room, the garbage compactor, and so forth. These sounds, courtesy of sound designer David Mesiha, are disturbingly loud. They feel vaguely threatening to the dysfunctional family and contribute to the production’s creepy undercurrent. And there are monsters beyond those, too. Erik and Aimee survived the 9/11 attacks, and have never really recovered. It’s a cliché to assert that the play’s set is a character, but it’s really the case in The Humans. The young couple has barely moved in, so Drew Facey’s set is all grimy corners and mismatched chairs. The electricity is unreliable, which, combined with the surprising offstage rumblings, adds to the show’s off-kilter feel. There’s a kind of greasy seamlessness to The Humans. The secrets and lies spill out of the characters and it’s great fun to watch the mess.

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2ONGOING CHELSEA HOTEL: THE SONGS OF LEONARD COHEN Creator-director Tracey Power’s homage to the legendary Canadian poet and singer-songwriter, in which six performers play new arrangements of his songs on 17 different instruments. To Apr 21, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix from $25, info www.firehallartscentre.ca/.

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Cemal Özkzltaş Percussion

Contemporary Synthesis of Turkish Folk Music TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2018 8:00PM, Tickets $10-$14 AT THE CHAN CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, UBC

chancentre.com/events/arpanatolia/ Tel 604 822 2697 _______________________________ TURKISH HYBRID The harp, lute and many wind instruments have been the dominant instruments over the centuries and still are in Turkish (folk) music. Arpanatolia brings together singers and musicians who delve into that tradition to create a new, contemporary synthesis of Turkish folk music. The modern harp stands side by side with traditional instruments like the lute-like cura and flutes such as the kaval, ney and sipsi.In addition to original melodies imbued with ancient resonances, Arpanatolia delivers new interpretations; hybridization at its best. $2 will be donated to Children Hospital Foundation from each sold tickets On the Occasion of NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY and CHILDREN'S DAY in Turkey

Michael Zaugg is the guest conductor for this last concert of the 2017-2018 subscription season. Originally from Switzerland, he is now the conductor and music director of Alberta’s Pro Coro Canada. Michael is a long-time friend and collaborator with the Vancouver Chamber Choir, whom he has hosted many times in Edmonton, Ottawa and Montreal. His programme will have many new and intriguing choral works by Rautavaara, Rheinberger, Whitacre, Archer, Saint-Saëns, Elgar, Knudson and Joby Talbot.

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attes—traditionally one part espresso, one part steamed milk—have seen innumerable interpretations in recent years, now crafted and infused with everything from oatmeal to chocolate to, yes, pumpkin spice. One health-oriented remix of the beverage, however, is trading in the caffeine for foods that colour the cuppa in shades of yellow, pink, blue, and even purple. If not at cafés and juiceries around town, you’ve doubtless spotted them on Instagram: mugs of rainbow-hued beverages occasionally accompanied by hashtags like #mermaidlatte, #goldenmylk, or #crimsonlatte. Collectively known as “superfood lattes”, these noncaffeinated sips ditch the espresso for powerhouse ingredients like turmeric, sea minerals, and beetroot. In addition to being extremely photogenic, the drinks have gained a loyal following for their supposed health benefits. “In the simplest idea, they’re basically steamed milk with any nutrient-rich food that is considered beneficial for your health and well-being,” Karen Danudjaja, cofounder of local latte-mix producer Blume, explains by phone. Having discovered turmeric as a natural anti-inflammatory remedy for her mom’s arthritis, Danudjaja partnered with friend Ella Dalling to launch Blume last year. The company’s best-selling turmeric concoction combines that spice with cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, and black pepper, for example, while the beetroot blend contains beetroot powder, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. Users are instructed to add a splash of hot water and one cup of hot or cold milk or “mylk”—a nondairy alternative—to one teaspoon of the powder, which creates a golden-yellow (turmeric) latte or crimson (beetroot) latte. Sweeteners such as honey, maple syrup, or sugar may be introduced as needed. Turmeric is largely made up of curcumin, which has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Naturalhealth proponents say the active ingredient improves brain function and lowers the risk of certain forms of disease and cancer, though such claims have not been proven in evidence-based research. Meanwhile, preliminary studies suggest that beetroot—the taproot part of the beet plant—may lower blood pressure, aid in digestion, and improve heart and liver health, among other benefits. Both foods may also boost energy levels, making them excellent substitutes for caffeine. “You could bite a chunk of turmeric, but nobody really wants to do that, right?” Danudjaja says. “So this [consuming superfood lattes] is just a very easy, forgiving way to incorporate it into your diet.” At Nectar Juicery, superfood lattes are prepared with

Lattes made with beetroot and turmeric are gaining fans.

adaptogenic herbs, plants rooted in Chinese and Indian Ayurvedic medicine that help the body better respond to mental strain. Combining adaptogens such as chaga, reishi, and ashwagandha with a house-made almond-cashew-date mylk, coconut oil, and raw honey, the local shop offers a variety that may be customized to address different health and dietary needs. “They are going to be aiding with your stress response, so they’re going to help lower your cortisol [the hormone that is released during times of stress],” claims Amy Bunnage, retail manager at Nectar Juicery. Bunnage gets a kick out of seeing Vancouverites replace their daily caffeine dose—which may cause irritability, insomnia, and other issues for some—with superfood lattes. “We love them because they’re taking your daily ritual and they’re making it your remedy,” she says. As pretty and tasty as these lattes may be, do the healthrelated claims hold up? While research surrounding the positive effects of adaptogenic herbs is murky, Annie Tsang, a registered dietitian at Vancouver’s Elements Wellness Centre, says there are pros in consuming superfoods like turmeric and beetroot—to an extent. “There have definitely been studies and research showing that there are benefits with these ingredients, mainly because they’re great antioxidants,” she explains by phone. “But whether people need them in a huge or excessive amount is still unclear.” Tsang recommends incorporating such items into your cooking to lessen the concentration as needed. Whether you opt to ingest such nutrients in latte form or otherwise, it’s important to maintain a well-rounded diet and introduce ingredients to your body in small portions. Tsang advises, “Whatever you see—anything that’s new—just try it in moderation because we don’t know what the research is going to bring us to.” -

