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ISSUE: 929 AUG 8 – AUG 14, 2013 COVER PHOTO: JASON CREPS

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FILM / 11 ARTS / 16 MUSIC / 23 EVENTS / 25 CLASSIFIEDS / 26 ADULT / 28

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"There are no hostels where they're going to cut you up. "

FILM

"He attempts to seduce her with coffee and bowling."

DISH

"The noodle is kind of the canvas."

ARTS

"It's so fun; it's so free, and you feel like you can just join in on the party."

MUSIC

"A lot of people haven't heard the koto."

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SAMANTHA POWER SAMANTHA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Who says no? This past July, the Alberta Energy Regulator gave approval to the Shell Jackpine Mine. But it was a twist ending in a 400-page review that would have left even the regular Game of Thrones reader questioning the unexpected outcome. The three-panel review board said the project "would likely have significant adverse environmental effects on wetlands," and that Shell had not created effective measures to lessen the impacts. It went on to say that the project would significantly affect old-growth forest-reliant species and the rights of aboriginal people. Despite the lack of "ecological context" Shell has for the project, the AER put no brakes on the project and wrote that the long-term economic benefits would be great for all levels of government. The Jackpine Mine will move to the next stage: approval by the provincial and federal governments. This is the new AER. While its evaluation may be harsher, the project still moves forward, putting the right of refusal in the hands of government. In the same month this ruling was put out, the AER was also dealing with the Cold Lake oil "seepage." While CNRL, the owner of the Primrose facility, assures the public the seepage is contained, the AER has said, as of July 27, the seepage is ongoing. Four sites have been reported as seeping over 6000 barrels of bitumen to the surface. The cause of the leaks is not yet known, but it's not the first time this has happened. In 2009, 5686 barrels of bitumen seeped to the surface at the same facility. The regulator at the time, the ERCB, could not determine the source of the leak and, after an investigation, the facility was allowed to resume operations. With previous unsolved problems at the site, the Pembina Institute's Chris SeversonBaker has said the Cold Lake facility could point to a "potential design failure and call into question the project's approval." While the cause of this spill has yet to be determined, this could be the first opportunity for the fledgling AER to prove that it has sharper teeth than its predecessor and will revoke approval based on a failed design. But with the example of the Jackpine Mine just a few weeks old, it's hard to see how those teeth will come to bear down on problematic operations when projects with clear flaws from the start are given approval. It's unsurprising that Global Forest Watch Canada found only one percent of environmental violations are ever subject to any type of enforcement in Alberta. In a new report, the group examined thousands of tar-sands incidents and found few resulted in any sort of compliance order. The regulator is meant to enforce environmental standards to ensure projects are developed responsibly. From a public-relations perspective, it's comforting to know a regulatory regime stands in the way of destructive projects, watching out for the environmental security within industrial developments. But with the diametrically opposed statements contained within the Shell Jackpine Mine expansion, it's hard to see if a process was created for saying no and where in the process the enforcement of regulations will happen when economic development is at stake. And if the regulator isn't saying no, who will? V

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NEWS EDITOR : REBECCA MEDEL REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

NEWS // WOMEN'S SHELTER

Nowhere to go

Edmonton’s shelter for human-trafficking victims might have to close

safe house for female victims of human trafficking, immigrants and refugees in Edmonton might have to close its doors if funds don't come in soon. WIN House III has been operating since 2010 and is the only shelter of its kind in Canada to offer programming for immigrant and refugee women and their children fleeing domestic violence as well as for trafficked women. A spokesperson for the shelter says it's important the facility remains open because it allows women to stay longer than the regular shelter does—three months as opposed to three weeks—and provides them adequate time to work through the judicial process. Victims of human trafficking also often face high-risk safety concerns and WIN III has extensive security measures to protect them. The $408 000 needed to operate annually mainly comes from donations and a couple of

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grants, but the money is drying up. MP Joy Smith, who has worked to amend the Criminal Code twice to help protect victims of human trafficking, toured the facility and offered her foundation's support. "My main concern is to bring awareness to Canadians about human trafficking, which occurs in sexual slavery and forced labour. It is the very first step in stirring people's hearts to rise up against this horrible crime," Smith said in an email. "The need is great for victims of human trafficking in Canada—for their food, clothing and shelter. That's why it is so important that the Joy Smith Foundation can support registered charities like Edmonton Women's Shelter, who care for the needs of victims and help them rebuild their lives." An online fundraising project for WIN House III is happening until August 14. To donate money, visit bit.ly/191Icbu. REBECCA MEDEL

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Re: Salary freeze a cold idea (Political Interference Jul 25 – 31) I must correct some information in the July 25 – 31 Vue Weekly column by Ricardo Acuña. Ricardo was critical of our current mayor for supporting three major projects: “A gift of over $120 million of tax revenues to a local billionaire for his profit-generating downtown arena project,” the P3 model for the southeast LRT and support for privatization of EPCOR’s power-generating business, now known as Capital Power. In that column, Ricardo writes: “It’s also worth noting that all three of the current councillors running for mayor supported these giveaways in council.”

That is not correct. I have long voted against the arena deal and that is a matter of public record. I did not vote against it not because I don’t believe in a new arena, but because the fund-

The two other councillors running for mayor voted in favour of the final deal. I voted against it. ing formula is flawed. It gives too much public money to a billionaire who will keep every cent of profit from a building the city will finance, build and own. We don’t even get to sell naming rights to our own arena.

The two other councillors running for mayor voted in favour of the final deal. I voted against it. As for the assertion by Ricardo that I voted for privatizing EPCOR’s power-generation business, that’s impossible. That decision was made before I was first elected to city council in October 2010. My arena stance is clearly spelled out in several columns I’ve written at kerrydiotte.com Kerry Diotte Councillor, Ward 11 *Editor’s note: Ricardo Acuña’s column was changed on vueweekly.com on July 25 to correct the error regarding the arena.

ERIN [I used to spend my vacation] going to the lake with my parents and a bunch of our neighbours every summer. It’s actually been a long time. Probably like five or six years, unfortunately. Usually I’m just working all the time and right now I’m in arts school so I don’t have much of a chance to take a break, but I’d like to take a trip to the mountains for a weekend and just do hiking and stuff.

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FRONT NEWS // HOSTELS

Skip the hotel

Hostel subculture strong in Alberta

hen it comes to the myths and misconceptions surrounding hostels, Wicked Hostels owner Jeff Jebson has heard it all—from the idea that hostels are dirty, run-down places to the belief that all your stuff will get stolen if you stay there. Some people are so misinformed they buy into the extreme stories, including the way hostels are sometimes portrayed in the media. "I've had first-time hostellers and backpackers and they come in and they're like 'You know, I've seen [the 2005 film] Hostel. Is that real?' And it's like no, it's not real at all, that's total fiction. There are no hostels where they're going to cut you up. But it's pop culture, right? Those kind of things stick to people," Jebson says. Thankfully for hostel owners, few travellers seem to be taking these myths to heart. In a 2012 survey done by hostelworld.com and Lonely Planet, 94 percent of the 5600 worldwide travellers surveyed said they would "consider staying in a hostel for a holiday or vacation." Hostels are fast becoming the preferred end destination for both casual visitors and international backpackers alike, and it's not hard to imagine why. The cheap cost is often one of the biggest incentives for staying at a hostel for most travellers. Lisa Rayman, the Alberta Marketing Coordinator for the Hostelling International-Canada-Pacific Mountain Region, believes hardcore backpackers and adventurers in particular are more likely to stay at a hostel because it means they can spend more money on activities during their stay. "The thing about staying in a hostel is that, because it really is a budget accommodation, that's what people are first focused on," she says. "[They'd] rather spend between $20 – $40 on [a room] and then spend $200 or $300 on [an] experience, whether that's hiking or bungee jumping or skydiving. I think a lot of hostellers really have that sense of adventure and experience that they would rather pay for than pay to have a fancy hotel room." Some independent hostels, such as Wicked Hostels in Calgary, choose to carve out a niche for themselves by catering mainly to international backpackers who travel for months or years at a time. One of only two hostels in Calgary, Wicked Hostels only accepts "genuine backpackers carrying government-issued out-ofprovince/country ID and luggage/ backpacks" to make sure that no one from afar is left without a bed. While this means Albertans are out of luck here, Jebson says the hostel has been packed this past

year with international backpackers from as far away as Australia. "There's such limited space for backpackers in Calgary being that there's only two hostels," he explains. "It's kind of like every bed that's [being used by] someone who's local or semi-local is a bed that's not going to somebody who's from Germany or Belgium or Australia that would like to experience Calgary."

alone and watching TV like you would in a hotel, guests are encouraged to mingle with other travellers staying there. This often means visitors

will come across people they've met on their previous travels, while other times it means finding a last-minute partner for the next day's activities. "It's an ever-changing community because you have different people from different places with different

more common spaces, so people are able to share their uncommon experiences with each other," Rayman agrees. "So you have a shared kitchen, you have a shared common room, a shared TV room— people are coming together to talk about what they've done that

In a hostel, you have to make friends. You're being put into that position of liking your fellow man.

For many, hostelling has become more of a way of life than just the place you stay when you travel. Both Jebson and Rayman agree that many travellers choose hostels over hotels due to the growing backpacker community found at most hostels. Rather t h a n sitting

experience that then add to that community, and you have new ideas and new things to do and conversations," Jebson says. "[Hostels] have a lot

day or what they're going to do. If you're travelling alone, then sometimes you're looking for people to befriend, and that's where a hostel's really different from a hotel. In a hostel, you have to make friends. You're being put into that position of liking your fellow man." That sense of community often extends to the staff running the hostels, who are usually seasoned backpackers and travellers themselves. Years before Jebson opened Wicked Hostels in 2010, he quit his job as an executive director of qualitative research at a market research company to travel the world for four years, staying in hostels the entire time. Rayman has been with the Hostelling International organization for 12 years now, and she too remembers having misconceptions when she first started working there. Having worked at and stayed as a guest at HI locations across the world, she was even married in the HI-Banff Alpine Centre. With their personal backpacking and hostelling experiences to back them up, it's not surprising the people working at local hostels are so dedicated to making the stay of future guests enjoyable. Jebson and Rayman agree that hostelling is only going to become more popular in the coming years, especially as the public and travel industry become more aware of the communal benefits to staying in one. "Everybody who works in hostelling gets into it because they're travellers. That's the fundamental thing we share," Rayman says. "There's something about that sharing that connection with people in a hostel that you just don't get anywhere else." ALANA WILLERTON

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RICARDO ACUÑA // RICARDO@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Energy East not all it's being made out to be Job creation, energy security and nation building from pipeline more hype than anything Alberta Premier Alison Redford is calling TransCanada's proposed new Energy East Pipeline Project a success in "nation-building" and a project that will secure longterm economic diversification and growth for Alberta. Other proponents of the Alberta to New Brunswick pipeline project, including Stephen Harper and his friends in the energy sector, are talking about job creation and Canadian energy security. Unfortunately, none of the information released to date about the 1.1 million barrel-per-day project supports any of those claims. It's a pipeline, Ms Redford. Its purpose will be to carry upgraded bitumen across the country. It's not a national railway and it's not a national highway. Yes, a number of provinces have stepped up in support of the project, but just that fact alone does not make it a nation-building project. The only part of this project that will be unifying on a national level is now communities across the country

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can share in the threat of pipeline spills and contamination for the sake of enriching huge oil corporations and no one else. How does that meet anyone's definition of nation-building? The project will ultimately allow bitumen operations in the province to continue growing out of control. This is an industry that's already responsible for over one-third of our overall economy, and close to that amount of provincial government revenues. Both of those percentages will grow as a result of this pipeline. You don't have to be an economist to realize that one industry controlling that much of the economy is actually the opposite of diversification; it's over-dependence. The only thing that will be diversified as a result of the Energy East project is the sources of profit for oil and gas industry. Once again, Redford and the Conservatives have failed to understand that the oil industry and the government are actually separate entities. The claim of job creation across

and you see those claims for what they are: a convenient way to sell an export pipeline to a wary public. The entire province of Quebec currently consumes around 400 000 barrels of oil per day. Even if they were to replace all of their domestic consumption with Alberta bitumen-derived oil (something they are not likely to do, given that they currently also export oil), that would still leave over 700 000 barrels per day of the new pipeline's capacity that will be destined for export. This is not about energy security, it is about trying to find one more way to get Alberta bitumen to export markets. And, as above, that's not about the national interest, it's about maximizing corporate profits. In the end, perhaps the biggest problem with this project is that, despite Redford's spin to the contrary, it is not part of a concerted and comprehensive Canadian energy strategy. A real energy strategy would acknowledge climate change and our need to lessen our current dependence on fossil fuels. A real energy strategy would recognize the unsustainabil-

the country is even more questionable. We already know from studies conducted around the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL projects that pipelines do not create permanent jobs. Yes, there are some short-term jobs during the construction phase, but those are short-lived. That is especially the case with the Energy East pipeline, 70 percent of which is basically already built and only needs to be converted from gas to upgraded bitumen. There are also not likely to be any new jobs created at the refineries in Quebec and New Brunswick that will receive the upgraded bitumen, as these are already in operation and will likely just replace the foreign crude they're currently refining with Alberta crude. No increase in the capacity of these refineries equals no new permanent jobs created. As for the rhetoric around a Canadian energy strategy and Canadian energy security, scratch it a little bit

ity of bitumen as an energy source, and include a plan to wean ourselves off of one of the dirtiest fuels in the world. A real energy strategy would see government provide the kinds of incentives to development of renewable energy today that were provided to the development of bitumen in the '80s and '90s. A real energy strategy would provide a framework for meeting our country's energy needs in a way that is secure and reliable, and maximizes environmental sustainability. This pipeline project does none of that. The only thing it accomplishes is to make it possible for the extraction and production of bitumen to continue growing exponentially. Quite simply, it should not be approved. Nor should any new pipeline project until we have a national energy strategy in place that meets all of the above requirements. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Berlusconi: down but not yet out Former Italian prime minister sleazed his way out of paying for his crimes "I will not go into exile like Bettino Craxi was forced to," said Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi as he awaited the outcome of his final appeal against a four-year prison sentence for tax fraud. (Craxi, another former prime minister and a friend and protector of Berlusconi's, fled to Tunisia and died in exile after being convicted of corruption and sentenced to nine years in prison). "If they convict me, if they take

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that responsibility upon themselves, I'll go to jail," Berlusconi continued. Brave words, but they would have been even more impressive if Berlusconi, who is 76, didn't know that criminals over the age of 70 almost never get sent to prison in Italy. Last week, Italy's highest court rejected Berlusconi's final appeal and confirmed his sentence, although in practice it is unlikely to amount to more than a year's house arrest. However, it did not confirm the lower court's decision to ban him, as a convicted criminal, from holding political office for five years. That will be reviewed by a lower court, and may not be decided for many months. So for the moment, at least, Berlusconi can go on being a senator, and the leader of his People of Freedom party, and in effect the co-leader of the coalition that now governs

Italy. He has already been convicted and sentenced to jail for two other offences that are going through the appeal process now, but "lo psiconano", the psychotic dwarf (as rival politician Beppe Grillo calls him), still dominates the Italian political horizon. Silvio Berlusconi has been at the centre of Italian politics for the past 20 years, half the time as prime minister, but there is reason to believe that he first went into politics mainly to avoid various criminal prosecutions. You cannot be tried while you are prime minister, and if you stay in office long enough the cases expire because of the statute of limitations. (And while in office, Berlusconi changed the law to make them expire more quickly.) So it was only when he lost power in 2011 that the many pending cases against him could go ahead. The results, so far, have been three convictions. The first was for tax fraud, in a case where his Mediaset company paid false invoices, hundreds of millions of euros too high, for distribution rights to US films. (The excess money went into an overseas, tax-free slush fund.) The second was for leaking a police wire-

tap to one of his publications. And the third was for having sex with an under-age prostitute and abusing his prime ministerial powers to get her out of jail. The prostitute, 17 at the time, was a Moroccan erotic dancer working under the stage name Ruby Rubacuori (Heart-Stealer). She attended one of Berlusconi's notorious "bunga bunga" parties, and out of the dozen or so women there, she was the one who attracted the great man's special attention. So he took her upstairs, gave her 7000 euros, and (in his version) sent her home untouched. Later on he also gave her jewelry, lots more money, and an Audi—and when she was arrested on suspicion of theft, he called up the police station and got her released by claiming, untruthfully, that she was the grand-daughter of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. Charges were laid, and even though Berlusconi gave 127 000 euros to three key witnesses just before the trial began, he was found guilty last June. He was sentenced to seven years in prison and a lifetime ban on holding public office. That case has now also started its way through the lengthy appeals process, but one-by-one the doors are shutting against Berlusconi. How did he get away with it for so long? One reason is a justice system

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so inefficient and overloaded that it's easy for a rich man with good lawyers to string a case out until it dies of old age. Berlusconi is the richest man in Italy, and Italy has nine million court cases pending. (There are only 60 million Italians.) The larger reason is that Berlusconi, for all his sleaze and corruption, is a brilliant politician. His unique achievement was to create a coalition of north Italian racists, central and south Italian post-fascists, and just plain conservative Catholics, and hold it together for almost two decades. That coalition is gradually disintegrating now, but it blocked the modernization of Italian politics that should have followed the "Tangentopoli" scandals and the collapse of the old political parties in the early '90s for a full two decades. Berlusconi's departure from politics will be good for Italy, but his long time in office has done permanent harm to the country's economy and its political and legal systems. And what will he do when he is finally banned from politics? Well, he may have to spend a year under house arrest, but he has lots of very big houses, and lots of young women will still come to the parties of such a generous man. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

REVUE // FAUX-DOC

FILM

FILM EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

tate both Computer Chess's narrative and format, which is black-and-white video, 1.33, shot on the Sony AVC-3260, a camera for which hard focus was apparently impossible. We actually see a videographer shooting the tournament and much

behind-the-scenes material, Though an introverted childwhich makes the film something Cronenberg look-alike (Patrick of a quasi-faux-doc. There are Riester) and a experimental psyoverhead projectors, a lounge chologist (Slacker's Wiley Wiggins) musician playing a buzzy elec- play key roles, Bujalski doesn't favour any single tro-organ, and character, preno ATMs where Fri, Aug 9 – Mon, Aug 19 ferring to let Michael Papa- Computer Chess george (Myles Directed by Andrew Bujalski Computer Chess drift along as Paige) could, Metro Cinema at the Garneau an affectionate, in theory, get  almost Altmansome cash for like ensemble/ the room, the drugs and the hooker he can't milieu piece. His characters have pay for. There is an infestation greasy hair, stains on their shirts, of cats capable of operating el- beards of resignation, outsized evators. There is also an encoun- glasses and neglected physiques. ter group that meets to reenact Some of them get together in their births and dig their hands the evenings to smoke dope and in warm bread—representatives swap big ideas about artificial inof an earlier generation. Much of telligence or how this whole comthe film's most resonant comedy puter chess enterprise may just comes from the way Bujalski un- be grist for the military-industrial derlines the ways in which com- complex. Others are just trying to puter geeks of the era were on get friendly with the one young the cutting edge of something woman (Robin Schwartz) in atthey hardly understood while tendance—a huge novelty, and, in being seriously handicapped the end, the biggest innovation at when it came to engaging in an event devoted to supposedly basic social activities. Though visionary advancements. The film the videographer—the smart- is full of awkward life, and quite est geek in the room?—wisely a bit of fun. predicts that one day computers JOSEF BRAUN JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM will be used for dating.

Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite traces the orca's history back from the capture and separation from his mother—by means of a brutal, rodeo-style capture where the young are stolen from their pods and usually at least a couple of whales end up dead—through the court

case surrounding Tilikum's third one trainer doesn't remember fatality while drawing on former ever being told about. trainers, a whale expert, patrons who came for a whale show and In Blackfish, we even get to saw a tragedy, a former member see some of those gone-wrong of a whale capture crew and a moments: the mass of footage lot of handi-cam and security Cowperthwaite's assembled footage. Virtudraws from seally all of it Fri, Aug 9 – Mon, Aug 19 curity cameras, condemns the Directed by Gabriela park footage, choices made Cowperthwaite and handi-cams, by SeaWorld Metro Cinema at the Garneau and captures m a n a g e m e n t ,  some rivetfrom telling the ing, frightening trainers at its moments. It's first park that he would be used not just Tilikum who's shown only for breeding, not shows, to flashes of violence and frustrapublicly downplaying the terms tion with his captors, nor is SeaWorld the only place: watching of trainer fatalities. So this is a documentary that a whale pull a trainer down to isn't afraid to point its finger, the bottom of a tank repeatbut it makes its arguments as- edly—the guy surviving almost tutely, with few of its wide solely because of a break in spread of voices siding with the the whale's attention—and marine park in any of its cases similar fatalities at other parks (SeaWorld apparently refused around the world, make it hard to be interviewed for the film). to see the commercial marine Former trainers bemoan their park system as anything but a own naïve trust in the organi- careless, money-driven system zation's judgment, the lack of where the imprisoned animals' safety precautions, inhumane frustrations are illustrated by a whale treatment and not being history of violence. told about former incidents at PAUL BLINOV the park—some 70 incidents PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Thinking up a good opening move

t's 1980, and computers are larger than lawnmowers and not so personal—we had yet to figure out how to share a desk amicably. The gulf between man and machine was physically and psychically vast, which made the notion of a computer chess tour-

nament that much more laden with unease and wonder. Andrew Bujalski's Sundance prize-winner unfolds within a Texas hotel where nerds from across the nation pit their chessplaying programs one against the other. Techno-tensions dic-

REVUE // DOCUMENTARY

Blackfish

We really should free Willy

ince 1991, an in-captivity orca named Tilikum has been involved with three deaths across two marine parks. Two of those deaths were his trainers, experienced professionals with histories of working with the whale. Yet he's presently still performing in SeaWorld's live shows,

which just seems inherently unsafe and makes up the central, pretty damning case study of Blackfish, a deft and superbly constructed documentary that argues against us trying to make cash cows out of 12 000 pound animals by ripping them from their natural habitats.

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JOSEF BRAUN // JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

An intimate apocalypse

End of Animal a fascinating, if a little annoying, take on the end days

Having a bad apocalypse, man

his is the way the world ends, not with an asteroid or waves of contagion, but with an aborted cab ride. At least that's how it ended in South Korea in 2010, when writer/director/editor Jo Sung-hee made his impressive feature debut with End of Animal, a hugely resourceful, super fucking weird chamber disaster drama. The film got less play on the festival circuit than it should have, though its reputation did grease the wheels for Jo's solid, if less inventive, 2012 follow-up A Werewolf Boy. It was released on DVD earlier this year. I finally caught up with it last week. A very pregnant young woman, Sun-yeong (Lee Min-Ji), is travelling by taxi from Seoul to her mother's home somewhere in the countryside, where she plans to give birth. Somewhere en route, in the middle of nowhere, the cabbie stops for some regular-looking dude in a parka and ball cap—turns out he's going the same way. But once said dude climbs in, things get tense. He's touchy, and keeps ordering

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Sun-yeong not to stare at him, even though she's in the back seat. He starts announcing the number of seconds to go ... until what? Then he says he has no cash or cards to pay. Then he starts to make uncanny guesses about numerous aspects of the personal lives of the cabbie and Sun-yeong. Then he starts talking angels with fangs and global blackouts. He then tells cabbie and Sun-yeong that he loves them, just before a flash of light startles everyone and knocks Sunyeong unconscious. When she wakes up: no cabbie, no touchy, psychic stranger. Just her and her unborn child in that seemingly endless desolate landscape. No mobile service. No nothing. She starts to search for a rest area that's meant to be nearby. She's starving. She finds an insolent kid in an abandoned house. She badly injures her foot. She meets a bickering couple. She's aided by a goofy guy in track pants riding a bike—never trust a man in track pants. She nearly gets raped. Once in a while she gets instruc-

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tions from the psychic stranger via radio signals—he's the only thing on the air. At times, from across the wintry plain, she hears some sort of growling, freaky and hard to identify. Is this unseen animal going to be the end of her? Despite the sweeping nature of the premise, Jo knows he's not making a spectacle film of any sort. His camera most often sticks very close to his characters, often to just head and shoulders. Occasionally we get a wider view of the landscape. End of Animal is an intimate apocalypse. This is its novelty and strength as well as the source of its failings—which should not deter the intrigued from seeing it. It's just that, however sympathetic her position may be, Sun-yeong winds up grating on you a bit. She's having a rough time of it, and she whimpers, cries and screams an awful lot. End of Animal is at once fascinating and annoying. It's probably too long, but it's also a hell of a strange world to visit, one on its last legs, or simply waiting for something new. V

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I'm So Excited!

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urns out it's actually key to the set-up, but and starts sizing up a sleepy boner in the rear I liked the fact that I'm So Excited! (Los cabin. There's a middle-aged movie star (Guillamantes pasajeros) opens with what feels ermo Toledo) who makes an in-flight call to a like a non sequitur, a sequence involving two girlfriend on the cusp of suicide. There's a mysmajor international stars—Almodóvar alumni terious Zappa-moustached Mexican in a black both—in bit parts, having a heart-to-heart suit (José Luis Torrijo) conspicuously reading a while ostensibly preparing a passenger jet copy of Bolaño's 2666. There's Norma (Cecifor a transatlantic journey. The promise of in- lia Roth) whose diva-like sense of entitlement spired nonsense whetted my stems from her supposed appetite for Almodóvar's first Opens Friday cache of evidence of powfull-on comedy in 20 years. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar erful men indulging in her There are those that feel that, Princess Theatre services as an ultra-highlike Woody Allen, the Spanish  class sex worker. There writer-director never recovare two sexually ambivaered once he veered away lent pilots (Antonio de la from comedy. Personally, I'm a huge admirer of Torre, Hugo Silva) and a trio of cuddly-effemthe later work, but once you sample the dizzy inate stewards (Javier Cámara, Carlos Areces, absurdities of something like Women on the Raúl Arévalo) who provide much of the film's Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), it can most enjoyable moments because of their inbecome tough to argue. But no one is likely to ability to shut up. Unfortunately, the stewards call this a return to form. also feature in what is easily the film's worst, if The problem with I'm So Excited! is that it not downright unwatchable sequence, in which reaches cruising altitude right off the top and Almodóvar stages a lip-synch/dance number then goes in circles for the film's remainder. to the unabridged, normally irresistible titular I'm not just being cute—that's quite literally Pointer Sisters' hit about female wantonness. what happens in this story of a Madrid-to- Full of limpid whip-pans and lousy choreograMexico City flight that winds up looping over phy, Almodóvar spends the whole of the song Toledo when the crew discovers that the embarrassingly aping antiquated music video landing gear has been compromised. Uncer- clichés. It's like walking into a drunken private tain how to prepare for or where to make an karaoke party stone-cold sober. emergency landing, and facing the possibility The premise of I'm So Excited! could easily be of catastrophe, the flight attendants dope the that of a porno—this is a quality I find quite eneconomy passengers to sleep—with some dearing. Unfortunately, as with porn, there isn't drug that seems to cause flatulence—before really anywhere to go once the story is in motion proceeding to get smashed themselves on and, unlike a porno, there's no real climax and no various substances. With the spectre of death destination. Which isn't to say that there's no fun looming and libations loosening inhibitions, to be had; I laughed plenty during the first half. the crew and a handful of business-class pas- But once the best jokes have been spent, I'm So sengers immediately begin unloading secrets Excited! seems to switch to Almodóvar-autopiand, why not?, getting super-horny. lot, at which point you'd might as well snooze with everybody in the cheap seats. There's a self-proclaimed clairvoyant virgin JOSEF BRAUN (Lola Dueñas) who knows something is amiss JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Freaks

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et in a travelling circus—a mi- subjects. Freaks' running subtext lieu director Tod Browning is the realization that the human knew well from his own time as a oddities are fundamentally no difcircus worker—Freaks is a work of ferent from the rest of us, yet what fiction, but it's also a sort of docu- likely disturbed the film's initial mentary. Intertwined with its tale audiences most profoundly was of mad love, manipulation, greed, surely its implications of sex—sex solidarity and revenge, Freaks of- is everywhere in Freaks, from Hans, fers miniature portraits of real the midget dazzled by acrobatic sideshow performers such as Daisy Cleo's Amazonian beauty; to Joseand Violet Hilton, the beautiful Sia- phine Josephs, the provocative halfmese twins; Johnny Eck, the hand- man half-woman; to the conjoined some Half-Boy; Peter Robinson, the Hilton sisters, who each marry a super-emaciated Human Skeleton; different man and apparently feel Prince Randian, the each others' Human Torso, who Wed, Aug 14 (8:45 pm) sensations, we see light himself Directed by Tod Browning like in the a cigarette using Metro Cinema at the Garneau scene where only his mouth; and Originally Released: 1932 Daisy swoons countless others while Violet is who willingly offered being kissed. Browning their ample services. The presence of these performers Still, for all the humanity and unis one of the elements that makes apologetic funk of Freaks, the film Freaks such an enduring classic. is also a hilarious black comedy and The equally enduring question an extremely effective proto-rural that clings to Freaks is whether noir, founded on the unsettling conwe are to regard its Artful use Throwing of theseMachine ceitCompetition. that the so-called Beakerhead Create yourfreaks share performers own as catapult compassionate or Register someyour sort collective psyche: and win prizes. teamofto compete! exploitative. Yet how do we dis- "Offend one and you offend them 12345 all!" a barker warns. Highlighted by tinguish between the exploitation of normal talents from abnormal Browning's subdued, actor-sensiones, the employment of beautiful, tive camera work, his wonderfully sexy starlets or brilliantART comedians use of silence and, finally, + SCIENCE +sinister ENGINEERING 11-15, 2013fl CALGARY, ALBERTAto build tension before from talented people SEPTEMBER with abbreute music BEAKERHEAD.ORG/EVENT/CATAPULT viated forms or limbless wonders the climactic confrontation amidst who perform marvelous feats of rain and night and mud below the dexterity? What's clear—through caravan wagons, Freaks is finally the film's lighting and framing, something very simple: an audaas well as its dialogue and narra- cious, mesmerizingly atmospheric tive—is the deep affection, admi- masterpiece of early horror. ration and wonder Browning and JOSEF BRAUN his screenwriters held for their JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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t occurs only after the car carry- next door to an alcoholic lech. He ing those girls has spilled over attempts to seduce her with cofthe edge of the old bridge and fee and bowling, but, who knows sank into the river, only after that why, all she really wants to do is credit sequence, awash in spectral visit the swampy old abandoned organ, where titles appear at an- place outside of town, where pale gles that mirror the branches and figures beckon to her, rising from roots that loom crookedly above the water as if to say, "We know where you're the water's surcoming from." face. That's when Wed, Aug 14 (7 pm) we get that in- Directed by Herk Harvey When Mary delible image of Metro Cinema at the Garneau left her homeMary Henry, hair Originally Released: 1962 town, the local minister made a caked in muck, point of insisting slightly bowed, arms slightly extended, a stunned that "It takes more than intellect amphibian stumbling along the to be a musician—put your soul muddy banks. It's the traumatic into it." But Mary seems utterly image that everything in Carnival vacant, and anyway she's not a of Souls can arguably be reduced believer, at least not in the Lord, to. But why reduce it? I've seen though the ghosts she catches the movie numerous times since sight of scare her half to death. that first midnight screening I Rather than win the hearts of caught while in high school, and it churchgoers, she just wants to seems only richer, not the inspired hit the right notes—they have work of atmospheric amateurism a meaning that only she can deI once took it for, but something cipher. She's also an unlikely far more knowing and adult and feminist heroine, setting out by genuinely, deeply strange. herself in her car, vulnerable but So Mary (Candace Hilligoss) independent, resistant to the pawalks away from the accident triarchal comforts of fathers, boythat killed her friends and sets friends, doctors and the church. out to start a new life in some But there is a price to be paid God-fearing Utah town where she for going it alone. We learn so can play organ in the church— little about Mary's past, but it's and play the soundtrack to her clear that her move to Utah is a own movie. She winds up living flight from one of those "private

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traps" Norman Bates discussed with Marion Crane just a couple of years previous. If you've seen Carnival of Souls, you know just how airtight a trap it is. I've heard it speculated that Herk Harvey directed over 400 educational and industrial films. It says a lot about the secret artist in certain people that something as clogged with morose beauty as Carnival of Souls could stay welled up in Harvey during all those years. But who knows? Maybe there are hints of something inspired and eerie in such titles as What About Drinking? ('54), Operation: Grass Killer ('61) and Pork: The Meat With a Squeal ('63). Harvey made Carnival for an estimated $33 000, the production design having been largely provided by a pavilion outside Salt Lake City. The cast-members were mostly non-professionals, the editing patterns are erratic and there are occasional drops in sound. And it all works, and not just as a cult movie. The film is hardly intended to be a work of realism and the poverty row mise-en-scène feels as much the product of an esthetic as necessity. Carnival of Souls remains singular, and not only because Harvey never made another feature. JOSEF BRAUN

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FEATURE // MODERN ITALIAN

A little Italy in Edmonton's core Cibo Bistro puts a twist on tradition

sourced ingredients. Every variety of pasta—which ranges from the familiar spaghetti to unique cuts like garganelli and everything in between—is made in-house. "The noodle is kind of the canvas and then your sauce is just keeping the ingredients simple and clean in the dish," Caputo says, referencing one of the current summer selections: ravioli stuffed with homemade goat ricotta served with mixed mushroom ragu, white truffle butter and Pecorino. "There's nothing frozen. We keep everything in the raw and try to keep it as simple as possible on the plate, so I think the key to the pastas is just to keep your flavours simple."

Rosario Caputo, owner and chef // Meaghan Baxter

n North America, we often become accustomed to thick sauces and globs of cheese when it comes to our pastas, making the noodles themselves appear to be an afterthought as they're smothered beneath 11244 - 104 Ave a c c o m p a n y i n g 780.757.2426 i n g r e d i e n t s . cibobistro.com However, Cibo Bistro prefers a less-is-more approach, bringing a traditional-meets-modern twist to Italian cuisine. "We're bringing the flavours of Italy and Alberta ... so using local ingredients from here and the same style from there puts a

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modern twist on things," explains owner and head chef Rosario Caputo, a NAIT culinary arts grad who opened the bistro in November 2011. "Instead of pounding cheeses and sauces and bacon into our pastas and sauces, which is more of an Americanized style of Italian food, we like to keep it more traditional." Cibo (pronounced Chee-bo, the Italian word for food) is tucked away into Oliver Square and the sleek, 50-seat room offers an ever-changing menu that favours simplicity and seasonal, locally

Of course, Cibo's modern Italian fare is comprised of far more than just pasta. Caputo, who grew up in a large Italian family and cites his mother and grandmother as his earliest culinary influences, is currently serving up a rabbit confit with honey glazed rainbow carrots and mostardo sauce; panseared duck breast with pancetta, shaved fennel, duck-fat-fried potatoes and Sassicaia Grappa sauce; a grilled Heritage Angus flat-iron steak with shaved spring asparagus salad, capers and anchovy vinaigrette, among others, including a variety of antipasti such as the trio di bruschetta della casa and featured house-cured meat, among numerous other creations. The menu switches up about once a month, with larger overhauls occurring as seasons change. Much of the inspiration comes from Caputo's continued love of all things food and willingness to experiment not only at

his restaurant, but at home too. "You can go to places and ... say you want your filet and you go there and you always get it—I find eventually you get tired of it and bored with it and you don't want to venture out on the menu because you're so used to getting whatever it is you order," he says, noting he does not want to see

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Cibo fall into a rut where things become too predictable. "We're kind of forcing people to try something new because chances are you're going to come in next season and the item's off the menu. It's just to keep the guest interested." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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about sardines Either or The little fish are also known as pilchards and are related to herrings. Sardine is a term first used in the English language sometime in the early 15th century. Measuring up Neither name is considered to be precise and is region-dependent. In the United Kingdom, for example, the Sea Fish Industry Authority classifies sardines as young pilchards—meaning they are shorter than six inches (15 cm). Big business It is believed sardine canning—the process of washing, deep-frying or steam-cooking, drying and packing the fish—began in the Brittany area of France. It remains a traditional industry there today and is home to the largest number of canneries in the country.

Give them a try They may not be a go-to when it comes to seafood, but sardines are low in contaminants such as mercury due to their low position on the food chain. The fish are also a good source of several vitamins and minerals including vitamin B12, vitamin B2, phosphorus, calcium and potassium. Sardines are also a good source of omega-3 fatty acids. Keep an eye out If sardines make their way onto your grocery list, good quality canned varieties should have the head and gills removed. V

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The last of its kind Blacks Harbour, NB, is home to the last sardine-packing plant in North America. The company was founded by the Connors brothers in the 1880s. The Stinson Seafood plant in Prospect Harbour, Maine, was the last remaining sardine cannery in the US, which shut down in 2010 after operating for 135 years.

