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QUEERMONTON

FROM ORTHODOXY TO ACCEPTANCE Edmonton’s Muslim community needs to do more to be LGBTQ2S+ inclusive

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dmonton has a wealth of resources for LGBTQ2S+ people of faith. There is Haven, a Christian worship group, and Soul OUTing, an interfaith meeting group. The good Rev. Mark Chiang spearheads both. His partner Mark Guevarra, who was recently fired from the Catholic Church—allegedly for his sexual orientation—is working hard to create space for LGBTQ2S+ Catholics.

Many United Churches march in the Pride Parade. For the past several years, McDougall United and Temple Beth Ora have been hosting the Pride church service and the Pride Shabbat service, respectively.

Like many United Churches, both the Reform and the Conservative Synagogues affirm their LGBTQ2S+ congregants.

Both Southminster-Steinhauer United Church and St. Paul’s United have reached out to LGBTQ2S+ refugees.

Such spaces, projects, and events break the binary be-

tween faith and sexuality. They remind us that where the more orthodox denominations of the Abrahamic faiths reject same-sex unions, there is no consensus amongst Jews and Christians on the prohibition of same-sex relationships.

However, institutional support for LGBTQ2S+ Muslims is non-existent in Edmonton, across all denominations of Islam. This includes Sunnis and Shias, Ithna Asharis and Ismailis, Bohras and Ahmadis.

Often Muslim institutional groups engage in PR damage control—as occurred in the aftermath of the Orlando nightclub shooting—or whenever celebrity Muslim speakers preach death as part of Islamic law.

Muslim activists rightfully raise the alarm on Islamophobia when it happens, which is often.

Some complain about “white privilege,” and want people to “shut up and listen” to the oppressed. But they also thump

their own ‘Sunni privilege’ as they project their viewpoints as hegemonic. They too refuse to listen to the vulnerable within their own ranks.

On my part, I have been doing all I can to create awareness and visibility on LGBTQ2S+ Muslims since 2005. Recently, MacEwan University allowed me to hold and organize campus presentations and conferences. I have also shared my academic work with connections at the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton, and others, in case they deal with Muslim youth struggling to balance faith and sexuality.

Life is hard enough for many youth. They face innumerable pressures in a world that associates self-worth with sculpted bodies and financial success.

For LGBTQ2S+ Muslims, the challenges are multiplied as they navigate the social milieu between racism, Islamophobia, and homophobia.

This is especially true for LG-

BTQ2S+ Muslims with a strong religious leaning. Often they grapple with the fear of death, the concern with “strange” feelings despite reading the Qur’an.

While such religious youth are looking for answers, all they receive is judgment. The Muslims in Calgary website projects the death punishment for homosexuality on their website.

“Should it be the same as the punishment for fornication, or should both the active and passive participants be put to death? While such punishments may seem cruel, they have been suggested to maintain the purity of the Islamic society and to keep it clean of perverted elements,” it says.

However, no youth deserves to hide or feel ashamed of their innate orientation, let alone be disowned by their own parents.

I have been informed of homeless LGBTQ2S+ Muslim youth in Edmonton.

I know of the severe cognitive dissonance many Muslim youth experience. I also know of parents who have no resources to cope with their child coming out or the social ostracism from fellows.

Muslim institutional groups will have to create programming services for LGBTQ2S+ youth, their estranged parents, and for married adults living in the closet. To this end, they can create Muslim LGBTQ2S+ outreach positions to start a much-needed dialogue within Muslim communities.

Some will perceive this as a threat to their neo-traditional values that fill their inner void and address their existential angst.

Yet, the status quo must change, lest we should risk Muslim communities lagging behind the immense progress made by United Churches and the Reform and Conservative Synagogues.

The time for Edmonton Muslim institutions to affirm LGBTQ2S+ Muslims is now.

Junaid Jahangir

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APP EXPLORES LOCAL QUEER HISTORY U of A researchers create tool to enhance education on LGBTQ2S+ issues

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GBTQ2S+ history, as it stands, plays only a minute role in most social studies curriculums. However, researchers in the University of Alberta’s department of educational psychology aim to change this.

The team, lead by assistant professor Jason Harley, developed the Edmonton Queer History App, downloadable for free through CHI-TEA Labs (made on Google Sites). It launched on June 5.

According to Harley, the app can be used as both an educational tool, and a way to increase empathy for LGBTQ2S+ people through exploring different sites of historical importance for the city and province’s community.

The Edmonton Queer History App provides a map of a few of these sites and blurbs on why each site is important.

One of the sites listed is Club 70—which actually opened in 1969, but its owners strategically avoided naming it after that year—one of Edmonton’s oldest gay bars.

Other sites are, perhaps, a little more obvious, like the province’s legislature, which saw protests during the Vriend v. Alberta case, 4 front

concluding in 1998. The legal battle between the province and a teacher who lost his job because of his sexual orientation saw Canada’s Supreme Court rule that gay and lesbian Canadians had the same protection as their straight counterparts. Alberta’s Legislature continues to have important, and sometimes dire, impacts on the province’s LGBTQ2S+ community to this day. The Grey Nuns Hospital, which offered the first social supports for trans people, also made the list.

These sites, and others, populate a map users can navigate through the application. It is available for smart phones, tablets, and personal computers. Harley says that people can use it to tour around the city for these sites, or just learn at home, or in a classroom—it’s pretty “free form” right now.

The application, two years in the making, saw the team dig deep for important parts of the city and province’s queer history. Harley—like many members of his team—wasn’t alive for many of the landmark developments in local LGBTQ2S+ history and, the researcher says,

they wanted to get a more informed perspective on what moments and locations were, perhaps, most important to be included in the application.

“We met with LGBTQ advocates and leaders in the community who won awards, who had a lot of recognition, and were prominent actors in many of the changes and developed in Edmonton, and Alberta, and in many cases Canada,” Harley says. “We wanted to ask the people who were there.”

These sources include Michael Phair, the city’s first openly-gay councillor; Judge Julie Lloyd, the first openly-lesbian judge in Canada; and Darrin Hagin, a prominent drag queen in Edmonton.

The project began with 50 prospective sites, and then narrowed the list down to eight.

The point of the application isn’t to be exhaustive—other archival projects fill that niche, Harley says—but rather to be educational, and enhance empathy among users.

“The idea of this is that it’s a small, educational kind of intervention. It takes about half an hour [to browse]. The idea of it being short and sweet is that it

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provides a resource that teachers can use, and, we hope, will use,” Harley says. “We’ve had a good amount of interest.”

LGBTQ2S+ history is a bit of a gap in Alberta, and Canada’s, curriculum—which does cover the Civil Rights and Suffrage movements, etc., Harley says.

“They provide a chance for

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people to develop empathy for historically marginalized groups,” he says of these school topics. “Empathy is a psychological state that’s highly-tied to reducing discrimination ...

We hope it provides a bit of hope for people, too.”

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BREWERY

Bent Stick Brewing prides itself in its wizard design and being a true handmade nano-brewery

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n the summer, nothing is better than a few cold craft brews to counteract that sweltering, dry heat. Often, what will influence my personal decision to try something new is the labelling.

Locals Alley Kat Brewing may boast their iconic cat eye near the beer’s name in neat printing, but nothing really compares to Bent Stick Brewing’s ‘beer wizard,’ Jeff.

Jeff, a Merlin-looking master of malt magic and their mascot— who enjoys levitating a pint glass while wielding a beer mash paddle—sits at the forefront of every Bent Stick beer.

“The wizard branding is huge for us,” says co-founder of Bent Stick Brewing Scott Kendall. “Our graphic image is strong and we want to reinforce that this is the wizard beer from Edmonton. You see like three of them on the shelf and it’s like the army of wizards, and you know it’s good beer.”

Local graphic designer Jenna Clarahan constructed Jeff’s design after Kendall and other co-founders Ben Rix, and Patrick Gaudet had a drunken brainstorming session about Bent Stick’s mascot.

It’s apparent that the co-founders really kept with the wizard theme once you walk into the brewery location—on the side next to the cash register there’s a stack of makeshift books labelled spells, potions, and brews.

Kendall, Rix, and Gaudet met as coworkers at Alley Kat, learned the tools of the beer-making trade, and realized they had the same love for making beer as well as the same aspirations to start their own brewery. This was before the

Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission (AGLC) changed the legislation to allow smaller breweries the opportunity to exist.

“Before there were difficult regulations to show that you had to reach a minimum capacity [in litres of beer] that was way bigger than any brewery would need to make or be able to sell,” Kendall says. “So you had to prove that to the AGLC to be a ‘legit’ brewery.

Little guys couldn’t really get involved, but, finally, the province realized ‘Oh shit why are we in the stone age when it comes to local breweries compared to B.C. or some of the states?’”

After the province changed legislation in 2013 to influence the development of new microbreweries, the trio left Alley Kat at various times to begin preparations for Bent Stick. But it was a long journey, and Bent Stick didn’t hit the market until Canada Day 2016. Since then, they’ve been carving out a name for themselves in the craft beer market.

“It feels like we just got out of the start-up phase—and that’s talking like two years—but it is a milestone,” Kendall says. “We’re undercapitalized, but we do it for the passion and the love. We funded this brewery ourselves with a bit of family help, but we’re very much on the shoestring-low, DIY budget. We can’t just grow explosively like some other breweries with a bankroll or a war chest. We’ve been mitigating our losses, but the support for local craft beer has been beneficial for us.”

In the last nine or 10 years, the popularity of craft beer has sky-

rocketed, especially in Alberta, which is now home to more than 70 breweries. So how does Bent Stick keep a handle on the competition? For one, it helps that they make really tasty beer (check out their Electric Bugaloo) and they truly are a handmade brewery.

“Most breweries you push a button and there are rakes that do the stirring for you, but we’re so small that we stir it by hand with a mash paddle,” Rix says.

“You have to stir it to make sure the beer is the right temperature.

You don’t want spots that are hot and cold. It goes through the

Bent Stick Brewing Co. 5416-136 Ave bentstickbrewing.com pump then the boil kettle and you add hops at different times.”

“All craft breweries will say they’re handcrafted, but we actually do everything by hand,” Kendall adds. “It’s one of those limited budget factors, but I think it makes us unique and sets us apart. The mash is done by hand, every bottled is capped by hand, the label is put on by hand.”

Currently, Bent Stick is developing a beer for local indie-rock outfit The Wet Secrets. The beer will be a “lighter, hoppier red ale,” and will join the Bent Stick family of more than 20 beers—

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a hefty feat for a nano-brewery.

But being resident beer geeks, the co-founders love experimenting with different recipes.

“We like to make a lot of different beers because we’re so small,” Kendall says. “We want to be bringing pride to the YEG craft beer scene.

We always have viewed it as trying to be different and unique as we can. It’s kind of a gold rush with all the breweries popping up so you can’t all be making the same IPA or tall cans. We’re gonna zag when everybody zigs.”

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PIZZA

ROKA STARTS TRUCKIN’

New Edmonton pizza vendor serves wood-fired pies from the back of a trailer

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he first bite comes as a warm embrace of dough, cheese, and tomato. The handmade crust is crisp at first, and then delightfully chewy. The tomato sauce tangos on the tongue. Finally, the mozzarella cheese offers a creamy and additionally chewy dimension, bringing it all together. All of this is served out of a wood fire oven in a trailer, a mobile restaurant that goes by the name Roka.

Roka founders Rob and Karen Shortreed have been rolling around Edmonton, and serving their pizza on city streets, and during special events for six weeks now. After the retired mechanic and machinist, respectively, visited Tucson and tried the city’s take on pizza, they decided to set up shop—or trailer—in Edmonton.

“Pizza is one of those things that you know everybody can eat,” Shortreed says. “I don’t know anybody that doesn’t like pizza.”

