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Fire to rehire To resolve a state of controversy and unwanted public attention, a public offering will often be made. In the case of the University of Saskatchewan's recent blunder over the firing, banning and subsequent rehiring of public-health professor and former dean Robert Buckingham, it seems Provost and Vice President Academic Brett Fairbairn will be taking that hit. After four hours of debate at an emergency board of governors meeting this past Monday, the University of Saskatchewan announced Fairbairn would be resigning due to his role in the banning of Buckingham. But Fairbairn's resignation shouldn't kill the issue that started this chain of debate. Buckingham was let go because he spoke out against a program that would cut $25 million out of the University of Saskatchewan's budget under the positive guise of "transformation." TransformUS is an "operating budget adjustments initiative" put in place by university administration. Buckingham and his fellow academic leaders were told they must conform to it or resign their leadership roles. In the aftermath, academics around North America have rallied around Buckingham's legitimate ability to criticize the university and his fellow leaders. More than 1000 faculty at the University of Alberta signed a petition in support of free academic speech stating that the University of Saskatchewan should take action to rectify the violation of critical speech the Buckingham firing created. But the letter is very carefully worded and never calls directly for his reinstatement. There is a difficult relationship between Buckingham's role as dean and as professor. As dean, he is part of a leadership team, and University of Saskatchewan president Ilene Busch-Vishniac's original terrifying point, "all senior leaders must conform or resign their leadership position," may have some validity in a business or corporate environment where a united front is required. But as James Turk with the Canadian Association of University Teachers said, "Universities are premised on the idea that the best way forward is a result of vigorous academic discussion." Many universities uphold mandates or refrains along the lines of the University of Alberta's oft-repeated, "for the uplifting of the whole people," and are putting academic leaders into compromised positions by asking them to support programs that are destructive to education. A lot of the media attention in the current case has focused on the harsh wording and severe punishment by the University of Saskatchewan to one dean who chose to stand up. But this is not an isolated incident. Programs like TransformUS exist in universities around the country. Out of the financial crunch caused by a withdrawal of public funds, more universities forge corporate partnerships and compromise the ability of staff to speak out critically while standing up for education. To let this fall on one dean or one provost would be to miss the larger problem in post-secondary education today. V
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School: an LGBTQ safe place? Opposition to inclusion policies remain too commonplace Another Canadian school board has joined the fight to make schools safer and more welcoming places for LGBTQ students: the Vancouver School Board is currently in the process of updating its 2004 anti-homophobia policy to provide more support for its transgender and genderqueer students. In a rare first, community members, teachers and parents all rallied behind the new changes and the policy passed without opposition, with one parent of a cisgendered teenager calling the change, "a huge step forward in making all students feel welcome at school." Did you believe me? Sadly, I'm lying. Wouldn't it be a great thing if the preceding paragraph was actually true? Despite the fact that the school boards in both Edmonton and Toronto have similar policies on the books already (Edmonton Public School Board's current Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity policy came into effect in 2011 whereas the Toronto District School Board released guidelines for transgender students and teachers in 2012), the proposed policy is creating a stir in Vancouver. The revisions were discussed at a public committee meeting on May 14 with the intention for ratification by the board the following week, but the overwhelming number of people seeking to address the committee—both
in support and opposition—required a second hearing for the end of the month, with any decisions being delayed until at least June. The recommended guidelines under discussion closely follow those of Edmonton and Toronto: they state that trans students can dress according to their self-identified gender, within the bounds of general school dress codes, and can be referred to by a name and pronoun that reflects their gender identity. Teachers are encouraged to limit sex-segregated activities and trans students can also use washrooms and change rooms that match their gender (although the policy stopped short of recommending genderneutral washrooms, like the Vancouver Park Board did last month). All in all, the policy seems relatively benign and straightforward but that has not stopped organized opposition. The resistance to the bill is exactly as you would imagine: Xtra has produced a (perhaps unintentionally) hilarious blow-by-blow of the main points of opposition. According to reports, the woman behind the opposition group PACIS (Protecting All Children in School) argues that proper consultation with health professionals has not taken place and has created a petition with the intent to slow the process down. When accused
of being homophobic by local high school students, she responded by saying she "doesn't hate those people" and that conservative Christians are in fact the real victims of bullying. There's also the concern-trolling parents who are worried about students who might regret their transition and the old chestnut about rapists disguising themselves as women in order to attack helpless cisgendered students. But my favourite argument is a new one: because homophobia and transphobia are expressions of fear, they should not be repressed. "Fear is an emotion and it's not healthy to suppress a child's emotion and we should allow the child to express that emotion and we should not punish them or discipline them because of that emotion" she said. On the one hand, these ludicrously nonsensical statements give me hope that there isn't much of an argument against policies like these and we are at a tipping point where trans-inclusive policies will soon become the norm in school boards across the country. But on the other, I can't help but be enraged that trans students, teachers and community members still have to put up with this crap. Nonsensical it may be, but it is still depressingly common. V
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RE: VALLEY LINE LRT IGNORES LIVABILITY (ISSUE 969: MAY 15 – MAY 21) Calgary and Edmonton both have existing and proposed LRT lines but the extent and ridership of them are quite different, in spite of their comparable costs. The Calgary ridership is 300-percent greater than that of Edmonton; the number of stations nearly three times; the length of lines about 2.5 times. Why the discrepancy? By far the major cause of this is that Edmonton chose to tunnel while Calgary stuck to the surface. It is useless to dwell on this now, but surely we should learn a lesson from it? As Albert Einstein said, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." In Edmonton, it seems we can. The proposed SE LRT line will entail more tunnelling as it crosses the North Saskatchewan River. In doing so, it will eliminate a well loved, much used and esthetically pleasing footbridge across the river. This eventuality has elicited much anguish from the users of the footbridge and the creation of a group of "Save Edmonton's Downtown Footbridge" campaigners. The group didn't stop at simply protesting the four-year loss of their beloved footbridge, but went as far as to design and submit a muchimproved routing of the river crossing portion. The problem is that the city, in its fervour to get the line built, has refused to even consider an examination of the suggestion. The suggestion appears to have much merit, not the least of which is in the economics. Here
are a few of the major benefits of the suggested route: 1) It will require zero tunnelling and hence the major traffic inconvenience that ensues will not occur. 2) It will eliminate the risks entailed in tunnelling through the east side of Louise McKinney Park which has the remains of numerous former coal mines beneath it. 3) The station for the new Quarters development will be within metres of where it is currently proposed. The population density in this area will remain at 15 000 to 20 000. Not so for the currently proposed route. 4) It will obviate the need to create an emergency-vehicle entry at the Chinese Seniors Centre, which will destroy the patio in front of the building. 5) It will provide an additional station on the Grierson Hill side of the Shaw Conference Centre. 6) It will require no further building demolitions since the detour from Jasper Avenue down to Grierson Hill contains only car parks at this time. 7) The so-called, "signature bridge," to replace the much loved and used footbridge, will no longer be required, thus saving taxpayers several millions more. 8) The route will be approximately 300 metres shorter, which will make for faster travel and further cost reductions. 9) The only undisturbed land still extant on the river, next to the Muttart Conservatory, will
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remain so, as will the perennial gardens. The old trees on this portion will remain standing. 10) There should be no delay in the completion date for the SE LRT since the "shovels in the ground" phase won't begin for another two years. David J Parker Edmonton RE: PICKETERS THANKS NOT GOING ANYWHERE (ONLINE: MAY 15 – MAY 21) It's interesting that Supports for Artspace Independent Living's board president, Roxanne Ulanicki, says she rejects the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees' offers to help lobby Alberta Health Services for more adequate funding because of the alleged behaviour of AUPE picketers. It is entirely possible that the health-care aides at SAIL wouldn't have been forced to go on strike in the first place had SAIL Inc accepted AUPE's assistance when it was offered months ago, or our offer of independent arbitration to settle a new collective agreement. But first, let me address the accusations that these workers, mostly immigrant women, are vulgar, rude and intimidating. The truth is, the picketers have been the tarCONTINUED ON PAGE 37 >>
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hifting responsibility from one government ministry to the other means that what should be a simple matter of enforcing Alberta’s Zoo Standards often leaves those caught in the middle—the animals—in lonely, cold, isolated and deprived conditions. The standards came about in 2006 as a way for zoo inspectors to work from an established list of guidelines when inspecting the province’s seven zoos. Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD) administers the Wildlife Act and Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD) administers the Animal Protection Act. ESRD
checks for Section II of the Zoo Standards, which is related to things like animal identification, record keeping and public safety. ARD checks for Section III, which includes animal-care protocols such as how often the animals will be fed, housed and cleaned, and what enrichment they will be given. Permit renewals happen each March when ESRD investigates for Section II violations. ARD commissions the ASPCA to enforce the Animal Protection Act, but their investigations only deal
with an animal that is found to be in distress at the time of their investigation. They operate under compliance principles, which means that after pointing out a deficiency to a zoo, they give them time to address it. The removal of an animal would only happen if there was not time for the zoo to address the problem. “Our role is from an enforcement point of view, so it’s a reactive role,” says Roland Lines, communications manager with the ASPCA. “We don’t have access to the development plan and the permit, so we’re not inspecting against the permit. Our inspection is to see if any animals are in distress at the time that we attend. There’s certainly some value there, but it’s limited value, and the findings of that inspection has no i m pact o n
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permitting of the operation.” Under the Animal Protection Act, distress is defined as deprivation of adequate shelter, ventilation, space, food, water or veterinary care, or reasonable protection from injurious heat or cold, or if the animal is injured, sick, in pain or suffering, or if it is abused or subjected to undue hardship, privation or neglect. “So, obviously, the word adequate is in there, and undue hardship, so that’s where the judgment comes in,” Lines explains. The different measures of authority granted to the two ministries means that conditions noted by ARD or the ASPCA cannot be taken into account on reports by ESRD officers and vice versa. To top it all off, no one in either department or the ASPCA has the proper qualifications to examine exotic animals, although Lines says they do rely on the help of veterinarians with that expertise from time to time. One zoo in particular has been receiving unwanted government and ASPCA attention since even before the standards came into place. GuZoo, located in the town of Three Hills, received a zoo licence in 1987. Owner Lyn Gustafson had formerly operated a fur farm there and was convicted three times between 1992 and 1994 in regards to the zoo: twice for illegal trafficking and possession of exotic animals and once for failing to relieve the suffering of an animal in distress. In 1993, the president of the ASPCA called for his licence to be revoked. Each year since, official investigation reports and complaints from the public and animal-rights advocates have documented the filthy and inhumane conditions existing at GuZoo and still its permit continues to be renewed. ARD investigator Ed Turco says he has been called to GuZoo in the past to deal with the improper storage of carcasses. “He changed his operation from storing and taking in roadkill and carcasses from neighbours to buying live animals and then killing them—can’t think of a
nicer word—and then feeding them [to his carnivores]. So he doesn’t really have the storage issues he’s had in the past,” Turco says. GuZoo’s permit was temporarily revoked in 2006 after Canada’s Accredited Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) made a report about conditions there, but Gustafson asked for a judicial review, saying he did not have enough time to comply with the new standards—although each zoo was given one year— and his licence was reinstated. “I don’t want to comment on the standards because I think the standards are good and I’m following them,” Gustafson says. He declined to answer questions about government inspections, complaints about GuZoo or a series of photos taken last summer by an animal rights advocate, showing GuZoo property strewn with rotting animal carcasses, maggots in food dishes, drinking water covered in algae, isolated animals, aggressive animals, small enclosures, lack of shelter and lack of appropriate fencing in some areas. Photographer Philip Shaw says he visited GuZoo 13 times between March and August of last year; two times he paid to enter and in August he was caught and charged with trespassing. The ASPCA told him the pictures he took were inadmissible because of the way in which they were gathered. “Every time ASPCA makes a file on a complaint and deals with the zoo, that should be, in my opinion, considered during re-permitting,” Shaw says. “If you look at my March pictures, that was the time they were doing the permit inspection. Corpses all over the property and they permitted that. It’s crazy. It says in the development plan that bone and hide need to be cleaned up daily and yet this is where ESRD is fucking up. But this is ARD’s job. ... That’s why GuZoo is allowed to neglect and have a corpse pile 10-feet-high, because the government doesn’t enforce Section III.” Carrier Sancartier, a public affairs officer with ESRD, says that, like all CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 >>
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has observed no signs of her being stressed except when she walks too fast and can’t catch her breath and licensed zoos, GuZoo is required to that, in lieu of having another animal renew its operating permit each year. for company, her keepers act as her “During the renewal process, ESRD herd mates. reviews zoo development plans, “They’ll make the argument that which take into account all parts of Lucy has bonded with her keepers and the Alberta Zoo Standards and looks she wouldn’t get along with other elat a zoo’s inspection history and any ephants, which is all crap,” says Stacie complaints received by our departLeppky of Voice for Animals. “They ment before a decision is made to said the same thing about Maggie in renew a licence,” Sancartier explains. Alaska. She bonded with her keepers, “GuZoo is operating under an updated she wouldn’t get along with other zoo development plan, which was elephants and when they sent her to required as a condition of its 2013-14 PAWS, she immediately bonded with zoo permit. The updated plan prothe other African elephants. Immedivides more stringent operating proceately. It was amazing. Pat Lampi was dures to address a variety of historic saying how she just knew right off concerns at GuZoo. These include the the bat how to approach them. She off-premise display, public contact hadn’t been around other elephants with wildlife/controlled animals and her whole life, but it was instinctual, animal care protocols [such as cleanshe just knew how to approach them ing cages and feeding.]” and she is thriving with them. So they Zoos do not necessarily have to have no leg to stand on when they say share the development plan with that she’s only bonded with her keepESRD every year unless changes have ers because they haven’t even tried to been made or they were deemed to see if she’ll get along well with other be non-compliant. Asian elephants.” Woodyer agrees that calling Lucy Zoocheck Canada has called GuZoo a “people elephant” is a crazy stateCanada’s worst roadside zoo, and the ment. “There’s no such thing as organization’s campaigns direca people elephant. Talk to the tor Julie Woodyer says GuZoo world’s renowned elephant is actually missing a key piece So they should get someone in there who really has a background working with experts and everybody will of paperwork required for its permit. She says there is no elephants. Rather than doing that, what they should really do is let us take Lucy down tell you the same thing: eltrace of a signed copy of Guto the PAWS Sanctuary where she could live the life that nature intended her to live. ephants are social animals and if they don’t have the Zoo’s development plan that company of their own species, was approved by the provthey will seek the company ince and that when Gustafson of another species, in this case their Woodyer says that Lucy the elephant elephants tested before they left here. at the grocery store.” wrote his plan, it was not sufficient in Lampi says none of the email pre- keepers, but that doesn’t mean it acmany ways, so the government told at the Valley Zoo is another example It’s just that it’s not readily available him it needed tweaking. But a copy of CAZA’s inadequacy in dealing with testing here. You’d have to bring in a dictions came true. In fact, the Alaska commodates their social need.” vet from the US and have them do it. Zoo is now doing better than ever of a final approved plan has never animal welfare. “We made a complaint to CAZA be- Fair enough, fine. We’d pay for that if with more people coming every year Voice for Animals and Zoocheck are surfaced. working with a legal team to find a “So if you call up the government cause they originally had a standard the zoo wants to do it, we just want to since it ended its elephant program. “I’m sure I lost a lot of hair and I’m way to get the Alberta Zoo Standards and say, ‘I’d like to see the approved that said you can’t keep elephants get Lucy diagnosed and healthy and in almost all grey now, but it was all well enforced. plan,’ they won’t be able to provide it alone because it’s not an appropriate a position where she can be moved.” “What we’re trying to do—and Mark Torjusen, acting communica- worth it because I don’t know if Magfor you,” Woodyer says. “I can tell you social group,” Woodyer says. “And that’s for sure because I’ve talked to then when we complained about Lucy, tion manager in the City of Edmon- gie would still be with us today,” Lam- we’re hoping that it will affect Lucy the bureaucrats who work internally instead of asking the zoo to accommo- ton’s corporate communications de- pi says. “She’s put on all this muscle as well—is we’re trying to get the zoo in there and they have told me that date the standard—either get more partment, says they haven’t begun from climbing up and down the rolling standards enforced properly for Guthey have not been able to acquire an elephants or move your elephant to looking for a new vet for Lucy yet, but hills and browsing in trees and swim- Zoo and we’re hoping there will be a be with other elephants—they said he knows she will be the last elephant ming in their little lake. It’s just a great domino effect because if they have to approved plan.” environment for elephants. You see enforce it for GuZoo, then they’ll have Woodyer says she believes it’s the ‘Well, it’s OK if you have them alone at the Edmonton Valley Zoo. “At this point in time, our primary that and I don’t know if there’s any- to enforce it for Lucy,” Leppky says. ASPCA’s responsibility to enforce so long as a keeper and a vet say it’s “The bottom line is we want the zoo the animal-welfare standards and get OK.’ Well, any keeper who works with concern with Lucy is her health con- body who would say that it was the standards enforced and we want Lucy ditions and we will continue to make wrong decision now.” some changes happening at GuZoo her would say, ‘Sure, it’s OK.’” Similar to Edmonton city council, to have an outside independent expert Woodyer says, in her opinion, the decisions in her best interest when it because it states in the Animal Protection Act that zoos must comply Valley Zoo’s late veterinarian Dr Mil- comes to her health and well-being,” the Alaska Zoo’s board of directors examine her, which the zoo absolutely refused to consider sending their el- refuses to do,” Tove Reece of Voice for with those standards and ASPCA is in ton Ness was not qualified to offer an he says. Barker doesn’t believe a word the ephant away. It took a long time for Animals says. opinion on Lucy as he had no prior excharge of enforcing this act. “We’re not asking them to pay for Valley Zoo says, as he implies they the board to even form a committee “Some of those things were appro- perience with elephants. to look at the subject and then 10 it,” Leppky adds, “it can be a joint discan’t stick to a story. priate social groups, clean water, fresh “That zoo, they say she’s in such bad elephant experts from around North cussion on who the outside vet is and food appropriate to the species. It Bob Barker, the former host of The wasn’t like they were asking to set up Price is Right game show, came to Ed- shape she can’t travel,” Barker says. America came to give their opinion. they can agree to who the outside vet natural habitats for every animal—it monton in 2009 to campaign for Lucy “The next day somebody says ‘We Nine of the 10 agreed she should be is. Really, you’d think they’d want to wasn’t that great. But it was at least to be sent to the PAWS Sanctuary in ought to get Lucy out of here, she’s moved, but the board voted to listen know what’s going on with her. If they could get someone in that they don’t that they would have their very basic, California. After helping the Toronto just not happy here. She shouldn’t be in to Oosterhuis and keep her. “At that time I was very disappointed have to pay for, why not? But they biological needs met by those stan- Zoo’s three African elephants make this zoo.’ And then they say, ‘Oh, she’s dards, and the ASPCA was expected the journey in October, he is still ea- completely healthy and completely and I did consider quitting, but I’m kind absolutely refuse every time. Before to enforce the standards,” Woodyer ger to see Lucy live out the rest of her happy.’ They have the two stories. One, of a stubborn person and I said, ‘No. the election I spoke to quite a bit of says. “But if you call the ASPCA, their days at PAWS—a more natural habi- she should stay there because she’s so I’m going to stick around and keep the councillors and as much as they were all for learning about Lucy and position on this is pretty clear. They tat for an elephant with acres of roll- healthy and she’s so happy and then working on this,’” Lampi says. As the board of directors slowly elephants in general, when they got feel, first off, that they can’t do proac- ing hills, ponds, mud holes, trees and two, she’s so unhealthy that she can’t changed out, Lampi says they be- on to council, they were convinced travel. So take your pick.” tive inspections in any way related to other elephants for company. Torjusen says finding someone at the came more willing to listen to the otherwise.” “I met this chap who died and he the zoo permit. Well, that’s a problem, The legal fight for animal welfare in right? How are you issuing permits ev- told me that he was a cat and dog zoo to speak with the same authority facts. “I can honestly say I think we ery year if the standards aren’t met? doctor,” Barker recalls. “And I said, about Lucy as Ness could have is not had a more informed board, we had this province will take time, but conpeople who were biologists, who tinuing to make noise and keeping up ... They’re essentially throwing their ‘Well, how many elephants have you possible right now. “Dr Ness frequently relied on outside knew about animals and were more the pressure is worth it for those adhands up saying, ‘It’s not our job, it’s taken care of?’ He said, ‘Just Lucy.’ really ESRD’s job.’ And ESRD’s saying, So they should get someone in there experts in elephant care to help him open-minded to listening to the facts vocating for the rights of those who cannot defend themselves. ‘No. We allocated the welfare stuff to who really has a background work- build Lucy’s care plan and that care and not just the propaganda.” In regards to Lucy, Oosterhuis has REBECCA MEDEL you guys because we don’t have the ing with elephants. Rather than doing plan remains in place,” Torjusen adds. REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM However, that outside expert is said in his annual reports that he that, what they should really do is expertise in that area.’” << CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7
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In fact, Woodyer says the province is discussing the zoo standards again and is considering making CAZA their accrediting body. Currently only the Calgary Zoo and the Edmonton Valley Zoo have CAZA accreditation. But Woodyer says CAZA is unreliable. “The SPCA was going to lay charges about a baby hippo that was forced to live in a windowless barn for 18 months,” Woodyer says. “The animals were freezing to death at Mountain View Conservation Society as well as the animal that had been beaten to death. The staff at that zoo reported it to CAZA for two years in a row and CAZA refused to do anything about it and so finally they went to the media and the SPCA, and the SPCA was recommending charges.” According to a document prepared by Mountain View Staff, that animal was an addax named Aras who was put to death in 2008 because he was excessive to the collection. Vince Beier shot him in the head six times with a 22-gauge rifle. When he did not die, his throat was slit and he was smashed over the head with a hammer as he remained in distress and bled out over 30 minutes.