B.C. wine biz springs ahead

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s cherry blossoms bloom Valley’s second subgeographical indiaround the city and an in- cation after Oliver’s Golden Mile creasing number of cruise Bench was approved by B.C.’s minister ships appear in our har- of agriculture in 2015. The boundaries bour, another sure sign of spring is of the appellation, on the east side of plenty of action in the British Col- the valley, were determined by qualumbian wine industry as we splash ities making it geologically distinct into vintage 2018. (various hollows harbouring glacial Some good news came at the begin- till) along with a unique microclimate. ning of the season. The Canadian Food The Okanagan Falls Winery AssoInspection Agency has deemed wines ciation and the regulatory B.C. Wine produced from a mix of internation- Authority have done the majority of al and domestic the legwork here. A grapes can no few more strands longer be labelled of red tape have with the “Cellared to be untangled, Kurtis Kolt and then it’s up to in Canada” designation. Those three words have duped the provincial government for final apmany a consumer into thinking they proval, hopefully by the end of the year. Perhaps the next appellation to go were purchasing a 100-percent-local down this road will be the popular wine over the years. Really, most shoppers couldn’t be Naramata Bench, just north of Penticblamed, as they were often stocked ton on the east side of Okanagan Lake. right next to British Columbian prod- Those folks are taking their show on uct, sometimes under the labels of the road, heading into Vancouver for local producers like Jackson-Triggs. Wine for Waves (April 13, Four SeaThese cheap industrial bottlings gave sons Hotel, $110, www.vanaqua.org/), a bad name to quality B.C. producers a grand tasting of fresh releases in supwhose wines were often perceived as port of the Vancouver Aquarium and its Ocean Wise sustainable-seafood being under the same umbrella. Although inexpensive blends like initiative. Naramata veterans like these are made all over the world— Kettle Valley Winery and Lake Breeze and there’s nothing wrong with that, Vineyards will be on hand, along with in theory—it’s awfully rare that they newer, must-sip favourites like Roche come with such misguiding labels and Wines and Bella Wines. Those wanting to zoom out on their merchandising. Everyone from local producers and trade to acclaimed B.C. wine-imbibing should also check journalists like U.K.–based Jancis out Chef Meets B.C. Grape (April 26, Robinson has been shouting about JW Marriott Parq Vancouver, $90, this issue for years; it’s nice to see we’ve www.winebc.com/), where more than finally made progress. As of April 50 wineries from around the province 1, if these blends are international- will be pouring their best and brightwine-dominant, they’ll be labelled as est alongside small bites from local “International blend from imported chefs, including Forage’s Chris Whitand domestic wines”, where if domes- taker, Torafuku’s Clement Chan, Pidtic juice is the main content, they’ll be gin’s Wesley Young, and many more. designated “International blend from Proceeds from the event go to the B.C. Hospitality Foundation, which domestic and imported wines”. In another step toward provenance offers financial assistance to those authenticity, it’s looking like Okanag- in the industry facing a major medan Falls might become the Okanagan ical crisis. (Full disclosure: I’m on the

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board of the foundation.) Eventwise, we’re just getting started this season, and I’ll be sharing more next week. In the meantime, you’re probably getting a little thirsty. I recently sat down with winemaker Grant Biggs of Kitsch Wines in Kelowna to taste through some of his releases. I first met him when he was working under Tantalus Vineyards winemaker David Paterson, but after toiling away in local vineyards, and a stint in New Zealand, he’s been at the helm of Kitsch since its inception in 2015. It’s a small winery owned by locals Ria and Trent Kitsch, and Biggs does a little bit of everything there, from overseeing the vineyards to making the wine—and it’s not uncommon for him to be the guy pouring wine in the tasting room. His wines see rather minimal intervention, all of them pristine and fresh as a daisy. You can find them locally at places like Legacy Liquor Store and New District for just a couple bucks more than winery-direct pricing, but ordering them via www. kitschwines.ca/ is always an option as well. Here are my three favourites: KITSCH WINES DRY RIESLING 2016 ($25) Wild-fermented and

aged in a wee bit of neutral oak to add a little bit of structure (not flavour); fresh lime, orange marmalade, and a touch of earthiness fill the palate well.

KITSCH WINES RIESLING 2016

($23) Slightly off-dry, but wonderfully balanced with tropical fruit like mango and guava, with a good bite of Granny Smith apple bringing extra freshness.

KITSCH WINES PINOT NOIR ROSÉ 2017 ($22) Oh, man! This pink

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In High Fantasy, one of the harder-hitting BY ADR IAN M ACK

films getting their West Coast premiere at the 20th annual Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth, four South African teens find themselves transported Freaky Friday–style into one another’s bodies. No goofball comedy, High Fantasy instead explores unsettling questions about class, race, and gender with a depth and seriousness that you simply wouldn’t have seen when Venay Felton started the festival two decades ago. “We’ve always tackled big questions, but I think we have access to a wider choice of better-quality films from around the world than ever before,” says the founder in a call to the Georgia Straight. “We didn’t have films as inclusive as we do this year.” Indeed, among the full-length titles coming to the 2018 edition of R2R, Naoko Yamada’s animated feature A Silent Voice concerns a high-school student forced to reckon with the abuse he heaped

