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'Seen, understood, and not alone' Filmmaker of A Womb of Their Own talks about masculine pregnancy

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he Pride Centre of Edmonton’s Queer Women and Trans Fest returns for a third year this week. This year, the event partnered with Metro Cinema and Edmonton Pride Festival to present a mini film fest on June 17 and 18. On the screen at 4 pm Saturday is In the Turn, which recounts a 10-year-old transgender girl’s struggles with prejudice in the sports world and is followed by a panel discussion.

On Sunday at 1 pm is A Womb of Their Own, which explores masculineof-centre-identified people who experience pregnancy. This film will be followed by a panel with the filmmaker Cyn Lubow in attendance.

I had a chance to connect with Cyn over email to chat about the film.

Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

Vue Weekly: Can you tell me about the genesis of the film?

Cyn Lubow: In looking for the topic of my next film, I thought it would be

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helpful to study gender beyond the transgender conversation already happening (this was in 2013). I loved helping people with internal conflicts as a psychotherapist and wanted to help people on a larger scale through film.

I wanted to push the conversation beyond male/female/transwoman/ transman to non-binary, self-defined gender that is inclusive of everyone.

As a mix of masculine and feminine, I didn't know how to fit with either cis or transgender people. I broke the rules in both groups. So I wanted to create space and normalization for those of us who are not any of those four genders, and I thought I could do it by pairing pregnancy with masculine identity

and undermining any limiting assumptions people might make. Since I experienced that pairing myself, I knew some of the challenges it brings to cultural expectations, certainly within cisgender heterosexual communities, but even within LGBT communities.

CL: Surprisingly (knock on wood) I have not gotten any hate (yet?)! I have certainly gotten some confusion and seen some minds blown, but that is what I was going for. Genderqueer people have come up to me after the film in tears, because it was such a relief to see themselves reflected back to them—something cisgender heterosexuals get every time they watch media, but genderqueer people may never get.

Others have thanked me for making them think and making it enjoyable, even as they had to shift through some discomfort about such things as, for example, seeing a bearded pregnant person.

I hope they feel the euphoria of delighting in their true nature, with a break from pressures to be anything else.

VW: Although there has been a growing conversation in the mainstream (and I’d include cisgender gays and lesbians in here) about masculine pregnancy, it still feels relatively new.

What has been the reaction to the film so far?

VW: What is one thing you hope audi-

ences take away from the film?

CL: It depends on the audience. For people who identify with the subjects in the film, I hope they leave feeling seen, understood, and not alone. I hope they feel the euphoria of delighting in their true nature, with a break from pressures to be anything else. For birth professionals, I hope the film gives them a felt sense of being with queer people and families in a way that helps them feel more at ease when queer families want to work with them, and that it inspires them to continue to educate themselves or affirms the consciousness they’re already bringing to their work.

I hope everyone thinks more about limiting beliefs and feelings that oppress your own or other people's true nature and work with what you discover so that it can yield to acceptance, including self-acceptance.

A full review of A Womb of Their Own can be read on page 11.

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Fifty-year war

Ideological and geographical battles continue to rage through history

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s Israeli columnist Gideon Levy wrote recently in the daily haaretz: “In retrospect, it should be called the fifty-year war, not the sixday war. And judging by the political situation, its life expectancy appears endless.”

Last week was the 50th anniversary of the brief war in 1967 that added the Old City of Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Golan Heights and the Gaza Strip to the Israeli state, increasing the area ruled by Israel by one-third and the population under its control by more than a third. But the problem was, and remains, that the entire new population was Arabs—Palestinians, to be precise.

No Israeli Jew actually wanted all those extra Arabs, but it turned out that quite a few of them did want the extra land. They hadn’t thought about it much before 1967, because ever since the Independence War in 1948 Israelis had seen themselves as a small, beleaguered people at constant risk of being “driven into the sea” by the Arabs. But now they knew that they were strong enough to keep the land if they wanted to.

The Arab armies were poorly trained and badly led, and they served governments so incompetent that, despite an overall 10-to-one Arab su-

periority in population, Israeli troops actually outnumbered Arab soldiers on the battlefield in 1967 (and in every subsequent war). Israel emerged from the Six-Day War as the dwarf superpower of the Middle East, unbeatable by any combination of Arab states. And the Arabs knew it.

That was an intoxicating notion for Israelis, and the new territories actually added to their security by giving them some “strategic depth”.

(Before they captured the West Bank, Israel was only 14 km wide at its narrowest point.) Moreover, the West Bank had been part of historic Israel 2,000 years ago and many Israelis saw it as land sacred to the Jews.

Israel also conquered the entire Sinai peninsula, twice the size of all the other Israeli-ruled areas old and new, but the Sinai had never been part of historic Israel; it had been Egytian for 5,000 years. It was also mostly empty desert, and within 12 years Is-

rael had given it all back to Egypt in return for a peace treaty. there were many in Israel—they were even the majority at various points between 1975 and 1995— who wanted to make peace with the country’s other Arab neighbours by giving them back the rest of the conquered territories. But most of those

fairly low-key event, with only dozens or hundreds killed each year, but it is unrivalled in its ability to stymie all attempts at a peaceful settlement.

Only three months after the 1967 war ended, Amos Oz, later to become one of Israel’s most celebrated writers, wrote: “We are condemned now to rule people who do not want to be ruled by us. I have fears about the kind of seeds we will sow in the near future in the hearts of the occupied.

Even more, I have fears about the seed that will be planted in the hearts of the occupiers.”

How right he was.

The newspaper he wrote that in, Davar, died long ago. The Labour Party it supported, which dominated Israeli politics for the first three decades after independence, is now a mere shadow of its former self. Instead, the political high ground is held by ultranationalist, hard-right parties that are in thrall to the half-million-strong Jewish “settler” population in the occupied Palestinian territories.

No Israeli Jew actually wanted all those extra Arabs, but it turned out that quite a few of them did want the extra land.

lands had been part of historic Israel, and returning them to Arab control would bring back the dangerously close old borders as well.

Jews started settling throughout the conquered lands with tacit and later, open government support, to the utter dismay of the Palestinians who saw their future state disappearing before their eyes, and the FiftyYear War began. It has mostly been a

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Most Israelis want to keep these lands, including some extremists who would kill or die to keep them (like Yigal Amir, who in 1995 murdered Yitzhak Rabin, the last Israeli prime minister to enter into serious negotiations with the Palestinians).

No Israelis want to include the Palestinians in these territories into Israel as citizens. If they ever did, half the voters in the next election would be Arabs, and Israel would no longer be a “Jewish state”. But they can’t get rid of those Palestinians either without committing a horrendous crime.

So they are stuck, and Israeli politics has been paralysed for the past 20 years. The man who has led Israel for more than half that time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, epitomises that paralysis. He says he wants peace, and no doubt he really does— but he also wants to keep the land, or at least most of it, and his coalition government would collapse if he ever seriously considered giving it back.

The great majority of Jewish Israelis, living in “old” Israel within the pre1967 borders, rarely focus on this question, but they would be just as divided and paralysed if they ever had to answer it. This is not the end of the Fifty-Year War. It may just be the midpoint in the Hundred-Year War. up front 3

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Mexican grocer reemerges as colourful, flavourful authentic restaurant on 124th Street

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efore El Mariachi became 124 Street’s one and only Mexican restaurant, it was my go-to place for Mexican groceries—primarily ingredients for homemade chili powder, but also tortillas, hot sauce and the occasional frozen pupusa. Back then it would have been hard to imagine it as restaurant. There was nothing particularly decorative about its utilitarian shelves and glass-doored coolers, as well as its apparent no-eye-contact policy with patrons who didn’t know their ancho from their arbol.

After a lengthy chrysalis stage where the front window was swathed in brown paper and groceries could only be had through the side door, El Mariachi relaunched at the beginning of May as a full-blown restaurant

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with a little grocery nook in the back.

And it’s fair to say it might be competing for the title of most colourful restaurant in Edmonton. All of the table tops and chair backs are hand-painted (in Mexico—I asked) with folksy scenes in most of the hues available to the human eye. Cacti, sombreros, guitars, serapes and other trappings of the mariachi lifestyle are rendered on embossed wood in lively detail. It’s quite impressive.

No less impressive is the array of authentic Mexican cuisine laid out on the menu. While there were many items I had not made acquaintance of—including some fabulous and unique-sounding seafood dishes in the $22 range—I was tantalized by the sight of enchiladas enmoladas ($16.99) and my co-diner could not resist the allure of fish tacos ($11.99 for four). Had I needed to make a second choice, I probably would have delved into El Mariachi’s list of tortas—hearty Mexican bunwiches with refried beans, avocado and succulent slabs of meat. Next time.

(Also next time: we’ll avoid the booth in the northwest corner of the restaurant directly under a TV, which at the time was playing a concert by Hispanic-American pop star Romeo Santos.)

The no-eye-contact policy seems to have been suspended as well, as our server was attentive and friendly. She was quick to deliver a complimentary basket of housemade tortilla chips with roasted tomato salsa, and wasted no time retrieving a glass of horchata ($2.99) from the huge glass jug on the counter. Horchata is a beverage made of milk, almonds, rice and cinnamon that has no right to be as refreshing as it is, and El Mariachi’s version was nice and sweet. I could have gone for a cerveza myself, but it looks like, at present, the establiment is not licenced.

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The house makes a variety of hot sauces—six to be exact—that they present with each meal. There were salsas made from roasted peppers, tomatillos, roasted tomatoes, regular tomatoes and a couple I couldn’t readily identify, each with its unique flavour profile and spice level. Experience has taught me that yellow generally means “proceed with caution” in the realm of Mexican hot sauces.

We’d just finished sampling the hot sauces and chips (and trying to cool the resulting burn with horchata) when the entrees arrived (on plates embossed with El Mariachi branding, no less). Co-diner’s tacos were itty bitty after the fashion of Tres Carnales but there were four, doublelayered corn tortillas topped with golden nuggets of fried whitefish served with cilantro, onions, cabbage slaw and lime wedges, and they filled her up.

My portion of enchiladas in mole was very generous—four tortillas stuffed with shredded chicken, smothered in rich, dark mole sauce and topped with cheese, spears of white onion and sesame seeds, with creamy refried beans and rice on the side. Mole is notoriously ingredientand labour-intensive and though I’ve always known that cocoa was part of the preparation, I’ve never had mole that tasted so chocolatey. The balance of cumin, cinnamon, chilies and who knows what all else quelled my initial reservations.

We also enjoyed an order of chips with their chunky guacamole ($7.99), wherein the avocado was mashed up with diced onion, tomato, cilantro and lime. I’d call it a promising, if not astonishing, intro to El Mariachi’s new incarnation. Hopefully they can find their niche in Edmonton’s increasingly crowded Mexican food marketplace.

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ARTS Belinda Cornish, Robert Benz and Nadien Chu of The Merry Wives of Windsor // Supplied photo

Freewill Shakespeare Festival incorporates the disco era for upcoming season

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side from fearless squirrels who won’t hesitate to steal your popcorn, the Freewill Shakespeare Festival pairs two vastly different plays together and draws out the commonalities between them.

Last year was the summer of love (Romeo and Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost). The year before featured the summer of exiles (Coriolanus and As You Like It). This year, the festival has moved away from its comedy/tragedy dichotomy and instead brings us two plays that both break from Shakespearean convention: The Merchant of Venice and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

“They’re both really quirky,” says festival director Marianne Copithorne. “I would say that Romeo and Juliet has got a super straightforward arc. And I look at Hamlet that way too, and even Othello. But these ones are just tricky, quirky, bizarre little plays.”

Famous for its dramatic “Hath not a Jew eyes?” monologue and its morally ambiguous ending, The Merchant of Venice combines the light-hearted courtship of Portia and Bassanio with the racial conflict between wealthy merchant Antonio and Jewish moneylender Shylock.

