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The Witch: yep, it’s spooky 17 Arlo Maverick searches for balance on Maybe Tomorrow 19

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ARTS / 11 MUSIC / 24 EVENTS / 26 CLASSIFIED / 27 ADULT / 28

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Criticism plagues the U of A's Peter Lougheed Leadership College // 5

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Building up Edmonton's French pastry scene, one tart at a time // 6

ARTS

Brian Webb and Gary James Joynes mount an "intimate conversation" onstage // 8

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Firewatch lets an unusual game narrative build to a blaze // 16

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Robert Eggers' The Witch is an impressive, spooky debut // 17

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Arlo Maverick's Maybe Tomorrow examines success and sacrifice // 19

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NEWS EDITOR: MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

ASHLEY DRYBURGH // ASHLEY@VUEWEEKLY.COM

The great acronym debate

No matter how many letters are included, we're all in this together I'm going to kick it old-school and talk about The Acronym this week. You know the one: both affectionately and despairingly referred to as "alphabet soup," the acronym LGBTQ tries to take into account and name the multiplicity of queer sexual and gender identities. (Sidebar: yes, I know queer theory scholars get all hot and bothered about naming "queer" as an identity because, technically, it's not. And I agree in theory, but queer is often invoked as an identity in practice, so let's just leave it at that. And yes, I also know that "queer" is a problematic term for many because of its history of violence, but we also can't deny that many people— including me!—use it politically and joyfully.)

See, right there? That little argument is one of the reasons why The Acronym has become so capricious in recent years: how we name ourselves is so fraught with tension, so steeped in history and turmoil, that it comes as no surprise that we try to find words and space in which to fit everyone. After all, it hasn't been that long since we've had the chance to name ourselves against a backdrop of mandatory cis-heteronormativity that didn't even recognize our existence. Capricious it is: The Acronym has expanded into a double-digit collection of letters. For example, The Landing—the University of Alberta's student space for gender and sexual diversity—uses LGBTTQQPIANU+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirit, queer,

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Saudi arms deal Stéphane Dion doesn't like the Saudi Arabia arms deal announced two years ago by then-minister of international trade and current Conservative Member of Parliament, Ed Fast. But last week, Dion told the Senate that the Liberals would let it go through anyway. The details: Ontario-based manufacturer General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada won a contract, brokered by Crown corporation Canadian Commercial Corp, to provide Saudi Arabia with light armoured vehicles worth almost $15 billion over 14 years—enormously larger than any previously brokered deal. Saudi Arabia has, without a doubt, one of the most appalling regimes on this planet. Amnesty International reports that there is severe suppression of freedom of expression and dissent, arbitrary arrests and lack of due process, lengthy detentions, torture, floggings and executions by public beheading. You might recognize a few similarities to a little crisis tearing through Iraq and Syria that we're oh-so concerned about, but let's hammer it home: people have been murdered by the Saudi Arabian regime for the crime of "sorcery"—which, as you should be aware, is entirely fictional. Canada has no place doing business with this country, least of all arms business. And we do, on paper, have a safeguard: a reasonable chance of arms exports being used against civilians is supposed to halt the granting of the permit. It's hard to say why that hasn't kicked in, but the whole affair is hidden under a "confidentiality" layer that is clearly more important than the lives these vehicles will threaten. Dion's words don't instil much confidence that Canada plans to do anything so silly as standing up for human rights. It's bad enough that so many of the so-called enlightened states of this world care more about their friendship with the monsters that run Saudi Arabia than the wellbeing of its people. If switching our leaders isn't enough to have the courage to stand aside from them, #RealChange is nothing more than an embarrassed shrug. V

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questioning, pansexual, intersex, asexual, non-binary, unlabelled and more) as its acronym of choice. It's not even the longest I've seen. Typically, though, I imagine most of the time we see the short version, but which short version should we use: LGBT or LGBTQ? In fact, this was a discussion I had with my editor here at Vue when she noticed that the Q was making inconsistent appearances and wanted to know why. Honestly, I'm not sure (although I suspect that the little argument above might have something to do with it), but she decided to stick with the Q through our paper. As mildly controversial as that Q might be, it's another letter that, in

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recent months, has again become contentious. Back in November, I saw a headline that a petition had been started to remove the T (for trans*). I tell you, my first thought on reading the headline was, "Oh, yeah. This is because LGB organizations are often really bad at being trans* inclusive so they shouldn't claim to represent a population that they clearly don't." How naïve I was: this petition is the exact opposite. Posted on change.org, the petition was created by some anonymous gay and bisexual men and women and calls on a number of American queer advocacy and media outlets to "Drop the T" because "[they] feel [trans*] ideology is not only completely different from that promoted by

the LGB community (LGB is about sexual orientation, trans* is about gender identity), but is ultimately regressive and actually hostile to the goals of women and gay men." The "hostility" of a trans* ideology (and if someone could actually explain what that means to me, that would be great) is apparently due to this fine collection of folks being called on their transphobic shit. The petition ends by stating that a "discussion must be opened up to these issues, which for too long are being suppressed and censored." You know what? I agree. The wonderful and terrible thing about The Acronym is that we're all stuck together. So let's finally deal with our shit, LGBs, and stop leaving everyone else behind. V

GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Petulance: The English Way A Brexit would cause the European Union to start unravelling What would you call a country that called for "a structure under which [Europe] can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom ... a kind of United States of Europe" at the end of the Second World War (Winston Churchill, 1946), but refused to join that structure when its European neighbours actually began building it (European Economic Comunity, 1957)? What would you call that country if it changed its mind and asked to join the EEC in 1961, a goal it finally achieved in 1973 under Conservative fromer prime minister Edward Heath—only to demand a renegotiation of its terms of membership and hold an in/out referendum on EEC membership under a Labour government two years later? What would you say if that country then demanded another renegotiation of the terms of membership under Conservative former prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984, and insisted on opting out of the planned single currency when the countries of the European Community (as it now styled itself) signed the Maastricht Treaty in 1992? And what would you say about that country's behaviour if another Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, demanded another renegotiation on the terms of membership in what is now called the European Union in 2013, and promised another referendum once the results were known? The word "ambivalent" would certainly spring to mind. "Capricious" also has a strong claim to be the right word. But the adjective that really sums up Britain's behaviour in its 70-year love-hate relationship with the European project is "petulant." There's going to be another referendum on whether the United Kingdom should stay in the European Union on June 23. Not that Prime Minister Cameron wants to leave the EU, of course. His 2013 promise of a referen-

dum was mainly an attempt to steal votes from the United Kingdom Independence Party, which did indeed want to leave, in the 2015 election. But Cameron couldn't walk away from his promise after he won the election, because half of his own party wants to leave the European Union. Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the Labour Party, is at best lukewarm about the the EU, viewing it essentially as a capitalist plot that has some positive side-effects. And recent opinion polls suggest that the referendum could go either way. These are not the best of times for the EU. It has not responded well to the wave of mostly Midde Eastern refugees that began rolling across its frontiers early last year. It is suffering from chronic low growth and high unemployment (although the United Kingdom itself is doing quite well on both fronts). It is becoming clear that the adoption of the euro common currency by 19 EU countries was a major mistake. There is therefore a lot of disillusionment about the EU even among its core members on the European mainland, and some people fear that "Brexit" (a British exit from the Union) would start to unravel all the other deals and compromises that went into the construction of this historically unlikely structure. But why are the British always the most disaffected ones? All the countries on the west coast of Europe lost their overseas empires in the decades after the Second World War, and Britain is not the only one to cling to delusions of grandeur in the aftermath. France, too, has a highly inflated view of its own importance. But the French understand the cost of European disunity much better than the British, because they paid a higher price. It has to do with the fact that Britain is an island. Almost every other European

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country except Switzerland and Sweden has seen serious fighting on its own soil in the past century. Many of them have seen it several times, and about half of them have been partly or wholly occupied by foreign troops for long periods—whereas Britain has not been successfully invaded for almost a millennium. Britain is not alone in seeing the follies of the EU bureaucracy and resenting the cost of the compromises that have to be made to keep the enterprise alive. It is alone, or almost alone, in seeing European unity purely as an optional project, to be reassessed from time to time by calculating its economic benefits and weighing them against its political and emotional costs for Britain. Emotional costs? Yes, and this is where the petulance comes from. There is a fantasy, still quite prevalent in England, that the country could have a much more satisfying future as a fully independent player, unshackled from the dull and stodgy European Union and living by its wits as a swashbuckling global trader. To which one can only say: good luck with that. This romantic vision is not shared by the Scots, who would certainly break away if English votes took the United Kingdom out of the EU. But an independent Scotland might find it hard to claim EU membership after the divorce, as Madrid would not want to establish a precedent that Catalonian separatists could use to argue that breaking away from Spain would be painless. Most British leaders have worked hard to manage the inflated expectations of English super-patriots and keep the country more or less on track. Cameron has dropped the ball, and the consequences for both Britain and Europe may be quite serious.V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

FEATURE // EDUCATION

CHALLENGING LEADERSHIP Criticism plagues the U of A's Peter Lougheed Leadership College

ore than a decade has passed since the University of Alberta proposed the creation of a college specifically to educate young, emerging leaders. Former U of A president Indira Samarasekera introduced the idea shortly after being hired in 2005. Eight years later in 2013, plans to make the Peter Lougheed Leadership College (PLLC) a reality were announced. Last fall, the inaugural class of 60 students, drawn from different faculties across campus, began the first term of a brand-new, two-year interdisciplinary program. Students are placed into small, nine- to 10-person groups, and work within them on projects throughout the year. Participating students still belong to their regular faculty, and the PLLC is akin to another set of classes that count for credits; upon graduation the student receives the degree from their chosen program as well as a certificate for completing the PLLC. Martin Ferguson-Pell, PLLC viceprincipal, explains that the college hopes its curriculum will prepare students to face significant local and global challenges in their careers, post-graduation. "When we tend to think of leaders, we tend to think of prime ministers or premiers or leaders of industry and so on, but actually in reality, we're all involved in different aspects of leadership in what we do in our everyday lives," he says. "Whether it's leadership in our family, in our community, in our workplace, we're all placed in situations where we're asked to

lead an initiative, project, a group of people. We're not trying to create a small cohort of Canada's next leaders as much as we're trying to ensure that students who go through the Peter Lougheed Leadership College have the necessary skills for them to be prepared to practice leadership in their life, whatever the circumstances might be." In its first year, the PLLC has begun integrating itself into the university campus. Leaders from a variety of p r o fe s s i o n s are brought in for a series of lectures, which are open to the public. A residence for PLLC students to live and work in is planned for completion in Fall 2017, and the college has begun working with existing U of A leadership programs, such as the Alberta Student Leadership Summit. But the college's integration hasn't been without criticism.

riculum quality was approved by the Campus Alberta Quality Council. But, according to Fahim Rahman, VP Academic for the U of A Students' Union, the PLLC hasn't consulted enough with Students' Council, nor informed it of how SU-led focus groups on the college have been

The regular expected size of a PLLC class aims to be twice as large as this year's, but is still only a fraction of the 38 000-plus students at the U of A. Financial barriers may also prevent some students from applying; to address those concerns, the PLLC has introduced monetary awards and scholarships. The awards will also help subsidize students for the summer aspect of the PLLC program, which requires its students to take on a leadership role that may result in an unpaid volunteer position. "[Diversity] is the simplest way that we can demonstrate that the students in the college are no different than any other students on campus, other than the fact that they have a particular passion about wanting to learn about leadership," FergusonPell says. "There's faculty that think the college is elitist, [and] there's students that think the college is elitist," John Hampson says, a third-year political science student in the PLLC. "I think the students that do hold those opinions are mainly involved in student government in some capacity. I think the majority of students—and this is another reason for more aware-

When we tend to think of leaders, we tend to think of prime ministers or premiers or leaders of industry and so on, but actually in reality, we're all involved in different aspects of leadership in what we do in our everyday lives

The U of A Students' Union, in particular, has raised questions about the PLLC's accountability. The PLLC has been questioned about its program by the General Faculties Council (the U of A's legislative body that deals with academic matters and student affairs) at the General Faculties Council meetings, and its cur-

incorporated into its program. The PLLC also doesn't include a council representative on any of its committees to represent student voices outside the PLLC, and Rahman isn't even sure exactly how the college's curriculum is designed. "While it's very important to get feedback from students in the college, the perspectives from students that aren't enrolled in the college— whether they were too far into their degree to participate or they didn't believe perhaps in the leadership philosophy that was taught at the college—it's really important to get that student perspective too, and I think that's what's lacking," he says. "You can't just take one group of students to the exclusion of all other students."

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ness—are not aware of the college in general. So there's apathy there." Communication, both within the greater campus community and internally, is another area the PLLC has had to improve. After students voiced frustrations over disorganized communication with college staff, the PLLC responded with a town hall meeting in mid-December, open to PLLC students but not the general public. It also began sending biweekly newsletters and consolidated the staff list that corresponds with students. With more information sessions, posters around campus, events designed for the entire campus community and a growing presence on the U of A website, the PLLC also seeks to raise awareness about its existence as it approaches the end of its inaugural year. "I think it's a point of pride for the University of Alberta," Hampson says. "I know that my degree will be stronger because of my participation in the Lougheed College, and I hope that others come to realize that opportunity. My hope for the college is any animosity that may exist to the college on campus gets smoothed over. I think that's going to take increased communication between the Students' Union and the Lougheed College, between the faculty and the college, and I think that's doable. But there are obvious concerns out there and I think it's important those are addressed." ANDREW JEFFREY

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FEATURE // PASTRY

élanie Dovale hurries into Passion de France, her pastry shop on 118 Avenue, laughing and apologizing for being three minutes late. It snowed heavily overnight, and she's rushed to work after dropping her son off at school. Settling into a red velvet chair next to a refrigerator case full of tarts and mac-

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Passion de France

Building up Edmonton's French pastry scene, one tart at a time arons, she smiles, patting the green wainscoting on the wall. "The pastry chef and me, we did this," she says. "We did all the decoration, we built the fence. We did everything." Dovale established Passion de France in November 2014, the culmination of a long, arduous process. Dovale began work on a business

plan in 2012, two years after moving to Edmonton from Montréal. It was just enough time, she says, to be dismayed by the dearth of traditional French pastry available in Edmonton. Despite having no experience in baking, Dovale was determined to improve the prospects for her fellow pastry enthusiasts. Together with

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her pastry chef, Fadoua Derbel, she spent much of 2013 collecting recipes and contacting suppliers—all while completing a master's degree in counselling through the University of Calgary. But Edmonton's small business scene proved disheartening at times. "It's very, very hard to start your own business if you're not backed up by a franchise," Dovale says emphatically. "Location is the most important thing, but to have a good location is not affordable. The city should cap it off." After finding a storefront just off Alberta Avenue, Dovale still had to navigate the city's building permit process. She looks freshly astonished as she recalls having to provide the measurements of the apartments in the adjacent building. "I had to go in to people's homes and do it myself with a measuring tape!" she recalls. These days, just over a year into operation, Dovale juggles everything from management and accounting, to graphic design and purchasing. "We don't use powders, and we don't use artificial products," she says. "So I get the cream and the apples every week because I want it fresh." Despite the frenetic pace of her job, her focus is on quality and affordability. "When you pay $15 for a coffee and a pastry, it's not affordable,"

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Passion de France 11812 - 86 Street 780.257.2092 she explains. "For a normal person to work an hour and then have a cake and a pastry—for me it doesn't make sense." Affordability is not Dovale's only metric for increasing the accessibility of traditional French pastry in Edmonton; Passion de France is the first halal pastry shop in Canada. While vanilla extract, for instance, makes even some items at Tim Horton's offlimits for those following a halal diet, Passion de France serves halal versions of many classic desserts. "People who don't drink alcohol want the tiramisu, but what a lot of people don't know is that in cakes, there's pork," she explains, referring to the common use of gelatin. Sourcing pork-free gelatin can be difficult; last time she needed to purchase it, it took her two months to find some. In spite of the challenges, Dovale knows she is filling a significant niche in Edmonton's increasingly diverse community. But if Passion de France's orange chocolate tart, almond tulles, opera cake and pain au raisin are any indication, it won't remain a niche market for long.

