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INDIGENOUS MELODIES

An Aboriginal band from Taiwan, Kanatal, will bring their environmentally themed anthem “Peace” to the Vancouver and Mission folk music festivals

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An Indigenous band from Taiwan, Kanatal, will bring its message of peace and respect for the environment to two major Lower Mainland folk festivals.

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Teacher Annie Ohana (left) won an antiracism award earlier this year from broadcaster Shushma Datt’s Spice Radio; later this month, Ohana can add Pride “grand marshal” to her list of honours.

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n March, a Surrey educator was honoured by Spice Radio for her efforts to counter racism in the community.

Annie Ohana is the founder of Mustang Justice, which was named after the mustang mascot at L. A. Matheson secondary, where she teaches.

In an interview with Spice Radio CEO Shushma Datt after receiving one of the station’s antiracism awards, Ohana talked about her passion for countering prejudice. She said that from the first year she arrived at the school, she felt there was a need for students to focus more attention on social-justice issues.

And she believes that dialogue is essential in bringing the community forward.

“I’m not a trans person; I don’t know that experience,” Ohana said. “I can talk to someone about it rather than say, ‘Trans kids shouldn’t use washrooms.’ ” Ohana has always ensured that LGBT+ kids were at the centre of these efforts— and that was demonstrated when some of them were interviewed on the station when she won her award.

“It’s a club within a school,” Ohana said of Mustang Justice. “We definitely go into the community.”

Spice Radio isn’t the only organization honouring Ohana this year. She’s also one of four grand marshals of the Vancouver Pride Parade, which returns to the West End on July 31.

Historically, grand marshals have been people with the LGBT+ community or associated with groups that act on its behalf.

Ohana, a cis-pansexual community activist, is being recognized for putting LGBT+ students at the forefront of her work. In fact, sexual orientation and gender identity are two of the intersectional lenses that she applies in helping make space for all students and elevating their voices.

Another of the grand marshals is a queer Indigenous woman of Squamish and Kwakwaka’wakw ancestry, Tiyáltelut Kristen

Rivers. She’s an elected member of the Squamish Nation Council, playing a key role in creating the first Indigenous rental-assistance program for off-reserve members to help offset the impact of sky-high apartment costs.

In addition, Rivers has promoted a “Living Wages for Families” certification as chair of her nation’s human resources committee. This year, she was elected to the board of Vancity credit union.

Another grand marshal is the Dogwood Monarchist Society, which became a nonprofit under provincial legislation in the 1970s. This enabled it to not only promote social interaction in the LGBT+ community but also to advocate for a democratic monarchy.

Since then, the Dogwood Monarchist Society has raised a great deal of money to address issues of concern, including the HIV crisis of the 1980s. Nowadays, it’s supporting the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Friends for Life Society, Options for Sexual Health, and Qmunity.

Pride parades around the world are known for their razzle-dazzle, which is what another grand marshal brings in abundance. Empress Fancy Pants, the 50th elected empress of the city, operates a “Ministry of JOYous community service and sacred activism”, according to the Vancouver Pride Society website.

Empress Fancy Pants was one of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence six years ago and later went on to become Ms. Gay Vancouver 40. One of her greatest accomplishments has been to go on cycling treks for hundreds of kilometres to raise funds for worthy causes, bedecked in full drag and makeup.

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COMMENTARY

Why Eby is well-positioned in NDP leadership race

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he B.C. NDP is made up of several key groups that have traditionally played major roles in leadership races.

They are not monolithic blocs, and some members belong to one or more of these wings of the party: organized labour (private and public sector, which don’t always see eye to eye); women’s-rights activists; people of South Asian ancestry; environmentalists; LGBT+ activists; Indigenous people; and student-movement leaders In recent years, the party has been attracting more millennials, especially those who were upset over the B.C. Liberals’ handling of the housing issue. Plus, the B.C. NDP has been bolstered by a growing

number of members who trace their roots back to the Philippines and Taiwan.

Meanwhile, the B.C. NDP has repelled some environmentalists who used to routinely be in its camp. The gung-ho support for fracking, LNG, and continued old-growth logging is reminiscent of the 1990s, when a previous NDP government’s logging and energy policies alienated those concerned about clean drinking water and rising greenhouse-gas emissions.

Several commentators feel that Attorney General David Eby may have a lock on the B.C. NDP leadership now that he’s been endorsed by Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation Minister Ravi Kahlon.

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Eby sometimes presents a green sheen, even if his party doesn’t.

– Charlie Smith

If Kahlon can bring along most of those of South Asian ancestry—which is highly likely, given his popularity—Eby will be in excellent shape. The attorney general is already very popular with some millennials and a fair number of housing activists.

Eby sometimes presents a green sheen, even if his party doesn’t; plus, he’s acceptable to some in the student movement.

But simply assuming that Eby is the premier-in-waiting overlooks a couple of things. First off, how will he fare with the large women’s movement within the B.C. NDP? Would a run by a high-profile woman siphon away a significant amount of support? What if Land, Water and Resource Stewardship Minister Josie Osborne were to declare her candidacy?

