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Port posts another record year Exports from NV terminals expected to grow in 2015 BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Record exports of commodities flowing through Port Metro Vancouver likely indicates more expansion projects are on the way.

The port doesn’t release how much of each commodity is shipped through specific terminals, as it would be “commercially sensitive,” but the overall exports hint

at how busy the North Shore’s various terminals were.

Metallurgical coal exports, much of which ship from Neptune Terminals, were up one per cent at 26.1 million tonnes, Potash, also from Neptune, was up 14 per cent at 7.5 million tonnes but grain, which is shipped from Richardson International and Cargill Canada, had the biggest increase, jumping to 19.6 million tonnes.

“That’s 22 per cent above the previous record so it was a really, really strong year,” said Robin Silvester, the port’s president and CEO. See Rail page 5

N. Shore teens drink more than average JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

North Shore teens are more likely to be drinking booze and smoking both tobacco and pot than their provincial peers.

They’re also more likely to own a cellphone and — like other teens across the province — are often on it when they should be doing something else, like sleeping.

Those tidbits are among

the pieces of information contained in the recently released adolescent health study for the North Shore – Garibaldi region, conducted by the nonprofit McCreary Centre Society every five years.

About 30,000 students in grades 7 to 12 took part in the study between February and June of 2013. Although six school districts were included See Teen page 3

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Bon voyage to maritime relic

Diesel engine among artifacts NV archives shipping out

JENNIFER SALTMAN The Province

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The North Vancouver Museum and Archives is ready to lose some weight: about 22,000 pounds.

A six-cylinder, 11ton tugboat engine is the biggest item on the long list of artifacts and objects North Vancouver’s chroniclers are looking to ship out.

After getting District of North Vancouver council’s blessing at a meeting Feb. 2, the NVMA will try to sell the motor at public auction after holding onto it for more than 17 years.

Built in 1951, the engine is 20 feet long, eight feet wide, and nine feet high.

The big, green motor powered the tugboat The Reliant, cutting the waters off the Sunshine Coast for 18 years for a logging company, according to NVMA collection manager Magdalena Moore.

Longtime North Vancouver resident Jeffery Harbottle picked up the tugboat “sort of as a hobby,” Moore said.

Harbottle eventually sold the boat but he bought back the engine and restored it, according to Moore.

“He really cared about

Montroyal home saved from wall fire BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

A sharp nose and a quick 9-1-1 call likely saved a Canyon Heights neighbourhood home from total destructionWednesday night.

District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services received an emergency dispatch just after 8 p.m. from a homeowner on Sarita Place who smelled smoke but couldn’t find the source. “We found some fire smouldering in the wall See Quick page 5

Trial starts for man nabbed in crime spree

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The direct-reverse diesel engine represents a transition in tugboat engine technology, according to Moore.

While the Department of Canadian Heritage “strongly encourages” placing pieces of maritime history in Canadian museums, the NVMA found no takers among 13 public, non-profit institutions including the Vancouver Museum and

the Britannia Heritage Shipyards.

“It’s so big that it’s beyond most museums’ capability to take on,” Moore explained.

The City of North Vancouver already signed off on bidding bon voyage to the relic.

While the engine can still turn over and rumble to life, the NVMA no longer has the expert volunteers who can conduct the maintenance needed to keep the engine shipshape.

The District of North Vancouver considered mounting the engine as a public display piece in 2013 but ruled out the idea after discovering the effort required to remove the fluids and seal the cumbersome engine’s moving parts.

Besides having no anticipated use for research, the engine has only a tenuous relationship to the area.

“We’re now in a place where it doesn’t have a

strong connection to North Vancouver beyond this hobbyist’s interest, and it’s giant,” Moore said.

Purchasing managers for the City and District of North Vancouver have both said the engine could be useful to another municipality as a backup generator.

Besides the engine, the keepers of North Vancouver’s history are looking to clean 66 artifacts and 258 other pieces out of their closet.

Teen drinking a concern From page 1 in the North Shore – Garibaldi results, the largest number of students who took part were in North and West Vancouver.

While the kids are all right in relative terms, rates of alcohol use are still a concern on the North Shore, said Annie Smith, executive director of the McCreary Society. While fewer students (52 per cent) had tried booze than had a decade earlier (when 64 per cent of students said they’d tried alcohol), that number remains higher than the provincial average of 45 per cent. More teens on the North Shore who are hitting the bottle are also binge drinking.

Among those who said they’d tried booze, 50 per cent said they’d had five or more drinks within a couple of hours on at least one occasion in the month before the survey. That compares to 39 per cent provincially.

More teens (25 per cent) in North and West Vancouver have also tried smoking than their counterparts across the province (where the percentage of teens who have tried tobacco is about 21 per cent.) More local teens (33 per cent) have also tried smoking marijuana than teens across the province (where 26 per cent have tried it.)

The study also showed that parents concerned

about their teens’ sleep habits might want to get those electronic devices out of kids’ bedrooms.

A whopping 93 per cent of local teens have cellphones, more than the provincial average. Of those, 78 per cent admitted they were online, surfing the web or texting when they were supposed to be asleep. Perhaps not surprisingly, only 58 per cent of teens are getting enough sleep, a factor the study revealed is very closely associated with better mental health.

Nine per cent of students also admitted to using their phone for “sexting.”

Mental health was a greater concern than

physical health for most teens, especially for girls, who were more likely than boys to report extreme stress and having felt suicidal.

Up to 20 per cent of students reported having had concussions. About 16 per cent of those said they didn’t get any medical help for that — either because their parents didn’t take it seriously or they feared being benched from a sports team, said Smith.

On the positive side of the health ledger, teens on the North Shore reported generally high levels of family and community connectedness, eating nutritious foods and a high level of neighbourhood safety.

A Mr. Big undercover operation was used to help catch a man Crown prosecutors say committed a series of crimes in West Vancouver, Squamish and Surrey in 2012.

Thomas Bert Prins, 27, is on trial in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster for two counts of armed robbery, two counts of having his face masked with intent to commit an offence, break and enter, possessing a firearm without a licence or registration and uttering threats. The trial began on Tuesday.

It’s alleged that on the night of May 28, 2012, a B.C. Ferries employee who was checking out a suspicious person around the cash office at the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal in West Vancouver was approached by Prins.

Prins allegedly had his face covered and was armed with a gun. The employee was ordered back into the building and cash was demanded. When the assailant was told there was no money, he fled.

The incident was captured on surveillance video.

Prins is also accused of breaking into a Shell gas station in Squamish the same week.

On June 7, 2012, a man had his vehicle, keys, wallet and cellphone stolen by a masked man armed with a gun at Fraser Golf Centre in Surrey.

Prosecutors say Prins was the assailant.

A lengthy undercover operation was launched involving an officer who was placed in a jail cell with Prins who also made contact when the two were out of custody. Prosecutors say Prins made admissions to that officer. Prins also allegedly handed over a gun he had been carrying illegally.

The charge of uttering threats came from a statement Prins is accused of making to an undercover officer regarding a Crown witness.

Prins was charged in January 2013.

The trial is scheduled to last three weeks.

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Silvester attributed the boost to a higher than expected grain harvest in 2014 and increased capacity at Richardson, which built a new bank of silos. Cargill, meanwhile, is set to expand its rail lines.

“It was a bumper year within a long-term trend of growth so within another five years, that’s likely to be a normal year,” he said. “If you look at the fundamentals driving potash and grain, it’s about feeding the world’s population and the population of the world is growing.”

Global demand for steelmaking coal may drop with a cooling economy, Silvester said, but he still expects exports from Neptune to grow in 2015.

“They invested about $300 million in that facility which is obviously a huge project . . . but that meant their capacity was reduced while they were making those investments,” he

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The growth in exports via the North Shore likely means more expansion of rail and shipping facilities is on the way, including one application recently filed by Cargill, Silvester said.

“What we see fundamentally is there is clearly demand for increasing capacity,” he

said. “What we expect to see is more of what we have been seeing, which is investment to maximize the efficient use of the land for those different facilities.”

The port only has one more piece of waterfront property that hasn’t been developed, which is at the foot of St. Patricks Avenue.

Any redevelopment of the site will be limited by its relatively small size, Silvester said.

“You couldn’t imagine a whole big new terminal there because there isn’t the space. The question of whether it’s a niche terminal or whether it’s rail support capacity is yet to be resolved,” Silvester said.

The port also owns an undeveloped plot of land on Dollarton Highway next to a private school currently on the market for $33.9 million. The land likely has a mediumindustrial future, Silvester said.

“I can say there is a lot of discussion going on with

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Any proposed changes to Western Stevedoring’s Lynnterm Terminals property at the foot of Mountain Highway are still at the “conversation” stage, Silvester said.

“We don’t have an application from them at this stage for any change to that terminal. If they were changing it, they would have to go through a permitting process.”

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“There has been a number of damaged studs and roof rafters as a result of the fire.

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s debate on the TransLink tax vote heats up, theYes side threw CEO Ian Jarvis under the bus this week.

By tossing Jarvis — whose salary had become a symbol of TransLink waste — to the curb, theYes side hopes to up their chances of success at the ballot box.

The move is presumably meant to signal a new era, where the new tax the Yes side craves won’t go to a fat cat’s bloated paycheque.

Except of course that it will — two salaries, in fact, instead of one.

Jarvis will continue to be paid more than $420,000 in an “advisory” capacity while a new interim CEO gets $35,000 a month.

Just how those optics will convince anyone that sound financial decisions are around the next corner remains a mystery.

While Jarvis was a highly paid executive

who presided over a number of bungled projects at TransLink, his departure doesn’t change some basic problems.

TransLink is still run by an unelected board that spends public money with little accountability. But the ability to change anything about that board is not on the ballot.

B.C.’s Transportation Minister has said TransLink needs new leadership. He’s right — just not in the way he’s pitching it.

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To fix it, the province needs to step back and return the board to locally elected officials whose political fortunes could be tied to its performance.

Until then, the need for more transit and the bloated bureaucracy of TransLink will continue to be linked in the public mind.

Zealots crowd out the considerate The bicycle is one of the greatest inventions in history, a freeing vehicle, a pioneer emancipator of women — and now a vehicle of protest.

To start at the conclusion: The North Shore’s nearest analogy to the gang warfare elsewhere in Metro is on the verdant slopes, notably Mount Fromme, where some mountain bikers, hikers and residents are in a turf war that better get top priority for attention before there’s serious injury or death.

Attempts to satisfy these interests clearly have failed.

A bow, first, to those cyclists, especially commuters with welllit bikes and good road manners, who deserve — in law and in reciprocal manners — merited, very careful regard. But as always, a minority claque of zealots

Trevor Lautens

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can always be counted on to crowd out the considerate and the conciliatory.

Not to keep you in suspense — and granting this isn’t my personal or journalistic beat, and I’m past pedalling my four loved bicycles, least of all on steep forest trails — I’m skeptical whether Mount Fromme’s competing interests can peacefully

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share the same space.The urban bureaucrats’ notion that walkers and cyclists share some kind of jolly camaraderie, presumably based on mutual contempt for the car, is delusional twaddle.

Start here: I recently praised North Vancouver District Mayor Richard Walton. A reader — not, note well, the woman whose case is before the courts — sent a long, furious email slamming Walton and alleging cronyism with his “mountain biking buddies” of the North Shore Mountain Bike Association (which in fact posts a sober, sensible code of conduct. Is it followed? Well, we’re talkin’ human beings, like thee and me).

Before firing off a droll response, I dug a little.This reader has been the target of vile, vicious, profane-

plus screeds (the c-word is winning disgusting currency) from mountain bikers around the world — braying bullies of the woods, cowards crouching behind the Internet’s anonymity.There’s a resemblance to the riproaring ski jocks who spatter their brains and others’ on twisting mountain roads.

I also recalled the bike anarchists who, in Gregor Robertson’s Vancouver, pressured city hall with organized rush-hour demos that screwed up vehicle drivers’ lives and suppers.

Whatever has been done to keep the peace on North Shore slopes doesn’t look like nearly enough.This cries out to be fixed.

••• Just going through the motions.West Van council is sure to approve Park Royal’s expansion, no matter what

neighbours or councillors say.

The plan is for two towers of 27 and 12 storeys, 251 residential units (about two and a half times the number for controversial Grosvenor Ambleside), 17,824 square feet of office space, total 300,000 square feet.

Thanks to the crazyquilt jurisdiction, if council doesn’t ratify Larco’s project on the old White Spot site at Taylor Way and Marine Drive, where town hall enjoys zoning and other municipal powers, why, the owners can just shrug and build elsewhere on land that Park Royal leases from the Squamish.

I’d guess the owning Lalji family would prefer building on the White Spot site. And it’s beyond question that town hall, whatever public agony it displays, would too.

It covets the tax revenue.

Agent y8Tb3, a knowledgeable devil, roughed out the taxes generated by the project. I lost track of the number of zeros.

And the traffic at Taylor Way and Marine Drive, cheek-by-jowl with the three-lane 1930s Lions Gate Bridge? Park Royal vicepresident Rick Amantea told a public meeting: “No one is more concerned about traffic at this corner than Park Royal.”

Yes, what if the increasingly strangled North Shore bridges discouraged West End and other Metro shoppers, foiling Park Royal’s goal of being a great regional shopping centre?

Right, they can always take the bus . . .

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Emotion will trump facts every time

The transit plebiscite campaign has now officially begun in earnest, and already one can see parallels to the one about the HST a couple of years back.

And that is good news for the No side, and bad news for theYes side.

The HST debate saw the pro-Harmonized Sales Tax folks put forward seemingly reasoned, factually based arguments for keeping the tax. The anti-HST side was led by former premier Bill Vander Zalm, who relied on emotional arguments that were often short on facts.

As is so often the case in referendums, the emotionbased campaign won over the fact-based campaign and the HST went crashing down to defeat.

In the transit debate, theYes side is throwing all kinds of facts and figures out there, hoping that at least some of them stick in peoples’ minds. Raise the sales tax, they say, and life will generally be better allaround.

Rather than simply

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It has enlisted the voices of Vancouver health officers to make the argument that more transit services will translate to averting 400 deaths a year and reduce obesity, since more people will walk, cycle and take transit.

The health officers are relying on a World Health Organization measuring tool for their argument, but I suspect many potential voters will view this as an overreach. The captain of the No side, Jordan

Bateman of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, has dismissed the health officers’ comments as nothing more than “scare tactics.”

For his part, Bateman is accused of inflating the potential cost to the average family should the sales tax hike go through, and making various other kinds of misleading comments.

