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Heart and head voting

Building a better Alberta

For those of us who live and breathe politics, elections are like the icing on a cake that's been baking for four years. So it's a shame they've become soulless, meaningless exercises.

Take Ontario, for example. By the time this paper hits the streets, about half of the more than four million eligible voters in the province will be heading to the polls to either return Kathleen Wynne to the Premier's office or replace her with someone else.

There was a time, back when I first became politically aware, that the period leading up to an election day would be filled with political parties and candidates communicating to voters about their policies and platforms and why they would be the best choice to govern. Those days, it seems, are gone.

Now parties seem preoccupied with telling voters why they need to be afraid of the other guys.

We saw it in the last Alberta general election and we've seen it in Ontario these past weeks in spades.

Primed with the best fear-mongering money can buy, voters are encouraged to vote strategically, a thing that has never once in the history of humankind been proven to work. The end result?

Increasingly, voters choose to stay home and our legislatures have no hope of actually reflecting the principles and values of the electorate they purportedly represent.

I'm not sure what brought us to this point and I'm not sure what's going to get us out of it, but as I watch these last couple of days of campaigning in Ontario where all I'm hearing from the incumbent Liberals is "A vote for the NDP is a vote for the PCs," I pray a little bit that voters collectively say, "Fuck this," and go vote for the party that best represents their interests, regardless of which party that may be. V

It can be difficult these days, especially of wealth and power in fewer and fewer heard loud and clear at this national gathhere in Alberta, to fathom that there is hands, there is a choice to make: we can ering. Albertans have been on the frontline light at the end of the proverbial tunnel in let go and succumb to undemocratic gov- of these struggles for the past 20 years, ernment decisions or we can hold on to and our stories of victory and defeat and regards to our future.

Our provincial and federal governments our values and ideals and work to turn visions of an alternate future must help inform the development of alternatives at have been increasing the frequency and things around. the national level. severity of attacks on democracy from atTo that end, a group of Alberta-based tacks on collective bargaining and First Na- The latter option is what the Peoples' tions, to the death of evidence-based deci- Social Forum is all about. It will take organizations, movements and individuals sion making and the broad-scale silencing place in Ottawa from August 21 to 24—a have organized a province-wide convergence in advance of the Peoples' of dissent. Federal and Social Forum. This Saturday, June provincial governments 14, a broad cross-section of Alberseem intent on eliminatOur province and country are clearly at a tans will gather at the University of ing any space that might crossroads. With out-of-control inequality and Alberta to raise awareness about result in the articulation ever-increasing consolidation of wealth and power the Peoples' Social Forum, and of creative and alternain fewer and fewer hands. begin coordinating what Alberta's tive ways of structuring presence at the national gathering our society. will look like.

Despite all that, we have The social forum process has the poseen a tremendous number of grassroots forum building on the successful expresmovements like Idle No More, Occupy and sions of civil society we have seen in the tential to be the start of something new, the fight-back against the government's past few years, and on the principles of vibrant and hopeful for our province and anti-union legislation in the past couple of the World Social Forum movement. It country, but only if the broadest range years. Albertans have shown time and again will be a space where movements, orga- possible of Albertans commit to fully enthey are not yet prepared to fully abandon nizations, unions, students, First Nations gaging with it. Check out the details of the their belief in democracy, people-power and and many others will come together to provincial and national gatherings at psfalcollective action—they're not prepared to share their visions and hopes for a better berta.wordpress.com and peoplessocialfocompletely had over control of their lives, Canada and begin strategizing how we go rum.org and find a way to get involved. A better Alberta is possible. V their livelihoods and their communities to about building it.

Given the role that Alberta's natural rethe goals, dreams and aspirations of the sources play in the national discourses Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of one percent.

Our province and country are clearly on everything from pipelines and trade to the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, pubat a crossroads. With out-of-control in- labour, environment and First Nations, it lic policy research institute housed at the equality and ever-increasing consolidation is critical that the voices of Albertans be University of Alberta.

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f you're looking for someone to blame for the poor weather at Saturday's Pride parade, look no further than Glen Callender.

"The security guards failed to keep us out, so the wrath of God was visited upon us," Callender jokes. "If you've read the Old Testament, you

know that God hates foreskin and I guess he's pissed that we're intruding on his favourite Canadian foreskin killing ground."

Callender, founder of the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project, was denied entry to Edmonton's Pride parade due to space constraints but, with

the consent of organizers, marched directly afterwards. The group advocates for all boys to have the right to grow up with intact genitals, seeking a criminalization of male circumcision for non-medical reasons. The cause always has detractors—people who themselves were circumcised or who circumcised their children—but Callender has experienced more dissent in Edmonton than anywhere else.

"The vast regional disparity in circumcision rates shows that child circumcision is cultural surgery," Callender explains. "Alberta is the top [Canadian] circumciser today, because it is the country's conservative heartland. Rates are dropping in Alberta as elsewhere, but the conservative resistance to change, in concert with conservative values that favour exerting control over children and sexuality in general, are slowing the process."

A 2006 – 07 survey called "What Mothers Say" by the Public Health Agency of Canada showed that Alberta has the highest baby circumcision rate in Canada at 44.3 percent. Which, to Callender, makes bringing his cause to Edmonton all the more important.

The group will be at seven more Pride parades this year, but the question persists about whether it should be a part of Pride at all.

Edmonton Pride executive director Angela Bennett says that even if Callender had applied in time to be granted entry, there would have been serious discussion as to whether his project would be eligible for the parade.

"Is his cause is a human-rights issue?

I would say so. But is it a Pride issue?

I don't know; I don't feel like it is," Bennett says. "What does circumcision have to do specifically with Pride?"

But to Callender, the project represents the core values of Pride, like sexual freedom, which is lost when anyone has "arbitrary editing rights" over someone else's genitals. So he was surprised to face similar questioning when applying to participate in Winnipeg's Pride parade.

"You can go to the parade in Edmonton and there was a designated driver service and there was a pet adoption outfit and things that have nothing to do with queer people or human rights," Callender says. "Yet there's this layer of criticism or skepticism

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that people express when it's foreskin pride, and I think that's just absurd and really shows the discomfort people have with our issue."

Callender maintains the fight for a boy's right to keep his foreskin will be a defining human-rights issue of the 21st century and that once male circumcision is seriously tested by Canadian courts, it won't hold up. He hopes for this to lead to an amendment where, just like girls, boys will be legally protected from genital mutilation.

Until then, Callender plans to continue attending Pride parades to advertise his message, including a return to Edmonton's next year. "[Pride] has become more of a market. It's supposed to be family friendly and, more importantly, brand friendly, and there's not a lot of controversy at Pride anymore," Callender says. "What we're doing is to very much bring back that edge to Pride.

I think that there should be much less people on the sidewalk and a lot more people in the parade, because there's still a lot of work to do."

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he story of neoliberalism is not a saga that Canadians have merely watched unfold in other countries.

Corporate control of industry—especially here in Alberta—traps many in the lure of making profit at any cost.

Consider how Alberta now has only one body—the Alberta Energy Regulator—regulating the oil and gas industry and all energy use in the province, which replaced the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, and the Energy Resources Conservation Board. The AER determines who is allowed to be present at public hearings regarding the oilsands and other energy developments. This often excludes anyone who disagrees with these developments, allowing the industry to move its processes along faster and without opposition.

Essentially, the Alberta government gave up control of investigating and enforcing environmental laws in its own energy sector to the AER, which is entirely funded by the oil and gas industry. Ironically, those destroying the environment are simultaneously enforcing environmental laws. This is not democracy. It is a system led by corporate-driven greed, and it's called neoliberalism.

The term is often associated with Chile in the '80s when dictator General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the socialist government and began a process of economic reform proposed by University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman. It included privatizing formerly state-owned industries, getting rid of unions and opening the country to global free trade. Many people were killed, tortured and incarcerated for opposing the new regime.

"Essentially we're talking about communities that are trying to defend themselves from these economic systems and the oppression that those economic systems have created," says Rod Loyola, who knows the realities of the Chilean experience as he came to Canada as a refugee from that country. He is president of Memoria Viva—an organization dedicated to remembering those who lost their lives during this time in Chile—and president of the Non-Academic Staff Association at the University of Alberta. He is also chair of the PostSecondary Education Task Force with Public Interest Alberta.

"This was happening all over Latin America," Loyola says, "continues to happen all over Latin America and now we can say is happening all over the world, especially affecting most drastically indigenous peoples, but all populations and especially women within those cultural groups."

Pinochet was voted out of power in 1990, and Chile has had the most stable economy in South America since

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then, but massive socioeconomic inequality still exists in a country that now paints itself as democratic. In March, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development named Chile as having the widest income gap between rich and poor out of its 34 member countries. Although Pinochet has been gone for many years, the effects of a free market and privatization reforms have had a lasting effect.

Yazmin Juarez came to Canada as a refugee in 1992. Her family had fled Guatemala and spent time in a refugee camp in Mexico due to the political violence that engulfed her home country as she was growing up— much of it directed at indigenous people. Forty percent of the country is indigenous and Juarez is Mayan.

"The genocide that happened in Guatemala between 1960 and 1996 is one of systemic racism, repression, land inequality and neoliberalism," Juarez says, noting that more than 200 000 people were killed or disappeared and 83 percent of those people were indigenous. In 1997, one year after the peace accords were signed, coal mining was advertised to foreign investors. Royalty payables dropped from six to one percent and these companies were allowed unlimited use of the water supply and duty-free imports.

According to the World Bank, 75 percent of Guatemalans now live below the poverty line and despite having the highest GDP in Central America, Guatemala has the second highest rate of income inequality.

Canadian and US companies remain big players in mining in Guatemala and are known for leaving a mess behind since they are not subject to any environmental regulations. Protests against this abuse of the land have resulted in the deaths of many Guatemalan people.

"The struggle against large mining corporations is not merely a struggle over mining, it extends to a more general struggle for participation and representation in defence of the indigenous identity," Juarez says. "This has been an issue in Guatemala and in many other countries, even

Canada, where the indigenous people are not being heard. Decisions are being made without their approval. You might be asking yourself why I'm talking about these events. It is because the cycle continues and it's happening in our backyard. It's happening because of the oil companies here."

First Nations communities around Alberta and Canada, and other voices who question the practices of the oil and gas industry, are frequently sidelined by these corporations. Court of Queen's Bench Justice Richard Marceau even ruled last October that the provincial government was in the wrong for trying to silence the Oil Sands Environmental Coalition from speaking up against oilsands development.

Despite that ruling, the Alberta government has again barred the group from hearings on a development by Southern Pacific Resource Corp.

Fort Chipewyan leaders have been threatened by oil companies when they speak up against the oil and gas industry making a profit at the expense of the people's health, water and land rights, and the environment. Loyola says the capitalism we see at work on the lands of indigenous people—both in Latin America and North America—is really colonization that's continuing to happen.

"Even before Stephen Harper, the Liberals were doing their best to legislate the changes necessary so that neoliberalism could essentially take ef-

fect here in Canada," he says. "This is the privatization process. So whether it's our schools, post-secondary institutions or health-care system, slowly all of that is being eroded. They're legislating those changes."

Canada is not a country that could easily be taken over by a military regime, but that does not mean the principles of neoliberalism that saw formerly government-owned industries privatized, unions gutted and environmental regulations become unenforced or non-existent in Latin American countries cannot, and are

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not, happening here. Already income inequality is growing faster in Alberta than anywhere else in the country.

"So when you start talking about corporate rule and neoliberalism here in Canada," Loyola says, "it's happening by stealth."

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Redemption in Kosovo

War crimes and killing for kidneys are the background of re-elected leader "The signs of collusion between the criminal class and the highest political and institutional office holders are too numerous and too serious to be ignored," concluded the report submitted to the Council of Europe in December 2010.

The name of Hashim Thaçi, then prime minister of Kosovo and former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), was mentioned 27 times in 27 pages.

Thaçi is still prime minister of Kosovo. Indeed, he has just been re-elected to the job, although the voter turnout was a feeble 42 percent. The European Union and NATO, the two organizations that helped the Kosovars free themselves from Serbian rule, seem quite happy about his victory— and even the Serbian government urged the Serbian minority who still live there to vote in Kosovo's election. So redemption is possible, after all.

Thaçi might have turned out to be a mild-mannered accountant if he had been born in a different era, but he came to adulthood just as the independence struggle of the Albanian-speaking majority in Kosovo was coming to the boil. He

joined the KLA and, after several rivals suffered unfortunate accidents, he emerged as the undisputed leader.

Revolutionary movements need money, especially if they include an armed wing, and since they have no legal sources of income, they must resort to crime. They rob banks; they blackmail people and kidnap them for ransom; they smuggle stuff, including drugs. Whether their cause is good or bad, they have almost all done it: the Taliban, the Irish Republican Army, Boko Haram, ETA, FARC and the KLA. Thaçi certainly did it all. In fact, you could argue that he overdid it.

After NATO's 78-day bombing campaign against Serbia in 1999 forced Slobodan Milošević's government to evacuate all the Serbian troops from Kosovo and a United Nations administration backed by NATO peacekeeping troops took over, the time for fighting—and illicit fundraising methods—was over. But Thaçi just kept going.

The KLA was renamed the Kosovo Protection Corps and used intimidation and occasional assassinations to gain control of almost all the municipal governments in

the country. A recent report on corruption in Kosovo by BND, the German intelligence service, noted, "The key players (including ... Thaçi) are intimately involved in interlinkages between politics, business and organized crime structures in Kosovo."

The Council of Europe report says bluntly: "In confidential reports spanning more than a decade, agencies dedicated to combatting drug smuggling in at least five countries have named Hashim Thaçi ... as having exerted violent control over the trade in heroin and other narcotics.

Thaçi and [other former KLA members] are consistently named as 'key players' in intelligence reports on Kosovo's mafia-like structures of organized crime."

That report, commissioned after the chief prosecutor for war crimes at the Hague, Carla Del Ponte, said she had been prevented from investigating senior KLA officials, also contained details about the KLA's fundraising methods just after the fighting ended in 2000. The most shocking was the allegation that some Serbian prisoners held

by Thaçi's faction of the KLA were

killed in order to harvest their organs for sale abroad.

The report found that Thaçi's people held Serb captives in six detention facilities in Albania, and that a "handful" were transferred to Tirana, where they were killed for their kidneys. "As and when the transplant surgeons were confirmed to be in position and ready to operate, the captives were brought out of the 'safe house' individually, summarily executed by a KLA gunman, and their corpses transported swiftly to the operating clinic."

The human-rights rapporteur who wrote the Council of Europe report, Swiss lawyer Dick Marty, subsequently admitted that he had no evidence directly linking Thaçi with the organ trafficking, but if you're the boss, you have to accept at least a share of the blame. So why is this suspected war criminal and big-time crime boss being welcomed as Kosovo's legitimate leader by all the European countries, including even Serbia?

