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Continuing the traditions of her Kaska Dene people, local artist and designer Sho Sho Esquiro crafts striking natural-fibre garments that serve as both fashion statements and cultural artifacts. > BY LUCY L AU
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ith a decorated résumé that boasts 20-plus awards and appearances on runways in New York City and Paris, local designer Sho Sho Esquiro may just be Vancouver’s best-kept secret. Born in the small community of Ross River, Yukon, and now based in New Westminster, the Kaska Dene artist has been crafting dramatic natural-fibre garments that reflect and celebrate her indigenous heritage for over seven years. In this time, her pieces—assembled from a mélange of recycled textiles and ethically sourced wool, fur, and leather—have been spotlighted in publications such as
Paper magazine, sported by Canadian electronic-music trio A Tribe Called Red at the 2014 Juno Awards, and displayed at prestigious galleries across North America, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. The admitted fashion-school dropout, who also identifies as Cree and Scottish, credits much of her success to her mother, an interdisciplinary artist who taught Esquiro how to sew when she was just five years old. But considering the designer’s roots in Ross River’s Kaska nation— a historically nomadic group that produced and adorned much of its regalia by hand—it’s no surprise that style has always been in her blood. “I come from a long line of people who
made their own clothes,” she tells the Straight by phone, “so it kind of comes second nature to me.” Calling herself a “contemporary artist using traditional techniques”, Esquiro burst onto the local fashion scene in 2010 with striking bustiers, leather and tweed coats, and corsets that incorporated brightly coloured wool Pendleton blankets. These days, however, you’ll find the affable designer, who also goes by the Kaska term for “butterf ly”, Belelige, pushing style boundaries with elaborate gowns, jackets, and wide-leg pants that exude a distinctly couture edge. Each piece employs no fewer than five different—and sustainable—fabrics. see next page
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“That’s kind of my thing,” she says. “I don’t like to use too many nonnatural fibres.” Esquiro’s 2013 collection, for example, combined elements like traditional Dene beadwork, sealskin, and lace with ’60s-influenced silhouettes and warm sunset hues, while a more recent creation—a deerhide-lined jacket dubbed Ascension that the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., has expressed interest in acquiring—features lasercut rabbit fur, deconstructed Indonesian prayer shawls, lynx paws, and immaculate cutout detailing made of platinum and sterling silver. A notable women’s wear lineup of structured bustier tops, statement skirts, and luxe fur jackets, titled Worth Our Weight in Gold, even used hundreds of painstakingly applied 24-karat gold beads. Presented at the 2014 edition of the J Autumn Fashion Show—a showcase of international designers that took place on Paris’s Eiffel Tower—the collection paid tribute to Canada’s missing and murdered indigenous women. “I’ve always been brought up to speak my mind and stand up for what I believe in,” explains Esquiro, who also draws inspiration from music, books, and the environment, “so I definitely try to have a purpose in all my collections. I need to be driven by something, whether it’s political or something I’m working through personally. It has to have meaning to me.” Esquiro sources many of her supplies from fur and leather traders, thrift shops, and vintage boutiques, though some are purchased from her Great-Uncle Amos—a long-time trapper who once taught the designer how to process beaver pelts—during regular trips to visit family in the Yukon. “When I go home, it’s really nice to visit the elders, to go hunting, to learn different techniques,” she says. “That’s really important to me.” Taking care to continue the traditions of her ancestors and tribe, which dictate that Mother Earth must always be treated with respect, Esquiro is also known to translate age-old Kaska legends into tangible, visually arresting fashions. Inspired by “The Girl Who Lived With the Salmon”—a story passed on from family that describes the disappearance of a little girl playing with salmon eggs in a nearby stream, and her return years later, as a way to teach indigenous youth not to disturb wildlife—the designer crafted a dreamy frock that paired an intricate bead-and-salmon-skin bodice with a floor-length skirt constructed from over 1,000 hand-sewn rooster feathers. “It’s kind of a neat way to carry on the legends,” says Esquiro. At the first-ever Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week, which takes place at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre from July 26 to 29, the artist will be presenting pieces from her 2016 collection, which honours her late grandmother, as well as an eclectic selection of items she’s been working on of late. These include a jacket made from lynx fur, 24-karat gold, and seed beads and a gown that Esquiro describes as “my craziest to date”. Like past collections, these garments will demonstrate a fondness for bold hues and mixed patterns and the meticulous craftsmanship that the designer has come to be recognized for. Alongside lines from 25-plus other established and up-and-coming indigenous designers, including B.C.’s own Evan Ducharme, Pam Baker, and Yolanda Skelton, the pieces will be worn by indigenous models, many of whom live or formerly lived in foster care. The four-day fete will also feature a Red Dress show, a presentation of frocks designed by various First Nations artists that bring attention to missing and murdered indigenous women. Founded by local model turned community worker Joleen Mitton as a way to celebrate aboriginal art while providing indigenous youths a fresh set of mentors, the event is right up Esquiro’s alley. “The best part, for me, is when I can make an impact,” she says. “When I’m working with kids from my community…just the fact that they see themselves in me is rewarding.” -
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You can get it under better control more naturally now thanks to Friday’s super new moon in Cancer. Mercury and Mars also help you to feel your way along more quickly. Although there’s still guesswork or uncertainty over the week ahead, each day sets another building block into place. Tuesday to Thursday, it’s not what is said or written but how it feels. October 23–November 22
First impressions speak volumes. You’ll find yourself especially quick on the uptake Friday/Saturday. The super new moon heightens intuition and emotional responsiveness. You’ll retain information and details very well. Once read, spoken, or experienced, it’s forever imprinted on your psyche and your soul. Friday through ARIES Tuesday, attention-seeking delivers the March 20–April 20 goods. Wednesday/Thursday, there’s As of Friday and the super plenty to work out or to clear away. new moon, the big push is on regardSAGITTARIUS ing all matters to do with family, November 22–December 21 home, and comfort zones, both maA new level of inner and terial and emotional. Call it a natural progression. You’ll get your money’s outer security is about to grow on you. worth on Saturday. Through next Friday’s super new moon in Cancer Thursday, Mars and Mercury spark sets a great backdrop for strengthening fresh insights and help you to make loving bonds and family togetherness. better strides regarding a specific re- It’s also a right time to invest in home upgrades or a new business, or to start lationship or money matter. saving more. Thursday through next TAURUS Tuesday are your best for working it April 20–May 21 out or making it happen. No matter whether need CAPRICORN or desire is the catalyst, look to the December 21–January 20 mobilizing super new moon on FriThe emotional investment day for a fresh refuel. This super moon can prompt a new round of is great, and the financial end can be talks or negotiations. It’s an excellent too. Friday’s super moon sets the sumtime to revisit, reconnect, update, mer and your next step or contract (acand to strengthen bonds with old tual or karmic) onto full steam ahead. friends, siblings, or other family. The Aim to make the most of it through past can springboard the next phase month’s end. Stay creative; stay in the moment; add, subtract, or rearrange as or project. the moment dictates. GEMINI May 21–June 21 AQUARIUS Thursday has you on a January 20–February 18 In the mood to do some wind-up. Thanks to the super new moon Friday/Saturday, you’ll find cleaning and clearing? Friday’s indusyourself completely consumed trious super new moon in Cancer supand/or immersed. It’s an emotional ports you to do just that. Put your all journey, that’s for sure. Yes, by all into it; better caretaking can only do means, invest your all; get it se- you good. A new job, home, or health cured and increase your cushion renovation is well timed. Through Tuesor safety margin. Go by feel; trust day, success comes readily. Tuesday to your instincts and first responses. Thursday, there’s more to sort out. Tuesday/Wednesday there’s plenty PISCES to say and do. Rely on spontaneity February 18–March 20 and creativity. Friday’s super new moon CANCER reenergizes body, mind, and soul. It can June 21–July 22 boost your love life, family bonds, social Ready, set, go. Joined by life, or creativity. A special someone, Mercury and Mars in Cancer on the such as a lover or a child, can tug harder move, Friday’s super new moon has on your heart. Friday through Monday, more than the usual going for it. Cut enjoy, indulge. Tuesday through Thursyourself loose and revamp yourself day, don’t get ahead of yourself; go/take or your lifestyle; try something new it one step at a time. on for size; it could do you great good. Now through the end of the B o o k a re a d i n g o r s i g n u p f o r month, you can make faster gains Rose’s free monthly newsletter at www.rosemarcus.com/astrolink/. and inroads.
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ichael Schwartz learned about his family’s history and culture in part through the food of his grandmother, who, as a teen, fled the Holocaust. Schwartz, the director of community engagement at the Jewish Museum and Archives of B.C., relates that his late grandma was 16 and living in Vienna when her father managed to obtain her a spot as a chaperone on the Kindertransport, a British rescue effort that saved about 10,000 children, most of them Jewish, from Nazi Germany, Austria, Poland, and Czechoslovakia prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. (Nazi authorities had staged a violent attack on Jews in Germany in November 1938.) She was later reunited with her parents in Chicago, and the family eventually made its way to Vancouver. Schwartz remembers her making brisket and wild-mushroom soup; coming from Austria, she also baked exquisite cakes filled with fresh fruit. “She sparked my love of food,” Schwartz says in an interview downtown over coffee, noting that although the food he grew up with had a lot of European influence, that’s not the case for many Jews living Shakshuka (eggs in spiced tomato sauce) is a popular North African Jewish dish in Vancouver who have come from and is an example of the diversity of local Jewish cuisine. Thanushi Eagalle photo. other corners of the map. Having had a presence in B.C. for a taste of Jewish feasts from around prepared by Aleppine Jews. It will 150 years, Jews have brought with the world. At each event—before shar- include ingredients such as pomthem recipes and ingredients from ing some of their favourite dishes—the egranate, dates, black-eyed peas, places as far-flung and diverse as hosts tell stories of where they’re from, apples, leeks, and Swiss chard, items Morocco, Syria, Iraq, Greece, and the history of that region, when and chosen because each carries symSouth Africa, to name a few. why they left, and how they’ve adapt- bolism related to people’s wishes for “When you say ed and maintained the new year. ‘Jewish food’, the the culinary tradThere’s usually a hands-on comquick reaction itions of their ponent to the evenings as well. Past is smoked meat, grandparents and diners have learned to braid and Gail Johnson matzo-ball soup, great-grandparents. bake challah bread and make tradchallah, chicken dinner… Those are A past Sunday dinner focused on itional Jewish dumplings. the standards, but that’s a really nar- the food of Jews from the Greek island Although the September dinner row slice of a much bigger spectrum,” of Rhodes. Guests dined on Mediter- is the last one scheduled, the serSchwartz says. “People assume there’s ranean salad, stuffed grape leaves ies may continue beyond that. The a unity or that everyone came from called yaprakes, and fresh fish with museum also has an accompanying the same place. Jews in Vancouver egg and lemon. Another evening cen- podcast series called Kitchen Stories. come from all over the world. I know tred on the reinvention of a harvest In it, people share stories about what the food my family eats on family festival in celebration of the Jewish it’s like to be a Jewish family living in gatherings, but the more opportun- holiday of Shavuot. It was hosted by places like Eritrea, Chile, and India ities I’ve had to have conversations Lior Ben-Yehuda, pastry chef at Coco and about the challenges that go with with people through the museum, I’ve et Olive, who grew up on a kibbutz. keeping culinary traditions alive after learned that other people eat totally On July 30, Mensch Jewish Deli- migrating to a new country. different things on the same holidays. catessen chef Nitzan Cohen will “Food carries with it a diversity of “The Jewish community here has a re-create an authentic New York issues: migration, war, colonization, diverse range of ancestries and histor- deli, with pastrami and rye, while resource scarcity, and communiies,” he adds. “I wanted to delve into teaching participants the differences cating culture—passing it down to that diversity and draw attention to it.” between pastrami and its cousins other generations,” Schwartz says. To explore the culinary variety Montreal smoked meat, New Eng- “Food offers a hook to get people to of B.C.’s multicultural Jewish com- land corned beef, and southern U.S. talk about their stories, sometimes munity, the Jewish Museum and barbecued brisket. difficult stories. But food opens Archives recently launched a series The September installment will discussion. Really, that’s the goal: called the Chosen Food Supper Club. feature a traditional meal for Rosh to encourage people to have those The monthly gathering gives people Hashanah, or Jewish New Year, conversations.”-
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chance that saxophonist Donny McCaslin embodies a generational shift in jazz—but the soft-spoken former Californian is far too modest to say so. “It’s not something I think of in terms of the larger scope,” he tells the Straight in a telephone conversation from New York City, where he now lives and works. “I kind of leave that for other people to decide, and I just focus on what’s in front of me, or where my imagination is leading me, and I try to realize that. I mean, I’m certainly listening to a lot of contemporary music—Kendrick Lamar and electronica, stuff that is very current—and that is informing what I’m doing. But, for me, it’s this thing of, like, I’m just following my instincts and my imagination.” If jazz is a genre, McCaslin is expanding his reach by his inclusion of new, rap-and-R&Binspired textures—and also, increasingly, by his use of electronics. Almost as an aside, he mentions that he’s starting to bring electronic effects on-stage, instead of simply exploiting them in the studio. But if jazz is a methodology, it’s also possible to see him as simply part of the tradition. The music has always been about building new and startling structures out of commonplace pop-music sounds—and about enlarging the performer’s emotional range, too. What makes McCaslin stand out as a saxophone player is the cry in his horn’s voice. More ecstatic than anguished, it seems to signal an emotional and spiritual intensity, and he allows
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You might assume working with David Bowie to be the highlight of Danny McCaslin’s career to date, but it was actually mastering “Yakety Sax”.
