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he Georgia Straight has been publishing illustrated covers for more than 50 years. But this week marks the first time we’ve held a contest inviting submissions from B.C. artists. The winner is Cynthia Frenette, whose cheerful and colourful summertime image encapsulates several things we cherish about Vancouver. She’s a resident of Mission but she spent almost two decades in Vancouver in the 1990s and early 2000s, and she wanted to capture the feeling of living in the city at this time of year. “One of my favourite things to do in the summer was to ride my bike around the seawall,” Frenette recalled by phone. “I was just kind of thinking about that—going to see bands and about all the different music festivals there are.” The different colours coming out of the saxophone are a subtle nod to the diversity of the city. She also feels that the summer sky in Vancouver has a pinkish hue, which explains why that colour was chosen. As for the face of the person on the bicycle, it’s deliberately racially ambiguous—looking both forward and off to the side. “It could be a man; it could be a woman,” Frenette said. “It could just be a person having fun, enjoying the summer.” The tattoos on the cyclist’s arm reflect her own passion for body art. Frenette is no newcomer to the art world. She graduated from Kwantlen University College (now Kwantlen Polytechnic University) in 1991, and her commissions include several paintings at Holmberg House Hospice in Abbotsford. She also illustrated a cover for the now-defunct City Food magazine and worked as a designer for

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U.S.–based Robert Kaufman Fabrics. “That was one lifelong dream,” Frenette said. “There have been 13 collections with them.” In the past, she sold a line of clothing at a store called Bodacious In addition, she’s illustrated books on crafts written by Vancouver author Kim Werker. And Frenette sells her art to print-on-demand shops, such as Society6 and Spoonf lower. “I’ll do work by hand and some digitally,” Frenette said. “I work a lot in a program called Procreate, which is really awesome. It’s on my iPad, actually. It’s a heavily illustrationgeared app and it’s really fun.” This was the program that she relied on to create this week’s Georgia Straight cover. Next up is illustrating a children’s book written by a friend. “This is kind of a personal project,” Frenette revealed. “I’m interested in working with art and text together to tell the whole story.” g

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92.4 in the first five months of 2019. It’s good news. But at the same time, B.C. saw 23,700 emergency calls for a drug overdose last year and is now on track for a projected 24,800 in 2019. Dr. Patricia Daly is chief medical health officer and vice president of public health for Vancouver Coastal Health. She said the primary reason for the diverging trajectories of overdoses and fatal overdoses is likely B.C.’s push to expand harm-reduction services. “The risk of an overdose is still the same, but you’re less likely to die because we’ve expanded [access to] naloxone and created more opportunities for people to consume [drugs] under the observation of others who can reverse an overdose,” Daly explained. “We are seeing the benefit of harmreduction services: the distribution of [the overdose-reversal drug] naloxone and overdose-prevention sites.” A June B.C. Centre for Disease Control study supports that. Researchers calculated that supervised-injection and other harm-reduction programs

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rom herbal remedies to vitamins, minerals, and others, as many as 75 percent of Canadians take some form of dietary supplement. It’s not a cheap pursuit. Collectively, citizens spend about $1.5 billion buying the pills every year, with some common supplements costing upwards of $30 per bottle. Despite being embedded in the daily routines of many, supplements are frequently approved for sale in Canada with minimal review of their efficacy and weak evidence that they make any kind of contribution to health. For Ramin Estifaie, CEO of Photonic Signatures, that uncertainty is unacceptable. “I myself come from a history of family that are prone to memory issues or sleep disorders or Alzheimer’s disease,” he tells the Georgia Straight by phone. “I always want to know what’s going on in my brain. When it comes to physical fitness, it’s not too hard: there are certain metrics, like your BMI, that will show you what’s going on with your body. But what about the brain? What do we do with that? And how often do we go back to our brain to make sure it’s healthy?” Photonic Signatures aims to offer everyday people the tools to measure and track their mind’s well-being at home using just an iPad. The company has developed a testing-andscreening app that asks users to perform six specific tasks that measure functions such as memory, focus, and attention. When a person undertakes the exercises, the camera records the different movements of their eyes, which the team believes gives insight into the performance of the brain. Photonic Signatures hopes to use that data to feed a machine-learning algorithm and create a way of scoring an individual’s mental acuity. The ultimate goal of Photonic Signatures is to improve people’s quality of life by detecting neurodegenerative diseases before they manifest themselves. Part of that is its ability to test whether supplements are making an impact on the brain. “The tech side of eye-tracking has existed for a very long time,” Estifaie says. “But the data that we get from the eye-tracking will end up working

Photonic CTO Fartash Vasefi (left) and CEO Ramin Estifaie test supplements’ impact.

in the pharma industry. There’s a lot of products in the market such as supplements which are targeting aging populations, athletes, and normal populations and [claim] to offer them support in their physical and cognitive function. My number one focus is how we actually measure the efficacy of these products. “By running those tests every other week or month, at first you can set a benchmark,” he continues. “By changing some lifestyle factors, you can make improvements and see the results yourself.”

The goal is to really understand the issues way ahead of time of developing symptoms – Ramin Estifaie, CEO of Photonic Signatures

Although Estifaie suggests that eye-tracking technology has existed for a long time, he believes that his research teams are best placed to

create a piece of software that accurately identifies brain function and that can be placed into the hands of everyday Canadians. The company is working in collaboration with scientists from the National Research Council of Canada—Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC— IRAP), along with SFU’s Digital Health Hub and Digital Health Circle, to build its breakthrough technology. The business is now gearing up for a proof-of-concept trial that will run in collaboration with the university this summer. Although identifying the usefulness of supplements is the company’s first steps, Photonic Signatures ultimately wants to minimize the risk of brain issues more generally by offering early detection. “Right now, there’s still no solution to Alzheimer’s,” Estifaie says. “It’s really hard to detect that, and there’s no cure at this point, unfortunately. The goal is to really understand the issues way ahead of time of developing symptoms. And I think gathering a lot of data, really accurately measuring it, and coming up with the algorithm you want to have—that’s the end goal of the company, whether that’s through eye-tracking or another kind of IP. It will involve a lot of R and D, but that’s the goal: to create the most noninvasive method, which is accessible and won’t take up the resources of the health-care system.” g

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ack in 2017, B.C.’s then lieutenant-governor, Judith Guichon, allowed the NDP to form a minority government with John Horgan as premier, even though the B.C. Liberals won more seats in the election. Guichon made this decision after the B.C. Greens promised to support a minority NDP government on confidence motions and the budget. In the 2017 confidence and supply agreement between the 41-member NDP caucus and the three-member Green caucus, the Greens set a key condition: the NDP minority government must develop a strategy to meet the province’s greenhouse-gasreduction targets. But more than two years after Horgan was sworn in as premier, this still hasn’t occurred, according to B.C. Green Leader Andrew Weaver. In an interview with the Georgia Straight at the recent Vancouver Pride parade, Weaver said there’s only a plan to achieve three-quarters of the legislated greenhouse-gas reductions by 2030. “The timeline [to develop a strategy] for that would be this year—to see the other 25 percent,” Weaver said. “So let’s see what happens there.” Does this mean that the B.C. Green caucus is prepared to vote against the NDP minority government if a confidence motion comes before the legislature this fall? Weaver didn’t offer any indication. He noted that he doesn’t see any reason why the NDP minority government couldn’t last for a full fouryear term. However, the B.C. Green leader also said that he entered provincial politics because of the climate issue—and nobody can “pull the wool over my eyes” on greenhousegas emissions. Moreover, the NDP caucus has made a commitment to showing how the targets will be met. “I told John [Horgan], to his face, that I don’t see how he’s going to do it,” Weaver said. Under the Climate Change Accountability Act, the B.C. government must achieve a 40-percent reduction in provincewide carbon emissions below the 2007 level by 2030. Emissions must be 60 percent below the 2007 level by 2040. There are no interim targets in the legislation, which was approved by the legislature in 2018. Weaver said that the CleanBC plan to cut emissions will take the province 75 percent toward the 2030 goal. The B.C. Green leader added that if the LNG Canada plant isn’t built near Kitimat, the province will be 90 percent of the way to its goal. However, this plant has already been approved by the B.C. and federal governments. In addition, Weaver said that plans are in the works for a plastics petrochemical plant in Prince George, which will be “another massive source of emissions”. “Climate change is a very serious issue, and I’m sick and tired of politicians saying we’ll do something and doing nothing, which is the reason why I tore up my membership in the federal Liberal party,” Weaver said. “It was because of [Justin] Trudeau’s hypocrisy over oilsands.” Without interim targets, Horgan’s only legal obligation is to ensure that the province meets its legislated requirement by 2030. But Weaver argued that the agreement between the NDP and B.C. Green caucuses requires a road map if the NDP is to remain in power. g