Two obvious reasons are that he won the election and that he doesn't actually face any outstanding criminal charges. But the deeper reason is that Serbia wants to

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join the EU. The EU wants it too: it's important to bring the Serbs into the club and not leave them feeling bruised and resentful about the Balkan wars of the '90s, even if they were largely responsible for them. However, Serbia cannot join the EU until it accepts that the breakaway province of Kosovo is gone forever and recognizes its leader as legitimate.

The EU does not accept applicants with unresolved border disputes.

(Ukraine, please note.)

And this also means, by the way, that the EU has to accept Kosovo as a legitimate candidate for membership even under its current leader. Both the EU and Serbia would certainly prefer the prime minister of Kosovo to be somebody a bit more presentable, but the Kosovars keep electing Thaçi, albeit with a small and dwindling turnout of voters. And maybe he really has changed.

Sometimes you just have to put the past behind you and maybe even some of the present too. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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// Meaghan Baxter

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he familiar white takeout cartons in which at least some components of your meal from Lan's Asian Grill will be presented are emblazoned with the words "I'M NOT SHARING!" Whimsy aside, this pronouncement might condition your expectations and enjoyment of the well-liked, well-patronized Thai/Vietnamese eatery inconspicuously located just north of NAIT in the inevitable strip mall.

And from the online raves the place has received, expectations may be well-inflated.

Those takeout cartons are part of Lan's cost-containment measures, neatly spelled out on notices pinned up around the restaurant. In order to provide good value for money in the face of escalating overhead, the owners are cutting down on expenses like dish washing and front-end labour, relying on a counter rather than table-side service model.

The gesture is appreciated and, despite not having servers in the conventional sense, friendly staff still work the sizeable dining area to clear plates, check in on your enjoyment and poll you on your favourite dishes.

These measures seem to be working as Lan's bill of fare comes in a few bucks cheaper than the average Thai menu, ranging from $11 to $14 per dish.

They also seem to be focusing on a few offerings— curries, pad Thai, stir fries and soups—with variation based on your choice of protein (beef, pork, shrimp, chicken or tofu), and with a few Vietnamese dishes and appetizers thrown in for good measure.

My co-diners and I managed to sample most of the menu for less than $20 per person (not including Thai beer to wash it down). Endearingly, we were assigned the code-word SUPERWOMAN so we'd know when our food was ready. It's fair to say that Lan's does not skimp on personality.

Appetizers seemed a good place to start (though everything arrived at once): the salad rolls—rice wrappers plump with noodles, shrimp, basil and lettuce with hoisin dip—and green onion cakes were representative of their ilk, and entirely respectable.

My co-diner, let's call him "Jerry," protested that green onion cakes ought to be served with straightup hot chili paste, but he made do with the sweeter, less fiery variant.

Everyone seemed to agree the faintly sweet, rich green curry with sliced beef, red pepper, zucchini and bamboo shoots was the tastiest dish, with its latent fieriness, coconut aroma and hint of anise. It's the kind of dish that calls for a big side of jasmine or coconut rice so you can keep sopping up the delicious sauce once all the meat and veggies have been gobbled up. By virtue of its soupiness, the green curry was served in an actual ceramic bowl with its rice in a side dish.

The cashew stir fry with shrimp had a generous portion of both in a stickier spicy sauce, also with red pepper and onion, while the Thai basil stir fry featured flavourful sprigs of the eponymous ingredient, ground pork, red pepper and onion. It all tasted great, with just the right amount of chilies, garlic and lemongrass, but side-by-side comparison did point out the fact that the entrées tended to contain the same veggies. The pad Thai provided contrast, with lots of egg, chicken, tofu and bean sprouts tangled up in its darkly sweet and tangy noodles.

But because the stir fries were served in cardboard containers along with their rice, they seemed harder to divvy up among four people. Luckily, none of my group found cause to say, "I'M NOT SHARING!" Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the no-frills approach, the cost savings and the speediness with which our entire meal reached our table. But the trade-off is that Lan's experience is perhaps more akin to a quick-fix Asian takeout place than a full-on Thai restaurant, which may have been what my codiners and I were hoping for. There's nothing wrong with what the friendly folks at Lan's have on offer, but it's better to know and adjust your expectations accordingly before you make the trek NAIT-ward.

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Norsemen Brewing creates beer to push the pale-lager market You can be forgiven for not realizing that Camrose is the home of one of Alberta's smallest breweries. You can easily drive through town and not even know the brewery exists—and you wouldn't be alone.

Norsemen Brewing is the brainchild of Sean Willms, owner of the Norsemen Inn on Main Street Camrose. In an effort to inject some energy into his longstanding business, in 2011 Willms and experienced homebrewer Lynn Clark decided to turn the hotel's nightclub into a brewpub. They installed a small 600-litre brewhouse and replaced all the standard lagers on tap with their own beer.

Opening a brewpub in Camrose is no small challenge, however. This small prairie city is a hardcore pale-lager market. If it isn't yellow, fizzy and easy to drink, they don't want it. So, it takes some skill to persuade this crowd to try something new.

But three years in, it seems the project is working. Beer sales have grown constantly. They sell more beer in their two spaces (a nightclub and a lounge) than they did before the switch, and the brewery is already bursting its capacity. The success is due to taking things slow, edging local beer drinkers into all-malt craft beer while still offering something for the beer aficionado in Camrose.

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rotational beer designed by current brewmaster, Ryan Stang, who took over after Clark's retirement.

The regular beer at the brewpub are best described as "safe." They are clean and well-made but aim for a modest flavour profile. The Longship Lager has a pleasant, crisp malt character but not much else. Eric the Red brings out a soft caramel sweetness but could use more complexity. I can see the point of these beer; they are not far removed from the beer Norsemen's customers might expect, but their all-malt commitment gives them a touch more flavour to nudge customers along the beer spectrum.

It is in the rotational beer where Norsemen gets to play. When I was there, they had a Sour Cherry Oatmeal Stout on tap, most certainly a beer for more seasoned beer drinkers. They say the rotationals draw in the local beer fans, giving them both some credibility and a regular customer base for growler off-sales.

If Norsemen were in Toronto, it would struggle for credibility. But given their geographic location, I tip my hat to them. They are thriving in a tough environment, and slowly educating beer drinkers in the area at the same time. Well done. V

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Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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A look into NextFest's theatrical offerings

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he theatre program at NextFest's 19th incarnation spans a deconstruction of our love of technology, a boy-meets-girl-meets-philosophicalbreakdown romp, a tale of jaded F] francophone youth, a spread of short works, and more. And, below you'll find Vue's reviews of everything we managed to see, as well as the remaining show times (if any), with two exceptions: due to a cancelled performance, we didn't manage to see A Madhouse Dramedy before deadline, and the folk-opera The Earl has a lone show on Nextfest's closing Sunday.

So keep those shows in mind as well.

If you're looking for a primer on what our emerging theatrical talent is up to, look no further.

Reviews by Mel Priestley.

DUGx Thu, Jun 12 (6 pm) Sat, Jun 14 (8 pm) Sun, Jun 15 (6:30 pm) Roxy Theatre

 Simultaneously a deconstruction of a TEDx talk and modern society's dependence on/addiction to technology, DUGx pokes fun at this hugely popular series of conferences as well as our overwhelming need to incessantly check our cell phones.

Performer/creator Doug Hoyer has obviously seen enough TEDx talks to have the form down pat, and can therefore implement and dissect all of the usual conventions: infotainment, building rapport with the audience and then preying on that trust, live interviews, squabbling pundits and awkward PowerPoint slides with Comic Sans bullet points. The subject of this particular talk is the modern human, "homo internetus" and Hoyer wittily plays the straight man while

gleefully drawing ridiculous (albeit often accurate) conclusions and connections about our technologically dependent existences. Some parts lag and overall it feels a wee bit protracted (not unlike many TEDx talks) but overall this is a clever, funny example of homage fused with editorial.

La Nuit, La Raison Dort La Cité Francophone

 It feels more like entering a night club than a theatre: the audience shuffles down two flights of stairs through thumping dance music and whooping, glowstick-adorned revellers, before exchanging their drink tickets (provided at the door) for a beer and settling into the cabaret-style seating. A few minutes of this and the play begins in earnest: a tale of four young francophones meeting abroad at an Athens club and embarking on a nocturnal adventure that takes a dark turn. The play is mainly in French, but anglophones can follow the carefully placed English lines. The story is pretty straightforward, the inventive opening belying a script that fits right alongside typical angsty tales of jaded, aimless youth, to the point that it brushes upon cliché. Its final affirmations are appropriate, though not particularly revelatory, and the young cast has some more work to make the audience invested in their characters.

Prue & Ambrose Fri, Jun 13 (9 pm) Roxy Theatre

 This peculiar little play feels like two halves of two very different conversations. He's in the standard boymeets-quirky-girl love story, while she's in the midst of some kind of

philosophical breakdown. The play's structure reflects this division: the first part is an extended scene of her emptying—no, flinging—the contents of her home into the yard while a voice-over delves into her chaotic thoughts. Then he bursts in and the play shifts into a dialogue, though one in which neither of them make much headway towards understanding the other. There's a lot of interesting ideas tossed around in both the script and the play's physicality, and there's humour alongside the frustration of witnessing the sheer absurdity of this constant circular discourse, but it also leaves one feeling bemused and wondering at the purpose behind this verbal carousel.

chairs while recounting a lovely, bittersweet tale of familial love.

This is the Kind of Animal I Am Sun, Jun 15 (3:30 pm) Roxy Theatre

 Weaving a deeply personal story of a woman facing her past with wry observation and a touch of mythology, this is an extended look at the violence facing girls and women. But it's far from an "issues" play, taking twists and turns that are surprising, alarming and downright horrifying in turn. The show's sense of dread builds in a series of jolts as we piece

together exactly what's going on, and Holly Cinnamon is a powerhouse who unflinchingly shoulders the script's weight. Her movements are mesmerizing and her use of both space and props is inventive; she shows just how versatile—and symbolic—a simple article of clothing can be.

It's not flawless: the sound levels need to be tweaked and the fuzzy projections could be sharpened; the script feels occasionally disjointed and the flow isn't always smooth.

Nonetheless this is a fierce, unapologetic stare into very dark territory, absolutely arresting for its raw, brutal honesty.

A Series of Shorts Fri, Jun 13 (7:30 pm) Roxy Theatre

 This set of four very different short plays demonstrates the versatility emerging in Edmonton's younger theatre crowd. The first juxtaposes a young woman's disquieting experiences in Africa against two young men's grim discovery in the woods; it's an engaging theatrical device that makes some rather obvious (though valid) statements on the human condition.

The second is much lighter, a humorous defence against a death sentence (for the crime of "lo-zer-dom") by an aimless 20-something. While funny, the script's liberal use of pop-culture references make it feel already a bit dated. The third piece is a whimsical, stardust-sprinkled meditation on life in the universe, which presents some sweet though not particularly daring observations. The last is a one-man movement-based piece involving the inventive manipulation of two deck

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he relationship between a performer and their art, or a musician and their music, is not easily definable. The dynamic is tailored to the individual and what resonates with them as they express their craft, whatever it may be.

Yet this relationship will be examined by traditional Japanese drumming group Kita no Taiko in its latest performance called Ki, a phrase that can describe many things, and is often used to express this complex type of art-artist relationship.

"Taiko is a very powerful type of music.

The drums are very loud, so the pulses from the drumming resonate in your body and it feels like a group heartbeat when we all play together," Kita no Taiko artistic director Carley Okamura explains, of the reasoning behind the performance's title. "It connects the group members together. It connects us to our art because taiko's not about music, it's about music and movement and synchronization, so it encompasses a lot of things, and the effect you get is an emotional experience."

For Okamura, who has been involved with Kita no Taiko for the past 12 years (the group itself has been around since 1986), the style of drumming allows her to combine music, physical activity and the art of dance. And while the performances aim to entertain the

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audience, they are just as much for the performers themselves.

"It's for the musician, so you have to convey a certain level of professionalism and entertainment for an audience, but that means that you have to be really comfortable with your art," she adds, emphasizing the relationship between a performer and their artistic practice. "You have to feel comfortable in front of people and performing at the level of your performance."

But Okamura assures that regardless of a person's cultural heritage or degree of involvement in artistic pursuits, they will be able to take something away from Ki. "You might be surprised at first by the loudness of the drums—it's incredibly loud—but we pair it with other instruments, other types of drums, so it's not just overwhelming. We blend the sounds and so I think the audience will really connect with the experience of just hearing the drums because they are so loud and resonant and they really shake you to your core," she says, adding the traditional Japanese costumes and sets add a striking visual element to the show's sonic landscape. "I think it will be a new experience for audience members ... and an entertaining one."

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hildren tend to be an unapologetically honest bunch—for the most part, at least. But it's this uninhibited critique that is pivotal in the success of Sprouts New Play Festival for Kids as presented by Concrete Theatre, a local company dedicated to presenting innovative and challenging plays for young people.

The festival consists of three 15-minute plays, and the children in the audience will be

asked to provide feedback immediately after the performance in order for each playwright to gain a better understanding of whether the story is making the desired impact, if the characters are connecting with the children and what may not be resonating with their young audiences.

"They're a tough crowd in that they're absolutely honest. If they're engaged, they're fantastically engaged, and if a character asks a question on stage they'll immediately answer it and they have a high, high investment in the characters," says Concrete co-founder Caroline Howarth, who will also act as dramaturge for the plays, which are not in their final forms yet and will be delivered through theatrical readings. "The other side of it is, of course, if they're not

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The plays presented at the festival, which is celebrating its 13th year, include Weesageechak Loses His Bum by Kenneth T Williams, a retelling of a traditional Cree myth; Burlap, Prince of Trolls by Cat Walsh, where the main character brings her favourite storybook to life; and Little Eagle by Natasha Deen, a tale about the value of individuality when Little Cloud's wish to become an eagle is granted and he does his best to fit in.

"I think what's really powerful about theatre for kids—and for adults as well—[is that] it engages you in a different way," Howarth says, noting theatre for children has evolved past fairy tale adaptations into new, thought-provoking territory. "I think it allows an audience to walk in the shoes of a character, and see a new experience of the world, but really through the eyes of the character. It provides us a way of developing really strong empathy for those characters."

