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BC VOTES 2017: KNOW THE ISSUES + THE RISE OF ‘CRAFTIVISM’ + VANCOUVER’S CHANGING LGBTQ+ SPACES

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large events as a general rule. But the only people to blame here for the damage (if there is any) is the city/park board.They were the one who chose not to issue the permit. A permit would have made things like organized garbage collection, cleanup, and crowd control easy. Instead they decided to resist what is now a Vancouver tradition.They could have chosen to work with the organizers, but instead were trying to push their shitty morals onto people. NO ONE TO BLAME BUT THE PARK BOARD. –Eric

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3 Vets co-owners Jerry (left) and Keith Wolfman are pulling the plug on their longserving Yukon Street outdoor equipment store. The Vancouver institution is closing its doors permanently on Nov. 1 due to rising property taxes and increased big-box competition. Story online at Westender. com. Dan Toulgoet photo

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SUPPLY AND DEMAND Re:“Supply the answer to Vancouver’s housing crisis,” April 24, 2017.Web only Build more and the new units will also rent for the “now-considered-affordable” $1,400 a month, and will appeal to yet more imports considering $1,400. affordable. How does this help local yokels who have

contributed to the city for years? –Victoria Joss Don’t kid yourself, this so-called housing crisis is a direct cause of the Bank of Canada’s ZIRP [Zero Interest Rate Policy] lowinterest-rate regimen, which robbed senior savers to bail out criminal banksters the world over, causing a tidal wave of cheap foreign $$ to crash our shores. Time for

a revolution? Perhaps when this bubble breaks peeps will demand the heads of banksters, starting with Poloz? –Paul Cassidy

Nice photos. Not sure why there has to be so much garbage etc. More bins needed ? Five weeks [for repairs] is a long time.

Seems a bit over-done.

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PARK GOES TO POT Re:“Vancouver’s annual 4/20 rally lights up Sunset Beach,” April 24, 2017.Web only

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Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Visiting Verses Festival artist Kai Cheng Thom.

WE DID NOT ASK FOR

(from ‘a place called No Homeland’) girl, we are both grown now but i still remember you young in your white dress the silver earrings you wore, sunlight scrutinizing your face and the asphalt of the schoolyard the day you told me you’d been raped. your face so pale i thought you looked dead the story swirling out of your mouth like smoke to fill the air between us eddying between my lips, staining my throat and tongue. girl, i cried that day not just for you but for me. felt the alchemy of your words alter my body at the cellular level a prophecy i knew then that the future would not be kind and in hindsight, it was true. girl, we are both grown, and the years have not been gentle. today i wear a white dress and silver earrings in the rain in memory, not just of you but of me and all the stories - like smoke, like ghosts, like magic lost between us and these rapable bodies we did not ask for.

Kai Cheng Thom (ladysintrayda.wordpress.org) is a writer, performer, and community worker who divides her time between the unceded indigenous territories of Montreal and Toronto.

Her work has appeared in such publications as Matrix Magazine, Buzzfeed, and Asian American Literary Review. Her first novel, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir (Metonymy Press, 2016) is a Lambda

Literary Award Finalist. Her first book of poetry, a place called No Homeland (Arsenal Pulp Press) launched in Vancouver on April 25 at the Cultch as part of the Verses Festival of Words.

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CITY SHORTS // HOP CIRCUIT

Walking through the streets ofYeastVan these days, with craft breweries seemingly dotting every block, it’s crazy to think that just five years ago, none of this awesomeness existed.

Prior to 2012, the East Van neighbourhood was home to just a single craft brewery tasting room; Storm Brewing, founded in 1994 by the mad scientist himself, JamesWalton.Today, the neighbourhood is home to 14 craft breweries (and one fantastic distillery), all of which will be throwing open their doors to the public this Sunday, April 30, from 1-5pm, for the second annualYeastVan Hop Circuit.

The Hop Circuit will see all the participating breweries and distilleries (well, distillery) give public, behind-

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the-scene tours of their operations.The breweries will also each be pouring special limited-edition beers for everyone who comes by for a visit.

It’s largely a self-guided tour, with a free shuttle bus running between the breweries (so don’t drink and bike, or drive!).There will also be food trucks at all the breweries that don’t serve food, so you can regain your strength along the way.

New additions this year include Andina, Luppolo and Strathcona, all of which are worth a visit. Parallel 49’s new tasting room and restaurant isn’t completed yet, but they will be offering self-guided brewery tours and hosting a beer garden behind the brewery (betweenTriumph and Pandora Streets). –Rob Mangelsdorf

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When was the last time you visited your local independent bookstore? If you feel a stab of guilt while pondering that question, you can redeem yourself this Saturday, April 29, by taking part in Canada’s third annual Authors For Indies Day (AFI).

Several local bookstores are taking part.

Hatched by local novelist Janie Chang (Dragon Spring Road), the concept behind AFI is to boost the reading public’s awareness of indie bookstores through community, discovery and diversity.

After reading about the success of a similar event in the States, Chang approached three local stores in 2015: Book Warehouse on Main Street, 32 Books in North Vancouver and Hager Books in Kerrisdale. All three eagerly signed on, as did about 40 authors Chang reached out to. It was a great start.

Her idea was such a hit that it spread organically from bookstore to bookstore right across Canada. A website went up and Chang organized a national team of volunteers to keep things organized.

“In the first year I couldn’t believe it was actually happening,” remembers Chang.

“It was really exciting.”

Hundreds of authors have signed on to appear at stores across the country this Saturday. In Vancouver, memoirist Cea Sunrise Person (North of Normal and Nearly Normal) is one of them.

She’ll be at Book Warehouse in the morning and 32 Books in the afternoon. As a bestselling author twice over, Person’s career is on a roll.

You’d think her participation in AFI isn’t that important, but Person begs to differ.

“I know how much independent bookstores support us as local authors, so AFI is a great chance to return that support,” says Person.

“These booksellers offer not only knowledgeable and personable staff, but also a gathering place within the community for book lovers. I believe it’s important to keep that spirit alive.”

More than a dozen Lower Mainland bookstores are in, from Point Grey to Mission, but not all Vancouver indies have signed on. A notable exception is the successful Pulpfiction Books, with stores on Main Street, West Broadway, and Commercial Drive. They took part in AFI for the first two years, but not this time.

“There was a lack of interest on the part our clients, who simply ran over the inhouse authors on their way to

Best-selling author Cea Sunrise Person. Brook Davison photo the stacks,” says owner Chris Brayshaw. “The authors mostly hung around and talked to each another, even though the shops were constantly packed with customers.”

Authors are generally an introverted bunch, and it can be awkward for some to simply walk up to a bookstore customer to strike up a conversation and a sale. It’s integral for the booksellers to bridge the gap, says Chang.

Brayshaw, who considers himself an outlier in the book world, thinks AFI is missing a bigger marketing opportunity.

“Record Store Day and Comic Book Store Day are focused on exclusive merchandise, which generates lineups of folks looking to acquire scarce or free stuff,” says Brayshaw. “AFI has focused on authors helping out behind the till or making recommendations. Most of our custom-

ers are not interested in that.”

Brayshaw continues: “If I ran AFI, I would focus on getting cool merch like an Eden Robinson broadside, or an original Amber Dawn poem, or hell, even a Douglas Coupland poster. Make that merch available in very limited quantities, once a year, and only from independent bookstores.”

Exclusive product is something Chang has already considered.This year, author, illustrator and CBC broadcaster Kevin Sylvester has donated 20 signed prints. Ballots to win the prints will be in participating bookstores across the country on Saturday.

AFI isn’t a perfect experience yet, but there’s no doubt it’s an important event for booksellers, authors, and hopefully you, the bookbuying customer. Happy Authors For Indies Day! Hope to see you Saturday.

• Grant Lawrence is the author the new book Dirty Windshields: the best and the worst of the Smugglers tour diaries (Douglas + McIntyre).

He’ll be appearing on Apr. 29 at BookWarehouse Main Street in the morning, Paperhound Books midday, and 32 Books in the afternoon. W

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BC votes 2017: the hot-button issues for Vancouverites

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

One of the key issues of the 2017 provincial election is housing affordability.

Metro Vancouver had the highest real estate costs and bachelor pad rental fees of any Canadian city in 2016, according to RentSeeker.ca, a leading real estate website in Canada.