“It’s a really strange comedy,” Copithorne says. “It’s not really a comedy—and it’s not really a romance— because of the whole Shylock story.”

In order to make that weight even more resonant to contemporary audiences, Copithorne chose to set the production in a more modern time period where anti-Semitism was on the rise—1939, just before Italy was torn apart by the Second World War. “Mussolini’s fascist regime was very strong, but the local Jewish population was pretty safe until he started to chum up with Hitler,” Copithorne says. “All of a sudden it felt like he had to lay down some strong sanctions.”

The Merchant of Venice is controversial because it’s unclear whether it’s supporting anti-Semitism or disputing it.

“I want to make it really clear that the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, and myself, totally believe that this is not an anti-Semitic play, but that it’s a play that deals with anti-Semitism,” Copithorne says.

Aside from its focus on racism, Copithorne’s production also explores the dangers of marrying for money instead of love—a theme that’s equally present in The Merry Wives of Windsor.

A more straightforward farce, Merry Wives follows the foibles of the fat old knight Sir John Falstaff, who tries to woo two married women away from their husbands. Its director, Ashley Wright, chose to set his play in the 1970's disco era.

“It’s one of Shakespeare’s only plays that deals with the emerging middle class,” Wright says. “John Falstaff is a Sir, and he’s knighted. But there’s not that same sort of hierarchy as in pretty much all of his other plays.”

Originally set in the suburbs of London, Merry Wives is unique in its focus on bored housewives rather than princes or noblemen—something that reminded Wright of his childhood in the 1970s.

“I grew up in a suburb of Vancouver, and everyone had a rec room. Everyone had all the disco records, and a fun thing to do on a Friday or a Saturday night was all the adults would get together and drink way too much and do disco dancing until all hours of the morning … It was an interesting release just before Reaganomics and all that stuff in the ‘80s came along.”

Both directors are positioning their plays right on the verge of big historical shifts. As for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival itself, it’s not planning on changing any time soon—despite the recent debate about whether Alberta Education should remove Shakespeare from English classes.

“There’s a little bit of a controversy this year about ‘Oh should schools continue to have Shakespeare in the curriculum?’ Well of course they will,” Copithorne says.

“They will until the end of time, because why would it stop 400 years later? There are some people that find it boring and awful and they couldn’t care less, but there’s a huge population in this world who continue to be fascinated by it. And they still keep coming.”

Tue., June 20 - Sun., July 16 Freewill Shakespeare Festival Hawrelak Park, $30, $50 festival pass (two shows)

Belinda Cornish and John Wright of The Merchant of Venice // Supplied photo

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Candid creations at Citadel Improvaganza offers unique experience, never to be repeated

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he 17th annual Improvaganza is back with its unplanned, unscripted and completely spontaneous comedic antics. Presented by Rapid Fire Theatre (RFT), Improvaganza is Edmonton’s international improv and sketch comedy festival, featuring top improvisors from around the world.

RFT has recruited 18 of the finest acts in comedy for 10 days of hilarity from June 14 to 24 at the Citadel Theatre. For Canada’s sesquicentennial, Improvaganza’s roster features incredible acts from both Canada and around the world.

This year’s hometown headliner, CBC’s The Irrelevant Show, got their big break in Edmonton nearly a decade ago.

“Our pilot was back in 2008, but it had kind of existed in other forms before that,” says Mark Meer, an Edmonton-based writer, actor and performer on all previous incarnations of The Irrelevant Show.

“I have been with RFT for 25 years.

Actually, this is my 25th anniversary, because I joined in 1992 ... It is great to be doing a sketch show at Improvaganza,” says Meer.

Year after year, improvisational artists come to perform in Edmonton because RFT nurtures exploration and collaboration.

Matt Schuurman, RFT’s artistic director, said “Having The Irrelevant Show headline is a nice local connection. All of the folks that are in the cast of the show all got their start at RFT.”

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Citadel Theatre, $15 single ticket or $175 for a festival pass rapidfiretheatre.com

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Bring them and share your stories.

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Improvaganza 2017 acts include: The Sunday Service (Vancouver) Broke Gravy (Portland) Ladies & Gentlemen (Montreal) Speechless (Bogata/Winnipeg) IGLU (LJubljana, Slovenia) K$M (Toronto) Reckless Theater (New York)

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Lessons from Under the Influence - Terry O’reilly

5. Ministry of Utmost Happiness Arundhati Roy 6. Black Apple - Joan Crate * 7.

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Pemmican Eaters Marilyn Dumont *

8. Beren and Luthien - J.R.R. Tolkien 9. Son of a Trickster - Eden Robinson

Special event on July 1st from 1-4 PM: Create your own slides. Open to all ages.

10. Mitewacijmowina: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling - Neil McLeod, ed.

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suggestions from the audience that have a Canadian flavour to them.

“Due to the nature of the beast, every single show is completely different from the next; never to be repeated again,” says Schuurman.

If you check out this boisterous and spontaneous comedy party you may become part of the act.

Improvaganza features a big headliner show, The Best of CBC’s The Irrelevant Show Live, on the first Thursday of the festival in the MacLab Theatre

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in the Citadel. They will be performing their best skits and sketches from over a decade of Canadian content.

One of the international acts, the IGLU Theatre troupe from LJubljana, Slovenia, was founded by three friends, Juš Milčinski, Vid Sodnik and Peter Frankl, in 2013. It will be their first time performing at Improvaganza as a collective.

“The appeal of Improvaganza is big in Europe. It's one of the biggest improv festivals in Canada,” says Milčinski. “It always has an excellent festival cast and shows that represent modern improv trends. We wanted to apply to the festival for some time now and we're really happy that we'll be there this year.”

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Cityscapes in Mating Season Lise Gaston *

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The Lesser Blessed Richard Van Camp *

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Dolphin Parent - A Guide to Raising Healthy, Happy and Self-Motivated Kids - Shimi K. Kang MD

2. Writing Menopause: An Anthology of Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction Jane Cawthorne *, E,D, Morin * 3. A Brillian Idea Every 60 Seconds - Michael Kryton * 4. This I Know: Marketing

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5. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World - Peter Wohileben, Tim Flannery, Steve Sackett * 6. Into the Fire The Fight to Save Ft. McMurray - Jerron Hawlwy *, Graham Hurley *, Steve Sackett * 7.

Welcome to Radio! - Bob Layton *

8. Inside the Inferno: A Firefighter’s Story of the Brotherhood that Saved Fort McMurray - Damian Asher *, Omar Mouallem * 9. Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy - Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant 10. Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations - Richard Wagamese * ALBERTA AUTHOR + ALBERTA PUBLISHER List compiled by Audreys Books and the Book Publishers Association of Alberta

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First Nations celebrations

Inclusive broadcast brings Canada together for National Aboriginal Day

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nnually, on June 21, Canada recognizes National Aboriginal Day as a way of celebrating the cultures, heritage and achievements of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. This year the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) is bringing Aboriginal Day Live to Edmonton with a full day of musical performances, demonstrations and ceremonies.

“There’s so much to celebrate and so many people to recognize this year.

We’re excited to bring this event to everyone from coast to coast,” says Lisa Squire, director of marketing at APTN. “It’s about having a conversation with all Canadians and being out there in the community in celebration. Making this a day about celebration and the achievements and how far we’ve come as aboriginal people and showcasing our talents. But in the spirit of reconciliation it’s open to everybody; we welcome everyone to be part of that.”

The lineup of entertainment begins with a Sacred Fire Ceremony by an elder who will be on-site all day tending to the fire until sunset. Once you’ve taken in the early-morning solstice celebration, you can wander around immersing yourself in Inuit, Métis and First Nations culture at one of the

three experience sites. Be sure to explore the tipi village, taste traditional foods and learn about trapping before heading over to the main stage for a traditional round dance and pow wow.

The traditional round dance ceremony happens simultaneously across the country, making it Canada’s largest round dance ever. It will broadcast live at 11:24 am MST. “We’re excited to do the round dance in solidarity with all the other cities,” says Squire.

The Aboriginal Day Live event started in 2007 and traditionally rotates through cities across the nation but this year, through Canada 150 funding and other major sponsors, APTN is hosting the live event on eight stages, with more than 70 performances across the entire country, including Edmonton. This is the second time the Aboriginal Day Live event is hosted in Edmonton, the first was in 2015.

“We wanted to bring it back to Edmonton in this commemorative year to celebrate this with Edmonton,” says Squire. “Within our Edmonton lineup we have local First Nations Inuit and Métis people who are taking the stage from all different genres and backgrounds.”

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Aboriginal Day Live will be held at Victoria Park. Please note there is no on-site parking; however, there will be park and ride available with pickup lots located at Remax Field, Windsor Car Park, and the Health Sciences LRT station.

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Wed., June 21 APTN Aboriginal Day Victoria Park

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Open Mic Slam Poetry w/ Eitan // Tues., June 20 (7 PM) Breath In Poetry is hosting an open mic featuring 2016 National Slam Champion Eitan.

All the way from Guelph (pronounced Gwelf), Eitan is one part musician and another part word-house. His message is love, peace and community and ties all three together with a passion that is something to behold.

Fun fact: Guelph was founded by the poet/playwright/author John Galt, who was friends with Lord Byron and the English Gothic writers (thanks Scotty). Talk about lineage. (Massawa Café & Bistro, $5)

DEDfest Tough as Fuck International Action Film Festival. // Fri., June 16 to Sat., June 17 The inaugural DEDfest action film festival (TFIAFF) is a celebration of car chases, punches to the faces, and bad guys getting what they deserve.

Full of retro mayhem, new indie action, international movies, and dynamite short films, the TFIAFF will kick your mind in the face.

The lineup includes Rolling Thunder, Death Proof, Hot Fuzz, Hard Boiled, and The Man from Death (short film).(Metro Cinema, $40 for full access or $18 (buddy

pass) for two tickets to one film or single tickets to separate films) National Aboriginal Day // Wed., June 21 (10 AM to 5 PM) Hosted by The Canadian Native Friendship Centre, this is a celebration of the diversity found within Amiskwaskahikan (Cree for Edmonton). Workshops, music, food, and Canada’s largest round dance are all on the schedule.

For those who have never seen a rounddance before, it is visually and intimately stunning. For those who have, you know what I’m talking about. (Victoria Park, free)

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Gretzky wears Warhol

Pop-art collection streams in galleries across Canada

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he Great One, Wayne Gretzky, is ubiquitous with the city of Edmonton since his record-setting career with the Oilers. A Gretzky encounter is not uncommon in the city, especially now that he's joined the Oilers franchise in an executive role as vice chairman and partner.

But for many across the country, an up close and personal chance to see Gretzky was rare.

The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA), along with two other Canadian art galleries, are trying to change that by marrying pop art and technology to provide visitors with the opportunity to view a collection while sharing the experience with others who are thousands of kilometres away.

A live simulcast is set up in the exhibition rooms where the great Canadian icon’s portraits hang.

Anyone who is taking in the art can share their experience live with their fellow art consumers despite being somewhere else. The galleries participating include the AGA, The Rooms in St. John’s, N.L.; and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, in Charlottetown, N.B. “It’s a wonderful time for us to

talk about how images are shared with the help of technology," says Laura Ritchie, head of Exhibitions and Collections Management and spokesperson for the exhibition.

"When we think about what the internet does for moving images around the world so quickly, and when we think about how the popularity of celebrities and the icon status of celebrities is helped by technology, that aspect of images being transmitted goes back a really long way but became really popular with Andy Warhol and his practice of repetitive imagery of icons.” She adds, “The simulcast makes the world a little bit smaller in the same way that this famed print unites us.”

The portraits on display were created in 1984 by Warhol, a household name known for bringing pop art into the realm of fine art back in the 1950s and ‘60s. Gretzky was not available for comment on the exhibition, however there is a facsimile of a letter on display at the AGA that he wrote to Warhol, thanking him for the time they spent together and the impact it had on him at the time.