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ARTIFACTS The Art of Patio / Thursdays from Jun 12 – Aug 21 Hey! You like visual art? You like patios? How about imbibing beverages while out on said patios? If your answer is yes, take note (and if your answer is no, take caution): for the next 11 weeks, Latitude 53 is bringing all of those things together in the return of its much loved patio series: each evening has catered snacks, Alley Kat beer, guest hosts, and—in addition to having the gallery open for the wandering—some special projects: In honour of Latitude’s 40th anniversary, it’s having established and emerging artists and designers pair up and create two-week long projects to be showcased at the patios. So, to recap: PATIO. BEER. ART. FUN. SUMMER. (Latitude 53)

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Bright Lights Cold Water (Watching Netflix at 3am Questioning Your Mortality) / Fri, Jun 13 – Sat, Jun 14; Fri, Jun 20 – Sat, Jun 21 (10 pm) Easily a frontrunner for best show title of the summer, this production by artistic upstarts Toy Guns Dance Theatre begins at dusk and relies on you, dear potential audience, to illuminate the last part of the show after the sun’s set, by using flashlights (BYOFlashlights, although they’ll have those available to purchase). Also, at a key moment—when a “rain” effect is necessary—you’ll also be called on to train water guns on the performers and unleash a torrent of DIY SFX (BYOWaterguns, though they’ll also have those on hand to buy). So, to recap: you can channel your inner Rocky Horror and do weird stuff during a live dance show. And it’s all encouraged! SUMMER. (Government

House Park; admission by donation) Background Radiation / Until Sat, Jul 26 (Reception on Sat, Jun 14 [2 pm]) Edmonton artist Tadeusz Warszynski—who received his MFA in printmaking from the University of Alberta) back in ‘96—will be showcasing a wide spread of his work: ink sketches, paintings, life drawings and woodcuts. Also, fun fact: Warszynski also has a Master of Music Degree in percussion instruments from the Gdansk Academy of Music in Poland. So to recap: a master of two disciplines of art is showcasing a huge selection of work in one. Afterwards you can go ponder it in a nice warm field and imagine how he can totally lay into a drum kit as well. SUUUMMER. (Steppes Gallery [1253 – 91 St SW])

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DANCE MacEWAN UNIVERSITY • 10045-156 St • Blues dance event; Shantzd3@macewan.ca • $65 • Until 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

WINSPEAR • Churchill Sq • The Selkie Coat: Knock School of Irish Dance • $35

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, 8712109 St • Brokeback Mountain • Jun 24, 7pm • $10 (AGA/Metro member)/$8 (student/senior)

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St, 780.488.6611 • Discovery Gallery: Coming Up Next: Contemporary fine craft by emerging artists; until June 14 • Feature Gallery: FURNISH: Contemporary hand-crafted home furnishings and accessories; until Jul 5 • Discovery Gallery: WAITINg FoR THe MAN...: Works by Irene Rasetti; Jun 19-Jul 26; artist reception: Jun 21, 2-4pm • FLeeTINg WHISpeRS: Works by Robyn Weatherle; Jun 19-Jul 26; artist reception: Jun 21, 2-4pm 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)

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 • Artist talk: Carole Harmon, granddaughter of Alberta photographer Byron Harmon, talk in the exhibition space featuring Byron Harmon’s 1924 Columbia Icefield photographs; Jun 12, 7pm; $15/$8 (member); free (ultra/curator’s circle member, artist patrons) • LAWReN HARRIS AND A.y. JACkSoN–JASpeR/RoBSoN 1924: until Aug 17 • STRANge DReAM: Artworks by Jill Stanton; until Dec 31 • NeW WoRkS AND NeW LINeS: Alma Louise Visscher's installation Cathedral Cumulus with contemporary drawings from the National Gallery of Canada; Jun 20-Aug 17 • Curator’s Tour: Tour with Rhiannon Vogl (NGC); Jun 19, 6pm; $15/$8 (member)/ free (Ultra/Curator’s Circle member, artist patrons) • Conversation with the Artist: With Alma Louise Visscher, and AGA Curator Kristy Trinier; Jul 2, 7pm; free with admission • NeW LINeS: Contemporary drawings from the National Gallery of Canada; Jun 20-Oct 5 ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • Gallery Garden Party • Exhibition: until Jun 20 6537-111 St, 11104-65 Ave • Outdoor Arts And Music Festival • Jun 21, 11am-6pm

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library Audio Visual Rm (main fl), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Films adapted from books every Fri, 2pm • Call of the Wild (2013 restoration); Jun 13, 2pm • 127 Hours (2010, 14A); Jun 20, 2pm

GRAPHIC CONTENT • Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre • graphiccontent.org • Father's Day: Superman: The Movie (1978); 3pm screening, free admissions for dads; Jun 15 • Justice League: The New Frontier (2008); Jun 17, 7pm • $10 (adult)/$8 (student/senior) EDMONTON MOVIE CLUB–Metro • Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre • Mundasupatti, Tamil with English subtitles • Jun 15, 6:15pm

IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211142 St • Jun 12: D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D (PG) Thu 4:20pm; Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) Thu 3:10pm

Inequity For All, PG; Jun 19, 7pm • The Condition of the Working Class (STC); Jun 19, 9pm

METRO BIZARRO–Metro • Garneau Theatre • Monthly foray into the weird, wacky and wonderful world of fringe cinema • Dr. Caligari, • Jun 18, 9:30pm MOVIES AT THE CAPITOL–Fort Edmonton, 12345

780.442.2013 • fortedmontontickets.com • A Fistful of Dollars; Jun 12, 7:30pm • Rio Bravo; Jun 19, 7:30pm

OPERA IN CINEMA–Metro • Garneau Theatre • Big screen encores of the season's best live productions • Puccini's La boheme; Jun 22, 3pm

REEL FAMILY CINEMA–Metro • Garneau Theatre • Family films • Free admission for children 12 and under • The Bad News Bears; Jun 14, 2pm • The Lego Movie; Jun 21, 2pm THE WORLD’S BEST COMMERCIALS • Garneau Theatre • Jun 13-26

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Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • The Works Art & Design Festival; curated by the Edmonton Works Festival • Jun 19-Jul 1

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • FLIgHT: 26th Annual Members Show; Jun 12-Jul 4; reception/BBQ: Jun 19, 6-10pm • Annex Bldg: STARk–THe NAkeD SHoW: Jun 12-Jul 4; reception: Jun 19, 6-10pm

HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • 2nd Fl, Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • Exhibition 4 works

by Erika Shulz • Until Jun 14 HUMAN ECOLOGY BLDG–U of A • 1st Fl Gallery • CoLoUR CATCH: Aesthetic experiences through West African Textiles and Nature • Until Jul 20

INTERFACE • Bsmt of Bang-On, 10516-82 Ave • facebook.com/events/1430647737203836/?notif_ t=plan_user_joined • INTeRFACe: exhibition–forum–performances; art by 10 artists, and musical performances • Jun 13-19 • Opening: Jun 13

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • HANg-UpS AND INSIgHTS: IB and AP Art Show from Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School and Hunting Hills High School • Until Jun 21

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161 • SUMMeR oN 124 STReeT: Works by gallery artists and secondary market works • Until Aug 27

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • J'eN voIS

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DEUX: Group show, works by Diane Plasse, Tony Overweel, Maria Sieben, and Father Douglas; until Jun 17 • WoMeN IN ART: Works by Sabine Lecorre-Moore, Mireille Péloquin, Mireille Rochon, Mireille Cloutier; Jun 20-30; opening: Jun 20, 7-8:30pm • Art Workshops: Jun 21-22

Middle East by Wafaa Bilal, Harun Farocki, and Mohammad Mohsen, curated by Vicky Moufawad-Paul; until Jun 14 • ProjEx Room: oURS: Installation by Jennifer Tellier and Brittney Bear-Hat; until Jun 14 • Main Space: Monology: Print and photographic installation by Insoon Ha; Jun 19-Jul 26; opening: Jun 19; with a performance by the artist at 7pm • The Art of Patio: every Thu, 5-9pm; Jun 12-Aug 21 • This weeks Patio: Host by Starburst Creative, DJ Freshlan, the Underground (food), photos by and launch of Kyler Zeleny's new publication out West; Jun 12

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CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE–Arnold Guebert Library • 7128 Ada Blvd • FRoM FIRST SHooTS: Geneva Moore's tempera painting and intaglio printmaking • Until Jun 20 • Afternoon tea: Jun 14, 2:30pm

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 491251 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • RAkU, NAkeD oR NoT: Raku and primitive fired pottery by guild members • Until Jun 28

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • MILeS DoeS MILeS: Works by Miles Constable • Until Jun 25

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

Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • JoININg Up!: Our Men and Women in the First World War; Jun 17-Nov 16 • THe HoMe FRoNT: Life in St. Albert During the First World War • Jun 17-Aug 31

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • oveR RoCkS, UNDeR TReeS, Up THe STReAM ApIeCe: Paintings by Graham Fowler • Until Jun 14

EDMONTON’S ST. JOHN’S INSTITUTE • 11024-82 Ave • MoNey, SoveReIgNTy AND poWeR: THe pApeR CURReNCy oF RevoLUTIoNARy UkRAINe: Presented by the Alberta Society for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies (ASAUS), travelling exhibit curated by Bohdan Kordan • Until Jul 26 ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • FoRgINg A NATIoN–CANADA goeS To WAR; until Aug 16; during the Works Fest • AGA at Enterprise Square Galleries: RegIoNS oF DISTINCTIoN: Works by the Edmonton members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; until Oct 26

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MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St

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Plain, 780.963.9935 • Installation work by Cynthia Sibley • Jun 14-Jul 24 • Opening: Jun 15, 1-3:30pm

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LABOUR FILM NIGHT–Metro • Garneau Theatre •

Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Main Gallery: Senior's Show • Until Jun 21• Main Gallery: Terry Reynoldson; Jun 24-Jul 12 • Fireplace Room: Maggie Naef and Yvonne Berget; through Jun

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library

DEDFEST–Metro • Metro Cinema (Garneau

Museum, 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • Easy Living (1937, PG); Jun 16, 8pm

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • LES pAySAgeS AvAReS: Marlon Simon Morin-Plante; until Jun 24 • Pottery by Kelly Sears; until Jun 24

ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34

ART IN THE PARK (ALLEN) • Park Allen Art District,

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Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • epl. ca/art-gallery • epSB’s First Nations, Métis, and Inuit teen art: Works by teens participating in the Edmonton Public School’s First Nations, Métis, and Inuit art workshop; until Jun 16 • The Works Festival curated art show; Jun 19-Jul 1

BIKEOLOGY FESTIVAL • Garneau Theatre • The Bicycle Thief (Ladi di biciclette) • Jun 23, 7pm Theatre), 8712 109 St • Monthly DEDsploitation series featuring horror, cult and sci-fi films • Jun 13, 11:30pm

780.488.2952 • CHARTINg THe JoURNey: Works by Robert Dmytruk • Jun 14-30 • Opening: Jun 14, 2-4pm

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave, 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 • Until Jun 30 NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • 9225-118 Ave • thenina.ca • CeLeBRATIoN oF ABILITIES: Alberta Artists with Brain Injury Society • Until Jun 15 • Reception: Jun 12, 6-8pm

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STEPPES GALLERY • 1253-91 St • BACkgRoUND RADIATIoN: Ink sketches, paintings, and woodcuts

by Tadeusz Warszynski • Until Jul 26 • Opening: Jun 14, 2-5pm

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • STRATHCoNA SALoN SeRIeS: Showcase of Strathcona County's local artworks by artists who submitted their works to be juried into the Strathcona County Permanent Art Collection • Until Jun 29 • Reception: Jun 13, 7pm; E: artgallery@ strathcona.ca

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Events: WILDLIFe RESCUE: until Sep 1 • k'NeX: THRILL RIDeS: until Sep 1

UKRAINIAN MUSEUM OF CANADA–Alberta Branch • 10611-110 Ave • Open Mon-Fri • Artifacts 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

VAAA GALLERY • 2014 BReAD BASkeT: Members exhibition • Jun 19-Aug 1 • Reception: Jun 19, 7-9:30pm VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • oRDINARy WALLS: Work by Bonnie Patton • MeTASpeCT: Miniature encaustic paintings by Lorna Kemp • Until Jun 27

THE WORKS FESTIVAL–MOVEMENT(S) • Various venues and gallerys throughout Edmonton's Downtown • theworks.ab.ca • Art & Design festival 13 days of art and design • Jun 19-Jul 1

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Dolly Dennis launches her debut novel, Loddy-Dah; Jun 12, 7-9pm • Writers from a Hat: For amateur writers to share; Jun 16, 7pm https://www.facebook.com/ events/289710217865404/?ref=5; Jun 14, 1pm • Anna Maria Hrubizna meet and signing; Jun 19, 7pm • Michael Pond and Maureen Palmer present The Couch of Willingness: An Alcoholic Therapist Battles the Bottle and a Broken Recovery System; Jun 19, 7pm • Lori Power launches her romance novel, Storms of passion; Jun 22, 2pm

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

NORQUEST COLLEGE • Health Sciences Bldg, 10232-106 St • Daughters Day Double: Book launch and readings from both authors ofTogether, and Truth, Love, Non-violence: The Story of gurcharan Singh Bhatia, and comments by Gene Zwozdesky, in attendance, Jodi Abbott, Judge Bhatia and some women who participated in the conversations that are the basis of the handbook • Jun 18, 7-8:30pm • Free

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

THEATRE THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • An Improvised Theatre: song, dance, and comedy presented by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri until Jul 26; last show Jul 26

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper

THE BRITISH INVASION • Jubilations Dinner

Ave, 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Summer Group Shows: New work by gallery artists; Jun-Aug • CHRoMATIC: Works by Mitchel Smith's exhibition • QUeSTIoNINg THe FAMILIAR IN My MoTHeR ToNgUe: Works by Robin Smith-Peck's • Jun 14-Jul 3 • Opening: Jun 14, 2-4pm; artists in attendance

THE BROTHERS GRIMM AND THE LIVES OF LESSER THINGS • Cosmopolitan Music Society

Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM, Upper Level, 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Until Jun 15

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • WeSTeRN THReADS: Contemporary Fibre Art, wall art, whimsical dolls, colourful quilts, stunning wearable art and pictorial rugs; until Aug 4 • WoRN To Be WILD: Jun 14-Sep 7 • WoRN To Be WILD; Jun 14-Sep 7

(OSPAC, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre), 8426 Gateway Blvd • Family Opera: two one-act operas.

