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"It’s just creating a full circle community around food, right within our city."

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"That’s what worries me: when people forget about the real food, and the real service and the real places."

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"Empathy is the most beautiful, emotional feeling."

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"Most of the movies we have about this era are always about white men coming in. And it’s always the beginning of a lot of trouble. "

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"If you've never met or played with John Coltrane, you are full of shit."

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Risk and resistance We have a federal government that does not care about what its citizens have to say. It disregards the rights of First Nations people, ignores pollution in the form of increased greenhouse-gas emissions, overlooks the disruption of natural animal habitats like those of caribou, and justifies oil spills that will inevitably happen if the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline is built.

Stephen Harper and his Conservatives bullied their way to approving this pipeline to carry crude from Alberta to the coast of BC despite public resistance and calls to listen to the facts about how much environmental damage it will cause.

Four panels of witnesses representing Enbridge were questioned regarding how the company would deal with things like oil spills and the loss of animal habitat. Stephen Hazell, interim executive director of Nature Canada, says, "The expert evidence before the panel was that there is one in four chance that a pipeline has a major spill in its lifespan—those are worse odds than playing Russian roulette."

British Columbia's First Nations were not properly consulted and do not support the pipeline crossing their land. The pipeline would cross more then 1200 watercourses between Alberta and BC, with most of it on crown land. Greenpeace says 20 000 people have pledged their support to stand with First Nations against the pipeline.

The fight is not over—in fact, it may just be beginning. Enbridge has to meet 209 conditions set out by the National Energy Board, and residents of BC, including a coalition of First Nations bands, are looking at all their legal options.

The province also has five conditions that still need to be met: oil-spill prevention and cleanup, consulting with and meeting the rights of First Nations, that BC receives a fair share of the benefits, and that the environmental review is properly carried out.

This pipeline is a way for the government—and the oil and gas industry—to profit from one of our resources. But this cannot be an autonomous big brother decision when so much risk and resistance is involved. V

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To bitch or not to bitch?

We keep using the B word, but should we?

Let us ponder the word bitch. Specifically, is it a word that should be tossed around or tossed out?

To be a bitch is to be a domineering, sexually promiscuous woman. A bitch is the bottom, dominated—"I'm going to make you my bitch." To bitch is to complain, to sit in the middle seat, to make a mistake. If you're in a bitchy mood you're best to be avoided but if you're a bitchy queen you are probably doing something right. Life's a bitch, you're a son of a bitch, the bitch is back, your tat is bitchin', the skinny bitch has a diet all to herself, and you'd better work bitch.

Like many insults (think of the ubiquity of "fuck," for example), the word leapfrogs between genres and contexts. The Britney Spears reference above is a case in point: here is a female pop singer borrowing from drag-queen culture, who borrows it from ... well, we'll get back to that. But does a shifting landscape of meanings eliminate the word's origins? The word bitch arrives to us as an insult from about the 14th century, where the comparison to a dog was meant to draw attention to a woman's promiscuity. Despite its

commonplace nature, the word is still used to demean women and contains much of the same meaning 700 years later: think back to the 2008 US presidential campaign when one of John McCain's supporters asked of Hillary Clinton: "How do we beat the bitch?"

Certainly there are ongoing attempts to reclaim the word. Feminist magazine Bitch is a good example.

Proponents note that the word is used to shut down powerful women so reclaiming the word affirms that strong and outspoken women are a good thing. And while I agree in principle—strong women are awesome!

It's OK for women to have lots of sex!—every time I hear the word it sets my teeth on edge. The very word is ugly and harsh-sounding but more importantly, the same people I see reclaiming it also have no problem using it as a put-down. So is being a bitch really a good thing if we also wish our annoying co-worker would stop being such a bitch?

The same thing goes for the queer community. In my experience, bitch is primarily the property of gay men

and drag queens. And I want to note right off the top that I am neither a gay man nor a drag queen and I don't really participate in drag culture, so I am speaking as somewhat of an outsider here. I don't know where or how the link between bitch and queens developed. I like to think that the use of bitch speaks to an imperfect, corrupted form of femininity, that a bitchy queen is an acknowledgement of the queering of gender so inherent in a drag project. I also can't help but read it as a form of (intentional or not) misogyny, even when it is meant as a term of endearment.

I'm all for words being reclaimed— hell, this very column is called "Queermonton." But can everything be reclaimed? My friend Jil has made the wonderful point that words can only be reclaimed by those for whom the word is an insult. So maybe it's not the best idea for drag queens or gay men to be trying to reclaim the word bitch, in the same way it's inappropriate for women who have never been sex workers to reclaim "whore."

Perhaps feminists can reclaim bitch, but maybe after 700 years it's time to find better language for ourselves. V

NEWS // LOCAL FOOD

The farm in the city

Local food becomes more accessible in Edmonton of a farm's produce, which is then delivered to their home or a designated pick-up station each week. The program provides local farmers with a steady income regardless of weather and reduces food waste, while participants get to experience the risks and rewards of the farming process firsthand.

Herbert started in the CSA program in 2012, reaching 150 subscribers the first summer and 250 the next. With a

es confirmed as pick-up spots for this summer: Acme Meat Market, Prairie Mill Bread Company, Careit Urban Deli, Dutch Treats and Farm Fresh Meats, The Pan Tree, Northlands, D'Arcy's Meat Market, and Get Cooking on MacEwan University campus. Sharing resources and support with these businesses has been invaluable for Herbert, creating a symbiotic relationship for everyone involved.

The program provides local farmers with a steady income regardless of weather and reduces food waste, while participants get to experience the risks and rewards of the farming process.

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or Janelle Herbert, running a farm in Edmonton has always been about more than just growing vegetables and making a profit. As the owner and operator of Riverbend Gardens, she's also interested in bolstering the city's local food economy—something she and her team do through their Community Supported Agriculture program, an ini-

tiative that is increasing the accessibility of local food in Edmonton.

There are more than 12 000 CSA programs across North America, with a dozen of those located in Edmonton and the surrounding area. Although the process can differ slightly between farms, the general concept is the same: subscribers pay a fee to receive a share

few weeks still left to register for this summer, there are already about 250 people signed up. Herbert credits the continual increases to a renewed interest in how our food gets from the ground to our plates.

"Say we get some hail and the peas look a little bit damaged. [People] can connect that to their own [lives], like if we got hail, they got hail," she explains.

"The food is reflective of the weather in their community, and then we can sort of explain what happens."

Herbert currently has eight business-

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"We help each other with marketing and getting the word out there," she explains. "And then in return, when people come to pick up their vegetables, they're likely to buy a loaf of bread or a steak or a roast in those establishments. It's just bringing the awareness and pooling the marketing strategies that is so beneficial to all of us."

The relatively low participation cost—for example, a weekly order is $30 for a couple or $35 for a family, with the price dropping when multiple weeks are purchased—and mul-

tiple pick-up options are part of what makes CSA programs a great addition to the local food movement, which is normally plagued by a perceived lack of convenience, according to Breanna Mrocek, social media manager and core team member of The Local Good.

The Edmonton-based not-for-profit organization, which connects people with resources for living a more local, green lifestyle, combats this notion by inviting a guest speaker from a local CSA program to its popular Green Drinks event each year. Mrocek says they've seen a lot of enthusiasm about CSA programs at the last two local food events, and have received positive feedback from presenters and guests alike.

"I think most people see the value in the program; it's just about creating awareness that such a program even exists and educating people on the steps to go about participating in a CSA," Mrocek says.

Having seen what can happen when people do buy in, Herbert is excited for what the continued collaboration between the public, farmers and businesses will mean for the future of a sustainable local food economy in Edmonton.

"It's just creating a full circle community around food, right within our city."

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FRONT NEWS // WOMEN'S SHELTERS

Polite applause for extra funds

Increased funding to women's shelters and sexual assault centres short on specifics

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he provincial government's recent announcement of $6 million in additional funding for women's shelters and sexualassault centres across Alberta is welcome news for agencies providing services to victims, but doesn't go far enough according to Laurie Blakeman, MLA for Edmonton-Centre and Justice Critic for the Alberta Liberal Party.

Blakeman says the problem is that victims aren't getting the support they need and this funding increase will do little more than make a dent in the numbers of women and children currently falling through the cracks.

"Given how chronically under-funded both sexual-assault centres and women's shelters have been under this government, I'm happy to see any amount of money directed to these areas," Blakeman says. But she's critical of the lack of clarity in the government's announcement and wonders if the funding will be stable. "These organizations and Albertans who depend on their services need to know if the funding will be permanent."

Alberta Human Services spokesperson Cheryl Tkalcic says it will be: "This is stable, sustainable funding. This funding is not a onetime grant or special project."

Tkalcic adds the provincial government is firmly committed to providing supports for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and points out that sexual-assault centres across the province saw their funding, on average, more than double following the announcement.

With the 2012-13 Alberta Council of Women's Shelters data report indicating that 15 032 women and their 12 881 children could not be accommodated by shelters, and only 5966 women and 5847 children were, Blakeman is concerned that even with this additional funding, women and children will continue to be turned away when they are fleeing domestic violence.

"I am concerned that more vulnerable women are going to be turned away simply because there still are not enough resources," Blakeman says. "This is one area where clarity and predictability can mean the difference between finding a safe haven and having nowhere to go to escape violence."

Blakeman says just as many women are turned away from shelters in Alberta as are served by them.

"This is especially true for women without children," she notes. "While we can't fault shelters for making women with children a priority, we can't pretend that we are serving all of the women who need help here."

According to an ACWS fact sheet, more than 103 343 women and 108 955 children were turned away by women's shelters across Alberta over the past decade. Of these, more than 80 percent were from Edmonton and Calgary. Due to the high demand for shelter spaces, shelters are forced to prioritize admissions of abused women with children. As a result, admissions of abused women with children represent about 60 percent of all admissions in the province's two largest cities. ACWS data confirms that single women, including senior women, rarely gain admission due to bed shortages.

Of the new funds, $3 million will be used to provide 70 emergency shelter beds in high-needs areas, with Calgary to receive 22 of those beds. Edmonton will not be getting

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any additional shelter beds, but the five contracted agencies in our city and the one in Sherwood Park will get a portion of that $3 million for outreach.

Tess Gordey, executive director of Edmonton’s Women In Need shelter (WIN House), says her agency is grateful for their share of the outreach money.

"We already have a half-time outreach position and this money is going to pay for that," she says. "We appreciate not having to fundraise for that."

Gordey also notes that WIN House will benefit from their share of the funding being allocated to the shelters so that they can increase the wages and benefits of their staff or hire new staff.

Similarly, Liza Sunley, executive director of Lurana Shelter, says her agency will be able to create 1.5 new outreach positions. "This is really important when it comes to supporting women who don't come into the shelter but still need support," she says.

Christie Lavan, communications and partnerships advisor with ACWS says that although the government's announcement might have been a little short on specifics, the umbrella agency, which speaks for women's shelters across the province welcomes the funding with open arms.

The increases to help shelters recruit and retain staff are a step in the right direction, according to Jan Reimer, executive director of ACWS and former mayor of Edmonton. In a press release welcoming the new funding, Reimer says it is good to see the government acknowledging the abuse and violence faced by women.

"It's all connected," Reimer says. "Sexual abuse and domestic violence are symptoms of a deep-rooted, societal pandemic related to women."

The Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton, along with the University of Alberta Sexual Assault Centre will each be getting a share of the $2 million promised to the 10 sexual assault centres across the province, which, Tkalcic points out, is—for some of the centres—more than double what was promised in the March budget.

"The Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton, for example, will be receiving more than double," Tkalcic says, "with $444 000 in new money bringing their total this year to $692 000."

She says the university's centre, which has never received provincial money before, will receive $30 000 and the Saffron Centre in Sherwood Park will see a boost of $65 000, bringing their total government funding this year up to $158 000.

Still, Blakeman, who has fought for increased resources for victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault since she was first elected in the '90s, cannot bring herself to jump on the bandwagon of those singing the government's praises.

"I'm sorry, but this is a government that is riding on the backs of women in this province, and they are riding on the backs of charities who are forced to fundraise in order to support the women who need them," she says.

"So, no, the government doesn't get a standing ovation for this. For this, they get polite applause."

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Tony Blair argues that the invasion of Iraq was the right thing to do Whatever else you may say about the "young war criminal" (as British journalist Alan Watkins used to call former prime minister Tony Blair), he certainly fights his corner with great determination. He is condemned to spend his life defending his part in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and last weekend he was at it again.

In a 3000-word essay on his website, Blair wrote about last week's conquest of almost half Iraq's territory by the fanatical fighters of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria): "We have to liberate ourselves from the notion that 'we' have caused this. We haven't." What he really meant by "we," of course, was "I." And he would say that, wouldn't he?

But at least give Blair credit for producing an interesting argument. "As for how these [recent] events reflect on the original decision to remove Saddam [Hussein]," he wrote, "[the argument] is that but for the invasion of 2003, Iraq would be a stable country today.

"Consider the post 2011 Arab uprisings. Put into the equation the counterfactual—that Saddam and his two sons would be running Iraq in 2011 when the uprisings began. Is it seriously being said that the revolution sweeping the Arab world would have hit Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria ... but miraculously Iraq, under the most brutal and tyrannical of all the regimes, would have been an oasis of calm?

"So it is a bizarre reading of the cauldron that is the Middle East today, to claim that but for the removal of Saddam, we would not have a crisis."

Blair is employing one of his favourite techniques: winning an argument with a straw man. Nobody is actually saying that if the United States, Britain and some hangers-on had not illegally invaded Iraq in 2003, the country would

be an "oasis of calm" today. Of course the "Arab Spring" would have come to Iraq, too, and of course there would be huge turmoil in the country today.

If Hussein had managed to hang on to power in the face of a democratic uprising in 2011 that was initially nonviolent, Iraq today might be in a civil war somewhat like that in Syria. And if his dictatorship had been overthrown in 2011, whatever new government emerged in Iraq would certainly be contending with acute ethnic and sectarian rivalries today.

But the living standards, infrastructure and health and educational services of a quite developed country would not have been massively degraded by a decade of invasion, foreign occupation and popular resistance. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who were killed in these events would still be alive (although Hussein's secret police would have murdered the usual thousand or so each year). And above all there would be no ISIS, nor anything like it.