He is also pumping up the risible anger and frustration many people feel towards TransLink, and some on theYes side think that’s unfair.

But Bateman has zeroed in on a flaw in theYes side’s argument: that there is no Plan B should the sales tax be defeated.

While there may be no official Plan B, defeating the sales tax increase does not mean proposed transportation projects and transit improvements will die on the vine.

For example, Premier Christy Clark has made a major political commitment to replace the Massey Tunnel with a new bridge and she no doubt looks

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Even if the sales tax hike fails with the voters, her government’s three-year fiscal plan earmarks $325 million over the next two years to be spent on “rapid transit, buses and other transit priorities” (granted, not all of that will be spent in Metro Vancouver).

And does anyone really believe the Pattullo Bridge will not be replaced if the sales tax plebiscite fails?

Where there is no Plan B is in how these projects will be funded if the tax hike is defeated. The sales tax increase would generate about $1 billion in new revenue over every four years, which, when matched with provincial and federal funding, would begin to pay for some of those projects and transit improvements.

Without that new tax revenue, mayors and their municipalities will have to go back to the drawing board and look at things like even higher property and gas taxes and things like a vehicle levy and

parking taxes (all of which are unpopular) to pay for improvements.

In any event, as both sides continue to make their pitch to the voters, the campaign will continue to evolve into a debate that pits statistics versus emotions.

And emotional arguments usually defeat statistical ones, whether it’s during an election or a referendum.

As I noted in this space a few weeks back, theYes side’s chief strength is its own “infrastructure,” which consists of more than 90 organizations representing more than 250,000 people.

If it can mobilize those

folks to voteYes before May 29, it has a good shot at winning.

But if not — and to be sure, a lot of those 250,000 people no doubt have strongly-held No views — the anger and frustration that is the base of so much of the anti-tax attitudes out there will prevail.

No amount of reasoned argument can deal with that emotion, it seems. The pro-HST folks learned that the hard way, and the protransit sales tax folks have to hope they aren’t in for a similar lesson.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC. Keith.Baldrey@globalnews.ca

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The garden was established in the early 1980s and was home to some 350 rose bushes, which were cared for by the district’s parks and horticulture department, according to a news release from the District of North Vancouver.

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Don’t blame TransLink for this one.

If she had been living here in the late 1990s she would know that widening the Lions Gate Bridge to four lanes, or even twinning it, were proposals made by the province at that time.

There was no widespread support from the North Shore municipalities nor from Vancouver which did

not want the additional traffic.There was also furious opposition from the parks board overseeing Stanley Park due to the loss of 24 trees required for the causeway widening.

With no real champion for a major expansion of the bridge, the province instead opted to keep the three-lane configuration, but significantly widened each lane.

I am going to voteYes on the referendum, not because I like TransLink, but I think the sales tax increase is the least disruptive of the many ways we could be hit.

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Cavendish top of her game From page 6 through yellowing newspapers, I’m confident that no entertainment at West Van’s Kay Meek Centre ever had the stunning hype given to The Goodnight Bird.

(Which closes tomorrow night — so hurry, if it isn’t sold out.)

With a blockbuster photo on the arts section front page, keyed to a glowing spread inside, the Vancouver Sun seized readers by the lapels and all but choked them into attending this North American premiere. Rare, perhaps unprecedented, for a play in a modest-sized venue in the ’burbs.

And the play? All theatre requires suspension of

disbelief.This is a mighty chore here. Unless you know of a greying couple (Christopher Hunt and Nicola Cavendish) who’d react to a late-night entry by an apparently bipolar gent (Graham Cuthbertson) like . . . this. Even remotely like this.

But once past the initial obligatory full-press nudity and tediously conventional dirty-mouthing, Colleen Murphy’s play seamlessly turns touching, poetic — though quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson is as unlikely as Cavendish’s splendour in the grass. Never mind.

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West Vancouver architect Barry Downs is in Ottawa today to receive the Order of Canada from Governor General David Johnston in an investiture ceremony at Rideau Hall.

Downs, honoured for his work in melding buildings with their natural landscape, co-founded Downs/Archambault and Partners in 1969.

The firm is responsible for many of the iconic landmarks that have put Vancouver on the architectural map. Here’s 10 off the cuff: ■ Phillips residence, West Vancouver, 1957 NSN interview with Barry Downs re: photographer Selwyn Pullan http://www.nsnews.com/ entertainment/books/ revisiting-the-modernin-selwyn-pullan-sphotographs-1.347391 See more page 22

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Exploring singletrack ■ Justa Jeskova and Steve Storey: Searching for Singletrack. Mountain Bike Night at the Rio Theatre on Monday Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m. (ages 19+ only, doors 6:30) as part of this year’s Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. For more info visit vimff.org.

JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

A little kid pedaled his beat-up bike through the streets of a town in El Salvador. The bike’s frame was weather-beaten and its shock absorbers looked like modified soccer shin pads.

That image might not have meant much for most tourists, but for mountain biker and filmmaker Steve Storey, spotting the cyclist was a bit like Alice catching sight of the rabbit: it was his ticket to another world.

“It just made me want to come back and explore that country on a bike,” Storey explains.

About nine months later, Storey and five friends left Canada bearing bikes and cameras

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“The airport lost them and they couldn’t even tell us where they were,” Storey reports.

Air Canada had either given the gear to the other airline — or they hadn’t, depending on which party you believe, recalls Justa Jeskova, Storey’s fellow filmmaker and photographer on the shoot.

The team lost five days of their six-week shoot haranguing airport staff about the whereabouts of their bikes.

“Everything is manana, manana,” Jeskova recalls.

They got the bikes back but paid a price in raised pulses, according to Storey.

“It was kind of stressful because there was about 20 grand in bikes vanished into thin air.”

While the bikes might have found some thin air, Jeskova found the atmosphere thick, debilitating and hot.

“I remember just getting off the plane and thinking: ‘You want me to do something in this heat?” she says, laughing. “And that was like 10 o’clock in the evening.”

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Things weren’t much better when the crew was schlepping gear and pushing bikes uphill at 4:30 a.m.

“The humidity is almost 100 per cent there — so you’re just sweating pretty much nonstop, you don’t sleep properly,” Jeskova says.

Besides braving the climate, Jeskova was the only woman on the movie’s six-member crew.

The arrangement suited her fine 90 per cent of the time, the other 10 per cent was another issue.

“There were a few moments like, ‘What was I thinking? I need a woman here because I can’t handle this,’” she says, laughing.

Despite all the problems of making Searching for Singletrack, including a few very close lightning strikes and a fall on slick rock that left Storey nursing a crushed hand that kept him off his bike for a year, shooting wrapped as scheduled.

The crew captured images of Storey’s exploration along remote bike trails and beautiful vistas in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

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The Ballantynes will bop til you drop Party band gearing up for Winterruption showcase gig ■ Coastal Jazz presents The Ballantynes with special guests Miss Quincy and the Showdown, Friday, Feb. 20 at 9 p.m. (doors at 8 p.m.) at Performance Works on Granville Island as part of Winterruption 2015.Tickets: $25 at northerntickets.com; $29 at the door.

CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

Playing in front of a new audience always comes with an element of uncertainty, but The Ballantynes can usually gauge the success of a show, particularly when they’re on the road away from their hometown fans, with a simple test they call “the three song rule.”

On a good night, the crowd will listen to the first song, interested, engaged, some light head bopping going on.When the second song starts, friends will turn to each other with a “hey, these guys aren’t bad” nod of approval. “And then by the third song people are up at the front, they’re dancing, they’re really enjoying themselves,” says Corey Poluk, vocalist and guitarist for the East Van garage-soul ensemble.

Busy in the recording studio recently, it’s been about three months since The Ballantynes last did a live gig and Poluk is hopeful he’ll see some toe-tapping and hip-shaking by the time the band breaks into the third song of their set at Performance Works on Friday, Feb. 20.The show is part of Granville Island’s annual Winterruption Festival, with live music presented by Coastal Jazz, and features guests Miss Quincy and the Showdown.

It’s shaping up to be a big night for The Ballantynes.

For one, they will be playing music off their forthcoming LP — their first full-length — set for release under independent label La-TiDa Records later this year.

The show will also mark their debut as a six-piece band. Until now, the group has been composed of

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In addition to Poluk (who also plays for The Valuables), the current lineup includes Jarrod O’Dell (organ, guitar, vocals) Vanessa Dandurand (vocals) Jennifer Wilks (organ, vocals) Max Sample (bass, vocals) and Michael McDiarmid (drums, vibraphone).

The group recorded their yet-to-be-released album

with Felix Fung at Little Red Sounds in Vancouver.

“We wrote four of the songs on that record in the studio, which I’ve never done before and it was a really interesting process because we always come in with everything ready to go and we just bang it out,” Poluk says.Their discography to date includes three seven-inch singles and the 2013 EP Liquor Store Gun Store Pawn Shop Church — all engineered and produced at Little Red Sounds.

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CAROUN ART GALLERY 1403 Bewicke Ave., North Vancouver.Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 8 p.m.778372-0765 caroun.net Winter Group Exhibition: A variety of artists’ work will be on display until Feb. 14.

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CITYSCAPE COMMUNITY ART SPACE 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, noon-5 p.m. 604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.ca Cerulean: A group exhibition that highlights abstract paintings in diverse styles and approaches playing with the creative use of the colour cerulean will run until Feb. 28.

The Gift Box: Buy local from two display cases dedicated to local artisans who specialize in high quality, hand-crafted and unique gift items.

Art Rental Salon: An ongoing art rental programme with a variety of original artwork available ranging from $10 to $40 per month.

FERRY BUILDING GALLERY

RON ANDREWS COMMUNITY SPACE 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver. 604-987-8873 or 604-347-8922 Foster an Elephant/ Natural Beauty: Paintings of elephants

by Susan ElaineThomas and ceramic art by Leila Sweeten will be on display until Feb. 22.

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TannisTurner will be on display until Feb. 15.

Soulful Reflections: Acrylic paintings by Ruth Leithal and Greg Allen will be on display Feb. 17-March 8. Opening reception:Tuesday, Feb. 17, 6-8 p.m. Meet the artists: Saturday,

CALL FOR COMMUNITY EAST 3RD STREET CLOSURE REPRESENTATIVES Thegoal North Waterfront Committee A key of theShore Low Level Road Project isLiaison to maximize predictability during construction and for minimize disruption for residents, goods movers and the is looking three new community representatives. travelling public.

We bring together municipalities, community, First Nations, Port Metro Vancouver, Please note that due to inclement weather, the work scheduled for and industry to discuss developments, identify concerns, provide suggestions the February 11th closure 3rd Street could not beissues done.onThe and facilitate dialogue about of portEast transportation and operational the closure of East 3rd Street from Queensbury Avenue to Kennard North Shore.

Avenue in North Vancouver will now take place as follows: 8 p.m.

Join us February if you live on thetoNorth and have: Monday, 16th 5:00 Shore a.m. Tuesday, February 17th. The closure will • Relevant technical or social experience and expertise allow crews to safely pour concrete to complete the bridge deck of the Spirit • Overpass.

Knowledge of port industrial operations and related issues on the North Shore Trail • Community, business or other affiliations Motorists are advisedskills to seek alternate routes during this time, exercise • Communication and expertise caution, and follow the directions of road signs and traffic personnel.

We meet on a bi-monthly basis on weekdays, alternating between evenings Detour routes will be clearly marked. and mornings, at locations on the North Shore.

Feb. 21, 2-3 p.m. Free painting demonstrations: Ruth Leithal, Sunday Feb. 22, 2-4 p.m. and Greg Allen, Sunday, March 1, 2-4 p.m.

PRESENTATION HOUSE GALLERY

333 Chesterfield Ave., NorthVancouver.

Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. 604-986-1351 presentationhousegallery.org The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg (1953-1996): An exhibition that celebrates the

SEYMOUR ART GALLERY 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. 604-924-1378 seymourartgallery.com Make Reimake Unimake: The work of six artists, each working in different media, whose work utilizes repetition as a device will be on display until March 8. Opening reception: Sunday, Feb. 15, 2-4 p.m.

Curator talk: Saturday, March 7, 2 p.m. Free bookbinding workshops: Sunday, March 8 — kids 11 a.m. and adults 2 p.m.

Curator’sTalk: Every Thursday at noon there will be a 20-minute curator’s talk with background on the current show See more page 20

Register now for spring break classes!

Students will enjoy a week full of studio art activities; drawing, painting & printmaking, as well as exploring the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art through uniquely developed AFK gallery games. Students will also enjoy recreational activities. Camps are located at the Artists for Kids studios at 2121 Lonsdale Avenue. phone: 604.903.3798 email: afkinfo@sd44.ca www.gordonsmithgallery.ca

Week 1: Mar. 9-13, 9 am - 3 pm grades K-2 with Kory Bogen $395 Week 2: Mar. 16-20, 9 am - 3 pm grades 2-4 with Meghan Parker $395 Please register online, or call our office for more information.

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Please note that closure is weather dependent and may changed slightly without further notice.

Deadline for application is Monday, February 16, 2015.

Contact information: more information, please contact: ForFor more information about the Low Level Road Project, including all current and upcoming construction activities, visit www.porttalk.ca Frances Tang-Graham

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Fifty Shades of slow-mo erotica ■ Fifty Shades of Grey.

Directed by Sam TaylorJohnson. Starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan.

Rating: 5 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD ContributingWriter

As long-awaited as that elusive orgasm is today’s cinematic release of Fifty Shades of Grey, starring Dakota Johnson as virginal college graduate Ana, Jamie Dornan as mogul-fetishist Christian Grey, and our own Vancouver as Vancouver, WA, and Seattle, as usual.

To celebrate, here are common truths and fallacies surrounding the Fifty phenomenon: 1. I read the book(s) for the story, not the smut.

Nope, you didn’t. If you had wanted story you would’ve picked up Tolstoy, or something above a sixth grade level.

You would’ve put the book down after reading the character’s name on

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the third page: Anastasia Steele? Puh-lease! If you had any interest (chaste or otherwise) in the books, go

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see the movie.

2. OK, I read some of the smut…

Of course you did!

If you were like most consumers of E.L. James’ books you were keen to be titillated, but not as jazzed to be recognized by your dentist while browsing the “Erotica” section of your local bookstore, which has been stocking similar and better soft-core porn for years. This book was stocked in full view, everywhere, so you could grab it — preferably afterhours, when your dentist was at home flossing after dinner — tuck it under a copy of The Economist magazine, and flee the scene (after paying, of course).

