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"Initially, Facebook took off. It was easy to grow, it grew to a level, and then it hit a peak."

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"Really, it’s the location and customers who imbibe the space with energy and authenticity."

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"We try to create a theatrical experience that pays attention to things like relationship and intention, as well as a living, breathing experience."

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"Mirrors are inherently creepy.

They’re so ubiquitous."

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"You can’t replicate a song where there’s 15 different instruments and four guys. But we do the best we can."

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Back to the bridge Sometimes it feels like Edmonton just can't leave the High Level Bridge alone.

Take, for instance, the Great Divide Waterfall, which sprang from the side of the bridge for almost 30 years—spouting 50 000 litres of chlorinated water per minute into the North Saskatchewan River—but was stopped in 2009 thanks to Environment Canada and was officially shut down by city council on Monday due to the high cost of repairing it.

The city had set aside $735 000 to repair the waterfall structure in 2013— with volunteers necessary to raise the remainder of the potentially $2.6 million cost—but council decided that the money could be better spent elsewhere.

However, the soon-to-be completed Light the Bridge project has stepped in to assure us that we add another gimmick to a structure that's already attractive enough on its own.

There is an interesting irony here between bridge projects of past and present. Since support for the waterfall has finally run dry, you'd think so would the city's patience for projects like Light the Bridge, which will ultimately mar the look of our structures. That's just the superficial problem, though—we've heard little about the amount of energy this bridge will use up, as well as what the cost will be to keep it lit up night after night and maintain over the years.

The project has raised $2.5 million over the past year to put up the 60 000 LED lights, all of which was acquired through donations. Still, even though no city money was involved, that doesn't mean citizens won't be paying for upkeep or other costs down the line. The project turned to the city for help back in December when they thought they wouldn't be able to raise enough funds and they could easily do so again.

Regardless of whether the money is coming from the city or through donations, we need to put more thought into the long-term implications of projects like these, and whether projects that are important to us now will be worth maintaining into the future. After all, what message are we sending to Edmontonians about the things that are important to us? Lighting up a bridge seems fairly trivial when you consider how the city is in the midst of preparing for an extremely expensive new arena and an expanded LRT system. There are also several smaller initiatives that would be a better use of time and money, such as the new Alberta Avenue arts facility called The ArtsCommon, which council approved on Monday. The city will be paying $4 million for this facility, which will arguably have a much more substantial effect on its neighbourhood than lights on a bridge will on the river valley.

When it comes to the Light the Bridge project, what's done is done. But if we want a better Edmonton, it's important that we learn from instances like these, and think more about what kind of future our money is buying us. V

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Outreach for the overlooked

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Walk-In Counselling Society of Edmonton offers a preventative, low-cost approach

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hen, facing a lack of funding, the walk-in "There's a beginning, a middle and an end. Clients counselling branch of The Support Net- will leave with some answers—that's our goal. work's programming was shut down in 2012, We're here to help you organize some next steps.

Clinical social worker Jennifer Thomson and her Some clients, they can actually try something colleagues at the program didn't want to let it go. when they leave, there are some things they can do, even in their personal life."

It wasn't that there weren't other counselling services Mon – Thu (1 pm – 7 pm) The Walk-In Counselling Soavailable in town, particularly Fri – Sat (10 am – 2 pm) ciety offers the sort of supfor crisis situations. But the Walk-In Counselling Society of port service that's currently shuttered program's focus on Edmonton under-represented in Alberta. low-cost, single-session walk- #200, 9562 - 82 Ave In February, 2014 a team of ins was unique on the local 780.757.0900 researchers headed by Unilandscape, and had proven itversity of Alberta professor self particularly effective with the at-risk male demographic, often less likely to Cameron Wild released the Gap Analysis of Public seek out help: a 2008 Stats Canada report noted Mental Health And Addictions Programs (GAPsuicide to be the ninth-highest cause of death in MAP), a comprehensive look at our province's the country, at 1.7 percent, but when examined mental health and addiction services. Wild notes by gender, found it to be far more prominent in that the report—commissioned by the provincial men, noted as the seventh highest cause of death government and "designed to inform Alberta's Ad(2.3 percent), compared to being the 13th highest diction and Mental Health Strategy"—found that, among other things, the provincial government's cause of death for females (at 0.8 percent).

So Thomson and her colleagues banded to- resources in the mental health and addiction gether, sought out some initial funding with the area—approximately $750-million, total—were help of charitable non-profit E4C, and created not successfully meeting the needs of thousands the Walk-In Counselling Society of Edmonton, to of Albertans.

"What our report really did, for the first time— cater to that often-overlooked demographic of people in need of mental health service. It's open we think this is the first time this has been done to both individuals or families experiencing some in Alberta's history—is to systematically collect sort of situation that could use external support, information and data about the state of this sysand offers both evening and Saturday service, for tem and how well it meets the needs of people those whose regular work schedule might other- living with these conditions," Wild says. "A vast majority of reports—if you go into the archives wise prevent them from seeking out support.

"It doesn't have to be a crisis," she says of the addressing how well we're doing on this—are program's focus. "It can just be a change, [or] kind of management consultant reports that something unexpected. And to talk to someone basically say, 'Well, what's happening in other about it, in person, can help them to organize, can provinces?' And do a quick scan of that, and then help them to find ways to cope and help them to talk to some people in Alberta and see what their find resources. That's what our job is. We want to views are."

In comparison, the GAP-MAP report took three meet clients at the time when they need it, hence the walk-in service. There's less stress and pres- approaches: a population survey of about 6000 sure if a person can decide when they're going to Albertans, a comprehensive list of all mental health programs and services available (someget here."

With Thomson as clinical director, Walk-In thing Wild was surprised to discover had never opened on Whyte Avenue in June. They've been been complied before), and an economic analysis.

Among its findings: while the bulk of resources busy since then: until mid-December, the program saw 308 unique clients, and from January and funding go to hospitals and serious crisis services—which, Wild notes, are absolutely imuntil mid-March there have been another 150.

Thomson notes the title of single-session coun- portant—more preventative programs like the selling can be misleading to some: Walk-In's focus Walk-In Counselling Society are often left with a on single sessions doesn't mean that there's only far smaller share of resources to go around.

"These less-severe cases have surprisingly few the option of going once.

"Each session stands alone," she clarifies. resources targeted for them," he states. "And one

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of the points we were trying to make [in the report] is there were different models of how you handle that complexity, and the system, I think, currently is structured in a way that forces people with low-severity problems to compete with people who have high severity for spots in the system.

"We think there may be a way to argue that resources—either new resources or existing resources—could be deployed to address the needs of people who don't have the most severe problems," he continues. "Because we know that there's lots of interventions that could work for them, including intervention systems, web-based interventions and so on, that can be effective, freeing up spots in the system for those that require more severe and intensive treatment and services to access them. So when we took a look at how the system resources itself, surprisingly— maybe not surprising to some—there were very few resources specifically devoted to prevention of mental health and addiction problems, and working in primary care and family physical context to screen people for low-severity problems that would benefit from brief interventions."

The GAP-MAP report's comprehensive approach is being lauded across the board for its evidencebased approach—it's publicly available to read, too. But its effects on policy are yet to be seen.

So, as the Walk-In Counselling Society looks for more funding and resources to expand its reach and service options, Thomson notes the core of the program remains the strength of its volunteers: somewhere in the vicinity of 60 health-care professionals who donate their time to offering these services for Albertans in need.

"In fact, we opened up more hours than we had previously, because we had so many volunteers," she says. "This is a space we've built for them to do pro-bono work. We're confident we'll always have the volunteers for that; they're psychologists, or social workers, or counsellors, or psychotherapists, or marriage and family therapists, and so they want to do some work in the community.

We're sort of supposed to do that.

"As long as we have our volunteers, we believe we can sustain this program."

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The GAP MAP Report is available to read at http://www.health.alberta.ca/documents/GAPMAP-Report-2014.pdf

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f social media sometimes feels ir- show contract, has 755. business." replaceable in our daily lives, imagThe Strathcona library splits selfSustainable Food Edmonton uses ine how it must feel for non-profits: promotion with posts of interest, and Facebook and Twitter for public outwith a limited amount of money and sees some growth in its program use reach and LinkedIn for connection to time, the staff of libraries, arts groups because of it. the business community. According to and advocacy organizations have "I think that with us, what we've executive director Areni Kelleppan, it's made social networks like Facebook seen is increased attendance in pro- easier to reach their circle and it's a the backbone of their strategies for grams," says Sally Neal, a communi- greener alternative. reaching out to people—it is quick, cations specialist at the library. "The "We can actually do a lot more and effective and, most importantly, free. stuff that we do promote on Twitter reach a wider audience in our local But what if it wasn't free any more? we seem to get a lot more people at." sphere by using social media," she Since 2012, Facebook has imposed According to Neal, registrations says. "Rather than putting [out] a lot a limit on organic reach on its fan increase by about 15 percent in the of paper ... we save ourselves a lot Pages, or the amount of people that days before a program's registration of those costs and the impact on the see a brand or organization's post deadline when the library picks up environment." without having it shared or without promotions. About 15 people, most of Dugan says that for the library, Facebuying a paid boost. whom have unrelated jobs, have ac- book and Twitter are used in conjuncThat number is dropping, and peo- cess to the library's accounts, spend- tion with traditional print advertiseple may find themselves having to ing collectively about three to five ments to reach a different audience. pay to play. A February 2014 study by hours a week on creating content.

"Because we're a smaller commumarketing firm Ogilvy and Mather's Firefly Theatre uses social media nity, our traditional media, especially social-media division shows that or- for distributing program schedules our newspaper, is very powerful," she ganic reach on Facebook has already and performance information to says. "[Social is] something that just dropped to six percent from 16 per- the public. blends in with the rest of the comcent two years ago.

"We probably do not take as much munications mix."

For some of the big-ticket brands advantage of social media as we Kelleppan says it has become a backwith millions of followers, that cut could because, like most non-profits, bone for non-profit advertising. "We represents a sizable chunk of the cus- we're understaffed," says Annie Du- love the fact that it's free," she says. tomer base. For non-profits and small gan, artistic director for the theatre. "A number of key areas of non-profits businesses, it represents almost all of "It's really helped in the last several now rely on social media. It would be it. A business that's amassed a healthy years because it used to cost so much like pulling the rug from under us if Facebook following of 7000 fans may money to advertise. there were significant costs in play." see their posts go out to 420 people: "Now social media takes a lot of that a post to a page with 600 users could burden away."

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According to Kyle Russell, commu- The presence of advertising on soThe report says that sources in- nications manager for Alberta Ballet, cial media has always attracted wary side the comglares from uspany are tellers. In 2006, My hope is that with Facebook changing the way L i v e J o u r n a l ' s ing people to prepare for it has, it's opened eyes to see that, no, social still young, artsy auorganic reach dience nearly reneeds to be part of the marketing strategy. to hit zero. A volted when the non-profit can blog platform get past organic reach by focusing social media elimiwas bought by a company named on community and shareable con- nates a filter beSixApart, who sold sponsored tent, but signs suggest that the real tween the company accounts to corporate brands. power on Facebook is going to be pay and users. "People Of course now, some of the to play. Would they stump up the are more comfortable most celebrated brands on money? Is it worth it? talking with a brand," Tumblr are fashion and he says. "You think lifestyle How non-profits use social media that would be awThe effectiveness of social media for a ful to say that you non-profit can vary depending on how get complaints via long the accounts have been open and Twitter on a public how many people operate it. forum, but it's good Strathcona County Public Library's for us because Twitter account, which has been it helps us imopen for four years, has 1121 follow- prove our ers, while its one-year-old Facebook account has 282. Alberta Ballet, which has three people from its marketing department operate its social media, has 7602 Facebook likes, while Firefly Theatre and Circus, a smaller operation that splits social duties between its artistic director and Will “like” for $$$ // Andrea Hirji a publicist on a show-to-

brands who post stylish content like regular users, and people choose to add big-ticket brands like McDonalds and Coca-Cola to their Facebook on purpose.

"We all kind of went into it as, here's a way to build relationships with our customers ... it was more building loyalty," says Terri McBay, executive director of social media for marketing firm Ogilvy Canada, pointing out it was more about communities than a return on investment. "A lot of brands moved away from their website and just started doing everything on Facebook."

But as Facebook aged, it started to get expensive. "I have found that they have taken away a lot of functionality that used to be there for free," Kelleppan says. "There are these little conveniences that make it difficult to use Facebook the way you could use it."

A computer algorithm shows you Facebook posts based on a number of factors, including how much you interact with a person or page and how many people have liked or commented on an update. When Facebook announced in 2012 that page owners could start paying to boost the number of people that saw a given post, suspicion abounded that the numbers were being kept low on purpose: indeed, the company confirmed that it was capped at about 16 percent. And that number is steadily dropping.

But the tech media sphere has been buzzing that organic reach as a percentage of a Facebook page's actual likes was going down for some time, and the Ogilvy study says that number was already six percent on average in February 2014. Alberta Ballet's more than 7000 likes could now get them 456 people before any posts, comments or paid investment, and the Strathcona Library's 282 likes may garner them only 16 sets of eyeballs without any boost.

The study, called "Facebook Zero: Considering Life After the Demise of Organic Reach" published March 5, 2014 says that unofficial sources are telling community managers to prepare for a time where there might not be any organic reach at all.

"For some reason, social flew under this radar ... everybody just looked at it as a free place to be and a free place to get eyeballs," McBay says. "My hope is that with Facebook changing the way it has, it's opened eyes to see that, no, social still needs to be part of the marketing strategy."

McBay says there are some positives for non-profit groups: because they tend to be more community-oriented, their engagement is

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going to be higher than other brands on Facebook. Ogilvy manages the Heart and Stroke Foundation's social media campaign, and McBay says it benefits from a community mentality.

"Even though organic rates might not be as high or are on the decline, they see a lot of engagement," she says. "They are going to the page to share stories or talk about survivors."

According to McBay, the biggest way to benefit in the new Facebook marketplace is to have quality content people share and engage with.

"It's important that it's still looked at as a way to gain shareability and engagement, because that's what's going to get further organic reach," she says.

The trade-off for smaller groups who see their audiences slashed is that the dollar figures required to reach that far are much lower. The minimum price is $6, which will boost to a number somewhere between 200 and 2000.

At those amounts, some groups, like the library, are already paying.

"We do use it for some stuff, things like fundraisers, programming that is paid for," says Neal. "We would consider boosting a paid program, but if nobody was seeing it, we certainly wouldn't boost every single thing."

Dugan says Firefly Theatre would have to see the investment back.

"The important thing would be, how does it get boosted and who sees that post that wouldn't normally see it?" she asks. "That's what I'd be looking at ... what do I get for my money?"

McBay says social-media use should now be based around goals.

"It puts more onus on the brand and the agencies that works for brand to make stronger and better content," she says. "They are putting an investment behind it as opposed to just talking for the sake of talking."

Kelleppan says that groups may look at flowing towards whatever is the most effective, and Sustainable Food Edmonton saw Twitter grow faster over the year they've been using social media.

"Initially, Facebook took off. It was easy to grow, it grew to a level, and then it hit a peak," she says. "Twitter was slower to grow, but ... it continues to grow at a rapid rate, and Facebook is not continuing at that same rate."

Although there is a value to Facebook advertising, Kelleppan says the nature of the Internet is to angle toward free content.

"If there are no barriers to using it, you're going to have tons of users.

Once you attach a cost to it, you will see that decline," she says.

"You will see the way that people have built uses around that free access decline as well, or they'll rethink how they use social media."

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Leaving the safety of the closet

Facebook post celebrating transgender son a good lesson in understanding I was mindlessly scrolling through Facebook when I came across a post by a Las Vegas mother named Jodie Gholson Oliver, where she announced on March 27 that her son, Jes, is transgender.

I was moved by her supportive message which gained a lot of attention on the social-media website: "Yep, it's true! I am proud to announce that I have given birth to a bouncing baby boy. For about 18 years we thought he was a girl, who just happened to like bugs, tattoos, flames, skulls, snakes, lizards, etc. Then one day Jes explained to us that he never felt like he was supposed to be a girl, always identified more as a boy and therefore planned on living as one (a term called transgender in case you

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are not sure). This is something that the closet can even be a safe space Here's the thing: the choices we we have all seen over the years and for those who are not ready or can- make now are not final because we will continue to grow as life takes I am so happy that he can finally feel not come out.

I want us to be careful that we do us to new places of understanding like the person he was born to be!"

I do not personally know them, but not validate those who are "out" of ourselves and each other. I guess I cannot help but be happy for Jes more than those who are "in" the what I'm trying to say is that things and his famtend to change ily. I wanted over time and all In addition, I want to be careful that we do not that should matter to share this validate those who are "out" more than those story because is that you are safe and happy right it makes me who are "in the closet". question the now. notion of "comRegardless of our decisions, ing out of the closest"—a difficult and deeply closet. Being out of the closet in- self love and self acceptance are emotional process that is unique for volves a certain amount of privi- important for each and every one all of us. Along with the fear of be- lege—such as support from friends of us. As a friend reminded me, it's ing the person we want to be, the and family that isn't always possible important so that we can go on to fear of rejection can also prevent us for everyone. be success stories just by living and not become another death statistic. from stepping out. And sometimes

Sometimes it is difficult to self care when we feel as though there aren't enough spaces for us to exist and to find ourselves. But I hope that we can start to challenge and question the meaning of acceptance and celebrate individuals who do not fit into patterns society considers to be "normal."