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DISH VENI, VIDO, VINO

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The right vessel for your vino Well-crafted glass makes all the difference So much focus is placed on picking the right wine for barbecues, picnics and camping trips, yet often there's hardly any thought put into the vessel you're using to drink that wine. Too often plastic tumblers are the de facto beverage containers at those outdoor summer activities, which make even the most nuanced, delicious wine taste flat and boozy. But nowadays there are so many options on the market that only a small investment will ensure you don't have to sacrifice your good wine to a bad glass. There are a few basic features you should seek out when purchasing a wine glass, even if it's just intended for a casual setting—there's no need to resort to drinking out of plastic beer cups, but you certainly don't need to lug around a box of expensive crystal stems to every outing. Having said that, always choose real glass over plastic or any other material. It makes a huge difference, and while you'll have to be a little more careful not to knock them around too much, I've never found it troublesome to bring glass wine stems on camping trips. (Make sure to save the box they were packaged in and use that

to transport them around.) The shape of a glass also makes a big impact on the taste of a wine. The bowl should be wider at the base than at the mouth, which allows for a greater wine-to-air ratio; this increases the release of the wine's aromatics while the narrow mouth concentrates these aromas towards your nose. A wider base also allows you to swirl your wine without flinging it across your shirt, and this is also why you should never fill your glass past the widest point of the bowl. An often-overlooked feature of a good wine glass is the rim—the thinner the rim, the better. Thick rims act like speed bumps on the wine's path into your mouth, preventing it from being delivered evenly across your tongue. This exacerbates the heat from the alcohol and makes it harder to taste the wine's subtle flavours. It's certainly not the most important factor in choosing wine stemware, but it's still worth checking before you buy a set; if the edge is particularly thick (like the lip of a coffee mug) you might want to keep looking. (The worst offenders in this category are those cheap wine glasses

from Ikea—I can't taste anything out of those things.) While classic wine glasses have long stems, this feature is decidedly impractical when you're enjoying wine in the great outdoors. Fortunately, there are a slew of stemless wine glasses on the market now. As long as the glass has a properly shaped bowl it will work just as fine as one with a stem. The king of wine stemware is the Austrian company Riedel, which sells dozens of different types of wine glasses that are considered to be the best in the world. They aren't cheap, retailing for around $25 per stem for an average wine glass and about half that for a stemless version. However, I recommend checking out Winners, as you can often find sets of Riedel glasses at very discounted prices. For those unwilling to invest that much in glasses that are only used part of the year, Superstore carries a selection of decent stemless glasses. Whichever type of wine glass you choose, just make sure to observe the one cardinal rule: only buy glasses you can afford to break. Because you will. V

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PREVUE // CARIBBEAN

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29 years of celebrating Caribbean culture with Cariwest

ariwest, Edmonton's colourful ties will revolve around the overand dynamic celebration of Ca- arching theme of D'Bouncin Start. ribbean culture, is back for its 29th "Every year we take the most popuyear, and already lar mas band has plans in the Fri, Aug 9 – Sun, Aug 11 theme song and works to celebrate Churchill Square, free the one this year is 'Fantastic the big 3-0 next cariwest.ca year. For the time Friday,' but the being, however, theme is called festival goers will be able to take 'D'Bouncin Start,'" says communicain performances, art and food from tions officer Raekash Walters. "The countries throughout the vibrant re- 'mas' in mas band is short for masgion that includes Jamaica, Trinidad querade, so it's equivalent to a float." These mas bands will be taking to and Grenada. This year, the multifarious festivi- the streets during the Grand Costume Parade on Saturday, starting at noon. Other events include musical performances from world champion soca artist Bunji Garlin and the Caribbean Village in Churchill Square where the spirit of the Caribbean will be in abundance. Walters notes that for the first time, there will be a children's area at the village, further enhancing the festival's family friendly atmosphere. "We're going to be having bouncy castles, face painting, balloon making and all that stuff, so we wanted

Who doesn't love a good parade?

to engage with our younger audiences and bring out their families so they can have a really fun day in the square and not worry about entertaining their children," she adds. Walters, who is of Jamaican descent, is taking on her first year as part of the festival staff and encourages people of all cultural backgrounds to come out and experience the thriving Caribbean community in the city. "It's so fun; it's so free, and you feel like you can just join in on the party," she says. "As Canadians I find that we are different from everywhere else in the world. I feel that we're so much more inclusive and we love to expose each other to our cultures and enjoy each other's cultures, so I just think that in the Caribbean we really offer the carefree-ness and relaxed [atmopshere] ... and just the talent of all the people that come from the Carribean with the music, the performances and, of course, the food." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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PREVUE // SHOP LOCAL

Pop-up culture A local movement continues

o the average passerby, a va- ton's shop-local movement. cant building is just that—an "Seeing a short-term rental option empty space. For local artisans, is never as attractive as a long-term however, these often forgotten rental," Loewen acknowledges. spaces present "But one of the an advantageous Sat, Aug 10 (10 am – 4 pm) things we try to opportunity to Mercer Collective: A Maker's talk about is this show and sell Market is like an open house, so we're their wares. Mercer Warehouse, free The team beable to move hind On the Spot in with either a Pop Ups has been single vendor or hosting limited-time sales at such multi-vendor space, we clean up the spaces throughout the city since space, we add displays. People come last March, beginning next door to in and say, 'What's happening with Duchess Bake Shop on 124 Street. this space? What's happening when The popularity grew, and before you move out?' We're able to pass long consumers were inquiring as to on that building owner's informawhen the next pop up would be. tion and say it's currently for lease "You've got this really great busi- or you can buy the space." ness, but if you have empty shops on either side of you it can some- While the pop-up events have times be hard to keep bringing that been beneficial for all involved and traffic in, and especially having that will continue, Loewen is working natural foot traffic," says Marissa to develop a permanent, accessiLoewen, On the Spot Pop Ups own- ble space for local artisans to show er and show manager. "We bring our and sell their work on a regular baown traffic but we also liven up that sis. Ideally, the space will include neighbourhood and keep people a workshop to allow for easier aclooking into those spaces." cess to work space and specialty It hasn't always been easy to con- tools such as laser cutters and 3D vince building owners to allow the printers. pop ups to set up shop, but Loewen "If we can have a shared workshop explains it's all a matter of showing where people can come and leave them how the events can benefit their stuff there, they can work on their property as well as Edmon- it but also have that collaboration

as well with people working on similar projects—we just have to have that creative spark in a central location," adds Loewen, who is working to secure funding for the initiative through the Field Law Community Fund Program. "You can't know all the skills either, so if you're working on something and someone has a particular niche, then they can maybe help out or collaborate. That's another thing we've seen a lot too in our markets is that artists are not collaborating ... I think that just builds a better product." The next opportunity for the public to peruse some of these wares will be this Saturday at the month-

ly Mercer Collective: A Maker's Market. In addition to performances from local musicians, jewelry, art and house wares will be a children's craft day. Parents can drop their kids off while they shop or, if they feel so inclined, put their own crafting skills to use. "As adults we get so locked into our work and home life, but just being able to sit and create something really opens up your mind," Loewen says. "It makes you feel better and you sort of have that sense of accomplishment that you've made something." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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DANCE BURLESQUE EVENTS • Stanley Milner Library

Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Presents Melody Mangler and April O'Peel • Aug 9, 8pm (door, pre-show drinks), 9pm (show) • $20, proceeds to the Edmonton Burlesque Festival

Works by Vanessa Kary; until Aug 17; reception: Aug 10, 1-3pm • BeAuTY iN NATuRe ANd TAMed: Artworks by Fran Mansell; Aug 20-Sep 7; reception: Aug 24, 1-3pm

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ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • This Alberta Biennial showcases the work of several Alberta filmmakers and performance artists. Filmmakers with guest curator Nancy Tousley for an interactive Q&A session • THe PiANO: Video projections, performances and sculptural installations

BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose • baileytheatre.com • Summer Movie Series present • Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Apart (G); Aug 12, 7pm • Fantastic Mr Fox (G), Aug 19, 7pm • $7 (adult)/$5 (youth/senior)/$20 (family) CRIME WATCH SERIES • Metro Cinema at the

Garneau Theatre • New monthly series featuring contemporary to classic films that offer a diverse and provocative glimpse into the cinematic criminal world. Curated by Laura O'Connor • A Fish Called Wanda; Aug 12

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta

Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • Summer 2013 Series: Musicals for a Summer Night: until Aug 26 • The Harvey Girls; (1946, colour, PG); Aug 12, 8pm • The Shocking Miss Pilgrim; (1947, colour, PG); Aug 19, 8pm • $6/$5 (senior/student)/$30 (membership for the series, 8 films)

EDMONTON MOVIE CLUB • Garneau Theatre,

8712-109 St • Gujarati Movie of the Year Kevi Rite Jaish (PG) • Aug 11, 6:15pm

FILM FORUM • Stanley A. Milner Library • A series

of film screenings followed by facilitated discussions; running through the summer for 18+ • Drop-in; no registration • Fatal Attraction (STC); Aug 10, 1:30pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron

St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • ANiMAL SPiRiT: Works by Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Jason Carter, Erik Lee Christophersen, Terry McCue, and Aaron Paquette; from the AFA collection; until Sep 7 • dReAM WiTHiN A dReAM: Photos by Tyler Enfield, collage by Julie Nauman-Mikulski; until Aug 31 • Dreamscape: Aug 15, 6:30-8pm; $12/$10 (Arts & Heritage member)

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House Artist Run Centre, Alberta Craft Council, Gallery @ 501 • Gallery @ 501 host their first annual mem-

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GOOD WOMEN • Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • Fracture • Aug 17, 4:30pm; 19, 6:30pm; Aug 20, 10:45pm; Aug 21, 2:15pm; Aug 22, 10pm; Aug 25, 6:30pm Lions Centre, 11113-113 St • Shake your body to the Latin beat, and freestyle dance to live DJ music. Featuring Tamico Russell, Ike Henry, DJ Rocko and Zumba instructors Dru D, Manuella F-St, Michelle M, Sabrina D. and Cuban Salsa instructor Leo Gonzales • 3rd Fri each month • Aug 16, 7pm• $20 (online)/$25 (door)

and drinks from Dean Baldwin’s Bar Piano; Aug 14, 5-9pm; free with admission • Amateur Night at the Gallery: City of Edmonton Terrace: Aug 14, 5-9pm; free with admission • All Day Sunday: Art activities

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ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE •

Spruce Grove Art Gallery, Spruce Grove Library, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil. com • LiQuid LANdSCAPeS–diARY OF dReAMS:

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Ave • Open: Tue-Fri 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • WHeN THe SKY FALLS: Features more than a dozen meteorites from famous Western Canadian falls; presented by U of A Museums

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ • 9938-70 Ave Olive Tree Project: Brian Zahorodniuk, Ginette D'Silva, Jane Chesebrough, Selena Phillips-Boyle, Lauri Ansell, Jose I. Marquez Lugo, Lesley Schatz Miciak FAB GALLERY/BRUCE PEEL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY • U of A Campus • ALL uNdeR

HeAveN: THe CHiNeSe WORLd iN MAPS, PiCTuReS, ANd TeXTS FROM THe COLLeCTiON OF FLOYd SuLLY: Works from Floyd Sully's collection • Until Aug 17

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Le RéveiL de LA MuSe: Works by Claudine AudetteRozon • Until Sep 11

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Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • ARTiCuLATe: Sketchbooks by 31 art educators from Edmonton and St Albert schools • Until Aug 31

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104 Ave •

happyharborcomics.com • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • OPeN dOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • Main Gallery: SMALL diSASTeRS: Paintings by Andrea Kastner • Front Room Gallery: WALKiNG THe TeXT: Drawing installation, including prints and books by Mana Rouholamini • Until Sep 6 JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona

Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • iNSTRuCTORS ANd STudeNTS: Come and view the works of the instructors and students of Strathcona Place Senior Centre • Until Aug 28 • Summer Hours: Mon-Fri, 9am-3pm

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • THe ROAd TO......: Paintings by Mali Vargas, Sarah Bing, curated by Arlene Westen-Evans • Until Aug 28

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS • museums. ualberta.ca • Human Ecology Gallery: Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave: THe Re-BiRTH OF veNuS: Fashion & The Venus Kallipygos: Explores the influence of art on fashion through the study of Venus Kallipygos, and its pervasive influence on dress • Until Mar 2, 2014

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

780.421.1731 • STORYTELLERS (AGA travelling exhibition) Curated by Shane Golby from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts; until Aug 18 • Button Making Workshop: with Sharon Moore-Foster and Chris W. Carson Aug 17, 1-3pm

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Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • ABSTRACTS FROM 5 MiLeS: Artworks by Constable, Pat Wagensveld, Karin-Ann Bosma, Connie Osgood, Kristine McGuinty; through Aug

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Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca AGA BOOk CLuB: Books inspired by the exhibitions A Story

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of Canadian Art: As told by the Hart House Art Collection and The Piano

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • 780.863.4522 • Glass Door Coffee House Reading Series: Monthly readings with new headliner • Last Thu each month, 7-9pm ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900

• Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

St • 780.407.7152 • iLLuMiNATiNG PeACe: Installation by Amy Loewan, with the aim to dissolve cultural boundaries and promote human understanding; until Aug 12 • PROCeSSiON WeST: A photographic Visual Journey from Plains to Coast by Rob Pohl and Robert Michiel • WHeRe dRAGONFLieS dANCe: Watercolours and graphite botanical paintings by Elaine Funnel • Aug 17-Oct 20

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(MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Tanya Harnett • Until Aug 28

THe GReAT MOTHeR OF ALL: Works by Sculptors’ Association of Alberta • Until Sep 3

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • ReCOLLeCTiONS: Installation work by Amanda McKenzie; until Aug 15 • Artisan Nook: BASALT dALiK: Mosaic paintings by Cathy Jackson; until Sep 15 PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Summer Group Show: Painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking by gallery artists • Until Aug 31

Rhéa Pioffe, Carmon Mulligan and members of Northgate Seniors Painting Club; until Aug 13 • Artworks by Louise Piquette, Jacques Martel, Paulette Lefaîvre, Pauline Ulliac and Jody Swanson; Aug 16-Sep 3; opening: Aug 16

PRO'S ART GALLERY • 17971-106A Ave •

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51

Roper Rd • Photo exhibit showcasing the construction of the High Level Bridge and its historic profile • Until Sep 14; Tue-Sat 9am-4:30pm; Wed 9am-9pm; closed Sun and Mon • Free

Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • SuMMeRTiMe BLueS: Wheel and slab built, functional and decorative pottery by Bruce and Donna Wakeford; until Aug 31

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • BOdY WORLdS ANd THe CYCLe OF LiFe: Revealing the Symphony Within; until Oct 14; $26.50 (adult)/$16.50 (child (312)/$23.50 (senior/youth/student) at door; prices incl general admission and admission for exhibit

LITERARY

MUTTART CONSERVATORY • 9262-96A St • GAiA:

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTAS (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • viTALiTY:

Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • Main Gallery: GeNeRATed LiNe: Series of prints by Shawn Reynar • Community Gallery: SuPeR SPY NARRATiveS: Paintings of drawings of prints by Jessie Thomas • Aug 15-Sep 21 • Opening: Aug 15, 7-9pm; artists in attendance • Drink and Draw: Drawzilla: rooted in the infamous Japanese Kaiju monster films; draw monsters rampaging through miniature cities in SNAP's printshop; Aug 24, 6-10pm

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

WWW.FORTEDMONTONPARK.CA

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • New Location: 10345-124 St • 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • New location

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library

AUGUST 15: GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES AUGUST 22: SINGING IN THE RAIN

ber's show • Aug 17, 12:30-5:30pm • $10 (member of galleries)/$15 (non member) • Info/RSVP: Stacey Cann at harcourtcomed@shaw.ca; 780.426.4180

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • SuMMeR ONe: eXTeNded: Group show with guest artists • Through summer

THE STUDIO • 11739-94 St • Works by Glen Ronald, Bliss Robinson, Debra Milne and guest artists • Until Dec 31, 12-5pm

Albert • Artworks by Karen Blanchet, Martha Grell, Father Douglas • Until Sep 3

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • TRANSFORMiNG TRAdiTiON: Contemporary Aboriginal Artists Re-envision Traditional Crafts: Traditional works by 1st Nation artists who bring their own interpretations to their work • Until Aug 25

by contemporary artists; until Aug 18 • WATeR iNTO ART: British watercolours from the V&A, 1750-1950; until Nov 24 • New Acquisitions: vieWS ANd viSTAS: until Oct 6 • Late-night Wed: Dean Baldwin’s Bar Piano built from a baby grand; until Aug 14, enjoy a complimentary cocktail on the Gallery’s outdoor Terrace; Every Wed, 5-9pm • New Works Gallery: AdAM WALdON-BLAiN: dOeS HiS BeST: The amateur musician is presented through performance, video and text, with all of their flaws and imperfections; until Aug 18 • 19TH CeNTuRY BRiTiSH PHOTOGRAPHS: From the collection of the National Gallery of Canada; until Oct 6 • BMO World of Creativity: CABiNeTS OF CuRiOSiTY: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30, 2014 • Amateur Night at the Gallery: Outdoor Sculpture Terrace, 3rd Level: Say goodbye to The Piano with a little song and dance on your AGA’s Outdoor Sculpture Terrace, featuring karaoke open mic, tunes by GirlsClub DJs, button-making, trivia,

10240 Kingsway Ave • THROuGH MY eYe: Photos by photographers from Images Alberta Camera Club • Until Aug 19 • imagery@yahoo.ca

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

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112

MOVIE NIGHTS

780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • CHOP SueY ON THe PRAiRieS: Until Apr 27, 2014 • THe ART OF SeATiNG: 200 YeARS OF AMeRiCAN deSiGN: until Oct 6

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY @ 501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • SURFACE TENSION: Curated by Brenda Barry Byrne, works by Sean Caulfield and Royden Mills • Until Aug 11

ProjEx Room: YORK: By Sydney Lancaster and Marian Switzer; until Aug 31 • Main Space: ART PARTY: Megan Morman; until Aug 31 • Patio: Thursday Night Patio Party: EIFF (Edmonton International Film Festival), music by DJ $hortee; Incubator Series artist is April Dean; After Party at the Common; Aug 8, 5-9pm

Discovery Gallery: FROM: CORReSPONdeNCe TO: TXT:

Collage artist Anita Narwrocki offers her perspective on the state of written communication; until Sep 7 • TAiLS FROM A ReJuveNATed FOReST: A narrative installation exploring the drive of nature to revive itself by ceramic artists Lisa McGrath and Mindy Andrews; until Sep 7 • THe OTHeRS: Exhibit of mythical creatures by ceramic sculptor, Dale Lerner; until Sep 7 • STATiC BLOOM: Botanical polymer clay wall art by St Albert artist Kristin Anderson; until Sep 7 • Feature Gallery: HANGiNG BY A THReAd: Group exhibit using textiles to explore the relationship among multiple generations of women; until Sep 28

ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 •

NFB FILM CLUB • Sprucewood Library • Monthly

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL–Gallery Wall •

780.760.1278 • BLOOMiNG • Until Aug 31

780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • SuMMeR ON 124TH STReeT: New works by gallery artists and secondary market works • Until Aug 22

MOVIES AT THE CAPITOL–Fort Edmonton • fortedmontontickets.com • Northern Light; 4-D short film on Edmonton’s history from the ice age to the present, free for visitors to Fort Edmonton Park • Cinema Series: Laurel & Hardy in Block Heads; Aug 8, 8pm • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Aug 15, 8pm • $10/$8 (with same day general admission or admission receipt to the park); at the door/online

Garneau, 8712-109 St • Features critically acclaimed feature-length films that revolve around the subject of the piano, this series coincides with the exhibition The Piano, at the AGA • $10/$8 (AGA and Metro member/ student/senior) at Metro Cinema box office • Short Films about Glenn Gould; Aug 13, 7pm • $10/$8 (AGA and Metro member/student/senior) at Metro Cinema box office

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St •

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St •

Library Centennial Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Contact (1997, PG); Aug 9, 2pm • War of the Worlds (2005, PG-13); Aug 13, 2pm • 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984, PG); Aug 16, 2pm

THE PIANO FILM SERIES • Metro Cinema at the

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave •

projects.com • PLAY:TOYS+AGe=ART: Cindy Baker, Joe Becker, Jude Griebel, and more; artists who use childhood games and toys as elements within their work • Until Aug 17

ALBeRTA SKieS: Works by Judith Hall • Until Aug 25

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner

film series featuring animated and documentary films from the National Film Board of Canada • Finding Farley (STC); Aug 12, 6pm • The Coca-Cola Case (STC); Aug 19 • Free

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • dc3art-

780.486.6661 • FiRST iMPReSSiON: Paintings by Adrian Zorzut • Until Aug 30 • Reception: Aug 14, 6-9pm

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555

VUEWEEKLY AUG 8 – AUG 14, 2013

T.A.L.E.S.–STRATHCONA • New Strathcona Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed each month 7pm • Free

6TH ANNUAL VARSCONA FRINGE PEEK-ABOO! • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Mark

Meer and Davina Stewart host a sneak peek at some of this summer’s hottest Fringe shows. Over 20 different productions previewed in one night • Aug 13, 7:30-10pm • $20 (door) • facebook.com/ events/556758067723393/

FROM FRINGE WITH LOVE • Various locations through Old Strathcona and beyond • fringetheatre. ca • Edmonton's International Fringe Theatre Festival: Fringe Theatre Adventures brings danger, excitement, adventure and theatre to churches, bars and boudoirs • Aug 15-25 MARVELOUS PILGRIMS • teatroq.com • Teatro at the Fringe by Stewart Lemoine • Others swept up in this sumptuous adventure are Farren Timoteo, Jenny McKillop, Davina Stewart, and in her first Teatro appearance, newcomer Mackenzie Reurink. Aug 16-Sep 1 • Holdover tickets at TIX on the Square Aug 27-Sep 1 JOHNNY B GOODE: A ROCK AND ROLL REUNION

• Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882-180 St, WEM • 780.484.2424 • Back in high school, Johnny spent more time with his guitar then he did studying or socializing with other students. He was considered to be a "music nerd" and was teased by most of the other kids. In 1956, Johnny went on a school band trip to Ottawa, where he met another music student by the name of... Paul Anka. The two boys became friends and when Anka's career took off, he took Johnny with him • Until Aug 25

The Season 2013-2014 SEPTEMBER 2013 ART GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: SEP 2013 ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL • 10186 – 106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Hanging by a Thread; An exhibition using textiles to explore the relationships among multiple generations of women. Participating Artists: Ilse Anysas-Salkauskas, Emily Ella Rigaux, Monika Salkauskas, Lynda Strakowski, Pat Strakowski, Barbara J West, Robin West; Until Sep 28 • Tails from a Rejuvenated Forest; a narrative installation exploring the drive of nature to revive itself by Calgary ceramic artists Lisa McGrath and Mindy And rews; Until Sep 7 • Static Bloom; Botanical polymer clay wall art by emerging St Albert artist Kristin And erson; Sep 14 – Oct 19 • The Others; an exhibition of mythical creatures by Medicine Hat ceramic sculptor Dale Lerner; Until Sep 7 • FROM: Correspondence TO: TXT; Edmonton collage artist Anita Nawrocki offers her perspective on the state of written communication; Until Sep 7 ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.422.6223 • info@youraga.ca • youraga.ca • The Collectors Series: Claudia Beck with Nancy Tousley; Private collectors speak about the goals and am-

bitions for their collections; Sep 11, 7 pm • $15, $10 (AGA Members) • Lady Spider House; The Art Gallery of Alberta has commissioned internationally renowned Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer to design an interactive haunted house; Sep 14 - Jan 6 • aAron munson and David Hoffos: Isachsen (1948-78); Isachsen is a documentary exhibition and installation that presents the history of a lone arctic weather station; Sep 14 - Nov 24 • 19th Century British Photographs; Pulled from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, this exhibition presents some of the most well-recognized images and themes from the period; Until Oct 6; $12.50; Children 6 and under: Free; Seniors (65+)/Students: $8.50; Family (two adults and up to four minors): $26.50 • BMO World of Creativity: Cabinets of Curiosity; Explore the wondrous and curious collection of local artist Lyndal Osborne, and enter a world familiar yet strange. Use your senses to discover natural and manmade creations in unexpected places. Hunt for clues, identify the unusual and gather ideas to create a collection of your own; Until Jun 30, 2014 • Water Into Art: British Watercolours from the V&A, 17501950; Until Nov 24 • New Acquisitions: Views and Vistas; the second in a pair of exhibitions to showcase recent acquisitions to the AGA collection; Until Oct 6

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert •

bert.com • Sep 5; exhibits run all month • Venues: WARES (Hosting SAPVAC), St Albert Library, Musée Héritage Museum, Old Hippy Fine Furnishings, Gemport, Art Beat Gallery, Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA) and Rental and Sales Gallery (AGSA), Satellite Studio (AGSA), Hudson Madison, Mint Yoga and Athletic Wear, Auvigne and Jones, Bookstore on Perron, St Albert Constituency, VASA

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • Masculine Intuition: Abstract works by British Columbia sculptor Morley Myers and Manitoba painter John King; Sep 26 - Oct 12; opening reception Sep 26, 6-9 pm; artist in attendance Sep 28, 1-5 pm

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103 – 95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • Rachelle Comtois, Urmila Z Das, Nathalie Shewchuk-Paré and Louise Amyotte; Sep 6 • Danièle Petit, Suzanne Gauthier, Sylvie Pinard, Katherine Restoueix and Françoise Fiset; Sep 20

CROOKED POT GALLERY • 4912 – 51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • parkland potters.com • Queen of Hearts: wheel and slab pottery by Jeannette Wright; Sep 3 – 28; opening reception Sep 7, 11 am – 3 pm

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412 – 124th

780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Animal Spirit: An animal inspired exhibition featuring works by Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Jason Carter, Erik Lee Christophersen, Terry McCue, and Aaron Paquette. From the Collection of the AFA • Until Sep 7.

ARTWALK–ST ALBERT • Perron District, downtown St Albert • artwalkstal-

St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Catherine Marchand “Through the Door”: An intimate glimpse into quiet moments as if opening a door or looking through a keyhole. Working mainly from life, Catherine sets up her models in settings that tell a story. A strong source of light and bold brushstrokes give her ‘Romantic Realism’ style of painting a life of its own. • Sep 10 – 28; opening reception

Sep 12, 5 – 8 pm

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY • 10332 124 St • 780.488.4445 • douglasudellgallery.com • 47th Annual Fall Show; Artwork from many of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, an opportunity to view great works from Canadian Historical artists and fresh work from gallery artists gaining momentum in the international ﬁeld; Sep 28, 2-4 pm

GALLERY AT MILNER • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca/art-gallery • Alberta Farm Women; Paintings and photographs by Dawn Saunders Dahl; Edmonton Weavers’ Guild; Edmonton Stamp Club; Sep 1-30 HARCOURT HOUSE • 3rd Fl, 10215 - 112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Front Gallery: KARINA BERGMANS - Ligaments and Ligatures: This exhibit will engage members of the medical and science communities and explore the dynamic relationship between artists and scientists; Aug 22 - Sep 6 • Main Space: And REA CARVALHO, DAN GIBBONS, KIP JONES: The artists embrace the experiential functionality of the built environment from the perspective of the personal, the cultural and the spatial. Each dismantles a perception of big A architecture and reconstructs it into a sculptural object that ponders our relationship with the buildings that surround us; Sep 12 - Oct 18; Opening reception: Sep 12, 8 -10 pm • Front Gallery: JUSTIN SHAW - Western Horsemen : Economic Action Plan: Through the use of metaphor and symbolism the artist’s work revolves around the ideas of Albertan identity; Sep 12 - 27; opening reception Sep 12, 8-10 pm LANDO GALLERY • 10310 – 124 St • 780.990.1161 • land ogallery.com • Fall

VUEWEEKLY AUGUST 2013 – JUNE 2014

on 124 St; A selling exhibition of Gallery artists and secondary market works; Sep 9 - Oct 16

LATITUDE 53 • 10242 – 106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Visualeyez: Vulnerability; Canada’s only annual festival of performance art will situate work in site-specific locations and raise awareness of social issues including homelessness, shelter and access; Sep 9-15 • Kristen Keegan; Sep 27 - Nov 9 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org • Procession West: A Visual Journey from Plains to Coast and Where Dragonflies Dance: In Procession West, the artists lead the viewer on a traditional silver gelatin print photographic journey across the Plains to the West Coast. They hope to capture the vast land scape and open skies to the intimate details of life that might have been easily passed by. Where Dragonflies Dance is a unique and inspiring exhibition of watercolour and graphite botanical paintings with special emphasis on Alberta’s plant life; Aug 17 - Oct 20

MULTICULTURAL HERITAGE CENTRE • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Elizabeth Verhagaen; Paintings; Aug 30 - Sep 25; artist’s reception Sep 8 • Claudette Brown; Paintings; Sep 27 - Oct 24; artist’s reception Oct 6

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • museeheritage.com • Lace Up: Canada’s Passion for Skating; Explores the history and importance of skating in Canada and gives a glimpse of three major ice sports: ﬁgure skating, speed skating and hockey; Sep 3 – Nov 3

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2 SEASON

VUEWEEKLY AUGUST 2013 – JUNE 2014

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 1003281 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Array;; Group abstract painting exhibition featuring Rose-Marie Cameron, Patricia Coulter, Sue Scott, Laurie Bentz and Walter Rosychuk; Aug 21-Sep 30 • What’s Your Hang Up?; Up?; Craft by Edmonton Calligraphic Society Members; Sep 16 - Nov 15 PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Carolyn Campbell and Gordon Harper;; Sep 21 – Oct 8; opening reception Sep 28, 2 – 4 pm

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES • 8555 Roper Road •780.427.1750 • culture. alberta.ca/paa/ • Victory on the Field Exhibit; Victory on the Field explores the effects of the First and Second World Wars on sports in Alberta; Sep 25 - Jan 31 • Culture Days: A Heritage Song; Join for a café-style concert showcasing local singer-songwriters and emerging musical artists who will share stories of Alberta’s rich and diverse cultural history; Sep 27-28

RIVERBEND COMMUNITY LEAGUE • 258 Rhatigan Rd • 780.437.7108 • riverbendonline.ca • Art in Our Park; a celebration of live music on two stages, art workshops, roaming performances and the Visual Art and Craft Market; Sep 21, 1– 5 pm

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845 – 102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Chop Suey on the Prairies: A History of Chinese Restaurants in Alberta; Until Apr 27, 2014 • Alberta Mushrooms; Until Sep 15, 2013 • The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design; Until Oct 6, 2013 • Milton and Cheadle Plates; Until Dec 9 2013 • 20th Anniversary - Time Travellers Exhibition; Sep 21 - Nov 11 • Culture Days; Free admission; Sep 27-29

SNAP GALLERY • 12056 – Jasper Ave • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Generated Line by Shawn Reynar and Super Spy Narratives: Paintings of Drawings of Prints by Jesse Thomas; Aug 15 - Sep 21; opening reception Aug 15, 7-9pm SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35 – 5th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • BEAUTY IN NATURE And TAMED; Feature artist – Fran Mansell; Aug 24 – Sep 7; opening reception Aug 24, 1 – 3 pm • OPEN ART COMPETITION; Sep 9 – 28; opening reception Sep 13, 7 pm

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • The Past Shows Us The Way; Unveiling aboriginal exhibit on September 22, 2013. The new exhibit features stunning artwork by Aaron Paquette. From 1-5 p.m. Enjoy bannock, tea and activities in an authentic tipi. Aboriginal drummers, dancers and musicians will perform at 4 pm to officially open the exhibit. • Sep 22, 1 – 5 pm • Free admission TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211 – 142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Body Worlds and The Cycle of Life; Ongoing through Oct 14, 2013; Adults: $26.50, Child (3-12): $16.50, Senior/Youth/Student: $23.50 UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS • Human Ecology Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • museums.ualberta.ca • The Re-Birth of Venus: Fashion and The Venus Kallipygos: Explores the influence of art on fashion through the study of Venus Kallipygos and its pervasive influence on dress • Until Mar 2, 2014 VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION • 10215 - 112 St, 3rd Fl • 780.421.1731 • visualartsalberta. com • Open Photo/Open Digital 2013: located off-site at the Kaasa Gallery at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 – 87 Ave; Aug 30 - Oct 12; opening reception Aug 30, 6 – 8 pm • Couples

in Art and Life: Sep 5 – Oct 19; opening reception Sep 5, 7 – 9:30 pm

VISUAL ARTS STUDIO ASSOCIATION (VASA) • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa. ca • Rural Alberta; Marilyn Jeffrey and David Scott

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd. com • ROBERT SAVIGNAC; Montreal artist whose paintings conjure up joyous visions of ﬂoral spaces; Sep 14 – 26 • IRENE KLAR;; Well-known Edmonton artist inspired by her travels from Australia to Guatemala and the west coast of Canada; Sep 28 – Oct 10

COMEDY: SEP 2013 ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood: Two Man Group; off-site at Servus Credit Union Place, 400 Campbell Road St. Albert; Sep 20, 7:30 pm; $80/seat and $100/seat VIP tables [includes food and beverage service] COMEDY FACTORY • 3414 Gateway Blvd • 780.469.4999 • thecomedyfactory.com • Dennis Ross; Sep 13 – 14 COMIC STRIP • WEM, Bourbon St •

an exciting week of special programming • Sep 13 - 19

LITERARY: SEP 2013 EDMONTON STORY SLAM •

Theatre, 8627 - 91 St • 780.477.5955 • tickets@workshopwest.org • A heartbreaking comedy about euthanasia, the ﬁrst professional premiere of one of Brad Fraser’s plays in Edmonton • Sep 6 - 22, 7:30pm

T.A.L.E.S.: 25TH ANNUAL STORYTELLING FESTIVAL • Fort Edmonton

LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

Park, 7000 – 143rd St • storyfestalberta. ca • Twenty-six storytellers from across Canada, morning Storytelling workshops, afternoon storytelling 1-5 pm both days (included with park admission), four stages (one for young children) • Sep 1-2

THEATRE: SEP 2013 50 SHADES! THE MUSICAL • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 - 87 Ave • 780.427.2760 • 50ShadesMusical.com • 50 Shades! The Musical opens with a ladies book club deciding to read Fifty Shades of Grey. Through their interpretation of the novel, the audience is led on a hilarious roller coaster ride of this unlikely bestseller. The show is full of dance numbers, 11 original songs and a live band backing the performance. • Sep 11, 8pm • $59.50-$39.50

A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 – 70 Ave

CLINE • Mayﬁeld Dinner Theatre, 16615

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • 11455 – 87 Ave • 780.427.2760 • jubileeauditorium. com • Red Green: Brand New Show Same Old Guy; Sep 28, 7 pm

DANCE: SEP 2013 GOOD WOMEN DANCE COLLECTIVE • PCL Studio Theatre, 10330 – 84 Ave • goodwomen.ca • What’s Cooking? Simmer • Sep 12 – 13 • Tickets available at TIX on the Square

FILM: SEP 2013 EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (EIFF) • Empire Theatres in Edmonton City Centre, 3rd Fl, 10200 - 102 Ave • 780.423.0844 • edmontonfilmfest.com • A 10-day celebration showcasing more than 150 unique, independant films. Full festival schedule to be released in Sep • Sep 26 - Oct 5, 2013 • Tickets: All-access Festival Passes available at Empire Theatres box office in Edmonton City Centre. Tickets for individual films will be available in September at Empire Theatres box office in Edmonton City Centre; prices range from free-$30

FAVA: DOC SHOP • 9722 102 St • 780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Award-winning ﬁlmmaker and teacher Ava Karvonen will lead you to develop your idea into a documentary project • Tue, 6-9 pm, Sep 17 - Nov 19 • $445+GST

FAVA OPEN HOUSE • 9722 – 102 St • 780.429.3636 • fava.ca • Now in our 30th year, FAVA is the independent ﬁlmmaker’s one-stop DIY dream. There’s plenty in store for the media arts enthusiast • Sep 28, 10 am - 4 pm FAVA: VIDEO KITCHEN • 9722 – 102 St • 780.429.3636 • fava.ca • Video Kitchen workshop provides a creative place to explore and express your ideas visually. It is a pre-requisite to Main Course • Sat, 10 am - 2 pm, Sep 7 - Dec 14, NO CLASS Sep 28, Oct 12, and Nov 9 • $695+GST METRO CINEMA ANNIVERSARY WEEK • Garneau Theatre, 8712 – 109th St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • Metro Cinema celebrates its second anniversary at the Garneau Theatre with

literary and visual arts • Sep 13-15

KILL ME NOW • La Cite Francophone

Bohemia, 10217 – 97 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • Competitive storytelling event. Up to 10 tellers have ﬁve minutes to tell their story. Five audience judges pick the winner • Sep 18 • Free; suggested donation $5

780.483.5999 • thecomicstrip.ca • Rocky Laporte; Sep 4 – 8 • Dan Sodor; Sep 11 – 15 • Orny Adams; Sep 18 – 22 • Gary Gulman; Sep 25 – 29

• 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Bollywood Shenanigans - “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butterchicken”; Sep 19

780.471.1580 • kaleidofest.ca • Alberta Ave comes alive with a free arts festival featuring music, dance, theatre, ﬁlm,

109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayﬁeldtheatre.ca • Join us for a magical evening as we pay homage to Patsy Cline, one of the all-time legends of country music • Sep 6 - Nov 3

ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • Norman Foote; Family show. Best known for his clever hooks, physical slapstick comedy and wacky puppetry, this celebrated Juno Award-winning entertainer spreads the joy of music, theatre, and laughter wherever he performs; Sep 28, 2pm; $15/$18

BEST OF FRIENDS REUNION • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM, #2690, 8882 170 St • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Sequel to the sitcom spoof Best of Friends! What has the gang been up to? Who is still together? Who isn’t? Are they all still the best of friends? Set to hits from the ‘90s, along with a few timeless classics, Best of Friends Reunion is your chance to catch-up with these lovable characters. • Aug 30 - Oct 27

CRYPTOGRAPHS • Kaleido Festival, along 118 Ave, between 90 and 94th Sts • theatre-yes.ca • Audiences will encounter a series of signs and symbols that can be deciphered by carefully following a coded pathway. Each cryptograph is a puzzle waiting to be solved. By following the visual instructions, audiences will ﬁnd themselves inside surprising dramatic situations, which they can repeat and experiment with becoming “the actors” in each mini-play. • Sep 1315 • Free admission DIE-NASTY SOAP-A-THON • Varscona Theatre, 10329 – 83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • die-nasty.com • An improv comedy institution, the 23rd Annual Die-Nasty Soap-A-Thon runs continuously for 50 straight hours. It’s like watching the box set of your favourite HBO series all in one weekend • Sep 13, 7pm - Sep 15, 9 pm • TIX on the Square EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Heart to Heart Speakers Series; First Saturday of each month, featuring a topical speaker and a variety of social issues and ideas; Noon – 2pm; admission by donation • Stirfry Variety Night; Monthly fundraising evening featuring a cabaret of poets, musicians and dancers; Sep 7, 6 - 11 pm; Admission by donation KALEIDO FAMILY ARTS FESTIVAL • along 118 Ave, 90 - 94 St •

• Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play tackles family issues such as addiction and loss. This masterpiece is just as relevant today as it was when it opened on Broadway in 1956 • Sep 21 - Oct 13

MARVELOUS PILGRIMS • Varscona Theatre, 1032 - 83 Ave • 780.459.1542 • teatroq.com • A splendid cast mixes the traditional and the new for an enthralling entertainment in the manner of Witness to a Conga and Happy Toes • Aug 27 Sep 1 • $20-$22, TIX on the Square MIDSUMMER [A PLAY WITH SONGS] • The Roxy theatre, 10708 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork. ca • No one would ever expect Bob the car thief and Helena the divorce lawyer to meet, never mind having this unlikely pair hook up as they embark on a weekend of excess: sex, stolen funds, debauchery, chase scenes and miraculous escapes. • Sep 17-29, 8pm; Sunday matinees @ 2pm PLAYWORKS INK 2013 • The Banff Centre, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff • 780.422.8162 • theatrealberta. com/playworks-ink • PlayWorks Ink is a theatre conference welcoming all Albertans to celebrate and discuss theatre arts: playwriting, performance creation, performance and technical theatre • Sep 27-30 •$350 - $647

POOL (NO WATER) • Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St and 87 Ave • 780.492.2495 • A famous artist invites the old community of creative chums to her luxurious home, but when she suffers a horriﬁc accident and lies in a coma, the light is good, the potential for composition is all there and an unimaginable artistic project takes shape • Sep 19-28, 7:30 pm; matinee Sep 26, 12:30pm • Evening: $11 Student, $22 Adult, $20 Senior; Matinee: $11 Student, $17 Adult, $15 Senior; Preview: All tickets $5; Mondays are two-for-one

