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Gay-straight freedom The fact that we need Bill 202 to ensure schools can't shut down gay-straight alliances in Alberta says a lot about a particular failing of the school system itself: its meddling in students' freedom.

A school should be a place students go to learn the basics of our society. Math, English, science—nobody would question how important these things are for navigating the world we live in and the world we've made. In life, you'll need to add things, read things and understand how the natural world works. That's not all you need, but a school obviously has limited time and can't do everything.

But the very least that a school could do is not prevent its students from engaging in the sort of hands-on social learning that something like forming a gay-straight alliance might teach.

Because starting organizations, dealing with diversity, working through problems with compassion and making meaningful positive change in the lives of individuals and groups is something we should want to happen in our society.

And we certainly don't want the authorities shutting them down.

And no, faith-based schools don't deserve an exemption, as the floundering Wildrosers are requesting on what they say is the behalf of parents. The mother of a boy prevented from starting such a group at his school by the school board came forward in April. The office of Laurie Blakeman, the MLA behind this bill, claims that many attempts to start a gay-straight group are needlessly stalled and delayed by principals, seemingly wanting to avoid the term "gay-straight alliance" in favour of vaguer "diversity clubs." The worry here is that you lose the specificity, and the explicit marker that this is a group for LGBT youth and their allies.

Students should be encouraged to think for themselves, organize for themselves, and not have their good gestures shut down because some adult somewhere, when it comes down to it, cares way too much about what other people do with their genitals. The bill should pass with intent intact. V

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More crisis for health-care system Carl Amrhein's new job overseeing AHS was not the best choice If it wasn't so frightening, it would make for the beginning of a potentially hilarious joke, or perhaps a sitcom. A former big-city mayor, with absolutely no experience in health care, gets appointed Alberta's health minister. In one of his first major acts as minister, he appoints a University of Alberta administrator with absolutely no health care experience as the health system's new official administrator. Hilarity ensues.

In case you missed it, the position of official administrator was created in 2013 when thenhealth minister Fred Horne fired the entire board of Alberta Health Services for not doing his bidding. In essence, the idea is that the official administrator plays the governance and oversight roles usually played by a board. Last week, Minister of Health Stephen Mandel appointed University of Alberta provost and vice-president academic Carl Amrhein to hold that position for the next seven months.

According to Alberta Health, Amrhein's main function between now and the end of June will be to advise the minister on a new governance model for the health system, including designing a new board structure and recruiting for that new board. Mandel reportedly wants a board that will focus specifically on data gathering and analysis and standards for health-care and service delivery.

All of this raises the question of just what qualifies Amrhein to carry out this role—a role for which he will continue to be paid his U of A salary and benefits to the tune of approximately $500 000 a year?

ernance. Before taking on the top administrative position at the U of A in 2011, he was a professor of geography at the University of Toronto. Despite his lack of health-care knowledge and experience, Mandel did tell the media that it is Amrhein's "wealth of experience from one of Canada's most prestigious post-secondary institutions" that qualifies him for this job.

It is concerning, and indicative of the state of government and governance these days,

ministrative costs are only part of Amrhein's legacy at the U of A. At the time of his resignation last week, he was working hard to promote a new budgeting model for the university—one that would shift responsibility for fundraising, implementing cuts and major spending decisions directly to the university's faculties and departments (the level under the expensive vice-presidents and associate vice-presidents). What this would mean is an undue focus on income-generating activities rather than academic pursuits, austerity for the front lines of the university rather than for the various top layers of administration, and an uneven distribution of resources across campus based on the ability of various faculties to generate revenue.

Finally, Amrhein's tenure has resulted in relations with the university's academic staff being more strained and confrontational than at virtually any other time in the U of A's history, and in the board of governors of the university coming to play an increasingly rubber-stamp function rather than a genuine governance function.

Based on this, can we expect AHS to become even more top-heavy, with less resources going to the front lines, more confrontational relations with staff and a new board that is there only to rubber stamp the wishes of the minister and high-level administrators? If so, then the result will be no joke. Our health system will be further in crisis than ever before. V

It is concerning that someone's experience as an administrator and bureaucrat can completely trump their lack of experience in the subject matter at hand.

Amrhein has no prior experience with health-care delivery, administration or gov-

that someone's experience as an administrator and bureaucrat can completely trump their lack of experience in the subject matter at hand when considering them for this type of high-level job. Perhaps if we focused on health-care experts rather than managers, our health-care system wouldn't be as topheavy and dysfunctional as it currently is.

Unfortunately, given that Amrhein was hired because of his administrative experience, that top-heaviness and dysfunction in AHS are not likely to change. Administration costs at the U of A have more than doubled since 2000-2001 (Amrhein started in 2003).

The overall base pay for the president and vice-presidents at the U of A hit $3.1 million in 2013 (more than most other university in Canada). And truly only a geographer could navigate his way through the number of associate vice presidents that exist under the U of A's five vice presidents on the institution's organizational chart.

But the top-heavy structure and rising ad-

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.

The e-cig divide

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Potential harms of e-cigarettes has student group worried

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t an estimated $1.7 billion in US sales, electronic cigarettes are one of the fastest growing markets for smoking cessation in North America. But their popularity growth may soon hit a major obstacle in Edmonton.

E-cigarettes are electronic devices that offer metred doses of liquid mist to its users. While the earliest e-cigarette can be traced back to the early '60s, they've quickly gained popularity since hitting the US market in 2006. In Edmonton, there's currently no regulation limiting the use of e-cigarettes in public, but a group of University of Alberta students is hoping to change that.

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Public Health, is asking Edmonton city council to regulate e-cigarettes under the city's smoking ban, just like typical cigarettes. E-cigarette users would be forced to smoke only in designated areas, just like tobacco users.

"We're not against e-cigarettes.

We want to be cautious, and we believe in the precautionary principle," SAPH member Tharsini Sivananthajothy says. "If it's a proven harm-reduction tool, then we'll be supportive of it. But right now there has been no conclusive evidence. All the studies out there have been six months or one-year clinical trials, and for these types of medications or harm-reduction tools, you need a long cohort study."

But support for more regulation

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Writing the rights of animals

Charter of Rights and Freedoms for Animals aims to deal with instances of animal abuse in Canada

Canada is not the first place to entertain the idea of animal rights. The Animal Legal Defense Fund in the US has been pushing to increase the rights of animals for some time. The Treaty of Lisbon of 2009 says that as animals are sentient beings, European Union member states need to look after their welfare. The UN has universal declarations on animal welfare as well.

Animal Justice is representing the desire of many Canadians, as recent opinion polls have shown that the majority of Canadians recoil at stories of animal abuse. A 2013 Strategic Counsel poll commissioned by the Humane Society International/Canada and Animal Alliance of Canada found that "80 percent of Canadians support a nation-wide ban on the testing of cosmetics and their ingredients on animals." A World Society for the Protection of Animals survey from 2011 showed that "95 percent of Canadians agreed that animal pain and suffering should be reduced as much as possible." A 2010 poll conducted by Environics Research Group for the International Fund for Animal Welfare found that more than half of Canadians don't agree with the use of taxes to support the hunt of seal pups. A 2006 poll from the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies and the International Fund for Animal Welfare found that "85 percent of Canadians support legislation that will make it easier for law-enforcement agencies to prosecute those who commit criminal acts of cruelty to wild or stray animals."

"I know when Parliament was considering fixing the Criminal Code a few years ago, parliamentarians told me they got more mail on that issue (animal abuse) then on any other issue in the history of Parliament," Labchuk says. "People really care about animals and I know a lot of politicians do as a result, too."

Labchuk says there are lots of politicians at both the provincial and federal level friendly to Animal Justice from whom they are hoping to garner support.

"It's becoming pretty clear, science says unequivocally, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that animals experience both suffering and pleasure, just like we do," Labchuk says. "But the law just doesn't protect them the way it's supposed to and the way that society really wants it to. Every time we see a case of cruelty in the news, it generates an incredible reaction from people and that's because they understand that this is not right, it's not fair, animals shouldn't be treated this way. Every time we see an undercover investigation from groups like Mercy For Animals that go undercover in factory farms and expose the conditions, people are just outraged. So what the charter would do is remedy that situation and take the first steps."

Labchuk says it's only been in the last two years that we have been getting a glimpse of the abuse happening at factory farms in Canada as undercover investigations have been surfacing. The groups have found horrible instances of suffering every time.

"Sometimes from neglect, sometimes open abuse and beatings and other inappropriate behaviour and other times just the conditions that inherently exist in a high-volume factory farm, just make life miserable for animals," Labchuk explains. "So it's a huge problem here. There are no laws that prohibit factory farming or anything like that. The laws that do

smoking look normalized in society to youth who could use flavoured e-cigarettes and take up smoking tobacco later on.

"The main concern of ours with regards to e-cigarettes is the modelling that's associated with e-cigarettes," Sivananthajothy says. "We worked so hard for smoking to be socially unacceptable in public spaces. There's designated smoking areas and young children, when they see people smoking e-cigarettes, they won't know the difference between which one is a cigarette and one is an e-cigarette. So it could promote uptake of smoking behaviours in the future."

Even though e-cigarette use has risen for kids, there's little research connecting e-cigarette use to pick-

ing up regular cigarettes later.

"It is a mind-bogglingly stupid conclusion," Phillips says. "They are just spouting the propaganda of antitobacco extremists.

"Very few kids see a lot of adults smoking cannabis, and yet more kids use cannabis than tobacco," he continues. "Moreover, there is not the slightest reason to believe that vaping (by kids or adults) causes any of them to take up smoking.

There is literally no evidence of this ever happening and there are good reasons to believe it would not happen."

Phillips believes the biggest missing piece of research on e-cigarettes is simply how to convince smokers to switch to them. He says that switch could be as good for their

sometimes provincial, but charges are oftentimes never laid or wellprosecuted.

"Due to a number of loopholes in the law, that sometimes means that animal abusers get away with it," she says. "So what the charter would do is strengthen those protections for animals and ensure that [authorities] can enforce them."

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nimal abuse is a criminal act in Canada, but defining what abuse is gets tricky. Animal Justice, a Toronto-based advocacy group, is pushing for further protection of animals by lobbying lawmakers to help them establish a Charter of Rights and Freedoms for Animals.

"Thirty years ago we did something really great for human beings in Canada by introducing the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and that made this country a fairer and more equitable place in all kinds of ways," says Camille Labchuk, director of legal advocacy with Animal Justice. "But we're really lagging behind when it comes to animals. Right now they have very

few legal protections in Canadian law and [there is] almost no way to enforce the few protections they do have—they just don't have the right to go to court."

The animal charter will provide better protection so animals can live free from suffering, express normal behaviours and socialize with members of their species. If these rights are violated, the charter will ensure their case is heard in court.

Does this mean no more pets or zoos? Not exactly. The charter will ensure that animals, such as pets, are treated properly. Labchuk says the current laws are weak and sometimes the abuser faces criminal charges,

isn't universal among experts. Carl V Phillips, the chief scientific officer at The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association, researched methods of tobacco harm reduction as an associate professor at the U of A from 2005 – 2010, including publishing the firstever survey of e-cigarette users.

Through his research, he's found that e-cigarettes are far less harmful than smoking tobacco, and its negative effects are too small to measure. Phillips also points out that the difference in environmental impact is even greater, as the risk of e-cigarettes is held only to the smokers themselves, unlike conventional cigarettes.

"They don't know what they're talking about," Phillips says about

SAPH. "There is a lack of longterm research on every single new product on the store shelves. That does not lead us to ban indoor use of them all. Instead we assess— based on the enormous knowledge we have about environmental exposures—whether there is worrisome hazard."

