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"I'm not saying there's no dignified way to eat Bo Ssam, but I don't think I hit upon it during my visit to NongBu." // 8

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The wrong way to gender neutral Gender-neutral washrooms don't work if their purpose is segregation Last week, local news outlets reported that a mother has filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission against the Edmonton Catholic School District (ECSD) after it refused to let her young daughter, who is trans*, use the girls' washroom. The reason? The school has installed a gender-neutral washroom which the girl can access, but it is the only washroom available to her. I want to be fair: good on the ECSD for installing gender-neutral washrooms. That's a great first step! But I suspect the organization strongly misunderstands the purpose of a gender-neutral washroom. In an interview with Global, ECSD Chair Debbie Engle notes that, "Many students like the privacy of their own personal space. We are doing what other educational organizations across the province are doing ... we are providing a washroom for females and males

VUEPOINT

called a gender-neutral washroom." But the problem here is two-fold: the primary intention of genderneutral washrooms isn't one of privacy, and gender-neutral washrooms are not meant to be a tool of segregation. Let's unpack what is meant when "privacy" is invoked. Washrooms are already fairly private places, at least the ones I go into— maybe the Catholic ones are an exception? Go in, close the stall door (or stand at the urinal, eyes front), do your business, wash your hands, get out. But the "privacy" canard here is based on a belief that boys and girls are fundamentally different and should not mix. It's fascinating

predator is going to be stopped by a washroom sign, anyway. The truth of the matter is the creation of gender-neutral washrooms is about safety; I don't think I know a single gender nonconforming person (trans* or not) who doesn't have a story about a confrontation in a washroom. My masculineappearing wife, for example, has taken to pointing at her large, obvious breasts whenever she gets a glare in a washroom. But glares are the easy part; queer writer Ivan Coyote has written about being assaulted in washrooms by handbags held by shrieking women.

If there is anything I really do understand, it is being afraid in a public washroom. I am afraid in them all the time, with a lifetime of good reason.

MIMI WILLIAMS MIMI@VUEWEEKLY.COM

What Harper's thinking

I wonder what's going through Stephen Harper's mind as he contemplates the NDP winning a majority government in Alberta. For sure he's looking at it through the lens of an EKOS poll commissioned by iPolitics and released last week that showed 30 percent of decided voters supporting his Convervatives, the NDP with 29.1 and the Liberals with 27. Frank Graves, president of EKOS, said the past four months have shown a "clear pattern" of growing support for Thomas Mulcair's NDP. The party is the second choice for decided voters in Alberta. He's got to be worried that the electorate across the country might be noticing that the Liberals are endorsing his program. He's also got to be worried about who he's got on his team. Last Friday, Susan Delacourt, writing for the Toronto Star, wrote about the Conservatives rejecting the historic consortium debates for the upcoming federal election in favour of a format and broadcaster they prefer. She noted that Jaime Watt of PR firm Navigator took a break from orchestrating Jim Prentice's colossal electoral defeat to take a trip on behalf of Harper to observe the Israeli elections. Among Watt's travel companions were Kory Teneycke, former PMO director of communications and head of failed conservative broadcaster, Fox of the North, Sun News Network. This is what got me thinking about what Harper has been thinking. Albertans rejected the cronyism and backroom deals orchestrated by the likes of old-boy Conservatives, epitomized by the folks from Navigator who failed to tap into the anger Calgarians felt last year when they learned that the Calgary Board of Education had handed the PR firm $240 000 in sole-sourced contracts while pleading poverty in addressing class-size issues. Prentice, ignoring the voter backlash that was nurtured by the auditor general slamming needlessly sole-sourced contracts awarded to the firm in the aftermath of the floods in southern Alberta in 2013 while flood victims still await, to this day, recompense, put Navigator in charge of the election and tossed longtime supporters under the bus. I'm wondering is if Harper is rethinking his roster of advisors, and if not, maybe he should be. V

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to watch when you push people on this point because what comes next is safety. We have to keep boys and girls separate because sexual predators will sneak in and rape all the women (no one is ever afraid of fe-

male sexual predators sneaking in and raping all the men, but that's a discussion for a different time). It's transphobic in the extreme and it's not based in reality. The overwhelming majority of sexual assaults occur between people who are known to one another. I'm also not convinced a

DYERSTRAIGHT

"Every time I bring up or write about the hassles trans and genderqueer people receive in public washrooms, the first thing out of many women's mouths is that they have a right to feel safe in a public washroom, and that, no offense, but if they saw someone who 'looks like me' in there, well, they would feel afraid, too. I hear this from other queer women. What is always implied here is that I am other, somehow, that I don't also need to feel safe. That somehow their safety trumps mine. If there is anything I really do understand, it is being afraid in a public washroom. I am afraid in them all the time, with a lifetime of good reason." I don't know if the young girl feels afraid when she enters a washroom; I hope not. I do hope that the ECSD stops being afraid and starts respecting all of its students. V

GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Another Bush damaged by Iraq Jeb side steps condemning his brother's decision to invade He just misheard the question. A basically friendly interviewer on Fox News asked Jeb Bush, now seeking the Republican nomination for the US presidency: "Knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion (of Iraq)?" And he replied: "I would have." When the storm of protest, even from Republicans, swept over him, he explained that he thought the interviewer had said: "Knowing what we KNEW THEN." An easy mistake to make. "Know now" sounds an awful lot like "knew then". Besides, Jeb Bush is on record as claiming that he is Hispanic (on a 2009 voterregistration application), so the poor man was struggling with his second language. If only she had asked the question in Spanish, he would have understood it perfectly. Enough. When you listen to the entire interview, it's clear that Bush didn't want to say a flat "No" to her question, because that would be a condemnation of his brother's decision to invade Iraq in 2003. But as soon as he could, he switched to talking about the "intelligence failures" that misled his brother into invading the wrong country. Anybody can make a mistake. So nobody's to blame. Hillary Clinton, currently the favourite for the Democratic presidential nomination, uses exactly the same defence. In fact, every American politician who voted in favour of the invasion of Iraq at the time claims that the problem was faulty intelligence, and maybe some of them outside of the White House genuinely were misled. But the intelligence wasn't "faulty;" it was cooked to order. There was no plausible

intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, so the US intelligence services were told to "find" some. There were no Islamist terrorists in Iraq either: Saddam Hussein hunted down and killed anybody suspected of being an Islamist activist, because the Islamists wanted to kill him. The US Central Intelligence Agency agency tried very hard to create a link between al-Qaeda, the organization responsible for the 9/11 attacks, and Iraq. The only thing they came up with, however, was a rumour that a little-known Islamist from Jordan called Abu Musab al Zarqawi, who knew Osama bin Laden, had been in Baghdad receiving treatment for wounds received in Afghanistan from May to November 2002. (He was actually in Iran at that time.) If you were on the White House staff in early 2003, you HAD to know that the "intelligence" you were using to justify the invasion of Iraq was false, because you were one of the people demanding that the spooks manufacture "evidence" for it. The decision itself had been taken even before Bush's election in 2000 and the 9/11 attacks in 2001, for reasons that had nothing to do with terrorism. We don't yet know just how disastrous the invasion of Iraq was, because the damage is still accumulating. Abu Bakr alBaghdadi, the man who now rules "Islamic State," the terrorist-ruled new country that occupies the eastern half of Syria and the western third of Iraq, started fighting Americans as part of the Iraqi resistance in 2003. By 2006 at the latest, he had joined the

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group then called al-Qaeda in Iraq, which was largely made up of jihadis from other Arab countries who had flocked to Iraq to fight the infidel invaders. And the founder of al-Qaeda in Iraq was none other than Abu Musab al Zarqawi—who parlayed the reputation as a major jihadi leader that the US intelligence services gave him into a real leadership position in the resistance. Through the years that followed, that organization gained experience in guerilla war and terrorism, and through several changes of name and leadership (Zarqawi was killed in 2006) it ultimately morphed into Islamic State. Baghdadi was with it all the way, and now styles himself "Caliph Ibrahim," demanding the loyalty and obedience of all Muslims everywhere. So we owe a lot to the "neo-cons" in George Bush's administration who pushed for the invasion of Iraq: people like Dick Cheney (Vice-president), Donald Rumsfeld (Secretary of Defense), and Paul Wolfowitz (Undersecretary of Defense). They just used the 9/11 attacks as a vehicle for their pre-existing Iraq invasion plans. It was Wolfowitz, above all, who worked tirelessly to link Irak to terrorism. And guess who is the most prominent name on Jeb Bush's current team of foreign policy advisers (apart from George W Bush himself). Why, it's the very same Paul Wolfowitz. The problem with Jeb Bush is not the foolish answers he gives. It's the company he keeps. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

NEWS // WALKING

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The simplicity of slow

Born to Walk shows that slowing down reconnects us with nature

lowness and the rhythm of your own footsteps—we forget the simplicity of stillness is right in front of us. There is no need to escape to the silent mountains or the heat of a faraway beach; walking may be the simplest way to create change in the world and reconnect with ourselves. One foot in front of the other seems simple, but as Dan Rubinstein explores in his book Born to Walk, the act itself is caught up in the complicated constructions we've created around us. "Walking is a way to make change individually and societally, and it's about incremental and gradual progress. It doesn't give quick returns on investments," Rubinstein says. "So, in many ways, it contravenes the ethos and how our society is organized." Rubinstein reconnected with the act of walking during his own direct confrontation with the complications of our fast-paced society. Corporate creep was slowly making its way into the pages of the magazine where he was an editor, and Rubinstein's dream job was slowly becoming a nightmare. He began expanding his daily running excur-

sions as a method of escape, but a pressure to keep working, while knee injury soon limited Rubinstein the act of removing oneself from and he turned to walking—and the daily pressure of production for even a few minutes seems too slowed down. much. Not being "People may immediately pronot vocalize it, Now available ductive by takas we have to By Dan Rubinstein ing a few steps change the eco- ECW Press, 316pp, $27.95 around the block nomic system and allowing the that our world is organized by," he says. "But may- mind to wander seems a luxury we be it's about getting back to that can't afford some days. Changing that requires thinking slow, personal human contact, and maybe we need to go back in that on a societal scale. Rubinstein exdirection if we want to be holisti- plores the interconnectivity of the act of putting one foot in front of cally healthy." Rubinstein's exploration of the act another to our economic and poof walking starts with how we left litical structures, and how they can it behind in the first place, and how benefit from everyone taking one its loss is felt through our health step forward. "If your job is sitting in your car to and in a cost to the health-care system. With 50 to 70 percent of get to your job and then sitting in our days spent sitting, the effect is traffic to get home, you're not goseen in obesity rates, heart disease ing to be able to live more healthand diabetes—all ailments the act ily," Rubinstein says. Economically, job structures can of walking can help prevent. But integrating walking into our change to accommodate less time daily lives is not that simple. The in cars and at the desk. "We can talk about four-day work car, suburbs, the 40-hour work week and the drive to make money weeks, shorter shifts, workplaces all contribute to a busy yet seden- that seriously talk about wellness tary lifestyle. There is an imposed and activity," says Rubinstein, ex-

pressing the same hopefulness the book posits about our ability to begin putting one foot in front of the other a bit more often. "It's not a way to make quick, fast money but it's a way to get people to be healthy, productive and to do so in a sustainable way." Rubinstein's book is about getting to that sustainability and reconnecting our cities with the most basic advance our species ever made. "If you make sidewalks, people will walk on them. If you make walkable neighbourhoods in the suburbs, people will walk in them," he adds. That seems obvious, but urban design still often centres around the car. This is evidenced in Edmonton's struggles to connect transit and pedestrian-oriented design, even when it's made an explicit goal at the outset. And many neighbourhoods in the city still do not even have sidewalks. "It's a bit of an, 'if you build it they will come,'" Rubinstein says. Cities are still learning, but it feels as though change is on the way. "I think the health argument is a

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wedge to make change," Rubinstein says. "Our health-care system is going to fall apart. It can't handle the modern-day epidemics that we suffer from." And as his chapter on politics points out, walking has always been a part of the movement to create change. From collective marches overtaking public streets, to solitary figures ambling down highways, walking has been a part of political expression for decades. "There's the empowering collective power of protest march, whether it's an individual or participatory thing, but then there's the politicians who can connect to the people they should do more deeply to serve their needs better," Rubinstein says. "Walking is a very powerful tool." And Rubinstein's ode to walking provides a beautiful look at how it could be the simplest act that saves us. As Rubinstein quotes in the book, "Walking can't solve all our problems, but I think it's our best possibility right now. It's more than exercise. It is life." SAMANTHA POWER

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REVUE // KOREAN

Unparalleled Korean eats NongBu Korean Eatery is a unique addition to Edmonton's Asian dining scene

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// Josh Marcellin

hough far outnumbered by ChiDdukBboKki are sections of chewy nese, Vietnamese, Japanese and rice sticks served one of three Thai restaurants, there are some ways; we opted for the spicy varisolid Korean restaurant options ant. The nuggets of chopped rice around town. But there are none were slathered with one of those like NongBu. deep red, sweet, spicy (but not too For one thing, spicy) sauces pecuNongBu feels brand NongBu Korean Eatery liar to the Korean new—as in, not 8115 - 104 Street pantry. The nuggets themselves fully moved in yet. 780.989.0997 There are neither were a little like bottles nor even gnocchi in texture shelves behind the large bar, which but wholly unique, and the perfect is the main feature of the cozy, loft- vehicle for the sauce. Pajeon appared space: there's just a big blank ently means pancake, though that's mud-coloured wall. The spare ta- a crude descriptor for the hot, bles are mostly two-toppers, and crispy, moist wonder of pan-fried the dining room's most prominent squid and shrimp lightly bound in visual art is a retro black-and-white a crispy, slightly eggy batter with Korean melodrama projected over strips of green onion, carrot, cabthe eastern tables. Even the serv- bage and a sesame-soy drizzle. We ers, clad in jeans and black tees both really liked it. bearing NongBu's logo, are freshfaced. For the main course, we went with NongBu's menu will be mysterious the Bo Ssam ($16 for an individual to most. There's no bulgogi, bibim- order, $32 for the sharing platter), bap, or even gan poong gi. The only one of three such platters. And thing you might recognize is the what a platter it is: a veritable hub banchan—the assortment of side cap filled with the delicious comdishes that accompany a Korean ponents of a lettuce wrap, in this meal: rice, clear soup with sprouts case ready for stuffing with tender and one each of cucumber, turnip pork shoulder that even now still and cabbage kim chi, as well as triggers my salivary glands. There some radish in rice vinegar. are also lettuce leaves of the red, A reservation turned out to be a green and butter varieties, pickled good idea on a Friday after work, green onions, a different but no as the place was definitely buzz- less tantalizing red sweet-spicy ing by six o'clock. We were quickly sauce, and some slices of cucumseated and our server arrived. "Are ber, green chili pepper and garlic. you Scott?" she asked. "I've been I'm not saying there's no dignified waiting for you!" Then she highway to eat Bo Ssam, but I don't fived me. Then she high-fived my think I hit upon it during my visit co-diner. to NongBu. I didn't really care—the Our server took the time to break lettuce wraps filled with savoury, down the "street food" portion of unctuous pork, spiked with red the menu for us, with its inevitable stuff and chased with spicy, gingery spring-roll variant, savoury pan- pickles, were worth the loss of decakes, veggie sushi-style rolls and corum. It all made for a winning something I'd definitely never tried combination of novel food, unique and thus had to order. She ran off atmosphere and reasonable value. to fetch us bottles of light, fizzy As we left, our new server—who Korean lager (Cass, the only beer had come in partway through the NongBu stocks), seafood pajeon meal—told us she would be wait($9) and some spicy DdukBboKki ing to see us again. NongBu appar($8), leaving us to ponder the ently forms attachments quickly. meaning of doubled letters in the To be honest, the feeling might be English spellings of Korean words mutual. SCOTT LINGLEY for food. SCOTT@VUEWEEKLY.COM VUEWEEKLY.com | MAY 21 – MAY 27, 2015