Until Sun., Sept. 24 Gretzky is Everywhere Art Gallery of Alberta, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq. youraga.ca

While the simulcast does not have sound, Ritchie says they expect message communciation between participants from each location.

“Already, we have seen people dancing and waving, because they can tell that they can see each other.”

Each gallery is showcasing the same versions of the portraits but the AGA has three additional variations on display.

“In our case we have the great opportunity to bring into our collection, what the artist has referred to as trial proofs,” says Ritchie.

“We have a couple of what we call ‘test runs’ because of our relationship with The Great One and the Oilers, it made sense to collect these variations.”

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Bound by seclusion

Isolation in the heart of life documented by New Yorker illustrator

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here’s a remote outpost on Newfoundland’s south coast, Francois, now home to less than 100 people. It’s resisted resettlement but is bookended by its stark reminders: Cul de Sac West, a few bays over, was settled in the 1800s but abandoned by 1956, while Bay of Chaleur, just to the east, was established by 1836 but abandoned after 1911. Others, too, such as Wisconsin-born Kristen Radtke, are well aware of the ruins to come.

“We forget that everything will become no longer ours,” she muses in Imagine Wanting Only This.

The title is doubly apt—echoing the haunting forlornness framed in page after page of this nonfiction-comic, one so good you can easily imagine wanting only to read it, yet again.

Radtke’s recent drawings for The New Yorker—“The Loneliness of the Parking-Lot Phone Call”, etc.— observe public solitude in the city while ultimately reflecting her own aloneness. That keen sense of isolation is at the heart of this reflection on her slow drift through a relationship and her university years as she feels unnerved and numbed by her uncle Dan’s sudden death from a rare heart condition. Soon after vis-

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iting the ghost town of Gary, Indiana—where she takes away a bag of decaying photos she later discovers was part of a memorial for a young urban explorer—Radtke becomes preoccupied with derelict buildings, abandoned communities, and ravaged areas. (She researches the Peshtigo inferno, an 1871 wildfire near her home city of Green Bay later studied by allied scientists in preparation for the Dresden and Tokyo firebombings.)

Radtke’s near-photorealImagine Wanting Only This ist linework renders humans

By Kristen Radtke in sharp, yet ghostly form, Pantheon, 281pp $39.95 more crisp outline than pockmarked or filled-in. She offers lyrical turns of phrase: “The skeletal stage of a theater sits near stabbing existentialist questions. the center of the island, chunks of Relics, remnants, slips of paper, the concrete hanging from twisted re- sheaves bound together for this bar like mammoth marionettes.” book ... all fades, Radtke’s sublime Spaces are touched with past or memoir reminds us, but she traces faraway presences (Dan’s family? a beauty, by turns tender and harsh, “he just died, and they kept living in that fading. around it”); chapters often close BRIAN GIBSON ARTS@VUEWEEKLY.COM with a yearning for answers to

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Rocks, 11740 Jasper Ave • A weekly comedy show featuring rotating headliners and more • Every Sun, 7-8:45pm 780.483.5999 • Marina Franklin; Jun 1418 • Kelly Taylor; Jun 21-25

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Reclamation: Andrew Rucklidge; Jun 15-Jul 8; Opening reception: Jun 15, 7pm • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/ eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Let Justice Be Done: The Alberta Provincial Police, 19171932; Until Jun 17

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Common Sense Gallery • 10546-115 St • Big Sky Alberta: artwork by Nola Cassady McCourt; Opening May 27

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sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta Print­- Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Monument: Coding a Woodcut: artwork by Beth Howe and Clive McCarthy; Jun 22-Jul 29 • Fractures: artwork by Emmanuel Osahor; Jun 22-Jul 29

Strathcona County Museum & Archives • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Showcasing Tales from the Oral History Collection; until Oct

Telus World of Science • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments • The Science Behind Pixar Exhibition; Opens Jul 1 • Free-$117.95

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Sacred: artwork by Karen Blanchet; May 29-Jun 24

Literary Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • Read & Write With Pride 2017; Jun 15, 7-9pm • Music & Words, Words and Music: Tom Wayman book launch and performance; Jun 26, 7-8:30pm

Book Group • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • mcdougallunited.com • Discussing the current reading selection.

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Kill! (Jun 15) • Local Filmmakers: Happy Birthday, Mango!

(Jun 18) • Rebel, Rebel: Cinema's Renegades, Delinquents, and Punks: Sid and Nancy (Jun 23); Trainspotting (Jun 24); T2 Trainspotting (Jun 24) • Reel Family Cinema: Jurassic Park (Jun 17); Canadian Classic Short Films (Jun 24) • Staff Pics: Casino (Jun 19) • Strange Canada: Hobo with a Shotgun (Jun 22)

Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • What’s Left Unsaid: 29th Annual Members’ Show: artwork by various artists; Jun 15-Jul 14

Room,10575-114 St • edmontonstoryslam. com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

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Lando Gallery • 103, 10310-124 St

The Moral Work of Nursing: Asking and living with the questions

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Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Seniors Show; May 30-Jun 16

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St • 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum. com • Open weekends May 20-Sep 4, 10am5pm • $7 (adult), $6 (senior/student), $3.50 (child 3-12)/child under 3 free; $5 (train rides), $3 (motor car rides)

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by Dayna Danger; Jun 9-Jul 22

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McMullen GAllery • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah. org/mcmullen-gallery • The Space Between You and Me: artwork by Bob Lysay & Agnieszka Matejko; May 4-Jun 19

Musée Héritage Museum • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • St. Albert History Gallery; Opens Apr 1 • Technological Wanders; Jun 1-Jul 29 • Take Your Best Shot: Youth Photo Exhibition; Jun 20-Sep 10

Paint Spot • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: Movement and Stillness: The Figure in Oils by Catharine Compston; May 23-Jul 4 • Artisan Nook: Luminous Life: oil paintings by Oksana Zhelisko, Jun 1-Jul 4

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12323104 Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery. com • Artwork by David Cantine; Jun 15-Jul 8; Opening reception: Jun 15, 7-9pm • Bureau of

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• Chapters (Old Strathcona), 10504-82 Ave • Launching its second edition • Jun 17, 12-4pm

Naked Girls Reading • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St NW • 780.691.1691 • There will be different themes each month • Every 2nd Tue of month, 8:30-10:30pm • $20 (door); 18+ only Rouge Poetry Slam hosted by Breath In Poetry Collective • BLVD Supper x Club, 10765 Jasper Ave • Every Tue

Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

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

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

Theatre 11 O'Clock Number • Basement Theatre at Holy Trinity, 10037-84 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,

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footeinthedoor@gmail.com • When brash carousel barker Billy Bigelow and mill worker Julie Jordan fall in love, little do they realize that Billy’s rebellious ways will result in tragedy • Jun 16-18, Jun 21-24, 7:30pm (2pm on Jun 18) • $25 (adult), $21 (student/senior); available at TIX on the Square or Eventbrite

Chimprov • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm; Until Jun • $15 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) Die-Nasty • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • die-nasty.com • Live improvised soap opera. Join the whole Die-Nasty family REBORN, for a whole season of great artists, earth-shaking discovery, glorious music, hilarious hi jinx...but mostly Machiavellian Intrigue • Runs every Mon, 6:30pm (doors), 7:30-9:30pm • Oct 17-May 29 • $18 or $13 with a $40 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com. Season passes are available at the door (cash or cheque only) for $400 with a reserved seat

Don't Stop Believing: 40 & Fabulous • Westbury Theatre at the ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • A trip down memory lane sparks inspiration within the cast as they scout out Edmonton Musical Theatre's archives • Jun 15-17, Jun 20-24, 7:30pm • $25 (adults), $20 (youth, 12 and under), $20 (seniors 60+)

Drinking Habits • Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts, 4308-50 St, Leduc • 780.986.9501 • leducdramasociety.ca • Two nuns at the Sisters of Perpetual Sewing have been secretly making wine to keep the convent’s doors open, but Paul and Sally, reporters and former fiancees, are hot on their trail • Jun 16-18, Jun 22-24 • $20 (at ticketpro.ca or by phone) Eugene Onegin • The Oasis Centre, 10930-177 St NW • operanuova.ca • Sung in Russian with English subtitles. To escape the monotony of the city, a Russian aristocrat goes into the countryside • Jun 15-16, 7:30pm • $20-$32 (tickets increase by $4 at the door)

Freewill Shakespeare Festival • Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park • freewillshakespeare.com • 780.425.8086 • Savour a theatrical experience reminiscent of the intimate setting of Shakespeare’s original Globe Theatre. This year's plays include: The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Merchant of Venice • Jun 20-Jul 16 • $30-$200

Greased 2 • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, #2061 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • infoedmonton@jubilations. ca • edmonton.jubilations.ca • The T-birdies prepare for the big drag race with the Hot Rods, their rival boy gang • Jun 9-Aug 13 (Wed-Sun) • $33.25-$77.95

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre. ca • A hilarious musical comedy about that terribly wonderful, simply complex thing called love • Jun 16-Jul 30

Improvaganza • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com/ festival/improvaganza • It's Edmonton's greatest improv and sketch comedy festival. Featuring the greatest hits from the Irrelevant Show, Folk Lordz, Missed Connections and more • Jun 14-24 • $15 ($175 for a festival pass)

Mission Potluck • Trinity Lutheran Church, 10014-81 Ave NW • onetrunktheatre. com • Presnted by One Trunk Theatre.

A mashup of comedy, music and poetic monol ogues, Mission Potluck brings to the stage the story of a Lutheran Ladies League’s ill-fated fundraising efforts in Gimli in the 1920s • Jun 21, 7pm • $25 (general), $20 (industry), $15 (students); Tickets at brownpapertickets.com

Open Jam • Holy Trinity Church, 10037-84 Ave • 780.907.2975 • grindstonetheatre.ca • Facilitated by Grindstone Theatre. Swap games and ideas and get an opportunity to play. For those of all levels • Last Tue of each month

TheatreSports • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $15

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Happy Birthday, Mango! tells the story of Almara, a Filipino care worker sacrificing her dreams

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ven with this current push for cultural inclusivity, there are still communities whose stories are often not being told. This is the case with the Filipino community.

Local filmmaker Eva Colmers understands this and with her short narrative film Happy Birthday, Mango!, she has the intention to tell a Filipino immigrant story.

“We are surrounded by many Filipinos in Edmonton and yet we don’t see them represented,” Colmers says.

“There is also a discrepancy about them being a sweet wonderful caring people, which, indeed, they are, but behind those smiles is also a fair bit of hurt.”

Happy Birthday, Mango! reveals the story of Almara (Nathania Bernabe), a young Filipino care-worker in Canada who works for the wealthy Mettler family. Almara assumes the role of the de facto ‘mother’ for the Mettler’s

while trying to stay connected to her son Pepe a.k.a. “Mango” who lives in the Philippines.

On Mango’s birthday, all Almara wants is to sing happy birthday to her son, but the Mettler family’s routines make this problematic.

The film is beautifully shot by cinematographer Wes Miron, and touches on a plethora of themes such as connectivity, family relationships, daydreaming, and reliance on technology.

Happy Birthday, Mango! was created on a small budget with a grant given by the Alberta foundation for the Arts, leading Colmers to find resourceful places to shoot.

“We had to be very clever,” Colmers says. “The background flashback scenes in the Philippines come from the Muttart Conservatory’s tropical house, the bridge scene is our Groat bridge, and the house in the film is

actually my house.”

Colmers had the idea to tell Almara’s story after watching her friend’s daughter run to the home’s Filipino nanny for comfort after she had fallen.

“It made me realize the complexity for the care-worker job and also the family who has a care-worker,” Colmers says. “These parents are not necessarily bad parents, but like the Mettler’s, work in high powered jobs where it’s difficult to be a parent with such intensity.”

