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every sense of the word. So I felt like it’s a responsibility.” When Fahmy and his wife, Marwa Omara, landed at Vancouver International Airport, “I immediately went to work,” Fahmy told the Straight. One year later, the result is The Marriott Cell: An Epic Journey From Cairo’s Scorpion Prison to Freedom, which Fahmy wrote with Vancouver author Carol Shaben. It begins with a
thrilling account of Fahmy’s reporting on the Arab Spring as it played out on the streets of Cairo. The book takes its title from the events of December 29, 2013. After just three months as the Egypt bureau chief for Al Jazeera English, Fahmy and two colleagues, Peter Greste and Baher Mohamed, were working out of a room at the Cairo Marriott Hotel. Police rushed in and the trio was accused of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, which had very recently been deemed a terrorist organization by the new government of Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. From the hotel, they were taken to Scorpion Prison, nicknamed “the Cemetery”, and Fahmy’s old life came to an end. The Marriott Cell recounts Fahmy’s farcical trial and time in prison against the backdrop of Egypt’s sad descent from revolutionary democracy to thinly veiled dictatorship. It also lays bare brutal mistakes made by Al Jazeera that likely compounded the severity of Fahmy’s situation, as well see page 9
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these developments and discover what they mean for the neighbourhood.) The construction of most of these buildings is guided by the Downtown Eastside local area plan (LAP), a framework and package of bylaws that Vancouver city council adopted in 2014. In a phone interview, Vision Vancouver councillor Andrea Reimer acknowledged that there is a lot of development taking place in the area in a short period of time. But she maintained that the district needs housing and is overdue for development. “The [local area] plan might have been passed in 2014 but it reflects needs that existed before that plan was developed,” she said. “The LAP, it essentially took the same numbers from the original housing strategy of 15 years ago and just cut and pasted them and then tried to prove them out financially.” Making projects economically viable under the LAP can be tricky, especially when they fall within a subsection of the Downtown Eastside called the Oppenheimer District. In this stretch of East Hastings—loosely centred on its intersection with Main Street—60 percent of a new building’s residential units must fall into the category of social housing, one-third of which must rent at the shelter maximum of $375 a month for single employable income-assistance recipients. The first development scheduled to complete construction under those rules is a 12-storey building on the corner of East Hastings Street and Gore Avenue. The developer is Wall Financial Corp. In a phone interview, the company’s president, Bruno Wall, said this project wouldn’t be happening without support from the B.C. government and the City of Vancouver. “They are putting in all the equity that is necessary to make the supportive and nonmarket housing work financially,” he explained. “And then the market rental will stand on its own.” Wall said the LAP guidelines provide for a strong social mix but don’t leave a lot of room for profit. “We’re just earning a management fee,” he said. “But we would do it again if we could put together a similar team. The question would be, does B.C. Housing have the resources to do more of these?” -
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as the failure of the Canadian government to help to secure his release. “It’s almost like a how-to for others who get stuck in a situation like that,” Fahmy said of the book. “I hope I can inspire people, because I’ve been inspired by so many.” There are a thousand questions to ask about what it was like facing an unjust judicial system and living in prison alongside both murderous extremists and top members of Egypt’s deposed political classes who were imprisoned following Sisi’s July 2013 coup. But the night before Fahmy’s interview with the Straight, America elected Donald Trump president of the United States. During the Republican candidate’s divisive campaign, he routinely attacked journalists, threatened to sue media outlets, and encouraged supporters to express hostility toward reporters covering his rallies. Asked what a Trump presidency will mean for press freedom, Fahmy struggled to remain optimistic. “If this is how he actually deals with the press and if this is the derogatory approach he is going to use in dealing with the press, then we’re in big trouble,” he said. “After he won, I had these feelings of helplessness similar to the feelings I felt when Mohamed Morsi, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, when he won the elections in 2012 in Egypt. But this is worse because Donald Trump is leader of the most powerful nation of the free world and his decisions affect every corner of the world. So I am still in a state of shock.” Fahmy predicted that the implications will extend well beyond the borders of the United States. “We are witnessing today a more dangerous environment for journalism,” he explained. “There is no neutral ground. We are being targeted by oppressive governments and extremist groups.” Outlets therefore need to do a better job protecting their reporters, he argued. This is where the second half of Viktor Frankl’s quote refuses to let him sit idle, Fahmy said. After Fahmy was let down by Al Jazeera English, Egypt, and Canada, he and his partner also found time during their first year in Vancouver to create the Fahmy Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to press freedom that works for the release of journalists imprisoned around the world. Closer to home, Fahmy is lobbying Ottawa to adopt something he’s called the Protection Charter. Among other provisions, it would enshrine into law an obligation to intervene when a Canadian citizen is detained abroad. Fahmy also revealed he’s anxious to get back to his first passion. “I am hoping that I can start working in the new year, either here in Canada or in the Middle East, representing a Canadian agency,” he said. “I am itching to head right back into journalism.” The Vancouver Writers Fest presents Mohamed Fahmy at UBC's Frederic Wood Theatre on Monday (November 21).
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just came back from a whirlwind with as much enthusiasm and care as tour of Beaujolais, the storied the rest of its offerings. It’s ingrained French wine region most famous in the Beaujolais wine industry, and for its annual release of Beaujolais it certainly has provided an economNouveau wines. ic engine to many. These fresh, fruity wines made One thing that happened in at least from the red Gamay grape are quick- half the places I visited—and somely fermented so they can be sent all thing that’s not necessarily common around the world in many other wine to celebrate this regions I’ve been year’s harvest on to—is that plates the third Thursof charcuterie, Kurtis Kolt day of November, sausage, and cheese which, auspiciously, makes them were served during our tastings. The freshly stocked on store shelves as first wine poured was always this you’re reading this. year’s edition of Nouveau, and salutAre these wines serious wines? No, ing the harvest with a few sips, along not really. Does wine always have to with tucking into a couple slices of be serious? No, not really. saucisson, just felt right. The high-acid, I do have to admit, I’ve always fruity, berry-driven character of each been reluctant to share these wines, of the pours cut perfectly through the whether in my sommelier days on richness of those bites, washing down the floor in restaurants or nowadays, their saltiness admirably. wearing my media hat. So, yeah, I’m gonna say you should It isn’t necessarily because Beaujo- go for it. Over the next few weeks, lais Nouveau can be simple or frivo- while there’s stock on shelves (they lous, though that quick ferment and won’t last too long), grab something lack of oak or age certainly doesn’t of- like Mommessin 2016 Beaujolais Noufer much opportunity for many layers veau ($18.99, B.C. Liquor Stores), pick or complexity to develop. up some charcuterie and cheese on the And it’s not because a common way home, and raise a glass to the curpart of the winemaking process is rent vintage. It is, indeed, pretty cool to carbonic maceration, where the fer- be drinking a wine made from grapes mentation of whole grape clusters that were still hanging on the vine takes place in a sealed vessel filled mere weeks ago. with carbon dioxide, which can ofBut then I ask that you don’t stop fer unique, sweeter, almost confected there. If Beaujolais Nouveau is your aromas like bananas or bubble gum. first foray into the wines of the reSome folks just might not be into that. gion, do go ahead and take the next The issues I’ve had in the past step into Cru Beaujolais. centred around my adoration for all Château Bonnet Chénas Vieilles the other red wines made in Beaujo- Vignes 2013 ($20.99, B.C. Liquor lais: the more serious stuff, generally Stores) is a tremendous value coming known as Cru Beaujolais, still made from a winery that’s been going since from Gamay but of more discernible 1630. This old-vines bottling comes quality and character. These are the from the cru of Chénas, the smallest wines that hail from specific sub- Beaujolais appellation, with granappellations, or crus, and they offer ite and alluvial soils. There’s often a key elements of the terroir from their distinct floral character to the area’s respective vineyards. wines, and that’s what you’ll note here. I guess I’d always been concerned Violet and rose-petal aromatics sail that if some out there aren’t into the out of the glass upon the first swirl, Beaujolais Nouveau thing, they’ll and then there’s a good dose of cherry think they’re all the region has to of- and plum character on the palate. fer and move along. Elegant and highly quaffable, further I’ve also realized that I long car- sips bring subtle notes of nutmeg and ried this subconscious opinion that white pepper, just enough of an earthy the Beaujolais Nouveau phenom- undercurrent for an extra bit of weight. enon was a marketing stunt, no There are many more crus, and a more, no less. wide array of Beaujolais wines is availBut now that I’ve been there, I of- able around town. Stay tuned over fer a mea culpa. Each winery I visited upcoming weeks for further splashes shared its fresh-bottled Nouveau into this dynamic, delicious region. -
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Douglas Coupland’s Bit Rot revels in tangents. Mark Peckmezian photo.
of “recommended for you” Netflix choices. That unpredictability is, Coupland says, exactly the point. Arranging his passages in a mishmash of styles and ideas, the author taps into the way people have processed information since the advent of the World Wide Web. “The only way that we can avoid being overwhelmed by the modern world is by attempting pattern recognition,” the writer suggests. “This really clicked for me when I was writing my Marshall McLuhan book. You might not find any patterns initially, but you have to keep looking. Technology and the speed we receive information has changed the way we perceive the world. I like to use the phrase ‘my pre-Internet brain’. It’s something I think about often, because I really don’t remember what it was like—and it’s not just me. I was recently in San Francisco, where I used to work for Wired, and none of the Wired people could remember their pre-Internet brains either. All we know is how it feels to think now.” Coupland’s fascination with recalling life before the digital age is telling. If, indeed, it is possible to distill the writer’s eclectic collection, woven throughout the book is one main theme: the precarious
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rom Thursday to Sunday (November 17 to 20), the Eastside Culture Crawl showcases the work of more than 475 artists in 78 buildings. Walking or cycling between locations can make you ravenous, so with that in mind, Straight writers have recommended five dining spots in the vicinity of all those studios. Collectively, they represent the diversity of East Van.
BODEGA ON MAIN
1014 Main Street The term tapas gets applied to almost any small plates these days, but for the auténtico Spanish experience, Bodega still rules. We’re talking spicy patatas bravas, tortilla española, and gambas al ajillo that look and taste like what you’d find at a century-old taverna in Madrid’s Plaza de Santa Ana. The Iberian outpost comes with a pedigree, of course: it’s run by Paul Rivas, son of Francisco Rivas, a partner at the late, great La Bodega on Howe Street for 43 years. A lot of that mainstay’s favourites remain on the menu here, including the famous, and famously dangerous, sangria. Other specialties: tender pincho moruno beef skewers, pork sausage drizzled in Basque cider, sherry-drenched mushrooms, and saucy albondigas (meatballs). With high ceilings, burgundy banquettes, matador posters, and even retro wrought-iron-and-gold-glass fixtures salvaged from the original haunt, the spot has atmosphere to match the food. PELICAN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT
1895 East Hastings Street When you’ve been walking and standing for several hours to admire artwork, you’re bound to get hungry. To prep your stomach so you can get the most out of the Eastside Culture Crawl, check out Pelican Seafood Restaurant if you dig Chinese food. Its large dinner menu includes everything from deep-fried squid with peppery salt to honey-garlic spareribs to braised dry scallops with winter melon to housespecial chow mein. Don’t worry if you
can’t finish the family-style plates: just pack it to go and enjoy it as a late-night snack after gallery-surfing. If you’re planning on heading to see artwork earlier in the day, we suggest stopping by in the morning for some hearty dim sum. All the classics are served here, including har gau, siu mai, steamed barbecued-pork buns, and baked eggcustard tarts. The restaurant fills up quickly during peak times, so be sure to make a reservation beforehand if you know you’ll be grabbing a bite at this no-fuss eatery. Did we mention the restaurant’s close proximity to the galleries? TAMAM: FINE PALESTINIAN CUISINE
2616 East Hastings Street It’s probably fair to consider Tamam a purveyor of Culture Crawl fuel rather than a fine-dining experience, despite a recent makeover that has left the greenhouselike space looking more like somewhere you’d take a date and less like a ’70s daycare. Lending credence to that is the family-run resto’s signature mujaddarah, a deceptively stodgy-looking mix of rice, lentils, and crispy fried onions that’s actually get-up-and-go on a plate. Have it with salad or as a side with one of the mains—we recommend the roast lamb—and you’ll be striding, not crawling. (It’s so good that we’ve started making it at home, but even with cookbook authors and chefs Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi’s help, it’s not quite as delicious as Tamam’s.) An even better option might be to go with friends and order an absurd number of appetizers, which will not only replicate a truly Middle Eastern meze feast but put you in touch with Vancouver’s best eggplant salad. Anything on Tamam’s menu that features eggplant is worth trying, in fact— and, although nightshade-free, the hummus is simple perfection.
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Choudhary serves delicious Delhistyle cuisine. The curries are a little heavier and have more of a homemade feel than what you’ll find in many other Indian restaurants. It is perhaps most apparent in the succulent chicken korma that comes in a cashew-nut-and-raisin gravy. There are also vegetarian dishes, including delicious chana masala (chickpeas with tomato, onion, ginger, and garlic served with basmati rice). And for authentic street food, why not order Choudhary’s Delhi aloo tikki as an appetizer? These two sauce-laden potato cakes will provide enough carbs to keep you crawling for hours. Anyone who’s read Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha knows that this was also the Buddha’s original name, which explains the large image of the enlightened teacher on the restaurant’s southern wall.
artisans and an upbeat, contemporary playlist, the annual fete gives its crew of talented vendors the endearing title of “makies”. And did we mention the fully licensed beer garden and impressive selection of food trucks parked just outside? Among this year’s 265 exhibitors—sorry, makies—will be Blackbird Studios, Carli Marie Sita, and Brand & Iron, plus a silent auction that will benefit the Union Gospel Mission. GOT CRAFT?
(At the Pipe Shop Building December 10 and 11) Billed as Vancouver’s largest indie craft fair, Got Craft? goes beyond the typical buy-and-sell interactions by offering Vancouverites a chance to sharpen their own hands-on skills. Keen attendees may drop in to a DIY class on-site, where they can make a painted pencil block to bring home, though the array of goods from 80-plus vendors should be enough to keep shoppers busy throughout the weekend. Think laser-cut cufflinks by Cabin + Cub, stained-glass terrariums by Glimpse Glass, artful sweets by My Chocolate Tree, and more. SHINY FUZZY MUDDY
(At Heritage Hall December 10 and 11) Get to know some of Vancouver’s most gifted craftspeople at Shiny Fuzzy Muddy, a long-standing staple on the city’s holiday-market circuit that shines a light on new and emerging talents. The annual event was founded by four local artists with an eye for design and quality craftsmanship, and it shows: this year’s smorgasbord of exhibitors includes visual artist Vanessa Lam, who has received international acclaim for her mixedmedia works; the Sidestitch Club, which specializes in creative textiles; and ceramist Cathy Terepocki, who is known for her vintage-meetsmodern wares. LA TAQUERIA PINCHE TACO SHOP
322 West Hastings Street The last thing anyone wants from an old-school taco joint is a place that seems ripped from the designer pages of Ambientes or Arquine. Located on a gritty stretch of West Hastings, La Taqueria looks like a transplant from the back streets of Tepito, the restaurant’s façade adorned with a giant Mother Mary mural. Inside, expect a fresh, organic, and sustainable-minded menu with Mexican street-stall prices. Classic $3 tacos include the Al Pastor (chili-and-pineapple-marinated pork) and the De Cachete (braised beef cheeks), and there are can’t-miss $2.50 veggie options, starting with rajas con crema (roasted poblanos with creamed corn, sour cream, and Mexican cheese). The food is killer and the price is right—sometimes you don’t have to hunker down at Tacos Los Chaparritos in Mexico City for an authentic experience. 604.730.7060
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hat strikes you about the playful rehearsal for Vancouver Opera’s new Hansel and Gretel—other than the fact it’s no typical, staid runthrough—is how young everyone is. In the studio of the O’Brian Centre for Vancouver Opera, soprano Taylor Pardell’s Gretel is trying to realistically tickle mezzo Pascale Spinney’s Hansel. She does this while singing Engelbert Humperdinck’s lightning-fast “ticka-ticka-tee” melodies. As they roll around on the ground, director Brenna Corner jumps in, offering tickling advice, and maestro Alex Prior gives notes on the music. Pardell and Spinney don’t have to reach too far back in their memories to play kids: they’re both in their mid-20s and taking part in VO’s Young Artists Program. Corner, sporting funky purple boots and a matching blouse, is a recent alumna of that program. And the U.K.’s Prior—jovially presiding over the proceedings in sneakers and jeans—is an impossible 24 years old, a bona fide wunderkind in the classical world. It’s all as it should be: this millennial-made show, told with strange and surreal puppets and a nontraditional orchestra that has an electric guitar and sax, is meant to reach out to kids and their young-at-heart parents. The production even features a 14-member children’s chorus. “Kids love opera and I’ve never seen a kid not love opera—ever!” enthuses Prior on a break. “And I love hearing kids enjoy it. I love when kids peek into the pit! I love working with a children’s choir and writing for children. You don’t get to do that much when you’re building a serious career. I feel like I get some of my youth back
Making magic at the opera
Above, Pascale Spinney and Taylor Pardell perform serious music in a fun, fairytale setting, joined by puppets like the bog deer (below left). Emily Cooper photos.
