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Lebanon may be yet another target for political and social unrest

ast month, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said, “when all the Arabs and the Israelis agree on one thing, people should pay attention. We should stop this Iranian takeover.”

So we’re paying attention now, and we even know where the next war will start: Lebanon.

That seems unfair, as Lebanon’s last civil war lasted 15 years, killed around 200,000 people (out of a population of only four million), and only ended in 1990. Couldn’t they hold this one somewhere else? Unfortunately, no. All the other venues are taken.

Iraq is still fully booked. The fight against ISIS is almost over, but the struggle between the Arabs and the Kurds has only just started again. It never really stops for long.

Bashar al-Assad’s forces, the Russians, and Shia volunteers from Iran and Lebanon are winning the war in Syria, but it will be at least another year before they suppress all rebel resistance.

Yemen’s airspace is too congested, with Saudi, Emirati, Kuwaiti, Jordanian and Egyptian planes bombing the living daylights out of the Houthi rebels who hold most of the country (and anybody else who happens to be nearby). No real room for another war there.

Both Saudi Arabia and Israel want to take Iran down a peg or two, and their efforts to get the United States to do it have not yet succeeded. Trump is not opposed in principle, but his current obsession is North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.

So the war will have to be in Lebanon, at least at the start. The big Shia militia that controls southern Lebanon, Hezbollah, is closely allied to Shia Iran, and it’s a permanent nuisance along Israel’s northern border, so it’s a suitable place to start rolling back Iran’s influence in the region.

Lebanon is a particularly good choice from Saudi Arabia’s point of view because it’s the Israelis who would have to do the actual fighting there. (Saudi Arabia does not share a border with Lebanon.) But if Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman is really serious about curbing Iran’s power, his own troops are eventually going to have to take on the job of cleansing Syria of Iranian influence.

You only have to say that sentence aloud to realize that this project is going to end in tears for the Saudis, the Israelis and (if they get sucked into it) the Americans. There is no way that the inexperienced Saudi army is going to drive battle-hardened Hezbollah and Iranian militia troops out of Syria.

Actually, there is no way that the Israeli

army is going to drive Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon either. In Israel’s last war with the organization in 2006, Hezbollah’s troops fought the Israeli army to a standstill in southern Lebanon. The Israeli air force smashed up Lebanon’s infrastructure, but Israel ended up accepting a ceasefire with Hezbollah and withdrawing its troops in a hurry.

Sunni Arab leaders and Israel’s prime minister have talked themselves into the paranoid delusion that Iran has a grand plan to establish its domination over the whole region and must be stopped by force of arms.

First Iran established close links with the Shia political parties and militias that now dominate Iraq. Then it crossed Iraqi territory to save the Shia ruler of Syria from a revolt by the Sunni majority in that country. Next was distant Yemen, where the Shia tribes of the north and the Houthi overran most of the country with Iranian help. Now the Shia militia Hezbollah has gained a powerful position in the government of Lebanon.

If the Sunnis don’t stop the Iranians now, they’ll all be enslaved. Or something of that sort.

Nonsense. It was George W. Bush who overthrew the centuries-long rule of the Sunni minority in Iraq on the lying pretext that Saddam Hussein was developing ‘weapons of mass destruction.’ The Shias took power in Iraq in a free election, and as the only Shia-majority country in the Arab world they naturally sought a close relationship with Shia Iran.

This made it easy for Iranian volunteers and weapons to move across Iraq and help Bashar al-Assad resist an assault on his rule by Sunni extremists.

The Hezbollah militia, which represents the large Shia minority in Lebanon, also went to Assad’s help, but you can hardly portray this as Shia expansionism.

There is absolutely no evidence that the Houthis in Yemen are getting any material assistance from Iran. They are not even Iranian “proxies” in any meaningful sense of the word. They are Yemeni tribes who happen to be Shia, engaged in a typical Yemeni tribal power struggle.

A great many people will die for nothing if the full-scale Sunni-Shia war that Saudi Arabia (and Netanyahu) currently envisage actually gets going. But Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri’s resignation a week ago, in which he denounced Hezbollah’s presence in the government—delivered not at home but in Saudi Arabia—may have been the starting gun for the war.

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am not a parent and so I generally try not to comment on parenting type things, but I can no longer keep silent: so-called “gender reveal parties” are terrible and should cease to exist.

They are nothing more than an exercise in oversharing that at best perpetuate offensively out-of-date notions of sex and gender and at worst are outright transphobic.

Gender (or more accurately, sex) reveal parties can take many forms but generally follow the same pattern: parent(s) have a medical professional secretly write down the sex of the fetus.

That information is then given to a baker who creates a cake

iced with a neutral colour. The parent(s) throw a party and cut into the cake, revealing either a blue or pink interior. Cake is probably the most common vehicle for the reveal, but a quick internet search shows others using balloons, exploding baseballs, or colour changing drinks.

These parties came about as a response to burgeoning technology. Previously, a fetus’ sex was determined via ultrasound around the 20-week gestation mark and used the highly-scientific method of looking for a penis.

Now, fetal DNA testing can be done with a simple blood draw and can give a rough guess of sex as early as 10 weeks gestation.

secondary sex characteristics, hormones, and chromosomes.

Gender, on the other hand, is frequently thought of as our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours and covers everything from how we dress to how we talk.

Although sex and gender are often presented as binary (male and female) and the same thing (i.e. people with penises and XY chromosomes like sports and beer), neither of these things are actually true.

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Previously, a fetus’ sex was determined via ultrasound around the 20-week gestation mark and used the highly-scientific method of looking for a penis.

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So what’s the big deal?

I reached out to Catherine Clune-Taylor, former Edmontonian and current PhD Postdoctoral Research Associate in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University, for her thoughts.

“Gender-reveal parties are just a new way of imposing binary sex and gender norms on humans (though one that happens to feature cake). They problematically reinforce the notion that physical sex and gender are naturally binary, and that sex produces gender. In reality, humans exhibit a wide range of variation in both physical sex and gender, and the relationship between the two is quite complex, such that a particular sexed body doesn’t necessarily lead to a particular gender.”

Let’s break this down a bit.

First of all, a quick review about the difference between sex and gender: “sex” is rooted in biology; it is the combination of primary/

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ditionally, there are 14 different sex chromosome disorders which blur the lines between the simple dichotomy of, “XX is female and XY is male.”

So, this is why the idea of these parties frustrates me so much. Even supposing you could get a very accurate sense of a fetus’ sex, it still tells you nothing about the human that is about to be born. Rather, it creates an assumption of who that new person will be, one that might haunt them for years to come. I’ve heard people defend these parties because they want to “get ready” for the new baby.

Ready for what? There are no guarantees that a child is going to like Barbie dolls, even if they are cisgender. Why not a gender reveal party when the child is old enough to say, “this is who I am” rather than being told before they are even born, “this is who you will be?”

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he Holy Roller is the recentish addition to the restocartel that already includes El Cortez and Have Mercy, all now crouched on the same block of Old Strathcona.

The space is huge with an elegant but cozy bar/

lobby in front and a more cavernous, contemporary restaurant space in the back with bare brick and a raw, unfinished look that probably cost a small fortune to achieve. Featuring popart touches like pink and green neon squares on the walls, and a life-size plaster jungle cat skulking toward a big glass roll-up door, there are chandeliers, whimsical decals and a backlit garden of microgreens that add to the insistent eclec-

ticism of the décor.

Servers tote tablets to beam your order straight to the open kitchen. It turned out that even on a Thursday night a reservation was a good idea, as well-attired good-lookings were draped over the available furniture.

The menu is likewise fancy, from the long list of house cocktails to the extensive selection of pinxtos, appetizers, pizzas, shareable plates and

entrees that all have a cuttingedge cachet.

But here’s the thing: it doesn’t amount to very much.

I ruled out the extensive draft beer selection and started with a house-specialty cocktail called The Sacred Heart ($12), made with gin, Ancho Reyes chili liqueur, lime, cucumber and a pinch of dried Thai chili.

This was my first intimation that an impressive list of ingredients does not make an interesting preparation—everything was accounted for but produced no special cumulative effect that made me think, “let’s do that again!”

Our server, attentive but glancing, collected our order after a couple of tries (it took a while to get through the menu), then it seemed like we were gangserved by the rest of the staff, which made me wonder why it took so long. We had the misbegotten notion that the pinxtos and appetizer might precede the rest of the meal, but after a bit of a wait all the food arrived at once. I suppose I was quite hungry by then.

The bacon and gorgonzola pinxtos ($6) were as described—three pieces of crostini with a heap of pebbled bacon and blue cheese, drizzled with honey. The strew of slightly wilted greens on which they came added to the sense the plate had sat somewhere for a while before reaching us, which didn’t redound to its favour.

Ceviche is a Latin American dish where raw fish is “cooked” by marinating it in citrus juice.

The The Holy Roller version ($15) used halibut and scallops, but negated the essential acidity with coconut milk, and rather obscured the delicate texture and flavour of the fish with mango, onions and what appeared to be sriracha.

The roasted carrot salad ($11)

was unremarkable, slices of carrot that seemed barely roasted tossed with oranges and chickpeas over spring mix in a hibiscus-honey reduction, with some ricotta crumbled on top. The menu promised dried cranberries but there were none in evidence, which was fine by me as the reduction was plenty sweet with little counterbalancing tartness or savour.

For the main course we ordered the steak board for two ($29), featuring angus steak, maple sweet potato mash, mixed veg (broccoli, roasted carrot and eggplant), and four crimini mushrooms filled with spinach cream. One of the pieces of steak had been cooked to the requested medium rare, making it obvious that the other piece had somehow been cooked past medium rare. The reliance on charring for flavour further undermined the beef, ancho-cascabel butter notwithstanding. I enjoyed the stuffed mushrooms and velvety sweet potatoes.