let us take Lucy down to the PAWS Sanctuary where she could live the life that nature intended her to live. She deserves it; she’s suffered almost her entire life up there.” Lucy’s suffering includes an undiagnosed respiratory problem that causes her to breathe through her mouth when she gets winded. Woodyer has an offer for the Valley Zoo from world-renowned elephant vet Susan Mikota to examine the condition. “She wrote the textbook on medicine for elephants, and I just spoke to her the other day and she said she’d be more than happy to help the zoo diagnose Lucy,” Woodyer says. “I think they should call her and take her up on that offer even if it’s on a temporary basis while they’re finding a permanent vet. Why not? They haven’t been able to diagnose Lucy yet. Let Susan Mikota come in there. She was talking to me about some testing for tuberculosis. She said to me, ‘I don’t really understand why they haven’t done the full testing that they do in the US for TB.’ The Edmonton Valley Zoo will tell you it’s because it’s not available in Canada, but that’s not exactly true because we had the Toronto
Dr James Oosterhuis, the same veterinarian who said the Alaska Zoo’s Maggie the elephant could stay— although she had colic and was a solitary elephant in a cold environment—if the zoo enacted his recommendations, including building her a giant treadmill. They listened to him and Maggie did not improve. With the help of Bob Barker, she eventually made her way to PAWS. Prior to the move, zoo director Patrick Lampi received nasty emails every day. They said: “Maggie only knows this zoo as her home, she’s comfortable here, she doesn’t know how to be with anyone else, we’re her family, she’ll die without us, she’s accustomed to this temperature, she can’t survive in a warmer climate, she won’t survive the transport, this will end the Alaska Zoo, it will open the door to animal-rights people, her death will be on your hands personally.” Lampi also got plenty of threats: “People wanting to beat me up, lock me in a closet because the elephant was here. Then when some people found out that I was working towards getting Maggie out, the people that wanted her to stay would accost me
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PREVUE // MEAT
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// Meaghan Baxter
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t's not much of a secret, but it still feels like a revelation to hear: Meat is the brainchild of a vegetarian. "My business partners eat enough meat for all three of us," Saylish Haas laughs, a sound that comes to her easy and often. It was her, not them—Michael Rebalkin and chef Nathan McLaughlin—who first thought up the place, a sister house to the trio's already beloved Next Act Pub. "I was thinking about the trend of being in Alberta," 587.520.6338 she says. "How much Meat people like meat; just 8216 - 104 St the simplicity of it. So I pitched it to the business partners, and said, 'Why don't we go for this?'" In principle, they agreed. And when the space next door to the Next Act opened up, they decided to go all in on the idea—providing the menu wasn't going to undercut what they were already doing at the Act. "We didn't want it to compete," Haas explains. "This is more of a restaurant, that's a bit more of a pub. Nathan, he's really good at simple ingredients done well. So we thought, well, what can we do that's going to not compete, but it's still the same sort of feeling?" The answer was to focus on three of the most beloved syllables in cooking: barbecue. Texas-style barbecue, to be specific: smoked meats paired with bourbons and beer. Working with an imported smoker, they've been honing their ability to mass quantities of flavourful brisket, shredded pork, juicy sausage and other carnivorous delights. To encourage the sampling of bourbons, you can order a boilermaker (a beer paired with a bourbon), or a shot of "pickleback," a salty, electrolyte-refuelling chaser of pickle
juice. And, yes, despite its title, Meat offers veggie options: a feature sandwich, which will change every few weeks, and all of the sides. Meat presents itself without the usual cliché imagery; instead of roadsigns and bleached cattle heads, the building's a crisp, clean, surprisingly big room of blue-white tiling and huge windows. It also seems to have managed to carve out a niche as the only dedicated barbecue place in the area. The appeal of that is clear: although the first few weeks will find it only open for dinner, (lunch will follow shortly), no less than three separate groups wander in off the street while talking to Haas. "It just smells so good!" protests one, when Haas gently tells him to come back later.
The sauce options are left to you. On each table are four bottles to choose from: Bourbon, Cherry, Mustard and Spicy. Though, Haas notes, in its first week of business, people have been more focused on the meat itself, rather than the dressings. "We've found people like them, like giving them a try, but they're just focused on the flavour of the meat and the smoke right now, which is kind of interesting. People like dipping, and using the sauces, but most people are like, 'You don't even need it.'" It hasn't been a totally tender ride for Haas and company to get here, though. Early on in Meat's
progress, permit issues arose when a neighbouring business evoked an archaic Old Strathcona bylaw that forbade issuing development permits to any business that didn't have on-site parking—remember, this is Whyte Ave we're talking about. And after working through that struggle, another has risen, this time surrounding its backlit sign: despite its heritage style, and having had it signed off on, Haas and co are now being told it doesn't meet the heritage criteria. "We're hoping we can come up with a positive solution," she says, diplomatically.
Anyway, Haas's energy seems more focused on giving her new endeavour the proper focus it deserves, now that its scents are wafting up and down the avenue. "It's so simple," she says of the Texas-style Meat is based on. "It's literally just a smoker, with meat, and out come the sides. And we really like that; you eat it, it tastes great, and it reminds you of some home-cooked meal, or maybe something that you haven't had here in Alberta—considering we are in cow country."
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To get a taste for authentic barbecue, Haas, Rebalkin and McLaughlin took a trip down to Austin, TX, and spent almost a week sussing out the nuances of the style—"I watched my business partners eat a ton of meat, and I ate a lot of beans and coleslaw," Haas says. Then McLaughlin did a few days of barbecue training in Georgia under Myron Mixon, threetime Grand Champion in the Memphis Worlds, among mass quantities of other barbecue trophies. "I think the timing of it is the trickier part," Haas says, of what those trips taught them. "Figuring out how to make it come out fresh, hot, how to hold it properly, and the seasoning—a lot of people want dry rub, they want it to be really seasoned, flavoured, whatever. And with all of our testing, we went with a basic salt and pepper. That's it."
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TO THE PINT
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Beer? Wine? No, it's mead Not quite a wine, not quite a beer Everyone knows the difference between beer and wine. It's like comparing night and day, as they are two very distinct beverages. Many of us appreciate both, but there is no question they offer divergent drinking experiences. They belong to two separate families. There is no straddling of the fence. You can't be both a beer and a wine. Unless you start talking about mead, that is. Mead is the historic drink made famous by the Vikings. It is, essentially, fermented honey. It is after mead which they named the honeymoon; the legend says after 28 days (a "moon") of drinking mead a newly married couple will find themselves pregnant with child. Neither beer nor wine can claim that power. The question that stymies many experts is whether mead is more properly classified as wine or beer. On the surface it seems wine is the obvious answer—a single ingredient, served without carbonation (called "still"). However, it also has much in common with beer. Beer yeast works better with mead than wine yeast. Honey is a common ingredient in beer, and for centuries brewers have created meadbeer hybrids, called braggot. Meadwine hybrids do not exist. Further, as it turns out, the wine com-
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a mead called Honey I Have Meads. Packaged as a wine—Birds & Bees is a fruit winery—and running at 11.5 percent, it has all the outward trappings of a wine.
munity has tended to shun mead until recently, while beer people embraced it as one of their own. I know, this does not resolve the debate, and clearly mead deserves its own category. Mead remains an enigmatic, intriguing beverage worthy of further exploration. Further complicating the beer-wine debate are two Alberta-made meads I sampled recently. Each emphasizes qualities that might put them on opposite sides. First up is Birds & Bees Winery, located near Brosseau, AB (formerly En Santé) which produces
It pours the palest possible yellow with the slightest hint of a frizzante c h a r a c te r. The aroma is floral and sweet while the front offers a honey sweetness balanced by an earthy dryness. The middle draws out some clover-like grassiness and the finish brings out a moderate sweetness that
reminds me of Sauvignon Blanc. It is clearly reminiscent of a moderately sweet white wine. The key in this mead is that it offers just enough honey sweetness without tipping into cloying, which can be a common problem with mead. It presents to me as very versatile drink that could fit anywhere a white wine would work.
The next candidate is very different.
Fallentimber Meadery from Water Valley produces a long line of traditional meads, including sweet and dry ver-
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sions, blended with fruit or aged in oak. I picked up their Hopped Mead, which is bittered and flavoured with Chinook and Cascade hops, immediately evoking beer thoughts. Add to that it clocks in at a much more beer-y 7.5-percent alcohol. This mead is also the palest straw, but offers a noted carbonation. The aroma is faint honey sweetness blending with a woody, earthy note and a perfume character. The front is a sharp honey sweetness that is quickly shifted. The middle dries out and allows a spicy hop character to arrive. The finish is a mix of earthy honey and a piney, soapy, spicy hop. The sip is not bitter, per se, but has an angular character that makes it seem less like a wine and more like an unusual beer. These two samples prove why mead is so hard to classify. It can easily display characteristics of both beer and wine. Honey is remarkably versatile and can exhibit a variety of qualities. So, I suspect it is best we stop debating to which camp it best belongs and start appreciating it for what it is. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer. org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.
PROVENANCE
BBC claims factory farming in Britain began in 1947 and by 1990 it accounted for 30-percent of meat production, with that number rising to 40 percent by 2005.
Cramped chickens
about factory farming Innovation at a cost
The goal of factory farms is to produces a high product volume for the lowest possible cost. The practice emerged out of technological developments that started in the late 19th century as agricultural production began to increase. Production around the world doubled four times between 1820 and 1975 while the number of people involved in agriculture was at a steady decline as practices became more automated. The
Chickens on egg farms are exposed to artificial light cycles in order to stimulate regular egg production year-round, rather than adhering to their usual egg-laying cycles. Molting is also induced through light manipulation and the amount of food the chickens receive, a practice that increases egg size and production.
The Aussie way
Coles, the largest supermarket in Australia, stopped selling company-branded pork and eggs from factory-farm animals as of January 1, 2013. Woolworth's, Australia's other large supermarket chain, is phasing out factoryfarmed products.
Good luck swimming Fish farms can stock up to 50 000 fish in a two-acre area, which would never occur in the wild. As a result, the fish can rub against one another, damaging their rinse and tails. The high density also leads to an increase in disease and infections.
Endurance test
Statistics from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency state that between two and three million farm animals are found dead each year when trucks are unloaded at slaughterhouses. This is due to exposure to harsh weather, poor handling and cramped conditions during long journeys. For example, cattle can be transported for up to 52 hours without food, water or rest.
Choose wisely
Save-On Foods now indicates which eggs are sourced from caged hens, which are free-range and which are organic free-range. V
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When Roze walked in the doors of the Edmonton Musical Theatre for a weeklong summer camp last summer, she knew she liked music. She played guitar and sang on her own for some time, her mother says, and her family has a musical background. But the first moment Roze stepped on stage, she knew this was something she was bound to do. The youth from Saskatchewan had come to the camp as something fun to do while visiting her grandmother. Less than a year later, she and her family wound up moving to Edmonton and her theatre ambitions blossomed. Now, Roze is auditioning for parts in the troupe’s upcoming musical productions, including the Fringe. That kind of self-discovery is one of the amazing things about teaching summer camp students, says Steffni Ault, general manager of Edmonton Musical Theatre. “One of my favourite things … is you get a young student who comes in who’s maybe a bit shy,” she says. “They walk in the first day, they don’t talk to people and kind of sit on their own. You have to encourage them to draw out of themselves.” “But then, in summer camp because they’re together for so many hours in a day, they are best friends by the end of the day … so by the end of the week, that same student is high energy, talkative, excited.” For those kids who are serious about a pursuit, a weeklong camp is “an intense, passionate week of doing what they love,” says Ault. But with so many things out there for kids to learn and pursue, it can be hard for parents to know what their child will enjoy, especially since he may not be fully aware of it himself. Inklings of talent or ability, or of an interest in a certain area, may be indication of a
deeper affinity or simply a passing phase. Before committing to an after-school regime, one way parents can find out the true extent of their child’s interest in an activity is to get them into a camp, suggests Ault. “It can be sort of a trial period,” she explains. “Parents may think, ‘oh, this is something my child is interested in,’ but they’re not 100 per cent sure, so they take a summer camp to test the waters and see if this is a direction their child would be interested in pursuing before making a commitment to a year-long program.” At Edmonton Musical Theatre, the students coming in don’t necessarily have a background in musical theatre, but they like to sing a bit or play act with their friends. Then over a week, she explains, they get to explore a whole range of different avenues of creativity. “Unlike adults, youth have none of that inhibition, they’re totally open to jumping in and they’re sponges,” she marvels. “You can throw a lot of material at this age group and they will just soak it up.” Cultivating or discovering new talents can be a wonderful byproduct of summer camp. But just as important are the many other ways in which a child can develop socially, mentally and emotionally. Ella, 10, started attending Camp Maskepetoon at age six. Her mother was a camp director, so it was natural for her to try it. But over time, Ella has found her own reasons for choosing camp. “We have way more fun,” she says, “and we go to bed later.”