The Edmonton Public and Catholic School Boards have already banned e-cigarette use in their spaces, and SAPH is hoping the university and the city will follow suit. Stemming from what the group sees as a lack of long-term research on the health effects of e-cigarettes, SAPH wants better regulation to prevent exposure to any potential health risks and cut down the risk of making

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apply are the Criminal Code, which prevents causing cruelty to an animal.

In practice, that's only really applied in the most egregious of cases like open beatings and clear abuse of animals. There's some neglect provisions there, but they're rarely charged."

The Criminal Code states that causing unnecessary suffering to an animal is what constitutes a crime.

"That sounds pretty good when you think about it for a second, but if think about it for a few more seconds you don't have to think very long or very hard before you realize that the corollary of unnecessary is necessary," Labchuk says. "So if we're going to allow some suffering, what suffering is necessary?"

The way courts interpret suffering at factory farms is as a byproduct of farming practices so it is not seen as criminal in nature. It is up to the prosecution to make a case for why a farming practice is not normal, which becomes complicated. It's a similar story for zoo animals.

"Lucy the elephant at the Edmonton Zoo, some people decided to go to court on her behalf a couple of years ago," Labchuk says. "Basically seeking a declaration from the court that her rights were being violated and that the city and the province were violating the law by keeping her in the conditions that she was in. The courts dismissed it on a technicality ... they said that groups like the animalrights group that went to court just don't have the standing to bring that kind of suit, and neither does Lucy.

So in practice there's absolutely no way, unless the government decides to act, there's no way for anybody to enforce Lucy's right to not be subjected to distress."

Labchuk says it's always a battle to get lawmakers to act on any issue, but the group is hopeful because Canadians feel an affinity towards animals and care for their well-being.

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health as quitting completely.

City council is looking for more evidence about the potential harm of e-cigarettes before they come to a final decision on whether to include them under normal smoking regulations. Little is known about the long-term negative effects, if any, ecigarettes have on people's health, but SAPH is encouraged that a discussion of the merits of e-cigarettes can now begin on city council.

"Up until now, there was no conversation about e-cigarettes, whether they were harmful or beneficial or anything," Sivananthajothy says. "So we're really glad that conversation is happening at a policy level."

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Ukraine cock-up

Former Ukrainian president's choice to break off talks of joining EU led to his downfall This is what former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, subsequently driven from office by mass protests in Kiev, said to German Chancellor Angela Merkel just one year ago, at the start of the crisis. It was recorded by a Lithuanian television crew, eavesdropping on the conversation with a directional mic, at the European Union summit in Vilnius where Yanukovych announced that he was not going to sign an EU-Ukraine trade deal.

"The economic situation in Ukraine is very hard, and we have big difficulties with Moscow," Yanukovych explained to Merkel in Russian (which they both speak fluently). "I would like you to hear me. I was left alone for three and a half years in very unequal conditions with Russia. ... one to one."

The Ukrainian president was not overthrown by a "fascist" plot, as Russian propaganda would have us believe, nor was NATO hoping to make Ukraine a member. (Indeed, NATO had repeatedly told the previous Ukrainian government, which was very pro-Western, that under no circumstances could it ever join the Western alliance.) Exactly one year into the crisis, it's useful to remember what really happened.

The basic question you have to ask about any international crisis is: con-

spiracy or cock-up? The Ukrainian crisis definitely falls into the latter category. Nobody planned it, and nobody wanted it. Here's how they stumbled into it.

Yanukovych inherited the negotiations for a trade deal with the EU from the previous government when he returned to the presidency in 2010. (He was overthrown by the "Orange Revolution" in 2004, after

Russian-speaking parts of the country, but he knew that he couldn't simply ignore the west.

On the other hand, he couldn't ignore Moscow either. Russia's President Vladimir Putin saw the EU as a stalking horse for NATO, and was trying to persuade Yanukovych to join his own "Eurasian Economic Union" instead. Moreover, Russia had huge economic leverage, since it provided

Politicians have to live in the short term, however, and in 2012-13 Ukrainian exports to Russia fell by half as Putin turned the screws tighter. Those exports mostly provided income for people in industrial eastern Ukraine, ie Yanukovych's own supporters. The EU had left him "alone for three and a half years in very unequal conditions with Russia ... one to one"—so in late 2013 he made his choice: break off

If Ukraine cannot be brought back into Moscow's sphere of influence, then Putin's strategy is to neutralize and paralyze it by maintaining a permanent "frozen conflict" in the east. winning a rigged election, but in 2010 he won narrowly but cleanly.) And he didn't break off the talks with the EU because that would have alienated half the country: the western, mostly Ukrainian-speaking part.

Yanukovych was a typical postSoviet political figure, deeply corrupt and almost comically greedy—the presidential palace he lived in on the banks of the Dnieper was so lavish it could have been in the Middle East— but he was a competent politician.

Almost all his votes had come from the eastern and southern, mostly

most of Ukraine's energy and bought half of Ukraine's exports (mainly coal, steel and heavy industrial goods made in eastern Ukraine).

So for three years Yanukovych temporized, trying to get financial guarantees out of the EU that would make up for the economic punishment Putin would inflict if Ukraine signed the trade treaty. The EU wouldn't budge: there would be no special help for Ukraine. It would just have to take its punishment, Yanukovych was told, but the trade deal would be good for the country in the long term.

the EU talks, and sign up with Putin's EEU instead.

Did Yanukovych foresee that there would be big demonstrations against him in Kiev, where people had pinned their hopes on association with the EU? Of course he did, but he probably didn't foresee that the protests would be fuelled by the ham-fisted resort to violence by his own officials.

He certainly didn't foresee that he would ultimately be overthrown— nor did Putin, who had put him in that impossible position.

All the subsequent escalations of

the conflict in Ukraine—the Russian annexation of Crimea, the pro-Moscow revolts in the two eastern provinces with the largest ethnic Russian minorities, the direct Russian military intervention that saved those revolts from collapse last August—have been driven by Putin's determination to reverse his original error.

If Ukraine cannot be brought back into Moscow's sphere of influence, then Putin's strategy is to neutralize and paralyze it by maintaining a permanent "frozen conflict" in the east. In coldly rational terms, Ukraine's best strategy now would be to abandon those two provinces, Donetsk and Luhansk, which are basically open-air industrial museums, and leave it to Russia to subsidize them instead.

But it's not going to do that, because sovereign states never give up territory voluntarily. Realistically, therefore, Kiev's best option is to strengthen the current ceasefire and let the front lines congeal and stabilize into de facto borders, while maintaining its legal claim to the two provinces.

It remains to be seen if Moscow will even let that happen. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Glenys has been a part of Vue since its inception nearly 20 years ago, her fingers tirelessly pounding away at the keyboard, ensuring that Edmontonians were never in the dark when it comes to our weekly listings. An invisible byline that has woven together the very foundation of our publication.

We will miss the sweet sound of a spoon clinking around a glass jar, her cutting remarks to keep gregarious co-workers in line from time to time, and the warmth she brings to our office on a daily basis.

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whole thing on the stove or start it on the stove and then finish it in the oven."—BL "They do great oven-roasted chickens. I've bought them in the past as wedding gifts for people and they've come back to me and said, 'You know what, I never thought I would use it, but it's great.'"—PS

Still others seem totally unnecessary. To each their own, of course— but if you are shopping for cookware this Christmas, it might be wise to avoid the following.

Electric knives A good knife is the essential kitchen tool. A knife that requires a power source is definitely not.

"I think they're just silly.

Why would you use a chainsaw on your food?"—PS Garlic press Few kitchen tools are as divisive as the humble garlic press, being both snubbed and adored in equal measure.

"I can't live without my Epicurean garlic press; I put garlic in everything."—BL "Those are pretty ridiculous. A knife will work; you can smash garlic and chop it and you can even add a little salt and then if you push your blade down on the cutting board, you can get it to a nice paste as well—and that takes all of 10 seconds."—NF

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s that $70 onion-skin peeler really worth it? Would the amateur chef on your Christmas list love or hate (or even use) an avocado cuber? What about a pomegranate deseeder or a butter slicer? Vue spoke with a few of Edmonton's foodies for the scoop on which kitchen gadgets make great gifts—and which ones don't.

Recommendations from: Nevin Fenske, Drift Food Truck (NF) Kathryn Joel, Get Cooking Edmonton (KJ) Barb Lockert, Barb's Kitchen Centre (BL)

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ESSENTIALS Everyone has to start somewhere. If you are buying for a new chef, or upgrading those Dollarama tools from college, the following are items no cook should be without.

(Good) knives You won't get very far in the kitchen without a solid knife; this was the first item mentioned by every respondent.

"A well-made steel knife will, when cared for, last you a lifetime."—PS "The first thing I'd say is a good six-inch knife. I like to stick to the basics."—NF Food processor / blender The ability to pulverize food should not be overlooked:

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many more recipes require a food processor than you might think. Even if it's not mandatory, this piece of equipment sure make lots of dishes much easier to manage.

"I have a lot of clients who can't do recipes specifically because they don't have a blender or a food processor, one or the other."—KJ Flat-ended wooden spatula Often the most essential items are the simplest. Anyone who's ever spent way too long trying to scrape a pot using a blunt spoon knows the power of the spatula.

"It helps you with stirring and sticking and you can actually scrape the bottom of the pan."—NF TOTALLY OVERRATED There are many useful kitchen gadgets, and then there are some which are so incredibly specific they serve literally only one purpose.

Egg separator There really is a tool for everything—even for things that don't need one. The egg separator, which isolates the yolk from the egg white, falls into this category.

"It's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen. My father gave it to me; I just don't even need it—I can do that with my fingers."—PS FOR FOODIES If you're shopping for an avid home chef or self-declared foodie, they probably have all the basic kitchen tools already (and likely a few gadgets, too). The following is a list of often overlooked but interesting and useful kitchen swag.

Tajine This conical ceramic dish hails from North Africa and is used to make that region's signature cuisine, but it also works perfectly for many other one-pot dinners.

"You don't have to be making a Moroccan dish; you can do chicken and rice. You can cook the

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Pressure cooker It might seem like a quaint relic of '70s cookware, but the new generation of pressure cookers is much quieter and safer than their early counterparts. With the major savings they offer in both cooking time and energy consumption, they could easily become the newest retro kitchen trend.

"You can cook faster, better meals with more nutrition and more flavour. You can keep the smell in so you can make something smelly like a fish soup and not stink up the house. When you're saving time you save energy, which you're then saving money."—BL Vitamix While not an essential gadget— a food processor serves most average home chefs—the Vitamix is one of the hot trends in cookware and several respondents mentioned how much they love it.

"It's a blender on steroids, but it's so versatile. I just think that the emulsions they do are really quite amazing."—PS "I have one and I love it; it's very useful. You can grind things very finely; you can blend things that won't blend in a normal blender."—KJ Baggy rack Never fret again about coercing your partner/roommate/ house guest/UPS guy to hold open a bag while you stuff it with ground beef or messy beets: the baggy rack is the only spare hand you need.

"It's just a handy helper— you don't need a buddy to hang on to a Ziploc bag to fill it with stuff. You can also use it to dry bags."—BL Gift certificates Sometimes you're buying for that person who's got it all—or they're just so picky you know nothing you choose will satisfy them. There is no shame in buying gift certificates. In fact, many people might even prefer it.

"I think for Christmas presents, experiences are better than things."—KJ

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Beer and Christmas really can go hand-in-hand I imagine beer had very little to do with the original Christmas celebrations. I am also pretty sure no beer has ever been brewed using frankincense or myrrh. But there are beers that can be quite naturally linked to the Christian origins of Christmas.

