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Reconciliation requires an end to constant categorization // 5

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Chef Ben Staley's new ventures already stand out from the crowd // 6

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Rejecting Epcor's drainage bid Privatizing a public resource doesn't benefit the city

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ast week Edmonton's city council voted seven to six, with the mayor casting the deciding vote, to hire an external consultant to assess the merits of the latest bid by Epcor to take over the city's drainage assets.

Despite the fact that Epcor's proposal appeared to have caught most councillors entirely by surprise, it is not the first time the city-owned corporation has made a play for drainage. In fact, it's the third time. And the bottom line is that the risk factors and downsides of transferring the asset over to it has not changed since the last time the company tried, in 2005. If anything, there are probably even more reasons to turn this deal down outright today than there were 11 years ago.

For starters, the numbers just don't make sense for the city. Drainage is a $2.6 billion asset and is expected to generate, according to the 2015 budget, $39 million in earnings over the course of the year. Epcor's proposal is that the entire drainage asset be handed over to it in exchange for a commitment to pay off the city's $447 million drainage-related debt and increase the dividend Epcor pays the city by $20 million a year. That's a pretty sweet deal for Epcor. The company would

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come out about $2.2 billion ahead on the asset transfer and about $19 million a year on the earnings generated by the asset. Why would anybody sign that kind of deal?

Some would argue that because the City of Edmonton owns Epcor outright, a deal like this would simply be a matter of transferring an asset from one pocket to another, and that we would still technically own the asset.

Unfortunately, it's not that simple.

Epcor is neither a public utility nor a traditional crown corporation.

As such, it does not offer the increased accountability and transparency those models offer. Rather, Epcor exists and operates entirely as a private sector corporation. Yes, its primary accountability is to its shareholder, which happens to be Edmonton's city council, but that accountability happens behind closed doors with no public oversight. Likewise, it is governed by a board of directors that is ostensibly appointed by city council, but that

board also meets behind closed doors with no public oversight.

Why does this matter? As a public utility, Edmonton's drainage department is fully and publicly accountable to city council and to all Edmontonians. It reports monthly and in public to the city's drainage committee, falls under provincial freedom of information legislation, and its operations are

shareholder meeting with no public consultation or input in 2009. What guarantee is there that our drainage assets will not meet the same fate?

This complete lack of direct public accountability and transparency alone should be a deal breaker for the city.

At a time when climate change is resulting in more severe storms and weather events than ever before, drainage becomes a critical piece of our public infrastructure.

Flood preparedness and mitigation, proper storm sewer functioning and environmental planning are too important in this day and age to remove them from the realm of public oversight and accountability.

Epcor president Stuart Lee has suggested that taking drainage off the city's hands would allow the city to "focus on core services." The fact that he doesn't recognize drainage as one of the core services the city provides does not bode well for how Epcor would run and manage the asset.

Yes, its primary accountability is to its shareholder, which happens to be Edmonton's city council, but that accountability happens behind closed doors with no public oversight regularly reviewed by the city auditor, who also reports out publicly.

None of that is true for Epcor. There are no public meetings. No freedom of information requirements. And no access by the city auditor. It is this secrecy and lack of transparency that allowed Epcor to hive off and privatize its power generation assets (our power generation assets) in a closed-door

This deal is not about advancing the public interest in Edmonton. Rather, it's about advancing Epcor's own bottom line. The City of Edmonton's drainage services are recognized leaders in environmental policy, planning and flash flood preparedness. Having control over drainage would allow Epcor to leverage that physical asset and expertise—both of which have been paid for by Edmontonians over the years—in order to grow the corporation and begin marketing drainage services in markets across North America. While that may be good for Epcor's bottom line, and maybe even the city's revenues in the long-term, the value of drainage goes far beyond dollars and cents. Although the external consultant is not likely to identify and measure that value, our city councillors should, and it will be up to Edmontonians to make sure that they do. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

The views and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute.

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Pipeline silence I spent the better part of National Aboriginal Awareness Week thinking about pipelines, a thing I've been doing a lot since the federal NDP convention in April.

It wasn't the LEAP Manifesto that triggered my ruminations; it was Premier Rachel Notley's speech, wherein she managed to speak for over 30 minutes, take direct aim at pipeline opponents, yet failed to mention the rights of First Nations, Indigenous and Metis peoples even once.

The Premier's speech at the provincial convention held a couple of weeks ago in Calgary did mention that work had begun towards more respectful relations with Indigenous peoples, but this garnered less than a dozen words in a speech that clocked in at over 40 minutes and convention delegates wanting to discuss pipelines found themselves out-maneuvered by government staffers/delegates who seemed determined to make sure policy resolutions related to the matter never saw the light of day.

Perfect consensus on this issue of pipelines is not possible, and even if it were, an NDP convention is the least likely place you'd ever find it. But stifling discussion about contentious

topics is not the path to claims of social licence. It's the opposite. And what it says in light of Notley's stated commitment to the principles outlined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) leaves me unsettled.

The principle of "free, prior and informed consent" from First Nations on resource development is found in existing treaties and in the TRC recommendations.

Article 32 of the UNDRIP reiterates the "right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands or territories." The "duty to consult and accommodate" has been firmly established by the Supreme Court.

The list of First Nations across this country opposed to pipeline developments is long. The actions of our provincial and federal governments over the next several months will be illuminating—because you can be an outspoken advocate for pipelines or you can embrace the principles of "free, prior and informed" consent of Indigenous peoples. You can't do both.V

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Brexit: the long, loud silence Politicians hid for days to avoid association with Cox's murder British Parliament met in London on Monday, June 20, so that MPs of every party could express their horror and disgust at the murder last Thursday of their colleague Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire. And on Monday everybody did, including the leaders of the Brexit campaign, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. But here's the odd thing: up to that point, the Brexit leaders had said nothing about it.

Nothing. Not a word, for more than three days. The political campaign for the referendum next Thursday on Britain's continued membership in the European Union was immediately suspended for two days after Cox's murder, but other politicians didn't go to ground like Johnson, Gove and their friends.

Prime Minister David Cameron, the leader of Johnson and Gove's own Conservative Party, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, and a host of their fellow members of parliament gathered in Parliament Square on Friday to light candles and lay flowers in tribute to the slain MP, but the Brexit leaders were conspicuous by their absence.

Cameron, Corbyn and many other senior politicians went on TV to condemn what had happened, but Johnson, Gove and their rather embarrassing ally Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), did not (and you may be sure that they were asked to—that's what journalists do). They simply vanished from public view, without so much as a ritual statement that their "thoughts and prayers" were with Cox's family.

There are only two possible explanations for this curious nonevent. One is that space aliens abducted Johnson, Gove and Farage on Thursday for their usual nefarious purposes, and returned them to Earth on Sunday with their memories wiped clean of anal probes (for otherwise they would surely have mentioned it). The other is that their media advisers told them that the only safe course was to say nothing.

The Brexiteers were in a difficult position, because Cox was a high-profile campaigner for Remain, the campaign urging Britons to stay in the EU, and the man who killed her, Tommy Mair,

was clearly of the opposite persuasion. As he shot and stabbed her, according to eyewitnesses, he was shouting "Britain first" or "Put Britain first."

His motive became even clearer on Saturday, when he was brought before a judge to be charged.

Asked to state his name, he replied that it is "Death to Traitors, Freedom for Britain." The second half of this slogan is, of course, at the heart of the "Leave" campaign's argument for Brexit.

Obviously Johnson, Gove and Farage knew nothing about Mair's intentions, nor approved of them in any way. But people could reasonably argue that the increasingly nasty tone of the "Leave" campaign may have served as a trigger for Mair's crime.

In the early stages of the campaign the debate was mostly about the relative economic advantages of leaving or staying in the EU, but the "Leave" side clearly lost that argument, and shifted the debate instead onto the hotB:9.45” button topic of immigration.

T:9.45” This involved a good deal of lyS:9.45” ing, like the ridiculous Leave claim

that Turkey was shortly going to become an EU member, giving 70 million Turks the right to move to Britain. (Turkey has no realistic chance of becoming an EU member in the foreseeable future, and if it ever did fulfill the entrance requirements Britain could simply veto it.)

The dog-whistle racism of Leave's anti-immigration campaign was at its worst in a poster that UKIP's Farage unveiled just two hours before Cox was murdered, showing an endless column of young men of Middle Eastern appearance marching into Europe and captioned "Breaking Point." In other words, quit the EU or Britain too will be drowned in a sea of Muslim fake refugees.

The poster was immediately condemned, even by Farage's allies (Gove said he "shuddered" when he saw it)—but Gove did not go on to say that Middle Eastern refugees who are let in by other EU countries do not gain the right to enter Britain. To admit that would undermine the whole anti-immigrant strategy of the Leave campaign.

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more did he not want to be questioned on possible causal links between the Leave campaign's general strategy of claiming that the British people are enslaved by faceless "EU bureaucrats in Brussels" and Mair's cry of "Freedom for Britain." Neither did any of his Leave colleagues.

So the Brexit leaders took their media managers' advice and hid themselves away after the assassination of Jo Cox. When Tommy Mair gave his name as "Death to Traitors, Freedom for Britain" in court on Saturday, they hid for another day, fearing guilt by association.

Now they are back out in the open, hoping nobody noticed their absence. And maybe they didn't, because the British media certainly abstained from comment on it.

But it is also possible that quite a few ordinary voters did notice it, and drew their own conclusions from it. We'll find out on Friday.V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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The first step

Reconciliation requires an end to constant categorization does fill the need for non-Inuit to constantly categorize what kind of Aboriginal an Aboriginal actually is, and to what length Aboriginal peoples are "real." Why can't Aboriginal people be accepted for who we say we are?

Stereotypical illustration of Inuk seal hunter // ©Adobe Stock / Erica Guilane-Nachez

In the public imagination there lies the concept that Inuit are still standing atop seal breathing holes with a harpoon in hand, or that we are people who lack the acumen to function in the modern, contemporary world.

When one considers the survival skills required to live a northern life, whether in present-day or in days past, the Inuit reek of intelligence, expertise and above all, patience.

Patience is a huge requirement in hunting. Patience is a huge require-

ment in everyday living—especially if you are a southern Inuk.

Inuit in the city are often looked upon as people who are living out of context. This same supposition affects not only Inuit but all Aboriginal people. The ideation that we should remain the native who is out on the land dominates. We should not be walking around downtown, shopping, going out for lunch, going to the office. How does that stereotype stay only with Aboriginal people, while

non-Inuit can operate in any geographical context at any time of the day, and in any year on the calendar?

When I look around Edmonton, the public images of Inuit are few. This is Treaty 6 territory, but the province of Alberta has a population of 1190 Inuit, with a total of 1115 living in Edmonton based on the 2011 National Household B:9.45” Survey. Within academia, city-dwelling Inuit are now T:9.45” being labelled "urban Inuit." I find S:9.45” this terminology derogatory, but it

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This is a paradox of being a member of an Aboriginal population in any part of the world. If I meet a nonInuit person who tells me they are Dutch, I do not look at their feet and ask them why they are wearing Nikes instead of wooden shoes. From an Aboriginal perspective, being asked how much of your body and being is actually Inuit is a ridiculous— but all too commonplace—event. I am very sure that non-Inuit do not have to break down their identity in a biological perspective, to such an extent that I am finally convinced that yes, this person is Dutch—even without their wooden shoes.

With the dawning of the age of reconciliation there comes small personal forms of reconciliation that we can each take up. I would ask that when a person identifies as Inuit, First Nation or Métis, the questioning of skin colour, genetics or use of an Aboriginal language not be the

measure of acceptance of who we say we are. I ask instead for the acceptance of Aboriginal identity as it is spoken by the Aboriginal person.

Can ya speak it?

Fat snowflakes falling from, cold grey skies Melting the burning question filling her eyes Can ya speak it? Her tongue is hot to ask I know what's next, she wants to unmask.

The question marking?

My Evidence of being Eskimo.

Only Native peoples, need to provide The proof to coincide.