LIZZIE DERKSEN

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VENI, VIDI, VINO

MEL PRIESTLEY // MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Wine on your doorstep

Drizly's home liquor-delivery service has arrived in Edmonton after 15 minutes the chat function disappeared completely and I got an email about the support ticket I had apparently created. Maybe Robert didn't know what charcuterie was? The order arrived about 20 minutes after I had placed it, which was nice and quick—though the store is only a five-minute drive from my house, so that's not overly impressive. The delivery driver was very cheerful. In a telephone interview, Matt Erley, general manager of Drizly's Edmonton market, confirmed that while the company would consider working with other businesses in the future, for now it serves its purposes to work solely with Liquor Depot. I'm doubtful that Drizly will partner with other stores around town, however, even if it was inclined to do so. The drivers are employees of the liquor store, not Drizly, and few small indie stores have the resources to pay a driver for six hours a day. As for Drizly's lacklustre product catalogue, Erley confirms more variety will be added as the company continues to operate. Again, I'm skeptical: Liquor Depot is the one in control of the inventory, and it isn't going to change from offering nothing but mass-marketed stuff. This will be justified by stating that this is the type of products usually ordered by Drizly's target audience (18 to 30), but this is patronizing and increasingly inaccurate—young peo-

ple account for some of the most savvy liquor shoppers out there. It's also a self-fulfilling cycle: Liquor Depot offers those products because it thinks that's all people want, so that's what people are stuck having to buy, so Liquor Depot continues to stock only those brands. Alberta has the best selection of liquor in the country thanks to our privatized industry, but you'd never know this from browsing the shelves at the average Liquor Depot. If you just need a casual bottle— maybe because you're tired after work or you have guests coming over who don't know/care about

what they're drinking—then Drizly offers just the right amount of bland convenience. It's no substitute for your local wine shop. In fact, Drizly's arrival in Edmonton is all the more reason to put in extra effort to support the small independent players who have worked hard to carve out a much-needed niche of higher quality within a city that remains far too dominated by large corporate chains.V Mel Priestley is a certified sommelier and wine writer who also blogs about wine, food and the arts at melpriestley.ca

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site to order a couple bottles of wine around 4:30 pm on Monday. Navigating the site is quite easy, and the design is clean. Products are divided by major category (beer/wine/ liquor) and then by type (beer and liquor) or grape variety (wine). It would be nice to be able to search by country, and the vintages on the wine also aren't shown, but oh well. I noticed a few spelling errors in the tasting notes provided under each wine, which were minor but looked unprofessional. Some products were coded incorrectly—Coppola Diamond Collection Claret was listed under Bordeaux, for example. Some of the bottle images were also incorrect: Jackson-Triggs has several tiers of wine, and I noticed that Drizly used the mid-tier (black label) picture for the entry-level (white label) bottle, which was immediately obvious from the price—and would have been seriously annoying if the cheaper one ended up at my door, had I not noticed (or thought it was on major sale). Noticing the chat function, I decided to give it a whirl and ask a question: "I'd like something very earthy and Old World that pairs with charcuterie." Within moments, someone named Robert—a "Drizly Product Expert"—joined the chat. After about five minutes he still hadn't responded, so I prompted him again: "Hello, are you there?" Still no answer after about 10 more minutes, and then

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Joining the ranks of food-delivery apps like Just Eat and Skip the Dishes is Drizly, an on-demand liquor-delivery service. It boasts prices equal to what they are in store—there are no markups, just a flat $5 delivery fee. The service promises delivery within one hour, and currently runs between 3:30 pm and 9:30 pm every day of the week. The driver scans your ID at the door so as to verify your age and ensure no minors are being served; if drivers encounter any intoxicated people, they are instructed to return the items to the store. Drizly currently operates in several large US cities; Edmonton is the service's first Canadian market. It sounds great—and undoubtedly offers a lot of convenience—but I was immediately skeptical. The main reason? Drizly is partnered with Liquor Depot. When I first started browsing through the products available through Drizly, I was pleasantly surprised: there seemed to be quite a good selection. Then I entered my address. The list of products, especially wines, was reduced considerably and completely dominated by mass-marketed big brands: Yellow Tail, Apothic, Cupcake, Barefoot. This should be no surprise, given that this is pretty much all Liqour Depot stocks. The prices were also consistent with that chain—the highest in town. I decided to give the service a test run, so I went on the Drizly.com web-

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PREVUE // DANCE

IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE Brian Webb and Gary James Joynes mount an "intimate conversation" onstage

hen you've spent years penning dance columns for Vue, interviewing Brian Webb becomes a regularity. But each time, without fail, Edmonton's patriarch of contemporary dance drops a surprise soundbite in preview. This time, it's a confession that he loves heavy metal (which was suspected after his donning of a Megadeth T-shirt in last season's frost flowers/arctic death machine). His affection for the genre lies in its ability to manifest physically; you can often feel metal's power chords vibrating. "It's stops being music to me and becomes sound in the body," Webb says, noting that his collaborator on Broken Sound2, Gary James Joynes, has played with two heavy-metal groups before. Webb says that when he saw Joynes' original Broken Sound installation in New York, he thought he'd "died and gone to heaven." "It was so powerful," Webb says. "I'm almost 65; I'm an old guy in this arts community, and when I meet someone like that it really gets my gears moving." Known musically as Clinker, Joynes has focused in recent years on creating immersive installations and visual sound projects through custom-made machines and synthesizers; one might recall his Frequency Painting exhibition at Latitude 53 in 2011, where 12 tonal sounds were used to create images through vibrating sand on lightboxes. Throughout the room, the tones changed as bodies shifted through space, giving each viewer a visceral, subjective experience of the sound. With Broken Sound2, the two collaborators are mounting Joynes' installation in tandem with an "intimate conversation" in front of the audience.

Until Sat, Feb 27 (8 pm) Broken Sound2 Timms Centre for the Arts, $25 – $35 "People are going to come into the theatre, see the installation onstage, and two men sitting across from each other having a conversation," Webb says. "The conversation, I think, is very adult: we're talking about life and death in a very personal way—not in a 'woe is me' type of way. If you think about it, as soon as we're conceived, we're moving towards death, so that's what we're talking about. It's not morose, but it's very frank." As the audience settles in, they'll be invited to join the installation with the performers. "I'm interested in the potential of the ecstatic moment in theatre, that 'aha' moment where one recognizes oneself and also feels life," Webb says. "[When] the other man is moving through the audience, with the audience, in this intimate setting, in this intimate proximity, where we see and smell each other, we're in there together." It's been a busy year for Webb, too, performing in (at least) three new productions over the past six months; despite poking fun at himself as the "old guy" in the scene, his output is as prolific as ever. His work seems to be changing too, or maybe settling in to a point where the aspect of career retrospective is just as clear as his need to be in the present. "I really work hard to be Brian Webb, the guy who he is today," he says. "I'm not interested in who I was when I was at the point in my career where I was technically supercharged and young and athletic. I'm always interested in who I am today."

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REVUE // THEATRE

In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) D

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r Givings (Mat Busby) is a man of science. He worships at the feet of Thomas Edison, approaches his work with clinical objectivity, and uses the latest medical technology to treat a terrible condition in his patients: hysteria. Whether he's rhapsodizing on about electricity or relieving the congestion in a womb by freeing up its juices, Busby is almost frighteningly pleasant as Dr Givings. His first patient, Mrs Daldry (Caley Suliak) is peevish and sullen at first but soon becomes addicted to

her treatments with Dr Givings' remarkable new machine, a hilariously loud vibrator. The Vibrator Play finds plenty of comedy in the languid Mrs Daldry and her sexual awakening. But no matter how hysterically the patient shivers and shakes and oscillates, the true story doesn't take place in Dr Givings' clinic—it takes place in the next room, with Mrs Catherine Givings (Gianna Vacirca). If Mrs Daldry is the depressive face of hysteria, then manic Catherine is her bipolar opposite. Vacirca flits about the stage like a caged hummingbird, working herself up and wearing herself out at the same time. With so much focus on the vibrator

play happening next door, it takes a while for it to sink in that Mrs Givings is the true protagonist of this story. Vacirca owns her role, making lines that are quite ridiculous sound credible with her jittery delivery. At its outset, it seems as though In the Next Room will interrogate the vibrator as an instrument of female empowerment, or even have its characters question why so many women were being diagnosed with hysteria. But these themes never really come to a climax. Instead, we get a lot of insight into the Givings' dysfunctional relationship ("Your milk isn't adequate. I love you," says the cluelessly cruel doctor). In fact, pretty much all

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Until Sat, Feb 27 (7:30 pm; 2 pm Saturday matinees) Directed by Amy DeFelice Backstage Theatre, $21.75 – $27 of the storylines outside of the Givings' just sort of fall away rather than feeling resolved (there's a lesbian subplot that doesn't get the attention it requires, and a few extramarital entanglements that feel shoehorned in for drama). All that aside, the show's ending does bring Givings' story to a satisfying conclusion—leaving us with a warm afterglow as we leave the theatre. BRUCE CINNAMON

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Subway Circus

Until Sat, Feb 27 (7:30 pm; 1:30 pm Saturday Matinee) Directed by Braydon Dowler-Coltman ATB Financial Arts Barns (PCL Theatre), $15 – $20 conclusions about what's happening and to make connections between these slices of life.

ubway Circus opens with an arithmetic lesson that feels more like a riddle: If a farmer has seven apples and gives three apples away, how many apples does he have left? This riddle serves to introduce our protagonist, a young boy who's more interested in the colour of the apples and the life of the farmer than the simple answer he's supposed to give. We follow him onto a subway car, where the lives of seven passengers intersect. Over the next hour, we get to see a range of stories about their lives—from a failed romance to a vio-

lent attack to a critique of consumerism—told through a series of movement pieces and short scenes. These mini-episodes are reminiscent of the TV show Sense8, where a collection of rather generic stories are more interesting because of the central framing device connecting them. It's ambiguous as to whether the little boy is the ringmaster of this circus, imagining these stories and projecting them onto the passengers, or whether we're getting genuine glimpses into their lives. In general, the show leaves it up to the audience to draw our own

The decision to frame the show in an alley stage makes a lot of sense, not just because it evokes the rectangularity of a subway car, but also because it involves the audience in the action. We are the people sitting down on the subway's parallel benches while each of the seven passengers clings to a hand rail, swaying with the motion of the train. As they slip into their stories one by one, we're pulled along with them. The action feels too close for comfort uring some of the more aggressively choreographed sequences, just like when we're unwittingly involved in a real-life scene on the LRT. The show could even stand to push the audience closer to each other, reinforcing the claustrophobic feeling of a crowded subway car. Although it's a little hard to get on board with its loosely outlined stories and characters, Subway Circus has enough clever ideas to make it worth the ride.

The Wizard of Oz / Tue, Feb 23 – Sun, Feb 28 The enduring classic that is The Wizard of Oz—the tale of Dorthy and her anthropomorphic squad following a pretty straightforward road to a municipal mystic, all while beset by a witch—is something you have ample chance to see on film, but live, less so. With that in mind, Broadway Across Canada's touring spectacle is promising everything the film has and more: all the classic songs you know, plus a few extras that couldn't fit in the movie. (Jubilee Auditorium, $40 – $120) Analog Collage is Best / Sat, Feb 27 (8 pm) Local music-art-comedy-wünderkid Jill Pollock has a new series of handmade collages she wants to show you, constructed out of garage sale finds and

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second-hand salvages, collectively being presented as Analog Collage Is Best. To celebrate the series, she's enlisted Cayley Thomas and Billie Zizi (as well as herself) to score the evening of DIY art. (Bohemia) Osctravaganza / Sun Feb 28 (5:30 pm [broadcast begins at 6:30 pm]) Planning on watching the Oscars, but don't have a party to hit? Dress up in your Hollywood best and wander down Jasper Avenue: Shadow Theatre and ACME Theatre have been hosting an Oscars-watching fundraiser for a decade now. This year, it's hosted by the indelible trio of Hey Ladies!, features a three-course meal from BLVD and, during the commercials, games, songs and the chance to vie for prizes. So it's not quite your very own Oscar, but close. (BLVD, $75) V

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PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

A place to showcase

The AGA opens up a community-use exhibition space

here's only so much gallery space to go around, especially in a midsized city like this. And depending on your method of artistic output, or place of training, or familiarity with the scene, getting eyes on your work—and getting your work into a place where eyes can find it—can be as involved a process as the artmaking itself. With that in mind, the Art Gallery of Alberta is opening up some mini-exhibition space for any eager presenters—26 such spaces, actually. Showcase: small spaces/big ideas will be a wall at the AGA dedicated to community use: its mini-galleries—plexiglass trapezoids—will be bookable for month-long instalments at a low cost ($21). They can be used to showcase whatever you want to display, by people of any age, background or level of experience. "There are many people in Alberta who are engaged with all types of creative practices," AGA executive director Catherine Crowston writes via email, while travelling out of the country. "Many are not professional artists, and many don't have a place to share their ideas and the things that they make with the public. Show-

case is a way for members of the community to have a place and connection with the AGA. "Encouraging creativity, communicating the importance of art-making and creating a public forum for thinking and talking about art are all important parts of the AGA's mission," she continues. "We think that this new project helps to do this in a way that is engaging, fun and grounded in our community." Showcase isn't a temporary gallery: it's essentially a permanent part of the AGA ("So long as there is interest from the public, we will continue to present their works in the AGA showcase," Crowston explains.) The idea came from a museum Crowston visited in Eastern Europe in 2014; the AGA's showcase boxes are being designed by local carpentry studio Oliver Apt, "as a way to engage local designers and craftspeople from the beginning of the project." The first deadline for submissions is Monday, March 7, and the inaugural batch of exhibits will begin on Friday, March 18. Crowston notes that the ideas that have already come in run a gamut of disciplines.