BC Liberals Leader: Christy Clark Main message: • 5,000 new affordable housing units • Increase rental supply • Raise threshold of First Time Home Buyers’ Program exemption to $500,000 • $700-million to BC HOME Partnership program • Explore developing a registry for accessible housing in BC BC NDP Leader: John Horgan Main message: • 114,000 new affordable rental, non-profit, co-op and owner purchase housing units through partnerships over 10 years • $400/per rental household refundable renter’s rebate • Close fixed-term lease loophole and ensure con-

CHILD CARE

Vancouver was ranked the second least affordable city for child care – after Toronto – in a study released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in December 2016. As parents with young children know, very few affordable child care spaces are available in Vancouver, and wait times for any spot at a registered facility are long.

BC Liberals Leader: Christy Clark Main message: • Create 5,000 new child care spaces in 2017 with a goal of up to 13,000 spaces by 2020 • Invest in operating expenses to make child care more affordable • Invest in the Child Care Subsidy program for families who need help paying for child care • Cost: $352.5 million BC NDP Leader: John Horgan Main message: • $10/day child care for full-day care • $7/day for part-time • $0 for families with annual incomes below $40,000/year • Cost: $855 million from 2017 to 2020 Greens of BC Leader: Andrew Weaver Main message: • Free preschool for children three to four years old • Free daycare for children

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In the lead-up to the provincial election on May 9, we’re giving you the lowdown on some hot topics covered in the platforms of the main three contenders: the BC Liberals, BC NDP and Greens of BC.This information was mostly drawn from the political parties’ websites as of April 17, but some information was also requested from the parties directly, as identified by the asterisks (*).

Greens of BC Leader: Andrew Weaver Main message: • Up to $750 million/year for around 4,000 units of affordable housing/year • Implement a provincial housing plan for affordable rentals • Update the Residential Tenancy Act to protect renters

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A look at how Vancouverites voted in the last provincial election (2013). Photo illustration up to age three with working parents • Up to $500/month for families with a stay-at-home parent and a child up to age two • *Cost: Free preschool = $685.8 million Free daycare = $488.7 million/year when fully implemented Stay-at-home parents = $540 million

MEDICAL SERVICE PLAN (MSP) ELIMINATION

BC is the only province in Canada that charges a flat rate health tax based on income that can add to annual household expenses.

BC Liberals Leader: Christy Clark Main message: • Move to eliminate MSP, starting with a 50 percent cut in premiums for families and individuals with a net income up to $120,000/ year BC NDP Leader: John Horgan Main message: • Eliminate MSP fees within four years Greens of BC Leader: Andrew Weaver Main message: • Eliminate MSP premi-

ums by rolling them into the payroll and personal income tax

TECH SECTOR

The tech sector in Vancouver employs around 75,000 professionals, with a median wage of $85,000, according to the Vancouver Economic Commission, and it’s growing across BC at a rate of six percent per year.

BC Liberals Leader: Christy Clark Main message: • $4.5 million from 2017 to 2020 for a new Seattle and expanded Silicon Valley BC Trade Offices • $87 million investment in the BC Tech Strategy • $500,000 for consultation on an innovation hub at Robson Square • Support accelerators and incubators as needed throughout the province BC NDP Leader: John Horgan Main message: • $140 million from 2017 to 2020 to energize BC’s tech sector • Improve investment tax credits, hire local software developers and re-establish the Innovative Clean Energy program • Improve access to capital

Greens of BC Leader: Andrew Weaver Main message: • Establish an Innovation Commission to support innovation and business development in the technology sector • $70 million over four years to qualifying entrepreneurs for leveraging seed or angel funding • $50 million per year invested in business incubators, accelerators and affordable space for small and medium-sized enterprises

RIDE SHARE

The ride share company, Uber, has already broken ground in Calgary, AB; Toronto, ON; and Gatineau, QC, to name a few cities.

Many Vancouverites want to see it and other ride sharing options in our city, but safety and competition concerns are also pushing back.

BC Liberals Leader: Christy Clark Main message: • Plan to bring ride sharing to BC BC NDP Leader: John Horgan Main message: • *Ridesharing is coming to BC • *Ensure a level playing field that protects jobs and passengers and improves service Greens of BC Leader: Andrew Weaver Main message: • Establish an Emerging Economy Task Force to examine the changing nature of business over the next 10 to 25 years, including looking at issues like the Uber ride-sharing service

FENTANYL, MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTIONS

The fentanyl crisis claimed 922 lives in BC in 2016, and the death toll continues to rise. Many residents are looking to whichever party forms the

next provincial government to enact policies and direct funding to programs, support staff and facilities that will help put an end to the crisis.

BC Liberals Leader: Christy Clark Main message: • Use $10 million from the federal government to prevent fentanyl and carfentanil deaths • $2 million to expand drug prevention and education programs in BC schools focusing on fentanyl • Confirm $165 million for youth mental health needs and substance abuse issues, including $12 million for up to 28 addiction treatment beds for youth BC NDP Leader: John Horgan Main message: • $35 million from 20172020 to increase supports for mental health and addictions • Establish a BC-wide strategy to maximize availability of naloxone kits • Establish a special initiative with First Nations leaders and their communities to provide additional assistance where the impact of the crisis is greatest • Increase support for first responders, including counselling for PTSD and work-related stress Greens of BC Leader: Andrew Weaver Main message: • *Develop a response to the fentanyl crisis based on European models: invest in treatment on demand, drug substitution, early-warning monitoring systems and a coordinated response • *Allocate $80 million to fund early intervention, youth mental health initiatives, supervised injection sites, and community based centres for mental health and rehabilitation W

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Women’s March and pussyhats put craftivism in the spotlight Aileen Lalor Style File @AileenLalor

Gone are the days when the term “craft” made one think of genteel ladies doing needlepoint.

The past decade has seen handmaking becoming cool.

It’s also being elevated as an art form: previously considered a trivial domestic pursuit, you now see knitted, sewn and handthrown pieces on display in galleries. And the recent Women’s Marches, with their knitted, crocheted or sewn cat-eared pussyhats, have introduced a new word to us: craftivism.

“Craftivism is activism and craft working together,” explains Vancouver-based author and crafter Leanne Prain.

“The term was developed by my friend Betsy Greer in the 2000s but craftivism has deep roots – the suffragettes made cloth protest banners in the 1800s, women were asked to knit socks for soldiers during the first and second world wars, and Chilean women stitched small placemats that contained scenes of horror and loss during Pinochet’s dictatorship in the 1970s and ’80s.”

The Vancouver Women’s March, held at Jack Poole Plaza on Jan. 21, was peppered with pink cat-eared ‘pussyhats’ hats like the ones worn in the foreground. Dan Toulgoet photo The Pussyhat Project was launched on US Thanksgiving Day 2016 by LA-based screenwriter Krista Suh and architect Jayna Zweiman.

The pair launched the project with the intention of making a visual statement at the Jan. 21 Women’s March and to bring women together.

“I think the pussyhats are amazing – not only because of how they have become a popular symbol of resistance,

but they show the collective power of how so many people can come together and make something that involves thousands of tiny meditations, or stitches, to represent their belief,” says Prain.

Making her pussyhat was statistician Niamh Russell’s first venture into craftivism, though she’s been crafting since she was five.

“I knitted the hat as a sort of silent protest. I do

not ever put political stuff online. I don’t comment on policy abroad or at home as I don’t think it’s an appropriate forum and people hijack posts for their own ends.The hat was for myself to say I wanted to empower women.

I was actually working the day of the march, but I wore the hat to and from work as a mini-statement for women’s and human rights in general,” she says. “Buying a hat would

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have been of no interest to me. Making it was part of the statement.”

Prain believes that the focus necessary for creating an object also makes its message stronger.

“Craft is something that generally needs to be done with care and intention,” she says. “I think the ability to subvert craft (aka use the stereotype that it doesn’t matter) allows you to create very powerful, potent messages with craft mediums.”

So is being skilful and nimble-fingered a prerequisite for craft and craftivism? Prain says no, given that perfection isn’t the goal. All you need is to the patience to experiment and practise.

“I taught an embroidery workshop to a bunch of seniors who had dementia a few years ago – and their stuff was wildly beautiful, as there was no judgement or holding back from creating an end project. Everyone was living in the moment, and then when their caretaker ushered them out of the room, they forgot.What was important that day wasn’t what they made – but the connections we made in the act of making together.” W

GET INVOLVED

Craft can make a political statement, give to people less fortunate, or even improve your math skills.