Co-diner and I weren’t exactly feeling encouraged at that point, but decided to pursue dessert.

The pistachio mousse ($8) was the least decadent-sounding of the offerings: a squat parfait glass with a layer of raspberry gelatin on the bottom, a justnoticeable layer of pistachio mousse, lots very powdery graham crumbs that ended up all over the table, then lots of rosescented whipped cream laden with toasted hazelnuts and a few berries—some lovely notions that somehow didn’t coalesce into satisfying food, something of a theme on the night.

On paper it certainly looked like a $100 meal, but the The Holy Roller experience left our palates unconvinced.

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dc3 Art Projects opens bookshop as a “point of discovery” for Edmonton visual artists

ichelle Schultz, director of dc3 Art Projects, has spent the past year seeking out hard-to-find publications, many of which are sourced directly from small independent publishers. In fact, several of these titles will be exclusively available in Canada through the dc3 Art Projects bookshop.

After experiencing frustration caused by a scarcity of contemporary art publications, Schultz and founder of dc3 David Candler expanded the gallery by adding a valuable resource for the Edmonton arts community.

“We have art books, art magazines and art editions,” Schultz says.

This includes national and international works by local artists and those abroad including smaller niche magazines, non-profit presses and monographs by various artists. Some of the artists featured include Sean Caulfield, Cindy Baker, and Blair Brennan.

Schultz points to a piece of an art edition by Richard Boulet, Our Bodies Are the Meat We Feed On. “It’s an edition of 10, and the idea behind that work was to

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create something that is a more accessible price point for people; so it’s considered an artist edition, even though each one is a unique object.”

Artists that work in mediums like painting, sculpture or textile use editions to generate more affordable pieces in conjunction with their larger gallery works.

“It will also give people access to magazines [and others publications] that they wouldn’t ordinarily think of or know about,” Schultz adds.

She is excited to provide that sort of access point of discovery to the outside world.

“If you’re unable to see an exhibition that’s happening on the other side of the country or in New York or in Europe somewhere, you can still pick up the magazine and read the interviews with the artists and look at studio visits,” she says.

But in general, the dc3 bookshop will offer more affordable art products in many areas.

Smaller niche magazines like FOAM (photography magazine from Amsterdam) will be stocked as well as books from non-profit

presses like Paper Monument out of Brooklyn—all of which range “from $12 to the mid-hundreds,” says Schultz.

“It’s a wonderful extension of what artists spaces do by bringing together audiences who are interested in words and images, and the democracy of it,” says independant curator and author John Chaich. “For many audiences it’s easier to leave with a $5 zine than it is a $500 painting and you still get the satisfaction of engaging with that artist.”

Chaich’s Queer Threads is another of these books that’s difficult to find elsewhere in the country beyond perhaps Toronto or Montréal.

The book explores one of Chaich’s curations of the same name that explores how fibre artists are reclaiming identity by breaking binary barriers of both art and craft and masculine and feminine.

Inspiration for the book lies at the intersection between his own matrilineal influence of textile craft, the influence of the AIDS quilt on his younger self, and being inspired by

third-wave feminism redefining gender binaries.

“That just led me to research more and more queer artists that are working with fibre, which of course intersects with gender, race, feminism, class, labour,” Chaich says.

He recalls seeing the AIDS memorial quilt in Washington D.C. as a young college student having just come out and entering a community that was experiencing great loss at the time.

“It was the last time it could be displayed in its entirety because no space was big enough to contain the panels,” he says.

Chaich explains a history encompassing decades of people that were put in a place of minority and used fibre and textiles to take back their identity. But this history goes beyond gender binaries, it includes any group that has been the ‘other’ at one time or another.

A second example he references is slave quilts that carried on cultural identity at a time of oppression for African-Americans.

“I think there’s an interesting parallel between the way that

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fibre and craft and textile have been treated by the fine art world as separate or less than, in the same way that society treats women, or the feminine or queer or any ‘other,’” he says.

One of the artists’ Queer Threads features is John Paradiso, who works with leather and thread to execute symbolic still-lifes of pansies—a riff on the slang use of “pansy,” referencing one as not masculine enough.

In the same way Chaich’s book highlights a tool to reclaim identity, dc3 plans to offer the same to artists in the area.

“One of the challenges of being in Edmonton is that we are fairly isolated from the major art centres,” Schultz says, “but if you can access the things that you need through magazines, through books and sort of look at things that are happening outside of the city; it’s absolutely necessary. Hopefully we can show people what artists here are doing, but then also show artists here what’s happening outside of the city.”

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madeus is the story of a man who, despite being born with a laugh that could kill the crops, managed to become one of the world’s most brilliant composers. It’s a film that despite its departures from the genuine history of the period and the man, is required viewing for anyone interested in Western cinema or music.

The film won eight Academy Awards in 1984, including Best Director and Best Sound. With great technical mettle, Atilla Glatz Concert Productions is bringing Amadeus, both in film and in orchestral arrangement, to Edmonton.

“Amadeus is such a music-driven movie,” says Glatz Productions’ marketing head, Andrea Warren. “If you’re familiar with this movie … It’s about Mozart, it’s about Salieri, and their relationship, and envy. The entire basis of the film is music … what I love about Amadeus Live is about music.

It feels like a very natural fit to showcase that with live orchestra.”

Anyone familiar with the film can assume the difficulties associated with a production like Amadeus Live. The complexity and specificity of Mozart’s music is difficult to perform, but to present it alongside the 1984 film so that each note matches the screen is an even more challenging task.

As an example, Warren mentions a scene in the film in which rival composer Salieri flips through Mozart’s original works as the music plays through each piece he sees. In practical terms, this means the

live orchestra must perform selections from five different pieces in quick succession in the span of 90 seconds.

Jim Cockell, violinist and orchestra coordinator for the production, believes the local musicians performing in the show are up to the task.

“We definitely want everything to be perfect from the audience perspective,” Cockell says. “I think the rehearsal process is going to be quite intense. I’m totally pumped and I’m not nervous so much just because I know that everyone is a pro.”

Atilla Glatz Concert Productions isn’t new to this sort of entertainment. Now in their 30th year, they’ve produced similar orchestral/film projects around Harry Potter, Gladiator, and The Godfather. While Glatz is a Toronto-based production company, the symphony is composed of Edmonton musicians, including the University of Alberta Madrigal Singers.

One of the aspects that made the original film unique was that it had to serve the music rather than the other way around.

“Most people, I think, have probably seen it at least once,” Cockell says. “To actually see it arrayed out in front of you, all of the different components of the score performing live, I think will be absolutely fascinating. It doesn’t necessarily occur to you when you’re watching a movie like that just how much was required to get the score together.”

Time has tested the music and the film, albeit to a lesser degree. They’re both classics in their own right.

“Any chance to play Mozart is always special,” Cockell says. “You know that you always have to bring your ‘A-game’ to the performance when you’re doing Mozart.”

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POSTER VANDALISM

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Posters for Northern Light Theatre’s The Testament of Mary were methodically torn down

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romotional posters are an essential tool for the artistic community to discover what is going on and many small theatre companies rely on them for a successful show.

Unfortunately, there are always a few people who can be disturbed by a poster’s imagery which can lead to protest, and in the some cases—vandalism.

Northern Light Theatre’s (NLT) posters for their production of The Testament of Mary were torn down before the opening show on October 26. The poster depicted an illustrated, bright, Virgin Mary holding a picture of Jesus Christ.

“We got our posters up on the 20th of October, which was the week before we opened,” says NLT’s general manager, Gina Moe. “By Wednesday, Trevor (NLT’s ar-

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tistic director) noticed that some had been torn down around the ATB Financial Arts Barns. Everything around the immediate area had disappeared. Any poster that had been up was gone besides the ones on the insides of stores.”

This was no freak occurrence by some kids looking for petty poster defacement—this was methodically planned and executed in a timely manner by a person or group that left no trace.

“It was bizarre. They were just gone. There was no evidence that the posters had ever been there. They weren’t ripped down and it seemed pretty methodical. It was also quite specific to us,” Moe says. “Our marketing budgets are pretty meager and it was a huge hit for us. When posters get ripped down we can’t really replace them.”

It was surprising to many, especially the play’s director, Trevor Schmidt. NLT is known for producing controversial productions meant to question the viewer’s ideas and ultimately, start a conversation.

“We knew there had been controversy surrounding this particular play in previous productions, but we didn’t think this would happen in Edmonton,” Schmidt says. “We’ve done some very controversial work with much more risky, edgy themes that would cause much more of a stir than this would.

We’ve had shows about bestiality, violence and all kinds of things and this is the first one when we’ve had anyone deface our property. I guess we underestimated Catholics.”

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trays the Virgin Mary as a human mother struggling with her son’s divinity and crucifixion. It interprets Mary as a flawed and real human questioning her faith.

“I think, to many people in the Catholic faith, that’s considered heresy or sacrilegious,” Schmidt says.

No group or person has claimed responsibility for tearing down the posters, but Schmidt has a pretty good idea who it was.

“I would hesitate to point fingers, but in the last two days of our run, a particular Catholic organization encouraged a lot of Catholics in the organization to start a letter-writing campaign,” Schmidt says. “Even after the show closed, we’ve been receiving a lot of letters from

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angry Catholics about producing the show.”

The show also received some “quiet protest” from the Rosary Rally, an organization known for holding peaceful protests and promoting the ideals of God. “They did apply for a petition with the city to shut down the production,” Moe says. “We got two emails and a Facebook post about us being blasphemous.

But all of these protests were simply saying ‘We will not see your work and we demand you shut it down.’”

Much to the dismay of the protesters, the play was already on its final run with a sold-out turnout.

“Ironically, we had great attendance and great dialogue.

I’d call the production a success,” Moe says. “I’m just really sorry people cut themselves

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Moe echoes Schmidt’s thought process.