CELEBRITY CAMP
What does it take to convince a kid to go to camp? The possibility that she might be following in her idol’s footsteps? The American Camp Association has that one covered for parents, keeping a list of all the former campers they can find who are famous in any public field, from sports to entertainment to politics. Here’s a sample. Drew Brees, football player (Super Bowl MVP) Bobby Orr, hockey player Mark Zuckerberg, CEO Facebook Sally Ride, NASA space shuttle astronaut Michelle Obama, first lady of the United States Lady Gaga, singer Marcus Mumford, lead singer (Mumford and Sons) Adam Sandler, actor Matt Damon, actor Mischa Barton, actor A host of others more familiar to older generations—Paul Newman, William Shatner, Margaret Atwood, Joseph Heller and Bob Dylan— also claim camp pedigree. But those names may not resonate in the same way with some members of the younger generations.
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“And now I’m asking my friends to come and my friends are coming too so that’s fun,” she enthuses. Her first camp experience set the stage with a memorable impression. “I had
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a really fun time. We have a cabin where we sleep at night and we have campfires. I think the theme dinners and the campfires are my favourite.” Then, after a pause, she adds, “We also have archery and that’s one of my favourite things too.” Emma returns frequently to descriptions of how she and her camp mates live at camp, staying together in dorm-style cabins, sharing a communal camp bathroom for washing and grooming. For many kids, since camp is one of a child’s first experiences away from home, having that newfound independence is enough to leave an impression. It also speaks to the trust parents have in their kids, and those caring for them—something kids are often more aware of than parents may realize. Attending the camp her mother also attended as a kid has led to interesting changes in their relationship dynamic as well. “It’s been around since my mom was there, and my mom’s really into that and now I am, too” Emma says. “I like it a lot because we get to talk more and it’s more bonding, stuff like that.” Offering that social growth and development is an important part of the role of summer camps, says Colin Harris. “Summer camps help build character in a different way than school,” he points out. “They have the ability to help kids socially, through an informal setting.” Harris, the director of Take Me Outside, a non-profit organization focused on advocating for healthy, outdoor time with kids, sees summer camps providing an impor-
tant link between traditional education and outdoor programs. “These camps inherently create a connection to the outdoors, because the kids are having fun outdoors but they are also learning lessons outside.” Another benefit for time-strapped working parents who really do want their kids to be outside, exploring and learning, is that summer camps provide a way of doing that without needing to constantly be on hand to supervise. This presents a far superior alternative to the boob tube as babysitter. In 2010, the Canadian Summer Camp Research Project conducted a major study into the impact attending summer camp has on kids. It found that children who attended summer camp showed growth in five key areas: social integration and citizenship, environmental awareness, attitudes towards physical activity, emotional intelligence and self-confidence and personal development. In other words, if you want your child to build confidence, increase their physical activity, improve their social skills, appreciate their natural surroundings and be better adapted, sending them to camp might be a good idea. What parent doesn’t want that for their child? For her part, Ella is just excited to go back to camp for another year to do all the things she loves. When asked what’s she looking forward to most, she replies, “All the games, campfires, theme dinners – pretty much everything. It’s really fun.” Jeremy Derksen / jeremy@postvuepublishing.com
Kids, camps and healthy living Skinned knees, bumps and bruises Kids will be kids no matter where they go. They’ll skin knees and bang their elbows. But they aren’t any more likely to get injured at camp than any comparable activity anywhere else, says a study by Goldlust, Walton and Stanley (“Injury patterns at US and Canadian overnight summer camps”, 2009). And these are places where kids participate in such “high-risk” activities as team sports, water activities, wilderness hiking and horseback riding. Basically, the findings of this study suggest that if your kid is going to get injured, chances are just as high it will happen on your watch as at camp. So why worry?
Parents can be guilty of screen time abuse, too
Kids averaging up to eight hours a day on screens According to Statistics Canada, over a third of children aged 6 to 11 logged more than two hours of daily screen time by 2004. A review of screen behaviours by the Public Health Agency of Canada found that over 50 per cent of 51,922 Canadian kids in grades 6 to 12 logged nearly eight hours of daily screen time. The Childhood Obesity Foundation recommends no more than two hours of screen time a day.
Sometimes it’s not the kids but the parents who are too involved in screens. Parents set the tone for the kids, says Harvard psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair. But parents often exempt themselves from screen time rules, because, well, they are adults. But that is no excuse for tuning out. Sending the kids to camp can buy you time to work on yourself as well. Take a class, take a break, put your phone down. If you teach yourself healthier habits, maybe they will too.
Cost doesn’t have to be a barrier Fortunately, most parents in Canada can probably afford to send their kids to summer camp if they choose. But for those who can’t, cost doesn’t have to be a deterrent. Summer camp is as Canadian as Tim Horton’s, and it’s no irony that the two are linked. The Tim Horton’s Foundation was founded to help disadvantaged kids go to camp. Easter Seals offers similar subsidies for their camp programs. The YMCA offers financial assistance for its programs as well. More than likely, other established programs will offer subsidies too. So don’t let the price tag stop your search.
There’s a first time for everything The first time sending your kid to camp can be as scary for you as it is for your child. Fortunately there are resources out there to help parents prepare for the event, and prepare their children. In Alberta, the Alberta Camping Association provides support services and information for camp operators and participants. Find them at albertacamping.com.
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PREVUE // THEATRE
H
ow do you know your feelings are really your own? What if they were actually given to you, artificially constructed, without you even realizing? Such uneasy notions are the underpinnings of a production that has been in development for over three years: The Genius Code, brainchild of Surreal SoReal's co-founder Jon Lachlan Stewart. The project sprang from Lachlan's idea of incorporating headphones and microphones into a theatre show, and first appeared as a tiny, found-space show in the attic of a Nextfest Nite Club back in 2012. The show requires each audience member to wear one of 55 pairs of headphones (the original show had 12), through which they hear the story from the perspective of only one of the three characters on stage.
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A love tragedy in progress // Mat Simpson
"When you talk to friends about have allowed an experimental musician, their breakup, or about their rela- Gene Cody or DJ Genius Code (Cole Hutionships, you hear only one side of meny), to record their lives for use in his the story and then everybody has ambient music. "Depending on who you choose, countering opinions; we wanted to express that," Stewart says. He's you hear different information and a different perspecsitting in the tive," Stewart says. bustling Three Until Sun, Jun 8 (8 pm; 2 pm "So some people Bananas Café be- weekend matinees) will get an entirely side Jamie Cava- The Genius Code nagh, one-third Directed by Jon Lachlan Stewart different sympathy for characters that of the show's C103, $18 – $22 others wouldn't." cast. They are on "We're hoping lunch break from a busy day of rehearsals—finessing people will fill each other in as they the show's extensive technical de- leave, and have arguments about it," mands has been a weighty challenge. adds Cavanagh. "And if people come An unusual love triangle is at the heart back a second time, they get a disof The Genius Code, which Lachlan dubs count for seeing it twice." a "love tragedy." Cavanagh's character and his girlfriend (Laura Metcalfe) The Genius Code has been devel-
oped over the last two years through an inaugural residency program with Catalyst Theatre. Stewart notes that part of the program's goal is to rewire our city's theatrical traditions by developing work that deconstructs the boundaries of conventional theatre, as well as including the audience in the creative process; in addition to The Genius Code's debut at Nextfest, an expanded version was also staged last year. To flesh out the show's narratives, Lachlan and his performers have delved into a wide range of theory, psychology, personal experience and even mythology—from the Roman concept of the Genius that lives in the walls of an artist's studio to Disney movie lore. "The real reason this relationship happened was because of this DJ,"
Stewart says. "Part of the story looks at love as a piece of art: they don't know if they created the relationship themselves, or if it's just bullshit and somebody else gave them this feeling—this love as a kind of an inspiration." [Stewart] has written a tremendous volume of information," Cavanagh says. "There had to be three full, satisfying storylines. It has also gotten more violent; it's gotten darker. When we first started, it was—I don't want to say cookie cutter, but it was a more formatted relationship. Now it's just a lot deeper and a lot more complicated. Just like in every relationship nobody's right, but also nobody's wrong."
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PREVUE // CHILDREN'S FEST
Intergalactic Nemesis I
t’s 1933 and a gang of evil aliens from the planet Zygon have their sites set on planet Earth and it’s up to a tenacious reporter, her steadfast assistant and a librarian sent from the future to stop them. This is the premise behind Intergalactic Nemesis, the radio-play-turnedlive-action graphic novel that sees the story play out via 1250 handdrawn panels projected behind actors who bring the characters to life, complete with an on-stage soundeffects expert to enhance the action. The story—written originally by Jason Neulander, founder of Salvage Vanguard Theatre, in 1996 before being adapted as a stage play with the help of Chad Nichols in 2007—has
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grown to include three instalments, preferring fantasy prose, but learned the first of which will be performed the ropes of the genre from his colat the 2014 International Children’s leagues and credits them to assisting Festival—but it’s not just for kids. his new writing endeavours. “There’s a lot of humour that goes “I’d never written a comic book script over the kids’ heads, but the parents before and fortunately for me, Tim totally eat up,” Doyle, who’s the Neulander assures. Tues, May 27 – Sat, May 31 artist [behind the Indeed, the ap- Part of the 2014 International panels] is a total peal of Interga- Children's Festival comic book colleclactic Nemesis Arden Theatre, St Albert, $10 tor, so his expergoes far beyond childfest.com tise was incredibly children, and even educational for graphic-novel fans me,” Neulander refor that matter. It’s had a Broadway calls. “We had a lot of communication run, featured Conan O’Brien as a guest through the process and he really performer and toured around the helped me hone my writing stye, or world. Neulander himself wasn’t even understand how to write for an artist a graphic-novel fan until a decade ago, drawing a comic book, and also un-
derstand the mechanics of sequential storytelling through sequential art.”
This learning curve, as well as his
adoration for the story’s core characters, has kept Neulander going with the project all these years. The characters are all strong individuals in their own right, but reporter Molly Sloan stands out in particular as a strong female character and anomaly of the time period. “The kind of adventure storytelling we’re doing with this almost always features a male character in the lead role and what we’ve done is taken a female character and put her in the lead and she’s as active a character as you can make her,” says
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Neulander, a fan of films from Hollywood’s golden age, particularly His Girl Friday, which was an inspiration for Intergalactic Nemesis—although that film’s leading lady gives up her career when she attains the goal of ostensible wedded bliss. “We’re not in 1940 anymore, we can play around with female roles, and as a result, one of the things that’s fun about Molly is that her career really does drive her ... the arc that ties all three of the Intergalactic installments together is a romantic arc, but even at the end of that you don’t feel like Molly is ever going to give up her career for anything.”
MEAGHAN BAXTER
MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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ARTS REVUE // THEATRE
Make Mine Love S
tarlets and gangsters, mink coats and fedoras: the world may have been in an economic slump and on the brink of global war, but the 1930s were also Hollywood's heyday. The Citadel's season ender is an homage to the silver screen's glory days—and the world première of an Edmonton original: Tom Wood's Make Mine Love. The show opens with a monologue delivered by a stooped choreographer reminiscing about the good ol' days: his memories appear first as flitting projections across a jigsaw of draped sheeting, and then become flesh as the characters step out from behind the veil. It's admittedly somewhat of a hackneyed (but pretty) narrative device, and then the show hurtles forward into pure screwball comedy: we meet washed-up Broadway icon Hale Lane (John Ullyatt) after he has gambled, drank and womanized his way into an alleyway beating by a couple of thugs. He soon runs into his ex-wife and veteran film star Lily Arlen (Rebecca Northan), a tempestuous, tough-cookie actress who has just fired the leading man, choreographer and costumer of her new film. Their unwelcome reunion occurs on a careening shoot-em-up car chase, the first of a series of dexterous set designs by Bretta Gerecke. The second act redeems the unapologetic wackiness of the first: once we've spent some time exploring the actual characters
Until Sun, Jun 1 (7:30 pm; 1:30 pm Sunday matinees) Directed by Bob Baker Citadel Theatre, $35 – $88.20
behind these caricatures, we become invested in them, and the payoffs of this bittersweet love story are eminently satisfying. Make Mine Love makes good on all its promises as a play set in Hollywood's Golden Age; Lily's drop-dead gorgeous wardrobe is reason enough to see it. Northan and Ullyatt have crackling chemistry and it's refreshing to see a love story that isn't between two barely-adults—though we do get the young lovers' story too, with a secondary romance that buds between choreographer Hobart Minor Jr (Alex McCooeye) and breathy starlet Violet Madsen (Lisa Norton), whose scenes are among the story's most tender and lovely. Visually, Make Mine Love is stunning: the dance between live performance, complex set pieces, projection and animation (by Jordan Dowler-Coltman and Owen Brierley) is a bold move. Such navigations are always tenuous and occasionally jarring when we switch from one to the other, but are nonetheless carried off superbly here. While the visuals are the biggest surprises in this otherwise classically formulated love story, Make Mine Love is a polished, gratifying theatrical romp.