• International Yarn Bombing Day takes place on June 11. Yarn Bombing involves knitting or crochet wrapped around an object. It can be playful, political, artistic, or designed to draw attention to something overlooked.

How to take part? Get out there and do it!

• Project Linus Canada, named after the blankettoting Peanuts character, gives security blankets to children who are ill or traumatised. Find out how to contribute at projectlinuscanada.org • There’s increasing evidence that textile arts like knitting and crochet can help people understand complex math and problem solving. In the longterm, it’s believed this can encourage girls into STEM (scientific, technical, engineering and math) careers.

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I definitely have had my fair share of “perfect” whites over the years; however, I have recently discovered a new all-time fave from Dulux: its basic, un-tinted, pure white.

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I’ve been looking to this one because, no matter the natural or interior lighting for a room, the white remains pure – with no undertones of blue, yellow or otherwise. Every wall, ceiling, trim, baseboard and possible paintable detail got a whitewash in a satin finish, and we used the same finish for walls, ceilings and trims

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A West Side turn-of-the-century heritage condo gets a fresh, family-friendly update with a mix of vintage industrial and bold colours. Tracey Ayton photos to create a full open effect. By giving the space a white out, every character detail that was overshadowed by the previous palette now had an opportunity to shine, allowing the entire space to feel bright, open and cohesive.

Keeping in mind that a young family was moving in and white walls at every turn are a magnet for little handprints, I wanted to introduce strong hits of colour and pattern with wallpaper.The living room – the brightest room in the house – received a feature wall with oversized charcoal and coral florals.While the flowery

pattern initially seemed like an overtly feminine choice, I knew that we would be bringing in strong industrial elements with the décor, so it would counterbalance in the finished design. One of my favourite industrial finds became a focal point for the living room: an industrial cubby from the ’20s that was repurposed as the catch-all for any kiddy must-haves that didn’t aesthetically fall in line with our vision. Often the trick to introducing vintage or “found” pieces to modern décor is finding a way to repurpose them.

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also used in combination with custom industrial pieces (found at Space Lab in Chinatown) in each room to add a sense of story to the space. Lighting is one of my favourite areas to use vintage, so from the Nelson pendant in the living room, to the industrial cage light in the entryway and warehouse lights hung in the kitchen, the house was lit with history. Using so many standout vintage finds allowed the modern, larger furnishings like the sofa to have their place without seeming too “new” for the style of the home. –See more at Westender.com W

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Eating through thick and thin Two new pizzerias serve up diverse ‘za experiences Anya Levykh Nosh

@FoodgirlFriday Vancouver has certainly come a long way on the pizza front in the last decade. We have evolved past our Pizza Hut origins to a plethora of restaurants that tout the benefits of Type 00 flour, San Marzano tomatoes and all things Napoletana. And, yes, that thin, slightly-charred crust with its light smattering of toppings was a welcome change from the fast-food reality we grew up with.

It’s worth noting, however, that Naples doesn’t have the exclusive on pizza. Just look at Rome, for instance, which is famous for its slightly thicker, chewier crusts that are served as squares or slabs, and are often served cold, sandwich-style. Then there are the American iterations, like the New York slice, the Chicago deep dish

or the Detroit red top.

We’ve been a bit limited in choices beyond the standard Naples style, but that’s happily changing, as a few new openings prove.

JC Poirier, the chef behind Ask for Luigi, Pizzeria Farina and The Pourhouse, has expanded with the opening of Joe Pizza, a new Roman-style pizzeria in Gastown. The large corner space is bright and the eye is immediately drawn to the line-up of slabs behind the glass along one side of the counter. Here, you will find 10 or so varieties available by the square ($4.75 to $5.75), half ($17 to $22), or full slab ($32 to $40). A half-slab has about six generous squares, while the singles are slightly larger (if you need more than two, you must be perishing).

The toppings here aren’t as authentic, perhaps, to classic Roman sensibilities as Trilussa on Main Street, but they’re not trying to be.

The dough is fantastic, and thanks go to talented baker and chef de cuisine Annabelle Choi. Local, organic flour is always a nice touch, as is the dusting of cornmeal that gives

Gastown’s new pizza joint, Joe Pizza, offers up thicker, Roman-style slices. Chris Giannakos photo a crispy crunch around the edges, but the texture is what makes the pizza here sing. It’s dense yet light, chewy but not stiff.Toppings are solid and thoughtfully chosen. Local vegetables, good quality cheese, it’s all here.

The Mr. Chop, for

example, is a fun take on a Hawaiian, with prosciutto cotto, aged mozzarella, pickled jalapeno, and the requisite pineapple.The spicy-sweet combo makes for a lovely mouthful. Pistachio, mortadella and provolone is a slice best served cold.This

BC’s 2016 vintage goes long Michaela Morris By the Bottle @MichaelaWine

“2016 has the potential to be a very interesting vintage for BC,” proclaimed master of wine (MW), Barbara Philip at last week’s media preview.

Until last year, 2015 saw the earliest start to the growing season ever recorded in British Columbia. 2016 took this to another level with warm spring temperatures, which encouraged fast and furious growth.

“There were even grow-

ing degree days in March,” exclaims Rhys Pender MW, winegrower and owner of Little Farm Winery, when referring to temperatures above 10C that encourage budburst.

“It was almost frightening,” adds Taylor Whelan winemaker at CedarCreek Estate Winery.

He, like others, was concerned that a sudden temperature drop would kill the delicate young shoots, which would have severely affected crop levels. Thankfully, all let out a collective sigh of relief.

Weather-wise, it initially looked like growers were

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in for a repeat of the hot 2015 vintage. However, 2016 turned out to be a very different story. By the end of June, it cooled down and was unusually moderate into July and August.

While it may not have been conducive to drinking rosé on the patio, it appears to have been very beneficial for the wines when the warmer weather returned midAugust through September,

and the result was a long, cool growing season.

Not having a long enough season is one of the struggles in BC’s extreme climate.

While sugar ripeness isn’t usually a problem, “it takes time to develop complexity of aromas,” explains Philip.

“This year we got awesome flavour accumulation before we reached sugar ripeness,” adds Whelan.

Pender, who picked his

is where you really appreciate the dough fully, as most cold pizza has the sad tendency to settle and harden.This slice, however, remains texturally perfect. A favourite was the Pop-Pie, with pea purée, spinach, fresh ricotta and lots of pancetta.You can eat it cold, but this one I preferred warmed up, with the slight melting of the cheese and the crisping of the bacon.

It’s even licensed, meaning a local beer or some wine is an easy pairing.Throw in a cone of the classic soft-serve for dessert and you have the full meal deal. eatjoepizza.com Across town at Kingsway and Fraser (or on Robson, if you’re downtown), Straight Outta Brooklyn serves up NewYork-style pizza by the slice and full pie.This casual joint comes from the Morra brothers, the pair behind the award-winning Via Tevere.

While the crust here is similar to Neapolitan pizza, with its thin, slightly-charred crust, it’s also a bit crispier.The tomato sauce is bright and punchy and the toppings range from classic pepperoni or Margherita to the funkier W.O.P. (without peppers), which features salami, ham, artichokes, mushrooms and olives. Slices hover around $5, while whole pies run $12 to $17.

If you really want to appreciate the crust (which is worth appreciating), go for the simple tomato pie. No cheese on this one, just the sauce, some oregano, garlic and basil and a drizzle of good olive oil. The garlic and oregano make another appearance on the Bianca, a four-cheese winner made with mozzarella, smoked provolone, ricotta and grana padano. Vegetarians (and non) will appreciate the basil pesto pie, with cream, artichokes and pine nuts.

The standout for me, however, was the pepperoni.

It’s such a clichéd topping that there’s almost no point in ordering it, it seems, but it’s good here. The standard carboard-topped-with-an-oilslick experience is completely absent. Instead, it’s the decidedly good crust topped with the same tomato sauce that has made Via Tevere so popular, along with some excellent pepperoni and aged mozza. No oil slicks, just cheesy and slightly spicy, as it should be.

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Riesling 26 to 30 days later than in 2015, enthuses that “we got this bonus flavour development time.”

Danny Hattingh, winemaker at Fort Berens in Lillooet is equally pleased with Pinot Gris, which tends to gain sugar (thus potential alcohol) very quickly.

“With the longer season, we were able to ripen it properly and get it in before the sugars were too high.”

As for the big reds in the south Okanagan, the long growing season was needed.