On the more classic side of its offerings, Roka boasts the standard cheese, Hawaiian (that they call the Five-0), and pepperoni pizzas. But they also have the stinky (roasted

garlic), bacon and onion, and The Greek (black olives, red pepper, spinach, and feta). All of their pies cost $8.

I opted to order a split between the bacon and onion and the Five-0.

The bacon’s saltiness and tangy tomato sauce complimented the thinly sliced onions, which added a nice aftertaste without overwhelming the other flavours. On the Five-0 side, the pineapple was sweeter than usual—which was pleasant—but the sheer volume of it overpowered the ham. Roka’s pizza is more sauce than cheese-forward, but the latter still maintains an essential and stringy presence on the pies.

The dough is soft and chewy— like a freshly-made naan—but offers a crispy first bite that makes it particularly satisfying. As woodfired pizzas, Roka’s pies sport some slightly-burned raised areas, adding a pleasant aftertaste. Karen says the dough is the number-one, most-important aspect of the pizza. The Shortreeds experimented with different doughs for over a year, trying out different recipes on a willing focus group.

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“Our kids love us because we were doing all of our testing on [them],” Karen says with a laugh.

Depending on the temperature of the wood fire oven—and even the weather—each pizza is cooked between one and four minutes, as it heats up to 8001,000 Fahrenheit. The average is around 90 seconds. The high temperature makes a notable difference in the pizza. Compared to a run-of-the-mill oven, ovens like Roka’s cook the pizza quickly,

leaving a hard outer layer on the dough, while leaving the inside relatively soft.

For dessert, Roka doles out the Sweetie Pie, which has custard as a sauce, and peaches, mandarin oranges, cinnamon, and occasionally strawberries as toppings. At first, this sounds like an excessive level of sweetness, but the slight salinity of the dough counteracts the sugary upper layer somewhat, leaving a more balanced taste in what turned out to be fantastic street food.

Over the past month or so, Roka has done well for itself, and has seen enough bookings that keeping up is a challenge. However, the Shortreeds have been enjoying the social aspect of the job—many interesting people taste their pies.

At an event with the Colchester Agriculture Society, a girl came up to the truck with her horse and ordered a pizza. Even under that strange circumstance, Rob and Karen didn’t say neigh. “You don’t see that everyday,” Karen says.

Chris Penwell

PLASTIC STRAWS

LOCAL EATERIES PLEDGE TO CEASE STRAW USE Waste Free Edmonton’s initiative to reduce the number of restaurants using plastic straws gains traction

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fforts to remove straws from local eateries has seen steady increases in support since Waste Free Edmonton began advocating for it earlier this year. The organization’s tweely-named Last Straw Campaign, which urges Edmonton restaurants and bars to discontinue plastic straw use for a day July 14, has seen six establishments pledge to do so since the call went out in May. “A number of others are currently considering it,” says Waste Free Edmonton cofounder Sean Stepchuk. “Some places hadn’t really thought of it. Others had already been considering it, and we just gave them the extra push ... We’ve received very little pushback on this.”

However, fast food establishments, which often have their corporate offices in other countries, are a bit of a challenge

for the initiative. Most of each franchise’s decisions are made in other cities or at an international level—though some of these areas may have groups similar to Waste Free Edmonton, and others, like State & Main, have already started phasing out plastic straws.

According to Stepchuk, though, Waste Free Edmonton has petitioned chain restaurants that began in the city to take their pledge as well.

“It’s not just limited to small, local businesses,” he says. “Every day we contact another handful of bars and restaurants. It’s only been two weeks so far, but we’re waiting to hear back from a few that seemed receptive.”

Environmental impact aside, businesses can also benefit from banning plastic straws economically. Some of the businesses Stepchuk has spoken

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to say their plastic straw bill amounts to thousands of dollars each year—though this varies somewhat on the restaurant’s size. O’Byrnes Irish Pub, for instance, wrote a letter of support stating that it went through a $38 box of straws every week. Now, it only gives out straws on request. From this, it estimates a savings of around $1,700 per year.

“When you’re thinking about something that doesn’t even cross the consciousness of some people, that’s a fairly substantial savings for a local business,” Stepchuk says.

Waste Free Edmonton also has a competition with its sister organization in Calgary, Waste Free YYC. The groups are vying to see which one can sign up more restaurants within their city limits until July 14.

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ITALIAN

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AND, OH, THAT CRUST Favoloso Italian Café and Pizzeria’s food and service are worth the immense caloric intake

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he pal who recommended Favoloso to me noted that the small, clean Italian eatery lacks a bit in ambiance. But given it’s in the same space where Captain Scott’s Fish & Chips plied its greasy trade for decades, the current ownership perhaps was too busy scraping the previous ambiance (atomized cooking oil) off every surface contained therein to install track lighting.

The scheme—drop ceiling and fluorescent lights—does show off the meticulous cleanness of the place, however.

There’s no doubt the current ownership (who goes only by Giorgio to customers) is immensely proud of the work he’s doing in Favoloso’s kitchen. His eyes sparkle as he tells

you about the nice lasagna he can bring to your table. And the pizza, he says: “It’s just like in Italy.” This we had to try.

“You like spicy?” Giorgio ventured. Somehow people always know to ask my co-diner that question. She does indeed like spicy, so he suggested the Sfiziosa ($16.50). He also endorses the Golosa—featuring his housemade bacon (gorgeous)—but co-diner opined that one veggie pie ($16) would be nice for balance. Fine, though we had vegetables covered by the Favoloso salad ($9).

Giorgio brought the salad first, the kind of salad alchemy only deft cooks can conjure out of simple ingredients—in this case, mixed greens, cherry tomatoes,

mushrooms, roasted peppers, red onions and olives—tossed with good olive oil, balsamic vinegar, mozza, and a bit of salt. The onions had been steeped in the vinegar to mellow them out, and the flavours seemed to meld into a refreshing flavour. It was the perfect amount for two people.

The pair of 12-inch pizzas we ordered were more than two people could eat while maintaining their self-respect. They showed the same loving care in their assembly—truly, they were photogenic—and were expertly rendered to perfect doneness, just a touch of charring on the outer crust’s peaks. And, oh, that crust. It was substantial, yet feather-light and

crisp, and the ham, spicy sopressata salami, and fresh mushrooms were ideally dispersed over the aptly scant layer of mozza and tomato sauce. The vegetarian pie winningly combined black olives and sweet roasted red peppers with mushrooms, onions, and cherry tomatoes over aromatic pesto sauce. Giorgio is certainly doing his bit to uphold Edmonton’s reputation as a city of great pizza, and I am serious about going back to try that lasagna.

Another diner sat down with a Diet Pepsi and a cup of the house tiramisu. She called it “to die for,” then said she got the last one.

In fact, most of the housemade single-serving desserts had disappeared from the counter display-

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If I lived in the Westmount area—or even beyond, as Favoloso is on Skip the Dishes—I would be ordering a Favoloso pizza right now. Though if you take it out, you miss out on the sincere, personable hospitality contained in its spotless, humble confines.

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Nextfest Trash Gala, 2017 / The Nextfest Arts Company; photo by Mat Simpson Photography

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Sun., Jun 10 Nextfest Collaboration Projects The Roxy on Gateway (6 pm), Backstage Theatre (7 pm) Full schedule at nextfest.ca

Nextfest spearheads a sharp new collaborative mentorship project for young artists in festival run this year

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radley Moss created NextFest in 1996 at a time when major art institutions in the city were cutting programs supporting, developing, and showcasing young artists. It’s been 23 years since the first festival, and through the decades it has grown to host over 500 artists over 11 days at venues all around Old Strathcona.

Moss was the creator and director for the first three years of the festival and has been the president since. Theatre is a large component of the festival, but from the very first year, Moss wanted NextFest to be an inclusive environment for emerging artists of all media.

“To me, it’s an exercise in building community,” Moss says. “That’s what this is about.

I know what it was like for myself to be in my 20s and just out of school. You can’t get a job in the thing you want to do because you don’t have the experience, and you can’t get the experience. You’re in this loop for a little bit in your life, so

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you really need places like this to just reach out.”

Ellen Chorley, the current festival director, added the Collaboration Project to this year’s program as a sort of “speed dating” for artistic endeavours.

Young artists of different disciplines were asked to apply to be

by Moss. The artists chosen are directors, animators, printmakers, musicians, writers, dancers, painters, filmmakers, actors, and everything else in between.

Gabby Noga is an actor and dancer participating in the project this inaugural year.

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difficulty with everyone coming in with different viewpoints,” Noga says. “I’m just excited to work with different artists.”

Moss explained that the artists are not picked with the idea to create a grand production.

NextFest is excited to show the end result, but, for them, the

“I know what it was like for myself to be in my 20s and just out of school. You can’t get a job in the thing you want to do because you don’t have the experience, and you can’t get the experience.” a part of the experimental project where they work together over 10 days of the festival to create a new work of art.

So many artists applied to be a part of the project that they created two groups: one mentored by Dancefest curator, Ainsley Hillyard, and the other

cona High School—where she worked on many projects—in 2017 and has performed in several Edmonton International Fringe Festival productions.

Noga is only 19 years old and isn’t sure what to expect from the Collaboration Project, or what her role will be.

“I never really thought of the

project is about the process.

Like the rest of the festival, it’s meant to give hard-working artists a place to gain experience.

As a mentor, his experience will reinforce his group.

“It’s going to be on their energy and their ideas,” Moss says That’s not my job. My job is to help them reach and be able to

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do what they want to do in 30 hours. Try to put a framework around it.”

The finished projects, whether a performance, exhibit, or installation, will be revealed to audiences on the last day of the festival at The Roxy on Gateway theatre and the Backstage Theatre. None of the artists, mentors, or NextFest staff and curators know what to expect, but there’s a definite excitement attached to the unknown. A large part of the unknown comes from the youth of the project who are still figuring out their full potential.

“We catch them right at that point where they’re coming out of colleges and universities and they’re in their 20-somethings.”

Moss explains. “You see people kind of figuring out where they fit, what their role is, what they can be good at. Seeing that evolution over a few NextFests is just beautiful to watch. I feel honoured to have provided a place for that.”

Tamanna Khurana

POETRY

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Edmonton poet Billy-Ray Belcourt runs the lines of protest with his compelling prose

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is presence is one of the most deliberate you’ll encounter. He sits in his skin as if it’s a fixture of the world around him.

And yet, his poetry tells a very different side of the writer, academic, and Rhodes Scholar from the Driftpile Cree Nation, near the shores of Lesser Slave Lake.

Someone once told me Indigenous people are often very intouch with their creative side because of their history, a history of survival, strength, and wisdom. But that history is also one of settlement, forced cultural cancellation, and intergenerational pain.

Billy-Ray Belcourt’s debut poetry collection, This Wound is a World (2017), unravels this history and its extensions through the heartbreak of an Indigenous, queer boy who was told by the world that his presence was wrong, but also through the strength of a man with the ability to step away from those experiences and look at a much larger picture of the world today.

“I was wondering what might a poetry [form] look like if it were both unafraid of being sad, but also incredibly anticipatory,” Belcourt says.

For him, poetry was, and still is, a way to conceptualize Indigeneity and queerness outside of the world and the boundaries that exist for both of those groups. It was, in his words, “where one could write not in the direction of an assignment or a professor, but in the direc-

prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize (2018), the winners of which will be announced on June 7.

But his poetry is meant to do so much more than win awards; its genre-defying style put into arresting reality is meant to communicate what’s long overdue.

ie in 2016, as well as the sending of body bags to reservations in northern Manitoba during the H1N1 crisis. Somehow, though, his heavy words mesh with an overwhelming sense of hope throughout the collection.