With the film having a run time of 13 minutes, it relies heavily on lead actress Bernabe’s ability to convey different emotions very quickly.

“She’s kind of the family's anchor in the film,” Colmers says. “There was a reason that I cast Nathania.

When you look at her as Almara, you feel her pain, her joy, her dignity, and all.”

The film also hit home for Bernabe. Being a first generation Filipino Canadian, many of her aunts and relatives have experienced the careworker lifestyle.

“She took the role very seriously and frequently said she ‘Hopes she does a good job’ because this is the story of her family and friends and the whole community,” Colmers says.

The film does a wonderful job of balancing the chaotic with the silent.

We have shots like the hectic kitchen scene where the viewer is thrown right into the action as various members of the Mettler family are beginning their days while Almara adeptly keeps up with her job; cleaning up after the grandfather Harold (Horst Fleischhauer), and making sure the Mettler daughter, Alex (Taylor Hatala) eats her breakfast.

Then we have quiet introspective

Sun., June 18 (4:30 pm) Happy Birhday, Mango!

Metro Cinema , $10 reflective moments where Almara is thinking about her previous life in the Philippines.

“I knew I wanted to have those stillness shots that reflect the quiet warm tropics of the Philippines, but also the life of the family be a bit hectic,” Colmers says.

If all goes well, Colmers hopes to adapt Almara’s story into a longer work.

“I can see that the Almara story is a longer story,” Colmers says. “The film just scratches the surface of what she goes through. My ultimate goal would be to tell a longer feature story or perhaps a series.”

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Emptied cartridges and desperate plot Free Fire uses all of its bullets rather quickly

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recent report on Hollywood’s armourers noted that one of the industry’s largest prop houses has 5,000 to 7,000 weapons in circulation at any time; an analysis of top box office movies rated above PG found the average number of firearms on-screen between 2010-2015, was 51 percent higher than a decade before. There are a lot more free product placement for guns and ammo in Free Fire, which doesn’t lock and load enough of anything else to make it a surefire hit.

Two IRA members, Frank (MiJune 18, 20, 21, 25 chael Smiley) and Chris (Cillian Free Fire Murphy), working with goMetro Cinema, $10 between gal Justine (Brie Larson), are closing an arms buy  with smarmy weapons dealer Vernon (Sharlto Copley), and aided by suave Ord (Arnie Hammer), when things get hot and shots are fired. Soon

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everyone, from underlings and buddies to bosses and the two mysterious snipers up in the rafters, is caught in the crossfire.

The sixth feature from English director Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High-Rise), set in ’70s America—mostly for a John Denver song and the cross-cultural stew of Irishmen buying weapons from a South African in a Boston warehouse—starts with Tarantino-lite conversations and then goes great guns with its Reservoir Dogs-esque bullet battle. (Echo of Pulp Fiction: a McGuffin-like briefcase full of cash which lots of people have their eyes on.) The oneroom setting helps the hair-trigger shift into the shootout hinge on a coincidence that’s more theatrical than cinematic.

Amid the flying accusations and serpentine squabbles, come flare-ups of pathos-tinged comedy (and two good rain

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jokes); some of these crooks, putting on a cool professionalism, collapse into a flopsweat, bumbling and desperate.

There’s enough gusto to all the shoutats and showdowns—Sam Riley’s especially good as scuzzy hired-help Steveo—but the shooting off of weapons and mouths soon becomes a metallic clatter and patter.

The crawling wounded start spilling their true selves, 'fessing up across enemy lines as if they’re stuck in a therapists’ convention. And since there’s been little set-up and next to no backstory, it’s hard to care much about who lives or dies in a story overstuffed with sketchy and sketchily drawn characters. With low-calibre weaponschoreography, Free Fire empties all its cartridges pretty quickly.

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An alternative win

The Vagine Regime roller derby league crushes social ills with its community

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art extreme-sport exposé, part coming-of-being story, In the Turn weaves together individual lives, human rights battles and competitive excitement to turn out an all-around win.

These various fronts are intelligently crafted into a seamless whole, and it’s the intimate exploration of characters that gets the viewer onboard and rooting for them through the unique challenges each faces.

The documentary opens with the linchpin story of 10-year-old Crystal Labonte, a quiet, cute-as-a-button transgendered girl from the some-

with her change as well as the bullying she’s subjected too, and the fact her school as Sat., June 17 (4 pm) banned her from sports In the Turn because they can’t decide Metro Cinema, 8712 109 St. what team to assign her to $5-10 is one more blow for this brave and endearing child.

Over a shot of Crystal playing alone on a snowbank, Karen’s past reference of, “she was a very social child,” is immediately heart-breaking. Crystal first demonstrated unhappiness with her gender at age three and was only five what isolated city of Timmins, Ont. when she first tried to kill herself by Long location shots, free of narrative cutting off her male genitalia and yelland any buildings more than a few sto- ing, “I want to die.” reys high, of a snowmobile and school As a coping mechanism, Crystal’s bus travelling the sparse, snowy mom joined the local roller derby streets, industrial smelting stacks and team. And as a sport, roller derby— a worn sign for the community rink, with a foundational, and female-led demonstrate the restricted existence DIY ethos—has always been one of in northeastern Ontario. the most inclusive sports out there.

A remote city of 40,000 people is not It’s open to anyone who’s game dean easy place to find diverse communi- spite size, ability, ethnicity or identies and to make matters worse, her tity. While reading through related mom, Karen, is barely making ends meet derby blogs, the Vagine Regime— as a single, low-income parent. Crystal’s an international queer roller derby little brother Alex has been struggling league— came to light and Karen,

after explaining to Crystal she would be accepted and could play with them one day, laid her heat bare in a letter to the league.

The Vagine Regime is a badass association made up of anyone living an alternative lifestyle and ready to roller derby.

There’s a reason roller derby endured and evolved through the last century from an entertainment sport to one of extreme contact and athleticism. With few formal parameters, and an incredibly tight and accepting community, these women from around the world go all out.

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fter Citizenfour—her outstanding examination of the American surveillance state and first-on-thescene chronicle of NSA-leaker Edward Snowden’s escape from it—Laura Poitras turns to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. But Risk (begun before Citizenfour) turns out to be a jumpy, muddled state of affairs. Its original cut, debuting at Cannes in 2016, was reportedly re-edited to be more critical after the Democratic National Committee email leak and allegations of sexual abuse against activist and journalist Jacob Appelbaum, appearing here.

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Karen’s letter in hand, they fundraise with raffle tickets to fly Crystal down to L.A. to skate in her first camp with other girls. While Crystal’s ability to be included in a sport is important, the real key is her inclusion in a healthy, supportive community and this reality is repeated in the personal stories of various players throughout the film—from gender surgery to the successful fight for gay marriage in California—all have struggled and come out ahead because of the incredible team they’re a part of.

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voiceover comes off flat, as in her “production diary” entries, relating dreams she’s had, certain “contradictions” we can readily see, or a confession of her own ethical line-blurring: “Jake” Appelbaum and Poitras “had been involved briefly, in 2014. After I ended things, he was abusive to someone close to me.” The filming itself becomes complicit when Assange asks Poitras to check for possible eavesdroppers— the camera takes us out of the woods to scan a field for spies. A documentary shouldn’t be offering counter-surveillance. Poitras’ voiceover-framing of herself as distrustful of Assange seems disingenuous.

Assange can be a rather abstract, unengaging speaker; it’s easy to see him here as a puffed-up boss, too full of himself. He talks about “the risk of inaction”—another day sat through is another day of possible standing-up lost. But then he’ll foolishly and ob-

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MUSIC (Front) Brian Adrian Koch, Eric Earley, Marty Marquis, (back) Erik Menteer and Michael Van Pelt // Rachel Lipsitz

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xperimental folk rock outfit Blitzen Trapper made its theatrical debut this year with Wild And Reckless, a narrative rock musical that ran in Portland from March to April.

“It was about homelessness and drug abuse in this science fiction world where all of the energy used is harvested from lightning,” lead singer and songwriter Eric Earley says. “People start realizing the by-product of this lightning harvesting is this dust you can shoot up and get really high.”

The homelessness theme comes from Earley’s own experience during his time of “non-consistent living” where he crashed around Portland for two years.

“It wasn’t a kind of thing where I was like ‘I’m gonna be homeless now,’” Earley laughs. “It was more like we had this house a bunch of us were renting and we stopped. I just started floating around and crashing and it extended into a two year period. I was staying in the old Telegraph Building or someone’s car. Portland was different back then. There’s much more desperation now for those people who live that way.”

Mining from personal experience has always been the way Earley has written lyrics during his extensive career.

“I just try to paint pictures with words,” Earley says.

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Sometimes these pictures come in the form of a feeling Earley can't shake or an image he has experienced first hand.

This is most evident on the song “Let the Cards Fall,” off of Blitzen Trapper's latest album All Across This Land.

“I sing about this forest fire coming and this guy just playing music in his trailer. In Oregon we have so many forest fires and I’ve been out camping or hunting and I’ve had to move on ‘cause there’s a forest fire coming. So It’s definitely an image I’ve experienced.”

Though many have tried, it is very difficult to pigeonhole Blitzen Trapper’s sound into one genre. It’s always had a Southern tinge to it so

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many have called them alt-country or Americana, but due to Earley’s love of experimentation, those definitions are easily altered.

“I would say it’s a function of where we grew up,” Earley says. “It wasn’t very city like, but more rural and small.

Rural Oregon has always been pretty backwater so we listened to a lot of country and bluegrass. I think that combination of the country and riff rock gives it that Southern feel.”

That feel also comes from Earley’s lyrical style. With his Tom Petty-esque vocals, Earley enjoys telling stories about old Cadillacs, sunsets, rivers, the countryside, girls, basically anything

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Wild and Reckless featured all new Blitzen Trapper material and few of the band’s well-known tunes like “Black River Killer” and “Astronaut.”

Fans will be delighted to know that many of the new songs from Wild and Reckless will make up the band’s upcoming album.

“The record is all done. It will be out this year and it sort of mirrors the show in a way with certain theatrical elements,” Earley says. “We have this magical realist world that talks about homelessness, but also heroin abuse.”

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Exploring human elements

Local songwriter Mary-Lee Bird reminds us of our human qualities and ruin of the earth

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ocal multi-instrumentalist MaryLee Bird would like to remind us that we are all humans, ones that have a commitment to preserve the world we walk on. This keepsake is present on her latest album The Last Honey Bee, a piano-centered ska folk collection that has Bird reminiscing about human’s damage to earth as well as their own relationships.

“It’s a concept album like, everything I do is a large concept,” Bird says. “It has to do with the destruction of the environment and how the bees were dying, but it’s also a conflict narrative concept.”

When she says “conflict narrative concept,” she is alluding to the traditional narrative archetypes of man versus man, man versus nature, man versus self, and so on.

“Humans in relation to other humans, their mental functions and the environment. I try to have a global inclusivity with my themes. A lot of experiences, as much as they are unique, everyone goes through these sort of conflicts. We all relate in different ways, but we struggle together,” she adds.

Songwriting and music have been a part of Bird’s identity for quite sometime. While growing up in Hinton, AB,

Bird learned piano from her father who played in a bar cover band. In early adulthood she began singing and honing her craft.

After meeting various band members from local jazz and blues jams, Bird released her 2014 debut album, Setting Up The Carnival, under the Mary-Lee Bird Band.

Setting Up The Carnival was also a concept album which focused on relationships with addiction, ideology, identity, and saw Bird finding her unique indie sound.

Much of the debut album was rooted in experimentation while The Last Honey Bee is much more consistent and concise.

"Part of it was me evolving as a player and us becoming more comfortable as a band,” Bird says. “There’s more organ and synth and I got more confident as a player.”

Her vocals have also gotten stronger, as heard on “Who’s Your Best Friend,” a jumpy jazz ballad ending in a speedy and boisterous jam that demands dancing.

