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This is Linda Duncan. She’s gone soon. / Supplied

THE ORANGE ISLAND

Federal Conservatives Eye Edmonton Strathcona as Lauded MP Announces Her Retirement in 2019

ew Democrat MP and kooky aunt of Edmonton Strathcona Linda Duncan announced she would not be running for re-election in 2019 last week. This announcement comes with the promise of an end to Duncan’s 10-year reign in the riding and with the promise of a power vacuum in the historic part of the city. From 2008 until now, the riding acted as a kind of bastion for the Federal NDP in Edmonton. While over the years, much of the province voted tory—and as of the most recent election, it took on some decidedly liberal shades—Edmonton Strathcona appeared on the election results map as a lone island of orange. The party has since opened up its nominations. “I’m not running again because, by then, I’ll have been in office for 11 years,” Duncan says with a laugh. “That’s long enough for anyone ... I worked away for 15 years, and missed out on a lot of my community and my family. I decided I want to be able to go on holidays when my friends go on holidays. Like I tell everybody, I want to get a dog.”

While Duncan says she’s likely to try to disappear totally from the world of politics—potentially to start cleaning the debris from her decade-long career from her house—she’s “not the kind of person who has blinders on.” Her family originally came to Canada in 1610, and the current MP wants to compile this history. A few pieces of advice Duncan has for the future NDP candidates:

With Duncan poised to leave next year, the Conservative Party of Canada is hoping to swoop in and bring the area back into its fold. Kathleen Bancroft, vice president of the Conservative Electoral District Association in Edmonton Strathcona points out that the riding hasn’t always been a left-wing strong hold. It’s seen MPs from the Conservative, Reform, Social Credit,

us. And, of course, we would like to thank her for her record of public service,” Bancroft says. “Obviously, my opinions and hers differ on many issues ... But we do have immense amounts of respect for her. It’s bittersweet, but we are excited to move onto a new chapter and another challenge. We’re definitely optimistic.” There’s a strong base of conservatism in the area, Bancroft

“I worked away for 15 years, and missed out on a lot of my community and my family. I decided I want to be able to go on holidays when my friends go on holidays. Like I tell everybody, I want to get a dog.” engage with the community, and know that acting as a voice against the party in power also has value. “We need to have strong opposition with a variety of voices,” she says. “Remain open to the fact you’re going to have to debate and be involved in a broad array of policies.”

and Liberal Parties—and the vast majority of the time, it wasn’t a left or even centrist party taking the reigns of the constituency. “For us, we would like to acknowledge and thank MP Duncan. She’s been a formidable candidate, and she’s run three successful campaigns against

says, and the association is seeing some strong potential candidates expressing interest in putting their names forward. The VP can’t say who they are, but two people have come forward, and three or four others are tentatively interested. Additionally, she says, early door-knocking is showing that

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people in Strathcona are “ready for something different”—and maybe formerly left-voting residents will change gears. “That’s interest that we haven’t seen in years ... The calibre of candidate is amazing. We’re seeing young, bright, dedicated conservatives coming forward for this nomination,” she says. “We’re looking to grow this base.” While Bancroft doesn’t want to speak for Duncan, she does posit that federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh may be alienating some former party loyalists—and that may contribute to other orange MPs stepping down. Duncan has heard this sentiment before, but roundly rejects it. Similarly, she says, constituents in the riding tell her that they’re not particularly interested in voting in a rightwing party—one expects this discrepancy. “Your leader is obviously a key aspect, but I’m in a party where the caucus is very strong. We’re a very feisty lot,” she says. “I don’t feel under the thumb of a leader.” Doug Johnson doug@vueweekly.com front 3

CATS!?

Not a wild cat, just a weird one. / Doug Johnson

‘DISPOSABLE ANIMALS’—WILD CATS ROAM CITY The Number of Feral Felines in Edmonton is Slowly Decreasing, Emphasis on Slowly: Local Rescue

ens of thousands of feral cats roam Edmonton, a statistic that’s both sad and worrisome, says Kath Oltsher, co-founder of Zoe’s Animal Rescue. The number Oltsher cites is 70,000—quite a lot more than the city’s number, 63,000—but whatever the exact number is, the local animal rescue considers it too high, and it wants to do its part in stemming the numbers. However, the organization isn’t allowed to fix feral cats in Edmonton. There’s a fear that it may accidentally spay or neuter someone’s beloved pet. “We’re on the side that says ‘so what?’” she says, adding that the organization attempts to rehome any wild cat that they find. It has around 200 foster homes, and adult feral cats cannot really be adopted. The City of Edmonton does do some spaying and neutering of feral cats—around 8,000 of them last year—but Oltsher says she wishes Zoe’s Animal Rescue could chip in on the effort. The numbers of these wild cats are declining, but it’s a slow process, she says.

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A big, and decidedly heartbreaking, chunk of this population comes from abandoned animals who haven’t been spayed or neutered. Oltsher says it’s not uncommon to see vacated apartments with leftover pets. “Cats in particular—it’s really sad. They’re like a disposable animal,” she says.

leaving a house and they leave their cats outside and they’re unfixed—they’ll continue to have more kittens and more kittens and more kittens,” she says. “They have no interactions with humans. They’re like wild squirrels but bigger and with claws.” This population takes a toll on the bird population of a city. Ac-

However, she adds, cats are smart enough to survive Edmonton’s long, cold winters, at least long enough to give birth. It’s hard to pinpoint the exact number of wild cats in Edmonton, says Tanya Laughren, community relations advisor with the city’s Animal Care and Control Centre.

“Any place that’s been condemned, or where housing is changing over, or people are leaving a house and they leave their cats outside and they’re unfixed—they’ll continue to have more kittens and more kittens and more kittens.” Most of the wild felines live and hunt in the River Valley. Though they can be found in old buildings—and those that are under construction—according to Oltsher, the River Valley is the place where people tend to leave their unwanted cats. “Any place that’s been condemned, or where housing is changing over, or people are

cording to a 2013 study by the Avian Conservation and Ecology group, cats were the top killer of birds in Canada. Similarly, Oltsher speculates the cats in the River Valley may contribute to the number of urban coyotes in the city. “These cats don’t necessarily live long lives because they are prone to inbreeding and different diseases,” she says.

When Vue asked if it was like herding cats, she somewhat hesitantly agreed. “We can’t track where they’re living, and every black cat looks like a black cat,” she says. “It is a hard estimate… It’s not like they’re standing up and saying ‘I’m number one, I’m number 50.’” A few years back, the Million Cat Challenge, out of the Univer-

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sity of California Davis, came to Edmonton and gave the city an algorithm to estimate the number of wild cats in the region. It’s a function of people, cats spotted in an area, etc. Neither Laughren nor Oltsher could say if 70,000 or 63,000 was a lot compared to other cities—and Laughren guesses that the population has, more or less, remained constant. However, the city is looking at some potential projects in case the population spikes in the future. In all, it’s not a huge problem for safety or public health, Laughren says. Additionally, the cats play a role in the city’s ecosystem. “Yes they are killing birds. Yes they are killing rodents. They are being fed on by coyotes … If all of a sudden, there weren’t 63,000 cats in the city, you would see an effect on insects, on plants, on songbirds,” she says. “This isn’t to say they’re a natural part of the ecosystem or that we want them out there reproducing, but they’re a part of it nonetheless.” Doug Johnson doug@vueweekly.com

DYER STRAIGHT

HIGH SEAS FISHING: A WHALE OF A CONCERN Fishing on the Open Ocean Is Rarely Profitable, and Comes with a Huge List of Environmental Issues

obody loves the United Nations. It’s a bureaucracy, and its job is to make rules. But where else could you negotiate a treaty on The Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ for short)? That is to say, bringing the rule of law to the high seas before all the fish are gone. “This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get ocean governance that puts conservation and sustainable use first,” Liz Karan told National Geographic last year. She’s the senior manager for the high seas program at the Pew Charitable Trusts, one of the many campaigning organizations that finally pushed this to the top of the UN’s agenda. The ‘high seas’ used to mean all of the oceans beyond a cannon shot from land, but they have shrunk. All the ocean within 200 nautical miles (370 km.) of land is now in some country’s Exclusive Economic Zone, and protecting fish stocks within the EEZs is the task of more than a hundred sovereign states with ocean coastlines. Some do it well; most do not. But out beyond the 200th-nautical-mile, EEZs are still the high seas, where nobody regulates the fishing. That’s half of the planet’s entire surface, containing 90 percent of the world’s biomass; but back in the 1980s, when UN members were negotiating the Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), hardly anybody was fishing that far out. Well, they are out there now, going where they want and taking as much as they want. Trawlers of up to 14,000 tons (about the displacement of a pre-First World War battleship) quarter the high seas,

setting huge gill nets with a large by-catch of whales and turtles, dragging long-lines of up to 100 km in length that bristle with hooks, and using bottom-trawling methods that damage the seabed. Fish populations are generally denser in the EEZs because nutrients are richer close to the coasts, and even now the high seas account for only about 10 percent of the global fish catch. But it is a critical tenth, because the high seas act as a kind of nursery, especially for the larger species of fish, most of which spend at least part of their life-cycles there. Allowing large-scale commercial fishing to take over on the high seas is like sawing off the branch we’re sitting on. Happily, a majority of the world’s countries agree that it should be controlled. Only 10 countries, all of them rich (Spain, Japan, Korea, etc.), account for 70 percent of fishing on the high seas, and even they aren’t really making money off of it. If it weren’t for large government subsidies, there would be hardly any fishing vessels operating that far out: the fuel costs alone would be prohibitive. So there is probably a deal to be done here. The initiative for a treaty to regulate high-seas fishing came from New Zealand and Mexico, but more than 70 countries have co-sponsored it, and the first of four sessions that will negotiate the new treaty opened at the UN in New York on Sept. 4. The high-seas treaty will probably be attached to the existing UNCLOS treaty, and they are hoping to have it ready for signature by mid-2020. That sounds a bit optimistic (everything takes lon-

ger and costs more), but there is actually a good chance that the job will get done, and that it will have positive effects. The treaty’s main achievement, if it succeeds, will be to create and supervise ‘marine protected areas’ (MPAs) on the high seas in which no fishing whatever is permitted. They need to be very large; advocates talk in terms of MPAs adding up to at least one-third of the entire high seas area—in order to allow entire ocean ecosystems to recover, from corals and sponges up to tuna, sharks and turtles. Policing these MPAs once they are created would be a lot simpler than enforcing the rules closer to shore, because the high seas fishing fleets are big ships operating in relatively uncrowded waters. Satellites would quickly spot one fishing in the wrong area, and the fines would build up quickly. Meanwhile, smaller vessels fishing in the EEZs might find that they were catching more fish. Rashid Sumaila, director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at the University of British Columbia, estimates that closing all the high seas to commercial fishing would turn them into a “fish bank” that produced more and more fish, many of which then migrated to the EEZs and boosted the catch there by 18 percent. It’s late in the day, and the oceans are already badly damaged. A new treaty cannot stop warming and acidification from making them an increasingly difficult environment for life. It probably won’t even address the plastic plague. But it will provide a large safe haven where fish populations can recover, at least for a while. Gwynne Dyer

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There’s only so much that humans can take from the ocean. / Adobe Stock

VUE BRIEF We are the Ebus and We’re Coming to Town, Beep Beep

eginning Oct. 19, Ebus—sister brand to motorcoach company Red Arrow—is expanding its daily reach for its Albertan passengers. The bus service will now offer additional daily trips from Calgary to Edmonton with stops in Red Deer. The shuttle service provides access to city centres, but will also stop at important locations such as the Edmonton International Airport, CrossIron Mills in Calgary, and to the University of Alberta. This announcement comes after Greyhound Canada announced it would be ending its services in the prairies and British Columbia by Oct. 31. For Alberta, this means 107 locations will lose service. The decision essentially left small Albertan towns out in the cold, and companies like Red Arrow and Ebus are now slowly filling the void in some parts of the province. U of A students expressed concern in July about Greyhound’s decision saying that the service was the most cost affordable way to visit family during school breaks. With Ebus and Red Arrow stepping up, students may no longer have to worry.

Ebus will also be launching a service from Edmonton to Fort McMurray, launching in October. “We want Albertans to know that while other transportation providers are leaving, we are committed to continuing and expanding our service offerings in the province,” says Dean Wright, vice president of Motorcoach, which owns and operates Ebus and Red Arrow, in a press release from the company. The Government of Alberta has also invested $700,000 into its Rural Transportation Pilot Program which funds a new Medicine Hat/Lethbridge shuttle bus that will connect 12 communities across the region, providing public transportation to 27,700 people who currently have no transit access, a press release from the province says. Another addition to the project is a route specifically for Red Deer County, connecting Red Deer with Springbrook, Innisfail, and Penhold. Red Arrow has also said they are looking into creating connecting routes in other parts of central Alberta. Stephan Boissonneault stephan@vueweekly.com

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COFFEE

The Grizzlar Coffee and Records 10557 109 St. thegrizzlar.com

New Coffee Roaster and Record Label in Edmonton Has Punk and Caffeine in Its Veins

rew McIntosh likes his beans roasted, his t-shirts black, and his business model socially conscious—and, at times, vaguely anarcho-syndicalist. He’s a punk: a punk with roots in Edmonton’s music scene, a punk who loves caffeine, a punk with a new business, called The Grizzlar Coffee and Records that he hopes will do some good in the city. More than five years ago— back when the Artery was still around—McIntosh and a few friends ran a project called Solidarity Rock, which brought bands and artist from Latin America to Edmonton stages—and vice versa. He made the now defunct effort in the hopes of strengthening ties between the American music scenes. But, while he roved around the subcontinent in search of art, he found himself immersed in the region’s coffee culture. This by-product solidified an idea for the new business owner—it was a way for McIntosh to combine his seemingly disparate interests in one spot. Two years ago, he went to Italy for a month and trained as a coffee roaster in a Florentine academy. He spent the following years looking for a space—eventually settling in 10557 109 St., just North 6 dish

of MacEwan University—and trying to find a distinct ‘voice’ for his fair-trade coffee, something that would set him apart from contemporaries in North America. “Instead of looking at things that were happening closer to home in places like Seattle or Vancouver or Toronto, I decided to look back at the roots of coffee ... It’s something that third-wave coffee misses a lot of the time,” he says.

stems from McIntosh’s time fostering regional musicians trying to make punk rock in places where it wasn’t the norm. McIntosh and his compatriots made a few records in Cuba—so that side of it was successful—but there was no “business end” to the effort, and the project’s releases didn’t get very far. It was hard to compete with bigger centres like Toronto, he says.

The storefront doesn’t have a studio in it—the label is more about connections, McIntosh says, trying to find people doing great things and “taking them across boarders and across boundaries.” The passion project is also providing all the coffee needs for Boyle Street Community Services. According to McIntosh, fair-trade coffee has some fantastic ben-

“You’re in the fair-trade coffee business, but you’re not meeting the needs right in front of you in your community ... Corporate coffee keeps people down.” “To put blends together is the difference between a note and a chord. To put five beans together, you really have to know what is present in each of those beans, and how to make them express that in sequence and in harmony with everything around them. That’s the Italian aspect of it that I really like.” The “and Records” part of The Grizzlar Coffee and Records also

“I started to pursue the idea to expand my work in that capacity to do more international acts, more international projects, but have an alternative economy to push them,” he says. “There’s a speculative nature to art. Publishing the music—we have a product we can sell. But at the same time, you have to be willing to buy that. But everyone uses coffee. Coffee is a hard product with real value.”

efits—especially in the countries from which it is sourced—but on the consumer end, the additional quality and ethics mean prices that can be prohibitive for some. Also: it’s not like people who sell these beverages make the best wages in the world. “Sometimes we come back to Canada with it, we roast it, and then it’s delivered in a very classist context, which removes access,”

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he says. “You’re in the fair-trade coffee business, but you’re not meeting the needs right in front of you in your community ... Corporate coffee keeps people down.” According to McIntosh, the business is committed to doing this— he’ll just have to figure out exactly how to do it after it starts. The owner had one big takeaway from the business courses he took in anticipation of opening the shop: just sell as much as you can. “We’ll start with Boyle Street and work our way up to the office towers,” he says. This kind of independent, DIY ethos is an important one for McIntosh. Through the—somewhat harrowing—process of opening Grizzlar, the business has ended up rubbing shoulders with other like-minded organizations around town, like Champ City Couriers— a worker-owned bike messenger group in Edmonton. The two are teaming up to offer a delivery service where the independent contractors in the latter group deliver the formers’ coffee to businesses as a reoccurring thing (set up weekly, biweekly, etc.). The service is called No Pods, No Masters, a riff on an old anarchist slogan. Doug Johnson doug@vueweekly.com

FARM FANS

Visitors at last year’s Open Farm Days. / Supplied

SMOKE NOT A PROBLEM FOR AGRI-TOURISM This Year, Open Farm Days is Poised to See Record Numbers, In Spite of Oppressive Smog

he ever pervasive smoke couldn’t dampen Albertans’ appreciation for agri-tourism— a weird, but seemingly true sentence. Alberta Open Farm Days, which ran Aug. 18 – 19 and saw more than 100 agriculture centres open their doors to the public, could well have seen low turnout as the skies darkened with smoke from forest fires in British Columbia. However—though hard numbers are still forthcoming—participation in the province-wide event, more than a decade old, was stronger than ever. According to Tim Carson, who is on the Open Farm Days committee and is the CEO of the Alberta Association of Agricultural Societies, social media engagement with the various sites and the event itself showed great enthusiasm. “If we go to our social media feeds and look at our activity on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram … it’s probably our largest year ever,” Carson says. “We don’t have statistics just yet— that’ll be compiled over the next few months—but at the end of the day, I think the level of engagement has certainly increased over the last six years.” In 2017, Open Farm Days saw 58,000 visits across the province, and $145,000 in farm sales. Carson expects these numbers to increase in the

future. While the events organizers have amped up their marketing efforts—though not their budget—much of this continued increase comes from Albertans themselves. “I think the conversation around where our food is coming from is top of mind for people in general,” he says. “I think our host farms have been evolving into cool and interesting experiences for people who are out traveling to visit them.” Agri-tourism, in general, contributes to the economic wellbeing of rural municipalities. It’s also important for them, on a kind of personal level, to be able to tell their stories and provide a bit of outreach. “The opportunities for visitors to come and spend their dollars at small businesses or agri-businesses is quite vital for the sustainability and future of rural Alberta,” Carson says. However, urban centres also see some benefit from it. It’s also mostly urbanites who attend agri-tourism events. Similarly, he says, Open Farm Days tends to appeal mostly to Albertans themselves—though he’s not sure about other agritourism projects in the province. “I think that the educational process around where our food comes from, and the stewardship that is happening around

the production of our food is something we need to share with people in urban areas,” he says. “Marketing and media don’t always do the best job of showing what’s going on.” None taken. Surprisingly, the badlands in the province’s South are home to a startling array of agricultural efforts. McCain—a com-

pany well-known for its French fries that are sometimes shaped like smiley faces—has a plan in Coaldale. Similarly, Field Stone Fruit Wines—kind of an oddity in that it’s a winery in Alberta— is located in Strathmore. The list of Open Farm Days hosts in the region is a diverse one, Carson says—and farmers and ranchers in the badlands use

a variety of interesting techniques in their operations. “The ag-tourism industry in the badlands, in Northern Alberta, even in the Rockies, is alive and well and thriving,” he says. “We’re more than oil and gas, and tourism is more than the mountains.” Doug Johnson doug@vueweekly.com

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VEGAN COOKIES If you’re vegan and live in Edmonton, you know what these are. // Supplied

KITCHEN TIPS Lime, and the Last Few Minutes of Summer: Two Things You Get to Squeeze when You Make Ceviche

till longing for more summer? Turn the heat up with this spicy ceviche using Icelandic Redfish fillet. The key to this dish is quality fresh fish, and finding a knowledgeable fish supplier is the surest way to guarantee you are getting the highest quality fish. Icelandic Redfish Ceviche – 4 Servings

• 1 small garlic clove, finely grated • ¼ cup fresh lemon juice • ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes • ¼ teaspoon cane sugar • 5 tablespoons fresh lime juice, plus more for serving • 12 ounces highest-quality skinless Icelandic Redfish fillet, cut into ½-inch pieces • Kosher salt • ¼ small red onion, thinly sliced • 1 cup cherry tomatoes, thinly sliced crosswise into rounds • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil • 1 avocado, chopped • ½ cup coarsely chopped cilantro • ¼ cup coarsely crushed macadamia nuts • Original Redhead Condiments Habanero/Garlic hot sauce

1. Combine garlic, lemon juice, red pepper flakes, sugar, and 5 tbsp. lime juice in a medium bowl. 2. Add Icelandic Redfish, season with salt, and toss gently to combine. Let sit, tossing occasionally to make sure all the slices of fish are getting equal love, until fish has firmed up slightly, 10–15 minutes. 3. Add onion, tomatoes, and oil and toss to coat; let sit 5 minutes. 4. Add avocado and cilantro and gently toss to combine. Taste and adjust seasoning with more salt and/or lime juice if desired. 5. Spoon ceviche into a large shallow bowl or divide into individual bowls and top with macadamia nuts. Drizzle with Original Redhead Condiments Habanero/Garlic hot sauce and more lime juice. Serve. Chef Daniel from Ocean Odyssey Inland

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PLANT-BASED BAKERS BLOOM TO STOREFRONT

Beloved Vegan Purveyors of Carbs Will Expand Operations to a Dedicated Spot on 124th Street

shley and Andrew Benson will get their basement back. For the past six-and-a-half years, the couple and owners/ operators of Bloom Cookie Co. have been making their vegan offerings below ground—the ad hoc bakery taking up the entirety of their home’s lowest floor. According to Andrew Benson, their current operation is only a little over 300 square feet in size. But they’ve done a lot with it— Bloom is well-regarded around

of farmers’ markets, and a few other businesses—Remedy Cafe, Barking Buffalo Cafe, The Capo, Barber Ha, to name a few. The company has avoided selling online, though, Benson says. The couple have a few new flavours planned for when the businesses’ new HQ opens its doors. “I think [Ashley] is up to about 25 flavours, and I think having the shop will allow her to do some of the stuff she can’t do at the market, because they’re a little

vegan. My wife and I kind of came out of the punk rock community in Edmonton, and a lot of them are vegan, so we used to have potlucks at their houses,” Benson says, adding that the couple is vegetarian. “When our first child was born, my wife was kind of looking for something to do that didn’t require her going back to travel ... She was all over the place while she was doing that.” Once Ashley was off maternity leave, she began selling the

“It’s really funny. You go into our basement and there’s this room, and it looks like a Dexter room— stainless steel, and tile, and shit.” town for its inventive cookie types, including London fog and mojito. “It’s really funny. You go into our basement and there’s this room, and it looks like a Dexter room— stainless steel, and tile, and shit,” he says. “We’re taking back our basement.” But, come October, the business will have its own site on 124th Street—giving them more room and a direct link to consumers. Currently, and in the past, they have just sold Bloom Cookies out

cookies in markets in the Metro Edmonton area. The Bensons hope the shop will be open in mid-October. The 13,000-square-foot space, located just next door to Prairie NooAshley used to be a travel dle Shop, is still being prepped— agent—a rep for Air Canada Vaca- it’s being divided in half, the front tions—seven years ago, but when half going to Bloom, and the back the couple began expecting their going to a different business. “Fingers crossed everything first child, she began looking for ways to generate some cash while goes according to plan,” he says. Doug Johnson staying closer to home. “We have a lot of friends who are doug@vueweekly.com more delicate or they don’t pack as well. She’s wanting to do more sandwich cookies and filled cookies—in the future, we may look at how to expand that out.”

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MODEST FASHION

Wedad Amiri Wants to Challenge Misunderstandings about Muslim Women and De-Stigmatize Mental Ilness with Her Clothing Line, Afflatus Hijab

t shouldn’t be hard to understand why a young Edmonton Hijabi would want to dispel misunderstandings about Muslim women. Two cases of Alberta women being verbally harassed about their hijabs have received media attention in the past two years—the most recent involving a young Edmonton woman at a Superstore. While Wedad Amiri was not involved in that incident, she cites it as one example of why, when she started her own clothing line four years ago, it was important for her company to be socially conscious. “I wanted to change the narrative of how Muslim women were seen in the media,” she says.

enough to wear to a wedding, but not overly elaborate. She designs the clothes herself—drawing out the design and choosing fabrics, etc.—and has a manufacturer who produces her clothing. Amiri’s designs are mainly available online, but she also does pop-up shops. A lot of her Canadian orders come from Toronto, Alberta, and Winnipeg, but she also has clients all over the U.S. and Europe, and recently made a sale in Saudi Arabia. Afflatus Hijab has become so successful that Amiri quit her job in October to run the clothing line full time. She’s also had some famous Muslim women wear her

the Muslim community around the world,” and then for her second collection she decided to name them after strong Indigenous women. For the third, and most recent, collection, Amiri wanted to destigmatize mental illness. “I stopped focusing just mainly on Muslim women; I shifted my focus on women in general, and so six out of the eight people are Muslim and two are non-Muslims,” she explains. Each item in the collection is named after a woman with a mental illness, and the web description for each includes how their illness affects them and their advice for others with the same illness. It also

This green bell sleeve top is called Anonymous, as the story of the individual dealing with depression and addictions, for whom it is “named,” was shared by a family member. / Supplied

“I wanted them to tell their stories and not me, and the same goes for Indigenous women as well.” Amiri had no previous fashion experience when she started Afflatus Hijab. She has a bachelor of arts degree in sociology and political science, and worked for the City of St. Albert for six and a half years giving presentations to youth in classrooms. The clothing line came about because Amiri saw a gap in the market. She says she gets invited to a lot of weddings and engagements, but had trouble finding appropriate attire. “There was nothing that I could find that was fancy enough, but covered enough,” she says. “I have to cover my arms and legs because I wear the hijab, so if I was buying a dress for a wedding, I would have to get alterations done—I would have to put sleeves on, or add some material to the bottom of it. It was so costly.” Amiri decided to make clothes that were affordable, stylish, and modest—clothes that were fancy

designs, including Dalia Mogahed, director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding in Washington, D.C.; and Iqbal El Assaad, the world’s youngest doctor. Chatelaine included her Doaa Elghobashy polka-dot dress in their 10 favourite modest clothing by Canadian designers picks, and she has been invited to New York for Maarkah New York Fashion Week, where she’ll present her collection alongside other modest fashion designers—including Ibtihaj Muhammad, a member of the American fencing team and the first Muslim American woman to wear a hijab while competing in the Olympics—on Sept. 10. Each of the pieces in Amiri’s collections are named after strong women—both Mogahed and Assaad have skirts named after them, and there is a Ibtihaj Muhammad dress. For her first collection she chose “trailblazers in

includes details of their life, like what they do and their family life. “I wanted them to tell their stories and not me, and the same goes for Indigenous women as well,” Amiri says. She adds that de-stigmatizing mental illness has always been part of Afflatus Hijab’s social platform, but she didn’t think people were ready for a campaign four years ago. “They wouldn’t have been that open, and I feel like people are … talking about it, and I thought, ‘This is the time to do it,’” Amiri says. She wants to keep the conversation on mental illness going, but is still deciding on how best to do that. She does know that all of her future collections will have different themes, but is still deciding what the next one will be. “But it will always be based on women.” Chelsea Novak chelsea@vueweekly.com

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This pink lace dress is named after Aliyah Allinoor, who has anxiety. / Supplied

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FIGURATIVE PAINTING

“White Bonnet II” by Kirsty Templeton Davidge. / Supplied

PAINTER FOCUSES IN ON THE HARD STUFF Edmonton Artist Kirsty Templeton Davidge Embraces Challenges with Her New Exhibition

Common Threads Sept. 6 – 23 Opening Reception Thu., Sept. 6, 7-9 p.m. Peter Robertson Gallery

irsty Templeton Davidge’s artistic career got a late start, so she says she doesn’t have time to mess around. That might explain why her latest work—showing as Common Threads at the Peter Robertson Gallery—focuses in on some of the most challenging aspects of figurative painting. On her website, Davidge describes her recent work as “cropped perspectives of the human form,” and each piece offers what the viewer could recognize as a cropped version of a more traditional portrait that zooms in on details like hands, feet, and clothing. “It’s focusing in on this one thing, and … what does that mean? What does that say?” she explains. Davidge is from Toronto, and attended the Toronto School of Art after high school, but then she says “life started: I got married, I had babies, and yeah, it was just all about life.” She returned to school in 2011, completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts at the University 10 arts

of Alberta, and convocating with her son in 2015. Since then, she has shown her work several times—twice before at the Peter Robertson Gallery, in other Edmonton galleries, in Toronto, and in Cincinnati, where her work was awarded Best in Show. Davidge says she has always loved the human form—it was her focus even at the Toronto School of Art.

here because I’ve got a really late start,” Davidge says. “I’m 53 and time’s a tickin’; let’s get going.” She attributes the quality of her current work to practice and putting in the hours needed to improve. Davidge also isn’t afraid of a challenge—she started painting clothing because she hated painting drapery in school. “I hated it because it’s so hard, and that’s why, too, I moved to hands and feet. For me, I love

Award, required mastery of both faces and hands, so she decided to force herself to get better at “the hard stuff.” Her paintings start with trips to second hand stores, where she tries to find pieces of clothing that speak to her, or tell a story. She then has her models pose for photographs, which she works off of. Conceptually, most of the paintings show only part of the

“We all think we know people, especially people who are close to us—we really know them—but we know what they give us.” “But honestly,” she says, “I was terrible.” You’d never guess that, looking at her work just seven years after she returned to painting—and her ardent desire to grow as an artist is not only evident from her work, but her attitude. “I have a really strong work ethic, and I’m not wasting any time

painting faces. Face are like dessert,” she says. “So then I decided I would take away the dessert, and I’m just going to have to do the meat and the potatoes.” Taking on the challenge was important for Davidge to reach her goals as an artist. She heard that portrait prizes, such as the The Kingston Prize and BP Portrait

subject, which Davidge relates to interpersonal relationships. “We all think we know people, especially people who are close to us—we really know them—but we know what they give us,” she says. “And everybody has something that they keep to themselves. It’s just theirs and they don’t share even with their spouse or their

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most intimate partners.” Davidge is also interested in beauty, but says beauty isn’t pretty. Some of her paintings reflect this by including wasps buzzing around or crawling on the subject. “Beauty has elements of things that were difficult, things that hurt,” she says. “So the wasps in there kind of talk to that a little bit—about the unpredictability of relationships, and life on the whole. That it’s not all easy, and beautiful, and pretty.” The models in Davidge’s paintings repeat, and she’s interested in whether or not people are able to recognize when it’s the same model. She also says that her models are all connected, which informs the exhibition’s title, Common Threads. Now that she’s arguably mastered hands, feet and fabrics, Davidge says she has a tendency to complete everything in a portrait, but would like to move toward letting “some things drop” and letting “other things rise more.” Her current work offers some examples of this, and as she plans to return to the studio again after a short break, we may soon see more from this driven artist. Chelsea Novak chelsea@vueweekly.com

SOME HIGH TECH SHIT

SCOPING OUT THE FUTURE OF AUGMENTED REALITY

Scope AR’s David Nedohin Talks Current Projects, Augmented Reality, and the Future

magine a world where everything you think floats in front of your eyes. Your shopping list scrolls past in the corner of your vision. Dangers in the world are highlighted around you. Your heart rate and other vital statistics are constantly monitored and shown to you like a headsup display in a video game. We’re not quite there yet—at least for the public—but Scope AR is making steps in that direction. Founded in 2011 by David Nedohin, Scott Montgomerie, and Graham Melley, Scope AR is an Edmonton-based tech firm focusing on bringing augmented reality to the industrial sector. Augmented reality is a close relative to virtual reality, but instead of putting the user completely inside a digital landscape, augmented reality overlays digital information on top of the real world. “When you’re watching football, you see the yellow line across the field where the first down is, that’s augmented reality,” Nedohin says. Another main-

stream example would be something like Pokémon Go. What Scope AR is doing, however, is trying to find more practical uses for this technology—not just entertainment. So far, the company has two major products available to the public, the first being WorkLink. WorkLink is what Nedohin refers to as guided instructions. It allows for workers to see a step-by-step manual of their job as they complete it. A worker would have a tablet, smartphone, or glasses (Google Glass or the Microsoft HoloLens, for example) and an overlay would appear with digital information on top of the image of their current job. It might highlight a bolt, and show how to remove it, or something similar. “Instead of paper instruction, it’s showing you through nice, rich animated content right on top of the equipment what to do,” Nedohin says. The second product available is called Remote AR.