Measured by a lingo meter stick Penned height, and width against a bar No one else needs to pass this test A German, Swede or winter star.V Norma Dunning is an Inuk writer and scholar and a third-year doctoral student with Indigenous Peoples Education. Her collection of prose Annie Muktuk and Other Stories is scheduled to release via University of Alberta Press in the fall of 2017.

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is restaurants may not even be open yet, but chef Ben Staley has already been building up their pantries.

The signs declare that Alta and the Alder Room—two sister restaurants on Jasper Avenue in the space formerly occupied by the Wee Book Inn—will be open in summer 2016. That may be a bit of a stretch, however, as construction has just begun; indeed, Staley admits that the project has experienced delays from the beginning, when negotiations fell through on the original space he had found in Chinatown over a year ago.

The space on Jasper Avenue required Staley to adjust his vision, as it was twice as big as he needed for the small, 18-seat Alder Room.

The 36-seat Alta will pull from the same ingredients and follow the same ultra-local philosophy as the Alder Room, but with only a coldfood menu in contrast to the Alder Room's tasting-menu approach.

The Alder Room's partnership with the Alder Food Society—a local non-profit group working to achieve food security in Edmonton, and part of the original impetus of the restaurant—will also remain.

The restaurant will donate 15 percent of its profits to the society, as well as use of its space.

To say that Staley's restaurants have a local focus—a claim that

seems to be made by everyone, these days—would be a grand understatement. Staley immediately and staunchly rejects the idea of ever using Sysco or Gordon Food Services, assuring that he'll be relying on only a handful of nearby farmers in Alberta and BC. It's not an easy task, as many other ventures have discovered, but Staley notes that it's definitely possible for most (albeit not all) restaurants.

"It just needs to be a very solid point in what you're trying to achieve," he says. "It's not just some word that we're throwing around; it's a business model for us. ... It's to the point that we don't use black pepper; we don't use olive oil; we don't use vanilla, no chocolate. Our salt even comes from Canada."

Staley made a name for himself a few years ago as the opening chef at North 53. His focus there was similar in that he only used Canadian ingredients, but he admits that he's become a bit more humble about his philosophy since then.

"When I was back at North [53], I had a pretty naive or ignorant outlook on some things—basically saying I was going to develop a Canadian cuisine," Staley explains.

"Who am I to develop a cuisine for all of these people that are living in this place? Now we like to say it's our expression or our interpretation of Canadian food. ... Just ba-

sically utilizing the ingredients that come within our region and specifically only our region."

The menus at both places will be primarily vegetable-based (something that takes a lot of people aback in meat-centric Alberta, Staley notes) and won't have any servers. The Alder Room will feature a bar at which diners sit and watch the cooks prepare everything. Alta will have tables, but the cooks will be the ones handling all of the serving duties. It's not because he dislikes servers, Staley is quick to note, but simply because the cooks are the ones with the whole story.

"We wanted to simply cut out the middle man; you can get the direct storyline or whatever you're looking for from the person who made the food and knows the food best," Staley explains. "I'm not then relaying a message from me to a server, who doesn't care as much as I do, who's then relaying that same—or skewed—message to a diner, which is then representing me."

There may not be a set opening date yet, but in the meantime, Staley has been occupying himself with growing some items in garden boxes on the roof of the restaurant's building—mainly things that aren't readily sourced around here: fresh coriander seed and bay leaves, lemon verbena, hibiscus. Follow

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his Instagram feed (@benmstaley) and you'll also see evidence of the foraging that he's been doing, both in Edmonton's natural spaces and outside of town. He'll be using various preservation techniques on these items, as well as the stuff he's getting from his farm partners, which will sustain his restaurants through the winter—because, again, dialling up Sysco for an order of veggies in January is simply not something he's willing to do.

"People think that I hate restaurants that don't use all local food, which isn't true at all—I go to any other restaurant," Staley says.

"We chose to do it for a reason, mostly because we wanted to impose limitations on ourselves. We chose to only use Canadian products because I wanted to make it a challenge, to kind of force us to be more creative.

"Basically, at the end of the day, I'm a control freak," he continues.

"So it's a way for me to have more control over the product that I'm serving."

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Craft breweries: Calgary wins

Existing land use bylaws prevent more Edmonton craft breweries Calgary is in the midst of a beer renaissance. Currently, a dozen breweries have either opened in the last 18 months or are slated to open soon. Here in Edmonton, we plug along with our mainstays—Alley Kat, Brewsters and Yellowhead— and cast our eyes over the horizon hoping for more. There are some positive signs: Situation Brewing just opened in Old Strathcona and there are two or three others in the works.

Still, our progress pales in comparison to Calgary's great leap forward.

There are a variety of factors for the difference. Calgary entrepreneurs have access to a deeper pool of capital than Edmonton. Plus, their white-collar demographic is more favourable to craft beer. That said, Calgary has undertaken a change that Edmonton should emulate if it wants to be smart about breweries.

A couple of months ago, Calgary amended its land use bylaw. Normally fairly arcane stuff, this bylaw governs what gets built where. The change was rather straightforward: the city added into the rules a new category of land use called "brewery, winery and distillery" and defined where small brewing operations can be located in the city. The new rules also expanded the development zones where a small brewery can be located, thus making it easier to open a craft brewery operation in commercial areas of the city where usually only restaurants and stores are allowed.

Previously, breweries were considered industrial manufacturing and were restricted to those far flung, population-scarce areas of

the city. As you can imagine, that is a significant disincentive to open a funky little brewery with a taproom and growler fills—which is what the current trend is.

Edmonton's existing bylaws reflect Calgary's past. We have no clear definition of brewery and thus small craft breweries are relegated to the industrial zones—unless they are considered a brewpub, and then restaurant rules apply.

Or a development officer decides brewing is not the primary function of the operation and allows it. Or a development appeal panel overrules existing zoning.

Confused yet? Aspiring brewers sure are.

Edmonton's development bylaws were designed for a past era when breweries had to meet a certain minimum production capacity and were, therefore, larger-scale operations appropriate for industrial areas. However, things have changed and craft brewing today is far more eclectic and varied. Many new breweries—like those opening in Calgary—are smaller and aim to attract local traffic to their tasting rooms for a pint or two, a growler fill, or a couple of six packs to take home. They are more integrated into the community around them.

Provincial rules have changed as well. There is no minimum capacity anymore, which opens the door to nano-sized breweries, and the line between brewery and brewpub has become so blurred as to be irrelevant. Yet Edmonton's bylaws still reflect a past age, and that is a

problem holding Edmonton's local craft-beer scene back.

So, city council: I urge you to take a good, hard look at Calgary's new bylaw. I am convinced if we implemented something like it, it will remove a big barrier to our city catching up in the craft-beer revolution. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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Connecting the dots

Stephanie Wolfe weaves through 13 characters in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

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hough similar ideas had emerged before it, the small-world concept was put to its most memorable test in 1967. Social psychologist Stanley Milgram tried to explore how long it would take to connect a few disparate strangers through only the people who mutually knew each other. The results of those tests have given us (and Kevin Bacon) the enduring concept of six degrees of separation, and a sense that the world has, in a way, been shrinking—as communication and travel have advanced, we've been able to forge connections between increasingly distant places.

The study's seen its share of criticism too, but much of it seems hard to deny when Facebook will readily put out how many mutual friends you share with people you've never met. And it's those sorts of greater, unseen connections that run through The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Jane Wagner's 1977 script won her partner, Lily Tomlin, a Tony Award for playing its 13 characters, from a pre-teen runaway to a rich-but-bored woman to a "bag lady" on the street, as it weaves not only through those characters' intermingling lives, but the deepest reaches of the cosmos—a feat that Stephanie Wolfe, a formidable actress and improviser in her own right, is amping up for in rehearsal.

"It's about how interconnected everything is," Wolfe beams, sitting in the Varscona Theatre lobby. "That old thing about how if a butterfly flaps its wings in China, a rainstorm happens here. It's about how we are connected not only as human beings, but how we're connected, literally at a particle level, to the universe.

"I love when there's a six degrees of separation between things," she continues. "I love all that stuff."

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sion come through the long-defunct Phoenix Theatre years ago, but the rights to produce the show don't come around often. It had come up as a pipe-dream project with Wolfe and director Dave Horak before, and Horak managed to acquire the rights in time for what was intended to be a run at last summer's Fringe Festival.

They were deep in rehearsal last summer when, as quickly and inexplicably as they'd arrived, the performance rights were revoked. Little reason was offered, though there might have been a link to the run's status

as a Fringe production rather than a main-stage one.

"They're very protective of it," Wolfe speculates. "I don't know. I guess other people have had that problem [acquiring the rights], too.

"When you read it, when you see it, there's a great deal of love put into that script. It's their masterpiece.

They do hold it close."

Undeterred, Wolfe and Horak bowed out of the Fringe but kept exploring options.

"We were like, 'OK, well, let's just

keep our chins up,'" she says. "It's not like we lost cast members and whatnot. ... When Teatro [La Quindicina] heard that that's what happened, they opened their beautiful, big, loving arms and said, 'Put it in our season.'"

That seemed to satisfy the powers that be: now, one summer later than intended, Wolfe's run at The Search ... arrives with main-stage production power behind it. The delay's actually proved beneficial to the subject matter, she notes: since last summer, some the script's references have grown much more pertinent.

"How relevant it is is astonishing," Wolfe says. "Donald Trump is mentioned in it more than once. There's an actual line saying, 'We had the biggest fight ever, because he didn't think a woman could make a good president'—that's in the forefront right now. There's stuff in this text that is like, jeez—a year ago, this would've been an, 'Oh, that's a historical [line], harkening back to the feminism of the '70s.' Nope: it's kind of front and centre."

Which is where the script places Wolfe, too: though she's been a venerable face on Edmonton stages for years, this is her first-ever solo show.

"I found out how to, just practically, conserve my voice," she says, of the process. "Actually, how to use it without losing it."

The secret, in that regard?

"All the stuff I learned in theatre school—Oh, they were right!" she laughs. "There's always a better way to do something than screaming it."

Learning how to react to herself has also come up—though Wolfe's the only actor, The Search ... isn't just a sequence of monologues: there are multi-character scenes that see her playing out all sides of a conversation.

"It's been really fun; sometimes you crack yourself up as one of the other characters. Like, 'Oh, that's funny—she did good.' Or the opposite—'Oh my God, she can't act. Can't stand working with her,'" Wolfe grins. "But then we hug it out and we're good again."

PAUL BLINOV

PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

The Works Art and Design Festival 'O

ne thing that I think a lot of people might not realize is that it's not common to have a festival that is focused on visual art and design, especially in North America," explains Amber Rooke, executive artistic director for The Works Art and Design Festival. "There are many multi-day festivals that are focused on theatre or music that may have a visual art component, but a multi-day, multi-site festival that is dedicated to visual art and design is very unique. There are a couple now, but when The Works started, there were not. So that's something Edmontonians might not know. They can be really proud to

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say they have this in their city."

That being said, lots of Edmontonians still aren't quite sure how best to navigate The Works. It's an imposing event, which centres on Sir Winston Churchill Square and fans out around the downtown core. With 56 exhibits in 29 venues, artistic activities, opportunities to contribute to artwork and a stage scheduled with local musicians from noon to night for the full 13 days of the festival, it's not a terrible idea to do a little pre-planning for your visit.

"Step 1: go to Sir Winston Churchill Square," Rooke advises. "When you are at Sir Winston Churchill Square, get yourself a printed festival guide

(or print one off the Internet). If you open to the centre page, you will find a map with a lot of the downtown venues, as well as a list, which will act as a checklist to go through and [you can] visit every single exhibit—if you feel adventurous."

Churchill Square will be playing host to "Canopy," an architectural installation by Argentinean sculptor, José Luis Torres. The piece is using discarded objects, like patio furniture, pallets and planters, to create what Rooke calls a "three dimensional collage" that you can actually enter and hang out under.

"It will be two different effects— when you see it it's going to be very

striking, very artificial looking thing in the middle of a concrete square," she says. "But when you're inside of it, the partially enclosed spaces and light that comes through the objects that are assembled together is intended to be somewhat like sitting under a forest canopy. And to provide a space to rest and to rest your soul, which, in many ways, is what art is all about."

