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Spam sham The Canadian government believes it will soon eradicate one of the 21st century’s most annoying plagues: spam emails. In reality, this nebulous plan takes aim at an invisible foe, while some unintentional victims are caught in the crossfire. On July 1, when Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation comes into effect, organizations will suddenly face stiff penalties if they haven’t gained or confirmed explicit consent from recipients on their mailing list. CASL applies to any “commercial electronic message” that hits any inbox in Canada, whether it’s selling a product or simply encouraging promotion of a product, service or cause. With vague terms and fines reaching to $1 million for individuals and $10 million for organizations, many have understandably flocked to ensure their compliance. For non-profit or volunteer organizations—most of whom rely heavily on e-newsletters for getting their word out—this means attending workshops, doing additional research and sometimes paying a visit to a lawyer to discover how their messaging sits within CASL. Spam can certainly get annoying, but such sweeping legislation is ridiculous when every organization must take extra precaution to account for the legislation’s ambiguity, all so that the Canadian government can say they’ve taken an effort to rid your inbox of the occasional overseas money scam. These scammers have always been breaking the law, so the addition of hard-nosed, zero-tolerance legislation isn’t likely to spur a change of heart. The government is completely out of touch with the spam that annoys Canadians most. Nothing is more indicative of that than the convenient exception that has been added for the most persistent of spammers: political parties themselves. As non-profits with a genuine interest in their communities prepare to lose subscribers, inboxes and telephones across Canada will continue to ring unchecked, hoping we’ll buy into scam after scam—or worse, a party in the next election. V
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It's sometimes hard in this province not to chan- amount of money. Likewise, a 2013 paper fore not a good use of public dollars. Once nel your inner seven-year-old, putting your published by University of Toronto profes- again, however, we will not be allowed to see hands on your hips, leaning forward defiantly, sors Matti Siemiatycki and Naeem Farooqi in the full details of the accounting and calcuthe Journal of the American Planning Associa- lations that led to this assessment. You can and screaming out, "I tooooold you so!" That was certainly the case for many this past tion found that using P3s adds, on average, 16 be certain that if the government is publicly week when Wayne Drysdale, Alberta's minis- percent to the cost of infrastructure projects. owning the $14 million extra costs and acter of infrastructure, announced the province There have been similar studies, reports and tually backing off the P3 because of it, the would not be proceeding with public-private articles released over the past 10 years from real figure is significantly higher. Using Siepartnerships for the building of 19 of the 50 the Parkland Institute, the Canadian Cen- miatycki and Farooqi's 16-percent figure, for new schools promised over and over again in tre for Policy Alternatives, academics from example, would result in the traditional proaround the world and numerous other orga- curement method costing some $78 million recent years. less than the P3. The main reason given by Drysdale is that go- nizations and unions. Sadly, in this case, it is not ing the P3 route would cost the province $14 million more than What P3s actually do is facilitate the transfer of enough to say, "I told you so." What's needed is for Alit would building them the tradipublic money and private infrastructure to their bertans to place pressure on tional way. Now, for anyone who has been paying attention, this will friends in the private sector, padding their profit the provincial government to stop ignoring the evidence not come as a surprise. There has margins and bottom lines at our expense. and completely abandon the been a tremendous amount of renotion of P3s for any future search and information produced in Alberta and across the world in recent years Despite all this information, the Alberta infrastructure project. It's a model that does demonstrating that P3s for public infrastructure government has held steadfast in its defence not work and that does not benefit the public always cost more, always result in reduced ac- of P3s, and in its policy of defaulting to P3s interest in any way, shape or form. The use of countability and transparency, and always im- for infrastructure projects. They have claimed P3s, especially here in Alberta, has been driven all along that this method saves money, but exclusively by blind ideology rather than evipact the quality of services. In 2007, for example, the Canadian Union they have never provided a shred of evidence dence, and Albertans deserve better than that. of Public Employees contracted economist that this is the case. What P3s actually do is May this P3 school fiasco, and the accompanyHugh Mackenzie to conduct an in-depth re- facilitate the transfer of public money and ing delay in getting these schools built, be the view of the Alberta government's plans to private infrastructure to their friends in the straw that breaks the P3 camel's back. V build 18 new schools as P3s. What Mackenzie private sector, padding their profit margins Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the found was that the P3 would cost so much and bottom lines at our expense. Now, for the first time ever, the government Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy more, that building in the traditional way would have allowed the government to build has admitted that building these schools research institute housed at the University of 10 more elementary schools for the same through a P3 would cost more and is there- Alberta.
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or 25-year-old MacEwan University student Veronica Petrola, participating in the month-long volunteer construction program Project HOPE in Estelí, Nicaragua with 11 other Edmonton students, was about more than just mixing dirt and concrete to build up a secondary school. "When we all worked on the wall, brush-stroking away, we created a very unique feeling of togetherness," Petrola says. "I found it instantly rewarding to take a step back and look at our progress [with] our ideas taking shape and the colours coming together." The Project HOPE team raised more than $25 000 and travelled to Estelí in May. They also worked with the Fundación de Apoyo al Arte Creador Infantil (FUNARTE), a Nicaraguanbased non-profit organization, to paint a mural with students from the Reina Suecia Institute. FUNARTE has a 25-year history working in poor neighbourhoods and schools of Estelí to engage children and youth afflicted by poverty and
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For the past three years, Osiris Casviolence in art therapy and human- at Reina de Suecia, says the mural rights education, which in Nicaragua, serves as a symbol for the physical tilblanco Briones has been facilitating according to Amnesty International, improvements seen and felt at the art therapy and counselling with stuconcerns violence against women, school. Prior to renovations, he says dents at Reina de Suecia. She knows firsthand the positive refreedom of expression and sexual and the falling-down ceilings and crumbling walls made for "a dangerous and sults of engaging youth in public-art reproductive rights. projects. Briones grew up in Oscar Ranked by the International Mon- demotivating learning environment." Gamez, one of the poorest neighetary Fund as the second-poorest bourhoods of country in the Estelí, and began Western HemiYouth are the architects and artists behind these attending FUNsphere, Nicaracolourful paintings that depict images of educa- ARTE's educationgua continues to struggle to tion, gender equality, environmental conservation al painting workshops when she provide adequate and the right to healthcare. was seven years and quality old. Today she is education to all youth. Reina de Suecia offers classes The result of FUNARTE's work in Es- a program coordinator with the orgaand social counselling for 1500 stu- telí is evident from every street corner nization and helped guide the Edmondents who live in neighbourhoods in the city. There are more than 150 ton and Nicaraguan students through with high rates of poverty, domes- murals on schools, hospitals, health the steps of painting a community tic instability and violence. In recent clinics and government buildings. Es- mural—a process that involves group years, professors and students have telí is now known as the City of Mu- dialogue, design and implementation. "After brainstorming and sketching, become discouraged by the school's rals. Youth are the architects and artpoor infrastructure and the lack of ists behind these colourful paintings we were able to overcome the chalspace to accommodate the growing that depict images of education, gen- lenging tasks of melding all of our difder equality, environmental conserva- ferent ideas and making creative decinumber of students. sions as a group," Petrola says. "It was Roberto Parras Estrada, a professor tion and the right to healthcare.
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so interesting to see everyone's different creative thinking and processes." For one week, Petrola and the others designed and painted a three-byfive-metre mural at the school that symbolizes the global partnership between Canadian and Nicaraguan youth. The hope is it will promote education and cultural understanding. "I would say working on the mural was one of the highlights of the [project]," says Elissa Perl, a team member of Project HOPE. "Seeing how our ideas were translated into a beautiful piece of community art in just over a week was a really incredible experience." "It is clear that the supportive hands of friends [can] improve the conditions for education," Briones says. "For us, the impact of the project transcends to the relationships between students and teachers, and creates a positive learning environment." TRINA MOYLES
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The worthless US?
Help from the United States is reserved for only its nearest and dearest "The Polish-American alliance is worthless, even harmful, as it gives Poland a false sense of security. It's bullshit." – Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski, secretly taped in early 2014. Discuss. Use only one side of the paper. The publication of Sikorski's comments in the Polish weekly magazine Wprost will not help his bid to become the European Union's foreign policy chief, but there are senior foreign policy officials elsewhere who might be tempted to make similar remarks (though perhaps not in alcohol-fuelled conversations in well-known restaurants where they might be overheard). And there are those in Washington who are saying the same thing. Some, like former vice-president Dick Cheney—"The policies of the last six years have left America diminished and weakened. Our enemies no longer fear us. Our allies no longer trust us"—are so discredited by their own
past blunders that they can be easily dismissed. But some of America's overseas friends and allies are also quietly dismayed by President Barack Obama's clear reluctance to send in the troops, or at least the drones. Sikorski's angry remarks can be explained by the date when they were made. It was before the Ukrainian revolution succeeded in overthrowing the pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, and before the United States responded to Russia's annexation of Crimea by imposing sanctions on Russian leaders and sending reinforcements to NATO countries in Eastern Europe. He would presumably sing a different song now. Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, however, is undoubtedly now talking much like Sikorski did last winter. After all the horrors that the US invasion inflicted on Iraq in 2003–11, Maliki must feel that he has a right to expect American military help when
things start to fall apart at home. But he doesn't get it. Maliki might get US military help if Washington believed that the survival of his regime was a "core national interest" of the United States, as Obama put it in a speech at West Point Military Academy last month, but even then it would be help in carefully measured amounts. Which
week, but they are being sent only to train and advise Iraqi troops, not to kill and get killed. He might consider using some drones and cruise missiles too, if Maliki agrees to step aside for someone less divisive—but it would only be a token gesture even then. This is because Obama knows two very important things. The first is that the American public simply will not
Back when American power seemed irresistible and American wealth inexhaustible, Washington repeatedly sent US troops into wars that had only the sketchiest relationship with any definable American national interest. is to say, no American troops fighting on the ground. Well, all right, Obama did send 300 American troops back to Iraq last
stand for another large US military intervention in the Middle East. The other is that neither Iraq, nor indeed even Ukraine, is a "core national interest" of the United States. "Since World War II, some of our most costly mistakes came not from our restraint, but from our willingness to rush into military adventures without thinking through the consequences," Obama said at West Point, and he has no intention of doing the same thing. Does that mean that the United States has become a "worthless ally?" No, but it does mean that it may not always be a "faithful friend." The distinction is important. An alliance like NATO or the US-Japanese alliance is a formal commitment to fight in support of another country in certain stated circumstances. However, very few wars that the United States has fought in the past 50 years were of that kind. They were "wars of choice," fought in places where the United States had no legal
obligation to fight. Back when American power seemed irresistible and American wealth inexhaustible, Washington repeatedly sent US troops into wars that had only the sketchiest relationship with any definable American national interest. From Vietnam to Iraq, it literally did not count the cost. But it does now, and only actual allies can count on the United States showing up when it's needed. How do you get to be an ally of the United States? By being a country whose independence, borders and/ or political orientation are seen by Washington as truly vital American interests. The one exception to this rule is Israel, whose hold on America is more sentimental than strategic, but for everybody else there is a very high threshold. Poland actually crosses that threshold, because Russia, the country that obsesses the Poles, remains a major American security concern as well. Ukraine, on the other hand, lies beyond NATO's security frontier, and not many NATO members would be willing to fight a war with Russia to save it, so Ukraine is not an ally. And Iraq is definitely not an ally. Despite the general US obsession with the "terrorist threat," Obama may actually realize how little the outcome of the current turmoil in Iraq really matters to American security, and Iraq's oil, post-fracking, is not even a consideration anymore. No core American national interests here. So the US cavalry will not be riding over the hill to the rescue. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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e all know someone who seems to have it all going on. Unlike our slovenly selves, who can't seem to get through the morning without spilling coffee on our shirts and struggle with a sense of existential dislocation all day long, this someone presents themselves impeccably, has a great career, a beautiful home, works out at least three times a week and somehow finds time to give back to the community in between raising the perfect family and maintaining strong, meaningful relationships— and they make it all look easy. Under the High Wheel is basically the restaurant version of that kind of person. Without making a big deal of it, UHW creates an attractive, comfortable atmosphere, lays on unfussily gracious service and unUnder the High Wheel pretentiously insists on using 8135 - 102 St, wholesome, locally sourced 780.439.4442 organic ingredients in its aptly self-described "old world comfort food." In a peer or co-worker, this level of natural accomplishment would probably provoke resentment and annoyance on my part, but we're talking about a noshery here—I was pleased to take full advantage. Housed in the Roots on Whyte building, whose tenants pledge to uphold a high standard of conscientious business practices, UHW commands a handsome, open expanse of the main floor, adorning its exposed brick and sturdy pillars with tasteful ornamentation, including the wall-mounted antique penny-farthing bicycle that would serve as the eatery's sigil. Despite its obvious pedigree, the place is family-friendly and easy-going enough that patrons don't even feel constrained to doff
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their baseball caps as they dig into their free-range beef lasagna. And though the menu, a savvy blend of sammies, crepes, salads and featured entrées, caters to gluten-free and vegan orientations, there's plenty of ethical meat for the conscious carnivore. While deciding is seldom easy for me, I was particularly hard-put to choose between the meal-proportioned kale salad (with bacon!) and the duck confit ($24) on the featured menu. Then I remembered a rule of thumb that's stood me in good stead previously—always order the duck. The presence of a good pinot noir on the wine list for pairing purposes sealed the deal. My co-diner, who was also interested in the duck, went with her second choice—handrolled gnocchi in blue cheese sauce ($21)—and consoled herself with a cup of the daily soup ($5)—sweet potatoginger in this case. The menu notes that good food takes time and counsels patrons to be patient, but the pleasant ambiance of the naturally bright room, classic jazz tootling in the background and happy diners enjoying their meals—not to mention the fine libations—distracted the co-diner and I from whatever time might have elapsed. Certainly the wait for the cup of soup was short, and though she couldn't spare any of the tasty-looking biscuit that came with it, the hearty spoonful of tender, gingery yam nuggets in rich vegetarian broth confirmed the kitchen's wicked soup chops. A few sips and some window-gazing later, our entrées arrived attractively arrayed in pristine ceramic dishes. Really, we both paused before digging in to admire how appetizing the food looked. I
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gazed upon a slow-roasted duck leg on a bed of spaetzle, lavished with roasted red and orange peppers, sour cherries, a swirl of yogurt and a confetti of fresh herbs. Historically I haven't always been crazy about spaetzle, the quasi-egg noodle/dumpling of ostensibly German origin that, in my experience, can be a bit dry and flavourless. Here, though, it seemed like just the thing—a substantial but not obtrusive starch with a mild, pan-fried crispiness that was the ideal vehicle for the savoury, sweet, tart and creamy elements of the dish. The generous portion of moist, slow-cooked duck was itself heavenly rich and, since I was throwing cholesterol caution to the wind, I went ahead and ate the succulent, salt-imbued skin as well. My co-diner's creamy, herb-flecked portion of gnocchi—tender homemade pasta-potato dumplings—was flavoured with onion and celery, and lavished with beets and slices of Granny Smith apple, which married marvelously with the aromatic blueness of the cheese sauce and what I felt sure was a hint of fresh sage. In fact it seemed like both of our entrées had been carefully engineered so that every element perfectly complemented the whole. Codiner dubbed it "the best gnocchi of my lifetime." And the plates were ample enough that we begrudgingly passed on the temptation of dessert. As much as I'd be happy to eat exactly that meal all over again, Under the High Wheel's feature menu changes frequently to take advantage of the seasonal availability of quality ingredients. Based on our one meal there, the co-diner and I agreed that could only be a good thing. SCOTT LINGLEY
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about durian fruit Strong scent The fruit emits a strong, distinctive odour that is sometimes described as smelling like rotten onions, garbage and turpentine. The smell is so strong that it has been banned from public transportation and hotels in Southeast Asia. Durian etymology The durian's scientific name is durio malvaceae. The word 'durian' comes from the Indonesian and Malaysian word duri, which means thorn, due to the fruit's tough, prickly exterior. Thai export The durian fruit is native to Indonesia and Malaysia. However, Thailand is the largest exporter of durians.