There were no terrorists in Iraq in 2003. There were people with radical Islamist ideas, but they kept quiet for fear of Hussein's torturers and there weren't very many of them. And there were no "weapons of mass destruction" either. It was an exceptionally dumb war, to borrow Barack Obama's famous phrase, and it began the destruction of Iraq.

It is the deep sectarian divisions in Iraq's Arabic-speaking population (the Kurds are a separate issue) that are now completing that process of destruction. However, as with the distinctions between Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Muslims in old Yugoslavia before the breakup and the Balkan wars of the 1990s, most Sunnis and Shias in Iraq before 2003 lived side by side with a fairly low degree of friction.

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It was the fight against foreign occupation after 2003 that radicalized people in Iraq and drove so many of them back into narrow sectarian identities.

"Al-Qaeda in Iraq," the original name for what now calls itself ISIS, was born in that struggle, and Blair and George W Bush were its midwives.

It's striking that Al-Qaeda in Iraq's main target during the occupation was to kill large numbers of Shias rather than lots of Americans. Its strategy was to provoke a sectarian war in which Iraqi Sunnis would be losing at first—but then their plight would trigger intervention by Sunni states in the region and lead to a general SunniShia war. It was a convoluted, nasty and deeply unrealistic strategy, but it made sense in terms of their radical Islamist ideology.

If there had been no invasion, and Hussein had been overthrown by a popular revolution only three years ago, there would certainly be great tension in a newly democratic Iraq now. Sunni Arabs would be having trouble coming to terms with their minority status (which most were unaware of under Hussein). Shias would be tempted to exploit their majority status unfairly. Kurds would be pushing for more autonomy.

But they would be doing so in an atmosphere that had not been contaminated by a decade of sectarian hatred and savagery. There would be no organizations like ISIS dedicated to waging a sectarian war. And even if Saddam had not been overthrown and Iraq was caught up in a civil war like Syria's, it would have a far less sectarian character. As would Syria's, for that matter. V

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DISH

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The man behind the legend // Meaghan Baxter

Three decades and counting Yianni Psalios has created an enduring legacy of Greek tradition in Edmonton

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dmonton is home to a Greek restaurant dynasty.

With the opening of his first Edmonton restaurant in 1981, Cyprusborn Yianni Psalios established a dining legacy that endures to this day. His most recent venture, Yianni's Backyard, opened at the end of 2013 just off Calgary Trail on 55 Avenue. It marks the latest in his succession of Greek restaurants, which have charted the ups and downs of Edmonton's economy over the past three and a half decades.

"After so many years, you try to scale back a little bit," says Psalios, sitting on the brand-new patio at Yianni's Backyard. It truly looks like something imported straight from southern Greece: whitewashed walls with brilliant green foliage planted all around, baskets of bright flowers hanging from the pergola overhead. "We try to keep it more natural and more like back home," he says. "I like my customers, when they walk in, to think they are somewhere else."

Soon after opening his first restaurant in the Lendrum neighbourhood, Psalios opened another on

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Whyte Avenue, and then another a few blocks away. The Whyte Avenue location is still in operation, though Psalios sold it some years ago. The '90s saw him opening the first Koutouki on 124 Street downtown, which is currently being run by his daughter and son-in-law. At one point, Psalios notes that he had as many as five restaurants in operation at the same time.

But he hadn't always intended to become a restaurateur, or at least not directly. During his early years in Cyprus, Psalios worked first as a busboy in the hospitality industry where he gleaned a bit of kitchen knowledge; he learned more through attending hospitality school and then working on a series of passenger ships in the early '70s. In 1974 he considered returning home, but the Turkish invasion of Cyprus caused him to change course to Vancouver; three months later he opened a Greek restaurant, Kypriaki Taverna, which is still there today.

Things might have gone very differently had Psalios not visited Ed-

monton by chance in 1980.

"I came for three days and I met my wife," he says. "She's from here; she's Greek origin but she's born here. And instead of three days, it has been 35 years."

Stretching along one entire wall of Yianni's Backyard, underneath the trailing vines and twinkling lights strung from the ceiling, are a series of photographs. A closer looks reveals snapshots of Edmonton notables: a picture of Psalios beside Wayne Gretzky and the Stanley Cup is immediately recognizable, even to those who aren't hockey fans.

"The first one to come in was Dave Semenko," Psalios recalls of the Oilers. "And then Kevin Lowe, and he brought the other crew oneby-one. All of us were young punks at the time, young guys.

"That was the heydays, in the '80s—it was the place to be," he continues, going on to describe that at the time, Whyte Avenue was rather rundown and nowhere near the increasingly gentrified hot spot it is today. "They liked the food; they liked the atmosphere.

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I was there when they were winning, when they were losing. All of us were the same age at the same time, and we became friends—they still come here and visit us, and actually we have their kids coming in now, too."

Over the course of his 30-plus years running Edmonton restaurants, Psalios has seen a lot of change in the local climate. It's fitting that he's talking about all this on a patio, as the original Whyte Avenue location was one of the first Edmonton restaurants to build a patio once legislation was altered to permit them.

Not all of the changes in Edmonton's dining landscape were positive, however.

"At that time it was all ownersoperators—Italians, Greeks, all the nationalities," Psalios says. "Now it has become all franchises—there's not too many independent restaurants around, period. That's what worries me: when people forget about the real food and the real service and the real places. We want our customers, when they come here, to be a person, not a

number."

Ultimately, Psalios credits his enduring success with a simple philosophy of providing high-quality Greek cuisine in a warm atmosphere.

"It's very classic, very traditional," he says. "We make it from scratch, nothing from a package, all healthy."

He even imports fresh Greek seafood once a week, notably seabream —which probably isn't found anywhere else in town. "It's a little bit more expensive, but it's worth it," he assures.

While his history might suggest that another new restaurant is just around the corner, Psalios notes that for the time being, he's happy with the way things are.

"My passion is to create an environment that you don't see anywhere," he says. "For this province, for this city, for this climate—even to create something for a short time, like two, three months; me and my customers, to just sit outside and enjoy it."

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Wine worthy of Dionysus

Greeks are known for their food, but the wine is worth a try Few places boast such a long and storied wine history as Greece, yet around these parts, Greek wine is often uncommon—if not completely unknown.

This is a shame, since Greece produces some lovely wines, and the country has undergone something of a vinous renaissance in recent years. Wine was a daily part of Ancient Greek life, and while Greece is not the birthplace of viticulture (that honour goes to the area around the Black Sea), archaeological evidence suggests that wine was made by the Greeks as far back as 4000 years ago. Yet while wine flourished throughout Greece's ancient history, it languished for decades in the modern era; the Greek wine industry remained largely undeveloped up until the 20th century.

Until quite recently, Greek wine in North America was synonymous with retsina, a pungent white wine

based on the ancient practice of adding pine-tree resin to wine in order to preserve it from oxidizing on long voyages. Retsina is definitely something of an acquired taste (some people liken its aroma to turpentine, though recent examples are more finessed), and has never been particularly popular in western markets.

Still, it's worth trying out, as producers have worked to make their retsinas palatable to western tastes, and decent examples are one of very few wines that pair well with the garlicky flavours common in many Greek dishes.

Wine is made in scattered pockets throughout the entire country of Greece, primarily from indigenous Greek grape varieties—the country is home to more than 300 littleknown varieties that don't occur anywhere else. As Greece modernizes its winemaking practices, however, French varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah have grown increasingly popular. Almost threequarters of Greek wine is white, led by the citrusy Assyrtiko variety—it's a refreshing white for the summer, especially good with salads, seafood and light chicken dishes. Xinomavro and Agiorgitiko lead as the predominant red grapes; the former is spicy and earthy, with tart acidity and high tannin content, while the latter is lighter, with blackberry flavours and velvety tannins. Both of these reds are excellent when paired with Greece's signature lamb-based dishes, as well as any roasted red meats.

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The northern half of Greece is dominated by red wine, especially the regions of Naoussa and Rapsani.

Both red and white wines are made throughout the large peninsula of Peloponnese, which is home to several smaller sub-regions including Nemea (predominantly red wine) and Pátra (mainly white wine). Wine is also made throughout the southern islands dotting the Mediterranean where rainfall is almost nonexistent, forcing the bushy grapevines to send their roots deep into the islands' volcanic fissures in search of pockets of trapped rainwater. The fabled Greek island Santorini produces particularly intense, high-quality white wine, often made from the ancient Athiri variety. Greece also produces a number of sweet dessert wines, chiefly from the intensely floral Muscat grape as well as from the inky-dark Mavrodaphne variety. V

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PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS Thu, Jun 19 – Sat, Jul 26 Monology & Face Latitude 53 Opening reception: Thu, Jun 19 (7 pm)

Facing the facts

Insoon Ha's artwork acknowledges the violence we typically don't

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Face // Insoon Ha

n Canada, everybody's so kind," Insoon Ha says, after a moment's reflection. "They don't [want to] believe something bad is happening in the world … because they don't experience that kind of situation. [But] every time, everywhere, it happens."

Ha, a Korea-born visual artist who's been living in Toronto for eight years—a lovely, very polite chatter, who apologizes for her English and notes that she doesn't get out much in Toronto's art community—seems fascinated by a certain juxtaposition she's found here: that in a relatively calm, relatively stable country, we'd rather pretend everything's fine than confront the darkness and violence— especially gendered violence—that still permeates so prevalently. Her work draws on the violence in Korea's history of occupation as well as her identity as a Korean woman, but, as she notes, those ideas are just as relevant anywhere.

Two of her works, both going up this week in Latitude 53, speak to that discrepancy in acknowledgment. The first, Monology finds digital photography prints of mixed female-animal forms, as well as everyday objects repurposed as weapons—candy canes

as nooses and stakes, for one—all casting doubt over meaning and identity.

Face, however, might prove more visceral for audiences when Ha performs it at the opening reception on Thursday. The floor of Latitude will be covered in reproductions of the artist's face: the audience literally has to walk over Ha to get anywhere in the gallery. And after her selfportraits have been sufficiently trod upon, Ha will wash them clean, then wash herself with that same filthy water.

"I'm focusing on trauma," Ha says.

"But I don't try to cure [it], or feel better. I just let it affect the situation.

Empathy is the most beautiful, emotional feeling."

Ha notes the typical reactions to Face begin with trepidation (which lasts until someone finally just walks across her faces) and then, once she washes, a mix of discomfort and anger. (It's children, Ha notes, that actively avoid stepping on the faces altogether.)

"I'm really glad to disturb them," she says of her audiences. "They didn't want to hurt anybody, but they don't have a choice but to step on my face.

They confront my feeling. And also, it's an opportunity to watch them. As the victim, I can watch everybody.

"I felt very emotional," she adds. "I never felt that kind of feeling before."

That particular feeling, she notes, is a somewhat complex one to unpack.

It's understanding, but perhaps not the sort of calming sense the term's typically used in.

"It's not happiness," she says of the feeling of performing Face. "But it's real. I'm not offended by it. I can watch everything, and I'm a victim, but I can control every situation. ... I know what [the audience is] feeling, and they understand my feeling. We understand each other. We all see what's going on here.

"Usually, when people fight each other, the attacker doesn't feel anything," she continues. "They don't empathize with the victim at all. But in my situation, they understand what they're doing, and I understand what I'm doing. And they also understand my feelings. But we cannot switch positions—we remain in the same positions, but we can understand each other."

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PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

The Works Art & Design Festival T

he Works Art & Design Festival has stayed the same in its 29 years at least in one capacity: it hasn't stopped moving.

Movement, this year's theme, seems fitting, says executive artistic director Amber Rooke. In addition to growing its audience size and attracting more artists from across North America, the festival has been extending its reach beyond its core location in Churchill Square as far north as the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts on 118 Avenue and as far south as the university-area FAB Gallery.

"That's a way the festival is changing and growing, it's just continuing to develop roots and branches both within Edmonton and throughout the

aboriginal art, as a nod to the recent continent," Rooke says.

The festival's art illustrates the Indian Residential Schools Truth and theme in both literal movements, but Reconciliation Commission and sursocial manifestations as well. For ex- rounding social movements. ample, Matthew Walker's Device for "Artists are very responsive to the now. It's not diffithe Emancipation of Landscape, a 12- Thu, Jun 19 – Tue, Jul 1 cult to find work by six-foot wooden Various locations, that's relevant cannon, "shoots" theworks.ab.ca and new because layered recordings it's out there— you just need to of birds, canines and beetles, re-inserting themselves keep an eye out," she says. into the urban landscape. Or, Michael But Rooke mentions certain aspects Markowsky's Faster Than The Speed of the festival thrive on remaining of Sound showcases drawings he static—after all, she says, "there's made while breaking the sound bar- nothing wrong in the traditional." She rier in a fighter jet. adds that the festival has maintained Rooke also notes a surge of rec- one of its core goals: bringing art to onciliation themes, particularly in enthusiasts and newbies alike.

She says the festival strives to make all 25 of its sites inviting spaces for checking out exhibits for the first time. Churchill Square is best for first-timers, Rooke notes, with fullday live music and family programs all catered by diverse food vendors.

The festival offers walking tours and bike tours, which were added to the festival lineup last year. The first bike tour on Saturday, June 21 will be hosted by Edmonton First Lady and blogger, Sarah Chan. They're also introducing the Roving Reception series this year, where receptions will be held at different venues every afternoon and attendees can gather, stamp their Roving Reception

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The Sunday Service

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ot to put down magicians, when it does as you are." but magicians are very good With nothing up their sleeves, no con men," explains Caitlin Howden, plants and no scripts, the trick that trying to reframe her slightly ter- every improviser constantly strugrifying craft of gles to pull improv into a off is creating metaphor we Until Sat, Jun 28 comedy from can all under- Citadel Theatre, $15 – $20 nothing.

And stand. "Where- Schedule at rapidfiretheatre.com as a member as improv is of Vancouver's kind of like The Sunday people who are trying to be magi- Service, one of the many improv cians but they never learned any of troupes descending on Edmonton the tricks. I genuinely hope magic this week to participate in Rapid happens and I'm just as surprised Fire Theatre's annual Improvaganza festival, Howden wants to be very clear—nothing about their shows is premeditated.