bass duties on McCaslin’s current tour—epitomize For Danny McCaslin, playing jazz is all about intuition, the telepathic side of jazz, improvisation, and spreading a little bit of love with very little discussion of what each has to conthat this suspicion is justified. tribute in order for the music to work. “For me, music does have a spiritual element,” “I think we share a common musical language he says. “I think about it like, you know, God and a common aesthetic, and we really all go for loves all humanity, and music can be a reflection it,” McCaslin says happily. “All these folks have of that, trying to channel that light and that love amazing skills, and they’re able to move on a into the world. dime into a different direction. That’s part of what “I remember reading a book, when I was the magic is about improvised music, when those young, about John Coltrane,” he continues. “If things are connecting. A lot of what I strive for is I’m remembering it correctly, they were asking living in those moments, and just letting them go him what he thought about when he was play- where they’re going to go.” ing, or something like that, and it was this idea The quartet’s deeply intuitive rapport proved of trying to envelop the room in this feeling of valuable when it briefly became a quintet in 2015. love. And I thought that was really beautiful, The fifth member? David Bowie. That’s McCaslin’s as a youngster. I thought that would be really band you hear backing the late singer on his nearworthwhile to strive for.” posthumous triumph, Blackstar, and although From videos, and on the evidence of McCaslin’s their collaboration proved regrettably short-lived, recent LP, Beyond Now, all four members of his it has obviously marked the saxophonist for life. band share that love. Pianist and synth manipu“What was really remarkable about David lator Jason Lindner, bassist Tim Lefebvre, drum- is that he just basically came in, and from the mer Mark Giuliana, and multi-instrumentalist first moment just completely participated in that Nate Wood—who plays guitar on Beyond Now, interaction with us,” McCaslin says. “You just sometimes subs for Giuliana, and will handle felt his presence, his energy, his passion.…It’s
fair to say that it inspired all of us, and I think he was feeding off our energy, too. It just felt like we’d been playing basketball, the four of us, and then we were a five-man team. There was no glitch, there was no interruption, there was no adapting: it just felt like this seamless transition, and it was marvellous.” McCaslin, who’s included at least one Bowie composition in every set he’s played since the singer’s death, avoids speaking explicitly about his friend’s influence, but you can tell it’s there. “Because of his background, he had a way of looking at different genres of music from a pretty interesting, outside-of-the-box perspective, and he was able to make some really interesting records because of that,” he says. “And also, in general, there was his presence as a human being. From the first moment, it never felt like he was disengaged, talking on his cellphone or texting somebody. None of that: he was present in everything that was going on.” The same focused intensity pervades both McCaslin and his music, and it’s a beautiful thing. The Donny McCaslin Group plays the Ironworks on Saturday (June 24), as part of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
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ANTIBALAS GOES EPIC WITH LO NG CO MP O S ITIO NS >>> In Spanish, antibalas means and while the band of that name has so far avoided lunatics with assault rifles, it’s showing definite signs of being indestructible. Despite recent and extensive lineup changes, New York City’s Afrobeat juggernaut is now readying its first full-length release since 2012 and touring the jazz-festival circuit with renewed vigour. As singer-percussionist Sifu Amayo explains, it’s kind of an oldmeets-new situation. Under the London-born, Lagos-raised musician’s direction, Antibalas is returning to its roots in the sounds he experienced at the legendary Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s Shrine nightclub when he was a teenager: hypnotic, drum-heavy jams topped off with jazzy horn solos and a socially conscious message. But the younger players who have flooded into the band’s lineup since 2015 are also bringing their own 21st-century touches, including electronic treatments and heavier guitars. “We have a new generation of musicians who have joined, just in the past year,” Amayo tells the Straight in a telephone interview from his Brooklyn home. “So just to get them going we’ve been reviving some of what I call older new material—a lot of stuff that I’d written in the past that was very epical—big, big compositions that
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musician, I had a mission to look ahead and offer some sort of… Not solutions, but I’m saying ‘Okay, why don’t we just push forward?’ So that’s my perspective: I want to go to a place where the gods are at peace, not a world where the gods are constantly at war.” And what better way to get there than through music?
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Antibalas plays the Vogue Theatre on Friday (June 23), as part of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
Phronesis finds true democracy in its music Phronesis, as the Oxford Comto Philosophy tells us, is a Greek word for “practical wisdom”, with overtones of sound judgment and what Buddhists might call “right livelihood”. It’s also the name of an Anglo-Scandinavian jazz trio that’s putting those principles into lively practice. “Philosophy’s good, isn’t it?” says bassist Jasper Høiby, taking a break from the road to hang out at his mother’s place, an hour into the Danish countryside from Copenhagen. “But I don’t know how seriously you should take it. I don’t
2 panion Antibalas has figured out a way to use the same promo photo no matter how many times the band’s lineup changes.
just did not fit on the albums that we were doing back then. “I was kind of holding on to the idea of playing longer compositions that made people study and think and want to know more, as opposed to the three-minute songs that we’re all more used to,” he continues. “So it was an opportunity to try something old and new—‘old’ meaning how we
used to listen to music back in the day. You’d put an LP on and let it play, and you’d make time to listen to it. So that’s where we are right now.” Where the Gods Are at Peace, which Antibalas will release in August, exemplifies this new approach. It contains just three long songs, which link together as the first leg of an eventual trilogy with sci-fi over-
tones. The central concept involves the arrival of new gods—or “alien cowboys”, as Amayo notes—who join forces with indigenous landkeepers and others to clean up the mess we’re now in. “Some of us are struggling with this situation where we are today; some of us are coping badly,” Amayo explains. “So I figured, as a
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think anyone should take anything too seriously, but I do like the added perspective of the band name.” From the beginning, he adds, it was important to stress that Phronesis was something more than simply the Jasper Høiby Trio—even if he was its founder and, at first, its sole composer. That’s a concept, he explains, that goes back to the kind of collective improvisation practised by pianist Bill Evans’s bands during the 1960s. “When he started doing what he did, it was like, ‘Wow, they are all soloing at the same time.’ And those concepts, I really like. I really like the kind of life that that has, and that maybe leads to thinking about real democracy. Not the kind of democracy that we have in politics, but the democracy of expression—the freedom to express something while someone else might be doing it, too.” If that all sounds nebulous, it might help to examine how Phronesis has evolved since its beginnings in 2005. As noted, it was originally Høiby’s project, with Swedish drummer Anton Eger onboard since the beginning. When British pianist Ivo Neame joined in 2009 he brought— in addition to a deft, Evans-like touch on the keys—an assured and complementary compositional sensibility. And, more recently, Høiby, Neame, and Eger have been splitting writing duties three ways. “I just thought ‘Okay, this is a logical step to take. If we want to keep this band together, we need to share more things,’ ” Høiby says. “Everyone had been putting a lot of effort in—and it’s also about prioritizing a group, isn’t it? I mean, it’s very hard to get people to prioritize something if it’s not entirely their own.” Since becoming a true partnership, Phronesis has been rapidly adding collaborators—not so much on-stage, but in the studio. The trio’s new album, The Behemoth, found it revisiting its back catalogue in the company
of the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, with arranger Julian Argüelles deftly fitting the bonus horns into the band’s pre-existing structures. “That was great,” Høiby says. “We still had room for creativity, and we still had space to express ourselves, because the natural space in the music was still there.” Phronesis has also been working on Decade Zero, an as-yet-unrecorded project with new-music composer Dave Maric—basically, a 35-minute concerto for improvising trio and chamber orchestra. “That whole process was mind-blowing as well,” Høiby notes. “Dave wrote a piece for us with a string quartet and a wind quartet.… and the way he made all those layers fit was quite incredible.” So how will all these new experiences shape Phronesis’s upcoming Vancouver International Jazz Festival performance? “That’s a very hard question to answer,” Høiby says. “I don’t think I’m aware of exactly what that will do—but we’re doing what we’re doing anyway, aren’t we? And we’re still going to try to challenge ourselves with new ideas.”
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Phronesis plays Performance Works on Sunday (June 25), as part of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
Bokanté’s sound is a truly multicultural exchange It’s unusual for a recently creat-
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Snarky Puppy. Its singer, and cowriter of the music with League, is Malika Tirolien, born and raised in Guadeloupe in the eastern Caribbean. “As a child I played classical piano, but being in Guadeloupe I was surrounded by local and traditional music such as zouk and gwo ka,” says Tirolien, reached in Guadeloupe, and speaking in French. “My father played records of all kinds of music—notably Bob Marley, and lots of jazz. I was a big fan of [local artist] Jean-Michel Rotin, and also love Kassav, the most internationally famous group from Guadeloupe, and many other zouk artists.” Tirolien left the island to study jazz in Montreal, and stayed. Gifted with a clear and powerful voice, she rose rapidly to become a popular artist in Quebec. “I became a member of an artists’ collective [Community Vibe] that organizes weekly evenings of improvisation in Montreal. That’s where I met all the members of what became my own group, and was also able to embark on other projects—like with Groundfood, a group of hip-hop and soul. They opened for Snarky Puppy, and that’s how I met those guys.” Soon a strange new band emerged, given the name Bokanté, which means “exchange” in creole from Guadeloupe. “Our instrumentation isn’t found much—it’s all guitars and percussion, plus my voice. No drums, no keyboards, no horns. Michael’s starting point was a mix of Delta blues and different musics from West Africa. After that he wanted everybody in the band to put in their own cultural baggage somewhere.” Guitarists Chris McQueen and Bob Lanzetti as well as percussionist Keita Ogawa also play with Snarky Puppy. The other two percussionists are Jamie Hadad, who works with Paul Simon and Sting, and André Ferrari from Swedish traditional folk band Väsen. The fourth guitarist is “sacred steel” virtuoso Roosevelt Collier from the Lee Boys. “Michael wanted everybody to put in their own cultural baggage see page 22
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These pairings worked, and they were so fun to play around with. In fact, I might even say the tasting was a turnaround of a 40th-birthday perspective, as moods certainly lifted as we all celebrated throughout the day. Sure, it could have been the wine, but I’d like to think the chips had something to do with it too. -
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This is a long shot but... You got on the bus, we smiled, you were too attractive and so I avoided looking at you too much and pretended to be tired. I imagined getting off the bus and making out with you in the bushes. I continued to try and look disinterested. As I got off the bus you came to tell me I was very pretty, and that you weren’t trying to be creepy...and what I really wanted to say... (you too are very handsome) Instead of saying thank you and reamaining shy. I’m not shy!! Usually. Until my cheeks are hot with blush. Hope to see you again. Maybe not on a crowded bus.