At 10 feet tall, even if you don't have a plan when you come to the festival, "Canopy" will be impossible to miss.

And with its 56 exhibits, The Works is so much more than a few pictures

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Until Tue, Jul 5 Various locations theworks.ab.ca on gallery walls—the festival truly alters the landscape of our city's downtown core for two weeks.

"The challenge there is to start from nothing and literally transform the space," Rooke says. "To change how people experience Churchill Square, to change how they experience the hallways through Manulife Place as they're walking. So for these things to pop up and change the fabric, the surfaces of our spaces, hopefully that's a little bit magical for other people."

KATHLEEN BELL

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PRESENTED BY ALBERTA DANCE ALLIANCE

PREVUE // THEATRE

Pulse Love's Labour's Lost // Alexa Tonn

Freewill Shakespeare Festival

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his year's Freewill Shakespeare Festival is billing itself as the Summer of Love. In keeping with the festival's tradition, audience members will be treated to two plays, one a tragedy and one a comedy, showing off the light and dark aspects of romance.

Love's Labour's Lost tells the story of four French noblemen swearing off women in order to focus on their studies, only to be immediately infatuated with four French noblewomen who come to their court.

"The concept is [that] those four male students are a little bit like the Beatles when they swore off all their vices and went to see the Maharishi," says festival director Marianne Copithorne.

She notes that director Jim Guedo is setting the play in the late '60s / early '70s, playing upon the "Summer of Love" concept with the show design. Her own play, Romeo and

Juliet, will look more traditionally Elizabethan, but that doesn't mean it will be any less relevant to a modern audience.

"There's so much hatred between these two clans, the Capulets and the Montagues, and what's it all about? And why doesn't it ever stop? It has resonance today with even what's happened in Orlando, with hate crimes, and the Republicans never agreeing with the Democrats and Trump being such a crazy person," Copithorne says. "It takes a real tragedy to move people. And if you've been watching CNN right now, as far as what's been going on in Orlando and how people are just so desperate to get over homophobia or racism or hatred, just hatred—how do you do that if it's so ingrained since almost the beginning of time?"

Romeo and Juliet delves into these

Until Sun, Jul 17 (8 pm; 2 pm weekend matinees) Love's Labour's Lost on odd dates and all weekend matinees, Romeo and Juliet on even dates Hawrelak Park, $20 – $30 age-old questions, and they're the sorts of ideas Copithorne has been thinking about as she's been putting the play together. She's also been busy developing new festival attractions, like an already sold-out High Tea and Date Night, to complement the theatre.

"We want to create events where people can come down pre-show while the festival is on and have a great experience," Copithorne says.

"A dinner, food, or some kind of entertainment that supports what is actually going to happen on stage."

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This years festival focuses on pulse, connecting Alberta history and dancers. We are thrilled to welcome dancers, and dance enthusiasts to explore physical movement and dance. Featuring talented local dancers, internationally renowned choreographers and promising young artists.

Feats Festival brings masterclasses, performances, family activities, site specific performances, and much more.

For full festival details, visit: www.abdancealliance.ab.ca Facebook.com/ABDanceAlliance #FeatsFest # ABDances

BRUCE CINNAMON

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PREVUE // THEATRE

Found Festival

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ll the world's a stage for Edmonton's Found Festival. From a barber shop to a Remedy Café, from grocery stores to the High Level Streetcar, from back alleys to church confessionals, no place is off limits when it comes to site-specific theatre. A project of the Common Ground Arts Society, Found produces plays, puts up installations and unleashes other forms of performance art in unconventional venues across the city.

"It's grown into a really great opportunity to take performances out of traditional venues and turn unconventional spaces into unique art venues," says festival director Beth Dart. "What I find really beautiful about this format is that it really takes art into community and makes it quite accessible."

Because so much of the work is performed in public spaces, there are plenty of chances for regular people to become unwitting audience members.

"When we've done pieces in park spaces and stuff like that, there's definitely been people who just jump in and join the audience and go for the ride. And that's absolutely something that's possible and that we're open

to," Dart says. "I think that audience members who are coming in without knowing that this is happening get a very unique experience, because they have no context of what the piece is.

And so any sort of understanding they have of the piece is such an immediate and honest response."

Some of this year's public-space performances are taking place in the Strathcona Community League Playground, in the alleyway between the ATB Arts Barns and Walterdale Theatre, and in the Nellie McClung Ravine. The festival is also partnering with local businesses like the Wee Book Inn, Adara Hair and Body Studio and Hexagon Board Game Cafe to provide venues.

"It's so inspiring how supportive the local businesses are," Dart says. "At first, they're a little caught off guard.

They don't know quite what to think of us. But then, once they have an idea of what that particular performance is going to be, they jump on board and are incredibly supportive."

A new feature being introduced for this year's Found Festival is the Admit One series—five plays which are performed for an audience of one.

These include Lunch With Mother

Thu, Jun 23 – Sun, Jun 26 Various venues (main grounds at Dr Wilbert McIntyre Park [83 Ave & 104 St] Full schedule at commongroundarts.ca at a Whyte Avenue bus stop and The Booth at the Knox Church, where you'll have a unique song, poem or story created just for you from a prompt you give the performer.

"The performer has to be so present and open for whatever energy the audience member's bringing in," Dart says. "So it's definitely malleable. It's a completely different experience for each audience member."

Now in its fifth year, the Found Festival has grown by leaps and bounds, but it's still mostly contained within Old Strathcona. As for the future, depending on the proposals that artists submit, the festival might just grow out of the city core and sprout up some unexpected art out in Edmonton's sprawling suburbs.

"I think that's definitely a possibility down the road for Found Festival," Dart says. "I mean, when I'm just travelling through the city, every day I see a new space that would be a beautiful performance space."

BRUCE CINNAMON

BRUCE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Dance Argentine Tango Dance at Foot Notes Studio • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw. ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

Cheremosh & Syzorkyli present Kaleidoscope of Ukrainian Dance • Jubilee Auditorium • 780.427.2760 • jubileeauditorium.com • Jun 24, 7pm

Drea Lee Dance Company Showcase 2016 • Arden Theatre, St. Albert • 1drealee@gmail.com • A variety of dance styles performed by DLDC members and other performance groups • Jun 26, 7-9pm • $35 (assigned seating)

Feats Festival of Dance • Various venues throughout Edmonton • abdancealliance.ab.ca • A multi-disclipinary dance festival with a special focus on the Alberta dance community • Jun 27-Jul 10

Flamenco Dance Classes (Beginner or Advanced) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-115 St NW #204 • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm

Sacred Circle Dance • Riverdale Hall, 9231-100 Ave • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • Every Wed, 7-9pm • $10

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome.

Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

FILM Capitol Theatre Cinema Series • Fort Edmonton Park • Enjoy classic films on the big screen • Every Thu, 7:30pm • $10.50 (+taxes & fees)

Cinema at the Centre • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free • Schedule: Beeba Boys (Jun 29) From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Schedule: Captain Phillips (Jun 24)

metro • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • The Metro will be closed for summer maintenance, Jun 27-Jul 7 • Reel Family Cinema: The Secret World of Arrietty (Jun 25)

galLeries + Museums A.J. Ottewell Community Centre • 590 Broadmoor Blvd • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Alberta Wood Carvers Association; Jul 4-10

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: #ABCRAFT: artists using digital technologies; Apr 2-Jul 2 • Feature Gallery: Crafting Conscience; Jul 9-Oct 1; Artist Reception: Jul 16, 2-4pm

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • The Flood: artwork by Sean Caulfield; Feb 6-Aug 14 • 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc; Mar 5-Jul 3 • Little Cree Women (Sisters, Secrets & Stories): artwork by Brittney Bear Hat & Richelle Bear Hat; Mar 5-Jul 3 • A Parallel Excavation: artwork by Duane Linklater &

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Tanya Lukin Linklater; Apr 30-Sep 18 • The Unvarnished Truth: Exploring the Material History of Painting; Apr 30-Sep 18 • Allora & Calzadilla: Echo to Artifact: artwork by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla; Jun 3-Aug 28 • Beauty's Awakening: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection; Jul 23-Nov 13 • JASON DE HAAN: Grey to Pink: Jul 23-Nov 13 • BMO Children's Gallery: Touch Lab: Leave your Mark: Opens Jul 24 • Canada Day: Bring the whole family for art activities and a chance to view exciting exhibitions; Jul 1; Free • Open Studio Adult Drop-In : Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm • Art for Lunch: 3rd Thu of the month, 12:1012:50pm

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Flow of Traffic

Theory: artwork by Gary Dotto; Jun 2-Jul 2 • Parallel Topographies: artwork by Etty Yaniv; July 7-30; Opening reception: Jul 7, 6-9pm • Art Ventures: Batik Painting (Jul 16), 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Recreate, Renew, Reuse (Jul 21), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Cold Wax Batik on Cloth (Jun 16); for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

ArtWalk • Perron District, downtown St Albert. Includes WARES (Hosting SAPVAC), Musée Héritage Museum, St Albert Library, Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA), Bookstore on Perron, VASA, Musée Héritage Museum, A Boutique Gallery Bar By Gracie Jane • artwalkstalbert.com • The art hits the streets again for its 15th year! Discover this art destination, a place to enjoy, view and buy art to suit all tastes and budgets. See returning artists and new ones • Jun 2, Jul 7, Aug 4, Sep 1 (exhibits run all month)

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery. com • Atmosphere: artwork by Allan Bailey; Jun 23-Jul 8

CENTRE D'ARTS VISUELS DE L'ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave •

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

Latitude 53 • Latitude 53, 10242106 St NW • latitude53.org/patio • Patio Party: Members and guests are invited to relax, drinks in hand, on Latitude 53's outdoor patio, while learning a bit more about contemporary visual culture; Every Thu until Aug 25, 5-9pm; $5 (suggested donation at the door)

Lando Gallery • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Lando Gallery June Group Selling Exhibition; until Jun 30

MacEwan University City Centre Campus • Room 7-266 • amatejko@ telusplanet.net • Pre-Suburbia, Utopian Desires: Photography by Jason Symington; Mar 30-Jun 24

McMullen GAllery • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • Works from the Field: artwork by Dan Bagan; May 7-Jul 3 • Jes McCoy: Featuring interactive work, the exhibition examines the effect that the presence of communication and the way we communicate has on wellbeing; Jul 9-Sep 4

Musée Héritage Museum • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • Satisfaction Guaranteed; Jun 28-Sep 11; Opening Reception (Mad Men theme): Jul 14, 6:308:30pm

Muttart Conservatory • 962696A St • info@sculptorsassociation. ca • sculptorsassociation.ca/exhibits/ group-exhibits • Form 30: 3 Decades of the Sculptors' Association of Alberta; Jun 22-Aug 24 • $6.50-$12.50

Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@thenina.ca • Celebration of Abilities; until Jul 5; Opening reception: Jun 29, 6-8pm

780.461.3427 • savacava.com • Artwork

by Father Douglas, Sabine Lecorre-Moore, Joanne Sauvageau and Sharon Lynn Williams; Jun 24-Jul 13

Paint Spot • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: The Unfinished Symphony: paintings

by Dave Thomas • Artisan Nook: The random artist: various creations by Shelly Banks • Both exhibitions run May 24-Jul 5

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St •

Peter Robertson Gallery •

780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Other Spaces; Jun 27-Jul 2 • Gallery closed for renovations; Jul-Aug

front gallery • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • Summer Salon II: artwork by David Lachapelle, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Alfredo Jaar, Tacita Dean, Jackson Lowen and Fish Griwkowsky; Jun 23-Jul 14; Opening reception: Jun 23, 7-9pm Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Strathcona Salon Series: various artists; May 14-Jun 26 Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/gallery-at-milner • 2nd Floor, by the Aboriginal Collection: Redress Photography Project; May 15-Jun 30 • Gallery: Edmonton Public Schools' Junior High First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Teen Art Show; Jun 1-31 • Cases & Cubes: Monoprints and Monotype Prints by Raymond Theriault; Jun 1-31 • 2nd Floor: REdress Photography Project; until Jul 5 • Walls & Cases: The Works Art and Design Festival; Jun 23-Jul 5

Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • The Centre of Awe: artwork by Audrey Shield; May 27-Jun 29

The Works Art & Design Festival • Sir Winston Churchill Square • theworks.ab.ca • A one square kilometer with visual art, design, and entertainment. The festival will also feature receptions, and demonstrations.

