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The story of Edmonton

The City as Museum Project wants your Edmonton stories—potholes and all

One novel to change our nation. Such is the prized label of this year's Canada Reads winner, designated the novel that speaks most to what Canadians care about.

Now in its 13th year, this competition pits book against book, with each novel endorsed by a prominent Canadian celebrity.

During the four-day debate in the first week of March, a novel is eliminated from contention each day by a vote until only one is left standing.

In line with this year's theme, the competition calls for not just great stories, but ones that tackle prominent social issues facing Canadians. And, as such, this year's debate teeters uncomfortably between casual discussion about literary merit and panellists merely fighting for the primacy of their cause.

What cause is most important to Canadians? Is it the racism highlighted in Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues, issues of gender identity tackled in Kathleen Winter's Annabel, the immigrant integration of Rawi

It's strange to see each novel—as well as the social issues within—quickly debated and voted off Survivor-style within an hour.

Hage's Cockroach, the environmental destruction showcased in Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood, or the long-standing effects of colonization at play in Joseph Boyden's The Orenda?

I'd hazard to say that the answer isn't so clear, yet when host Jian Ghomeshi proclaims "we're looking for the one novel that could change Canada," it's strange to see each novel—as well as the social issues within—quickly debated and voted off Survivor-style within an hour, leaving a single golden winner.

Previous iterations of the competition have faced similar criticisms around the reality-show format that seems to only allow superficial discussion, strategic voting and the occasional personal attack. 2012's competition saw a panellist deem author Carmen Aguirre "a bloody terrorist" for writing a memoir of her young revolutionary days in Pinochet-era Chile.

Perhaps the competition's rapid-fire format is simply too short and combative to prevent novels, novelists and themes from being quickly and crudely reduced to simplistic ideas, augmented by the absence of said authors and the rare presence of any professional writer.

Add germane societal issues to the mix and suddenly even those are at odds with one another.

Quite simply, Canada Reads has always been an exercise in marketing; another bid to position one novel at the top. Make no mistake, the competition's fame certainly leads to more sales for all novels in play, but, as Ghomeshi repeats, "one of these books will be a bestseller." For that one winner, which will undoubtedly get shiny standalone displays in big-box bookstore locations nationwide, the message will be clear: "Here, Canada. This is what you should be talking about." V

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here are more than 800 000 wildly diverse souls in Edmonton, possibly someone from every country in the world.

With such a wealth of stories to tell, it's no wonder there are about 20 museums and dozens more heritage groups spread out across our prairie city. But what's missing is a city museum, a place that gathers the essence and story of Edmonton—whatever that might be—and stashes it under one roof.

City of Edmonton archivist Kathryn Ivany says there have been multiple attempts at establishing a city museum. The idea, she adds, has popped up every 15 years or so since the '50s.

According to the veteran archivist, past efforts failed because they focused more on building a brick-and-mortar location when they should have been getting ordinary citizens excited about telling their stories.

Build from the outside in The Edmonton Heritage Council knows its history and vows not to repeat it. The council, formed late last decade as part of Edmonton's plan to showcase its art and heritage, still wants a building—but they want to build from the outside in. It's called the City as Museum Project and it aims to democratize the curating by encouraging Edmontonians to share their stories and ideas of what this city was, is and could be.

"Edmonton has an insane amount of interesting stories being told by little museums and ordinary people—but there's no centralized location to look for this history," says Claudia Bustos, the council's city museum strategy coordinator. "We're not going to dictate what the points of interest are; we want to figure out what people want to talk about and hear about. So that could absolutely mean pot-

holes, which are a huge part of this city."

Bus tours and LGBTQ history The Heritage Council has been showcasing fascinating but little known history since last year with their Curiosities Bus Tours. Last November the council loaded up ETS buses and got compelling storytellers to detail everything from a pioneering Chinese restaurant to aviation history to the first gay bars.

Michael Phair was the city's first openly gay councillor and shares his rich knowledge of Edmonton's early LGBTQ history. During the bus tours and walking tours organized throughout Pride Week, he takes people back to the early years of the struggle for equality that took place on our streets in the '60s and '70s. Back then, 104 Street, now lined with trendy shops and upscale bistros, was a gritty warehouse district—and the centre for gay advocacy and activism with important gathering places like Flashback and The Roost.

"104 Street was very much the centre for gay and lesbian activities—it's changed dramatically since then," Phair says. "We're a relatively young and new city, so people think we have no history. But there's a significant and rich history. People don't appreciate what we have."

Nuclear war in Edmonton The bus tour also visits a surreal slice of Cold War paranoia: a real nuclear fallout shelter and command centre built hidden in the River Valley. Local photographer Fred Armbruster says he stumbled across the squat, concrete cube while out for a walk in 2010 and was instantly transfixed by the mysterious discovery.

"It was cold and dark and dingy," Armbruster says. "When I started looking into it I found there was next to no information available.

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That's when I realized that this was a part of our history that had been pushed aside and forgotten."

Soon, his diligent research shed some light on the neglected bunker. It was a command centre in case of nuclear war and was built in 1953 – 54 in the feverish heart of Cold War paranoia, when everyone was told to look over their shoulder and schoolchildren dove under their desks at the sound of air raid sirens. Armbruster says the government was offering loans for people to install bunkers in new homes and there are at least five houses in Edmonton with Cold War-era bomb shelters.

He's also amassed the second-largest collection of Cold War artifacts in the country, behind only Ottawa's storied Diefenbunker.

Armbruster wants to completely restore the bunker to its original condition and open it as a museum and venue for everything from weddings to reunions. He says the project has sparked a lot of enthusiasm and interest from people across the country and is evidence that Edmonton is a place full of amazing stories just itching for an audience.

Tell your story The whole point of the Heritage Council's bus tours, Bustos says, is to get people excited about Edmonton's history—and hopefully add to it with their own stories and ideas. The council will be holding brainstorming events, announcing the next bus tour in mid-March, and will soon be launching an online portal for input and collaboration. Bustos says the best way to get involved and stay up to date is to follow the Edmonton Heritage Council on Facebook.

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Weathering the storm Extreme weather and climate change's effects on prairie birds

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he days when those who dared to speak out about climate change were regarded as tinfoil-hat wearing doomsday criers are, for the most part, well behind us.

Extreme weather events that have been happening worldwide in recent years—including last year's flooding in Calgary and High River— are a good indication of how average temperature and precipitation norms are changing.

In a recent blog post for the Pembina Institute, Dr John Stone, who has been contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for many years says, "Roughly speaking, extreme temperatures have gone up by at

least two degrees, which is more than twice the increase in global average temperatures. ... Furthermore, the atmosphere can carry more water vapour as air temperature rises, making rains or snowfalls more intense. The result is the kind of flooding we saw in Toronto last summer. In short, climate change has loaded the dice such that the chance of an extreme event is greater."

Extreme weather's effect on biodiversity is an area being looked into by many scientists, and locally Ryan

Fisher, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, along with the U of A's Dr Erin Bayne, have been co-leads on a project to understand the consequences of climate change on two grassland species: Ferruginous Hawks and Burrowing Owls.

The Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation Project has been monitoring Ferruginous Hawks and Fisher says it's not just the weather that has led to a decrease in nesting pairs—about 1200 pairs remain, half the amount from 15

years ago.

"The prediction is that climate change will have a fairly significant impact on Ferruginous Hawks in the future," Fisher says. "But it's been speculated things like habitat loss—so conversion of native prairie to crop land and fragmentation of the grassland region in both Alberta and Saskatchewan and also in the US—may have contributed to some of the Ferruginous Hawk decline."

Ferruginous Hawks nest in trees found on the prairies but also on artificial platforms people have set up for them. Fisher says the nests built in trees are about two times more likely than nests on artificial platforms to blow out.

"If a nest is in a tree and it falls over, the hawks are basically out of luck in terms of nesting in that particular tree," Fisher says. "They usually try to stay within the same territory and nest somewhere else if there's another tree available."

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knocked over during the summer breeding season and kills the young, the hawks won't re-nest that year.

"That's where these blow overs that happen in the middle of the breeding season are pretty bad for the hawks because essentially they lose out on a year of breeding and have to wait until the next summer," Fisher notes. "Unfortunately, even though the number of nests has started to increase, the population has still been declining in Alberta and also in Saskatchewan."

Although scientists can monitor the hawks when they arrive on the Canadian prairies, as a migratory species, it's not known what exact environmental conditions they encounter in the fall when they migrate to the US. "We're still in the dark a little bit in terms of what's happening when they leave Canada, and there definitely can be some issues related to habitat and climate change and how that affects the hawk population here in Alberta when they do come back to breed," Fisher says.

Looking to the future, Dr Rick Schneider's work at the U of A has shown future scenarios in the next century in Alberta ranging from 2 C to 6 C warmer. He predicts grassland will start to expand north in Alberta which will break up the parkland area and the boreal forest in the north as they both continue to recede.

"As Rick mentioned, [in his presentation] if grassland expands, that's not necessarily a bad thing for the grassland species; it definitely has negative impacts on everything else that relies on forest and parkland," Fisher says. "If we do see that increase in temperature and potentially increases in droughts, we're not really sure what effect that will have not only on owls and hawks but also on their prey.

"What's a little bit unusual and what doesn't quite jive with those predictions is that we have actually seen a contraction in the Ferruginous Hawk range. So that just means they used to be found pretty far north in Saskatchewan up near Saskatoon and in Alberta up near Edmonton, and we've actually seen the hawks sort of contract south, which is the exact opposite of what you would predict in terms of climate change and changes in average temperature."

The Burrowing Owl Monitoring Project was done in conjunction with the U of A and the Canadian Wildlife Service and lasted from about 1993 to 2010. Current estimates are between 800 to 1600 individual Burrowing Owls in Alberta and Saskatchewan—the numbers dropped by 90 percent over the '90s. They're a federally listed en-

dangered species due to fairly rapid and steep population decline in the past few years.

"The goal of that project wasn't actually to look at effects of climate, but that's what happens when you get these nice, long-term monitoring data sets, is you can start to answer some other questions about what's happening to these critters," Fisher says.

Researchers doing field work noticed that when there were long periods of cold and wet temperatures, there was a lot of nest failure for the owls. Fisher got involved in the project when they started looking at what effect extreme precipitation and longer-term cold and wet conditions have on the owls.

Extreme weather on the prairies means anything around 30 mm of rain per day or more. As Burrowing Owls make their homes in holes dug by ground squirrels or coyotes, a deluge of rain tends to flood their burrows and causes all the eggs or chicks to be lost.

"What's even more interesting is that we had a little experiment going on where we were providing supplemental food to Burrowing

Owls," Fisher says. "What was neat to see was that when we actually fed the owls and it rained, the owls were able to weather the storm. So all of the chicks in the nest seemed to be able to survive, but when we didn't f e e d

long periods of bad weather."

Just like with Ferruginous Hawks, once Burrowing Owls migrate south, the team has no means of monitoring them.

"Burrowing Owls go all the way down into Mexico, so what's happen-

So it doesn’t mean that we don’t have birds anymore, we just have different birds.

This area will be a lot more similar to something like Medicine Hat or even northern Montana. them, that's when we started to see a lot of mortality of the youngest chicks in the nest. So if it's cold and wet, the youngest chicks tend to die and it seems to be as a result of the adult owls not being able to bring enough food back to the chicks in order to sustain them during those

ing down in Mexico we really have no idea in whether or not that's influencing current populations in Canada," Fisher says.

The biggest factor would be habitat change in Mexico as there's a lot of crop production in the area where the owls typically winter.

Songbirds that live in the parkland and boreal forest regions of Alberta are also at the mercy of climate change. The U of A's Diana Stralberg has been monitoring these tiny birds with Bayne and others for the past few years.

"Here in Edmonton we're kind of at the ecotone that transitions between the grassland and the boreal, the parkland region, so we have this very tenuous moisture balance where we're right around a net moisture balance of zero because the precipitation is close to the evapotranspiration," Stralberg explains. "So what's happening in the future as it gets warmer, even if we have more rainfall, we have much higher evapotranspiration. So it's warming and you're kind of pushing that moisture balance into the negative, so that's where you have the possibility for the boreal forest to shift northward. So, as that happens slowly over time, the birds shift with it. So it doesn't mean that we don't have birds anymore, we just have different birds. This area will be a lot more similar to something

like Medicine Hat or even northern Montana."

The problem for boreal songbirds is they're facing both climate and land-use change.

"You've got all this timber harvest going on plus oil and gas extraction, so that's knocking out forest very quickly and it's getting rid of old forest especially," Stralberg says. "There isn't that much old forest left to begin with, and then climate change is also nibbling away at that."

She says climate change and land-use change will probably work together to deplete the songbird population in Alberta as what's currently boreal forest becomes more suitable for agriculture.

"That means a lot less room for shifting of biodiversity," Stralberg says. "Obviously a lot has been lost, but a lot is still left. So I think it's just a matter of allowing ourselves to shift that baseline and not be so focused on what's here now, but trying to think about how it may look in the future."

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Doing it all except for what counts

Inefficiency in health-care system will continue to cost billions each year as the poorest require more care It seems that Alberta's provincial government is fully committed to doing everything it can to keep provincial spending as low as possible.

Everything, that is, except for the one thing that a growing number of economists and international studies are saying it should do.

Almost every Government of Alberta news release issued these days ends with some iteration of the phrases "spending responsibly" or "living within our means." When Minister of Finance Doug Horner released the province's third-quarter fiscal updates recently, he boasted at length about how the government's commitment to responsible spending was clearly paying off, given that the province is on track to finish the fiscal year better off than originally budgeted by some $2 billion. Despite the fact that, as always, the current financial position has nothing to do with anything the government has done, and everything to do with the price of oil internationally, Horner seems determined to take the credit. And in this case, taking the credit means using our improved situation to justify his ongoing austerity program for public services and public servants.

In the same vein, Minister of Health care while improving the health require acute care and hospitalizaFred Horne recently told the Cal- of Albertans at the same time. Re- tion for injuries and conditions than gary Herald that rather than invest search and evidence from around people higher up on the income more money in health care, his gov- the world has shown there is a di- scale. In other words, the poorer you ernment will continue to squeeze rect link between the level of in- are, the more you are likely to cost more value of the dollars it already equality that exists in a particular the health-care system.

The Parkland fact sheet brings tospends on health. He warned Al- jurisdiction and the health of people gether these two rebertans to prealities to determine pare for another year of There is a direct link between the level of inequal- what impact reducing inequality in restraint in ity that exists in a particular jurisdiction and the the province would health care, have on provincial despite the health of people living in that jurisdiction spending.

What fact that Althey found was berta will be that bringing Alreceiving an extra $1 billion in health transfers living in that jurisdiction. The more bertans in the lowest income quinfrom the federal government over unequal your society is, the more tile up to the income level of the the course of this year. In the same unhealthy it is. The more unhealthy next-lowest income quintile would interview, Horne suggested that in- your society is, the more you spend result in significant changes in their health-care habits. Those changes creased efficiency comes not from on health care.

There is also broad consensus would save our health-care system investing more money, but rather among researchers that people in $1.2 billion per year. The improved from doing things differently.

He's right, of course, but there is different income brackets access the health that would come from reducno indication that he is really inter- health-care system in very different ing overall inequality in the provested in improving efficiency by do- ways. A list of indicators generally ince, currently the most unequal in referred to as the social determi- the country, could reduce annual ing things differently. nants of health makes clear that in- health-care expenditures by up to New research released by the Park- come level and social status have a $5.7 billion.

It's not rocket science. The way govland Institute in the lead-up to this huge impact on your health and the week's provincial budget provides a type of interactions you have with ernments around the world reduce clear recipe for how Alberta could the health-care system. Essentially, inequality is by having progressive-tax save more than $1 billion in health being poor makes you more likely to systems and well-funded public ser-

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vices, and it would be no different in Alberta. That's it. That's the recipe for saving $1.2 billion to $5.7 billion per year in health-care expenses. Get rid of the flat tax and stop starving public services—the health of Albertans will improve significantly and the costs of front-line services will go down.

Of course, this provincial government is not likely to move on either of those fronts in Alberta Budget 2014, which makes me wonder to what degree their drive to cut costs is really about improving efficiency and outcomes, and to what degree it's about an ideology obsessed with getting rid of public services and with not properly taxing the rich.

That's the degree to which this government is more interested in the private interests of a few wealthy friends than they are with protecting and promoting the public interest: they would rather fight for a dysfunctional status quo than take the simple steps required to actually turn things around. Shame. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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A premature history of the second cold war

Russia's desire to control Ukraine could lead to a partial takeover of the country in the next few months The first mistake of the Ukrainian revolutionaries was to abandon the agreement of February 23 to create a national unity government, including some of the revolutionary leaders, that would administer the country until new elections in December. It would have left President Viktor Yanukovych in office until then, but with severely diminished powers, as the constitution would have been changed to restore the authority of parliament.

Leaving a man who ordered the murder of dozens of protesters in power even temporarily was a bitter pill to swallow, but it had tacit Russian support because it saved President Vladimir Putin's face. However, the crowds on Independence Square refused to accept the deal and Yanukovych was forced to flee.

Parliament subsequently ratified his removal, but it was the mob, and especially the right-wing fighting groups like Pravy Sektor, who led and the leadership who followed. Putin was humiliated and he was given the pretext for claiming that Ukraine had fallen to a "fascist coup" as a justifica-

tion, however flimsy, for rejecting the legitimacy of the new Ukrainian government.

The second grave error—and this one was entirely unforced— was the new government's decision to repeal the law giving Russian equal status as an official language in provinces with large Russian-speaking populations. It delighted Ukrainian-speaking ultra-nationalists in the west of the country, but it needlessly alienated the two-fifths of Ukraine's population who speak Russian as their first language.

So now Putin is bringing pressure on the new Ukrainian government by backing a secessionist movement in Crimea (where three-fifths of the people speak Russian). The rubber-stamp Russian parliament has also granted him authority to use Russian troops elsewhere in Ukraine to "protect" Russians—by which it seems to mean Ukrainians in eastern Ukraine who speak Russian, although they are not actually under attack.