Add to that world whirlygig birds, a butterflyprograms for children and youth. “It has the adorned Dew Fairy, and “bog animals”—a papierHansel and Gretel features strange puppets, innovative same importance as mâché-and-moss bunny, mouse, and deer, the last orchestration, and an impossibly young creative team having to walk or speak. an antlered one whom Prior has nicknamed “Anton” There’s no better way you due to his eerie resemblance to Anton Bruckner. One of the biggest challenges, Corner reveals, when I work with kids; I like me the most with can connect to emotions than through music or theatre. I think it’s very important for kids to go to opera, was working with Old Trout to design puppets, kids. I feel like I become a better person.” Prior, perhaps more than any of the talented three or four times a month, ideally! And the sym- which are often more like character extensions, that would not interfere with the physical process people he’s working with here, is acutely aware of phony as well as other genres of music.” With this in mind, consider Hansel and Gretel of singing topnotch opera. That means that, in the how important it is to expose children to opera and music in general. Prior’s own parents immersed a perfect start. Written by Humperdinck in 1891 case of the witch (which the production is keeping him in classical music from an early age, and just and 1892, it is full of beautiful melodies and folk- a secret till the show opens), you can see tenor Ryan look what happened: he began composing at eight music-inspired themes, with a libretto written Downey singing within her towering bodice. In addition, the singers won’t have to operate and has since written more than 40 works, includ- by the composer’s sister, Adelheid Wette, based ing symphonies, concertos, ballets, operas, and a on the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale. For this show, too many of the contraptions around them: puppeteers will be visible and activating the requiem for the children who died in the Corner has tightened up the story with a creatures on-stage at all times. shooting in Beslan. By 13, the musical new libretto and Prior is using an atmos“The idea is to see everything beprodigy was entering the Saint Petersburg pheric new orchestration by Anatoly Check out… ing operated,” Corner explains. “You Conservatory, graduating at the ripe old Korolyov. When she was approached STRAIGHT.COM get to watch the magic of theatre age of 17, with two master’s degrees. He to stage the production, Corner says, Visit our website while watching the magic of Hansel was just named chief conductor of the Ed- she wanted to emphasize the story for morning-after and Gretel.” monton Symphony Orchestra, and is in as a tale about magic and the world reviews and local arts news of the imagination or subconscious. And even though—let’s face it—the demand around the world. fairy tale centres on a cannibalistic We are not promising that taking Her stroke of genius was to bring in witch who’s preparing the children for dinyour child to this visually expressive Alberta’s Old Trout Puppet Workshop to rendition of Humperdinck’s beloved conjure creatures that would enhance that world. ner, the entire creative team is working to ensure “One of my pet peeves is children played by five- things don’t get too scary. Hansel and Gretel will produce similar “We decided weird and different is okay,” results. But Prior is a huge advocate of foot-six adults,” says Corner in a separate interview. music exposure—and education, the “We’re getting around this by the fact that they’re Corner says. “We can’t have children running latter under serious threat in these able to make the witch giant—almost 11 feet tall! scared out of the theatre.” Especially if it’s their And the parents are seven feet, in platform shoes. fi rst opera experience. parts thanks to funding cuts. “For me, it’s very hard to understand “The puppets help take us into a whole other why every child isn’t going to the opera or symphony,” world. It’s like the witch has infected animals and Vancouver Opera presents Hansel and Gretel he says, acknowledging that governments have to do everything looks a bit strange now. This whole at the Vancouver Playhouse from next Thursday (November 24) to December 11. more and praising VO for its own extensive outreach story feels like it’s a story of your imagination.”
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Editor’s choice SLAVIC SOUL Love, we suppose, is better than sacks of cash and a concerted effort to undermine what’s left of democracy south of the border—and that’s why we wholeheartedly endorse the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s unexpectedly timely venture east of the former Iron Curtain. From Russia With Love finds fiery new VSO assistant conductor William Rowson (above) stepping in for Bramwell Tovey, and Bard on the Beach’s Christopher Gaze hosting an evening of excerpts from such classics as Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird, Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty. Here’s hoping that when it comes to Russia, a waving baton trumps a rattling sabre. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents From Russia With Love at the Orpheum on Thursday (November 17).
Five events you just can’t miss this week
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JUXTAPOZ X SUPERFLAT (To February 5 at the Vancouver Art Gallery) Memes, anime, Mark Ryden, and even Big Bird—exhibitions don’t get much cooler.
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BROTHEL #9 (November 17 to 27 at the Cultch’s Vancity Culture Lab) A moving story of sexual slavery in Kolkata.
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AVENUE Q (November 17 to December 31 at the Arts Club Granville Island Stage) If you’ve never seen this crude puppet show, prepare to laugh yourself silly.
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LAYERS OF INFLUENCE (November 17 to April 9 at the Museum of Anthropology) An eye-pleasing survey of clothing, and its roles, from around the world.
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SNACKART COLLECTIVE (To December 2 at the Pendulum Gallery) Ten vending machines selling 1,400 images, each for the price of a bag of chips.
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MOA GIFTS The Museum of Anthropology at UBC has received a combined donation worth $10.5 million from an anonymous donor, the Doggone Foundation, and the Government of Canada. The anonymous donation of more than 200 pieces of indigenous art, which include rare historical works and fine carvings, jewellery, basketry, and textiles (including the late-19th-century pipe bowl above), is worth an estimated $7 million. The pieces will be housed in a new Gallery of Northwest Coast Masterworks, funded by $3 million from the Doggone Foundation (a Montrealbased charity) and a $500,000 grant from the feds’ Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Project. Construction of the new gallery will begin this month. It’s scheduled to open to the public by National Aboriginal Day (June 21) next year. NOVEMBER 17 – 24 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 15
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In Brain, multitalented playwright and performer Brendan McLeod tells the story of his struggles with maddeningly obsessive thoughts. Mike Savage photo.
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an outwardly normal disposition,” McLeod says. “People would not know there was an issue unless I told them. But there were times where it gets so bad you don’t want to leave your room and interact with the outside world. That’s part of the compulsion—you will avoid areas that are potentially harmful to your thoughts. So if you’re worried about, I dunno, stabbing your grandfather, you’ll avoid seeing your grandfather.” One of the most important things someone can do is let others know what’s going on inside. McLeod has ultimately chosen to let the world know with his hyper-personal Brain, which was praised as alternately heartbreaking and hilarious on the way to being named a 2015 Pick of the Vancouver Fringe. But before he decided to give audiences a window onto what was going on inside, he learned that sometimes you have to decide to trust those around you. “I remember the first time I talked about this with someone—very vividly,” he says. “I talked to psychologists, but wouldn’t name the thoughts or talk about what they are. That was helpful to a certain level, but it was very helpful to name the awful thoughts to someone. It was my very first long-term girlfriend in grad school. It was a big thing where I weighed the pros and cons and wondered, ‘Will I lose this relationship? Is this the beginning of a downward spiral where I tell people and then everyone thinks I’m a monster?’ And it was all anticlimactic. She just laughed and was like, ‘What? You know you’re never going to do that.’ ” As forthcoming as he is, in an interview situation McLeod isn’t overly eager to reveal what those thoughts were—and, presumably, are. There’s an understandable reason for that. Sometimes the demons are so awful, you have to be careful about when you choose to drag them out into the light. “The thing about this, and part of the reason that I do the show, is to contextualize the thoughts properly,” he explains. “The problem with just saying what the thought is is that the thought is always really, really horrible. So I try not to say ‘The show talks about this,’ because then people just hear that and they don’t hear anything else. I’ll just say that they are very bad thoughts. OCD goes after what you care about—that’s what people say. Like, a mom worrying about stabbing a newborn baby is a classic case because it’s the worst possible thing you can do to this thing that you love, and it scares people so much they can’t stop thinking about it. So it’s that level of being a terrible, horrifying thing.” -
ometimes the best way to deal with the demons within is to drag them into the open for everyone to see. Brendan McLeod bravely chose to do just that with his one-man show Brain. With a Gatling-gun monologue, he pulls the curtain back on his sometimes raging obsessive-compulsive disorder and the battle to live a normal life in a world that increasingly seems to be spinning right out of control. For a long time, the multitalented Vancouverite suffered in silence, something that anyone who has ever lived with the stigma of mental illness will relate to. Interviewed by phone, McLeod remembers being on the cusp of his teens when he learned that he had Pure O, in which the repetitive physical checking often associated with OCD doesn’t appear, the maddening obsessing instead taking place in the mind. “The narrative of the show is that I was 12 when I first manifested Pure O,” says the playwright. “I didn’t really know what it was, but then I got diagnosed when I was 17, 18 years old. At first I was like, ‘Boom, that’s the end of this, because now I know and I’ve figured it out. There are no problems, because I know what’s going on, and if it ever comes back, I’ll be like, ‘It’s OCD—don’t ever worry about it.’ ” Then came the discovery of just how insidious it can be, and all the different manifestations it can take on. But it was one of the greatest reliefs of my life to find out that I had something, and that I wasn’t just some terrible monster.” From there began an epic and constant battle to control the thoughts within. “What I experienced, and a lot of people have experienced, is that OCD ebbs and flows,” McLeod reveals. “It tends to spike in periods of high anxiety and change or transition or stress. I’m pretty much to a T like that. My biggest moments of OCD were when I was going to junior high, which was a big hormonal-raging time. And then again when I moved away from my parents for university and started living by myself. Other periods of high stress have included things related to work environments. I would say it’s never gone, but there are times when it’s way worse than other times.” Today, McLeod has survived the turbulence to become a playwright, author (The Convictions of Leonard McKinley), decorated slam poet, and founding member of the lauded indiefolk unit the Fugitives. He notes that to meet someone with Pure O is to have no idea of the turmoil within. “It’s a dual life of inner angst and repetition, while on the outside you Brain is at the Telus Studio Theatre at try and maintain a flatline, which the Chan Centre for the Performing is to say you’re trying to maintain Arts on Thursday (November 17).
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s frightening as a forest conflagration yet as coolly technological as the Large Hadron Collider, Andrea Young’s EXO/ENDO seems perfectly pitched for this month of horror. It’s a multimedia descent into hell with a transcendental resolution—and, as the composer-performer explains on the morning after the U.S. presidential election, it’s also a tribute to inner strength, something we’re all going to have to call on during the months ahead. “It is pretty dark,” the Armstrong, B.C.–born Young says, in a telephone interview from her Montreal home. “You know, it has a very overriding, dominant expression of a kind of extreme rawness, I would say—in my own performance, especially. But for me it is all about the individual’s voice kind of clawing its way out—that internal fire we have, being really wild people inside, and having to really trust yourself enough to get out of your own dark abyss.” Visually, the piece makes use of newt’s-eye footage of a forest fire screened on large, hanging transparent panels. Sonically, it calls on singers Young, Sharon Shohi Kim, and Micaela Tobin, turntablist Michael Day, bassist Braden Diotte, and cellist Marina Hasselberg. And technologically it deploys a digital “instrument” Young invented herself—a computer program that takes the voice and turns it into a wild, octave-jumping invocation. “You don’t really hear a human voice; you just hear noises controlled by voice,” Young says. “So it’s a little bit disturbing and a little bit demonic, but then it comes out of that. “Natural forces—really dangerous things, like fire—were a good metaphor for me,” she continues. “As much as they are scary and powerful and threatening, at the end of that, things do have a chance to really grow.” EXO/ENDO is just one of four provocative pieces on Young’s upcoming Vancouver New Music program— which should be a good illustration of how academic composition is now being influenced by everything from death metal to extreme sports to pop
In EXO/ENDO, Andrea Young explores voice and tech. Vadim Daniel photo.
radicals such as Tanya Tagaq. Perhaps ironically, the most challenging work on the bill is the one piece where the human voice will be heard in amplified but unprocessed form. Erin Gee’s Echo Grey isn’t dependent on the use of digital software, but it does ask the singers to push various unconventional techniques, including singing while inhaling, to the point where they’re in danger of hyperventilation. Nonetheless, Young admits that she hasn’t been practising Gee’s piece, for fear of running into some unexpected complications. “I don’t think I should pass out alone here in my apartment,” she says, laughing. “But this piece opens up to some very intimate female sounds that, very easily, you could associate with all kinds of activities. It embraces them fully and takes them to the point of failure.” Also on the bill are KAREN, DANIEL, PATRICK, CLARA, TABBY & DIN, local electronic musician John Mutter’s reality-TV-style role-playing game, and German composer Ulrich Krieger’s Schwarze Sonne, inspired by black metal and Old Norse myths. “This is underground music,” Young says. “These are not compositions that are going to win prizes, because it’s pretty wild stuff—and I think it’s amazing that we live in a place where we can actually do this.” Vancouver New Music presents Andrea Young: EXO/ENDO at the Orpheum Annex on Saturday (November 19).
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arning: at the Borealis String Quartet’s Out of Darkness Into Light concert this weekend, you will likely hear sounds you haven’t heard coming from a string quartet before. You may feel disoriented, as those sounds will be coming at you from unfamiliar directions. And you’ll certainly find yourself in the dark— but don’t worry, because the musicians will be right there with you. The hook to Sunday’s matinee performance is that Borealis will be playing Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas’s String Quartet No. 3, “In iij. Noct”, a work designed to be played in an enclosed and unlit space. “That piece really stretches the parameters, quite dramatically,” says violinist Yuel Yawney, in a telephone interview from his Richmond home. “Aside from the fact that we’ll be playing in the dark and we won’t have music, so we’ll be doing it from memory, we also are physically spread apart. There’s a spatial dimension: each individual member of the quartet is positioned in a different corner of the venue, and this presents, of course, many challenges. “For the audience, this is what makes it really fascinating,” he continues. “They’ll have this kind of stereo effect, because they’ll be in the middle. And there’s oftentimes a calland-response aspect to the music that
can create some really fascinating and evocative sounds.” Yawney admits that playing the Haas quartet in the dark isn’t quite as much of a challenge as tackling, say, a Ludwig van Beethoven masterpiece under similar circumstances. For one thing, there aren’t nearly as many notes. “The score is a paragraph written down describing what the music is supposed to do,” he explains. “There’s practically no notation. What’s necessary for us is basically to learn a number of different sounds and ‘areas’, if you like, that have particular instructions, and then memorize different invitation and acceptance cues. How that works is that someone might play an invitation to a particular sound-area, and if two of us accept it, then the whole ensemble will go into that particular sound area.” Yawney adds that performers and audience will experience a heightened sense of auditory awareness during the pitch-black portion of Borealis’s performance. Also on the program are Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Franz Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 76, No. 4 in B-flat Major, and a new, Inuit-throat-singinginspired work by long-time associate Farshid Samandari, vita Borealis—but these will be played in a more familiar, and well-lit, format. The Borealis String Quartet presents Out of Darkness Into Light at the Surrey Arts Centre on Sunday (November 20).
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he future arrives in Vancouver next week, but don’t expect that flying car you were promised. Peace might be an equally distant prospect, and as for the environment? Well, it’s not looking so good. The world of 2167, as envisioned by Vancouver’s Boca del Lupo theatre company and Ireland’s Performance Corporation, is more dystopia than not—a situation that won’t surprise anyone who’s been watching the headlines. But, according to Maeve McGrath, humanity will still be around in 150 years—which might or might not be good news. “We’re looking back at what climate change did—the disasters that are impending that some presidents-elect believe don’t really exist,” the Irish actor and director says, on the line from her rural County Limerick hideaway. “But they do, and they’re very clear, and they’re already happening.” McGrath, the artistic director of Sidhe Theatre + Film, is just one of several would-be futurists—including Moby Doll author Mark Leiren-Young and sustainability specialist Steve Williams—who’ve been tapped to gaze into the crystal ball for Expedition: The Symposium. They, and others, have been asked to present 10-minute “micro-performances” at the event, which will be broadcast live via the Internet—but only to those who “like” the theatre company’s Facebook page. (Expedition also includes a holographic installation, Apparition, that can be viewed for free outside 1398 Cartwright Street on Granville Island from November 23 to 26. It’s a collaboration between playwright Yvette Nolan and actor Quelemia Sparrow, and offers a First Nations perspective on the challenges that will face the world a century and a half from now.) Although McGrath seems sunny enough—in conversation we quickly learn about the beauty of the Irish countryside, and the instinctive environmentalism of her 11-year-old son—her future world is not entirely a happy place. For one thing, a series of freak storms in 2067 have devastated the Southern Hemisphere and flooded most of Europe. One hundred years later, the survivors are still dealing with the wreckage. “There were a number of things I was thinking about, and one of them was the rise of scary things like tsunamis and other natural disasters,” McGrath says. “And then I was thinking about life span, age: people are living longer, so what will happen as we live longer and longer? Without giving too much away, I was just thinking about how we cap population growth, let’s put it like that.” The solution, which she declines to reveal, was apparently inspired by hearing the controversial documentary filmmaker David Attenborough address his own concerns about the world we’re leaving our children. “He said that humans are a plague on humanity, and that climate change and sheer space were going to be our biggest problems,” she explains. “And I just felt, ‘Oh my God, that’s exactly what I’m talking about in my piece!’ So I went to my mother—because I was doing a little video to go with this, and I wanted my mother to be in it—and put the proposal to her, and said ‘It’s three pages, and I’d like you to read this.’ She put it down and said ‘You shock me! You think this is a possibility?’ And I said, ‘Mum, anything is a possibility.’ ” Truer words, it seems, were never spoken. Boca del Lupo and the Performance Corporation present Expedition: The Symposium at the Fishbowl (100–1398 Cartwright Street) at 4 p.m. next Saturday (November 26). To view online in real time, visit Boca del Lupo’s Facebook page.