In addition, Eby might not get a boost from private-sector union members within the NDP, who like resource extraction and megaprojects. They loved John Horgan, and they might have liked Kahlon if he were a candidate. But is Eby really someone they can identify with? He’s no Glen Clark, that’s for sure, let alone a Don Davies, who represents Vancouver Kingsway in Parliament.

There are other unknowns at this point.

Could a crack political organizer like Vancouver-Kensington MLA Mable Elmore enter the race? Even if she fell far short, she

might be in a position to get behind another candidate who could stop Eby. The same might be said of North Vancouver–Lonsdale MLA Bowinn Ma, who’s trying to urge the climate-conscious to take out memberships to influence the outcome of the leadership race. Over social media, some are telling her that she would be better off joining the B.C. Greens.

Eby has a few things in common with Tom Berger, a very articulate and polished lawyer who led the party to a disastrous defeat in the 1969 election. Berger cruised to victory in his party’s leadership race, thanks in part to the support of organized labour, but he didn’t have the mustard in blue-collar British Columbia, let alone in his own constituency of Vancouver-Burrard.

Is Eby going to be Berger 2.0? That’s a question that might emerge in the minds of some party elders who recall the 1969 election.

That said, Eby is still in an enviable position this early in the race. And he hasn’t even begun to show off his improving Mandarin. It will do wonders to offset any claims that in the past Eby might have pandered to yellow-peril fears for political gain.

Plus, he can play up the fact that he and Kahlon restored the B.C. Human Rights Commission.

Even better for Eby’s fortunes is the slowing real-estate market. It means he’s less likely to be dogged by criticism over relentlessly rising housing prices. So all things considered, perhaps the stars are aligning in his favour—and those commentators are correct in putting him far out in front of the undeclared pack.

But keep an eye on the women’s movement and the remaining environmentalists within the NDP. If they coalesce behind a candidate other than Eby, this race could turn out to be closer than some people might expect. Stay tuned. g

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ast year, about 150 doctors and researchers signed a letter expressing “deep concern” about how the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation had been reporting on Dr. John Conly.

In 2020, Conly was the lead author on a paper maintaining that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, “is not spread by the airborne route to any significant extent”.

This paper also insisted that “the use of particulate respirators offers no advantage over medical masks as a component of personal protective equipment for the routine care of patients with COVID-19 in the health care setting”.

This perspective has made him a figure of controversy among those who support the use of N95 respirators in hospitals and other indoor settings.

Conly is a professor of medicine, microbiology, immunology and infectious diseases, pathology, and laboratory medicine at the University of Calgary. He is codirector of the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the University of Calgary, a member of the Canadian expert advisory group on antimicrobial resistance, and a member of the World Health Organization advisory group on integrated surveillance of antimicrobial resistance.

The signatories to the pro-Conly letter, which was part of a complaint to the CBC ombudsman about a 2021 article on its website, included the following physicians who listed links to the University of British Columbia: Dr. William Connors, Dr. Dwight Ferris, Dr. Jennifer Grant, Dr. Jocelyn Srigley, Dr. Alastair Teale, Dr. Jan Hajek, Dr. Alissa Wright, Dr. Ted Steiner, Dr. Katherine Plewes, Dr. Laura Sauvé, Dr. Natasha Press, Dr. Ryan LeBlanc, and Dr. Lisa Li. Another signatory, Dr. Alison Lopez, listed her connection to B.C. Children’s Hospital.

They accused CBC of spurring “a mob of trolls spewing hateful comments and propagating misinformation” through its coverage of Conly. This included CBC reporting on a

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Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender can order a public inquiry under provincial law.

University of Calgary–sponsored webinar on how the SARS-CoV-2 virus is transmitted.

“While 2 panelists provided evidence favoring it to be predominantly airborne, Dr. Conly supported multiple modes of transmission based on available evidence and long-term infection control principles of contact and droplet transmission, accepting that airborne transmission also can occur in specific situations,” the letter writers stated.

“This is the position of the CDC, WHO and Public Health Agency of Canada,” they continued. “In coverage of the webinar and with additional CBC coverage which sought the views of others favoring predominantly long-range airborne transmission, Dr. Conly was attacked and painted as a villain who was responsible for WHO being hesitant in endorsing airborne transmission as the predominant mode of transmission.

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helping to lead the global fight against COVID-19 has been unjustly denigrated.”

On March 22, CBC ombudsman Jack Nagler released a decision largely upholding the CBC’s actions but noting that “some of the story’s descriptions of Dr. Conly’s positions failed the test of accuracy and fairness”.

“To say that he ‘denied’ or ‘refuted’ the notion of aerosols as the primary transmission of COVID-19 was not sustained by the statements Dr. Conly made in the article itself… Ultimately, the portrayal of this nuanced debate would have benefited from more nuanced language on the part of CBC,” Nagler wrote.

Here’s another portion of the letter in the complaint: “At the heart of the matter is how SARS-C0V-2 is transmitted—the size of infectious particles and distance they can travel to cause an infection.”

“SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics are very complex, situational and are of intense scientific inquiry because of the public health implications,” they continued.