The Art Gallery of Alberta More info at youraga.ca/showcase "This is a non-juried exhibition space, and so it's a great opportunity for anyone to get involved in the AGA," she writes. "The submissions so far cover a range of media and practices (as we had hoped), and they have also been very thoughtful and cover a broad range of topics."

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y the end of the calendar year, Richard Van Camp will have released 20 books to his name. An impressive milestone to hit, and at decent clip, too—"Twenty books out in 20 years," as he genially puts it. But that's the end of the year: a few months into 2016, his mind's trailing backwards, not forwards, to his very first release, The Lesser Blessed. "It was my absolute everything 20 years ago, holding it for the first time in my hands," he recalls, over the phone from an ice road up north— coincidentally, the same one that connects Behchoko and Edzo, two key locales in Van Camp's novel debut. He's up there teaching creative workshops before heading back our way to celebrate The Lesser Blessed's 20th anniversary at Audreys Books. Set in the late '80s in the fictional isolated community of Fort Simmer, NWT—based on a scatter of places Van Camp grew up around—The Lesser Blessed tracks the coming-ofage of Larry Sole, a Dogrib (Dene) teen with a penchant for Iron Maiden, and a deep affection for classmate Juliet Hope. He's caught in the emotional turmoil of high school, as well as the darkness lurking in his past, and there's something about the character that resonates with Van Camp, even two decades later. "Just how hungry the voice was," he says. "Just how desperate Larry is. Just how honest and sincere—that was the thing: he says, 'I think I was really able to tap into the teenage heart, the beautiful teenage heart we all had once.'" As a child in Fort Smith (population: 2496, as of 2011), Van Camp was a voracious reader, consuming Judy Bloom and Heavy Metal Magazine alike. The more he read, the more he noticed a certain absence in the literature around him. "No one was telling our story," he recalls. "I was always aware that yes, we are Canadian, but we're also

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Sat, Feb 27 (2 pm) Audreys Books northerners as well." He pursued writing, leaving the north to attend the University of Victoria; in his third year, he finished The Lesser Blessed's manuscript. Then just 24, he cold-called the Carolyn Swayze Literary Agency, which he found in the back of BC Bookworld, and sent them the work. Two weeks later, the manuscript was sold to Douglas & McIntyre, and he was paired with editor Barbara Pulling to tweak it for release. When it arrived, The Lesser Blessed's impact was widespread: for Van Camp, it launched a career that's included consulting on CBC's North of 60, many more releases— baby books to novels—and being named Storyteller of the Year for all of North America by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. "It was the voice, I think, no one was expecting to come out of the north," Van Camp says. "And for many northerners, it was finally the real, authentic, born-and-raised northern voice— a great northern howl. It came out of left-field and knocked a lot of people on their sides; they just didn't know what hit them." The book's legacy can back that up; in addition to a 20th-anniversary edition now, there was a movie adaptation that arrived a few years back. The story continues to resonate, both in Van Camp's home, and abroad. "I had a young woman come up to me just a while ago and say, 'Thank you for writing this book: I was the Juliet Hope of my high school,'" he says. "Kids are still being bullied, kids are still finding their way in the world, through each other and with each other. I'm proud I was able to be there at the right time, and to strike that chord."

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Dance Broken Sound squared • Timms Centre for the Arts, 87 Ave-112 St • 780.420.1757 • bwdc.ca • Featuring dance group Brian Webb Dance Company. A world-premiere Brian Webb collaboration with a local sound and visual artist • Feb 24-27, 8pm • $35 (general admission), $20 (student/senior) Canada's Ballet Jörgen: Sleeping Beauty • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • Featuring underlying themes of good vs evil, this production will use nature as inspiration, drawing on traditional choreography and be danced to the original 1890 score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Mar 6, 4pm • $35 (adult), $30 (students/seniors)

EBDA Ballroom Dance • Lions Seniors Recreational Centre, 11113-113 St • 780.893.6828 • Mar 5, 8pm

Flamenco Dance Classes (Beginner or Advanced) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-115 St NW #204 • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • Every Sun, 11:30am12:30pm

Sacred Circle Dance • Riverdale Hall, 9231-100 Ave • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • Every Wed, 7-9pm • $10

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave •

film-festival • Seven films will be shown in four different sites of Edmonton. Films will be in French, with English subtitles • Mar 5-22 • Free

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Schedule: Rosewater (Feb 26)

The Great Human Odyssey in Concert • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • An Edmonton-produced documetary on the origins of humanity and its path to the presen was given life with music of former Edmonton composer Darren Fung, in a series presented on CBC's The Nature of Things • Feb 25, 8pm • $24-$79

metro • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • Music Doc: Imagine: John Lennon (Mar 1, 7pm) • NorthWestFest 2015/2016: Where to Invade Next (Feb 27, 7pm); Day of Change (Mar 2, 6:30pm) • Reel Family Cinema: E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial (Feb 27, 2pm); Labyrinth (Mar 5, 2pm); The Peanuts Movie (Mar 12, 2pm); Jumanji (Mar 19, 2:30pm); Batman: The Movie (Mar 26, 4:30pm; Mar 30, 9:30pm) • Science in the Cinema: The Incredible Hulk (Feb 25, 6:30pm); Amour (Mar 31, 6:30pm) • Shakespeare on the Silver Screen: Macbeth (Mar 4-6); Chimes at Midnight (Mar 6, 9, 13); Romeo + Juliet (Mar 6, 8)

Saturday Documentary Screenings • Earth's General Store Downtown, 10150-104 St • michael@egs.ca • earthsgeneralstore.eventbrite. com • Screenings of documentaries with subjects such as: climate change, animal welfare, plant based diets, and much more. Attendees will then discuss the film • Schedule: Dirt! The Documentary (Feb 27) • Every Sat, 7-9pm • Free (register at EventBrite)

galLeries + Museums ACUA Gallery & Artisan Boutique • 9534-87 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts.ca • acuarts.ca • Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts presents Easter and Spring Market; Mar 5, 10am5pm • Workshops $20-$25

587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: X3: artwork by Alberta Potters’ Association, Contextural | Fibre Arts Cooperative and the Nina Haggerty Centre; Jan 16-Mar 26 • What Grows in the Ditch: artwork by Donna Brunner; Feb 13-Mar 29 • MIX: artwork by Paula Cooley; Feb 13-Mar 19

Swing 'n' Skate • City Hall - City Room

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Fabric: Charrette Roulette; Nov 21-Apr 10 • The Blur in Between: artwork by an international roster of artists from Chile, the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, as well as Canada; Jan 23-May 8 • The Flood: artwork by Sean Caulfield; Feb 6-Aug 14 • Out of the Woods: artwork by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven; Feb 13-Apr 17 • 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc; Mar 5-Jul 3 • Little Cree Women (Sisters, Secrets & Stories): artwork by Brittney Bear Hat & Richelle Bear Hat; Mar 5-Jul 3 • Conversation with the Artist: Brittney Bear Hat and Richelle Bear Hat (Mar 4, 1-2pm) • Curator’s Lecture: 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc; Mar 5, 1-2pm • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm

& Plaza, 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.970.7766 • brasko@edmontonarts.ca • edmontonarts.ca/eac_projects/eac_projects_ churchillsquare • The Trocadero Orchestra will be bringing their 18 piece big band sound. Sugar Swing Dance Club will be on site to help put the boogie-woogie in attendees' step. Music will be broadcasted outside so ice skaters can enjoy it as well • Every Sun until Feb 28, 1-4pm • Free

Transformational Ballet • Dance Code, 10575-115 St • justin@toygunstheatre. com • toygunstheatre.com • Featuring a new understanding of the body and its potential to create, communicate, and resonate in any performance medium • Every Sun, Tue, Thu until Feb 28 • $15 (drop in), 10 class passes and monthly rates available

FILM Cinema at the Centre • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free

Edmonton Film Society • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca/movies • This winter film series will feature the theme: Love is in the Air • Schedule: Penny Serenade (Feb 29), The Lady Eve (Mar 7), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Mar 14), Letter From an Unknown Woman (Mar 21), The Enchanted Cottage (Apr 4), To Have and Have Not (Apr 11) • All films begin at 8pm • $6 (regular), $5 (seniors 65+/ students), $30 (all eight films)

EIFF Presents Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation • Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre, 10200-102 Ave • edmontonfilmfest. com/special-events • Featuring the films: Prologue, World of Tomorrow, Sanjay’s Super Team and much more • Feb 25, 8:30-10:30pm • Tickets available through Eventbrite

EIFF Presents Oscar Nominated Shorts: Live Action • Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre, 10200-102 Ave • edmontonfilmfest. com/special-events • Featuring the films: Everything Will Be Ok, Stutterer, Ave Maria and more • Feb 25, 6:30-8:30pm • Tickets available at Eventbrite

French Film Festival • Various locations throughout Edmonton • af.ca/edmonton/french-

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Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Overburden: artwork by Jessica Plattner; Mar 3-Apr 30; Reception: Apr 2, 2:30-5pm

Bear Claw Gallery • 10403-124 St • 780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Celebrating Professional Native Indian Artists Inc: artwork by Alex Janvier, Joseph Sanchez, Daphne Odjig, Norval Morrisseau, Eddy Cobiness, Jackson Beardy and Carl Ray; Mar 3-15 Big Lake Artists Studio • Riel Business Park, 2nd floor, 33 Rayborn Cres., St. Albert • Open House/Show and Sale: Featuring artwork by nine local artists; Feb 27, 10am-5pm; 10% of sale proceeds go to the Food Bank; donations accepted at the door

Bleeding Heart Art Space • 9132-118 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • kâkatawasisicik iskwêwak: Visual works by Lana Whiskeyjack; Jan 30-Mar 15

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Detour: artwork by Curtis Trent; Feb 12-Mar 1

Cafe Blackbird • 9640-142 St • 780.451.8890 • cafeblackbird.ca • Artwork by Lori Frank; through Feb

Carrot Coffehouse • 9351-118 Ave • Artwork by Mariam Qureshi and Ellen Andreassen; Mar 3, 7:30-9:30pm

Creative Practices Institute • 10149122 St, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.

com • Above the Clouds: artwork by Aryen Hoekstra; Jan 21-Feb 27

bestsidephotography.com • Photography Display by Dean C. Lack; Jan 15-Feb 26

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Infocus: Curated by Alexis Marie Chute; Feb 5-27 • Three Minute Miracle: artwork by Amalie Atkins Mar 10-Apr 16 • All Things to All Men (and Women): artwork by Cindy Baker; Mar 10-Apr 16

Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St • scottgallery. com • 5 Artists 1 Love: an annual Black History Month event that provides Edmonton residents the opportunity to celebrate the cultural mosaic within the black community; Feb 6-27

Douglas Udell Gallery (DUG) • 10332124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Painting Place: artwork by Jim Park; Feb 27-Mar 12; Opening reception: Feb 27, 2-4pm

Drawing Room • 10253-97 St •

Shades of Grey: Tattoos, Toys, Comics, Art & Gallery • 10444-82 Ave • 780.756.0034 • shadesofgreytattoo.com • Portraits From a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Featuring the work of 30 tattoo artists. Presenting Star Wars characters and what they would look like if they were heavily tattooed, and what tattoos they would have • Feb 26, 7-11pm

780.760.7284 • admin@drawingroomedmonton. com • Entanglement: artwork by Diane Connors; Feb 10-27 • HNW; throughout Mar

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta

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Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Ingrid Ledent; Feb 3-Apr 14

thefrontgallery.com • Lyric: artwork by Steve Coffey; Feb 11-Mar 1

Spark Centre Gallery • 2257 Premier Way,

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Sherwood Park • spark.ca/de-event • Disrupted Elements - Art & Sculpture Fusion; Feb 26, 8-11pm

Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Best Seat in the House: a collection of photographs and stories by Ethan Russell; Feb 26-Mar 29; Opening reception: Mar 4, 7pm

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Walls: Parks and Gardens: Acrylic paintings by Marcie Rohr; until Feb 29 • Cases and Cubes: A selection of prints and mixed media works by the University of Alberta's Visual Arts Students; until Feb 29 • Gallery: Dreams from other Utopia: Oil paintings by Ricardo Copado; throughout Mar • Plexiglas cubes and display cases: Scales, Fins and Horns: Clay sculptures by Terry Daly; throughout Mar Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215-

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil. com • Fireplace Room: Shaun Peters; through Mar

Strathcona County Museum & Archives • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Making Their Mark: the Land Surveyor's Role in the Peaceful and Orderly Development of Alberta; Jan 4-Apr 30

Telus World of Science • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • The International Exhibition Of Sherlock Holmes; Mar 25-Sep 5 U of A Museums Galleries at Enterprise square • Main floor, 10230 Jasper

112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • And There a Bronze Nail Stopped the Gush of Blood and Sent It Bubbling Back Inside: artwork by Jay Mosher; until Mar 4

Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • Do It Yourself: Collectivity and Collaboration in Edmonton; Nov 28-Mar 5

Jake's Gallery and Framing • 10441123 St • 780.426.4649 • jake@jakesframing.ca • Feathers and Fur: artwork by Jenny Keith; Feb 22-Mar 12

visualartsalberta.com • Gallery A: Cultural Exchange; Dec 3-Feb 27 • Gallery B: Alberta Artists Collect Alberta Art; Dec 3-Feb 27 • Draw More Income: A mail-art exhibition by snail mail, email and fax where artists complete a drawing or artwork on a template that include an ornate frame and the words "draw more income"; Mar 3-May 28