“Our mandate has always been to do productions that question people’s hierarchy of values,” she says. “We invite oppositional points of view.

We would have given them a platform to discuss why the play was blasphemous and against their beliefs. I know a lot of Catholics that are continually questioning their faith. That’s part of their religious journey—to be faced with challenge and be renewed with faith.”

NLT’s 2018 season theme is “The Virgin, The Whore, and Something in Between,” with the two upcoming plays Do This in Memory of Me, and Slut both offering challenging viewpoints on religion.

Moe and Schmidt are confident the posters for the upcoming shows will be left alone.

“We’re not going to shy away from doing controversial work, but if someone has a problem with it they can come have a conversation,” Moe says.

Curio Studio (the design team behind the composition of the season’s posters and theme) believe the poster for Slut, may be more offensive.

“The whole series for all three shows this year have religious icons in them,” Curio Studio’s founder, Amanda Schutz says.

“Slut, I feel that may be more offensive to whoever tore these posters down in the first place, but we will have to wait and see.”

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out from dialogue completely and demanded we shut it down.

The protest also took credit for shutting down the production on Broadway when it had nothing to do with it shutting down at all.”

The protesters and poster vandals could have had a platform to voice their opinions. Like every play NLT runs, The Testament of Mary had lengthy salon sessions where viewers discuss the work and its controversy.

“We always hold talk backs and we would have loved to have them attend and voice what they felt objectionable,” Schmidt says. “We want to engender conversation about things. We try to be respectful and I don’t want to change anyone’s opinion or denigrate anyone’s faith.”

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ALBERTA LEGISLATURE AND LEGISLATIVE AssemBly Visitor Centre • 9820-107 St • 780.415.1839 • jeanette.dotimas@assembly.ab.ca • assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis/LegionHalls. html • Legion Halls: photography by Tobi Asmoucha; Oct 13-Jan 2

Allied Arts CoUnCil of sPrUCe GroVe • Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Artwork by Cindy James; Nov 6-Dec 2

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CONVERGENCE • L’UniThéâtre, 8627-91 St • 780. 469.8400 • goodwomen.ca • Collaborating with electroacoustic composer Shawn Pinchbeck, choreographers have developed a work that considers insatiability in a social context and within the realm of the body • Nov 16-18, 8pm

MOSCOW BALLET’S GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER • Myer Horowitz Theatre, 8900-114 St • 780.492.4764 • su.ualberta.ca/businesses/horowitz • Performance of the classic Christmas tale features up to 40 Russian dancers and stunning choreography • Nov 16-17

SUBARTIC IMPROV & EXPERIMENTAL ARTS •

Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • milezerodance.com • Co-curated by Jen Mesch and Allison Balcetis, these unique events combine forces of local and visiting artists, who share with the audience to a melange of dance, visual art, music, and text • Nov 24 • $15 or best offer at the door

VINOK WORLDANCE PRESENTS CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD • Chateau Louis Conference Centre, 11727 Kingsway NW • 780-454-3739 • christmas.vinok.ca • Timothy J. Anderson returns to guide attendees through centuries of culture, costume, traditions, live music and stunning choreography • Nov 16-19 • $45-$80

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • Turbulent Landings: The NGC 2017 Canadian Biennial: curated by Catherine Crowston, Josee Drouin-Brisebois and Jonathan Shaughnessy; Sep 30-Jan 7 • Monument: artwork by Dara Humniski and Sergio Serrano; Oct 14-Feb 19 • Calling Stones (Conversations): artwork by Faye HeavyShield; Oct 28-Feb 19 • WordMark: A New Chapter Acquisition Project; Oct 28-Mar 25 • weekly droP-in ACtiVities: Tours for Tots, Every Wed, 10-11am • Youth Workshops, ages 13-17, Every Thu, 4-6pm • Kids’ Open Studio, Every Sat, 1-3pm • Exhibition Tours; Every Sat-Sun, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm • Art for Lunch; 3rd Thu of the month, 12-1pm • VIBE; 3rd Fri of the month, 5-9pm

Art GAllery of st AlBert (AGsA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Ripples of Loss: artwork by Terry McCue; Nov 2-Dec 2

BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Get It Down On Paper: artwork by Blair Brennan; Oct 28-Nov 18 • Your Work, Our Walls: artwork by Open Walls 3; Nov 25-Dec 16

BoreAlis GAllery • 9820-107 St • assembly. ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis.html • Legion Halls: produced by the Canadian War Museum; Oct 13-Jan 2

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FILM AMADEUS LIVE • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • 1.855.985.5000 • jubileeauditorium.com • A movie-in-concert. Experience the multi-Academy Award winning 1984 motion picture Amadeus on a vast HD screen while Mozart’s most celebrated works are performed live in-sync by a full orchestra and choir • Nov 17-18, 7pm • $26-$85

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • Visit metrocinema.org for daily listings • Afternoon teA: Lady Macbeth (Nov 19) • CinemA of PsyChedeliA: The Holy Mountain (Nov 18) • GAtewAy to CinemA: Pleasantville (Nov 22) • niGht GAllery: The Mysterious Monsters (Nov 18) • reel fAmily CinemA: The Goonies (Nov 18) • sCienCe in the CinemA: The Madness of King George (Nov 16)

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ACUA GAllery & ArtisAn BoUtiqUe • 9534-

level, Rutherford South, University of Alberta • bpsc. library.ualberta.ca • Salt, Sword, and Crozier: Books and Coins from the Prince-Bishopric of Salzburg (c.1500-c.1800); Sep 26-Jan 31

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of nUrsinG: AskinG AND LIVING WITH THE qUestions–Book siGninG • Chapters in Old

Alberta 1-15, Human Ecology Building • 780.492.3824 • Imagining a Better World: The Artwork of Nelly Toll; Sep 28-Mar 11

lAtitUde 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St NW • latitude53.org • Getting Big: artwork by Violet Costello; Oct 6-Nov 18 • Knock on Wood: artwork

by Jeremy Pavka and Sean Procyk; Oct 6-Nov 18

loft Art GAllery • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • artsoc@telus.net • artstrathcona. com • Open Fri-Sun, Sep 9-Dec, 10-4pm • Artwork from local artists of the Society

lotUs Art GAllery • 10321-124 St • lotusgallery.com • Sam An Woven Art Collections: Oct 27-Nov 30 mCmUllen GAllery • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullengallery • This Art Makes Me Feel...: Until Dec 3

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca •The Michel Band: curated by members of the Michel Band Council; Sep 19-Jan 7 • Ripples of Loss: artwork by Terry McCue; Nov 2-Dec 2

PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • NAESS GALLERY: Seek to Touch, paintings by Melissa Baron; Oct 6-Nov 17 • ARTISAN NOOK: Some Paintings of Me: Under the Blue Sky, paintings by Svetlana Troitskaia; Oct 6-Nov 17 Peter roBertson GAllery • 12323-104

fAB GAllery • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/artshows • Artwork

by Liz Ingram and Meghan Pohlod; Nov 21-Dec 9

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• 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Light in the Land–the Nature of Canada: artwork by Dr. Roberta Bondar; Nov 10-Dec 21

SnAP GAllery • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • SNAP Annual Members Show and Sale; Nov 18

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Centennial Centre, 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • shelltheatre.ca • Come on a journey down the rabbit hole as Missoula Children’s Theatre works with local youth theatre lovers to produce an all ages adventure • Nov 18, 3pm & 5:30pm • $5-$12

BACk to the 80s PArt 2: the AdVenTURE CONTINUES • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109

Centennial Centre, 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • shelltheatre.ca • Catch Me If You Can is the high-flying musical comedy about chasing your dreams and not getting caugh • Nov 24-25

CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s long form comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm; Sep 10-Jun 9 • $15 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square)

HADESTOWN • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave •

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Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Join Bill and Ted in their time traveling phone booth as they blast back to the '80s to relive the bad hairdos, spandex pants, iconic characters and, of course, it’s most excellent mix-tape of memorable music. • Nov 7-Jan 28

sCott GAllery • 10411-124 St • scottgallery. com • Iron Light: artwork by Jim Davies; Nov 18-Dec 9

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Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Group Show: Includes new artists and their new works; Nov 9-Dec 31 • Of Sky and Water: artwork by Gregory Hardy; Nov 16-Dec 9; Opening reception: Nov 18, 2-4pm

BUGerA mAtheson GAllery • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Symphonic Timbre: artwork by Ernestine Tahedl; Oct 20-Nov 3 • Gardens Ablaze/Jardins de lumière: artwork by Michèle Drouin (RCA); Nov 17-Dec 7

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"The World's Most Travelled Man" Book Launch; Nov 21, 7-9pm • Paul Zits, Deborah Willis & Lesley Battler Book Launch; Nov 22, 7-9pm

Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Open Tue-Sat, 9am

87 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts.ca • acuarts. ca • Motanky, Felting and Weaving Show: artwork

by Elizabeth Holinaty, Myroslava Oksentiuk, Elena Scharabun and Natalia Yashnikova; Dec 1-19 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Landmarks: artwork by Julia Reimer, Tyler Rock and Katherine Russell; Sep 2-Dec 24 • DISCOVERY GALLERY: We Meet Here: Artwork by Laura McKibbon; Oct

artwork by Daniel Evans; Oct 5-Nov 24 • Soft Red/Hard White–15th Artist-In-Residence Exhibition: artwork by Jen Mesch; Oct 5-Nov 24

Priemaza "Kat and Meg conquer the World" Book Launch; Nov 16, 7-9pm • Madelaine Wong "Quietus" Book Launch; Nov 18, 2-4pm • Joan Marie Galat "Dark Matters" Book Launch; Nov 19, 2-4pm • Mike Bown's

citadeltheatre.com • Orpheus’ mythical quest to regain the favour of his one true love, Eurydice, infused with the music of American folk and New Orleans jazz traditions • Nov 11-Dec 3

hey riel! • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Hero or villain? Louis Riel is thought by many to be the Father of Canadian Confederation. Not so to others, who believe him to be a black spot on Canada's past.