Putin has not yet sent Russian troops into the eastern parts of Ukraine. However, pro-Russian

The Ukrainian army has been mobilized, and actual fighting could be only days away if the Russians invade eastern Ukraine or attack the encircled Ukrainian garrisons in Crimea. Maybe Putin is just bluffing; more likely, he doesn't yet know himself how far he is willing to go. But one thing generally leads to another, and some bluffs are hard to walk away from. Are we on the brink of a new Cold War? It wouldn't be a hot war, except in Ukraine. Nobody will send troops to defend Ukraine, nor should they. Nobody is in position to stop Russia from conquering Ukraine if it chooses to, and turning it into a wider European war (or a world war) would not help matters.

In any case, Moscow would probably not try to conquer ALL of Ukraine. Kyiv and the west would fight very hard, and after they were defeated they would continue to resist a Russian occupation with guerilla tactics, including terrorism. Putin doesn't need that, so part of Ukraine would remain free and call for outside help.

It would come, in the form of financial and military aid, and maybe even what has hitherto been rigorously excluded from the discussion: NATO membership. And there Russia and everybody in NATO would sit for the next five or 10 or 20 years in a frozen confrontation that would include a trade embargo, an arms race and a remote but real possibility of a nuclear war.

This is not at all what Putin intends or expects, of course. He is calculating that once he controls the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine, he will be able to enforce a restructuring of the country as a federation in which the government of the eastern, Russianspeaking part will be permanently under Russia's thumb and will have a veto on the decisions of

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That's all Putin wants out of this: a Ukrainian government that always respects Russia's wishes. It could even pursue a different policy on issues like human rights, if it wants (so long as it doesn't give Russians ideas). He doesn't want to micro-manage the place. He's not out to conquer the world.

He's not even out to re-conquer Eastern Europe.

But Putin's calculations about Ukraine have been wrong every single time since the turn of the century. He backed Yanukovych before 2004, and the Orange Revolution proved him wrong. He backed Yanukovych even more enthusiastically after 2010; the policy blew up in his face again.

And here he is yet again, backing Yanukovych as the president-inexile of his Russia-friendly fantasy version of Ukraine.

His calculations are wrong. If he continues down this road, he will cause a quite needless political disaster. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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PREVUE // MOVEMENT ARTS

Thu, Mar 6 – Sun, Mar 9 ATB Financial Arts Barns Schedule at expanse.ca

Body talk Expanse Festival celebrates 10 years of art in motion

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ometimes we ignore the body.

We centre our work and our lives around the brain. We study, we think, we rationalize and the body becomes just the lever that lifts our coffee mug each day.

Then the Expanse Festival comes rushing along in early March and puts art into motion, asking audiences to pay better attention to the body and all that it can express on stage.

This year, Expanse deserves a little

confetti and plenty of cake because the festival is celebrating 10 years of providing a space for Edmonton artists to present body-based performances.

"It surprised me, the 10th year," laughs Murray Utas, the festival's producer. "Not a happy birthday surprise but more like a, 'Wow! That's 10 years?'"

According to Utas, he never would have imagined the expansion Ex-

panse has seen since its inception.

In the past decade, what started as a contemporary-dance festival has now grown to include physical theatre, clowning, mime, installation—really any form that revels in using the body to deliver an artistic message.

And when the body speaks, though wordless, that message comes across loud and clear.

"How powerfully the body can convey where we are as a society," says

Expanding ones bodily expectations

Utas, reflecting on what the last decade has taught him about the movement arts. "Whether it's got a philosophical take to it, whether it's got a political stance or a social bent, the body can be very, very strong in presenting that message to us. Because we will see the pain on someone, we'll see the joy on someone and they transfer it to their bodies. To see that, and have that presented to you without words is pretty cool."

Utas has sprinkled surprises throughout the event, so that a trip to Expanse is more than just a show, but an evening of delights. Even a trip to the Westbury Theatre's lobby will be engaging, he assures. And while there are those who might see a movement-arts festival as a touch esoteric, Utas is confident that everyone can enjoy the stories being told and the work being presented.

"You don't want to fear it," he says.

"You just want to come to the door and take it in because you are going to get way more than you thought you were. So don't make yourself think that you won't. Don't go in thinking I may not understand what's going on—that will not be the case at all. You just come on down, you go in and you have an experience with it and you'll surprise yourself."

That's the trick of it: try not to think about it too much, because after all, this is a celebration of the body—a body that often doesn't get the attention it deserves.

"And truly, for longevity and life, motion is the most important thing," Utas says. "It will help preserve all the rest of you if you preserve that body."

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PREVUE // FESTIVAL

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t bodes well for the future of a a double bill of theatre throughout young festival when its second the four-day festival: the one-woman Anatolia Speaks, written by Kenneth year sees a considerable expansion.

"We were kind of blown away last Brown and performed by Candice year, because we had no idea— Fiorentino, and ViVA Dance Comyou're putting it on for the first time pany's Can't Contain My Dance, a and assuming that there's an audi- movement-based show of autobiographical pieces. ence for it, but "What we're innot really know- Thu, Mar 6 – Sun, Mar 9 ing," says festival Various venues along 118 Ave terested in with SkirtsAfire is powdirector Annette (between 90 – 94 St), erful women's Loiselle, speaking free by donation stories," Loiselle of last year's inau- Schedule at explains, noting gural SkirtsAfire skirtsafire.wordpress.com herArts festival. that the festival coincides (by deThe number of artists has jumped from 80 to 90 sign) with International Women's this year, coming from a range of Day on March 8. "We've got funny disciplines: SkirtsAfire focuses on stories—we've got Hey Ladies! on theatre and especially new play de- Friday night which should be a rivelopment but also features music, diculous fun night, and then we've storytelling, visual art, film and even got our film, which should be a very a yoga session. Loiselle is focused different story and equally engaging on the festival's future growth, and and very important." to that end has added Avenue Theatre as a venue in order to feature That film is Rosie Dransfeld's Who

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Cares?, a local documentary about the lives of sex trade workers in Edmonton. SkirtsAfire aims to have its stories speak beyond the performances themselves and engender discussion in the community; to that end, they are hosting a panel discussion after the film with speakers from various backgrounds.

"So much of our art is based on those stories," Loiselle notes. "We do our art based on the stories that are prevalent, and things that are happening around us that we're often not even aware of."

And for those wondering if the festival is geared exclusively towards females, Loiselle stresses that everyone is welcome to all events.

"That's always one of my big concerns; I don't want people to think it's just for women—it's not. It's for men and women equally. There are a lot of universal stories being told."

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The Fortrelles, one musical act among many multidisciplinary others at SkirtsAfire

PREVUE // THEATRE

Little One Y

ou know when a play is described as a "twisted suburban tale of paranoia and treachery" that it's not going to be a lighthearted evening at the theatre.

The adage "kids are cruel" doesn't even approach the level of neuroses and trauma in Hannah Moscovitch's Little One, a two-hander exploring the relationship between a brother, Aaron, and his deeply Thu, Mar 6 – Sun, Mar 23 (8 pm; troubled foster 2 pm Sunday matinees) sister, Claire.

Directed by Bradley Moss "It gave me a Roxy Theatre, $21 – $27 real visceral response—it had a very dark, ambiguous feeling and left me very uneasy," says Jesse Gervais, who is playing Aaron in Theatre Network's current production of the script. Gervais is referring to his initial impressions of a production he saw at Victoria's Belfry Theatre; Moscovitch's reputation as a "wunderkind" of Canadian theatre has seen her works gaining traction throughout the country.

"The first time I read the script, I felt the same way—unsettled and kind of haunted," adds Amber Borotsik, who is playing opposite Gervais as Claire.

A dark family dynamic // Ian Jackson, EPIC Photography

after he receives a mysterious cassette tape from his estranged sister.

Through a serious of flashbacks that manifest on stage, the audience is taken back into the disturbing memories that Aaron has since buried deep in his mind. Without resorting to spoilers, at some point and in some way, Little One presents the audience with pretty much every horrible thing that could happen to a child.

Gervais and Borotsik agree there's a temptation to slap a diagnosis upon Claire, but the play is stronger for not resorting to clinical labels.

"Psychopathy is much more complex than that," Gervais says. "To say that it's black and white, you're a psychopath or you're not, is too easy. It's a more

dynamic choice to give her the hope of getting better."

"I've heard the playwright describe [Claire] as liminal, so she's not textbook one way or the other way," Borotsik adds. "She's like all of us, I suppose, just ourselves—and what is that, exactly? Every single audience member, and every single person on our creative team—and it depends on the day— might come to a different conclusion.

It's got this beautiful ambiguity."

"A lot of it lies in the imagination of the audience," Gervais continues. "And that, I think, can be more shocking than actually seeing something gratuitously violent."

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Northern Light Theatre and L’Uni Théâtre present

Little One is structured as a set of memories conjured up in Aaron's mind

Mercy of A Storm

De plein fouet dans la tempete

BY JEFFREY HATCHER

MARCH 6 - 16, 2014 PREVIEWS MARCH 4 & 5

Presented in English and in French in a new translation

by Gisèle Villeneuve.

Presented in English: March 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, and 16 Presented in French: March 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15

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Mercy of a Storm PERFORMED AT FESTIVAL PLACE

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A TALE OF TWO CITIES

is presented by special arrangement with

SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jill Santoriello

It was NLT's artistic director Trevor Schmidt who approached Dooley, (artistic director of L'Uni), about a double-language show collaboration.

"I liked the idea for a lot of reasons," Dooley says. "Because while it's not a 'bilingual play,' the experience is one of bilingualism and biculturalism, which is always something close to my heart, since I've lived it all my life."

Schmidt's directing; he isn't bilingual, but they've had a translator, Isabelle Rousseau, in on rehearsal for the franUntil Sat, Mar 15 (additional Fri, cophone version.

Mar 14 at 11 pm) She's also helping English shows on even dates at the cast keep track 7:30 pm of things like wanFrench shows on odd dates at dering verb tenses; 8 pm Dooley's bilingual, Directed by Trevor Schmidt while Vacirca came A story seen through both official languages // Ian Jackson, EPIC La Cité Francophone, $16 – $28 from an immersion high school but languages. aying the same thing in two lan- both hasn't regularly guages isn't really the same thing. All of a sudden, Meaning often shifts when something the way you get what you want spoken French for years.

"I think for me at least, the gap beleaves its mother tongue behind, changes. Your tactics change."

"It's curious to see how the nuances tween the two was pretty wide at and while the specific mechanics of wording is part of it—turns will be different from one night to the first, because I was so much more of phrase or cultural idioms can be next," Brian Dooley adds, across the comfortable in English," Vacirca says. so rooted in a singular language's table in Café Bicyclette. "The story's "[My character] Zanovia was easier, context that conversion loses some- the same, the movement's the same, faster ... but in French, now that the gap is slowly closing, I think she's thing in the process—but there's our blocking's the same ... " "The jokes are different, I'd say," more sensual." something more subtle, too. Nuance But just in case the mental gymnasand delivery change with linguistic Vacirca interjects. Dooley nods: "The presentation, and with that in mind, humour is a little different. But the tics prove tricky to stick in the moMercy of a Storm, a co-production nuances, the tensions ... the relation- ment, she's got a system in place.

"I've got different coloured gloves between Northern Light Theatre ship is what it is, but it reveals itself a for each show," she laughs. "So that if and L'UniThéâtre, offers the rare op- little differently." portunity to see a story play out two What that relationship is plays out I do get a little bit mixed up, yellow is ways: it's being presented in English between an insurance broker and English, blue is French. That's someand French on alternating nights. The a woman he met at the club, on a thing I asked for from the beginning, two-person cast remains the same for chilly New Year's Eve, 1945. They've and Trevor was totally cool with. So both. retired to the intimate comforts of a we can have landmarks, visual things, "It's mental gymnastics," Gianna pool house, but intentions and con- so that if you do get trapped in your Vacirca says, her hair pinned up and nections reveal themselves to be far brain, you can trust that something awaiting the wig she'll don in rehears- from simple, as a cat-and-mouse pow- will bring you back."

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ARTIFACTS Synesthesia: Design for the Senses / Until Sat, Mar 15; opening reception Fri, Mar 7 (7 pm) Art and design is not limited to your eyes. The UofA’s Student Design Association wants to let your other four senses in on the action, too.

(Latitude 53)

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with a performance featuring cellist Christine Hansen. (Maclab Center for the Performing Arts, $10)

Success 5000 EP release / Wed, Mar 12 (8 pm) The multidisci-

plinary comedians of Success 5000 are releasing a new EP called Cof-

fee Table. Its release show will have extra laughs, too, thanks to performances from a host of other local comedians as well. Oh, and Success 5000 made new T-shirts for the occasion. (Wunderbar, $5, includes a digital copy of the EP)

Bridget Ryan’s In Your Element / Fri, Mar 7 and Sat, Mar 8 (8 pm)

This is a far cry from the Bridget Ryan you see on Breakfast Television—think big hair and her singing nostalgic tunes of the ‘80s. Leave the kids at home, though. (Club at the Citadel, $20)

Booming Tree Taiko Drum Group / Sun, Mar 9 (2 pm) Up

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PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

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Falling through the Mirror T

he magical and the monstrous are seen as two separate entities—one good and one evil. But these archetypal figures are not always so disparate.

Tammy Salzl, a painter from Montréal/Edmonton and sculpture and installation artist Emily Jan, also from Montréal, have teamed up for Falling through the mirror, an exhibition that not only blurs the line between the monstrous and the magical, but examines identity, the family and the feminine.

"I see them as snapshots from a fairytale book whose allegories are the stuff of our real lives," Salzl explains of her large-scale oil paintings that create an attraction-repulsion dynamic through their juxtaposing imagery. "There's a

lot of unsettling imagery, but I complement that with the beauty of paint and through narration, so they come off as these operatic, tableau kind of Grimms Brothers' fairy-tale illustrations."

Jan's contribution to the exhibition will be in the form of two installations.

One is a feral-looking feathered wolf known as Ragnarok and the other is the Selkie, a seal whose body has been cut open, the contents spilling on to the floor. Each piece deeply personal for Jan—she tends not to go into great detail in her explanations of her work— and is tied to mythology. The Selkie is based on the tale of a woman who is actually a seal, but leaves that part of her life behind to marry a human, who

steals her seal skin so she cannot return to the sea—until her child finds it in the attic and she breaks free.

"I find it a really fascinating story because in my mind it's sort of the opposite of The Little Mermaid-type story where a woman abandons her nature to join the man's world and doesn't look back," Jan says. "The Selkie story, for obvious reasons, never really gets picked up in that same sort of normalizing, fairy tale way because it's not normalizing. It's very anti-patriarchal in a way."

In contrast, Ragnarok alludes to something a little more primal.

"The wolf shows up, again, in northern cultures mostly, but as an archetypal figure, so of the terrifying side

of the wilderness," she adds. "I feel like the Selkie is the magical or other part of the wild and the wolf is sheer sort of terror, which I find, especially with the feathers poking out of its back, to not be that terrifying."

While each artist has various takes on the exhibitions themes and their impact on identity, it remains intriguing for them to hear the interpretations of viewers and how they apply the stories within the pieces to their own lives.

"The most fundamental thing about that work and why I do installation, or big work as opposed to small work, or installation as opposed to painting is that direct encounter in real time, in real space with those creatures, and whatever stories they want to tell the

audience when I'm not there is great," Jan says.

"I try not to be too didactic, but I love to hear how people bring their own suitcases of stories to my imagery and their interpretations of it and I'm totally open to them getting something completely different from what the image was to me," she says, noting her piece The Compromise has the strongest storyline in her mind and the most conflicting interpretations—but you're not getting any hints. "No one has gotten that storyline yet, but when I tell them sometimes their face falls because they have such a different interpretation of it."