“I didn’t want to solely retreat to the pathos of sorrow, but to

“Especially in the dawn of a more liberal political climate, people are invested in racial flourishing and other forms of identity politics, but that’s also a thin line to toe; you can actually reproduce some of the things you claim to be against.” tion of a world to come.”

Critics and readers have celebrated Belcourt’s writing for its lucid thoughts on a perspective that is often swept under the rug, or radicalized into something it is not.

Described as a manifesto and memoir, This Wound in a World was named best “Canadian Poetry” collection of 2017 by CBC Books, among many other award nominations, including being shortlisted for the

“I wanted my poetry to be outside of myself as well,” he says, “because I think that sometimes poets, especially when they’ve been writing for awhile, will perhaps forget about the ways in which poetry can be a vehicle for political and social action. So I wanted to make sure that was at the core of my writing in this book.”

Certain poems in This Wound in a World are responses to events like the vicious killing of Barbara Kentner in 2017 or Colten Boush-

ARTIFACTS Napi, the Trickster / Written by Hugh A. Dempsey / Illustrated by Alyssa Koski For thousands of years, people have gathered around the fire, listening to stories of Napi—meaning “Old Man”—of the Blackfoot Nation. Napi is an iconic character amongst the Siksika, Kainai, and Northern Piegan nations that make up the Canadian portion of the Blackfoot Confederacy. His wit is not always what one would hope for their own, but his lessons tell of the flawed, yet powerful nature of humankind.

always be forward-looking, to keep a sociological eye on kernels of a future that might be more capacious and unlimiting for Indigenous people,” he says.

Belcourt finds that the medium of poetry holds more potential to surprise and really touch readers in a way that removes preconceptions that often come to the table with other forms, like journalistic and academic writing.

Currently working on his PhD

at the University of Alberta, Belcourt also finds, though, that his academic writing and research has a place in conveying Indigenous, queer, and two-spirit people as someone to be known, respected, and learned from.

One phenomenon he mentions is that “racialized people, in particular, are objects to be talked about, but not those with whom to be in relation. Especially in the dawn of a more liberal political climate, people are invested in racial flourishing and other forms of identity politics, but that’s also a thin line to toe; you can actually reproduce some of the things you claim to be against.”

Belcourt says the key is “being in relation to” Indigenous people, which is simply spending time with, visiting with, laughing with, crying with—“all of the things that require you to register one’s humanity.”

Belcourt’s sophomore book, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, is due out in the fall of 2019. Meanwhile, he’s also working on a third book of essays called The Conspiracy of NDN Joy. Sierra Bilton sierra@vueweekly.com

Sierra Bilton arts@vueweekly.com Written by Hugh A. Dempsey and illustrated by Kainai artist Alyssa Koski, Napi, the Trickster is a singular book full of the oral tradition stories of Napi, from whom many lessons can come. Often portrayed as a troublemaker and foolish being, Napi is also the a quasi-Creator of the lands of the Piegan, Blood, and Blackfoot people.

Koski’s Peter Rabbit-esque illustrations throughout the book add just enough imagery to spark the imagination, but still see each story’s symbolism and importance in the traditional way with sacred animals and cultural symbols throughout.

Beyond being the author of more than 20 books, Dempsey is also an historian, having worked as associate director of the Glenbow Museum in Calgary and now serving as its chief curator emeritus.

By gathering together a sizeable collection of stories passed down through oral tradition, Dempsey and Koski offer insight into a venerable and still-thriving culture as well as a piece of history to be kept and passed on to younger generations for years to come.

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COMEDY 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • The Grindstone, 10019-81 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • This completely improvised musical comedy is based on the suggestions from the audience who will get to experience a brand new story unfold in front of them, complete with impromptu songs, dance breaks and show stopping numbers • Every Fri

BIG ROCK PRESENTS: DEVANEY’S COMEDY NIGHT • Devaney's, 11113-87 Ave • 780.433.6364 • stephen.f.mcgovern@gmail. com • Weekly open-mic hosted by Stephen McGovern • Sep 6-Apr 25, Every Wed, 8:30pm • Free

BIG ROCK PRESENTS: URBAN TAVERN COMEDY NIGHT HOSTED BY LARS CALLIEOU • Urban Tavern, 11606 Jasper Ave • Every Sun, 8pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE • 10425-82 Ave • Underdog Comedy Show • Every Thu

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Sean Baptiste; Jun 15-16

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Michael Quu; Jun 12-13 • Ian Bagg; Jun 14-17

THE COMIC STRIPPERS • Myer Horowitz Theatre, 8900-114 St • A male strip parody and improv comedy show • Jun 8, 8pm • $39

COYOTE COMEDY • The Grindstone, 1001981 Ave • A 50 minute long form improv show that has lots of short little scenes throughout it • Jun 7, 7pm • $10

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Derek Edwards / Supplied

TRAVELLING JESTER

FOOL'S SPECTACLE • The Grindstone,

Comedian Derek Edwards brings his own unique brand of observational humour to Edmonton

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t is no easy feat to be able to evolve humour based on mere geography alone, yet Canadian comedian Derek Edwards has made this his mission. The performer has been in Canada’s comedic landscape for some time and has made a lasting impression as an exemplar of observational humour. Having performed in numerous countries over his career, Edwards has decided to take his comedic conquest to the prairies with his new tour Alls I’m Saying. A tour in which he aims to make a mockery of everything our province has to offer—from tractors to truck nuts.

Edwards has always been a major supporter of embroiling oneself in the culture of his planned audience, and by using this as a canvas, he manages to paint a picture of humour that seems more involved than most.

“If you don’t get into dedicating yourself to an area and the spirit of its locale and people, well then, what’s the point?”

Edwards says.

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did in the United States, he brought up the local pastime of ‘Frog Gigging’ to an Arkansas audience, in which he brought to light of the otherworldly nature the local tradition of hunting frogs and collecting their legs.

Edwards has often taken much amusement in digging up as much as he can on the oddities of a location, and poking fun in a way that doesn’t step on too many specific toes.

However, audience reaction is a wild variable that Edwards has to take into account. In his jester-like travels, he has encountered less than ideal reactions to his form of ribbing, but states that he has never encountered such hostility here in Alberta. He often shouts the praise of our province’s sense of humour and control when it comes to not immediately hurling tomatoes at the stage.

“Albertans have no trouble when it comes to laughing at themselves. There isn’t much animosity when someone lobs the occasional comedic Molotov cocktail at them, hell they don’t even duck,” Edwards says.

Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free

Thu., Jun 14 (7:30 pm) Derek Edwards: Alls I’m Saying Arden Theatre $47.50 The warmth of our province, as well as Edwards’ love of the observational is one of the many reasons that the comedian is spending a large portion of his summer travelling the prairies.

Yet, there is one particular appeal that Edwards has picked up on in his time touring across North America.

“A lot of cities I’ve noticed are often made up of a good number of displaced small towners, trying to make their way in a new location, which adds to the nature of a city itself,” he says.

This small town displacement has worked in tandem with Edwards’ observant style, as he’ll notice that those who aren’t born and bred in a metropolis are often as quick to notice the absurd as he is.

“You can feel a lot of what a place is like,” Edwards adds, “even just by simply walking around it.”

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10019-81 Ave • Providing local artists in the clown and physical comedy community a chance to perform new or revised clown material in front of a living, breathing audience • Jun 10, 7pm • $14

FOUR BANGER FRIDAYS • Grindstone Theatre, 10019-81 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • Edmonton’s premiere independent stand-up comedy show. Host Simon Gorsak curates a staggering four comic showcase and plays host to the funniest people he knows from across Canada, and you • Every Fri, 9pm • $12

FREEDOM SKETCH '90 • The Grindstone, 10019-81 Ave • Every month Ms. Perfect Boy attempts its magnum opus Freedom Sketch ‘90: a takedown of the current social zeitgeist that at the same time celebrates the shared human experience, all the way from the birth of man to the heat death of the universe • Jun 9, 9pm • $10

IMPROVAGANZA INTERNATIONAL IMPROV FESTIVAL • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.443.6044 • rapidfiretheatre.com • Ten days of improvised comedy, music, and much more • Jun 13-23 • From $15

KEVIN HART • Rogers Place, 10220-104 Ave • 780.414.5483 • info@rogersplace.com • Jun 9, 7pm

LATE NIGHT EDMONTON • The Grindstone, 10019-81 Ave • A filmed talk show performed on stage with a live audience • Jun 9, 11pm • $12

LAUGH STEADY • Nook Cafe, 10153-97 St • Live stand-up comedy hosted by Kevin Cianciolo • Last Fri of the month, 7:30-9:30pm • $5 (door) THUNDERPROV • The Grindstone, 10019-81 Ave • A fast-paced, narrative-fuelled improv show crackling with energy and wit • Jun 9, 7pm • $10 UP LATE WITH DANA ANDERSEN • The Grindstone, 10019-81 Ave • What is “Up Late With Dana Andersen” you ask? It’s Dana in his all glory doing what he likes to do best… whatever he feels like!… except it’s actually a

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structured show with sketches, improv comedy, music, guests, and more • Jun 8, 11pm • $14

DANCE ALBERTA DANCE ALLIANCE PRESENTS: FEATS FESTIVAL OF DANCE: FOOT PRINTS • Alberta Dance Alliance, 11759 Groat Rd • abdancealliance.ab.ca • Enjoy a wide variety of dance style during this festival • Jun 27-Jul 7

A NIGHT OF DANCE • Mill Woods Senior and Multicultural Centre, #201-2610 Hewes Way • info. millwoodsseniors@gmail.com • Participants can enjoy live performances and learn to dance • Jun 15, 6-10pm • Tickets can be purchased at the front desk of the Mill Woods Senior and Multicultural Centre

HOUSE OF HUSH PRESENTS: SWING, SWING, SWING! • Crash Hotel Lobby, 10266-103 St • hellothere@violettecoquette. com • houseofhushjune22.eventbrite.com • houseofhushburlesque.com • Get ready for House of Hush's highest-energy, swingin' acts, 1940s glamour, and film noir • Jun 22, 7pm (door), 8-9:30pm (show) • $30 (include a complimentary feature cocktail) • 18+ only

FILM CHOCOLATE FARMER • Westwood Unitarian, 11135-65 Ave • Discussion to follow after screening • Jun 8, 7pm • Free DOMINION (2018) SCREENING • Central Lions Recreation Centre, 11113 113 St • 780.994.0999 • amaraczi@gmail.com • A film about sustainability and animal agriculture • Jun 29, 7-10pm • Admission by donation (via Eventbrite)

GOOD BURGER: PJ PARTY IN THE IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca • Nothing better than watching a beloved film, curled up in your coziest PJ's with family and friends. Hot breakfast and special activities beginning at 8am and film starts at 9am • Jun 16, 8-11am • $9.95

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • Visit metrocinema.org for daily listings • • Art Docs: Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (Jun 7) • HoMo-cIDAL MovIe AnD A DrAg sHow: To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything (Jun 14) • JApAnese MAsters: Ugetsu (1953) (Jun 14); Tokyo Olympiad (1965) (Jun 17) • KInK on screen: Tom of Finland (Jun 10) • Metro retro: Super Fly (1972) (Jun 17, Jun 19) • nIgHt gALLery: Boys Beware...Cat Fight (Jun 16) • reeL FAMILy cIneMA: Fantastic Mr. Fox (Jun 9); Free Willy (Jun 16); Willow (Jun 23) • sunDAy cLAssIcs: Lawrence of Arabia (Jun 24)

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca •Home: artwork by various artists; May 5-Aug 18; Artist talk and reception: Jun 23, 2-4pm • The Surface of Things: Chasing Light: artwork by Brenda Malkinson; Jun 2-Jul 14 ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34 St • 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum. com • Open weekends May 19-Sep 3 • $7 (adult), $6 (senior/student), $3.50 (child 3-12)/ child under 3 free; $5 (train rides), $3 (motor car rides) ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Melcor Cultural Centre, 355th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Open Seniors Show; May 28-Jun 22