“We’re very happy but 2016 did present some challenges,” admits Jonathan McLean, assistant winemaker at Le Vieux Pin. The vintage also produced high yields, which slowed down maturity especially during the cooler summer temperatures. McLean calls the early start “a saving grace.”

We’ll have to wait until at least the fall to try BC’s 2016 reds. In the meantime, as we move into the (hopefully) warm months ahead, there should be plenty of whites and rosés offering ripe, pure and intriguing aromas and flavours, vibrant acidity and balanced alcohol from this “very interesting” vintage.

The following are highlights from the preview.

Note that not all have been released yet.

kler made from Naramata Bench Gamay, the Cavada is pretty and delicately floral with hints of strawberry and red currants. Very refreshing and light on its feet.

2016 Bella, ‘Cavada’ Gamay, Sparkling Rosé, Brut Natural $27 winery direct A traditional method spar-

2016 Little Farm Winery, Chardonnay, Similkameen Valley BC VQA $26 winery direct A complex mix of bread dough, apples and cashew meal, this textured, sappy and savoury Chardonnay has plenty of freshness and minerality.

2016 Fort Berens Estate Winery, Pinot Gris, BC VQA $17.99 winery direct Pear and vanilla bean on the nose with apricot piping up on the palate. The backbone is steely, but there is a flattering creamy texture that adds a layer of intrigue.

2016 CedarCreek Estate Winery, Riesling, Okanagan Valley BC VQA $15.99 winery direct Exuberantly aromatic with mandarin sorbet and peach.

Light but intense, it starts sweet and finishes tangy.

That judicious residual sugar is needed to balance out the zippy acidity.

2016 Le Vieux Pin Winery, ‘Vaïla’ BC VQA $23.99 winery direct This dry Pinot Noir rosé expresses red cherry and blood orange nuances. Full, fleshy and structured, it demands food.

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You go, girl HowVancouver’s women bartenders are shaking up the scene Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

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You’ve come a long way, baby – or have you?

In 1903, the most important bartender in the world was, arguably, a woman named Ada Coleman. “Coley” had just been appointed head bartender at the American Bar in London’s Savoy Hotel, where for two decades she ran the most influential cocktail program in the UK.When she retired in 1926, it was such big news that five London newspapers carried the story.

You’ve likely never heard of her. But you may have heard of Harry Craddock, the famous American bartender who replaced her and, some say, pushed her out because he didn’t like seeing a woman behind the bar.

Bartending is not an easy job for anyone. It’s not just physically hard; bartenders have to balance the technical skills of a chef with the people skills of a maître d’ in an environment where customers are often intoxicated. But women bartenders also have to cope with sexual harassment, sexist dress codes and even sexual assault on the job.

That level of unease is not at all uncommon.What is uncommon is for a case to hit headlines like the notorious incident last year in Toronto, where a College Street bar owner and his bar manager faced multiple charges of gang sexual assault on a 24-year-old woman.That assault led to protests, a training initiative called the Dandelion Project, and the creation of an organization called Bartenders Against Sexual Harassment (BASH).

“That incident hit home for a lot of people,” says BASH member Evelyn Chick, a former Vancouverite who is now bar manager at Toronto’s Pretty Ugly.

She told The Globe and Mail in February: “We

Ada Coleman, head bartender of The American Bar at the Savoy in London from 1903 to 1926. Contributed photo definitely have a long way to go. [Harassment and assault] happen in bars all the time.”

Both customers and employees are at risk and that’s why bars worldwide protect female customers with code words, like asking for “Angela,” or ordering an “angel shot” to alert bar staff that they need help escaping a threatening situation.

But bar staff can’t escape quite so easily. Here in Vancouver, an International Women’s Day gathering of hospitality industry professionals saw an outpouring of shared war stories and knowing nods. As one woman said, “We just deal with it.”

Yet, they persist. In fact, they thrive.

In Vancouver, women bartenders are running some of the city’s top bar programs: Sabrine Dhaliwal at Uva, Kaitlyn Stewart at Royal Dinette, Katie Ingram at L’Abattoir, Amber Bruce at the Keefer Bar and Wendy McGuinness at Kissa Tanto, just to name a few.

And they’re killing it in competition.

In 2015, Lauren Mote became the first woman to win Diageo’s World Class Canada and went on to place 12th in the world. The same year, Dhaliwal won Belvedere’s prestigious martini challenge in London.

They raised the bar for all Vancouver bartenders, but especially women.

Last week, Stewart, Bruce and Ingram became three of the six western regional finalists in the 2017 World

Class Canada competition.

They head to the Canadian finals next month in Toronto, where nearly half the competitors will be women. The winner goes to the world finals in Mexico in August.

“A sense of community has always been the method to the success for all bartenders in Vancouver. And certainly propping each other up, and standing on each other’s shoulders has really helped propel us, especially for our women,” Mote says.

Meanwhile, women bartenders from across Canada will meet in Toronto on April 30 to compete in Speed Rack, a women-only speedbartending competition that started in the US a few years ago as a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness.

It’s a big deal, says Chick, who is Speed Rack’s Canadian ambassador.

“It’s been such a maledominated industry for so long. It’s an event that promotes community. Everyone’s trying to be better and faster, and this brings everyone together.”

Sixteen women will compete, including three – Ingram, Stewart and Uva’s Jasmine Ruda – from Vancouver.

“Bartending for women is hard, but Vancouver is more accepting than other places,” says Ruda. “It’s very supportive. Even if we make mistakes, the audience is shouting out, ‘Keep going, you can do it.’ ” Coley would have been proud. W

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• 1 ½ oz (45 mL) gin • 1 ½ oz (45 mL) sweet vermouth • 2 dashes Fernet Branca Place all ingredients in a mixing glass with ice and stir well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Twist a slice of orange peel over the drink, releasing the essential oils over the surface and drop the peel in. Serves 1.

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The following persons have been nominated as candidates for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant for the 41st Provincial General Election.

Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Candidate’s Name:

Financial Agent:

Mike Hansen Independent

Mike Hansen 721 14th Ave E, Vancouver, BC, V5T 2N3 (604) 700-1652

Official Agent:

Jerry Kroll BC Green Party

Mark West 603-2180 38th Ave W, Vancouver, BC, V6M 1R9 (604) 616-5246

Conny Lin BC Liberal Party

Kathy Pan 1003-181 1st Ave W, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 0E3 (604) 722-2712

Peter Marcus Communist Party of BC

Peter Marcus 706 Clark Dr, Vancouver, BC, V5L 3J1 (604) 254-9836

Melanie Mark BC NDP

Mia Edbrooke 204-1556 5th Ave E, Vancouver, BC, V5N 1L7 (604) 809-2134

Shai Joseph Mor Your Political Party of BC (YPP)

James Filippelli 313-2040 York Ave, Vancouver, BC, V6J 1E7 (604) 805-3547

General Voting Places: Admiral Seymour Elem School 1130 Keefer St, Vancouver, BC

Grandview Elem School 2055 Woodland Dr, Vancouver, BC

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Mount Pleasant Comm Centre 1 Kingsway, Vancouver, BC

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James Filippelli Your Political Party of BC (YPP)

James Filippelli 313-2040 York Ave, Vancouver, BC, V6J 1E7 (604) 805-3547

Liz Jaluague Libertarian

Liz Jaluague 703-1180 Falcon Dr, Coquitlam, BC, V3E 2K7 (604) 944-2845

Morgane Oger BC NDP

Amy Fox 4812 Fleming St, Vancouver, BC, V5N 3W8 (778) 706-2369

Phillip James Ryan BC Citizens First Party

Avrillee Knoess 170-422 Richards St, Vancouver, BC, V6B 2Z4 (604) 355-4069

Bradley Darren Shende BC Green Party

Bradley Shende 31 5th Ave E, Vancouver, BC, V5T 1G7 (604) 957-1625

Sam Sullivan BC Liberal Party

Michael Leung 305-1428 West 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V6H 4H4 (604) 505-3573

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Holiday Inn and Suites Downtown 1110 Howe St, Vancouver, BC

Elsie Roy Elem School 150 Drake St, Vancouver, BC

Roundhouse Comm Centre 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC

False Creek Elem School 900 School Green, Vancouver, BC

UBC Robson Square 800 Robson St, Vancouver, BC

Henry Hudson Elem School 1551 Cypress St, Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Public Library Central 350 W Georgia St, Vancouver, BC

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False Creek Co-op 1088B Sitka Sq, Vancouver, BC Sat-Sun, Apr 29-30 Sat May 6

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False Creek Comm Centre 1318 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC Wed-Fri, May 3-5

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The following persons have been nominated as candidates for Vancouver-West End for the 41st Provincial General Election.