Physical attributes Durian fruit can grow as large as 30 centimetres long and 15 centimetres wide. Its weight varies from one to three kilograms. King of the fruits Durian fruit can range in price from eight to 22 dollars. Move over oysters, you have company Durian is often viewed as an aphrodisiac. The Javanese—an ethnic Indonesian tribe—has an expression for its aphrodisiac qualities: jatuh sarung naik, which translates to "the durian falls and the sarong comes up." V
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The changing face of Big Rock Maintaining craft-beer cred while competing with the big guys You may have noticed something different about Big Rock recently. The long-standing Calgary-based regional brewer has been significantly shifting many aspects of its business over the past year or two. Big Rock, formed in 1984, was part of the first wave of craft beer in Canada, growing fast as part of the new interest among beer drinkers for beer with more flavour. By the late '90s, Big Rock was dominating the craft-beer market in western Canada and had stretched its reach across the country. At this point it was middle-aged, in craft-beer terms, and it was not aging well. A second wave of craft brewers began offering
more interesting and diverse options to an ever-evolving beer market and Big Rock was getting left behind. Worse, it had embarked on an ambitious strategy to more directly compete with the big boys by emphasizing pale lagers and cheaper beer, significantly damaging its craft-beer credentials. After a number of years of rising volumes, dropping profit margins and evaporating craft credibility, it was time for a makeover. About two years ago, Big Rock brought in Robert Sartor, a former CEO for the Forzani Group, with an explicit mandate to revamp the company's position in the beer market. I recently had an
opportunity to sit down with Sartor and Big Rock's Brewmaster, Paul Gautreau, to discuss their strategy and the motivations behind it. In short, Sartor believes that Big Rock was not well positioned to be a mainstream player. He bluntly states that the company would "be bankrupt in 10 years" if they didn't change direction. He moved to actually shrink the production volumes, shedding many of the low-margin, private-label accounts ("house" beer for pubs and liquor stores, for example) to which they had become surprisingly dependent. He and Gautreau also embarked on an ambitious plan to reinvigorate Big Rock's repu-
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tation among craft-beer drinkers, which had been taking a beating in recent years. So what did they do? The most obvious change was revamping the packaging. They switched from industry-standard bottles to more expensively designed bottles. They overhauled the label and box designs, offering more rustic and artistic representations. The increased cost is off-set by making the new bottles 330 mL (as opposed to industry standard 341 mL). More importantly, Big Rock also made the key decision to install two new brewhouses in their brewery. For years they have had a large (in craft-beer terms) 20 000-litre brewhouse. This limited their flexibility and required they move a lot of beer to make it economical (hence the house beer). Instead of getting rid of that system—which they still need because they sell a lot of Traditional and Grasshopper—they added a 2000-litre system (more standard for Canadian craft breweries) and a tiny 300-litre system which allows for experimenting six kegs at a time. The 300-litre system is used exclusively for one-off specials for restaurants and pubs. These additions have permitted Big Rock to act more like a small craft brewery. They added two new seasonal series to their regular lineup: Brewmaster's Edition, which brews
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up traditional European styles; and the Alchemist Series, which is more experimental and eclectic. Their schedule for 2014 is to release 27 different beer between these series along with some one-offs. Many of these beer will not make it out of Calgary, but most will find their way to Edmonton in some form. How is the transformation working? In short, it is still a work in progress. In terms of the beer, the seasonal series have been a bit hit and miss. Some of their efforts, including tries at a Maibock, a Czech Pilsner and an ESB (Extra Special / Strong Bitter) have worked out quite well and are nice examples. Others, like an experimental Stein Beer, which is made by using rocks to heat the brew kettle, and a Gruit, a historic ale made with herbs instead of hops, have been fascinating and worth trying, but others have been lacklustre in their performance, including a rosemary beer and their attempt at an English Mild Ale. In a way, such is to be expected with one-offs and seasonals; you will never like every one. However, it is an indication they are still trying to (re-) find their feet on brewing craft beer. Public reaction seems similarly mixed. Craft drinkers are open to a Big Rock transformation but are not yet wholly bought in. That process will take time and, ultimately, it will be the beer that decides Big Rock's fate. Trad and Grasshopper will always be their workhorses, and that is fine, but if they're to get the kind of craft-y cred they are looking for, Big Rock is going to have to learn how to make seasonals and one-offs that draw attention. And that will determine whether Big Rock will exit its middle years balding, broken down and lonely, or fit, flexible and ready to (big) rock. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer. org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.
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Thu, Jun 26 – Sun, Jun 29 Found Festival Various venues (box office at Wilbert McIntyre park [104 St & 83 Ave]), free – $10 (festival pass: $40)
Look, over there! Site-specific theatre! // Nico Laroche-Humby
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hat back alley passed or that bridge crossed on your morning commute is often swept into the mundane. The Found Festival, though, is exploring the city's spaces hardly looked at twice—let alone seen as venues for art. Now in its third year of production, the three-day festival showcases multidisciplinary art in nontraditional venues throughout the Old Strathcona neighbourhood. The performances range from a mixed-media performance on the High Level Bridge to a roving adaptation of Peter Pan throughout the river valley. Festival director Andrew Ritchie
has lived in Old Strathcona for years, but says the festival has made him see his own neighbourhood in a completely different way. Tiny details in alleyways and sidewalks now glimmer in a new light. "Some spaces just pop to me like they've never done before—it's so cool," he says. And so is the purpose of the Found Festival, says festival producer Elena Belyea. The idea for Found first came out of Ritchie and Elena's frustration with the lack of opportunities for budding artists to showcase their work on a limited budget. While serving that purpose, the festival also allows
guests and artists to form their own relationships with the spaces around them and the art itself. Heartbreak Hotel, for example, is a curated exhibit of items representing the end of a relationship. Belyea says guests need not be "precious" with the items—touching, even stealing, items is all fair game—because they will be burned at the end of the festival. Or take Herbert, the play hosted at Whyte Ave's Blush Lane Organic Market. Belyea mentions the work, about the pains of growing up, re-explores the details of the grocery store. "I have been inside Blush Lane Organic Market before. I'm used to interacting with it in one way," she says.
"Site-specific stuff is cool because it forces me, anyway, to re-look at the way I look at that space. I may take for granted I know on a day-to-day what that space is about."
the various faculty members of the drama department take turns presenting their current research projects, assisting them on the path towards a final product, whatever that turns out to be—a new script, a full production or even a film.
across the province. The other two pieces are both works in progress: a devised theatre piece conceived by Kathleen Weiss and Nadien Chu called House of Furies, and the first version of an original play called Grow, Grow, Grow! based on African folktales written by Tololwa Mollel and directed by Jan Selman. "We're a microcosm of the larger community," Brown says. "When you look at what's going on in the larger community, there is such tremendous diversity in this town. It blows my mind; I've been a part of
Guests will have ample opportunity to make art of their own, too. The main festival grounds at Dr Wilbert McIntyre Park will be charged with grown-up arts and crafts, and the Citizen's Gallery will allow anyone to wallpaper the alley outside the Gravity Pope Warehouse with their own work. The festival blurs boundaries of venue or conventions, but Ritchie and Belyea are clear on one thing:
the crux of the festival is rediscovery. The two festival organizers hope guests embrace the unknown the best they can, whether that means connecting with an unfamiliar art scene or seeing your grocery store in a new light. The end result, says Ritchie, is a rewarding—and almost otherworldly—experience. "There's a level of intimacy because you're right there and there's no fourth wall. You're really seeing what's happening and you're really existing in the same world within that play or gallery." KATE BLACK
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he University of Alberta's drama producer, says. "We don't go into a department is a mainspring of lab and work with test tubes and Edmonton's theatre community— animals, and that's how most people and now audiences have the chance think of research. We go into a reto see some of hearsal hall and the faculty's re- Thu, Jun 26 – Sun, Jun 29 we work with husearch in action Timms Centre for the Arts, free man beings to tell at its annual stories." StageLab FestiStageLab began val. in 2011 and ran "I think it's one of the challenges for two years before taking a break that the fine arts always come up to regroup and solidify its mandate. against within the university struc- Now, it will alternate between June ture, when we use the term 're- and August, and each year will feasearch,'" Julie Brown, StageLab's ture completely different works as
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Of the three pieces being presented this year, one is complete: A Musta Be, by Jane Heather and Old Earth Productions. The show provides a voice to aboriginal women and has been performed throughout May and June on aboriginal reserves
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the theatre community in Edmonton since the late '70s and the growth has been remarkable. "The really lovely thing is we continue to feed each other," she continues. "The department feeds the community and the community continues to come back and feed the department. It's a pretty cool synchronicity that happens. I do believe, with all my heart, the reason this community is so strong and so powerful in terms of theatre is absolutely because of the drama department."
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Until Sat, Jun 28 (7:30 pm; 2 pm Saturday matinee) Directed by Stewart Lemoine Varscona Theatre, $16 – $30 An old friendship made new // Mat Busby
Lucy and Mr Plate N
ed Plate is the quintessential small town, blue-collar dude: instantly recognizable. Living in Edmonton, even for a short while, means you've definitely run into this guy before. Lucy and Mr Plate is a new work by Jeff Haslam, Stewart Lemoine and Jana O'Connor, a sequel to the 2001 Fringe hit Citizen Plate and part of Teatro La Quindicina's current season. From his first few lines, Ned (Haslam) quickly endears himself to the audience—even whilst clad in a bright orange clown suit. After that quirky opening monologue we move to a beach in Hawaii, brought to life by a large projection stretching across the entire back of the stage. Ned's on vacation when he has a chance encounter with Lucy Dedechko (O'Connor), another small-town kid (he's from Vegreville, she's from Mundare) and someone he vaguely knew from school. It's the start of a friendship that's not totally unlikely but also not exactly expected; certainly it's one that provides plenty of laughs as we watch them navigate the waters from clumsy small talk to genuine heartto-hearts.
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ing earnest goofiness for some great shticks. O'Connor plays a Lucy that's insecure and benignly narcissistic as she stumbles from one poor life decision to another—but I suspect most of us can relate to her uncer12345 tainty and failed relationships. The script peppers clever quips (which are often, hilariously, over both of the characters' heads) with expertly captured dialogue, and is also simply quite funny, with comedy that's backed by real warmth. It's not completely without bumps: the helicopter scene in the first act sticks out as a little disjointed and unclear, while parts of the second can feel a bit tedious. The latter is mainly a factor of the subject itself;
you can't help but wince as Lucy flings herself into one romantic mishap after another. Luckily we've got Ned to bolster the awkwardness with some funny pantomiming of her former lovers, and then reassure us with his own brand of homespun wisdom—too sincere to feel patronizing. The story is eminently refreshing for not following up on the typical romantic-comedy tropes that it suggests at the outset: the "will-they-orwon't-they" dilemma isn't completely irrelevant, but it's simply not the focus. Instead, Lucy and Mr Plate is a celebration of the friends who help us along our path, and a snapshot of the life of everyday folks.