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • Manning Hall: The Pre-History of M.N. Hutchinson: Site 24; until Dec 31 • BMO World of Creativity: Wild Wood; until Dec 31 • RBC Work Room: Metamorphosis: artwork by Gloria Mok; until Jul 1 • Painting Alberta, Details of Canada: artwork by William Townsend; until Jul 1 • weeKLy Drop-In ActIvItIes: Tours for Tots, Every Wed, 10-11am • Youth Workshops, ages 13-17, Every Thu, 4-6pm • Kids’ Open Studio, Every Sat, 1-3pm • Exhibition Tours; Every Sat-Sun, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm • Art for Lunch; 3rd Thu of the month, 12-1pm • VIBE; 3rd Fri of the month, 5-9pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Birds, Bees, and Ambergris: artwork by Gerri Harden; Jun 7-Jul 28

ARTWALK • Person District, St. Albert • artwalkstalbert.com • The art hits the streets again! Discover a place to enjoy, view and buy art to suit all tastes and budgets. Featuring returning artists and new ones • May-Sep, 1st Thu of every month, 6-8:30pm (exhibits run all month)

BEAR CLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St • 780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Summer Exhibition: rotating exhibit by gallery artists; Throughout the summer BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Liminal Space || awasitipahaskan: artwork by Marina Hulzenga; Jun 2-30

BOREALIS GALLERY • 9820-107 St • assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis.html • Fur: The Fabric of Our Nation; Apr 25-Jul 3 BRUCE PEEL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS • Lower level, Rutherford South, University of Alberta • bpsc.library.ualberta.ca • Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination; Apr 27Aug 24 • Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination; May 4-Aug 24

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Close Encounters: artwork by Ian Rawlinson; Jun 2-16

CAVA GAllery • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • galeriecava.com • The End of The Earth: artwork by Valerian Mazataud; May 4-Jun 8 • Members Exhibit; May 4-Jun 8

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Crash Pad: artwork by Cindy Baker; May 4-Jun 9 • Zachari Logan; May 4-Jun 9 FAB GALLERY • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/ artshows • Czecho-Slovak Fine Art Exhibition; Jun 12-Jul 6

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Exhibition of New Work: artwork by Claudette Castonguay; Jun 2-14

FINEST OF STRANGERS • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • teatroq.com • A well-known television personality returns to the house where he spent part of his childhood, only to find himself utterly unable to leave it. This creates havoc for the current owner and occupants, many of whom are not entirely what they at first seem to be • May 31-Jun 16, 7:30pm (2pm matinees on Jun 2, Jun 9, Jun 16) • Tickets start at $25

LITERARY

FOREVER PLAID • Mayfield Dinner Theatre,

Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Panel Discussion: artwork by Goop of 7; Jun 5-30

Janet Wees "When We Were Shadows" Book Launch; Jun 6, 7-8:30pm • Read & Write With Pride 2018; Jun 12, 7-9pm • Darusha Wehm's Edmonton Launch, with Jennifer Quist; Jun 14, 7-10pm

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • 9910, 9910B-109 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month, 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 donation

ROUGE POETRY SLAM HOSTED BY BREATH IN POETRY COLLECTIVE • BLVD Supper x Club, 10765 Jasper Ave • Every Tue

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • Every 2nd Sun of the month, 7:30pm • Free (donations accepted at the door)

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood

THE ARCTIC FLUTE • Festival Place, 100

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Human Essence: Humankind at the Beginning of the 21st Century: 30th Annual Harcourt House Members’ Exhibition and Art Sale; Jun 2-Jul 14

LOFT GALLERY & GIFT SHOP • A.J. Ottewell Arts Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Sat-Sun, 12-4pm (excluding long weekends) • Artwork by Desserrie Plewis, Lynda McAmmond, Lynn Sinfield, Joyce Boyer, Kay McCormick, and Terrie Shaw; Mar 3-Jul 8

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah. org/mcmullen-gallery • Aura of the Land: Blake Chorley and Ben Globerman; May 5-Jun 24 MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@ artsandheritage.ca • Birds, Bees and Ambergris: artwork by Gerri Harden; Jun 7-Jul 28 • Take Your Best Shot: youth digital photo exhibition; Jun 12-Aug 12 PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12323104 Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery. com • Colour Coherence: artwork by Jonathan Forrest; May 24-Jun 9 • Arrangement: artwork

by Monica Tap; Jun 14-30; Opening reception: Jun 14, 7-9pm; Artist talk: Jun 16, 1pm

age Ampitheatre, Hawerlak Park, 9330 Groat Rd • freewillshakespeare.com • The festival returns for its 30th season with the two classic plays: Comedy of Errors and Hamlet • Jun 19-Jul 15 (no shows on Mon)

INTO THE WOODS • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way Sherwood Park • operanuova.ca • Part of Opera NUOVA's Mainstage series. Mind the wolf, heed the witch, and honor the giant in the sky • Jun 24, Jun 27, Jun 29-30 • $20-$45

10330-84 Ave • info@fireflytheatre.com • Annual showcase and fundraiser • Jun 7-8, 7:30-9:30pm • $30 (plus applicable fees)

ALL SHOOK UP • Mayfield Dinner Theatre,

thefrontgallery.com • Pictures From Rome: artwork by Tony Scherman; Jun 7, 7-9pm Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Strathcona Salon Series: artwork by various artists; May 15-Jun 23

FREEWILL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL • Herit-

LET THERE BE HEIGHT: AN AERIAL CABARET • Westbury Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns,

THEATRE 16615-109 Ave • Built around the songs made famous by Elvis Presley, this show follows the tale of a small town girl with big dreams and the motorcycle-riding stud she falls for • Now playing until Jun 10, showtimes vary (Tue-Sun) • $80 and up

FRONT GALLERY • 10402-124 St •

16615-109 Ave • This nostalgic revue centres on four eager male singers who are killed in a car crash on the way to their first big concert. They are miraculously revived from the afterlife for a chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was • Jun 15-Jul 29, showtimes vary (TueSun) • $80 and up

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave •

MASTER CLASS • L’Unithéâtre at La Cité Fancophone, 8627-91 St • operanuova.ca • Part of Opera NUOVA's Mainstage series. Maria Callas arrives on stage at Julliard to give a Master Class. As she works with three talented singers she triggers her own life's journey to awaken the appetite for perfection in these budding performers • Jun 12, Jun 14-17 • $20-$28

Festival Way Sherwood Park • operanuova. ca • Part of Opera NUOVA's Mainstage series.

Re-imagined in the far north, the darkness of an arctic winter gives way to glorious spring in this sparkling, fun-filled adaptation of Mozart’s beloved fantasy • Jun 23, Jun 26, Jun 28, Jun 30 • $20-$40

PUPPET SHOWS: HAMLET & THE COMEDY OF ERRORS • Heritage Amphitheatre, William Hawrelak Park • thouartheretheatre.com • Heading down to the Freewill Shakespeare Festival this summer? Looking for something fun to do before the show begins? Grab some refreshments and let Thou Art Here Theatre introduce you to the play through a fun and interactive puppet adaptation • Jun 19-Jul 15

BUT HARK, A VOICE! • Heritage Amphitheatre, William Hawrelak Park • thouartheretheatre.com • A roving rehearsal of repertory rejects! Shakespeare's Mechanicals from A Midsummer Night's Dream are rehearsing their new play premiering at this year's Shakespeare festival. Unfortunately, they have no idea what they're doing • Jun 19-Jul 15

CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s long form comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm; Sep 10-Jun 9 • $15 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) CITY WORKERS IN LOVE • L’Unithéâtre at La Cité Fancophone, 8627-91 St • operanuova. ca • Part of Opera NUOVA's Mainstage series.

Sung in English. Tells the story of a street repair crew on a typical summer’s day as they strive to help their city and themselves • Jun 13, Jun 15-17 • $20-$28

ROCK & ROLL HEAVEN • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM Phase 1, 8882-170 St • Imagines Heaven’s greatest concert with Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Michael Jackson, Prince and many more • Jun 15-Aug 19 TARTUFFE • Theatre at The King’s University, 9125-50 St • operanuova.ca • Part of Opera NUOVA's Mainstage series. Sung in English.

A lively, comedic exploration of power and hypocrisy based on Molière’s most famous play • Jun 7-9, 7:30pm; Jun 10, 1:30pm • $20-$28 THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep 9-Jun 8 • $15

PICTURE THIS! FRAMING & GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • info@picturethisgallery.com • picturethisgallery. com • Spring It On! Art Show; Apr 14-Jun 30 PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/ eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Open TueSat, 9am • 150 Firsts: How Alberta Changed Canada…Forever; Until Aug 1

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Home and Garden: artwork

by Micheline Durocher; Jun 15-Jul 21; Opening reception: Jun 15, 7-9pm • Copy Tropic: artwork

by Megan Gnanasihamany; Jun 15-Jul 21; Opening reception: Jun 15, 7-9pm

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Wedding Dresses through Time; until Aug 31

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments • Terry Fox–Running to the Heart of Canada; Feb 16-Sep 16 • Dinosaurs Unearthed: Down to the Bone; Opens Jun 1 UDELL XHIBITIONS • 10332-124 St NW • 780.488.4445 • udellxhibitions.com • UX MB; Jun 22-23 • MINBID; Jun 22-23

/ Nextfest Arts Company and Mat Simpson Photography

Nextfest Various locations throughout the city Runs until Jun 10

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All Aboard train-hopping crew / Dale Bailey

VUEWEEKLY.com/film ADRIFT REVIEW

DOCUMENTARY

All Aboard follows four Canadian first-time train hoppers as they travel and skate across America

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t begins with the sound of a train passing on the tracks. Day 24 fades in, and four scruffy guys are huddled in sleeping bags in a Texas cow patch. They hopped the wrong train and after realizing it, decided to ride it south, farther from their goal.

“Now we’re in a town called Lolita,” says one of the guys, Jordan Marowitch, to the camera while nestling in his sleeping bag.

“We’re not even in Lolita,” laughs Ryan Fyfe-Brown.

“Oh, I guess we’re outside of it, and it’s really in the middle of nowhere,” Marowitch says.

All Aboard is a documentary that follows four skateboarding friends as they travel from the American Atlantic to the Pacific in the fall of 2014, hopping trains and skating in every city along the way. The group thought the trip would take a month. It took them two.

The trip arose from an idea FyfeBrown had after train hopping from Edmonton to Vancouver to meet with his friend, renowned skate photographer Keith Henry.

“I went and stayed at his place and I thought: ‘Man, we should [train hop] with skateboards

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across Canada,” Fyfe-Brown says.

“I thought we could put it in Keith’s skate magazine.”

But life got in the way for Henry, and Fyfe-Brown had to finish up his science degree at the University of Alberta. Soon after, FyfeBrown found himself living in a Vancouver skate house with “nine other dudes and my friend Dale.”

After filmmaker Dale Bailey heard of the cross-Canada trainhopping adventure, he was in.

“I was like: ‘Screw an article.

Let’s make a movie! I’ll film that,” Bailey says.

But Canada, with its harsh climate, was not the best choice to train hop for the long haul.

“My friend and I nearly froze our asses off,” Fyfe-Brown says.

“Like, two grown men cuddling to stay warm—we couldn’t do it in Canada so we took it to the United States. Basically, Canada has one line east to west, but the U.S. is like a giant spider web so we made a few mistakes.”

After writing out a roster of skateboarding friends to accompany them on the trip, Fyfe-Brown and Bailey narrowed it down to Marowitch and Marcus Samji.