Vancouver-West End Candidate’s Name:

Financial Agent:

Spencer Chandra Herbert BC NDP

Alison Martin 1202-1825 Haro St, Vancouver, BC, V6G 1H4 (604) 783-0084

John Clarke Libertarian

John Clarke 205-4625 Grange St, Burnaby, BC, V5H 1R1 (604) 408-3718

Leon David Dunn Independent

Leon Dunn 207-1025 Chilco St, Vancouver, BC, V6G 2R7 (604) 341-8217

Nigel Elliott BC Liberal Party

Jason Brice 1410-909 Mainland St, Vancouver, BC, V6B 1S3 (604) 619-4431

James Marshall BC Green Party

William Marshall 38-758 Riverside Dr, Port Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7V8 (604) 944-8114

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Robert Lee YMCA 955 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC

Coal Harbour Comm Centre 480 Broughton St, Vancouver, BC

St. Andrew’s Wesley United Church 1022 Nelson St, Vancouver, BC

Columbus Millennium Tower 1175 Broughton St, Vancouver, BC

Sunset Towers 1655 Barclay St, Vancouver, BC

Gordon Neighbourhood House 1019 Broughton St, Vancouver, BC

Vancouver Aquatic Centre 1050 Beach Ave, Vancouver, BC

King George Sec School 1755 Barclay St, Vancouver, BC

West End Comm Centre 870 Denman St, Vancouver, BC

Coal Harbour Comm Centre 480 Broughton St, Vancouver, BC Sat-Sun, Apr 29-30 Fri-Sat May 5-6 Columbus Millennium Tower 1175 Broughton St, Vancouver, BC Sat-Sun, Apr 29-30 Fri-Sat May 5-6

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Sunset Towers 1655 Barclay St, Vancouver, BC Sat-Sun, Apr 29-30 Wed-Sat, May 3-6

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A whole new world: enter virtual reality Vancouver’s firstVR film festival invites audiences into new cinematic worlds Sabrina Furminger Reel People @Sabrinarmf

Is the future of film as simple as a handful of acronyms: VR, AR, MR, 360º, CGI, and HMD? If that all reads like futuretech gobbledygook, making sense of it is as easy as heading over to the Vancouver Virtual Reality Film Festival (YVRFF) this weekend, where local VR trailblazers are shepherding in the next frontier in screen-based entertainment.

“Virtual reality, although it’s very young right now and it’s still in the experimental stages, both technologically and content production wise, is going to get to a point where it will be very commonplace,” says YVRFF festival director Jessica Glass.

VR, or virtual reality, is a tech culture genre in which an increasing number of Vancouver content creators are staking a claim. It’s also a growing segment of the entertainment industry: globally, the number of active VR users is forecasted to reach 171 million by 2018, and more than 250 apps are currently available for the VR ecosystem.

In its most basic sense, virtual reality is “an immersion in a different world,” says Glass.To clarify, virtual reality is different from augmented reality, or AR, in that AR adds elements into your actual reality via a screen or glasses. (Pokémon Go is a primo example of AR in action.) Other acronyms of note include MR, which is mixed

Vancouver Virtual Reality Film Festival filmmaker Chris Bedyk on location in the Grand Canyon. Contributed photos reality involving the merging of real and virtual worlds; CGI, or computer-generated imaging; and HMD, or headmounted displays, which include a headset through which VR experiences are facilitated and optimized.

Early adapters know that VR and AR aren’t the same, although MR is a hybrid of both. 360º and VR are often used interchangeably, but 360º is a flat, wrap-around image in the HMD, whereas VR is an immersive environment that the viewer can interact with, often using full CGI. The inaugural YVRFF will cater to VR enthusiasts as well as the uninitiated, says Glass. Although VR is big in the gaming world, this particular event is dedicated to storytelling.

“We wanted to showcase the idea of narrative storytelling within VR, to break away from the traditional idea of what a film festival is and create more of an immersive storytelling event,” says Glass.

The first of its kind in Western Canada, the fest is the brainchild of a group of local tech industry stakeholders. Unlike traditional film festivals, audiences won’t be sitting in a theatre staring at a rectangular screen; instead, its attendees will experience the films

through head-mounted displays provided by YVRFF, which – bonus!– they’re welcome to take home.

“One of our mandates is to be able to help facilitate mass VR adoption for absolutely everybody who is interested in the technology,” says Glass.

The festival’s first edition features screenings of five VR films: Remember, a sciencefiction short film exploring humanity’s relationship with technology and its influence on reality; Misfits, an observational documentary shot behind the scenes of one of the world’s most unusual modelling agencies; Micro Giants, a breakthrough blend of visual effects, animation and virtual reality technology that shows the world through the eyes of an insect; VRWonders of theWorld Episode Grand Canyon, a local production from Perspective Films and My Brother’s Keeper, a short film about two brothers fighting on opposite sides of the US Civil War. Beyond these five films, about 20 others will be showcased throughout the festival venue via a wide range of VR tech, including Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift and Microsoft HoloLens.

YVRFF received 114 film submissions from 39 countries – numbers that floored Glass

and organizers. Says Glass: “People have asked, ‘Is VR here to stay, is it up and coming, does anybody know about it?’ Based on the quality of the films that we got, I would have to say that it’s indeed here and it’s here to stay.”

These filmmakers face new spins on old challenges, Glass adds. The technology is new, there are a lot of bugs to be worked out, it requires an incredible amount of computing power and it’s not accessible to everyone.

“The tools of VR democratization haven’t reached the level [where] they’re accessible to everybody yet, but we’re quickly reaching that point where it will no longer be a barrier,” says Glass.

Filmmakers who want to make it in VR must first break free of traditional ideas about storytelling, says Glass.

“If you’re writing a script for a story that is for that virtual reality experience, you have to be thinking of, ‘What if the viewer in this story does this, or looks here?’

There are so many more anomalies that you have to pay attention to.”

So far, VR films are all in the three-to seven-minute range because “we’re not able to handle much more than that physiologically without feeling a bit disori-

ented,” says Glass, before adding that the day is quickly approaching when that will no longer be an issue.

Chris Bedyk, whose Grand Canyon episode screens at YVRFF, is one such filmmaker who embraced the challenges to great success.

A cinematographer and camera operator whose lengthy credit list includes Deadpool, Watchmen, and TRON: Legacy, Bedyk was initially drawn to VR filmmaking in 2012 because of an ongoing interest in “the way people see the world and how they see a film,” he says.

In order to create his VR Wonders of theWorld 360º series (timelapse films showcasing the Northern Lights and the Grand Canyon), he had to invent the tech and workflow along the way.

“I knew I had to create the tools to create the content,” says Bedyk, who built his own 360º cameras using SLRs. “I was like the carpenter who had to build his hammer so he could build a shelf.”

Bedyk creates 360˚ content through Perspective Films, his full service live action VR production agency & laboratory (perspectivefilms. ca).

Bedyk doesn’t think the emergence of VR tech signals the beginning of the end for

traditional filmmaking. “I think it’s a symbiotic relationship [between traditional and VR],” says Bedyk. “I don’t see traditional ever going away. It’s taken 100 years to develop.We are basically in the first couple of years of VR.Think of it as if the first black and white film camera was just invented in 2013, and we’re in 2017.Who knows what comes after VR?” As it looks to the future, YVRFF is also taking a nostalgic look back.The fest transforms CBC’s Studio 700 into a retro airline terminal where attendees will encounter 1960s lounge music and PanAm style flight attendants.

YVRFF’s creative director Andy Chu had “a vision for ushering in the new age of this technology with a retro-futurism theme,” says Glass.

One major YVRFF tip: arrive with your phone fully charged, as you’ll be streaming the curated films on your own device. The screenings run in 90-minute guided cycles and the programming will be hosted by hip hop artist Prevail on April 29. W • YVRFF runs April 28 and 29 at CBC’s Studio 700 (700 Hamilton Street, Vancouver). Ticket and FAQs at yvrff.com.

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‘Circle Game’, a new play named after a song Joni Mitchell released in 1970, reimagines the Canadian icon’s music in the present day. Tyler Branston photo

Joni Mitchell’s music comes full ‘Circle’ in new play MICHAEL WHITE @bequietmichael

Millennials and boomers seemingly share little in common.