A showcase of innovative work by "We actually haven't done any University of Alberta Drama Faculty thinking or strategizing or planning of the show," reinforces Howden.

"People are always convinced— 'Oh, well ... you guys planned that a little bit right?' And it's like, 'My God, if we had planned it, don't you think we wouldn't have a dragon saving the city three times in a row?'"

But Improvaganza isn't just another night of spontaneous hilarity, with a few special guests, down at The Citadel Theatre. The improv festival conjures up 11 days of stories and scenes, pulling together teams from as far away as Toronto, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Bogotá and Rome. As Howden describes it, it's an improv summit, featuring a gloriously diverse range of games, stand-up and long-form improv.

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Surrounded by improv wizardry, the magic is practically guaranteed to happen at Improvaganza, regardless of whether or not one particu-

lar team member is having a #killingit kind of night.

"You can be the worst that night," Howden says, "but the chances are, when the three other people on stage see that you're being the worst, they'll be able to be like, 'OK, I've got you. I'll save you. I'll get you out of this scene.' So even if one person is having an off night it really doesn't matter because another [improviser] will make them look good and then the audience is none-the-wiser. And that's why you're best friends.

"It's the closest thing to a gang I will ever be in," she continues. "I know that I can go to any city and if there's an improviser in that city, I can stay on their couch, that they will take me to a bar and if they've got a show on, they're like 'Yeah, come do this show.' It really is the closest thing, perhaps, to some sort of non-violent gang."

A non-violent, super funny, kind of goofy, gang—and they're invading Edmonton just to make you laugh. And after 14 years of participating in improv-gang-related activities, Howden has developed a pretty brazen attitude about life on and off stage.

"There are no real rules," she advises. "Anyone who tells you that life has to be a certain way or that being 31 is a certain way or being an improviser is X, Y and Z or being a female improviser means you have to be this, this or this—there is no one making up any of these rules and you can really do whatever the fuck you want."

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Childhood friends // Mat Busby

Lucy and Mr Plate E

ven if you never met Ned Plate through a tough time, and now when he first came through he's the one doing that." town—back in 2001's Sterling award-winning Fringe hit, Citizen O'Connor, who admits that imPlate—you still probably know prov is her first love—though The Lonely Hearts, the guy. Or at Hearts a play she penned least the kind Until Sat, Jun 28 (7:30 pm; 2 pm that went up at of guy—Jana Saturday matinee) last summer's O'Connor cer- Directed by Stewart Lemoine Fringe, currently tainly did.

Varscona Theatre, $16 – $30 has a Sterling "One of the nomination to things I loved about Ned was he was just some- its name—helped write the script one who was so real and relatable, for Lucy alongside Ned's original and someone that my dad prob- creator, Jeff Haslam, and Stewart ably works with," she says with a Lemoine (who also directs here).

Haslam drafted the script, and laugh that comes to her honest and easy. "My dad's an electrician then the trio fleshed it out furup north. And [Ned's] just some- ther, a collaborative process that one that I know that everyone can O'Connor found gratifying to be a relate to in some way or another: part of.

"We all came with ideas, and their relative, or their colleague."

Back in Citizen Plate, O'Connor contributed bits, and worked it played Ned's psychiatrist as he together," she says. "One of the waded through a triple crisis: loss things I love is that so much of of love, loss of job and loss of Stewart's writing, and Jeff's writtruck. But now, in its decade-lat- ing, is that so much comes from er sequel Lucy and Mr Plate that little moments that are connected comes as part of the Teatro La to something real that happened Quindicina season, she finds her- that just struck them as odd or self the one in crisis: a childhood funny or memorable. And that's friend of Ned's whom he encoun- been fun for me too, to go 'Oh, OK, well this totally reminds me ters while on vacation.

"She's in constant crisis mode," of this thing that happened to me,' O'Connor says. "And he gets to be and then finding the way to make the one that offers his insights, that work into the world of the from his simple and clear way of play, is really fun." seeing life. Last time my charac- PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM ter was helping him see his way

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EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL & EIJF • Yardbird Suite • Film About Kids and Music: Sant Andreu Jazz Band • Jun 22, 8pm • Donation at door

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library Audio Visual Room (main floor), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Films adapted from books every Fri at 2pm • 127 Hours (2010, 14A); Jun 20, 2pm • Kon-tiki (2012, PG); Jun 27, 2pm

IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 2:15, 3:25, 5:45; Sun 2:15; Mon-Thu 4:20pm • Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) Fri-Sat 10am, 11am, 1:10, 4:35, 6:55pm; Sun 10am, 11am, 1:10, 3:25, 4:35; Mon-Thu 3:10pm • Jerusalem 3D (G) Sat-Sun 12pm; Tue 2pm • To The Arctic 3D (G) Fri 12pm • Rocky Mountain Express (G) Mon 2pm, Thu 1pm • Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 8:05pm • Jun 20-26 LABOUR FILM NIGHT–Metro • Garneau Theatre • Inequity For All, PG; Thu, Jun 19, 7pm • The Condition of the Working Class (STC); Thu, Jun 19, 9pm MOVIES AT THE CAPITOL–Fort Edmonton, 780.442.2013 • fortedmontontickets.com • Rio Bravo • Jun 19, 7:30pm • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly • Jun 26, 7:30pm

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GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: FURNISH: Contemporary handcrafted 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

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Library 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

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Gallery Garden Party • Exhibition: until Jun 20

ART IN THE PARK (ALLEN) • Park Allen Art District, 6537-111 St, 11104-65 Ave • Outdoor Arts And Music Festival • Jun 21, 11am-6pm

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • CAROUSEL: Rotating show of works by gallery artists; until Jul 2

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CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • WOMEN IN ART: Works by Sabine Lecorre-Moore, Mireille Péloquin, Mireille Rochon, Mireille Cloutier; Jun 20-30; Opening: Jun 20, 7-8:30pm

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE–Arnold Guebert Library • 7128 Ada Blvd • FROM FIRST SHOOTS: Geneva Moore's tempera painting and intaglio printmaking • Until Jun 20

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • RAKU, NAKED OR NOT: Raku and primitive fired pottery by guild members • Until Jun 28

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104 Ave • happyharborcomics.com • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215112 St • FLIGHT: 26th Annual Members Show; until Jul 4; reception/BBQ: Jun 19, 6-10pm • Annex Bldg: STARK–THE NAKED SHOW: Until Jul 4; reception: Jun 19, 6-10pm

HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • 2nd Fl, Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • UN TITLED: Furniture and paintings by Pamela Thurston, Colin Whitlock, Isla Burns • Jun 22-Jul 26 HUMAN ECOLOGY BUILDING–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; works by 10 artists, and musical performances • Until Jun 19

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780.686.4211 • EARLY RECOVERY: Richard Boulet–Drawings 1994-2000 • Opening reception: with artist in attendance, Jun 20, 4-8pm • Until Jul 26

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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

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St, 780.492.2081 • FACE TO FACE: WORKS ON PAPER FROM SLOVAKIA: Works by doctoral students and instructors from the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica • Until Jul 12 • Opening: Jun 19, 7-10pm FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave, 780.488.2952 • CHARTING THE JOURNEY: Works

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GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • LES PAYSAGES AVARES: Marlon Simon MorinPlante; until Jun 24 • Pottery by Kelly Sears; until Jun 24 • SURFACESCAPES: Works by June

GROUND RADIATION: Ink sketches, paintings, and woodcuts by Tadeusz Warszynski • Until Jul 26

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • 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

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Events: WILDLIFE RESCUE: until Sep 1 • K'NEX: THRILL RIDES: until Sep 1

UKRAINIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE VILLAGE • 25 mins east of Edmonton along Hwy 16, 780.662.3640 • ukrainianvillage.ca • VINTAGE DAY: See a spectacular display of historic and specialized vehicles. There will be children's activities, wagon rides, exhibits, entertainers, historic activities, traditional Ukrainian food and a Village Market • Jun 29, 10am-5pm

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,

VELVET OLIVE–Red Deer • Works by Erin

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

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DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St,

make your own 22 x 30” print; followed by music at 9pm with bands; Jul 5, 5pm-late; $10 (SNAP/ Oliver Comm League member)/$15 (non-member/ door) at snapartists.com

St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Installation work by Cynthia Sibley • Until Jul 24

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • JOINING UP!: Our Men and Women in the First World War; until Nov 16 • THE HOME FRONT: Life in St. Albert During the First World War; Until Aug 31 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

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper 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 SmithPeck's • Until Jul 3

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • WORN TO BE WILD: Until Sep 7 • WESTERN THREADS: Contemporary Fibre Art, wall art, whimsical dolls, colourful quilts, stunning wearable art and pictorial rugs; until Aug 4

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • IKONS: Works by C.W. Carson • Until Jul 5 SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • MAKING A GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION: Works by Patrick Bulas and Jordan Schwab; until Jul 12 • ENCUMBERED: U of A recent grads, group show, works by emerging artists, Suzi Barlow, Lauren Huot, Morgan Melenka, Cara Seccafien, and Vanessa Mastronardi; until Jul 12 • Summer fundraiser: 12056 Jasper Ave: BLOCK OUT: Pedal. Print. Repeat.: Bring your bike, unicycle, or motorbike to ride through ink to print the tire treads. Stations outside of SNAP’s Printshop to

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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 is a quiet community in the heart of the Prairies. Edith Ogilvy, on her first day as the new mayor, enacts 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 site-specific, 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

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LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Writers from a Hat: For amateur writers to share; Jun 16, 7pm • 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 • Meet and signing with bestselling author, Lorna Scott; Jun 24, 11:30am • Taylor Lambert presents Rising: Stories of the 2013 Alberta Flood; Jun 26, 7pm • Character Death Match!; Jun 28, 1pm • Aaron Paquette presents Lightfinder; Jun 29, 2pm

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hat Maïna marks out a First that you will start a fight between Nations story without the pres- the two will remind the audience ence of Europeans is a rare feat for what they know, and what they've been told for cinema—even Canadian cinyears, about vioema. Set a few Opens Friday lence between hundred years Directed by Michel Poulette European and ago, it follows First Nations."

"The subject the daughter of an Innu chief as she attempts to that was interesting for me, in the rescue a boy stolen from her com- story, was the fear of other," Poumunity by the Inuit after the two lette adds. "I think it was great peoples battle. But director Michel to show it with two peoples that Poulette stresses that it's story didn't know each other. Even if goes beyond that: there's never they weren't living so far from each been a film made with these par- other, they looked like two planets meeting." ticular two peoples interacting.

But to make his movie, Poulette "Never. Never in the same movie, at the same time," he says, over the had to wait. Maïna—based on the phone from Montréal. "Most of the like-titled novel by Quebec author movies we have about this area are Dominique Demers—was first always movies about white men pitched to him as a mini-series. He coming in. And it's always the be- said he'd prefer to make it a film, and was originally OK'd to do a verginning of a lot of trouble."

The absence of Europeans in the sion of that script, though those film, Poulette notes, offers a per- who owned the rights changed spective that doesn't get filtered their minds during the process— through our usual prejudices and the company wanted a mini-series, and weren't willing to bend. histories.

"And the next two years, I was "The thing is, we already have our opinion about the arrival of Euro- haunted by that project," he recalls. peans," he says. "And even if we "Always thinking about it." try to make it a little bit different about what it was, every moment Eventually, Poulette called up an

editor to see if the rights were free.

They were; he took out an option, and got his film made, which won a swath of accolades from the 2013 American Indian Film Festival, including Best Picture.

There's funding in Maïna from both the Innu and Inuit communities, though Poulette notes he had to ensure that both groups knew his film wasn't going to lose its narrative edge because of their involvement. There would still be villains.

"One day, I organized a table to read the script together," he recalls. "I had about 10 people around the table. And when I start talking about the bad guy, the people from the Innu tribe said, 'Well, you know, there's no people like that in our community. Violent people and all that.' And one guy was there—because I had a lot of consultants there—he was a very well-known musician. And he starts laughing, and he told everybody else, 'OK, I know one of him in each of our tribes. Give me one tribe, and I will give you one name.' Everybody started laughing, and said, 'OK, we understand.' They didn't oppose."

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View from the bottom Ace in the Hole a cynical study in heartless ambition

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he protagonist of Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole (1951) somehow finds himself in Albuquerque, NM after getting fired from 11 different newspapers in as many cities. Hoping to sniff out some sensational scoop in this backwater he so clearly has nothing but contempt for, reporter Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) talks the SunBulletin's editor into hiring him, but a year goes by before Tatum finally finds what he's longed for. Some three hours away, deep inside the Mountain of the Seven Vultures, a local trading-post proprietor Leo Minosa (Richard Benedict) is trapped inside a collapsed cave while hunting for ancient Indian artefacts. Tatum crawls inside, makes pals with Leo, and immediately sets about transforming Leo's predicament into what he hopes will be a Pulitzer Prize-winning story.

Tatum convinces the sheriff to give him exclusive access to Leo; he convinces the foreman in charge of Leo's rescue to take the longest possible route to securing a safe passageway; he convinces Lorraine (Jan Sterling), Leo's bored and unhappy spouse, to play the role of the loving and loyal wife. The sleepy no-place surrounding Seven Vultures is transformed into a carnival—literally. Besides the media sharks who set up camp outside

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the mountain, amusement-park rides and burger joints are erected for the tourists who turn up to await Leo's resurfacing. As the hubbub escalates Tatum is determined to commandeer the entire situation, dictating the narrative, the tone and the characters in his reportage—he might as well be a film director. You can watch his story unfold on Criterion's new DVD/ BluRay dual format re-release of Ace in Hole.

It's hard to imagine a Hollywood movie more cynical than Sunset Blvd (1950), but Wilder's follow-up to that sublimely tawdry study in Tinseltown corruption nearly outdoes it. Without ever conveying anything so obvious as pure malice, Tatum's single-minded self-promotion proves to be something far spookier: the guy behaves like a sociopath—at least until he begins to understand that forces beyond his control might ruin the happy ending he's planned for his human-interest extravaganza. And Douglas, in a masterfully grandiose performance, with much jutting chin and chilly charm, doesn't betray Tatum's heartless ambition in the slightest. Nor does Sterling do anything to try to convince us that Lorraine is anything less than ruthless, as bla-

tantly phony as her platinum curls and kabuki eyebrows. They're just as scheming and cold-blooded as Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in Wilder's Double Indemnity (1945), the only real difference being that the earlier pair resigned themselves to murder from the get-go, whereas Tatum and Lorraine merely accept an innocent man's death as a remote and unfortunate possibility.