“This distinction matters as the resulting infection control precautions in Canadian hospitals—and most of the world—are based on this understanding (where healthcare workers wear surgical masks, gowns, gloves and eyewear to protect themselves— except when aerosol generating procedures occur and an N95 mask is used).”

They accused CBC of “selectively” citing

two papers, as well as a 2020 letter published in the Clinical Infectious Disease journal.

This letter to the journal was signed by 239 scientists, calling for COVID-19 to be declared an airborne infectious disease.

The Conly supporters pointed out that this letter in Clinical Infectious Disease had only two Canadian signatories who were infectious disease physicians or medical microbiologists.

“However, the CBC does not comment on those that have pushed back against this assertion—including a letter published in the same journal signed by hundreds of leading scientists and clinicians from all over the world—including 168 Canadian infectious disease physicians and medical microbiologists,” they declared. “Nor does CBC comment on the hundreds of papers which don’t support this argument.”

The B.C. signatories pushing back against the assertion that COVID-19 should be declared an airborne infectious disease in 2020 were: Dr. Srinavas Murthy and Dr. Jennifer Grant of the UBC faculty of medicine, Dr. David Patrick of the UBC school of population and public health and the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Jim Hutchinson of the UBC faculty of medicine and Vancouver Island Health Authority, Dr. Pamela Kibsey of the Vancouver Island Health Authority and Royal Jubilee Hospital, Dr. Jocelyn Srigley and Dr. Laura J. Sauvé of the UBC faculty of medicine and B.C. Children’s and B.C. Women’s hospitals, Dr. John Galbraith of the UBC faculty of medicine and Vancouver Island Health Authority, Dr. Troy Grennan of the UBC faculty of medicine and B.C. Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Edith Blondel-Hill of the UBC faculty of medicine and Interior Health, and Dr. Ghada Al-Rawahi of the UBC faculty of medicine, the B.C. Cancer Agency, and B.C. Children’s and Women’s hospitals.

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be declared an airborne infectious disease.

A paper published earlier this year in Environmental Science & Technology is among those arguing in favour of the primacy of airborne transmission of COVID-19.

“Measles outbreaks occur at much lower risk parameter values than COVID-19, while tuberculosis outbreaks are observed at higher risk parameter values,” the paper noted. “Because both diseases are accepted as airborne, the fact that COVID-19 is less contagious than measles does not rule out airborne transmission.”

One of the authors, Jose-Luis Jimenez, is a University of Colorado, Boulder aerosol scientist who describes the difference between aerosols and droplets in this way: * aerosols are smaller than 100 microns and the majority are smaller than five microns; their trajectory is largely influenced by airflow and ventilation and they can be inhaled, reaching in and being deposited in the bronchiolar and alveolar regions of the lungs; * droplets are larger than 100 microns and are produced through coughing and sneezing; their trajectory is dictated by gravity and they cannot be inhaled.

There is a significant number of B.C. physicians and health-care workers who believe that the most common way COVID-19 is transmitted from one person to another is through tiny airborne particles of the virus hanging in indoor air for minutes or hours after an infected person has been there. They subscribe to the Jimenez view of transmission.

In fact, this is the precise language used by the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Alondra Nelson, in a public statement issued on March 23. Some of these B.C. physicians and healthcare workers who accept this are part of a group called Protect Our Province B.C. It has been vehemently critical of the policies being advanced by the B.C. NDP government, arguing that it’s elevating risks for the immunocompromised and those with underlying cardiovascular conditions.

Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, also appears to share the view of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, judging from a Twitter thread from last November.

“Since the outset of the pandemic, we’ve learned a lot about the #SARSCoV2 virus that causes #COVID19,” Tam tweeted.

“Importantly, we’ve learned how the virus can linger in fine aerosols and remain suspended in the air we breathe.”

These debates over the role of airborne transmission have been occurring in scientific journals and over social media for more than two years.

The stakes are incredibly high for the public. If the B.C. government were to embrace policies that flow out of the Jimenez perspective, it would likely lead to a far greater emphasis on wearing N95 respirators indoors and greater public expenditures on indoorair ventilation. As well, it would likely result in the promotion of HEPA filters and carbon-dioxide monitors in classrooms to

protect the immunocompromised.

But as long as the B.C. government and influential B.C. physicians embrace Conly’s view of the spread of COVID-19, we won’t see anywhere near the same emphasis on wearing respirators in most hospital settings. To date, there haven’t been advertising campaigns in B.C. comparing the distribution of aerosols carrying the SARSCoV-2 virus to the spread of tobacco smoke.

It cries out for a disinterested person to hold a public inquiry, given that the COVID-19 death toll has surpassed 42,000 in Canada. Politicians in this country have demonstrated that they don’t have the guts to order this. There aren’t many others who have legal authority to do this.

But one person with this power is B.C. Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender. Under Section 47.15 of the Human Rights Code, she can order an inquiry if she is of the opinion that this would “promote or protect human rights”.

Under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed in Paris on December 10, 1948, “everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”

This language is also included in Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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In fact, the conductor of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra tells the Straight by phone that this early music is actually very exciting and, because it arose out of folk traditions, includes a great many dance songs.