Jeff Allen Art Gallery (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre. org • At Water’s Edge: artwork by Joyce Boyer; Jan 7-Mar 3 • Variety- The Spice of Life: featuring artwork by Sheila Bice, Elaine Butler, Linda Ensley, Rita Mittlesteadt, Joy Schlaut and Jean Weekes; Mar 3-31; Reception: Mar 9, 6:30-8:30pm

Jubilee Auditorium • Headlines': Social, Political & Subversive Art: presented by The Alberta Society of Artists; until Feb 26

Lando Gallery • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Lando Gallery February Group Selling Exhibition; until Feb 27

Latitude 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Tapestry: artwork by Marie-Andrée Houde; Jan 29-Mar 5 • The Menagerie: artwork by Lisa Jones; Jan 29-Mar 5

Loft Gallery • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • It’s All About Texture: artwork by Joyce Boyer; Feb

McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/ mcmullen-gallery • Keiskamma Trust: featuring textile artworks exploring the theme of birds; Feb 13-Mar 20

Musée Héritage Museum • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • The True Cost of Oil: Canada’s Oil Sands and the Last Great Forest: A photographic exhibition by Garth Lenz; Feb 4-Apr 17 Ortona Gallery • 9722-102 St • 780.499.763 • ortonaarmoury.com • Ortona Artist in Residence: Paddy Lamb; Closing reception: Mar 5, 12-5pm Paint Spot • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: Stop Making Sense: staff show with Shelly Banks, Kim Fjordbotten, Sarah Jackson, Mic Ortiz, Laura Rezko, Michelle Stregger, Brent Wasyk, Shelley Wilson, Oksana Zhelisko • Artisan Nook: The Elegant Line: traditional Iranian decorative painting by Fatima Rahimi • Both exhibits run Feb 23-Apr 7

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery. com • Artwork by Graham Peacock; Feb 11-Mar 1 • Artwork by Bill Anderson; Feb 11-Mar 1

Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default. aspx • Marlena Wyman: Illuminating the Diary of Alda Dale Randall; Feb 2-Aug 20

Scotia Place • 10060 Jasper Ave • 780.445.8900 • deanlack@shaw.ca •

VAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • The Fine Line Between...: artwork by The Goop of 7; Feb 2-Mar 18

Women's Art Museum of Canada • La Cité Francophone 2nd Pavillon, #200, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury (91 St) • 780.803.2016 • info@wamsoc.ca • wamsoc.ca • Recollections: artwork by Sophia Podryhula-Shaw; Feb 27-Mar 31; Opening reception: Feb 27, 2-4pm; Free

Literary Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Book Launch of 20th Anniversary Edition of The Lesser Blessed; Feb 27, 2-4pm; Free • Writer-in-residence 40th Anniversary Celebration Reading; Mar 5, 2pm

Naked Cyber Café • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@ gmail.com Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 1022597 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright

Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Most Mon (except holidays), 7pm, Sep-Mar; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

Theatre 11 O'Clock Number • The Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave (North Side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns) • grindstonetheatre.ca • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, starting Sep 25-Jun 25, 11pm (No performances on Dec 25 and Jan 1, 8 & 15) • $15 (online, at the door)

alice through the looking glass • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 780.425.1820

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• citadeltheatre.com • Alice has fantastical adventures with a dizzying array of extraordinary characters: rival queens, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, the White Knight and many others • Feb 27-Mar 20

Chimprov • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun Die-Nasty • The Backstage Theatre at the ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-83 Ave • communications@varsconatheatre.com • die-nasty. com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs every Mon, 7:30-9:30pm • Until May 30 • $14 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com

The Gay Heritage Project • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Three gifted creators and performers, all formerly of Edmonton, set out to answer one question: is there such a thing as gay heritage? The result is a hilarious and moving homage to the people who came before and the events that continue to shape our lives • Feb 10-27 Hot Mess • El Cortez, 8230 Gateway Blvd NW • cardiactheatre.ca • Polo and Twitch are twins born with one heart between them. One can't love, and the other can do nothing but. It’s the eve of their 25th birthday and they’re preparing to celebrate with old friends and new bedfellows • Mar 2-12

In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play • ATB Financial Arts Barn, 10330-84 Ave • 1880s New York, at the dawn of electricity, a pioneering technique is used to treat nervous disorders. But why does it make the patients so confused and so happy? • Feb 18-28 • $21-$27

THE LAST RESORT • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre. ca • The Last Resort has it al: comedy, mystery, music and murder. Nick Galeazzo has just testified against the mob in New York City and has escaped the big city with undercover FBI Agent Miller to hide out in the last place anyone would look for him—a secluded, run-down resort in Saskatchewan • Feb 9-Apr 3

MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door)

Michael Jackson Is: Back From the Future • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, Phase II West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St • jubilations.ca • Amazing adventures with Doc and Marty, set to the timeless tunes of the legendary King of Pop – Michael Jackson and other hits from the '80s • Feb 7-Apr 10

The Other • Roxy on Gateway, 8529 Gateway Blvd • pyretic.productions@gmail. com • pyreticproductions.ca, goodwomen.ca, theatrenetwork.ca • Sharon has a reputation. Sharon has a weakness for a certain kind of man. Sharon’s partners have all had one thing in common. Sharon makes the best pickles you could imagine • Mar 1-13; 8pm (Tue-Sat), 2pm (Sun), no show on Mon

The Social Scene • Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • grindstonetheatreyeg@gmail.com • grindstonetheatre.ca/scenestudy.html • Fellow theatre lovers share excerpts of plays that they have been reading • First Mon of every month, 6-8pm; until Jun 6 • Free Step Onto The Stage! • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Professional actors will perform a staged reading of the play guests created in the first two workshops • Feb 27, 7-9pm • Free (register online at sclibrary.ab.ca, or phone 780.410.8600)

TheatreSports • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

This Is War • PCL Studio Theatre, Atb Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • punctuatetheatre.com • Follows four Canadian soldiers returning from the conflict in Afghanistan. Through characters’ interviews and memories, this play will take a deep look at the psychological toll that warfare inflicts upon those on the front lines • Mar 3-13, 7:30pm (2pm on Mar 13); No show on Mar 6 • $25 (regular), $20 (student/senior) - available at the door or at Tix on the Square

wizard of oz • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • 780.427.2760 • jubileeauditorium.com • Click your heels together and join Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, Dorothy and her little dog Toto as they journey through the magical land of Oz to meet the Wizard and obtain their hearts' desires. • Feb 23-28

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EDUCATION COVER // JOURNALISM

ENROLLING IN A "DYING" INDUSTRY It's up to young journalists to rebuild the field after sustained mainstream gutting

// Jessica Hong

inety staff fired across the country, 35 of which were right here in Edmonton: in light of the most recent spate of Postmedia cuts at the end of January, how is the next generation of journalists being taught—and how do they feel about a future career in a supposedly dying industry? There are still plenty of options for those inclined to pursue an education in journalism. Last year, MacEwan University graduated its first class of students from its newly minted four-year journalism degree. SAIT in Calgary offers a two-year diploma in journalism, while NAIT offers journalism courses as part of two-year

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diplomas in related areas, like radio and television. While not a formal journalism program, the University of Alberta's student paper, The Gateway, has served as a de facto training ground for many local journalists to gain hands-on experience in the field. Then there are the prominent journalism programs at a handful of universities in Canada: Carleton, Ryerson, University of British Columbia, King's College and Concordia. But as countless post-secondary grads can attest, getting that piece of paper doesn't guarantee you a job— especially in a field going through a massive identity crisis.

"The days when you could come out of the journalism school and work for a big media organization, do 25 years and collect a golden watch, may be gone," says Brian Gorman, an assistant professor in communication studies at MacEwan. Gorman has been actively charting the course of the Canadian newspaper industry for decades. In 2015 he published a book, Crash to Paywall: Canadian Newspapers and the Great Disruption, in which he posits that the current situation faced by mainstream papers (ie, teetering on the verge of bankruptcy) was self-inflicted. The papers' owners have acquired too much debt (Postmedia currently owes over $650 million) while simultaneously slashing journalists' resources and alienating themselves from their readers, he argues. He also believes that the radical changes in journalism are a big opportunity for those who are motivated. "I like to think of it as post-war Europe, and my students are going to be the Marshall Plan and they're going to go out and rebuild it," Gorman says. "For resourceful people who have talent and are determined, I think there are opportunities there. [There's] a lot more room for entrepreneurial journalism, a lot more room for small start-ups, alternatives. ... There are other ways to fund journalism. I find it disheartening that the mainstream media organizations like Postmedia are so reluctant to wean themselves off the advertiser and so insanely immune to the needs of their readers. They seem to be more inclined to shove their neo-conservative values down the throats of a progressive generation and then wonder why young people don't want to read their papers. "I don't think the craft of journalism is dying," he continues. "If anything it's expanding; it's more exciting. It's probably more fun to be a journalist right now." Fun, perhaps—but also disheartening. Even those who don't intend to pursue a career in a mainstream newsroom (and Gorman believes most of his students do not), the weight of Postmedia's recent actions and seemingly inevitable trajectory hangs over the heads of everyone in the field, especially those just entering it. Lloyd Wipf, who's graduating from MacEwan's journalism program this spring, got firsthand experience working at Postmedia last year during a two-month internship in the Arts and Life section at the Edmonton Journal. "I had a great experience there, and I would have loved to stay on and work with them more, but in light of what has happened in January—no, I don't think I would want to work for the Journal anymore," Wipf says. "It seems like journalism is taking a backseat to the bottom line and making money—which is not why I pursued an education in journalism. ... I did it because I care about information and I care about the craft, and it seems to me that the company who owns the

Journal does not care about that. So it's very disheartening." Wipf chose MacEwan over Mount Royal University in Calgary, where he was also accepted, because he thought MacEwan's brand-new program would be most suited to a career in the industry. "We thought that, OK, this program is going to be cutting edge," Wipf says. "That's why they redesigned the entire program; it's going to focus on this new New Journalism, I guess— whatever they call it. And it was really not that." MacEwan's program focuses on print and writing, especially narrative and magazine-style journalism, Wipf says. While those are necessary skills, he points out that the program has a serious lack of training in technical skills like web development, digital storytelling, video and radio. "I think you still need an overview of technical skills, because that's what everyone wants you to be; you kind of have to be a jack-of-all-trades nowadays," he says. "Everyone wants video; at the Journal every story I had to do, it required video. ... I was looking at some of the job applications at the small-town papers ... they all expected those skills too, because they like posting video up to their website, or at least onto Facebook. "I'm still quite happy with the education I got," he continues. "But a lot of the skills that I've learned, technical skills, I basically learned it on my own." Disheartened with the field of journalism, Wipf has decided to go straight into MacEwan's two-year public relations diploma program— acknowledging that he's probably more suited to a job in PR than in journalism right now, he wants the diploma to boost his résumé. Gorman agrees that MacEwan's program teaches a variety of transferrable skills that can land candidates easily in positions other than journalism. But he also states that MacEwan's program needs improvements and refocusing to align better with the changing expectations placed upon journalists by publications—and to offer the skills that are absolutely mandatory if someone is trying to forge an independent route. To that end, MacEwan is currently undertaking a curriculum review of its journalism program. The Gateway, which has always served as an informal training ground for young journalists at the University of Alberta, just announced a major change: after 106 years of printing a physical newspaper, The Gateway will be moving to an online-only model, along with a monthly features magazine. "It's an idea that's been thrown around for years," says Cam Lewis, current editor-in-chief at The Gateway. "I've been on the board of directors here for three years now, and it's always like, 'Oh geez, in five years we're probably going to be online only.' I've just been hearing that for so long; it's kind of a joke. ...

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When I planned for my job this year, I thought, you know, let's make a big change here and do something and do it really well; let's not be forced online in 2019 because we're literally broke and we have to chop all of our staff and we have to, I don't know, just cease to exist. It would be just a really sad, slow and painful death for The Gateway. But let's do it now in 2015 and '16 when we still have the resources to do it and, you know, nobody else has really done it in terms of a student newspaper—so let's be that big change." The move makes sense, Lewis states, given The Gateway's declining pickup numbers and increasing online traffic. The online model will result in major savings on printing costs, as well as in the time that editors previously spent on layout and design. Now, he says, staff will have more resources to spend on providing a daily feed of information, as well as writing longer narrative features for the magazine. The Gateway staff planned a meeting to propose the online model; as fate would have it, that ended up being held the day after Postmedia announced its cuts. While Postmedia's news felt initially discouraging, Lewis says everyone quickly rallied around the proposed online model as a necessary step to adjust to the changing landscape of journalism. "I think the fact that we are making a change kind of helped compensate for the general sense of gloom with the way the industry's going," he says. "I really want people, when they read about what we're doing, to realize that this is something that we want to do and that we've put a lot of thought into doing, and doing well. This isn't something we're being forced into doing. "I want this to be viewed as students being proactive and taking a big risk," Lewis continues. "Because if you're not really willing to take a risk while working at The Gateway at the University of Alberta, then I don't think you ever will be." As newspapers shrink, close or radically alter their structure, they require versatile individuals who are able to adapt to the ever-shifting industry. The onus is on the journalists themselves to diversify their skill sets as much as possible, since highly specialized positions—in which you could spend your entire career only shooting photos, or only reporting on news, or only editing—are disappearing rapidly. "It's going back to the days before specialization, the days when you were expected to be an all-around journalist," Gorman says. "Maybe up until now it's been too easy to be a journalist in Canada, and we've got to wash out some of the people that shouldn't be doing it. "That sounds cold-blooded, and I don't really mean it in that cold-blooded of a sense," he continues. "But I think the sooner the new stuff gets built to replace the old stuff, the better."

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EDUCATION EDUCATION // ART

House of art The Creative Practices Institute offers professional development opportunities to artists while Buchanan, having moved to Edmonton from British Columbia, has a master's in curatorial studies. "We had the same thoughts about what was lacking in the community," Roy recalls, sitting in the CPI's programming space that would, with other tenants, be a dining room. "What artists were looking for as far as professional development and that hands-on experience."