Finding virtue in the virtual

In the brutally smart faux documentary High Fantasy, four South African teens swap bodies and reckon with hard questions of race, privilege, and gender.

are also a handful of typically I think really what you want to do is give your kids inspired NFB efforts, director the tools to be critical of the media, not just to be Theodore Ushev’s animated swept up by it and have it be all-consuming.” As it happens, R2R is also ready with a more linocut gem “Blind Vaysha” among them. Here, the viewer practical answer to these concerns. Next ThursThe Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth is placed inside the titular char- day (April 12), media educator Tash King brings acter’s metaphysically fraught an interactive presentation to the festival called negotiates the tricky space between media and reality head, with the future visible in Digital Literacy: The Power of Speech, designed to help young citizens of the 21st century find on a deaf student years previously. In Cloudboy, a one eye, and the past in the other. Again, Felton and her colleagues are simply their way through the ubiquitous assaults of “fake Belgian 12-year-old confronts his own largely denied Sami heritage. And in the widely acclaimed, keeping a bead on the evolution of technology and news”, disinformation, and propaganda. There are, no doubt, more than a few parents U.S.–made Princess Cyd—getting its Canadian storytelling, but how do we feel about such a comtheatrical premiere—a queer teen explores painful prehensively immersive medium at a time when and teachers who’d also appreciate some help it’s already difficult enough to tear our kids away pulling the signal from all that noise. family issues with her reluctant aunt. Among the short-film programs—divided into from their 2-D screens? “Well, that’s a whole other problem,” answers Fel- The Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth categories that include Indigenous stories, works by young filmmakers, and specific themes such ton with a laugh. “I know there’s a lot more discus- takes place at the Vancity Theatre and the Roundas bullying—we find the topics of anxiety (“Na- sion of limits among the young people I work with. house Community Arts and Recreation Centre dine”), war/migration (“Rupture”), and wealth Screen time and not allowing it when they’re really from Sunday (April 8) to April 14. More information little—that’s a growing awareness and a conversation. is at www.r2rfestival.org/. disparity (“The Glass Pearl”). It’s heady stuff for young minds, in other words, and it’s to R2R’s great credit that the festival reOne Earth, one village, one fantasy mains so responsive to both an increased “global Of the feature titles coming to R2R, here are some of the Straight’s favourites: awareness” among youths and the pressures that come with proliferating technological savvy and media saturation. But do parents or educators EARTH: ONE AMAZING DAY (U.K./China) Robert Redford narrates this festival ever object to some of the content Felton and her opener, an irresistible BBC nature doc (and sequel to 2007’s Earth) that travels the colleagues bring to the kids’ table? globe over a single 24-hour period to reveal sights that include a momma zebra “Some parents will approach us afterwards and defending against a cheetah attack, the surprisingly robust dating habits of the sloth, and the insanely say, ‘That was too traumatic for the children,’ ” ancute (and extremely rare) langur monkeys of China. As ever, it’s the photography here that’s the real swers the executive director, “and I’m not sure that’s star, although a bunch of back-scratching grizzly bears offer stiff competition. Parents can be assured such a bad thing, to be upset by something that’s that there’s predation but little in the way of death; One Amazing Day is more invested in a sense of challenging to deal with. What I’m hoping is that it wonder, as with the alien spectacle of some five million mayflies (life span: 24 hours) buzzing a small inspires conversation on those difficult topics. And stretch of river, something that wouldn’t look out of place in Jodorowsky’s Dune. Vancity, April 8 (4:30 there’s a certain line that we draw when we select p.m.), 11 (10 a.m.), and 14 (10 a.m.) the films. It is still from a child’s point of view.” VILLAGE ROCKSTARS (India) In a remote part of India’s northeastern state of Assam, young Dhunu The festival is also sensitive to specific age groups. spends her days climbing trees, rollicking around, and playing Styrofoam guitar in a fake band with the “There are very few complaints and it’s usually when, village boys. An enterprising way with betel nuts gets her a few steps closer to owning a real instrument, say, a three-year-old has attended a film that we’ve recommended for an eight-year-old,” continues Felbut puberty and the demands of tradition are closing in. Made by Rima Das with nonactors and virtuton. “That happens. Which is not to say that a threeally no crew (aside from a lot of other people also named Das), this is a not-to-be-missed charmer that year-old can’t necessarily handle the subject, ’cause seemingly arrives via miracle, paced as it is like rural life itself and conjured from little more than the I think they really just want answers to their quesland and the people on it. And you can’t tear your eyes away. Vancity, April 13 (5:30 p.m.) and 14 (4 p.m.) tions, not necessarily to be protected from reality.” HIGH FANTASY (South Africa) Dispensing instantly with the frivolity of its premise, Jenna Bass’s Speaking of which: among the festival’s usual ariPhone-shot faux doc closes R2R on a decidedly 14A note as four young adults—one white, three ray of conferences, activities, and filmmaking workblack—switch bodies during a remote desert camping trip, plunging them into the trauma of race and shops—not to mention the traditional opening-day gender otherness. For one thing, they’re on land “owned” by the family of white girl Lexi, loading many pancake breakfast—this year’s R2R introduces an of the barbs, stings, and uncomfortable realizations that inevitably follow. But as the single boy among impressive virtual-reality component into the mix. them, it might be Thami who’s hit hardest, especially as he grasps, with some terror, that his new life Spread across a variety of programs, titles include as a woman means dealing with guys like him. It can’t quite sustain the premise to the very end, but Maria Lantin’s “I Am Afraid”, in which words and this is a brutally smart and well-acted film. Vancity, April 14 (7 p.m.) sounds become mutable objects inside 3-D space, and > ADRIAN MACK “theBlu: Whale Experience”, which had Sundance attendees buzzing in 2016 thanks to its up-close-andpersonal encounter with an 80-foot cetacean. There