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Revisiting a Japanese mega-beer Kirin Ichiban is still thoroughly middle-of-the-road When it comes to the world of cor- I obliged by picking up a couple cans. Ichiban pours pale yellow with a porate pale lagers, I tread with caution. It's not that the beer produced fairly anemic white head and surby the big boys is poorly made—in prisingly quiet carbonation. The fact, it takes a tonne of skill to do aroma is subtle, with a soft grainy what they do. Rather, it's that they effect. Light honey and a rice-like sweetness also go out of their come into play. way to make beer Kirin Ichiban The first taste imlight on body Kirin Brewery Company, pression is sweet and flavour, and Tokyo, Japan corn and clover heavy on market- $3.50 for 500-mL can honey. The middle ing. They tend sharpens a little bit to oversell and under-deliver; therefore, I tend to with a grain-husk edge. The finish is noticeably sweet, although not in choose other beer as a result. However, a friend talked me into a cloying way. It is more a byprodgiving Kirin Ichiban a try. Ichiban is uct of the low hopping rates they made by the Japanese giant Kirin undoubtedly employ, which allows Company, which has international more of the residual barley sweetholdings in everything from real ness to show through. estate to restaurants to the logistics industry. But its core business The finish is fairly refreshing and is beer. I vaguely remember tasting generally unassuming. The beer Ichiban (the beer, not the noodle presents very cleanly and the linsoup) years ago and saw no reason ger is crisp. As the beer warms up, to return. But I respect my friend, so I begin detecting a bit of a cooked corn flavour—it seems out of place and is often a subtle flaw. What more can I say? This is an above-average macro pale lager. I might choose it over Canadian or Budweiser, but I am well aware of more craft-y pale lagers that far outshine this version. While there is nothing particularly wrong or off-putting about Kirin Ichiban, there is also nothing that really stands out. I assume this is intentional on the brewery's part. I am not sorry I tried it again—it's always good to revisit things after some time has passed—but I am

not sure the beer has given me a reason to go for a third attempt. However, if you like pale lagers you could easily do worse; maybe that is reason enough to have tried it again. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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e didn't even know if anyone are so popular now, and the unique was going to come to the thing that we bring to the table is first event," Mack Male says. "We fig- a large number of trucks all in one ured we'd just try it, and fortunately place, all at one time," Male explains. enough, people came and we decid- "Lots of events now have food ed to do a second one, and it's just trucks; having two or three together continued to grow with every event is not so interesting anymore—but we've done. I really didn't think that having 25 together? That's somewe'd have thousands of people." thing we do different." Male is talking about What The Truck?! a mini festival of food trucks What The Truck?! is registering as that he started five years ago with an official non-profit this year, which local food blogger Sharon Yeo, and falls in line with their vision of bewhich has grown ing not just event considerably over organizers, but Sat, May 23 (4 pm – 8 pm) champions of our the past five years: Churchill Square local food trucks some 9000 peowhatthetruck.ca and food-truck ple have RSVP'd to this year's first culture. Their What The Truck?! team now numon May 23, which will bring to- bers seven, all of whom are involved gether 25 of our city's food trucks in on a purely volunteer basis. They Churchill Square. are launching their season officially "It's just insane," Male says. "It's prob- at the first event on May 23; Male ably three to four times more than notes that the What the Truck?! seaany of our other previous events." son will be bookended by events at Male and Yeo were hard-pressed Churchill Square. The three What the to get the original seven trucks that Truck?! gatherings the middle, held in formed the inaugural What The June, July and August, are tentatively Truck?! back in 2011, which was held scheduled for Capital Boulevard near in Beaver Hills House Park down- the recently renovated Federal Buildtown. That represented almost all of ing, Northlands and Telus Field. the trucks in operation at the time; "We've wanted to keep it interesting now Male and Yeo have some 65 by moving to different locations, and trucks registered on their list, are if we just did it in Churchill Square hosting five events this summer and all the time it would be so simple, have generally proven that, in under but it'd also be kind of boring," Male half a decade, food trucks became says. "That's been a real challenge, fully entrenched in Edmonton's culi- because every time we go to a new nary fabric. place, we're almost starting over." "I wouldn't say that I'm shocked at Those who jumped onboard the the number; I think that's a similar food-truck train early might not be as trend as what we've seen in other enthusiastic about this year's editions cities around North America," Male of What The Truck?!, but there are notes. "I'm not sure how much more still thousands more who are just beroom we've got to grow, actually. ginning to discover food trucks and Downtown at lunchtime, the area is all the mobile goodness they entail. pretty saturated: there's trucks all "I guess I'm surprised that people the way from 97 Street to probably still love food trucks," Male notes. 109 Street." "Because I'm in it, I sort of feel like, That said, he notes that What The well, food trucks were a new thing Truck?! has become an unofficial hub five years ago; it's not so new anyfor the city's food trucks to network more. But there's still lots of Edmonwith potential clients: they've been tonians who haven't experienced that, receiving multiple requests a day and it is new and exciting for them. through their website for trucks to So I guess that's the surprise, just that come to events like show homes and it's continued to grow. At what point grand openings. is it going to level off, I'm not sure." PRIESTLEY "We've had to take a look at what MEL MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM we're doing, given that food trucks

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ack by popular demand (and the Rutherford House's invitation), Thou Art Here's roving production of Much Ado About Nothing is returning to the picturesque, historic brick house perched on the north edge of the river valley on the U of A campus. "We completely sold out the whole run last year; there were waiting lists, people were just clamouring to see it," Marlee Yule says. She's reprising her role as Hero from last year's production; all but one of the other cast members are also returning. This gives the company members a leg up for this year's run, she Until Sun, May 31 (7:30 pm) explains, as they've already got Directed by Andrew Ritchie some 20 shows under their belt Rutherford House, $20 and can continue digging into the characters they were just starting to get to know last spring. "I don't think any other Shakespeare play could do so well inside that particular space," she says. "Thou Art Here is all about site-sympathetic Shakespeare, and Much Ado About Nothing really marries to the space at the Rutherford House so perfectly." Touted as one of the Bard's lightest works, the comedy's premise retains a fair degree of contemporary resonance: a bunch of friends and family

So much ado they're adoing it again // Nico Humby

shacking up in a house over the weekend for a wedding. Thou Art Here has updated the original setting to fit the Rutherford House's early 20th-century origins. Audience members who saw the show last year will recall that the production, which moves throughout the entire house and the grounds outside, was very intimateâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and sometimes downright squishy. With a cast of 10 and an audience of 25 to 30 (last year's biggest show was 38, which Yule notes was a few too many), the show delivers an experience that's really quite unique; the audience becomes engaged participants and not merely anonymous voyeurs. This year's show will see a few changes in blocking based on learning what worked and what needed improvement from last year. "I think it's a play that you can see over and over, especially this one at the Rutherford House, because there are so many things going on," Yule says. "You can watch different characters, different storylines throughout the house. You'll notice Hero in the background doing something, or Beatrice, or any of the other characters. I think it's worth a second watching." MEL PRIESTLEY

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PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

Art on two wheels

The inaugural Public Art Ride cycles around Edmonton's outdoor artworks

t's really just a culture and community-building experience," says Leslie Bush, the External Relations Coordinator at the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society, about the group's first-ever Public Art Ride. "The Bicycle Society wants to expand more into building a culture around cycling that isn't just about cycling. We thought this would be an ideal spot to start bringing more people in who might not normally be a commuter or a real hardcore cyclist. This is accessible to a lot of people." The Public Art Ride is a 30-km cycling tour open to anyone with a bike. It will stop at some of the most recent and noteworthy public art around the city. The route has five to 12 public art destinations planned, depending on weather, and Bush notes they've partnered with the Edmonton Arts Council to provide

some curation along the route as well. "[We wanted to] have people on hand who know the history and the story behind some of the art," she says. "Who can highlight the importance of public art in the city while people are out having a good time just enjoying the sun." Four of the stops will have an art interpreter at them: "New Life ...New Beginnings" (2008, by Richard Tosczak) at Hawrelak Park, the infamous silverballed Talus Dome (2013, by Ball-Nogues Studio), "Impose," the temporary treehouse installation in Churchill Square (up until September 15, by Threshold Art and Design Collective) and one of its artists, Danielle Soneff, will be discussing this work as well as "Willow" (2014, by Marc Fornes and THEVERYMANY) at Borden Park.

If the Bicycle Society gets a good turn out, the group plan to make it an annual or semi-annual event. A week before the ride is scheduled to take place, almost 800 people had joined the event on Facebook. Cyclists are also welcome to join Sun, May 24 (1 pm) midway through the Starts at Dr William McIntyre route if they don't want Park (83 Ave & 104 St), Free to do the full distance. (You can find a detailed map on Facebook, in the Public Art Ride event). "It's exciting to see so many people, this interested in it," Bush says. "There is that culture out there; we're just making sure people have a place to experience it and connect them to things maybe they didn't try before."

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The Public Art Ride stops at the Talus Dome, among other art spots // Eden Munro

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A picture of grief

The Photo I

n development for more than a decade by local playwright Dana Rayment, The Photo bravely faces what we'd rather ignore: grief. Mark (Michael Peng) and Gina (Elena Porter) are sharing a viscerally painful, all-consuming grief that has shattered their lives and sent them spiralling into confusion. Peng and Porter are both compelling in this short two-hander as Mark and Gina go down two very different paths after an almost unspeakable tragedy happens in their family. Gina has completely lost her bearings and her grip on reality, insisting she can see a future that will never be. She wants to cook—then she's not hungry. She's thirsty—but only wants Champagne, and then she gets lost in a memory of her first taste of Dom Pérignon. That leaves Mark mostly alone to care for his wife—and to grapple with his own confusion over what he's supposed to do. Who do you call when the worst happens? Your mom? Are you allowed to eat? These complex emotional ideas are beautifully brought to life by Daniela Masellis' set design and T Erin Gruber and Elijah Lindenberger's projection

work. The team uses 16mm black-andwhite home movies and found footage and plays them over the action, adding texture and nuance to the emotional gymnastics Mark and Gina go through. Gina becomes obsessed with the titular photo. The albums of her childhood are full of staged photographs, with her wearing nice dresses posed in the backyard on sunny days. Mark's family took pictures that were out of focus or with fingers in the foreground, and showed him crying after he scraped his knee riding his bike. Mark believes that his photos are more real. They captured truth: he looks at that photo of his scraped knee and remembers that he'd tried not to cry and that his aunt and grandma comforted him with cheese afterwards. Gina looks at her posed pictures and basically makes up fake memories, because her family photos—even though pretty to look at—blurred reality. That's the heart of The Photo: art can either reflect the pain Until Sat, May 23 (8 pm) that comes with the human Directed by Michelle Kennedy experience or it can gloss over C103, $15 – $20 it with happy smiles. There's no gloss to The Photo. It's raw, it's sad—it's real. JOSH MARCELLIN

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Tribes T

Until Sat, May 23 (7:30 pm; 12:30 pm matinee on Thu, May 21) Directed by Amanda Bergen Timms Centre for the Arts, $11 – $22

ribes drops us into a delightfully dysfunctional family scene, where everyone is sniping at everyone and Billy (Connor YuzwenkoMartin), our deaf protagonist, is completely overshadowed. Christopher (Ashley Wright) grumbles about his adult children still living at home. Beth (Judy McFerran) clucks at her grumpy husband. Ruth (Zoe Glassman) whines that nobody takes her singing seriously. Daniel (Mathew Hulshof) agonizes over his pretentious thesis. The witty back-and-forth is wonderfully written and performed, and the clever staging has Billy sit in the centre of it all, asking again and again what he just missed as he struggles to lip-read his motormouthed family. "You know, whenever I dream about you, you're always 10 years old?" says Daniel to Billy, cementing the play's power dynamic. No matter how inclusive these progressive artists think they are, they're always treating their deaf little brother as the family mascot. They love to love him. But they can't be bothered to listen to him. It's only when Sylvia (Bobbi Goddard) arrives as Billy's going-deaf girlfriend that the show really starts unpacking its baggage.

A dysfunctional sort of family // Ed Ellis

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Tribes becomes a modern-day Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. The family's self-image as a group of enlightened people with liberal values is challenged. While Sylvia defends ASL as an excellent language, just as good as spoken English, they tear into her. It's only once she breaks down and admits that she doesn't want to go deaf that they become kind and respectful—magnanimous to the vanquished foe, comfortable in their superiority. Wright in particular is an absolute firecracker in the ensemble, playing the pedantic patriarch who thinks that learning Chinese on his Macbook is more valuable than learning sign language. "Making deafness the centre of your personality is the beginning of the end!" he bellows, so absurdly offensive that he's darkly funny. Tribes is a play about deafness, but its themes resonate with every minority group. At times funny and at times uncomfortable, the show lambasts modern progressives—people who love to imagine themselves as inclusive social-justice warriors, but who ultimately find excuses to retain their privilege.

BRUCE CINNAMON

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The Ugly One 'Y

our face is unacceptable," Lette finally hears, early in The Ugly One—delivered, quite unwillingly, by a boss who curses being the one who actually had to tell the guy—and from then on, it's an unmutable refrain. Lette's been married for years, and he devises brilliant new products for a company, but now finds his (lack of) looks, of all things, are impeding his progress, that someone else will present his new invention because they might actually be, um, watchable enough to sell it. His wife offers beaming support, but he realizes she only ever looks at his left eye. When Lette presses the matter, she admits he's "unspeakably ugly," though she tries to offer some comfort, noting they've had an "acoustic relationship." Lette is unconvinced. He goes under the knife, emerges with a brand-new, Adonis-worthy face, and everyone's perception of him shifts. And keeps shifting, into a whole new slew of problems that play out over German playwright Marius von Mayenburg's durable little meditation

on vanity and narcissism, presented tion with himself. Around him three here by Kill Your Television Theatre. others carry the rest of the roles Director Kevin Sutley keeps the with skill: David Ley's resonant presTwilight Zone-ish parable running at ence fits nicely into the world of the script; Nadien an impressive clip: Chu finds comedy scenes transition Until Sat, May 23 (7:30 pm; as both wife and between places 2 pm Saturday matinee) a wealthy, kinky and times with Directed by Kevin Sutley and grandmacrisp efficiency, ATB Financial Arts Barns, aged company with one, drawn- $16.50 – $26.50 woman, and Chris out surgery scene Bullough fills out at its centre that's a repertoire of darkly comic and a little bloody. There's a sterile na- characters that span from smug unture to the dialogue, drawn to blunt derlings to a neurotic mama's boy. The Ugly One's arc is simple. statements with little in the way of synonym—but something about It clocks in around an hour, just that bluntness further draws you enough time to follow its premise to into its strange world of vanity and a strange but traceable conclusion without much excess. And while it pursuit of "perfection." doesn't make any new revelation Lette is played by Nathan Cuckow; about vanity by any standards, the there's no prosthetic or makeup Ugly One tells its weird tale comused to alter his appearance, before pellingly, with an acerbic edge to or after the surgery (which leaves an its judgement of superficial beauty "eye of the beholder" onus on us). standards, and proves skillfully hanHe handles both ends of his charac- dled in both script and execution. ter's self-obsession with dexterity, PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM especially over a climactic conversa-

An Evening with Dr. Jane Goodall PhD, DBE Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace

PREVUE // FESTIVAL

Wednesday September 9, 2015 Winspear Centre, Edmonton

Thousand Faces Festival of Mythic Art I

In support of the

Hoop Dancer Kelsey Wolver

t was Star Wars that got Mark Henderson hooked on myths. As a 10-year-old, he and his buddies cheered on Luke Skywalker and Han Solo in their universe-crossing fight to defeat the dark side. "It was a spiritual quest as much as a military quest," Henderson says. "That led me to things like Tolkien and Shakespeare, which is essentially mythic. So much comes directly from mythology. If myths weren't relevant, Star Wars would have bombed." Henderson grew up to be the artistic director of Theatre Prospero and the director of the Thousand Faces Festi- Wed, May 20 – Tue, May 26 val, the celebration of Alberta Avenue, various venues multicultural myths thousandfaces.ca and legends from Edmonton's many world cultures, which is now in its third year. The streets of Alberta Avenue rytellers, a Mayan epic and interactwill swell with stories as theatre and ing with a talking dragon. For the 18art from Cree, Spanish, East Indian, plus set there's flamenco dancing, Caribbean, Japanese, Chinese, Greek South Asian dancing, (free) food and and African myth blend into a tapes- (not-free) drinks and a fiery night battle with a dragon: "a huge outtry of culture. door spectacle," Henderson notes. The six-day celebration features Besides gifting us Star Wars and the both family friendly fare and more Lord of the Rings, why else should adult-focused art. For the kids, we be embracing myths in 2015? there's First Nations hoop dancing Henderson says steeping ourselves and workshops, mythic tales from in the stories and legends of other around the world from master sto- cultures opens our hearts to them.