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Your name is Justin. You're taking Counselling Psychology through Adler University and doing your practicum through Borstal Association. You moved to Vancouver from (near) Edmonton and are planning on going back to do your second practicum this winter. We met in a fairly unusual place and I didn't want to blatantly ask you out in front of your classmates/my co-worker. If you end up seeing this, I would like to continue our conversation about hammocks and boy scout uniforms ;)
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: JUNE 9, 2017 WHERE: Corner Shop on Cordova and Abbott in Gastown I randomly went into a corner shop in Gastown, you were there buying a lighter and told the clerk you have too many at home so you just wanted the cheapest one. Dirty blonde hair, somewhat tall and thin, you had a tongue stud. I had a beard and medium long brown hair. I was purposely trying to get your attention by saying something about lighters at checkout. I sensed this chill cool person, and part of me wanted to run after you and talk to you.
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You found me on Facebook after seeing me at the Roxy. You said your name is Claudia and that you teach yoga. I wasn’t sure that you’re real and I’m still not, but you deleted your account before I had a chance to respond to the picture you sent and now I’m wondering if I wasted a great opportunity. Contact me again?
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somewhere, so I added my influences from Guadeloupe—and our three percussionists come from Japan, Lebanon, and Sweden,” Tirolien says. “I sing mainly in creole—about racism and extremism in religion, also problems with immigration, but always to look at solutions and remember that we’re all one. I also talk about what’s ahead for future generations, the joy of feeling support from your community, and some more esoteric things like death. And the circularity of karma, which is where the title of our [just released] album Strange Circles comes from—that everything is linked, and if problems aren’t dealt with they come back.” > TONY MONTAGUE
Bokanté performs at the Vogue Theatre on Tuesday (June 27) as part of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
Campilongo would rather play guitars than geek out Among a certain subset of guitar Jim Campilongo’s guitar is almost as revered as he is. It’s a 1959 Fender Telecaster, which makes it a treasure by anyone’s standards, but it’s especially rare because it came from the factory with the so-called top-loading bridge, a cost-cutting innovation that lasted for only a few months. Once reviled, top-loading Telecasters are now coveted by some players, primarily because the reduced string tension… Well, I could go on. But I won’t, because I suspect I’m boring you, and I know Campilongo’s eyes are rolling. He’s a player’s player, both as a sideman with singers like Norah Jones and Martha Wainwright and as a bandleader, but he’s also the least geeky of guitar geeks. “My girlfriend knows more about guitars than I do,” he tells the Straight, on the line from his Brooklyn home. “A guitar builder came over—this was about six months ago—and wanted to design a guitar with me, and I was being a total bimbo. And my girlfriend said, ‘You know, Jim, I think you’d like a mahogany body with a maple neck, because the mahogany’s a little warmer.’ I mean, she knew way more than I did, and it was really helpful. So is that kind of ignorance useful? No, it isn’t. But I think because of it, I’m really into playing.” He laughs, and goes deeper into confessional mode. “For years, I’ve gone to see a band, and the next day people say ‘Hey, what did the guitar player play? What kind of guitar?’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t know!’ I actually don’t know! I remember his body language, I remember the music, I even remember his shoes. Maybe I liked his shoes. But I don’t remember the guitar he played.” Ignorance, in this case, is bliss, for Campilongo and for his listeners. He doesn’t have to fret over whether the volume knob on his ’59 has been changed for a later reproduction, and we get to bask in his real, genre-defying mastery. Campilongo’s sound is rooted in the Telecaster twang of late western swing, and the quartet he’s bringing to the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, the Brooklynites, is a loose offshoot of another band dedicated to that repertoire. But to that mix he brings something of Jeff Beck’s sonic adventure and Bill Frisell’s harmonic sophistication— and, even more importantly, he devotes the time he doesn’t spend geeking out on gear to improving his chops. “I’m trying for artistry,” he says, “but I always have my little finger in some aesthetic that’s people-pleasing—as I would if I had someone over for dinner. And this isn’t a sellout thing: if I have people over for dinner, I know what I’m going to make, I put out dishes, and I try to be a nice host. And I feel that way about music, too.”
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Jim Campilongo & the Brooklynites play the West Vancouver Memorial Library on Friday (June 23), and a 2:15 p.m. matinee at the Downtown Stage on Sunday (June 25), both as part of the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival.
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here’s more than one way to come at the title of Tavis Triance’s solo debut, A Brief Respite From the Terror of Dying, the singer quick to acknowledge this when he picks up the phone at home on the Sunshine Coast. Ask him a vague leading question like “Do you obsess about it?” and he’s quick with a response. “Do you mean about dying, or about music?” Triance asks with a laugh. “A little bit of both, actually.” Those with a pathological fear of their inevitable demise will focus on the Terror of Dying part of the title, and quite understandably so. We’re all going out one day, the best one can hope for being that it happens in a deep sleep. As for the A Brief Respite part of the equation, that falls under truth in advertising. Clocking in at an economical 36 minutes, the record will indeed drag you away from whatever’s troubling you, whether it be an all-encompassing fear of mortality or simply wondering where in the hell the money for tomorrow’s lunch will come from. But ask the former Spoon River frontman what the release title really means to him, and you’ll get an entirely different take on things. Over the past few years Triance has had a lot going on in his life, including moving to the Sunshine Coast from Bella Bella via Vancouver to buy a house and having a second kid with his wife. Factor in a full-time teaching job, along with the fact that he’s been making music dating back to his time in Montreal’s Royal Mountain Band, and you start to understand his reasons for making the album, which he recorded with his backing band, the Natural Way. “When we were having our second child, I was feeling like, ‘Oh my God, this is going to be the last shot for a while,’” Triance admits. “It was like, ‘The kids will be here, and I’m gonna have to raise them and all of the things that go with that.’ Going ‘Okay, this could be the end of it for a bit’ sort of terrified me. So I really worked hard over one summer to make this record happen. I went, ‘I gotta get a record done before this happens.’ And I got one in just under the wire.” That, he’s happy to report, has led to a fresh set of problems. “It’s opened a whole new can of worms with having to tour the record now that it’s coming out,” Triance says. “That’s something that I never properly considered.” He should have, for no other reason than that A Brief Respite From the Terror of Dying deserves every bit of the attention that will be coming its way in the coming months. Like his past Spoon River work, the record draws on everything from paisley-shaded folk to dazed-andconfused rock to outlaw country. Things start with the easygoing “All You Got Is People”, which suggests a dream afternoon for Triance might involve Tequila Sunrises with Bob Dylan in Laurel Canyon circa ’74. From there it’s the little touches that wow, whether it’s the ghostly progjazz guitar in “Shoot Out the Eyes of the Sun”, the teardrop keyboards in “If Beauty Were My Bluebird”, or yacht-rock synths in “Sailin”. Triance realized he’d be better going it alone when Spoon River—which released two excellent albums during a half-decade run in Vancouver—became a scheduling nightmare. The singer’s wife, Rachel Horkenheimer, played keys in the group, which meant shows became doubly difficult to pull off when kids started arriving. For a while, the couple kept things going, even after moving to Bella Bella. And then things really got crazy. “What happened with Spoon River was that we all had kids—virtually every single member of the band,” Triance says. “That just sort of made it kind of hard to keep it going with so many kids and all of the
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responsibilities that come with that. The bass player and synth player were also partners. And then the drummer also had a kid. So there was no way to keep doing this other than starting to do something different.” Triance is quick to credit recording engineer David Smith and producer Brad Barr (of Barr Brothers fame) with helping shape A Brief Respite From the Terror of Dying. The recognition is deserved, as the album—recorded at Breakglass Studios in Montreal—is indeed a marvel of dramatic flourishes. Take, for example, the swooning brass in “Bye-Bye to the Wicked One”. “It’s funny—I really wanted a sort of Mexican dime-store romance kind of sound. Not too professional—a little bit cheap-sounding,” Triance recalls. “Brad Barr, who produced the record, wasn’t too sure. He thought maybe I might be doing myself a disservice, but I stuck to my guns on that one, and he was like, ‘Well, this guy’s got a vision, so who am I to argue?’ “But the whole record was made in a great way,” he continues. “We went to Breakglass and were able to record with David Smith, who just got amazing, incredible sounds. We’re so thankful for what he did there. He even went as far as to say ‘Hey, let’s set you all up in one room’—all six of us—’baffle you off, and take your headphones away.’ That created a situation where you could really hear what other people were doing. It ended up being a really cool-sounding record that still has that rawness but also becomes something more with the harmonies and the overdubs.” That raw and honest quality is also there on the lyrical side of things. Comb through songs and you start to get insights into what Triance might be obsessed with on any given day. The idea that there might be a heaven surfaces more than once, as do drug references that hint Triance—like many of us—had his share of fun before settling down with a family. As for where he finds himself today, there are moments that suggest he has times when it’s all overwhelming; consider the great line “I look at things I wanted to be stacked up like daggers inside of me” in “Queen”. But then you’ll also get flashes that everything is okay, such as “I’m a king with a castle and a wife” in “All You Got Is People”. “This record is pretty honest and journalistic,” Triance says. “But it isn’t necessarily straight down the line either. While it might not necessarily be an account, it’s definitely cataloguing thoughts and concerns.” So just as there’s more than one way to think about A Brief Respite From the Terror of Dying’s title, there’s also more than one way to think about his songs. Sometimes it all depends on what you choose to focus on. “It’s kind of like a pastiche—sometimes flights of fancy, sometimes things, feelings, or thoughts you’re bumping up against, be they reasonable or irrational,” Triance opines. “Definitely, this record is a conversation with myself, and some of my tendencies. There’s a little bit of good angel/bad angel going on because there are polarities in me for sure.” Tavis Triance plays a release party for A Brief Respite From the Terror of Dying at the Biltmore on Saturday (June 24).
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comfortable as a songwriter, not so much because he doubted his talents, but more because he was intimidated by those around him. Sometimes it isn’t easy being a little brother, especially when you’re standing in the tall shadow of an older sibling. “Most of my friends didn’t really play a ton of music growing up, so the only person I really knew who was in bands was my brother,” says the frontman, on the line from home in Halifax. “He’s four years older than me, so I was always a little intimidated to go ‘Let’s jam,’ or whatever. He’s such a good drummer that I was never really too keen on hopping in. But then when I was 19 I started writing songs. I was into them, and he was into them, so that’s where it started.” Walrus started out as a bedroom project with Murphy and his brother Jordan, eventually morphing into the quintet that it is today. Since it formed there have been two EPs (2014’s Glam Returns and the followup, Goodbye Something) and enough touring to drive four different vans into the ground. On the day we speak, Walrus has just returned from its first European jaunt, the overseas swing in support of its debut fulllength, Family Hangover, which is on Dan Mangan’s indie label Madic. In the tradition of Halifax alternative legends Jale, Wintersleep, and Sloan, guitars are the primary musical weapon for Walrus, with “Later Days” a gorgeously grey-hued exercise in towering postrock and “Step Outside” serving up psych at its dreamiest. But the greatness of Walrus is how the band sounds like it’s interested in something more than the sound that initially made Sub Pop the greatest indie label in the world. “Tell Me” is twisted country-blues cut from the same cloth as ’90s-vintage Meat Puppets, while “Regular Face” serves as a tip-off that Murphy remains more than a little obsessed with four Liverpool lads who called themselves the Beatles. “We don’t want to pigeonhole ourselves, so it’s important to keep people guessing about what we’re doing,” Murphy says. “That’s also our game plan for the next record—to try and do some new stuff but still keeping it within the pocket of what Walrus does.” That record is, at the moment, a ways off, with the singer reporting that Walrus will be continuing to tour hard in the coming months across North America. Well aware of its track record with vans, the band now rents them— which makes sense when you’ve literally blown engines in the past. What hasn’t changed since the beginning, though, is Murphy’s lack of interest in celebrating his work as a songwriter, this despite the fact that his brother isn’t the only person celebrating his brilliance these days. “I’m happy with the new record, but I guess I’m a pretty humble person. I’m not that great a musician, so it’s the band that really turns the songs into what they are. I’m not too much on tooting my own horn—if it wasn’t for the band I don’t think this would really have come to anything.”