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n A Quiet Place, survivors on a desolate, postapocalyptic Earth must live life in near silence lest they attract the attention of a flock of monsters that hunt—and kill—by sound. For one unnamed brood of four, this means taking measures as extreme as padding barefoot on trails covered with noise-absorbing sand, replacing clattering tableware with large leaves, and communicating strictly in American Sign Language. So, as an active and inquisitive viewer, you can’t help but find it a little—okay, maybe extremely—irresponsible when Mom and Dad agree to (spoiler alert!) bring another child into this wretched world. Yes, a living, breathing being that will, presumably, spend the first three years of its existence embodying the antithesis of quiet: crying, shrieking, and yelping at decibel levels incomprehensible to those unfamiliar with the joys of parenthood. It’s a judgment not lost

on John Krasinski, who serves as director, screenwriter, and star of this mostly wordless horror flick. “It’s so funny that you bring that up, because it’s one of my favourite things to talk about,” Krasinski enthuses, on the line from Toronto. “I love the discussion that’s been going back and forth because, to me, it wasn’t a conscious choice.… [There’s] this idea that something happened and there are only a few ways to deal with it. And they [the family] chose the one way that was right for them. Or what they believed was right for them.” Questionable family planning aside, A Quiet Place, opening Friday (April 6), is packed with the kind of smart, tension-building resolves that are sure to thrust the man beloved as The Office’s Jim Halpert into—who knew?—“filmmaker to watch” territory. Playing the protective patriarch in his major-studio directorial debut, Krasinski presents a tightly edited story in almost complete

silence, employing lingering shots and the eerie, magnified tones of Mother Nature to create suspense. So sparse are sound and dialogue, in fact, that even the crashing of a lantern to the floor is enough to plunge audiences—now privy to what draws the film’s murderous clawed creatures—into a pool of dread. “A lot of these big-budget movies…have so much sound coming at you at all times, you’re almost cringing in your seat,” Krasinski notes. “And then you realize that taking sound away is just as assaulting. It’s almost as unnerving or just as scary, so it was really, really fun to play with.” Of course, Krasinski also had plenty of assistance from his young, wildly expressive cast. The selfdescribed scaredy-cat, who admits he was no fan of horror pictures growing up, took care to hire a deaf actor to play his on-screen daughter, who is deaf and wears a hearing aid. He found her in 14-year-old Millicent Simmonds, whom he now calls

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his “spirit animal”. And then there’s Krasinski’s IRL partner, actor Emily Blunt, who offered to tackle the part of mother and wife after reading the script he reworked. “I know it sounds like a line, but it [her asking for the role] was the greatest compliment to my career,” he says, “because I’ve witnessed firsthand how unbelievably specific she is in her decisions, what level of taste she has, and why she commits to the things she does. So I was blown away.” Blunt’s involvement in the production only helped to amplify A Quiet Place’s surprisingly touching core: family. It’s a theme that resonates strongly with Krasinski, not least because he welcomed his second daughter with Blunt shortly before receiving the preliminary script. “It hit me right in the chest,” the affable actor-director shares. “This idea of this family not being able to make any sound in order to survive—and that every day could be their last—was so powerful, so

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palpable to me because I was living it. I was actually in the throes of early parenthood, that terrifying moment of: ‘Can I keep this baby safe? Can I keep this baby alive? Am I a good enough person or human being to be this person’s father?’ ” Krasinski hopes that the scares in A Quiet Place, like those in some of his favourite horror movies and thrillers (Jaws, Rosemary’s Baby, Get Out), are just one part of a story that sticks with viewers long after they leave the theatre. Given the standing ovation the film garnered at its South by Southwest premiere in March— and the critical acclaim it’s been met with since—the burgeoning director may just get his way. “The thing that’s most moving to me is that people get it,” Krasinski says. “They’re not just saying, ‘Oh, it’s really scary. I had a lot of fun.’ People are really feeling the deeper emotional stuff. It’s just such a huge compliment.” -

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REV IEWS ISLE OF DOGS Featuring the voice of Bryan Cranston. In English and Japanese, with English subtitles. Rated PG

Barely out of the kennel, Wes latest cornucopia of antique design, cutting-edge technology, and pop-culture weirdness is getting a lot of heat for stereotypical treatment of its Japan-based story. A whiff of Ivy League privilege hovers around all his work, but let’s be honest: Wes Anderson is not someone we can look to for insightfully realistic portrayals of human behaviour, or of any specific culture that behaviour might spring from. The famously fastidious filmmaker used India as a prop in The Darjeeling Limited, and was just as artificial in inventing a whole central European country for The Grand Budapest Hotel. Some of his more convincingly anthropological stuff was actually in Fantastic Mr. Fox, the Roald Dahl adaptation that most resembles Isle of Dogs, given both films’ use of stopmotion animation, computer-enhanced effects, twee typography, lacquer-box graphics, and animal protagonists. Set in the fictional city of Megasaki, “20 years into the future”, the new movie finds man’s best friend now reduced to refugee status, with cats ascendant as all dogs have been sent to Trash Island. This was part of a power grab by the evil Mayor Kobayashi, voiced by Kunichi Nomura, who shares a writing credit with Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and the director. There are some subtitles, but most of the Japanese language here is self-explanatory or is rendered in English by an on-screen translator voiced by Frances McDormand. The plot nominally centres on Kobayashi’s boy ward, Atari (Vancouver’s young Koyu Rankin), whose

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Director Wes Anderson outfoxes charges of cultural appropriation with his latest, exquisitely crafted cabinet of animated curiosities, Isle of Dogs.