Ilsa Mae Research Fund at Muscular Dystrophy Canada and the

Tickets starting at $41 on sale now at the Winspear Box Office or www.winspearcentre.com presented by

"There's more to heaven and earth than what we've dreamed in philosophy—I keep finding that out by going back to roots of stories and roots of roots of stories," he says. "There's something very deep and very human in those roots. It cuts through the illusion of separation. You can't write those people off anymore. You can't just call them Jews or terrorists or whatever."

JOSH MARCELLIN

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SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing, 10506-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 lesson with entry THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE BSSD • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Presented by the Beaumont Society School of Dance • May 24, 1:30pm • $18 (adv), $25 (door)

FILM CELEBRATING 60 YEARS IN FILM • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • Stroll down memory lane with movie and television clips from Shirley MacLaine's illustrious career starting in 1955 with her first movie, Alfred Hitchcock’s, “The Trouble with Harry” • May 25, 7:30pm • $40

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Life Partners (May 20), Diplomatie (May 27) • Free EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@ gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca • royalalbertamuseum.ca/events/movies/movies. cfm • Walk In The Shadows Film Series: On Dangerous Ground, May 25; The Big Heat, Jun 1; Kiss Me Deadly, Jun 8; The Asphalt Jungle, Jun 15; Touch Of Evil, Jun 22 • All at 8pm • Series membership tickets (all 8 films), $30; Single film: $6 (general), $5 (seniors 65 and over/students), $13 (kids 12 and under)

FALLOUT! CIVIL DEFENCE FILMS FROM THE 1950S • Metro Cinema, 8712-109 St • paaevents@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits • An evening of short films from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom that were used by the Government of Alberta to educate Albertans about nuclear warfare at the height of the Cold War • May 30, 7-11pm • Free

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Throne of Blood (May 22), West Side Story (May 29)

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • The Prime Ministers, Jun 7, 6:30-9pm; $36 • CULT CINEMA: The Peanut Butter Solution (May 26) • Music DOCS: Buena Vista Social Club (Jun 2) • criMe WATCH: Bound (Jun 16) • Metro Bizarro: Fritz the Cat (May 20)

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Language Of Craft; Apr 4-Jul 4 • Landed; Apr 11-May 23 • Small Joys: Jogakbo inspired small needlework by Calgary fibre artist Diana Un-Jin Cho; May 30-Jul 11 • Thinking in Threes: Explore ten themes in groups of threes; May 30-Jul 11

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Tyler Los-Jones: A Panorama Protects its View: Jan 23-Jan 31, 2016 • Daveandjenn: No End: Mar 21-Jun 7 • Pop Show! Dazzled By The Everyday; Mar 21-Jun 7 • The Double Bind: Conversations Between Modernism and Postmodernism; May 2-Sep 13 • Charrette Roulette: May 19-Jul 12 • Jack Bush: May 30-Aug 23 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In : Experimental Embroidery (May 27); Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • Conversation with the Artist: You Don’t Know Jack – Marc Mayer & Sarah Stanners in Conversation (May 30) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm •

19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • High Energy 20: St. Albert High Schools; May 7-23 • What is Left Behind: art by Sarah Pike & Erin Ross; Jun 4-Aug 1 •

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MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 541151 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Memorial Comp. High School; May 16-Jun 5; reception: May 24

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@ artsandheritage.ca • Francophones In Alberta; Apr 21-Jun 22 NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St •

Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • The Structure of Sky: dramatically textured acrylic paintings by Samantha Williams-Chapelsky • Artisan Nook: Morning Flight: small, poetic paintings by Linda Corbitt • May 22-Jul 2; Opening reception: May 28, 6-9pm

780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Gravity: Featuring the work of Blu Smith; May 6-30

PARADE GALLERY • Window Display Box

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 •

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Art Ventures: Sculpted Relics (Jun 20); 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Repurposed Pages (May 21), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Colour Creations (Jun 13); for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

savacava.com • Regard sur l'art contemporain; May 2-Jun 16

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Broken Sound; May 7-Jun 13

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • 48th Annual Spring Show: Special spotlight on Jack Bush; May 23-Jun 6; Opening reception: May 23, 2-4pm • Robert Lemay: 30th Anniversary Exhibition; Jun 6-Jun 20; Opening reception: Jun 6, 2-4pm FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • Design Latitudes: Bonnie Sadler Takach, University of Alberta’s Art & Design faculty; May 12-Jun 6 FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • Silent Metaphors: Sculptor Blake Ward; May 2-25 • Neck of the Woods: art by Jeff Sylvester; Jun 6, 2-4pm

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Theme: Regards sur l'art contemporain; May 2-Jun 16

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • Tony Overweel (pastel); May 5-Jun 1 • Members of the St. Albert Painters Guild; Jun 2-29; Opening reception: Jun 4

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Strathcona Salon Series Acquisitions And Loans; May 15-Jun 28 GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Moment In Time Series: Mixed media on canvas and linen by Gisele Jerke; May 1-31 HAPPY HARBOR COMICS • 10729-104 Ave • happyharborcomics.com • Open Door: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • MAIN SPACE: A Moment In The Flow: Mayumi Amada; Apr 23-May 27 • FRONT ROOM: Untitled (It’s Almost A One-Liner): Sarah Beck and Shlomi Greenspan; Apr 23-May 27

JAPANESE CULTURAL SOCIETY • 675088 St • Edmonton Art Club Annual Spring Show & Sale; May 23-24; Opening reception: May 22, 6-9pm

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Out Of The Box: with artist Marie Sieben; May 1-May 27 • Artists Edmonton Needlecraft Society; May 28-Jul 14; Reception: Jun 10, 6:30-8:30pm

JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Flagship: by Shirley Cordes-Rogozinsky; May 22-Jun 6; Opening reception (artist in attendance): May 23, 2-4pm • Rock, Ice and Blue Sky: art by Waclaw Pietucha; May 22-Jun 6; Opening reception (artist in attendance): May 23, 2-4pm

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Dubious Translations: Brad Necyk; Apr 10-May 22 • Mutations: José Luis Torres; Apr 10-May 22

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: Fri-Sun 10-6pm • Artwork with Dianna Sapara; May 2-Jun 26

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • Title Forthcoming: Dr. Stephen Aung and Lucie Bause; May 9-Jun 28; Opening reception: May

101 Street, north of 102 Ave, Edmonton City Centre Mall • paradegallery.ca • There's Bugs, There's Gibs And Some Other Weirdos: art by Tony Baker; Apr 24-May 31 • After Hours: art by Brandon A. Dalmer; Jun 5-Jul 12

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Andrew Rucklidge; Jun 6-23 ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum. ca • Natural Hi-Stories: Showing plants in their native habitats in a given location; Mar 28-Jun 21 • Glimpses Of The Grasslands: The Artistic Vision of Colin Starkevich; May 16-Aug 23

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • Robert Sinclair; May 9-30 • Joel Sinclair; May 9-30 SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print -Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Between The Lines: Briar Craig; Apr 9-May 23 • Ass U Me: Ben Weinlick; Apr 9-May 23 • Present Density: artwork by Gabriela Jolowicz; Jun 4-Jul 18; Opening reception: Jun 5, 7-9pm • Atavistic: artwork by Daniel Evans; Jun 4-Jul 18; Opening reception: Jun 5, 7-9pm

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • FIREPLACE ROOM: Katharina Nebel; through May • MAIN GALLERY: Students Show; May 12-May 30 • MAIN GALLERY: Open Seniors Show; Through Jun • FIREPLACE ROOM: Lorna Kemp; through Jun

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Daring Dames: Experience The Lives Of Pioneer Women; until Jun 30

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • GPS Adventures Canada: Combining technology, nature, and hidden treasure; until Jun 1 • Dinosaurs Unearthed: May 15-Oct 11; $26.50 (adult), $19.50 (child), $23.50 (youth/student/ senior)

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Gallery A: Searching Skies, Seeing Through Trees: Gerald St. Maur; Gallery B: Edited Realism: Jean Pilch; Apr 2-May 31 • Gallery A: Salva Corpus Amanti: art by David J. Kleinsasser; Jun 4-Jul 25; Opening reception: Jun 18, 7-9:30pm • Gallery B: Familiars, Out-of-Towners, As Well As All the Others: Erika Andriashek; Jun 4-Jul 25

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Members Spring Exhibition; May 5-29 • Wine Women and Song; Jun 4 • Gallery B: Familiars, Out-of-Towners, As Well As All the Others: Erika Andriashek; Jun 4-Jul 25; Opening reception: Jun 18, 7-9:30pm

WALTERDALE THEATRE GALLERY • 10322-83 Ave • albertasocietyofartists.com • New Works: May 17-Jul 12

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Artwork by Brent R. Laycock; May 23-Jun 4 • Artwork by Paul Jorgensen; Jun 6-18

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY • 10229-105 St • Dr. Sketchy's: The ANTI-art school! Everything you didn't learn... Or they couldn't teach you... in art class! Open to all levels of skill from beginner to drunk. This month featuring Violette Coquette and host Professor Eugene Organ • May 26, 7pm (doors), 8pm (drawing) • $10

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780. 423.3487 • audreys.ca • Miji Campbell "Separation Anxiety: A Coming-of-Middle-Age Story" Book Launch; May 21, 7pm • Mark Anthony Jarman "Knife Party at the Hotel

Europa" Book Launch with Thea Bowering "Love At Last Sight"; May 22, 7pm • Marina Endicott "Close to Hugh" Book Launch; 2pm • Chris Turner "How to Breathe Underwater: Field Reports from an Age of Radical Change" Reading & Signing; May 25, 7pm • Kathie Sutherland "Shadow Girls: In the Spotlight" Poetry Reading & Launch; May 26, 7pm • Mary Stevenson "Ready to Love, Fact or Fiction? The Truth About Marriage" Lunch Hour Signing; May 28, 11:45am

BOOKS2BUY • Stanley A. Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • epl.ca/ programs-and-events/events/books2buy • $1 paperbacks, kids' books, audiobooks and CDs, and $2 hardcover books and DVDs (cash only) • May 29-31 CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

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

STORYTELLING CONCERT: IN GOD KNOWS WHERE: MARIE ANNE LAGIMODIÈRE IN STORY AND SONG • Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre, 8426 Gateway Boulevard • storyfestalberta.ca • Tells the story of Marie-Anne Lagimodière, the first woman of European descent to travel west of the Great Lakes - romance, adventure and a woman breaking all the social boundaries of her day • May 23, 8-10pm • $20

KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • This episode presents: Karen Bass (Grande Prairie Young Adult author), Leslie Greentree (Red Deer poet, playwright, author), Blaine Newton (Red Deer poet, playwright, author), Julia Nicholson (Edmonton singer and songwriter). Books and CDs for sale • May 28, 7-9pm • Donations accepted NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@ gmail.com SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com

WORDS IN 3D 2015: INTERSECTIONS • Chateau Lacombe Hotel, 10111 Bellamy Hill Road • wordsin3d.com • Where writing, editing, and publishing intersect and interact. Featuring keynote speakers, workshops, pitchcamps, and so much more • May 22-24

THEATRE THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • The Backstage Theatre, 10330 84 Ave (North Side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns) • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, until Jun 26, 11pm • $15 (online, at the door) • grindstonetheatre.ca 2015 THOUSAND FACES FESTIVAL OF MYTHIC THEATRE • Alberta Avenue Community League, 9210-118 Ave • thousandfaces.ca • A unique multicultural, multidisciplinary festival that celebrates stories, folklore and mythologies from around the world that make up Canada’s cultural mosaic • May 20-26

AVENUE Q • 9828-101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • A musical with part felt and part flesh that tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. There, he meets colorful types who help Princeton finally discover his purpose in life • Apr 25-May 24

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CABARET • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615109 Ave NW • mayfieldtheatre.ca • A musical set in the strange playground of 1931 Berlin, where the seedy Kit Kat Club reveals a tale of love in the ruins, of hope and ultimately of loss • Apr 14-Jun 14 CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun 13 CRADLE TO STAGE - AN EVENING OF NEW WORK • Walterdale Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • A one-act play that explores the ways in which a family takes care of each other, and what happens when a young girl’s evening out with her friends doesn’t go quite as planned • May 18-23

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs every Mon, 7:30pm • Until Jun 1 • $13 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com HEY LADIES! • ATB Financial Arts Barns Varscona Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • It's tattoos, homemaking tips, booze, prize and even get some culture all in one spectacular evening • May 22, 8pm INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL • Downtown St. Albert • stalbert.ca/experience/ international-childrens-festival • Interact with artists and performers from around the world, learn about faraway places and time periods and get a hands-on creation of one-of-a-kind artistic masterpieces • May 26-30

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

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING • Rutherford House Provincial Historic Site, 11153 Saskatchewan Dr • Beatrice and Benedick have sworn they never love-particularly one another-but when their best friends Hero and Claudio fall head over heels for each other, Beatrice and Benedick's oaths are quickly tested • May 21, 7:30pm

THE PHOTO • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • newhearttheatre.ca • A love story, a mystery story, a story about two individuals who are just trying to find their place in a world that has redefined them in an instant • May 15-23 • $20 (adult), $15 (seniors, students, artists) SLEUTH • ATB Financial Arts Barns - Varscona Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • teatroq. com • A celebrated mystery writer and a flinty young playboy sit down in a country manor house to have a polite conversation about the woman they both profess to love • May 28-Jun 13

THAT’S DIRTY DANCING • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690, 8882-170 St • Who doesn't like a good spoof? Featuring songs from the 80s', it's the summer time romance story visitors will want to see. The story focuses on “Baby” Hoseman, the youngest of her family, and just beginning to explore independence, dancing, and the opposite sex. It's all set Kellerman’s posh prairie resort, which also happens to employ a very odd groundskeeper, who is constantly doing battle with a surprisingly clever band of pesky prairie dogs • Apr 17-Jun 14