Winning new fans will always a slog for up-and-coming musicians. Yes, young performers have the Internet on their side—but with more than 12 hours of music uploaded every minute on SoundCloud alone, creators quickly discover the importance of steering people to their websites in person. In other words, they need to get out on the road. Organizing a tour is never easy. Questions over management, transportation, and which band to support lead to sleepless nights—and many performers visiting venues are forced to pay to play as the opener for a bigger group. There are, however, workarounds for those willing to get creative, as Vancouver singer-songwriter Sheldoncole discovered while living in Detroit. Stumbling across the burgeoning house-concert scene after a tip from a girl outside a coffee-shop washroom, the up-and-comer decided to build a 51-date tour around playing in people’s living rooms. “It was a surprise to find homes that functioned as venues,” the musician, born Sheldon Kozushko, tells the Straight over tea. “There are established circuits that really talented poets, artists, and musicians can join. I was watching people just like me play their songs, and break even or profit off the tour. It seemed better than paying another artist to piggyback on their performances around tiny clubs.” Returning to Vancouver, Kozushko pulled out his address book and sketched a tentative route across Canada and the States. Fascinated by the theory of six degrees of separation, he put out a call on social media to see who would be interested in hosting a performance for one night. “When I started this process, I didn’t really know how to organize it,” he says. “There are networks of established house-tour stops, where musicians apply to play and homes offer to host, and once you’re in the fold they set you up with shows. So to get myself recognized, I reached out through various online platforms and had some great successes. I found a woman on couchsurfing.com in Minneapolis, for example, who was really into throwing a show in her backyard. I’m also playing a night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at a friend of a friend of a friend’s home that I found through Facebook.” Not just excited about reaching new fans all over the continent, Kozushko also puts a lot of stock in the atmosphere that the gigs can create. “The cool thing about the venues is that no two shows are the same,” he says. “Over the years I’ve played coffee shops, clubs, and bars, and at most of the performances people are noisy. They’re distracted with their own conversations, or they’re eating or drinking. That’s the culture of live music in that setting—you’re expected to be just in the background. What I’ve seen at house shows is that people actually listen to your performance, and they really get into it. I think that when people give you that opportunity, it’s possible to > MIKE USINGER win them over and share something beautiful. That helps me make more Walrus plays the Biltmore on Friday of a connection with people, which (June 23).
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allows me to build a bigger fan base.” Tours—particularly international, cross-continental ventures—often come with a hefty price tag. Kozushko’s approach minimizes much of those costs. He’s often able to sleep at his venues and drive himself to each new location, so his outlay is mostly limited to food and gas. “At all of the nights I’ve been to on the East Coast, artists have a donation jar and sell their merch,” he says. “It’s pretty common to pass around a hat at the show, saying ‘Send this band to the next town.’ For the groups that I know, it works out pretty well.”
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Sheldoncole plays next Thursday (June 29). See www.sheldoncole.com for details.
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the Festival d’été francophone de Vancouver, but Jacky Essombé can’t say exactly what it is. She’s not being secretive; she actually doesn’t know precisely what will happen when the fest’s World Music Fusion project brings together five artists with roots in five different countries. The participants include the Cameroon-born, Paris-raised, and now Vancouver-based Essombé herself, along with ILAM (Senegal/ Montreal), Joe Amouzou (Togo/B.C.), Yoro Noukoussi (Benin/B.C.), and Canadian-born DJ Marc Fournier. Mind you, Essombé—a dancer, singer, and storyteller who specializes in traditional Cameroonian village songs—won’t be going in completely blind; she knows Fournier well, regularly works with Noukoussi, and has collaborated with Amouzou in the past. The X factor is ILAM, a rising star in the Montreal scene whose songs blend Afro-pop and Senegalese rhythms with blues and reggae. “With Yoro and Joe, we’re more likely, the three of us, to be on the same page when it comes to the different
rhythms,” Essombé tells the Straight. “I think the difference will really be with ILAM, because in Senegal with the richness of their music, it’s also very unique and very specific. They have mbalax, which is the most widely spread style—the sabar and the mbalax—and so this is going to be quite interesting to blend what we bring with that. For instance, Yoro plays the talking drum. We have talking drums all over in Africa, but it’s played differently from one country to another. So for Yoro to play his talking drum to a Senegalese rhythm, that’s going to be very interesting and very unique just on its own. So we meet around rhythm, because we all understand rhythm.” Rhythm is not all that these performers have in common. While they all hail from different countries, they share a common tongue. In Essombé’s own native land, which is home to some 250 indigenous cultures and as many different languages, French (and to a somewhat lesser extent English, the nation’s other official language) helps unite a very diverse population. “It’s a chance for us to show and represent the fact that la francophonie is not just in France and in Switzerland and in Quebec,” she says of the World Music Fusion project. “It’s also all across Africa, more specifically in West and Central Africa. Those are the places where French is the language that we all [use to] communicate with one another.” For Essombé, the project is a chance to immerse herself in a fully francophone creative environment, which is a rarity in Vancouver. “I’ve noticed that whenever we’ve done work where it has been a francophone project, it has brought out something else,” she says. “You can just be more of yourself without having to translate anything in your mind.” > JOHN LUCAS
The Festival d’été francophone de Vancouver’s World Music Fusion features performances on Friday, Saturday, and Tuesday (June 23, 24, and 27) at various venues in Vancouver and North Vancouver. See www.lecentre culturel.com/ for full details.
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YES English prog-rock band known for hits like “Roundabout”, “I’ve Seen All Good People”, and “Owner of a Lonely Heart”, with guest Todd Rundgren. Sep 5, doors 6:30 pm, show 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre (650 Hamilton). Tix on sale Jun 23, 10 am, $125/89.50/65/45 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/.
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KALI UCHIS Colombian-American pop singer-songwriter and director, with guests Phony Ppl. Sep 20, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Jun 23, 10 am, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketfly.com/. GOLDFRAPP London-based electronica duo tours in support of latest release Silver Eye. Sep 22, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jun 23, 10 am, $46.50 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/. ZEDD Russian-born German record producer, DJ, and musician performs on
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LISSIE American country-folk singersongwriter tours in support of upcoming acoustic album Live at Union Chapel. Nov 11, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Fox Cabaret (2321 Main). Tix on sale Jun 23, 10 am, $20 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. SON LITTLE American R&B singersongwriter tours in support of his self titled debut studio album. Nov 11, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Jun 23, 10 am, $15 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. HAMILTON LEITHAUSER American indierock singer songwriter tours in support of his latest solo release with Rostam I Had A Dream That You Were Mine, with guest Courtney Marie Andrews. Nov 14, doors
8 pm, show 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix on sale Jun 23, 10 am, $25 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat, Zulu Records, and www.ticketfly.com/.
A PERFECT CIRCLE American rock supergroup performs with special guests the Beta Machine. Nov 30, doors 7 pm, show 8 pm, Pacific Coliseum (Hastings Park, 100 N. Renfrew). Tix on sale Jun 23, 10 am, $79.50/65 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. NILS FRAHM Berlin-based modern classicalelectronica composer and producer. Apr 1, 2018, doors 8 pm, show 9 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix on sale Jun 23, 10 am, $35 (plus service charges and fees) at Red Cat Records and www.ticketfly.com/.
2THIS WEEK FESTIVAL D’ÉTÉ FRANCOPHONE DE VANCOUVER Annual summer francophone festival features music by La Bronze, Paul Piché, Isabelle Longnus, Combustion Lente, Anne-Lune, and Pascale GoodrichBlack and La Vallée des Loups, as well as evenings of jazz and world-fusion music. To Jun 27, various Vancouver venues. Info 604-736-9806, www.lecentreculturel.com/.
night on Tue. 2ISLAND VIBES REGGAE NIGHT WITH BASSOS RANCHEROS Jun 21
BLUE MARTINI JAZZ CAFE 1516 Yew, 604-428-2691. 2SPECTRUM Jun 22 2UNO MAS TRIO Jun 23 2MAX ZIPURSKEY QUARTET Jun 24 2JAZZ JAM Jun 25 2JENNIFER SCOTT AND RENE WORST Jun 25 2KRISTIAN ALEXENDROV TRIO Jun 27 2BILL RUNGE QUARTET Jun 28 COBALT 917 Main, 778-918-3671. 2(SANDY) ALEX G Jun 21 2GUITAR WOLF Jun 22 COMMODORE BALLROOM 868 Granville, 604-739-4550. 2JURASSIC 5 Jun 23 235TH ANNUAL JESSIE RICHARDSON AWARD CEREMONY Jun 26 FRANKIE’S JAZZ CLUB 765 Beatty, 778727-0337. Live music Thu-Sun. and menu items that include fresh house-made pastas and signature entrées. FUNKY WINKER BEANS 37 W. Hastings. Evil Bastard Karaoke Experience seven days a week. THE IMPERIAL 319 Main, 604-868-0494. 2OMAR SOULEYMAN Jun 25 2LAND OF TALK Jun 26 2SHOBALEADER ONE Jun 28
TD VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL The annual celebration of jazz music from around the world features performances by Seu Jorge, Branford Marsalis, Thievery Corporation, Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, Tommy Emmanuel, Ziggy Marley, Bokanté, Banda Magda, and Scott Hamilton Trio. Jun 22– Jul 2, various Vancouver venues. Info www.coastaljazz.ca/.
IVANHOE PUB 1038 Main, 604-608-1444. 2ABORIGINAL DAY WITH PURPLE GANG Jun 22 2FRONT PAGE BAND Jun 23 2LAS DIVAS Jun 24 2SONS OF THE HOE Jun 25
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL Three days of live music, master classes, and special events during which you can see, hear, play, and purchase handmade stringed instruments. Jun 23-25, Chinese Cultural Centre (50 E. Pender). Tix $25/20, info www.vancouver guitarfestival.com/.
RICKSHAW THEATRE 254 E. Hastings, 604-681-8915. 2ELK’S STAG Jun 22 2OLDE WORLDE NUDISTS Jun 23 2NINJASPY Jun 24 2YA HELWA VI Jun 25 2THE BITTER END WITH SIMON KING Jun 28
NORTH SHORE JAZZ Concerts include “voice of New Orleans” John Boutté, folk fave Roy Forbes, “King of the Slydeco” Sonny Landreth, and Steely Dan tribute band Steelin’ in the Years. Presented in partnership with the TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Includes four free shows. Jun 23–Jul 2, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way). Info https://www.capilanou.ca/blueshorefinan cialcentre/series/north-shore-jazz.
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RAILWAY STAGE AND BEER CAFÉ 579 Dunsmuir, 604-564-1430. 2THE SHED Jun 22 2THEE MAGIC CIRCLE Jun 23 2LIVING HOUR Jun 24 2JOKES Jun 27 2THE SHED Jun 29
VOGUE THEATRE 918 Granville, 604-5691144. 2MICHAEL CHE Jun 22 2ANTIBALAS Jun 23 2TOMMY EMMANUEL Jun 25 2ZIGGY MARLEY Jun 26 2BOKANTE Jun 27 2SABRINA CARPENTER Jul 6 WISE HALL 1882 Adanac, 604-254-5858. 2MISTICA MUSIC Jun 21 2ORCHARD PINKISH Jun 21 2DECLAN O’DONOVAN Jun 23 2SCREAMING CHICKEN TABOO REVUE Jun 24 2VANDRIVER Jun 26
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The Georgia Straight Confessions, an outlet for submitting revelations about your private lives—or for the voyeurs among us who want to read what other people have disclosed.
Scan to confess Aimless and overly dramatic My life is like a how-to guide on this. Step 1: Meet someone interesting who helps you grow. Step 2: Become addicted to this person’s mind. Step 3: Stupidly fall in love. Step 4: But make sure the love is unrequited. Step 5: Go through a massive internal crisis. Step 6: Cut them out of your life. Step 7: Quietly creep their social media for all eternity.
Local Car-free day sure makes all the surrounding sidestreets dangerous places filled with manic drivers.
Utterly Done You know when everything at work be it menial tasks to short interactions, make you want to kill yourself that it’s time to switch jobs/careers etc.