While Jesus' preferred beverage was undoubtedly wine, I imagine he'd be OK with what these beers have to offer.

Where better to start than with beer actually brewed by monks?

There are currently 12 breweries in the world where monks create beer for the benefit of the monastery and its charitable activities. The holy dozen collect themselves under the moniker Trappist Ales: only monkled breweries that meet certain quality standards are allowed to use this term. They make Belgian strong ale, which has a high alcohol content and a distinct spiciness and earthiness derived from special yeast.

These beers are not only admirable for their non-profit, charitable basis, but they are also very good. In fact, Trappist Ales tend to be some of the best beers in the world.

So, if you want a pious beer to go with your Christmas fruitcake or turkey dinner, turn to a "Drunk Monk" beer. (My use of this term is wholly affectionate.) Many of them are available in Edmonton; one of my favourite Trappist brewers is Westmalle, which produces a lighter-bodied Tripel and a darker Dubbel. You can also try the beer from Rochefort or La Trappe for good examples of what the monks can achieve.

A particularly special Trappist is Orval. Slightly hoppier and sharper than the others, this golden ale transforms if you age it for two or three years: an earthy, musty char-

acter appears, giving it fascinating complexity. If you can find the extremely rare Westvleteren 12 from the smallest and most elusive of the Trappist monasteries, grab it. Only a few hundred bottles are floating around Alberta at the moment.

The beer most directly linked to Christmas is St Bernardus Christmas Ale. This Belgian brewery is named after a 12th-century abbot who created the Trappist Order of which the 12 Trappist breweries are members.

While a secular brewery, St Bernardus has a long history of brewing beer on behalf of Trappist monks.

Their Christmas Ale is a reddish brown ale that offers rich, dark fruit flavours, bready malt and touches of peppery spice; it is like a fruitcake in a bottle.

If you don't want to work too hard to find a beer with religious overtones, you could always pick up a St Ambroise Oatmeal Stout. The name has no particular significance to Christmas (Ambroise was a fairly minor saint), but it is a great beer that's perfect on cold winter nights.

The particularly irreverent will enjoy BrewDog's 5 AM Saint. It has no true religious connection, but it's a surprisingly good beer from a plucky, brash and controversial Scottish brewery.

Regardless of how you choose to incorporate (or avoid) religion in your Christmas celebrations, everyone can relax with a beer inspired by—or even made by—the pillars of Christianity. 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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Subverting subversion

Jing Yuan Huang undermines authoritative influence in Classroom of Culture Reflection paganda, or just empty forms to make things in order," Huang says. "Sometimes, I am very surprised to know that people are still very supportive of the government. My recent projects are set to explore this area: how do people really see their own lives?"

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You'll feel how we tell you to feel about this picture // Jing Yuan Huang

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hat's the difference between the official narrative—the stories authorities choose to tell us about who we are—and the reality for ordinary people living their everyday lives? This question is especially poignant for Jing Yuan Huang, the Chinese-Canadian artist behind Latitude 53's newest exhibition: Classroom of Culture Reflection—Confucius City Edmonton Project.

"I've become very alert to the idea of influence," she says by email from

China. "I question the infrastructure and the visibility of 'influence.'"

In Confucius City, Huang uses pleasing bucolic images like clouds or doves—imagine the famous Windows desktop background of a rolling green field under azure sky—and intersperses them with authoritative, official-sounding bureaucratic-y text.

These words identify not only what you're looking at, but how you should be feeling about it.

This idea, of how authority attempts

to shape how people understand reality, is one that is especially poignant for Huang. The Chinese state regularly uses outright propaganda to advance its agenda. Authorities also use Confucius Institutes, a worldwide program of schools said to promote Chinese language and culture—but often criticized for presenting a highly politicized view of China.

"I could assume that most of the people know [that] what [the] government has put out was lies, or pro-

Huang describes the images she uses in Confucius City as "neutral/ natural," extremely subtle visual prompts that don't carry the heavy weight of preconceived meaning.

What do you make of a perfectly ordinary-looking picture of a cloud against a blue sky? Well, what does the text tell you to feel?

Ai Weiwei, the towering giant of contemporary Chinese art, was in many ways a catalyst for Huang's exhibition. She started Confucius City in 2011 after Weiwei was arrested by Chinese authorities for his provocative activism and challenge of state authority.

The real reasons he was arrested— that unflinching criticism of the Chinese state—was not what the authorities told the public, and they preferred to level tax evasion charges instead. This punitive reaction to an outspoken artist is explored in Huang's classroom setting: desks lined up in rows, texts and images on the wall.

"It invites you to reflect on culture, with a couple of examples of how 'they reflect,'" Huang says. "Through rhetoric you understand this message comes from someone who believes 'art should serve people,' and

'tradition should serve national pride.'

[There's a] contrast to how modern, open, calm the setting looks with the backwardness of its belief."

This approach is a new one for Huang's work. She's presented Confucius before, like in Winnipeg where she favoured more striking imagery: naked female torsos juxtaposed with flashy mandalas and grim communist architecture. Other notable work includes Transmigrating Inadequacy, a 2008 effort where Huang created large-scale installations of imagewalls that guided visitors through the exhibition space.

Adam Waldron-Blain handles program coordination and communications for Latitude 53—and is also tasked with executing Huang's vision from across the world through a slight language barrier and a 12-hour time difference. Huang immigrated to Canada in 2002 but returned to China in 2010. For medical reasons she will be unable to be in Edmonton for the show, so Waldron-Blain is the artist's de facto eyes and hands in Canada.

The staff assembled the classroom setting in the gallery's main space.

While more pronounced in China, with its more overt state indoctrination, Canada—and especially Edmonton—is not immune for distorting our story to serve a purpose.

"Edmonton has this focus on identity: who are we, what kind of city are we and what's our history," WaldronBlain says. "So we're constantly talking about what everything means, what our narrative is."

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Space // Space

Interstellar gender questionings // Ian Jackson, Epic Photography

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eldom does a play come along that is so passionately, thoroughly, unapologetically weird. That single word sums up the first (and pos-

sibly second) impression of Northern Light Theatre's season opener, Jason Craig's gender-bending space odyssey Space // Space.

The premise sounds strange enough pauses, confused, and mentions that on paper: twin time must have brothers Lumus Until Sat, Nov 29 (7:30 pm; addoubled back; (Trevor Duplessis) ditional 11:30 pm show on Lumus squints and Penryn (Nadien Fri, Nov 28) at him, his exChu) have been Directed by Trevor Schmidt pression already launched into space ATB Financial Arts Barns, beginning to take in a retro-futuristic $16 – $28 on a manic glint, pod containing a before declaring few vinyl recordings a little too loudly of Earth's greatest hits. We meet the that he's just screwing with him.

Quite literally, too. There's a deep duo several years into their aimless journey, just as Penryn wakes up from and enduring sense of foreboding a three-year slumber to discover that that permeates every second of this he is now a she. play, a vague but inescapable dread Craig's script orbits around itself in that is inevitably confirmed in a bractightening circles: flashbacks show ing reveal. Meanwhile, Lumus' body that while his brother slept, Lu- is decaying unnaturally fast; he's losmus practiced a wincingly awkward ing teeth. stand-up routine, repeated perhaps one time too many over the course Chu and Duplessis staunchly handle of the show. Their dialogue loops roles that are demanding for their back on itself: at one point Penryn sheer lack of footing. Despite the

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plodding, dopey speech that characterizes the first half of the show, they are able to pick up the pace and occasionally bend Craig's disorienting script to their own purpose. Duplessis' reverberating, bluesy harmonica number is hauntingly compelling, while Chu's despairing reprisal of her brother's stand-up routine stands out as her strongest moment.

If you can manage to accept this show's sheer absurdity—and that's a pretty big if—a vast chasm appears underneath the barrage of superficial incongruity. It's dark down there, and disturbing: riddled with the ickiest iterations of gender and sexual conflict. Unfortunately, Space // Space threatens to alienate the audience before they care to further explore those depths.

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dding the second weekend of this year's Royal Bison Art and Craft Fair was something of a happy accident for its organizers.

The venue that houses the Bison is a performing arts society, and its rooms are jampacked with events by the time the holiday season rolls around. However, after a vendor had a particularly successful weekend and approached organizer and graphic designer Vikki Wiercinski about an additional weekend, she decided to submit the request "for kicks" and let things play out as they would.

Fast-forward to early September of this year and Wiercinski received a call stating

she had until 5 pm that day to secure the venue for a second weekend.

"We just thought it would kind of be no risk, no reward," Wiercinski says over the phone, in the midst of preparations.

Wiercinski notes that when she took over organizing duties for the Bison (now in its 17th iteration, with the additional weekend marking its 18th), the intent had not been to expand. But, as it turns out, adding a second weekend has allowed the Bison to open its doors to out of town vendors—something that had not been part of its "locals-only" ethos in the past.

"That was a restriction we had to make a few years ago because we were getting so many topnotch Edmonton vendors applying that we couldn't accommodate outside requests at all," she explains.

It turns out that word of Edmonton's much-loved and anticipated art and craft fair has spread throughout the prairies, with the

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Fri, Nov 28 – Sun, Nov 30 and Fri, Dec 5 – Sun, Dec 7 (Fri, 5 pm – 9 pm; Sat, 10 pm – 5 pm; Sun, 10 am – 4 pm) 8426 Gateway Blvd, $2, children are free December weekend welcoming an influx of new vendors—Flight Path Designs from Vancouver, Fine Mesh from Calgary, and Milk Glass Handmade from Grande Prairie, to name but a few.

"The December weekend is the only weekend we have out-of-towners; the November weekend is Edmonton only, but I don't know that we'd do that again next year because I think it's good to balance it," Wiercinski notes. "We're obviously still learning when it comes to expanding, and being really aware of what people like us for and why vendors keep coming back."

There will be a large Edmonton contingent at both weekends, too, including wares from Offal Goods, Bang Bang Bijoux, Marlorie Urbanovitch, Fridget Apparel, Andrew Benson, Bro Brick, Keri V Leatherworks and treats from Moonshine Doughnuts, who recently proved to the judges on the Food Network's Donut Showdown that baked doughnuts can stand up against their fried counterparts. "[It's] a giant art community love fest," says Wiercinski, describing the Bison. "It really is just a joy-filled Edmonton event.

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ne man's monument is another about the fantastical and whether man's eyesore. Perhaps play- or not the fantastical can actually wright Moira Buffini was thinking of happen, and whether or not we can something like our High Level Bridge, transcend our reality. That's where or maybe that ultimate divisive local the modernity comes in, because they're fighting edifice, the Talus in a little way Dome, when she Until Sat, Dec 6 (7:30 pm) against modern was penning Bla- Directed by Sandra Nicholls thought, which vatsky's Tower. It's Timms Centre For The Arts, shuns any ideas her black comedy $11 – $22 of the fantastical." of familial relations and the second of her plays to grace the stage As the two performers discuss Buffini's work, it's clear this is a playof Studio Theatre's current season.

Following the recently-concluded wright who has fully captured their run of Buffini's Loveplay, Blavatsky's attention. Indeed, Studio Theatre's Tower is set entirely within the titu- mini Buffini festival is a student-drivlar structure, which was designed by en affair: last year Perry performed an idealistic architect and intended in the final scene of Blavatsky's Towto be a small town's crowning monu- er for a colleague's scene study, and ment; instead, it became its ugly eye- subsequently submitted the play to sore. Blavatsky and his children have director Sandra Nicholls for Studio's all cloistered themselves within the next season.

"It's really exciting to find a play tower, save eldest daughter Audrey, that reads as contemporary, and the family's sole breadwinner.