“If people don’t know it, they really should take the opportunity to enjoy it, because I know that those terms—baroque and early—sometimes build a barrier where there shouldn’t be one,” Weimann tells the Straight by phone.

He describes the Pacific Baroque Orchestra as “pretty much” the only professional ensemble of its kind in Canada west of Toronto. On July 27, Weimann will lead the orchestra in the opening concert at this year’s Vancouver Bach Festival. It’s one of his four appearances at the festival.

Entitled Ebb and Flow, the concert will showcase the two Early Music Vancouver musicians-in-residence, violinist David Greenberg and keyboardist David McGuinness, along with Vancouver poet laureate Fiona Tinwei Lam. Ebb and Flow opens with the song cycle Silken Water,

by Canadian composer Alasdair Maclean and based on Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry. In addition, the orchestra will perform German composer Georg Philipp Telemann’s Hamburger Ebb und Fluht, followed by George Frideric Handel’s Water Music, HWV 348.

“I think in this program with the poems that were chosen, it works particularly well to give us an idea of water as the force of nature but also as something that’s very musical in itself,” Weimann says.

He describes how the composers address the subject as “stunning”, with the Telemann dance pieces almost treating water as if it were an organism. “It’s very beautiful,” he declares.

Another highlight of this year’s festival will be the Pacific Baroque Orchestra’s interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto for four harpsichords in A minor on August 5 at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. This will feature four harpsichordists—Weimann, McGuinness, Marco Vitale, and Christina Hutten—all playing instruments created by West Vancouver’s Craig Tomlinson based on a model built by Pascal Taskin in Paris in 1769.

The Munich-born Weimann explains that as a child, he learned the piano, and then in his early teenage years, a church organ became his instrument of choice.

Harpsichordist-organist Alexander Weimann.

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Orchestra music is so much fun, and the harpsichord was the vehicle for me to do that.

– Alexander Weimann

“I was always fascinated by the harpsichord—which I would qualify as the closest sibling to the organ—but also a little deterred,” he admits.

That’s because he believes the harpsichord can sound a little mechanical if it’s in the wrong hands or if it’s not made properly.

He mustered up the courage to try the instrument in his early 20s and experienced a great deal of frustration for a long time.

It wasn’t until he was in his late 20s that he could feel truly comfortable with it, that the harpsichord became an “expressive device and not just a machine”.

One of the advantages of the harpsichord is that it enables him to play with other musicians, whereas a church organ is a more solitary instrument.

“Orchestra music is so much fun, and the harpsichord was the vehicle for me to do that,” Weimann says. “That’s why I wanted to crack the nut, really.” g Early Music Vancouver presents the Vancouver Bach Festival from July 26 to August 6. Weimann and/or the Pacific Baroque Orchestra will perform in four concerts. For more information and tickets, visit earlymusic.bc.ca.

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Singer scrutinizes gender expectations for sopranos

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by Charlie Smith

ver the past two years, singersongwriter Ellen Torrie thought a lot about gender assumptions placed on sopranos in opera and baroque music.

Torrie is a Montreal-based soprano, visual artist, and folk musician who prefers the pronouns they and them. According to Torrie, sopranos have traditionally been expected to ooze femininity while appearing conventionally attractive and desirable on-stage.

This is notwithstanding opera’s history of gender-bending over the centuries through so-called “trouser roles”, a.k.a. travesti, in which women wear pants while performing male roles.

“The feminine and masculine tropes are still so strict, regardless of the gender identity of the person playing them,” Torrie says.

“So, I’m interested in projects that reframe narratives in opera and in early music— to smash heteronormative narratives in opera—which I think is the next step.

“The framework is there,” Torrie continues. “We already have been doing, essentially, drag in opera for centuries.”

Torrie and Montreal-based violist Marie Nadeau-Tremblay are the first members of Early Music Vancouver’s emerging-artists program. Torrie says that many younger baroque artists have a deep interest in gender representations in early music but adds that institutions presenting this art form have not been nearly so quick to adapt to reflect current society.

“The best part is that these emerging artists will be the industry in 20 years, so we will have that power to conceive the kind of stories we want to tell now,” Torrie says.

The musician views the pandemic as a period when many people stepped away from social conventions and confronted previously hidden aspects of themselves.

For Torrie, isolation led to a “sort of reckoning” with gender identity.

“It felt very easy at the time and beautiful to discover these very different parts of me in that way,” Torrie continues. “But when I returned to the stage and when I returned to the industry of early music and of classical music, it just became that much more apparent, these gender expectations that are put, especially, on sopranos.”

The biggest one, the singer emphasizes, is to look a certain way on-stage.

“I think I’m looking forward with my colleagues to forging a new way forward in terms of what it means to be a soprano— and how FoC [feminine-of-centre] and identity are related but are also separate in a lot of ways,” Torrie says, “and how those gender associations can be harmful but can also be celebrated.”

Ellen Torrie wants to smash heteronormative narratives in opera. Photo by Petra Stauffer.

We already have been doing, essentially, drag in opera for centuries.