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he creative potential of Leo has been out in full force this week and will continue to be through next week’s full moon, too. The sun and Venus in Leo aligned with Jupiter by trine are terrific for travel, pleasure-seeking, and the heart journey. Thursday/Friday, luck, ease, and opportunity continue. Venus/Jupiter puts more of everything on the go, including hopefulness, opinions, and money. It all comes easy. Note, there is a propensity for overindulgence, selfindulgence, or overspending. Sunday holds three significant transits: Jupiter in Sagittarius ends a fourmonth retrograde cycle; Uranus begins a five-month retrograde cycle; and Mercury leaves Cancer for Leo. Watch for something unexpected to set faster wheels in motion. In tandem, Jupiter direct and Uranus retrograde intend to get us better on track by pinpointing the front-runner: that which holds the strongest life force, that can and will go the distance. Mercury’s advance into Leo on the same day also shines a brighter light on the success and happiness quotient, on what or who is in your highest and best interest. Tuesday/Wednesday, Venus/sun form a superior conjunction (Venus and the Earth are on opposite sides of the sun). Creative opportunity and luck are at peak. Karmic destiny is too. A relationship, a health matter, or an evaluation process reaches a fruition stage or comes to the light of day. Venus and Mars in Leo oppose next Thursday’s full moon in Aquarius. A new alliance formed; a divorce; a striking departure, arrival, or breakthrough; an irresistible attraction to something or someone outside of the norm; exceptional opportunity; the sudden and unexpected— expect to see relationship intensity (social, political, personal, romantic) in full swing. It could be a wild ride regarding money markets, too.

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Thursday/Friday, Venus in Leo is in happy-camper mode. If it feels good, do it. Love it; buy it. Love them; show it. If there’s a complaint, it’s too much of a good thing. Sunday/Monday sets a next reality into play. From one extreme to another, what a difference a day makes! Karmic destiny is at peak through next Thursday’s full moon! April 20–May 21

It’s an ideal time to vacation, move, relocate, or purchase a property or some other big-ticket item. Thursday/Friday, Venus/Jupiter can sign you up for more love, fun, and gifting moments. Through the end of next week, everything is on the increase—including wants and needs. All in or all out, watch for a significant relationship to hit a fast track, perhaps surprisingly so.

With Venus/Jupiter in full swing on Thursday/Friday, it’s easy to get carried away by the feel of the moment, the prospect, or the pleasure of it. Visits and conversations go the distance and then some. Sunday through next Thursday’s full moon can set something special, perhaps even exceptional, into play. News or someone special can surprise you. Try your luck.

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Thursday/Friday, milk it for all it is worth. Sunday/Monday can remove a block or invisible barrier and/or spark something fresh, especially regarding work, health, or problem-solving. You have more going for you than you may fully realize. Money- or relationshipwise, things can change, perhaps dramatically or radically so. Tuesday through next Friday, seize opportunity! Try your luck on something or someone new.

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It’s a great time to be you! This week’s Sun/Jupiter and Venus/ Jupiter, and next week’s sun/Venus in Leo (Tuesday/Wednesday), put you on the receiving end of “as good as it gets”. As of Sunday, Mercury adds even more shine to your Leo light. Tuesday onward, someone special or someone new could make your day. Thursday’s full moon holds an element of surprise. August 23–September 23

You’ll get back to work/to it soon enough. For now, enjoy; take a vacation; do what makes you happy. Gift yourself more, especially in the self-love department. Have big wheels already set you in motion? This next week sets up plenty more; stay ready for anything goes. Opportunity comes in all shapes and sizes. Good things can happen when you least expect it. September 23–October 23

Opportunity and luck run especially high. Thursday/Friday are excellent days to aim higher, try your luck, open your heart, or create some magic. Social and romantic potentials are at peak. Venus could set you onto a financial gain or windfall. On the other hand, you could spend plenty. Karmic destiny is at peak through next week’s full moon. Expect the unexpected! October 23–November 22

Feeling proud of yourself? Is there something to celebrate? You have good reason to crow. Then again, with Venus in such good shape through mid–next week, you may not need to do it yourself. Your fans will do it for you. Sunday through full moon Thursday thrusts you into full-steam ahead on something fresh or out of the blue. November 22–December 21

Jupiter, your ruler, finishes retrograde on Sunday, but thanks to trines with the sun and Venus you are likely to already feel its ample blessings. Loving it/living it large, on the move—Thursday/Friday, the moon in Sagittarius keeps everything (including you) going strong. On a note of caution: know it is easy to get overly carried away, to spend, indulge, or expect too much. December 21–January 20

Let the good times roll! Sun, Venus, and Jupiter amp up romantic and financial promise. A special someone claims special attention now, too (someone new, someone you already love, or perhaps it is you). Stay game, stay hopeful, but also play it wise; hold some in reserve. Sunday through next Friday, anything goes. It’s a work in progress. January 20–February 18

Feeling good? Feeling great? In love? Happy to be here now? The end of the week keeps you riding the high. Your social life and financial potentials also gain a big boost. Uranus retrograde (starting Sunday) and next Thursday’s full moon in Aquarius set you up for a major personal, career, or relationship breakthrough. You could surprise yourself. February 18–March 20

Travel or a vacation is well timed. Pleasure, play, and romance top this week’s gift list. Financial and work prospects look good too. Now through the end of next week is full of greater-than-average potential. Even the tough stuff comes easy when Venus aligns with Jupiter (Thursday/Friday) and the sun (Tuesday). Sunday/Monday and Thursday, anything goes! g

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Local culinary events to dine out on

by Gail Johnson and Tammy Kwan

esides serving up a number of food-focused festivals around Metro Vancouver, the bountiful season also means local and regional restaurants can offer delicious food-and-drink events. From a cross-country culinary celebration to seafood boils, and from a special chef-collaboration dinner to an outdoor long-table feast, there’s no shortage of epicurean eats in B.C. during the hottest time of the year. Here are some tasty summertime meals to find in Vancouver and beyond.