Terse is worse? My friend and I got into an argument simply because he thought several of my text message responses to him were too short and should’ve been longer. Now we’re not on speaking terms anymore. Goes to show that there is a lot of non-verbal (and verbal) communication lost in translation through text!
Shoutout to past partners If you have sex with someone and only one of you has an orgasm, unless that’s something you’re specifically going for, you’re doing it wrong.
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There is an agreement among the three B Y AM ANDA S IEB ER T
women leading the charge behind Uninterrupted that, as Vancouverites, most of us feel a sense of unspoken presence when it comes to a particular chrome-coloured fish. Whether served raw at sushi restaurants, carved into Coast Salish artwork, or spawning in one of the Fraser River’s tributaries, salmon are embedded in our collective West Coast consciousness. It’s that omnipresence that director Nettie Wild and producers Rae Hull and Betsy Carson hope to highlight with their latest cinematic spectacle, a multimedia public artwork presented this summer beneath the Cambie Street Bridge. “One of the things that was so appealing about this project is the extent to which we take salmon for granted,” Hull tells the Straight, seated between Carson and Wild during an interview at their Mount Pleasant studio, the home of Carson and Wild’s production company, Canada Wild. “By using a piece of urban architecture to bring to light the extent to which salmon are something that we should embrace, there’s a possibility of seeing this story as it’s never been seen before.” An intimate look at the life cycle of one of the coast’s most revered creatures, Uninterrupted combines awe-inspiring underwater footage with exquisitely captured ambient sound and a musical score to tell the story of the sockeye salmon run— and it’s as much a work of art as it is a tool for promoting conservation. Before filming along the Adams, Pitt, and Sproat rivers, Wild and team looked to the
Salmon return to False Creek
The story of the salmon run takes monumental, moving form in the new installation by filmmaker Nettie Wild’s production company. Scott Smith photo.
roll—just to push us as Moore Foundation, Vancity, the Pacific Salmon artists, and force us to Foundation, Vancouver’s Canada 150+ campaign, frame the familiar in and the Canada Council for the Arts, among an unfamiliar way.” others, Wild, Hull, and Carson are hopeful that Under the Cambie Bridge, the new public artwork Uninterrupted The trio’s next big they’ll attract audiences whose only current interc h a l l e n g e — f i n d i n g est in salmon involves eating it. makes a splash with underwater cinematography and sound the right place to pro“Our key audience is people who never think expertise of the Secwepemc First Nation (par- ject the film—proved to be just as difficult. about fish. I’m hoping that it brings about a new ticularly the Little Shuswap Indian Band), as “We knew this wasn’t going to be in a cinema, way of thinking about salmon, and of course the well as the Katzie and Hupacasath First Na- that this was going to speak stronger as a public idea of environmental conservancy,” says Carson. tions, and biologists from local conservation spectacle, and we needed to figure out what that “One big thing that this has in common with organizations. It required the technical and meant,” Wild says. other public art is that anybody can experience it artistic genius of more than 130 team members, Instead, she, Carson, and Hull looked to projec- in the same way that everybody else does, without and has taken nearly four years to complete. tion mapping as a way of presenting the work on the having to work with language. On the other hand, For Wild, who began conceptualizing the surface of an urban structure. Their search for the it immerses people in a world they’ve never been project when she first witnessed the salmon run perfect stone façade seemed impossible among Van- to, which is very different than simply observing a from the Adams River in 2010, Uninterrupted has couver’s glass buildings, until a bike ride through static piece of public art,” she adds. proven to be the most challenging and exhilarat- Coopers’ Park exposed Wild to the underbelly “You’re in the middle of it, and that can be ing cinematic undertaking of her 30-year career. of the Cambie Street Bridge. very visceral.” “It’s no surprise that you’d be moved by an “It’s perfect in so many ways. It’s Salmon ambassadors will be present at extraordinary natural phenomenon, and it’s very enormous, and it has all these huge Check out… every viewing, offering opportunities STRAIGHT.COM deep when it happens—but I was just blown away planes that disappear off into the to sign up for monthly newsletters, Visit our website by the patterns of it,” Wild says. “It became a pro- distance. Plus, metaphorically, we attend salmon-conservation events, for morning-after cess of, ‘How do you bring that wonder from the get to bring the salmon back to False and work on cleaning local streams. reviews and local natural world, without being arrogant and think- Creek, which was once teeming with Those who decide to chip in will have arts news ing you can reproduce it, into the city?’ ” salmon,” Wild says. their name projected on the bridge in Wild and crew took to the banks of the rivers Computer-generated graphics and advance of the event each evening. and, having no experience shooting underwater, virtual-reality soft ware enabled Wild’s While the trio at the helm of Uninterrupted quickly discovered how many creative challenges editors and technicians to shape the story onto the will soon see the fruits of their labour, Hull says lay before them. unusual dimensions of the bridge, while Hull and they remain anxious to discover how urbanites “We realized that this world was this moving Carson took on the tasks of locating funding and in Vancouver will respond. “There’s a glorious space of light and fish and current, and that if obtaining the support of the City of Vancouver. opportunity here, by virtue of the creation that we were able to stabilize our camera and have a “It really has taken a city to bring this together, is being brought to bear on that bridge, to say to fixed frame with the river roaring by, we’d be because without the City of Vancouver, the de- people whose hearts will be moved by this: ‘What able to capture the magic of the motion,” she partment of engineering, the park board, and are you going to do about it?’ ” says. “We had this saying on the river, that if the surrounding urban residences, it would be a we were framing something and it was pretty, beautiful creative vision, and that’s where it would Uninterrupted will screen at 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday at Coopers’ Park from Wedneslike a ‘Beautiful B.C.’ postcard, we’d cut, and stay,” says Hull. if it looked like an abstract oil [painting], we’d By partnering with the Gordon and Betty day (June 28) to September 24.
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Editor’s choice SPACED-OUT SOUNDS John Korsrud’s Hard Rubber Orchestra is known for the focused blare of its brass and reeds, but this summer the trumpeter is offering a softer option with Spacious Music at the Atrium, four free late-afternoon shows at SFU Woodward’s. Subtitled Horns, Strings, Voices and, not surprisingly, Horns, the free concerts run from 5 to 6 p.m on Sunday (June 25), July 23, August 27, and September 24. The first edition features eight top local brass and saxophone players backed by two keyboardists, and will focus on scores by Korsrud’s mentor Hugh Fraser and band member Bill Runge—along with the resonant acoustics of this important Downtown Eastside meeting place. And check out the open rehearsal before the show from 2 to 4 p.m. Horns runs from 5 to 6 p.m. on Sunday (June 25) at the SFU Woodward’s Atrium (351 Abbott Street).
Five events you just can’t miss this week
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (To September 23 at Bard on the Beach) Nothing but raves for this cinematically charged show.
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CLAUDE MONET’S SECRET GARDEN (June 24 to October 1 at the Vancouver Art Gallery) Spend a serene afternoon amid the master’s famed lily pads.
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UNSETTLED (To June 29 at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre) Thoughtprovoking two-spirit visual art at the Queer fest.
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BITTERGIRL: THE MUSICAL (To July 29 at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage) Soothe the sting of an ugly breakup through song.
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UNBELIEVABLE (June 24 to September 24 at the Museum of Vancouver) The Museum of Vancouver digs into its vaults for weird and wonderful artifacts.
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MURAL MADNESS This Saturday (June 24), the Vancouver Mural Festival hosts a free early kickoff with a Strathcona Street Party unveiling two entire buildings wrapped in murals. East Cordova between Campbell and Hawks streets will be taken over by the work of local artists, live DJs, food trucks, a market, and a craft beer garden in a celebration from 12 to 6 p.m. Noteworthy murals come from local street-art legends AA Crew (Virus, Tars, and Dedos) in the festival’s first effort to include more graffiti artists and destigmatize the art form within Vancouver; and Nlakapamux artist Andrew Dexel, in a special project with the help of indigenous youths participating in the Young Artist Warriors workshops (created and facilitated by Cree artist Jeska Slater). Other artists include Tristesse Seelinger, Stace Forand, Lauren Brevner, Spain’s MUR0NE, and the Capilano IDEA Design Program. The full Vancouver Mural Festival takes place August 7 to 12 around Mount Pleasant and Strathcona. -
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here’s a wonderful paradox afoot in the UBC Museum of Anthropology’s newly built exhibition space. The Gallery of Northwest Coast Masterworks is a beautiful room, filled with subdued colours and textures that evoke both rain-grey skies and sun-bleached logs on West Coast beaches. It also boasts state-of-the-art amenities, including seismically stabilized display cases and computerized softbox lighting that responds to conditions outdoors. Opening Thursday (June 22), the gallery will be the site of long-running temporary exhibitions, the first show being In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art. And here is where the paradox occurs. The inaugural show is not so much about the old-fashioned and Eurocentric notion of “masterworks” that the gallery name suggests. Not so much about isolating and aestheticizing beautiful and finely crafted objects on plinths and in glass cases—although many of the 110 works on view are undeniably beautiful and finely made. (And most of them are mounted in glass cases.) Not so much about privileging the point of view of museum staff, either. No, what’s innovative here is that curators Karen Duffek, Jordan Wilson, and Bill McLennan have invited 30 participants from First Nations up and down the coast to look at, handle, and reflect on the historic works in the show. “For us, it was about identifying a diverse range of perspectives from people from the various communities that created the works on display,” says Wilson as he and Duffek preview the exhibition with the Straight. What’s on display is very old— many pieces originating in the early 19th century—and ranges from miniature Coast Salish baskets to painted cedar boards that were part of a Tsimshian house front, and from a small Tlingit amulet carved out of bone to a big Haida button blanket, its Beaver crest described in dentalium shells. Instead of focusing on aesthetics or connoisseurship, First Nations participants speak about the stories, beliefs, families, lands, power, and politics these works represent. Their recorded comments greet visitors in a number of ways, including through speakers set up in a kind of “surround-sound” way among the cases, and an audio playback system built into the headrests of two red leather chairs. “We sought out artists who have spent a lot of time engaging with museum collections in their own practices and learning processes,” says Wilson. Well-known among 28 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT JUNE 22 – 29 / 2017
them are Musqueam weaver Debra Sparrow, Tahltan/Tlingit sculptor Dempsey Bob, and Haida painter and sculptor Robert Davidson. “But we also have included others who might not necessarily be artists but who are knowledge holders and scholars,” Wilson adds. They include Kwakwaka’wakw scholar and professor Sarah Hunt, Jisgang curator Nika Collison, and Musqueam elder and language researcher Larry Grant. “We wanted to hear from people who took a critical perspective on the history of museums and their relationship with indigenous people,” Duffek says. “Some might see these old pieces as teachers, some might see them as representing a history of colonization. There’s quite a range of responses.” She cites a quote from Haida artist and hereditary chief Jim Hart: “When I get a chance to study some of the old greats.…this gives me a chance to help fill up my soul, and keep going.” Duffek also points out a quote by Kwakwaka’wakw artist Marianne Nicolson: “This is what is amazing about these objects: each of these things ascribes certain rights, and if they are simply reduced to their formal qualities or their entertainment value, then we are really missing the point of them.” Both Duffek and Wilson allude to the focus of Nuxalk ceremonialist and speaker Clyde Tallio on a Nuxalk mask representing Q’umukwa, the chief of the undersea world. “Clyde is a young man from Bella Coola who is involved with language revitalization and cultural reclamation,” Wilson says. “He describes, in this 20-minute-long narration, its origins and how it connects to his family.” “Even if you listen to only one minute of that narrative, you get a sense of that story,” Duffek adds. “He is placing his understanding of this thing.…within his history and the landscape he comes from.” “We wanted the community members’ voices to have a strong presence in the gallery,” says Wilson, who is just completing a stint as aboriginal curator in residence at the MOA. “We wanted their voices and their ideas to be in conversation with the objects that you’re looking at. It’s not necessarily an interpretation of the works.…but speaking of these big ideas that will hopefully shift how the museum visitor engages with these objects or these artworks—these belongings.” The UBC Museum of Anthropology presents In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art in the new Gallery of Northwest Coast Masterworks from Thursday (June 22) to June 2019.