3. Do I have to read the books to see the movie?

Always a better bet, especially in this case. Not

that you won’t be able to follow the plot, such as it is, but the film offers a watered-down version of the story, which tells how sweet Ana (Johnson) falls into an S&M relationship with hot and powerful executive Christian Grey (Dornan), a man with a tortured past. The sex is necessarily tamer, of course – though Johnson’s nipples should get their own billing, we see them so often – but the chemistry between the leads is also lacking. Add to this a rushed history of how the couple enters into their kinky relationship, and Christian just seems like a creep. Any self-respecting virgin would run a mile.

And because he seems creepy, we feel pervy for sitting there watching them. It’s one thing to read the books in the relative privacy of the carpool

lane, but quite another to watch the film beside a middle-aged guy munching popcorn the whole time (trust me). Plus the film, like the first book, has a cliffhanger ending and is a direct tie-in to the sequel (Fifty Shades Darker, 2016).You’ll be able to tell which movie-goers haven’t read the books: they’re the ones sitting there wearing WTH expressions when the credits roll.

4. Jamie Dornan is a terrible choice for Christian Grey!

He was sexier in the Netflix series The Fall, I’ll give you that. In Fifty Shades’ opening scene it appears the Irishman is struggling so hard to master the American accent that he comes across as robotic instead See Johnson page 18

Showtimes LANDMARK CINEMAS 6 ESPLANADE 200West Esplanade, NorthVancouver 604-983-2762 American Sniper (14A) — Fri, Mon-Thur 6:30, 9:30; Sat-Sun noon, 3, 6:30, 9:30 p.m.

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Project Almanac (PG) — Fri-Wed 9:40 p.m.

Jupiter Ascending (PG) — Sat-Sun 3:20 p.m.

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Seventh Son (14A) — SatSun 3:40 p.m.

Seventh Son 3D (14A) — Fri, Mon-Thur 7:05, 9:45; Sat-Sun 12:40, 7:05, 9:45 p.m.

Night at the Museum: Secret of theTomb (PG) — Sat-Sun 12:10, 3:10 p.m.

Wild (14A) — Fri-Thur 6:35, 9:25 p.m.

Still Alice (PG) — Fri, MonThur 6:50, 9:20; Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:20 p.m.

HotTubeTime Machine 2 —Thur 8 p.m.

In Search of Haydn (G) — Sun 10 a.m.

PARK &TILFORD 333 Brooksbank Ave., NorthVancouver, 604-985-3911 The Imitation Game (PG) — Fri 6:50, 9:45; Sat 12:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:45; Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:45; Mon 7:10, 9:55;Tue 4:10, 6:50, 9:45;Wed 6:40, 9:45;Thur 6:40 p.m.

Birdman or (The UnexpectedVirtue of Ignorance) (14A) — Fri ,Wed 7:10, 9:50; Sat 10:30, 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50; Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50; Mon, Thur 9:50;Tue 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 p.m.

The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out ofWater (G) — Sat 1:50, 3:10, 5:30; Sun 3:10, 5:30 p.m.Thur 1 p.m.

The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out ofWater 3D (G) — Fri 7:50, 10:10; Sat 10:15, See more page 18

Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings with Guest Soloists William George, Tenor and

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Nicola Gildersleeve stays the course Trail runner talks about her experiences at VIMFF event ■ Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival Trail Running Show, Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at North Vancouver’s Centennial Theatre, part of the 18th annual festival, running Feb. 13-21. Tickets: $19, visit vimff.org.

ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

Nicola Gildersleeve was feeling low.

Having set off at 8 a.m. in an attempt to run, nonstop, the 180-kilometre Sunshine Coast Trail (the equivalent of four back-toback marathons), night had fallen and she was lost.

“That was the first time that I wanted to stop,” she says. “Up until that point I was really confident that everything was going well and then all of a sudden it wasn’t going well and I was getting sick and I wanted to stop. I was devising a plan in my head of how I was going to do this, and how I was going to tell my crew.”

Feeling like it was time to throw in the towel, Gildersleeve received a further blow: due to she and her pacer’s missteps, they were no longer within a couple of kilometres of their support team — and much-desired food and water — they estimated they were now 35 km away from a rendezvous.

“We had to rally,” she says. “We went to a lake and we filled up water.

My mindset just totally changed when I realized that I wasn’t going to be able to drop out.”

Recommitting herself to her goal, Gildersleeve set off once more, back on course, and continued to traverse the rugged mountain trail. She was beyond grateful when a half hour later, she met up with her crew that had been nearby all along.

Instilled with confidence once more, she no longer wanted to quit and went on to finish the course in record-breaking time.

The first person to run

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the route non-stop was Ean Jackson in 2004, in 43 hours and 50 minutes.

Gildersleeve beat his time by 10 hours, coming in at 33 hours and 50 minutes, earning her a fastest known time.

“Because I also thought I was going to drop out at one point, I was so happy to get through it — It was just a really magical, surreal moment. I was the second person to have ever done it (and the) first female to have done it.

Ean, who had the record before, said, ‘I think you can beat this by 10 hours’ and I literally beat it by 10 hours on the dot. That was really cool so I’m really happy,” she says.

Gildersleeve ran the distance pretty much nonstop, with the exception of an extremely brief nap.

“At one point during the night, I just had to lie down, so I laid down on the forest floor for 10 minutes,” she says.

“Besides that one low that was the only time that I really suffered

emotionally. Physically, I actually felt really good throughout the whole thing. I had no major aches and pains. I was very lucky that way,” she adds.

The 30-year-old North Vancouver resident is set to offer further insight into her journey, completed in September 2014, when she takes the stage at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival Trail Running Show Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at North Vancouver’s Centennial Theatre.

The festival opens tonight at the North Vancouver theatre and is offering a host of daily programming at various local venues through Saturday, Feb. 21.

The Trail Running Show will include a mix of presentations and films. In addition to Gildersleeve, who is making her festival debut with How I Earned a FKT (Fastest Known Time), presentations include Running From Rhinos by Gary Robbins, a North Vancouver-based

ultra-distance runner, coach and race director.

He’ll speak about his recent experience in South Africa where he finished second at the 100-km Salomon Skyrun. In Running The Kokopelli, Liz Decario will speak about the highs and lows of running 240 km from

Moab, Utah to Loma, Colo. Films being screened that evening are Wainwright Record Attempt,Travailen, Home and The Ingenuous Choice.

Gildersleeve, who is an ambassador on the La Sportiva mountain running team and currently serves as outreach co-ordinator

for MEC North Vancouver as well as race director for the MEC North Vancouver Running Series, started taking running more seriously as an adult.

Having a background in basketball, including playing for Capilano See Runner page 18

TRADE UP TO A CAREER WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL ACE-IT CARPENTRY PROGRAM INFORMATION MEETING FOR PARENTS AND STUDENTS Wednesday February 18 at 7pm West Vancouver Secondary School Library 1750 Mathers Ave. West Vancouver Open to all students on the North Shore entering grades 11 & 12 in Sept 2015.

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Johnson injects some much-needed wit From page 16 of smouldering. However, those trademark ripped jeans are a perfect fit . . .

5. Dakota Johnson is a terrible choice for Anastasia Steele!

Actually, she is quite good, injecting the film with some much-needed wit (and she’s a dead ringer for mom Melanie Griffith when she giggles).

Thankfully, we don’t have to be subjected to that terrible internal monologue that plagues the books with lines like “my inner goddess is doing the meringue with some salsa moves.” What we do have are plenty of slow-motion climactic scenes in The Playroom that made me wish for Meg Ryan’s fake orgasms (circa When Harry Met Sally) instead.

6. The film/books will give young people a

skewed impression of what sex is really like.

True, but no more so than what they are getting from the Internet, the airbrushed cover of that magazine in your mailbox, music videos, awards shows, all programming on the CW, social media and everywhere else. Dornan’s Christian is a dominant, though more vulnerable than he cares to admit, and Ana asks for all that she’s given, meaning that it’s a more level playing field than it initially appears. Only you can fill your daughter in on how awkward, and wonderful, and occasionally boring, sex can be, so do that.You can hide your kindle and the car keys, if you want; but frankly, the story of a virgin meeting a handsome, sexually adept billionaire who has his own helicopter is one she’ll probably risk getting grounded in order to see. Laters, baby!

Showtimes From page 16 7:50, 10:10; Sun 12:50, 7:50, 10:10; Mon 7:40, 10;Tue 4:30, 7:40, 10;Wed-Thur 7:30, 9:40 Fifty Shades of Grey (18A) — Fri 6:20, 7:20, 9:15, 10:15; Sat 10:50 a.m., 12:40, 1:40, 3:30, 4:30, 6:20, 7:20, 9:15, 10:15; Sun 12:40, 1:40, 3:30, 4:30, 6:20, 7:20, 9:15, 10:15; Mon 6:30, 7, 9:20, 9:50;Tue 4:10, 6:30, 7, 9:20, 9:50;WedThur 6:20, 6:50, 9:20, 9:50 p.m.

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Dog Day Afternoon — Mon 7 p.m.

King Lear (Stratford Festival) —Thur 7 p.m.

The Metropolitan Opera: Iolanta/Duke Bluebeard’s Castle — Sat 9:30 a.m.

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Storey says the word “explore” with just a bit of reverence, the same way an artist pronounces “Da Vinci” or an Oompa Loompa says “cocoa.” Storey returns to the concept of exploring when he talks about just what made him love mountain biking in the first place.

“As a kid it was just a way to get out, explore the world around me. I guess that feeling has stuck to me,” he reflects, taking a break from construction work to talk about the movie on a rainy day in North Vancouver.

One of his fondest memories of the trip is being stuck near a farmer’s village during a rainstorm in Guatemala.

A family invited the crew into their home and offered the soaking cyclists clothes and shelter while rain pounded their tin roof.

“It was incredibly humbling,” he says. “They were looking for nothing in return other than just to share their country with other people.”

The locals are also very knowledgeable about mountain biking, according to Jeskova.

“They know everything. They know about every product, they know about every World Cup rider,” she says.

As a filmmaker, Storey is inspired by a youth spent religiously watching ski movies like Global Storming and The Game.

Searching for Singletrack is a little shorter than those movies, which is to be expected, according to Storey.

“Now that everyone can afford a decent camera and can put out edits in a short amount of time the whole media landscape has changed,” he says. “Lots of short edits are coming out now instead of full-length movies.”

Asked what he hopes the VIMFF audience gets from the movie, Storey comes back to exploration.

“I hope it gets them to want to travel more and explore new places where they have no idea about the riding. That’s kind of how it was for us and that’s what made it so exciting.”

Runner planning to tackle 100k next

From page 17

University, she did her first marathon a decade ago.

“I found running because it was something that I could do on my own. I chose when I could run, and there was no one telling me when I could play or not play so I think that’s what really appealed to me at the time. I started off just really casually — I did a marathon. It was such a mind-blowing experience for me and then I just grew from there,” she says.

After completing a degree in human kinetics, Gildersleeve worked as a personal trainer and a run coach for a number of years.

It was through working at North Shore Athletics that she met people who were training for ultramarathons, opening her eyes to a whole new world of opportunity.

“Without meaning to be competitive, I was competitive and so that’s made me more goal-oriented I suppose, wanting to compete and

pursue some loftier goals,” she says.

Some of Gildersleeve’s best finishes to date include winning the Stormy 50miler trail race in 2007, the 50-km Knee Knacker in 2008, and the 120-mile Fat Dog in 2013.

She was inspired to tackle the Sunshine Coast Trail after watching a documentary, XS-NRG by Angus Mclennan, which screened during the 2013 VIMFF. The film profiled her predecessor Jackson’s journey, and Gildersleeve knew right away knew she

wanted to give it a shot.

Finding the right time proved to be a bit of a challenge, but after she and her boyfriend took a leave of absence from their jobs last summer to hike 1,300 miles straight on the Pacific Crest Trail, averaging 30 miles per day, the timing suddenly felt right.

After the Pacific Crest Trail, the couple went to stay with Gildersleeve’s family in Powell River. With a bit of time on her hands, she sought out some local people who were familiar with the trail to serve as

pacers, got some friends on board as a support crew, and spent a week scoping out different logging roads and crew access points.

“It all came together really quickly and unexpectedly,” she says.

Next up, she’s planning to run the Gorge Waterfalls 100k on March 28.

When asked where her motivation comes from, Gildersleeve laughs.

“I don’t know, it’s funny, because I’m inherently really lazy. I like to park really close to the grocery store. I used to cheat on

runs in high school. But at some point in my life I started to believe in myself I guess and I just believe that I really can do anything and I don’t question really whether I can or can’t do something when it comes to my running. In other areas of my life I might be different but when it comes to running I really never think that I can’t do anything. So taking on new challenges is just something I do,” she says.

Gildersleeve blogs about her experiences at ngildersleeve.blogspot.ca.

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Cellier said his passion for travel came from reading when he was young – books about explorers, navigators and writers who circumnavigated the globe.

“I realized there were places in Africa where you cross into another world; that’s why I wanted to explore that continent,” he said.

So explore it he did when he lived in countries most people know only from television and National Geographic magazines – Togo, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania.

While working in Tanzania for a company that specialized in safaris and in organizing climbs up Mt. Kilimanjaro, Cellier organized hundreds of expeditions for climbers.

He has climbed the mountain four times himself – by all of its routes – and has climbed Mt. Kenya twice.

In all, Cellier has traveled to 30 other countries and still travels to Africa once or twice a year.

Packing more into one lifetime than most people would see in ten, Cellier says he has sailed around Cape Horn, trekked through the Altai Mountains in Mongolia and ridden camels in the Thar Desert.

Just returned from a safari in Kenya and Tanzania with five clients, Cellier has done about 300 safaris in all. “My oldest safari participant was an 81 year old lady from McBride, B.C. and I’ve had families with children as young as four.”

PHOTO: Thierry Cellier

Enthusiastic as ever, Cellier shows no sign of stopping anytime soon – not the safaris nor the mountain climbing.

Cellier says he still enjoys his memories of an October 2012 climb when he reached the top of Kilimanjaro with a group of climbers which included New Westminster’s Don Oxenbury.

“Don was 77 years old and a two-time cancer survivor and reaching the roof of Africa had been on his bucket list,” Cellier explained.

“I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.”

– Ernest Hemingway

“I had survived thyroid cancer 25 years before, so it was great to reach the summit together,” he said.

To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, “Some people ask why, while others like Cellier dream things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?’ “

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Invitation Exhibition: All established and aspiring artists are invited to submit their work Saturday, Feb. 21 from 3 to 4 p.m. for an open exhibition that will take place Feb. 24-March 15.There will be an award of an Opus gift card for the artwork that receives the most votes from visitors to the gallery. Opening reception:Tuesday, Feb. 24, 6-8 p.m.

