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In this Pride issue, we take a look at some of the many local individuals and groups that have helped advance LGBT rights and acceptance in the past, present, and for the foreseeable future. > BY CHARLIE SMITH AND CR AIG TAKEUCHI

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At the Vancouver Bach Festival, Philip Glass, Du Yun, and other composers create new preludes to the famed cello suites. > BY ALE X ANDER VART Y

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Dunkirk rescues Christopher Nolan’s rep; Female rage lends power to Lady Macbeth; we encounter everyone but God in Sacred; Icaros: A Vision achives sublime trippiness.

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Finding pride after shame > BY C R A IG TA KEU CH I

ases of abduction and imprisonment of the kind depicted in Emma Donoghue’s novel Room have captured the public consciousness of late. However, there are other ways a person can be imprisoned and controlled by someone else—but without walls. One such example took place here in Vancouver. It’s just one of several subjects in Peter Gajdics’s multifaceted memoir, The Inheritance of Shame. When Gajdics sought the help of a psychiatrist in the 1980s to address his conflicted feelings about being gay, it was the start of his descent into a topsy-turvy world that would be implausible if it were a fictional tale. “If I hadn’t lived it, I would have never have believed it,” Gajdics said in an interview at the Georgia Straight office. “I’m as horrified about it today as maybe any person might be hearing about it, except it happened to me.” As a young man, Gajdics had been haunted by the idea that sexual abuse he experienced as a child had made him a homosexual, an idea prevalent in the 1970s and ’80s. As he sought out therapy in his 20s with Dr. Alfonzo, a pseudonym for a maverick psychiatrist from Quebec City working in Vancouver, the two embarked upon an ill-conceived attempt to undo the trauma he experienced as a means to “undo” his homosexuality. Back then, terms like conversion therapy and reparative therapy didn’t exist, and as the overall process wasn’t explicitly about sexuality conversion, Gajdics didn’t have any perspective on what was happening at the time. “This idea that the doctor was trying to change my sexuality was so subversive in its process that I didn’t quite see it when I was in it,” he said. “There was such an internal logic to the therapy and what he was doing that I didn’t stop to question it, which is very typical in cultlike environments.” Dr. Alfonzo drew Gajdics into primal-therapy sessions in which he regressed to childhood and expressed his pain and rage through screaming and physical aggression against a punching bag. But that’s not all. The psychiatrist eventually convinced Gajdics to move into a local communal home with other patients, where they practised primal therapy in the basement.

Vancouver author Peter Gajdics details many layers of trauma in his memoir.

As they all became codependent on each other and harboured fears of returning to the outside world, they were coerced into performing domestic chores and office duties for Dr. Alfonzo, such as making and delivering his meals, caring for his pets, doing landscaping and renovations to his house, and typing out his notes, all without payment. As primal therapy erodes the ego, the combination of that with a medication cocktail (which led to an overdose) and the living situation wore down Gajdics’s ability to question things. “This is the point of primal therapy: it’s to break a person down and then to try and rebuild them again,” he said. “Very dangerous therapy, in my mind, because it implies that the therapist has to be so healthy himself that he wouldn’t take advantage, in any way whatsoever, which unfortunately isn’t often the case.” Even more dangerously, the doctor didn’t provide any recovery or analysis after the sessions, keeping his patients in a perpetually regressive, childlike state. “It’s like an operation that opens up the patient and doesn’t close them again,” he said. “This ‘need to please Daddy’, in my case, played out in this relationship with the doctor.” When writing the book, Gajdics drew upon extensive documentation of his therapy, including his own journals, tape recordings of primal sessions, his five-page complaint to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia, and the

lawsuit he launched against Dr. Alfonzo after he left therapy in 1996 after about six years. A recurring theme throughout the therapy was Gajdics’s relationship to his parents, which added another layer of trauma. “There’s a trajectory of oppression, generally, in my family history that I was also trying to get at in this book,” he said. “What happened to me was one piece of that thread, and I almost see oppression now as something like a force in and of itself that plays out through many lifetimes and in families.” As an ethnic German, his mother was detained in Communist concentration camps in the former Yugoslavia after the Second World War, while his father grew up an orphan in war-ravaged Hungary. For most of his life, he only had “splinters of knowledge” about his parents’ history, but as he strove to learn more about them, “everything started to make more sense to me,” he explained. While Gajdics knew he had to include information about his parents to provide a more comprehensive context for his experiences, he felt deeply conflicted about doing so. He said his family maintained a “cloak of silence” about what he went through in therapy and weren’t supportive of his lawsuit, and that his brother threatened to sue him when he planned to write the book, something that shocked him. Consequently, he realized what emotional sacrifices he would have to make if he were to go ahead. “I would have to somehow come to a place in my mind and heart where I could live my life without the support of my family,” he said. Still, he felt that the story was important not just for him but for others like him. “Hearing about this type of injustice sometimes prevents it from happening again, and that was always my hope.” Despite the multiple layers of traumatic experience and struggle that he and his family have faced, Gajdics remains convinced that the emotional fallout can be overcome. “The way I see shame is something that is not intrinsic to our nature, but it is something that is like a prison of almost our own making at some point, in that it could be passed on to us…but we can escape it, [and] we can recover from it.” -

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detained at the border on suspicion of obscenity, the matronly 63-yearold author of The Young in One Another’s Arms and Desert of the Heart paused briefly, eyes narrowing through her trademark Cokebottle glasses, before replying with an eloquent monologue on freedom of expression. “We are not a community turning out sex tracts,” she concluded. “We are a community speaking with our passion, our humanity in a world that is so homophobic that it sees us as nothing but sexual creatures instead of good Canadian citizens, fine artists, and brave people trying to make Canada a better place for everybody to speak freely and honestly about who we are.” The clear-eyed sense of moral authority and civic virtue Rule demonstrated in court that day are well on

display in this aptly titled exchange of letters with Rick Bébout, a cofounder of the Body Politic and leading activist with the AIDS Committee of Toronto. A Queer Love Story celebrates platonic intimacy in the oddest of odd couples: a lesbian feminist novelist who preferred a life of quiet rural monogamy on Galiano Island, and a free-loving gay male civil libertarian and journalist who preferred the throbbing urban pulse of Toronto’s gay village. Despite their differences, Rule and Bébout had much to say to each other before dying in 2007 and 2009, respectively. Both identified as outsiders, being Americans by birth (Rule was from New Jersey, Bébout from small-town Massachusetts) and Canadians by choice. And both were passionate believers in community. Nineteen years his senior, Rule had a maternal influence on Bébout, her editor at Canada’s first and largest LGBT publication. A mutual love of language, and a shared interest in political ethics, deepened the friendship over 26 years. Given today’s world of instant messaging and hair-trigger attention spans, it’s easy to forget how recently letter-writing was a revered tradition. Here the two friends exchange lengthy missives on the three Ps (pornography, prostitution, pedophilia), the erotic lives of children, the growing crisis of AIDS, the impact of police and media on queer lives, and more. What makes it worth reading is the friendship’s devotion to democratic discourse. In the realm of “gay thought”, notes

editor Marilyn R. Schuster in the introduction, Rule and Bébout saw “no appreciable divide between the work of academics and public intellectuals in discussing feminist and gay concerns and those who didn’t claim such credentials”. Thus Bébout, the nonacademic and far lesser known of the two, raises questions every bit as compelling as Rule’s. In discussing promiscuity, he challenges Rule’s concept of intimacy while pointing out how couples can exclude all energy outside themselves. Conversely, Bébout has no argument when Rule blasts the Body Politic for accepting ad revenue from Red Hot Video, a pornographic chain whose stores were firebombed for selling material considered violent and degrading to women. Regardless of what positions they took, however, in the end Rule and Bébout’s is a love story defined by mutual trust, respect, and a willingness to learn from each other’s perspective. The book will interest both younger readers unfamiliar with LGBT history and readers who lived and breathed it before queer theory, intersectionality, cisgender analysis, and call-out culture took over the conversation. But then, the universal themes raised here transcend sexual orientation: a fin-de-siècle dialogue of bicoastal and pan-Canadian sensibilities, A Queer Love Story is a tribute to exemplary citizenship and the ethics of personal responsibility in times of crisis. > DANIEL GAWTHROP

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Where Vancouver leads in LGBT progress

istory makers, groundbreakers, or trailblazers— whatever you want to call them, these are the people, groups, and organizations who have helped to advance LGBT rights and acceptance, whether locally, nationally, or internationally. And Vancouver is chock-full of them—so many that we can’t name them all. However, we wanted to toast all those who helped break new ground in the past and those who are making history as we speak so that the ongoing struggle for equality will be carried on in the future. For this year’s Pride issue, we take a brief look at a few areas of progress to celebrate and honour the accomplishments, past and present, that Vancouverites can be proud of.