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DANCE ALBERTA BALLET–GISELLE • Jubilee Auditorium • Historical premiere • Mar 14-15

CAPITAL CITY BURLESQUE'S STEAK & A BJ SHOW • Mercury Room, 10575-114 St • New solo and group acts by the ladies of CCB • Mar 14-15, 9pm (door), 10pm (show) • $12 (online)/$15 (door); $30 (adv reserved table for 2); $60 (adv reserved table for 4) at capitalcityburlesque.eventbrite.ca

EXPANSE FESTIVAL–BE MOVED • Westbury Theatre, Arts Barns • expanse.ca, 780.454.0583 • Featuring body-made art, innovative movement in dance, theatre, aerial/circus arts, mime, for film and more; presented by Azimuth Theatre • Mar 6-9 • Tocket info at expanse.ca SKIRTS-A-FIRE • Avenue Theatre, 9030-118 Ave: ViVA Dance Company with Can’t Contain My Dance; Mar 6-8, 9:10-10:10pm • Nina Haggerty, 9225-118 Ave: Words Unzipped; Mar 7, 7-9pm • More info: skirtsafire. wordpress.com/2014-festival-schedule-2 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 (lesson with entry); Every Fri until Apr 25; no dance Mar 21

SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing, 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 lesson with entry NORTHWEST DANCE PROJECT • Arden Theatre, St Albert • Under the direction dancer, choreographer, Sarah Slipper • Mar 16, 7:30pm • $35 (adult)/$20 (student) at Arden box office

106 St, 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: PAYCE: Celebrating Greg Payce's 2013 Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Fine Craft; until Mar 29; reception: Mar 22, 2-4pm • Discovery Gallery: TROPHIES FOR THE RANCHLAND: Works by Jill Nuckles; until Mar 22; reception: Mar 22, 2-4pm • WHAT DOES YOUR FISH LOOK LIKE?: Ceramics by Gillian Mitchell; until Mar 22; reception: Mar 22, 2-4pm

ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave, 780.233.3635 • GRATITUDE: An Exhibition of Local Graphic Design Featuring Perry Gratton with Arrowz Featuring New Collaborative Works with Mat Simpson • Through Apr ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • BMO World of Creativity: CABINETS OF CURIOSITY: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30 • OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums; organized by the American Federation for the Arts; until Mar 9 • SUSPEND: Brenda Draney: until Mar 9 • BOWERBIRD, LIFE AS ART: Works by Lyndal Osborne: until Apr 27 • STRANGE DREAM: Artworks

by Jill Stanton; until Dec 31 • Art for lunch: Ledcor Theatre Foyer: The Science of Art with Tori McNish; Mar 20, 12:10-12:50pm; free • Open Studio: Adult Drop-In Workshops: Carve: Illustrative Printmaking: Mar 12, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (member) • Open Studio: Adult Drop-In Workshops: 7-9pm; $15/$12 (member) Project: Scale Drawing; Mar 19 ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert. ca • FRAGILE ELEMENTS: Works by Susan Casault, Peter Ivens, and Teresa Stieben; Mar 6-Apr 26; opening: Mar 6, 7-9pm • Preschool Picasso: Nifty Nests: for ages 3-5; Mar 8, 10:30-11:30am • Ageless Art: Buds and Blossoms: for mature adults; pre-register; Mar 20, 1-3pm; $15/$13.50 (member) • Artventures: Drop-in art program for children aged 6-12; Nuts About Nature; Mar 15, 1-4pm; $6 (per child)/$5.40 (member)

STUDENT: Student works curated by the Visual Arts Student Association, U of A • Edmonton Stamp Club Display • Until Mar 31

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • Front Room: THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY and THE CHAIR TEST: Works by John Latour; Mar 6-Apr 10 • Main Gallery: RE-MEMBERING UENO: Mixed media print series by Karen Dugas; Mar 6-Apr 10 • Hall Project Space: EDMONTON WAYFINDING PROJECT: Mar 6-Apr 10; Mar 14 meeting at tge AGA Pedway entrance, 7:15pm • Opening: Karen Dugas, John Latour and the Edmonton Wayfinding Project; Mar 6, 8-10pm

HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • 2nd Fl, Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • IMR INSTITUTE OF MORPHOID RESEARCH: Installation by Jennifer Akkermans • Until Mar 22 • Reception: Mar 7, 6-8pm

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave, 780.433.5807 • CAPTURED MOMENTS: Artworks

by Sharon Vanderwolf • Until Mar 26 • Reception: Mar 12, 6:30-8: 30pm

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

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • OPEN AND CLOSED: Artworks by Wendy Meeres; Until Apr 27 • First Friday: Mar 7, 6:30-8:30pm

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • March Exhibition and Sale: Gallery artists and secondary market works; until Mar 25 • MEMORIES: Artworks by Tslila Barzel; until Mar 19

MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY–Red Deer • THE

UKRAINIAN SHUMKA DANCERS • Jubilee Audi-

Antony Cummings, Nadia Tanguay, Barbara Kowaleski, and Léon Tremblay; until Mar 11 • Works by Léonie Poole, Fabienne Bühl, Lenora Elkin, Heide MullerHass; Mar 14-25

torium, 780.455.9559 • Shumka Matinee Series: Telling Stories Through Dance: student matinee performances • Mar 20-21, 10am • $15/$10 (student/senior group bookings), door

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • SIX TRAITS IN UNITY: Shapes of Canada West, paintings by Bernadette McCormack • Until Mar 15

St, 780.407.7152 • HOUSES/HOMES: Drawings of houses in the Garneau neighbourhood by Wendy Gervais with short stories by Shirley Serviss, and historical reference by Ken Tingley • Until Mar 16

FILM

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St, 780.686.4211 • ... LANDSCAPE: Fresh look at perhaps the most over used cliche in Canadian art • Until Mar 15

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony

BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose • baileytheatre. com • The Unsinkable Molly Brown (G, 1964); Mar 19, 1:30pm; $5 THE CAPITOL THEATRE–Fort Edmonton • fortedmontonpark.ca • Historical Oscar Snubs: Citizen Kane (1941, PG) on Mar 6; the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, PG); Mar 13 • Every Thu, 7:30pm; The Great Dictator (1948, PG) on Mar 20 • $10 • The Grapes of Wrath (1940, STC) on Mar 27

CHA ISLAND • The Big Lebowski Party: Movie Wii Bowling • Mar 31, 7pm-late

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave, 780.439.5285 • I Married A Witch (1942, PG); Mar 10, 8pm • Laura (1944, PG); Mar 17, 8pm • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior)/$5 (student)/$3 (child 12 and under)

THE END OF IMMIGRATION? • Stanley Milner Library Theatre • Film Screening • Mar 8, 12pm

IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211142 St • Jerusalem 3D (G) Fri-Sat 11am, 2:10, 3:20, 6:50, 8:00; Sun 11am, 2:10, 5:15; Mon 3:10, 5:15, 6:30; Tue-Wed 2:00, 3:10, 5:15, 6:30; Thu 2:00, 3:10 • Hubble (G) Fri 12:00am • Rocky Mountain Express (G) Sat-Sun 12:00pm; Tue 4:20 • Flight of the Butterflies 3D (G) Fri-Sun 1:00; Wed 4:20 • Born to be Wild 3D (G) Mon-Thu 4:20 • Gravity 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 4:35, 9:10; Sun 3:25, 6:30; Thu 7:00, 8:50

METRO CINEMA • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Crime Watch: 2nd Tue each month • $10 (adult)/$8 (student/senior)/$6 (child 12 and under) • International Fly Fishing Film Festival: Mar 9, 3:30pm, 3pm (door); $18 (door)/$15 (adv); flyfilmfest.com

ORTONA ROOM–ORTONA ARMOURY •

COLOUR OF INNER PEACE: Works by Arts a la Carte • Mar 7, 5-7pm

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112

DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave,

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • PIECE MAKERS (QUILTING)–HOW OUR GRANDMOTHERS RE-CYCLED • Until Mar 23

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave,

DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St • drawingroomedmonton.com/events • DREAM HUT: New work by Adam Maitland • Until Mar 8 ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • CROSS CONTAMINATION: Artworks by the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts staff and artist collective; until Mar 28 • FRESH PAINT: A Snapshot of Painting in Edmonton; until Apr 12 • DUETS: Shared Ideas in Painting: until Apr 12 • DINOSTARS: Baby Chasmosaurus and mummified Edmontonosaurus dinosaur specimens; until Mar 8 • VISUAL MUSIC: Five Films by John Osborne; until Mar 29

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St, 780.492.2081 • THE SPACE BETWEEN US: Works by Alysha Creighton • FIELD NOTES: Works by Lisa Matthias; until Mar 23 • LEBZELTER AND DANNER: PRINTED MATTER: Printworks by Austrian artists; until Mar 22 • Speaker Series: FAB 2-20: I Don't Care What It's Made of: Interdisciplinary Art and the Art Gallery; talk by Blair Brennan; Mar 13, 5:15pm

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • Artworks by Paddy Lamb • Opening: Mar 8, 2-4pm

9722-102 St • In Memory of David Finkelman: Michael Snow's Wavelength, and Lindsay McIntyre's Barge Dirge, and music by Pigeon Breeders, and Zebra Pulse; presented by Edmonton Film Collective • Mar 7, 8pm (music), 10pm (film) • free

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • METAMORPHOSIS: Elaine Berglund; until Mar 18 • CÉLÉBRONS LES LIENS: Works by Karen Blanchet; Mar 22-Apr 29

SKIRTS-A-FIRE • Alberta Avenue Community Hall, 9210-118 Ave • Ladies in the Lens • Mar 6, 7-10pm

Albert • ILLUMINATION: Encaustic artworks by Barbara Mitchell 8 Until Mar 13

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-

Plain, 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • New works by Keith Harder; until Mar19

780.200.2711 • Richard Dixon's Studio and Gallery featuring a collection of historical Canadian artworks; antique jade sculptures and jewellery; 17th Century bronze masterworks and artworks by Richard Dixon St • FIGURES: paintings and sculptures by Erik Olson • Mar 22-Apr 5 • Opening: Mar 22, 2-4pm; artist in attendance

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St

Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • epl. ca/art-gallery • PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG

• 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park, 780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • ESSENCE OF ELEGANCE: Lifestyles of the Past • until Mar 21

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St •

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 790.559.4443 • artstrathcona. com • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • Paint Along: Pastel Pointers DVD with Richard McKinley; hosted by Art Society of Strathcona County • Mar 12, 10am-2pm; $5 (per session); Bring a bag lunch, coffee & snacks provided

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

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM ARCHIVES

ANIME: Works by Deborah Torrance and Sheldon Rabbit Wheatley • Until Mar 28 • Reception: Mar 7, 4-6pm

Tammy Salzl, and installation/sculpture stories by Emily Jan; Mar 7-Apr 15; Conversation with the artists: Mar 7, 7pm; opening: Mar 7, 8pm

Monica Sheline; until Mar 31

-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • Main Gallery: AMPLITUDES: Printworks by Robert Truszkowski • Mar 13-Apr 12; opening: Mar 13, 7-9pm; artist speaking about his work at 6pm • Community Gallery: CITY IN A WAFFLE IRON: Printworks by Eva Schneider; Mar 13-Apr 12; opening: Mar 13, 7-9pm

HUB ON ROSS–Red Deer • THE WONDERS OF

Space: FALLING THROUGH THE MIRROR: Paintings by

CAFE PICHILINGUE–Red Deer • Artworks by

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print

• 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • Gallery@501 members; Until Mar 9 • DUALITY IN A DIAPHANOUS LANDSCAPE: Works by Local glass artist Manola Borrajo; Mar 14-Apr 27; Opening: Mar 14, 7pm

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Main

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY (Agnes Bugera Gallery), 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.482.2854 • FORGE AND FORM: Landscapes by Clint Hunker and Kerensa Haynes ; until Mar 12 • DAY TRIPPING: Works by Jane Brookes • TWO DAYS IN NEW YORK: Works by David Wilson; Mar 14-28; Meet the Artists': Mar 14, 6-9pm; Mar 15, 1-3pm

Project • Shows run through the feastival: Mar 6-9

780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Artisan Nook: DAILY ENCOUNTERS WITH NATURE: Paintings by Natasa Vretenar; until Mar 22 • Vertical Space: UNFINISHED PAINTING CHALLENGE: Jointly created paintings by several artists; until Apr 17

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • 9225-118 Ave • thenina.ca • Community Arts Night: Learn techniques, become familiar with new mediums; Every Tue until Jun 10, 6:30-8:30pm; Pre-register at 780.474.7611 • Skirts-a-fire: HEART SHAPED BOX: musical installation; Mar 8, 1:30-2:30pm

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Works

by Paul Bernhardt and James Olley; Mar 8-25; opening: Mar 8, 2-4pm

RED DEER MUSEUM & ART GALLERY • reddeerartscouncil.ca • TOTEMS OF THE MASCULINE: Personages in leather, wool, wood, and steel by Matt Gould • Opening: Mar 9; Artist speaking at 2:30pm • Mar 9-May 11

telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • HARRY POTTER: THE EXHIBITION: Peer into the wizard’s world in an interactive exhibit featuring hundreds of authentic props and costumes from the Harry Potter films; until Apr 6; tickets start: $14 • How to Make a Monster–tHe ART AND TECHNOLOGY OF ANIMATRONICS • IMAX Theatre: Jerusalem 3D (G) Fri-Sat 11am, 2:10, 3:20, 6:50, 8:00; Sun 11am, 2:10, 5:15; Mon 3:10, 5:15, 6:30; Tue-Wed 2:00, 3:10, 5:15, 6:30; Thu 2:00, 3:10; Hubble (G) Fri 12:00am; Rocky Mountain Express (G) Sat-Sun 12:00pm; Tue 4:20; Flight of the Butterflies 3D (G) Fri-Sun 1:00; Wed 4:20; Born to be Wild 3D (G) Mon-Thu 4:20; Gravity 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 4:35, 9:10; Sun 3:25, 6:30; Thu 7:00, 8:50

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.421.1731 • GALLeRy A: GALLeRy B: CELEBRATING ALBERTA: Alberta Society of Artists; until Mar 15 • Gallery A: Hometown Dreams: Paintings by Linda Craddock; Mar 20-May 3 • Gallery B: Labyrinth of the Eternal Archetype: Installation by Shyra Desouza; Mar 20-May 3 • Opening: Mar 20, 7-9:30pm VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • Works by Deborah Catton; through Mar

VELVET OLIVE LOUNGE–Red Deer • Paintings by Sasha Grinnell • Until Mar 31

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave, 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Paintings by Claudette Castonguay • Until Mar 13 WORKS GALLERY • 10635-95 St • facebook.com/ TheWorksArtandDesignFestival • MEET ME IN MCCAULEY: NOVANTACINQUE 95 BENVENUTI: The McCauley Revitalization Committee, The Places 52 sculptural art banners installed on 95 St between 106A and 109A Ave. The banners feature imagery created by Dennis Lenarduzzi; through Mar • The yMCA Community Canvas Works Gallery: Don Wheaton YMCA downtown (10211 102 Ave): Jenny Keith's nature-inspired paintings; until May • Jackson Power: 9754-60 Ave: GASTOSOPHY: Group show curated by Olivia Chow; Mar 7-15; opening/performance: Mar 7, 7-10pm

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Authors

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave, 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Every Mon, presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

THEATRE THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • An Improvised Theatre: song, dance, and comedy presented by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri • Mar 7, Mar 14

CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun, 2014 DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until May 26

DEATH TRAP • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Broadway thriller, with a skillful blend of suspense and humor • Until Apr 6 • Tickets at 780.483.4051 EXPANSE FESTIVAL • 10708-124 St • Arts at the Barns Presentation Series: an annual interdisciplinary festival presented by Azimuth Theatre • Mar 6-9 GOD IS A SCOTTISH DRAG QUEEN • Arts at The Barns Westbury Theatre • 70 minute one-man show written and starring Mike Delamont. Appropriate for ages 14 and up • Mar 13-15 • $20 at fringetheatre.ca, 780.409.1910

LITTLE ONE • Roxy Theatre, 780.453.2440 • By Hannah Moscovitch, presented by Theatre Network, Bradley Moss (director), starring Amber Borotsik and Jesse Gervais • For all of his childhood, Aaron had to be careful around his troubled foster sister Claire • Until Mar 23; opening Mar 6; Tue-Sat: 8pm; Sun: 2pm • $21-$27 at theatrenetwork.ca MARY POPPINS • Citadel Theatre, 780.425.1820 • Family Musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film • Mar 15-Apr 20 MERCY OF A STORM • La Cite Francophone (L'Unitheatre), 8627-91 St, 780.471.1586 • Northern Light Theatre with L'UniThéâtre • By Jeffrey Hatcher, translated by Gisele Villeneuve; directed by Trevor Schmidt. Featuring Brian Dooley and Gianna Vacirca • Mar 6-16, 7:30pm; Booty Call Performance: Mar 14, 11:30pm; no show Mon evenings • English: Mar 6, 8, 12, 14, 16 • French: Mar 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 • Mar 6-16, 7:30pm • Tickets at 780.471.1586

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ • 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861

780.434.5564 • By Eugene Strickland, presented by Shadow Theatre • An aging theatre actress recruits the assistance of an unruly teenage girl in a last ditch attempt to memorize her lines for an all female production of King Lear • Mar 12-30, Tue-Sat 7:30pm; Sat-Sun 2pm • $16 (Preview); $27 (Fri-Sat night opening)/ $24 (student/senior, Fri-Sat night opening); $23 (TueThu, Sun matinee)/$21 (student/senior, Tue-Thu, Sun matinee); adv tickets at TIX on the Square

• Story Slam 2nd Wed each month @ the Chair: Share your story, sign-up at 7pm, 7-10pm • $5 (suggested, donations go to winners)

CANADIAN LITERATURE CENTRE • Student Lounge, Old Arts Bldg, U of A • arts.ulberta.ca/clc • Brown Bag Lunch: Reading with Eden Robinson; Mar 19 CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • The Olive Reading Series Presents: The U of A's WRITE 392 class; no minors • Mar 11, 7pm MACEWAN UNI–City Centre Campus • Bldg 8, Gymnasium, 10700-104 Ave • MacEwan University Book of the Year celebrates Writer Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse with an on-stage conversation between Wagamese and Richard Van Camp (writer-in-residence), followed by a book signing • Mar 17, 7:30-9:30pm

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • BENEATH THE

• Featuring talk by Marie Battiste, author of Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage • Mar 8, 7pm

9210-118 Ave: Skirts Installation • Various Venues: SkirtsAfire’s Art Unhemmed; Nest Tree Confidences; opens: Mar 6, 5:30- 7pm • Art at the Carrot: Works by Jill Thomson • Art in the Alleyway: The Alberta Ave Alley

An Evening of Inuit Literature and Performance: Mar 8, 6pm; www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/clc/images/MOSHA.pdf • Timm's Centre: 2014 Henry Kreisel Commemorative lecture by Tomson Highway is giving this year's Kreisel Lecture; and event of talk and music. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture; Mar 6, 7pm

PIRATES OF PENZANCE JR • Festival Place,

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com • Poets Against Apartheid–A Night of Rouge Poetry: spoken word and performance poetry relating the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people; details at psnedmonton.ca • Mar 11, 8:30-11pm

SKIRTS-A-FIRE • Alberta Avenue Community Hall,

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA • Humanities Centre:

of Pure Prairie Eating Plan, meet, greet and sign books; Mar 13, 11am-2pm • Featuring talk by Alexia Lane, author of On Fracking; Mar 18, 7pm

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • CHOP SUEY ON THE PRAIRIES: Until Apr 27 • Feature Gallery: PATTERN WIZARDRY: until Mar 9 • Orientation Gallery: SPECIES AT RISK: until Mar 16 • Lecture Series: Museum Theatre: Questions and Collections IV: until Apr 9, 7pm; free • Dr Mark A. Edwards, Curator, Mammalogy presents: Our Changing Relationship with Bears: Society, culture and conservation; Mar 12, 7pm; free SUN: Paintings by Richard Tosczak • Mar 8, 4-8pm • Mar 8-29

featuring Jessica Zapata, Barbara Scriver, and Lisa Anderson • Mar 18, 7:30-9:30pm • $32.50

STANLEY MILNER LIBRARY THEATRE

T.A.L.E.S. • Park Allen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St • Tellaround/Story Circle • Mar 12, 7-9pm • Free

TIRAMISO BISTRO • 10750-124 St • motherhaven. ca • Inspiring Stories Series: An evening of inspiration:

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Sherwood Park • Mar 11-12, 7:30pm

QUEEN LEAR • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave,

SKIRTS-A-FIRE • Avenue Theatre, 9030-118 Ave: Poiema Productions present Anatolia Speaks; Mar 6-8, 8-8:50pm • Arts Hub elevator, 9225-118 Ave: National Theatre Yes present Elevator Project; Mar 7, 7-8:30pm; Mar 8, 2-3:30pm • Alberta Avenue Community Hall, 9210-118 Ave: Hey Ladies! Mar 7, 8-10pm • Alberta Avenue Community Hall: Peep Show; Mar 9, 2-3:30pm • Nina Haggerty, 9225-118 Ave: The Easy Road; Mar 8, 7-8pm THE SPIDER OR THE FLY • Kinsmen Korral Hall, 47 Riel Dr • By Sam Bobrick, presented by St Albert Theatre Troupe starring Christine Lesiak, Adam Keefe, Krista Kwarok, and Julian Stamer • Mar 13-15, 8pm • Talkback with the artists following the show on Mar 14 • $25/$20 (student/senior/group) at stalberttheatre.com

A TALE OF TWO CITIES: THE MUSICAL • Festival Place, Sherwood Park • A co-production by Elope and Sherard Musical Theatre • Until Mar 8 THEATRESPORTS • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until June • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

THE VIP KIDS SHOW • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83

Ave, 780.433.3399 • Music, comedy, art, puppets, and special guests! Watch as the V.I.P. troupe of zany scharacters celebrate the thin line between clever and silly with Kate Ryan, Davina Stewart, Donovan Workun, Dana Andersen, Cathy Derkach and friends • Mar 9 • All Seats $6 VIP Pass $60

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We hear it every day. “\ The only problem with Blundstone boots is that they last too long.” In our throw-away world wouldn’t it be nice if every product had such a “problem”? If they got better over time, not worse? Landfills are full of broken promises. But they’re not full of Blundstone boots. We’re comfortable with that.