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SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver.Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. 604925-7292 silkpurse.ca JourneyingWith the Totems: Acrylic painter Andre J. Prevost captures, the majesty of First nations totems and carvings from around theWest Coast until Feb. 22. Prevost will be working on-site most afternoons for the duration of the exhibit.

Annual Spring Community Open

WESTVANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca In the Gallery — Cabins to Quilts: Trace the evolution of the log cabin quilt with creations

WESTVANCOUVER MUSEUM 680 17th St.,WestVancouver.

Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-925-7295 westvancouvermuseum.ca Industry, Charity, Faith, Hope: A selection of work produced by Kim Kennedy Austin over the past two decades will be on display until March 7.

YEATS STUDIO & GALLERY 2402 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver.WednesdaySunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 778279-8777 craigyeats.com

Natures Abstracts: An exhibition featuring works by Deep Cove artist Lyza Del Mar Gustin will run from Feb. 27 to March 12.

Concerts

ANNE MACDONALD STUDIO 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

Fight Like a Girl: A fundraising concert in honour ofTheWired Bean Coffee Shop owner Sandra Brock who is fighting ovarian cancer Sunday, Feb. 22, 7-11 p.m. Debra Whyte,The Reckoners, Rae Armour, Honey and the Money, Colin Bullock, ReneWorst, Jennifer Scott and Jim Foster

will perform.Admission: $25.

Reservations: info@debrawhyte. com.

CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 PurcellWay, North Vancouver. 604-9907810 capilanou.ca/ blueshorefinancialcentre/ Vancouver Kiwanis Jazz Festival: Over 800 students will perform Feb. 13, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.There will be a free lunchtime concert at noon featuring ‘A’ Band.Admission by a suggested donation of $5.

Cap Classics — Gardens of Joy and Sorrow: The

OnyxTrio will perform a program of works byTakemitsu, Gubaidulina and Debussy which explores the attempt to evoke the natural world through music Friday, Feb. 20, 11:45 a.m. Free.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com West Coast Symphony Orchestra will present Elgar, Britten and Hoist Sunday, Feb. 15 at 2 p.m.Admission by donation.

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CALENDAR From page 21 4-6 p.m. Local painters’ works will also be on display.Tickets: $20/$12.

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HOUSE Mount Seymour United Church, 1200 Parkgate Ave., NorthVancouver. 604-3635370 jane@nsrj.ca Quartête aTête will perform Friday, Feb. 20 at 9 p.m. Doors

open at 7 p.m. and warmup acts start at 7:30 p.m.

Admission: $10 which includes coffee and goodies.

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North Shore Music Festival andWorkshops: The North Shore Registered MusicTeachers will present three concerts at the 44th annual

PUBLIC HEARINGS occurring consecutively in the order noted below

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 7 pm District Hall, 355 West Queens Road

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Bylaw 8095 proposes to amend the Zoning Bylaw to reduce the minimum permitted lot width at this site from 15m (49 ft) to 10.8 m (35.5 ft) and will reduce the minimum permitted lot area from 550m² (5,920 sq. ft.) to 437m² (4,703 sq. ft.) to allow for the creation of two lots.

Bylaw 8098 proposes to amend the Zoning Bylaw to reduce the minimum permitted lot width at this site from 15m (49.2 ft) to 10 m (33 ft) and will reduce the minimum permitted lot area from 550m² (5,920 sq. ft.) to 474.73m² (5,110 sq. ft.) to allow for the creation of two lots.

event. March 4 a concert highlighting the non-competitive section in piano, vocal, strings and winds will take place and March 5 and 6 trophy winners in piano and strings will perform at 7 p.m.Admission: $10/$5.

There will also be free workshops from Feb. 21 to March 2. Info: 604-987-1067 or 604-9291592.

GORDON SMITH GALLERY OF CANADIAN ART 2121 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-998-8563 info@smithfoundation.ca Music Meets Art — Musical Mornings in the Gallery: Fringe Percussion will performTuesday, Feb. 17 at 10:30 a.m. Doors open at 9:30 a.m. and the morning will start with coffee and treats.A curated gallery tour will conclude the performance Admission: $10/$7.

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Friday Night Live: Lynn Valley United Church will present a weekly series with improv actors AddLibretto playing hosts to musical guests Fridays at 7:30 p.m. Guest schedule: Sandra Mae, Feb. 13; Ruel Morales, Feb. 20; New and Pre-Owned Improv, Feb. 27; and magician Joel Eddington, March 6.Admission: $10.

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120West 14th St., North Vancouver. 604-998-3450 nvcl.ca TheYear of the Sheep: Ring in the Chinese NewYear with live music by Sincere Lam Guzheng Ensemble and an interactive presentation by multicultural specialist Ada Con about the origin, symbols and traditions of this ancient celebrationTuesday, Feb. 17, 7-8:30 p.m.

PRESENTATION HOUSETHEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.Tickets: 604-9903474 phtheatre.org Debut Concert: The Network Ensemble will perform Saturday, Feb. 21 at 8 p.m.Admission: $12.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca Love Songs: Singer Monique Creber and pianist Miles Black will perform a tribute to the romantic love songs byThe Carpenters Saturday, Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m.Tickets: $20.

Classical Concert Series: ViolinistYuri Zaidenberg, cellist Cristian Markos and pianist LibbyYu will come together for a performanceThursday, Feb. 19, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Tickets: $20/$15.Classical Concert Series: Pianist Boris Konovalov will perform Thursday, Feb. 26, 10:30-11:30 a.m.Tickets: $20/$15.

Classical Concert Series: See more page 35

OfftheCuff: Barry Downs From page 13 ■ North Vancouver City Civic Centre 1975, http://vancouverlights. blogspot.ca/2011/10/barrydowns-north-vancouvercivic.html ■ Carnegie Community Centre 1980, Vancouver http://www.vpl.ca/find/ details/library_history

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to FASHION & STYLE Fashion File BOUTIQUE OPENING West Vancouver fashion designer Kjaer Pedersen of K-O.ME and mixedmedia artist Carolyn Bruce of Painted Cookie have teamed up to open a new Gastown boutique at 515-207 West Hastings St., Vancouver. A grand opening is set for Feb. 13, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

JEWELRY LAUNCH Jewelry designer Ricki Reine has launched a new line of handmade necklaces under her MIX Wearable Art label, available at End of the Line General Store, 4193 Lynn Valley Rd, North Vancouver.

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Koti is the Finnish word for home. It’s also the very fitting name of Kaarina Talvila’s handbag line.

Talvila’s parents were both born in Finland and her mother taught her to sew while she was growing up in Toronto.Today, she designs and handcrafts all her bags out of her West Vancouver home studio.

“I wanted to do something to honour my

Designs defined by clean lines and bold geometry

mother and to honour my heritage,”Talvila says of choosing a business name, “because it’s my mother who taught me how to sew and she’s an incredibly accomplished needlewoman and a knitter and I owe a lot to her.”

Koti seemed appropriate not only because of its translation, but because it

wouldn’t tongue-tie native English speakers like some lengthier Finnish words might.

“This was a nice, short, easily pronounced word — and suitable.”

Talvila launched Koti Designs about seven years ago. Her distinct line of silk evening bags is defined by clean lines, colour-blocking

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“So there’s a little bit of detail on them, but mostly they’re pretty bold, geometric shapes,” she explains.

Textile art isn’t Talvila’s first career. She earned a bachelor of science in geology from the University of Toronto and worked as a computer programmer for a decade. During that See Niche page 26

ART EXHIBIT Marion Webber is presenting a new show of paintings entitled In To The Other Land from Jan. 26 to May 3 at Gemini Jewelers, 1471 Bellevue Ave.,West Vancouver.

The exhibit includes conceptualized landscape and floral themes.

NORTH SHORE NEEDLE ARTS GUILD meets the second Thursday of the month and offers instruction in embroidery and beading at St. Martin’s Anglican Church hall in North Vancouver. 604-9909122.

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Niche Awards celebrate fine craft in the U.S. and Canada From page 25 time, she took a two-year hiatus to study weaving and surface design at Capilano University (then college).

Later, she was a stay-athome mom, engaging her children in plenty of art projects.When her kids got older, she decided to try to make a living from her creative work. She dabbled first in 2-D screen-printing and gradually transitioned into handbags.

Textile art may seem like a big departure from her original career, but Talvila says the precision and exactness of her work is very much a product of her formative education and training.

“I have a science background and a computer programming background so clean, well-defined geometric shapes just appeal to me,” she says, adding, “I’m a minimalist, I like things to be really neat and tidy.”

Meanwhile, she also draws inspiration from

Japanese handicrafts and the Art Deco style, known for its symmetry and bold geometry.

One of Talvila’s creations, the Half-Moon Shoulder Bag, recently earned her a 2015 Niche Award in the Fashion Accessories – Handbags category.

Sponsored by Niche Magazine, the annual awards recognize the best in fine craft in the U.S. and Canada.

The awards were handed out in Washington, D.C. in January and although Talvila did not attend the ceremony, she was thrilled to learn she had come out on top.

“There’s no monetary value to the award, but what you get is exposure and recognition and it’s a stamp of approval of the quality of work and the quality of design.”

The majority of entrants and finalists are American, she says. “So to be a Canadian, to win, is really a big deal.There’s never more than two or three every year that win an award from Canada.”

The win has encouraged Talvila to expand her business.This year, she’s focusing on selling her work back east. A veteran of the B.C. craft show circuit, she participated in her first Toronto craft show last fall and was buoyed by her own success.

“My sales were so much better than even major shows I’ve done back here, because it’s a different market. It’s bigger and it’s just a totally different lifestyle.”

Further down the road, she hopes to get into the wholesale business with her Koti bags.

“There’s a pretty small market for this sort of thing.

I’m pretty sure I’d be able to keep up with it,” she says.

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ALAN FORMANEK Festival Director I founded VIMFF in 1998 and have directed it ever since for the last 18 eventful festival centuries. I like working with our great passionate and professional staff and volunteers, creating something out of nothing, and not leaving much of a footprint. I also run the Hory a mesto festival in Slovakia, help with the San Vito Climbing Festival in Sicily, and love rock climbing wherever it just happens.

HELEN YAGI Publicity Manager I have been working in Publicity and Marketing for several years in Vancouver’s independent film, arts and environmental communities with the VIFF, Reel 2 Real Film Festival, and Women in Film. The films and speakers at the VIMFF sound very inspiring. I love playing tennis, hiking and swimming, but not too daring in real life so it’s great to get a chance to experience adventures vicariously at the Festival.

Thanks to Milena Salazar for helping out with the publicity.

TOM WRIGHT Programming Manager This is my 5th year working with the films, guest speakers and jury at the VIMFF. I enjoy creating a diverse festival that brings together the international and local outdoor communities, and that is used as a platform for sharing stories, ideas and dreams. I moved to Vancouver from England almost 6 years ago and now live in Squamish, where I can enjoy all the wonders of the Coast Mountains.

SIENEKE TOERING Lobby and Volunteer Coordinator Mountain or Ocean girl, I have yet to figure out which one describes me best. Mountain biking, snowboarding and sailing are amongst my favourite ways to enjoy the beautiful nature in BC. At VIMFF, my outdoor thirst gets well replenished. For the fifth year now I’m helping Alan and the gang to bring together amazing people, films and presentations. My goal: You leave the show inspired and ready for great adventures!

MARC HEWITT Director of Operations & Tour Manager This is my 8th year with VIMFF, and I continue to be amazed by the extreme but undeniably real stories from the VIMFF films and speakers. I manage the operations, strategy, and marketing for all Festival events, and also manage the Tour; allowing this great programming to reach as many outdoor lovers as possible! When out of the office, I enjoy rock climbing, snowboarding, backcountry skiing, beach volleyball, trail running, and cycling.

JENNIFER SANGSTER Production Manager Four years ago I went to my first VIMFF film night, where a friend was volunteering. I was so inspired by the films and speakers, and so moved by the strong community feeling, that I immediately asked about getting involved. Like the other organizers I have a strong passion for the outdoors, spending my free time climbing, hiking, kayaking, and training with horses. I feel privileged to work with such warm, like-minded people.

EAN JACKSON Business Development Manager VIMFF events leave me stoked and inspired. They’re like parties where you get to watch crazy movies, hear interesting people share their adventures AND see your friends over a beer. When not bushwhacking, peak-bagging, jumping-off cliffs on snowshoes or searching for the perfect powder run, I help businesses grow and prosper as management consultant and business professional.

ANDERS MJOS Production Manager For VIMFF I do production and projection. When not working for VIMFF I produce rare isotopes at the local cyclotron. I enjoy working with the great team of VIMFF volunteers and I am getting inspired every year by the VIMFF films and presentations.

KELLY GREEN Production Manager Afflicted with ‘living in the moment syndrome’ I often act on my wanderlust, by calling or whim. A sea kayak guide in summer, outdoor educator year round, I work and play in the ocean, mountains and forests. As the Production Manager for VIMFF, this is my 9th season as a prism for stories and ideas of passion and purpose. VIMFF inspires me to be a bold spirit, stand up for wild places and cultures, and allows me to live simply, travel wide and share happiness, generosity and respect.

TAVI PARUSEL Audio-Visual Coordinator I am a filmmaker whose pleasure in life is to explore our magical world in search of meaningful adventures. I love watching amazing films about inspiring stories and that is why it has been my delight to work for VIMFF the last few years.

VIMFF FILM JURY

DEB SMYTHE With more than 20 years of Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival experience, Deb has been acting in the role of Festival Director since April of 2014. Deb moved to Banff from Ottawa in 1977 after completing a degree in economics at Western. “I thought I’d come out west for one season of skiing before settling down to a ‘real’ job.” Famous last words… over thirty years later, she’s still here! Most of that time has been spent with the Banff Mountain Festival. In various positions over the years, she’s literally seen thousands of films in the mountain genre.

OTHER VIMFF STAFF

PAT AND BAIBA MORROW Pat and Baiba Morrow are world-class adventurers, climbers and award-winning filmmakers. They have expanded their tools of trade from still photography and writing to include video and film, and are now working exclusively in that medium. Over the past 10 years, they have worked in the roles of DOP, camera operators, field producers and sound recordists on more than 40 film and video productions, and have produced their own documentary projects, from conception to final edit, most of them mountain-related.