The former, born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, have experienced realities that are vastly different from those of the latter, who were born in the years immediately following the Second World War. Millennials struggle to remember a time before instant, effortless global communication; boomers, for the most part, don’t know how it feels to earn a respectable salary, yet barely be able to afford the necessities of life.

But Andrew Cohen and Anna Kuman, two Vancouver millennials who work in the local theatre community, have discovered at least one entity that transcends these disparate generations: Joni Mitchell.

Inspired by the Albertaborn music icon’s recordings, the most famous of which are matchless in terms of articulating the boomers’ transition from youth to adulthood during the 1960s and ’70s, they wrote a new play, Circle Game: Reimagining the Music of Joni Mitchell.

It premieres, in preview, on April 29 at Firehall Arts Centre while the official opening night is May 3.

Cohen and Kuman – who met and subsequently married while workshopping the play – recall Mitchell’s music becoming prominent in their lives in 2013.

“We noticed her music everywhere – it seemed like it was following us,’ says Cohen. “And the more we heard it, the more it interested us, so we started researching her albums and her lyrics. The takeaway we

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got from it was the power of her prose, and how incredibly poignant and relevant the lyrics she wrote 40 and 50 years ago were to today, The goal of Circle Game, named after a song she released in 1970, is to make sense of Mitchell’s music – specifically, 27 songs chosen by the couple – in the present day.

It might strike some people as self-evident that Mitchell is a living legend, but Cohen and Kuman acknowledge an uncomfortable truth about the artist: her name is much more famous than her individual songs. Early in her career, before she had experienced success as a performer in her own right, Mitchell was best known for writing songs that became hits for others: Judy Collins’s 1967 cover of “Both Sides Now” and obscure singer-songwriter Tom Rush, whose version of “The Circle Game” predated Mitchell’s by a year and a half. Before immersing themselves in Mitchell’s vast discography, Cohen and Kuman knew of her best from the 2002 rendition of “Big Yellow Taxi” by Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton.

“She wasn’t the Justin Bieber of her time,” Cohen quips. “I don’t know if there is somebody now who has that same balance of being high-profile while being as emotionally intelligent and having lyrics that are politically charged.”

“That was also a goal of ours: How can we take some of these lesser-known songs and bring their messages to light?” adds Kuman. “It was an experiment for us: What would this music sound like if it was the Top 40 of today?”

The couple are purposely

vague about the structure of Circle Game. Instead, Cohen recommends that audience members “leave their preconceptions at the door.”

The play’s principal cast members play a combined

18 instruments and are “quadruple threats.”

“Radical, with love,” is how Cohen describes some of the play’s interpretations.

“We were very conscientious about which songs we

rearranged and how, so as to pay homage to the originals and to also show how broadly a message can be taken, and to try to reach millennial and baby-boomer audiences with the same message.” W

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If you are able, dig deep and attend RED from Positive Living BC or the IDAHOT breakfast by QMUNITY. For smaller pockets, Bingo for Life runs continues Wednesday nights at Celebrities. Free events include a book reading/signing by Ruby Remenda Swanson at Little Sister’s and a DJ drop-n lab for youth organized in conjunction with Queer Arts Festival.

The Eurovision Song Contest is a continent-wide institution in Europe (High camp at its finest). Find out what all the fuss is about at the free viewing parties hosted by 1181. Later in the month join us for networking at LOUD Lunch May Edition, presented

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There is a profound lack of spaces in Vancouver for queer women and femmes.

In fact, Vancouver’s last permanent lesbian bar, Lick, closed its doors in 2011.

Meanwhile, misogyny, both within the scene and outside of it, presents a constant challenge to the progress and inclusiveness of the LGBTQ+ community.

Yet the scene in Vancouver is more alive than ever, with roaming parties – parties that take over local host spaces each month – aiming to fight misogyny and represent the variety of people in queer communities.

These roaming parties – run by, and created for, queer folk (specifically women, trans people and QTPOC) – have taken over in the vacuum left behind by bars like Lick, and actually created a more diverse queer scene than ever before, with events such as Man Up, Denim Vest, Open Relationships and Lick Reunited contributing to the creation of safe spaces for a

diversity of queer people in Vancouver.

Paige Frewer, who hosts Man Up – a monthly queer dance party/drag show held at the Cobalt on Main Street – said the event has evolved into a place for feminine performance, and representation of all members of the queer community.

“The community had a desire of representation for femmes,” they said. “We represent ourselves as being a genderfluid, women and femme-posi queer performance space.”

Frewer said that gentrification, income disparity for women and trans folks compared to men, and lack of support makes it challenging to run any space in the city, let alone a queer, femme-positive space.

They also believe the evolution of LGBTQ+ people being more accepted by the community at large has changed queer party spaces, and that commercial demand isn’t there to sustain a permanent lesbian venue in such an expensive city.

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and critical gathering places.

That’s still a reality, but with the sort of bounds being made in the queer community, the boundaries of lesbian and dyke culture becomes sort of blurry as gender and diversity is more understood,” they said. “There isn’t that clear line between gay and straight anymore, so there aren’t so [many] bars for gay people and bars for straight people.”

Frewer also believes that it can be difficult for queerand queer women-run spaces to stay open, as they are often politically charged.

“In general, queer people are still marginalized, but as we become more and more accepted in society, there is still a disproportionate marginalization of femme queer people and trans people,” Frewer said. “I think that it’s important to have spaces that are specifically focused on those identities, and giving performance spaces, paid work and outlets for these folks.”

Melanie Matining is a Vancouver planning commissioner and co-founder of monthly queer party Denim Vest, with Emily Groundwater. Matining says visibility for queer women, femmes, and trans people in Vancouver is increasing, which historically hasn’t been the case in LGBTQ+ communities.

“I think there’s a lot of inherent misogyny that exists within queer communities, despite the fact that we’re all trying to work towards social justice and anti-oppression,” Matining said. “There definitely is replication of some of the violences that we’re trying to fight against.”

One of the reasons Matining and Groundwater started Denim Vest was because they wanted to create a space where everyone could feel comfortable.

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Jazz veteran John Stetch swings back to the West Coast to jam GREGORY ADAMS @gregoryadamsbc

A veteran in jazz circles for more than 25 years, John Stetch has collaborated with countless talented artists throughout his prolific career. The pianist may well be witnessing the rawest, purest players of the bunch, though, when Westender catches him on the phone in his hometown of Edmonton. He’s got some proper Canadian club stops coming up by the end of the month, but at this moment he’s deep into a two-week trek around the Alberta public school circuit as a guest instructor. In addition to teaching youths about counter-rhythms and flat seven chords, he just told a class of kids at his old elementary school about his time there as a student. And it wasn’t all good.

“I’ll never forget, I got a D. This is in music! I got a D in effort but an A in achievement, and the kids laughed,” he says with mock exasperation. “I told them that I didn’t feel good about

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that, so I’ve been trying hard ever since.”

The McGill-trained pianist has certainly been grinding, producing a thick catalogue of material since moving to New York in 1993.

He’s worked closely with respected composer/bassist Rufus Reid and also jammed with Charlie Haden and Seamus Blake. His 16-album discography includes a solo piano trilogy, as well as reworkings of the Price is Right and Love Boat themes on TV Trio. He’s yielded five Juno nominations, most recently for 2014’s Off with the Cuffs.

His latest collection, Vulneraville, brings him back into a group scenario, trading phrases with Steve Kortyka, a saxophonist who also plays with Lady Gaga, drummer Philippe Lemm and bassist Ben Tiberio. “Oscar’s Blue Green Algebra” is a 10-minute workout that flexes Kortyka’s hot-wax wailing and Stetch’s choice, nimble chord manipulations over Lemm’s snapped-up beat. Elsewhere, the swingin’ “Do Telepromptu” makes a complex 9/8 time signature surprisingly spry

and smooth, while Stetch notes that “Phun Toon” is “a real old-fashioned toe-tapper.” Recorded live last fall at Ithaca, NewYork’s Carriage House Café, the well-oiled set is even more remarkable in that it was the quartet’s first formal live performance.

He recalls: “We were excited to play that first show.

We probably even had some beginner’s luck just because we were so psyched to finally play that music live in front of a really supportive audience.”