“Everyone had pros and cons,” laughs Fyfe-Brown. “Jordan Marowich is my favourite person to skate with, but he can be kind of a pussy, but he’s gotten better post train trip. And the kid shreds.

He can skate any spot for like 20 hours a day.”

“That trip was so exhausting.

We skated like 16 hours a day while living off of garbage food,” Bailey adds. “Samji was the chill fearless friend who was down for everything. Samji was our ‘Fuck it. Let’s just do it,’ kind of guy.”

And the guys kind of needed that on their trip—a ‘Fuck it’ mentality—especially with hopping trains, as there is a huge fear element to actually doing it.

“In Canada, I had no idea what I was doing,” Fyfe-Brown says.

“Train hopping is literally just doing it. You can’t be like ‘Oh my God, is someone going to see me.’ If you’re always waiting to get caught, it will never happen.

You just have to barge and do the damn thing.”

Another factor is patience. On average, it took 12 hours (sometimes much longer) for a train to reach its destination while the

guys hid inside the train cars’ pig in the bucket (when the car is on a metal platform with large holes cut in the bottom, prime for camping out).

“They stop so much. And we thought they were stopping ‘cause of us. It would often take a day for us waiting for the train too,” Bailey says. “We had no idea where it was going to be or when it was going to roll in the yard.

It’s hard, it’s loud, it’s cold, you’re always hungry, and you have no idea how long it’s going to be.”

Luckily, the guys were only spotted once during a hop. It didn’t make it to film though, as Bailey had to also run from the police officer guarding a train yard.

“We were in really shallow pigs in the bucket. He went straight to his walkie-talkie, the train stopped and we hopped off on the other side and ran, jumped over a pond.

Running through the highway all Frogger-like,” Bailey laughs.

“We had to take off our shoes and pants to cross the pond,” FyfeBrown says. “Dale knows how to shoot, but there were so many logistical things, like those highintensity moments, so you can’t really shoot them.”

A recurring theme throughout the film is the embrace from skate communities the guys meet throughout the States.

“You just go the park, skate around and you’ll have someone to party with that night, a couch to sleep on, and a guide around the city,” Fyfe-Brown says. “Skateboarders are such random people that they don’t have jobs, so you just chill with them the whole day.”

There are also quite a few hu-

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Sat., Jun. 9 (7 pm) All Aboard Metro Cinema (premiere party at Garneau Pub after viewing ) $15 mourous situations in All Aboard and it comes from every character being a real individual, each with their own weird little quirks.

Marowitch is the comedic relief as he voices his concerns of ghosts or other squatters in an abandoned American house.

“He brings it back to this real stance,” Bailey says. “He and Ryan butted heads—where Ryan was the super-pragmatic one and Jordan was like ‘Uh … I don’t know’ all the time. I don’t think I could have made as interesting of a film if they weren’t all interesting people.”

The film also features a grand score created by local indie band Nature Of’s Steve Schneider.

“We worked closely together and luckily he’s one of the most critical people on the planet,” Bailey says. “So, there was a lot of cutting, but I needed that, ‘cause I was so personally attached to the trip. We would hit it like every day for five days a week.”

The final version also has additional music from locals Billie Zizi, Cayley Thomas, The Velveteins, and Motorbike James.

Fyfe-Brown and Bailey are gearing up for a skateboarding travel project in Mexico, but this time they’re setting up shop for a year.

“It’s going to be a motorcycle trip with a lot less trains,” Bailey says. “It might be episode-based, but it will have some great skate footage.”

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BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA

Tom of Finland (Pekka Strang) / Josef Persson

Stirring biopic Tom of Finland holds even-handed love, tragedy, and celebration of life

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ove is a vulnerable game.

You’re in the beginnings of what may be a budding romance and your heart is on the line. Every time you check the waters, your love interest turns away quickly, changes the subject or walks into the next room.

Despite your initial feelings that they may too be interested and your repeated attempts to show your affection, they suddenly don’t seem to be.

Now imagine that love—your love—is illegal, and your feelings for another human being are considered a sickness. You could be publicly shamed, beaten or even imprisoned for a kiss or even a loving gesture toward them.

Award-winning filmmaker Dome Karukoski lovingly tells the story of iconic Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen (Pekka Strang), a veteran of the Second World War. But after returning from war, Laaksonen is still forced to fight.

This war is one which forces him to fight to love, to be loved, and to be an artist, throughout his life.

Tom of Finland (2017) begins in Helsinki, Finland, where Laaksonen starts a motorcycle club without motorcycles, but with leather. He and his partner Veli (Lauri Tilkanen) become ingrained in Helsinki’s underground and openly-persecuted gay culture. They dream of having a house with bright yellow

curtains—because “only sissies like yellow”—and Tom dreams of publishing his work.

But his homoerotic sketches are more than just pieces of paper. In Finland, they’re “atomic bombs” that represent shame, rejection, and mental sickness. Tom’s own sister, Kaija (Jessica Grabowsky) embodies this with her words as she explains away his attempt to come out to her: “The war made you like that … you’re confused.”

Tom seeks out Berlin’s underground gay clubs as a refuge, using code words like “pheasant hunting” for the activities that happen within, but as those activities are still illegal, his consti-

tutional protections are scarce when things go awry.

In California’s sexual revolution of the 1970s though, his art is embraced and in fact celebrated. There he finds a community (Doug and Jack, played by Seumas Sargent and Jakob Oftebro) of freedom and support that is overwhelming for the beatendown artist, still accustomed to conservative 1950s Finland. But not long after his art begins to be taken seriously and things are looking up, the AIDS epidemic hits America.

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ANARCHO-PUNK

Subhumans vocalist Dick Lucas shares his views on distorted truth, Trump, and balancing art

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ritain in the 1980s was a period rife with frenzy and confusion for its citizens. Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher had just been sworn in as Prime Minister, blue-collar workers were being forced to strike due to wage cuts, unemployment was at a record high, the Irish Republican Army was making threats of nationalistic terrorism—simply put, people were scared, but also angry.

It was from this outrage that the anarcho-punk genre came in full swing. People— mostly youth—were looking for an answer. Bands like Crass took inspiration from Sex Pistols’ 1976 single “Anarchy in the U.K.” and morphed it into an ideology, backed up by fast guitar rhythms, bombastic drum beats, and overtly aware lyrics. One band that followed suit was Wiltshire punks Subhumans.

Lead by vocalist Dick Lucas, Subhumans are still one of the most influential anarcho-punk bands to date. Lucas’ brain-piercing vocal style, accompanied by his knowledgeable anti-oppression verses were quick to call out corporate greed, famine, war, voter apathy—it’s a long list. Yet Lucas is quick to say that even though the 1980s were dreadful, 2018 is a lot worse.

“Generally, we’re living in a really bad TV movie,” Lucas says from a Los Angeles hotel room. “Right now, it’s the mass distortion of truth and the subsequent belief in propaganda mostly personified

by Donald Trump and the Brexit vote in the U.K., and the rise of nationalist parties in Europe. Racism is basically becoming almost slightly acceptable in the minds of racists already.”

Corruption and bigotry have always been part of our world, especially during Subhumans’ initial run, but the difference before was that you had to “really dig deep,” to find the extortion and bigotry, whereas now, they have become commonplace.

“It’s no longer hidden ‘cos it’s out in the open on the front page every day—in America at least,” he says.

Throughout our conversation, Lucas cannot help but repeatedly bring up President Trump. The man has essentially become a new fuel for Lucas to reinvigorate the beliefs in Subhumans’ material.

“Everything he does is a lie or bullshit, and he stands for it or denies it,” Lucas says. “What does that say about the world, eh? That they will settle for the lowest common denominator over anyone else who has got an ounce of fucking intelligence. He [Trump] represents the triumph of ignorance over the obvious truth and compassion as well.”

In this current climate our world faces, Lucas’ lyrics may hold the same amount or more relevance as they did when he first wrote them.

“It’s horrible that some of these songs are still relevant. It would be great if there was no more war, starvation, or anything like that,” he says.

You would think that Lucas’ voice would get louder and louder as our conversation continued, however, he remains calm and collected. And that’s because he still has hope and still sees the good in people. It’s what keeps him going.

“You have to remember that the mass majority of people are not like

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Trump,” he says. “The worst thing that can happen is that we stop thinking about this. That’s a process of normalization, of this madness.”

Another silver lining in this gnarled cloud is the amount of music, specifically protest music, being created by musicians in all genres.

“Music isn’t the be-all end-all way to change the world at all, whatsoever,” Lucas says. “It’s far more entertainment, but if you’re in a band or play music, you might as well try to change a few people’s headspaces about the world.”

While he’s not touring, Lucas has been known to paint surreal landscapes, but this past year,

he’s become somewhat Instagram famous for another one of his hobbies—balancing art.

“I was showing this thing where you get a matchstick inserted between two forks that have been put together and you balance the matchstick on the end of a glass and it looks impossible,” he says. “But because of the way the forks are shaped, the general balance of weight is behind the edge of the glass where the matchstick is resting on. There are people in Indonesia that are very good at this balancing thing and I’m just on the periphery of it—havin’ a go at it really—but I find it very re-

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laxing and it focuses the brain.”

Subhumans last release was 2007’s Internal Riot, but Lucas promises that the band will release a new album in the future. It just might not be for a long time due to their drummer Trotsky living in Germany.

“Getting together and writing new songs is an annual event, rather than a weekly event,” Lucas says. “We’ve got two or three complete and playable and about four or five little half songs. We’re going to have a practice session at Trotsky’s place next month so yeah, it’s a slow process.”

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The Dungarees may come and go, but all their roads lead back home

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ll roads lead somewhere, and often it takes a few signposts to get you back on track to where that may be, even if you’re not sure where it is you’re going. The Dungarees started off as a cover band, covering country standards, but little did they know it would be years later they would be sitting in the same room, playing the same stage, with the guys that wrote those songs.

Lead singer and bassist Jared Murdoch explains, “We’ve worked with the creators of these songs and it galvanized the band to com-

and a degree of nuance that captures the experiences they, and others, have.

“We’re sort of at a point where we’ve reached the end of that ‘bro country’ sound. People are going for something with a little more substance, and I would love to be in the middle of that. There are plenty of artists creating strong messages and still managing to be commercially viable,” Murdoch says.

Sometimes those country clichés are just road maps to a greater destination, and it’s this

The Dungarees Upcoming tour dates at thedungarees.com was that, but more. Aussies knew the song and recognized us on the street.”

The Dungarees have planted themselves in all the right places. A third home in Nashville gives them an equal opportunity to work with big wigs and Grammy award winners like Paul Worley and Ray Kennedy. But all roads have led back home and coming back to Alberta

“We’re sort of at a point where we’ve reached the end of that ‘bro country’ sound. People are going for something with a little more substance, and I would love to be in the middle of that.” mit to staying in that direction.

Our influences are older, and you cut your teeth playing covers anyways,” he says. “Our instincts led to originals and we thought ‘What elements can we borrow and put into our own stuff?’”

Opening for the likes of Dwight Yoakam, Reba McEntire, and Blake Shelton keeps The Dungarees busy and grateful, and Murdoch understands the importance of “keeping your humanity.”

With a market of country music that is seemingly saturated with beer drinking and tailgates (not that those aren’t cool), The Dungarees approach the music they love with a respect of tradition

“deep cut country” that has been present in Alberta and further, at least for The Dungarees. The audience, whether conscious or not, looks for it.

“I think it’s hard not to sound uniquely Canadian. You carry those experiences whether you know it or not, and sharing that keeps the music a little more honest,” Murdoch says.

This brand of honesty has even extended to Australia, where their single “Anywhere With You” rose to the charts.

“It was a sort-of a ‘what?’ moment. We were expecting to open a few doors, yeah, and it certainly

with fresh eyes for country music is something The Dungarees cultivate.