Dean Burry's The Brothers grimm, and Isaiah Bell's The Lives of Lesser Things • Jun 13, 7-8:30pm • $26 (adv adult), $30 (door, adult)/$22 (student/senior), $26 (door, student/senior)/$10 (child 14 and under), $14 (door, child); adv tickets at Opera NUOVA box office, 780.487.4844 • operanuova.ca/vaf/family-operas/

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • IkoNS: Works

CAUSIN’ A STIR • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave

by C.W. Carson • Jun 14-Jul 5 • Opening:Jun 14, 1-5pm

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print

Interested candidates should submit resumes in confidence to kkernohan@envirotank.com or contact Ken Kernohan directly at 1-306-948-5262

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave,

-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • MAkINg A gooD FIRST IMpReSSIoN: Works

by Patrick Bulas and Jordan Schwab; Jun 12-Jul 12; reception/talk: Jun 13, 7-9pm; artists speak about their work at 7pm • eNCUMBeReD: U of A recent grads, group show, works by emerging artists, Suzi Barlow, Lauren Huot, Morgan Melenka, Cara Seccafien, and Vanessa Mastronardi; Jun 12-Jul 12; reception: Jun

• Coronation St. Stars Tyrone and Kirk; starring Alan Halsall, and Andy Whyment • Jun 16, 7:30pm

CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun FOOTSLOOSE! • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM, Upper Level, 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • By C. Haley and R. Apostle • Belmont

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is a quiet community in the heart of the Prairies. Edith Ogilvy, on her first day as the new mayor, enacted a new bi-law strictly forbidding anyone within the town limits from dancing. Featuring hits from the film • Jun 20-Aug 24

THE FORCE–LIGHTSABRE • Churchill Sq • Janine Waddell Hodder, Alex Mackie instruct Lightsabre Training. Learn Specific Moves And Fight Sequences From The Film Together With Fellow “Jedis-In-Training” From Around The City • Every Wed Night until Sep 24; Kid Training: 7-7:45pm; Adult Training: 7-8:30pm • Free, drop-in (Bring Your Own Lightsabre)

THE FOUND FESTIVAL • Festival Main Grounds: Dr Wilbert McIntyre Gazebo Park, 104 St, 83 Ave • commongroundarts.ca/found-festival/2014-2 • A sitespecific, multidisciplinary arts festival presented by Print Machine • Showcasing dance, theatre, visual art, music, and creative writing. Performances include late-night theatre in a grocery store, a pool party music show, art in a back alley, and more • Jun 26-29 IMPROVAGANZA • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • 11 days of the best stand-up comedy and improv the world has to offer • Jun 18-28 • $15-$20 JENNIE’S STORY • Walterdale Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • Walterdale's last play of the season • Jul 2-12, 8pm • $12-$18 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

THE JAZZ MOTHER! • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Teatro La Quindicina presents Stewart Lemoine’s 1930s comedy starring Jocelyn Ahlf, Mat Busby, and Kristi Hansen • Until Jun 14, Tue-Sat 7:30pm, Sat 2pm • $16-$30; Tue evening Pay-what you can LA CAGE AUX FOLLES–THE MUSICAL • La Cité theatre, 8627-91 St • Two ONE-WAY Tickets To Broadway • Broadway musical by Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Herman, direction by Martin Galba, choreography

by Linete Smith, musical direction by Daryl Price • Jun 13-29 • $26 (adult)/$20 (senior)/$15 (student) at TIX on the Square LA NUIT, LA RAISON DORT • L’UniThéàtre, La 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 • Until Jun 14, 8pm • Tickets avalaible at door, lunitheatre.ca

THE LAST ROMANCE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca •

By Joe Dipietro, starring Jamie Farr in a hilarious and heartwarming story that proves it’s never too late for romance and second chances • Jun 20-Aug 3

LET THERE BE HEIGHT • Westbury Theatre, Arts Barns • Firefly Theatre • An Aerial Cabaret and fundraiser in support of Firefly’s Aerial Arts Program • Until Jun 12, 7:30pm (show), Silent auction (6:30pm) • $30 (adv) at TIX on the Square, $35 (door)

LUCY AND MR. PLATE • Varscona Theatre • Sequel to Citizen plate, Ned returns to pay it all forward as he assists a damsel in distress. Starring Jeff Haslam and Jana O’Connor • Jun 19-28; Tue-Sat 7:30pm; Sat mat 2pm; no shows Sun, Mon; Tue evenings: Pay-WhatYou-Can 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 • Until Jun 15 NINO NINA SHOW • Expressionz Café, 780.450.6462 • Live monthly classic variety show • Last Sun each month, 5:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show) • $10 (door)

ODYSSEO • Yellowhead Tr, Fort Rd, near 12403 Mt Lawn Rd • By Cavalia Under the White Big Top, a largerthan-life theatrical production • Jul 9, extended to Aug 3 • $24.50-$139.50 at cavalia.net, 1-866-999-8111 SPROUTS–NEW PLAY FESTIVAL FOR KIDS • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.439.3905 • concretetheatre.ca • Concrete Theatre • Festival featuring three new short plays by Natasha Deen, Kenneth Williams, and Cat Walsh. Each play is a staged reading with a lively performance, for kids 3-12 • Jun 14-15, 1-4pm • $5 (door, TIX on the Square); child under 3 years free 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 THE ULTIMATE BOOK SHOW • Arts Barns, 1033084 Ave • edmontonmusicaltheatre.ca • Edmonton Musical Theatre presents a musical journey inspired by literary classics. Featuring Vance Avery with excerpts from Les Miserable, Anne of green gables, oliver, My Fair Lady, Into the Woods and others • Jun 19-28, 7:30pm

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Wayward paths to devotion

Ida finds an orphan's self-realization between country-sized traumas

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da follows a young orphan raised in a convent who, on the verge of taking her vows, learns that she has an aunt living in a nearby city. The orphan shows no curiosity but her Mother Superior obliges her to visit this aunt before devoting her life to Christ. The orphan's name is Anna, but upon meeting Aunt Wanda, a former state prosecutor, Anna learns that her real name is Ida, and, what's more, that she's Jewish. A revelation under any circumstance—especially if you're about to become a nun!— but this is Poland in 1962, where being the orphaned daughter of Jews automatically supposes a link to the single-greatest atrocity of the 20th century. Ida's parents disappeared during the war, and hardboiled Wanda has just enough information and just enough sympathy for her reticent niece to initiate what will become something of a road movie and something of a detective story, a journey to unearth the truth about Ida's parents.

Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love) and written by Pawlikowski and British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Ida, clocking in at a trim yet unhurried 80 minutes, unfolds in the exquisite, captivating manner of a precisely sculpted novella. Every scene is infused with quiet mystery, yet in hindsight every moment is essential.

Credit for the mystery and compaction both should be divided between numerous artists, of which I'll name just a few. Ida is played by Agata Trzebuchowska, Wanda by Agata Kulesza.

With her opaque, liquid eyes refusing entry, that chin dimple like the mark of some chosen one, and those wide, childlike planes of her face always

catching the ashen winter light, Trzebuchowska is a presence at once luminous and demure. Kulesza conveys a wizened weariness that gradually shifts from sly cynicism toward something more heartbreaking. Ida and "Red Wanda" make a fascinatingly idiosyncratic pair, one a genuine innocent protected from earthly vice by her stoicism and nun's habit, the other a lonely, cold-eyed if still seductive woman somewhere on the far side of middle-age who smokes too much, drinks too much and sleeps with men out of habit—a character made complicated by her past participation in the 1950s show trials that brought opponents of socialism to their knees.

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Confined—and liberated, too—by the boxy, Academy ratio frame, Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski's stunning silvery black-and-white cinematography frequently places the characters at the bottom of the image, leaving space overhead for architecture, freshly dug earth or the heavens to loom like some elusive god, uncertain future or harrowing family legacy. Before it even begins Wanda teasingly warns that their journey might end with Ida discovering that there is no God. And indeed, as this story makes its serpentine way there are moments when faith seems in question and unholy new routes open themselves for Ida. Whatever routes she follows, whatever distance she travels, there is, however, always a sense that Ida is about wayward paths to devotion. And to self-realization, for this young orphan, and for a country still reeling from one trauma and deep in the grips of another.

JOSEF BRAUN

Staring out of habit

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How To Train Your Dragon 2 J

ust as the first film bore little resemblance to the Cressida Cowell books that are its namesake, How To Train Your Dragon 2 further expands the world of the first film rather than dipping too deeply into the mythology of the books. The first movie ended with gangly, dragon-loving misfit Hiccup embracing his gift as a "dragon whisperer," and transforming his dragon-hating Viking village of Berk into a utopian paradise where former enemies live together harmoniously—Viking and dragon, hand in hand.

This time around, Hiccup discovers a group of dragon hunters (who obviously didn't get the memo re: peace and harmony with dragons), working for a mysterious and evil tyrant, ominously named Drago Bloodfist, who is raising a dragon army in order to

wipe out the peaceful Berk and rule the world.

Unlike a lot of other cartoon bad guys, whose "badness" is pretty well at the schoolyard-bully level, this cartoon bad guy is genuinely terrifying, a force of unreasoning, unrelenting evil; he's like Hitler with WMDs. And it's a kid's movie. And unlike some other computer-animated fantasy stories for kids set in an alternate medieval-type universe—say, Shrek, for instance— this one is a relatively dour, serious, at times devastating movie. There are no wisecracking donkeys here. The moments where sassy one-liners and goofy character jokes do take over feel somewhat out of place in this lofty narrative about broken families, personal destiny and confronting senseless

violence with nonviolence and understanding. It's actually heartening that what, essentially, is a fairly preachy propaganda vehicle to promote pacifism can compete with the usual run of Disney/Pixar ADD-diversions.

Of course, this isn't to say that this movie feels drastically different from other children's movies: the one thing that makes the misfit a misfit is the one thing that will save the day in the end—we've seen this before. And besides everything else, this is a genuinely exciting film to watch for kids and adults alike, full of extended flying sequences, breathtaking scenery and fast-paced action which, especially in 3D, achieves the amusement-park ride effect, without sacrificing a good story.

JAMES CUMING

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Opens Friday Directed by Dean DeBlois 

Training still in progress

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Modern ennui in L'eclisse

The everlasting gaze

L'eclisse employs one of the most important collaborations in cinema history

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he final film in what would retroactively be considered a sort of loose trilogy—three inimitable modernist films about modern eros, modern cities, modern business and modern ennui—L'eclisse (1962), for all its wandering ways, does indeed infuse the air with some sense of conclusion. The story of a young translator who slips out of one love story and into another, it was Michelangelo Antonioni's last film in black and white, and it pushed his proposition regarding landscape, architecture and objects as narrative tools on par with actors to dizzying heights: the dominance of a lampshade, a column, an unfinished building or an immense cloud in a given frame needs to be regarded as content, not décor. (Is L'eclisse, so light on plot, boring? Only if you have no interest whatsoever in looking at things.)

L'avventura (1960) famously shaped itself around a mystery never resolved, but L'eclisse, in its exquisite final sequence, in which Antonioni leads us on a tour of places already visited by the story's lovers—places now punctured with their absence—actually leaps ahead of the action to imply an inevitable ending. The lovers are last seen together swearing to see each other again later that

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night, the next day, the day after and so on, but Antonioni's ingenious closing montage uses landscape, architecture, objects and our memory of them to acknowledge that this love story will soon draw to a close that need not be dramatized here.

We meet Vittoria (Monica Vitti, one of Antonioni's chief collaborators during this time) on the morning that she breaks it off with her fiancé (Francisco Rabal).

Whatever tempests accompanied their negotiations dwindled into weary resignation by the time we catch up with them. That exhausted morning gives way to a frenetic afternoon in which Vittoria visits the Roman stock exchange to find her mother and meet the handsome, energetic young stockbroker (Alain Delon) her mother employs—a future lover to eclipse the past one. Romances perish, fortunes are lost and a stolen car becomes a watery death trap over the course of L'eclisse, but where such drama would normally occupy the foreground of a conventional drama, Antonioni places no special emphasis on them. Instead he's interested in studying Vittoria as she drifts through the world, and in her largely happenstance

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way studies that world. No one explores and marvels over urban topography like Antonioni, and Vitti was his most captivating surrogate. In a film fraught with unease, Vittoria can frequently be found discovering peculiar sources of wonder: the staggered percussive musique concrete of flagpoles swaying in a wee-hour breeze or a day's journey by small plane to Verona (the setting of the most famous story of star-crossed love in history). Vitti is angular and fascinatingly gorgeous, but more importantly she conveys a stubborn, almost naïve wakefulness in these films that are always in danger of feeling merely defeated. Her gaze is ever-curious, her slender hands always curling around things, if never quite grasping them firmly.

Is Antonioni directing her or she him? The Antonioni-Vitti collaboration is among the most important in cinema history.

Criterion's new DVD/Blu-ray release of L'eclisse comes out this week. The transfer looks immaculate and the best supplements include an audio commentary from film scholar Richard Peña, a video essay and interview with Italian film critic Adriano Aprà and Antonioni's friend Carlo di Carlo, and a written essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum. V

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Locke

A long drive

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t first, we're only seeing the peripheries: industrial concrete, boots on the shimmering asphalt of some anonymous construction site and then, eventually, the slamming of a car door, which is where we find a focus point, Ivan Locke, and settle into pretty much the only view we'll see: a long drive through his dark night of

Opens Friday Directed by Steven Knight Princess Theatre the soul. Neither Ivan nor the cameras leave that vehicle for Locke's 90-minute duration, as this everyman in crisis tries to keep his average life from falling apart—we watch him reveal an affair to his wife, attempt to save the big construction job he's presently ditching out on, and listen to a one-time

lover's panic as she enters childbirth.

All over hands-free speakerphone!

You could say that Locke is desperately trying to maintain a sense of order as his personal and professional life slips into total chaos. And in that, his name isn't such a random pick..

"It's very Lockean," director Steven Knight says over a speakerphone's subtle echo (unlike the film's protagonist, he wasn't driving). "In other words, [like] John Locke, the rationalist philosopher who believed in reason and order and taming the chaos. That's what Ivan is trying to do."

The idea of limiting a film's scope to a car-ride came when Knight—writer of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, as well as creator of Who Wants to Be a Millionare?—was filming a very different kind of movie. Hummingbird, a thriller with Jason Statham in the lead, found Knight testing out night-time filming around cars.

"When we looked at the footage I thought it was beautiful, and hypnotic," he recalls, "And at first I thought that it would be great just to see that. But then I thought you could use that as your theatre: put an actor in that, and shoot a play, effectively, inside that theatre."

The idea was intriguing enough to secure Tom Hardy as the lead and singularly visible character; his curiosity was piqued by the challenge of acting alone, in a vehicle in real-time ("His interest is the craft of acting," Knight notes). They first discussed it in November; Knight quickly penned a scenario, and they were shooting by February, in full-length takes captured with a trio of cameras positioned in, on and around the car.

"I would say action only once, and we would shoot the whole film beginning to end, take a break and shoot it again," Knight says.

He ended up with 16 versions of

Locke, the finished film pulled from across that spread of performances, finding an arc that best captured the moment of everyman ennui Knight was after.

"I wanted to see the drama in an ordinary life, and do it justice," he says. "I wanted to create a situation where, for the people involved, it's the end of the world, but it's not gonna make the papers or the local news," he says. "It's something that could happen to anyone. And then I wanted the extraordinariness to be in the way that he responded to it, and his single-mindedness."

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Edge of Tomorrow A

s soon as the video-game industry began to dwarf Hollywood in profits and popularity, Tinseltown started to mimic the new masters. But at last, with Edge of Tomorrow, there's Now playing a smart video-game Directed by Doug Liman movie, exploding  that simplistic staple of most shooter games—the chance to 1up or reset. Director Doug Liman and writers Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth (adapting Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novella) play so smartly and humorously with this perpetual purgatory that Edge of To- getting farther and living longer each morrow turns out to be a rather radi- time around, until they can reach the cal sci-fi actioner—more story than Mimics' brain-like command centre testosterone, more time-jump-cuts and destroy it. than spacey filler, and much more warAs the United Defence Force's exoas-hell than war-as-cool.