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“We did not project such a resounding response, or even expect it to keep going every year,” he says. “It was very pragmatic.” Back then, Tetrault tells the Straight, the event involved just 45 artists in three buildings. Seated at the table in the Crawl’s head office at 1000 Parker Street, he’s The Eastside Culture Crawl has risen from humble beginnings joined by his partner and to become an artistic force of outreach and collaboration the event’s executive dirIt’s a visual-arts festival that has grown to ector, Esther Rausenberg, as well as sculptor Roy become one of Western Canada’s largest, but ask Mackey and ceramist Heather Dahl (of dahlhaus B Y AM ANDA S IEB ER T Richard Tetrault about the first-ever Eastside Cul- ceramics), both of whom have been participants ture Crawl, and he’ll admit that its founding mem- in the Crawl for more than 10 years. bers “didn’t always have such grand schemes”. Tetrault and Rausenberg have helped to oversee “It was a very humble beginning,” says the artist the iconic event since the very beginning. and board member, who officially dubbed the event “It started off as a very ad hoc group of people ‘the Crawl’ back in 1997. (He’s also responsible for who wanted to invite the public into their studios,” the fest’s crow symbol; see sidebar next page.) recalls Rausenberg. “It was volunteer-driven, and
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coordinated primarily by artists. Eventually, we had a volunteer coordinator, but the artists did most of the work.” As the coordinator of Paneficio Studios back in the mid-’90s, Rausenberg connected with her counterparts at the Parker Street and Glass Onion studios for the inaugural Crawl in 1997, which she estimates drew close to 1,000 people—a far cry from the 25,000-plus it brings to the ’hood these days. When the Crawl became a registered nonprofit society in 2003, it began to take on a new purpose. “We had to prove to the federal government that, one, we were a professional arts organization, and two, that our charitable cause was to promote the visual arts to the public,” Rausenberg says, explaining that the Crawl’s board of governors worked to bolster the festival’s lineup of events with outreach programming. This gave rise to Studio 101, a program that facilitates art workshops for inner-city schoolchildren. It, and other outreach programs, continue today. see page 23
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Editor’s choice CRAWL CONDENSED So, your feet are sore and you only have so many hours for Crawling. We highly recommend As the Crow Flies, a onestop—well, make that two-stop—juried exhibition and preview of work by dozens of the Crawl’s best artists over the past 20 years. Juried by Paul de Guzman, Eri Ishii, and Katsumi Kimoto, the exhibits display the work of Crawl standouts like mad assemblist Ken Gerberick, photographer Louise Francis-Smith, memory-conjuring painter Shari Pratt, and cityscape multimedia artist Lori Sokoluk. Hit the show before the Crawl to plan your route, or catch it afterwards to extend the experience. As the Crow Flies runs to November 28 at the Firehall Arts Centre and Cultch’s Historic Theatre.
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MOVING ART (At the Charles Clark Gallery in Strange Fellows Brewing) The film and projection series shows a cool range of art-based, contemporary silent films.
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#EASTVAN VENDING MACHINE (On the 2nd floor of 1000 Parker Street) The SnackArt Collective’s limited-edition artworks and photos come in consumable pieces.
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TRUE CONFESSIONS (At the Hamilton Bank Building) Kate MacDonald’s installation strings the public’s anonymous secrets on multicoloured message pads—activated by the warmth of your hands.
4
GLASS-BLOWING DEMOS (At the Mergatroid Building) Find the fire: the hottest show at the Crawl is always crowded for a reason.
5
STAINED-GLASS DEMOS (At MakerLabs) Corinne Leroux shows how to build stained-glass sun catchers at her studio space.
Getting there
BY BIKE OR BY SHUTTLE Handily, the Eastside Culture Crawl sits on the edge of the city’s bike routes. And the Bicycle Valet staff will be waiting to securely park your ride for free, while you take in the studio action, from 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (November 19 and 20). You can find them at Crawl central, at the corner of Parker and George streets, close to the Mergatroid Building and 1000 Parker Street Studios. Meanwhile, the car-sharing gang at Modo is offering free shuttles to help you get to the far reaches of the Crawl zone: they go to Portside Studios (every hour between noon and 7 p.m.) and Railtown Studios (every half-hour between 12:30 and 6:30 p.m.), leaving from the corner of Parker Street and Clark Drive, right by Espressotec Sales & Service. -
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Left to right, at the Culture Crawl: Rachael Ashe’s Flowerburst installation; Heather Konschuh’s Shoreline Water Bowl (Heather Spriggs photo); and Tangible Interaction’s Marshmallow Clouds installation.
Toasting 20 artists for 20 years of the Crawl a story can’t help but play itself out in sculptures look like, check out these while dazzling us as intricate connature-inspired curiosities, resem- temporary art. your head. he Eastside Culture Crawl is bling delicate pods and sea creatures. E.R.GOTT (544 Main Street) Multicelebrating its 20th anniver- HEATHER KONSCHUH GLASS (Mergatroid Building, 975 Vernon JEFF WILSON (Portside Studios, 150 layered: using everything from colsary this year with a blast. In honour of the occasion, Drive) Blown-glass objects so bright- McLean Drive) Realist paintings bring lage to stencilling, the artist cleverly we’re choosing 20 artists for 20 years. ly hued you’ll have to wear shades. to life people and places you’ll recog- juxtaposes retro pop-culture imagery We’re talking about artists you may Wavy bowls that make you picture nize, from park wardens to neon signs. with text, illustration, and painterly backgrounds. not have heard of, materials being ocean crests and speckled shells, SAUCE DESIGNS used in ways you might not have im- ethereal blown and fired pendants, AWESOME and artfully rendered birds and trees. (MakerLabs, 780 East Cordova Street) LISA OCHOWYCZ (Mergatroid agined, and just cool stuff. Stained glass meets pop culture in Building) Washy, drippy acrylics and A CAGEY BEE (1000 Parker Street) ANDREA HOOGE (Arts Factory, 281 Corinne Leroux’s designs: think tacos, inks capture weather and landscape Kris G. Brownlee’s art and jewellery Industrial Avenue) Cats, cats, cats. bacon strips, Popsicles, blue monsters, in a moody swirl on Ochowycz’s messtrike a balance between the vintage Of course, the illustrator-painter has and geometric bears, all lovingly craft- merizing panels and paper. storybook, the fairy tale, and the other subject matter too, but you’ll ed out of solder and glass. SUSAN PATTERSON (William low-brow hip with her wide-eyed love her quirky, lovingly drawn felines, girls, animals, and robots. whether they’re dreaming of dough- KAYO BENSON (Sunrise Studios, Clark Studios) Patterson finds fasnuts, barfing up rainbows, preparing 1180 East Hastings Street) Fawns, cinating, colourful patterns in cityTANGIBLE INTERACTION (1000 for a picnic, or dancing across a T-shirt. wolves, penguins, and cougars come to and countryscapes, using found Parker Street) A must-see experience life in functional ceramics that bring wood to carve, draw, and layer her at the Crawl, with giant, interactive JON SHAW (Mergatroid Building) together clay and illustration, the con- stripes, circles, and squares. light installations and entire rooms The unsung alleyways of East Van temporary and the cottage-nostalgic. CAROL MCQUAID ART (288 East that throb and come glowingly alive. come alive with Shaw’s eclectic inkTREVOR VAN DEN EIJNDEN Georgia Street) Granville Island, the and-acrylics on wood. TANNIS HOPKINS (1000 Parker (Acme Studios, 112 East Hastings Waldorf, Robson Square, and the East Street) The minute you see one of ZED PAYNE (William Clark Stu- Street) The complex repeating pat- Van Cross: they’re all likely to pop up her canvases—depicting a lone man dios, 1310 William Street) If you terns of his mixed-media artworks in these woodcut and relief prints that standing in a field of snowmen, say— aren’t sure what wet- or needle-felted somehow speak to the cosmos capture the character of this city. > B Y JA NET SMITH
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Crawling
from page 21
Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, the festival will host more than 500 artists this weekend in over 80 different buildings and studios. The visual-arts, craft, and design festival will feature a mix of both internationally renowned and emerging painters, sculptors, photographers, potters, weavers, printmakers, glassblowers, furniture makers, and designers, who, from Thursday to Sunday (November 17 to 20), will open up their studios to Vancouver’s vast community of art enthusiasts. BUT FOR THE ARTISTS involved, the Crawl has become much more than an opportunity to showcase their work. Dahl says that, above all, it’s provided her with an annual benchmark that spurs momentum for the rest of the year. “In the early years, it really helped me define what kind of work I was making, and people’s responses to it,” she says. “I learned what sold well, what people were excited about, what my price range was, and what kind of work I wanted to produce—it’s been a good check-in with people in Vancouver.” What’s exciting to both first-time and returning attendees, in Dahl’s mind, is the opportunity not just to see artists’ work, but to meet them and discover the inner workings of a studio. “In a gallery setting, you’re pretty removed from the ‘making of’, and I think that’s what’s interesting for the public: to see where it’s made, to get a glimpse into your life as an artist, and to find out what you’re thinking about when you’re making the work.” Mackey, a participant since 1999, says he likes to think of the Crawl as “Face-to-Facebook”. “Facebook is the casual kind of connection where you have 500 friends and maybe talk to one or two of them regularly, but at the Culture Crawl, it’s real-world, real-time, so it really is a huge bonus,” he says. “At a gallery, you don’t get to know the depth behind the work, and the Crawl really does reveal that. Especially if you’re visiting a live/work studio, because then you see the inside of the artist’s fridge,” says Mackey, laughing. Thanks to the Crawl, all three artists say they’ve been able to establish valuable connections with
Sculptor Roy Mackey’s Naked Man (left) and a serene vase by Heather Dahl (Joey Armstrong photo).
interior designers, curators, gallerists, writers, and movie-industry professionals. Rausenberg says she knows of many participants who’ve received exposure in art-and-design publications after being discovered at the Crawl. Tetrault says the Crawl also acts as a springboard for creative projects. “There’s a lot of crosspollination going on between artists. Creatively, it broadens the spectrum of possibility,” he says.
TO CELEBRATE 20 YEARS of the Crawl,
Rausenberg and team have organized an exciting lineup of commemorative events. This year’s juried exhibit, As the Crow Flies, showcases the work of 70 Crawl artists (with the display continuing at the Cultch and the Firehall Arts Centre). For her, these exhibits are a strong indication of how the Crawl enables artists to access grant
THE STORY OF THE CROW n the same way that the Eastside Culture Crawl has evolved 2 Iover the last 20 years, so has the symbol that represents it. According to Richard Tetrault, artist and founding member of the annual visual-arts festival, the crow wasn’t the first to be considered. “We went for another critter, a grasshopper, at the beginning. I think we even talked about a cockroach,” he says. “We were just kind of being irreverent. It went with the whole ‘marginalized East Siders’ thing.” The reason for deciding on the crow had more to do with the idea of strength in numbers.“There’s such a migration of crows that come into this area,” says glassblower and long-time Crawl participant Heather Dahl. “If you have a studio on the East Side, you’ve definitely seen them.” Sculptor Roy Mackey created the original steel cutout that eventually became the symbol we see now. On the heels of the 10-year anniversary in 2006, the crow was adopted as the Crawl’s official symbol. (A Tetrault woodcut rendition is at right.) -
> BY AMANDA SIEBERT
PETER VAN DER GRIENT (The Arc,
1701 Powell Street) A salvaged-cello wall chest and an industrial-look studio light are just some of the pieces in this steampunk-y collection.
SHARI PRATT (1000 Parker Street)
Pratt uses lush, textural brushstrokes to reimagine vintage photographs, viscerally evoking the dreamy-foggy space of memory.
CARLA TAK (1000 Parker Street) The
veteran painter conjures swirls, circles, uneven stripes, and amoebalike orbs. Some of her large works are like gorgeous black-and-white static, others like vividly coloured microorganisms.
AIMÉE HENNY BROWN (Arts Fac-
tory, 281 Industrial Avenue) Fascinating hand-cut collages juxtapose past and present, the architectural and the natural.
RACHAEL ASHE (Propellor, 1120 East
Georgia Street) Abstract paper-cut designs, bouquets, and installations will blow your mind with their intricacy. -
funding, which often requires them to have experience participating in such exhibits. Rausenberg says this year’s lineup of events also allows for art that might not have a commercial end. “Things like the SnackArt vending machine and the True Confessions installation are engaging people, attracting them, and telling them about the art-making process,” Rausenberg says. The vending machine created by the SnackArt Collective dispenses “snack-size” digital photographs printed in limited editions, while True Confessions, an installation by Kate MacDonald, takes anonymous secrets written on coloured message pads and strings them up in the Hamilton Bank Building. “We really want to encourage those activities to happen, because a lot of artists, no matter what they do, will always want to do some piece of work that simply inspires them or challenges them, that perhaps doesn’t have a for-sale sticker on it.” After two decades, the event has evolved from a volunteer-driven art show into a weekend-long hive of creative exchange. For Tetrault, defining the Crawl in a word isn’t difficult. “For me, it’s all about inclusivity,” he says. (Though applicants must meet criteria, anyone with a working studio within the East Van area bound by Columbia Street, East 1st Avenue, Victoria Drive, and the waterfront can take part.) “It’s a connecting point between the maker and the public.” “It started off as exposure, but it’s evolved to a shared experience,” adds Mackey. “Before, I was anxious about getting my work out there for people to see, but now I find myself asking, ‘How can I make this an experience for them?’ I want it to be memorable.” For Rausenberg, the combination of location and inspiration is what makes the Crawl so remarkable. “It’s a truly unique opportunity for the public to connect and engage with artists, and for artists to engage with the public,” she says. “The confluence you find in this geographic area that is so unique to Canada has brought this amazing creative output that you just don’t see anywhere else.” The Eastside Culture Crawl takes place in buildings throughout East Van from Thursday to Sunday (November 17 to 20). For more info, visit www.culturecrawl.ca/.
NOVEMBER 17 – 24 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 23
EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL
november 17–20 2016
thank
thurs & fri 5–10pm | sat & sun 11am–6pm culturecrawl.ca
we
our sponsors platinum
713 E Hastings St. MakerLabs, 780 E. Cordova St. Union Gospel , 361 Heatley Ave. Railtown Studios, 321 Railway St.
B6
union st
Propellor, 1120 E. Georgia St. Pink Monkey Studios, 830 Union St.
B10
Pillow Fight Factory, 829 Union St. Paneficio Studios, 800 Keefer St.
The Archive, 841 E. Hastings St. 884 E. Georgia St.
C14 D1 D2 ◊ D3 ○ ◊ D4 ○ D5 ○ D6 ◊ D7 ○ D8 D9 E1 ○ E2 ○ ◊ E3 ○ E4 E5 ○ ◊ E6 E7 E8 ○ E9 ○ E10 ○ E11 ○ E12 ○ ◊ E13 E14 ◊ E15 E16 E17 ○ ◊ E18 ○ E19 E20 ◊ E21
715 Vernon Dr.
national ave
1269 Clark Dr. Arts Factory, 281 Industrial Ave.
251 Southern St. 240 Northern St. 260 Northern St. Studio Stone, 1760 Vernon Dr. 908 Odlum St.
natio
nal a ve
term
inal
1840 East Hastings St. William Clark, 1310 William St. Van. Community Lab, 1907 Triumph St. Portside, 150 McLean Dr. Hamilton Bank, 1895 Powell St.
D7 D8
D6 D2 i
ndu
The ARC, 1701 Powell St. 936 Clark Dr.
e
ave
E16 3
clark dr
E13
D5
E2
E1
parker st
napier st
E8
5
E5
glen dr
grant st
E19 al a ve
charles st
kitchener st
E21 E14
napier st william st
grant st
1659 Venables St. 1599 Venables St. 1610 Clark Dr. 1356 Frances St. 1544 Grant St.
24 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT NOVEMBER 17 – 24 / 2016
◊ WHEELCHAIR ACCESS ○ WASHROOMS
bronze
graveley st
e 2nd ave
government
1784 E. Hastings St. 1616 Franklin St.
silver
e 1st ave
D9 D4
308-1530 Graveley St.
victoria dr
parker st
modo shuttle
D1
stri
Create. Play. Decorate.
venables st
william st
s ave
salsbury dr
rogers st
1
D3
evan
STONEHOUSE TEAM REAL ESTATE ADVISORS
e georgia st
E18 bike valet
E6
adanac st
C9
begg s
512 Victoria Dr.
station st
1345 Grant St.
west ern s
1635 Powell St.
t
Slice of Life, 1636 Venables St. Goldmoss Satellite, 1338 Franklin St.
in av
C5 C14
ches
Mergatroid, 975 Vernon Dr.
quebec st
Old Foundry, 1790 Vernon Dr.
station st
1000 Parker St.
malk
son s
C13
B7
atlantic st t
833 Union St.
Raycam Community Centre, 920 E. Hastings St.
prior st
station st
Glass Onion Studios, 1103 Union St.
B18
C12 C7 C10 4 C6 C1
e georgia st
gold
salsbury dr
Sunrise Studios, 1180 E. Hastings St.
B9
e georgia st
keefer st
commercial dr
Yew Woodshop, 1295 Frances St.
C8
E20
E7
frances st
cotton dr
B16
B19
keefer st
C2
e pender st
woodland dr
1133 Keefer St.
2
woodland dr
819 & 819 1/2 Prior St.
B13
B5
C3
mclean dr
710 Keefer St.
keefer st
e pender st
mclean dr
Espace Bilodo, 658 Union St.
B3
E15
mclean dr
Acme Studios, 112 E. Hastings St.
B1
B2
mp
C4
C13
E9
E17 franklin st
odlum dr
288 E. Georgia St.
e pender st
B11
t hs
u tri
pandora st
clark dr
450 E. Hastings St.
E10
e hastings st
vernon dr
Raven’s Eye Studio, 458 E. Hastings St.