Silver screen glory // David Cooper Photography
REVUE // THEATRE
When the Rain Stops Falling
MEL PRIESTLEY
MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM
Past, present and future converge // Ed Ellis
A
n extinct fish plummets from photo album that has been torn the sky: it's a quirky bit of sur- asunder. realism that opens Andrew Bovell's Bovell's script takes us from Engrichly-layered genealogical mystery land to Australia and spans over When the Rain Stops Falling. 80 years and four generations. The From that odd opening incident play opens with an engaging monothe play establishes itself as a nu- logue delivered by Gabriel York anced, haunting exploration into (David Ley), at whose feet that fish drops on the day one family's pathos. It's quite Until Sat, May 24 (7:30 pm; his estranged different from the 12:30 pm matinee on Thu, May son is coming to dinner, one sweeping family 22) evening in 2039. dramas that form Directed by Megan Watson The show is the a cornerstone of Timms Centre for the Arts, American theatre; $11 – $22 thesis project of rather, this intiMFA graduate student Megan mate Australian one-act pieces together a family Watson, and her direction often tree, branch by branch, by explor- overlaps members from disparate ing the relationships between five generations: an ancestor or a desets of couples; it feels like sort- scendant will walk into the scene ing through the pages of a family and quietly sit down, giving a pal-
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pable, immediate presence to both past and future. This sense of inevitability and fate is supported by the echoing of lines, and sometimes entire monologues, by different family members decades apart. "There's flooding in Bangladesh" is the family refrain that works its way through each generation, a well-meant admonishment in the same vein as being told to clean your plate because of starving African children. The phrase takes on another level of meaning as we learn that in the play's present, there really is flooding in Bangladesh, half a million people are dead, the ocean levels are rising and the American Empire fell in 2015. But historical milieu is completely secondary to the deeply personal stories of these relationships, and the dark secret that is poked and prodded but never completely exposed. The set's simple design, modest but effective projections and stormy sonic landscape highlight the strong, earnest performances by this skilled set of actors. Ley dexterously flips between two very different men, the English Henry Law and Australian Gabriel York, while Christopher Hunt is excellent as the charming, quietly enduring Joe Ryan. In spite of its traumas, familial and societal, this poignant production manages to end on a beautiful and convincingly hopeful note. MEL PRIESTLEY
MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM
ARTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM
DANCE MacEWAN UNIVERSITY • 10045-156 St • Blues dance event; Shantzd3@macewan.ca • $65 • Until May 22, 6:30-8pm • May 29-Jun 26, 6:30-8pm
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 SOUTH ASIAN ARTS MOVEMENT SOCIETY (SAAM) • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780.449.3378 • Sunshine and Dew Drops: A showcase of South Asian dance • May 31, 6-9pm • $20 (teen/adult)/$12 (child 3-12); 2 and under free
THE THOUSAND FACES FESTIVAL • Alberta Avenue Area (various venues) • thousandfaces.ca • Multicultural, multi-disciplinary arts festival featuring music, dance, theatre, visual art, and storytelling • Until May 24 • Admission by donation
TONY OLIVARES DANCE • Westbury Theatre Arts Barns • 780.977.6993 • WHAT: body-TRAKS: All-male contemporary dance company, with live music by Martin Johann Kloppers • Until May 22, 8pm • $18 (adv)/$20 (door) at TixOnTheSquare.ca 780.420.1757 I
ZUMBA BASHFIERY FRIDAYS • Central Senior Lions Centre, 11113-113 St • Shake your body to the Latin beat, and freestyle dance to live DJ music. Featuring Tamico Russell, Ike Henry, DJ Rocko and Zumba instructors Dru D, Manuella F-St, Michelle M, Sabrina D. and Cuban Salsa instructor Leo Gonzales • 3rd Fri each month • 7pm • $20 (online)/$25 (door)
FILM AGA AT METRO CINEMA • Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Jeremiah Johnson • May 27, 7pm • $10 (AGA/Metro member)/$8 (student/senior)
CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Free film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • The Past (1985, 14A); May 28, 6:30pm • Free
CULT CINEMA • Metro Cinema at the Garneau, 8712-109 St • Harold and Maude (14A) • Tue, May 27, 9:15pm DREAMSPEAKERS INTERNATIONAL ABORIGINAL FILM FESTIVAL • Metro Cinema at the Garneau, 8712-109 St • dreamspeakers.org • Dreamtalkers and offers a unique exploration into Aboriginal cultures from all parts of the globe • May 2831 • Maina / Traditional Healing (STC) English, Inuktitut, Inupiaq, English subtitles: Wed, May 28, 6:30pm • People Of A Feather (STC) English, Inuktitut; Wed, May 28, 9:30pm • Quebekoisie / Uprooted Generation (STC); French, English subtitles; Thu, May 29, 7pm • Craters Of The Moon / Mohawk Midnight Runners (STC); Thu, May 29, 9:30pm • $10 (adult), $8 (adult matinee)/$8 (student/senior), $6 (student/senior matinee)/$6 (child under 13) at the Garneau 45 mins before each film
EDMONTON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FILM FESTIVAL • Metro Cinema at the Garneau, 8712-109 St • Mon, May 26, 6:30pm • All-ages
EDMONTON FILM COLLECTIVE • Ortona Armoury, 9722-102 St • Coming Of Consciousness: Lyrical Film on 16mm: An evening of experimental cinema • May 24, 8-10pm • Free
EducatEd REEl • Metro Cinema (Garneau Theatre), 8712 109 St • The Man That Got Away, and Transamerica; with speaker Dr Grace; May 22, 7pm • $6 (adv)/$8 (door, student/senior cash)/$10 (door, adult)
EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • My Gal Sal (1942, PG); May 26, 8pm • Scarlet Street (1945, PG); Jun 2, 8pm • Holy Matrimony; (1943, PG); Jun 9, 8pm • Easy Living (1937, PG); Jun 16, 8pm
FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library Audio Visual Room (main floor), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Friday afternoon at 2pm • Little Big Man (1970, PG-13); May 23, 2pm • Dangerous Liaisons (1988) R; May 30, 2pm
HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH • 10037-84 Ave • ArtSpirit FilmFest–An Evening with Filmmakers • May 28, 6:30pm
IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211142 St • This week May 23-29: D-Da: Normandy 1944 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 2:15, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05pm; Sun 2:15pm; Mon-Thu 4:20pm • Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) Fri-Sat 10am, 11am, 1:10, 4:35, 6:55pm; Sun
10am, 11am, 1:10, 3:25, 4:35pm; Mon-Thu 3:10pm • Jerusalem 3D (G) Sat-Sun 12pm; Tue 2pm • Space Station 3D (G) Fri 12pm
and Tom Steele; May 27-Jun 30; opening: Jun 5, 6pm, artists in attendance
SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • PARKLANDS:
MOVIES AT THE CAPITOL–Fort Edmonton •
GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT: Silkscreen prints by Joanne Madeley; CANADIAN BOOKBINDERS AND BOOK ARTISTS GUILD: HANDMADE BOOKS AND PAPERS: Selected works from the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild membership in the Gallery at Milner display cases; until May 31 • FNMI: Aboriginal teen exhibit of mixed media works from the Edmonton Public School; Jun 1-18
SELFRIDGE POTTERY STUDIO • 9844-88 Ave •
780.442.2013 • fortedmontontickets.com • Gypsy; May 22, 7:30pm • The Big Trail • Jun 5, 7:30pm
TIME TRAVEL WITH CHRIS MARKER • Metro Cinema at the Garneau, 8712-109 St • La Jetee / Twelve Monkeys (PG); Sat, May 24, 6:30pm • La Joli Mai (PG); Sun, May 25, 1:30pm
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Discovery Gallery: Coming Up Next: An exhibition of contemporary fine craft by emerging artists; until June 14 • Feature Gallery: FURNISH: Contemporary hand-crafted home furnishings and accessories; until Jul 5 ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34 St • 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends during the summer until Sep 2 • $5 (adult)/$3.50 (senior/student)/$2 (child 3-12)/child under 3 free; $4 (train rides)
GALLERY ON MAIN–Lacombe • MY TUSCAN ADVENTURE: Works by Elaine Tweedy • Until May 23
ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert. ca • HIGH ENERGY 19: RE-IMAGINING St Albert High School student artworks; until May 24 • Gallery Garden Party: Fundraiser and exhibition gala event featuring an outdoor garden, live music, prizes, a botanical art bar, a cash bar and hors d’oeuvres (as well as tea and cake!).; Sat, Jun 7, 6:30-9pm; $25 (adv, incl hors d’oeuvres, drink ticket)/$20 (member/participating artists)/$30 (door) • Exhibition: Jun 7-20 • ArtWalk: Thu, Jun 5, 6-9pm
BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • HEART, SOUL, MIND: Works by Jean Pederson, Alex Peck-Whyte, and NadinaTandy • May 23-Jun 6 • Meet the artists: Fri, May 23, 6-9pm; Sat, May 24, 1-5pm CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 491251 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • SPRING GARDEN: Marian Majeau and friends present handmade pottery to enhance the garden; until May 31 • RAKU, NAKED OR NOT: Raku and primitive fired pottery by guild members; Jun 3-28 DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • NEIGHBOURHOODS: Works by Bruce Allen; until May 24 • MILES DOES MILES: Works by Miles Constable; Jun 3-25; opening: Jun 5, 5-8pm
Jesse Sherburne's A RECORD OF EVENTS: Artwork and performances; two-part installation with the opening involving various artists; May 24, 7-10pm
HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • 2nd
780.421.1731 • Gallery A: A PERSONAL PHYTOPIA: Paintings by Pamela Thurston • Gallery B: Works by Susan Kristoferson • Until Jun 14
WORKS GALLERY • 10635-95 St • facebook. com/TheWorksArtandDesignFestival • The YMCA Community Canvas Works Gallery: Don Wheaton YMCA downtown (10211 102 Ave): Jenny Keith's nature-inspired paintings; until May
HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH • 1003784 Ave • BEYOND BENEDICTION: ArtSpirit Festival art exhibit • Opening reception: May 25, 3pm
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HUMAN ECOLOGY BUILDING–U of A • 1st Fl Gallery • COLOUR CATCH: Aesthetic experiences through West African Textiles and Nature • Until Jul 20
JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave • Artist Cynthia Booth • Until May 29
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 • THE 29TH MIDDLE SCHOOLS AWESOME ART SHOW; until May 25 • HANG-UPS AND INSIGHTS: IB and AP Art Show from Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School and Hunting Hills High School; May 27-Jun 21; First Friday Opening: Jun 6, 6-8pm LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Works by gallery artists and secondary market works; until May 27 • THE JOURNEY: Paintings by Nancy Day; until May 24 • SUMMER ON 124 STREET: Works by gallery artists and secondary market works; May 30-Aug 27
DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave •
MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440112 St • 780.407.7152 • ENGAGEMENTS: Display of sculptures and photographs by Candace Makowichuk and Ruth Anne French • Until Jul 13
MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51
St • douglasudellgallery.com • OVER ROCKS, UNDER TREES, UP THE STREAM APIECE: Paintings by Graham Fowler • May 24-Jun 14 • Opening: May 24, 2-4pm
St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Memorial Composite High School Art Programme; May 24-Jun 10
THE DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St • drawing-
MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • HANDS ON NATURE: DISCOVER BIODIVERSITY: Until Jun 8
NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave
leries: Daffodil Gallery, Scott Gallery, Bearclaw, Bugera Matheson, Front, West End, Peter Robertson Gallery, SNAP • First Thursday Event: The art galleries will be open late after work, for an informal gathering of culture lovers the First Thu each month, year round • 5-7pm
• 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • INDICATIONS: WEATHER PERMITTING: Photopolymer prints by Sara Norquay. Artisan Nook: SMALLER INDICATIONS: Woodcuts and etchings by Sara Norquay Vertical Space: HAMARTIA, WELCOME TO SWINELAND…: U of A artists • Reception: May 22, 6-9pm • Until Jun 30
ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230
NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS •
Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • LET US REMEMBER THAT WE ARE ALL RELATED: mixed-media works on paper by Carl Beam; until May 24 • KIYAS ASPIN: Works by Alberta artists Jane Ash Poitras, Dale Belcourt, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Edward Harpe, Faye HeavyShield, Alex Janvier, George Littlechild, Ann McLean, Kimowan Metchewais, Ken Swan, Sam Warrior, and Lauren I. Wuttunee; until May 24 • AGA at Enterprise Square Galleries: REGIONS OF DISTINCTION: Works by the Edmonton members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; until Oct 26
and homemade implements , embroidered and woven textiles, folk ceramics, wood work, beaded and metal jewellery, pysanky, traditional toys, art by Ukrainian artists • Until Aug 29 • Admission by donation
Fl, Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • Exhibition 4 works by Erika Shulz • Until Jun 14
in the Middle East by Wafaa Bilal, Harun Farocki, and Mohammad Mohsen, curated by Vicky MoufawadPaul; until Jun 14 • ProjEx Room: OURS: Installation by Jennifer Tellier and Brittney Bear-Hat; until Jun 14
EDMONTON GALLERY WALK • Gallery Walk Gal-
TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Events: WILDLIFE RESCUE: until Sep 1 • K'NEX: THRILL RIDES: until Sep 1
HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112
DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • CHROMATIC REVELRY: Photos and videos by Evann Siebens • Until May 24
roomedmonton.com/events • Work by Suzi Barlow, daily performances in the window of the storefront gallery • Jun 3-8, 12 -1pm
Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • SHIFT: Printworks installation by Heather Huston; until May 31• OUT OF THE ETHER: Printworks series by Joanne Madeley; until May 31
VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •
Main Space: BLOWN UP: Video-game art about war
DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124
SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-
UKRAINIAN MUSEUM OF CANADA–Alberta Branch • 10611-110 Ave • Open Mon-Fri • Artifacts
LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 •
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
780.4399296 • Summer open house • May 31-Jun 1, 11am-5pm
GALLERY WALK • Gallery Walk Galleries: Bearclaw, Bugera Matheson, Daffodil, Douglas Udell, Front, Garage Photographic, Lando, Peter Robertson, Scott, West End • First Thursday Event: Galleries open late for an informal gathering of culture lovers the First Thursday each month, year round St • Main Gallery: JJ Levine, Queer Portraits • Front Room Gallery: Josée Aubin Ouellette • Until May 23 •
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • BMO World of Creativity: CABINETS OF CURIOSITY: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30 • HIGH ADVENTURE: Byron Harmon on the Columbia Icefield; until Aug 17 • LAWREN HARRIS AND A.Y. JACKSON–JASPER/ ROBSON 1924: until Aug 17 • INSTINCTIVE BREAK: Installation by Andrew Frosst; until Jun 8 • STRANGE DREAM: Artworks by Jill Stanton; until Dec 31
Hilary Prince • Until Jun 7
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
AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Writers from a Hat: For amateur writers to share • Jun 2, 7pm BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ • 9624-76 Ave • 780.989.2861 • Story Slam 2nd Wed each month @ the Chair: Share your story, sign-up at 7pm, 7-10pm • $5 (suggested, donations go to winners) CAPITOL THEATRE–FORT EDMONTON • 7000143 St • storyfestalberta.ca • Tristan & Iseult: a tragic tale of love, war and betrayal. Action adventure from the Middle Ages: sex and death at every turn! Love, betrayal, loyalty and treason. Featuring Melanie Ray • May 24, 8-10pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Daravara, 10713124 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner
EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ • 9938 70 Ave • Story Slam– Loose Lips: Competitive storytelling, 5 minute, original, personal stories on the theme Loose Lips. Audience picks the winner • May 23, 7:30pm (slam starts) • $10 cover charge
HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH • 10037-84 Ave • Exporting Alberta, Gala and Readings • May 30, 8pm
KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • Glass Door Coffee
10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • An Improvised Theatre: song, dance, and comedy presented by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri until Jul 26; last show Jul 26
THE BRITISH INVASION • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM, Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Until Jun 15
BROKEBACK MOUNTIE • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton • Romantic melodrama. returning to the gold rush featuring the the McKenzie Brothers. A different show every night presented by the Die-Nasty troupe • May 29-31, 8pm • $20 CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828101A 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 GARE AUX PLUS DE TRENTE • La Cité francophone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury, 91 St • L’UniThéâtre • By Céline Gareau-Brennan and Mélissa Masse • Jun 4-8 THE GENIUS CODE • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • Catalyst Theatre • Written and Directed by Jon Lachlan Stewart • Each individual audience chooses what story to follow in a complex and fierce love triangle. Starring Jamie Cavanagh, Cole Humeny, and Laura Metcalfe, choreography by Ainsley Hillyard • May 22-Jun 8, 8pm • $22/$18 (student/Equity) at TIX on the Square
HAIRSPRAY–THE BROADWAY MUSICAL • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Musical-comedy • It's 1962 in Baltimore. Tracy Turnblad, a big Teenaged girl with big hair and a big heart wants to dance on the popular Corny Collins Show • Until Jun 15 • Tickets at 780.483.4051 HEY LADIES! • Roxy, 10708-124 St • 780.453.2440 • attheroxy.com • Theatre Network • The Roxy Performance Series: Womanly talkshow/gameshow/ varietyshow/sideshow starring Davina Stewart, Cathleen Rootsaert, Leona Brausen • May 23, 8pm • $25 at TIX on the Square THE JAZZ MOTHER! • Varscona Theatre • Teatro La Quindicina presents Stewart Lemoine’s 1930s comedy starring Jocelyn Ahlf, Mat Busby, and Kristi Hansen • May 29-Jun 14, Tue-Sat 7:30pm, Sat 2pm • $16-$30; Tue evening Pay-what you can
MAKE MINE LOVE • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Screwball Comedy • World Premiere by Tom Wood, directed by Bob Baker, starring Rebecca Northan, and John Ullyatt • Until Jun 1 • Tickets start at $35 NEXTFEST 2014 • Various venues on 124 St • theatrenetwork.ca • The Nextfest Arts Company presents 11 days with over 500 artists. Daring theatre, bold dance, audacious music, visual art, and film. The artistic voice of the next generation • Jun 5-15 • Opening event at the 124 Grand Market; Jun 5, 5pm
LA NUIT, LA RAISON DORT • L’UniThéàtre, La 3” wide version
House Reading Series: featuring authors, Eva Blaskovic, Katie Bickell, and Fran Kimmel; music by Olivia Rose • May 29, 7-9pm
NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm
Cité francophone, 8627-91 St • 780.469.8400 • L'UniThéâtre • Four young people meet in the midst of the madness in Athens; each of them fleeing their own humdrum reality in search of adventures, only to be trapped in a nightmare • Jun 5-14, 8pm; Jun 8, 2pm • Tickets avalaible at door, lunitheatre.ca
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
NINO NINA SHOW • Expressionz Café •
SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Up-
THEATRESPORTS • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until June • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square
• Live monthly classic variety show • SO007488780.450.6462 Last Sun each month, 5:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show)
per Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A Monthly Play Reading Series: 1st Sun Each Month With A Different Play By A Different Playwright • Upcoming Readings at SCRIPT SALON: Jun 1 Go West Young Man by Darrin Hagen
THEATRE NETWORK • YouthWrite Fundraiser: Jamie's Got a Gun book launch by local artist Gail Sobat, with musical guests Joy Spring, and Le Fuzz • May 22, 7pm • Donation
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REVUE // TIME TRAVEl
FILM
Learning to stop time
FILM EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM
A frozen frame
La Jetée and 12 Monkeys traverse time through stillness and motion
H
ow do your memories, your visual memories, come to you— as stills or as moving pictures? I have a hunch about this, but I wonder if the answer is generationdependent, photographs no longer holding the monopoly on our access to the past they once did. Still, there's something poignant about the arrested moment, the sense of having stopped time. It's surely one of several reasons why La Jetée (1962), despite being a featurette (it's only 28 minutes long), remains mysterious French filmmaker Chris Marker's most famous movie. Despite being a featurette, yes, and maybe even despite not exactly being a movie. Comprised of still photographs, voice-over narration,
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music and soundscapes, La Jetée cause his fixation on this childhood calls itself a photo-roman. It is image is so acute, so powerful, something between cinema, comic some rather sinister scientists sebooks, photo allect the man for bums, radio draan experiment ma and story- Sat, May 24 (6:30 pm); Sun, Jun 1 in time travel, telling. And it's a (6:30 pm); Wed, Jun 4 (9:30 pm) a way "to call perfect marriage Metro Cinema at the Garneau past and future of form and conto the rescue of tent, this "story the present." of a man marked by an image of his Marker was inspired in part by childhood," an image of someone Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), and the dying on the pier at Orly Airport, homage made explicit by a scene in an image that is actually two im- which the man and a woman, just ages: he also remembers a wom- like Scottie and Madeleine, examan's lovely face. The man is one of a ine the rings in an old tree as a small number of survivors of World way to read time. Like Vertigo, La War III, forced to live underground Jetée is about projection and mordue to poisonous levels of radia- bid nostalgia, about the desire to tion on the planet's surface. Be- fashion the current object of one's
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affection into a copy of someone long-lost—and in both films, the current object of affection and the long-lost love are the same person. The woman is played by Hélène Chatelain, an actress about whom I know little, but whose screen presence, whose captivating ability to transmit thought and emotion in just a handful of still images, is absolutely essential to the haunting power of La Jetée. There is a sequence, which could be memory or dream, in which the man remembers watching the woman sleep, the images of her slumbering head draped in light shadows, dissolving one into the other until that astonishing moment when this photoroman, ever so fleetingly, becomes motion picture.