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FRIDAY VIMFF OPENING NIGHT

PRESENTED BY NORTH SHORE RESCUE CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM VIMFF 2015 PHOTO CONTEST AWARDS PRESENTATION / NORTH SHORE RESCUE 50TH ANNIVERSARY: VIMFF passionately joins forces with North Shore Rescue in celebrating their 50th anniversary.

FILM / RISK AND RESCUE (dir. Melanie Wood, Canada, 2015, 26 minutes): Go behind-the-scenes with North Shore Rescue, one of the pre-eminent search and rescue teams in North America. ! INTERMISSION FILM / THE HAND OF FRANKLIN (dir. Frank Wolf, Canada, 2015, 68 minutes): A four person team from North Vancouver attempts to become the first to row the Northwest Passage.

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SATURDAY

VIMFF MOUNTAIN MIXER MATINEE

THE CINEMATHEQUE, 2:00PM FILMS / PATIENCE (dir. Jen Randall, UK, 2014, 6 minutes): Patience is about injury, illness, and coming back from them stronger than ever.

THE CAVE CONNECTION: INTO THE UNKNOWN (dir.

Niko Jager, Germany, 2013, 52 minutes): Deep underground in the wilderness of New Zealand there are gigantic and largely unexplored cave systems. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / SOUNDS OF PARAGLIDING (dir. Shams, France, 2014, 3 minutes): Listen to nature’s harmony while the young pilot rhythms the melody with aerobatic paragliding.

AN EDUCATION (dir. Fitz Cahall, USA, 2014, 9 minutes): Mike Libecki and his daughter venture across Antarctica. There are many lessons learned along the way.

FLYING DAGGER (dir. Nic Good, South Africa, 2014, 50 minutes): Jeb Corliss attempts a daring wing-suit flight through the ‘Flying Dagger’.

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SUNDAY

BEAUTIFUL BC MATINEE

THE RIO THEATRE, 2:00PM FILMS / STIKINE (dir. Olaf Obsommer, Germany, 2014, 17 minutes): The Grand Canyon of the Stikine River is the Everest of whitewater.

WIDEBOYZ 2: SLENDER GENTLEMAN (dir. Paul Diffley, UK, 2013, 42 minutes): The Boyz face their biggest challenge yet against the sharp granite bite of the mighty Cobra Crack, in Squamish, BC. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / GOING STRONG (dir. Marina Dodis, Canada, 2012, 10 minutes): A short film about local elderly hikers and skiers.

SEVEN (dir. Aaron LaRocque, Canada, 2013, 40 minutes): The BC Bike Race mountain bike experience from a number of different individuals’ perspectives.

MOUNTAIN LIFE MATINEE

THE CINEMATHEQUE, 2:00PM FILM / TASHI & THE MONK (dir. Andrew Hinton & Johnny Burke, India, 2014, 40 minutes): A unique community in the foothills of the Himalayas which rescues orphaned and neglected children. ! INTERMISSION FILM / TRAILS ACROSS THE STEPPE (dir. Anni Seitz, Germany, 2014, 83 minutes): This movie is about the dreams and opportunities of young Mongolian cross-country skiing athletes.

VIMFF SKI SHOW

RIO THEATRE, 7:30PM FILMS / VASU SOJITRA: OUT ON A LIMB (dir. Tyler Wilkinson-Ray, USA, 2014, 7 minutes): Adaptive skier, Vasu Sojitra goes deeper into the backcountry completely unassisted.

AFTERGLOW (dir. Nick Waggoner, USA, 2014, 11 minutes): Skiers take to Alaskan spines and BC pillows, shredding the biggest and boldest lines ever ridden at night.

THE LITTLE THINGS (dir. Darcy Turenne, Canada, 2014, 47 minutes): A cast of snowboarders have adopted alternative lifestyles in order to promote sustainable living in their own unique ways. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / BEST IN SNOW (dir. Sam Giffen, USA, 2013, 4 minutes): As skiers we either have them or we have friends with them—powder hounds!

DOWNSIDE UP (dir. Seb Montaz, France, 2013, 32 minutes): Vivian Bruchez explores his backyard on several steep adventures in a winter of exceptional snow.

FJORD NORWAY (dir. Jeff Thomas, Canada, 2013, 8 minutes): For generations explorers have travelled deep into the fjords of the Sunnmøre Alps in Western Norway.

MICA TO GREENLAND (dir, Jay MacMillan, Canada, 2014, 23 minutes): Lucas Debari makes it his mission to plan the perfect expedition to this unidentified glacier in Greenland.

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MOUNTAIN STORYTELLING SERIES 1: STONE AND FIRE

ST. MARKS ANGLICAN CHURCH, 2:00PM PRESENTATIONS / KIRA VAN DEUSEN: Arash The Mountain Archer An ancient Persian tale of dedication, courage, and non-violent victory over tyranny.

MARGARET MURPHY: ANOTHER CURVE IN TIME: Cap Blanchet travelled our local waters by boat, always with her 5 children, through the 1920’s, through to the 1940’s.

MARY GAVAN: FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN! The choice was irrevocable: fight the fire themselves or follow the evacuation order. ! INTERMISSION PRESENTATIONS / PATRICK LUCAS - THE CHIEF’S RIDE: A MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVENTURE TO THE HEART OF THE TAHLTAN NATION: A true story of personal exploration that follows Patrick’s participation in a 115 km mountain bike charity ride.

ADAM CAMPBELL: NOW THEY CALL ME FLASH: Adam was struck by lightning halfway into a ultra-marathon race in Colorado this past July.

WENDY CHARBONNEAU: SIWASH ROCK AND THE TWO SISTERS: The Two Sisters tells the true story of the twin peaks, and of the heartfelt wish of two young women.

VIMFF ALPINE ADVENTURES

CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM FILMS - ICEFALL (dir. Joseph Areddy, Switzerland, 2013, 4 minutes): A rare adventure shot in the barren beauty of Norway’s Icefalls.

METANOIA (dir. Jim Aikman, USA, 2014, 83 minutes): From the top of the world to the end of the line, this film follows the life and climbs of Jeff Lowe . Special Appearance in-person: Jeff Lowe ! INTERMISSION FILM / BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL (dir. Bertrand Delapierre, France, 2013, 11 minutes): A Mythical route in the Alps.

PRESENTATION / MICHAEL KENNEDY - FINDING THE BALANCE: FORTY YEARS OF LIFE, LOVE AND CLIMBING: In this lavishly illustrated presentation, Michael Kennedy traces a personal journey through the great ranges Alaska, Pakistan, Nepal, and India from 1977 to 1994.

INSPIRING STORIES

THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILMS / FORCE (dir. Fitz Cahall, USA, 2014, 18 minutes): A climber’s passion for the jagged skyline of the Fitz Roy Massif evolves into creative expression.

FINDING TRACTION (dir. Jaime Jacobsen, USA, 2014, 57 minutes): Ultra runner Nikki Kimball’s quest to become the fastest person in history to run America’s oldest hiking trail, the 273-mile Long Trail. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / ANDANTE (dir. Gavin Carver, UK, 2014, 10 minutes): A musician heads in to the Wallowa mountains of Oregon on a journey to share her passion.

ACROSS THE ICE (dir. Sebastian Copeland, USA, 2014, 52 minutes): In 2010, Sebastian Copeland and partner Eric McNairLandry crossed 2300 kilometers of the Greenland ice sheet using only skis and kites.

MOUNTAIN STORYTELLING SERIES 2: ICE & WAVE

ST MARKS ANGLICAN CHURCH, 7:30PM PRESENTATIONS / KEVIN VALLELY - ON THIN ICE: The story of an extraordinary 1900km journey through the icy waters of the Northwest Passage.

DUNC SHIELDS - SONG OF THE SOCKEYE: The gilnet fisherman’s “Quest” for the “Holy” sockeye.

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VIMFF WILD RIVERS

THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILMS / DREAM (dir. Skip Armstrong, USA, 2014, 6 minutes): When a newbie kayaker goes paddling, he discovers a posse of pros on the river.

DELTA DAWN (dir. Peter McBride, USA, 2014, 16 minutes): The Colorado River hasn’t kissed the sea in almost two decades.

NOBODY’S RIVER (dir. Skip Armstrong, USA, 2014, 30 minutes): Four women travel to one of the few remaining free-flowing rivers of the world and through the complexities of love and loss.

CALEB (dir. Blair Trotman, New Zealand, 2014, 5 minutes): Caleb Brousseauo has been dealt one of the toughest challenges life can throw at you. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / RIVER OF EDEN (dir. Peter McBride, USA, 2014, 5 minutes): Journey into the Fijian Highlands to discover one of the most beautiful rivers on Earth.

CHASING BUTTERFLIES (dir. Bernardo Rodriguez, Canada, 2012, 7 minutes): A passionate paddler describes the beauty and challenge that draws her into whitewater kayaking.

CHAGA THE STORY (dir. Peter Csonka, Slovakia, 2013, 36 minutes): Chaga’s difficult life story and his dream to become the first pro kayaker from Uganda.

STIKINE (dir. Olaf Obsommer, Germany, 2014, 17 minutes): The Grand Canyon of the Stikine River is the Everest of whitewater.

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MONDAY

VIMFF CLIMBING SHOW

CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / THE ADAM ONDRA SHOW: Adam comes to the VIMFF to share his cutting edge adventures from the hardest climbs in the world. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / PROJECT MINA (dir. Jen Randall, UK, 2014, 32 minutes): Mina Leslie-Wujastyk takes us through her 2013 Bouldering World Cup Season as well as climbing on real rock in the Peak District, England and Rocklands, South Africa AFRICA FUSION (dir. Nic Good, South Africa, 2013, 52 minutes): A one-hour South African rock climbing adventure special. Starring Alex Honnold (USA) and Hazel Findlay (UK).

VIMFF MOUNTAIN BIKE NIGHT

THE RIO THEATRE, 7:30PM FILMS / THE INTERVIEW (dir. Ian Vermeulen, UK, 2014, 3 minutes): What is more important, your sense of adventure or your job?

GONE TOMORROW (dir. Sebastian Doerk, Nepal, 2014, 8 minutes): Mustang is very raw and remote, there’s only the mountains and you. Complete deceleration.

DANNY MACASKILL: THE RIDGE (dir. Stu Thomson, UK, 2014, 7 minutes): Danny Macaskill takes on the infamous Cuillin Ridge line on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

PRESENTATION / JUSTA JESKOVA & STEVE STOREY - SEARCHING FOR SINGLETRACK: Stories highlighting the mis-adventures of traveling through 3 countries over loaded with bikes and camera gear., filming for Vaya Bien.

FILM / VAYA BIEN (dir. Michael Sousa, Canada, 2014, 14 minutes): Whistler-based mountain bike team “shegnarnigans” travel deep into the Central American jungle. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / MUDDBUNNIES: A MOCKUMENTARY (dir. Gina Hopper, Canada, 2014, 5 minutes): A BBC-style documentary on the elusive North Shore Muddbunny.

FORGOTTEN DIRT (dir. Anthill Productions, Canada, 2014, 10 minutes): Matt Hunter and a small team of riders travel to the remote Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan.

VAIN VAGRANT (dir. Ed Oxley, UK, 2014, 7 minutes): Not your usual mountain bike film. A story of rebirth and death that also includes bike riding.

ALL MY OWN STUNTS (dir. Alastair Lee, UK, 2014, 25 minutes): Rob Jarman is a downhill mountain bike specialist and professional stuntman.

HORACE AND THE ROUGH STUFF FELLOWSHIP (dir.

Sebastian Doerk, Austria, 2014, 15 minutes): The story of three men, one dream and 80 years of cycling in Iceland.

VIMFF SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS

THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILM / LIFELINES (dir. Ross Harrison, India/UK, 2014, 16 minutes): From a village in the high Himalayas, this is one man’s story of juggling responsibilities and fighting for dreams.

PRESENTATION / PAT & BAIBA MORROW: MOUNTAINS, THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE: Pat and Baiba Morrow have been attracted to the spiritual, physical and aesthetic draw of the snow capped mountains for the past three decades. ! INTERMISSION FILM / HAPPINESS (dir. Thomas Balmes, France, 2013, 76 minutes): Peyangki is a young monk in a remote village in Bhutan. Electricity arrives in 2013 and with it comes television.

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TUESDAY

VIMFF SKI MOUNTAINEERING SHOW

RIO THEATRE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / LINDA BILY: SKI MOUNTAINEERING TRAVERSE OF THE HOMATHKO ICEFIELD - COAST MOUNTAINS, BC: A 21-day ski mountaineering traverse of the Homathko Icefield will give you a taste of the untouched terrain you can find only 250 km from Vancouver’s city limits. ! INTERMISSION FILM / HIGHER (dir. Teton Gravity Research, USA, 2014, 90 minutes): The third and final instalment of the Deeper, Further, Higher trilogy from the award-winning producers at Teton Gravity Research.

STORIES OF BC’S SPECIES AT RISK

PRESENTED BY THE WILDERNESS COMMITTEE THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILMS / BC SPECIES AT RISK PRODUCED BY THE WILDERNESS COMMITTEE (dir. George Faulkner, Canada, 2015, 45 minutes): 8 short films that tell the story of the barn owl, the Oregon spotted frog, the phantom orchid, the Western rattlesnake, the Propertius Duskywing butterfly, the barn swallow, the American badger, and birds at risk in the Okanagan. ! INTERMISSION PRESENTATIONS / LESLIE ANTHONY: Leslie Anthony is a writer based in Whistler who combines interests in biodiversity, environment, ecology, outdoors, and adventure travel.

SOFI HINDMARCH: Sofi Hindmarch is a wildlife biologist who has studied the impacts of changes in land use on barn owls, a threatened species in BC. MONICA PEARSON: Monica Pearson is a conservation biologist and the owner of Balance Ecological. Monica specializes in at-risk amphibians and wetland habitat restoration in BC. GWEN BARLEE: Gwen Barlee is presently the Policy Director and a spokesperson for the 30,000 member Wilderness Committee.

MIKE MCKINLAY: Ex pro skateboarder Mike McKinlay is now inspired by documenting the natural world, including filming the BC Species at Risk film for The Wilderness Committee.

ISABELLE GROC: Isabelle Groc is the Species at Risk Project Coordinator for the Wilderness Committee since 2010, and she campaigns for better protection for endangered wildlife in BC.