POLITICS

Lower Mainland politicians scored several national firsts for the LGBT community. It’s well known that the first openly gay Canadian MP was the NDP’s Svend Robinson. The long-time Burnaby-Douglas parliamentarian was first elected in 1979 and came out in 1988. The first female LGBT MP was the NDP’s Libby Davies, who represented Vancouver East from 1997 to 2015. She came out in 2001 and remains a close friend of Robinson’s. But did you know that a long-time Vancouver resident was the first gay senator? This occurred when former Vancouver show cohost and writer Laurier LaPierre was appointed to the red chamber in 2001. The first already-out candidate to be elected to Parliament was Robinson’s long-time constituency aide, Bill Siksay, who succeeded him in Burnaby-Douglas in 2004. Vancouver also elected the first openly gay politician, Tim Stevenson, to become a cabinet minister in Canada. In 2000, then NDP premier Ujjal Dosanjh appointed him as the minister of employment and investment. Dosanjh, who represented Vancouver-Kensington at the time, was the first Canadian premier to walk in a Pride parade. In 1996, Stevenson and B.C. Liberal Ted Nebbeling were elected to the B.C. legislature as the first openly gay MLAs. They weren’t the first loud-and-proud gays to be elected provincially in Canada—that distinction goes to Quebec’s Maurice Richard—but they were the first in English-speaking Canada. It’s worth noting that gay NDP solicitor general Mike Farnworth was first elected provincially five years earlier, in 1991, but his sexual orientation wasn’t reported in the media until many years later. The first out lesbian to be elected in Vancouver was Sue Harris, who made it onto the park board in 1984 with the Coalition of Progressive Electors. Vancouver’s first openly gay city councillor was Gordon Price, who was elected with the NPA in

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1986. He served six terms on council. A decade later, he was joined by one of the LGBT community’s most influential activists, Alan Herbert, who was also on the NPA slate. The 1996 civic election also marked the first time a transgender candidate ran for council. The Coalition of Progressive Electors’ Jamie Lee Hamilton ended up in 14th place in the race for 10 seats. A prominent lesbian of that era, Frances Wasserlein, also ran for COPE that year, finishing up in 18th place. The same year, three gay or lesbian park commissioners also got elected: Laura McDiarmid, Duncan Wilson, and Alan Fetherstonhaugh. The latter two first made it onto the park board in 1993. The first female member of the LGBT community to make it onto council was Ellen Woodsworth, who was first elected with COPE in 2002. She lost in 2005 but returned to council in 2008. One of the LGBT community’s current champions is Spencer Chandra Herbert, who is the NDP MLA for Vancouver–West End. He was the first gay MLA to be married while in office, tying the knot with his husband, Romi, in 2010. The Chandra Herberts were also the first gay couple with one partner in the B.C. legislature to become parents when they welcomed Dev Juno Chandra Herbert into their family on February 14. Another LGBT champion in provincial politics is Vancouver-Kensington NDP MLA Mable Elmore, who became the second out lesbian to be elected to the B.C. legislature, in 2009. She was preceded by Jenn McGinn, who won a byelection in VancouverFairview in 2008 but lost her seat in the 2009 general election.

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tinues to be at the forefront of medical developments, socially progressive initiatives, and humane responses in the face of discrimination. A prime example is when the HIV/ AIDS crisis hit Vancouver in the 1980s. As the epidemic ravaged the city’s queer male community during an era still entrenched in widespread homophobia, among the first to respond were local health-industry professionals, organizations, researchers, and volunteers from all walks of life. Their efforts initiated a B.C. medical movement that continues to be built upon to this day. Among the forerunners was Dr. Peter Jepson-Young, a local doctor who was diagnosed with advanced AIDS in 1986. With the CBC TV series The Dr. Peter Diaries, he provided audiences with a much-needed intimate view of the then little understood and highly stigmatized condition. Before he died in 1992, he launched the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation, which, in turn, opened the Dr. Peter Centre in 2003. The notable number of locally based HIV organizations includes the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/ AIDS, AIDS Vancouver, YouthCO, Positive Living B.C., A Loving Spoonful, the Pacific AIDS Network, the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network, and the Positive Women’s Network (which is closing after 25 years). Meanwhile, Positive Living B.C.’s biannual AccolAIDS awards gala brings together provincial HIV-movement members to celebrate and honour the community’s outstanding people and organizations. Although there are too many to list, one celebrated individual > CHARLIE SMITH is Dr. Julio Montaner, who received the

Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada, was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, and received the $100,000 Killam Prize in May for his lifetime devotion to the care and treatment of people with HIV/AIDS. The Community-Based Research Centre for Gay Men’s Health has contributed to the research on queer male health by conducting a gay men’s health survey (which it started in 2002) and holding its annual Gay Men’s Health Summit at SFU Harbour Centre to bring together medical researchers. Although the severity of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic and sexual-health issues have consumed the majority of the LGBT community’s focus and funding during the past few decades, medical advances in HIV treatment have allowed attention to expand to other health issues. For instance, Health Initiative for Men (which opened in 2009) addresses health by viewing sexual, physical, social, and emotional health as interrelated. While they operate testing clinics, they also run diverse programs, including counselling, fitness groups, cooking and financial workshops, art classes, discussions groups, and more. And while men have traditionally neglected their own health issues, UBC Men’s Health Research is countering that, including exploring depression and suicide among queer men and women. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Saewyc, the executive director of the Stigma and Resilience Among Vulnerable Youth Centre, has been producing a body of research on youth, schools, and policies that reveals that all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, benefit from policies and initiatives that counter homophobia, transphobia, and bullying. While awareness of and education about transgender issues in the medical profession remain ongoing, the Catherine White Holman Wellness Centre (named after the late groundbreaking, local social worker) provides services to gender-diverse individuals. Services range from pre- and post-op support to nutrition and counselling. Meanwhile, UBC Sexual Health Laboratory head and professor Lori Brotto is breaking new ground with her research on the littleunderstood realm of asexuality. Although there are far too many individuals and organizations to mention, this brief snapshot shows that Vancouver’s contribution to LGBT health is something that we can all take pride in.

queer-inclusive, others have been quite progressive, and a number of local individuals and organizations have contributed to advances. Take, for instance, minister Gary Paterson, the first openly gay person elected to be moderator of the United Church of Canada (from 2012 to 2015). Paterson, who has served as minister at Ryerson, First, and St. Andrew’s– Wesley United churches, is married to Vancouver city councillor Tim Stevenson, who himself became the first openly gay person ordained by the United Church (in 1992) and performed some of the first legal same-sex weddings in the province. When Michael Ingham was the eighth bishop of the diocese of New Westminster of the Anglican Church of Canada from 1994 to 2013, his approval of his diocese’s decision to bless same-sex unions, after a lengthy process, sparked controversy, intense media attention, and a split within the Lower Mainland diocese. Meanwhile, Rev. Peter Elliott of Christ Church Cathedral legally married his male partner in 2009 in a civil ceremony and has worked toward the approval of same-sex unions by Anglican churches for about two decades, even making a presentation to the Anglican Consultative Council in England in 2005. In 2016, voting results against a resolution in favour of same-sex unions were reversed after a vote-count error was discovered—the resolution will become church law when ratified in Vancouver in 2019. Elsewhere in Metro Vancouver, Sher Vancouver founder Alex Sangha told the Georgia Straight that in the past, he faced lack of support and even denial that LGBT Sikh people existed. But his Surrey-based social and resource group for South Asian LGBT people marched for the first time in Vancouver’s Vaisakhi parade in March, as well as in the Surrey Vaisakhi parade in April. This year, Tru Wilson and her family were chosen as marshals for the Vancouver Pride parade for their advocacy for trans youth. When Tru wasn’t allowed to attend Ladner’s Sacred Heart school as a girl, her family filed a human-rights complaint against the school and the Catholic Independent Schools of the Vancouver Archdiocese. The result? In 2014, the Catholic school board became one of the first in North America to develop a genderexpression policy. The B.C.–based nonprofit Options for Sexual Health honoured Tru as this year’s Sexual > CRAIG TAKEUCHI Health Champion in February. When host Tamara Taggart RELIGION asked Tru if she wanted to be an advocate for the rest of her life, Tru In the past, many LGBT responded: “It’s not like I feel like people may have felt rejected, I need to; I feel that I want to.” > CRAIG TAKEUCHI unwelcome, or excluded from religion. Although some religious organizations and churches have been The Vancouver Pride parade takes slow—or even unwilling—to become place next Sunday (August 6).

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Sun, Mars, and Mercury set you onto a great upward swing. Make the most of it. Friday through Monday are good for topping it up or working it out with someone. Venus into Cancer, starting Monday, can increase emotionalism, nostalgia, or attachment. Tuesday and Wednesday are full to the brim. Something unexpected could arise. Take it as it comes; donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overdo it.

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A fresh idea, talk, trend, or hot spot can perk you right up. Someone new can too. The stars keep you well occupied through the weekend. Sunday/Monday go by feel. Venus into Cancer, starting Monday, increases emotionalism or food sensitivity. Venus also helps you to retain information and to read people even better. Tuesday to Thursday puts you onto something fresh.