– Ellen Torrie

Torrie will perform at two Vancouver Bach Festival concerts, including Armonico Tributo at Christ Church Cathedral on August 2. It will include EMV artist in residence and keyboardist David McGuinness and violinist Chloe Meyers in a program revealing how Scottish folk music seeped into the consciousness of 17th- and 18th-century European baroque composers.

“Folk singers are singing in what I would call democratized spaces—like public spaces—busking in cafés, in parks,” Torrie says. “Because of the context of our performance, we’re able to facilitate community music-making and community storytelling.”

Torrie likens this to the self-accompaniment that occurred in Renaissance salons.

“So I’ve been learning baroque guitar to learn to self-accompany Renaissance and baroque music—and marry this aspect of folk music to Renaissance music.”

And that, Torrie adds, just might help bridge any class divides between devotees of folk and baroque music. g Early Music Vancouver’s Vancouver Bach Festival presents Armonico Tributo on August 2 at Christ Church Cathedral. On August 3, Ellen Torrie joins violist Marie Nadeau-Tremblay and theorbist Sylvain Bergeron in a Vancouver Bach Festival concert at Pyatt Hall in the VSO School of Music.

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Friedenberg gets personal in genderfluid Pants

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by Charlie Smith

ancouver dancer and choreographer Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg has always had a bifurcated view of gender.

In a phone interview with the Straight, she reveals that her mother once asked what she wanted to be for Halloween.

Friedenberg replied “a man”.

Her mom then asked what type of male character. Friedenberg reiterated that she just wanted to be a man.

“She got me a big moustache,” Friedenberg says. “I definitely have been exploring drag since I was a kid.”

But she emphasizes that even though she wanted to be a boy sometimes, it wasn’t all the time.

“I also wanted to be, like, a little pink ballerina,” Friedenberg adds.

Naturally, this raises a question about preferred pronouns.

“I go by ‘her’ most, but it depends, at the end,” she quips. “But thanks for asking.”

These stories from childhood help explain the motivation behind Friedenberg’s newest interdisciplinary creation, Pants, which will be presented as a work-in-progress at this year’s 34th annual Dancing on the Edge festival.

It’s a comedic combination of dance and talking, which reflects her research into her own and her child’s exploration of gender.

It’s been created with the help of dramaturge Joanna Garfinkel, director and cocreator

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Choreographer Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg aims to reveal the ridiculousness of gender in Pants, which will be presented as a work-in-progress at the Dancing on the Edge fest. Photo by Wendy D.

Kate Franklin, and Zee Zee Theatre’s Cameron Mackenzie, with whom she worked on Sunny Drake’s Men Express Their Feelings.

“It’s very kind of autobiographical,” Friedenberg says. “What I’m trying to do is weave storytelling with the embodiment of my experience as somebody who mostly identifies as female but not exclusively— and just what it is to feel masculinity and femininity in the body.”

Humour has long been a cornerstone of Friedenberg’s practice in shows like Body

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Whereas many of her previous shows featured extreme and zany characters, this one is far more personal. She also hopes that Pants will shine a light on the “ridiculousness of gender in our culture”.

“Comedy has always been a way for me to cope with things, to deal with difficult situations, to connect with people,” she says.

This was the case as a child in school, where she sometimes ran afoul of teachers with her antics.

“Even in ballet class, I would always get in trouble for trying to make the other little girls laugh,” Friedenberg recalls.

She wanted to be a prima ballerina but her mother “very wisely” informed her that she would likely end up in the quarter ballet. That led Friedenberg into other forms of dance.

Later, she studied theatre at the University of Calgary and dance at Simon Fraser University. Because she lived between these two worlds of dance and theatre, she was able to create her own unique blend of dance and text. Along the way, she was encouraged by mentors such as Denise Clarke of One Yellow Rabbit in Calgary and the outrageous and innovative British cofounder of DV8, Nigel Charnock, who died in 2012.

From the world of comedy, she has been inspired by Australian Hannah Gadsby and American Tig Notaro.

Friedenberg also offers a major shout-out to Dancing on the Edge festival producer Donna Spencer. Friedenberg guesses that the first of her many appearances was way back in 1994, after she graduated from university.

“I feel really lucky,” Friedenberg says.

“Give credit to Donna at the Firehall [Arts Centre] for giving me a chance really early in my career and letting me experiment and see that audience respond.

“I’m just so happy to be still doing it.” g Dancing on the Edge will present Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg/Tara Cheyenne Performance’s Pants with Calder White’s BABY at the Firehall Arts Centre at 9 p.m. on July 15 and 16.

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Queer experiences underlie Calder White’s BABY

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horeographer Calder White describes his upcoming show at the 34th annual Dancing on the Edge festival as a “full-circle moment”. BABY, in which he will perform a solo with puppets, will mark the first time that a festival presenter will bring one of his original works to the stage. The show also includes a duet with Toronto-based dancers Rakeem Hardy and Jessica Mak. “Dancing on the Edge holds a very near and dear spot to my heart because it was the first festival that I ever saw when I moved to Vancouver four years ago,” White tells the Straight by phone. “And I’ve performed in it every year since moving to Vancouver.”