As token tumbleweeds roll by, Wilder shows little interest in the awesome landscapes of the American Southwest, but as the story progresses he offers spectacular, sprawling images of parked cars glinting on the desert plain, of clamouring crowds, of heavy machinery, the great turning of the Ferris wheel and the wheels that keep the great drill pounding down toward poor Leo in his hole. As though it were all along operating in quiet sympathy with Leo, stuck on his back, legs pinned, sand spilling over him, the camera often observes the action from an unusually low angle, which only gets lower, until the film's final, unforgettable shot, taken right from the floor. That's about as low as you can get, and that's just where Wilder liked to look for his stories.

Thing is, in this case and many others, those stories ring all too true. V

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he question of purpose hangs over Tracks, an adaptation of Robyn Davidson's eponymous book, which chronicles the author's 1977 National Geographic-sponsored trek across 1700 miles of Australian desert with four camels and a pooch. Davidson seems above all to desire solitude and escape from a

so-called civilization corrupted by consumerism, sexism, racism and violence. We come to understand Davidson is also reckoning with childhood trauma. When asked point blank why she's undertaking such a daunting, if not downright absurd journey, she claims that she wants to prove that any ordinary person

can do what she's doing. Yet it's honey-hued flashbacks to childclear that Davidson is anything but hood idyll. Davidson's demands the ordinary. Though better prepared evocation of loneliness and a sense for her expedition than Timothy of time's passage—it requires an Treadwell (the subject of Werner investment of time and attention.

Herzog's excellent Grizzly Man) or So the fact that the second half of Chris McCandless (the subject of Tracks, which clocks in at a reasonJon Krakauer's masterful book Into able 110 minutes, is considerably stronger than the the Wild and Sean Penn's woefully first strikes me as naïve cinematic Opens Friday legitimate. adaptation of the Directed by John Curran same name), Da-  Some highlights: vidson comes to Mandy Walker's realize that there stunning cinfinally is no way to prepare for ematography eschews corny aerial something so taxing on both body splendour in favour of low-level and psyche. What Tracks implies vistas of heat-vapour and imposis that the true purpose of such a sible expanse that feels more firstjourney can only be revealed by do- person than the alternative. The reing it. curring appearance of Rick Smolan Similarly, you need to see Tracks (a nicely measured performance to get a deeper sense of what it's re- from Adam Driver), the American ally about, and why it's really quite photographer whose documentagood. Written by Marion Nelson and tion of Davidson's journey clearly directed by John Curran (a curious played an enormous role in the fordirector whose credits include The mation of Tracks' esthetics, initially Painted Veil and Stone), the film's seems like a token love interest flaws are exposed from the outset: but becomes something far more a needless voice-over that feels like interesting: a key to better underan emotional buffer rather than a standing Davidson's issues with way of heightening our connection intimacy and communication and to Davidson; and over-explanatory the ways in which even well-inten-

tioned people can violate the cultural dictates of aboriginal people.

Speaking of which: Mr Eddie, the aboriginal elder played by Rolley Mintuma who serves as guide for part of Davidson's journey, is easily the most charismatic and enigmatic figure in Tracks.

But I'm saving the best for last.

Tracks has been in development for decades, but I'm so happy it took this long to get made for one simple reason: Mia Wasikowska, the young Australian actress who seems to turn up in every other interesting movie I've seen of late.

Her remarkable work as Davidson feels immersive, a performance devoid of anything ingratiating or mawkish, a starring role without a single moment of winky movie star self-awareness. Davidson is a genuine adventurer, someone willing to do something without certainty of where it will lead, and Wasikowska does right by her subject by approaching the role with the same sense of surrender and attention.

She never seems to be playing the end. Instead, she merely takes one step at a time.

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elodrama and mood piece, (Jeremy Renner), doesn't enter the character(s) study and his- picture until its midpoint. In a film torical, James Gray's The Immigrant refreshingly devoid of irony, there's presents us with types that turn into something fascinating about the richly complex individuals and narra- fact that the only man in the movie tive tropes that transform into pecu- who doesn't seem full of shit is the liar tales possessing both the broad one who fools people for a living. strokes of myth and miniature move- Orlando is Bruno's cousin, both sons of immigrants. They are old rivals, ments of lived experience.

Set in New York in the early '20s, which feeds into what promises to the film introduces us to Ewa Cy- become a love triangle, though this plot twist too is bulska (Marion subverted.

Cotillard) just as Opens Friday Written by she and her sister Directed by James Gray Gray and Richard Magda arrive at Princess Theatre Menello, The ImEllis Island after  migrant is heavy a grueling journey on incident but from their Polish homeland. Magda is diagnosed grounded in character and perforwith tuberculosis, Ewa is labelled mance. Cotillard has never been beta "woman of low morals" for un- ter, using languages and cadences to specified events rumoured to have convey varying levels of deceit and taken place en route from Europe, desire. Renner, moustachioed and and the sisters are unceremoni- magnetic, echoes the grace and charously separated. Magda cannot ismatic duplicity of James Cagney. escape mandatory quarantine, but Phoenix, in his fourth collaboration Ewa evades deportation thanks to a with Gray (following The Yards, Two shady saviour by the name of Bruno Lovers and We Own the Night), is treWeiss (Joaquin Phoenix). Bruno tells mendously vulnerable without being Ewa he works with an immigrant ingratiating. His Bruno is a scoundrel, assistance organization; he actu- but he's also struggling to make ally manages a basement burlesque sense of the nagging compassion show and pimps out his performers, swelling in him. As the film moves whom he houses in cramped apart- toward its conclusion he somehow ments filled with yellowing lace and emerges as the most transformed dappled mirrors. Ewa and Bruno's and even tragic figure. This is one relationship is driven by exploita- of the film's masterstrokes, the way tion and childish ardour, despera- glimmers of moral fortitude are passed from one character to antion and stubborn optimism. other.

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Jazz on jazz

Two jazz musicians discuss the state of the genre it was Weather Report—it was an afternoon of different things. And I remember having my head blown off, because I knew a lot of songs, but I had no idea it could be like that. Oscar kinda blew my mind.

Was there something that stood out about jazz? That resonated with you about the genre?

ML: I think probably just I wasn't used to hearing that kind of a groove. My parents primarily listened to country Fri, Jun 20 – Sun, Jun 29 music, which was Edmonton International Jazz great, but, yeah, Festival to hear music reVarious venues, schedule at ally swing was edmontonjazz.com something that really appealed to me.

JM: It's the same thing for me. I remember the tunes: "Sweet Georgia Brown" which I knew from other versions. And [to] hear Oscar Peterson play that, and to hear it propel, and swing like that. It takes your breath away when you first get it.

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VW: How big of a role does mentor-

Mo Lefever

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s both keyboardist and composer, John Medeski's been an acclaimed instrumental musician for the better part of two decades, first finding purchase in New York's avant-garde scene of the '90s, and as the first name in fusion trio Medeski, Martin & Wood. Guitarist Mo Lefever, a faculty member of MacEwan University's music department, met Medeski at his Camp MMW—a sort of mountain retreat/extended workshop for jazztypes—in the Catskill Mountains a few years back.

Both are playing over the Edmonton International Jazz Festival's 10day span—Medeski as a headliner, with Billy Martin and Chris Wood, and guitarist John Scofield rounding the trio out into a quartet, while Lefever's guesting in a scattering of shows throughout. In advance of the festival, we had Lefever came

down to the Vue Weekly office, and with Medeski on speakerphone from his home in New York State the two riffed on jazz itself: how it feels to play, how it gets discussed and the importance of improvisation to a genre known for anchoring itself in spontaneous composition.

The condensed interview is below.

VUE WEEKLY: To start off, could

both of you talk about your first exposure to jazz music, and the first time you can remember experiencing it?

JOHN MEDESKI: Go ahead, Mo. MO LEFEVER: You don't want to start? I grew up in Medicine Hat, Alberta, so jazz was a little bit hard to come by, but I had a really enthusiastic high school band teacher named Bill Wahl. He would make me mix tapes of Miles Davis, Maynard Ferguson, people like that.

That's kinda how I got my start. And played in the high school jazz band, of course. I ended up in Edmonton, going to Grant MacEwan, and that's where I saw Medeski, Martin & Wood. I think it was 1994.

JM: Ruined forever after that. [Mo laughs] I grew up playing piano. I studied classical, and I was playing mainly anything I could read.

My parents are in their 80s now, so their generation liked all these popular tunes of the '40s and '50s.

I would read these charts out of books, these people like Carmen Cavallaro, Peter Nero—not jazz pianists, but popular pianists.

My neighbour, my best friend growing up, his brother was a drummer. I remember I was probably 10 years old, and I was over at his house, and his brother knew I played piano. ... He played me the first jazz I ever heard. It was Oscar Peterson,

ship have in passing along jazz from generation to generation? You both had people in your lives, or teachers, who introduced you to the wider aspects of the genre.

JM: I would like to address this, I think it's an important issue, a real important factor: mentorship is everything. Listening is very important, but who you actually have contact with, who you play with, who you hang out with, and experience music with, whether it's just listening or playing [with them]—that is a real influence. Especially in this day and age, where people are growing up further and further in time from these great masters of jazz. For people to talk about, 'Oh, John Coltrane is my influence'— if you've never met or played with John Coltrane, you are full of shit. You can listen to it, but music is an oral tradition— I mean, music is many things, but there's a certain transfer of energy that happens in physical contact, or going to hear somebody play live, that you don't get from a recording.

You can be inspired [by a record], you can definitely create something within you that keeps you going or provides information or inspiration, but it's just overused.

I hate to say it, but a lot of it has to do with people who write about music, lacking anything better to do than compare everything to something else that's already happened.

To compare this to that recording, and it creates this paradigm of this is how people talk about music: 'It's kind of like John Coltrane meets Willie Nelson meets Iggy Pop.' It's a desperate attempt to talk about

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much when the music itself is a language that describes itself. … Yes, the answer is yes, mentorship is important [laugh].

ML: That's funny that you bring that up, John. Because that's something you said in an interview, in I'm pretty sure Keyboard Magazine, in the '90s.

JM: I've been saying the same shit for 20 years, I know.

ML: [laughs] No, but it really did make an impact on me. The interview was asking you abut your influences, and you preferred to call them inspirations. And that made sense to me. I think I'm feeling that with the people I play with here.

I was just rehearsing for my gig with the Brett Miles funk band, and thinking, yes, in that rehearsal, there's an energy that you don't get when you're just sitting alone in your room listening to Coltrane albums. Not that that's not great and inspirational.

VW: I want to acknowledge that, as a music writer, I feel asking people about their influences is a really lazy way to go about talking about music. It's not actually engaging with their ideas; it's trying to find these touchstones, so you don't have to actually explain it, or engage with what that music actually makes you feel and think about.

JM: The truth is, if you're really tapped into your voice as a musician, you're not going to sound anything like your influences. If you sound like your influences, you're still a student. Music is a force, and certain people inspire you, and of course that's going to filter in, because their language is going to become part of your language. But I can be just as influenced by Willie Nelson solos as I can by Albert Ayler. They both can inspire me to create music, and on any given day, it can be anything. A kid doing something for the first time, or any person, they're playing, and suddenly they have a little epiphany, where something happens and their channelling the music—that's inspiring.

My influences are food ...

ML: Wine!

JM: Everything. Everything around me is an influence, I'm realizing more and more. And it's become such a thing to talk about the styles or the techniques or the stuff people are influenced by, and that's all meaningless, because you can have all that and your music can be boring, or not express any true feeling.

VW: Given that discussions of jazz

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would you describe the jazz scene today? Are there ideas that seem to have taken hold, or is it pretty open and free flowing?

ML: Another thing that inspired me—and I know I keep throwing it back to Medeski, but he is here on this phone—was that at the Medeski, Martin & Wood camp, there were concerts every night. And I went with the expectation that they'd be playing tunes from their albums at the concerts. And instead, it was all improvised. At first, I was like, I can't believe this, and then I thought, wow, what a gift that was. Because that was the focus of camp: bringing people that maybe didn't have that much in common with each other playing together.

JM: That's the true spirit, or process of jazz: is making music in the moment for the moment. The improvisation, the spontaneous composition. I mean, there's a lot of other elements: historically, jazz has certain rhythms, harmonic elements that make it jazz.

But that changed over the course of its history. The harmonic language, the melodic language, and the rhythmic language—there are certainly threads that ran through all of it that you could feel. But the one thing to me that is the soul of jazz is improvisation. I feel like whatever's going on in the jazz world now, I feel like everything's happening. You've got people doing the equivalent of historic reenactments in jazz—dress up in the Civil War outfits, running onto the battlefield, screaming and

MUSIC yelling—and then you've got people trying to improvise. It's one of these things where it's just exploded. I don't know what is jazz. It's so relative, at this point. I mean, I wouldn't call Medeski, Martin & Wood jazz: we're instrumental music and we end up in the jazz section of the record store, but I never thought we were jazz. I didn't know what we were. We tried! We thought we were acid jazz for a while. We got lumped into the jazz-band scene for a while. We call it what we've been callin' it for years: homeless music. But we don't know what it is.

VW: Could either of you speak to the mindset of improvising music? Is there a way of describing how that feels, to be spontaneously composing in the moment?

JM: It feels good. I don't know. Music is a language that describes itself, and as much as that can sound like a cop-out, it's just the truth. I'm not a thinker like that. Some people are great at that, it's not really what I do.

But, it's kinda two-fold: you need to have a certain palette like an artist has, with colours and paints. If you have a certain palette of devices and techniques that you have mastered, or are working on—you need to have this pile of options you are working on, that when you're improvising, you can pull from this sack of tricks that you have. The bigger the sack, the more places it can go. What I've learned is the best thing to do is get out of the way of the music, and just be in it.

It's this fine line; I always compare

it to surfing, or riding a skateboard.