SARTRE’S SHORTS • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • surrealsorealtheatre.com • Five adaptations of the short stories of Jean Paul Sartre • Sep 19-29 THE DAISY THEATRE • Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Inspired by the illegal underground “daisy” puppet shows of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, The Daisy Theatre blends improv, variety acts and music, monologues and morality tales • Sep 28 - Nov 17

WAR HORSE • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • 780.427.2760 • edmonton.broadway.com • Presented by Broadway Across Canada; Play based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo • Sep 17-22

MUSIC: SEP 2013 ACCORDION EXTRAVAGANZA •

St John’s Cultural Centre, 10611 - 110 Ave • 780.929.8836 • edmontonaccordion. com • A three-day celebration of the accordion. Includes a family cabaret, competitions, trade show, workshops, a short Saturday morning kids ‘minidance’ and a dinner/concert featuring special guests Bruce Gassman all the way from New Jersey and Acclarion, a unique clarinet/accordion duo. • Sep 27, 7:30 -10:30pm, $10; Sep 28-29, 9

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am - 4pm, $5; Dinner concert Sep 28, 6 - 10pm, $50

ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • Sloan; Sep 27, 7:30pm; $38

THE BAILEY HARVEST •

5041 50 St Camrose • 780.781.3674 • baileytheatre.com • Get pampered. Enjoy delicious butlered hors d’oeuvres by Prairie Oven featuring local foods. Get a harvest portrait with your friends by Shutterbug Photography and enjoy a cocktail or two or the bounty of Ceasar ingredients at the Sun Life Ceasar Bar • Sep 7, 7pm • $100 (includes $50 charitable donation)

COUNTRY MUSIC WEEK EDMONTON • Citadel Theatre, Shaw Conference Centre, Rexall Place • ccma.org • Presented by the Canadia Country Music Association, featuring Legends Show, Rock’n Country Cabaret, Seminars, Songwriters’ Café, Discovery Showcase FanFest (Free), and the CCMA Awards show • Sep 5-8 CCMA LEGENDS SHOW • Citadel Theatre, Shocter Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • ccma.org • This night will pay tribute to the Canadian country hits of the ‘70s and ‘80s with legendary artists (Hall of Fame inductees) such as Carroll Baker, Marie Bottrell, Johnny Burke, Dick Damron, Gary Fjellgaard, Harlan Smith and Joyce Smith, performing alongside current stars of the format and up-and -coming artists. • Sep 6, 7:30pm • $40 CCMA ROCK’N COUNTRY CABARET • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • ccma.org • Billed as a night for the 18+ crowd, this event will take place on the same stage as CCMA FanFest and will alternate local talent with well-known, national country acts. • Sep 6, 9pm • $25 CCMA SEMINARS • Citadel Theatre, Ziedler Hall, 9828 - 101A Ave • ccma. org • Whether you’re an artist, songwriter, radio personality or simply want to broaden your skill set, be sure to take in some of our acclaimed seminars lead by experts in their ﬁeld and you might just ﬁnd yourself hosting a seminar of your own one day. • Sep 6, 1:45-4:15pm • $65 CCMA SONGWRITERS’ CAFÉ • Citadel Theatre, The Club, 9828 - 101A Ave • ccma.org • The Songwriters’ Café celebrates original tunes and introduces you to some new and familiar faces behind the music you love. This threeday, acoustic in-the-round performance is sure to inspire and evoke some strong emotions in all of us • Sep 5, 1:30 pm; Sept 6, 4:30 pm; Sep 7, 1:30 pm • $20 CCMA DISCOVERY SHOWCASE • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • ccma.org • The CCMA Discovery Showcase brings together six of our country’s most promising talent selected through a rigorous, nationwide jury selection process and the intensity of the method pays off well in the impressive acts that rise to the top. • Sep 5, 9pm • $20

CCMA FANFEST •

Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • ccma.org • FanFest itself has something for every level of fan from the die-hard albumwielding devotees to the entry-level music-lovers who are looking for something new, not to mention the new and exciting KidZone for the younger crowd • Sep 7, 11 am - 4pm • Free admission

CCMA ALL-STAR BAND AWARDS • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • ccma.org • Let’s not forget those hard-working musicians who spend hours on end perfecting their skills behind the scenes to make our artists sound good onstage, in the studio and on your favorite album. • Sep 7, 10:30 pm-Midnight • $20 CCMA GREAT GUITAR PULL • Citadel Theatre, Maclab Theatre, 9828 -

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101A Ave • ccma.org • This truly unique collaborative performance is ﬁlled with some of the biggest names in country music songwriting and will let you in on the inspiration behind some of the most equally famous songs • Sep 8, 12-2 pm • $26

20, 7:30 pm • George Canyon; Sep 27, 7:30 pm • Lisa Hewitt; Traditional country music; Sep 21, 7:30 pm • Donald Lee/The Kacafeenated Quartet; Free jazz concert to celebrate Alberta Culture Day; Sep 28, 7:30 pm

CCMA AWARDS • Rexall Place, 7424

Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Canada’s Juno Award-winning The Tenors are joined by the Bulembu Children’s Choir from Swaziland, Africa in this beneﬁt concert. Bulembu, once an aband oned mining town, is now a thriving centre of enterprise supporting childcare for the country’s orphaned and vulnerable children. • Sep 30, 7:30 pm

- 118 Ave • ccma.org • The televised CCMA Awards show brings together the most current names in Canadian country music for an evening full of award presentations, star performances and special guest presenters with lots of moments to remind you of what you’re celebrating. • Sep 8, 5 pm • Tickets at Ticketmaster

EDMONTON CHANTE FESTIVAL • various locations on 82 Ave • 780.469.4401 • acfaedmonton.ab.ca/ edmontonchante • A multitude of venues in Old Strathcona welcome incredible artists. The festival features more than 25 free shows in establishments all along Whyte Ave, ranging from rock to pop and from indie to hip hop. • Sep 25 - 29 • Free admission

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 - 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Big Hank and a Fist Full of Blues; Live music; Sep 14, 6 pm; $21 • Uptown Folk Club Open Stage; Sep 20, 7pm • Open Stage hosted by Tommaso Zillio; Sep 28, 1 - 4pm; Admission by donation FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 - 71 Ave • 780.438.6410 • fmfc.org • Chris Hillman / Herb Pederson • Sep 20 • $18 (advance)/$22 (door)/child under 12 half-price (door only); Six-pack and full season pack available. Advance tickets available at Acoustic Music Shop or TIX on the Square

HORIZON STAGE • 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen: A member of the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, a four-time Grammy Award nominee and a pioneer of the country-rock genre, Chris Hillman, founding member of the Byrds, will take listeners through 50 years of music history in a single evening; Sep 19, 7:30pm; $40, $35 students/seniors • George Canyon: George Canyon is a Canadian country music treasure who can melt hearts with just a tip of his hat; Sep 28, 7:30 pm; $45, $40 students/seniors IRON AND WINE • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780. 428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • With guests. • Sep 22, 7:30 pm • $38.50, $27 at Winspear box ofﬁce

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • 11455-87 Ave • 780.427.2760 • jubileeauditorium. com • Don Williams: Don’t miss your chance to experience this country music legend!; Sep 10, 7 pm; $39.50 – $59.50 • Celtic Thunder Mythology Tour; Sep 13, 7:30 pm; $49.50 and up MEMPHIS BOUND SILENT AUCTION AND FUNDRAISER • Old Timer’s Cabin, 9430 Scona Road • EdmontonBluesSociety.net • Annual silent auction fundraiser to sponsor the two acts representing Edmonton Blues Society and Northern Alberta the following January/February at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee • Sep 21, 7:30 pm

MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE • 9502 – 100 Ave, Morinville • 780.939.7839 • morinvillecentre.ca • Tommy Banks Trio; Sep 28 • Fred Penner; Sep 29

NORTHERN LIGHTS FOLK CLUB • Queen Alexand ra Community Hall, 10425 University Ave • Dave Gunning; Sep 21 • Tickets: $20 (advance), $25 (door - if available)

SHELL THEATRE • 8700 - 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/dowcentre • Spirit of the West; Indie folk-rock band Spirit of the West have become one of the most beloved “Legacy Artists” in Canadian History; Sep

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CLASSICAL MUSIC: SEP 2013 CONVOCATION HALL • U of A Campus • music.ualberta.ca • La Belle Époque: French melodies by Ravel, Fauré, Debussy and others. Elusive love notes to be assembled by the listener; Sep 20, 8 pm • Three centuries of piano trio masterpieces: Something exciting was going on under those powdered wigs; Sep 28, 8 pm

ORGANIC - ORGAN IN CONCERT • West End Christian Reformed Church, 10015 -149 St • 780.420.1757 • rcco. edmonton.ab.ca • Gerrit Jordaan (South Africa) • Sep 6, 8 pm • Adult $25; student/senior/member $22

PRO CORO CANADA • Winspear centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.420.1247 • procoro.ab.ca • A Time for Everything: Pro Coro Canada celebrates Alberta Culture Days in partnership with the Winspear Centre, offering free admission to this unique multicultural choral experience. Featuring the Taiko duo Booming Tree and music from around the world • Sep 29, 2:30 pm • Adult $49.50 - $37; Student/ Senior $46.50 - $33

SYMPHONY UNDER THE SKY • Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park • 780.428.1414 • edmontonsymphony. com • Come enjoy the idyllic surroundings of Edmonton’s river valley and the sounds of your ESO in Hawrelak Park’s Heritage Ampitheatre • Aug 29 - Sep 1 • Ticket price varies

WINSPEAR CENTRE • 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Hand el, Mozart and Beethoven Sep 18, 7:30 pm • Leading Men of Broadway; Sep 20, 8 pm • ESO Gala with Joshua Bell; Sep 24, 7:30 pm • Spanish Symphony; Sep 28, 8 pm

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der House; The Art Gallery of Alberta has commissioned internationally renowned, Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer to design an interactive haunted house; Sep 14 - Jan 12 • aAron munson and David Hoffos: Isachsen (1948-78); Isachsen (1948-1987) is a documentary exhibition and installation that presents the history of a lone arctic weather station; Sep 14 - Nov 24 • CHAGALL: Daphnis et Chloé; The set of 42 lithographs titled Daphnis and Chloé is seen as Chagall’s most important graphic work among his vastly varied production; Oct 26 - Feb 16 • Augatuk: Mediator between Two; gathering works from Edmonton collectors who have drawn from a geographically wide range of Inuit communities; Oct 26 - Feb 16 • 19th Century British Photographs; Pulled from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, this exhibition presents some of the most well recognized images and themes from the period; Until Oct 6; $12.50; Children 6 and under: Free; Seniors (65+)/Students: $8.50; Family (2 adults + up to 4 minors): $26.50 • BMO World of Creativity: Cabinets of Curiosity; Explore the wondrous and curious collection of local artist Lyndal Osborne, and enter a world familiar yet strange! Use your senses to discover natural and manmade creations in unexpected places! Hunt for clues, identify the unusual and gather ideas to create a collection of your own; Until Jun 30, 2014 • Water Into Art: British Watercolours from the V&A, 1750-1950; Until Nov 24 • New Acquisitions: Views and Vistas; the second in a pair of exhibitions to showcase recent acquisitions to the AGA collection; Until Oct 6

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • Masculine Intuition: Abstract works by British Columbia sculptor Morley Myers and Manitoba painter John King; Sep 26 - Oct 12 • Terra Incognita: Abstracted Land scapes by painter Ernestine Tahedl – RCA, OSA; Oct 17-31; opening reception Oct 17 6-9 pm; artist also in attendance Oct 19, 1-5 pm

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • Sharon Rubuliak, Carmen Gonzalez, Thérèse Bourassa and Jeannette Ouellette; Oct 4 • Annette Ayre, Louise Halvorsen, Béatrice Lefevre, Marie-Joëlle Driard and Curtis Johnson; Oct 25

CROOKED POT GALLERY • 491251 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • parkland potters.com • Sea Things: pottery by: Cheryl And erson, Holly Rolls and Lynnette. This show includes pottery pertaining to the sea, ocean, beach and sand DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412 - 124th

ART GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: OCT 2013 A. J. OTTEWELL ARTS CENTRE • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artsoc@telus.net • artstrathcona.com • Fall Art Show/Sale; Oct 18 - 20; opening reception: Oct 18, 1 - 9 pm, 7 pm; Oct 19, 10 am -4 pm; Oct 20, 11 am -4 pm

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL • 10186 – 106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Potworks; A group exhibition exploring the contemporary state of the ancient tradition of pottery; Oct 5 – Dec 24 • Static Bloom; Botanical polymer clay wall art by emerging St. Albert artist Kristin And erson; Sep 14 – Oct 19 • Fairy-tales, Folktales and Mythcommunications... Part II; Shona Rae returns the fairy-tale back to the realm of adults with her sculpted wearable art pieces; Oct 26 – Nov 30 • Illusions, Revelations, Transformations; A journey in seven stages by Edmonton ﬁbre artist Diane Krys; Oct 26 – Nov 30

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Lady Spi-

St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Mike Dendy “Found While Walking”: Using simple lines, shapes, colours, values and textures, Mike transforms “ordinary” subject matter he may have discovered while on an afternoon stroll into an idea that can attract and hold the viewer’s attention. • Oct 3 - 26; opening reception Oct 10, 5-8 pm

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY • 10332 – 124 St • 780.488.4445 • douglasudellgallery.com • Robert Scott; there is an important and specific connection to the final liberation of surface and the all-over painting first achieved by Pollock. It is to this brief moment in the history of painting, with its immense aftershocks, that Scott’s work seems essentially tied; Date and time TBA, please contact gallery

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Art Party at Expressionz; Join us for casual conversation, beverages and a fully supplied art “session” where Charity Brown instructs us on the project of the evening. Past sessions have included silk painting, silk screening, timed sketching and more. Artful abilities are not assumed or expected; Oct 3, 7 pm; $25

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • 780.488.2952 • thefrontgallery. com • Urban Reﬂections - Ira Hoffecker; Ira’s current work references urban and topographic views of cities and exempliﬁes identity through cities’ historic architecture and planning perspectives. Her interest in the practice of urban planning and how new structures are integrated into the context of existing settings is incorporated into the process of her painting; Oct 19 - Nov 7; opening reception Oct 19, 2-4 pm

GALLERY AT MILNER • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca/art-gallery • Edmonton Potters’ Guild; Selected works; Oct 1-31 HARCOURT HOUSE • 3rd Fl, 10215 - 112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Main Space: And REA CARVALHO, DAN GIBBONS, KIP JONES: The artists embrace the experiential functionality of the built environment from the perspective of the personal, the cultural and the spatial. Each dismantles a perception of big A architecture and reconstructs it into a sculptural object that ponders our relationship with the buildings that surround us; Sep 12 - Oct 18 • Front Gallery: NICOLE RAYBURN - re | signed: a series of photographs depicting religious public road signage presented in conjunction with the preceding text panel. This series highlights the mechanisms of advertising present in contemporary religious signage and adopts this same technique for use in personal artistic promotional material; Oct 3-18; opening reception Oct 3, 7 - 9 pm • Main Space: Alexis Marie Chute - The Quiet Rebuild: Dealing with the loss of her son in 2010, Chute stopped making art for a few years. This residency has helped her to rediscover herself as an artist; Oct 24Nov 29; Opening reception: Oct 24, 8 10 pm • Main Space: Yael Brotman: This body of work explores the intersection of documentation with the reconstruction of objects from memory; Oct 24 - Nov 29; Opening reception: Oct 24, 8-10 pm LANDO GALLERY • 103 - 10310 124 St • 780.990.1161 • land ogallery.com • Land o Art Auctions; preview on Oct 18 – 20. Fine art auction Oct 20, 2 pm • Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki; a selling exhibition; Oct 25 – Nov 20; opening reception Oct 26, 1 - 4 pm

LATITUDE 53 • 10242 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Kristen Keegan; Sep 27 - Nov 9 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org • Procession West: A Visual Journey from Plains to Coast and Where Dragonﬂies Dance: In Procession West, the artists lead the viewer on a traditional silver gelatin print photographic journey across the Plains to the West Coast. They hope to capture the vast land scape and open skies to the intimate details of life that might had been easily passed by. Where Dragonﬂies Dance is a unique and inspiring exhibition of watercolour and graphite botanical paintings with special emphasis on Alberta’s plant life; Aug 17 - Oct 20 Alive • Images Make the Words Come Alive: an exhibition that features watercolour images created for a story that highlights adventure, wonder and whimsy. Both the art itself and the poetry of the story draw the viewer into other worlds; Oct 26 - Dec 22 MULTICULTURAL HERITAGE CENTRE • 5411-51 St., Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Claudette Brown;; Paintings; Sep 27 - Oct 24; artist’s reception Oct 6 • Parkland Potter’s Guild; Fifth Biennial Exhibition Group Ceramics Show; Oct 26 - Nov 22; opening reception Oct 27

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of three major ice sports: ﬁgure skating, speed skating and hockey; Sep 3 - Nov 3

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 1003281 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • What’s Your Hang Up?; Craft by Edmonton Calligraphic Society Members; Sep 16 - Nov 15 PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Carolyn Campbell and Gordon Harper; Sep 21 - Oct 8; opening reception Sep 28, 2-4 pm • Steve Driscoll and Colin Smith; Oct 1229; opening reception Oct 12, 2-4 pm

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES • 8555 Roper Road • 780.427.1750 • culture. alberta.ca/paa/ • Victory on the Field Exhibit; Victory on the Field explores the effects of the First and Second World Wars on sports in Alberta; Sep 25 - Jan 31 • Art in the Archives: Storytelling; The Alberta League Encouraging Storytelling (TALES) will bring history to life through the art form of storytelling; Oct 9, 7 pm • Art in the Archives: Visual Art; Former Provincial Archives Audio-Visual Archivist Marlena Wyman shares her art visual art pieces and her sources of archival inspiration; Oct 16, 7 pm • Art in the Archives: Lit Fest; Edmonton authors Tim Bowling and Theresa Shea use their own books as examples in this lecture on the ways in which archival materials transform, and are transformed by, a story; Oct 23, 7 pm

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845 102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Chop Suey on the Prairies: A History of Chinese Restaurants in Alberta; Until Apr 27, 2014 • The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design; Until Oct 6, 2013 • Milton and Cheadle Plates; Until Dec 9 2013 • 20th Anniversary - Time Travellers Exhibition; Until Nov 11 • 20th Anniversary - Time Travellers Lecture Series; Oct 17, 24, 31, and Nov 7

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411 - 124 St • 780.488.3619 • scottgallery.com • Douglas Haynes, Selected Works: an exhibition of works on paper by Douglas Haynes from the early ‘60s through to the middle ‘80s. Many of the works are monoprints and although produced from original substrates, stand as unique pieces. Other works in the exhibition include cubist paintings with direct relationships to various monoprints and small collages that springboard onto the coloured grounds of later paintings; Oct 5-26

SNAP GALLERY • 10123 - 121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Klavs Weiss and Megan Stein; Oct 3 - Nov 9 SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35 – 5th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • REFLECTIONS OF JOY; Feature Artist – Helen Rogers; Oct 1-19; opening reception Oct 5, 1-3 pm • REMINISCENCE OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS; Feature Artist – Erik Cheung; Oct 21 - Nov 9; opening reception Oct 26, 1-3 pm

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • 11211 - 142 St • Body Worlds and The Cycle of Life; Life Ongoing through Oct 14, 2013; Adults: $26.50, Child (3-12): $16.50, Senior/Youth/Student: $23.50 UNIVERSITY NIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS • museums.ualberta.ca • Human Ecology Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • The Re-Birth of Venus: Fashion and The Venus Kallipygos: Kallipygos Explores the inﬂuence of art on fashion through the study of Venus Kallipygos, and its pervasive inﬂuence on dress • Until Mar 2, 2014 VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION • 10215 - 112 St, 3rd Fl • 780.421.1731 • visualartsalberta. com • Open Photo/Open Digital 2013: located off-site at the Kaasa Gallery at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 – 87 Ave; Until Oct 12 • Couples in Art and Life: Until Oct 19 • Keith

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October 5 & 6

Mosaic III: Cave Beat

Harder: Oct 24 - Nov 30; opening reception Oct 24, 7 - 9:30 pm

VISUAL ARTS STUDIO ASSOCIATION (VASA) • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St. Albert • 780.460.5990• vasa.ca • Wildlife Galore; Vicki Armstrong, Carol Johnson, Heather Howard, Carla Beerens

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd. com • IRENE KLAR;; Well-known Edmonton artist inspired by her travels from Australia to Guatemala and the West Coast of Canada; Until Oct 10 • RICHARD COLE;; His talent is demonstrated with paintings of the cedar forests and the canola ﬁelds of Alberta; Oct 19-31

February 22 & 23

COMEDY: OCT 2013

Paquita vs. Carmen

ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St. Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • CBC’s The Irrelevant Show: CBC radio comedy show; Oct 11, 7:30pm; $28

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COMIC STRIP • WEM, Bourbon St • 780.483.5999 • thecomicstrip.ca • Ben Gleib; Oct 2-6 • Mitch Fatel; Oct 9-12 • Harland Williams; Oct 17-20 • Dov Davidoff; Oct 23-37

citieballet.ca • 780.472.7774

EDMONTON COMEDY FESTIVAL • Various locations around Edmonton including: AGA, Paramount Theatre, Yellowhead Casino • atbcomedy.com • Stand -up comedy shows featuring acts from around the world • Oct 16-19

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 - 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Bollywood Shenanigans - “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butterchicken”; Oct 23-24 LAUGH FOR LIFE GALA • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Tenth anniversary for this night of classy comedy in Edmonton’s ﬁnest venue to raise funds for The Mustard Seed and Cand eo Housing Association. Comedians Brad Stine, Anita Renfroe and Michael Jr. round out the talent • Oct 19, 7 pm • Tickets from $57.50

MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE • Students’ Union Building, 8900 114 St • 780.492.4764 • John Cleese - Last Time To See Me Before I Die; Oct 1-6 • $83.25 at Ticketmaster

WINSPEAR CENTRE • 4 Winston Churchill Square • winspearcentre.com • Just for Laughs: Craig Ferguson Live; Oct 22, 8:00 pm; Tickets: $44.50-$51.50

DANCE: OCT 2013 ALBERTA BALLET • 11120 - 82 Ave • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • Madame Butterﬂy; Oct 4-5

BRIAN WEBB DANCE COMPANY • Timms Centre, northeast corner of 112 St and 87 Ave • 780.420.1757 • bwdc. ca • Nicole Mion • Oct 11-12 • Tickets available at TIX on the Square

FILM: OCT 2013 ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St. Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • National Geographic presents Radical Reels: Adventure short ﬁlms; Oct 6, 7:30 pm; $15/$20

DEDFEST ANNUAL FESTIVAL • Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • Kung Fu treachery, splat-tastic horror, insane action, and cult classics from around the world • Oct 16-20

EDMONTON OPERA FILM SERIES • Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • A ﬁlm series that explores and relates thematically to its 2013/14 season of produtions • Oct 2 • Free admission

FAVA • 9722 - 102 St • 780.429.3636• fava.ca • Red Rover Screening; four media arts co-ops will provide 20 minutes of of short ﬁlms screened simultaneously in Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon with all of the audiences connected through

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video conference call • Oct 4

FAVA: DOC SHOP • 9722 - 102 St • 780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Award-winning ﬁlmmaker and teacher Ava Karvonen will lead you to develop your idea into a documentary project • Tue, 6-9 pm, Sep 17 - Nov 19 • $445+GST

FAVA: VIDEO KITCHEN • 9722 - 102 St • 780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Video Kitchen workshop provides a creative place to explore and express your ideas visually. It is a pre-requisite to Main Course • Sat, 10-2 pm, Sep 7 - Dec 14, NO CLASS Sep 28, Oct 12, and Nov 9 • $695+GST SCIENCE IN CINEMA • Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • An initiative to help illuminate the science in popular cinema and provide a venue for the general public to learn about current research • Oct 24

LITERARY: OCT 2013 BRIAN EVANS BOOK READING • Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • uap.ualberta.ca • Author Brian Evans reads from his new book The Remarkable Chester Ronning: Proud Son of China • Oct 20

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Bohemia, 10217 - 97 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • Competitive storytelling event. Up to 10 tellers have ﬁve minutes to tell their story. Five audience judges pick the winner • Oct 16 • Free; suggested donation $5

“JUST GETTING STARTED” BOOK LAUNCH • Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • uap.ualberta.ca • launch of Just Getting Started: Edmonton Public Library’s First 100 Years, 19132013 by Todd Babiak • Oct 22, 7 - 8 pm • $10 general/$5 students

LITFEST: EDMONTON’S NONFICTION FESTIVAL • More than Twenty Venues, downtown and all over the region • 780.498.2500 • litfestalberta.org • LitFest celebrates non-ﬁction writing in every form: big ideas, personal stories, hilarious reﬂections on life. We offer a series of distinct experiences that mix great writing with fabulous music, food, drink, hand s-on learning and passionate argument. • Oct 16 - 27 • Tickets available at TIX on the Square WORDS IN THE PARK • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • sclibrary.ab.ca • Words in the Park in an annual literary event, hosted by the Strathcona County Library and the Writers Foundation of Strathcona County. Words in the Park is an opportunity for authors to sell and promote their work, and to network with readers and with other authors • Oct 19 • Free admission

THEATRE: OCT 2013 2 PIANOS 4 HAND S • Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • This hugely successful comedy premiered in 1996 to immediate critical and popular acclaim and has been performed 4000 times in 175 theatres, translated into four languages, and played to nearly two million people • Oct 26 - Nov 17

A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE • Mayﬁeld Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayﬁeldtheatre.ca • Join us for a magical evening as we pay homage to Patsy Cline, one of the all-time legends of country music • Sep 6 -Nov 3

ALADDIN AND THE MAGIC LAMP • Westbury Theatre, 10330 84 Ave • 780.409.1910 • fringetheatre.ca • A musical journey to a magical world ﬁlled with genies, ﬂying carpets and non-stop adventure. After years of thieving to get by, Aladdin’s fortune is radically changed when he comes upon a magical artifact that manifests his every wish.

But before long, Aladdin learns that his new found wealth and power comes with certain consequences (all ages) • Oct 24 - Nov 3

ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St. Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • Corin Raymond: One-man theatre set followed by music set; Oct 18, 7:30pm; $20 BEST OF FRIENDS REUNION • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM, #2690, 8882 170 St •780.484.2424 • jubilations. ca • Sequel to the sitcom spoof Best of Friends. What has the gang been up to? Who is still together? Who isn’t? Are they all still the best of friends? Set to hits from the ‘90s, along with a few timeless classics, Best of Friends Reunion is your chance to catch up with these lovable characters! • Aug 30 - Oct 27

THE DAISY THEATRE • Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Inspired by the illegal underground “daisy” puppet shows of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, The Daisy Theatre blends improv, variety acts and music, monologues and morality tales • Sep 28 - Nov 17

DRACULA • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322 - 83 Ave • walterdaleplayhouse. com • This Halloween, sink your teeth into Dracula by Steven Dietz. A dark and lyrical telling of the Bram Stoker classic vampire tale full of humour and horror. Before Twilight and True Blood, there was one vampire – Dracula • Oct 16 26 • $12-$18, TIX on the Square

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 - 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Heart to Heart Speakers Series; First Saturday of each month, featuring a topical speaker and a variety of social issues and ideas; 12 - 2 pm; admission by donation • Stirfry Variety Night; This is our once a month fundraising evening, featuring a cabaret of poets, musicians and dancers; Oct 5, 6 - 11pm; admission by donation • Healthy Living Therapies HLTAA Gatherings; Speakers are members of HLTAA, these are public information sessions but please register in advance; Nov 27, 6:45 - 9:15 pm; free admission

HEY LADIES! • The Roxy theatre, 10708 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • The ladies are back! Miss Leona Brausen, Miss Cathleen Rootsaert and Miss Davina Stewart bring their wild and womanly talkshow/gameshow/varietyshow/sideshow back for another season. • Oct 4, 8 pm HOTBED HOTEL • Kinsmen Hall, 47 Riel Dr, St Albert • 780.222.0102 • stalberttheatre.com • Dinner Theatre; Terri and Brian Cody are hoping to sell their One-Star Hotel in the Florida Keys, to the only man who has expressed any interest in buying it, a Mr Sam Lewis from New York. In order to bolster Mr Lewis’s interest, Terri and Brian devise a plan to make the hotel appear busier and more prosperous than it actually is • Thu - Sat, Oct 17-Nov 2 • $47.50 LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT • Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre. com • Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play tackles family issues such as addiction and loss. This masterpiece is just as relevant today as it was when it opened on Broadway in 1956 – a classic that is not to be missed • Sep 21 - Oct 13

NATIONAL ELEVATOR PROJECT PART 1 • Meet at TIX on the Square, Sir Winston Churchill Square 9930 – 102 Ave • theatre-yes.ca • Theatre Yes’s National Elevator Project features short plays written for and performed in working elevators. Theatre Yes has commission established Canadian Playwrights from across the country to write very short plays (ﬁve minutes and under) that explore the ritual of the elevator ride. The plays require audiences to be in very close proximity to the performers inviting them to be a part of one-of-akind performance experiences. • Oct 17-27, 7:30-9:30PM nightly except Mon • Tickets: Adults $25; Students, Seniors, Artists $17

ORDINARY DAYS • PCL Studio Theatre, 10330 - 84 Ave • threeformtheatre. com • When Deb loses her most precious possession--the notes to her graduate thesis—she unwittingly starts a chain of events that turns the ordinary days of four New Yorkers into something extraordinary. Told through a series of intricately connected songs and vignettes,Ordinary Days is an original musical about growing up and enjoying the view. • Oct 17-19, 7:30pm; matinee Oct 19, 2 pm • Students $15, Adults $20

PAINS OF YOUTH• Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St and 87 Ave • 780.429.2495 • tixonthesquare.ca • Vienna. 1920s. The stench of the war and disease of the decade before still hangs in the air. The dark spectre of fascism looms large on the horizon. A group of stressed and depressed medical students study, drink, and sleep together in a boarding house. • Oct 31 - Nov 9, 7:30pm; matinee Nov 7, 12:30 pm • Evening: $11 Student, $22 Adult, $20 Senior; Matinee: $11 Student, $17 Adult, $15 Senior; Preview: All tickets $5; Mondays are two-for-one RÉCOLTE • Théâtre de La Cité francophone, 8627 91 St •780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • By Joëlle Préfontaine, a production of L’UniThéâtre • Oct 16-27 insane improv show that draws sell-out crowds in Edmonton every Friday

WHIPLASH WEEKEND • Varscona Theatre, 10329 83 Ave • 780.420.1757 • tixonthesquare.ca • A hit in the previous century, one of Teatro’s pioneering screwball comedies returns to the stage with all the velocity one might expect from a play whose characters include a champion swimmer, a race car driver, and serial divorcee • Oct 10-26, 7:30pm; Saturday matinees at 2pm • $28, $23 for Students and Seniors 65+, plus applicable fees; $16 Matinees

MUSIC: OCT 2013 ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St. Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • Noisy Theatre: Will Stroet and His Backyard Band : Family show; Known for his action-oriented bilingual songs rich in educational content, audience favourite Will Stroet transforms kid-like topics into an extraordinary musical experience; Oct 2, 11am; $5/$10 • Current Swell: Rock show; Oct 5, 7:30pm; $28 • The Sadies: Alt-country/southern rock show; show Oct 19, 7:30pm; $35 • The SteelDrivers: Bluegrass show; show Oct 25, 7:30pm; $36 DALE ANN BRADLEY • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park • bluegrassnorth.com • Oct 17

MARY’S WEDDING • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, 7000 143rd St • 780.496.7381 • fortedmontontickets. com • Mary’s Wedding is a poignant and inspiring story about the innocence of ﬁrst love during the tumultuous times of The Great War • Oct 3-13, no show on Oct 7/8, showtimes vary

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 70 Ave •

MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE • 9502 – 100 Ave,

FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St

Morinville • 780.939.7839 • morinvillecentre.ca • Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre; Oct 26

780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Uptown Folk Club Concert; Oct 4, 7:30 pm • Uptown Folk Club Workshop; Oct 5 • Uptown Folk Club Open Stage; Oct 18, 7 pm • Open Stage hosted by Tommaso Zillio; Oct 26, 1 - 4 pm; admission by donation

Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 - 71 Ave • 780.438.6410 • fmfc.org • Oct 4: Ron Sexsmith Band , plus special guest: Jenn Grant • Oct 18: Alberta Bound:

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Carolines 3 / The 3 Gords / Mark Davis • $18 (advance)/$22 (door)/child under 12 half-price (door only); Six-pack and full season pack available. Advance ticket available at Acoustic Music Shop, TIX on the Square

HORIZON STAGE • 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • Sojourners: This trio of gospel artists spice up their cool harmonies with flourishes of doo-wop, R&B, country and blues creating a stirring sound that celebrates the soul; Oct 12, 7:30 pm; $35, $30 Students/Seniors • Woody Holler and his Western Swing Orchestra: With a smooth, pitch-perfect voice that rises and falls like that big prairie moon and a lyrical yodel that dances around the jingle-jangle of that old guitar, Woody Holler plays dusty, down-home cowboy music; Oct 27, 2 pm; $35, $30 Students/Seniors JETHRO TULL’S IAN AND ERSON • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Ian And erson will be performing his album Thick as a Brick in its entirety for the first time since 1972 and his new album Thick as a Brick 2. • Oct 24, 8 pm JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • 11455-87 Ave • 780.427.2760 • jubileeauditorium.com • Adam Cheng and Liza Wang Charity Concert Tour 2013; Hong Kong’s Superstar Power Duo; Oct 14, 7:30 pm; $40-$125 • Joe Satriani Unstoppable Momentum Tour; the first cross-Canada tour for multiple Grammy Award nominee, Joe Satriani; Oct 16, 7:30 pm; $45 and up MACLAB CENTRE • 4308 - 50 St., Leduc • 780.980.1866 • maclabcentre. com • Ray Charles Tribute Orchestra (Donald Ray Johnson); Oct 25, 7:30 pm; $33, $30 Student/Senior

MEMPHIS BOUND BLUES CHALLENGE • Old Timer’s Cabin, 9430 Scona Road • EdmontonBluesSociety. net • Edmonton Blues Society conducts their search for two Northern Alberta blues acts, one solo/duo act and one Band , to represent EBS and Alberta at the 30th International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee early 2014 • Oct 20, 1:30 pm

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MICHAEL FRANTI AND SPEARHEAD • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Musician and humanitarian Michael Franti is recognized as a pioneering force using music as a vehicle for positive change as well as his unforgettable, high energy

shows with his band , Spearhead • Oct 2, 8 pm • $52

NORTHERN BLUEGRASS CIRCLE MUSIC SOCIETY • Pleasantview Community Hall, 10860 - 57 Ave • bluegrassnorth.com Fall Workshop, Oct 18 - 20 at Camp He Ho Ha, Seba Beach; Featuring Dale Ann Bradley Band and other International, regional and local instructors

NORTHERN LIGHTS FOLK CLUB • Queen Alexand ra Community Hall, 10425 University Ave • Valdy; Oct 5 • Tickets: $20 (advance), $25 (door - if available) • David Francey; Oct 19 • TransAlta Arts Barns • 10330 84 Ave Tickets: $25 (advance), $30 (door - if available)

SHELL THEATRE • 8700 - 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/dowcentre • Going to Graceland ; nine talented musicians bring Paul Simon’s Graceland album to life onstage; Oct 4, 7:30 pm • Brian Gore/Your Town in Song and Image; Oct 25, 7:30pm • Elvis, Elvis, Elvis; Elvis Presley rises from the dead three times during each performance. Three eras of the King’s career are represented by three world-class impersonators; Oct 7, 7:30 pm

CLASSICAL MUSIC: OCT 2013 ALBERTA BAROQUE ENSEMBLE •Robertson–Wesley United Church, 10209 – 123 St • 780.467.6531 • albertabaroque.com • Brand enburg Concerto No.4; Oct 6, 3 pm

ALBERTA COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC • 10050 MacDonald Dr • 780.633.3725 • macewan.ca • The Midday Music at Muttart Hall Concert Series; Come experience exquisitely beautiful music presented in a relaxed and inviting manner. Bring a lunch • Oct 24 and 31, Nov 7, Mar 6, 13, and 20, May 22

CONVOCATION HALL • U of A Campus • music.ualberta.ca • Music of the 21st century for saxophone, electronics and piano: Real-time interaction with the unpredictability of sound; Oct 6, 3 pm • Opera Fantasies: Vocal pieces adapted for the virtuosity of strings and the piano; Oct 18, 8 pm

EDMONTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY • Convocation Hall, U of A Campus • 780.433.4532 • edmontonchambermusic.org • London Hand el Players; Oct 4, 8 pm; Adults $35, Seniors (65+) $25, Students $10 • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Dr; Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano; Oct 25, 8 pm • Adults $50, Seniors (65+) $40, Students $20

LONDON HANDEL PLAYERS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 8 PM | CONVOCATION HALL ISABEL BAYRAKDARIAN, SOPRANO FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 8 PM | MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH ANONYMOUS 4 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 7:30 PM WEST END CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH TRIO JEAN PAUL FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 8 PM | CONVOCATION HALL JOSÉ MIGUEL MORENO, BAROQUE GUITAR SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 8 PM | CONVOCATION HALL JAMES EHNES, VIOLIN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 8 PM | MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH TICKETS FROM TIX ON THE SQUARE, THE GRAMOPHONE AND AT THE DOOR FOR DETAILS, VISIT WWW.EDMONTONCHAMBERMUSIC.ORG

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VUEWEEKLY AUGUST 2013 – JUNE 2014

EDMONTON CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY • Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Drive • 587.708.2044 • edmontonclassicalguitarsociety.org • Carlos Perez, guitar • Oct 4, 8 pm • $25 regular, $20 student/senior/ ECGS member

EDMONTON OPERA • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 87 Ave • 780.429.1000 • edmontonopera.com • Salome: Scand alous, seductive and shocking: a prophet’s head is served to a princess on a sliver platter. • Oct 26, 8 pm, Oct 29 and 31, 7:30 pm • Subscriptions start at $96, Single tickets start at $20 EDMONTON YOUTH ORCHESTRA • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.436.7932 • eyso. com • Viva Verde Gala Concert In concert with the Edmonton Opera Chorus and young soloists • Oct 11, 7 pm • TIX on the Square ORGANIC - ORGAN IN CONCERT • Winspear Centre, 4 Churchill Square • 780.420.1757 • rcco.edmonton.ab.ca • Rachel Laurin (Quebec) • Oct 10, 3 pm • Adult $28; Student/senior $25

WINSPEAR CENTRE • 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Operetta Magic; Oct 10, 8pm • Mendelssohn and Rachmaninoff; Oct 20, 2 pm • Music of the Night Sky; Oct 26, 2 pm • Sacred Music Festival; Oct 27, 7:30 pm