Held on the anniversary of Riel's death in 1885 • Nov 16, 1pm and 7:30pm • $15-$25

JABBerwoCky • The Roxy on Gateway • theatrenetwork.ca • Created by The Old Trout Puppet Workshop. What monster does the original poem actually mean? Is it fanged or flapping, furry or finned, ferocious or formless? Is it outside our bedroom door even now, drooling? Or... something else? • Nov 9-26 JOHN WARE REIMAGINED • Backstage Theatre, ATB Financial Art Barns, 10330-84 Ave • 780.477.5955 • workshopwest.org • A heart-warming play about the man who went from enslavement to Canadian icon • Nov 9-19

LETTERS ACROSS TIME - A COLLECTIVE • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 (city hall ticket centre), 1.888.655.9090 (Ticketpro) • stage2.ticketpro.ca/horizon • A night of story-telling and memories • Nov 23-24, 7:30pm • $15 off Book the mUsiCAl • Citadel Theatre Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave NW • A talented ensemble from Rapid Fire Theatre only needs one thing to create a brand new musical: a suggestion from the audience • Nov 18, Nov 25, 7:30-9pm • $12-$14 (Eventbrite)

ORANGE IS THE NEW PINK • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, #2061, 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • edmonton.jubilations.ca • Piper is pretty in pink and the life of every party. But when this queen of the New York party scene takes it a bit too far, she’s forced to trade in the pink party dress for an orange prison suit • Oct 20-Jan 20

PAwâkAn mACBeth: A Cree trAGedy • Westbury Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave NW • 780.761.2773 • theatreprosperoyeg@ gmail.com • The groundbreaking Pawâkan Macbeth is Indigenous playwright, Reneltta Arluk’s reimagining of Shakespeare’s darkest play into Cree history, legend and cosmology • Nov 23-26, 7:30-9:30pm • $25 (adult), $14 (students) SISTER ACT • Triffo Theatre (proscenium), Allard Hall, 11110-104 Ave • macewan.ca • When disco diva Deloris Van Cartier witnesses a murder, she is put in protective custody in the one place the cops are sure she won't be a found: a convent! Disguised as a nun, she finds herself at odds with both the rigid lifestyle and her uptight Mother Superior • Nov 22-Dec 2, 7:30-9:30pm • $25 (adults), $20 (seniors 60+), $15 (full-time students)

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep 9-Jun 8 • $15

VAGABond VAriety show Presents: BEDSIDE MANNER • The Buckingham, 10439-82 Ave NW • 780.982.7318 • blacklabelburlesque@gmail. com • A night filled with sketch comedy, local music and burlesque. A fundraiser in support of the Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton • Nov 26, 7:30-10:30pm • $10 (door)

the View from here • St Albert Theatre Troupe, Kinsmen Hall 47 Riel Drive • 780.222.0102 • stalberttheatre.com • A comedy about Fern, a woman in her mid thirties, who has not left her house for six years. She takes in neighborhood babies for a living.

Her nurturing talents are put to the test when her sister lands on her couch in a catatonic state and her neighbor, whose wife has just left him, moves in along with his abandoned baby • Nov 9-25

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Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers 1. Short Story Advent Calendar 2017 - Michael Hingston Ed. * + 2. This Wound is a World (Poetry) Billy-Ray Belcourt * + 3. Walking Through Turquoise (Poetry) - Laurie MacFayden * + 4. Christmas At the Vinyl Cafe Stuart McLean 5. A Wake for the Dreamland Laurel Deedrick-Mayne * 6. Into the Open (Poetry) - Susan McCaslin 7. You Can’t Stay Here - Jasmina Odor * 8. Uncommon Type: Some Stories Tom Hanks

9. Kat and Meg Conquer the World (Young Adult) - Anna Priemaza * 10. Few and Far - Allison Kydd +

Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers 1. Canadian Wilderness Survival Bruce Zewalsky * 2. 100 Things Oilers Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die Joanne Ireland *, Ryan Smyth * 3. The Vaccination Picture - Timothy Caulfield * 4. Oil’s Deep State: How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Slows Action on Global Warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa - Kevin Taft * 5. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion-Surprising Observations of a Hidden World - Peter Wollheben, Jeffrey Masson,

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Jane Billinghurst 6. In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey - Payam Akhavan 7. The Unravelling: How Our Caregiving Safety Net Came Unstrung - Clem Martini * , Olivier Martini * + 8. Calling the Shots - Kelly Hrudey * , Kirstie McLellan Day * 9. Searching for Mary Schaffer: Women Wilderness Photography - Colleen Skidmore * + 10. Hot Line: How the Legendary of Hull, Hedberg and Nilsson Transformed Hockey and Led the Winnipeg Jets to Greatness - Neil DeGrasse Tyson * Alberta author † Alberta publisher List compiled by Audreys Books and the Book Publishers Association of Alberta

MEDICINAL CANNABIS

Fri., Nov. 17 (7 pm) Cannabis as Medicine Roots on Whyte $35

Medicinal cannabis is still an area of misinformation and hot debate

W

hile there has been a general shift towards curiosity about cannabis since Trudeau’s pot-promising government took office, the switch has marked a particularly crucial need for education.

Dionne Jennings, a herbalist with the Edmonton Herb Club says the majority of people that come to her asking about medicinal cannabis have not tried any other herbal alternative before settling on cannabis. She attributes this to the rampant misinformation online.

To combat this, she created an event based in cannabis education. Master and clinical herbalist Jeananne Laing will take the lead for the event to lecture on cannabis as medicine.

“It’s interesting so many people out there are using it but they don’t really know what they’re doing,” Laing says. “There’s a lot of need for education around the use of the plant for medicinal purposes.”

The event involves a basic intro session as well as a more advanced class that builds on the first.

With much greater interest than she had expected, Jennings moved the event to a larger space and still sold out the advanced Saturday class.

With many years of training under her belt, and most recently educating practicing doctors at an education clinic in Calgary, Laing is a crusader for accurate information rooted in facts.

She agrees that we’re facing a problem right now with the pending legalization that exposes a lack of education about cannabis in general.

One of the reasons there is so little knowledge about it is that currently the only way to access legal cannabis is through a prescription from a medical doctor.

In addition, research on cannabis has also been limited until it’s made legal and accessible, which unfortunately coincides with the floodgates opening and legalization being rolled out.

But it’s more than just access.

Doctors are educating themselves about the medicinal uses of cannabis, the various strains, and methods of intake at the same time that we are.

“There are no consolidated sources for learning,” Laing says.

This means there’s still serious catch up to be done.

It doesn’t help that there are so many aspects to the use of cannabis. Laing names two categories, one being adult use (recreational use), the other being medicinal use.

Laing and other herbalists deal only with medicinal use. But, within medicinal use there’s daily use for problems like insomnia and anxiety, and there’s more specific use meant for treatment of diseases and cancers. There’s also the problem of different strains with different ratios of CBD (cannabidiol) and THC (tetrahydrocannabinol, psychoactive ingredient).

But where should the information be coming from?

“I think it’s really confusing to get good quality information out there that’s unbiased and doesn’t have a leaning towards the recreational or adult use versus the actual medicinal use,” Laing says.

Perhaps the role herbalists can play is a collaborative one with medical doctors.

“Medical doctors are the best people to evaluate if cannabis medicine would be a good fit,” Laing says. “Based on their current health, health history and whatever pharmaceutical drug the person [may be] on.”

But, she says, most doctors do not have the time or expertise to advise on different strains and what dosages would work best.

“Herbalists are good candidates because we teach about other plant medicines. But a lot of people want that scientific end of it,” Laing says. “So there’s a lot of research that needs to be done on how the medicinal parts [of canna-

bis] fit into our bodies within the endocannabinoid system.”

The endocannabinoid system was only discovered in the ‘90s and still has many unknown functions. The majority of papers published on the subject only come from the last 15 to 20 years. What we do know is the system is a series of receptors connected to our central and peripheral nervous systems as well as our immune system and actually uses naturally occurring endocannabinoids in our body to regain and maintain homeostasis.

Though slightly different form our naturally occurring endocannabinoids, phytocannabinoids interact with the CB1 and CB2 receptors in our endocannabinoid system.

However, when asked if there’s a book she’d recommend on the subject, Laing says there is still no book on medicinal cannabis she is completely comfortable backing.

Jennings adds that there’s so much curiosity surrounding cannabis that myths end up becoming all too common. One of the common errors she sees is creating cannabis to be “an inflated cure for everything.”

This is why there is so much need for substantial information. One of the more serious concerns many herbalists have is the use of cannabis in those underage. Of the studies that have been done, the plant has been linked to cannabisinduced mental health issues ranging from short-term paranoia to long-term mental illness, even after there is no trace of cannabis in the person’s system.

If there’s anything we can take from all this, it’s that accurate information is scarce and the clock is ticking on the pending legalization process.

Prime Minister Trudeau just announced the proposed federal tax for upcoming cannabis sales at one dollar per gram or 10 percent of total sale price, whichever is higher. However, this has sparked concern in Alberta with our lack of

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a provincial tax, potentially making cannabis bought in Alberta the cheapest in the country.

Finance Minister Joe Ceci has pointed out his problem with this, stating that cannabis needs to be relatively the same price country-wide. Another reason the province has a problem with the proposed tax rate is the lack of help they are receiving from

the federal government.

While much is still up in the air, the proposed Cannabis Act is slated to come into action no later than July 2018 according to the government of Canada website.

In the meantime, while shops and stocks increase by the day, education remains a problem.