Exhibit tours will also be available • Jun 23-Jul 5, 10am-9pm • Free

Literary Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Cynthia Jonasson "On my Mother's Behalf" book launch; Jun 25, 2pm • Doug Morrison "Course Correction" Book Launch; Jun 26, 2pm • Karen Elizabeth Lee "The Full Catastrophe" Book Launch; Jun 27, 7-8:30pm • Dana Liesegang "Falling Up" & Scarlett Lewis "Nurturing Healing Love" Reading & Signing; Jul 5, 7-8:30pm

THE CARROT'S POETRY NIGHT • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • share your work and enjoy a night out with an encouraging crowd • Jun 30, 7:30-9pm • Fr­e e Edmonton Story Slam • Mercury Room,10575-114 St • edmontonstoryslam. com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

Naked Girls Reading • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St NW • 780.691.1691 • There will be different themes each month • Every 2nd Tue of month, 8:30-10:30pm • $20 (door); 18+ only Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

Theatre

• 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/ eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Marlena Wyman: Illuminating the Diary of Alda Dale Randall; Feb 2-Aug 20

Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • Open Works: artwork by Richard Tosczak; Jun 11-30

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta Print­- Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • ExChanged: artwork by Carolyn Mount; Jun 23-Aug 6 • Ashes Over Water: artwork by Holly de moissac; Jun 23-Jul 30; Opening reception: Jun 24, 7-9pm

U of A Museums Galleries at Enterprise square • Main floor,

Jeff Allen Art Gallery (JAAG) •

ill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art. com •Voyage to Future Places: artwork by Twilla Coates and Ricardo Copado; May 31-Jun 24 • 30 Shades of Round A Journey of Mixed Media Mosaics: artwork by Helen Rogers; Jun 28-Jul 22; Opening reception: Jul 7, 6-9pm

Provincial Archives of Alberta

Hidden Treasures Open Art Studio Tour • A.J. Ottewell Center,

karen@jakesframing.com • Brushstrokes: artwork by John Yardley-Jones and Spyder Yardley-Jones; Jun 6-30

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Church-

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright

Telus World of Science • 11211-

Jake's Gallery • 10441-123 St •

visualartsalberta.com • Cattle Call; Jun-Aug

12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • The Steamfitter's Guide: artwork by Robin Smith-Peck; Jun 23-Jul 12; Opening reception: Jun 23, 7-9pm • Hole-And-Corner: artwork by Kirsty Templeton Davidge; Jun 23-Jul 12; Opening reception: Jun 23, 7-9pm (artist in attendance) • Between Sleep and Wake: artwork by Nomi Stricker; Jun 23-Jul 12; Opening reception: Jun 23, 7-9pm (artist in attendance)

Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Connect the Dots: 28th Annual Members' Show; Jun 14-Jul 9 • Oh the Audacity! Naked Show; Jun 23-Jul 5

Clay Hut, Studio One and other businesses • artstrathcona.com • A self guided tour of Strathcona County artists' studios • Jun 25-26, 10am-5pm • Free

VAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton. com • Free-$117.95 • The International Exhibition Of Sherlock Holmes; Mar 25-Sep 5

10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • China through the Lens of John Thomson (1868-1872): photos by John Thomson; Mar 18-Jul 31 • The Mactaggart Art Collection: Beyond the Lens: artwork

by John Thomson; Mar 18-Jul 31 • Show Me Something I Don't Know: images, photographs and travelogues created by John Thomson; May 19-Jul 2 • My Heritage 2016 Exhibit: 78 competitive original fibre art entries; May until Aug • Walk & Talk Exhibition Tour with John E. Vollmer; Jun 30, 12-1pm; Admission by donation

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com

11 O'Clock Number • The Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave (North Side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns) • grindstonetheatre.ca • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, starting Sep 25-Jun 25, 11pm • $15 (online, at the door) chess • Walterdale Theatre, 10322 - 83 Ave • 780.439.3058 • walterdaletheatre. com • At the height of the Cold War, two great chess masters – an American and a Russian – meet to battle for the world championship. Caught in the middle is one woman. More than a game, more than a love story – it's the story where sacrificing pawns to win the game might just lose you the match • Jul 6-16

Chimprov • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre's longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun

Freewill shakespeare festival • Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park, 9330 Groat Road • 780.425.8086 • freewillshakespeare.com • Two Shakespeare plays in the park • Jun 21-Jul 17

henry & alice into the wild • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca •

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When times get tough, the tough go ... camping? One of your favourite married couples is back in this much anticipated, hilarious follow up to the smash hit Sexy Laundry. When Henry unexpectedly loses his job, he and Alice are thrown into a midlife crisis and are forced to reconsider their dreams for a comfortable retirement. In an attempt to make the sparks fly again (and keep costs down), they forego their usual summer cottage for a humble campsite and a copy of Camping for Dummies • Jun 17-Jul 31

Improv Open Jam • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • grindstonetheatreyeg@gmail.com • grindstonetheatre. ca/openjam.html • A space to share, swap games and ideas. For all levels • Last Tue every month until Jun 28, 7-9:30pm • Free Improvaganza • Rapid Fire Theatre, Citadel Theatre • 780.443.6044 • rapidfiretheatre.com • The world's best improvisors gather for the annual Alternative Comedy Festival, one of the most popular with improvisors around the world, and your best comedy outing in Edmonton • Jun 16-26 • $12 (adv), $15 (door); cash only La Bohème • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • operanuova.ca • Set in the heart of Paris in the “Dirty Thirties,” Rodolfo, a poet, and Marcello, a painter, sit huddled around small fires of the poet's latest manuscript. When Mimi, a seamstress, loses her key and the flame to her candle, she comes to Rodolfo, setting the stage for one of opera's most timeless romances • Jun 24-26, Jun 28 • $20-$45 MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a highstakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door) Parade • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • operanuova.ca • Sung in English. In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13 year old Mary Phagan. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitors's false testimony seal Leo's fate • Jun 28-29, Jul 2-3, 7:30pm Rent • La Cite Theatre, 8627-91 St • twoonewaytickets.com • It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS • Jun 10-26 Rock Around the Clock • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • edmonton.jubilations. ca • The 1950s brought many things, but perhaps one of the best was rock 'n' roll music. Tonight, take a look at a fun pastime from those days: the dance marathon. Join couples as they dance away the night to great music from stars like Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bill Hailey, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and many more • Until Aug 21 • Adult: $67.95 (Wed, Thu, Sun), $77.95 (Fri, Sat); Senior/ student: $47.25 (Wed, Thu, Sun) The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • teatroq. com • Longtime Varscona leading lady Stephanie Wolfe stars in this one-woman tour de force, originally created for Lily Tomlin. Directed by Dave Horak • Jun 23-Jul 2

Social Scene • Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • grindstonetheatreyeg@gmail. com • grindstonetheatre.ca/scenestudy. html • Fellow theatre lovers share excerpts of plays that they have been reading • First Mon of every month, 6-8pm; until Jun 6 • Free TheatreSports • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square The Wedding Singer • The Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts, 4308-50 St, Leduc • leducdramasociety.ca • Presented by the Leduc Drama Society. It's 1985 and rock-star wannabe Robbie Hart is New Jersey's favourite wedding singer. He's the life of the party, until his own fiancee leaves him at the altar • Jun 23-25

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The Secret World of Arrietty / Sat, Jun 25 (2 pm) Metro Cinema will be airing another Studio Ghibli classic as part of its Reel Family Cinema series. The Secret World of Arrietty follows a fourinch-tall teenage girl who lives with her family under the floor of a human family's home. While the human family remains unaware of their roommates, Arrietty and her family borrow simple items for their home; however, things change when Arrietty is discovered by a human boy. Arrietty will be one of the last films airing in the theatre before the Garneau closes for a few weeks of summer maintenance. (Metro Cinema at the Garneau, free for kids 12 and under) Apocalypse Kow Spring Fling / Sat, Jun 25 (7:30 pm) Their name has popped-up in the Fringe Theatre Festival's program for the past 13 years, but who are they, really? Apocalypse Kow is an Edmontonbased a capella group that covers a variety of songs: video-game themes to hilarious covers to Ariana Grande to '80s classics–just to name a few.

The guys will be hosting a spring fling to help cover the costs of their new Christmas disc. The evening's performances will feature a range Kow classics, favourites and parodies. (Happy Harbor Comics, $12 – $15) V

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our years ago, in the lobby of a Miami hotel during Wrestlemania weekend, Mick Foley was confronted by a stranger. Pushing his way through the crowd, the sideburned hooligan approached Foley and began ranting about a "lost generation" of youth. "You're a criminal," he told the hardcore legend, insinuating Foley had made his trademark ultra-violent brand of wrestling look easy, leading his followers down a punishing path of blood and barbed wire.

Eagle-eyed onlookers would have recognized this stranger as Jon Moxley, a rising legend in his own right, famed for his brutal matches in Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) that often involved plate glass, weed whackers and reciprocating saws. At the time this confrontation happened, what most fans didn't know was that Moxley had been working for WWE's developmental brand, the altercation was staged, and he'd soon become one of the company's most charismatic, albeit under-used, stars. On Sunday night at WWE's Money in the Bank show, Moxley—who's been better known as Dean Ambrose since signing with the company—proved his own destiny and captured the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.

Ambrose has seemed undeniable since arriving on WWE's main roster alongside Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns, a powerhouse trio known as The Shield. The stable regularly tore down the house and together showed more promise in their rookie year than most WWE prospects have managed in a decade. When the group split in 2014 after Rollins betrayed his brothers to join The Authority, fans wondered how the three would fare in singles careers.

Reigns was catapulted into the main-event picture, apparently

hand-picked by WWE's backstage brass. Rollins soon joined him after winning Money in the Bank 2014, which he'd cash in at Wrestlemania 31 to steal the championship during Reigns' main-event match. Ambrose, meanwhile, fumbled through the upper-midcard, taking up an "unstable" persona that's often been more Wile E Coyote than Charles Manson.

While Rollins and Reigns traded blows in main-event matches for the last two years, Ambrose busied himself wrestling with hot-dog carts and exploding televisions.

Despite his rise, Reigns has struggled with fan reception, especially after finally winning the championship himself. In the last six months, Ambrose has been deliberately cast in Reigns' shadow, standing behind his brother and soaking up the muffled cheers while Reigns absorbed all the boos. Ambrose's future looked briefly promising when Foley returned this year before Wrestlemania to christen him the new hardcore legend and gift him Foley's iconic barbed-wire baseball bat—which all led to a forgettable match at the big show. When Rollins returned last month from the seven-month injury that forced him to vacate the title, it seemed once again like Ambrose would be shuffled back into the deck while his former Shield mates received top billing.

But Money in the Bank is an event that, by design, can shake up stale old WWE booking. While Rollins and Reigns battled for the title at the end of the show, Ambrose fought a brutal six-man ladder match to capture the show's namesake—a briefcase containing a contract that guarantees an instant title shot at any point. Rollins would hand Reigns his first-ever clean singles loss in the main event

to reclaim the title, but it would be short-lived. For only the second time in Money in the Bank history, Ambrose cashed in the contract the same night he won it, ambushing an exhausted Rollins in the middle of the ring and snatching the title in a matter of seconds. It may sound like a bittersweet victory, but for a star who's been on the verge of holding the gold his entire career, it couldn't have come soon enough.

On Monday night, current WWE authority figure Shane McMahon announced that at next month's Battleground, Ambrose will defend the title against both Rollins and Reigns.

It's the Shield Triple Threat match fans have been longing for since the group broke up, and the stakes couldn't be higher.