NOVEMBER 2013 ART GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: NOV 2013 A. J. OTTEWELL ARTS CENTRE • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artsoc@telus.net • artstrathcona.com • Christmas Market: artist made gifts; Nov 16-17; Nov 16, 10 am - 4 pm; Nov 17, noon - 4 pm

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL • 10186 – 106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Potworks; A group exhibition exploring the contemporary state of the ancient tradition of pottery; Oct 5 - Dec 24 • Fairy-tales, Folktales and Mythcommunications... Part II; Shona Rae returns the fairy-tale back to the realm of adults with her sculpted wearable art pieces; Until Nov 30 • Illusions, Revelations, Transformations; A journey in seven stages by Edmonton ﬁbre artist Diane Krys; Until Nov 30

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Lady Spider House; The Art Gallery of Alberta has commissioned internationally renowned, Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer to design an interactive haunted house; Until Jan 12 • aAron munson and David Hoffos: Isachsen (1948-78); Isachsen is a documentary exhibition and installation that presents the history of a lone arctic weather station; Sep 14 - Nov 24 • CHAGALL: Daphnis et Chloé; The set of 42 lithographs titled Daphnis and Chloé is seen as Chagall’s most important graphic work among his vastly varied production; Oct 26 - Feb 16 • Augatuk: Mediator between Two; gathering works from Edmonton collectors who have drawn from a geographically wide range of Inuit communities; Oct 26 - Feb 16 • Reﬁnery Late-Night Art Party; themed around Geoffrey Farmer’s haunted house exhibition; Nov 16, 9 pm - 2 am • BMO World of Creativity: Cabinets of Curiosity; Explore the wondrous and curious collection of local artist Lyndal Osborne, and enter a world familiar yet strange! Use your senses to discover natural and manmade creations in unexpected places! Hunt for clues, identify the unusual and gather ideas to create a collection of your own; Until Jun 30, 2014 • Water Into Art: British Watercolours from the V&A, 1750-1950; Until Nov 24

BOYLE ST PLAZA • #101, 9538-103A Ave • 780.422.5857 • boyleprojections@ heartofboyleSt.ca • Boyle St Projections; a Living Local digital art project; Nov 15 onward

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • The Roar and the Silence: Watercolour Land scapes by painter Jerry Heine; Nov 1-15; opening reception Nov 1, 6-9 pm; artist also in attendance Nov 2, 1-5 pm • Land ings; Land scapes by British Columbia painters Edward Epp and Jane Everett; Nov 21 - Dec 5; opening reception Nov 21, 6-9 pm; artist also in attendance Nov 23, 1-5 pm

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • Claude Boocock, Valerie Solash, Rolland e Brodeur, Monica Das and Deborah Lenihan; Nov 8 • George Kubac, Laura Watmough, Jeannette Sommers, Doreen Poitras, Sylvia Grist and Luc Josh; Nov 22

CROOKED POT GALLERY • 491251 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • parkland potters.com • Celebrate the Season: A wonderful display of select pottery, ideal for holiday giving; Nov 1 Dec 24; open houses Nov 15 and Dec 7 DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412 124th St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery. ca • Meghan Dauphineé “Approaching River City”: Meghan is fascinated with the forces at play around Edmonton. The river loops and winds through the very middle of the city, playing havoc with planners grids and ushering wilderness to the front door of tamed lifestyles. Meghan employs her bold style to capture snapshots of that unique relationship in this River City series.; Nov 1-23; opening reception Nov 7, 5 -8 pm • Various Gallery Artists “Reprise”: An opportunity to relive the year of art at the Daffodil Gallery; Nov 24 - Dec 22; Christmas party Dec 7, 1-4 pm

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY • 10332 – 124 St • 780.488.4445 • douglasudellgallery.com • Dominique Gaucher; Dominique Gaucher has worked for over 25 years as a backdrop and scenery painter for opera, theatre and ﬁlm productions. In 2009 Gaucher designed the torch for the Vancouver Winter Olympics, where he was also featured in a solo exhibition; Nov 30, 2-4 pm

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • 780.488.2952 • thefrontgallery. com • Urban Reﬂections - Ira Hoffecker; Ira’s current work references urban and

topographic views of cities and exempliﬁes identity through cities’ historic architecture and planning perspectives. Her interest in the practice of urban planning and how new structures are integrated into the context of existing settings is incorporated into the process of her painting; Oct 19 - Nov 7 • New Works - Jennifer Poburan; Jennifer’s work has developed into a study and reﬂection around the idea of natural change. She represents these ideas on a smaller scale by observing the delicate movements such as roots growing through soil, seeds spreading through the wind, and earth stretching and breathing with our seasonal freeze and thaw; Nov 23 - Dec 9; opening reception Nov 23, 2-4 pm

GALLERY AT MILNER • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca/art-gallery • The Seventh Kingdom: Mixed media artwork by Lori Kieser; Nov 1-3 HARCOURT HOUSE • 3rd Fl, 10215 112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse. ab.ca • Main Space: Alexis Marie Chute The Quiet Rebuild: Dealing with the loss of her son in 2010, Chute stopped making art for a few years. This residency has helped her to rediscover herself as an artist; Oct 24 - Nov 29 • Main Space: Yael Brotman: This body of work explores the intersection of documentation with the reconstruction of objects from memory; Until Nov 29 LANDO GALLERY • 103 - 10310 124 St • 780.990.1161 • land ogallery.com • Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki; a selling exhibition; Oct 25 - Nov 20; opening reception Oct 26, 1-4 pm • Shirley Elias and Jana Milne; a selling exhibition; Nov 1-20; opening reception Nov 2, 1-4 pm

LATITUDE 53

• 10242 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Kristen Keegan; Until Nov 9 • Chuck Samuels - Before Photography; Focusing on Samuels’ father’s obsession with photography and how it might have led to Samuels’ own choice of profession, the exhibit is an examination of the successes and failures of memory; Nov 23 - Dec 21 • 40th Anniversary Programming; this fall, we’ll fill the galleries in our new 2013 location with a look back at the origins, history, and legacy of Latitude 53, as well as into the future ; Nov 23 - Dec 21

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org • Images Make the Words Come Alive: an exhibition that features watercolour images created for a story that highlights adventure, wonder and whimsy. Both the art itself and the poetry of the story draw the viewer into other worlds; Until Dec 22 MULTICULTURAL HERITAGE CENTRE • 5411-51 St., Stony Plain • 963 9935 • multicentre.org • Parkland Potter’s Guild; Fifth Biennial Exhibition Group Ceramics Show; Until Nov 22 • Erin Schwab; Drawings; Nov 27 - Jan 14; opening reception Dec 1

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • museeheritage.com • 780.459.1528 • Lace Up: Canada’s Passion for Skating : explores the history and importance of skating in Canada and gives a glimpse of three major ice sports: ﬁgure skating, speed skating and hockey; Until Nov 3 • Take your Best Shot: Youth Photo Contest; Nov 26 - Jan 12

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 1003281 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Meine Bilder Sind Kluger Als Ich; Painting and Installation Exhibition by Nathaniel Wong; Nov 21 - Dec 31 • What’s Your Hang Up?; Craft by Edmonton Calligraphic Society Members; Until Nov 15 PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Amy Claire Huestis and Robert Wiseman; Nov 2-19; opening reception Nov 2, 2-4 pm • Win-

ter Group Shows; New work by gallery artists; Nov 23 - Feb 8

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845 102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Chop Suey on the Prairies; A History of Chinese Restaurants in Alberta; Until Apr 27, 2014 • Milton and Cheadle Plates; Until Dec 9 2013 • 20th Anniversary - Time Travellers Exhibition; Sep 21 - Nov 11 • Pattern Wizardry; Nov 9 - Mar 9 • Species at Risk; Nov 23 - Mar 16 • 20th Anniversary - Time Travellers Lecture Series; Nov 7

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411 - 124 St • 780.488.3619 • scottgallery.com • Marianne Watchel: Marianne Watchel was born in rural Saskatchewan and studied painting at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. In the early ‘80s she began painting full time. She attended the Emma Lake Artist Workshops in 1983, 1987 and 1988. Her work is in many collections in Canada, the United States and Australia; Nov 2-23

SNAP GALLERY • 10123 121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Klavs Weiss and Megan Stein; Oct 3 - Nov 9 • Member’s Show; Nov 28 Dec 21 SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35 – 5th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • REMINISCENCE OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS; Feature Artist – Erik Cheung; Until Nov 9 • THE LAnd SCAPE AROUND US; Feature Artist – Anne McCartney; Nov 13-30; opening reception Nov 16, 1-3 pm

THE CARROT COMMUNITY ARTS COFFEEHOUSE • 9351– 118 Ave • 780.471.1580 • thecarrot.ca • Christmas Arts Bazaar; A one-day artisan sale featuring local craftspersons; Nov 30, 10 am – 4 pm • Free admission

his own ability to be a good dad, Chris Gibbs explores the anxieties of fatherhood. Fresh, funny, and fast-paced, his honesty and wit leave audiences wracked with laughter and howling in their seats; Nov 22, 7:30 pm; $35/$30 children/ seniors

DANCE: NOV 2013 BRIAN WEBB DANCE COMPANY • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Strathcona County • 780.420.1757 • bwdc.ca • Sampradaya Dance • Nov 6 • Tickets available at TIX on the Square JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • 11455-87 Ave • 780.427.2760 • jubileeauditorium. com • Sleeping Beauty performed by Les Grand s Ballets; Parental guidance strongly advised; Nov 6-7, 7:30 pm

MILE ZERO DANCE • Location TBA • milezerodance.com • Spontaneous Combustion • Nov 2, 8 pm • $15/members, $20 general

FILM: NOV 2013 FAVA: DOC SHOP • 9722 - 102 St • 780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Award-winning ﬁlmmaker and teacher Ava Karvonen will lead you to develop your idea into a documentary project • Tue, 6-9 pm, Until Nov 19 • $445+GST FAVA: VIDEO KITCHEN • 9722 102 St • 780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Video Kitchen workshop provides a creative place to explore and express your ideas visually. It is a pre-requisite to Main Course • Sat, 10 am -2 pm, Until - Dec 14, No class Nov 9 • $695+GST SCIENCE IN CINEMA • Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • An initiative to help illuminate the science in popular cinema and provide a venue for the general public to learn about current research • Nov 14

LITERARY: NOV 2013

gambling, greed and time travel • Nov 22-30, 7:30pm; extra late show Nov 29, 11:30pm • $16-$28, season passes available

BLOODY POETRY• Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St and 87 Ave • 780.429.2495 • tixonthesquare.ca • Haunted by the ghosts of what could be, the play entangles poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, gothic novelist Mary Shelley, poet Lord Byron and their muse Claire Clairemont Godwin in an enduring love circle, swirling with lyrical language, and swimming in provocative ideas • Nov 28 - Dec 7, 7:30 pm; matinee Dec 5, 12:30 pm • Evening: $11 Student, $22 Adult, $20 Senior; Matinee: $11 Student, $17 Adult, $15 Senior; Preview: All tickets $5; Mondays are two-for-one

CRANATRIUM • Westbury Theatre, 10330 84 Ave • 780.409.1910 • fringetheatre.ca • Fireﬂy’s brand new Aerial Musical Spectacle accompanies a fearless doctor into the mind of the woman with a mysterious illness and a dark secret, a place called The Craniatrium. (All ages) • Nov 28 - Dec 8 THE DAISY THEATRE • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Inspired by the illegal underground “daisy” puppet shows of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, The Daisy Theatre blends improv, variety acts and music, monologues and morality tales • Sep 28 - Nov 17 ELVIS AND THE LAS VEGAS HANGOVER • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM, 2690, 8882 - 170 St • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • From B. Cunningham the creator of Night at the Museum of Rock and Roll and Ghost Busted, Jubilations Dinner Theatre proudly presents Elvis and the Las Vegas Hangover. Featuring hit songs by Elvis Presley, and many, many more • Nov 1 - Feb 14

VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION • 10215 - 112 St, 3rd Fl

PURE SPECULATION FESTIVAL • Macewan University, Robbins Health Centre (11050 - 104 Ave, NW) • purespec. org • a celebration of science ﬁction, fantasy, comics, gaming, science and media. Come meet the authors, the costumers, the speakers, and take part in the gaming, check out the merchants, and enjoy the programs available! •Nov 15-17 • Ticket prices vary; children under 12 accompanied by an adult enter free

• 780.421.1731 • visualartsalberta.com • Keith Harder: Until Nov 30

THEATRE: NOV 2013

THE GHOST TRAIN • Devon Com-

2 PIANOS 4 HAND S • Citadel

munity Center, 20 Haven Ave, Devon • 587.783.3760 • eastofsixty.com • A party of passengers ﬁnd themselves strand ed in the waiting room of an isolated station on a stormy night. The station master tries to get them to leave citing the local legend of a ghost train that dooms all who see it to death • Nov 1-2, 6pm and Nov 3, 11:30 am •

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS • museums.ualberta.ca • Human Ecology Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • The Re-Birth of Venus: Fashion and The Venus Kallipygos: Explores the inﬂuence of art on fashion through the study of Venus Kallipygos, and its pervasive inﬂuence on dress • Until Mar 2, 2014

VISUAL ARTS STUDIO ASSOCIATION (VASA) • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St. Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • Curiosity; Society of Western Canadian Artists

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd. com • W.H. WEBB; His paintings demonstrate a lasting “love affair” with the vistas and mountains of Alberta; Nov 2-14 • KEN FAULKS;He captures the skies and land scapes with lush brush strokes, bold palette and a keen compositional sense. This is his premiere exhibition in Edmonton; Nov 16-28 WOMEN’S ART MUSEUM SOCIETY OF CANADA • 5920 - 93A Ave • 780.803.2016 • wamsoc.ca • In Little Boxes: Art, Craft and Collectible Sale; Nov 23, 10-8 pm and Nov 24, 10-5 pm

COMEDY: NOV 2013 COMIC STRIP • WEM, Bourbon St • 780.483.5999 • thecomicstrip.ca • Brett Ernst; Nov 6-10 • Sam Tripoli; Nov 1317 • Alonzo Boden; Nov 21-24 • Rhys Darby; Nov 28-30

HORIZON STAGE • 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • Chris Gibbs: Like Father, Like Son? Sorry.: Terriﬁed about his new responsibilities and skeptical of

Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • This hugely successful comedy premiered in 1996 to immediate critical and popular acclaim and has been performed 4,000 times in 175 theatres, translated into four languages, and played to nearly two million people • Until Nov 17

A CHRISTMAS CAROL • Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Edmonton’s Favourite Holiday Tradition continues for an unprecedented 14th year. With an unforgettable story, rich characters, and dazzling special effects, A Christmas Carol is exceptional family entertainment • Nov 30 - Dec 23

ALADDIN AND THE MAGIC LAMP • Westbury Theatre, 10330 84 Ave • 780.409.1910 • fringetheatre.ca • A musical journey to a magical world ﬁlled with genies, ﬂying carpets and non-stop adventure! After years of thieving to get by, Aladdin’s fortune is radically changed when he comes upon a magical artifact that manifests his every wish. But before long, Aladdin learns that his new found wealth and power comes with certain consequences (all ages) • Oct 24 - Nov 3

BITCHES AND MONEY 1878 • PCL Studio, 10330-84 Ave • 780.471.1586 • northernlighttheatre.com • A play about

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FORBIDDEN BROADWAY’S GREATEST HITS • La Cite, 8627 Rue MarieAnne Gaboury • twoonewaytickets.com • Nov 8-16

Tickets: Fri and Sat $35, Sun $30

HORIZON STAGE • 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • Cinderella: Playing with timeless fairy tales and giving them an improvised spin, DufﬂeBag Theatre

SEASON 9

takes the classic story of Cinderella and twists it in fun new ways creating a unique interactive theatrical experience where the dream of living a fairy tale really does come true.; Nov 16, 2 pm; $20/$16 children/seniors

Nov 9, 7:30 pm; matinee Nov 7, 12:30 pm • Evening: $11 Student, $22 adult, $20 senior; matinee: $11 student, $17 adult, $15 senior; Preview: All tickets $5; Mondays are two-for-one

I AM FOR YOU • C103, 8529 Gateway

Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • rapidﬁretheatre.com • The dust-up of the century at the Citadel theatre; the ﬁrst annual Prairie Bowl Theatresports tournament. Teams from Winnipeg, Calgary, Red Deer, Edmonton—who is funniest? Can anyone survive the brute strength of Rapid Fire Theatre? • Nov 29 - Dec 1, 7:30 and 10 pm • $12

Boulevard • 780.420.1757 • concretetheatre.ca • Two high-school girls clash in a violent physical fight in the drama room. Can their student teacher help them understand more about the roots of violence through the art of stage combat and a famous fight from Romeo and Juliet? ? Swords, words and egos come to blows. Can they find a way to work it out? • Nov 29, 1 pm and 7:30 pm; Nov 30, 2 pm and 7:30 pm • Adult tickets: $19, Senior/student tickets: $16

LATE NIGHT CABARET • The Club, Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • rapidﬁretheatre.com • The Late Night Cabaret is a top-notch variety show that will have sweet interviews, hot comedy, action-packed games and special guest appearances from the who’s who of Edmonton’s entertainment scene • Nov 14 • TIX on the Square PIG GIRL • The Roxy Theatre, 10708 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • At 4 am on a secluded farm, a kidnapped woman struggles to yank her life back from a serial killer while her desperate sister and a haunted police ofﬁcer reach across time and distance to try and rescue her. • Nov 5 - 24, 8 pm; Sunday matinees at 2pm

PAINS OF YOUTH • Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St and 87 Ave • 780.429.2495 • tixonthesquare.ca • Vienna, 1920s. The stench of the war and disease of the decade before still hangs in the air. The dark spectre of fascism looms large on the horizon. A group of stressed and depressed medical students study, drink, and sleep together in a boarding house. • Until

PRAIRIE BOWL • The Club, Citadel

PYRETIC PRODUCTIONS’ S.I.A. • PCL Studio, 10330 - 84 Ave • 780.409.1910 • fringetheatre.ca • The day Canadian volunteer Nick Summers is scheduled to ﬂy home from Ghana, he wakes up hung over and tied to a chair. His new friend Abraham, a former child soldier from Liberia, has taken him hostage in a desperate bid to stop a war crimes trial at the International Criminal Court. If Abraham does not succeed, Nick will not survive. This is the story of how personal choices can have global consequences. (Mature audiences) • Nov 7 - 17

SHREK THE MUSICAL • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • sact.ca • Based on the Oscar-winning animated feature, Shrek The Musical will be brought to life by St. Albert Children’s Theatre. Complete with all new songs, this stage production propels the original story to a whole new level of hilarious antics and over-the-top circumstances. • Nov 21 - Dec 1 • $26 adult, $20 child/senior

WETASKIWIN THEATRE SOCIETY • 5002 53 Ave, Wetaskiwin • 780.352.8383 • wetaskiwintheatresociety.com • The Farndale Ave Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic

Society’s Production of A Christmas Carol; This hilarious play-within-a-play is a comic hit. This stalwart group of lady thespians brings ineptitude to new heights with their dizzily endearing, well-meaning assault on the Dickens Christmas classic. This festive farcical romp is a must see.; Dates: TBA - late Nov - early December

MUSIC: NOV 2013 ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • Kat Danser: Bluegrass show; Nov 1, 7:30 pm; $28 • The Barra MacNeils: Celtic music show; Nov 8, 7:30 pm; $36

EDMONTON BLUES SOCIETY DANCE • Old Timer’s Cabin, 9430 Scona Road • EdmontonBluesSociety. net • Band TBA • Nov 16, 7:30 pm • $5 members, $10 guest

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 - 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe. com • Uptown Folk Club Concert; Nov 1, 7:30pm • Uptown Folk Club Open Stage; Nov 15, 7 pm • Open Stage hosted by Tommaso Zillio; Nov 30, 1 - 4 pm; admission by donation • Tommy Banks and PJ Perry; Nov 9, 6 pm; $47.25 FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 - 71 Ave • 780.438.6410 • fmfc.org • Nov 15: Eilan Jewell Band • Nov 29: David Myles • $18 (advance)/$22 (door)/child under 12 half-price (door only); Six-pack and full season pack available. Advance ticket available at Acoustic Music Shop, TIX on the Square

HORIZON STAGE • 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • PEAR: Named the Alberta Association of Country Music’s 2013 Group of the Year PEAR’s music is laced with stunning ﬁddle lines, lively mand olin melodies, and clear, crisp vocals; Nov 2, 7:30pm; $35, $30 Students/Seniors • The Bills: Mixing a little

bit of holler and a whole lot of harmonies, The Bills can set any stage alight with their blazing bright folk tunes; Nov 17, 7:30 pm; $35, $30 Students/Seniors

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • 11455-87 Ave • 780.427.2760 • jubileeauditorium. com • Matthew Good; release of Arrows of Desire; Nov 14, 8 pm; $46 and up MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE • 9502 – 100 Ave, Morinville • 780.939.7839 • morinvillecentre.ca • Norman Foote; Nov 14 • Big River/Johnny Cash Tribute Band ; Nov 29 • Flyin’ Bob- one man three ring circus; Nov 30

NORTHERN LIGHTS FOLK CLUB • Queen Alexand ra Community Hall, 10425 University Ave • John Prine Tribute (Al Brant, Kevin Cook, Terry Morrison); Nov 2 • Highway 3 Roots Revue (Dave McCann, Leeroy Stagger, John Wort Hannam); Nov 16 • Doors 7:00, Show 8:00 • Tickets: $20 (advance), $25 (door - if available)

SHELL THEATRE • 8700 - 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/dowcentre • Jenie Thai; Nov 9, 7:30 pm • West Meets East: Bardic Form; Nov 29, 7:30 pm • Big Red Shoe; Nov 1, 7:30 pm • MCT Blackbeard the Pirate; Nov 23, 3 pm and 5:30 pm

CLASSICAL MUSIC: NOV 2013 ALBERTA BAROQUE ENSEMBLE •Robertson–Wesley United Church, 10209 – 123 St • 780.467.6531 • albertabaroque.com • Baroque Chamber Music Treasures; Nov 10, 3 pm

ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • Matt Haimovitz (On Stage series): Contemporary Cellist; Nov 9, 8 pm; $35

CONCORDIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT • Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • tixonthesquare.ca • Nov 3, 2 pm

EDMONTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY • West End Christian Reformed Church, 10015 149 St • 780.433.4532 • edmontonchambermusic.org • Anonymous 4; Nov 9, 7:30 pm; Adults $35, Seniors (65+) $25, Students $10

EDMONTON CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY • Muttart

Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Drive • 587.708.2044 • edmontonclassicalguitarsociety.org • G8 Guitar (the Canadian and Salzburg guitar quartets); Canada’s top guitar quartet with the best from Europe—between two continents on eight guitars • Nov 9, 8 pm • $30 regular, $25 student/senior/ ECGS member

EDMONTON METROPOLITAN CHORUS • First Presbyterian Church, 10025 - 105 St • 780.977.6993 • EdMetroChorus.ca • Bless My Soul: From the proliﬁc and creative energies of Alice Parker and Robert Shaw: folk hymns, Irish folk songs, spirituals—a cappella • Nov 30, 7:30 pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square

EDMONTON YOUTH ORCHESTRA • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.436.7932 • eyso.com • Senior and Intermediate Orchestras • Nov 24, 2 pm • Adults $15, Seniors/Students $10 • Nov 17, 2 pm: Banff Centre for the Arts, Eric Harvie Theatre, Banff; Senior Orchestra

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I CHORISTI CHAMBER CHOIR • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 - 84 Ave • 780.977.6993 • iCoristi.com • Lives: Join iCoristi as we encounter a variety of people, both real and ﬁctional, through music that they inspired, including works by Estacio, Lukaszewski and Whitacre • Nov 16, 7:30 pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square JOSEPHINE VAN LIER TRIO • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • 780.240.9623 • josephinevanlier.com.ca • Nov 17, 2 pm KOKOPELLI CHOIR • McDougall United Church, 10025 101 St • 780.977.7295• kokopellichoirs.com • Long Road: Kokopelli and Òran start off the season with a diverse program of music themed around travel and transformation. • Nov 16, 7:30 pm • $20, $15 Students LA FOLIA BAROQUE STRING ENSEMBLE • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • 780.240.9623 • lafoliaensemble.ca • Nov 24, 2 pm

NEW EDMONTON WIND SINFONIA • Myer Horowitz Theatre, U of A campus • newedmontonwindsinfonia.com • Nov 28, 7:30 pm

PRO CORO CANADA • All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral, 10035 103 St • 780.420.1247 • procoro.ab.ca • Missae I: The program will feature three different perspectives on the Latin Mass, with inspiring a cappella works created in the 20th and 21st centuries by Jason Noble (Canadian), Frank Martin (Swiss), and Ugis Praulins (Latvian). • Nov 3, 2:30pm • Adult $30; Student/Senior $25

RICHARD EATON SINGERS • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • richardeatonsingers.com • Remembrance Day Concert: Featuring Richard Eaton Singers, Jeremy Spurgeon, organ; the choir will perform Fauré’s Requiem and other music appropriate for Remembrance Day. • Nov 11, 2:30 pm

WINSPEAR CENTRE • 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • The Recorder in Concert; Nov 6, 7:30 pm • Shall We Dance?; Nov 8-9, 8 pm • Meyer’s Bass Concerto; Nov 15, 7:30 pm, Nov 16, 8 pm • Turkish Delights; Nov 21, 8 pm • Twins and the Monster; Nov 23, 2pm • Scheherazade; Nov 30, 8 pm • The Company of Heaven - Britten at 100: A celebration of British composer Benjamin Britten on the centenary of his birth; Nov 17, 8 pm

DECEMBER 2013 ART GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: DEC 2013 ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL • 10186 – 106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Potworks; A group exhibition exploring the contemporary state of the ancient tradition of pottery; Oct 5 - Dec 24

and Renaissance to secular neoclassical and genre paintings of the 19th century; Dec 14 - Mar 9 • BMO World of Creativity: Cabinets of Curiosity; Explore the wondrous and curious collection of local artist Lyndal Osborne, and enter a world familiar yet strange. Use your senses to discover natural and manmade creations in unexpected places. Hunt for clues, identify the unusual and gather ideas to create a collection of your own; Until Jun 30, 2014

BOYLE ST PLAZA • #101, 9538-103A Ave • 780.422.5857 • boyleprojections@ heartofboyleSt.ca • Boyle St Projections; a Living Local digital art project; Nov 15 onward

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • Land ings; Land scapes by British Columbia painters Edward Epp and Jane Everett; Nov 21 - Dec 5

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • Exhibition of miniatures plus Denise Parent and Gilles Lavoie; Dec 6

CROOKED POT GALLERY • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • parkland potters.com • Celebrate the Season: A wonderful display of select pottery, ideal for holiday giving; Until Dec 24; open house Dec 7 DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY • 10332 – 124 St • 780.488.4445 • douglasudellgallery.com • Winter Exhibition; Artwork from many of Canada’s leading contemporary artists, an opportunity to view great works from Canadian Historical artists, and fresh work from gallery artists gaining momentum in the international ﬁeld; Dec 15, 2 - 4 pm

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • 780.488.2952 • thefrontgallery.com • New Works - Jennifer Poburan; Jennifer’s work has developed into a study and reﬂection around the idea of natural change. She represents these ideas on a smaller scale by observing the delicate movements such as roots growing through soil, seeds spreading through the wind, and earth stretching and breathing with our seasonal freeze and thaw; Nov 23 - Dec 9

GALLERY AT MILNER • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca/art-gallery • Sculptors’ Association of Alberta: selected works; Until Dec 31 HOUSE • 3rd Fl, 10215 - 112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Main Space: Jill Ho-You: Physical anthropology has long demonstrated that organs, teeth and bones record events such as disease and trauma. Therefore, the physical body retains traces of memory at the tissue, cell and molecular levels. Ho-You’s work draws insights from these visceral observations and attempts to express how our identities are linked to the often mysterious complexity of our bodies; Dec 5 - Jan 17; Opening reception: Dec 5, 8-10 pm LANDO GALLERY • 103 - 10310 124 St • 780.990.1161 • land ogallery.com • Holiday Exhibition; A selling exhibition of Gallery artists and secondary market works; Until Dec 24

LATITUDE 53 • 10242 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Chuck Samuels - Before Photography; Focusing on Samuels’ father’s obsession with photography and how it might have led to Samuels’ own choice of profession, the exhibit is an examination of the successes and failures of memory; Nov 23 - Dec 21 • 40th Anniversary Programming; this fall, we’ll ﬁll the galleries in our new 2013 location with a look back at the origins, history, and legacy of Latitude 53, as well as into the future; Nov 23 - Dec 21

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org • Images Make the Words Come Alive: an exhibition that

features watercolour images created for a story that highlights adventure, wonder and whimsy. Both the art itself and the poetry of the story draw the viewer into other worlds; Until Dec 22

GOOD WOMEN DANCE COLLECTIVE • L’Uni Theatre, 8627 91 St •

MULTICULTURAL HERITAGE CEN-

MILE ZERO DANCE • Media Room,

TRE • 5411-51 St., Stony Plain • 963

Fine Arts Building, University of Alberta • milezerodance.com • CAGE’D • Dec 1314, 8 pm • $15/members, $20 general • Artist in Residence Showing • Studio E (9533 Jasper Ave) • Dec 19, 7 pm • $10/ members, $12 general

9935 • multicentre.org • Erin Schwab; Drawings; Until Jan 14; opening reception Dec 1

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • museeheritage.com • 780.459.1528 • Take your Best Shot: Youth Photo Contest; Until Jan 12

goodwomen.ca • Convergence • Dec 5-7, 8 pm • Tickets available at TIX on the Square

FILM: DEC 2013

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Meine Bilder Sind Kluger Als Ich; Painting and Installation Exhibition by Nathaniel Wong; Until Dec 31 PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY •

FAVA: VIDEO KITCHEN • 9722 102 St • 780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Video Kitchen workshop provides a creative place to explore and express your ideas visually. It is a pre-requisite to Main Course • Sat, 10-2 pm, Until Dec 14 • $695+GST

THEATRE: DEC 2013 A CHRISTMAS CAROL • Citadel

12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Winter Group Shows; New work by gallery artists; Nov 23 - Feb 8

Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Edmonton’s favourite holiday tradition continues for an unprecedented 14th year. With an unforgettable story, rich characters and dazzling special effects, A Christmas Carol is exceptional family entertainment

• Nov 30 - Dec 23

BLOODY POETRY• Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St and 87 Ave • 780.429.2495 • tixonthesquare.ca • Haunted by the ghosts of what could be, the play entangles poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, gothic novelist Mary Shelley, poet Lord Byron and their muse Claire Clairemont Godwin in an enduring love circle, swirling with lyrical language, and swimming in provocative ideas • Until Dec 7, 7:30 pm; matinee Dec 5 @ 12:30 pm • Evening: $11 Student, $22 Adult, $20 Senior; Matinee: $11 Student, $17 Adult, $15 Senior; Preview: All tickets $5; Mondays are two-for-one

THE CHRISTMAS CAROL PROJECT • Westbury Theatre, 10330 - 84 Ave • 780.409.1910 • fringetheatre.ca • Since its inception in 1996, the Christmas Carol Project has seen more than 90 performances, ﬁve tours, a CD and an award winning television special. The show features an extremely talented cast of Edmonton-based musicians who have created a collection of songs written from the perspectives of their characters. (All ages) • Dec 21-22

CRANATRIUM • Westbury Theatre, 10330 - 84 Ave • 780.409.1910 • fringetheatre.ca • Fireﬂy’s brand new Aerial Musical Spectacle accompanies a fearless doctor into the mind of the

woman with a mysterious illness and a dark secret, a place called The Craniatrium. (All ages) • Until Dec 8

ELVIS AND THE LAS VEGAS HANGOVER • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM, #2690, 8882 170 St •780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • From B. Cunningham the creator of Night at the Museum of Rock and Roll and Ghost Busted, Jubilations Dinner Theatre Busted, proudly presents Elvis and the Las Vegas Hangover. Featuring hit songs by Elvis Presley, and many, many more • Nov 1 - Feb 14

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Heart to Heart Speakers Series; First Saturday of each month, featuring a topical speaker and a variety of social issues and ideas; Dec 7, noon -2 pm; admission by donation • Stirfry Variety Night; This is our once a month fundraising evening, featuring a cabaret of poets, musicians and dancers; Dec 7, 6-11pm; admission by donation THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL, STARS AND STRIPES • Mayﬁeld Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayﬁeldtheatre.ca • Join us for a jam-packed musical evening as we explore the origins of rock ‘n’ roll from its infancy, which saw jazz and

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411 - 124 St • 780.488.3619 • scottgallery.com • Panforte: a group exhibition featuring a three-dimensional advent calendar; Dec 1-25 SNAP GALLERY • 10123 121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Member’s Show; Nov 28 - Dec 21 SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35 – 5th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • MEMBERS MINI SHOW; Dec 2 - Jan • CHRISTMAS GALA; Dec 6, 7 pm

VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION • 10215 - 112 St, 3rd Fl • 780.421.1731 • visualartsalberta. com • Canadian Icons: Brand y Saturley and The Institute of Morphoid Research: Jennifer Akkermans: Dec 5 - Jan 25; opening reception Dec 5, 7 - 9:30 pm

VISUAL ARTS STUDIO ASSOCIATION (VASA) • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St. Albert • 780.460.5990• vasa.ca • Wet Paint; VASA Members Show

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • ANNUAL CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION; A group exhibition from our gallery artists; Dec 5-28

COMEDY: DEC 2013 COMIC STRIP • WEM, Bourbon St • 780.483.5999 • thecomicstrip.ca • Colin Moulton; Dec 4-8 • Guy Torrey; Dec 11-15 • Godfrey; Dec 18 - 22 • JR Brow; Dec 27 - 31

DANCE: DEC 2013 ALBERTA BALLET • 11120 - 82 Ave • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • The Nutcracker; Dec 12 - 15

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gospel transform into the undeniably infectious sound that became known as rock ‘n’ roll • Nov 12 - Feb 2

PROOF • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322 83 Ave • walterdaleplayhouse.com • Is there a link between genius and madness? Catherine worries that she may have inherited both. Proof, the 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning play by David Auburn, is also a story about human relationships, suggesting that trust and love can be as difﬁcult as establishing the truth of a mathematical proof. • Dec 4-14 • $12-$18, TIX on the Square

THE VELVETEEN RABBIT • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, 7000 143rd St •780.496.7381 • fortedmontontickets.com • Story time at Willow’s house is always an adventure and tonight she and her dad will dive into her favourite book, The Velveteen Rabbit • Dec 6 - 24, show times vary WITH BELLS ON • The Roxy Theatre, 10708 - 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • “He”, a mild-mannered accountant heads out for his ﬁrst night of adventure after a nasty divorce, but gets trapped in an elevator with “She”, a 7-foot glamazon who has created the Ultimate Christmas Queen Pageant Outﬁt. Come see these two mismatches try to escape in Theatre Network’s newest holiday tradition. • Dec 10-22, 8 pm; Sunday matinees, 2 pm

MUSIC: DEC 2013 ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • Meaghan Smith: Folk/Pop Christmas; Dec 13, 7:30 pm; $32 • Craig Brenan Big Band plays Duke Ellington’s The Nutcracker Suite: Jazz Christmas; Dec 14, 7:30 pm; $35 HORIZON STAGE • 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • Jimmy Rankin: Entertaining from coast to coast for over 20 years—as a solo artist and a member of the beloved Celtic-group, the Rankin Family—Jimmy’s sparkling guitar-work blends country, roots and rock ‘n’ roll into hearty, hopeful tunes that celebrate both love and life with fervor. His tinseltinged versions of Christmas songs will ﬁll the season with cheer; Dec 14, 7:30 pm; $40, $35 Students/Seniors • The McDades: Casting a Celtic glow on the carols of the season, The McDades weave together wishful woodwinds, soaring strings and rollicking world rhythms to create a Christmas concert like no other; Dec 21, 7:30 pm; $45, $40 Students/Seniors

MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE • 9502 – 100 Ave, Morinville • 780.939.7839 • morinvillecentre.ca • Peter North and Front Porch Review; Review Dec 6 • Jublioso Hand bell Choir and Concordia Chorus; Chorus Dec 15

MACLAB CENTRE • 4308 - 50 St., Leduc • 780.980.1866 • maclabcentre. com • The Acoustiholics Acoustiholics; Dec 21, 7pm; $10, $5 Kids 12 and under

NEW YEAR’S EVE DOWNTOWN • Sir Winston Churchill Square, 100 St and 102 Ave • 780.442.5311 • eventsedmonton.ca • Ring in the new year in downtown. Join us for Edmonton’s best New Year’s Eve party and ﬁreworks • Dec 31 • Free admission

SHELL THEATRE • 8700 - 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/dowcentre • Jimmy Rankin; Dec 13, 7:30 pm

THE CARROT COMMUNITY ARTS COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • 780.471.1580 • thecarrot.ca • Jingle Jammin’; A reading of A Child’s Christmas in Whales, live music, food, and then carolling around the Ave.; Dec 13 • Free event

CLASSICAL MUSIC: DEC 2013 ALBERTA BAROQUE ENSEMBLE •Robertson–Wesley United Church, 10209 – 123 St • 780.467.6531 • albertabaroque.com • Music for a Festive Season; Dec 8, 3 pm

CELEBRATE THE SEASON • Alberta Legislature, 10800 97 Ave • 780-4277362 • assembly.ab.ca • An annual holiday tradition at the Alberta Legislature. Free hot chocolate is served evenings in the rotunda, with Alberta choirs performing every evening from 7-9 p.m. and school groups performing weekdays at noon. • Dec 5-23, 7 - 9 pm • Free admission

CHRISTMAS CONCERT: CONCORDIA COMMUNITY CHORUS AND JUBILOSO! BELLS OF CONCORDIA • Bethel Lutheran Church 298 Bethel Drive, Sherwood Park • tixonthesquare.ca • Dec 16, 7:30 pm

CONCORDIA CONCERT CHOIR CHRISTMAS CONCERT • Trinity Lutheran Evangelical Church, 10014-81 Ave • tixonthesquare.ca • Dec 1, 3 pm

DA CAMERA SINGERS • All Saints Cathedral, 10035 103 St • 780.919.9132 • dacamera.ab.ca • Kings and Shepherds: A seasonal offering of carols old and new, featuring works by Willan, Berlioz, and Jonathan Dove. • Dec 14, 7 pm

FESTIVAL CITY WINDS • Robert Tegler Student Centre 7128 Ada Boulevard • festivalcitywinds.ca • Winter Wonderland : All band s performing original works and seasonal favourites. • Dec 7, 7:30 pm • $10