You're keeping your balance, and if you become too self aware of what you're doing, you're going to fall over. If you aren't hypertuned in, you're gonna wipe out, too. You have to go with the flow of that which is happening. You have to go with the terrain.

What everybody's looking for is this cathartic experience when improvised music is happening and at its peak. No other music gives you this certain feeling. I'm not saying it's better. It's a particular thing that happens, and it's so cathartic when it reaches that place. It's creativity, happening right there in front of you: it's like watching a volcano being born, or watching a sun rise. It's this creative moment that only happens in music when it's improvised.

ML: One thing about improvised music that's been really great for me is, I'm a person that makes too many assumptions. I guess it's a comfort thing: planning out how things are gonna go in my head before they happen, and you just can't do that, right? You have to let go of expectation. And in the end that's more rewarding something going the way you assume it's going to go.

JM: It's scary to let go. I'm like that by nature—I like to plan, too. And I do that a lot. But I think that when you plan things out, you're sort of going through the process of organization, which is composition. But when you get into the moment of playing, you've got to let it go, and really go with the flow.

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Twin Peaks A

guitar, two ukuleles, a piano and some wit are what make up a show by Twin Peaks—the folk duo of Naomi Shore and Lindsay Pratt from Fort St John, BC. The pair, who tour with guitarist Mitch Vinet, are making the rounds in support of their new album Trouble. Prior to the show, Shore and Pratt answered a few questions Vue.

VW: How do your backgrounds com-

plement each other and the band?

NAOMI SHORE: Lindsay and I were both raised listening to very different genres. I was raised on a mixture of classical, big-band jazz and blues standards. Lindsay was introduced to the great singer-songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Gordon Lightfoot.

Together Thu, Jun 26 (7:30 pm) we blend these VUE WEEKLY: You've With the Weber Brothers genres through both been playing Artery, $10 our songwriting, music for years, but which ranges from how did you end up bluegrass to blues playing together? influences.

LINDSAY PRATT: Naomi and I have muAs far as our personal backgrounds tual friends and were both born and we are very different. I have mild OCD raised in the North Peace. We started which lends itself well to tour booking hanging out after she received free and financial responsibilities. Lindsay tickets to Tom Petty in Edmonton. It has NOCD which helps with PR. was our first road trip together and When we aren't arguing we're having we got to practise our harmonies a pretty magical time with each other. for the first time. After we returned home Naomi invited me to play at her VW: You released your album Trouble cousin's wedding with her in July of in May. What did you want to express 2012 and we began gigging frequently about the band with these songs? together following that. The feedback LP: We are growing and learning with we got from collaborating was over- every new track we record. We had whelmingly positive so we gave it the more of a hand in the production and old college try. choosing players that we respect to bring our songs to life with this album.

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The songs are personal and relatable, at times cheeky and at other times melancholy.

We are truly becoming partners in our music and it has shone through on this album.

VW: What's the writing process like and what makes this a positive collaborative partnership?

NS: I had not written a song until I partnered with Lindsay, and when we began it was very organic. Lindsay had been writing for several years prior to our band getting together so she had a small stockpile to donate to our musical cause. The songs we write together usually start with a chord progression written by myself (an example of that would be our title track, ''Trouble") with Lindsay writing the lyrics. We have had a lot of success with that process. Other times we may have a song basically completed and one of us will have the perfect addition to the song to round it out. We don't usually sit down with an intent to write: it kind of hits us all at once and we go with it.

Our writing usually involves imbibing a few brewskis as well.

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Bloody Diamonds N

o booking agent? No prob- at first it seems like a party. A lot lem. As far as Bloody Dia- of new bands that go on tour and monds vocalist/guitarist/organ- play shows, they're just there to ist Sara Elizabeth is concerned, get really drunk and play for their booking an independent tour is friends, but after awhile that really goes away something new and it becomes, bands need to go Wed, Jun 25 (9 pm) With Noisy Colours, Banshee not a job, but through. kind of, so you "I'd suggest any Wunderbar, $10 want to do a bands, for as long good job." as possible, book The bluesy their own tours because it's such a good learn- Halifax-based four-piece, which ing experience, going through has drawn comparisons to Band the whole process and learning of Skulls and the Dead Weather how to do it better every time," for its gritty melodies, is tackling she says, acknowledging that at its largest North American tour to some point, bands need to rely on date as a two-piece, with Elizabeth someone else in order to get on joined by guitarist/percussionist larger bills, but not right out of Jake Seaward in support of Bloody Diamonds' latest EP, Monsters. A the gate.

She jokes there's probably not four-piece is the ideal configuration enough time in the interview to for Bloody Diamonds, but changing go through everything the band lineups and logistics have made it has learned through the booking easier for Elizabeth and Seaward process, but a lot of it has to do to hit the road as a duo—at least with where to go, who to trust for now.

"We're not making millions so it's and how a band should present hard to take four people on the road itself.

"Show up on time, don't be for three months at a time—basicallate—don't be a dick, basically," ly impossible—so we came up with she says. "Be mature. Sometimes the duo set just out of necessity and

it allows us to tour so much more," she explains. "We're not all about the money but we can make it work with the two piece and tour for a really long time whereas with the full band we have to be careful because there's four of us, and we can't all starve to death."

Bloody Diamonds does all its recordings with a full band, so Elizabeth and Seaward have to replicate that intensity with half the people.

Elizabeth says the result is that the melodies often end up being heavier and "sludgier" than they are on tape.

Once the duo wraps up this tour, the plan is to head back into the studio as a four-piece and get some new recordings done, as well as find some live dates with the full group.

"There are people I know that have seen us both ways and they prefer the duo to the full set and some the opposite," she says. "We prefer the full band but it's also good to tour and spread your name to a whole new country."

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Five Alarm Funk

Thu, Jun 26 (8 pm) Pawn Shop, $16 (advance), $20 (door) write music that involved a story that would be a movie that I would like to watch, and I'm also into all this fantastical, weird, sci-fi crazy stuff," Branston adds.

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e just had our big CD release party over the weekend at the Commodore here in Vancouver so my voice is a little thrashed," says Five Alarm Funk drummer and vocalist Tayo Branston, following up with a slightly raspy laugh.

The album that's caused Branston's vocal strife is Abandon Earth, the fifth studio release for the 10-piece funk-rock behemoth, which celebrated its 10th anniversary as a band in November 2013. The album builds on Five Alarm Funk's penchant for often fantastical arrangements and tells the story of the destruction of Earth at the hands of a giant robot.

"The concept album hasn't been very far away from the way the band writes," Branston notes. "I mean, all of our songs are kind of saga-esque-

type songs, kind of epics, so the idea of a concept album was never very far off. And just to be able to try and write music that was following a story line, even like a movie, was probably the most interesting factor in why we decided to do it."

The music remains upbeat despite the album's catastrophic tale, filled with psychedelic guitars, horns and deftly executed arrangements that are meant to be danceable—even if the song's about natural disasters being unleashed on humanity. Branston says the elements that make up the high-energy record are akin to what audiences would experience during a Five Alarm Funk performance.

"When we're on stage we're having fun and we're having the greatest time of our lives, so I wanted to

But Abandon Earth didn't come together in a linear fashion, as one might assume the story behind a concept album does. Sure, the first song written is the album opener, "We All Scream," but the second song to come was "Attack," which is actually the seventh song on the album. Branston says the lyrics were written as they came to him before it donned on the band that the tracks could join forces. From there, Five Alarm Funk crafted melodies and worked to tie each together in a cohesive narrative.

"It came together really seamlessly," Branston adds, noting the band wrote in smaller groups before going into the rehearsal space to get creative input from the rest of the crew.

If anything, the process taught Branston there are no limits or boundaries to what someone can write about. "This isn't going to be a pop record that's going to be getting tons of play or anything on the radio, but I think the songs really, really speak to what the band is all about."

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Library Voices T

he forlorn, soggy-looking egg tions on the road were limited.

"If we ever had a window to stop salad sandwiches stacked in gasstation coolers are rarely anyone's for lunch it would be in just a small, strange little town first choice, but Library Voices, a Fri, Jun 20 (8 pm) on the side of the seven-piece alt- With High Ends, the Fight highway and for some reason we rock troupe from Artery, $15 Regina, are playing kept defaulting back to egg-salad a little gastronom- Sat, Jun 21 (8 pm) sandwiches," says ic Russian roulette With Souvs, Patrick Swan and taste-testing Michael Dawson Wunderbar from a coffee shop these delicacies $15 (advance), $20 (door) while on its curin Regina, the day before hitting the rent tour—a chalroad to Calgary. lenge that started half jokingly during the band's previ- "It's a crap shoot. Very often someous tour, since a good chunk of the one would bite into it and then pass group is vegetarian and dining op- it around going, 'Does this taste off to you?' Part of it's psychological."

But the purpose of the tour is not to find a hidden gem amongst gasstation cuisine, but to promote its latest EP, For John. (If you want to see how the taste-test is going, the band's rating the sandwiches out of 10 on its Twitter feed.) The disc pays homage to the band's longtime friend and supporter, John Farrell, who passed away FRI, JUN 20, THE ARTERY unexpectedly in March 2013.

"John, he lived in Buffalo, NY and for whatever reason I think a friend had slipped him a copy of our first record and thought he might be interested,"

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Dawson says of Farrell, who was also an influential disc jockey on FM radio.

"He just came out to North By Northeast to see us one year, [it] must have been six years ago now, on one of our first tours in Toronto, and we met him and never really thought much of it. He was just a super nice guy and then over the years that followed he would pop up at our shows around

through a Facebook message from Farrell's friend and says he could not have imagined the news would affect him as much as it did.

"I think, if anything, the biggest The new EP, released on the band's breakthrough on this process of label imprint Prairie Shag Recordings, writing this record For John is that boasts a much more lo-fi sensibility it is alright if you want to be perthan previous Library Voices albums, sonal sometimes and find your own which leaned on pop-fuelled harmo- voice," he says, adding the band's nies. Dawson says the sonic shift was previously tended to bury personal a result of the album's subject matter anecdotes in cryptic wording or as well as a desire from the12345 band to blanket statements. "There's prob"build from the ground up again." The ably no more universal topic than EP isn't lo-fi for the sake of not know- death, so it's not like it's a personal ing how to achieve a high fidelity break-up record or something, which sometimes theadmost honest resound, though. Rather, it Add was this experifeatureare to your next career booking mentation with old effects machines cords people make. But at the same and tape machines in order to build a time it's nice just to be able to be a character piece that would allow Li- little less gimmicky, maybe, or joking brary Voices to explore new territory than we had on some of our previous records. I think it was a positive before heading into its next LP. It was also one of the first times turning point for the band."

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APATHY / FRI, JUN 20 (9 PM) We’re not sure what Connecticut Casual means, but it’s the title of Apathy’s new album, so he’s probably got a good handle on it. He’ll be joined by local hip-hop groups the Nasty Boys and Theft Unda 5, too. (The Studio Music Foundation, $20 in advance, $30 at the door) MB

NORTH COUNTRY FAIR / FRI, JUN 20 – SUN, JUN 22 Here’s another option to celebrate the solstice, which is said to have been acknowledged since ancient times. There’s a packed lineup to keep the festivities going including LeE HARVeY OsMOND, Jenie Thai, MayDay and the BeatCreeps, Jr Gone Wild, Jeff Stuart & the Hearts and Picture the Ocean. Check out lslncca.ca for more information on who’s playing, tickets and what to expect. (Driftpile Valley) MB

ECMS SUMMER SOLSTICE FESTIVAL / FRI, JUN 20 – SUN, JUN 22 It’s a celebration of the longest day of the year—which we should take full advantage of considering it won’t be long before it’s dark by 5 pm again. The Edmonton Chamber Music Society has put together a program featuring Espana with soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian and Grisha Goryachev, Songs of Identity with Bayrakdarian and Bulgarian composer Pancho Vladigerov and Summer Passion, a concert featuring the city’s up-and-coming talent. (edmontonchambermusic.orb/solstice_2014.php, $25 – $60 for festival passes; $15 – $35 for single events) MB

DUSKY / SAT, JUN 21 (9 PM) Regardless of what you think of the genre, EDM continues to grow, and this duo out of the UK claims to have put a new sonic spin on the genre with influences from jazz, classic house, vintage garage from the UK and Detroit techno. (Starlite Room, $20) MB

TAIL CREEK KICK-OFF PARTY / WED, JUN 25 (8 PM) Rock, EDM and motor sports—well, this weekend at least. One Bad Son, One Day Late and the Wild! are going to get the festivities started tonight, but remember to pace yourself. (Starlite Room, $15) MB

UP + DOWNTOWN 2014 / TICKETS ON SALE SAT, JUN 21 I once bombed a university essay because I went and saw the Constantines play the Power Plant (remember that place? RIP) instead of taking the time to write the damn thing well (It was about The Importance of Being Earnest, or something). I have precisely zero regrets about doing so, which is exactly the same number of regrets you’ll have about catching the reunited Constantines headline the Up + Downtown festival, alongside bands like Physical Copies (who rule) Shooting Guns (also rule), Pup (still ruling), and so on (more rulers). Up + Downtown isn’t until October, but tickets go on sale on Saturday. So get ready to get on it. The Constantines! PB

QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT / TUE, JUN 24 (7:30 PM) Queen + Adam Lambert = ? Freddie Mercury left some big shoes to fill, but apparently Lambert can belt out the classics from the venerable rock band’s repertoire like nobody’s business—and pull off eyeliner and leather pants in the process. (Rexall Place, $45 - $145) MB

BERMUDA FEST / JUL 31 – AUG 4 If you just can’t wait for Up + Downtown in October (the fucking Constantines!) and you need a festival to tide you over, there’s Sled Island (see below). And then, once you’ve done that, wait for the end of July when Bermuda takes over Old Strathcona, bringing us the likes of Halifax wunderkid of pop, Rich Aucoin; the legendary hardcore of Cro-Mags; California’s hazy-noise kings Crocodiles, and way more that haven’t even been fully announced yet. But tickets HAVE been announced. As being on sale. Right now. PB

SLED ISLAND / UNTIL SUN, JUN 22 Against all waterlogged odds, Sled Island’s survived that whole “massive, province-wide flooding” thing that ended it three days early last year. And for its eighth edition of filling Calgary with sweet bands, Sled’s bringing in the likes of White Lung, Rocket From The Crypt, Dan Deacon, Neko Case, Spiritualized, St Vincent, and like 200 more.