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Sabine Lecorre-Moore, Mireille Péloquin, Mireille Rochon, Mireille Cloutier • Until Jun 30
COMMON SENSE • 10546-115 St • AESTHETIC EFFORT: Sculptures by Rob Willms
CREATIVE PRACTICES • 10149-122 St, 780.863.4040 • OBJECT–SUBJECT: Illustrations by Janice Wu, and works by designer Teng Teng Chong • Until Jul 1
CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51
ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • 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
EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM
Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • RAKU, NAKED OR NOT: Raku and primitive fired pottery by guild members; until Jun 28 • A TOUCH OF COLOUR: Works by Jan Haines and Barb Watchman; Jul 2-31; reception: Jul 5, 11-3pm
DANCE tional Centre. 11113-113 St, 780.893.6828 • Jul 5, 8pm
• HERITAGE ART SERIES: Paintings by artists exploring ancient landscapes, relationships between people and their surroundings, and the physical record of human activities • Jul 10, 7:30-9:30pm
Albert, 780.459.2525 • Artworks by Kathy Hill, Andrew Raczynski, and Natasha Vretenar • Jul 2-28 • Opening: Jul 3, 6pm, artists in attendance
FEATS FESTIVAL OF DANCE • Various locations,
DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St, 780.686.4211
GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 •
EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Senior Recrea-
DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278
FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave, 780.488.2952 • CHARTING THE JOURNEY: Works by Robert Dmytruk • Until Jun 30 GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St
Edmonton • abdancealliance.ab.ca/Programs/FeatsFestival.aspx • 1.888.422.8107 • A multi-disciplinary dance festival • Jul 1-12
FOUND FESTIVAL • Various locations in Old Strath-
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cona; Main: Dr Wilbert McIntyre Gazebo Park, 104 St, 83 Ave • A site-specific, arts festival showcasing dance, theatre, visual art, music, and creative writing; presented by Print Machine • Jun 26-29 • $10; Festival Pass: $40 at at TIX on the Square
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MacEWAN UNIVERSITY • 10045-156 St • Blues dance event; Shantzd3@macewan.ca • $65 • Until Jun 26, 6:30-8pm
SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing, 1054581 Ave; 587.786.6554; sugarswing.com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 lesson with entry
FILM EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • Silk Stockings (1957, PG) Jun 30, 8pm • Orchestra Wives (1942, PG); Jul 7, 8pm • Series: $30 (8 films) at screening; Single: $6/$5 (senior/ student) $5/$3 (child 12 & under)
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FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley Milner Library Audio Visual Rm, Main Fl, 7 Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • 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
MOVIES AT THE CAPITOL–Fort Edmonton,
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • Feature Gallery: FURNISH: Contemporary hand-crafted home furnishings and accessories; until Jul 5 • Discovery Gallery: WAITING FOR THE MAN...: Works by Irene Rasetti; until Jul 26 • FLEETING WHISPERS: Works by Robyn Weatherle; until Jul 26
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780.472.6229 • Open weekends during the summer until Sep 2 • $5 (adult)/$3.50 (senior/student)/$2 (child 3-12)/ child under 3 free; $4 (train rides)
ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • RETREAT: Installation by Sherri Chaba; Jul 3-Aug 2; reception/ArtWalk: Jul 3, 6-9pm • DISTRACTION OF A STATIONARY NATURE: Works by Shyra De Souza; reception/ArtWalk: Jul 3, 6-9pm; Jul 3-Aug 2 • Ageless Art: for mature adults; Formed Connections: Jul 17, 1-3pm; $15/$13.50 (member), pre-register ARTS HABITAT STUDIO GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10217106 St • The Sweaty Ball Finale Party • Jun 30, 8pm
ARTWALK–St Albert • Perron District, DT, St Albert: WARES (host SAPVAC), St Albert Library, Musée Héritage Museum, Gemport, Elevate Athletic Wear, Art Gallery of St Albert, Rental and Sales Gallery, Bookstore on Perron, VASA, Cloud Nine Pajamas, Cerulean Boutique • 1st Thu, 6-9pm; through to Sep; exhibits run all month • Jul 3, 6pm BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • CAROUSEL: Rotating show of works by gallery artists; until Jul 2 • LARGE PLACES AND LOFTY SPACES: Large-scale pieces by gallery artists • Jul 3-17
CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • WOMEN IN ART: Works by
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5-9pm; until Aug 21
MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • ADD + SUBSTRACT: Sculptures and photographs by Ruth Anne French and Candace Makowichuk • Until Jul 13
MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GAL-
LERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • 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 • 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 • Summer Group Shows: New work by gallery artists; Jun-Aug • CHROMATIC: Works by Mitchel Smith's exhibition • Questioning the familiar IN MY MOTHER TONGUE: Works by Robin Smith-Peck's • Until Jul 3
ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • 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 • 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • 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.: Ride your bike, unicycle, or motorbike to SNAP, ride through ink and make your own 22 x 30” print of the tire treads; followed by music at 9pm with bands; Jul 5, 5pm-late; $10 (SNAP/Oliver Community League member)/$15 (non-member/door)
FRIDAY, JULY 11TH, 7PM
CELTIC JAM WWW.FORTEDMONTONPARK.CA • Until Jul 26
DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.200.2711 • Richard Dixon's Studio and Gallery featuring a collection of historical Canadian artworks; antique jade sculptures and jewellery; 17th Century bronze masterworks and artworks by Richard Dixon DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY • 10332-124 St • Represents some of Canada's leading contemporary artists as well as artists gaining recognition in the international art scene. Canadian historical art available
EDMONTON’S ST JOHN’S INSTITUTE • 11024-82 Ave • MONEY, SOVEREIGNTY AND POWER: THE PAPER CURRENCY OF REVOLUTIONARY UKRAINE: Presented by the Alberta Society for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies (ASAUS), travelling exhibit curated by Bohdan Kordan • Until Jul 26
SURFACESCAPES: Works by June Mielnichuk; and KRAZY SCULPTOR: Works by Yves Gauthier • Jun 29-Aug 19
GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • The Works Festival curated art show; until Jul 1 • MY MAGICAL ETHEREAL JOURNEY: Paintings by Jose Marquez Lugo; Jul 4-30; reception: Jul 4, 6:30-8:30pm
GALLERY WALK–Edmonton • Gallery Walk Galleries: Bearclaw, Bugera Matheson, Daffodil, Douglas Udell, Front, Garage Photographic, Lando, Peter Robertson, Scott, West End • First Thursday Event: Galleries open late for an informal gathering of culture lovers the 1st Thu, 5-7pm; each month, year round
HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • FLIGHT: 26th Annual Members Show; until Jul 4 • Annex
Bldg: STARK–THE NAKED SHOW: Until Jul 4
LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161
SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A Monthly Play Reading Series: 1st Sun ea month With A Different Play By A Different Playwright STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8601 • Human Library: Borrow a person instead of a book, and over a cup of coffee, listen to your book tell his/her story • Jun 27, 4-8pm • Free
THEATRE THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • An Improvised Theatre: song, dance, and comedy presented by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri until Jul 26 CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL STREET PERFORMERS FESTIVAL–STREETFEST • Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.425.5162 • Outdoor performances by over 40 professional performers including rovers, dancers, comedy characters, musicians, magicians, jugglers and more • Jul 4-13
FOOTSLOOSE! • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, Ph II WEM, Upper Level, 780.484.2424 • By C. Haley and R. Apostle • Belmont is a quiet community in the heart of the Prairies. Edith Ogilvy, as the new mayor, enacts a new bi-law forbidding anyone within the town limits from dancing • Until 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)
FREEWILL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL • Myer Horowitz Theatre, U Of A • The Taming Of The Shrew • Jul 9-27 • $30 (adult)/$50 (Festival pass)/$20 (student/ senior)/$2 (child under 12) at TicketFly IMPROVAGANZA • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • 11 days of the best stand-up comedy and improv the world has to offer • Until Jun 28 • $15-$20
JENNIE’S STORY • Walterdale, 10322-83 Ave • Walterdale's last play of the season by Betty Lambert, directed by Alex Hawkins • Jul 2-12, 8pm • $12-$18 at TIX on the Square
STEPPES GALLERY • 1253-91 St • BACKGROUND
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES–THE MUSICAL • La Cité
TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • Events: WILDLIFE RESCUE: until Sep 1 • K'NEX: THRILL
RIDES: until Sep 1
UKRAINIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE VILLAGE • 25 mins E. on Hwy 16, 780.662.3640 • VINTAGE DAY: See a display of historic and specialized vehicles. 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 • Until Aug 1 VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • ORDINARY WALLS: Work by Bonnie Patton • METASPECT: Miniature encaustic paintings by Lorna Kemp • Until Jun 27
WALTERDALE THEATRE • Lobby, ASA Gallery, 1032283 Ave • EXPLORING SATURATION: COLOUR:: Works by ASA members • Reception: Jun 30, 7pm, followed by a preview from the play WORKS FESTIVAL–MOVEMENT(S) • Various venues throughout Edmonton • theworks.ab.ca • Art & Design festival 13 days of art and design • Until Jul 1
LITERARY • EARLY RECOVERY: Richard Boulet–Drawings 1994-2000
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SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • Main Gallery: Terry Reynoldson; until Jul 12 • Fireplace Room: Maggie Naef and Yvonne Berget; through Jun
• 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • STRATHCONA SALON SERIES: Showcase of Strathcona County's local artworks • Until Jun 29
ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34 St,
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • BMO World of Creativity: CABINETS OF CURIOSITY: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30 • HIGH ADVENTURE: Byron Harmon on the Columbia Icefield; until Aug 17 • LAWREN HARRIS AND A.Y. JACKSON–JASPER/ROBSON 1924: until Aug 17 • STRANGE DREAM: Artworks by Jill Stanton; until Dec 31 • NEW WORKS AND NEW LINES: Alma Louise Visscher's installation Cathedral Cumulus with contemporary drawings from the National Gallery of Canada; until Aug 17 • Conversation with the Artist: With Alma Louise Visscher, and AGA Curator Kristy Trinier; Jul 2, 7pm; free with admission • NEW LINES: Contemporary drawings from the National Gallery of Canada; until Oct 5
Space: MONOLOGY: Print and photographic installation by Insoon Ha; until Jul 26 • The Art of Patio: every Thu,
STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501
REEL FAMILY CINEMA–Metro • Garneau Theatre • Family films • Free admission for children 12 and under • The NeverEnding Story; Jun 28, 2pm Theatre • Until Jun 26
LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Main
RADIATION: Ink sketches, paintings, and woodcuts by Tadeusz Warszynski • Until Jul 26
780.442.2013 • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Jun 26, 7:30pm • The Valley of the Gwanji • Jul 3, 7:30pm
THE WORLD’S BEST COMMERCIALS • Garneau
• SUMMER ON 124 STREET: Works by gallery artists and secondary market works • Until Aug 27
AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Writers from a Hat: For amateur writers to share; Jul 7, 7pm • 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
THE KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • Glass Door Cof-
feehouse Reading Series: with singer-songwriter Steven M Sware; comedian Robert Lutes; authors Chinenye Obiajulu and Dolly Dennis. Open mic host poet Jannie Edwards • Jun 26, 7-9pm • last reading until Sep 25
NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm
ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tue: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathin-
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theatre, 8627-91 St • Two ONE-WAY Tickets To Broadway • By Harvey Fierstein and Jerry Herman, direction by Martin Galba, choreography by Linete Smith, musical direction by Daryl Price • Until Jun 29 • $26 (adult)/$20 (senior)/$15 (student) at TIX on the Square
THE LAST ROMANCE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • By Joe Dipietro, starring Jamie Farr in a hilarious and heartwarming story that proves it’s never too late for romance and second chances • Until Aug 3