KOKOPELLI CHOIR • McDougall United Church, 10025 101 St • 780.977.7295• kokopellichoirs.com • Snow in a Dark Night: All ﬁve of Kokopelli’s choirs share the stage for a Celtic holiday program. With special Vancouver guest harpist Gillian Skinner. • Dec 21, 2 pm and 7 pm • $20, $15 Students PRO CORO CANADA • Winspear centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.420.1247 • procoro.ab.ca • A Pro Coro Christmas: An annual favourite. With musical guests the Strathcona String Quartet and the Edmonton Youth Choir (dir. John Wiebe). • Dec 15, 7 - 9 pm • Free admission

WINSPEAR CENTRE • 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Hand el’s Massiah; Dec 6-7, 7:30 pm • Chantal Kreviazuk; Dec 10, 7:30 pm • A Lightly Classical Christmas; Dec 19, 8pm • We Wish You A Merry Christmas!; Dec 20-21, 8 pm, Dec 22, 2 pm

JANUARY 2014 ART GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: JAN 2014 ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Lady Spider House; The Art Gallery of Alberta has commissioned internationally renowned, Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer to design an interactive haunted house; Until Jan 12 • CHAGALL: Daphnis et Chloé; The set of 42 lithographs titled Daphnis and Chloé is seen as Chagall’s most important graphic work among his vastly varied production; Oct 26 - Feb 16 • Augatuk: Mediator between Two; gathering works from Edmonton collectors who have drawn from a geographically wide range of Inuit communities; Oct 26 - Feb 16 • Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums; examines the evolution of thematic and stylistic trends in Italian art from religious paintings of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance to secular neoclassical and genre paintings of the 19th century; Dec 14 - Mar 9 • BMO World of Creativity: Cabinets of Curiosity; Explore the wondrous and curious collection of local artist Lyndal Osborne, and enter a world familiar yet strange! Use your senses to discover natural and manmade creations in unexpected places. Hunt for clues, identify the unusual and gather ideas to create a collection of your own; Until Jun 30, 2014

BOYLE ST PLAZA • #101, 9538-103A Ave • 780.422.5857 • boyleprojections@ heartofboyleSt.ca • Boyle St Projections; a Living Local digital art project; Nov 15 onward CROOKED POT GALLERY • 491251 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • parkland potters.com • A Taste of Home: Functional wheel thrown, altered and hand built pottery for the winter table; Jan 10 - Feb 28 DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412 124th St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Various Gallery Artists - Group show GALLERY AT MILNER • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca/art-gallery • Edmonton Calligraphic Society: selected works; Jan 1-31 HARCOURT HOUSE • 3rd Fl, 10215 112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse. ab.ca • Main Space: Jill Ho-You: Physical anthropology has long demonstrated

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Hospital, 8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org • Houses, Homes by Wendy Gervais: Wendy began drawing the houses in the Garneau neighbourhood because she was fascinated with the idea that the homes were embedded with stories and memories; Jan 11 - Mar 16

ALBERTA BALLET • 11120 82 Ave •

MULTICULTURAL HERITAGE CENTRE • 5411-51 St., Stony Plain • 963 9935 • multicentre.org • Pat Wagensveld; Paintings; Jan 16 - Feb 14; opening reception Jan 19, 1-3:30 pm

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • museeheritage.com • 780.459.1528 • Take your Best Shot: Youth Photo Contest; Until Jan 12 • Piece Makers (Quilting): How Our Grand mothers Re-cycled; Jan 21 - Mar 23

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Winter Group Shows; New work by gallery artists; Until Feb 8 PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES • 8555 Roper Road •780.427.1750 • culture.alberta. ca/paa/ • Victory on the Field Exhibit; Victory on the Field explores the effects of the First and Second World Wars on sports in Alberta; Until Jan 31

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845 102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Chop Suey on the Prairies; A History of Chinese Restaurants in Alberta;; Until Apr 27, 2014 • Pattern Wizardry; Until Mar 9 • Species at Risk; Risk Until Mar 16

SNAP GALLERY • 10123 121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Dominique Petrin;; Jan 16 - Mar 1 UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS • museums.ualberta.ca • Human Ecology Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • The Re-Birth of Venus: Fashion and The Venus Kallipygos: Explores the inﬂuence of art on fashion through the study of Venus Kallipygos, and its pervasive inﬂuence on dress • Until Mar 2, 2014

VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA CIATION • 10215 - 112 St, 3rd Fl ASSOCIATION • 780.421.1731 • visualartsalberta.com • Canadian Icons: Brand y Saturley and The Institute of Morphoid Research: Jennifer Akkermans: Until Jan 25 • Alberta

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ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St. Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • PPS Danse presents Danse Lhasa Danse: Dance show; Jan 16, 7:30 pm; $25/$38 BRIAN WEBB DANCE COMPANY • Timms Centre, northeast corner of 112 St and 87 Ave • 780.420.1757 • bwdc. ca • Alberta Ballet’s Dancer’s Works • Jan 17-18 • Tickets available at TIX on the Square

FILM: JAN 2014 EDMONTON OPERA FILM SERIES • Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • A ﬁlm series that explores and relates thematically to its 2013/14 season of productions • Jan 8 • Free admission

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that organs, teeth and bones record events such as disease and trauma. Therefore the physical body retains traces of memory at the tissue, cell and molecular levels. Ho-You’s work draws insights from these visceral observations and attempts to express how our identities are linked to the often mysterious complexity of our bodies; Dec 5 - Jan 17

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SCIENCE IN CINEMA • Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • An initiative to help illuminate the science in popular cinema and provide a venue for the general public to learn about current research • Jan 16

THEATRE: JAN 2014 A BRONTE BURLESQUE • The Roxy Theatre, 10708 -124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Blood is thicker than ink. On the last night of her life, Charlotte Bronte—author of Jane Eyre —is visited by her dead siblings, Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights), ), Anne Bronte ((Agnes Grey), ), and Branwell Bronte. Merging burlesque with theatre to share the secret lives of these sister novelists. • Jan 21 Feb 2, 8 pm; Sunday matinees at 2pm

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Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • rapidﬁretheatre.com • Live date auction to hit the town with the Rapid Fire crew • Jan 18, 7:30 pm • $5

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9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • The most acclaimed new play of this century, winner of the Tony, Olivier, Evening Stand ard and the Pulitzer Prize, Clybourne Park is an hilarious look at race and real estate that asks the questions many of us may not want to confront • Jan 25 - Feb 16

DEEP FREEZE BYZANTINE WINTER FESTIVAL • 9210 - 118 Ave • 780.471.1580 • deepfreezefest.ca • A free family event that brings together the Ukrainian, Franco-Albertan, FrancoAfrican, First Nations, and Acadian/East Coast communities to revel in the magic and beauty of winter. This festival will offer exiting opportunities for both patrons and artists creating unexpected experiences celebrating the community through its urban land scape and exceptional spaces. • Jan 10 - 11 • admission by donation

ELVIS AND THE LAS VEGAS HANGOVER • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM, #2690, 8882 170 St •780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • From B. Cunningham the creator of Night at the Museum of Rock and Roll and Ghost Busted, Jubilations Dinner Theatre proudly presents Elvis and the Las Vegas Hangover. Featuring hit songs by Elvis Presley, and many, many more! • Nov 1 - Feb 14

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Healthy Living Therapies HLTAA Gatherings; Speakers are members of HLTAA, these are public information sessions but please register in advance; Jan 22, 6:459:15 pm; free admission THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL, STARS AND STRIPES • Mayﬁeld Dinner Theatre, 16615 - 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayﬁeldtheatre.ca • Join us for a jam-packed musical evening as we explore the origins of rock ‘n’ roll from its infancy, which saw jazz and gospel transform into the undeniably infectious sound that became known as rock ‘n’ roll • Nov 12 - Feb 2

MACLAB CENTRE • 4308 - 50 St., Leduc • 780.980.1866 • maclabcentre. com • Wayne Lee; Hypnotist; Jan 31, 8pm; $25, $20 Student/Senior • Figura Theatre: Peter and the Wolf; Jan 26, 2pm; $10

MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE COLOUR OF FLESH • Varscona Theatre, 10329 83rd Ave • shadowtheatre.org • A dramatic love triangle set during the turbulent years around the French Revolution. Elisabeth Vigée le Brun, a beautiful, social-climbing portrait painter, uses her affair with Count Alexis de Ligne, a leftleaning philand erer, to get a commission to paint the naive young Queen Marie Antoinette. While Elisa uses the queen to further her career and Alexis uses the queen to further his political goals, both learn to love the woman they’re exploiting • Jan 29 - Feb 16

NATIONAL ELEVATOR PROJECT PART 2 • Meet at TIX on the Square, Sir Winston Churchill Square 9930 – 102 Ave • theatre-yes.ca • Theatre Yes’s National Elevator Project features short plays written for and performed in working elevators. Theatre Yes has commission established Canadian Playwrights from across the country to write very short plays (ﬁve minutes and under) that explore the ritual of the elevator ride. The plays require audiences to be in very close proximity to the performers inviting them to be a part of one-of-a-kind performance experiences. • Jan 21 - Feb 1, 7:30-9:30 pm nightly except Mon • Tickets: Adults $25; Students, Seniors, Artists $17

tre, 10330 84 Ave • 780.409.1910 • fringetheatre.ca • In a futuristic, dystopian world, in an undisclosed city, people must pay for the privilege to urinate. For decades, a serious drought has inﬂicted on society a vast poverty, although callous business tycoons such as Cladwell B Caldwell, have made a fortune on the monopolization of restrooms. A brutal police force maintains order, sending violators of the public amenity taxation law to an uncertain and frightening fate in a mysterious place called “Urinetown”. Heroic and revolutionary, Bobby Strong leads the ﬁght against these injustices in a musical comedy that spoofs musical comedy, managing to be silly and fun while showing a dark a profound look at some real world socio- political and environmental issues. (Mature audiences) • Jan 23 - Feb 1

ICE ON WHYTE FESTIVAL • end of Steel Park, Gateway Boulevard (103 St) and Tommy Banks Way • 780.758.5878• iceonwhyte.ca • The park will be ﬁlled with ice and snow carvings, the giant ice slide, an interactive children’s play area, food, fashion, culturally themed days, live music, hot beverages and more • Jan 24 - Feb 2, 7:30 pm • Adults $5, Children $2.50

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MACLAB CENTRE • 4308 - 50 St., Leduc • 780.980.1866 • maclabcentre. com • Royal Wood; Jan 24, 7:30 pm; $33, $30 Student/Senior

NORTHERN BLUEGRASS CIRCLE MUSIC SOCIETY • Pleasantview Community Hall, 10860 - 57 Ave • bluegrassnorth.com • Winter Jam Camp; Jan 17-19 at Camp He Ho Ha, Seba Beach; a weekend dedicated to Jamming and

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MUSIC: JAN 2014 ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • Royal Wood: Folk/Pop/Rock; Jan 25, 7:30pm; $30 • BAM! Percussion: Family show. Quebec’s turbo-charged percussive trio electriﬁes crowds with its frenzied rhythms and deliriously funny sketches; Jan 26, 2 pm; $15/$18 • Fatoumata Diawara: African music; Jan 29, 7:30 pm; $32 • Josh Ritter: Folk Rock; Jan 31, 7:30 pm; $45

EDMONTON BLUES SOCIETY DANCE • Old Timer’s Cabin, 9430 Scona Road • EdmontonBluesSociety. net • Band TBA • Jan 11, 7:30 pm • $5 members, $10 guest

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Open Stage hosted by Tommaso Zillio; Jan 25, 1-4 pm; admission by donation

FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 - 71 Ave • 780.438.6410 • fmfc.org • The Lazy Eights, with special guest Heather Blush • Jan 24 • $18 (advance)/$22 (door)/ child under 12 half-price (door only); Six-pack and full season pack available. Advance ticket available at Acoustic Music Shop, TIX on the Square

HORIZON STAGE • 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • Hotel California – The Original Eagles Tribute Band : Indulge in a night of timeless tunes like “Take it Easy,” “Desperado,” “Life in the Fastlane,” and “Heartache Tonight.” Having shared the stage with the likes of the Doobie Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Styx, Hotel California’s shows are a guaranteed crowd-pleaser; Jan 9, 7:30 pm; $40, $35 Students/Seniors • Ian Tyson: Musician, rancher, storyteller and Canadian icon: Ian Tyson hardly needs any introduction around these parts; Jan 17-18, 7:30 pm; $40, $35 Students/ Seniors • BAM! Percussion: The percussive power of BAM! is simply explosive. Like living cartoon characters, they take their audiences on an adventure through the world of percussion, using everything from a household fan to giant barrels to twinkling chimes; Jan 25, 4 pm; $20, $16 Students/Seniors • The Rodeo Riders: Complete with rhinestones and star-studded boots these good ‘ol boys perform a mix of western hits and country stand ards from the ‘40s and ‘50s with just a touch of their own swingin’ style; Jan 29, 2 pm; $25 All ages • Sarah Hagen – Classical Lecture and Recital: Let pianist Sarah Hagen whisk you away into the world of two of the most celebrated composers and talented musicians of the 19th century -- Robert and Clara Schumann; Jan 30, 10:30 am; $25 All ages

Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/dowcentre • Musica Intima; Jan 18, 7:30 pm • Kory Wlos; Jan 25, 7:30 pm

CLASSICAL MUSIC: JAN 2014 CONCORDIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA EVENING OF DANCE • Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • tixonthesquare.ca • Jan 18, 7pm

CONVOCATION HALL • U of A Campus • music.ualberta.ca • On the path to Bach at MaCH: Windows into the Times, Teaching and Traditions: What forces shaped Bach’s ordered complexity?; Jan 19, 3 pm • Beethoven’s Piano and Violin Sonatas, Part Two: Hear the piano and violin played in full colour; Jan 24, 8 pm

EDMONTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY • Convocation Hall, U of A Campus • 780.433.4532 • edmontonchambermusic.org • TRIO JEAN PAUL; Jan 31, 8 pm; Adults $35, Seniors (65+) $25, Students $10

EDMONTON CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY • Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Drive • 587.708.2044 • edmontonclassicalguitarsociety.org • A concert by the preeminent lutenist of our time, Paul O’Dette • Jan 24, 8 pm • $30 regular, $25 student/ senior/ECGS member

EDMONTON YOUTH ORCHESTRA • Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr • 780.436.7932 • eyso.com • 33rd Annual Northern Alberta Concerto Competition • Jan 12

WINSPEAR CENTRE • 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Brahms and Beethoven; Jan 10, 7:30 pm, Jan 11, 8 pm • Baroque’s Greatest Hits; Jan 16, 8 pm • Symphonic Celebration; Jan 19, 2 pm • Late Night Ravel; Jan 24, 9:30 pm • Ravel and Khachaturian; Jan 25, 8 pm • University of Alberta High School Honour Band with the Symphonic Wind Ensemble: Alberta’s most talented highschool band students and the University of Alberta’s Symphonic Wind Ensemble; Feb 9, 3 pm

FEBRUARY 2014 ART GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: FEB 2014 ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • CHAGALL: Daphnis et Chloé; The set of 42 lithographs titled Daphnis and Chloé is seen as Chagall’s most important graphic

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Stricker; Feb 13 - Mar 4; opening reception Feb 13, 7-9 pm

BOYLE ST PLAZA • #101, 9538-103A Ave • 780.422.5857 • boyleprojections@ heartofboyleSt.ca • Boyle St Projections; a Living Local digital art project; Nov 15 onward

VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION • 10215 - 112 St, 3rd Fl

CROOKED POT GALLERY • 491251 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • parkland potters.com • A Taste of Home: Functional wheel thrown, altered and hand built pottery for the winter table; Until Feb 28

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412 124th St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Show TBA EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Art Party at Expressionz; Join us for casual conversation, beverages and a fully supplied art “session” where Charity Brown instructs us on the project of the evening. Past sessions have included silk painting, silk screening, timed sketching and more. Artful abilities are not assumed or expected!; Feb 6, 7pm; $25

GALLERY AT MILNER • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca/art-gallery • A Rocky Mountain Minute: Land scape painting by Donna Miller on the Gallery at Milner walls; Feb 1-28 • Quirky Quillers Guild: selected works; Feb 1-28 LANDO GALLERY • 103 - 10310 124 St • 780.990.1161 • land ogallery.com • It’s Warm Inside!!; A selling exhibition of Gallery artists and secondary market works; Until Feb 18 • Land o Art Auctions; preview on Feb 21, 22 and 23; Fine art auction Feb 23, 2 pm • March Exhibition and Sale; a selling exhibition of Gallery artists and secondary market works; Feb 28 - Mar 25

LATITUDE 53 • 10242 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Jin Yuan Huang: Transmigrating Inadequacy; A massive installation of photogram based mural-scapes and ﬂoor pieces; Jan 10 - Feb 15 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org • Houses, Homes by Wendy Gervais: Wendy began drawing the houses in the Garneau neighbourhood because she was fascinated with the idea that the homes were embedded with stories and memories; Jan 11 - Mar 16

MULTICULTURAL HERITAGE CENTRE • 5411-51 St., Stony Plain • 963 9935 • multicentre.org • Pat Wagensveld; Paintings; Until Feb 14 • Keith Harder; New works; Feb 16 - Mar 19; opening reception Feb 16, 1-3:30 pm

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St. Albert Place, 5 St Anne St, St. Albert • museeheritage.com • 780.459.1528 • Piece Makers (Quilting): How Our Grand mothers Re-cycled; Jan 21 - Mar 23

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Winter Group Shows; New work by gallery artists; Until Feb 8 • Tricia Firmaniuk and Nomi

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845 102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Chop Suey on the Prairies; A History of Chinese Restaurants in Alberta; Until Apr 27, 2014 • Pattern Wizardry; Until Mar 9 • Species at Risk; Until Mar 16 • Family Day; Free admission; Feb 17

SNAP GALLERY • 10123 121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Dominique Petrin; Jan 16 - Mar 1

• 780.421.1731 • visualartsalberta.com • Alberta Society of Artists: Celebrating Alberta: In this juried exhibition, Alberta artists interpret and explore our land scape, history, icons and culture through painting , lithography, photography, drawing, ﬁbre work , sculpture and mixed media; Jan 30 - Mar 15

VISUAL ARTS STUDIO ASSOCIATION (VASA) • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St. Albert • 780.460.5990• vasa.ca • Edmonton Art Club

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd. com • GUY ROY; A land scape artist who enjoys painting on site in the Charlevoix region of Quebec; Feb 8-20

DANCE: FEB 2014 ALBERTA BALLET • 11120 82 Ave • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • Ailey II (Guest Company); Feb 14-15

BRIAN WEBB DANCE COMPANY • Timms Centre, northeast corner of 112 St and 87 Ave • 780.420.1757 • bwdc. ca • Prairie Dance Circuit featuring Usha Gupta, Robyn Poitras and Johanna Bunding • Feb 28- Mar 1 • Tickets available at TIX on the Square

MILE ZERO DANCE • Location TBA • milezerodance.com • The Great Depression • Feb 1, 8 pm • $15/members, $20 general

MILE ZERO DANCE • Location TBA

APPLES AND ORANGES • Westbury Theatre, 10330 – 84 Ave • 780.409.1910 • fringetheatreadventures.ca • This delightful play, written in rhyme and full of song, is set on an island inhabited by the warring Papples and Orange-Folk. Join the journey of Connor and Ceili, children from opposite sides of the island as they meet and discover that people can be as different as apples and oranges just like their communities taught them, but they can also be friends • Feb 7, 7 pm; Feb 8, 11 am and 2 pm • Adult tickets: $18.90, Senior/student tickets: $15.75, Child (12 and under) tickets: $13.13

A TALE OF TWO CITIES • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Based on Charles Dickens’ masterpiece, A Tale of Two Cities is a musical that focuses on the love triangle between young beauty Lucie Manette, French aristocrat Charles Darnay and drunken English cynic Sydney Carton—all caught in the clutches of the bloody French Revolution • Feb 27 - Mar 8 BIG BOOM THEORY 2: TIME TRAVELING GEEKS • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM, #2690, 8882 170 St •780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • It’s been one year since Sheldon Cooper visited The Canadian International Science Awards Centre, and he’s coming back. Why? Fantastic question. He’s perfected time travel. That’s right. Join Sheldon, Amy, Leonard, Penny, Howard and Bernadette as they travel through space and time to prove once and for all that nerds really do have more fun • Feb 7 - Apr 13

BLITHE SPIRIT • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322 - 83 Ave • walterdaleplayhouse. com • Blithe Spirit is Noël Coward’s escapist comedy about a novelist who invites a medium to his house hoping for inspiration for his next book. Supernatural comedy ensues when the dead ex-wife’s spirit is summoned and seems eager to reclaim her former husband —in this world or the next • Feb 5-15 • $12$18, TIX on the Square CLYBOURNE PARK • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • The most acclaimed new play of this century, winner of the Tony, Olivier, Evening Stand ard and the Pulitzer Prize, Clybourne Park is an hilarious look at race and real estate that asks the questions many of us may not want to confront • Until Feb 16

• milezerodance.com • Static Electric • Date TBA • Artist in Residence Showing • Studio E (9533 Jasper Ave), Feb 20, 7 pm • $10/members, $12 general

MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE • 9502 – 100 Ave, Morinville • 780.939.7839 • morinvillecentre.ca • Ballet Jorgen Romeo and

DEATH TRAP • Mayﬁeld Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayﬁeldtheatre.ca • One of the longestrunning Broadway thrillers in history, this clever play offers a rare and skillful blend of suspense and humour • Feb 11 - Apr 6

DO YOU WANT WHAT I HAVE GOT?: A CRAIGSLIST CANTATA

Juliet; Feb 14

FILM: FEB 2014 FAVA: MAIN COURSE • 9722 102 St • 780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Participants must have completed FAVA’s Video Kitchen course, or have proven equivalent experience. You’ll shoot and edit your own short, on ﬁlm or video • Sat, 10-2 pm, Feb 22 - May 31, No class Mar 22, Apr 19, May 19 • $895+GST FAVA: SCREENWRITING • 9722 102 St • 780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Develop your short or feature ﬁlm script or onehour teleplay in an intense but supportive workshop setting • Tue, 6:30-9 pm, Jan Until Apr 8, No class Feb 25, Mar 4 • Early Bird $325+GST (paid by October 31, 2013) Regular $375+GST SCIENCE IN CINEMA • Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • An initiative to help illuminate the science in popular cinema and provide a venue for the general public to learn about current research • Feb 15

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• Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Hilarious online personal ads—set to music. Toronto’s phenomenon, Canada’s latest hit musical revue comes to the new Club cabaret venue at the Citadel • Feb 5-23

ELVIS AND THE LAS VEGAS HANGOVER • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM, #2690, 8882 170 St •780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • From B. Cunningham the creator of and Ghost Busted Jubilations Dinner Theatre proudly presents Elvis and the Las Vegas Hangover. Featuring hit songs by Elvis Presley, and many, many more! •Nov 1 - Feb 14

our monthly fundraising evening, featuring a cabaret of poets, musicians and dancers; Feb 1, 6-11 pm; admission by donation

THE FANTASTICS •

C103, 8529 Gateway Boulevard • threeformtheatre. com • Two neighboring fathers who trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love by pretending to feud. The fathers hire travelling actors to stage a mock abduction, so that Matt can heroically seem to save Luisa, ending the supposed feud. When the children discover the deception, they reject the arranged love match and separate. Each then gains disillusioning experiences of the real world, seen in parallel fantasy sequences. They return to each other bruised but enlightened, and they renew their vows with more maturity. • Feb 27 - Mar 1, 7:30 pm; matinee Mar 1, 2pm • Students $15, Adults $20

HEY LADIES! • The Roxy theatre, 10708 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • The ladies are back! Miss Leona Brausen, Miss Cathleen Rootsaert and Miss Davina Stewart bring their wild and womanly talkshow/gameshow/ varietyshow/sideshow back for another season. • Feb 7, 8pm LEO• Théâtre de La Cité francophone, 8627 91 St •780.469.8400 • lunitheatre. ca • Original idea of Tobias Wegner, a Production of Circle of Eleven (Berlin) • Feb 12-16 LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST• Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St and 87 Ave • 780.429.2495 • tixonthesquare.ca • The King of Navarre and his three lords swear an oath to scholarship, vowing to adhere to a strict regimen of reading, writing, fasting, and the avoidance of women for three years. But the arrival of the Princess of France and her party has the men scrambling to ﬁnd loopholes in the contract • Feb 6-15, 7:30 pm; matinee Feb 13, 12:30 pm • Evening: $11 Student, $22 Adult, $20 Senior; Matinee: $11 Student, $17 Adult, $15 Senior; Preview: All tickets $5; Mondays are two-for-one

MACLAB CENTRE • 4308 - 50 St., Leduc • 780.980.1866 • maclabcentre. com • Ted Outerbridge: Magical Moments in Time; Illusionist; Feb 16, 3 pm; $25, $20 Student/Senior

MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE COLOUR OF FLESH • Varscona Theatre, 10329 83rd Ave • shadowtheatre.org • A dramatic love triangle set during the turbulent years around the French Revolution. Elisabeth Vigée le Brun, a beautiful, social-climbing portrait painter, uses her affair with Count Alexis de Ligne, a leftleaning philand erer, to get a commission to paint the naive young Queen Marie Antoinette. While Elisa uses the Queen to further her career and Alexis uses the Queen to further his political goals, both learn to love the woman they’re exploiting • Jan 29 - Feb 16

NEVERMORE, THE IMAGINARY LIFE AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF EDGAR ALLAN POE • Westbury Theatre, 10330 84th Ave •catalysttheatre.ca • Catalyst Theatre’s land mark, multiaward winning journey through Poe’s life returns home • Feb 15 - Mar 2 • Tickets at TIX on the Square

develop an emotional intimacy deeper than what one would expect • Feb 1416, 20-22, 27-Mar 1• $47.50

THE CARROT COMMUNITY ARTS COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • 780.471.1580 • thecarrot.ca • Rhythms of the Earth;; Rhythms of the Earth celebrates our Black History month; admission by donation

WEST SIDE STORY • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • 866.540.7469 • edmonton.broadway.com • Presented by Broadway Across Canada, the story of Romeo and Juliet is transported to the turbulent Streets of New York City in the 1950s • Feb 18-23 WETASKIWIN THEATRE SOCIETY • 5002 53 Ave, Wetaskiwin • 780.352.8383• wetaskiwintheatresociety. com • Hank Williams: Lost Highway; The play follows Williams’ rise from his beginnings on the Louisiana Hayride to his triumphs on the Grand Ole Opry to his eventual self-destruction at twenty-nine; Feb 14-16 and 21-23

MUSIC: FEB 2014 ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • Josh Ritter: Folk Rock; Feb 1, 7:30 pm; $45 • California Guitar Trio and Montreal Guitar Trio: Blues/Jazz; Feb 8, 7:30 pm; $40 • Turtle Island Quartet presents The Art of the Groove: Jazz String Quartet; Feb 14, 7:30 pm; $38 • Turtle Island Quartet presents A String Quartet is like a Family: Family show. Grammy Award-winning ensemble Turtle Island Quartet presents an engaging and accessible musical showcase that draws comparisons between the interactions of instruments and the dynamic of family life; Feb 15, 2 pm; $15/$18 • Storytellers feat. Mary Gauthier, Lori McKenna, Rose Cousins and Chloe Albert: Singersongwriters; Feb 22, 7:30 pm; $35 • Chic Gamine and Oh My Darling: Pop music; Feb 28, 7:30 pm; $28

EDMONTON BLUES SOCIETY DANCE • Old Timer’s Cabin, 9430 Scona Road • EdmontonBluesSociety. net • Band TBA • Feb 22, 7:30 pm • $5 members, $10 guest

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Uptown Folk Club Winterfest; Music from local and North America’s best Folk and Roots Performers. Feb 14-16 • Open Stage hosted by Tommaso Zillio; Feb 22, 1-4pm; admission by donation FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 - 71 Ave • 780.438.6410 • fmfc.org • Feb 7: Madison Violet • Feb 21: Dala • $18 (advance)/$22 (door)/child under 12 half-price (door only); Six-pack and full season pack available. Advance ticket available at Acoustic Music Shop, TIX on the Square

HORIZON STAGE

• 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • Joe Sealy: Africville Stories: Joe Sealy’s Africville Stories is a moving exploration of history and a personal story, all told through jazz; Feb 8, 7:30 pm; $35, $30 Students/ Seniors

RAPID FIRE THEATRE: WILDFIRE • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • 780-443-6044 • rapidﬁretheatre.com • Three weeks of nightly teen improv shows • Feb 11 - Mar 1 • $10; $8 for high school or younger

MACLAB CENTRE • 4308 - 50 St.,

SAME TIME, NEXT YEAR • Kinsmen Hall, 47 Riel Dr, St Albert • 780.222.0102 • stalberttheatre.com • Dinner Theatre; New Jersey accountant George and Oakland housewife Doris meet at a Northern California inn in February 1951. They have an affair, and agree to meet once a year, despite the fact both are married to others and have six children between them. Over the course of the next 24 years, they

TURAL CENTRE • 9502 – 100 Ave, Morinville • 780.939.7839 • morinvillecentre.ca • Hotel California/Eagles Tribute Band ; Feb 22

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Leduc • 780.980.1866 • maclabcentre. com • Hotel California: The Original EAGLES Tribute Band ; Feb 21, 7:30 pm; $33, $30 Student/Senior

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NORTHERN LIGHTS FOLK CLUB • Queen Alexand ra Community Hall, 10425 University Ave • Dry Bones; Feb 1 • Jack Semple; Feb 15 • Doors 7:00, Show 8:00 • Tickets: $20 (advance), $25 (door - if available)

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SHELL THEATRE • 8700 - 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask. ca/dowcentre • Strings and Swing: Jesse Peters and Lizzy Hoyt; Feb 1, 7:30 pm • Sass Jordan; Feb 21, 7:30 pm • Fred Penner; Feb 17, 3 pm

THE CARROT COMMUNITY ARTS COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • 780.471.1580 • thecarrot.ca • The Carrot by Moonlight;; A night for you and your sweetheart or a group of friends. Music by Red Hot Cool Blue, appetizers, and wine; Feb 15, 7:30-10 pm; $35 for two (includes a shared plate of appetizers and glass of wine for each person)

CLASSICAL MUSIC: FEB 2014 ALBERTA BAROQUE ENSEMBLE • Robertson–Wesley United Church, 10209 – 123 St • 780.467.6531 • albertabaroque.com • Concertos in a Grand Tradition; Feb 9, 3pm CONVOCATION HALL • U of A Campus • music.ualberta.ca • Brass Fireworks: 20th century works by Delerue, Ewazen, and Ewald, A brilliant display of musicianship; Feb 12, 8 pm

ADVERTORIAL

The Illusion of Joey By Bonnie Burkowitz and Alberto Cuadra

Hanging motionless backstage, the puppet star of “War Horse” looks only vaguely equine, like framework on which someone plans to build an animal. But the preening, snorting, galloping Joey that bursts on stage, is without question, a horse. The difference, say it’s creators, is the movement and the audience. “I think part of what’s special about puppets is that you’re working with a thing that is dead, and you have to struggle every second on the stage to make it live, “said Basil Jones, executive producer of Handspring Puppet Co. in South African which created all the show’s puppets. “once there is enough puppet pulling you in, you start filling in the rest, “said Adrian Kohler, Handspring’s artistic director and Jone’s partner of 41 years. “But you’ve got to be convinced in the beginning, and that’s the hard part.” Here is a look at Joey and the puppeteers who bring him to life.

A horse’s evolution

Joey is the culmination of years of Koher’s experimentation in designing and refining puppets that move like animals.

Tail

telegraphs a horse’s feelings and performs key tasks such as swatting flies, so a tail needs to be extremely flexible. It’s “hair” is strips of Tyvek, a very strong but lightweight synthetic fiber. (An original foam tail was highly flammable - not ideal on a stage with gunfire and explosives.) Bicycle brake cables mounted on the hind leg rods move the tail up down and sideways.

CONCORDIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT • Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • tixonthesquare.ca • Feb 2, 2 pm EDMONTON OPERA • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 87 Ave • 780-429-1000 • edmontonopera.com • Die Fledermaus: In an elaborate scheme involving mistaken identity, a masked ball and inﬁdelity, everything manages to go horribly wrong and horribly right in one evening. • Feb 1, 8 pm, Feb 4 and 6, 7:30 pm • tickets start at $20

Bicycle brake cables

Flexible nylon center rod

Joey’s leg mechanism can be traced to the play “Woyzeck on the Highveld.” In which a miniature rhinoceros needed to tap his front leg to pretend to snort. The jointed leg was controlled from behind with a lever and pulleys.

EDMONTON YOUTH ORCHESTRA • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.436.7932 • eyso.com • Senior and Intermediate Orchestras with Special Guests The Richard Eaton Singers • Feb 23, 2 pm • Adults: $15 Seniors and students: $10

I CHORISTI CHAMBER CHOIR • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 - 84 Ave • 780.977.6993 • iCoristi.com • Voices: i Coristi brings music inspired by a variety of world cultures, including music by Tormis, Brahms and Somers • Feb 22, 7:30 pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square

Two years later, a cynical, anthropomorphic hyena in “Faustus in Africa” had to be able to play checkers, so a more articulated paw was created in which two movements were controlled by a single cable. It was this puppet that future “War Horse” co-director Tom Morris saw and kept in mind.

KOKOPELLI CHOIR • West End Christian Reformed Church, 10015 149 St • 780.977.7295• kokopellichoirs.com • Ubuntu: Kokopelli and Òran present the season’s most innovative and exciting concert program, featuring guest artists from the Good Women Dance Collective as well as performances by Kikimasu (2 p.m.) and Shumayela (7 p.m.) • Feb 22 @ 2pm and 7 pm • $20, $15 Students NEW EDMONTON WIND SINFONIA • Convocation Hall, U. of A. campus • newedmontonwindsinfonia.com • Feb 23, 2:30 pm

PRO CORO CANADA • All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral, 10035 103 St • 780.420.1247 • procoro.ab.ca • Canadian Connections II: For the second year, two of Canada’s top professional ensembles will take the stage in Edmonton as Pro Coro Canada hosts the renowned Elmer Iseler Singers of Toronto and their artistic director, Lydia Adams. • Feb 9, 2:30 pm • Adult $30; Student/Senior $25

STRATHCONA STRING QUARTET • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • 780.240.9623 • josephinevanlier. com.ca • Renowned Dutch jazz pianist Bas van Lier will join his sister, Edmonton cellist Josephine van Lier and the Strathcona string quartet in a unique concert with music written by Bas van Lier • Feb 23, 8 pm

WINSPEAR CENTRE • 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Once Upon a Time; Feb 1, 2 pm • Life is a Cabaret!; Feb 7-8, 8pm • Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II; Feb 1, 2:30 pm and 7pm, Feb 16, 10:30

20 SEASON

Hind puppeteer

The lead character in “The Chimp Project” required extremely flexible limbs and hands, because in the story a domesticated chimp teaches sign language to wild chimps. It also needed to be able to bare it’s teeth, so the head control system became more complex.

operates the tail and back legs from angled rods that resemble ski poles. He often initiates movement because his view of the stage can be better than the Heart’s, who is sometimes blocked by the head and mane. Both the Heart and Hind stand upright and must be of similar height, usually 5-foot-6 to 5-10.

The production of “Tall Horse” required a massive but lightweight giraffe with human puppeteer inside, so the Handspring craftsmen came up with the case frame and transparent mesh skin that they would use for Joey and rival horse Topthorn in 2007.

Character development

Sources: Adrian Kohler, and Basil Jones of Handspring Puppet Co., The Lincoln Theatre, The Kennedy Center, puppeteers Christopher Mai, Derek Stratton and Rob Laqui.

Joey begins as a foal, a cross between a thoroughbred and a draft horse. The pupper is less flexible than the adult version but still requires three puppeteers. No puppets in the show contain electronics or robotics (with the exception of a tank made by another company). Kohler prefers simple mechanisms operated so that each performance is unique.

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Realistic gait

From early in training, puppeteers concentrate on walking, trotting, galloping and even pulling a plow and limping as a horse would. Walking is a specific four-court pattern. Front right, back left, back right. Trotting is two courts as hooves move in pairs. Galloping is six courts. one-two, three-four, with five-six being air time. Within weeks, the gait becomes automatic.

am • Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony; Feb 21, 7:30 pm, Feb 22, 8 pm • Music by Gershwin; Feb 27, 8 pm

Ears are a horse’s key emotional indicator. If it’s ears face forward, a horse is reluctant or maybe interested. Backward? It senses danger and may run or fight. Kohler spent 25 years perfecting a mechanism tha would make leather ears twitch 180 degrees as quickly and effortlessly as a horse’s do. The solution was a simple cable and a rubber band, pulling in opposite directions around a dowel. With a flick of one figer, the Head puppeteer can move one or both ears. This system flaps the wings of the bird puppets in the play as well.

MARCH 2014

Eyes

Ear Mechanism

are the most natural-looking element in the puppet, Kohler said, even though Joey’s don’t move. Clear resin is affixed over the painted iris and highly polished, so there is a wet look to it. “The way it catches light keeps it alive,” he said. Puppet eyes are so important that Handspring has an entire department.

ART GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: MAR 2014 ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA)

Drive Cable

Mouth

appears to nip and eat, ears appear to flatten and eyes seem to widen in terror. But none of these things actually happens. The eyes are fixed, the ears stay upright, and the mouth has no moving parts. “People come up to us and they say: “How did you do that?” said Jones. “And the answer is you did that! And that’s what people find delightful, when they realize that they’ve actually been party to the creation.

Rubber band

Clockwise rotation

Neutral position

Counter Clockwise Rotation

• 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums; examines the evolution of thematic and stylistic trends in Italian art from religious paintings of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance to secular neoclassical and genre paintings of the 19th century; Until Mar 9 • BMO World of Creativity: Cabinets of Curiosity; Explore the wondrous and curious collection of local artist Lyndal Osborne, and enter a world familiar yet strange! Use your senses to discover natural and manmade creations in unexpected places! Hunt for clues, identify the unusual and gather ideas to create a collection of your own; Until Jun 30, 2014

Head puppeteer

stands outside the horse and operates the ears, head and neck. The control handle flips easily to either side so that the puppeteer doesn’t get stuck between the horse and audience. One of the Head’s main responsibilities is using a fixed handle behind the puppet’s eyes to make sure the head is orientated correctly, so the horse appears to be looking where it’s supposed to be looking.

Heart puppeteer

operates the front legs and part of the neck, but his key responsibility is the horse’s breath.. The puppeteer’s torso rests in slots over the legs so it easily slides up and down, making the horse appear to exhale and inhale as the Heart bends and straightens his knees. While an audience may not notice consciously, Kohler said Joey’s breathing is what makes him seem to be alive. For that reason, the Heart is constantly in motion and has to be the strongest of the three puppeteers.