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Allison Cociani has spent three years composing the sci-fi–fantasy Alma, the inaugural production for East Van Opera. Michelle Doherty photo.
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Opera’s inaugural performance, with Cociani starring in the title role. Cociani cautions that because of the burlesque elements, the show’s child-friendly rating depends on the parents. But the story is for everyone, and East Van Opera hopes to bring opera fans and newcomers of all ages to the theatre. “People who are new to opera, people who are into burlesque and like the idea of combining the two, people who are into ballet, straight-up opera fans—I think we have a lot to offer,” says Cociani. “It could be for anyone, depending on your comfort levels with a bit of female seminudity.” One of East Van Opera’s goals is to cultivate new music from female composers. As a lyric coloratura, Cociani has played her fair share of roles that failed to inspire her. “I always have to play the role of the love-struck young lady who’s silly and flouncy, and it’s a little tiresome,” says Cociani. “I want a strong female character doing amazing things. I put a lot of strength into that character and a lot of myself into it, and I think we need that.” Cociani has dreams to tour the production to the B.C. Interior, Eastern Canada, and of course, Italy. But right now, the goal is to fill the seats and put on a great show. The team has been rehearsing wherever it can find space, from East Vancouver to Burnaby and back. But the decision to root the company in East Vancouver seemed natural to the lifelong resident. “We’re putting on an opera, which is a crazy huge feat, we’re doing it with what we have, we’re very openminded,” says Cociani. “The heart of East Van is the heart of our company: we’re not snooty, don’t have noses in the air, we just want to make new music. That’s our goal.” -
usician, composer, and singer Allison Cociani’s apartment is bursting at the seams. Piles of costumes, music stands, instruments, and assorted footwear are spread out across the floor. Seating is limited—and nothing is what it seems. An ornate park bench might look like a comfortable spot, but on closer inspection, the handwritten sign across it reads: “Please do not sit! This is a prop for my opera.” Cociani is in the final stage of rehearsals for Alma, an opera she’s taken three years to write. Set to play Vancouver’s Metro Theatre from June 22 to 25, bringing together five singers, five dancers, and 12 instrumentalists, Alma is a sci-fi–fantasy saga that melds elements of ballet, burlesque, and English-language opera. As is the case with many of history’s great artistic works, the story behind Alma is one of personal tragedy. “It started with my father passing away,” Cociani tells the Straight at her East Vancouver home. “I was really destroyed over it. I needed to do something to take that away. It was always something I wanted to do, write an opera, so I decided to do it.” She started with a piano and vocal score. The story came from a fairy tale she had written for her nieces, about a young woman with the ability to glow who is kidnapped by people who want to mine her power. Composer Roger Leon Parton helped out with the piano score, and musical director Ian Dives helped edit the orchestration. But Cociani doubted that anyone would take a chance on an opera written by an unknown. So she started her own production company, East Van Opera. About 30 people have Alma is at the Metro Theatre from been assembled to put on East Van Thursday to Sunday (June 22 to 25).
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Orchestral Powwow blends far-flung forms > BY A LEX A NDER VA R TY
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ris Derksen’s Orchestral Powwow CD is so unusual, so satisfying, and at times so unexpectedly thrilling, it’s easy to overlook the coded message buried deep within its grooves. So easy, in fact, that this listener needed a little nudge from the halfCree, half-Mennonite cellist and composer in order to catch on. The basic recipe behind Orchestral Powwow is simple enough: it’s essentially a meeting between First Nations powwow groups Northern Voice, Black Bear, and the Chippewa Travellers and a small chamber orchestra led by UBC music grad Derksen. And, on first hearing, it seems like an equal partnership, with earthy native chanting and drumming beautifully enveloped by swirling melodic lines for strings and horns. It’s clear that Derksen’s compositions grew out of her source material—either newly commissioned recordings by the Chippewa Travellers, members of the Nawash First Nation from Ontario’s Georgian Bay region, or extant field recordings from the others—and she confirms that her method involved paying
Cellist Cris Derksen brings together First Nations powwow groups, chamber orchestra, traditional hoop dancing, and more at the Queer Arts Festival show.
careful attention to those digital files while improvising along with her cello. “I didn’t sit down to any of those pieces of music with anything in mind,” the former Vancouverite explains, on the line from her Toronto home. “I’d just sit down with my cello and try and find chords that would work.” She’d then take those cello parts and extrapolate on them at her
computer, using Logic software to develop arrangements that draw on powwow rhythms but that are sometimes, harmonically, at odds with that source material. Most powwow music, she notes, is in G minor, while classical music generally explores wider harmonic terrain; combining the two approaches leads to a kind of delicious tension that speaks explicitly to Derksen’s mixed heritage—and to being
a two-spirited woman in a primarily heterosexual world. “There’s beauty in that tension, for sure,” she says. “And there’s beauty in, like, colonization and decolonization. That tension is how we all function in the world.” But when it came time to make Orchestral Powwow with live orchestral musicians, Derksen discovered that she’d also created a template for the kind of world she hopes to live in—one in which indigenous people are not only heard, seen, and valued, but given a leading role. “We have to follow the beat of the powwow drums, so we have to follow the indigenous heartbeat first,” she says. “This involves an intense amount of listening from the European players—which is also an allegory for what should happen, what needs to happen! A huge amount of listening and following: that’s the goal!” While Orchestral Powwow was originally intended as a one-off studio project, it’s since taken on a life of its own on stages across the country. This, naturally, poses some challenges. For the bandleader, these are primarily logistical: generally, she tours with the
Chippewa Travellers, hoop dancer Nimkii Osawamick, and percussionist Jesse Baird, and picks up string and horn players for each show. For the audiences, aesthetic concerns can sometimes be daunting. “It’s a little more challenging for the powwow audience in general, as classical music isn’t really part of their language,” Derksen admits. “But the folks that are involved, they totally love it!” And the rewards, she adds, are huge. “Taking the Chippewa Travellers to the Vancouver Island MusicFest, it was the first time some of them had been on a plane, and it was the first time they had seen the ocean, the real ocean,” Derksen enthuses. “They were the happiest kids, and it’s fun to work with folks that aren’t jaded about the music industry yet. “Really, I had no intentions of touring it, just because it’s so large,” she adds, laughing. “But here we are, which is awesome!” Cris Derksen presents Orchestral Powwow in a free concert at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre on Saturday (June 24), as part of the Queer Arts Festival.
Turning Point Ensemble forges Fifth Stream jazz > BY A LEX A NDER VA R TY
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opularized in the late 1950s, Third Stream music aspired to a synthesis of classical form and jazz freedom, and sometimes got there: check out the historic recordings of Jimmy Giuffre, John Lewis, and the term’s inventor, Gunther Schuller, for proof. And now, 60 years later, we’re witnessing the arrival of the Fifth Stream, or at least that’s the aim of a new collaboration between the Turning Point Ensemble and the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Pairing Vancouver’s modernist chamber orchestra with improvising innovators John Hollenbeck, Quinsin Nachoff, and François Houle, the event takes off from Schuller’s idea but adds an even wider array of postmodern possibilities. For Hollenbeck, a New York City– based drummer and bandleader with a reputation for elegant large-ensemble compositions, it’s a natural fit. “If Third Stream is like a kind of combination of jazz and classical music, then I guess Fifth Stream is adding world music and whatever other music there is now to the mix,” he says. “I think that for a lot of people in my generation, it’s just natural to combine all those things that we’ve heard since we were growing up.” The piece that Turning Point and the jazz festival have commissioned for next week’s concerts, tree bell groove, illustrates his point perfectly. The first section of this three-part suite is dedicated to Bay Area musician Bob Ostertag, a restless innovator whose work spans electronica, improvisation, and political activism, especially around Latin American issues. “He just seems like a renaissance man; he just can do it all,” Hollenbeck enthuses. “I love his work, and I often play it for other musicians who haven’t heard it, and they’re always blown away. “It’s usually electronic music,” he adds, “and it’s really hard to work in the electronic-music field and do music that sounds fresh.” Part two is dedicated to another electronic pioneer, Brian Eno, and it takes its inspiration from the tapebased experiments that led to Eno’s invention of the ambient genre. Rather than work with out-of-phase tape loops or their digital simulacra, however, Hollenbeck is using acoustic instruments to produce similarly
Mixing influences comes naturally to John Hollenbeck. Lukas Beck photo.
otherworldly sounds. “It’s five groups of musicians that are playing their own loops, and they kind of overlap each other,” he says. “It’s actually very simple, but it was super hard to notate for humans. But, anyway, it’s a very static, ambient loop piece.” The third component of his 25-minute score, he continues, is dedicated to a musician who’s considerably less well known than either Ostertag or Eno, although perhaps by his own design. After recording some classic 1970s sides with Charles Mingus, drummer Doug Hammond relocated to Austria, to teach in comfortable obscurity. His sophisticated and highly rhythmic compositions, however, have been championed by saxophonist Steve Coleman and bassist Dave Holland, and have also informed Hollenbeck’s own compositional identity. “He’s a great drummer and a great composer, very individualistic,” Hollenbeck says. “And he wrote me an email, kind of randomly, at the exact moment that I was writing that piece. Sometimes things just come like that, so I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, of course I have to dedicate this piece to him.’ ” Sounds like it was meant to be— but what the piece actually sounds like will have to wait until next week’s world premiere. The Turning Point Ensemble plays the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts at SFU Woodward’s on Tuesday and Wednesday (June 27 and 28). John Hollenbeck’s Claudia Quintet plays a Vancouver International Jazz Festival show at the Ironworks next Thursday (June 29).
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Daringly creative Much Ado shows Bard at his best TH E AT RE MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Written by William Shakespeare. Directed by John Murphy. A Bard on the Beach production. At the BMO Mainstage on Thursday, June 15. Continues to September 23
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tween Much Ado About Nothing’s Beatrice and Benedick account for some of William Shakespeare’s wittiest and most delightful dialogue. When text sparks like that on the page, the transition to stage must ignite fireworks or else the whole endeavour flops. Thankfully, Bard on the Beach delivers a near-flawless production that’s charming, hilarious, and daringly creative. Here, Much Ado’s updated setting is a 1950s Italian film studio (highlighting wonderful work by costume designer Christine Reimer and scenery designer Pam Johnson) where fiercely opinionated Beatrice (Amber Lewis) and arrogant Benedick (Kevin MacDonald) are movie stars cast opposite each other in director Don Pedro’s (Ian Butcher) new film. Benedick tries to dissuade his friend Claudio (Julien Galipeau) from marrying Beatrice’s cousin, Hero (Parmiss Sehat), but their friends and family turn the tables on them when they trick the warring duo into falling in love. When the villainous Dona Johnna (Laara Sadiq) fools Claudio into believing Hero is unchaste, he publicly humiliates her at the altar and she collapses in despair. The others tell Claudio that Hero is dead while they try to disprove the slanderous accusations. Eventually the truth is revealed, and there are two weddings by play’s end. John Murphy’s direction is masterful. In lesser hands, the Italian-cinema
Much Ado About Nothing (with Ben Elliott and Sereana Malani) conjures the retro world of Italian cinema. David Blue photo.
setting could have felt like a gimmick, but the details are so precise and perfect that it’s impossible to resist. Murphy imbues the production with a real sense of joy while also making seriously impressive staging decisions that aren’t just entertaining or creative, but also deepen our connection to the text. A particularly spiteful exchange between Beatrice and Benedick unfolds as they share a choreographed dance that manages to be both sexy and funny simultaneously. Good direction, of course, only takes us so far. The excellent cast does the rest of the heavy lifting, and they all look like they’re having the best time. MacDonald is particularly winning, an agile and intelligent comic actor with charisma and charm to spare. He’s also wise enough to know that this stage truly belongs to Lewis, who is brilliant.
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Her Beatrice is like a lion hunting prey and her weaponized disdain is spectacular. Every insult and diatribe is delivered with a perfect combination of humour, frustration, and snark, a wholly relatable trifecta for a woman who’s been actively opposing the patriarchy since the 16th century. This is Shakespeare at his sharpest and most satisfying. Bravo.