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FEATURE // SLOW FOOD

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y l u r t A t e i d d i u q i l al needs, but plies nutrition

Soylent sup

T

he slow-food movement may be well-established, but not everyone cares that much—or hardly at all—about food. Enter Soylent: a complete food substitute, capable of supplying the entirety of the body's nutritional needs. That's right, you could survive indefinitely on this beige, vanilla-flavoured liquid, should you so choose.

Soylent was created by Californian software engineer Rob Rhinehart as a means to curtail most of the time, money and effort required to make food. (None of those involved with Soylent were available for comment when requested.) Rhinehart developed Soylent through self-education and experimentation, using himself as a guinea pig: he added and reduced quantities of various nutrients based on his body's reaction (a sulfur deficiency which caused joint pain prompted the addition of methylsulfonylmethane, for example).

Rhinehart relied on crowdsourcing to raise the funds for a commercial version of Soylent and the results were shockingly positive: to date, Soylent has more than 20 000 backers and has raised more than $2 million, rocketing past the initial goal of $100 000. Clearly, plenty of people are either interested in the product themselves—or believe that enough others will be.

Not everyone thinks Soylent is the "solution" to the "problem of food" (or even that food is a problem in the first place), however. Typical knee-jerk reactions range from confusion to outright disgust, or even dismissal as a sure hoax—after all, food is quite literally what keeps us alive, and why would anyone want to deny themselves the pleasure of a good meal?

"My general feeling about meal replacements is that they're generally not very palatable in the long term," says Audrey Inouye, a registered dietitian with Edmonton's

Simply Yours Nutrition. "People don't get a lot of enjoyment from drinking their food, so something like this is not very sustainable."

Inouye agrees that time (or lack thereof) is the primary reason her clients indulge in unhealthy eating habits. Meals are admittedly an easy place to cut corners, but Soylent has taken this to an extreme.

"It would be rare to see somebody who doesn't want to eat any solid food and would like to just take five minutes to drink their shake three times a day," Inouye says. "And for someone who does desire that, I would be interested to see if they could maintain it for the long term."

Aside from the questionable sustainability of a long-term liquid diet, Soylent's nutritional value is also suspect. For reasons other than the ironic name, which is taken from the 1973 film Soylent Green based on Harry Harrison's 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! (The irony being that in both film and novel, a dystopic society survives on a food ration named Soylent Green, which turns out to be made from people.)

Three servings of Soylent has the correct proportion of vitamins, minerals and calories that one's body needs in a day (and it's also vegetarian; vegan if the fish oil, which is mixed in separately, is omitted).

But Inouye is not convinced that it is actually healthy.

"There are a lot of things in real food that you wouldn't find in processed, man-made items—like antioxidants, which are important for cancer prevention and heart health," she states.

Maltodextrin, a highly processed carbohydrate derived from corn, is Soylent's main ingredient and responsible for half of its caloric content. Aside from the significant environmental damage caused by large-scale corn crops, Inouye notes that it's never a good idea

is it worth it?

to put all your nutritive eggs in one basket, so to speak. Humans evolved as omnivorous grazers; there's a reason we should switch up our daily diets.

Another

alleged benefit of Soylent is weight loss, commonly cited by its adherents.

"Weight loss is a very complex process which extends well beyond liquid meals," Inouye says. "It even extends beyond nutrition. We know the evidence around weight loss includes nutrition as one component, physical activity as another component and cognitive/behavioural therapy is actually very important as well. To say that adopting liquid meals will help with weight loss is oversimplifying weight-loss management, for sure."

An entire month's supply of Soylent costs $255 USD, or $3.04 per meal, which seems quite cheap—though Inouye stresses that with a little planning ahead and avoiding meals out, $255 is actually plenty of cash for your

monthly grocery bill. However, while this is a reasonable price tag for North Americans, it is ludicrous to millions of others in developing nations—yet the Soylent website states that one in seven people globally are malnourished, seeming to imply that Soylent could be a solution.

"I can't see a rural family in India Fedexing their package of Soylent to their village," Inouye says wryly.

The Soylent website also lumps several other food statistics together in a hodgepodge meant to highlight all the problems with the current state of the food industry, and showcase Soylent as the ultimate solution: 50 percent of food produced globally is wasted. Two million people are killed annually by smoke inhalation from indoor cooking stoves. Agriculture is the most dangerous industry to work in based on occupational injury and, bewilderingly in that same sentence, obesity in on the rise.

(How are farm accidents related to obesity, exactly?)

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Despite the obvious problems with stripping away the context from these extremely complex issues and mashing them together without any clear logic, it's obvious that Soylent is a First World product designed to solve very First World problems: people with the means, but not the inclination, to invest more than the bare minimum in keeping themselves alive. While becoming a slow-food devotee is certainly unnecessary in maintaining a healthy lifestyle, I would challenge everyone as to whether they truly are so busy that they never have time to prepare food at home.

Sure, we all have busy days, and on those days, meal replacements, perhaps even Soylent, could be a viable option. But are you that busy, really?

Put another way: if a guy can teach himself how to make a complete food substitute through the Internet, don't you think you can learn how to whip up a quick stir fry?

MEL PRIESTLEY

MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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DISH VENI, VIDI, VINO

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Liquid calories

Something to think about next time you pour a glass of vino

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Do you know how many calories are in a glass of wine? The answer might surprise you—it's really not that much, especially compared to other alcoholic beverages.

The health benefits of wine have been studied extensively and the results are, as is so often the case with medical studies, conflicting— one study will argue that red wine reduces the risk of heart attacks while another will state the complete opposite. That said, there's mounting evidence in support of moderate drinking to reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke— and by moderate, I mean no more than one (five ounce-ish) glass a day. (And no, you can't stockpile them throughout the week and have it all on the weekend—if only it worked that way.)

Health benefits aside, the calories in wine are a little bit easier to pin down: the short answer is about 120 per glass, give or take.

Most of wine's calories come from the alcohol content, so wines that are high in alcohol have a higher caloric content. A glass of Californian Zinfandel checking in around 16 percent will have far more calories than an Italian Pinot Grigio at 11 percent; similarly, tawny port will have even more calories as it averages around 20 percent. However, it's really the serving size that determines how many calories you are actually consuming, just as it is with food. A standard glass of red wine may be five ounces, but chances are the glass you pour for yourself at home is bigger—probably checking in around 150 to 175 calories.

When you compare wine, ounce for ounce, with other types of alcohol, it doesn't give a clear picture of true caloric intake: an ounce of beer only has 13 calories, while an ounce of wine has 24, and an ounce of vodka has 64. You'll generally drink many more ounces of beer than wine—a pint of beer is 20 ounces and about 260 calories, far more than a glass of wine. Similarly, spirits are usually

Wine Beer Vodka Smirnoff Ice Coca-Cola Orange Juice

Open at 8am every Saturday.

Alcohol producers are not required to publish nutritional or calorie content on their labels in any country, though the issue has definitely been raised. In February 2013, the health minister of the United Kingdom announced that the country was considering the inclusion of calorie content and nutritional information on alcoholic beverages. Another update came just a few weeks ago, when Sainsbury's, the UK's second-largest supermarket chain, committed to printing calories on all its own-brand wines.

While the government praised this decision, it's unlikely that other producers of alcoholic beverages will follow suit any time soon—it would require a lot of investment in both changing label designs and scientifically determining what the actual nutritional and caloric content is. While this will be constant for mass-produced beverages like coolers or domestic beer, by nature of the product itself wine will vary in calories from vintage to vintage, as the alcohol content and other chemical components are never identical year to year. Needless to say, this would be a prohibitive overhead cost for many wineries.

Nonetheless, in the next five years I'm betting that we'll see nutritional information pop up on wine labels around the world. It will start with the big producers, since they'll be able to front the cost most easily (Yellow Tail maybe, or Barefoot?), and trickle down from there. I could also see certified organic wines following suit quite quickly. It's very unlikely that governments will institute mandatory legislation for this labelling; this is probably going to reside in the realm of marketing for the conceivable future. V

Serving Size 5 ounce glass 20 ounce pint glass 1 ounce shot 275mL bottle 355mL can 450mL bottle

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Calories 120 260 64 228 140 220

mixed with pop or juice which also bumps up the calorie count.

Check out the accompanying chart to see just how wine measures up to other alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

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FILM

FILM EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // THRILLER

No country for young men Omar thrills with ethical pitfalls and echoes of noir

W

e first see Omar (Adam Bakri) brated plot mechanics and ethical scaling the high separation pitfalls of Hany Abu-Assad's latest wall dividing his West Bank village film echo film noir, and as in most and we see him straddling its top, noir, what initially appears to be a where under the flat blue sky he's labyrinthine obstacle course may shot at, an apturn out to be parently ordinary Fri, Mar 7 – Thu, Mar 13 an elaborate trap with no exit in hazard, nerve- Directed by Hany Abu-Assad any direction. rattling but rou- Metro Cinema at the Garneau Tarek (Eyad tine. In a sense,  Hourani), Amjad this is how Omar (Samer Bisharat) will spend most of this excellent thriller bearing his and Omar are childhood friends now name, perched precariously upon a in their 20s and trying to parse out a divide, eyes darting from one side future that makes room for armed reto the other, frantically wondering sistance and domestic contentment. which side he can trust, which fall Amjad and Omar are both in love will hurt the least. The deftly cali- with Tarek's sister Nadia (Leem Luba-

ny), whose deep dark eyes and wide lovely smile could make just about any guy consider laying down his arms so as to be in hers. Only Omar seems to have an actual relationship with Nadia—the couple arranges trysts in windows or quiet alleys, where they exchange love letters and fantasize a happy life together, one that includes, say, a honeymoon in Paris. But these trysts are secret— Omar is riddled with such secrets, or rumours, or rumours of secrets. After the friends undertake a nocturnal attack on an Israeli outpost, Omar is arrested, detained, interrogated and tortured. A persuasive officer (Waleed Zuaiter) presents Omar with

On the run

an ultimatum, one that would trade Omar's loyalty for his freedom—one that Omar believes he can wriggle out of. But, as his friends begin to suspect him of treachery and even Nadia becomes a dubious ally, the question becomes one of where should Omar wriggle to?

The politics of Omar seem decidedly geared to a sweeping critique of the Israeli occupation, but there is a hand of destiny at work that seems to tip every turn toward doom. I don't mean to diminish the polemical potential of this film— made, of course, by a Palestinian—I only want to point out the fact that

Omar is guided by an overriding fatalism that seems more powerful than any such agenda regarding the seemingly endless Arab-Israeli quagmire, a slowly asphyxiating force that can be felt in the blank black void of the interrogation chamber, or the spied-upon scenes of apparent betrayal, or in the evernarrowing streets where Omar is pursued. And in the internal logic of this film, this fatalism strikes me as perfectly credible and emotionally true. The film is loomed over by a wall, and everything in this film will gradually, ruthlessly close in.

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JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // ACTION

Non-Stop H

ere's a game to play during an film, only to prove himself a hero action movie that fails to hold by the end? Check. your attention: Die Hard Bingo. The But Non-Stop's fatal flaw is not rules are simple: Did one of the Die that it doesn't live up to its spiritual Hard films do it first? And did Die predecessor: it's that it raises the stakes a total of twice: the first time Hard do it better? not enough, the Unfortunately next time too late for viewers of Now playing Non-Stop, each Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and by too great a degree. important ele-  ment has been The plot is simbested by its predecessor. Is our hero an alcoholic ple: a hijacker threatens air marshal who has lost/alienated his family? Bill Marks (Liam Neeson), promising Check. Does he acquire a civilian to kill one passenger every 20 minsidekick with whom the audience utes until he gets the $150 million can identify? Check. Does the bad dollars he has demanded. And then guy seem to lust only for money, he does.

Spoiler alert: every 20 minutes but it turns out he is driven by an ideological and/or patriotic ideal, someone dies—that's the whole as well as money? Check. Is the movie. protagonist's ability and/or mental After the first death you get the competence questioned by his sup- feeling he's serious about this. Afposed superiors throughout the ter the second you wonder what

else he's got up his sleeve. After the third, you start to think, "OK, well, it's six hours between New York and London. At three deaths per hour that's 18 deaths ... a Boeing 777 can carry up to 450 passengers ... that's only four percent of the passengers murdered ... maybe Neeson should just grab another Bushmills and roll with this?"

But that's not what happens: in the final eight minutes or so, the screenwriter finally gets around to raising the stakes a second time in a sequence of events so ridiculous, so far-fetched and laughable, I had to check my ticket to see if I was watching Liam Neeson in Non-Stop, or Leslie Nielsen in Airplane!.

Alas, it was the former, and though Neeson has proven he can carry a brainless action flick, he cannot carry this brainless action flick.

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To make a name

Polanski's Tess finds the fluidity of identity have understood. (Weighed against all she brings to the role, Kinski's variable accent seems forgivable.) All this to say that we're talking about an adaptation as extraordinary as it is unlikely, a meticulous, transporting, painterly film, drawing upon the work of Georges de la Tour and Gustave Courbet and photographed by Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet with an alluring mix of natural elements and obvious artifice, that tells a story about how names can mean everything and nothing. Tess is now available from Criterion in a dual format DVD/Blu-ray set.

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hat's in a name? A man walks down a country road. Let's say he's middle-aged, but this is Victorian England, and that period had a way of making men from the struggling class middle-aged with one foot in the grave. The man—his name is Durbyfield—stops to converse with a parson, who casually informs him of a recent discovery he made: the Durbyfields are descendants of the d'Urbervilles, and thus connected to the old aristocracy. The clan's all but died out, the money and property long gone, but that name: it changes the man's identity in a moment. More importantly, it will radically alter the destiny of the man's daughter, our story's tragic heroine.

Names. We're talking about Thomas

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Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and the adaptation directed by Roman Polanski, produced by Claude Berri, and starring Nastassja Kinski. That's one Pole, one Frenchman and one German taking control of a much beloved, terribly English literary classic. The Brits were not happy when they heard the news, nor when they learned that Polanski would film Tess (1979) not in Hardy's Dorset, but rather in Brittany. The fact that Polanski, a fugitive, might have faced extradition if he went to the UK surely had something to do with the choice of location, but the truth is that Brittany felt much closer to Victorian Dorset than the Dorset of the '70s; that Polanski's childhood experiences, hiding his Jewishness and

living in rural Poland during the war that stole his parents and murdered his mother (she died in Auschwitz), granted him an ability to relate to Tess in ways your average bankable director couldn't (what's more, Polanski was first given Hardy's novel by his wife Sharon Tate, just before she was murdered); and Kinski, still in her teens when production began, not only had precisely the look that Hardy carefully detailed in the novel, but also had an innate intelligence and an instinct for conveying Tess' brutal accumulation of hardships, which include manipulation, rape, heartbreak, gruelling labour and persecution, some of which Kinski herself, as the much neglected daughter of German actor Klaus Kinski, would

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"You were one person, now you're another." So says Angel Clare (Peter Firth), this chump Tess falls for, a guy who can't bear the fact that Tess has a past, who basically punishes her for being a victim. A chump, yet Angel is also correct—Tess is, in a sense, another person. She was another person when she was Tess Durbyfield; another person when she met Alec d'Urberville (Leigh Lawson), the creep who bought her family name and used it to seduce her, and when the seduction didn't take, rape her; another person when she found something like love; another person when she herself finally commits a heinous act. (Henious, but also a saint? There's a scene where, if you look carefully, you'll notice a halo around Tess' head created by a steam engine.) Identity is fluid in Tess—another theme Polanski would have understood well. For some insight into just how well, check out the episode of The South Bank Show included in Criterion's supplements. It's a wideranging, nearly hour-long interview with the director at a very particular moment in his often troubled, often brilliant career. V

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Alain Resnais H

ow shall we remember Alain Resnais? If you know the films for which he's most famous, the obvious answer would seem to be: perplexedly; perhaps suspiciously; perhaps beguiled and bewildered.

The director of Hiroshima, mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961) and Muriel (1963) ushered into the cinema a sense of uncertainty so elegant, resonant and acute it's a wonder that spectators were able to find their way out again. In the first a French woman and a Japanese man call each other by the places they're from—Nevers, Hiroshima—and journey through a past turned foreign by war and catastrophe. In the second two lovers inhabit an eerie, sprawling baroque hotel whose geography seems to change as their conflicting memories collide with a malleable reality. In the third an antique dealer is revisited by the fiancé who inexplicably abandoned her

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long ago, while her son is haunted by his memories of military duty in Algeria. In each of these films past intrudes on present, time slips out of order, everything seems destined to repeat, yet nothing returns quite as it was. Marienbad especially is an emblem of art-house cryptography, but every time I see it, it strikes me as closer to our actual lived experience of time and desire than most ostensibly straightforward movies.