B15 B16 B17 B18 ○ ◊ B19 C1 C2 C3 ○ ◊ C4 ○ ◊ C5 ○ ◊ C6 C7 C8 ○ C9 ○ C10 C11 C12 ○ ◊
B12
B4
C11
vernon dr
B14 ○
e hastings st
B15 B14
B8
main st
620 Keefer St.
A2
A1
raymur ave
B17
dunlevy ave
604 E Hastings St.
gore ave
716 E. Hastings St.
A3
glen dr
446 Union St.
E12
E4
E3
s st
729 Gore Ave.
e cordova st
rt st a w e t s
powell st
st
Elemental Designs, 717 Hawks Ave. 426 Main St.
princess ave
Jackson Five, 740 Jackson Ave.
A7
thom
Quattro Pose, 733 Keefer St.
powell st
jackson ave
403 Princess Ave.
A9 A5
A6
737 E. Pender St.
campbell ave
544 Main St.
l st
raymur ave
alexander st
25 Gore Ave.
E11
nia
hawks ave
120 Princess Ave.
ten
hawks ave
343 Railway St.
cen
railway st
heatley ave
Hungry Thumbs Studio, 233 Main St.
heatley ave
o erfr e wat A4/8 A10
Octopus Studios, 393 Powell St.
700 E. Pender St.
frank malinka
nt rd
Razstone Studios, 603 Powell St.
columbia st
A1 ○ A2 ○ ◊ A3 A4 A5 A6 ○ A7 A8 A9 ○ ◊ A10 B1 ○ B2 ○ ◊ B3 B4 ◊ B5 ○ ◊ B6 B7 B8 ○ B9 ○ ◊ B10 B11 ○ ◊ B12 B13
a visual arts, design crafts festival
sponsor locations 1 Fujiya 912 Clark Dr 2 Wilder Snail 799 Keefer St 3 Uprising Breads 1697 Venables St
4 Union Food Market 810 Union St 5 Strange Fellows Brewing 1345 Clark Dr Modo Cars
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Join our mailing list at culturecrawl.ca W I N gift certificate prizes from DeSerres when you sign up!
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NOVEMBER 17 – 24 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 25
EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL
november 17–20 2016
thank
thurs & fri 5–10pm | sat & sun 11am–6pm culturecrawl.ca
we
our sponsors platinum
713 E Hastings St. MakerLabs, 780 E. Cordova St. Union Gospel , 361 Heatley Ave. Railtown Studios, 321 Railway St.
B6
union st
Propellor, 1120 E. Georgia St. Pink Monkey Studios, 830 Union St.
B10
Pillow Fight Factory, 829 Union St. Paneficio Studios, 800 Keefer St.
The Archive, 841 E. Hastings St. 884 E. Georgia St.
C14 D1 D2 ◊ D3 ○ ◊ D4 ○ D5 ○ D6 ◊ D7 ○ D8 D9 E1 ○ E2 ○ ◊ E3 ○ E4 E5 ○ ◊ E6 E7 E8 ○ E9 ○ E10 ○ E11 ○ E12 ○ ◊ E13 E14 ◊ E15 E16 E17 ○ ◊ E18 ○ E19 E20 ◊ E21
715 Vernon Dr.
national ave
1269 Clark Dr. Arts Factory, 281 Industrial Ave.
251 Southern St. 240 Northern St. 260 Northern St. Studio Stone, 1760 Vernon Dr. 908 Odlum St.
natio
nal a ve
term
inal
1840 East Hastings St. William Clark, 1310 William St. Van. Community Lab, 1907 Triumph St. Portside, 150 McLean Dr. Hamilton Bank, 1895 Powell St.
D7 D8
D6 D2 i
ndu
The ARC, 1701 Powell St. 936 Clark Dr.
e
ave
E16 3
clark dr
E13
D5
E2
E1
parker st
napier st
E8
5
E5
glen dr
grant st
E19 al a ve
charles st
kitchener st
E21 E14
napier st william st
grant st
1659 Venables St. 1599 Venables St. 1610 Clark Dr. 1356 Frances St. 1544 Grant St.
24 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT NOVEMBER 17 – 24 / 2016
◊ WHEELCHAIR ACCESS ○ WASHROOMS
bronze
graveley st
e 2nd ave
government
1784 E. Hastings St. 1616 Franklin St.
silver
e 1st ave
D9 D4
308-1530 Graveley St.
victoria dr
parker st
modo shuttle
D1
stri
Create. Play. Decorate.
venables st
william st
s ave
salsbury dr
rogers st
1
D3
evan
STONEHOUSE TEAM REAL ESTATE ADVISORS
e georgia st
E18 bike valet
E6
adanac st
C9
begg s
512 Victoria Dr.
station st
1345 Grant St.
west ern s
1635 Powell St.
t
Slice of Life, 1636 Venables St. Goldmoss Satellite, 1338 Franklin St.
in av
C5 C14
ches
Mergatroid, 975 Vernon Dr.
quebec st
Old Foundry, 1790 Vernon Dr.
station st
1000 Parker St.
malk
son s
C13
B7
atlantic st t
833 Union St.
Raycam Community Centre, 920 E. Hastings St.
prior st
station st
Glass Onion Studios, 1103 Union St.
B18
C12 C7 C10 4 C6 C1
e georgia st
gold
salsbury dr
Sunrise Studios, 1180 E. Hastings St.
B9
e georgia st
keefer st
commercial dr
Yew Woodshop, 1295 Frances St.
C8
E20
E7
frances st
cotton dr
B16
B19
keefer st
C2
e pender st
woodland dr
1133 Keefer St.
2
woodland dr
819 & 819 1/2 Prior St.
B13
B5
C3
mclean dr
710 Keefer St.
keefer st
e pender st
mclean dr
Espace Bilodo, 658 Union St.
B3
E15
mclean dr
Acme Studios, 112 E. Hastings St.
B1
B2
mp
C4
C13
E9
E17 franklin st
odlum dr
288 E. Georgia St.
e pender st
B11
t hs
u tri
pandora st
clark dr
450 E. Hastings St.
E10
e hastings st
vernon dr
Raven’s Eye Studio, 458 E. Hastings St.
B15 B16 B17 B18 ○ ◊ B19 C1 C2 C3 ○ ◊ C4 ○ ◊ C5 ○ ◊ C6 C7 C8 ○ C9 ○ C10 C11 C12 ○ ◊
B12
B4
C11
vernon dr
B14 ○
e hastings st
B15 B14
B8
main st
620 Keefer St.
A2
A1
raymur ave
B17
dunlevy ave
604 E Hastings St.
gore ave
716 E. Hastings St.
A3
glen dr
446 Union St.
E12
E4
E3
s st
729 Gore Ave.
e cordova st
rt st a w e t s
powell st
st
Elemental Designs, 717 Hawks Ave. 426 Main St.
princess ave
Jackson Five, 740 Jackson Ave.
A7
thom
Quattro Pose, 733 Keefer St.
powell st
jackson ave
403 Princess Ave.
A9 A5
A6
737 E. Pender St.
campbell ave
544 Main St.
l st
raymur ave
alexander st
25 Gore Ave.
E11
nia
hawks ave
120 Princess Ave.
ten
hawks ave
343 Railway St.
cen
railway st
heatley ave
Hungry Thumbs Studio, 233 Main St.
heatley ave
o erfr e wat A4/8 A10
Octopus Studios, 393 Powell St.
700 E. Pender St.
frank malinka
nt rd
Razstone Studios, 603 Powell St.
columbia st
A1 ○ A2 ○ ◊ A3 A4 A5 A6 ○ A7 A8 A9 ○ ◊ A10 B1 ○ B2 ○ ◊ B3 B4 ◊ B5 ○ ◊ B6 B7 B8 ○ B9 ○ ◊ B10 B11 ○ ◊ B12 B13
a visual arts, design crafts festival
sponsor locations 1 Fujiya 912 Clark Dr 2 Wilder Snail 799 Keefer St 3 Uprising Breads 1697 Venables St
4 Union Food Market 810 Union St 5 Strange Fellows Brewing 1345 Clark Dr Modo Cars
keep up with the
crawl
Join our mailing list at culturecrawl.ca W I N gift certificate prizes from DeSerres when you sign up!
@culturecrawl
eastside culturecrawl
@culturecrawl
NOVEMBER 17 – 24 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 25
EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL
november 17–20 2016
thank
thurs & fri 5–10pm | sat & sun 11am–6pm culturecrawl.ca
we
our sponsors platinum
713 E Hastings St. MakerLabs, 780 E. Cordova St. Union Gospel , 361 Heatley Ave. Railtown Studios, 321 Railway St.
B6
union st
Propellor, 1120 E. Georgia St. Pink Monkey Studios, 830 Union St.
B10
Pillow Fight Factory, 829 Union St. Paneficio Studios, 800 Keefer St.
The Archive, 841 E. Hastings St. 884 E. Georgia St.
C14 D1 D2 ◊ D3 ○ ◊ D4 ○ D5 ○ D6 ◊ D7 ○ D8 D9 E1 ○ E2 ○ ◊ E3 ○ E4 E5 ○ ◊ E6 E7 E8 ○ E9 ○ E10 ○ E11 ○ E12 ○ ◊ E13 E14 ◊ E15 E16 E17 ○ ◊ E18 ○ E19 E20 ◊ E21
715 Vernon Dr.
national ave
1269 Clark Dr. Arts Factory, 281 Industrial Ave.
251 Southern St. 240 Northern St. 260 Northern St. Studio Stone, 1760 Vernon Dr. 908 Odlum St.
natio
nal a ve
term
inal
1840 East Hastings St. William Clark, 1310 William St. Van. Community Lab, 1907 Triumph St. Portside, 150 McLean Dr. Hamilton Bank, 1895 Powell St.
D7 D8
D6 D2 i
ndu
The ARC, 1701 Powell St. 936 Clark Dr.
e
ave
E16 3
clark dr
E13
D5
E2
E1
parker st
napier st
E8
5
E5
glen dr
grant st
E19 al a ve
charles st
kitchener st
E21 E14
napier st william st
grant st
1659 Venables St. 1599 Venables St. 1610 Clark Dr. 1356 Frances St. 1544 Grant St.
24 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT NOVEMBER 17 – 24 / 2016
◊ WHEELCHAIR ACCESS ○ WASHROOMS
bronze
graveley st
e 2nd ave
government
1784 E. Hastings St. 1616 Franklin St.
silver
e 1st ave
D9 D4
308-1530 Graveley St.
victoria dr
parker st
modo shuttle
D1
stri
Create. Play. Decorate.
venables st
william st
s ave
salsbury dr
rogers st
1
D3
evan
STONEHOUSE TEAM REAL ESTATE ADVISORS
e georgia st
E18 bike valet
E6
adanac st
C9
begg s
512 Victoria Dr.
station st
1345 Grant St.
west ern s
1635 Powell St.
t
Slice of Life, 1636 Venables St. Goldmoss Satellite, 1338 Franklin St.
in av
C5 C14
ches
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Nature Studies Conte drawings on Paper
by Sibéal Foyle 716 E a s t H a s t i n g s St . (E n t r a n ce t h r o u g h r e a r a l l e y)
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Award-winning furniture designer, and Eastside Culture Crawl favourite Judson Beaumont is thrilled to be launching his brand-new children’s book with local publisher McKellar & Martin! ISBN 978-0-9916-7825-9
You’re invited to the book launch! When November 19, 2016 (11:30 am–5:30 pm) Where Judson Beaumont Studio, Parker Studios, 260–1000 Parker Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 2H2 See you soon! w:w:www.mckellarmartin.com e:info@mckellarmartin.com info@mckellarmartin.com www.mckellarmartin.com e: 604.240.7606 orders@mckellarmartin.com t:t:604.240.7606 e: sldesign@telus.net
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CAROL MCQUAID Studio Gallery in China Town Centre City Scapes in Relief Print & Watercolour 185 - 288 East Georgia Street (Entrance on Gore Street) carolmcquaidart.com 604 - 440 - 4247
EASTSIDE CULTURE CRAWL
Fiveleft ups drama for a celebratory Crawl The local leather-design studio marks a decade in business by getting experimental with its goods
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> BY L UC Y LA U
incoln Heller was ripping through a Vancouver alleyway when he saw it: the body of a deteriorated leather bag resting against the side of a dumpster. The stitching had long rotted away, though the well-worn skin, now patinaed and cracked, remained, in his word, “beautiful”. The Washington-state-born photography grad took the bag home with him and proceeded to attach it to two other street-side finds: a weathered belt and a 1960s Canadian Automotive Association badge. He dubbed it “the junk bag” and began carrying it regularly. The compliments—from both men and women—were plentiful. “Somehow, that bag was really an attention grabber and kind of a signifier that that was something I had a gift for,” Heller tells the Straight by phone. “Then I kept rolling with it.” Ten years later, the self-described tinkerer and junk collector has carved himself a cozy niche in the leather-accessories game, though given his work as the founder and sole craftsperson behind Fiveleft Leather Goods—a Vancouverbased studio known for its sculptural and unconventionally textured vegetable-tanned-leather purses— “rolling with it” may not be the best term for the practice. “When you go to look at luxury bags, they nip and they tuck and they roll and they smooth everything out,” he explains. “My bags are very detailed, but in a more raw kind of form. It’s a programming term: what you see is what you get.…There’s a very kind of honest and open approach to the construction.” Indeed, it’s this straightforward approach that guides the making of Fiveleft’s eccentric catalogue of goods. From standup clutches and boxy travel totes to catchall bowls and fold-over wallets, each piece is crafted from as few sheets of
leather as possible, with no hidden linings, reinforcements, or glue. A warm palette of reds, oranges, and browns radiates throughout. The real magic, however, appears in the texture of the fabric, which Heller marks with repurposed objects he finds abandoned across the city. Most recently, he used a broken umbrella—picked up on Granville Street—to create spiderlike impressions on the surface of a rigid red bag, though he’s also employed bolts, scrap leather, and bike parts. It’s a move that harks back to Heller’s days at an Alaskan logging camp, where he transformed beat-up boots into pouches and tool belts. “I don’t necessarily sit down and say, ‘Oh, well, this could be turned into this,’ ” he says of his upcycling. “I think it’s an aesthetic or a mindset that’s just inherent in me that does this all the time.” Now that the designer has had a decade to perfect his craft, he’s hoping to introduce a new vocabulary into his work in time for his eighth appearance at the Eastside Culture Crawl. Visitors to the Fiveleft space at Parker Street Studios can expect more delicate accessories as well as purses made using what Heller calls a “plywood” technique, where belts are shredded into thin, spaghettilike pieces and stacked atop one another to form a layered, 3-D effect. A range of costumes and props that appear in a special 10-yearanniversary film about Fiveleft, including an exquisite puck-shaped hat adorned with strings of leather that swing gracefully from the brim, will also be on display. And though Heller will be embracing the theatrical and experimental both at the Crawl and over the next year, you can bet that he won’t be swaying away from the vessel that first established his brand. “That little place that holds all our things is what fascinates me,” he says. “Not shoes, not belts, not clothing.” -
Artist Lincoln Heller crafted theatrical costumery and props for Fiveleft’s 10th anniversary. Alfonso Arnold photo.
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> BY LUCY LAU
The Eastside Culture Crawl may be a hotbed of green or silhouettes of reindeer, bicycles, and butterflies. It’s a one-of-a-kind collection that strikes an the painters, sculptors, and photographers are also organic balance between antique and modern. textile designers, milliners, and jewellery makers who, together, demonstrate that art has a place in TERMÉ FELT ACCESSORIES (Arts Factory, 281 Inall areas of the home. (Yes, including your closet.) dustrial Avenue) Felt is most often associated with Below, four fashion-centric creators to watch for at holiday chachkas or kindergarten-level projects, but painter, sculptor, and textile designer Laleh Javaheri the 20th annual fete and where to find them. transforms the seemingly juvenile fabric into wearROBBIE VERGARA SCREENPRINTING (1000 able art. Her wraps, infinity scarves, and belts incorParker Street) Like many of us, local artist Robbie porate Japanese silk, wool, and cotton, showcasing Vergara loves a good pun. However, he prefers to let felt in dramatic patterns that belong as much on your the joke play out in his intricate, hand-pulled prints. walls as in your wardrobe. We love the handmade An owl’s face sits atop shining armour on the Knight spiral-pattern scarf, shaded in red and orange, which Owl pullover, for example, and a pair of trousered evokes images of crisp autumn leaves. legs keeps a large ship afloat on the Sea Legs T. All articles are made ethically in North America without CAPPELLINO CUSTOM HATS (1000 Parker Street) any toxins, so you can feel good about upping your Drawing from her experiences in sculpture, design, and stitching—as well as a fondly remembered twographic game. year period spent in Italy—milliner Elaine GarKILN CERAMIC JEWELRY (700 East Pender Street) rett crafts hats for all tastes. Her hand-blocked and Vancouverite Laurie Has is a Jill-of-all-trades: the li- hand-sewn pieces include felt newsboy caps, fedoras, censed massage therapist dabbles in writing and per- and wide-brimmed straw hats fit for a Palm Springs forming and also has a knack for jewellery-making. getaway. Check out her more artful pieces, too, such Her medium of choice? Porcelain clay, which she as foliage- and feather-topped berets and textured carefully moulds into geometric pendants and ear- cloche hats that give Kate Middleton’s stylists a run rings, many of them adorned with flashes of gold and for their money. -
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Scrap lumber gets new life at local startup A team of East Vancouver builders are forwarding sustainably sourced, reclaimed-wood furnishings as green choices at home > B Y LUC Y LAU
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cope your favourite coffee shop or microbrewery or your hipster bud’s Main Street loft, and you’ll find that, when it comes to interiors, reclaimed wood has long been a thing. But the organic material doesn’t just look great: it’s also an ingenious way to prevent perfectly good lumber from rotting away in landfills. That’s the thinking behind the Wood Shop, a Vancouver-based startup that sees reclaimed timber as more of a lifestyle than a trend. Born out of Groundswell Grassroots Economic Alternatives’ social-venture program in 2013, the company was founded by Chris Nichols, a former construction worker who was stunned by the amount of wood being trashed in the industry. “That really sort of spurred him to start thinking about how much wood waste is really being produced in Vancouver, what’s being done with it, and how he could start a conversation about wood waste and what he could make out of it,” Jessica Valentine, co-owner of and builder at the Wood Shop, tells the Straight by phone. Fastforward three years and Nichols’s humble quest has evolved into a full-fledged business with four employees and a loyal clientele of interior designers, businesspeople, and homeowners. Working with a mattress-recycling company, the Strathcona Business Improvement Association, and local arborists and construction workers, the Wood Shop upcycles discarded maple, fir, cedar, and more into furnishings and décor items that range from the warm and rustic to the polished and high-end.