own pet, Spots (Liev Schreiber), was the first dog deported. Atari brings his best game when he lands on Trash Island, but still can’t find Spots. The mutts there only speak English and some sound suspiciously like Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Edward Norton, and Jeff Goldblum, with Bryan Cranston getting the most soundtrack time as Chief, a street-smart stray. Courtney B. Vance narrates. Scarlett Johansson shows up briefly as a former show dog, perhaps underlining a more pressing issue regarding Anderson’s social representation. The film’s only recurring female lead is a foreignexchange student (Greta Gerwig) who somehow leads otherwise passive Japanese in a revolutionary March for Our Dogs. (Yoko Ono has a quick bit as a scientist named Yoko Ono.) Some plot elements are similar to the recent mixed-media Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, also centring on animals lost in a toxic rubbish heap. But that Spanish cartoon had a doomladen mood at odds with Anderson’s

essentially playful outlook. The exquisitely crafted Dogs may be futuristic, but its mix of Godzilla movies, kabuki theatre, hard-boiled detective dialogue, Rube Goldberg contraptions, and Hokusai block prints is more nostalgic than dystopian. And, of course, nostalgia is always a lie. > KEN EISNER

FINAL PORTRAIT Starring Geoffrey Rush. In English and French, with English subtitles. Rated PG

A bit of Geoffrey Rush goes too

2 far in Final Portrait. Certainly, the Australian Oscar winner bears an uncanny resemblance to the wildhaired Swiss-Italian artist Alberto Giacometti, most famous for raw-textured sculptures so elongated, they make El Greco’s stuff look hyperrealistic. Written and directed by actor Stanley Tucci, the story is loosely based on journalist James Lord’s A Giacometti Portrait, in which he recounted an see page 30

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afternoon sitting that stretched into 18 days—much as the movie stretches a half-hour’s worth of material to 90 minutes and never gets under the creative skin of its subject. We meet Giacometti, as did Lord (Call Me by Your Name’s Armie Hammer), in 1964 Paris, where the rumpled modernist had kept a small studio for more than 40 years. Shot in dark, near-monochromatic tones that allow a few Parisian colours to intrude—the odd party dress or a red BMW—Final Portrait mostly sticks to the confines of that cramped and crumbling atelier. The strategy is initially engaging, but viewers may soon share Lord’s bum-numbing discomfort at watching the theatrical whims of a 63-year-old baby who always gets his way, even if he rarely knows quite what that way should be. The celluloid Giacometti changes his mind as often as he lights cigarettes

(and every character smokes in every scene, to go with the Gypsy-jazz score, presumably). This oddly arrogant selfdoubt obtains in wiping out his most recent attempts, bullying his patient younger brother (Tony Shalhoub), and ignoring his long-suffering wife (Sylvie Testud) whenever distracted by his current mistress, a flighty prostitute (ClÊmence PoÊsy, of In Bruges and several Harry Potter movies). Giacometti also talks smack about other artists, including Picasso, who in real life befriended Lord just after the war, as did Gertrude Stein, who helped the young writer escape the closet that hid him while he was in the U.S. army. None of this comes out onscreen, and the young scribe remains a cipher, thereby missing the chance to make this a double portrait, with commentary about the process of making art and consuming it. An art critic becomes one of a painter’s last subjects, and yet the movie relies on torturedgenius clichÊs and gives the audience little sense of why either of its antiheroes matter. (Hard to say if Rush’s

current #MeToo problems inform the role or hinder it.) Spoiler alert: the painting, which was eventually finished, sort of, was sold at auction in 2015 for more than US$20 million. That buys a lot of paint, and a few indie movies, as well.

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CHAPPAQUIDDICK Starring Jason Clarke. Rated PG

Ever since George Washingturned down the crown, Americans have claimed that they abhor dynasties. Among all the Bushes, Clintons, Roosevelts, and Romneys, only the Kennedy name has maintained some aura of clan magic. Chappaquiddick doesn’t delve into people-positive efforts “Lion of the Senate� Edward Kennedy championed before dying nine years ago. It focuses on an event that almost ended his life and career, and certainly derailed his chances of being president. Teddy was only 30 when he took over John’s Massachusetts Senate seat

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IN 1964, ARTIST ALBERTO GIACOMETTI ASKED WRITER JAMES LORD TO SIT FOR A PORTRAIT. HE SAID IT WOULD TAKE ONLY ONE DAY.

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‘Don’t Stop’ was based on a mantra to myself that I used to say over and over in London. I found the vocal sample, and I thought, ‘Yes. I’m really feeling this.’ It was a message to myself to keep doing what I was doing. I told myself that if I kept going I was going to make those connections, and things were going to get better. Eventually, they did.” Since returning to Vancouver, the DJ has focused on reviving her own party series, named Hotline. It was created to have an air of mystique; house and techno fans follow the event’s social-media channels to find out when the next show will be happening, and then call the hotline—604-367-1794— to find out the location. Focusing on female and queer DJs, the event offers a platform to those often marginalized within the electronic-music community, and aims to connect individuals in the underground scene. “As soon as I got back, I started Hotline up again,” she says. “It’s blown up bigger than ever. There was a lot of controversy around the male DJs in the scene with the #MeToo movement when I got back, and that was crazy. In a way, though, it’s encouraged people to support events run or played by women, and that’s been really cool. I feel like it’s brought a lot of people together, and that’s great—I’m discovering new female DJs every day now that I never knew before. Being able to book and support them is really exciting. “When I first started out, the rave scene was pretty big,” she continues. “Then I started noticing a lot of venues shutting down, like Richard’s on Richards, Lick, and Lotus. I definitely saw lots of people either going into mainstream clubs or the underground, and doing their own thing because there was nowhere left to play. That’s what I’ve tried to do.” Kasey Riot plays the Waldorf Hotel on Saturday (April 7).