I want to end this column with some more words from Oliver: "I admire Jes for being brave enough to walk to the beat of his own drum all his life. He could have chosen the 'easy' road, but he chose to take the road that leads to 'truth,' and by him taking this action, and all of us talking about it, the 'easy' road will eventually be the one that leads to 'truth.'" V

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The return of the dictators

Welcomed back to the countries they tyrannized with open arms—why?

"I prefer death to surrender," said Pakistan's former military dictator Pervez Musharraf on April 1 to the special court that is trying him on five counts of high treason, but it's a reasonable guess that he'd prefer exile to either of those options. The real puzzle is why he ever left his comfortable exile in England in the first place.

In theory Musharraf, who seized power in Pakistan in 1999 and finally gave it up under great pressure in 2007, could face the death penalty if he is found guilty, but in practice he is protected by the Important Persons Act, an unwritten law that operates in almost every country.

High political office is a club and the members look after one another.

Nevertheless, Musharraf is being greatly inconvenienced by the trial, and last week the Taliban nearly got him with a roadside bomb near Islamabad. Doubtless he missed Pakistan, but what bizarre calculation could have led him to go home and put himself in the hands of his many enemies?

Musharraf said he was coming home to run in the 2013 election, which was delusional in the extreme. There was little reason to believe that many Pakistanis would

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Eventually, Duvalier's spendthrift can Republic, later known as Emperwant to vote for him after living under his arbitrary rule for eight years. ways and an expensive divorce got or Bokassa I of the Central African There was no reason at all to think him into financial difficulties, but Empire. He was a brutal soldier who that he would not be disqualified just going back to Haiti was not go- had served in the French colonial from running in the election and put ing to fix that. Yet he went home in army, and seized power from his 2011, after a quarter-century in ex- country's first president (a cousin) on trial for grave crimes.

Yet Musharraf is not alone. Other ile. He said he was "just coming to in 1966. For the next 13 years he ex-dictators, far nastier than him, help," whatever that meant, but he ruled the country with great viohave succumbed to the same delu- arrived just as the recently elected lence and practically bankrupted it.

The mass murder of schoolchilsion and gone home convinced that president was facing charges of they would be welcomed back. An- election-rigging, which led some to dren and rumours of cannibalism finally moved other recent case the French to is Jean-Claude What's much more curious is the fact that the intervene mili"Baby Doc" Ducountries they misruled eventually find it neces- tarily and overvalier, who took throw Bokassa over as Haiti's sary to forgive them. in 1979 while dictator at 19 he was travelwhen his father ling abroad. He "Papa Doc" died in 1971 and ruled it until he was speculate that Duvalier still had po- was sentenced to death in absentia in 1980 for the murder of many pooverthrown by a popular revolt in litical ambitions.

He was arrested and charged with litical rivals—but he returned from 1986.

Haiti was the poorest country in embezzlement, human-rights abuses, exile in Paris in 1986, seemingly conthe Western Hemisphere when he and crimes against humanity. Three fident that he would be welcomed took power, and still the poorest years later, the courts are still pur- with open arms.

He was put on trial and sentenced when he lost it, but he took an al- suing him on those charges, but in leged $120 million with him into the meantime he is frequently seen to death again—in person, this time. exile in France. His dreaded Tonton lunching in the bistros of Pétionville But the following year his sentence Macoute militia murdered thou- and has even been welcomed at the was commuted to life in prison, and sands and drove hundreds of thou- same events as the current presi- in 1993 he was set free. In 2010, sands into exile. Many of them were dent, Michel Martelly. It's safe to say President François Bozizé issued a decree rehabilitating Bokassa and massacred in the revolution that that he will not die in jail.

And then there was Jean-Bédel Bo- calling him "a son of the nation recended his rule, but he lived on in kassa, president of the Central Afri- ognized by all as a great builder."

Paris in great luxury.

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Two things are odd about this phenomenon of ex-dictators confidently returning to the scene of the crime. One, obviously, is their belief that they are still loved (as if they ever really were). But that is less strange than it seems, for during their time in power very few people dared to tell them anything else.

What's much more curious is the fact that the countries they misruled eventually find it necessary to forgive them. They do this not so much out of sympathy for the man who committed the crimes, but rather out of a need for the nation's history not to be merely a meaningless catalogue of blunders and misdeeds.

Musharraf may have come back a bit too early to benefit from instant forgiveness, for some of the people he hurt have not yet retired. But he will not face really serious jail time or the death penalty because Pakistan's army would not permit it.

And he will be forgiven by Pakistan's historians and myth-makers in the end, because somehow or other the history has to make sense. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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ou'll find Edmonton's newest coffee shop just behind the box-store madness of Oliver Square, inconspicuously tucked into a line of businesses, save for a single sign assuring you you've made it to the right place.

The brick storefront of Iconoclast Koffiehuis features a minimalist esthetic, allowing the character of the building to speak for itself. The exposed brick and concrete are accentuated by high ceilings and natural light spilling in from two large, garage-style doors that will be open during the warmer months. The focal point of the room is the 360-degree coffee bar created by sculptor Rob Willms, which has been constructed from reclaimed materials like bleachers and coffee-bean bags.

Beyond the bar, Iconoclast houses a ping-pong table and dart-board area before opening up to the heart of the operation, the Has Garanti drum roaster.

Iconoclast has been in the roasting business since 2009 and roasted exclusively for Café Tech for nearly five years. Owner Ryan Arcand had relo-

cated from Vancouver two years prior and thanks to a developed palette from his extensive work in the wine industry, he decided to transfer his skills to coffee, noticing a niche for local roasters within the Edmonton market.

Arcand points out that a great deal of language and skills do overlap between the two beverages, despite their differences.

"Coffee is a lot more variable, just starting from all the different ways you can brew coffee," he says from across the table at Iconoclast, noting the changing temperature of the beverage widely impacts its taste. "Both tasting wine and tasting coffee is exhausting on your palette, so you've got to be careful. There's a lot of technique in both cases. ... With wine tasting you take in the nose, spit—same with coffee."

Coffee tasting does provide its own inherent challenges, however, namely the temperature.

"I compare it to drinking Scotch," Arcand says. "If you enjoy your whisky, before you can actually start tasting what

you're drinking, you have to learn how to drink it first, because if you don't know how to drink whisky it's actually just going to cause you physical pain.

You won't be able to taste it to qualify its character."

The roaster itself was relocated to the current Iconoclast space in June 2013, and since Arcand still had the roasting business up and running he could take his time developing the Koffiehuis portion of the business. The original concept was to build a wine and coffee bar, but Arcand decided to forgo the lengthy hours and design the business as a wholesale production facility/coffee shop and special-event facility. Iconoclast already has half a dozen events booked for the coming year, and has teamed up with Brad Lazarenko of Culina Mill Creek to handle catering.

"Being a long-time bartender and a long-time barista, I have quite a lot of experience on how bars flow, so I wanted a 360-degree bar, a walk-around bar," Arcand explains of his vision for

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the space, which also houses an espresso-machine repair service at the back. "I kind of based the coffee-service aspect of things on a place in Toronto called The Common, which is a cool little coffee bar—there's a couple of locations now—but the first one was on College Street West and it's a one-person bar, one barista."

Arcand's bar is set up for one bartender as well, as he believes one competent barista can keep the place running smoothly, much like The Common does.

"Secondly, I borrowed inspiration from The Sugar Bowl as well. The Sugar Bowl, in my opinion, is one of the warmest bars in the city. It's got great energy for a number of reasons, but one is that kind of communal bar top they have," Arcand adds of the design.

"I feel Edmonton has a tendency, or bad habit, or addiction to over-design and over-build, and there are a lot of reasons for that, I think, and some are very valid. But if you go to other places in the country you see real, authentic

coffee houses open on a shoestring.

They have a counter, an espresso machine or some kind of brewing method, some tables and chairs, and the doors are open. Really, it's the location and customers who imbibe the space with energy and authenticity."

As for the menu, the coffee service will include "everything you can do with an espresso machine" with the added dimension of the roaster—customers will be able to watch the roasting process take place and learn more about it.

"It's kind of like doing something in real time," Arcand says of having the coffee roaster on site. "For instance, the coffee you just had, I brewed an hour ago, and this just happens to be the coffee I'm roasting today, so we're going to play around quite a bit."

This will mean exploring blends, single origins and even other roasters.

"I'm looking forward to throwing Phil and Sebastian up on the bar or Transcend up on the bar and just having fun, just because for me, this isn't the business, that's the business," he says, referring to the roaster. "This is almost like a showroom for the roaster and what we're doing."

For those who are less inclined to coffee, there will be tea and cold beverages as well. On the food side, pastries will be baked in-house and lunch offerings will come courtesy of The Local Omnivore, who share the space and do their smoking just outside the back of the building. If that wasn't enough, Arcand's girlfriend, Sjoukje Bouma is a Belgian-trained chocolatier who runs Pinto Chocolates. A variety of bars will be for sale and Bouma will also be concocting gourmet traditional and flavoured hot chocolates.

"With our combined interest in businesses we're hoping to roast our own cocoa and get into making our own chocolate from scratch and doing this with it, so that's the vision of where we're going," says Bouma, who currently makes her chocolates off site.

Iconoclast is currently open to the public, but will be hosting its grandopening launch event on May 3.

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e skip the first three experi- breathing experience," Turner says. "Not ments guaranteed to fail and a completely pre-set structure." go straight to the fourth, fifth and sixth experiments guaranteed to fail," ex- The story and the script are extremeplains John Turner, also known as the ly important to the group. Even though mischievous, red-horned Smoot. "And Mump and Smoot shows are notorious for their improvised deviations with the then we nail it."

After 26 years of playing in the world audience, according to both Turner and of Mump and Smoot, Turner, along Kennard, it's the structure that gives with partner Michael Kennard—the them the freedom to delve into the bow-tie-sporting Mump—and their crowd and play in the moment. And longtime director, Karen Hines, seem those moments, especially when calm, reflective and confident in their craft as they head towards the opening of Anything. The group's eighth original production and the first since 2010's Cracked, their collective poise is enviable—the well-deserved result of decades of hard work.

"There kind of isn't the fear that maybe we suck," Hines says, "because we know by now that we don't."

"And if we do, it will only be one out of eight times that we suck," laughs Turner, leaning back in his chair.

The details of Anything are hard to extract from its three composers. Turner politely notes that they don't want to mislead the public, as those details are still changing, and will change, even throughout the course of its run here in Edmonton. Rest assured, it will feature Mump and Smoot, mucking about in their dark parallel universe of Ummo, cavorting as the two horror clowns do.

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things go wrong, can yield magical results.

"We were in a big church in Vancouver and the power went," Kennard recalls. "We used flashlights in the opening and so we got two members in the audience to hold our flashlights—one spotlight for him and one spotlight for me. And the emergency lights came on, so there was a bit of light. Then we got the audi-

ence to do the sound effects. So we did this whole show without technical support."

"They went out 15 minutes in," adds Turner. "It was over an hour without [power]."

"It was one of the most amazing things that I've ever experienced in theatre."

"No one left."

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the fact that after more than a quarter of a century, Mump and Smoot really can handle just about Anything.

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Scars are Healing Wrong

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Paquita vs Carmen

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idn't you have a collapsed lung at acceptance of being in a weakened that point, too?" says Liz Hobbs, physical state," Ferguson says. "And also topping off a pretty incredible list of ail- acceptance of medical treatment. Acments that have, for the past two years, cepting people's help. Accepting that I plagued Julie Ferguson, who, adjacent at don't know more than them." the table, nods her Fri, Apr 11 & Sat, Apr 11 (7:30 Despite the subagreement. ject matter's gravIt began in 2012, pm); Sun, Apr 13 (2 pm) ity, Ferguson notes when Ferguson Directed by Liz Hobbs a liberal streak of was admitted to Second Playing Space, Timms levity to her apthe hospital, told Centre, Free proach, given hushe had pneumonia, and sent home. The next day she mour had proven one of the few ways returned to a much more severe diag- to keep sane while stuck in a hospital in her early 20s. nosis: Rhabdomyolysis.

"My muscles in my legs started eating Scars is an expanded take on somethemselves," Ferguson says. "And that thing she presented at the 2013 Exreleases an enzyme that blocks my kid- panse Festival: then just 15 minutes neys. And my kidneys shut down. And I long and focused on explaining what went into full multi-organ failure." had happened through movement, Ferguson spent seven weeks in the dance and projection.

ICU—she had to learn to walk again, at (Technically, Scars is not a public show, 20—and has been back in the hospital but it is free to attend, provided you intermittently ever since with various email Ferguson at julieferg92@gmail. fallout and other illnesses. And it's this com to plant your name on the guest journey from ICU care to her present list.) continued oscillation between sickness "We're going more theatrical with it, and recovery, that forms the spine of rather than solely dance," Hobbs says.

Scars are Healing Wrong, Ferguson's "There is a lot of movement in it. There's dramatic exploration of her situation. text in it now, too. A poem has been broHobbs, a member of indie stalwarts ken up and used throughout it. A little Punctuate! Theatre, directs. bit more abstracted storytelling."

"The point of the show is to look at They've also brought in a few more

collaborators (that seed version only had Ferguson, Hobbs, and a stage manager). Ainsley Hillyard of Good Women Dance has been doing choreography, with Ferguson and a pair of other actors, Alyson Dicey and Lianna Makuch, and refining that into a fuller version of the story.

"In the original version, I really wanted some sort of catharsis—some way to tell this story," she explains. "But this time around, it's been more about wanting to express the process of recovery and the acceptance of recovery."

That focal shift, she notes, comes from a similar one in the prognosis she's been hearing lately: "a lot less of 'eventually you'll be fine', and been a lot more of 'This is the way you'll live the rest of you life,'" she says. "Which is something they never really said to me before. They often said, 'Well, you're young, you'll get better.' And now they're being like, 'Well, you're young, but you won't get better.'

"That stasis is what spurred me to take the show in that direction," Ferguson continues. "Less boo-hoo, this happened, more pushing through, and accepting that recovery will be slow, and recovery will not be 100 percent."

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ithin the realm of classical bal- Opposite Chevennement's neoclassical let and opera, Paquita and Car- take on Carmen is the classical ballet Pamen are veritable celebrities. Citie Bal- quita, whose titular character is a Spanish let has decided to honour the iconic lady of a very different sort: while Carstatus of both in the local company's men is a gypsy with a tragic fate, Paquita season ender: Paquita vs Carmen, an is an aristocrat from the upper echelons evening that spans of Spanish society.

This production is the history of Sat, Apr 12 (7:30 pm); dance, from clas- Sun, Apr 13 (2:30 pm) an excerpt from the sical ballet to neo- Timms Centre for the Arts, $15 – $35 original ballet, retainclassical and coning Joseph Mazilier's temporary dance. original choreogra"My background is classical bal- phy from the 1846 Paris Opera production.

Though it's not mentioned in the let, so for me it's always important to show classical ballet as a reper- show's title, there's also a third toire so we don't forget where we performance sandwiched between came from, and then to go into the other two: Maria, a contempothe modern dance," says François rary dance piece choreographed by Chevennement, artistic director of Solveig Desilet, Citie Ballet's 11-year Citie Ballet. Paquita vs Carmen fea- resident choreographer. Maria is tures three separate dance pieces; based upon the historical figure MaChevennement himself choreo- ria Wodzińska, a Polish artist who was graphed Carmen, based upon the engaged (but never married) to comoriginal novella by Prosper Méri- poser Frédéric Chopin.

"What I find really interesting about mée (as opposed to the eponymous opera by Georges Bizet which, while [Paquita vs Carmen] is it gives a little bit much more well-known, is a signifi- for everybody," Chevennement says. "You get the classical ballet for the people who cant adaptation from the original).

"As I was reading the book I found love the pure, classical ballet, and you get that Carmen has different charac- neoclassical with a little story; it's easier ters; she can be a lovely person, she to understand the movements. From an can be a killer, she can be a femme audience point of view, you get more to fatale and she's also a teaser. So I see; you can please more people." have those four characters repre- MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM sented in my Carmen."

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ow do you go about designing the set for a play that has been staged thousands of times before?

"I try to come at every project afresh," says Cory Sincennes, the set and costume designer for the Citadel's newest mounting of Shakespeare's famous tale of tragic love: Romeo and Juliet. Sincennes has actually designed this play previously, back when he was attending theatre school, but notes that he's treating this new production as a blank canvas.

"It doesn't need to look a certain way for me; it doesn't have that sort of hang up," he says. "Obviously I know what the balcony scene looks like with how popular it is in our pop culture, so there's some level of trying to pay homage to that or giving people what they expect, but doing it in a slightly different way so that it isn't just the same thing that everyone has seen all the time."