The Wood Shop transforms recovered mattress skeletons, pallets, and discarded timber into polished headboards, dining tables, roomy trunks, and much more. James Frystack photo.
Stripped-down mattress frames are broken down and fashioned into storage-equipped bed frames, bookshelves, and growler carriers; cast-off pallets are repurposed as stylish record crates and roomy dining tables; and centuryold timber from residential tear-downs and renovations is resurrected as benches, trunks,
and serving platters. Many of the items may be customized and the Wood Shop also produces commissioned pieces for those seeking specialty fittings without compromising their commitment to green. “People should be able to have a choice about how they purchase, what they purchase, and
who they purchase from,” explains Valentine. “And in particular, what those materials are that are going into their homes.” But the Wood Shop’s dedication to sustainability doesn’t stop at its source material. The startup also makes a point of using ecofriendly wood glue, joinery, and finishes such as a beeswax-based coating created by Hives for Humanity, an East Vancouver–based nonprofit that fosters community through the art of apiculture. Any wood that can’t be used is composted or recycled responsibly and ethically. Having recently moved from a modest “hobbyist” studio in the Downtown Eastside to a 1,400-square-foot production space in False Creek Flats, the Wood Shop is “amping it up” for its second appearance at the Eastside Culture Crawl with a selection of headboards, credenzas, and adjustable-height tabletops, plus smaller items like desktop planter boxes and charcuterie boards. Elsewhere, Filament Design and Hobo Woodworks will also be showcasing reclaimedwood shelving units, briefcases, and stools, while Chop Value—a startup that upcycles disposable bamboo chopsticks into coasters, tabletops, and wall tiles—will be making its Culture Crawl debut on Industrial Avenue. When stopping by the Wood Shop, be sure to ask about the business’s DIY classes, which offer attendees the chance to build their own reclaimed-wood objects at a fraction of the typical price. “The fact that we’re building from some really basic materials, and making some really beautiful pieces that people interact with and engage with every day in their homes, makes me quite proud,” says Valentine. -
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With Indian Residential School Brand Porridge, Judy Chartrand alludes to the lumpy stuff fed to indigenous kids torn from their homes. Kenji Nagai photo.
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Ceramics carry strong sociopolitical messages VISUAL AR TS JUDY CHARTRAND: WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD At the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art until February 19
Judy Chartrand’s ceramic art
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beauty—its lustrous glazes, brightly coloured imagery, and appealing motifs. Then it grips us with its message, demanding that we recognize the brutal history of colonialism and the racist attitudes and policies white society still directs toward indigenous peoples. Her hand-built pots, bowls, and ceramic sculptures—many mimicking pop-culture forms such as soup cans, spray cans, and cereal boxes—are vehicles for explicit social and political messages. Her early work also pays homage to ancient ceramic traditions, such as that of the Mimbres people of New Mexico. Chartrand, who is Cree, grew up in what she calls “the skids”, the area we now know as Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The fourth-youngest of 13 children, she was raised in poverty by a single mother who struggled to feed her family by working as a chambermaid. While guiding the Straight through her compelling exhibition at the Bill Reid Gallery, Chartrand said that she was brought up with the expectation that she, too, would become a chambermaid. “As an Indian, you just assumed your life was going to be shit and if you worked, that was going to be shit as well,” she writes in the exhibition catalogue. “That is,” she adds, “if you survived long enough.” Even when she broke the mould and was able to pursue her true calling as an artist, Chartrand continued to encounter racist attitudes and stereotypes, subtly when she was an undergraduate at art school in Vancouver, much more blatantly when she lived in Regina while earning her master’s degree in fine arts. Clay was the conduit through which she was able to communicate her respect for her indigenous predecessors, protest the conditions under which First Nations people struggle, and mourn her losses. The large bowl titled In memory of those no longer with us echoes Chartrand’s involvement with the annual Women’s Memorial March in the DTES. Its interior is inscribed with Mimbres-style figures
and the names of women (including the artist’s sisters and cousins) lost to violence and substance abuse; its exterior is stamped with words and images related to their deaths. As it tells aspects of her own history and that of her mother, Chartrand’s art-making is an assertion of her creative and psychological strength. Her ceramic macaroni boxes, for instance, allude to the kinds of cheap foods poor people must frequently eat. Indian Residential School Brand Porridge makes reference to the lumpy stuff that indigenous kids, torn from their families and cultures, were fed every day. By extension, this work demands that we consider the abuses and more brutally dehumanizing aspects of the residential-school system. Humour animates both the macaroni and porridge works, although the underlying message is darkly serious. Also evident in her pop-inflected art, such as her sculptures of Campbell’s Soup cans labelled in Cree and English, is her culture-specific riff on Andy Warhol’s strategy of imagerepetition to invoke the mass production and mass marketing of consumer goods. Chartrand’s art, such as her 2000–2002 lard tins, also reflects her interest in 19th- and 20thcentury labels that employ stereotypical images of aboriginal people. The seemingly ironic title of the exhibition, What a Wonderful World, is also the title of a troubling work Chartrand produced in 2014. A large bowl decorated with a sweet floral motif in lilac and orange, it is marked in black at its centre with the distinctly unsweet words “GO BACK TO YOUR OWN COUNTRY!” The “wonderful world” reference is to the Louis Armstrong song, released in 1967 as an attempt to peacefully counter antiwar protests and race riots in the United States at the time. The “go back” quote refers to a recent, racially charged confrontation Chartrand witnessed between two motorists in Vancouver. It also more generally points up racist attitudes that whites all over North America demonstrate toward recent immigrants and people of colour. If anyone in Canada could legitimately lob the go-back-to-yourown-country epithet, it would be First Nations people to settler culture—to complacent whites, like so many of us, with an entirely unearned sense of entitlement.
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UNKNOWN BARD Quick: whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the plot of William Shakespeareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Troilus and Cressida? A fast Google visit will remind you that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s based on Homerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s epic poem about the Trojan War, the lliad â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and that it involves infidelity, existential despair, and death, always timely subjects to explore. Lest that seem too gloomy for darkest November, the script comes with a side order of comedyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and a new crop of aspiring stars will no doubt bring fresh energy to Studio 58â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of this overlooked gem, at Langara College from Thursday (November 17) through December 4. To Nov 26, Firehall Arts Centre (280 E. Cordova). Tix from $23, info www.firehall artscentre.ca/onstage/miss-shakespeare/.
DANCE 2THIS WEEK SHATTERED PIECES An evening of live and filmed contemporary dance that explores self-awareness, self-exploration, breaking free from expectations, and shattering oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perspective. Nov 19, 20, 8-9:30 pm, Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie). Tix $20, info www.collabart creations.weebly.com/.
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BAKERSFIELD MIST The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Stephen Sachsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story about a down-on-her-luck woman who invites an art dealer to authenticate a longlost painting by the renowned Jackson Pollock. To Nov 20, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage (2750 Granville). Tix from $29, info www.artsclub.com/.
ANDREA YOUNG: EXO/ENDO Andrea Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ensemble EXO/ENDO focuses on the release and absorption of energy through sound. Program includes works by Ulrich Krieger, Erin Gee, and John Mutter. Nov 19, 8 pm, Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour). Tix $15-35, info www.new music.org/events/exoendo-nov19/.
JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT Align Entertainment presents the hit musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. To Nov 19, 8 pm, Michael J. Fox Theatre (7373 MacPherson Ave., Burnaby). Tix $39/27/25, info www.alignentertainment.ca/.
UBC MUSIC: CORIGLIANO FESTIVAL CONCERT UBC Symphony Orchestra, UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble, University Singers, and violinist David Gillham perform the music of Oscar- and Pulitzer Prizeâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;winning composer John Corigliano. Nov 19, 8 pm, Chan Shun Concert Hall (6265 Crescent Rd., Chan Centre at UBC). Tix $25/15, info www.music.ubc.ca/ubcevents/corigliano-festival/.
MISS SHAKESPEARE The Firehall Arts Centre, in association with Musical TheatreWorks, presents the play about the creative journey of the Bardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter.
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It was like the plaintive moan of an ox carried BY ADR IAN M ACK
far across the Anatolian steppes. “2016 has proven to be a difficult year for Turkey,” stated the media release for this year’s Vancouver Turkish Film Festival. “In staying true to our mission of showcasing the best of burgeoning Turkish cinema, we ask again for your support in spreading the love. We need it now more than ever.” As the man who wrote those words would later tell the Straight, “We are a country of coups. “It’s embedded into our psyche,” says Hakan Burcuoğlu, director of the VTFF, referring to the military revolt that seized the nation in July—the fourth in just under 60 years—which was swiftly followed by a state of emergency that’s still being enforced as you read. “I don’t think this state of emergency has come as a shock to any artist or filmmaker in today’s Turkey. Turkey has a long-standing history of military intervention and coalition governments with a very fragile economy, and I think filmmakers will keep going at it and digging at it, because nothing and nobody can make sense of what’s going on. What was this attempted coup? What’s going to
Turkish fest plays through It’s been a difficult year in the homeland, but the lineup at the Vancouver Turkish Film Festival is stronger than ever happen? What’s going on with the economy? Are we going into Europe? Are we leaning more to the east? We’re an emotional people and this affects everything. It affects restaurants, it affects nightlife, it affects the national soccer team—they’ve been playing like shit! I wonder why?” In spite of all this (especially the soccer), the everanimated Burcuoğlu has good reason to remain circumspect about the country’s political situation. For the first time in its three-year history, and despite the chaos back home, the VTFF has received direct funding from the Turkish ministry of culture. It’s a mark of the country’s indefatigable, if conflicted, nature that the very same ministry routinely throws its financial heft and influence behind homegrown film, producing in turn an internationally renowned cinema that’s hardly timid when it comes to nipping at the hand that feeds. Burcuoğlu sees it as a form of soft international diplomacy. “When people witness your culture through art, especially cinema, it creates a very positive message about your country as a whole. And I think they’re smart enough to realize it, and I’m glad they’re smart enough to keep funding it,” he says. The payoff for us, he adds: “Filmmakers who have real shit to say about what’s going on are being supported. And that’s what matters.” Wrapping this up in a bow, Burcuoğlu thinks he’s looking at the best lineup the festival has ever had. Among its jewels is Ember, the latest from director Zeki Demirkubuz. “Nuri Bilge Ceylan is probably the most internationally renowned Turkish filmmaker,” says Burcuoğlu, “but people fucking revere Demirkubuz. He’s the shit in Turkey.” Then there’s Album, the film that took the France 4 Visionary Award at this year’s Cannes Critics’ Week. The deadpan tale of two civil servants who adopt a child for the sake of appearance, Album is compared by Burcuoğlu to the films of the Romanian new wave. “It’s very critical of bureaucracy and cronyism in government institutions, and kind of looks at this in a very direct and cynical way,” he says. And yes—it also comes with the
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2 Spirit child THE RECORDING OF WILLIE THRASHER Vancouver
filmmaker Adam O. Thomas produced this short film for SFU about Inuk singer-songwriter and residential-school survivor Willie Thrasher after the reissue last year of his 1981 album, Spirit Child. The man himself is joined on-camera by singing partner Linda Saddleback and musicologist Kevin Howes—whose astonishing 2014 compilation Native North America Vol. 1 gave Thrasher’s music a major second wind. Catch the premiere, complete with live performance, at SFU’s Goldcorp Centre for the Arts on Friday (November 18). -
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ministry’s stamp of approval, as if somebody in government is still taking care to protect the truer, more evocative end of the historical record. “If you catalogued all of these movies that I’ve been bringing here for the last
three years, they’re a mirror onto ourselves,” Burcuoğlu ref lects. “They show the current predicament, the current status, the current ambiance that we’re in. This is how the f lavour was in Turkey that year.” The Vancouver Turkish Film Festival takes place at the Vancity Theatre from November 25 to 27.
A Turkey dinner, a rotten feline, and a masterpiece or two
The auteur strikes back in four great entries at the Vancouver Turkish Film Festival:
THE TURKISH WAY (Spain) Spain is the current gastronomic centre of the universe, but where do we look for the next food revolution? “Joan Roca thinks that it’s going to be Turkey,” says VTFF director Hakan Burcuoğlu. “There are a lot of dead Romans in the soil, so it makes for great wine, great produce, and great crops.” That’s the premise, more or less, of The Turkish Way, which follows the Michelin three-star winner Roca and his two brothers on a tour of Turkish cuisine, a perfumed clash of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim food cultures depicted here as transcendentally inspiring to the visiting Spaniards. Prepare to see doner kebabs and baklava in an entirely new light. A fantastic opener to the festival, and not just because Turkish culinary enfant terrible Maksut Aşkar will be in attendance. Friday, November 25 (reception at 7 p.m.; film at 8:30 p.m.)
BLUE BICYCLE (Turkey) Captivating nonactor Selim Kaya plays 12-year-old Ali, recently made father-
less after a suspicious work accident and living in dire poverty with his mother. The quietly resourceful preteen is saving up for the blue bicycle of the title, but when his school prefect (and secret crush) is mysteriously deposed by the headmaster, Ali redirects his considerable smarts into an anonymous campaign of resistance against an imperious authority that he can’t understand. In this triple-crown winner at the International Antalya Film Festival, realism and enchantment combine to deliver a political allegory that could have been too obvious in less sensitive hands. Saturday, November 26 (8:30 p.m.)
BAD CAT (Turkey) Imagine Fritz the Cat with a seriously violent streak, and you’ll arrive at something like Shero, the feline anti-Shero of this devoutly profane animated spectacle, first seen taking a dump on a human toilet while he flicks his butts into the nearby litter tray. Things start to go wrong when his pimp friend urges Shero to hump a local Siamese, a caper that ends with one dead housecat and a vengeful human zombie. (It’s complicated.) The unexpected arrival of an illegitimate son and a distinct lack of booze don’t help. If your pussy does the dog, this wild blast of bad taste should have your tail standing at attention. Saturday, November 26 (10:20 p.m.) COLD OF KALANDAR (Turkey) Turkey’s Oscar entry for 2017 marks the emergence of an astonishing talent in director Mustafa Kara. Remarkably, cinematographers Cevahir Sahin and Kürsat Üresin are hardly any more experienced. This team spent an entire year on a remote hillside of the barely hospitable Black Sea region, capturing the tale of a family who eke out an existence in a sloping stone hut while father Mehmet searches for gold or tries to stave off creditors with a big win at the bullfight. Director Kara leavens the stereotypical Turkish art-house feel for ponderous pacing (much as we love that) with just a touch of the surreal. Nonactor Haydar Sisman, who will be in attendance for the screening, keeps us riveted beyond the film’s epic compositions as the sad dreamer, Mehmet. Sunday, November 27 (6 p.m.)
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LANDFILL HARMONIC Described by Ken
Eisner as “marvellous” when it screened at VIFF in 2015, this documentary about a garbage picker in Paraguay who manages to fashion an orchestra out of trash begins an extended run at the Vancity Theatre on Friday (November 18).
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The struggle between mining interests and the indigenous population in B.C.’s Far North is the subject of Vancouver documentarian Nettie Wild’s latest and highly praised offering, getting an encore screening at the Rio Theatre on Sunday (November 20).
VANCOUVER—A PROGRESSIVE CITY The construction of the Lions Gate Bridge
is among the sights in this collection of films from the City of Vancouver archives, double-billed with another program called Exponential Change at the Vancity Theatre on Sunday (November 20).
DGC MASTER CLASS SERIES Michael Lehmann’s roller-coaster career began on a major high in 1988 with Heathers. That kind of success proved hard to follow, but Lehmann has been busy directing most of your favourite TV shows—like True Blood and Californication—ever since. The man should have a story or two as the fourth and final guest at the DGC Master Class series at the Vancity Theatre on Saturday (November 19). NOVEMBER 17 – 24 / 2016 THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT 33
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An offering from the U.K. is missing from the bunch, but with 23 features from 23 nations left to choose from, moviegoers are still going to feel a tad overwhelmed by the size of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s European Union Film Festival. We can help with these surefire picks. The EUFF begins at the Cinematheque on Friday (November 18) and runs until the end of the month.