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WEDNESDAY

VIMFF ENVIRONMENTAL SHOW

CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / BONNY GLAMBECK AND DAN LEWIS: CLAYOQUOT SOUND OF FREEDOM: A multimedia journey from the visually stunning landscape, wildlife and culture of Clayoquot Sound to an eyewitness report of the Mount Polley mine disaster. ! INTERMISSION FILM / COLOURS OF EDZIZA (dir.Matt Miles, Chantal Schauch and Mike Schauch, Canada, 2015, 30 minutes). World Premiere. An extraordinary journey of two leaders from different worlds, united by one of the great and last untamed places on earth.

PRESENTATION / DESIREE WALLACE: SAVE THE SACRED HEADWATERS - WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM: Desiree Wallace, co-founder of Beyond Boarding, cycled 2000 km from Vancouver to the Sacred Headwaters to raise funds to support the Klabona Keepers’ resistance.

VIMFF RAW: ROCK/AIR/WATER

THE RIO THEATRE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / JIMMY MARTINELLO - RAW:

ROCK/AIR/WATER: A team of Sea to Sky adventures paddleboard deep into the wild Northwest Territories with big plans and even bigger mountains. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / FOR A HANDFUL OF SECONDS (dir. Bertrand Delapierre, France, 2013, 28 minutes): Pushing the boundaries in the French Alps - blurring the disciplines of climbing and base jumping.

DRAWN (dir. Jeremy Collins, USA, 2014, 40 minutes): Collins goes to the ends of the earth in the four cardinal directions to find closure and ‘see’ his way up four un-climbed routes in the mountains.

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THURSDAY

VIMFF TRAIL RUNNING SHOW

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PROGRAM GUIDE

BACK PORCH: When Abegael moved into Phyllis Munday’s house five years ago, a fascination began. ! INTERMISSION PRESENTATIONS / PHILOMENA JORDAN - THE CAILLEACH VER IN FAOILLEACH: The story of the Cailleach Ver of the Scottish highlands is one of the great ones.

RUPERT RICHARDSON - FALLING ROCKS:V A story that Rupert first heard from his Grandmother Natupsta called “Falling Rocks”.

THE CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM PRESENTATION / GARY ROBBINS: RUNNING FROM RHINOS: Gary talks about his recent exploits in South Africa where he finished 2nd at the notoriously difficult Salomon Skyrun.

FILM / HOME (dir. Dean Leslie, South Africa, 2014, 7 minutes): Anna Frost reconnects with her identity and roots as she questions what running means to her.

PRESENTATION / LIZ DECARIO - RUNNING THE KOKOPELLI: Liz gives us the tales from her 240km run from Loma, Colorado to Moab, Utah.

FILM / THE INGENUOUS CHOICE (dir. Maxime Tournier, France, 2014, 7 minutes): Discover how Anton Krupicka experiences mountain running and challenges himself running ultra distances on the trails.

PRESENTATION / NICOLA GILDERSLEEVE: HOW I EARNED A FKT: A decade after it was established, Nicola Gildersleeve broke the Sunshine Coast trail record by 10 hours. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / WAINWRIGHT RECORD ATTEMPT (dir.

Alastair Lee, UK, 2014, 31 minutes): The unassuming Steve Birkinshaw attempts to link all 214 Wainwright hills in England’s Lake District in under 7 days.

TRAVAILEN (dir. Dean Leslie, South Africa, 2014, 27 minutes): Ryan Sandes and Ryno Greisel’s attempt of the Drakensberg Grand Traverse in 2014. The only certainty is struggle.

CLIMBING CULTURE

THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILMS / ABOVE THE ALLEY, BENEATH THE STARS (dir.

Dominic Gill, USA, 2014, 24 minutes):Two boys from Rio’s largest favela learn to rock climb on the mountain in their backyard.

WILD NEW BRAVE (dir. Oakley Anderson-Moore, USA, 2014, 27 minutes): Teenage misfits revolutionize rock climbing in the 1970s. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / NOVATO (dir. Jon Herrantz, Spain, 2014, 18 minutes): “Novato” is a 61-year-old climber and the only known person in the world to climb a 5.14a at 60.

REDEMPTION (dir. Paul Diffley, UK, 2014, 53 minutes) Redemption tells the controversial story of one of the World’s best trad climbers, James Pearson.

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FRIDAY

CANADIAN MOUNTAIN ADVENTURES

CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM FILMS / THE SKATER (dir. Celin Serbo, USA, 2014, 3 minutes): Will Mayo establishes several of the most difficult mixed climbing routes in North America.

500 MILES TO NOWHERE (dir. Michael Paul Jones, USA, 2014, 7 minutes): An elite group of paragliding pilots attempt an unsupported vol-biv (fly-camp) from Hurricane Ridge to Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

PRESENTATION / WILL GADD: UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS - TRUE ADVENTURE: Will Gadd, delves into adventures throughout Canada, including wild ice climbing at Helmcken Falls and paragliding across the Rocky Mountains. ! INTERMISSION UES2014, VEN FILMS / FROZEN TITANS (dir. Bryan Smith, Canada, 24 minutes): The unique spray ice formations at Helmcken RE Falls, THEA IAL CENTENN British Columbia, are considered the hardest ice and mixed TRE THEA RIO climbing spot in the world.

ARCTIC AIR (dir. Niall & Finn McCann, UK, HEQ 2014, 32UE minutes): MAT CINE THE Brothers Finn and Niall McCann pack their pulks with gear and RCH CHU N LICA ANG K'S MAR ST. head into the Caledonian Alps in Greenland.

POLISH MOUNTAINEERING SHOW

TICKETS THE CINEMATHEQUE, 7:30PM FILM / K6 WEST (dir. Wiktor Skupinski, Canada,NCE 2014, 20 ADVA IN $19 minutes): The ascent of K6 West by Ian Welsted and Raphael DOO THE AT $21 Slawinski, on the heals of the Nanga Parbat massacre. R PRESENTATION / RYSZARD SZAFIRSKI: GOLDEN YEARS OF POLISH HIMALAYAN EXPLORATION: ES W PASS I-SHO MULT One of the leading figures of the Polish alpine and high altitude climbing in the 1960s and $34 1970s. FOR 2-SHOWS ! INTERMISSION $45 FOR 3-SHOWS FILM / JUREK (dir. Pawel Wysoczanski, Poland, 2014, 73 OWS FOR 5-SH minutes): The film portrays $65 Jerzy Kukuczka, one of the greatest climbers in history and second person to ascend all 14 eightthousanders.

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CENTENNIAL THEATRE, 7:30PM VIMFF 2015 FILM AWARD CEREMONY PRESENTATION / SONNIE TROTTER: FAMILY MAN: After pushing his free climbing limits for nearly 20 years, Sonnie faces a new challenge; raising a child while continually striving to pursue his dreams. ! INTERMISSION FILMS / STONE FREE (dir. Alastair Lee, UK, 2014, 27 minutes): Julian Lines is undoubtedly Britain’s most accomplished free climbing soloist with world-class free ascents to his name.

SUFFERFEST 2: DESERT ALPINE (dir. Cedar Wright, USA, 2014, 26 minutes): Cedar Wright and Alex Honnold are back!

This time, a month riding their bikes and climbing desert towers in the American Southwest.

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Stikine

Directed by Jim Aikman USA, 83 minutes, 2014

Directed by Olaf Obsommer Germany, 17 minutes, 2014 Wild Rivers, Sun Feb 15th @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque Beautiful BC Matineee, Sun Feb 15th @ 2:00 pm (doors 1:30pm) Rio Theatre North American Premiere Shrouded in darkness and legend, The Grand Canyon of the Stikine River is the Everest of whitewater. For over 30 years, its menacing difficulty has lured expedition kayakers looking for the ultimate challenge. The journey is a long soulful pilgrimage to an untamed river hidden deep in the wilderness.

VIMFF Alpine Adventures, Sat Feb 14th @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre From the top of the world to the end of the line, this film follows the life and climbs of Jeff Lowe through his visionary ascents around the world up to his current dance with a chronic desease.

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Africa Fusion

Directed by Sebastian Copeland USA, 52 minutes, 2014

South Africa, 52 minutes, 2013 Directed by Nic Good, Produced by Robert Breyer

VIMFF Inspiring Stories, Sat Feb 14th @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) The Cinematheque In 2010, Sebastian Copeland and partner Eric McNair-Landry crossed 2300 kilometers of the Greenland ice sheet, braved a blizzard lasting one week in a small tent and set a world record for the longest distance travelled in a twenty-four hour period on skis and kites, with 595 kilometers.

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Directed by Sebastien Montaz-Rosset France, 32 minutes, 2013

VIMFF Ski Show, Sun Feb 15th @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only) We join skier and mountain guide, Vivian Bruchez, as he explores his backyard on several steep adventures in a winter of exceptional snow, in the company of a few talented friends.

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VIMFF Climbing Show, Mon Feb 16 @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre This documentary tells the story of a rock odyssey that Alex Honnold and Hazel Findlay embark upon across the incredible rock climbing areas of Namibia and South Africa, and the amazing cultures and natural wonders they discover along the way. Join them as they uncover some of the best climbing on the planet, in an unforgettable setting.

Directed by Alastair Lee UK, 25 minutes, 2014

VIMFF Mountain Bike Night, Mon Feb 16th @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only) North American Premiere Yorkshireman Rob Jarman is a downhill mountain bike specialist and professional stuntman. This gripping and emotional film tells the story of a near fatal accident and his road to recovery where he sets his sight on a UK downhill speed record. Redoubtable, affable and hilarious, it’s a compelling ride with Rob Jarman, on, and more often than not, off his bike.

Tashi & The Monk

Happiness

Directed by Andrew Hinton & Johnny Burke India, 40 minutes, 2014

Directed by Thomas Balmès, Produced by Quark Productions France, Finland, 76 minutes, 2013

VIMFF Mountain Life Matinee, Sun Feb 15th @ 2:00pm (doors: 1:30pm) The Cinematheque Former Buddhist monk Lobsang was trained under the guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama but 8 years ago left a life as a spiritual teacher in the United States to create a unique community in the foothills of the Himalayas which rescues orphaned and neglected children.

VIMFF Spiritual Journeys, Mon Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 7pm) The Cinematheque Peyangki is a young, dreamy and solitary eight year-old monk. He lives with his mother in a remote village in Bhutan, 4,000 meters above sea level. The village has neither running water, electricity, nor roads. Roads and electricity arrive in 2013, and with them come television.

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Redemption

Directed by Steve Jones, Todd Jones, Jeremy Jones USA, 90 minutes, 2014

Directed by Paul Diffley and Chris Prescott UK, 53 minutes, 2014

VIMFF Climbing Culture, Thu Feb 19th @ 7:30pm (doors: 7:00pm) The Cinematheque North American Premiere Redemption: The James Pearson Story tells the controversial story of one of the World’s best trad climbers, James Pearson. The film follows his return to the UK as he faces his demons and looks to redeem his place back within the UK climbing community.

VIMFF Ski Mountaineering, Tue Feb 17th @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only) The third and final installment of the Deeper, Further, Higher trilogy from the award-winning producers at Teton Gravity Research. Higher traces Jones’ snowboarding journey from hiking Cape Cod’s Jailhouse Hill as a child to accumulating several generations’ worth of wisdom and expertise about thriving and surviving in the winter wilderness.

Colours of Edziza

Frozen Titans

Directed by Matt Miles, Chantal Schauch and Mike Schauch Canada, 30 minutes, 2015

Directed by Bryan Smith, Produced by Dave Pearson Canada, 24 minutes, 2014

VIMFF Environmental Show, Wed Feb 18th @ 7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre World Premiere Venturing deep into the remote and rugged mountains of the Tahltan territory in northern British Columbia, two leaders from different worlds discover a new shared connection, one that would allow them to put their differences aside and accomplish this incredible traverse together.

VIMFF Canadian Mountain Adventures Fri Feb 20th @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre The unique spray ice formations at Helmcken Falls, British Columbia, are considered the hardest ice and mixed climbing spot in the world. The 140-meter cave is a terrifying complex of giant, overhung icicles and thus has become Will Gadd’s obsession and the leading edge of modern ice climbing.

Drawn

Jurek

Directed by Jeremy Collins USA, 40 minutes, 2014

Directed & Produced by Pawel Wysoczanski Poland, 73 minutes, 2014

VIMFF R.A.W. - Rock.Air.Water, Wed Feb 18th @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only) When his friend dies in an avalanche, artist, rock climber and new dad Jeremy Collins goes to the ends of the earth in the four cardinal directions to find closure and ‘see’ his way up four un-climbed routes in the mountains. Living in what he calls a ‘love paradox’, Collins tries to find a balance between art, adventure, and family.

VIMFF Polish Mountaineering Night, Fri Feb 20th @ 7:30pm (doors: 7:00pm) The Cinematheque North American Premiere The film portrays Jerzy Kukuczka, one of the greatest climbers in history and second person to ascend all 14 eight-thousanders. On October 24, 1989, ‘Jurek’ fell to his death while attempting to climb Lhotse. It was the first time he went to the Himalayas with money, proper equipment and fame.

Travailen

Stone Free

Directed by Dean Leslie, Produced

by The African Attachment South Africa, 27 minutes, 2014

Directed by Alastair Lee UK, 27 minutes, 2014

VIMFF Trail Running Show, Thu Feb 19th @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre Travailen follows the entire story of Ryan Sandes and Ryno Greisel’s attempt of the Drakensberg Grand Traverse in 2014. The route crosses repeatedly between South Africa and the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho summiting some of the highest peaks south of Mount Kilimanjaro and has to be completed entirely self-supported.

VIMFF Climbing Finale, Sat Feb 21st @ 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm) The Centennial Theatre North American Premiere Julian Lines is the best climber you’ve never heard of. He is undoubtedly Britain’s most accomplished free climbing soloist with world-class free ascents to his name. This deeply personal account of the archetypal anti-hero is a stunning portrait that will leave your jaw on the floor.

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FINDING THE BALANCE - FORTY YEARS OF LIFE, LOVE AND CLIMBING VIMFF Alpine Adventures / Sat Feb 14 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

Mountains are fantastic examples of the power and mystery of nature, and the routes we climb on them are expressions of all that is best in the human spirit. In this lavishly illustrated presentation, Michael Kennedy traces a personal journey through the great ranges Alaska, Pakistan, Nepal, and India from 1977 to 1994.

VIMFF MOUNTAIN STORYTELLING SERIES 1: STONE AND FIRE Sat Feb 14 @ 2:00pm (doors 1:30) St. Mark’s Anglican Church

Featuring the following presentations: Kira Van Deusen: Arash the Mountain Archer, Margaret Murphy: Another Curve in Time, Mary Gavan: Fire on the Mountain!, Patrick Lucas: The Chief’s Ride: a mountain bike adventure to the heart of the Tahltan Nation, Wendy Charboneau: Siwash Rock and The Two Sisters, Adam Campbell: Now They Call Me Flash.