To this end, Sincennes has created a set—on the thrust stage in the Citadel's Maclab Theatre—in a manner reminiscent of what 16th-century audiences would have seen at London's Globe Theatre: the props are minimal

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and the base set is inspired by Gothic and Renaissance religious architecture in an imposing stone-grey palate. It's been more than a year since Sincennes began collaborating with director Tom Wood, whose vision was to highlight a grittier, more realistic side to Romeo and Juliet—a side often eschewed by many productions in favour of the easier-to-stage, fairy-tale love aspect (Sincennes notes his previous school design of the show "was definitely twinkle lights and beautiful, romantic, ball dancing sort of stuff.")

The Citadel's production has an added twist of casting two different pairs of the title characters, which will alternate each night of the run.

"We wanted to create this real, dark world that wasn't Until Sun, Apr 27 (7:30 pm) about fairy-tale Directed by Tom Wood love; that had high- Citadel Theatre, $35 – $93.45 stakes situations," Sincennes explains.

"It's quite violent and quite dark. Everyone feels trapped in this environment; you know where you trap dogs in a cage and they start fighting— that kind of idea."

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ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave, 780.233.3635 • Gratitude: An Exhibition of Local Graphic Design Featuring Perry Gratton with Arrowz Featuring New Collaborative Works with Mat Simpson • Through Apr

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • OPEN AND CLOSED: Artworks by Wendy Meeres; Until Apr 27

Reading Series: Catherine Owen reading from Designated Mourner • Apr 15, 7pm

• DAY TRIPPING: Works by Jane Brookes • NOT YOUR

DIE-NASTY • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until May 26

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE • La Cité Theatre, 862791 St • Two ONE-WAY Tickets To Broadway • Musical comedy; book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar; music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison; directed and choreographed by Barbara Mah; musical direction by Michael Clark • Apr 18-27 • $15 (student)/$20 (senior)/$25 (adult) at TIX on the Square

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM • Walterdale, 10322-83 Ave • Comedy by Stephen Sondheim, directed by Adam Mazerolle-Kuss • Until Apr 12, 8pm • $14-$20 at TIX on the Square, door

HAIRSPRAY–THE BROADWAY MUSICAL • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Musical-comedy • It's 1962 in Baltimore. Tracy Turnblad, a big Teenaged girl with big hair and a big heart wants to dance on the popular Corny Collins Show • Apr 18-Jun 15 • Tickets at 780.483.4051

CALLY'S TEAS • 10151-82 Ave • Lives Penned:

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St,

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St

Ave • Rapid Fire's longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun, 2014

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Launch of Douglas Roche's Peacemakers: How People Around the World are building a World Free of War; Apr 12, 4pm • Launch of Tololwa Mollel's children's book, From the Lands of the Night; Apr 13, 2pm • Writers from a Hat: Apr 14, 7pm • Suzanne North's launch of Flying Time; Apr 15, 7pm • Shawna Lemay's launch of Asking; Apr 17, 7pm

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Daravara, 10713-124 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 790.559.4443 • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • Art by Beth Gillard, and ASSC members • Until Apr 27

CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A

THE ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave • In The Blink of an Eye: Apr 21, 7pm; free • Part of Poetry Festival

MAKE IT! • Enjoy Centre, 101 Riel Dr, St Albert • Alberta's Art and Craft Fair: Handmade items made

by Canadian artisans and designers • Apr 11-13; Fri, 10am-9pm; Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 11am-5pm • $5 (door), kids 12 and under free

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590

Theatre, WEM, Phase II, Upper Level, 780.484.2424 • Apr 18-Jun 15

THE SISTERHOOD OF LONGING: Works by Marlena Wyman • THE MEMORY ROOMS: Works by Caitlin Richards, Patrick Arés-Pilon, and Mallory Gemmel; Apr 25-May 4; opening: Apr 25, 7-10pm; performance by VINE Choir at 8pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • FRAGILE ELEMENTS: Works by Susan Casault, Peter Ivens, and Teresa Stieben; until Apr 26 • Preschool Picasso: For ages 3-5; Beautiful Birds: Apr 12, 10:30-11:30am; $10/$9 (member) • Ageless Art: Botanical Impressions: Apr 17, 1-3pm; $15/$13.50 (member) • Artventures: Drop-in art program for children aged 6-12; Leaf Prints: Apr 19, 1-4pm; $6 (per child)/$5.40 (member)

Tammy Salzl, and installation/sculpture stories by Emily Jan; until Apr 19 • ProjEx Room: 900: DRAWING WITH THE BRAIN: Works by Amber-Jane Grove; until Apr 19

THE BRITISH INVASION • Jubilations Dinner

munity Canvas Works Gallery, YMCA DT, 10211-102 Ave: Paintings by Jenny Keith; until May • Jackson Power:

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • SPRING ON 124 STREET: Featuring paintings by Waclaw Pietucha, colour photos by Steven Friedman • Until Apr 30 Space: FALLING THROUGH THE MIRROR: Paintings by

Fire presents experimental long-form improv • Until Apr 12 • $10 (weekdays)/$12 (weekends)/$25 (festival pass)

WORKS GALLERY • 10635-95 St • The YMCA Com-

Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • BMO World of Creativity: CABINETS OF CURIOSITY: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30 • HIGH ADVENTURE: Byron Harmon on the Columbia Icefield; until Aug 17 • LAWREN HARRIS AND A.Y. JACKSON–JASPER/ROBSON 1924: until Aug 17 • INSTINCTIVE BREAK: Installation by Andrew Frosst; until Jun 8 • BOWERBIRD, LIFE AS ART: Works by Lyndal Osborne: until Apr 27 • STRANGE DREAM: Artworks by Jill Stanton; until Dec 31 • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, inspired by the exhibit Flora and Fauna: 400 Years of Artists Inspired by Nature; Apr 23, 7pm • Ledcor Theatre: W. Brett Wilson to speak about his two unique “collections”; Apr 23, 6:30pm; $15/$8 (member)/free (Ultra/Curator’s Circle members, Artist Patrons)

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Main

BONFIRE! FESTIVAL • Citadel, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid

780.488.4892 • Works by Michael Rozenvain, and works

by Annabelle Marquis; until Apr 17

Kimmy Beach, Jeanette Lynes, Steven Heighton, Hugh McMillan, Capital City Burlesque • Apr 25, 7:30pm (door), 8pm (event) • $30 (member)/$40 (non-member)

Portrait photos of parolees; curated by Mark Power • Until May 3, Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm

Ave • An Improvised Theatre: song, dance, and comedy presented by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri • Apr 11

10322-83 Ave • THE ARTIST LENS • Until May 18

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • The Red Gala:

KING’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE • 9125-50 St • LIFE2:

THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona, 10329-83

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave,

HUMAN ECOLOGY BUILDING–U of A • 1st Fl Gallery JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave, 780.433.5807 • FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE: Works

by Joyce Bjerke and Ethel Gulka • Until Apr 30

St, 780.488.6611 • Discovery Gallery: COALESCENCE: Ceramic artworks by Brenda Danbrook; until May 3 • Feature Gallery: FURNISH: Contemporary hand-crafted home furnishings and accessories; until Jul 5

THEATRE

Jim McKinley • Until Apr 30

LITERARY

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106

U OF A • Humanities Bldg, Rm L1 • Oral Traditions Joy Harjo Christine S. Frederick • Apr 21, 2pm

WALTERDALE–ASA Gallery • Walterdale Playhouse,

THING: Works by Jennifer Holmes-Gohring; until Apr 30 • COLOUR CATCH: West African Textiles • Until Jul 20

• Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

VELVET OLIVE LOUNGE–Red Deer • Photos by

HUB ON ROSS–Red Deer • A MIXTURE OF EVERY-

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900

St Albert, 780.460.5990 • Works by Wanda Resek and Bette Lisitza; through Apr

THE GRAY GALLERY • 9-11238, Robbins Health Learn-

112 St • • Hall Project Space: EDMONTON WAYFINDING PROJECT: Until Apr 10

• 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • DUALITY IN A DIAPHANOUS LANDSCAPE: Works by Local glass artist Manola Borrajo • Until Apr 27

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave,

Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • SLOW IT DOWN: Paintings by Meghan MacMillan; artist reception: Apr 11, 7-9pm • Display Cases: SMALL VICTORIES: The Students’ Design Association of the U of A • Until Apr 30

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.421.1731 • Gallery A: HOMETOWN DREAMS: Paintings by Linda Craddock; until May 3 • Gallery B: LABYRINTH OF THE ETERNAL ARCHETYPE: Installation by Shyra Desouza; until May 3

BRONS LES LIENS: Works by Karen Blanchet • Until Apr 29

ing Centre, 104 Ave, 109 St, 780.907.2816 • IN MEDIAS RES: Works by Gillian Willans, Tianna Mapstone-Lung, Tracy Suter • Through Apr

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • SHIFT: Printworks installation by Heather Huston; Apr 24-May 31; opening: Apr 24, 7-9pm • OUT OF THE ETHER: Printworks series by Joanne Madeley; Apr 24-May 31; opening: Apr 24, 7-9pm • Main Gallery: AMPLITUDES: Printworks by Robert Truszkowski; until Apr 12 • Community Gallery: CITY IN A WAFFLE IRON: Printworks by Eva Schneider; until Apr 12

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • IMAX Theatre: Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) Fri-Sat: 11am, 1pm, 3:20pm, 4:30pm, 6:50pm; Sun: 11am, 1pm, 3:20pm, 4:30pm; Mon-Thu: 3:10pm; Jerusalem 3D (G) – Fri-Sat: 2:10pm, 5:40pm; Sun: 2:10 pm; Mon-Thu: 4:20pm; Rocky Mountain Express (G) Fri-Sun: 12pm; The Wizard of Oz 3D (PG) Fri: 8pm; Sat: 8:45am, 8pm • Apr 11-17

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave, 780.488.2952

THE CAPITOL THEATRE–Fort Edmonton •

GRAPHIC CONTENT • Metro at the Garneau • Speed Racer Apr 15, 6:45pm • $10 (adult)/$8 (student/senior)

Ave, 780.455.7479 • THE LIGHT WITHIN: Gregory Hardy • Until Apr 22

DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St • SHELL: Works by

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • CÉLÉ-

EDUCATED REEL • Metro at Garneau, 8712-109 St • Hungry For Change, discussion after with Gail Hall • Apr 24, 7pm • $6 (adv)/$8 (door, cash); preregister at alumni.ualberta.ca/events

9225-118 Ave • Community Arts Night: Learn techniques, become familiar with new mediums; every Tue until Jun 10, 6:30-8:30pm; Pre-register at 780.474.7611

4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • SPRING THINGS: Local pottery • Until Apr 30

Audio Visual Room (main fl), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • 12 Years a Slave (14A, 2013); Apr 11, 2pm

Stanley Milner Library bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Nebraska (USA, 2013, 14A); Apr 16, 6:30pm

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS •

MUTTART HALL • Alberta College Conservatory of Music • Poetic Jam with Joy Harjo: Anna Marie Sewell • Apr 20, 7pm • $20 (member)/$30 (non-member) • Part of Poetry Festival

Mary Pinkoski, Julie Robinson, Sandy Pool, Shirley SErviss, Marita Dachsel • Apr 21, 5pm • Free • Part of Poetry Festival

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm CRAFT BEER MARKET • 10013 101A Ave •

THE INVENTION OF ROMANCE • La Cité Francophone, 8627-91 St • Workshop West presents this comedy by Conni Massing, starring Lora Brovold, Mat Busby, and Valerie Ann Pearson • Until Apr 13 • $28 (evening)/($22 (student/senior)/$14 (Sun matinees)/$11 (student/senior) at Workshop West Theatre box office

MARY POPPINS • Citadel, 780.425.1820 • Family Musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film • Until Apr 20 MAMMA MIA • Jubilee, 11455-87 Ave • Writer Catherine Johnson's sunny, funny tale unfolds on a Greek island paradise • Apr 22-27

MONSTROSITIES • Varscona • The Maggie Tree brings their unimpeachable dramatic clout to the Varscona stage • Apr 17-26

MUMP & SMOOT "ANYTHING" • Roxy, 10708124 St • Theatre Network–Live at The Roxy: World Premiere, created and performed by Michael Kennard and John Turner; directed by Karen Hines • Until Apr 27; 2-for-1 Apr 15, 22 • $23-$29 at 780.453.2440 OVER THE EDGE WITH 4-PLAY • Arts Barns, Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave, 780. 431.1750 • Mark Connolly hosts the evening as four teams of playwrights, costume and stage designers, and actors present 4 new plays. Catalyst Theatre fundraiser • Apr 11, 9pm • $21 at TIX on the Square ROMEO AND JULIET • Citadel • By William Shakespeare, directed by Tom Wood featuring the 2014 participants of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program • Until Apr 27 SHRUNKEN SHEADS • Kinsmen Hall, 47 Riel Dr, St Albert • St Albert Theatre Troupe • By M.Z. Ribalow • Apr 24-May 10, 6pm; Apr 27, May 4; Sun: 5pm (door), 5:45pm (buffet), 7pm (show) • $47.50 at box office, 780.222.0102 THEATRESPORTS • Citadel Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until June • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square THE VIP KIDS SHOW • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • Music, comedy, art, puppets, and special guests! Watch as the V.I.P. troupe of characters celebrate the thin line between clever and silly with Kate Ryan, Davina Stewart, Donovan Workun, Dana Andersen, Cathy Derkach • Apr 20, 11am • $6

paquita vscarmen April 12 7:30 pm April 13 2:30 pm Timms Centre for the Arts 780.472.7774 citieballet.ca

Launch Go Barley: Modern Recipes for an Ancient Grain; Apr 10, 5:30pm

EDMONTON POETRY FESTIVAL • Various venues • Check website for full schedule: edmontonpoetryfestival.com/schedule/ • Apr 20-27

tixonthesquare.ca 780.420.1757

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912 Whyte Ave • The Olive

780.407.7152 • MEASURING A YEAR: BY THE MINUTE: Knitted sculpture by Margie Davidson • Until May 16

HARCOURT HOUSE • Creating Across Cultures:

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain,

Peter Midgley, Erin Moure, Paul Zits; Apr 23, 5pm • Part of Poetry Festival

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im (Brenton Thwaites) is released from an institution 11 years after a terrible string of childhood events that ended with him shooting his own father to death. It took 11 years for Tim to accept that those events were of a perfectly earthbound nature, and not, as he so deeply believed, the result of an old cursed mirror that hung in his father's study. But Tim's sister, Kaylie (Karen Gillan), still believes the mirror to be responsible for her family's tragedy, along with the strange deaths of multiple people over the past several hundred years. She's planning a sort of revenge, having acquired the mirror and brought it back to their childhood home. As Tim and Kaylie go over the events of 11 years ago we also see those events unfold. The past and the present run parallel in Oculus, until past and present seem to merge in a chilling circuit of eternal return.

Director and co-writer Mike Flanagan's follow-up to Absentia, his feature debut, is psychological horror unfolding within a narrative hall of mirrors. The story works on primal anxieties surrounding our darkest repressed impulses, the fragility of our sense of self, and the past's ability to impinge on the present.

Antiques versus IKEA is a seemingly trivial topic of conversation between Tim and Kaylie's parents early in Oculus,

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but it gets at some fundamental question at the heart of any haunted house story: how do we liberate ourselves from the regressive pull of old things, whether people, places, memories or objects? Admittedly, Oculus demands a precariously high level of suspension of disbelief. "It was the mirror!" Tim cries out near the hysterical finale. But was it ever? Ambiguity is one of the film's key assets, though the final act becomes so ambiguous as to compromise coherence or emotional immediacy. Thankfully the atmospherics, the use of the house in which most of the action unfolds, the Newton Brothers score that sounds above all like power surges, the resistance to ramping up cheap scares in favour of sustained unease—all of these elements are maintained with uncommon integrity.

Flanagan spoke to me by phone from Colorado's Stanley Hotel, the inspiration for Stephen King's The Shining, which is clearly a touchstone for Flanagan—something in the father's character arc recalls that of Jack Torrance.

VUE WEEKLY: I feel like the storytelling model for Oculus is more literary than cinematic. A perfect example of this eludes me just now, but there's a certain tradition in classic horror stories that has to do with sibling pacts.

Opens Friday Directed by Mike Flanagan  MIKE FLANAGAN: Totally. If you want to

talk about siblings united against evil, you can go all the way back to Hansel & Gretel. I tend to draw from fairy tales, and from Stephen King, obviously. Lovecraft is another huge influence. What I love about reading is the way that it activates your imagination. So often, with movies, showing an audience everything is so much less scary than what they could come up with in their minds.

The mission then is to make the moviewatching experience as close to reading a great book as I can, while still operating within the requirements of genre and trying to secure as wide a release and as big an audience as possible.

VW: There's a small but notable literary

allusion in the film's geography. The familial house is on Hawthorne Way. You were born in Salem, Massachusetts, which is, of course, Nathaniel Hawthorne's birthplace.

MF: Yeah, a lot of character and place names come from stories I love, places I've lived, people I've met. Also, lots of extended-family names are buried in there.

VW: Tell me about the origins of Ocu-

lus, about mirrors especially. They're

so generative of ideas, being tied up in anxieties around vanity, doppelgängers, illusion and so on.

MF: Mirrors are inherently creepy.

They're so ubiquitous. We interact with them multiple times on a daily basis.

Our entire sense of ourselves is contingent on believing in the reality of what we see in a mirror—and it's wrong, it's distorted. Everybody's mental image of themselves is backwards.