So this singular little masterpiece of French cinema is a genre film, a work of science fiction—another reason to love it. It could be a Philip K Dick story. And it inevitably became a major influence on subsequent films, most obviously 12 Monkeys (1995), which Metro Cinema will be screening as a doublefeature with La Jetée, and which is essentially a big-budget, star-studded, elaborately designed extrapolation of La Jetée, though there are many, many others. (An eerie coincidence: between watching La Jetée and 12 Monkeys on DVD at home, I went out to a screening of Je t'aime, Je t'aime, Alain Resnais' rarely seen 1968 film, which I bought a ticket to for no other reason than it's being a rarely seen Resnais. I knew absolutely nothing about it. But
my jaw dropped when about 10 minutes in I realized it was about a guy haunted by an event from his past who's selected by a group of scientists for an experiment in time travel! Also, for the record, it is deeply creepy, intermittently baffling, and very, very good.) Maybe coming right off of the narrative elegance and emotional complexity of Chris Marker (and Alain Resnais) spoiled me. Maybe I'll just never completely get the ostensible appeal of Terry Gilliam's trademark cartooniness, his Dutch angles and bulbous long-lens closeups. (This cartooniness strikes me as much more controlled and effective in what's widely accepted as Gilliam's masterpiece, 1985's Brazil.) Maybe, no matter how much I've grudgingly come to admire
his work in recent years, I'll never stop feeling annoyed when Brad Pitt acts "crazy" and surrenders to that fidgety finger flinging he does when he seems to not know what else to do. (And yes, Pitt was nominated for an Oscar for this.) Maybe all of the above and other biases dulled my experience, but 12 Monkeys left me underwhelmed. The film utilizes every essential aspect of La Jetée's story, yet seems to have misplaced that story's soul. That paucity of soul certainly can't be blamed on any lack of woundedness being conveyed by Bruce Willis, in the role that seems to define his battered and bruised, vulnerable macho man persona. (He actually gets pretty hysterical at points.) And it's hardly as though there's any lack of imaginative pro-
duction design: those cavernous, at times seemingly infinite interiors; the frost-encrusted post-apocalyptic surface ruins overrun by wildlife (who apparently aren't affected by radiation?); the subterranean cages in vertical rows that make it look like living in the future will be like being trapped in a mine for your entire life. (Though all of these locations are weirdly over-lit, or just ugly-lit.) Perhaps it's simply that, for all its 129 minutes of impressive spectacle, 12 Monkeys never takes the time to stop time, to suspend us in a single moment-image like the one that marks the man. Perhaps the only way to travel through time is to learn how to be truly still. JOSEF BRAUN
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Million Dollar Arm B
ased on a (basically) true story, the film stars Don Draper—sorry, Jon Hamm—as J B Bernstein, a sports agent trying to make it big with his own company. Facing financial woes, he hatches a get-rich(-relatively)-quick scheme to go to India, stage a TV contest to lure talent, and turn young cricket bowlers into baseball pitchers, thus paving the way for the MLB in India like Yao Ming did for the NBA in China. After a whirlwind tour of the subcontinent, Bernstein finds his recruits and takes them back to the States
Now playing Directed by Craig Gillespie Throw for broke
for training to meet the impossible deadline set by his financial backer. He puts the Indian teens up at his luxurious LA mansion, and they struggle to catch up to his fast-paced lifestyle of quick junk food, late-night parties, and the extreme pressure of the upcoming televised tryout for major league scouts. Along the way, of course, Bernstein’s materialistic heart softens with the help of a “good woman” character played by Lake Bell, whose offhand, grounded demeanour is the bridge that connects the disconnected him to the overwhelmed rural Indian teens. These fish out of water, played excellently by Madhur Mittal and Suraj Sharma, provide the lion’s share of the film’s pulse, even though their characterization definitely takes a backseat. The film definitely suffers from its dialogue, which is sometimes so expository and unnaturally awkward that it displays a certain impatience, if not outright contempt, on the part of the screenwriter for the art of the written word. As long as the plot is moving along at the blurry pace of a montage, everything feels OK; when the narrative slows down for a character study, it gets pretty ham-fisted. The strange thing is that somehow, even though each of the characters is an underdeveloped sketch, and the actors don’t really have much to work with, they nonetheless pull together to deliver a very effective and affecting jigsaw-puzzle ensemble. And even though we’ve maybe seen this film before—a Scrooge narrative nestled in a Cool Runnings setting—this is a deceptively enjoyable and strangely heartwarming story. JAMES CUMING
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REVUE // WESTERN
A mountain of a man in the mountains
Jeremiah Johnson L
oosely based on Vardis Fisher's novel Mountain Man and on the legend of Liver-Eating Johnson— now there's a name for a movie!— Jeremiah Johnson (1972) follows its titular Mexican War veteran as he attempts to forge a life for himself as a so-called mountain man in the wilds of the west. He pries a .50 calibre Hawken from the hands of a corpse named Hatchet Jack, gets survivalist lessons from an elder mountain man named Bear Claw and maintains friendly trade with the local Crow. He seems cut out for living off the nascent grid and looks rather dashing in a giant beard. (He's Robert Redford, sounding only a little awkward speaking the contraction-free dialogue.) But Johnson can't entirely escape civilization and its trappings. Chance saddles him with a mute kid and a devoted Flathead gift-bride who speaks no English. There's a lovely montage of the whole family build-
Tue, May 27 (7 pm) Directed by Sydney Pollack Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally released: 1972
ing a log home. Eventually some asshole US Cavalry show up and compromise Johnson's relations with the Crow and things go way downhill. So this is indeed a western, and like many westerns is a story about a disintegrating way of life, the sort of life that these days is most commonly associated with the Unabomber. Screening as part of the High Altitude Film Series, a partnership between Metro Cinema and the Art Gallery of Alberta, Jeremiah Johnson reflects a sort of post-hippy, Thoreau-infused, back-to-the-land sensibility, offering a narrative that managed to suit politics as different as those of co-scenarist and self-proclaimed right wing extremist John Milius, writer of Apocalypse Now (1979) and director of Conan the Barbarian (1982), and Redford, outspoken liberal, environmentalist, outdoorsman and impresa-
rio—he'd mount one of America's most important film festivals in the very mountains where Johnson seeks solitude and quiet. Directed by Sydney Pollack, the film benefits from an inherently fascinating story. Most characters, the women especially, are crudely drawn, and one might argue this befits a film with one foot in myth, but the fussy score puts more distance between the audience and Johnson's awe for nature and personal tragedies both. If you're going to watch Redford alone against the elements you really need to see All is Lost (2013), a more rigorous and austere film, and easily one of Redford's best performances. But Jeremiah Johnson is an interesting time capsule and fits nicely in with the series' compelling theme. It also has wolf fights! JOSEF BRAUN
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FILM ASPECTRATIO
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The siren's call
An atmospheric mix of love and fear animate Night Tide
Hopper considers his spooky situation
We see lonesome seaman Johnny Drake (Dennis Hopper) on shore leave, in dress whites, smoking on a Venice Beach footbridge, wondering where to go. He loiters in a drug store, checks his weight for something to do, smiles for the photo booth, a handsome young orphan who's done little, been almost nowhere, and wants to know who he is, or is going to be. Later in the bar a jazz band is playing. Johnny doesn't know whether to drink from the bottle or the glass. He sits beside the drummer and from that vantage
point sees a woman all alone. Her name is Mora and she's the mermaid in a sideshow. He wants to talk to her but she wants to hear the music. He manages to walk her to her little apartment over the merry-go-round. She won't invite him up but they make a breakfast date. A peculiar romance has begun and everything feels captivatingly eerie. Mora seems nearly angelic but people warn Johnny off her—her last two boyfriends vanished and turned up dead. Doesn't Johnny know that sirens lure sailors to their doom? Mora confess-
es she believes herself the descendant of sirens. And by about now it becomes clear that Night Tide (1961) is a descendent of Cat People (1942), the first of many atmospheric horror films Val Lewton made for RKO, and a most welcome variation on a rich and wondrous theme. I first saw Night Tide on a dying VHS tape as a Hopper-obsessed teenager. Its recent restoration has been followed up with a DVD/Bluray release from Kino, and the film is actually stronger than I remembered. Hopper's excellent, very early
in his career yet already he's got that strange alertness to the alien in ordinary things. He chews gum like it's a secret project. His Johnny is both credulous and suspicious of everything—except those things he should genuinely fear. "Guess we're all a little afraid of what we love," he says at one point, but the appeal of Johnny is that he doesn't yet know what to love or fear. Night Tide was the debut feature of Curtis Harrington, a fascinating figure. By this point he'd already writ-
ten a book on Josef von Sternberg, been mentored by Maya Deren, collaborated with James Whale and Kenneth Anger, and made numerous experimental shorts and a documentary about the work of artist Marjorie Cameron, who was also an occultist and the wife of Jack Parsons, the rocket engineer and cohort of Aleister Crowley. Cameron inhabits Night Tide's most enigmatic role, one of its most overt call-backs to Cat People, an older spectral woman who appears to Mora, most memorably during a moonlight beach dance, and speaks to her in some language only Mora understands. Even after the film's resolution, Cameron's character remains a mystery, and the scenes in which she features are weird, sexy and beautifully photographed, like so much of this film, a gem of early '60s low-budget spookiness nearly on par with Carnival of Souls (1962). Kino's disc has a relaxed but hugely informative audio commentary from Harrington and Hopper, both now deceased, and some terrific interviews with Harrington, including one from some appealingly oddball old cable show. Those compelled to look deeper into Harrington's life and work can check out the book Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood and a DVD/Blu-ray entitled The Curtis Harrington Short Film Collection, both of which were published last year by the mighty Chicago record label Drag City. V
REVUE // MONSTER
Godzilla T
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he thing about the latest mu- Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), the tation of Godzilla is that it's a son of Cranston's character—who creature-feature B-movie. This is no keeps trying to get back to his lovely surprise to anyone on earth who's wife (Elizabeth Olsen) and little son ever seen one of but just so happens to keep runthe now 32 entries Now playing ning into Godzilla in the giant-green- Directed by Gareth Edwards and his two irradiated-reptile massive mothfranchise, but this Hollywood relike adversaries, boot, for some un-godzilla-y reason, whether he's in Japan or Honolulu or doesn't want to admit it's a creature- Nevada or San Francisco. feature B-movie. So it's got serious actors (Juliette Binoche, Bryan Crans- Director Gareth Edwards (hired ton, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn) because of the wonders he worked seriously trying to make their run- with a $500 000 budget for his dening-down-a-corridor or obsession- but Monsters) likes to cut from this with-a-contaminated-site or gape- tiny human or that wee doggy to a mouthed-stares-at-a-monster very mega-monster rising out of the deep dramatic and believable. It's got one or a smouldering cityscape after it's Japanese actor (Ken Watanabe) giv- been laid waste. (This flick is very, ing many long, shocked stares and very good with smouldering.) And revealing the name of "Godzilla!" to some of his destruction vistas are, in us, presumably to keep the franchise and of themselves, impressive. But from losing its Japanese flavour en- there's no humanness to latch onto tirely. And it's got a father—Ford here; the giant creatures overwhelm
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the puny, emoting flesh-bags, who remain uninteresting and undeveloped anyway—they're like pins set up to be either knocked down, or left teetering, by the behemoth bowling balls that are "MUTOs" (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms). (And Godzilla, at least, is an impressive beastie on-screen here, a prehistoric dragon surrounded by ash, smoke and much smouldering.) Despite its (unintentional or not) riffing off recent actual disasters (Fukushima, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami) and some impressive long shots of its titular titan, Godzilla doesn't do anything with nuclear paranoia, the scientific and military complexes, or those teeny things called human emotions. Sure, this brawling, sprawling, smouldering big-budget beast, RAWR!ing away, busts actual city blocks, but—YAWN—it's just another summer blockbuster. (Shrug.) BRIAN GIBSON
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VUEWEEKLY MAY 22 – MAY 28, 2014
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PREVUE // FOLK
MUSIC
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It's a never-ending journey
t could be called a case of wan- to do. Once she decided to pursue derlust, but several years ago music, Wylie spent two years playDana Wylie experienced an "antsy ing in various bands within Taiwan's feeling" that she needed a change expat music scene and formed the of scenery. This craving led Wylie Dana Wylie Band when she moved to adventures around the globe, of- to London. "So many songwriters spent their ten settling in each place for some time rather than adopting the no- teenage years in their bedroom with their guitar writing songs, but I just madic backpacker lifestyle. "I'd been living in Edmonton for never did until I was 21 or 22," says about six years and working in the- Wylie, whose next endeavour is a atre, and I just reached a point where masters' degree in ethnomusiciology. I sort of knew "When I got to TaiI wanted to be wan, that new perspective and new a musician and Sat, May 24 (8 pm) started hanging With Jay Gilday stimulation was exout with musi- Artery, $12 (advance), $15 (door) actly right for ignitcians and realing that spark." ized, actually, these are my people," recalls Wylie, The move to music ignited not only who is originally from the small rural a creative shift, but a lifestyle one community of Biggar, SK and relocat- as well. Wylie was used to working ed to Edmonton in 1997. "I'm not an with a crew of people to get a proactor in the deepest part of myself. duction off the ground, but she was alone in songwriting. I'm actually a musician." "It's all you and there are temWylie had done well in theatre, including a one-woman Fringe hit plates in the work of other songin 2003 titled Tempo de Java. How- writers, I suppose, but you have to ever, she couldn't ignore the feeling find it in yourself somewhere," she that music was what she was meant says. "I don't know, it's a mysterious
thing that I felt totally driven to do, yet the whole process baffled and terrified me." Wylie didn't let that stop her though, and is ready to release album number four, The Sea the Sky. The album melds elements of traditional folk with the contemporary and sees Wylie recording with her new band for the first time as she continues to develop her songwriting. "I used to write songs about things. You know, you write a song about something that has happened to you or happened to someone else, or there's a particular event that inspires a song," explains Wylie, who's drawn on the influences of Joni Mitchell and, more recently, the work of British and Irish folk musicians from the '60s and '70s. "But I find more and more I'll feel compelled to write a song in a particular moment and the song ends up being about whatever is consuming me at that moment. So every song is about everything—just whatever everything happens to be at the time the song is written." MEAGHAN BAXTER
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PREVUE // ROCK
The Balconies 'I
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almost look back at this record tling metropolis that soon found her now like a tattoo, and you feel caught up with what she describes as like, hey, maybe it's not the thing I'm some "pretty toxic people." "I was working jobs where I was not most proud of but it represents this happy and I really time in my life that struggled. I had made me who I am a few really core, now and I'm still Thu, May 29 (8 pm) good friends who here, I'm a stron- With Head of the Herd I noticed were goger person than I Starlite Room, $15 – $18 ing through very was back then and similar things as I'm really grateful for that," says the Balconies vocalist me and they were struggling with that and guitarist Jacquie Neville of the fast-paced environment that they basically tried to keep up with but realized band's album, Fast Motions. The songs that comprise the viva- they couldn't," she says. "I feel that cious modern-rock-meets-retro disc what Fast Motions became is a mirror (Jacquie's powerhouse vocals land image of that. It's taking the good and somewhere between Pat Benatar and the bad; it's kind of reflecting on my Heart) reflect on the band's tumultu- struggles basically and also what I was ous and uncertain early days in To- witnessing around me." ronto. The original trio—now a fourpiece with the addition of session / Neville, now 26, jokes she's a little touring drummer Steve Molella—of more mature these days and is in a Neville, her brother and bassist much better place than she was five Steve and lead guitarist Liam Jaeger years ago with a solid, positive group relocated from Ottawa to Toronto. of friends behind her. She also manNeville was 21 at the time and recalls ages to keep things in perspective the "small fish in a big pond" feeling when it comes to the band's music along with the whirlwind of the bus- and moving forward with its burgeon-
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ing popularity, noting that in today's technology-saturated society it can be easy to start comparing yourself to everyone on social media. "I think it's important for any artist—even if you're not a musician— to take that step back and just focus on yourself and just have respect for those other artists who are doing their own thing, because everyone's doing their own thing," she says. "Not say, 'How can I be better than so and so?' How can I be better than myself, right? And I think that's the healthiest way to go about it— know what your strengths are and know what your weaknesses are. If you know what your weaknesses are you can either improve on that or you can rely on other people to make up for that. That's why I really love being in a band, because I feel like what I lack as a musician or as a performer or as a recording artist, my colleagues, so Steve and Liam and other Steve, they make up for what I lack and vice versa." MEAGHAN BAXTER
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PREVUE // CARIBBEAN
2islandgirls T
he validity of their biological ties is quite often met with skepticism, but the DaSilva sisters are in fact related. The pair's outward appearance is the complete opposite of one another—Kay is the more subdued "girly" one while Kathy is the outspoken "farm girl." But these opposite personas come together rather harmoniously when it comes to music. The DaSilvas, who go by 2islandgirls, have lived in Edmonton for nearly 30 years, but were born in Barbados, a culture firmly embedded into their musical style, an eclectic blend of funky reggae, calypso, soca beats, guitar and electronic dance melodies. Kay and Kathy have been singing together since childhood, but did not release their first album as a duo until 2009, leaving behind their day jobs— Kathy was a teacher for 23 years and Kay worked in various industries such as oil and gas—to focus on music. The move has led 2islandgirls to a new album—appropriately titled Never Too Late—with a portion of proceeds from the release show going to WIN House in honour of Kay's friend Misty Franklin, who passed away in January. "When you're our age, I guess, you either go whole hog or you don't go at all," says Kathy from across the table at a downtown coffee shop, Kay nodding in agreement. "Most people have another album ready to go within a year, year and a half, two years, but with us we have other things on the go as well and sometimes life happens and it gets busy, there's no question about it. I can tell you we're more focused than we've ever been before." Part of that focus is producing music that is genuine and uplifting. Even if you happen to come across a breakup song, for example, on a 2islandgirls album, it will often be accompanied by a dance beat and present a strong sense of optimism. "The point of our whole project is we want to bring happiness and joy to people," Kathy adds. "We spend too much time slogging in pain for things, and we really want to encourage more thriving and playing." Of course, the upbeat Caribbean melodies help set the mood, too. "Most of the Caribbean content is about our island of Barbados, so a lot of people in Canada sometimes don't even know what we're singing about," says Kay with a laugh. "And they get up and dance because it's something so different. There's not many Caribbean bands that play in Edmonton." But the optimistic and lighthearted ethos of 2islandgirls is not going to be confined to music. The pair are working on a book called It's Never Too Late to Pursue Your Dreams and Do What You Love to Do, set to be released this fall, as well as seminars to help those who are feeling stuck in their everyday lives. "There is a need out there in Ed-
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monton for personal development, for people who have been in careers for five, 10 years and they're feeling a bit stuck and want to do something a little bit different," says Kathy, noting Kay's mentorship skills and her own experience doing these types of sessions at Norquest College with her fellow educators. "I know I made a radical change, as in quitting, but I've said to many of my colleagues, you don't have to make it that radical. You could go half time and do something else you really love ... or just find a way of building more leisure and passion and purpose in your lives."