VIMFF MOUNTAIN STORYTELLING SERIES 2: ICE AND WAVE Sat Feb 14 @ 7:30pm (doors 7:00) St. Mark’s Anglican Church

Presentations: Kevin Vallely: On Thin Ice, Dunc Shields: Song of the Sockeye, Abagael Fischer-Lang: Phyllis Munday’s Back Porch, Philomena Jordan: The Cailleach Ver in Faoilleach, Rupert Richardson: Falling Rocks.

PAT AND BAIBA MORROW

MOUNTAINS: THE SACRED, AND THE PROFANE VIMFF Spiritual Journeys / Mon Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 7pm) The Cinematheque

Adventure photographer team Pat and Baiba Morrow of Invermere, BC have been attracted to the spiritual, physical and aesthetic draw of the snow capped Himalaya, fluted canyons of the American southwest, and the mountains and glaciers of western Canada for the past three decades, and their presentation reflects this.

ADAM ONDRA

ADAM ONDRA SHOW VIMFF Climbing Show / Mon Feb 16 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

SKI MOUNTAINEERING TRAVERSE OF THE HOMATHKO ICEFIELD - COAST MOUNTAINS, BC VIMFF Ski-Mountaineering Show Tue Feb 17 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only)

There are few mountain ranges in the world that are as wild – or beautiful! – as BC’s Coast Mountains. Canada’s westernmost mountains offer innumerable challenges and sublime delights.

Linda Bily’s presentation of a 21-day ski mountaineering traverse of the Homathko Icefield will give you a taste of the untouched terrain you can find only 250 km from Vancouver’s city limits.

BONNY GLAMBECK AND DAN LEWIS

CLAYOQUOT SOUND OF FREEDOM VIMFF Environmental Show Wed Feb 18 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

Join master digital storytellers Dan Lewis and Bonny Glambeck of Clayoquot Action for a lively, informative and inspiring evening. A multimedia journey from the visually stunning landscape, wildlife and culture of Clayoquot Sound— Vancouver Island’s last great rainforest, to an eyewitness report of the Mount Polley mine disaster, and onward to the Burnaby Mountain frontlines.

DESIREE WALLACE

SAVE THE SACRED HEADWATERS - WE ALL LIVE VIMFF Environmental Show Wed Feb 18 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

Desiree Wallace, co-founder of Beyond Boarding, cycled 2000 km from Vancouver to the Sacred Headwaters this summer to raise funds to support the Klabona Keepers’ resistance. She spent three months in the area lending a hand on several blockades. Desiree will join us to share her experiences with the Klabona Keepers this past summer and fall.

JIMMY MARTINELLO

VIMFF R.A.W.: Rock/Air/Water Wed Feb18 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Rio Theatre (ages 19+ only)

Each generation has a climber who takes the proverbial baton and runs with it, increasing the hardest grade in the sport and inspiring other climbers to see new possibility where they had seen only featureless rock.Adam comes to the VIMFF to share his cutting edge adventures from the hardest climbs in the world.

A team of Sea to Sky adventures paddleboard deep into the wild Northwest Territories with big plans and even bigger mountains. Amidst grizzly bears, white knuckle floatplane missions and hundreds of kilometres of wild river, Tim Emmett, Sean Leary, Jimmy Marginally and Trevor McDonald shuffle the deck and deal out a Rock,Air,Water adventure for the ages.

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SEARCHING FOR SINGLETRACK VIMFF Mountain Bike Show / Monday Feb 16, 7:30pm (doors 6:30) Rio Theatre (19+ adults only) MAP

The Search For Single-track is a behind the scenes look of the build up and production of Vaya Bien by SheGNARnigans.

Included in the presentation is the catalyst for the journey to Central America, images captured during our trip, and stories highlighting the mis-adventures of traveling through 3 countries over loaded with bikes and camera gear.

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RUNNING FROM RHINOS VIMFF Trail Running Show Thu Feb 19 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

In “Running From Rhinos” Gary will talk about his recent exploits in South Africa where he finished 2nd at the notoriously difficult Salomon Skyrun. The 17 year old event features no flagging and no aid stations, is 100km in length, and only three runners had ever broken 15 hours before.

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“I wanted to inspire others to live their dreams whatever they may be. I wanted to prove that anything is possible you just need to believe and have faith. I also wanted to represent all the back of the packers and how we go through the same struggles as the top runners”. Liz gives us the tales from her 240km run from Loma, Colorado to Moab, Utah.

NICOLA GILDERSLEEVE

HOW I EARNED A FKT (FASTEST KNOWN TIME) VIMFF Trail Running Show Thu Feb 19 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

10 years after it was established, Nicola Gildersleeve broke the Sunshine Coast trail record by 10 hours. In this talk, Nicola will discuss her inspiration for running the 180 km trail, the planning and preparation involved, and why this experience has stood out from anything she has ever done.

WILL GADD

UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS - TRUE ADVENTURE VIMFF Canadian Mountain Adventures Fri Feb 20 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

National Geographic Adventurer of the Year nominee, Will Gadd, delves into adventures throughout Canada including wild ice climbing at Helmcken Falls and paragliding across the Rocky Mountains.

RYSZARD SZAFIRSKI

GOLDEN YEARS OF POLISH HIMALAYAN EXPLORATION VIMFF Polish Mountaineering Show / Fri Feb 20 @7:30pm (doors 7pm) The Cinematheque

Ryszard Szafirski stands out as one of the leading figures of the Polish alpine and high altitude climbing in the 1960s and 1970s. He pioneered expeditions to previously unknown areas in the highest mountains, and has a lot of first ascents and first winter ascents to his name.

SONNIE TROTTER

FAMILY MAN VIMFF Climbing Finale / Sat Feb 21 @7:30pm (doors 6:30pm) Centennial Theatre

After pushing his free climbing limits for nearly 20 years, Sonnie faces a new challenge; raising a child while continually striving to pursue his dreams. Sonnie Trotter is known Worldwide for his desperate trad climbs and striking first ascents, but after 19 years of living an adventurous life of travel and high end rock climbing, he and his wife Lydia have settled into the mountain town of Canmore, Alberta to raise their son Tatum.

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CALENDAR From page 22 Pianist Michael Aston and a special guest will join forces for a performanceThursday, March 5, 10:30-11:30 a.m.Tickets: $20/$15.

SST. STEPHEN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH 885 22nd St.,West Vancouver. 604-926-4381 JazzVespers: Pianist/vocalist Jennifer Scott and her quartet will perform renditions of wellknown tunes and some of her own compositions Sunday, Feb.

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CALENDAR AUSTRIAN Jagerhof Restaurant 71 Lonsdale Avenue, N. Van. | 604-980-4316 Old World Charm - Featuring Alpine Cuisine from Austria, Germany, Switzerland and South Tirol/Northern Italy with an extensive import beer selection.

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BISTRO Hugos, Artisanal Pizzas and Global Tapas www.hugosvancouver.com 5775 Marine Drive, W. Van | 604-281-2111 Showcase your musical talents Thursday evenings in our beautiful chateau-style room or simply enjoy our reopened heated patio. Global fusion menu inspired by our love of travel, warm atmosphere inspired by our love of the community.

Blue Eyed Marys www.blueeyedmarys.com 1735 Marine Drive, W.Vancouver | (604) 921-2583 Come enjoy our seasonal unpretentious menu and BC wine list. Lunch 11:30-2:00 Tuesday -Friday Dinner Tuesday-Saturday from 5:00 pm. Early bird special: 3 courses $29, Happy Hour Fridays 5:00-6:30

$$

Sailor Hagar’s Neighbourhood Pub $$ www.sailorhagarspub.com 86 Semisch Avenue, N. Van. | 604-984-3087 Spectacular view of Vancouver harbour & city, enjoy great food in a Brew Pub atmosphere. 18 beers on tap including our own 6 craft-brews. Live music, satellite sports, pool table, darts & heated patio.

Village Tap House $$ www.villagetaphouse.com

$$$

900 Main Street, Village at Park Royal, W. Van. | 604-922-8882 Start with a comfortable room, a giant fireplace, add 20 ice cold brews on tap, really damn good food, some awesome events, & the most personable group of folks you’ll ever meet… welcome to the Tap House!

SEAFOOD C-Lovers Fish & Chips www.c-lovers.com Marine Drive @ Pemberton, N. Van. | 604-980-9993 6640 Royal Ave., Horseshoe Bay, W. Van. | 604-913-0994 The best fish & chips on the North Shore!

BRITISH The Cheshire Cheese Restaurant & Bar $$ 2nd Floor Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. | 604-987-3322 Excellent seafood & British dishes on the waterfront. Dinner specials: Friday & Saturday- Prime Rib. Sunday - Turkey.

Weekends & holidays, our acclaimed Eggs Benny. Open for lunch or dinner, 7 days a week.

CHINESE Neighbourhood Noodle House www.neighbourhoodnoodlehouse.com 1352 Lonsdale Avenue, N. Van. | 604-9889885 We offer the best variety and quality Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese cuisine with no MSG or additives at a very affordable price. Family owned and operated for over 18 years. Conveniently located in central Lonsdale.

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Montgomery’s Fish & Chips International Food Court, Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. | 604-929-8416 The fastest growing Fish & Chips on the North Shore.

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THAI Thai PudPong Restaurant $$ www.thaipudpong.com 1474 Marine Drive, W. Van. | 604-921-1069 West Vancouver’s original Thai Restaurant. Serving authentic Thai cuisine. Open Monday-Friday for lunch. 7 days a week for dinner.

WEST COAST

FINE DINING The Observatory $$$$ www.grousemountain.com Grouse Mtn, 6400 Nancy Greene Way, N. Van. | 604-998-4403 A thrilling and epicurean experience 3700’ on Grouse Mountain above the twinkling lights of Vancouver.

The Salmon House $$$$ www.salmonhouse.com 2229 Folkestone Way, W. Van. | 604-926-3212 Serving spectacular views and fine, indigenous west coast cuisine for over 30 years. Lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch.

Live entertainment in Coho Lounge on weekend evenings.

FRENCH Chez Michel $$$ www.chezmichelvancouver.com 1373 Marine Drive (2nd flr), W. Van. | 604-926-4913 For over 34 years, Chez Michel has delighted guests with his Classic French cuisine. Seafood & meat entrees, a superb selection of wines & a decadent dessert list. Superior service with a waterfront view completes an exemplary lunch or dinner experience.

CASUAL Northlands Bar and Grill $$ www.golfnorthlands.com/bar-grill 3400 Anne MacDonald Way, North Vancouver | 604.924.2950 ext 2.

Casual West Coast dining where nature is your dining partner.

Sweeping views of Northlands 18th hole.

Pier 7 restaurant + bar $$$ www.pierseven.ca 25 Wallace Mews, N. Van. | 604-929-7437 Enjoy dining literally ON the waterfront with our inspired West Coast boat-to-table choices & extensive wine list. We’ve got 5 TV’s so you’ll never miss a game. Brunch until 2:30 weekends & holidays.

The Lobby Restaurant at the Pinnacle Hotel $$$ www.pinnaclepierhotel.com 138 Victory Ship Way, N. Van. | 604-973-8000 Inspired by BC’s natural abundance of fabulous seafood & the freshest of ingredients, dishes are prepared to reflect west coast cuisine. Breakfast, lunch, dinner & late night lounge, 7 days/week. Live music Fridays 8 - 11 pm.

WATERFRONT DINING The MarinaSide Grill $$ www.marinasidegrill.com 1653 Columbia Street, N. Van. (Under 2nd Narrows Bridge) | 604-988-0038 Waterfront dining over looking Lynnwood Marina under Ironworkers Memorial Bridge. Open every day at 8 am. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Brunch weekends and holidays serving eggs benny to juicy burgers, hot scallop salad, clam chowder. Happy Hour everyday from 3 - 5 pm.

PUB The Black Bear Neighbhourhood Pub www.blackbearpub.com 1177 Lynn Valley Road, N. Van | 604.990.8880

$$

Valentine’s Day Specials. “Your Favourite North Shore Pub” 18 years running. We do great food, not fast food. Full Take-Out menu.

Reserve your party of 15-30 ppl except Friday’s. Monday night Trivia.

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From page 35 PRESENTATION HOUSETHEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. 604-990-3474 phtheatre.org Cat Killer: A guided play where audience members will experience the performance in groups of three starting every five minutes March 5-15, Tuesdays-Saturdays, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9 and 9:30 p.m. and Sundays, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4 and 4:30 p.m.Tickets: $15-$20.

THEATRE AT HENDRY HALL 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver. 604-983-2633 northvanplayers.ca Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii: A seven-door farce Feb. 13, 14, 18-21 at 8 p.m.

Admission: $18/$16.

Dance

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Preview Show: Westside Dance Centre will perform Sunday, Feb. 22 at 6:30 p.m.

Admission: $17.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com Snowmotion 2015: North Shore Academy of Dancing students will perform their winter recital Saturday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m.Admission: $22/$17.

Clubs and pubs

HUGO’S RESTAURANT 5775 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-281-2111 Live Music: Every Saturday, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Schedule: Feb. 14,Valentines Day speed dating to live harp music; Feb. 21, RunawayWagon (bluegrass and beyond); Feb. 27, flamenco music with dance performance; and Feb. 28, John Pippus (folk).

Open Mic Jam: Every Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 19 will include a Lunar NewYear celebration and lion dance.

RED LION BAR & GRILL 2427 Marine Drive,West Vancouver. 604-926-8838 Open Mic Night: A variety of talent fromWestVancouver and beyondTuesdays at 8 p.m.

Participation welcome. Info: ethosproductions@shaw.ca.

Jazz Pianist Randy Doherty will perform every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m.

Other events

CAPILANO LIBRARY 3045 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver. 604-987-4471 x8175 nvdpl.ca BookTalk: In honour of Black History month, historical fiction author Jean Rae Baxter will give a presentation based on her research for her novel Freedom Bound:The Black Loyalists’ Story Monday, Feb. 16, 7-8 p.m. Registration required.

Movie Night atYour Library: TheTrip to Italy will be screenedThursday, Feb. 26, See more page 44

Book review

Novak’s sense of humour turns things upside down One More Thing by B.J. Novak, Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, 276 pages, $27.95.

In his first published collection of stories B.J. Novak leaves the world of television behind and shows his adeptness at writing.