Every mirror is flawed. Yet you look into that glass and feel like there's another world inside it. There's this amazing tradition in Judaism where they'll cover mirrors at a funeral to prevent the dead from coming back. I've always been struck by this idea of the mirror as a portal, which is something we can also trace back to Through the Looking-Glass. We're all aware of these ideas at some level, and yet we still turn to mirrors to provide us with objective reality. That's really the seed of Oculus.

The inanimate object-as-monster is still a very literary device. It's harder to pull off in cinema. I like that challenge. I can only think of a handful of movies that really use the mirror in this way.

VW: Like Prince of Darkness.

MF: That's a great one. Also Mirrors,

The Bogeyman. That's about all I can think of.

VW: This idea of the portal also reminds

me that your choice of title is interesting, an oculus in architecture being a circular opening in a wall or a dome.

MF: It's basically a portal for light. So this would be the inversion of that! It's an appealingly sinister word, Latin for eye and portal, and harkens back to the idea that the eyes are the windows to the soul. So what if the eye is a portal but what's traversing it isn't the soul but something much darker? And of course

all of our interaction with mirrors is ocular. Oculus was a title we really fought for. There were concerns that the word was too unfamiliar.

VW: If we take nothing in Oculus at face

value, which to some extent we're encouraged to do, it is in a sense a tragedy about a young man's failure to overcome childhood trauma. But this notion of the window to the soul intrigues me because it makes me wonder if Alan, Tim's father, was always capable of cheating on their mother and doing awful things, and that the mirror, somehow, simply flushed it out of him, by reflecting back to him something that he'd been repressing.

MF: The idea was always that the mirror would work on individuals as a negative reflection. You could hang it in a room with two different people and their experiences would be as different as they are from each other. It would always reflect people at their weakest. I think Alan was always capable of the things that he does. We all are capable of such things, but there are all these psychological checks and balances that prevent us from indulging those kinds of impulses. Some people become monsters, some become victims. It's a reflection of who they actually are.

VW: Having gone through the process

or writing this story and making this film, are you now inured to the creepiness of mirrors or do they still have a discomfiting effect on you?

MF: Honestly, I'm still creeped out by them. Even more so, actually. You'd think that diving into the subject would demystify it, but not at all. Which hopefully means there are more stories to tell about it.

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // WES ANDERSON

Bottle Rocket

Shootin' off again

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indsight's not always 20/20, especially through rosy camera lenses. The Coens' Texas neo-noir Blood Simple really was one of the American debuts of the '80s; with each new, sophisticated success (and

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he's on a roll lately), Wes Anderson's Texas heist/road-trip flick Bottle Rocket seems more like one of the American debuts of the '90s than it really was.

The signature touches are there:

code words, letter-writing, service tained and meticulously framed work; a childish sense of adventure; dollhouse-world—scenes have the a handwritten journal, full of num- sense of a real composure behind bered, very long-term plans; that in- them, but they aren't rigorously comtellectualizing/self-justifying, literary posed; sets are conventional (motel, dialogue (going "on the lam"); those diner). And so the crime caper of precocious kids ("How did Grace get Dignan (Owen Wilson), Anthony so cynical?" her older brother won- (Luke Wilson) and Bob (Robert Musders aloud). But grave) seems that where Anderson's little bit sadder Mon, Apr 14 (7 pm) commercial failure and odder, more Directed by Wes Anderson (the $7-million immature, the Metro Cinema at the Garneau picture grossed funny/strange Originally released: 1996 $560 000) but twinness of many critical hit (leadmoments suggesting, two films and four years later, ing the near-madness of these boyto The Royal Tenenbaums, which men as they try to be tough guys. grossed 100 times BR's box office) remains enticingly different, though The firework of the title—the trio only for stretches, is its scruffiness, buys pyrotechnics en route to a hoits untidier sense of realism. tel where they "lie low" after robbing Here's Anderson's least self-con- a bookstore—tells us the big bang

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they want to make will be a small flash in the sky, if not a damp fizzle.

Early on, it's the team's daffy dedication and naive energy (what you need in order to make your first feature film?) that entertain, even enthrall at times. But the story badly sags in the middle with Anthony's romance of motel maid Inez (Lumi Cavazos)— Anderson hadn't yet figured out how to strum more whimsical music on his viewers' heartstrings. It lags even more as Anthony and Dignan bicker; scenes wisp away like smoke. It's only in Bottle Rocket's finale (a robbery off the rails, Dignan playing the tragic anti-hero), brimming over with poignant male self-delusion, that the flair and sizzle of Anderson's future promise returns.

BRIAN GIBSON

BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // MARTIAL ARTS

PREVUE // FILM SERIES

The Raid 2

EFS Spring Series

My Man Godfrey

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No, guys, I said you should talk it out!

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Rama gets sent to prison to make elsh-born director Gareth Evans' The Raid: Redemption brought pals with Uco (Arifin Putra), an elder a dizzyingly high level of craft and in- crime boss' precariously hubristic vention to its martial-arts siege movie heir. Upon release Rama becomes set-up. Pretty much the entire film un- Uco's bodyguard, just as Uco and folded in a dilapidated Jakarta high-rise rival crime boss Bejo (Alex Abbad), lousy with ultra-nasty criminals who a wimpy Strangelovian dandy-sadist would continually charge en masse with shades, a cane and leather upon our hero, Rama (Iko Uwais), a gloves, conspire against Uco's dad good cop in a bad, bad city, a guy with and another Japanese crime family extraordinary fighting skills, sturdy to start a turf war. Lots and lots of fights ensue, many morals and a famof them dazzling, ily he'll do anything Opens Friday many of them to protect. Evans' Directed by Gareth Evans in unnervingly The Raid 2 picks  cramped spaces, up right where its predecessor left such as a disgusting prison toilet or off, stylishly snowing us with exposition in an arresting the backseat of a moving car. An esand audaciously elliptical opening se- pecially memorable early sequence quence that, in short, sends our poor finds Rama in a massive brawl in a battered Rama right back into the maw prison yard-turned-mud bath the coof danger. Though that high-rise mafia lour of mocha gelato. So long as the haven was conquered, it turns out fights go on, I promise you that The that Indonesian corruption is far more Raid 2 is 100-percent gripping. It's rampant than we initially thought. The all that other stuff—story, characcity is caught in the grips of organized ter, causality—that doesn't work so crime, and plenty of baddies still need well, or even make much sense. to be smoked out.

(I couldn't stop thinking about The The fact that every single characAct of Killing while watching The ter in The Raid: Redemption was a Raid 2—that appalling and brilliant world-class fighter was a conceit I documentary of last year makes any was happy to roll with, especially movie about institutionalized vio- since everything about the film was lence in Indonesia suddenly seem a so contained. Extending this conceit to the sprawling urban stage of lot less fanciful.)

The Raid 2 is just ridiculous—even tubercular Z-grade pornographers know how to fight like UFC champs.

This sequel is bigger, badder, longer and more expensive-looking, but not even close to better. There are novelty act villains—let's call them Bat-dragger and Hammer Girl—who show up to make certain scenes more protracted and more baroque than they need to be. At times Evans seems to be aping the films of Korean auteur Park Chan-wook—there's a very silly scene in which dozens of thugs ambush an old master assassin in a nightclub and the old master's demise is played as tragic opera. (I've no idea why, if they just needed him dead, they didn't just shoot him.) At other times Evans makes sly nods to David Lynch's taste in décor and accoutrements. I genuinely appreciate Evans' impulse to expand his MO, but these influences are an awkward fit, playing against Evans' strengths as a maker of furious, relentless, no-nonsense action sequences.

Everything in The Raid 2 is already so busy and on such a huge scale, you have to wonder what could possibly come next for Rama. Intergalactic jujitsu mobsters? Whatever.

Just make them fight.

ur climb to the top is the stuff of Arnold Bennett's 1908 novel Buried dreams; our tumble down is the Alive—where a reclusive painter hard knock of reality. The game of adopts the identity of his dead valet.

Life is more like Snakes and Ladders, The 1942 musical My Gal Sal (May as Charles Dickens well knew—in 26) sees the ups and downs of a runhis 1861 novel, an orphan, raised by away-turned-songwriter (Victor Mahis blacksmith brother-in-law, comes ture) in NYC's 1890s Tin Pan Alley. into a sudden fortune, but Pip's pride soon curdles. "It is a most miserable Another musical, Showboat (Apr 28; thing to feel ashamed of home," he 1951), ebbs and flows with Reconstrucrecalls, looking back on how "coarse tion-era romance, racial attitudes and and common" he found his time with William Warfield's famous version of Joe Gargery; no book's oozed more "Ol' Man River." The 1954 romance Sabrina (May 12), directed by Billy Wilder, with the seep of class shame.

The Edmonton Film Society's stars Audrey Hepburn as a chauffeur's Spring Series, "Living the Good Life," daughter who finally catches the eye of his boss's playrides the rise and fall of fortunes. Mondays, Apr 14 – Jun 16 (8 pm) boy son (William Holden) when she The centrepiece Royal Alberta Museum returns from Paris. is David Lean's $5–$6, ($30 series pass) And the series 1946 adaptation fullschedule at royalalbertamuis bookended by of Great Expecta- seum.ca/events/movies/movies. two pictures that tions (May 5), with cfm torqued the twists John Mills as the and turns of foradult Pip and Bernard Miles as Joe. A year earlier, Fritz tune into the zips and zings of screwLang's picture Scarlet Street (June 2) ball comedy during the Depression: hit theatres. This urban noir about My Man Godfrey (Apr 14; 1936), a longtime clothing-store cashier's where a homeless man (William (Edward G Robinson) descent into Powell) teams up with a socialite's fraud and murder, led downward by younger sister (Carole Lombard), a femme fatale (Joan Bennett), may and Easy Living (Jun 16; 1937), where have been the first film where a crim- Mary Smith (Jean Arthur) becomes mistaken for a rich banker's mistress. inal went unpunished.

Art fraud's also framed in 1943's BRIAN GIBSON BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM Holy Matrimony (June 9)—adapting

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FILM REVUE // CHARACTER STUDY

Gloria

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he camera spies her from across a large room crowded with tipsy middle-aged minglers. The first thought is that she looks like Tootsie, with outsized owlish glasses emphasizing length of her face. But we quickly come to understand that Gloria (Paulina García) is a sophisticated, daring, sexy, mature woman. She's 58, has two adult children she adores, an ex-husband she perhaps only tolerates. She sings along to power ballads on the car radio. She does yoga and laugh therapy. She loves to dance. She may be losing her sight, slowly. She meets a dubious ex-naval officer who recently changed his life, leaving his wife, though his daughters never stop calling. He's struggling to inhabit a role that he can't commit to, but look at the way he looks at Gloria.

Can she really afford to turn him away?

Chilean director Sebastían Lelio's fourth feature is a character study of uncommon brilliance, and García is captivating every moment she's onscreen—which, come to think of it, is every moment of this film filled with telling ellipses, free of scoring, bubbling with incident, each one contributing to a

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deeper understanding of a woman of a certain age who refuses to stop changing, searching, dreaming, even if that means she might wind up alone one painful morning, on a Viña beach, with torn stockings. See this movie. It's beautiful, smart, moving. Like its heroine, it follows its own path.

I spoke with Lelio earlier this week in Panama. He was there for an award ceremony. I was there for the film festival. We met at a hotel in this busy, traffic-choked city in the midst of tumultuous transition.

VUE WEEKLY: Your scripts don't have any dialogue, so you depend on your actors to provide the words in every scene. But in this case you're dealing with Paulina García, who besides being an incredible actress is also a writer. She must have had strong intuition about how to work those scenes.

SEBASTIAN LELIO: Yes, but that kind of intuition can be a problem just as easily as a solution. Sometimes that intuition makes you want to say something very meaningful, and that can be the enemy of the kind of dialogue

that curious gaze of hers. That's the entire scene. I can't say exactly what's happening there, but it feels important.

Some kind of quiet discovery is happening, though I don't know that Gloria is even aware of it.

SL: I would say that this scene is the soul of the film. Gloria is, for me, a bossa nova, a form which is sensual, but the lyrics can be very harsh. I wanted Fri, Apr 11 – Thu, Apr 17 the film to be like Directed by Sebastían Lelio that. You're trapped Metro Cinema at the Garneau by the storytelling  and the character.

Hopefully there is a sensuality in the textures and rhythms.

Hopefully you're sort of hypnotized and just really in the film. "The Waters of Gloria knows what's up March" is about everyday things: a chair, I'm looking for, which isn't meant to a ray of light, a little piece of bread. be informative or even literate. It's That's what the film deals with. It's all emotional. It's not text, but texture. about feelings.

Perhaps 70 percent of the dialogue in Gloria is irrelevant. They could say VW: Did working with García help you one thing or another. Dialogue isn't discover things you didn't know about the point. the character? Were you surprised what happened to Gloria in her hands?

VW: Some of the scenes that stuck with SL: I try to conceive of scripts as open me most are those in which their signifi- devices. The problems are not solved cance isn't obvious. I think especially of in the script. That's the territory of the the scene at the party, with the father shooting. I need to make the real disand daughter singing Jobim's "Waters of coveries during the shooting. So yes, March," and Gloria just listening with Paulina and the whole process were

always revealing to me not only the nature of the character but also what the film was really about. When you go to camera, you go half-blind. There is a point where words are useless. Someone has to trust that we're going to get somewhere with this map we're sharing.

That's where the mystery of cinema lies.

I never understood Gloria. I was fascinated by her. And now I have to deal with this problem that women think I understand them. I don't! I love them.

I don't understand them.

VW: You're a 40-year-old man, not a

58-year-old woman. But in exploring your desire to tell this story did you wind up seeing some reflection of yourself?

SL: That's an interesting question. I guess my main connection with the character, or what I admire about her, is that she's willing to live her life without fear of what price she has to pay for it. She might be making mistakes, but she's alive. She manages to keep that way of being in the world. I would like to be like that. So I guess it's like a message that you send to yourself in a very unconscious way. The other important message is, 'Relax, you will keep having sex for many, many years.' [Laughs] JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // BIZARRE

WR: Mysteries of the Organism S

erbian director Dušan Makavejev's layering of juxtapositions. We see sex 1971 cult film WR: Mysteries of the acts projected on a sepia soccer-ball Organism doesn't lend itself to tidy, kaleidoscope while a voice implores succinct description, but its opening us, "For health's sake, fuck freely." We credit sequence conveys something hear chipper zither music playing over of its key themes in a nutshell. It de- exteriors of a penitentiary. We hear rapicts happy people passing around a dio ads for Coke, Maybelline and Copslippery egg yolk, everybody sharing, pertone. We see a fake Stalin, a man everybody sticky, everybody touching, receiving EST, and a hand-job turn into handling this symbol of life itself under a plaster-casting session. We hear artsuperimposed credits, one of which ist Betty Dodson discuss her paintings reads "erotoscope courtesy of united of friends masturbating. We move between New York, states of erotica." where kooky Tuli I've no idea what Wed, Apr 16 (9:15 pm) Kupferberg of The an erotoscope is, Directed by Dušan Makavejev Fugs dresses up but I'm fairly cer- Metro Cinema at the Garneau as a solider and tain that the united Originally released: 1971 fondles the barstates of erotica is rel of his toy rifle, more a network of spiritual-political states than a geo- and Belgrade, where Milena Dravić graphical location. It's where Ameri- makes public speeches demanding no cans and Eastern Europeans, socialists socialism without free love. Let's turn and sexual revolutionaries, advertising Trotsky's permanent revolution into and propaganda, fiction and docu- permanent orgasm! Milena will evenmentary can live together in relative tually get perilously involved with a harmony with the collective goal of repressed Bolshoi figure skater named making the world a happier, healthier, after Lenin. hornier place.

Screening as part of Metro Cinema's Lots going on, much of it provocaMetro Bizarro series, WR is a satirical, tive—provocative enough to have playfully ideological Frankenstein's WR, a blue movie with pinko sentimonster of a movie. Not surrealist and ments, banned in Yugoslavia for 15 not quite cut-up—though the specter years. Binding its disparate elements of William S Burroughs hovers over together are 1) an over-arcing thescenes involving the orgone accumula- sis concerning the fundamental link tor—the film's MO is grounded in the between socialist ideals and sexual

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freedom, the former more prominent in Makavejev's homeland, the latter in the US, and 2) an homage to Wilhelm Reich (1897 – 1957), the Austrian psychoanalyst and author, protégé of Freud and advocate of radical leftwing politics involving radical sexualeducation. Reich fled the Third Reich and eventually resettled in the States, where he conducted experiments in libido energy flow, was persecuted by the government, and eventually incarcerated. Makavejev visits Reich's laboratory in Rangeley, Maine, and interviews Alexander Lowen, a student of Reich's and co-founder of the International Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis. Some of WR's most striking sequences find Makavejev's camera encircling some of Lowen's clients, people on their backs, in leotards, pelvises thrust heavenward, shaking, screaming, crying out as though undergoing exorcism. Revolution, whether personal or social, seems to be kind of a freaky, if potentially orgasmic, experience. I suspect you won't achieve such a climax while watching WR, but it is very much worth checking out, as an exploration of seemingly incongruent sociopolitical-medical ideals, as a fascinating product of its era, and as a fun plunge into a very particular scatological avant-garde sensibility.