Resnais died last Saturday. There is nothing tragic about this: he was 91, and working until the end, his films still seen and often admired. I write this mainly to keep remembering him and his body of work, which is among the most extraordinary and transformative in cinema history. François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard made their first features simultaneous to Resnais, but he was older and less dogmatic, not a rider of the French New Wave but a mem-

ber of the Left Bank group, which also included Agnès Varda, whose Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) was another innovation in cinema's exploration of time's passage, and Chris Marker, another recently deceased maestro, and another lesser-known figure whose effect on movies was also radical in ways you can spend the rest of your film-viewing life sorting out. Just as there's much more to Marker than La jetée (1962) and Sans soleil (1983), Resnais' career contains far more than that trilogy mentioned above. But those films, along with Night and Fog (1955), his monumental documentary about the camps, give you a hell of a place to start. You should see them. And then you should wait a while, and then see them again. See how you remember them, and see how they change, and see how they change everything else you see.

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Jesus walks ... the crowd

Son of God C

ulled from the 10-part History here, in keeping with this story's very Channel miniseries The Bible, Son photogenic, placid feel (Morgado of God is a by-the-Book, scripture- himself is a former model) but shortinto-script visualization of Jesus' ing out the shocking power of Jesus' (Diogo Morgado) actions ... not so mere touching, let alone resurrection, of a leper. Weak, much his oratorigauzy F/X—from cal prowess, re- Now playing clouds belliousness or Directed by Christopher Spencer building and a basement human-ness. And  model-like Jerusawhile certain molem to the appariments—most obviously the crucifixion—have innate tions of Christ on a storm-wracked power, this dramatization of the New Sea of Galilee or outside his tomb— Testament, through the eyes of John only make Jesus' miracles seem all the (Sebastian Knapp), mostly reveals all more like parlour tricks, meant to cethe problems with retelling Chris- ment his followers' beliefs. But those tianity's saviour-story so literally— followers—throngs of cheering chilthere's little of the conflict, doubt or dren, amazed adults—are already, almetaphor so crucial not just to the ways so in thrall so immediately that the movie seems to assume we, too, Bible but to any basic human drama.

While Scorsese's classic 1988 take are a captive audience; this built-in concerned temptation and Mel Gib- certainty and awe deadens the drama. son's 2004 anti-Semitic gore-porn emphasized suffering, Son of God is Still, Jesus' rise is nicely framed as mostly about anguish—disciples cry a political threat to the Jewish high and weep and plead more often than priests and to Rome; there's also a speak—and, on Jesus' final earthly sharp scene where an unholy trinity— day, agony. But no disciple's devel- Pilate, Caiaphas and Jesus' disciples— oped; Lazarus is no diseased man pray to their different gods. Here,

briefly, is the power of juxtaposition and cross-cutting and conflict. Too bad, then, that Son of God remains so flatly sure of itself even as it offers some weak readings—a non-poetic rendering of "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone;" "It's finished" instead of "It is accomplished"—amid the certainty that Pilate's question, "What is truth?," is always and ever answered by one super-man.

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Shooting Guns finds its psychedelic Brotherhood across the prairies

I

t takes many thousands of records to make a band like Saskatoon's Shooting Guns.

To be precise, it takes thousands of records plus an avowed musicnerd philosophy as a common thread among bandmates, which is something that Shooting Guns drummer Jim Ginther is more than fine with admitting.

"If you took our record collections and put them together we would have somewhere in the area of seven or eight thousand," he says in the voice of half pride, half chagrin adopted by record collectors the world over when describing their passion. "It's not as though we try to do it, but you can definitely hear the music that we love in the music that we play."

What Shooting Guns plays is a heady instrumental mixture of stoner rock (think Sleep or Black Sabbath) with Krautrock (Neu!, Wooden Shjips, Circle) with a dash of Hawkwind for seasoning. The band has been at it since 2008, with its 2011 debut, Born To Deal in Magic: 1952-1976, twisting heads around so far that the album was nominated for the Polaris Prize that year. A few years on and the band's found itself in a tight scene of fellow travellers, including Edmonton's Krang and the UK's the Cult of Dom Keller, both of whom released split seven-inches with the band.

Last October the group assem-

bled the two-record sophomore release, Brotherhood of the Ram, which almost immediately sold out in its vinyl pressing. The band has scrambled to get another printing done; they'll be available for the show at the Artery on Saturday.

"It's actually kind of funny, because what we are is just a bunch of bros making music in Saskatoon, because there really isn't anything else to do in the winter," Ginther says. "It's not as though we went in thinking that there was any kind of market for what we do. That was the last thing on our minds. We were a little surprised that people in Edmonton were so into it; that was the first place where people treated us like we were a hometown band, and one of the first places where people came out to see us who weren't friends of ours.

Every time we go to Edmonton it's more fun than the last."

The band, which also includes Keef and Christopher Laramee on guitars, Stevie Reed on synth, and Jay Loos on bass, has had a pretty good time of it in its hometown as well.

"People really support the scene here, and you'll often see local shows selling out as much as ones with touring bands," Ginther says.

"Edmonton is what, five times the size of Saskatoon? So even though you're not as big as Toronto or Vancouver there is some small industry

going on there. Well, there isn't really one in Saskatchewan. We live in a vacuum. If you're going to start a band it's because you want to, not because you think you'll sell a million records and be a rock star. For that you move to Toronto."

Unless, of course, you're a part of the groovy blues-rock scene, like Colin James, or Wide Mouth Mason.

"Right, but no disrespect, that doesn't have much to do with what we're part of, which is far, far weirder."

Possibly so, but the weirdness seems to be catching. Brotherhood of the Ram was picked up for international release by LA label Easy Rider Records, and the band is in the process of booking its first American tour in the spring. The band's own label, Pre Rock Records, is prepping its own psych-rock compilation, with offerings from Krang, Calgary's Chron Goblin, Bison, Pub- Sat, Mar 8 (8 pm) lic Animal and many With Krang, Desiderata, the Get others. Pretty good Down, Morals, Gary Debussy for a bunch of self- The Artery, $12 – $15 described burn-outs nestled in the heart of the prairie blues.

"I'm not saying that we're all that good at what we do, but at least we're weird," Ginther says with some pride. "If people are associating Saskatoon with what we do, well, maybe that's not the worst thing in the world."

TOM MURRAY

The brotherhood of Shooting Guns

with on the streets of New York," he says. "The thing that got me out of that whole life, back in the '70s, was meeting the Bad Brains and getting into music. That was the great gift.

That's why I really respect the craft, and try to give 1000 percent every night. I don't want to make excuses; you see a lot of these bands, they come out, they get drunk, and it's like, that's not really what it's about for me. "

the hardcore-metal genre—but it's disciplined, too.

Nobody in the present lineup—McGowan, longtime drummer Mackie, guitarist AJ Novello and bassist Craig Setari—drinks or imbibes illicit substances before shows, as a rule. That, too, is an attitude that reflects a volatile history: Cro-Mags' membership over the decades has been a revolving door of inter-band hostility.

It reached a point where there were two separate Cro-Mags touring, one with McGowan, the other with bassist/vocalist Harley Flanagan.

In 2012, Flanagan (who'd been kicked out of the band back in 2000), arrived at a show, pulled a knife, and was arrested for stabbing two members of the band backstage, though those charges were later dropped due to lack of witnesses. (All injuries were non-life threatening.)

But despite that combustive past still rearing up, McGowan says that

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odern day John Joseph Mc- about as understated as it gets.

"Absolutely, man," he says, that Gowan is the picture of health: at 52, he has a daily yoga practice, is thick lower east side accent shaping an involved Hare Krishna, competes his words. "That's what they say: the in Ironman competitions, has written idle mind's the devil's workshop."

It's all in contrast two books—including the excel- Fri, Mar 7 (8 pm) to olden day John lently titled Meat With No Problem, Fuquored, Joseph McGowen, a is for Pussies (he Secret Rivals man who spent the hasn't eaten any '70s fighting to surin 33 years)—is Sat, Mar 8 (8 pm) vive streets of New working on a third, With E-town Beatdown, York's Alphabet City. He grew up in and spends his Tarantuja, Ringleader days developing Pawnshop, $20 brutal foster homes, scripts for movdealt drugs to suries and television. vive, and ended up When he picks up his phone, he's doing jail-time. Those scripts he's just back from a vacation in the Ca- writing draw on that past, before ribbean—partly so he could remove he befriended the DC punks of Bad himself from New York's presently Brains, who taught him about posioff-putting weather to train for an tive mental attitude, and helped put upcoming Ironman. And the guy still him on the track to where he now tours a version of his legendary hard- finds himself.

"I honestly say music is what recore band, Cro-Mags, too, every year or so; to say he likes to keep busy is ally saved me from dudes I grew up

Current McGowan seems to have made peace with the older one: he gives walking tours of those same streets that almost killed him. And the Cro-Mags—making, by McGowan's recollection, its first-ever trip up to Edmonton this weekend—draws a pulverizing energy both sides of that mindset, melding the past and present into a sort-of hardcore catharsis. It's pummelling music—Cro-Mags basically created

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it's the band's stay-positive focus that has always been the most propulsive force behind it.

"That's kind of what the name the Cro-Mags, when we came up with it, was," he says. "If you think about it, there's all this advanced material technology, and we're the most miserable society ever, in the history of the planet, especially in America. one out of every three people—I forget what the exact statistic is—is on some sort of behavioural depression medication. Here's all this technology: it's ridiculous. It's something to just occupy your mind, and keep you not thinking about what the real purpose of human life is all about.

It's just basically distractions. And if you look at it, are we really all that advanced. Real advancement doesn't come in material advancement; real advancement is advancement of consciousness. "

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MUSIC PREVUE // ROOTS

Home on the prairies // Mark Maryanovitch

Del Barber 'I

'm actually sitting in a lineup at zeitgeist that is the modern Canadian the border," says Del Barber while prairie: there's the disappearance and resurgence of small towns, cultural on his way back from the US. He promises he'll call right back if nuances, the hard-working mentalhe makes it to the front of the line ity of prairie folk and the connection between rural and before the interurban life. view's over, and Fri, Mar 7 (7 pm) "It's hard to find the conversation With Karen Savoca and Pete anyone who's a steers towards Heitzman step away from P r a i r i e o g r a p h y, St Basil's Cultural Centre, $18 the sort of agriBarber's fourth alcultural reality in bum. Barber, who grew up on the Canadian prairies and Winnipeg or Regina, or Calgary and now resides in Winnipeg, has crafted Edmonton even, and so just trying an ode to the region and, more specif- to draw that parallel and live in both ically, the diverse population inhabit- worlds. ... We like to think there's a ing its vast landscape. The concept big, sweeping divide or something, began to form while Barber spent a and in the prairies it's harder to see couple of summers fly-fishing near it, so I think it gives us an opportunity Nordegg and had Ian Tyson's Cow- to really have a voice in terms of that sort of national conversation," notes boyography on repeat.

"It represented a certain geography Barber, who has lived in both worlds, and a certain kind of people and lan- but who keeps returning to a certain guage, and that's sort of what I've place. "At this point it's definitely been trying to do all along," he ex- specific rural areas, like in the Parkplains. "I felt like the group of songs land of Manitoba. For some reason it I was writing really represented a just keeps making the most sense to bigger step forward in that direction, me, the way people are and treating and that inspiration kind of came each other and work and the sense of community." right from Ian Tyson."

Prairieography's multifaceted sonic palette coalesces into a healthy dose After hanging up for what turns out of Canadiana, churning out roots and to be a quick and painless border alt-country melodies that express the stop, Barber calls back and delves

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into how he came across the stories that went on to form the lyrics of Prairieography. Barber, who prefers not to be the subject of his lyrics, is a self-professed introvert, but touring solo can cause a craving for human contact and it's then that he strikes up random conversations that can often be the inspiration for his songwriting.

"It's a pretty simple approach, really, and just trying to trust that the country has a lot of interesting people out there ... and on the record it's mostly people who have been moving between the urban and rural as their life sort of continues back and forth," he says, referencing the man who leaves his ranch to work in Fort McMurray on the album's opening track, "Living With a Long Way to Go." "What am I supposed to write about if all I do is sort of go from a hotel to a venue to my truck? At least it puts me out of that mode and allows me a little more room to sort of remember that there's a whole class of people that are working nine to five and night shifts and wildly diverse economic realities, and it's funny how much of a bubble the job can be, you know?"

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eleasing a successful debut and sort of super chill, but I kind album and then crafting a sub- of wanted to explore music that sequent release that is a complete was fun to perform and you could departure from that formula is a maybe even dance to," Cameron explains. "I think risk, as Wake Owl it's much cooldiscovered with its Fri, Mar 7 (8 pm) er to look up latest, The Private With Lyon Starlite Room and see people World of Paradise. grooving and "It was tough to dancing to your get it paid for all across the board," says songwriter music than just totally blank face ... and vocalist Colyn Cameron, who at this point in my life that's what picked up a Juno nomination for I'm interested in. Maybe I'll want Breakthrough Artist of the Year to play sit-down sort of shows in thanks to the Wild Country EP, the theatres one day with an acoustic guitar or something." aforementioned success.

"There's less immediate commerciality. I think for people it's a bit Cameron teamed up with multimore of a record you have to listen instrumentalist Aiden Briscall and to a few times. It's not a sort of in- producer Richard Swift to expand your-face-right-off-the-bat sort of hit or anything, and there's nothing really about it that can fill that sort of void. It's a little bit more of a patient record and some parts of the industry don't have time for that sort of music."

Regardless, Cameron kept on, not wanting to replicate the Wild Country EP or write songs that mimicked its alt-pop sensibilities.

He maintains he wanted to grow as a musician and the songs on The Private World of Paradise were a direct correlation of that.

"I think at this point in my life, I'm more interested in performing in a way that is a little less melancholic

his instrumentation and write the songs, which are an eclectic mix that touches on retro pop and a little folk to create an atmosphere and style that is often subtle, yet equally powerful and evocative.

"There's just a vitality to them that is sort of remaining exciting," says Cameron, who toured the new material for three months alongside the EP before recording. "Probably half the album is just exploring love and relationships in a sort of mysterious way, and some of the other songs have weird, deeper questions sort of tied to them, but in metaphorical ways."

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At home Morning: Singing of birds. We live out of the big city, and I love to go outside in the morning and listen to sounds of nature.

Noon: About noon we usually have lunch with my family, so what I usually listen to: voices of my wife, daughters or parents, or TV (news, different programs).

Night: Music (more often classical, or other styles). I like to practise guitar and/ or to listen to something serious at night time when I am at home.

Rovshan Mamedkuliev Fri, Mar 7 (8 pm) Muttart Hall, $20 – $25 Classical guitarist Rovshan Mamedkuliev exhibited talent on the instrument soon after he began playing at age 11. He went on to study at the renowned Nizhny Novgorod Conservatoire in his home country of Russia and has since performed around the world, including a show at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York City. Prior to his concert in Edmonton, which will showcase numerous classical compositions, Mamedkuliev shared his soundtrack picks with Vue.

On the road Morning: Sounds of the city. I like to go for a little walk in the morning time and "meet and feel" an atmosphere of a new city or a place where I am staying.

Noon: Different music (guitar, orchestra, piano, rock, pop) Usually I am practising more [during] the day time (before and after lunch) when I am away from home.

And it's always nice after practising to find, or to listen to, something interesting on the Internet (but usually not in the day of a concert).

Night: Conversations with friends or just silence in a hotel. Usually I read something or speak with my family before going to bed. V

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WED, MAR 26, THE ARTERY JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

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LOOK AWAY / SAT, MAR 8 (4 PM) But don’t. Pay attention to the show. It’s also an early show, so you’ll be set for the rest of the evening—just remember to pace yourself.

(Filthy McNasty’s)

DESIDERATA / SAT, MAY 8 (8 PM) The Bermuda and Endless Bummer festivals have created a new series called Versus.

What’s that, you ask? It means two stages and bands going song for song. This first installment has Desiderata vs Gary Debussy, the Get Down vs Morals and Shooting Guns up against Krang. (Artery, $12 in advance, $15 at the door)

FRI, APR 11, THE ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE ALL AGES AND LICENSED W/ ID JCL PRODUCTIONS AND OPEN SKY MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENT

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CHLOE ALBERT & FRIENDS / SAT, MAR 8 (8:30 PM) Think of it as a Juno Awards send-off, Blue Chair style. Chloe Albert is up for the Adult Contemporary Album of the Year trophy. (Blue Chair Café, $15)

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THE TAYLOR STRING QUARTET / SAT, MAR 8 (7 PM) The spotlight may have moved away from Russia—well, in some ways—but this show is bringing it back with “From Russia With Love.”

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MISS GRIZZLY / SAT, MAR 8 (8 PM) Get ready for a little vintage blues-rock throwback. There are some songs up online to give yourself a primer. (Artery, $10)

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BRYAN COFFEY / FRI, MAR 7 (8 PM) The blue’s rocker’s got a new album out, plus you’ll also get to see Catgut along with Push & Pull (and if you like what you hear, head back for that band’s CD release on March 29). (Artery, $8 in advance, $10 at the door)

JIM FINDLAY TRIO / SUN, MAR 9 (9 AM – 3 PM) OK, so 9 am is a tad early for a Sunday morning, but luckily you’ve got six hours to make it down there for a little jazz with your meal. (Blue Chair Café, donations)

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bicycle is a simple vehicle at first says. "I think part of the way I connect glance. Two wheels, a seat, gears as a cyclist myself, I find there is a bit and pedals make up its foundation, of a counter-cultural identity, the thing and while it's not going to pump out about doing something you love bethe horsepower of a car, it is powerful cause you believe in it and having this in other ways. The bicycle, as musician feeling [of being] connected to a bike, and spoken-word poet Evalyn Parry that's kind of about freedom and being discovered, has been an agent for social able to have this freedom of mobility change, particularly in its early days in that feels very unique." the late 19th century.