Featuring topics as diverse as falling in love with Tony Robbins and a grudge match race between the tortoise and the hare, Novak applies his sense of humour with great results.

Love, fidelity, fear, longing and a wide variety of emotions run through this collection that swings from the whimsical to thought provoking with the turning of a page.

The stories range from the two-sentence commentary entitled “The walk to school on the day after Labour Day.” “I was sad that summer

was over.

But I was happy that it was over for my enemies, too” Novak goes into longer versions with topics like Kellog’s, where the collecting of a cereal box prize will risk ruining the winning family.

With a keen eye to the social interactions that regularly put us in conflict, he turns conventions upside down and gives them a shake to see what falls out.

— Terry Peters

Friday, February 13, 2015 - North Shore News - A43

DANCE

Glory explores history of violence Shay Kuebler introduces new ensemble at Chutzpah!

CHERYL ROSSI Vancouver Courier

One dancer grabbed another by the throat at a rehearsal Thursday afternoon. Dark, foreboding music morphed into movie soundtracks of sword fights and gushing blood, only to be punctuated by the somewhat comical sound of expiring in a 1980s video game.

Award-winning choreographer and dancer Shay Kuebler explores violence, voyeurism and death in his new work, Glory, with his new sixperson ensemble, Radical System Art. The world premiere of Glory will animate the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre as part of the Chutzpah! Jewish Performing Arts Festival that runs Feb. 19 to March 15.

Kuebler started performing with a theatre company in Edmonton at age 5. Soon after, he started training in martial arts, a stepping stone to his training in dance.

“Action movies were at their pinnacle and violence was becoming a little more mainstream in cinema and I realized just how much violent material was around me,” Kuebler said of his youth in the late ’80s and early ’90s. “I was going to adult action films and watching guys explode and get shot and all this stuff, and I realized how much I was nurtured to accept violence.

“All of this inspired me to make a show about the fact that we glorify experience and, in particular, we glorify violence and death, beautify death, we place it in a really shaped, nice accepting tone,” he said.

Kuebler’s exploration of violence is influenced by the time when movies featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris and Steven Seagal, in addition to Rocky IV, were all the rage, but Kuebler’s exploration of voyeurism is also shaped by newer video games and

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If you killed the bad dude, he flashed and then he disappeared. Now kids are holding rifles and shooting guys.”

Kuebler isn’t one to shy away from bleak, but relatable, themes.

Shay Kuebler and Radical System Art’s first production was KAROSHI, named for the Japanese word for death from overwork.

“I really like visceral quality to performance,” Kuebler said. “I always want to talk about something that can relate to almost everybody in some way, they can translate.”

Kuebler, who cofounded Vancouver’s acclaimed dance troupe the 605 Collective, executes his own sound design. His mashups for Glory include clanging electronic music, battle scenes and snippets from videogames. Performances will feature interactive elements with lighting and microphones and live and pre-recorded video.

He and the other dancers played toddler tag, their arms held away from their bodies, fingers spread, Thursday. They drew on martial arts, hip-hop and contemporary dance to mix seemingly suspended and bouncy movements with dynamic spins and turns.

“I want to bring in people that don’t normally see dance shows and theatre shows,” Kuebler said. “If I can bring them in on the surface, the challenge is then to take them on a ride they don’t expect and to go around corners they don’t expect, to open up the underbelly of some things.”

Glory runs Feb. 21 to 23.

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■■■ Israel’s internationally lauded dance company Maria Kong marks the group’s first North American performance with BACKSTAGE. This 360-degree immersive theatrical dance show features a live rock band, video art and technology at the Red Room Ultra Bar. Companies returning to Chutzpah! include Idan Sharabi and Dancers from Israel/Holland, and BODYTRAFFIC from Los Angeles.

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CALENDAR

Band explore many genres

From page 42 6:30-8:30 p.m. Registration required.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival: A series of extreme adventure films and presentations will run from Feb. 13 to 21.Tickets: $21/$19. Schedule: vimff.org.

FERRY BUILDING GALLERY 1414 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver.Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays. 604-925-7290 ferrybuildinggallery.com Art History: A lecture series with art dealer Paul Erik Becker Mondays, 7-9 p.m.

Schedule: Feb. 16,A Brief History ofWestern Art; Feb. 23, Masters of Art; and March 2, Canadian Legends and Street Art. Fee: $15 per session.

Social Media Toolkit for Artists: Learn how to build a social media marketing toolkit using Facebook and Twitter Tuesday, Feb. 24, 7-9 p.m. Bring a laptop, notebook and pen. Fee: $20. Registration required: 604-925-7270

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Movie Night atYour Library: Half of aYellow Sun will be screened Friday, Feb. 20, 6:30-8 p.m.

Registration required.

Book Talk: Local author Patrick Hill will discuss his book SoWhere DoYou Go at Night:A Pacific Sailing AdventureWednesday, Feb. 25, 7-8:30 p.m. Registration required.

WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West

NORGATE CENTRE 1451 Marine Drive, North Vancouver • 604-904-7811

Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Sunday Movie Matinees: Shakespeare in Love will show Feb. 15, 2-4:30 p.m.

Jazz Talks: Long time CBC producer Neil Ritchie will host talks Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Schedule: Feb. 17, Anita O’Day; and Feb. 24, bass players and drummers.

— compiled by Debbie Caldwell. Email information for your North Shore event to listings@nsnews.com.

says.

“There’s all sorts of different stuff that just kind of came up organically,” he says, explaining the album has hints of Muscle Shoals, Brit pop and ’70s music all wrapped in a northern soul context. “We’re exploring some uncharted territory.”

The Ballantynes can’t be bound by genre, but, if he had to label their sound, Poluk would describe it as he always has — ’60sinspired soul and garage.

“I think that still stands for us, I think you still hear that in there.”

Originally from California, Poluk moved to Vancouver seven years ago to attend Emily Carr University of Art and Design.The Ballantynes got together a little more than three years ago, the members all either patrons of or affiliated with the monthly East Van Soul Club dance night at the Biltmore Cabaret.

“We’ve all known each other since before the band,” Poluk says, explaining that their foundation as friends helps the musical group write, rehearse and tour together. “It’s kind of like a big dumb family.”

Thursday, February 26, 2015 PROTECTING YOUR BRAND’S “SOCIAL” SPACE  TWEETING TRUTH OR TROUBLE! Moderator:

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HYATT REGENCY VANCOUVER 655 Burrard Street Vancouver, BC AGENDA: 11:00 am Registration and Networking 12:00 pm - 12:35 pm Luncheon 12:35 pm - 1:30 pm Presentation & Panel Discussion

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE

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Sly Jaguar still has teeth

Brendan McAleer

Grinding Gears

The F-Type, the F-Type, the F-Type. Ever wonder how Emma Watson’s sisters feel? Well, the Jaguar XF does.

While the pretty, twodoor F-Type sports car gets all the paparazzi’s attention, the four-door XF sedan continues to best it in sales. There’s a practicality here, one that’s doubled by the traction provided by the all-wheel

drive system.

The XF, then, is the Jaguar bought by those who want a little everyday livability with their style.

However, without the glittering halo cast by the spotlight, how does this more-sensible Jaguar hold up in the ordinary world?

Design First off, no, it’s not quite as gorgeous as the

F-Type, but the XF is no shrinking violet. It’s not a fussy shape, a silhouette made with classic English understatement, but there’s just enough standing out here to be unique.

The side vents are better executed than some of the German competition, the grille isn’t so large as to be overbearing but adds a

nice bright spot of chrome, and the snarling, redringed Jaguar’s head in front takes the place of the beat-you-over-the-headwith-it aggression you find in other marques. It’s an older design, but one that’s aged well.

This being the Luxury model, the wheel choice is a 19-inch multi-spoke

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TODAY’S DRIVE

Grab onto something and enjoy the ride A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird:

Ford Focus RS announced for global launch OK, hold on to your hats.This week is all about performance reveals in the automotive world, which appears to have gone completely cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Don’t worry, we’ll tuck some minivan news in at the bottom.

First on our parade of speedy sheetmetal is Ford’s Focus RS, confirmed to be coming to North America this time.The old RS was always at the top of the list any time I corralled all the best cars we don’t get. And this one’s even better.

With somewhere north of 315 horsepower coming from the same 2.3-litre turbo four-banger as the Mustang Ecoboost, the RS has punch aplenty. It’s also got all-wheel drive for added grip this time, with a clever system that can actually send 70 per cent of the power to the rear for more hoontastic handling — and it’ll pull more than one G on the skid pad.

Brendan McAleer

Braking News

Also, it’s manual only and it comes in blue. Does some Ford engineer have a picture of me up on a board, because that’s spooky. Oh well: thanks guys! Can I have one for free?

Sadly no. Prices to be determined, but I’m guessing around the $40,000-45,000 mark, like the Golf R and Subaru STI. Ferrari 488 GTB: From Maranello, with boost Mark it on your calendars, the Ferrari 458 is going to be the last mainstream Ferrari with a naturally aspirated engine.

From here on out the manufacturer is going forced

induction to meet torque requirements and emissions standards.

It’s a very sad day indeed.

Wait, 660 h.p. and 561 footpounds of torque? I think . . . I think I might just be able to somehow pick up my shattered dreams and move on. Somehow.

Of course, the last mid-engined turbo Ferrari was the F40, a car that still haunts my dreams and waking moments, and is underlined twice on my bucket list of must-drive cars.This modern version, the 488GTB, will have many more amenities than the F40 (which had none, not even a radio), and still blast to 100 km/h in three seconds flat and look like a star-fighter with the wings clipped off.

It’s a brave, boosty new world, but I think Ferrari fans will live. But what about the rest of us?

Porsche unhobbles the Cayman with GT4 Well, sort of. But say hello to the new GT4, which is basically a Porsche Cayman with a lot of the best bits of the 911 GT3. A 3.8-litre flat-

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Environment Powering up the XF is done by pressing a “beating” red starter button for a second or so, causing the engine to fire and the air vents to slowly rotate open. It’s a neat bit of theatre, similar to that found inside the F-Type.

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There’s nothing about the interior that jumps out at you as a wow factor, and the navigation and

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There’s Old World, and then there’s getting a little bit old. The XF was launched in 2008 as a 2009 model, and on the inside at least, it’s now outstyled by the competition.

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Were it not for the way infotainment functionality is impacted by being squeezed a bit by that small touchscreen, the ergonomics would be just fine.

Performance Jaguar offers the XF in Canada with a 2.0-litre

turbo engine making 240 horsepower, a 3.0-litre supercharged V-6 making 340 h.p., and a 5.0-litre supercharged V-8 making 510 h.p. This week’s tester had the middle option, and while I briefly wished for the bonkers V-8, the feeling went away every time I drove past a gas station.

The supercharged six is a lovely little motor, mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission that’s also well up to the task. This being the Luxury model, both the ride and feel of the drive are a little on the soft side, a little of that grace that forms the old Jaguar byline of Grace, Pace, and Space.

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While not as fresh as the aluminium-intensive construction that’s coming our way with the new XE sedan and F-Pace crossover, the XF’s chassis is actually very finely tuned.

The all-wheel-drive system has no issues putting the power down from a launch, where the XF feels considerably faster than its quoted 0100 kilometres per hour time of 6.4 seconds. Once on the move, the system reverts to a rear-drive bias that hustles quite nicely, even if this is the softer, luxury model. The steering isn’t super-communicative,

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Jaguar a unique choice in luxury market From page 56

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Compared to the fleets of 5 Series BMWs and EClass Mercedes-Benzes I passed, the XF did indeed feel like something unique and special. That’s just the job a Jaguar is supposed to do.

Features As mentioned, the XF is a little behind the times in terms of infotainment. The touchscreen navigation works just fine, but hooking up an iPod took a little longer than expected, and there was no Bluetooth streaming audio.

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same time as the old 911 GT3, and as the current Cayman GTS is so good, this ought to be even better, for even more money.

But why doesn’t it have 400 h.p., same as the 911 Carrera S? I’m sure Porsche will claim that it’s to do with cooling or exhaust packaging, but I ain’t fooled — this car is going to be fantastic, but it’s also about what Porsche thought they could sell more than how fast they could make it go.

Still, manual only? Sign me up. Figuratively speaking.

Mazda MX-5 specs confirmed: 155 h.p., 2.0litre Cheapest, lightest, and least powerful of any of the cars we’ve just talked about, the new MX-5 is going to get a 155 h.p., 2.0-litre four-cylinder, which is actually a slight decrease in power over the old car. As that’s the same power output of the current Mazda3, Mazda’s indicating that premium fuel is a recommendation,

not a requirement.What’s more, 100 km/h is now 2,500 r.p.m., so this new car should be more efficient than ever.

But look at me nattering on about efficiency and premium fuel — if you’re a fan of any generation of the MX-5, you want to know if it’s still fun.Well, I had a chance to drive one last week, and let me tell you: yes. Oh dear Lord yes.

It’s so wonderful, doctors should prescribe it as an anti-depressant when nothing else works.

And that was just the 1.5-litre JDM version I drove.The Canadian-spec cars are going to get the 155 h.p. 2.0-litre, as mentioned above, and 17-inch alloys, and a few other tweaks like that.Weight is down enough that the power-to-weight ratio is improved, but it’s the handling that has been improved the most.

This fourth generation car should be within 10-20 kilograms or so of the original car, and is actually 10 centimetres shorter in length. Back to basics, Mazda, you gotta love it.

Nine death-proof cars Let’s round out this week’s driver-oriented buffoonery with a more consumer-oriented piece of news that proves we’re entering into a golden age of motoring. Sure, the extra power everything has these days is great, but what about safety?

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an organization out of the United States, has just released a study showing a whopping 40 per cent decline in driver fatalities over the last few decades.

That’s pretty impressive, but there’s still work to be done.

But consider this: the IIHS also released a list of models sold in the 2011 model year for which there have been no recorded fatalities in the U.S. None. Everyone who drove these cars or rode in them as a passenger is totally fine. Unless they got out and were eaten by a hippopotamus run amok or something.

The vehicles are: allwheel-drive versions of the Audi A4, the Honda

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big, heavy crossovers (and one minivan), so they aren’t likely to be found blitzing the speed limit through an intersection.

Even so, it’s pretty impressive to think that these cars, which often carry children, have got so safe as to have a death rate of zero.

Perhaps, someday soon,

being fatality free will be the norm, rather than worthy of special recognition.

Watch this space for all the week’s best and worst of automotive news, or submit your own auto oddities to mcaleer.nsnews@gmail.com Follow Brendan on Twitter at @brendan_mcaleer.

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