The Creative Practices Institute, in warmer times // Ryan McPhee

hen I came out of university, there was that point where [I felt], 'OK, I don't really know where to go from here,'" Brittney Roy recalls. "I know how to make art, and I have that conceptual side down, but after that, how do I manage an art career, exactly?"

Which is precisely the sort of gap in education that The Creative Practices Institute is looking to fill: the artist-run space offers artists a mixture of professional development opportunities, studio and presenting space, and the ability brush up with other creators in what

RBC EMERGING ARTIST APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM at the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE 2016 PROGRAM Applications are now being accepted for the 3rd annual RBC Emerging Artist Apprenticeship Program. This exciting opportunity is available to artists looking to merge from a senior academic program to a professional artistic career. Four to six apprenticeship opportunities will be awarded to emerging artists. The successful candidates will take part in a 14 week program (consisting of 6 hours a week from May to August at the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts) where they will gain valuable experience and skills to bridge them towards their professional artistic careers. Apprenticeship Alumni will have a professional gallery exhibit to their artwork in the Stollery Gallery upon completion of the 14-week program. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to further your career in the arts. Applications are now being accepted until March 31, 2016 For more information on this rewarding program and how to apply visit www.thenina.ca

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could easily feel like a roommatetype scenario. It is, after all, located in a house: there's a gallery space in what would be a living room; the upstairs bedrooms are studios, with a print studio with a working press downstairs; there's also a full kitchen. The Institute was created by Roy and Connor Buchanan—with founding members Nika Blasser, Joseph Doherty, Mo Ossobleh, Sergio Serrano and Bryce Zimmerman— who met in 2014. Roy had been programming at Harcourt House,

What they saw as lacking was, essentially, professional development opportunities: not just in artistic practice, but in the business of managing art. Since 2014, CPI's offered practice-based seminars, speakers and workshops on things like taxes (CARFAC's partnered with them on a few) and social media marketing—the sorts of important things that somehow don't get touched on in art school. Those that have booked the studios are CPI's "creatives in residence," Roy notes: studios can be booked for up to two years. Presently, they range from a scatter of visual artists to the Alberta Yarn Project; from a band in need of rehearsal space to a high-schooler working on portfolios for post-secondary applications. The institute offers an hour of consulting to all their tenants every month: anything from artistic critique to looking over grant applications. "Where do you find a class like

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U OF A TO LAUNCH ONLINE MOUNTAIN COURSE

This fall, the University of Alberta—in partnership with Parks Canada—will be launching a 12-lesson Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) that provides a comprehensive overview of mountain studies. Led by four interdisciplinary instructors, Mountains 101 will be based on the current curriculum of Canadian Mountain Studies Initiative’s introductory course—INTD 280—which touches on the environmental, scientific, cultural and historical issues surrounding mountains in Alberta, Canada and around the world. The course will be free to the general public; however, students wanting to receive a course credit for the MOOC will be required to pay a small fee for the course. To learn more, visit uofa.ualberta.ca/ courses/mountains-101

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With an Edmonton Public Library card, you can enrol in a wide range of free interactive, instructor-led classes through Gale Courses. The courses run for six weeks, with new sessions beginning every month, covering topics in accounting and finance, business, computer applications (Microsoft Excel, Java programming, etc), design and composition, health care and medical, language, writing and more. Students are required complete an exam at the end of the course, and an award of completion will be given if they achieve a passing score. To learn more, visit education.gale.com/l-edmo95361/ U OF A RESEARCHING ZIKA VIRUS DETECTION DEVICE

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More information available at creativepracticesinstitute.com that that's specifically geared towards artists?" Roy asks. "If you wanted to, you could do a business course, or a small business. But to have that specific attention towards being an artist, I think that's really important." As for the institute itself: the organizers were looking through various spaces and eventually found a house listed on Kijiji. They hadn't really considered the house set-up before touring the space, but once they opened the door, Roy notes, it proved ideal. "There's lots of benefits [to the house set-up]," she says. "When I was in university, all of our spaces were all in one area, and we were always there, going into each other's studios, and being like, 'Hey, I really like what you're doing with this painting.' "This is a little different from that: obviously people have dayjobs, and everyone has their own schedules," she continues. "But when we do have crossover, it is really beneficial to have your eyes open to other work and see what's happening in your community, because we're a shrunkdown version of what's happening in the Edmonton community." PAUL BLINOV

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In an effort to improve attendance and high school graduation rates among First Nation students, the provincial government has signed a deal with the Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council. The agreement—the first of its kind in Alberta—outlines an educational framework that is more culturally relevant while incorporating traditional skills such as hunting and fishing into the curriculum. The deal will benefit about 1000 kindergarten to Grade 12 students from five communities including Loon River, Lubicon Lake, Peerless Trout, Whitefish Lake and Woodland Cree First Nations. V

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Digital School graduates stand out from the job-seeking crowd There are a million options out there when considering post-secondary education. One increasingly popular choice in today’s climate is career college. The point of a career college education is specialized training directly aimed at making you job-ready in a short time. Digital School Technical Design College has been one such option in Edmonton for decades, with a 97% graduate employment rate from its most recent annual report. Point taken. Digital School specializes in computer aided drafting (CAD) training, with a six-month Computer Aided Drafter certificate and two 12-month diploma programs: Architectural CAD Technician, and Engineering CAD Technician with an available Process Piping Specialization. Watching the news feeds, it seems as if areas like 3D printing and Building Information Modelling (BIM) are breaking new ground constantly, allowing designers and technicians greater levels of control and precision before a piece is made or an ounce of concrete is poured. Infrastructure is the word of the day as the various levels of government commit to investment in shoring up everything from roads to hospitals. Digital School graduates leave ready to step into the skilled CAD technician positions these areas require, and more. Digital School graduates have found jobs with employers ranging from massive multinational architectural, engineering and construction firms, to local architects, home builders, manufacturers, interior designers — the list goes on, because anywhere a technical drawing is required to bring a vision to life, you’ll find drafters.

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Portraits From a Galaxy Far, Far Away / Fri, Feb 26 (7 pm) Featuring the work of 30 tattoo artists, the exhibit presents our beloved Star Wars characters as what they would look like if they were heavily tattooed, and what tattoos they would have inked onto their bodies. It's the Canadian debut of this art show, following showcases in Cardiff, Wales and San Francisco; guests will also be able to look through a limited-edition exhibition catalog that will showcase all of the artwork. (Shades of Grey)

YegDND: History / Sat, Feb 27 (7 pm) Improv with a healthy dose of Dungeons and Dragons—sounds like a perfect match. Improv group YegDND will be returning for a one-hour special feature where performers will be exploring the history of a particular magic item that will guide the group's entire campaign, and guests will help form it. (Avalon Knights)

Edmonton Collector Con / Sun, Feb 28 (10 am) Collector Con is all about the toy, comic book and pop culture collectibles scene in Alberta. Featuring vendors selling vintage and modern toys, comics, video games and other pop culture goodies, this convention will appeal to collectors of all levels with guests able to purchase, sell, and trade their items. (Italian Cultural Centre, $5, free for kids under 12)

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Firewatch lets an unusual game narrative build to a blaze

he Yellowstone fires of 1988 were a key moment in North American wildfire ideology, and in how we coexist with nature's most destructive force. For decades, American forestfire policy leaned heavily on a "prevent and suppress" ethos, fronted by omnipresent awareness icon, Smokey Bear. But extinguishing small fires allowed underbrush to accumulate, and by the 1970s, ecologists realized that the USA's forests had grown into massive tinderboxes. When the nation's oldest national park was nearly levelled by an out-of-control blaze, it sparked discussions that redefined how wildfires are managed, giving rise to more complex policies that neither relied on either extreme vigilance, nor reliance solely on nature. It's in this period of conflicted existence that Firewatch occurs, placing its main character into a world where both man and nature find themselves at a crossroads. The game may appear to be yet another cute indie first-person adventure—albeit one that's beautifully rendered by visual artist extraordinaire Olly Moss—but it strives show the existential anxiety of confronting middle age. Henry is a man in his 40s who's taken a summer volunteer position as a wildfire lookout in the sprawling Wyoming wilderness of 1989. He's left behind a domestic life and a strained marriage—the reasons for which are revealed in the game's prologue, and which immediately aim for the heart. Henry is not your typical video-game Alpha Male protagonist, muscles rippling and confidence unshaken. He's a lonely, aging man, and through him, Firewatch aims to expand the lens of the stories games can tell.

Much of the story plays out via Henry and Delilah's radio conversations, their only means of contact in the dense woods. The chatter goes a long way in drawing them as fully realized characters, each with their own hopes, anxieties and flaws—and make no mistake, both Henry and Delilah are deeply flawed individuals. There's a reason they've chosen to run away from civilization, a truth Delilah doesn't hesitate to remind Henry of. She's characterized as a blunt yet guarded personality, constantly hinting at her various regrets and guilts, yet reluctant to confront them. But as Delilah becomes Firewatch's guiding conscience, her role is increasingly key. Games often rely on the Noble Companion character to lead players to their next goal and provide clear answers, but as the summer days pass, it's clear that Delilah is just as lost out in these woods as Henry, and neither of them is really sure what they're looking for. Assuming the role of Henry focuses on this struggle, as Firewatch frequently limits free will. Sure, it's a narrative contrivance that only some areas of the wilderness are accessible at different times, but there's also an underlying honesty in the conversation options as they unfold. Henry's mood will dictate the responses he can give Delilah over the radio, and oftentimes, especially when he's burdened by his environment, there's no choice but to be brusque. In this way, Firewatch skirts the conventions of similar games' moral choices, where the "Good" and "Bad" options are always available, as a reminder that even the best intentions can be led

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Now available Firewatch Developed by Campo Santo astray by stress—or by fate. As the narrative unfolds, Henry and Delilah find their isolation taking an increasing toll on their sanity. Strange incidents in the woods start to seem connected and the duo's simmering paranoia bubbles over into conspiracy. Digging deeper in search of truth, it's easy to become tangled in a net of red herrings. But that's the point—whether or not there is a nefarious scheme at play is secondary. Surrounded by wildfires that slowly consume the forest, Henry and Delilah have painted themselves into a scene where their sense of security is burning away piece by piece. In the game's final chapter, Henry finds an answer to some of these questions, but they leave him with even more uncertainty. The ending has drawn criticism, but this resolution speaks to the story's real message. Firewatch is about what it means to be someone who's not the hero of the story, but someone who's just struggling to keep it together. Henry and Delilah watched their former lives slowly crumble despite their best efforts, and now they've stationed themselves in these roles to escape that tragic banality. Like the impossibility of controlling a wildfire, Firewatch is a story about managing expectations, and accepting that sometimes, nature just needs to run its course.

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THE WITCHING HOUR Robert Eggers' The Witch is an impressive, spooky debut

et in the 17th century, about a decade after the arrival of the Mayflower, writer-director Robert Eggers' impressive feature debut is subtitled "A New-England Folktale," and claims to be based on historical accounts of witchcraft. What makes it stand apart from most modern renderings of Puritan superstition, misogyny and scapegoating, however, is that for a story permeated with repression and deprivation, The Witch opts to have its cake and eat it, too. Its characters are true believers and, I think, the film believes

too, both in the reality of unjust persecution—more than timely given the reactionary sway currently taking hold of large portions of the US public—and in the surreality of dark forces infiltrating the houses of the pious. Banished from their settlement, William (Ralph Ineson), his wife, Katherine (Kate Dickie), and their four children have a go of it on their own, constructing a small farm along the outer edge of a darkened wood. They concentrate their energies on growing corn and worship-

ing the Lord, until things start going horribly wrong. Their eldest daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy) is caring for her infant sibling. Invoking the primal power of film editing, she plays peekaboo with the tot, until the game turns all boo and no peek. We sense from the start that Thomasin is a little different from the rest of her family. She even looks different, her creamy complexion contrasting the withered, gaunt faces of her parents. And what with Thomasin becoming a woman—a development her brother hasn't

failed to notice—she also becomes increasingly suspect as a harbinger of something wicked. Eggers has a background in costume and production design, and The Witch, which was shot in rural Ontario, clearly benefits from this, with its meticulous structures and objects and attention to light, its compositions that recall Flemish painting but possess an overriding gloom more akin to Rembrandt. There are creepily succinct sequences of shadowy, chillingly

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he Oscar-nominated Cartel Land functions as a double-portrait of vigilante groups determined to combat violent drug cartels on both sides of the US-Mexico border, with gung-ho director Matthew Heineman risking life and limb while embedding himself in this dangerous milieu. The characters Heineman meets and the stories he unearths are truly extraordinary and should, I would hope, generate a great deal of discussion. It's never a bad time to talk about the numerous problems stemming from this extremely fraught frontier, and recent years have seen a surge of films, television series and literature, both fiction and non-fiction (Sicario, The Bridge, Tom Wainwright's new book Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel, et al), exploring the

cryptic images, some of which seem plucked from the brilliant silent film Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages. Everything is kind of perfect here: elegant, measured, balanced, spooky as hell. I admire The Witch very much. But I also found it kind of inert. It clearly signals where it's going off the bat, and, little by little ... it goes right there. Boo. It's indiehorror as art-object, more than as suspenseful journey. Taken on those terms it is a major accomplishment.

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lives of those perpetrating or affected by violent criminal activities which take advantage of the border's porousness. However limited their individual points of view, I'm glad such stories exist in relative abundance. My concern has to do with the kind of border stories we're telling and consuming—especially while Donald Trump trumpets his fascist fear-mongering. If only we had as much exposure to more Mexican narratives about the border problems— and there are many, on film, in song and in print, waiting to be distributed or published in translation.

presentation, using hysterical news report sound-bites, excessive and corny dramatic scoring, and interviews in which subjects tearfully stare right down the barrel of Heineman's camera. Above all, Cartel Land lacks context. It's champing

at the bit to get into the murk, but it doesn't ask enough questions. It cuts straight to the juicy bits without betraying a lot of curiosity regarding how those bits came to be. In one of the arresting opening scenes of Cartel Land a Mexican

meth-cooker defends his trade by asking Heineman, "What do you expect? We come from poverty." That should be the start of a conversation, not the end of one.