“Imagine FaceTime with augmented reality,” Nedohin says. “I’m sharing my camera feed with you—the back side camera—I’m showing you something I’m working on, we’re talking to each other. Then we can both do things like annotate, or add content or arrows or things like that, that would help show the other person exactly what they need to do. The interesting thing is that those annotations and arrows and everything stay locked to the real world. So if I was to circle a switch or a wire, even if you were to move around with your device, that circle stays right on that switch or wire.” Scope AR’s biggest customer is Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company from Bethesda, Maryland. One of Lockheed Martin’s latest projects has been the construction of the Orion space shuttle, where they have been using WorkLink. According to statistics released by Lockheed Martin, they were able to mea-

David Nedohin, co-founder and president of Scope AR. / Supplied sure an 85 percent reduction in training time and errors thanks to the AR technology. Other clients include Unilever, Caterpillar Inc., and Boeing—with about 50 percent of their clientele from Europe and the U.K. The company is still small, with about 27 employees in their Edmonton office and another eight at their San Francisco office. Over the last year, they have doubled in size and expect

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to double again in the next year. Nedohin believes that augmented reality is going to see a huge boom soon, and they’re trying to get ready for it. “I think it’s well past the point of if it’s going to have a significant impact on our lives and business—it’s just a matter of when, and I think we’re probably looking at the next two years as being a major turning point.” Alexander Sorochan

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INDIGENOUS EXHIBIT

TAKING BACK AND SHARING MEANING miskowehtawowin Is an Exhibit Created by a Collective of Indigenous Artists

s part of the first project of the I. A. M. Collective (Indigenous Artist Market Collective), artist and curator Dawn-Marie Marchand has brought together a group of creators to produce an exhibit that explores Indigenous cultures and heritages. “Every piece in the exhibit mixes traditional mediums with contemporary ones or contemporary mediums with Indigenous themes and issues,” Marchand says in her curator statement. The exhibit is called miskowehtawowin, which translates to a “thoughtful struggle of seeking to create a new outcome that works for the person trying to figure out a problem,” Marchand says. The artists featured in the exhibit are painter Garrett Strawberry, photographer Thomas Baril, encaustic painter Jordan Pearson, handmade dreamcatcher artist Aaron Lee, iconographer Corine Neilson, painter Florence Shone, sculptor Reanna Lorraine Savard, and Marchand herself. Each artist has interpreted the theme of the exhibit differently through their mediums of choice. For example, three pieces from Baril’s “Forgotten Moccasins” project are featured. Baril’s ongoing photography project has him taking photographs of children’s moccasins in various places around Edmonton. “I’m using the photos to tell a story and raise awareness,” Baril says. “The REDress project has raised awareness for missing

Sculptor Reanna Lorraine Savard created this dress from pieces of the Indian Act. / Supplied

and murdered Indigenous women and the moccasins represent the children affected by the missing and murdered women.” Baril bikes around the city until he is inspired to lay down the moccasins and take a photograph. Usually, the location is quite random, but some are planned beforehand. “I do have some more photos in the works right now,” he says. “For me,—before I found this project—none of my photos really spoke and this project taught me how to put emotions into photography. When I’m explaining my project at conferences, a lot of people end up crying at the end because they are pretty powerful.” “These children are affected but often, we aren’t aware of the additional trauma inflicted on them as they navigate orphanhood,” Marchand adds. As part of a sculptor class at the University of Alberta, Savard created paper sculptures of traditional dress wear out of pieces of the Indian Act, a law that was imposed by the Canadian government to control and assimilate Indigenous peoples. “I took a risk and did it knowing that it was political,” Savard says. “Each time these pieces have been shown, I’ve received so many comments about people not knowing anything about the Act or I’ve been told stories about what it’s like to be Indigenous in other countries.” So basically, Savard’s sculp-

Until Oct. 31 miskowehtawowin Arts and Culture Branch (CKUA Performance Space) tures can be used as both a piece of art as well as a teaching tool. “I was able to give mini-lessons and have people walk away learning about the act and how it details everything from birth to death of a First Nations individual,” she says. “I was also fortunate to learn about other countries too, which has been amazing.” miskowehtawowin is about telling Indigenous stories. Often, many of these stories are told by others as pieces like dreamcatchers are manufactured in places like China or Taiwan and sold in chain stores. “The teachings and meanings are erased. By having an exhibit (or rather a Collective) like this, we’re able to not only bring to light the issues regarding Indigenous art in mainstream society, but we’re also able to share the actual meaning and take it back,” Savard says. So there you have it—miskowehtawowin is a chance for Indigenous people to take back the meanings presented in their art. “I feel unusually blessed to have a community of people who are all striving in different ways to make new meaning by either looking back or pushing forward without apology,” Marchand says. Stephan Boissonneault stephan@vueweekly.com

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gae twist. Patrick Powell of The Brothers provides the music, and supplies are included with the cost of the event. The best part is it’s up to you to decide how you apply the paint to the paper—use a brush or your fingers. You’ll have the opportunity to create three to four paintings, and artistic ability is not a requirement. You just paint what the music inspires you to paint. (Roots on Whyte, $75, email info@paintbymusic.ca to register) // CN Parkland Poets Outlying Voices Launch // Sun., Sept. 9 (2–4 pm) Parkland Poets are a brand new collective, launching their first collection of poetry, Outlying Voices. The group’s mission is to bring more poetry into the community,

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and they’ll share their work with readings from Anne Gerard Marshall, Lisa Mulrooney, Gary Gully, Carolyn Cordell, Guy Chambers, Don Hamaliuk, Greg Turlock, and more. (Audreys Books, Free) // CN Professional Arts Playdate with Wesdyne Otto // Tues., Sept. 11 (7–9 pm) For more experienced artists, here’s a chance to flex your creative muscles. The playdates will be held the second Tuesday of each month until Dec. 11, and are specifically marketed at those who work in arts program delivery at the expense of having time for their own creative output. (Harcourt House, $35 per night for members, $40 per night for nonmembers, email harcourtoutreach@ shaw.ca to register) // CN

Shaughnessy (Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada), the exhibition, Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, brings together the work of 20 contemporary artists from India and artists of Indian heritage living in Canada. • Sept 29 – Jan 6

ART GALLERIES/ MUSEUMS Alberta Craft Council 10186 106 St • 780 488 6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery • Seated • Whether it’s a majestic throne or a humble stool, what we sit on has undergone a rigorous design process and is an expression of its creator. Aesthetics, scale, style, materials, and proportions are just a few of the considerations taken when creating traditional, contemporary, or re-imagined seating objects. Seated features a diverse range of work created by 18 fine craft artists from across Canada. From stools, chairs, and benches that are created by master woodworkers all the way to unexpected fold formed copper and enamel metal work, this exhibition explores the theme of seating objects in clever and unexpected ways. • Until Dec 24 Discovery Gallery • Because It Never Occurs to Us That We Cannot • “Because it never occurs to us that we cannot,” describes the DNA of Alberta. “I am here,” says Alberta. “I must grow.” It is also a mantra for both the artist and our contemporary cultural impulse. I cannot stop. I do not want to stop. I will not stop. I want to make, to build, to elevate. Interdisciplinary ceramic artist Robin Lambert investigates the need and desire to be a part of a larger social system. • Until Oct 13 Art Gallery of alberta 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780 422 6223 • youraga.ca • Li Salay • Li Salay (Michif for “the sun”), a new exhibition focused on the work of Métis artists from across Canada, stems from cocurators Amy Malbeuf and Jessie Ray Short’s intensive, cross-Canada research and studio visits with over forty Métis artists in 2016 and 2017. • Until Sept 9 RBC Work Room: Samantha Walrod—Vanitas • RBC Work Room is an initiative that supports the development of local, contemporary art projects. In this studio-like working space, Edmonton artists conceive and produce artworks onsite, resulting in a fully realized exhibition. This fourth installment features painter Samantha Walrod working in residence for six weeks. The artist will create a series of works on paper and canvas, painting still lives and animal forms. Her exhibition, Vanitas, will explore ideas of life and loss. • Until Oct 7 James Wilson Morrice: The A.K. Prakash Collection in Trust to the Nation • James Wilson Morrice (1865-1924) played a vital role in advancing modern artistic trends in Canada and abroad at the turn of

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Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA) 19 Perron St • 780 460 4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Changing the Landscape • Viktor Brim, Matthew Allan Clarke, Jeff Wilson. • Until Sept 8

the 20th century. In this exhibition, stories of Morrice’s widespread travels and rise to fame as one of Canada’s most beloved modernist painters are shared through the passion of an avid collector, A. K. Prakash. • Until Oct 7

BOREALIS Gallery 9820 107 St • 780 427 7362 •assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis.html • Snapshots of Canada • From the trial of Métis leader Louis Riel to Paul Henderson’s winning goal in the 1972 Summit Series, Snapshots of Canada explores unforgettable moments in our history. Fifty compelling images paired with texts by wellknown Canadian authors, journalists and historians explore moments that range from high drama to simple joy. • Until Sept 24

LandMark: A New Chapter Acquisition Project • LandMark features new works by Alberta Indigenous artists: Brenda Draney, Tanya Harnett and Terrance Houle. For each of these artists, the land and landscape of their home territory in Alberta has provided inspiration for the creation of works that address time and ancestry, nature and the environment, community and story-telling. Working in painting, photography and video, the work of these three artists present the land, not as geography or vista, but as intimate and person places that are marked by lived experience. • Until Nov 11

CAVA Gallery 9103 95 Ave • 780 461 3427 • galeriecava.com Doris Charest, Léonie Poole, and Sylvie Boudreault • Until Sept 21

Hubert Hohm: Edmonton Entrances and Suburban Landscapes • In 1974, Hohn undertook a comprehensive project entitled Edmonton Entrances, in which he photographed the decorated doorways of the 1940s and 1950s fieldstone and stucco bungalows that proliferate in Edmonton. These highly-coloured and richly-detailed images reveal the incredible creativity and variety of this unique element of Edmonton vernacular design. A year later, in 1975, Hubert Hohn focused his lens on the modern residential areas in Edmonton growing suburbs. The Suburban Landscapes, shot in black and white, reveal new design aesthetics common to homes built in the 1970s. • Until Nov 11 BMO World of Creativity: Wild Wood • Join us in BMO World of Creativity: Wild Wood, where people of all ages make art together. Participate in the art making stations and add your own tree to “Timberline” the collaborative community forest. Dream, draw, colour and leave your particular wish in the forest “Canopy.” Read a story or make up your own. Explore the forest with animal puppets and try bird watching. • Until Dec 31 Manning Hall: The Pre-History of M.N. Hutchinson: Site 24 • Since 1999 Alberta artist M.N. Hutchinson has been creating panoramic photographs using a home-built camera, which rotates on a tripod through 360 degrees. Exploring the sciences of both mechanics and optics, his works challenge our perception of reality and the traditional role that photography has had in reproducing and recording it. • Until Dec 31 Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada • Co-curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan

Espace Exploration Construire la pluie • Camille Bernard-Gravel’s projects are born from simple natural phenomenon, observable daily, in our environment. Her artistic practice is fed by the constant attention that she holds to the lands she crosses and the different contexts within which she evolves. • Until Sept 21 Clayton Sauvé • Woodworker. • Until Sept 27 Sylvia Durocher • Card maker. • Sept 29 – Nov 16 FAB Gallery Fine Arts Building Gallery, 1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • 780 492 2081 • ualberta.ca/artshows • Brad Necyk: Telling Stories Otherwise (A Research-Creation Exhibition for Ph.D. Candidacy across Art and Psychiatry) • In creating works around illness experience, Brad Necyk aims to develop a new visual and affective language for expressing illness in modern culture, one that hopefully calls into question the everyday narratives through which we normally understand what it means to be ill. • Until Sept 22 Graduate Design Group Show: Sarah Jackson, Zohreh Valiery Eskandary, Xin Lou, and Michiko Maruyama • A selection of work highlighting the research of students graduating with a Master of Design degree in Visual Communication Design, and Industrial Design. • Until Sept 22 FRONT Gallery 10402 124 St • 780 488 2952 • thefrontgallery.com • Occupied People • New work by The Front Gallery represented artists. • Starting Sept 13

Harcourt House 3rd floor, 10215 112 St • 780 426 4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca Art Incubator Gallery Memoriam to a Missing Fur Coat • Seeking to use drawing as an ephemeral medium, Jessica A. Morgun’s installation revolves around the problematic nature of intangible losses incurred due to immigration and dislocation. • Until Sept 8 Main Gallery A Living Room • As an installation artist, Nicolas Fleming codifies commercial building materials into the domestic gallery space to create a distinctly unfinished aesthetic that envelops the viewer. By ennobling these constructive elements he produces a tension in our conceptual understandings of material culture and our behaviour toward it. • Until Sept 8 Art Incubator Gallery Beyond Form & Function • Benjamin Oswald is an Edmonton-based contemporary ceramic artist and sculptor. Ha earned a Master’s degree in Education from the University of Alberta, then his training became more formalized with figurative sculpture and stone sculpture at Chunbok University in South Korea. In the process, he learned to think through his hands, and his work in ceramic art and sculpture shows a process of materializing ideas, shapes, and the interactions between objects and space. • Sept 20 – 30 Main Gallery Designing Connection in Friction • Presented in conjunction with 2018 Alberta Culture Days and 2018 Edmonton Design Week, this exhibition seeks to present recent artistic research that strives to create an artistic intervention in the communities where social injustice threatens socially marginalized individuals. The project aims to foster a connection between these people and the viewers. Curated by Vicki Kwon (PhD candidate in Art History and Design, University of Alberta), this exhibition is presented in partnership with the University of Alberta’s Art and Design Graduate Students’ Association (ADGSA). Participating artists include: Jesper Alvaer (Oslo, Norway), Naureen Muntaz (Edmonton, AB), and Bradley Necyk (St. Albert, AB). • Sept 20 – 30 The Enterprise Square Gallery University of Alberta Downtown Campus • 10230 Jasper Ave • Art of the Street: The Masters of Polish School of Poster Art • Presented as a key international exhibition during 2018 Edmonton Design Week and 2018 Alberta Culture Days, this exhibition will showcase internationally renowned contemporary poster designers from Poland who breached the boundaries of conventional poster design. “Polish School of Poster” is an international term coined to emphasize the world-wide fame and undeniable quality of Polish posters from the period 1955-1985. • Sept 20 – 30

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HUMAN ECOLOGY GALLERY University of Alberta 1-15, Human Ecology Building • 780 492 3824 • re-Vision and re-Turn: Exploring Sustainable Fashion • The “re-Vision, re-Turn” exhibition is a message and an inspiration. Human Ecology students explored the meaning of sustainability through the upcycling of used or unwanted clothing. Their vision was to create new life for items rescued from second-hand stores and discovered through wardrobe revision. The materials used were chosen for their fabric qualities and/or sentimental value. • Until Sept 30 KALEIDO FAMILY ARTS FESTIVAL 118 Ave, between 90 and 94 St • Pay what you can • kaleidofest.ca • Alberta Avenue comes alive during Kaleido, a free family arts festival featuring music, dance, theatre, literary and visual arts produced by Arts on the Ave. Artists collide in an environment of creative exploration and performances on rooftops, sides of buildings, back alleys, parks, old spaces and new spaces of 118th Avenue. • Sept 14 – 16 Musée Héritage Museum St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne St • 780 459 1528 • museeheritage.ca • In Their Footsteps: A Century of Aboriginal Footwear in the Canadian West • In Their Footsteps is a captivating exhibition of beautifully crafted Aboriginal footwear. Guest curators Bill and Michelle Tracy have brought together over 100 pairs of moccasins, leggings, slippers and mukluks from the Dené, Cree, Métis, and Plains peoples of Western Canada. • Until Oct 21 NAESs gallery At the Paint Spot, 10032 81 Ave. • 780 432 0240 • paintspot.ca • Peter Gegolick: Love ǀ Everything ǀForever • An exhibition of artwork meant to resemble the stories that can be found in and on the walls and structures made by the generations that preceded them, embedded with tales of triumph and tragedy. Love is imprinted into every work. • Until Sept 18 Meghan MacMillan: Wonder/Wander • Large mixed media paintings on unprimed canvas. We see the artist’s characteristic joyous, bright colours and style, and a new visual language emphasising interactions between organic and non-organic mark-making, reflecting the car. • Sept 20 – Oct 18 Peter roBertSon GAllery 12323 104 Ave • 780 455 7479 • probertsongallery.com Kirsty Templeton Davidge • Sept 6 – 23 Amy-Claire Huestis • Sept 22 – Oct 13 Erin Loree • New work from Erin Loree. Opening reception: Sat., Sept. 29, 7-9 p.m. The artist will be in attendance. • Sept 29 – Oct 20 Provincial archives of Alberta 8555 Roper Road • 780 427 1750 • provincialarchives.alberta.ca •

Take a Longer Look: Panoramic Photographs from the Provincial Archives of Alberta • This photography exhibit features panoramic images from the holdings of the Provincial Archives of Alberta. • Until Apr 20 SNAP GALLERY AND PRINTSHOP • 10123 121 St / 12056 Jasper Ave • 780 423 1492 • snapartists.com • Construct • Construct is an exhibition of new works by SNAP’s 2017 Emerging Artist in Residence, Carly Greene. Memory is built in pieces: assembled layer upon layer, each piece leading to others until we reach a sense of completeness, a progression of time. Greene is interested in what happens when the layers are disrupted, destroyed, or left unfinished. Using construction materials and objects as reference points, Greene deconstructs, adapts, replicates, and rebuilds until the materials surpass their original qualities or purpose. • Until Sept 8 Doilies the Meaning of Life • Doilies the meaning of life by Wendy Tokaryk presents a series of relief prints that recombine recycled and collected textiles as assemblages to explore interiors, objects, and iconography as subject matter. Like a storybook, the relief prints form a narrative about a woman in mid-life considering her past experience, contemplating the future, and relating a personal perspective of her life and dreams. The imagery examines symbolism, traditions, and stereotypes. Intimate and personal motifs such as a ring, mirrors, and celebratory cake, as well as still life interior’s, lamps, and afghan blankets are symbols of ontological formation. • Until Sept 8 Aplacados—Entre Cascos Percutidos y Bardas • Beginning with the idea of erasure as language, Miguel A. Aragón concentrates on the use of processes that are reductive in nature to create his work. Any form of erasure, however violently destructive, can be seen as constructive in some way; something comes through the destruction, the negation of an image is not actually nothing. • Sept 21 – Oct 20 Selvage • Selvage is an exhibition of new works by SNAP’s 2017 Emerging Artist in Residence, Mitchell Chalifoux. Opening reception: Sept. 21, 7-9 p.m. • Sept 21 – Oct 20 SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY 35 5 Ave • 780 962 0664 • alliedartscouncil. com • Open Art Competition • Reception on Sept. 7, 7-9 p.m. • Sept 4 – 28 STRATCHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501 120-501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780 410 8585 • strathcona.ca/recreation-events/ arts-and-culture/art-gallery-501 • On the Antlers of a Dilemma • Edmonton based artist—mixed media sculpture. Freeman’s work responds to thoughts about excess and scarcity in relation to the way we exploit or develop natural resources. It has been proposed by ecologists that a balance in nature exists and that there are self-regulating systems in nature; systems that are now disrupted by human or industrial activity. • Sept 6 – Oct 21

History, in partnership with Terry Fox’s family, the exhibition features a wide array of artifacts and archival materials, displayed together publicly for the first time. Among these treasured items are Terry’s journal and artificial leg, as well as press clippings and media interviews. • Until Sept 16

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Dinosaurs Unearthed: Down to the Bone • This exhibition invites you to challenge what you think you know about dinosaurs and explore spectacular prehistoric scenes, life-sized animatronic dinosaurs, full-scale skeletons, intriguing fossils, engaging content, and interactive activities. • Until Nov 4

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VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA—CARFAC PROJECT SPACE Third Foor, 10215 112 St. • 780 421 1731 • visualartsalberta.com •

BOOK BY PATRICIA RESNICK

Alberta Spirit • Alberta Community Art Clubs Association / Fiftieth Anniversary of the ACACA. • Until Sept 29 2018 Oﬀ-site Exhibition at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton Evidence of Paint 2018 • Partnership between Visual Arts Alberta—CARFAC and the Friends of the Alberta Jubilee Auditoria Society. This Alberta-wide juried exhibition of artwork by 10 Alberta artists features a fresh perspective on art, celebrating diverse points of view, styles and techniques.• Until Oct 9

BASED ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM

November 28 – December 8, 2018

COMEDY

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

COMIC FACTORY Gateway Entertainment Group, 34th Ave, Gateway Boulevard • 780 469 4999 • thecomedyfactory.com/club • Brian Link, Sept 7 – 8 • Tim Koslo, Sept 14 – 15 • Dave Waite, Sept 20 – 22

January 30 – February 9, 2019

COMIC STRIP 1646 Bourbon Street West Edmonton Mall • 780 483 5999 • wem.thecomicstrip.ca • Jessimae Peluso, Sept 6 – 9 • Bridget Bishop Tour Special Presentation, Sept 13 – 15 • Bobby Lee Presentation, Sept 21 – 23 • Des Bishop, Sept 26 – 30

BOOK BY ABE BURROWS AND JO SWERLING

MATT O’BRIEN Yuk Yuk’s at Century Casino • Century Casino, 13103 Fort Rd • 780 643 4026 • www.cnty.com • Matt O’Brien is a LA-based comedian who has been featured on MTV, CTV, Fuse TV, MuchMusic and The Comedy Network. • Sept 14–15 MYLES MORRISON Yuk Yuk’s at Century Casino • Century Casino, 13103 Fort Rd • 780 643 4026 • www.cnty.com • Myles’ clever blend of observations and comedic opinions immediately grab the whole audience’s attention and never let it go. His wit, charm and quirky view of the world will leave your sides sore from laughing. • Sept 7–8

STRATHEARN ARTWALK Park along Strathearn Drive, between 89 and 91 Street • strathearnartwalk.com • Free admission • A celebration of art and community, the seventh annual Strathearn Art Walk features an art show and sale, as well as food (including the famous Strathearn pulled pork sandwich), beer and music. • Sept 8, 12 – 7 pm

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY FRANK LOESSER

March 20 – 30, 2019

MACEWAN BOX OFFICE ALLARD HALL, 11110 – 104 Avenue 780-497-4470 Tickets can be ordered online at Tickets.MacEwan.ca

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE 11211-142 St • 780 451 3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca Terry Fox—Running to the Heart of Canada • Developed by the Canadian Museum of

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THE GRINDSTONE 10019 81 Ave • 780 244 9076 • grindstonetheatre.ca • Wide Open Mic, Every Wednesday • Coyote Comedy, Every Thursday • Karaoke!, Every Thursday • The 11 O’Clock Number—The Improvised Musical, Every Friday • Four Bangers Friday, Every Friday • Up Late with Dana Andersen!, Every Friday • Freedom Sketch ’90, Sept. 8 • Late Night Edmonton, Sept 8 and 22 • The HighSchool Improv Show, Sept 11 • Hello Trivia, Sept 11 • Wagon Load, Sept 11 and 25 • Pub Choir, Sept 12 • Weird Al Karaoke, Sept 12 • Girl Brain, Sept 15 • Favourites, Sept 15 • The Extra Medium Comedy Show, Sept 16 • Bump N Grindhouse, Sept 16 • Extempore’ Improvised Shakespeare, Sept 18 • Kanucks Cantina—An Improvised Star Wars Saga, Sept 18 • Blank: The Musical, Sept 19 • Don’t Not Talk to Strangers, Sept 22 • The 11 O’Clock Number—Musical Mixtape, Sept 23 • Open Jam, Sept 25 • Put the Screws On: A Comedy Quiz Show, Sept 26 • Whose Rhyme Is It Anyway?, Sept 26 TYLER HAWKINS Century Casino (Yuk Yuks) • 13103 Fort Rd • 780 643 4000 • From $18.20 • cnty.com • Edmonton’s Tyler Hawkins is a rising star in the comedy world. His hilarious takes on sexy coffee shops, bodyguard goldfish, and dancing with his buddies have entertained audiences all across North America. • Sept 1 (7:30 pm)

Performance Lab

Sundays, September 23, 2018 – August 25, 2019

Expanse Festival February 7-17, 2019

19 Weeks by Emily Steele co-production with Northern Light Theatre March 28 – April 14, 2019

Incubator projects:

Emerging Company Showcase: Impossible Mongoose Workshop April 2019 Production 2019/2020

All That Binds Us

Workshop 2018/19 Production 2019/2020

azimuththeatre.com

People, Process, Performance

WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? River Cree Entertainment Centre, 300 East Lapotac Blvd, Enoch, AB • Bring your suggestions and you might be asked to join the cast onstage. Starring Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Jeff B. Davis, Joel Murray and Bob Derkach. It’s a night of unforgettably funny interactive comedy that will leave you laughing days later. • Sept 8, 7 pm

THEATRE CHIMPROV • Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidﬁretheatre. com • CHiMPROV is Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform improv comedy show. Here you will see RFT’s most accomplished performers creating artfully-crafted improv formats, intricate narratives, and improvised one-act plays sure to make you bust a gut. • Sat, 10 pm

Dance EDMONTON BURLESQUE FESTIVAL • La Cite Francophone, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • edmontonburlesquefestival. com • The Edmonton Burlesque Festival is a not-for-profit extravaganza celebrating all things burlesque, vaudeville and fabulous. It is aimed at the local, national and international theatre and arts community. The long weekend encompasses ingenues and impresarios, the avant-garde and outrageous, in a series of intimate showcase and feature events including workshops and competitions. • Sept 20 – 22

KALEIDO FAMILY ARTS FESTIVAL • Various venues across Alberta Avenue • 780 471 1580 • Free admission • kalediofest.ca • Alberta Avenue comes alive as an environment of creative exploration and performances on rooftops, sides of buildings, back alleys, parks, old spaces and new spaces. • Sept 14 – 16

PRAIRIE DANCE CIRCUIT | SECONDHAND DANCES FOR THE CRUDE, CRUDE CITY • Timms Centre for the Arts • 87 Avenue, 112 St • 780 452 3282 • $40 regular, $35 seniors, $25 students • bwdc.ca • Presented by Gerry Morita and Melanie Kloetzel and the Brian Webb Dance Company. • Sept 21 – 22, 8 pm

FILM EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (EIFF) Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre (10200 102 Avenue) • 780 423 0844 • $15 to $35 • edmontonfilmfest.com • The OSCAR qualifying EIFF presents 170 films from all the corners of the globe, showcasing the best in international, independent, cinema. Filmmaker Q&A’s, after-parties, Gala events, short films, documentaries, family films—all are welcome. • Sept 27 – Oct 7, times vary EDMONTON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL FILMMAKER SKILLS CLASS The King’s University • 9125 50 St • 780 405 6360 • Tickets $35/ person + GST, includes lunch • esff.ca/ filmmaker-skills-class • Filmmaking workshop open to anyone who wants to increase their knowledge about producing. Designed for beginning to midcareer filmmakers. Led by industry professionals and agencies. • Sat, Sept 22, 10 am – 3 pm

LITERARY EDMONTON COMIC & ENTERTAINMENT EXPO Edmonton Expo Centre, 7515 118 Ave • edmontonexpo.com • A three-day pop-culture convention held annually each fall in at the Expo Centre. Attendees can shop hundreds of vendors and exhibitors, check out panels and workshops, and meet their favourite stars and creators • Sept 21 – 23 SCRIPT SALON

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Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037 84 Ave • A play reading series with a different play by a different playwright each month. • First Sunday of each month

ONCE • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • Based on the award-winning film, it’s the story of an Irish musician on the brink of giving up, and the young Czech woman who takes a sudden interest in his love songs. • Sept 22 – Oct 14 REELING: DANCING ON THE STREETS IN LITTLE ITALY Spazio Performativo,10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • Admission by donation • milezerodance.com • Join Mile Zero in Little Italy to view some of the most striking short dance films creations that the world has to offer. Short dance films will be screened in the streets and in local businesses of Boyle McCauley, which have been curated by Mile Zero’s Artistic Director Gerry Morita and Rapid Fire Theatre’s Julia Grochowski. • Sept 15 – 22 TEATRO LA QUINDICINA PRESENTS SKIRTS ON FIRE • The Varscona Theatre • 10329 83 Ave • 780 433 3399 • Tickets start at $25 • varsconatheatre.com • A famous literary hoax begets a further series of deceptions, misunderstandings, and outright lies, until things come to a head in the smallest hotel room in New York. Andrew MacDonald-Smith presides as the chief provocateur in a cast that also includes Kendra Connor, Andrea House, Paula Humby, Louise Lambert, and Ron Pederson. • Sept 27 – Oct 13 THEATRESPORTS Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance, $15 at the door • rapidﬁretheatre.com • Theatresports is Rapid Fire Theatre’s first and longest-running show, now in its 38th consecutive season. This high-energy, fast-paced show pits teams of improvisors against each other in a fierce battle of wits and laughs where anything can happen! Created by Keith Johnstone in Calgary, Theatresports® is performed by companies all over the world.

THE BOOK OF MORMON Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium • 11455 87 Ave • 780 427 2760 • Tickets start at $45 • jubileeauditorium.com • This outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. • Sept 18 – 23 TWO GOOD KNIGHTS: THE MUSIC OF SIR TOM JONES AND SIR ELTON JOHN • Mayﬁeld Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • mayﬁeldtheatre. ca • God Save the Queen … at the very least, let’s thank Her Majesty for acknowledging and knighting great artists for their achievements and contributions to the realm. It is a very select group indeed. This year with Part 1, Two Good Knights showcases the lives and music of two outstanding artists—Sir Tom Jones and Sir Elton John. • Sept 4 – Oct 28

MUSIC AARON GOODVIN • Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd • 780 962 8995 • $40/$35 • horizonstage.com • Platinum-selling Canadian country artist. • Sept 14, 7:30 pm AMORPHOUS AND DARK TRANQUILITY, AND MORE • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $39.95 • starliteroom.ca • This is going to be a heavy, melodic night of metal. • Sept 17, 6 pm BC/DC • Station On Jasper, 10524, Jasper Ave • $10 • stationonjasper.com • There are tribute bands, and then there’s BCDC. • Sept 21, 7 pm BETWEEN THE LINES • Convocation Hall, University of Alberta • Show info at ualberta.ca • An eclectic concert of modern music for voice, flute, piano and percussion opens the MainStage concert season. • Sept 9, 3 pm BLACK JOE LEWIS AND THE HONEYBEARS • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $22.50 • starliteroom.ca • Black Joe Lewis is an American blues, funk and soul artist influenced by Howlin’ Wolf and James Brown. • Sept 28, 8 pm BLITZEN TRAPPER • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $20 • starliteroom.ca • Blitzen Trapper’s music went through various genres with each record, bouncing from indie folk to art rock to experimental folk before settling into a rich, dusty brand of Neil Young-inspired alt-country. • Sept 18, 8 pm BOMFEST! • Edmonton Expo Centre, 7515 118 Ave • tickets at livenation.com/events • Boodang’s two-day electronic music festival featuring headliners Claptone, Lane 8, Excision, and more. Sept 1 – 2 BUSKER DU • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. • Sept 22, 4 pm CARN DAVIDSON 5 + 4 • Yardbird Suite, 10203 86 Ave • $28 for non-members • Jazz group from Toronto, Calgary and Edmonton. • Sept 21, 7 pm

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COHEED AND CAMBRIA • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • From $56• shawconferencecentre. com • Coheed and Cambria w/ Protest The Hero, and Crown Lands. • Sept 14, 6:30 pm CORY WEEDS QUARTET FEATURING DAVID HAZELTINE • Yardbird Suite, 10203 86 Ave • $24 for non-members • From Vancouver and New York. • Sept 29, 7 pm COMEBACK KID • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $20 • starliteroom. ca • In 2002, what started as a side project from Andrew Neufeld and Jeremy Hiebert’s band Figure Four, became what Amp magazine called a “a wildly successful scene institution.” • Sept 27, 8 pm COMMON DEER • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $12 • starliteroom. ca • Common Deer comes with an arsenal of floodlights. Music is a balm in anxious, isolated times. • Sept 13, 8 pm DEVIL WEARS PRADA • Union Hall, 6240 99 St • $30 (General Admission) • unionhall.ca • The Devil Wears Prada is an American Christian metalcore band from Dayton, Ohio, formed in 2005. • Sept 30, 7 pm DONNY LEE • Dow Centennial, 8700 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • tickets at ww2.ticketpro.ca • Reviewers call country Nashville entertainer Donny Lee’s show a must see. • Sept 29, 7:30 pm DROPKICK MURPHYS W/ FLOGGING MOLLY • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • From $75 • shawconferencecentre.com • It’s an Irish punk rock collaboration two decades in the making, and the show Celtic rock fans have been waiting for. Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly—two giants of American punk rock that share a working class ethos. • Sept 17, 6 pm DYING FETUS • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $29.99 • starliteroom.ca • One of the most infamous and influential death metal bands of the past 10 years, Dying Fetus pummel and pound their signature-style brutality into the worldwide landscape. • Sept 29, 7 pm EDMONTON ACCORDION EXTRAVAGANZA • St. John’s Cultural Centre, 10611 110 Ave • edmontonaccordion. com • This two day event features everything accordion with performances by The Kim and Dan Christian Duo and The Vinok Worldance Band. • Sept 14 – 15 EKALI • Union Hall, 6240 99 St • $20 (General Admission) • unionhall.ca • Dance electro show. • Sept 7, 9 pm ELLEN BRAUN • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. • Sept 15, 7 pm ERIC BIBB • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • $40 • stalbert. ca/exp/arden • Eric Bibb hits the stage with a celebration of traditional acoustic blues balanced with compelling originals that incorporate his firm grasp of global musical and socio-political inﬂuences. • Sept 20, 7:30 pm

FRANK TURNER AND THE SLEEPING SOULS • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • From $32.50 • winspearcentre. com • English folk singer-songwriter Frank Turner from Meonstoke, Hampshire, will be playing Edmonton to support his new album Be More Kind. • Sept 11, 8 pm FRED EAGLESMITH W/ TIF GINN • St. Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 71 Ave • 780 278 6407 • $30 at doors • newmoonfolkclub.com • Award-winning, acclaimed singersongwriter Fred Eaglesmith has an undeniable gift for writing a song. • Sept 11, 7:30 pm FRED PENNER AND THE CAT’S MEOW BAND • Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd • 780 962 8995 • $20/$16 • horizonstage.com • Special Family Presentation—Music for Young Audiences. • Sept 30, 11 am

kerare, has established itself as a beloved indie folk act in their native Canada and beyond. • Sept 15 GRETA VAN FLEET • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • From $47 • shawconferencecentre. com • Catch the firing twin barrels of arena-rock muscle and moving melodies when Greta Van Fleet takes the stage. • Sept 11, 7 pm HONNE • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $20 • starliteroom.ca • Electronic music duo Formed in 2014, in Bow, London, when they both left Films Of Colour. • Sept 9, 7 pm IAN LA RUE • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. • Sept 8, 4 pm

FROM THE SALON TO THE ARMISTICE • Convocation Hall, University of Alberta • An evening of elegant and refined displays of Parisian music from the late 19th century to post-World War I, composed by Viardot, Fauré, Ysaÿe and Debussy. • Sept 21, 7:30 pm

JACk SEMPLE “CAN’T STOP THIS LOvE” RELEASE CONCERT Festival Place • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $38 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Regina’s own Jack Semple has reached an international audience for his songwriting, recordings and performances as a vocalist and flamenco-technique guitarist. • Sept 21

GREAT LAkE SWIMMERS • Festival Place • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $31 • festivalplace. ab.ca • 2018 marks the 15th anniversary of The Great Lake Swimmers. The Juno-nominated, Polaris Prize shortlisted Toronto group, fronted by lead singer-songwriter Tony Dek-

JEFF PARRY PROMOTIONS PRESENTS GREATEST ALBUMS LIvE LED ZEPPELIN Iv & AC/ DC’S BACk IN BLACk • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • From $42.50 • winspearcentre.com • Two albums, one night, note For note. • Sept 12, 7:30 pm

KALLE MATTSON • The Starlite Room—Temple • 10030 102 St • $12 • starliteroom.ca • Kalle Mattson is a Canadian singer and songwriter based in Ottawa, Ontario. • Sept 22, 8 pm kEITH URBAN • Rogers Place, 10545 106 Ave • From $95 • rogersplace.com • Four-time Grammy award winner Keith Urban will bring his “GRAFFITI U WORLD TOUR 2018” to Edmonton. • Sept 22, 7:30 pm JOHNNY MCCUAIG BAND • Station On Jasper, 10524, Jasper Ave • $15 • stationonjasper.com • Bagpipes, a kilt, crunching guitars, a hip-shaking rhythm section, and boundless energy makes for a oneof-a-kind show. • Sept 12, 7 pm MERKULES • Union Hall, 6240 99 St • $30 (General Admission) • unionhall.ca • Merkules has surged up the ranks of the Canadian music industry, positioning himself as the next rising star in hip hop. • Sept 25, 8 pm MONTUNO WEST CD RELEASE Yardbird Suite, 10203 86 Ave • $24 for non-members • Montuno West is Alberta’s most caliente Latin jazz ensemble. • Sept 28, 7 pm MOURNING WOOD • Station On Jasper, 10524 Jasper Ave • $10 • stationonjasper.com • Alberta rock cover band. • Sept 22, 9:45 pm

OCICIWAN CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTIvE vINYL RELEASE The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. • Sept 11, 7 pm PALLBEARER AND TRIBULATION The Starlite Room—Temple • 10030 102 St • $15 • starliteroom.ca • The raw anthemics of 90s alt-rock, and stretches of black-lit proto-metal. • Sept 25, 7 pm PAUL MCCARTNEY • Rogers Place, 10545 106 Ave • Tickets at ticketmaster.ca • rogersplace. com • Sir Paul McCartney, the grand maestro in the flesh. • Sept 30, 8 pm