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DIVERGENT (PG violence) Closed Captioned Thu, Apr 10: 12:50, 3:10, 4:00, 6:10, 7:15, 9:10, 10:25

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

NOAH (PG violence, disturbing content, not rec for young children) Thu, Apr 10: 12:40, 1:40, 3:40, 4:50, 6:50, 8:10, 9:55

(STC, 1969) Thu, Apr 10

Muppets Most Wanted (G) Thu, Apr 10:

Titanic (PG not suitable for younger children)

1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50

Thu, Apr 17

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young children) FRI-WED 6:30, 9:20; SAT-SUN, TUE, THU 1:30; THU 6:30

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier

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9:15

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Sat-Sun 12:05, 3:05, 6:45, 9:45; Mon-Thu 6:15,

DIVERGENT (PG violence) Fri 6:35, 9:35; SatSun 12:15, 3:25, 6:35, 9:35; Mon-Thu 6:05, 9:05

The Lego Movie (G) Sat-Sun 2:45; 3d : Fri 7:05, 9:30; Sat-Sun 12:05, 7:05, 9:30; Mon-Thu 6:35, 9:00

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Sat-Sun 2:50; 3d : Fri 6:55, 9:15; Sat-Sun 12:30, 6:55, 9:15; Mon-Thu 6:25, 8:45

Muppets Most Wanted (G) Fri 6:50, 9:30;

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Rio 2 3d (G) Thu, Apr 10: 8:05

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG coarse language, violence) Closed Captioned Thu, Apr 10: 3:50, 6:35, 9:20

sexual content, not recommended for children)

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dren) Fri-Sun 9:20; Mon-Thu 8:50

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Afflicted (18A gory brutal violence) Thu, Apr

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SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Fri 6:40,

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That Awkward Moment (18A) Thu, Apr 10: 4:20, 7:05, 9:50

12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A brutal violence, disturbing content) Closed Captioned Thu, Apr 10: 4:00, 6:50, 9:40

Winter's Tale (PG violence, frightening scenes) Closed Captioned Thu, Apr 10: 4:35, 7:00, 9:35

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6:40, 9:30

DIVERGENT (PG violence) Thu, Apr 10: 6:50,

content, coarse language) Thu, Apr 10: 7:10, 9:40; Vip 18+: 8:00

10:00

NOAH (PG violence, disturbing content, not

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Transcendence (PG violence) No passes Thu

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THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A sexual

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3:40, 4:20, 7:30, 10:15, 10:45

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wanted to put all my cards on a testament to his willingness to see it through to the fullest, uncomprothe table," Jake Ian admits.

A respected man of steadfast roots mised vision he could. and country inklings, he's referring to his fifth full-length album, and the go- A hefty chunk of that time was big mentality he made it with. Espe- spent getting some of the finest cially when it came to the guestlist: It musicians working in the genre to Don't Really Matter Anymore features add licks and lines when they could, a snaking line of roots musicians, weav- where they could. Deep Dark Woods' ing around Ian and his bedrock rhythm Chris Mason and Geoff Hilhorst sent section to bolster the sound of every in sounds, as did Jeremiah McDade, Neko Case's guitarsong, colouring the ist Paul Rigby and lonesome highway Sat, Apr 12 (9 pm) Grant Siemens of musings of opener Jake Ian "Summertime in a With Deon Blyan, Jessica Marsh Corb Lund's Hurtin' Albertans.

Lonesome Town," Wunderbar, $15 There were other adding a sinister guests, too, hence edge to murder ballad "Black Black Dirt" or sprinkling the extended duration of studio time. some sunshine warmth to a longing "I kinda had to work around different schedules," he says, a wry grin audible memory in "68 Malibu."

"I didn't want to cheap out, or cut behind his words.

Some of those guests recorded their any corners anywhere," Ian continues, on the phone from a tour stop contributions in Edmonton, with Ian in Winnipeg, his first trek behind the present, but contributions also came new album. He certainly didn't: that It in fully-formed from studios in WinDon't Really Matter Anymore's been nipeg, Saskatoon and Vancouver— under construction, in intermittent which meant, for Ian, letting go of a bursts, since February of last year is certain measure of control, and trust-

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ing that his guests' own instincts with the bed tracks would lead to unexpected riches.

"At first I was kinda hesitant about it. I don't like relinquishing control, I guess," he offers. "But after hearing back some of the takes, the songs took on a new life of their own. I was totally satisfied and totally happy with it. I think it's a good way of going about overdubs: some of the songs are totally different than what I had in mind in the writing phase, but that's kind of what happens along the way. If I wanted them to sound exactly as they did when I wrote them, it would've been a record of my guitar in my house, and that's it."

Of course, now Ian's having to reinterpret those contributions as he takes these songs on the road with a set, significantly smaller lineup.

"You can't replicate a song where there's 15 different instruments with four guys," he says. "But we do the best we can, and I think it definitely works in the live setting. It does so far, at least."

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Journey to the north

Rachel Sermanni explains her latest release, Live in Dawson City Scottish singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni has certainly clocked some serious miles in the past year. Following the release of her debut EP Everything Changes, Sermanni embarked on a UK tour before spending a considerable amount of time touring the US and Canada, which included a stop at the Dawson City Music Festival, where her new live album was recorded. Prior to her show in Edmonton, Sermanni explained the recording to Vue. VUE WEEKLY: Why did you want to

record an album in Dawson City?

What did you take away from the experience of being there for the Dawson City Music Festival?

RACHEL SERMANNI: We hadn't intended to make an album. But we had recorded the set and listening back we were filled with such a reminiscent buzz of the experience— thought we'd share it.

I remember the sun, all pink, at 4 am walking home from a wonderful party in someone's cabin. The singing silt of the Yukon river beneath the jet boat we got a ride in.

The fellow musicians I got to share a stage with: Owen Steele, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Hannah Epperson, Fanny Bloom, the Sojourners, Doug MacNearney ... it was fun.

VW: When you were writing the VW: What was the most memorable songs, did you come at them in a par- part of your time in Dawson City? ticular way? Lyrics first? Music first?

What did you learn musically?

RS: "Two Birds" was an implosion of RS: There was a fun part where they music and words all at once in one put us on a stage and got us to play sitting. "Lay-oh" was an instrumental a song with a bunch of the other that I jammed over whilst busking in musicians that we'd never met. I was Amsterdam and later refined. reminded of the thrill of throwing "Everything Changes" began as a yourself into a situation without havweb of words ing any time to based on a situa- Tue, Apr 15 (8 pm) think about it.

With Lindsey Walker, tion that someone Kaley Bird had relayed to me.

VW: You recentAvenue Theatre, $12 in "BlackHole" was advance, $15 day of show ly released a vidwords first. It beeo for the song gan when I was "Two Birds," running up my hill at home. I got which is featured on the album. What back and breathlessly rapped some stands out about this song for you? words into my phone before they RS: I like that it is two chords. And I were lost. like it when I get to sing 'You wrote such a good letter' because it is true.

VW: What was it like recording live VW: If you were to trace the musical versus recording in the studio?

RS: Just felt like a gig. Wasn't at all map that led you to Live In Dawson aware of it being recorded. No-re City what would it look like? runs or perfecting or click tracks, etc.

RS: A penny whistle. Unrequited infatuations. Some death. Some late VW: What did you want to capture school nights. Some more late nights. with this recording?

Glasgow. Europe. India. Europe again.

RS: I think we were struck at the A little heartbreak. A lot of joy. Folk time and on listening that we were Alliance, Toronto. Doug Paisley singhaving A LOT of fun at this gig. ing praises of Dawson City Music FesThis is what I'd like people to hear. tival over breakfast pancakes. A plane It has a very different energy to kept together with duct tape. YUKON. any other recordings.

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Kim Churchill 'Q

uebec's one of those incredible to work on his latest album, Silence/ places where you sort of get into Win that he realized he needed to take this town that has, I don't know, a bank, a step back—not entirely, mind you, but a post office and a café, and then out of enough to strike a semblance of balance. nowhere there's just this theatre with "This game of being an artist and sort 200 seats that's full once a week," says of searching for fame and success and singer-songwriter Kim Churchill, with a everything can become quite overbearsense of disbelief, during a stop in the ing and become a real distraction to small community of Malartic on his cur- somebody, " he says. "It can lead them rent tour. "It's quite the experience for away from remembering to just enjoy me. It couldn't get much more opposite being alive and to enjoy all the wonderto what I come from." ful things that come to a person in their Churchill may be half a world away day-to-day, and I was definitely starting from his hometown to find that." of Merimbula, New Fri, Apr 11 (7 pm) Churchill acknowlSouth Wales, Aus- Royal Alberta Museum Theedges that initially, tralia, but he's never atre, $14 in advance, $18 day he got a rush out of been one to stay in of show the ostensibly nevthe same place for er-ending touring long. The troubaschedules and had dour left home at age 18, busking and inadvertently created a reputation as surfing while living out of a customized a tireless musician who never stopped, van. It was during this nomadic wander- but that pace was becoming damaging ing that Churchill began to gain recogni- to his overall psyche. tion for his musical talents. He won the "Life's not necessarily about this kind Byron Bay Bluesfest Busker competition of intense, borderline desperate work in 2009 and soon became a mainstay ethic and kind of complete devotion to on festival stages, his reach expanding some sort of goal in the future, whatbeyond his native Australia. But, main- ever that may be," he adds. "Mine was taining a transient lifestyle and a packed gaining success as an artist, so Silence/ touring schedule has its challenges, and Win was kind of this wonderful album it wasn't until Churchill was about to set where I went, 'Bugger it all, I'm just going

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to enjoy it and have fun,' and I tried to do that in all aspects of my life. The album's representative of that shift."

Silence/Win, a title that serves as a metaphor for Churchill to shut up and meditate on the idea of nothing and allow something to grow from that, marked another shift in his music as well. It was the first time he allowed a producer to take the reins, choosing to bestow the task on Warne Livesey, who's worked with Sinead O'Connor and fellow Aussie Xavier Rudd.

"In line with the whole general mood I've been in these past 18 months—it was perfect time to give it to somebody else," says Churchill, who also happens to play guitar, bass drum, harmonica and tambourine simultaneously.

"I basically gave him 30 songs and said do whatever you want," Churchill notes.

"He came and saw a couple of my live shows and got an idea of what that was about and I trusted that he would find a way to accurately represent it. It was just amazing because I had so much room free in my head and in my heart, too, I guess, to just enjoy what I was doing and not think about it so much."

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PREVUE // PUNK

Retox

J

ustin Pearson will be the first to admit his bandmates in Retox are a little weird, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

"I'm not sure how we function, how we do it and somehow it works out and I guess that's the one of the more interesting aspects of life— how do you get these four people together and how do they connect on this level?" he ponders. "It's like a relationship, you know? You have to be in sync—not the band *NSYNC— but literally in sync with each other

tarist Michael Crain (Festival of Dead Deer) and bassist Thor Dickey, and the result is an aggressive, unabashed approach to thrash-punk that shines an unflattering yet honest light on the dysfunctional workings of modern society.

"I just always seem to work with really strange people and I think that's good," says Pearson. "If you're weird and strange, that's a compliment because the opposite of that is you're typical, boring, and I don't know if that would be effective for what I want to accomplish personally, so I think I kind of look back and think, 'jeeze, these people are out of their frickin' minds, and then I'm kind of like, that's rad.'"

Tue, Apr 15 (7 pm) With Dillinger Escape Plan Starlite Room, $22 – $24 and become one, so it's kind of interesting to do that and then to look at the people you're doing that with and go, 'What the fuck? Why and how did this happen?'"

Those people are drummer Gabe Serbian (Cattle Decapitation, Holy Molar, Rats Eyes and the Locust, which Pearson is also part of), gui-

Yeahs weigh in with their two cents— Pearson makes the statement, "You kind of have to ruin your life to be in a punk band," which seems to set the tone for what's to come, but Pearson maintains he was half kidding.

"At this point in Retox specifically, we're all screwed. We don't make money doing this and we can't just go get a career now and it's kind of hard to lock down financial stability and lock down most things you would think that an 'adult' would have," he says, elaborating the point by recalling a situation in which his grandmother lent him $2000 for his first tour of Europe when he was 20, stating he had done more in 20 years than she had in her whole life.

Pearson, whose career in music spans nearly 20 years with bands like Swing Kids, Some Girls and Holy Molar, is going to go with whatever it is that does make the band work. The group released its sophomore album, YPLL, last year, along with an accompanying documentary delving into the making of the album and a glimpse into the band's touring experience.

Off the top of the hour-long doc—in which Buzz Osborne of the Melvins and Nich Zinner of the Yeah Yeah

"It was coming from a person who, five years before that was saying, 'Your hair's orange and you like the Sex Pistols and they're drug addicts and therefore you're going to become a drug addict' and all this crazy shit, and I was like, 'Fuck you, grandma, and fuck you too, mom, and fuck all you guys.' I'm not going to be a drug addict and yeah, my hair's orange, but I'm not stupid ... it made me mad but I had to prove myself and it was such a trip to resort back to this woman who I really do respect and admire that said I was going to become a loser and then she's like, you've done rad stuff."

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Answered by: Zachary Gray (vocals, guitar) Hometown: Vancouver, BC Genre: Indie rock Lastest album: The Zolas Remixes (2014) Fun fact: The title of Ancient Mars, the Zolas' most recent full-length album references the heyday of the planet Mars, which the band ties into a metaphor for relationships: at one point in time they thrive and are the best thing in a person's life, but after they dissolve, things are barren between you.

First album Weird Al, Alapalooza / Tom Cochrane, Mad Mad World

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There’ll be winners along with performances by the folks like Chloe Albert, Brothers Grimm, Rend and more. (Royal Alberta Museum Theatre)

Shannon Lyon / Tue, Apr 15

Folk troubadour Shannon Lyon is on tour for his 10th album.

He’s playing with local troubador Braden Gates. (Artery)

Orit Shimoni / Thu, Apr 17 Originally recording under the name Little Birdie, Orit Shimoni has been living on the roads of Canada and Europe without a fixed address in true troubadour fashion.

(Blue Chair Café)

Avenged Sevenfold / Thu, Apr 17 One time there was this guy and he wronged another guy, and it was pretty unfortunate because the wronged guy was buds with another guy who was really mad about the wronging and avenged him sevenfold. Then he started a metal band. (Shaw Conference Centre)

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Starlite Room The Zolas,

ARTERY Spring Fling, the Provincial Archive (folk), Jesse and the Dandelions (indie-rock); 7:30pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door)

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

Zerbin, James Younger; 8pm; $15

electric rodeo–Spruce Grove

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Big Al's House of Blues Fred

FILTHY McNASTY’S Taking Back

(classic rock); 9pm; no cover

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Afternoon Jam: with Rott'n Dan and Sean Stephens, complimentary chili, noon, no cover; Evening Show: Boogie Patrol; $10 Black Dog Freehouse Hair

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Winspear ESO: Brandi Carlile; 7:30pm

Industrial/Electro hits with DJs Neo Zeo and the Gothfather; $5

Wunderbar Old Towns (album

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Brittany's Michael Chenoweth

(acoustic tribute the greatest folk-blues singer-songwriters of the twentieth century); every Thu, 8-11pm; $8

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Jess Valdez Switch Band (after boxing) Club at the Citadel Up-close

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Duggan's Boundary The

Derina Harvey Band Fort Lounge Sophie and the

Shufflehounds (blues roots); 8pm; no cover The Free Press The Kyler Schogen Band (bluesy pop rock); 7pm J+H Pub Every Friday: Headwind

and friends (vintage rock 'n' roll); 9:30pm; no minors, no cover Jeffrey's Café Shelley Jones (blues and jazz siinger); 9pm; $10

Live at Sly's–The RiG Live

FLUID R&B, hip hop and

Leaf bar Open Stage Sat–It's

dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri

the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm; Evening: Damn it Jim

Mercer Tavern Homegrown

Live at Sly's–The RiG Dark

Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture

Rooster; 9pm-1am

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

Legends Open mic and jam every Sat with Nick Samoil and the Kyler Schogen Band; 3-6pm

SET Nightclub NEW Fridays:

Jimmy Rankin (Back Road Paradise Tour); 7:30pm; $43 (adult)/$40 (student/senior) tickets at TIX on the Square, Leduc Recreation Centre

House and Electro with Peep This, Tyler Collns, Peep'n ToM, Dusty Grooves, Nudii and Bill, and specials Sou Kawaii Zen Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door) Suite 69 Release Your Inner

Maclab Centre–Leduc

New Castle Joe Piccolo and Swing the Cat; 9pm New West Hotel 4s A Crowd O’byrne’s Live band every Sat,

3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

NEWCastle Pub True North (all Cnadian cover band); 9:30pm

Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri

Omailles Stu Bendall

New West Hotel 4s A Crowd

Union Hall Ladies Night

McKenzie Band with DJs

Omailles Stu Bendall On the Rocks Rock ‘N’ Hops

Kitchen Party: Heather McKenzie Band with DJs

every Fri Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

Fridays

Overtime–Sherwood Park

SAT APR 12

GoldTooth Band feat. Tiffany Hall

APEX Casino Jukebox Leigh

Queen Alexandra Hall

Artery Locomotive Ghost, the

Northern Lights Folk Club: Barney Bentall, Tom Taylor, Shari Ulrich; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $20 (adv), $25 (door)