> ANDREA WARNER
CINERAMA Created by Steven Hill and Alex Lazaridis Ferguson in collaboration with Delia Brett. Directed by Steven Hill. A Fight With a Stick Performance production. At Spanish Banks on Friday, June 16. Continues to June 30
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it used to be Leaky Heaven Circus, and its newest offering, Cinerama, is no exception. The group describes it as “live cinema” but with no actors, story, or plot. If that sounds like heady stuff, well, it is, but it’s also a wildly original, unforgettable experience. The instructions that Fight With a Stick emails in advance of Cinerama’s start time are both frustratingly cryptic and curiously precise. They also come with a warning: “Be prepared to get wet up to your knees.” The “knees”, it turns out, are relative. Cinerama begins with a long, solitary walk out to low tide at Spanish Banks. Every audience member is given noise-cancelling headphones for the walk, and organizers stagger our departures to ensure we’re each trudging across the beach alone. At the destination,
there are wooden chairs all facing the same direction, spread out into small groups of four or five and separated over a large stretch of sand. We’re all staring across the water and into the horizon, shore to our left, the ever-present line of oil tankers to our right. It is a perfect day: endless blue sky, sunlight glinting off the water, the tide warm on my feet as my toes sink into the sand and seaweed tangles around my ankles. Small portable speakers begin quietly playing an almost continuous loop of urban-industrial sounds—trains speeding by, an airplane taking off, the clanking of metal on metal— interrupting our quiet communion with nature. As a statement on the effects of urban sprawl on the environment, or the ways industry is disrupting humanity’s connection to the earth, it’s not subtle but it is effective. The water climbs up my calves. In the distance, five pairs of people start walking toward us carrying what look like enormous empty frames. When they reach our seats, they position themselves throughout the group, and each large rectangle has the effect of transforming the space into a de facto drive-in. In a feat of synchronization, the people holding the screens are tasked with repeatedly raising them a couple inches, and lowering them back down, almost imperceptibly small actions that momentarily change our view. We’re all seeing the same thing but differently—each of us, for better or worse, at home in ourselves, our minds, and our own bodies. The tide continues to rise, my chair sinks deeper into the sand, and every time a wave hits me gently in the crotch, I can’t help but think, ‘I love you, Vancouver.’ Cinerama is a beautiful, weird, unforgettable work of art. > ANDREA WARNER
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THEATRE 2OPENINGS THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents Shakespeare’s drama, set in modern-day Venice, that exposes the consequences of how we treat outsiders in our midst. Jun 22– Sep 16, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Tix from $21, info www.bardonthebeach. org/2017/the-merchant-of-venice/.
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TH’OWXIYA, THE HUNGRY FEAST DISH Axis Theatre presents Joseph A. Dandurand’s play in which six storytellers from the Kwantlen First Nations Village of Squa’lets spin the tale of a young man who must appease an angry goddess. Jun 24–Jul 2, UBC Botanical Gardens (6301 Stadium). Free admission, info www.axistheatre.com/thowxiya/.
Aeriosa Dance/Spakwus Slulem Julia Taffe/Bob S7aplek Baker Alexandra Elliott Dance Tedd Robinson All Bodies Dance Project Naomi Brand Beijing Modern Dance Company Gao Yanjinzi Chick Snipper Chick Snipper Co.ERASGA & Pichet Klunchun Dance Company Alvin Erasga Tolentino/Pichet Klunchun Cori Caulfield/coriograph theatre Cori Caulfield Daelik Daelik Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject Deanna Peters Emmalena Fredriksson/Arash Khakpour Emmalena Fredriksson/Arash Khakpour LINK Dance Foundation Gail Lotenberg Helen Simard Helen Simard It Burns Hot & Fast Diego Romero/Ileanna Cheladyn Julianne Chapple Julianne Chapple Karen Jamieson Dance & Carnegie Dance Troupe Karen Jamieson/Carnegie Dance Troupe Kinesis Dance somatheatro Paras Terezakis Les Productions Figlio Serge Bennathan MascallDance Jennifer Mascall Mile Zero Dance Gerry Morita Monica Shah Natasha Bakht Naomi Brand Naomi Brand Olivia C. Davies Olivia C. Davies Ralph Escamillan/FakeKnot Ralph Escamillan Sara Porter Sara Porter Yvonne Ng/tiger princess dance projects Yvonne Ng
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JESSIES COUNTDOWN Actors Munish Sharma and Jacqueline Breakwell host this year’s 35th annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards—our town’s answer to the Tonys—and anyone who follows the stage scene in this city knows it’s going to be an entertaining time. Amid the acts livening up the ceremony this year are the Queertet Trio from Queer as Funk, plus the Cause and Effect Circus. It’s also a chance to see your favourite actors and other theatre names in action, with Emma Slipp providing live announcements and everyone from Tetsuro Shigematsu to Heather Redfern to Carmen Aguirre and Kevin Loring handing out prizes. The big show is Monday (June 26) at the Commodore Ballroom; be first to find out who nabs the big awards. COPENHAGEN Aenigma Theatre presents director Tanya Mathivanan’s version of Michael Frayn’s play in which scientists Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr try to reconcile the choices made during World War II. Jun 27-30, 8-10:15 pm; Jul 1, 2-4:15 pm, Studio 16 (1555 W. 7th). Tix $20, info www.aenigmatheatre.com/.
2ONGOING MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET The Arts Club Theatre Company presents a jukebox musical inspired by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins. Directed by Bill Millerd. Book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux. To Jul 9, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. HAND TO GOD The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Robert Askins’s comedy in which three troubled Texas teenagers meet weekly to express themselves through puppetry and learn to avoid the devil at all costs. To Jun 25, Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre (162 W. 1st). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s comedy set in 1959 Italy, where a group of actors and filmmakers celebrate the wrap of their latest movie. To Sep 23, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Tix from $21, info www. bardonthebeach.org/2017/much-adoabout-nothing/.
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TheatreSports League presents a show that pokes fun at Canadian stereotypes through a series of vignettes and improv games. Jun 25–Sep 2, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/.
HAMLET Sandbox Theatre presents a play in which Hamlet’s father’s death and his mother’s hasty marriage provoke thoughts of murder and vengeance that push his mind to madness. To Jun 24, 7:30 pm, The Cultch (1895 Venables). Tix $2230, info www.facebook.com/sandbox theatreproduction/. THE WINTER’S TALE Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents Shakespeare’s drama in which the love of two young people becomes the catalyst for reunion, redemption, and a family’s healing. To Sep 22, Bard on the Beach
POP-UP ART Call it lowbrow art, call it pop, or call it retro-cool: some of the Straight’s fave purveyors of said forms are joining forces in a two-day pop-up sale and exhibit this weekend. Sean Sikorski, Hobo Divine, and occasional Straight illustrators Mark Pilon and Luc Latulippe (whose Beefcake is shown here) are offering up not just paintings and limited-edition prints, but an eclectic mix of T-shirts, vinyl records, and even whisky toothpaste. DJ Chadd Andre will be spinning tunes, too, when things kick off Friday (June 23) from 6 to 10 p.m. and Saturday (June 24) from noon to 9 p.m. at 434 Columbia Street in Chinatown. (1000 Chestnut). Tix from $21, info www.bard onthebeach.org/2017/the-winters-tale/.
BITTERGIRL: THE MUSICAL The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Annabel Fitzsimmons, Alison Lawrence, and Mary Francis Moore’s musical that charts the romantic breakups of three women and the antics that ensue. To Jul 29, Granville Island Stage (1585 Johnston). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/. CINERAMA Fight With a Stick presents a live cinema with no story, plot, or actors, on the shifting sands of the low-tide flats. Jun 21-30, Spanish Banks (4707 NW. Marine Drive). Info www.fightwithastick.ca/.
DANCE 2THIS WEEK YA HELWA VI Rahel presents dance by the Helwa Dancers and guests Scarlet Lux, Raks Sokkar, Ashley Kirkham, Devorah, and Azrakesh. Jun 25, doors 6 pm, show 7 pm, Rickshaw Theatre (254 E. Hastings). Tix $25, info www.raheldance.com/events/.
NAOMI KLEIN IN CONVERSATION Author Naomi Klein discusses the forces behind Donald Trump’s success and explains why he is not an aberration but a product of our time. Jun 24, 7:30 pm, St. Andrew’s–Wesley United Church (1022 Nelson). Tix $10 (plus service charges and fees), info www.writersfest.bc.ca/naomi-klein/. ARUNDHATI ROY The Indian author reads from her second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. A book signing will follow. Part of the Indian Summer Festival. Jun 26, 7 pm, St. Andrew’s–Wesley United Church (1022 Nelson). Tix $30-50 at www. eventbrite.ca/.
ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL Annual artist-run, multidisciplinary event presents thoughtprovoking work that pushes boundaries and initiates dialogue. Highlights include a curated visual-art exhibition, performing-arts series, workshops, artist talks, panels, and media-art screenings. To Jun 29, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews). Info www.queerartsfestival.com/. GRAND OPENING: GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST MASTERWORKS Celebrate the opening of the Gallery of Northwest Coast Masterworks, which is dedicated to indigenous art of the Northwest Coast. Jun 22, 7-10 pm, The Museum of Anthropology at UBC. Free, info www.moa.ubc.ca/. A TRIBUTE TO STUART MCLEAN Evening of storytelling and live music pays tribute to the award-winning humorist who passed away earlier this year. Includes performances by TJ Dawe, Dylan Rhymer, Beverly Elliott, Bryant Ross, Maia Gibbs, Gary Jones, Duncan Shields, Christine Taylor, Stephen Fearing, and Kathleen Nisbet. Jun 22, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $20/17, info www.riotheatre.ca/.
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MUSIC 2THIS WEEK ALMA: THE STORY OF THE GIRL WHO GLOWED East Van Opera presents the world premiere of a feminist opera about a heroine with special powers. Jun 22-25, 8 pm, Metro Theatre (1370 SW Marine). Tix $37.50, info www.eastvanopera.com/. MANELY/FUN Chor Leoni Men’s Choir combines tunes, a band, and lots of energy in an evening of surprises, costumes, and choreography. Jun 19 and 26, 2 pm, 7:30 pm, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Info www.bardonthebeach.org/. TURNING POINT ENSEMBLE MEETS HOLLENBECK, NACHOFF, AND HOULE The local musical ensemble presents a concert of music by John Hollenbeck, Quinsin Nachoff, and François Houle, whose music crosses the boundary between jazz and new music. Jun 27-28, 8 pm, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (149 W. Hastings). Tix $25, info www.turningpointensemble.ca/.
COMEDY 2ONGOING THE COMEDY MIX 1015 Burrard, Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, 604-684-5050, www. thecomedymix.com/. Comedy club with pro-am night Tue at 8:30 pm, showcase Wed at 8:30 pm, and featured headliners Thu at 8:30 pm and Fri-Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm. 2ANDREW GROSE Jun 22-24 2CHRIS GORDON Jun 29-Jul 1 2DAN QUINN Jul 6-8 YUK YUK’S COMEDY CLUB 2837 Cambie, 604-696-9857, www.yukyuks. com/vancouver/. Comedy club with Top Talent Tue at 8 pm, amateur night Wed at 8 pm, and professional headliners Thu-Fri at 8 pm and Sat at 7 & 9:30 pm 2BRYAN O’GORMAN Jun 23-24 VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. #NoFilter (Thu, 9:15 pm); Firecracker! (Wed, 9:15 pm); Ok Tinder (Fri and Sat, 11:15 pm); Rookie Night (Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (Wed, Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm; Fri and Sat, 9:30 pm). Jun 21-28, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/.