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EVA NOVĂ (Slovakia) The one unequivocal must-see at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s EUFF, Eva NovĂĄ gives 74-year-old EmĂlia VĂĄĹĄĂĄryovĂĄ (playing 10 years her junior, remarkably) the role of a lifetime. And what a lifetime. Dubbed the first lady of Slovak film and theatre at home, VĂĄĹĄĂĄryovĂĄ draws on subterranean and often unbearably painful resources as the title character, an alcoholic soap-opera star long since faded from her â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s heyday. Writer-director Marko Ĺ kop frequently frames Evaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worn features and threadbare dignity alongside images of the actor in her strikingly beautiful youth, and the film is unremitting in its gaze and the cruelties it visits upon such a flawed and seemingly hopeless character, observing every microscopic flicker of despair that crosses Evaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face as sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forced through one humiliation after anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;leaving rehab for a third time; confronting the son who despises her; taking a job in a supermarket where sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frostily recognized by former costars. It gets even worse, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll leave all that for viewers to discover, while adding that even inside a narrative that could have been dreamed up by John Waters trying to trashify Douglas Sirkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;minus any of the laughs, of courseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;redemption for Eva still isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t out of the question. VĂĄĹĄĂĄryovĂĄâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fearless, compassionate, and deeply honest performance, complete with ironic asides about young directors who â&#x20AC;&#x153;donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want emotionâ&#x20AC;?, is where it begins. Friday, November 18 (6:30 p.m.)
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GELO (Portugal)
This Portuguese effort is meant for those who like their nuts-and-bolts sci-fi salted with a little mindfuckery. In Gelo, the lives of a film student in Lisbon and a lab-raised woman hatched from some frozen prehistoric human DNA turn out to be not exactly parallel, but porous. Time, identity, and the nature of storytelling get a lively metaphysical workout in the crisply shot collaboration betweenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this is surely relevantâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the father-son team of Luis and Gonçalo GalvĂŁo Teles. Saturday, November 19 (8:30 p.m.) THE CROSSWIND (Estonia) Powerfully elegant and subtle, In the Crosswind approaches the horrors of the Soviet holocaustâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Stalinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ethnic cleansing of native Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians in 1941â&#x20AC;&#x201D;by merely hinting at its contours. Filmmaker Martti Helde traces the story through the diary entries of a single woman separated from her husband in a Siberian labour camp, and depicted in a series of startling blackand-white tableaux vivants through which his camera implacably floats. Some, like the frozen moment of death by firing squad, achieve a kind
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of hideous beauty that allows just enough of the darkness to register, as if a fuller apprehension of its tragedy is too much to bear. Spellbinding. Thursday, November 24 (6:30 p.m.) KAISAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S
ENCHANTED
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(Finland) Another tale of displacement, focused on a single, remarkable woman. Compelled by a feverish vision brought on by TB, Swiss writer Robert Crottet travelled to remote Arctic Finland in 1935 in order to find the indigenous Skolt Sami communityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tribe of Laplandâ&#x20AC;?, as he put it. His subsequent 40-year-plus friendship with Kaisa, an indefatigable, mystically imbued matriarch, is captured here with extraordinary archival footage and recordings, assembled by Kaisaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own great-granddaughter Katja Gauriloff. World War II would begin a devastating process of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Finlandizationâ&#x20AC;? for the Sami. The impish Kaisaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s animistic world-viewâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; she saw â&#x20AC;&#x153;divinity in everythingâ&#x20AC;?, and routinely communicated with the spiritsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;would endure. We could probably use some of that today. Sunday, November 27 (6 p.m.) > ADRIAN MACK
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The first lady of Slovak film and theatre, Emilia Vasaryova, gets the role of a lifetime in Eva Nova, the opening shot of the European Union Film Festival.
Filmmaker Anna Billerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bag is painstakingly re-create the aesthetics of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s sexploitation film, complete with deliberately tone-deaf performances and stilted dialogue, and then use it as a back door for some winking feminist satire. The Love Witch is her most accomplished creation yet, a 35mm Technicolor triumph that works as the gonzo flip side to Robert Eggersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s super-earnest The Witch. With or without the yucks, each views its subject as a unique and historically real preserve of feminine power.
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With her catlike eyes exaggerated by mauve shadow, Samantha Robinson is already supernaturally beautiful as Elaine, a practising witch who ditches San Francisco for one of those coastal hamlets with the winding cliffside highways you already know from countless Nixon-era TV Movies of the Weekâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;another element in Billerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s persuasively coherent grand unified theory of American movie kitsch. There, Samantha pursues her obsession with love magic, drumming up a string of victims, including her landladyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband, and then (hilariously) reducing them to whimpering, lovesick babies, or worse. (Always be suspicious of any â&#x20AC;&#x153;witch bottleâ&#x20AC;? containing urine and a
used tampon, kids!) Billerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smartest move here is to pathologize the culture, not the putative villain. Elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pursuit of an impossible male ideal forms a destructive habit with no way out, and the irony couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be any sharper. Like Viva, her last film, The Love Witch is a tad too longâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;those Doris Wishman and Roberta Findlay movies that used to play in Times Square barely broke the 60-minute markâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; but any longueur in narrative at least gives us the chance to luxuriate in Billerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hyper-detailed production, daubed in saturated blocks of red, purple, pink, and yellow, larded with nudity and gloriously silly rituals, and then dotted with anachronistic see page 37
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“AN ENCHANTING TALE OF GIRL POWER.” -Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
“THE MOST EMPOWERING MOVIE YOU’LL SEE THIS YEAR! REMARKABLE! A JOY TO WATCH!” -Rachel Simon, BUSTLE.COM
BELGIUM
SLOVAKIA
Eva Nová
Celebrated actress Emília Vášáryová is the titular Eva, a discredited actress recently released from rehab and desperate to make amends with her son.
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The mean streets of Brussels are the setting for this timely, fast-paced drama about media ethics, immigration, and ethnic minorities. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 – 8:35 PM
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 – 6:30 PM
FRANCE
Irreplaceable
PORTUGAL
THE
Gelo
(Médecin de campagne) French star François Cluzet plays an “irreplaceable” country doctor in this gentle, well-judged drama.
Pan’s Labyrinth’s Ivana Baquero stars in this future fantasy. Born from the DNA of a frozen ice-age corpse she is subject to experiments on immortality.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2016 - 6:30PM
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19 – 8:30 PM
ITALY
DENMARK
Silent Heart
The Move of the Penguin
Danish veteran Bille August’s latest is a moving domestic drama that addresses theissue of assisted suicide.
The directorial debut of award-winning Italian screen actor Claudio Amendola is an affable, underdog sports dramedy.
(Stille Hjerte)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 – 6:00 PM
(La mossa del pinguino)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20 – 8:00 PM
LATVIA
CROATIA
Exiled
One Shot
This high-profile, fiction-feature debut from Dāvis Sīmanis Jr. is based on historical events that befell Courland in WWI.
A single mother accidentally shoots and kills a stranger in this psychological crime drama.
(Pelnu sanatorija)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – 6:30 PM
(Hitac)
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – 8:30 PM
CYPRUS
SWEDEN
Family Member
Underdog
Humour and pathos mark this comedy-drama rooted in a family’s wily scheme to make ends meet.
The feature debut of novelist-turned-director Ronnie Sandahl is a doomed amour story set against Sweden’s economic crisis.
(ȂȑȜȠȢ ȅȚțȠȖİȞİȓĮȢ)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 – 6:30 PM
(Svenskjävel)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23 – 8:30 PM
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out to a creature feature, especially one with alien heptapods that look this threatening. But it’s welcome all computers and cellphones. It might the same. > JANET SMITH not make Sight & Sound’s year-end list, but viewed on its own terms, The AQUARIUS Love Witch is some sort of classic.
Love Witch
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> ADRIAN MACK
ARRIVAL Starring Amy Adams. Rated PG
It’s impossible not to read Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival in terms of the unsettling political events that unfolded last week. His haunting, brainy new sci-fi thriller highlights how words can be tools of both peace and war, how we shouldn’t jump to judge outsiders, and how aggressive military tactics can backfire. That the accomplished Canadian director can do this amid an outlandish story about alien encounters speaks to his unusual gifts—an ability to build dark atmosphere that also lifted his Sicario and Prisoners so far above genre formula. Just soak in the strange, creepy beauty of the extended scene where linguistics prof Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) has her first close encounter. Alien ships that look like gigantic watermelon seeds hover ominously above Earth. Banks and scientist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) are recruited by the military to try to unlock the visitors’ weird language of rumbles and clicks, to find out why they’re here. Banks and Donnelly’s surreal approach to the site has the visual impact of Solaris or 2001: A Space Odyssey. The military helicopter floats slowly across a dusk-lit landscape toward the towering ovoid, and then the crew, in orange hazard suits, ascends an eerie steep tunnel—upside down due to gravity shifts. Add Jóhann Jóhannsson’s score, a chirping bird the team has brought to monitor the air, and the fluttering intonations of the aliens, and you have a scene that’s quietly more nerve-racking than Ellen Ripley’s doomed arrival on LV-426. And yet Villeneuve strives for much, much more than tensionfilled alien encounters here. On one level, he’s not afraid to go intellectual on the linguistics front, fetishizing every curl of the aliens’ bizarre, inkblot writing and having Banks throw around terms like logograms. The complex idea is that our language can reflect and even determine the way we view our world. On another level, he’s also posing hard questions about the planet’s leaders ever being able to pull together in the face of a crisis. But the most moving level is the one that examines mortality, time, and our meaning on Earth, in a more subtle way than either Interstellar or The Tree of Life. Banks is haunted by an unthinkable loss, and the film cleverly circles back on it with a philosophical puzzle that puts a more human spin on the word arrival than you might ever expect from the title. It’s Adams, in fact, who helps Villeneuve pull all this off, giving Banks an understated, ethereal kind of knowing, but also a deep sadness that makes her a very different kind of sci-fi heroine—one with the patience, acuity, and empathy to translate the aliens’ painterly script. Adams creates such subtle magic that you can overlook the parts of the plot that clunk: the clichéd military grunts who nag her to hurry with her translation, or the more mindbending explanations near the end. Character development, big philosophical questions, and political relevance: not what you expect heading
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Starring Sonia Braga. In Portuguese, with English subtitles. Rating unavailable
Known as widely for Kiss of
2 the Spider Woman and the new
Luke Cage series as for homegrown ’70s hits like Gabriela and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, one of Brazil’s most enduring stars gets the role of a lifetime in Aquarius. This ambitious effort sums up many of the changes Sonia Braga has witnessed, in her career and her country. Braga plays Clara, a retired music journalist (at least, that’s implied) now settled into a comfortable solitude in a lovely apartment facing a choice stretch of Recife, in Brazil’s northeastern province of Bahia. A 60-something widow who has survived cancer with her vital beauty largely intact, she gets daily pleasure from books, LPs (from Mozart to Queen), swimming, and frequent-enough visits with her grown children and small grandkids. This late-life idyll is interrupted when a local developer (Humberto Carrão), newly returned from “training” in the U.S., starts buying up all the flats in her elegant building. Redolent of the Age of Aquarius, after which it and the movie are named, the building and its sole tenant gradually get worn down by the increasingly dirty tricks played by this ever-smiling hustler. But Clara is resourceful, and she spends as much time going out with her girlfriends and even meeting randy suitors as fighting city hall (and its corrupt offshoots). Young writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho covered some of this territory—involving Brazil’s tangled history of racism, class conflict, and real estate—in his brilliant Neighbouring Sounds, which leavened its overstuffed two hours with an air of poetic mystery. At almost 20 minutes longer, Aquarius is even more laden with meaning, and with techniques. Some sections resemble a 1970s paranoid thriller, complete with telescopic zooms, while others reveal intimate family dynamics. The movie is frequently mesmerizing, but there’s a sense that Mendonça (the “Filho” translates best as “Junior”) wants to include everything that transpired in his parents’ lives, and this results in too many dangling plot threads. Fortunately, his heroine isn’t entirely stuck in the past, and the movie keeps moving forward. > KEN EISNER
THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN Starring Hailee Steinfeld. Rated 14A
Hailee Steinfeld, of True Grit
2 and Pitch Perfect 2, wrangles the
most from her part as Nadine, a spectacularly self-absorbed adolescent, in The Edge of Seventeen. The movie shares its title with a gay coming-ofage tale from 1998, and like so many teen dramedies of the past three decades, it plays like a wised-up version of those seminal John Hughes flicks, with less racism and a lot more swearing. Here, according to flashbacks we get near the start, our heroine has a kind of built-in resistance to the highschool dynamics that dominate most such stories. Apparently, her inherently ornery personality was always see next page
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The Edge of Seventeen
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“SOME LOVE STORIES ARE SO
POWERFUL ,
THEY LEAVE YOU SHAKING WITH A MIX OF JOY, ANGER AND GRIEF. ‘LOVING’...DOES JUST THAT.” Jen Ortiz, MARIE CLAIRE
“A LANDMARK FILM.” THE NEW YORKER
“‘LOVING’ IS
DEEPLY ROMANTIC
AND IRRESISTIBLY HUMAN.” Ben Dickinson, ELLE
Joel Edgerton Ruth Negga as Richard Loving
as Mildred Loving
Written and Directed by
Jeff Nichols
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THE TURKISH WAY | Opening Film
(Spanish & Turkish with English subtitles)
in horror flicks go. She hit a home run in Gore Verbinski’s 2002 remake of
> STEVE NEWTON
Completed in four years under difficult conditions, Cold of Kalandar is a cinematic fete of epic proportions—the poignant story of a family’s survival in the face of adversity. Lead actor Haydar Şişman will be in attendance to talk about his tour de force performance in Turkey’s 2017 Oscar Contender. *Special guest in attendance
Michelin Stars, El Celler de Can Roca]
embarks on a culinary journey to uncover the hidden gems of Turkish gastronomy in this captivating documentary. This Gala screening event doubles as a celebration of Turkish and Mediterranean cuisine, with food, drink, and a goodie bag for all attendees. *Special guests in attendance
BAD CAT
EMBER
DIR | Mehmet Kurtuluş & Ayşe Ünal [86 min] (Turkish with English subtitles)
DIR | Zeki Demirkubuz [115 min]
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Naomi Watts has won some and
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(Turkish with English subtitles)
Spanish Chef Joan Roca [Three
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Starring Naomi Watts. Rated 14A
SUNDAY - November 27 SHOWTIME - 6:00 pm DIR | Mustafa Kara [134 min]
DIR | Luis González [86 min]
Join us in this late night screening of BAD CAT and witness how an evening of debauchery turns into chaos for Shero and his loyal sidekicks [a seagull and a rat!].
SHUT IN
COLD OF KALANDAR
FRIDAY - November 25 Gala - 7:00 pm / Film - 8:30 pm
He’s a hot-headed, cynical, sex-crazed alley cat on a mission!
> KEN EISNER
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at odds with slightly older brother Darian (played in the present by Everybody Wants Some!! lead Blake Jenner), born to win at everything he does. With her doting dad out of the picture, Nadine has never really bonded with a mom (Kyra Sedgwick) too hung up on her golden boy to notice her. The dark-eyed girl’s antisocial nature has only allowed for one friend, the sweetnatured Krista (The Bronze’s Haley Lu Richardson), but that singular relationship is tested when Krista gravitates towards—well, guess who? Nadine’s other confidant is her gruff-humoured history teacher (Woody Harrelson), who takes her tortured antics with a bucket of salt. Their push-pull scenes provide Edge with its only real whatchacallit. Despite plenty of sex talk and Juno-like back chatter, writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig is content to pull off a pleasantly offbeat suburban comedy (shot in Vancouver, passing for the pre-Trump U.S.), in which relatively unidimensional characters have all the perks of upper-middle-class living—swimming pools, cars, violence-free and ethnically monotone parties—without showing signs of struggle or personal ambition. We spend a sprawling, mostly agreeable, and very plainly shot 100 minutes with Nadine, but we never learn anything about her interests or ambitions outside of the two boys—one nice, the other nasty—she fancies. Her bedroom wall decorations are strictly Generic Teenage Girl, and while she brags that she only likes “old music and old movies”, these are never indulged. This absence feels less like unresolved quirks for Nadine and more like laziness on the part of the filmmakers.
the Japanese spooker The Ring, but didn’t fare so well amid Daniel Craig and the ghostly goings-on in 2011’s Dream House. (We won’t count 1996’s Children of the Corn: The Gathering, since it went straight to video, and we haven’t seen it anyway, having steered clear of COTC sequels ever since 1993’s execrable Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice.) With Shut In, the Oscar-nominated actress (for 2003’s 21 Grams and 2012’s The Impossible) can’t connect in any real way with her role as Mary Portman, a deeply troubled widow, child psychologist, and stepmom. Mind you, she doesn’t get much help from first-time screenwriter Christina Hodson, who—apart from one big plot twist—keeps things totally predictable. (Gee, I wonder if that creepy dude forcing himself onto that woman will get kneed in the nuts?) The movie opens with Watts saying a tearful goodbye to her stepson Stephen (Charlie Heaton, of Netflix’s Stranger Things) before the pissed-off teen is driven away to a school for problem kids. But when a horrific accident en route leaves her husband dead and Stephen paralyzed from the neck down and unresponsive, the guilt-ridden Mary is forced to care for him in their remote Maine home while running her psychologist’s practice next door. She suffers terrible nightmares and daydreams— including one where she tries drowning Stephen in the bathtub—before things get really hairy with the mysterious disappearance of her deaf patient Tom (10-year-old, Vancouverborn Jacob Tremblay, who was so amazing in last year’s Room). Oliver Platt is typical Oliver Platt as know-it-all therapist Dr. Wilson, who tries to help Mary cope with her worsening emotional and mental state, but there’s not all that much he can do over Skype. His online presence does coincide with the introduction of the film’s big twist, though, which momentarily perks up the previously staid story line, before a storm of scarymovie clichés buries it good and deep.