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Pemberton’s North Arm Farm will once again play host to Araxi restaurant’s stunning long-table dinner in the field. In its ninth year, the unique culinary experience will take place next Sunday (August 18) before a backdrop of mountains and greenery, and feature local and seasonal ingredients paired with B.C. wines. Guests will be greeted with a cocktail reception before sitting down to enjoy the four-course share-style meal prepared by various Toptable Group establishments (Bar Oso, Il Caminetto, the Cellar by Araxi). Dishes like house-made charcuterie (duckliver parfait, terrine, cured meats, and breads), fresh pasta with heirloom tomatoes and buffalo mozzarella, and charcoal-grilled beef striploin and slow-cooked beef cheeks will be served. The alfresco dinner ends with lemon-mousse cake and chocolate ice-cream bars, as well as assorted petits fours. Tickets: $265 per person. FEAST CHEF’S TABLE DINNER SERIES AT THE HARMONY ARTS FESTIVAL

A first for the annual beachfront fest, Feast’s intimate dining experience for just 10 to 12 people takes place at a communal table overlooking the water in the heart of the art— exhibits, live music, and all. Feast is a rustic farm-to-table restaurant in West Vancouver, and its Frenchborn executive chef, Johann Caner, has created a three-course familystyle menu for the Ambleside series. Available nightly from Thursday to Sunday (August 8 to 11), the meal includes heirloom tomatoes with

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burrata, basil leaf, and olive oil; a deluxe surf ’n’ turf platter with a kingcrab leg, lobster tail, and tomahawk steak, along with roasted veggies, Parmesan fries, chimichurri, and garlic aioli; and an Okanagan peach tart with vanilla pastry cream. Tickets: $100 per person, with optional Haywire wine pairings for an additional $55. 1909 KITCHEN’S #TOFINOEATS DINNER SERIES WITH TOJO’S RESTAURANT

Chef Paul Moran, the culinary mastermind behind 1909 Kitchen at Tofino Resort and Marina and winner of the latest season of Top Chef Canada, will be hosting another edition of his #TofinoEats guest-chef series dinner at the end of the summer. On September 10, he’ll be inviting Vancouver’s legendary Hidekazu Tojo of Tojo’s Restaurant to the Tofino dining establishment for a unique Tofitian-meets-Japanese collaboration. The multicourse meal will include creations like albacore tuna and sesame gomae, wood-roasted wild salmon skin with tamago omelette, zucchini-blossom tempura stuffed with flying fish, and Tojo’s signature sushi. Pistachio gelato with banana, infused with strawberry and tea, ends the meal. Tickets: $99 per person.

fine-dining-style cotton bib to keep at YEW Seafood and Bar for its Dungeness Crab and Lobster Boil Dining Series. Taking place on Sunday and Thursday evenings throughout the summer, the communal meals include flavourful sides like Chilliwack corn, heirloom potatoes, buttered beans, crispy Brussels sprouts, house-made focaccia, fresh cherry clafoutis, and more, plus a glass of B.C. wine to start. Tickets: $78 per person. Boulevard Kitchen and Oyster Bar hauls out the lobster, jumbo prawns, clams, mussels, and Dungeness crab, along with all the fixings, for its Sunday Seafood Boil Series. Its signature cornbread and beignets are highlights of the meal. Tickets: $68 per person.

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Ubuntu Canteen chef-owner David Gunawan and his team head to Zaklan Heritage Farm in Surrey on Sunday (August 11) for the next installment of the Fraserhood restaurant’s Sunday Supper Series. Joining them is chef Kaylie Barfield of the Portland, Oregon, restaurant Tusk, formerly head chef of Vancouver’s Nuba Restaurant Group. The feast features a whole spit-roasted lamb, YEW AND BOULEVARD plus up to 20 of the 40 different SEAFOOD BOILS types of vegetables grown on the acSpeaking of these extravagant, claimed 1.5-acre Surrey farm that hands-on feasts, there are a few to will be harvested that day. Tickets: choose from this summer. You get a $125 per person. g

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’m rather confident there’s been no better time to be a burger lover in Vancouver than right now. Sure, there are icons around that are steeped in local history, from White Spot to Vera’s Burger Shack, but in recent years we seem to have upped the game. These days, I have a personal holy trinity of favourite burgers to tuck into. Chef Robert Belcham’s Monarch Burger, currently available at Campagnolo Upstairs and the American (both on Main Street), is made from locally farmed beef aged 45 days, then ground fresh daily and handformed. Its goodness is in its juiciness and simplicity, placed as it is in a soft bun and topped with iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, bread-and-butter pickles, and a “special sauce”, which has a composition no amount of sleuthing can uncover. Over in Kitsilano at Hundy (2042 West 4th Avenue), chef Michael Robbins’s patty is made from Two Rivers Specialty Meats beef brisket and shoulder, sandwiched in a brioche bun, and dressed up with my favourite element: enough thinly sliced tangy pickle that you get a good crunch of it in every bite. Rounding out this trio is what’s on offer at Doug Stephen and Lindsey Mann’s weekly burger pop-up on Mondays at the DownLow Chicken Shack (905 Commercial Drive). They’re using Two Rivers Specialty Meats’ dry-aged ground beef, with Canadian cheddar, ketchup, mustard,

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pickles, and onions, all held in place with a Livia Sweets potato bun. All three are available for takeout, but, of course, those inclined can always build their own at-home version. My wife and I like the grassfed beef burgers from Empire Ranch we get with our subscription to chef Trevor Bird’s Meatme.ca, a CSAstyle (community-supported/shared agriculture) program that delivers ethically raised meat from local farms right to your door). (Yes, we have a meat subscription; how awesome is that?) This ain’t a burger column, though; it’s a wine column, and now we need wine to go with these burgers! I’ve really been digging the wines Costa Gavaris and his wife, Jody Wright, craft in the Okanagan under

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They’ve got things covered on the red side of things, too. Rigour & Whimsy Gamay 2018 (Okanagan Valley, B.C.; $37 to $42, private wine stores) is a singlevineyard wine from West Kelowna, whole-cluster-fermented, then aged in old oak for eight months. Served with a bit of a chill, the wine is quite expressive, with hibiscus flowers, Spartan apples, ultraripe blackberries, roasted peanuts, and a smidge of fresh-ground pink peppercorns. It’s so juicy and fun; what a dazzling take on the grape! Both are stocked at Liberty Wine Merchants’ Commercial Drive location and Broadway International Wine Shop in Kitsilano, or those interested can always follow up with the duo at rigourandwhimsy.ca. Moving along, let’s stick with Gamay, since it’s always a good bet with burgers and you’re likely not drinking enough of it. Château de Pierreux Brouilly 2017 (Beaujolais, France; $19.99, B.C. Liquor Stores) is a widely available gem of a wine, and a steal at its $20 price tag. From the variety’s homeland in Beaujolais and 45-year-old vines steeped in pinkgranitic, schistous, and siliceous soils comes this plummy red that was destemmed and then fermented in concrete. After that, the wine spent seven months in oak barrels, which frames all those perfumed blackberries and Bing cherries quite well. A crowd pleaser of wine that sails across the palate with ease. Finally, a little something to stain our teeth. Langmeil Valley Floor Shiraz 2016 (Barossa Valley, Australia; $33.99, B.C. Liquor Stores) comes from carefully sourced vineyard plots across the Barossa Valley, with vines planted anywhere from nine to more than 100 years ago. In fact, the Lindner family, who are the Langmeil proprietors, are also the caretakers of Shiraz vines that were planted in 1843, the oldest known Shiraz/Syrah vines on the planet. From this historic land and their vineyards we get a multilayered red chock-full of mulberries, blackberries, beef brisket, and pepper, and nicely saddled with mocha flavours, courtesy of 24 months spent in oak. A fine balance of fruit, well-integrated tannins, and pitchperfect acidity meet a distinct mineral core. Yeah, there’s some power to this wine, but it’s not lacking in finesse. I can’t help but think a wine of this quality and pedigree hailing from France or California would easily be twice the price. Burgerworthy, to say the least. g