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Smulyan lives his fantasy in Parker tribute One of the most divisive rec- what it meant to be a jazz musician: Sonny’s Place, a fabled dive northto be Charlie Parker With Strings, east of Manhattan on Long Island. originally issued as a 10-inch LP in “It was a great club,” the 62-year1950. Even some committed fans old Smulyan tells the Straight, on of the innovative saxophonist con- the line from his home in Hastingssidered it a betrayal, or at best an on-Hudson, New York. “Everybody uncharacteristic venture into easy- who played in New York also played listening terrain; others praised at this club, so I got to see Stan Getz the recording’s lush warmth and and Lee Konitz, and I got to play with how it showcased Parker’s sublime Chet Baker once there, as a kid. sense of melody. “That was a big hangout for me,” Gary Smulyan’s in the latter he continues, “and one of the most camp. Not only has the veteran popularly played records on the jukesaxophonist derived a lifetime’s box was ‘Just Friends’, from Charlie worth of pleasure from Parker’s Parker With Strings. I just heard it string sessions, he also found a over and over and over again, and template for his own 1996 release, the thing that really attracted me to Saxophonist Gary Smulyan says Gary Smulyan With Strings, which that recording in particular was just Sonny’s Place shaped his tastes. he’s about to play live for the first how the strings draw out the lyricism time in 20 years. And, fittingly, he in one’s playing. They make you play around you. So I think maybe deep first heard Parker’s orchestral date different. You just have a different down at heart I have this fantasy of at the same club where he learned aspect with that cushion of sound playing with strings, because when

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In a rare straight role, Ed Helms plays Kennedy cousin Joe Gargan, a veteran fixer who finally draws the line when he sees Teddy losing the “true compass” he has always bragged about. In the end, this is less a tale about politics or bad character than about creeping corruption—a kind of religion that embraces all denominations.

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The Simpsons. Apr 3-21, Studio 1398 (1398 Cartwright, Granville Island). Tix from $17, info littlemountainlion.com/. CRÈME-GLACÉE Fable told in Frenchonly takes viewers into an imaginary universe where a vivacious little girl is confronted with the more nuanced reality of the adult world. Apr 7, 7 pm, Studio 16 (1555 W. 7th). Tix $5-10, info seizieme.ca/ creme-glacee/?lang=en/.

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MUSIC 2THIS WEEK SOUND OF DRAGON FESTIVAL Festival celebrates diverse music with Chinese roots or influences in four evening concerts. Apr 5-8, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews). $25/15 for one concert, $39.99/25 for two, info soundof dragon.com/. MOMENTMUSIC The UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Winds present music by Ticheli, Sousa, Hearshen, Maslanka, Copland, and Husa. Apr 6, 8 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts (6265 Crescent Rd., UBC). Tix $8, info music.ubc.ca/bands/. VIENNESE MASTERS The Choirs of Capilano University, soloists and professional orchestra with concertmaster Nancy DiNovo perform works by Mozart, Schubert, and Haydn. Apr 7, 8 pm; Apr 8, 3 pm, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Tix $30/25/10, info www.capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/17-VienneseMasters/. NICHOLAS WRIGHT VSO concertmaster joins soprano Robyn Driedger-Klassen

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you’re surrounded by this incredible sound, it’s really quite an amazing experience.” Despite its title, Gary Smulyan With Strings isn’t a straight-up Parker tribute. For one thing, the bebop star was working with off-duty orchestral players, while Smulyan had the luxury of hiring some great improvising violinists, including Regina Carter and Mark Feldman. (In Vancouver, he’ll be joined by a 10-piece string section, plus pianist Tilden Webb, bassist Jodi Proznick, and drummer Jesse Cahill.) And although the saxophonist started out as a Bird-loving alto player, for most of his career he’s specialized in baritone, the light-heavyweight of the saxophone family. Most of all, though, Smulyan’s strings album benefited from the arrangements and overall vision of the late

Bob Belden, a virtuoso saxophonist, producer, and jazz historian who died in 2015, at 58. One way to tell how much Smulyan misses his friend and former bandmate can be heard in the way he frequently refers to Belden in the present tense. “Sometimes I just have to take a step back and think ‘Oh, yeah: Bob’s gone,’ ” Smulyan admits. “His music is just so rich and so alive, and he was an almost largerthan-life person in a lot of ways, so I guess I still kind of think of him that way. He was so young and there was so much music left in him. I really feel like he was taken away too soon.” > ALEXANDER VARTY

Gary Smulyan plays Pyatt Hall on Friday (April 6).

their captain and star player Caroline “Line” Found right before the season began, the high-school team were faced with the near-impossible task of defending their championship title. Playing with the motto “Win for Line” and, later, “Live like Line”, the girls—with the help of their bullish coach, Kathy Bresnahan (played here by Helen Hunt)—battled emotional and physical strain in pursuit of their goal. The story was placed in the hands of David Aaron Cohen, the scriptwriter behind the memorable (and very similar) film Friday Night Lights. It seemed set for success. Sadly, The Miracle Season lacks the depth of Cohen’s 2004 offering. That’s almost entirely the result of the film’s saccharine first act. Setting up Line’s character—vivacious and impulsive—by depicting her last days alive, actor Danika Yarosh (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back) is shown driving around pastoral Iowa in a convertible, stuffing multiple slices of pizza in her mouth, and throwing

the world’s most PG barn party. Sure, there are real moments of tenderness in her short appearance—climbing into a bed with her mother in the hospital, for one—but, for the most part, Yarosh’s over-the-top interactions quickly become insufferable. While the team might be rooting for Line, then, the audience isn’t. After her death, her responsibilities fall to her best friend, Kelly (Erin Moriarty from Captain Fantastic, who does a stellar job of depicting her character’s development from shrinking violet to strong leader). Line’s passing allows others to fill the void she’s left behind—but that void, thanks to director Sean McNamara’s overromanticizing of the character, is too big. It’s easy to cheer on a supporting cast that has been previously smothered by a larger-than-life persona. It’s harder to celebrate a fairy-tale princess who hogged the limelight. In a movie predicated on the sadness of her loss, that’s hardly a positive thing.

and pianist Grace Huang in works by Les Apaches (Maurice Ravel, Manuel de Falla, Maurice Delage, Florent Schmitt, and Igor Stravinsky). Apr 10, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). $29/$10 single tickets (regular/ student). Available as part of a Pick-3 Ticket Pack, a Pick-6 Ticket Pack, or A Month of Tuesdays Pass., info www.musiconmain.ca/ concerts/nicholas-wright-violin/.