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Secret Broadcast
Sun, May 25 (8 pm) With Go For the Eyes Wunderbar
VW: The songs are very personal. Was it difficult to write that way? What did you want to share with these lyrics? ML: I've always been drawn to singer-songwriters like Elliott Smith who put it all out there. You can tell he's putting his soul into the songs and he's not afraid to share his deepest, darkest secrets. I think it's important as an artist to be as honest as possible, or else the music starts to sound contrived. I'm finally at a point as a writer where I just don't give a crap. I'd rather create music that represents who I am as a person, and I'm fine if not everyone gets it.
Bringing back good old rock 'n' roll
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att Lightstone and Keith Heppler are the driving forces behind Secret Broadcast, a duo determined to bring back a sense of honesty and creativity they feel is missing from rock 'n' roll. You can decide for yourself if they've succeeded with Filthy Souls, the duo's latest album. Prior to Secret Broadcast's show in Edmonton, Lightstone answered some questions for Vue about the band and Filthy Souls. VUE WEEKLY: You said you're here to rescue rock 'n' roll. What do you think has caused the shortage of guitar-driven, melodic rock bands? MATT LIGHTSTONE: There is definitely a shortage of rock bands in the mainstream these days. Much like the pop music that has become a staple on radio, I believe a lot of rock bands have begun to write formulaic songs that really don't capture the energy and angst that made rock music such a powerful force. There are still some great rock bands making music, but I don't think enough of them are writing outside of the box and putting their soul into their songs to justify a resurgence in the genre.
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VW: What's the story behind the album/song title "Filthy Souls?" and what made that seem like the right fit for the album? ML: It's a gritty rock anthem and it just seemed to represent the mood and feel of the record really well. The lyrics are about marching to the beat or your own drum and owning and celebrating your flaws. VW: You worked with Grammy Award-winning producer Adam Kasper. What drew you to him and what was he able to bring to the process? ML: Adam has produced some of our favourite bands like Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age and Soundgarden, and those albums sound amazing. He's a master at capturing a big rock sound without it sounding overproduced, and we wanted to make a rock record. It really worked out well because we had a similar vision for how these songs should sound. He also encouraged us to record the songs live and we ended up tracking most of the basic tracks off the floor in a few takes. It was an incredible experience and we couldn't be happier with the results. MEAGHAN BAXTER
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Caity Fisher The Final Frontier (Independent)
Edmonton's Caity Fisher has unleashed a subdued album of fuzzy Canadiana with The Final Frontier, her follow-up to 2010's Only the Wind. Mastered by fellow Edmontonian Renny Wilson,
droning guitar riffs 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 due 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.
Tokyo Police Club Forcefield (Dine Alone)
Fisher's evocative lyrics and subdued songwriting—plus the slow-rolling guitar from Phil Holtby, backed-up by Jenni Roberts' bass and Jim Cuming on drums—add texture to an otherwise standard rock album. "I Do What I Want" builds slowly, Fisher's vocals providing a dreamy texture to the track. "The Final Frontier" rollicks, with Fisher's voice entwining in Holtby's electric guitar in a song about losing one's identity. "Some things are beautiful/like headbangers in slo-mo" sings Fisher, her voice low on the simmering "Some Things." The Final Frontier is one of those things, a strong and steady album perfect for late summer nights.
With a throughline of upbeat pop, Tokyo Police Club explores a vast array of post-punk motifs. "Argentina" is an epic explosion that is, in fact, two very distinct songs, and you'll likely find yourself saying, "YES! YES! YES!" at more than one point in either of them. The guitar fades in and out, letting the rhythm thrive as wind-surfing keys ride over rumbling drum waves. "Miserable" has guitar jabs that punch through the ethereal keys before pounding you into a grin of submission with a killer breakdown. And, just as you decide you've got this band figured out, "Gonna Be Ready" steps in like At The Drive-In playing a Sunday matinee. Each song carries on in this way, with stylistic changes slight enough to make it consistent and interesting. Eventually you find yourself swept up, singing along to songs you barely know. At just over 30 minutes it is perfect album length: long enough to present a concrete impression of sound, yet it leaves you wanting just one or two more. Forcefield isn't any place/any time great, but for those times when you want to rock out with a smile on your face, it'll certainly protect you.
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Live Music every Thu; this week: Jessica Marsh; 9pm ARTERY KMA (folk rock), Wafer Thin Mints, Amber Suchy, Left as Objects; 7:30pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Fred
Larose singer-songwriter's Circle: hosted by Lionel Rault; every Thu, 7:30-10pm BLUES ON WHYTE Russell
Jackson BOHEMIA Acoustic show: Kyle
Greenham, guests BRITTANY'S Michael Chenoweth (acoustic tribute to the greatest folk-blues singer-songwriters of the twentieth century); every Thu, 8-11pm; $8
MUTTART HALL–Alberta College Midday Music at Muttart
Hall: Free, noon concert, featuring Candace Chu, Karen McNaughton (piano), Jacob Ridgway (clarinet); 12-1pm; free
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl: Throwback Thu:
Duo (violin duo); 7:30-9pm; all ages; donation LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Grave
New World; 9pm-1am MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CENTRE Calvin Vollrath (fiddle);
O'MAILLE'S Ain't No Rodeo;
"B" STREET BAR Rockin' Big Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm
no cover
Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone slide; Wooftop: Dig It! Thursdays. Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests
ON THE ROCKS Rock ‘N’ Hops Kitchen Party: Chronic Rock with DJs
CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close
(pop rock), Living With Lions, Radio for Help; 8pm; $15 (adv)
OVERTIME Sherwood Park
Dueling Pianos with Jesse Peters and Shane Young; 9pm2am; no cover PAWN SHOP Ten Second Epic
BLUE CHAIR Afternoon show:
SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Rob
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
Thursdays w/ Sammy Slaughter; 7pm; Black Pussy, Gypsyhawk, guests; 7pm; $12
LEVEL 2 Funk Bunker
Doug Stroud
Thursdays
CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu;
every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow
SIDELINERS PUB Marshall Lawrence Band; 9pm; no cover
ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks:
OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild
Life Thursdays UNION HALL 3 Four All
CHA ISLAND Bring Your Own
Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous
Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pmlate; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm
FRI MAY 23 APEX CASINO Catalyst; 9pm
STARLITE ROOM Hip Hop
Appreciation Week 4 element kickoff: DJ Doowop, Moka Only, Que Rock, Aja Louden; 9pm; $20 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION
Anavrin, Medical Pilot, Abigail's Cross, the Able Kind, M/C J-Reds TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music
every Fri YARDBIRD SUITE Curtis Nowosad Quartet (fr Winnipeg); 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest)
cover
ARTERY Fundead 2.0: The Brains 2.0 fundraiser: Featuring Brains! the Zombie Musical Theater, with Tanyss Nixi, Rigor Productions and guests; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$15 (door)/$10 (door, undead)
EXPRESSIONZ Open Stage
ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL
hosted by Dr Oxide; 1st Thu each month, 7:30pm10:30pm
BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES
Opus@12 Chamber Concert Society presents Gabriel's Oboe; 12-1pm; free
Man, MSA
Wyddershynns
Classical LA CITÉ FRANCOPHONE
Dave Babcock and the Nightkeepers; 9pm (music);$10 cover
DJs
BLUE CHAIR The Willows
Friday DJs on all three levels
J R BAR Live Jam Thu; 9pm
and the Gentlemen Collars; 8:30pm; $15
JEFFREY'S Josh Williams
BLUES ON WHYTE Russell
THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri
FILTHY MCNASTY The Veer Union, Righteous, Blacklite District, Black Oxygen, Syndrome of Fire
(R'n'B pop singer-songwriter); 8pm; $10
Jackson
KELLY'S Jameoke Night with
the Nervous Flirts (sing-along with a live band); every Thu, 9pm-1am; no cover
Friends of Foes, Magic in the Kill, Babe Lloyd and Personal Beef; 9pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door)
L.B.'S Thu open stage: the
BOURBON ROOM Dueling
New Big Time with Rocko Vaugeois, friends; 8-12 LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Every
BOHEMIA Kill City Kids (alt),
pianos every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm
Thu Jam hosted by Lorne Burnstick; 8pm-12am
BRITTANY'S Jazz evening every Fri after work; 5-8pm
NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open
BRIXX Lana Lenore and Co;
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every
CHICAGO JOES Colossal Flows:
Live Hip Hop and open mic every Fri with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, guests; 8:30pm-2am; no cover THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh DRUID DJ every Fri; 9pm
stage; 8pm; all ages (15+)
9pm; no minors; $10
NORTH GLENORA HALL
CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK All
Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111
Access
Grove DJ every Fri
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live
FLUID R&B, hip hop and
PAWN SHOP Ten Second Epic (pop rock), Greater Than Giants, the Fuzz Kings; 8pm; $15 (adv)
music every Fri; This week: Between Brothers; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Dueling
pianos at 8pm
Pianos (variety by request); 9pm
RICHARD'S PUB Blue
CASINO YELLOWHEAD All
RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling
Thursdays (roots); hosted by Gord Matthews; 6:30-9pm
the Rage (rock); 9pm
RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm
CENTURY CASINO Bill Anderson;
SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Rob
of the Dog: Daisy Blue (Groff) (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover
ROSE AND CROWN Stu Bendall
Grove DJ every Thu
7pm; no cover
EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain Open Jam Nights; no
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair
ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce
KRUSH ULTRA Open stage;
DV8 Without Mercy, Illusive
Wam Bam Thank you Jam: free chilli hosted by Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens; every Sat, 2-6pm; Evening: Dave Babcock and the Nightkeepers; 9pm (music);$10 cover
BLIND PIG Live jam every Sat;
Joanne Janzen
DUGGAN'S The Derina Harvey
BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES
Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A
Band
Wyddershynns
RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am
THE COMMON The Common
Taylor
CARROT Thu Open Mic: All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm
ARTERY Dana Wylie (The Sea and the Sky CD release), Dana Wylie (folk jazz), Jay Gilday; 8pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door) ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL
FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking
7pm; This week: Taylar Paige and Erin Muclair; 7pm
APEX CASINO Catalyst; 9pm
$40 (Fri) at 780.939.7888, TIX on the Square
Back Thursdays
BRIXX Trash N Thrash
SAT MAY 24
$49.95 DUGGAN'S The Derina Harvey
Taylor
Band
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A
DV8 CUYA's Edmonton Zine Fair
Joanne Janzen
FILTHY MCNASTY HairSpray
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
Doug Stroud
Heroes ('80s cover band); 8pm; no cover
SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues
J+H Every Friday: Headwind
ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce
dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri MERCER TAVERN Homegrown Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture
3-7pm World Music Brunch: D'cana and friends;1-3pm; donations; Evening: Blind Dog Blues Band; 8:30pm; $10 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Russell Jackson BOHEMIA DARQ: Edmonton's
best weekly industrial/metal/ electro/goth/ebm/futurepop explosion; hosted by DJs the Gothfather and Zeio; no minors; $5 (after 9pm)
presents: Head Bangerz; 8pm; $10
7pm; $2 CASINO YELLOWHEAD All the
Rage (rock); 9pm CENTURY CASINO Bill Anderson;
$49.95 DV8 The Mange, A War Within,
the Blame It's DUGGAN'S The Derina Harvey
Band FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts: this week: Justine Vandergrift Band, Railtown Park; 4pm; no cover; Evening: Jackie Muzzy, 8pm GAS PUMP Saturday
Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HELLENIC CANADIAN COMMUNITY HALL 2 Islandgirls,
Kay and Kathy DaSilva (CD launch); 9pm; $25 (incl copy of CD, Bajan food) at TIX on the Square HILLTOP Open Stage, Jam
every Sat; 3:30-7pm JEFFREY'S Paul Woida (looper,
and muliti instrumentalist); 9pm; $10 L.B.'S The Last Calls LEAF BAR Open Stage Sat–It 's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm; Evening: Sophie and the Shufflehounds; 9pm; no cover LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Tomas
with Nick Samoil and guests
Beware the Neverending, Of Concepts, Kings, Tyrant, Pillars of Gravity, From the Seize, Run after Dark; 6pm YARDBIRD SUITE Johanna
Sillanpaa (from Calgary); 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $16 (member)/$20 (guest)
Classical CONVOCATION HALL Vocal Arts Festival: Vocal Gems Concert; 7:30pm; $24/$26 atoperanuova.ca, door HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN
WINSPEAR CENTRE Edmonton Symphony, Aranjuez on the Harp, Courtney Lewis (conductor), Xavier de Maistre (harp); Symphony Prelude: Upper Circle lobby: informative presentation about the program at 7:15pm; 8pm (concert); $24-$79 at Winspear
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 DRUID DJ every Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten FLUID R&B, hip hop and
dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat LEVEL 2 Collective Saturdays
underground: House and Techno MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey
Wong every Sat
3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm
RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop,
and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests
Classical
Lane Revival
ON THE ROCKS Chronic Rock
Dueling Pianos with Jesse Peters and Shane Young; 9pm2am; no cover PAWN SHOP Ten Second Epic (farewell show), The Red Threat, Worst Days Down; 8pm; $15 (adv)
MOKA ONLY & DJ DOOWAP W/ GUESTS
UBK AND TIMBRE CONCERTS PRESENTS
BONOBO DJ SET
CUT COPY THE UNION PRESENTS
HEAD OF THE HERD W/ GUESTS
TUPELO HONEY
W/ SPECIAL GUESTS THE UNFORTUNATES (CD RELEASE), DEATH BY ROBOT & KING’S FOIL
THE UNION PRESENTS
THE JEZEBELS
TOOTH BLACKNER PRESENTS
CHAD VAN GAALEN W/ VIET CONG - TIX ONSALE APR 4 THE UNION PRESENTS
JONATHAN RICHMAN
PURE PRIDE JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
TIMBER TIMBRE
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GIRL: PRIDE 2014 THE UNION PRESENTS
BLITZEN TRAPPER
W/ GUESTS
AARON CARTER NIGHT VISION PRESENTS
DUSKY
UBK & NIGHT VISION PRESENT
CASHMERE CAT MRG CONCERTS PRESENTS
MAC DEMARCO UH HUH HER SHARON VAN ETTEN
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THE UNION PRESENTS
W/ GUESTS
THE UNION PRESENTS
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BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main
O'MAILLE'S Ain't No Rodeo;
no cover
MAY/23 MAY/24 MAY/27 MAY/29 MAY/30 MAY/31 JUN/4 JUN/6 JUN/7 JUN/12 JUN/13 JUN/18 JUN/19 JUN/21 JUN/22 JUN/27 JUN/28 JUL/9
DJs
O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat,
$40 (Sat, CD release party) at 780.939.7888, TIX on the Square
UNION HALL Ladies Night
LATITUDE 53 Cheung Veeze
STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION
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
MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CENTRE Calvin Vollrath (fiddle);
JEFFREY'S Good Nature;
Fridays
with Timbre & MRG Concerts present: Bonobo (DJ set); 8pm; no minors; $25-$30
Spring Sparkle: Festival City Winds; 7:30pm; $10 at door
stage with Micheal Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am
every Fri
STARLITE ROOM Night Vision
ROBERT TEGLER CENTRE
OVERTIME Sherwood Park
Y AFTERHOURS Foundation
Doug Stroud
Access
SUITE 69 Release Your Inner
9pm; $10
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
CARROT Sat Open mic;
and friends (vintage rock 'n' roll); 9:30pm; no minors, no cover
L.B.'S Aaron Jake Goodvin, Fast
Joanne Janzen
CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK All
with DJs
TAVERN ON WHYTE Open
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A
Whitney Sloan (soprano), Emily Grieve (piano); tickets at TIX on the Square
LEGENDS Jam and open mic
Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri
SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Rob
Taylor
MUTTART HALL–Alberta College
Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)
every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm
ROSE AND CROWN Stu Bendall
BRIXX World Beat Battle
rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri
SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE
RICHARD'S PUB The Terry Evans Sat Jam (rock): every Sat; 4-8pm
every Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm
RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie,
House and Electro with Peep This, Tyler Collns, Peep'n ToM, Dusty Grooves, Nudii and Bill, and specials
RENDEZVOUS PUB Netherward, Vile Insignia, KryoSpherE, Burning Effigy; 8pm
CHURCH Primavera: i Coristi Chamber Choir, Megan Crane (piano); 7:30pm; $18 (adult)/$13 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square
BOURBON ROOM Live Music
Marsh; 9pm-1am
SET NIGHTCLUB NEW Fridays:
RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am
MAY/22 MAY/23 MAY/24 MAY/28 MAY/30 MAY/31 JUN/1 JUN/3
TRASH N THRASH THURSDAYS PRESENTS
BLACK PUSSY, GYPSYHAWK & GUESTS
EAST PACIFIC RIM W/ ATTACKED BY RAPTORS HEADBANGERZ FEAT SPIRAL TIDE, OSYRON, HOUSE OF PINES THE UNION PRESENTS
S. CAREY
W/ GUESTS
THE MIGHTY STEEDS LOS CALAVARES TRACE THE SKY
& GUESTS
BRIXX PRESENTS EACH TUESDAY OF JUNE
MY SISTER OCEAN PLAYING SILVERWAVE EP & NUCULARBOY
JUN/6 BLACKSTONE JUN/10 MY SISTER OCEAN
W/ GUESTS
PLAYING INDOCTRINATION EP & THE AUTOGRAPH EP
HOLLOW CD RELEASE JUN/13 HUNGRY W/ A HUNDRED YEARS, REND AND UPSIDEDOWNTOWN
ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SET NIGHTCLUB SET Saturday Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE
Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M
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SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing
singer-songwriter night: hosted by Sean Stephens; 8pm
hosted by Rockin' Randy every Tue, 7-11pm
Country Showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky
JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Charley Pride with the Pridesmen; 7pm; $76.90-$81.90 at TicketMaster
MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests
RAINMAKER RODEO–St Albert
MERCURY ROOM Music Magic
old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests
The Trews, State of Shock, Tupelo Honey, and the Bear Band
TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am
Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4
Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Jimmy Arthur Ordge (country)
Big Band
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,
UNION HALL Celebrity
Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release
Saturdays
SUN MAY 25 ARTERY Afternoon: The Artery's High Noon Brunch: featuring Edmonton musicians; all ages; $11 (adv); Evening: Megan Keirstead (folk, CD release), Erin Kay, Sam the Living; 6:30pm; $8 (adv)/$10 (door) BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose
The Bailey's Buckaroos Classic Country Extravaganza; 1pm (door), 2pm (show); $12 at Bailey BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun
Electric Blues Jam and BBQ hosted by Marshall Lawrence and the Lazy Bastards; 4-8pm BLACKJACK'S–Nisku Open mic
every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIRSunday Brunch:
Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am3pm; donations BLUES ON WHYTE Russell
Jackson CHA ISLAND Open mic with
March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm DIVERSION Sun Night Live on
the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm DUGGAN'S Celtic Music with
Duggan's House Band 5-8pm HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Every
Sun Jam hosted by Steve and Bob; 6-10pm MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CENTRE Calvin Vollrath (fiddle); $30 (Sun afternoon show), 780.939.7888, TIX on the Square NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday
Morris and Brittany Grabill RICHARD'S PUB Sunday
YARDBIRD SUITE Littlebirds
Classical ALL SAINTS’ ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL Celebrating 10
Years Of Joyful Noise: Joy Berg, Trent Worthington (conductors); with soloists Anna Beaumont, Amber Krawiec, Nola Shantz, instrumentalists; 7:30pm; $10 at TIX on the Square FINE ARTS BLDG–ROOM 1-29
Master Class with Marianne Bindig and Laura Loewen; 7pm; $14/$16 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Duo Majoya, Marnie Giesbrecht and Joachim Segger; 4-5:30pm; donation, proceed to "save the windows) HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Beyond Benediction:
Organ Recital with Cari Astleford; 2pm MUTTART HALL–Alberta College Connections Concert
Series: Sundays at 2pm May 25, July 6 OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
Spring in the Air: Edmonton Philharmonic Orchestra featuring Gabrielle Despres (violin solo); 2-4pm; $10; free for child 12 and under at door ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH WindRose Trio; 2pm;
$20/$15 at TIX on the Square, door; Evening: Vocal Ensemble (chamber choir); 7:30pm; chronosvocalensemble.com, 780.237.7984