Last year, he appeared in three Dancing on the Edge shows: Rachel Meyer’s Mama, do we die when we sleep?; Wen Wei Dance’s Two; and Shay Kuebler/Radical System Art’s MOI–Momentum of Isolation. The latter two were themed around isolation, as is BABY. Its origins go back to White pondering whether it would be moral to ask two dancers to be touching or engaging with each other—and how to create a group work that was also ethical in the pandemic.

“My answer to both of those things was to increase the number of ‘nonreal’ bod-

Choreographer Calder White uses puppets to fill a space with bodies. Photo by Tom Hsu.

ies on-stage,” he explains. “That’s kind of where the puppets come into it. I wanted to fill the space with bodies and try to do that in the safest way possible.”

But these are not your everyday lovable, cheerful puppets that you might see on Sesame Street. Quite the opposite.

“I’m working at the intersection of anonymity, intimacy, and horror,” White de-

clares.

He adds that horror—along the lines of what’s seen in films like Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th—is not normally a part of dance work. So in BABY, he wanted to play with aspects of this genre by introducing some of these elements. They include a hooded figure seen from a distance staring at the observer and a lonely creature who surrounds himself with nonliving bodies to keep himself company.

“There are a lot of horror tropes,” White says. “I’m a huge horror fan myself when it comes to film and literature.”

He acknowledges that anonymity, intimacy, and horror have been integral to his experience as a gay man. But he emphasizes that these are not elements of all queer lives.

“So that’s kind of underlying the whole work: how to engage with these other bodies,” White says.

He credits Kuebler as having a “big impact on his creative focus” because Kuebler works in such a theatrical way with many characters.

“It was through Shay that I found the carpenter [Chris White] who made the puppets for me that are seen in the promotional images and will be seen in the show,” White

says. “One of the main motives for this piece is to kind of alter the audience’s perception of the number of performers on-stage. That goes beyond just the puppets.”

White also praises Stéphanie Cyr for providing dramaturgy in Vancouver, as well as old friends Clarke Blair and Tia Kushniruk for helping him when he was in Toronto. White is hooded in his solo, so it would have been impossible to pull it off without their eyes assisting him.

“I don’t know where this piece would be without them,” he says.

Maria Kofman oversaw costume design and wardrobe and Stefan Nazarevich was responsible for the music.

“It’s my biggest piece to date,” White says with pride. “With the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, I’m able to make some interesting costume choices that, hopefully, will have some cool effects for the audience.” g Dancing on the Edge will present Calder White’s BABY with Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg/ Tara Cheyenne Performance’s Pants at the Firehall Arts Centre at 9 p.m. on July 15 and 16.

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ARTS This year’s Vancouver Bach Festival is a unique fusion of traditional Scottish and baroque music

Four undercard acts to catch at the Vancouver folk fest

by Mike Usinger

Violinist David Greenberg and keyboardist David McGuinness will reveal the links between Scottish folk tunes and baroque music at this year’s Vancouver Bach Festival. Photo by David Greenberg.

(This story is sponsored by Early Music Vancouver.)

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hile there are tons of activities that folks look forward to every summer, events that feature live music are always at the top of the list. Well aware of the public’s thirst for entertaining performances, Early Music Vancouver is bringing the Bach Festival back to the city, from July 26 to August 6.

And it’s not only for diehard fans of Johann Sebastian Bach, the renowned German composer. The festival lineup is filled with classical and folk performances, showcasing talented fiddlers in the Acadian, Scottish, and Métis style. The event will appeal to anyone who enjoys listening to toe-tapping melodies in an unpretentious, inclusive atmosphere.

The performances are scheduled to be held at several locations across Vancouver—none of which are stuffy and overcrowded. Shows will be presented at cathedral and traditional concert halls, the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, botanical gardens, and even a Celtic pub.

The 2022 lineup fuses traditional music from Scotland and classical composers

from the baroque era. For those unfamiliar with this period in time, baroque is a style of music, poetry, and art that was popular in Europe during the 17th century.

Composers like Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Johannes Brahms used traditional folk tunes as a basis for some of their compositions—and the other way around. The musicians who played in pubs and taverns often riffed on the music created by the classical composers. The baroque era was a time of musical inspiration and sharing.

Throughout the 12-day festival, attendees can catch performances from the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, violinist David Greenberg, cellist Christina Mahler, soprano Ellen Torrie, violinist Chloe Kim, and many others. For the full list of in-person and digital concert offerings, visit earlymusic.bc.ca/tickets/bach-festival-2022/.

Performances will explore Bach’s love for adapting works from other composers, new works by Canadian composers, a repertoire of Scottish tunes, dark songs from cathedrals in Germany and Austria, and more. g To purchase your tickets to the Vancouver Bach Festival, visit www.earlymusic.bc.ca/tickets/.

Portland’s Haley Heynderickx will bring her superior fingerstyle acoustic-guitar chops and an inarguably clever way with words to this year’s edition of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival.

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hile headliners help move the weekend passes, it’s usually the undercard that separate the great festivals from the spectacular ones. From devastating roots troubadour Alejandro Escovedo to indie stalwarts the New Pornographers to genre-mashing chanteuse Allison Russell, there’s no shortage of established stars at the 2022 edition of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, from July 15 to 17.