Another song that stands out is “We Keep Our Guns Young,” an angsty ska anthem that also features an ending jam with steady drums and piano.

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“We’re a pretty big jam band, especially for showcasing,” Bird says. “The live show is a lot different than the albums. Our bassist, Angela, comes from a burlesque background so she loves to amp it up with solos and trombone interludes. It’s a journey we didn’t know we were going to take.”

The Mary-Lee Bird Band also frequently collaborates with tap dancer,

Barbara Vargas, adding another rhythmic quality to the sound and live show.

Since Bird’s main drummer Kris Bridge relocated to Germany, the tap dancing has handled much of the live show’s percussive element.

The album art on both Setting Up The Carnival and The Last Honey Bee features a cartoon clown version of Bird, something she hopes will remain

consistent during her evolving songwriting career.

“She’s also a concept, too, and those are still elements of me,” Bird says.

“The whole clown thing comes from my study in clown and my interest as it being a part of your inner identity and your inner child.”

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Cayley Thomas, Calvin Love (solo), Faith Healer (solo) // Fri., June 16 (9 PM) A trio of Edmonton’s finest get together to engorge the musical part of your brain with audio satisfaction.

Yes, this is something you should cancel plans for.

Yes, you can bring your parents.

No, there won’t be any Anne Murray covers. (9910, $10)

The Aviary Fundraiser // Wed., June 18 (8 PM) If the Artery 2.0 can be even half of what the Artery 1.0 was, then by gosh get your cheque books out.

The Aviary is down a cool $25,000 due to permit complications and a few unexpected costs and are looking for some help. Musically, they will get that from Jay Gilday, Amy van Keeken, Tiff Hall, Motorbike James, Gadjo Collective, Lindsey Walker, WARES, nehiyawak, The Velveteins, and Jayden Paz (with more to come).

One look at that ecelectic lineup shows they have something for everyone. Still, probably no Anne Murray covers. (The Mercury Room, $10 minimum or pay what you can)

Beaumont Blues and Roots Festival // Fri., June 16 to Sun., June 18 (4 PM) With a great lineup that has Corb Lund, Matt Andersen, Ayla Brook, The Dungarees, etc. this ‘little’ festival puts some bigger ones to shame.

Also, if you have kids under 12, they get in with a paying adult parent or guardian.

Two words: Fred Penner. (41 Ave, Beaumont, AB, $109 for advanced weekend pass or $55 a day. Price jumps to $125 for the weekend or $65 daily at the gate)

King Woman, Anamai, Teeth (final show), Truster // Tues., June 20 (7 PM) There is no better fit to sing at Teeth’s funeral than King Woman. Their music is a death knell caught in an echo chamber. Wonderful and haunting, it may be a good business move for King Woman to hit up the funeral circuit if they are ever hard up for places to play.

As for Teeth, it is now about noise, food, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the eternal slumber of nothingness.

Good luck on the West Coast, Caitlin. (St. Faith’s Anglican Church, $12 advance, $15 at door)

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Fried neurons in the dark

Local psych punk trio Dead Fibres' newest EP was recorded in just two days

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ou know that feeling you get when Sunday morning rolls around and all the liquor and work related exhaustion you’ve put your poor body through over the past week arrives to exact revenge? The dirty nihilism that sweeps over you as you think about the life you thought you were going to live? Dead Fibres can recreate that for you, but also keep you moving fast enough not to really mind it.

Dead Fibres is drummer Brandon de Gans, guitarist Zach Mouallem, and vocalist and bassist Kennedy Pawluk.

A three-piece, self-described psychedelic punk band, the trio is preparing to show off its third release in as many years.

“A lot of our music is, and especially on this new album, like everything is written together,” says Pawluk. “It’s all written based on, like, improvised jams and stuff. It’s never ever someone coming into the room and showing everyone. It’s always on the spot jams that we record, and then from there we start tweaking it.”

The new EP, Stashbox, demonstrates just how far the band has come in such a short time. Recorded over two days with Jed Gauthier of Counterfeit Jeans, in a room the band says measured around 10 feet by 10 feet, the resulting sound is more developed and focused than on past albums.

It’s a bit like watching Godfrey Reggio's experimental art film Koyaanisqatsi at

triple speed except all the stock footage is taken from the darkest parts of your life. There are Gregorian chants, howling vocals, and a sometimes suffocating sense of anxiety, but that was sort of part of the process.

“Zach just went on a trip backpacking to Mexico for, like, a month and a half, so we had to have it recorded by that day before he left,” says Pawluk. “The recording was done over the week, basically before he left. It was only two full day sessions. The fact that it was quick and that it was in that warehouse, it was kind of just like there wasn’t a lot of wiggle room in that room, and there is not a lot of wiggle room with the tones of the final product. It just all fell into place and it was just ready to go.”

Dead Fibres was conceived from the ashes of Pawluk, Mouallem, and de Gans’ high school band, Martian.

After a brief hiatus and some growing up, they reformed and spent the summer on a jamming bender.

The resulting burn out led someone to suggest the band be named after the fried neurons and busted sinew they’d all incurred. Since then, Dead Fibres has crafted sonic chaos around topics like getting so high that you develop a God complex.

“This summer, I think the goal is to kind of gain notoriety through Western Canada,” says Pawluk. “So that after this summer, when we start going to these cities again, we can kind of bank on it being good shows. We

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have a lot of cities where we do really well, but I kind of want this summer to flesh out all the other cities in Western Canada.”

It’s a busy schedule. After the hometown EP release, Dead Fibres is heading to Sled Island to perform during a roller derby. Even with the touring schedule and the new EP arriving soon, the band’s already eagerly planning out what comes next, and searching for something new to scratch the itch.

“We still have to get there,” says Pawluk. “You should never think you’re there. It’s always like once you record it, this if fine, but that next album … damn, that’s gonna be something.”

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Colleen Rae & Cornerstone; 9pm; Free

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MELISANDE [ELECTROTRAD] H'SAO

JOE NOLAN

FE:

ROSE & CROWN PUB Jake

THURS • JUNE 15

LES RESPECTABLES

LIVE MUSIC

S • 25

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

Buckley; 9pm

THE COMMON The Common

BLUES ON WHYTE Carvin Jones

Band; 9pm BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB Ka-

raoke/DJ; Every Thu-Sat, 9pm

Kelly; 9pm

DV8 King Mammoth with

with Tim Williams; 8:3010:30pm; $25

CAFE BLACKBIRD Brad Bucknell

Fab Four The Ultimate Tribute; 7pm (doors), 9pm (show); Tickets start at $34.99

Robison; 9pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ David Vest

RIVER CREE–The Venue The

American Rock Legends; 9pm

Soul with DJ Modest Mike; Every Thu; Wooftop Lounge: Dear Hip Hop with Freshlan; Underdog: Underdog Comedy Show

of the Dog: Post Script; 4-6pm; no cover

ON THE ROCKS Jellybean; 9pm

WOODRACK CAFÉ Birdie on a Branch; 2nd Thu of every month, 7-8:30pm; No cover (donations welcome)

Main Fl: Rock N' Roll, Funk &

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Happy

Stompin’ Tom Featuring Tim Hus; 7:30-9:30pm; $36

CASINO EDMONTON Robin

MAMA'S GIN JOINT Live Music

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open

CAPITOL THEATRE–FORT EDMONTON PARK A Tribute to

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Happy Hour featuring Fake Diamonds; 5:30pm • Off With Their Heads with Fire Next Time, The Preying Saints and Seth Anderson; 8pm; $20 (adv)

stage with Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu

stage; 7pm

Factor; 8pm

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

TAVERN ON WHYTE Open

DJs

Jam Night with Rockin' Rod; Every Thu, 7pm; No minors

CJSR 88.5FM PRESENTS

Songwriter Open Mic (individual performer format, first-come, first served); Every Thu, 7-9pm; All ages

Russell Johnston

MOONSHINERS Moonshiners

CASH'D OUT

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Chill

SQUARE 1 COFFEE Singer/

LB'S PUB Open Jam hosted by

Thursdays; Every Thu, 9pm; $5 (some events)

FE:

$10 (adv)

Prairie Cat and guests; 8pm; $14; 18+ only

Open jam hosted by The World Beat Band; Every Thu, 8-12pm

FE - FREE SHOW:

7-11pm

STARLITE ROOM Darcys with

HOWARD JOHNSON HOTEL

T • 20

Flashback Friday; Every Fri

SAT JUN 17

raoke/DJ; Every Thu-Sat, 9pm BRIXX BAR Tengger Cavalry

THE FORGE ON WHYTE Bubbles

M • 19

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

Fri-Sat

BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB Ka-

FIDDLER'S ROOST Acoustic

S • 18

playing the best in hip-hop, dance and classics; Every Fri-Sat, 9pm; No cover

Y AFTERHOURS Live DJs; Every

Karaoke; Every Thu, 7pm

DAILY speciALS

EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Resident DJs

release show; 7-11:30pm; $10 (door)

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

$4.00 Yellowhead $6.50 Select Wine

Fridays with DJ Echo & Freshlan

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Video

stage

happy hour specials 4-7PM

THE COMMON Quality Control

Music DJ; 9pm-2am

CHA ISLAND Thursday open

LIVE MUSIC (NO COVER)

Remo, Noosh, Fingertips & guests; Underdog: Rap, House, Hip-Hop with DJ Babr; every Fri

BOHEMIA Sudden Love EP

CAFE BLACKBIRD Johnny Rodgers; 7:30pm; $5

MonDAY TO friDAY 5:30-6:30PM

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee; Every Fri; Wooftop: Selection Fridays with

GAS PUMP Live DJ; 10pm

with Felix Martin, Malphas; 8pm; $23; 18+ only

Happy Hour Shows!

DJs

SIDELINER’S PUB Friday Night

and The Ohno Band; 8pm; $10 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Chill

Factor; 8pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON Robin

Kelly; 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD

American Rock Legends; 9pm CASK AND BARREL Lia Cole;

4-6pm; No cover CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT

Colleen Rae & Cornerstone; 9pm; Free DENIZEN HALL Champ City Soundtrack; Every Fri-Sat

Fridays; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation

DRAKE HOTEL Open Jam– Saturdays; Every Sat, 2-5pm • House band; 5-8pm • Guest band; 8pm • No minors

Classical

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Duff

WINSPEAR CENTRE Carmina

Burana; 7:30pm; $29-$79

Robison; 9pm

DV8 Stellafox, Ashley's Rejekts,

Something Mechanical and Sugarwash; 9pm; No minors EmprEss AlE HousE Bands at the Empress; Every Sat, 4-6pm; Free; 18+ only Four sEAsons pArk

Beaumont Blues and Roots Festival 2017; 1pm; $55 and up HAVE mErcy Resident DJs

Up! with DJ Sonny Grimezz spinning classic hip-hop and reggae; underdog: hip-hop open Mic followed by DJ Marack tHE common Get Down

It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane El cortEz mExIcAn kItcHEn + tEquIlA bAr Resident DJs

playing outlaw country, rock and retro classics; Every FriSat, 10pm; No cover

playing the best in hip-hop, dance and classics; Every Fri-Sat, 9pm; No cover

IrongAtE pub Bryant Sailor;

EnVy nIgHt club Resolution Saturdays: top 40, throwbacks and club anthems

Every Fri-Sat, 7pm; No cover JubIlEE AuDItorIum Bonnie

Raitt - Dig In Deep Tour 2017; 8pm; $45 and up lb's pub LB's Pub 30th

EVolutIon wonDErloungE

Rotating DJs Velix and Suco; every Sat mErcEr tAVErn DJ Mikey

Anniversary featuring Blue Yonder; 4pm; No minors • Blue Yonder; 9pm; No minors

Wong every Sat

tHE lEAF The Barsnbands

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

Homemade Jam–hosted by Mike Chenoweth and The Usual Suspects; Every Sat, 3-7pm mkt FrEsH FooD AnD bEEr mArkEt Live Local Bands

every Sat nEEDlE VInyl tAVErn Soul Saturday Brunch with Kahtja; 11am; No cover • Heart Beach with Borscht; 3pm; No cover • Pride Party!Fruit Loop with Girls Club DJs and more! Hosted by G. Venchy from Man UP; 8pm; $10 (door)

tHE proVIncIAl pub Saturday

sugAr Foot bAllroom Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com tAVErn on wHytE Soul,

motown, funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am y AFtErHours Live DJs; Every