RAW ARTISTRY—CONNECT Union Hall, 6240 99 St • $30 (General Admission) • unionhall. ca • Music collective show featuring an array of artists. • Sept 20, 7 pm SHARI ULRICH TRIO • Parkview Community Hall, 9135 146 St • $25 • northernlightsfc.ca • Shari Ulrich is celebrating 45 years as a touring recording artist and multi-instrumentalist. Her work has garnered 23 solo and collaborative albums, two Juno awards, and 2014 CFMA English Songwriter of the Year. • Sept 26, 8 pm

PRISM AND LEE AARON • Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780 643 4000 • From $49.95 • cnty.com • Canadian Classic Rock legends PRISM continue to amaze and assault the senses with such progressive rock stadium classics as “Armageddon,” “Spaceship Superstar,” “Night To Remember,” and more • Sept 29 (7 pm) PUNCH DRUNk CABARET • Station On Jasper, 10524 Jasper Ave • $15 • stationonjasper.com • An award-winning, festival favourite that specializes in rockabilly swing for the 21st century. • Sept 28, 7 pm RAMBLIN’ AMBASSADORS • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. • Sept 29, 4 pm

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ROSE COUSINS • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne St, St Albert • $36 • stalbert.ca/exp/arden • Over the course of a dozen years, Prince Edward Island’s Rose Cousins established herself as a one of the bright lights on the North American singer-songwriter scene. • Sept 28, 7:30 pm ROYAL CANOE • The Starlite Room—Temple • 10030 102 St • $20 • starliteroom.ca • A six-piece ensemble from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Royal Canoe give you everything, but on their own maniacally hybrid terms. • Sept 21, 8 pm SADISTIC EMBODIMENT • The Starlite Room—Temple • 10030 102 St • $10 • starliteroom.ca • Combining elements of speed, groove and melodicism with dark themes and undertones, Sadistic Embodiment will leave you with sore necks and full hearts. • Sept 8, 8 pm SAM SMITH • Rogers Place, 10545 106 Ave • From $44 • rogersplace. com • Sam Smith’s sophomore album, The Thrill Of It All, will be released worldwide on November 3. • Sept 12, 7 pm SCENIC ROUTE TO ALASKA • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $20 • starliteroom.ca • The easygoing Edmonton-based trio, comprised of Trevor Mann on lead vocals and guitar, drummer Shea Connor, and bassist Murray Wood, effortlessly

weaves catchy vocals and memorable melodies through rich arrangements. • Sept 7, 8 pm SEASON RECITAL 1 • Muttart Hall, MacEwan Conservatory of Music • edmontonrecital.com • Juno Award winning harpist Judy Loman, with special guests.• Sept 23, 7:30pm SOMEONE LIKE YOU—THE ADELE SONGBOOK • Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780 643 4000 • From $34.95 • cnty.com • The outstanding Katie Markham (as featured on Graham Norton’s BBC Adele Special) presents an immaculate celebration of one of our generation’s finest singer-songwriters. • Sept 7 (8 pm) SONIC FIELD DAY • Victoria Park, 10203 River Valley Rd • $69.50 (General Admission) • sonic1029. com • Featuring Arkells, Cold War Kids, The Glorious Sons, and more. • Sept 8, 1 pm STACKED 2018 • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • From $69.50 • shawconferencecentre. com • This massive show is taking it to the next level! Performers include Virtual Self, JAUZ, What So Not, Vanic, Whipped Cream, Far Out, and more. • Sept 15, 8 pm STEVE EARLE • River Cree Resort & Casino, 300 E Lapotac Blvd • From $69 • rivercreecresort.com • During his four-decade career, Earle has also become a novelist, a film, TV and stage actor, a playwright, a short story author, a record producer, and a radio host. • Sept 23, 6 pm

SWINGIN’ UTTERS • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $18 • starliteroom.ca • American punk band, formed in 1987 as a cover band in the Bay Area of California. • Sept 21, 8 pm TERROR • The Starlite Room— Temple • 10030 102 St • $25 • starliteroom.ca • Terror is a five-piece American hardcore punk band with members from Los Angeles, California formed in 2002. • Sept 1, 8 pm TERRY BOzzIO • Festival Place • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $34 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Terry Bozzio is one of rock drumming’s most formidable and brain-circuiting forces playing on “the world’s largest tuned drum and percussion set.” Best known as the hurricane behind Frank Zappa’s late1970s and early-1980s work, and the hit-maker behind new wave powerhouse Missing Persons. • Sept 27 THE CORONAS • The Starlite Room—Temple • 10030 102 St • $23.50 • starliteroom.ca • The Coronas are an Irish rock band that originated in Dublin. • Sept 26, 8 pm THE KARA GRAINGER BAND • Blues on Whyte • 10329 82 Ave • 780 439 3981 • General Admission • bluesonwhyte.com • Kara’s music career began in a small suburban town of Sydney, Australia. Combining tasteful blues and slide guitar, soulful vocals and a heartfelt approach to songwriting, Kara’s unique sound will leave you uplifted. • Sept 5 – Sept 9, 9 pm THE MARWILLS • Blues on Whyte

Art GALLERIES/ MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL 10186 106 St • 780 488 6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery • Seated • Whether it’s a majestic throne or a humble stool, what we sit on has undergone a rigorous design process and is an expression of its creator. Aesthetics, scale, style, materials, and proportions are just a few of the considerations taken when creating traditional, contemporary, or re-imagined seating objects. Seated features a diverse range of work created by 18 Fine Craft artists from across Canada. From stools, chairs, and benches that are created by master woodworkers all the way to unexpected fold formed copper and enamel metal work, this exhibition explores the theme of seating objects in clever and unexpected ways. • Until Dec 24 Discovery Gallery • Because It Never Occurs to Us That We Cannot • “Because it never occurs to us that we cannot,” describes the DNA of Alberta. “I am here,” says Alberta. “I must grow.” It is also a mantra for both the artist and our contemporary cultural impulse. I cannot stop. I do not want to stop. I will not stop. I want to make, to build, to elevate. Interdisciplinary ceramic artist Robin Lambert investigates the need and desire to be a part of a larger social system. • Until Oct 13

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• 10329 82 Ave • 780 439 3981 • General Admission • bluesonwhyte. com • The Marwills are a thick, juicy cut of rock stuffed with the blues and covered in grade A Canadian dirt. • Sept 10 and Sept 11, 9 pm

VEIN W/ SANCTION, FUMING MOUTH • The Starlite Room—Temple • 10030 102 St • $15 • starliteroom.ca • Experimental hardcore band from Boston, Massachusetts. • Sept 24, 7:30 pm

THE PACK A.D. • Station On Jasper, 10524 Jasper Ave • $19 • stationonjasper.com • The Pack A.D. singer/ guitarist Becky Black and drummer Maya Miller have made a sound so gigantic, so fierce and raw and empowering, that it’s easy to forget there are just two people behind this brilliant, carefully constructed havoc. • Sept 6, 7 pm

WINTERSUN • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $29.99 • starliteroom.ca • Intensely harmonious, emotionally packed and traditionally arranged are just some phrases that make up Wintersun. • Sept 30, 7 pm

THE PROCLAIMERS • River Cree Resort & Casino, 300 E Lapotac Blvd • From $47 • rivercreecresort. com • The Proclaimers songs are timeless, capturing a gamut of human emotions. • Sept 13, 6 pm THE SMASHING PUMPKINS • Rogers Place, 10545 106 Ave • From $44 • rogersplace.com • The Smashing Pumpkins will relive the 1990s when they hit Edmonton. • Sept 9, 7 pm THE TAMIR HENDELMAN TRIO Yardbird Suite, 10203 86 Ave • $28 for non-members • The Tamir Hendelman Trio from Los Angeles. • Sept 22, 8 pm TREVOR HALL • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $25 • starliteroom.ca • Trevor Hall is an American singersongwriter and guitarist. His music is a mix of roots, folk, and reggae. • Sept 6, 7 pm

On the Family Farm • Showcasing the gentler side of farming, Loretta Kyle’s soapstone sculptures are based on her personal experience growing up on the family farm. • Oct 20 – Dec 1 Ticket to Ride • Drawing on her horses as inspiration, Lisa Head Harbidge’s glass sculptures are about the spirit of life. • Oct 20 – Dec 1 ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780 422 6223 • youraga.ca • RBC Work Room: Samantha Walrod—Vanitas • RBC Work Room is an initiative that supports the development of local, contemporary art projects. In this studio-like working space, Edmonton artists conceive and produce artworks onsite, resulting in a fully realized exhibition. This fourth installment features painter Samantha Walrod working in residence for six weeks. The artist will create a series of works on paper and canvas, painting still lives and animal forms. Her exhibition, Vanitas, will explore ideas of life and loss. • Until Oct 7 James Wilson Morrice: The A.K. Prakash Collection in Trust to the Nation • James Wilson Morrice (18651924) played a vital role in advancing modern artistic trends in Canada and abroad at the turn of the 20th century. In this exhibition, stories of Morrice’s widespread travels and rise to fame as one of Canada’s most beloved modernist painters are shared through the passion of an avid collector, A. K. Prakash. • Until Oct 7

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WIRTH INSTITUTE: 20 YEARS Convocation Hall, University of Alberta • Free • A free public concert celebrating two decades of the sounds of Central Europe at the University of Alberta. • Sept 1, 12 pm WISHBONE ASH • Festival Place • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $37 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Wishbone Ash embarked on the progressive rock scene in 1969, producing a distinctive brand of melodic rock. Having pioneered the use of twin lead guitars, the group has gained worldwide recognition based firmly on a regime of relentless touring. • Sept 30

Classical Music TREVOR COOPER AND ERIC MEIER, SOLO GUITARS Edmonton Classical Guitar Society • Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr • 780 566 5726 • $30 regular, $25 student/senior/member • edmontonclassicalguitarsociety.org • Two of Edmonton’s best young classical guitarists in concert • Sept 29, 8 pm LandMark: A New Chapter Acquisition Project • LandMark features new works by Alberta Indigenous artists: Brenda Draney, Tanya Harnett and Terrance Houle. For each of these artists, the land and landscape of their home territory in Alberta has provided inspiration for the creation of works that address time and ancestry, nature and the environment, community and story-telling. Working in painting, photography and video, the work of these three artists present the land, not as geography or vista, but as intimate and person places that are marked by lived experience. • Until Nov 11 Hubert Hohm: Edmonton Entrances and Suburban Landscapes • In 1974, Hohn undertook a comprehensive project entitled Edmonton Entrances, in which he photographed the decorated doorways of the 1940s and 1950s fieldstone and stucco bungalows that proliferate in Edmonton. These highly-coloured and richly-detailed images reveal the incredible creativity and variety of this unique element of Edmonton vernacular design. A year later, in 1975, Hubert Hohn focused his lens on the modern residential areas in Edmonton growing suburbs. The Suburban Landscapes, shot in black and white, reveal new design aesthetics common to homes built in the 1970s. • Until Nov 11 BMO World of Creativity: Wild Wood • Join us in BMO World of Creativity: Wild Wood, where people of all ages make art together. Participate in

the art making stations and add your own tree to “Timberline” the collaborative community forest. Dream, draw, colour and leave your particular wish in the forest “Canopy.” Read a story or make up your own. Explore the forest with animal puppets and try bird watching. • Until Dec 31 Manning Hall: The Pre-History of M.N. Hutchinson: Site 24 • Since 1999 Alberta artist M.N. Hutchinson has been creating panoramic photographs using a home-built camera, which rotates on a tripod through 360 degrees. Exploring the sciences of both mechanics and optics, his works challenge our perception of reality and the traditional role that photography has had in reproducing and recording it. • Until Dec 31 Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada • Co-curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy (Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada), the exhibition, Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, brings together the work of 20 contemporary artists from India and artists of Indian heritage living in Canada. • Until Jan 6 Master Strokes: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Victoria and Albert Museum • The Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection of around 700 Dutch and Flemish drawings is one of the principle holdings in the United Kingdom. Master Strokes: Dutch and Flemish Drawings From the Victoria and Albert Museum presents some of the most important and interesting drawings from this outstanding collection together for the first time in Alberta. • Oct 27 – Jan 27 Vision Exchange: Divya Mehra • As a special project for the exhibition Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, the AGA is presenting a new work by Canadian artist Divya Mehra in the RBC Work Room. Mehra’s installation utilizes the Taj Mahal (the iconic cultural world heritage site built in Agra during the 17th Century to house the tomb of Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan’s favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal) as a point of departure. • Oct 27 – Jan 27 ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) 19 Perron St • 780 460 4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Dancing the Earth • Leah Dorion. • Oct 4 – Nov 10 BOREALIS GALLERY 9820 107 St • 780 427 7362 •assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis.html • In Flew Enza: The Spanish Flu Comes to Alberta • In 1918 a mysterious illness swept the globe. It struck erratically and swiftly and seemed to target otherwise healthy young adults. Its victims could be well in the morning and dead by nightfall. The Spanish flu, as the pandemic came to be known, was indiscriminate and ruthless; estimates place the world-wide mortality rate between 20 million and 100 million people. Roughly one in six Canadians perished. More than 4,000 Albertans, almost 10 per cent of the province’s population, died within four months. What happened, and what

did it mean for the young province of Alberta? • Oct 17 – Jan 13 CAVA GALLERY 9103 95 Ave • 780 461 3427 • galeriecava.com Sylvia Durocher • Card maker. • Until Nov 16 Mélanie Liles, Karen Blanchet, Sylvie Nadeau, and Patrick Arès-pilon • Oct 5 – Nov 9 Espace Exploration Hélix • Sonia Paco-Rocchia. The visitor arrives, they see shapes, dark colours, metal, wood, a spiral. They take a step, something starts making a sound and moving, they get closer. It is a long spring, swaying around. It makes a fascinating sound. Another starts moving, making its own sound, answering in echo. • Oct 5 – Nov 9 FAB GALLERY Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • Free • ualberta.ca/artshows • Biomythography: Recent Work by University of Alberta (Augustana Campus) Fine Arts Professors, Keith Harder & Julian Forrest • In this exhibition by Augustana Fine Arts faculty members, Keith Harder and Julian Forrest, two colleagues have come together to question the notion of loss. • Oct 2 – 27

an Indigenous woman. By balancing the experiences of racism along with the inherited cultural trauma, Grier demonstrates the tradition of Indigenous story telling and resilience. • Oct 19–Dec 1 Main Gallery Title TBA (AIR artist) • This exhibition represents the culmination of a one-year artist residency at Harcourt House Artist Run Centre. Natalie Jachyra distils and simplifies the types of encounters we have in urban spaces by employing video, audio, photography, and installation in an effort to create immersive experiences for the viewer. • Oct 19 – Dec 1 MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne St • 780 459 1528 • In Their Footsteps: A Century of Aboriginal Footwear in the Canadian West • In Their Footsteps is a captivating exhibition of beautifully crafted Aboriginal footwear. Guest curators Bill and Michelle Tracy have brought together over 100 pairs of moccasins, leggings, slippers and mukluks from the Dené, Cree, Métis, and Plains peoples of Western Canada. • Until Oct 21 Alberta and the Great War • Created by the Provincial Archives of Alberta, the exhibition Alberta and the Great War looks at how world events affected Albertans on all fronts. Photographs, letters and newspapers, will transport visitors back to the Great War era, including the stories and artifacts of St. Albert soldiers from our own collection. • Oct 30 – Jan 13

FRONT GALLERY 10402 124 St • 780 488 2952 •thefrontgallery.com • Art Oﬀ the Wall • A group show featuring both primary and secondary market work. • Starting Oct 25 HARCOURT HOUSE 3rd ﬂoor, 10215 112 St • 780 426 4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca Art Incubator Gallery People Walk Backwards • Having been born away from her traditional land, Edmonton-based artist, Laura Grier, revitalizes her own Deline culture and knowledge through a series of screen prints and lithographs that are based on personal stories of growing up as

NAESS GALLERY At the Paint Spot, 10032 81 Ave. • 780 432 0240 • paintspot.ca • Meghan MacMillan: Wonder/ Wander • Large mixed media paintings on unprimed canvas. We see the artist’s characteristic joyous, bright colours and style, and a new visual language emphasising interactions between organic and non-organic mark-making, reflecting the car. • Until Oct 18

Pierre Bataillard: Along the Range Road • A selection of works from this senior Alberta artist. His mediums include watercolour, pastel, collage; his sense of colour is impeccable; his subjects are found within his home and in his rural surroundings. He will be exhibiting abstract paintings inspired by the landscape around his country home. • Oct 23 – Nov 20 PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY 12323 104 Ave • 780 455 7479 • probertsongallery.com Amy-Claire Huestis • Until Oct 13 Erin Loree • New work from Erin Loree. • Until Oct 20 PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA 8555 Roper Road • 780 427 1750 • provincialarchives.alberta.ca • This photography exhibit features panoramic images from the holdings of the Provincial Archives of Alberta. • Until Apr 20 Home Movie Day • The Provincial Archives of Alberta invites individuals and families to share their own home movies and to see other films in turn. • Oct 20, 12 – 4 p.m. SNAP GALLERY & PRINTSHOP 10123 121 St / 12056 Jasper Ave • 780 423 1492 • snapartists.com Aplacados—Entre Cascos Percutidos y Bardas • Beginning with the idea of erasure as language, Miguel A. Aragón concentrates on the use of processes that are reductive in nature to create his work. Any form of erasure, however violently destructive, can be seen as constructive in some way; something comes through the destruction, the negation of an image is not actually nothing. • Until Oct 20 Selvage • Selvage is an exhibition of new works by SNAP’s 2017 Emerging Artist in Residence, Mitchell Chalifoux. Opening reception: Sept. 21, 7 – 9 p.m. • Until Oct 20

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY 35 5 Ave • 780 962 0664 • alliedartscouncil.com Feature Artist: Larissa Hauck • Reception Oct. 6, 1 – 3 p.m. • Oct 2 – 19 Feature Artist: Barbara Ann Gaboury • Reception Oct. 27, 1 – 3 p.m. • Oct 23 – Nov 9 STRATCHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501 120-501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780 410 8585 • strathcona. ca/recreation-events/arts-andculture/art-gallery-501 • On the Antlers of a Dilemma • Edmonton based artist—mixed media sculpture. Freeman’s work responds to thoughts about excess and scarcity in relation to the way we exploit or develop natural resources. It has been proposed by ecologists that a balance in nature exists and that there are self-regulating systems in nature; systems that are now disrupted by human or industrial activity. • Until Oct 21 TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE 11211 142St • 780 451 3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton. ca • Dinosaurs Unearthed: Down to the Bone • This exhibition invites you to challenge what you think you know about dinosaurs and explore spectacular prehistoric scenes, life-sized animatronic dinosaurs, full-scale skeletons, intriguing fossils, engaging content, and interactive activities. • Until Nov 4

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VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA—CARFAC PROJECT SPACE Third Foor, 10215 112 St. • 780 421 1731 • visualartsalberta.com • 2018 Off-site Exhibition at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton Evidence of Paint 2018 • Partnership between Visual Arts Alberta—CARFAC and the Friends of the Alberta Jubilee Auditoria Society. This Alberta-wide juried exhibition of artwork by 10 Alberta artists features a fresh perspective on art, celebrating diverse points of view, styles and techniques.• Until Oct 9 Seven New Voices • Artwork created by emerging visual artists while in our Visual Arts Alberta—CARFAC Visual Arts Mentorship Program. • Oct 4 – Jan 12

COMEDY CRAIG FERGUSON ‘HOBO FABULOUS TOUR’ Enmax Hall, Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780 428 1414 • winspearcentre.com • Grammy nominated, Emmy and Peabody award-winning comedian Craig Ferguson is bringing 100 percent new material to the Winspear Centre stage. The acclaimed stand-up comedian has sold-out theatres all over North America with his witty and honest humour. Prepare yourself for a fantastic night of comedy that only Ferguson can deliver. Contains mature content. • Oct 18, 7 pm COMIC STRIP 1646 Bourbon St, West Edmonton Mall • 780 483 5999 • wem.thecomicstrip.ca • Steve Rannazzizi Special Presentation, Oct 4 – 6 • Big Jay Oakerson, Oct 18 – 20 EDMONTON COMEDY FESTIVAL Various venues • 780 439 8809 • atbcomedy.com • Four days of funny featuring over 30 comics from across North America. • Oct 10 – 13

TERRY FATOR River Cree Entertainment Centre, 300 East Lapotac Blvd, Enoch, AB • One might think that with finding success after 25 years of performing at county fairs and oddball venues, the moral of singer-comediancelebrity impressionist Terry Fator’s story might be the cliché of: Never give up on your dreams. But, when it comes to Fator’s story of success after 40, that old adage doesn’t quite ring true. • Oct 12, 9 pm

• $40 regular, $35 seniors, $25 students • bwdc.ca • Presented by the Brian Webb Dance Company. • Oct 5 – 6, 8 pm

THE GRINDSTONE 10019 81 Ave • 780 244 9076 • grindstonetheatre.ca • Wide Open Mic, Every Wednesday • Coyote Comedy, Every Thursday • Karaoke!, Every Thursday • The 11 O’Clock Number—The Improvised Musical, Every Friday • Four Bangers Friday, Every Friday • Up Late with Dana Andersen!, Every Friday • Extempore’ Improvised Shakespeare, Oct 2 and 16 • Kanucks Cantina—An Improvised Star Wars Saga, Oct 2 and 16 • Musical Theatre Open Mic, Oct 2 • An Evening with Glynis Price, Oct 3 •Blackout Sketch Comedy, Oct 6 • Telling Secrets, Oct 6 • One Mic Stand, Oct 7 • Gertrude & Alice, Oct 7 • The HighSchool Improv Show, Oct 9 • Hello Trivia, Oct 9 • Wagon Load, Oct 9 and 23 • Pub Choir, Oct 10 • Weird Al Karaoke, Oct 10 • Wide Open Mic, Oct 10 • Freedom Sketch ’90, Oct 13 • Late Night Edmonton, Oct 13 and 27 • Blank: the Musical, Oct 17 • Improv Against Humanity, Oct 18 • Girl Brain, Oct 20 • Favourites, Oct 20 • The Extra Medium Comedy Show, Oct 21 • Bump N Grindhouse, Oct 21 • Open Jam, Oct 23 • Put the Screws On: A Comedy Quiz Show, Oct 24 • Whose Rhyme Is It Anyway?, Oct 24 • Magic Monthly, Oct 25 • Don’t Talk to Strangers, Oct 27 • The 11 O’Clock Number—Musical Mixtape, Oct 28 • The Besties, Oct 31

Dance ATTAKKALARI | BHINNA VINYASA • Allard Hall, Triffo Theatre • #11130, 11110 104 Ave • 780 452 3282

RESIDENCy PROGRAM: MARyNIA FEKECZ • Ruth Carse Centre for Dance • 11205 107 Ave • 780 802 6867 • TBD • goodwomen.ca • Each Residency artist will have access to Good Women’s space at the Ruth Carse Centre for Dance for two weeks. Stay tuned for updates on possible showings, workshops, and blog posts from this fantastic line up of creators. • Oct 1 – 12 SHUMKA PRESENTS MOSQUITO’S WEDDING • Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium • 11455 87 Ave • 780 427 2760 • Adults: $75; 13-18 years and seniors: $65; Children five to 12 years: $30 • jubileeauditorium.com • Mosquito’s Wedding (All We Need Is Love) is a new production inspired by a traditional Ukrainian folk song. The 50-minute, all-ages dance theatre production will feature a number of insect characters from various “regions” of Ukraine. • Oct 4 – 6

FILM BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL WORLD • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne St, St Albert • $20 • stalbert. ca/exp/arden • Without leaving the safety of your seat, watch as fearless athletes tackle unchartered territory in some of the world’s most remote and picturesque destinations. Presented by The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. • Oct 1, 7:30 pm EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (EIFF) Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre (10200 102 Ave) • 780 423 0844 • $15 to $35 • edmontonfilmfest. com • The OSCAR qualifying EIFF presents 170 films from all the corners of the globe, showcasing the best in international, independent, cinema. Filmmaker Q&A’s, afterparties, Gala events, short films, documentaries, family films—all are welcome. • Sept 27 – Oct 7, times vary

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EDMONTON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL RED CARPET GALA Theatre in the Orange Hub, formerly the John L Haar Theatre • 10045 156 St • 780 405 6360 • Tickets start at $16.25 + GST • esff.ca • Come for a screening of independent Alberta short films at this Hollywood-inspired red-carpet experience. Enjoy the paparazzi vibe as you get a complimentary photo in front of the festival banner, plus free popcorn, complimentary hors d’oeuvres, and live music. • Oct 13, 6 pm HOME MOVIE DAY Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Rd • 780 427 1750 • Free • provincialarchives.alberta.ca • The Provincial Archives of Alberta invites individuals and families to share their own home movies and to see other films in turn • Oct 20, 12 – 4 pm ZEIDLER DOME THEATRE TELUS World of Science • 11211 142 St • 780 405 6360 • Tickets start at $15 + GST • esff.ca • This is a firstever opportunity in North America to watch 360°/VR films in a dome theatre! Films have been gathered from all over the world to screen in the state-of-the-art Zeidler Dome Theatre! Tickets include a laser light show. • Oct 12, 6:30 pm

LITERARY TALES Parkallen Community Hall, 6510 111 St • Free • talesedmonton@ hotmail.com • 780 437 7736 • TELLAROUNDS • TALES (the Alberta League Encouraging Storytelling) celebrates the ancient art of oral storytelling with monthly story circles. Adults are invited to tell short stories of all kinds--from memory (not read), and listeners are also most welcome. • Wednesdays, Sept – June, 7 – 9 pm

THEATRE BILLY (LES JOURS DE HURLEMENT) L’UniThéâtre’s, La Cité Francophone • 8627 91 St • 780 469 8400 • Starting at $28 • lunitheatre.ca • Amidst freshly fallen snow and the thermometer reading below -27C, three characters are screaming out for justice. This world full of negativity and gossip makes us reflect on our own actions in our communities. • Oct 10 – 20 BUDDy WASISSNAME • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $38 • festivalplace.ab.ca • For 35 years Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers have been touring Canada, splashing their unique taste of Newfoundland through more than 360 communities as far flung as Port Hardy, Iqaluit, Leading Tickles, and Toronto. The flavour of the Buddy experience is one of home grown folk music, songs, and humour. • Oct 10 – 13 CHIMPROV Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance, $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • CHiMPROV is Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform

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improv comedy show. Here you will see RFT’s most accomplished performers creating artfully-crafted improv formats, intricate narratives, and improvised one-act plays sure to make you bust a gut. • Sat, 10 pm CIRQUE ÉLOIZE SALOON • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • $68 • stalbert.ca/exp/arden • Swing open the Saloon doors and lasso up some Wild West fun for the whole family with Montréal-based Cirque Éloize. Known for creating grand-scale award-winning entertainment for over 25 years, circus, theatre, dance and non-stop music collide in this intimate, action-packed spectacular. • Oct 2, 7:30 pm DIENASTy! THE LIVE IMPROVISED SOAP OPERA PRESENTS 28 yEARS • The Varscona Theatre • 10329 83 Ave • 780 433 3399 • TBD • varsconatheatre.com • Improvised comedy from a legacy group in Edmonton. • Oct 27 – May 27 DIRT BUFFET CABARET: NASRA ADEM Spazio Performativo,10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $10 OBO • milezerodance.com • MZD’s interdisciplinary variety shows with a wide array of emerging and experimental artists. An all-ages and all-embracing event with an amazing new group of curators from a variety of backgrounds and artistic practices • Oct 4, 8 pm EDMONTON OPERA: LA TRAVIATA Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 87 Ave • 780 429 1000 • Tickets start at $29 • edmontonopera.com • Edmonton Opera’s new production of La Traviata combines spectacle, passion, drama, and thrilling music to tell the story of Violetta, a famous Parisian courtesan who is consumed both by love and a life-threatening illness. Don’t miss the opera that inspired the blockbuster film Moulin Rouge. It features the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra • Oct 20, 23, 26 LENIN’S EMBALMERS The Timms Centre for the Arts • 87 Avenue, 112 St NW • 780 492 2273 • Ticket prices vary • timmscentre. ca • The Studio Theatre season opens with Lenin’s Embalmers, directed by MFA Directing Candidate, Alexander Donovan and written by Vern Thiessen (’92 MFA, Playwriting). Thiessen, the current Artistic Director of Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre, returns to the U of A to perform as Vladimir Lenin in the Edmonton premiere of a rollicking comedy and an epic tragedy. • Oct 11 – 20 SATURDAy SERIES: MURDER AT MAKEOUT POINT Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance, $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Piranha 3DD. These are the paradigm of the great American ‘Teen Slasher.’ Murder at Makeout Point will bring the best parts from all teen slashers to the stage in a bloody angsty improvised adventure. So come fill your Halloween weekend with some teenage arche-

types and murder mystery • Oct 6, 20, 23, 27, 7:30 pm ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES • Studio Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns • 10330 84 Ave • 780 471 1586 • Tickets start at $21 • northernlighttheatre.com • Evolution, feminism and comedy come together in Origin of the Species. In Bryony Lavery’s quirky Origin of the Species, ardent archaeologist Molly, digging for prehistoric man in Olduva Gorge finds instead a four-million-year-old female body. • Oct 12 – 27 SKIRTS ON FIRE • The Varscona Theatre • 10329 83 Ave • 780 433 3399 • Tickets start at $25 • varsconatheatre.com • A famous literary hoax begets a further series of deceptions, misunderstandings, and outright lies, until things come to a head in the smallest hotel room in New York. • Sept 27 – Oct 13 THE COMEDY COMPANY • The Varscona Theatre • 10329 83 Ave • 780 433 3399 • Tickets start at $22 • varsconatheatre.com • An extraordinary true Canadian story of the members of the Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry Division. Company members were asked by their commander to put together a comedy/musical revue to entertain the troops to boost morale. During some of the most difficult fighting of the war they would conceive, write and perform comedy sketches and musical parodies to lift the spirits of the soldiers. • Oct 24 – Nov 11

THE CREMATION OF SAM MCGEE WITH CELLIST CHRISTINE HANSON AND ENSEMBLE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $35 • festivalplace.ab.ca • The Cremation of Sam McGee Suite, composed by Christine Hanson, has six movements inter-dispersed among the spoken words, enhanced by the truly striking backdrop of Canadian artist Ted Harrison’s brilliant paintings. • Oct 21

est-running show, now in its 38th consecutive season. This high-energy, fast-paced show pits teams of improvisors against each other in a fierce battle of wits and laughs where anything can happen! Created by Keith Johnstone in Calgary, Theatresports is performed by companies all over the world. Rapid Fire Theatre is one of the biggest and longest-running producers of the show on the planet • Every Friday, 7:30 and 10 pm

THE KIDPROVISORS Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $8 in advance, $10 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • In collaboration with the Foote Theatre School, The Kidprovisors begins with weekly improv workshops for kids and culminates in a monthly family-friendly improv show. Each show stars the students as they team up with the pros at Rapid Fire Theatre • Oct 28, 3:30 pm

MUSIC A WILHELM SCREAM • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $20 • starliteroom.ca • Melodic hardcore punk band from New Bedford, Massachusetts. • Oct 2, 8 pm

THE TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE PROJECT • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322 83 Ave • walterdaletheare. com • THE TRIANGLE FACTORY FIRE PROJECT uses eyewitness accounts, court transcripts and other archival material to create a dramatic moment-by-moment account of this historic fire and the social upheaval that followed. • Oct 10 – 20 THEATRESPORTS Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance, $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • Theatresports is Rapid Fire Theatre’s first and long-

AMERICAN ROCK LEGENDS TRIBUTE W/ JOHN FOGERTY, CCR, AND BOB SEGER • Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780 643 4000 • From $29.95 • cnty.com • Dan Hare is the ultimate tribute to the music of John Fogerty, CCR and Bob Seger. • Oct 6, 7 pm BROTHERS OSBORNE • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • From $56 • shawconferencecentre.com • With the release of their highly anticipated sophomore album, Port Saint Joe, Brothers Osborne have sold-out venues across the globe. • Oct 21, 7 pm BROTHER RAM & THE PINE BARRENS • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No cover charge. • Oct 20, 4 pm

BURTON CUMMINGS • River Cree Resort & Casino, 300 E Lapotac Blvd • From $63 • rivercreecresort. com • Burton Lorne Cummings is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Burton is the former lead singer and keyboardist for the Canadian rock band The Guess Who. • Oct 13, 7 pm COLTER WALL • Union Hall, 6240 99 St • $40.25 (General Admission) • unionhall.ca • Colter Wall is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Swift Current, Saskatchewan. • Oct 18, 7 pm CONCORDIA FINE ARTS: O DAY OF PEACE • Francis Winspear Centre for Music • 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare.ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Concordia’s choral and handbell ensembles. • Oct 28, 3 pm CONCORDIA FINE ARTS: SPANISH VISTAS: CONCORDIA SyMPHONy ORCHESTRA • Robert Tegler Student Centre • 7128 Ada Blvd • 780 479 8481 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare.ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Oct 21, 3 pm CREED BRATTON (FROM THE OFFICE) • Union Hall, 6240 99 St • From $17 (General Admission) • unionhall.ca • American actor and musician Creed Bratton brings a special comedy and live music set. • Oct 21, 9 pm

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FOR TONIGHT • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No cover charge. Oct 6, 4 pm FORTUNATE ONES • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • $32 • stalbert.ca/exp/arden • Newfoundland’s Fortunate Ones head west with a fresh catch of material from their highly anticipated 2018 album, Hold Fast—a celebration of partnership, friendship, and resilience. • Oct 6, 7:30 pm FREDDY & FRANCINE • St. Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 71 Ave • 780 278 6407 • $30 at doors • newmoonfolkclub.com • Freddy & Francine, otherwise known as Lee Ferris and Bianca Caruso, are a soulmate pair of singers who mix soul, pop, folk, and Americana to create modern, yet timeless music. • Oct 26, 7:30 pm JIM BYRNES • Parkview Community Hall, 9135 146 St • northernlightsfc. ca • $27 • By age 13, Jim was singing and playing blues guitar. For nearly 50 years he’s crooned, drawled, belted, and hollered. • Oct 13, 8 pm

