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Volume 52 | Number 2653

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SMALL HOUSES

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HARD RUBBER

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Culture Crawl Artist and industrial designer Benjamin McLaughlin makes musical furniture at Yew WoodShop, one of the East Side event’s thriving communal studios

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At the Eastside Culture Crawl, artists are finding innovative ways to share studios, tools, and skills.

By Janet Smith Cover photo by Shimon Karmel Wall piece by Logan Gilday, OGA Design; sound furniture by Benjamin McLaughlin

15 EDUCATION

Read up on a host of innovative programs at several schools here and across the country that offer courses that have the potential to change your life.

20 TECHNOLOGY

A local company is using a type of nanoparticle called a quantum dot to create paint that changes colour.

By Kate Wilson

35 FOOD

The soup that is a staple in Vietnam, pho, can be made in your own kitchen, and a local chef shares her recipe.

By Gail Johnson

41 MUSIC

With A Ukulele Night to Remember, Daphne Roubini intends to show that music can truly make the world a better place, and that just about anyone can do it.

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Celebrate authentic Italy at gala dinner (This story is sponsored by GIA and National Importers Canada Ltd.)

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hey say that the way to a person’s heart is through their stomach. And for that reason, our love affair with Italy is one of our most passionate. At the hands of an Italian, food becomes so much more than just sustenance. It’s emotional. In fact, eating has become so ingrained in the country’s delicious culture and history that it’s almost impossible to think of Italy without thinking about some of its gastronomic delights.

And while eating well is something that people in Italy partake in year-round, the “Week of the Italian Cuisine in the World”, taking place November 19 to 25, gives the rest of us the perfect opportunity to celebrate and indulge in the country’s culinary excellence. Now in its third year, the week will see more than one thousand events being held around the world promoting Italy’s agrifood industry.

The Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada–West (ICCCW) has operated since 1992 as a private, nonprofit, membership organization with the goal of enhancing business, trade, and investment exchanges between Italy and Western Canada.

So to mark the week-long occasion, the ICCCW has partnered with the Regione Emilia Romagna, Unioncamere Emilia Romagna, Enoteca Regionale Emilia Romagna, APT Emilia Romagna, Casa Artusi, and the Consulate General of Italy to put on a very special series of events in Vancouver. The city will play host to a delegation of more than 15 food companies from Emilia Romagna, a region in northern Italy celebrated all around the world as the homeland of many of the country’s most famous delicacies. Think Prosciutto

GIA pastes are made from carefully selected fresh ingredients, which are grown locally in Emilia Romagna, which is commonly referred to as the Italian food valley.

di Parma, Parmigiano Reggiano, Bolognese, tortellini, Balsamic Vinegar of Modena, and so much more.

And if you’re already salivating at the thought, then you’re in luck.

That’s because on Wednesday (November 21st), the ICCCW invites you to join the Extraordinary Emilia Romagna!, an exclusive gala dinner and pasta-making show taking place at Vancouver’s Westin Bayshore (1601 Bayshore Drive). The superior culinary experience will include a fabulous seven-course dinner served with premium Italian wines, all inspired by the region’s traditional recipes. Guests will be treated to three buffet appetizers, two entrées, a main, and, of course, gelato. There will then be a fresh pasta-making demonstration led by the “Mariette” teachers from Casa Artusi, a centre dedicated to regional Italian cuisine and its rich culture. So in an evening that’s sure to be full of surprises, there’s also the unique opportunity to learn a secret recipe for the perfect tortellini, meaning you can take a little taste of Italy home with you.

And every effort has been made

to ensure the menu’s authenticity, with some products being flown in especially for the occasion. After all, one of ICCCW’s key mandates is not only to promote extraordinary Italian taste and food excellence, but also to educate the public on the difference in certified DOP and IGP products, which are sourced and manufactured in Italy. In fact, the True Italian Taste project, coordinated by Assocameres­ tero and promoted and financed by the Ministry of Economic Development, is dedicated to the cause of safeguarding genuine Italian agrifood products. And visitors to the website are encouraged to discover “genuine origins, true pleasure”.

As the most romantic country in the world, the passion Italians pour into food and eating is no surprise.

And it’s for that reason that authenticity is something they take very seriously. And while some products may look Italian, once you’ve experienced the real deal there is no mistaking it. This is especially true when it comes to cooking because to enjoy a proper Italian meal requires genuine ingredients. And of all the com-

ponents used, surely garlic can be recognized as one of the most critical in Italian dishes.

GIA is a family company located in Emilia Romagna and it was founded in 1980 after discovering the process of manufacturing garlic into a paste. And while tube foods might not have the most elegant of connotations in North America, the Italians have stayed to true their reputation and elevated the humble recipe essential into a highquality and convenient tube format. In the years since, GIA has expanded its product offering to include sun-dried tomato paste, anchovy paste, tomato and garlic purée, chili purée, onion purée, shallot purée, and pesto.

All GIA products are made from fine fresh Italian herbs and ingredients, which are carefully selected, controlled, and processed using modern equipment to ensure the perfect balance of the product in a tube.

An Italian representative from GIA together with the Canadian importer, Nitish Nayak, brand manager of National Importers Canada Ltd, will be present at the event Extraordinary Emilia Romagna! to promote their

products, which will be part of the seven-course menu for the Gala Dinner. GIA provides a simple way for chefs and home cooks alike to bring the authentic Mediterranean flavors to their tables and can now be purchased across Canada. Find them in some of British Columbia’s renowned retailers like Sobeys, Safeway, SaveOn Foods, IGA, and Thrifty Foods.

GIA pastes are also distributed in independent and chain stores like Choices, Buy Low, and IGA, meaning there is lots of opportunity for you to continue to celebrate the Week of Italian Cuisine celebration, year round.

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NEWS

VPD accused of carding Cole near Stanley Park

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high-profile Toronto writer and antiracist activist says he was carded by Vancouver police about 24 hours after arriving in the city. Desmond Cole went on Twitter on November 13 to say that he was walking on the sidewalk near Stanley Park when a police cruiser passed by. He said that the car then turned around and came up beside him, and the officer claimed that he was violating a city bylaw by smoking in a public park.

“I was on the sidewalk,” Cole said on his Twitter feed. “I was not in the public park.”

Cole insisted that he was stopped for no justifiable reason, which made him feel “really shitty”. He emphasized that this happens all the time to blacks and to Indigenous people, which can lead to them “being arrested, being beaten, or worse”.

“We can even lose our lives from this ridiculous practice,” Cole said.

According to Cole, the unnamed officer then asked for his name.

When Cole refused to comply with the request, he said, the officer said that he could put him in handcuffs and take him to the police station.

“This has happened to me so many times I already know what the questions are going to be and I know what’s coming,” Cole said.

Cole was in Vancouver at the invitation of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The organization’s B.C. director, Seth Klein, tweeted that he’s “embarrassed” for his city and expressed sorrow to Cole for what happened at the hands of Vancouver police.

In 2015, Cole wrote an article for Toronto Life revealing that he has been interrogated by police more than 50 times, simply because he’s black. “As my encounters with police became more frequent, I began to see every uniformed officer as a threat,” he stated in the article. “The cops stopped me anywhere they saw me, particularly at night.”

Prior to being carded in Vancouver,

9:30PM – 1:30AM Writer Desmond Cole says a local cop stopped him for dubious reasons. Photo by Kpcofgs

Cole was planning to meet with someone from the B.C. Civil Liberties Association about the propensity of police to ask for identification from blacks and Indigenous people. He declared on Twitter that he has now “literally experienced this on the streets of Vancouver”. Cole stated that he was going to file a complaint with the Vancouver Police Department.

“We can’t continue to live like this and to pray, walking through the streets, that you’re [the police] not going to terrorize us,” he said.

In June, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs filed a complaint with the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner highlighting a “significant racial disparity” in the VPD’s street checks.

Over a 10-year period, about 15 percent of such checks involved Indigenous people even though they make up about two percent of the city’s population. The two groups also stated that four percent of street checks over a 10year period involved people of African ancestry, who are less than one percent of the city’s population.

“The statistics on racial disparity in street carding demonstrate the lived reality of institutional racism that our people face despite the public rhetoric and celebrations around reconciliation,” UBCIC vice president Chief Bob Chamberlin said in a news release.

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BOOKS

Trudeau’s grand bargain exposed

by Charlie Smith

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etired SFU communications professor Donald Gutstein is an old hand when it comes to dissecting the activities of neoliberal think tanks. His last two books— Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues Have Transformed Canada and Not a Conspiracy Theory: How Business Propaganda Hijacks Democracy—made a convincing case that there needs to be far more scrutiny of the funding of the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute and other organizations like it on both sides of the border.

So it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that he has zeroed in on these public-policy hawkers in his new book, The Big Stall: How Big Oil and Think Tanks Are Blocking Action on Climate Change in Canada. But in an interview in the Tangent Café on Commercial Drive, Gutstein conceded that when he began researching this topic two years ago, he had no idea of the extent to which they’ve inf luenced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s policies in the wake of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

“I didn’t know too much about the subject when I started,” Gut­ stein told the Straight over a bowl of soup. “Through the research and reading good stuff, gradually it all kind of emerged.”

The book opens with an examination of the National Energy Program, which was introduced by Trudeau’s father, Pierre Trudeau, after the Liberals were returned to power in 1980. The NEP’s made-in-Canada oil-pricing formula was vehemently opposed by the Business Council on National Issues, which had been founded by resource-company CEOs in 1976 in response to a decision by Trudeau senior to introduce wage and price controls.

Once Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives came to power in 1984, a new energy minister from Vancouver, Pat Carney, was given a mandate to dismantle the NEP with the help of her top assistant, Harry Near, a former executive at Imperial Oil. These changes were locked in by the free trade agreement of 1988, which, according to The Big Stall, “prohibited the imposition of discriminatory export taxes, something that the NEP used to promote domestic consumption”.

“I’ve had this sense all my life

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In his new book, The Big Stall, retired SFU communications professor Donald Gutstein reveals how Liberal heavyweights ensured that pipelines would be included in a national climate plan.

that business is generally doing whatever it needs to do to make profits in circumventing regulations,” Gutstein said.

According to him, the business community “went on the attack” against pioneering environmental author Rachel Carson even before her famous exposé of pesticides, Silent Spring, was released in 1962.

He also reports in his book that for years, Big Oil tried to sow doubt about climate change by copying some of the techniques that had been pioneered by public-relations practitioners trying to create uncertainty over whether or not cigarettes caused cancer.

In the 1970s, economists began to be hired by some environmental organizations, which then issued reports calculating the costs associated with environmental degradation. The problem with this approach, according to Gutstein, is that this “locked in the privatization of the environment” by putting a price on pollution.

From there, he said, it was only a natural step that carbon emissions would also be priced—something that Big Oil began welcoming around 2007 after it was clear that climate change was real and that corporations faced the prospect of hard-hitting regulations.

Writing in the Calgary Herald that year, the Canada West Foundation’s then president and CEO, Roger Gibbins, called for a climatechange policy to be rooted in the

objectives of Western Canada. Gutstein writes that Gibbins’s proposal “would yoke climate change to the energy policy cart and be steered by a western Canadian driver, ensuring the combined policy formation would head in a direction desired by Big Oil”.

The following year, B.C. became the first jurisdiction in North America to introduce a broadbased carbon tax. “I think at the end of the day, [former B.C. premier] Gordon Campbell brought in the carbon tax because he was worried about the next election,” Gutstein said.

EVEN THOUGH Big Oil was prepared to accept a carbon tax as part of a national energy strategy, Gutstein reports in his book that then prime minister Stephen Harper refused to go along with the idea. That didn’t stop Gibbins and others—including former Canadian Council of Chief Executives CEO Tom d’Aquino, Suncor Energy CEO Rick George, and former TransCanada PipeLines CEO Hal Kvisle—from meeting at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel to discuss the formulation of a North American energy strategy. Two years later, this idea was advanced again at a meeting in Winnipeg, where leaders of 11 think tanks “agreed that a national dialogue on the role of energy in Canada’s environmental future was very much needed”.

One of the sponsors was Jim Carr, then president of the Business

Council of Manitoba and later the natural resources minister in Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.

Gutstein reports in The Big Stall that six months after the Winnipeg Consensus was drafted, in 2009, heavy hitters involved in the energy industry and representatives of a small number of environmental organizations met in Banff. Among them was the Pembina Institute’s Marlo Raynolds, who later became chief of staff to Environment Minister Catherine McKenna. Another person at this event was Gerald Butts, president of the World Wildlife Fund Canada, who is now the senior political adviser to Trudeau. D’Aquino’s successor, former Liberal cabinet minister John Manley, was also present.

“But the biggest news from Banff was the presence of six representatives of a new player on the scene, the Energy Policy Institute of Canada (EPIC),” Gutstein writes.

“This organization was incorporated the same month the Winnipeg Consensus was reached, October 2009. It had the backing of Canada’s largest fossil fuel companies, like Shell Canada, Imperial Oil, Canadian Natural Resources, and Suncor Energy, pipeline companies TransCanada Corporation and Enbridge, plus the major fossil fuel industry associations and especially the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.”

Gutstein told the Straight that he believes Manley was groomed for his position as president and CEO of the Business Council of Canada because he would be well positioned to endorse a carbon tax as part of a grand bargain that would also ensure that a Liberal government would include pipeline projects in any national climate plan. And Gutstein maintained that this marketbased solution of a tax on pollution isn’t going to result in the types of emission reductions that could be obtained by tough government regulations, even though it would appear to be a reasonable compromise to the public. That’s what the book’s title, The Big Stall, refers to.

Gutstein, a practising Buddhist, said he wanted to document how all of this has unfolded under Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.

“Basically, Big Oil is causing enormous suffering from a Buddhist point of view,” he said.

“People have to know about it.”

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PIECES OF EIGHT

rom childhood memories to political struggles, the Downtown Eastside figures prominently in the shortlisted works for the 2018 City of Vancouver Book Award. In fact, three out of the four titles address subject matter related to the DTES. The finalists announced on November 8 span numerous literary forms, including memoir, biography, and poetry.

Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle With Addiction details the efforts of a grassroots group of DTES activists who pioneered harm-reduction approaches to illicit drug use.

Lupick, a Georgia Straight staff writer, said he is grateful for the nomination and the attention it can bring to the ongoing opioid crisis.

“In Fighting for Space, I recount how our city responded [to] and solved a previous overdose crisis that occurred through the 1990s and early 2000s,” Lupick stated. “Fentanyl is a more challenging problem.”

However, Lupick is hopeful that through cooperative action, local efforts will once again be able to save lives.

Finalist Chelene Knight’s creativenonfiction memoir Dear Current Occupant features essays, letters, and poems about living in 20 different homes in East Vancouver, including the DTES. Fellow finalist Erín Moure’s Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots reflects upon the life of DTES inhabitant Paul Émile Savard, who died alone, without an obituary or funeral.

As Vancouver’s fourth poet laureate, writer Rachel Rose served as editor of her legacy-project book, Sustenance: Writers From B.C. and Beyond on the Subject of Food, which is also in the running for the 2018 City of Vancouver Book Award. The anthology combines recipes with poetry, interviews, and photographs by local writers and chefs.

The jury consists of Vancouver Art/ Book Fair board member and Vantage Point events manager Nav Nagra, UBC Indigenous Studies senior instructor Dory Nason, and author and Kwantlen Polytechnic University instructor Billeh Nickerson.

The award will be presented on December 8.

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Small-house advocate sees need for alternatives

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Dr. J. Ghuman M.D., CCFP (EM) Dr. Ghuman is a member of the Canadian Academy of Aesthetic Medicine.

A cofounder of Small Housing B.C., Jake Fry, says city staff and politicians across Metro Vancouver need to be far more open to allowing a greater diversity of homes.

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ake Fry thinks of West 2nd Avenue between Larch and Trutch streets as one of the loveliest areas in Vancouver.

Fry told city council at a public hearing in September this year that he believes this is so because of the variety of housing on this stretch.

He mentioned the early-1900s period as well as modern residences, many with infill housing at the back. He also cited three-storey apartment buildings and other kinds of accommodation that serve different households.

Diversity of housing has a natural appeal for Fry. He’s a builder with a background in carpentry. He founded Smallworks, a company that constructs laneway homes. Fry also cofounded Small Housing B.C., a group that advocates the addition of small, ground-oriented homes in single-family neighbourhoods.

According to Fry, there are many examples of these in Vancouver, from townhouses to duplexes, laneway homes, and heritage homes that have been turned into three or four suites.

However, Fry believes that there aren’t enough.

He also said that there are other opportunities that can be explored.

One example is for adjacent properties to work together and create pocket neighbourhoods of small detached homes clustered around a common space. “I can’t stress it enough that the important factor is really to look at what we can do to create a mix of housing that addresses multiple needs within a single neighbourhood,� Fry told the Georgia Straight in a phone interview.

It is often said that established Vancouver neighbourhoods have a deep attachment to single-family homes, and that is the supposed reason why the city is not producing enough new housing.

However, Fry doesn’t agree that this is what is holding back the city. “I think people in Vancouver desperately want alternative forms of housing,� he said.

Fry suggested that although city hall has started to move toward increasing housing options in lowdensity neighbourhoods, it has to become more open to choices. “I think there’s a will there,â€? Fry said. “But I think, generally, what we’ve looked at historically is we’ve looked at very strong regulatory practices that can be very protective. And in that environment, what happens is that‌not a lot of new ideas get forwarded.â€?

He explained that what needs to happen is for city staff to be given a clear direction that “neighbourhoods have to perform better and accommodate more people‌rather than a protective stance where you’re trying to regulate what happens in a neighbourhood in a restrictive manner.â€? “We’re encouraging them to become‌far more facilitative in allowing more types of homes to coexist with one another,â€? Fry said. “You know, so that on a typical street, you could see three or four different types of these homes. And we’re also encouraging them to be much‌quicker in their review process than they’re going through at the current rate.â€?

This challenge isn’t just for Vancouver. Other municipalities in the Lower Mainland are also facing housing problems.

Many of these issues are going to be taken up when Small Housing B.C. holds a summit in Vancouver on Saturday (November 17) at the Sheraton Wall Centre (1088 Burrard Street).

The theme for the daylong conference, which Fry described as the first of its kind in Canada, is “collaborate to accelerate�.

At the public hearing wherein Fry mentioned that specific stretch of West 2nd Avenue, he urged city council to adopt a more “robust� approach in increasing housing options for single-family neighbourhoods.

This can be achieved, according to Fry, by “releasing the hand from the scruff of the neck of planning�.

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Pro rep trims power of premier

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by Al Etmanski

’m in favour of proportional representation because it will give cabinet ministers responsible for the social ministries more power.

This reason may come as a surprise to you. But no more a surprise than my discovery of how little power those cabinet ministers actually have and how much power is concentrated in the premier’s office, particularly by the unelected officials who work there.

Proportional representation will allow cabinet ministers to use their considerable skills to build a coalition of interest among MLAs from their own caucus as well as from other parties—and counteract the tendency of the premier’s office to look at what’s good for the party instead of what’s good for the province.

I’ve spent the past four decades going back and forth to Victoria as an advocate for people with disabilities and their families. I’ve seen governments come and go. I’ve met politicians on all sides of the legislature. For the most part, I’ve been impressed by the cabinet ministers I’ve dealt with.