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Cultural ecosystem grows with Vines

by Alexander Varty

here’s no denying that the Vines Art Festival is wellnamed. Vancouver’s annual summer celebration of environmentally oriented art is as tenacious as ivy, as sprawling as honeysuckle, and sometimes as prickly as that bountiful bane of every Pacific Northwest garden, the Himalayan blackberry. Its blossoms are sweet, however, and one of its fruits will be a deeper collective understanding of the place where we live—its ecology, its human history, the way it continues to grow, and the way we might change it for the better. Loosely speaking, the themes of this year’s festival are cultural exchange, migration, transformation, and personal growth—and there’s no better exemplar of those qualities than Kin Balam, who’ll perform at the Breaking Borders event at Creekside Park next Thursday (August 15). Balam, who was born Balam Axayacatl Santos Antonio, is Indigenous, hailing from the Nahua people of El Salvador, and he’s a highly skilled flamenco guitarist, having trained with Roma masters in Spain. His music also incorporates Mesoamerican rhythms and political hip-hop. His activist father was abducted and tortured by right-wing death squads during El Salvador’s bloody civil war, which qualified the Santos family for political asylum in Canada. And after spending time on the streets of Winnipeg, he’s become a focused and articulate spokesperson for Canada’s growing Latin-American population, especially youths. “What got me out of the street life was the political and cultural awareness of my parents,” Balam explains, in a telephone interview from his South Vancouver home. “That influenced me to really see things differently, because we come from a people that has a long history in rebellion and revolution. That implies an awareness of the land, an awareness of community, and an awareness of empathy. You know— love, kindness, peace, and harmony.… So I changed my life completely—and what I held on to was music, because I had always had music in my life.” He adds that his search for his own

I changed my life completely—and what I held on to was music. – Kin Balam

pyramids and the temples. There are temples dedicated just to jaguars. And so, for me, the way of the jaguar is the way to our true identity as a people. “But it’s not just about Indigenous From left: Raven John offers chances to confront colonization; Kin Balam calls on a history of rebellion (photo by Nicolas Segura). people from my culture,” he adds. “I musical sound coincided with the cosmo-vision, which is the way our their nature. His own given name think it translates as, I guess, a way to need to connect with the culture his ancestors saw their world. Their phil- means “jaguar”; Kin Balam, then, is a deeper truth.” family had, unwillingly, left behind. osophy, basically, which is related to “the way of the jaguar”, an apt an“We can’t allow our identity to be music, which is related to spirituality, alogy for the fierce passion and sinu- WHEN THE Georgia Straight catches up to Raven John at their Vancouver erased, and so I began this search for which is related to the way you live.” ous elegance of his hybrid music. what Indigenous music was,” he exPart of that Mesoamerican world“In our culture, our native culture, home, we somehow forget to ask the plains. “And then I started creating view, Balam continues, is an identifi- the jaguar is a very ancient symbol,” Coast Salish and Sto:lo artist how my own flutes, my own whistles, and cation with the natural world so in- he says. “For thousands of years, they embody the not-so-hidden meslearning the archaeology behind it— tense that some people actively seek through archaeology, there are jaguar sage encoded in their given name— the history, the meaning, as well as the to incorporate forest archetypes into heads in stone, on instruments, on the but its appropriateness is obvious. In Northwest Coast culture, Raven is an emblem of intelligence and transformation, among other things, and John brings a very bright eye to a wide assortment of disciplines. The d UNDER THE CANOPY (August 8 at Hadden Park by THE VINES ART Festival’s biggest event takes recent Emily Carr University of Art place at Trout Lake Park on August 17, when the art Kits Beach) Theatre troupe the Only Animal uses and Design grad is a sculptor, media installations, concerts, and dance performances of vintage typewriters, audience participants, and the artist, comedian, storyteller, jeweller, Vines: The Wood5 Anniversary explore themes of natural world of this site’s open-air setting to create puppeteer, poet, advocate for gender eco-activism. Highlights include wordsmith Rabbit story performances. That project is followed that fluidity, and more; on the day of Richards, Sudanese-Canadian music from Sudanda, evening with works by dancer and Ballet BC alumnus our interview they’re wearing their and a community sound-art piece by Matthew Dario Dinuzzi, artists Jen Aoki and Tomoyo Yamada, couturier’s hat, working on the reTomkinson and Elissa Hanson. dance ensemble All Bodies Dance, and more. galia they’ll don for their two Vines But there’s much more innovative, enviro-friendly showcases, at David Lam Park for the d THE ECO-RUNWAY (August 13 at David Lam Park) arts activism as the fest runs citywide from August 7 Eco-Runway on Tuesday (August 13) Ralph Escamillan mixes voguing and activism in a to 18. Here are a few events worth checking out: and at Trout Lake Park for Resilient catwalk battle at 7:15 p.m. that asks performers to Roots next Friday (August 16). d OPENING CEREMONY (August 7 at Jericho Beach incorporate social and environmental justice when Part of their look, John reveals, they strike a pose. Earlier on the outdoor stage, Park) Local Indigenous women kick things off, with will be the raven helmet they’re alat 6:30 p.m., Escamillan, Kevin Fraser, and Ross Senaqwila Wyss of the Squamish Nation, Ocean ready known for wearing to signifiWirtanen dig further into vogue and ballroom culture Hyland of Tsleil-Waututh, and Christie Lee Charles cant events. Other aspects of their with the Coven, a hyperenergized showcase that of Musqueam performing, speaking, and singing. garb might be fairly traditional, like mashes up dance, fashion, music, and spoken word. Singer Dalannah Gail Bowen takes the stage later.

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Mendez searches out new resonance

by Alexander Varty

curious web of connections is responsible for Camilo Mendez being composer in residence for the 2019 edition of the Blueridge Chamber Music Festival, but there’s little doubt that the Colombian-born musician and educator is a perfect fit for this innovative and eclectic summer series. The central thread can be followed back to Mendez’s student days in Bogotá, when one of his classmates was pianist Alejandro Ochoa, one of Blueridge’s two artistic directors. Another takes us to Montreal, home of the Quatuor Bozzini and its Bozzini Lab workshops for emerging composers; Mendez was one of the featured artists in 2015. And through the quartet, which will play his Fragmentos Cardinales IV: Apparent Magnitudes at the Orpheum Annex on Thursday (August 8), Mendez was introduced to the festival’s other artistic director, soprano Dory Hayley. In turn, she’ll premiere one of his pieces as part of the Erato Ensemble’s two Blueridge shows, at Presentation House Theatre on August 15 and the Orpheum Annex the following day. That piece, BURSZTYN IV: Minimaquina III, calls for flute, three pianists, and “prepared soprano”, and while any concertgoer has most likely encountered an unprepared soprano, this probably requires some explanation. “Basically, I attach a thunder drum to a megaphone, and the singer sings the whole piece using that,” Mendez explains, in a telephone interview from his office at Hong Kong Baptist University. “The soprano sings

One of the important things for me about doing this is that I have fun. – Camilo Mendez

Camilo Mendez modifies traditional instruments for this year’s Blueridge Chamber Music Festival.

normally, but the soprano’s sound is filtered through this modified megaphone. So I call it ‘prepared soprano’ because she needs this extra attachment. “The sounds that she makes with the megaphone will blend very well with the rest of the ensemble,” he adds. As an undergrad, Mendez primarily explored his love of unusual sonorities through electronic means, but more recently he’s been fascinated by what he can draw out of acoustic instruments, both modified and otherwise. He’s also interested in extrapolating music-

al structures from literary texts, and in his BURSZTYN series adds an interdisciplinary dimension by taking inspiration from 20thcentury Colombian sculptor Feliza Bursztyn, an early advocate of that country’s avant-garde. Trained in Paris, and frustrated by Colombia’s lack of resources for traditional sculpture, she developed a personal style that has obvious parallels in Mendez’s modified instruments. “She started making her sculptures with scrap metal, basically,” he says. “Or with pieces of typewriters, metal shavings, washers, bolts… things like that. In the ’60s she made a series of sculptures that she called minimaquinas, which can be translated as ‘tiny machines’—very beautiful little sculptures that

are made from pieces of mechanical, metallic things. And when I saw that, I thought, ‘Oh, this is brilliant,’ and I wanted to do my own minimaquinas with musical instruments.” In Vancouver, Quatuor Bozzini will be playing prepared instruments, but Mendez is currently conceptualizing a new approach to the string ensemble that will go even further. “Instead of traditional instruments—or maybe I will use traditional instruments; I still don’t know—I will amplify some of the sounds that the string quartet produces, using steel wires that will be attached to metal sheets,” he explains. “So I’m bringing a structure from which these metal sheets will be hanging, and the quartet will be connected so that the sounds they produce will be transferred from the stringed instruments into these metal sheets. And these metal sheets will amplify and modify the resonance of the instruments.” If it sounds heady, it is; Mendez’s work blends the musical, the scientific, and the literary in often unprecedented ways. But it’s as enjoyable as it is novel, in part because of the composer’s own love of play. “One of the important things for me about doing this is that I have fun,” he says. “I always want to have the enjoyment of making music, and this project gives me that.” g The Blueridge Chamber Music Festival takes place at the Orpheum Annex and Presentation House Theatre from Thursday (August 8) to August 25. For a full schedule, visit www.blueridgechamber.org/.