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IKONS—CANADA’S KISS EXPERIENCE • Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780 643 4000 • From $24.95 • cnty.com • With well over 20 years of experience combined, IKONS Tribute to KISS gives the best possible KISS show ever. • Oct 26, 7 pm IN DREAMS—ROY ORBISON HOLOGRAM • Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 87 Ave • 780 429 1000 • Tickets start at $52 • jubileeauditorium.com • Introducing “In Dreams—Roy Orbison in Concert,” an extraordinary event that sees the man himself take to the stage via hologram, accompanied by a full live orchestra. • Oct 9, 8 pm IRISH MYTHEN • Parkview Community Hall, 9135 146 St • northernlightsfc.ca • $27 • Think back to a time when you heard music that was so powerful and beautiful you were instantly engaged. That is an Irish Mythen show, an experience in the joy of everything. • Oct 20, 8 pm JANN ARDEN • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • SOLD OUT • stalbert.ca/exp/arden • Acclaimed singer-songwriter Jann Arden has announced she will embark on a Canadian tour in support of her new album entitled These Are The Days. • Oct 25, 7:30 pm JONNY LANG AND MAVIS STAPLES • Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 87 Ave • 780 429 1000 • Tickets start at $51 • jubileeauditorium.com • Two legendary Grammy-award winning blues and soul artists for one night only. • Oct 1, 7:30 pm KAYLA AND MATT HOTTE • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • $15 • stalbert.ca/exp/arden • Siblings Kayla and Matt Hotte have been playing music together their entire lives. Born and raised in Ardrossan, Alberta to a family with deep roots in old-time country, western, and bluegrass. • Oct 23, 2 pm LAUGH FOR LIFE • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • $59.50 • winspearcentre. com • Get ready for an evening of fantastic comedy that will keep you laughing for days. Anita Renfroe, along with Bob Smiley, is coming to Edmonton to help raise funds for The Mustard Seed. • Oct 20, 7 pm LA PRIMA DONNA SUMI JO IN CONCERT • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • $60 • winspearcentre.com • Praised for the remarkable agility, precision and warmth of her voice, and for her outstanding musicianship, Sumi Jo has established herself as one of her generation’s most sought-after sopranos. • Oct 12, 7:30 pm LE GRAND TANGO • Convocation Hall, University of Alberta • The passion of Spanish and South American music is infectious. You’ll be dancing in your seat to the rhythmic sounds of Piazzolla, de Falla, Cassado and more. • Oct 12, 7:30 pm

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LISA BROKOP PRESENTS: LEGENDARY LADIES OF COUNTRY • Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd • 780 962 8995 • $40/$35 • horizonstage.com • Covering some of the greatest female country singers ever • Sept 28 and Oct 1, 7:30 pm

programming, including Under the Big Top Circus Camp and Garage Band Live. • Oct 6

Mecca Music Presents: GhostBoy • Maclab Centre • 4308 50 St, Leduc • 780 980 1866 • $35 adults; $32 seniors and students • maclabcentre.com • GhostBoy combines the superb talents of Denis Dufresne and Aaron Young, two multiple-award-winning players. • Oct 13, 7:30 pm MACHINEHEAD • Union Hall, 6240 99 St • $36.50 (General Admission) • unionhall.ca • Machine Head is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California. The band was formed in 1991 by vocalist/ rhythm guitarist Robb Flynn and bassist Adam Duce. • Oct 9, 7 pm MATT MINGLEWOOD BAND Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780 643 4000 • From $39.95 • cnty.com • The Matt Minglewood Band are a musical hybrid, a fourmember band with one foot steeped in the musical roots of blues and country, and the other knee-deep in rock. • Oct 13, 7 pm NEW NORTH COLLECTIVE • Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd • 780 962 8995 • $35/$30 • horizonstage.com • Diverse music from the Canadian North • Oct 12, 7:30 pm NIGHTSEEKER • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $20 • starliteroom. ca • Nightseeker is a real life band featuring the fictional character Dean from the Fubar movies. Like Alice Cooper, Dean Murdoch is the onstage personality of Paul Spence, co-creator of Fubar and composer of music in both films. • Oct 25, 8 pm Norman Foote’s Halloween Howl • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $35 • festivalplace. ab.ca • Norman Foote is a Juno awardwinning entertainer who has received International acclaim for his song writing, outrageous props and off beat sense of humour. His musicality is like no other, mixing clever hooks, witty wordplay and comedy all to great effect. • Oct. 29, 7 pm PHARIS AND JASON ROMERO • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • $35 • stalbert.ca/ exp/arden • Few Canadian roots acts have enjoyed such a fast rise in popularity as husband and wife duo, Pharis and Jason Romero. Traversing old time country and folk in a perfect showcase of beautifully crafted original songs. • Oct 19, 7:30 pm Play it Forward: Live Music for Charity Presented by ACT/ UCT • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $46 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Join ACT-UCT, Festival Place, and host Bruce Bowie for an evening of great live music from three spectacular bands. Proceeds from this event will go to support innovative children’s

QUEEN EXTRAVAGANZA PERFORMING QUEEN’S GREATEST HITS • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • $38 • winspearcentre.com • The hugely popular live band performance returns to rock North America with the Queen Extravaganza Tour. • Oct 19, 8 pm RATTLE AND STRUM • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • $10 • An unbeatable and irresistible recipe for fun, Rattle & Strum will be ready, just like you, for Halloween hijinks. Get ready for Heather, a.k.a. Strum, with her guitar, and Steve, a.k.a. Rattle, with his drums. • Oct 31, 10 am RED DIRT SKINNERS • St. Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 71 Ave • 780 278 6407 • $30 at doors • newmoonfolkclub.com • Award-winning, acclaimed singersongwriter Fred Eaglesmith has an undeniable gift for writing a song. • Oct 12, 7:30 pm REUBEN AND THE DARK • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • $33 • winspearcentre.com • Reuben and the Dark is a collection of five multiinstrumentalists and vocalists led by Reuben Bullock. The group makes chilling, emotive folk and soul driven by dark, introspective lyrics that explore the duality of misery and joy. • Oct 29, 8 pm ROTEM SIVAN TRIO • Yardbird Suite, 10203 86 Ave • $24 for nonmembers • From Vancouver and New York. • Oct 19, 8 pm SEAN BURNS • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No cover charge. • Oct 27, 4 pm Season Recital 2 • Muttart Hall, MacEwan Conservatory of Music • edmontonrecital.com Internationally renowned violinist Ivan Zenaty, and Dmitri Vorobiev on piano. • Oct 28, 7:30pm SKERRYVORE • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • $42 • stalbert.ca/exp/arden • A Scottish Celtic-rock group, Skerryvore is a two-time Live Act of the Year award winner in their home country. • Oct 5, 7:30 pm SLAUGHTER • Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780 643 4000 • From $59.95 • cnty.com • Slaughter has sold more than five million records worldwide and is known for their high energy rock shows. • Oct 27, 7 pm

STRUNG OUT “20 YRS OF TWISTED BY DESIGN” • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $27 • starliteroom. ca • Formed in 1992, in Simi Valley, California, Strung Out combines Southern California’s melodic punk rock sound with technical guitar solos and just enough hints of metal. • Oct 15, 8 pm SWEET • Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780 643 4000 • From $44.95 • cnty.com • Legendary rock band Sweet (a.k.a The Sweet) shot to the top of the charts in the 1970s, selling over forty million records with such hits as “Ballroom Blitz.” • Oct 20, 7 pm THE EAST POINTERS • Station On Jasper, 10524 Jasper Ave • $25 • stationonjasper.com • A Juno awardwinning group from P.E.I. The group consists of guitarist Jake Charron, banjoist Koady Chaisson, and fiddler Tim Chaisson. • Oct 13, 7 pm THE LONELY—CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF ROY ORBISON • Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780 643 4000 • From $29.95 • cnty.com • The Lonely are a group of experienced musicians and performers who share a deep appreciation of the music of Roy Orbison. • Oct 19, 7 pm THE MILK CARTON KIDS • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • $37 • winspearcentre.com • The Milk Carton Kids’ All the Things That I Did And All The Things That I Didn’t Do marks the first time that acoustic duo Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale have brought a band into the studio with them. Check the new album live. • Oct. 30, 8 pm THE ROYAL FOUNDRY • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $20 • starliteroom.ca • Local power, synth pop group The Royal Foundry is going to blow the roof off. • Oct 14, 8 pm THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $35 • starliteroom.ca • With their critically acclaimed new studio album, I Like Fun, Brooklyn’s legendary alt-rockers They Might Be Giants are back and on the road with a brand new two-set “Evening With” show. • Oct 19, 8 pm TOKYO POLICE CLUB The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $35 • starliteroom.ca • Tokyo Police Club is an indie rock band from Newmarket, Ontario. The new album TPC comes out this October. • Oct 24, 8 pm

SOUND CRAVINGS: UNIVERSITY ENSEMBLE SHOWCASE Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • The University Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers unite in melody and harmony for a showcase event at one of the finest performance venues in North America. Classics by Handel, Verdi, Fauré and more will be performed. • Oct 25, 7:30 pm

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TREVOR Alguire • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No cover charge. • Oct 13, 4 pm The Once • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $35 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Junonominated The Once return to Festival Place for their third performance, offering haunting interpretations of traditional East Coast music and uncovering a sound that truly represents their inner artistry. • Oct. 25, 7:30 pm UNLEASH THE ARCHERS W/ STRIKER • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • $18 • starliteroom. ca • Unleash The Archer is a femalefronted death/thrash metal band from Vancouver, formed by vocalist Brittney Hayes and drummer Scott Buchanan. • Oct 13, 8 pm UP + DOWNTOWN MUSIC FESTIVAL Various venues • $115 (Three Day Pass) • updt.ca • The 6th Annual UP+DOWNTOWN 2018 Festival is a multi-venue festival that celebrates independent music and visual art. Over a three day period, 11 venues in downtown Edmonton will collaborate to host some world class talent. Lineup includes Tanya Tagaq, Destroyer, Suuns, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Earthless, The Denim Daddies, Antibalas, and more. • Oct 5 – 7 WHITEHORSE The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $50 • stalbert. ca/exp/arden • Juno Awardwinners Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland deliver their original, sweeping, layered soundscape with unbridled passion. • Oct 20, 7:30 pm VOX LUMINIS • Robertson-Wesley United Church, 10209 123 St • edmontonchambermusic.org • $53.50 (adult) • Vox Luminis, founded in 2004 in Namur, Belgium, is an ensemble specializing in the performance of 16th through 18th century vocal music. The ensemble has been praised for its seamless blend of high-quality individual voices, exquisite tuning, and clarity of sound. • Oct 15, 7:30 pm

CLASSICAL MUSIC ITALIAN MASTERS Robertson-Wesley United Church • 10209 123 St • 780 467 6531 • $30 Single adult ticket • albertabaroque.com • Featuring pieces by Locatelli, Vivaldi, Corelli, and Geminiani. • Oct 21, 3 pm

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ERIC BIBB September 20 ROSE COUSINS September 28 FRED PENNER & THE CAT’S MEOW BAND September 30 THE BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL WORLD TOUR October 1 CIRQUE ÉLOIZE SALOON presented by DESJARDINS October 2 SKERRYVORE October 5 FORTUNATE ONES October 6

BACK PORCH SWING December 6

PHARIS & JASON ROMERO October 19

TOM JACKSON presents THE HURON CAROLE December 13

WHITEHORSE October 20 KAYLA & MATT HOTTE October 23 JANN ARDEN October 25 (sold out)

TALES OF A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS with the JERRY GRANELLI TRIO December 15

RATTLE & STRUM Noisy Theatre October 31

JOEY LANDRETH TRIO & ALTAMEDA January 18

BIRDS OF CHICAGO November 2

CATHY JONES & BRUCE MCCULLOCH January 22

PAUL REDDICK November 3

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III January 25

VITALY An Evening of Wonders November 9

KINAN AZMEH CITYBAND February 9

MATTHEW GOOD – SOLO ACOUSTIC February 15 WILL STROET presents WILL’S JAMS LIVE February 16

LORRAINE KLAASEN March 27 FIVE ALARM FUNK March 29 LÚNASA March 30

CELTARA February 19

JUDY COLLINS April 3

THE ULTIMATE GOLDEN GIRLS EXPERIENCE! THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND February 23

DAVID FRANCEY April 11

Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia presents THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR and other E. Carle Favourites March 9

COLLEEN BROWN sings THE JONI MITCHELL SONGBOOK April 13 RUTHIE FOSTER May 1

MUSIC • FAMILY • CINEMA • COMEDY • CIRCUS/VARIETY

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galleryofstalbert.ca • Dancing the Earth • Leah Dorion. • Until Nov 10

art GALLERIES/ MUSEUMS Alberta Craft Council 10186 106 St • 780 488 6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery • Seated • Whether it’s a majestic throne or a humble stool, what we sit on has undergone a rigorous design process and is an expression of its creator. Aesthetics, scale, style, materials, and proportions are just a few of the considerations taken when creating traditional, contemporary, or re-imagined seating objects. Seated features a diverse range of work created by 18 Fine Craft artists from across Canada. From stools, chairs, and benches that are created by master woodworkers all the way to unexpected fold formed copper and enamel metal work, this exhibition explores the theme of seating objects in clever and unexpected ways. • until Dec 24 On the Family Farm • Showcasing the gentler side of farming, Loretta Kyle’s soapstone sculptures are based on her personal experience growing up on the family farm. • Until Dec 1 Ticket to Ride • Drawing on her horses as inspiration, Lisa Head Harbidge’s glass sculptures are about the spirit of life. • Until Dec 1 Art Gallery of alberta 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780 422 6223 • youraga.ca • BMO World of Creativity: Wild Wood • Join us in BMO World of Creativity: Wild Wood, where people of all ages make art together. Participate in the art making stations and add your own tree to “Timberline” the collaborative community forest. Dream, draw, colour and leave your particular wish in the forest “Canopy.” Read a story or make up your own. Explore the forest with animal puppets and try bird watching. • Until Dec 31 Hubert Hohm: Edmonton Entrances and Suburban Landscapes • In 1974, Hohn undertook a comprehensive project entitled Edmonton Entrances, in which he photographed the decorated doorways of the 1940s and 1950s fieldstone and stucco bungalows that proliferate in Edmonton. These highly-coloured and richly-detailed images reveal the incredible creativity and variety of this unique element of Edmonton vernacular design. A year later, in 1975, Hubert Hohn focused his lens on the modern residential areas in Edmonton growing suburbs. The Suburban Landscapes, shot in black and white, reveal new design aesthetics common to homes built in the 1970s. • Until Nov 11

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BOREALIS Gallery 9820 107 St • 780 427 7362 •assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/ borealis.html • In Flew Enza: The Spanish Flu Comes to Alberta • In 1918 a mysterious illness swept the globe. It struck erratically and swiftly and seemed to target otherwise healthy young adults. Its victims could be well in the morning and dead by nightfall. The Spanish flu, as the pandemic came to be known, was indiscriminate and ruthless; estimates place the world-wide mortality rate between 20 million and 100 million people. Roughly one in six Canadians perished. More than 4,000 Albertans, almost 10 per cent of the province’s population, died within four months. What happened, and what did it mean for the young province of Alberta? • Until Jan 13

CAVA Gallery 9103 95 Ave • 780 461 3427 • galeriecava.com Mélanie Liles, Karen Blanchet, Sylvie Nadeau, and Patrick Arès-pilon Until Nov 9

Manning Hall: The Pre-History of M.N. Hutchinson: Site 24 • Since 1999 Alberta artist M.N. Hutchinson has been creating panoramic photographs using a home-built camera, which rotates on a tripod through 360 degrees. Exploring the sciences of both mechanics and optics, his works challenge our perception of reality and the traditional role that photography has had in reproducing and recording it. • Until Dec 31 Master Strokes: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Victoria and Albert Museum • The Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection of around 700 Dutch and Flemish drawings is one of the principle holdings in the United Kingdom. Master Strokes: Dutch and Flemish Drawings From the Victoria and Albert Museum presents some of the most important and interesting drawings from this outstanding collection together for the first time in Alberta. • Until Jan 27 Vision Exchange: Divya Mehra • As a special project for the exhibition Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, the AGA is presenting a new work by Canadian artist Divya Mehra in the RBC Work Room. Mehra’s installation utilizes the Taj Mahal (the iconic cultural world heritage site built in Agra during the 17th Century to house the tomb of Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan’s favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal) as a point of departure. • Until Jan 27 Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada • Co-curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy (Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada), the exhibition, Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, brings together the work of 20 contemporary artists from India and artists of Indian heritage living in Canada. • Until Jan 6 Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA) 19 Perron St • 780 460 4310 • art-

Espace Exploration Hélix • Sonia Paco-Rocchia. • Until Nov 9 Sylvia Durocher • Card maker. • Until Nov 16 Miniatures • Miniatures • With the miniatures show, we offer to the public an opportunity to purchase a small format original piece artwork. This is presented as a Christmas market. • Nov 23 – Dec 22 FAB Gallery Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • Free • ualberta.ca/artshows • Allen Ball: Painting in the State of Exception: Documents of Contemporary War • Painting in a State of Exception: Documents of Contemporary War is a discrete selection of images drawn from the series Photography in a State of Exception, consisting of 12 paintings created directly from the collection of images taken during Allen Ball’s tour of duty • Nov 6 – Dec 1 ADGSA Group Graduate Student Exhibition • A selection of work from graduate students currently enrolled in the U of A’s Department of Art and Design, members of the Art and Design Graduate Student’s Association (ADGSA). • Nov 6 – Dec 1 FRONT Gallery 10402 124 St • 780 488 2952 •thefrontgallery.com • Doug Jamha Estate Sale • Starting Nov 22

an Indigenous woman. By balancing the experiences of racism along with the inherited cultural trauma, Grier demonstrates tradition of Indigenous story telling and resilience. • Until Dec 1 Main Gallery title TBA (AIR artist) • This exhibition represents the culmination of a oneyear artist residency at Harcourt House Artist Run Centre. Natalie Jachyra distils and simplifies the types of encounters we have in urban spaces by employing video, audio, photography, and installation in an effort to create immersive experiences for the viewer. • Until Dec 1 Musée Héritage Museum St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street • 780 459 1528 • museeheritage. ca • Alberta and the Great War • Created by the Provincial Archives of Alberta, the exhibition Alberta and the Great War looks at how world events affected Albertans on all fronts. Photographs, letters and newspapers, will transport visitors back to the Great War era, including the stories and artifacts of St. Albert soldiers from our own collection. • Oct 30 – Jan 13 NAESs gallery At the Paint Spot, 10032 81 Ave. • 780 432 0240 • paintspot. ca • Pierre Bataillard: Along the Range Road • A selection of works from this senior Alberta artist. His mediums include watercolour, pastel, collage; his sense of colour is impeccable; his subjects are found within his home and in his rural surroundings. He will be exhibiting abstract paintings inspired by the landscape around his country home. • Until Nov 20 Kay Cue & Ryan Weisser (Untitled) • Wildly contemporary renderings by two exciting young artists. • Nov 22 – Jan 4 Peter roBertSon GAllery 12323 104 Ave • 780 455 7479 • probertsongallery.com • Clay Ellis RCA • Nov 15 - Dec 1 Provincial archives of Alberta 8555 Roper Road • 780 427 1750 • provincialarchives.alberta.ca • Take a Longer Look: Panoramic Photographs from the Provincial Archives of Alberta • This photography exhibit features panoramic images from the holdings of the Provincial Archives of Alberta. • Until Apr 20 SNAP Gallery and Printshop 10123 121 St / 12056 Jasper Ave • 780 423 1492 • snapartists.com

Harcourt House 3rd floor, 10215 112 St • 780 426 4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca

New Works: Solo exhibition by Bernadette Paetz • SNAP presents an exhibition of new works by 2018 Emerging Artist in Residence, Bernadette Paetz. • Nov 2 - Dec 1

Art Incubator Gallery People Walk Backwards • Having been born away from her traditional land, Edmonton-based artist, Laura Grier, revitalizes her own Deline culture and knowledge through a series of screen prints and lithographs that are based on personal stories of growing up as

Breasts & Brains: Omitted Anatomies: Exhibition by Marilène Oliver & Helen Gerritzen • Marilène Oliver works at a crossroads somewhere between new digital technologies, traditional print and sculpture, her finished objects bridging the virtual and the real worlds. She works with the body translated into data form

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in order to understand how it has become ‘unfleshed’, in the hope of understanding who or what it has become. In her work, Helen Gerritzen plays with symbol and myth to evoke visual metaphors to represent and examine the female body in old and new stories. The images present and question the dualistic relationship of desire/transformation and power/gender, creating a tension between the body as a product of language and knowledge with that of the physical, mortal body. The work questions the female body’s long history as a repository of cultural, sexual, medical and religious meanings. • Nov 2 - Dec 1 SPruce grove art gallery 35 5 Ave • 780 962 0664 • alliedartscouncil.com Feature Artist: Barbara Ann Gaboury • Reception Oct 27, 1-3 p.m. • Until Nov 9 Deck the Halls Fundraiser • All artwork in this show will be priced at $100, where 50 percent will go back to the artist and 50 percent to the gallery. A great way to give original art as a holiday gift. This show is cash and carry so you will be able to put it under the tree. Reception Nov. 17, 1-3 p.m. • Nov 13 – 30 stratchcona county Art Gallery@501 120-501 Festival Ave., Sherwood Park • 780 410 8585 • strathcona. ca/recreation-events/arts-andculture/art-gallery-501 • ‘I Like to Believe I am Telling the Truch’ • Nov 9 – Dec 20 stratchcona county museum and archives 913 Ash St., Sherwood Park • 780 467 8189 • strathconacountymuseum. ca • Peacekeeping • Featuring artifacts and stories of Canadians involved in Peacekeeping missions. • Nov 1 – Dec 21 TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE 11211-142St • 780 451 3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton. ca • Dinosaurs Unearthed: Down to the Bone • This exhibition invites you to challenge what you think you know about dinosaurs and explore spectacular prehistoric scenes, life-sized animatronic dinosaurs, full-scale skeletons, intriguing fossils, engaging content, and interactive activities. • Until Nov 4 Visual arts alberta—CARFAC project space Third Foor, 10215-112 St. • 780 421 1731 • visualartsalberta.com • Seven New Voices • Artwork created by emerging visual artists while in our Visual Arts Alberta—CARFAC Visual Arts Mentorship Program. • Until Jan 12

COMEDY COMIC STRIP 1646 Bourbon Street West Edmonton Mall • 780 483 5999 • wem.thecomicstrip.ca • Tom Arnold Special Presentation, Nov 8 – 5 RUSSELL PETERS • Rogers Place, 10545 106 Ave • tickets at ticketmaster.ca • rogersplace.com

• Global comedy superstar Russell Peters is thrilled to announce his return to his home and native land as part of his brand new Deported World Tour this fall. • Nov 9, 8 pm SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 87 Avenue • 780 455 9559 • jubileeauditorium. com • Instead of asking questions—a theme that has served as the foundation of his previous comedy specials and shows like What’s Wrong with People?, Aren’t You Embarrassed? and Why Would You Do That?— Sebastian Maniscalco’s new tour has the aﬀable performer instead encouraging fans to follow in his footsteps and “stay hungry.” • Nov 30, 8 pm THE GRINDSTONE 10019 81 Ave • 780 244 9076 • grindstonetheatre.ca • Wide Open Mic, Every Wednesday • Coyote Comedy, Every Thursday • Karaoke!, Every Thursday • The 11 O’Clock Number—The Improvised Musical, Every Friday • Four Bangers Friday, Every Friday • Up Late with Dana Andersen!, Every Friday • Blackout Sketch Comedy, Nov 3 • Telling Secrets, Nov 3 • One Mic Stand, Nov 4 • Gertrude & Alice, Nov 4 • Extempore’ Improvised Shakespeare, Nov 6 and 20 • Kanucks Cantina—An Improvised Star Wars Saga, Nove 6 and 20 • Musical Theatre Open Mic, Nov 6 • Baretones—Mom and Dads Bedtime Story Hour, Nov 7 • Freedom Sketch ’90, Nov 10 • Late Night Edmonton, Nov 11 and 25 • The HighSchool Improv Showcase, Nov 13 • Hello Trivia, Nov 13 • Wagon Load, Nov 13 and 27 • Pub Choir, Nov 14 • Weird Al Karaoke, Nov 14 • Improv Against Humanity, Nov 15 • Girl Brain, Nov 17 • Favourites, Nov 17 • The Extra Medium Comedy Show, Nov 18 • Bump N Grindhouse, Nov 18 • Blank: The Musical, Nov 21 • Magic Monthly, Nov 22 • Don’t Talk to Strangers, Nov 24 • Open Jam , Nov 27 • Put the Screws On: A Comedy Quiz Show, Nov 28 • Whose Rhyme Is It Anyway?, Nov 28 • Wide Open Mic, Nov 28

TRACY MORGAN River Cree Entertainment Centre, 300 East Lapotac Blvd, Enoch, AB • Tracy Morgan is one of the most respected comedians in his ﬁeld. Starring for seven seasons on NBC’s Emmy and Golden Globe Awardwinning 30 Rock, Morgan appeared opposite Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin as “Tracy Jordan,” the unpredictable star of Lemon’s (Fey) hit variety show, TGS with Tracy Jordan. • Nov 17, 9 pm

Klein, Brooklyn girl with passion and chutzpah. She fought her way into the record business as a teenager and, by the time she reached her twenties, had the husband of her dreams and a ﬂourishing career writing hits for the biggest acts in rock ‘n’ roll. • Nov 6 – 11

Dance CONVERGENCE • L’Unithéâtre, La Cité Francophone, 8627 Rue MarieAnne Gaboury• goodwomen.ca •This year’s Convergence is all about collaboration. Ainsley Hillyard brings together a huge team of artists to create GWDC’s ﬁrst full-length movement work for Convergence, which examines fear as a method of control. • Nov 15 – 17, 8pm

THEATRE 9 TO 5 MacEwan University, Triﬀo Theatre, Allard Hall • 11110 104 Ave • 780 497 4470 • Adults: $25; seniors: $20; students • $15 • macewan.ca • Based on the seminal 1980 hit movie of the same name and set in the late 1970s, this is a hilarious story of friendship and revenge. Pushed to the limit, Violet, Judy and Doralee concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. • Nov 28 – Dec 8

CANADA 151 • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Canada 150 is old news – CANADA 151 is where the party is. An amazing cast will conjure up the best artists, performances and historical moments of the last 151 years—Bryan Adams, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Anne Murray, The Guess Who, Alanis Morissette, The Tragically Hip. • Nov 6 – Jan 27 CHIMPROV Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • CHiMPROV is Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform improv comedy show. Here you will see RFT’s most accomplished performers creating artfully-crafted improv formats, intricate narratives, and improvised one-act plays sure to make you bust a gut. • Sat, 10 pm

• Created by Vancouver-based interdisciplinary company Plastic Orchid Factory, Digital Folk is an interactive music, dance performance, costume party, video game, and installation that promises to completely transform Mile Zero’s Spazio Performativo. • Nov 8 - 9

ab.ca • It was a night that changed the Second World War. The secret air raid against the hydroelectric dams of Germany’s Ruhr River took years to plan, involved an untried bomb, and included the best aircrewman RAF Bomber Command could muster – many of them Canadian. The attack marked the ﬁrst time the Allies tactically took the war inside Nazi Germany. • Nov 8

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS • La Cité Francophone • L’UniThéâtre’s, La Cité Francophone • 8627 91 St • 780 469 8400 • footeinthedoor. weebly.com • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels springs to life in a bustling casino on the French Riviera. Among the glitz and glamour of the Casino, Lawrence, a con artists and general smooth talking tyke, is working a crowd of wealthy women with the intention of tricking them out of money. • Nov 2 – 10

DIE-NASTY! THE LIVE IMPROVISED SOAP OPERA PRESENTS 28 YEARS • The Varscona Theatre • 10329 83 Ave • 780 433 3399 • TBD • varsconatheatre.com • Improvised comedy from a legacy group in Edmonton. • Oct. 27 – May 27 DIGITAL FOLK – PLASTIC ORCHID FACTORY (VANCOUVER) Spazio Performativo,10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $15 members, $20 non-members • milezerodance.com

CONCORDIA FINE ARTS: ALMOST MAINE • Al and Trish Huehn Theatre • 7128 Ada Blvd • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare.ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Directed by Glenda Stirling. • Nov 2 – 4, and Nov 9 – 11; times vary.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • Three Ghosts of Christmas show Scrooge the value of giving. A heart-warming family classic to put you in the holiday spirit. • Nov 30 – Dec 23 BEAUTIFUL, THE CAROLE KING STORY • Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium • 11455 87 Ave • 780 427 2760 • Tickets start at $68 • jubileeauditorium.com • Long before she was Carole King, charttopping music legend, she was Carol

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CONCORDIA FINE ARTS: FALL ONE-ACT FESTIVAL • Al and Trish Huehn Theatre • 7128 Ada Blvd • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare.ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Hosted by The GTC, the school’s drama club. • Nov 30, and Dec 1 – 2; times TBA

Join us this fall at the beautifully rebuilt Varsona Theatre, situated in the heart of Edmonton’s Old Strathcona!

DAM BUSTERS: CANADIAN AIRMEN AND THE SECRET RAID AGAINST NAZI GERMANY WITH TED BARRIS • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $31 • festivalplace.

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MA IRMA L’UniThéâtre’s, La Cité Francophone • 8627 91 St • 780 469 8400 • Tickets start at $28 • lunitheatre.ca • In an attempt to better understand the circumstances of her mother Irma’s death, Mission Bird finds her way from the laundromat to a man’s apartment in which she meets a dog, a dog that could sit in its own fat, who is also named... Irma. • Nov 21 - 24 Mile Zero DaNce SaloN: DuST Spazio Performativo,10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $15 members, $20 non-members • milezerodance. com • This salon asks artists to interpret dust and the ways it exists in this city physically, spiritually, and intellectually. What is the dust we breathe composed of? What is this substance that we are all becoming? • Nov 30, at 8 pm MiSS BeNNeT: cHriSTMaS aT PeMBerleY • citadel Theatre, 9828 101a ave • citadeltheatre. com • A witty, fun, “sequel” to the Jane Austen classic, Pride and Prejudice. • Nov 17 – Dec 9 reDPaTcH • citadel Theatre, 9828 101a ave • citadeltheatre. com • Redpatch is a new Canadian play about a young Métis soldier from the Nuu-chah-nulth nation of Vancouver Island, who volunteers to fight for Canada in the First World War. • Nov 1 – 11 THe coMeDY coMPaNY • The Varscona Theatre • 10329 83 ave • 780 433 3399 • Tickets start at $22 • varsconatheatre.com • An extraordinary true Canadian story of the members of the Princess Patricia’s Light Infantry Division. Company members were asked by their commander to put together a comedy/musical revue to entertain the troops to boost morale. During some of the most difficult fighting of the war they would conceive, write and perform comedy sketches and musical parodies to lift the spirits of the soldiers. • oct 24 – Nov 11

THeaTreSPorTS citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101a ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • Theatresports is Rapid Fire Theatre’s first and longest-running show, now in its 38th consecutive season. This highenergy, fast-paced show pits teams of improvisors against each other in a fierce battle of wits and laughs where anything can happen! Created by Keith Johnstone in Calgary, Theatresports is performed by companies all over the world. Rapid Fire Theatre is one of the biggest and longest-running producers of the show on the planet. • every Friday, 7:30 and 10 pm WHaT a YouNg WiFe ougHT To KNoW • The roxy on gateway, 8529 gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • Written by Hannah Moscovitch this play is inspired by true stories of young women during the birth control movement in the early 20th century, this unflinching love story follows a young working class woman in Ottawa. In a time where information on sexual health is withheld from her, Sophie is forced to exist in a society that refuses to acknowledge her as a person with desire, lust, and passion. Nov 13 – Dec 2

aN eVeNiNg iN coNcerT WiTH MurraY MclaucHlaN • Winspear centre, 4 Sir Winston churchill Square • $49 • winspearcentre.com • Murray McLauchlan is one of Canada’s most highly regarded singer/songwriters, and with good cause. Over a 45-year career, he has released 19 albums and been awarded 11 Junos. • Nov 1, 7:30 pm BeHeMoTH • union Hall, 6240 99 St • From $40 (general admission) • unionhall.ca • Behemoth is a Polish metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground. • Nov 17, 6:30 pm

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cHoir aND MarcHiNg BaND • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 ave • No Cover Charge. • Nov 10, 4 pm claSSiFieD • union Hall, 6240 99 St • From $46 (general admission) • unionhall.ca • Lucas Boyd, better known by his stage name Classified, is a Canadian rapper and record producer from Enfield, Nova Scotia. • Nov 9, 8 pm DiggiNg rooTS • St. Basil’s cultural centre, 10819 71 ave • 780 278 6407 • $30 at doors • newmoonfolkclub.com • Junowinning First Nations power couple Shoshona Kish and Raven Kanatakta have built their sound on a unique musical marriage of unvarnished truth and unconditional love. • Nov 16, 7:30 pm

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BirDS oF cHicago • The arden Theatre, 5 St. anne Street, St albert • $38 • stalbert.ca/exp/ arden • Celebrating all sides of life in song, the music of JT Nero and Allison Russell has been dubbed “secular gospel”, a sound that is bound by their beautiful, haunting harmonies and Russell’s extraordinary ability to step out front with a voice that reaches for the stars. • Nov 2, 7:30 pm

DRAKE • rogers Place, 10545 106 ave • tickets at ticketmaster.ca • rogersplace.com • Platinum-selling artist Drake announced the ‘Aubrey and The Three Migos Tour.’ Drake will be joined by special guests and “Walk It Talk It” collaborators Migos on a North American run. • Nov 6 and 7 THe eMeralDS • Maclab centre • 4308 50 St, leduc • 780 980 1866 • $35 adults; $32 seniors and students • maclabcentre.com • The Emeralds provide a fun filled show featuring music from the Big Band era. Country and Western selections with voice impressions by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson Elvis Presley and Louis Armstrong. The Emeralds, Edmonton Cultural Hall of Fame inductees, have recorded 30 albums resulting in six gold, two platinum and one double platinum award. • Nov 3, 7:30 pm FLEETWOOD MAC • rogers Place, 10545 106 ave • tickets at ticketmaster.ca • rogersplace. com • The newly announced line-up of Fleetwood Mac is Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Christine McVie along with newcomers Mike Campbell and Neil Finn. • Nov 10, 7 pm garY WaYNe MYerS • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 ave • No Cover Charge. Nov 3, 4 pm JaNN arDeN • Dow centennial, 8700 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • tickets at ww2.ticketpro.ca • A singer, songwriter, broadcaster, actor, author and social media star. The celebrated multi-platinum, award-winning artist catapulted onto the music scene in 1993 with her debut album, Time for Mercy. • Nov 3, 7:30 pm JuSTiN TiMBerlaKe • rogers Place, 10545 106 ave • tickets at