They come into politics with high ideals and a desire to make things better for those pushed aside, ignored, or vulnerable. They work hard to learn the political ropes, to fulfill their ministerial responsibilities and to understand the root causes of the challenges they have been mandated to address. They want to do more than deal with the symptoms. Time after time, I’ve seen their well-thought-out and practical solutions nixed by staff in the premier’s office.

It’s hard enough being a cabinet minister responsible for a social portfolio. Your statutory responsibilities are extensive: for example, child protection and income assis­ tance. This, naturally, demands most

Al Etmanski says ministers with social portfolios are undercut by the premier’s office, but that would change with proportional representation. Stephen Hui photo

of your attention and sucks up most of your budget. Your flexible spending power to adopt new solutions is in the tens of thousands—this from budgets that exceed a billion dollars.

And you are treated by the premier’s office as if your ministry is only good for draining the public purse, even though you’ve come to understand that a healthy economy depends on a strong foundation of care.

The control by the premier’s office is ruthless. I’ve watched that office assign a ministerial assistant to a cabinet minister because they were becoming too sympathetic to the people they were serving. I’ve received an apology from another cabinet minister after they left office for their inadequacy in stick-handling around that office.

Still another showed me the letter of resignation they carried in their pocket should the premier’s office interfere with their mandate one more time. Finally, I watched two cabinet ministers plead their case to senior staff in the premier’s office as if they were schoolchildren—and saw the frustration and anger in

their eyes when they were told the issue wouldn’t be pursued because it wouldn’t get the party any votes.

I’ve witnessed the power of proportional representation in New Zealand.

Every meeting I’ve had with a cabinet minister in that country involved members of the opposition. There was a spirit of cooperation, a willingness to get along, a sense that they had the power to make things happen.

Proportional representation will do the same in British Columbia. It will enable us to get to the roots of poverty, homelessness, addiction, social isolation, and other persistent social challenges. It will allow politicians to transcend their partisan scripts and work together. It will diminish the centralizing power of the premier’s office. And it will help cabinet ministers act like the capable and caring politicians they are.

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y now, we should all know that driving a motor vehicle with cannabis in your body could result in harsh legal penalties. But what about driving with cannabis in your car?

The first golden rule when it comes to cannabis in cars is to avoid consuming inside a motor vehicle, full stop.

Obviously, drivers should abstain from consuming cannabis at all times while driving, but this restriction applies to passengers just as much as it does to those who are behind the wheel. As the owner and operator of a motor vehicle, you should be vigilant in ensuring that no one smokes, vapes, or consumes cannabis through other methods while you’re in charge. Otherwise, both you and your passengers could face legal consequences.

And pulling over before consuming won’t help your case.

It does not matter if you’re parked or if you have no intention of actually putting the vehicle in motion. The prohibition against consuming cannabis in motor vehicles extends to all vehicles—regardless of whether you are driving or not.

Moreover, the legal concept of “care or control” extends to acts that fall short of actually driving. This means that simply sitting in a motor vehicle could be enough to fall under the definition, and the subsequent ambit of the law.

You may also want to keep in mind that these restrictions apply to all vehicles, not just cars and trucks.

Even unconventional motor vehicles, like boats, motorized scooters, and— in some provinces—farm equipment, are illegal places to spark up.

But refraining from consuming in or on a motor vehicle won’t necessarily save you from a ticket in the postlegalization landscape.

Simply having cannabis in your vehicle can constitute an offence.

Here in British Columbia, the Cannabis Control and Licensing Act makes it a ticketable offence to simply have cannabis in your vehicle, regardless of whether you are consuming it or not. In Ontario, Bill 36 functions in a similar manner. In fact, in every province so far, the rules are relatively consistent with respect to the ban on cannabis in cars.

So, does this mean that you have to walk or take the bus if you want to pick up some cannabis from a licensed dispensary and bring it home?

Not exactly—like most things, this restriction is subject to certain exceptions.

Adults operating a motor vehicle in British Columbia can lawfully transport cannabis so long as they comply with the law. Th is means that the product cannot be readily accessible to the driver and passengers in the vehicle. It must be from a federal producer and remain in its original, unopened, and fully sealed packaging.

Drivers can transport up to four plants, so long as they are not budding or flowering. So make sure to take a close look before hitting the road with your plants in tow.

And while the law is new—and therefore may seem hazy right now—the best thing is to treat cannabis like alcohol in relation to your motor vehicle.

Apply the three golden rules: don’t consume inside your vehicle; don’t break the original seal and bring it into the cab; and remember that the best place for it is probably inside the trunk.

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F orum OF THE WEEK New York Times reporters are giving lots of coverage to Canadian weed.

IN 2014, the New York Times finally published an editorial opposing cannabis prohibition after running articles amplifying fears of the plant in the preceding decades. Four years later, the Vancouver Public Library’s central branch will be

the site of an event called “A Cannabis Conversation With the New York Times”.

It will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday (November 15) in the Alice MacKay Room. Unlike many events at the library, this one isn’t free—the door charge is $15 for subscribers to the Old Gray Lady and $20 for everyone else. It will be moderated by one of the newspaper’s Canada correspondents, Dan Bilefsky, and the panel of speakers will include San Francisco bureau chief Thomas Fuller, Canopy Growth Corporation’s Hillary Black, and legalization advocate Kelly Coulter.

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Woods documents an endless cycle Drug Wars co-author says prohibition leads to persecution, corruption, and addiction

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t can be difficult to imagine a world without the war on drugs.

A world without police officers knocking down doors or drawing their guns to seize a substance as relatively harmless as cannabis.

A world where there are no longer dealers peddling unknown products on street corners or using physical violence to settle their disputes with addicted customers.

A world in which people who struggle with an addiction receive compassionate care and treatment from the health-care system instead of getting thrown into a prison cell for committing a crime that hurts no one but themselves.

In Drug Wars: The Terrifying Inside Story of Britain’s Drug Trade, authors Neil Woods and J S Rafaeli remind us that we don’t have to imagine this world. In fact, it was not so long ago that it was still the reality in the United Kingdom.

“There is a time in living memory for some people in the U.K. when there was no crime associated with drugs at all,” Woods tells the Georgia Straight.

In a telephone interview, the former undercover police officer (1993– 2007) and board member of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership (formerly Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, an international group with members in Vancouver and across Canada) explains that as late as the 1960s, U.K. citizens addicted to opioids did not obtain the drug from a dealer but from a doctor.

Called the “British System”, the country’s medicalization of opioid distribution meant there was simply no

need for a black market and therefore no petty crime that comes with an industry that exists outside of the law.

“Britain was very late to come to the prohibition table,” Woods says.

“It resisted the United States–driven moral imperialism for a long time.

The system in the U.K. was if you had a problem with drugs, you got help.

“With heroin, that meant a doctor would prescribe heroin to you,” he continues.

“Which meant that during the time of the British System, which went from the 1920s all the way to the end of the 1960s, there was no criminal association with drugs whatsoever.

“Nobody died, because the drug that was given to people was of a pharmaceutical grade,” Woods adds. “Addiction was seen as an unfortunate medical condition rather than a moral failing.”

North Americans tend to think of the drug war as a U.S. phenomenon, perhaps with the occasional mention of cartel violence in Mexico and the fentanyl crisis in Canada. But prohibition is a global conflict that has left no corner of the world unscathed.

In Woods’s highly readable—though, at times, a little thinly sourced—account of the drug war as it has played out in the U.K., there is a lot that

Canada can learn, from both Britain’s successes and its many mistakes.

Woods describes how the war on drugs perpetuates itself, creating a never-ending cycle of addiction, persecution, corruption, and more addiction.

“As soon as heroin was given to the black market, then it became an incentivized product,” he notes. “There was pressure from organized crime to use the dealers to find new customers.

You can either pay for a problematic addiction by stealing or allowing yourself to be sexually exploited. Or you can find new customers to pay for your own habit.”

Meanwhile, authorities’ efforts to break that cycle created a series of unintended consequences—unintended but not totally unanticipated.

“The arrival of fentanyl in heroin, it was predictable,” Woods says.

“This is called the ‘Iron Law of Prohibition’: that any product in a black market will always get stronger.

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These are problems born of nothing less than a grotesque transfiguration of the state’s enforcement of law and order, Woods argues.

“Drug policing is qualitatively different from other forms of modern police work,” he writes in Drug Wars.

“Aggressively policing actions that aren’t wrong in themselves, but only wrong because they are prohibited, places very particular strains on the Peelian bond between the police and the community.”

Once upon a time, policing mostly consisted of chasing burglars and responding to disputes that had turned violent. Officers were members of the communities they patrolled and maintained healthy relationships with the people they served to protect. Then drugs were declared illegal. The money followed.

“The enormous amount of money that they [criminal organizations] get from drug sales forms the bank for every other form of organized criminality,” Woods says. “It has completely changed the face of crime. But, perhaps more importantly, it has completely changed the nature of policing. Because it has ended, in so many places, what should be the relationship between police and community.”

The most alarming sections of Woods’s book are not about drugs themselves but about the once unimaginable levels of corruption that the prohibition of narcotics has made possible.

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“Eventually, it got to the stage with me where so many of the top echelons of any OCG [Organized Crime Group] were all registered informants, that it became impossible to properly investigate anyone—because they all have their own highlevel cops protecting them.

“So, for any real detective trying to investigate organized crime, you don’t know which criminal is under the protection of which of your bosses.

Suddenly your investigation is getting sabotaged from above, because you’re poking your nose into areas that might threaten someone else’s informant.

“This means you can’t actually solve cases—and if you push too hard it will harm your own career advancement,” the former cop laments. “So any talented, ambitious detective looking at the drug trade is now hobbled from the start.”

Woods tells the Straight that after 14 years as a police officer who waged the drug war and then a subsequent decade spent fighting against it, he’s come to view prohibition as significantly more harmful than the public understands.

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Schools that open doors and minds YORK UNIVERSITY THEATRE

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York University’s theatre department has launched the careers of many celebrated actors, directors, and stagehands, perhaps none more famous than Rachel McAdams. Since graduating with a bachelor’s in fine arts in 2001, the London, Ontario, native has gone on to star in Mean Girls, Wedding Crashers, Sherlock Holmes, Spotlight, Disobedience, and many other films.

Another York University theatre alumna is Weyni Mengesha, the recently appointed artistic director of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre.

Yet another York theatre grad is Tarragon Theatre artistic director Richard Rose, who has directed plays across the country, in the United States, and in London’s West End. One of the faculty members is Michael Greyeyes, who starred as Sitting Bull in the 2018 film Woman Walks Ahead, with Jessica Chastain.

Department chair Marlis Schweitzer told the Straight by phone that one of the things that make York’s theatre program stand out is that it’s part of a large, comprehensive university in Toronto. Students are not streamed into separate areas until after they complete their first year and are required to take courses not only within the faculty but also in the broader school of arts, media, performance, and design. This is the case even though York has strong conservatory-style acting and production-design programs.

“Everybody is getting a strong grounding as theatre students and also as university students,” Schweitzer said. “Another thing that makes York unique is some of the amazing facilities we have.”

These include “gorgeous studio theatres and proscenium-style theatres”, as well as a stateof-the-art black-box theatre named after the first chair of the program, Joseph G. Green.

He was one of the founders of York’s theatre department in 1969. The others were the first theatre faculty member, Don Rubin, acting

teachers Sandy Black and David Harris, and technical director Joe Glosson. Another early faculty member was Canadian theatre legend Mavor Moore, who was also a long-time columnist with the Globe and Mail.

This means that 2018-19 marks the 50th year of the York theatre department—and Schweitzer said this golden anniversary is being celebrated in several ways. On November 24, there will be a 2 p.m. presentation of David Yee’s rochdale, with a $5 admission fee, followed by a free party from 4:30 to 7 p.m. in the university’s Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre.

York’s theatre department is also marking the birthday with a series of interviews on its website under the banner headline “Fifty Years of Disruption”. Former students who have been featured include groundbreaking performance artist Shawna Dempsey, Theatre Ontario’s Rachel Kennedy, postdoctoral health researcher Julia Gray, director Byron Laviolette, Obsidian Theatre producer Luke Reese, dramaturge Lucy Powis, film producer Robert Benedetti, and playwright and actor Bessie Cheng.

Fifty Years of Disruption is also the theme of York’s theatrical work this year. It’s in keeping with the department’s history of focusing a series of shows on questions of social and political relevance. In past years, seasons have revolved around Indigeneity, accessibility, and violence.

“It’s not just that we want to put on a play because we know it will sell tickets,” Schweitzer said. “We want to build a season that involves the whole department—graduate and undergraduate—in exploring questions. So this year, the theme is around disruption and an emerging generation of disrupters.”

Schweitzer pointed out that one of the advantages of studying at York is Toronto’s vibrant theatre ecosystem. The department has a program called Surprise Surprise that gives students free tickets to see a variety of shows. They can range from the blockbuster musical Come From Away to performances in small independent theatres.

“They get a real sense of the range of theatre that’s being produced in the city,” she said,

“and, thankfully, we have a subway that con- Concordia by the relatively low cost of living in nects York all the way to downtown and all the Montreal compared to other places in Canada. way out to Vaughan and Markham.”

According to Statistics Canada data, the average rent in the city in 2016 was $835 per month.

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY In eight of the city’s boroughs, the average was less than $800 per month.

“Certainly, the cost-of-living component Most Vancouver residents have heard of Toronto, McGill, and Dalhousie universities, stands out,” Stiegemeyer said.

The globally recognized QS rankings listed which are three of Canada’s oldest Englishlanguage postsecondary institutions. Con- Montreal as the best student city in the world cordia University in Montreal, however, isn’t in 2017; this year, it came first in North America nearly as well known across the country, even and ranked fourth in the world behind London, though it has one of the largest student bodies Tokyo, and Melbourne.

The rankings are based on such things as the in the country.

Formed through the merger of Sir George mix of students, desirability (including livability, Williams University and Loyola College in safety, and pollution levels), employer activity, 1974, it has 37,053 undergraduate students and affordability, and student experience.

9,040 graduate students this year. It’s perhaps Montreal has a vibrant nightlife with a Euromost famous for the John Molson School of pean feel. Because there are four universities Business, which relies on group learning and and 12 colleges in the city, the local governthe case-study model of instruction. ment places a high priority on ensuring there is The list of undergraduate programs at Con- enough accommodation for students. cordia runs the gamut from journalism to enStiegemeyer pointed out that because Montgineering to urban studies. Some people are at- real is an old city, it’s possible to rent units in tracted by its highly regarded bachelor of arts in century-old buildings with high ceilings, old actuarial mathematics. Others are drawn by its wood floors, and a sense of history. “It adds to that sense of exoticism,” he said. athletic programs.

About 8.5 percent of the students are CanThere’s a fully built-out rapid-transit system. In addition, Concordia runs its own buses adians from outside Quebec.

“A lot of our B.C. applicants are interested in between the downtown campus—home to the our fine-arts programs,” Concordia’s director business, engineering, and fine-arts faculof student recruitment, Matthew Stiegemeyer, ties—and the Loyola campus six kilometres told the Straight by phone. “It’s one of the lar- away. It’s full of green space and houses comgest fine-arts faculties rooted in a university.” munications, journalism, psychology, and One of the newest faculty members, art- other programs, as well as the university’s ist Kelly Jazvac, is a sculptor who is part of an sports facilities. interdisciplinary plastics-pollution research Stiegemeyer added one other benefit of livgroup. Her work is a reflection that at Con- ing in Montreal—the food. Because Quebec cordia, fine arts is not only about creating has a vibrant agricultural sector, there’s plenty things but also about advancing cultural dis- of healthy dining options. cussions about issues of importance to society.

“There’s also a real commitment to the outStiegemeyer said that the same outward- doors,” he said, noting the popularity of cycling looking approach is embraced in urban stud- trails around the city and in one of Montreal’s ies, where there is a great deal of research into most popular destinations, the 209-hectare the “future-city concept”.

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Many British Columbians don’t know that there are more than 70,000 Indigenous students in B.C.’s K-12 public-school system. That’s about 13 percent. Yet only about two percent of B.C.’s approximately 42,000 certified public-school teachers are Indigenous, according to UBC’s associate dean for Indigenous education, Jan Hare.

This has created a pressing need for Indigenous teachers and culturally grounded educators.

“They are critical to the success of Indigenous students,” Hare told the Straight by phone.

The Anishinaabe scholar’s mandate includes enriching UBC’s teacher education with Indigenous perspectives, histories, and pedagogies. She pointed out that the First Peoples’ Principles of Learning are embedded in curriculum reform in B.C. This holistic, reflexive, experiential, and relational approach that recognizes the role of Indigenous knowledge is also being embraced in other provinces. “There has been a shift across Canada in response to curriculum reform,” Hare said.

This presents opportunities for educators to think about how young learners from narrative traditions can benefit from culturally sensitive approaches that enhance comprehension, language development, and listening skills.

A cornerstone of the UBC faculty of education’s efforts is NITEP, which is the acronym for its Indigenous teacher education program. It began training Indigenous elementary-school teachers in 1974 and was expanded to the secondary grades in 2004.

“There is research that suggests when Indigenous learners are taught

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more likely to engage more deeply in learning and experience better outcomes,” Hare said.

NITEP offers programming in Indigenous communities and rural areas, which enables students to remain at local field centres for the first two or three years. Then they transfer to UBC’s Vancouver campus to complete their bachelor of education and their certification year to become a teacher.

Hare emphasized that NITEP delivers a holistic experience that not only prepares future teachers for the classroom but also supports and nurtures their cultural identity. The program hosts an urban cohort for those interested in teaching in urban areas.

“They would have an understanding of the impacts that colonialism has had on our communities and our families,” Hare said. “They would have an opportunity to develop an understanding of the diversity of Indigenous people in terms of

their languages and cultures.”

Graduates include B.C.’s first superintendent of aboriginal achievement, DeDe DeRose, and Fiona LaPorte, who is the head teacher at Xpey’ elementary school (formerly Sir William Macdonald elementary), which is Vancouver’s Aboriginal-focused school, located in the city’s East Side.

Meanwhile, the 2015 report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada is having an influence on the school system. Hare noted that this report has not only provided a road map for advancement but has imposed demands on the education system that UBC is addressing. That’s because 11 of its 94 “calls to action” focus on education.

“We have a required course on Indigenous education,” she stated, “so all teacher candidates take a course on Indigenous perspectives, Indigenous content, and Indigenous learning approaches.”

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Vancouver Community College has been delivering career education for more than 50 years, including through its continuing-studies division. In an effort to increase accessibility, it has decided to offer three of its eight courses online for those seeking a fashion-merchandisingassociate certificate.

“Textiles is currently online,” fashion-programs coordinator Sarah Murray told the Straight by phone.

“Fashion forecasting is going to be offered online for the first time in the winter. And the merchandising fashion course will be offered online in the springtime.”

She pointed out that students can take the eight courses—including fashion marketing and promotion, fashion retail management, fashion styling, history of fashion, and retail buying—in whatever sequence they

prefer. Students take two courses per term and they can receive a certificate within a year.

“It’s particularly good for people who are working in the retail industry already and are looking to move up,” Murray said. “Whether they want to work at head office or be a manager or supervisor, this program is great for that.”

That’s because it provides a comprehensive overview of the business side of the fashion industry. It’s a sector that will face far more demand for workers in the coming years, according to the 2016 B.C. Alliance for Manufacturing report on the B.C. apparel industry. It forecast that the industry will lose 37.8 percent of its workers through attrition by 2025.