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ARTS LISTINGS ONGOING MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AT UBC aIN A DIFFERENT LIGHT: REFLECTING ON NORTHWEST COAST ART to summer 2020 aSHAKEUP: PRESERVING WHAT WE VALUE to Sep 1 aSHADOWS, STRINGS AND OTHER THINGS: THE ENCHANTING THEATRE OF PUPPETS to Oct 14 MUSEUM OF VANCOUVER aWILD THINGS: THE POWER OF NATURE IN OUR LIVES to Sep 30 aHAIDA NOW: A VISUAL FEAST OF INNOVATION AND TRADITION to Dec 1 aTHERE IS TRUTH HERE to Dec 31 VANCOUVER ART GALLERY aMOVING STILL: PERFORMATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY IN INDIA to Sep 2 aVIEWS OF THE COLLECTION: THE STREET to Nov 17 aALBERTO GIACOMETTI: A LINE THROUGH TIME to Sep 29 aVIKKY ALEXANDER: EXTREME BEAUTY to Jan 26 aROBERT RAUSCHENBERG 1965–1980 to Jan 26 BEATY BIODIVERSITY MUSEUM aCLOSER to Nov 10 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW The 2007 spaghetti-western version of Shakespeare’s work is the inspiration behind this Wild West love story. To Sep 21, Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. From $26. SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE Young Will Shakespeare has writer’s block. To Sep 18, Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. From $26. ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL New staging of Shakespeare’s work set in India during the waning days of British occupation. To Aug 11, Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. From $26. THE CLOCK BY CHRISTIAN MARCLAY Twenty-four-hour video that montages film and television footage from the last 70 years. To Sep 15, The Polygon. By donation. TEATRO INTIMO DEL FLAMENCO Karen Flamenco presents a one-hour show featuring traditional flamenco music, dance, puppetry and magic. To Sep 28, Sat. at 3 & 5 pm, The Improv Centre. $12. IMPROV MONDAYS WITH MICHELLE Vancouver TheatreSports presents an improvcomedy melodrama. To Aug 26, 7:30-9:15 pm, The Improv Centre. From $10. CLASSIC THEATRESPORTS Two teams of performers are pitted against each other in competitive improv matches. To Aug 31, 7:309:15 pm, The Improv Centre. From $10.75. OK TINDER Vancouver TheatreSports improv show pokes fun at Vancouver’s dating scene. To Aug 29, 9:15-10:15 pm, The Improv Centre. From $10.75. THE WINTER’S TALE Carousel Theatre for Young People presents a teen take on Shakespeare. To Aug 10, 7:30 pm, Ron Basford Park. Free. ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY’S 7TH ANNUAL SUMMER REPERTORY FESTIVAL An uplifting comedy set in a doughnut shop

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9 to 11 at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre) Leave the mainstream gallery world behind as selftaught artists exhibit and sell hundreds of works. This year, the free three-day festival also includes public workshops, as well as performances—think Cantonese opera and aerial silk acrobatics. (Superior Donuts), a classic political satire for the age of Trump (Born Yesterday) and a celebration of the power of storytelling (The Drawer Boy) make this year’s Annual Summer Repertory Festival from Ensemble Theatre Company one of its most thrilling yet. To Aug 16, Jericho Arts Centre. From $25. VANCOUVER BACH FESTIVAL Early Music Vancouver presents performances by artists from the West Coast, Europe, and across North America. To Aug 9, Christ Church Cathedral. $10-68. THEATRE UNDER THE STARS PRESENTS MAMMA MIA! AND DISNEY’S NEWSIES Live musical theatre in picturesque Stanley Park. To Aug 24, 8-10:30 pm, Malkin Bowl. $30-55. THE UNDERSTUDY Theresa Rebeck’s comedy about the most thankless job in theatre, directed by Mel Tuck. To Aug 10, 8-10:15 pm, Pal Studio Theatre . $20/10.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 VINES ART FESTIVAL Outdoor performingarts and land-justice festival. Aug 7-18, David Lam Park and other venues. Free. TIME TRAVELLERS’ CULTURE JAM: IMAGINING ART OF THE FUTURE Imagine the

HAIL BRIGHT CECILIA Conductor and organist Alexander Weimann leads a performance featuring the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and six soloists. Aug 9, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. From $18. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN CABARET Magic, opera, spoken word, dance, and music with Duncan Shields, Jane Perrett, Jim Sands, Sparky Spurr, Aleister Crane, and Adam Olgui. Aug 9, 7:30 pm, The Columbia Theatre. $20-30.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 FAMILY FUSE WEEKEND Activities include collage, sculpture, hip-hop dance, and sound exploration. Aug 10-11, 10 am–4:30 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery. Free for members, kids 12 and under. NEW WEST CULTURAL CRAWL Two-day arts and cultural festival showcases New Westminster’s creative talent. Aug 10-11, 11 am–5 pm, various New Westminster venues. Free. INDIA LIVE Block party celebrating the art, culture, and history of India. Aug 10, 12-8 pm, Vancouver Art Gallery. Free. BLUERIDGE CHAMBER FEST: BOREALIS STRING QUARTET Program includes works by Grieg, Elgar, and B.C. composer Imant Raminsh. Aug 10, 7 pm, Orpheum Annex. $30/15.

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RICHARD CLAYDERMAN The Return of the Prince of Romance. Richard Clayderman has done what virtually no other French act has ever done...established a truly international career as a best-selling recording artist and concert performer. Tickets on sale now: visit Ticketmaster. ca or call 1-855-985-5000. Sep 27, 8 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre. $58.

DBLSPK: LASA NG IMPERYO Reading of Carmela Sison’s new Tagalog translation of Jovanni Sy’s A Taste of Empire. Aug 12, 7:30 pm, The Fishbowl. $10.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 13 HOW TO MAKE A TINY ZINE Learn how to make a one-page zine using basic tools in Adobe InDesign. Aug 13, 2-3:30 pm, Vancouver Public Library Central Branch. Free. IN SEARCH OF THE SASQUATCH WITH JOHN ZADA Join journalist and filmmaker Zada for a night of storytelling, photography, and readings. Aug 13, 7 pm, Massy Books. Free.