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Plenty to think about, to plan, to work out, to upgrade or improve upon; never a dull moment, Mercury in Virgo keeps you well on the go. Whether you witness it as a subtle or strong shift, the sun, Mars, and Venus on a new page boost prospects, vitality, and can-do. Gift yourself with today; soak up on here and now. Tomorrow comes soon enough. September 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;October 23

Top it up, make the most of it while the getting is good. Mars and the sun set up a great backdrop for getting your pleasure fill. As of Monday, Venus into Cancer puts added emphasis on goal-setting or -reaching, on making it official or getting it nailed down. Wednesday, Uranus shifts the momentum or attention onto something or someone specific. October 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;November 22

Can you make that good thing better yet? You bet. For this next month or so, Mars and the sun in Leo boost ambition and success ratios. Both are good for taking charge and/or getting something new off the ground. Special attention or recognition can come your way. Venus into Cancer, starting Monday, adds nicely to opportunity, pleasure, and reward. November 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;December 21

Feel yourself coming back to life? Over this past week, Mars and the sun in Leo have been kicking it up a great big notch. You can expect this positive surge to keep going strong. For the next six weeks, Mars in Leo will continue to supply you with the best of the best. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a heart journey for sure! December 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;January 20

Mars and the sun have been lighting a fresh spark in the self-love department. Intimate relationships and money matters are also primed to gain a great big boost. Mercury in Virgo helps you to fill in the missing blanks. Venus into emotional Cancer, starting Monday, has you feeling it even more. The heart grows fuller. January 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;February 18

Something new is firing up. Expect it to fast-track from here. Leo month sets you up to break major new ground in an important one-on-one relationship and/or regarding your social and career worlds. Venus in Cancer, starting Monday, calls more attention to safeguarding. Uranus retrograde, starting mid next week, cuts to the chase with better precision. February 18â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20

Getting thereâ&#x20AC;Ś Yes, you are. The evidence is starting to show. Mars and the sun in Leo will continue to help you gain better ground, for yourself in general and regarding something specific in the area of health, work, and fit-it and improvement projects. Venus into Cancer, starting Monday, warms the heart/ hits it just right, too. -

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variety of vernaculars “Bach was using whatever he had at his from all over the place. disposal—whatever musical vernaculars and She’s travelling all the ideas that he had around him, and those were time, and absorbing all coming from all around Europe,” Haimovitz kinds of cultures.” explains. “So the idea is that I wanted to exCounting the two pand that cultural palette, so that the composAt the festival devoted to the baroque composer, cellist pieces that we won’t get ers should feel free to bring in other folk culMatt Haimovitz prefaces each piece with a new work to hear in Vancouver, by tures or vernaculars. I was totally open to the Philip Glass, David Sanford, and Vijay Iyer are Luna Pearl Woolf and Roberto Sierra, Haimo- idea of introducing Bach to styles that, if he had the other living composers we’ll hear from during vitz’s six commissions touch on elements of sal- encountered them, he would have used.” Haimovitz’s two Bach Festival concerts. Each was sa, Hawaiian ritual music, and Serbian chant, in assigned a different suite to preface with a new com- addition to minimalism, jazz, and free impro- Matt Haimovitz plays Christ Church Cathedral at position, but all were given the same open-ended visation. But Bach, the cellist says definitively, 6 and 9 p.m. on Tuesday (August 1), as part of the Vancouver Bach Festival. instructions: to reference Bach, somehow, within is big enough to embrace them all. their own very different musical languages. The resulting works, Haimovitz says, illuminate different Vancouver Bach Festival aims to build on last year’s success aspects of Bach while stretching his instrumental powers—powers that he’s honed by recording two On the eve of its second season after moving from UBC’s Point Grey campus to the very different interpretations of the Cello Suites, downtown core, the Vancouver Bach Festival is still riding high on last summer’s record-smashing attendance figures. one on a contemporary instrument in 2000, and “We basically wanted to see if there was going to be any broader interest in the another on baroque and piccolo cellos in 2015. festival,” says Vancouver Early Music artistic director Matthew White, “and last Sanford’s Es War, Haimovitz says, calls on him year was really super successful. We sold out a whole bunch of the shows—and even the noon-hour to summon up his inner Charles Mingus thanks shows, where we really expected no more than 50 people to turn out, were also very well attended. to its jazzy, pizzicato first movement. Iyer’s appro“So,” he adds, “we basically just figured that if there’s an appetite for it, let’s put more on the menu!” priately titled Run requires such breakneck virtuGrowth, however, is not necessarily easy. The 2016 event, White concedes in a telephone interview from osity that the cellist initially thought it would be California, where he’s vacationing, offered listeners a sort of greatest-hits package. This year’s programimpossible to perform. “I’d never seen anything ming is less purely oriented toward the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, although with St. John Passion like it,” he says of the Indo-American composer and four of the six Cello Suites on the bill the old man won’t get short shrift. It’s also arguably more serious and improvising pianist’s complex score. “I kind in its intent, with several of the 14 concerts tied in to the 500th anniversary of the publication of Martin of gave it a chance over three days, and really, it Luther’s Ninety-five Theses, the first salvo in the establishment of the Protestant faith. wasn’t going anywhere. It wasn’t sounding any “The programming this year is more… I mean, I don’t want to say I think it’s more varied and interbetter. And then finally I started to make it my esting, but I think it is!” White says. “I think it is. But there’s a risk inherent in that, right?” own, adding articulation and dynamics—and One concert the former singer hopes won’t be overlooked features Vienna’s Ensemble it started to take on a life of its own.” Cinquecento, at Christ Church Cathedral on Wednesday (August 2). Pioneering minimalist Glass’s Overture to “They’re an ensemble nobody’s ever heard of—and they’re also one of the world’s greatest polyBach, in contrast, hews close to Johann Sebastian’s phonic ensembles, period,” White says of the all-male vocal quartet. “And they’re doing a program of early-18th-century language. “If you didn’t know English Reformation music that most people have never heard of—but they should.” it was Philip Glass, you almost would think ‘Okay, White is also excited about the aforementioned St. John Passion, which closes the festival at the Chan Bach wrote a little short piece for cello,’ ” HaimoCentre for the Performing Arts on August 11. “Really, the singers that we have coming for it are some of vitz notes. “He sticks with the range that Bach was the best Bach singers in the world. I’m not exaggerating; they’re really, really world-class singers. using—two octaves plus a fifth—and really treats “All of the music on the program this year is not just beautiful and interesting, but it’s special the polyphony in the same way. But that’s the way music,” he adds. “If people take a risk on it, they’re going to be happily surprised. And my hope is that he’s writing now; he’s so deeply influenced by Bach in the longer term, a broader range of people will start to trust what we’re putting on, and say ‘Well, that that is his language.” I may not know it, but I bet it’s going to be good.’ ” And The Veronica, he adds, is very much a re> ALEXANDER VARTY f lection of its composer’s personality. “She has such a vivid imagination, and so much drama The Vancouver Bach Festival takes place at Christ Church Cathedral and the Chan Centre for the in her music!” Haimovitz says of Du Yun, who Performing Arts from Tuesday (August 1) to August 11. was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music in April. “And she’s so inf luenced by such a wide

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The 1911 mansion that houses Burnaby Art Gallery has seen a curious array of occupants over the decades, from wealthy families to Benedictine monks, and from a shortlived religious cult to a bunch of hardpartying frat boys. It wasn’t until 1967 that the newly founded gallery took up residence in the beautifully restored Arts and Crafts building. That event is celebrated with an expansive 50th-anniversary exhibition of 50 works from the permanent collection. Each of the works has been chosen and annotated by a member of the art community, which here includes artists, curators, gallery directors, writers, critics, collectors, and donors. (Full disclosure: I am one of the unpaid contributors to this enterprise.) The show’s title is borrowed from a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote, carved into the mansion’s oak mantelpiece: “The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.” The clear message is that this 50th-anniversary exhibition is about honouring and celebrating the people who have contributed to the making and sustaining of the gallery. The art is, in a way, a line to hang that honour upon. This means that the exhibition is not designed to show off the best works in the BAG’s collection, but rather the works that, often for personal or sentimental reasons, speak to the individual “curators”. The resulting impression is that the collection is, well, nice but not exactly spectacular. With limited funds for acquisitions, the BAG has wisely focused on collecting prints and other works on paper, many of them donated. Twentieth-century Canadian works predominate, particularly those by West Coast artists. There are, however, a few historical and demographic anomalies here: a 1799 etching from Francisco Goya’s series “Los Caprichos”;

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Point, a 1971 serigraph on paper by Rita Letendre, is one of the works included in the Burnaby Art Gallery’s 50th-anniversary exhibition. Harry Booth photo.

a late-19th-century impression of a crucifixion scene, pulled from an early-17th-century etching plate by Rembrandt van Rijn; a 1974 portrait etching, Gregory, by David Hockney. There is some very fine art on view, including Sybil Andrews’s 1954 linocut Ploughing Pasture, with its swirling forms and swelling concentricities; Kenojuak Ashevak’s 1963 stonecut Sun Owl, with its fierce eyes and flaring yellow-green feathers; and Betty Goodwin’s 1973 etching Nest, an eloquent tangle of textured lines. As former BAG director Karen Henry observes, Goodwin’s image “bears the physical memory of having held and nurtured life”. There is also strong work on view by both well-known and lesserknown contemporary artists, from Rita Letendre to Walter Jule, and from Gathie Falk to Eli Bornowsky. Also a pleasure to encounter are prints and drawings by Roy Kiyooka, Deborah Koenker, Elizabeth MacKenzie, Susan Point, Bill Reid, Noboru Sawai, Arnold Shives, Joseph Therrien, Renée Van Halm, and Anna Wong. There are conceptual or performance-related works by Glenn Lewis, Kate Craig, and Micah Lexier, and highly political works by Sonny

Assu and the Guerrilla Girls. And there is, of course, representation by leading West Coast modernists, such as Gordon Smith and Takao Tanabe, acclaimed for their lyrical, landscape-based abstractions. There are also some conspicuous omissions, such as Sylvia Tait and Robert Young, who are well-represented in the collection but not in the show. Asking art-world friends to choose and write about individual works is a sweet and democratic idea, but has led, alas, to the occasional championing of mediocrity. Works may be cited because they call up a memory of a person, place, or creative undertaking. In some cases, the memory is more engaging than the work itself. An example is Jack Shadbolt’s 1997 lithograph Spirit Imploding, chosen by printmaker and photo artist Torrie Groening because, as she writes, she worked with the older artist in printing it. Groening’s focus on this work is understandable, but this print is, in my opinion, the least accomplished Shadbolt in the entire BAG collection. But, hey, you run these kinds of risks when you invite 50 friends to curate a show. Happy birthday to the Burnaby Art Gallery, from one of its friends. > ROBIN LAURENCE