LUCY AND MR. PLATE • Varscona Theatre • Sequel to Citizen Plate, Ned returns to pay it all forward as he assists a damsel in distress. Starring Jeff Haslam and Jana O’Connor • Until Jun 28; Tue-Sat 7:30pm; Sat mat 2pm; no shows Sun, Mon; Tue evenings: Pay-What-You-Can
NINO NINA SHOW • Expressionz Café, 780.450.6462 • Live monthly classic variety show • Last Sun each month, 5:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show) • $10 (door)
ODYSSEO • Yellowhead Tr, Fort Rd, near 12403 Mt Lawn Rd • cavalia.net • By Cavalia Under the White Big Top, a larger-than-life theatrical production • Jul 9, extended to Aug 3 • $24.50-$139.50 at cavalia.net, 1-866-999-8111 SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A Monthly Play Reading Series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright • Upcoming Readings at SCRIPT SALON: The Hesitation Pitch by David Belke • Jul 6 STAGELAB FESTIVAL • Timms Centre, 87 Ave, 112 St, 780.492.2495 • U of A Dept of Drama faculty brings theatrical research to life presenting work and performances • House of Furies: by Kathleen Weiss and Nadien Chu • A Musta Be: Maskihkiy Maskwa Iskwew: by Jane Heather and Old Earth Productions • Grow, Grow, Grow! by Tololwa M Mollel, directed by Jan Selman • Jun 26-29 • Free; reserve at 780.492.2495
THEATRESPORTS • Zeidler Hall, Citadel, 9828-101A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until June • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square
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f each of us only ever gets to Tom a ghost of some kind? Is Nikki find one face of true love, then going bananas? Is there some ultraNikki (Annette Bening) is arguably cryptic clue nestled in the fact that one exceptionally lucky lover. The Garrett designed houses while Nikki Face of Love begins with Nikki and stages them for a living? Beats me. Garrett (Ed Harris), her husband But I wouldn't advise you to invest too of 30 years, on a Mexican holiday much time in trying to parse out the that ends in tragedy when Garrett metaphysics of director Arie Posin's second feature, gets stoned and which strongly perishes in the Opens Friday echoes the films sea. Fast-forward Directed by Arie Posin of Krzysztof a few years and Princess Theatre Kieślowski—not Nikki meets Tom to mention Jona(also Ed Harris), than Glazer's a gardener and painter who's a stone-cold dead Birth—but boasts little of their wisringer for her dead husband, not dom, ingenuity or esthetic rigour. to mention quite a lovely guy. Tom Thanks mainly to the efforts of the looks just like Garrett, laughs just truly wonderful pairing of Bening like Garrett, makes love to her just and Harris, The Face of Love is much like Garrett. And get this: Garrett stronger on generating feeling than collected paintings; Tom makes lasting intrigue, wonder or sense. A telling snippet of dialogue: paintings! Might seem creepy, but "What are we doing?" "Making new Nikki's hooked. What's the story here? Is fate play- memories." To give the film some ing some kind of sick trick on our credit, there is something a little grief-stricken heroine? (A winking laudable, I think, about its ways of glimpse of the poster for Vertigo in evading mere wish-fulfilment fantaone scene suggests as much.) Is this sy. Something's always a little off in doppelgänger-lover a metaphor for Nikki and Garrett's exchanges—and projection prompted by ardour? Is I'm not just referring to the occa-
sionally appalling bits of exposition. Tom makes Nikki feel alive for the first time in years, but he also seems to be hiding something from her. Meanwhile, Nikki's got to hide Tom, from her daughter, and from the nice neighbour played by, get this, Robin Williams (!), who's always had a crush on Nikki. Something in The Face of Love's basic ingredients feels like it might have made for a pretty good melodrama or so-called women's picture from the '50s—indeed, Bening's emotionally textured performance at times recalls Jane Wyman or Joan Bennett. But what we get instead is something too soft in both the head and the heart, New Agey without quite committing to its mystical mire. Still, there's a core element in this story and in Bening's embodiment of longing for love's resurrection that I refuse to write off. Much here is dumb, yes, but I'm nevertheless rather touched by this. Am I going bananas? Am I, like Nikki, just falling victim to my own projection? JOSEF BRAUN
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rom home recording studios and Vube videos popping up to barroom karaoke and TV competitions churning out the next Paul Potts, popular singing's gone local and small-screen in the past two decades. But little more than a half-century ago, singing was a glamorous, big-screen spectacle, wrapped by the studios—led by MGM's Freed Unit in the '40s and '50s—into a bow-tied package for an audience to unwrap on an evening at the cinema. Continuing its tradition of melodic summer fare, the Edmonton
Film Society kicks off the song- notchka puts it, "The arrangement and-dance routine with 1957's Silk of your features is not entirely reStockings (June 30), a Freed-pro- pulsive to me." duced picture. It's a Cold War Gender war's reworking of Jun 30 – Aug 25 (Mondays, 8 pm) at the heart of 1939's Ninotch- Royal Alberta Museum swing-era musika, about a se- $5 – $6, $30 series pass cal Orchestra Wives (1942; July vere envoy (Cyd royalalbertamuseum.ca/events/ Charisse), sent movies/movies.cfm 7), the second from the gray and last film to Soviet Union feature Glenn to bring three Miller and his commissars back from sunny Paris, famous band—it's a story of band who falls for an American movie members' wives acting catty and producer (Fred Astaire) ... or, as Ni- petty. Small Town Girl (1953; July
14), starring Jane Powell and Farley Granger, features the peppy "Jumping Song." It Started with Eve (1941; July 21) stars Deanna Durbin in one of her most acclaimed roles, as a hatcheck girl posing as a young man's fiancée for his dying father. Sidestepping out to the frontier, Red Garters (1954; July 28) is a send-up of Westerns, sparing and suggestive in its sets but full of costumes. The seventh in the decalogue of Astaire-Rogers musicals, Shall We Dance? (1937; August 11) sees an American dancer in Paris getting
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his jazz on for a famous toe-tapper. Still touring the City of Lights, Lovely to Look At (1952; August 18) sees Al Marsh (Red Skelton), searching with his partners for backers for their Broadway show, suddenly discover that he's part owner of a dress salon in France's capital. And Young at Heart (1954; August 25) stars Frank Sinatra, influential enough in Hollywood by then that he could change the ending for his black-mood character to a happily-ever-after. BRIAN GIBSON
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hat state which seems to attract so much black-or-white, hate-it-orlove-it sentiment, New Jersey gets its (non-Springsteen) coming-of-age classic rock bio—with some Sopranos-like colour. Jersey Boys, the hit Broadway "jukebox musical" about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, has gone bigscreen with Clint Eastwood, that director of tasteful but never quite artful period dramas. At first, his touch is so deft and the look of the film so smart that it's easy to miss the emptiness behind the sharp design and snappy patter. It's Vincent Piazza as Tommy DeVito, playing a softer version of his Lucky Luciano on Boardwalk Empire, who stands out the most. Tommy's a self-
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ish hustler with mob connections— to boss Gyp Decarlo (Christopher Walken)—who sees Frankie (John Lloyd Young) and the rest of the group as his project, his boys. Eastwood and his crew offer some fantastic set design and shots, with scenes playing out as part diorama, part musical stageset, and part period-piece. The effect is both nostalgia and knowing recreation, but any amber-hued sweetness is undercut, early on, by all the hard-edged hustling: the boys screw up a theft in downtown Belleville or break into a church to sing in its nave; a pan-up past record labels' office win-
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he oh-so-creatively spelled sequel Michael's (Terrence J) wedding. Various Think Like A Man Too, now cha- antics—more predictable (and much chinging its way through cineplexes less exciting) than LeBron James dunkafter the adaptation of comic Steve ing—ensue, from Cedric's shrewish wife Harvey's book grossed $124-million in calling him to over-managing mother-of2012, is pure shtick and shlock posing the-groom Loretta needing a sexy man to get her out of the as a rom-com. It pretends to be a kind of Now playing women's hair. (Notice a subtext yet? post-racial couples' Directed by Tim Story night gone wild, but Feminist this isn't, in it's chock-filled with case the title didn't tip you off.) This is retrograde gender a story whose radistereotypes— when, that is, the camera's not ogling cal twist is that the ladies, not the semiVegas and licking its lens over the ca- gentlemen, get (accidentally) stoned and sino strip. go to a strip club. Wild, indeed. A nattering voiceover from Cedric (Kevin Hart), which keeps using gimpy-kneed Splatter flop-sweatingly desperbasketball metaphors for relationships, ate comedy on the screen and one or leads us through the reunion of five cou- two laughs stick—but that's not quite ples from the first flick as they gather in enough to cancel out the lazy mocking Sin City for Candace (Regina Hall) and of foreign accents and the homopho-
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In its third act, as the band falls apart, Jersey Boys gets particularly loose—it introduces Frankie's daughter just to squeeze a sad storyline out of her, so the grief that follows is entirely unearned. (After Frankie's sparkplug of a missus gets fired up in a great dinerdate scene, she nearly disappears; the story never seems to know what to do with any of the few women here.) Walken's made safe and straight, much like the film itself by the end. It's all almost disappointing enough, in its second half, to make you question the movie-musical itself: why see this on screen and not on stage? Where are the dark depths behind the catchy melodies? What's the point of all this song and dance?
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bic "joke" about a short-haired woman in a holding cell. Even for a rom-com, though, the stream-of-clichéness speeches at the end are ungodly. (Not to mention one woman saying, as if she's at a board meeting for O Magazine, "I believe I can effect change in my relationship.") The real baffler's why a film about upper-middle-class AfricanAmerican couples in Vegas—an Obamaera Hangover—wants to play off the same old rancid stereotypes of blacks as super-sexual, cool partiers ... yet deeply respectful of their (deeply Christian) mothers. But then this is a flick that talks up a big game about cheating and sleeping around, only to conclude that we should all respect women because they'll all be (and want to be) mothers. That's hardly 21st-century thinking, man. BRIAN GIBSON
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"Everything begins and ends at the exact right time and place." This phrase, one of many portentous lines lightly uttered in Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), teases us with intimations of the fraudulence of free will. Is every thing written, branded into the world's flesh, waiting for us only to fulfil our miniscule role in destiny's trajectory? This singular film—a study in class, gender and sexual repression; at heart the subtlest of horror films; a major player in both the Australian New Wave and director Peter Weir's career—dangles questions about determinism and causality over our collective psyches. Those questions keep dangling four decades on, just as the titular "geological marvel" still hangs suspended in Australia's Central Victoria countryside a million years after its formation. A mystery without resolution—and thus akin to L'avventura (1960)—Picnic is ambiguous to the core, yet it brims with specificities in its characters, objects and milieu. It's now available on DVD and BluRay from Criterion. The set-up is summarized in a single opening title card informing us that on Valentine's Day, in the year 1900, three students and one instructor from Appleyard College, Educational Establishment for Young Ladies disappeared without a trace while spending the day at Hanging Rock. We see the Appleyard class embark on their trip; we see four girls climb up between the stones, hands linked like paper dolls, like the silhouetted figures at the end of The Seventh Seal (1957); we see only one girl return, screaming. We see the carriage return to the college far later than it was supposed to, without the three girls or the teacher who went to find them. And we see the lives of many of those left behind, students and adults both, slowly unravel in myriad strange ways.