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a loosely woven cedar-bark cape—or not. One aim, John imparts, is “to have regalia be something other than what you see through the lens of the ‘noble Indigenous people savage’ that the Vancouver tourism board wants you to see through. It’s aren’t the only ones not all hand-carved wooden masks. If who need to grieve you brought an Indigenous person to our time now from 500 years ago, they what has happened. would use whatever materials were – Raven John available to them to make their regalia. To think that they would not have used any of the technologies that we have now to do so would be a bit silly.” Wearing regalia outside of a ceremonial setting is one way of ampli- presence in a multicultural world, fying and reinforcing an Indigenous and John’s storytelling and spoken-

word performances are another. Transformation plays a role here, too, for the artist as well as for their audience. “It’s not just about reiterating a single story, but rather bringing the lessons that are needed to the space,” John says, adding that for someone like them, who has a close family member among the ranks of the missing and murdered Indigenous women, those lessons can be painful. “A lot of the work that I do can be a little bit harsh,” they explain, “but I feel like there’s also a big opportunity for people. Indigenous people aren’t the only ones that need to grieve what has happened

and what is continuing to happen through colonization, and I feel like I give space for settlers to come into that space as well.” BEAUTY IS also worth sharing. One of the beauties of the Vines Art Festival is that it takes place outdoors, in some of the city’s most scenic parks—or, as John points out, in territory that has been used for comeone-come-all gatherings for thousands of years. Those gatherings have always had a ceremonial aspect, and Vines is following suit with opening and closing ceremonies at Jericho Beach Park tonight (August 7) and see page 16

MOVIES

David Crosby’s still an ass, just no longer young

Crosby, Stills & Nash in reverse order for David Crosby: Remember my Name.

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DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY NAME A documentary produced by A.J. Eaton. Rated PG

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d THE DAVID CROSBY LP referenced in the title here was his 1971 solo debut, If I Could Only Remember My Name. This shouldn’t be confused with It’s All Coming Back to Me Now…, from 1995, nor his next one, Seriously. What Did I Come in Here For? At 77, this founding member of the Byrds, as well as Crosby, Stills & Nash, later augmented by Neil Young, is plagued by numerous ailments. Forgetfulness is not among them. The film begins with his recollection of a shattering moment, at a nightclub in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1964, when a beyond-stoned Crosby bumped into John Coltrane, practising his horn in the bathroom. This encounter led to the composition of “Eight Miles High” and other jazz-inflected tunes for the newly formed SoCal group. Oddly, though, the song is omitted, and the doc spends remarkably little time on the Byrds, briefly considered America’s answer to the Beatles. We do witness their relationship with Bob Dylan, whose “Mr. Tambourine Man” became their ticket to ride, in turn (turn turn) bolstering the famed folkie’s decision to pick up an electric guitar. Fellow founders Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman are the only colleagues addressing the camera in a film nominally directed by newcomer A. J. Eaton, while the shots are seemingly called by superfan producer-interviewer Cameron Crowe. Crosby’s memories of lost loves are fascinating, especially regarding Joni Mitchell, whom he introduced to the Laurel Canyon crowd. But viewers may weary of the self-pitying tone attending the saga of CSN (& Y). Remarkably, Crosby has maintained his angelic voice and wicked sense of humour. But his apparent self-knowledge comes into question when you realize that the trio broke up in anger again in 2015. Their farewell performance of “Silent Night”, before then President Obama, constituted its very own War on Christmas. by Ken Eisner

HONEYLAND

Starring Hatidze Muratova. In Turkish, with English subtitles. Rated PG

d THERE’S NOT MUCH milk, a smattering of human kindness, and a whole lot of sticky stuff in Honeyland, a fablelike look at life in a remote region of the world. This brief, sometimes gruelling movie is labelled a documentary, and the nonprofessionals in front of the expansive, probing camera here pretty much play themselves. The colourful action centres on a middle-aged woman called Hatidze, as craggy and worn as the rugged landscape she wanders. She’s part of a small Turkish-speaking minority in the former Yugoslavian

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music

Mangan embraces the chaos of life

The Vancouver indie hero’s fifth album, More or Less, finds him regaining his sense of self by Mike Usinger

f Dan Mangan learned anything in the couple of years leading up to his fifth album, More or Less, it’s that stability can have its downside. “There was a moment in 2015 where I didn’t know if I had more songs in me,” the Vancouver singer-songwriter says candidly, speaking on his cell from a Portland tour stop. “You know, like where I considered putting in my official application for a job at the CBC. There were some dark moments.” Ironically enough, those dark moments can be traced back to Mangan feeling profoundly lucky away from the stage and the recording studio. After the 2015 release of Club Meds— a record that he’s justifiably proud of—he became a father for the second time. As anyone who has kids knows, life changes dramatically with the responsibilities parenthood brings. Suddenly, the life that Mangan had embraced ever since the release of his 2005 debut full-length, Postcards & Daydreaming, didn’t seem nearly as appealing as it once did. “I think part of what happened was that I had my identity in my 20s, which was all about being a globetrotting troubadour,” he observes. “I invested in that identity and what it meant. Then there was having kids and having this entirely different identity with them and with my family. That ultimately became more important.” After making his peace with that, he was able to seriously begin work on More or Less, a record that somehow manages to be as ambitious as it is immensely likable. “There was a reconciling of those two identities,” Mangan says. “Realizing that you have to feed your kids, while at the same time realizing that, in 2019, there is almost nothing less cool than a 36-year-old white dad. And I think that the record is about some of those feelings.” The singer isn’t afraid to take a stand on the world around him on More or Less, which, with Drew Brown in the producer’s chair, smartly bridges new-millennium folk and highly textured adult-alternative rock. The driving and insistent “Troubled Mind” was inspired by the MAGA mess that’s unfolded over the border in the past couple of years. But much of the album is personal, right from the point when Mangan

Dan Mangan says that in the current political climate, he would like his music to feel like a warm, safe place for listeners.

sings, perhaps autobiographically, “The truth is you don’t know where to begin,” in the slow-building kickoff track, “Lynchpin”. The easygoing “Cold in the Summer” finds him contemplating where he’s at now as an established artist: “You said it, I’m losing touch/The opposite of every kid out on the run.” Elsewhere, “Peaks & Valleys” acknowledges the stability that having a family can bring with “They cannot spare you from the valleys/But they will give you something you can lean into.” More or Less can, in some ways, be seen as Mangan deciding to get back on the horse after Club Meds. The record was released just as his domestic life started creating demands that made everything seem overwhelming. “I was so busy with kids and other things, and then there were some dynamics in the band that got more complicated during the touring of that album,” he reflects. “All of us were so excited about the record when we made it, and we thought that the second it dropped in the world, everyone was going to know it. It came out, got some great reviews, and then a few weeks later it was obvious it didn’t make the splash we thought it would.

In 2019, there is almost nothing less cool than a 36-yearold white dad. – Dan Mangan

It was our own fault for putting great expectations on good work. It’s not that the record failed, but we set ourselves up to feel like it did.” Things didn’t get any better from there. “It was sort of a difficult touring cycle,” he says. “Then a series of events happened that year. I had a really tough show in the summer where I kind of fell apart on-stage. Shortly thereafter, the record was snubbed from the Polaris long list. And shortly after that, there was a real blow in my personal life. It felt

like I was getting kicked over and over again. Usually, when life is hard, at least you can go play shows and it feels good, but that became difficult with kids.” But all that was a blessing, even if he didn’t realize it at the time. “Anything that’s important is going to be hard,” Mangan says philosophically. “If it wasn’t hard, it wouldn’t be important. So you have to go there to come back.” That Mangan is in some ways at his warmest on More or Less, then, is quite intentional. Turn on the nightly news and it’s hard not to feel like the world is an increasingly terrible place, whether it’s the reality of global warming, the rise of the intolerant right in America and Europe, or a wealth gap that’s never seemed more pronounced. More or Less is Mangan’s way of trying to make things a little better. “I don’t want to shit on Club Meds, because I love that record,” he says. “That record accomplished artistically something that I’d been trying to do my whole life. But the one thing that it isn’t is warm. It’s not a record about an embrace. That record is a jab to the face.