"If you didn't know it was the same tells a contemporary story, but playwright, besides the literary ref- when I'm working on it as an actor, erences I don't think you would I'm breaking it down the same way I know that it was the same person," would break down a piece of Shakesays Bobbi Goddard, who plays Au- speare," Goddard says. "It is demanddrey. "They're very different worlds." ing, and these people go through ex"I love how Buffini explores magical periences that are massive in scale. realism in a way where she can take There's like Greek epic-ness happena scene and not let it get bogged ing in this tiny little modern world down by narrative," says Joseph Per- that [Buffini]'s built." ry, who's playing the role of middle MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM child Roland. "There's this ambiguity

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Marc Boutin, Gary Burns, Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, and Kristy Trinier; Dec 3, 7pm; $15/$8 (member) • late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • OUR LUMINOUS LAND: Paintings by Jim Visser; Dec 4-Jan 31, 2015; opening: Dec 4, 6-8:30pm • GUILDED: LET NATURE STUN YOU: Works by St Albert Place Visual Arts Council Members; until Nov 29 • Art Ventures: Gallery Studio: 3D Landscapes; Dec 20, 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Welcome to the Real World: Dec 18, 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member)

BEARCLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St • ANIMAL SPEAK: Paintings by Jessica Desmoulin, and clay works

by Dianne Meili; until Nov 27 • CHRISTMAS SHOW: New works by Jane Ash Poitras, Jason Carter, Linus Woods, and others; Dec 6-31

BLUE CURVE GALLERY • Glenrose Hospital, Main Fl, 10230-111 Ave • Daily 10am-8pm • 780.735.7999/403.949.4991 • WHITE: Photography series

by Karen Lee, exploring the graphic and atmospheric elements of winter • Until Dec 31

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • WHAT TIME IS IT: Works by Brian Batsch; until Dec 5 • ALL WRAPPED UP: Featuring works for the Holiday Season; Dec 6-25

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • ARTCETERA: Works by Thérèse Bourassa, Ute Rieder, Hélène Giguere, Luc Josh, guest A.K. Hellum; until Dec 2 • MINIATURES AND MORE: Members artworks; Dec 5-24

CORRIDOR GALLERY–Red Deer • Recreation Centre, lower level, 4501-47A Ave • SHRUG: Drawings by Glynis Wilson Boultbee • Until Nov 28

CORRIDOR GALLERY–Red Deer • Downtown Recreation Centre • FOR THE LOVE OF PLEIN AIR: Group show; Dec 1-Jan 28; Artist reception: Jan 2, 5-7pm

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 ST, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.com • Presentation: Creating an Approriate CV for Your Career: Dec 6, 11:30am-1:30pm • BRIDGE: Works by Sergio Serrano; until Jan 17

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • Stacked: Alberta Oil Painters group show; Nov 29-30 • COLOURS AND LIGHT: Paintings by Alain Bédard; until Dec 6 • Christmas Group Show; Dec 9-24

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • 306'ERS A WAVE FROM SASKATCHEWAN: Works by Amalie Atkins, Ruth Cuthand, David Garneau, Zachari Logan, Clint Neufeld, Alison Norlen, and Laura St Pierre • Until Nov 29 • Closing Reception: 306’ers A wave from Saskatchewan • Artist talk: with Clint Neufeld and Zachari Logan; Nov 29, 2pm

DEVON POTTERY GUILD • The Guild Studio, Old Robina Baker School, 1 Jasper Court South, Devon • devonpotteryguild.com • Christmas sale • Dec 5, 7-9pm; Dec 6, 10am-4pm; Dec 7, 10am-4pm

DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.200.2711 • Richard Dixon's Studio and Gallery featuring a collection of historical Canadian artworks; antique jade sculptures and jewellery; 17th Century bronze masterworks and artworks by Richard Dixon DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Paintings by Robert Scott; including new work conceived in Slovenia; until Dec 6 • WINTER SHOW: Latest work by gallery artists, Michael Batty, Graham Fowler, Jessica Korderas, John Macdonald, Erik Olson, Tim Okamura, Jim Park, Harry Savage, David Thauberger and more; Dec 13-24; opening: Dec 13, 2-4pm

DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St • 780.760.7284 • TELEGRAPH HILL: Coup Boutique and Drawing Room present paintings by Charlotte Falk • Until Dec 24

ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • DISCOVERING DINOSAURS: until Jan 31 • AGA at enterprise Square Galleries: SONAR: Sound Art Explorations by Edmonton Artists; until Jan 4 • POP POP: A DESIGN POP UP SHOP: Locally made goods available for purchase include print objects, home wares, fine art and everything in-between; Dec 1-14; thesda.ca/poppop • extension Gallery: enterprise Square Atrium: NORTHERN NURSING–A LIFE IN PORTRAITS: Works by Heather Clayton; daily until Dec 17

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • MFA graduation show: MIND BODY PHONE: Emilie St. Hilaire, MFA Drawing and Intermedia; until Nov 29 • Art & Design 50th Anniversary Exhibition curated show; Dec 9-20, Jan 2-10 • the Arts-Based Research Studio: Arts-Based Research Studio, 4-104, Education N: SPACES OF REMEMBRANCE: Work by Allen Ball; talk: Nov 27, 12-2pm FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • thefrontgallery. com • Works by Kari Due and Tom Gale • Dec 13-29 • Opening: Dec 13, 2-4pm

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • THE BLUE HOUR: Megan Hahn's photo transparencies • Until Dec 21

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • Oil paintings by Marina Bazox and Olga Duc • Until Dec 22

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/artgallery • Gallery Walls: STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN: Paintings

by Lori Frank; until Nov 30

GALLERY IS–Red Deer • INFORMAL ARRANGEMENT: Works by Jeri Lynn Ing, Judy Sutter, Larry Reese, and Sue Woolgar • Through Nov • First Friday: Dec 5

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • Main Space: Artist in Residence Sara French explores how Visual Art is portrayed in the

newspaper • Front Room: INHERITED NARRATIVES: Photo installations with performances that questions the structure of narrative; until Nov 28 • House Party: Special Event Fundraiser; Nov 29, 7pm; $40 (adv)/$50 (door)

HUB ON ROSS–Red Deer • STOCK UP FOR CHRISTMAS: Works by Win Fuller and Echo Paton; until Nov 30 • CAPTURED: Photos by TY Photography; Dec 1-31; Reception: Dec 5, 4-6pm

• SNAP Members Show and Sale; Dec 6-20 • Printshop: PRINT AFFAIR PRETTY PAPER: Dec 6, 8pm-late; $25/$20 (member)

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Main Gallery: SNOW: Member Novelty Show; until Jan 24 • Fireplace Room: Red Deer College/High School Award Winners; through Nov • Donna Fillion; through Dec

JAKE'S GALLERY • 10441-123 St • The Edmonton art Club juried show featuring selected works by members • Until Nov 28

STRATHCONA PUBLIC LIBRARY • 8331-104 St •

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St •

Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • HIS LINES MADE HISTORY: Works by Ontario artist C.W. Jeffreys • Until Dec 17

telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • GPS ADVENTURES CANADA EXHIBITION: Combining technology, nature, and hidden treasure; until Jun 1, 2015 • INDIANA JONES™ AND THE ADVENTURE OF ARCHAEOLOGY: until Apr 6, 2015; $26.50 (adult)/$19.50 (child 3-12)/$23.50 (youth 13-17), student, senior)

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • STARRY NIGHT: Red Deer Arts Council Members juried show • Until Dec 28 • First Friday: Dec 5, 6-8pm

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • November exhibit and sale: New sculptures by Stewart Steinhauer; through Nov • HOLIDAY EXHIBITION: New works by gallery artists and secondary market works • Opens Dec 3

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Main Space: CLASSROOM OF CULTURE REFLECTION—

CONFUCIUS: City Edmonton Project, photogram-based floor pieces by Jing Yuan Huang • Until Jan 17

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor

780.496.1828 • Landscapes, birds, and still life paintings

by Svetlana Troitskaia • Until Jan 2

• Margaret Zeidler Star theatre: Diggin’ up the Past: An Archaeology Speaker Series: Katie Biittner (U of

A); Adventures in African Archaeology: Stones, Bones, & Cultural Heritage in Tanzania; Nov 28, 7pm; free with SAS membership

U OF A MUSEUMS • Human Ecology Bldg Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • LOIS HOLE: THE QUEEN OF HUGS • Until Mar 22

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Gallery A: Jean-Rene LeBlanc • Gallery B: BITS & PIECES: Patricia Coulter (mixed media works) • Until Dec 6

Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona. com • Open: Fri-Sun 10-6pm • ACACA ALBERTA WIDE ART SHOW: Presented by the Alberta Community Art Clubs Association

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • MY ASIA: Works by Cam Wilson • Until Nov 29

MACEWAN UNIVERSITY CAFÉ–City Centre

WALTERDALE THEATRE GALLERY • 10322-83 Ave

Campus • Rm 7-266 • ARTIFACTS: Paintings by Michelle Lavoie • Until Jan 28

• EQUINOX: Alberta Society of Artists show open during the run of Six Degrees of Separation • Dec 3-13

MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY–Red Deer • Kerry

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave •

Wood Nature Centre • EN PLEIN AIR (Painting in the Open Air): Group show• Until Dec 31 • Reception: Dec 5, 5-7pm; artists in attendance

YMCA (Don Wheaton) • 10211-102 Ave • yMCA

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St

Community Canvas wall: Rotating year round exhibits

780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Shi Le; Until Nov 27 • JINGLE & MINGLE: Group exhibit; Dec 6-31

• 780.407.7152 • WHAT'S BEFORE AND BEHIND: Portraits

by Patrick Higgins; until Dec 7

• UNCANNY BREACH: Works by Lucille Frost • Until Jan 2015

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony

LITERARY

Plain • multicentre.org • COMFORT CLOTHING: Works

by Wendy Gervais; until Nov 27 • Digital Photography by David Kleinsasser; Nov 29-Jan 2; artists reception; Nov 30, 1-3:30pm

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT: Explore St Albert through the lens of young photographers • Until Jan 18• Reception: Dec 4, 6–8:30pm

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Main: IMAGINE (a place of dwellings): Oil paintings by Cynthia Booth; until Dec 31 • Artisan Nook: SMALL TEMPTATIONS: Group show of small art-works and hand-crafted objects; until Dec 31 • Monoprint Cards: Demo; Dec 4, 7-7:30pm • Gold Leaf Application: Demo; Dec 11, 7-7:30pm • Sculptural Ornaments: Demo; Dec 18, 7-7:30pm NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE STOLLERY GALLERY • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • thenina.ca • BEHOLD!: Artists from Youth Empowerment and Support Services; • Nov 29-Dec 21 • Opening: Nov 29, 2-4pm

THE OLIVE–Red Deer • 4928 Ross St, back in Art Alley • FAMOUS FIGURES FROM OUR PAST: Works by Sasha Grinnell; until Nov 29 • WHISPERS: Works by Emily Thompson; Dec 1-31; Reception: Dec 5, 4:40-7:30pm PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Recent paintings by Phil Darrah • Until Dec 9 PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Featuring new work from gallery artists including Tricia Firmaniuk • Dec 13-Jan 6 PIONEER CENTRE–Spruce Grove • 301 Jespresen Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • SNOWFLAKE FESTIVAL OF ARTS & CRAFTS: Affordable, original fine art sale by local artists, jewelery, wreaths, swags, crochet, textile art, woodworking, zentangle, tree ornaments, felt, pottery • Nov 29, 10am-5pm • Admission by donation; proceeds fund Spruce Grove Gallery programming