box—focuses on social mores and objective incident. The film, by comparison, leans into the mystic, something Van Morrison rendered as welcoming and buoyant just a few years earlier in a popular song, but which Weir and his collaborators render here as entrancing and deeply eerie, a sort of black hole or siren's song. Editor Max Lemon lures us into a sinister groove with woozy dissolves that merge images of birds with girls, who dreamily sway their skirts in the sun. The air is thick with repression, especially of the sexual variety: among the missing is Miranda (Anne-Louise Lambert), an unmistakable object of desire for at least one classmate; two young men from different classes seem to flirt, even as they ogle the girls from afar; a notable omen is the sudden stopping of everyone's watches, those emblems of efficiency; a memorable early image finds several girls in a
daisy chain of corset fastening; another features the strayed girls laying asleep on the rocks, their limbs extended in vaguely erotic patterns. Of course, everything is mere suggestion. The film is haunting, absorbing, alluring—never vulgar. Among Criterion's supplements is a documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew. Lambert tells of her first encounter with Lindsay during production, claiming that the elderly author came to her, embraced her, and said, "It's been so long, Miranda." It's a great little story, very much in keeping with the film. It also helps keep alive the old rumour that the novel was based on real events, that Lindsay perhaps had her own beguiling Miranda as an adolescent. But Lindsay's long since died, taking her secrets with her, leaving the absolute mystery surrounding Hanging Rock in tact. V
Joan Lindsay's 1967 source novel— which Criterion has included in a paperback edition in its Hanging Rock
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ell that doesn't look very good on us, does it?" laughs Neville Quinlan over the phone, hiding out in the alley behind the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto until he has to slip inside for soundcheck. Quinlan, the singer-songwriter-turnedfrontman of NQ Arbuckle, has just been informed that four years have passed between Let's Just Stay Here, the band's collaboration with Carolyn Mark, and the release of NQ Arbuckle's The Future Happens Anyway. A full six years slipped by between the group's last album, XOK, and the new one. Quickly coming back from the surprise at the timeline, Quinlan offers up a pretty credible explanation for the lengthy stretch between releases. "We've always been playing and we've always been doing our thing, but I had two kids, and it was just sitting down to actually write that became the hardest part," he says. "Finding that time to sit down and figure out what I wanted to say. "We were always doing little bits of recording and little bits of writing and we only sort of felt now that we actually had something that we could put out," he continues. "So it's partial laziness and also partial not having the gun to the head to actually release something." The band—what began as a solo project very quickly became a steadfast group, with Quinlan now joined by Mark Kesper on drums, Peter Kesper on guitar, John Dinsmore on bass and Jason Sniderman on piano—may not have had a gun to its head, but it did have its label, the aptly named Six Shooter Records, in its corner: rather than pushing the guys to rush another record out, the label supported their decision to spend as much time as it took to get the music right. "No one's aching for us to go and
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release another album that isn't any spent a lot of time barbecuing. Again, good, so the idea was that we were because we have the studio it kind of gonna spend the time and get it to made it so we didn't have to worry where we wanted it to be," Quin- too much about time—which is also lan says, before adding with a loud a bad thing in some ways—but we laugh, "but there was probably a didn't have to worry about it, so we'd go in, we'd play the tune, we'd figure little laziness, too." As Quinlan says, NQ Arbuckle was it out, we'd start doing tracks, we'd hardly dormant during the period have a lovely barbecue, the next two between records, remaining publicly days we'd spend goofing around on active on the live stage. Still, playing the tracks. It was just a luxury to be gigs is one thing—"Anytime someone able to do that. But it's a lot of barbeasked us to play, we would play," he cuing and goofing around." says, "and we ended up doing a ton of The fact that these shows but nothguys are able to baring that was re- Thu, Jul 3 (7:30 pm) becue, goof around ally organized"— With Joe Nolan and make music tobut recording The Artery gether is something can be tougher, $12 (advance), $15 (door) that comes across what with the in the songs, too, need for studio Fri, Jul 4 (5:30 pm) even if not always space and gear. Permanent Records in the most obvious For NQ Arbuckle, Free ways: the record the tough bits has a real cohesivewere made considerably easier by the fact that Dins- ness to it in terms of its sound—the more runs the Lincoln County Social sort that really only comes from a Club, the studio where the band re- set of musicians carving out a voice cords, and the Kesper brothers run together over time—but it's not like Toronto instrument store Capsule The Future Happens Anyway is a rolMusic, so there was always plenty of licking party album. There are moments of that, for sure—the upbeat equipment for use. "We went and recorded a bunch sounds of "Hospitals" and "Life Boat of things, but we also re-recorded," (Song For Carolyn Mark)" cover that Quinlan recalls. "There was a bunch territory—but just as often—maybe of songs that we didn't feel were even more—are the songs that dip good enough to be released on the deep into painful territories: on "Art record and a bunch of tunes that we O'Leary" Quinlan sings over mournful ended up recording a bunch of times chords, "My darkest daydreams sweet because we didn't have to pay as revenge / I wish that killing them much as most people do when they're would bring you home again"; on "Death" he cries over devastating piadoing recordings. "We took a long time to do it and a no chords rising into a swirl of guitars, lot of it was because I'd bring things "The bottleneck of dreams is trying to into the studio, we'd learn them in kill me / O death, I'm scared of you the studio, we'd record them there tonight," and "I Wish That My Sadness and then we'd—" Quinlan fades into Would Make You Change" is built on a pause before starting up again with uncomfortable sonic spaces, bringing another laugh. "To be honest, we with it the tortured refrain of, well,
"I wish that my sadness would make you change." Through it all, the band weaves its varied instruments in and around each other, a piano line playing out in the background until the point where it reaches forward, guitars receding slightly to make room for the keys while drums and bass lock in step with each other and build a framework for Quinlan's voice and words. "It's kind of like, in a weird way, our limitations become a positive thing in that we actually have a voice to go and play music," he says. "It's not like, 'Oh, we're gonna bring in a whole bunch of new people each time and really mess with our sound and really change it up.'" Quinlan is quick to credit the rest of the band with keeping him inspired to continue making music. It's not that he minds putting in the work to get the music right, but that's because he's playing with a bunch of guys bound together by friendship. "I don't think I'd be doing it if I didn't have these guys with me," he says. "I can't imagine going off and doing a whole bunch of solo stuff or starting another band or something. It just seems like that's such a terrible effort. "When the first album was released, all my buddies were all playing in different bands, and they were like, 'Let's just start our own band and be in a little bit more control of things,'" he continues. "And so it's effortless in that respect, which is nice. I mean, we're all friends, which actually makes everything a lot easier. If we had a whole bunch of hired guns, or if we had people going in and out of the band, it just wouldn't be as much fun." It's been those same buddies ever since, though prior to the recording of The Future Happens Anyway the
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original four were officially joined by Jason Sniderman on piano. The friendship with Sniderman was solid, but Quinlan and the rest of the band had an additional motive for the addition: with little desire to fall into a musical rut, they simply wanted to shake up their musical norm. "It's really exciting," exclaims Quinlan. "Part of the idea was that I wanted to add someone into the mix so that we'd change our sound a bit, because when we all do our thing we'd just end up writing the same songs over and over again. And the idea is you bring in someone new, he's got tons of ideas, he's a great player, so that changed us up a bit and smartened us up a bit. "I wanted to stop playing guitar, or at least stop playing so much guitar on it, because when I was a kid I didn't spend the time in the basement learning Rush songs, so my guitar ability is only up to a certain level," he laughs. "With the piano added into it I could take my hand off the guitar a bunch more and we'll end up playing a bunch of chords that I never would learn or I never would have known, and I like that it took it in a bit of a different direction. I mean, it's not too much of a different direction, but even doing the last song on the record, ["Sleepy Wife"] where it's just me and the piano, you really feel like you're sticking your neck out a little bit doing that, because it's so different from me strumming the guitar. "For me it was a big deal to sort of recognize, 'Oh, you can't just keep playing G, C and D and moving the capo around,'" he adds. "I want to have it where we're actually coming up with different parts and real arrangements of things." EDEN MUNRO
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hese days, it is expected that are on the table and things can begin things happen quickly, whether it to unfold—there might be some new be a response to a text message or tunes played at the band's upcoman artist releasing ing show, but no a new album, even promises. For the if the one before it Sat, Jun 28 (8 pm) Pines, music is an is only a year or so With S Carey extension of the old. But the Pines Brixx, $15.50 – $18.50 band members' is a group that lives, rather than likes to do things an obsession, so at its own pace, which means taking there's no pressure to churn out new some time off from its forthcoming material on any sort of time frame. album for a 17-date tour with S Carey "I think that by taking a more patient of Bon Iver. approach and not necessarily trying "I think both groups try to create to keep up with the music business an ethereal space for the listener to per se, we're getting in touch with get lost in, and in that way I think it maybe what you'd call the economy really does fit well because it's kind of a soundscape chance to lose yourself in, you know?" says frontman David Huckfelt, who started the band with Benson Ramsey and met Carey through the camaraderie of their hometown music scenes. "Minneapolis, where we live, and Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he's from, have a very tight connection. Many Eau Claire musicians end up in Minneapolis." The band is touring in support of its haunting 2012 release Dark So Gold, making its way through some new markets—including Edmonton—before finishing off its next album, which Huckfeldt hopes to release sometime in early 2015. "We're really excited for this next record. I think we've made a lot of strides in our live performance and the way we approach songs and sounds, so it's an exciting time," says Huckfeldt, noting the Pines have had an ambiguous lineup of musicians over the past number of years, ranging in size from three to seven players. These days, it's down to a solid four-piece. "That's really allowed us to bring a depth and a tightness to the music and go some places intuitively that's a little bit more difficult to go when you're constantly reconfiguring the band," he says. "[With] as much touring as we've done behind Dark So Gold, you can't help but lock into some really special places with the same players that you wouldn't get to otherwise. So I think there's a sense of feeling and delivery that we're really enjoying these days."
of songs, things in their purest form," Huckfeldt explains, noting the goal of the new songs is to make them personal and confessional while still making them wide enough for anyone to find a place to reside in them. "I think when you stop listening to how people tell you you should be running a band or putting out records, then you really get a place where you can be in touch with the songs, and for us that's everything. We live and die kind of by that code ... I think when you're on your own path it takes a lot of faith." MEAGHAN BAXTER
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Petunia & the Vipers who couldn't be available and put together three different bands."
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ometimes a record is able to pull you in on the first listen, and sometimes it takes a few spins for the songs to grow on you. Petunia believes his new album Inside of You falls into the latter category and recommends at least 10 listens before discounting it—if you're going to discount it, that is. "It's just one of those albums ... there's one bona fide pop hit," he says, referencing the track "The One Thing." "There's a couple of songs like that that draw people in, but other than that they're not overtly hits, you know?" Inside of You, the sophomore fol-
low-up to 2012's Petunia & the Vipers, is a richly diverse sonic cacophony of western, swing, rockabilly and punk melodies, a statement of Petunia's own multifarious musical experience. It seems fitting then that an equally multifaceted group of musicians would be required to create the album, which was recorded over the course of three days in Vancouver. "It came as a surprise. I wasn't thinking about making an album, but then the recording space became available," Petunia explains. "I just sort of threw caution to the wind and phoned all of my favourite musicians in Vancouver and saw who could be available and
Each group—which included Petunia's backing band the Vipers along with an alternative group, an altcountry group and a gypsy band— was given three or four songs that Petunia felt would suit their styles and abilities along with a demo of Petunia playing the song. From there they had a week to get up to speed in order to record—one band actually only had one rehearsal prior to studio time. But Petunia had enlisted pros he felt were up to the task, including Neko Case's guitar player Paul Rigby, Lache Cercel and Kathleen Nisbet on violin, JP Carter on horns and Frank Fairfield on guitar, banjo and violin. "[I] thought, what would make this fun for me? Because I don't know what I'm going to do when I get to the studio, and then I thought, well, I've always wanted to play with these other guys," says Petunia, who used songs he had been playing in his live set for some time along with tracks he finished prior to studio time. "It's a real sumptuous sonic feast." MEAGHAN BAXTER
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First album Nelly, Country Grammar. Ten-yearold me managed to bypass the parental advisory somehow.
Last album Good Friday Brawl's latest release, Bush League. They're local, so check them out.
Favourite album American Football, American Football. [It] elicits my emotional inner teenager.
First concert The Distillers at Red's—also my first mosh-pit-induced nosebleed.
Last concert Catgut, Pop Crimes and Daydreaming at Wunderbar.
Favourite musical guilty pleasure The Space Jam soundtrack. No guilt, that's an amazing album. V
VUEWEEKLY JUNE 26 – JULY 2, 2014
PREVUE // POP
Grist going beyond her Imaginings // Jennifer Picard
Hilary Grist 'I
felt like I was kind of like this kid too, and almost more enjoyment," in a candy shop," Vancouver-based says Grist, noting that while it may songstress Hilary Grist recalls of sound clichĂŠ, you also realize you're crafting her debut album, Imaginings. not as invincible as you once thought That euphoric and uninhibited you were. "There's a sense of that, sense of freedom meant Grist threw I guess, so I feel like some of the songs are comall kinds of eleing out of making ments into her Thu, Jul 3 sense of some of songs, whether it With Dominique Fricot those, like losing was a string secCha Island Tea Co a few people in my tion or a marching life and new, great band. experiences too." "It was like every song was its own little world," she adds. "It was fun, but in the end it did As Grist's sound continues to defeel maybe a little bit eclectic, so this velop, so does the visual element of time it was kind of purposely limited her music, whether it's in the form of e-cards or hand-drawn music videos. in a way." Not to say Grist pulled back entire- Her most recent video, a film-noirly on her sophomore release, Come inspired piece for the song "Waltzing & Go. There are still the odd string Matilda" was nominated for Video arrangements, but the overall instru- of the Year at the Western Canadian mentation stays true to what you'll Music Awards. "If you asked me when I was six find during one of Grist's live shows with her four-piece band, plus some what I wanted to do I would have added synths to bring in sounds that said I wanted to be a cartoonist or would "open up the space a little bit an artist or something like that," says more," but keep the tracks rooted in Grist, who taught herself how to do the same sonic palette of art-pop- stop-motion videos in her apartment alongside husband and collaborator meets-jazz. Just as the melodies on Come & Go Michael Southworth. "I really like the are more cohesive, the lyrics driving process and everything, and having them are connected through a sense something really visual, especially nowadays with the whole interweb of duality. "You hit this point in your life and Internet sort of stuff, it's like having now there's enough people younger a way to share your music that's vithan you and older than you and sual is, I think, becoming more and you've had a chance to see things more important." start and things end, and life's kind MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM of taken on a little bit more depth,
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Fri, Jun 27 (8 pm) With Wheelhouse, Monarch Sky, Fiction of Fate Pawn Shop, $10 Alterra's all about the party—and rock 'n' roll, of course. The local fourpiece already has an EP to its credit, titled Amateur Night, (take a wild guess what it's about) and will be releasing its first full-length disc, On the Prowl, this Friday. Prior to the show, guitarist and vocalist Steve Lemay shared his soundtrack picks with Vue.
At home
On the road
Morning: Slash, "Doctor Alibi" or "Back From Cali"
Morning: Airbourne, "Live it Up"
Noon: Black Stone Cherry, "Me and Mary Jane"
Noon: Steel Panther, "Community Property"
Night: Shinedown, "Simple Man" or Guns N' Roses, "Welcome to the Jungle," depending if you want to chill out or start the party.