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Fiercely political filmmaking Decades after its release, Death by Hanging's key issues remain pertinent Death by Hanging (1968) opens like a documentary, informing us that a poll taken the previous year found 71 percent of Japanese are cool with capital punishment. "But have you ever been inside an execution chamber?" the title cards petition us. "Have you ever witnessed an execution?" Well, now's your chance. Sort of. Over images of an ordinary Japanese death chamber, its exteriors and interiors, the voice of director Nagisa Oshima provides numerous, even superfluous, objective details regarding architecture, décor and procedure: last meal, last cigarette, prayers, blindfold, noose, trapdoor. We see a convict put through the motions and a group of all-male spectators behold the whole morbid show. Oshima had a background in the theatre, and the obvious theatricality of this space and these rituals is hardly lost on him. It is only after the hanged man's pulse is checked some 20 minutes after hanging, only after it's confirmed that his heart is still beating normally, that we feel fairly certain we have moved far away from documentary and, for that matter, from straightforward polemic.

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The hanged man's not dead, or he's undead, or, like Boris Karloff in that wonderful Michael Curtiz movie from 1936, he's Walking Dead. He's roused awake but doesn't seem to know who he is. (He's played by the beatific, implacable Yung-do Yun.) Japanese law says they can't hang him again unless he's cognizant of his identity and of his crimes, so all of the sundry authorities present work hard to convince him. Taking on various roles, the warden, the chaplain, prosecutor, et al reenact his crimes—which include rape and murder—and other aspects of his biography, often revelling in hysterical showmanship and vicarious thrills. And as they do so, Oshima gradually stacks a litany of condemnations against his country, not only regarding capital punishment, but also general moral hypocrisy, unchecked war crimes and institutionalized racism. As estimable Japanese film scholar Tony Rayns points out in an interview included on Criterion's excellent new DVD/Blu-ray/iTunes release of Death by Hanging, Oshima was never one to fuss over branding himself as an au-

teur. He seemed to deliberately make each new project as different from its predecessor as possible. But one essential attribute that runs through Oshima's filmography—which includes In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence (1983) and Gohatto (1999)—is sheer radicalism. No movie brat, Oshima did not make films to fulfil some youthful dream of joining the ranks of his cinematic idols. He was fiercely politicized and esthetically promiscuous, always searching for the formal strategy that best suits the given subject. Inspired by the 1962 execution of Ri Chin-u, an ethnic Korean whose published writings Oshima admired tremendously, Death by Hanging seems to draw from the work of Bertolt Brecht, eschewing any attempts at identification, opting instead to use its high theatricality and pitch-black humour as a means of posing numerous provocative questions and stimulate debate. All of the key issues addressed in Death by Hanging remain pertinent, but in any case there is a universality to the use of role-play in this brilliantly madcap, feverish movie. In the end, the guilty parties hang themselves. V

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nd lo, in MMXVI AD—verily two weeks after the brothers Coen brought forth unto us Hail, Caesar!, wherein a Roman soldier, in "A Tale of the Christ," encounters the Messiah and starts to believe—a serious drama about a Roman soldier tracking down the resurrected Nazarene swords-and-sandals its way onto the big screen. But wherefore? Thou may well ask, flock of film-followers that does not wish to be fleeced. I am pursuing a triumvirate of theories. I: Joseph Fiennes, here tribuneturned-investigator Clavius Aquila Valerius Niger, needs a second coming to revive his post-Shakespeare in Love career. II: British thespians are culturally and contractually obligated to play Romans in an imperial epic (instead of I, Claudius, it's P.I. Clavius). III: someone actually thought

Now playing Directed by Kevin Reynolds  it a good idea to convert what even plenty of non-Christians have heard about (thanks to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John's New Testimonials) into a police-procedural (1800 years before police), destined to be devoid of suspense. And so fuming Pilate (Peter Firth) assigns Clavius and Lucius (Tom Felton) to find out where in God's name the body of his supposed Son, Yeshua, has been wholly spirited away to (The Hardius Boys: the Case of the Judean Corpse). Mary Magdalene (María Botto) is interviewed (surprisingly politely), Bartholomew (Joe Manjón) seems faintly desert hippie-ish, and then they happen upon Yeshua in the fleshua, amid his disciples. And so the Roman skeptic-outsider becomes an actual follower, until the Messiah addresses us all and ascends.

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Risen is never risible, at least. There are few anachronisms (only "goblin" beggars belief); Yeshua is even oliveskinned (he's an antipodean-Christ, played by Cliff Curtis, of Maori descent). The landscapes (Malta, Andalucia) are striking. Still, some mysteries linger: how do ropes that "burst" look different from ropes that have been cut? Why would Simon Peter sneak up on a Roman tribune in the night to offer him water instead of just calling out to him? And the greatest mystery of all remains: why create a plodding-along movie about an investigator trying to reason away the divine and an investigation whose twists and turns we can read all about in the original, a good book? BRIAN GIBSON

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A balancing act

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Arlo Maverick's Maybe Tomorrow examines success and sacrifice

uccess demands perseverance and the willingness to immerse oneself in a chosen craft while traversing the arduous road to the upper echelon—all of which requires sacrifice, but who gets left behind by the bright allure of the finish line? "We all want to be able to live a life that speaks to our accomplishments, but do we lose who we love in order to gain that?" asks Marlon Wilson, better known by his stage name, Arlo Maverick. The question is particularly poignant when it comes to the local hip-hop artist's new album, Maybe Tomorrow. The conceptual record follows a protagonist named Soup, an aspiring musician who loses his grandmother just as his career begins to take off. Add to that a breakup with his fiancé, and Soup finds himself turning to substances as a means to cope. Realizing he can't continue on that path, he seeks help from a therapist.The songs throughout Maybe Tomorrow capture the dynamic of those sessions, interspersed with dialogue that offers a glimpse into Soup's relationships with those closest to him. "The album is loosely inspired by a true story, and for me, it was a form of therapy. But at the same time, it was me trying to create an album that spoke to my lack of balance in my real life," Wilson explains. "So many things that happen within our childhood can affect our relationships that we have with our significant others, you know? So it wasn't a situation of me trying to blame or anything like that: it was a situation of me trying to look at, what are the circumstances that can occur within your childhood, whether it be poverty, whether it's living in a singleparent household, doesn't matter what it is, but how is that going to affect the relationships you have—and at what point do you accept responsibility for that?" Putting pen to paper helped Wilson process some of these questions, and he believes writing down problems can benefit anyone coping with aspects of their life. Maybe Tomorrow is a deeply personal album for Wilson, but he remained cognizant of the sense that he was only telling one side of the story, and certain elements of it have been changed to protect those who aren't able to share their perspective. It's a nuanced portrayal of an indi-

vidual's internal and external turmoil, but it all circles back to the need for balance—much like the conversation with Wilson does. He notes there's an ongoing struggle to keep yourself happy while keeping those around you happy, too: ensuring family remains at the forefront of your priorities, because if you work yourself to death and have no one around you to celebrate that with, what's the point? Balance is undoubtedly difficult to achieve, but by no means does Wilson think he's got it all figured out. "It's one of those things where— especially being an artist here in Edmonton—you're trying to make music that is going to reach the world and you want to get out there and do all these things, but there's so much work that's required for you to get beyond that point," he says, noting he often gets asked why he doesn't relocate to a larger centre. "It's kind of foot in the door, foot out the door in the sense of you want to go and do all these things, but you see how even just working here you don't really have time for family, so imagine if you were gone entirely. Then you'd never have time for family, you know? Would it be a situation where all you do is communicate via text, via Skype or via email? All of a sudden the people who you say you love the most are the people you see the least." In listening to Maybe Tomorrow, it's clear that a great deal of thought and planning went into the album in order for its story to be a cohesive and impactful one. Wilson formed the nascent ideas for the record in early 2012, wanting to create something that stood apart from his previous work with the group Politic Live. When scheduling conflicts prevented him from completing the album with longtime Politic Live collaborator Fred Brenton, Wilson teamed with with Michael James of local rock groups Motorbike James, Unwed Mothers and Royal Tusk. James was unfamiliar with Politic Live's work, which Wilson now sees as a benefit since he had no bias or frame of reference as to how the album "should" sound. The result is a richly varied sonic palette that blends elements of rock and hip hop, creating often hard-hitting melodies that complement the emotional undertones of each point of Soup's journey,

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Fri, Feb 26 (9 pm) With The Honor Roll and Sydney Love, Music By Sonny Grimezz Mercury Room, $10 further actualized with the help of numerous guest vocalists like Adora and Oozeela. "It was me basically describing movie scenes and emotions I wanted to convey," Wilson explains of his work with James. "The lyrics are telling a story, the music itself is telling a story, even certain parts where there's just musical breaks, that's supposed to represent different emotions or different scenes. One thing I ask people to do, the first time I ask them to listen, I ask them to listen to it in the dark, headphones on, eyes closed and just listen to it from beginning to end in order for them to get lost in the story, because the narrative is so important." The narrative is the impetus of Maybe Tomorrow, but its concluding statement is less concrete. Wilson, who is also releasing a prequel EP and videos to further flesh out Soup's story, closes the album with a feeling of regret as his central character reflects on what he's been through, but what he's taken away from it all is up for interpretation. "He still feels that he's not entirely wrong in being such a workaholic and making those sacrifices," Wilson says. "But I think that sometimes it's our pride that gets in the way, and that's why that's one of the last things that's mentioned on the project is the sense his pride is getting in the way of him even realizing that he's lost everything, and he still won't admit that he needs to make a real change. "So as far as what people are left with, I would like them to give their own conclusion," he continues. "But at the same time I would want them to reflect on their own lives in the sense of, are they aiming for balance in their life? I think that's something we should all consider in our day-today lives as we make choices that may seem important in that moment. I'm not saying that sacrifices shouldn't be made in order to achieve things, but at the same time assessing whether that sacrifice is something that's beneficial to you and your family." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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hate to say it's a typical noon wake-up," Jeremy Widerman laughs. "It's been weird being home, being down for awhile." At the time of the call, Widerman and his Monster Truck bandmates were preparing to hit the road for another touring cycle after spending the majority of the past year or so at home. Widerman, who plays guitar in the rowdy rock group, notes that it can be difficult to transition back into to the routine of home after being on the road, but it can be equally

challenging to adjust to the demanding pace of tour life. "It's mostly just having to be around people 20 hours a day," he says. "I've been hanging out by myself mostly, you know, so it's just suddenly you have to be engaged and social 300-percent more often than you're used to." Not that he's complaining, of course. Touring is the lifeblood of any band, and Widerman welcomes the change of pace despite its demands—plus, Monster Truck has a

new album in tow. Sittin' Heavy was released just last week, replete with raucous, light-'em-up anthems that were predominantly written while the band was on the road promoting its previous record, Furiosity. "I find the best stuff comes when I'm on the road, just because of the consistency of which I'm always playing guitar," Widerman says. "There's so many times when you're just sitting with your guitar over your shoulder, and you just naturally end up kind of coming up with new ideas and new

riffs, and that's when I just always have my phone nearby and start recording them all. You end up having this bank of ideas in your phone that you go back to later where you don't even remember working on half of them, so you have this perfectly objective view of whether it's good or not. It's like someone else has written it for you to decide whether or not you want to hang on to it." In wading through those ideas, the idea behind Sittin' Heavy was to strike a balance between what had been working well for Monster Truck thus far—its largely upbeat vibe and hardhitting guitar riffs, for example— while pushing the band forward and not simply repeating itself. "[We were] trying to maybe widen the gap between the dynamic range of the record, where the highs are higher, the lows are lower and the tempos are varied throughout, so you've got this really kind of diverse record," Widerman explains. "Furiosity really kind of hit one kind of vibe, and we wanted to expand upon that on this one." Vocalist Jon Harvey penned the majority of the album's lyrics, and Widerman notes that he strives to keep things on the positive side,

creating an uplifting energy for the record that translates well into Monster Truck's live show, an environment that offers an escape for fans to enjoy themselves in. This notion's most evident on songs like "The Enforcer," a fiery track that's gained traction as a kick-off tune for hockey games or "Don't Tell Me How To Live," its defiant chorus primed for rowdy sing-alongs. "I think it's reflective of where we are in our career right now, which is kind of in between that really kind of ferocious first record that's very—I don't want to say one-note because I feel like I'm putting a negative connotation on it, but it kind of was," Widerman says. "We just tried to add a couple more elements in there, and it's just reflective of a band on their sophomore record. Sometimes I think you can go too far too quickly, and I've had that happen with bands that I love, where they put out their second album and it doesn't sound anything like the first. If anything, we're in that kind of bridge area where we might push things a bit further with the next record even." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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e're about now, but we're progressing a mile a minute." It's the first, but certainly not the last, succinct yet loveable statement from the dudes in garage-punk trio Versions. A conversation with all three members at once was comparable to keeping track of the spiders, fleas and scorpions in the Atari game Centipede. Drummer and album artwork mastermind Troy Dykink busted out quick and dry one-liners while sipping a Red Stripe as bassist Keith Olsen would randomly burst into unique renditions of "Everybody's Working For the Weekend." The group's guitarist and vocalist, Tim Hatch, responded with a chuckle and quickly added to whatever was happening with clarity and a very subtle degree of seriousness. This conversation dynamic is a flawless example of the way Versions works together to create low-fi garage rock, with a few muted bells and

whistles. Its Basement Demos album was smacked together within about a month of the band's inception in 2014, and Versions released Blasted to Something shortly after, which features the same spontaneous and untreated feel as the group's first go around. "As long as we're having fun, it works," Dykink explains. "Trying to get the most authentic sound possible with no overdubs and that sort of thing. Just straight." These days, Versions is finalizing the artwork for its upcoming release, Hex Beat, which is the first recording the band's sent away for someone else to master. The trio has always been about the DIY mentality, whether it's recording, creating album artwork or pins, all the way to filming music videos with an iPhone. Despite these natural tendencies toward self-governance, Versions is evolving.

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"Slowly we're taking more time to do everything," Olsen explains. "Still making sure we're happy with the raw takes, because you can't bullshit live. That's always the vibe we want to capture, anyways. At first we were taking a long time to arrange these new songs, which was very uncharacteristic of us. It's usually arranged in one night, and boom! Done! But this time we had one week to do it instead of one weekend." Not to be bogged down by studio time, Versions has explored much of Alberta and Saskatchewan on mini tours and amassed several presumptuously seedy stories as a result. The guys have a particular soft spot for Regina, SK, as Hatch playfully recalls instances of running into teenage gangs on low-riding bikes while hanging with their pals in Black Thunder. "We thought it was the wrong side of the tracks as we were literally beside train tracks and a bunch of dilapidated houses and stuff," Hatch says. "But the people we were with told us it was the nice part of town." "Lethbridge is always a place I look forward to going," Olsen adds. "I don't look forward to going to Regina, ever."