“In the climate of our politics,” Mangan continues, “and in my new role as a dad and everything, I just desperately wanted to make something that felt like an embrace—a safe place you could turn to for some reassurance that the pros outweigh the cons.” Mangan isn’t about to pretend that the world’s perfect on More or Less. Ultimately, though, the album suggests that, after going through a rough patch, he’s perfectly content today. That’s perhaps most evident on the beautifully muted “Lay Low”, where he sings “Every single party needs a no-show.” “I know what it’s like to go out and party my face off,” he says with a laugh. “I did that a lot, so I know what I’m missing. Because I know what I’m missing, I think it’s easier for me to go ‘Okay, I don’t need that right now. What I really need is an extra hour of sleep.’ ” Sleep, though, isn’t necessarily the first thing on his mind. He’s been busy helping to develop an app called Side Door, which is meant to connect working and touring musicians with fans on a strong grassroots level. Side Door is designed to take some of the guesswork out of touring by giving artists a good idea of how many people might be interested in turning up for a show before they point the tour van towards Moose Jaw, Hope, or St. John’s. Just as important, he’s beyond happy with the way that More or Less turned out, to the point where he’s already thinking about a follow-up. Life might be chaotic, but it is so in the best of ways. The key is to accept that. “You have a kid and you dive headfirst into the swimming pool,” Mangan says. “You’ve never been under the water before, and it’s like, ‘Whoa, everything feels so different.’ Eventually, you pop back up above the water, and you see that the rest of the world is still going on like it was before. Your body is still submerged, so you’re half in and half out, and you think, ‘Okay, it’s time to regain my sense of self in the world, and at the same time I have to build a new sense of self with my family.’ Those themes and ideas are quite earnestly discussed on More or Less.” g Dan Mangan plays the Burnaby Blues & Roots Festival on Saturday (August 10).

Artists can’t afford to be political now

by Mike Usinger

ore than ever, America is a country of haves and have-nots, that holding especially true when it comes to the world of pop music. Or, to put things in terms that the bluebloods of the most powerful nation on Earth will understand, there’s the one percent, and then there’s everyone else. And it’s that reality that leaves one thinking that America is fucked in a way it never was in the ’60s with the antiwar movement. Or the ’70s with the No Nukes groundswell. Or the ’80s with anti-arms-race mobilization. Or the ’90s with the—actually, scratch the ’90s. Everyone was too whacked out on heroin in the first half of the decade to make any sort of meaningful change, and too blissed out on ecstasy in the second half. But back to the present. Talk to any musician not named Katy Perry, Rihanna, Marcus Mumford, or Bruno Mars, and they’ll tell you there’s a class system in music like never before. Because streaming services are pretty much the only way that music is consumed these days, the major-label system is pretty much in ruins. And like it or not, the major-label system is what has broken bands ever since Elvis Presley first terrorized white America. There’s a good reason why almost no one other than discerning record-store clerks and your cool older brother ever heard of Nirvana, Mötley Crüe, U2, Moby, Snoop Dogg, or Kendrick Lamar during their underground-indie years. The sad reality is that most folks could not be bothered to dig

Mumford & Sons: not a band given to making incisive political statements—but then again, neither is anyone else these days.

deep. Either you can spend hours combing through Pitchfork, Stereogum, Spin, NME, NPR.org, and Gorilla vs. Bear when it’s time to put together a digital mixtape for your morning fixie commute, or you can default to what’s been flagged as noteworthy by gatekeepers at Apple Music and Spotify. And that’s where the problem of what’s happening in America becomes doubly horrific.

In olden times, there was no instant backlash when Country Joe and the Fish declared the Vietnam War an affront to all things that Americans should hold decent. Or when, against the backdrop of Three Mile Island, Jackson Browne rallied the grassroots troops against nuclear power plants. That’s changed in a profound way this decade. Clawing one’s way to hockey-rink-headlining status has never been more difficult, partly because of the sheer volume of product that’s now in the marketplace. Gone are the days when single acts—the Beatles, AC/DC, Nirvana, or Eminem—spearheaded musical revolutions, making themselves instant icons in the process. As the decade winds down, there’s no predicting what’s going to hit, and what’s going to stick. Pop music is the safest bet, which explains why the descendants of Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, and Pink will never have to work a day in their lives. Hip-hop is a close second, the interesting thing being that— sorry, Chuck D—no one is demanding insightful political commentary from Travis Scott, Post Malone, Drake, or A$AP Rocky. Those who are choosing to take on the system are more focused on doing so from a personal-politics approach. As for the rest of the crowd, why bother risking it all to take a swing at everything that’s wrong in the States when you’re Tame Impala, Ed Sheeran, the Black Keys, or Maroon 5? As

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Trout Lake Park on August 18. The theme of transformation looms large in both. In the closing Unsettling Ceremony, Musqueam activist Cecilia Point and Anishinaabe Kwe singer and ceremonialist Sara Cadeau will invite non-Indigenous participants to become better allies in the ongoing battle against injustice. And in the opening ceremony, Tr’ondek Hwech’in choreographer Michelle Olson and Raven Spirit Dance will embody the generous spirit of the festival in The Gift, a work for 13 dancers—10 Indigenous, three not—inspired by the Japanese choreographer Yukio Waguri and his work with Raven Spirit more than a decade ago. “I always felt that it would be lovely to go back to that material, because at the end of his two-week workshop he had said, ‘This material is yours. Do what you want with it,’ ” Olson explains, reached at her downtown office in the Woodward’s building. “Hence, we just named it The Gift, because it

was a gift from him to us—and I think some of that material really sparked the inspiration for other work we’ve done since.” Waguri was trained in butoh, Olson and the other Raven Spirit dancers in contemporary western choreography. But they found common cause in their shared interest in human-animal transformations, and in the blurring of the boundaries between the human body and its surrounding environment. Which, of course, makes the south shore of the bay known to the Coast Salish as Ayyulshun (“Soft under feet”) the perfect place to kick off Vines. “We’re always [dancing] in response to our environment,” Olson says. “We’re always in response to the edges of ourself and to the edges of our world, and I think that’s how this fits really well within the festival.” g The Vines Art Festival takes place at various Vancouver locations from tonight (August 7) to August 18. For a full schedule, visit www.vinesartfestival.com/.

Documentary and fiction converge in Honeyland (left); a broadcasting legend is rememberd in Mike Wallace Is Here (right).

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state of Macedonia, eking out a living alongside her ancient, halfblind mother (Nazife Muratova), gathering honey in cliffside holes and dead-tree alcoves. A kind of bee whisperer, she’s able to collect honeycombs with minimal intrusion and maximal respect for nature. She sings, and the bees don’t sting. They live in an isolation that is blessed or cursed, depending on your point of view. (Mom is in dire need of medical attention, but no one addresses that.) Because all good idylls must come to an end, there is the sudden arrival of noisy new neighbours: the Sam family, also of Turkish background, with crude-mouthed parents and at least seven children, all battered by cattle too numerous to count. The kids are soon drawn to the local woman and her folksy ways. But when the parents get wind of her subsistence approach to beekeeping, you can guess what happens. Codirectors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov discovered their apiary subject and spent roughly (very roughly) three years encamped nearby, shooting her travails and small victories. No one acknowledges the presence of filmmakers, and you are left to wonder what parts of this tidily emblematic survival tale are contrived and which unfolded as nature apparently

intended. It’s not clear if we should view Hatidze as a real person or a homely symbol of vanishing innocence. And perhaps it doesn’t matter. Honeyland digs into hidden chambers of life, and doesn’t employ any additional sweeteners. by Ken Eisner