Night: One Bad Son, "She's on Fire" or our pre-show jam, Journey, "Don't Stop Believin'." V
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VUEWEEKLY JUNE 26 – JULY 2, 2014
MUSIC
stage with Micheal Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am
EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM
Jerome Beaulieu; 12-2pm; no cover
WEEKLY
THU JUN 26 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE
WORKS WITH JAZZ SERIES– Main Stage, Churchill Sq Trio
WUNDERBAR Ben Disaster,
Strange Attractor, guests; 9pm YARDBIRD SUITE Jazz Fest:
Live Music every Thu; This week: Erin Kay; 9pm; no cover
David Virelles Continuum; Set 1: 8pm; Set 2: 9:30pm; $20 (per show)/$30 (2 shows)
ARTERY The Weber Brothers, Twin Peaks, guests; 7:30pm; $10 (adv)
Classical
BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Fred
EVA O. HOWARD Carmen:
Muskafa
Opera Nuova; 7:30-10:30pm; 1:30-4:30pm; $38 (adult, adv)/$34 (student/senior, adv); at 780.487.4844; $42 (adult, door)/$38 (student/ senior, door)
BRIXX Trashnthrash Thu: with
DJs
Larose singer-songwriter’s Circle: hosted by Lionel Rault; every Thu, 7:30-10pm BLUES ON WHYTE King
Sammy Slaughter; 7pm CAFÉ HAVEN Music every
Thu; 7pm; this week: Ainsley Friesen, Bobby Stahr CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu
Open Mic: All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm CHA ISLAND Bring Your Own
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 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! Thursdays. Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ’s Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests
Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pmlate; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm
CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro ‘80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close
CHURCHILL SQ/CENTENNIAL PLAZA CypherWild: A
THE COMMON The Common Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!
community gathering: hip hop culture with live music, DJs, MCs, dancing, and art. Hosted by DJ Creeasian; every Thu, 6-9pm; if you cannot find programming as scheduled in the Square, look behind the Stanley Milner library in Centennial Plaza; every Thu, 6-9pm until end Sep, weather permitting DV8 MEDS and Friends EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL (EIJF) Churchill
Sq, Yardbird Suite, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (OSPAC), other venues; info at edmontonjazz.com EXPRESSIONZ Open Stage
hosted by Dr Oxide; 1st Thu each month, 7:30pm10:30pm FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking
Back Thu: Live music; 9pm FIONN MACCOOL’S–DT Julien
ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking
Back Thursdays
Jamerson; $15 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM The Desi
Rockstars Tour feat. Gippy Grewal & Sharry Mann; 8pm; $55 at livenation.com L.B.’S Karen Claypool MYER HOROWITZ Steve
MERCER TAVERN Homegrown
Earle and the Dukes, the Mastersons; 7:30pm (show); all ages; $55 NEWCASTLE Yikes the Band;
9pm NEW WEST HOTEL 4’s A Crowd
(country) OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE Jazz Fest: Laila Biali
(Requestomatic Tour); Set 1: 8pm; Set 2: 9.30pm; $20 (per set)/$30 (2 sets); Emerging Artists: Mallory Chipman; 6.30pm; donation at door; Late Night: Joanna Borromeo; 11pm; $10 (free w/same-night concert ticket stub)
Dueling Pianos with Jenesse Graling and Shane Young; 9pm-2am; no cover PAWN SHOP Double CD
Release Party with Alterra, Wheelhouse, Monarch Sky, Fiction of Fate; 8pm; $10 (adv) RED PIANO Hottest dueling
piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am RENDEZVOUZ Tomas Marsh,
Creedence Clearwater Revisited; 8pm (show); $59.50 ROSE AND CROWN Amie
Life Thursdays
SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Stan
UNION HALL 3 Four All
Gallant
Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
FRI JUN 27
Mike Letto SIDELINERS Tall, Dark and
Dirty; 9pm; no cover STARLITE ROOM Mac
STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION
KELLY’S Jameoke Night with
BLUE CHAIR Jazz Fest: Andrew
Glover Quartet; $15
TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music
BLUES ON WHYTE King
every Fri
Muskafa
WORKS WITH JAZZ SERIES– Main Stage, Churchill Sq
Gryffin, SoloKii; 9:30pm every Fri, 9:30pm-1:30am
BRITTANY’S Jazz evening: PJ Perry Trio; every Fri after work; 5-8pm:
NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage; 8pm; all ages (15+)
BRIXX Bison, Disciples of Power; 9pm; $15
NEW WEST HOTEL 4’s A Crowd
CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK The
(country)
Ruminators
NORTH GLENORA HALL
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live
Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111
music every Fri: this week: Marji and Shay Esposito; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)
PAWN SHOP Five Alarm Funk,
CASINO EDMONTON Catalyst
Writer’s Guild; 12-2pm; no cover WUNDERBAR Halo of Ashes;
8pm YARDBIRD SUITE Jazz Fest Special Event: The Jeff Ballard
Trio, Lionel Loueke and Miguel Zenón; Set One: 8pm, Set Two: 9:30pm; $30 (ea set)/$49 (2 sets) at TIX on the Square
Classical
RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling
9pm CHA ISLAND Evan Symons (alt
DJs
pianos at 8pm RICHARD’S Blue Thursdays
folk/pop); 8pm; $7 (adv)
(roots); hosted by Gord Matthews; 6:30-9pm
DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Mark
RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz);
most Thursdays; 7-10pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Stan
Gallant SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
Tyler & Matt SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A
Mike Letto
McGarrigle DV8 Abuse of Substance,
R.C.D.P. Mass Distraction; 8pm EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL (EIJF) Churchill
Sq, Yardbird Suite, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (OSPAC), other venues; info at edmontonjazz.com J+H PUB Every Friday:
SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm
Headwind and friends (vintage rock ‘n’ roll); 9:30pm; no minors, no cover
TAVERN ON WHYTE Open
JEFFREY’S Jazz Fest: Sierra
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday 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 CHICAGO JOES Colossal Flows:
Live Hip Hop and open mic every Fri with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, guests; 8:30pm-2am; no cover THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu
disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus
Crowd (country)
OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL The
Derina Harvey Band “B” STREET BAR Rockin Big
Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair
of the Dog: The Dirrty Show (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Afternoon: Big Al’s House
Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm
Edmonton International Jazz Festival: Alex Pangman; Set 1: 8pm; Set 2: 9.30pm; $20 (per set)/$30 (2 sets); Early show: Emerging Artists:
Stephanie Urquhart; 6.30pm; donation at door; Late Night: Joanna Borromeo; 11pm; $10 (free with same-night concert ticket stub) no cover ON THE ROCKS Heather McKenzie Band OVERTIME Sherwood Park
BLIND PIG Live jam every Sat;
PAWN SHOP Wordless
Dubyk Organ Trio; 8:30pm; $15
Invocation Fest 2: Nuclearhammer, Adversarial, Dire Omen, Wroth, Ominosity; 8pm; 20 (adv) RED PIANO Hottest dueling
piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am
BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays: Industrial - Goth - Dark Electro with DJs the Gothfather and Zeio; 9pm; $5 (door); (every Sat except the 1st Sat of the month)
RICHARD’S The Terry Evans
Sat Jam (rock): every Sat; 4-8pm ROSE AND CROWN Amie
Weymes SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Stan
every Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm
Gallant
BRIXX S. Carey, guests;
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A
8pm; $15.50-$18.50 at unionevents.com CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK The
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
Tyler & Matt Mike Letto STARLITE ROOM Uh Huh Her,
Ruminators
guests; 8pm; $17-$19 at Unionevents.com, Blackbyrd
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat
STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION
Open mic; 7pm; $2 Lynn (country rock)
Nobody Likes Dwight & Kemo Treats With John Maddenx7; 9pm
CASINO YELLOWHEAD Kixxsin;
YARDBIRD SUITE SERIES
CASINO EDMONTON Danita
9pm
Jazz Fest: Jane Bunnett & Maqueque; Set 1: 8pm; Set 2: 9:30pm; $20 (ea show)/$30 (2 shows)
Classical EVA O. HOWARD THEATRE Vocal Arts Fest: Carmen:
Enduring the Fall; 9pm; $10
Opera Nuova; 1:30-4:30pm; $38 (adult, adv)/$34 (student/senior, adv); at 780.487.4844; $42 (adult, door)/$38 (student/senior, door); Cendrillon: Opera Nuova; 1:30pm; $38 (adult, adv)/$34 (student/senior, adv); at 780.487.4844; $42 (adult, door)/$38 (student/ senior, door)
EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL (EIJF) Churchill
DJs
CENTURY CASINO Doug and
the Slugs; 7pm; $59.95 (dinner and show)/$29.95 (show only) DUGGAN’S Mark McGarrigle DV8 Ides of Winter, Armifera,
Sq, Yardbird Suite, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (OSPAC), other venues; info at edmontonjazz.com
FILTHY MCNASTY’S Free Afternoon Concerts: This week: Goldtooth, Jenie Thai, Alex
CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS CONQUERORS OF THE WORLD TOUR 2014
SEPTIC FLESH AND FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE
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 W/ GUESTS THE UNION PRESENTS
JUL/15 & 16
TYLER THE CREATOR
JUL/18 STANTON WARRIORS JUL/27 UBK AND ALL BLOWN UP PRESENT
UBK PRESENTS
AUG/8 AUG/11 AUG/15
A TRIBE CALLED RED BADBADNOTGOOD UNION EVENTS PRESENTS
BLACK JOE LEWIS
MISERY SIGNALS & MALICE X
Dueling Pianos with Jenesse Graling and Shane Young; 9pm-2am; no cover
BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan;
BOURBON ROOM Live Music
THE UNION PRESENTS
O’MAILLE’S Andrew Scott;
of Blues Wam Bam Thank you Jam: free chilli hosted by Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens; every Sat, 2-6pm
Jazz @ The Cellar Lounge: Jazz Festival Society: Showcase of live jazz last Sat each month; This month: Dan Levasseur Trio and Tom Van Seters Quartet; 8-11pm; $10 (adv at TIX on the Square)/$12 (door)
(Caribbean); 9pm
NEW WEST HOTEL 4’s A
ARTERY The Artery’s Top Notch Anniversary Party: The Almighty Turtlenecks, the Boxcar Gloryholes, Mayday, the Beat Creeps, more; 2pm; $10 (adv)
EVA O. HOWARD Cendrillon:
guests; 8pm; $16 (adv)/$20 (door)
Band; 8pm
O’BYRNE’S Live band every
CELLAR LOUNGE–Lower Level, Edmonton Petroleum Club
Opera Nuova; 7:30-10:30pm; $38 (adult, adv)/$34 (student/ senior, adv); at 780.487.4844; $42 (adult, door)/$38 (student/ senior, door)
CASINO YELLOWHEAD Kixxsin;
It’s the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm; Evening: Hit and Run
APEX CASINO The Orchard
BLUE CHAIR Jazz Fest: Jerrold
Derina Harvey Band
LIVE AT SLY’S–THE RIG Jam
SAT JUN 28
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A
Sonego; $15
LEVEL 2 Weekend Warmup:
LEGENDS Saturday Jam and
3-7pm
Dieuponaday, Echoes Of Apathy, Arachne’s Web & Unity Through Tragedy; 9pm
pianos every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm
SUITE 69 Release Your Inner
Tyler & Matt
ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL The
BOURBON ROOM Dueling
LEAF BAR Open Stage Sat–
Fridays
MRG CONCERTS PRESENTS
9:30pm-2am
Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)
every Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am
OVERTIME Sherwood Park
JUN/27 MAC DEMARCO W/ GUESTS JUN/28 UH HUH HER W/ GUESTS JUL/3
L.B.’S The Cool Dads;
NEWCASTLE Matt Walker
JEFFREY’S Jazz Fest: Sean
New Big Time with Rocko Vaugeois, friends; 8-12
Bad Seeds, Reggie Watts; 8pm; $29.50/49.50/$69.50 at Ticketmaster.ca
every Fri
J R BAR Live Jam Thu; 9pm
L.B.’S Thu open stage: the
JUBILEE Nick Cave and the
Y AFTERHOURS Foundation
Demarco, Calvin Love, guests; 8pm; $16
the Nervous Flirts (sing-along with a live band); every Thu, 9pm-1am; no cover
JEFFREY’S Jazz Fest: Celcius
Quartet; $15
ON THE ROCKS Rock ‘N’ Hops Kitchen Party: Heather McKenzie Band with DJs
Regression Featuring Brains! The Zombie Musical; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$15 (door)
Constantin; all ages; no cover
HILLTOP Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm
UNION HALL Ladies Night
Weymes
ARTERY Brains 2.0: The Great
SOU KAWAII ZEN Amplified
Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth
LIVE AT SLY’S–THE RIG Jam
OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild
APEX CASINO The Orchard
SET NIGHTCLUB NEW Fridays: House and Electro with Peep This, Tyler Collns, Peep’n ToM, Dusty Grooves, Nudii and Bill, and specials
GAS PUMP Saturday
no cover
RIVER CREE–THE VENUE
every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow
rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri
FIONN MACCOOL’S–DT Jake Ian and the Haymakers; all ages; no cover
open mic with Nick Samoil and guests; 3-6pm
LEVEL 2 Funk Bunker
Thursdays
Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie,
Vissia; 4pm; no cover
Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri
O’MAILLE’S Andrew Scott;
Komodo Wagon, Cheap Date; 8pm (door), 10 pm (show); $10
ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks:
DRUID DJ every Fri; 9pm FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri
stage; 7pm; no cover
KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open
residents Echo and Justin Foosh
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
JUL/5
ROAD TO INDIE WEEK W/ TZADEKA, KING OF FOXES, SISTER GRAY, I AM MACHI & SIIINES
JUL/12 ROBERT DEMENTO CD RELEASE JUL/14 BRING THE BEASTS TOUR W/ DEATH TOLL RISING, KYOKYTS, TYRANTS DEMISE & TERROR FIST
MALICE JUL/18 WITH W/ DIEUPONADAY & BLACK XIII JACKSON JIHAD JUL/21 ANDREW W/ HARD GIRLS, DOGBRETH & WHISKEY WAGON JUL/22 A LA MER W/ BORDEEN & DANIEL ETOROMA
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny
VUEWEEKLY JUNE 26 – JULY 2, 2014
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Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick THE BOWER For Those Who
Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat
BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Charlie Austin; 9am-
3pm; donations CHA ISLAND TEA Open mic
with March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm; last open stage for the summer
THE COMMON Get Down It’s Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane
the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm
DRUID DJ every Sat; 9pm
DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Celtic
ENCORE–WEM Every Sat:
Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten FLUID R&B, hip hop and
dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat LEVEL 2 Collective Saturdays
underground: House and Techno
DIVERSION Sun Night Live on
Music with Duggan’s House Band 5-8pm EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL (EIJF)
Churchill Sq, Yardbird Suite, Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (OSPAC), other venues; info at edmontonjazz. com HOG’S DEN Rockin’ the Hog
weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am
MON JUN 30 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
featuring
(adv)
DV8 Canada Day “Shady
BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Robbie’s Reef
‘80s” Dance Party; 8pm
Monday open mic
FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Patio Series: Red Ram; 7:30pm; $8, $72 (Patio Series season pass, Jul 1-Aug 27) at 780.449.3378
DV8 Band Jam:
L.B.’S Tue Variety Night Open
Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY
LEVEL 2 Canada Day DNB Massive FT AK1200; 9:30pm MERCURY ROOM Music
Magic Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4 DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Mon
stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm LEAF BAR Tue Open Jam:
Trevor Mullen MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday
with Kris Harvey and guests NEW WEST HOTEL Tue
Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Silverado (country)
singer-songwriter night: hosted by Sarah Smith; 8pm
O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every
Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm
Wong every Sat
Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm LIVE AT SLY’S–THE RIG Every
DV8 D’bomme Squad Burlesque; 8pm
OVERTIME–Sherwood Park
PAWN SHOP Transmission
Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month
Sun Jam with Loco-MoFos, hosted by Bob Cook; 8-12pm
NEW WEST HOTEL Silverado
(country)
RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am; no cover; relaxed dress code
MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey
RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop,
and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE Rouge Saturdays:
global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai
NEWCASTLE The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS The
Nightkeepers OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous
(OSPAC) Jazz Fest Special Presentation: Edmonton Jazz Collective, Jon Ballantyne; 2pm; $25 at TIX on the Square
SOU KAWAII ZEN Your Famous
PAWN SHOP Solidarity Rock–
SET NIGHTCLUB SET Saturday
Saturday 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 Saturday:
PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental
old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510 RED PIANO Canada Day
Celebration: Dueling piano show playing Canadian classics; no cover RENDEZVOUZ The
Recollection Blues Band; 6pm (door), 7pm (show); $5
All Day Hardcore Show: E-town Beatdown, Slumlord, Arrabio, Adictox, more; 2pm; $10 (adv)
ROUGE Open Mic Night
RICHARD’S Sunday Country
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A
with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm
Showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky
Open Mic Monday Nights Hosted by Adam Holm
WUNDERBAR Pizzarrhea!