The film first takes the red carpet skeletons face off against writhing meout from under our expectations of tallic enemy creatures on the shores the Tom Cruise persona—here he's of Normandy, this hi-tech war, echoing military spokesman William Cage, WWII, becomes a video game—unselling the war against alien invad- real, absurd, yet distantly horrible. ers (super-speedy, liquid-mercury, Rita, once caught in a loop herself, giant scorpion-like Mimics) but terri- was forced to repeat the trauma of fied to fight it once forced to. When watching her partner die hundreds he happens to kill an alpha Mimic on of times over. In his remotion-picture, the beaches of France, though, he ab- Cage phases through terrified, battlesorbs its blood, entering a time loop hardened, resigned, fatalistic and ... which means he, with the guidance uncaring (he tries to desert, again). of ace warrior Rita Vrataski (Emily This hero's merely a man of muscle Blunt), keeps dying and coming back, memory, trained and strengthened by

Tom, cruisin' through déjà vu

countless failures—he's ground out his surreal, graveyard-shift work in a constantly turning hourglass.

The twists and returns in this reBorn Identity-meets-Groundhog Day tale keep us on the alert (is this the first time Cage has gone through this moment? How far in over his head is he?). And though a glimmer of love's what makes Cage feel truly trapped, the film never falls into lip-locks, pat clichés or other easily predictable moves. It's the rare blockbuster that leaves you pondering if we're truly "masters of our fate" or just actionfigures going through the emotions in some supreme player's, or politician's, idea of a war game.

BRIAN GIBSON

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Ain't no fault in bringing along some flowers

The Fault in our Stars

and self-concern. This tumbling begins in earnest when Hazel and Gus visit Amsterdam to meet an author whose open-ended book they love but want answers to; the he fault, dear reader, lies not author, Scotch-sodden and misanin our movie's initially subver- thropic, is a laughable stereotype. sive, sly story, but its slow wading As if uneasy about this encounter, the movie iminto the puddles of tears it jerks ... Now playing mediately turns then bathes in by Directed by Josh Boone the actual Anne hyper-eulogizing  Frank house into itself. Even more a metaphor for Hazel's struggle oddly, this adaptation of John Green's best-selling ... and foreplay for the star-crossed book starts sliding into such self- lovers' loss of virginity. This dizzyregarding maudlinism right after ing lack of perspective gets verbacking nervously away from two tiginous; the persistent TV look readers' encounter with an author. (there's nary an imaginative shot) Those readers, Hazel (Shailene and conventions (super-bourgeois Woodley) and Gus (Ansel Elgort), homes and families, teens' expresare teens with cancer. She's ac- sive rooms, soft-lit flashbacks, companied by a breathing-tube; stirring "modern" soundtrack) drag he's had his right leg amputated. and nag. The movie's eyeing of From their second look at each its non-cancer-stricken audience other—a lovely bit of acting— is blindingly obvious when Hazel With your help, tells us her we romantic heartbreak through their taking-the-piss-outrates higher her pain scale than of-parents'-positivity, The Fault can continue toonfund the best worst moment of her illness. in Our Stars catches bursts of very the research Initially truth to cancer, breathless teen love while underto create andspeaking support SO008801 cutting the sanctity of cancer sto- only to lapse into a wringing-out survivors. During Stroke ries. There are pointed, deeply ad- of tears and ringing-out of funeMonth, please give when bells, The Fault in Our Stars olescent questions: wanting to be real your neighbour knocks mistake—it makes a fundamental special and believe in something your door. thinks that, after all these inner more in a world of pain andat suffering; how to feel genuine amid voice-overs, heartfelt moments, and mildly1 888 impious lines, its sancclichés and well-meaning, suffoFor information: 473-4636, heartandstroke.ab.ca/strokemonth tifying "art" can make life, and cating concern. death, more real and meaningful.

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THE RURAL ROUTES

With a swagger and a stomp

JUNE 16 • SINGER/ SONGWRITER OPEN STAGE HOSTED BY CASPER HOLLANDS

Blitzen Trapper takes a subtle shift towards the blues on new album 25 or whatever songs, what I want the record to be. [The albums] kinda just evolve out of that."

Wed, Jun 18 (8 pm) Blitzen Trapper With guests Starlite Room, $21.50 Blitzen, blazin'

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or a band that's spent more than a decade spelunking the pedways between the grandstanding towers of Americana—from its 2003 selftitled debut, through the four-track finesse of Wild Mountain Nation and psych-folk wanderings of Furr, on to its most recent, more polished releases—it seems fairly natural that Blitzen Trapper might find itself tapping into another of the genre's foundational veins for fresh direction.

After all, the Portland-based quintet's

always made fluid, intuitive and mostly subtle shifts in sound, seemingly content to branch out along the natural fractals of its chosen palette rather than try to work a hard left turn. All of which seems to stem from band leader Eric Earley's relaxed approach to settling on an album's track list.

"I usually have a lot of songs," Earley begins on a crackly, inconsistent cellphone, on the road somewhere between Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania. "I usually pick and choose out of those

On VII, that evolution finds Blitzen Trapper driving the dusty back roads of American blues: the album's seeped in bassy swagger and rhythmic stomp, bolstered by slide guitar backings, waves of harmonica and organ—even some rapid speak-singing pops up.

It's a sound that pairs well with the open air. Fittingly then, that the band now finds itself in festival season, doing shows not just in bars and clubs, but outdoor stages, too.

"It's definitely a different vibe," Earley says, of the festival circuit. "I like festivals; I've kind of gotten used to them.

They're a different kind of show. But you're able to play to a much wider audience at those kind of events. It's definitely a cool interaction."

"All the sets are a bit shorter, so you kinda tailor to it that outdoor audience a little bit," he adds. "But we kind of just do our thing, regardless."

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Side A is the result of a collaborative writing approach that saw all band members doling out input, rather than Gardiner taking the creative reins as he had on Ground Level Falcon's debut.

As a result, he says everyone has a more vested interest in the material, which centres around the idea of working through a situation that tests a person and shows their true colours.

The situations often stem from Gardiner's personal experiences, but don't go too deeply into the details.

"I try not to put it too literally in the music because it's kind of embarrassing, you know what I mean?" he asks with a chuckle. "That singing your journal out loud kind of thing, it can be tricky. There's some personal changes that I've made even since the first album that definitely made its way into the music but I tried to take myself out as much as I could, to give the songs some longevity, too. If you get to the point where you're singing about yourself all the time and you don't really feel that way anymore, you don't want to play the song anymore, either."

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"I find sometimes with bands, if there's 14 or 16 songs on an album and you have to play it straight through, you kind of lose your attention," he explains. "I think, unless it's a really captivating album, you don't really listen to the last half."

Ground Level Falcons released its self-titled debut LP in the summer of

2012, and while it was one disc, the songs were split into two sides. For its followup, The Revealor, the alt-rock group is adhering to a similar format, but while side A will be released this Friday, we'll have to wait until 2015 to hear side B. The decision was in part due to logistics with time and finances, but it will also enhance the contrast between the two. Where The Revealor - Side A is a more laidback group of songs that showcase the keyboard skills and vocal harmonies of new band member Angela Power while The Revealor - Side B will boast a heavier sound highlighting bassist Greg Kolodychuk's funk skills.

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roken trailer axle? No problem.

It's all part of touring, according to Annie DeTemple, autoharpist and vocalist for punk-bluegrass group Old Man Markley.

"We always have to do bus maintenance on the road, trailer maintenance on the road," she says with a calm sense of acceptance, noting the group was able to get back on the road quickly and stay on schedule for its show in Portland later that evening. "Sometimes you never know what's going to happen and as much as you try to get your ducks in a row and make sure your vehicle's all good, always something happens on the road and we always end up needing to get something fixed."

Here's hoping a broken axle is the end of the band's problems as it traverses its way through the Canadian leg of its current tour in support of last year's Down

Side Up, the second full-length from the self-proclaimed "newgrass" seven-piece, which includes DeTemple's husband Johnny Carey on vocals and guitar, Joey Garibaldi on bass and vocals, Jeff Fuller on drums, Ryan Markley on washboard, John Rosen on banjo and vocals, and Katie Weed on fiddle and vocals. The album managed to capture the attention of both the punk and bluegrass scenes, and even spent a few weeks on top of the Billboard Bluegrass chart in the US. "When we played for predominantly punk-rock audiences, after the show there's usually those people that will come up and talk to us and say things like, 'It reminds me of the music my dad used to listen to' or, 'It reminded me of going camping with my family when I was younger' or something along those lines," says DeTemple, who played for the first time in front of an audience

when Old Man Markley made its live same material, Old Man Markley does debut in January 2008. "I think even have two new tracks it will be playing if you're into punk rock or you're not from Stupid Today, a special vinyl sevreally familiar with punk rock there's en-inch released last month. The format something just nostalgic about it—and follows what the group has done for everyone's heard a previous seven-inch banjo, everybody Wed, Jun 18 (8 pm) releases: side A feahas heard a violin or With the Stanfields, tures a new original a fiddle and they've Fire Next Time track while side B is just not had it so Pawn Shop, $12 a cover song from new and so fun. a well-known punk Maybe it's just kind band. This time, the of something that's new and nostalgic cover is "Reeko" by NOFX. for them and they didn't know it could "When we originally did our first punkbe the way that we play it." rock cover it was because we were a new band on set and it was a nice way Making a return trip to Canada in sup- to introduce us with something familport of the same album has allowed iar, for punk-rock fans to hear a familfans to get familiar with the songs, and iar song," DeTemple notes. "Everybody potentially have a different experience likes a nice cover song." this time around, DeTemple adds. While MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM the setlist will more or less include the

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KICKUPAFUSS / FRI, JUN 13 (8 PM) These guys want to make you dance— seriously, it's part of their mantra and everything. The band released an album called Fuss earlier this year followed by an acoustic record, so there's lots of newish material to check out.

(Pawn Shop, $10) MB GIRL: PRIDE 2014 / FRI, JUN 13 (9 PM) Tracy Young will make you dance, too, but to an entirely different type of music. She's been spinning records around the globe for the past 11 or so years, and is making a stop in Edmonton for Pride. (Starlite Room, $30) MB BA JOHNSTON / FRI, JUN 13 (9 PM) Hamilton's best export (sorry, steel industry! Write better songs!) returns to town on the back of his 2013 release, Mission Accomplished. Songs about stealing cable, how Luke Skywalker is a whiny baby, and the unmitigated joy of getting your GST cheque in the mail.

(Wunderbar) PB WUNDI LOVES KIRBY! A BENEFIT / SAT, JUN 14 (8 PM) For those who didn't make it out to the benefits for Kirby earlier this week, Wunderbar is throwing another one on Saturday. You should go because it'll be fun and you'll be helping Kirby out while she fights back at cancer.

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guitar runs, galloping drums and squalls of feedback—is the best way to get a proper fix in 2014. (Wunderbar) PB CROSSS / TUE, JUN 17 (9 PM) We're just going to quote Weird Canada on this one: "Crosss seamlessly combine doom and post-punk with the disorienting pop sensibilities that we've come to expect from Halifax." If that's got you intrigued, then you should probably go to this show. If it doesn't then you might be more interested in the Engelbert Humperdinck show (that's on Fri, Jun 13 if you are). (Wunderbar) EM

TUE, JUNE 11 / NEWCASTLE PUB & GRILL A packed house of local music lovers and players—both in the audience and on the stage—converged on Newcastle Pub & Grill for the first of a twonight stand benefitting Kirby, Edmonton’s queen of the music scene. Reunions were all around and there was loads of fun to be had, with Kirby smiling wide throughout the night. EM

SERAPHIC LIGHTS / THU, JUN 19 (8 PM) If you were anywhere around Whyte Avenue five or so years ago, then you'll very likely recall a kid who pretty much grew up busking on the street. That was DB Buxton, and he put a lot of years in there before finally departing from this city. Well, he's coming back for the first time and there's going to be a show with his new band Seraphic Lights, along with a new record as well.

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TRUCKFIGHTERS / SAT, JUN 14 (9 PM) This metal group is from Sweden, but its music allegedly sounds like the desert. See for yourself what that means.

Black Mastiff is on the bill, too. (Studio Music Foundation, $20) MB SOLIDS / SUN, JUN 15 Let me do you a solid, reader: if you're like me, and have a strong interest in the sounds of Superchunk, Sonic Youth and other '90s alt-classics, seeing Montréal's Solids—with its love of grungy

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f we don't set the destination and pass the challenges and barriers to do it and make a goal it will never achieve something in the hip-hop happen," says Tuff House Records industry. Green has released numerfounder Orville Green, who raps ous records himself and continuunder the name Wayz. "We're about ously works with local artists, with a a positive movement. We're about goal to eventually put on a show at growth. We're about influencing our Rexall Place. artists and the local artists around."

Tuff House has been operating un- The Tuff House crew is getting closer to the der this ethos for goal and will the past 17 years. Wed, Jun 18 (7 pm) be performing Sure, Green could With Rick Ross, Peter Jackson, across the street have moved on to Checkmate & Concise, G.M.S, at Northlands larger markets like Money Mitch and guests next Wednesday Toronto or Van- Edmonton Expo Centre, as part of Rick couver, but he says $50 – $160 Ross's The Masthose cities already termind tour. have their own scene, something he feels Edmonton One such artist is Deuce, who prefers to go by his stage name. Deuce's cahas been lacking.

"I like to call it the overlooked prov- reer has taken him across the counince and I like to call the music move- try as well as tours to Europe and ment we're doing Break Your Back," he'll be releasing his new album, My he adds. "The reason we call it that Fantastic Reality, later in July, a folis because we have to work twice as lowup to his current disc titled Fanhard and we have to be smart about tastic for a Reason. "[It's about] life in itself and just what it is, but along the way you still have people that have that negative growing," says Deuce, who has been taste in their mouth and it's like a with Tuff House for the past 10 years. lack of self-confidence in their art, so "It's just life experiences and being when someone else tries to do some- able to travel the world doing hip hop and just seeing a lot of things through thing, they shoot them down."

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This record is fairly awesome, in the true sense of the word: it's daunting and impressive, filling you with both wonder and fear. The frantic noise and direction changes of post punk are prevalent enough that it seems pretty obvious what this Washingtonbased group is all about. Then you get songs like "Landfall," its slow drum toll and the echoing piano an imme-

Semi Precious Weapons Aviation (Redzone) 

Modern club music like Semi Precious Weapons leans toward independence: one's ability to rise above the shackles of authority and the pains of a broken heart and roll into the club with your BFFs every weekend. Our protagonist constantly refuses to be told what to do and parties like he/ she is going to live forever. It can be a hot mess, but it can also inspire fleet-

diate bummer, yet it still manages to be a deeply touching composition.