SATURDAY - November 26 SHOWTIME - 6:10 pm (Turkish with English subtitles)
Legendary Turkish auteur Zeki Demirkubuz mystifies in this slow-burning psychological drama probing themes of guilt, shame and hypocrisy. An audience favourite at the 2016 TIFF, come and witness EMBER's Vancouver debut!
KEDI
SATURDAY - November 26 SHOWTIME - 12:00 pm [ Rated G ] DIR | Ceyda Torun [79 min] (Turkish with English subtitles)
Love cats? Animal lover? Longing for the nostalgic neighbourhoods of Istanbul? Come and experience the unique reciprocity between Istanbul's infamous cat populations and humans in KEDI—the biggest documentary hit at this year’s VIFF!
MUSIC
Heart of Oak,
B Y ALL AN M A C IN N IS
Anciients’ 2013 full-length debut, was a varied, artful affair, with ethereal acoustic passages and an obvious breadth of influences. Call it thinking man’s metal, maybe with a smidgen more emphasis on “thinking” than “metal”, more likely to appeal to fans of Opeth— or even King Crimson—than the drink-16-beersand-mosh-till-you-puke contingent. That’s fine by us, mind you. It’s an impressive, ambitious album that does Vancouver metal proud. But it’s no less welcome that Voice of the Void kicks out the jams a bit more. The new LP—which, like Heart of Oak, was produced by Jesse Gander, and is being distributed by European label Season of Mist—is a more direct, riff-heavy affair, focusing on the shimmering, building interplay between singer, songwriter, and guitarist Kenny Cook and fellow axeman and co-founder Chris Dyck. Cook, talking to the Straight from his home in Mission, where he’s looking after his young son Charlie, agrees that it’s a more straightforward, more “metal” offering. “Voice of the Void is just heavier, in all aspects,” he says. “But it wasn’t a conscious choice for that to happen, it’s more what comes at the time and what I feel when I’m writing.” In fact, the writing of the album was informed by a fairly difficult stretch in Cook’s life, he explains. “My wife Heather had a kid between these two albums, and a few days after my son was born, she had some major heart complications, relating
Banging heads, splitting skulls
When they’re not making heavy-metal music, the burly men of Anciients use their bare hands to dig tunnels through mountains. Shimon Karmel photo.
sort of a view from the outside of things that would be awesome to see change, but probably won’t.” But like all Anciients Vancouver’s Anciients sound heavier than ever on songs, “Buried in Sand” Voice of the Void, which takes listeners on a journey doesn’t just hit one note. to her pregnancy. So I spent probably a month At almost 11 minutes long—not an atypical with her in intensive care in St. Paul’s Hospital in length for an Anciients song—it takes the listener Vancouver, and all that was going down right as I on a journey, developing and changing, layering was starting to compose and put stuff together. So many influences into a surprisingly unified whole. it put everything on hold, and when I came back, That is precisely what Cook is aiming for, he I guess I had a lot of issues to get out of myself tells the Straight: “You can kinda hear certain from that time. That’s just sort of how it came bands putting a ‘death metal part’ and then a out—heavier and more aggressive.” ‘super emo part’, and it just sounds like a part with His wife’s sickness “hit home” for all the mem- a part, but with Anciients, I want there to be some bers of the band, too, because it happens that Cook flow within the music, to make things intertwine is married to Dyck’s sister. He got to know her when with themselves. That’s the biggest challenge, he and his Anciients bandmate played in their Turbonegro-esque previous project SprëadEagle. Anciients singer-songwriter(Both Heather and Charlie are “doing great now”, guitarist Kenny Cook sounds he assures Straight readers). off on the things that enquiring The personal crisis doesn’t really enter the minds want to know. lyrics—at least, not directly. “I didn’t really write through my own eyes, so to speak,” Cook says. On his time in Black Wizard: “I think the aspects we wrote about on the album “I was with them after their first guitar player, are more problems we’re having with mankind.” Johnny de Courcy, left, and we recorded one record For example: “Buried in Sand”, the second together, Young Wisdom [2013]. We actually did song, takes on “war over religion, people being a cross-Canada tour together, Black Wizard and suppressed by dictators, and slaves uprising and Anciients—it was sort of my last hurrah with the taking back what’s rightfully theirs”. band. I was pulling double duty for about 30 shows. The timely offering begins with some of the We were supposed to do it with Black Cobra, so harshest passages on Voice of the Void, sounding I was supposed to have a 40-minute to an hour more like technical death metal than the band’s break between sets, but they got denied at the go-to progressive approach, with rough vocals border, so it didn’t pan out that way! It was actually from Cook (who also sings the clean parts on the super fun—I’d rather be playing when I’m out on album, switching back and forth; you’d be forthe road than sitting around twiddling my thumbs.” given for thinking it was two different dudes). Eventually, the song arrives at murder, with On leaving Black Wizard: “I had a kid comCook describing the killing of a dictator whose ing, and I didn’t want to be that guy that was like, “time has come”: “I split your skull, tearing the ‘Oh, I can’t play this show, because I don’t have heart out/Holding your soul up to the sky.” time,’ y’know? I took the high road and decided It’s positively Old Testament, and just a little to make a choice. Anciients was my project, bloodthirsty, though Cook says the band is “not that political. We’re not like the old punk bands, it’s just
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SAD BUT TRUE Kirk Hammett told the L.A. Times that Guns N’ Roses is “a nostalgia act”, dismissing the band as “kind of sad”. Even sadder is that Hammett thinks people buy Metallica tickets to hear songs from St. Anger and Death Magnetic.
PUSSY RIOT Forming a punk-rock band has always been easy in North America, where you can say the most horrible things about Donald Trump and be rewarded with a juicy Epitaph Records deal. That’s not the case in Russia, as now-legendary shit disturbers Pussy Riot have discovered. After taking aim at Russian president Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church in 2012, members of the group were sentenced to jail. That, of course, instantly made Pussy Riot— which operates as a collective—more notorious and punk-rock than the Sex Pistols, Courtney Love, and slobbish Fat Mike combined. Learn something from one of the few bands that actually understand the dangers of taking a stand when members of Pussy Riot take part in a panel discussion at the Rickshaw on Monday (November 21). -
Anciients play a Voice of the Void record-release party at the Rickshaw on December 2.
so as much as I loved playing with those guys, I kinda had to stick with that.” On composing for Voice of the Void: “The last record, I sort of composed more full songs. This time I compiled a whole crapload of riffs and ideas and we spent a lot of time arrangingwise. I had all the ideas for the songs—but it’s probably one of the biggest things for this band, to make everything flow smoothly. It’s more of a full-band effort to reach the final product—I usually have the rough idea, but we kinda get the whiteboard out and turn it into a math equation.” On the spelling of the band’s name: “When we started the group, we liked the name Ancients a lot, and we seemed to have it first, but there’s also another band based out of Nashville that had the same name, and they started around the same time as us. So we just figured it might be an easy way to get around any copyright sorta crap, and we thought it looked symmetrical, in our logo, to add the extra ‘i’. But it works out better for us, because if people are searching for our name, we pop up right away!”
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making everything as seamless as possible, like it was meant to be, as opposed to two contrasting things put side by side.” Ultimately, the choices of what goes where are determined by what serves the song best. Take, for example, the decision of whether to sing a passage in a clean vocal or a death growl. “When I started this group, I wasn’t aiming for it to be a metal band,” Cook reveals. “I wanted it to be more of a rock band, so clean vocals were what I wanted, the majority of the time, but once the music for a song is written, if there’s a part that’s super heavy, and vocals will sound silly being clean over top, I just go the heavier route. It’s basically just whatever matches the music best.” -
DIRTY BIRDY Blur bassist Alex James confessed to Living magazine that he once went 10 years without washing his hair. And with that he just leapfrogged Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, and Johnny Depp for top spot on MadameNoire’s 21 Celebrities With Terrible Personal Hygiene list. BASH NEWS Tommy Stinson—famous as the bassist for the Replacements and Chinese Democracy-era Guns N’ Roses—is re-forming Bash & Pop, the band he started in 1992 during the alt-rock boom. The bad news is that it’s 2016 and no one cares about Bash & Pop or, for that matter, Tommy Stinson. ANARCHY IN THE U.K. Nigel Farage’s ex–chief adviser, Raheem Kassam, tweeted a photo of the Brexit campaigner and other members of the far-right UK Independence Party, whom he dubbed the “Brex Pistols”. No. No, no, no, no, no, no. No.
Fresh and local LITTLE CROW LITTLE CROW Clearly embracing the maxim that less is more, local alt-folk duo Little Crow keeps things spare on this four-song release. Sometimes we hear nothing but singer-songwriter Emily Seal’s voice and Kas Baker’s guitar. “Devil in Disguise” features more of a full-band sound, complete with distant-thunder drums, but that only adds to the haunting, country-noir sound. “Sweet Time” strips things back to the basic elements, but adds heaven-sent multitracked harmonies and searing cello courtesy of Alex Hauka. Put Little Crow on a playlist alongside Daughter and Kandle, then settle in to watch the November rain. -
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urban aboriginals, but on new record We Are the Halluci Nation the three First Nations producers have gone global. Not content with continuing their groundbreaking work with powwow groups Black Bear and the Chippewa Travellers, DJ NDN, 2oolman, and Bear Witness have gone north to enlist Inuit iconoclast Tanya Tagaq and Sami activist Maxida Märak, south to work with Colombian-born singer Lido Pimienta, and into the international world of rap to hook up with wordsmiths Yasiin Bey (a.k.a. Mos Def) and Saul Williams. But for the first and last words on We Are the Halluci Nation—and for its overall mission statement, too—they’ve exhumed the wisdom of the late John Trudell, the Santee Dakota activist, poet, and songwriter who died in 2015. “We are the tribe that they cannot see/We live on an industrial reservation/We are the Halluci Nation,” Trudell proclaims on the tone-setting title track; 50 minutes later, he offers a measured call for resistance against “ALie Nation”, a.k.a. the military-industrial colonizers of lands and minds. It’s reported that Trudell’s last words were “Celebrate love, celebrate life” and that advice is also key to what A Tribe Called Red have accomplished with We Are the Halluci Nation. The anger that drove earlier releases remains, but the record also provides a larger dose of joy—along with a big-tent willingness to embrace anyone ready to stand up against injustice. “Yeah, I’d say so,” Tim “2oolman” Hill agrees, on the line from his Winnipeg home studio. “The mantra for the album was pretty much Trudell’s words, for sure. I think we need to go back to creating a space for people to connect with each other to make change a reality—especially in light of what has been going on in the world, and what has been going on for quite some time. “He was a superhero of mine,” Hill adds of Trudell. “Growing up, I knew that this man stood up for our rights, and it wasn’t even until later that I realized he was an artist. I just knew of his activism, and that he was a good, kind man.…So for me to have a role model like him was very important in my upbringing—and it was just an ultimate pleasure to be able to work with a guy like that, who had an impact on me, but also on my family and people I haven’t met. His reach was very, very long. So, yeah, he’s somebody that I really admire right to this day.” Trudell’s work—whether on the page, in his songs, or on the front line of resistance—was always imbued with an openhearted sense of purpose, and the members of A Tribe Called Red have carried that into their own music-making. Despite its expansive stylistic reach and its dazzling panoply of guests, We Are the Halluci Nation is given cohesion by its underlying message of global unity—and by its makers’ ever-increasing studio prowess. “When we made this record, when we first started in on it, we wanted to go another level up,” Hill says. “We were doing things that we’d never done before: different genres, different sounds, different moods. And then we had all these great artists that we collaborated with, so we were trying to match their greatness, and just trying to be the best that we possibly could. see next page
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“I think we accomplished that with this record,” he adds, and he’ll get no argument here: We Are the Halluci Nation is a living, breathing, moving masterpiece.
> ALEXANDER VARTY
A Tribe Called Red plays the Commodore on Friday and Monday (November 18 and 21).
McMorrow gets real and embraces R&B influence Irish singer-songwriter James
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for the past six years, his music has lacked one key ingredient. Despite enjoying the international acclaim that stemmed from his vocal feature on Drake’s Views, a songwriting credit on Kygo’s dance anthem “I’m in Love”, and, most important of all, having his version of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” selected to soundtrack the most recent Game of Thrones trailer, McMorrow—by his own admission— had little confidence in himself. “Getting to where I am now has been a slow process,” he tells the Straight on the line from a tour stop in Philadelphia. “Everything in my career has been a gradual, steady gain. I’ve never had the lightning-in-a-bottle-type success, and in the beginning I definitely wasn’t known for my confidence. Recently, that’s started to change. I’ve learned to understand my place in the industry, and that I don’t have to be Mr. Show Biz in order to succeed. I can still be low-key. So the confidence is definitely on the quieter side of the scale, but it’s grown as my music has grown.” With his first two albums rooted in gentle guitar- and piano-based folk, McMorrow seemed firmly set into a particular mould—until the singer stumbled upon Drake’s right-hand man, Nineteen85, backstage at a show. The pair struck up an unlikely friendship, bonding over a deep love of hiphop and obscure guitar sounds. Nineteen85 guided McMorrow into the inner circles of Drake’s OVO crew, and offered his production services for the Irishman to develop his sound in line with his recent confidence. The result was McMorrow’s new record, We Move. Abandoning traditional singersongwriter instrumentation in favour of a palette of hip-hop sounds, the album is characterized by its slow-burning energy. With hook-laden standout “Get Low” mixing a simple guitarbased chord progression with Nineteen85’s smooth electronic bass, and “Killer Whales” combining the minimalism of the producer’s most famous hit, “Hotline Bling”, with McMorrow’s signature falsetto harmonies, the singer has added a new edge to his style. “We Move definitely has a more R&B sound,” the performer says. “I understand why some people might
call it a shift in my music, but I don’t necessarily see it like that. I see it as pushing further in a direction that I’d started to adopt on the second album. In the past, I’ve been really influenced by R&B, but I tried to wrap those influences up in different genres and perhaps was a bit too afraid just to use the sounds as they are. When I made the last two records, I was conscious of what’s come before and what people might expect from my writing. But this time, I was ready to make an album for me.” The same evolution, McMorrow says, is true for his lyrics. “My favourite songwriters are those who speak on a level that’s understandable and tangible, and I don’t think I was necessarily doing that up until now,” he says. “The thing that isn’t super apparent to people listening to records is that there is a person at the other end of an album,” McMorrow continues. “And that person is not sitting in the darkness for 18 months until a record is released. I am a living, breathing individual who struggles with things, and I want to be more open about it. I’ve always kept certain emotions back, and this album just didn’t feel like that. I know that if I’m going to grow as a person, and as a musician, I need to address the darker aspects of my life. It feels great to have finally found the confidence to do it.” > KATE WILSON
James Vincent McMorrow plays the Commodore Ballroom next Thursday (November 24).
Jazz detective Feldman unearths hidden treasures Zev Feldman has it easy. The man Stereophile magazine recently called “the Indiana Jones of jazz” has yet to encounter poisonous spiders, treacherous Nazis, or writhing snakes while in the field—and even if he did, he’d probably brush right by them in his zeal to unearth hidden treasures from dusty archives and musty basements all over Europe and North America. “I have this really blessed life,” Feldman readily admits, reached at home in Los Angeles. “I spring out of bed in the morning and do things that I really enjoy doing.” And what he most enjoys doing is uncovering overlooked or unheard jazz recordings of significant import. As cofounder of the Elemental Music imprint, for example, Feldman brought 25 long-out-of-print recordings from the defunct Xanadu label back to life, rescuing some of the tapes from an East Coast warehouse flooded by Hurricane Sandy. And a recent project for Resonance Records, a California nonprofit, sent him—appropriately enough—to Indianapolis, Indiana,
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where he interviewed friends and associates of the late Wes Montgomery in order to write the liner notes for Echoes of Indiana Avenue, a compilation of previously unreleased recordings featuring some of the jazz-guitar great’s most relaxed yet inspired music. “That was the beginning of the Jazz Detective,” says Feldman, alluding to another of his nicknames. “I made three trips to Indianapolis and pieced together, with people who were in the know, who was playing on each of those tracks. It was an unbelievable experience in jazz archaeology—and then came Bill Evans’s Live at Art D’Lugoff’s Top of the Gate, and those two albums in 2012 did 60,000 copies combined, which made them two of the biggestselling jazz albums of the year.” Since then, Feldman has been vetting literally hundreds of historical recordings—mostly for Resonance, where he’s executive vice-president and general manager. Next up for release? A long-lost 1959 studio date by none other than Thelonious Monk. He’s also been handed the keys to the Radio France archives, and has dibs on a greater treasure than the fabled Ark of the Covenant: 12 hours of music by the artist many consider the best saxophonist of all time. Feldman’s not quite ready to name names, so let’s just say that any jazz fan would consider their release a giant step for humanity. And, busy as he is, Feldman continues to evangelize for his favourite art form. This week, for instance, he’ll be in Vancouver, hosting a series of concerts in which some of our finest musicians will pay tribute to performers on the Resonance roster. Saxophonist Steve Kaldestad will interpret the music of Stan Getz and João Gilberto; Chris Gestrin will channel the innovative organist Larry Young; Dave Sikula will reflect on Montgomery, one of his most significant mentors; singer Jaclyn Guillou will do for Shirley Horn what she’s already done for Dinah Washington; and the Capilano University “A” Band will swing its way through the sounds of Thad Jones and Mel Lewis. Feldman credits Coastal Jazz and Blues Society staffer Cory Weeds—a record-label owner in his own right— with the idea of bringing him to town. “He’s going to have me talk about what’s involved in doing these historical releases,” he explains. “We’ll have them for sale, and I’ll get a chance to meet people in the jazz community, the fans out there. “I just really thrive on meeting people who share this passion,” Feldman adds. “And if any of your readers out there have any tapes, I’d love to hear them!” > ALEXANDER VARTY
The Coastal Jazz and Blues Society presents Jazz Legends Lost & Found with Resonance Records at Frankie’s Jazz Club from Thursday to Monday (November 17 to 21).