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2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS VANCOUVER OPERA FESTIVAL Second annual event celebrates Russia’s luminous midsummer “white nights” and includes an intimate series of instrumental and vocal chamber music concerts. Apr 28–May 6, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Free to $161.75, info www.vancouveropera. ca/Vancouver-Opera-Festival-2018/.

> KATE WILSON

2THIS WEEK MFA GRADUATE EXHIBITION 2018 The Emily Carr University of Art and Design MFA class of 2018—Ruiya Ding, Anna Firth, Pilar Guinea Gil, Laura Krick, Karin Kunzo, Emilie Grace Lavoie, Adiba Muzaffar, Melina Querel, and Kyle Schermann— hosts a show and reception. Apr 5, 6-9 pm, ECUAD (520 E. 1st). Free, info www. facebook.com/events/629229347408499/.

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Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $13 (plus service charge) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. SAQI Beats without Borders presents electronic producer SaQi, with guests AppleCat. Apr 6, 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Highlife, and www.rickshawtheatre.com/.

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JON AND ROY Canadian folk-rock/ reggae band tours in support of latest release The Road Ahead Is Golden, with guests Old Man Canyon. Apr 6, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

CONCERTS 2JUST ANNOUNCED ERIC NAM Korean-American pop singersongwriter, with guests Loote. Jun 9, doos 7 pm, show 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix on sale Apr 6, 10 am, $32.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE DAMNED Punk-rock legends from Britain. Jul 5, doors 8 pm, show 9:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Apr 6, 10 am, $30.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. AMEN DUNES New York-based indie musician performs tunes from latest album Freedom. Aug 14, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix on sale Apr 6, 10 am, $18 (plus service charge) at www.ticketweb.ca/.

NIGHTWISH The Invisible Orange presents symphonic metal band from Finland. Apr 7, 7 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $83 to $243 at Red Cat and Neptoon Records, info www.facebook.com/events/441373116226885/.

ELECTRIC SIX Detroit disco-garage rockers tour in support of their 13th album How Dare You. Apr 11, 7:30 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix on sale Dec 1, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Highlife, Red Cat Records, and www.rick shawtheatre.com/.

2UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS BREAKOUT FESTIVAL Outdoor hip-hop and R&B festival features Migos, Tory Lanez, 6lack, Lil Pump, A-Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Ski Mask the Slump God, Ybn Nahmir, Kodie Shane, Pressa, Wondagurl, Brevner, Manila Grey, Illyminiachi, Mcevoy Withinroots, Acdatyoungn****, Daamcp, and 2hunnit. Jun 9-10, doors 2 pm, show 3 pm, PNE Amphitheatre (2901 E. Hastings). Tix $269/149/129/99 (plus service charges and fees) at www. breakout-festival.com/, info www.break out-festival.com/.

FVDED IN THE PARK Two-day music festival headlined by Atlanta rapper Future, Norwegian super-producer Kygo, and Chicago house kingpin Kaskade also features A$AP Ferg, Kehlani, Rezz, Brockhampton, Illenium, and Duke Dumont. July 6-7, Holland Park (King George Hwy. & Old Yale Rd., Surrey). Tix at www.fvdedinthepark.com/, info fvdedinthepark.com/. SKOOKUM FESTIVAL Three-day music festival features performances by headliners the Killers and Florence + the Machine, plus Metric, Arkells, the War on Drugs, St. Vincent, Father John Misty, Blue Rodeo, Mother Mother, Chromeo, Bahamas, Stereophonics, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Cold War Kids, Buffy SainteMarie, Matt Andersen, Matt Mays, Current Swell, Dear Rouge, Said the Whale, Yukon Blonde, the Zolas, Hey Ocean!, Delhi 2 Dublin, Crystal Shawanda, Belle Game,

the Matinee,. Sep 7-9, Stanley Park. Tix at www.skookumfestival.com/, info www. skookumfestival.com/.

WESTWARD MUSIC FESTIVAL Multiday arts and music showcase features Blood Orange, Kali Uchis, Rhye, Poppy, Angel Olsen, Honne, Kelela, Metz, Saba, Ravyn Lenae, Ella Mai, Mudhoney, Odds, We Are the City, Tei Shi, Ramriddlz, Pell, Duckwrth, Buddy, Fatima Al Qadiri, Roni Size, Hannah Epperson, Jordan Klassen, Milk & Bone, Nehiyawak, and Close Talker. Sep 13-16, various Vancouver venues. Tix at www.westwardfest.com/.

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MT. JOY Indie-folk band from Philadelphia. Apr 7, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix $13.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. THE STEVE KOZAK BAND Maple Blues Award winners, featuring Steve Kozak (guitar and vocal), Dave Webb (piano), Roger Brant (bass) and John Nolan (drums). Apr 8, 7-10 pm, Blue Martini Jazz Cafe (1516 Yew St.). Info www.stevekozakband.com.