"Seasons of the Wire" has the same effect, a dreamy fog you must wade through, while "Stutter" is hard to take due to its tripping glitchiness and put on insanity. "Let's Not Try to Fix Everything at Once" simmers into brilliance with a tweeked-out lick that the cymbals pound into submission. These changes in style, although not drastic, are enough to make you really wonder what this band is playing at. Some of it is tender in its beauty, and some of it is ballsy for its complete lack thereof.

The mood of "Lithium Burn" makes clear that these guys are fucking around, but are still invested in what they are doing. If this record becomes the soundtrack to your summer, then frankly, you should talk to someone about your mental heath, but there is a sombre passion here that is hard not to be affected by.

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It was Lisa Simpson who taught us that gazpacho is tomato soup served ice cold; but this group from Oslo is lukewarm, if anything. There's competent musicianship throughout the prog-folk sound, but the whole thing just doesn't really take you anywhere.

Dabs of klezmer and an assortment of other cultural noodlings blow loosely through these songs, like a withering leaf. It's clear there's a concept, and this record takes itself pretty seriously with dramatic melodies, and as it all builds, you anticipate the explosions that makes down-tempo music like this so invigorating, but there's no detonation. It's as though the band never fully commits, which in the end, leaves you uncommitted as well. Repeated listens reward one with nuances of the tale, but Demon doesn't really possess you enough to warrant them.

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Fred Larose singersongwriter’s Circle: hosted

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pianos every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm BRITTANY’S Jazz evening

every Fri after work; 5-8pm BRIXX Hungryhollow (CD release), A Hundred Years, REND, Upsidedowntown; 8:30pm (door); $15 (fr bands)/$18 (door)

Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri

CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri

RadioActive

MERCER TAVERN

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE

Live music every Fri: this week: Shaun Bosch and Joal Kamps; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

Homegrown Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture RED STAR Movin’ on Up:

Foxes; 4pm; no cover FIONN MACCOOL’S–DT

Back Porch Swing; all ages; no cover Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HILLTOP Open Stage, Jam

every Sat; 3:30-7pm (rock, blues, bluegrass); 9pm; $10 L.B.’S Chillfactor; 9:30pm-

2am LEAF BAR Open Stage

Sat–It’s the Sat Jam hosted

by Darren Bartlett, 5pm; Northern Comfort LEGENDS Saturday Jam

and open mic with Nick Samoil and guests; 3-6pm

CASINO EDMONTON The Red

indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

Hotz (rock); 9pm

SET NIGHTCLUB NEW

every Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am; Sonny Rhodes; $20

CASINO YELLOWHEAD The

Fridays: House and Electro

NEWCASTLE PUB Prepare

LIVE AT SLY’S–THE RIG Jam

For The Fair; 8pm O’BYRNE’S Live band every

Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm O’MAILLES Newfie

Weekend; no cover ON THE ROCKS The

Fabulous Tiff Hall and the Family Band with DJs OVERTIME Sherwood Park Dueling Pianos with

Shane Young and Amber Schneider; 9pm-2am; no cover RED PIANO Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RICHARD’S PUB The Terry

Evans Sat Jam (rock): every Sat; 4-8pm; Evening: Bobby Cameron Band; 8pm; $20 RIVER CREE–The Venue

Grits & Glamour featuring Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan; (country); 6pm (door), 8pm (show); $44.50 ST FAITHS AND ST STEPHEN THE MARTYR ANGLICAN CHURCH

Bridgesongs: Dear Edmonton: Lora Jol, Dave Von Bieker, Reuben Anderson, others; 7pm; $10 (adv)/$15 (door) THE SANDS Nick Samoil

and Jericho West; 9pm1am ROSE AND CROWN Stu

Bendall SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT

Joanne Janzen SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A

Andrew Scott SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Party Hog STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Truckfighters,

Black Mastiff, Puzzled Minds; 9pm

JUN/12 TIMBER TIMBRE JUN/13 GIRL: PRIDE 2014 JUN/18 BLITZEN TRAPPER JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

JUN/19 AARON CARTER JUN/21 DUSKY NIGHT VISION PRESENTS

UBK & NIGHT VISION PRESENT

JUN/22 CASHMERE CAT JUN/25 ONE BAD SON & THE WILD JUN/27 MAC DEMARCO W/ GUESTS MRG CONCERTS PRESENTS

JUN/28 UH HUH HER W/ GUESTS JUL/3 CONQUERORS OF THE WORLD 2014 JUL/8 KONGOS W/ BLONDEFIRE THE UNION PRESENTS

CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

UNION EVENTS PRESENTS

JUL/9 SHARON VAN ETTEN W/ GUESTS JUL/15 & 16 TYLER THE CREATOR THE UNION PRESENTS

JUN/18 STANTON WARRIORS

TEMPLE Sweat; 9pm TIMMS CENTRE Ki:

The Spirit of Japanese Drumming: Kita no Taiko; 7:30pm; $20/$15 (senior/ student) at TIX on the Square WUNDERBAR Wundi Loves

Kirby! A Benefit; 8pm

Classical COSMOPOLITAN MUSIC SOCIETY Vocal Arts Festival:

Family Opera: Two One-Act Operas: The Brothers Grimm, and The Lives of Lesser Things; 3pm; $26 (adult)/$22 (student/ senior)/$10 (Kids 14 and under) at 780.487.4844 UKRAINIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE VILLAGE

Symphony at the Village: Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, William Eddins (conductor), Trembita (guest); 6pm; outdoor concert; $25 (general admission)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/Electro/ Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick

THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down It’s Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

JUN/12 VICIOUS DARK SARCASM & BUTCHER’S ANGST TRASH N THRESH THURSDAYS PRESENTS

W/

HOLLOW CD RELEASE JUN/13 HUNGRY W/ A HUNDRED YEARS, REND AND UPSIDEDOWNTOWN

JUN/14 JAMES BEAUDRY BAND, LANA LENORE & CO., RIVER VALLEY SEARCH PARTY

JUN/15 SISTER GRAY W/ THE FRONTS JUN/17 MY SISTER OCEAN PLAYING “THE MONTH OF TUESDAY”

JUN/18 WITH MALICE JUN/20 THE BREAKBEAT REBELLION JUN/21 REND W/ THE WISERS & DESERT BAR JUN/24 MY SISTER OCEAN

PLAYING FUNCTION CONTROL OPTION COMMAND & MESSY CREATION EP

JUN/27 BISON W/ DISCIPLES OF POWER JUN/28 S. CAREY UNION EVENTS PRESENTS

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

VUEWEEKLY JUNE 12 – JUNE 18, 2014

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MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

Wong every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission

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

hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SET NIGHTCLUB SET

free concert DIVERSION Sun Night Live

JUBILEE Broadway’s Smash Hits: Megan Hilty

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

NEW WEST HOTEL

DUGGAN’S Celtic Music

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental

with Duggan’s House Band 5-8pm HOG’S DEN Rockin’ the Hog

Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm LIVE AT SLY’S–THE RIG

Every Sun Jam with Loco-MoFos, hosted by Bob Cook; 8-12pm NEWCASTLE PUB The

Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

Saturday Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

ON THE ROCKS The Almighty

Sun; 9:30pm-1am

Rodeowind (country)

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

Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm WUNDERBAR Omhouse

(TO), Ghibli, guests; 9pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest:

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

Turtlenecks, Stew Kirkwood and Aaron Bailey

mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

RICHARD’S PUB Sunday

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

Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,

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

Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays

SUN JUN 15 BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES

Sun Electric Blues Jam and BBQ hosted by Marshall Lawrence and the Lazy Bastards; 4-8pm BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun

hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR Sunday Brunch:

Jazz Passages Trio; 9am3pm; donations BRIXX Sister Gray, The

Fronts, guests; 8pm CHA ISLAND Open mic with

March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm CLOVERDALE FOOTBRIDGE

Concert on the Bridge: Colleen Brown and Braden Gates, jam sessions with Doc Oxide, the O’Neills and friends; food trucks; 1-4pm;

Country Showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky

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

TIMMS CENTRE Ki:

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic

The Spirit of Japanese Drumming: Kita no Taiko; 2pm; tickets at TIX on the Square WUNDERBAR Double Lunch

Productions Presents: Solids (Montreal), Animal Faces (Toronto), Stepmothers, Latcho Drom; 9pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays:

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

TUE JUN 17 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 BLUES ON WHYTE Charlie

Jacobson Band BRIXX My Sister Ocean,

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

guests Van Funk, Chips, more; 8pm; $10

LEVEL 2 Stylus Industry

(rap), Relic, Mitchmatic, Celestial Huni, Shmemkis; 8:30pm (door); no minors; $7 (adv)/$10 (door)

Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm3am

MON JUN 16 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

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

Jacobson Band BRIXX Blunt Force Charm,

Ides of Ruin, Bobby Heaven MERCURY ROOM Music

Magic Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4 DUGGAN’S Mon singer-

songwriter night; 8pm; Hosted by Casper Hollands

BUCKINGHAM Ghettosocks

DRUID Open Stage Tue;

9pm DV8 Band Jam L.B.’S Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm LEAF BAR Tue Open Jam:

Trevor Mullen MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests NEW WEST HOTEL Tue

Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Rodeowind (country)

RED PIANO Every Tue: the

DUGGAN’S Wed open mic

Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm12am; no cover; relaxed dress code

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every

RICHARD’S PUB Tue Live Music Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm SANDS HOTEL Country

music dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm; This weeks band:

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Jimmy Whiffen SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT

Mike Letto WUNDERBAR Crosss, Freak Heat Waves, the Strugglefucks, Fountain; 9pm

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 JUN 18 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES New Music Wed:

Featured band hosted by Lochlin Cross and Leigh Friesen (open stage) after the bands set BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch:

live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul

with host Duff Robison

Wed (unless there’s an Oilers game); no cover EDMONTON EXPO CENTRE

Rick Ross NEW WEST HOTEL

Rodeowind (country) NORTHLANDS Rick Ross;

8pm OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm2am every Wed; no cover PAWN SHOP The Stanfields

(folk rock), Old Man Markley, Fire Next Time; 8pm; $12 (adv) 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 Wed Night Live:

hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT

Mike Letto SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A

Derina Harvey SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Jimmy Whiffen STARLITE ROOM Blitzen Trapper, guests; 8pm (door); $21.50 (adv) at Unionevents.com, Blackbyrd WUNDERBAR Scott Cook,

Scott Wicken ZEN LOUNGE Jazz

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

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

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

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

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm

Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Front Porch Roots Revue

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

BRITTANY’S Jazz evening

Open mic every Tue

every Wed; 8-11pm

RED STAR Guest DJs every

Wed

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 "B" STREET BAR 11818111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@ thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 1022597 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750124 St CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park

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CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 1033281 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHICAGO JOES 9604 -111 Ave CLOVERDALE FOOTBRIDGE Betw Louise McKinney Park and Henrietta Muir Edwards Park COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DIVERSION LOUNGE 3414 Gateway Blvd, 780.435.1922 DOW–Shell Theatre–Ft Sask 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 901388 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EDMONTON PETROLEUM CLUB 11110-108 St ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100

VUEWEEKLY JUNE 12 – JUNE 18, 2014

Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FORT LOUNGE 13403 Fort Rd HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546126 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 CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR AND TAP HOUSE 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 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 10575114 St MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE 8900-114 St, U of A NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St,

780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St ROSSDALE HALL LITTLE FLOWER SCHOOL 10135-96 Ave ST FAITHS AND ST STEPHEN THE MARTYR ANGLICAN CHURCH 11725-93 St THE SANDS 12340 Fort Rd SET NIGHTCLUB Next to

Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca SIDELINERS PUB 11018127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SOUTHEAST SKATEBOARD PARK –CAPILANO Terrace Rd, Capilano 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 1050782 Ave, 780.521.4404 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO– St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WEST END CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH 10015149 St Winspear Centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Tom Liske; Jun 13-14 • Chris Heward; Jun 20-21 COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM •

780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Mike Brody; Jun 11-15 • Yannis Pappas; Jun 19-22

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 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 • 16648-109 Ave • Komedy Krush: Open

mic hosted by Connie's Comedy, followed by Sean Thomson • Jun 19, 9pm following Capital City Singles Name that Tune • T: Connie, 780.914.8966; E: conniescomedy@gmail.com to get on open mic roster

OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic

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

KIDS WITH CANCER SOCIETY PARENTING GROUP • 11135-84 Ave •

Psychotherapy Group for parents of children with childhood cancer. Upcoming topics include-generating hope; information and problem solving strategies; communication and closeness and more • 2nd Thu each month • Jun 12-Sep 11, 10am-12

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

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION •

Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.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

ALBERTA CONVERGENCE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S SOCIAL FORUM •

Education South Bldg, Rm 129, 11210-87 Ave, U of A • Initiative to promote and coordinate Alberta’s participation in the Peoples’ Social Forum • June 14, 9:30am-4:30pm • Free; pre-register at eventbrite.ca/e/peoplessocial-forum-alberta-regional-convergencetickets-11637426857

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON

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

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio

(South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP

• Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext.

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

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) •

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

EDMONTON 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 ea 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,

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS CITIZEN SCIENCE: A GREENER WORLD WHERE SCIENCE GETS SOCIAL • ECHA

L1-490 (Edmonton Clinic Health Academy), 11405 87 Ave, U of A • Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from Drs. Kamaljit Bawa and David Schindler about how science and communities are coming together to address environmental issues too big to handle alone.

These two iconic environmental scientists have driven the creation of environmental programs and policies across the world by working closely with local communities as on-theground advocates to protect the landscapes they call home • Jun 10, 7-8:30pm • Free

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

TEDXEDMONTON 2014 • Royal Alberta

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

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot,

Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

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

10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave,

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

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall,

Groove every Wed; 9pm

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy

graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

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)

comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

THE THREADS OF DEMOCRACY • Marriott River Cree • accessandprivacy.ca/#!workshops/ c23r1 • Speakers include Dr. Cindy Blackstock from the First Nations CARES Society at the University of Alberta and a plenary panel from the Edmonton Journal; Jun 19 • Speakers include Mary Marshall; Jun 20; accessandprivacy. ca/#!day-2/c1yvm • Jun 19-20 • Info: E: brianne. thomas@ualberta.ca QUEER 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

9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

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 the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave

• 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm.