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic
voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 Stylus Industry
Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am
Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun
MON MAY 26
O’BYRNE’S Open mic every
Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover
NEW WEST HOTEL Jimmy
Arthur Ordge (country) 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 RAINMAKER RODEO–St Albert
Dean Brody, Chad Brownlee, Beverly Mahood, Katie Mission, and Orchard REXALL PLACE Lady Gaga’s
NEW WEST HOTEL Tue
O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every
Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm OVERTIME–Sherwood Park
Open mic every Tue; 9pm2am; 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 RICHARD'S PUB Tue Live Music Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm
ArtRave: The Artpop Ball, Lady Starlight; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $85; Reserved seating: $35, $49.50, $85, $200 at livenation.com
SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT
ROUGE Open Mic Night with
Session: Lindsay Woolgar Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5
Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm WUNDERBAR Clean Up Your Act
Productions: The Great Sabatini (metal, rock), Heretic Oath; 89pm; $8 (adv)/$10 (door) YARDBIRD SUITE Littlebirds
Big Band
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 TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am
TUE MAY 27 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Big
Dreamer Sound open jam with guest, hosted by Harry Gregg and Geoff Hamden-O'brien; every Tue 8pm-12am (every jammer is entered into a draw for a day of free recording at Big Dreamer Sound Music Studio) BLUES ON WHYTE Boogie Patrol DRUID Open Stage Tue; 9pm DV8 Band Jam L.B.'S Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm
Mike Letto SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
Andrew Scott YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday
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 MAY 28 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open
stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 ARTERY Late Bloomer, Heaven and the Ghosts (folk rock); 7:30pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES
once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm BLUES ON WHYTE Boogie Patrol BRITTANY'S 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 NEW WEST HOTEL Jimmy
Arthur Ordge (country) OVERTIME–Sherwood Park
Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam
presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT
Mike Letto SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A
Stu Bendall SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
Andrew Scott ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays:
Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover
Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE Edmonton Symphony, Masterpieces for Guitar: Jeanette Sorrell (conductor, harpsichord), Jason Vieaux (guitar); 7:30pm; $24$69 at Winspear
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
LEAF BAR Tue Open Jam:
New Music Wed: Featured band hosted by Lochlin Cross and Leigh Friesen (open stage) after the bands set
BLUES ON WHYTE Boogie Patrol
Trevor Mullen
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Mon
LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Jam
Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music
ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE
CASINO EDMONTON 7055
FLUID 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700
NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St,
ROSEBOWL/ROUGE 10111-117
8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave
780.490.1999
St, 780.482.5253
CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-
Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS The Nightkeepers with guests Jeff
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every
Wed
VENUEGUIDE ALL SAINTS’ ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL 10035-103 St ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118
Ave, 780.477.2149 "B" STREET 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES
12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S–Nisku
2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLIND PIG 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX 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 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580
26 MUSIC
Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467
NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111
ROSE AND CROWN 10235-
Ave
101 St
NOORISH 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-
SET NIGHTCLUB Next to
11113-113 St
HELLENIC CANADIAN COMMUNITY HALL 10450-116 St HILLTOP 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN Yellow Head Tr,
CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort
142 St
109A Ave
Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHICAGO JOES 9604 -111 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DIVERSION 3414 Gateway Blvd, 780.435.1922 DUGGAN'S 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd
HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126
O2'S–West 11066-156 St,
153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE
EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain,
St, 780.453.2249 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 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 KELLY'S 10156-104 St L.B.’S 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LA CITÉ FRANCOPHONE
8627-91 St,
780.963.5998
LATITUDE 53 10242-106 St LEAF BAR 9016-132 Ave,
ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce
LEGENDS 9221-34 Ave,
Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-
170 St EXPRESSIONZ 9938-70 Ave,
780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
10025-105 St
VUEWEEKLY MAY 22 – MAY 28, 2014
780.757.2121 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 11607 Jasper Ave,
2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-
104 St LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG 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, Main Fl NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730
780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
8426 Gateway Blvd O'MAILLES 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 ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Church 10209-123 St ROBERT TEGLER CENTRE
Concordia University College, 7128 Ada Blvd ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower School, 10135-96 Ave RED PIANO 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
Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca SIDELINERS 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124
St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE
12923-97 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
CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •
780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm • Brian Posehn; May 23-24; $30 • Kevin Stobo; May 30-31 • Laugh out Proud with Ted Morris; Jun 5; $16 • Rachel Feinstein; Aug 22-23; $20
COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertain-
followed by a walk in the nearby cemetery • May 25, 3-5pm • Free; sign-up at 780.998.9898
EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Monthly roundtable discussion group. Topics change each month, please check the website for details, edmontonatheists.ca • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •
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
EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani
Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5
FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican
Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm
ment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Tom Liske; May 22-24 • Kevin McGrath; May 29-31 • Bob Angeli; Jun 6-7 • Chris Heward; Jun 20-21
LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu
COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM •
MARCH AGAINST MONSANTO • End of
DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave •
MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.org/en • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register
780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Dan Cummins; until May 25 • Bob Marley; May 29-Jun 1 • Adam Hunter; Jun 4-8 • Mike Brody; Jun 11-15 • Yannis Pappas; Jun 19-22 • Matt Sadler; Jun 25-29 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm
EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/CONNIE'S COMEDY • Komedy Krush • Comedy
following a Capital City Singles "Name that Tune" with Sean Lecomber • May 22, 9pm
OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free RIVER CREE RESORT • The Venue • Don
Burnstick • May 31, 6pm (door), 8pm (show) • $24.50
ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm YELLOWHEAD BREWERY • 10229-105 St • Craft Brewed Comedy: Starring from NYC MIke Dambra • May 30, 8:30-11pm • $10 (door)
GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS
AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.
org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@ edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free
ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes
Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pmmidnight • $15
BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT
GROUP • Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) •
Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB
DEATH CAFÉ–Fort Saskatchewan • Fort Saskatchewan • Hosted by First Memorial Riverview Chapel, facilitated by Rayne Johnson; coffee, cake and conversation,
Steel Park, 87 Ave, 103 St • 780.995.9234 • No to GM • May 24, 12 noon
NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community
Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca. ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
NORTH WEST VOYAGEURS CANOE AND KAYAK CLUB • Rundle Park Family
Centre • Open house: Learn about paddling opportunities around Edmonton and beyond. Meet club members and find out how easy it is to participate with enthusiastic paddlers. All skill levels from beginner to expert welcome. Light refreshments at no cost!! For more information contact Lisa at: lisa. derksen@gmail.com • May 28, 7.30pm
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)
TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)
• Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519
TOASTMASTERS
• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:
2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • 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 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
WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall,
7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com
WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515
Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors. ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm
WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old
Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS
CULTURAL CAFÉ • St. Albert Curling Club,
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 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
3 Tache St • 780.459.1692 • stalbert.ca/ cultural-cafe • Panel discussion on creating and presenting Theatre for Young Audiences, with Marty Chan, Emil Sher, Compagnie les Voisins, and Lenard Stanga, hosted by Tracy Carroll • May 29, 4pm (door) • Free
DR. OZ COMES TO EDMONTON • Rexall Place • Fort Edmonton fundraiser for the building of the Windsor/Albion commercial building • Jun 5 • Tickets start at $79; proceeds after costs to developing of this project 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
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)
TEDXEDMONTON 2014 • Royal Alberta
SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Car-
• Art Gallery of Alberta • A discussion on politics, leadership and culture in Alberta and beyond • May 23, 7-10pm • $10; proceeds to support Leadership Edmonton
rot, 9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm
Meet at: Tim Horton's Donut Shop (look for the black hat), 12996-50 St • Driving to the Green House where there will be over 3000 plants for sale, cuttings from banana, pineapple, ornamental olive and cotton trees • May 25, 5pm • Preregister at 780.463.1626 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 the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry
SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com •
TRANSCENDING PARTISAN POLITICS
QUEER
SOUTH EDMONTON GARDENING VEGETARIAN AND VEGAN GROUP •
SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar
Museum Theatre, 12845-102 Ave • For Certain: Uncertainty: Denis Lamoureaux, John Nychka, Suzanne West, Courtney Kirschbaum • Jun 14 • Sold out
AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer •
Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month
BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu 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
EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton,
10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc. webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome
EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash
G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION
• teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@ teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@ teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub. ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@ teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca
G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: 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 INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-
based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca
LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408124 St • edmlivingpositive.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 MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu OUTLOUD–LGBT YOUTH GROUP • St Paul's United Church, 11526-76 Ave • Group for LGBT teens from religious backgrounds • Meet the 1st and 3rd Wed ea month, 7-9pm • Until Jun 18 • Free 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 femaleidentified 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/
VUEWEEKLY MAY 22 – MAY 28, 2014
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 • 1152676 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 7pm1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm
SPECIAL EVENTS
BIKE DAY! • Earth's General Store (parking lot), 9605-82 Ave • Bring your bike, volunteers from EBC will do a tune • May 25, 11am-4pm • Donations CLARA’S BIG RIDE • Mill Woods Rec
Centre, 7207-28 Ave • Welcoming Olympian Clara Hughes to Edmonton • Jun 1, 2-4:30pm • Free
'DEATH CAFÉ' IN FORT SASKATCHEWAN • First Memorial Riverview Chapel,
11090-86 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • Facilitated by Rayne Johnson (lorainej@shaw.ca), sign up at 780.998.9898 • Sun, May 25, 3-5pm • Free
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)
A FUN NIGHT OF COMMUNITY • Yellowhead Brewery • Exhibition of photos celebrating and sharing the things you love about this great city. Music by Bardic Form, Giselle Boehm, and the Fight, featuring speakers Todd Babiak, John Mahon, Leroy Schulz • May 22 • All profits to profits are going to YESS HOST EDMONTON CONFERENCE •
Shaw Conference Centre • Challenge the conventions of food, drink and hospitality. Parties and tastings, hospitality experts and chefs will share tips, tricks, and dishes: Go Back to Basics with Kevin Kossowan, Farm to Fork & Soil to Service by Marc Murphy; Wine and Food Pairing with Mary Bailey • May 22-24 • Tickets start at $35 at hostedmonton.com
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL • Arden Theatre, and other venues
downtown, St Albert • May 27-31 • Tickets at TicketMaster
MINCA • Windsor Park Hall, 11840-87 Ave • minkhasweaters.com • Women's knitting cooperative (Bolivia) hand knit shawls, hats, vests, children’s and adult sweaters, scarves; pima cotton and alpaca • Jun 14, 9am-3pm • All proceeds to knitters OLIVER COMMUNITY FESTIVAL •
Christ Church Anglican, Robertson-Wesley United, Oliver Community League and the 124 Street Business Association. present this community event • Jun 7, 10-3pm
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Wilfrid Laurier Park • walktofightarthritis.ca • Fundraiser for arthritis presented by the Running Room, 1km and 5km routes • Jun 8, Registration: 9am Walk: 10am
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Network, Live at the Roxy, 10708-124 St • Join YouthWrite for a night of readings, live music, and an auction. Help Gail Sidonie Sobat and Spyder Yardley-Jones launch their graphic novel Jamie’s Got a Gun. 10% of book sales donated to YouthWrite, courtesy of Audrey’s Books • May 22, 7am-11:30pm • Donation
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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.
THE LOFT ART GALLERY AND GIFT SHOP May 3 to June 29, 2014 Saturdays and Sundays 12 to 4 pm, at the A. J. Ottewell Arts Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park. Featuring artwork and unique gifts made by the artists of the Art Society of Strathcona County Phone 780 449 4443 for information. www.artstrathcona.com
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EPL Free Courses: Edmonton AB Check out the Free Online Interactive Instructor Led Courses offered through the Edmonton Public Library. Some of the courses for visual artists would include: Creating WordPress Websites, Secrets of Better Photography Beginning Writer’s Workshop many more… For a list of Free Courses visit: https://www.epl.ca/learn4life For information and instruction on how to get started https://www.epl.ca/learn4life
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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.
Habitat for Humanity hosts Women Build Week June 17 21, 2014 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? Contact Kim at 780-451-3416 ext 232 or kdedeugd@hfh.org or register online at our website!
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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
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
Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit!Needed for our Long Term Care Residence, weekday morning volunteers for various activities. Especially for assisting with transporting residents to rehab, church services and hairdresser within facility. All volunteers must pass a Police clearance. Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106
Build a home with Habitat for Humanity! All Habitat Volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation & training. StreetFest wants to celebrate a Beginners to trades skill levels, very special milestone with its groups and individuals favourite people! Volunteer for welcome. No minimum the 30th Annual Edmonton number of shifts required. Visit International Street Performers www.hfh.org to register as a Festival, running July 4 - 13, volunteer. We provide all 2014 in Sir Winston Churchill tools, equipment and lunch! Square. Make friends, have Habitat for Humanity Tool Follow us on Facebook fun, win prizes and gain Training Workshop and Info /HabitatEdm and Twitter to a post-festival party Session @HabitatEdm Add this feature to your next careeraccess ad booking in exchange for a minimum of Have you often considered Help someone in crisis take 20 volunteer hours! volunteering with Habitat for those first steps towards a Join a community 30 years in Humanity but just need more solution. The Support the making! For more information about our charity Network’s Crisis Support information and to apply, visit and some guided practice with Centre is looking for www.edmontonstreetfest.com, the tools we use on site? Sign volunteers! Interested or want email up for our original Basic Tool to learn more? Contact Maura volunteer@edmontonstreetfest.com Training and Volunteer at 780-392-8723 or visit our , or call Volunteer Coordinator Information Session! Visit our website: Liz Allison-Jorde at website at www.TheSupportNetwork.com 780-425-5162 www.hfh.org/volunteer/learn-tools
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The Canadian Cancer Society’s strongest asset is our dedicated volunteers. By offering the most meaningful opportunities for you to make the biggest difference as a volunteer, we’re having more impact, against more cancers, in more communities, than any other cancer charity. For more information on how to get involved: http://www.cancer.ca/en/getinvolved/volunteering/ways-tovolunteer/?region=ab#ixzz2vac GwaEX The Edmonton Pride Festival is a 10 day festival (June 5-15, 2014) with over 40 different events. It takes many dedicated and passionate volunteers to make these events a success. If you are looking for a rewarding volunteer experience, want to contribute to the LGBTQ Community and be part of one of Canada’s largest Pride Festivals, we hope you will be able to help and volunteer! Get involved at www.edmontonpride.ca! The Great White North Triathlon is accepting volunteers for the 23rd edition of the race on July 6th in Stony plain for all positions: course marshals, draft marshals, lifeguards, kayakers, canoeists, transition, traffic control, parking control, scuba divers, motorcyclists, massage therapists, security & more. For more info contact: LeRoy Williams, 780-478-1388, email: royal.legend99@gmail.com or Jaqueline at:
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Volunteer with us! Team Edmonton is run by volunteers, and we always welcome new people to help us promote LGBT sports and recreational activities. Volunteers can assist during particular events or can take advantage of other short-term and ongoing opportunities. If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, or if you would like more information, please email volunteer@teamedmonton.ca. Whyte Ave. Artwalk VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! If you are interested in meeting & supporting the local arts community take the opportunity to help out with the festival this year! Artwalk needs people to fill a variety of roles both before and during July 11 – 13 this summer. Contact accounts@paintspot.ca for more info or come into the Paint Spot and apply in person.