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www.straight.com 54-40 Vancouver guitar-rock veterans, with guests the Skydiggers from Toronto. Oct 5-6, doors 7 pm, show 8:30 pm, Commodore THE MAINE Alt-rock band from Tempe, Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix on sale Apr Arizona, with guests the Wrecks and the 6, 10 am, $45/four-packs $160 (plus service Technicolors. Apr 8, doors 7 pm, show 8 charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix on sale Jan 26, 10 am, $27.50 (plus service MC50 MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer percharges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. forms with a band that includes guitarist Kim Thayil from Soundgarden and bassist THE SOFT MOON Experimental elecDug Pinnick from King’s X. Oct 17, doors tronica artist tours in support of upcoming 8 pm, show 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom release Criminal, with guests Boy Harsher. (868 Granville). Tix on sale Apr 6, 10 am, Apr 8, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore $40 (plus service charges and fees) at Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). NOTE: www.ticketmaster.ca/. Moved from original venue the Cobalt. Tix $16 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/.

2THIS WEEK CÉCILE DOO-KINGUÉ Canadian Afroroots singer-songwriter and guitarist. Apr 5, 6, 7:30 pm, Kay Meek Centre (1700 Mathers Ave., West Van). Tix $29-38, info www.kaymeek.com/.

JONATHAN DAVIS American alt-metal vocalist and Korn frontman tours in support of first solo album. Apr 9, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom (868 Granville). Tix $46.50 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

GARY SMULYAN Multi-Grammy Awardwinner performs a special tribute to collaborator Bob Belden—a large ensemble project with lush 10-piece string section. Smulyan has played with Joe Lovano, Dizzy Gillespie, and the Mingus Big Band. Presented by Coastal Jazz. Apr 6, 7:30 pm, Pyatt Hall (843 Seymour). Tix $34 at www.coastaljazz.ca/.

CAMILA CABELLO Cuban-American pop-R&B singer-songwriter performs on her Never Be the Same Tour. Apr 9, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Tix $65/45/35 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.

TAKE 6 Chor Leoni presents the Vancouver debut of the Grammy-adorned a cappella group. Take 6 brings their signature blend of R&B, jazz & gospel to iconic works from Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” to Pharrell’s “Happy”. Apr 6, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix from $35 at www.ticketstonight.ca, info chorleoni.org/ concerts-events/events/take-6-concert/. GRIEVES Seattle rapper tours in support of latest release Running Wild, with guest Mouse Powell. Apr 6, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Fortune Sound Club (147 E. Pender). Tix $17 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketweb.ca/. SURE SURE Experimental pop band from L.A. Apr 6, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm,

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Is there a way of breaking my cycle of being totally sexual and into someone for the first six months and then shutting down to the point that I don’t want to be sexual with them at all? What’s wrong with me? Breaking a long-established pattern may require the aid of a therapist who can help you unpack your damage—if, indeed, this is about damage. Because it’s possible this could be the way your libido works; you could be wired for a lifetime of loving, shortterm relationships. While our culture reserves its praise for successful long-term relationships (think of those anniversary gifts that increase in value with each passing year), a short-term relationship can be a success. Everyone get out alive? No one traumatized? Were you able to pivot to friendship? Then you can regard that relationship as a success—or all those relationships as successes.

How common a kink is it to enjoy seeing your significant other having sex with someone else? Common enough to have numerous different ways of manifesting itself— swinging, hotwifing, cuckolding, stag-and-vixen play—and an entire porn genre dedicated to it.

> BY DAN SAVAGE

Cis, female, 33, poly, bi. I bruise

of infatuation inevitably fade. easily, am into BDSM, and love to swim in my condo’s shared pool, I can easily have an orgasm where there are many seniors. Any with toys but I can’t have one with advice for hiding bruises or getting my boyfriend. What gives? over the embarrassment? Your boyfriend could give you orDon’t assume the senior citizens in gasms if you handed him one of those the pool are as naive and/or easily toys, showed him how you use it on shocked as our ageist assumptions yourself, and then guided his hands would prompt us to believe. Some- the first few times he used it on you. one who became a senior citizen today—who just turned 65 years old— Why does my girlfriend enjoy was 35 in 1988. I happen to know for anal sex more than I thought she would? a fact that people were doing BDSM Because she does. Because anal is hot. way, way back in 1988. Because the clit is a great big organ My husband is a sweet guy who and most of it’s inside the body and is very good to me. But he is also a anal penetration may stimulate the gun-toting right-wing conserva- backside of your girlfriend’s great big tive, and these days that feels like clitoris in a way that’s new and differan insurmountable difference. We ent and highly pleasurable and—hey, have been together for seven years wait a minute. You aren’t disappointand married for two. No kids yet. I ed she’s enjoying anal more than you love him—and the thought of leav- thought she would, are you? ing him is terrifying—but I honestly Donald Trump has been imdon’t know if this is going to work. peached, and you get to decide the If you’re afraid to leave him because punishment. So what sex toy gets of those guns, you need to get out. If used on him and who gets to use it? you’re afraid to leave him because you love him and couldn’t live without him, Trump doesn’t deserve a sex toy. Sex you might be able to stay. I wouldn’t be toys are for good boys and girls. All able to stay, personally, but you might. Trump deserves is a lump of the coal Maybe if you make “no political discus- he loves so much shoved far enough sions about anything, ever” a condition up his ass to serve as a gag. of remaining in the marriage. Is there EVER a healthy way to When you are entering into partake in sensual parties while in a something new, how do you differ- monogamous marriage? entiate between infatuation and real feelings? Yup. Infatuation is a real feeling. Only time The Dirty will tell if other real but more lasting a thing? feelings—like, like like, love, lasting love—will surface when those feelings Nope.

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