Fri-Sat

on tHE rocks Jellybean; 9pm

SUN JUN 18

rosE & crown pub Jake

AlIbI pub AnD EAtEry Open

Buckley; 9pm

mic night; Every Sun, 6-9pm

sHAkErs roADHousE

tHE AlmAnAc Sunday Song

Brent Lee; 9pm; $10 (adv at YEGLive)

Stage Hosted by Rhea March; Every Sun, 6:30-10pm; Free

sHErlock HolmEs– Downtown Doug Stroud; 9pm

AussIE rulEs kItcHEn & pIAno bAr Piano Show; Every

sHErlock HolmEs–wEm Mike

Letto; 9pm stArlItE room Annihilator

'Rippin Through Canada 2017' with guests Mason, Mutank; 8pm; $30; 18+ only

blAck Dog FrEEHousE main Floor: DJ Chris Bruce spins

britpop/punk/garage/indie; Every Sat; wooftop: Sound It

Top Notch Fundraiser! featuring Tiff Hall with Motorbike James, Amy van Keeken, Jay Gilday and more; 7pm; $10 (minimum), what what you can (adv) moonsHInErs Sunday Noon

Acoustic Jam; Every Sun, 12pm nEEDlE VInyl tAVErn Soul Sunday Brunch with Dempsey Bolton; 11am; No cover nEwcAstlE pub Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage; Every Sun, 3pm on tHE rocks Mourning

Wood; 9pm sAnDs Inn & suItEs Open

Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm sHAkErs roADHousE The

Sunday Happening Jam featuring The Todd James Band; 4pm

Band; 9pm Jamming; Every Sun, 2pm; No minors DV8 Fat Dabs & Donuts Tour;

Monday Night Blues Jam hosted by the Dylan Farrell Ban; Every Mon, 8:30pm (sign up); No cover nEEDlE VInyl tAVErn Happy

Hour featuring Flynn & Ferrie; 5:30pm • Mary-Lee Bird with Lara Yule Singh; 8pm; No cover plEAsAntVIEw communIty HAll Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Association: Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm sIDElInEr’s pub Singer/

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

DJs blAck Dog FrEEHousE main Floor: Substance with Eddie

Lunchpail tAVErn on wHytE Classic

stArlItE room Blitzen Trapper

with guests; 8pm; $19.50; 18+ only

TUE JUN 20

Classical AtrIum At tHE kIng’s unIVErsIty Opera NUOVA–

Masterclasses: Dominique Labelle & Michael McMahon; 6:30pm; $15 (adult), $10 (students) FIrst bAptIst cHurcH I'm

Gonna Sing; 11am; Free tImms cEntrE For tHE Arts

Edmonton Vocal Minority presents What the World Needs Now; 4pm; $20 (adult), $15 (students/seniors)

gAs pump Kizomba-DJ; 8pm

bluE cHAIr cAFé Father's Day

Brunch - Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am-2:30pm; By donation

HAVE mErcy Mississippi

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

blAck Dog FrEEHousE main Floor: DJ Zyppy; Every Sun

DrAkE HotEl Sunday

DJs

mErcury room The Aviary

blInD pIg pub Blind Pig Pub Jam with Forever 51; Every Sun, 3-6:30pm

bluEs on wHytE Carvin Jones

Burana; 7:30pm; $29-$79

Jam out in your Jammies; Every Sun, 3-10pm; Free

DJs

robErtson-wEslEy unItED cHurcH Opera NUOVA–Letters

wInspEAr cEntrE Carmina

mAmA's gIn JoInt Sunday

Sun, 9pm

Classical Home: A Celebration of the Early Canadian Settlers; 7:30pm

Beat”; Every Sun, 6pm; $10

MON JUN 19 tHE AlmAnAc Lion Bear Fox

with guests; 7pm; $18 (adv) blAck Dog FrEEHousE wooftop: Metal Mondays with

Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox bluEs on wHytE Travellin

bluEs on wHytE Travellin

Band; 8:30pm tHE buckIngHAm Mauno with Sister Ray and L.N. Baba; 8pm; $10 (adv) FIDDlEr's roost Fiddle Jam

Circle; 7:30-11:30pm tHE ForgE Didgin' For Rainbows, Yoo Doo Right, Mujahedeen, Smokes; 8pm; $10; 18+ only gAs pump Karaoke; 9:30pm Jt's bAr AnD grIll Karaoke;

Every Tue-Wed lb's pub Tuesday Night Open

Jam Hosted by Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge mAmA's gIn JoInt Tuesday Open Mic; Every Tue, 9pm; Starts Jan 3; Free nEEDlE VInyl tAVErn Cash'd Out; 7pm; $15 (adv) • Big Dreamer Jam featuring Kayla Hotte; 8pm sHAkErs roADHousE

Jamerama, with Tall Dark & Dirty; 7pm

WED JUN 21 Edmonton; 5-9pm open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm

WWW.STARLITEROOM.COM

HAVE mErcy Whiskey

Wednesdays Live Piano Karaoke featuring the Fab Tiff Hall; Every Wed, 8:30pm HowArD JoHnson HotEl

MAIN ROOM

Karaoke Jockey Simonette; Every Wed, 7-11pm

ConCertWorks.Ca With Big nate ProduCtions Presents

Every Tue-Wed lEAF bAr & grIll Wang Dang

Wednesdays; Every Wed, 7-11pm

jun/18 Blitzen traPPer w/ guests Mrg ConCerts Presents

mAmA's gIn JoInt Wednesday

Karaoke; Every Wed, 9pm; Free nEEDlE VInyl tAVErn Happy Hour featuring Joe Nolan; 5:30pm • Emo Night with Vaultry and guests! Hosted by Local Pop-Punk Princess Katie Sutton; 8pm; $5 (door)

jun/23 all ages ruth B. w/ guests

liVenation.CoM Presents

on tHE rocks Karaoke Wednesdays hosted by ED; Every Wed, 9pm

juL/20 Wednesday 13 w/ Once Human, Gabriel and tHe apOcalypse ConCertWorks & CroWn of Viserys Presents

plEAsAntVIEw communIty HAll 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

aug/6

sHAkErs roADHousE 4 Dollar

Bill Country Jam; 7pm tAVErn on wHytE Karaoke;

9pm

The STarliTe room iS a privaTe venue for our memberS and Their gueSTS. if you require a memberShip you can purchaSe one aT The venue prior To / or afTer The door TimeS for each Show.

Classical conVocAtIon HAll The

Edmonton Chamber Music Society presents Krzysztof Jablonski (piano); 7:30pm; $35 (adult), $30 (seniors 65+), $15 (students)

DJs

LOWER HALL (BRIXX)

Floor: DJ Late Fee; Every Wed

punk/garage/indie; Every Tue

rAncH roADHousE DJ

HAVE mErcy YEG Music

FIDDlEr's roost Open Stage;

El cortEz mExIcAn kItcHEn + tEquIlA bAr Taco Tuesday

Shocker and Seelo Mondo; Every Wed

with resident DJs

EnVy nIgHt club West Edmonton Mall, 8882 170 St EVolutIon wonDErloungE 10220-103 St NW, 780.

424.0077, yourgaybar.com FEstIVAl plAcE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDlEr's roost 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca FIonn mAccool's–Downtown 10200-102A Ave NW tHE ForgE on wHytE 1054982 Ave (Whyte Ave) Four sEAsons pArk– bEAumont 5417-43 Ave, Beaumont gAs pump nIgHt club & bAr 10166-114 St HAVE mErcy soutHErn tAblE + bAr 8232 Gateway Blvd, havemercy.ca Holy trInIty AnglIcAn cHurcH 10037-84 Ave NW, 780.433.5530, holytrinity.ab.ca HorIzon stAgE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage.com HowArD JoHnson HotEl 15540 Stony Plain Road Jt's bAr AnD grIll 1107 Knottwood Road East JubIlEE AuDItorIum 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com l.b.’s pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 tHE lEAF 9016-132 Ave mAmA's gIn JoInt 11723 Jasper Ave, 780.705.0998, mamasginjoint.com mcDougAll unItED cHurcH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW,

mcdougallunited.com mkt FrEsH FooD AnD bEEr mArkEt 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 mErcEr tAVErn 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 mErcury room 10575-114 St muttArt HAll 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 nAkED cybErcAFé 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 nEEDlE VInyl tAVErn 10524 Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca nEwcAstlE pub 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 nortH glEnorA HAll 13535109A Ave o’byrnE’s 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 o'mAIllEs IrIsH pub 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert on tHE rocks 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 pAlAcE cAsIno 8882-170 St NW, 780.444.2112, palacecasino. com pInt–Downtown 10125-109 St NW plEAsAntVIEw communIty HAll 10860-57 Ave pourHousE bIstro & tAproom 10354-82 Ave tHE proVIncIAl pub 160, 4211-106 St rEnDEzVous 10108-149 St robErtson-wEslEy unItED cHurcH 10209-123 St NW rosE AnD crown 10235-101 St sAnDs Inn & suItEs 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com sHAkErs roADHousE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail sHErlock HolmEs–Downtown

VENUEGuIDE 99tEn 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca tHE AlmAnAc 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ArcADIA bAr 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ArDEn tHEAtrE 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1542, stalbert.ca/ experience/arden-theatre AtlAntIc trAp & gIll 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com AtrIum At tHE kIng's unIVErsIty 9125-50 St NW AussIE rulEs kItcHEn & pIAno bAr #1638, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722, aussierulesedmonton.com bAIlEy tHEAtrE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com blAck Dog FrEEHousE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 blInD pIg pub 32 St Anne St, 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 brIttAny's loungE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 brIxx bAr 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 tHE buckIngHAm 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca cAFE blAckbIrD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890,

ALL SHOWS 18+ ONLY

blAck Dog FrEEHousE main

night; Every Mon, 9pm; Free 7-11pm

Blind pilot w/ guests ConCertWorks Presents

Wednesday

Floor: Chris Bruce spins britpop/

blAck Dog FrEEHousE main

liVenation.CoM Presents

aug/11 vnv nAtion w/ ivArdensphere

tHE proVIncIAl pub Karaoke

pInt Downtown Wild Wing

DJs

ALL SHOWS 18+ UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED

jun/17 AnnihilAtor w/ MAson, MutAnk

Jt's bAr AnD grIll Karaoke;

DEVAnEy's IrIsH pub Karaoke

presents “Compete With The

TICKETS FOR STARLITE ROOM SHOWS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT

gAs pump Karaoke; 9:30pm

Beaumont Blues and Roots Festival 2017; 12pm; $55 and up

Band; 8:30pm cHA IslAnD Karaoke Monday

10030 - 102 STREET

DuggAn's bounDAry Wed

Wednesdays at the Pint with DJ Thomas Culture; Every Wed, 10pm

8pm; $15; No minors Four sEAsons pArk

StarliteRoom Starliteroom starlitetoomyeg

Along 124 st From JAspEr AVE-108 AVE Make Music

jun/15 tenGGer cavalry w/ Felix MArtin, helsott ConCertWorks Presents

jun/22 goAtwhore w/ Anciients ConCertWorks Presents

jun/23 BAsh & pop w/ guests ConCertWorks & uP&dt Presents

cafeblackbird.ca cAFFrEy's In tHE pArk 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park cApItol tHEAtrE–Fort EDmonton pArk 7000-143 St cArrot coFFEEHousE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 cAsIno EDmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 cAsIno yEllowHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 cAsk AnD bArrEl 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca cEntrAl sEnIor lIons cEntrE 11113-113 St cEntury cAsIno–EDmonton 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 cEntury cAsIno–st. AlbErt 24 Boudreau Rd, St. Albert, 780.460.8092 cHA IslAnD tEA co 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 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 1111387 Ave NW, devaneyspub.com DuggAn's bounDAry 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8/mAmA's pIzzA 7317-101 Ave NW El cortEz mExIcAn kItcHEn + tEquIlA bAr 8230 Gateway Blvd, elcortezcantina.com EmprEss AlE HousE 9912-82 Ave NW