STANLEY A. MILNER LIBRARY THEATRE BEAMS
Pornography (Last Show!) and The Artsy Chicks; 8pm
at The Works; 6pm
retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests
Classical
DJs
TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,
EVA O. HOWARD THEATRE
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am UNION HALL Celebrity
Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release
Saturdays BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES
Big Dreamer Sound open jam with guest, hosted by Harry Gregg and Geoff HamdenO’brien; every Tue 8pm-12am
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) WEST MEADOWS BAPTIST CHURCH Of One Accord
Accordion Orchestra 10th Anniversary Concert; 2:30-4:30; $25 (adult)/$10 (student, 17 and under) at Monique mmregimb@telus. net, door
SUN JUN 29
DJs
BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
Electric Blues Jam and BBQ hosted by Marshall Lawrence and the Lazy Bastards; 4-8pm BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun
hosted by Tim Lovett
Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A
fantastic voyage through ‘60s and ‘70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 Stylus Industry
Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic,
Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy
Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic
Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am
TUE JUL 1 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 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
Canada Day at the Black Dog; 2pm DRUID Open Stage Tue:
Open mic every Tue
RICHARD’S Tue Live Music
Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower
Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover Canada Day 16th Anniversary Party Open Stage 3pm-11pm SANDS HOTEL Country music dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm WUNDERBAR Wundi Canada
Day Party with Greys, Flint and Cryptic; 9pm
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections
BRIXX Metal night every Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe’en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays:
Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs
WED JUL 2 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open
stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 ARTERY Petunia and the
Vipers (folk); 7:30pm; $10
Break Wed: Host Rob Taylor with guests every Wed, 7-10pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch:
live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul
with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm BLUES ON WHYTE Wild T
and the Spirit BRITTANY’S Jazz evening:
PJ Perry Trio; every Wed; 8-11pm BRIXX Lettuce Produce Beats; 7pm DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every
Wed (unless there’s an Oilers game); no cover FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Patio Series: Stars of Sherwood Park Music Festival: Kayla Hotte and her Rodeo Pals; 7:30pm; $8 at box office NEW WEST HOTEL Silverado
(country) OVERTIME–Sherwood Park
Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic
Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember)
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 ZEN Jazz Wed: Kori Wray
and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover
DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait
Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive
Radio: Alternative ‘80s and ‘90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed
Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and
‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every
Wed
VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLIND PIG 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 THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351-
24 MUSIC
118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CELLAR LOUNGE–Lower Level, Edmonton Petroleum Club 11110-108 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St 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, 8882-170 St EVA O. HOWARD THEATRE Victoria School of the Arts, 1 Kingsway Ave EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82
Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–DT Edmonton City Centre, 10200-102A Ave, 3rd Fl, G310, 780.424.4534 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 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 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 LEVEL 2 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132104 St LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE 8900114 St, U of A NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St,
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780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave RED PIANO 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 GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 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 PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WEST MEADOWS BAPTIST CHURCH 9333-199 St WINSPEAR 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St
EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM
COMEDY B STREET BAR • 11818-111 Ave •
Travelling open mic finishing with headliner Howie Miller • 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 • Tim Kubasec; Jun 27; Trevor Talbott; Jun 28 • Brian Stollery; Jul 4-5 • Paul Sveen; Jul 11-12 • Bob Angeli; Jul 18-19 • That's Improv!; Jul 25-26 • Jamie Hutchinson; Aug 8-9
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 • Matt Sadler; until Jun 29 • Pete George; Jul 2-6 • Barry Rothbart; Jul 9-13 • J Chris Newberg; Jul 16-18, Jul 20 • Jim Breuer Special; Jul 19 • Isaac Witty; Jul 23-27 • Nick Vatterott; Jul 30-Aug 3 • Barry Brewer; Aug 6-10
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 FIONN MACCOOL'S/CONNIE'S COMEDY • 4485 Gateway Blvd • Silly
Pints Comedy: Open Mic then followed by Jamie Hutchinson • Jul 5, 7pm • 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, 7pm-midnight • $15
BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Mount Zion Lutheran Church,
11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free
CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) •
Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB
EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley Milner
Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Monthly roundtable discussion group. Topics change each month, please check the website for details, edmontonatheists.ca • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month
EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •
TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)
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
• 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
EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani
• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings:
TOASTMASTERS
Campus St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm
Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5
FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican
Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm
• 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
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)
VEGETARIAN POT LUCK AND GARDEN PARTY • Con Boland Gardens, 10107-89
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
MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION •
3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS
ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey
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
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
QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer •
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,
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
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)
BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave
SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot,
9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm
STRATHCONA COUNTY GARDEN TOUR
• Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8601 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Fundraiser, a self-guided tour that will take you to eleven of the most beautiful gardens in Sherwood Park and rural Strathcona County • Jul 13, 10am-5pm • $12 each (free for child 12 and under); tickets at the Library; E: info@sclibrary. ab.ca; T: 780.410.8600
• 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm
EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton,
10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc. webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome
EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-
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
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
SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81
G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION
SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar
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)
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, 10408-
MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •
WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old
NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,
Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm
WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall,
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
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
ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride
St • Bring vegetarian, vegan, or raw dish for six people and your own eating Utensils. Tour of the gardens and the geo-thermal house • Jul 6, 4:30pm • $10
WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515
town • Practice group meets every Thu
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
124 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
7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com
LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Down-
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
• 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
geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu
PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/ supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm
ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-
76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)
WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 •
womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured
WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm SPECIAL EVENTS 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
VUEWEEKLY JUNE 26 – JULY 2, 2014
Canadian Food Grains Bank)
DÎNER EN BLANC EDMONTON • Secret
Location • Très chic picnic, imported from Paris, is equal parts mystery tour, pop-up feast and je ne sais quoi– a secret affair, an evening of elegance, will take over an undisclosed public space whose location will be revealed only a couple of hours prior to the event. Enthusiasts dressed in white will attend the secret location • Jul17, 7-11:30pm • $35 + membership at edmonton.dinerenblanc.info/register
FOREVER YOUNG! • John L. Haar Theatre, MacEwan University • A celebration by the next generation of artists and performers from various Edmonton High Schools to benefit youth empowerment and support services (yess). Also feature artworks by students as well as a silent auction • Jun 27, 6:30pm• $10 at eventbrite.ca/e/forever-young-a-celebration-bythe-next-generation-of-artists-performerstickets-11831220499, 780.934.9380, door. Proceeds to YESS, Edmonton HIGH STREET BLOCK PARTY • 125 St; the 102 Ave "cul-de-sac" created by the bridge closure • All High Street businesses including restaurants and shops, food trucks, family fun • Jul 6, 10am-4pm
LITTLE WARRIORS • Newcastle Pub,
8170-50 St • 780.490.1999 • $500 Poker Run in support of Little Warriors • Sat, Jul 5, 9:30am registration, noon depart, 6pm dinner • $30 at Newcastle Pub
MÉTIS FAMILY REUNION • Métis Crossing, Smoky Lake • Lots of activities including artists and crafters on site, and viewing of historical records • Jul 5-6 • $20 per person per day (not incl camping); Register at 780.455.2200 or culture@metis.org
MUSEUMAFTERDARK • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845 102 Ave • museumafterdark.com • An evening of finger-licking food, DJ Junior Brown, a #MAD poker rally and celebrate the museum's exhibition Worn to be Wild: the Black Leather Jacket • Jul 5, 7:30-11pm • Adults (18+) only • $25/$20 (FRAMS members) at EventBrite, 780.453.9103 THE SWEATY BALL FINALE PARTY • Arts Habitat Studio Gallery, 3rd Fl, 10217106 St • Jun 30, 8pm TASTE OF EDMONTON • Churchill Square • eventsedmonton.ca • Food festival, in the day hosting culinary workshops, at night a pop-up tasting, including live music • Jul 17-26 • Tickets at TIX on the Square Music:
• Bryan Finlay; Jul 17, 7pm; Maracujah; Jul 17, 9pm • Skratch Bastid; Jul 18, 6pm; SIIINES; Jul 18, 7:45pm; Smalltown DJs; Jul 18, 8:30pm •Jesse and the Dandelions; Jul 19, 6pm; Scenic Route to Alaska; Jul 19, 7:15pm; Said The Whale; Jul 19, 9pm • The Frolics; Jul 20, 6pm; The Fortrelles; Jul 20, 7:15pm; Scherrie and Lynda formerly of the Supremes; Jul 20, 9pm • The Carlines; Jul 21, 6pm; Jenie Thai; Jul 21, 7:15pm; Devin Cuddy; Jul 21, 9pm • Two Bears North; Jul 22, 6pm; Scarlett Jane; Jul 22, 7:15pm; The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer; Jul 22, 9pm • REND; Jul 23, 6pm; Matt Blais; Jul 23, 7:15pm; Tupelo Honey; Jul 23, 9pm • The Give 'Em Hell Boys; Jul 24, 6pm; Dead City Dolls; Jul 24, 7:15pm; Frijid Pink; Jul 24, 9pm • Windmills; Jul 25, 6pm; KAY; Jul 25, 9pm • Young Benjamins; Jul 26, 6pm; JPNSGRLS; Jul 26, 7:15pm; Christian Hansen; Jul 26, 9pm
SPRUCE GROVE CANADA DAY CELEBRATION • Jubilee Park, 510 Grove Dr,
Spruce Grove • sprucegrove.org/celebrate • This all day, fun-for-all-ages event includes the Servus Credit Union pancake breakfast, amazing street performers, a variety of food and product vendors, face painters, and a Canada Day Ceremony with FREE cake. Take your young children to the KidZone, send older children and teens to Adventure Zone, have a grown-up drink at the beverage tent, then check out the exhibitor and visual arts tents together. Evening entertainment includes FREE concerts on the Beaverbrook Main Stage by Braden Gates, Garth Prince, and Chris Cummings, followed by the dazzling Melcor fireworks • Jul 1, 8am-11pm
UNIFY FESTIVAL • Oasis Centre,
10930-177 St • 780.451.9227 • Satsang, yoga, transformational breathwork, kirtan, presenters/speakers, live music, conscious food, DJs, eco village, visionary art, interactive dance and play • Jul 27, 10am-1am
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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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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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Metro Cinema is Hiring! Front of House Representative (7-15 hrs/week, matinees/nights) House Manager (12-25 hrs/week, matinees/nights) Operations Assistant (30-35 hrs/week, days) – driver’s license and vehicle required 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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Be a part of Edmonton’s biggest and best summer Festival; volunteer for the 33rd Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, August 14-24! You’ll meet new people and try new things all while having whole lot of fun! And with 13 different teams to choose from, we have something special just for you! Take advantage of this great opportunity and apply online now at www.fringetheatre.ca Build a home with Habitat for Humanity! All Habitat Volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation & training. Beginners to trades skill levels, groups and individuals welcome. No minimum number of shifts required. Visit www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer. We provide all tools, equipment and lunch! Follow us on Facebook /HabitatEdm and Twitter @HabitatEdm Can You Read This? Help someone Who can’t! Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking Skills. Call Valerie at P.A.L.S 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca 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
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Give some, Get some. Come have some fun, a little exercise and be recognized. We require volunteers almost every day of the week to help at various bingo locations around the city (WEM, Castledowns, south side). You give your time (4-6 hour shift) and we recognize your efforts. You do not need any experience as everything will be taught to you and you will be completely supported. Calll Christine at 780-953-1510 or email at christine.poirier@cnib.ca for more information Bingo is a smoke-free and friendly environment. Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network’s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers! Interested or want to learn more? Contact Maura at 780-392-8723 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help 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
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The Great White North Triathlon is accepting volunteers for the 23rd edition of the race on July 6th in Stony plain for all positions: course marshals, draft marshals, lifeguards, kayakers, canoeists, transition, traffic control, parking control, scuba divers, motorcyclists, massage therapists, security & more. For more info contact: LeRoy Williams, 780-478-1388, email: royal.legend99@gmail.com or Jaqueline at:
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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
The Safeway Walk for Muscular Dystrophy is a fully accessible fundraising event that’s fun for the whole family! We need your help to provide essential mobility equipment, build awareness, and fund leading research on neuromuscular disorders. Encourage your friends, family and coworkers to sponsor your Walk, as you raise funds and awareness to help enhance the lives of Canadians living with a neuromuscular disorder. Saturday September 6, 2014 10am-2pm Gold Bar Park, 10955 50 Street NW, Edmonton AB T6A 1K8 www.walkformusculardystrophy.ca
Contact: Rachael Chan Fundraising and Community Development Coordinator, Alberta/NWT, 780.489.6322 x5104, rachael.chan@muscle.ca
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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, or call Volunteer Coordinator Liz Allison-Jorde at 780-425-5162
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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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: BUDAPEST The Open Call will begin on June 25, 2014, we have every months jury selection until April 15, 2015. Apply early! HMC International Artist Residency Program, a not-forprofit arts organization based in Dallas, TX / Budapest, Hungary – provides national and international artists to produce new work while engaging with the arts community in Budapest, Hungary. FOR APPLICATION FORM, questions please contact us. Email: bszechy@yahoo.com CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – EDMONTON TIMERAISER Calls are now open for artists and nonprofits to apply for the 5th Edmonton Timeraiser! Last year Timeraiser connected 27 nonprofits with skilled volunteers in their community and invested $13,689 into the local arts community. Help us make this year’s event the biggest yet! Our Call to Community is now Open If you are a nonprofit looking for skilled volunteers or an emerging artist interested in selling your work be sure to apply. Don’t miss out on being part of this exciting event! Help us spread the word about the Call to Community by sending your networks to: www.timeraiser.ca/edmonton. Calls close September 12th. 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 EAC: Upcoming grant deadlines Project Grant for Individual Artists Application Deadline: July 2nd Individual artists and their work are the foundation of our arts community. Their projects are the research and development activity of the creative sector, feeding the greater arts ecosystem locally and for export. For more information please head to grants.edmontonarts.ca Figure Drawing with Daniel Hackborn With live models. Tuesday evenings, 6-9PM. Instruction available 1st Tuesday of the month. Drop-in sessions, $15. Ask about package discounts. Watch for theme evenings! The Paint Spot, 10032 81 Avenue 780.432.0240 www.paintspot.ca.