Though plans are still up in the air, Stetch hopes that the foursome will get back in the studio by late summer to record an album of newly composed material. Without giving away too many details, he reveals that the group will be focusing on some tightknit, scripted material this time around.

“We all love improvising as jazz artists, but sometimes I think there’s such a thing as a perfect composition where it’s just planned. What’s wrong with that?”

Interestingly, by the time he’s recording in New York, Stetch will only be a part-

time resident. The pianist is moving back to Canada after 24 years abroad, taking up residence in Vancouver this spring with his girlfriend.

Stetch recalls coming to Vancouver in the early ’90s to play the famed Purple Onion, but this week’s performance at Pyatt Hall marks his firstever West Coast homecoming. Fittingly, he’s ready to take on the local scene.

“I have some very dear friends in the jazz community that I’ve been hanging out with that I’m looking forward to collaborating with,” he says, explaining sax man Mike Allen and drummer Joe Poole are just a couple of the players he’s going to connect with.

While currently teaching out in Edmonton, he’s excited about learning more about his new hometown. “[I’m] just looking forward to being in that city,” he says. W

own party and have it be centred around ways to create safe spaces for femmes, people with disability, indigenous folk, and gendernonconforming folks.”

Matining, and the group of people she works with, are trying to find ways to talk about accountability when different forms of violence happen,

including misogyny. She also believes that people need to come together to talk about how we can make spaces more accessible in the future.

Matining said there needs to be more communication and relationship building between people both within and outside of the queer com-

munity in order to achieve accessibility and cohesiveness.

“We need to de-isolate,” she said. “Sometimes in queer communities, we can really stay in our bubbles. But there’s a lot of strength in trying to create more relationships with people outside of your [comfort zone].” W

• John Stetch performs May 7 at 7pm at Pyatt Hall (VSO Schoo of Music, 843 Seymour St.). Tickets available at the door.

In today’s tumultuous political times, celebrating artists and sharing their stories is both a necessary and cathartic experience.

Enter the seventh annual Verses Festival of Words – Canada’s largest alternative literary festival, which takes place now until April 30 at venues across East Vancouver.This year,Verses boasts more than 30 competitions, performances, workshops and readings, and features a plethora of spoken-word artists. Artistic director Jillian Christmas says it is important to focus on accessibility and activism in this year’s festival, and celebrate artists who are using that platform to drive social change. “[The theme] kind of felt natural,” Christmas explains. “With everything that’s been going on as of late, we just knew we had to bring something to the community that was healing, informative and unifying in a way that allows us to create space for the work to be done moving forward, and celebrate the people who are doing this work.”

Christmas adds that those involved in this type of expression aren’t always given the necessary space to convey the emotions central to the work they’re doing. She maintains that storytelling is critical to how we identify and connect with one another. “You can’t do something until you can imagine it, and I think that speaking it out loud is a really important part of that process,” she says. “It gives us the opportunity to brainstorm together. It gives us a map of how to go into the future, and I hope that in this festival, we create space for that to happen.”

Festival highlights Christmas most looks forward to include a workshop offered by musician and poet Saul Williams, along with Sonya Renee Taylor and Denise Jolly’s performance piece The Body Is Not An Apology.

Rooted in radicalism and self-love, the piece focuses on body positivity and the importance of femmes in our society.

Christmas also anticipates the Black Lives Matter Showcase, curated by BLM Vancouver co-founder Cicely-Belle Blain, as well as Molly Billows’ and Amal Rana’s indigenous futurism spoken-word piece.

Molly Billows is a queer, mixed, indigenous feminist from the Coast Salish Nation.

Along with Rana, the pair recites spoken-word poetry rooted in politics and raw emotion.

Billows works with indigenous and marginalized youth and characterize indigenous futurism as equal parts reactive and proactive.

“It’s a way to write not only reactionary poetry, but poetry about things that I want to see in the world,” they say.

Billows also believes that poetry can contribute to collaborative healing in a number of different ways. “For people who are marginalized and facing oppression, poetry can be a really good outlet for working through your own emotions and communicating with others who might resonate with what you’re going through,” they say. “I think poetry is really important for creating what you want to see happen in the world.”

Billows is looking forward to collaborating and finding inspiration in other artists at the festival, as well as coming together as a community to heal and move forward. “Just listening to each other’s stories, and giving space for each other, and not feeling like you have to be on this healing process alone [is important],” they say. “You can reach out, and learn from other people, and be held by a community and feel like you’re not alone.”

Christmas says that she wants people coming to the festival to feel like there’s reasons for celebration.

“That cathartic sense of coming together and sharing space, that’s what we really want,” she said. “We can be re-invigorated for however long the struggle takes and we can do it together.”

• TheVerses Festival ofWords runs now until April 30.Tickets available at versesfestival.ca.

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There’s power in ‘La Merda’ Award-winning one-woman show from Italy showcases rage, sexism and ‘shit’ SABRINA FURMINGER @sabrinarmf

La Merda is not for the lighthearted.

This warning comes directly from its performer, famed Italian actress Silvia Gallerano, and it’s a warning that Gallerano delivers after nearly six years in the role.

La Merda – a fierce, fiery, and unapologetic show that’s played to sold-out crowds in Rome, London, Edinburgh, Copenhagen, Sao Paulo, Adelaide and Madrid since its premiere in 2012 – begins its highly anticipated run at the

Cultch next week.

The play’s title provides some clue to its level of audacity: in Italian, la merda is literally “the shit.”

Over the course of La Merda’s three rapid-fire monologues, Gallerano embodies a character (also named La Merda) who somehow manages to be raw and eloquent and vulnerable and powerful and horrible all at the same time. “The character of La Merda is a very terrible girl.

She appears very nice, but she does ferocious things,” says Gallerano on the phone from Rome. “She’s ready to forget her humanity, to forget her being a woman, just to make it and be someone in this emerging world.”

La Merda is an award-winning collaboration between Gallerano and writer Cristian Ceresoli.The work was initially inspired by a character that Gallerano had portrayed

in another show (“I had this voice, this character, that I already met in myself in another show before La Merda, and I was looking for the words for her to say,” she says), and grew to explore Gallerano and Ceresoli’s “life and our country, in a very profound and very instinctual way.”

Central to La Merda is Italian society in the aftermath of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s lengthy and controversial leadership.

The piece was written in 2011, and confronts an era in which, in Gallerano’s view, many women chose to take a significant step back. “This is a period in Italy where we really went back before the 70s,” says Gallerano. “A lot of women prefer not to work and be wives and mothers and lots of men think this is the right thing to do, and there’s lots of sexism.This is something that we really

Italian actress Silvia Gallerano in the provocative ‘La Merda’.

Valeria Tomasulo photo experience every day of our lives.”

Gallerano is nude for the entirety of La Merda, which she says adds another layer of dimension to an already complex role. “I am naked on the stage, like an animal, and yet I am also showing a strong woman,” she says. “For a woman to see it, it’s something that gives you power.”

Gallerano has performed La Merda in Italian, English, and French. Audiences in different cities react differently to the work, and not always in the way that Gallerano expects. “I thought the German audience would be silent, and then they were laughing a lot and it was like a cabaret performance,” says Gallerano. “And I went

to Spain, and I thought it would be very noisy, and they were serious and the performance at the end was very tragic.

“Now I really go and just say to myself, ‘let’s see.’ That’s why I don’t get bored.”

• La Merda runs May 2-7 at the Cultch (1895Venables).

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I love reading about my astrological sign. Even if I know it’s improbable bullshit, I still get a pathetic satisfaction knowing I am “such a Cancer.” It’s that same feeling I got after my friends and I poured over the quizzes in Seventeen magazine. Magic! I answered mostly Bs and now I know I am the ‘tough friend with a heart of gold.’

I’ve never been a fan of daily horoscopes; rather, my crack is attributing the vague personality traits of a Cancer female to myself.The only time I was spooked by a daily horoscope was from the SeattleWeekly.The writer predicted that I would give someone a $10 bill but get change for a $20. I laughed at the chances. Later that day it happened when I went to the corner store for cigarettes. Coincidence made me a believer for 24

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In 1948, psychologist Bertram Forer decided to do an experiment on his classroom. One day, he told his class that he had created individual personality outlines for each student.

He instructed his subjects to go over the test and rate the paper’s accuracy. Of course, the outlines were identical, but each student rated the outline as an excellent description of themselves.

Many psychologists have repeated similar experiments to the same results.We all want to be defined.We all want to be understood.