Murray said that some of the greatest demand will be for people who are knowledgeable about merchandising and e-commerce.

As part of VCC’s philosophy of learning by doing, fashionmerchandising students work with local designers to develop marketing plans. Students also organize a photo shoot in their styling class, lining up models, hair and makeup artists, and photographers.

These can be included in the students’ portfolio when they go looking for jobs. “It’s less than $3,000 to get the certificate,” Murray said. “It is a valuable item to have on a résumé because I do think it helps you move up the ranks.”

It’s not the only style-oriented continuing-studies program. Justin Ewart is program coordinator for the makeup-artistry certificate. There are seven courses offered, but students only need to complete five of them to graduate.

The four required courses are makeup-artistry fundamentals, evening and bridal makeup, fashion and photography makeup, and freelance and career development. Electives include airbrushing makeup, theatrical makeup, and film-and-television makeup.

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Straight, Ewart explained that it can be done part-time. On average, it takes a student just less than a year and a half, though they can stretch it out to five years if they register for one course per term.

“In the fundamentals course, they learn to identify different skin tones…and how to apply makeup to them, as well as identifying different face shapes, eye shapes, and lip shapes and how to do proper application to them, or even correction to them,” he said. “We teach them how to cover a blemish.”

In addition, students learn how to properly highlight a cheekbone or nose, as well as how to give clients a more defined jawline and adjust the shape of someone’s eye.

“If you take a brush and do the eyeliner down, it’s going to pull down the eye,” Ewart said. “If they angle the eyeliner up, it’s going to lift up the eye.”

He noted that this certificate program can lead to freelance makeup work, as well as employment in the beauty industry. Prospective students should have a good work ethic, a willingness to market their skills, and an ability to work well with clients. “You have to be a people person—someone with a positive attitude.”

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Since 1990, Vancouver Learning Network (VLN) has provided a highquality, comprehensive, flexible, and engaging education program that offers an alternative to traditional inperson learning. There are more than 90 online courses that span a variety of secondary studies and are ideal for students with a wide range of needs.

There are many reasons why students might find online learning a better fit. Some take one or two online courses as part of a graduation plan, while others are looking to upgrade a mark or jump ahead in their studies. Elite athletes or performers, for example, may benefit from a less rigid school schedule.

Students work with VLN teeachers

and counsellors to create a personalized learning and/or course plan to establish individual timelines and goals. Sometimes a desired course simply isn’t offered or won’t fit into a student’s schedule. Available to B.C. students, all courses are approved by the B.C. Ministry of Education and taught by Vancouver School Board (VSB) teachers who are readily available to help and support students with their learning. Tuition is free for school-aged B.C. residents. As part of the VSB, VLN courses can be used toward a B.C. Dogwood or Adult Graduation Certificate. And with continuous enrollment, you can eas- The New York Institute of Technology grants master’s degrees in cybersecurity, ily sign up for most courses online, at business administration, energy management, and instructional technology. any time.

For information, a list of courses, or kinds of plants,” Purcell said. understanding of marketing strategies to sign up, visit www.vlns.ca/.

The online career-training cours- learn how their skills can be applied at es were developed in conjunction a licensed cannabis producer or an anKWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC with several people in the cannabis cillary cannabis company in Canada.

UNIVERSITY industry. The senior curriculum adThe third offering, Financing a viser is David Rémillard, a cofounder Cannabis Enterprise in Canada, is an Before Justin Trudeau was prime of Ryz Rémi Organic Skin Care and eight-week course for aspiring entreminister—and before Canadians had a medical-cannabis patient who has preneurs. It offers insights into the economics of the cannabis industry any idea that cannabis would become spoken at cannabis conferences. legal—Kwantlen Polytechnic UniverOne of the courses, Plant Produc- and how the market functions.

A major focus is helping learnsity was offering career training in tion and Facility Management, has this industry. When it launched its been updated and revamped to reflect ers understand how to raise capital, first online course in September 2015, how legalization is proceeding under prepare their pitches for funding, the focus was on identifying clinical the Cannabis Act. Purcell said that develop a business plan, and then applications for medicinal cannabis. over 13 weeks, students gain a “foun- launch their cannabis-related comIt was the first public postsecond- dational understanding” of both the pany. Purcell said that the course gives students a good grounding in ary institution in Canada to venture industry and the cannabis plant. into this area. “We have a very forThey also learn how and where to how to build a business around ancilward-thinking executive and a for- grow it, as well as in which facilities lary products in the cannabis sector. ward-thinking board of governors this might take place.

“We’ve been offering that course that has allowed us to do this,” KPU’s “We talk about quality assurance, for a little over a year now,” he noted. director of emerging business, David quality control, and quality-manage- “It’s gaining traction.”

Purcell, told the Straight by phone. ment systems in this course,” PurPurcell revealed that KPU is in the The regional university now offers cell said. “We also talk about stan- “late stages” of developing a yearlong three such online courses and is also dard operating procedures and, of cannabis-cultivation course to train going to host a two-day interactive course, all the federal and provincial entry and midlevel workers for emretail-cannabis-consultant workshop regulatory frameworks under which ployment with licensed producers. on December 7 and 8 at its Rich- Health Canada dictates the produc- In addition, the regional university is in the process of creating a course to mond campus. According to Purcell, tion of cannabis in Canada.” the workshop will cover all aspects of Another 13-week course, Market- teach people to become quality-assurprovincial and federal regulation, as ing Under the Cannabis Act, “arms ance technicians for licensed produwell as the history of cannabis prohibi- people with the tools necessary to cers, which could be available by the tion and issues relating to customer make sure that they’re following the spring or summer of next year.

“The industry has told us that qualservice. (For more information, visit rules and regulations—and aren’t www.kpu.ca/cannabis.) contravening any of those rules”. ity-assurance tech and quality control Purcell said it can help those are really the big pieces that are mis“We’ll talk about cannabinoids and terpenes and the different with a marketing background or an sing from the workforce now,” Purcell

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said. “We’re building that course specifically now to fill that need.

We’re also looking at building extraction courses.”

The long-term goal is for KPU to develop certificate, diploma, and degree programs focusing on cannabis.

“The industry is going to demand it,” Purcell predicted. “We’re working with our faculty to create course work and to create curriculum that would be suitable and would be in demand for those types of programs.”

In the meantime, KPU has formed partnerships with postsecondary institutions in other provinces to ensure that its curriculum is reaching students across the country. Purcell said graduates are finding jobs in this area, in part because the courses were crafted by people already working in the industry. KPU is also in discussions with education administrators in other countries, including Australia.

“We’re not just looking at it in Canada,” Purcell said. “We really want to lead this across the planet.”

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It has also sharply increased interest in educational programs that address these important global issues. For example, at the Vancouver campus of the New York Institute of Technology, a master’s program in energy management has taken off in popularity.

“The program started in 2016 with four students,” NYIT associate professor Remi Charron told the Straight by phone. “Now we have over 100 students registered.”

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smart-grid systems, and advanced battery and fuel-cell technologies.

All the courses are offered in the evenings, which makes it possible to study while continuing to work during the day. “If you’re doing it fulltime, you could complete it in a year,” Charron said. “Most of the students are doing it in a year and a half.”

For those who prefer a more leisurely pace, it’s possible to complete this master’s program over a fiveyear period. Students can also obtain a NYIT energy-management master’s degree online through the New York campus. For those who prefer face-to-face instruction, classes take place at NYIT’s campus in downtown Vancouver.

NYIT also offers master’s programs in cybersecurity, finance, management, and instructional technology in Vancouver. The cybersecurity program is being transferred to a new campus at the Broadway Tech Centre beside Renfrew Station.

Charron revealed that NYIT is also developing a master’s degree in computer science, specializing in data science, as well as another master’s in UX/UI (user experience/user interface).

The energy-management program has benefited from a grant from B.C. Housing that enabled the school to create a lab with stations focusing on different energy technologies. NYIT has also created a video series.

According to Charron, most of the students take the elective course in solar energy, which complements the core course in renewable energy.

The focus in the elective is on solar photovoltaics, which is taking off around the world.

The course on advanced battery and fuel-cell technologies covers advances in the storage of renewable energy, as well as fuel cells for larger vehicles. In addition, new faculty will be offering a course on the “smart grid”, which will demonstrate how renewable power sources can become part of electricitytransmission systems.

There’s also a significant amount of economic information imparted to students in this master’s program.

“They learn about different incentive programs and feed-in tariffs and how you can manage that,” Charron noted. “They look at how the utility-rate structures work in terms of when you’re generating and when you need to bring on extra power.”

Many of the students have an engineering or science background.

“Some of them are coming straight from their undergrad,” he said. “Others are mature students that just want to get into either

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energy efficiency or renewable energy.”

Charron’s expertise is in green buildings, and he’s a certified passivehouse designer. For those interested in learning how to reduce a building’s consumption of power, there is an elective course on energy modelling.

NYIT enables students to apply for fellowships to travel more than 200 kilometres from their campus on a project.

“It’s meant for students to explore the world,” Charron said. “We have four students that went to the Boiling River in the middle of the Amazon.

We’ve had two students who went to Abu Dhabi to look at energy efficiency.”

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The Centre for Digital Media likes to trumpet the success of its graduates. On its website, the Vancouverbased graduate school points out that 95 percent of its alumni are working in their fields.

Two of those graduates are Christopher Sroka and Carolyn Fung, who each credit the Centre for Digital Media for putting them on a path to finding their dream jobs.

Sroka, a brand-content specialist at Whistler Blackcomb, said his job entails curating marketing content through his employer’s social channels. This involves dealing with agencies, contractors, photographers, videographers, and athletes.

“I make sure all the content goes to the right place at the right time with the right message,” Sroka told the Straight by phone.

He graduated in 2012 from UBC’s Okanagan campus with a bachelor of management degree with a focus on marketing. He found a job at a

marketing agency but found himself “siloed” into video editing because he was good at it. He wanted to be exposed to other areas.

“I felt kind of limited—or backed into a corner,” Sroka acknowledged.

He was attracted to the Centre for Digital Media program because it focused on teams of students working collaboratively on projects for real clients as opposed to writing a thesis.

“I could put this on my résumé and I could use this afterward,” he said.

The school opened in 2007 on Great Northern Way as a partnership between four postsecondary institutions—UBC, SFU, the B.C. Institute of Technology, and Emily Carr University of Art + Design—and it’s home to the master of digital media program. While there, Sroka learned that failing can be just as important as succeeding because it offers useful learning experiences.

In fact, he said, the school actually encourages students to experience failures as they refine and improve their projects.

“If I didn’t attend the school, I would have been more scared to try new things and get out of my comfort zone,” he said.

Sroka obtained an internship with the Centre for Digital Media’s marketing department because a staff member went on maternity leave.

The videos he created led him to be hired part-time with the Vancouver Canucks, which led to him working for Whistler Blackcomb.

Fung, a producer and project manager at Vancouver-based NGX Interactive, obtained her bachelor’s degree in business administration at Acadia University in Nova Scotia before spending several years in the

marketing business. As a millennial, she was an early adopter of Facebook ad campaigns, launching the first in B.C. before concluding that she needed to learn more about digital media.

That led her to take the master’s program at the Centre for Digital Media in the 2014-15 school year.

Her career goal was to develop interactive experiences in museums and discovery centres.

“It really changed my life forever,” Fung told the Straight by phone.

At the school, she was the project manager on a team that worked with the Vancouver Maritime Museum to re-create the experience of travelling on the St. Roch through the Northwest Passage. Turning the ship’s wheel brought up different video screens.

“Basically, I ended up on that project for two terms,” Fung recalled. “I think what the CDM provides you with is a lot of hands-on practical experience to get in there and build things.”

She credited the CDM for enhancing her cultural literacy because it brought her in contact with students from other countries.

After graduating, Fung joined NGX Interactive, where she produces interactive exhibits for cultural institutions. She has worked on projects for Science World, the H. R. MacMillan Space Centre, Halifax’s largest discovery centre, and the Lone Star Flight Museum in Texas. This has entailed everything from creating touch-screen exhibits to multi-user projects that involve virtual reality and augmented reality.

“The CDM helped position me for being where I am now in terms of giving me the opportunity to work with industry,” Fung said.

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British Baking Show knows how difficult it is to create complicated layer cakes filled with a multitude of ingredients. And that’s one reason why the Industry Training Authority B.C. includes bakers in its Red Seal certification program for skilled trades.

Those interested in pursuing a career as a baker can become licensed by going through the three-level baking-and-pastry-arts apprentice program at Vancouver Community College. According to VCC instruc­ tor Esther Kosa, people who want to become Red Seal bakers must first register with the ITA and obtain a trade worker’s identification number. This sticks with the person for the rest of their life.

Graduates of an ITA–approved training program, such as the one at VCC, can apply for credit toward meeting the technical requirements.

Kosa explained to the Straight over the phone that those in VCC’s 11-month baking program take their apprentice level one exam at the end. If they pass, VCC instructors suggest they go out and find a job before taking the next step toward becoming a Red Seal baker.

That’s because they need a sponsor (often an employer) to be admitted into the level two apprentice course.

“After doing that, then they would go back out, work for another year and get more experience, and then come back for level three,” Kosa said.

The ITA requires that Red Seal bakers possess a specified set of skills, which are taught by VCC in each stage of its apprentice program. At the first level, students learn how to make basic pies, cookies, pastries, and bread. It is offered every January. They must also be capable of basic cake-decorating.

At the second level, which is offered in February, students are challenged to create more elaborate baked goods. “Perhaps they’ll make different types of pie,” Kosa said. “Instead of a blueberry pie, they would go with a chiffon pie or a cream pie.

Basically, we require a little bit more understanding and a different method of making different types of pie.”

Level two students are also challenged to temper chocolate and might be asked to make more advanced mousse cakes. They’re also required to make wedding cakes.

“Level three will concentrate more on the advanced side of things—ice creams, more advanced wedding cakes, and more in-depth chocolate stuff,” Kosa revealed. see next page

Students work in VCC’s food labs, which have a deck oven, a convection oven, and, in some cases, a rack oven that rotates fully. Kosa said that each lab also has long wooden tables, which each accommodate two students. The school can take up to 18 apprentices in each program.

One of the differences between the apprentice program and The Great British Baking Show is the equipment. Some of it is much larger at VCC—including a 75-litre mixer—than anyone will ever see on the TV show.

“We teach the students how to do individual stuff as well as larger production stuff,” Kosa said. “That’s so they’re not surprised when they go out in the industry.”

She pointed out that Red Seal bakers can receive higher pay, depending on where they’re employed. And this certification has potential to open up opportunities to work in the hospitality sector, particularly in hotels.

“I believe that in our city, there are very talented people who are willing to teach,” she stated.

She added that sometimes having a trade certification can lead to jobs in other countries.

“One of our instructors used to work for Fairmont and she was able to go to Scotland and work there for a while,” Kosa said. “It does open up a lot of ways to travel if people put their time and effort into learning.”

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UBC’s faculty of education has left a large imprint on B.C.’s K-12 school system. According to the faculty’s website, it has educated more than 45 percent of the province’s elementary-school teachers and a majority of B.C. secondary-school teachers.

Natasha Philibert-Palmer hopes to join their ranks. She enrolled in the faculty of education in September with the goal of becoming a high-school physics teacher.

The physics teacher education program is rooted in a great deal of collaboration with the UBC department of physics and astronomy.

In a phone interview with the Straight, Philibert-Palmer recalled being one of the few teenage girls in her Physics 11 and Physics 12 classes when she attended secondary school.

“I would love to encourage more girls to do that,” she said.

She’s particularly interested in trying to persuade all students from other groups underrepresented in the sciences—including Indigenous learners—to become more interested in the subject.

The self-confessed sci-fi fan graduated several years ago with an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering. For the past four years, Philibert-Palmer was overseeing outreach programs for UBC’s engineering department, which brought her in contact with many teenagers. “I really like working with kids,” she said.

This month, she began her first two-week practicum. It’s part of a one-year program that includes courses in how to teach physics and the other sciences. There are also courses on the history of education, social justice in education, childhood development, and teaching students for whom English isn’t their first language.

For Philibert-Palmer, it’s been a pleasant surprise to see how committed other teacher candidates are to promoting the well-being of students.

“Everyone is really here for the same reason,” she said. “They really like children and they really want to help children and youth be the best people they can be, whatever subject they’re teaching.”

Philibert-Palmer doesn’t come from a family of educators. Her dad is a mechanic who works on cars, and from a very young age she helped him in the garage. From there, it was natural to study mechanical engineering at university.

“I’ve always really enjoyed figuring out how things work,” she said.

Philibert-Palmer has a very good chance of finding work as a physics teacher when she completes the program in July of 2019.

A provincial task-force report noted that 54 of the province’s school districts are having trouble finding and retaining science, math, and French teachers, teacher-librarians, counsellors, and learning-assistance teachers.

“When I talk to teachers and I tell them I’m taking physics, they tell me there will be a job for me when I graduate,” she said.

But first she’ll have to complete a 10-week practicum in a classroom in early 2019.

“Then at the beginning of May, we have something really cool called the community field experience, which is three weeks long,” she added. “It could be with a community partner that does some form of informal education, like a summer-camp program, or a museum or Science World.

“It could also be in a school district other than the one where you did your practicum,” Philibert-Palmer continued. “If you were in an urban setting, you could go for three weeks to a rural school district and experience that.”

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ccording to Sarah Morgan, founder and CEO of Nano-Lit Technologies, most offices are lit with LEDs that are “the colour of urine”.

That’s a problem, she says, because sunlight’s rich spectrum is vital to regulating all of our bodily functions, and the yellow glow of current indoor lighting can interfere with our natural rhythms.

“We tune lighting for plants but we don’t tune it for humans yet,” she tells the Georgia Straight on the line from her Strathcona office.

“We’re incredibly susceptible to the changing wavelengths of light coming from the sun. We know it affects our hormones, our sleep cycle, when we go to the toilet—everything. The human eye is controlling, via sunlight, every system in your body.”

Morgan developed a keen interest in biofeedback and humans’ circadian rhythms—the biological processes that take place at the same time every 24 hours—and explored light’s effects on the body while working on her master’s thesis on LEDs and biomimicry. After graduation, she moved in a different direction, spending the following years designing handbags that were shown at prestigious fashion weeks around the globe and earning her chops as an entrepreneur.

As she was ready to wind down the business, she connected with a professor at Cornell University who was working on breast-cancer research and saw a way that she could transform the lighting industry using “quantum dots”—a kind of human-engineered nanoparticle that glows a particular colour when illuminated by UV light. That discussion turned into the foundation for Nano-Lit. “LEDs have materials in them

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that we call phosphors,” she explains. “When you excite the phosphors with blue light, which is what LEDs use, it filters that blue light to give you other colours of light. So when you mix a yellow phosphor with a blue light, for example, you get a white light. It’s like paint.

“Quantum dots can be used to replace that phosphor material in LEDs,” she continues. “Rather than using a paint-mixing approach, which isn’t very accurate...when you change the size of it at an atomic scale, it changes the colour of the light that it emits.”

Light will one day become a material the same way that wood, plastic, and glass are now.

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Quantum dots’ ability to finely tune light colours has been proposed as a solution in everything from medical imaging to quantum computing. Morgan and Nano-Lit Technologies, however, have cornered a much more accessible market, bringing responsive lighting into offices and care homes.