Parry, an avid cyclist herself, has The story may be steeped in history, used the bicycle as the muse for her but it also looks to the present. Parry production, Spin, a musical and theat- points out that cycling continues to be rical tour-de-force where the bicycle a source of social change as people are is both an integral figure and musical turning to alternative forms of transinstrument. The songs intertwine with portation for environmental and health a story inspired by venerable female reasons. Cycling also offers transportafigures who bucked the social norms tion for those who may have no other of the late 1800s and became integral means, allowing them to improve their figures in the women's liberation move- economic situation. ment—Frances Willard, president of "In developing countries around the the Women's Christian Temperance world, the bike is still, right now, havUnion, a powerful women's rights lob- ing the same kind of effect for young by group who learned to ride a bike at women and girls who don't have access age 53; Amelia Bloomer, the namesake to, for instance, education," Parry notes. of the precursor to pants that shook up "A bicycle can make the difference in a women's sartorial choices and allowed girl having to walk for many hours to them to ride a bike; and the ostensible get to school, and a bike can speed the start of the show, Annie Londonderry, trip up and suddenly give her access to who in 1895 became the first woman to education, which we know to be the cycle around the world. biggest emancipator for women."

"I actually received a letter from An- MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM nie Londonderry's granddaughter," Parry says, adding she changed the ending of the show after receiving the letter and that it exhibited another dimension of Londonderry's already complicated story.

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Yellow Ostrich Cosmos (Barsuk) 

Borrowing themes and the title of Carl Sagan's 1980s TV series about the universe, Yellow Ostrich's fifth fulllength—but first as a proper band—is more than a feeble concept album. The blend of delicate-to-droning guitar riffs

a great job of melding ambiance and atmosphere with indie pop.

Using very simple beats and licks while drowning them in a blend of electro drones and spacey tones that buffer vocals as they tangle and collide from several sources, creating a sound that may not be distinctive but is incredibly endearing.

Galore is strange in the sense that the songs aren't really happy or sad, they're just really creative. "Unkinder" has a groove that'll make your head bobble like, well ... a bobble head ... but one that can keep time. The standout however, is "Tame." There's so much going on here, it's hard to keep track as squawking telephone guitars and lovely falsettos shift you from side to side, and then it shifts up an octave and gets really rad.

Although it doesn't bang as much, live dance music is at the heart of this big ol' stew of sounds. You won't need a respirator, but at points this record is truly breathtaking.

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and the euphoric hum of electronic effects and programmed beats make it sound like Cosmos is being transmitted through space itself. Occasionally dipping into lofty-Radiohead territory, Yellow Ostrich actually does an effortless job of creating its own identity. This is in large part to group leader Alex Schaaf's boyish vocals: he stitches his band's muted atmospherics with a sense of wonder and hopefulness rather than resorting to the familiar passive-aggressive attitudes of despair and paranoia. The contrast is an odd pairing at first, but Schaaf's curiosity softens the complexity of the we-are-insignificant theme, making Cosmos a sobering and graceful listen.

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Fog Lake is one-man band Aaron Powell, who traffics in moody, melancholic soundscapes formed from airy synthesizers and gentle guitar.

His third album, the self-released Virgo Indigo, reflects his St John's, Newfoundland home, with its soupygrey instrumentals and vocals about loss and longing swimming deep in the oceanic production.

Virgo Indigo's backing instrumentation is incredibly sparse, with Powell's vocals rising and falling out of the mix to suit the mood of the track. On "Mad Scientist," with a burbling synth line, his frail voice is brought to the forefront, while "Nocturnal Blues" features a warm guitar riff that's just louder than Powell's croon.

What makes Virgo Indigo special, though, is Powell's use of ambient music. Opener "Fading Away" is a curveball that sets the mood, where "Transcanada" is a meditative break from Virgo Indigo's otherwise relentless melancholia.

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Four IN 140 St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Half the City (Single Lock) @VueWeekly: A product of the gospel, have produced a very legit soul album. Not re-inventing the soul wheel or anything, but a great listen nonetheless.

Raz Simone, Cognitive Dissonance: Part 1 (Black Umbrella) @VueWeekly: Put this Seattle rapper on your radar—he might find his way onto yours either way. Very minimal production, high vocal impact.

Tycho, Awake (Ghostly International) @VueWeekly: Serenity now. This lands in an area between a sprawling M83 with the strain of GY!BE. A very road trippy kind of thing.

The Men, Tomorrow's Men (Sacred Bones) @VueWeekly: A calmed down rock effort, The Men prove they don't need to be aggressive to have manliness & considered a success.

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OMAILLES Songbird and Saint ON THE ROCKS Rock ‘N’ Hops

Kitchen Party: Mourning Wood with DJs ORTONA ROOM–Ortona Armoury In Memory of David

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

Finkelman: music by Pigeon Breeders, and Zebra Pulse; film screenings of Michael Snow's Wavelength, and Lindsay McIntyre's Barge Dirge, presented by Edmonton Film Collective; 8pm (music), 10pm (film); no cover

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Ruben Flex, Mary-Lee Bird; 7pm; $7 (adv)/$10 (door) BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Fred Larose Song Writer's Evening; 7pm (door); no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Ron Hynes;

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Rooster David Mardi Gras Week-End; 7pm (door); $10 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Ron Hynes;

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the Nervous Flirts (sing-along with a live band); every Thu, 9pm-1am; no cover

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pianos every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Jazz

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evening every Fri after work; 5-8pm: This week: PJ Perry trio with readings brought to you by Athabasca University poetry group; 5-11pm

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Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Thu; no cover

Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (Karaoke with a live band); 9pm-1am; no cover

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Dusty Knuckles, Wadjit, the Natural, Space Cadet

Ryan's In Your Element; 8pm; $20

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos at 8pm

DV8 Deleite, the Pretty Dirt, Chris Daly, Mozzi Halo; 8pm

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

FESTIVAL PLACE International Women's Day: Amanda Lindhout

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Rob Taylor

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Old Time Dances Featuring "Friends of the Fiddlers Roost" musicians; every Fri, 7-10pm, 6pm (door); $7 (door); Home style meals offered from Peter & Karen's Kitchen HORIZON STAGE–Spruce Grove Feelin’ Groovy: Jim

Witter with renditions of classic Paul Simon and Art Garfunkle songs; 7:30pm; $40 (adult)/$35 (student/senior) at 780.962.8995 J+H Every Friday: Headwind

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Nothing Gold Can Stay, Cease and Desist, Calling All Captains, and More; all ages YARDBIRD From New York/ Boston/Israel: Assaf Kehati Trio; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest)

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nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every

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Bummer present Versus: Shooting Guns vs. Krang, Get Down vs. Morals, Desiderata vs. Gary Debussy; 8pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door) BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sat

PAWN SHOP Cro-Mags,

piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RICHARDS The Terry Evans

Sat Jam: every Sat; 5-9pm RENDEZVOUS Tomas Marsh,

Miss Grizzly, guest; 8pm; $10 RIVER CREE–The Venue Air

Supply (Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock); 6pm (door), 8pm; $34.50 ROSE AND CROWN Andrew

Afternoon Jam: with Rott'n Dan and Sean Stephens, noon, complimentary bowl of chili; no cover; Evening: Rooster David, Mardi Gras Week-End; 7pm (door); $10

Scott

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

of the Dog: The Mailman's Children (Unplugged); 4-6pm; no cover BLIND PIG PUB & GRILL Live

jam every Sat; 3-7pm BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Chloe Albert and friends; 8:30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Lucky and Tamara Peterson

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Rob Taylor SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A

The Rural Routes Party Hog

Raga-Mala Music Society: Kuchipudi, Bharathanatyam, Carnatic Vocal accompanied

by Abhishek (lyer, tabla), Mukund Balakrishnan (violin); 6:30pm; $10/free (member); AGM at 8:30pm STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

"B" STREET BAR Rockin Big Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm BOURBON ROOM Live Music

WUNDERBAR Rhythm of

every Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

Cruelty/Putos/Sperm/ Strangled/Traumatized/Pale Face; no minors; $8

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE SkirtsA-Fire: The Key of She: Kaley Bird, Jenie Thai’s, Jennifer Jane, Lindsey Walker; 1-4pm

YARDBIRD From New York/ Seattle: Hal Galper Trio; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest)

CASINO YELLOWHEAD The

Classical

CHA ISLAND Bardic Form, Cory

Bosse and Dan Tansy; 6pm THE CLUB AT THE CITADEL

Bridget Ryan's In Your Element; 8pm; $20 DOW Shell Theathre–Fort Saskatchewan Evalyn Parry’s

Spin: performance celebrating the Bicycle as muse, musical instrument, and agent of social change; 7:30pm; $30 (adult)/$25 (student/senior) at 780.962.8995 DV8 Punky Reggae Party: The Dragon Strikes Back; 9pm FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Café Series: April Verch Bigger Band; 7:30pm; $20 at Festival Place box office FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts: This week: Look Away, Banshee; 4pm; no cover GAS PUMP Saturday

Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

THE UNION PRESENTS

WAKE OWL W/ LYON UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PRESENTS

OUTREACH

ELECTRIC SIX AND THE MOHRS AND REND THE UNION PRESENTS

THE WONDER YEARS W/ DEFEATER, REAL FRIENDS, CITIZEN & MODERN BASEBALL THE UNION AND CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS W/ GUESTS AFTER THE BURIAL, ALBUM RELEASE TOUR NAVANEK & CHON

ANIMALS AS LEADERS THE UNION PRESENTS

ISLANDS

W/ ESCONDIDO

THE UNION PRESENTS

THE MOUNTIES W/ RICH AUCION THE UNION PRESENTS

AGAINST ME! THE KIN

W/ LAURA STEVENSON & CHEAP GIRLS

THE UNION PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

THE JEZABELS AND BOY AND BEAR W/ GOLD & YOUTH & WILDLIFE THE UNION PRESENTS

SUICIDE GIRLS BLACKHEART BURLESQUE

MRG CONCERTS PRESENTS

STEVEN J MASKUS

W/ SPEEDY ORTIZ

THE UNION PRESENTS

THE HEAD AND THE HEART THE UNION PRESENTS

THE ZOLAS

W/ BASIA BULAT

W/ JAMES YOUNGER & GUESTS

UBK PRESENTS

DJEMBA DJEMBA & MR. CARMACK (TEAM SUPREME) THE UNION PRESENTS

W/ TRASH TALK,

AND SHINING THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN RETOX

TODD JAMES BAND FEAT. CHANTAL BURN W/ GUESTS EXCALIBUR PRODUCTIONS AND FARMEGEDON PRESENT

CD RELEASE EXTRAVAGANZA IRONSTORM “WRATHWIND” W/ MORTILLERY, GATEKRASHOR & BLEED

STANLEY MILNER–Library Theatre Edmonton

Yikes, the Faceplants, Savage Playground, Fighting for Ithica, the Chickenheads, Run After Dark; all ages 6pm (door); $10

Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (Karaoke with a live band); 9pm-1am; no cover

MAR/7 MAR/8 MAR/15 MAR/17 MAR/22 MAR/26 MAR/27 MAR/28 APR/2 APR/4 APR/5 APR/8 APR/10 APR/11 APR/12 APR/15 APR/25 APR/26

WINSPEAR Elgar's Violin

Concerto: Edmonton Symphony Orchestra: Edwin Outwater (conductor), Elena Urioste (violin); 8pm; Symphony Prelude: Informative presentation about the evening's program at 7:15pm in the Upper Circle lobby; $24-$79 at Winspear box office

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions:

Alt Rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down

It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

MAR/7 MAR/8

TASTE OF ICELAND PRESENTS REYKJAVIK CALLING CONCERT SERIES

CYGNETS, KALEY BIRD, I AM MACHI, LAY LOW (ICELAND) SIN FANG (ICELAND)

TASTE OF ICELAND PRES. REYKJAVIK CALLING CONCERT SERIES CONTINUES WITH

HERMIGERVILL (ICELAND) AND UBK DJS DEGREE, TEN-O AND THE SPECIALIST (ICELAND)

THURSDAYS AND FRIDAYS HAPPY HOUR KICK OFF FRIDAY MARCH 13

DOORS AT 3:30 PM. $5.25 IMPORTS AND GLASSES OF WINE AND 25% OFF APPETIZERS!

WALLS (VANCOUVER) MAR/14 CITY W/ ALTERRA, & WHALE AND THE WOLF MAR/15 MATCHBREAKER, 20 CENTURIES OF STONY SLEEP MAR/22 VAN FUNK - FEAR OF CRIME - BAILEY SUTTON MAR/28 MAR/29 PAX ARCANA APR/4 THE MISFIRES APR/5 COWPUNCHER RETURN OF NOBODY LIKES DWIGHT APR/19 THE W/ FRINGE & FAILED THERAPY RELIGIOUS APR/26 ELECTRIC W/ PUTTIN ON THE FOIL & UNTIL RED W/ THOMPSON MAY/3 WILLHORSE HIGHWAY & SUPERSTACK W/ RAVENSWORD

OAK APPLE RECORDS PRESENTS & GUESTS

STARLITE PROUDLY PRESENTS

A NIGHT OF HARD HITTING INDUSTRIAL - SICK W/ DJ DERVISH, GREG GORY AND UNEASY LISTENING HOUR WITH DJ VERLAAG THE LEGEND RETURNS FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY

REUNION SHOW W/ SPECIAL GUESTS SPOIL 5, KMA W/ LEFT AS OBJECTS AND LOVE TAPPER

W/ TWO MINUTES OVER TOKYO AND GUESTS

W/ THE MOANIN’ AFTER AND JESSICA MARSH

MAY/10 MALIBU KNIGHTS W/ GUESTS TBA

DRUID DJ every Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat:

VUEWEEKLY MAR 06 – MAR 12, 2013

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Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten FLUID R&B, hip hop and

dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective

FRI MAR 7 & SAT MAR 8

CRO-MAGS EXCLUSIVE CANADIAN PERFORMANCE

MAR 7 W/ NO PROBLEM, FUQOURED, & SECRET RIVALS MAR 8 W/ ETOWN BEATDOWN, TARANTUJA, & RINGLEADER

FRI MAR 14

CELTIC BASS

Saturdays underground: House and Techno MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

Wong every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission

Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop,

and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

FEAT. WORTHY (SF) & MAFIA KISS (UK)

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

SAT MAR 15

SET NIGHTCLUB Saturday

W/ BOIDS & PREYING SAINTS ST. PAT’S PRE-DRUNK PARTY!!

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

THE REAL MCKENZIES MON MAR 17

ST PATTY`S DAY

OWLS BY NATURE, MAYDAY AND THE BEAT CREEPS, BLACKSTONE AND MORE

FRI MAR 21

I LOVE 80’S PARTY HOSTED BY DJ’S NAZZ NOMAD & BLUE JAY FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com SUITE 69 Stella Saturday:

retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,

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

Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays

SUN MAR 9 ALBERTA AVENUE HALL Skirts-

A-Fire: Nuela Charles: Festival Finale; 3:30-5pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun

hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday

Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 9am-3pm; donations BLUES ON WHYTE Lucky and

Tamara Peterson CENTRE FOR ARTS– MacEwan Uni Jazz Choir/Combo;

7:30pm; tickets at TIX on the Square CHA ISLAND TEA CO Open mic with March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm DUGGAN'S Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm FIDDLER'S ROOST Barbara's

Old Time Dances Featuring "Friends of the Fiddlers

Roost" musicians; every Sun, 1-4pm, 12pm (door); $7 (door); Home style meals offered from Peter and Karens Kitchen

Enns-Modolo (mezzosoprano), Derek Chester (tenor), Michael Kurschat (bass), led by Leonard Ratzlaff; 7:30pm

HOG'S DEN Rockin' the Hog

DJs

Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm HORIZON STAGE–Spruce Grove Evalyn Parry’s SPINl

performance celebrating the Bicycle as muse, musical instrument, and agent of social change; 7:30pm; $35 (adult)/$30 (student/senior) at 780.962.8995

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays:

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

DRUID IRISH PUB Open

Stage Tue: featuring FIDDLER'S ROOST Tuesday

Nights fiddle circle jam; all levels of musicians welcome; 7:30pm; $3 cover L.B.'S Tue Variety Night Open

stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm LEAF BAR Tue Open Jam: Trevor Mullen LIVE AT SLY'S Jam hosted

LIVE AT SLY'S Every Sun Jam

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

hosted by Steve and Bob; 6-10pm

MON MAR 10

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Ryder

MACLAB CENTRE–Leduc

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm

Booming Tree: Japanese Taiko Drum Duo (Gregory Shimzu and Twilla MacLeod), Christine Hanson (cello and composer); 2pm; $10 at TIX on the Square NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday

Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS Tasman Jude

with Luke Dowler RICHARDS Sunday Country

Showcase and jam hosted

by Darren Gusnowsky and Curtis Ebner SHERWOOD PARK ACREAGE

Steve Palmer (CD release house concert); 7:30-10pm; $20 donation; rouseconcerts. ca SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Hair of

the Dog acoustic Sun Jam with Bonedog and Bearcat; every Sun; 2-6pm

Classical ALL SAINTS’ ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL Spiritual Brass

and Voices: Mill Creek Colliery Band, the Concert Choir, Chamber Choir and Community Chorus from King’s University; 3pm; $18/$14 (student/senior) at door, adv at TIX on the Square MUTTART HALL–Alberta College Synergy: TIME

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Maurice

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

John Vaughn FIDDLER'S ROOST Monday

OVERTIME Sherwood Park

Nights Open stage hosted

by Norm Sliter's Capital City Jammers; all styles and skill levels welcome; 7:30pm; $3 cover NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Ryder OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental

old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510 ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE

Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm WINSPEAR Evening with

Chicago; 7:30pm (show); Sold Out

Classical CONVOCATION HALL Mondays at noon: Piano Concert, Students of Janet Scott-Hoyt

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots

industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave

TEGLER CENTRE–Concordia University College O Canada:

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic

WINSPEAR Bach’s Mass in B Minor: Richard Eaton Singers, Alberta Baroque Ensemble, soloists Jolaine Kerley, (soprano), Jennifer