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randon Rhiness sounds like he’s the kind of busy that can make you sick. He’s a local writer, director, producer, and co-founder of Higher Universe Comics. When he’s not writing comic books like Ghoul Squad, Misfits, or The Boy with a Balloon for a Head, he’s working on a whole chain of film projects in various stages of production.

Now Rhiness and fellow filmmaker and actor Michael SchaarNey are busy helping uncover the odd and underexposed elements of Edmonton’s independent film scene with the Edmonton Indie Filmmakers Night.

“Come out to meet people,” Rhiness says. “Every week I’m getting hit up by actors and stuff that want to get involved.

Come to this thing and you can meet the people. That’s the easiest way.”

The evening features six films to be shown, each with sinister titles like My Shadow is Trying to Kill Me, Under the Bed, and Who Killed Mary Sue? All six were created by local directors and production companies, including Rhiness and Schaar-Ney.

The longest film of the night clocks in around the 15-minute mark, so the screenings only take up about an hour. The rest of the night is reserved for a meet and greet with the filmmakers and a performance by songstress and actor Skylar Radzion.

“You get to see things made in Edmonton,” says Rhiness.

“There are ways to see [that] but if we have a film festival [then] it’s international. Every film here was made in Edmonton, with people in Edmonton.

You basically get to see what the community is putting out.”

While the Edmonton Indie Filmmakers Night is meant to showcase the work of local artists, it’s also an opportunity to invest in upcoming works. The night doubles as a chance for Rhiness and Schaar-Ney to raise money for their upcoming feature project, Motel 13.

Rhiness says there is something special about seeing your city on the big screen.

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movie is set there. You’re used to it, whereas here, how many movies can you name that take place in Edmonton? Two maybe, and they’re not very good.

To be able to see like ‘Hey, that’s the High Level Bridge’ or ‘that’s City Hall. I live there.’ It makes you proud.”

Rhiness has been writing since grade four, when his teacher let him read a story to the class about getting kidnapped and held hostage in a skyscraper. He says that events like the Edmonton Indie Filmmakers Night have the potential to not just showcase talent, but to help foster even greater filmmakers, producers, and talent still to come.

“We’re encouraging aspiring actors, writers, filmmakers, that maybe don’t know where to start,” says Rhiness. “Come to this thing and meet people, the people that are actually making movies in Edmonton.

The best you can do is introduce yourself, shake their hand, and volunteer yourself for their next project. Just get involved.”

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uffy Sainte-Marie is a name that needs no introduction in Canada; it’s a name that stands for strength, resilience, culture and progress.

Her newest album Medicine Songs being toured across the country is a retrospective look at the activism songs from her five-decade-long career of pointing out the truth and the problems with society, no matter how unsavoury the backlash may be.

She says the process of progress often involves looking backward in order to look forward.

“I think it comes in cyclical waves, you know, we learn and then we forget, we learn and then we forget,” Sainte-Marie says. “It’s not as though we don’t make progress, we do.

But I think it comes in waves.”

And she’s still running.

The album echoes a career of protest songs that harken back to when “The Universal Soldier”

blew the lid off the ‘60s music scene. By arranging the songs in an order that delivers an undeniable narrative, the album is the ultimate voice for SainteMarie’s life-long fight for Indigenous human rights.

Headlines don’t always reflect the most important issues affecting our world, and can often get things wrong. With this wisdom, even in her 20s, SainteMarie set a course to tell the story of history, through the lens of her people.

“Usually I don’t go right on the nose about current events that are going on, because it’s just everywhere, no one needs to hear from me on that,” she says. “I’m very much like a kindergarten kid that way. I do life the way I want to and it’s worked out very well for me.”

Looking back, Sainte-Marie finds many of her songs touch on larger recurring issues that often underlie the more specific

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“headlines-of-the-day issues,” like water protests and missing women and girls.

With many friends in the civil rights movement like Stokely Carmichael, Harry Belafonte, Floyd Westerman, Stevie Wonder, Dick Gregory, and Mohammed Ali, Sainte-Marie chose to “cover the base that wasn’t being covered in Indian country.” While her civil rights friends were jumping around in main arenas, SainteMarie was forging a new road forward, one that many people knew nothing about.

She gives the example of talking about genocide in the ‘60s.

“When people thought I must be mistaken or that I must just be an Indian sticking up for her people, making things up, gilding the lily, exaggerating. But it really was true,” she says. “It’s just that I was in a position to know that it was true, but the journalists around me didn’t have access to knowing that it was true.”

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While Sainte-Marie says she’s seen tremendous progress with Indigenous issues, especially recently with truth and reconciliation, she also sees repeated instances of larger issues that humanity seems to continually come back to.

Last week, Edmonton hosted the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Hearing from 58 witnesses over the course of the week, the inquiry is tasked with creating a report of recommendations for the government by December 2018 that encompasses testimony heard from all the provinces and territories.

Sainte-Marie lokos at this progress in a larger frame, as she does most things; “the good news about the bad news is that more people know about it, and that’s where you start.”

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“It doesn’t do me or anyone else any good to get burned out, or for any activist to get burned out.”

The first track on Medicine Songs, “You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind)” recorded with Nunavut throat singer Tanya Tagaq, speaks to the cycle of progress.

And Sainte-Marie finds a positive call-to-arms like “You Gotta Run” more productive than headlines and contrarian narrative.

“It’s encouraging people to run for office, to run for their health, to run in a marathon, I mean that word run can mean many things in that song. But it’s really about the true meaning of success or being a champion,” she says. “It’s about human beings being able to evolve and going farther today than they thought they could

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ith nearly three decades under his belt, Barenaked Ladies lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter, Ed Robertson still reflects about the monolithic success he and his bandmates have achieved.

“I’ve been really aware of it on this tour because it’s the largest Canadian tour we’ve done in over a decade and it’s had me thinking a lot about the Gordon tour,” Robertson says. “That was the first massive tour we did. So, I’m very keenly aware that Gordon came out a quarter of a century ago and that I get to keep doing this thing every night.”

Barenaked Ladies began its Canadian rise to fame in the early ‘90s after Gordon made its debut in 1992. The album had instant hits like, “If I had a 1,000,000,” “Brian Wilson,” and “Be My Yoko Ono,” which gained the band critical acclaim. A little time after, the Barenaked Ladies began performing in the U.S. to reach a wider audience.

“We really honed our craft here, but there’s a small pie in Canada with only 30 million people,” Robertson says. “We’ve had a huge slice of that pie in the early ‘90s, but if we wanted to sustain a career, we had to go elsewhere, so we went to the U.S. and went almost non-stop

for about five years.”

Non-stop is an understatement.

From 1996 to 1998, the Barenaked Ladies were averaging about three American live shows a day for 18 months.

“It was grueling, exciting and crazy, but at the end of it we had the top 40 single which paved the way for Stunt in ‘98,” Robertson says.

Since then, the Barenaked Ladies have released 15 fulllength albums with the latest one Fake Nudes to be released later this week.

The new album screams classic Barenaked Ladies, filled with songs about perseverance, humour, and love. It also offers a newer adventurous sound for the band and spans a cornucopia of genres like folk, country, modern reggae, and electronica.

“It’s a very diverse listen,” Robertson says. “We had super strong contributions from Kevin (keyboards) on this record and that just made it really naturally diverse.”

One of the standout tracks on Fake Nudes is “Nobody Better,” which begins as an acoustic country ballad that fuses into a modern reggae vibe.

“That song, if you listen to the demo, it sounds like a Lyle Lovett song. Just straight ahead country,” he explains. “Then I did a different demo that was kind of like a Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s Rust Never Sleeps. It wasn’t sticking so Tyler (drums) comes in and

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says, ‘What about a Sean Paul, modern reggae sound?’ I was like, ‘What?’ It was totally out of left field, but it was how the song was supposed to be and it made it sound so fuckin’ killer.”

Earlier this year, the Barenaked Ladies teamed up with the legendary A cappella soul group, The Persuasions, to release Ladies and Gentlemen: Barenaked Ladies and The Persuasions, a 14 track album of re-worked Barenaked Ladies hits.

“Kevin was Lou Reed’s musical director for a number of years and The Persuasions had toured with Lou ages ago in the ‘80s,” Robertson says. “Kevin met Dave (lead singer for The Persuasions) at Lou’s memorial and they struck up a conversation. We booked a day and a half in the studio with them and we ended up getting 15 songs together.

It ended up being almost a live greatest hits album.”

Robertson is very eager to play in Edmonton and is also honoured that the band’s fanbase has stayed this strong for 29 years.

“We have people coming out bringing their teenage kids and these people saw us when they were in university,” he says. “It’s really cool that we have been part of the soundtrack of their whole lives. There’s this connection to the band that runs so deep. We get up there on stage and we respect and appreciate that connection.”

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POLKA PUNK

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here may be only a small fraction of people in the world that can tell you the similarities between punk rock and polka.

Nicholas Smyth of The Dreadnoughts is one of the few.

Since 2007, The Dreadnoughts have been combining an outrageous Celtic punk sound with a traditional European polka.

“Polka and punk are really just the same beat,” Smyth says.

“Not old-school punk, but the kind of ‘90s stuff, like Bad Religion and NOFX. It just has a ‘one, two beat.’ That’s the structure of most of those songs which is

really simple. Polka is the exact same, but it’s played with different instruments. It’s just primal up and down dance music.”

The aesthetic of both genres can also throw people off.

“You have dorky old guys with accordions wearing golf pants and then you got people with coloured hair and studs through their noses so you think, ‘Oh, those are totally different,’ but it’s a trick. They’re very similar and appeal to the same emotions,” Smyth says.

Along with his Vancouver-based five-piece group, Smyth first truly

embraced the polka punk sound on the third album Polka’s Not Dead. It was a tour date in smalltown Poland that sparked the creation of The Dreadnoughts polka punk.