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Figure Drawing with Daniel Hackborn With live models. Tuesday evenings, 6-9PM, until June 24. Instruction available 1st Tuesday of the month. Drop-in sessions, $15. The Paint Spot, 10032 81 Avenue 780.432.0240 www.paintspot.ca. Gallery @ 501 Presents: Art Object D’Sport Call for Entry In celebration of the Canada 55+ Games (to be held in Strathcona County, Sherwood Park, AB), Gallery @ 501 will be hosting the exhibition Art Object D’Sport, July 7 – August 31, 2014 Art Object D’Sport is an open call for entries from artists and artisans across Canada. DEADLINE – Friday June 23rd at 6:00 pm Further information contact Brenda Barry Byrne, Curator,Gallery @ 501 brenda.barrybyrne@strathcona.ca www.strathcona.ca/artgallery 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 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 Paintings done especially for sale, its a type of pop art and they’re female. 26 to choose from, 16” x 16”. Triangle Lips Mr. Jim Willans 780-438-1969
Phone-In Professional Development with Sydney Lancaster Wednesday May 28th: 6:30 – 8:00 a tele-conference Professional Development Workshop with Sydney Lancaster Limited to 12 participants from small centres of Alberta that do not have access to Professional Development talks and participants living in major centres that have issues of access. FREE: RSVP as soon as possible as this PD workshop will fill up fast! RSVP to info@visualartsalberta.com or by telephone to 1.866.421.1731 providing name, full address, email address, land line telephone number… The City of Lacombe requires an artist is to create a low maintenance, hardy, weather resistant, permanent threedimensional artwork that integrates a water feature (fountain, spray, burbler, or aeration system). Budget:22,500 CAD Eligibility:All Canadian Visual Artists Completion:2014 Deadline for Submissions: May 30, 2014, Noon For more information contact the City of Lacombe’s Recreation & Culture Manager, Sandi Stewart at 403.782.1266 or sstewart@lacombe.ca
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Works to Work Summer Internship The Works is currently looking for hardworking, enthusiastic individuals to join the team for summer 2014! The Works to Work program, an Enbridge Art Internship, is a unique leadership and professional development program that connects theoretical with practical learning. For more information about the internship, please visit www.theworks.ab.ca and click “Education”
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Making Music Fun for All Ages - Piano lessons offered Central Edmonton (private) Wendy Jensen is a classically trained musician of 30 years from Edmonton, AB. Upon popular demand from fans, Wendy is now offering piano lessons for beginner students in the downtown area. Wendy’s mission is to make learning music fun for students of all ages. Wendy is now booking lessons for: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday evenings from 4 PM-8 PM and Saturdays 11:00 AM-3:00PM. Lessons can be booked hourly for $50 or $25 per every half hour (plus cost of materials) For a limited time only, Wendy is offering a special rate of $150 for 4x 1hr lessons. Book now for your free initial interview. Your lesson plan can include: Learning how to read music Learn basic music theory Learn to play the piano Learn specific pieces of music (music coaching) Coaching for the emerging artist Improving stage performance & presence How to organize events/concerts How to promote your music & build your network What’s in a brand name? Learning the basics of the music industry (copyright infringement, etc) Visit www.wendyjensenca.com for more information Veteran blues drummer available . Influences include BB King, Freddie King, etc. 780-462-6291
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Jah-LeLe Band seeks female vocalist, drummers, guitarist, bass guitarist, keyboardist, trumpet players (Men or Women), must be talented in the genre of reggae music. Musicians must have their own instruments. If interested, please contact: Jones (main):780-757-4757 Collins: 780-802-2139 Albert: 780-680-1959 Rock band seeking female harmonist/keyboardist who wants to play with a serious band. Must be seasoned with touring, performing and recording. Serious inquiries call 587-986-6883 Seeking a musician to participate in a unique exchange. A offering of a short live show, in swap for a holonomic design (art) created for the musician. To take place this summer Contact and more detail through
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OPEN CASTING CALL for Spanish-speaking Role Players THE CASTING LINE is seeking Spanish-speaking men and women, ages 18 to 65, in good physical condition, to work as Villagers in an upcoming 20-day military exercise taking place at CFB Wainwright, May 12 to 31, 2014. No previous military or acting experience required. These are paid role player positions. For complete details go to: www.thecastingline.ca under “now casting”.
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FREIGHTLAND CARRIERS, a tri-axle air ride flatdeck carrier is looking for Owner/Operators to run Alberta only or 4 Western Provinces. Average gross $18 - 25,000/month. 1-800-9179021. Email: ed@freightland.ca. TRENCHUK CATTLE CO. in Smoky Lake is looking for General Labourers with cattle skills. Class 1 Truck Drivers. Cat/Hoe Operators. $20 - $35/hour depending on experience. Mechanical skills an asset. Call Willy at 780-656-0052 or fax resume to 780-656-3962.
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): I believe your persuasive powers will be stronger than usual in the weeks ahead. The words coming out of your mouth will sound especially interesting. I also suspect that your intelligence will get at least a temporary upgrade. The clarity of your thoughts will intensify. You will see truths you have been blind to in the past. Innovative solutions to long-running dilemmas are likely to occur to you. The only potential snag is that you might neglect to nurture your emotional riches. You could become a bit too dry and hard. But now that I've warned you of that possibility, let's hope you will take steps to ensure it won't happen.
way you understand this part of your world and then update your relationship with it.
TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): If there was a Hall of Fame for scientists, physicist Isaac Newton (1643 – 1727) would have been the charter member. He was like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry were to rock 'n' roll, like Babe Ruth was to baseball. The theory of gravity and the three laws of motion were his gifts to the world. He made major contributions to mathematics and optics and was a central figure in defining modern science. There is also a legend that he invented the cat door, inspired by his pet felines. Whether or not that's true, it serves as an excellent metaphor for this horoscope. It's an excellent time for you to apply your finest talents and highest intelligence to dream up small, mundane, but practical innovations.
VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Years ago I had a Virgo friend who was a talented singer. She had technical skill, stylistic flair and animal magnetism, making her worthy of being a lead vocalist in almost any great band. And yet when she was asleep and had dreams of performing, she often found herself standing in the shadows, barely visible and singing tentatively, while her backup singers hogged the spotlight at centre stage. Moral of the story: some of you Virgos are shy about claiming your full authority. It doesn't always come easy for you to shine your light and radiate your power. And yet you can most definitely learn to do so. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to make progress in this direction.
GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): During the next 12 months you will have exceptional opportunities to soak up knowledge, add to your skill set and get the training you need to pursue interesting kinds of success in the coming six to eight years. What's the best way to prepare? Develop an exciting new plan for your future education. To get in the mood, try the following: make a list of your most promising but still unripe potentials; meditate on the subjects that evoke your greatest curiosity; brainstorm about what kinds of experiences would give you more control over your destiny; and study three people you know who have improved their lives by taking aggressive steps to enhance their proficiency. CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): The moon shows us a different phase every 24 hours, which makes it seem changeable. But in fact, not much actually happens on the moon. It has no atmosphere, no weather, no wind, no plant life, no seasons. There is some water, but it's all frozen. Is there anything like this in your own life, Cancerian? Something that on the surface of things seems to be in constant motion, but whose underlying state never actually shifts or develops? According to my analysis, now would be an excellent time for you to revise the
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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Have you thought of organizing a crowdfunding campaign to boost your pet project or labour of love? I suggest you get serious about it in the next four weeks. This coming phase of your cycle will be a favourable time to expand your audience, attract new allies and build a buzz. You will have a sixth sense about how to wield your personal charm to serve your long-term goals. More than usual, your selfish interests will dovetail with the greater good—perhaps in unexpected ways.
LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): "There is always an enormous temptation in all of life," writes Annie Dillard, "to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end ... I won't have it. The world is wider than that in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright." Your assignment in the coming weeks, Libra, is to transcend whatever is itsy-bitsy about your life. The alternative? Head toward the frontier and drum up experiences that will thrill your heart and blow your mind. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): "We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours," writes novelist Heidi R Kling. That's good advice for you to keep in mind these days, Scorpio. Those little imps and rascals that live within you may get you into bad trouble if they feel bored. But if you arrange for them to have play dates with the imps and rascals of people you trust, they are far more likely to get you into good trouble. They may even provide you with bits of gritty inspiration. What's that you say? You don't have any demons? Not true. Everyone has them. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "When people tell you who they are, believe them," writes blogger Maria Popova (Brainpick-
ings.org). "Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don't believe them." Those suggestions are especially crucial for you to keep in mind these days. You are entering a phase when your best relationships will be up for review and revision and revitalization. To foster an environment in which intimacy will thrive, you've got to be extra receptive, curious, tolerant and tender. That's all! Not hard, right? A good place to start is to proceed as if your allies know who they are better than you do—even as you ask them to return the favour. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): "Kludge" (pronounced klooj) is a slang word that refers to a clumsy but effective fix for an engineering problem. It's a cobbledtogether solution that works fine, at least temporarily, even though it is inelegant or seems farfetched. Let's use this concept in a metaphorical way to apply to you. I'm guessing that you will be a kludge master in the coming days. You will be skilled at making the best of mediocre situations. You may have surprising success at doing things that don't come naturally and I bet you will find unexpected ways to correct glitches that no one else has any idea about how to fix. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): I hesitate to compare you to your fellow Aquarian Kim Jong-il. When he was alive and ruling North Korea, he was an egomaniacal tyrant. You're definitely not that. But there are certain descriptions of him in his official biography that remind me of the kinds of powers you may soon exhibit. He was called The Great Sun of Life and Highest Incarnation of Revolutionary Comradely Love, for instance. Titles like that might suit you. It is said that he invented the hamburger. He could command rain to fall from the sky. He once shot 11 holes-in-one in a single round of golf, was a master of gliding down waterslides, and never had to use a toilet because he produced no waste. You may be able to express comparable feats in the coming weeks. (Do it without falling prey to excessive pride, OK?) PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Even if you had a sensitive, nurturing mommy when you were growing up, and even if she continues to play an important role in your life, now would be a good time to learn how to mother yourself better. You are finally ready to appreciate how important it is to be your own primary caregiver. And I'm hoping you are no longer resistant to or embarrassed about the idea that part of you is still like a child who needs unconditional love 24/7. So get started! Treat yourself with the expert tenderness that a crafty maternal goddess would provide. V
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are shorter, making it easier for but I have never gotten the courI am a genetic male with recurrent bacteria and other bugs to get up age to meet up and experiment. I questions about my gender iden- into the bladder and cause infec- recently started talking with a guy tity. Straddling desires to main- tions. But urinary tract infections who lives a few miles away who is tain my stature in the professional aren't your only worry. "Any artifi- also a DL. I don't want to cheat on world, keep my wife at my side and cial orifice has a certain incidence my boyfriend, but I would like to become who I feel like I am, I have of stricture," Newman says. "So the indulge my fetish at least once in experimented with crossdressing, opening might need frequent dila- my life. If there is no sex during the chastity, antiandrogens and, prior tions or more surgery if this com- fetish play, would that be cheatto all that, steroids. While the plication arises." ing? There would be no kissing or matrimonial veto has been enacted By "stricture," Newman means anything. I would just change his for some feminine expressions, my "your new pee hole could shrink, diaper and powder him and he wife and I have reached a middle narrow and start to close up." And would be doing the same to me and ground where I can pursue sexual by "frequent dilations," Newman whatnot. I don't have anyone I can and esthetic androgyny. I have means "you could wind up shov- talk to about this and would love started wearing unisex clothes, ing steel rods up your urethra to to hear your advice. stepped up cardio to sculpt a more stretch your new hole back open— Diapered Dilemma feminine shape and am getting hair frequently." And there's more! removal done. My question: I want "There may be less than full diver- Here's what Good Dan would tell to keep my sex drive and sexual or- sion of urine (some may still come you: go and tell your boyfriend gans intact, but I want to urinate out the end of the penis) unless that you love him, remind him like a woman with no choice but the urethra distal to the new open- about the conversation you had to sit. There are two years ago body-modificayour diaEjaculation will occur through that new hole in a about tion communiper fetish and somewhat non-directable way—which could be ask if he would ties out there that showcase be up for explorfun or not. this type of proing this aspect cedure (urethral of your sexualreroute/relocaity with you. tion), but I don't know where to ing is closed," Newman says. "If it If so, great! No need to see that start when it comes to tracking is closed, then we run into issues other guy. But if not, DD, then down someone to do it for me. Ide- of what is called a 'mucous fistula,' ask your boyfriend how he would ally, a legitimate urologist should and the urethra beyond the diver- feel about you getting together do this type of work, but even with sion might need to be irrigated with someone who shares your my gender-amorphous desires in from time to time. Similarly, uri- kink—not for sex, just for diaperplay, I'm not sure I can put togeth- nary dermatitis may occur—that's ing and powdering and whatnot. If er a justification strong enough for diaper rash—so perineal care and he doesn't mind, great! If he does a doctor. Any advice? Do you know good hygiene will be a must." mind, well, then you need to think any piercers who have done this Assuming you're still interested about whether staying in this relakind of work? in relocating your pee hole after tionship is wise ... because sooner Seeking Insights That Take Erot- reading all that, SITTERS, how do or later, you're going to cheat on ic Rerouting Seriously you go about finding a urologist him. And if you don't want to be who'll perform this surgery? You the kind of person who cheats on "Most urologists aren't qualified make appointments with quali- his boyfriend, you'll have to find to do this, let alone piercers— fied urologists, tell them what you one who shares your kink or is although I know that there are want and risk being turned away. willing to share you. aggressive 'body modifiers' out "I believe that enough justificaHere's what Bad Dan would tell there. I wind up cleaning up their tion for the surgery exists—others you: seeing as you're only 24 and messes," says Dr Keith D Newman, may not," Newman says. "But it's seeing as you've been in this rea urologist and a fellow of the the insurance company that will lationship for three years and American College of Surgeons. "So need convincing. Many institutions seeing as you've never engaged my main piece of advice for SIT- (most faith-based, but not always) in any diaper play ... sneaking off TERS is to have a urologist do this, do not allow any surgery for sexu- to play with that other DL might preferably someone who has expe- al reassignment in adults, so those help clarify things. Either you'll rience with this surgery." waters will have to be navigated. learn that diaper play is something The procedure you're curious And it sounds as if SITTERS is not you can't live without (which will about—creating a new pee hole yet convinced of the validity of prompt you to force the issue with on your taint, behind your balls, this request, so counselling might your boyfriend, ie, he either plays which would leave you with no be helpful." with you or gives you permission choice but to sit when you pee—is One final note ... to play with others) or you'll reknown as a perineal urethrostomy. "Ejaculation will occur through alize that diapered reality is a lot "It's one of the numerous steps that new hole in a somewhat non- less sexy than diaper fantasies and involved in total gender-reas- directable way—which could be your kink will evaporate (highly signment surgery, should the full fun or not," Newman says. In other unlikely). male-to-female conversion ever be words, SITTERS, after you have Good Dan thinks you should take opted for," Newman says. "As such, this done, you'll not only be peeing his advice, DD, because Good Dan doing this one thing probably sitting down, you'll also be coming is an annoying prick who thinks won't preclude further anatomi- all over the back of your sack. he's right about everything. But cal reassignment in the future. On Bad Dan thinks you should know the other hand, SITTERS has to POWDER AND CHANGE that Actual Dan took his advice consider that there are potential I'm a 24-year-old gay male in a back when he was your age— complications and consequences three-year relationship with a man about exploring his sexuality genthat will arise from this altered I love with all my heart. I also have erally, not about exploring diapers anatomy." a diaper fetish. I told him about it specifically—and it helped clarify And the biggest consequence is once, nearly two years ago, but things for Actual Dan. a heightened risk of urinary tract have not brought it up since. Reinfections due to your shortened cently I have gone out to buy dia- On the Lovecast, Dan gets a secondurethra, SITTERS. The urethra, pers. I don't use the diapers for opinion assist from Slate's Dear of course, is the tube that runs pee or poop, but I enjoy the feel- Prudence: savagelovecast.com. V from our bladders, where urine is ing of wearing them. I have talked stored, to our pee holes. Women's to other diaper lovers (DL) online, @fakedansavage on Twitter
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