Get ye down to Calgary, bike everywhere, and make your annual pilgrimage to Tubby Dog. (Calgary) PB

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The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger Midnight Sun (Chimera) 

It's a curious feat, trying to gain perspective on the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger. No one will argue that the Beatles contributed greatly to psychedelia, so having Sean Lennon involved in an extremely swampy and panoramic psych record makes it difficult to decipher whether or not he's pilfering his fathers legacy or following his own path. Well, it becomes pretty obvious pretty quickly that Lennon is not following his own path at all: he's blazing his own trail!

Soaked in fuzz and seeping '60s fringe

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and prog, these 12 tracks are a heavy blast, yet soft and soothing all the same—like having a blanket tossed in your face. Vocal duties are shared with Charlotte Kemp Muhl, creating atmospheric deliveries that surround you with awe and take you to an alternate dimension seemingly parallel to our own some 50 years ago. "Too Deep" might be just that, but it's a hole you are exhilarated to fall into: you can almost see the bubbly film projections over the guitar solo. Sure, "Poor Paul Getty" sounds almost exactly like a certain Liverpool four piece, but seeing as how well it's done—and how everything else on the record comes together—you're more likely to embrace it than consider it a detraction.

Like smoke, Midnight Sun dances and coasts, then billows and overwhelms as it rises to infinity. Lineage aside, this is a captivating record that should be sought out by anyone who enjoys the colorful spirit of classic pop pomp and circumstance.

Tearjerker Hiding EP (SQE) 

Toronto indie-rock vets Tearjerker have unleashed a slow-burner with its new EP Hiding, offering a taste of the group's down-tempo fuzzrock—which is, at least on Hiding, best in small doses.

The EP's strongest track is also its shortest. "Another Moon" is Tearjerker at its best, Micah Bonte's vocals swimming deep in Taylor Schute's guitar with just a hint of urgency to drive the song forward.

When Tearjerker slows down, the songs plod on and the bland songwriting shines through. Closer "You Can" meanders for nearly five minutes before dissolving into noise.

There's a few moments on "Doors" that are evocative—Bonte's whisper-quiet vocals are great— but the backing instrumentation sounds, like most of the album, like many bands before them done much better.

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in the Inuit community of Salluit, Quebec, this is the Rosetta Stone in understanding the group's unique music.

Classically-trained songwriter Kirsten Palm can write a mean pop song—"Jan. 3rd" and the pared-down "the through window" are more than enough proof of that—but that's not what she's interested in. Opener "Boat Cave" is the perfect scene-setter, with feedback-heavy guitar transforming into burbling electronics before giving way to a hootenanny of finger-picked banjo and harmonica. "Myeengun" features a shifty guitarslinking around like a hardboild detective.

Niizhwaawo is challenging—sometimes aggressively so—and all the better for it.

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THU JUN 19 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live Music every Thu; This week: Seven Suns; 9pm; no cover ARTERY D. B. Buxton Returns to Edmonton (EP release and birthday Party), Seraphic Lights, Tzadeka and Corvid Lorax, Acta Non Verba; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$14 (door) BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Fred Larose singer-songwriter's Circle: hosted by Lionel Rault; every Thu, 7:30-10pm

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CHA ISLAND Bring Your Own Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pmlate; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm CHURCHILL SQ/CENTENNIAL PLAZA CypherWild: A community gathering: hip hop culture with live music, DJs, MCs, dancing, and art. Hosted by DJ Creeasian; every Thu, 6-9pm; if not in the Square, look behind the Stanley Milner library in Centennial Plaza; every Thu, 6-9pm until end Sep, weather permitting COMMON Uncommon Thu: Led Thunder, Ayla Brook (rock); 9:30pm; no cover DV8 Spree Killers, Knuckledown, MSA, Droovy Rookers; 9pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S Taking Back Thu: Live music; 9pm FIONN MACCOOL'S–DT Ken Stead; all ages; no cover J. R. BAR Live Jam Thu; 9pm JUBILEE Michael Jackson History Show presents Thriller; 8-10:30pm; tickets at TIcketMaster KELLY'S Jameoke Night with

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BLUE CHAIR Jazz Fest: A/B Trio; 8:30pm; $15

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam

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BLUES ON WHYTE Front Porch Roots Revue

RED PIANO Dueling Piano Show (Bryan Mudryk Golf Classic kickoff party); $20, proceeds to Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton RICHARD'S Blue Thu (roots); hosted by Gord Matthews; 6:30-9pm RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thus; 7-10pm

BOURBON ROOM S.I.R.E.N.S. The Charity Presents: Summertime Fun with Canada`s Mr Piano Kenny ``Blues Boss`` Wayne; 7-11:30pm; $10 at Bourbon Room, Blackbird, Myhre`s, Permanent Records, Frank at 780.246.4749, E: mary3ega@gmail.com

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu Open Mic: All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Dirty Pool

NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeowind (country)

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A Derina Harvey

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu; this week: Constant Promise; 7pm

DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage; 8pm; all ages (15+)

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Mike Letto

BRIXX Trash 'n' Thrash Thu: Sammy Slaughter; 7pm

Lights Go Out, Kryosphere; 8pm; $10 (adv)

BEAUMONT BLUES AND ROOTS FEST Youth at the Blues Fri: bands, singer-songwriters; 5pm; weekend pass: $75

BLUES ON WHYTE Front Porch Roots Revue

BRITTANY'S Michael Chenoweth (acoustic tribute to the greatest folk-blues singer-songwriters of the twentieth century); every Thu, 8-11pm; $8

ARTERY Library Voices, guests; 8pm; $15 (adv)

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Amie Weymes

BOHEMIA The Co-Kaynes, Young Neighbours, Voodoo Riot; 8pm; $10

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Vent CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music every Fri: This week: The Wrong Omar; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Dueling Pianos (variety by request); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Red Hotz (rock); 9pm

12-2pm; free EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FEST (EIJF) Churchill Sq, Yardbird, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (OSPAC), other venues; info at edmontonjazz.com

CHURCHILL SQ–WORKS FEST STAGE ECMS Summer Solstice: Grisha Goryachev (classical, flamfenco guitar); 7:308:15pm; free; opening night of the Works Art and Design Fest

J+H PUB Every Fri: Headwind and friends (vintage rock 'n' roll); 9:30pm; no minors, no cover

DJs

JEFFREY'S Jazz Fest: Shelley Jones; 9pm; $15

COMMON Uncommon Thu: Rotating Guests each week!

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back Thu KRUSH ULTRA Open stage; 7pm; no cover LEVEL 2 Funk Bunker Thu ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow UNION HALL 3 Four All Thu: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

FRI JUN 20 APEX CASINO Mourning Wood

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Amie Weymes

THE TEMPLE Breakbeat Rebellion Ft Steezy, Endboss, Blue Rogue, Mindzai, Xpulse; 9pm

DUGGAN'S Duff Robison

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A Derina Harvey

BRITTANY'S Jazz evening every Fri after work; 5-8pm

STARLITE ROOM Aaron Carter; 8pm; $20-$65

BLACK DOG Thu Main Fl: Throwback Thu: Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone slide; Wooftop: Dig It! Thu: Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Mike Letto

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Apathy (Army of the Pharaohs/ Demigodz)

CHURCHILL SQ Works With Jazz Main Stage: Tilo Paiz;

Classical

SIDELINERS Mister Wrong; 9pm; no cover

BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

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

TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with Micheal Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am

ROSE AND CROWN Andrew Scott

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove The Pretty Dirt

L.B.'S Lynne Chwyl; $7 LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Jam every Fri, 9:30pm-1:30am NEWCASTLE Flashback NOORISH Kevin Marsh; 7-9pm ON THE ROCKS Rock ‘N’ Hops Kitchen Party: Huge Fakers OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE Jazz Fest Cabaret@OSPAC: Jorge Luis Torres and Iroko Project; | Set 1: $20 | Set 2: $20 | Two sets: $30; Jazz Fest Cabaret Special Presentations @ OSPAC:

Brenan Brother's Perform with the Edmonton Jazz Collective; Two sets: $20; Jazz Fest Late Night Spotlight @ OSPAC: Paul Richey and the Fusionauts; One Set: $10 at TIX on the Square; Emerging Artists @ OSPAC: God Save the Trio; 6:30pm; donation at door O'MAILLE'S Latin Dance; no cover OVERTIME Sherwood Park Jason Greeley and Quickstad; 9pm-2am; no cover PAWN SHOP The Order of Chaos, Tramp Stamper, Until the

YARDBIRD SUITE Jazz Fest: Norma Winstone Trio; Set 1: $20 | Set 2: $20 | Two sets: $30 at TIX on the Square

Classical CONVOCATION HALL Edmonton Chamber Music Society's Summer Solstice Fest: España: Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), Grisha Goryachev (flamenco/ classical guitar); 7:30pm; $35 (adult)/$30 (senior)/$15 (student) at TIX on the Square, Gramophone, door; edmontonchambermusic.org DEVONIAN BOTANIC GARDEN Edmonton Opera; Opera al Fresco: Garden party with wine and hors d'oeuvres, operatic voices perform on four stages amid the greenery of the garden; 6:30pm (gates), 7-10pm (performances); $55 (adult)/$20 (child) at Edmonton Opera box office in the TIX on the Square Bldg, 780.429.1000 EVA O. HOWARD THEATRE Vocal Arts Fest: Candide: Opera Nuova; 7:30-10:30pm; $38 (adult, adv)/$34 (student/senior, adv); at 780.487.4844; $42 (adult, door)/$38 (student/senior, door)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Frid DJs on all three levels THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri COMMON Good Fri: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh DRUID DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FLUID R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri MERCER TAVERN Homegrown Fri: with DJ Thomas Culture RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with

SOU KAWAII ZEN Amplified Fri: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door) SUITE 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fri

SAT JUN 21 APEX CASINO Mourning Wood ARTERY Brent Tyler, Ken Stead; 8pm; $8 (adv)/$10 (door) PARKALLEN HALL Art in the Park (Allen) Souljah FyahReggae

with Daisy Blue Gröff and Mae Anderson and Kaley Bird, Carrie Day, Allison et paresseux, and more ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Dirty Pool "B" STREET Rockin Big Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm BEAUMONT BLUES AND ROOTS FEST Lindi Ortega, Whitehorse, Matt Andersen and many more; 12pm (gates, Sat-Sun); weekend pass: $75 BLACK DOG Hair of the Dog: Blackstone (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Afternoon: Big Al's House of Blues Wam Bam Thank you Jam: free chilli hosted by Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens; every Sat, 2-6pm BLIND PIG Live jam every Sat; 3-7pm BLUE CHAIR Jazz Fest: D'Cana; 8:30pm;$15

118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHRIST CHURCH 12116-102 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DEVONIAN BOTANIC GARDEN 51227 Alberta 60, Parkland County; edmontonopera.com DIVERSION 3414 Gateway Blvd, 780.435.1922 DUGGAN'S 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd 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 EVA O. HOWARD THEATRE Victoria School, 1 Kingsway Ave EXPRESSIONZ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH EDMONTON 10031-109 St,

780.422.2214, fbcedmonton.ca FIONN MACCOOL'S–DT Edmonton City Centre, 10200-102A Ave, 3rd Fl, G310, 780.424.4534, primepubs.com FLUID 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FOUR SEASONS PARK– Beaumont 41 Ave Beaumont HILLTOP 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN Yellow Head Tr, 142 St J+H PUB 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JEFFREY’S 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 KELLY'S 10156-104 St L.B.’S 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LENDRUM MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH 11210-59 Ave, 780.434.4268 LEVEL 2 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104

St, 587.521.1911 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES 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 PARKALLEN HALL 11104 65 Ave PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW HALL 1086057 Ave RED PIANO 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602

NIGHT VISION PRESENTS

UBK & NIGHT VISION PRESENT

JUN/22 CASHMERE CAT JUN/25 ONE BAD SON & THE WILD TAILCREEK KICK-OFF PARTY

W/ ONE DAY LATE

JUN/27 MAC DEMARCO W/ GUESTS JUN/28 UH HUH HER W/ GUESTS JUL/3 CONQUERORS OF THE WORLD 2014 MRG CONCERTS PRESENTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

JUL/4 FUNKOFF W/ SOULJAH FYAH, DEMOCRAFUNK, REVOLUTION ENGINE, THE GIVE EM HELL BOYS & GRAY

JUL/8

UNION EVENTS PRESENTS

KONGOS W/ BLONDEFIRE JUL/9 SHARON VAN ETTEN THE UNION PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

JUL/15 & 16

TYLER THE CREATOR

JUL/18 STANTON WARRIORS AUG/8 BADBADNOTGOOD UBK AND ALL BLOWN UP PRESENT

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Front Porch Roots Revue BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm BRIXX Rend, the Wisers, Desert Bar; 9pm; $10 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Vent CARROT Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON Robin Kelly as Elvis (Elvis tribut); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Red Hotz (rock); 9pm CENTURY CASINO Lee Aaron and Kick Axe; $39.95 COAL DIAMONDS PARK– Wabamun Triple Dragonfly Music Fest (folk rock); all ages; 5pm; $20 (adv) DUGGAN'S Duff Robison DV8 The Press Gang, Down the Hatch, Static Inflection, the

JUN/20 THE BREAKBEAT REBELLION JUN/21 REND W/ THE WISERS, DESERT BAR & THE CANARDS JUN/24 MY SISTER OCEAN

PLAYING FUNCTION CONTROL OPTION COMMAND & MESSY CREATION EP

JUN/26 POWERSLAVE (IRON MAIDEN TRIBUTE) JUN/27 BISON TRASH N THRASH THURSDAYS PRESENTS

W/ DISCIPLES OF POWER & QUIETUS

JUN/28 S. CAREY TO INDIE WEEK JUL/4 ROAD W/ A HUNDRED YEARS, RUSS DAWSON, BROTHER OCTOPUS, ONE DAY LATE & TYRANT UNION EVENTS PRESENTS

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 APEX CASINO, Vee Lounge–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave "B" STREET 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLIND PIG 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351-