THAT'S TERRIFIC • Varscona Theatre • last Sat ea month • An enthusiastic celebration of all things notable, important, encouraging, and superior • Nov 29-Jul 25 THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Jan 16-Jun 12 • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

TRIBES • Timms Centre for the Arts - Main Stage, 112 St Northwest, University of Alberta • Introduces an unconventional family with three dysfunctional adult children still living at home. It focuses on Billy, their deaf son who was raised to read lips rather than sign. Billy falls for Sylvia, a young woman who is becoming deaf herself, and he finally discovers what it means to be heard • May 13-23

THE UGLY ONE • PCL Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • A scalpel-sharp comedy about image, identity, and social conformity from acclaimed German playwright Marius von Mayenburg • May 13-23

that. Get thee to a performance! This year's featured plays are the comedy As You Like It and the tragedy Coriolanus. Being outside makes it a theatre experience like no other, with birds sometimes chirping lines, becoming a part of the play. (Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park)

Edmonton Music Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival / Fri, Jun 19 – Sun, Jun 21 / bbrf.ca

Just south of Edmonton awaits a music festival that boasts 100-percent Canadian performers. The fest includes headliners Doc Walker and Moon vs Sun featuring Raine Maida and Chantal Kreviazuk. You'll discover Canadian talent like Del Barber, the 427s, the Boom Chucka Boys and local singersongwriter Justine Vandergrift. If a fusion of folk, blues, or country is your jam, make the 15-minute trip south of the city to get your live-music fix. (Four Seasons Park, Beaumont)

Seven Music Festival / Sat, Jul 4 /

sevenmusicfest.com

This brand-new festival is sure to be a keeper. Sam Roberts Band is the headliner of the inaugural festivities, along with performances by Current Swell, Scenic Route to Alaska, Jeff Stuart & the Hearts, Tupelo Honey, Daniel Wesley and Jack Semple. (Mission Park, St Albert)

Interstellar Rodeo / Fri, Jul 24 – Sun, Jul 26 / interstellarrodeo.com

St Vincent, Elle King, LeE HARVeY OsMOND, the Wet Secrets, Buffy SainteMarie and a host of others will all be playing under that big white Heritage Amphitheatre tent. Regardless of your generation, there's something stellar for you at the Interstellar Rodeo. (Hawrelak Park)

Big Valley Jamboree / Thu, Jul 30 – Sun, Aug 2 / bigvalleyjamboree.com Here's one for all the country fans out there. Big Valley Jamboree 2015 headliners include the Dead South, the Band Perry, Reba, Brad Paisley, Corb Lund and the Hurtin' Albertans and Lady Antebellum. (Camrose)

Blueberry Bluegrass & Country Music Festival / Fri, Jul 31 – Sun,

Aug 2 / blueberrybluegrass.com

Tent? Check. Activities? Check. Music?

Check. This fest has all the necessities for summer fun in Stony Plain. Camp out the whole weekend and enjoy food, workshops, crafts and the music, of course. (Heritage Park, Stony Plain)

Rock'n August / Tue, Aug 4 – Sat, Aug 8 / rocknaugust.com

Classic cars and music combine to make up Rock'n August. See over 500 treasured and immaculate cars while enjoying pancake breakfasts, music, barbeques and a drive-in movie. (Servus Credit Union Place, St Albert)

Folk Fest / Thu, Aug 6 – Sun, Aug 9

/ edmontonfolkfest.org

In the scenic Gallagher Park awaits fun and folk music. The lineup will be announced June 3. As always, get your tickets early, because this fest sells out fast. (Gallagher Park)

Edmonton Blues Festival / Fri, Aug 21 – Sun, Aug 23 / bluesinternationalltd.com

Spend the day or weekend under the Heritage Amphitheatre tent soaking up blues from around the world. This year's fest features Elvin Bishop, Sugaray Rayford Big Band and Canned Heat. Even if you don't know any of the acts, you're sure to enjoy every minute of it. It's a festival where 20-year-olds and 70-year-olds can come together and soothe their souls with some sweet tunes. Plus, the fabulous food trucks will soothe your stomach, too. (Hawrelak Park)

Symphony Under the Sky / Fri,

Aug 28 – Sun, Aug 30 / edmontonsymphony.com

The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra conductor Bob Bernhardt leads the orchestra and audience on a symphonic journey. There are nights for Mozart, Broadway, Hollywood, Motown and families. Take your pick and discover classical renditions of your favourite songs. (Hawrelak Park)

Sonic Boom / Sat, Sep 5 and Sun, Sep 6 / sonicboomfestival.com

This year's Boom lineup is said to be one of the most diverse yet: Ellie Goulding, Hozier, Mother Mother, Tenacious D and a special appearance by Alexisonfire. The two-day alternative music fest is moving to a new home at Borden Park, which should make for a comfier fit than the concrete at Northlands. (Borden Park)

ARTS

Found Festival / Jun 25 – Jun 28 / commongroundsarts.ca

Since its creation in 2012, Found Fest has put theatre in spaces theatre rarely goes, and in lively, often interactive ways. Anchoring itself in and around Old Strathcona, there's been productions in the river valley, on the High Level Bridge, in old school buildings and back alleys. Bring good shoes and a mind open to experiencing scripted work in a totally different way. (Old Strathcona)

Edmonton International Street Performers Festival / Fri, Jul 3 –

Nextfest / Thu, Jun 4 – Mon, Jun 15 / nextfest.org

Sun, Jul 12 / edmontonstreetfest.com

Improvaganza / Wed, Jun 17 – Sat, Jun 27 / rapidfiretheatre.com/festival/improvaganza-2015

Fringe Festival / Thu, Aug 13 – Sun,

Emerging artists, dancers and filmmakers push the boundaries of creativity over the course of this 11-day festival. Some of Edmonton's top creative talent got started at Nextfest, so you never know where this year's crop will end up. (Various venues)

Rapid Fire Theatre, Edmonton's longestrunning improv theatre group, plays host to top-notch improvisers from around the world. Workshops are also hosted so you can get your funny on— just like the pros. (Citadel Theatre)

The Works Art and Design Festival / Fri, Jun 19 – Wed, Jul 1

/ theworks.ab.ca

The largest free outdoor art and design festival in North America turns 30 this year. This fest exhibits 43 unique installations of art, gives you the chance to meet the artists and be entertained by performances across one square kilometre in downtown Edmonton. It's a fest that treasures creativity and questions, so use your imagination and ask away. (Downtown Arts District)

Freewill Shakespeare Festival /

Tue, Jun 23 – Sun, Jul 19 / freewillshakespeare.com

Get thee to a nunnery! Wait, scratch

Get lost in the crowd of over 1500 international performances at Churchill Square. Whatever tickles your fancy, there's a musician, juggler, acrobat, magician or artist for it. Take in the wondrous sights and performances, but remember to bring some cash for when they pass the hat. (Churchill Square)

Aug 23 / fringetheatre.ca

There's so much to see when you hit up Whyte Avenue for the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival. This year has been dubbed SupercaliFRINGEilistic, with more than 200 shows to choose from. The entertainment is non-stop with theatre, vendors and street performers lining Whyte, so get there early and get fringing. (Various venues)

CULTURE / HERITAGE A Taste of Edmonton / Thu, Jul 16 – Sat, Jul 25 / tasteofedm.ca

Treat your taste buds to the culinary delights of the finest restaurants in Edmonton with the festival that sees 500 000 people annually. Try dinner, desserts and beverages (of the adult variety, too) as you walk around Churchill Square. Entertainment is on throughout each day of the festival, and you can catch main stage

headliners such as Alee, Revenge of the Trees, the Glorious Sons, Skratch Bastid and Hollerado. There are even foodie workshops if you want to be a part of Edmonton's rich food culture. (Churchill Square)

K-Days / Fri, Jul 17 – Sun, Jul 26 / k-days.com

A short LRT ride away from Taste of Edmonton is K-Days. Shop in the Expo Centre or check out the rides and games on the midway. There's plenty of deep-fried fare to try, including Oreos, cookie dough and butter. Unusual foods are also part of the fun at K-Days, like the mealworm pizza for those brave enough to give it a try. As if the selection of activities wasn't enough, the concerts on the north and south stages are included in the price of admission. The musical headliners are yet to be announced. (Northlands)

Servus Heritage Festival / Sat, Aug 1 –Sun, Aug 3 / heritage-festival.com

The Servus Heritage Festival, aka Heritage Days, turns 40 this year. Experience diverse cultures and try their cuisines. Share stories, shop for art and watch performances. Admission is free, but be sure to bring a food bank donation and some cash for tasting tickets. (Hawrelak Park)

Cariwest / Fri, Aug 7 – Sun, Aug 9 / cariwest.ca Be part of the wide spectrum of colour and culture at this year's Caribbean Arts Festival. See international musicians and dancers perform as well as Cariwest's Grand Costume Parade—it's a party that takes over downtown. The carnival is free and open to everyone, so be part of one of Edmonton's most vibrant festivals and learn something new about Caribbean culture. (Churchill Square)

Edmonton Dragon Boat Festival

/ Fri, Aug 14 – Sun, Aug 16 / edmontondragonboatfestival.com

The nail-biting races make for an exciting weekend down by the river. Competitors row the 400-metre event, rain or shine. There are also vendors and entertainment, in case there wasn't already enough to see. (Louise McKinney Park)

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usic festivals are fun—but don't get too excited. We've all seen the casualties: the bros and broettes who just went too hard, too fast. They sprawl in an ankle-high puddle, sun-blasted and beer-bellied while their favourite band plays their favourite song. You paid $300 for a pass so you can sleep it off in the first-aid tent? So pace yourself. Drink your water. Hats and sunscreen! I'm your mom, and I'm telling you that this summer you're going to take care of yourself. How are you going to take that selfie with that flavour-of-the-week indie band playing in the background if you drank yourself to oblivion on $9 beer-tent brews? And that's another thing: #putdownthephone. I know you're having a good time, but you don't have to Instagram it or make people jelly with your tweets. You'll have more fun watching people play music if you're not furiously thumbing hashtags and applying filters. OK, so you're not passed out drunk and you're actually watching bands play. How else do you max out your music fest good times? Research.

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There's a dizzying array of music festival variety within a day's drive, so you'd best plan accordingly. Going to a country hoedown? Break out the cut-off denim, practice your beer pong and tune up that F-350. EDM? Face paint, spirit hoods, hula hoops and poi—and see if you can score a bulk deal on glow sticks. Rock or heavy metal? Try to balance how badass you'll look in that leather jacket with the fact you will roast hotter than a hot dog on coals. Folkie hippie love-fest? A wineskin filled with organic plonk will help you make friends, as well as a considerate understanding of tarp-spreading and dancing rules. Other than that, everyone will have a sweet music festival time by following the Golden Rule: don't be a dick. Don't crowd surf over people listening to a fingerpicked folk song. Don't scream out your song request during every quiet moment. Cigarettes are gross, so smoke somewhere lonely. We'll see you out there, awake and loving it.

Dustin Bentall performs at the Edmonton Folk Festival // Meaghan Baxter

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Charles Bradley on the Folk Festival main stage // Meaghan Baxter

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Aboriginal Awareness Week Calgary /

Summer Jazz Festival / Tue, Jun 16 – Mon,

Set over the week leading up to National Aboriginal Day, this week-long festival looks to celebrate, promote and craft understanding of aboriginal achievement, culture and tradition in the country, in both its past, present and future. There's also a free pancake breakfast. (Various locations)

Jun 22 / jazzyyc.com

As jazz musician J J Johnson once put it, "Jazz is restless. It won't stay put and it never will." With that in mind, YYC's Summer Jazz Fest looks to showcase the genre's spread of sounds: Afro Cuban influences to boogie woogie and bop; sextets to smaller outfits are all seeing representation. (Various locations)

Sled Island / Wed, Jun 24 – Sun, Jun 28 / sledisland.com

Easily one of the most excellently eclectic festivals in Canada, Sled Island's 2015 incarnation features guest curation by Godspeed You! Black Emperor as well as appearances by Yo La Tengo, De La Soul, Lightning Bolt and hundreds more, as well as a healthy dose of comedy and art. (Various locations)

Calgary Folk Music Festival / Thu, Jul 23 – Sun, Jul 26 / calgaryfolkfest.com

Folk's in the name, but the festival's 35th-annual go-around features a diverse spread of music from all over the world, this year including the likes of indie darling Father John Misty, DJ groover Kid Koala and avant garde-sax man Colin Stetson. And, yes, some folk music too, in among the 70-some acts slated to play. (Prince's Island Park)

Calgary International Blues Festival / Mon,

Jul 27 – Sun, Aug 2 / calgarybluesfest.com

A four-day celebration of one of the foundational genres of music, Calgary's Blues Fest is bringing in acts like Amos Garett, Kelley Hunt and Sugar Blue for its 11th iteration. Plus: nightly dance parties! (Various locations)

Afrikadey! / Wed, Aug 5 – Sat, Aug 8 /

Sun, Jun 14 – Sat, Jun 20 / aawc.ca

Ignite! Festival for Emerging Artists / Thu,

Jun 18 – Sat, Jun 20 / sagetheatre.com

Sage Theatre's Ignite! fest marks a chance for new, young and emerging artistic talent to showcase its stuff across myriad art forms: music, theatre, dance and visual arts. It's a sneak peek at the artistic talent set to take over the city scene in the years to come. (Vertigo Theatre)

Shakespeare by the Bow / Tue, Jun 23 –

Sun, Aug 16 / theatrecalgary.com

Held on Prince's Island, this outdoor Shakespeare fest is programming The Tempest this season: aptly, like the festival, it's set on an island, where magic and manipulation pave the way for romance and tragicomedy. Also: every performance is paywhat-you-will, so it won't hurt your pocketbook to immerse yourself in a few hours of iambic pentameter. (Prince's Island Park)

Calgary Stampede / Fri, Jul 3 – Sun, Jul 12 / calgarystampede.com

The grandaddy of Alberta festivals, the 'Pede's immensity extends beyond its anchoring rodeo into a festival of music called Nashville North—this year includes Corb Lund, Lindsey Ell, Bobby Wills and John Michael Montgomery—more music on the Coca-Cola stage and an midway exhibition, with all the rides and curious eats you could ever dream of. Cockroach pizza? $100 hotdog? You better believe they're there. (Stampede Park)

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Cyclepalooza / Fri, Jul 10 – Sun, Jul 19 / cy-

Calgary Reggae Festival / Thu, Aug 13 –

Created in 2011, this DIY festival puts particular emphasis on Calgary's bicycle-loving community: anyone can organize an event and add it to the festival's online calendar, regardless of whether or not it takes place over festival's 10-day span. They promote the two-wheeled lifestyle all year 'round. (Various locations)

"Music of mass delight" goes the tagline for this year's Afrikadey! and its spread of sounds from around the globe, as well as its celebration of african food, dance, arts and culture, offers a well-balanced entry point into the world of world culture. (Prince's Island Park)

Sat, Aug 15 / reggaefest.ca

A family friendly weekend that looks to emphasize a beloved, blissed-out genre. Expect some serious jammin' and some laid-back outdoor vibes. (Shaw Millennium Park)

ART/ CULTURE/ COMEDY Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival / Fri, May 22 – Sat, May 30 / FairyTalesFilmFest.com

Since 1999, Fairy Tales has offered a cinematic celebration of LGBTQ culture, using the medium as a vehicle for both social change and discussion. There are screenings, panels, Q&As and films created both locally and beyond Calgary's city limits. (Various locations)

Funny Fest / Thu, May 28 – Sun, Jun 7 / funnyfest.com

Stop me if you've heard this one before: A 10-day showcase of 70 comics across 26 shows? No? Well, Funny Fest turns 15 this year, and promises you, according to the website, "11 000 punchlines." At least a couple of 'em have to tickle your particular ribcage, right? (Various locations)

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Calgary International Fringe Festival / Fri, Jul 31 – Sat, Aug 8 / calgaryfringe.ca

MAY 30 & 31, 2015

Servus Place, St. Albert 4 HALLS OF POP CULTURE FUN! Saturday May 30

Sunday May 31

CAITY LOTZ ADRIAN PASDAR

Star of CW’s Legends of Tomorrow Star of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Arrow | 400 Days | Mad Men Heroes | Top Gun Lightsaber Demonstrations and More!