Jubilee Madam Butterfly:

1-4pm and 6:30-9:30pm; various venues; stAlbertMusicFestival.com

caffrey's in the park

DJ every Fri

Rose and Crown Rural Routes

1-4pm and 6:30-9:30pm; various venues; www.stAlbertMusicFestival.com

Rotary Music Festival–St Albert Performances; 9am-12;

Trace The Sky, Fiction of Fate, Lucid Skies; 8pm

electric rodeo–Spruce Grove

Royal Alberta Museum JCL

Rotary Music Festival–St Albert Performances; 9am-12;

Brixx Fear of City (CD release),

and brilliant: John Ullyatt (cabaret performance); 8pm; $20

Classical Edmonton Opera; 7:30pm; tickets start at $20

Yardbird Suite From

Club at the Citadel Up-close

music; 9pm-1am

Andrew Scott

every Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

Druid DJ every Fri; 9pm

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Jimmy Whiffen

Sherlock Holmes–WEM

Bohemia DARQ Saturdays: Goth/

Newz (pop rock); 9pm

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Capital

L.B.'s Love Junk

Joanne Janzen

afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Hollie Thee Maxwell

Divo–a Musical Affair: the Greatest Songs of Broadway, Lea Salonga; all ages; 8pm; $59/$89/$149

Pianos (variety by request); 9pm

Ric’s Grill Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

Sherlock Holmes–U of A

Blues on Whyte Every Sat

release), Half Dalmation, Worst Days Down, Boxcar Bawlers

III: Greenwood Singers, Helen Stuart (piano), Jeff Johnson (bass), Murray Smth (drums); 8-10pm; $18-$20 at TIX on the Square, door

Collective West, Sam the Living; 8pm; $8 (adv)/$12 (door) Atlantic Trap Duff Robison Bailey Theatre–Camrose

Productions and Open Sky Music Festival present: Kim Churchill, guests; 7pm (door); all ages, licensed

Camrose Country Opry: traditional country music performed by local artists; 6pm (door), 7pm (show); tickets at Shoppers Drug Mart (Duggan Mall), Valu Drugs (Main St)

St Basil's Cultural Centre

"B" Street Rockin Big Blues

Full Moon Folk Club: James Hill with Anne Janelle; 7pm

and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm

Wheelhouse, Throne of Vengeance, Shreddin' Onions; $10/$15 (Filthy's party bus ticket, ride to and from the show and a complimentary bevvy at each venue) UNION HALL Melbourne Bound Series Vol II: Joel Fletcher; $20 (adv at ticketweb.ca)/$25 (door)

Blind Pig Live jam every Sat;

Larose Song Writer's Evening; 7pm (door); no cover Maxwell

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

3-7pm

A Tribute to the Immortals OfoMetal: The Best of Pantera, Metallica and Iron Maiden: Performed by Binge and Purge, Powerslave

DJ every Thu

Djemba, Mr. Carmack; 9pm; $20

On the Rocks Heather Overtime–Sherwood Park

GoldTooth Band feat. Tiffany Hall PAWN SHOP Cygnets (Album

X-wrecks Sophie's Birthday Party: Sophie and the Shufflehounds (blues roots); 8:30pm; no cover Yardbird Suite From

Edmonton/New York/Toronto: P.J. Perry/Renee Rosnes Quartet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $26 (member)/$30 (guest)

Classical Christ Church Ornithology:

Accord Vocal Ensemble, Irene Apanovich (conductor); 7pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (student/ senior) at the door or at brownpapertickets.com First Baptist Church Friends

At First: Kobie Kloppers, Wendy Neiwenhuis, Robin Doyon, Nora Bumanis, Clayton Leung, Alissa Cheung, Jerrold Eilander, Members of Edmonton Opera, Royal Canadian Brass, more; fundraising concert for the restoration of the pipe organ; 7pm; Reception to follow; fbcedmonton.ca Muttart Hall Conservatory of

Music: Chloe Albert, Jamie Philp (guitar), Peter Krejcar (piano), Conservatory students Grace Zhu and Rachel To; 2-4pm; reception/art exhibit follows featuring watercolours by Frank Haddock; admission by donation Rotary Music Festival–St Albert Performances; 9am-12;

1-4pm and 6:30-9:30pm; various venues; www.stAlbertMusicFestival.com Winspear Centre ESO: Our

Fantastic Festival City: ESO for Kids; 2pm; 1-1:45pm (pre-concert activities); $20-29 (adult)/$13-$17 (child)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt

Rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat

Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane Druid DJ every Sat; 9pm Encore–WEM Every Sat:

Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten FLUID R&B, hip hop and

dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat Level 2 Lounge Collective

Saturdays underground: House and Techno Mercer Tavern DJ Mikey

Wong every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission

Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

Red Piano Hottest dueling piano

ROUGE Rouge Saturdays: global

show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am

sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

Richards Pub The Terry Evans Sat Jam: every Sat; 4-8pm

SET Nightclub SET Saturday Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Amy Weymes

Sou Kawaii Zen Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

Sherlock Holmes–U of A

Sugar Foot Ballroom Swing

Joanne Janzen Sherlock Holmes–WEM

Andrew Scott Starlite Room Djemba

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THE Common Get Down It's

release party), Cygnets Transmission, Blue Jay, Eddie Lunchpail

Rose and Crown Rural Routes

apr/11 tHe ZOlaS apr/12 Djemba Djemba & mr. CarmaCk (team supreme) apr/15 tHe DILLInGer esCape pLan apr/18 tHe HansOn brOtHers apr/25 tODD james banD feat. CHantaL burn

trace the sky, luciD skies, leaVe the liVing & Fiction oF Fate the return oF noboDy likes Dwight w/ Mary lee birD & 1000 worDs For water Towers and Tress rIver anD tHe rOaD w/ and our good wolf

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BesTie w/ guesTs seBasTian owl w/ guesTs

Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

VUEWEEKLY apr 10 – apr 16, 2014

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Suite 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests

Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre

British rock with DJ Blue Jay DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots

Tavern On Whyte Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am

Cosmopolitan Music Society (CMS): In-House Concert Series afternoons of music, guests and afterconcert refreshments; $10 (adv)/$12 (door); 2:30pm

Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays:

Robert Tegler A Carnival

Tavern on Whyte Classic

every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays

SUN APR 13 ARTERY Gender Failure (Rae Spoon and Ivan Coyote); 6:30pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door) Big Al's House of Blues

Sunday BBQ Jam: Hosted by Marshall Lawrence; no cover; 4-8pm Blackjack's Roadhouse– Nisku Open mic every Sun

hosted by Tim Lovett Blue Chair Café Sunday

Brunch: PM Bossa (Brazil music); 9am-3pm; donations Blues on Whyte Hollie Thee

Maxwell cha island tea co Open

mic with March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm Diversion Sun Night Live on

the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm Duggan's Boundary Celtic

Music with Duggan's House Band; 5-8pm HOG'S DEN Rockin' the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm Live at Sly's–The RiG Every

Sun Jam hosted by Steve and Bob; 6-10pm Newcastle Pub The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

of Sound: Concordia Symphony Orchestra Concert, Davivd Hoyt (conductor); 2pm ; $15 (adult)/$12 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square, door

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

TUE APR 15 ARTERY Shannon Lyon,

9am-12; 1-4pm and 6:309:30pm; various venues; www.st-AlbertMusicFestival. com

Avenue Theatre Rachel

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays:

A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LeveL 2 Stylus Industry

Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

MON APR 14 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Blues on Whyte Chris

Antoni (blues guitarist, singer-songwriter), Guenther Kapelle (bass), Graham Guest (keys), Trevor Bigam (drums)

Sermanni, Lindsey Walker, Kaley Bird; 8pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (day of) at Blackbyrd Big Al's House of Blues

Tue Jam with Big Dreamer; 7pm (door); no cover Blues on Whyte Chris

Antoni (blues guitarist, singer-songwriter), Guenther Kapelle (bass), Graham Guest (keys), Trevor Bigam (drums) Druid Open Stage Tue Jubilee R5, Louder 2014 Tour: Ross Lynch; 7pm; $29.50/$39.50/$29.50 at livenation.com L.B.'s Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm Leaf bar Tue Open Jam:

Trevor Mullen Live at Sly's–The RiG Jam

Buckingham Detroit Rock City Mondays Launch Party

hosted by Rockin' Randy every Tue, 7-11pm

Duggan's Boundary Mon singer-songwriter nights; 8pm

Mercer Tavern Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests

New West Hotel Boots &

Boogie

On the Rocks The Edmonton Music Awards After Party: Kemo Treats, Kickupafuss, the Almighty Turtlenecks

old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510

Pawn Shop The Planet Smashers, Rude City Riot, Mad Bomber Society, guests

Rouge Resto-Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

Richards Pub Sunday

Classical

Jazz & Reflections: Rollanda Lee; 3:30-5pm; silver collection at door

Ave, 780.521.4404

Braden Gates, guests; 7:30pm; $8 (adv)/$10 (door)

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental

Ritchie United Church

Tavern on Whyte 10507-82

Rotary Music Festival–St Albert Performances;

Sun; 9:30pm-1am

Country Showcase and jam hosted by Darren Gusnowsky and Curtis Ebner

industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave

Grant MacEwan Kiwanis

Music Festival Rotary Music Festival–St Albert Performances;

New West Hotel Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm' Boots & Boogie O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm Overtime–Sherwood Park

Open Stage every Tue Red Piano Every Tue: the

Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am; no cover; relaxed dress code Rexall Place Florida Georgia Line, Here's to the Good Times Tour: Dallas Smith, Chris Lane; 7:30pm; $39/$49/$59 Richards Pub Tue Live

Music Showcase and Open Jam hosted by Mark Ammar

Classical

9am-12; 1-4pm and 6:309:30pm; various venues; www.st-AlbertMusicFestival. com

McDougall United Church Kiwanis Music

DJs

Festival Gala Concert; 2:30pm

Western Dance featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro; every Tue, 8-11pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest:

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Quentin Reddy

mod, brit pop, new wave,

Sands Hotel Country

Sherlock Holmes–WEM

Amy Weymes Starlite Room The

Whyte Ave Open mic every

Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover

Dillinger Escape Plan, Trash Talk, Retox, Shining; 7pm; $22-$24

Live at Sly's–The RiG Open

Yardbird Suite Tuesday Session: A/B Trio; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

Mercury Room Little Flower

jam every Wed hosted by Will Cole; 7-11pm Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 New West Hotel Boots &

Classical

Boogie

Convocation Hall U of

Overtime–Sherwood Park

A Graduate Composers Concert: With Enterprise Quartet; 7:30pm; free Grant MacEwan Kiwanis

Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm2am every Wed; no cover PAWN SHOP The Creepshow,

Music Festival

guests; 8pm

Rotary Music Festival–St Albert Performances;

PLEASANTVIEW HALL

9am-12; 1-4pm and 6:309:30pm; various venues; www.st-AlbertMusicFestival. com

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and

not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) Red Piano Wed Night Live:

hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Richards Pub Rock and Roll Circus: Hosted by Justin Perkins, Christan Maslyk, and Kevin Gaudet; every Wed, 9pm-midnight

BRIXX Metal night every Tue

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Quentin Reddy

DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

Sherlock Holmes–U of A

Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

Sherlock Holmes–WEM

Andrew Scott Amy Weymes

RED STAR Experimental Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

Wunderbar Kevin Maimann and the Pretty Things, Upon the Arctic Shelf, Brad Sime and the Whispering Whispers

Suite 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

Zen Lounge Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

WED APR 16

Classical

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 Big Al's House of Blues Robbie's Reef Break Wed: Host Rob Taylor with guests every Wed, 7-10pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch:

live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul

with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm Blues on Whyte Chris

Antoni (blues guitarist, singer-songwriter), Guenther Kapelle (bass), Graham Guest (keys), Trevor Bigam (drums) Brittany's Jazz evening every Wed; 8-11pm Duggan's Boundary Wed open mic with host Duff Robison Elephant and Castle–

Grant MacEwan Kiwanis

Music Festival Rotary Music Festival–St Albert Performances;

9am-12; 1-4pm and 6:309:30pm; various venues

DJs Billiard Club Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive

Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe Brixx Bar Eats and Beats THE Common The Wed

Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and

‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

VENUEGUIDE St, 780.424 9467 Century Casino 13103 Fort Rd,

780.436.4403

104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue Theatre 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 "B" Street Bar 11818-111 St Big Al's House of Blues 12402118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082

780.643.4000

Java xpress 110, 4300 South

Cha Island Tea Co 10332-81 Ave,

Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 jeffrey’s 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 Kelly's 10156-104 St L.B.’s 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 Leaf bar 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 Legends 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lit Italian Wine Bar 10132104 St Live at Sly's–The RiG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869

Blackjack's Roadhouse– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku,

780.986.8522 Blind Pig 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 Bohemia 10217-97 St Bourbon Room 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca Brittany's 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 Brixx 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 Buckingham 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 Café Haven 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523 Caffrey's in the Park 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464-153

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J AND R 4003-106 St,

Accent European Lounge 8223-

780.757.2482 Christ Church 12116-102 Ave Common 9910-109 St Diversion Lounge 3414 Gateway

Blvd, 780.435.1922 DOW–Shell Theatre–Ft Sask 8700-

84 St, Fort Saskatchewan Duggan's 9013-88 Ave,

780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove,

780.962.1411 Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave

10314 Whyte Ave Encore–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St Expressionz 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 First Baptist Church 10031109 St Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 Fort Lounge 13403 Fort Rd, 780.406.2916 Hilltop 8220-106 Ave HOGS DEN Yellow Head Tr, 142 St Irish Club 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J+H Pub 1919-105 St

VUEWEEKLY apr 10 – apr 16, 2014

MAClab Centre–Leduc

780.980.1866

McDougall United Church

10025-101 St Mercer Tavern 10363 104 St,

587.521.1911 Mercury Room 10575-114 St Muttart Hall 10050 MacDonald

Dr Myer Horowitz 8900-114

St, U of A Naked Cybercafé 10303-108 St,

780.425.9730 Newcastle Pub 8170-50 St,

780.490.1999 New West Hotel 15025-111 Ave noorish caFé 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-

109A Ave O2's–West 11066-156 St,

780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave,

780.414.6766

Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Blvd O'mailles 104, 398 St Albert

Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave,

780.482.4767 Overtime–Sherwood Park 100

Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814

Pleasantview Community Hall

10860-57 Ave Queen Alexandra Hall 10425

University Ave Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St,

WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave,

780.428.0825 Rendezvous 10108-149 St Richard's Pub 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 Ritchie United Church 962474 Ave Robert Tegler Student Centre 7128 Ada Blvd ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE

10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235-101 St

Rotary Music Festival–St Albert • Arden, St Anne St • Salvation Army, 165 Liberton Dr • Red Willow Community Church, 15 Corriveau Ave • St Albert Evangelical Lutheran Church, 11 Glenview Cres • St Albert United Church, 20 Green Grove Dr • Sturgeon Valley Baptist Church, 51 Woodlands Rd • 780.419.2658 Royal Alberta Museum

12845-102 Ave Sands Hotel 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476

St Basil's Cultural Centre

10819 - 71 Ave • 780.438.6410 • fmfc.org Set Nightclub Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca Sideliners Pub 11018-127 St Smokehouse BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

10940-166 A St Sugar Foot 10545-81 Ave Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 Tavern on Whyte 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404

Vee Lounge–Apex Casino, St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert,

780.460.8092

West End Christian Reformed Church 10015-149 St X-wrecks 9303-50 St,

780.466.8069 Winspear 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com Yardbird Suite 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 Zen Lounge 12923-97 St

EVENTS WEEKLY

Edmonton Nature Club • King’s Uni-

versity College Atrium, 9125-50 St • Fri, Apr 11, 7pm (refreshments), 7:30pm (meeting) • Meeting featuring lecture, Owls, Songbirds and Grebes, Oh My! by Kim Blomme • Donation

Edmonton Needlecraft Guild • Avon-

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

more United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm

COMEDY

Edmonton Ukulele Circle • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5

Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog

Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd •

780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Enter-

tainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • That's Improv; Apr 10-12 • Danny Accapella; Apr 17-19 • Brian Work; Apr 24-26

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM •

780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Bobby Lee Special Presentation; Apr 10-12 • Daniel Kinno; Apr 16-20 • Andy Hendrickson; Apr 23-27

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm

Eden Exotic Nightclub/Connies Comedy • T*ts & Giggles 2: Open comedy

mic between dancers • Apr 30, 9pm • If you want on this roster, call 780.914.8966

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave •

Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

Kinsmen Hall–St Albert • 47 Riel Dr,

780.222.0102 • Andrew Grose and friends; Save our Space Camp fundraiser •Apr 12, 8pm and 10pm • $50

Krush Ultralounge/Connies Comedy • Komedy Krush: following a Capital City Singles Mixer with guest Scott Belford; Apr 10, 9pm • Komedy Krush: following a Capital City Singles Mixer with guest Danny Martinello; Apr 24, 9pm • If you want on this roster, call 780.914.8966

Overtime Pub • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm Tilted Kilt Whyte Avenue/Connies Comedy • Travelling open mic with guest Danny Martinello • Apr 16, 8pm • If you want on this roster, call 780.914.8966

Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave,

Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

Amnesty International Edmonton • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

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

Brain Tumour Peer Support Group • Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext.