REMEDY CAFÉ–DT • 10279 Jasper Ave • GHOSTS OF JERUSALEM: Abstract photography series • Nov 29-Dec 25 • Art Opening: Live music by Bali Panesar; Nov 29, 7-9pm ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • orientation Gallery: FINDING PLACE: EXPLORING HOME THROUGH FIELD JOURNAL ART: Dr Lyn Baldwin's work; until Nov 30 • WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: Nov 28-Apr 12 • NOWHERE PEOPLE: Photos, giving a human face to the global issue of statelessness, by Greg Constantine; Dec 6-Mar 22

ROYAL BISON FAIR HOLIDAY 2014 • Old

ARTERY • The Great Edmonton Book Swap: Bring five books and leave with more • Dec 3, 7:30pm • $10 AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Sheila Closs, A Silent Enemy, book launch; Nov 27, 7pm • Ken Rivard, Motherwild, book launch; Nov 28, 7pm • Brenda Currey Lewis, book signing of her memoir, A Twisted Fate: My Life With Dystonia; Dec 6, 1:30-4pm

CULTURE COLLECTIVE HOLIDAY ARTS MARKET • Yellowhead Brewery, 10229-105 St • culturecollective. ca • Holiday arts market and variety show • Dec 11, 7-10pm • $10 (adv at eventbrite.com, Bamboo Ballroom/ door)

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Daravara, 10713-124 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner 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

selfridgeceramicart.ca • Winter Open House • Nov 29-30, 11am-5pm

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com

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Theatre • Presented by St Albert Children's Theatre • Nov 27-30: Dec 3-6 • $26 (adult)/$20 (child/senior) at Arden box office

CINDERELLA • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton • A Traditional Christmas Pantomime, a family friendly musical comedy production including songs, slapstick comedy and gender-crossing actors • Dec 10-Jan 3 • $12 (mat adult/senior/chld); $22 (evening, adult)/$18 (senior)/$15 (child under 12) • Christmas Pantomimes–New Year’s Eve Show Dec 31 2pm

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until Jun 1; no show on Dec 22 and 29 • $13 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com

FLASHDANCE–THE MUSICAL • Jubilee Auditorium • Broadway Across Canada • ticketmaster.ca/ Flashdance-tickets/artist/1350906 • Until Nov 30 • Tickets at Ticketmaster HEY LADIES! • Roxy, 10708-124 St • 780.453.2440 • theatrenetwork.ca • Theatre Network • Womanly talkshow/gameshow/varietyshow/sideshow starring Leona Brausen, Cathleen Rootsaert, Davina Stewart and Noel Taylor, with special guest Andrea House, and music by the band, the Gibson Block • Nov 28, 8pm • $25 at TIX on the Square THE LARAMIE PROJECT • King's University, N102 Theatre, 9125-50 St • 780.465.8306 • kingsu.ca/ faculties/arts/drama • 1198: Laramie Wyoming. A hate crime against a gay student has forced an ordinary town onto the world stage. Warning: mature content • Until Nov 29, 7:30pm • $10 (student/senior)/$15 at door, King's Bookstore

LES VOIX ÉCLATÉES • La Cité Francophone, 862791 St • 780.469.8400 • Staged reading of Pierrette Requier’s play about forgotten or never uttered women’s words, a bilingual layering of their voices across time and space. Presented by L’UniThéâtre • Nov 28-29, 8pm • $10 (adult)/$5 (student) at door

MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes 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 7:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door) ONE ACT FESTIVAL • Concordia Theatre • Hosted

by Concordia's Green Thespians Collective • Tickets: pay-what-you-can • Nov 28-29, 7pm; Nov 29-30, 2pm

PASSION PLAY • MacEwan Centre for the Arts

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper

Coffeehouse Reading Series: Mill Woods Artists Collective, Calgary author, Lori Hahnel (After You've Gone); Regina poet, Tracy Hamon (Red Curls); Edmonton author, musician, artist, Mark Kozub (Weird Edmonton); singer-songwriter, Carrie Day; hosted by Christina Hardie, 2-min open mic • Nov 27, 7-9pm

NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm

Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A Monthly Play Reading Series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright

SHERLOCK HOLMES • Jubilations Dinner Theatre • The greatest detective in the world, Sherlock Holmes, is retiring and his old chum and confidant Dr. Watson is throwing a farewell dinner • Until Jan 31

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION • Walterdale

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

Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • Director Louise Large. Inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man who managed to convince a number of people that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier • Dec 3-13, 8pm, tueSat; Sun mat at 2pm • $12-$18 at TIX on the Square

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper

SPACE // SPACE • PCL Studio, Arts Barns, 10330-84

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900

Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A Monthly Play Reading Series: 1st Sun ea month With A Different Play By A Different Playwright

Ave • northernlighttheatre.com • By Jason Craig • Lumus and Penryn have been shot out into space as specimens of the past, but after 3 years things have changed • Until Nov 29 • Talk Back: Nov 27, immediately after 7:30pm show) • Booty Call: Cocktails and Mingling; Nov 28, late show

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

THAT'S TERRIFIC • Varscona Theatre • last Sat ea

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174

month • Nov 29-Jul 25

• strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Every Mon, 7pm; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until Dec 12; Jan 16-Jun 12 • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

BENJ PASEK AND JUSTIN PAUL • Arden Theatre •

SELFRIDGE POTTERY STUDIO • 9844-88 Ave •

A CHRISTMAS STORY–THE MUSICAL • Arden

THE KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • Glass Door

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Katherine Sicote, and Gerald Faulder • Until Dec 6

A CHRISTMAS CAROL • Citadel Maclab Theatre • Adapted by Tom Wood, based on the story by Charles Dickens, directed by Bob Baker, starring James MacDonald as Ebenezer Scrooge. Recommended for ages 7+ • Nov 29-Dec 23

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@ gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL ROTUNDA • 10830-109

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • Works by

• 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 13

Theatre Lab (Rm 189, 10045-155 St • Presented by Wild Side Productions by Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Jim Guedo, starring Robert Benz, Amber Borotsik, Braydon Dowler-Coltman, Belinda Cornish, Nathan Cuckow, Jesse Gervais, Kristi Hansen, Dave Horak, Cody Porter, Natasha Prasad and Fred Zbryski • Dec 6-14 • $25-$35 at TIX on the Square

Strathcona Performing Arts Centre • Nov 28-29 and Dec 5-7 https://www.facebook.com/RoyalBisonCraftFair St • 780.414.1624 • ART FOR AID: Art exhibit and sale and performances in support of the Ukraine featuring local artists of Ukrainian descent • Nov 29, 2-5pm

CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave

Presented by St Albert Children's Theatre • Dec 6

BLAVATSKY'S TOWER • Timm's Centre, U of A • U of A Studio Theatre • By Moira Buffini, a tragic comedy about a blind visionary and his family, secluded in a decaying tower, facing mortality. Directed by Sandra M. Nicholls, starring David Barnet, Hunter Cardinal, Natalie Davidson, Bobbi Goddard, and Joseph Perry • Nov 27-Dec 6 • Evening: $11 (student)/$22 (adult)/$20 (senior); Mat: $11 (student)/$17 (adult)/$15 (senior); preview: $5; Mon: */2-for-1

TOP OF THE POPS: A BRITISH ROCK INVASION • Mayfield Dinner Theatre • Celebrating all things British. From the '60s to the '70s, the new wave of the '80s, right up to the superstars of today, Top Of The Pops captures it all. With the Beatles, the Stones, the Hollies, the Who, Adele, Amy Winehouse and more • Until Feb 1

WEST SIDE STORY • Festival Place • Part of the Christmas time celebration in Sherwood Park with a cast of local actors, singers and dancers and an orchestra • Until Nov 30 • $24-$37 (dinner/brunch options at select performances for additional cost) at Festival Place

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FEATURE // BIKE CHARITY

Kelly Ridsdale, winter biking warrior // Josh Marcellin

K

elly Ridsdale's mountain bike crunches through the packed snow on a path northeast of downtown Edmonton. It's a crisp November afternoon, beautifully bright in the way only sunny winter days can be.

Ridsdale has biked nearly every day in this city for the last 25 years, through all of the cruel winter weather our neck of the north can muster: blizzards, sleet, ice and the dreaded -40 C temperatures.

"It can get pretty cold on the nose and the face," the 40-year-old says while straddling his bike, traffic whizzing by on the other side of a chainlink fence. "But I have to go to the pharmacy every morning to get my medication. I need my bike."

Ridsdale's decades of winter biking have included hard times. He has been homeless and has survived by collecting recyclables, and he knows

how hard it can be to have the proper clothes to survive the harsh streets in the frozen months.

It's that challenge that inspired a group of hardy local winter cyclists to help out their less-fortunate fellow Edmontonians. Two Wheels Good, the charitable faction of #YEGbike, launched a clothing drive on November 14 to collect winter essentials: jackets, warm socks, underwear, sweaters and sweatshirts, shoes, boots, jeans and hoodies.

"We're all winter cyclists by choice, but we know that some people are forced out into the cold," says David Shepherd, spokesman for the initiative. "We commute through downtown and it's common to see lowincome or homeless people riding bikes, hauling their trailers or bags of cans, and they've got no gloves and only a light jacket. So that was the

inspiration to get people donating some warm clothes."

The group is collecting the gear for Youth Empowerment & Support Services. The need, says YESS's marketing and promotions specialist Kristen Bond, is always acute this time of year.

"It's hard even if you've got warm clothes and houses to go to, but a lot of these kids spend days outside in the worst weather," Bond says. "People don't understand the huge need we have for something as simple as socks or an extra layer of clothing. It makes a huge difference."

Interested folks have until December 5 to drop the clothes off at Mud, Sweat & Gears, Redbike, Revolution Cycle or either Earth's General Store location in the city. YESS also accepts donations year-round.

After all the donations are in, the two dozen or so members of #YEGbike will ride with the clothes on December 6, starting at Revolution Cycle and heading across town to YESS on Whyte Avenue and 93 Street. The ride happens to land on Global Fat-Bike Day—a celebration of those super-wide-tired machines that are so well-suited to our snowy climate—and Revolution Cycle has agreed to lend the group some Fat Bikes for the trip.

You might have guessed that #YEGbike is a Twitter-child, what with the hashtag and all. Indeed, it started as a handle for local cyclists to talk about riding in the city. What began as messaging turned into meeting up for beers. There, the group discussed the state of local cycling—which, by many accounts, is pretty grim.

Bicycle infrastructure is an extreme-

ly divisive subject, so much so that riding in Edmonton is almost a political act. So #YEGbike members decided to help raise the profiles of riders in the city, quite literally, by profiling 44 Edmonton cyclists this past summer—an attempt to humanize what is often a faceless enemy "other" in this city.

After the profiles, #YEGbike was keen to do more: the group wanted to boost the perception of cyclists in Edmonton by giving back to the community. Two Wheels Good, and the clothing drive for YESS, was the result.

"A lot of times when cyclists get mentioned in the news, it's negative," Shepherd says. "So we really wanted to do something good, to help others and to show that cyclists want to give back."

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Alpine Ski World Cup at Lake Louise Every year, the world's fastest alpine skiers descend on Lake Louise Ski Resort to kick off another season with the Alpine Ski World Cup. If you're looking to take in some go-for-broke action, then head on up November 29 and November 30 and cheer on Canada's best in the men's.

Unfortunately, World Cup champion Erik Guay will not be ready to compete this year as he's still recovering from this summer's knee surgery. He should be back on the slopes by mid-December, if all goes well. Let's see if Jan Hudec and Manuel Osborne-Paradis can rise to the occasion.

The ladies get their turn December 5 – 7, and the party starts all over again. The European tradition of ringing cowbells holds true in North America, so get your bells and go cheer them on.