“Those guys are masters, they have a laid back confidence, it’s this comfortable confidence that they instilled in us,” he says.

“It gave us a morale boost and a confidence in what we were doing and being able to bring that home is even better.”

It’s a trip, one that’s only getting longer and better for The Dungarees. Slated for a headlining spot for the grand country capital in Calgary for The Stampede, The Dungarees continue this long road with companions of the past and present guiding them.

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Music is as precious to Prior as The One Ring was to Gollum.

Ever since he was six years old, he had a love of classical music. His mom played it over the car speakers, and he gradually went to more ballet and opera shows. He had a love of theatre.

Even during his childhood, Prior knew he was destined to become a musician.

“It wasn’t even a decision … even before I did it, it was my thing, you know? It really was a calling,” Prior says.

When he was 12 or 13, he studied at the highly acclaimed St. Petersburg Conservatory after winning a competition to write a recital. His music was played alongside well-renowned classical pieces from Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev. The head of the jury was the head of the St. Petersburg Conservatory who said to

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him after the show, “Listen pal, my students are 15 years older than you. Don’t come out with stuff like this. Come and study with us.”

Despite the wide gap between ages, Prior says, “I felt very privileged to be there. These corridors have been wandered by these great musicians. You felt their histories soaked into the wood of the floors.”

Prior joined the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in 2016 as the chief conductor and there was an instant fellowship with him and the ESO. “We have a fantastic chemistry and it’s actually rare. Not many orchestras have this level of just general positivity. It’s pretty fantastic,” Prior says. “There’s a definite sense of mutual respect and rehearsals are on the whole very positive experiences. We laugh, we smile, and I’ll throw the odd joke or pun.”

Edmonton has become a new home for him. It has become his own Hobbiton.

“I really have appreciated the warmth of which the city has embraced me both within and out the orchestra. I feel a really great deal of support and friendship … People have allowed me to be myself.”

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Prior hopes the audience will feel the power of the music. He explains, “It would be different to hearing it in a cinema because ... the power of the orchestra is really within you. You feel it in your body.”

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He’s undaunted by the size due to his experience with the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

The challenge, however, was to find all the rare instruments needed to really create the sound authenticly as possible. There will be folk and traditional instruments, Irish fiddle, tin whistle, and some Middle Eastern instruments. What Prior found most difficult was finding talented musicians to play these instruments, who also know how to follow the beats of the conductor.

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BOHEMIA Colour in the Clouds with Nothing Gold and Sellout; 7pm; $10 (door)

BLUES ON WHYTE FKB; 9pm

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open

CAFE BLACKBIRD Edmonton

night; Every Mon, 9pm; Free FIDDLER'S ROOST Open Stage;

7-11pm PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Songwriter Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

ALIBI PUB AND EATERY Open mic

Substance with Eddie Lunchpail

Party; Every Fri-Sat, 9pm

night; Every Sun, 6-9pm

ROSE & CROWN PUB Live music;

AVIARY EP Release Party Featuring

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic hip-hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Mark

Ammar’s Saturday Sessions Jam; Every Sat, 4-8pm • All You Need Is Love; 10pm; $10; No minors SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

Adam Holm; 9pm

BLIND PIG PUB Blind Pig Pub Ham Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm; No cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Jazz Brunch with Jim Findlay; 9am2pm; By donation BLUES ON WHYTE Taylor Scott; 9pm

Industry Nights; Every Sun, ; Free; 18+ only

Free STARLIGHT CASINO Jason Greeley;

ON THE ROCKS Live music; 9pm

8pm

JUN 8

SHAG ALBUM RELEASE SHOW

JUN 9

UFC 225 Whittaker vs. Romero 2

JUN 12

PUMP IT UP TOURNAMENT

WEST EDMONTON MALL THROWBACK THURSDAY w/ The Sissy Fits

Rudd; 7pm; $39.50, service fees may apply

JUN 8

DJ JON VIRATA

ON THE ROCKS Karaoke Wednesdays hosted by ED; Every Wed, 9pm

JUN 9

69 AVE

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

For tickets and full listings TheRecRoom.com

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Guests and newcomers always welcome; every Wed, 7pm; $2 (donation, per person), free coffee available

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JUN 7

MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE Xavier

The Rec Room is owned by Cineplex Entertainment L. P.

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Karaoke

Wednesday

FESTIVAL PLACE Celtic Ceilidh;

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Lady Lynne

6:30pm; Tickets at Ticketmaster FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle Jam

Circle; 7:30-11:30pm

HAVE MERCY Outlaw Country Vinyl Night with Sheriff Taylor; Every 3rd Tue of the month • To-Do Tuesday: open mic night hosted

by Justin Perkins

SQUIRES PUB Rockzilla; 9:30pm;

Wednesdays; Every Wed, 7-11pm; Free

Inman with guests; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $10; 18+ only

HORIZON STAGE The Grand Country

ONLY THE GOOD STUFF OGS

LEAF BAR & GRILL Wang Dang

BLUES ON WHYTE FKB; 9pm

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

Barrett; 9pm

featuring with Tiff Hall; Every Wed, 8:30pm

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SEWING MACHINE FACTORY Richard

HAVE MERCY Bring Your Own Vinyl

Band; 7:30pm; $35 (adults), $30 (students/seniors)

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Al

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mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm

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BLUES ON WHYTE Carvin Jones

Metal Mondays with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox

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Band; 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop:

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WED JUN 13 Concert, with Sam Wolfe; 7:30pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door)

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ABBY K with Emmet Michael; 5:30pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door)

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Floor: DJ Zyppy with DJ Late Fee;

SIDELINER’S PUB Singer/

RICHARD'S PUB DJ Brad House

Insvrgence, Loser, Our Old Ways, Counted Among Saints, EYEL; 8pm; $10 (adv), $14 (door); 18+ only

Chris Bruce spins britpop/punk/ garage/indie; Every Tue

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, motown,

Fri-Sat

blackbyrd

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

DJs

Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Acoustic Music Jam & Dancing; 7-10pm

SUN JUN 10

SEWING MACHINE FACTORY Filth,

DJs

EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Taco Tuesday with

Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice; 9pm-2am

Dumpster Mummy, DoomsDay Grin; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $12

9pm

and up; 18+ only

HAVE MERCY Piano Karaoke

Y AFTERHOURS Live DJs; Every

RENDEZVOUS PUB Waking Mayhem,

ST ANDREW'S UNITED CHURCH

Band; Every Tue, 7:30-11pm UNION HALL Tory Lanez; 7pm; $49

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Karaoke

funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am

Hell-On

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Rusty Reed

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands every

Orchestra of Edmonton in Concert; 7pm; $25 (adult), $20 (students/seniors), plus fees

CD / LP

NEKO CASE

Gulkin with F&M and special guests; 8pm; $10; 18+only

Ukulele Circle; 6:30pm; Free

every Sat

10442 whyte ave 439.1273 10442 whyte ave 439.1273

SEWING MACHINE FACTORY Corey

ENVY NIGHT CLUB Resolution

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong

Jam; 3-7pm; Free • Jimmy Said So; 7:30pm

MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE Xavier Rudd; 7pm; $39.50, service fees may apply

the best in hip-hop, dance and classics; Every Fri-Sat, 9pm; No cover Saturdays: top 40, throwbacks and club anthems

LB'S PUB Crank; 9pm; No minors

SANDS INN & SUITES Open Jam;

humans with guests; 8pm; $20; 18+ only

tion presents Colours of Spring; 3pm; $20 (adults), $15 (students), $10 (kids 7-12), free (kids 6 and under)

music; 9pm

RICHARD’S PUB Live musician jam with live karaoke, hosted by the Ralph Pretz Band; Every Sun, 4-8pm

LB'S PUB Tuesday Night Open Jam

Hosted by Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge

and The Grinders; Every Wed, 7:30-11pm STARLITE ROOM Mother Mother

"O My Heart 10th Anniversary"; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $40; 18+ only TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke; 9pm UNION HALL Social Distortion; 7pm;

$50 (plus GST); 18+ only

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

DJ Late Fee; Every Wed

VENUEGUIDE ALIBI PUB & EATERY 17328 Stony Plain Rd ARIA'S BISTRO 10332-81 Ave, 780.972.4842, ariasbistro.com AVIARY 9314-111 Ave B-STREET BAR 11818-111 Ave BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne Street St. Albert BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BLVD SUPPER X CLUB 10765 Jasper Ave BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BRICK & WHISKEY PUBLIC HOUSE 8937-82 Ave CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580

CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTURY CASINO–EDMONTON 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT 24 Boudreau Rd, St. Albert, 780.460.8092 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn.com COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, music.ualberta.ca DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB 11113-87 Ave NW, devaneyspub.com DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR 8230 Gateway Blvd, elcortezcantina.com EMPRESS ALE HOUSE 9912-82 Ave NW ENVY NIGHT CLUB West Edmonton Mall, 8882 170 St

FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca THE FORGE ON WHYTE 1054982 Ave (Whyte Ave) GAS PUMP NIGHT CLUB & BAR 10166-114 St HAVE MERCY SOUTHERN TABLE + BAR 8232 Gateway Blvd, havemercy.ca HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave NW HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage. com L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR & GRILL 9016132 Ave MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE 8900-114 St NW NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave

ONLY THE GOOD STUFF 15135 Stony Plain Road ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St REC ROOM–SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON 1725-99 St NW REC ROOM–WEST EDMONTON MALL 8882-170 St NW RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD’S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3117 ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St NW ROGERS PLACE 10214-104 Ave ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton. com SEWING MACHINE FACTORY 9562-82 Ave SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018127 St SQUARE 1 COFFEE 15 Fairway Drive STARLIGHT CASINO 8882170 St ST. ANDREW'S UNITED CHURCH 9915-148 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH 10759-96 St TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TEMPLE–STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.428.1414 WOODRACK CAFE 7603109 St, 780. 757.0380, thewoodrackcafe.com Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com

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EVENTS

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GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS ADULT DANCE CLASSES • Quantum Leap Dance, 11232-163 St • 780.974.0309 • MON: Adult Tap, 7-8pm; Stretch & Strength with Jazz, 8-9:15pm • Wed: Floor Barre 6:45-7:45, Adult Ballet 7:45-9:15pm • Drop in Rate $15.75 (inc.

GST); 5, 10, 15 Class passes available

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm

AMITABHA KADAMPA BUDDHIST CENTRE • 9550-87 St • 780.235.8257 • info@ meditationedmonton.org • meditationedmonton. org • Weekly meditation classes and events. All welcome • Every Sun, Tue, Thu

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

CARROT COFFEE FRIENDSHIP CLUB • Carrot Coffeehouse, 9351-118 Ave • Have a cup of coffee with 55+ individuals single, divorced, or widowed who are looking to make new friends with neighbours in our local communities of: Delton, Eastwood, Parkdale – Cromdale, Westwood, Spruce Ave, and Alberta Avenue • Every Wed, 1-2pm

DROP-IN LARP • Jackie Parker Park • westernwinds.summerfrost.ca • Battle games and fighter practice using provided safe weapon boffer. An exciting way to get exercise while meeting new people with similar passions • Every Sat, 1:15pm • Free

DANCE CLASSES WITH GOOD WOMEN DANCE COLLECTIVE • Muriel Taylor Studio at

edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com

Ruth Carse Centre for Dance, 11205-107 Ave • info@goodwomen.ca • goodwomen.ca/classes • Every Tue, Thu, Fri; 10-11:30am • $15 (drop-in), $65 (5 class pack), $100 (10 class pack)

DEEPSOUL.CA • 780.217.2464; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Most Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins and Les Paul Standard; Pink Floyd-ish originals plus great covers of classics: some free; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) •

EDMONTON PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORIAL SOCIETY • Highlands Library • 780.436.3878 • edm_photographic_hist_society_2@yahoo. ca • All interested in sharing the joys of film photography, such as experiences or favourite equipment • 3rd Wed of the month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul & Aug)

FLAMENCO DANCE CLASSES (BEGINNER OR ADVANCED) • Dance Code Studio, 10575115 St NW • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@ gmail.com • flamencoenvivo.com • Every Sun until Jun 10, 11:30am-12:30pm

DOWNTOWN EDMONTON BOOK CLUB • Downtown Edmonton Community League, 10042103 St • facebook.com/declorg • Open to anyone who lives, works, or plays downtown and wants to meet new people, have great conversations, and read cool stuff • Every 2nd Wed, 7-8:30pm

DROP-IN D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10750-82 Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc.