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412 124th St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Carmen Gonzalez, Dates and Show Title TBA: Carmen is a fresh new emerging artist with a fun contemporary/pop style. Painting exclusively in oils, she loves to combine bold patterns along with her unique colourful still lifes. Her compositions are happy and celebrate our inner child FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave

Bicycle cables Ear levers

• 780.488.2952 • thefrontgallery.com • Paddy Lamb; Mar 15 - Apr 3; opening reception Mar 15, 2-4 pm

GALLERY AT MILNER • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca/art-gallery • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Student: Student works curated by the Visual Arts Student Association of the University of Alberta; Mar 1-31 • Edmonton Stamp Club: special display; Mar 1-31

Main leg handle Lower leg handle

Cabled lever raises lower leg

LANDO GALLERY • 103 - 10310 124 St • 780.990.1161 • land ogallery.com • Spring on 124 St; a selling exhibition of Gallery artists and secondary market works; Mar 28 - Apr 30

Tendon

September 17-22, 2013 Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium Ticketmaster.ca • 1.855.985.5000

Tendon curls up hoof

Lightweight construction

The puppet’s body is made primarily of cane, which is easily shaped when wet, but is strong -- yet not rigid -- when dry. The puppets are wired together first, then each wire is replaced with waxed twine for more flexibility. Joey is about eight feet tall and weigh about 85 pounds.

Rugged spine

Joey’s spine is made of aluminum strong enough to support a rider. The puppet’s legs bear no weight; the Heart and Hind carry it all using custom-tailored backpack-style harnesses that slide into the torso. Because of the weight and the instability of a rider balanced above two puppeteers’ heads, scenes with riders are limited to less than seven minutes.

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LATITUDE 53 • 10242 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Tammy Salzl and Emily Jan; Mar 7 - Apr 19 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org • Houses, Homes by Wendy Gervais: Wendy began drawing the houses in the Garneau neighbourhood because she was fascinated with the idea that the homes were embedded with stories and memories; Until Mar 16 • Measuring A Year: By the Minute by Margie Davidson : Margie has been exploring different measurements of a year in her recent artwork: by the day; by the month; by the season; and in this work, by the minute. Using nature as her inspiration, she was drawn to the changes of the seasons and recorded these changes with every stitch in her artwork; Mar 22 - May 11 MULTICULTURAL HERITAGE CENTRE • 5411-51 St., Stony Plain • 963 9935 • multicentre.org • Keith Harder;; New works; Feb 16 - Mar 19; opening reception Feb 16 • Neil Fiertel Fiertel; Video works; Mar 21 - Apr 23; opening reception Mar 23, 1-3:30 pm

SEASON 21

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St.

EDMONTON OPERA FILM SERIES

Albert Place, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • museeheritage.com • 780.459.1528 • Piece Makers (Quilting):: How Our Grand mothers Re-cycled; Jan 21 - Mar 23

• Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • A ﬁlm series that explores and relates thematically to its 2013/14 season of

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY •

productions • Mar 12 • Free admission

12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Tricia Firmaniuk and Nomi Stricker;; Feb 13 - Mar 4; opening reception Feb 13, 7-9 pm • Paul Bernhardt and James Olley; Olley Mar 8-25; opening reception Mar 8, 2-4 pm • Gregory Hardy;; Mar 29 - Apr 22; opening reception Mar 29, 2-4 pm

FAVA FEST • 9722 102 St • 780.429.3636• fava.ca • The festival includes: ﬁlm screenings from here and away, an artist talk, and our awards night and fundraiser party, FAVA GALA, where we give away $20,000 worth of awards and raise a glass to the excellence in our community • Mar 24-29

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102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Chop Suey on the Prairies; Prairies A History of Chinese Restaurants in Alberta; Until Apr 27, 2014 • Pattern Wizardry; Until Mar 9 • Species at Risk; Until Mar 16

SNAP GALLERY • 10123 121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Dominique Petrin; Jan 16 - Mar 1 • Robert Truszkowski; Mar 13 - Apr 12 UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS • museums.ualberta.ca • Human Ecology Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • The Re-Birth of Venus: Fashion and The Venus Kallipygos: Explores the inﬂuence of art on fashion through the study of Venus Kallipygos, and its pervasive inﬂuence on dress • Until Mar 2, 2014

VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION • 10215 - 112 St, 3rd Fl • 780.421.1731 • visualartsalberta.com • Alberta Society of Artists: Celebrating Alberta: In this juried exhibition, Alberta artists interpret and explore our land scape, history, icons and culture through painting , lithography, photography, drawing, ﬁbre work , sculpture and mixed media; Jan 30 - Mar 15; opening reception Jan 30, 7 - 9:30 pm • Hometown Dreams: Linda Craddock and Labyrinth of the Eternal Archetype: Shyra Desouza: Mar 20 - May 3; opening reception Mar 20, 7 - 9:30 pm

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd. com • CLAUDETTE CASTONGUAY: Her paintings are joyful collages of colourful gardens and market scenes; Mar 1-13

DANCE: MAR 2014 ALBERTA BALLET • 11120 82 Ave • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • Giselle; Mar 14-15

• 780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Participants must have completed FAVA’s Video Kitchen course, or have proven equivalent experience. You’ll shoot and edit your own short, on ﬁlm or video • Sat, 10-2 pm, Until May 31; No class Mar 22, Apr 19, May 19 • $895+GST

FAVA: SCREENWRITING • 9722 102 St • 780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Develop your short or feature ﬁlm script or onehour teleplay in an intense but supportive workshop setting • Tue, 6:30-9 pm, Until Apr 8, No class Mar 4 • Early Bird $325+GST (paid by October 31, 2013) Regular $375+GST

THEATRE: MAR 2014 A TALE OF TWO CITIES • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780.449.3378• festivalplace.ab.ca • Based on Charles Dickens’ masterpiece, A Tale of Two Cities is a musical that focuses on the love triangle between young beauty Lucie Manette, French aristocrat Charles Darnay and drunken English cynic Sydney Carton—all caught in the clutches of the bloody French Revolution • Until Mar 8 BIG BOOM THEORY 2: TIME

ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St. Anne St, St

TRAVELING GEEKS • Jubilations

Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • Northwest Dance Project; Mar 16, 7:30pm; $20/$35

Dinner Theatre, WEM, #2690, 8882 170 St •780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • It’s been one year since Sheldon Cooper visited The Canadian International Science Awards Centre, and he’s coming back. Why? Fantastic question He’s perfected time travel. That’s right. Join Sheldon, Amy, Leonard, Penny, Howard and Bernadette as they travel through space and time to prove once and for all that nerds

EXPANSE MOVEMENT ARTS FESTIVAL • Westbury Theatre, 10330 - 84 Ave • 780-454-0583 • azimuththeatre.com/expanse • An electric four-day celebration of the body-in-motion, expanse movement Arts Festival features high velocity body-made art, presenting innovative movement in all forms: dance, movement theatre, aerial and circus arts, mime, dance for ﬁlm and more • Mar 5-9 • Tickets range from free to $15

FILM: MAR 2014 ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St. Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • The Itch of the Golden Nit by The Tate Movie Project; Family show. On a quest to save the universe, 11-year-old Beanie travels across galaxies in search of the Golden Nit. But beware of Evil Stella and her ﬂaming sidekick who are on a mission to prevent Beanie’s heroic adventure; Mar 30, 2:00 pm; $15/$18

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BLOOD WEDDING • Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St and 87 Ave • 780.429.2495 • tixonthesquare.ca • A classic of Spanish literature, Blood Wedding is a return to the very dark origins of drama: primal desire. A woman’s raw, pulsing passion for one man cannot be contained on her wedding night to another. Death pursues the tragic star-crossed lovers through the thick of the forest in the stark moonlight • Mar 27 - Apr 5, 7:30 pm; matinee Apr 3, 12:30pm • Evening: $11 Student, $22 Adult, $20 Senior; Matinee: $11 Student, $17 Adult, $15 Senior; Preview: All tickets $5; Mondays are two-for-one

DEATH TRAP • Mayﬁeld Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayﬁeldtheatre.ca • One of the longest running Broadway thrillers in history, this clever play offers a rare and skillful blend of suspense and humor • Feb 11 - Apr 6

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• Théâtre de La Cité francophone, 8627 91 St •780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • New Year’s Eve, 1945. Cambria, Ohio, a smallish city an hour’s train ride from Pittsburgh. In the midst of a snowfall, George, a successful insurance broker, pulls young, blonde Zanovia away from the club dance for a private tete-a-tete in the pool house, complete with champagne and music. There’s a war to wage, but also lots of past to unravel in this romantic ﬁlm noir mystery • Mar 4-16, 7:30 pm; extra late show Mar 15, 11:30 pm; even days in English, odd days in French • $16-$28, season passes available

ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • Le Vent Du Nord: French Acadian music; Mar 12, 7:30 pm; $30 • Tom Russell: Alt County Folk Singer - songwriter; Mar 13, 7:30 pm; $35 • Martyn Joseph: Celtic/Folk; Mar 28, 7:30 pm; $32 • Battleﬁeld Band : Celtic; Mar 29, 7:30 pm; $35

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EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Uptown Folk Club Open Stage; Mar 21, 7pm • Open Stage hosted by Tommaso Zillio; Mar 22, 1-4 pm; admission by donation

Cite, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • twoonewaytickets.com • Mar 21-30

THE INVENTION OF ROMANCE• La Cité Francophone, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • 780.420.1757 • tixonthesquare.ca • The exhibition Kate is curating about romance and courtly love is falling apart around her and her mother is taking up an old ﬂame of 60 years ago. Her assistant is trying to take over her exhibit, or is that really what he’s after? Kate decides she must choose between giving up on love or taking drastic measures. A daffy comedy by one of Edmonton’s favourite playwrights • Mar 28 - Apr 13 LITTLE ONE • The Roxy theatre, 10708 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Aaron recounts the harrowing memories of growing up in Ottawa with his violently troubled foster sister Claire. They truly do love each other, but for some people, loving and destroying are the same thing. Monsters can come in all shapes and sizes. • Mar 4-23, 8 pm; Sunday matinees at 2pm

MARY POPPINS • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • A musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney ﬁlm • Mar 15 - Apr 20

MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE • 9502 – 100 Ave, Morinville • 780.939.7839 • morinvillecentre.ca • Missoula Children’s TheatreWizard of Oz; Mar 22

QUEEN LEAR • Varscona Theatre, 10329 - 83rd Ave • shadowtheatre.org • An aging theatre actress recruits the assistance of an unruly teenage girl in her last ditch attempt to memorize the lines for an all-female production of King Lear. One woman fears the slow erosion of her talents while the other struggles with a desperate desire for a liberated life. What unfolds is a comic collision of personality and a poignant struggle for individual independence • Mar 12-30

EDMONTON BLUES SOCIETY DANCE • Old Timer’s Cabin, 9430 Scona Road • EdmontonBluesSociety. net • Band TBA • Mar 15, 7:30 pm • $5 members, $10 guest

FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 - 71 Ave • 780.438.6410 • fmfc.org •Mar 7: Del Barber (plus) Karen Savoca • Mar 21: Vin Garbutt • $18 (advance)/$22 (door)/ child under 12 half-price (door only); Six-pack and full season pack available. Advance ticket available at Acoustic Music Shop, TIX on the Square

HORIZON STAGE • 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • Feelin’ Groovy – Starring Jim Witter: Versatile pianist and performer Jim Witter re-visits the ‘60s, and delights audiences with renditions of classic Paul Simon and Art Garfunkle songs; Mar 7, 7:30 pm; $40, $35 Students/Seniors • The Long and Winding Road – Starring Jim Witter: Performing music from the Lennon-McCartney catalogue Jim Witter takes his audience through the Beatles’ biggest hits and beyond; Mar 8, 7:30 pm; $40, $35 Students/Seniors • Evalyn Parry’s SPIN: Toronto artist Evalyn Parry takes her audience on an uncommon theatrical and musical journey in SPIN, her tour-deforce performance celebrating the bicycle as muse, musical instrument and agent of social change; Mar 9, 7:30 pm; $35, $30 Students/Seniors • Norman Foote: Combining puppetry, comedy and music into a complete entertainment package, Juno Award-winning artist, Norman Foote, summons laughter from audience members of all ages; Mar 15, 2 pm; $20, $16 Students/Seniors JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • 11455-87 Ave • 780.427.2760 • jubileeauditorium. com • Nana Mouskouri: The Happy Birthday Tour; Mar 26, 7:30 pm; $60 and up MACLAB CENTRE • 4308 - 50 St., Leduc • 780.980.1866 • maclabcentre. com • Booming Tree; Mar 9, 2 pm; $10 • maclabcentre.com • Tim Hus; Mar 22, 7:30 pm; $33, $30 Student/Senior

NORTHERN LIGHTS FOLK CLUB • Queen Alexand ra Community Hall, 10425 University Ave • Cabot’s Crossing; Mar 1 • West My Friend; Mar 22 • Doors 7:00, Show 8 pm • Tickets: $20 (advance), $25 (door - if available)

SHELL THEATRE • 8700 - 84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • fortsask.ca/dowcentre • Evalyn Parry’s SPIN • Norman Foote; Mar 20 and 21, 7 pm

CLASSICAL MUSIC: MAR 2014 ALBERTA BAROQUE ENSEMBLE • Robertson–Wesley United Church, 10209 – 123 St • 780.467.6531 • albertabaroque.com • 18th Century Music from Central Europe; Mar 16, 3 pm ALBERTA COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC • 10050 MacDonald Dr • 780.633.3725 • macewan.ca • The Midday Music at Muttart Hall Concert Series; Come experience exquisitely beautiful music presented in a relaxed and inviting manner. Bring a lunch • Mar 6, 13 and 20, May 22

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ity Anglican Church, 10037 - 84 Ave • 780.919.9132 • dacamera.ab.ca • Songs of the Soul: Da Camera’s mid-winter concert will feature music that will uplift your spirit and enrich your soul. Featuring works by Poulenc, Howells and Brahms. • Mar 2, 3 pm

EDMONTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY • Convocation Hall, U of A Campus • 780.433.4532 • edmontonchambermusic.org • José Miguel Merono, vihuela and baroque guitar; Mar 22 @ 8pm; Adults $35, Seniors (65+) $25, Students $10

EDMONTON CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY • Muttart Hall, Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Drive • 587.708.2044 • edmontonclassicalguitarsociety.org • Rovshan Mamedkuliev, from Russia, winner of the 2013 Guitar Foundation of America competition • Mar 7 @ 8 pm • Tickets $25 regular, $20 student/senior/ECGS member

EDMONTON METROPOLITAN CHORUS • All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral, 10035 - 103 St • 780.977.6993 • EdMetroChorus.ca • Fabulous Faure • Mar 8, 7:30 pm; Mar 9, 3 pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square

FESTIVAL CITY WINDS • Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • festivalcitywinds.ca • Worlds of Music: Festival City Winds Advanced Band with special guests, d’Cana • Mar 15, 7:30 pm • $10 LA FOLIA BAROQUE STRING ENSEMBLE • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • 780.240.9623 • lafoliaensemble.ca • Mar 16, 2 pm

PRO CORO CANADA • All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral, 10035 - 103 St • 780.420.1247 • procoro.ab.ca • Grim and Glacial: Featuring the male voices of Pro Coro Canada, Grim and Glacial will present music that is raw and powerful… wry and playful. An aural feast with a decidedly masculine ﬂavour. • Mar 23, 2:30 pm • Adult $30; Student/Senior $25

RICHARD EATON SINGERS • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • richardeatonsingers.com • Bach Mass in B Minor: Richard Eaton Singers, with the Alberta Baroque Ensemble and soloists Jolaine Kerley, Jennifer Enns-Modolo, Derek Chester and Michael Kurschat, will perform one of JS Bach’s great masterworks, the Mass in B Minor. • Mar 9, 7:30 pm

WINSPEAR CENTRE • 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Violin and Horn; Mar 2, 2 pm • Elgar’s Violin Concerto; Mar 8, 8 pm • Beautiful Baroque; Mar 19, 7:30 pm • A Celtic Journey with Eileen Ivers; Mar 21-22, 8 pm • Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody; Mar 28, 7:30 pm, Mar 29, 8 pm • Percussive Winds: Canadian premiere: Glass House Concerto by And rew Ardizzoia, played on glass bottles and stone xylophones; Mar 16, 3 pm • From Tchaikovsky with Love: Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, Mozart’s The Magic Flute Overture. An epic orchestral adventure from tragic to triumphant; Mar 23, 8 pm

APRIL 2014 ART GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: APR 2014 A. J. OTTEWELL ARTS CENTRE • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artsoc@telus.net • artstrathcona.com • Spring Art show/ Sale;; Apr 11-13; opening reception: Apr 11, 7 pm

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • BMO World of Creativity: Cabinets of Curiosity; Explore the wondrous and curious

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collection of local artist Lyndal Osborne, and enter a world familiar yet strange. Use your senses to discover natural and manmade creations in unexpected places! Hunt for clues, identify the unusual and gather ideas to create a collection of your own; Until Jun 30, 2014

BOYLE ST PLAZA • #101, 9538-103A Ave • 780.422.5857 • boyleprojections@heartofboyleSt. ca • Boyle St Projections; Projections; a Living Local digital art project; Nov 15 onward CROOKED POT GALLERY • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • parkland potters. com • Spring Things: Jeannette Wright, functional thrown, altered and hand built wares perfect for spring events; Apr 1-30; opening reception Apr 5, 11 am -3 pm

Thumbing through this year’s Season guide and filling with an overwhelming desire to see everything? If you’re doing the rough cost calculations in your head, are you starting to think about which banks in the city have the oldest and most feeble-minded security guards? DON’T turn to a life of crime! We will gladly award this massive 39 show, $4000 valued prize pack to one loyal reader, all we want to know from you is why you think you deserve it! GRANDE PRIZE: 2 guest passes to the Art Gallery of Alberta 2 tickets to Citie Ballet’s performance of Hereafter Tickets to the Citadel’s performance of: The Daisy Theatre, Do you want what I have got? A Craigslist Cantata, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Claybourne Park 2 tickets to Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood at Servus Credit Union Place 2 tickets to every Walterdale Theatre production 2 flex passes courtesy of Studio Theatre A pair of tickets to one Northern Light Theatre production 2 tickets to every Shadow Theatre production 2 passes to the Devonian Botantical Gardens 2 tickets to each Alberta Ballet production 2 tickets to Broadway Across Canada’s production of War Horse 2 tickets to the following Arden Theatre shows: Sloan, Current Swell, Radical Reels, Corin Raymond, The Sadies, The Steel Drivers, Kat Danser, Meaghan Smith, Royal Wood, Josh Ritter, Mary Gauthier Rose Cousin, Chic Gamine, Northwest Dance Project, and Maria Dunn Fort Edmonton Park passes PLUS! 17 dinners out with gift certificates exceeding $500 in total value RUNNER UP PRIZE:

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DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412 124th St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Bruce Allen, Dates and Show Title TBA; Bruce Allen has been painting since the mid sixties and became a professional painter in the early ‘90s. When he was practising architecture, Bruce became deeply involved with the physical urban fabric that plays such a prominent role in his painting

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780.420.1757 • bwdc.ca • May Day • Apr 18-19 • Tickets available at TIX on the Square

GOOD WOMEN DANCE COLLECTIVE • PCL Studio Theatre, 10330 – 84 Ave • goodwomen.ca • Whats Cooking? • Apr 27, 6:30 pm • Tickets available at TIX on the Square

FILM: APR 2014 FAVA: MAIN COURSE • 9722 102 St • 780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Participants must have completed FAVA’s Video Kitchen course, or have proven equivalent experience. You’ll shoot and edit your own short, on ﬁlm or video • Sat, 10-2 pm, Until May 31, No class Apr 19, May 19 • $895+GST FAVA: SCREENWRITING • 9722 102 St • 780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Develop your short or feature ﬁlm script or one-hour teleplay in an intense but supportive workshop setting • Tue, 6:30-9 pm, Until Apr 8 • Regular $375+GST

780.488.2952 • thefrontgallery.com • Paddy Lamb; Until Apr 3

SATURDAY MORNING ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT CEREAL CARTOON PARTY • Garneau Theatre,

GALLERY AT MILNER • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Slow it Down: Paintings by Meghan MacMillan; Apr 1-30

8712 - 109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • Programmed for all-ages, the cereal will be allyou-can-eat and the cartoons (hand -picked from the 70s and 80s) will last over two hours • Apr 19 • Ticket info: $10 adults, $8 students and seniors, $6 children 12 and under (includes all-you- caneat-cereal)

LANDO GALLERY • 103 - 10310 124 St • 780.990.1161 • land ogallery.com • Spring on 124 St; a selling exhibition of Gallery artists and secondary market works; Mar 28 - Apr 30

LATITUDE 53 • 10242 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Tammy Salzl and Emily Jan; Mar 7 - Apr 19

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MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440 112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org • Measuring A Year: By the Minute by Margie Davidson : Margie has been exploring different measurements of a year in her recent artwork: by the day; by the month; by the season; and in this work, by the minute. Using nature as her inspiration, she was drawn to the changes of the seasons and recorded these changes with every stitch in her artwork; Mar 22 - May 11

8882 170 St •780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • It’s been one year since Sheldon Cooper visited The Canadian International Science Awards Centre, and he’s coming back. Why? Fantastic question. He’s perfected time travel. That’s right. Join Sheldon, Amy, Leonard, Penny, Howard and Bernadette as they travel through space and time to prove once and for all that nerds really do have more fun! • Until Apr 13

MULTICULTURAL HERITAGE CENTRE • 541151 St., Stony Plain • 963 9935 • multicentre.org • Neil Fiertel; Video works; Until Apr 23 • Kelly Johner; Sculpture; Apr 25 - May 21; opening reception Apr 27, 1-3:30 pm

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • museeheritage.com • 780.459.1528 • Hand s On Nature: an exhibit from the Royal Ontario Museum; Apr 1 - Jun 8

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Gregory Hardy; Until Apr 22 • Spring Group Show; Apr 26 - May 31 ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845 102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Chop Suey on the Prairies; A History of Chinese Restaurants in Alberta; Until Apr 27

SNAP GALLERY • 10123 121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Robert Truszkowski and Eva Schnieder; Until Apr 12 • Heather Huston & Joanne Madeley; Apr 24 - May 31 VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION • 10215 - 112 St, 3rd Fl • 780.421.1731 • visualartsalberta.com • Hometown Dreams: Linda Craddock and Labyrinth of the Eternal Archetype: Shyra Desouza: Until May 3

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • ANNABELLE MARQUIS: Her artistic approach is deeply tied to colour and composition as she mixes collage with paint; Apr 5-17 • ANNUAL SPRING GALLERY WALK: Apr 26, 10-5 pm and Apr 27, 12-4 pm

COMEDY: APR 2014 MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE • 9502 – 100 Ave, Morinville • 780.939.7839 • morinvillecentre.ca • Robert Post; Apr 5

DANCE: APR 2014 BRIAN WEBB DANCE COMPANY • Timms Centre, northeast corner of 112 St and 87 Ave •

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BLITHE SPIRIT • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322 83 Ave • walterdaleplayhouse.com • This joyous, musical romp through Rome has lovers searching for each other, neighbours scheming together, and everyone is hiding something. Will anyone get what they want? Does anyone really know what they want? Chaos ensues with song and dance galore. • Apr 2-12 • $14-$20, TIX on the Square BLOOD WEDDING • Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St and 87 Ave • 780.429.2495 • tixonthesquare.ca • A classic of Spanish literature, Blood Wedding is a return to the very dark origins of drama: primal desire. A woman’s raw, pulsing passion for one man cannot be contained on her wedding night to another. Death pursues the tragic star-crossed lovers through the thick of the forest in the stark moonlight • Until Apr 5, 7:30 pm; matinee Apr 3, 12:30 pm • Evening: $11 Student, $22 Adult, $20 Senior; Matinee: $11 Student, $17 Adult, $15 Senior; Preview: All tickets $5; Mondays are two-for-one DEATH TRAP • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • One of the longestrunning Broadway thrillers in history, this clever play offers a rare and skillful blend of suspense and humour • Feb 11 - Apr 6 EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 - 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Heart to Heart Speakers Series; First Saturday of each month, featuring a topical speaker and a variety of social issues and ideas; Apr 5, noon - 2 pm; admission by donation • Healthy Living Therapies HLTAA Gatherings; Speakers are members of HLTAA, these are public information sessions but please register in advance; Apr 30, 6:45-9:15 pm; free admission • Stirfry Variety Night; This is our once a month fundraising evening, featuring a cabaret of poets, musicians and dancers; Apr 5, 6-11 pm; admission by donation HAIRSPRAY–THE BROADWAY MUSICAL • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • It’s 1962 in Baltimore and teen Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one desire—to dance on the popular Corny Collins Show. When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star • Apr 18 - Jun 15

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THE INVENTION OF ROMANCE• La Cité Francophone, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • 780.420.1757 • tixonthesquare.ca • The exhibition Kate is curating about romance and courtly love is falling apart around her and her mother is taking up an old ﬂame of 60 years ago. Her assistant is trying to take over her exhibit...or is that really what he’s after? Kate decides she must choose between giving up on love or taking drastic measures. A daffy comedy by one of Edmonton’s favourite playwrights • Mar 28 - Apr 13 MARY POPPINS • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • A musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney ﬁlm • Mar 15 - Apr 20 MISTAKES WERE MADE • Varscona Theatre, 10329 83rd Ave • shadowtheatre.org • Off-Broadway producer Felix Artifex has bought the rights to stage a gargantuan theatre epic about the French Revolution. And he has one night to make it all work. Welcome to a world of demand ing actors, dithering playwrights, domineering directors, desperate deadlines and disappointing coffee. Welcome to the most hellish and hilarious evening in the life of Felix Artifex • Apr 30 - May 18

MUMP AND SMOOT IN ROMP • The Roxy Theatre, 10708 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Their ﬁrst new show in four years, Canada’s notorious Clowns of Horror are back on the Roxy stage. Returning to their roots, expect this devilish duo to try and survive in the chaos of a nightmarish world. • Apr 8-27, 8 pm; Sunday matinees at 2 pm

OVER THE EDGE WITH 4 PLAY 2014 • Westbury Theatre, 10330 84th Ave •catalysttheatre.ca • This will be the twenty-ﬁrst edition of Catalyst Theatre’s hilariously frantic fundraiser—and we hope that you’ll join us for Edmonton’s craziest night of theatre • Apr 25, 9 pm

RAPID FIRE THEATRE: BONFIRE • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • rapidﬁretheatre.com • Edmonton’s long-form improv comedy festival. See full-length one-act plays unfold right before your eyes. No script, no director, no rehearsal. Rapid Fire Theatre’s improvisors take a concept, an image, a single word, and improvise • Apr 8-13 • Tickets and passes range from $12-$35

ROMEO AND JULIET • Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Considered to be one of Shakespeare’s most popular and most performed plays. Don’t miss this romantic tale of the passion of youth and ancient family turmoil • Apr 5-27 RUBABOO ARTS FESTIVAL • C103 (8529 - 103 St) and Timms Centre for the Arts (112 St and 87 Ave) • 780-9133570 • albertaaboriginalarts.com • A multi-disciplinary aboriginal performance arts festival presenting works in traditional and Contemporary styles. • Dates TBA • $5-$25

SHRUNKEN HEADS • Kinsmen Hall, 47 Riel Dr, St Albert • 780.222.0102 • stalberttheatre.com • Dinner Theatre; Dr Bob Hyde, a successful psychiatrist, just wants to have a quiet, peaceful weekend at his country estate, where he can commune with nature and relax in his Jacuzzi, far away from his patients. No such luck. In burst an assortment of crazed or just plain eccentric characters, from his neurotic to end all neurotics patient Dorothy Putney, to his daughter Caroline who is dropping out of her seventh college to go and live in a tent in Colorado and has stopped by for moral support and money, to Caroline’s mother and Hyde’s ex wife Jennifer, a master of facetious wise cracks and particularly adept at draining Dr Bob of alimony money. When Doro-

thy’s husband Norman, who thinks his wife is having an affair with Hyde, shows up with a gun, this wildly paced farce really hits its stride, and things build and build to an hilarious climax • Thurs-Sat, Apr 24 - May 10 • $47.50

MUSIC: APR 2014 ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre. com • Maria Muldaur; Folk/Blues; Apr 4, 7:30pm; $36 • Maria Dunn and John Wort Hannam; Celtic/folk singer-songwriters; Apr 5, 7:30 pm; $28 • Darrell Scott and Tim O’Brien; Country/Folk/ Bluegrass singer - songwriters, 7:30 pm; $40

EDMONTON BLUES SOCIETY DANCE • Old Timer’s Cabin, 9430 Scona Road • EdmontonBluesSociety.net • Band TBA • Apr 12, 7:30 pm • $5 members, $10 guest

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Uptown Folk Club Concert; Apr 4, 7:30 pm • Uptown Folk Club Workshop; Apr 5 • Uptown Folk Club Open Stage; Apr 17, 7 pm • Open Stage hosted by Tommaso Zillio; Apr 26, 1-4 pm; admission by donation

FULL MOON FOLK CLUB • St Basil’s Cultural Centre, 10819 - 71 Ave • 780.438.6410 • fmfc.org •James Hill with Anne Janelle • Apr 11 • $18 (advance)/$22 (door)/child under 12 half-price (door only); Six-pack and full season pack available. Advance ticket available at Acoustic Music Shop, TIX on the Square

HORIZON STAGE • 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • The Good Lovelies: Balancing the chipper jingle-jangle of their banjo, mand olin and guitar with their full, round vocals, this trio received a Juno nomination for Roots/Traditional Album of the Year in 2012; Apr 26, 7:30 pm; $35, $30 Students/Seniors MACLAB CENTRE • 4308 - 50 St., Leduc • 780.980.1866 • maclabcentre. com • Jimmy Rankin; Apr 12, 7:30 pm; $43, $40 Student/Senior

NORTHERN LIGHTS FOLK CLUB • Queen Alexand ra Community Hall, 10425 University Ave • Connie Kaldor; Apr 5 • Barney Bentall, Tom Taylor, Shari Ulrich; Apr 11 • Doors 7:00, Show 8:00 • Tickets: $20 (advance), $25 (door - if available)

CLASSICAL MUSIC: APR 2014 ALBERTA BAROQUE ENSEMBLE • Robertson–Wesley United Church, 10209 – 123 St • 780.467.6531 • albertabaroque.com • Italian Masters; Apr 27, 3 pm

CONCORDIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT • Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • tixonthesquare.ca • Apr 13, 2 pm

EDMONTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Dr • 780.433.4532 • edmontonchambermusic.org • JAMES EHNES, violin with And rew Armstrong, piano; Apr 2, 8 pm • Adults $50, Seniors (65+) $40, Students $20

EDMONTON OPERA • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455 87 Ave • 780-429-1000 • edmontonopera.com • Madama Butterﬂy: Sacriﬁce everything for love: the timeless music and story of an American lieutenant and his Japanese bride will break your heart. • Apr 5, 8 pm, Apr 8 and 10, 7:30pm • tickets start at $20

FESTIVAL CITY WINDS • Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • festivalcitywinds.ca • Band scapes: Festival City Winds Intermediate Band s with guests, in collaboration • Apr 5, 7:30 pm • $10

JUBILOSO! BELLS OF CONCORDIA CONCERT • Robert Tegler Student

Centre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • tixonthesquare.ca • Apr 26, 7:30 pm

NEW EDMONTON WIND SINFONIA • Ellerslie Road Baptist Church, 10603 Ellerslie Rd SW • newedmontonwindsinfonia.com • Apr 16, 7:30 pm

PRO CORO CANADA • Winspear centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.420.1247 • procoro.ab.ca • Good Friday at the Winspear Winspear:: Pro Coro Canada and the Strathcona String Quartet present the overwhelmingly beautiful Seven Last Words of Christ by James MacMillan. The King’s University Chamber Choir (dir. Melanie Turgeon) will join Pro Coro in performing Johann Sebastian Bach’s motet Jesu, meine Freude Freude. • Apr 18 @ 7:30pm • Adult $49.50 - $37; Student/ Senior $46.50 - $33 WINSPEAR CENTRE • 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Our Fantastic Festival City; Apr 12, 2 pm • The Cocktail Hour: Music of the Mad Men Era; Apr 25-26, 8 pm • World Music Sampler: The Indian and West African Music Ensembles perform traditional world music with a special guest artist; Apr 4, 8 pm

MAY 2014 ART GALLERIES/ MUSEUMS: MAY 2014 A. J. OTTEWELL ARTS CENTRE • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artsoc@telus.net • artstrathcona.com • Hi School Student Art Show; May 9-10; May 9, 7-9 pm; May 10, 11-4 pm • Mother’s Day Tea and Art Show/Sale; May 11, 11-4 pm

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • BMO World of Creativity: Cabinets of Curiosity; Explore the wondrous and curious collection of local artist Lyndal Osborne, and enter a world familiar yet strange. Use your senses to discover natural and manmade creations in unexpected places! Hunt for clues, identify the unusual and gather ideas to create a collection of your own; Until Jun 30

BOYLE ST PLAZA • #101, 9538-103A Ave • 780.422.5857 • boyleprojections@ heartofboyleSt.ca • Boyle St Projections; a Living Local digital art project; Nov 15 onward CROOKED POT GALLERY • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • parkland potters.com • Spring Garden Show, Marian Majeau and Friends: The annual garden show offers hand made pottery to enhance the garden; May 1-30; opening reception May 3, 11-3 pm FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • 780.488.2952 • thefrontgallery.com • Tony Baker; May 10-30; opening reception May 10, 2-4 pm

GALLERY AT MILNER • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.496.7000 • epl. ca/art-gallery • Give it Some Thought: Silkscreen prints by Joanne Madeley; May 1-31 LANDO GALLERY • 103 - 10310 124 St • 780.990.1161 • land ogallery.com • Land o Art Auctions; preview on May 2, 3 and 4; Fine art auction May 4, 2 pm • May Exhibition and Sale; A selling exhibition of Gallery artists and secondary market works; May 9-27 • Summer on 124 St; A selling exhibition of Gallery artists and secondary market works; May 30 - Aug 27

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org • Measuring A Year: By the Minute by Margie Davidson: Margie has been exploring different measurements of a year in her recent artwork: by the day; by the month; by the season; and in this work, by the minute. Using nature as her inspiration, she was

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drawn to the changes of the seasons and recorded these changes with every stitch in her artwork; Mar 22 - May 11 • Engagements: a unique display of both sculpture and photographs by examining the way we engage with our city environment and invite the viewer to join in the discovery of observing these everyday places in a new way; May 17 - Jul 13

MULTICULTURAL HERITAGE CENTRE • 5411-51 St., Stony Plain • 963 9935 • multicentre.org • Kelly Johner; Sculpture; Apr 25 - May 21; opening reception Apr 27, 1-3:30 pm • Memorial Composite High School Art Programme; May 24 - Jun 10

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St. Albert Place, 5 St Anne St, St. Albert • museeheritage.com • 780.459.1528 • Hand s On Nature: an exhibit from the Royal Ontario Museum; Until Jun 8

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Spring Group Show; Until May 31 SNAP GALLERY • 10123 121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Heather Huston and Joanne Madeley; Until May 31 VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION • 10215 - 112 St, 3rd Fl • 780.421.1731 • visualartsalberta.com • Hometown Dreams: Linda Craddock and Labyrinth of the Eternal Archetype: Shyra Desouza: Until May 3 • A Personal Phytopia: Pamela Thurston and Susan Kristoferson: May 8 - Jun 14; opening reception May 8, 7 - 9:30 pm

VISUAL ARTS STUDIO ASSOCIATION (VASA) • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St. Albert • 780.460.5990• vasa.ca • VASA Spring members show

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd. com • FRASER BRINSMEAD: Edmonton artist whose paintings reﬂect the incredible richness and vitality of city life; May 3-15

DANCE: MAY 2014 ALBERTA BALLET • 11120 82 Ave • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • Joni Mitchell 2014; May 9-10

FILM: MAY 2014 FAVA: MAIN COURSE • 9722 102 St • 780.429.1671 • fava.ca • Participants must have completed FAVA’s Video Kitchen course, or have proven equivalent experience. You’ll shoot and edit your own short, on ﬁlm or video • Sat, 10-2 pm, Until May 31, No class May 19 • $895+GST

GLOBAL VISIONS FILM FESTIVAL • Metro Cinema, Art Gallery of Alberta • 780.414.1052 • globalvisionsfestival.com • Canada’s longest-running documentary ﬁlm festival dedicated to presenting socially relevant ﬁlms from across Canada and around the world • May 8-15 • Tickets and passes range from $12-$75

JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL • Ziedler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • jewishedmonton.org/FilmFest.aspx • Dates TBA, 7 and 9 pm

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW • Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • The all-time weird and wonderful favourite midnight cult ﬁlm • May long weekend • $12

LITERARY: MAY 2014 T.A.L.E.S.: 26TH ANNUAL STORYTELLING FESTIVAL • Fort Edmonton

Park, 7000 143rd St • storyfestalberta.ca • Storytellers from across Canada, morning storytelling workshops, afternoon storytelling 1-5 pm both days (included with Park Admission), 4 stages (one for young children) • May 24-25

THEATRE: MAY 2014 CONTRACTIONS • PCL Studio, 1033084 Ave • 780.471.1586 • northernlighttheatre.com • The sales company Emma toils for has accorded itself the right to dictate the terms by which co-workers can conduct inter-personal relations—a right that is applied with a brazen prurience and ﬂabbergasting destructiveness. Emma is allowed to leave no aspect of her private life undeclared— or undamaged— in order to keep her job through one humiliation after another. An Orwellian depiction of absolute power with a savage twist to end the negotiations • May 2-10, 7:30 pm + extra late show May 9, 11:30 pm • $16-$28, season passes available.