The World Cup is part of Lake Louise's annual WinterStart Festival and the on-

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hill events near the finish line are free for everyone. If you're taking kids with you, you'll receive two free lift passes for any of your under-12 kids with every purchase of an adult lift pass.

Go local: resorts open Early November snow and frigid temperatures have allowed snow guns to blast the white stuff at Rabbit Hill, Snow Valley, Sunridge and the Edmonton Ski Club and they're all open for the season.

There are minimal runs and only mini terrain parks so far, but operators are working hard on adding more runs daily and they're building the bigger terrain parks now.

All of our local ski hills have a number of great weeknight specials. For example, there's the Sixes @ Six on Tuesday nights at Rabbit Hill, where lift tickets, rentals and meals are all $6 from 6 pm – 9 pm.

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News from the Mountains Mountain resort operators have reported very little in major facility upgrades for the upcoming season. Given the massive amounts of capital dollars spent over the last five years, that's not a big surprise.

Sunshine Village and Marmot Basin do have a couple of big projects in the works. Sunshine has started work on a new chairlift that will replace the cruel freeze-your-butt-off Tee Pee Town double chair. Dubbed "The Hottest Chair in Canada," this new quad will feature heated seats and bubble covers for wind and snow protection.

Marmot Basin announced Parks Canada approval to add snowmaking to their upper slopes. This is great news, because some of the upper windblown areas have trouble holding snow early in the season so getting piles of snow on the rocks will open numerous runs earlier in the year. V

FEATURE // TERRAIN PARKS

Better terrain parks on tap

Freestyling at area hills will improve for snowborders and skiers this season

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ark rats rejoice! This winter is shaping up nicely for freestyle skiing and snowboarding since resorts are spending more time and money on terrain parks than ever before.

Progression parks has been the buzz term for the last decade as ski areas have focused on making their terrain parks accessible to everyone. Instead of massive jumps and half pipes, today's terrain parks are made up of rails, jumps and other features in a variety of sizes to allow all levels of skiers and snowboarders to catch a little air and try a few moves.

This season will be a continuation of that trend as resorts are furthering their efforts towards well-balanced and well-maintained terrain parks. The progressive nature of the jumps and other features allow users to develop their skills and confidence before hitting the big features in the advanced parks. Combine that with the fact that the average age of people going into terrain parks is on the rise and you have something with broad appeal to the general skiing public. These factors differ drastically from the early days when terrain parks were almost strictly for snowboarders.

"There is a change in demographic in the parks," says Kendra Scurfield from Sunshine Village. "Snowboarding has been around since the '80s, and now people who have been doing it all along are older, have professional jobs in some cases, and still want to have a park they can use. There are still lots of kids using it, but there are a lot of adults too."

Both skiers and snowboarders now populate terrain parks and the acceptance of freestylers of all ability levels is commonplace.

"We try to accommodate everyone at the same time," says Mike Gere, Marmot Basin's terrain park supervisor. "We have our bigger air features down the middle of the park and our medium and smaller features on the sides. People have options to take the size of hit they are comfortable with."

Marmot Basin is considering adding more acreage to its terrain park and has increased the size of its parkmaintenance crew this season.

Locally, Sunridge Ski Area is also increasing its park crew from two to six as it expands to include three separate terrain parks.

"The advance park will be competi-

tion-level and we're adding a bordercross track, which will be the first one in the city," says Zack Dayman, Sunridge's self-declared "Park Dad." The terrain park expansion at Sunridge will increase options for freestylers within Edmonton as Snow Valley, Rabbit Hill and Edmonton Ski Club all have well-established terrain parks.

Down at Nakiska, the rail park and skier-cross course (named Na.Jib.Ska) is developing into a major draw on its own.

"We've had an incredible outpouring of positive feedback from riders," says Matt Mosteller from Resorts of the Canadian Rockies, which owns Nakiska and four other resorts.

"We've brought in park builders that have a lot of experience and they've come up with some real creative stuff that also has multiple options to keep it safe," he says. "Our parks at Nakiska and Kimberley particularly have developed a big community of locals that are really into it."

This season's biggest terrain-park improvements will likely be at Sunshine Village where four parks will be on offer. Thirteen new boxes, rails and tubes

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are being added to the resort that include a banked rail, a toe jam tube and 40-foot-long "waterfall" tube.

"That puts our feature inventory up over 40, so we have lots of options for the upcoming season," says Sunshine's terrain-park supervisor Ben Suurallik.

Freestylers will be spoiled for choice with big plans for terrain parks at so many resorts this winter. How-

ever, that won't be for a few weeks yet as Mother Nature or her helper, the snow gun, need to get plenty of the white stuff on the ground so the park crews can do their thing. While some small, temporary parks are already open, it will be at least a few weeks before the bigger features are fully built.

STEVEN KENWORTHY

STEVEN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Discount time: find the card that's right for you

Saving a buck or two on lift tickets is a badge of honour for skiers and snowboarders of all income brackets.

From the BMW/Range Rover crowd to the poorest of ski bums, no one wants pay full price for lift tickets.

Aside from forking out the big bucks for a season pass, discount cards are the cheapest way to go.

The cards typically offer the first day free and other free days on later visits. Discounted rates on other days and deals at nearby accommodations, restaurants and shops are more standard features of the cards.

For the most part, discount cards are a good deal—provided you use them more than once. They are usually priced a bit higher than a normal adult day pass, so it's cheaper to buy your ticket at the window if you only use the card for the first free day. The exception is the Nakiska iSki Card, which actually sells for less than an adult lift ticket and gets you one free day on the slopes.

Here's a rundown of the various cards on offer this season.

Sunshine-Marmot Card This one has become a staple stocking stuffer for years and, as the name would suggest, covers Sunshine Village and Marmot Basin.

Options to link your credit card are available, giving you the freedom of direct-to-lift passes so you can avoid the ticket window altogether.

Price: $89 (Normal Adult Lift Ticket at Marmot $85.50, Sunshine $89).

Free days: 1st, 4th and 7th ($12 discounts on other days—bigger discounts on other designated days).

Available until December 31.

$86.95, Nakiska $74.95, Kimberley $70.95).

Free days: 1st, 4th and 7th ($15 discounts on other days—bigger discounts on other designated days).

Available until December 26.

Lake Louise Plus Card This is one of the big daddies of discount cards. Covering Lake Louise, Castle Mountain, Panorama, Revelstoke and Schweitzer Mountain in Idaho, the card is also one of the most expensive. The direct-to-lift option is not available at all the resorts, but the discount is larger on days that aren't free.

Price: $99 (Normal Adult Lift Ticket at Louise $89, Castle $69, Panorama $82, Revelstoke $84, Schweitzer $72 US).

Free days: 1st, 4th and 7th ($20 discounts on other days—bigger discounts on other designated days).

Available until December 31.

Big Drop Card (Norquay) Price: $65 (Normal Adult Lift Ticket $65).

Free Days: 1st, 4th and 7th ($16.25 discounts on other days).

Available all season.

RCR Rockies Card Resorts of the Canadian Rockies is the single largest owner of ski areas in the mountains north of the border, so a card that covers all of its properties is a natural choice.

Fernie, Nakiska, Kicking Horse and Kimberley make up RCR's Western Canadian empire and the direct-tolift option is available at all resorts.

Price: $89.95 (Normal Adult Lift Ticket at Fernie and Kicking Horse

Nakiska iSki Card Price: $49.95 (Normal Adult Lift Ticket $74.95).

Free Days: 1st ($10 discounts on other days and $8 discounts at other RCR resorts).

Available until December 26.

Cruisin' the Castle Card (Castle Mountain) Price: $79.95 (Normal Adult Lift Ticket $69).

Free Days: 1st, 4th and 7th ($20 discounts on other days).

Available until December 31.

Panorama SnowCard Price: $149 (Normal Adult Lift Ticket $82).

Free Days: First three days ($15 discounts on other days).

Available until December 26.

STEVEN KENWORTHY

STEVEN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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SNOW ZONE 21

COVER // SYMBOLS

// Curtis Hauser

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ave you ever stopped to wonder why, each December, we drag trees into our living rooms and adorn them with twinkly lights and sparkly baubles? What about that bizarre myth with which we perpetually deceive children, that a fat man in a red suit will squeeze down the chimney on Christmas Eve and drop off a bunch of presents—but only if they behave?

Christmas is, as its very name confirms, a Christian holiday. Even if you didn't grow up in a Christian household (or in Canada), if you've spent a December in North America you're likely quite familiar with the host of Christmas events and adornments, so pervasive are they throughout our culture. But many of these things actually originate from pre-Christian and pagan sources: the early Christian Church often co-opted local practices and traditions in order to convert people more easily. Christianity's pervasive and powerful influence throughout the world, coupled with the 20th century's mass commercialization of all Christian holidays, especially Christmas, is why these things have endured to the present—even amongst people who have no religious or cultural ties to them.

Santa Claus Santa Claus as we know him today— a jolly, bearded fat man in a crimson

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and white suit—is American and quite recent: this image was established by Clement Clarke Moore's iconic 1823 poem "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" (better known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"). It was reinforced throughout popular culture through music, television, film and literature; the Coca-Cola company cemented Santa Claus's modern image in their advertisements beginning in the 1930s.

Santa Claus is based on several earlier figures. The most notable are Father Christmas, who can be traced to the 1400s in England, and Sinterklaas, the Dutch figure based on the giftgiving Greek bishop Saint Nicholas.

Santa is also related to Krampus, a demonic creature from Alpine folklore who would punish naughty children and carry away the really bad ones in a sack; Krampus influenced modern Santa Claus's naughty and nice list, as well as his delivery of coal to troublemakers.

But elements of Santa Claus also share strong similarities with a pagan branch of folklore: the Norse god Odin.

Odin was a major deity worshipped throughout Scandinavian cultures in northern Europe. He is always depicted as an old bearded man, often wearing long, fur-trimmed robes—just like Santa. The image of Santa piloting a sleigh pulled by eight reindeer was based solely on Moore's poem;

prior to that he rode a horse. Similarly, Odin also rode a horse named Sleipnir, which had eight legs.

Odin also became associated with leading The Wild Hunt, a spectral procession of ghostly huntsmen and their hounds through the night sky. The Wild Hunt can occur any time of year, but it became especially associated with the winter solstice in late December. This time marked the end of the Hunt and the return of Odin; children would fill their boots with straw and leave them by the hearth for Sleipnir and Odin would fill them with toys and treats in return. These practices exist today in a very similar form: children put out stockings by the hearth and leave a plate of goodies for Santa (and often a carrot for his reindeer), and Santa leaves presents behind.

Christmas tree The modern Christmas tree originated in Germany in the 1400s and this custom spread throughout Europe and its colonies. Initially a fir tree, other types of evergreens became commonly used as well, based on regional availability.

Making a tree the centrepiece of religious ceremony is a much older practice, however. Pagan and pre-Christian cultures throughout Europe were often tree worshippers; trees formed a crucial element of their belief systems.

The World Tree (known as Yggdrasil

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to the Norse) was the centre of the universe that ensured cosmic order and ultimately the survival of humanity; all trees were therefore sacred and bringing them into the house was not a light undertaking, but rather a sacred act done to honour and maintain natural cycles. Each tree had a set of magical and folk uses; evergreen branches were considered protective wards against harmful influences and disease.

When the early Church attempted to convert these tree worshippers to Christianity, they quickly found it was much easier to simply dedicate those trees to Jesus Christ, rather than trying to uproot them entirely.

Caroling / wassailing Door-to-door singing of songs—often in exchange for food and drink—was known as wassailing to the AngloSaxons. The practice stretches back millennia, as does another version of wassailing that was done in the apple orchards of England's cider-producing regions: people visited the orchards in winter to sing and recite incantations dedicated to the health of the trees.