“We were staying with this woman in this tiny town in Poland and she took us to meet her father who is the town accordion player,” Smyth says. “There’s like 2,000 people in this town, and every Sunday he will go down to the church hall after service and just rock out the accordion for people. So people will dance, eat perogies and drink vodka and

that’s these people’s whole lives.”

The man played a heap of old Polish polka tunes for the band in his tiny home while they listened in awe and silence.

“You can’t get recordings of this because no one has written out the music on paper. This stuff was written like 200 years ago by his ancestors,” Smyth says. “That’s when you realize how deep some of this stuff runs in the culture.

We got the idea to try and blend some of that sounds in with varying degrees of success, but that was hugely influential.”

That influence lead to two albums, a lengthy hiatus, and Foreign Skies, the latest batch of songs inspired by the First World War. Foreign Skies was spawned from a writing retreat where the band members rented a cabin in British Columbia’s countryside and studied the First World War time period with movies, podcasts, and history books.

“The album is about all kinds of people at the time,” Smyth says. “I was worried people would think it was a soldier tribute thing, but really the history of that war was a disaster for the soldiers. Heroism is pretty much impossible when you’re just having artillery rained on your head. You sit there and you die.”

Foreign Skies recounts many tales from the First World War, like in the song “The Amiens Polka,” a largely instrumental track about drunken “war parties” that would spring up in small European towns.

“Soldiers, German soldiers, in particular, were sick and tired of fighting and instead of pushing on like they were supposed to, they would steal all of the wine in the local town and just get absolutely bombed,” Smyth says.

“They would break out instruments and the locals would show up so you’d have French people dancing with German soldiers.

We wanted to capture that feel.”

The Dreadnoughts try to capture that feel with every live show. Basically, it’s just an unscripted, booze-fueled party.

“There’s no choreography and we can launch into anything on stage so this combination with alcohol and the one, two beat really gets people going,” Smyth says. “We hope everyone gets a little bit mental.”

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BLUES ON WHYTE Sweet

Sunday Jam featuring The Joint Chiefs

Mike "The Party Hog"; 9pm

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

Karaoke night; Every Mon, 9pm; Free

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

Wong every Sat

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB

Jazz Brunch with Charlie Austin; 9am-2pm; By donation

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Edmonton Winds Presents: O Canada; 2-5:30pm; $15 (students/seniors), $20 (general location), free (kids under 12)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Zyppy; Every Sun

GAS PUMP Kizomba-DJ; 8pm

Stage; 7-11pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Sam

Spades; 9pm

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

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

Happy Hour featuring Andrew Scott; 5:30pm

HAVE MERCY Whiskey

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme

Fiddlers Association: Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm SIDELINER’S PUB Singer/

Wednesdays Live Piano Karaoke featuring the Fab Tiff Hall; Every Wed, 8:30pm LEAF BAR & GRILL Wang

Dang Wednesdays; Every Wed, 7-11pm; Free NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Happy Hour featuring Nick Samoil; 5:30pm

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

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

DJs

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Substance with Eddie

Lunchpail TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic

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

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

TUE NOV 21

THE PROVINCIAL PUB

BLUES ON WHYTE Sweet

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE 4

Vintage Rides; 9pm FESTIVAL PLACE Sons of

Karaoke Wednesday Dollar Bill Country Jam; 7pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke;

MON NOV 20

the Pioneers Holiday Show; 7:30pm

BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE

FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle

Classical

Jam Circle; 7:30-11:30pm

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

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

John Mahon, Tami Cooper and Hiromi Takahashi (clarinet, flute and oboe); 12:10-12:50pm; Free

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

DJs

Scott Woods: Old Time Christmas; 7pm; Tickets available at Wisemen's Way Bookstore BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: Metal Mondays

with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox BLUES ON WHYTE Sweet

Vintage Rides; 9pm

LB'S PUB Tuesday Night

Happy Hour - Rising Star with Jadie & Kendra, Jonah Langlois, and Charley Arnold; 5:30pm • Big Dreamer Jam

9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee;

Every Wed

VENUEGUIDE 99TEN 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ALIBI PUB & EATERY 17328 Stony Plain Rd ALL SAINTS' ANGELICAN CATHEDRAL 10035-103 St NW THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ARIA'S BISTRO 10332-81 Ave, 780.972.4842, ariasbistro.com ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com AUSSIE RULES KITCHEN & PIANO BAR #1638, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722, aussierulesedmonton.com B-STREET BAR 11818-111 Ave BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BLVD SUPPER X CLUB 10765 Jasper Ave BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BRICK & WHISKEY PUBLIC HOUSE 8937-82 Ave

BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT 24 Boudreau Rd, St. Albert, 780.460.8092 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn. com CITÈ FRANCOPHONE 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury COMMON 9910-109 St DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB 1111387 Ave NW, devaneyspub.com DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR 8230 Gateway Blvd, elcortezcantina.com

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE 9912-82 Ave NW ENVY NIGHT CLUB West Edmonton Mall, 8882 170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca THE FORGE ON WHYTE 1054982 Ave (Whyte Ave) GAS PUMP NIGHT CLUB & BAR 10166-114 St HART'S TABLE 14229-23 Ave NW HAVE MERCY SOUTHERN TABLE + BAR 8232 Gateway Blvd, havemercy.ca HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave NW HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage.com JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR & GRILL 9016132 Ave MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.com MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337

MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE 8900-114 St NW NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524 Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St REC ROOM–EDMONTON SOUTH COMMON 1725-99 St NW REC ROOM–WEST EDMONTON MALL 8882-170 St NW ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SEWING MACHINE FACTORY 9560-82 Ave NW SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERBROOKE PUB 13160118 Ave NW

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SQUARE 1 COFFEE 15 Fairway Drive ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 11150-82 St, 780.436.1554 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WOODRACK CAFE 7603-109 St, 780. 757.0380, thewoodrackcafe. com Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428

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

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

6:45-7:45, Adult Ballet 7:45-9:15pm • Drop in Rate $15.75 (inc. GST); 5, 10, 15 Class passes available

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

THE CARROT COFFEE FRIENDSHIP CLUB • Carrot Coffeehouse, 9351-118 Ave • Have a cup of coffee with 55+ individuals single, divorced, or widowed who are looking to make new friends with neighbours in our local communities of: Delton, Eastwood, Parkdale – Cromdale, Westwood, Spruce Ave, and Alberta Avenue • Every Wed, 11am

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

• Every Sun, 8pm

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE • 10425-82 Ave •

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

Underdog Comedy Show • Every Thu

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu-Fri: 8pm; Sat: 7:30pm & 10pm (until Apr) • Hannibal Thompson; Nov 16-18 • Cory Robinson; Nov 23-25

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Mark Normand; Nov 16-19 • Drew Lynch; Nov 20-22 • Nigel Lawrence; Nov 23

DEMETRI MARTIN • Enmax Hall, Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • Stand-up comedian, writer, director and person Demetri Martin returns to Edmonton with his new show, “Let’s Get Awkward” • Nov 19, 7:30pm EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free

RON JAMES • Enmax Hall, Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • Marshaling a comedian’s eye for satire and a writer’s ear for language, Ron takes his audience on a breathtaking, non-stop roller coaster ride, cutting a wide swath through contemporary culture with his razor-sharp ribald wit • Nov 23, 7:30pm

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

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

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave NW • 780.554.6133 • Instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light. Learn a simple technique that will lift you above life's stresses • Every Sun, 5pm • Free

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

780.479-8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus.net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm

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

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

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

ADULT DANCE CLASSES • Quantum Leap Dance, 11232-163 St • 780.974.0309 • MON: Adult Tap, 7-8pm; Stretch & Strength with Jazz, 8-9:15pm • Wed: Floor Barre

RODA DE CAPOEIRA • Capoeira Academy, #103-10324-82 Ave • capoeiraacademy.ca • Brazil's traditional game of agility and trickery • Every Sat, 2:30pm • Free • All ages

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave •

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

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS

Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • karenbishopartist@gmail.com • mcdougallunited.com • A weekly group for those who like to paint, draw or otherwise be creative on paper • Every Thu, 10am-noon

PAINTING FOR PLEASURE • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald

TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus

St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Generating Power Speakers: EPCOR Tower, 10423-101 St NW: Meeting will take place on the 8th floor, 780.392.5331 (Phil); 1st and 3rd Tue each month, 12:05-1:05pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact vpm@ norators.com, 780.807.4696, norators.com • Norwood Toastmasters: Legion, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm • TM4PM Toastmasters Club: Scotia Place Conference Centre, Meeting Room B, 10060 Jasper Ave; 1022113.toastmastersclubs. org; Every Tue, 6:10-7:30pm • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); 780.463.5331 (Antonio); yclubtoastmasters@gmail.com; Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS COLLAPSE: NEOLIBERALISM IN CRISIS • Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex, University of Alberta, 9107-116 St NW • 780.492.8558 • parkland@ualberta.ca • parklandconference.ca • Examining the current state of neoliberalism, which has been the dominant economic, governmental, and societal ideology of our time • Nov 17-19 / Supplied

Toward the Next round of Constitutional Talks: revising The Constitution act, 1982 Mclennan ross halls, law Centre, university of alberta Nov. 23, 5 - 6:30 pm Free (register online)

VUECLASSIFIEDS 1600.

Volunteers Wanted

Can You Read This?

Help Someone Who Can’t!

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

Call Moncia at P.A.L.S. 780-424-5514 or email volunteers@palsedmonton.ca

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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BASIC TOOL TRAINING WORKSHOP • HFH Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext 237 • mstannard@hfh.org • hfh.org/volunteer/basictool-training • Gain the confidence needed to go out to build sites through careful instruction and hands-on practice • Nov 17, 8:30am-4pm • Free

To Book Your Classifieds, Call 780.426.1996 or email classifieds@vueweekly.com Artist to Artist

ART CLASSES FOR ADULTS, YOUTH, AND CHILDREN Check The Paint Spot’s website, paintspot.ca/events/workshops for up-to-date information on art classes for all ages, beginner and intermediate.