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upcoming holidays into full swing. it’s time to plug yourself back in and Wednesday’s Mercury/Saturn is ideal get the show on the road. motionalism continues Thurs- for getting it signed, said, or done. CANCER day. Come Friday morning, ARIES June 21–July 22 Mercury rounding the bend March 20–April 20 Thursday’s an emotionwith Neptune wants to give Creativity, romance, and ally charged, hit-the-ground-running it a rest and to move on to something more or better. The day can start with inspired moments are on a ready tap day. Friday can start with confusion, uncertainty, dissipation, loss, or drain. Thursday/Friday, but uncertainty and dissipation, or a hole to fi ll, but as the If you don’t have to punch a clock, stay vulnerability are too. Saturday/Sun- day advances, you’ll sort it out just right where you are. If you must show day, you’ll hit an upswing. Piece by fine. Romance, relaxation, or creative up for it, go easy on it as best you can. piece or all at once, you’ll uncover what projects are your best bets Saturday. All’s well that ends well. Come evening, you need to know. Wednesday, you’ll Sagittarius month, starting Monday, reach your destination and get your piles on more pressure and tests copthe moon is loving it in Leo. Neptune in Pisces ends a five- answer, news, or result. Use this day ing skills, but you’ll gain good ground month retrograde tour on Saturday. to sign it, buy it, finish it, or say what in the week ahead. This yearly transit can be subtle or it needs to be said. LEO can be dynamic; either way, it shifts TAURUS July 22–August 23 the tides of mass consciousness. April 20–May 21 Aim to get a good jumpWhether U.S. voters got it right or Mars, now one week into start on Thursday. Friday, ease up on wrong, this transit has been very potent in terms of karmic staging. It is Aquarius, puts you one week ahead the throttle and take it as it comes. still in the process of revealing itself. too. You’ll have another month to Simple, easy, convenient, or pampered As a bigger-picture transit, Nep- work with the new Mars get-a-better- does it best. Saturday/Sunday, the tune in Pisces stirs hope, faith, im- handle-on-it initiative. If you feel at a moon in Leo finds you feeling mighty agination, and inspiration, or it can loss, you won’t for long. Through the fine and hitting it just right. Monday produce uncertainty, loss, confusion, weekend, Mercury, Venus, and Nep- onward, its time to look, think, and and disillusionment. Through the Pis- tune keep the pace on smooth and plan ahead, full steam ahead. Tuesday/ ces archetype, we search for ultimate easy-does-it-best. Saturday/Sunday Wednesday you’ll hit the target well. value, meaning, purpose, or a path of through Wednesday, the stars help VIRGO service. The transit can also lead us to you to work it out well. August 23–September 23 an ultimate other, be that lover, healer, GEMINI What belongs to you; what saviour, or the divine. While Neptune in Pisces will be with May 21–June 21 belongs to them? Thursday through Whether subtle or full-on, Saturday, you are a psychic sponge. us for quite some time, in more immediate terms, Neptune is beautifully Thursday puts fresh fuel in the tank. A floodgate of emotion or creativity aligned with Venus on Saturday. The Friday/Saturday, let it go, let it be, ease can wash over you. You’ll feel it all. whole weekend is wonderfully set up for up on “should”. Mercury and Nep- Deeper insight comes, too. Pump up a cash-in on romance, pleasure, movies, tune aim for the move-along and so on health safeguards. Saturday/Sunshould you. Saturday/Sunday are best day, you’re rocking it. Tuesday’s stars art fairs, or creative endeavours. The sun enters Sagittarius on Mon- for relaxing, romance, and getting are also in your corner. Wednesday, day, setting all matters to do with your pleasure fill. Monday onward, it’s time to switch gears.
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Thursday/Friday, let yourself off the hook, relinquish plans or preconceived notions, allow what shows up to carry the day. Saturday/ Sunday, fi ll up on the good stuff, share your heart, express what’s in your soul. Monday’s stars make for a soft start, but for the rest of the week, you’ll stay on top of it well. The stars hit full-on full go.
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Mercury/Neptune keeps you conjuring or wandering Thursday/Friday. Don’t force it and you might fi nd that the answer, solution, or moment comes naturally. Stream of consciousness keeps you well occupied. Saturday/Sunday are optimum for romance, relaxation, and pleasure pursuits. Birthday month begins on Monday, but the day isn’t running on a full tank. Tuesday, you’ll hit a better swing; Wednesday, you’re there.
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Invisible or absent altogether can be the preferred way to go as the workweek finishes out. If you have to show up for it, gift yourself with extra time or leeway. The weekend is ideal for getting your pleasure fill. Tuesday/Wednesday, you can get more than the usual accomplished in a relatively short span of time.
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The next few days could see you get more involved or spend more than you planned. A conversation or scouting mission could deliver more, too. Saturday/Sunday are built for ease and delight. Sagittarius month, starting Monday, puts plans and activities into a fuller swing. Wednesday, aim to get it done and out of the way early.
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Neptune, your ruler, dictates the play through next week’s start. Watch for the next few days to clue you in, dissolve an uncertainty, open a dialogue, or provide a better option. The weekend is great for romance or for letting the creative muses sweep you away. Tuesday’s a busy one. Wednesday, it’s a done deal. -
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and listener—and part of the 47 percent of white women who did NOT vote for Donald Trump. To say I’m disappointed, horrified, scared, and mad about the election is woefully insufficient. I donated $100 to Planned Parenthood this morning because I honestly felt like there was nothing else I could do. That being said, I wanted to share that I had one of the most weirdly charged, hottest, and sexiest orgasms. A little buzzed (dealing with those election results) and sad, my boyfriend and I turned to each other for consolation. One thing led to another, and before I knew it, we were fucking as Trump came on the TV to give his acceptance speech. As that orange blowhard spewed more bullshit about being our president, I rode my boyfriend’s big, beautiful dick until I came. It was the perfect way to say, “Fuck this. Now fuck me.” I encourage all your readers to fuck out the stress from this election. Yes, we should donate and volunteer and speak up and protest and vote and not give up hope, but we should also keep doing it and taking care of each other. Because love trumps hate, and fucking trumps… Well, I’m not sure what fucking trumps. But it sure makes life better. > JUSTIFIABLY UNSETTLED LASS INTENSELY EMOTING
It’s important to practise good selfcare in the wake of a traumatic event— the election qualifies as a traumatic event—and going by the definition of self-care at GoodTherapy.org, fucking the living shit out of someone qualifies as self-care: “Actions that an individual might take in order to reach optimal physical and mental health… Self-care
[includes] activities that an individual engages in to relax or attain emotional well-being, such as meditating, journaling, or visiting a counselor.” They’re too polite over at GoodTherapy.org to include “fucking the shit out of someone” on their list of examples, JULIE, but what you did on election night—which just so happens to be the exact same thing I did on election night—certainly meets all the criteria. And if anyone out there who did the same on election night—fucked the shit out of someone—is feeling the least bit guilty, please know that millions of Americans did the exact same thing after 9-11. We used a different term to describe all that post– 9-11 fucking: terror-sex, which New York magazine defined as “urgent, unguarded, end-of-the-world coitus inspired by that day’s sudden jolt of uncertainty and fear”. I want to thank you for writing, JULIE, and I want to second your recommendation: sex, partnered or solo, makes life better, and people shouldn’t feel guilty about fucking someone else and/or fucking/jacking/ dildoing themselves at this uncertain and fearful moment in our nation’s history. Yes, we must donate and volunteer and protest and vote, all while reminding ourselves daily that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. And we must commit to defending our friends, neighbours, and coworkers who are immigrants (documented or not), Muslims (American-born, immigrants, or refugees), people of colour, women seeking reproductive health care, trans men and women seeking safety, lesbians and gay men seeking to protect their families, and everyone and everything else Trump
> BY DAN SAVAGE has threatened to harm, up to and including the planet we all live on. But we must make time for joy and pleasure and laughter and friends and food and art and music and sex. During the darkest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, when Republicans and religious conservatives controlled the federal government and were doing everything in their power to harm the sick and dying, queers organized and protested and volunteered and mourned. We also made music and theatre and art. We took care of each other, and we danced and loved and fucked. Embracing joy and art and sex in the face of fear and uncertainty made us feel better—it kept us sane—and it had the added benefit of driving our enemies crazy. They couldn’t understand how we could be anything but miserable, given the challenges we faced—their greed, their indifference, their bigotry— but we created and experienced joy despite their hatred and despite this awful disease. We turned to each other—we turned to our lovers and friends and sometimes strangers— and said: “Fuck them. Now fuck me.” We didn’t eradicate HIV/AIDS, the disease that was sickening us then, but we fought it to a standstill and we may defeat it yet. The disease that now sickens our nation is different. We may never eradicate racism and sexism and hatred. But fight it we will. And don’t listen to anyone who tells you that music and dance and art and sex and joy are a distraction from the fight. They are a part of the fight.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 14, 2016 WHERE: #7 Bus Heading Downtown You got on the bus on Dunbar and about 18th, you had a big bag with you, maybe it was a massage table. We made eye contact a few times and shared a few smiles. I got off the bus at Granville and Davie and as the bus drove off we shared another big smile. I’m 6’4, brown hair, and was wearing a grey and blue zip up hoodie. You were probably around 6’1 or so, had auburn hair and freckles. You gave off a really great vibe and it would be nice to connect with you.
POURHOUSE BARTENDER IN OCTOBER
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: OCTOBER 11, 2016 WHERE: Pourhouse You were the bartender in October at Pourhouse. I was with a guy friend (neck tattoos and we had a few too many old fashiond’s). You made me some kind of cocktail. I left and came back not long after and you gave me an old fashioned on you. You have stretched ears, arm tattoos, super babe. I look like a basic brunette. I’m 31 but look a bit younger. I didn’t say a word but for the 4-5 hours I was there I wanted to speak to you more than anything. Perhaps we spoke without words. Anyway... I would love to see you again but apparently you left the Pourhouse! Sometimes I would come in with my boy friend. Irrelevant. I can’t get you off of my mind and I don’t even know your name.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 14, 2016 WHERE: 14th & Granville You told me I looked like Anderson Cooper. I laughed, but gladly accepted the compliment. You: a pretty cashier Me: a straight man that has no problem being compared to a good looking gay man. Want to chat politics over a coffee?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 12, 2016 WHERE: Giovane Cafe on Cordova I was sitting at the window seat at Giovane Cafe on Cordova early this afternoon when you walked by on the sidewalk and our eyes locked. You came back and sat outside to the left of me on the patio, you were on your phone. Then you came in browsing the store. I should have talked to you but I left. I couldn’t stop thinking about the energy I felt from you when our eyes locked multiple times. I think you came in the store to talk to me. I actually came back to the store after to see if you were still there. Get in contact with me, let’s see if we connect
REPUBLIC NIGHTCLUB (FRI NOV 11)
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 11, 2016 WHERE: Republic Nightclub You were in a plain white T-shirt + had an accent. I was wearing a gold top, drinking a Corona with long brown hair. We danced and kissed on the stairs.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 8, 2016 WHERE: New Westminster I was getting off the train, you were with your friend and your skateboard. You stopped in front of me, I pretended not to see you because I’m shy. I think that’s enough info? Was barely even an interaction.
SMILES ON DAVIE STREET
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 9, 2016 WHERE: Davies Street We made eye contact and smiled as we passed each other on Davie Street this afternoon. You were very tall and handsome, and were carrying bags in each hand. I was the tall guy with the shaved head and glasses. I thought you were striking and I wish I had said hi and chatted with you. I’d love to hear from you.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 7, 2016 WHERE: 99 B-Line from UBC I was reading my book and you stood in front of me on the bus, catching my attention. You sat down and started reading “Gas Pipe”. Would you like to go for coffee to discuss fine literature sometime?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 11, 2016 WHERE: JJ Bean, Olympic Village You; tall, well dressed, sporting a red poppy. Me; long blonde hair, camel coloured trench coat and converse sneakers. You looked up at me while I was checking you out, but I was to shy to say anything. I grabbed my coffee and we both walked outside. My cab showed up quickly and away I went. I regret not saying anything, hopefully you do as well.
WE LOCKED EYES A FEW TIMES DURING A YOGA CLASS
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 7, 2016 WHERE: Near Commercial You walked in as I was waiting my turn. Wearing a skirt. Me tall basketball player with bad back. Couldn’t keep my eyes off you, sorry. We might not have much in common but would love to find out. Coffee?
of an antimarriage-equality justice to replace Justice Scalia would not jeopardize the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling on marriage equality, and the great majority of Americans still strongly support the freedom of same-sex couples to marry.”
I’m heartsick about the election. Today I made a donation to Planned Parenthood. PP asked me if I wanted my donation to be in honour of anyone and noted they’ll send a card to that person to let them know I’ve donated in their name. Why, yes, I thought, I’d like to make my donation in honour of Mike Pence, vicepresident–elect. Until January 20, his address is 4600 N Meridian St, Indianapolis, IN 46208. After January 20, his address will, sadly, be 1 Observatory Circle NW, Washington, DC 20008. If any of your readers are inclined to join me in honouring our VP-elect, they can donate at planned parenthood.org. > GENEROUS INVESTMENT VERIFYING EQUALITY
In addition to donating to Planned Parenthood—which everyone should do—please donate to the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu.org). Better yet, become a card-carrying member of the ACLU today. With Trump in the White House and Republicans in control of both houses of Congress, freedom and decency need to lawyer the fuck up. On the Lovecast, the director of the UBC Sexual Health Laboratory, Lori Brotto, on asexuality: savagelovecast. com. Email: mail@savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 10, 2016 WHERE: JIMY Mac’s FRIDAY NIGHT Saw YOU friday night @6pm we walked in {4 guys}. You were with YOUR friends and Said TO US...YOU DON'T Bite ... we all Laughed... BUT YOU and I Kept Glancing at Each other...YOU Great Smile... Awesome look... CAN’T Get YOU Out Of MY mind... I Heard YOU say YOU Used to work at WOODY’s Pub... Hope YOU See this and Contact Me... AWESOME Woman...
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 10, 2016 WHERE: #16 Bus Westbound We rode the #16 bus westbound this morning together, from Strathcona until I left at City Centre. You are tall, wavy dark hair with a great beard and even greater blue eyes. Your jacket looked like something from Team Canada, with a maple leaf crest and your number embroidered on the sleeve. You carried a messenger bag, red, I think. I hope you felt me smiling, and heard me whisper ‘bye’. I regret not saying ‘hi’.
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 7, 2016 WHERE: Silver-City I just saw Doctor Strange today and came and sat down next to me by yourself. I wanted to strike up a convo but figured you just wanted to see the movie. If you see this, coffee sometime?
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You should marry your boyfriend immediately, KHH, and do so with confidence. “There is no realistic possibility that anyone’s marriage will be invalidated,” said Shannon Minter, legal director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which has taken marriage-rights cases to the U.S. Supreme Court (and won). “The law is very strong that if a marriage is valid when entered, it cannot be invalidated by any subsequent change in the law. So people who are already married should not be concerned that their marriage can be taken away.” And Minter says the court is unlikely to overturn Obergefell, the decision that legalized same-sex marriage across the country. “The doctrine of stare decisis— which means that courts generally will respect and follow their own prior rulings—is also very strong, and the Supreme Court very rarely My boyfriend is undocument- overturns an important constitued. His sister married a U.S. citizen tional ruling so soon after issuing it,” and may receive a green card. We had Minter said. “Even the appointment
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hoped to someday do the same. But next year, the extreme right will control all three branches of the federal government. Deportation will surely come for my boyfriend. Additionally, we’re a gay couple, and Donald Trump has pledged to repeal marriage equality, if not ban it outright. So if we were to marry now, the timing would look suspicious. And even if we did marry, that marriage is likely to be invalidated in the coming years. Is it still worth it to try? What do I do if the government takes away the love of my life?
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I SAW A: I AM A: WHEN: NOVEMBER 4, 2016 WHERE: Donald’s Grocery at Naniamo and Hastings I was helping my mom pick out sugar at Donald’s. We exchanged eyes and you told me where the syrup was. I thought it was funny and endearing we were both helping old ladies shop... Would you like to grab some dinner?
Scan to confess Jet Set Another vacation? You’ve left the continent more in the past 2 years than I have in my life.
It happens. Fell in love in my 40’s .. Some things take time to happen so don’t let them tell you otherwise because it was worth the wait.
Striving to be More I’m striving to be more like my pets past and present and exhibit their good qualities - offer the genuine warm silly comfort that my cat gives, give bullies the same look as my dog did when people tried stupid pet tricks on her and be as calm and mellow as my other old cat.
Belief The truly most terrifying thing about humanity is the things that they do out of belief.
Just hoping I admit. Every time I hear about a heritage home or church burning down I hope the city slaps a moratorium on development on that property for 25 years. My bet? The fires will stop in a heartbeat.
University is so fucking depressing. All the content is so sad. Everyday it seems like my classes just offer me information about how terrible our world is. People are sexist/racist/homophobic/violent. We are destroying the world with fossil fuels and even though we have alternative solutions we don’t utilize them nearly enough. Being on campus has magnified talk about the American election by a million! Ugh, someone get me out of here. I have one more year. I don’t want to be poor anymore and I need to get laid.
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