234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

Room, upstairs • fairvote.ca • Chapter's monthly meeting • Wed, Apr 16, 7pm

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • 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 HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVAL AGM • Parkdale Cromdale Community League, 1133585 St • heartcityfest.com • Annual general meeting for everyone who loves music and art, and cares about a vibrant downtown arts and culture scene • Mon, Apr 14, 7:30pm 3210-118 Ave/Abbottsfield Recreation Centre, 3010-119 Ave • tlcla.org • Grand opening of new space and Annual general meeting • Thu, Apr 17, 10am-12 (open house), 1-3pm (AGM); call 780.429.0675 by Mon, Apr 14

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

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION •

Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.org/en • Program for HIVAID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register

3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Annual Spring Show & Competition: Wood art, Crafts, Retail Booths, Demonstrations, Food; Apr 26-27, 10am-5pm; free admission and parking

Canadian Injured Workers Association of Alberta (CIWAA) •

Edmonton Atheists • Stanley Milner

Songwriters Group • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB 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

Sugar Foot Swing Dance • Sugar

Swing, 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Swing Dance Social every Sat;

waskahegantrail.ca • Meet at the NW corner of Superstore parking, 51 Ave, Calgary Tr; Carpooling available from here • 10km guided hike on the Fort Saskatchewan city trails.

Contact: Hike leader Karen 780.642.6372 • Apr 13, 8:45am-3pm • $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership)

Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns

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)

Waskahegan Trail HIKE •

Wild Rose Antique Collectors Society • Delwood Community Hall, 7515

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

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

Ave • A blend of Dance, Modelling and Acting; all bodies/levels • Every Sun, 7-8pm until Apr 13 • $5-$10 (Sliding Scale); info: houseofdam@yahoo.com

7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com

3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

Toastmasters • Fabulous Facilitators

Wiccan Assembly • Ritchie Hall,

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

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

• Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month

waskahegantrail.ca • Meet at the NW corner of Superstore parking, 51 Ave, Calgary Tr; Carpooling available from here • 10 km guided hike on the of trail in the Blackfoot/ Wanison Lake area. Contact: Hike leader Michele 780.417.6928 • Apr 20, 8:45am-3pm • $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership)

• menmentoringmen.ca • A support group for men to talk and be heard, be acknowledged and recognized for the gifts you offer, challenge yourself and other men. A group of men committed to better themselves, their families, and their communities • Sat, Apr 12, 9:30am-4pm • Sun, Apr 27, 9:30am-4pm • Sun, May 4, 9:30am-4pm • Sat, May 10, 9:30am-4pm

Seeing is above All • Acacia Hall,

QUEER

Waskahegan Trail HIKE •

The ManKind Project • 10256-112 St

• City Of Edmonton Archives, Prince Of Wales Armouries: Researching Your Heritage Home:

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)

VOGUING • Pique Dance Centre, 10604-105

Learning Centre • 218, Abbottsfield Mall,

Seventies Forever Music Society •

by Kim Christie-Milley And David Holdsworth; Apr 15, 7-9pm; $20; registration #519445

Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw. ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs. org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Westend TNT Toastmasters: Trinity United Church, 8810 Meadowlark Rd; Public speaking: Parliamentary practice based on Robert's Rules of Order; vpm-2291@ toastmastersclubs.org; weekly meetings every Tue, 7-9pm (Jul-Aug off) • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@ hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

10854 Whyte Ave • fairvote.ca • Fair Vote Canada–the Edmonton Chapter's Annual General Meeting: Free pizza at 6pm; screening of a short, funny film, elect a new board • Tue, Apr 29, 6pm

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

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)

Toastmasters Club: 2nd

Fair Vote Canada–Edmonton Chapter • Boston Pizza meeting rm, bsmt,

sAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

registration #519457 • Agt Bldg, Fort Edmonton Park: Plastering Walls by Peter Caron; Mon, Apr 14, 7-9pm; $20; registration #519454

• Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519

Fair Vote Canada–Edmonton Chapter • Strathcona Library, Program

Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

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

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

LECTURES/Presentations CLC Research Seminar • Arts &

AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer

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

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave

• 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-

105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

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. sports and recreation

• teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Volleyball: Stratford Junior-Senior High School (west end): every Tue, until Apr 29, 7-9pm, $65 (season), $35 (Half season), $5 (drop-in) • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

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: tuff @shaw.ca Illusions Social Club • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

Convocation Hall Senate Chamber, Rm 326 • abclc.ca • History’s Absent Hand: Lessons in Modes of (Textual) Production From Gaétan Soucy’s The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches with speaker Christine Wiesenthal (author) • Thu, Apr 10

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

EPARCHIAL VENERATION OF THE HOLY SHROUD • St Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-

Cathedral, 10825-97 St • 780.422.3181 • Public veneration • Every Tue, Thu 4-9pm, Sun 1-4pm until Apr 10

Taking Action: YEGsecret Exposed • Santa Maria Goretti Centre, 11050-

90 St • Screening of NFB documentary, Buying Sex, speaker, Trisha Baptie; Apr 10, 7pm; eventbrite.ca/e/taking-action-yegsecretexposed-film-screening-buying-sex-tickets-10933794273 • Screening of Whistleblower, Kathy Bolkavac in attendance; Apr 11, 6:pm; eventbrite.ca/e/the-whistleblower-withkathryn-bolkovac-tickets-10769890031

This Old Edmonton House Seminars • edmonton.ca/city_government/ edmonton_archives/this-old-edmontonhouse-seminars.aspx • Location Tba: House Doctor: by Peter Caron; Apr 12, 7-9pm; $45;

124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu OutLoud–LGBT Youth Group • St

Paul's United Church, 11526-76 Ave • A group LGBT teens from religious backgrounds • Meet the 1st and 3rd Wed each month, 7-9pm • Until Jun 18 • Free

Pride Centre of Edmonton •

Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support

VUEWEEKLY apr 10 – apr 16, 2014

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 to discuss current issues; 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

PrimeTimers/sage Games • Unitarian

Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm

St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 •

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

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper

Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS The Best Night of Your Life •

Vacancy Hall, Mercer Warehouse, 10363-104 St • toygunstheatre.com • Fundraiser to support Toy Guns' spring summer season: • Episode 1: Win a Wine cellar: 7-9pm • Episode 2: The Beer Olympics: Traditional beer themed games, Music by Call Apollo; 9-11pm • Episode 3: Winners celebrate; 11pm-1am • Apr 17, 7pm-1am

DeepSoul.ca • 587.520.3833; text to:

780.530.1283 for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars: upcoming Century Casino show as well; Twilight Zone Razamanaz Tour; all ages • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank)

Fashion for FreedoM • City Life, Unit 1, 5216-50 Ave, Leduc • poiemaproductions. com • A night of food, entertainment and an innovative fashion show featuring designs by local artists using secondhand clothing, fabrics, and items. Fundraiser and awareness gala in support of the George Spady Society • Apr 12, 7pm • $40 at TIX on the Square Make It!–The Handmade Revolution • The Enjoy Centre, 101 Riel Dr, St

Albert • Shop for one-of-a-kind handmade items from over 140 of Canada’s hottest urban artisans, designers and crafters • Apr 11-13

PArk Institute ADVOCACY CONFERENCE • Chateau Lacombe Hotel, 10111

Bellamy Hill • pialberta.org/content/pia2014-annual-conference • Featuring Creating Earth Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons from Corporate Enclosures with keynote speaker, Vandana Shiva • Apr 11

Run Wild for Wildlife • William Hawrelak Park • wildlife-edm.ca/events • Walk/ Run fundraiser for the Wildlife Rehabiliation Society of Edmonton (who rehabilitate injured wildlife, clean oiled wildlife, and educate the public on wildlife stewardship) • Apr 13; register online through the Running Room Sweet Treat: Whimsy and Wonder • Fort Edmonton • This Easter weekend, see spring through the eyes of a Victorian child • Apr 19-20

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To place an ad Phone: 780.426.1996 / Fax: 780.426.2889 Email: classifieds@vueweekly.com 400.

Courses/Classes

EPL Free Courses: Edmonton AB Check out the Free Online Interactive Instructor Led Courses offered through the Edmonton Public Library.

Some of the courses for visual artists would include: Creating WordPress Websites, Secrets of Better Photography Beginning Writer’s Workshop many more…

For a list of Free Courses visit: https://www.epl.ca/learn4life For information and instruction on how to get started https://www.epl.ca/learn4life

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Help Wanted

Cook Thai Cuisine Jing Jai Thai Cuisine at 12556-132 Ave. Edmonton is seeking a Cook, Thai Cuisine.

Duties include prepping and cooking Thai food such as stir fry and curry dishes, prepare sauces, soups, deserts. Full Time permanent position. $12.50-16.00 per hr. 2-3yrs experience is preferred. please email resume to info@bangkokexpress.ca

Greenline Distribution seeks full time driver

Must have a clean driver’s abstract, able to drive a 5 ton cube truck. Experience preferred but not necessary.

40 hrs per week. Interested parties please contact Mike Garth at michael@vueweekly.com or at 780-707-0476 Kitchen Helper Thai Cuisine Jing Jai Thai Cuisine at 12556-132 Ave. Edmonton is seeking a Kitchen Helper.

Duties include prepping Asian foods, cutting vegetables, stocking shelves, general cleaning, operating rice cookers, and other kitchen equipment. Full Time permanent position. $11.00-13.00 per hr. 1-2yrs experience is preferred. please email resume to info@bangkokexpress.ca

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Volunteers Wanted

Can You Read This?

Help someone Who can’t!

Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking Skills.

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca Give some, Get some. Come have some fun, a little exercise and be recognized.

We require volunteers almost every day of the week to help at various bingo locations around the city (WEM, Castledowns, south side). You give your time (4-6 hour shift) and we recognize your efforts.

You do not need any experience as everything will be taught to you and you will be completely supported. Calll Christine at 780-953-1510 or email at christine.poirier@cnib.ca for more information Bingo is a smoke-free and friendly environment.

Volunteer Fair!

Heart Of The City Festival is looking for volunteers who love local original music and art!

Join us Sun Apr 13 at McCauley Boys and Girls Club (9425 109A Ave) from 12-4pm.

For more info email: heartcityfest@gmail.com

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Volunteers Wanted

Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network’s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers! Interested or want to learn more? Contact Maura at 780-392-8723 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism.

Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit!Needed for our Long Term Care Residence, weekday morning volunteers for various activities. Especially for assisting with transporting residents to rehab, church services and hairdresser within facility. All volunteers must pass a Police clearance.

Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106 Options Sexual Health Association is looking for prochoice and sex-positive volunteers to attend events and festivals all summer long and beyond! Comprehensive training will be held throughout April. Please visit our website www.optionssexualhealth.ca to fill out an application form Room to Read is changing children’s lives in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality.

Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our work, and spread the word about our amazing results.

Edmonton@roomtoread.org www.roomtoread.org RUNNERS WANTED Run Wild for Wildlife is a campaign that raises money for the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton . This year’s Walk/Run is taking place on April 13th, 2014. We are looking for vegan/vegetarian runners to join the VVoA’s team for this event! Please email info@vofa.ca if you are interested in participating, or if you have any questions.

Representatives of the VVoA will also be selling vegan cookies at the event, with the proceeds going to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton.

The Canadian Cancer Society’s strongest asset is our dedicated volunteers. By offering the most meaningful opportunities for you to make the biggest difference as a volunteer, we’re having more impact, against more cancers, in more communities, than any other cancer charity.

For more information on how to get involved: http://www.cancer.ca/en/getinvolved/volunteering/ways-tovolunteer/?region=ab#ixzz2vac GwaEX

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Showcase your creativity and love for the environment! Become a Reuse Crafter!

Reuse Crafters lead crafting workshops that focus on the utilization of Reuse materials.

Guide public crafting workshops at locations in the Edmonton community Plan meaningful crafts, suited to participants abilities Engage with participants and educate about Reuse and the Reuse Centre Apply online. Visit edmonton.ca/reusecentre The Edmonton Pride Festival is a 10 day festival (June 5-15, 2014) with over 40 different events. It takes many dedicated and passionate volunteers to make these events a success. If you are looking for a rewarding volunteer experience, want to contribute to the LGBTQ Community and be part of one of Canada’s largest Pride Festivals, we hope you will be able to help and volunteer! Get involved at www.edmontonpride.ca!

The Works - Volunteers Needed Apply Early & Win! All volunteers who hand in their application by Thursday May 15 will be entered into a draw to win an exciting early bird prize! There are so many ways to get involved! Contact: volunteer@theworks.ab.ca Volunteer with us!

Team Edmonton is run by volunteers, and we always welcome new people to help us promote LGBT sports and recreational activities.

Volunteers can assist during particular events or can take advantage of other short-term and ongoing opportunities.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, or if you would like more information, please email volunteer@teamedmonton.ca.

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Artist to Artist

1st Assistant Director required for a motion picture to work with main director.

Action adventure film. 1st assistant director must be willing to travel to occasionally to Jasper National Park (township) to assist main director.

1st Assistant director must be able to use the Arriflex film camera.

The 1st assistant director must reside in the Edmonton Area. (or soon will be) For more details, contact Craig at crgsymonds49@gmail.com, or at 1-613-484-7063. (director would like to thank those who have contacted me) A New Award for Emerging Artists raises the profile of the Arts in Red Deer!

For more information contact Diana at info@reddeerartscouncil.ca (403)348-2787 Hours: Monday to Wednesday, 9am to 4:30pm Call For Submissions: The 2014 Calgary Biennial This event will take place in numerous venues around the Calgary between December 2014 to January 2015. If you’re interested in being part of the biennial, you can apply before May 1st.

For more information, check out the website: http://calgarybiennial.ca/

Artist to Artist

Assistant Film Producer required to assist main Film Producer with funding, must reside in Edmonton area only, must have experience with Telefilm Canada funding (as main producer, needs second producer to acquire funds).

Must be willing to travel to Jasper National Park to assist producer on location. Female preferred. The project is an action adventure film.

Contact Craig at crgsymonds49@gmail.com or 1-613-484-7063 for more information Call For Submission To SHE Publication: Edmonton Edmonton’s Women’s Arts Museum (WAM) is looking for articles by and about women in Canadian visual art to feature in their upcoming publication Sharing Her Experience (SHE). Articles can be about women who are overlooked, opinion articles about Canadian visual artwork and how it relates to women, or spotlights on women currently creating artwork within Canada.

If you are interested, you can submit by April 15th, 2014.

For more information, check out WAM’s website: http://www.wamsoc.ca/SHE.html Call to Makers, Mercer Collective: A Maker’s Market You must MAKE, BAKE or CREATE what you sell. You can not be a reseller of goods not produced by you.

Costs: $60 per market December show is $200 Additional Fees Table Rental is available at $10 per show. Please specify 6 ft or 4 ft. Limited quantities available.

Show Dates: March 29,April 26, Sept 27,October 25, November 22 December 13-14 – $200

http://www.emailmeform.com/ builder/form/er27bvY7c0dhM9 0B9dX49 Calling all talented Canadian artists! Artailer is an innovative online gallery dedicated to showcasing and selling the work of new and emerging Canadian artists.

Inviting all artists who wish to turn their passion into a career to submit their art for review.

For more information, please see the FAQ page on our website (www.artailer.ca), or contact us directly: info@artailer.ca; 416-900-4112 CALLING ALL YOUTH ARTISTS! We are looking for submissions for Tabula Rasa, an evening to celebrate artistic talent of Edmontonians under 24! Accepting submissions in the form of visual or performing arts (send us your music, poetry, photography, paintings, choreography..etc) The event will be held at Mercer Building downtown, April 11th. Find the link to our submissions on tumblr, twitter and instagram: @tabularasa_yeg . Help us show you off!

Join Visual Arts Alberta~ CARFAC for a FREE professional development workshop in Edmonton this April!

Saturday, April 19: Grant Writing for Artists with Paul Freeman Join us from 1-4 pm at the SNAP Printshop (12056 Jasper Avenue in Edmonton).

Please RSVP by Wednesday, April 16th to SNAP at 780.423.1492 or snap@snapartists.com Volunteer couples needed for comedy show. Cal Nino at 780-450-6462

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Gallery @ 501 Presents: Art Object D’Sport Call for Entry In celebration of the Canada 55+ Games (to be held in Strathcona County, Sherwood Park, AB), Gallery @ 501 will be hosting the exhibition Art Object D’Sport, July 7 – August 31, 2014 Art Object D’Sport is an open call for entries from artists and artisans across Canada.

DEADLINE – Friday June 23rd at 6:00 pm Further information contact Brenda Barry Byrne, Curator,Gallery @ 501 brenda.barrybyrne@strathcona.ca www.strathcona.ca/artgallery Live Model Figure Drawing Drop-in sessions every Tuesday, February 11 – June 24, 6-9PM. $15/session; 11-pack only $150. Instruction

by Daniel Hackborn available 1st Tuesday of each month.