“With our Smart Diffuser, we are able to program lights so that it appears as if sunlight is moving throughout the room during the day,” she says. “Our product goes directly into existing light fixtures, so we’re

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The benefits to installing lighting that mimics the sun’s natural progression, Morgan says, are vast. Offices that choose to invest in quantum-dot lights have seen employee retention increase from 1.8 to 2.8 years. Those on the job are more efficient and also take fewer sick days—implying that staff members are both happier and healthier. Installing the lights in seniors’ homes, too, has helped to reduce middleof-the-night accidents, because research suggests that receiving the right light at the right time of the day helps the elderly sleep through the night without medication.

“It’s a bit like selling organic food,” she says of the business model. “Either people are into it or they’re not. But over the years, the market has grown so much that Amazon bought Whole Foods.

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When we speak to individuals like that about our technology, it’s a nobrainer. It makes sense to invest in it, because it can be used to attract talent. Lighting is the new snacks.

“We’re in the early stages of this technology,” she continues. “The company was started with the idea that light will one day become a material the same way that wood, plastic, and glass are now. Quantum dots have the capacity to get us there. We know that in the next 15 years there’s an opportunity for using quantum dots in paint and being able to program the paint to emit different colours of light. That’s really our goal.”

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HOROSCOPE ever a dull moment—that’s life; that’s the stars.

Uranus retrograde on a revisit to Aries will keep stoking the fire through the month’s end, but we’ll gain some reprieve from Mars and Venus on the move.

Usually a six-week rather than a six-month transit, Mars has tenanted Aquarius since the middle of May. As Uranus is doing now, Mars has kept the intensity dialled up. As of Friday, Mars enters Pisces, a more fluid influence. Continuing to New Year’s Eve, it is an activation transit that encompasses everything to do with the holidays.

To the plus, Mars in Pisces can energize creativity, compassion, hopefulness, romance, and spirituality. It prompts a greater desire to conjure, transcend, or escape. The transit can also be exposing, unleashing, and/or target the vulnerable. Disillusionment and loss are also a feature. Noting that Mercury retrograde coincides with this Mars transit, it is advised to guard your health, wealth, and valuables, and to keep tabs on alcohol or drug consumption and on precious souls who are weak, infirm, or addicted.

Venus ends retrograde on Friday morning but will continue in Libra through December 2. In general, Venus direct should improve social matters, communications, finances/ profits, contracts, and matters dear to the heart.

Mercury in Sagittarius begins retrograde on Friday afternoon. In addition to health, Mercury retrograde tends to play havoc with travel, connecting the dots, and getting the message across. Don’t leave it to chance or assumption. An extra margin or backup plan is wise.

Questioning, second-guessing, soulsearching, and backtracking are typical. Continuing to December 6, it’s a time to reconnect, revisit, and/ or revise. Go easy on it this weekend.

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Since spring, Mars has put you to the test. It’s been hard work every step of the way. Starting Thursday, Mars in Pisces launches a total immersion program. You can feel turned on, swamped, or overextended. Added uncertainty, confusion, and susceptibility are also in the mix. Guard health and wealth. Monday, the big push is on. Try not to go overboard.

September 22–October 23

Venus ends retrograde on Friday but continues in Libra until December 2. Venus can grace you, but with Mars in Pisces and Mercury retrograde on a fresh wind-up, the end of the workweek and beginning of next can be a mixed bag. Enjoy, but minimize expectations. There’s a heightened propensity for extravagance, overcommitment, overindulgence, and loss. Monday/Tuesday, Mars/Jupiter hit go, perhaps unexpectedly so.

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Some things are beyond control or comprehension. If you can’t get a better handle on it, leave it be just for now. Take one step at a time.

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Ari Lazer (left) says the Yew WoodShop has helped hone his designs (bottom right and middle, left); Benjamin McLaughlin crafts sound-resonating furnishings (middle top and right); Kim Cooper’s ISO Health sculpture.

Sharing space sparks ideas at Culture Crawl

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n a purely practical level, the Yew WoodShop is a place for artists to share giant, topgrade tools. There’s a table saw that’s longer than a Ping-Pong table, and a high-tech CNC laser for intricate cutouts, for instance. They can also split the costs of the ventilation systems and divvy their large slabs of wood stored along the walls.

Woodworking, after all, requires a Class B artist-studio licence in this city—one reserved for the “dirtiest”, loudest, and hardest-to-house practices in a city where sky-high real estate has put space at a premium.

But the collective model at the Yew is something all artists might look to as a way to survive here.

Step into the workshop at 1295 Frances Street, in an industrial section off Clark Drive, as tens of thousands of visitors will at the Eastside Culture Crawl this week, and you’ll see evidence of the unexpected side benefits of setting up a cooperative studio like this one. Sharing a space, wood artist Benjamin McLaughlin tells the Straight on a visit to the studio, has sparked ongoing collaborations between the artists and helped them to push their work into new realms.

“There’s been this cross-pollination of working together over the years, as your skills improve,” says the artist, sitting in the Yew’s showroom by some of his wildly unique sound-resonating wall hangings and tables. “We do share ideas quite a bit and brainstorm about how something could be done. At least half the work I create now in this space is with other designers.

“There’s this tendency within art and design that pieces in wood aren’t necessarily considered to be art. But if you look around, these are very uncommon objects—wood is just our paintbrush,” continues McLaughlin, an original member of the collective, who splits the space with lines like Ari Lazer’s Sacred Light Design Co., Willow & Stump Design Co., and Logan Gilday of OGA Design. “We all share a common goal of creating pieces

with an archival quality to them.”

For McLaughlin, that means taking his percussive furnishings and artwork to more intricate lengths, mixing resonant red wood like padauk and bubinga with local salvaged hardwoods, in work whose delights go far beyond the visual.

“I believe natural sound can transform a space,” explains McLaughlin, who often hides little holders for drumsticks in his furnishings so you can strike them to make rhythms. “When I fi rst heard ancient African instruments, the sound was so captivating.”

His studiomate Ari Lazer agrees that sharing the space has helped take his intricate, mandalalike wood pieces in new directions. At the Crawl, look for some of his hypnotic new wall mountings—laser-cut wheellike mobiles whose repeating patterns create different dazzling designs when they spin at varying speeds.

“I feel so deeply grateful to be sharing the space,” he tells the Straight from Bolivia, where he’s travelled for inspiration for his lighting and furnishings. “The artists and designers working out of there are really inspiring and deeply skilled in their own way....It’s been profound and it’s really improved my skills.

“So it’s finding affordable square footage where you can take on the projects that come your way,” he sums up. “And then in quieter ways you have the support you need to carry you through.”

IT’S NOT JUST WOODWORKERS

in the Eastside Culture Crawl who have turned to a communal model.

Sculptor and multimedia artist Kim Cooper needs everything from welding to woodworking to casting and textile work for her large, organic forms, and she’s one of the founders of CoLab (Vancouver Community Laboratory) at 1907 Triumph Street.

The vast space has 30 key holders and dozens more drop-ins at any given time.

“Everybody has a voice and everybody collectively makes decisions,” says Cooper over the phone, one of several like-minded artists who hunted long and hard for the right Class B space. “It allowed me to have an actual studio practice. I don’t know that I would have been able to have that to this degree.”

Though sharing the space and the tools is a bonus for tenants as diverse as metalwork-and-wood artist Mark Johnston, leather-shoe creator Love Jules, and colourful-recycled-material sculptor Ron Simmer, Cooper admits running a collective studio is work.

“When you’re already stretched on time,” she explains, “what we’ve set up is a volunteer-run organization, and we all have to contribute time.”

As at the Yew WoodShop, there are experiences of constant collaboration, though; often an artist will send a note out to the entire group

asking about a design problem and seeking someone who has the knowledge or skill to help, Cooper says.

But she also raises another challenge that the Yew is sharing. CoLab has managed to secure a 10-year lease, but that comes with having to pay ever-increasing property taxes.

“We’re currently trying to get the nonprofit rate for property tax—it’s given to churches, and others get it,” she explains. “But most nonprofits don’t have the resources to fight for these things.”

For their part, McLaughlin’s group at the Yew report 30-percent property-tax increases in each of the past three years. By next year, he figures, his collective will be paying more for property tax than for rent.

And there’s always the fear that if real-estate prices continue to climb, they’ll lose the space altogether.

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Culture Crawl TIP SHEET ARE YOU A REGULAR at the Eastside Culture Crawl? Here are a few new faces on the massive open-studio tour that you may want to check out Thursday to Sunday (November 15 to 18):

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JAKE BULL (MakerLabs) KoolAid colours and a pop-art vibe bring to life portraits of everyone from Mexican wrestlers to merry-go-round horses and creepy clowns. It’s eye candy with an edge— no surprise, as Bull’s an alumnus of London’s advertising industry.

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MO SHERWOOD (1641 East Georgia Street) The art director of the cult Canadian animated series Yvon of the Yukon brings the same quirky sensibility to everything from funky wooden sharks to stylized portraits of Motown singers.

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LAURIE M. LANDRY (BC Artscape Sun Wah) We love the way Landry’s oil paintings reflect her experience of deafness, especially the portraits of gesturing hands—sometimes beautifully wrinkled or pudgy— captured as her subjects talk about themselves through American Sign Language.

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JASON YORK (The Arc) With raw, brushy expression and bold hues—a favourite is pure, screaming orange—York’s abstracted works definitely speak with their own voice.

But don’t be surprised if you see a bit of Jean-Michel Basquiat or a hint of Andy Warhol in his imagery.

c CLAUDINE GÉVRY (Parker Street

Studios) The Montreal-bred artist’s sculptures and paintings fall clearly into the abstract category, but the forms feel so organic that you’ll swear they came from nature. Seek out her unique mobiles, with their ethereal, textured metal discs that bob and float.

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ally believe artists and design reflect the culture of a place,” he reflects, “and as long as the powers that be don’t have an issue with real estate being our primary economic model, you’re pushing out the people that are the cultural fabric of your city.”

IT’S A CHALLENGE the Eastside Cul-

ture Crawl Society will be all too aware of as artists open their studios for the event. Executive director Esther Rausenberg points out that this is the final year of the Crawl for the Glass Onion Studio, one of the event’s founders, as it’s been sold to a developer. She also hears stories of artists facing rents that are doubling or even tripling. So, although more than 70 thriving spaces will greet visitors this week, Rausenberg warns we’re at a crucial time. A new mayor has pledged to take on the housing crisis and promised tens of thousands of new spaces.

And the Crawl society itself is engaged in a major study to track how many artist spaces it had 10 years ago and how many the East Side has today.

Collective studios like the Yew and CoLab, plus others like the Terminal City Glass Co-op, may be one of the keys to survival—and a structure that visual artists with less industrial practices might look to.

“If you’re just one voice, it’s easy to dismiss; if you’re a group, you have a much stronger voice,” she asserts over the phone. “Politicians hear you, and I hope the politicians hear us more because I feel like we’re at a critical point here.”

And of course, just coming out to the Eastside Culture Crawl is a way of throwing your weight behind the city’s artists, and their right to have space in the city, as well. “If the public comes out and supports by buying art and taking part in the Crawl, it says ‘We like this and we want this and this is a part of being in Vancouver,’ ” Rausenberg says.

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Undies go inclusive in Crawl collection

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nclusive, body-positive, and diverse are buzzwords that have only recently entered the highand fast-fashion lexicon (tragically late, we know), but they’ve been at the heart of local designer Tina Ozols’s business since its inception nearly two decades ago. “I had this idea that I just wanted to make clothes and garments that were for everyone,” she tells the Straight by phone. “I didn’t have in mind that somebody specific should be wearing them, or somebody in a certain age group.”

This admirable principle first led Ozols to develop a women’s line of flattering, fit-for-all-body-types skirts, pants, and other apparel, though these days she’s best known around town for her assortment of comfy cotton-spandex undergarments. Offered under the label Oona Clothing—the former word a madeup term that Ozols favoured because it sounds “very much like one for all” At the Culture Crawl, Oona Clothing will be displaying its made-for-everyone and is a sort-of combination of her undergarments, hand-crafted from locally sourced fabrics at William Clark Studios. first and last names—the full-coverage briefs, boxers, boxer-briefs, and Coloured in shades like navy, from hard-shell tacos and robots to hot pants are crafted by hand from pink, and violet, the undies are owls and octopuses. As a testament locally sourced fabrics at East Van’s decorated with quirky original silk- to Ozols’s manufactured-for-everyWilliam Clark Studios. screened art that depicts everything one mission, many of them come

in extended size ranges (from XS to 5XL for women) and the Ontarioraised designer takes care to keep prices accessible. “I wanted to make sure that I could offer a local option—a handmade option—that’s at the same price of everything else,” explains Ozols, who completed a degree in fashion design before relocating to Vancouver in 1999. “Prices should be based on the median size of what a company offers. So if the median size has to go up to an XL, then I feel right about doing that instead of just doing a whole other [plus-size] section that sets people apart.”

In an effort to minimize her ecological footprint, Ozols has also created a series of popular “Frankenpants”—multihued and patterned undies for men and women that are constructed from fabric scraps. The 42-year-old makes tank tops, patchwork toques, baby boots, and coin purses from these rescued remnants, too. “The fashion industry—in a blanket statement, as a whole—is a really, really bad industry as far as how much waste is produced and some of the practices,” she says. “So it’s just a way that I can sleep better

at night. And I feel good about the fact that I use as much [leftover fabric] as possible.”

Recently, Ozols collaborated with Your Open Closet, a body-positive undergarment store on Commercial Drive that caters to LGBT folks, to fashion a range of chest binders, tucking underwear, and gaff panties for trans women. As with Oona, the aim here was to offer a quality, beautiful product while maintaining affordability for clients. “For many trans people, there are items that they need to feel themselves,” notes Ozols. “And, a lot of the time, these things are either not available or they’re available online and very expensive. And for marginalized people, something that’s very expensive isn’t always attainable.”

The functional garments are finetuned by Ozols, but only available at Your Open Closet, so they won’t be on hand at the designer’s studio during this year’s Eastside Culture Crawl, which takes place at various Vancouver venues from Thursday to Sunday (November 15 to 18). However, visitors to William Clark Studios—home to more than 25 multidisciplinary see next page

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artists—will be able to peruse Oona’s full range of men’s, women’s, and children’s undies and accessories. There will also be a sale on denim, jackets, skirts, and other clothing.

During the Crawl, those looking to do good ahead of the holidays may contribute $5 to buy a new pair of Oona underwear for a person in need at the Evelyne Saller Centre, a community-resource space that offers an array of services to low-income and at-risk folks living in the Downtown Eastside. Two dollars from every one of these transactions will go toward the purchase of Foxy Cloth reusable menstrual pads, which will also be donated to individuals in need. It’s all part of Ozols’s quest to ensure that no person—no matter their age, size, or gender—feels excluded. “The whole idea of Oona is trying to make something for everyone,” she says. “And everyone deserves comfort and style.”

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Whether you’re into ecofriendly apparel or one-off bling, the Eastside Culture Crawl has you covered in the style department. Below, a few of our favourite artists to hunt down:

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Eyeballs and brains are just some of the organs depicted on Millie Hand’s sterling-silver jewellery. The U.K.–born designer draws inspo from the human form, resulting in striking—and delightfully creepy—rings, necklaces, and earrings.

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Mergatroid Building) Preloved fabrics receive new life in Denise Wilson’s upcycled bags, belts, and shawls. Whether it’s a snake-print crossbody or a convertible belt bag, her OldWorld goods are at once modern and timeless, versatile without

Sustainability meets style and easy-breezy comfort in Eryn Derksen’s recently launched women’s apparel line. Inspired by the women in her life, the local designer’s hemp and organic-cotton overalls, shirts, and sundresses skirt fleeting trends and are crafted to stand the test of time.

Building) A member of the Terminal City Glass Co-op, Japanese designer Minori Takagi creates sculptural jewellery from molten glass. From chunky chainlike necklaces to delicate tulip-shaped pendants, each of her pieces combines influences from her heritage with a West Coast vibe.

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Chotto Desh’s vivid story tracks the search for home

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hen the Georgia Straight reaches Akram Khan, he’s ordering a cappuccino in a New York City coffee shop, and the barista can’t quite get his name right.

“Con?” she asks. “C-o-n?”

“No, it’s the English Khan,” the famed choreographer responds politely. “K-h-a-n.”

The exchange is instructive, not least because it signifies that in the 21st century Khan is just as much an English surname as, say, Smith.

But it’s also an indicator that we shouldn’t see Chotto Desh, the Khancreated solo that soon gets its Vancouver premiere, as necessarily an immigrant’s story.

Yes, the 44-year-old Khan is the son of two people who left war-torn Bangladesh for the relative calm of the United Kingdom. And, yes, projected drawings of elephants and crocodiles and lush tropical vegetation help establish its storybook character. But the experiences it’s built on and the values it projects are common to us all, Khan stresses.

“To be honest with you, for me everyone is an immigrant,” he explains. “Everyone has come from somewhere else. Canadians are not really originally Canadians, you know. Indians are not originally Indians. Apparently, we all came from Africa. Origin is a very funny thing, but what I do know is that if you look at time in a longer sense, we all come from somewhere else.”

Key to both Chotto Desh and the work it grew out of—Desh, a solo for Khan himself—is that they’re centred around the composer’s own quest to find his place in the world. (In Bengali, desh means “homeland”, while chotto means “little”.) And so while both pieces touch on his cultural heritage, they also work toward universality.

Part of that involves the 44-yearold Khan’s embrace of cultural and artistic hybridity. He grew up as a “curry-shop kid” in a flat above his father’s restaurant, but this took place in polyglot London. And while his parents encouraged him to study kathak, a South Indian classical

dance form, he spent just as much time reading manga and watching movies—especially the classic works of Charlie Chaplin and Bruce Lee. There’s a direct connection between Chaplin’s silent films and kathak, he says: both are all about the story.

And from Lee he absorbed a quasispiritual lesson about the nature of existence. The late martial-arts master held that “we are like water, rather than solid—because water can change its shape depending on which container it was in,” Khan explains.

“That’s something that Bruce Lee spoke about in interviews, and that had a huge influence on how I look at movement. I definitely don’t have anything pure about me.”

This flexibility came in useful when Khan and director Sue Buckmaster set about adapting Desh for a younger audience. Retaining the “search for identity” that Khan says is at the core of the earlier work, the two made Chotto Desh almost half an hour shorter than the original, and adapted it for others to perform.

Lost might be some of Khan’s signature physicality, expressed through stark, solo excursions away from the core narrative, but he doesn’t mind.

“Sometimes Desh went into the realm of poetic abstraction; we suspended the narrative in certain moments, which we did not do for Chotto Desh,” he says. “Every single moment is connected to the narrative, whereas in Desh there were moments where it was about the dancing, the purity of the dance.

“Children are so engaged with narrative, visual narrative and musical narrative, that when it becomes abstract it doesn’t work,” he adds. “It might work for a few that really love dance, but we wanted to do it for all children.”

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or years, actor-playwright Amy Rutherford had been trying to create a script based upon an experience she’d had as a young teen, involving a manipulative older boyfriend.

“Whenever I approached it, there was something terrifying about it— something oppressed or contained by shame,” the Toronto theatre artist tells the Straight over the phone, taking a break from rehearsals at Vancouver’s Studio 58, which is preparing to premiere her play Mortified. “I felt it was really difficult to access this younger self.”