Even so, something about it all seems amiss. With Summerslam on the horizon—WWE's secondbiggest show of the year—it feels odd that they'd book one of their biggest-money matches at a throwaway show. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the company announced that Reigns has given a 30-day suspension for a (seemingly) real-world violation of WWE's anti-drug Wellness Policy— a strike the organization reportedly knew about before Reigns lost at Money in the Bank. While he'll be back in time for both Battleground and the brand split draft, many questions remain over which former member of The Shield is truly in WWE's good graces. With stakes both in-character and real-world suddenly surrounding the championship, the road to Summerslam will be critical in determining whether Ambrose will truly receive WWE's full support, or if he'll become another member of the lost generation.

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Negotiations of love

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eauty and the Beast (1946) begins with its director writing the opening credits on a chalkboard in his distinctive, lightly gnarled script.

It's a sly way of preparing the viewer for a film appealing to a child's uncorrupted receptivity while foreshadowing a cascade of visual effects that are handmade and ingenious. Writer, designer, playwright and visual artist Jean Cocteau was a renaissance man, which can sound like a fancy word for dabbler, but there are sequences in his Beauty and the Beast—not to

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Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast brimming with invention mention Orpheus (1950)—that are so wondrous, lyrical and brimming with invention as to declare cinema, which he came to late in life, his true métier, the ideal receptacle of all his talents. This adaptation of JeanneMarie Leprince de Beaumont's 18thcentury fairy tale was Cocteau's third and in some ways most perfect film—perfect because it championed innocence while accruing over its duration a seasoned adult's knowingness about the thorny nature of romantic love.

To get to the heart of the matter, to the scenes that make me adore Beauty and the Beast, you need only to sit through the director's scrolling personal disclaimer—Cocteau could be quite precious—and some perfectly enjoyable introductory scenes set in the home of the cruelly exploited Belle (Josette Day).

The film comes fully alive about 14 minutes in, when Belle's father gets lost in a misty, darkened wood, stumbles onto the enchanted compound of La Bête (Jean Marais) and steals a single rose, a crime punishable by death: either his or that of one of his daughter's. Dad returns home on Magnifique, La Bête's white steed with internal GPS, to pass the eve of his execution with his family.

But Belle, feeling bad because it was she who requested the rose, rises early and, before anyone can protest, mounts Magnifique, who whisks her back to the misty, darkened wood, to the castle of La Bête, a place where disembodied arms carrying torches light your way, where every little item is animate and there's always

a helping hand when you need one.

Belle is horrified by La Bête's ostensible ugliness but touched by his eloquence, politesse and recognition of a beauty and grace in Belle utterly lost on her petty, pretentious sisters.

Every bit the aesthete, La Bête is also quite a dandy; in his lacey gauntlets, pirate shirts and velvet robes he could almost be a more hirsute Prince. But pomp aside, I love the fact that what finally turns Belle on is seeing La Bête down on his belly slurping water from a pond. Later she will tell La Bête to drink water directly from her hands. He worries that this will repulse her, but no. "I like it," she assures him.

Of course La Bête has no intention of killing Belle. Rather, both become captives, she of his lair and he of his hopeless love for her. Belle's eventual devotion to La Bête could be regarded as Stockholm syndrome, but beneath the story's coded surfaces we can easily make out the negotiations of love between one who falls at first sight and one who comes to

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Fri, Jun 24 – Sun, Jun 26 Directed by Jean Cocteau Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally released: 1946 it only gradually—both trajectories are honoured here. The film remains wondrous and heartrending because it maintains an exquisite balance of earthly wisdom and pure magic of the most primitive sort: no one has ever made such inspired use of slowmotion or reverse-motion. Beauty and the Beast is literally full of smoke and mirrors, and this is why it never ages: it doesn't depend on the vagaries of zippy, rapidly outdated technology but, instead, on the allure of shadows, light and tactile things, many of them human bodies, taking up space. The film is both magical and of this world and I encourage you to bask in its splendour when Metro Cinema screens it this weekend.

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Maggie's Plan

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aggie Hardin (Greta Gerwig) is done waiting for life to start. According to her friend Tony (Bill Hader), she's Queen Titania of the Fairies from Midsummer Night's Dream, "sprinkling fairy dust" over those with parts to play in her grand plan.

Having decided to undergo insemination, she recruits "pickle entrepreneur," Guy (Travis Fimmel). Meanwhile, professor John Harding (Ethan Hawke) rambles across her path after his paycheque is sent to her by mistake.

The two of them share a New York academic milieu where expansive niche vocabularies are flexed (the phrase "fictocritical anthropology" gets bandied about), and children speak German and wear buttons that say: "Imagine there's no fracking." To

be dropped into such a setting in Maggie's Plan is a surreal but authentic experience, where irony lingers below the surface of virtually every scene. Therein lies a deep seam of humour waiting to be mined.

As Maggie and John get closer, the struggling novelist swears he is unsatisfied in his marriage to tenured Danish scholar Georgette (Julianne Moore). Maggie can't help but fall in love, even though it isn't part of her design. But the story doesn't end where you think it will.

Here's where the fairy dust comes in: the would-be Titania sets out on an incredibly misguided matchmaking quest.

If anyone else had played her, Maggie could have become tiresome, but there's no chance of that in Gerwig's stunning performance. Every movement, every word and every facial expression is steeped in genuine innocence and singular grace. You can't help but admire her, even as you wish she would let her scheme go.

Writer/director Rebecca Miller's witty screenplay complements Gerwig's style of acting so perfectly that it's as if the two have been working together for decades. Hawke and Moore perform their roles brilliantly as well, but Gerwig absorbs your attention every moment she's on screen.

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Finding Dory he story goes that, in summer '94, amid Toy Story's post-production, Pixar's John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft and Pete Docter sketched out the studio's feature-future on a napkin over lunch, serving up the ideas for A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc, Finding Nemo and Wall-E. That creationmyth's simplistic, like the impression Pixar's recycling its notionnapkins nowadays (Cars 3 is roaring into view, pursued by Toy Story 4 and The Incredibles 2). But when even its non-sequels range from, just last year, award-deserving (Inside Out) to shrug-meriting (The Good Dinosaur), is a second swim in the world of its 2003 fish-out-ofocean tale worth the plunge?

Finding Dory begins with backstory—regal tang Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres) was separated from her concerned parents, their forgetful little fishling wandering off into the Pacific. Now, a year after Marlin recovered Nemo, Dory murkily recalls

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moments from her tanghood. But when she and her clownfish-pals discover Dory's folks are in a Marine Life Institute on California's coast, this sequel doubles the threesome's trouble, splitting them up so Dory finds herself in the tentacles of grouchy octopus Gary (Ed O'Neill), while Marlin (Albert Brooks) and Nemo (Hayden Rolence) must rely on some crazed seaside characters.

Those characters—two raffish sea lions lazing on their rock; a loony bird—plus camouflaging, ink-blurting Gary are welcome new additions. There's a fearful pursuit by an electric-blue giant squid and a horror-style "Touch Pool" sequence where Dory and Gary must elude the grabby, pokey hands of monstrous children. Two scenes superbly stretch out the loneliness that Dory's short-term memory loss can leave her floundering in. But there's no thematic reason to return to Nemo-land—the messages are predict-

Now playing Directed by Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane  able (Dory's more capable than she realizes, Marlin and Nemo are her family too, etc).

The story's aware of the cutefactor (a ludicrous highway-chase starts off with an orchestrated cuteness-distraction) yet the flashbacks to big-eyed (pink irises, no less) little Dory—Daddy's "cupcake"—are too precious, as are the heartfelt speeches here. Such schmaltzingaround is foreshadowed by opening short Piper, where a sandpiper chick's just too fluffy and adorable, for all its beachside skitteringabout. It comes off as sprightly and amusing but a bit slight and not quite memorable enough, much like Finding Dory.

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ock it to me," Daniel Stokes says with a laugh, primed and ready to take on an interview after being well-fed at bandmate Adam Grant's grandfather's house in Halifax.

The stop comes towards the end of Black Wizard's current tour with Dead Quiet. Although the Vancouver metalheads are playing a fairly cozy venue during this weekend's gig in Edmonton, they'll be hitting the stage at Rexall Place in August as openers for Volbeat and Killswitch Engage. Stokes admits the prospect is slightly intimidating, but it's another encouraging step forward for the band after the release of its album New Waste in February.

"This would be the first record Black Wizard has out with a label's support; all the records before that have just been DIY, so that was a big change for the group, obviously," Stokes says. "It's been received well, as far as I know. It's hard to keep up with all these kids and their social media."

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French imprint Listenable, a relationship that formed after a particularly raucous show in Belgium. For a band that clearly enjoys a good time—have a look at its Facebook page—and has always followed a DIY ethos, the thought of handing over some of the control might not seem appealing at first mention. But Stokes says it's been smooth sailing thus far.

"Eugene [Parkomenko], who is the drummer and pretty much the band manager, is very business-wise and communicates with them actually really well," he notes. "We discuss stuff as a band and then Eugene will talk to the big boys, so to speak, about how we're going to do things. DIY obviously has its advantages ... this is the first time I've signed a record contract personally, and you hear a lot about how labels are on their way out or about how labels are no good or stuff like that, but I feel like if you really have your heart into it and it's what you want to focus on, it seems to be

working out pretty well for us."

Stokes is the newest member of the foursome, having joined in the summer of 2014 after stepping in for Kenny Cook, who is also the guitarist and vocalist for Anciients, for a European tour—"I believe my exact words were, 'Well, Eugene, I thought you'd never ask," he laughs, adding he became a fan of Black Wizard after hearing the band's debut self-titled LP. "From a personal standpoint, this is the first band I've been able to play in with dudes my own age, so that's a plus," says Stokes, who turned 26 in May. "I've always played with older guys. I started playing in Vancouver in the bar scene when I was about 18 using my brother's ID, but I would have been playing with 26-, 25-yearolds, you know? So to be around guys who are kind of on the same page as far as life goes has just been a blast.

Luckily, we all have the same sense of humour, and I think that goes a long

way, if you can joke around with each other and make fun of each other immediately. I think that helped out a lot. Other than that, I tried not to step on any toes and keep the ball rolling as best I could on my part."

Humour is evidently in no short supply with Black Wizard—its name is a tongue-in-cheek reference to genre tropes, after all—and its members seem to like to get the jabs in where they can. New Waste is a play on the band's hometown of New Westminster, BC, which is as much an homage to the place as it is a dig at the increasing gentrification in the community. The songs themselves span the work of writer and artist Henry Darger—the song "Vivian Girls" was derived from characters in his 15 000-page novel, In the Realms of the Unreal, and draws comparisons between them and missing aboriginal women in BC—to all-out party anthems, like the closing track, "Final Ripper." It's a disparaging mix that's

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tied together by Black Wizard's thundering melodies that ebb and flow through heavy-hitting riffs and even verge on '80s-metal-ballad territory with songs like "Laughing and Lost."

"They mentioned they wanted to get heavier, a bit faster, maybe more to the point, so to speak, and also explore other territories," Stokes says of the band's direction heading into New Waste. "We're all big fans of the same music, and then bands like Scorpions, like how they'll have a killer heavy record and this insane ballad, which was totally acceptable in the '80s and late '70s—same thing as Judas Priest. So we were like, 'Why don't we just do one of those?' We all love those, so let's throw one of them in the record—little things like that were definitely a huge change for all of us, but it was super exciting and I think it fits well on the record, you know, to have that dynamic."

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here's something fun about playing with different musicians, because everyone will conceive the music in a slightly different way," says jazz singer and pianist Laila Biali.

"It keeps things fresh for me, and I think there's an element of excitement for the audience on that level.

I think when things are fresh for the band, that translates."

Biali is discussing her upcoming performance at the Edmonton International Jazz Festival, which will see many of her songs configured to be played as a trio alongside her husband/drummer Ben Wittman and local bassist Kodi Hutchinson.

"We thought it would be fun to go semi-local with the bassist, so Ben and I would be the consistent pieces—and then when we're in Ontario we're working with Toronto-based players, and then when we're in Alberta we're working with Kodi," explains Biali, who will also be hosting a talk on Friday at 2:30 pm at the Yardbird Suite. "I'm going to take people through my journey and inspirations and process as an arranger and hopefully get them excited about the possibilities that are out there for hybridizing the worlds of pop and jazz, as well as other styles of music."