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ticketmaster.ca • rogersplace.com • Following the release of his highly anticipated album Man of the Woods and his epic Pepsi Super Bowl LII Halftime Show performance, Justin Timberlake will dance Edmonton into a storm. • Nov 4 and 5 K?D • union Hall, 6240 99 St • From $20 (general admission) • unionhall.ca • Patrick Cybulski, known by his stage name k?d is an American electronic musician and DJ. • Nov 24, 9 pm KorPiKlaaNi • The Starlite room – Temple • 10030 102 St • $29.50 • starliteroom.ca • Korpiklaani is a folk metal band from Finland who were formerly known as Shaman. • Nov 9, 8 pm lYNN MileS aND KeiTH glaSS • Parkview community Hall, 9135 146 St • northernlightsfc.ca • $27 • Through a career that has seen her the recipient of multiple Canadian Folk Music awards, and a 2003 Juno award for Roots and Traditional Solo Album of the Year, Lynn Miles has always created and performed music with unbridled feeling and vulnerability. Lynn will be joined by her long time road companion, Keith Glass. • Nov 10, 8 pm Mac SaBBaTH • The Starlite room – Temple • 10030 102 St • $18 • starliteroom.ca • Mac Sabbath is visually inspired by characters from McDonaldland, the fantasy world which fast food restaurant McDonald’s uses in its marketing campaigns geared towards children. • Nov 8, 8 pm MaDeliNe roger • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 ave • No Cover Charge. • Nov 17, 4 pm Maria DuNN 20TH aNNiVerSarY coNcerT • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $32 • festivalplace. ab.ca • 17 JUNO nominee Maria Dunn made her Canadian folk/roots debut in October 1998 with her first album of original songs, From Where I Stand. Since then, she has released five more recordings (all produced by Shannon Johnson of JUNO-winning band The McDades). • Nov 15 MarTiN Kerr • St. Basil’s cultural centre, 10819 71 ave • 780 278 6407 • $30 at doors • newmoonfolkclub.com • Martin Kerr has built his career one passerby at a time, singing his way from street-corners to concert halls and arenas. • Nov 30, 7:30 pm MuSic aMoNg FrieNDS: iN reMeMBraNce • Holy Trinity anglican church, 10037 84 ave • https://edmontonrecital.com • Laura Veeze, violin; Rafael Hoekman, cello; Sarah Ho, piano. • Nov 11, 7:30pm NicK SaMoil • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 ave • No Cover Charge. • Nov 24, 4 pm Paul reDDicK • The arden Theatre, 5 St. anne Street, St albert • $32 • stalbert.ca/exp/ arden • When Paul Reddick recorded

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Rattlebag in 2012 he cut a Canadian blues masterpiece. Four years later, the harmonica-playing singer took home the Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year with Ride The One. • Nov 3, 7:30 pm reigNWolF • The Starlite room – Temple • 10030 102 St • $29.50 • starliteroom.ca • Invading the streets, unleashing throaty soulful howls, and bleeding guitars plugged into smokey half stacks, and stomping on a vintage Ludwig bass drum is Reignwolf’s M.O. • Nov 10, 8 pm ria Mae WiTH ralPH • The Starlite room • 10030 102 St • $20 • starliteroom.ca • “Clothes Off” is Ria Mae’s first single as part of the Sony Music Canada family. Produced by Juno Award-winning hip-hop artist Classified, “Clothes Off” has already received significant airplay in Ria’s hometown of Halifax. • Nov 22, 8 pm STeVe eaToN’S TriBuTe To raY cHarleS • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $36 • festivalplace. ab.ca • Steve Eaton’s Tribute to Ray Charles is based on his own personal experiences opening and performing for Ray. His presentation is a concert series that not only includes a prelude to Ray Charles, but also takes you on his own personal journey as an artist and songwriter to the stars. • Nov. 2 STeVe WilSoN • union Hall, 6240 99 St • From $39.50 (general admission) • unionhall.ca • Steven John Wilson is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, most closely associated with the progressive rock genre. • Nov 18, 7 pm SuPerTraMP’S roger HoDgSoN • river cree resort & casino, 300 e lapotac Blvd • From $64 • rivercreecresort.com • Roger’s trademark way of setting beautiful introspective lyrics to upbeat melodies resonated and found its way into the hearts and minds of people from cultures around the world. His songs have remarkably stood the test of time and earned Roger and Supertramp an adoring worldwide following. • Nov 16, 7 pm THe FlaTliNerS W/ Fire NeXT TIME • The Starlite room • 10030 102 St • $20 • starliteroom.ca • The Flatliners were making music together before they were old enough to drive a car. Before they were old enough to buy alcohol they had already released two albums: 2005’s Destroy to Create (Stomp Records) and their 2007 Fat Wreck debut The Great Awake. • Nov 23, 8 pm THe DirTY Nil • The Starlite room – Temple • 10030 102 St • $15 • starliteroom.ca • The Dirty Nil are a Canadian alternative rock band from Hamilton, Ontario. • Nov 1, 8 pm THe greaT caNaDiaN SoNgBooK • Horizon Stage • $40/$35 • 1001 calahoo road • 780 962 8995 • horizonstage.com • Ken Lavigne, Tillers Folly, and Diyet perform hit Canadian songs. • Nov. 9, 7:30 pm

THE KALICHSTEIN-LAREDOROBINSON TRIO • McDougall United Church, 10086 MacDonald Dr • edmontonchambermusic.org • $53.50 (adult) • After four decades of success the world over, including many award-winning recordings and newly commissioned works, the KalichsteinLaredo-Robinson Trio continues to dazzle audiences and critics alike with its performances. Nov 9, 7:30 pm THE PAPER KITES • Union Hall, 6240 99 St • From $25 (General Admission) • unionhall.ca • The Paper Kites are an indie rock-folk band from Melbourne, Australia. • Nov 16, 7 pm THE WASHBOARD UNION • Dow Centennial, 8700 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • tickets at ww2. ticketpro.ca • Three time Canadian Country Music Award winners, The Washboard Union, have resisted classification and become one of the most exciting and talked about new bands on the country music scene. • Nov 21, 7:30 pm USS • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • From $46.50 • shawconferencecentre.com • Canada’s favourite alternative duo USS have announced a 2018 fall headlining tour. They’ll be joined by guests The Elwins. • Nov 16, 7 pm YUKON BLONDE W/ THE ZOLAS • Station On Jasper, 10524, Jasper Ave • $25 • stationonjasper.com • Yukon Blonde is a Canadian indie rock band originally from Kelowna, British Columbia. • Nov 30, 7 pm

art GALLERIES/ MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL 10186 106 St • 780 488 6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery • Seated • Whether it’s a majestic throne or a humble stool, what we sit on has undergone a rigorous design process and is an expression of its creator. Aesthetics, scale, style, materials, and proportions are just a few of the considerations taken when creating traditional, contemporary, or re-imagined seating objects. Seated features a diverse range of work created by 18 Fine Craft artists from

CLASSICAL MUSIC A QUARTETS CHRISTMAS • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $33 • festivalplace.ab.ca • A Quartette Christmas is a delightful mix of Christmas songs old and new, performed by four of Canada’s finest singer/songwriters--Cindy Church,Caitlin Hanford, Gwen Swick, and Sylvia Tyson. • Nov 25 AZULINE DUO - A SPECIAL CONCERT FOR CHILDREN EDMONTON CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY • Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr • 780 566 5726 • $30 regular, $25 student/senior/member • A shorter concert by this exceptional flute and guitar duo. • Nov 18, 2 pm AZULINE DUO - EMMA RUSH (GUITAR) AND SARA TRAFICANTE (FLUTE) Edmonton Classical Guitar Society • Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr • 780 566 5726 • $30 regular, $25 student/senior/member • A lively new flute and guitar duo. • Nov 17, 8 pm BAROQUE CHAMBER MUSIC TREASURES • Robertson-Wesley United Church • 10209 123 St • 780 467 6531 • $30 Single adult ticket • albertabaroque.com • Featuring pieces by Rebel, Biber, Telemann, and of course, Bach. • Nov 18, 3 pm

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across Canada. From stools, chairs, and benches that are created by master woodworkers all the way to unexpected fold formed copper and enamel metal work, this exhibition explores the theme of seating objects in clever and unexpected ways. • until Dec 24 On the Family Farm • Showcasing the gentler side of farming, Loretta Kyle’s soapstone sculptures are based on her personal experience growing up on the family farm. • Until Dec 1 Ticket to Ride • Drawing on her horses as inspiration, Lisa Head Harbidge’s glass sculptures are about the spirit of life. • Until Dec 1

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SEPTEMBER 1 A Night of Classics with Terrell Edwards | Fundraiser 13 The 4th Annual “In the Spirit” of Festival Place: An Evening of Single Malts, Ports, Madeiras and Cigars | Fundraiser 14 The JBs | Blues 15 Great Lake Swimmers | Pop/Rock 21 Jack Semple “Can’t Stop This Love” Release Concert | Blues 26 Shelley Jones in A Touch of Cole | Jazz 27 “An Evening With Terry Bozzio” | Instrumental 28 Crash Test Dummies | Pop/Rock 30 Wishbone Ash | Pop/Rock

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ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780 422 6223 • youraga.ca • BMO World of Creativity: Wild Wood • Join us in BMO World of Creativity: Wild Wood, where people of all ages make art together. Participate in the art making stations and add your own tree to “Timberline” the collaborative community forest. Dream, draw, colour and leave your particular wish in the forest “Canopy.” Read a story or make up your own. Explore the forest with animal puppets and try bird watching. • Until Dec 31 Manning Hall: The Pre-History of M.N. Hutchinson: Site 24 • Since 1999 Alberta artist M.N. Hutchinson has been creating panoramic photographs using a home-built camera, which rotates on a tripod through 360 degrees. Exploring the sciences of both mechanics and optics, his works challenge our perception of reality and the traditional role that photography has had in reproducing and recording it. • Until Dec 31 Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada • Co-curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy (Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada), the exhibition, Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, brings together the work of 20 contemporary artists from India and artists of Indian heritage living in Canada. • Until Jan 6 Master Strokes: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Victoria and Albert Museum • The Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection of around 700 Dutch and Flemish drawings is one of the principle holdings in the United Kingdom. Master Strokes: Dutch and Flemish Drawings From the Victoria and Albert Museum presents some of the most important and interesting drawings from this outstanding collection together for the first time in Alberta. • Until Jan 27

Vision Exchange: Divya Mehra • As a special project for the exhibition Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, the AGA is presenting a new work by Canadian artist Divya Mehra in the RBC Work Room. Mehra’s installation utilizes the Taj Mahal (the iconic cultural world heritage site built in Agra during the 17th Century to house the tomb of Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan’s favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal) as a point of departure. • Until Jan 27 StretchMark: A New Chapter Acquisition Project • The third in a series of four exhibitions featuring works by contemporary Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit and Metis artists, newly acquired for the AGA’s collection, StretchMark explores tension resulting from moments of rapid growth or change. • Dec 1 – Mar 24 Goddesses of Tooth and Breast: Spiritual Traditions of Hindu India between the 8th and the 18th centuries • He is devouring, ferocious, and awe-inspiring. She is nurturing, tender and benevolent. In Hinduism the Goddess (Shakti) enacts the cycle of creation as envisioned by the Gods Vishnu and Shiva. The Goddess is represented in various forms throughout the history of art in India, and in classical Sanskrit religious literature, like the Mahabharata and Ramayana. • Dec 1 – Mar 24 ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) 19 Perron St • 780 460 4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Guilded: Around the Block • Dec 22 – Feb 2 BOREALIS GALLERY 9820 107 St • 780 427 7362 •assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis.html • In Flew Enza: The Spanish Flu Comes to Alberta • In 1918 a mysterious illness swept the globe. It struck erratically and swiftly and seemed to target otherwise healthy young adults. Its victims could be well in the morning and dead by nightfall. The Spanish flu, as the pandemic came to be known, was indiscriminate and ruthless; estimates place the world-wide mortality rate

between 20 million and 100 million people. Roughly one in six Canadians perished. More than 4,000 Albertans, almost 10 per cent of the province’s population, died within four months. What happened, and what did it mean for the young province of Alberta? • Until Jan 13 CAVA GALLERY 9103 95 Ave • 780 461 3427 • galeriecava.com • Miniatures • With the miniatures show, we offer to the public an opportunity to purchase a small format original piece artwork. This is presented as a Christmas market. • Until Dec 22 FAB GALLERY Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • Free • ualberta.ca/artshows • Allen Ball: Painting in the State of Exception: Documents of Contemporary War • Painting in a State of Exception: Documents of Contemporary War is a discrete selection of images drawn from the series Photography in a State of Exception, consisting of 12 paintings created directly from the collection of images taken during Allen Ball’s tour of duty • Until Dec 1 ADGSA Group Graduate Student Exhibition • A selection of work from graduate students currently enrolled in the U of A’s Department of Art and Design, members of the Art and Design Graduate Student’s Association (ADGSA). • Until Dec 1 Phoebe Todd—Parrish, MFA Printmaking • This exhibition is the final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking. • Dec 11 – 22 FRONT GAllERy 10402 124 St • 780.488.2952 •thefrontgallery.com • Christmas Salon • Come by to see our selection of paintings, sculptures, books and art glass to find the perfect Christmas present. • Starting Dec 7 HARCOURT HOUSE 3rd floor, 10215 112 St • 780 426 4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca Art Incubator Gallery

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People Walk Backwards • Having been born away from her traditional land, Edmonton-based artist, Laura Grier, revitalizes her own Deline culture and knowledge through a series of screen prints and lithographs that are based on personal stories of growing up as an Indigenous woman. By balancing the experiences of racism along with the inherited cultural trauma, Grier demonstrates tradition of Indigenous story telling and resilience. • Until Dec 1 Main Gallery title TBA (AIR artist) • This exhibition represents the culmination of a one-year artist residency at Harcourt House Artist Run Centre. Natalie Jachyra distils and simplifies the types of encounters we have in urban spaces by employing video, audio, photography, and installation in an effort to create immersive experiences for the viewer. • Until Dec 1 Art Incubator Gallery East of Here • Utilizing photography, painting, and collage as a research material Emanuel Osahor creates immersive large-scale paintings that investigate the complicated individual moments in constructed sanctuary spaces. • Dec 14 – Feb 2 Main Gallery Flatpack • Drawing from emotional memories and imagination, Antonietta Grassi paints distorted geometric forms in a nuanced and layered color palette that explores color, shape, and light, and the manner in which they combine create perceptual and fleeting spaces. • Dec 14 – Feb 2 MUSéE HéRITAGE MUSEUM St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street • 780 459 1528 • museeheritage. ca • Alberta and the Great War • Created by the Provincial Archives of Alberta, the exhibition Alberta and the Great War looks at how world events affected Albertans on all fronts. Photographs, letters and newspapers, will transport visitors back to the Great War era, including the stories and artifacts of St. Albert soldiers from our own collection. • Until Jan 13 NAESS GAllERy At the Paint Spot, 10032 81 Ave. • 780 432 0240 • paintspot.ca • Kay Cue & Ryan Weisser (Untitled) • Wildly contemporary renderings by two exciting young artists. • Until Jan 4 PETER ROBERTSON GAllERy 12323 104 Ave • 780 455 7479 • probertsongallery.com • Clay Ellis RCA • Until Dec 1 PROVINCIAl ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA 8555 Roper Road • 780 427 1750 • provincialarchives.alberta.ca • Take a longer look: Panoramic Photographs from the Provincial Archives of Alberta • This photography exhibit features panoramic images from the holdings of the Provincial Archives of Alberta. • Until Apr 20

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SNAP GAllERy AND PRINTSHOP 10123 121 St / 12056 Jasper Ave • 780 423 1492 • snapartists.com New Works: Solo exhibition by Bernadette Paetz • SNAP presents an exhibition of new works by 2018 Emerging Artist in Residence, Bernadette Paetz. • Until Dec 1 Breasts & Brains: Omitted Anatomies: Exhibition by Marilène Oliver & Helen Gerritzen • Marilène Oliver works at a crossroads somewhere between new digital technologies, traditional print and sculpture, her finished objects bridging the virtual and the real worlds. She works with the body translated into data form in order to understand how it has become ‘unfleshed’, in the hope of understanding who or what it has become. In her work, Helen Gerritzen plays with symbol and myth to evoke visual metaphors to represent and examine the female body in old and new stories. The images present and question the dualistic relationship of desire/transformation and power/gender, creating a tension between the body as a product of language and knowledge with that of the physical, mortal body. The work questions the female body’s long history as a repository of cultural, sexual, medical and religious meanings. • Until Dec 1 SNAP’s Annual Members Show & Sale • Dec 8 –15 SPRUCE GROVE ART GAllERy 35 5 Ave • 780 962 0664 • alliedartscouncil.com Fur, Feathers & Fauna—A Members Show • Reception and Christmas Store Gala Dec. 7, 7-9 p.m. • Dec 3 – Jan 18 Christmas Store • Stop in and find handmade gifts by local artists and artisans. What better way to pamper a loved one (or yourself) than with an item made with care? • Dec 4 – 21 STRATCHCONA COUNTy MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES 913 Ash St., Sherwood Park • 780 467 8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Peacekeeping • Featuring artifacts and stories of Canadians involved in Peacekeeping missions. • Until Dec 21 VISUAl ARTS AlBERTA—CARFAC PROJECT SPACE Third Foor, 10215-112 St. • 780 421 1731 • visualartsalberta.com • Seven New Voices • Artwork created by emerging visual artists while in our Visual Arts Alberta—CARFAC Visual Arts Mentorship Program. • Until Jan 12

COMEDY THE DEBATERS CHRISTMAS SHOW Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • $39-$43 • 780 449 3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • What better way to get into the holiday spirt than going to Festival Place for The Debaters Live Christmas Show? This is the comedy stage show where comics go toe to toe in a battle of laughs and logic and the audience

picks the winner. This special live Christmas event features host Steve Patterson and two of his favourite comics performing stand-up and two hilarious debates in the format made popular by the hit CBC Radio One program. This event is not a CBC Radio taping. Some language may be inappropriate for younger audience • Dec 1, 7:30 pm THE GRINDSTONE 10019 81 Ave • 780 244 9076 • grindstonetheatre.ca • Wide Open Mic, Every Wednesday • Coyote Comedy, Every Thursday • Karaoke!, Every Thursday • The 11 O’Clock Number—The Improvised Musical, Every Friday • Four Bangers Friday, Every Friday • Up Late with Dana Andersen!, Every Friday • Blackout Sketch Comedy, Dec 1 • Telling Secrets, Dec 1 • One Mic Stand, Dec 2 • Gertrude & Alice, Dec 2 • Extempore’ Improvised Shakespeare, Dec 4 and 18 • Kanucks Cantina—An Improvised Star Wars Saga, Dec 4 and 18 • Musical Theatre Open Mic, Dec 4 • An Evening with Martin Galba, Dec 5 • Freedom Sketch ’90, Dec 8 • Late Night Edmonton, Dec 9 • The HighSchool Improv Showcase, Dec 11 • Hello Trivia, Dec 11 • Wagon Load, Dec 11 • Pub Choir, Dec 12 • Weird Al Karaoke, Dec 12 • Girl Brain, Dec 15 • Favourites, Dec 15 • The Extra Medium Comedy Show, Dec 16 • Bump N Grindhouse, Dec 16 • Blank: The Musical, Dec 19 • Improv Against Humanity, Dec 20

Dance BWDC MASTEr CLASS SErIES: FOrTIEr DANSE CréATION, MONTréAL • ruth Carse Centre for Dance • 11205 107 Ave • 780 802 6867 • Prices vary • goodwomen.ca • GWDC partners with the Brian Webb Dance Company to provide an opportunity for local dance practitioners to learn from artists featured in BWDC’s 2018/19 season. • Dec 14, 10 am – 12 pm

revenge. Pushed to the limit, Violet, Judy and Doralee concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. • Nov 28 – Dec 8 A CHrISTMAS CArOL • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • Three Ghosts of Christmas show Scrooge the value of giving. A heart-warming family classic to put you in the holiday spirit. • Nov 30 – Dec 23

FOrTIEr DANSE CrEATIONS | SOLO 70 • Allard Hall, Triffo Theatre • #11-130, 11110 104 Ave, 112 St • 780 452 3282 • $40 regular, $35 seniors, $25 students • bwdc.ca • Presented by the Brian Webb Dance Company. • Dec 14 – 15, 8 pm

BEST LITTLE NEWFOUNDLAND CHrISTMAS PAGEANT… EVEr! • Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo road • 780 962 8995 • $35/$30 • horizonstage.com • A hilarious and touching Christmas production by Edmonton’s Whizgiggling Productions. • Dec 8, 7:30 pm

SHUMKA’S NUTCrACKEr • Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium • 11455 87 Ave • 780 427 2760 • Tickets start at $68 • jubileeauditorium.com • The Ukrainian Shumka Dancers, Edmonton Ballet, Viter Ukrainian Folk Choir and Ukraine’s Virsky and Kyiv Ballet join forces for the Nutcracker. • Dec 22 – 23

CANADA 151 • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Canada 150 is old news – CANADA 151 is where the party is. An amazing cast will conjure up the best artists, performances and historical moments of the last 151 years—Bryan Adams, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Anne Murray, The Guess Who, Alanis Morissette, The Tragically Hip. • Nov 6 – Jan 27

THEATRE 9 TO 5 MacEwan University, Triffo Theatre, Allard Hall • 11110 104 Ave • 780 497 4470 • Adults: $25; seniors: $20; students • $15 • macewan.ca • Based on the seminal 1980 hit movie of the same name and set in the late 1970s, this is a hilarious story of friendship and

CHIMPrOV Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • CHiMPROV is Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform improv comedy show. Here you will see RFT’s most accomplished performers creating artfully-crafted

improv formats, intricate narratives, and improvised one-act plays sure to make you bust a gut. • Sat, 10 pm; no show on Dec 29 CONCOrDIA FINE ArTS: FALL ONE-ACT FESTIVAL • Al and Trish Huehn Theatre • 7128 Ada Blvd • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare.ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Hosted by The GTC, the school’s drama club. • Nov 30, and Dec 1 – 2; times TBA CONCOrDIA FINE ArTS: WAr AND PEACE • robert Tegler Student Centre • 7128 Ada Blvd • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare.ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia. ab.ca • A new take on an old classic. • Dec 9, 3 pm DIE-NASTy! THE LIVE IMPrOVISED SOAP OPErA PrESENTS 28 yEArS • The Varscona Theatre • 10329 83 Ave • 780 433 3399 • TBD • varsconatheatre.com • Improvised comedy from a legacy group in Edmonton. • Oct 27 – May 27

DUFFLEBAG THEATrE: TWAS THE NIGHT BEFOrE CHrISTMAS • Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo road • 780 962 8995 • $12 • horizonstage.com • A hilarious retelling of a Christmas classic for young audiences. • Dec 1, 2 pm MISS BENNET: CHrISTMAS AT PEMBErLEy • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • citadeltheatre. com • A witty, fun, “sequel” to the Jane Austen classic, Pride and Prejudice. • Until Dec 9 THE GREAT GATSBY • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322 83 Ave • walterdaletheare.com • Nick Carraway, a young newcomer to Long Island, is drawn into their world of obsession, greed and danger. A yellow car, a heated jazz band, a mysterious millionaire and secret love affairs play out in the glamorized world of the jazz age and Prohibition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel. • Dec 5 – 15

DIrT BUFFET CABArET: BArry BILINSKY Spazio Performativo,10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $10 OBO • milezerodance.com • MZD’s interdisciplinary variety shows with a wide array of emerging and experimental artists. An all-ages and all-embracing event with an amazing new group of curators from a variety of backgrounds and artistic practices. • Dec 6, 8 pm

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THE KIDPROVISORS Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $8 in advance. $10 at the door • rapidﬁretheatre.com • Calling all kids. In collaboration with the Foote Theatre School, The Kidprovisors begins with weekly improv workshops for kids and culminates in a monthly familyfriendly improv show. Each show stars the students as they team up with the pros at Rapid Fire Theatre. • Dec 9, 3:30 pm LIZZY HOYT: ANCIENT CAROLS ON A WINTER’S NIGHT • Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $35/$30 • horizonstage. com • Celtic Christmas Music. • Dec 14, 7:30 pm MELT – JAMES VIVEIROS (MONTREAL) Spazio Performativo, 10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $15 members, $20 non-members • milezerodance.com • MELT—a prefix for a prayer—is a solo inspired by the idea of melting the boundaries that divide us. It is a dancing ritual and an exercise on freedom. The piece, created by James Viveiros of GAGA, engages the audience in surprising ways, giving each individual an opportunity to experience this openness from new perspectives. • Dec 14 - 15 THEATRESPORTS Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door

• rapidﬁretheatre.com • Theatresports is Rapid Fire Theatre’s first and longest-running show, now in its 38th consecutive season. This highenergy, fast-paced show pits teams of improvisors against each other in a fierce battle of wits and laughs where anything can happen! Created by Keith Johnstone in Calgary, Theatresports® is performed by companies all over the world. Rapid Fire Theatre is one of the biggest and longest-running producers of the show on the planet. • Every Friday except Dec 28, 7:30 and 10 pm VITALY • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $40 • stalbert.ca/exp/arden • From bringing pictures and drawings to life, to erasing people from their own driver’s licenses, his signature illusions will leave you awestruck. • Nov 9, 7:30 pm

MUSIC 54.40 • River Cree Resort & Casino, 300 E Lapotac Blvd • From $39.99 • rivercreecresort.com • Lead by chief songwriter Neil Osborne, 54·40 have carved out a legacy of gold and platinum albums and an outstanding reputation for their live performances that carries through to this day. • Dec 29, 7 pm AMERO LITTLE CHRISTMAS • Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $35/$30 • horizonstage.com • Familiar holiday classics combined with Don Amero’s country originals. • Dec 1, 7:30 pm

BACK PORCH SWING • St. Albert Community Hall, St Albert • $15 • stalbert.ca/exp/arden • Working from a palette that draws on the timeless sounds of Billie Holiday, Doc Watson and Bill Monroe, Back Porch Swing has formed the foundation of Alberta’s roots music scene for the past 15 years. • Dec 6, 2 pm BONEY M • River Cree Resort & Casino, 300 E Lapotac Blvd • From $49.99 • rivercreecresort.com • Farian moulded the four-piece band in the dance-pop fashion, featuring the stunning vocals of Liz Mitchell, which proved irresistible to radio, dance floor and partygoers. • Dec 14, 7 pm CONCORDIA FINE ARTS: CONCERT CHOIR CHRISTMAS CONCERT • Trinity Lutheran Church • 10014 81 Ave • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare. ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Concordia University of Edmonton’s big ol’ Christmas choir bash. • Dec 2, 3 pm

ton is a group of volunteers working together to create a city that attracts and gives voice to the next generation by connecting people, places, communities, and ideas. The show will feature Cadence Weapon, Scenic Route To Alaska, and Royal Tusk. • Dec 1, 8 pm SAMARA VON RAD • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. Dec 22, 4 pm SHAGUAR • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. Dec 15, 4 pm TALES OF CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $48 • stalbert.ca/exp/arden • Back by popular demand Jerry Granelli and his trio perform timeless Yuletide classics such as Christmas Time Is Here and Skating for an experience sure to be at the top many holiday wish lists. • Dec 15, 7:30 pm

QUALITY CONTROL • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. Dec 8, 4 pm

THREE DAYS GRACE • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • From $70 • shawconferencecentre. com • Whether you love the originals or new tunes, join Canadian rockers Three Days Grace as they head coastto-coast to support the new album The Outsider. • Dec 12, 6:30 pm

NEXTGEN CITY JAM • The Starlite Room • 10030 102 St • Volunteer 10 hours with an Edmonton charity or not-for-proﬁt to obtain a ticket • starliteroom.ca • Nextgen Edmon-

THE HURON CAROLE • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $48 • stalbert.ca/exp/arden • For three decades The Huron Carole has stitched its way into the

ERIN ROSS • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. Dec 1, 4 pm

art GALLERIES/ MUSEUMS ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada • Co-curated by Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy (Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada), the exhibition, Vision Exchange: Perspectives from

India to Canada, brings together the work of 20 contemporary artists from India and artists of Indian heritage living in Canada. • Until Jan 6 Master Strokes: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Victoria and Albert Museum • The Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection of around 700 Dutch and Flemish drawings is one of the principle holdings in the United Kingdom. Master Strokes: Dutch and Flemish Drawings From the Victoria and Albert Museum presents some of the most important and interesting drawings from this outstanding collection together for the first time in Alberta. • Until Jan 27 Vision Exchange: Divya Mehra • As a special project for the exhibition Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, the AGA is presenting a new work by Canadian artist Divya Mehra in the RBC Work Room. Mehra’s installation utilizes the Taj Mahal (the iconic cultural world heritage site built in Agra during the 17th Century to house the tomb of Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan’s favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal) as a point of departure. • Until Jan 27 StretchMark: A New Chapter Acquisition Project • The third in a series of four exhibitions featuring works by contemporary Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit and Metis artists, newly acquired for the AGA’s collection, StretchMark explores tension resulting from moments of rapid growth or change. • Until Mar 24

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Canadian cultural and social fabric, crisscrossing the country and bringing hope to the less fortunate. • Dec 13, 7:30 pm

CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCORDIA FINE ARTS: FESTIVAL CITY WINDS MUSIC SOCIETY • Robert Tegler Student Centre • 7128 Ada Blvd • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare.ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • A winter concert. • Dec 8, 7:30 pm CONCORDIA FINE ARTS: NOËL • Glory Lutheran Church • 22577 Highway 16, Sherwood Park • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare.ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Featuring Bella Voce, Community Chorus, Jubiloso Bells of Concordia. • Dec 9, 6 pm MUSIC FOR A FESTIVE SEASON • Robertson-Wesley United Church • 10209 123 St • 780 467 6531 • $30 Single adult ticket • albertabaroque.com • Featuring festive pieces by Albinoni, Schiassi, Vivaldi. • Dec 2, 3 pm SALUTE TO VIENNA NEW YEAR’S CONCERT • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • $49.50 • winspearcentre.com • Usher in the New Year with a glittery celebration of singing and dancing that will delight the senses. • Dec 30, 2:30 pm

Goddesses of Tooth and Breast: Spiritual Traditions of Hindu India between the 8th and the 18th centuries • He is devouring, ferocious, and awe-inspiring. She is nurturing, tender and benevolent. In Hinduism the Goddess (Shakti) enacts the cycle of creation as envisioned by the Gods Vishnu and Shiva. The Goddess is represented in various forms throughout the history of art in India, and in classical Sanskrit religious literature, like the Mahabharata and Ramayana. • Until Mar 24 ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) 19 Perron St • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Guilded: Around the Block • Until Feb 2 BOREALIS GALLERY 9820 107 St • 780.427.7362 •assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/ borealis.html • In Flew Enza: The Spanish Flu Comes to Alberta • In 1918 a mysterious illness swept the globe. It struck erratically and swiftly and seemed to target otherwise healthy young adults. Its victims could be well in the morning and dead by nightfall. The Spanish flu, as the pandemic came to be known, was indiscriminate and ruthless; estimates place the world-wide mortality rate between 20 million and 100 million people. Roughly one in six Canadians perished. More than 4,000 Albertans, almost 10 per cent of the province’s population, died within four months. What happened, and what did it mean for the young province of Alberta? • Until Jan 13

DEEP FREEZE BYZANTINE WINTER FESTIVAL Various venues across Alberta Avenue • deepfreeze.ca • This yearly festival brings a love of winter to Edmonton. • Jan 12 – 13 FAB GALLERY Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • Free • ualberta.ca/artshows • Phoebe Todd— Parrish, MFA Printmaking • This exhibition is the final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking. • Jan 2 – 12 The Art of the Book 2018 • Every five years since 1988 the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG, affectionately known as “Cabbage”) has organized a juried exhibition of the book arts. The seventh exhibition, Art of the Book 2018 (AOB2018) will be run by the BC Islands chapter. Jan 22 – Feb 16 Alcuin Awards for Book Design in Canada 2017 • To promote a wider appreciation of books and reading, and to support excellence in book design and production, the Alcuin Society offers prestigious awards for excellence in Canadian book design and sponsors the only national competition that recognizes and celebrates fine book design in Canada. This show includes books in eight categories (Children’s, Limited Editions, Pictorial, Poetry, Prose Fiction, Prose Non-fiction, Prose Non-fiction Illustrated, and Reference) published in 2017. • Jan 22 – Feb 16 FRONT GALLERY 10402 124 St • 780 488 2952 •thefrontgallery.com • Kari Duke & Tom Gale • Launch on Thursday, Jan. 10, 7-9 pm. • Starting Jan 10 HARCOURT HOUSE 3rd floor, 10215 112 St • 780 426 4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca Art Incubator Gallery East of Here • Utilizing photography, painting, and collage as a research material Emanuel Osahor creates immersive largescale paintings that investigate the complicated individual moments in constructed sanctuary spaces. • Until Feb 2 Main Gallery Flatpack • Drawing from emotional memories and imagination, Antonietta Grassi paints distorted geometric forms in a nuanced and layered color palette that explores color, shape, and light, and the manner in which they combine create perceptual and fleeting spaces. • Until Feb 2 MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street • 780 459 1528 • museeheritage. ca • Alberta and the Great War • Created by the Provincial Archives of Alberta, the exhibition Alberta and the Great War looks at how world events affected Albertans on all fronts. Photographs, letters and newspapers, will transport visitors back to the Great War era, including the stories and artifacts of St. Albert soldiers from our own collection. • Until Jan 13

Pandemic! • Medicine has come a long way since the 1918-1919 Spanish flu killed up to 100 million people world-wide, but what have we learned. Pandemic! will look at historic epidemics in St. Albert as well as more recent epidemics/pandemics. Learn about our health history and what is being done to ward off the next assault.• Jan 22 – Mar 24 NAESS GALLERY At the Paint Spot, 10032 81 Ave. • 780 432 0240 • paintspot.ca • Kay Cue & Ryan Weisser (Untitled) • Wildly contemporary renderings by two exciting young artists. • Until Jan 4

mistaken identities and the most famous play-within-a play ever written, Shakespeare stirs up the perfect recipe for mirth. • Jan 30 – Feb 9 CANADA 151 • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Canada 150 is old news – CANADA 151 is where the party is. An amazing cast will conjure up the best artists, performances and historical moments of the last 151 years—Bryan Adams, Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Anne Murray, The Guess Who, Alanis Morissette, The Tragically Hip. • Until Jan 27 CHIMPROV Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • CHiMPROV is Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform improv comedy show. Here you will see RFT’s most accomplished performers creating artfully-crafted improv formats, intricate narratives, and improvised one-act plays sure to make you bust a gut. • Sat, 10 pm

DIENASTY! THE LIVE IMPROVISED SOAP OPERA PRESENTS 28 YEARS • The Varscona Theatre • 10329 83 Ave • 780 433 3399 • TBD • varsconatheatre.com • Improvised comedy from a legacy group in Edmonton. • Oct 27 – May 27 MATT JOHNSON – NOTHING UP MY SLEEVES • Maclab Centre • 4308 50 St, Leduc • 780 980 1866 • $35 adults, $22 students and seniors • maclabcentre.com • Matt began his career in England as a young boy where he started to learn his craft as a traditional magician and illusionist. Matt’s show is not simply a magic show it’s a glimpse into the life and dedication of a born illusionist. • Jan 19, 7:30 pm MILE ZERO DANCE SALON: BACKBONE (OR THE SKELETON SHOW) Spazio Performativo, 10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $15 members, $20 non-members • milezerodance.com • Dancers spend a considerable amount of time analyzing skeletons and the way the body is configured. But what

are the other implications of having vertebrae? How does the idea of a skeleton affect other art practices and methods? • Jan 18, 8 pm ONCE UPON A FROST: A NEW MUSICAL • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets start at $35 • festivalplace. ab.ca • Once upon a time in a place not too different from your own, the most peculiar season came to pass. For you see on this year, when the time arrived for the first frost of winter, none came. • Jan 11 – 17

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SNAP GALLERY AND PRINTSHOP 10123 121 St / 12056 Jasper Ave • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • BIMPE X • Jan 5 – Feb 10 VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA—CARFAC PROJECT SPACE Third Foor, 10215-112 St. • 780 421 1731 • visualartsalberta.com • Seven New Voices • Artwork created by emerging visual artists while in our Visual Arts Alberta—CARFAC Visual Arts Mentorship Program. • Until Jan 12 Best Practices: Engagement Project • Artwork created by emerging visual artists while in our Visual Arts Alberta—CARFAC Visual Arts Mentorship Program. • Jan 17 – Mar 30

COMEDY CATHY JONES & BRUCE MCCULLOCH The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $40 • stalbert. ca/exp/arden • A little bit of Codco, a dash of Kids in the Hall, and a pinch of what made This Hour Has 22 Minutes so successful, are just part of the recipe that makes an evening with these comic geniuses so irresistible. • Jan 22, 7:30 pm

FILM SING-A-LONG-A SOUND OF MUSIC Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780 962 8995 • horizonstage.com • A host will lead the audience through a vocal warm up and give you a comprehensive guide to the accompanying actions for this singa-long movie event • Jan 20, 2 pm

THEATRE A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM MacEwan University, Theatre Lab, Allard Hall • 11110 104 Ave • 780 497 4470 • Adults: $25; seniors: $20; students • $15 • macewan.ca • Filled with lovers, fairies and rustics, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. With misapplied love potions, VUEWEEKLY.com | SEP 6 - SEP 12, 2018

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SWEAT Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • For a group of lifelong friends, a night at the local bar is the balm against a hard day on the factory lines. When tensions rise at work and picket lines are formed, their bonds wear and the strength of their connection is tested in the struggle to stay ahead. • Jan 12 – Feb 3 THEATRESPORTS Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • Theatresports is Rapid Fire Theatre’s first and longest-running show, now in its 38th consecutive season. This high-energy, fast-paced show pits teams of improvisors against each other in a fierce battle of wits and laughs where anything can happen! Created by Keith Johnstone in Calgary, Theatresports is performed by companies all over the world. Rapid Fire Theatre is one of the biggest and longest-running producers of the show on the planet. • Every Friday, 7:30 and 10 pm THE CARDiAC SHADoW BY ClAY MClEoD CHAPMAN WoRlD PREMiERE Co-production with Northern light Theatre & loud Whisper Productions • Studio Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns 10330 84 Avenue • goodwomen.ca • True Story: Four women were procured from the Ravensbruck concentra-

tion camp, hand-selected by SS Second Lieutenant Dr. Sigmund Rascher, Air Force physician. These four women were “volunteered” for a series of experiments that would eventually come to be known as the cold conference—tests specifically designed to determine the endurance of the human body to extreme temperatures. • Jan 18 – Feb 2 TRENT ARTERBERRY – THiNk BIGG • Maclab Centre • 4308 50 St, leduc • 780 980 1866 • $12 • maclabcentre.com • Think Bigg blends masterful mime, comical storytelling, compelling music and hilarious puppetry into a lively kid-friendly show. Trent Arterberry fills the stage with a collection of intriguing characters. Roboman discovers the limits, and extraordinary reach, of his own body. • Jan 27, 2 pm

MUSIC CAliFoRNiA GUiTAR TRio AND MoNTREAl GUiTAR TRio • Maclab Centre • 4308 50 St, leduc • 780 980 1866 • $35 adults; $32 seniors and students • maclabcentre.com • Featuring six virtuoso guitarists from four countries (Japan, Canada, Belgium, and US) California Guitar Trio (CGT) and Montreal Guitar Trio (MG3) fuse over 40 years of combined performing experience into one unique six-by-six-string “phenomensemble.” • Jan 19, 7:30 pm CARol WElSMEN • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464

2852 • Tickets start at $30 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Carol Welsman is a six-time JUNO Award Nominee, Canadian Jazz vocalist and pianist. Carol turned to her fans on social media to help select the tracks for her evocative album, For You. • Jan 18

arden • One of the most prolific American singer-songwriters of his generation, period. When it comes to examining the day-to-day trials and tribulations of life, and relaying them with literary aplomb, a wink and a nod. • Jan 25, 7:30 pm

MUSiC AMoNG FRiENDS: WiNTER JoURNEY • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84 Ave • edmontonrecital.com • Baritonist Jihwan Cho performing with Viktoria Reiswich-Dapp on piano. • Jan 20, 2:00pm.