For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue & Wed, 7pm • $5 (with drink purchase)

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 10728-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

OPEN DOOR COMIC CREATOR MEETINGS • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • 780.452.8211 • happyharborcomics.com • Open to any skill level. Meet other artists and writers, glean tricks of the trade and gain tips to help your own work, or share what you've already done • 2nd and 4th Thu of every month, 7pm

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

PAINTING FOR PLEASURE • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • karenbishopartist@ gmail.com • mcdougallunited.com • A weekly group for those who like to paint, draw or otherwise be creative on paper • Every Thu, 10am-noon SACRED CIRCLE DANCE • Riverdale Community Hall, 9231-100 Ave • edmontonsacredcircledance@gmail.com • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • 2nd Wed of the month (beginners), 4th Wed of the month (experienced), 7-9pm • $10

FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia

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

Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • 780.452.4661 • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta offers a variety of services and support programs for those who are living with the illness, family members, caregivers, and friends • 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm • Free

MILE ZERO DANCE DROP-IN DANCE & MOVEMENT CLASSES • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • 780.424.1573 • mzdsociety@gmail. com • milezerodance.com/classes • Mile Zero Dance holds a number of drop-in dance & movement classes for people of all experience levels & ages; Mon: Contact Improv (7-9pm); Tue: House/Hip Hop with Sekou (6-7pm), Butoh with Sonja Myllymaki (7-9pm); Wed: Noguchi Taiso (10-11:30am), Beginner Modern with Kathleen Hughes (6-7pm); Thu: Authentic Movement with Isabelle Rousseau (*Must pre-register*) (10am-12pm), Kids’ Dance with Jeannie Vandekerkhove (ages 3–5) (1-1:45pm) • $15 (regular drop-in), $12 (members drop-in), $15 (annual memberships), $100 (10-Class Card, which can be used for various classes. Purchase it at Eventbrite)

SUGAR FOOT STOMP! • Sugar Swing Ballroom, 10019-80 Ave NW • 587.786.6554 • dance@sugarswing.com • sugarswing.com • Swing dance social • Every Fri-Sat, 8pm (beginner lesson begins) • $12, $2 (lesson with entry) • All ages TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479-8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus.net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 9888 Jasper Ave. 10th floor; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:051pm • Foresters Toastmaster Club: SEESA, 9350-82 St; 587.596.5277; Every Tue, 7-8:30pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: norators. com; meet every Thu, 7pm • Norwood Toastmasters: Norwood Legion, 1115082 St NW; norwoodtoastmasters.ca; Every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); yclubtoastmasters@ gmail.com; Meet every Tue, 7-9pm

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St • cwaalberta@gmail.com • The Congrega tionalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm

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Eats on 118 Various Locations on 118 Ave Jun 13, Aug 29, 6-9pm

MONDAY MEET-UP • Hexagon Board Game Cafe, 10750-82 Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Meet new gamers. Go to the event solo or with a group • Every Mon, 5-11pm • $5 (one drink per person)

NEWSOUNDS

Tell Me How You Really Feel Courtney Barnett Mom + Pop Records

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hen Courtney Barnett released her full-length debut Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit in 2015, worldwide listeners became infatuated with her clever, deadpan lyrics and reverbsoaked guitar hooks. The album reached international acclaim and suddenly, everybody began paying attention to the spunky Australian who sounded like she had something to prove— even though she didn’t.

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Her newest collection of 10 songs Tell Me How You Really Feel is in the same vein as its predecessor, ripe with interpersonal stories and emotions Barnett chooses to share with her audience. The opening track “Hopefulessness” begins with a down-tuned riff that almost echoes Nirvana’s “School.” The song slowly burns as Barnett classically sings about the things that cling to her shoulders— self-doubt and cheeky, existential dread.

The second track “City Looks Pretty,” is much more upbeat, with a perfect example of Barnett’s laissez-faire vocal style meshed with a jumpy chord progression. The outro surprises you with a slower, bluesy, psych rock progression that easily transitions into a groovy tremolo guitar lead. Looks like Barnett took a few inspirations from “The Creature,” known as Kurt Vile, while they worked on their collaborative album Lotta Sea Lice.

Another stand-out track is “Need A Little Time,” which

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builds and builds until a grungy and fuzz-ringing crescendo. Then comes “Nameless, Faceless,” a track that utilizes all of Barnett’s habits—a minor keyed, but fidgety chord progression, coupled with brilliant, sardonic lyrics. For this particular track she flip-flops between singing one of Margaret Atwood’s well-known quotes: “Men are afraid women will laugh at them / Women are afraid that men will kill them,” in her own mellow style. Barnett is making a statement here, but she’s not shouting it. She does shout however, in the angsty, Black Flagesque “I’m Not Your Mother, I’m Not Your Bitch.” All in all, every song on Tell Me How You Really Feel has its own pleasing, sonic kernel. The ending track “Sunday Roast”—with it’s soft, watery guitar—is the perfect way to end the incisive album.

I envision Barnett’s latest being one the summer’s highest played, which is all she can really hope for.

Stephan Boissonneault stephan@vueweekly.com

WOMEN'S CRICKET • Coronation Park Cricket pitch (north part of park) • incogswomens@gmail.com • Learn the game of cricket.

The group plays for fun and no experience is necessary. Kids and men welcome • Every Sat, 6pm • $5 (drop-in fee, adult), free (kids) LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS HAVE YOU HAD A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE • Edmonton ECKANKAR Centre, 7209-101 Ave NW • 780.490.1129 • spiritualexperience. org • Experience more love, joy and inner peace.

Heal your emotions and body. Transform your life and discover who you are as Soul • Jun 10, 1-3pm • Free ECKANKAR’S Spiritual Experiences Guidebook for all guests

QUEER EDMONTON SENIORS CENTRE GLBTQ • Edmonton General Hospital - Edmonton Seniors Centre, 11111 Jasper Ave • office@edmontonseniorscentre.ca • edmontonseniorscentre. ca/lgbtq-support.html • A safe environment to share: education, stories, and activities • 1st and 3rd Mon of the month, 10:30am-12pm (in the boardroom) • Free G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.4235510 (Sage) • tuff69@telus.net • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Tue, 1-4pm PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 2nd Floor, 10618-105 Ave • Wheelchair-accessible elevator at 10610 105 Avenue • (780) 488-3234 • pridecentreofedmonton.org/calendar.html • OFFICE & DROP IN HOURS: Mon-Fri 12-7pm; Closed Sat-Sun and holidays • YOGA: (all ages), 2nd and 4th Mon of every month • TTIQ: (18+ Trans Group) 2nd Mon of every month, 7-9pm • TRANS YOUTH GROUP & PARENTS/CAREGIVERS SUPPORT: (24 and under) 3rd Mon of every month, 7-9pm • FIERCE FUN: (24 and under) Biweekly Tue, 7-9pm, games and activities for youth • JAMOUT: (12-24) Biweekly Tue, 7-8:30pm, music mentorship and instruction for youth • TWO SPIRIT GATHERING: 4th Wed of every month, 6-8pm, gathering for First Nations Two Spirit people • MEN’S SOCIAL CIRCLE: (18+) 1st and 3rd Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone masculineidentified • WOMEN’S SOCIAL CIRCLE: (18+) 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone feminineidentified • MOVIES & GAMES NIGHT: Biweekly Fri, 6-8:30pm • ARTS & IDENTITY: Biweekly Fri, 6-8:30pm • CREATING SAFER SPACES TRAINING: Interactive professional development workshops, with full or half-day options • QUEER YOUTH MENTORING: (Youth: 12–24) (Adults 26+)

PRIDE POP UP SHOP • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave NW • happyharborcomics.com • Featuring LGBTQ+ creators, artists and LGBTQ+ and Pride-themed wares • Jun 17, 11am-5pm STRAWBERRY DESSERT AND TEA • SAGE Cafè, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.423.5510 • Join GLBTQ Seniors celebrating

Pride Week with live performances, strawberry dessert and tea. Hosted by SAGES Over the Rainbow Group • Jun 14, 1-3:30pm

TEAM EDMONTON • Locations vary • teamedmonton.ca • LGBTQ2+ inclusive. Various sports and recreation activities. Events include: "Gayming", archery, swimming, floor hockey, volleyball, yoga, and more • Events are seasonal and can change, visit website for more details

YOGA WITH JENNIFER • 780.439.6950 • ThreeBattles.com • A traditional approach with lots of individual attention. Free introductory classes • Tue evenings & Sat mornings

Volunteers Wanted

Can You Read This?

Help Someone Who Can’t!

Various venues in Beaumont • beaumont.ab.ca • Activities include a parade, entertainment stage, trade show, petting zoo, horse competitions and more • Jun 15-17 • Most events are free (cost for the midway)

EATS ON 118 • Various Locations on 118 Ave • 780.760.9453 • wearewildheart.com • A guide will take participants along Alberta Avenue to discover a variety of dishes from some of the area's best restaurants • Jun 13, Aug 29, 6-9pm • $44 EDMONTON FILIPINO FIESTA • Borden

McIntyre Park (Gazebo Park), 8331-104 St • 780.425.5162 • info@edmontonstreetfest.com • edmontonstreetfest.com • For 6 days, StreetFest will feature the best of the best jugglers, magicians, circus performers, comedians, dancers and hula hoopers from around the world • Jul 10-15 • By donation

EDMONTON NIGHT MARKET • Alberta Aviation Museum, 11410 Kingsway Ave • jlsnightmarket.com • Whether you're looking to buy unique products, listen to live music, or eat great food you'll find a bustling space full of neighbours, families and friends browsing a variety of vendors • Jun 15-16

HASKIN CANOE SUNSET TOUR • Laurier to Capilano Park • 780.922.4324 • info@haskincanoe.ca • View the orange and red glow of the sun setting as you paddle on the still waters of the North Saskatchewan • Jun 15, Jun 20, Jun 22 • $50 (per person plus GST), $25 (youth 17 and under)

Northlands Park, 7515-118 Ave • porkapalooza. ca • Celebrating the culinary art of BBQ • Jun 16-17 • Free

PRIDE WEEK • Various locations throughout Edmonton • edmontonpride.ca • Celebrating LGBTQ2S+ communities • Jun 8-17 RAINBOW WINE TASTING • ASPECC, 12031-76 St • info@aspecc.ca • aspecc. ca/events • Enjoy wine tasting, cheese, fruit, and more • Jun 9, 7pm • Tickets avilable via ASPECC, Eventbrite or email

ST ALBERT PRIDE • Lions Park, St Albert • stalbertpride.ca • Food, entertainment, and a welcoming community in the heart of St Albert • Jun 16, 3pm SUSTAINIVAL • Servus Corporate Centre, South Edmonton Common, 151 Karl Clark Rd • sustainival.com • The world’s first green carnival is back with games, attractions, and ride powered by renewable energy • Jun 8-11, 11am11pm (ends at 6 pm on Sun) • $30 plus fees

WHISKY BELLES 2ND ANNUAL CHARITY WHISKY TASTING EVENT • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • whiskybelles@gmail. com • Whisky is best enjoyed with a group of friends–and strangers we've not yet met. There are stories to be told, drams to drink, and silent auction prizes galore. Happy Harbor has been exploring a range of new whiskies lately and hope guests will enjoy the selection curated for this tasting • Jun 16, 6:30-9pm • $52.88 ($50 donation to e4c Alberta and $2.88 Eventbrite fee)

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Call for Artists - The Paint Spot is seeking artists to create portraits of their pets for the Big, Big Pet Portrait Show!