They hoped this would ensure a bountiful harvest; it's another example of pre-Christian tree worship.

Mistletoe Mistletoe is a parasitic evergreen that grows in the tops of trees; it pulls wa-

ter and nutrients from the host tree and, therefore, is not dependent upon photosynthesis. This allows its white berries to emerge in late November and December, long after all other plants have bloomed and died or gone dormant. Because of its seemingly nature-defying growth habits, mistletoe became associated with fertility in early European folklore, which gave rise to the Christmas custom of kissing under a sprig of mistletoe.

Yule log Yule is a pagan religious festival that hails from the Germanic people in northern Europe. Many contemporary pagan religions have incorporated Yule into their practice, and various Yuletide customs were absorbed into Christmas after the spread of Christianity. The Yule log—a big, very hard log that smoulders for a long time—is among them: fire has long been associated with the winter solstice as it's the darkest time of year; people would welcome the return of more sunlight hours by burning stuff. Candles and fires are still a common part of Christmas celebrations, and while nowadays few people burn an actual Yule log, a lot more tune into that television station with the looped video of the crackling fire. The log burns on!

MEL PRIESTLEY

MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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HOLIDAY GUIDE HOLIDAY GUIDE // DINNER

Two turkeys and some Christmas cheer Buddys Nite Club hosts annual Christmas dinner for gay community

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wo 25-pound turkeys and all the fixings keep Henk Kalkman busy in the kitchen at Buddys Nite Club every Christmas. "I always look for leftovers the next day and never can find them," the operations manager laughs.

"I'm always hoping there's at least a bun and a chunk of turkey left for a sandwich, but I've never really lucked out on that."

The nightclub opened in 1999 and has been dishing out free Christmas dinners since 2000 for people who might not have anywhere they feel welcome to go on Christmas Day. "In the gay community, a lot of people have already been ostracized by their families and stuff like that, or there's difficulties. It's getting better over the years," Kalkman says. "Or you're just fed up with being with your family all day and you need to go see your other family; that's what we call it. The gay community always seems to be that family-orientated type because you hang onto each other and you support each other. So it's always attracted people that had nowhere to go, and it's at-

It's turkey time // Dave Malkoff via Compfight

tracted friends, too, who at the beginning just came for the meal and have enjoyed it every year and they just keep coming and it's become their tradition."

Two years ago, Kalkman said it would be his last time cooking the dinner. All of his kitchen helpers couldn't make it in and he was fed up and burnt out by the end of it. So Buddy's chef Coco took it off his hands last year.

"Unfortunately, Coco was murdered this year, so that's really changed our whole thought about the dinner," Kalkman says. "So I'm going to cook it again this year joyously for Coco's sake. I worked very closely with him. He loved to cook and loved to serve people. It's going to be different this year."

The dinner starts 6 pm on December 25. Kalkman says there's always about 20 people who show up, but anyone is welcome. The bar will stay open all night for dancing and drinks.

REBECCA MEDEL

REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

FEATURE // FIRST XMAS

Christmas for beginners

Some first-time Christmas tips for those new to Santa, plastic trees and eggnog

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The Aw family Christmas, '80s style

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o you remember your first Christmas? If you were born and raised in Canada, chances are good that you've decorated a Christmas tree, sat terrified on a creepy mall-Santa's lap, tore into your wrapped gifts like a junkie and ate candied yams until you went into a food coma. These are traditions.

But let's consider our neighbours who may be celebrating their very first Christmas this December. One in five Edmontonians immigrated to this country in their lifetime, according to the most recent Statistics Canada information. Attracted by the bounty of jobs and the promise of a good life—or fleeing conflict in their home country—thousands come every year from every corner of the world to live in our city. While most places around the world celebrate Christmas in some shape or form, many countries, especially non-Christian ones, don't.

Daisy Aw's parents came to Edmonton in the late '70s from Brunei, a small, mostly Sunni Muslim nation on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. They were Buddhist and new to Christmas: they'd never decorated the tree or set out a glass of milk and plate of cookies for a fat man in a red suit.

"My dad was really interested in us being Canadian—he wanted us to be Canadian kids," Aw says. "And Christmas is a big part of that."

But, like others who have come to a foreign country looking for opportunity, Aw's family fell on hard times.

Her parents got divorced when she was two years old, leaving her stay-at-home mom, who had no car and had difficulty speaking English, to care for Aw and her fiveyear-old brother. Her mother's first job in Canada was working at McDonald's for $2.75 per hour—and she got fired on her second day.

Aw doesn't remember that her single mother struggled.

No, she remembers the Christmases.

"My mom always made the holidays really awesome," she says. "We'd always have a tree up and decorated. She

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always took us to the Christmas parade at City Centre Mall. She always took us to see Santa."

Her mother, like tens of thousands of people in this city, needed a little help to make Christmas as special as it was for her kids. The Christmas Bureau provided the festive dinner, and the gifts were from Santa's Anonymous. This year, the Christmas Bureau expects to provide 65 000 Edmontonians with Christmas dinner—although the traditional Euro-centric feed of turkey, stuffing and potatoes is the minority.

"Now, 80 percent of our recipients go for a gift card," says Wendy Batty, the Christmas Bureau's executive director and veteran of 18 holiday seasons with the charity. "Who we are serving has changed in direct proportion with the changing face of Edmonton. So as we become more multicultural, people are eating their own foods like goat, lentils, whatever they like for Christmas. It's not about what you eat—it's about family, traditions and being together."

Christmas, and the help her family got from charities, meant so much to Aw that she's now a volunteer and a client ambassador for The Christmas Bureau.

"My advice to people is to just surround yourselves with the people you love," says Aw, who works as the marketing coordinator at RE/MAX River City while she pursues her realtor's licence. "Christmas is a great excuse to take a second to think of everyone around you."

So, if you're new to Edmonton and are about to celebrate your first Christmas, let us at Vue Weekly welcome you warmly. And, if we may be so bold, let us give you a little tip. Don't let your Christmas be about spending money; just do stuff together with your loved ones. Cheap stuff.

Silly stuff. Stuff that reminds you of where you came from and stuff that connects you with where you are now.

JOSH MARCELLIN

JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM

HOLIDAY GUIDE HOLIDAY GUIDE // GIFTS

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559 What they do: Handcrafted toys for infants and children made with traditional materials like wood and fabric.

Why: “My mother designed and manufactured tote bags and other fabric accessories, and my grandfather was a woodworker and toymaker,” says Jennifer Wilde, who designs and mostly manufactures 559’s toys. “I saw firsthand how individuals treasure handcrafted items.”

Why buy local: “When you buy local, you’re directly supporting someone who lives in your community, and chances are that you’re getting something that’s not only exceptional and has a story, but is of better overall value than what you can pick up at a big-box chain store.”

Find them: The Royal Bison (December 5 – 7); The Carrot Christmas Arts Bazaar; On the Spot Pop Up; Plum Home + Design; play559.com.

Loyal Loot What they do: An all-female collective that have designed and produced handmade goods in the Edmonton area since 2004.

Why: “Edmonton is our home,” says Loyal Loot’s Anna Thomas. “And our friends and families are here.”

Why buy local: “It creates a strong community; its nice knowing who you’re buying from.”

Where: 29 Armstrong; Carbon Environmental Boutique; Plum Home + Design; loyalloot.com.

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Axis Mundi Artistry What they do: Home and long-lasting living art arrangments, terrariums and jewelry.

Why: “We have been inspired by the awesome, eclectic local art scene Edmonton has,” says Sara Gies, half of the horticulturist-florist husband-wife duo. “We decided to share our passion of artistic plant design with the art community that has contributed to our creativity since we were young.”

Why buy local: “Not only are you ensuring you keep more dollars in the local economy and support environmental sustainability, but you also help increase the local character and diversity of Edmonton, and preserve oneof-a-kind businesses that support community well-being.”

Where: The City Market Downtown; The Royal Bison; On The Spot Pop-Up; The University of Alberta Farmer’s Market; MacEwan Mini Market; Workhall Boutique; Tix On The Square; The Muttart Conservatory Gift Shop; axismundiartistry.com.

Whiteout Workshop What they do: Original artwork silk screened to be worn and displayed.

Why: “I absolutely love Edmonton and how it supports all of its local artists and shops,” says , owner-operator Natasha Paterson.

“I moved here for school and fell in love with the city and everyone who fills it. I truly believe I couldn’t have had the success I’ve had creating art in any other city.”

Why buy local: “It keeps a great sense of community and makes you proud of the city and everyone who lives here. There is so much talent in this city, and I think it is because everyone is always on the lookout for something new and will always take extra steps to support them.”

Where: Strathcona Farmer’s Market; Butterdome Craft Sale; whiteoutworkshop.com.

Dion Guitars What they do: Handmade steel-string acoustic guitars.

Why: “I initially moved to Edmonton to be with my partner as she finished her degree,” says owner/luthier Dion Bews.

“Though I had reservations about Edmonton’s potential for creative community, I’ve since found it to be an inclusive and diverse city with wonderfully inspiring people.”

Why buy local: “I believe in buying local and supporting local economies, no matter where one calls home. We can regain our autonomy through decentralization—buying/ creating locally is perhaps one of the most powerful tools we possess.”

Where: Guitars are available through dionguitars.ca.

Riverbend Gardens What they do: Produce high-quality vegetables for the local community with a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project. Invest in the farm—and contribute some labour—and you get fresh veggies for the season.

Why: “At Riverbend Gardens, not only are we maintaining natural resources and protecting the environment, we are also striving to improve relationships with our local communities,” says the farm’s Janelle Herbert. “We are proud to be local and produce food for families in the Edmonton area with a minimal carbon imprint ... Edmonton also has a long history of growing food, our land has been producing food for the city for well over 50 years.”

Why buy local: “We strive to have close relationships with our customers and want them to feel like they are a big part of our success. Growing food in Edmonton connects people to their culture and heritage, teaches people about the seasonality of food.

Producing food locally results in a greater percentage of dollars remaining in the local economy. We as people have intimate relationships with our food, our food should come from sources we can hold accountable and trust.”

Where: riverbendgardens.ca/csa; gift certificates for the 2015 growing season available now.

JOSH MARCELLIN

JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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REVUE // ACTION

FILM

FILM EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Now playing Directed by Francis Lawrence 

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MOCKING US The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part One drudges along in service of a future Part Two

Kind of a boring game, this time around

he thing about splitting the end of a trilogy into two movies—the modern, assuredly money-making trend in adapting novels into cinematic franchises—is that movie one is always the less-satisfying part of an arc. Exposition gets drawn out for a payoff that will only come in another movie, a year on down the road. And so it is with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part One: the scenario hints at what's to come, and characters position themselves toward a grand, climactic finale. But, as a film, it offers more drudgery and looping exposition than stand-alone relevance.

Which is a shame, because the complete arc of Mockingjay is easily the most complicated, dark and effective of Suzanne Collins' book series. We pick up in the aftermath of the 75th Hunger Games: District 12's been totally destroyed, all-out war is brewing, and Peeta's fate is uncertain. Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and company are adjusting to a strict existence in District 13, a militiary-like underground complex ruled by Alma Coin (Julianne Moore), who is trying to push the rebellion and strife between the Districts and the Capitol towards an outright overthrow. The rebellion wants Katniss—traumatized by everything, but particularly Peeta's absence—to become the symbol of the rebellion, to shoot propaganda films to unify the districts against President Snow (Donald Sutherland), and pretty much serve as a different sort of pawn for

a different sort of rule. And ... that's about as far as we get, here.