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sonal things and more on other people's negativity," Sabatier says. "We've been experimenting with some more melodic parts, a few more choruses and some repetition, but I don't want to give away too much." What fans can expect is a showcase of a band that is in complete control of its sound. Like Self Deprecation, The Waste Class will be mixed and mastered by Johnson, and every stage of production will remain within the band. "It's really cool to look back and know absolutely every aspect of our band and our sound—it's basically our job, too," Sebatier notes. "We're really proud of what we've done so far." EXITS will continue work on its upcoming record, which should be finished by June or July. In the meantime, the new lineup hopes to plant its hooks back into the local scene

Fri, Feb 26 (7:30 pm) With Wake, Demise, Weird Year The Local Omnivore, $10 with more gigs. "Right now we have two shows booked," Sabatier says, "We haven't played a live show in so long that it's probably going to be a fun one." The band is also part of St Patrick's Day party at The Alley with Mobina Galore, Vibes and Suicide Helpline on—you guessed it—March 17. So Edmonton hardcore fans will have something to keep them busy in anticipation of The Waste Class, which Sabatier notes will expand the band's soundscape. "It'll still have the same flavour as past releases,” he says. “But I like to think it's going to be more mature sounding. ... It's definitely going to be a lot weirder."

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wayne "Danglin" Anglin is the lead singer of the venerable reggae group the Wailers, but as he will tell you, he has no interest in being Bob Marley. "There is no need for another Bob Marley," Anglin says. "The world only needs one Bob Marley; that person was enough to provide us with the inspiration that we needed." Despite the group's pedigree—it was known as Bob Marley and the Wailers prior to his death in 1981— and social significance, Anglin seems weary, finding frustration with the genre and sadness in a world more full of suffering than when Marley got his start in the late 1960s. "So much been said, so little been done," Anglin says. Anglin has been with the Wailers for six years. Since joining in 2010 he has toured extensively, seen the world and witnessed slow contraction of the popularity of reggae. "Since their passing [Bob Marley and

core Wailers member Peter Tosh], the music has slowed somewhat," he notes. "I don't think the [record labels] support reggae as much as they support other genres. "Roots and reality is not very popular among the powers that be," he continues. "When you have a positive message, at times it can be construed as rebellious, because of the things that we advocate, like the legalization of marijuana, not just for popularity purposes but for conscious thinking." In looking back at the host of protest songs he sings nightly, songs such as "Get Up, Stand Up" and "Buffalo Soldier," he admits there's a measure of disappointment that the lyrics remain relevant so long after their writing. "It is very, very sad to see that all these songs that were written almost 50 years ago are still relatable to what people are going through now," Anglin says. Holding an advanced degree in crim-

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inal justice, Anglin is acutely aware of the challenges facing minority groups around the world. "I'm an African in America," he says. "It's very important that I know criminal justice in America, know my rights and know how to protect myself." Marley's musical legacy, which includes a posthumous induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and having his 1977 album Exodus named Album of the Century by Time Magazine, is only part of his enduring place in popular culture. "People wanted to follow Bob," he continues. "With Bob Marley you felt honoured to be in his presence because you knew how good he was. There is no greater honour than what he achieved as a person, to be revered, he was a symbol of peace." SHAWN BERNARD

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Cold Lungs O

riginally formed in late 2013 as a five-piece "straight-up melodic hardcore band," Cold Lungs trimmed down to power-trio status when two members weren't able to head out on a proposed tour. Bassist Justin Vanderhoek picked up vocal duties (more on that later), and the band worked towards getting faster and, in drummer Zach Pyshniak's words, crustier. "I grew up loving a lot of hardcore bands, but I always felt a little out of place with the dudes just pittin' and punching each other," Pyshniak explains. "We've always been soft dudes that like heavy music. We just try to be as loud as possible and play really aggressive punk music in the vein of hardcore, but we

definitely don't fit in on hardcore bills. We like diversity, not being too chained down to one thing." In that spirit of exploration and experimentation, Cold Lungs came up with an interesting solution to a problem currently plaguing the band's vocalist. With Vanderhoek reduced to a whispering mess by this year's rampant and persistent flu virus—"He sounds like a tea kettle when he tries to scream," Pyshniak laughs—the band enlisted the help of Nicole Boychuk from fellow screamers I Hate Sex to step in for Saturday's show. "I think it's going to be cool, hopefully more energetic," Pyshniak says. "It's sometimes difficult with Justin doing vocals and not being able to

go all out on stage, so it'll be a good twist. I think her vocals are going to sound really interesting with our band, definitely a lot more highpitched than what we're used to. Terrifying—let's go with that." The show is also the first opportunity to scoop up a copy of Frozen North West, a cassette compilation featuring a new track from Cold Lungs alongside a handful of like-minded amplifier-worshipping bands from across Western Canada—Alex Marusyk, Toy Maker, Weird Year, Break Beat, Ringleader, Stepping Stone and Burn Your World. "Our friend Jess from Calgary sings in a band called Mortality Rate,

and this is the second compilation she's put together. She asked us if we were able to write a brand-new song, so we wrote and recorded ['The Cycle of Self Worth'] just for the tape. It's a really cool way to get exposed to a bunch of bands from all over Western Canada at once." Saturday's gig will also be the second all-ages matinee show at the Mercury Room, a new initiative to provide accessible all-ages music spaces in the city, headed up by Jibril Yassin of Double Lunch Productions. It's an issue of importance to Cold Lungs, as the band found its way into the music scene through similar venues. "We don't play a lot of legit venues, and we're definitely more com-

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fortable in basements or halls, but it's good to play all-ages venues," Pyshniak says. "It's definitely more accessible, rather than a kid having to go to someone's house to see a show. When I first started going to shows it would have been super uncomfortable for me to go to someone's house I didn't know. I got into the scene by going to all-ages shows at Avenue Theatre, which was great. And over the last year I've seen a bunch of new kids coming out, which is nice to see."

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Every Wed

VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALL SAINTS CATHEDRAL 10035103 St NW THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1542, stalbert.ca/ experience/arden-theatre ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com THE AVIARY 9314-111 Ave, 780.233.3635, facebook.com/ arteryyeg BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd,

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

UNION HALL Krayzie Bone,

CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite;

open mic with host Duff

MAR/4

9pm

Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

Jam Circle; 7:30-11:30pm

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night

Flower Open Stage since 1998; 8-11pm (door); no cover/donations

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

FEB/27

Karaoke Wednesday

Session: Nathan Ouellette Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every TueFri, 5-8pm

Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

Johnny Reid - What Love Is All About Tour

ROSSDALE HALL Little

with DJ Blue Jay - mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock; Wooftop: Metal Mondays with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

Carey Buss

Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest

Cluckin’ Wednesdays

Sabbath: The End; 7:30pm; $49.50-$165

Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every TueFri, 5-8pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Mother

8pm; 18+ only

King; 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Robison; 8pm

CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com STUDIO 96 10909-96 St NW SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 ST. TIMOTHY'S ANGLICAN CHURCH 8420-145 St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUGAR SWING 8116-105 St TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY 17118-90 Ave TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE 10324-82 Whyte Ave UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB 10746 Jasper Ave, 780.951.2705 WEST END CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH 10015149 St WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

HEAVISIDE

W/ THE UNFORTUNATES & SLEEP DEMON

FEB/27

PURE PRIDE PRESENTS

TOGETHER 2016 STARRING GINGER MINJ

MAR/4

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

DUB KONTROLLA + MATES

W/ SKOBE, KIYTEK, GHISHA SOUND, THRDWRLD, SACRÉ MENTAL, YAWN.NG, REMY FLEX, SASQUAR, SPELLZ

MAR/12

STARLITE ROOM & NOISEY PRESENT

BLACK TUSK & HOLY GRAIL W/ TARANTUJA, MORTILLERY

MAR/19

NO PROBLEM

W/ SLATES, STEPMOTHERS, STREET LEAGUE

MAR/20

STARLITE ROOM & DOUBLE LUNCH PRESENT

LIVE! ON STAGE

JONATHAN RICHMAN FEATURING TOMMY LARKINS ON THE DRUMS

MAR/23

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

RADIO RADIO

W/ STEVIE RAIKOU AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD BAND

MAR/25

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STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

BLACK MASTIFF W/ CHRON GOBLIN, THE MOTHERCRAFT

MUSIC 25

EVENTS WEEKLY

to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 17028-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

Fort Saskatchewan 45+ Singles Coffee Group • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort

COMEDY

Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

Black Dog Freehouse • 10425-82 Ave • Underdog Comedy Show • Every Thu Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Brian Link; Feb 25-27 • Bob Angeli; Mar 4-5

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 7:30pm; Fri-Sat 9:45pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; every Mon at 7:30pm • Triple Threat Tuesday; every Tue at 7:30pm • Sarah Tiana; Feb 24-28 • Big Jay Oakerson; Mar 10-13

Connie's Comedy presents Comedy • Draft Country Nightclub, 12912-50 St • Featuring Chris Gordon and Scott Porteous • Feb 24, 7:30pm

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119

Illness support and solutions • Robertson Wesley United Church Library, 10209-123 St • 780.235.5911 • Crohn's Colitis, I.B.D. Support and Solutions • Every 2nd and 4th Tue, 7-9pm

KatimaGathering • Hudson's Canadian Taphouse in West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St • 780.298.2935 • sarah.anne88@gmail. com • Learning about the current state of the Katimavik program, discovering different ways to support the return of the program and brainstorming about the future of Katimavik • Feb 28, 2-4pm • Free

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

Drawing In: Drawing as Meditation with Carmella Hayowsky •

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave •

cedmonton@gmail.com • fertilityawarenesschartingcircle.org • First Mon each month (OctMay), 6:30-8:30pm • $10 (suggested donation) • RSVP at faccedmonton@gmail.com

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey

Groove every Wed; 9pm

YegDND: History • Avalon Knights, 8721-

Poor Vote Turnout • Rossdale Hall,

Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm Argentine Tango Dance at Foot Notes Studio • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

10135-96 Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm

sAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm

Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group • Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta-Edmonton branch provides a facilitated family support group for caregivers of a loved one living with schizophrenia. Free drop-in the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm

Seventies Forever Music Society

Babes In Arms • The Carrot, 9351-118

Coffee With Cops • Carrot Coffeehouse,

Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood

9351-118 Ave • Join Cst. Thomsen to chat about neighbourhood concerns • Mar 2, 1011:30am

Drop-In D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • An epic adventure featuring a variety of pre-made characters, characters that guests can make on their own, or one that has already been started. Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue, 7pm • $5 Edmonton Atheists • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Monthly roundtable discussion group. Topics change each month, please check the website for details, edmontonatheists.ca • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month

Edmonton Needlecraft Guild • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free

26 AT THE BACK

Green Drinks: Local Food • Yellowhead Brewery, 10229-105 St NW • greendrinksyeg@gmail.com • thelocalgood.ca • Expect to meet gardeners, members of the Edmonton Food Council, permaculture enthusiasts, chefs, and eaters of all kinds. Learn how you may put more local food on your plate this year • Mar 2, 7-10pm • $10 (available online at greendrinks-localfood.eventbrite.ca)

Listening to the Elders: Storytelling with Indigenous Elders in Digital Film • Muttart Hall, 10050

• Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul. ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

Ave • A casual parent group • Every Fri, 10am-12pm

Robertson-Wesley United Church, 10209-123 St • rwuc.org/sac.html • Every Sun, 2-4pm; runs from Feb 21-Mar 13

Fertility Awareness Charting Circle • Remedy Cafe, 8631-109 St • fac-

Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

Groups/CLUBS/meetings

Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

Cafe, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Meet new gamers. Go to the event solo or with a group • Every Mon, 5-11pm • $5 (one drink per person)

3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

156 St • avalonknights.ca • Improv with a healthy dose of Dungeons and Dragons. A onehour special feature where the group will be exploring the history of a particular magic item that will influence the group’s entire campaign • Feb 27, 7pm • $10 (or pay-what-you-can)

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

Monday Mingle • Hexagon Board Game

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy

St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact vpm@ norators.com, 780.807.4696, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo. com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward. toastmastersclubs.org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

LECTURES/Presentations

• Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou. DJ to follow • Every Sun, 9pm Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus

Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/ session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

MacDonald Drive • 780.497.5082 • Filmmaker, director and academic Judy Iseke shares a series of film clips of Elders to explore the meanings and uses of storytelling in Indigenous communities and what sharing stories of the past and present can teach us about life • Mar 2, 12:10-12:50pm

Mactaggart Art Collection Lecture Series Visualizing China’s Imperial Order (1500-1800) Session 2: “Making Order Visible” • University of Alberta, 116 St & 85 Ave • 780.492.5834 • museums@ualberta.ca • goo.gl/9xbjso • Focuses on a time period when China underwent dynamic external and internal challenges to the imperial order, and the mark left on material objects • Feb 25 (7pm), Feb 26 (3pm), Feb 27 (10am) • Free (registration required goo. gl/9xbjso)

Pecha Kucha Night 24 • Metro Cinema

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

at the Garneau Theatre , 8712-109 St • edmontonnextgen.ca/pecha-kucha-night • Featuring local ideas, projects and musings in the 20 slides at 20 seconds per slide format. Also featuring music by GirlsClub DJs • Mar 3, 6:30pm (doors), 7pm (presentations) • $17 (general), $15 (with student I.D.); visit yegpkn24.eventbrite.ca to purchase tickets online

Prairie Peace Convergence: a Transformative Education for all People, Lands and Generations

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479-8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus.net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm

• University of Alberta Augustana Campus, 4901-46 Ave, Camrose • carmelle@ ualberta.ca, 780.982.9676/kolby@ualberta. ca, 403.330.8785 • spiritoftheland.ca/ peaceconvergence

Toastmasters

Seeing is above All • Acacia Hall,

• Chamber Toastmasters Club: 6th

floor, World Trade Centre, 9990 Jasper Ave; Contact: 780.462.1878/RonChapman@shaw.ca (Ron Chapman); 780.424.6364/dkorpany@ telusplanet.net (Darryl Korpany); Meet every Thu from Sep-Jun, 6-7:45pm

10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

Thinking Communities: Celebration of Research • Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St & 87 Ave • artsevents@ualberta.

ca • uofa.ualberta.ca/arts/celebration2016 • Researchers in the Faculty of Arts and the Kule Institute for Advanced Study discuss how they learn from, collaborate with and benefit the publics they serve • Mar 1, 3:30-5:30pm • RSVP at celebrationofresearch.eventbrite.ca