Life Size Zombie Shooting Range with Nerf® Guns

Life Size Angry Birds Game

Fun for the ENTIRE FAMILY!

Video and Board Game Zones

Pop Culture Exhibitors, Comics, Collectibles & Artists

Entire Floor of Brick Enthusiasts

and their Lego® Creations

Costume Contests for Kids & Adults!

Is eclectic, unjuried theatre your thing? The anything-goes appeal of the Fringe Festival, but on a slightly smaller scale than Edmonton's behemoth of a festival. (Various locations)

When Worlds Collide / Fri, Aug 14 – Sun, Aug 16 / whenwordscollide.org

An award-winning festival, When Worlds Collide offers readers and purveyors of fiction, sci-fi, young adult and prose writing a place to meet and celebrate the form. The 2015 lineup includes Outlander author Diana Gabaldon, among other special guests. (Delta Calgary South)

Pride Week / Fri, Aug 28 – Mon, Sep 7 / pridecalgary.ca

After having its biggest year ever, Calgary's Pride Week celebrations are adjusting to new size: its Pride parade will now head down 9th Avenue—the same route that the Calgary Stampede Parade takes. But that's just one component of the festival, which is now in its 25th year of celebrating and promoting LGBTQ equality and acceptance. (Various locations)

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FESTIVAL SURVIVAL GUIDE FSG // ARTS

Nextfest’s 2014 art walk // Monika Czuprynaki

o, it's the Fringe. Or the Works. Or Nextfest. Or one of Alberta Avenue's lovely community fests; it could any of the myriad celebrations of art that brings the city into a more vivid resolution, really— you're out and about and looking to engage with some art. With that in mind, here are a couple of ideas to guide your enjoyement of whatever it is you're headed off to. The usual suspects You already know the essentials of water and sunscreen—sure, it's an arts festival, but it's probably at least partly outdoors. Be prepared for the elements, especially with something like Streetfest, which might have you wandering Churchill Square for awhile. Maybe some cash, too, if you're looking to buy some eats/tickets/merch: festival ATMs always have exorbitant fees, because the companies know they've got you trapped on location. Get ready to engage It's easy to get distracted by the tacos-in-bags and beer tents that tempt you like a moth to their flickering, indulgent flames, but these festivals always have some sort of presentation going on at their core, too. Yet many succumb to just the eat and drink: for example, the 100 000-plus tickets sold every year at the Edmonton Fringe still only reflects about a fifth of the people who actually cross the grounds. What's the worst that could happen? You spent a minimal amount on art and didn't happen

to like the thing. Or maybe you totally love it. Or maybe ambivalence wins the day, but the point is: make it a mission to take in at least one actual art-based happening at any art-based festival you go to, if only to experience that festival to its fullest. It's summer and the days feel endless. Go see something you haven't seen before. Love thy neighbour But let's say you're not particularly versed in the names and shows peering back at you from a schedule. Where the eff do you start? Try your neighbours: word of mouth is your best friend in any festival scenario. Beer tents, food lines, any sort of human pileup zone are prime places to ask about what to see and what to skip, whether we're talking about ticketed festival shows (Fringe) or just a dauntingly large line-up (Folk Fest). People are generally friendly and helpful—and pretty blissed out on festival vibes, too. There's also an established culture of this sort of camaraderie. Ask and share! Return thy favour See something you like? Talk it up; if someone asks, make some sweet recommendations. You'll improve other peoples' experience of the festival at hand, as well as giving the artists the audience they're hoping for: one interested and engaged with the work they're looking to perform. PAUL BLINOV

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Alberta

Alberta fests not in Edmonton or Calgary Music Lethbridge Jazz Festival / Wed, Jun 10 – Sat, Jun 13 / lethbridgejazz.com

Now in its fifth year, this fest celebrates the hot jazz music that's been happening in Lethbridge for decades. The community has an active jazz scene, including the Lethbridge Big Band and the University of Lethbridge Jazz Ensemble. This year's artists include the Carol Welsman Trio, Marcus Mosely, Kat Danser and more. (Various venues)

Farmageddon / Wed, Jun 11 – Sun, Jun 14 / farmageddon.ca

Sure, there are lots of festivals, but how many are metal festivals located next to a paintball course? Shredding near Ryley, east of Edmonton, Farmageddon is the biggest open-air metal fest in western Canada. There'll be more than 30 bands—and paintball. (Ryley)

North Country Fair / Fri, Jun 19 –

Sun, Jun 21 / northcountryfair.ab.ca

NCF proudly bills itself as the smallest of Alberta's major folk fests. Family friendly, around 5000 people go to

Driftpile to soak up the good vibes and peaceful gathering. This year features dozens of bands, rappers, solo artists and children's entertainers. (Driftpile)

Astral Harvest / Thu, Jul 2 – Sun, July 5 / astralharvest.com

Head back to Driftpile, this time for this community-minded hippie love fest. An international lineup of dozens of DJs, hip-hoppers, folkies and more will keep the crowd moving on four different stages. Interactive programming means you can take workshops to learn new skills and expand your mind. (Driftpile)

Wild Mountain Music Festival /

Fri, Jul 17 – Sun, Jul 19 / wildmtnmusic.ca

Organizers bill this as the most beautiful festival site on earth. That's bold. Granted, it is at the Entrance Ranch, nestled in the foothills north of Hinton with stunning mountain views. Get your toes tapping with Del Barber, Ridley Bent, Billie Zizi and headliner Corb Lund. (Entrance Ranch)

South Country Fair / Fri, Jul 17 – Sun, July 19 / southcountryfair.com

Located on the banks of the Old Man River near Fort Macleod, this is advertised as a rural, peace-oriented affair—so expect chill vibes. But that doesn't mean you'll fall asleep: there'll be poets, art films, street performers, hot rock 'n' roll and knee-slapping fiddling. This year features Steve Dawson, OKA, Leeroy Stagger and the Wet Secrets. (Fort Macleod)

Sasquatch Gathering and Music Festival / Fri, Jul 24 – Sun, Jul

26 / sasquatchgathering.com

Nestled on Rangeton Park along the Pembina River, Sasquatch is turning 20 this year with its signature fam-

ily friendly and environmentally conscious operating style. How family friendly? They do a potluck dinner on Saturday. Dozens of bands and artists to generate good times. (Rangeton Park)

Canmore Folk Fest / Sat, Aug 1 –

Mon, Aug 3 / canmorefolkfestival.com

This is the longest-running folk fest in the province, 38 years and counting. And, nestled in an impossibly scenic mountain town, it's also one of the best. Lots of great acts this year including Bahamas, Amelia Curran, Harry Manx and Old Man Luedecke. (Centennial Park)

CULTURE / HERITAGE Spock Days / Fri, Jun 12 – Sun, Jun 14 / vulcantourism.com/spockdays.html

Live long and prosper your way down to Vulcan for the 23rd-annual Spock Days. Expect Star Trek celebrities, costume contests and many photo ops with the town's Starship FX6-1995-A. This will be a poignant

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ere's a few tips on how to survive a culture/heritage festival. Oh, you didn't think you needed survival 101 for something so benign as a carnival. But, you do, because common sense isn't always so common. First things first: don't forget the hand sanitizer. This is so important, because germs. Just one person adds 37 million bacteria to the air. So, if it's a festival that brings out 781 743 people—like K-days does— then that's a lot of microbes. Yum, microbial soup. Also, you'll be using port-a-potties, and that hand sanitizer will come in handy (pun intended) since most of these port-a-potties don't have sinks, let alone soap. And, if there is a functional bathroom, then expect it to be real dirty. Dirty to the point where you might contemplate holding in your excretions for the day. That's tip number two: don't hold it in when nature calls. That's toxic. If you've taken part of K-days, or any culture/heritage festival for that matter, then you know about the carnis. They're not always very pleasant, and being a dick will only aggravate

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them more. Remember: they're controlling the buttons on that Drop of Fear. If you want to come out alive, don't be a dick. Corn dogs, chilli-cheese fries, deep-fried margarine, candy apples and mini donuts—it's all good until it's not, and next thing you know, you're spending the rest of the day in a port-a-potty puking your brains out. Take it easy. These are multi-day events, so there's no need to consume all that grease and fat in one day. Just don't do it. Be an efficient festival-goer and tackle the queue like a pro. Bring cash. Doing so means you have one less line to wait in. If there is no line at a bathroom, use it even if you don't need to go. Remember, when nature calls, there will be 781 743 people waiting for the bathroom, too. Don't eat during peak hours (lunch, dinner). Bring a light snack (trail mix is good) to hold you until you can get food. If you're with a group of friends, take advantage of this opportunity—one person gets fresh-squeezed lemonade while the other gets corn dogs.

Spock Days since Leonard Nimoy, the original Spock, passed away earlier this year. (Vulcan)

The Hills are Alive Music and Dance Cultural Fest / Fri, Jun 19

– Mon, Jun 22 / miywasin.ab.ca/ cultural.htm

This is a celebration of Alberta's proud Métis heritage with dance, music and cultural experiences. Jig along with talented musicians, play traditional games and learn about Métis crafts and leatherworking. Held at the scenic Whispering Pines camp near Elkwater. (Elkwater)

Haying in the '30s / Sat, Aug 1 – Mon, Aug 3 / hayinginthe30s.com

This annual demonstration of preSecond World War farming has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for cancer support. Check out the rural community of Mallaig and learn the skills that prairie folks needed to survive before electricity: wood splitting, knife making, sheep shearing and more. And yes, there's an old-fashioned hoedown. (Mallaig, by donation)

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While we're on the subject of lines, be considerate of the people around you. Don't cut in line, and don't let your friends cut in line in a bathroom queue. Even if someone is too busy #Instagramming to see that the line has moved doesn't mean you can cut in front. In short, be polite like the good Canadian you are and your festival experience will be 100. JASMINE SALAZAR JASMINE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Saskatchewan Music Long Day's Night Music Festival / Wed, Jun 17 – Sun, Jun 21 / windscapekitefestival.ca and longdaysnight.ca

It's the five longest nights of the year, so why not take advantage of them? There's a different band every night, and this year includes Shred Kelly, LeE HARVeY OsMOND, Bend Sinister, Yukon Blonde and Mad Caddies. The event ties into the annual Windscape Kite Festival, held of Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21. (Swift Current, SK)

Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival / Thu, Jun 25 – Sun, Jul 5

/ saskjazz.com

This fest has been rocking Saskatoon since 1987, and there's plenty more to be heard than just great jazz. You can join the more than 85 000—no, that's not the entire province's population—music fans who will be there to take in sets from Erykah Badu, Viet Cong, Slow Down Molasses, the New Pornographers, Five Alarm Funk and Wyclef Jean. You'll need a ticket

for those, but there's free shows throughout the festival as well. (Various locations)

Saskatoon Reggae and World Music Festival / Sat, Jul 11 and Sun, Jul 12 / saskatoonreggaefestival.com

Local, national and international artists and performers are showcased over two days in Bridge City. This year's performers include Errol Blackwood, Jim Balfour and the Outer Rings, Oral Fuentes, Sambatoon, Blakey School of Irish Dance, Island Breeze and a host of others. Plus, there's workshops for those who are keen to learn a few skills. (Various venues, $20 in advance, $25 at the door)

Ness Creek Music Festival / Thu,

Jul 16 – Sun, Jul 19 / nesscreek.com

This family friendly festival is celebrating its 25th year with a lineup featuring Bocephus King & Orchestra Familia, Buck 65, Bombolessé, Factor Chandelier, We Were Lovers, Steph Cameron, Los Texmaniacs, the Moondoggies, the Pistolwhips, and Slocan Ramblers. Be ready to camp out for the weekend. (Ness Creek, SK)

Connect Music Festival / Fri, Jul 31 – Mon, Aug 3 / connectfestival.ca EDM on the Saskatchewan prairies— seriously, it happens. This is billed as Canada's longest-running electronic music festival, so get out your glow sticks and check it out. The lineup isn't posted just yet, but keep an eye on the website. Plus, you can buy tickets online or at Foosh on Whyte Avenue. (Besant Campground, Moose Jaw, SK)

Regina Folk Festival / Fri, Aug 7 – Sun, Aug 9 / reginafolkfestival.com

Edmonton's Folk Fest is the same weekend, so you may have to make a tough decision. Catch sets from the Dead South, Vance Joy, Blue Rodeo, the Sheepdogs, Bahamas, Basia Bulat, Jeffrey Straker, Mike Edel, and plenty of others. (Victoria Park, Regina, SK)

Rock the River / Fri, Aug 21 – Sun,

Aug 23 / rocktheriversaskatoon.ca

This is a brand-new festival in Saskatchewan, and you can be there for the inaugural celebrations. It's all classic rock, so brush up on tunes by Doucette, Chilliwack, April Wine, Stampeders, Kim Mitchell and Trooper. (Delta Bessborough Gardens, $57.50)

ARTS Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan

/ Wed, Jul 8 – Sun, Aug 23 / shakespeareonthesaskatchewan.com

Ah, a little Shakespeare on the banks of the Saskatchewan on a lovely summer's eve. The mainstage features performances of Much Ado About Nothing and Othello, while the surrounding venues—also known as the Elizabethan Village—will house medieval feasts, workshops, art displays and matinee performances. (Saskatoon)

Fringe Theatre and Street Festival / Thu, Jul 30 – Sat, Aug 8 / 25thstreettheatre.org

This is one of Saskatoon's most popular summer festivals, and it has been since 1989. The aim is to offer accessible, affordable theatre performed by artists from around the world. All tickets to shows are $14 or less, and you can take in a plethora of street vendors and performances, too. (Various venues)

CULTURE / HERITAGE A Taste of Saskatchewan / Jul 14 –Jul 19 / tasteofsaskatchewan.ca

You've likely gorged yourself at Taste of Edmonton at some point in recent years, but why not see what Saskatchewan's culinary gems have to offer? Sample eats from Little Bird Patisserie & Café, Winston's, Haywood's Grill, Royal Thai, the Public House, and the Berry Barn, to name a few. There's lots of local musical entertainment throughout the festival, too. (Kiwanis Park, Saskatoon)

Folkfest '15 / Thu, Aug 13 – Sat, Aug

15 / saskatoonfolkfest.com

Folk Fest generally brings to mind images of a crowded hill and a few packed days of music. There's still music at this one, but the focus is to educate the public about different cultures. Participants can take a trip around the world of sorts by visiting pavilions set up throughout the city—Brazil, Germany, Ireland, Bangladesh, India, Ukraine, Norway, Scotland, you name it. (Various locations)

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BC Music

Casse-Tete: A festival of experimental music / Thu, Jun 4 – Sun, Jun 7 / cassetetefestival.tumblr.com

Casse-Tete is as much a musical journey as it is a festival. It prides itself on providing attendees with sonic experiences emanating from non-idiomatic improvisations, free jazz, avant-garde compositions and minimalism. This year's lineup is just that: a smorgasbord of sounds and improvisations from all over the globe. (The Exploration Place, Prince George)