2THIS WEEK MICHAEL CHE New York City-based writer, actor, and standup comedian known for appearing on Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. Jun 22, doors 6:30 pm, show 7 pm, Vogue Theatre (918 Granville). Tix $25 (plus service charges and fees) at www.livenation.com/. OH CANADA: THE TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FUNNY The Vancouver
A MOUTH AND A MOUSE The myth behind Th’owxiya: the Hungry Feast Dish is as deliciously dark as anything the Brothers Grimm could have cooked up. In Joseph A. Dandurand’s play, six storytellers from the Kwantlen First Nations Village of Squa’lets (including Merewyn Comeau, pictured), spin the tale of Th’owxiya, whose mouth holds the world’s most wonderful foods. The catch? If you steal from her, as a brave mouse does here, she’ll eat you. Axis Theatre brings it all to life with its usual spectacular mix of masks and music, all in the gorgeous outdoor setting of the Roseline Sturdy Amphitheatre at UBC Botanical Gardens, June 24 and 25 and July 1 and 2 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Performances are free, but you need to register at Eventbrite.
GALLERIES VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby, 604-662-4719, www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/. 2PICTURES FROM HERE (photographs and video works by Vancouver-based artists) to Sep 4 2CLAUDE MONET’S SECRET GARDEN (exhibit showcases 38 paintings that span the career of the French artist who is regarded as a master of the Impressionist movement) Jun 24–Oct 1
MUSEUMS THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC 6393 NW Marine Drive, www.moa. ubc.ca/. 2TRACES OF WORDS: ART AND CALLIGRAPHY FROM ASIA (multimedia exhibition examines the physical traces of words, both spoken and recorded, that are unique to humans) to Oct 9
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MOVIES REVIEWS HARMONIUM Starring Kanji Furutachi. In Japanese, with English subtitles
Mousily bearded Toshio (Kanji Furutachi)
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his sheet-metal shop in a quiet corner of Tokyo or having dinner with his neglected wife, Akié (Mariko Tsutsui), and their preteen daughter, Hotaru (Momone Shinokawa). But the family’s fault lines are exposed when we see Dad reading the paper while Mom and daughter say grace. Of course, their pleasant chat about how certain spiders eat their own mothers could be seen as disconcerting, and even Hotaru’s time spent practising the organlike instrument of the title is a little creepy. It looks plainly domestic while sounding like the soundtrack to a trip to an underground circus. In the stylish Harmonium, writer-director Kôji Fukada keeps working the Lynchian divide be-
A creepy family portrait
It looks like a picture of blissful domesticity, but things are definitely not what they seem inside the home of Toshio and his wife Akié, from the film Harmonium.
spends most of the doc’s swift 75 minutes in her cramped Cambridge studio, as she goes through past work on the eve of her retirement. It’s some archive! Moving to New York Writer-director Kôji Fukada works the Lynchian divide between normality and nightmare in stylish Harmonium City in 1959, she took pictures as a way to hang around the tween the normal and the nightmarish, between scene at Grove Press, then a hotbed of poetry, politpolite formality and the subterranean id. This di- ical dissidence, and censorious upheaval. Through Grove’s auspices, Dorfman—who chotomy comes into focus with the abrupt arrival of Yasaka (Tadanobu Asano), one of Toshio’s oldest calls herself “one lucky little Jewish girl”— friends, freshly released from prison. Yasaka is in- captured timeless images of writers like W.H. vited to live with the family, with no explanation to Auden, Anaïs Nin, and especially Allen Ginsberg, with whom she forged a lifelong friendship. the rest of them. The ex-con did something decidedly not okay, a (Audiotape of his call just before dying is an perversion of “the framework of justice I had built emotional highlight of the mostly upbeat film.) She was later able to shoot ’60s icons like Bob for myself”. With his rigidly upright posture and buttoned-up dress clothes, Yasaka is a hit with Dylan and Joni Mitchell. But Dorfman never Mom and daughter. He presents himself as a com- caught on with magazine editors or with gallerists, pulsive truth-teller. But his presence is that of a and instead went back to Cambridge and set up a quiet snake in what’s already no garden of Eden. moderately rewarding portrait business. Although she never received any financial support from PoAnd Dad isn’t telling everything, either. The film’s binary approach cracks things right laroid, she ended up owning one of only five 20x24 in the middle, when a new (largely unexplained) cameras they made, and the large-format portraits crisis happens, and the tale jumps ahead about it yielded became her bread and butter. Normally shooting two final images on the exeight years. Yasaka’s no longer on the scene, but the family is in even deeper peril. Still, Toshio pensive film, she kept the rejects—the “B-sides” seems much more engaged now. The filmmaker of the title. She also ended up with a stash of that keeps a cool distance, however, and Harmonium Polaroid product, but now that it’s almost gone, wavers between elegantly composed long shots Dorfman herself ends up a scratchy B-side of the and flights of magic-realistic fancy. It’s a tightly lapsed century. But that’s not fair, Morris seems to controlled storytelling gambit that pays off, even argue. She was a hitmaker from the start. > KEN EISNER if Fukada’s off-key tendency to keep messing with the audience grows slightly wearying by the fadeTHE BAD BATCH to-black ending. > KEN EISNER
THE B-SIDE: ELSA DORFMAN’S PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY
Starring Suki Waterhouse. Rated 14A
VHS-era fetishists will groove on The Bad
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favourite midnight movies. Sadly, its more ambitious aspects come with built-in tape glitch. Elsa Dorfman’s name is not on the lips of Insurgent’s Suki Waterhouse is Arlen, a waif in your average photography collector and yellow short-shorts dumped in the film’s opening that’s pretty much the point of the latest from vet- scenes inside a vast Texan desert walled off, Escape eran provocateur Errol Morris (The Fog of War). From New York–style, from the rest of civilization. Among other heavy-duty threads connecting Within minutes she’s kidnapped by cannibals and Morris’s work, the untrustworthiness of memory relieved of an arm and a leg. So far, so awesome. may be the sturdiest. Here, retrospection is made Arlen escapes, of course, after some highly satistangible through the sharp-eyed portraits of Elsa fying revenge violence, and makes her way to a Dorfman, a perpetually jolly Massachusetts pho- sandblasted shantytown called Comfort, benevotographer who recently turned 80. The filmmaker lently presided over by a puffy potentate in pristine A documentary by Errol Morris. Rated PG
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CADENCE Shot in Langley, this haunting psychological
thriller marks the feature debut of UBC theatre and film grad Alex Lasheras. He’ll be there to present Cadence, the winner of 2016’s VIFF #mustseebc Audience Award, at the Vancity Theatre on Saturday (June 24). -
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ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL A documentary by Steve James. Rating unavailable
Just when Americans finally began contem-
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had betrayed them in the Benedict Arnold sense, the U.S. House of Representatives passed yet another let’s-undo-Obama’s-legacy bill with the Financial Choice Act, quietly removing regulations placed on Wall Street investors after the meltdown of 2008. This move happened long after the completion of Abacus: Small Enough to Jail. The subtitle is a play on the phrase “too big to fail”, referring to huge banks like JP Morgan Chase, bailed out as Bush left office. And how many banks were held accountable for this bad-mortgage-fuelled disaster? Exactly one, and that’s the subject of the latest provocation from Steve James (Hoop Dreams). The events here centre on one Thomas Sung, an immigrant from Shanghai who became one of the first see next page
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white slacks called the Dream (Keanu Reeves, made up to look like Bob Guccione). He keeps a harem of pregnant women around to cook up the community’s drugs; not the worst form of soft control, all things being equal, and the resident DJ (Diego Luna) isn’t bad. Matters become a little less Comfort-able when the Dream adopts a six-yearold girl (Jayda Fink) who seems to have wandered in from the surrounding badlands, and Arlen is tapped to fetch her by the kid’s dad, Miami Man (Jason Momoa, Conan)—the fiercest but also the most soulful of those cannibals. Writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour made a big impression with 2014’s Jarmusch-ean vampire flick A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, and the vision here, augmented by more than a few songs from New York synth duo Darkside, is equally tooled for cult-movie-heads. What it lacks, besides a better performance from Waterhouse, is any confidence in its shading. The film wants ambiguity—not the kind of thing generally found in pulp—leaving us with unreadable characters and a distinct peteringout of tension. The last line (regarding some spaghetti) should land with a hard existential wallop, but instead it’s an eye-roller. Still, any film with the balls to cast an unrecognizable Jim Carrey as its symbolic moral centre has more than a little something going for it.
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DAZED AND CONFUSED It’s never not a good time to revisit Richard Linklater’s warm, ‘70s-set ensemble piece. Enjoy some sweet emotion with Parker Posey, Ben Affleck, and Matthew “Wooderson” McConaughey in tight pink jeans at the Rio Theatre on Friday (June 23).
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GIANTS AMONG US—RICK HANSEN AND THE GREAT WHITE STURGEON
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and Proverbs” series continues with this lovely feature from 1986, in which a vacationing Parisian secretary looks for romance and a flash of the sun’s dying light. Screening at the Cinematheque on Saturday and Sunday (June 24 and 25).
BRITISH MUSEUM PRESENTS: HOKUSAI “He was a prodigy, like Picasso,” says David Hockney in this dazzling, 8K ultra HD tribute to the great Japanese artist. The film offers an inside look at the British Museum’s epic exhibition Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave. See it at the Cineplex Park Theatre on Sunday (June 25). JUNE 22 – 29 / 2017 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 35
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“One of life’s hardest lessons is this: two people can be absolutely crazy in love with each other and still not be good partners,” said Franklin Veaux, coauthor of More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory (morethantwo.com). “If you’re
monogamous and you meet someone you’re completely smitten with who isn’t, the best thing to do is acknowledge that you’re incompatible and go your separate ways. It hurts and it sucks, but there it is.” Th is perfect, sneaky guy who makes you feel like a loser and a hussy? He told you he was in an open relationship on your second date. You knew he wasn’t “your type” or “perfect” for you the second time you laid eyes on him, SHAME, and you needed to go your separate ways at that point. And I’m not buying your excuse (“I was too infatuated!”). What if he had revealed that he was a recreational bed wetter? Or a serial killer? Or Jeff rey Lord? Or all of the above? Surely you would’ve dumped him then. Veaux advocates ethical polyamory—it’s right there in the title of his book—and he thinks this guy did you wrong by not disclosing his partner’s existence right away. “Making a nonmonogamous relationship work requires a commitment to communication, honesty, and transparency,” said Veaux. “Concealing the fact that you’re in a relationship is a big violation of all three, and no good will come of it.” I have a slightly different take. Straight women in open relationships have an easier time finding men willing to fuck and/or date them; their straight male counterparts have a much more difficult time. Stigma and double standards are at work here—she’s sexually adventurous; he’s a cheating bastard—and waiting to disclose the fact that you’re poly (or kinky or HIV–positive or a cammer)
> BY DAN SAVAGE is a reaction to/work-around for that. It’s also a violation of poly best practices, like Veaux says, but the stigma is a violation too. Waiting to disclose your partner, kink, HIV status, et cetera can prompt the other person to weigh their assumptions and prejudices about poly/kinky/poz people against the living, breathing person they’ve come to know. Still, disclosure needs to come early—within a date or two, certainly before anyone gets fucked—so the other person can bail if poly/kinky/poz is a deal breaker. As for that new relationship energy stuff… “There are, in truth, polyamorous people who are NRE junkies,” said Veaux. “Men and women who chase new relationships in pursuit of that emotional fi x. They’re not very common, but they do exist, and alas they tend to leave a lot of destruction in their wake.” But your assumptions about how NRE works are wrong, SHAME. Seeing your partner in the throes of NRE doesn’t bring the primary couple closer together; it often places a strain on the relationship. Opening up a relationship can certainly save it (if openness is a better fit for both partners), but NRE isn’t a log the primary couple tosses on the emotional/ erotic fire. It’s something a poly person experiences with a new partner, not something a poly person enjoys with an established one. And there are lots of examples of long-term poly relationships out there—established triads, quads, quints—so your assumption about being discarded once NRE wears off is also off, SHAME. There are no
guarantees, however. If this guy were single and looking for a monogamous relationship, you could nevertheless discover you’re not right for each other and wind up being discarded or doing the discarding yourself. I’m going to give the fi nal word to our guest expert… “Having an avoidant attachment style complicates things, because one of the things that can go along with avoidant attachment is idealizing partners who are inaccessible or unavailable,” said Veaux. “Th at can make it harder to let go. But if you’re radically incompatible with the person you love, letting go is likely your only healthy choice. Good luck!”
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