But then, a few years ago, she was at home for Christmas when her father announced he’d found some of her old journals. “My mother pulled me aside and very conspiratorially said, ‘I have them,’ ” Rutherford recounts. “She took them away when I was young and kept them from me because she felt it was a dark time for me. She gave them back, and suddenly I had this whole perspective that had been obscured by my own memory or my own necessity to rewrite the past.”

Rutherford had found the solution to writing her play: creating an older and a younger self to portray events from alternate viewpoints, while weaving raw diary entries into her script.

Finding her teen journals allowed Rutherford to see the experience more clearly. “I did learn to respect this younger self and thought, ‘Wow, you were really curious and bold,’ ” she says. “Looking back, I saw the more human part of myself rather than this victim.”

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gain their perspective on what had happened 25 years ago. “It definitely opened conversations with my mother and father about just how much pain they were carrying, and the secrecy,” she says.

The resulting play is not biographical, she stresses. As she puts it, it’s “the story of a 13-year-old synchronized swimmer who finds herself entangled in a relationship with someone she probably shouldn’t be involved with. It’s a play about sex, shame, and transformation.”

Although it’s a fictionalized account, staging the story was a frightening task. “It was terrifying at first.

I felt my career would be compromised—and that I was alone in this experience. But I discovered in this whole process that I wasn’t alone.

People of all ages had been on some side of this story,” says Rutherford, who held early public readings of the script. “We are so afraid of recognizing this part of life. We’re uncomfortable with desire. That fear endangers girls in a way. Then all they’re left with is how they’re commodified in our culture.

“All the normal feelings are there, but there are situations you get into that are abnormal. And they need to know how to recognize those and deal with it. Like actually talk to your parents about it,” she adds.

“We have supermodels at 15 and we fetishize teenagers. They know their sexuality has power, but they know if they actually act out on this, there’s a potential for shaming.”

Female shame, Rutherford says, is one of the less recognized forces the #MeToo movement has helped combat.

“We feel that by revealing this ugly thing, we’ll be separated or removed from our human tribe, and I guess that’s what I find most exciting about these stories coming forward,” she explains, adding: “When we say ‘Oh, it’s a story of an adolescent girl’ and we say ‘Oh, it’s a victim,’ I would much rather say ‘It’s a human story.’

She’s not some teenage girl who doesn’t know anything. I want us to look at her as a full human being who is curious, with a desire and ability to create and impact.”

As difficult as both the subject matter and the creation of the script have been, working with Studio 58 has been mostly a positive experience for Rutherford, who has woven ample dark humour into the play. The Langara training program has given her a huge cast of 27 to work with, her former high-school classmate Anita Rochon directs, and Amber Funk Barton has been brought in to provide choreography for the dance scenes. It’s an impressive production team, with, among others, Jonathon Young providing dramaturgy, Pam Johnson creating sets, and Carmen Alatorre designing costumes.

Still, though she has tried to shed her shame, there are a few more preshow jitters than usual for the seasoned film, theatre, and TV actor.

“I’m still quite nervous about my family coming to see the show,” she admits before heading back into rehearsal. “I think it will be an intense experience.”

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Three Winters couldn’t be clearer: Remembrance Day is a perfect time for a play that focuses on wartime experience. But more context within the world of the play would make its stories clearer.

Writer-director Amiel Gladstone based the script on the experiences of his grandfather, who spent three years in Stalag Luft III, a Nazi POW camp famous for the Great Escape of 1945, which saw 78 prisoners leave through an elaborately constructed underground tunnel. (All but three were caught, and most were subsequently killed by the Nazis.) The camp also had a theatre, where the prisoners would regularly stage plays.

Gladstone’s grandfather is the inspiration for the central character, Len, who early in the play recounts his capture by the Germans when his bomber is shot down and his parachute lands him in a tree. The rest of his crew perishes; Len finds a new community with the other inhabitants of his hut. The play is full of fascinating details, but how they fit together isn’t always clear. Late in the play, though, when the focus shifts to the escape attempt, the momentum picks up considerably.

The first surprise in this production is Gladstone’s casting: young women play all of the roles. This is a

In a twist, women play all of the roles in Three Winters’ true story of the infamous Nazi POW camp Stalag Luft III during the Second World War. Photo by Emily Cooper

laudable choice in the world of theatre in 2018, but a conceit that explains this casting within the play might help to ground the performances.

More context could also help signal when the characters are shifting from life in the hut to acting in the camp’s theatre, in scenes that are more (Macbeth) or less (S.N. Berhman’s No Time for Comedy) recognizable. Performing must have offered a lifeline for the actual prisoners, but its significance is only explored here for one character, Olivia Hutt’s George, who relishes playing the female roles as a safe expression of queer sexuality.

Camille Legg’s Arthur has fun as George’s frequent scene partner, but we don’t know much else about

him. Characterization is minimal for most of the hut’s inhabitants. Ghazal Azarbad and Raylene Harewood do nice work with what they’re given, but some of the other performances, including Julia Siedlanowska’s Len, are emotionally subdued.

Gladstone’s stripped-down aesthetic finds its best expression in Adrian Muir’s set design. The bare, wood-plank stage is graced by a large rectangular wooden crate that transforms from the wings of Len’s doomed Halifax bomber to the tunnel through which the prisoners attempt to escape, and then later, to a barre in a ballet class.

Three Winters is a stylish history lesson, but it needs something more to hold the details together.

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ARTS LISTINGS BUSYBODY Crime comedy in which a cleaning lady finds the dead body of her employer. To Nov 17, 8 pm, Metro Theatre. Tix $25/22.

RED BIRDS Aaron Bushkowsky's bittersweet comedy about three generations of dirt-poor women whose lives are thrown into chaos when a birth mother is revealed.

To Nov 18, PAL Studio Theatre. Tix $27/32.

A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL Align Entertainment presents a musical based on the 1983 film. To Nov 17, 8-10 pm, Michael J. Fox Theatre.

THREE WINTERS A troupe of seven millennial actresses play WWII soldiers captured in the Stalag Luft III POW camp. To Nov 17, 8 pm, Historic Theatre. Tix $24-$51.

EMPIRE OF THE SON Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre presents Tetsuro Shigematsu's autobiographical one-man show, directed by Richard Wolfe. To Nov 17, Gateway Theatre. Tix $29.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Fresh take on Shakespeare’s comedy, directed by UBC BFA acting and MFA directing alumna Lois Anderson. To Nov 24, 7:30 pm, Frederic Wood Theatre. Tix $24.50/16.50/11.50.

HERITAGE Canadian premiere of Nicola McCartney's play about the struggles of an Irish woman in Saskatchewan, directed by Deborah Neville. To Nov 16, Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre. Tix $10-20.

THE SUPPLIANT WOMEN Aeschylus’s tragedy from 463 B.C., which looks to find meaning in forced migration. To Dec 2, 8 am, Jericho Arts Centre. Tix $22-28.

THE ENEMY Political drama adapted and directed by Firehall Arts Centre artistic producer Donna Spencer. To Dec 1, Firehall Arts Centre. Tix from $20.

PINOCCHIO The Karen Flamenco Dance Company performs its latest production. To Dec 8, 5-6 pm, The Improv Centre. Tix $10/$15.

SHAKESPEARE AFTER DARK The Bard improvised and twisted. To Nov 17, 10:30-11:30 pm, Havana. Tix $12.

THE HOW AND THE WHY A play about evolution, feminism, and family. To Nov 17, Studio 1398. Tix $20/$25.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE Dumb Instrument Dance presents the premiere of Vancouver dance artist Ziyian Kwan’s newest creation.

To Nov 24, Left of Main. Tix $25.

CHRISTMAS BOUTIQUE Finely handcrafted ornaments and decorations by artisans in our community. Nov 13–Dec 22, Place des Arts.

WINTER TREASURES ARTISAN MARKET Boutique-style show featuring locally handcrafted gifts, art, décor, and fine crafts.

To Dec 23, Port Moody Arts Centre. Free.

BEAUTIFUL—THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL Musical tells the inspiring true story of pop legend Carole King’s rise to stardom. To Nov 18, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre Plaza. Tix from $30.50.

ONGOING CURIOUS IMAGININGS Vancouver Biennale 2018-2020 is excited to present the groundbreaking immersive sculpture exhibition Curious Imaginings. For the first time ever, renowned Australian artist Patricia Piccinini is taking her hyperrealist, fantastical creatures outside the museum. The intimate setting of a wing of 18 rooms in Strathcona’s historic Patricia Hotel will be transformed for the Curious Imaginings exhibition. To Dec 15, Patricia Hotel. Tix $16-40.

TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBITION Exhibition focuses on the legendary RMS Titanic’s compelling human stories through more than 120 authentic artifacts and extensive room re-creations. To Jan 11, 2019, Lipont Place.

DOUGLAS COUPLAND’S VORTEX Douglas Coupland’s art installation takes an imaginative journey to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, immersing viewers in the ocean-plastic pollution crisis. To April 30, 2019, Vancouver Aquarium. $22/39.

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THE MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT: REFLECTING ON NORTHWEST COAST ART to spring 2019 MARKING THE INFINITE: CONTEMPORARY WOMEN ARTISTS FROM ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA to Mar 31 MARKING THE INFINITE to Mar 31 THE POLYGON GALLERY LOOKING AT PERSEPOLIS: THE CAMERA IN IRAN 18501930 to Jan 13 BATIA SUTER: PARALLEL ENCYCLOPEDIA EXTENDED to Jan 13 BILL REID GALLERY OF NORTHWEST COAST ART BODY LANGUAGE: REAWAKENING CULTURAL TATTOOING OF THE NORTHWEST to Jan 13 INTERFACE: THE WOVEN ARTWORK OF JAAD KUUJUS to Jan 9 MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER WILD THINGS: THE POWER OF NATURE IN OUR LIVES to Sep 30 HAIDA NOW: A VISUAL FEAST OF INNOVATION AND TRADITION to Dec 1, 2019 IN/FLUX: ART OF KOREAN DIASPORA to Jan 6 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY A CURATOR'S VIEW: IAN THOM SELECTS to Mar 17 GUO PEI: COUTURE BEYOND to Jan 20, 2019, 10 am–5 pm DANA CLAXTON: FRINGING THE CUBE to Feb 3 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY’S OFFSITE POLIT-SHEER-FORM OFFICE to Mar 31 SWEAT The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Lynn Nottage's examination of a community that is formed and dissolved amid the changing landscape of America. To Nov 18, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Tix from $29.

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DAVID PETERSEN, local theatre artist, poet, songwriter,

provocateur, philosopher and film actor, died on November 2 at St John Hospice in Vancouver. He was 71 years old.

David was born on May 15, 1947 in Cardston, Alberta to Fredolph and Agnes Petersen and grew up in Whitehorse and Richmond, BC. After studying theatre at UBC in the 1960s, David became one of the founding members of the Tamahnous Theatre collective, lending his unique voice as both actor and writer to their devised work. Early in his career he was cast in the titular role in Zale Dalen’s seminal independent film Skip Tracer, garnering acclaim for his work as a merciless debt collector. He went on to appear in many films (Grey Fox) and TV series, (including a recurring role on The Beachcombers), as well as enjoying a rich and varied career in the theatre. During his long tenure with the Caravan Farm Theatre, and in theatres across B.C. and Canada, David stamped any role he played with his idiosyncratic and brilliant artistry; the intensity of his performances always informed by a razorsharp intellect and devilishly mordant sense of humour. His creativity was not confined to acting, however — he wrote and performed his own monologues, poems and songs as well as working as a director and dramaturge. The Vancouver cult film Big Meat Eater featured a number of his songs, including the title track.

“Stan Dingup” (as he was known online) was an avid stargazer, amateur science enthusiast, fierce scrabble player, prolific collage artist, loyal friend, doting grandfather, and a keen observer of, and gleeful reveller in, the weird, the profound and the paradoxical.

David leaves behind the love of his life, Nicola Lipman, his children Nadja Petersen (Jon Hopkins) and Wyatt Petersen; grandchildren Charlie Hopkins and Maggie Hopkins; his longtime friend and children’s mother, Gillian Cran; and siblings Steve, Karen and Barb. He is pre-deceased by his parents Fred and Agnes (Udall).

A celebration of David’s life will be held at PAL Vancouver 581 Cardero Street on Sunday November 25th beginning at 4 pm. Those who wish to may bring a sweet or savory fi nger food (on a dish that doesn’t need to be returned). People are also welcome to bring photos, artwork or mementos of David to share.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in David’s name to St John Hospice or PAL Vancouver.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 READ FOR THE CURE VANCOUVER 2018 Annual literary event where book lovers come together with authors for an evening to support cancer research. Nov 14, Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel. Tix $120.

FUTURE SHOCK Authors explore societies experiencing rapid change on a massive scale. Nov 14 & 28, 7 pm, Vancouver Public Library, Central Library. Free.

AMANDA HALE B.C. author reads from her new book Angela of the Stones. Nov 14, 7 pm, Book Warehouse.

BERLIN WALTZ Way Off-Broadway Wednesday presents Devon More's signature Cold War cabaret, Nov 14, 7-8:30 pm, The Heritage Grill. By Donation.

YELLOW FEVER: A COMEDY SHOW Standup comedy show celebrating Asian culture. Nov 14, 8 pm, Red Gate Arts Society. Tix $5-$10.

SCA 2018 DANCE MAINSTAGE Work by guest choreographers Joshua Beamish, Noam Gagnon, Anya Saugstad, and Chick Snipper. Nov 14-17, 8 pm; Nov 16, 12:30 pm, Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre. Tix $7/10/15.

MINE New work by Theatre Replacement about mothers and sons. Nov 14-17, 8-9:30 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Tix $15-$36.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 COLLECTIVE AND CO. POP UP MARKET AND ART SHOW Pop-up market features a curated list of vendors. Nov 15-18, Collective and Co. Pop Up Market and Art Show. Free.

EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL Vancouver’s 22nd annual four-day celebration of visual arts, design, and crafts. Nov 15-18, Eastside Culture Crawl.

ART AGAINST STIGMA As part of the Eastside Culture Crawl, the Kettle Society showcases hundreds of pieces of art from local artists. Nov 15-18, The Kettle Society.

Free.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Renowned both as a classic novel and a celebrated film, playwright Michelle Deines brings Jane Austen’s story of two sisters in challenging circumstances to fresh life on stage. Presented by The BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.

Nov 15-24, BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts. Tix $22/15/10 at www. capilanou.ca/centre.

RING OF FIRE, THE MUSIC OF JOHNNY CASH First Impressions Theatre presents a celebration of the life and music of Johnny Cash. Nov 15–Dec 1, Deep Cove Shaw Theatre.

Tix $25/$23.

MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon's holiday confection filled

with classic Jane Austen charm. Nov 15–Dec 30, Granville Island Stage. Tix from $29.

PICTURING ARCTIC MODERNITY—NORTH BAFFIN DRAWINGS FROM 1964 Opening of an exhibition featuring 50 original drawings created in 1964 by Inuit artists of North Baffin Island. Nov 15, 7 pm, Burnaby Art Gallery. Free.

OPEN BOOK: TRANS, GENDER-VARIANT AND TWO-SPIRIT READING CIRCLE Jaye Simpson, an Oji-Cree two-spirit writer, leads a talk on literary works by trans, gender-variant, and two-spirit authors. Nov 15, 7 pm, Alma VanDusen Room. Free.

T'UY'T'TANAT.CEASE WYSS: STORIES Author shares Indigenous stories from her diverse heritage. Nov 15, 7 pm, Vancouver Public Library Kitsilano Branch. Free.

ADJACENTLAND Author Rabindranath Maharaj presents his new fictional work. Nov 15, 7 pm, Vancouver Public Library South Hill Branch. Free.

ABORIGINAL VOICES: AN EVENING OF POETRY & PROSE Poetry and prose readings by Tawahum Justin Bige, Brandi Bird, Michael Calvert, and Christie Charles. Nov 15, 7 pm, Douglas College. Free.

CROWVILLE CABARET: THANKSGIVING ALREADY HAPPENED! Monthly cabaret show featuring standup comedy, burlesque, improv, and live music. Nov 15, 8 pm, LanaLou's Restaurant. Tix $10.

TODD NESS Canadian comedian performs three nights of standup. Nov 15-17, Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club. Tix $20.

NEW WORKS AT NIGHT The latest dance creations by O.Dela Arts, home of Indigenous choreographer Olivia C. Davies. Nov 15-16, 8 pm, Orpheum Annex. Tix $10-$25.

BRIAN POSEHN American comedian-actorwriter performs three nights of standup. Nov 15-17, The Comedy MIX. Tix $20.

JOKES PLEASE! Standup comedy show hosted by Ross Dauk. Nov 15, 9-10:40 pm, Little Mountain Gallery. Tix $7.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16 35TH ANNUAL BRITANNIA CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR Three-day event features a variety of handmade creations from local artists. Nov 16-18, Britannia Community Centre. $2 (under 12 free).

PAINT OFF @ DEER LAKE CRAFT FESTIVAL Live painting competition. Nov 16, 6-7 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Free.

SEINFELD BURLESQUE Dance performances and partial nudity featuring characters from TV's Seinfeld. Nov 16, 7 pm, Rio Theatre. Tix $25/20.

A REMARKABLE STILLNESS TWU's Chamber Singers perform a concert of British repertoire. Nov 16, 7:30 pm, Emmanuel Free Reformed Church. Tix $10.

THE BRETT MARTIN SHOW Martin hosts comedy by Jonathon Gagnon, Michelle Falck, Jake Reid, and his sidekick Sam Tonning. Nov 16, 10:30 pm, Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club. Tix $15.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 RIHLA—FROM ROOTS TO DREAMS Ismaili Council for Canada presents dance, music, drama, and multimedia. Nov 17, Massey Theatre. Tix $15-40.

2018 DEER LAKE CRAFT FESTIVAL Works by over 60 artisans, including glass blowers, sculptors, potters, and wood, fashion, and jewellery designers. Nov 16, 11 am-7 pm; Nov 17-18, 10 am-4 pm, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Free.

NEW WEST CRAFT FALL MARKET Shop a collection of over 25 artists and makers selling handmade goods. Nov 17, 11 am–4 pm, River Market. Free.

A VINTAGE AND MAKER'S MARKET Community event of 30 vendors with varied wares. Nov 17, 11 am–5 pm, Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral. Tix $2.

HEART TO HOME HOLIDAY MARKET Oneof-a-kind gifts ranging from photographs and jewellery to ceramic mugs and fused glass bowls. Nov 17-18, 12-5 pm, Surrey Art Gallery.

Free.

BOOK LAUNCH Roxsane K. Tiernan reads from her new book Art and Soul. Nov 17, 1:302:30 pm, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden. Free.

CAG CURATORIAL TOUR WITH NIGEL PRINCE Join CAG executive director Nigel Prince for a guided tour of the current exhibitions. Nov 17, 3-4 pm, Contemporary Art Gallery. Free.

GEEKS VERSUS NERDS: CHRISTMAS...

IN NOVEMBER!? Comedians debate popculture characters. Nov 17, 7 pm, XY. Tix $10.

KOREH: WRITERS IN THE SANCTUARY Karen X. Tulchinsky, Leah Horlick, Rhea Tregebov, and Amal Rana read from works on the topic of roots and family. Nov 17, 7:30 pm, Or Shalom.

BLOODFEUD: WE'RE COWBOYS NOW Standup versus improv comedy. Nov 17, 7:30 pm, Little Mountain Gallery. Tix $7/$10.