JoEY lANDRETH TRio AND AlTAMEDA • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $29 • stalbert.ca/exp/arden • A rare treat, two sought-after prairie acts combine for a rock-solid double bill. From the critically-acclaimed Bros. Landreth, and local stars Altameda. • Jan 18, 7:30 pm

MATTHEW BYRNE AND 100 MilE HoUSE • Parkview Community Hall, 9135 146 St • northernlightsfc.ca • $27 • Born into a family of Newfoundland music makers, Matthew Byrne’s repertoire is heavily influenced by that unique musical lineage. Husband and wife duo, Peter Stone and Denise MacKay of 100 Mile House share their unique brand of transatlantic folk. • Jan 19, 8 pm

THE DEADBEATS • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. Jan 12 , 4 pm

kAT DANSER AND TAll TAlES • St. Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 71 Ave • 780 278 6407 • $30 at doors • newmoonfolkclub.com • Kat Danser’s music flexes easily between a dusty gravel road and a fresh coat of asphalt. True to her Polish-Gypsy heritage, she is in perpetual motion and her swampy roots and blues style is a fine-tuned reflection of life lessons from the road. • Jan 18, 7:30 pm kilBURN MEMoRiAl CoNCERT: QUARTETTo GElATo • Convocation Hall, University of Alberta • With their thrilling stage presence, superb musicianship and exotic blend of repertoire, this Canadian classical crossover quartet has earned international acclaim for their signature style. • Jan 17, 7:30 pm loUDoN WAiNWRiGHT iii • The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $40 • stalbert.ca/exp/

MiSS RAE AND ZANDER • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. Jan 5 , 4 pm MoNTRÉAl GUiTARE TRio AND CAliFoRNiA GUiTAR DUo • Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $35/$30 • horizonstage.com • Six virtuoso guitarists devoting themselves to becoming one voice. • Jan 18, 7:30 pm PETER PUFFiNS’S WHAlE TAlES • Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $12/$6 • horizonstage.com • A concert specifically for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners. • Jan 28, 11 am REBECCA LAPPA • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. Jan 26 , 4 pm

UlTRAViolET • Convocation Hall, University of Alberta • UltraViolet promises a cutting edge experience with virtuosic music equal in calibre to the renowned Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. • Jan 11, 7:30 pm WHEElS oF iNDUSTRY • The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. Jan 19 , 4 pm

CLASSICAL MUSIC THE loNDoN HAYDN QUARTET AND ERiC HoEPRiCH • RobertsonWesley United Church, 10209 123 St • edmontonchambermusic.org • $53.50 (adult) • One of the world’s leading period instrument string quartets, the London Haydn Quartet was born in 2000 out of a passion for Haydn. The quartet has collaborated with period clarinettist Eric Hoeprich to record the Brahms and Mozart quintets. Jan 19, 7:30 pm

have informed Canadian hooked rugs, a highly recognizable form of folk art with roots in 19th-century North America. Featuring hooked rugs from a rich archive of international material culture, the exhibition represents generations of artisanal entrepreneurship, women’s domestic and collective work as well as rural development in Canada. This is a travelling exhibition from the Textile Museum of Canada. • Feb 7 – Apr 22

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ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) 19 Perron St • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Reconciling Edmonton • This collaborative project examines Edmonton’s past as a meeting place of both Indigenous and settler cultures and communities. With archival photographs, paintings and poetry, the artists challenge the traditionally taught narrative of Alberta’s history as one of pioneers and homesteaders, which relegated Indigenous peoples and histories to the distant past. The exhibit aims to generate a true reconciliation of Edmonton’s past, present and future. • Feb 7 – Mar 30

StretchMark: A New Chapter Acquisition Project • The third in a series of four exhibitions featuring works by contemporary Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit and Metis artists, newly acquired for the AGA’s collection, StretchMark explores tension result-

BOREALIS GALLERY 9820 107 St • 780.427.7362 •assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/ borealis.html • Home Economics: 150 Years of Canadian Hooked Rugs •Home Economics explores the unique stories and histories that

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FAB GALLERY Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • Free • ualberta.ca/artshows • The Art of the Book 2018 • Every five years since 1988 the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG, affectionately known as “Cabbage”) has organized a juried exhibition of the book arts. The seventh exhibition, Art of the Book 2018 (AOB2018) will be run by the BC Islands chapter. Until Feb 16 Alcuin Awards for Book Design in Canada 2017 • To promote a wider appreciation of books and reading, and to support excellence in book design and production, the Alcuin Society offers prestigious awards for excellence in Canadian book design and sponsors the only national competition that recognizes and celebrates fine book design in Canada. This show includes books in eight categories (Children’s, Limited Editions, Pictorial, Poetry, Prose Fiction, Prose Non-fiction, Prose Non-fiction Illustrated, and Reference) published in 2017. • Until Feb 16

Joshua Wade, MFA Drawing & Intermedia • This exhibition is the final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Intermedia. • Feb 26 – Mar 23 Myken McDowell, MFA Printmaking • This exhibition is the final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking. • Feb 26 – Mar 23 FAMILY DAY OPEN HOUSE Rutherford House • 11153 Saskatchewan Dr • 780 422 2697 • Regular admission, $7 for adults • rutherfordhouse.ca • Celebrate Family Day with a FREE visit to the historic home of the first Premier of Alberta, Alexander Cameron Rutherford, and discover the unique personalities in the Rutherford family. Which one of them loved golf? Who did all the driving for Mr. Rutherford? Who played the piano? Who dug that old rag-time jazz? Explore this elegant, historic house, and join in historical games with the costumed interpreters, sample a treat made in the historic kitchen and make an oldfashioned craft. • Feb 18, 12 – 4 pm HARCOURT HOUSE 3rd floor, 10215 112 St • 780 426 4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca Art Incubator Gallery East of Here • Utilizing photography, painting, and collage as a research material Emanuel Osahor creates immersive large-scale paintings that investigate the complicated individual moments in constructed sanctuary spaces. • Until Feb 2 Art Incubator Gallery Portrait of the Artist • Specializing in portraiture and figure, Riisa Gundesen’s darkly repulsive and simultaneously dazzling self-portraits invert the feminine burden of being constantly observed into a vulgar anti-performance of this reflection that sets the viewer on edge. • Feb 15–Mar 30 Main Gallery Flatpack • Drawing from emotional memories and imagination, Antonietta Grassi paints distorted geometric forms in a nuanced and layered color palette that explores colour, shape, and light, and the manner in which they combine create perceptual and fleeting spaces. • Until Feb 2 Main Gallery Newborn/Swaddled • With bright, unusual colours, bold brush strokes, and awkward expressive forms, Violet Costello’s large-scale sculptural installation depicts the first moments of life, which are both miraculous and little terrifying. • Feb 15–Mar 30 MUSéE HéRItAGE MUSEUM St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street • 780 459 1528 • museeheritage.ca • Pandemic! • Medicine has come a long way since the 1918-1919 Spanish flu killed up to 100 million people world-wide, but what have we learned. Pandemic! will look at historic epidemics in St. Albert as well as more recent epidemics/pandemics. Learn about our health history and what is being done to ward off the next assault. • Until Mar 24

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NAESS GAllERy At the Paint Spot, 10032 81 Ave. • 780 432 0240 • paintspot.ca • Paint Spot’s Annual Staff Show • Feb 8 – Mar 11 PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA 8555 Roper Road • 780 427 1750 • provincialarchives.alberta.ca • Take a Longer Look: Panoramic Photographs from the Provincial Archives of Alberta • This photography exhibit features panoramic images from the holdings of the Provincial Archives of Alberta. • Until Apr 20 SNAP GAllERy AND PRINtSHoP 10123 121 St / 12056 Jasper Ave • 780 423 1492 • snapartists.com BIMPE X • Until Feb 10 Community Gallery Alyson Davies • Feb 1 – Mar 9 Main Gallery David Armstrong • Feb 1 – Mar 9

A MIDSUMMER NIGHt’S DREAM MacEwan University, theatre lab, Allard Hall • 11110 104 Ave • 780497-4470 • Adults: $25; seniors: $20; students • $15 • macewan.ca • Filled with lovers, fairies and rustics, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. With misapplied love potions, mistaken identities and the most famous play-within-a play ever written, Shakespeare stirs up the perfect recipe for mirth. • Jan 30 – Feb 9 ALL FOR LOVE The Timms Centre for the Arts • 87 Avenue, 112 St NW • 780 492 2273 • Ticket prices vary • timmscentre. ca • Filled with lovers, fairies and rustics, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. With misapplied love potions, mistaken identities and the most famous play-within-a play ever written, Shakespeare stirs up the perfect recipe for mirth. • Feb. 7 – 16 AVAN YU: JOURNEYS Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $35/$30 • horizonstage.com • A unique and personal concert about a classical pianist’s life. • Feb 25, 7:30 pm

VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA—CARFAC PROJECT SPACE third Foor, 10215 112 St. • 780 421 1731 • visualartsalberta.com • Best Practices: Engagement Project • Artwork created by emerging visual artists while in our Visual Arts Alberta—CARFAC Visual Arts Mentorship Program. • Until Mar 30

CHIMPROV Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • CHiMPROV is Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform improv comedy show. Here you will see RFT’s most accomplished performers creating artfully-crafted improv formats, intricate narratives, and improvised one-act plays sure to make you bust a gut. • Sat, 10 pm

COMEDY tHANk yoU FoR BEING A FRIEND—tHE UltIMAtE GolDEN GIRlS EXPERIENCE The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $39 • stalbert. ca/exp/arden • For seven seasons (’85 – ’92), The Golden Girls were the queens of television comedy. A quarter-century later, life-size puppets, with considerable help from five extraordinarily talented puppeteers, re-create the roles of Dorothy Zbornak, Rose Nyland, Blanche Devereaux and Sophia Petrillo. • Feb 23, 7:30 pm

CONCORDIA FINE ARTS: CONCERT CHOIR SILENT AUCTION Robert tegler Student Centre • 7128 Ada Blvd • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare.ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • A silent auction in support of music. • Feb 8, 7 pm

Dance BWDC MASTER CLASS SERIES: WEN WEI DANCE Ruth Carse Centre for Dance • 11205 107 Ave • 780 802 6867 • Prices vary • goodwomen.ca • GWDC partners with the Brian Webb Dance Company to provide an opportunity for local dance practitioners to learn from artists featured in BWDC’s 2018/19 season. • Feb 14, 10 – 11:30 am

DIENASty! tHE lIvE IMPRovISED SoAP oPERA PRESENtS 28 yEARS the varscona theatre • 10329 83 Ave • 780 433 3399 • tBD • varsconatheatre.com • Improvised comedy from a legacy group in Edmonton. • oct 27 – May 27

CANADA’S BAllEt JÖRGEN: CoPPÉLIA Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $35/$30 • horizonstage.com • A real life Toy Story told through dance. • Mar 2, 7:30 pm WEN WEI DANCE | DIAloGUE Allard Hall, triffo theatre • #11130, 11110 104 Ave, 112 St • 780 452 3282 • $40 regular, $35 seniors, $25 students • bwdc.ca • Presented by the Brian Webb Dance Company. • Feb. 15 – 16, 8 pm

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Dirt Buffet Cabaret: Steve Pirot Spazio Performativo,10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $10 OBO • milezerodance.com • MZD’s interdisciplinary variety shows with a wide array of emerging and experimental artists. An all-ages and all-embracing event with an amazing new group of curators from a variety of backgrounds and artistic practices. • Feb 7, 8 pm Edmonton Opera: Hansel & Gretel Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 87 Ave • 780 429 1000 • Tickets start at $29 • edmontonopera.com • Based on the Brothers Grimm folk tale, Hansel & Gretel takes you deep into the forbidden forest with a charmingly curious brother-sister duo. This German classic features Engelbert Humperdinck’s sumptuous score and richly woven characters that will satisfy all your operatic cravings. It features the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. • Feb 2, 5, and 8 ÉLISE CONTRE L’EXTINCTION TOTALE L’UniThéâtre’s, La Cité Francophone • 8627 91 Street • 780 469 8400 • Ticket start at $28 • lunitheatre.ca • In her science class, Élise learns about climate change and endangered species. She feels guilty, angry, afraid. With the help of her friend Amal, Élise starts working on an incredible science project to save the planet and prevent total extinction. She just needs the perfect idea. • Feb 16, 1:30 pm Indigo Circus Maclab Centre • 4308 50 St, Leduc • 780 980 1866 • $12 • maclabcentre.com • Indigo Circus is a team of award winning circus performers brought together by SaFire Dance. Their unique shows include a range of circus skills, magical feats, comedy acts, and incredible stunts. • Feb 17, 3 pm LEND ME A TENOR Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • mayfieldtheatre.ca • It’s September 8, 1934 – the biggest night in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company. The worldfamous tenor, Tito Merelli, is set to perform his greatest role, Otello, at the ten-year anniversary gala season opener. • Feb 5 – Mar 31 MATILDA Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • The story of an extraordinary girl who dares to take a stand and change her destiny. • Feb 16 – Mar 17 NASHVILLE HURRICANE Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $35/$30 • horizonstage.com • A masterful one-man play by legendary Fringe performer Chase Padgett. • Feb 2, 7:30 pm NINEEIGHT and Room 2048 Hong Kong Exile (Vancouver) Spazio Performativo,10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $15 members, $20 non-members • milezerodance.

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com • NINEEIGHT is a multi-media dance theatre work that reflects on personal fractures, disorientation, and the significance of “motherland” at times of political, social and geographical transition. Room 2048 is a dream machine for the Cantonese diaspora. • Feb 15 - 16 SWEAT Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • For a group of lifelong friends, a night at the local bar is the balm against a hard day on the factory lines. When tensions rise at work and picket lines are formed, their bonds wear and the strength of their connection is tested in the struggle to stay ahead. • Until Feb 3 THE 2019 WILDFIRE FESTIVAL Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $8 • rapidfiretheatre.com • The Wildfire Festival is an improv festival for students from all across Alberta. The 18-day festival is created by the marriage of three improv tournaments: The Canadian Improv Games, Rapid Fire Theatre’s own Theatresports tournament: the Nosebowl and the Wildfire Junior. • Feb 5 – 24, start times vary THEATRESPORTS Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance; $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • Theatresports® is Rapid Fire Theatre’s first and longest-running show, now in its 38th consecutive season. This highenergy, fast-paced show pits teams of improvisors against each other in a fierce battle of wits and laughs where anything can happen! Created by Keith Johnstone in Calgary, Theatresports® is performed by companies all over the world. Rapid Fire Theatre is one of the biggest and longest-running producers of the show on the planet. • Every Friday, 7:30 and 10 pm THE EMERALDS Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $25 • horizonstage.com • Edmonton’s own world renowned polka and dance band. • Feb 7, 2 pm THE KIDPROVISORS Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $8 in advance; $10 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • Calling all kids! In collaboration with the Foote Theatre School, The Kidprovisors begins with weekly improv workshops for kids and culminates in a monthly familyfriendly improv show. Each show stars the students as they team up with the pros at Rapid Fire Theatre. • Feb 3, 3:30 pm

MUSIC Avan Yu presents Journeys Maclab Centre • 4308 50 St, Leduc • 780 980 1866 • $35 adults; $32 seniors and students • maclabcentre.com • A musician’s voice mirrors their path through life. Travels, influences, people, and encounters combine to create a unique story. Beginning his public career at age 14, pianist Avan Yu captured attention with an international competition win. • Feb 21, 7:30 pm

CELTARA St. Albert Community Hall, 17 Perron St, St Albert • $15 • stalbert.ca/ exp/arden • Alberta boasts a roots music community that is known for diversity and imagination. And one of the driving forces on the local Celtic scene is Edmonton’s own Celtara. • Feb 19, 7:30 pm ELLIOT NIVEN W/ BEN TAYLOR The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. • Feb 2, 4 pm HILLSBURN St. Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 71 Ave • 780 278 6407 • $30 at doors • newmoonfolkclub.com • Hillsburn is a powerhouse. Their songs are timeless, their sound strong and uplifting, with densely-layered arrangements and soaring three-part harmonies. • Feb 1, 7:30 pm JAKE IAN The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. • Feb 9, 4 pm KINAN AZMEH CITYBAND The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $42 • stalbert.ca/ exp/arden • A force on the international classical and world music scenes, this Syrian clarinet-playing composer came to the attention of a larger audience as a member of YoYo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble. • Feb 9, 7:30 pm Legend of George Jones featuring Duane Steele Maclab Centre • 4308 50 St, Leduc • 780 980 1866 • $40 adults; $37 seniors and students • maclabcentre.com • A special tribute to the man considered to be the greatest country singer of all time - George Jones. In a career that lasted more than 50 years, “the Possum” evolved from a young honky-tonker to a music icon as he recorded nearly 150 albums and became the symbol of traditional country music. • Feb 23, 7:30 pm LEGENDS OF MOTOWN Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • $42.50 • winspearcentre.com • Legends of Motown is a 16-piece cast of singers and musicians performing live look-alike/ sound-a-like tributes to The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Jackson 5, Martha and the Vandellas and more and features all your favourite songs of the Motown era. • Feb 1, 8 pm Lily Afshar (guitar) Edmonton Classical Guitar Society • Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr • 780 566 5726 • $35 regular, $30 student/ senior/member • A first Edmonton concert by this renowned IranianAmerican guitarist. • Feb 22, 8 pm Matt Dusk Maclab Centre • 4308 50 St, Leduc • 780 980 1866 • $38 adults; $34 seniors and students • maclabcentre.com • A retro crooner who fits perfectly in the 21st century, Matt Dusk is one of Canada’s most criticallyacclaimed vocalists and recording artists; a truly unique talent whose reach and appeal, domestically and internationally, is based on his fresh take on a familiar sound. • Feb 12, 7:30 pm

MATTHEW GOOD SOLO The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • SOLD OUT • stalbert.ca/exp/arden • Matthew Good is one of Canada’s preeminent voices in music today. In the 20 years since the release of his debut album, he has been prolific in his output. Matthew’s studio albums have combined for nearly one million albums sold in Canada alone. • Feb 15, 7:30 pm MATTHEW GOOD SOLO Dow Centennial, 8700 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • tickets at ww2.ticketpro.ca • Back to his roots Matthew Good, acoustic style. • Feb 22, 7:30 pm Season Recital 3 Muttart Hall, MacEwan Conservatory of Music • edmontonrecital.com • Prochazka Tribute Recital featuring cellist David Eggert and pianist Janet Scott Hoyt. • Feb 10, 7:30pm SUZIE VINNICK & TIM WILLIAMS St. Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 71 Ave • 780 278 6407 • $30 at doors • newmoonfolkclub.com • Roots troubadour Suzie Vinnick is a bit of a national treasure. Blessed with a powerful, versatile voice, she mixes folk with tried and true emotive blues. • Feb 22, 7:30 pm THE SMALL GLORIES Parkview Community Hall, 9135 146 St • northernlightsfc.ca • $27 •

art GALLERIES/ MUSEUMS Art Gallery of alberta 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780 422 6223 • youraga.ca • Goddesses of Tooth and Breast: Spiritual Traditions of Hindu India between the 8th and the 18th centuries • He is devouring, ferocious, and aweinspiring. She is nurturing, tender and benevolent. In Hinduism the Goddess (Shakti) enacts the cycle of creation as envisioned by the Gods Vishnu and Shiva. The Goddess is represented in various forms throughout the history of art in India, and in classical Sanskrit religious literature, like the Mahabharata and Ramayana. • Until Mar 24 StretchMark: A New Chapter Acquisition Project • The third in a series of four exhibitions featuring works by contemporary Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit and Metis artists, newly acquired for the AGA’s collection, StretchMark explores tension resulting from moments of rapid growth or change. • Until Mar 24 Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA) 19 Perron St • 780 460 4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Guilded: Around the Block • Until Feb 2

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Folkpowerhouse The Small Glories are Cara Luft & JD Edwards, a dynamic duo planted on the Canadian Prairies. • Feb 23, 8 pm WAFER THIN MINTS The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. • Feb 23, 4 pm WINTERREISE: A 21ST CENTURY JOURNEY Convocation Hall, University of Alberta • Elizabeth Turnbull (mezzosoprano), Shannon Hiebert (piano) and internationally renowned operatic tenor, Patrick Raftery, perform a reimagined version of Schubert’s stunningly beautiful 19th century classic, Winterreise. • Feb 13, 7:30 pm WOMEN OF THE FOLKWAYS Parkview Community Hall, 9135 146 St • northernlightsfc.ca • $27 • A copresentation with the annual Winter Roots Roundup (U of A Sound Studies), the Women of Folkways concert is a celebration by women of women in the Folkways Records catalogue. • Feb 9, 8 pm

CLASSICAL MUSIC BAROQUE MUSICAL DELIGHTS Robertson-Wesley United Church • 10209 123 St • 780 467 6531 • $30 Single adult ticket • albertabaroque. com • Featuring festive pieces by Handel and Telemann. • Feb 3, 3 pm

Reconciling Edmonton • This collaborative project examines Edmonton’s past as a meeting place of both Indigenous and settler cultures and communities. With archival photographs, paintings and poetry, the artists challenge the traditionally taught narrative of Alberta’s history as one of pioneers and homesteaders, which relegated Indigenous peoples and histories to the distant past. The exhibit aims to generate a true reconciliation of Edmonton’s past, present and future. • Until Mar 30 BOREALIS Gallery 9820 107 St • 780 427 7362 •assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/ borealis.html • Home Economics: 150 Years of Canadian Hooked Rugs •Home Economics explores the unique stories and histories that have informed Canadian hooked rugs, a highly recognizable form of folk art with roots in 19thcentury North America. Featuring hooked rugs from a rich archive of international material culture, the exhibition represents generations of artisanal entrepreneurship, women’s domestic and collective work as well as rural development in Canada. This is a travelling exhibition from the Textile Museum of Canada. • Until Apr 22

FAB GALLERY Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • Free • ualberta.ca/artshows • Joshua Wade, MFA Drawing & Intermedia • This exhibition is the final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Drawing and Intermedia. • Until Mar 23 Myken McDowell, MFA Printmaking • This exhibition is the final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking. • Until Mar 23 HARCOURT HOUSE 3rd ﬂoor, 10215 112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse. ab.ca Art Incubator Gallery Portrait of the Artist • Specializing in portraiture and figure, Riisa Gundesen’s darkly repulsive and simultaneously dazzling self-portraits invert the feminine burden of being constantly observed into a vulgar antiperformance of this reflection that sets the viewer on edge. • Until Mar 30 Main Gallery Newborn/Swaddled • With bright, unusual colours, bold brush strokes, and awkward expressive forms, Violet Costello’s large-scale sculptural installation depicts the first moments of life, which are both miraculous and little terrifying. • Until Mar 30 MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street • 780.459.1528 • museeheritage.ca • Pandemic! • Medicine has come a long way since the 1918-1919 Spanish flu killed up to 100 million people world-wide, but what have we learned. Pandemic! will look at historic epidemics in St. Albert as well as more recent epidemics/pandemics. Learn about our health history and what is being done to ward off the next assault.• Until Mar 24 NAESS GALLERY At the Paint Spot, 10032 81 Ave. • 780 432 0240 • paintspot.ca • Paint Spot’s Annual Staﬀ Show • Until Mar 11

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA 8555 Roper Road • 780 427 1750 • provincialarchives.alberta.ca • Take a Longer Look: Panoramic Photographs from the Provincial Archives of Alberta • This photography exhibit features panoramic images from the holdings of the Provincial Archives of Alberta. • Until Apr 20 SNAP GALLERY AND PRINTSHOP 10123 121 St / 12056 Jasper Ave • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com Community Gallery Alyson Davies • Until Mar 9 Tamara Deedman • Mar 22 – Apr 27 Main Gallery David Armstrong • Until Mar 9 Heather Leier • Mar 22 – Apr 27

Away is a musical show that is not to be missed. From the first uttered note of this fantastic musical to the final rousing chorus, Come From Away promises to entertain during every spectacular moment of the show. • Mar 12 – 17

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RESIDENCY PROGRAM: AIMEE RUSHTON Ruth Carse Centre for Dance • 11205 107 Ave • 780 802 6867 • TBD • goodwomen.ca • Each Residency artist will have access to Good Women’s space at the Ruth Carse Centre for Dance for two weeks. Stay tuned for updates on possible showings, workshops, and blog posts from this fantastic line up of creators. • Mar 11 – 22

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VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA—CARFAC PROJECT SPACE Third Foor, 10215-112 St. • 780 421 1731 • visualartsalberta.com • Best Practices: Engagement Project • Artwork created by emerging visual artists while in our Visual Arts Alberta—CARFAC Visual Arts Mentorship Program. • Until Mar 30

COMEDY BRENT BUTT Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts, 4308 50 St, Leduc • maclabcentre.com • Born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Brent Butt discovered early that being funny was a good way to get attention. His television specials secured his reputation as one of the funniest people in Canada. His own TV series, Corner Gas, is a Canadian favourite. • Mar 28, 7:30 pm TAGGART AND TORRENS Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • $25 • 780 449 3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Taggart & Torrens podcast duo, recently surpassed the two million downloads mark on iTunes and SoundCloud. The podcast and touring live show is a celebration of Canadian culture through a cocktail of fond reminiscences and

ridiculous party games that get the audience playing and laughing along. Their book Canadianity: Tales from the True North Strong and Freezing was released on Oct. 17, 2017, and was published by HarperCollins. • Mar 2, 7:30 p.m.

19 WEEKS Studio Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns • 10330-84 Ave. • 780 471 1586 • Tickets start at $21 • northernlighttheatre.com • The words are rattling because the story is real. Everyone knows someone who has had an abortion or lost a pregnany - even if they don’t talk about it. In 2016, playwright Emily Steel had a termination after her baby was diagnosed with Down Syndrome. This is her story, told honestly and publicly, because there are so many more stories out there. • Mar 28 – Apr 1 CHIMPROV Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidﬁretheatre.com • CHiMPROV is Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform improv comedy show. Here you will see RFT’s most accomplished performers creating artfully-crafted improv formats, intricate narratives, and improvised one-act plays sure to make you bust a gut. • Sat, 10 pm

DIRT BUFFET CABARET: KRISTA POSYNIAK Spazio Performativo, 10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $10 OBO • milezerodance.com • MZD’s interdisciplinary variety shows with a wide array of emerging and experimental artists. An all-ages and all-embracing event with an amazing new group of curators from a variety of backgrounds and artistic practices. • Mar 7, 8 pm GUYS AND DOLLS MacEwan University, Triffo Theatre, Allard Hall • 11110 104 Ave • 780 497 4470 • Adults: $25; seniors: $20; students • $15 • macewan.ca • Set in New York City, Guys and Dolls is the tale of a couple of big city gamblers and the women who love them. High-stakes crap games, escapes from the law, glamorous nightclubs and romantic hijinks combine with a memorable score to make Guys and Dolls the perfect musical comedy. • Mar 20 - 30

LA FILLE DU FACTEUR L’UniThéâtre’s, La Cité Francophone • 8627 91 Street • 780 469 8400 • Ticket start at $28 • lunitheatre.ca • In a circular trajectory between Edmonton-Banff-TroisRivières and Montréal, the postman’s daughter traces the map of her memories, guiding her in a quest for identity marked by the art of storytelling and the practice of fleeing towards the future. • Mar 20 – 30 LEND ME A TENOR Mayﬁeld Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • mayﬁeldtheatre.ca • It’s September 8, 1934 – the biggest night in the history of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company. The worldfamous tenor, Tito Merelli, is set to perform his greatest role, Otello, at the ten-year anniversary gala season opener. • Feb 5 – Mar 31

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Lungs The Varscona Theatre • 10329 83 Ave • 780 433 3399 • Tickets start at $22 • varsconatheatre.com • The world is getting hotter, there’s unrest overseas—the seas themselves aren’t very calm—and one couple is thinking about having a child. LUNGS is a smart and funny drama that follows a couple through the surprising lifecycle of their relationship as they grapple with questions of family and change, hope, betrayal, happenstance, and the terrible pain that you can only cause the people you love. • Mar 13 – 31 New Work – Man Up! Spazio Performativo, 10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $15 members, $20 non-members • milezerodance. com • New work by Edmonton’s Man Up!—an all-male revue—that uses the body and burlesque to explore masculinity, sexuality, authenticity, and vulnerability. • Mar 29 – 30 RUPLOOPS: THE HUMAN RADIO Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $12 • horizonstage.com • A pulsating, entertaining, and interactive live looping performance for families. • Mar 23, 2 pm SATURDAY SERIES: IMPROVISED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • Level up your laughs! Improvised D&D first rolled their D20 in 2010 and is back for an all-new improvised quest! Join the dungeon master and the rest of their cast as they solve puzzles, fight monsters and discover new realms. A nerdy delight not to be missed. • Mar 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 7:30 pm SkirtsAfire Festival Various venues • Ticket prices vary • skirtsafire.com • This yearly event showcases some of the most fantastic talent from women in Edmonton. • Mar 7 – 17 THE KIDPROVISORS Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $8 in advance. $10 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • Calling all kids! In collaboration with the Foote Theatre School, The Kidprovisors begins with weekly improv workshops for kids and culminates in a monthly familyfriendly improv show. Each show stars the students as they team up with the pros at Rapid Fire Theatre. • Mar 10, 3:30 pm THEATRESPORTS Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • Theatresports® is Rapid Fire Theatre’s first and longest-running show, now in its 38th consecutive season. This high-energy, fast-paced show pits teams of improvisors against each other in a fierce battle of wits and laughs where anything can happen! Created by Keith Johnstone in Calgary, Theatresports® is performed by companies all over the world. Rapid Fire Theatre is one of the biggest and longest-running producers of the show on the planet. • Every Friday, 7:30 and 10 pm

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THE CANDIDATE Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • An immersive production, in which the audience are guests at a political fundraising party where secrets are revealed and scandals are set in motion. • Mar 30 – Apr 21

talking about this album since pretty much the day they met. • Mar 1 FIVE ALARM FUNK The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $35 • stalbert.ca/ exp/arden • Afro-funk and ska-punk serves as the catalyst for a spirited good time as the horn-drenched sound of Five Alarm Funk inspires us to get down and up out of our seats. • Mar 29, 7:30 pm

THE PARTY Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • An immersive production, in which the audience are guests at a political fundraising party where secrets are revealed and scandals are set in motion. • Mar 30 – Apr 21 Will Eno’s Middletown The Timms Centre for the Arts • 87 Avenue, 112 St NW • 780 492 2273 • Ticket prices vary • timmscentre.ca • Directed by Department of Drama Associate Professor, Sandra Nicholls, this quirky yet poetic story set in “a small town, like any other small town, located in the middle of the middle,” explores one’s longing for love, warmth and contact through the minutiae of everyday experiences. • Mar 28 – Apr 6