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ooking for the future? Here’s a clue: this weekend, Vancouver’s first steel-framed skyscraper, the Dominion Building, will host a meeting between several cutting-edge artists and a small gang of freethinking musebots. Play Nice: Music by Humans & Intelligent Machines posits the idea that software can spark as well as serve the artistic process, by making the bots full members of a shifting array of duos, trios, and bands. For composer and musebot designer Arne Eigenfeldt, it’s an exciting step forward from the work that he’s been doing for the past couple of years. After removing the human element from performance, he’s looking forward to adding it back in. “I’ve been going around the world, literally, putting on installations where I have musebot ensembles,” he tells the Straight from his Langley home. “About a dozen people have made musebots for them—there are about 100 different musebots in all—and I put them together into these ensembles. They play for five to 10 minutes, and then I put in new musebots or they automatically generate a new ensemble. “So these artificial agents have been communicating with each other. Can we also have them communicating with humans?” Musebots, it should be explained, are not what we conventionally think of as robots. There will be no titanium arms banging on drums here. Instead, Eigenfeldt explains, musebots are algorithmic creations programmed to generate music, either internally or in response to outside input. He likes to compare his work to what electronic producers do with their digital audio workstations, except that instead of assembling tracks, he’s assembling bands. One bot plays bass, one plays drums, and so on— and these individual entities can talk to each other. “You can put together an ensemble where someone’s made a drum bot, and somebody else has made a bass bot and a synth bot—and then you can swap out the drums and put a different ‘drummer’ in there,” he says. “So the Musebot is simply a little algorithmic piece of software that plays with other musebots. And they don’t try to model human beings, because that’s really,

Play Nice’s Arne Eigenfeldt, Yves Candau, Paul Paroczai, and Matthew Horrigan make music with algorithmic software.

really hard to do.…Instead, they’re doing things that are easy for computers, but that are very difficult for humans to do. They can tell each other exactly what they’re doing, for instance, but they can also say what they’re going to do in the future, so that allows them to maybe coordinate their ideas.” Eigenfeldt compares their reasoning process to the near-telepathic way that improvising musicians shift dynamics on the fly, and for Play Nice he and the interdisciplinary artists in Sawdust Collector have assembled an intriguing and improv-friendly cast of collaborators. Joining Eigenfeldt in providing the bots will be Matthew Horrigan, Paul Paroczai, and Yves Candau. On the live side, we’ll see and hear cellist Peggy Lee; guitarists Adrian Verdejo, Matthew Ariaratnam, and Nathan Marsh; video artist David Storen; and poet Barbara Adler. Each piece will feature a different cast and a different method of interaction—but Play Nice, Eigenfeldt stresses, is just as much of a sensuous experience as a science project. “This is a concert, and it’s really important for the audience to just hear the music and be interested in what’s happening musically,” he says. “They may be aware that something complicated is happening on-stage, but that’s not the focus.” Sawdust Collector presents Play Nice: Music by Humans & Intelligent Machines at the Gold Saucer Studio on Friday (July 28).

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Shawn Macdonald brings Man in Chair to life. Tim Matheson photo.

The songs themselves—which range from “Toledo Surprise”, in which a threat disguised as a recipe turns into a big dance number, to “Bride’s Lament”, which sees the stage overrun with monkeys—are huge fun. Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison’s witty lyrics and nostalgic melodies are well showcased by this cast, and Shelley Stewart Hunt’s choreography has performers dancing on countertops and in sinks, filling every inch of Man in Chair’s dingy apartment. Bob Martin and Don McKellar’s book offers another layer of pleasure in the Man’s many comments, filling us in on the lives of the actors in the musical (one died at home and was partially eaten by his poodles), or offering disclaimers on certain scenes. His sardonic commentary simultaneously mocks and pays tribute to musicaltheatre conventions while revealing a character who is fussy, lonely, and not always intentionally funny. Regarding the show’s leading man, whom he finds attractive, Man in Chair says, “Some people say he was a bad actor, but to those people, I say, ‘Shut up!’ ” Under Gillian Barber’s direction, Shawn Macdonald combines fastidiousness and enthusiasm in just the right proportion; he’s a man in the grip of a very individual obsession, but his joy is infectious. Caitriona Murphy

confidently inhabits the grande-dame role of Beatrice Stockwell, whose Chaperone is all tipsy charm; her big number, “As We Stumble Along”, is a terrific showcase for her vocals. Shannon Hanbury’s Janet also sings like a dream, and she accompanies every line she speaks with showy hand gestures that belie her farewell to performing in “Show Off”, one of the musical’s strongest numbers. Stuart Barkley’s Robert has a dazzling smile and a voice like honey. The role of Aldolpho, a caricature Latin lover, could easily misfire, but Dimitrios Stephanoy’s physical and vocal inventiveness are a hit. And as the gangster-bakers, Kai Bradbury and Nicholas Bradbury (no relation) pull off both wicked puns and physical acrobatics with aplomb. Brian Ball’s set celebrates the porous boundaries between the real and imaginary worlds, most notably in a filthy fridge door that opens onto a beaded curtain. There’s lots of sparkle in Chris Sinosich’s costumes, too; most successful are the many flapper dresses. The Drowsy Chaperone does exactly what its protagonist wants theatre to do: it entertains mightily. Enjoy. > KATHLEEN OLIVER

IN THE NEXT ROOM…OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY By Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Keltie Forsyth. An Ensemble Theatre Company production, as part of its Summer Repertory Festival. At the Jericho Arts Centre on Thursday, July 20. Continues until August 17

In the Next Room celebrates the gifts of electricity, but fails to make sparks of its own. Sarah Ruhl’s script features the aptly named Dr. Givings, a late-19thcentury doctor who treats patients for hysteria using “therapeutic electrical massage”—an early form of the vibrator—in the operating theatre, “the next room” in his home. His wife, Catherine,

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a new mother, gets to watch satisfied patients coming and going from their treatments, while languishing from a lack of attention from her husband, a self-professed “man of science” who reveres the gift of electricity. Desperate for emotional connection, she befriends one patient, Mrs. Daldry—whose housekeeper, Elizabeth, becomes the Givings’s wet nurse—and flirts with another, Leo, a romantic painter, as her curiosity about her husband’s miraculous treatments deepens into obsession. Ruhl crams a lot of social commentary—racism, women’s sexuality, and technological progress are all repeatedly ticked—into a scenario whose contrivances become strained. Events are driven entirely by entrances and exits; characters are prone to break into prolonged philosophical monologues that have little to do with what’s happening. And how many times do we need to watch people brought to orgasm in the treatment room? Under Keltie Forsyth’s direction, the actors display varying levels of comfort with Ruhl’s stilted, faux-period dialogue. Sebastian Kroon’s intellectually enthusiastic but emotionally clueless Dr. Givings inhabits the words with conviction, and as his assistant, Annie, Alexis Kellum-Creer is calmly understated. Christine Reinfort’s Mrs. Daldry is sympathetic in both her preand posttreatment emotional states, and Francis Winter makes the caddish dandy, Leo, eminently likable. The big hole in this production is Catherine: Lindsay Nelson’s line readings are so flat that we can only deduce her feelings from the text rather than from an emotionally grounded performance. Lauchlin Johnston’s set is handsomely functional, showcasing the technological wonders of both an electric lamp and the doctor’s hilariously cumbersome devices. But their entertainment value diminishes long before the curtain falls. > KATHLEEN OLIVER

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LION IN THE STREETS In Judith Thompson’s play, a nine-year-old Portuguese girl is drawn into a dreamlike state to consider the power of compassion, forgiveness, and redemption. Jul 27-29, 8 pm, Pacific Theatre (1440 W. 12th). Tix $17-20, info www.resonancetheatre.info/. ROMEO AND JULIET Carousel Theatre for Young People’s Teen Shakespeare Program presents the classic tragedy about a pair of star-crossed lovers who defy their families. Jul 28–Aug 12, 7:30 pm, Performance Works Outdoor Stage (1218 Cartwright Street on Granville Island). Free admission (premium seating $5), info www.carouseltheatre.ca/ production/teenshakespeare/.

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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s drama, set in modern-day Venice, that exposes the consequences of how we treat outsiders in our midst. To Sep 16, Bard on the Beach (1000 Chestnut). Tix from $21, info www.bardon thebeach.org/2017/the-merchant-of-venice/. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival presents William Shakespeare’s tale of two best friends who are in love with the same woman. To Sep 17, Bard on the

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COMEDY Spirit Week: Films of Faith & Transcendence

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. Cover $8 Tue, $10 Wed, $15 Thu, $18 Fri, $20 Sat. 2KEVIN FOXX Jul 27-29 2EFTHIMIOS NASIOPOULOS Aug 3-5 2DJ DEMERS Aug 10-12 2ERICA SIGURDSON Aug 17-19 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 and 9:30 pm. Cover Tue $10, Wed $7, Thu $10, and Fri-Sat $20. 2BRETT MARTIN Jul 28-29 2JOHN PERROTTA Aug 4-5 2LORI FERGUSONFORD Aug 11-12 2ADAM CHRISTIE Aug 18-19 2JOHN CULLEN Aug 25-26 VANCOUVER THEATRESPORTS LEAGUE Some of the world’s most daring and innovative improv. #NoFilter (Thu, 9:15 pm); Oh, Canada: The True North Strong and Funny (Thu, Fri, and Sat, 7:30 pm); Ok Tinder (Fri, 11:15 pm); Rookie Night (Sun, 7:30 pm); TheatreSports (Tue and Wed, 7:30 pm; Wed, 9:15 pm; Fri, 9:30 pm). Jul 26– Aug 2, The Improv Centre (1502 Duranleau, Granville Island). Info www.vtsl.com/.