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Reserve your seating – space is limited. 10032 81 Avenue, Edmonton; ph. 780.432.0240. www.paintspot.ca; accounts@paintspot.ca OR info@paintspot.ca Marking the Valley A juried art exhibition Call to artists Leave Your Mark on the Capital Region River Valley Visual Arts Alberta-CARFAC is partnering with the River Valley Alliance to showcase the Capital Region River Valley through your artwork.

Submission Guidelines can be downloaded at:

http://visualartsalberta.com/ marking-the-valley/ Deadline for this juried exhibition: May 30th, 2014

Nextfest is now accepting visual art submissions for the 2014 edition, taking place June 5-14, 2014! Nextfest is an opportunity for emerging visual artists under the age of 30 who are creating new work and want to be a part of a dynamic festival.

Deadline: April 17th., 2014 For more information, please visit: www.nextfest.org Now entering its 7th year, Alberta Culture Days is becoming our province’s largest celebration of our heritage, arts and cultural diversity. This year, you can continue playing a lead role in putting culture centre stage during the last weekend of September!

The Government of Alberta is providing funding to organizations to put on events September 26–28, 2014. The application deadline is Monday, April 28, 2014.

Visit the ‘Get Involved’ section at AlbertaCultureDays.ca for full details.

Paintings done especially for sale, its a type of pop art and they’re female. 26 to choose from, 16” x 16”.

Triangle Lips Mr. Jim Willans 780-438-1969 The 2014 Wood Buffalo Artist in Residency program will host a studio location in Fort McMurray. The residency includes a dedicated studio space (with no associated fee) commencing on June 4th, 2014 in Fort McMurray.

We invite visual artists who are Canadian residents to submit a proposal by Friday April 11th, 2014 at 4:00PM (Mountain Time).

For more information please visit www.woodbuffalo.ab.ca/artist to learn more about this project and the call to artists.

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Phone-In Professional Development with Sydney Lancaster Wednesday May 28th: 6:30 – 8:00 a tele-conference Professional Development Workshop with Sydney Lancaster Limited to 12 participants from small centres of Alberta that do not have access to Professional Development talks and participants living in major centres that have issues of access.

FREE: RSVP as soon as possible as this PD workshop will fill up fast! RSVP to info@visualartsalberta.com or by telephone to 1.866.421.1731 providing name, full address, email address, land line telephone number…

RAW: Natural Born Artists is an indie arts organization for artists, by artists. We focus on spotlighting indie underground talent to the public. It will be featured in Edmonton for the first time this May 2014.

If an artists wants to be considered, they can build an artist profile on www.rawartists.org ! Make sure they indicate that they are an Edmonton area artist to be considered for this opportunity in May! Once they show their work in their locale, they are automatically eligible to Showcase in any RAW location across Canada and the US. For additional information please email or call Kaley Bird the Edmonton Showcase Director at 1.780.264.3650.

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Making Music Fun for All Ages - Piano lessons offered Central Edmonton (private) Wendy Jensen is a classically trained musician of 30 years from Edmonton, AB. Upon popular demand from fans, Wendy is now offering piano lessons for beginner students in the downtown area.

Wendy’s mission is to make learning music fun for students of all ages. Wendy is now booking lessons for: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday evenings from 4 PM-8 PM and Saturdays 11:00 AM-3:00PM. Lessons can be booked hourly for $50 or $25 per every half hour (plus cost of materials) For a limited time only, Wendy is offering a special rate of $150 for 4x 1hr lessons. Book now for your free initial interview.

Your lesson plan can include: Learning how to read music Learn basic music theory Learn to play the piano Learn specific pieces of music (music coaching) Coaching for the emerging artist Improving stage performance & presence How to organize events/concerts How to promote your music & build your network What’s in a brand name?

Learning the basics of the music industry (copyright infringement, etc) Visit www.wendyjensenca.com for more information

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Auditions for Pro Coro Canada 2014/15 Auditions for singers wishing to be on the sub-list will take place on Sunday 27 April, in Room 1-29 of the Fine Arts Building at the University of Alberta, starting 2pm.

For more information, please inquire at the Pro Coro Office

The Works - Art Market Apply before April 15th for a discounted rate!

The Festival is looking for vendors selling hand-crafted, Canadian-made art and design. As a vendor, you will help kick off Edmonton’s Festival season and have access to the Festival’s large and diverse audience. Apply today for a tent or co-op table!

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Works to Work Summer Internship The Works is currently looking for hardworking, enthusiastic individuals to join the team for summer 2014!

The Works to Work program, an Enbridge Art Internship, is a unique leadership and professional development program that connects theoretical with practical learning.

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ALBERTA-WIDE CLASSIFIEDS •• announcements •• THE DIRECT ENERGY Volunteer Citizen of the Year award program has been launched for 2104. $10,000 will be awarded across Alberta. This is such an important program to recognize the volunteers of our communities. This program is open to citizens who reside within a community served by an AWNA member newspaper.

Applicants can either self-nominate or be nominated by another individual or group. Nominations will close on Friday, April 11, 2014. For full details, please visit: awna.com/direct-energyvolunteer-citizen-of-the-year-vcoy or contact the AWNA at 780-4348746 / 1-800-282-6903 ext. 225.

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Special collectors displays. Antique evaluations by Canadian Antiques Roadshow Appraiser Gale Pirie - $12 per item. Good Friday, Apr. 18, 9 - 5 p.m.; Sat., Apr 19, 9 - 4 p.m. Edmonton Expo Centre, Edmonton. 780-437-9722; www. wildroseantiquecollectors.ca.

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freewillastrology ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Freedom is the most important kind of joy you can seek right now. It's also the most important subject to study and think about, as well as the most important skill to hone. I advise you to make sure that freedom is flowing through your brain and welling up in your heart and spiralling through your loins. Write synonyms for "freedom" on your arm with a felt-tip pen: liberation, emancipation, independence, leeway, spaciousness, carte blanche, self-determination, dispensation. Here's one more tip: connect yourself with people who love and cultivate the same type of freedom you do.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): It's Love Your Messes Week, Taurus.

In accordance with the astrological omens, you are authorized to love the hell out of the messes in your life—from the small, awkward knots of confusion to the big, beautiful heaps of fertile chaos. This is not a time to feel embarrassed or apologize for your messes; not a time to shy away from them or ignore them. On the contrary, you should explore them, celebrate them and even take advantage of them. Whatever else they are, your messes are untapped sources of energy.

Learn to love them for the mysterious lessons they keep teaching you. Love them for the courage and willpower they compel you to summon. Love them for the novelty they bring your way and the interesting stories they add to your personal legend.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): "A snowball's chance in hell" is an American idiom that's equivalent to saying "it probably won't happen." After all, a snowball would instantly melt if exposed to the scorching fires that rage in the underworld. But what if there's an exception to this axiom? Let's call on another American idiom: "When hell freezes over." It's another way to say "It probably won't happen." But the truth is that now and then a cold front does indeed sweep through the infernal region, icing its flames.

When that happens, a snowball's prospects of surviving there improve dramatically. And that's exactly what I predict will happen for you in the coming week.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): In 2007, J K Rowling finished writing the seventh volume of her seven Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The day it was published it sold 11 million copies. But Rowling had actually written the final chapter of this last book way back in 1990, when she first conceived the story she was to spend the next 17 years working on. She knew the climax right from the beginning. I foresee a similar theme unfolding for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian.

As you plot a project you will be developing for a long time to

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come, you will have a vision of what it will be when it becomes fully mature.

tures that free you to express yourself with maximum efficiency and grace.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): When you see your shadow, it's usually right next to you. It's there on the ground or floor, a fuzzy black shape that follows you around closely. But today I saw my shadow waving back at me from afar. I was standing on top of a hill, and the sun's rays created a dusky version of me in the meadow way down below. I think this is a useful metaphor for an opportunity that's available to you. In the coming days, you will be able to view the shadowy, undeveloped parts of your personality as if from a distance. That means you will have more objectivity about them and thus, greater compassion.

You can get a calm, clear sense of how they might be mucking with your happiness and how you could transform them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): When I took an intermediate painting class in college, our first assignment was to imitate an old master. My choice was the Flemish painter Pieter Breugel the Elder (1525 – 1569). I worked on reproducing his painting The Fight Between Carnival and Lent as precisely as I could. It was tedious and liberating. I invoked Breugel's spirit and prayed for his guidance.

I sank my psyche deeply into his.

By the end of the four-week process I'd learned a lot about painting. Given the current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest you try something similar. Pick someone who excels at a way of working or a state of being that you would like to master yourself, and copy that person for a while.

For best results, have fun with it.

Play!

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): "You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars," said psychologist Timothy Leary.

That's good advice for you to keep in mind in the near future.

You might want to find a way to carry on constructive dialogs with people who have a hard time understanding you. It's not necessarily that they are stupid or resistant to your charms. The problem is that they haven't experienced some of the critical transformations you have. They can't be expected to converse with you in your butterfly language. Are you willing and able to speak caterpillar?

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Are you thinking of linking your fortunes to a new ally? Or deepening your collaboration with a familiar ally?

Have you fantasized about bonding intensely with a source that may be able to give you more of what you want and bring out more of the best in you? These prospects are worth contemplating, Libra. But I suggest you let your connection ripen a bit more before finalizing the shift. I'm not necessarily saying there's a potential problem. I simply suspect that you need further exploration and additional information before you can make the smartest move possible.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Saturn has been in the sign of Scorpio since October 2012 and will be there until the end of 2014.

(It will make another visit from June to September 2015.) What does that mean? I have a view of Saturn that's different from many astrologers. They regard it as the planet of limitation, struggle and difficulty. Here's what I think: while Saturn may push you to be extra tough and work super hard, it also inspires you to cut away extraneous desires and home in on your deepest purpose. It motivates you to build strong struc-

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Capricorn author J R R Tolkien spent 14 years working on The Lord of the Rings. In using a typewriter to produce over 1200 pages, he relied solely on his two index fingers. He never learned the 10-finger typing method. I suppose it didn't matter in the end. Presumably, his impediment didn't affect the quality of his work, but only made it harder to accomplish and required him to spend a lot more time. Is there a fixable limitation on your own ability to achieve your dream, Capricorn? Is there some handicap you could, with effort, overcome? If so, now would be an excellent time to begin.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): "The truth's superb surprise," wrote poet Emily Dickinson, may be "too bright for our infirm delight." Sometimes we've got to be careful about articulating what's really going on. "The truth must dazzle gradually," she said. If it hits us too fast and hard, it may be difficult to digest. So did Emily suggest that we should lie and deceive? No. "Tell all the truth," she declared, "but tell it slant."

This is excellent advice for you in the coming days, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Here's my report on your progress. You are not struggling to embody a delusional state of perfection as it is imagined by other people.

Rather, you are becoming an ever-more soulful version of your idiosyncratic self, evolving slowly but surely. You are not dazedly trudging along a narrow track laid down by thousands of sheep. Instead, you are lively and creative as you bushwhack a path for yourself through the wilderness.

To celebrate this ongoing success, Pisces, I suggest you get yourself a new power object that symbolizes your inventive devotion. V

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people in sexless but otherwise sol- SAP, there's no reason to tell him I'm an old guy, fast approaching id, loving and fulfilling marriages: you're not attracted to him. A pergeezerdom. After 45 years of mar- do what you gotta do to stay sane son can advocate for herself—and riage to the same woman, the sex and stay married. extricate herself from a relationhas fallen off to zero. We otherwise You sound like a decent and loving ship—without being unnecessarily have a great and comfortable rela- husband, SOS. To make sure you're cruel. Just use the standard-issue tionship. If I want any at all these also a polite and courteous client— little white break-up lies: "I'm not days, the only options are mas- for tips on communication, per- ready for a serious commitment." turbation or professional service sonal hygiene, tipping and avoiding "It's not you, it's me." "We're in very providers. I was very nervous the women who have been trafficked— different places right now." And first time I paid for sex. Curiously check out the all-star sex-worker commit those lies to memory, SAP, and surprisingly, considering my panel we convened for a recent for use on any guy who starts talkChristian upbringing, I didn't feel at episode of the Savage Lovecast. Go ing about marriage and kids four all guilty. I now find the urge gets to savagelovecast.com and listen to months into a relationship. stronger as the body gets weaker. episode 387.

THRILLS AND SPILLS It seems as geezerdom takes a full One of the boys at the restaurant hold, all I think about is pussy, and BREAKING IT OFF paid sex has become a regular thing. I'm a 23-year-old bi woman. I was where I work met up with a domiYou stress honesty and communica- in a relationship for two years with nant gay couple in a regular bar— tion for a long-term relationship to a guy my own age who I loved but not a gay bar—during happy hour. work. In our case, honesty would who was immature emotionally. They told him to go to the bathroom mean the end to what is now just The sex was really out of this world. and strip in a stall. Then one of the guys came in a great friendship that provides Just like it's OK for a businessman to get a secret and took his from us both with thrill out of wearing panties under his suit at an clothing him. He didn't deeply satisfying important meeting or a sneeze fetishist to get know when they companionship. would be back I don't want to secret thrills during flu season. or even if they hurt her, but rewould be back. vealing my outside activities would certainly do so, About six months before we broke While he was trapped there naked as she thinks men using prostitutes up, I met a guy who is 20 years older (and hard), other men were comis disgusting. Any comments from a than me, and we bonded over a lot ing in and out. Knowing that other young gay guy? of mutual interests. When I broke up people didn't know he was in his Sin Or Salvation with my boyfriend, this fortysome- stall gave my coworker a big thrill. thing guy took it as a sign that I My problem: this couple and my There aren't any young gay guys wanted to be with him. We've now friend involved other people—witharound at the moment, SOS, so been dating for four months. This out their knowledge or consent—in you'll have to settle for my lousy guy wants to get married and have their little domination game. I say, advice ... babies. I do love him—I think—but I "Not OK!" We got into a heated arHonesty and communication are am not physically attracted to him. gument about it and decided to ask important, SOS, but there are I often feel angry and suffocated you for a ruling. limits. No long-term relationship by his attention. I'm wondering if Coworker's Recent Escapade would survive a strict regime of full these feelings of annoyance and oc- Entirely Perverted disclosure enforced with deposi- casional icky repulsion are normal tions taken under oath, regularly in longer-term "serious" relation- Let's say a straight couple comes scheduled lie detector tests, truth ships? I'm also physically aching at into your restaurant and they're serums disguised as artificial cof- memories of fucking my ex. Are my seated in your section, CREEP. They fee creamers, etc. Knowing what desires to get back in bed with him order, they eat, they tip, they leave. to omit and avoid—identifying a sign I'm not into the new guy? It All good? Now let's say that, unbehere-there-be-monsters spots on seems insufferably arrogant to say knownst to you, the man was wearthe map and sailing around those that I don't want to hurt this new ing a locking male chastity device topics/incidents/persons—is just as guy by telling him I'm not attracted and the woman was wearing the important as honesty and commu- to him, but after six months of be- key on a chain around her neck. She nication. And married people, even ing lovers, he would be shocked and was dripping wet all through dinlong-married people, get to have angry. Should I do the brutally hon- ner, his cock was straining against their own inner lives, a few secrets est thing, or do I lie about why we're the confines of his chastity device, and a big part of the turn-on was they take to the grave and some breaking up to protect his ego? being in public and interacting with, zones of privacy and autonomy.

Superficial And Prevaricating say, a waiter who had no idea.

But there are limits to privacy, auIs that OK? tonomy and topic/subject/honesty You say Mr Fortyish took your break Of course it is—just like it's OK avoidance, as well. If your inner life up with Mr Twentyish as a sign that amounts to a double life, that's a you wanted to be with him. If that for a businessman to get a secret problem. If your secrets place your wasn't the case—if that was a faulty thrill out of wearing panties under spouse at risk of grave physical or assumption on Mr Fortyish's part— his suit at an important meeting emotional harm, that's a problem. If why did you start dating him? May- or a sneeze fetishist to get secret your zones of privacy and autono- be you felt like you had no choice: thrills during flu season. The world my grow so large that your spouse Mr Fortyish made a self-serving as- is full of people deriving all sorts doesn't know who you are anymore, sumption about your break up, and of secret thrills from all sorts of that's a problem. you had to play along to spare his seemingly random shit. So long But I don't think what you're do- feelings. But you did have a choice, as secret thrill derivers keep it to ing is necessarily a problem, SOS. SAP. And while you intend to get themselves—so long as they don't If your wife is really and truly con- out of this relationship—you don't actively involve others without tent—if she isn't interested in sex list staying together as a possible their prior consent—there's nothanymore, if you're not cheating her option—you're gonna have to learn ing "Not OK!" about secret thrill out of anything she values, if you're to advocate for yourself or you're derivation. not taking risks with her health, if gonna find yourself in this position you're not depleting your retire- again and again, ie, manipulated into Bisexuals, grab your pitchforks: Dan ment savings to finance your ac- relationships and/or commitments interviews writer Benoit Denizettivities, if all of the above is true— that leave you feeling panicky, an- Lewis at savagelovecast.com. V then your visits to sex workers are noyed and unfulfilled.

As for how to break up with him, @fakedansavage on Twitter covered by my standard advice to

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