Register in person, by phone or online.

Contact: 780.432.0240 email: accounts@paintspot.ca

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Artist to Artist

ENJOY ART ALWAYZ www.bdcdrawz.com Check the site every two weeks for new work!

3100. Appliances/Furniture Old Appliance Removal Removal of unwanted appliances. Must be outside or in your garage.

Rates start as low as $30.

Call James @780.231.7511 for details

TOWARD THE NEXT ROUND OF CONSTITUTIONAL TALKS: REVISING THE CONSTITUTION ACT, 1982 • McLennan Ross Halls, Law Centre, University of Alberta • Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliott Clarke will deliver this year's McDonald Lecture in Constitutional Studies. Clarke will propose amendments to the Canadian Constitution intended to prod attendees to continue striving to attain a model constitution for the nation we are becoming (whether we like it or not) • Nov 23, 5-6:30pm • Free (register online bit.ly/ Nov23GEC)

TRANSCEND COFFEE + ROASTERY OPEN HOUSE • Transcend Coffee + Roastery - Ritchie Market, 9570-76 Ave NW • transcendcoffee.ca/open-house-2017 • Learn everything coffee with workshops, coffee samples and more • Nov 25, 11am-2pm • Free

QUEER AFFIRM GROUP • garysdeskcom@hotmail. com • mcdougallunited.com • Part of the United Church network supporting LGBTQ men and women • Meet the last Sun of every month at State & Main (101 St and Jasper Ave) for coffee and conversation at 12:30pm; Special speaker events are held throughout the year over lunch at McDougall Church EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Mon: Drag Race in the White Room; 7pm • Wed: Monthly games night/trivia • Thu: Happy hour, 6-8pm; Karaoke, 7-12:30am • Fri: Flashback Friday with your favourite hits of the 80s/90s/2000s; rotating drag and burlesque events • Sat: Rotating DJs Velix and Suco • Sun: Weekly drag show, 10:30pm G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.4235510 (Sage) • tuff69@telus.net • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Tue, 1-4pm

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • pridecentreofedmonton. org/calendar.html • DrOp iN hOurs: Mon-Fri 12-7pm; Closed Sat-Sun and holidays • TraNs YOuTh TalkiNg: (24 and under) 3rd Mon of every month, for trans youth and supportive people in their lives • FierCe FuN: (24 and under) Alternating Tue, 7-9pm, games and activities for youth • JaMOuT: (12-24) Alternating Tue, 7-8:30pm, music mentorship and instruction for youth • MeDiTaTiON: (all ages) 3rd Thu of each month, 5:30-6:45pm • MeN’s sOCial CirCle: (18+) 1st and 3rd Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone masculine-identified • WOMeN’s sOCial CirCle: (18+) 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone feminine-identified • MOvies & gaMes NighT: Alternating Fri, 6-8:30pm • arTs & iDeNTiTY: Alternating Fri, 6-8:30pm • MeN TalkiNg WiTh priDe: (18+) Sun, 7-9pm, group for gay or bisexual men • CreaTiNg saFer spaCes TraiNiNg: Interactive professional development workshops, with full or half-day options • Queer MeNTOrship prOgraM: (Youth: 12-24) (Adults-26+) Queer to Queer Mentoring TEAM EDMONTON • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • sWiMMiNg: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • WaTer pOlO: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:309:30pm • YOga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • TaekWONDO: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • aBs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:158:15pm • DODgeBall: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • ruNNiNg: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • spiN: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• vOlleYBall: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • MeDiTaTiON: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:306:15pm • BOarD gaMes: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • all BODies sWiM: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm YOGA WITH JENNIFER • 780.439.6950 • ThreeBattles.com • A traditional approach with lots of individual attention. Free introductory classes • Tue evenings & Sat mornings

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SPECIAL EVENTS CHRISTMAS MARKETPLACE 2017 • A.J. Ottewell Community Centre (Red Barn), 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Artists presenting their “crafty” personality, with a variety of items: knitting, sewing, handmade crafts & giftware, baked goods, and more • Nov 19, 11am-4pm • Free

EDMONTON POTTERS' GUILD–65TH ANNUAL POTTERY SHOW AND SALE • Alberta Avenue Community Centre, 9210-118 Ave • predmontonpottersguild@gmail.com • edmontonpottersguild.com • Featuring pottery created by more than 80 local potters • Nov 18, 10am-3pm • Admission/parking are free (donations to the Edmonton Food Bank accepted)

FIRST MENNONITE CHURCH CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIR AND BAKE SALE • First Mennonite Church, 3650-91 St • 780.436.3431 • Handmade crafts, bake sale, cookie walk, cinnamon bun and coffee café, and more • Nov 18, 9:30am-3:30pm • Free FROSTY PAWS WINTER MARKET • Bannerman Community Hall, 14034-23 St NW • edmontonanimalrescue.org/events • An annual winter market in support of The Greater Edmonton Animal Rescue Society • Nov 25, 12-4pm • Free (accepting donations of high quality food for the society's animals)

INDIGENOUS ARTISANS' HOLIDAY MARKET • Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave • macrae@ualberta.ca • Shop for unique gifts made by Indigenous artists, while enjoying music and bannock • Nov 23, 11am-2pm • Free

JUST ONE WORLD MARKET • St. Basil's Cultural Centre, 10819-71 Ave • justoneworldmarket.com • An ethical global marketplace for quality arts, handmade crafts and other goods featuring international gifts • Nov 25-26 LIGHT WALK • Muttart Conservatory, 962696a St NW • edmonton.ca • Take a stroll under the stars as you walk through the Temperate Pyramid surrounded by nature and other breathtaking wonders • Every Thu, Nov-Dec, 5-9pm • Regular admission

MAKE IT! EDMONTON • Edmonton Expo Centre, 7515-118 Ave NW • makeitshow.ca/ edmonton • Featuring all the best handmade gifts from over 265 makers for the upcoming season • Nov 23-26 • $5-$8 MARTIN DEERLINE'S GREEN CHRISTMAS • Martin Deerline West Edmonton, 17104-118 Ave • 780.452.2790 • martindeerline.com • Take pictures with Santa on a tractor, build Christmas crafts, enjoy Christmas treats and save some money on John Deere gifts • Nov 18, 9am-2pm • Free

ROYAL BISON • Cosmopolitan Music Society, 8426 Gateway Blvd • royalbison.ca • A twice a year festival of the best and quirkiest art, craft and design Edmonton has to offer • Nov 24-26, Dec 1-3

THURSDAYS TBD TO BE DISCOVERED • Legislative Assembly Visitor Centre, Edmonton Federal Building, Main floor, 9820-107 St • 780.427.7362 • assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/ events.html • Visitors can look forward to an array of guest speakers, film screenings, free concerts and more • Every Thu, Oct 5-Mar 1, 6-8pm • Free TIX HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE • TIX on the Square, 9930-102 Ave • 780.420.1757 • kaelyn@tixonthesquare.ca • tixonthesquare. ca/performances/4606 • Two local TIX artists will be in-store creating fabulous artworks and answering questions. Many items for sale in the store are made by local artists • Nov 18, 10am-4pm • Free

UKRAINIAN WEDDING FAIR • St. Basil's Cultural Centre, 10819-71 Ave • 780.488.8858 • info@acuarts.ca • acuarts.ca • Celebrate all things Ukrainian wedding with vendors, a fashion show, workshops, food and more • Nov 18, 10am-5pm • Admission by donation WHYTE WISHES IN OLD STRATHCONA • Old Strathcona • oldstrathcona.ca/whytewishes • Experience the magic of the season on a horse-drawn sleigh ride, meet Santa and give him a list, and support local businesses in the process • Nov 13-Dec 24

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Many people go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after,” observed Henry David Thoreau. The spirit of Thoreau’s observation is true about every one of us to some extent. From time to time, we all try to satisfy our desires in the wrong location, with the wrong tools, and with the wrong people.

But I’m happy to announce that his epigram is less true for you now than it has ever been. In the coming months, you will have an unusually good chance to know exactly what you want, be in the right place at the right time to get it, and still want it after you get it.

And it all starts now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I predict that during the next ten months, you will generate personal power and good fortune as you ripen your skills at creating interesting forms of intimacy.

Get started! Here are some tips to keep in mind. 1. All relationships have problems. Every single one, no exceptions! So you should cultivate relationships that bring you useful and educational problems. 2. Be very clear about the qualities you do and don’t want at the core of your most important alliances. 3. Were there past events that still obstruct you from weaving the kind of togetherness that’s really good for you?

Use your imagination to put those events behind you forever.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You may be entertaining an internal dialog that sounds something like this: “I need a clear yes or a definitive no ... a tender revelation or a radical revolution ... a lesson in love or a cleansing sex marathon—but I’m not sure which!

Should I descend or ascend?

Plunge deeper down, all the way to the bottom? Or zip higher up, in a heedless flight into the wide open spaces? Would I be happier in the poignant embrace of an intense commitment or in the wild frontier where none of the old rules can follow me? I can’t decide! I don’t know which part of my mind I should trust!” If you do hear those thoughts in your brain, Gemini, here’s my advice: There’s no rush to decide. What’s healthiest for your soul is to bask in the uncertainty for a while.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to storyteller Michael Meade, ancient Celtic culture believed that “a person was born through three forces: the coming together of the mother and father, an ancestral spirit’s wish to be reborn, and the involvement of a god or goddess.” Even if you don’t think that’s literally true, the coming weeks will be a favourable time to have fun fantasizing it is. That’s because you’re in a phase when contemplating your origins can invigorate your spiritual health and attract good fortune into your life. So start

with the Celtic theory, and go on from there. Which of your ancestors may have sought to live again through you? Which deity might have had a vested interest in you being born? What did you come to this earth to accomplish?