NIKOLAY KHOZYAINOV Pianist performs works by Chopin, Debussy, and Stravinsky.

Nov 17, 7:30 pm, Vancouver Playhouse Recital Hall. Tix $15-$50.

SATURDAY NIGHT IMPROV The Radical blends rapid-fire humour with characterdriven storytelling, featuring Gregory Milne, Amanda Jane Porter, Emily Bordignon, Taizo Ellis, Karla Monterrosa, and Dan Willows. Nov 17, 7:30-9 pm, Presentation House Theatre.

Tix $10-$12.

UBC SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE Works by resident composer Joel Puckett, plus pieces by Giovanni Gabrieli and Kathryn Salfelder. Nov 17, 7:30-9:30 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Tix $8.

ROBIN FOX - SINGLE ORIGIN New work for laser and sound explores mechanically induced synaesthesia. Nov 17, 8 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre. Tix $12-$35.

ANYONE WHO’S A PARENT of a preteen boy is well-acquainted with the wild, blocky world of Minecraft.

Now Theatre Replacement artistic director Maiko Yamamoto’s new theatre work MINE takes inspiration from her own experiences playing the popular construction video game with her 11-year-old son. Using the game to build the fantasy universe of the theatre space, the resulting work puts a group of gamer-performers between the ages of 10 and 45 into different live story lines. It debuts at Burnaby’s Shadbolt Centre for the Arts from Wednesday to Saturday (November 14 to 17) and will tour to London and Cambridge in the U.K. in March 2019. Here’s what Yamamoto had to say about it:

Q. How and why did you start playing Minecraft with your son, Hokuto?

A. I started playing Minecraft with

him about two years ago. I really resisted playing at first because I felt conflicted about how much he wanted to play and how hard it was for him to walk away from it. It caused a lot of fights between us.

We did some research and read about a kids’ camp around town called MCKids Academy. This made a huge difference; he had a space and a community to play with, and the best thing about the camp was a code of conduct that they developed, with really useful rules about how to play positively with other people. We started playing together and I really enjoyed him teaching me how to do things; how to build, how to run and fly, and how to survive through the night, when the zombies and creepers come! I also learned why it was hard for him to leave the game, and how to approach him leaving in a productive way. If he was building a house, I knew how to approach him about stopping that worked with the flow of that way better.

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Q. You’ve said the dynamic between you two changed within the Minecraft world.

How so?

A. It’s not that it changed so much—it shifted. I was still his mom and he was still my son, but because he is way more proficient at the game than myself, he was the expert. So I noticed this shift immediately. We still cared for each other in the same way; I was still parenting him (i.e., he’d ask permission from me to “tame” a dog that would live with us before doing it), but he was taking on the role of the parent in-game— keeping me safe and giving me things to help me, like potions that make me run faster, or see in the dark, or heal me.

Q. What do you think MINE says about the relationships between parents and kids in the age of technology?

A. We’re really focusing on the mother-son relationship in the show, but undeniably it pokes at the fears we all have as parents about technology. For me, it’s really about the fear of not being able to parent him inside these new relationships.

He’s really on the cusp of all this, and it’s terrifying. I think it’s super important that I try and stay in dialogue with him as much as possible about it. I can say that the conversation we’re having now around gaming is in a way better place. At the same time, we’re not trying to offer any concrete answers about what to do, because that would be impossible. Every kid is different. We’re merely talking about our own experiences inside ever-changing terrain. And we’re using found narratives to explore what it might mean in a broader sense, and we take the audience with us as we tell these stories, all through playing Minecraft!

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t’s not all bad when the days start getting shorter and the weather gets worse: wintertime means soup season. Pho, the national dish of Vietnam—a noodle soup that’s pronounced “fuh” and not “foe”—is one type in particular that warms the belly and the soul.

Although its origins are subject to some debate, pho seems to have become popularized in the early 20th century, sold by food hawkers on the streets of Hanoi, according to Andrea Nguyen’s The Pho Cookbook: Easy to Adventurous Recipes for Vietnam’s Favorite Soup and Noodles.

These days, it’s often eaten morning, noon, and night throughout that country and the world.

“Anthony Bourdain once said he stayed in Vietnam for 30 days, and every single morning he had a bowl of pho,” says Chi Le, chef and owner of Chi Modern Vietnamese Kitchen (1935 West 4th Avenue). “He never got tired of it. I’m like Anthony Bourdain: I can have it every day.”

At her Kitsilano restaurant, Le— who was a MasterChef Vietnam contender before moving to Vancouver—serves two types of the healthy, satisfying soup: pho ga (chicken) and pho dac biet (beef).

She has also started offering private cooking classes, with regularly scheduled courses in the works.

“A lot of people want to make pho at home,” Le tells the Georgia Straight by phone. “Pho is not hard to make, but there’s no one recipe; it’s all about regions. People from the north to the middle to the south of Vietnam, all have regional flavours.

The south is a little bit more sweet;

to taste.

Sriracha and hoisin sauce for dipping the chicken (optional).

Method

Pho—which is pronounced “fuh and not “foe”—was popularized in the early 20th century when it was sold by food hawkers on the streets of Hanoi.

the middle would have more depth of tone; in the north of Vietnam, they want it a little bit lighter.”

Hailing from Nha Trang, in the coastal, central area of Vietnam, Le prepares a fragrant broth that takes about 12 hours to make if using beef bones cooked at a low simmer or seven or eight hours with chicken bones. An angry boil, she says, will make soup murky and milky. From there, she adds ingredients such as black cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, coriander seed, and more.

“Roasted fennel seed gives a deeper flavour and I add a few pieces of dried ginseng,” she says. “At this

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time of year, I’d use a bit more clove because it keeps you warmer.”

To make your own comforting, steaming bowl, Le shares her signature recipe.

CHICKEN PHO Ingredients

3 whole chickens, 1.5 to 2 pounds each 8 litres water 3 white jumbo onions, charred 6 large shallots, charred 150 grams ginger (1 piece), charred and bruised

20 grams coriander seed, toasted 15 grams fennel seed, toasted 15 grams star anise, toasted 5 grams cloves, toasted 5 grams cinnamon 40 grams salt 50 grams rock sugar 30 grams chicken powder Good-quality fish sauce Fresh pho noodles (quantity as desired); green onion (finely chopped); white onion (thinly sliced, rinsed in cold water, and strained to dry); fresh cilantro and basil; bean sprouts; lime leaves, thinly sliced; fresh red chilies; black pepper; and fresh lime wedges

Wash the chicken with salt, then rinse well with cold water.

Remove breasts and keep in the fridge for later use.

In a pot, bring water to a boil, then add the chickens (no breasts). When the water comes to a boil again, remove all of the foam that floats on top and repeat until no more foam appears.

Add onion, shallot, ginger, and all the spices.

When water comes to a boil again, remove foam. Reduce heat to medium low; there should only be very small bubbles on the surface. Cook for up to six or seven hours, covered.

Remove and discard the chickens, onion, shallot, ginger, and herbs and spices. Bring the broth to a boil again, then add the chicken breasts.

Remove foam. Add rock sugar, salt, and chicken powder. Depending on the size of the chicken breasts, cook for 6 to 8 minutes. Remove breasts, set aside.

Strain broth with fine-mesh sieve.

Put broth back in pot and bring to a boil when ready to serve.

Thinly slice chicken breast or tear apart with your fingers to desired size; add to broth.

Place noodles in bowl. Add chicken breast, green onion, white onion, cilantro, basil, and boiling broth with 1 to 2 teaspoons of fish sauce.

Top with bean sprouts, lime leaf, red chili, and freshly cracked black pepper.

Sriracha and hoisin sauce should only be used for dipping the chicken, not added to the broth.

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ometimes in these dark days and nights when rain is battering the windows, nothing hits the spot more than a piping-hot bowl of soup.

While wineries and wine writers are often overly ambitious with pairing suggestions (guilty!), most of us aren’t whipping up a beef Wellington with a truffle-chanterelle sauce to go with our $15 Merlot on an idle Tuesday night.

But soup! We can do soup, right?

Whether from a can, your favourite takeout joint, or an attempt at a new recipe from one of the season’s hottest cookbooks, a humble bowl of soup can be so much more enjoyable with the right wine alongside.

OROFINO CELENTANO VINEYARD GAMAY 2017

(Similkameen Valley, B.C.; $25, orofinovineyards.com) I’m absolutely smitten with John and Virginia Weber’s brilliant ode to the charming reds of France’s Beaujolais region. After fermenting on the skins, the Gamay was pressed off and then spent five months in older French oak barrels, which brings a structure that frames the fruit well without interfering flavourwise. It’s unfined and unfiltered, leaving a slight haze, which just adds more character. Best served with a bit of a chill and a smoky, gooey French onion soup; Italian plums, mulberries, cardamom, and a sprig or two of fresh sage are all woven together perfectly.

CATENA SAN CARLOS CABERNET FRANC 2017

(Mendoza, Argentina; $28 to $32, private wine stores) If a tomato-driven soup is what’s in order, then let’s stay with zesty red fruit by heading down to Argentina,

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FINCA LAS MORAS “PAZ” MALBEC 2016

(San Juan Cuyo, Argentina; $17.99, B.C. Liquor Stores) Let’s stick around Argentina, where a hearty beef stew will become fast friends with this opulent Malbec full of purple berry fruit, cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg. The wine spent 15 months in new oak, which bolsters its profile, adding to extra grip on the palate, where we see cedar and mocha notes peeking through all that fruit. There’s a warmth and just a tiny bit of affable sweetness on the finish. After polishing off your dinner, this is a great wine to get cozy with on the couch; if you have a fireplace at your disposal, do stoke it up.

LUCCARELLI NEGROAMARO 2016

(Puglia, Italy; $13.99, B.C. Liquor Stores) The Negroamaro variety is native to Puglia, the heel of Italy, where it makes wines rich with stewed berry fruit, black licorice, Italian plums, and slightly savoury elements of

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TRANS SCRIPTS, PART I: THE WOMEN Staged reading centres on the lives of seven transgender women. Nov 17, 8 pm, The Cultch.

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FIREFLIGHT—A SUPERNATURAL CIRCUS CircusWest brings its unique tale of activism to the stage as animals of the Great Bear Rainforest battle a raging forest fire. Nov 17, 8-9:30 pm, Richmond Olympic Oval. Tix $21/$16.

THE COMIC STRIP David Thomas Newham and Dave Harris host standup comedy by Ola Dada, Gavin Clarkson, and Levi McCachen.

Nov 17, 9 pm, Tyrant Studios. Tix $18.

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(Similkameen Valley, B.C.) We’re mixing things up a little bit now, with a herbal, citrusy, zippy white. Although most Burrowing Owl bottlings come from south Okanagan fruit, this Sauvignon Blanc comes from the Similkameen Valley: the sunny, windswept region just a pinch west. Forty percent of the wine was fermented and aged in stainless-steel tanks to preserve freshness, while the rest was done in oak barrels, providing roundness and a hint of toasty character on the palate. Pink grapefruit, lime, and fresh tarragon steal the show here, with cracking minerality and fresh acid keeping things bright.

I recently tried this wine and fell pretty hard for it. My heart plummeted upon learning it’s pretty much sold-out at the retail level and we won’t see the 2018 version until the spring. I was able to pick up the pieces, though, once I found out wine director William Mulholland is pouring it by the glass at Yaletown’s Blue Water Cafe. I can’t help but think that sitting up at the bar for a glass of the stuff while tucking into chef Frank Pabst’s carrot soup with tamarind crumble, duck prosciutto, Marcona almonds, and citrus crème fraîche is a perfect respite from a hectic day.

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WHAT THE POETS ARE DOING: CANADIAN POETS IN CONVERSATION Rob Taylor hosts the launch for a new book about poetry. Nov 18, 1-2:30 pm, Vancouver Public Library. Free.

JAN & JON Violinists Jonathan Chan and Jan Bislin present a program of classical music and popular covers. Nov 18, 2 pm, St. James' Anglican Church. Tix $10-20.

VAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: THE PLANETS Performance of Holst's "The Planets" includes image projections provided by the H. R. MacMillan Space Centre. Nov 18, 2 pm, Orpheum Theatre. Tix $15/$10.

CELEBRATE HALL OF FAME INDUCTION OF STARS BC Entertainment Hall of Fame inducts three new stars: opera stars Ben Heppner and Nancy Hermiston, and Georgia Straight publisher Dan McLeod will be inducted. The event also features Judith Forst, Richard Epp, David Boothroyd, and the UBC Opera Ensemble. Tickets: 604-8226725. Nov 18, 2-4 pm, UBC Old Auditorium.

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DEAD POETS READING SERIES Revisit the works of great artists. Nov 18, 3 pm, Alice MacKay Room. Free.

CAG EXHIBITION TOUR IN FRENCH Join Michelle Martin for a tour of the current exhibitions in French. Nov 18, 3-4 pm, Contemporary Art Gallery. Free.

VS GUITAR DUO Romani Gypsy duo consisting of seven-string guitarist Vadim Kolpakov and his nephew Sasha Kolpakov.

Nov 18, 6 pm, Federico's Supper Club. Tix $65.

VANCOUVER ORATORIO SOCIETY WINTER CONCERT Hymns by Canadian, American, and British composers. Nov 18, 7:30 pm, Fraserview MB Church. Free.

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The piece is a test not only of virtuosity, but of the ability to “paint” imagery with sound. It joins Domenico Scarlatti’s 5 Sonatas and Franz Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat Major in what promises to be a sublime program.

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THE SCRAWNY SHOW Standup comedy featuring headliner Ryan Williams. Nov 18, 8 pm, ANZA Club. Tix $10/$7.

HEAVY MENTAL COMEDY A night of making light of the dark side of mental health and addiction, with partial proceeds to First United Shelter. Nov 18, 8 pm, Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19 VANCOUVER GILLER LIGHT BASH Event includes the broadcast of the 2018 Giller Prize Awards program, literary discussion, food, cocktails, and prizes. Nov 19, 6:30-9:15 pm, CBC Studio 700. $20.

KPU COMEDY NIGHT FOR CHARITY Chris Gaskin headlines a comedy night to benefit the Surrey Food Bank. Nov 19, 7 pm, Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club. Tix $5.

A CONFECTION OF POPS The New Westminster & District Concert Band's annual pops concert. Nov 19, 7:30-9 pm, Michael J. Fox Theatre. Tix $15.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 DREAMING SALLY Launch of James Fitzgerald's new book. Nov 20, 7 pm, Massy Books.

ADORABLE OWL PAINT NIGHT PARTY Two-hour painting class. Nov 20, 7-9 pm, Firefighter's Public House. Tix $29.

DR SKETCHY'S ANTI ART SCHOOL Part art class, part cabaret. Nov 20, 7-10 pm, Hood 29. Tix $12.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21 CHOTTO DESH Vancouver premiere of Akram Khan Company’s solo work. Nov 21-24, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. Tix from $35.

HIMALAYAN SINGING BOWLS Ethereal music of ancient Tibet made from the sound from bowls. Nov 21, 7 pm, Vancouver Public Library Britannia Branch. Free.

UBC CONCERT WINDS Works by Delle Cese, Grainger, Meechan, and Holst. Nov 21, 7:30-9:30 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Tix $8.

ALBIREO World premiere of a new musical

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IMPROV AGAINST HUMANITY The Fictionals celebrate eight years of comedy.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22 SOUL SAMURAI Samurai revenge epic set in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan. Nov 22–Dec 2, Studio 1398. Tix $27.

BLIND DATE The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Rebecca Northan's fly-by-the-seatof-your-pants fusion of clown, improv, theatre, and social experiment. Nov 22–Dec 30, Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.

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DISCOVER DANCE! DANCERS OF DAMELAHAMID Indigenous dance company from the Northwest Coast of B.C. performs masked dance. Nov 22, 12-1 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre. Tix $15/13.

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Escaping Hell on a transit visa TRANSIT

Starring Franz Rogowski. In German and French, with English subtitles.

Rated PG

d IN HER 1943 essay “We Refu-

gees”, Hannah Arendt—two years into exile from Germany—wrote, “Hell is no longer a religious belief or a fantasy, but something as real as houses and stones and trees.…

[C]ontemporary history has created a new kind of human beings—the kind that are put in concentration camps by their foes and internment camps by their friends.”

The piece went on to describe further consequences of forced migration: suicide, depression, loss of trust, and the difficulty of confronting the true face of fascism, which market-tests its lust for genocide by moving select groups of people into harm’s way.

All this and more were depicted, without the benefit of hindsight, by fellow German Anna Seghers, who fled her home when the Nazis came to power, then had to leave Paris in 1940, followed by a year in Marseille and then escape to Mexico. Before leaving, she wrote The Seventh Cross, one of the earliest descriptions of concentration camps (it was made into a movie with Spencer Tracy), and started Transit, about that nail-biting interim in the far south of France, where this movie also takes place.

In taking this unique, methodically paced novel to film, writer-director Christian Petzold has done something remarkable: he has changed nothing essential but the time period.

The cars and clothes are modern, but Jews, leftists, and artists are all on the run from occupying Nazis, soon to arrive—and French police are only too happy to help them.

On-screen, the book’s male narrator is disconcertingly detached from the protagonist, Georg (Franz Rogowski, who resembles a Teutonic Joaquin Phoenix). Georg is fresh from a camp for anti-Nazi political prisoners and lacking the papers to keep moving. But a chance encounter in Paris leads him to an unpleasant discovery that, in turn, takes him to Marseille, where people with their own agendas keep assuming things about him. Well, any port in a storm, and this Mediterranean stopover is packed with more spies and opportunists than you get in an average Graham Greene tale.

Along the way, Georg gets distracted by various desperate souls, including a small boy and his deaf mother, a lonely architect, and a mysterious woman (Frantz’s Paula Beer) who keeps showing up in odd places, lending the proceedings a Casablanca vibe. The foil in this formally ingenious movie is not a gendarme but a wary American consul (Trystan Pütter) who mistakes our taciturn antihero for a famous writer. It may seem strange that everyone speaks perfect German, and that the coincidences keep piling up. But to Petzold—a steely-eyed poet of dislocation, as seen in films like Barbara and Phoenix—these pulpy contrivances help remind us that all the world’s a stage, and refugees always carry the legends of their own lands, wherever they go.

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SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN

A documentary by Margarethe von Trotta, Bettina Böhler, and Felix Moeller. In English, Swedish, and German, with English subtitles.

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THE SECOND documentary this season to tackle the great Swedish director’s life and work, Searching

Paula Beer is stuck in a fascist Marseilles in Christian Petzold’s daring new film, Transit.

for Ingmar Bergman is both less comprehensive and more personal than Jane Magnusson’s Bergman: A Year in the Life.

Although the other movie delved further into the ascetic auteur’s private life and sometimes public demons, the personal here comes mainly from German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta, talking to colleagues and Bergman intimates about the processes, and problems, behind his art.

Born in 1942, von Trotta grew up enraptured by the postwar work of the experimental Swede, a quartercentury older. She begins her search on the island of Fårö, home to his latter years, on the beach where Max von Sydow played chess with death in The Seventh Seal. The younger filmmaker, who started as an actor, broke through in 1975, with The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, directed with then husband Volker Schlöndorff (who later made The Tin Drum and an early version of The Handmaid’s Tale). She was amazed to find that her 1981 Marianne and Juliane made Bergman’s own list of 10 alltime masterpieces, alongside works

by Chaplin, Fellini, and Kurosawa.