(full season), $15 (low income or students) • Equal, Fit, Fierce, and Fabulous: Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; pridecentreofedmonton.org/ calendar; Drop in games and activities for youth; Every other Tue, 4:30-6pm

(Un)masking Spirit: Mask Creation and Exploration with Elsa Robinson • Robertson-Wesley United Church,

womonspace.org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

10209-123 St • rwuc.org/sac.html • Every Tue, 7-9pm; Jan 12-Mar 22

Urban Green Cohousing Information Session • Strathcona Community League, 10139-87 Ave NW • hello@ urbangreencohousing.ca or Urban Green Cohousing (Facebook) • urbangreencohousing. ca • Find out about Old Strathcona's exciting new cohousing project • Feb 28, 2-4pm • Free • All ages

QUEER Beers for Queers • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

Bisexual Women's Coffee Group • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups. yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton

Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campusbased organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

Pride Centre of Edmonton • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca

St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

Team Edmonton • Various sports and recreation activities • All-Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8648-81 St NW; pridecentreofedmonton.org; Every 3rd Sat of the month, 9:30-10:30pm • Badminton: Oliver School, 10227-118 St; badminton@teamedmonton.ca; Every Wed (until Feb 24); $5 (drop-in) • Board Game Group: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; Monthly on a Sun, 3-7pm; RSVP to boardgames@teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Oliver Community Hall, 10326-118 St; bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca; Every Thu, 7pm; $30

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WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 •

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Sun: Last Sun each month, Woodys Jam Session with the talented regular customers; Jugs of Canadian or Kokanee only $13 • Mon: Massive Mondays features talented comedians • Tue: Domestic bottle beer special only $3.75 all night long • Wed: Jugs of Canadian and Kokanee for $13; Karaoke with Shirley from 7pm-12:30am • Thu: Highballs on special only $3.75 all night long; Karaoke with Bubbles 7pm-12:30am • Fri: Comming soon: DJ Arrow Chaser's new TGIF Party • Sat: Pool Tournement, 4pm; Jager shots on special only $4; Coming soon, DJ Jazzy SPECIAL EVENTS Brain Awareness Week • Telus World of Science, 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Featuring activities about the brain, brain research at the U of A, types of neuroscience research, and more • Mar 12-13, 11am-4pm

Dark Matters • Telus World of Science, 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Featuring adult-only events. This month's theme is robots, with experiments, demonstrations, games, activities and more • Mar 10, 7-10pm • $17 (adv), $23 + GST (door) • 18+ only DeepSoul.ca • 587.520.3833; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages

Edmonton Collectors Con • Italian Cultural Centre, 14230-133 Ave NW • edtoyshow.com • Featuring vendors selling vintage and modern toys, comics, video games and other pop culture goodies • Feb 28, 10am4pm • $5, free for kids under 12

E-Ville Roller Derby Presents: Slice Girls vs Las Pistolitas • Edmonton Sportsdome, 10104-32 Ave NW • Eville.publicrelations@gmail.com • e-villerollerderby.com • facebook.com/EdmontonRollerDerby • twitter.com/e_villederby • Feb 27, 7-9pm • $10 (adv at Mars & Venus or Brown Paper Tickets), $15 (door), Free (kids 10 and under)

Ice Castles • Hawrelak Park, 9930 Groat Road • icecastles.com • A massive castle made of ice, craft by hand using only icicles and water • Jan 5-Mar 1 • $9.95-$15.95

Local Love Pop Up Shop- YEG Wedding Edition • Project Loft, 10265-107 St • locallovepopup.com • A one day boutique shopping experiance for brides and bridal parties to meet some of Edmonton's premier and unique wedding vendors • Feb 27, 12-4pm • $15 (early bird until Jan 31); $20 (regular admission)

Nerd Nite 25 • Kinetic Hall, TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St NW • Where nerdy presentations and an open bar meet. Featured presentations: Nerdy Superpower: Speedreading by Liz Hay, Payment for organs? Legal and ethical limits on strategies to increase organ donation by Maeghan Toews, Dust: The Little Particle That Could by Sarah Styler • Feb 29, 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show) • $20 (adv only); Ages 17 and under will not be admitted

Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm Will Eisner Week • Comic book stores throughout Edmonton • willeisnerweek.com • A week dedicated to Will Eisner, the man who popularized the term “graphic novels”. Celebrate the sequential arts, Eisner’s legacy, graphic novel literacy and freedom of expression by picking up a brand new comic • Mar 1-7

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): Just one species has a big enough throat to swallow a person whole: the sperm whale. If you happen to be sailing the high seas any time soon, I hope you will studiously avoid getting thrown overboard in the vicinity of one of these beasts. The odds are higher than usual that you'd end up in its belly, much like the Biblical character Jonah. (Although, like him, I bet you'd ultimately escape.) Furthermore, Aries, I hope you will be cautious not to get swallowed up by anything else. It's true that the coming weeks will be a good time to go on a retreat, to flee from the grind and take a break from the usual frenzy. But the best way to do that is to consciously choose the right circumstances rather than leave it to chance. TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): You have cosmic clearance to fantasize about participating in orgies where you're loose and free and exuberant. It's probably not a good idea to attend a literal orgy, however. For the foreseeable future, all the cleansing revelry and cathartic rapture you need can be obtained through the wild stories and outrageous scenes that unfold in your imagination. Giving yourself the gift of pretend immersions in fertile chaos could recharge your spiritual batteries in just the right ways. GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): "Hell is the suffering of being unable to love," wrote novelist J D Salinger. If that's true, I'm pleased to announce that you can now ensure you'll be free of hell for a very long time. The cosmic omens suggest that you have enormous power to expand your capacity for love. So get busy! Make it your intention to dissolve any unconscious blocks you might have about sharing your gifts and bestowing your blessings. Get rid of attitudes and behaviours that limit your generosity and compassion. Now is an excellent time to launch your "Perpetual Freedom from Hell" campaign! CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): "A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking," said journalist Earl Wilson. Do you fit that description, Cancerian? Probably. I suspect it's high time to find a polite way to flee your responsibilities, avoid your duties and hide from your burdens. For the foreseeable future, you have a mandate to ignore what fills you with boredom. You have the right to avoid any involvement that makes life too damn complicated. And you have a holy obligation to rethink your relationship with any influence that weighs you down with menial obligations. LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): "Your illusions are a part of you like

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: My boyfriend and I have been together for three years and it is mostly amazing, but in the last year our sex life has plummeted. I still enjoy sex when we have it, but I'm never in the mood. I used to be a very sexual person—how can I get my sex-drive back?

: While it's commonly accepted that the frequency of sex declines in long-term relationships, significant drops in drive or prolonged periods of abstinence can be extremely distressing for an otherwise happy couple. Before we get into what you can do about it, it's important to understand the difference between desire and arousal. Desire originates in the mind and is the mental drive for sex, whereas arousal is the body's response to sexual s tim ula t ion. There are times when the thought precedes that activity, but it can also work the other way around, where sexual contact leads to arousal, which leads to the drive to have sex. This is what you are describing when you say that you still enjoy sex once it gets started. I need to be very clear that I would never advocate having sex when you aren't interested or physically responsive. But when it comes to getting things started, you don't need desire, so much as a desire to desire. The first step in problem solving is exploring the various reasons why desires wane. Age and health are natural factors. Women's desire peaks in the early 30s and gradually decreases until it drops

off in menopause. As well, libido is often one of the first things to go when you're ill. It also decreases as a result of stress: cortisol is a powerful libido killer. But there are also more insidious causes, such as problems in the relationship, habituation of sexual activity (it gets boring), limited knowledge of what feels good and general lack of comfort with sex. To get started, see a physician to ensure there are no physical issues related to your depleted desire, hormonal or otherwise. If all is clear, start looking at other impediments that are interrupting your drive. Is there any stress that can be dealt

tum build and then start having sex with your partner. Like begets like. The more good sex you have, the more sex you want. In terms of transferring that momentum to your partner, there are two ways that I have seen be particularly effective. The first is viewing sex as a sport. Focus your attention on the fun part of it and make it a personal challenge to explore yours and your partner's pleasure parts. This can make it feel less like a chore and more like a fun game. But possibly the most effective means for stimulating desire is what I call building the emotional impetus. Think compassionately about your partner. Imagine them being happy. Imagine them experiencing sorrow. Deepen your emotional awareness of them and as your heart swells, watch your response. I'm guessing you'll want to feel close to them. I can't pretend this isn't a complicated process that will require a lot of openness, insight, persistence and hard work. There are often a lot of interrelated parts to untangle, but if you desire to desire, you can definitely get your drive back! V

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Tami-lee Duncan is a Registered Psychologist in Edmonton, specializing in sexual health. Please note that the information and advice given above is not a substitute for therapeutic treatment with a licensed professional. For information or to submit a question, please contact tami-lee@vueweekly.com. Follow on Twitter @SexOlogyYEG.

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Gay, thirtysomething male in DC. My boyfriend of three years has been acting strange—not taking his antidepression meds, says he's feeling weird. He has withdrawn from me, sleeps 15 hours a day and has been cancelling on commitments to socialize with friends. That I am fine with— he's blue and I get it. Here's why I'm writing: he was doing an online crossword and when he got up, I was going to write a message in it—to be funny and sweet. What I saw messed me up. There was a browser window open about meth and depression. He is 48 and successful, and isn't a clubber or party-going type. METH? What the hell? I snooped further and there was a detailed search history on meth, meth and depression, meth and sex. He doesn't seem to have been high around me—and I would never use meth, it's not my thing and I have a security clearance (no drugs for me, ever)—but I don't want to date an addict. I don't want to be with someone who would take such a dumb risk. And for what? Dude! You're 48, you have a career, a business and a guy who cares for you! WTF?!? I know what you'll say: use your words—and, trust me, I will. But am I totally crazy? I feel shitty for having snooped, but it started innocently enough with me wanting to write a goofy note on his crossword puzzle. SNOOP NOW ALL FUCKED UP

civil commitment, respectively. Learning your depressed-and-offhis-meds boyfriend may have—or may have had—a meth problem falls into the needed-to-know/haveto-do-something-about category. So, yeah, SNAFU, you gotta use your words. Go to your boyfriend, tell him what you discovered and how you discovered it, and demand an explanation while offering to help. Urge him to see his doctor— whoever prescribed the antidepressants he stopped taking—and go into the convo armed with a list of the resources available to him. "We're lucky to have a lot of great resources in DC," said David Mariner, executive director of the DC Center for the LGBT Community (thedccenter.org). "The Triangle Club (triangleclub.org) is an LGBT recovery house, and they host all sorts of 12-step meetings. Crystal Meth Anonymous is really active here. And we're just kicking off a harm-reduction group here at the DC Center." I asked Mariner if your boyfriend sounded to him like someone currently abusing meth. "I'm not an expert," Mariner replied, "but he doesn't sound like it to me. He may be having a hard time talking

actually meet. But last week, I had sex five times in five days with five different women. And that just made me feel awesome, turned on and wonderful. Is there a term for someone who gets turned on by finding new people to have sex with? Have I discovered a new kink? Is there a name for people like me? If there is, I couldn't find it. Google failed me. Can a person have a kink for finding new sex partners? What would it be called? Or am I just a slutty man-whore? DUDE DRINKING DEEP I don't think "drinking deep from the bowels of [blank]" is a good way to describe something you enjoy, DDD. Watching a GOP debate? Perhaps best described as drinking deep from the bowels of the terrifying American id. Enjoying consensual sex with people you're into? Better described as "drinking deep from Aphrodite's honeyed mouth" or "licking Adonis's jizz off Antinous's tits" or simply "killing it"—really, anything would be an improvement. As for what your kink is called ... "What DDD describes is consistent with a motivational style once called Don Juan syndrome," says Dr David Ley, author and clinical psycholog ist. "It has also been called Casanova or James Bond syndrome. Essentially, these are folks most excited by the quest/ hunt for novelty in sex partners. This was once viewed as deeply dysfunctional from a heteronormative, monogamy-idealizing therapeutic culture. What I appreciate about DDD is that, even though he uses sex-addiction language, it's clear he has accepted himself and his desire. I'd say he has adapted fairly well, and responsibly, to that tendency in himself."

Learning your depressed-and-off-his-meds boyfriend may have—or may have had—a meth problem falls into the needed-toknow/have-to-do-something-about category.

Meth addicts aren't known for sleeping 15 hours a day, SNAFU. Meth addicts aren't known for sleeping at all. So perhaps your boyfriend abused meth before you met—and there's no using meth, only abusing meth—and conquered his addiction and/or stopped abusing meth years ago. And now he's depressed and off his meds, and he went online to investigate whether his past meth abuse could be contributing to his current depression. As for the snooping angle… When we snoop, we sometimes find out things we don't want to know, don't need to know and don't need to do anything about. For example, the new boyfriend has a few sexts from his ex tucked away on his computer, your dad is cheating on his third wife, your adult daughter is selling her used panties online. But sometimes we find out things we needed to know and have to do something about. For example, your 14-year-old daughter is planning to meet up with a 35-year-old man she met on Instagram, your "straight" boyfriend is having unsafe sex with dozens of men behind your back, your spouse is planning to vote for Ted Cruz—in those cases, you have to intervene, break up and file for

to his boyfriend about this because for folks who have a history of meth use, sex can be tricky. Meth use and sexual activity are often so intertwined that it can make it hard to talk to a partner." Finally, SNAFU, don't make it harder for your partner to be honest with you by threatening to break up with him. You don't have to remain in a relationship with an addict, if indeed he is an addict, forever. But start by showing him compassion and offering support. You can make up your mind about your future—whether you have one together—during a subsequent conversation.

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I just posted a new word on the Physician Moms Facebook group and was told that I should send it to you. I got tired of hearing "she's got balls" so I made up a new word, clitzpah (klit-spe) noun: a woman with guts! Origin of clitzpah: clitoris (kli-teres) noun: an organ of the female genitalia, the purpose of which is purely to bring women pleasure, and chutzpah (hu¦t-spe) noun: a Yiddish term for courage bordering on arrogance. I hope this is useful! JILL BECKER, CLITZPAH.COM It's a lovely word, Jill—and I'm happy to help you roll it out!V On the Lovecast, Dan and a doc from Planned Parenthood answer your medical questions: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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