Which of your innate potentials have you yet to fully develop, and what can you do to further develop them?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I predict that starting today and during the next ten months, you will learn more about treating yourself kindly and making yourself happy than you have in years. You will mostly steer clear of the mindset that regards life as a numbing struggle for mere survival. You will regularly dream up creative ideas about how to have more fun while attending to the mundane tasks in your daily rhythm.

Here’s the question I hope you will ask yourself every morning for the next 299 days: “How can I love myself wth devotion and ingenuity?”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This may be the most miscellaneous horoscope I’ve ever created for you. That’s apropos, given the fact that you’re a multifaceted quickchange artist these days. Here’s your sweet mess of oracles. 1. If the triumph you seek isn’t humbling, it’s not the right triumph. 2.

You may have an odd impulse to reclaim or recoup something that you have not in fact lost. 3. Before transmutation is possible, you must pay a debt. 4. Don’t be held captive by your beliefs. 5. If you’re given a choice between profane and sacred love, choose sacred.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The next ten months will be an ideal time to revise and revamp your approach to education. To take maximum advantage of the potentials, create a master plan to get the training and knowledge you’ll need to thrive for years to come.

At first, it may be a challenge to acknowledge that you have a lot more to learn. The comfort-loving part of your nature may be resistant to contemplating the hard work it will require to expand your worldview and enhance your skills. Once you get started, you’ll quickly find the process becoming easier and more pleasurable.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Everything that can be invented has been invented,” said Charles H. Duell, Director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899. “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible,” said Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895. “All the music that can be written has already been written. We’re just repeating the past,” said 19th-century composer Tschaikovsky. “Video won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months.

People will soon get tired of staring at a box every night,” said filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck, comment-

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Sagittarians are most likely to buy a lottery ticket that has the winning numbers. But you’re also more likely than everyone else to throw the ticket in a drawer and forget about it, or else leave it in your jeans when you do the laundry, rendering the ticket unreadable. Please don’t be like that in the coming weeks. Make sure you do what’s necessary to fully cash in on the good fortune that life will be making available.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the game of basketball, if a player is fouled by a member of the opposing team, he is given a “free throw.” While standing 15 feet away, he takes a leisurely shot at the basket without having to deal with any defenders. Studies show that a player is most likely to succeed at this task if he shoots the ball underhanded.

Yet virtually no professionals ever do this. Why? Because it doesn’t look cool. Everyone opts to shoot free throws overhand, even though it’s not as effective a technique. Weird! Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks, Capricorn. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be more likely to accomplish good and useful things if you’re willing to look uncool.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1991, Aquarius rock star Axl Rose recorded the song “November Rain” with his band Guns ‘N’ Roses. It had taken him eight years to compose it. Before it was finally ready for prime time, he had to whittle it down from an 18-minute-long epic to a more succint nine-minute ballad. I see the coming weeks as a time when you should strive to complete work on your personal equivalent of Axl’s opus.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Thomas Edison was a prolific inventor whose work led to the creation of electric lights, recorded music, movies, and much more. When he was 49 years old, he met Henry Ford, a younger innovator who was at the beginning of his illustrious career. Ford told Edison about his hopes to develop and manufacture lowcost automobiles, and the older man responded with an emphatic endorsement. Ford later said this was the first time anyone had given him any encouragement.

Edison’s approval “was worth worlds” to him. I predict, Pisces, that you will receive comparable inspiration from a mentor or guide or teacher in the next nine months. Be on the lookout for that person.

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I was honored to appear with Esther Perel at the Orpheum Theater in Vancouver, BC, a few weeks ago to discuss her new book, The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity. Questions were submitted on cards before the show—some for me, some for Esther, some for both of us—and we got to as many as we could during the event.

Here are some of the questions (mostly for me) that we didn’t get to.

VIRGIN WOES

I’ve never slept with anyone. My current boyfriend has had sex with many, many partners. He knows I’m a virgin, but I’m worried. Any tips on how I can avoid performing like the amateur gay man that I am?

Give yourself permission to be bad at it—awful at it, inept and halting and awkward. And remind yourself going in (and out and in and out) that whatever happens, this isn’t the last time you’ll ever have sex. Some people are good at sex right out of the gate, but most people need a little practice before they catch a groove. But nothing guarantees a bad first experience (or bad millionth experience) quite as effectively as faking it. Faking is always a bad idea—faking orgasms, faking interest, faking confidence—so don’t fake. Just be.

FIRST CLIMAX

How would you help a woman who has never experienced an orgasm?

I would gift her a mild pot edible and a powerful vibrator.

FASTER SEX

I’m a woman in my mid-30s. Sometimes I want to bang it out in 30 seconds but my husband wants 45 minutes. What do we do?

Your husband has a nice solo stroke session for 44 and a half minutes, and then you climb on top or slide underneath for the last 30 seconds.

VANCOUVER MOVE

Have you ever thought about moving to Vancouver?

Frequently between January 20, 2001, and January 19, 2009, and constantly since January 20, 2017.

SIBLING RIVALRY

I’m a 34-year-old woman. My 40-yearold boyfriend used to date his sisterin-law. One time he said he thought it would be funny if I asked her who was better in bed: him or his brother.

Is this weird or is it just a man thing?

It could be both—a weird man thing—but seeing as your boyfriend asked only once, he’s clearly not obsessed. The question presumably made you uncomfortable (which is why you’re asking me about it), and here’s how you shut it down if he ever asks again: “I could ask her who’s better in bed or I could go fuck your brother myself and report back.”

OPEN MARRIAGE

What do I do if my wife doesn’t want an open relationship and I do? We haven’t had sex in 11 years, but we

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are still in love and have two young children.

I don’t understand monogamous but sexless marriages. Because if your relationship is monogamously sexless… wouldn’t that mean you don’t have sex only with each other? Setting that aside aside…

Your wife probably and perhaps reasonably fears that opening up your marriage could result in you leaving her for some woman you’re fucking.

But if you’re unwilling to go without sex for the rest of your life, you’re going to wind up leaving your wife in order to meet some woman you can fuck. So the thing she fears might happen if you open the relationship up is definitely going to happen if you don’t.

LONG-TERM

I’m a 34-year-old gay man. I’ve never had a long-term relationship. Are long-term relationships even necessary nowadays?

Long-term relationships are nice—I’m happy with mine—but not strictly necessary. They’re not oxygen, iodine, or cannabinoids. The pressure to pair off can make LTRs feel not just necessary but compulsory, and the negative cultural messaging around being single and/or enjoying a series of successful short-term relationships (single people are losers, serial daters “just can’t commit” or are losers) certainly doesn’t help.

DRY CITY

Do you believe the hype about Vancouver being a hard place to date?

Any advice for a single lady searching for a long-term hetero partnership?

Everywhere I go—New York, Chicago, Toronto, Dallas, Los Angeles—I hear the same thing: [Name of city] is a uniquely hard place to date! I also meet happily partnered people everywhere I go, which leaves me disinclined to believe the hype about Vancouver or anywhere else. “This city is a hard place to date!” is often said in frustration by people who haven’t found their .64 yet (the motherfucker they can round up to “The One”) or by people who are doing something wrong— they’re sabotaging their relationships somehow (unresolved personal issues, too many deal breakers, irrational expectations)—and instead of working on their own shit, they’re blaming the city where they happen to live.

I AM WHO I AM

How does someone in a straight-presenting, long-term relationship come out as being bisexual/pansexual?

Someone opens a mouth—preferably their own—and says the words “I’m bisexual/pansexual.”

CATCHING FEELINGS

My partner and I are in a super fantastic LTR. Totally committed. But we do talk about reopening our relationship (it was open in the early years).

My fear is losing control of myself and falling for someone else. How can I explore opening the relationship without detonating it?

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Dan Savage savagelove@vueweekly.com If you define “falling for someone else” as a bomb that has to destroy your super fantastic LTR, and you inevitably catch feelings for someone you’re fucking, well, then you’ll have to either refrain from fucking other people or convince yourself that you can love more than one romantic partner at a time.

KIDS?

Is there a way to compromise if one partner wants kids and the other does not?

There’s no such thing as half a kid—at least a live one—so there’s no room for compromise here. Someone has to give or someone has to go.

BATTLE SCARS

I’m in a relationship that involves BDSM and Japanese-style bondage.

I often have marks left on my body: bruising, scratches, rope marks, etc. I am afraid my children and friends will notice. Any suggestions for how to explain this to people? I don’t want to wear long-sleeve shirts for the rest of my life.

Wear long-sleeve shirts and lie to your kids—you’re taking a martial-arts class while they’re at school, you fell into a blackberry bramble—but tell your friends the truth, lest they think you’re in an abusive relationship.

AFFAIR BLUES

What’s the best-case scenario in the wake of an affair?

“People often see an affair as a trauma from which there is no return.

And indeed, some affairs deliver a fatal blow to a relationship,” Esther Perel writes in The State of Affairs. “But others may inspire change that was sorely needed. Betrayal cuts to the bone, but the wound can be healed.

Affairs can even become generative for a couple.”

So best-case scenario? Needed change and a regenerated connection. And since some relationships need to end, an affair that leads to a breakup—the affair that delivers the fatal blow—can also be regarded as a best-case outcome. Back to Esther: “Because I believe that some good may come out of the crisis of infidelity, I have often been asked, ‘So would you recommend having an affair to a struggling couple?’ My response? A lot of people have positive, life-affirming experiences that come along with terminal illness. But I would no more recommend having an affair than I would recommend getting cancer.”

The State of Affairs is required reading for all couples, not just couples struggling with the fallout from an affair. A relationship that should survive an affair is likelier to survive—and regenerate—if you’ve given the subject some thought before it’s a crisis. Order a copy today.

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