JUN/19 AARON CARTER JUN/21 DUSKY

ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St ROSEBOWL/ROUGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower School, 10135-96 Ave SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SET NIGHTCLUB Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca SIDELINERS 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 WINSPEAR 4 Sir Winston Churchill Sq ,780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 ZEN 12923-97 St

VUEWEEKLY JUN 19 – JUN 25, 2014

TO INDIE WEEK JUL/5 ROAD W/ TZADEKA, KING OF FOXES, SISTER GRAY, I AM MACHI & SIIINES

MALICE JUL/18 WITH W/ DIEUPONADAY & BLACK XIII JACKSON JIHAD JUL/21 ANDREW W/ HARD GIRLS, DOGBRETH & WHISKEY WAGON

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Hypnotic Devices; 10pm; $10 EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FEST (EIJF) Churchill Sq, Yardbird Suite, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (OSPAC), other venues; info at edmontonjazz.com FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts; 4pm; this week: Upsidedownton, ikes (rock)

MURRIETA'S Edmonton Chamber Music Society's Summer Solstice Fest: Grisha Goryachev (flamenco, classical guitar), others; 7:30pm; $15

FIONN MACCOOL'S–DT The Dead South; all ages; no cover

DJs

GAS PUMP Sat Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

L.B.'S Love Junk; 9:30pm-2am

BLACK DOG Main Fl: The Menace Sessions with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick

LEAF BAR Open Stage Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm; Late show: Call Apollo

THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat

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

THE COMMON Get Down It's Sat Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

JEFFREY'S Jazz Fest: Rollanda Lee; 9pm; $15

LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Jam every Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am

DRUID DJ every Sat; 9pm

MURRIETA'S ECMS Summer Solstice Fest: Grisha Goryachev (classical Latin); 10pm; $15

ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Sat: Kindergarten

NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeowind (country)

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

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE Jazz Fest Cabaret@OSPAC:

Nomadic Massive; Set 1: $20/ Set 2: $20/Two sets: $30 at TIX on the Square; Afternoons @ Ospac: Littlebirds Big Band, MacEwan University Big Band, River City Big Band; 2pm; Emerging Artists @ OSPAC:

Politic Live, Quordal Fusion and Oozeela; 6:30pm; donation at door; Jazz Fest Late Night Spotlight @ OSPAC: Etoroma Trio; One Set: $10 at TIX on the Square O'MAILLE'S DJ Mike; no cover ON THE ROCKS Huge Fakers OVERTIME Sherwood Park Jason Greeley and Quickstad; 9pm-2am; no cover PAWN SHOP I Love 80s Dance Party Featuring Nazz Nomad with Blue Jay RED PIANO Red Piano Players; dueling piano show every Sat; 9pm-2am RICHARD'S The Terry Evans Sat Jam (rock): every Sat; 4-8pm ROSE AND CROWN Andrew Scott SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Mike Letto SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A Derina Harvey SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Amie Weymes STARLITE ROOM Dusky, Fathoms, DMT, Teller; 9pm; $20 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION No Bragging Rights Exclusive Alberta Performance, Counted Among Saints EP release; 6pm; $25 WUNDERBAR Library Voices (alt, electronic, rock), guests; $15 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$20 (door) YARDBIRD SUITE Jazz Fest Special Event: Rudresh Manhanthappa's Gamak; Set 1: $30 | Set 2: $30 | Two sets: $49 at TIX on the Square; no passes

Classical CHRIST CHURCH Danza!: Accord Ensemble, Tambores del Norte (percussion group) perform Latin American music; 7-8:30pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior) CONVOCATION HALL ECMS: Summer Solstice Fest: Songs of Identity; 7:30pm; single: $35 (adult)/$30 (senior)/$15 (student) FIONN MACCOOL'S–DT Edmonton City Centre, 10200-102A Ave, 3rd Fl, G310, 780.424.4534, primepubs.com EVA O. HOWARD THEATRE Afternoon: Vocal Arts Fest: Carmen: Opera Nuova; 1:30-4:30pm; $38 (adult, adv)/$34 (student/senior, adv); at 780.487.4844; $42 (adult, door)/$38 (student/senior, door); Candide: Opera Nuova; 1:30pm; $38 (adult, adv)/$34 (student/ senior, adv); at 780.487.4844; $42 (adult, door)/$38 (student/

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senior, door); Evening: Candide: Opera Nuova; 7:30-10:30pm, $38 (adult, adv)/$34 (student/ senior, adv); at 780.487.4844; $42 (adult, door)/$38 (student/ senior, door)

LEVEL 2 Collective Sat underground: House and Techno MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong every Sat RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE Sat global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SET NIGHTCLUB SET Sat Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous SOU KAWAII ZEN Your Famous Sat: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 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 Sat: 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 Sat: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release Sat

SUN JUN 22 BEAUMONT BLUES AND ROOTS FEST The Fuzz Kings, Eve Hell and the Razors, Punch Drunk Cabaret, Bardic Form, Raygun Cowboys, Cousin Harley, the Sheepdogs, and more; 12pm (gates, Sat and Sun); weekend pass: $75

(rock); 9pm; $50 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 Sun Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE Jazz Fest Afternoons @ Ospac:

Edmonton Jazz Collective, the Brenan Brothers; 2pm; $25; Jazz Fest Cabaret Special Presentations @ OSPAC: Al Muirhead Quintet featuring PJ Perry and Tommy Banks; Two sets: $20; ON THE ROCKS Sweet Vintage Rides REXALL PLACE Michael Bublé, guests; 8pm; Sold out RICHARD'S Sun Country Showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky STARLITE ROOM Sun Night Sessions II: Cashmere Cat; 8pm; $20 WINSPEAR Jazz Fest: Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood; 7:30pm; $49.75-$70.75

Classical EVA O. HOWARD THEATRE Evening: Vocal Arts Fest: Candide: Opera Nuova; 7:30-10:30pm; $38 (adult, adv)/$34 (student/ senior, adv); at 780.487.4844; $42 (adult, door)/$38 (student/ senior, door) FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Sun Morning Choral Concert: A joyful time of hymns, choral music, soloists and instruments; 11am; followed by reception lunch and taco feast LENDRUM MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH Sing and Celebrate: Choir of Lendrum Mennonite Brethren Church, and St John’s Anglican Church; for Lendrum Community’s 50th Anniversary celebration; free; reception to follow; 7pm ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Edmonton Chamber Music Society's Summer Solstice Fest: Summer Passion: Grisha Goryachev (flamenco, classical guitar), others; 3pm (pre-concert; $35 (adult)/$30 (senior)/$15 (student) at TIX on the Square, Gramophone, door; edmontonchambermusic.org

DJs BLACK DOG Main Fl: Soul Sun: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 Stylus Industry Sun: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

$20 | Set 2: $20 | Two sets: $30 at TIX on the Square

Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

DJs

RED STAR Experimental Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

BLACK DOG Main Fl: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay DV8 T.F.W.O. Mon: Roots industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

TUE JUN 24 ARTERY Waves Upon Us (EP release), Mary-Lee Bird, Casper Hollands; 7:30pm; $10 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$15 (door) 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 King Muskafa BRITTANY'S Jazz Fest All-Star Jams: Host: Host: PJ Perry Quartet; 10pm; $10 BRIXX My Sister Ocean, Zezibelle, Silent 45, Chips, more; 8pm; $10 CHURCHILL SQUARE Works With Jazz Main Stage: Magilla Funk Conduit; 12-2pm; free

JUBILEE Heart (Rockin' Heaven(, Jason Bonham; 6pm; $69.50 L.B.'S Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm LEAF BAR Tue Open Jam: Trevor Mullen; Late Show: Aaron Goodvin MERCER TAVERN Alt Tue: with Kris Harvey and guests NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; 4's A Crowd (country) O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Open mic every Tue RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am; no cover; relaxed dress code REXALL Queen and Adam Lambert; 7:30pm; $30/$35/$55/$85/$125 at livenation.com RICHARD'S Tue Live Music Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm

BLUE CHAIR Sun Brunch: Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am-3pm; donations BRITTANY'S Jazz Fest All-Star Jams: Host: Jim Head; 10pm; $10

DUGGAN'S Mon singersongwriter night: hosted by Jay Gilday; 8pm

CHA ISLAND Open mic with March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm

CHURCHILL SQ Works/Jazz Main Stage: Myriad3; 12-2pm; free

COAL DIAMONDS PARK– Wabamun Triple Dragonfly Music Fest (folk rock); all ages; $20+ (adv)

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FEST (EIJF) Churchill Sq, Yardbird Suite, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (OSPAC), other venues; info at edmontonjazz.com

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FEST (EIJF) Churchill Sq, Yardbird Suite, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (OSPAC), other venues; info at edmontonjazz.com EDMONTON PETROLEUM CLUB Jazz Fest: Jazz Brunch: Charlie Austin Trio; $50 FOUR SEASONS PARK– Beaumont Beaumont Blues and Roots Fest : The Sheepdogs

VUEWEEKLY JUN 19 – JUN 25, 2014

NEW WEST HOTEL 4's A Crowd (country) PLEASANTVIEW HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510 REXALL PLACE Cher (Dressed to kill tour) ROUGE Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm YARDBIRD Jazz Fest: Harris Eisenstadt Golden State; Set 1:

BLUES ON WHYTE King Muskafa BRITTANY'S Jazz evening every Wed; 8-11pm: CHURCHILL SQUARE Works With Jazz Main Stage: Paul Ledding; 12-2pm; free

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Amie Weymes

DUGGAN'S Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

BLACK DOG Main Fl: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm

JEFFREY'S Jazz Fest: Sketches of Eternity; 9pm; $15

BLUES ON WHYTE King Muskafa

DIVERSION Sun Night Live on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES New Music Wed: Featured band hosted by Lochlin Cross and Leigh Friesen (open stage) after the bands set

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FEST (EIJF) Churchill Sq, Yardbird Suite, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (OSPAC), other venues; info at edmontonjazz.com

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Stan Gallant

BRIXX Elizabeth (Vancouver), Concord Pavilion, Death by Robot

ARTERY Brains 2.0: The Great Regression Featuring Brains! The Zombie Musical; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$15 (door)

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FEST (EIJF) Churchill Sq, Yardbird Suite, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (OSPAC), other venues; info at edmontonjazz.com

BLACK DOG Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

DUGGAN'S Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

ARTERY Linda McRae (CD release), Matt Patershuk; 7:30pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door)

MON JUN 23

WED JUN 25

DRUID Open Stage Tue: 9pm

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

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun Electric Blues Jam and BBQ hosted by Marshall Lawrence and the Lazy Bastards; 4-8pm

SUITE 69 Rockstar Tue: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WINSPEAR Jazz Fest: Bobby McFerrin Spirityouall; 7:30pm; $60.25-$81.25 at Winspear box office YARDBIRD Jazz Fest: Benedikt Jahnel Trio; Set 1: $20 | Set 2: $20 | Two sets: $30 at TIX on the Square

Classical EVA O. HOWARD THEATRE Opera Nuova, Vocal Arts Fest: Candide; 7:30pm; $38 (adult)/$34 (student/senior) at 780.487.4844

DJs BLACK DOG Main Fl: alt 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

EXPRESSIONZ Schoen Duo (EP release, classical); 7-9pm; $10 (incl CD) NEW WEST HOTEL 4's A Crowd (country) OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW 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 ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Stan Gallant SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A Mike Letto SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Amie Weymes STARLITE ROOM One Bad Son, the Wild, One Day Late; 8pm; $15 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Evil Ebenezer (RAP), Factor (Best Summer Ever Tour); III Tone, the Random Humans; 8pm; $20 WINSPEAR An Evening with John Legend; 8pm; sold out WUNDERBAR Unwed MothersBloody Diamonds; 9pm YARDBIRD Jazz Fest: Joel Miller; Set 1: $20 | Set 2: $20 | Two sets: $30 at TIX on the Square ZEN Jazz Wed: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:3010pm; no cover

Classical EVA O. HOWARD THEATRE Cendrillon: Opera Nuova; 7:30-10:30pm; $38 (adult, adv)/$34 (student/senior, adv); at 780.487.4844; $42 (adult, door)/$38 (student/senior, door)

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wed: Party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG Main Fl: RetroActive Radio: Alt '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe BRIXX Eats and Beats COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

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

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 COMEDY

B STREET BAR • 11818-111 Ave • Trav-

elling open mic finishing with a headliner • Jun 29, 7pm • T: Connie, 780.914.8966; E: conniescomedy@gmail.com to get on open mic roster

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 • Chris Heward; Jun 20-21 • Tim Kubasec; Jun 27; Trevor Talbott; Jun 28

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM •

780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Yannis Pappas; Jun 19-22 • Matt Sadler; Jun 25-29

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

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.

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

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes

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

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Mount Zion Lutheran Church,

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

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) •

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

EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Monthly roundtable discussion group. Topics change each month, please check the website for details, edmontonatheists.ca • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month

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

HISTORIC WALKING TOUR

• Meet at the Little White School, 2 Madonna Dr, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • Along the walk archival photographs, stories and historic buildings bring the story of St Albert, both past and present, to life • Every Thu, 6:30pm through the summer • Jun 26 (Downtown) • Jul 10 (Riverside) • Jul 24 (Downtown) • Aug 14 (Riverside) • Aug 28 (Downtown) • Sep 11 (Riverside) • $3 (donation)

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 until 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 NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community

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

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

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

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

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Car-

rot, 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)

• 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

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TOASTMASTERS

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

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus

St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:

2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • 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

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall,

• 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

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515

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

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

Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors. ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton.

