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BRIEFS Fifth annual Fiestaval next week Turn up the heat and bring on the Spanish for Red Deer’s fifth annual Fiestaval on Aug. 16 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The Latin Festival is free and will feature numerous artisan vendors and ethnic food booths exhibiting the tastes of Mexico, Chile, Cuba, Colombia and El Salvador. There will also be a number of performers and live music, including a chair tease dance demonstration, tunes from Red Deer’s own Grupo Conga, the Mariachi Nacional de Mexico band from Guadalajara, Mexico and Dominican style dancers Bachata Con Cache out of Calgary. This year’s event is focused on showcasing all of the diverse areas of the Latin culture throughout Central and South America, said Christian Greiffenstein, Fiestaval’s producer. There will also be performances at the beer gardens, free Latin dance classes, Latin aerobics, Latin percussion workshops and more. The festival takes place in front of City Hall. For more information or to volunteer, call 403-453-7424 or visit www. fiestaval.ca.Experimenting with the power of heat is a new part of Red Deer College’s SummerScapes camp.
SummerScapes offers visual art for youth
There are certain attitudes, postures, colloquialisms and a self-deprecating sense of humour that come with being a southern man, Mount said. “Hell, there’s a damn way you spit,” he said. “I could demonstrate it for you or I could coach somebody to try to do it but it’s just in the DNA. I couldn’t do it without having grown up in the south.” The show isn’t filmed in the American southwest, however — it’s shot in Calgary, with scenic valleys and evergreen trees offering a stunning backdrop to the bloody storyline. Hell on Wheels also boasts many Canadians on its cast and crew, including producer Chad Oakes. “We love working in Calgary. The crew here is phenomenal. They care about every single detail every single day and you can see it in the frame,” said Mount. “There are very few places that you can shoot a western set in the Great Plains on a television budget these days. There actually may not be another one at this point.” The fourth season of Hell on Wheels is currently airing Saturdays on AMC. The first three seasons are on Netflix. In the recent season premiere, Cullen’s new wife Naomi gave birth in a
chaotic scene that included his mother-in-law singing and a bishop speaking in tongues. Asked how the birth of his baby affects Bohannon throughout the season, Mount questioned whether the outlaw hero was ready to raise a child. “It’s a bit like a heroin addict saying, ‘You know what, I’m going to have a family now.’ It’s like, ‘Whoa, hold on, that’s the cart before the horse right there.’ “It’s one of those situations where your conscience wants you to do one thing and your gut wants you to do another. And by trying to do the right thing according to your conscience, you’re making the situation worse.” But Bohannon is blinded by his own ambition, which is the central theme of the show, Mount said. “The biggest weakness of every character in this television show is one thing: ambition. That’s what the show’s about,” he said. “It’s an exercise in man’s hubris to think that he can lay a track from coast to coast. It’s man’s hubris to think he can go up against God’s creation and win. ... A lot of times we get bitten in the ass trying to do it. But I think for the most part we come out on top.”
that’s what sets it apart. It’s not watered down; it’s for kids who are serious about making art and being creative.” The students will spend all week on campus and wrap up the camp with an exhibition for family, guests and the public on Aug. 16 at 10 a.m. in room 2901. Admission is free. SummerScapes started in 1985, as part of the celebrations for the International Year of Youth as proclaimed by the United Nations. So far, 53 students have signed up for the 2014 version. The cost of the camp is $525 plus GST and includes tuition, supplies, accommodations, food and a T-shirt. For more information, visit www. rdc.ab.ca/summercamps.
lished author. Her books include A Team Like No Other, The Saturday Appaloosa, Bibi and the Bull, The Strongest Man This Side of Cremona, Tiger’s New Cowboy Boots and more. Her most recent book, Cub’s Journey Home, will be available next month. She also creates a number of acrylic paintings available for purchase, largely inspired by Alberta’s wildlife and landscape.
Graham has a number of distinctions attached to her work, including the Shinning Willow Award, Alberta Children’s Title of the Year Award, the Alberta Book Illustration Award and was also shortlisted for the 2010 and 2013 Alberta Literary Award. Exploring Life runs until Sept. 5. The Gallery on Main is located at 4910 50th Ave. in Lacombe. For more information, call 403-7823402 or visit www.georgiagraham.com.
Top young guitarist to perform in Red Deer A young guitarist who’s been called “One of the best 30 under 30” fingerstyle players will be performing in Red Deer. Calum Graham, of Toronto, who’s on Acoustic Guitar Magazine’s list of amazing young players, will perform on Aug. 15 at a 7:30 p.m. house concert at the Gilmore Guitar shop. Tickets are $20 from the store at Unit 6, 4676-61st St. (403) 872-0006.
A special three-week show at the Gallery on Main in Lacombe is showcasing new and old work from local artist Georgia Graham. A beloved children’s book author/ illustrator and chalk pastel artist, Graham will be on hand to kick off her exhibit, Exploring Life, with an opening reception on Aug. 16 from 5 to 9 p.m. Graham, who graduated from the Alberta College of Art in 1982, has been in love with chalk pastels since Grade 4. She started using her drawings to entertain children in her Sunday school classes and eventually became a pub-
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TORONTO — With his weathered good looks and genuine southern drawl, Anson Mount appears as though he was born to star in a gritty western. But the Tennessee-raised actor says that before he was cast in AMC’s railroad drama Hell on Wheels, he suffered rejections from a number of television shows and films set in the American past. “I got lucky,” Mount, 41, said in a phone interview with The Canadian Press. “I routinely did not get hired in period pieces because casting directors always told me I was too contemporary, whatever that means. I’m not sure how someone can look too contemporary. They still had two nostrils in the 19th century, I think.” As Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier who sets out to avenge his wife’s death at the hands of Union officers, Mount brings his bona fide southern roots to the role. He hails from White Bluff, Tenn., and his greatgreat-great-grandfather was a Confederate colonel in the American Civil War. Mount said he’d always been in-
terested in western and action roles but found that casting directors were consistently looking outside the United States. “These days, if you’ve got a role that involves any amount of testosterone whatsoever, they immediately start looking at Australians,” he said. Examples of rugged actors from Down Under who have snapped up prime action roles include Chris Hemsworth in Thor and Sam Worthington in Avatar and Terminator Salvation. In SundanceTV’s Rectify, Australia-raised Aden Young plays a southern man released from death row. But the creators of Hell on Wheels, brothers Tony and Joe Gayton, were determined to find an American to play Bohannon, Mount said. The show sets its story arc in 1865 within the westward construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, spanning Nebraska and future Wyoming territory. “They wanted not just an American but they wanted ideally to find a southern American who had a genuine accent. I was available at the right time and the casting directors, Amanda Mackey (Johnson) and Cathy Sandrich, really got behind me, and I got the role,” he said.
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