MUSIC Barbara MacNeils 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets available online • festivalplace.ab.ca • For over three decades, Cape Breton-based family group the Barra MacNeils has been thrilling audiences of all ages, both near and far, with their sparkling repertoire, vocals, instrumental prowess and vibrant showmanship. Do not miss their new show at Festival Place. • Mar 16 Concordia Fine Arts: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Al and Trish Huehn Theatre • 7128 Ada Blvd • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare. ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman, directed by Brenley Charkow. • Mar 8 – 10, and 15 – 17; times vary Concordia Fine Arts: Land of the Free Robert Tegler Student Centre • 7128 Ada Blvd • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare. ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Mar 3, 3 pm Concordia Fine Arts: SkirtsAfire Choral Festival St. Faith’s Anglican Church • 11725 93 St. NW • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare. ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Part of the yearly womens’ theatre festival. • Mar 9, 7 pm Dave Gunning and JP Cormier 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780 464 2852 • Tickets available online • festivalplace.ab.ca • Two of Canada’s greatest roots singer-songwriters have finally done what everybody’s wanted . Dave Gunning and J.P. Cormier are releasing their first album together, called Two. Great friends, frequent collaborators, co-writers and touring partners, the pair has been

HERSTORY: WOMEN COMPOSERS FOR WIND Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • The University Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers unite in melody and harmony for a showcase event at one of the finest performance venues in North America. Classics by Handel, Verdi, Fauré and more will be performed. • Mar 24, 3 pm Hotel California – The Original Eagles Tribute Maclab Centre • 4308 50 St, Leduc • 780 980 1866 • $40 adults; $37 seniors and students • maclabcentre.com • For almost three decades now, Hotel California has been recreating the legendary sound of The Eagles, and thrilling audiences all over the world. The band set the bar in 1986, and they’ve remained the industry leading substitute for The Eagles ever since. • Mar 23, 7:30 pm IRISH MYTHEN St. Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 71 Ave • 780 278 6407 • $30 at doors • newmoonfolkclub.com • Irish Mythen calls herself a globetrotting troubadour, and honours the true sense of the calling. “I don’t just get up there and mail it in. For me it’s about reaching the crowd, it’s about having a responsibility to tell a story.” • Mar 22, 7:30 pm JAMES HILL AND ANNE JANELLE • Parkview Community Hall, 9135 146 St • northernlightsfc.ca • $27 • It’s true: opposites do attract. James Hill grew up playing folk, jazz and blues on his ukulele while Anne Janelle was exclusively a classical cellist. • Mar 23, 8 pm KRYSTLE DOS SANTOS: MOTOWN REVUE Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $35/$30 • horizonstage.com • A mesmerizing concert brimming with Motown favourites. • Mar 30, 7:30 pm LORRAINE KLASSEN The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $35 • stalbert.ca/ exp/arden • Raised in Soweto, this long-time Montréal resident has the dynamic stage presence to complement her stirring and robust voice. In 2013, she picked up a Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year in a tribute to her personal and professional inspiration, Miriam Makeba. • Mar 27, 7:30 pm Lunasa The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $42 • stalbert.ca/ exp/arden • Lúnasa is considered one of the finest, if not the finest, Celtic instrumental bands in the world. • Mar 30, 7:30 pm

ROB HEATH Parkview Community Hall, 9135 146 St • northernlightsfc.ca • $27 • Rob Heath has enjoyed airplay on hundreds of Radio stations across six continents, not only for songs he’s performed but those performed by other artists. • Mar 9, 8 pm RupLoops: The Human Radio Maclab Centre • 4308 50 St, Leduc • 780 980 1866 • $12 • maclabcentre.com • RupLoops is an interactive, live looping performance, using vocal percussion, rhythmic rhymes and an arsenal of eclectic instruments from around the globe. Rup utilizes his diverse skills as a musician to create a pulsating, entertaining and engaging musical experience. • Mar 17, 2 pm SAMANTHA MARTIN AND DELTA SUGAR Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • festivalplace. ab.ca • Five-time Maple Blues Award Nominee, Samantha Martin returns to Festival Place with a six-piece band. • Mar 23, 7:30 pm Season Recital 4 Muttart Hall, MacEwan Conservatory of Music • edmontonrecital.com • Clayton Leung from the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, playing viola, with multi-faceted musician Lisa Tahara on piano. • Mar 3, 7:30pm

tory of Music • edmontonrecital. com • Clarinetist Robert Spady and Pianist Sarah Ho, with guest Soprano vocalist Whitney Sloan. • Mar 24, 7:30 pm THE ARROGANT WORMS Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $35/$30 • horizonstage.com • Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with these hilarious Canadian musical comedians. • Mar 17, 7:30 pm THE ENNIS SISTERS Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $35/$30 • horizonstage.com • Contemporary folk songs with a traditional Irish-Newfoundland twist. • Mar 9, 7:30 pm TRI-CONTINENTAL St. Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 71 Ave • 780 278 6407 • $30 at doors • newmoonfolkclub.com • This trio first came together around 2000 when a jam showed the three seasoned guitarists Bill Bourne, Lester Quitzau and Madagascar Slim they had something special together. • Mar 8, 7:30 pm

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FROM SALZBURG TO VIENNA Robertson-Wesley United Church • 10209 123 St • 780 467 6531 • $30 Single adult ticket • albertabaroque.com • Featuring festive pieces by Haydn, Wagenseil, and Dittersdorf. • Mar 17, 3 pm

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domestic and collective work as well as rural development in Canada. This is a travelling exhibition from the Textile Museum of Canada. • Until Apr 22

Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA) 19 Perron St • 780 460 4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Splendid String • “We are not separate from the natural world, but are a part of it. Connected to it.” Exhibit of 10-15 large scale paintings (ranging from 48”x60” to 8’x10’). Composed as formal portraits, Fuhrer’s paintings blend human elements with iconic Canadian animals and landscapes. She is examining the physical and spiritual relationship between humans and the natural world. • Apr 4 – 27 BOREALIS Gallery 9820 107 St • 780 427 7362 •assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis. html • Home Economics: 150 Years of Canadian Hooked Rugs • Home Economics explores the unique stories and histories that have informed Canadian hooked rugs, a highly recognizable form of folk art with roots in 19th-century North America. Featuring hooked rugs from a rich archive of international material culture, the exhibition represents generations of artisanal entrepreneurship, women’s

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FAB Gallery Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • Free • ualberta.ca/artshows • Bachelor of Design Graduate Show 2019 • A graduating exhibition of students completing the Bachelor of Design program. • Apr 2 – 13 Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduate Show 2018 • A graduating exhibition of students completing the Bachelor of Design program. • Apr 23 – May 4 Harcourt House 3rd floor, 10215 112 St • 780 426 4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca Art Incubator Gallery Finding My Way in the Woods • Finding My Way in the Woods by Ed Hunt is a visual art project that takes imagery from the Whirlpool River and Athabasca Pass in Jasper National Park. The solo component of the hike in the backcountry was undertaken to distill the works into a pure expression of place and feeling; beyond the amenities of studio, people, and shelter. • Apr 12 – May 25

Main Gallery Concurrent Views • Holly Fay’s art practice encompasses painting, drawing, mixed media, and art installation projects, which explore themes of nature, perspective, landscape, representation, and history. Her work emphasizes the complex interrelations of ecology and is informed by self-similar patterns found throughout natural systems. • Apr 12 – May 25 MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street • 780.459.1528 • museeheritage. ca • Gold Mountain Dream • Gold Mountain Dream, an exhibition from the Royal British Columbia Museum, provides an in-depth look at the Chinese contribution to British Columbia’s 19th century gold rushes. The Musée Héritage Museum will be adding local stories of people who left St. Albert to go to the gold rushes and those who settled here after their return. • Apr 9 – Jun 2 NAESS GALLERY At the Paint Spot, 10032 81 Ave. • 780 432 0240 • paintspot.ca • Darlene Madden: ‘Try imagining a place where it’s always safe and warm’ • An exhibition of several complex, textured and colourful works inspired by Bob Dylan’s songs. • Apr 18 – May 25 PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA 8555 Roper Road • 780 427 1750 • provincialarchives.alberta.ca • Take a Longer Look: Panoramic Photographs from the Provincial Archives of Alberta • This photography exhibit features panoramic images from the holdings of the Provincial Archives of Alberta. • Until Apr 20 SNAP GALLeRy AND PRiNTShoP 10123 121 St / 12056 Jasper Ave • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com Community Gallery Tamara Deedman • Until Apr 27 Main Gallery heather Leier • Until Apr 27 VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA—CARFAC PRoJeCT SPACe Third Foor, 10215-112 St. • 780 421 1731 • visualartsalberta.com • From Water into Sky • TREX Alberta Foundation For The Arts Travelling Exhibition. The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition presents watercolors from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. • Apr 11 – Jun 15

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CREATIVE INCUBATOR Ruth Carse Centre for Dance, 11205 107 Avenue • goodwomen. ca • For its 10th anniversary season, Good Women is launching a new creative incubator series. Artists will participate in a week-long creation workshop with their peers, facilitated by local dance and theatre artist Amber Borotsik. Artists will bring their current ideas and interests, and be able to work surrounded by the creative energy and input of their peers and community members. • Apr 29 – May 3 NEXT GENERATION SOUTH ASIAN DANCe Allard hall, Triffo Theatre • #11-130, 11110 104 Ave, 112 St • 780 452 3282 • $40 regular, $35 seniors, $25 students • bwdc.ca • Presented by the Brian Webb Dance Company. • Apr 19 – 20, 8 pm

THEATRE BONFIRE FESTIVAL Citadel Theatre, Zeidler hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • The Bonfire Festival returns for its eighth annual romp through the wonderful world of experimental long-form improv and new ideas! Bonfire is a time when members of our ensemble take big risks, innovate, and direct brand new shows. Show concepts may be ideas they’ve dreamed up themselves, collaborations with local talent, or formats they have taken part in while touring abroad. • Apr 4 – 13 CHIMPROV Citadel Theatre, Zeidler hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • CHiMPROV is Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform improv comedy show. Here you will see RFT’s most accomplished performers creating artfully-crafted improv formats, intricate narratives, and improvised one-act plays sure to make you bust a gut. • Sat, 10 pm CoNCoRDiA FiNe ARTS: CARoLiNe’S FiNe ARTS CARNiVAL Al and Trish huehn Theatre and the Robert Tegler Student • 7128 Ada Blvd • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare.ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Hosted by the GTC, the school’s drama club. • Apr 5 – 7 Die-NASTy! The LiVe iMPRoViSeD SoAP oPeRA PReSeNTS 28 yeARS The Varscona Theatre • 10329 83 Ave • 780 433 3399 • TBD • varsconatheatre.com • Improvised comedy from a legacy group in Edmonton. • oct. 27 – May 27

DiRT BUFFeT CABAReT: JAke TkACZyk Spazio Performativo, 10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $10 oBo • milezerodance.com • MZD’s interdisciplinary variety shows with a wide array of emerging and experimental artists. An all-ages and all-embracing event with an amazing new group of curators from a variety of backgrounds and artistic practices. • Apr 4, 8 pm

aficionados Firefly Theatre. • Apr 12 – 21

(piano) and Viktoria Reiswich-Dapp (piano). • Apr 5, 7:30 pm

The ATTiC, The PeARLS AND THREE FINE GIRLS Walterdale Playhouse, 10322 83 Ave • walterdaletheare.com • With the death of their Father, Jayne Fine, JoJo Fine and Jelly Fine are left peculiar instructions to host a “wild party” of a funeral. • Apr 3 – 13

eDMoNToN oPeRA: The MiSADVENTURES OF COUNT ORY Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 87 Ave • 780 429 1000 • Tickets start at $29 • edmontonopera.com •The Western Canadian premiere of Rossini’s final comedy! Sung in French with projected English translation. From the composer of The Barber of Seville comes a raucous comedy with gorgeous bel canto melodies and vocal fireworks galore! Come along for the ride as a love triangle unfolds between notorious skirt-chaser Count Ory, his cunning Page, and a feisty Countess — complete with naughty nuns, scandalous set-ups, and way too much wine. It features the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. • Apr 6, 9, 12

THEATRESPORTS Citadel Theatre, Zeidler hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • Theatresports is Rapid Fire Theatre’s first and longest-running show, now in its 38th consecutive season. This highenergy, fast-paced show pits teams of improvisors against each other in a fierce battle of wits and laughs where anything can happen! Created by Keith Johnstone in Calgary, Theatresports is performed by companies all over the world. Rapid Fire Theatre is one of the biggest and longest-running producers of the show on the planet. • every Friday, 7:30 and 10 pm

CoLLeeN BRoWN SiNG JoNi MITCHELL The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $36 • stalbert. ca/exp/arden • A musical chameleon, Brown is at home behind her piano playing an upbeat soul tune or singing a poignant ballad at centre stage. This Albertan has been winning over audiences nationwide with her groove-filled and melodically mature pop-influenced songs. • Apr 13, 7:30 pm

FieLD WoRk – GeRRy MoRiTA Spazio Performativo, 10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $15 members, $20 non-members • milezerodance.com • Starting with the idea of creating a concert for cows, artistic director Gerry Morita will create new work that returns to her rural roots to explore movement and images that can involve animals, the land, and the infinite impossibility of ever finishing work. • April 12 – 13, 8 pm MiLe ZeRo DANCe SALoN: DANCe BLiTZ Location TBA • 780 424 1573 • $15 members, $20 non-members • milezerodance.com • Mile Zero Dance is going to celebrate International Dance Day with an event that exalts the short dance piece. Come see artists play with short format works (three minutes or less) in an unexpected, casual environment. • Apr 29, 8 pm SISTER ACT Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Based on the hit 1992 film, Sister Act is the feel-good musical comedy smash hit that has audiences rejoicing! When disco diva, Deloris Van Cartier, witnesses a murder, she is put in protective custody in the one place the cops are sure she won’t be a found: a conven. • Apr 9 – Jun 9 SUPERSTITION La Cite Francophone, 8627 91 St • Fireflytheatre.com • Another performance from aerial arts theatre

THE TEMPEST Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • A truly unique retelling of Shakespeare’s most magical story. Showcasing the participants of the 2019 Citadel/Banff Professional Theatre Program. • Apr 20 – May 12 WiLL eNo’S MiDDLeToWN The Timms Centre for the Arts • 87 Avenue, 112 St NW • 780 492 2273 • Ticket prices vary • timmscentre. ca • Directed by Department of Drama Associate Professor, Sandra Nicholls, this quirky yet poetic story set in “a small town, like any other small town, located in the middle of the middle,” explores one’s longing for love, warmth and contact through the minutiae of everyday experiences. • Mar 28 – Apr 6

MUSIC ABRA CADABRA horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $40/$35 • horizonstage.com • Take a nostalgic journey through your favourite ABBA hits. • Apr 6 – 7, 7:30 pm CARNAVAL Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • The University Symphony Orchestra closes the MainStage concert season with an afternoon of sublime works, including Le Carnaval des Animaux by Saint-Saëns. This fun and witty piece features a four hands, two pianos performance by Jacques Després

CoNCoRDiA FiNe ARTS: ANCieNT DAyS Francis Winspear Centre for Music • 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare. ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Concordia Symphony Orchestra with the Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus. • Apr 15, 7:30 pm CoNCoRDiA FiNe ARTS: FeSTiVAL CiTy WiNDS MUSiC SoCieTy iNTeRMeDiATe BANDS CoNCeRT The Robert Tegler Student • 7128 Ada Blvd • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare. ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Apr 13, 7:30 pm CoNCoRDiA FiNe ARTS: ShALL We DANCe St. Timothy’s Anglican Church • 8420 145 St • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare. ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Jubiloso! Bells of Concordia & JuBELLation Concert. • Apr 14, 4 pm CoNCoRDiA FiNe ARTS: SoNGS OF SPRING First Baptist • 10031 109 St • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare.ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • Community Chorus Concert. • Apr 28, 3 pm

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CONCORDIA FINE ARTS: WATER AND LIGHT The Robert Tegler Student • 7128 Ada Blvd • 780 479 848 • Prices vary; available at tixonthesquare. ca, Concordia Bookstore or at the door • concordia.ab.ca • A Bella Voce Dessert Concert. • Apr 26, 7 pm DAVID FRANCEY The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $36 • stalbert. ca/exp/arden • This Scottish/Canadian tunes mith’s 1999 debut album Torn Screen Door turned the nation’s folk community on its ear and in a blink, Francey was being championed by his peers and playing the biggest festivals and finest theatres in the country. • Apr 11, 7:30 pm EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA AT RUTHERFORD HOUSE Rutherford House • 11153 Saskatchewan Dr • 780 422 2697 • Regular admission, $7 for adults

• rutherfordhouse.ca • Spring and Easter go hand in hand at Rutherford House. Explore this magnificent home and enjoy freshly baked cookies and make a spring-themed craft. Be sure to keep a watchful eye for the Easter Bunny as you do your scavenger egg hunt! • Apr 14, 12 – 4 pm EMERGING ARTIST SHOWCASE FEATURING NUELA CHARLES Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962 8995 • $15 • horizonstage. com • Concert featuring up-and-coming local artist. • Apr 9, 7:30 pm KOBO TOWN St. Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 71 Ave • 780 278 6407 • $30 at doors • newmoonfolkclub.com • Founded and fronted by émigré Trinidadian songwriter Drew Gonsalves, Kobo Town’s music has been variously described as “an intoxicating blend of lilting calypsonian wit, dancehall reggae and tromboneheavy brass. • Apr 12, 7:30 pm

JOHN WORT HANNAM BAND Parkview Community Hall, 9135 146 St • northernlightsfc.ca • $27 • A prize-winning songwriter and performer, John Wort Hannam is known for his unique take on the simple day-to-day dramas of common folk through songs that map the landscapes of both the human heart and this vast country of ours. • Apr 12, 8 pm JUDY COLLINS The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $65 • stalbert. ca/exp/arden • In the 1960s Collins evoked both idealism and steely determination of a generation united against social and environmental injustice. Five decades later, her presence shines just as brightly as she serves new generations with creative vigour. • Apr 3, 7:30 pm TENGYUE ZHANG (GUITAR) Edmonton Classical Guitar Society • Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr • 780 566

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ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) 19 Perron St • 780 460 4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • High Energy 24 • St Albert’s high school students will display course work, and complete a gallery assigned challenge project in this exciting and dynamic community exhibit. • May 2 – Jun 1 BOREALIS GALLERY 9820 107 St • 780 427 7362 •assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/ borealis.html • “Where Are the Children?”: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools • “Where Are the Children?”: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools spans over 125 years and contains photographs and documents from the 1880s to present day. Photographs, text panels and artifacts move the witness through the process of leaving home, arriving at school, participating in school activities and being part of a classroom. Sections on the children who never returned home as well as on contemporary role models provide a wide range of perspectives. • May 15 – Sept 2 FAB GALLERY Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • Free • ualberta.ca/artshows • Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduate Show 2018 • A graduating exhibition of students completing the Bachelor of Design program. • Until May 4

5726 • $30 regular, $25 student/ senior/member • Winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America Competition. • Apr 5, 8 pm THE CELTIC TENORS Dow Centennial, 8700 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • tickets at ww2. ticketpro.ca • This charismatic, globetrotting trio are the most successful classical crossover act to emerge from Ireland. • Apr 16, 7:30 pm THE LYNNES St. Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 71 Ave • 780 278 6407 • $30 at doors • newmoonfolkclub.com • The Lynnes are Juno award winning songwriter Lynn Miles and awardwinning songwriter Lynne Hanson. • Apr 5, 7:30 pm TREVOR PANCZAK Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Road • 780 962-8995 • $35/$30 • horizonstage.com • Honest, compelling, and immediately likeable Alberta-

Tamires Para Pedroso, MFA Painting • This exhibition is the final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Painting. • May 14 – June 8 HARCOURT HOUSE 3rd ﬂoor, 10215 112 St • 780 426 4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca Art Incubator Gallery Finding My Way in the Woods • Finding My Way in the Woods by Ed Hunt is a visual art project that takes imagery from the Whirlpool River and Athabasca Pass in Jasper National Park. The solo component of the hike in the backcountry was undertaken to distill the works into a pure expression of place and feeling; beyond the amenities of studio, people, and shelter. • Until May 25 Main Gallery Concurrent Views • Holly Fay’s art practice encompasses painting, drawing, mixed media, and art installation projects, which explore themes of nature, perspective, landscape, representation, and history. Her work emphasizes the complex interrelations of ecology and is informed by self-similar patterns found throughout natural systems. • Until May 25 MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street • 780 459 1528 • museeheritage.ca • Gold Mountain Dream • Gold Mountain Dream, an exhibition from the Royal British Columbia Museum, provides an in-depth look at the Chinese contribution to British Columbia’s 19th century gold rushes. The Musée Héritage Museum will be adding local stories of people who left St. Albert to go to the gold rushes and those who settled here after their return. • Until Jun 2 NAESS GALLERY At the Paint Spot, 10032 81 Ave. • 780 432 0240 • paintspot.ca • Darlene Madden: ‘Try imagining a place where it’s always safe and warm’ • An exhibition of several complex, textured and colourful works inspired by Bob Dylan’s songs. • Until May 25

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based country recording artist. • Apr 12, 7:30 pm TWIN FLAMES Maclab Centre • 4308 50 St, Leduc • 780 980 1866 • $35 adults; $32 seniors and students • maclabcentre.com • Multi award-winning Twin Flames unites Jaaji an Inuk/Mohawk from Nunavik and Chelsey a Métis from Ottawa. Together they take audiences on a musical journey across Canada and the Arctic. Two time Winners of the Canadian Folk music Award for Aboriginal Songwriters of the year 2016 and 2017 they push the boundaries of “Contemporary Folk” and incorporate both Western and traditional instruments in their music. • Apr 5, 7:30 pm

CLASSICAL MUSIC SPLENDOR OF THE BAROQUE Robertson-Wesley United Church • 10209 123 St • 780 467 6531 • $30 Single adult ticket • albertabaroque. com • Featuring festive pieces by Bach and Telemann. • Apr 19, 3 pm

Next Fest • A visual art component of the annual festival for youth. • May 28 – Jun 12 SNAP GALLERY AND PRINTSHOP 10123 121 St / 12056 Jasper Ave • 780 423 1492 • snapartists.com University of Alberta Printmaking Student Exhibition • May 3 – 11 Community Gallery Deltra Powney • May 17 – Jun 22 Main Gallery Marc Siegner • May 17 – Jun 22 STRATCHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES 913 Ash St., Sherwood Park • 780 467 8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • From Vimy to Juno—Travelling Exhibit • Come learn about Canada’s role in the First and Second World Wars. This exhibit was created by the Juno Beach Centre in partnership with the Vimy Foundation and with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage. • May 6 – Jun 18 VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA—CARFAC PROJECT SPACE Third Foor, 10215-112 St. • 780 421 1731 • visualartsalberta.com • From Water Into Sky • TREX Alberta Foundation For The Arts Travelling Exhibition. The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition presents watercolors from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. • Until Jun 15

Comedy JOHN CLEESE – WHY THERE IS NO HOPE Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 87 Ave • 780 429 1000 • Tickets start at $90 • jubileeauditorium.com • Come spend a hilarious evening with the “One and Only” John Cleese. John is a legendary comedic actor best known for: Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, and A Fish Called Wanda. • May 27, 7:30 pm

Dance BRIAN WEBB DANCE COMPANY FEATURING GARY JAMES JOYNES | THE LIMINAL Allard Hall, Triffo Theatre • #11-130, 11110 104 Ave, 112 St • 780 452 3282 • $40 regular, $35 seniors, $25 students • bwdc.ca • World premiere, presented by the Brian Webb Dance Company. • May 23 – 24

THEATRE CHIMPROV Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • CHiMPROV is Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform improv comedy show. Here you will see RFT’s most accomplished performers creating artfullycrafted improv formats, intricate narratives, and improvised one-act plays sure to make you bust a gut. • Sat, 10 pm DIE-NASTY! THE LIVE IMPROVISED SOAP OPERA PRESENTS 28 YEARS • The Varscona Theatre • 10329 83 Ave • 780 433 3399 • TBD • varsconatheatre.com • Improvised comedy from a legacy group in Edmonton. • Oct 27 – May 27 DIRT BUFFET CABARET: CINDY BAKER Spazio Performativo,10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $10 OBO • milezerodance.com • MZD’s interdisciplinary variety shows

This unlikely pairing exposes a revelation which makes them flee for their lives, and embark on a provocative journey of selfdiscovery. • May 16 – 25

with a wide array of emerging and experimental artists. An all-ages and all-embracing event with an amazing new group of curators from a variety of backgrounds and artistic practices • May 2, 8 pm FROM THE CRADLE TO STAGE Walterdale Playhouse, 10322 83 Ave • walterdaletheare.com • The 60th Anniversary Season will feature the development of a new musical by Matt Graham and Sue Goberdhan, and another yet-to-beannounced new work. • May 13 – 18 SATURDAY SERIES: MAGIC MARV Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • The dancers? Improvisers. The music? Unknown. The temperature? HOT. Seven performers who have never stripped before will dance and make love to the stage in this improvised male stripper movie. Dancing to songs they don’t know and creating routines based on audience suggestions. Step aside Mike, Marv is the new magic man in town • May 5, 12, 19, and 26 at 10 pm • This show is 18+ SILENCE The Timms Centre for the Arts • 87 Avenue, 112 St NW • 780 492 2273 • Ticket prices vary • timmscentre.ca • Set during the Dark Ages but with contemporary overtones, Silence is the tale of Lord Silence of Cumbria who is forced to marry a fiery French noblewoman, Ymma of Normandy.

SISTER ACT Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Based on the hit 1992 film, Sister Act is the feel-good musical comedy smash hit that has audiences rejoicing! When disco diva, Deloris Van Cartier, witnesses a murder, she is put in protective custody in the one place the cops are sure she won’t be a found: a conven. • Apr 9 – Jun 9 THEATRESPORTS Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $12 in advance. $15 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • Theatresports is Rapid Fire Theatre’s first and longest-running show, now in its 38th consecutive season. This high-energy, fast-paced show pits teams of improvisors against each other in a fierce battle of wits and laughs where anything can happen! Created by Keith Johnstone in Calgary, Theatresports is performed by companies all over the world. Rapid Fire Theatre is one of the biggest and longest-running producers of the show on the planet. • Every Friday, 7:30 and 10 pm ZERO GRAVITY INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL Spazio Performativo,10816 95 St • 780 424 1573 • $15 members, $20

non-members • milezerodance. com • This four-day performance art festival and one-week workshop— curated by Beau Coleman— presents a cutting edge array of international visual performance artists. We are living in dangerous and precarious times. Zero Gravity asks us to use art as a way to get above it all and to think in new ways; not only to escape, but to act. • May 16–19; workshops run May 10 – 16

RUTHIE FOSTER Dow Centennial, 8700 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • tickets at ww2.ticketpro.ca • Headlining folk circuits around the globe, Emmy award nominee Ruthie Foster has shared the stage with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, and The Allman Brothers. • May 2, 7:30 pm TOM HOLLISTON The Black Dog Freehouse, 10425 82 Ave • No Cover Charge. • May 11, 4 pm

MUSIC CARRIE UNDERWOOD Rogers Place, 10545 106 Ave • tickets at ticketmaster.ca • rogersplace.com • Seven-time Grammy winner and Pollstar’s threetime top female country touring artist, Carrie Underwood, will launch a new arena tour, The Cry Pretty Tour 360. • May 28, 7 pm EMERGING ARTIST CONCERT Holy Trinity Anglican Church • edmontonrecital.com • Nationally recognized young artist, Jaques Forestier playing violin, with Susanne Ruberg-Gordon on piano. • May 5, 2 pm RUTHIE FOSTER The Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • $38 • stalbert. ca/exp/arden • A rare opportunity to catch Ruthie Foster in such an intimate venue as she embraces The Arden Theatre audience with her remarkable, insightful songwriting and glistening guitar playing. • May 1, 7:30 pm

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Art galleries/ museums Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA) 19 Perron St • 780 460 4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • High Energy 24 • St Albert’s high school students will display course work, and complete a gallery assigned challenge project in this exciting and dynamic community exhibit. • Until Jun 1 Abandon • An exploration of the form and aesthetic potential of objects. Ceramicist Ruth-Anne French produces enchanting architectural sculptures, vessels and public interventions. Pierre Bataillard creates mixed media drawings that push the boundaries of still life into abstraction. • Jun 6 – 29 Loco/ Belcarra Cottages/ Port Moody • An exploration of the form and aesthetic potential of objects. Ceramicist Ruth-Anne French produces enchanting architectural sculptures, vessels and public interventions. Pierre Bataillard creates mixed media drawings that push the boundaries of still life into abstraction. • Jun 13 – Aug 8 BOREALIS Gallery 9820 107 St • 780 427 7362 •assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/ borealis.html • “Where Are the Children?”: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools • “Where Are the Children?”: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools spans over 125 years and contains photographs and documents from the 1880s to present day. Photographs, text panels and artifacts move the witness through the process of leaving home, arriving at school, participating in school activities and being part of a classroom. Sections on the children who never returned home as well as on contemporary role models provide a wide range of perspectives. • Until Sept 2 FAB Gallery Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • Free • ualberta.ca/artshows • Tamires Para Pedroso, MFA Painting • This exhibition is the final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Painting. • Until June 8 Harcourt House 3rd floor, 10215 112 St • 780 426 4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca Art Incubator Gallery 28th Annual Naked Show + Sale: Title TBD • Jun 20–Jul 2 Main Gallery 31st Harcourt House Annual Members’ Exhibition + Art Sale: Title TBD • Jun 20–Jul 13

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Musée Héritage Museum St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street • 780 459 1528 • museeheritage. ca • Gold Mountain Dream • Gold Mountain Dream, an exhibition from the Royal British Columbia Museum, provides an in-depth look at the Chinese contribution to British Columbia’s 19th century gold rushes. The Musée Héritage Museum will be adding local stories of people who left St. Albert to go to the gold rushes and those who settled here after their return. • Until Jun 2 Looking Back Again (ten years later) • Ten years ago, the Musée Héritage Museum scoured the archives for fun and fascinating photos of St. Albert and created Looking Back, an exciting exhibition of local enlargements. Drawing on thousands of new photo donations, we’re Looking Back Again at over 100 years of life in St. Albert. • Jun 11 – Sept 8 NAESs gallery At the Paint Spot, 10032 81 Ave. • 780 432 0240 • paintspot.ca •Next Fest • A visual art component of the annual festival for youth. • Until Jun 12 Francis Marte• A selection of masterful watercolours. • Jun 14 – Jul 17 SNAP Gallery and Printshop 10123 121 St / 12056 Jasper Ave • 780 423 1492 • snapartists.com Community Gallery Deltra Powney • Until Jun 22 Main Gallery Marc Siegner • Until Jun 22 strathcona county museum and archives 913 Ash St., Sherwood Park • 780 467 8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • From Vimy to Juno—Travelling Exhibit • Come learn about Canada’s role in the First and Second World Wars. This exhibit was created by the Juno Beach Centre in partnership with the Vimy Foundation and with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage. • Until Jun 18 Visual arts alberta—CARFAC project space Third Foor, 10215-112 St. • 780 421 1731 • visualartsalberta.com •

Comedy IMPROVAGANZA Citadel Theatre, Zeidler Hall, 9828 101A Ave • 780 443 6044 • $15 in advance. $45 at the door • rapidfiretheatre.com • This is the big one! Improvaganza is Edmonton’s international improv and sketch comedy festival, and the largest annual event at RFT. Join us this year as we celebrate our 19th Improvaganza. Every year at Improvaganza, Rapid Fire Theatre hosts improvisors from across Canada, North America and beyond. • Jun 12 – 22

THEATRE FREEWILL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL Hawrelak Park, Heritage Amphitheatre • freewillshakespeare. com • Get thee to a festival that brings the works of the Bard into the realm of everyone from kids to scholars. One drama. One Comedy. • Jun 18 – Jul 14 SISTER ACT Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Based on the hit 1992 film, Sister Act is the feel-good musical comedy smash hit that has audiences rejoicing! When disco diva, Deloris Van Cartier, witnesses a murder, she is put in protective custody in the one place the cops are sure she won’t be a found: a conven. • Apr 9 – Jun 9 SLEUTH Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • mayfieldtheatre. ca • The ultimate game of catand-mouse with twists at every turn. Andrew Wyke is a rich and successful mystery writer with an obsession for playing games. After luring his wife’s lover, Milo, to his country house, Andrew persuades Milo to take part in a scheme that is sure to get them both what they want. • Jun 18 – Aug 4

Art galleries/ museums 35TH ANNUAL EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL STREET PERFORMERS FESTIVAL Churchill Square or Gazebo Park • edmontonstreetfest.com • Featuring some of the whackist and bang on street performers in the world over 10 days. • Jul 5 – 14 Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA) 19 Perron St • 780 460 4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Loco/ Belcarra Cottages/ Port Moody • An exploration of the form and aesthetic potential of objects. Ceramicist RuthAnne French produces enchanting architectural sculptures, vessels and public interventions. Pierre Bataillard creates mixed media drawings that push the boundaries of still life into abstraction. • Until Aug 8 John Maywood (solo show) • Composed from photographs taken at the historic site of Chrysauster in South Cornwall, England, and the peninsula of Snaefellsnes in Iceland. Merging the top and bottoms of cliff faces, these works bridge two disparate environments to question the future of untouched natural environments. • Jul 4 – 27 BOREALIS Gallery 9820 107 St • 780 427 7362 •assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis. html • “Where Are the Children?”: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools • “Where Are the Children?”: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools spans over 125 years and contains photographs and documents from the 1880s to present day. Photographs, text panels and artifacts move the witness through the process of leaving home, arriving at school, participating in school activities and being part of a classroom. Sections on the children who never returned home as well as on contemporary role models provide a wide range of perspectives. • Until Sept 2 Musée Héritage Museum St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street •

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From Water Into Sky • TREX Alberta Foundation For The Arts Travelling Exhibition. The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition presents watercolors from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. • Until Jun 15 New Wave • A survey of visual artists who have been in Canada and Alberta for less than seven years. Curated by Mark Vazquez-Mackay and Chris W. Carson. • Jun 20 – Sept 14

The Works Art & Design Festival Churchill Square; Various venues around downtown • 780 426 2122 • theworks.ab.ca • For 13 days every summer, The Works unleashes art and design throughout one square kilometer of Edmonton’s downtown core. Completely free to the public, the Festival is an extravaganza of visual art, design and entertainment that attracts artists and patrons from around the globe. • Jun 20– Jul 2

SHAWN MENDES Rogers Place, 10545 106 Ave • tickets at ticketmaster.ca • rogersplace.com • Supporting the release of his self-titled third album, multi-platinum and chart-topping singer/songwriter Shawn Mendes will hit Edmonton. • Jun 16, 7 pm TD INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL Various venues • edmontonjazz. com • A 10 day festival featuring some of the best live jazz acts in the world. • Jun 21 – 30

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780 459 1528 • museeheritage.ca • Looking Back Again (ten years later) • Ten years ago, the Musée Héritage Museum scoured the archives for fun and fascinating photos of St. Albert and created Looking Back, an exciting exhibition of local enlargements. Drawing on thousands of new photo donations, we’re Looking Back Again at over 100 years of life in St. Albert. • Until Sept 8 NAESs gallery At the Paint Spot, 10032 81 Ave. • 780 432 0240 • paintspot.ca • Francis Marte • A selection of masterful watercolours. • Until Jul 17 Leslie Nobler: Take Refuge • A paperbased exhibition of intricate works by this U.S. professor and engaged citizen. • Jul 19 – Aug 21 The Works Art & Design Festival Churchill Square; Various venues around downtown • 780 426 2122 • theworks.ab.ca • For 13 days every summer, The Works unleashes art and design throughout one square kilometer of Edmonton’s downtown core. Completely free to the public, the Festival is an extravaganza of visual art, design and entertainment that attracts artists and patrons from around the globe. • Jun 20– Jul 2 Visual arts alberta—CARFAC project space Third Foor, 10215-112 St • 780 421 1731 • visualartsalberta.com • New Wave • A survey of visual artists who have been in Canada and Alberta for less than seven years. Curated by Mark Vazquez-Mackay and Chris W. Carson. • Until Sept 14