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests

Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

Vocal Ensembles; 2pm; $16 (adult)/$13 (student) at door, 780.482.7649

A Joyful Noise first edition choir and Lizzy Hoyt and the Lizzy Hoyt Band; 7:30pm; $10 at TIX on the Square

by Rockin' Randy Every Tue, 7-11pm

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

TUE MAR 11 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Tue Jam with Big Dreamer; 7pm (door); no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Maurice

John Vaughn

The Campfire Heros (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm2am every Tue; no cover RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am; no cover; relaxed dress code RICHARDS Tue Live Music

Showcase and Open Jam hosted by Mark Ammar YARDBIRD Tue Session:

Fusionauts; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections

BRIXX Metal night every Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays:

Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED MAR 12 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Robbie's Reef Break Wed: Host Rob Taylor with guests every Wed, 7-10pm; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio:

Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm BLUES ON WHYTE Maurice

John Vaughn BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Jazz

evening every Wed; 8-11pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed

open mic with host Duff Robison ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover FIDDLER'S ROOST

Wednesday Nights Folk and Roots Open Stage: amateur and professional musicians welcome; 7:30pm; $3 LIVE AT SLY'S Open jam every

Wed hosted by Will Cole; 7-11pm MERCURY ROOM Little Flower

Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Ryder OVERTIME Sherwood Park

Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass

jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night

Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio:

Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed

Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and

ARDEN Le Vent Du Nord;

RED STAR Guest DJs every

7:30pm; $30 at Arden box office

‘80s metal every Wed Wed

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALBERTA AVENUE COMMUNITY HALL 9210-118 Ave ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ALL SAINTS’ ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL 10035-103 St ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750-124 St

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CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTRE FOR ARTS AND COMMUNICATIONS–MacEwan University 10045-156 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHICAGO JOES 9604 -111 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DOW–Shell Theatre–Ft Sask 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

VUEWEEKLY MAR 06 – MAR 12, 2013

FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St ISBE EDMONTON 9529 Jasper Ave, 587.521.7788 J+H PUB 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR AND TAP HOUSE 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160-118 Ave LIVE AT SLY'S 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL–Alberta College 10050 MacDonald Dr

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St ST BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819 - 71 Ave • 780.438.6410 • fmfc.org

SET NIGHTCLUB Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca SHERWOOD PARK ACREAGE Graham Heights, Sherwood Park SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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

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

braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana

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

Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB

EDMONTON NATURE CLUB • King’s University College, 9125-50 St • Monthly meeting featuring New Insights into Edmonton Butterflies, and the role of the Naturalist by John Acorn • Mar 21, 7pm (refreshments), 7:30pm (meeting) • Admission by donation EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •

BRIXX BAR • 10030-102 St (downstairs below

the Starlite Room), 780.428.1099 • Rock and Roll Circus Open Stage: Comedy hosted by Liam Leroux aka Slim Hughes; Alternating headliners • Every Thu 7-9pm • No cover

Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd,

EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani Café,

2023-111 St, 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment

FERTILITY AWARENESS CHARTING CIRCLE

Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • David Tsonos; Mar 6-8 • Aaron Foster; Mar 13-15

• Justisse-Healthworks for Women, 10145-81 Ave • justisse.ca • Meeting • • $10 (donation)

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM, 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Jesse Joyce; until Mar 9 • Orny Adams; Mar 12-16 • Jen Kober; Mar 19-23 • Jeff Leeson; Mar 27-29 • Tommy Davidson special presentation: Mar 27-30, $28.95

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

Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm

EDEN EXOTIC NIGHTCLUB/CONNIES COMEDY • Tits and Giggles 2: Open Mic in between dancers • Mar 26, 9pm • If you want on the roster, call 780.914.8966

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave •

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

FILTHY MCNASTY'S • 10511-82 Ave,

780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9-11pm; no cover

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/CONNIES COMEDY • Komedy Krush with Tim Koslo; follows a Capital City Singles Mixer; Mar 13, 9pm • Komedy Krush with Simon King; follows a Capital City Singles Mixer; Mar 27, 9pm • If you want on the roster, call 780.914.8966

OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott every Wed, 9pm

RUMORS ULTRA LOUNGE • 8230 Gateway Blvd • Every Thu Neon Lights and Laughter with host Sterling Scott and five comedians and live DJ TNT; 8:30pm SIDELINERS PUB/CONNIES COMEDY •

Travelling Open Mic with Ken Hicks • Mar 11, 8pm • If you want on the roster, call 780.914.8966

TILTED KILT–WHYTE AVE/CONNIES COMEDY • Travelling Open Mic with Sean Thompson

• Mar 19, 8pm • If you want on the roster, call 780.914.8966

VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with Liam

Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Thu, at 9:30pm

WINSPEAR • Just for Laughs: Comedian Bill Burr •

Mar 14 • $35.50

ZEN LOUNGE • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS 5 STEPS TO GROWING ORGANIC FOOD AND SAVING THE PLANET • wildgreen.ca •

Dominelli School of Music, 9104-179 Ave: Mar 9, 2-4pm • Learn some simple steps to creating an organic vegetable garden; presentation by Claudia Bolli

ADVENTURE TRAVEL COMPANY • Audreys

Books, 10702 Jasper Ave, 780.423.3487 • Talks on Iceland • Mar 11, 7pm

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave, 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw. ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP •

Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW •

group plans a 10 km guided hike • Car pool available meeting place to trail • Meet at McDonalds, 51 Ave, Calgary Tr: 10km guided hike from Whitemud Creek Nature Reserve to Snow Valley. Contact Johanna 780.428.8561; Mar 9

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKES • Each week group plans a 10 km guided hike • Car pool available meeting place to trail • Meet at McDonalds Capilano, 9857-50 St • Hike from Capilano Park through Kinnard Ravine to Dawson Park; contact Bev 780.469.7948 • Mar 16 WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

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

780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.710.2119 •

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKES • Each week our

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS ANGELA DAVID SPEAKS • CCIS 1-430, U of A North Campus • Alberta Public Interest event: public lecture on the intersections of the prison industrial complex, race, and gender based violence • Mar 15, 7pm APARTHEID: WHAT’S IN A NAME? • Education Centre S, Rm 254 • Talk featuring Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail Bakan • Mar 10, 7-9pm • details at psnedmonton.ca

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY RALLY AND MARCH • Corbett Hall, 112 St, 82 Ave, U of

A: Women's Dignity Lies in the Fight for the Rights of All; March; Mar 8, 2pm • Luther Centre, 10014-81 Ave: A light meal featuring speakers from labour and community organizations follow the march

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

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 9351-118

Ave, 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106

St • nawca.ca • Annual Spring Show & Competition: Wood art, Crafts, Retail Booths, Demonstrations, Food; Apr 26-27, 10am-5pm; free admission and parking

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm

0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm

THE BOTTOM LINE: ECONOMIC ACTION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS • Telus Building, Rm

236/238 • Film Screening and Discussion: Screening of the documentary The Bottom Line, about the successful economic campaign against South Africa how to support the BDS movement in support of Palestinian human rights. Info: psnedmonton.ca • Mar 12, 7-9pm

DIAGNOSIS, EFFICIENT TREATMENT, AND AN OPTIMISTIC PROGNOSIS FOR PALESTINE • Education Centre South, Rm 262 •

psnedmonton.ca • Featuring Dr Ghada Ageel and Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh (via Skype from Palestine) • Mar 14 (21-1:30pm)

EDMONTON ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK • U

of A Campus and various locations • psnedmonton. ca • Palestine Solidarity Network presents a week of presentations, workshops, film screenings, and cultural events in solidarity with Palestine and to raise awareness around the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid.

Speakers include Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Abigail B. Bakan, Charlotte Kates, Mazin Qumsiyeh, Ghada Ageel • Mar 10-14 • Free

EMPIRE’S SKIN SHOW • Humanities Centre

L-1, U of A • The business of erotic dance in the long nineteenth century; Professor Cecily Devereux presents • Instead of dance, they’re doing ideology: notes toward reading a medium on Mar 10, 3:305pm • Body capital: Salome and the Head on Mar 12 • Mapping the unsettler subject: travels with Klondike Kate and other worldly women on Mar 14

SEEDY SUNDAY • Alberta Avenue Community

Centre • Garden seed exchange and sale • Mar 16

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

EPARCHIAL VENERATION OF THE HOLY SHROUD • St Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathe-

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

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

SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing,

dral, 10825-97 St, 780.422.3181 • Public veneration • Every Tue, Thu 4-9pm, Sun 1-4pm until Apr 10

GUNS, "GAMES," AND GOD; ARE FILMS THE SERMONS OF OUR TIME? • Lendrum

Mennonite Church, 11210-59 Ave • Led by Vic Thiessen • Mar 23, 2:30-8:30pm • Pre-register: bitly.com/ movie-discussions

10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park• Featuring Amanda Lindhout • Mar 7, 5:30pm • $65 (with dinner) at the Festival Place box office

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 (lesson with entry)

Understanding Each Other: The Essential Importance of Multilingualism through the Prism of Cree, French, and English, lecture by Tomson Highway • Mar 6, 7:30pm • Free; followed by reception and book signing

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

KREISEL LECTURE • Timm's Centre, U of A •

MEN AND FEMINISM • Rm 237 Law Centre,

cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519

U of A • Panel discussion will be moderated by Elisabeth Ballermann; forum featuring Dr Lise Gotell, Gil McGowan, and Dr. Barret Weber • Mar 11, 7pm • Free

TOASTMASTERS • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700

PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS: APARTHEID INJUSTICE • Telus Building, Rm

Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Westend TNT Toastmasters: Trinity United Church, 8810 Meadowlark Rd; Public speaking: Parliamentary practice based on Robert's Rules of Order; vpm-2291@toastmastersclubs. org; weekly meetings every Tue, 7-9pm (Jul-Aug off) • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail. com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Y Toastmasters

236/238 • Featuring Charlotte Kates, coordinator of Samidoun Prisoner Solidarity Network. Discuss who the Palestinian political prisoners are–and what can be done to support their struggle for freedom; info: psnedmonton.ca • Mar 13, 7-9pm

PECHA KUCHA NIGHT 18 • Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre • Presented by Edmonton’s NextGen • Mar 6 SHAPING A GREEN FUTURE • Enterprise Sq,

10230 Jasper Ave: Tapping Geothermal Energy presented by Dr Inga Moeck • Mar 12 • $10

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs, 780.554.6133 • Free instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm THIS OLD EDMONTON HOUSE SEMINARS • AGT Building, Fort Edmonton Park: Windows and

Doors: by Peter Caron; Mar 10, 7-9pm; $20; registration #519449 • AGT Building or Reed's Tea Room, Fort Edmonton Park: Mechanical and Electrical Systems:

by Chris Kato; Mar 17, 7-9pm; $20; registration #519451 • edmonton.ca/city_government/edmonton_archives/this-old-edmonton-house-seminars. aspx

MARCH MEAT OUT • Whitemud Crossing Library, 145 Whitemud Crossing Shopping Centre, 4211-106 St: March Meat Out: Speciesism: The Movie; Mar 6, 7-9pm • King Edward Park, Small Hall: Film: May I be Frank; Mar 11, 7-9pm • Film: Earthlings; Mar 18-19, 7-9pm • Film: Bethanys Story: The Power from Within; Mar 25, 7-9pm • U of A, Law Bldg, Rm 191: Mar 18-19, 5:30-7:30pm • Padmanadi: Lecture

by Dr Ze'ev Gross, Where Do You Get Your Protein?; Mar 15, 2-4pm URBAN GREEN COHOUSING INFORMATION SESSION • Stanley A. Milner Library, 7 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • Urban Green Cohousing members are people who share a desire to live in a community-minded and environmentally-responsible setting in a walkable neighborhood of Edmonton’s urban core. Singles, families, young and old. All are welcome. Come create something new with us in Old Strathcona • Mar 12, 7-9pm

WINTER WOOD DESIGN SEMINAR •

Yellowhead Chateau Nova, 13920 Yellowhead Tr, 780.392.0761 • Innovation in Wood Construction and Accurate Wood Costing with Andre Lema • Mar 19, 9:30am • Free; pre-register at http://ams.cwc.ca/ Live/AMS/EventRegistrations/EventDetails/4337?isP review=False

THE WORLD IN ROMAN SUNDIALS: PAST, Present, anD Future • Tory Breezeway 2, U of A • Lecture by Richard Talbert, presented by the Edmonton Society of the Archaeological Institute of America • Mar 13, 7pm • Free

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sun-

nybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/ group/bwedmonton BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave,

780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103

St, 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Bowling: Bonnie Doon Bowling Lanes: Every Tue, 6:30pm; until Apr 1, 2014; $15/week • Volleyball: St Matthew Elementary School (NE): Tue, until Mar 11, 8-10pm; Stratford Junior-Senior High School (west end): every Tue, Mar 18-Apr 29, 7-9pm, $65 (season), $35 (Half season), $5 (drop-in) • Curling: Granite Curling Club: Every Tue, until Mar 25, 7pm • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E

Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre,

10608-105 Ave, 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edm-

livingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

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MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/ competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre

of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave, 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton. org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@ hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St, 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave, 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE, 780.482.1794 • womonspace. ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave, 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm SPECIAL EVENTS 4TH PARENTS AS CHAMPIONS • Ekota School, 1395 Knottwood Road E • I've Outgrown It Sale • Mar 8, 10am-2pm BOOKS2EAT • Radisson Hotel Edmonton South

• epl.ca/programs-and-events/events/books2eat • Annual EPL Fundraising Gala: Features Incredible Cakes, Amazing Silent Auction Packages And Stories From The Heart • Mar 8

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; text to:

780.530.1283 for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars: upcoming Century Casino show as well; Twilight Zone Razamanaz Tour; all ages • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank)

ELIZABETH'S ANTIQUE & COLLECTIBLE SALE • Alberta Aviation Museum, 11410 Kingsway

Ave • elizabethsantiquesales.webs.com • Over 140 tables of Pop Culture, Vintage Clothing, Advertising Collectibles, Shabby Chic, Antique Furniture, Militaria, Jewelry, Petroliana, Art Glass, Vintage Toys, China, LP Records, Sports Memorabilia, Coins, Stamps, Watches, Comics, Buttons and so much more! • Mar 14-15 • $5.00 for Adults. Children under 12 years of age are free.

GUIDE TO LIFE ON EARTH • Winspear • Chris

Hadfield • Mar 12

NOMADS TENT • McKernan Community Hall,

11341-78 Ave • Textiles and artifacts from India and more; international folk dancing: Fri at 7:30pm • Mar 14, 4-9pm; Mar 15, 10am-5pm

P3. PEOPLE PASSION PURPOSE–VOLUNTEER FAIR • Agora Community Centre, 401

Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.464.4242 • People Passion Purpose: organizations showcasing their volunteer opportunities • Mar 13, 12-6pm

ST ALBERT'S MAYOR’S CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS • Arden Theatre • Retro Radio: the

theatre is transformed into an old-fashioned radio station with tap dancers, in-house musicians and comedians • Mar 14, 6:30pm • $35 at the Arden box office, ticketmaster.ca

SKIRTSAFIRE HERARTS FESTIVAL • Various Venues • Mar 6-9

U OF A PRIDE WEEK • prideweek.ualberta.ca • Until Mar 8

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Coming Events

ATTENTION! OPEN CALL FOR SPEAKERS: TEDxEdmonton is looking for potential speakers to present their ideas worth sharing! If you know somebody or are that somebody that can follow through with this years theme of ‘For Certain: Uncertainty’ apply through our website http://www.tedxedmonton.com/ speakers/application.html or email at info@tedxedmonton.com Thai cooking Parties www.ithai.ca Edmonton’s only authentic Thai cooking parties!

In your home with a Thai native! Experience Thailand in the comfort of your own home with a accomplished Thai chef with over 20 years of experience. Contact www.ithai.ca or 780-232-5195 today The Arch Angels of the St. Albert Heavenly Rollers will be stopping by to play a bout with the Oil City All-Stars on March 8th. A guaranteed night of thrills, spills, and lots of hitting on the track!

Regular Tickets are $10 advance and $15 at the door.

Kids Under 10 Free!

Doors at 6:00 and the first whistle is at 7 pm Tickets are now available online at www.oilcityderbygirls.ca Oil City Grindhouse 14420-112 Street YWCA Edmonton has been honouring the best and brightest women in our city for over 30 years. We are now accepting nominations for the 2014 YWCA Women of Distinction Awards.

Edmontonians are urged to reflect upon the exceptional women in our city and nominate someone in one of eight categories:Advocate,Arts & Culture,Volunteer,Educator, Entrepreneur & Businesswoman,Trailblazer, Turning Point, Young Woman of Distinction The nomination process is simple: submit a form online or fill out a hard copy and submit via mail or email. Both options are available on the Women of Distinction website ywcaofedmontonwomenofdisti nction.org Important Dates: Nominations Deadline | Friday March 28, 2014

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AGA seeks Special Events & Volunteer Coordinator The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA), a non-profit arts institution, is seeking an energetic, innovative and highly organized candidate to fill the full-time position of Special Events & Volunteer Coordinator.

Salary commensurate with experience. Please submit resume and cover letters to careers@youraga.ca by 5pm on Thursday, February 20, 2014. No phone calls please. Only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

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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 Valerie at P.A.L.S 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca Give some, Get some. Come have some fun, a little exercise and be recognized.

We require volunteers almost every day of the week to help at various bingo locations around the city (WEM, Castledowns, south side). You give your time (4-6 hour shift) and we recognize your efforts.

You do not need any experience as everything will be taught to you and you will be completely supported. Calll Christine at 780-953-1510 or email at christine.poirier@cnib.ca for more information Bingo is a smoke-free and friendly environment.

Growing Facilitators Volunteer Opportunity Sustainable Food Edmonton offers a Little Green Thumbs indoor gardening program to schools and childcare agencies and we are looking for volunteers. For info and volunteer application form:

www.sustainablefoodedmonton.o rg

Habitat For Humanity Women Build Week Mar 18-22 Are you a woman who has always wanted to volunteer on a Habitat for Humanity build site,but were unsure if you had the necessary skills? Check our website www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer online or contact Kim. Contact Info: Kim Dedeugd kdedeugd@hfh.org 780-451-3416 ext 232 Habitat for Humanity is building at Neufeld Landing!