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

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

HUMAN RIGHTS IN ACTION (Powered by Pecha Kucha) • St. John's

Institute, 11024 Whyte Ave • Speakers for this Powered by Pecha Kucha event include Sam Geisterfer (Sombrilla), Vivian Giang (United Nations Association, Canada), Renée Vaugeois (John Humphrey Centre, Ainembabazi Children's project), Laura Keegan (HIV Edmonton), and more • Jun 24, 7-9:30pm • $15/$10 (student/senior/low income)

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall,

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

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

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AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer •

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

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP

• A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave

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

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton,

10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc. webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone

VUEWEEKLY JUN 19 – JUN 25, 2014

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride

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

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-

based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton. org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@ hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/ supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca

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

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm SPECIAL EVENTS

ACCESS AND PRIVACY CONFERENCE • Marriott River Cree • facultyofextension. cmail2.com/t/y-l-tkuhhtl-hlitukjrj-e • At this conference, the keepers of democracy meet to share their knowledge, and to celebrate successes • Jun 19-20 Pre- register at accessandprivacy.ca

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

SICKLE CELL FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA ABM AND EDUCATION DAY •

Rundle Park, 2909-113 Ave • sicklecellfoundationofalberta.org • Celebration of World Sickle Cell Day with speakers, and a panel of experts •Jun 21, 9:30am-3pm • Free

SUMMER SOLSTICE–WORKS FESTIVAL • Fairmont Hotel MacDonald •

780.426-2122, ext 227 • Jun 20, 6:30pm12 • $150

SUNRISE SOLSTICE NAMASKAR •

Hawerlak Park • andrewmisleyoga.com • Yoga with Andrew Misle, with music by DJ Robindrafari• Jun 21, 6:30-7:30am • Free

TURKISH FESTIVAL • Dr Wilbert McInyre Park, 8303-104 St • Turkish music, folkloric dances, food, market, arts and crafts • Jun 20-22, 9am-9pm

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

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 1152676 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • wom-

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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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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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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 Wanted

Metro Cinema is Hiring!

Front of House Representative (7-15 hrs/week, matinees/nights)

Volunteers Wanted

Help someone Who can’t!

House Manager (12-25 hrs/week, matinees/nights)

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

Operations Assistant (30-35 hrs/week, days) – driver’s license and vehicle required

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca

Submit cover letter and resume, indicating position(s),

by July 1, 2014.

Email only: Sam Sheplawy operations@metrocinema.org Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

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

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.

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Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism.

Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit!Needed for our Long Term Care Residence, weekday morning volunteers for various activities. Especially for assisting with transporting residents to rehab, church services and hairdresser within facility. All volunteers must pass a Police clearance.

Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106 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

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.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Visual Arts Committee offers Artists an opportunity to exhibit their works, Exhibitions may be one artist or combined with a complementary display by other artists. See here for Alberta Health Services Call for Art 2015 For more information, please call 780-735-4430 or email volunteer.RAH@albertahealth services.ca Submissions required by September 26,2014 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.

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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 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 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.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): If you were alive 150 years ago and needed to get a tooth extracted, you might have called on a barber or blacksmith or wigmaker to do the job. (Dentistry didn't become a formal occupation until the latter part of the 19th century.) Today you wouldn't dream of seeking anyone but a specialist to attend to the health of your mouth. But I'm wondering if you are being less particular about certain other matters concerning your welfare. Have you been seeking financial advice from your massage therapist?

Spiritual counsel from your car repair person? Nutritional guidance from a fast-food addict? I suggest you avoid such behaviour. It's time to ask for specific help from those who can actually provide it.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): "My music is best understood by children and animals," said composer Igor Stravinsky. A similar statement could be made about you Tauruses in the coming weeks: you will be best understood by children and animals— and by all others who have a capacity for dynamic innocence and a buoyant curiosity rooted in emotional intelligence. In fact, those are the types I advise you to surround yourself with. For now, it's best to avoid sophisticates who overthink everything and know-it-all cynics whose default mode is criticism. Take control of what influences you absorb. You need to be in the presence of those who help activate your vitality and enthusiasm.

Cancerian? Do you keep parts of you secret, protecting them from what might happen if you show them to the world? It may be time to revise that policy.

(Thanks to Molly Oldfield's The Secret Museum for the info referred to here.)

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): In the next two weeks, I hope you don't fall prey to the craze that has been sweeping Japan. Over 40 000 people have bought books that feature the photos of hamuketsu, or hamster bottoms.

Even if you do manage to avoid being consumed by that particular madness, I'm afraid you might get caught up in trifles and distractions that are equally irrelevant to your long-term dreams.

Here's what I suggest: to counteract any tendency you might have to neglect what's truly important, vow to focus intensely on what's truly important.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Writing at FastCompany.com, Himanshu Saxena suggests that businesses create a new position: Chief Paradox Officer, or CPXO. This person would be responsible for making good use of the conflicts and contradictions that normally arise, treating them as opportunities for growth rather than as distractions. From my astrological perspective, you Virgos are currently prime candidates to serve in this capacity.

You will continue to have special powers to do this type of work for months to come.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): "Nikhedonia" is an obscure English word that refers to the pleasure that comes from anticipating success or good fortune. There's nothing wrong with indulging in this emotion as long as it doesn't interfere with you actually doing the work that will lead to success or good fortune. But the problem is, nikhedonia makes some people lazy. Having experienced the thrill of imagining their victory, they find it hard to buckle down and slog through the gritty details necessary to manifest their victory. Don't be like that. Enjoy your nikhedonia, then go and complete the accomplishment that will bring a second, even stronger wave of gratification.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): In accordance with the astrological omens, you are hereby granted a brief, one-time-only licence to commit the Seven Deadly Sins. You heard me correctly, Libra. As long as you don't go to extremes, feel free to express healthy amounts of pride, greed, laziness, gluttony, anger, envy and lust. At least for now, there will be relatively little hell to pay for these indulgences. Just one caveat: if I were you, I wouldn't invest a lot of energy in anger and envy. Technically, they are permitted, but they aren't really much fun. But, greed, gluttony and lust could be quite pleasurable, especially if you don't take yourself too seriously. Pride and laziness may also be enjoyable in moderate, artful amounts.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has a collection of Japanese art that is never on display. It consists of 6600 wood-block prints created by artists of the ukiyo-e school, also known as "pictures of the floating world." Some are over 300 years old. They are tucked away in drawers and hidden from the light, ensuring that their vibrant colours won't fade. So they are well-preserved but rarely seen by anyone. Is there anything about you that resembles these pictures of the floating world,

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Scorpio novelist Kurt Vonnegut rebelled against literary traditions. His stories were often hybrids of science fiction and autobiography. Free-form philosophizing blended with satirical moral commentary. He could be cynical yet playful and he told a lot of jokes. "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over," he testified. "Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." He's your role model for the next four weeks, Scorpio.

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Your challenge will be to wander as far as you can into the frontier without getting hopelessly lost.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "Make a name for the dark parts of you," writes Lisa Marie Basile in her poem "Paz." I think that's good advice for you, Sagittarius. The imminent future will be an excellent time to fully acknowledge the shadowy aspects of your nature. More than that, it will be a perfect moment to converse with them, get to know them better and identify their redeeming features. I suspect you will find that just because they are dark doesn't mean they are bad or shameful. If you approach them with love and tenderness, they may even reveal their secret genius.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Pet mice that are kept in cages need to move more than their enclosed space allows, so their owners often provide them with exercise wheels. If the rodents want to exert their natural instinct to run around, they've got to do it on this device. But here's a curious twist: a team of Dutch researchers has discovered that wild mice also enjoy using exercise wheels. The creatures have all the room to roam they need, but when they come upon the wheels in the middle of the forest, they hop on and go for prolonged spins. I suggest you avoid behaviour like that, Capricorn.

Sometime soon you will find yourself rambling through more spacious places. When that happens, don't act like you do when your freedom is more limited.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): It's transition time. We will soon see how skilled you are at following through. The innovations you have launched in recent weeks need to be fleshed out. The creativity you unleashed must get the full backing of your practical action. You will be asked to make good on the promises you made or even implied. I want to urge you not to get your feelings hurt if some pruning and editing are required. In fact, I suggest you relish the opportunity to translate fuzzy ideals into tidy structures. Practicing the art of ingenious limitation will make everything better.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): It's always important for you to shield yourself against our culture's superficial and sexist ideas about sex. It's always important for you to cultivate your own unique and soulful understandings about sex. But right now this is even more crucial than usual.

You are headed into a phase when you will have the potential to clarify and deepen your relationship with eros. In ways you have not previously imagined, you can learn to harness your libido to serve both your spiritual aspirations and your quest for greater intimacy. V

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I'm a fairly boring person by your column's standards in that I've always identified as a straight male into typical relationships. I've realized, after multiple long-term relationships that were unsatisfying, that monogamy isn't for me. I would like to have a main, fulfilling and committed relationship without limiting myself sexually or emotionally. I've struggled to remain faithful in the past and don't want to cheat on anyone. I just want the rules to fit me so that I don't have to be considered a cheater. Do you think this detail is something I should disclose to my family and friends? I don't want to cause unnecessary awkwardness, but I also want people to love and accept me for who I am. I feel like this is an issue that activism isn't addressing, and while polyamory seems to be more common today than in the past, I don't see anyone who is publicly "out" as is the case with most of the queer community. I'm also not too deeply involved with that community, so maybe I just don't see the activism happening.

Pondering Over Life's Yearnings If you're not seeing anyone who is poly and publicly out, POLY, then you're not watching Showtime, which broadcast two seasons of Polyamory: Married and Dating, and you're not paying attention to poly activists who are out—like Diana Adams, an attorney (dianaadamslaw. net) who specializes in nontraditional family relationships.

"I applaud POLY for considering boldly coming out as polyamorous to his family and friends," Adams says. "We need more people to come out in order to destigmatize polyamory. I came out as poly in the national media six years ago, and I built my career as an attorney advocate for queer and polyamorous families."

Adams recognizes that not all poly folks can be out—some work for conservative employers, some could lose custody of their kids—but she believes that poly people who can be out, should be out. "For those of us who have the privilege to be out, I encourage us to speak our truth, which will support a cultural understanding of healthy relationships beyond monogamy—and, of course, help us find like-minded partners. In POLY's case, I urge him to learn more about poly first. Poly has become a major subject of media attention, with profiles of out poly people published practically weekly. Link up with groups like Loving More (lovemore.com) and Open Love NY (openloveny.com), and follow people like me on Twitter (@ dianaadamsesq), and he'll get tuned in to the nationwide activism that's happening. He'll also get tapped into resources for creating successful poly relationships."

And a word about those successful poly relationships: just like successful monogamous relationships, poly relationships have limits—both sexual and emotional. But instead of

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coming to an agreement with one partner about those limits, you have to hammer out agreements with two or more partners. So when you say you want to be poly so that the "rules fit you," POLY, you better be using the plural "you" and not the singular. "Poly may not be easier to maintain than his monogamous relationships," Adams says. "Poly works for emotional ninjas who possess tremendous emotional awareness and communication skills to create their own agreements with their partner(s). If POLY is ready for that level of effort, poly may work for him so well that he'll want to tell the world."

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I'm a 27-year-old straight guy, and I've been in a monogamous relationship with an awesome girl for four years. Our sex life is pretty open and healthy, although it has lost some steam since the first couple of years—but that's normal, right?

For the last year or so, every time we have sex, I find myself fantasizing that I'm with someone else. A cute barista, an old fling, that MILF on the bus—in my mind, I'm fucking all kinds of people but never my girlfriend. Am I cheating on my partner? Is this a bad sign for our relationship? Should I admit this to my girlfriend? Should we try an open relationship?

Mind Fucking Other Women If fantasizing about fucking someone else while you're fucking your partner is cheating, MFOW, then we're all adulterers. It's not a great sign that you're doing it every time—you might wanna will yourself to focus on her at least every other time. As for telling her, well, that depends on how secure she is. If she's realistic about the fact that you're both attracted to other people, perhaps you can broach the subject—you may even be able to share your fantasies about others during sex.

But that means you'll have to hear about the baristas, flings and DILFs who turn her on, too, MFOW. Which raises another question: how secure are you?

NOT ALL MENZ

In the wake of the killings at Isla Vista, and all the #YesAllWomen and #NotAllMen hashtag campaigns, I want a change in the dialogue. I want to hear the story of the man who warned a woman after he found out a friend was planning on drugging her, the story of the man who dropped a friend when he found out that his friend had assaulted his girlfriend, the story of the man who blamed the vindictive ex for posting private naked photos and not his female partner who was being victimized. I want to hear those stories.

Can you ask your readers to send in stories that will give us women hope that the men who say they are on our side understand and are standing up for us in their everyday lives?

One Sad Woman

The #YesAllWomen and #NotAllMen were not concurrent, complementary Twitter hashtag campaigns, OSW. After Elliot Rodger decided to murder the women who had rejected him—women he felt entitled to, per his deranged and misogynistic "manifesto"—millions of women began tweeting under #YesAllWomen about the sexism, sexual violence and misogyny they experience on a daily basis. When some men— but not all men (sorry)—began responding to those tweets with variations on "We're not all like that!" the #NotAllMen hashtag was born, OSW, and it was a critique. As Phil Plait wrote at Slate: "Why is it not helpful to say 'Not all men are like that?' For lots of reasons. For one, women know this. They already know not every man is a rapist, or a murderer or violent. They don't need you to tell them. ... Instead of being defensive and distracting from the topic at hand [misogyny, sexism, violence], try staying quiet for a while and actually listening to what the thousands upon thousands of women discussing this are saying."

So I'm a little hesitant to invite men to share their not-all-like-that stories, OSW, because I agree with Plait: maybe men should shut up and listen? And then there's this: it's also entirely possible for a guy to do the right thing on one occasion—dropping a male friend who did something shitty to a female friend—and then immediately turn around and do something deeply shitty himself. Men shouldn't be encouraged to think that one noble act frees them—frees all of us— from our collective responsibility as men to fight sexism and misogyny.

(A quick note to my fellow faggots: what's in fighting sexism and misogyny for us? Well, homophobes hate us because they perceive us to be like women—we're effeminate, we're cocksuckers, we're penetrated. Homophobia is misogyny's little brother, and a less misogynistic world is going to be a less homophobic world. So if you won't fight sexism and misogyny for the sake of your moms, sisters, nieces and female friends—and there's something wrong with you if you won't do it for them—then do it for yourselves, boys.)

But I'm running your letter, OSW, and inviting women—stick a cork in it, menz—to jump into the comment thread and share your stories about men who've done the right thing.

This is not meant to exonerate men of their responsibility to fight sexism and misogyny, or to minimize the problem because "not all men are like that," but to give men who are reading concrete examples of what it looks like when a dude fights sexism and misogyny. V On the Lovecast, orgasm control and toe curling: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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