All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 (lesson with entry)

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)

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 • 10220-

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

• 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, 12:051pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:051pm • 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

Museum Theatre, 12845-102 Ave • For Certain: Uncertainty: Denis Lamoureaux, John Nychka, Suzanne West, Courtney Kirschbaum • Jun 14 • Sold out

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,

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: TueFri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:308:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian

Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 •

womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

DUFASHANYE CANADA FOUNDATION • Norwood Legion, 11150-82 St • dufashanye. org • Fundraising dinner and silent auction • Jun 20 5:30-10pm • $55/$100 (couple) at 780.721.0080 or to donate silent auction items 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)

LITTLE ITALY ITALIAN CENTRE SHOP 55th BirthDay party • 10878-95 St •

italiancentre.ca • Italian Centre Shop’s 55th Birthday Party: Food and fun for all the family.

Celebrating 55 years of bringing the taste of Europe to Edmonton’s dinner tables. England vs. Italy World Cup game starts at 4pm • Jun 14, 12-4pm

MARKETPLACE AT CALLINGWOOD • callingwoodmarketplace.com/events • 6655178 St (Courtyard next to Shoppers Drugs) • Super Magical Birthday Bash with beautiful Princesses and amazing Superheroes; Jun 14, 1-4pm 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 OPERA AL FRESCO • Devonian Botanic

Garden, 51227 Alberta 60, Parkland County • An elegant garden party with wine and hors d'oeuvres, where operatic voices perform on four stages amid the greenery of the Devonian Botanic garden • Jun 20, 7-10pm • $55 (adult)/$20 (child) at the Edmonton Opera box office, at 780.429.1000, or edmontonopera.com

OVER THE RAINBOW GROUP STRAWBERRY TEA • SAGE, Seniors Association of

Greater Edmonton, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Gay seniors annual strawberry tea,10 year anniversary featuring three entertaining guests • Jun 12, 1-3:30pm • Free; donations accepted

PETS IN THE PARK • William Hawrelak

Park, 9330 Groat Rd • ehspetsinthepark.com • Pledged Fun Run (10am); Pledged Walk (11am).

Collect pledges and help the animals at the shelter. Silent auction, sheep herding, agility, disc dog, lure coursing, canine carnival, games and crafts for children, and more. All pets welcome • Jun 22, 9am-4pm

PRIDE FESTIVAL–COLOR YOURSELF PROUD • edmontonpride.ca/pride_week/

events/ • Dance: Colour Yourself Proud: Hellenic

Hall, 10450-116 St: dance; Jun 14, 9pm-2am 3” wide version Until Jun 15

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ANNUAL BARN DANCE • KENO Hills PUBLIC AUCTIONS

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave

Stables, 52165 Range Rd 210, Sherwood Park • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; June 21, 2014 @ 3-11pm 11:00 a.m  •Castor, AB - Klaus Farms 780.464.9988, 780.922.2941,780.757.0175 prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen rescue100.ca • Barn Dance, dinner, • Wed: Karaoke Kitchen tractors,•haying Sellingwith - fullTizzy line 7pm-1am; of farm equipment, and feeding equipment, grain silent and live auction • Jun 14, 5-11pm • $40 3-11pm • bins, Thu: ATVs, Free pool night;vehicles, kitchencattle equipment. stockall trailers, 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), RIVER • Rundle Park • rivervalley.

June 28, 2014 @ 11:00 a.m 440950DAY Ave., Vegreville, AB kitchen open 3-11pm ab.ca • A day of river fun, free pancake Selling – 2244 sq ft home on 33 acres in the Town of Vegreville c/w outbuildings, fencedactivities • breakfast, water sports, and kids andEVENTS crossfenced.

SPECIAL Jun 14, 10am-3pm

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Antiques, horse drawn vehicles, buggies, 1904 Victoria Vis-à-vis sleigh,1890 horse cutters , sleighs.

ACCESS drawn AND hearse, PRIVACY CONFERENCE • SICKLE CELL FOUNDATION OF ALMarriott River CreeTractors • facultyofextension.cmail2.

Antique – professionally restored 1949BERTA Case LA, 1957 430T. EDUCATION DAY • ABMJDAND com/t/y-l-tkuhhtl-hlitukjrj-e • At this conferRundle Park, 2909-113 Ave • sicklecellfounCat 416C backhoe … and much more

ence, the keepers of democracy meet to share dationofalberta.org • Celebration of World listing,successes please refer www.prairieauction.com their knowledge,Complete and to celebrate • toSickle Cell Day with speakers, and a panel of Jun 19-20 Pre-register at accessandprivacy.ca or contact 780-499-9832 experts •Jun 21, 9:30am-3pm • Free

CITIE BALLET HOME TOUR • Various Edmonton Homes • 780.472.7774 • citiehometour.ca • Touring six homes • Jun 21-22, 11am-5pm • $39

SUMMER SOLSTICE–WORKS FESTIVAL

• Fairmont Hotel MacDonald • 780.426-2122, ext 227 • Jun 20, 6:30pm-12 • $150

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June 21, 2014 @ 11:00 a.m  Castor, AB - Klaus Farms Selling - full line of farm equipment, tractors, haying and feeding equipment, grain bins, ATVs, stock trailers, vehicles, cattle equipment.

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Selling – 2244 sq ft home on 33 acres in the Town of Vegreville c/w outbuildings, fenced and crossfenced.

Antiques, horse drawn vehicles, buggies, 1904 Victoria Vis-à-vis sleigh,1890 horse drawn hearse, cutters , sleighs.

Antique Tractors – professionally restored 1949 Case LA, 1957 JD 430T. Cat 416C backhoe … and much more

Complete listing, please refer to www.prairieauction.com or contact 780-499-9832 VUEWEEKLY JUNE 12 – JUNE 18, 2014

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Coming Events

Love your city? Or perhaps your feelings are more complex.

Tweet your pride, joy, opinions, criticisms and suggestions about your city to @DearCityCanada by June 30th.

Pique Dance Center 10604 105 Ave 780-239-6122 piquedancecentre.ca Weekly drop-in Adult dance classes; Beginner to Advanced levels offered, large variety of styles offered. $12 per 60 minute class and $16 per 90 minute class 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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Parents Empowering Parents (PEP) Society supports & educates families dealing with the effects of substance abuse in youth & adult children. Do you feel embarrassed, exhausted, hopeless, or alone as a result of a child struggling with substance use and/or abuse? PEP can help. Call 780.293.0737 or see www.pepsociety.ca for more information.

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Courses/Classes

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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Volunteers Wanted

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Build a home with Habitat for Humanity!

All Habitat Volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation & training.

Beginners to trades skill levels, groups and individuals welcome. No minimum number of shifts required. Visit www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer. We provide all tools, equipment and lunch!

Follow us on Facebook /HabitatEdm and Twitter @HabitatEdm Can You Read This?

Help someone Who can’t!

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

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

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

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

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!

Volunteers Wanted

Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network’s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers! Interested or want to learn more? Contact Maura at 780-392-8723 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com 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 StreetFest wants to celebrate a very special milestone with its favourite people! Volunteer for the 30th Annual Edmonton International Street Performers Festival, running July 4 - 13, 2014 in Sir Winston Churchill Square. Make friends, have fun, win prizes and gain access to a post-festival party in exchange for a minimum of 20 volunteer hours!

Join a community 30 years in the making! For more information and to apply, visit www.edmontonstreetfest.com, email volunteer@edmontonstreetfest.com

, or call Volunteer Coordinator Liz Allison-Jorde at 780-425-5162

WE ARE LOOKING FOR FUN, ENTHUSIASTIC PEOPLE TO JOIN OUR ALREADY ESTABLISHED TEAM! Candidates will be tasked with selling Edmonton’s only alternative weekly newspaper, Vue Weekly, as well as our ever expanding portfolio of PostVUE Publishing products.

DUTIES INCLUDE: – MANAGING A CLIENT BASE – DEVELOPING NEW CLIENTS – FINDING UNIQUE AND CREATIVE WAYS TO APPEAL TO ADVERTISERS CITYWIDE – MANAGING ALL PROSPECTIVE CLIENTS WITHIN YOUR CATEGORY/JURISDICTION

EMPLOYMENT INCLUDES: – MONTHLY CAR ALLOWANCE – MONTHLY CELLPHONE ALLOWANCE – COMMISSION ON SALES (IN ADDITION TO A BASE SALARY) – BENEFITS (UPON COMPLETION OF A 3 MONTH PROBATIONARY PERIOD)

INTERESTED CANDIDATES PLEASE EMAIL ROB AT ROB@VUEWEEKLY.COM FOR MORE DETAILS!

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Volunteers Wanted

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:

jacqueline.gwntriathlon@gmail.com.

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.

Want to make a difference for patients and their families at the Cross Cancer Institute?

Volunteer with the Alberta Cancer Foundation today and help redefine the future of cancer in Alberta.

Opportunities are available throughout the year. www.albertacancer.ca/volunteer 1.866.412.4222 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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CALL for Artist in Residence, City of Edmonton, Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers Request for Proposals The Edmonton Arts Council is inviting artists in the Edmonton area to submit a proposal to become the first artist-inresidence hosted by the Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers. The successful artist will commence duties in midsummer, for an anticipated sixmonth period (terms negotiable/flexible).

Please respond with the noted cover letter, proposal and links to appropriate support material

by Thursday, June 12 at 4:30 pm, to: info@edmontonarts.ca.

Responses may also be sent to the Edmonton Arts Council offices in hard copy.

Call for Submissions: Shop AGA design contest It’s our 90th birthday and we’re celebrating Alberta. This summer, you are invited to come up with a fresh take on the Alberta souvenir.

Submission deadline: June 13, 2014.

AGA is looking for designs celebrating Alberta by Albertans, to capture the spirit and history of our province.

This could be an illustration, painting, graphic or typography: rethink the Alberta souvenir.

The winner will receive $500 and have their design produced as an item for sale in Shop AGA for the 2014 summer season.

For more info head to: http://www.youraga.ca/shopAG A?GTTabs=4

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Call For The Gotta Minute Film Festival: Edmonton Here’s a project to make those train station TVs a little more interesting. The Gotta Minute Film Festival in Edmonton is calling for minute long silent films to air over these screens between September 15th-21st.

Cash and awards will be given to selected films. Submission due date is July 15th for Canadians and June 15th for International applicants. http://gottaminutefilmfestival.com/

Call to Makers, Mercer Collective: A Maker’s Market You must MAKE, BAKE or CREATE what you sell. You can not be a reseller of goods not produced by you.

Costs: $60 per market December show is $200 Additional Fees Table Rental is available at $10 per show. Please specify 6 ft or 4 ft. Limited quantities available.

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

http://www.emailmeform.com/ builder/form/er27bvY7c0dhM9 0B9dX49

Central McDougall/Queen Mary Park Revitalization in conjunction with the North Edge Business Association (NEBA) and the Prince of Wales Armouries Heritage Centre has a new public market in central Edmonton . . . the “URBAN MARKETPLACE” at the Prince of Wales Armouries Heritage Centre. You are Invited to apply for a space in the Summer Series.

The URBAN MARKETPLACE will provide you with an 8’ x 8’ space and a minimum 1 table (set up and tear down) for your use. The table/space rental is for the summer series for successful applicants.

Applications for multiple booths may be considered.

Vendors for this event will be chosen via juried selection.

The URBAN MARKETPLACE reserves the right to select all vendors as part of the creation of the “market mix”.

For more information please contact, Cheryl Deshaies at 780-442-1652 or cheryl.deshaies@edmonton.ca

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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 PREMIERE ART FAIR SEEKS ARTISTIC TALENT Art Vancouver is calling on galleries representing artists working in all mediums to enter its four-day art fair May 21 – 24, 2015. Local and international galleries, collectors, designers, architects and media expected to attend this event at Vancouver’s award winning Convention Centre.

Deadline for application is November 1, 2014.

For more information including booth sizing and prices go to www.artvancouver.net or contact info@artvancouver.net.

Re-Beauty A Silent Auction Fundraiser and Waste Awareness event in Edmonton.

Artist Open Call – Juried Event with $1000 to be awarded Deadline for expression of interest: June 30 , 2014 Location: Grant MacEwan University – Paul Byrne Hall Artists please send name, phone number and portfolio (or any completed work) to rebeautyart@gmail.com Re-Beauty Art Silent Auction Fundraiser Event Information at http://www.karoantonio.com/rebeauty-2014/ Spruce Grove Art Gallery 2015 Feature Artist Call for Entries Call for entry for all Alberta artists to submit a proposal as a feature artist for a solo or group show. Check our website for entry form.

Deadline June 30, 2014

Deadline: June 13, 2014 Intersite Visual Arts Festival (IVAF) actively engages an unsuspecting public and advocates for contemporary art practices through the decentralized presentation of exhibitions, happenings, and performances outside of the traditional gallery setting.

For Intersite 2014, occurring from September 5 to 7 2014, we are interested in alternative ways of conveying discourse and encouraging conversation.

Looking for individuals who want to experiment with the format of “a lecture,” finding unconventional methods or environments for delivering informed opinions and innovating within this academic structure. From street corner soap-boxes and institutional infiltrations to secret papers and Skype sermons, all proposals are welcomed.

Send completed submission packages to: ATTN: Programming Committee

intersitevisualartsfestival@gmail. com

VUEWEEKLY JUNE 12 – JUNE 18, 2014

www.alliedartscouncil.com The Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts is pleased to announce that they are accepting submissions for our new online “Directory of Ukrainian Artists in Alberta”.

Originally printed in 1993, the directory proved to be a comprehensive guide to Ukrainian artists in our province. Unfortunately, much of the information is no longer current.

Additional information and submission forms are available by contacting: Elena Scharabun Directory Coordinator, ACUA directory@acuarts.ca 780-975-307

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Musicians Available

Veteran blues drummer available . Influences include BB King, Freddie King, etc.

780-462-6291

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Musicians Wanted

Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs.

Please call 780-901-7677

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Musicians Wanted

Accord Ensemble is looking for singers to join us for 2014-2015 season. If you’re between the ages of 19-39 and love singing, give choir a shot!

We’re a laid back bunch, and we love to rehearse and perform outstanding choral repertoire. For more information about time commitment or what the group is about, e-mail us at accordensemble1@gmail.com

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

www.facebook.com/intuitcreations

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

Rates start as low as $30.

Call James @780.231.7511 for details

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Garage Sales

HUGE COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE! SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 9AM-2PM in the parking lot of Calvary Baptist Church (7215-97 Street, Edmonton).

Residents of the Hazeldean and Ritchie neighbourhoods are coming together to hold a large outdoor garage sale with 30+ tables. BBQ fundraiser on site too!

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Automobile Service

RIVERCITY MOTORS LTD 20 plus years of VW Audi dealer training. Warranty approved maintenance.

8733-53 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 5E9 www.rivercitymotors.ca

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AUCTION SALE. Saturday, June 14, 9 a.m. Welding & heavy duty mechanic tools/equipment.

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780-960-3370 / 780-903-9393.

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): In its quest for nectar, a hummingbird sips from a thousand flowers every day. As it flaps its wings 70 times a second, zipping from meal to meal, it can fly sideways, backward or forward. If it so desires, it can also hover or glide upside down. It remembers every flower it visits and knows how long it will take before each flower will produce a new batch of nectar.