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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
NAESS GALLERY/ARTISAN NOOK/VERTICAL SPACE SUBMISSIONS Exhibition submissions are being accepted at The Paint Spot. The Naess Gallery’s deadline for the 2015 season is August 31. Neither the Artisan Nook nor the Vertical Space have deadlines. All three exhibition spaces welcome emerging artists and curators. Individuals and groups are invited to make a submission. For further information please visit www.paintspot.ca or email questions to accounts@paintspot.ca.
PREMIERE ART FAIR SEEKS ARTISTIC TALENT Art Vancouver is calling on galleries representing artists working in all mediums to enter its four-day art fair May 21 – 24, 2015. Local and international galleries, collectors, designers, architects and media expected to attend this event at Vancouver’s award winning Convention Centre. Deadline for application is November 1, 2014. For more information including booth sizing and prices go to www.artvancouver.net or contact info@artvancouver.net.
Re-Beauty A Silent Auction Fundraiser and Waste Awareness event in Edmonton. Artist Open Call – Juried Event with $1000 to be awarded Deadline for expression of interest: June 30 , 2014 Location: Grant MacEwan University – Paul Byrne Hall Artists please send name, phone number and portfolio (or any completed work) to rebeautyart@gmail.com Re-Beauty Art Silent Auction Fundraiser Event Information at http://www.karoantonio.com/rebeauty-2014/
Spruce Grove Art Gallery 2015 Feature Artist Call for Entries Call for entry for all Alberta artists to submit a proposal as a feature artist for a solo or group show. Check our website for entry form.
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The Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts is pleased to announce that they are accepting submissions for our new online “Directory of Ukrainian Artists in Alberta”. Originally printed in 1993, the directory proved to be a comprehensive guide to Ukrainian artists in our province. Unfortunately, much of the information is no longer current. Additional information and submission forms are available by contacting: Elena Scharabun Directory Coordinator, ACUA directory@acuarts.ca 780-975-307 The Gust Gallery in Waterton Lakes National Park is seeking submissions for mainly 3 dimensional pieces in ceramic, porcelain, glass and wood. The Gust Gallery embraces the artists and landscape of Southern Alberta. The breathtaking vistas of the Rockies, their Eastern Slopes and southerly plains are paid homage to by the extraordinary talents of artists working in two and three dimensional mediums. If you are interested or have questions email: gustgal@telus.net or call Edith Becker, ph: 403-859-2535 or cell: 403-827-0084 www.gustgallery.com
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Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs. Please call 780-901-7677 I am looking for a bass player and drummer to be part of the House Band at Expressionz Cafe the first Thursday of every month for the open stage as well as playing gigs around town doing original music...contact Dr. Oxide at ....780-466-1975 Jah-LeLe Band seeks female vocalist, drummers, guitarist, bass guitarist, keyboardist, trumpet players (Men or Women), must be talented in the genre of reggae music. Musicians must have their own instruments. If interested, please contact: Jones (main):780-757-4757 Collins: 780-802-2139 Albert: 780-680-1959 Seeking a musician to participate in a unique exchange. A offering of a short live show, in swap for a holonomic design (art) created for the musician. To take place this summer Contact and more detail through
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•• employment •• opportunities WATER TRUCK DRIVER required for Red Deer area. Potable experience, Class 3 and oilfield tickets required. Send driver’s abstract and resume to: blueridgewaterhauling@ shaw.ca. Fax 403-507-2368. HD LICENSED TECHNICIAN for several Alberta areas. Must have or willing to obtain CVIP licence. Please email or fax applications to: Carillion Canada Inc.; dlefsrud@carillionalberta.ca. Fax 780-336-2461. AN ALBERTA OILFIELD company is hiring experienced dozer and excavator operators, meals and lodging provided. Drug testing required. 780-723-5051. HEALTH CREW, Pen Checkers. Immediate permanent, full-time positions available. Wages are negotiable and will commensurate according to qualifications and experience. Lakeside offers an excellent benefit package. Will train the right candidate. Fax resume to: Duke Joy - JBS Lakeside Feeders 403362-8231. No telephone inquiries. SEEKING A CAREER in the Community Newspaper business? Post your resume for FREE right where the publishers are looking. Visit: awna.com/for-job-seekers.
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): According to an astrologer named Astrolocherry (astrolocherry. tumblr.com), Aries is the sign of the freedom fighter, the explorer, the daredevil and the adventurer. That's all true; I agree with her. But here's an important caveat. As you get older, it's your duty to harness all that hot energy on behalf of the softer, slower, more tender parts of your life. The coming weeks will offer you a great opportunity to work on that challenge. To get started, imagine how you can be a freedom fighter, explorer, daredevil and adventurer in service to your home, family and community. TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): After a thorough, detailed, painstaking analysis of the astrological omens, I'm inclined to advise you to be neither thorough nor detailed nor painstaking in the coming days. Instead, I suspect you will thrive by being spontaneous and improvisatory. Wing it, baby! Throw away the script. Trust your gut. Play it by ear. Make it up as you go along. If you find yourself frowning with indecision and beset by lazy procrastination, you will know you're off course. If you are feeling blithe and agile as you get a lot done with creative efficiency, you will know you're right in the groove. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): The Japanese word tsundoku describes what happens if you buy a lot of books but never read them, leaving them piled up in a neglected heap. I recommend that you avoid indulging in tsundoku any time soon, Gemini. In fact, I urge you not to acquire any resources that you then proceed to ignore. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when it's crucial to make conscientious use of your tools and riches. To let them go to waste would be to dishonour them and make it less likely that you will continue to receive their blessings in the future. Take full advantage of what's yours. CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): If you could harness the energy from a typical lightning bolt, you would be able to use it to toast 100 000 slices of bread. That's an impossible scenario, of course. But I see it as an apt metaphor for the challenge you have ahead of you. I suspect you will soon get access to a massive influx of vital force that arrives in a relatively short time. Can you find a way to gather it in and store it up? Or will most of it, after the initial burst, leak away and be unavailable for long-term use? The secret to success will lie in whether you can figure out how to create the perfect "container." LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): "Forget the suffering / You caused others. / Forget the suffering / Others caused you." Czeslaw Milosz wrote these words in his poem
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"Forget," and now I'm passing them on to you. According to my reading of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to purge the old hurts you are still carrying, both those you dealt out and those you endured. Opportunities like this don't come along often, Leo. I invite you to repay emotional debts, declare amnesty and engage in an orgy of forgiveness. Any other things you can think of that will help wipe the slate clean? VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): When a Navajo baby laughs for the first time, everyone in the community celebrates. It's regarded as the moment when the child completes his or her transition from the spirit realm into the physical world. The person who has provoked the baby's laughter is charged with planning the First Laugh Ceremony, a party to commemorate the magical event. I foresee a comparable development in your life, Virgo. You won't be laughing for the first time, of course, but I suspect your sense of humour will reach a new ripeness. How? Maybe you will be able to find amusement in things you have always taken too seriously. Maybe you will suddenly have a deeper appreciation for life's ongoing cosmic jokes. Or perhaps you will stumble upon reasons to laugh longer and harder and louder than you ever have before. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Would you like to be free from the experience of getting criticized? Do you think it might be nice if no one ever accused you of being wrong or off-track? If so, here's how you should proceed, says American writer Elbert Hubbard: "Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." But I'm afraid I can't recommend that behaviour for you, Libra. In the coming weeks, you have a sacred duty to your Future Self to risk being controversial. I urge you to take strong stands, speak raw truths and show your real feelings. Yes, you may attract flack. You might disturb the peace. But that will be an acceptable price to pay for the rewards you receive. This is one time when being courageous is more important than seeking harmony. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): "Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any," said writer Mark Twain. How do you respond to that impish nudge, Scorpio? Are there any geniuses and heroes out there whom you consider to be worthy of your respect? If not, I urge you to go out in search of some. At this phase of your evolution, you are in special need of people who inspire you with their greatness. It's crucial for you to learn from teachers and role models who are further along than you are in their mastery of the game of life. I also believe it would be healing for
you to feel waves of admiration and reverence. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "Everyone has something to hide," declared Russian author Anton Chekhov. Is that true? Do even you blunt Sagittarians have something to hide? I'm going to say that for 90 percent of you, the answer is yes. There are secrets you don't want anyone to find out about: past events you are reluctant to disclose or shady deeds you are getting away with now or taboo thoughts you want to keep sealed away from public knowledge. I'm not here to scold you about them or to encourage you to spill them. On the contrary, I say it's time to bring them fully into your conscious awareness, to honour their importance to your life story and to acknowledge their power to captivate your imagination. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): A German chemist named Felix Hoffmann had a prominent role in synthesizing two very different drugs: aspirin and heroin. In analyzing your astrological omens for the coming months, I see you as having a similar potential. You could create good stuff that will have the power to help and heal; or you could generate borderline stuff that will lead to a lot of problems; or you could do both. How it all plays out really is up to your free will. For best results, set your intention to go in the direction of things like aspirin and away from things like heroin. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): This is a good time to risk a small leap of faith, but not a sprawling vault over a yawning abyss. Feel free and easy about exploring the outer borders of familiar territory, but be cautious about the prospect of wandering into the deep, dark unknown. Be willing to entertain stimulating new ideas but not cracked notions that have little evidence to back them up. Your task is to shake up the status quo just enough to invigorate everyone's emotional intelligence, even as you take care not to unleash an upheaval that makes everyone crazy. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) had an unusual fetish. He enjoyed eating apples and pears and other fruits while they were still hanging on the tree. Why? Maybe because the taste was as pure and brisk and naked as it could possibly be— an experience that I imagine would be important to a romantic poet like him. In accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest you use Coleridge's quest for ultimate freshness as a driving metaphor in the coming week. Go to the source to get what you need. Dispense with intermediaries. Be as raw as the law allows. V
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