FROM CRADLE TO STAGE • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322 83 Ave • walterdaleplayhouse.com • Playwrights selected for the festival will receive the beneﬁt of work with a dramaturge and a workshop production of their new piece on the Walterdale stage. • May 12-17 • $12-$18, TIX on the Square THE GENIUS CODE • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • surrealsorealtheatre.com • Produced by Surreal SoReal Theatre, and presented as a part of Catalyst Theatre’s Creator-in-residence program • May 22 - Jun 8

HAIRSPRAY–THE BROADWAY MUSICAL • Mayﬁeld Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayﬁeldtheatre.ca • It’s 1962 in Baltimore and teen Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one desire - to dance on the popular Corny Collins Show. When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star • Apr 18 Jun 15

10708 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • A cross-dressing kidnapper falls in love with his latest victim. A housewife cracks under the pressure of the holidays. An ofﬁce worker is spurned by the object of his affection. Watch these three stories of devastating loneliness unfold over the holiday season. • May 6 - May 18, 8 pm; Sunday matinees at 2 pm

WETASKIWIN THEATRE SOCIETY • 5002 53 Ave, Wetaskiwin • 780.352.8383• wetaskiwintheatresociety.com • Lie, Cheat, and Genuﬂect;; The Buckle brothers, Billy and Tom, are in big trouble: Tom’s infallible eye for slow horses has drained away all of Billy’s savings and he has borrowed from loan shark Pizza Face Petrillo, who now wants his money back or else! There’s plenty of money in grand father Buckle’s will, but these two black sheep are pretty sure they’ll never see any of that. What else to do but dress Billy up as a nun and have him pose as their cousin who is to inherit the entire fortune?; May 2-4 and 9-11

WHEN THE RAIN STOPS FALLING • Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St and 87 Ave • 780.429.2495 • tixonthesquare.ca • A sweeping portrait of fathers and sons, strangers and lovers, husband s and wives, that spans across eighty years and four generations • May 15-24, 7:30 pm; matinee May 22, 12:30 pm • Evening: $11 Student, $22 Adult, $20 Senior; Matinee: $11 Student, $17 Adult, $15 Senior; Preview: All tickets $5; Mondays are two-for-one • Evening: $11 Student, $22 Adult, $20 Senior; Matinee: $11 Student, $17 Adult, $15 Senior; Preview: All tickets $5; Mondays are two-for-one

MUSIC: MAY 2014 EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • earlymusicalberta.ca • May 2-4

EDMONTON BLUES SOCIETY DANCE • Old Timer’s Cabin, 9430 Scona Road • EdmontonBluesSociety. net • Band TBA • May 10, 7:30 pm • $5 members, $10 guest

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Uptown Folk Club Concert; May 2, 7:30 pm • Uptown Folk Club Workshop; May 2 • Uptown Folk Club Open Stage; May 15, 7 pm • Open Stage hosted by Tommaso Zillio; May 31, 1-4 pm; admission by donation

MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE • 9502 – 100 Ave, Morinville • 780.939.7839 • morinvillecentre.ca • Canada’s Fiddling Sensa-

HEY LADIES! • The Roxy Theatre,

tion Calvin Vollrath; May 23-35

10708 124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • The ladies are back! Miss Leona Brausen, Miss Cathleen Rootsaert and Miss Davina Stewart bring their wild and womanly talkshow/gameshow/varietyshow/sideshow back for another season. • May 23, 8 pm

CLASSICAL MUSIC: MAY 2014

MAKE MINE LOVE • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • This screwball comedy, set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, has it all: romance, humour, slapstick, mistaken identity, car chases and a happy ending • May 10 - Jun 1

MISTAKES WERE MADE • Varscona Theatre, 10329 83rd Ave • shadowtheatre.org • Off-Broadway producer Felix Artifex has bought the rights to stage a gargantuan theatre epic about the French Revolution. And he has one night to make it all work. Welcome to a world of demand ing actors, dithering playwrights, domineering directors, desperate deadlines and disappointing coffee. Welcome to the most hellish and hilarious evening in the life of Felix Artifex • Apr 30 - May 18

MURDERERS CONFESS AT CHRISTMASTIME • The Roxy Theatre,

CONCORDIA CONCERT CHOIR HOME CONCERT • Trinity Lutheran Evangelical Church, 10014-81 Ave • tixonthesquare.ca • May 9, 7:30 pm

DA CAMERA SINGERS • First Baptist Church, 10031 109 St • 780.919.9132 • dacamera.ab.ca • Psalms and songs of Celebration: Da Camera’s spring concert will feature Psalm settings by Brahms, Schubert, Ives, and more. • May 4, 3 pm EDMONTON YOUTH ORCHESTRA • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.436.7932 • eyso.com • Senior and Intermediate Orchestras: The Thelma Johannes O’Neill Concert featuring the winners of the 33rd Northern Alberta Concerto Competition, for piano / organ, voice • May 4, 2 pm • Adults: $15 Seniors and students: $10

FESTIVAL CITY WINDS • Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • festivalcitywinds.ca • Spring Sparkle: All band s performing original works, transcriptions and arrangements. • May 24, 7:30 pm • $10

ca/art-gallery • FNMI Art Exhibition: Aboriginal teen exhibit of mixed media works from the Edmonton Public School board; Jun 1-18 • The Works Art and Design Festival: curated by the Edmonton Works Festival; Jun 19 - Jul 1

I CHORISTI CHAMBER CHOIR • Holy

St • 780.990.1161 • land ogallery.com • Summer on 124 St; A selling exhibition of Gallery artists and secondary market works; May 30 - Aug 27

Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 - 84 Ave • 780.977.6993 • iCoristi.com • Primavera: Celebrate the coming of spring with i Coristi as we present paeans to spring by Mendelssohn and Dove, and rejuvenating songs of love by Morley and O’Regan • Mar 24, 7:30 pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square

KOKOPELLI CHOIR • St. And rew’s United Church, 9915 148 St • 780.977.7295• kokopellichoirs.com • To Make a Prairie: Prairie Kikimasu and Shumayela join forces to celebrate the excitement of young voices raised in song with a fun and creative concert program. • May 1, 3 pm • TIX on the Square • May 31, 7 pm: McDougall United Church (10025 101 St) • A blue true dream of sky:: All our choirs take the stage again at McDougall United, Edmonton’s best choral venue, to celebrate the successes of our eighteenth season with fresh new springtime music as well as favourites from throughout the year. • $20, $15 Students

ORGANIC - ORGAN IN

CONCERT • First Presbyterian Church, 10025 – 105 St • 780.420.1757 • rcco. edmonton.ab.ca • Massimo Nosetti (Italy) • May 2, 8 pm • Adult $25; Student/Senior/Member $22

VOCAL ARTS FESTIVAL • Timms Centre for the Arts (112 St and 87 Ave) and various locations on U of A campus • 780.487.4844 • vocalartsfestival.ca • The Vocal Arts Festival offers innovative performances debuting Canada’s ﬁnest emerging artists. The festival spans six weeks with over 20 concerts of diverse vocal genres including artsong, sacred music, Broadway and light opera. • May 22 - Jun 29 • $14-$40 WINSPEAR CENTRE • 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • The Miraculous Mand arin; May 2, 7:30 pm, May 3, 8 pm • Choral Spectacular; May 11, 2 pm • The Mark of Zorro; May 15, 8 pm • Aranjuez On The Harp; May 24, 8 pm • Masterpieces for Guitar; May 28, 7:30 pm • The Golden Age of Film Music; May 30-31, 8 pm

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LATITUDE 53 • 10242 - 106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Insoon Ha; Jun 19 - Jul 19 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440 - 112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org • Engagements: a unique display of both sculpture and photographs by examining the way we engage with our city environment and invite the viewer to join in the discovery of observing these everyday places in a new way; Until Jul 13 MULTICULTURAL HERITAGE CENTRE • 5411-51 St., Stony Plain • 963 9935 • multicentre.org • Memorial Composite High School Art Programme; Programme May 24 - Jun 10 • Cynthia Sibley; Sibley Installation Work; Jun 14 - Jul 24; opening reception Jun 15, 1-3:30 pm

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert • museeheritage.com • 780.459.1528 • Hand s On Nature Nature: an exhibit from the Royal Ontario Museum; Until Jun 8 • Joining Up!: Our Men and Women in the First World War; Jun 17 - Nov 16 • The Home Front: Life in St. Albert During the First World War; Jun 17 - Aug 31

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Summer Group Shows; New work by gallery artists SNAP GALLERY • 10123 121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Bulas and Schwab; Jun 12 - Jul 12 VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION • 10215 - 112 St, 3rd Fl • 780.421.1731 • visualartsalberta.com • A Personal Phytopia: Pamela Thurston and Susan Kristoferson: Until Jun 14 • TBA: Jun 19 - Aug 1; opening reception Jun 19, 7 - 9:30 pm THE WORKS ART AND DESIGN FESTIVAL • Sir Winston Churchill Square and various locations throughout Edmonton • 780.426.2122 • theworks. ab.ca • Over 40 one-of-a-kind art exhibits and installations, with over 250 special events, performances and opportunities to meet the artists • Jun 19 - Jul 1, 11 am - 11 pm

ART GALLERIES/MUSEUMS: JUN 2014

FILM: JUN 2014

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA)

BIKEOLOGY FILM FEST • Garneau

• 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • BMO World of Creativity: Cabinets of Curiosity; Explore the wondrous and curious collection of local artist Lyndal Osborne, and enter a world familiar yet strange! Use your senses to discover natural and manmade creations in unexpected places! Hunt for clues, identify the unusual and gather ideas to create a collection of your own; Until Jun 30

BOYLE ST PLAZA • #101, 9538-103A Ave • 780.422.5857 • boyleprojections@ heartofboyleSt.ca • Boyle St Projections; a Living Local digital art project; Nov 15 onward CROOKED POT GALLERY • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • parkland potters.com • Raku, Naked or Not: a selection of raku and primitive ﬁred pottery by guild members; Jun 3-28 FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • 780.488.2952 • thefrontgallery.com • Figurative Show; Jun 14 - Jul 1; opening reception Jun 14, 2-4 pm

GALLERY AT MILNER • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.496.7000 • epl.

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Theatre, 8712 - 109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • June is Bike Month in Edmonton and the annual Bikeology Festival—Edmonton’s Festival of Cycling Culture—once again features a strong ﬁlm component • Every Monday in June • Free admission

DREAMSPEAKERS FILM FESTIVAL • Garneau Theatre, 8712 - 109 St and other locations • 780.378.9609 • dreamspeakers.org • Edmonton becomes the site of an international gathering of our own dreamtalkers: ﬁlmmakers, actors, performers and artists. Aboriginal people from around the globe gather to share their common bond—a linkage with a natural world whose harmonies and rhythms are being forgotten by those who came later, offering a unique exploration into Aboriginal culture • Jun 4-7 • Tickets range from $7-$52

LITERARY: JUN 2014 THEATRE: JUN 2014 2014 SPROUTS NEW PLAY FESTIVAL FOR KIDS • Stanley A. Milner

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Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.420.1757 •concretetheatre.ca • The 13th Sprouts New Play Festival for Kids brings 4 new short plays to life in staged readings on the Library Theatre stage along with a bunch of fun interactive lobby activities for the youngest theatre goers. The perfect way to introduce your kids to the theatre • Jun 7-8, 1pm • All Tickets $5 (free under 3)

CREATIVE AGE FESTIVAL • Timms Centre for the Arts (112 St and 87 Ave) and City hall, 1 Churchill Square • 780.423.5635 • cafestival.ca • Celebrating seniors and the Arts. Enjoy performances by seniors’ theatre and musical groups, arts cafés with elegant refreshments and entertainment, seniors’ art displays, talkback sessions with senior artists, and interactive theatre workshop • Jun 6-12 • $10 or less per workshop/ performance

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE • 9938 70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Heart to Heart Speakers Series; First Saturday of each month, featuring a topical speaker and a variety of social issues and ideas; Jun 7, 12-2 pm; admission by donation • Healthy Living Therapies HLTAA Gatherings; Speakers are members of HLTAA, these are public information sessions but please register in advance; Jun 25, 6:45-9:15 pm; free admission • Stirfry Variety Night; This is our once a month fundraising evening, featuring a cabaret of poets, musicians and dancers; Jun 7, 6-11 pm; admission by donation FREEWILL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL • Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park • 780.425.8086 • freewillshakespeare.com • Shakespeare in the park; plays TBA • Jun 24 - Jul 20, 8 pm, Weekend matinees at 2 pm • Tickets and Passes range from $17-$40; Pay-WhatYou-Will Tuesday evenings and Saturday matinees

GARE AUX PLUS DE TRENTE • Théâtre de La Cité francophone, 8627 91 St •780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • by Céline Gareau-Brennan and Mélissa Masse; production of L’UniThéâtre • Jun 4-8

HAIRSPRAY–THE BROADWAY MUSICAL • Mayﬁeld Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayﬁeldtheatre.ca • It’s 1962 in Baltimore and teen Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with

big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one desire - to dance on the popular Corny Collins Show. When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star • Apr 18 - Jun 15

LA CAGE AUX FALLES • La Cite, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • twoonewaytickets.com • Jun 13-29

NEXTFEST 2014 • Various locations • 780.453.2440 • nextfest.ca • 11 days. Over 500 artists. Daring theatre, bold dance, audacious music, empowering visual art, venturous ﬁlm, and keen collaboration. The artistic voice of the next generation. • Jun 5-15 • Free-$10 RAPID FIRE THEATRE: IMPROVAGANZA • Zeidler Hall and The Club, Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave • rapidﬁretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre hosts the other top-ranked improv teams from across the globe in the 14th Improvaganza, a 10-day celebration of improv, comedy, music and more. • Jun 18-28 • $12-$20

THE LAST ROMANCE • Mayﬁeld Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayﬁeldtheatre.ca • A hilarious and heartwarming story that proves it’s never too late for romance and second chances • Jun 20 - Aug 3

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Neko Case turns her songwriting inwards on The Worse it Gets the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You

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eko Case didn't want to write with that. It's either gonna totalan album about herself. ly fuck you over, or you have to She's actually been pretty firm stop and look at it in the face and on avoiding the subject in the take every punch it gives you and past: "Hold On, Hold On," off of then move on." 2006's Fox Confessor Brings the Partly responsible was the restFlood, is one of the few directly less touring schedule Case found autobiographical songs she's herself on, playing shows across penned, coming almost a decade North America, Europe and Ausafter her 1997 solo debut, The tralia. There wasn't really the Virginian. It's not that she doesn't time, or the stability of place, sing from firstto start sorting person perspec- Fri, Aug 9 (10:05 pm) herself out in. tive, it's just Neko Case "I live in honever been her Part of Edmonton Folk Music tels for a lot of first-person per- Festival (Aug 8 – 11) my life," Case spective. Until Gallagher Park, sold out says. "I don't now: on The ever really feel Worse Things grounded. I've Get, The Harder I Fight, The Hard- lived in Vermont since like 2007, er I Fight, The More I Love You, but I'm still not even moved into Case put herself in the frontline my house yet—that's how long of its lyrics, writing her way out I'm gone for. " of a depression that engulfed her So spending time at her familduring the touring cycle behind ial 1787 farmhouse was what she 2009's Middle Cyclone. needed: throwing away the junk "This is going to sound super- she'd accumulated, landscaping, melodramatic, like 'I want to tell sorting out her material living sityou about my time in rehab' or uation to let her take stock of the something fucking boring like darkened emotional one. Which that,'" Case says with a light, unavoidably came through in her quick laugh, taking a phonecall writing: when the recording sesfrom her home in Vermont. "But sions for The Worse It Gets began, actually, I was really boringly Case didn't recognize the songs depressed, like everyone goes she was bringing to her band. through. I lost many members of "I didn't really recognize the my family, including my parents, person who wrote them," she and I had never slowed down to admits. "'Cause it's not really my just grieve, and when you're a style. I mean, maybe the actual human being you can't get away writing itself might be my style.

But writing about myself is not something I enjoy, or really think is that relevant. Not that I don't like myself or think of myself as important as a human being. But how many songs can you write about love and loss? I can't write very many. I've probably written them, maybe, and am done now. "Other people are super good at it, and I hope they never stop," she continues. "But I just don't have a talent for that. I can't take myself that seriously, or think about my experiences as some transformative and critical journey I must take you all on, for your sake [laugh]. They're really important to me, and I value them highly. But there's just some things I would rather say, and rather tell stories, and have characters, and write poetry, essentially. I would rather be doing that." Still, to hear Case convey that sort of vulnerability in her music makes The Worse It Gets an unusual album in her canon. Her forceof-nature voice offers gorgeous reflections when turned inwards, the album's most personal moments cropping up scattered throughout its 12 tracks: in the painful "Calling Cards" or the down-and-out admissions of "Where Did I Leave That Fire"—which starts with echoing submarine sonar bloops and finds Case recalling "I wanted so badly not to be me." A cover of Nico's

"Afraid" seems perfectly placed in among the originals.

But it's not all head-hung-low confessional: the gorgeous swells of "Ragtime" close the album out with uplift, and the single, "Man," barrels along with country aplomb as Case taunts "You didn't know what a man was / 'till I showed you." The single's artwork finds Case done up as a Marlboro man, complete with mustache and a hat of multiple-gallons. "It's not even gender roles as in arguing gender roles," she notes, of the song. "It's about animals, and, as a human species, we are called Man. And you wouldn't deny that a lioness was a lion. You could still call her a lion and people don't go, 'Actually that's a lioness.' They don't go weird and nitpicky about that shit. And I think we'd be a lot happier if we didn't get all nitpicky about that shit." "I grew up on the United States' [border], and, actually, the border of Canada, so I got a lot of CBC kids TV as well," Case continues. "Which, in the '70s, there was a major affirmation message coming through. I feel really lucky to have grown up then, actually, about you can be whatever you want—this is America! Or, you're a Canadian, you can be whatever the hell you want; 'You want to be a fireman, little girl? Hell yeah, do it!' Between Sesame Street and Mr Dressup and stuff

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like that, I definitely was getting the message that I could be whatever, and no-one would bat an eye—which they do. But as long as I don't bat an eye, it works." Case doesn't seem to have any

trouble reflecting on that dark period that led to this album: she's an affable and easy-going conversationalist, talking while walking one of her dogs (Jerome—her other two, much older dogs didn't feel like coming out), happy to joke and cuss in equal measure. Now set to embark on another tour—bringing her out to Edmonton Folk Music Fest on Friday night—she seems properly steadied against the personal darkness she's gone through.

That said, although Case felt it necessary to turn her songwriting inwards for at least this album, the act of writing songs so personal wasn't cathartic in and of itself. "It felt shitty to write them," she laughs. "They did add release at times, and there was nice things about them. But there's nothing fun about feeling that shitty. There just isn't. The catharsis is playing chords, not so much dwelling on the words anymore. I'm sick of the words, and I'm really sick of myself. Playing guitar is the fun part now, and the singing—the physical act. It's like digging a ditch: it's good for the soul."

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lingers in the same place within metal's broad scope: after its early albums established a sound and an audience—and landed the band's song "Freya" on Guitar Hero II— 2010's Warp Riders took its ambition further, embracing the scope of a sci-fi concept album. The band's most recent, 2012's Apocryphon, found it doing away with instrumental tracks (a hallmark of earlier albums) while bringing a new drummer into the fold and forming a bigger yet tighter sound out of the musical DNA that the band formed out of. Circling prior successes isn't part of that plan. "I think a lot of bands have done this whole approach of trying to recapture their old sound in recent years," Cronise adds. "To me, I'd rather hear the record they would make now, be it good or bad, rather than them trying to magically turn back the hands of time." PAUL BLINOV

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time, the trio went into the studio with a newfound confidence and a firm direction for its sound, which Stuart has evolved to incorporate more rock elements, weaving her love of bands like Led Zeppelin into the trio's eclectic mix. At the centre of it all is still the unmistakable sound of the koto, which Stuart puts on display throughout the original arrangements as well as a cover of "Here Comes the Rain Again" by the Eurythmics. "A lot of people haven't heard the koto," she says. "Sometimes it's a great way to show off the sound of an instrument or introduce it to people when it's on a more familiar canvas ... it's funny because we had so many original songs and we cut it down to these 10 and one of them's a cover, but at the same time it's definitely my version and it doesn't sound like the original, so I still feel like it has the Jessica Stuart Few flavour all over it." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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between each number it's hard not to drown. They slow it down on track seven, "Everything You Once Loved and Held Dear," but just enough for doomed piano to drag you further into the murky depths before sailing back into hard-core heaven. Produced by legendary Canadian rocker Ian Blurton, What's Left to Eliminate is kind of like the ocean itself: there is a fluidity and calm, but it's contained within a powerful force that can overtake you at any second.

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Pallett, the Hidden Cameras' Maggie Macdonald and Maylee Todd guesting, this high-camp electro-pop is better in theory than in practice. Outside of a few fun turns of phrase like on "I Like To Work" ("I like to work / I like to fuck / My mind is my body / And my body is a truck), Face is paint-by-numbers synth-pop. "Let's Get Divorced" wastes MacDonald and Todd's vocal talents, throwing them so far back in the mix they're barely there. "Ten Feet Tall" is a middling attempt at an anthem and "The Better" is cringe-inducing thanks to Regina's vocals being fed through a vocoder. Face is one long bit, and not a particularly good one.

Remember the '90s? Back when Nine Inch Nails broke in such a way that it seemed that anybody with industrial-rock leanings could get a record deal. In Filter's case it certainly didn't hurt that bandleader Richard Patrick was a touring member of NIN for a time. After hitting the charts in 1994 with its debut album Short Bus, Filter managed to stay visible through the decade with softer, more radio friendly fair. But it ain't 1994, and even though this record is filled with fine industrial rockers to keep the bros pumping their fists, half the album seems repetitive and dated. Honestly, it's kind of surprising that Filter is still connected to a major label. What's really surprising, though, is when Patrick steps away from the angry noise and focuses more on introspective melody: "First You Break It" is a radio jam your mom would have tapped the steering wheel to on her way to the Internet cafe, while "It's My Time" features only Patrick and a piano and is by far the most heartfelt and reflective track on The Sun Comes Out Tonight, making you wonder why he doesn't just put the industrial rock days behind him and devote himself writing ballads.

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Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover BRIXX Hosted by Christian

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CAFÉ HAVEN Music every

Thu; 7pm

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE

Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm

COOK COUNTY Pony Up

Thu: Country, Rock Anthems and Top 40 Classics with Mourning Wood

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ

every Thu at 9pm

EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain Open Jam

Nights; no cover

EDMONTON FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL

Gallagher Park; Aug 8-11; Main Stage: Delhi 2 Dublin 6pm; Ruthie Foster, 7:05pm; Charles Bradley, 8:20pm; Feist, 9:45pm FANDANGO'S Thu Battle of the Bands; 9pm J R BAR AND GRILL Live

Jam Thu; 9pm

JAVA EXPRESS–Stony Plain Acoustic/singer

songwriter the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-10pm; no cover JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Ellen Doty (pop/jazz vocalist, CD release); 8pm; $15 KELLY'S PUB Jameoke

Night, karaoke with band the Nervous Flirts; every Thu, 8pm-12am

L.B.'S PUB Thu Open

Stage: The New Big Time hosted by Rocko Vaubeois and friends; 8pm-12

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ AND BOARDGAME EMPORIUM

Thu open stage: fully equipped stage, bring your instruments and your voices; gaming everyday NEW WEST HOTEL

Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro NORTH GLENORA HALL

Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jesse Peters (R&B,

blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm2am every Thu; no cover RED PIANO Every Thu:

Dueling pianos at 8pm

RICHARD'S PUB Lonesome

Dove

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm THE RIG Every Thu Jam

hosted by Loren Burnstick; 8:30pm-1am

SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE Macklemore and

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Al

Barrett (rock); 9pm

DEVANEY'S Stu Bendall DV8 Fuquored, Trouser Mouth, Pervcore EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain Main Stage:

Sophie and Mike (R'n'B, acoustic and unplugged); 9pm; $5

EDMONTON FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL Main Stage: Head and the Heart,

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon

STARLITE ROOM KLUB

jam with Terry Evans, and featured guests; host Mark Ammar

OMFG

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Amplified Fridays:

Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)

SUITE 69 Release Your

Ryan Lewis, Shad; 7pm; Sold out

9pm; Neko Case, 10:05pm; John Butler Trio, 11:25pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Adam Holm

EDMONTON ROCK

Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri

FESTIVAL Aug 9-10; The

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Tony Dizon

Todd James Band, 5:15pm; Harlequin, 6:45pm; Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, 8:30pm; tickets: edrocks@ live.ca, Accoustic Music Shop, Myhre's Music, On the Rocks; 4pm (gates); $49 (adv)/$59 (gate)

TEMPLE Rapture–Goth/Ind/

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live

Blues every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm

WUNDERBAR NOFX Day

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: wtft w djwtf -

rock 'n' roll, blues, indie; Wooftop: Musical flavas incl funk, indie, dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass, house with DJ Gundam CENTURY ROOM Lucky

7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close THE COMMON The

HOGS DEN PUB Sinder

Sparks Show; 8-12pm

J+H PUB Early show: Acoustic Open mic every Fri, 10-15 mins to perform; 5:30-8:30pm, no cover; Late show: Every Friday: Headwind (vintage rock 'n' roll), friends, 9:30pm, no minors, no cover JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Between

Brothers (indie acoustic rock); 9pm; $10

Common Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

L.B.'S PUB The Last Calls;

CROWN PUB Break Down

LIZARD LOUNGE Rock

Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests DRUID IRISH PUB DJ

every Thu; 9pm

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S

Taking Back Thursdays

9:30pm; no cover

'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover

ON THE ROCKS Heather

McKenzie Band; 9:30pm

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all

request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP No Heat

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk

Tomorrow (alt metal), Dead City Dolls, Thoroughbred Racing Pigeon; 8pm; $10 (adv)

LUCKY 13 Industry Night

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Adam Holm

ON THE ROCKS Salsaholic:

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Tony Dizon

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE

Open stage; 7pm; no cover Bunker Thursdays

every Fri

every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow

OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE

Wild Life Thursdays

RENDEZVOUS Metal night

every Thu

UNION HALL 3 Four All

Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

STANLEY A. MILNER LIBRARY THEATRE

Edmonton Burlesque Events Presents: Melody Mangler , April O'Peel; 8pm (door); $20 (adv)/$25 (door) STARLITE AND BRIXX Dog

Daze of Summer Indiefest: In 2 rooms: 7 bands; 8pm

RED PIANO BAR Hottest

alt; every Fri 9pm

TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ

Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long

UNION HALL Ladies Night

every Fri

Y AFTERHOURS

BLUES ON WHYTE Pete

Turland

BOHEMIA Van Gohst (acoustic); The Amba G Show, Victoria Baldwin! Stephanetu!; 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover BRIXX Silence Be Damned:

Goth/Industrial with DJs Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm CAFÉ TIRAMISU Live

music every Fri

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE

Live music every Fri; Christopher Nash; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CAFÉ TIRAMISU Erica

Noot; 7-9pm; no cover

CASINO EDMONTON

Mojave Iguanas (rock); 9pm

Every Friday DJs on all three levels THE BOWER Zukunft: Indie

and alternative with Dusty Grooves, Fraser Olsen, Taz, and Josh Johnson THE COMMON Good

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

every Fri; 9pm

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FANDANGO'S DJs night every Fri and Sat with DJ Stouffer FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip

hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri

LEGENDS SPORTS BAR

DJ Dayna; featuring special events every Fri LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat

with resident DJ Chad Cook

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Heather

McKenzie Band; 9:30pm

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all

request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Powerclown

(metal), L.A.M.S., Binge & Purge, One Life Animal; 8pm (door); $10 (adv)

FT. SIIINES, BROTHER OCTOPUS, I AM MACHI AND MORE!

AUG/10

THE SWORD ZERBIN W/ CASTLE & GUESTS

AUG/15

W/ GUESTS

AUG/16

UBK PRESENTS

GRIZ

W/ GUESTS

AUG/16-25 ‘AN ELVIS ODYSSEY’

CAPITAL CITY BURLESQUE & EDMONTON FRINGE FEST PRESENTS CHECK FRINGETHEATREADVENTURES.CA FOR SHOWTIMES

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Tony Dizon

Hair of the Dog: Wintercount (Tanyss Nixi, Sherry-Lee Heschel, James Patterson) (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Pete Turland BOHEMIA DARQ Saturday CARROT COFFEEHOUSE

Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON

Mojave Iguanas (rock); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD Al

Barrett (rock); 9pm

CROWN PUB Acoustic

blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, 2-6pm; Evening: Down to the Crown: Marshall Lawrence presents great blues with Trevor Duplessis, Mad Dog Blues Band, every Sat 10pm-2am, $5 (door) DEVANEY'S Stu Bendall EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain Sophie and

Mike (R'n'B, acoustic and unplugged); 9pm; $5

Rangers, 2pm; Fatoumata Diawara, 7:10pm; Lisa Hannigan, 8:30pm; LP, 9:45pm; Bruce Cockburn, 11:10pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm

DOG DAZE OF SUMMER INDIE FEST

AUG/23

BEAR’S DEN/Connie’s Bands–Fort Saskatchewan

WUNDERBAR Catgut Tour

DJs

NEW WEST HOTEL

AUG/9

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Adam Holm

Jimmy Whiffen

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL

Signals (metal), the Color Morale, Elitist, the Kindred; all ages; 6pm (door); $22 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$28 (door)

Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover

RENDEZVOUS PUB

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL

FRI AUG 9 AVENUE THEATRE Misery

LOUISIANA PURCHASE

Come down to the Blues Jam with the Andy Traxx Band; 2-5pm

SAT AUG 10

EDMONTON FOLK

Kickoff

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Sat

AUG/17 METALFEST 2013 AUG/20 WINTERSUN

Foundation Fridays

dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am

Jimmy Whiffen

Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm

MUSIC FESTIVAL Main Stage: Steep Canyon

EDMONTON ROCK FESTIVAL Tough Century

Band, noon; DRT, 1:30pm; Who Made Who, 3pm; Kim Mitchell, 4:50pm; Blackie & The Rodeo Kings, 6:40pm; Loverboy, 8:30pm; 11am (gates); $49 (adv)/$59 (gate); adv tickets at: edrocks@live.ca, Accoustic Music Shop, Myhre's Music, On the Rocks FILTHY MCNASTY'S

Free Afternoon Concerts: People Call it Home, Cryptic Murmurs; 4pm; no cover GAS PUMP Saturday

Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HILLTOP PUB Open Stage,

Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm

JAZZ AT THE LAKE KICKOFF–The One Eleven Grill–Red Deer Outdoor

concert (rain or shine): The Joanna Borromeo Ensemble, the Jessica Stuart Few; 4:30-10:30pm (and beyond); $20; jazzatthelake.com

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am

Beneath the Remains

STARLITE ROOM

The Sword, Castle and American Sharks; 8pm; no minors; $23 at Unionevents.com, Ticketfly. com & Blackbyrd STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Practical

Slackers (metal, punk rock), Abigail's Cross, the Cowabungas, Joey D; 8pm (door); $10 (adv)/$15 (door)

W/ GUARDIANS OF POWER, TERRORFIST AND MANY MORE!

W/ STARKILL, ARSIS & GUESTS

FLASH JAM AUG/24 ZOMBIE DISCO SQUAD W/ REND, CRUEL YOUNG HEART & FROM LOVE TO FORFEIT

!MPULSE

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT IN TEMPLE STARTING AUG 2

STEP’D UP SATURDAYS E V E R Y S AT U R D AY

WUNDERBAR SAVK (Calgary), Diamond Mind, Lab Coast (Calgary)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace

Sessions: Alt Rock/Electro/ Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick THE BOWER For Those Who

Know...: House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests

THE COMMON Get Down

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

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every

Sat; 9pm

ENCORE–WEM Every Sat:

Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten FANDANGO'S DJs night

every Fri and Sat with DJ Stouffer

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip

hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat

with resident DJ Chad Cook

NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40

requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

PAWN SHOP Transmission

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

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

AUG/9

DOG DAZE OF SUMMER INDIE FEST FT. LOS CALAVERAS, L’AMPERSAND AND MORE!

AUG/13 HUNGRY HOLLOW RUBY TUESDAYS PRESENTS W/ JESSICA DENISE

AUG/15

OLD MAN CANYON MAJICAL CLOUDZ

AUG/16 AUG/17 METALFEST 2013 W/ GUARDIANS OF POWER, TERRORFIST AND MANY MORE!

AUG/20 THE ARCHAICS RUBY TUESDAYS PRESENTS W/ RILEY QUILAN

ONE LIFE ANIMAL AUG/24 MATCHBREAKER EVERY EATS AND BEATS WEDNESDAY AUG/23

W/ GUESTS

W/ BRAEDEN MARSHALL BAND

EVERY WEDNESDAY, $0.35 WINGS

EVERY THE ULTIMATE OPEN STAGE THURSDAY EVERY THURSDAY, OPEN TURNTABLES, OPEN STAGE

NOW HIRING SERVERS, BUSSERS, SECURITY STAFF AND BARTENDERS

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge

Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

VUEWEEKLY AUG 8 – AUG 14, 2013

MUSIC 23

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

THE RIG Every Sun Jam

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Hair of the Dog acoustic Sun Jam with Bonedog and Bearcat; every Sun; 2-6pm

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

FRI AUG 9 NO HEAT TOMORROW W/DEAD CITY DOLLS,

& THOUROUGHBRED RACING PIGEON

SUITE 69 Stella Saturday:

retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TEMPLE Step'd Up Saturdays with Lolcatz, Yaznil, Badman Crooks, Ootz UNION HALL Celebrity

SAT AUG 10 POWERCLOWN... ALL MAIDEN.. ALL CLOWN!! W/ L.A.M.S., BINGE ‘N PURGE & ONE LIFE ANIMAL

SUN AUG 11

WEST OF HELL W/ KRITICOS, KRYOSPHERE & BLEED

FRI AUG 16

MICHALE GRAVES

FORMERLY OF THE MISFITS LIVE ACOUSTIC SHOW W/ ATTACK ADDICT & CHAKOBSA

SAT AUG 17

TROLLBAND

CD RELEASE OF ‘SAMSARA’ W/ KORPERLOSE, MORADIN & 88 MILE TRIP FRI AUG 23 DANIEL AND THE IMPENDING,

HIGHER&HIGHER TOUR KICK OFF, MOST OF AUGUST, HEARSAY

Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays

SUN AUG 11 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open

mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

CHA ISLAND TEA CO

Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; every Sun, 7pm

W/ THE GET DOWN, UNWED MOTHERS, & THE ARCHAICS

JUST ANNOUNCED SUN SEPT 15

BRAIDS

W/ MARK WEBBER & GUESTS FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

WEDNESDAY PINT NIGHT’S

$2.75 DOMESTIC PINTS

SAT AUG 10 FREE SHOW 4PM

PEOPLE CALL IT HOME W/ CRYPTIC MURMUR

24 MUSIC

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays:

A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

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

MON AUG 12 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

BLUES ON WHYTE Lucky and Tamara Peterson BOHEMIA Dead Oaks,

Paperlife, Wares

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

DEVANEY’S IRISH

Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover

PUB Celtic Music with

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB

Devaney's House Band; 5-8pm FANDANGO'S Sun

Industry Night: House mix with DJ JEZ LF; Show and Shine/open stage every Sun: hosted by Marshal Lawrence; 6-11pm

FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL– Gallagher Park Main Stage: Havana d' Primera,

2pm; Avett Brothers, 7:10pm; Loreena McKennitt, 9:10pm NEWCASTLE PUB Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm NOORISH CAFÉ Kirtan Songha with Kirtan Klan (singing and devotional Kirtan chants and mantras)

RICHARD'S PUB Sun

Jam hosted by Andrew White and the Joint Chiefs; 4-8pm

and Tamara Peterson

BOHEMIA Tommy Alto,

Small Town Knife Fight, Leuven

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne; Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm; no cover BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays

with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests: Hungry Hollow with Jessica Denise DRUID IRISH PUB

DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

every Wed with host Michael Gress; 9pm

RED STAR Experimental

LEAF BAR AND GRILL

SUITE 69 Rockstar

NEW WEST HOTEL Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm

Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED AUG 14 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch:

J+H PUB Acoustic open mic

night every Tue hosted by Lorin Lynne; Everyone will have 10-15 minutes to play

live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm

L.B.'S PUB Tue Open jam

BLUES ON WHYTE Lucky

and Tamara Peterson

BOHEMIA The Return of

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Mon Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK The Campfire Hero's

Tuesday Moosehead/ Barsnbands open stage hosted by Mark Ammar; every Tue; 7:30-11:30pm

Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510

(acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Mike Dominey

Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm UNION HALL Gogol

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s

Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay CROWN PUB A Sexy Night

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Joanne

Janzen

WUNDERBAR Brazilian

Velvet Hour: Live music in the afternoons hosted by Rob Taylor and Bill Bourne, Mon-Fri; 4:30-8pm, no cover; Late show: The Jessica Stuart Few (Two Sides To Every Story Western Canada Tour), 9pm, $10 CROWN PUB The Dan

Jam: musical styles from around the globe with Miguel and friends; musicians are invited to bring their personal touch to the mix every Wed

Money, Will Scott, White Chocolate Hurricane, Berta Boys, Morewine

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB

DJs

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every

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

with DJ Phoenix and MJ with Sleepless DJ, DJ Breeze and more every Mon; 9pm-2am

at the Crown Tuesday: Trueskool and live hip-hop with residents Jae Maze,

CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 1033281 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 901388 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882170 St FANDANGO'S 12912-50 St, fandangoslive.com FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700

HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110, 780.452.1168 J+H PUB 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JAZZ AT THE LAKE KICKOFF– THE ONE ELEVEN GRILL–Red Deer 108-5301-43 St JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR AND TAP HOUSE 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave NAKED CYBERCAFÉ AND BOARDGAME EMPORIUM 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard

CROWN PUB Underground

HOOLIGANZ Open stage

J+H PUB Acoustic open mic

Jamhouse Tues hosted by Chris Wynters, guest

hosted by Darrell Barr; 7:30-11:30pm

Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12

Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

DJs

Hell (metal), Kriticos, Kryosphere, Bleed; 8pm (door); $10 (adv)

BLUES ON WHYTE Lucky

FIDDLER'S ROOST Little

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm; host changes weekly: this week: Joanne Janzen

ON THE ROCKS Uptown at

PAWN SHOP West of

AVENUE THEATRE Lucid Skies (rock, metal), Bonfire, the Man and His Machine, guests; 7pm; $10 (adv)

Xaolin, Frank Brown; monthly appearances by guests Shawn Langley, Locution Revolution, and Northside Clan

Wednesday Wednesdays: Underground rap/hip-hop with Toxsic, Yung Lyrics, Nic Stavros, and Hamish Gannet; 9pm

every Sun; 9:30pm-1am On the Rocks (rock dance band)

TUE AUG 13

LEAF BAR AND GRILL

Bordello, A Tribe Called Red; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $35 at Ticketmaster

O’BYRNE’S Open mic

FRI AUG 30 THE PREYING SAINTS CD RELEASE

hosted by Better Us than Strangers; 5-9pm

Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover

FANDANGO'S Wed open stage hosted by Michael Gress and Cody Noula; Original artist showcase at 9pm FESTIVAL PLACE Patio

Series: Keith Dyck Band; Christine Hanson, Keri Lynn Zwicker and Spencer Murray Trio; 7:30pm; $8

night hosted by Lorin Lynne

Wed variety night: with guitarist, Gord Matthews; every Wed, 8pm

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, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed

Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm1am; $5

THE RIG Open jam every

Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm-12am

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Joanne

Janzen

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Mike Dominey WUNDERBAR Jake Ian

and the Haymakers, Sean Brewer and the Switchmen, Eyes On Ivan

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

DJs 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 Really Good...

Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends

THE COMMON The Wed

Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk

and ‘80s metal every Wed

RED STAR Guest DJs every

Wed

TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip

hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@ thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 1022597 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750124 St CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780.424 9467

VUEWEEKLY AUG 8 – AUG 14, 2013

NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 O2 JOES–North 13509-127 St, 780.451.7799 O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.6602 THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St SET NIGHTCLUB Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STANLEY A. MILNER LIBRARY THEATRE 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, Downstairs STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey. ca VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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

COMEDY THE BEAR’S DEN/CONNIE'S COMEDY Fort Saskatchewan • Matt Labucki, Lawrence Fehler, and Troy Stark • Sun, Aug 11, 7pm • No cover

BRIXX Comedy and Music once a month as a part of Ruby Tuesdays

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 • Brian Work; Aug 9-10 • Paul Sveen; Aug 16-17

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 • Nick Vatterott; until Aug 11 • Brian Scolaro; Aug 14-18

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 •

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

FILTHY MCNASTY'S • 10511-82 Ave • 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9-11pm; no cover JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • Jerry Seinfeld • Aug

9, 7pm; Aug 10, 7pm and 10pm • $79, $99, $125 at TicketMaster

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/CONNIE'S COMEDY • 16648-109 Ave • Open Mic following Singles Mixer starting at 9:15pm • Aug 15

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

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling

Scott every Wed, 9pm

RUMORS ULTRA LOUNGE • 8230 Gateway

Blvd • Every Thu Neon Lights and Laughter with host Sterling Scott and five comedians and live DJ TNT; 8:30pm

VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with Liam Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Thu, at 9:30pm WUNDERBAR • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • Comedy every 2nd Mon

X-WRECKS LOUNGE/CONNIE’S COMEDY •

EDMONTON GHOST TOURS • Meet infront of the Rescuer statue next to the Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • A Ghostly Walk Through Old Strathcona. Tours are outside and walking; dress for the weather and wear walking shoes • Summer: Wed-Thu, 9pm; meet (15 mins early); No tours: until Aug 8 • $10/$30 (2 adults and 2 kids) EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •

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

EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani Café,

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

FABULOUS FACILITATORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB • 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700

Jasper Ave • 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca • fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org • Can you think of a career that does not require communication • Every Tue, 12:05-1pm

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

HISTORIC WALKING TOURS–St Albert • Little White School, 2 Madonna Dr • A walking tour of St Albert’s past • Aug 15, 6:30pm • Info: Roy Toomey at 780.459.4404 or royt@artsheritage.ca HOME–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne

Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun, 3-5pm

INTRODUCTION TO TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA MEDITATION • Karma Tashi

Ling Society Centre, 10502-70 Ave • Calm Aiding and Insight: Meditation background helpful. Contact Andrew for info/registration at amgmitch@ gmail.com; T: 780.437.3688 • Thu 7-8:15pm; Sep 5-Oct 24 • $40 (suggested donation)

figures; and about U of A’s many ghosts, including the little boy at Rutherford House, the scientist who is seen walking the halls of the Power Plant, and more • Summer: Tue, 9pm; no tours: Aug 5-8 • $10/$30 (2 adults and 2 Kids)

VALLEY OF THE 5 LAKES • lionsbreath.ca; click on adventure • Depart from studio 301, 10534-124 St • 780.990.6247 • Jasper Bike Adventure • Aug 23-25 • $199 +GST WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKE •

waskahegantrail.ca • Meet: NW corner Superstore parking lot, 51 St, Calgary Tr (carpool to trail) • waskahegantrail.ca • Travel south of the city for a hike on the shore of Saunders Lake with hike leader Sandra 780.467.9572; Aug 11, 8:45am3pm; $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership) • Travel south of the city to hike the Chickadee Trail with hike leader Oscar 780.435.1197; Aug 18, 8:45am-3pm • $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership)

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strath-

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

Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Queen Alexandra

Community League, 10425 University Ave (north door, stairs to the left) • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month. Help develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s AnglicanChurch, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

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

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

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave •

St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleinesanam.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

NSAI SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot,

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

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

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

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

comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

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

FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St • 780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS

RIVER VALLEY VIXEN BOOT CAMP • Sum-

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION •

9303-50 St • Travelling open mic • Aug 9, Aug 23, 7pm • T: 780.914.8966 to get on roster

ZEN LOUNGE • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h Prize

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old

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

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

(South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Join Vincenzo and Ida Renzi every Friday at Foot Notes Dance Studio for an evening of authentic Argentine tango • Every Fri, 8pm-midnight • $15 (per person)

BERG LAKE • lionsbreath.ca; click on adventure

• Depart from studio 301,10534-124 St • 780.990.6247 • Back Country Tent and Hike • Aug 30-Sep 2 • $199 +GST

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP •

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

mer long drop-in, all girls boot camp • Various days and times throughout the week; info E: rivervalleyvixen@gmail.com • $20 • facebook. com/#!/rvvbootcamp

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

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

SEVENTIES FOREVER CLUB • 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

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

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

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana

SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS •

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

DISCOVER DOWNTOWN • edmontondown-

town.com • Tours start at the park next to Evoolution, 104 St, 101 Ave • Discover Downtown's history, architecture and public art: 90 min guided walk • Mon-Wed, Fri at 1pm; Thu, 2:30pm (arrive 10 mins early) • Until Aug 23

Stanley A. Milner Library, Centennial Rm (bsmt); edmontonatheists.ca; E: info@edmontonatheists. ca; Monthly roundtable 1st Tue each month

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave

• 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door)

U OF A/GARNEAU HISTORY AND HAUNTED WALK • Rutherford Historic Mansion, 11153 Sas-

katchewan Dr • Exploring the history of the U of A, how it began and the many important historical

teamedmonton.ca • Day Hike–Jasper: Sat, Aug 24; Meeting at Beer Revolution in Oliver Sq, 11736-104 Ave; 7am departure; info/sign-up: E: dayhikes@teamedmonton.ca • Cycling: Louise McKinney Park, terrace above River Valley Adventure Co; Thu, 6:30-8pm; For more info: cycling@ teamedmonton.ca • Dragon Boat–Flaming Dragons: Edmonton Dragon Boat Festival at Louise McKinney Park; Aug 16-18 • Summer Volleyball: Kinsmen Park; Every Sun to end of Aug, 3-5pm • Blazin' Bootcamp: Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@ teamedmonton.ca • Running: Every Sun, 10am, at Kinsmen • Yoga: Gay/Lesbian yoga every Wed, 7:30-9pm, at Lion's Breath Yoga, 206, 10350-124 St; Instructor: Jason Morris; $10 (drop-in) • Indoor Cycling: Terwillegar Recreation Centre; drop-in; E: 311@edmonton.ca • Swimming–Making Waves: Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@ teamedmonton.c; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E

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

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

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified 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, 10408-124 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

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/ competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

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

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

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS ANIMETHON • Grant MacEwan City Centre

Campus • animethon.org • Theme: Seijin-Shiki (Coming of Age Ceremony), a Japanese celebration for when someone turns 20 featuring various entertainment by Kanon Wakeshima, Capella, DJ Shimamura • Aug 9-11

THE BOUNTY IN BEAVER COUNTY • Beaver County, 1/2 hr E of Edmt on Hwy 14 • facebook. com/BCBounty • Explore farms and markets, heritage and culture, family events, businesses and cuisine across Beaver County. Destinations in and around Tofield, Ryley, Holden and Viking • Aug 9-11

CARIWEST • Downtown, Churchill Square, Shaw Conference Centre • Edmonton Caribbean Carnival • Fri Night: Costume Extravaganza at the Shaw Conference Centre: $20 (adult adv)/$10 (child adv) at TIX on the Square; $25 (adult, door); Aug 9 • Sat: Caribbean Village; Grand Costume Parade (noon): Cariwest Fete: Sat Night Party: Music by Soca Sweetness and Drew Atlas with special guest: Bunji Garlin LIVE in Concert! Tickets for sale at Tix On the Square; Aug 10 • Sun: Churchill Square’s Caribbean Village: Aug 11 • Aug 9-11 CORN SALE–HOPE MISSION • Edmonton Valley Zoo, 13315 Buena Vista Rd • Aug 17, 24, 31, 10am-4pm • Proceeds from sale go to Hope Mission Youth Shelter and Edmt and Area Land Trust

DATE NIGHT • Devonian Botanic Garden • Stroll the Garden till dusk, enjoy a dinner special at the Birch Patio, and take in a different amusement every week • Every Thu Night • Jun-Aug • Order a picnic from The Birch Patio, take in some live music; Aug 8 • Alt Country Night: A two-step/line dance night at the Wedding Patio/Pine Pavilion with a steak dinner special; dinner special menu

VUEWEEKLY AUG 8 – AUG 14, 2013

$25 Aug 15 • $11 (adult)/$6 (student)/$8 (senior)/$8 (friends of the Garden)/$8 (Garden season pass holder); incl admission to the Garden and entertainment; reserve dinner at 780.987.3054, ext 2243

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), GarageGigs Tour; all ages • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank)

DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL• edmontondragonboatfestival.com • Aug 16-18 • Blessing on the Boats: Wed, Aug 14, evening at Louise McKinney Park • Fri: showcase the cultural opening ceremonies with the Taiko Drums, the Chinese Lion Dance, National Anthem sung by Gateway Chorus Sweet Adelines; Fri, Aug 16, evening, followed by competitive challenge races, Get the dragon spirit fired up, and the final races through to Sunday

EDMONTON LATIN FESTIVAL • Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.993.9799 • edmontonlatinfestival.com • Edmonton Hispanic Cultural Society present live Latin orchestras, international Latin singers and dancers. Brazilian Sambistas (fr Rio de Janiero), beer gardens, authentic Latin food pavilions, arts and crafts and kids corner • Aug 17-18 • Free family event • Opening ceremony: Shake it for the Cure: Zumbathon for Alberta Cancer foundation Breast Cancer–shake your Bon Bon for a great cause; Sat, 10:30am • Sunday opening ceremony: Piñata smashing FIELD TO TABLE: A HORTICULTURAL EXTRAVAGANZA • Fort Edmonton • Come get

your hands dirty and celebrate this horticultural extravaganza. Formerly known as the Harvest Festival • Aug 25

GLOBAL YOUTH ASSEMBLY • U of A • 780.453.2638 • The John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights' Global Youth Assembly (GYA) is an international public forum on human rights for youth and young adults passionate about advancing a culture of peace and human rights • Until Aug 10 • $199/$59 (day pass) HIGHLEVEL BRIDGE PROFESSIONAL DOWNHILL SKATEBOARDING RACE •

Kinsmen Field House, Under the Highlevel Bridge • Edmonton’s River Valley will be taken over by longboarders on the weekend of Aug 17-18 • Sat, Aug 17 (registration 9am, Main Race 12pm-4pm) • Sun, Aug 18: Start at Hermitage Park; Finish at Government House Park; Registration ends at 9am, Race starts at 10am • Registration for both events/info at roguerace.com

JLS NIGHT MARKET • 102 Ave, 106

St • nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com • 780.901.8480 • Every Sat, 7-11pm; until Sep 28 • E:nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com • facebook.com/#!/events/398830093565798/?co ntext=create

POP UP ARTISAN MARKET • Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse • Aug 17, 10am

SHAKE IT FOR THE CURE! • Churchill Square • Zumba charity event in support of the Alberta Cancer foundation Breast Cancer initiatives. Zumba enthusiasts will be wiggling their hips for this cause. Pledge forms info at W: shakeitforthecure.com; T: 780.993.9799 • Aug 17, 10:30am • $10 in pledges required to participate; free for kids under 14

STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY BOOK SALE • Agora, Strathcona County Community

Centre • Annual book, DVD and CD sale • Proceeds to support the purchase of new materials for the library; T: 780.410.8601, E: info@sclibrary. ab.ca for info • Fri, Aug 16, 9:30am-8:30pm; Sat, Aug 17, 9:30am-4:30pm; Sun, Aug 18, 1-4:30pm

STRIDE, THE WALK FOR BLOOD • Sir Wilfrid Laurier Park, 13221 Buena Vista Rd • Dedicated to individuals who have received, are receiving, or will require blood transfusions in their lives. Rather than collecting monetary pledges, participants raise blood donation pledges from friends/family. 4k walk, or 7k run; free BBQ; free entertainment Aug 11, 10am-12 • $12.50 registration fee at stridewalk@blood.ca

UKRAINIAN DAY • Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, 50km E of Edmonton, Hwy 16; 3km E of Elk Island National Park • 780.662.3640 • ukrainianvillage.ca • A celebration of Alberta’s vibrant Ukrainian community past and present. Starting with a pancake breakfast, and recognition pioneer families. Ukrainian Day concert featuring traditional and contemporary Ukrainian-Canadian music, art sale, village market, children's activities and Ukrainian Village Food Festival • Sun, Aug 11 • Admission on gate YEG FASHION SHOW • Stanley Milner

Library Edmonton Rm (lower level), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Social awareness fundraiser in support of ALS. Featuring on-site makeovers, mini photo shoots, silent auction, accessory workshop, fashion show • Aug 18 1:30-4:30pm • $15

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY

ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): "You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings," says author Elizabeth Gilbert. I recommend that you experiment with this subversive idea, Aries. Just for a week, see what happens if you devote yourself to making yourself feel really good. I mean risk going to extremes as you pursue happiness with focused zeal. Try this: draw up a list of experiences that you know will give you intense pleasure and indulge in them all without apology. And please don't fret about the possible consequences of getting crazed with joy. Be assured that the cosmos is providing you with more slack than usual. TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): "I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits," writes Taurus author Annie Dillard, "but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air." I recommend you try on her perspective for size. For now, just forget about scrambling after perfection. At least temporarily, surrender any longing you might have for smooth propriety. Be willing to live without neat containment and polite decorum. Instead, be easy and breezy. Feel a generous acceptance for the messy beauty you're embedded in. Love your life exactly as it is, with all of its paradoxes and mysteries. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Studies show that when you're driving a car, your safest speed is five miles per hour higher than the average rate of traffic. Faster than that, though, and the danger level rises. Travelling more slowly than everyone else on the road also increases your risk of having an accident. Applying these ideas metaphorically, I'd like to suggest you take a similar approach as you weave your way through life's challenges in the coming week. Don't dawdle and plod. Move a little swifter than everyone else, but don't race along at a breakneck pace. CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): The key theme this week is relaxed intensification. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to heighten and strengthen your devotion to things that are important to you—but in ways that make you feel more serene and self-possessed. To accomplish this, you will have to ignore the conventional wisdom, which falsely asserts that going deeper and giving more of yourself require you to increase your stress levels. You do indeed have a great potential for going deeper and giving more of yourself, but only if you also become more at peace with yourself and more at home in the world.

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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Last year a young Nebraskan entrepreneur changed his name from Tyler Gold to Tyrannosaurus Rex Gold. He said it was a way of giving him greater name recognition as he worked to build his career. Do you have any interest in making a bold move like that, Leo? The coming weeks would be a good time for you to think about adding a new twist to your nickname or title or self-image. But I recommend something less sensationalistic and more in line with the qualities you'd actually like to cultivate in the future. I'm thinking of something like Laughing Tiger or Lucky Lion or Wily Wildcat.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): African-American jazz singer Billie Holiday was the great-granddaughter of a slave. By the time she was born in 1915, black people in the American South were no longer "owned" by white "masters," but their predicament was still extreme. Racism was acute and debilitating. Here's what Billie wrote in her autobiography: "You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation." Nothing you experience is remotely as oppressive as what Billie experienced, Virgo. But I'm wondering if you might suffer from a milder version of it. Is any part of you oppressed and inhibited even though your outward circumstances are technically unconstrained? If so, now's the time to push for more freedom. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): What resounding triumphs and subtle transformations have you accomplished since your last birthday? How have you grown and changed? Are there any ways you have dwindled or drooped? The next few weeks will be an excellent time to take inventory of these things. Your own evaluations will be most important, of course. You've got to be the ultimate judge of your own character. But you should also solicit the feedback of people you trust. They may be able to help you see clues you've missed. If, after weighing all the evidence, you decide you're pleased with how your life has unfolded these past 10 to 11 months, I suggest you celebrate your success. Throw yourself a party or buy yourself a reward or climb to the top of a mountain and unleash a victory cry. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Monmouth Park in New Jersey hosts regular horse races from May through November. During one such event in 2010, a horse named Thewifenoseeverything finished first, just ahead of another nag named Thewifedoesntknow. I suspect that there'll be a comparable outcome in your life sometime soon. Revelation will trump secrecy. Whoever is hiding information will lose out to anyone who sees and expresses

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You have both a poetic and a cosmic licence to stretch yourself further. It's best not to go too far, of course. You should stop yourself before you obliterate all boundaries and break all taboos and smash all precedents. But you've certainly got the blessings of fate if you seek to disregard some boundaries and shatter some taboos and outgrow some precedents. While you're at it, you might also want to shed a few pinched expectations and escape an irrelevant limitation or two. It's time to get as big and brave and brazen as you dare. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): When I was 19, a thug shot me in the butt with a shotgun at close range. To this day, my body contains the 43 pellets he pumped into me. They have caused some minor health problems, and I'm always queasy when I see a gun. But I don't experience any routine suffering from the wound. Its original impact no longer plagues me. What's your own personal equivalent of my trauma, Capricorn? A sickness that racked you when you were young? A difficult break up with your first love? The death of someone you cared about? Whatever it was, I suspect you now have the power to reach a new level of freedom from that old pain. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Want to take full advantage of the sexy vibes that are swirling around in your vicinity? One thing you could do is whisper the following provocations in the ear of anyone who would respond well to a dose of boisterous magic: 1) "Corrupt me with your raw purity, baby; beguile me with your raucous honesty." 2) "I finally figured out that one of the keys to eternal happiness is to be easily amused. Want me to show you how that works?" 3) "I dare you to quench my thirst for spiritual sensuality." 4) "Let's trade clothes and pretend we're each other's higher selves." PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Some people put their faith in religion or science or political ideologies. English novelist J G Ballard placed his faith elsewhere: in the imagination. "I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world," he wrote, "to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen." As you make your adjustments and reconfigure your plans, Pisces, I suggest you put your faith where Ballard did. Your imagination is far more potent and dynamic than you realize— especially right now. V

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Are you an animal lover? WHARF Rescue is looking for volunteers We are a nonprofit animal rescue that provides shelter to homeless,neglected animals Please check www.wharfrescue.ca for more information As a non-profit, SATS can serve more elders over 65 years who need help with volunteer led transportation, if we can find more volunteer drivers! Please think of giving Volunteer managed Rides to elders. You are needed 8:00 to 8:00 pm seven days a week for three hours at your convenience. Two to three days of notice, in advance of a volunteer given ride, is given. The elders always will be very appreciative of your time and your gas. For more details on gas re-imbursements call SATS at 780 732-1221 Become a Victim Services Volunteer Advocate! Work in conjunction with the RCMP to provide immediate assistance, support, information and agency referral to victims of crime and trauma in Strathcona County and provide support to victims through the criminal justice system. Please contact Stacey at 780-410-4331 or by email at Stacey.grilo@strathcona.ca for more information! Habitat For Humanity is building a pool of volunteers to help us with renovations at our newest ReStore. Flexible hours, no experience necessary If interested, please contact Evan at ehammer@hfh.org or call (780) 451-3416

Blush Lane Organic Market is dedicated to providing our customers with certified organic and sustainable farmed produce, grown with care on our family orchard, local family farms and in the worldwide organic community.

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EIFF - Sept 26 to Oct 5 Play with us. Volunteer! Thank-you to the many volunteers who donate their time and energies to create EIFF -- your smiling faces and genuine sincerity rank us among a handful of film festivals deemed to have the nicest people. Whether you’re a returning volunteer or brand new to the whole film fest scene, we welcome your help! If you’re interested in volunteering please fill out the application at edmontonfilmfest.com FIRST AID VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Her Majesty’s Volunteer Service seeks First Aiders to attend to patrons, staff, volunteers, artists and secret agents at From Fringe With Love, August 15 - 25. Minimum Standard First Aid (SFA) and CPR Level C certification or a professional designation that includes emergency medical training is required. A copy of your current SFA/CPR certificate or a copy of current registration from your regulating college (i.e. ACP, CARNA, CLPNA, CPSA) must accompany First Aid volunteer applications, and First Aid volunteers must be 18 years of age or older. From Fringe with Love is powered by Her Majesty’s Volunteer Service before and throughout the Festival. For a minimum commitment of four shifts during the 11-day Festival, Fringe volunteers receive a T-shirt, a Festival loot bag, a program guide, an exclusive invite to the Festival Wrap Party, and opportunities to attend shows. To apply online, visit www.fringetheatre.ca , or call the Volunteer Hotline at (780) 409-1923 for more information! Habitat For Humanity - St. Albert Experience Community Hands’ On! Beginners to trades people welcome, groups and individuals welcome. We provide all tools and equipment. All volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation/training. No minimum number of shifts required. Check our website www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer online or contact Louise. Habitat for Humanity invites all women to build with us during Women Build Week: August 20-24 Are you a woman who has always wanted to volunteer on a Habitat for Humanity build site,but were unsure if you had the necessary skills? You may be surprised how many women -- with no construction experience -- build homes with Habitat for Humanity. If you are a woman who wants to help families in our community, there is an important role for you on our build sites, whether you have no construction experience or a tool belt of skills Contact for more info about the event: Louise Fairley 780-451-3416 lfairley@hfh.org

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Habitat for Humanity requires Landscaping Volunteers! Flexible hours, no experience necessary If interested, please contact Evan at ehammer@hfh.org or call (780) 451-3416 Habitat for Humanity’s Volunteer Orientation and Basic Tool Training Session Have you often considered volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, but just need information about our program and some training on tools? We are hosting a tool training and information session for new volunteers - or not-new volunteers - who would like to gain some basic knowledge of tools and learn more about how our organization works! Contact for more info about the event: Louise Fairley 780-451-3416 lfairley@hfh.org Help someone in crisis take that first step towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com

Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism. Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities

Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope - WE NEED YOU Join us on September 8, 2013 at Laurier Park, Edmonton. Walk for HER, Walk for HOPE, Walk for LIFE. We are looking for enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers to help out in various roles for the Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope. There is something for everyone: event set-up, cheering on participants, assisting with registration are only few examples. Volunteers are vital in ensuring that everything runs according to plan on the Walk day. Please contact Shauna shauna.occ@gmail.com for more information

Support local farmers and your community. SouthWest Edmonton Farmers Market is seeking volunteers to help with set up, market activities and take down each Wednesday. This is fun, vibrant and community-oriented place and you get to be outside! For more information please contact Melissa at 780-868-9210

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Universiade ’83 Foundation Grant Program, Edmonton: Due Sept 6 This is a great chance for Edmontonians running programs for sports, the arts, and culture to help fund themselves for the upcoming year. The applications for this opportunity are due September 6th, so start getting those submissions ready. You could get up to a maximum of $10,000 for your program and projects. Check out the City of Edmonton website for more information: http://edmonton.ca/for_resident s/universiade-83foundation.aspx

Volunteering - Habitat for Humanity requires Landscaping Volunteers! New houses with bare yards need love and our energetic volunteers will be beautifying yards for our families by planting trees, laying sod, building fences and decks and putting the ﬁnishing touches on our completed homes. This is an active opportunity open to volunteers of all skill levels. Previous volunteers really enjoyed strengthening friendships and building new ones and knowing they had put in a good day of work. Individual and group volunteers welcome. Contact: Evan Hammer ehammer@hfh.org 780.451.3416 www.hfh.org

Volunteering - Improve the Lives of Children in the Developing World Room to Read is changing the lives of children in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality. Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our programs, and spread the word about the fantastic results we are achieving. Skills in event planning, PR, marketing, graphic design are needed, but not essential. We welcome all volunteers. If this sounds interesting, email us at Edmonton@roomtoread.org Contact: Kerri Tulloch Edmonton@roomtoread.org Phone: 780.425.4043 roomtoread.org/Edmonton Wanted: Volunteer Board Members We are a non-proﬁt charitable organization in search of volunteer board members. Sundance Canine Rescue Society which has been in operation since September 2009 has recently received charitable status which requires a working board. We are looking for board members with a range of expertise and are willing to be active in their governance roles. For a complete information package, please email

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Call for Artists/Artisans Carrot Coffeehouse Pop Up Market August 17th, 2013 10am - 4pm Contact Heather to reserve a spot carrotassist@gmail.com / 780-471-1580

Singer /songwriter looking for mature musicians to collaborate with in songwriting and performing. Inﬂuences- Jazz, pop, country and blues. Please e-mail me at: cdguen@telus.net.

Call to Artists - Quarters Armature Mid Block Crossing Public Art Project Open to all Canadian and international visual artists, is held in accordance with the City of Edmonton policy “Percent for Art to Provide and Encourage Art in Public Areas” (C458C). Budget: Two artists will each be selected and receive $75,000 CAD (maximum, all inclusive) Deadline for Submissions: 4:30 pm on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 Installation: Summer 2014 For more information, contact the Edmonton Arts Council: phone (780) 424–2787 or email: publicart@edmontonarts.ca

August 2013 - Call for Submissions/Entries to 3rd Annual Memphis Bound Blues Challenge. Entry deadline will be early September 2013. Watch for more details. Edmonton Blues Society conducts their search for two Northern Alberta blues acts, one Solo/Duo act and one Band, to represent EBS and Alberta at the 30th International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee early 2014. Acts must reside in Alberta from Red Deer, north between BC and Saskatchewan borders. or more info email: ibc@EdmontonBluesSociety.n et Rules and past winners at www.EdmontonBluesSociety.n et

SPECIAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Artisan Nook, Located at The Paint Spot, Edmonton, AB Looking for submissions of Holiday-themed craft/ artisan work for display/ sale Nov/Dec 2013. Artists who craft small, artistic objects are invited to submit exhibition proposals SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 30, 2013. For further information, contact Michelle at 780 432 0240 accounts@paintspot.ca www.paintspot.ca/galleries

Transitory Public Art Program 2014 The Edmonton Arts Council, on behalf of the City of Edmonton, is seeking local applications from a Lead Artist(s) and/or Curator interested in participating in the Transitory Public Art Program 2014. Budget: $30,000.00 maximum per proposal Deadline for Submissions: 4:30 PM on Friday October 25, 2013 Installation: Project Complete by December 2014 For more information, contact the Edmonton Arts Council Dawn Saunders Dahl, Public Art Program Ofﬁcer phone:(780) 424–2787 ext 229 email:publicart@edmontonarts .ca dsaundersdahl@edmontonarts.ca

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OUTSIDE SALES PERSON for NAPA Store in Three Hills, Alberta. Automotive parts/service knowledge required and sales experience is valuable. Resume to: dfox@napacanada.com. HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC, Flagstaff County, Sedgewick, Alberta. Please contact Kevin Kinzer at 780-3844106 or kkinzer@flagstaff. ab.ca. Competitive salary, benefits & pension plan. INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT Operator School. No Simulators. In-the-seat training. Real world tasks. Weekly start dates. Job board! Funding options. Sign up online! iheschool.com. 1-866-399-3853. TRUCKING/MIXED FARM Operation requires full-time Class 1 Driver. Cattle hauling, water hauling, and logging. Includes some shop duties. Competitive wages, year round full-time employment. 780-656-0053, Michael. T.O.S. IN WHITECOURT is looking for experienced Class 1 Fluid Haulers and Class 3 Vac Haulers. Top wages paid. To apply please call 780-268-4444 or email: t.o.s@hotmail.ca. NOW LOCATED in Drayton Valley. BREKKAAS Vacuum & Tank Ltd. Wanted Class 1 & 3 Drivers, Super Heater Operators with all valid tickets. Top wages, excellent benefits. Please forward resume to: Email: dv@brekkaas.com. Phone 780-6213953. Fax 780-621-3959. JOURNEYMAN MECHANIC WANTED. Neilson Mechanical (Acadia Valley, Alberta) is a growing heavy duty repair business specializing in shop/field service and repair for construction equipment and highway tractor/trailer units. Competitive wages. Valid driver’s licence necessary. Contact Brad 403-664-9185 or email: neilsonmechanical@netago.ca. OPENINGS in Alberta areas for Highway Maintenance Class 1 or 3 Operators. Full-time and part-time positions available. Fax resume to Carillion Canada at 780-449-0574 or email: mcroft@carillionalberta.ca. Positions to start Oct. 15, 2013. Please state what position you are interested in.

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A different take on teen sex Religiosity and sexuality combine in Catholic-school themed play

Teen sex is a favourite topic for risk of making something deemed ferent because it's not just about television and movies. From too explicit for them to watch. sex. "I think it speaks directly to American Pie to the new movie "We had to look at how we could religion vs teen sexuality and that The To Do List to television shows produce a show that depicts what is not something that is talked like The Secret Life of the Ameribeing a teenager is like, which at about often," she says. "Religion can Teenager, we are endand sex are not always lessly interested in the seen as complementary I think that many people associate subjects, but I think it's sex lives of young people. But, however many of teenagers in the ‘child’ category and important to realize them there are, these being a sexual bedon’t like to think of them as sexual that shows all end up feeling ing does not mean you beings. similar. We seem to get cannot be a religious only two options: overbeing. It's about finding the-top raunchy comedies where times includes sexually explicit a balance between your beliefs there are no consequences, or content, and still allow teens to and your body." morality lessons where teens pay see it. We've put an advisory Combining religion and teen a hefty price for having sex. of 16+ on the show because sex could be a recipe for controEdmontonians Lauren Groves that is the age of most of the versy, but Groves and Masse are and Kieva Masse hope to offer characters." ready for it. something different with their "I think there will definitely be upcoming Fringe play, Kilt Pins. Having had a sneak preview of controversy," Masse says. "I think The play, by Canadian playwright the script, I can say that the play that many people associate teenCatherine Hernandez, is set in a feels much more true to what agers in the 'child' category and Catholic school and explores the teenage life is really like as opdon't like to think of them as sexual world of a group of teenposed to an adult's view of what sexual beings." agers. How is it different from it is or should be. "The Fringe is all about pushing what we've already seen? "This show is about firsts," boundaries," Groves adds. "I think "Well, first of all, our actors Groves says. "First crushes, kissthis show will fit right in." V aren't 30," Groves says. "They are es, sexual experience and the first actually young people." time having sex. It is a brutally Brenda Kerber is a sexual health That does, however, present honest depiction of what those educator who has worked with loa bit of a challenge. Ironically, cal not-for-profits since 1995. She is firsts are like for youth who may when you produce a play by and the owner of the Edmonton-based, not have any guidance aside from for young people about young sex-positive adult toy boutique the what they've seen in the media." people's sex lives, you run the Traveling Tickle Trunk. Masse believes Kilt Pins is dif-

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MATT JONES JONESINCROSSWORDS@VUEWEEKLY.COM

“Tee Off”--songs that lost their #1 position. UNREADY DAD

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1 “___ me a river!” 4 “Back to the Future” nickname 7 Pillager 13 “Welcome to Hawaii” gift 14 Folkie Guthrie 16 Become a success 17 Elvis song about a whirlpool-loving grizzly? 19 Ace a test 20 Attaches 21 2008 Mariah Carey song in dire need of painkillers? 23 Part of a bridal outfit 24 “Barbarella” actor Milo 25 “One ___ Beyond” 26 Threesome per inning? 27 Portland-to-Las Vegas dir. 28 “Don’t touch my squeaky toy!” 30 Pretty much out of fuel, according to the gas gauge 31 “Kazaam” star, familiarly 33 Close election aftermaths 35 Cyndi Lauper song that’s full of regret? 38 Handlebar, e.g. 41 Per unit 44 Interloper on a blanket 45 Female in a forest 46 Board head: abbr. 48 Gypsy, more correctly 50 Actor Luke of “Kung Fu” 52 Boxer Ali 54 Not for here 55 With 59-across, Taylor Swift song about medicine leaking during a jam session? 57 1993 Texas standoff city 58 Dictation taker, for short 59 See 55-across 61 National park in Alaska 62 “High” places for pirates 63 Paris’s ___ de la Cite 64 “Be right with you!” 65 “The Chronic” Dr. 66 “Happy Days” setting

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1 Do a hatchet job on 2 Gets flushed 3 Language “bubkes” comes from 4 Bit of Vaseline 5 Discontinued black-and-white cookie cereal 6 Contract provision

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7 Main section of Venice 8 “Aren’t you ___ of sunshine today” 9 Night spots for tots 10 Unit of a huge explosion 11 Clearly visible 12 Enters a password again 15 Conductor’s group: abbr. 18 Armani competitor, initially 22 “The Philosophy of Right” philosopher 27 Cheerleading unit 29 “Air Music” composer Ned 32 “But is it ___?” 33 Fish eggs 34 Network named for a nation 36 Environmental 37 Tawdry 38 Gets by with less 39 Left on the plate 40 Compound in disposable coffee cups 42 European country whose capital is Zagreb 43 “Sooooooooey!” e.g. 46 Was overly sweet 47 Airport shed 49 Michael, Mandy and Roger 51 Actress Best and writer Ferber 53 Belief systems 54 “Light” opening 56 The R in LARP 60 Draw upon ©2013 Jonesin' Crosswords

I'm a 25-year-old male. After a tragic set of circumstances, I am now the legal guardian of my 15-year-old brother. He's gay. Fortunately, our parents took care of "the talk" and taught him how to use condoms. Unfortunately, he has started dating a senior at his school who is about to turn 18 and is a fucking sleazeball. You know the type: entitled, narcissistic LA type, drives a BMW paid for by his rich parents. This asshole has no respect for my brother. He grabs my brother's ass or says disgusting things like "You really look fuckable in those jeans." I told him to stop that behaviour, and he just replied, "Sorry, I can't keep my hands off such a hottie." A keeper for sure, right? My parents would probably know what to do, but they're dead. I don't think he's mature enough to be in a sexual relationship, but I'm fairly sure he is already sexually active. I laid down the law and told him that he couldn't see his boyfriend anymore, but he has continued to see him behind my back and now doesn't tell me anything that is going on with his life. I don't know what he's doing with a guy like that. My brother is smart, plays lots of sports and is really involved at school. I'm afraid this loser is going to destroy all that. I'm new to all of this parenting stuff, but I know that he can't continue to see this person. I know that my issue isn't what you usually deal with, but as a parent yourself, what would you do? New Parent Needs Help I'm so sorry about the tragedy that befell your family, NPNH, and the loss of both your parents. You deserve nothing but praise for taking your brother in and taking him on. That said ... You don't need to round your brother's boyfriend up to 18— you don't need to round him up to "statutory rapist"—to make him sound like an asshole. He sounds like a big enough asshole at age 17. And there's nothing inappropriate about a 17-yearold kid dating a 15-year-old kid, NPNH. You may be tempted to alert the authorities after your brother's asshole boyfriend (BAB) turns 18, but BAB is protected by your state's age-ofconsent laws, which treat sex between a minor and an adult differently if the adult is within three years of the minor's age, which this asshole is. It's also entirely appropriate for a 17-year-old gay boy to grab his 15-year-old boyfriend's ass. And it's entirely appropriate for a 17-year-old to tell his 15-yearold boyfriend that he looks fuckable in his jeans. But it is insanely inappropriate for a 17-year-old kid to do and say those things

in front of his 15-year-old boyfriend's parent or legal guardian. Still, NPNH, instead of forbidding your brother from dating this asshole or refusing to let BAB visit your house, speak up when BAB behaves like an asshole in front of you. ("Now is not the time, guys." "Knock that shit off, please." "I don't want to hear about my brother's sex life any more than he wants to hear about my sex life.") If the asshole doesn't listen—if BAB keeps grabbing your brother's ass—ask him to leave. It's your house and you make the rules. But you should resist the urge to make unenforceable rules like "You may not see this guy," as that will only undermine your authority while driving them into each other's arms. Worse yet, if your brother isn't supposed to be seeing this guy at all, NPNH, he won't feel comfortable turning to you for advice if BAB is pressuring him to do anything dangerous. Your brother needs to be able to talk about his relationship with you, and he can't do that if he's not supposed to be in that relationship. And take comfort: if BAB is as shallow and materialistic as your letter makes him sound, odds are good that he'll tire of your brother soon enough and move on to the next hot piece of ass who's impressed by his BMW. This is a problem that is likely to solve itself.

DICK DREAMS

My dad just died. He was a pedophile. A lot of stuff is coming up for both my brother and me now. There are many things he did that we know about, but some things happened when we were so young that we're not sure about. My bro just said he's had dreams throughout his life—many more of them lately—about a cock being in his mouth. He's hetero and has been married for more than 20 years. He wonders if any other straight men have dreams like this or if it is some manifestation of the abuse. He is too afraid to ask any of his straight male friends. So I ask you: do straight men ever have dreams of a cock in their mouth? Or is it odd? Gay? What? The Brothers Grim "I am very sorry for TBG's loss, as complicated as it is," says Dr James Cantor, a psychologist, associate professor at the University of Toronto, and editor in chief of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. "The quick answer to his question: no. Although it is unusual, having dreams like that does not, by itself, mean a man is gay or otherwise into penises. (OK, technically, it's "penes.") Although there haven't been any formal surveys, gay men usually dream (and fantasize while masturbating) about

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men in general: muscles and faces, celebrities and crushes, the range of their favourite sex acts, etc. I haven't heard a gay man—friend or client—describe dreams restricted lifelong to just penis-in-mouth." Cantor offers a caveat for other readers: "For a long time, many folks believed that such dreams were repressed memories trying to surface. But there was never any good evidence for it. In fact, a great deal of harm has been done by well-meaning 'therapists' who, instead of helping clients to recover lost memories, wound up creating false memories of abuse and destroying whole families." So very clearly and for the record: "Having such dreams, by itself, does not mean a person was abused." What is odd, however, is the long-standing, repetitive nature of your dreams. "Although dreams do not tell us anything specific (again, these are not memories-in-waiting or great symbolic themes), they can suggest that there is something on his mind," Cantor says. "If life is going generally well, and this is just a harmless eccentricity, so be it. If, however, your brother is experiencing more general distress, then that distress—whether fallout from childhood abuse, from the death of your father, or from something else—could be targeted with a bona fide, licensed therapist. Complicated situations like yours almost always involve multiple strong and conflicting emotions. Because you say lots of stuff (other than these dreams) is coming up for you both, an objective outsider/ listener can indeed be of great help in sorting it out."

BRO, DON'T TELL!

What do you say to a college-age brother who tells you more about his sex life than you want to hear? I love my bro, but I don't need to know how much pussy he's getting. I used to tell him about my "triumphs," but we were in high school then, and I've matured since. He was a late bloomer, he's kind of insecure, and I think he's excited to be doing well socially and sexually. But I don't want to hear about it anymore. Brotherly Boundaries "There are two kinds of guys in the world, bro. Guys who can't stop talking about all the pussy they're getting, and guys who're actually getting all sorts of pussy." This week on the Savage Lovecast, Dan interviews feminist blogger Amanda Marcotte on the hysteria surrounding female sexuality and hookup culture on college campuses. Find it at savagelovecast.com V @fakedansavage on Twitter

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