MIKE WALLACE IS HERE

A documentary by Avi Belkin. Rated PG

d AS THE LATE newsman points out early in Mike Wallace Is Here, “No strongman takes charge without first getting rid of the free press.” On one level, the film interrogates the very nature of journalism—its limits, duties, and compromises. It then goes further, to examine the human need to deeply question one’s circumstances. For his first English-language effort, Israeli director Avi Belkin was sifting through material for a proposed look at the (d)evolution of postwar journalism when he kept encountering interviews in which Mike Wallace went toe-to-toe with worldshakers, artists, and other witnesses to history. Eventually, he realized that the pugnacious reporter (who died in 2012, at age 93) embodied the best, worst, and most influential traits of modern newsgathering. Born Myron Wallace to a family originally called Wallik, the future broadcaster first picked up the mike

in 1939, and did everything possible on radio and early television, including ads, announcing, scripted drama, and comic routines. (He even worked as a straight man to Spike Jones and Groucho Marx.) Wallace struggled to break into the WASPy world of respectable reportage, as repped by Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, and instead pioneered a confrontational, one-on-one style on ABC’s Night Beat and, most famously, on CBS’s 60 Minutes, launched in the volatile year of 1968. Along the way, he had verbal sword fights with subjects as varied as Barbra Streisand, Malcolm X, Salvador Dalí, Anwar Sadat, Bette Davis, and Vladimir Putin—the last visibly gloating when asked to send a message to the American people. Deeply insecure in his private life, Wallace was also interviewed often, enabling the director to tell a complex story with no new footage or narration. What emerges, in a spectacularly edited 90 minutes, is a troubled soul who never lost faith in the power of human communication, while sometimes getting caught up in the drama that can cheapen the job. We don’t learn how he felt about son Chris Wallace going to work for bête noire Fox News, but we do see him visibly horrified to hear loudmouth Bill O’Reilly describe him as his personal inspiration! by Ken Eisner

Movies

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c THE HITCH-HIKER Newly restored, Ida Lupino’s taut 1953 noir arrives at the Cinematheque on Thursday (August 8) for the first of three screenings. c THE QUEEN Attention, Drag Race fans: this doc about the 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant opens at the Vancity Theatre on Friday (August 9).

New York’s hidden drag scene is captured in the 1968 documentary, The Queen.

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hard as it is to get to the top, staying there is harder. And no one’s going to expand their fan base by coming out and suggesting that everyone who owns a MAGA hat or a Send Her Back T-shirt is as fucking deluded as they are borderline evil. Step up to the pulpit and suggest— quite rightly—that Donald Trump deserves to take a huge amount of the blame for the El Paso shootings, and you instantly get half of America against you. Because, sad as this is, half of the U.S. seems to think that America has been invaded by Mexicans, Muslims, and every Ontario senior citizen who’s ever gone 40 mph in a 55 zone on a Florida highway. And what’s scariest about that is the trickle-down effect. There was a point in time when the platinum club wasn’t afraid to take on the establishment, mostly because there was no instant

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Twitter shitstorm to worry about. What’s most glaringly evident today about Trump’s America is that no one—with the possible exception of Cher and John Legend—has the balls to risk everything by saying what they think. Remember how during the reign

c THE ROAD WARRIOR The Vancity’s Nerd Nite Goes to the Movies series gets apocalyptic with the 1982 sequel to Mad Max, on Wednesday (August 14).

of George W. Bush, heavyweight punkers NOFX were mobilizing the common rabble with campaigns like Rock Against Bush? After weathering a relentless backlash for making a joke about the Las Vegas shooting last year, famously loudmouthed singer Fat Mike has seemingly learned that sometimes it’s better to keep one’s mouth shut. NOFX is on tour this year, but not to convince America that Donald Trump is the biggest shitstain this side of Ted Nugent, Hank Williams Jr., and Toby Keith. Instead, it’s on the road for Punk in Drublic, a craftbeer-and-music festival. When Rome’s burning, evidently drinking one’s troubles away is far more appealing than doing something about the fact that things couldn’t be more screwed. God bless the new complete mess of America. g

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER J Musical tribute to Sesame Street’s Joe Raposo. Aug 11, 3:30 pm, Celebration Hall, Mountain View Cemetery. Free.

GAUCHE Groove-filled power punk. Aug 13, Biltmore Cabaret.

MOONCHILD Alternative R&B trio. Nov 10, Biltmore Cabaret. $23.50. JD PINKUS AND EDDIE SPAGHETTI Members of the Melvins and the Supersuckers perform solo shows. Nov 14, 8 pm, Pat’s Pub & Brewhouse. $18. JOHN CRAIGIE American singer-songwriter tours with songs from his latest album, Scarecrow. With guest Nicki Bluhm. Dec 4, 8 pm, Imperial Vancouver. $22.50.

THE BLUE VELVET DUO Dinner concert featuring music of the jazz singer/guitar duos and trios of the ‘50s and beyond. Aug 14, 5-9 pm, Hycroft Mansion. $60. JOHNNY & THE LEGENDARY LADIES ROCK’N ROLL TRIBUTE SHOW Tribute show to the legends of the ’50s and ’60s. Aug 14, 5:30-9:30 pm, Brogans Diner . $20.

COAL HARBOUR MUSIC FESTIVAL Featuring performances by the Sojourners, Tonye Aganaba, and Alfie Zappacosta. Aug 7-30, PAL Theatre. Free to $40.

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CELSO MACHADO Brazilian-born guitarist. Aug 7, 7 pm, Coal Harbour Park above Coal Harbour Community Centre. Free.

RUMOUR MILL Local indie-pop duo performs as part of the UBC Botanical Garden Summer Series. Aug 15, 5:30-7 pm, UBC Botanical Garden. CHRIS FRYE & THE ANALOG GHOSTS Lead singer-guitarist of the Bills performs with his new band. Aug 15, 8 pm, St. James Hall. $28/24.

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THE WINSTON MATSUSHITA TRIO Keyboardist leads his trio as part of the Summer Jazz on the Porch series. Aug 8, 7-9 pm, Roedde House Museum. Pay what you can.

LIGHTS Juno-winning electropop singersongwriter. Aug 16, Vogue Theatre. $34.50.

CARMANAH Victoria folk-rock band. Aug 8, 9 pm, Fox Cabaret. Tix on sale Jun 5, 10 am, $15.

THE HUNTER AND THE POTTER Local progrock quartet, with guests Muscle and Gall, Zen Junkie, and Kane Incognito. Aug 9, 8 pm, Railway Stage and Beer Café. $10.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 BURNABY BLUES & ROOTS FESTIVAL Performances by Feist, Lord Huron, Dan Mangan, the War and Treaty, William Prince, and Southern Avenue. Aug 10, 1 pm, Deer Lake Park. $50/60/70. KALEIDOSCOPE ARTS FESTIVAL Event includes performances by indie acts Current Swell, Royal Canoe, and Terra Lightfoot. Aug 10, 2-9 pm, Town Centre Park. Free. THE PARK SHOW Featuring performances by headliner LP, badbadnotgood, iskwē, and DJ MY!GAY!HUSBAND!. Aug 10, 4 pm, Jonathan Rogers Park. $40/12 and under free. BRICKHOUSE Cloverdale Concerts presents local funk-blues band. Aug 10, 7:30-11 pm, Shannon Hall. RAWK LOBSTER / CASS KING & THE CASSETTES Rawk Lobster with Cass King & the Cassettes Aug 10, 10 pm, Fairview Pub. $10.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 JOAN BESSIE BAND Live at Hipposonic Studio. Aug 11, 4-6 pm, Hipposonic Recording Studio . $20.

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DEAN LEWIS Singer-songwriter from Australia. Aug 15, Vogue Theatre. $29.50.

MUMFORD & SONS Indie-folk quartet from London, England, with guests Portugal. The Man. Aug 7, 8 pm, BC Place Stadium. $125/99.50/69.50/59.50.

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PRETTYMUCH American-Canadian boy band from L.A., with guest Mackenzie Ziegler. Aug 16, 7 pm, Queen Elizabeth Theatre. $49.95/32.50/29.95. THE SOPHISTOCRATS Local pop quartet, with guests Antoinette and Carmina Bolinao. Aug 16, 8 pm, Railway Stage and Beer Café. $10.

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