To some Spanish speakers, hummingbirds are known as joyas voladoras, or "flying jewels." Now take everything I've just said, Aries, and use it as a metaphor for who you can be in the coming week.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): In 1947, the impossibly wealthy Duke of Windsor went shopping in Paris to buy a gift for his wife, the Duchess. She already had everything she wanted, so he decided to get creative. He commissioned the luxury-goods manufacturer Hermes to build her a high-fashion black leather wheelbarrow. I am not urging you to acquire something like that for yourself, Taurus. But I do like it as a symbol for what you need in your life right now: a blend of elegance and usefulness, of playful beauty and practical value, of artistry and hard work.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Your brain absorbs about 11 million pieces of information every second, but is consciously aware of less than .001 percent of all that richness. Or at least that's usually the case. Having analyzed your astrological omens, I suspect that you might soon jack that figure up as high as .01 percent—a tenfold increase! Do you think you can handle that much raw input?

Are you amenable to being so acutely perceptive? How will you respond if the world is 10 times more vivid than usual? I'm pretty confident. I suspect you won't become a bug-eyed maniac freaking out on the intensity, but rather will be a soulful, wonder-filled explorer in love with it.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): You have a strong, intricate understanding of where you have come from. The old days and old ways continue to feed you with their mysterious poignancy. You don't love every one of your past experiences, but you love ruminating about them and the way they changed you. Until the day you die many years from now, your history will keep evolving, providing an endless stream of new teachings. And yet at this particular moment in your destiny, Cancerian, I think your most important task is to focus on where you are going. That's why I urge you to temporarily forget everything you think you know about your past and instead concentrate on getting excited about the future.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): In 1928,

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Bobby Pearce won a gold medal in rowing at the Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. An unforeseen event almost sabotaged his victory. As he rowed his boat along the Sloten Canal, a family of ducks swam leisurely directly across his path. He stopped to let them pass, allowing an opponent who was already ahead of him to gain an even bigger advantage.

Yet he ultimately won the race, rowing with such vigour after the duck incident that he finished well ahead of his challenger. I foresee a comparable sequence in your life, Leo. Being thoughtful and expressing compassion may seem to slow you down, but in the end that won't hinder you from achieving your goal—and may even help.

in the coming weeks, Scorpio.

Will you overlook the bad stuff in order to take advantage of the good? Should you?

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): In one of her "Twenty-One Love Poems," Adrienne Rich talks about her old self in the third person. "The woman who cherished / her suffering is dead. I am her descendant. / I love the scar tissue she handed on to me, / but I want to go from here with you / fighting the temptation to make a career of pain." With your approval, Virgo, I'd like to make that passage one of your keynotes in the coming months.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will have an excellent opportunity to declare your independence from an affliction you've been addicted to.

Are you willing to say goodbye to one of your signature forms of suffering?

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Haggis is a Scottish pudding. According to the gourmet food encyclopedia Larousse Gastronomique, it has "an excellent nutty texture and delicious savoury flavour." And yet, to be honest, its ingredients don't sound promising. To make it, you gather the lungs, liver, small intestine and heart of a sheep, put all of that stuff inside the stomach of the sheep along with oatmeal, onions, salt and suet, and then simmer the whole mess for three hours. I'm guessing that your work in the coming week may have a certain metaphorical resemblance to making haggis, Capricorn. The process could a bit icky, but the result should be pretty tasty.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): "You should be interviewing roses not people," says a character in Anne Carson's book Autobiography of Red. That's sound poetic advice for you in the coming days, Libra.

More than you can imagine, you will benefit from being receptive to and learning from non-human sources: roses, cats, dogs, spiders, horses, songbirds, butterflies, trees, rivers, the wind, the moon and any other intelligences that make themselves available. I'm not saying you should ignore the revelations offered by people.

But your emphasis should be on gathering in wisdom from life forces that don't communicate with words.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): William Shockley was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who coinvented the transistor. He also helped launch the revolution in information technology, and has been called "the man who brought silicon to Silicon Valley."

Time named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. On the other hand, Shockley became a controversial advocate of eugenics, which damaged his reputation, led many to consider him a racist and played a role in his estrangement from his friends and family. I suspect that you will have to deal with at least one Shockley-type phenomenon

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Novelist Herman Melville wrote that in order to create art, "unlike things must meet and mate." Like what? "Sad patience" and "joyous energies," for example; both of them are necessary, he said.

"Instinct and study" are crucial ingredients, as well as humility and pride, audacity and reverence, and "a flame to melt" and a "wind to freeze." Based on my interpretation of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, I believe you will soon need to meld opposites like these as you shape that supreme work of art—your life.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Almost 100 years ago, worldfamous comedian Charlie Chaplin decided to take part in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest in San Francisco. He did his best to imitate himself, but it wasn't good enough. He didn't come close to winning. But I think you would have a different fate if you entered a comparable competition in the coming weeks. There's no question in my mind that you would be crowned as the person who most resembles you. Maybe more than ever before, you are completely yourself. You look like your true self, you feel like your true self and you are acting like your true self. Congratulations!

It's hard work to be so authentic.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease," said French philosopher François-Marie Voltaire. That principle will be useful for you to invoke in the coming weeks. You definitely need to be cured, although the "disease" you are suffering from is primarily psychospiritual rather than strictly physical. Your task will be to flood yourself with fun adventures, engaging stories and playtime diversions so that nature can heal you without the interference of your worries and kibitzing. V

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Female genital cosmetic surgery often fuelled by misinformation Female genital cosmetic surgery [FGCS] is a hot topic in my world.

The ever-increasing popularity of procedures like g-spot amplification, labiaplasty and vaginal rejuvenation has sparked a major controversy. I am concerned, as are many others, that these procedures and the people who provide them are creating problems where none actually exist, leading women to think that their normal bodies are disfigured or that minor sexual issues are serious problems that require surgery.

Although, why should we treat cosmetic surgery for the genitals any differently than we do other procedures? If we accept that a facelift or a nose job can make you feel better about yourself, why isn't it OK to have cosmetic surgery on the vulva if it makes you feel more confident?

These are just some of the questions that make the issue of FGCS so complex and confusing, not just for educators like me, but for medical professionals who do the procedures or advise patients who want them. While searching for answers, I discovered that the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada created a policy on FGCS last December.

They are not the only ones. OBGYN's around the world have created similar policies in response to this growing trend.

The SOGC acknowledges that women have the right to change their bodies any way they wish, but also recognizes that many women grow up learning to be ashamed of their genitals. They also rarely get opportunities to look at vulvas other than their own. They may think their bodies are abnormal or misshapen when they aren't. The SOGC recommends that doctors explain the wide range of "normal" when it comes to vulvas and even show pictures to put things into perspective.

Another issue is potential complications. Putting needles into or cutting into the vagina is not like a brow lift. The vagina, bladder, urethra, pelvic floor muscle and other structures as well as a multitude of blood vessels and networks of nerves exist in very close quarters and have complicated effects on each other.

Although it's true that we don't know that much about the longterm effects of other cosmetic surgeries either, messing around with this area is complicated and

could cause issues with fertility, bladder function and sexual satisfaction that we don't fully understand. Those concerns should be fully explained before surgery.

The third issue they address is the marketing of these procedures as a way to improve sexual satisfaction.

They are most often performed in independent, for-profit clinics that have a vested interest in advertising their benefits, yet these benefits have never been proven by research. The SOGC considers this unethical, and I agree.

It seems to me that it all comes back to better education. If women have full information about what bodies actually look like, the wide range of common experiences with sex and the potential effects of procedures on all aspects of their health, there's nothing wrong with having one of these surgeries. I'm quite sure, though, that if this kind of education was widely available, there would be a lot less demand for them in the first place. V

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49 UK humane org. (anagram of CRAPS) 53 Funny Fey 55 Passing crazes 56 Abbr. in a bank window 59 300, in Roman numerals 60 Afr. neighbor 61 “___ you for real?”

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I am currently a senior in high school, but come Saturday I will be a high-school grad! (Fuck yeah!) The only thing I'm worried about besides my hopes and dreams, and making it in the real world? My sex life. I'm a virgin. When I go online, I see all my friends and peers having these crazy, awesome, smoking-hot sex lives. I am obsessed with this guy in my class. Like all teenage-girl crushes, I can't get him out of my head. I could spot him on the other side of campus in all his tank-top-wearing, soccer-playing glory. I've been sitting in class all day thinking about all the sex we will probably never have. I want to know if it would be weird for me to ask him to hook up at a post-graduation party? I don't care if my first time is with someone "special," I just feel like if I don't say something to him now, I'll never get a chance to have sex at all, with anyone, ever. I feel like I know what you're going to say, Dan, but take it easy on me!

Does It Get Sexier?

a great guy and I hope things won't be awkward between us") and you'll see that rejection isn't the end of the world—or the end of boys, either. Good luck!

Helping Evaluate Lesbian Preference

1) You know what's unfair? Hitting on other people—men, women, whatever—in front of the boyBRIEFLY SPEAKING friend/girlfriend/whateverfriend I was combing through some old you can't bring yourself to fuck. columns/podcasts and came upon a Your girlfriend is being unfair to you, few instances where you counselled HELP, and you have to stop makwomen on selling their used under- ing rationalizations for her shitty, wear online. So I was wondering: is inconsiderate and cruel behaviour. this particular kink strictly limited Your girlfriend could be a lesbian, to straight guys looking for ladies' she could be bi or she could be the panties? Or is there a market for kind of straight woman who has reused men's underwear? Because I'm lationships with other women, hits one guy who would happily earn a on other women when she's drunk few extra bucks selling my old boxer and makes out with other women biannually—that kind of straight briefs.

Undie Noob Desiring Interesting woman is called a "closeted lesbian"—but getting her to precisely Extra Salary define her sexuality isn't going to Duncan Black—the gay porn star change this simple fact: she has and male escort (duncanblackxxx. no interest in fucking you. Not into com), not the liberal blogger (es- men, not into you—what difference chatonblog.com)—does a brisk does it make? That rumbling sound business selling his used jocks and you heard a moment ago, HELP, briefs online. No offence to any- was millions of Savage Love readone, but I don't think Blog Duncan ers mumbling "DTMFA" under their could move as many units of dirty breath as they read your letter. Take First, DIGS, some research shows a underpants as Porn Duncan. It's like their advice. link between time spent on social this: the more people who want into 2) Yes, HELP, you are overthinkmedia and depression. The issue your pants, and the more sexualized ing this. You've spent way too much seems to be people comparing what your public image, the more people time thinking about how you could they know of their own lives— will pay to get their hands on the make this relationship work—and which are complicated, messy and consolation prize that is a pair of what you might be doing wrong— sometimes painwhen what you ful—with the idealshould be thinking ized portrait others You know what's unfair? Hitting on other about is how to excreate of their own yourself from people—men, women, whatever—in front tricate lives on Facebook, this doomed relationof the boyfriend/girlfriend/whateverfriend ship.

Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Remember: 3) Are we talking you can't bring yourself to fuck. while your friends about her behaviour may appear to have or yours? If we're talkcrazy, awesome, fun-filled lives on dirty underpants. So unless you're ing about her behaviour, HELP, it is Facebook, their actual lived reality conventionally hot and willing to normal—for scared and closeted likely includes as many sads and put yourself out there (show your lesbians with security-blanket boyfails as your life does. handsome face and hot body on- friends they can't let go of. If we're Something else to bear in mind: line), UNDIES, you aren't going to talking about your behaviour, it isn't teenagers are waiting longer to have move many units, either. (I follow normal—because very few people sex, according to the Guttmacher both Duncan Blacks on Twitter, and would swallow the shit she's been Institute, and nearly 40 percent of so should you: @iamduncanblack feeding you. DTMFA. 18-year-olds of both sexes are not for porn, @atrios for politics.) yet sexually active. So you are not a SCENT OF A CHEATER freak, DIGS. All of your friends and MAKING EXCUSES My fiancé came home, and his beard peers may tell you they're sexually I love my girlfriend, but here's the smelled like pussy—the sweet, active—or their Facebook and Insta- thing: she might be a lesbian. I base healthy kind. He denied having his gram posts may imply that they're that opinion on the fact that she's face in someone else's business. Is sexually active—but the data tells dated women in the past, she hits there anything else it could have us (and I'm telling you) that some of on women when she's drunk and she been? Help! your friends are liars. has made out with at least two of Sick In Minneapolis Finally, DIGS, this boy is not the her female friends in the last year. last boy on Earth. You will have oth- She says this is normal for girls. I have no idea what pussy smells er chances to have sex, with other Most troubling is that our sex life like, SIM, as I've never had my face people—lots. But I think you should has dried up. Despite having many in that business. So I can't really tell make a pass at this boy—if not for honest conversations, she just won't/ you what else it could've been— the sexual experience, then for the can't be sexual with me. I know what Clamato? Caramel corn? Crème experience of making the pass itself. you're going to say: be honest and brûlée?—because I have no frame Make it an honest, straightforward tell her what my needs are, and if of reference. But I'm running your and explicit pass. ("I've had such a she can't meet them, ask for an open letter in the hopes that otherwisecrush on you, and this is crazy, but relationship. But that conversation cute hipster boys will be inspired to fuck me maybe?") If he's interested, is harder to have than I think you shave off their ugly fucking beards tell him you're a virgin, tell him realize, Dan. Although it's hard to to escape justified or unjustified accondoms are required and tell him see her hit on women/make out with cusations of infidelity. you'd rather do it sober or soberish. her girlfriends when we aren't beIf he's not interested, well, that'll ing sexual, I can live with it because On the Lovecast, Dan and a globalsuck. You'll have to wait a bit lon- I love her more than I can say. My health doctor talk about the pros and ger for your first sexual experience, questions: 1) Is it unfair of me to ask cons of Truvada: savagelovecast.com.

DIGS, but you'll have an opportu- her to define her sexuality? 2) Am I V nity to practise handling rejection overthinking this? 3) Are the behavwith grace ("Well, I still think you're iours I've described normal? @fakedansavage on Twitter

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SUMMER SOLSTICE FESTIVAL 2014 JUNE 20-22 Presented by the EDMONTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY

CONVOCATION HALL, U OF A CAMPUS ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH, 10209 123 ST FESTIVAL PASS $60, $50, $25 SINGLE TICKETS $35, $30, $15

Featuring Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) and Juliette Kang (violin)

FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 7:30 PM España SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 7:30 PM Songs of Identity SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 3 PM Summer Passion

Tickets available at TIX on the Square, The Gramophone and at the door. For program details and information on master classes, visit: www.edmontonchambermusic.org.

Grisha Goryachev (flamenco and classical guitar) / Andrew Wan (violin) / Jasmine Lin (violin) / Teng Li (viola) / Thomas Kraines (cello) / Adrian Fung (cello) / Serouj Kradjian (piano) / Patricia Tao (piano)

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