2THIS WEEK ROME Sin Peaks presents an improvised soap opera in which heroes rise, gladiators clash, and togas fall. To Aug 8, 7-9:30 pm, The Red Gate Revue Stage (1601 Johnston Street, Granville Island ). Tix $10, info www.sinpeaks.com/. KEVIN FOXX Canadian comedian and radio host performs a solo standup show. Jul 27-29, The Comedy MIX (1015 Burrard). Tix $20/18/15, info www. thecomedymix.com/. BRETT MARTIN Vancouver standup comedian performs a solo show. Jul 28-29, Yuk Yuk’s Comedy Club (2837 Cambie). Tix $19.05, info www.yukyuks.com/vancouver/. SO THERE I WAS....HIGH Vancouver comedians tell their own unique stories of the time when they messed with drugs. Jul 29, 8-10:30 pm, Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward). Tix $10, info www.facebook.com/ So-there-I-was-1915526878732484/. MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 LIVE: WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES TOUR MST3K creator Joel Hodgson and host

Jonah Ray present a live, interactive version of the popular TV show featuring three robots, Felicia Day, Patton Oswalt, and a screening of Eegah with all-new riffs and sketches. Jul 30, 7 pm, Orpheum Theatre (601 Smithe). Info www.vancouver.ca/newscalendar/mystery-science-theatre-3000-jul30-2017-7pm.aspx.

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LITERARY EVENTS 2THIS WEEK BOOK LAUNCH PARTY Pre-release launch party for new sci-fi novel Assimilation Protocol includes a reading by author Brian FH Clement. Jul 27, 7:30 pm, Jang Mo Jib (1575 Robson). Free, info www.assimilationprotocol.com/.

ET CETERA 2THIS WEEK THE 24 CARROT SHOW Jamie Dewolf hosts an evening of clowns, dancing, burlesque numbers, and interactive games. Jul 28-29, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $30/25, info www.riotheatre.ca/. HARRY POTTER’S BURLESQUE BIRTHDAY PARTY Celebrate Harry Potter’s birthday and all things magical with a night of burlesque by Kitty Glitter, Trixie Hobbitses, Burgundy Brixx, Draco Muff-Boi, Chastity Twist, Poutina Turner, Gene Rod ‘N’ Berries, Seamus Fit-It-In, Jayne Fondue, Ginger Femmecat, Tylr Bourbon, Luna Eclipse, and Ms Bacon N Legs. Jul 31, 8 pm, Rio Theatre (1660 E. Broadway). Tix $25/20, info www.face book.com/events/1333050283410040/.

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 2PERSISTENCE (exhibition draws together three recent contemporary installations by Canadian artists Julia Feyrer, Tamara Henderson, Shelagh Keeley, and Germaine Koh) to Oct 1 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) to Oct 1

MUSEUMS ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE 3075 Slocan, 604-430-3337, www.italianculturalcentre. ca/. 2THE VENETIAN GHETTO: A VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTION: 1516-2017 (exhibition of virtual reconstructions of the architecture of the Jewish Ghetto in Venice from the 16th century to the present) Jul 25–Oct 30

FAMILY FUSE Experimenting with watercolour paints like mini Claude Monets will be just one of the hands-on activities offered at the Family FUSE Weekend on Saturday and Sunday (July 29 and 30) at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Called Nature Concentrated, the event will help kids respond in artistic ways to everything from Claude Monet’s Secret Garden to Emily Carr: Into the Forest. Dancers, art educators, musicians, and others will all be on hand to get families’ creative juices flowing. Sketch stations and performances will be happening throughout the gallery on both days; free for gallery members and kids 12 and under who are accompanied by a paying adult. 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

OUT OF TOWN 2THIS WEEK THE SCARRED EARTH Photographer Edward Burtynsky documents how humans have altered the physical landscape through resource extraction. To Oct 16, Audain Art Museum (Whistler). Info www.audainartmuseum.com/.

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MOVIES REVIEWS DUNKIRK Starring Fionn Whitehead. Rated PG

The Second World War was almost over soon

2 after it started. Annexing France and much

of Europe by June of 1940, Hitler pushed the bulk of England’s army onto a beachfront in northwest France. Churchill had been prime minister for two weeks, and there was already talk of a conditional surrender—perhaps what the German dictator was angling for when halting his army’s advance on the stranded Brits, while still allowing the Luftwaffe to pick off boats and soldiers stranded in waters too shallow for large vessels to navigate. Little of this background is included in Dunkirk, mostly to its benefit. Exposition comes from title cards and a few scenes with Kenneth Branagh as a naval commander conveying Churchill’s hopes to save maybe 30,000 out of roughly 400,000 soldiers. In the end, an expeditionary force of small civilian boats aided the navy in rescuing about 330,000.

Their finest hour or so

With Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan delivers some of the most authentically immersive war sequences in cinema history

Kenneth Branagh plays a naval commander aiding Winston Churchill’s plan to rescue the British army in the surprisingly brisk but impressive Dunkirk.

and brutally excellent new questions: Can extreme constraint push a film—echoing similar les- woman to do ugly things? And why do we feel sons from the equally sav- such outrage when women do such ugly things? > JANET SMITH age, but less complex period

piece The Beguiled. Here, it’s 1865 England, and the mysterious ICAROS: A VISION Katherine (transfixing Florence Pugh) is a teen- Starring Ana Cecilia Stieglitz. In English and ager sold off to a cruel, disinterested husband. Spanish, with English subtitles Director William Oldroyd does a masterful job Even given the almost boundless capabilof conveying her marital prison, a gloomy darkities of the medium, it has been notoriously wood-trimmed mansion where you can practically feel the draft. Its silence grows louder as difficult for cinema to portray the psychedelic the movie goes along, broken only by the echoing experience. The mesmerizing Icaros: A Vision tick of a grandfather clock and servants climbing is almost in a category of its own. As a shaman says early on, advising someone about to creaking stairs. Katherine is banned from going outside—the take psychedelics for the first time, “You need fresh air is bad for women, the men of the house to have a single intention; otherwise the spirits deem—and she’s left to stare out a window at the get confused.” The adviser (Guillermo Arévalo) is an Ansurrounding moors, or to sit still on an ornate setdean shaman from the Shipibo tribe, and the tee in her taffeta gowns. But in Katherine’s gaze, you can see hints of im- advisee is Mexican-American Angelina (Ana pudence and rebellion—and later, rage. So as soon Cecilia Stieglitz), in Peru for a last-ditch atas her husband leaves home to tend to problems at tempt to stave off her spreading cancer. The the faraway family coal mine, she takes up with a doclike feature’s title refers to songs intoned by rough, brazen groomsman (Cosmo Jarvis), and all the shaman to calm the fears of his guests, or “passengers”, as he calls them. hell breaks loose. This retreat specializes in ayahuasca treatAs you can probably tell by now, this tale is more Wuthering Heights than Macbeth. It’s based ments (all guests get their own brightly colon Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, an 1865 oured vomit pails), and Angelina is fearful of novella by Russian writer Nikolai Leskov. And by the drug until she connects with the shaman’s invoking Shakespeare’s baddest female charac- disciple, Arturo (Arturo Izquierdo). The youngter, Leskov and screenwriter (and feminist play- er man has his own problems, and envisions wright) Alice Birch draw attention to the way his diminishing eyesight as an encroaching Katherine has rebuffed motherhood and passivity web of intersecting lines. These ref lect the geometric indigenous art of the region, where for ruthless power. What complicates all this is Anna (Naomi Fitzcarraldo was shot. In fact, a scene from that Ackie), Katherine’s black servant. As controlled Werner Herzog classic is glimpsed, refracted as Katherine may be, she still has privilege, and through a hotel pool. Such trippily disorienting effects are found Anna, who has none, is compelled to watch the carnage that ensues in wordless horror. In one alongside intense close-ups of jungle creatures, shattering scene, she resorts to a long silent beautifully composed scenes of local lushness scream, alone in her quarters. But even Anna and deforestation, and sterile images of Ange> KEN EISNER has a vengeful streak, and finds ways to exert her lina’s MRI machine back in the States. These small power far beyond just pulling Katherine’s foretell bigger jolts, including flash-cut memLADY MACBETH corset laces too tightly, brushing her hair too ories, animated medical footage, and—well, harshly, and burning her skin with hot bathwater. there’s that one guy with a cloven hoof instead of Starring Florence Pugh. Rated 14A Oldroyd, too, pulls things stiflingly taut, a foot. At one point, Arturo looks around the hut Hell hath no fury like a woman locked up ratcheting up the tension, always complicating where all the passengers gather for treatment, and laced into a tight corset. That seems empathy, and taking things ever darker. Call it and sees old-fashioned TVs on their mattresses, see next page to be the message of Lady Macbeth, a bleak a pretty period piece gone ugly. The lingering Here, writer-director Christopher Nolan eschews Batman-esque grandiosity, not to mention irony and blatant special effects, to pursue a more authentically immersive view of this historical turning point. In a surprisingly compact 106 minutes, he divides what happened that June—exactly four years before the Allies would return to nearby Normandy—into sea, air, and land theatres. The RAF portion is handled by Jack Lowden and a mostly unrecognizable Tom Hardy as Spitfire pilots battling Messerschmitts and Heinkel bombers in the English Channel. Cast standout Mark Rylance, as a pleasure-craft captain, is the privatecitizen counterpart to Branagh. And connecting all three settings is newcomer Fionn Whitehead as a hapless Everysoldier who manages to encounter pretty much everything that goes wrong. (He also hooks up with popster Harry Styles, not bad as a more mean-spirited fellow private.) The film’s opening gambit, following that soldier through increasingly harrowing settings, is surely one of the finest war sequences ever shot. With its limited colour palette and fluid 70mm lensing, the film is crammed with stunning shots—underlined by Hans Zimmer’s tense, frequently atonal score—many of which tip the images towards the surreal. Nolan’s decision to cut the stories into nonsequential time frames, as in Memento and Inception, doesn’t really enhance the experience, however. A subplot with Cillian Murphy as a shell-shocked soldier feels forced, and there’s so much repetition near the end that a sameness sets in, blunting the movie’s emotional impact. Its relative lack of gore is appreciated, and viewers resistant to Michael Bay levels of bombastic sound will certainly find the non-IMAX version of Dunkirk easier to survive.