10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com sHErlock HolmEs–wEm 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com sIDElInErs pub 11018-127 St smokEHousE bbq 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 snEAky pEtE's 12315-118 Ave squArE 1 coFFEE 15 Fairway Drive st. bAsIl's culturAl cEntrE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com stArlItE room 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 sugAr Foot bAllroom 10545-81 Ave tAVErn on wHytE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 tImms cEntrE oF tHE Arts 87 Ave, 112 St NW tIrAmIsu 10750-124 St trInIty lutHErAn cHurcH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca unIon HAll 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca uptown Folk club 11150-82 St, 780.436.1554 wIlD EArtH bAkEry– mIllcrEEk 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com wInspEAr cEntrE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 wooDrAck cAFE 7603-109 St, 780. 757.0380, thewoodrackcafe. com y AFtErHours 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com yArDbIrD suItE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428

VUEWEEKLY.com | Jun 15 – Jun 21, 2017

jun/25 guitAr wolF w/ guests ConCertWorks Presents

jun/8

ConCertWorks Presents

unleasH tHe arcHers w/ w.M.d., skepsis

jun/14 Starkill w/ iMMunize ConCertWorks Presents

juL/26 lucy dAcus w/ guests tiMBre ConCerts Presents

juL/28 eternAl prophecy w/ wtHcnvtcn, sins Of sOrrOw, if i fall l.t.d talent serViCes Presents

aug/13 pallbearer w/ GOst

ConCertWorks & CroWn of Viserys Presents

aug/28 the agoniSt w/ Juliet ruin, fOrsaken rite ConCertWorks Presents

music 17

EVENTS WEEKLY

5pm • Free

edm_photographic_hist_society_2@yahoo.ca • All interested in sharing the joys of film photography, such as experiences or favourite equipment.

Schedule: photoshoot outing (Jun 21) • 3rd Wed of the month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul & Aug)

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

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply

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

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

Groups/CLUBS/meetings

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

Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm Amnesty International Edmonton • 8307-109 St • amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug, Dec) • Free

Coffee with Cops • Carrot Coffeehouse,

9351-118 Ave • Edmonton Police Service invites the community to an open discussion • 1st Tue of every month, 10-11am

Crafting: DIY Sharks • City of Edmonton Reuse Centre, 6835-83 St • 780.944.7424 • edmonton.ca/reusecentre • In celebration of Shark Week. A drop-in crafting session to make shark hats and fins by upcycling file folders, newspaper, magazines, calendars and more • Jun 22, 4-7pm • Free

Don't be shy–paint a naked guy • O'byrnes Irish Pub, 10616-82 Ave NW • 587.986.3618 • angela@letsartyparty.com • Guests will start with three poses to warm up, then move to a longer pose on 16" x 20" canvas. All will go home with a painting • Every 2nd Tue starting Nov 22, 7-8:30pm • $35 (adv at Eventbrite), $45 (door)

Drop-In D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte 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

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 EC (Infant Pottying) and Potty Training Support Meeting • Lendrum Community League Hall, 11335-57 Ave • danielle@godiaperfree. com • facebook.com/groups/gdfedmonton • For anyone doing EC (elimination communication or infant pottying) or hoping to, or those looking for potty training support • 3rd Wed of every month, 10-11am • Free

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com Edmonton Photographic Historial Society • Highlands Library • 780.436.3878 •

Coming Events

The Carrot’s Ultimate Garage Sale Reminder Have you started thinking about a good spring clean?

The Carrot’s Ultimate Garage sale is coming up soon! For more info on our annual spring fundraiser contact artsadmin@artsontheave.org

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Announcements

Arts on the Ave Annual General Meeting Announcement!

Time: Monday, June 26th | 7:00PM | The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse Arts on the Ave Edmonton Society (AOTA) announces that its 2017 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Monday, June 26th at 7:00PM at The Carrot. Members must have purchased membership 30 days prior to AGM (2016/017) in order to vote.

Buy your memberships at The Carrot (9351-118 Ave).

18 at the back

1600.

Habitat for Humanity Volunteer Information Night • Habitat for Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • vbatten@hfh.org • hfh.org/volunteer/ vin • Learn about taking the next steps and what opportunities are available at Habitat for Humanity • Every 3rd Thu of the month, excluding Dec; 6-7pm • Free

Lotus Qigong • SAGE downtown 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.695.4588 • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Fri, 2-3:30pm • Free

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

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

Toastmasters Centre, 9990 Jasper Ave; Contact: 780.462.1878/ RonChapman@shaw.ca (Ron Chapman); 780.424.6364/dkorpany@telusplanet.net (Darryl Korpany); Meet every Thu from Sep-Jun, 6-7:45pm • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion, 11150-82 St; 780.902.4605; norwoodtoastmasters. org; Every Thu, Oct 13-Jun 29, 7:30-9:30pm; Guests are free • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Generating Power Speakers: EPCOR Tower, 10423101 St NW: Meeting will take place on the 8th floor, 780.392.5331 (Phil); 1st and 3rd Tue each month, 12:05-1:05pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:458:30pm; contact vpm@norators.com, 780.807.4696, norators.com • Norwood Toastmasters: Legion, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until Jun, 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo.com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); 780.463.5331 (Antonio); yclubtoastmasters@ gmail.com; Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month

Wild Rose Antique Collectors Society • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood

Roda de Capoeira • Capoeira Academy, #10310324-82 Ave • capoeiraacademy.ca • Brazil's traditional game of agility and trickery • Every Sat, 2:30pm • Free • All ages

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

Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group • Schizophrenia

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 Fri, 6:15pm • $5 (drop-in fee, adult), free (kids)

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

Yoga & Beer • Yellowhead Brewery, 10229-105

Seeing is Above All • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave NW • 780.554.6133 • Instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light. Learn a simple technique that will lift you above life's stresses • Every Sun,

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LECTURES/Presentations Give-Back Event: Chair & Mat Yoga • Centre for Spiritual Living Metro, 10580-113 St • yogaco.ca • A yoga class available to every body • Jun 17, 8:30am • Participation is by donation (donations go to YCO Give-Back program offering solutions to sufferers of PTSD and ASD) Past Lives, Dreams and Soul Travel • Meeting Room Upstairs, Strathcona Branch, Edmonton Public Library, 8331-104 St • 780.490.1129 • spiritualexperience.org • Learn how to recall and resolve past life lessons,interpret your dreams and more • Jun 15, 7-8:30pm • Free

QUEER Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Mon: Drag Race in the White Room; 7pm • Wed: Monthly games night/trivia • Thu: Happy hour, 6-8pm; Karaoke, 7-12:30am • Fri: Flashback Friday with your favourite hits of the 80s/90s/2000s; rotating drag and burlesque events • Sat: Rotating DJs Velix and Suco • Sun: Weekly drag show, 10:30pm G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, Or in confidence one-on-one in the Craft Room • 780.474.8240 • tuff69@telus.net • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance.

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Team Edmonton • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:158:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• Volleyball: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • Meditation: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • Board Games: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • All Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm Yoga with Jennifer • 780.439.6950 • ThreeBattles.com • A traditional approach with lots of individual attention. Free introductory classes • Tue evenings & Sat mornings SPECIAL EVENTS Backbeat Block Party + Youth Art Walk • Alley on 81 Ave (101 St & 100 St) • Celebrating the youths in the arts. Featuring an "art walk style" during the Backbeat School of Rock’s Block Party • Jun 18

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Edmonton International Jazz Festival • Various locations throughout Edmonton • edmontonjazz.com • Featuring the best in jazz music such as: the Claudia Quartet, LSD Trio and many more. See the music listings for day-to-day listings • Jun 23-Jul 2 • Prices will vary

Father’s Day BBQ – Tastes & Tours of the Garden • University of Alberta Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • botanicgarden. ualberta.ca • The BBQ is fired up, the coolers are stocked and the games are waiting in the garden • Jun 18, 11am-3pm • Free with regular admission

Edmonton Pride Festival • Various locations throughout Edmonton • edmontonpride.ca • Edmotnon's more colourful festival celebrating the LGBTQ community • Jun 9-18 Food Trucks are Coming • St. Albert Grain Elevator Park, 4 Meadowview Drive, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • Sample mouth-watering morsels from some of the region’s best food trucks and enjoy an afternoon of live local music, tours of the grain elevators, old fashioned games at the Penny Carnival in a historic park setting • Jun 18, 1-5pm • Admission by donation Foodie Bike Tour • Various locations throughout Edmonton • 780.920.3655 • info@foodbiketour. com • foodbiketour.com • Indulge in the fine local foods and beverages of Edmonton while touring on a bike around the city. Get a taste of Edmonton without the guilt as the calories are burned off • Jun 15, 17, 22, 24 • Jul 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22 • Aug 10, 12 • $99 (register via Eventbrite, limited space available) Found Festival • Various locations throughout Edmonton • commongroundarts.ca • Find wonderful art in unexpected places • Jun 22-25 Martin Deerline's Day of Play • Martin Deerline West Edmonton, 17104-118 Ave • martindeerline.com • Featuring bouncy castles, pedal tractor course, wagon rides, farmyard animals and much more • Jun 24, 10am-2pm • Free

National Garden Days Celebration • University of Alberta Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • botanicgarden.ualberta.ca • A Canada-wide, coast-to-coast-to-coast celebration of all things garden • Jun 16-18

Photographer’s Drop-in Morning • University of Alberta Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • botanicgarden.ualberta.ca • A chance to capture the early morning light and stillness of the Garden, before it opens to the public for the day. For all skill levels • Jun 17, 7:30-10am • Regular admission Pride Week Date Night - Oil & Vinegar Tastings • University of Alberta Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • botanicgarden. ualberta.ca • Bring your date to an an oil and vinegar tasting in the charming setting of the Kurimoto Japanese Garden • Jun 15, 6-10pm • $22.50 (person includes oil and vinegar tastings, bread and Italian sodas; admission and tax extra); Adv tickets required for oil and vinegar tasting activity

Ronald McDonald House Charities Block Party • Ronald McDonald House, 7726107 St NW • oldstrathcona.ca • Featuring music, celebrations, vendors, invested policy makers and so much more • Jun 25, 11am-5pm

Sunrise Yoga • University of Alberta Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • botanicgarden.ualberta.ca • Greet the rising sun in the serenity of the early morning Garden, and enjoy a 1-1/2 hour long yoga session • Jun 17, 8-9:30am • $50 (family of two adults, and kids 10-17), $25 (individual); Adv registration required UABG Annual Plant Sale • U of A Botanical Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • 780.987.3054 ext. 2223 • uabg.events@ualberta. ca • botanicgarden.ualberta.ca • An interesting selection of hardy perennials, edibles, shrubs, indoor plants, and more • May 13-Sep 1 Ukrainian Vintage Fair • ACUA Gallery & Artisan Boutique, 9534-87 St • Featuring all things Ukrainian vintage • Jun 24, 4-9pm

FREEWILLASTROLOGY aRIeS (March 21-april 19): You have to admit that salt looks like sugar and sugar resembles salt.