Here, she travels to Stockholm, Munich, and Paris to talk to several generations of contemporaries and filmmakers still under his spell.

These include Liv Ullman, of course, and directors such as Olivier Assayas and Carlos Saura. The Spanish veteran comments on Bergman’s gradual retreat from the religious themes

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MARIONETTES Searching for Ingmar Bergman plays for four nights at the Cinematheque.

This underappreciated work from 1980 screens alongside for three of them, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (November 16 to 18).

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offers you another chance to see Panos Cosmatos’s hallucinatory horror-revenge flick on the big screen before its move to Shudder.com. An Oscar-touted Nic Cage stars, on Sunday (November 18).

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it played at the Rio Grind festival, director Joseph Kahn’s brilliant but provocative battlerap comedy returns to the Rio Theatre for one night only, on Sunday (November 18).

that dominated the early efforts from this troubled son of a preacher man.

“Little by little, God becomes less present, and men and women are left to their own devices.” Indeed, Bergman’s moves toward abstraction, as embodied by Persona, and dreamlike humanism, as in the autumnal Wild Strawberries, remain his most influential strains.

There’s not a lot of film analysis, although several filmmakers note that his move to digital cinema, for 2003’s Saraband (a sequel, by the way, to Scenes From a Marriage, 30 years later), was an early adoption by any standard. Bergman was 85 at the time.

Most revealing are his sons, and a grandson, from different marriages, who visit their negligent patriarch’s book-lined Fårö retreat with a mixture of regret and amused resignation. Most intriguing is a long chat with French writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve, who spent much time there, preparing for a film not mentioned but due next year: Bergman’s Island. She used to live with Assayas, by the way; the twinned themes of family and film never leave the screen. In fact, von Trotta directed this with Felix Moeller, son of her first marriage. He must have some stories to tell.

by Ken Eisner

OVERLORD

Starring Jovan Adepo. Rated 18A

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I’M NOT SURE horror and war go together that well in movies. War is already horrifying enough, and goring it up just seems kinda pointless. But that didn’t stop the makers of Overlord—including hotshot producer J.J. Abrams—from trying their darnedest to find some whacked-out middle ground between Re-Animator and Saving Private Ryan.

Jovan Adepo stars as Boyce, a supernice newbie U.S. private on a D-Day mission to parachute behind German frontlines and take out a radio transmitter pivotal to the success of the invasion. After a harrowing opening sequence in which their plane takes enemy fire, we pick up with Boyce and his fellow soldiers—including seenit-all loudmouth Tibbet (John Magaro) and intense, by-the-book Ford (Wyatt Russell)—as they regroup on the ground and set out to accomplish their heroic deed.

Much of the film’s first half is spent depicting how truly nasty the Nazis are, as if we didn’t already know. They gleefully empty machine guns into captured Yanks, randomly execute French villagers, and have their evil way with the womenfolk. And what’s a good old-fashioned Nazi-bashing without a prim, bespectacled mad doctor and ghastly revelations of secret human experiments?

Danish actor Pilou Asbæk from Game of Thrones pretty well steals the show with his portrayal of vile Nazi officer Wafner. “A thousandyear army needs thousand-year soldiers,” he proclaims, referring to the effects of a bright-red serum that, when injected, turns its dead host into a wildly mutating, ultrapowerful killing machine.

The most impressive thing about Overlord—which is otherwise wanting as far as the writing and acting go—is the grisly set pieces created by its devoted team of makeup-FX artists. Hard-core fans of Fangoria, currently basking in the return of its blood-spattered pages to print, seem to be the target audience for the noholds-barred gruesomeness of the loud and relentless Overkill. Err… Overlord, I mean.

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Director Sean Anders drew on his own life for a big-screen tale of adoption

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New adoptive parents Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne grapple with a strong-willed teen and her two siblings in the dramedy Instant Family.

ean Anders, the director of big-budget f licks like Horrible Bosses 2 and the Daddy’s Home franchise, doesn’t typically get involved in the promotion of his movies. Staying behind the camera, the veteran prefers his films to speak for themselves, and leaves the promo to his stars. But for his latest offering, there’s a good reason why he’s stepped into the press spotlight.

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in every sense of the word. Telling the story of a couple who chose not to have children early on in their marriage, only to later realize that their lives might be missing something, the movie traverses the welltrodden narrative of raising kids— but from a much more realistic perspective than most.

“I adopted three kids,” he tells the Straight, on the line from a press stop in Toronto. “My wife and I—our story started exactly like the charac-

ters in the movie. We were trying to decide whether or not to have kids, and I was feeling on the old side. I said, ‘Why don’t we get a five-year-old, and it will look like we got started five years ago.’ I was totally joking, but my wife ran with it. The story that we’re telling in this film is a fictional story, but it’s inspired by a lot of my own experiences, and also the experiences of a lot of other families that I met along the way.”

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MOVIES Killer Queen flick digs into singer’s Parsi roots

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Besides telling the story of one of the biggest rock bands of all time, Bohemian Rhapsody touches on the little-known background of frontman Freddie Mercury (seen as a child above.)

A WHISTLER FILM FESTIVAL November 28 – December 2 Visit Whistler in early December for the 18th edition of Canada’s ‘coolest’ film festival. The Whistler Film Festival features five action-packed days of fresh films, epic events, industry connections plus time to enjoy the delights of the worldclass resort from skiing to après, fine dining and more.

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Western Canadian Premiere Academy Award winning writer-director Alfonso Cuarón delivers an artful love letter to the women who raised him amidst the political turmoil of Mexico City in the early 1970s.

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November 29 & 30 / December 1 SIGNATURE SERIES

The Signature Series recognizes distinguished artists of our time and honours them with an award and an intimate on-stage interview and feature presentation of their most recent film.

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nyone who’s seen the new fi lm Bohemian Rhapsody was exposed to snippets of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury’s Parsi background.

The Parsis are Zoroastrians who fled Iran in the seventh century, with many settling in what are now the western Indian states of Gujurat and Maharashtra.

Mercury’s parents were typical Bombay Parsis. They attended the fire temple and lived by the Parsi religious dictum of “good words, good thoughts, and good deeds”.

That phrase popped up twice when Mercury was talking to his father, Bomi, in Bohemian Rhapsody.

In addition, Bombay Parsis were known for their passion for opera, and the boys often share close bonds with their mothers.

Both of these were reflected in Mercury’s music, perhaps most poignantly in his final recording, “Mother Love”, and in “Bohemian Rhapsody”.

His dad was a civil servant of the British Raj and was transferred to the island of Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania), where Mercury was born in 1946. Zanzibar had a massive Muslim presence, particularly when Mercury was young, and the word Bismillah is Arabic for “in the name of God”. There’s a funny scene in the fi lm where a record executive, played by Mike Myers, doesn’t know what the word means when he hears

it in “Bohemian Rhapsody”.

Mercury spent his youth in India at a boarding school outside of Bombay, playing in a teenage band called the Hectics. He also attended another school in Bombay (now Mumbai). While living in India, he started calling himself Freddie, which is a common Parsi name.

Rock stars come and go, but to

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placing strong-willed teen Lizzy (Transformers: The Last Knight’s Isabela Moner) in the home of new parents Pete (Mark Wahlberg) and Ellie (Rose Byrne, Insidious), as well as her two younger siblings.

To ensure that every line would be something that might make sense to foster kids around the States, the writing team brought a host of parents and children familiar with the system to vet the script, and Anders decided that the extras in many of the scenes would be members of real adoptive families. That authenticity helped both to cement the quality of the movie, and to realize the director’s hopes for the film.

“So many movies have been made on this topic that focus on the trauma and the tragedy of it all,” Anders says. “Even though those movies make people think, and make them empathetic, it also makes people scared of who these kids are. And I was one of them.

I just wanted to make a movie that would let people know that these kids are just kids, who need love and parents, and who have a lot to give as well. I just think that if people go on this journey, and they see a more complete story that gets into the laughter and the joy of it all, then they’ll go home with a more positive outlook. They’ll know that if they or if someone in their family wants to go down the adoption or foster-care route, that they will hopefully be more supportive. That will lead to more real kids having real families.”

Written in 2016 between the first Daddy’s Home movie and its sequel, Instant Family gave Anders the space to explore family bonds, and interrogate the experiences of foster care and the adoption process. Taking audiences through the honeymoon period of fostering to the difficulties of negotiating relationships with a child’s biological parents, the film doesn’t shy away from tackling the tough truths of how hard it is to give a kid a second chance. But it also doesn’t shrink from highlighting the humour of everyday family situations, from toddlers’ temper tantrums in Toys “R” Us to the lax parenting of overenthusiastic grandparents.

“It was the number one goal of the movie, and the number one concern, to make a legitimately laughout loud funny film, but we also wanted to pay the proper respect to this very serious topic,” Anders says. “Throughout the writing process, and all the way through to the last tweaks of the edit, that was the thing that we were focused on the most. When we would put it in front of audiences, we would make sure that the comedy wasn’t taking away from the emotion, and at the same time that we were always able to come back to a laugh. Whenever you can make people laugh through their tears, that’s the best laugh.”

The magic of the film is in its attention to detail. Taking Anders’s situation as a starting point, the movie embellishes his story by

While living in India, he started calling himself Freddie, which is a common Parsi name – Charlie Smith

his many fans, there will only be one Freddie Mercury. His enduring popularity is reflected in the movie’s appeal. In its second weekend, Bohemian Rhapsody was in second place behind The Grinch.

Over two weeks, the Mercury biopic has about $100 million in domestic box-office receipts.

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Daphne Roubini and Andy Smith will perform as the old-timey act Ruby & Smith at the first of two A Ukulele Night to Remember shows, both of which take place at the Cultch on Sunday (November 18).

Ukulele fans give peace a chance

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f there’s an overarching message in Daphne Roubini’s upcoming A Ukulele Night to Remember show, it’s that sometimes you need to try and make the world a better place.

So it’s not by accident that the event will feature such decidedly positive standards as John Lennon’s “Imagine”, Aretha Franklin’s “Respect”, and Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind”. Even though a week will have passed since Remembrance Day when 50 ukulele players take the stage in East Van, the spirit of the show is very much in keeping with the day of reflection that is November 11.

“It’s going to be an evening of remembrance, peace, and harmony,” the Vancouver-based Roubini says in a phone interview with the Straight.

“It’s recognizing that we need something uplifting at this point in time.

There are so many wars still happening around the world, so we’d like to focus on peace.”

There are two A Ukulele Night to Remember shows, each divided into two sets, the first featuring Roubini and Andy Smith performing as the old-timey ukulele act Ruby & Smith,

accompanied by Patrick Metzger on upright bass.

“It’s set up to be an evening of exploration,” Roubini says. “Ruby & Smith will be exploring, with some original compositions, what the ukulele can do in terms of jazz and folk.”

The second portion of each show will spotlight a sprawling orchestra made up of students Roubini teaches in her Ruby’s Ukes classes that run across the Lower Mainland. Conducting the group will be Vancouver’s Tim Tweedale, who also helped arrange the songs—including Led Zeppelin’s fabled “Stairway to Heaven”, the Wailin’ Jennys’ “One Voice”, and the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby”.

“The orchestra will be exploring what an ensemble of players can achieve with the ukulele,” she says. “It’s a 50-piece orchestra, and many of them started from scratch, not playing anything. They’ll be playing four parts for a really epic version of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ that they’ve been working on. It’s fun, but they are also very, very committed. They are students, but for an amateur orchestra they are doing brilliantly well.”

Roubini’s ukulele school is also doing brilliantly well; what began as a grassroots operation is now arguably the biggest outside of Hawaii. Classes run in three sessions (January, April, and September) taking place in three different locations: the Seymour Building, the Post at 750 on Hamilton Street, and Presentation House in North Vancouver. Each session spans 10 weeks, with Roubini and others teaching an average of 35 students in each of the 12 separate classes.

For those for whom the ukulele isn’t exotic enough, she also runs a Spanish-immersion ukulele class where students learn and speak en español, as well as a weekly session for those who’ve signed on for the orchestra.

The demand for her classes, Roubini says, suggests that the days of the ancient four-stringed instrument being a Tiny Tim novelty are over.

Indeed, artists like Amanda Palmer and Eddie Vedder have picked up the ukulele as a go-to songwriting tool, with portability being a major selling point. Musical icons ranging from Pete Townshend to Taylor Swift have been known to bust out the ukulele on-stage and in the studio, and

mega-celebrities from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to Ryan Gosling are on record as devoted disciples.

“I feel like the ukulele is coming into its own now,” Roubini notes.

“People don’t laugh at me anymore when I say that I’ve got a ukulele school. Now they go ‘Oh wow,’ when they used to laugh all the time. I was in a coffee shop the other day, and this kind of trendy young bearded guy looked at my ukulele and asked me ‘What’s that?’ I told him I was teaching, and he completely lost his sort of trendy, hip persona. He asked me, ‘Do you have a card? Because I’m a failed guitarist.’ That’s what the ukulele is great for. Not really failed guitarists, but people who are like, ‘I want to be part of the music community, but can’t make inroads on the guitar.’ They can on the ukulele.”

It’s not lost on Roubini that the instrument now synonymous with the sound of Hawaii is well-suited to an evening that aims to inspire. Unlike the cello, violin, French horn, and bugle, there’s something about the uke that’s naturally uplifting.

“It really can represent the human heart,” she says. “It can be poignant

and it can be fun, it can be soulful and, yes, it can be mournful, but also joyful. And that, for me, is what the evening will be about. I would say it’s beautiful music made simply.”

And as wonderful as the orchestra will sound playing “Stairway to Heaven” at A Ukulele Night to Remember, what Roubini hopes everyone involved on-stage will one day reflect on is how they got from dreaming about music to performing it. There are countless ways to make the world a better place, and being able to spread joy through music is one of them.

“What I love about working with amateur musicians is that the love of the instrument hasn’t been flushed out of them the way that it has with professionals,” Roubini says with a laugh. “The main thing for me is letting the members of the orchestra know that, in some ways, the most important part is the journey towards the performance, and their evolution towards that performance.

That’s really the icing.”

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A Ukulele Night to Remember comes to the Cultch at 3 and 7 p.m. on Sunday (November 18).

To MAGA crowd, Trump is a rock star

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by Mike Usinger

ne of the most horrifying things about the atrocity that is Donald J. Trump’s presidency is the way the man seems made of Teflon.

It’s not like the upstanding musicians of America haven’t taken repeated shots designed to inflict maximum political damage. And by “musicians”, we don’t mean crust-punk skids in three-chord hardcore bands with names like the Knifestabbers, Red Vomit, or Vicious Shart, but rather legitimate legends.

What do unlikely bedfellows like Axl Rose, Adele, Neil Young, Rihanna, R.E.M., Cher, Miley Cyrus, and Meek Mill all have in common? (Besides having more money than you and your extended family ever will, making their opinions more valid than anything you’ll ever have to offer.) The answer is that they’ve all come out swinging against the guy most likely to play Mr. Orange in a Reservoir Dogs reboot.

Each of them has taken to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Vine, Wattpad, and the pop-culture juggernaut MySpace to call out the leader of the free world as a racist, sexist shithead, motherfornicator, climate-changedenying clown, and follicly freakish fuckwit.

Because tweets and Instagram posts are immediately lost in the endless white noise that is the Internet, some artists have gone so far as to take direct aim at Trump while standing in front of the mike.

Remember, if you will, Eminem delivering a vitriolic freestyle against the 72-year-old shitstain who’s currently stinking up the Oval Office, taking shots at everything from Mr. Mango’s immigration policies to his golf vacations to his man-crush on disturbingly coiffed Korean sexpot Kim Jong-un. Marshall Mathers finished his rap by spitting a venomous “Fuck you” at Trump, calling on millions of Eminem fans to take action against the president, and adding the final salvo “The rest of America stand up/We love our military and we love our country/But we fucking hate Trump!!!”

Don’t remember that? That’s all right—no one else does either. Just like 17 minutes from now, no one will remember Rihanna this past week taking legal action to stop Trump (who wouldn’t know Rihanna from a rump roast) from playing her music at his disturbingly Third Reich–like rallies across America.

In scenarios that the Barbados-born megastar called “tragic”, aides cranked

Rihanna’s “Don’t Stop the Music” while firing Trump T-shirts into the crowd in such culturally enlightened locales as Chattanooga, Tennessee. That none of the idiots in the audience knew Rihanna from an authentic Barbados rum punch (recipe as follows: one of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak) was entirely beside the point.

It was the free shit that counted.

Don’t remember RiRi taking a stand either? That’s all right—neither does anyone else by this point. Just like, by this time tomorrow, everyone will have forgotten that Neil Young—who’s previously banned Trump from playing “Rockin’ in the Free World” at his rallies—took to the web to call him out this weekend.

Trump had suggested that the wildfires that just decimated California (including one of Young’s homes) were caused by the mismanagement of forests by those he hadn’t got around to draining from the swamp yet.

Young took to his own website to respond with “Imagine a leader who defies science, saying these solutions shouldn’t be part of his decision-making on our behalf. Imagine a leader who cares more for his own, convenient option

than he does for the people he leads. Imagine an unfit leader. Now imagine a fit one.”

He could have written “Imagine an America where the opinions of Neil Young, Eminem, Cher, Prince, and assorted members of Cleveland punk agitators Cum Fart actually have some weight.” Except they don’t with Teflon Don, whose endless spinning of every criticism into another example of “fake news” has proven fascinatingly effective.

What’s horrifying—not to mention horrifyingly unbelievable—is the way the Make America Great Again morons you see at his rallies have made a choice.

At another period in time, they might have lined up behind Neil Young. Or Rihanna.

Or even Katy Perry, who countered Trump’s wildfire comments with “This is an absolutely heartless response.” Or Rod Stewart, who chimed in with “California needs words of support & encouragement, not threats or finger pointing & accusations.”

Instead, to those who never leave home without their red MAGA trucker caps, Donald Trump is now the world’s only rock star that matters.

Well, maybe Trump, Ted Nugent, and Kid Rock.

Teflon is evidently one hell of a drug.

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career. When, on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Timeâ&#x20AC;?, he sings â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been building my life around you/Even though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s foolish to/ For you threw up a wall/Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20 feet tall/And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way to get through,â&#x20AC;? he sounds genuinely bewildered by the whole experience, as if heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trying to negotiate unfamiliar and not particularly welcoming new terrain. And then Joseph Shabasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s saxophone solo comes in and the whole thing turns into an Al Stewart song.

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Rubber Orchestra is both a lovely epitaph for the Toronto-born Wheeler, one of the greatest melodists of the 20th century, and a good indication that the A-list players in the Hard Rubber Orchestra are as comfortable playing pretty music as they are wrestling with difficult listening. So what are they going to do next?

Why, tackle a whole nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of King Crimson covers, of course. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, it just kind of shows our diversity,â&#x20AC;? Korsrud explains in a telephone interview from his girlfriendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitsilano apartment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can do a fairly straight-ahead jazz project, and we can do new music projects, like pieces by people like Howard Bashaw and Linda Bouchard, and also do heavy-metal projects as well.â&#x20AC;?

Korsrudâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been an admirer of King Crimson for even longer than heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a professional musician. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess I originally discovered them in my late teens, roughly around the time I discovered Mahavishnu Orchestra and all those kinds of bandsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Weather Report, and things like that,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did a Mahavishnu project, like, four years ago, and it ended up being one of our more successful concerts. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always done original compositionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the mandate of this bandâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but it was so successful that, of course, I started thinking about what other band we could do. And King Crimson was the natural band to do next. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The cool thing about them is their groundbreaking compositions, which combine heavy metal with classical influences and some jazz influences.