Horoscope writers rely on this phenomenon. Monthly predictions are uplifting and positive, and generally repeated on a loop year after year, but we’re too busy searching for meaning in the last page of the local weekly to notice. After thumbing through a newspaper filled with depressing information about the world, that last page of crosswords, horoscope and gossip serves as

an adult fairytale. Disneyland on the last page. It’s a way to escape. But astrology ultimately fails because it cannot be tested. How do you prove that it does or does not work? As Dr. Gad Saad of Concordia University said, “How do we falsify the concept of destiny?”

In 2005, a Gallup poll revealed that 33 per cent of Canadian women believe in astrology, compared with 16 per cent of Canadian men.

I’m willing to bet big that most of the women surveyed lied and said they don’t believe in astrology.This may be true, they are not sure if they believe in it, but that doesn’t negate the fact that they are intrigued by it.

More interestingly, a 2014 study cited in the Independent noted that 58 per cent of 18-to-24-year-old millennials obsessively read their horoscopes and believe that “astrology is scientific.”

Daisy Buchanan of Glamour chalked up women’s belief in astrology to sexism.

“Men live in a world they have made, and so most of the time, their efforts yield results and they’re made to feel in charge of their lives,”

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she wrote. “We [women] are often in situations where we work hard and don’t get what we deserve.When we’re looking for a system that helps us to make sense of an unfair universe, why wouldn’t we look to the stars?”

Dr. Saad believes that women are drawn into their astrological predictions because of the “locus of control.”This psychological concept defines how much power one has over what happens in their own life.

Some of us have an “external locus,” believing that we have little control over what happens to us, while others have a controlled “internal locus.” Dr. Saad admits

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“Squeeky was under a year old when she came to the shelter in November 2008.

She’d been rescued … out of the wall of a barn that was going to be torn down near the shelter,” said C.A.R.E.S. director Allison Burton. “She was traumatized and very scared – it took a very long time before any volunteer was able to touch her.”

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haired beauty took much comfort in hiding behind other cats, Burton added.

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Indeed, the two cats are often seen cuddling together in a kitty bed or walking and bumping along together to get a bite to eat at the feeding bowls.

“We can now pet Squeeky with just her friend Brandy buffering her,” Burton said.

Though Squeeky seems

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Brandy is a pretty six-yearold friendly, spayed tortoiseshell female. She too was rescued – this time from a trailer park with her two kittens. All three had been abandoned.

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that his research has shown women to be much more external.This is why Elle has horoscopes and Playboy has full nudity.

Psychotherapist Dr. Mike Leary thinks it has more to do with Mother Nature.

“Men can believe they are in control of things more than women,” he wrote in the comments section of

the Gallop survey. “Women know, once a month, no matter what, their body hormones wreak havoc with their rational selves and are very aware, things can change. In general, women are closer to their feeling selves and look for something to help get a sense of control over their world. It doesn’t help that men tend to be arrogant enough to insist women follow their rules by threatening, bullying, or humiliating them if they don’t.”

I don’t know whether to blame Mother Nature, sexism, psychology or the need to belong. All I know is that as a Cancer, I’m eternally emotional and moody, so my moon is always in your anus.

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I have misgivings when I witness bears riding bicycles or tigers dancing on their hind legs or Aries people wielding diplomatic phrases and making careful compromises at committee meetings. While I am impressed by the disciplined expression of primal power, I worry for the soul of the creature that is behaving with such civilized restraint. So here’s my advice for you in the coming weeks: take advantage of opportunities to make deals and forge win-win situations. But also keep a part of your fiery heart untamed. Don’t let people think they’ve got you all figured out.

“One of the advantages of being disorderly,” said author A. A. Milne, “is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” I wouldn’t normally offer this idea as advice to a methodical dynamo like you. But my interpretation of the astrological omens compels me to override my personal theories about what you need. I must suggest that you consider experimenting with jaunty, rambunctious behavior in the coming days, even if it generates some disorder. The potential reward? Exciting discoveries, of course.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, it’s time for you to take a break from the magic you have been weaving since your birthday in 2016. That’s why I’m suggesting that you go on a brief sabbatical.

Allow your deep mind to fully integrate the lessons you’ve been learning and the transformations you have undergone over the past 11 months. In a few weeks, you’ll be ready to resume where you left off. For now, though, you require breathing room. Your spiritual batteries need time to recharge. The hard work you’ve done should be balanced by an extended regimen of relaxed playtime.

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In speaking about the arduous quest to become one’s authentic self, writer Thomas Merton used the example of poets who aspire to be original but end up being imitative. “Many poets never succeed in being themselves,” he said. “They never get around to being the particular poet they are intended to be by God. They never become the person or artist who is called for by all of the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet. They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavour to have somebody else’s experiences or write somebody else’s poems.” I happen to believe that this is a problem for non-poets, as well. Many of us never succeed in becoming ourselves. Luckily for you, Leo, in the coming weeks and months you will have an unprecedented chance to become more of who you really are.

On numerous occasions, French acrobat Charles Blondin walked across a tightrope that spanned the gorge near Niagara Falls.

His cable was three and a quarter inches in diameter, 1,100 feet long, and 160 feet above the Niagara River. Once he made the entire crossing by doing back flips and somersaults.

Another time he carried a small stove on his back, stopped midway to cook an omelette, and ate the meal before finishing. Now would be an excellent time for you to carry out your personal equivalent of his feats, Virgo. What daring actions have you never tried before even though you’ve been sufficiently trained or educated to perform them well?

Ready for some subterranean journeys?

They may not involve literal explorations of deep caverns and ancient tunnels and underground streams. You may not stumble upon lost treasure and forgotten artifacts and valuable ruins. But then again, you might. At the very least, you will encounter metaphorical versions of some of the above.

What mysteries would you love to solve?

What secrets would be fun to uncover? What shadows would you be excited to illuminate?

Why would you guzzle mind-clouding moonshine when you will eventually get a chance to sip a heart-reviving tonic? Why spoil your appetite by loading up on nonnutritious hors d’oeuvres when a healthy feast will be available sooner than you imagine? I advise you to suppress your compulsion for immediate gratification. It may seem impossible for you to summon such heroic patience, but I know you can.

And in the long run, you’ll be happy if you do.

“You’ll always be my favourite what-if.” Many years ago, I heard that phrase whispered in my ear. It came from the mouth of a wonderful-but-impossible woman. We had just decided that it was not a good plan, as we had previously fantasized, to run away and get married at Angkor Wat in Cambodia and then spend the next decade being tour guides who led travellers on exotic getaways to the world’s sacred sites. “You’ll always be my favourite what-if” was a poignant, but liberating moment. It allowed us to move on with our lives and pursue other dreams that were more realistic and productive. I invite you to consider triggering a liberation like that sometime soon.

I’d love to see you increase the number of people, places, and experiences you love, as well as the wise intensity with which you love them. From an astrological perspective, now is an excellent time to upgrade your appreciation and adoration for the whole world and everything in it. To get you in the mood, I’ll call your attention to some unfamiliar forms of ardor you may want to pursue: eraunophilia, an attraction to thunder and lightning; cymophilia, a fascination with waves and waviness; chorophilia, a passion for dancing; asymmetrophilia, a zeal for asymmetrical things or sapiophilia, an erotic enchantment with intelligence.

You could go online and buy an antique Gothic throne or a psychedelic hippie couch to spruce up your living room. For your bathroom, you could get a Japanese “wonder toilet,” complete with a heated seat, automated bidet, and white noise generator.

Here’s another good idea: You could build a sacred crazy altar in your bedroom where you will conduct rituals of playful liberation.

Or how about this? Acquire a kit that enables you to create spontaneous poetry on your refrigerator door using tiny magnets with evocative words written on them. Can you think of other ideas to revitalize your home environment? It’s high time you did so.

Among America’s 50 states, Texas has the third-highest rate of teenage pregnancies.

Uncoincidentally, sex education in Texas is steeped in ignorance. Most of its high schools offer no teaching about contraception other than to advise students to avoid sex. In the coming weeks, Pisces, you can’t afford to be as deprived of the truth as those kids.

Even more than usual, you need accurate information that’s tailored to your precise needs, not fake news, ideological delusions or self-serving propaganda. Make sure you gather insight and wisdom from the very best sources. That’s how you’ll avoid behaviour that’s irrelevant to your life goals.

That’s how you’ll attract experiences that serve your highest good.

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