We are actively scheduling individuals and groups of volunteers for Canada’s largest project located in South Edmonton’s Rutherford area.

To get involved, go to www.hfh.org and register as a volunteer.

Kim Dedeugd 780-451-3416 kdedeugd@hfh.org Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network’s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers! Interested or want to learn more? Contact Maura at 780-392-8723 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com

Are You Looking for a Great Volunteer Experience?

Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com

Habitat for Humanity’s On-Tap volunteer program allows busy people to get out and volunteer when they can. For more information about the On-Tap program. angela@hfh.org or 780-451-3416 ext 223.

HFH.org

Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism.

Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities

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Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit!

Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106 Room to Read is changing children’s lives in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality.

Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our work, and spread the word about our amazing results.

Edmonton@roomtoread.org www.roomtoread.org RUNNERS WANTED Run Wild for Wildlife is a campaign that raises money for the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton . This year’s Walk/Run is taking place on April 13th, 2014. We are looking for vegan/vegetarian runners to join the VVoA’s team for this event! Please email info@vofa.ca if you are interested in participating, or if you have any questions.

Representatives of the VVoA will also be selling vegan cookies at the event, with the proceeds going to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton.

Showcase your creativity and love for the environment! Become a Reuse Crafter!

Reuse Crafters lead crafting workshops that focus on the utilization of Reuse materials.

Guide public crafting workshops at locations in the Edmonton community Plan meaningful crafts, suited to participants abilities Engage with participants and educate about Reuse and the Reuse Centre

Artist to Artist

2014 Eldon & Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize Application Form Open to Greater Edmonton Artists nominated by a Gallery.

The winning artist will receive a $10,000 cash prize.

DEADLINE: The submission deadline for completed nominations is Thursday March 27th, 2014 at 4pm.

Download Application here http://visualartsalberta.com/blo g/wpcontent/uploads/2012/05/2014 -Foote-Art-Prize-FINAL1.pdf Alberta Foundation for the Arts: Art Acquisition by Application Deadline: April 01st, 2014 For more information and to download forms visit: http://www.affta.ab.ca/ArtCollection Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA), seeks submissions from artists working in all styles and mediums for exhibition in the 2015 calendar year.

Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 1, 2014, 5 pm For more information: Jenny Willson-McGrath, Exhibition Curator 780.651.5741 I jennyw@artsheritage.ca Call for Vendors: Spring 2014 Royal Bison Craft & Art Fair, Edmonton Application Deadline: March 9, 2014 The 16th Royal Bison Craft & Art Fair Dates: May 9, 10 & 11, 2014 Location: Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre, 8426 Gateway Blvd, Edmonton Full vendor application information can be found here.

Please give this a thorough read before applying. http://royalbison.ca/forvendors/ Call to Makers, Mercer Collective: A Maker’s Market

Apply online. Visit edmonton.ca/reusecentre

You must MAKE, BAKE or CREATE what you sell. You can not be a reseller of goods not produced by you.

Volunteering - Does your employer have a Day of Caring program?

Costs: $60 per market December show is $200

Volunteers from beginners to garage “putterers”, to trades people come out and help us to build homes for families in our community.

Additional Fees Table Rental is available at $10 per show. Please specify 6 ft or 4 ft. Limited quantities available.

For more information, go to our website at www.hfh.org or contact Kim at 780-451-3416 ext 232.

Show Dates: March 29,April 26, Sept 27,October 25, November 22 December 13-14 – $200

Volunteering - Improve the Lives of Children in the Developing World Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our programs, and spread the word about the fantastic results we are achieving.

Skills in event planning, PR, marketing, graphic design are needed, but not essential. We welcome all volunteers. If this sounds interesting, email us at Edmonton@roomtoread.org

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2014 Alberta Screenwriters Initiative The Alberta Association of Motion Picture and Television Unions (AAMPTU) are seeking submissions of feature film scripts of any genre, to a maximum length of 250 pages, from Alberta based screenwriters. The deadline for this award is March 10, 2014.

For more information on the prize and submission guidelines, please contact Nicholas Mather at (780) 422-8174 or visit www.writersguild.ab.ca

http://www.emailmeform.com/ builder/form/er27bvY7c0dhM9 0B9dX49 Calling all talented Canadian artists! Artailer is an innovative online gallery dedicated to showcasing and selling the work of new and emerging Canadian artists.

Inviting all artists who wish to turn their passion into a career to submit their art for review.

For more information, please see the FAQ page on our website (www.artailer.ca), or contact us directly: info@artailer.ca; 416-900-4112 Live Model Figure Drawing Drop-in sessions every Tuesday, February 11 – June 24, 6-9PM. $15/session; 11-pack only $150. Instruction

by Daniel Hackborn available 1st Tuesday of each month.

Save 20% on supplies.

Reserve your seating – space is limited. 10032 81 Avenue, Edmonton; ph. 780.432.0240. www.paintspot.ca; accounts@paintspot.ca OR info@paintspot.ca

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CALLING ALL YOUTH ARTISTS! We are looking for submissions for Tabula Rasa, an evening to celebrate artistic talent of Edmontonians under 24! Accepting submissions in the form of visual or performing arts (send us your music, poetry, photography, paintings, choreography..etc) The event will be held at Mercer Building downtown, April 11th. Find the link to our submissions on tumblr, twitter and instagram: @tabularasa_yeg . Help us show you off!

Marking the Valley A juried art exhibition Call to artists Leave Your Mark on the Capital Region River Valley Visual Arts Alberta-CARFAC is partnering with the River Valley Alliance to showcase the Capital Region River Valley through your artwork.

Submission Guidelines can be downloaded at:

http://visualartsalberta.com/ marking-the-valley/ Deadline for this juried exhibition: May 30th, 2014

Now entering its 7th year, Alberta Culture Days is becoming our province’s largest celebration of our heritage, arts and cultural diversity. This year, you can continue playing a lead role in putting culture centre stage during the last weekend of September!

The Government of Alberta is providing funding to organizations to put on events September 26–28, 2014. The application deadline is Monday, April 28, 2014.

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Whimsy and levity can be your salvation, Aries. Lucky flux should be your mantra.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): The renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma once came to the home of computer pioneer Steve Jobs and performed a private concert.

Jobs was deeply touched and told Ma, "Your playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the existence of God, because I don't really believe a human alone can do this." Judging from the current astrological omens, Taurus, I'm guessing you will soon experience an equivalent phenomenon: a transcendent expression of love or beauty that moves you to suspect that magic is afoot. Even if you are an atheist, you are likely to feel the primal shiver that comes from having a close brush with enchantment.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): In my dream, I was leading a pep rally for a stadium full of Geminis. "Your intensity brings you great pleasure," I told them over the public-address system. "You seek the company of people who love you to be inspired. You must be appreciated for your enthusiasm, never shamed. Your drive for excellence doesn't stress you out, it relaxes you. I hereby give you licence to laugh even louder and sing even stronger and think even smarter." By now the crowd was cheering and I was bellowing. "It's not cool to be cool," I exulted. "It's cool to be burning with a white-hot lust for life. You are rising to the next octave. You are playing harder than you have ever played."

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): "My old paintings no longer interest me," said the prolific artist Pablo Picasso when he was 79 years old. "I'm much more curious about those I haven't done yet."

I realize it might be controversial for me to suggest that you adopt a similar perspective, Cancerian.

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should apologize for or repress those aptitudes. But for now— say, the next three weeks—I invite you to turn your attention toward the exciting things you haven't done yet.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): I recommend that you sleep with a special someone whose dreams you'd like to blend with yours.

And when I say "sleep with," I mean it literally; it's not a euphemism for "having sex with." To be clear: making love with this person is fine if that's what you both want. But my main point is that you will draw unexpected benefits from lying next to this companion as you both wander through the dream time. Being in your altered states together will give you inspiration you can't get any other way. You won't be sharing information on a conscious level, but that's exactly the purpose: to be transformed together by what's flowing back and forth between your deeper minds. For extra credit, collaborate on incubating a dream. Read this: tinyurl. com/dreamincubation.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): "One chord is fine," said rock musician Lou Reed about his no-frills approach to writing songs. "Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz." I recommend his perspective to you in the coming weeks, Virgo.

Your detail-oriented appreciation of life's complexity is one of your finest qualities, but every once in a while—like now—you can thrive by stripping down to the basics. This will be especially true about your approach to intimate relationships. For the time being, just assume that cultivating simplicity will generate the blessings you need most.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): You Librans haven't received enough gifts, goodies and compliments lately. For reasons I can't discern, you have been deprived of your rightful share. It's not fair! What can you do to rectify this imbalance in the cosmic ledger? How can you enhance your ability to attract the treats you deserve?

It's important that we solve this riddle, since you are entering a phase when your wants and needs will expand and deepen.

Here's what I can offer: I hereby authorize you to do whatever it takes to entice everyone into showering you with bounties, boons and bonuses. To jumpnotes start this process, shower yourself with bounties, boons and bonuses.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing," wrote the Roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius more than 1800 years ago. Is that true for you, Scorpio? Do you experience more strenuous struggle and grunting exertion than frisky exuberance?

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): For the itch you are experiencing, neither chamomile nor aloe vera will bring you relief.

Nor would over-the-counter medications like calamine lotion.

No, Sagittarius, your itch isn't caused by something as tangible as a rash or hives, and can't be soothed by any obvious healing agent. It is, shall we say, more in the realm of a soul itch—a prickly tickle that is hard to diagnose, let alone treat. I'm guessing that there may be just one effective cure: become as still and quiet and empty as you possibly can and then invite your Future Self to scratch it for you.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): The world is awash in bright, shiny nonsense. Every day we wade through a glare of misinformation and lazy delusions and irrelevant data. It can be hard to locate the few specific insights and ideas that are actually useful and stimulating. That's the bad news, Capricorn. Here's the good news: you now have an enhanced ability to ferret out nuggets of data that can actually empower you. You are a magnet for the invigorating truths you really need most.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): If you come up with an original invention, apply for a patent immediately. If you think of a bright idea, put it to work as soon as possible. If you figure out crucial clues that everyone else seems blind to, dispel the general ignorance as quickly as you can. This is a perfect moment for radical pragmatism carried out with expeditious savvy. It's not a time when you should naively hope for the best with dreamy nonchalance. For the sake of your mental health and for the good of your extended family, be crisp, direct and forceful.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): In the 1997 film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, the lead character announces that "'Danger' is my middle name."

Ever since, real people in the UK have been legally making "Danger" their middle name with surprising regularity. I think it would be smart fun for you Pisceans to add an innovative element to your identity in the coming days, maybe even a new middle name. But I recommend that you go in a different direction than "Danger." A more suitable name might be "Changer," to indicate you're ready to eagerly embrace change. Or how about "Ranger," to express a heightened desire to rove and gallivant? V

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Logistics: your stepson faces the zipper, eyes half closed, gently presstoilet seat as he would when he pees ing my jeans into my crotch while my LEMME SEE YOU PEE and has himself a wank. He thinks clit just hammers out an unsolicited You always take questions from BDS- he's destroying the evidence when he series of intense orgasmic spasms. It's Mers and cuckolds and other hardcore flushes, SPANKS, but he's obviously not really a full-on climax, rather just sexers, but will you take mine? I plead missing the drop or two that land on a dozen or so fast and strong flutter- with you! Won't you please offer some the toilet seat. Teenage boys are not ing contractions of pleasure right in advice for me, a simple heterosexual famous for their attention to detail my clit/pussy area. I find myself enjoy- girl having problems with her hetero- or for cleaning up after themselves. ing these post-poop-gasms when they sexual male?!? My boyfriend always Replacing your white toilet seat with happen, although it's something I've closes and locks the door behind him a black one might help your stepson kept to myself for obvious reasons. I when he pees. It hurts my feelings! notice that flushing isn't enough. am not complaining. I am merely cu- Being a part of his pissing experience Telling him to clean up after himself: rious to know if you've ever heard of would turn me on and arouse me! He your stepson's father should have a this and if you know why and how it claims he does this because he is pee talk with him. "You're making a mess happens. Do other people have similar shy. But he pees in public restrooms of the toilet seat," his dad should say. experiences? in front of other men! So if he knows "Put the seat up and wipe it off when Possibly Odd Or Perhaps Curious that I like it, and if the issue isn't about you're through." If your stepson proOrgasm Mostly Enjoyed Regularly being pee shy, then why can't he pee in tests that he's careful when he pees, front of me?!? Why is he "NO GIRLS his dad should tell him that he's not I shared your letter with Dr Debby ALLOWED" about this?!? I would be talking about piss. That poor kid will Herbenick, a research scientist at In- grateful for your advice on how to get be so mortified that he'll blow loads diana University, a sexual health edu- him to relax with his peeing moments out the window before he masturcator at The Kinsey Institute, and the a little more because I'm BORED. bates in the bathroom again. author of Great in Bed and numerous Thanks! books about sexuality.

PLEASURE FROM POO Personally Insulted Since Sexy Herbenick's short answer: "Genitals Entrance Denied I need your help. I'm a 26-year-old are magical, mysterious places of straight girl and I've been dating this wonder."

You're just a simple heterosexual girl great guy for a few months. Our sex And her much more satisfying long who wants to be part of her boy- life is really satisfying/fun/adventuranswer: "There are other documented friend's "pissing experience" because ous, due in no small part to the fact cases of people having orgasms while that would turn you on—nothing that he has a lot of kinks. He has a pooping. Most are on Internet mes- kinky or hardcore about that, no sir. thing for scat, though, and that has sage boards, but some have made You're just after some old-fashioned, thrown me for a loop. He doesn't exit into the medical and scientific lit- all-American, plain-vanilla voyeuristic pect me to engage in poop play, but erature. 'Defecation-induced orgasms' piss play.

I know he watches this kind of porn I'm not sure there's anything I could sometimes and it freaks me out. seem to be more common than orgasms from peeing, but both kinds say here that would persuade your Would you break up with someone boyfriend to include you in his piss- due to one extremely squicky kink? happen."

Yes, yes: but why and how do defe- ing experience. If knowing that it So Not Into Poop would make his piss-freak girlfriend cation-induced orgasms happen?

"It's not entirely clear, but here are insanely horny doesn't motivate a I would and I have. some possibilities," Herbenick says. guy to unlock the door and let her "The pelvic nerve—which is one or- watch, PISSED, he's unlikely to be IMPORTANT NOTE: a lowly, officious gasmic pathway—links up to not convinced by some gay dude with an and quite pleased with herself copy only the vagina and cervix, but also advice column. (But just in case: hey, editor has gleefully informed me that the rectum and bladder. Another PISSED's BF! Open the damn door!) Urban Dictionary defines "spooch" as possibility is something called nerve So if watching your boyfriend piss is "semen" or "a man's climax." While I 'crosstalk.' In essence, the genital and really that important to you, PISSED, have the utmost respect for the modexcretory parts are smooshed closely you'll have to get a new boyfriend or ern-day Samuel Johnsons at Urban together and some nerves (like the start following the one you've got Dictionary, I refuse to acknowledge "spooch" as a synonym for semen or pelvic nerve) service more than one into public restrooms. the male climax. part. Thus, feelings and messages carried in the nerves can get a little CLEAN THE SEAT muddled. For example, some people Longtime reader, first-time letter writ- On the Lovecast, Dan speaks with the can have vaginal pain from bladder er. My 13-year-old stepson leaves his Perverted Negress about meeting polite problems. Similarly, people describe spooch on the goddamn toilet seat. kinksters online: savagelovecast.com. V genital orgasms from stimulation of How do I tell him to clean up after nearby parts, and nerve crosstalk is himself? I don't know how he gets @fakedansavage on Twitter

MATT JONES JONESINCROSSWORDS@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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1 Many-___ (colorful) 5 Amtrak stop, briefly 8 Pile at birthday parties 13 Nelson Muntz’s bus driver 14 Blaze a trail 16 Illusory painting genre 17 Looming choice 18 Industrial show 19 See 33-Down 20 Wind, cold, etc.* 23 Droid download 24 Like, total top choice 25 Baltimore ball team 27 Place to store your phone numbers (before smartphones) 30 People in a certain lounge 31 “This happens ___ time!”

32 Pup in the Arctic* 36 Roseanne’s sitcom mom 37 “An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport” author Kenny 39 Eggs at a sushi bar 40 Former Haitian president* 43 Wilson of “The Office” 45 Nets coach Jason 46 Won by a shutout 48 Country singer Harris 51 “And here it is!”

52 ___ Jo„o de Meriti (Brazilian city) 53 Group of three can be heard phonetically in the answer to each of the three starred clues 58 Standing subway passenger’s aid 60 “___ the mornin’ to ya!”

61 A wife of Charlie Chaplin 62 System with joysticks and paddles 63 Site of museums devoted to Ibsen and Munch 64 Swabs the deck, really 65 8-Down type 66 President pro ___ 67 Place where “You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal”

7 Neck’s scruff 8 Full of dirt?

9 Copper-colored beer 10 Ruinous 11 Nonsense 12 Fitness tracker units 15 Mr. McNabb 21 Kenny Rogers hit written by Lionel Richie 22 “Survivor” grouping 26 CIA’s predecessor 27 Self-titled country album of 1988 28 Walkie-talkie word 29 First name in denim 32 “I’m out” 33 With 19-Across, “Truly Flabby Preludes” composer 34 Best of the best 35 Front the money 37 Cramp-relieving pill 38 Total 41 The limit, proverbially 42 Fish served in filets 43 Contrary to Miss Manners 44 Body makeup?

46 Fastener in the corner 47 Explosive sound 48 Piece in the paper, perhaps 49 Photo finish 50 Erin of “Happy Days” 54 Jim Lange, for “The Dating Game,” e.g.

55 Word after elbow or leg 56 Like some 1950s comedy material, today 57 Curiosity’s launcher 59 Installation material ©2014 Jonesin' Crosswords

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1 Axton of “Gremlins” 2 Bryce Canyon National Park’s location 3 Raison d’___ (reason for being) 4 Toast 5 Coffeehouse freebie 6 San Antonio cuisine

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