Biali is certainly no stranger to ex-

perimenting with other genres. The Juno Award-winner's latest album, House Of Many Rooms, unabashedly explored a pop side of Biali's musicality with her first collection of all-original compositions—a departure from her past jazz work that was inspired by her time singing backup for artists like Paula Cole, Suzanne Vega and Sting. But the record wasn't necessarily meant to be an attempt to bridge the two worlds.

"I think those who knew me as a jazz musician had no other way to contextualize this release than to say, 'Hey, she's crossing over.' House Of Many Rooms is actually a departure," Biali says, noting she and her husband coproduced the record and knew early on they couldn't fit it into the "jazz box." "That's why we decided to give it a project name [Laila Biali & the Radiance Project], to just sort of delineate it and let it live in and establish its own space."

Of course, it can be a gamble when an artist releases a record that deviates from the genre they're known for. Biali admits she felt some trepidation about the album, and some critics weren't quite ready to release her from the "instrumentalist/composer" classification that had been bestowed

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"When I started singing, that was sort of the first time naysayers really came out and started saying, 'She's selling out; she's following in the footsteps of Diana Krall and she's going pop,'" Biali recalls with a laugh.

But any criticism hasn't appeared to deter Biali from further exploration on her forthcoming album—due out either this fall or next spring. Biali describes the yet-untitled record as even more eclectic than House Of Many Rooms, and she hopes to build on some of the headway it made in exposing her music to younger demographics.

"I would say the new record actually does bridge my previous work and House Of Many Rooms. I feel like it really is something that fits neatly inbetween," Biali says, explaining that she did some co-writes with Royal Wood, Ron Sexsmith, Randy Bachman and Mark Jordan. "It's definitely not traditional jazz—nothing I do is traditional jazz, anyway—but I would say this leans, in terms of the spectrum that jazz spreads itself across, I feel like it's still more pop-leaning, which we feel really good about. But the harmony, for the real jazz-heads out there, the harmony is definitely at times more challenging, more adventurous, less common song forms in some instances. I feel like we might have finally struck what for us is the perfect balance."

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Angelican Cathedral, Convocation Hall; Run until Jun 28; $15-$135 YELLOWHEAD BREWERY

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Marc Beaudin (Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival); 12-2pm CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE Backyard Jam &

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Robert Uchida; 8pm; $15 (general), $10 (Summer Solstice Festival Passholders– phone or inperson only)

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THE COMMON The Common Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week

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Alyssa Strand with Arkavello & Our Good Wolf; 7pm (doors); $11 (adv), $15 (door); 18+ only NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Early: Happy Hour featuring

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Hop with DJ Babr; every Fri THE BOWER Strictly Goods:

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Flashback Friday; Every Fri MERCER TAVERN Movement

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TD Jazz Showcase: O’Neill Quintet at 6:30pm • Cabaret Series: Laila Biali at 8pm and 9:30pm • Late Night Spotlight: Audrey Ochoa Quartet at 11pm • All events part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

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Weyes and the Atta Boys; 8pm BELLAMY’S LOUNGE Bill

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O’BYRNE’S IRISH PUB Live

Old Derilicks and guests; 9-11:30pm; $10; 18+ only

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BOHEMIA Citizen Rage with

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Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every TueFri, 5-8pm

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NEW WEST HOTEL Joe

Josh Ritter (rock/pop); 7pm; $35

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Hansen Trio with Mallory Chipman; 8-11pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

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Sing Your Own Song: A Night of Musical Theatre; 7:30pm;

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Big Band Bash; 1-3:30pm • TD Jazz Showcase: Murray Cameron Smith; 6:30-7:30pm • Cabaret: Busty and The Bass; 8pm & 9:30pm • Late Night Spotlight: John Stetch; 11pm • All events part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival RENDEZVOUS PUB StellaFox, Endivera, Dead Honey, The Spanish Flies; 8pm

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Weyes and the Atta Boys; 8pm BELLAMY’S LOUNGE Bob Kitt Duo; 5-7pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair

of the Dog: Michael Coughlin (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÈ Mallory

Chipman: The Nocturnalize Project; 8:30-10:30pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival BLUES ON WHYTE Blues

Harvest Pre Party Stickybuds & Flavours; 9pm (doors); $20; No minors

Mules; 9pm

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BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB Live

every Fri with local musicians

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WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK Live Music

each week with a different band each week; 9pm

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CAFE BLACKBIRD 2016

YARDBIRD SUITE André Leroux

Jazz Fest - Kim Lesaca Group; 8pm; $15; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

Quartet at 8pm and 9:30pm • Jazzworks Masterclasses: Laila Biali; 2:30pm • All events part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK

Classical

Open mic; 7pm; $2

SUMMER SOLSTICE MUSIC FESTIVAL All Saints’

Electrik Squirrels; 9pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat CASINO EDMONTON Andrew

Scott; 9pm

Angelican Cathedral, Convocation Hall; Run until Jun 28; $15-$135

CASINO YELLOWHEAD 5 On

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4-6pm; No cover

The Side; 9pm CASK AND BARREL Natalie B; DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Adam

Holm (folk/pop); 9pm

Suite Series: Jacky Terrasson Trio; 8pm & 9:30pm • Jazzworks Masterclasses: John Stetch; 2:30-4pm • All events part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

Classical ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Alone: Arlan Vriens

Unaccompanied Violin Recital; 7-8:30pm; Admission by donation SUMMER SOLSTICE MUSIC FESTIVAL All Saints’

Angelican Cathedral, Convocation Hall; Run until Jun 28; $15-$135

DJs 9910 Golden Era (The Ol’skool

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every Sat; 9pm EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN & TEQUILA BAR Tonight

We Dance with DJ Thomas Culture playing Classics, HipHop, Dance and Indie Rock; Every Sat, 9pm; No cover EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

Rotating DJs Velix and Suco; every Sat

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

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Psyturdays: various DJs; 9pm SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

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Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am Y AFTERHOURS Release

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SUN JUN 26 BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE

The Bailey Buckaroos; 2pm; $12 BLUE CHAIR CAFÈ Brunch -

Charlie Austin; 9:30am2:30pm; Cover by donation BLUES ON WHYTE Bob Cook & the Barefoot Kings; 9pm THE BUCKINGHAM Dada

Plan; 7:30pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door) CAFE BLACKBIRD 2016 Jazz

Fest - Lunch On The Patio W. Fred Mack Trio; 12-2pm; Free; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival DANCE CODE STUDIO

Lawrence Band (variety); Every Sun, 5pm; All ages

RED PIANO BAR Swingin'

YARDBIRD SUITE Tara Kannangara Quintet; 2pm & 3:30pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

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Classical ALL SAINTS’ ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL Charles Richard

Hamelin; 7:30pm HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Violet Collective

Chamber Ensemble; 7:30pm; $10-$20

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DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays with DJ

Angelican Cathedral, Convocation Hall; Run until Jun 28; $15-$135

Zyppy ~ A fantastic voyage through 60’s and 70’s funk, soul & R&B; Every Sun

MON JUN 27 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: Metal Mondays with

Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox BLUES ON WHYTE The

Orchard; 9pm CHURCHILL SQUARE Works

with Jazz: Magilla Funk, Conduit, featuring Brett Miles; 12-2pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest

with DJ Blue Jay - mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

TUE JUN 28

FIDDLER'S ROOST Open FILTHY MCNASTY'S Classic

“Pimp” Sessions & Moon Hooch Double Bill; 7:30pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Happy

SANDS INN & SUITES Open Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Sunday

BBQ Jam Every Sunday hosted by the Marshall

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme

Kraziness with host Ryan Kasteel; 8pm-2am Hour featuring Jay Aymar; 5:30pm

jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Guests and newcomers always welcome; every Wed, 7pm; $2 (donation, per person), free coffee available

Jazz Combo; 12-2pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle Jam Circle; 7:30-11:30pm

Bingo! Tuesdays KELLY'S PUB Open Stage: featuring host Naomi Carmack and guest; 9pm; No cover L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night

Fiddlers Association: Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm

Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge

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Anchondo; 9pm BOURBON ROOM Acoustic singer songwriter jam; Every Wed, 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

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PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass

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NEW WEST HOTEL Ghost

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RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players

Tuesday

JUN/28 SOLD OUT

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Happy

TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke;

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

Ammar's Sunday Sessions Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm

Angelican Cathedral, Convocation Hall; Run until Jun 28; $15-$135

JUN/24 ASTRAL HARVEST PRE PARTY W/ STICKYBUDS & FLAVOURS

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE Karaoke

ON THE ROCKS Turn't Up

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

NEW WEST HOTEL Ghost

Monday

SUMMER SOLSTICE MUSIC FESTIVAL All Saints’

HAAR THEATRE Marquee Series: Tribute to Benny Goodman1; 7:30pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

Wednesday Jam with Hosts Wang Dang Doodle (variety); Every Wed, 7:30-11:30pm; All ages

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

ON THE ROCKS Killer Karaoke

Classical

Cluckin’ Wednesdays GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

alternative retro and notso-retro, electronic & euro; Every Tue

Rider; 9pm

Rider; 9pm

YARDBIRD SUITE Pugs and Crows (Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival); 8-11pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Mother

Floor: Eddie Lunchpail spins

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy

ON THE ROCKS The

Derek Wiens Duo; 5:309pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm

BLUES ON WHYTE The

Hour featuring Evan Crawford; 5:30pm

Sun; 9:30pm

Crack with guests; 8pm (doors), 8:30pm (show); Sold out; 18+ only

DRUID IRISH PUB Karaoke

Wednesdays

Orchard; 9pm

MYER HOROWITZ Soil &

RICHARD'S PUB Mark

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Crazy Dave's Rock & Roll Renegade Jam; 7:30pm

SUMMER SOLSTICE MUSIC FESTIVAL All Saints’

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Sacrilege

Sentimental Gentlemen; 9pm

RIVER CREE–The Venue Diana Ross; 6pm (doors), 8pm (show); $69.50

Classical

CHURCHILL SQUARE Macewan

NEW WEST HOTEL Ghost

jam every Tue; 9:30pm

TIELESS TUESDAY LA RONDE

Rock Monday

to Joe Cocker, Keep It Greasy; 9pm; $5 (door)

O’BYRNE’S Guinness Celtic

Angelican Cathedral, Convocation Hall; Run until Jun 28; $15-$135

Stage; 7-11pm

Sundays: All metal all day

NEW WEST HOTEL Ghost

Rider; 9pm

STARLITE ROOM Leftöver

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sunday Night Live on the South Side: live bands; Free; All ages; 7-10:30pm

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Tribute

Happy Hour Featuring Minor Matter; 5:30pm • Later: Big Dreamer Jam featuring Jess Dollimont; 8pm

Trudel 4 with Ingrid Jensen; 2:30-4pm, 7:30pm & 9pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

SUMMER SOLSTICE MUSIC FESTIVAL All Saints’

Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every TueFri, 5-8pm

Flamenco Guitar Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Early:

Main Floor: DJ Kevin Martin;

Wednesdays at the Pint with DJ Thomas Culture; Every Wed, 10pm

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VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1542, stalbert.ca/ experience/arden-theatre ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com THE AVIARY 9314-111 Ave, 780.233.3635, facebook.com/ arteryyeg BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd,

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524 Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PALACE CASINO 8882-170 St NW, 780.444.2112, palacecasino. com PINT–DOWNTOWN 10125-109 St NW PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St, 780.431.0091, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com

SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com STUDIO 96 10909-96 St NW SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY 17118-90 Ave TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE 10324-82 Whyte Ave UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB 10746 Jasper Ave, 780.951.2705 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428

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EVENTS WEEKLY

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

contact vpm@norators.com, 780.807.4696, norators. com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until Jun, 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo.com; norwoodtoastmasters.org

LIGHTSABER TRAINING • Sir Winston Churchill Square • Celebrating all things Star Wars. Featuring lightsaber training for the young and young at heart.