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Summer Camps for Kids (and kids at heart!) Artelier Studios, Edmonton newest art hub, is running art classes for kids all summer to provide young artists with some mad skills they can expand as they grow as artists. The camps start July 3 and run until August 24. Two of the eight camps provide the opportunity for a parent or grandparent to take part with their child.

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I’ve been married to my husband for two years. Five months into our relationship (before we got married), he confessed that he was an adult baby. I was so grossed out, I was literally ill.

(Why would this great guy want to be like this?) I told him he would have to choose: diapers or me. He chose me. I believed him and married him. Shortly before the birth of our child, I found out that he’d been looking at diaper porn online. I lost it. He apologized and said he’d never look at diaper porn again. Once I was free to have sex again after the birth, it was like he wasn’t into it.

When I asked what the deal was, he told me he wasn’t into sex because diapers weren’t involved.

I broke down, and he agreed to talk to a counselor. But on the day we were supposed to go, he was mad about every little thing I did and then said he wasn’t going! I went crazy and called his mom and told her everything, and she said she found a diaper under his bed when he was 7! After this crisis, he agreed to work things out, but then I found adult-size diapers in the house— and not for the first time! I took a picture and sent it to him, and he told me that he was tired of me controlling him and he is going to do this when he wants. He also said he was mad at me for telling his mom. I told him no, absolutely not, he cannot do this.

Then I found adult-size diapers in the house again this morning and freaked out. He says he never wants to discuss diapers with me again, and I’m afraid he might choose them over me! Please give me advice on how to make him understand that this is not him! This is who he chooses to be! And he doesn’t have to be this way!

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First, MADDL, let’s calmly discuss this with a shrink.

“There’s a fair bit of controversy over whether people can suppress fetishistic desires like this—and whether it’s healthy to ask them to do so,” said Dr. David Ley, a clinical psychologist, author, and AASECT-certified sex therapist. “Personally, I believe in some cases, depending on the support of their environment and personal relationships, it is possible, but only when these desires are relatively mild in intensity.”

Your husband’s interest in diapers—which would seem to go all the way back to at least age 7—can’t be described as mild.

“Given the apparent strength and persistence of her husband’s interest, I think it unlikely that suppression could ever be successful,” said Dr. Ley. “In this case, I think MADDL’s desire for her husband to have sexual desires she agrees with in order for her to be married to him is a form of sexual extortion, i.e., ‘If you love me and want to be with me, you’ll give up this sexual interest that I find disgusting.’ Without empathy, mutual respect, communication, unconditional love, and willingness to negotiate and accommodate compromises and win-win solutions, this couple is doomed, regardless of diapers under the bed.”

Now let’s bring in a voice you rarely hear when diaper fetishists are being discussed: an actual diaper fetishist.

“The common misconception with ABDL (adult baby diaper lovers) is that they are into inappropriate things—like having an interest in children—and this couldn’t be more wrong,” said Pup Jackson, a twentysomething diaper lover and kink educator. “AB is not always sexual. Sometimes it’s a

way for a person to disconnect from their adult life and become someone else. With DLs, they aren’t necessarily into age play—they enjoy diapers and the way they feel, much like people enjoy rubber, Lycra, or other materials. To understand her husband, MADDL needs to ask questions about why her husband enjoys diapers and figure out how to deal with it— because a lot of people want/ need these kinds of outlets in their life.”

Okay, MADDL, now it’s time for me to share my thoughts with you, but—Christ almighty—I hardly know where to begin.

“Great guys” can be into diapers; this is not who your husband “chooses to be,” since people don’t choose their kinks any more than they choose their sexual orientation; outing your husband to his mother was unforgivable and could ultimately prove to be a fatalto-your-marriage violation of trust; a counselor isn’t going to be able to reach into your husband’s head and yank out his kink. (“I absolutely hate that therapists are seen as sexual enforcers who are supposed to carve away any undesirable sexual interests and make people ‘normal,’” said Dr. Ley.) You’re clearly not interested in understanding your husband’s kink, per Pup Jackson’s advice, nor are you open to working out an accommodation that allows your husband to explore his kink on his own, per Dr. Ley’s advice. Instead you’ve convinced yourself that if you pitch a big enough fit, your husband will choose a spouse who makes him feel terrible about himself over a kink that gives him pleasure.

And that’s not how this is going to play out.

Your husband told you he was into diapers before he married

you—he laid his kink cards on the table at five months, long before you scrambled your DNA together—and he backed down when you freaked out. He may have thought he could choose you over his kink, MADDL, but now he knows what Dr. Ley could’ve told you two before the wedding: Suppressing a kink just isn’t possible. So if you can’t live with the diaper lover you married—if you can’t accept his kink, allow him to indulge it on his own, and refrain from blowing up when you stumble onto any evidence—do that diaperloving husband of yours a favour and divorce him.

Follow Dr. David Ley on Twitter @DrDavidLey and Pup Jackson on Twitter @pupjacksonbitez.

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ITMFA T-shirts and tanks—and buttons and hats and lapel pins—are a great conversation starter. Wear one to a party or bar or parade, and people will ask you what ITMFA stands for—and then you get to tell them: Impeach the motherfucker already! (If they laugh, take them home! If they frown, tell them off!) All proceeds from the sale of ITMFA merch goes to the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the International Refugee Assistance Project.

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I’m a 33-year-old man, and for years I’ve practiced edging. Recently I’ve experimented with long-term edges, where I’ll withhold coming for days or weeks while still maintaining a daily masturbation practice. I love living on that horny edge, and I’ve even learned to love the ache in my balls. But is this safe? Am I setting myself up for prostate/testicular trouble down the road?

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you would be wise to ruffle and revise your relationship with time. It would be healthy for you to gain more freedom from its relentless demands; to declare at least some independence from its oppressive hold on you; to elude its push to impinge on every move you make. Here’s a ritual you could do to spur your imagination: Smash a timepiece. I mean that literally. Go to the store and invest $20 in a hammer and alarm clock. Take them home and vociferously apply the hammer to the clock in a holy gesture of pure, righteous chastisement.

Who knows? This bold protest might trigger some novel ideas about how to slip free from the imperatives of time for a few stolen hours each week.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Promise me that you won’t disrespect, demean, or neglect your precious body in the coming weeks. Promise me that you will treat it with tender compassion and thoughtful nurturing.

Give it deep breaths, pure water, healthy and delicious food, sweet sleep, enjoyable exercise, and reverential sex. Such veneration is always recommended, of course—but it’s especially crucial for you to attend to this noble work during the next four weeks. It’s time to renew and revitalize your commitment to your soft, warm animal self.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Between 1967 and 1973, NASA used a series of Saturn V rockets to deliver six groups of American astronauts to the moon. Each massive vehicle weighed about 6.5-million pounds. The initial thrust required to launch it was tremendous. Gas mileage was seven inches per gallon. Only later, after the rocket flew farther from the grip of Earth’s gravity, did the fuel economy improve.

I’m guessing that in your own life, you may be experiencing something like that seven-inchesper-gallon feeling right now. But I guarantee you won’t have to push this hard for long.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Mars, the planet that rules animal vitality and instinctual enthusiasm, will cruise through your astrological house of synergy for much of the next five months. That’s why I’ve concluded that between now and mid-November, your experience of togetherness can and should reach peak expression. Do you want intimacy to be robust and intense, sometimes bordering on rambunctious? It will be if you want it to be. Adventures in collaboration will invite you to wander out to the frontiers of your understanding about how relationships work best.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Which astrological sign laughs hardest and

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longest and most frequently? I’m inclined to speculate that Sagittarius deserves the crown, with Leo and Gemini fighting it out for second place. But having said that, I suspect that in the coming weeks you Leos could rocket to the top of the chart, vaulting past Sagittarians. Not only are you likely to find everything funnier than usual, I bet you will also encounter more than the usual number of authentically humourous and amusing experiences. (P.S.: I hope you won’t cling too fiercely to your dignity, because that would interfere with your full enjoyment of the cathartic cosmic gift.)

Scrambling to herd it safely back outside, I knocked my iPad on the floor, which somehow caused it to open a link to a Youtube video of an episode of the TV game show Wheel of Fortune, where the hostess Vanna White, garbed in a long red gown, revealed that the word puzzle solution was “use it or lose it.” So what does this omen mean? Maybe this: You’ll be surprised by a more-orless delightful interruption that compels you to realize that you had better start taking greater advantage of a gift or blessing that you’ve been lazy or slow to capitalize on.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, a little extra egotism might be healthy for you right now. A surge of super-confidence would boost your competence; it would also fine-tune your physical well-being and attract an opportunity that might not otherwise find its way to you.

So, for example, consider the possibility of renting a billboard on which you put a giant photo of yourself with a tally of your accomplishments and a list of your demands. The cosmos and I won’t have any problem with you bragging more than usual or asking for more goodies than you’re usually content with.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re in a phase when you’ll be smart to bring more light and liveliness into the work you do.

To spur your efforts, I offer the following provocations. 1: “When I work, I relax. Doing nothing makes me tired.” – Pablo Picasso. 2: “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.”

– Ann Landers. 3: “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle. 4: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams.

5: “Working hard and working smart can sometimes be two different things.” – Byron Dorgan. 6: “Don’t stay in bed unless you can make money in bed.”

– George Burns. 7: “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.” – Mark Twain.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming weeks will be a favourable time for happy endings to sad stories, and for the emergence of efficient solutions to convoluted riddles. I bet it will also be a phase when you can perform some seemingly clumsy magic that dispatches a batch of awkward karma. Hooray! Hallelujah! Praise goo! But now listen to my admonition, Libra: The coming weeks won’t be a good time to toss and turn in your bed all night long thinking about what you might have done differently in the month of May. Honour the past by letting it go.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Dear Dr. Astrology: In the past four weeks, I have washed all 18 of my underpants four times.

Without exception, every single time, each item has been insideout at the end of the wash cycle.

This is despite the fact that most of them were not inside-out when I threw them in the machine. Does this weird anomaly have some astrological explanation? – UpsideDown Scorpio.” Dear Scorpio: Yes. Lately your planetary omens have been rife with reversals, inversions, flip-flops, and switchovers.

Your underpants situation is a symptom of the bigger forces at work. Don’t worry about those bigger forces, though. Ultimately, I think you’ll be glad for the renewal that will emerge from the various turnabouts.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As I sat down to meditate on your horoscope, a hummingbird flew in my open window.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “There isn’t enough of anything as long as we live,” said poet and short-story writer Raymond Carver. “But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance, prevails.” My reading of the astrological omens suggests that the current phase of your cycle is one of those intervals, Aquarius. In light of this grace period, I have some advice for you, courtesy of author Anne Lamott: “You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction.

You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then.” Surrender to the sweetness, dear Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Between you and your potential new power spot is an imaginary 10 foot-high, electrified fence. It’s composed of your least charitable thoughts about yourself and your rigid beliefs about what’s impossible for you to accomplish. Is there anything you can do to deal with this inconvenient illusion?

I recommend that you call on Mickey Rat, the cartoon superhero in your dreams who knows the difference between destructive destruction and creative destruction. Maybe as he demonstrates how enjoyable it could be to tear down the fence, you’ll be inspired to join in the fun.

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