THEATRE THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Walterdale Playhouse, 10322 83 Ave • walterdaletheare.com • Picture a beautiful summer day, Italy, 1953: Margaret Johnson, an elegant and strongwilled Southern woman, has taken her daughter, Clara, on a vacation to Italy. A chance encounter between Clara and a young Italian gentleman, Fabrizo. • Jul 3 – 13

Art galleries/ museums ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) 19 Perron St • 780 460 4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Loco/ Belcarra Cottages/ Port Moody • An exploration of the form and aesthetic potential of objects. Ceramicist Ruth-Anne French produces enchanting architectural sculptures, vessels and public interventions. Pierre Bataillard creates mixed media drawings that push the boundaries of still life into abstraction. • Until Aug 8 We Are Revealed • An exhibit featuring performance and sculpturebased installation dealing with the anxieties and vulnerabilities that the artist has experienced while being the object of someone else’s gaze. The sculptures are created from women’s nylon stockings, thread, cotton batting, wire and wood. “The work speaks directly to the paradoxical attractions and simultaneous tensions between what could be defined as beautiful or grotesque.” • Jul 1 – 31 BOREALIS GALLERY 9820 107 St • 780 427 7362 •assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/ borealis.html • “Where Are the Children?”: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools • “Where Are the Children?”: Healing the Legacy of Residential Schools spans over 125 years and contains photographs and documents from the 1880s to

present day. Photographs, text panels and artifacts move the witness through the process of leaving home, arriving at school, participating in school activities and being part of a classroom. Sections on the children who never returned home as well as on contemporary role models provide a wide range of perspectives. • Until Sept 2 MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street • 780 459 1528 • museeheritage.ca • Looking Back Again (ten years later) • Ten years ago, the Musée Héritage Museum scoured the archives for fun and fascinating photos of St. Albert and created Looking Back, an exciting exhibition of local enlargements. Drawing on thousands of new photo donations, we’re Looking Back Again at over 100 years of life in St. Albert. • Until Sept 8

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NAESS GALLERY At the Paint Spot, 10032 81 Ave. • 780 432 0240 • paintspot.ca • Leslie Nobler: Take Refuge • A paper-based exhibition of intricate works by this U.S. professor and engaged citizen. • Until Aug 21 VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA—CARFAC PROJECT SPACE Third Foor, 10215-112 St. • 780 421 1731 • visualartsalberta.com • New Wave • A survey of visual artists who have been in Canada and Alberta for less than seven years. Curated by Mark Vazquez-Mackay and Chris W. Carson. • Until Sept 14

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Film Based on the Creepypasta Bogeyman Tries to Infect Minds with Morality Tale

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ell, dear reader, I wish I could inform you that Slender Man is a stirring documentary about Robert Wadlow (of Alton, Illinois), who was 2.72m (8’11”). But he was just really tall, not slender. And, unfortunately, Slender Man is just a schlocky horror flick. Even then, it’s a little too reminiscent of recent real-life horror: two 12-yearold girls stabbed a classmate (in Waukesha, Wisconsin) in 2014—a crime motivated by their fear of the Creepypasta bogeyman meme, they said. The case was detailed in a stirring 2016 HBO documentary, Beware The Slenderman. Here, when he’s not emerging from, or merging with, trees in a deep dark New England wood (Robert Frost must be rolling in his grave), Super-thin-guy virally infects a curious late-teen’s brain. It’s close to a hothouse-grafting of

Joey King and Julia Goldani Telles in Slender Man. / Mythology Entertainment

the flora-freakout in The Happening and cyberspace-horror like Unfriended—and sometimes comes across as that creaky. And there are lots of door-creaks here. There’s also, at least, fizzes of visual pop as the flick’s four friends—Hallie (Julia Goldani Telles), Wren (Joey King), Chloe (Jaz Sinclair), and Katie (Annalise Basso)—are gradually picked off after foolishly summoning the Willowy Fella via an online video. There are shades of Nosferatu, a slice of Un Chien Andalou, and Wren’s library freak-out gets nicely, well, elongated. (Although the arthouse-keeper in me would have liked a mash-up of Slender Man and René Magritte’s The Son of Man.) The sense of high school female friendship is almost touching, but these gal-pals are made

Slender Man Directed by Sylvain White Now playing  too slick and self-aware, even as their doomed lives are kept chalkoutline vague. (Hallie’s a track star, apparently, yet we never see her run.) Much is made blatant: looks lengthened, visible text read aloud, etc. And though we’re told, the movie’s self-conscious moral—that Mister Stretchy-Limbs is less a figure than a story spread around— like the Gospel crossed with Santa Claus—the movie’s scary scenes increasingly try to be slick, memeable montages. So, the film’s warning us not to be infected even as it tries to infect us. I call that trying to shrug off your sensationalism while tweeting it too. Brian Gibson

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The Happytime Murders Fails to Have Any Comedic Creativity and Comes across as Just Bad

dult comedy in the trappings of bright colours and media reserved for the juvenile is nothing new—in fact if anything we’re seeing a renaissance of this approach in modern entertainment. This is what makes The Happytime Murders so goddamn disappointing. Directed by Brian Henson—son of the late, great Jim Henson of Muppets fame—this wannabe crime comedy barely limps along as passible entertainment. To summarize briefly: in a world where puppets and the human race coexist, a string of murders surrounding an old puppet-centric entertainment show titled The Happy Time Gang begin to shake the Los Angeles underground—and it’s up to detective Connie Edwards (portrayed by Melissa McCarthy), and disgraced ex-cop and puppet Phil Phillipson (portrayed by veteran puppeteer Bill Baretta) to stop whoever is responsible. The premise is interesting

enough, even though we have had the ‘what if blank and the human race coexisted?’ storylines in cinema before, i.e Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Sadly, the film begins its decline into sad boring lunacy rather quickly. McCarthy’s performance comes off as if she wandered on set and began reading lines painted on cards—which is tragic, due to her immense comedic capability when working with good material and her own humorous know-how. Baretta’s capabilities as a puppeteer and voice actor work just fine, but are both hindered by sloppy writing. This brings us to the real culprit in the ‘who killed this potentially game-changing comedy?’ caper—the script. Imagine you pumped nitrous oxide into a high school AV club classroom—you’d end up with a script very close to The Happytime Murders. The entire premise falls on the laurels of one thing, ‘look at the puppet

The Happytime Murders Directed by Brian Henson Now playing  be naughty.’ Something that we know can lead to comedy gold—just look at Broadway’s Avenue Q. Where this movie falls apart is in its repetition of jokes that just don’t land. ‘Look the puppet is swearing!’ followed by ‘look the puppet is doing drugs!’ driven home by ‘look the puppet is cumming silly string!’—these jokes, while initially mildly humorous, do not a whole film make when repeated 20 times over. The issue with The Happytime Murders is that in an era of intrinsically thoughtful, gut-busting adult comedy, you need to do more than just spray a can of silly string under a Muppet and yell, “Laugh!” at the audience. Jake Pesaruk

Melissa McCarthy co-stars alongside a bunch of crude felt. / STX Financing

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FASHION DOC

McQueen takes a close look at Alexander McQueen’s life and art. / Bleeker Street

DEMONS ON THE RUNWAY McQueen Captures a Personal Look at the Late Designer

Sept. 7 – 10, Sept. 12 – 13 (see metrocinema.org for times) McQueen Directed by Peter Ettedgui and Ian Bonhôte Metro Cinema 

ven if you’re not a fashionista, you may have heard of Alexander McQueen. The British designer, who founded his own line in 1992, was known for dark couture collections and the theatricality of his fashion shows. His penchant for the shocking ensured that he was often in the media, but on Feb. 11, 2010 the headlines were bleak—McQueen had taken his own life. McQueen, directed by Peter Ettedgui and Ian Bonhôte, explores Lee Alexander McQueen’s rise from London’s working class to the chief designer at Givenchy—where he stayed until a few months after selling 51 percent of the McQueen label to Givenchy’s rival, Gucci. And if you think that was kind of a

ballsy move for McQueen to make, then you’ll probably appreciate this documentary. Ettedgui and Bonhôte use archival footage and interviews with those close to McQueen—including his sister and nephew—to explore how he worked his way up, and how things wound their way toward the worst. The directors also

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The film doesn’t spend much time on the wider fashion industry, or what effect McQueen’s work had on his contemporaries or designers who came after him—but that was intentional. In an interview with

Though Burton wasn’t interviewed, there are still so many people who were close to McQueen—both personally and professionally—who were that the documentary feels like a complete portrait of the designer. Though there were a few points that it touched on only briefly—like McQueen’s sub-

“The directors also use McQueen’s collections—not only to build a structure for their movie, but to try to get a glimpse inside McQueen’s mind.” use McQueen’s collections—not only to build a structure for their movie, but to try to get a glimpse inside McQueen’s mind. It has been well-documented—and is further documented in McQueen—that all of his collections were very personal, and so the technique works, with interviews (including archival

Fashion, Bonhôte—responding to a question about why Sarah Burton, creative director for the McQueen label since its founder’s death and his former right-hand, wasn’t interviewed in the movie—explained that the film was meant to be about McQueen, the man, and not a film about fashion or the industry.

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in relation to an early McQueen collection, Highland Rape, where he had models walking down the runway both dressed and acting as if they’d just been sexually assaulted. Understandably, not everyone had a positive reaction to the collection, but the filmmakers don’t dwell on it long, instead bringing forward interviews that explain how childhood trauma impacted the designer’s work and the argument—made through archival footage of McQueen, and interviews with his friends and family—that he was actually trying to present images of strong women. There are no interviews with anyone making an argument that his work was misogynist and it is only raised in the Highland Rape section of the film, while the same judgment was definitely made by critics responding to later collections. But overall, the film offers an intimate look into the life of a fascinating designer. Chelsea Novak chelsea@vueweekly.com

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FOLK PUNK

Frank Turner Advises Us to ‘Be More Kind’ During These Confusing Times

rank Turner gives a shit. Since the English singer-songwriter picked up a guitar and began singing—leading him to join post-hardcore group Million Dead until it disbanded in 2005—Turner has always cared about the well being of people, the world, and its politics. He may, in fact, be one of the only singer-songwriters who still believes in every lyric he’s written over the years. “Some of my older songs have changed what they mean to me over the years, both in terms of their actual content and their significance for me. In a way, I regard that as a sign of their strength, or at least versatility,” Turner says. “I write a fair few songs, so I can’t say that every one is still as dear in my affections as it was a decade or more ago, but for the most part I’m pleasantly surprised by how many I can completely stand behind.” With each album, Turner has maintained his title of warrior-bard and

his latest Be More Kind is another illustration of his folk-punk prowess. It has him tackling Brexit, the Trump presidency, global catastrophes, and much more. And even in these times of complete madness, Turner remains hopeful and employs his listeners to do the same. The album begins with “Don’t Worry,” a gospel-folk number rooted in Turner’s plea for calmness during these tumultuous times. Then comes “1933,” a punchy folk-rock tune that calls out the West’s current rightward shift under Trump—who loves blaming immigrants for the United States’ financial environment— and likens it to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power who also blamed immigrants for Germany’s desperate state in the 1930s. “In 1933, it wasn’t yet clear that what was happening in Europe was potentially apocalyptic,” Turner says. “And I don’t believe in his-

torical inevitability; people made choices in those years that could have been made differently. I don’t think we are necessarily headed in any direction. I think we have the opportunity, and indeed the responsibility, to choose.” And that’s what separates Turner’s lyrics from other songwriters who have been clothed in the media with the title of “political songwriter” or “protest songwriter”—he doesn’t slam you over the head with his point of view (even though his vocals are soaked in passion). He subtly presents his point of view—with some really catchy folk-rock— and gives you the ability to either agree or choose your own decision. He also knows that he is not free from these metaphorical fingers he is pointing at that listener. He’s just as much at fault. “I hope that’s clear. I could stand to take my own advice first,” Turner says.

“1933” starts off with him singing “Stop asking musicians what they think”—a lyric he calls his “getout-of-jail-free card” for the song and perhaps the whole album. It’s almost gotten to the point where people expect him and other artists to have all the answers for the world’s problems, somewhat like the rise of punk music in the early 1970s that was born out of societal unrest. People were pissed off and looked to music for alleviation. And while you can do that with Be More Kind, Turner cautions you to not take his word as gospel, but rather an opinion. “Art plays a role in society and politics, of course, but I’m not sure it’s the place for policy discussion or what have you,” he says. “There is something of an epidemic of actors and musicians deciding that they know better how to fix the world. I have no idea how to fix anything.”

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Tue., Sept 11 (7:30 pm) Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls Winspear Centre tickets at winspearcentre. com But a place we can start is— like the album title and title track suggest—being more kind to one another. “I think people, all people, despite all the horrors of our history, have the potential to be wonderful, creative, enlightened and kind,” Turner says. “I think it’s better to focus on that idea and try to encourage it through our cultures and our actions. And we’ll fuck it up, of course, but the failure to reach an ideal doesn’t invalidate it, it just means you should try again.” Stephan Boissonneault stephan@vueweekly.com

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ocal Alternative indie-pop musician Amy van Keeken is venturing into a full-length solo album after having success in bands earlier and throughout her career. The local singer, who also works at CKUA radio, is set to release her nine-track LP In Dreams on Sept. 8. The album showcases van Keeken’s smooth, bold, vocals through her timeless songwriting. Her music melds several genres into one beautiful sound, which can be attributed to her diverse array of musical influences. “Some stuff that I’m digging now is Nick Drake, and Neil Young. Growing up, I listened to a lot of the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Joni Mitchell—who vocally will explore different things without fear, and do things her own way,” van Keeken says. “I’m really into smooth, easy listening rock from the seventies, like Bread or Fleetwood Mac. Also, classic country stuff inspires me like Marty Robbins and Patsy Cline.” While this is van Keeken’s first solo full-length, she’s no stranger to the process, as she has already released three EP’s of her own material. Her time spent recording, she says, has become more relaxed since her time recording with bands (including the AwesomeHots and the Secretaries), giving her the ability to bring her vision to life. “This was very much different. Recording as a band we would only have a certain amount of time and that’s it. But with this it was much more relaxed and open—and took much longer of course. It was nice to not have to feel the urgency that it has to be

done at a certain time,” she says. The main collaborator on the album is Patrick Michalak, whom van Keeken has worked with before on past recordings. The two musicians now have a process that works well when producing songs, which helped them during the creation of In Dreams. One of the lead singles, “Here Come Those Good Feelings,” is van Keeken’s current favourite off of the record. Each song on In Dreams was written by van Keeken herself, and she plays the majority of the guitar parts, as well as some piano. “I love writing rock and roll, pop, spaced-out psych-folk, and smooth songs—I like dipping my hand into all sorts of things because I like to sing all sorts of things,” van Keeken says. “It’s the nice thing about having a project that’s all your own, no one’s telling you not to do those things, so I’m going to do it.” The album release will take place at The Aviary, a venue that van Keeken says she is personally drawn to because of its inclusive environment. The event will feature two separate opening acts, local singer-songwriters Paul James Coutts and Caity Fisher. The two scheduled DJ’s will no longer be able to attend—but van Keeken isn’t worried—she’s prepared to show off her playlist-making skills if need be. “I think it’s really important to have your background music sort of reflect the night, and music is so important to me, so setting the tone is something I really like doing,” van Keeken says. “People

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Sat., Sept. 8 (8 pm) Amy van Keeken In Dreams Album Release The Aviary $10 in advance via yeglive.ca will be on the dance floor, feeling good and feeling the love.” For the main act, van Keeken will be performing her entire album with the help of her band—Denise MacKay on backing vocals, Darren Radbourne on cornet, organ and vocals, Patrick Michalak on baritone, bass and synth, and Marek Tyler on drums. In addition to the full set, van Keeken says there might even be a surprise cover song. But music isn’t the only thing guests will be able to enjoy. The event will also have unique bath products for sale, including a soap that van Keeken had a local company create to reflect her album. “I’ve teamed up with a local soap company called Botanika, and they have made a signature soap for the album release. It’s a friend that I used to work with at a restaurant years ago, and I found out through Instagram that she has her own independent soap company. The thought came to me that it would be so cool to have my own soap that coincided with the album,” van Keeken says. Everyone attending is encouraged to bring monetary or food donations to support the Edmonton Pet Food Bank. Heather Gunn

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ometimes the abstract nature of a label is an act of selfpreservation, a word so sharp you cut your teeth. For Jessey Northey, of Jesse and the Dandelions, psychedelia is that word, or painting. “What I really love about the genre is that, for me, the goal is to make a sonic painting. The genre allows extremities,” Northey says. “With folk, sometimes it feels a bit insulating in what you can do. With pop and psychedelia, anything goes.” His newest album, Give up the Gold, has once again seen Northey go into the studio to create something “simpler” than his 2016 album, True Blue, which he says was an attempt to create “elaborate productions.” According to Northey, Give Up the Gold is his attempt to engage in “stronger melodies and simple production.” While the album engages in that, it still holds on to that trippy genre with admiration to its renaissance. For this album, Northey found himself finding solace in exploring the sounds of a Wurlitzer piano he borrowed from a friend. He says, “It’s an electric piano

from the 70’s—it’s not digital— it has reeds and gives off a very charming sound; it’s intriguing, and was a way to relax.” While Jesse and the Dandelions has a sound that warms and soothes, Give Up the Gold in particular was cathartic for Northey; it’s him expressing the trials and tribulations of an artist who has given so much and is questioning the return. For fans alike, there’s something to relate to. A producer as well as a songwriter, Northey has a hand in a lot of the album’s production regardless of whether it’s his job or not. “Even though we had a producer, I would still always take it to my house. The danger was always overdoing it. As a recording engineer and musician, I feel like I always need to play with my stuff as a recording engineer. I can tinker with it forever but that becomes a trap.” Northey uses the analogy of a painting to synthesize his music, he says. “I love the different types of colours that come out of this genre; you can paint in every colour.” What he means by that is the

Sat., Sept. 15 (9 pm) Jesse and the Dandelions Give Up the Gold Album Release w/ Jom Comyn CKUA Radio Network $10 freedom this genre has given him, but he also recognizes good songwriting. “While everything goes, it still doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want, you still need a really good song.” Jesse and the Dandelions plan on releasing Give Up The Gold digitally on Sept. 7 and will then have a proper release at the CKUA building on Sept. 15. A few shows around Alberta will follow, just nothing “immediate.” Northey has had many opportunities to leave Edmonton, but he still chooses it as his musicial hub. “The community; I have an amazing quality of life and this city allows me to foster my creativity.” And as long as Jesse and the Dandelions keep putting out great albums like Give Up the Gold, he’ll always have that. Ryan Hook

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It’s a great name for a band, but guitarist and vocalist Fel Gamarra’s already taken it. He, bassist Erik Escobar, guitarist Evan Van Ramshorst, and drummer Izaac Middleton do their best to bring a kind of Latin power-pop energy to the stage that benefits a name as memorable as The Spanish Flies. “I always talk with my bandmates and we’re like ‘You have to have a party on stage,’” Gamarra says. “And we do. We all have a party and we’re with each other, all like back to back and soloing together and we all dance. I think the visuals in the show [are] really important. It’s another way for the crowd to take us in.” Having just released its second EP, Good Things Come to Those Who Wait, The Spanish Flies are digging a little deeper into their Spanish

roots and affinity for the softer sides of psychedelia. Imagine The Strokes, but with a more experimental love of 1960s pop music— mixed with South American sensibility and vitality—and you get the basic picture. Despite a lineup change since the last record, the band’s discography is still remarkably consistent. The new EP is just three new tracks—the only problem is that it leaves you wanting more. The EP was produced in a single weekend at True North Recording with the help of Jesse Northey of fellow Edmonton musical group, Jesse and the Dandelions. “Those vibes were just what we needed,” Gamarra says. “He’s like the fifth Spanish Fly for this EP. He added so much of his own thing and we were able to connect musically on very good levels where he kind of got the vibe from simple explanations. He just got it.” While it can be technically said that the Spanish Flies began in 2015 after Gamarra put together the band’s first incarnation, it’s a little more accurate to say it began earlier in a small town called Piura, a little way north of Lima, Peru. Never feeling particularly connected to the music scene of his native country, it wasn’t until he immigrat-

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ed to Canada, and then to Edmonton in 2014, that he found not only a home, but a space in which to play. “Me and my mum, we used to move a lot,” Gamarra says. “Neighbourhoods, houses, even sometimes cities. I was never able to have big roots anywhere. It’s weird. I feel like in Edmonton I was finally able to build a community—have good friends, know people, have a scene where I felt like I belong somehow.” With the EP now out for the better half of a month, Gamarra and the Flies are planning their next moves. They’re sending out the usual grant applications and have already secured a spot for this year’s Up + Downtown Music Festival. It’s safe to say Gamarra is at ease with his future and new bandmates. “It’s amazing. It’s like a little family, you know? We get drunk together, we hang out, we write music, and we talk about life and whatnot. I’m super happy.” And that’s what’s great about The Spanish Flies. They bring you to the party and ask if you want to hang out. They’re personable, as if they’re only goal was to make you feel as if you found some sort of home with them as well. It’s a powerful feeling. Consult your doctor if it persists for more than four hours.

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I’m a cis woman in my mid-40s, and my significant other has a cuckolding fetish. My first response was “Oh, hell no!” But if I’m willing to have a threesome, how much further of a stretch is it, really? He does have some experience with this varsity-level kink, so he knows what to expect. I’ve asked him some questions, but some things I prefer to research on my own. My questions for you: (1) I don’t get cuckolding. I’ve read all about it, but nothing about it resonates with me. My SO really wants me to be into his fetish if I am going to act on it, but what if I’m just into being GGG? Can’t that be enough? (2) How should I go about finding appropriate candidates who would be into sharing this experience with us? I’m not really sure that I’d want someone with experience as a bull, because I don’t feel good about this playing out the way I’ve seen it in porn. (3) We enjoy crossdressing and chastity play. How do I find someone who will be cool about my SO sitting in the room in a cock lock and lingerie? (4) I kind of have a “type” (don’t we all), and I’m not certain my type plays into this kink. I prefer someone who is very dominant in public but submissive to me in the bedroom. This doesn’t seem to align with your typical bull behaviour. However, I do not enjoy being dominated. Do you think this matters? CAN’T UNDERSTAND CUCKOLD KINK 1. Cuckolding isn’t that hard to understand: A cuckold gets off on their partner fucking other people and being humiliated or degraded by their partner and/or their partner’s playmates. Seeing as you already enjoy dominating guys and threesomes, CUCK, what’s not to enjoy about a cuckolding scenario? 2. Vanilla PIV intercourse rarely

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plays out in real life the way it does in porn. So whether you go with an experienced bull or find someone who’s unfamiliar with cuckold play but game, you don’t have to re-enact whatever cuckold porn you’ve watched or read. Write your own script! 3. By using your words, CUCK. Tell any guy who’s interested in being your very special guest star (VSGS) that your SO is a cuckold and he’ll be there in lingerie with his cock locked up. If that turns a VSGS candidate off, then he’s not the right VSGS for you. 4. In most cuckold porn, the bull—the man who fucks the cuck’s wife or girlfriend (or boyfriend or husband) in front of him—is the dominant partner. But, again, you get to write your own script, and if you want your bull to be submissive, make that clear to your potential bulls.

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I’m a 54-year-old gay guy living in New York City. I’m into bondage, and I have a profile on Recon with plenty of pictures showing what I’m into. A guy visiting from San Francisco cruised me. He asked me to send a face pic, and I did. He invited me to his hotel. He didn’t have any gear with him, so I stopped at a hardware store and picked up $40 worth of rope and duct tape on my way to meet him. But after 30 seconds of small talk, he said he just wasn’t feeling it. I said OK, that happens, and I left. I’m totally confused. I’m a decentlooking guy, and the photo I sent is recent. I was freshly showered, so no hygiene or BO issues. Obviously, you can’t force yourself to be into someone, but could he have handled it better? Should he have followed up with a message apologizing? Should I reach out and ask him what happened, or is that just pathetic?

BONDAGE OFFER NOT DELIVERED AFTER GETTING EVICTED Typically when this happens— photos exchanged, hookup arranged, mind changed—it’s because the photos were out of date or were not representative. Since we aren’t always the best judge of our own photos, BONDAGE, you should ask a friend who won’t bullshit you to look at your photos and give it to you straight. If your no-bullshit friend clears your photos, then reach out to Mr. San Francisco. He had to make a snap decision when you arrived with that bag of rope and duct tape: Did he feel comfortable letting this stranger render him helpless? In a vanilla hookup, he could give it a little time and back out after some foreplay—it’s a lot harder to back out when the foreplay involves rope and duct tape. So send him a message via Recon. Open by telling him you aren’t buttsore or angry, and he had every right to change his mind, even at the last minute—which means he has nothing to apologize for, so you aren’t owed an apology and you shouldn’t message him if you’re seeking one. Then ask if you said or did something that made him feel unsafe. If you did, BONDAGE, accept his feedback graciously—don’t argue with him or attempt to litigate what went down. Just listen. It may not have been your intention to freak him out by making, say, a few serial-killer jokes, but his impression is what matters, not your intention. And who knows? A sincere effort to get a little constructive feedback may leave him feeling better about you and up for playing the next time he’s in town.

on our bed. She hears the front door open, followed by footsteps coming up the stairs, and then she’s ravished by … who? She won’t know, presumably, until it’s over. My question: In fulfilling this fantasy for her, where anonymity and surprise are part of the appeal, what do I tell her in advance? Do I discuss the entire scenario with her, so she knows exactly what’s going to happen, minus the identity of the very special guest star (who would be a semi-regular we’ve played with before, but she wouldn’t necessarily know that at first)? That seems to eliminate the surprise element of the fantasy. Is it enough to tell her, without mentioning the specific scenario, that I’d like to make one of her fantasies come true, and ask her to trust me? ETHICAL THINKING IN QUTIE UNUSUAL, ELABORATE TIED TIGHT ENACTMENT Presumably? There’s no room for “presumablies” when you’re arranging to fulfill a varsity-level fantasy. I’m guessing she’d rather not know who’s ravishing her before or during the big event, ETIQUETTE, and she may not want to know after. But you need to ask her what she wants—no presumptions—before you start making arrangements. She might want to know everything in ad-

vance—including the identity of that stranger—or she might want you to decide everything. But you need to check in with her first: “Honey, I want to help you realize that fantasy—you’re tied to the bed, a stranger arrives, you’re ravished by said stranger—but I need to know how involved you want to be in the planning. Clear everything with you—where, when, who, how—or just make it happen?” You may find that she wants to be surprised by who but not by when, ETIQUETTE, or by when but not by who—or by who but not by when, how, or where. Or she may want the whole thing to be a surprise. But you have to find out exactly what she wants before you make any plans. And here’s a bonus pro tip for you: Don’t reveal the identity of your VSGS immediately afterward. Because if it goes well, and your wife wants a repeat, you may be able to get a few more encounters out of your first VSGS. On the Lovecast, Dan chats with comedian Guy Branum about ass surgery: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter ITMFA.org

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1 URL component 4 Writer Bombeck 8 Flat floaters 13 Longtime Jets QB who led the NFL in passer rating in 1985 15 “Ran” director Kurosawa 16 Put into a different envelope 17 Uncompromising 18 For each 19 Slowdowns 20 ___-days (heavy practices for football teams) 21 Letters on NYC subways 23 Woody Guthrie’s kid 24 2008 puzzle game for the Wii that relied heavily on multiplayer modes 29 Velvet finish 30 “Jackass” costar who had his own “Viva” spinoff on MTV 31 Droop 32 “No ___ way!” (self-censorer’s exclamation) 33 Big figure 36 Night away from the usual work, maybe 40 Hotshot 41 “Things will be OK” 43 Charity calculation 45 Ex-NHL star Tikkanen 46 Magazine that sounds like a letter 47 Supporting bars 49 Congenitally attached, in biology 51 Coloraturas’ big moments 52 “Can’t eat another bite” 55 Norse goddess married to Balder 56 Many seniors, near the end? 57 Feline “burning bright” in a Blake poem 58 “Good for what ___ ya” 59 Jekyll creator’s monogram

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now is an excellent time to feel, explore, understand, and even appreciate your sadness. To get you in the mood, here’s a list of sadnesses from novelist Jonathan Safran Foer: sadness of the could-have-been; sadness of being misunderstood; sadness of having too many options; sadness of being smart; sadness of awkward conversations; sadness of feeling the need to create beautiful things; sadness of going unnoticed; sadness of domesticated birds; sadness of arousal being an unordinary physical state; sadness of wanting sadness.

6 “Au revoir, ___ amis” 7 Suffix after hex- or pent8 Seldom seen 9 AKC working dog 10 “Yeah, just my luck ...” 11 One step below the Majors 12 Elegy, perhaps 13 Surname of brothers Chris and Martin, hosts of “Zoboomafoo” and a self-titled “Wild” PBS Kids show 14 Discreet way to be included on an email, for short 19 Where the military goes 21 Harvard’s school color before crimson 22 Hesitant 25 Plant firmly (var.) 26 Artillery barrages 27 Spruces up 28 “Crazy Rich Asians” actor Jimmy O. and comedian Jenny, for two 33 “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot” director 34 Cube origin? 35 Taking a close look 37 Precede, as at a concert 38 Pita filler 39 Snapchat features 42 Saxophonist’s supply 44 Gregg Allman’s brother 48 Peter I, e.g. 49 “Hole-in-the-wall” establishments? 50 Really liked 52 Strong pub option 53 Test for internal injuries, for short 54 Fa follower ©2018 Jonesin’ Crosswords

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do you have any feral qualities lurking deep down inside you? Have you ever felt a mad yearning to communicate using howls and yips instead of words? When you’re alone, do you sometimes dispense with your utensils and scoop the food off your plate with your fingers? Have you dreamed of running through a damp meadow under the full moon for the sheer ecstasy of it? Do you on occasion experience such strong erotic urges that you feel like you could weave your body and soul together with the colour green or the sound of a rain-soaked river or the moon rising over the hills? I ask these questions, Taurus, because now is an excellent time to draw on the instinctual wisdom of your feral qualities. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Close some doors today,” writes novelist Paulo Coelho. “Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.” I endorse his advice for your use, Gemini. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be wise to practice the rough but fine art of saying no. It’s time for you to make crisp decisions about where you belong and where you don’t; about where your future fulfillment is likely to thrive and where it won’t; about which relationships deserve your sage intimacy and which tend to push you in the direction of mediocrity. CANCERIAN (June 21-July 22): To casual observers you may seem to be an amorphous hodgepodge, or a simmering mess of semi-interesting confusion, or an amiable dabbler headed in too many directions at once. But in my opinion, casual observers would be wrong in that assessment. What’s closer to the symbolic truth about you is an image described by poet Carolyn Forché: grapes that are ripening in the fog. Here’s another image that resonates with your current state: sea turtle eggs gestating beneath the sand on a misty ocean beach. One further metaphor for you: the bright yellow flowers of the evening primrose plant, which only bloom at night. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I want to

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make sure that the groove you’re in doesn’t devolve into a rut. So I’ll ask you unexpected questions to spur your imagination in unpredictable directions. Ready? 1. How would you describe the untapped riches in the shadowy part of your personality? 2. Is there a rare object you’d like to own because it would foster your feeling that the world has magic and miracles? 3. Imagine the perfect party you’d love to attend and how it might change your life for the better. 4. What bird most reminds you of yourself? 5. What’s your most evocative and inspiring taboo daydream? 6. In your past, were there ever experiences that made you cry for joy in ways that felt almost orgasmic? How might you attract or induce a catharsis like that sometime soon? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): By volume, the Amazon is the largest river in the world. But where does it originate? Scientists have squabbled about that issue for over 300 years. Everyone agrees the source is in southwestern Peru. But is it the Apurímac River? The Marañón? The Mantaro? There are good arguments in favour of each. Let’s use this question as a poetic subtext as we wonder and meditate about the origin of your life force, Virgo. As is the case for the Amazon, your source has long been mysterious. But I suspect that’s going to change during the next 14 months. And the clarification process begins soon. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When Warsan Shire was a child, she immigrated to the UK with her Somalian parents. Now she’s a renowned poet who writes vividly about refugees, immigrants, and other marginalized people. To provide support and inspiration for the part of you that feels like an exile or fugitive or displaced person, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I offer you two quotes by Shire. 1. “I belong deeply to myself.” 2. “Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself—what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Once in a while came a moment when everything seemed to have something to say to you.” So says a character in Alice Munro’s short story Jakarta. Now I’m using that message as the key theme of your horoscope. Why? Because you’re at the peak of your ability to be reached, to be touched, to be communicated with. You’re willing to be keenly receptive. You’re strong enough to be deeply influenced. Is it because you’re so firmly anchored in your understanding and acceptance of who you are? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1928, novelist Virginia Woolf wrote a letter to her friend Saxon Sidney Turner. “I am reading six

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books at once, the only way of reading,” she confided, “since one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.” My usual inclination is to counsel you Sagittarians to focus on one or two important matters rather than on a multitude of semi-important matters. But in accordance with current astrological omens, I’m departing from tradition to suggest you adopt Woolf’s approach to books as your approach to everything. Your life in the coming weeks should be less like an acoustic ballad and more like a symphony for 35 instruments. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Not many goats can climb trees, but there are daredevils in Morocco that do. They go in quest of the delicious olive-like berries that grow on argan trees. The branches on which they perch may be 30 feet off the ground. I’m naming them as your power creature for the coming weeks. I think you’re ready to ascend higher in search of goodies. You have the soulful agility necessary to transcend your previous level of accomplishment. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): From 49-45 BC, civil war wracked the Roman Republic. Julius Caesar led forces representing the common people against armies fighting for the aristocracy’s interests. In 45 BC, Caesar brought a contingent of soldiers to Roman territory in North Africa, intent on launching a campaign against the enemy. As the general disembarked from his ship, he accidentally slipped and fell. Thinking fast, he exclaimed, “Africa, I have tight told of you!” and clasped the ground, thus implying he had lowered himself on purpose in a ritual gesture of conquest. In this way, he converted an apparent bad omen into a positive one. And indeed, he won the ensuing battle, which was the turning point that led to ultimate victory and the war’s end. That’s good role modeling for you right now. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Below are sweet words I’ve borrowed from poets I love. I invite you to use them to communicate with anyone who is primed to become more lyrically intimate with you. The time is right for you to reach out. 1. “You look like a sea of gems.”—Qahar Aasi 2. “I love you with what in me is unfinished.”—Robert Bly 3. “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born. —E. E. Cummings 4. “Tell me the most exquisite truths you know.”—Barry Hannah 5. “It’s very rare to know you, very strange and wonderful.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald 6. “When you smile like that you are as beautiful as all my secrets.”—Anne Carson 7. Everything you say is “like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.”—Sylvia Plath

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