Guests must bring their own lightsabers (makeshift lightsabers are welcome) • Every Wed during the summer; 7-7:45pm for young padawans, 7-8:30pm for mature padawans • Free

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

COMEDY

LOTUS QIGONG • SAGE downtown 15 Sir Winston

AN EVENING WITH BILL MAHER • Jubilee

Churchill Sq • 780.695.4588 • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every

8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus.net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm

EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

Auditorium • 780.427.2760 • jubileeauditorium. com • For the last 22 years, Bill Maher has set the boundaries of where funny, political talk can go on American television. First on Politically Incorrect and for the last 12 years on HBO’s Real Time, Maher’s combination of unflinching honesty and big laughs have garnered him 33 Emmy nominations • Jun 26, 8pm • $55-$99.50

FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479-

Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave • museums. ualberta.ca • address connections that can be made between two museum collections; The Mactaggart Art Collection from the University of Alberta and the photos provided on loan from the Wellcome Library in London • Jun 29, 6-7pm • Admission by donation, RSVP at goo.gl/forms/QCK29weiIVEeNoA12

QUEER

CAROL BURNETT: AN EVENING OF LAUGHTER AND REFLECTION WHERE THE AUDIENCE ASKS QUESTIONS • Jubilee

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103

St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Mon: Drag Race in the White Room; 7pm • Wed: Monthly games night/trivia • Thu: Happy hour, 6-8pm; Karaoke, 7-12:30am • Fri: Flashback Friday with your favourite hits of the 80s/90s/2000s; rotating drag and burlesque events • Sat: Rotating DJs Velix and Suco • Sun: Weekly drag show, 10:30pm

Auditorium • 780.427.2760 • jubileeauditorium.com • Jun 23, 7:30pm

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, main

Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Paul Sveen; Jun 24-25 • Bob Angeli; Jul 1-2

floor Cafe, Or in confidence one-on-one in the Craft Room • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance. One-on-one meetings are also available in the craft room • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Seaton Smith; Jun 23-26 • Monroe Martin; Jun 29-Jul 3 CONNIE'S COMEDY HOSTS THE DATING GAME • On The Rocks • With Marko Slaney and The

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Drop in hours: Mon, Wed 4-7pm; Fri 6-9pm; Closed Sat-Sun and Holidays • JamOUT: Music mentorship and instruction for youth aged 12-24; Every other Tue, 7-9pm • Equal Fierce Fit & Fabulous: recreational fitness program, ages 12-24; every other Tue, 6-8pm, every other Tue • Queer Lens: weekly education and discussion group open to everyone; every Wed, 7-8:30pm • Mindfulness Meditation: open to everyone; every Thu, 6-6:50pm • Art & Identity: exploring identity through the arts, a wellness initiative; Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Movies & Games Night: Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Thought OUT: Altview’s all-ages discussion group; every Sat, 7-9pm • Men Talking with Pride: Social discussion group for gay and bisexual men; Every Sun, 7-9pm

Nervous Flirts • Jul 10, 8 pm

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou. DJ to follow • Every Sun, 9pm EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave •

Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm

780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON •

TEAM EDMONTON • Various sports and

8307-109 St • amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug, Dec) • Free

recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:15-8:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• Volleyball: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • Meditation: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • Board Games: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • All Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm

BABES IN ARMS • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • A casual parent group • Every Fri, 10am-12pm

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Alberta Works Health Centre, #600 12323 Stony Plain Road • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB • Jun 23, 3:30pm

CARROT BOARD GAMES NIGHT • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • An evening of lattes, laughs and board games. Bring your own board games or borrow one from The Carrot's collection • Jun 28, 7-9pm • Free • All ages DEEPSOUL.CA • 780.217.2464; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages DROP-IN D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café,

Fri, 2-3:30pm • Free

10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue, 7pm • $5

MONDAY MINGLE • Hexagon Board Game

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 10728-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

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University of Alberta Museums Galleries at Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave • museums@ualberta. ca • museums.ualberta.ca • Exploring how such images shaped perceptions of an expanding and changing world • Jun 23, 12-1pm • Admission by donation (RSVP)

THROUGH AND BEYOND JOHN THOMSON'S LENS • University of Alberta Museums Galleries at

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE • 10425-82 Ave • Underdog Comedy Show • Every Thu

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com

CLAIMING THE VIEW: PHOTOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL IN JOHN THOMSON’S TIME •

TOASTMASTERS

Cafe, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Meet new gamers. Go to the event solo or with a group • Every Mon, 5-11pm • $5 (one drink per person)

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

• Chamber Toastmasters Club:

6th floor, World Trade Centre, 9990 Jasper Ave; Contact: 780.462.1878/RonChapman@shaw.ca (Ron Chapman); 780.424.6364/dkorpany@telusplanet. net (Darryl Korpany); Meet every Thu from Sep-Jun, 6-7:45pm • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs. org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm;

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays features talented comedians • Tue: Domestic bottle beer special only $3.75 all night long • Wed: Jugs of Canadian and Kokanee for $13; Karaoke with Shirley from 7pm-12:30am • Thu: Highballs on special only $3.75 all night long; Karaoke with Bubbles 7pm-12:30am • Fri: Comming soon: DJ Arrow Chaser's new TGIF Party • Sat: Pool Tournement, 4pm; Jager shots on special only $4; Coming soon, DJ Jazzy SPECIAL EVENTS 24TH ANNUAL PETS IN THE PARK • Hawrelak Park • ehspetsinthepark.com • Canine Carnival: fun and games with your dog and the whole family.

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of animals • Jun 26, 9am-4pm • Free

ALLEY KAT BREWERY TOURS • Alley Kat, 9929-60 Ave • 780.436.8922 • alleykatbeer.com • Interested in how grain becomes beer? Want to see the brewing process in action? Alley Kat is always game to chat beer with folks • Every Thu-Fri, 12-5pm

BLOCK PARTY 2016 • Ronald McDonald House Charities Northern Alberta, 7726-107 St • rmhcna. org • Join Ronald McDonald House Charities Northern Alberta for its fourth-annual block party. Enjoy live entertainment, food and outdoor games for the whole family • Jun 26, 11am-7pm • Free

THE CARROT'S BBQ BIRTHDAY PARTY • The Carrot • Join us in celebrating The Carrot's 9th birthday. Celebrate with fun family activities, and some good eats • Jun 25, 12-3pm • Free

CRAFT BEER & CROQUET DATE NIGHT • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms north of Devon on Hwy 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • The croquet mallets are lined up, the grass is green, the flowers are blooming and the craft beer is chilled • Jun 30, 6pm to dusk • $13.50 (adults), $7 (student with valid ID), $9.75 (seniors, friends of the garden, garden season pass holders)

DATE NIGHT - IMPROV COMEDY NIGHT • Devonian Botanic Gardens, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • 780.987.3054 ext. 2223 • dbg.events@ ualberta.ca • devonian.ualberta.ca • Audience inspired improv games with the University of Alberta Improv Group • Jun 23, 7pm • Included with regular admission

EDMONTON CLOWN FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER • FootNotes Studio, 9708-45 Ave • 780.999.8519 • edmontonclownfest@gmail.com • edmontonclownfest.com • A night of clowns, dance, drinks and fun featuring live music, a variety performances, and social dance • Jun 25, 8:30pm • $20 (adv at swingtix.ca), $25 (door)

EDMONTON COLLECTOR CON • Italian Cultural Centre, 14230-133 Ave • Edmonton's premiere toy and comic collecting event • Jun 26, 10am-4pm • $5 (free for kids under 12)

EDMONTON SCOTTISH HIGHLAND GATHERING • Grant MacEwan Park, 3105-101 St • Competitions in piping and drumming, Highland dance and heavy events. Also featuring sheep dog demonstrations, beer gardens, Scottish food and wares, childrens games and much more • Jun 26, 8:30am-5:30pm • $15 (adult), $10 (seniors/students, free (kids under 6)

E-VILLE ROLLER DERBY PRESENTS: GAGE CUP CHAMPIONSHIP E-VILLE ROLLER DERBY PRESENTS: GAGE CUP CHAMPIONSHIP • Edmonton Sportsdome, 10104-32 Ave • e-villerollerderby.com • The last bout of the season • Jun 25, 7-10pm • $10 (adv at Mars & Venus or Brown Paper Tickets), $15 (door)

FOUND FESTIVAL • Venues throughout area • Dance, theatre, visual art, music, film and creative writing in unexpected places • Jun 23-26

MARTIN DEERLINE'S DAY OF PLAY • Martin Deerline West Edmonton, 17104-118 Ave • 1.877.627.8468 • martindeerline.com • Featuring bouncy castles, pedal tractor course, wagon rides and much more • Jun 25, 9am-2pm • Free NIGHT MARKET EDMONTON • Beaverhill House Park, Jasper Ave & 105 St • nightmarketedmonton@ gmail.com • 780.934.1568 • nightmarketedmonton. com • Watch an old movie, eat some food, or shop at the vendor’s stalls • Every Fri, 7-11pm, May 20-Aug • Free

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM • Reynolds-Alberta Museum, 6426-40 Ave, Wetaskiwin • history.alberta.ca/reynolds • An exclusive adult-only night out at the museum. Featuring competitions against friends in our 1950s-style game show, building a Model-T and more • Jun 25, 7-10pm • $40 (per person) SPARTAN SPRINT EDMONTON • Oilfield Technical Society, 2104-156 St • spartanrace.ca • An obstacle race designed to push people out of their comfort zones • Jun 25, 8am (first heat); Jun 26 (hurricane heat) UKRAINIAN VINTAGE FAIR • ACUA Art Gallery & Artisan Boutique, 9534-87 St • 780.488.8558 • events@acuarts.ca • Ukrainian clothing, pottery, ceramics, embroidery, weaving, carving, art work, crafts, religious items, pysanky, books and more will be up for grabs • Jun 25, 5:30-9:30pm • Free YEG MARKET • 152 St and Stony Plain Road • yegmarket.com • Featuring a different theme each week. Included is fresh fruit, veggies, crafts and more • Ever Fri, 4-8pm, May 27-Sep 16 • Free

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): "The past lives on in art and memory," writes author Margaret Drabble, "but it is not static: it shifts and changes as the present throws its shadow backwards." That's a fertile thought for you to meditate on during the coming weeks, Aries.

Why? Because your history will be in a state of dramatic fermentation. The old days and the old ways will be mutating every which way. I hope you will be motivated, as a result, to rework the story of your life with flair and verve.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): "Critics of text-messaging are wrong to think it's a regressive form of communication," writes poet Lily Akerman. "It demands so much concision, subtlety, psychological art—in fact, it's more like pulling puppet strings than writing." I bring this thought to your attention, Taurus, because in my opinion the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to apply the metaphor of text-messaging to pretty much everything you do.

You will create interesting ripples of success as you practice the crafts of concision, subtlety and psychological art.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): During my careers as a writer and musician, many "experts" have advised me not to be so damn faithful to my muse. Having artistic integrity is a foolish indulgence that would ensure my eternal poverty, they have warned. If I want to be successful, I've got to sell out; I must water down my unique message and pay homage to the generic formulas favoured by celebrity artists. Luckily for me, I have ignored the experts. As a result, my soul has thrived and I eventually earned enough money from my art to avoid starvation.

But does my path apply to you?

Maybe; maybe not. What if, in your case, it would be better to sell out a little and be, say, just 75 percent faithful to your muse?

The next 12 months will be an excellent time for you to figure this out once and for all.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): My meditations have generated six metaphorical scenarios that will symbolize the contours of your life story during the next 15 months: 1) a claustrophobic tunnel that leads to a sparkling spa; 2) a 19th-century Victorian vase filled with 13 fresh wild orchids; 3) an immigrant who, after tenacious effort, receives a green card from her new home country; 4) an 11-year-old child capably playing a 315-year-old Stradivarius violin; 5) a menopausal emptynester who falls in love with the work of an ecstatic poet; 6) a humble seeker who works hard to get the help necessary to defeat an old curse.

LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): Joan Wasser is a Leo singer-songwriter

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who is known by her stage name Joan As Police Woman. In her song "The Magic," she repeats one of the lyric lines 14 times: "I'm looking for the magic." For two reasons, I propose that we make that your mantra in the coming weeks. First, practical businessas-usual will not provide the uncanny transformative power you need. Nor will rational analysis or habitual formulas. You will have to conjure, dig up or track down some real magic. My second reason for suggesting "I'm looking for the magic" as your mantra is this: You're not yet ripe enough to secure the magic, but you can become ripe enough by being dogged in your pursuit of it.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): Renowned martial artist Bruce Lee described the opponent he was most wary of: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10 000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10 000 times."

In my astrological opinion, you should regard that as one of your keystone principles during the next 12 months. Your power and glory will come from honing one specific skill, not experimenting restlessly with many different skills. And the coming weeks will be en excellent time to set your intention.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): To celebrate my birthday, I'm taking time off from dreaming up original thoughts and creative spurs.

For this horoscope, I'm borrowing some of the BOLD Laws of author Dianna Kokoszka. They are in sweet alignment with your astrological omens for the next 13 months. Take it away, Dianna: 1) Focus on the solution, not the problem; 2) Complaining is a garbage magnet; 3) What you focus on expands; 4) Do what you have always done, and you will get what you have always gotten; 5) Don't compare your insides to other people's outsides; 6) Success is simple, but not easy. 7) Don't listen to your drunk monkey; 8) Clarity is power; 9) Don't mistake movement for achievement; 10) Spontaneity is a conditioned reflex; 11) People will grow into the conversations you create around them; 12) How you participate here is how you participate everywhere; 13) Live your life by design, not by default.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): No pressure, no diamond. No grit, no pearl. No cocoon, no butterfly.

All these clichés will be featured themes for you during the next 12 months. But I hope you will also come up with fresher ways to think about the power and value that can be generated by tough assignments. If you face your exotic dilemmas and unprecedented riddles armed with nothing more than your culture's platitudes, you won't be able to tap into the untamed creativity necessary to turn problems into opportunities.

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"Get Up! (Get On Up)"—even though you wanna get down.

Here's an example of the kind of original thinking you'll thrive on: the more the growing chamomile plant is trodden upon, the faster it grows.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): The royal courts of Renaissance England often employed professional fools whose job it was to speak raw or controversial truths with comedic effect. According to the Royal Shakespeare Company, Queen Elizabeth once castigated her fool for being "insufficiently severe with her." The modern-day ombudsman has some similarities to the fool's function. He or she is hired by an organization to investigate complaints lodged by the public against the organization.

Now would be an excellent time for you to have a fool or ombudsman in your own sphere, Sagittarius. You've got a lot of good inklings, but some of them need to be edited, critiqued or perhaps even satirized.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): Capricorn journalist Katie Couric is a best-selling author who has interviewed five US presidents and had prominent jobs at three major TV networks. What's her secret to success? She has testified that her goal is to be as ingratiating and charming as she can be without causing herself to throw up. I don't often recommend this strategy for you, but I do now. The coming weeks will be prime time for you to expand your web of connections and energize your relationships with existing allies by being almost too nice. To get what you want, use politeness as your secret weapon.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): "The water cannot talk without the rocks," says aphorist James Richardson. Does that sound like a metaphor you'd like to celebrate in the coming weeks? I hope so.

From what I can tell, you will be like a clean, clear stream rippling over a rocky patch of river bed.

The not-really-all-that-bad news is that your flow may feel erratic and jerky. The really good news is that you will be inspired to speak freely, articulately, and with creative zing.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): Every now and then you may benefit from being a bit juvenile, even childlike. You can release your dormant creativity by losing your adult composure and indulging in free-form play. In my astrological opinion, this is one of those phases for you. It's high time to lose your cool in the best possible ways. You have a duty to explore the frontiers of spontaneity and indulge in I-don't-give-a-cluck exuberance. For the sake of your peace-of-soul and your physical health, you need to wriggle free of at least some of your grownup responsibilities so you can romp and cavort and frolic. V

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LELO's new venture

The message behind Hex condom is muddled and confusing Luxury sex-toy maker LELO announced last week it has jumped into the condom-making business.

The company spent a lot of money and time on this new endeavour, even hiring Charlie Sheen as its campaign spokesperson. LELO's reputation has taken a beating over the last few years after some confusing moves, like spending millions and millions of dollars defending itself against We-Vibe's patent infringement claims, and rushing odd and gimmicky new designs to market, seemingly without any product testing. With this new condom, it seems like LELO is hoping to retake its position as a leader in design.

The Hex latex condom has a hexagon structure, which LELO claims

makes it more flexible and much more difficult to break. At first glance, that seems like a wonderful thing—but with correct usage, regular condoms don't break easily anyway. They are subjected to strict testing regulations to ensure this. Breakage, when it does happen, is usually a result of incorrect usage—not condom design.

A video on the Hex website shows a regular condom and a Hex condom stretched over a glass. A needle is poked through the regular condom and it rips right across. A needle is poked through the Hex condom repeatedly and it does not break. It looks cool, but what does it mean? I believe the message is that the structure of the Hex condoms in unique and strong, but

poking needles through them is not a good way to demonstrate this.

The video makes it seem as if you can poke holes in it and still use it, but that's not the case. It may not rip, but it will still have a hole in it.

Even if Hex does break less, in order for that to have a major impact on STI rates, it will have to be used by many millions of people. At this point, Hex can only be pre-ordered through LELO's website. Once the pre-sale specials are done, it looks as though they will retail for approximately $30 CAD for 12 condoms ($2.50 each). Other latex condoms typically retail between $0.75 and $2 each. How many people will be willing to take the time to order online, or look for a shop that carries these condoms,

and pay that much more for them?

There's a market for Hex, certainly, but I doubt it will reach those required millions.

One can only guess that LELO spent quite a bit of money acquiring Sheen as the spokesperson for Hex. After looking at the ad the company produced, I don't think it was a wise investment. In it, Sheen paces and stammers and looks down at his hands and feet a lot. The message is muddled, but it ultimately seems to be that if you don't use condoms, you will end up paying for it for the rest of your life—just like he did. It gave me the impression that Sheen is ashamed of himself for contracting HIV and considers himself a cau-

tionary tale. Ultimately, it's a scare tactic that shames people who are HIV positive—and we know from experience that fear-based marketing rarely works.

A new condom design is always welcome. Anything that could make condoms more effective and more user-friendly is never a bad thing. But this condom, and the odd marketing campaign attached to it, will have only a minor effect on the evolution of condoms, not the revolution LELO is proclaiming. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmontonbased, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

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PUPPY LOVE

There is a guy at my work who is into puppy play. I know this because I have some friends in the gay puppy community. I don't give two shits what anyone I work with does to get off. All well and good, except ... he wants us to call him Spike, his puppy name. Isn't this a case of him involving everyone at work in his sex life, whether we want to be involved or not?

Disturbed Over Gratuitous Gratifications Of Naming Experience "It's important to note, firstly, that pup play isn't a sexual activity so much as it is a head space," said Amp, a puppy, a gamer, a porn performer and the cohost of Watts the Safeword, a kink-friendly sex-education YouTube channel. "For DOGGONE's coworker, pup play may be a comfort thing, or a social thing, or even a way for him to redefine who he is as a person so that he can take control."

Amp, who is 26 and lives in Seattle, got into pup play about five years ago.

"A daddy and his pup joined a group of friends on a gay camping trip," said Amp. "Their bond just seemed to glow, and their relationship stuck with me as something I wanted in my life. For me, yes, pup play can get sexual with my Daddy, but Amp is just who I am when I'm out and about."

Like your coworker, DOGGONE, Amp goes by his puppy name socially and professionally. So I put this question to him: does he get a secret thrill and/or a visible boner when a coworker, barista, casual friend, or rando calls him by his pup name?

"God no!" said Amp. "If someone calls me 'pup' in a really sexual way or an aggressive way, maybe, but not when someone is simply using

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your name. A pup name is essentially a nickname, and people use nicknames socially and professionally. So long as the kinkier aspects of pup play—tail wagging, barking, ball chasing—are kept out of the workplace, DOGGONE's coworker using his puppy name at work doesn't involve the office in his sex life."

A quick thought experiment, DOGGONE: let's say a female coworker married a man—a really hot man—and later confided in you that she married him because the sex was great. And let's say she took her new husband's last name.

Would using her new last name "involve" you in her sex life?

Being married partly defines who she is, it led her to take a new name, and sex is an important part of her marriage.

But her new name isn't just about sex— it's about identity, intimacy, connection, and sex.

Pup play isn't as serious a business as marriage, of course, but you should be able to extend the same courtesy to Spike that you wouldn't hesitate to extend to your hypothetical straight female coworker— that is, use the names you've been asked to use without obsessing over their respective sex lives.

"DOGGONE should always respect how someone identifies and asks to be named," said Amp, "and regard the sexual or kink aspects of someone's name choice as a separate detail."

You can—and should—follow Amp on Twitter @Pup_Amp.

TWITTER OUTING

I recently synced my phone contacts to my Twitter account. When I was scrolling through the list of people who turned up from my contacts, I saw a username that looked out of place. It was the account of a lowkey traditional-guy friend of mine.

To my surprise, on the account he was dressed as a woman in a few of the pictures and was with another Twitter user who is a popular dominatrix in the area where he lives.

I'm sex-positive and support people

KINKY, but "bury the lead," as they say in the news biz. Instead of opening with those particular photos being easily accessible to all, open with the relevant facts about yourself: "You know I work in porn, and I'm not fazed by BDSM or sex work or any sort of gender-related sex play, and I'm a big supporter of gender-nonconforming people as well as the trans community." Then let him know what you found, how you stumbled across it, and how to adjust his privacy settings.

DON'T STOP FIGHTING

My name is Peter and I'm a longtime fan. I've also been very involved with the Human Rights Campaign and their work in getting the Equality Act passed.

I'm 21 and only recently out of the closet.

I opened up about my sexuality after the passage of marriage equality last June and have since been a proud gay man. It seemed that since marriage equality, our community was only going up. Even the passage of HB2 didn't make me cynical about the future. But this recent shooting has changed my world completely. Fighting for equality in housing, education and employment seems like a joke after this massive act of violence in Orlando. I'm looking to someone in the community for guidance.

Peter

A pup name is essentially a nickname, and people use nicknames socially and professionally. So long as the kinkier aspects of pup play—tail wagging, barking, ball chasing—are kept out of the workplace, DOGGONE's coworker using his puppy name at work doesn't involve the office in his sex life who are gender nonconforming, of course. I also work for a porn company, so I don't judge anyone who participates in BDSM. My concern is that I don't know if this person is aware that his account can be found via a regular old social media and phone sync. I don't want him to get outed for being a fetishist or possibly being gender questioning or transgender if he does not want to be out. Should I give him a heads up? Should I keep my mouth shut?

I want to be respectful.

Knowing Isn't Necessarily Knowledge, Yes? Send that traditional guy a note,

They don't win—the haters don't win—when they chase us, beat us,

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or kill us. They win when we stop fighting.

Please don't stop fighting.

And please don't despair. Hundreds of thousands of us died in the 1980s and '90s when hate, fear, greed, racism and negligence intersected with a deadly virus. A lot of us felt then the way you do now—that it was over, that it was hopeless, that the coming out and the organizing and the fighting had been for nothing, and that everything we had won up to that point was meaningless. And then we got up off our butts and we showed them—we showed those motherfuckers—that the fight in us was greater than the hate in them. We showed them that we were stronger and smarter than they were, we showed that fucking virus that we were stronger and smarter than it was, and we made it clear to them that we were not going to shut up and die quietly or go back into the closet and die alone.

And we had only each other for a while there—for a long while. For years we fought alone.

Look at who is on our side today— all good and decent people everywhere. The president of the United States and the next president of the United States. Look at the rallies, look at the vigils, look at the outpouring of love, sympathy and support.

Don't look at the killer. Don't look at the haters. Don't look at the vile comments left by shit people on Twitter and Facebook. Look at the good. Look at the love. Look at the good and loving people inside and outside the LGBT community and take strength from their love and support.

Then get out there and fight.

On the Lovecast, all hail superhero drag queen Panti Bliss: savagelovecast.com. V @fakedansavage on Twitter

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