Out of all the prog-rockâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;type bands, including Genesis and Yes and things like that, they seemed to have the most interest for me. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funny: when I started revisiting their pieces again, I realized how much influence they had on me compositionally. I can listen to my stuff and go, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh, yeah, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely some King Crimson influence in there for sure,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; which Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d kind of forgotten about.â&#x20AC;?

With the help of arrangers Fred Stride, Bill Runge, and Eric Wettstein, Korsrud has chosen to work with pieces that span the first third of the long-running bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s canon, from the title track of its 1969 debut, In the Court of the Crimson King, to four numbers from its more pop-oriented 1980s incarnation. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also tapped Erik Severinson, from the band Whelming, and Powell Street Festival artistic director Leanne Dunic to do the singing; the latter, he notes, is a die-hard Crimsonista, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s currently finishing a book on the band. So you can expect a show that honours its inspiration, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than just a faithful tribute. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always a danger when you do things like this,â&#x20AC;? Korsrud allows. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to just â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;jazz it upâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really trying to make each piece more exciting and bigger in scope and add more colour. The idea is to make things better than the originals; otherwise whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the point of doing it?â&#x20AC;?

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The Hard Rubber Orchestra presents A Tribute to King Crimson at the Rio Theatre on Thursday (November 15), with opening act Peregrine Falls.

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Alicia Hansen is an art-pop singer-songwriter who really, really likes beets. Her latest album is called Before You.

hat’s in Your Fridge is where the Straight asks interesting Vancouverites about their life-changing concerts, favourite albums, and, most importantly, what’s sitting beside the Heinz ketchup in their custom-made Big Chill Retropolitan 20.6-cubic-foot refrigerators.

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WHO ARE YOU I’m an “art-pop” singer-songwriter from Vancouver (Bowen Island currently), and Before You is my new album. The record was produced by Polaris and Juno Award–winning Jesse Zubot.

FIRST CONCERT I seem to remember going to a lot of concerts when I was young, but the earliest ones are all kind of blurred into one fantastical memory that involved elephants (riding on one?), Charlotte Diamond on a hot summer’s day, and my uncle playing the clarinet somewhere grand and frightening with red velvet curtains, a cavernous stage, and squeaky seats.

LIFE-CHANGING CONCERT This wasn’t the first concert I ever saw that blew my mind, but it did change my life. It was just a random concert I picked from the Vancouver Jazz Festival brochure on a whim. It was the Esbjörn Svensson Trio playing at the Cultch, in 2002 I think. It just shattered something inside me—it was so heavy and so free. This was at a point where I had grown totally disillusioned with my rigid classical training (my life since age 4) and hadn’t touched the piano in months—thought it was

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all a washout. But I walked out of that concert, said “I need to study jazz,” found Bob Murphy, started learning to improvise, wrote my first song, discovered my favourite-ever way of making music, and never looked back.

TOP THREE RECORDS Björk Post I stumbled across this album when I was in Grade 11—I listened to it so much that even hearing 10 seconds of one of those songs now time-warps me back to being 16 in such a painful way I almost can’t listen. Which is kind of sad, because Björk inf luenced the hell out of me and I still worship the songwriting and production on that album and wish I could hear it without revisiting teenage hell. But ah well, it got me through it, I’m grateful for that.

Brad Mehldau Places I didn’t grow up listening to jazz, and this was the first “Jazz” album I ever owned.

There’s something so lonely and beautiful about this trio album, at times really dense and dizzying and yet still spare, plaintive. It made me fall in love so hard with Mehldau’s playing, and the way he celebrated modern songwriters (Radiohead et cetera), and just kind of hovered above all the definitions of jazz and pop and made his own sound—sometimes angular and cerebral, sometimes super accessible, always beautiful.

Andy Shauf The Party I have to mention this album because it’s one of the only albums my fouryear-old son will let me play in the house. He’s the biggest Andy fan, and requests one of two songs from the record at regular intervals,

demanding to hear them on repeat until I have to pretend the speakers are broken. But I love The Party.

It’s so good, everything placed so carefully, so exactly, laid so so so back. Brilliant. Anything that can stand up to that kind of relentless repeat listening deserves a place on this list.

ALL-TIME FAVOURITE VIDEO Michael Jackson “Thriller” Ugh, who can answer that? How about all of Björk’s videos? Okay, without overthinking this I’ll just say Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” because I remember being a kid and how captivated and confused I was by its wicked allure. Those shoulder pads, those dancing zombies, those white socks peeping out. Agh! WHAT’S IN YOUR FRIDGE A bag of… Play-Doh. (I hope it’s Play-Doh…?) It’s teal, full of thumb indents, a suggestion of glitter, and a certain white crustiness that daunts me. Will I be screamed at if I throw this away?

Gasket adhesive. Yes. Because after the wood-stove repairs we thought we might need it again and so refrigeration seemed wise. (!?)

Tucked cozily in amongst the condiments. Second nonedible fridge discovery. Moving on to safer regions…

About five dozen apples from our apple tree, crammed in at the back, waiting to be made into applesauce.

Plus 14 different kinds of vegetables all in a healthy state of freshness (you might be thinking that I only keep nonfood in my fridge or that I let things go bad and I must insist I do not), but SADLY, no beets. And that really is sad, because I adore beets and a day without one is a hard thing to face.

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 7, 2018 WHERE: Union Hair Salon

We were at Korpiklaani, right at the front before the stage. By the end I had my arms around you, but you had been drinking so I knew you should go home and sober up. You left with your friend before I could get any contact info. My name started with M.

You were behind the bar, I was at the communal table with my parents. Cute I know. It seemed as though every time we caught each other you smiled at me. I'd love to see that smile again.

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 10, 2018 WHERE: Hastings & Heatley

Bonjour dear stranger, I saw you on Wednesday November 7 around 1pm on my way to work. I was walking on Granville street near W 16th Ave. You were taking a seat in the waiting section of a hair salon.

Union Salon it was, I believe.

For some reason, I was drawn by your silhouette. Classy, wearing a wool coat, knee length dark color if I recall. As I turned to look at you through the window, you looked at me too. I went to the salon on the next day, taking a chance to maybe get your name, but no luck. My name is actually Audrey and I would love to know your's.

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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 31, 2018 WHERE: Vancouver Harbour Airport We boarded our plane and, when the flight was delayed, we got off the plane. It was halloween. Neither of us were wearing costumes but we both wore hats and glasses. You were very handsome in your light coloured trench coat. I kept an eye on you but was too shy to say hello. I keep thinking about you and wishing we’d started a conversation.

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Cannot remember the time but before noon I think. You smiled, I smiled, we talked about the weather/sunshine... you got off on the mezzanine to unload that piece for the escalator and I continued on up to the trains. I almost went back to give you my # but I was in a hurry and you’re probably attached, but I’ve got your wonderful face stuck in my head. Just the nicest smile and oh so sexy. On the off chance you see this - coffee date and some more of that smile? Damn but you are...fine.

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MUSIC LISTINGS CONCERTS JUST ANNOUNCED DIRTY CATFISH BRASS BAND The sounds of the New Orleans brass tradition. Nov 27, 8 pm, The Roxy Cabaret. Tix $7-$10.

KLEZMER & YIDDISH FOLKSONGS Songs of political and social resistance, wandering, and love. Nov 29, 7:30 pm, Or Shalom. Tix $18/$36.

WASIUM: GATHERING LIGHT Indigenous music and art ranging from powwow dancers to Métis jiggers, storytellers to soulful blues, spoken-word to hip-hop. Dec 5, 7 pm, WISE Hall. Tix $25/$30.

SULTANS OF STRING - CHRISTMAS CARAVAN Originals, world-music inspired classics, and seasonal favourites. Dec 7, 8 pm, The ACT Arts Centre. Tix $38/$33.

BILL MAYS & THE TORONTO CHAMBER JAZZ SEPTET Holiday celebration includes a jazzy version of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. Dec 8, 8 pm, The ACT Arts Centre. Tix $28/$33/$38.

REEL BIG FISH Ska-punk band from Orange County, California, with guests Masked Intruder and Bikini Thrill. Jan 16, 8 pm, Commodore Ballroom. Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $25.

YG American rapper performs material from latest album Stay Dangerous. Jan 17, 7 pm,

PNE Forum. Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $49.50.

DOROTHY Rock band from L.A., with guests Spirit Animal. Jan 27, 8 pm, Venue. Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $25.

MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND American singer–songwriter and multi-instrumentalist performs tunes from new album A Million And One. Feb 22, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret. Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $17.50.

ROBYN Swedish electropop singersongwriter and producer. Feb 28, 7 pm, PNE Forum. Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $59.50.

CHERRY GLAZERR Rockers from L.A., with guests Palehound. Mar 8, 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre. Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $16.50.

LAURA JANE GRACE & THE DEVOURING MOTHERS Punk rockers from Florida, with guests Mercy Union and Control Top. Mar 27, 8 pm, Venue. Tix $22.50.

NAKED GIANTS Rock trio from Seattle, with guests Black Tones. Mar 29, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret. Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $15.

JACK & JACK Pop-rap duo from Omaha, Nebraska. Apr 6, 8 pm, Rio Theatre. Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $25.

DILLY DALLY Canadian rockers play tunes from latest album Heaven. Apr 10, 8 pm, WISE Hall. Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $15.

MICHAEL BUBLÉ Pop superstar from Burnaby showcases tunes from new album love. Apr 12, 8 pm, Rogers Arena. Tix on sale

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Since I started a few months I’ve had a huge crush on you. The heart stopping, hand shaking, nervous, I think about every moment type of crush. I think it’s mutual by the long stares, huge smiles, and awkward conversations. I notice when you stand a little too long on your way out of my office. I’m on my way out of an open marriage and want you. Maybe you do too?

Stop Asking Women When/If They are going to have kids A woman just got married? Had one child already? 2? In their 30s? No matter what the circumstance, it is NOT appropriate to ask women if they want to have children.... (con’t @straight.com)

Talk to me I am newly single and old school. I don’t want to go online. I want to meet a man organically. Call me crazy, but I appreciate a man who approaches me and asks me out for coffee.

What happened to that?

Chocolate icing on the nose I dreamed that you licked it off, then snuck in a kiss, like, right after, it was so fast. I was afraid to then initiate a kiss after you did that, but when I did you went all in. I didn’t want to wake up. I love my dream world.

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JOHN MELLENCAMP Heartland rocker from Indiana. Nov 14, 8 pm, Abbotsford Centre. Tix $89.50/69.50/59.50/39.50.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15 VOICES TOGETHER! Rhythm ’n’ Roots and Roots ’n’ Wings present the Iskwew Singers.

Nov 15, 7-10 pm, WISE Hall. Tix $25.

MARJ Vancouver singer-songwriter, with guests Michael Gresham, Atlas Thrust, and Chill Pilgrim. Nov 15, 8 pm, Railway Stage and Beer Café. Tix $10.

CRYWANK James Clayton performs an intimate solo show. Nov 15, 8 pm, 333. Tix $15.

BLUE MOON MARQUEE Original modern blues, with guest Steve Blockley. Nov 15, 8-11:30 pm, WISE Hall. $10 Donation.

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LANY Indie-pop band from L.A. plays tunes from latest album Malibu Nights. Jun 17, 7:30 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $49.50/39.50/29.50.

DIDO Pop singer-songwriter from London, England. Jun 29, 8 pm, Orpheum Theatre. Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $75/5/40.50.

BACKSTREET BOYS American pop band from the ’90s. Jul 27, 8 pm, Rogers Arena. Tix $199/149/99/79/59/39.

“WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC Comedic songparody artist from the States performs with a full orchestra. Aug 19, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $125/99.50/79.50/59.50/45.

IRON MAIDEN British heavy-metal band, with guests the Raven Age. Sep 3, 7:30 pm, Rogers Arena. Tix on sale Nov 16, 10 am, $125/99.50/89/69/49.

WEST COAST BIG BAND FESTIVAL Sixteen Lower Mainland bands perform traditional swing, jazz fusion, and Disney classics. Nov 16-18, Northwood United Church. Free.

STEVE KOZAK TRIO Local blues-rockers play an early show. Nov 16, 7-9 pm, Fairview Pub. Tix $5.

TERRI-LYNN WILLIAMS-DAVIDSON WITH BILL HENDERSON & CLAIRE LAWRENCE B.C. trio is joined by Jodi Proznick on bass and Saffron Henderson and Camille Henderson on background vocals. Nov 16, 7:30-9:30 pm, Genesis Theatre. Tix $30.

THE VANRAYS Rockin’ East Van soul and R&B, with guests Rocabrones, Stephen Ford Group, and Garden Mice. Nov 16, 8 pm, Second Floor Eatery + Bar. Tix $10/$13.

THE SMALL GLORIES Canadian folk duo composed of Cara Luft & JD Edwards. Nov 16, 8 pm, St. James Hall. Tix $12-24.

FRIDAY JAZZ Vocal jazz and Broadway classics by Steffanie Davis. Nov 16, 8 pm, Tyrant Studios. Tix $10.

GARRETT Vancouver prog-rock band, with guests HEAD, Abandon Paris, and Beautiful Frenzy. Nov 16, 8 pm, Railway Stage and Beer Café. Tix $10.

THE HARPOONIST & THE AXE MURDERER Vancouver blues-rock duo, with guests Twin Bandit. Nov 16-17, 8 pm, Fox Cabaret. Tix $25.

ANDRE NICKATINA Rapper from San Francisco performs material from latest release Pisces. Nov 16, doors 9 pm, show 10 pm, Harbour Event Centre. Tix $40.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17 DEANNA KNIGHT AND THE HOT CLUB OF MARS Swing music of the 1920s and ‘30s.

Nov 17, 7-10:30 pm, Gallery Bistro. Tix $30.

STEVE MADDOCK’S JAZZED UP BROADWAY Jazz singer Maddock is backed up by Sharon Minemoto (piano), Craig Scott (drums), and Dave Guiney (bass). Nov 17, 7:30 pm, Queens Avenue United Church. Tix $20/15.

THE FALLAWAYS Rock band from Kelowna, with guests the Carbons, Friday Night Fires, and Honeyvelvet. Nov 17, 8 pm, Railway Stage and Beer Café. Tix $10.

VINTAGE SWING Social swing-dancing to Company B Jazz Band. Nov 17, 8 pm, Anvil Centre. Tix $25/$15.

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c THE HARPOONIST & THE AXE

MURDERER (November 16-17 at the Fox Cabaret) Vancouver’s finest throwback-blues unit gets intimate in one of the city’s best venues for watching the walls sweat.

17 at the Rickshaw) With pot now legal, what better way to celebrate than by rolling a Cohiba-size joint and then marvelling at psych-metal freakouts like “Fishbelly 86 Onions”.

c BEHEMOTH (November 19 at

the Commodore) The only thing scarier than black metal is Polish black metal. Don’t wear pastels when Behemoth celebrates the release of its new album, I Loved You At Your Darkest.

YAO + TRÉSOR OTSHUDI Performances as part of the 24th edition of the Coup de coeur francophone de Vancouver. Nov 17, 8-10 pm, Studio 16. Tix start at $10.

CITY LIGHTS RELEASE Starlight Pines release their new album. Nov 17, 8-11 pm, The Toast Collective. Tix $10.

HOT CLUB SWING Trumpeter Trevor Whitridge leads his swinging quintet. Nov 17, 8-11:55 pm, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre. $15.

EDDYD & THE SEX BOMBS Local dance band, with guests the Van Rays. Nov 17, 9 pm, LanaLou’s Restaurant. Tix $10.

ALL THEM WITCHES Nashville rock band plays tunes from new album ATW, with guests Handsome Jack. Nov 17, 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre. Tix $18.

SEQUENTIAL CIRCUS Electronic music

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18 DISNEY MATINEE: BENEFIT CONCERT FOR MUSIC HEALS An afternoon of Disney songs in support of Music Heals. Nov 18, 1 pm, Notional Space . $10 suggested donation.

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KT TUNSTALL Grammy-nominated singersongwriter from Scotland. Nov 18, 8 pm, Imperial Vancouver. Tix $35.

JAMIE DE GUIA An evening of jazz piano and crooner classics. Nov 18, 7 pm, Frankie’s Italian Kitchen & Bar. $8 cover.

KEVIN MAX Former member of dcTalk performs songs from his new solo album AWOL, with guest Jordan St. Cyr. Nov 18, 7-10 pm, Mary Pattison Chapel. Tix $35-45.

WE DO THE WORK: THEN AND NOW CONCERT The Left Coast Labour Chorus presents award-winning songwriters. Nov 18, 7:30 pm, Russian Hall. Tix $20.

BARN BURNER Rock band, with guests Black Wizard, Brigade, and Hasteroid. Nov 18, 8-11:30 pm, WISE Hall. Tix $15/$20.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19 BEHEMOTH Polish extreme-metal band, with guests At the Gates and Wolves in the Throne Room. Nov 19, 7 pm, Commodore. Tix $39.50.

WEDNESDAY 13 American rocker mixes punk and metal with kitschy horror imagery.

Nov 19, 8 pm, Rickshaw Theatre. Tix $18.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 JORJA SMITH English R&B singer-songwriter performs tunes from her debut album Lost & Found. Nov 20, 7 pm, Orpheum Theatre. Tix $32.50/35/45.

UBI X JOEY COOL X THE PALMER SQUARES Concert as a part of the Under Bad Influence tour, with guests Hazmat Crew and Wall-Doh. Nov 20, 9 pm, Rickshaw Theatre. Tix $30/$35.

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KODALINE Irish indie-folk quartet. Nov 21, 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom. Tix $32.75.

MUTUAL BENEFIT Indie-rock project created by singer-songwriter Jordan Lee. Nov 21, 9 pm, Biltmore Cabaret. Tix $15.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22 THE WHITE ALBUM REVISITED Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ White Album at a gala benefit concert for PAL Vancouver. Nov 22, 7:30 pm, St. James Hall.

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RODNEY DECROO + THE WISE BLOOD Celebration of the life and work of Canadian poet Al Purdy. Nov 22, 8 pm, Cultch. Tix $25.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23 JULIEN BAKER AND PHOEBE BRIDGERS WITH LUCY DACUS Coheadlining show featuring American singer-songwriters Baker and Bridgers with Dacus. Nov 23, 7:30 pm, Commodore Ballroom. Tix $28.50.

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH Indie-folk singer-songwriter from Sweden. Nov 23, 8 pm, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Tix $49.50/39.50.

ROBERT DELONG Electronic musician from Bothell, Washington. Nov 23, 8 pm, Biltmore Cabaret. Tix $20.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24 ELIANA CUEVAS The Coastal Jazz & Blues Society presents Venezuelan-Canadian songstress. Nov 24, 8 pm, Frankie’s Jazz Club.

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SHALLOU L.A.-based electro-house artist.

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WEST COAST GUITAR NIGHT Acousticguitar performances by Kent Hillman, Edgar Avelino, Les Finnigan, Simon Fox, Itamar Erez, and John Gilliat with Rossi Tzonkov. Nov 24, 8 pm, Historic Theatre. Tix $29.

HEADSTONES Guitar-rockers from Kingston, Ontario, with guests the Matchstick Skeletons.

Nov 24-25, 9 pm, Commodore Ballroom. Tix $42.50.

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