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T H E G R OS SEST MOVI E EVE R >>>

f the chief enemy of creativity is good taste, as Pablo Picasso apparently once said, let us add that it’s also toxic to common sense. An apoplectic review of Kuso appeared in Variety condemning the film’s “juvenile scatology” after a notorious Sundance screening in January; this from an establishment magazine that routinely gives a pass to insidious propaganda efforts like the recent Megan Leavey, a war picture that asks us to weep for a traumatized dog while portraying Iraqis as subhuman. In Hollywood’s inverted moral framework, the soaring, mind-bending creativity of a film like Kuso is somehow— what? Indecorous? To coin another, more anonymous quote, “Shit is fucked-up and bullshit.” What’s a real artist to do? “I had to show people the fuckin’

ugly, man,” explains Steve Ellison, calling the Straight from Los Angeles. More familiar to the world as EDM superweirdo Flying Lotus, Ellison is now the writer-director of a movie—playing on the horror streaming service Shudder.com— dubbed “the grossest ever” by those tastemakers at the Guardian. “I think we spend so much time trying to hide from it, calling it something else, cutting away from it. Art has just become so crowdpleasy and safe and PG-13. I’m like, ‘Fuck this, man.’ I come from Paul Verhoeven times. I wanna show you all the ugly.” With demented Brit animator David Firth as his ally, Ellison fully succeeds, with phenomenal artistry, in showing us the ugly. Kuso depicts a phantasmagorically hellish version of L.A. after an earthquake (although that doesn’t really explain

why everyone is covered in boils) achieved through impressively sick animation, appallingly hilarious live-action sequences, and nauseainducing soundtrack contributions from friends like Aphex Twin. Inside this Boschian nightmare realm, blunt-smoking transdimensional creatures (voiced by Hannibal Buress and Donnell Rawlings) perform snap abortions on their pregnant roommate, while a diseased and balding schoolkid lovingly feeds his own shit to a head sprouting from the ground and a cockroach-lobster creature called Mr. Quiggle climbs out of George Clinton’s butthole in tight close-up. (“He’s got so many doo-doo jokes all throughout his discography, man,” Ellison replies, when asked how he pitched that to the funk legend. “George digs that shit, ya know?”)

Even if you’re mortally offended by the content, it’s impossible to fault the depth of Ellison’s vision or the chops on display. The film swims in shit, pus, and cum, but Kuso mostly reeks of obsession. “I kinda ducked out of being Flying Lotus intentionally in the height of my moment— I’m, like, at the Grammys—while I’m working on my movie,” Ellison says. “I was not even engaged in any of that, because I was in the throes of my film, just trying to do this thing. I spent a lot of money that I didn’t know if I was ever gonna get back, and lost a lot of time. When I started working on the movie I was dating this girl, she was really amazing, but I kinda had to just get in the zone, man. I just had to be on the computer all the time.” After the negative buzz from Kuso’s Sundance appearance—the

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“quote-unquote walkout thing”, as he puts it—Ellison says he’s warmed by the fan reaction so far. “It’s all been really, really good. The conversations that we’ve been having, people are exploring their own anxieties and I think they’re seeing the art in it, and I’m really grateful for that,” he says. And as for those who don’t go for jokes about dick-stabbing and shit-babies? “When I first came out with my music, people had the same reaction,” Ellison answers with a laugh. “They didn’t know what to do, they didn’t know what to call it or if they were allowed to dance to it, or what. It freaked people out, they didn’t know where to put me, and this is the same thing. I’d be fuckin’ up if everyone liked this movie, let’s just be real, right? If this was a total fuckin’ crowdpleaser, then I’m doing it wrong.” -

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the multinational production, which from previous page was then finished by codirector Matteo Norzi and Caraballoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huseach depicting different concerns. band, producer Abou Farman. The Some effects are better than 90-minute movie reaches for the inothers, and most passengers are effable, and is downright lysergic in barely defined. (One is an Italian ac- how much it gets right. > KEN EISNER tor, played by Filippo Timi, trying to overcome a bad stutter.) The filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s structure is also so constrained, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SACRED hard to tell if the elegantly graceful A documentary by Thomas Lennon. Stieglitz can really act. These wide- In multiple languages, with English ranging concerns are mitigated by subtitles. Rating unavailable the singularity of intention (as the Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initially hard to find the man said) demonstrated by artist hand of writer-director Thomturned writer-director Leonor Caraballo, capturing some of her own as Lennon in Sacred, a globetrotting psychotropical experiences. She died effort that takes us to roughly 40 of breast cancer before completing different places on the planet. Still,

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there is a striking visual consistency and tonal calm to this quick look at religious ritual in daily life, actually shot by as many different teams, under Lennonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presumed guidance. What comes across is a heartfelt and aesthetically pleasing tour of ancient practices that have somehow survived the onslaught of modernity. Recent events have told us that â&#x20AC;&#x153;faithâ&#x20AC;? is not always helpful in the face of complex realities, and can lead to destruction. But the movie is not called Scared; it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spend any time with the fundamentalism associated with war, terrorism, or â&#x20AC;&#x153;bathroom billsâ&#x20AC;?. There is some religious-based gendering, with men doing all the dancing at Hasidic parties and a young Indian girl not allowed to talk to a male neighbour until sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 18. (Or maybe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a Dad Thing.) Even here, among subjects identified only by first names, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an overemphasis on male storytellers, and a preponderance of Christianity in the African segments, racked by poverty and death from Ebola. Inmates at the notorious Angola prison in Louisiana appear uplifted by their jailhouse conversions, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sense throughout that scriptural content is secondary, at best, to the community that comes from belonging to any set of clean-living believers in, well, something. During visits to places as varied as Egypt, Japan, the Philippines, and New York City (thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even a brief Vancouver sequence, helmed by our own Julia Kwan), the verities of life, death, and in between are looked at. Supported by a fine score that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t underline any particular cultures at the expense of others, we find images of marriage, grieving, and even the odd bris. But no tantric sex. Sorry. This points to the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest deficit. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interested only in universal patterns of behaviour, not spiritual yearning. Rites and rituals are on display, but God remains, as ever, elusive to a fault. > KEN EISNER

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Harmonies give Washboard Union an edge Traditional bluegrass meets modern pop-country music in the fast-rising, in-demand Vancouver-based band’s catchy tunes

Bee and the Bare Bones are living the dream

In a story worthy of country

2 music lore, it was a bottle of

whisky and a banjo that inspired the genesis of the Washboard Union. Moving from their native Kelowna to a large Tudor-style Vancouver mansion, stepbrothers Aaron Grain and Chris Duncombe swiftly encountered fellow multi-instrumentalist David Roberts—a resident who lived down the hall—after the pair’s jubilant jamming caught his ear. As the trio knocked back the Scotch, they collectively decided that they couldn’t make serious music with two guitars. Grain took up the mantle. “Chris said to me, ‘You’ve got to get a banjo,’” Grain tells the Straight on a conference call with his bandmates from his Vancouver home. “So I got a Level 1 beginner’s banjo book, and a cheap instrument that I picked up from the local music store. Within four hours, we were rehearsing our first cover tune with those instruments.” Two significantly lengthier beards later, the Washboard Union is one of the most in-demand up-and-comers on the North American roots circuit, landing shows with Toby Keith, Jason Aldean, and Old Dominion. Having scooped two Canadian Country Music Association awards and three B.C. Country Music Association awards for its 2015 six-track EP In My Bones, the trio is continuing to build a devoted fan base with a modern bluegrass-meets-pop-country sound. “All that, and I still haven’t finished the beginner’s book,” Grain jokes. That sense of humour is one of the reasons that the Washboard Union has been catapulted so quickly into the public arena. Known for its jangly guitar lines, sing-along choruses, and lively double bass, the trio continues to find itself in heavy rotation on Canadian radio—an accomplishment that might have something to do with its unconventional format. “We’re a sextet, but it’s led by the three of us,” Duncombe says. “The typical arrangement in country music is a singer-songwriter surrounded by their band, but we found that we each had very different voices, and when they come together they sound really great. Working with three-part harmonies gives us a skin-tingling edge.” Grain adds with a laugh, “We joke that it takes the three of us to make a one-piece.” Currently in the midst of completing a full-length debut album, the Washboard Union is writing with some of Nashville’s premier names. The record is scheduled for a release in early 2018—the group is still polishing up some of the LP’s tracks— but Warner Music Canada couldn’t wait to put out a first single. “When the label heard our new track ‘Shine’, they were pretty excited about it,” Roberts says. “They wanted to release it straight away.” Grain jumps in with, “On the new album, our writing is getting more cohesive, and we’re collaborating with more people so we’ve got a larger pool to choose from. We took a real leap forward with In My Bones, but we didn’t have any fans. That record was a calling card to let people know what kind of music we were doing—something that tells a real story. We feel liberated to explore that sound and make it into a full statement on the album.”