With that in mind, come for the names you love. But make sure to check out these four acts that, if you don’t know them, might just change your world.

BELLA WHITE

The songs suggest Bella White grew up deep in the Appalachian mountains, where she was raised on Iris DeMent, Hazel Dickens, and the Stanley Brothers. But proving that some genres transcend borders, the 20-year-old throwback-country singer was born in Calgary, where she was steeped in bluegrass thanks to a dad who formerly called Virginia home.

The amazing thing about White’s debut full-length, Just Like Leaving, is the way she sounds like someone who longs for a time when Gingham dresses were the height of fashion—and we’re not talking the Lone Justice 1980s.

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for everyone, the duo of Brighid Fry and Pascale Padilla mix K-Records indie with lo-fi anti-pop, with the lyrical message being that, as far as we’ve come on issues ranging from LGBTQ rights to the environment, the work is only beginning.

HALEY HEYNDERICKX

As ethereal as Haley Heynderickx’s voice is, it’s her fingerstyle acoustic playing that truly captivates on the Portland-based musician’s debut full-length, I Need to Start a Garden.

Some players are more technically proficient than others, and the 29-year-old wouldn’t be out of place at the same lunch table as John Fahey and Kaki King.

Add in lyrics like “And there’s a centipede naked in your bedroom/Oh and you swear to God the fucker’s out to get you”, and you’ve got one more reason why Portlandia continues to be the coolest city on planet Earth.

MOLLY TUTTLE AND GOLDEN HIGHWAY

As captivating as murder ballads and gothic country might be, the past couple of years have been kind of rough ones. Sometimes you just want someone who sends a message that the world is beautiful, and there’s good reason to turn one’s back on the darkness and look into the light.

Enter Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, whose latest, Crooked Tree, bursts forth, joyously, with soaring violin, backporch banjo, and scarily accomplished bluegrass guitar. When Tuttle sings “Sunlight wakes my sleeping head and turns the mountain gold” in “Over the Line” it’s hard not to think that, after a rough stretch, all is officially good with the world once again. g

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Multiculturalism means harmony to Taiwan band

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ifty years ago, the modern international Indigenous movement became energized thanks to the work of a B.C. grand chief. George Manuel, a residential-school survivor and member of the Neskonlith Indian Band, travelled to the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm to rally support for a global Indigenous resurgence. He held a meeting with the Sámi people, which generated a fair amount of media attention, and three years later he went on to spearhead the creation of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples.

According to an article on Straight.com by his daughter Doreen and historian John Price, Manuel declared that the struggle of the past four centuries has been between two ideas of land. The Indigenous vision expounded by Manuel was that land could not be speculated with, bought, sold, or mortgaged by the state.

Those ideas resonated with Aboriginal people around the world, percolating up in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which was passed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007.

This year, a Taiwanese Indigenous band will be bringing its concerns about what’s happening to the land to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival and the Mission Folk Music Festival. Hearing Kanatal’s founder—keyboardist and songwriter Suana Emuy Cilangasay—speak about the experiences of Indigenous people in his country, one can conclude that the philosophy of George Manuel resonates far and wide.

In an interview with the Straight with his bandmates through a Mandarin-language translator at Harbour Green Park, Cilangasay expresses his deep attachment to the land.

He’s of mixed Sakilayan and Amis Indigenous heritage in Taiwan—and the Amis, a.k.a. the People of the Ocean, are passionate about protecting the seas and beaches of their traditional territory in eastern Taiwan.

“They believe that there are spirits in the natural environment and you shouldn’t desert them,” Cilangasay says. “You have to protect them.”

The three other members of Kanatal are also of Indigenous heritage: guitarist Masaw Ali (born to an Atayal mother and Chinese father), drummer Vagacu Kalevuan (Paiwan), and singer Abus Tanapima (Bunun and Amis). The band’s name, Kanatal, means “island” in the Amis language.

“I write in the Indigenous language,” Tanapima says in a video with English subtitles on YouTube. “I used to sing English songs, then slowly, slowly started writing Indigenous language songs.”

This enabled her to feel more connected to her roots. Yet she has still retained a passion for Canadian music, citing the Weeknd, Céline Dion, Avril Lavigne, Drake,

The members of Kanatal, a Taiwanese Indigenous band, represent several groups of Aboriginal peoples in Taiwan, including the Paiwan, the Amis, the Bunun, the Atayal, and the Sakilayan.

Shawn Mendes, and Inuk throat singer Shina Novalinga among her favourites.

Kalevuan points out in the same video that the Paiwan people have many ancient melodies. Even with the same song, he says, elders will sing it differently because they rely on their mood to interpret the lyrics.

Everyone in Kanatal takes a turn on vocals; they all write their own songs and they sing in several Indigenous languages.

On their tour of Canada, which has included stops at the Vancouver Island Music Festival and the Highway 19 concert series in Campbell River, they’ve also been playing their only English-language song, “Peace”, which was written by Cilangasay.