This isn't usually a major problem, though. Mistakenly sprinkling sugar on your food when you thought you were adding salt won't hurt you, nor will putting salt in your coffee when you assumed you were using sugar. But errors like these are inconvenient, and they can wreck a meal. You may want to apply this lesson as a metaphor in the coming days, Aries. Be alert for things that outwardly seem to be alike but actually have different tastes and effects. taURUS (april 20-May 20): Here's a possible plan for the next 10 days: Program your smart phone to sound an alarm once every hour during the entire time you're awake. Each time the bell or buzzer goes off, you will vividly remember your life's main purpose. You will ask yourself whether or not the activity you're engaged in at that specific moment is somehow serving your life's main purpose. If it is, literally pat yourself on the back and say to yourself, "Good job!" If it's not, say the following words: "I am resolved to get into closer alignment with my soul's code— the blueprint of my destiny."

GeMINI (May 21-June 20): Actress Marisa Berenson offers a line of anti-aging products that contain an elixir made from the seeds of a desert fruit known as prickly pear. The manufacturing process isn't easy.

To produce one litre of the potion requires 900 kilograms of seeds. I see you as having a metaphorically similar challenge in the coming weeks, Gemini. To create a small amount of the precious stuff you want, I'm guessing you'll have to gather a ton of raw materials. And there may be a desert-like phenomena to deal with, as well. caNceR (June 21-July 22): There are three kinds of habits: good, bad, and neutral. neutral habits are neither good nor bad but use up psychic energy that might be better directed into cultivating good habits. Here are some examples: a good habit is when you're disciplined about eating healthy food; a bad habit is watching violent TV shows before going to bed, thereby disturbing your sleep; a neutral habit might be doing Sudoku puzzles. My challenge to you, Cancerian, is to dissolve one bad habit and one neutral habit by replacing them with two new good habits.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, cosmic forces will be on your side as you make this effort.

LeO (July 23-aug. 22): "Dear Dr. Astrology: Good fortune has been visiting me a lot lately. Many cool opportunities have come my way.

Life is consistently interesting. I've also made two unwise moves that fortunately didn't bring bad results.

Things often work out better for me than I imagined they would! I'm grateful every day, but I feel like I

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should somehow show even more appreciation. Any ideas? - Lucky Leo." Dear Lucky: The smartest response to the abundance you have enjoyed is to boost your generosity. Give out blessings. Dispense praise. Help people access their potentials. Intensify your efforts to share your wealth.

innovative, and even exotic, but I trust you will confine its expression to unions with adult human beings who know what they're getting into and who have consented to play. Here's an old English word you might want to add to your vocabulary: "blissom." It means "to bleat with sexual desire."

VIRGO (aug. 23-Sept. 22): Years ago, a fan of my work named Paul emailed to ask me if I wanted to get together with him and his friend when I visited new York. "Maybe you know her?" he wrote. "She's the artist Cindy Sherman." Back then I had never heard of Cindy. But since Paul was smart and funny, I agreed to meet. The three of us convened in an elegant tea room for a boisterous conversation. A week later, when I was back home and mentioned the event to a colleague, her eyes got big and she shrieked, "You had tea with THE Cindy Sherman."

She then educated me on how successful and influential Cindy's photography has been. I predict you will soon have a comparable experience, Virgo: inadvertent contact with an intriguing presence.

Hopefully, because I've given you a heads up, you'll recognize what's happening as it occurs, and take full advantage.

caPRIcORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your life in the coming days should be low on lightweight diversions and high in top-quality content.

Does that sound like fun? I hope so. I'd love to see you enjoy the hell out of yourself as you cut the fluff and focus on the pith ... as you efficiently get to the hype-free heart of every matter and refuse to tolerate waffling or stalling. So strip away the glossy excesses, my dear Capricorn. Skip a few steps if that doesn't cause any envy. Expose the pretty lies, but then just work around them; don't get bogged down indulging in negative emotions about them.

LIbRa (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You'll never get access to the treasure that's buried out under the cherry tree next to the ruined barn if you stay in your command center and keep staring at the map instead of venturing out to the barn. Likewise, a symbol of truth may be helpful in experiencing deeper meaning, but it's not the same as communing with the raw truth, and may even become a distraction from it.

Let's consider one further variation on the theme: The pictures in your mind's eye may or may not have any connection with the world outside your brain. It's especially important that you monitor their accuracy in the coming days.

ScORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to go gallivanting so heedlessly into the labyrinth. Or maybe it was. Who knows? It's still too early to assess the value of your experiences in that maddening but fascinating tangle. You may not yet be fully able to distinguish the smoke and mirrors from the useful revelations. Which of the riddles you've gathered will ultimately bring frustration and which will lead you to wisdom? Here's one thing I do know for sure: If you want to exit the labyrinth, an opportunity will soon appear.

SaGIttaRIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Over the years I've read numerous news reports about people who have engaged in intimate relations with clunky inanimate objects. One had sex with a bicycle. Another seduced a sidewalk, and a third tried to make sweet love to a picnic table. I hope you won't join their ranks in the coming weeks. Your longing is likely to be extra intense,

aQUaRIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Inventor, architect, and author Buckminster Fuller lived to the age of 87. For 63 of those years, he kept a detailed scrapbook diary that documented every day of his life.

It included his reflections, correspondence, drawings, newspaper clippings, grocery bills, and much other evidence of his unique story.

I would love to see you express yourself with that much disciplined ferocity during the next two weeks.

According to my astrological analysis, you're in a phase when you have maximum power to create your life with vigorous ingenuity and to show everyone exactly who you are.

PISceS (Feb. 19-March 20): You have a cosmic license to enjoy almost too much sensual pleasure. In addition, you should feel free to do more of what you love to do than you normally allow yourself. Be unapologetic about surrounding yourself with flatterers and worshipers.

Be sumptuously lazy. Ask others to pick up the slack for you. Got all that? It's just the first part of your oracle. Here's the rest: You have a cosmic license to explore the kind of spiritual growth that's possible when you feel happy and fulfilled.

As you go through each day, expect life to bring you exactly what you need to uplift you. Assume the best service you can offer your fellow humans is to be relaxed and content.

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I’m almost 30 and I’m a virgin. I’m an overweight, straight-ish guy (I’m attracted to a few men, but those cases are exceedingly rare).

I’ve also gone through an absolute hell life thus far, losing a testicle to cancer and having an abusive father who threatened a teenage me into celibacy by invoking the phrase “penile lobotomy” should I have sex with any girlfriends. I’ve barely dated in 10 years, and while I’m free from my father and the aforementioned mortal dick terror, I’m also incredibly scared about putting myself out there. I’m disabled, I’m not conventionally attractive by most standards, my whole zone down there is scarred up from surgeries, and, to top it all off, I’m on the small side. The last time I had the opportunity for sex, I went for it, but I was so terrified that I couldn’t keep it up. The woman I was with said something to the effect of “Well, I can’t do anything with that, now can I?” After which, I asked her to leave because, seriously, that’s kind of an asshole thing to say. I’m notionally on Tinder and Bumble, but I really don’t know what I’m doing—and more often than not, I feel like the right thing for any theoretical partners would be for me to just stay in hiding and not inflict my grotesque presence on them. I’m scared of another humiliation, as that’s most definitely not my kink, and I’m at an age where my complete lack of experience and physical deformity are (I would have to imagine) major issues for anyone I might encounter. I truly want romance, sexuality, and companionship in my life. I haven’t fought through poverty, disability, physical and emotional abuse, and my genitalia trying to kill me to stay entombed in my office alone and unloved. I just do not know where to even begin.

THE VIRGIN WHO’S BEEN FUCKED A WHOLE LOT JUST NEVER IN THE GOOD WAY Off the top of my head … hire a sex worker. It will allow you to separate your anxieties about finding romance and companionship from your anxieties about being sexually inexperienced. A kind, indulgent, competent sex worker can relieve you of your virginity and help restore—or instill—confidence in your dick’s ability to get and stay hard in the presence of another human being. Be totally honest about your inexperience and your concerns. If you get the sense during negotiations—which should be brief and to the point—that the woman you’re talking to is impatient or uncaring, thank her for her time and start over. There are kind, caring, compassionate sex workers out there. Presumably you’ve got a computer in your office, TVWBFAWLJNITGW. Use it to find one.

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and budget allow. Even if you have to go alone, go. Even if the things you want to do are unlikely to put you in front of many/any women, do those things. You’re likelier to meet someone if you’re out of the house and moving through the world. Even if you don’t meet someone right away, you’ll feel less isolated and less alone. Even if you never meet someone (I’m not sugarcoating things—some people don’t), going places and doing things means you’ll have a rich and full and active life, regardless.

You’re not alone. Okay, you’re alone—but you’re not alone alone. Meaning, there are women (and men) out there who feel just as paralyzed as you do because they’re 30-year-old-or-older virgins, because they’re not conventionally attractive, because their first/only sexual experiences were just as humiliating, because they had traumatic childhoods and bear emotional scars. You want a woman to come into your life who is patient and accepting and kind and willing to look past your disability and your inexperience and your difficult history. Be patient, accepting, kind, and similarly willing.

Get over those scars. I had a boyfriend a long time ago who had significant scarring on his balls and taint. He was a farm boy (sigh), and he fell on a piece of farm machinery and wound up straddling a scalding-hot pipe. I don’t know how that worked exactly, because I don’t know from farm machinery, but the pipe burned through his jeans and left third-degree burns on his balls, taint, and upper-upper thigh.

Ten years later, we started going out—and guess what? I didn’t notice his scars. And not for want of opportunity: He was my first serious boyfriend, and I spent the better part of three months with my face in his crotch. The scars that were so obvious to him and left him feeling self-conscious about his genitals? They were invisible to me until he needlessly apologized for them. Genitals are a jumble of flesh and folds and hairs and colors and bits and pieces and sometimes scars, TVWBFAWLJNITGW. If you’re worried your scarring is noticeable, mention that you’re a cancer survivor and lost a ball but gained a sick (as in cool) scar.

Good luck, TVWBFAWLJNITGW. We’re rooting for you.

FIRST TIME?

Your a faggot.

WOMEN OBSESS REAL MEN Your new here, WORM, aren’t you?

STICKY FINGERS

I’m a straight woman, and I’ve been dating my boyfriend for about eight months. We have a wonderful relationship and amazing sex. There’s one thing he does in the bedroom,

however, that I find off-putting and I was hoping you might be able to provide some insight. About 25 percent of the time after he ejaculates, he briefly licks some of his come off his fingers. This kind of creeps me out. I’ve been with more than a few dudes, so I obviously understand that a woman eating their come is a common turn-on, but this is my first experience with this particular incarnation. At first I was worried my aversion might be rooted in some deeply buried homophobic beliefs, but we’ve discussed the idea of me pegging him, and that I can get behind. I think it’s more that this smacks of a certain egotism I find frivolous. Like, I wouldn’t go around shoving my fingers inside my pussy and rubbing the results all over my face. Typically we’re able to discuss any kind of conflict or confusion that arises between us, but this one seems tough to broach for me. Three questions: How common is this? Do I need to just get over it or should I try to talk to him about it? Would most guys suck their own dick if they were able?

YEARNING UNDERSTANDING CONCERNING KINK 1. It’s not common, YUCK, but it’s not unheard of either. Maybe your boyfriend grew up with sexphobic parents who blew up at the sight of a crusty sock—so he opted to destroy the evidence by eating it and developed a taste for it. Maybe he thinks his semen contains powerful woo-hoo-y masculine energy and wishes to retain some of it. Maybe he had a girlfriend who thought it was hot to see him eat his come and he (wrongly) assumes it’s a turn-on for you, too.

2. Yes, you need to get over it and, yes, you should ask him about it.

The former almost certainly requires the latter.

3. Every man on earth tries, a select few succeed, and we all would if we could. Even my new friend WORM. On the Lovecast, advice from a dominatrix on kinky parties: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter ITMFA.org

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