Willie Nelson hails from Texas,

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The Washboard Union is making a full-length debut album slated for release in 2018. Christopher Edmonstone photo.

Galen Disston tells the Straight in a call to his Seattle home. “We toured it for about a year and a half, and came home and recorded about 30 or 40 songs. And then we scrapped ’em.” That material, he explains, was “a little more garage” than their previous release—“not fully punk, but a lot of that early Northwest-influenced, raw, rock ’n’ roll, R&B stuff. Initially, we kinda thought that was the direction we were going to go, but a lot of that music was a little too masculine-feeling, and us trying too hard, I think, to be something we weren’t.” Almost everything you hear on LoveJoys, Disston says, is “new creations that we took not fully formed into the studio” to work with award-winning Seattle producer Erik Blood. “We wrote the album in about three months, and three weeks later it was recorded and finished.” Partially thanks to Blood’s keen ear, the album breaks Pickwick out of the 1960s mould of Can’t Talk Medicine. “I think we were trying to find a way out of the soul tag that we’d been pigeonholed with—‘neo-soul throwback’ or ‘retro’ or whatever. Erik helped ease us into the 1970s. He made such a cool universe in his studio for us, and the songs were this kind of separate escapist universe, too.” Different listeners will hear different influences. The Rickshaw’s owner and booker Mo Tarmohamed, bringing Pickwick back to town to celebrate the venue’s upcoming eighth anniversary, hears Prince, Macy Gray, and even Talking Heads and Jimi Hendrix, though he notes “the album is so beautifully crafted that all of the musical elements work perfectly.” But there’s also a notable disco influence, a form being rehabilitated since the “disco sucks” backlash of the late 1970s and ’80s, which even Disston took part in. “I was pretty prejudiced against disco and even ’70s soul,” Disston admits, “like with the saxophones on ‘What’s Going On’. But some> KATE WILSON thing happened to me in the last couple of years.” The Washboard Union plays Rockin’ He began exploring left-field disco River Music Fest next Friday (August 4). pioneers like Arthur Russell, and learned to appreciate the amazing restraint that Marvin Gaye shows in his vocal stylings. “It just sort of eased me up,” Diss ton says. You would never guess, given “In Time” features an obvious riff how texturally rich and nuanced on Andrea True’s “More More More”. it is, that Pickwick’s LoveJoys comes as (“And even the drums are pretty the result of a back-to-the-drawing- ABBA,” Disston adds.) The strutboard approach, quickly written and ting bass lines that kick off “Turnrecorded, but that’s exactly the case. coat” suggest a grooved-out “Stayin’ “We released our first record, Can’t Alive”, and the vocal harmonies are Talk Medicine, in 2013,” vocalist pure Bee Gees, circa 1978.

Pickwick dodges neo-soul tag on discofied LoveJoys

And that’s where the real difference with Can’t Talk Medicine comes to light: while songs like “Hacienda Motel” foregrounded Disston’s charisma and strength as a lead singer, the layered approach to songcraft on LoveJoys allows him to lean back into the sound. “After touring the first record, I kind of felt the effects of singing my balls off every night for six nights a week,” he says. “Can’t Talk Medicine is kind of exhausting for me to listen to because I’m singing so hard, if that makes any sense.” The ethereal escapes and quasi hedonism of LoveJoys are a welcome relief and may just prevent Pickwick from being pigeonholed again. “Up to this point we’ve been known mainly as a live act,” Disston acknowledges. “Our first record, I don’t think, succeeded in establishing us as more than that. This was an opportunity to make a product you can listen to, something that can have a life in your car.” > ALLAN M AC INNIS

Pickwick plays the Rickshaw Theatre on Saturday (July 29).

Sleepy Sun overcame its share of speed bumps Bret Constantino is all too aware

2 of the fact that things don’t al-

year, and then sat in my parents’ garage until we found a place to put it. We finally hauled it up several f lights of stairs to our apartment in Oakland and we called a piano tuner up. He walks in, takes one look at it, and says, ‘This piano is unplayable.’ ” In other words, all that effort was ultimately for nought. One might be tempted to classify Sleepy Sun’s initial attempts to get Private Tales made as a similar exercise in futility, albeit one that led to a happier ending than the now-dismantled piano got. The band initially spent about 10 days at San Francisco’s El Studio with Colin Stewart, the Vancouver Island–based producer who also helmed the group’s first two albums. “The first session, we thought that would be the record,” Constantino says. “That’s the way we’ve always done it, you know, just lock ourselves in there for 10 days and whatever comes out of the pipeline is the record. But in this case it didn’t happen that way, mostly because I think the label wasn’t comfortable releasing it as it was, as that collection of songs. Which was kind of a speed bump for us. To be honest, it was pretty frustrating. But at the end of the twoyear cycle, after finishing the second session, what we came up with is a better selection of songs.” Constantino is justifiably pleased with Private Tales, which remains invariably atmospheric and spacious even as it moves from the dream pop of “Seaquest” to the fuzz-blitzed heavy psych of “Crave” and the shimmer-wave jangle of “Demon Baby”. Stewart’s wife, who happens to be New Pornographers member and respected solo artist Kathryn Calder, provides backing vocals and keyboards to a number of tracks, adding to an already lush garden of sound supplied by Constantino, guitarists Matt Holliman and Evan Reiss, and drummer Brian Tice. The singer views the record as a single, cohesive piece of art, suggesting that, just as you wouldn’t only look at, say, the upper-left-hand corner of a Picasso painting, you shouldn’t separate any one of the LP’s 10 tracks from its context and listen to it in isolation. “The record is meant to be listened to front to back and it’s meant to be listened to actively,” Constantino says. “I realize it’s asking a lot of people these days to sit down and listen to an entire album and really pay attention to it, but I think it’s important to push people to do that still.”

playing live for a mind-warping 51 years, and has racked up an astonishing 25 No. 1 hits and 68 studio albums. Bee and the Bare Bones is based up north in British Columbia, has been together for around a year, has produced a lone single (“Fool”), and hopes to have a full-length out in the coming year. What both have in common is that they’re headed to Merritt, B.C., for the Rockin’ River Music Fest. And with one act a living American legend and the other just starting out, you can guess who’s completely thrilled about meeting whom. Reached at home in Kamloops, Bee and the Bare Bones singer Madison Olds says that she and Merritt-based bandmate Abby Wale can’t believe they’re going to be in the same town as the Red Headed Stranger, let alone on the same bill. “Willie Nelson is a classic—you can’t help but want to see him,” Olds says. “My bandmate is like, ‘My dream is to touch one of Willie Nelson’s braids.’ ” The 19-year-old is quick to credit her parents with starting her down the road that’s led her and Wale to Rockin’ River. “They played music their whole lives and really inspired me to follow my dream,” Olds says. “Because they’ve been so supportive, my family has given me the confidence to chase what I think is a really scary dream to go after. There are so many talented people out there, and it’s really discouraging when you see how many of them you are up against. You’re like, ‘Ahhh—I’m not good enough to compete with them.’ ” Except that along with Wale, she’s proven that maybe she is. The two entered a 2016 songwriting contest sponsored by Chevy and Country Music Television. Judges were impressed enough with a demo that Bee and the Bare Bones was invited to a second-round live-performance part of the competition, eventually walking away with the top prize, which included a trip to Nashville along with a recording session there. Out of that came “Fool”, which leans heavily on honey-coated harmonies and desert-sunset guitars. The Chevy Country From the Tailgate competition also solidified the musical direction that Bee and the Bare Bones has been heading in. No one pledges allegiance to a single genre in the Spotify era, which means that Olds and Wale are as enamoured with pop and rock as they are with country. “I’d never really written or played much country growing up,” Olds says. “But I’ve always loved listening to it—it’s such feel-good music. Last year my grandmother told me about this competition—the Chevy Tailgate contest—and said, ‘I think you should give it a try.’ I had a friend and we’d written a song with a bit of a country vibe to it, so we submitted it.” And from there, things clicked to where Bee and the Bare Bones can’t believe how far they’ve come in a short time. Olds admits that when they got the call for Rockin’ River, her first thought was that someone was playing a joke on them. “We had trouble processing it because everything has happened so fast for us,” she says with a laugh. “Even to this day we’re still trying to figure it all out, like ‘Oh, okay, so we’re sharing the stage with Willie Nelson.’ That’s such a big honour. People are going to be talking to me, and I’ll be a complete blank slate, with them going ‘Hello, is there anybody there?’ ”

ways go according to plan. When the Straight reaches the Sleepy Sun singer on the first date of the band’s tour in support of its new album, Private Tales, he notes that the unforeseen fuckery has already begun. “We’ve gotten two flat tires between here and San Francisco, one on each side of the trailer,” says Constantino, speaking from somewhere on the road between Sleepy Sun’s Bay Area home base and Visalia, California, where the group is slated to kick off a string of shows. “But now we’re actually chugging along. We’re about an hour away.” Here’s hoping the trailer fares better than the subject of “The Keys”— an unwieldy musical instrument that Constantino’s significant other insisted on hauling all over the continental United States. “I moved to Texas for a woman who I’m now married to,” Constantino relates. “She moved a piano from Chicago—which I had played in her apartment in Chicago, as well—and I couldn’t believe she was bringing it to Texas. We played it a little bit in Texas, but > MIKE USINGER then I couldn’t believe she wanted > JOHN LUCAS to bring it up to California with us. Bee and the Bare Bones plays the So, it sat in a moving truck for two weeks across the hottest part of the Sleepy Sun plays the Cobalt next Rockin’ River Music Fest on Sunday (August 6). country and the hottest time of the Thursday (August 3). JULY 27 – AUGUST 3 / 2017 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 25