Pemberton Music Festival / Thu, Jul 16 – Sun, 19 / pembertonmusicfestival.com

Three words: Missy Elliot live. Need we say more? After a succesful inaugural year, Pemberton is back for its second year with an impressive bill: Kendrick Lamar, the Black Keys, J Cole, Tiesto, Hozier, Kid Cudi, Chromeo, Weezer, Banks, MIA and much more. (Pemberton)

Motion Notion Music Festival / Thu, Jul 23 – Mon, Jul 27 / motionnotion.com

This hippie-dippie spiritual fest spans five days, offering international electronic artists, workshops and yoga. The lineup includes: Infected Mushroom, Noisia, Alia and more. Tickets are selling fast, so don't sleep on this one. (Beaverfoot Lodge and Festival Grounds, Golden)

Center of Gravity / Fri, Jul 24 – Sun, Jul 26 / centerofgravity.ca Organizers dub it as Canada's hottest beach festival, and it might very well

be. With a heavy electronica-focused lineup—Diplo, Flo Rida, Knife Party and Zeds Dead—and an array of sports tournaments from beach volleyball to BMX, this is the quintessential summer festival. (Kelowna)

Sunfest / Thu, Jul 30 – Sun, Aug 2

Sunfest began 15 years ago as a oneday rock talent show where local artists could showcase their work. Now, the festival hosts local and international country artists over the course of four days. This year's lineup includes the likes of Keith Urban, Lee Brice and Joe Nichols. (Cowichan Valley)

ARTS Chetwynd International Chainsaw Carving Championship / Thu, Jun 11 – Sat, Jun 14

/chetwyndchainsawchampionship.com Chainsaws saw their claim to fame in the early '00s with a remake of the 1974 horror classic The Texas Chainsaw Masscre. The chainsaw garners popularity once more for the 11thannual Chainsaw Carving Championship, where artists from Australia, Japan, the US and Canada vie for top prizes. There will be food, live music and games, too. (Chetwynd)

Burn in the forest / Thu, jul 9 –

Sun, Jul 12

Swap out the desert for the forest and you get Burning Man for British Columbia. Based on the Ten Principles of Burning Man, the four-day festival brings together hundreds of participants in a vibrant metropolis to create an interactive community. (Squamish)

Wanderlust / Jul 30 - Aug 3

This five-day spiritual convention integrates yoga with live music, farmto-table food, lectures and ethereal outdoor adventures in Whistler. Attendees can practice vinyasa atop a mountain, in the air, while listening to a live electronica DJ, or on a paddleboard. Musical acts include Michael Franti, Nahko and Medicine for the People and Sarah Neufeld from Arcade Fire. Tickets can be purchased by way of a choose-yourown-adventure. (Whistler)

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CULTURE / HERITAGE Kamloopa Pow Wow / Fri, Jul 31

–Sun, Aug 2

Hailed as one of the largest Pow Wows in western Canada, the festival celebrates First Nations culture and heritage in the Secwepemc Pow Wow Grounds. (Kamloops)

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naked eye is not privileged to see," Colmers adds, beaming. "The beautiful patterns of Gary's, that he is driving through the frequency on that metal plate—suddenly you watched what each sand grain was doing." That's one component of 2.57k. The other part shifts perspective from micro to macro: in, and on a pile of sand we see two figures engage in mix of movements that sometimes attract, sometimes repel each other. "I come from the theatre, so I needed some kind of loose, dramatic thread—even though its experimental," Colmers notes. "Hence the two performers/dancers, who lead us through that loose story." And a whole lot of sand, too, which was provided by Sand Recycling, the only company they could find that would take it back (and clean it for future use) afterwards. They had rehearsed some ideas with the dancers beforehand, but once the sand was delivered and filming began, unexpected moments and ideas presented themselves too. "I really enjoyed that process," Munson says. "There's times when I liked everything laid out, storyboarded, but it's nice to sometimes to be able to throw that out the window and say, 'I want to try this.' In the moment, a lot of times, that's when inspiration comes."

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Sand and movement

t is a truth universally acknowledged, that sand will get into pretty much everything it manages to contact. And while washing the grit away is one thing—however long it takes to get it all—working with the granular material in film, and protecting delicate gear as you go, is a bit more troublesome. "It's very dangerous, because it just gets everywhere," aAron Munson says. "When you're shooting with cameras that have fans going in them ... you really have to be careful about that." It's something Munson found himself facing, along with collaborators Eva Colmers and Gary James Joynes, over the course of making their experimen-

tal short 2.57k. Working with 80 cubic feet of sand—being whipped into plumes of dust by dancers, no less— while keeping it out of the cameras was, uh, no day at the beach. "But on the screen," he notes, "it's beautiful." Sitting beside him in a Whyte Avenue coffee shop, Colmers grins her agreement. The pair, two-thirds of 2.57k's collaborative core (Joynes is out of town), have no lingering resentments about their material of choice: sand was central to the 14-minute short that blends all three's talents. 2.57k began without much shape, just a desire to collaborate: after Colmers, a filmmaker, saw Joynes' work

at a media-arts conference, the two fell into discussion and agreed to find some future project to work on. A few meetings later, they weren't any closer to a firm idea, but Colmers brought Munson on board, and between the three of them, sketched out ideas for the experimental short. (The weekend's screening of the finished 2.57k, before it heads off to film festivals, will be paired with a few selections from each of its central collaborator's other works, too.) The bedrock of 2.57k is Joynes' art: a mix of audio and visual, he uses frequencies to manipulate sand into patterns, effectively painting with sound itself. Different frequencies produce

different patterns, but 2570 Hz is one in which the sand won't actually settle into a pattern, but continue to swirl and dance. "[The frequency] was something Gary had found before, and wasn't sure if he could find again," Munson says. "We wanted to capture it with the camera we had, not knowing that it would be the title of the piece." That camera in question was a highspeed Phantom, which they used to film Joynes' process at 1000 to 1500 frames per second. "A three-second moment actually takes a minute-and-a-half to play out in real time," Munson says. "We witnessed something that the

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Montage of Heck 'Y

ou better buckle up," Kurt Cobain's mother said to him upon first hearing Nirvana's Nevermind on her livingroom stereo, "because you are not ready for this." Me and however many million other kids were, of course, more than ready. We were hungry, eager to identify, with no real notion as to what despair fuels such inspired, unholy, transcendent rock cacophony. Cobain was gone before we knew what hit us. It is the despair, above all, that is the subject of Brett Morgen's Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. This is not biography in any conventional sense. Exposition is largely, smartly relayed via archival materials and the tremendous wealth of diaries, drawings, music video outtakes, home movies and audio recordings entrusted to Morgen by the keepers of the Cobain estate. There are new interviews, but they are used sparingly, photographed in low light, sometimes framed in profile, and the subjects are few in number. We don't hear from famous friends or collaborators or cultural commentators.

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Morgan keeps it in the family, speaking only with Cobain's parents and sister, his first girlfriend, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and, yes, Courtney Love. And that's it. Most of what we see and hear is drawn from Cobain's personal effects, the journaling and the drawings sewn together in a highly inventive manner that feels true to the spirit in which they were originally crafted. In some places Morgen employs animated reenactments that elegantly invoke a gloom and wonder that feels particular to the Pacific Northwest. He uses Cobain's music as interpreted by Nirvana and others in unpredictable, resonant ways. True to its name, Montage of Heck is an intricate weave chronicling a life that seems to have always been perched upon the edge of some personal abyss. It's an often brilliant movie, but it is not a fun movie. The trajectory itself is familiar: divorce, medication for hyperactivity, an adolescence spent breaking windows, smoking weed and stealing booze.

Well, whatever

There's an awful story of virginity loss and a first suicide attempt. In these stories we trace not only Cobain's psychic fragility but also something of the resources for his art and personal politics. The first half or so of Montage of Heck feels guided by a musical sensibility that's arguably akin to the darkness and exhilaration of Nirvana's music, but the second half is deeply mimetic of Cobain's more private desolation, perhaps to a fault. We dive long and deep into crudely made videos of Co-

bain and Love in their wreck of a home, playing, babbling semi-coherently. Love seems very pleased with her breasts. Eventually Love is pregnant and still the flow of drugs appears to continue. Frances Bean is born and there are questions as to whether or not the parents should have custody. Will fatherhood save Cobain from self-destruction? We know the answer, but still brace ourselves as Cobain's life winnows down to a space in which only he is left, and then not

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Fri, May 22 – Thu, May 28 Directed by Brett Morgen Metro Cinema at the Garneau  even he. I wonder if this last section could be too much for some viewers. It's too much for me, and Cobain kind of meant everything to me when he killed himself. But I admire Montage of Heck, and, for all the superfluous rock star profiles in this world, I think we might need this one.

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eorge Miller cranks the madness of his post-Aussiepocalypse franchise's fourth entry up to maximum overdrive in the first 10 minutes—a blazing descent into a desert hellscape. Max (Tom Hardy) munches down a two-headed lizard, gets into his Pursuit Special and tears off along the sand, only to be captured by the "War Boys." He briefly escapes, in a hallucination-flecked frenzy, to reveal the gang's Citadel, a clifftop fortress full of white-painted, shaved-head death-culters following a skullmasked Immortan Joe, whose female "property" pump out breast milk for the brood of successors his young brides beget. After that delirious, jittery, nightmarish beginning, the movie downshifts into a basic Western premise—a wagon-train of hopeful, civilization-seeking rebels pursued by savage enemies. Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) takes off for her homeland—from which she

was abducted as a young girl—with The War Boys fetishize steering Joe's Five Wives stowed away on wheels and oil (grease becomes her War Rig. They roll on through warpaint), while water's dished out a vast duststorm, a canyon am- to the Citadel's desperate mob below like manna bush and sludge, from heaven, searching for Now playing but it's the genthe "green place" Directed by George Miller der subtext that Furiosa remem-  bers as Joe's hothits hardest. The skull-masked wheeled convoy hell-hounds them. There's Nicho- leader's a wasteland Henry VIII, las Hoult's deluded Nux, silver- reducing female bodies to mere spraying his mouth in anticipation life-vessels, pushing out children— of his chrome-smiled entrance to male heirs preferred—at his brut"Valhalla," with Max strapped to ish behest. So, when Imperator and his hood as a living blood bank. Or Max strike back with her all-female a chained-down guitarist ripping homeland tribe, there's a thrilling, chords on his fire-throwing axe like though too-brief, sense of grrrlsit's a war-trumpet while raging War gonzo-wild. Ultimately, though, Boys try to board Furiosa's truck this is one leering, gibbering, riotfrom atop poles swaying overhead ous romp of an action-extravaganfrom vehicles speeding through za—restoring your faith that bigNamibian dunes. Mad Max: Fury budget shockbusters, every once in Road revs on and on as a specta- a blue-night desert moon, can give cle best seen on the big screen in you your money's worth. all its crazy-as-a-desert-fox, care- BRIAN GIBSON BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM fully car-choreographed glory.

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Pitch Perfect 2

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A little off-pitch

itch Perfect 2 opens by literalizing the idea that a cappella is singing stripped down to its bare essentials. The Barden Bellas' Lincoln Center show, before the President of the United States and his wife, gets altogether too showy when "Fat Amy" (Rebel Wilson) splits her tights while on an aerial silk sling (the gaffe's dubbed "Muffgate" by one network). But when this sequel's not being cheeky or ever-so-slightly raunchy or not taking its trilling topic too seriously, it's overly serious in its underdogs-gotta-win-it storyline or stupidly crossing some ethical ethnic-joke lines. As Beca (Anna Kendrick) secretly interns at a recording studio and the Bellas serve their suspension from the college a-cap circuit for Amy's wardrobe malfannyunction, all hopes are pinned on the World Championships in Copenhagen. But the Bellas must best Das Sound Machine, a German-stereotype group (robotic, sneering, mesh-and-leatherwearing "Krauts" singing "Zis iz how ve do it"). Beca helplessly professes to DSM's female leader, "You are physically flawless." Ah, Aryan humour. Hitlerious. The Bellas' AsianAmerican member Lilly (Hana Mae Lee), meanwhile, is oh-so-kooky, while Guatemalan member Flo Fuen-

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tes (Chrissie Fit) offers lines such as "I had diarrhea for seven years" or "When I was nine, my brother tried to sell me for a chicken" about, oh, every 15 minutes of shame. Beyond such tone-deaf comedy, Fat Amy gets almost all the best lines, while Beca's concerns about being original and Chloe's over-investment in the group—making her anxious about what to do after graduation— touch on some real-life realities. But amid all the cover songs, the silliest cover is the flick's college-story: these students never once go to class, there's no sense of academic (or financial—how do they scrounge together the money for the Denmark trip?) struggle, and there's a white, preppy, entitled, smiley sparkle to the movie. The finale voice-cracks into self-celebratory sentiment, with the Bellas passing off generations of women singing a cappella as some kind of feminist achievement, cranking out a cringing original, then being adored for it all by an international crowd. That's when Pitch Perfect 2 forgets one of the rules of show business—don't look like you're trying so hard. BRIAN GIBSON

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he case of Wim Wenders is a peculiar one. One of the key figures of 1970s New German Cinema, Wenders' astonishing first decade included Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1972), Kings of the Road (1976) and The American Friend (1977). He went on to international art-house auteurdom, making at least one masterpiece in the US. But at some point Wenders seems to have lost it, embracing limpid quirks, losing his sense of rhythm—if not his ear for excellent soundtracks—and even making a movie written by Bono. Like fellow New Waver Werner Herzog, he's had somewhat better luck of late with documentary than fiction. Still, anyone who could make something as haunting and gorgeous as Paris, Texas (1984) deserves respect, reassessment and revisiting in my book. And, apparently, in Metro Cinema's. They're showing a quartet of Wenders films over the next weeks. Here's some thoughts on the first two. The German title for Wings of Desire (1987) translates as The Sky Over Berlin, but, even though two of its central characters are heavenly creatures, it should be stressed that this is very much a study in earthly matters. Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) slip invisibly amongst the citizenry of Berlin, occasionally resting a weightless, consoling hand on the shoulder of the spiritually wounded, but mostly just listening contentedly to their inner thoughts, their unspoken anxieties and stray observations—Wings of Desire is as much about listening as The Conversation (1974). Damiel and Cassiel are angels of empathy, but they're also voyeurs, or filmgoers, or anthropologists or archivists. (I keep thinking how Wenders' conception of angelness would perfectly suit his late fellow countryman W G Sebald.) There's something fascinatingly creepy about the inordinate attention Damiel bestows upon Marion (Solveig Dommartin), a beautiful trapeze artist with hair that seems carved from a cloud. The circus is leaving town but she's staying behind, waiting for ... what? An angel per-

haps. After millennia of duty, Damiel has been considering abandoning the angel racket for ordinary earthbound existence. He wants "to guess, instead of always knowing." He's finally convinced to take the plunge after "meeting" Marion, not to mention the imminently loveable Peter Falk, in a special appearance as "Peter Falk." Slyly appropriating a trick from Michael Powell's sublime heaven-and-earth fantasia A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Wenders renders the angel's view in black and white and the mortal's view in a spectrum of punchy tones at times resembling Technicolor. Damiel's conversion and eventual mortal-to-mortal encounter with Marion—at a Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds show!—is about it for major narrative events, but if Wings of Desire is slight on plot it's positively teeming with activity. In libraries and subway cars, on streets and at snack kiosks, the angels bear witness to the ongoing drama of everyday life, to birth and death, worries and longings. Wenders' Berlin is a particular place, still scarred, physically and psychically, by war, still divided by the Wall, but it's also an every-city, housing every kind of confluence. Wings of Desire was Wenders' first German film after Paris, Texas, and its perspective is arguably as much that of an outsider as Paris, Texas, not merely because Wenders is no Berliner (he hails from Düsseldorf), but because Wenders had by this point become a truly globalized filmmaker, his senses, like those of Damiel and Cassiel, attuned to a borderless world of trouble and desire, love and anguish. While the power of Wings of Desire is clearly dependent on its director's singular vision, Wenders' second-tolatest film (Every Thing Will Be Fine recently premièred at the Berlinale), by contrast, kind of works in spite of Wenders' interventions. The Salt of the Earth examines the life and work of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, Wenders' longtime friend and almost exact contemporary. Salgado fled Brazil's military regime for France in the '60s. He studied economics and began