It’s an inspiring anthem to the environment, with Tanapima, the only female member, providing soaring vocals to augment Cilangasay’s passionate singing of lyrics linking greed to environmental destruction and bloodshed. “If we share the lands/ if the air is not polluted/if the water is always clear/if we share the lands/if humans are not greedy/there would be no more war in the world,” they sing to Ali’s melodic guitar and Kalevuan’s pulsating rhythms.

“This world is very chaotic because of human greed,” Cilangasay says in the interview. “Human greed causes a lot of environmental issues and conflict around the world—international conflict but also localized conflict such as within your own families and interpersonal relationships.”

According to some estimates, there may be more than one million Indigenous people living in Taiwan. About 570,000, or nearly three percent of the population, are officially recognized by the government in 16 tribes.

One thing that has touched Cilangasay’s heart is how Canadians are willing to

offer acknowledgements about being guests on unceded Indigenous territories before performances.

“In that moment, you can almost forgive

all the history of the world,” Cilangasay says, “because in that moment, you can see hope for a better future.”

At the same time, Cilangasay is well aware of Canada’s wretched mistreatment of Indigenous people, having been to several museums when he visited the country in 2019.

He says he was profoundly moved when he saw children’s art about Canadian Indian residential schools and even made a music video with Cree visual artist Kent Monkman, whose art focuses on this national atrocity.

At TaiwanFest in Vancouver in 2019, Cilangasay shared a stage with two B.C. musicians: Vietnamese Canadian Vi An Diep and Dene member Tiffany Moses. He says that he could feel a strong connection to the two of them, even though they came from different parts of the world.

“Canada is very multicultural,” Cilangasay says. “So even though everyone comes from different places and has their own musical experiences, there’s still harmony because they are performing here on the same land in the same space.” g Kanatal will play the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, which runs from July 15 to 17, and the Mission Folk Music Festival, which runs from July 21 to 24.

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Soul singer Shakura S’Aida and indie-pop quintet Shred Kelly are among the 17 acts taking part in this year’s Mission Folk Music Festival. Photos by Denise Grant (left) and Matt Kuhn.

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he Mission Folk Music Festival is offering 17 bands and solo artists this year, ranging from Celtic folk to Indigenous hip-hop to indie rock to Latin American sounds. To help music lovers manoeuvre the many choices, the Straight is taking a look at one act from each of the annual event’s three days, from July 22 to 24.

Headlining the opening night of the festival, on July 22, is Shred Kelly, a lively alternative folk-pop quintet from the wilds of Fernie, B.C. The band—comprising Tim Newton (banjo, guitar, vocals), Sage McBride (keyboard, vocals), Ty West (electric guitar), Ryan Mildenberger (drums), and Ric Behan (bass)—will be showcasing tunes from its fifth and latest album, Like a Rising Sun, which Newton points out is a lyrical departure from its earlier releases.

“This one’s different in a bunch of ways,” Newton told the Straight before the band’s virtual MFMF appearance last year. “Normally, I’ve been writing songs sort of inspired by different things around my life here in Fernie, but on this record I had all kinds of explosive life events happen to me all at once. My daughter was born in March and then my father passed away in April, so within a month that all happened, right when we were starting the writing process of this record.

“So this is probably the most honest songwriting that I’ve ever done,” Newton added, “and I just mean honest in that I had a clear direction of what my emotions were and what I needed to write about.”

Music fans in the mood for a bluesier vibe may want to consider checking out Brooklyn-born, Swiss-raised, and Canadian-based vocalist Shakura S’Aida, who performs on the festival’s second night (July 23).

The former lead singer for world-music band Kaleefah, S’Aida’s powerful pipes have won her international acclaim, including a performance at the International

Blues Challenge in Memphis that saw her beating out more than 100 other acts for the runner-up prize in 2008. Her credits also include performing at festivals in Dubai, Australia, Rwanda, and Russia as part of a Nina Simone tribute.

To get an idea of S’Aida’s soulful style, check out her YouTube version of the old Doobie Brothers’ chestnut “Taking It to the Streets”. Her pandemic-era version of the song featured over 30 contributing vocalists, and was meant as a rallying cry against injustice everywhere.

“You may not know exactly what to say or how to say it,” S’Aida writes on her YouTube channel, “but if you believe that everyone has and deserves the fundamental right to live their life freely without a fear/threat of violence, hatred or oppression, then you have all it takes to stand up and speak up. Let’s live and grow together by supporting our communities together.”

Topping the bill on the festival’s final night, July 24, is Winnipeg-based countryfolk singer-songwriter William Prince. He first caught people’s attention when his debut album, Earthly Days, won the Juno Award for contemporary roots album of the year in 2017.

Prince was raised in the Peguis First Nation of Manitoba, and his father was a preacher and a musician, so many of his earliest musical memories involved playing with his father in church.

He was also influenced by country icons such as Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson. His latest album, Gospel First Nation, sees him using his rich baritone voice and gentle, expressive songwriting style to explore both his personal past and the consequences of colonialism in general.

Don’t be surprised if he draws heavily from that album for his setlist in Mission. g The Mission Folk Music Festival runs from July 22 to July 24 at Fraser River Heritage Park in Mission.

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