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Women power up Current

ince women first entered the paid workforce, certain occupations have been designated as “women’s work”. Fancy a job as a nurse, typist, or elementary-school teacher? Here’s your offer letter. A computer programmer? We’ll call you. While today more women are embarking on careers in male-dominated professions, female employees are paid 87 cents for every dollar made by men in the same role, they rarely make it to the top positions in the company, and they are more likely to experience discrimination and harassment in the workplace. In some industries, then, the glass ceiling is thicker than others—and that reality is faced daily by women in electronic music and art. “As cultural producers, we see the Soledad Muñoz, Nancy Lee, and Ashlee Luk of Current, which showcases barriers that women run up against the talents of women in electronic music and art. Kate Wilson photo. when they enter this profession,” Ashlee Luk tells the Straight from “It’s open for everybody to come,” on skills. Budding producers will across the table at a Railtown co- she says. “That’s very important so benefit from a comprehensive Ableworking space. “We wanted to create that people who are not female or non- ton workshop with Kasey Riot, while an event that would make women binary can see the great music being Kiran Bhumber and Norah Lorway and their contributions to electronic produced by people like us in the in- will teach a five-hour class on how to music and art more visible.” dustry, and can attend the panels and build a synth from scratch and solder Masterminding a three-day sym- hear our perspectives. We want every- its components to a breadboard, and posium featuring panels, workshops, one to learn how to become better sup- instruct guests in how to live-code and performances, porters of women the parameters of the soundwaves to Luk decided to and genderqueer change the output. bring together folk in electronic The most technical class, however, various female music and art is Tifanie Lamiel’s lesson on how Kate Wilson and non-binary together.” to create a DIY Arduino board. A art collectives from across VancouCurrent’s first event, slated for Fri- regular feature in many audio-visver, Seattle, and Portland to create a day afternoon, taps into just that. ual mixed-media projects, Arduino comprehensive festival named Cur- A discussion led by four female trail- reads an input—such as a finger on rent. With the help of multimedia blazers in the industry, the panel fo- a button or a Twitter message—and creators Soledad Muñoz, leader of cuses on how to create better allies in turns it into any output, like actiall-women Vancouver label Gen- the music and art world, and how to vating a motor or publishing an ero, and Nancy Lee—head of local mobilize women to take the lead in online post. Recognizing that the electronic music alliance Chapel planning events. technology can be expensive and Sound—Luk saw her vision grow “We’re looking at how people in that buying multiple Arduinos adds into, in her words, “the exciting positions of power—who are usually up quickly, Lamiel’s workshop will monster it is now”. men—can facilitate a more equal show guests how to create the com“We wanted to prove that you can and inclusive landscape,” says Lee. ponent from just a circuit board. curate an all-woman and nonbinary “It’s a space for us to explain what Preconceptions are shattered lineup and still have a draw,” Lee our needs are. A lot of people have when people choose to be the says. “That’s one of the many things really great intentions about includ- change they want to see. Current we’ve all experienced promoters and ing women and nonbinary folk, but is set to do just that. By spotlightbooking agents say, that women art- they just have no idea where to start.” ing those who are underrepresentists don’t attract as many people, and “The second panel is a bit different, ed in electronic music and art, the that’s why they’re relegated to open- and it examines women’s contribu- event will facilitate collaboration, ing. The popularity of Current shows tion to electronic art and technol- encourage mentorship, and help that it’s just not true.” ogy,” Muñoz picks up. “It’s often said women and gender-nonbinary folk The event’s performers and edu- that women are excluded from the to conquer the feeling of “imposter cators have little in common aside industry because they have no inter- syndrome” in the industry. from being female-identifying or est in it, but that’s just not true—the “We’re not just a festival,” genderqueer. Diversity is a key part first computer programmer was a Muñoz says. “We all feel like we’re of the festival for Muñoz, and book- woman, for example. The discussion changing things by creating the ing artists from all ages, races, and will help to rewrite a fairer version of spaces and opportunities that economic backgrounds helps make history to point out the places in the weren’t available to us.” the bill both broad and representa- narrative where women’s contribuCurrent is at VAL Villa (494 Railway tive. Despite offering their platform tions have been passed over.” to just women, however, it’s vital to More than just a discussion Street) and the Hive (128 West Hasthe label owner that men can also forum, though, Current will allow tings Street) from Friday (July 28) until enjoy the festival’s art and music. its attendees to gain some hands- Sunday (July 30).

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1. I’m not ready to pronounce this guy a creep—at least not for the age difference. It sounds like he met your daughters someplace they’re all working this summer, which is a lot less icky than some college boy creeping on high-school girls via Instagram. And you say this boy is going to be a sophomore in college, KANSAS, but don’t give his age. There are 30-year-old college sophomores, of course, but if this boy went straight to college from high school, that would make him 19 years old.

If your 16-year-old is closing in on 17, this guy could be “older” by two years and change. While I can understand why you wouldn’t want your younger daughter dating college boys, I think you are overreacting to the age difference—and it’s a moot issue, as he’s no longer pursuing your younger daughter. 1.5. You know what is creepy? Pursuing a pair of sisters. The possibility of conflict was so predictable, it was likely a motivating factor for him. Getting off on drama and public fights isn’t a crime, but it is a red flag. 2. You ordered your 16-year-old to stop seeing this guy and deleted apps from her phone. (It’s cute you think your daughter isn’t tech-savvy enough to redownload and hide all the same apps.) You should warn your daughter about the risks of sexting—it may be legal for her to have sex (16 is the age of consent in Kansas), but she could face child-porn charges for sending photos and this boy could wind up on a sex-offender registry for receiving them. (Laws meant to protect young people from being exploited are routinely used to punish them.) But don’t attempt to micromanage your daughters’ love lives. Parental disapproval has a way of driving teenagers into each other’s arms, KANSAS. If you don’t want your daughters having a fuckyou-mom threesome with this guy before the summer is over, you’ll let them work through this on their own—but go ahead and stitch “boys come and go but sisters are forever” on a couple of pillows and put them on their beds.

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wonderful woman. She has a daughter. This girl’s bio dad is a checkedout deadbeat, so I have played “dad” since I met her mom five years ago. The girl who used to be a gangly, awkward 11-year-old is now 16, and there’s no other way to put this: she is hot. I’m not supposed to notice, I know, and I have ZERO interest in being creepy with her, and she has ZERO interest in me. But she has always liked to cuddle with me and still does. I believe safe closeness from a dad figure helps girls make good choices when it comes to boys. (If not for me, she might seek attention from douchebag teenage boys trying to take advantage.) I want to continue to play this role for her. But when she comes in wearing tiny shorts and puts her legs over my lap, I get rock hard. I’m not trying to be creepy, but I’m a guy and she’s a perfect female specimen. I can’t say, “We can’t be as physically close as we used to be,” because that itself would be creepy and it would make her sad.

My college-student daughter

You stay the fuck out of your offspring’s apartment when she isn’t home, OHIO, per your agreement. And you keep these things in mind: just as there are young queer people out there, there are young kinky people out there too. Your adult daughter might be one of them. For all you know, the restraints were her idea and her boyfriend is the one getting tied up. And a scary-to-mom set of restraints is a lot safer than nylon clothesline or cheap handcuffs. Leather restraints distribute pressure evenly, making them less likely to pinch a nerve or cut off circulation. Like your adult daughter getting herself an IUD, formidable bondage gear is a good sign that she takes her safety seriously. (And how did you find out about the IUD she got without informing you? Did you wander up her vagina one day to “check on something”?) Finally, OHIO, it’s perfectly understandable that you don’t like the mental image of your adult daughter tied to the bed in her apartment (her apartment, not the apartment), but I’m guessing you don’t like the mental image of your adult daughter with a dick in her mouth, either. Just as you don’t torment yourself by picturing the blowjobs your adult daughter is almost certainly giving her boyfriend, don’t torment yourself by picturing whatever else she might be doing with, to, or for him. -

lives in an apartment over our garage. She has a boyfriend, age 19. After many loud “discussions”, he is allowed to sleep over. My daughter got an IUD without informing me, so I assume they’re sexually active. Two days ago, I crept into the apartment to check on something and found bondage items on her bed—a set of formidable leather restraints. I’m worried she’s being pressured to do things someone her age wouldn’t be interested in. We agreed not to go into the apartment when she wasn’t present, and I know there will be a loud “discussion” if I tell her what I saw. The mental image of Listen to Dan on the Savage Lovecast my bound daughter distresses me and every week at savagelovecast.com. Email: mail@savagelove.net. Follow I worry for her safety. What do I do?

> INSERT DAD ACRONYM HERE OBVIOUSLY

Sometimes children grow up and get hot, and adults in their lives—typically (and thankfully) not their bio or lifelong parents—can’t help but notice. The onus is on the adult in that situation to suppress that shit. Not awareness of a young person’s objective hotness, which cannot be suppressed, but all evidence of said awareness. Which means setting boundaries and, if necessary, keeping your distance. No, you shouldn’t

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