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Thu, May 21 (7 pm) Wings of Desire Directed by Wim Wenders Thu, May 21 – Thu, May 28 The Salt of the Earth Directed by Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado Metro Cinema at the Garneau working for the International Coffee Organization and the World Bank, frequently travelling to Africa, where he nurtured an interest in the medium that would overtake his lucrative business career. His knowledge of economics would serve his photography well, informing his understanding of the effect of international trade on the lives of the individuals he photographed, from the subjects of Workers: Archaeology of the Industrial Age to the desperate, displaced peoples featured in Migrations. Wenders co-directed Salt of the Earth with his subject's son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, though Wenders' voice-over narration imparts something of a first-person feeling. Along with Laurent Petitgand's score, which is far too pushy with its poignancy, and which Wenders bafflingly opts to slather over top of a scene featuring the music of a Papua New Guinea tribe, Wenders voice-over can be both dopey—"Little did I know I was going to discover much more than just a photographer!"—and in poor taste. Regarding Salgado's gut-wrenching images of genocidal Rwanda, Wenders says, "Sebastião had seen into the heart of darkness," seemingly blasé about the words' colonialist associations. The last half of Salt of the Earth worked far better for me than the first, not only because Wenders talks less but also because Salgado's later work is, in some ways, more ambitious and his personal testimonies regarding its making more affecting. I've always found the classical graininess, sweeping perspectives and silvery hues of Salgado's work an esthetic obstacle to identification with his subjects, but this film helped me get past that. Which isn't nothing. I may have reservations with Wenders' choices, but I can't deny that he still understands how to transmit something powerful. JOSEF BRAUN

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Reverend Horton Heat chases rockabilly sound through singles

hen, back in 1985, Jim Heath first zeroed in on rockabilly's cause—pulling out the tones and tropes of rock 'n' roll's earliest iteration after years spent in cover bands—there wasn't much of a cause to speak of. Hair metal was fading away while grunge was coming into focus; coveting the youthful frenetics of the bygone '50s didn't yet have much purchase in the middle. "When I really started focusing on it a lot, a long time ago, I had the idea that it was like the kicking dog of all music," Heath offers. "It was really underrated." But, as he says, that was a long time ago. The scene's style has grown into something substantial, sustainable, and Heath—better

known as Reverend Horton Heat— rides along its crest as one of the prominent modern vanguards. His take on the era's sound channels itself through dashes of surf, punk and bouts of silliness (mostly in the lyrics). The current Reverend outfit is a trio of Heath on guitars and vocals, upright bassist Jimbo Wallace and drummer Scott Churilla. The band's most recent fulllength, aptly titled Rev, came out in 2014, and proved to be the band's highest-charting release to date. Before that there had been a gap in releases, part of an emerging pattern for the group. The last decade have seen longer stretches of time between Reverend LPs, even though, by his own measure, Heath often finds himself in the studio.

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It's just that while he's in there, he's found a preference for tinkering on singles, rather than full-length releases. "This whole album concept thing, it's from the '60s and the '70s," he says. "And I'm into the '50s, man; I like singles. We crank song by song out and see what happens. I've never really been big on trying to write a rock opera. I'm more of a rock 'n' roll guy. "I understand the appeal of the album," he continues. "But it's just the way I work. The stuff that influences me, the great hit songs of the '40s, '50s and '60s, were singles. They just threw together an album to go around them. I don't want to throw together an album—I want to do a bunch of really good songs. "

A few decades of building a fanbase mostly on a live show has tempered that opinion, too: the traditional, two-year cycle of album release, touring and then back to the studio for another eight to 12 songs doesn't mesh well with the Heat's fans. Heath's found when he does put out a new album, its impact only emerges a year after the release, both in terms of radio interest and with fans. Plus, it's hard to fit the songs into the road set at this point, so putting large batches of songs out into the ether leads to some frustrations. "We got a catalogue of 140 songs that have been released," Heath says. "We can only play about 20 [per night]. Just adding on album after album after album after album,

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Tue, May 26 (7 pm) Reverend Horton Heat With Nekromantix, the Brains Starlite Room, $26 in some ways, it was kind of making our fans mad." But as the rockabilly scene's grown there's simply been more fans, too, which, for Heath, means it's been easier to keep to the live track, where he find the genre lands best. So when years pass between albums, it doesn't mean Heath, who's 56 now, is starting to idle. "My art form is playing music, and that means playing live gigs," he says. "Some of those years we didn't have an album might've been some of our business road years ever."

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Zerbin I

t's been a few years since Zerbin's infectious single "New Earth" had this city whistling and stomping along. The Edmonton duo has since become a long-distance relationship after singer Jason Zerbin moved to Vancouver Island and guitar player Peter Mol stayed rooted in Sherwood Park.

"Every time we'd go [to the coast], I'd crave the ocean," Zerbin says, relaxing in the tour RV heading west from Kingston, ON. "So it felt like time for a change. [On Vancouver Island] you can go on a 15-minute drive and end up at the ocean, or a gorgeous forest or mountain. And it's provided some really good

coffee roasters." If anything, having more than 1200 kilometres of separation has made the band more creative, Zerbin notes. He and Mol both have home studios, and they email snippets and song ideas back and forth. The result of that digital collaboration is their new record Dar-

ling, released last month. The 11 songs are pure sonic joy. There's a positivity in the music and lyrics that resembles the highenergy, slightly dizzying feeling of a good laugh with friends. It's propelled by the drums of Duran Ritz, who recently left the band on good terms. Lead single "Worlds

Sat, May 23 (8 pm) With Gay Nineties, Repartee Pawn Shop, $13 On Fire" is a prime encapsulation of this: "So we danced in a fount of Parisian Merlot / With our head in the clouds / Bodies below in desire / The whole world's on fire." "It tends to come out pretty hopeful and joyful," Zerbin says. "Oftentimes that comes from a valuation of life that regularly looks the opposite of hopeful or joyful. But songwriting can become therapy and a magic show, where you can create realities in these songs— you bring this joy and lightness into the world." As with previous releases, 2010 LP Of Fools and Gold and 2013 EP Touch, Zerbin self-recorded and produced Darling. The difference this time is the band put some of the mixing duties in very talented hands. For the more pop-flavoured tracks, Zerbin tapped LA-based mix engineer Dave Pensado whose past credits include Michael Jackson and Beyoncé. For the more indierock songs, the duo entrusted Tom Dobrzanksi of the Zolas, who has worked with Said the Whale and Hey Ocean! Zerbin says it was "nerve-wracking" handing the songs off, but the band was keen to see how experienced professional mixers would interpret the music. He added Zerbin will likely keep its DIY, selfrecorded soul—for now. "The challenges are you really have to trust your instincts and you don't have anyone else to blame," he says. "The benefits are you have the freedom to give the music more time in some areas and craft the sound you want. But I think we would love to work with some great producers in the future."

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PREVUE // FOLK ROCK

The River and the Road

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he River and the Road's new re- street to survive. "That was three months in very cord kicks in with a statement: close proximity—that's when we rethis band wants your attention. The Vancouver four-piece folk-rock ally got to know each other," Lawlor says from Ottawa, group's recorded hisa tour stop as the tory has leaned more Sat, May 23 (9 pm) band heads west. to the roots side, Brixx, $10 "Essentially, that was with slippery banjo our first tour. We lines and all acoustic instruments. But Headlights, the bought a van that broke down the band's new LP released earlier this first day—the classic story." The River and the Road's wandermonth, starts with fat, ringing electric guitars before dropping into a lust comes through on Headlights, 10 songs that ache with the lonely white dusty full-tilt boogie. "That was intentional," says Keenan lines on the highway. Like on the gorLawlor, who shares singing and song- geous, fingerpicked "Coulee (The writing duties with guitarist Andrew Prairie Song):" "I dream of getting out Phelan. "We've had the electric in our of town / Being dragged through the arsenal for years, even though the re- mountains alone." It gets as loud as it cord we've been selling is completely does quiet, honesty and grit in both acoustic. Then again, we do get small the peaks and the valleys. Of course, you never can tell what and back to the banjo-acoustic thing the road will bring. Like when the and really intimate." The band started as a rivalry be- band drove the nine hours to Prince tween Lawlor and Phelan at a Van- George in March to play a show for couver open mic, where they butted a televised hockey party. The band heads competing for the crowd's at- played in the middle of the day to tention. Eventually they decided to a mostly empty parking lot, popujoin forces, co-writing the River and lated by some families and CBC the Road's 2012 self-titled debut. talking heads. "It wasn't any more weird than any The two added John Hayes and Cole George on bass and drums, respec- show we've ever done," Lawlor says. tively, the day of the first album re- "It just documented that it's a strange lease show—and together the River lifestyle, driving long distance for and the Road has put in long miles, a decent gig. But, luckily, we enjoy each other's company enough that touring across Canada and beyond. even those kinds of shows are fun That included a stint in Phelan's na- and funny." tive Australia, where the band stayed JOSH MARCELLIN JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM with his mom and busked on the

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hitney Rose is undeniably a country artist, but not in the Daisy-Duke-wearing, whisky-slinging, dirt-road-cruising way that's become synonymous with the genre in recent years. Rather, her stamp on country music is one that rings of decades past, back to the classic twang and

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THUR JUN 11, MERCURY ROOM

CRAIG CARDIFF W/ GUESTS

FRI JUN 12, MERCURY ROOM

MATT EPP W/ GUESTS

SAT JUN 13, MERCURY ROOM

ELECTRICITY FOR EVERYBODY CD RELEASE SHOW, W/ GUESTS

FRI JUN 19, MERCURY ROOM

MICHAEL FEURSTACK W/ PAPER BEAT SCISSORS, AND GUESTS

THE BOWER For Those Who Know...:

Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

THUR JUN 25, MERCURY ROOM

THE WOODEN SKY W/ NATURE OF, & GUESTS

THUR JUL 2, MERCURY ROOM

MIKE PLUME

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm

W/ GUESTS

ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound

and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

Concerts: Scrapbooker with guests Cold Lungs; 4pm; No cover

every Sat

FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN

PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays:

Marshall Lawrence; 8:30pm

GREG MACPHERSON BAND

ROBERT TEGLER CENTRE Festival City

RENDEZVOUS PUB Limits Of Reversal

mic; 7pm; $2

SAT MAY 30, MERCURY ROOM

OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE Sounds of Srping;

BOURBON ROOM Live Music every

Derina Harvey; 9pm

W/ THE WEATHER STATION, & GUESTS

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Colours

Winds 20th Anniversary Concert; 7:30-9:30pm; $10 (door)

Thursdays

GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS

Asher, DJ Crib, DJ Afterglo; 9pm; $15; 18+ only

SAT MAY 23

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back

FRI, MAY 29, ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE

YEG DANCE CLUB Kona with Jake

9pm

every Thu

W/ MARIEL BUCKLEY

Kaze; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $22 (members), $26 (guests)

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

WINSPEAR CENTRE Early: ESO &

LEEROY STAGGER

YARDBIRD SUITE Satoko Fujii &

J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu;

TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with

THU, MAY 28, ROYAL MERCURY ROOM

Rainmaker Music Fest (part of the Rainmaker Rodeo & Exhibition)

northlands.com

Amber and Jeff; 7:30pm

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm

W/ MOHSIN ZAMAN, & ELLA COYES

SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder Sparks K-DJ

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

WHITNEY ROSE

Hog; 9pm Show; 9pm-1am

pianos at 8pm

TUE, MAY 26, MERCURY ROOM

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Andrew

DV8 Edge Of Attack with Ironstorm and Samandriel; 7pm; $10 (door)

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling

12340 Fort RD • sandshoteledmonton.com

Derina Harvey; 9pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Party

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111

This is the time for the "Women" to shine 8-12 OPEN JAM hosted by "One Percent" Come & check out our new SUNDAY JAM venue!!

RICHARD'S PUB The Mad Dog Blues

Featuring Gary James Joynes (alternative/electronic); 12pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Ghost Rider

4pm – 8pm All Women's Jam

Flirts; 7pm PAWN SHOP Zerbin with guests The

Scott; 9pm

8pm; all ages (15+)

May 30

june 6

Band

DC3 ART PROJECTS Broken Sound

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage;

May 23

ON THE ROCKS Wayne Maclellan

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm

Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm • Flowers & Fire with Love Electric & Maude; 8pm

open jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle

9pm – 1am

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

BRIXX BAR North Country Fair Pre-

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Bring Your Own

KELLY'S PUB Jameoke Night with

Saturday Live ENTERTAINMENT

NEW WEST HOTEL Ghost Rider

THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh

every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

9pm – 1am • Hosted by JR

Live Local Bands every Sat

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

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music

Thursday - Friday Karaoke

LEGENDS Sat 3pm Jam and Open

THUR JUL 11, MERCURY ROOM

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong

FIVE ALARM FUNK W/ GUESTS

Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie

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Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice

(presented by the EKOSingers); 8pm

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

TOM OLSEN WRECKAGE

AND THE W/ EMILY TRIGGS

MAY/24

CD RELEASE

UNION EVENTS PRESENTS

AMARANTHE

MAY/25

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

LITTLE DRAGON

W/ GUESTS

MAY/26

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

REVEREND HORTON HEAT W/ NEKROMANTIX, THE BRAINS

MAY/28 MAY/29 MAY/30

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

MILO GREENE

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays:

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue

every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

SUN MAY 24 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun

BBQ jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday

(country); 7pm MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

Mr Guelph and guests; 9pm; $7; 18+ only DC3 ART PROJECTS Broken Sound Featuring Gary James Joynes (alternative/electronic); 12pm DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live

RADIO RADIO

NEW WEST HOTEL 4s A Crowd PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music

with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm

Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul

guests starRo (Soulection); 8pm (doors); $32.50-$34.50; 18+ only

STARLITE ROOM Little Dragon with

Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

WUNDERBAR Allyn loses weight for

boobs (fundraiser for Sorrentino's Compassion House); 7pm

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open

stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm Jam: Trevor Mullen

Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave

with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

WED MAY 27 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Jason

Buie; 8pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BLUES ON WHYTE The Blue Mules BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm DC3 ART PROJECTS Broken Sound Featuring Gary James Joynes (alternative/electronic); 12pm

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

Kris Harvey and guests

NEW WEST HOTEL 4s A Crowd

MERCURY ROOM Whitney Rose with

ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780655-8520

Mohsin uz Zaman, Ella Coyes and with Jasper Smith; 7pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance

Lessons: 7-9pm • 4s A Crowd O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue;

with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Bingo

Toonz every Tue RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous

Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am; no cover; relaxed dress code RICHARD'S PUB Tue Live Music

Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE Live music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Every Tue, 9pm

ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori

SANDS HOTEL Country music dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm

Classical

STARLITE ROOM Reverend Horton

Provincial Music & Speech Festival; 9am-4pm; $5 (door)

Heat, Nekromantix, The Brains; 7pm (doors); $26; 18+ only YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session: Writers' Guild; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

DJs

Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

ALBERTA COLLEGE CAMPUS, MACEWAN UNIVERSITY 2015 AMFA

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Prevail, Santa Cruz & guests; 8pm (doors); $25-$28; 18+ only

Brit Pop, Synthpop, Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and not-so-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail

Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats

BRIXX Metal night every Tue

THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

VENUEGUIDE

PARTY NORTH COUNTRY FAIR PRE-

LETTUCE PRODUCE BEATS

FNDTN

THE GOOD IN EVERYONE THE MANDATES W/ WE WERE FRIENDS, ALEA RAE

W/ NERVOUS TALK, BEN DISASTER PEAK PERFORMANCE PROJECT - VICTORY TOUR FT

THE WET SECRETS X

Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4

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

on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm

STARLITE ROOM Amaranthe with I

W/ THE MCGOWAN FAMILY BAND, KIMBERLEY MACGREGOR BAND, TZADEKA, MOHSIN ZAMAN AND SWEAR BY THE MOON

GOOD FOR GRAPES

32 MUSIC

DC3 ART PROJECTS Broken Sound Featuring Gary James Joynes (alternative/electronic); 12pm

BLUEPRINT ALBERTA PRESENTS

W/ HIGH TIDES

JUN/5

BLUES ON WHYTE The Blue Mules

BOHEMIA The Reckless Heroes,

Bad, The Blues

Rainmaker Music Fest (part of the Rainmaker Rodeo & Exhibition)

MAY/30

Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: Mod, Brit Pop, New Wave & British Rock with DJ Blue Jay; Wooftop: Metal Mon: with Metal Phil (fr CJSR’s Heavy Metal Lunch Box)

W/ GUESTS

AARON CARTER

DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage

MON MAY 25

ST. ALBERT KINSMEN CLUB

MAY/29

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

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

by Jim Dyck, Randy Forsberg and Mark Ammar; 4-8pm

MAY/28

DJs

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Charley Pride

JUSTIN MARTIN

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

DC3 ART PROJECTS Broken Sound Featuring Gary James Joynes (alternative/electronic); 12pm

BLUES ON WHYTE The Good, The

NIGHT VISION PRESENTS

BLUES ON WHYTE The Blue Mules

Tue; 9pm

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam hosted

MAY/27

Concert II; 2-3pm; Admission by donation

Night Jam with host Harry Gregg and Geoffrey O'Brien; 8-11pm

Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy

9:30pm-1am

MAY/22

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

open mic

THE STARLITE ROOM IS A PRIVATE VENUE FOR OUR MEMBERS AND THEIR GUESTS. IF YOU REQUIRE A MEMBERSHIP YOU CAN PURCHASE ONE AT THE VENUE PRIOR TO / OR AFTER THE DOOR TIMES FOR EACH SHOW.

MAY/21

MUTTART HALL Connections

Passages Trio; 9am-3pm; Donations

RUSTIE & GUESTS

TUE MAY 26 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Tuesday

Violin Concerto; 2pm

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing

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

Nuova: Behind the Scenes: 2015 Masterclasses; 7pm; $16 (adults)/$14 (seniors)/$12 (students), adv; as $4 to adv ticket prices

WINSPEAR CENTRE Tchaikovsky's

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Brunch with Jazz

ARDALAN

JUN/2

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown,

W/ I PREVAIL, SANTA CRUZ & GUESTS

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip

ATB FINANCIAL ARTS BARNS - WESTBURY THEATRE Happy! THE KING'S UNIVERSITY Opera

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

MAY/22

Classical

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALBERTA CAMPUS 10050 MacDonald Drive ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ATB FINANCIAL BARNS 1033084 Ave ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.955.2336 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 thebuckingham.ca BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99,

23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DC3 ART PROJECTS 10567111 St DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN 10200-102 Ave HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head

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Tr, 142 St IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 11455 87-Ave NW KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St KING'S UNIVERSITY 9125-50 St NW L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 Macdonald Dr MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE Students' Union Building, 8900 114 St NW NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave,

780.414.6766 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 8426 Gateway Boulevard ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PALACE CASINO–WEM 8882170 St PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROBERT TEGLER CENTRE Concordia Campus 73 St & 112 Ave ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 ST ALBERT KINSMEN CLUB 47 Riel Dr, St Albert STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10506-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LisTiNgs@VUeWeekLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FriDAY AT 3PM

FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • Crazy Loon Pub, 10208-99 Ave N.E., Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT • Habitat for Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • vbatten@hfh. org • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • hfh.org/volunteer • Learn about taking the next step and what opportunities are available • 3rd Thu of the month, 6-7pm, until Nov 2015 • Free

COMEDY

ILLNESS SUPPORT AND SOLUTIONS

Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

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

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Paul Sveen; May 22-23 • Tom Liske; May 29-30

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Bob Marley Special Performance; May 20-24 • Seaton Smith; May 27-31

CONNIE'S COMEDY • Draft Bar & Grill, 129120-59 St • With Ken Hicks and Bob Beddow as headliner • May 27, 7:30pm

CONNIE'S COMEDY PRESENTS COMEDY AT THE TOP • Hilltop Pub 8220-106 Ave • With Jim Noble. Tim Kubasek, and Dave Stawnichy as headliner • May 30, 9pm

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

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

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

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

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

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

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

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

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

CONNIE'S COMEDY PRESENTS KOMEDY KRUSH • Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109 St •

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave •

Starting with Mark Debonis and Charles Haycock; May 26, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show)

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

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

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP

• Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level,

McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@ hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo. com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward.toastmastersclubs. org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL ASSOCIATION • waskahegantrail.ca • MiNisTik - Berg: Meet at northwest corner parking lot of Superstore, 5019 Calgary Trail; May 24, 8:45am; Hike leader: Sandra C. (780.467.9572/780.318.6883) • Coal Lake: Meet outside McDonald's, 7419-82 Ave; May 27, 8:45am; Hike leader: Karen B. (780.642.6372) WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail. com

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

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

YOUNG ADULTS (AGES 18 -30) DROP-IN GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP • Pilgrims Hospice,

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

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY •

9808-148 St • jessem@pilgrimshospice.com • 780.413.9801 ext. 107 • pilgrimshospice.com • For those who wish to connect with same-aged peers who are also grieving. Trained facilitator will guide the group in topics related to grief • May 27, 7pm

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS BE A DIFFERENCE MAKER FEATURING RICK HANSEN • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Win-

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

ston Churchill Square • 780.248.1161 • colin. mcguinness@ualberta.ca • Learn how you can become a difference-maker in your own community • May 22, 7:30-10pm • $10

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

INTRODUCTION TO COPTIC BOOKBINDING • Provincial Archives of Alberta, 8555 Roper

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

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10506-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music– check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

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

Road • paaevents@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits • Participants will create a simple, non-adhesive (made without glue) book structure, with pages held together by linked sewing. This allows the book to open easily and lay flat - ideal for writing or drawing • May 27, 6:30-8:30pm • Free (space is limited, RSVP)

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES • ATB Financial Arts Barns 10330-84 Ave • 780.490.1129 • spiritualexperience.org • A workshop to discover how past lives, dreams and soul travel can help you understand these. A free copy of ECKANKAR’s Spiritual Experiences Guidebook will be available for all guests • May 31, 1-3pm • Free

UNIQUE LIVES & EXPERIENCES • Winspear

TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA • Karma Tashi Ling Society, 10502-70 Ave • Tranquility and insight meditation based on Very Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche's teachings. Suitable for meditation practitioners with Buddhist leanings • Every Thu, 7-8:30pm • Donations; jamesk2004@hotmail.com

TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:051pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-

Centre • Canada’s foremost women’s lecture series featuring: Shirley MacLaine: Celebrating 60 years in film; Monday, May 25, 7:30pm

QUEER BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue: Retro Tuesdays with Dj Arrow Chaser; 9pm-close • Wed: DJ Griff; 9-close • Thu: Wet underwear with Shiwana Millionaire • Fri: Dance all Night with Dj Arrowchaser • Sat: Weekly events and dancing until close • Sun: Weekly Drag show with Shiwana Millionaire and guests; 12:30am

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY

GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/ student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@ teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campusbased organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and nonjudgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail. com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Nonprofit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays Comedy Night with Nadine Hunt; 8pm; New Headliner Weekly • Tue: You Don't Know Show with Shiwana Millionaire; 8pm; Weekly prizes and games • Wed: Karaoke with Shirley; 7pm-1am • Thu: Karaoke with Kendra; 7pm-1am • Fri-Sat: Dancing and events until close • Sun: Karaoke with Jadee; 7pm-1am

2ND ANNUAL ULTIMATE GARAGE SALE • Carrot Coffeehouse, 9351-118 Ave • carrotassist@gmail.com • See what treasures you can find. All proceeds go back towards supporting the Carrot and Arts on the Ave • May 30

3RD ANNUAL HORSES, HOUNDS & HOMECOOKIN' • WELCA Show Grounds, 12504 Fox Drive • kmgevents2@gmail.com • 780.757.3077 • Horses & Hounds Class, delicious BBQ dinner and local live entertainment by country artist, Alecia Aichelle • May 30, 5-11pm • $50 (per person), $40 (4 or more), $300 (table of 8)

ACTSS SPRING CHARITY DOG WASH • Various pet groomers in Edmonton and area • 587.989.1948 • actssalberta.ca/content/22 • Help support pets living with cancer • May 23, 9am-6pm BEAD MARKET • Ramada Inn Edmonton South, 5359 Calgary Trail • TreasureStoneBeads. com • See and purchase beads and other jewelry pieces • May 23, 11am-5pm • Free

BUTTERFLY DAY • Devonian Botanic Garden - University of Alberta, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • devonian.ualberta.ca • 780.987.3054 ext. 2243 • Meet beautiful butterflies from around the world, make crafts, decorate cookies, catch interesting critters, and learn about butterflies • May 24, 12-3pm • Free with admission

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages

E-VILLE ROLLER DERBY PRESENTS: MAYHEM • Edmonton Sportsdome, 10104-32 Ave NW • May 23, 7-9pm • $15 (door) or $10 (adv), free (kids 10 and under)

EDMONTON REPTILE AND AMPHIBIAN SPRING SHOW • The Sand Hotel, 12340 Fort Rd • edmontonreptiles.com • Meet some amazing creatures and the people who love them. Lectures, and more will be available • May 2324 • $6 (adults), $5 (Kids 13-17), $4 (kids 4-12), Free (kids 4 and under/E.R.A.S. members)

"FLAMBOYANCE" - A GANG FASHION EVENT • SouthminsterSteinhauer United Church, 10740-19 Ave • 780.437.1896/780.436.6544/ 780.434.4173 • edmgrandmothers.org • The GANG (Grandmothers of Alberta for a New Generation) is holding a Fashion Show fundraiser to support the African Grandmothers raising the millions of children orphaned by AIDS. Proceeds go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation • May 31, 2:30-4:30pm • $20

IHEARTFASHION • Alberta Aviation Museum, 11410 Kingsway Ave • An evening of fashion from local Edmonton designers, entertainment from local musicians, local businesses and local people • May 23, 7pm; $30 (general), $50 (VIP); tickets available at Eventbrite

MARCH AGAINST MONSANTO 2015 • End of Steel Park, 87 Ave and Gateway Boulevard • michael.kalmanovitch@gmail.com • Calling for the permanent boycott of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and other harmful agrochemicals • May 23, 12-2pm • Free MIGRATORY BIRD FESTIVAL • John Janzen Nature Centre, 7000-143 St NW • info@ wildlife-edm.ca • wildlife-edm.ca/events • Enjoy the great outdoors with nature walks, nature games, and more. Learn about the huge role our province plays in species survival • May 31, 11am-2pm • Free, donations welcome (there will be a cost to enter the Teglar Discovery Zone)

NIGHT MARKET EDMONTON • Beaverhill House Park, Jasper Ave & 105 St • nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com • 780.934.1568 • nightmarketedmonton.com • Watch an old movie, eat some food, or shop at the vendor’s stalls • Every Fri, 7-11pm, May-Aug • Free

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm STEAM WHISTLE SPRING TUNE-UP EVENT • Sherlock Holmes–U of A Campus • steamwhistle.com • holly@steamwhistle.ca • Celebrating the installation of the Public Bike Repair Station • May 24, 2-4pm • Free

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Habitat for Humanity Hosts Women Build Week - May 26-30 Attention Women: Volunteer with us on a Habitat build site to help build homes and hope with other women! Our expert staff provides training with a focus on safety in a fun and welcoming environment. Take home an inspiring sense of accomplishment. Tools, equipment and lunch are provided. Visit http://www.hfh.org/volunteer/w omen-build/, and Follow us on Facebook/@HabitatEdm and Twitter@HabitatEdm.

Cast and Crew Call for the Low Budget Short Action Film “Heaven”. No-pay gig. Shoot scheduled for 4 days in September. Please e-mail jeremyalafond@gmail.com for more info.

Loft Art Gallery and Gift Shop – Opens January 31 with new artwork by the artists of the Art Society of Strathcona County. Ottewell Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd. Open Saturdays and Sundays 12 to 4 pm for your viewing and purchasing pleasure. Local artwork for your home, business or gift giving.

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Dog Walk Run! Supporters of Alberta Animal Rescues is having their 2nd Annual “Fun Run” fundraiser on June 6, 2015. We need volunteers from 7:30-10:30am to fill various positions as road marshals. A nice “good quality” t-shirt will be yours as well as our gratitude. Please sign up by May 31; contact Kendra at Soaar.run@gmail.com. You must be comfortable around dogs as this is an owner/dog event in a dog park.

Room to Read Event Planner Volunteer Needed Are you a self-motivated individual who wants to use your creativity to plan fun, interesting events to support a great cause? Room to Read, Edmonton Chapter organizes several events every year to raise money to support our literacy and girls’ education programs in Asia and Africa. We require people who are willing to generate ideas for events and execute them, while working with other volunteers and Chapter Leaders. Contact Edmonton@roomtoread.org if you are interested.

Artist to Artist

Naess Gallery Call For Submissions The Naess Gallery at The Paint Spot is a space for the exploration of artistic ideas and innovative processes. We are now accepting applications for 2016 exhibitions. Our 6-week exhibition of solo artists or groups are inclusive: you don’t have to be emerging or established - just interesting! For more information about the simple process of making a submission, visit http:/paintspot.ca/naess-gallery or email accounts@paintspot.ca. Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2015.

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Open Call for Musicians, Bands, and Composers Toy Guns Dance Theatre and Ecco Theatre are collaborating on an original production titled Disenchanting Facades: A Dream Play About Blueberries, Christmas Lights, and A Rickety Old Shitter. The production will be performed outdoors at dusk featuring Live Music, Dance, and Classical Voice. We are looking for submissions from Local Songwriters to create a score for this original production. We are very open to all styles of music although some reorchestration may be necessary in creating a unified art work. All artists who’s music is used in the production will be given full credit for their work, tickets to attend performances of the show, as well as an honorarium. The show venue and dates are TBD. The pilot of the show will be produced for the end of August, 2015. For further details contact kasia@toygunstheatre.com or visit www.toygunstheatre.com

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Final Estate Planning Wills, Powers of Attorney and Personal Directives. Please call Nicole Kent with At Home Legal Services(780) 756-1466 to prepare your Final Estate Planning Documents.

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