The scripting, by series newcomers Peter Craig and Danny Strong, doesn't leave much of an emotional arc for anyone to explore here, instead mistaking moodiness for depth, and Francis Lawrence's sombre direction makes it an uphill battle for the cast. Lawrence feels boxed-in here, plateaued at "generally pretty upset about things." Characters who can play against the general mood fare better: Effy (Elizabeth Banks) actually offers more than she ever has before, out of her high-society element for the first time in the trilogy, and just so grumpy about it. She adds some welcome warmth to an otherwise sterile procession.

There's also a lot of the late Philip Seymor Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee, the Games' Head Gamemaker turned advisor to President Coin's rebellion. Hoffman's character offers a sense of density and political manoeuvering without succumbing to flatness that most of the leads do. There's a media-controlling-the-message sort of comment being made here that feels underplayed. There's also a raid on the Capitol that, shot with plenty of intersplicing between homebase and the mission, doesn't garner the tension it's imagining, which is a pretty good summary of the problem with Mockingjay Part One: it's half a book; a filler episode in a sequence, where circular exposition is mistaken for genuine stakes and revelation.

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REVUE // ALTMAN

The Player bits and inspired sequences—that baroque opening-sequence shot is a masterpiece in itself—to make it well worth your time, its very silly story is ultimately a fairly paltry piece of social commentary. This isn't top-shelf Altman—for that you should check out the other titles in Metro's mini r e t r o s p e c t i v e, Sun, Nov 30 – Thu, Dec 4 most especially Directed by Robert Altman the gorgeous, Metro Cinema at the Garneau haunting westOriginally released: 1992 ern McCabe & Mrs Miller (1971).

The player at work

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he semi-sordid story of Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), a studio executive who winds up getting away with manslaughter, was already a novel when its author, Michael Tolkin, helped turn it into the movie that revitalized director Robert Altman's career after a long period in low-budget theatrical adaptations, which is what passes for the wilderness in Hollywood. It is a very Altmanesque irony that a damning de-

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piction of Hollywood mogul morals is the movie that brought Altman back into the good graces of Hollywood studios, and The Player (1992), whose avalanche of as-self cameos from Alist stars like Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis, proved that there was no lack of support in the industry for Altman's deserved re-emergence.

When I watch The Player again now I sort of wish the entire movie was

cast with people playing themselves: to blur the meta and the diegetic completely would really be a trip. But I think we're talking about a movie that's not quite as daring or as scathing or even as well-made as its reputation would have you believe. Satire has a way of being underwhelming and aging poorly—there are few Sunset Blvds out there—and while The Player has enough truly hilarious

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The best stuff in The Player is all marginalia, most especially the desperate malleability of the pee-yourpants pitches writers make to producers: the "psychic political thriller comedy with a heart" about a US president with nothing on his mind; the sequel to The Graduate, pitched

by Buck Henry, in which Mrs Robinson has a stroke; or The Gods Must Be Crazy, except the Coke bottle is Goldie Hawn. Yet a scene in the denouement, in which various parties are viewing rushes of a much fussed-over new film, is so didactic in its depiction of creative compro-

mise it's not even funny. Robbins is an interesting casting choice, and the fact that this actor, already in this 30s, looks like a very tall child is an amusing reference to the growing trend toward younger and dumber studio execs. But Tolkin's very noirish crime plot feels like it would have worked better 40 years before, with Kirk Douglas and his chin in the lead.

Altman had a way of shrugging his way through projects where verisimilitude was an issue (see the end of The Long Goodbye), and the scene in which Mill goes murderously bananas, or the one where he suddenly confesses his obsession with the girlfriend of the man he killed—her response reads as squirmingly false— feel as though Altman just tossed them off while gearing up for the next great gag or group scene.

All of which is fine. The Player is a flawed but very enjoyable movie and it's of enormous importance to the Altman oeuvre, for those who want to come to terms with it, which hopefully is just about anyone who loves the movies. Altman was one of the greats.

JOSEF BRAUN

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The weirder west

A pair of Monte Hellman westerns offer an off-Hollywood history lesson

The Shooting

Both are westerns, a highly cinematic genre, but their stories unfold far from even the most makeshift signs of civilization, in deserts of burnt gold, blood orange, aged mustard and glistening amber, places so desolate and nearly abstract and so little inhabited that we could just as easily be in the theatre—the theatre of Beckett, Sartre or Ionesco, say—as the cinema. Except that these two westerns, made simultaneously in 1965, with a combined budget of $150 000 for B-movie king Roger Corman, were helmed by Monte Hellman, who's never made anything like a normal movie but whose every movie—1971's Two-Lane Blacktop

most famously—is shot-through with a heightened awareness of its movieness. The Shooting and Ride the Whirlwind, both released to zero fanfare in 1966, are distinguished by Hellman's quiet insistence on disorientation as a method of pulling us deeper into mystery. Hard, clean cuts are all that separate extreme closeups from wide vistas, the present from flashbacks, what's happening in one place from what's happening in another. Space and time are compressed in these compact, unpretentious yet very weird genre pieces as indebted to Antonioni as they are to John Ford. Both films are now available in a single package from the Cri-

terion Collection.

"Something's coming," Gashade (Warren Oates) whispers to Coley (Will Hutchins) in The Shooting.

Something's always coming. The West is an agoraphobic landscape, its every horizon waiting for some potentially perilous emergence. Richard Markowitz's score sounds more in keeping with Japanese horror than American westerns. Gashade's a former bounty hunter now tending an unprofitable mine. An unknown gunman has killed one of his partners and his brother has run off. A woman (Millie Perkins) turns up, offering Gashade good money to lead her to the town of Kingsley. She won't say what she wants there, but Gashade— played with a humble, weary stoicism singular to Oates but echoing Bogart—has a bad feeling. The dread is ever-present, like a strange weather pattern that won't let up. The film also stars Jack Nicholson and was written by Carole Eastman (as Adrien Joyce), who would soon write Nicholson one of his most iconic roles in Five Easy Pieces (1970). Eastman's iconoclastic Woman With No Name imbues this western with a refreshingly feminine sensibility that would not be lost on future filmmakers—

The Shooting is most certainly somewhere in the DNA of Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff (2010).

Ride the Whirlwind was written by Nicholson and is somewhat more conventional, though its atmosphere is equally eerie and still. It opens with a small gang, headed by one Blind Dick (Harry Dean Stanton), holding up a stagecoach somewhere in the middle of nowhere, Utah. This motley crew cross paths with a trio of cowpokes (Nicholson among them) on their way to Waco. A drama of mistaken identity and frontier justice ensues, but what lingers most in my mind isn't story but detail, like the lynching victim

stumbled upon by the heroes early in the film. What lingers too, for any cinephile at least, is the incredible array of soon-to-be famous, or at least cult-famous, faces assembled here.

Hellman had a special genius for casting: he understood that Oates could be so much more than a character actor, that Nicholson could be captivating when doing as little as possible, and that Stanton could be fascinating by playing against a character's primary attributes. These are both very special, spectral films, artifacts from a transitional moment in American movies, and Criterion's two-for makes for an excellent double-feature and off-Hollywood history lesson. V

REVUE // ALTMAN

McCabe & Mrs Miller R

obert Altman, that director of tycoons chug-chug-chugged a fronoverlapping, interweaving, un- tier-busting, pockets-lining America. dercutting stories, soon followed Amid Leonard Cohen's half-plaintive, his first mainstream success, MASH, half-wondering lyrics ("The Stranger with a film set in another makeshift Song"), John McCabe (Warren Beencampment, patched together even atty) rides into Presbyterian Church, deeper into America's quiltwork past. Washington (the film was shot mostly in Squamish and McCabe & Mrs West Vancouver) Miller is what its to build a whoremaker called an Sat, Nov 29 (7 pm) & Tue, Dec 2 house, saloon a n t i - w e s t e r n : (9:30 pm) and gambling its non-hero is a Directed by Robert Altman parlour. Although rumoured gun- Metro Cinema at the Garneau far from constant slinger (he's not, Originally released: 1971 (she charges $5 though) turned a lay), Constance businessman soon left flustered and foolish by Miller rides into town on the back a hard-bargaining mining company, of a steam-engine car; this bonneted, while its true hero is a canny brothel cheroot-puffing Cockney lass, tuckmadam who's also a drug-addict. ing heartily into four eggs, stew and The story uncoils in a smoky, boozy, some strong tea, throws the gruff, opium-hazy, yet oddly cozy fug. (Un- stogie-smoking, bowler-hatted Mcfortunately, its sound mix remains Cabe entirely off his game as she proposes she manage his "chippies." murky.)

A north-western, teeming with rain But soon—after a delightful moor flecked with snow and coloured ment when Mrs Miller, drawing her with slang (masturbation is "Mary face girlishly under her blankets, defive-fingers"), McCabe & Mrs Miller, mands McCabe put her usual fee on set in 1902, sees the odd-couple part- the nightstand—McCabe's shown up nership of its title face off against a for the blustering, bluffing chancer mining company—remnants of the he really is.

Gilded Age (1870s – 1900), when machine-driven economic expan- Romance has its tawdry rug pulled sion, immigrant labour and industry out from under it. As much as the

town resembles a set, McCabe's been assumed by the sluggish men around (headed by Sheehan—Altman regular René Auberjonois) to resemble a Western straight-shooter.

A mail-order bride (Shelley Duvall, another Altman regular), soon widowed, turns to prostitution to make ends meet, but Mrs Miller tells her it's the same basic agreement in marriage for bed-and-board, only this is "more honest." A classic as both "New Hollywood" cinema and revisionist Western, McCabe & Mrs Miller turns the American Dream to so much pipe-smoke and wind-whipped snow, fuming and blown away.

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War ... kinda

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M*A*S*H

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*A*S*H (1970), resounding with Robert Altman's American idioms—the democratic swirl of voices; the drift into nooks and crannies; the docudrama-like survey of a makeshift settlement or cloistered niche—is a film of reverb, echoing not just the Korean War but the Vietnam War in which the US was then mired. The conventions of the hugely successful spin-off sitcom (which Altman hated) are there—chopper patient-delivery; canvas tents; jeeps on muddy roads; Hawkeye and co kicking back between surgeries—but characters are less likeable and more hardedged, the tone's cooler and blacker, and the war seems farther away, an anesthetic fog.

What lingers, like a festering wound, is the Army's sexism. At first it's exposed but the story increasingly, disturbingly indulges in the humiliation and targeting of women, especially one officious blonde. Hawkeye (Donald Sutherland) and Duke (Tom

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Skerritt) hit on nurses as soon as they tist. Confused, retracted or revised get to camp; men line up to peep at PA messages float through the film— women in the shower; by-the-book a mockery of the war effort as clear, "Hot Lips" O'Houlihan (Sally Keller- focused or efficient. War's reduced to man) gets her nickname after her a foolish football game by the end, intercourse—conversational and while O'Houlihan becomes little more than a ditzy cheermore—with Biblethumping Frank Fri, Nov 28 (9 pm) & Wed, Dec 3 leader. Filmed in a fractious workBurns is recorded Name (7 pm) and played over Directed by Robert Altman climate—Sutherland, whom Altthe loudspeakers; a Metro Cinema at the Garneau man would never bet on O'Houlihan Originally released: 1970 being a true blonde work with again, and Gould appargets settled by Hawkeye, Trapper John (Elliot Gould), ently gave the director a rough ride and co sitting down to watch a side of on set—M*A*S*H won the Palme the shower tent pulled up to reveal d'Or and outshone the weak adaptation of Catch-22, released six months all of her. later. It remains enjoyably irreverent, The black comedy of Capt Wal- a naturalist showcase of Altman's eye dowski's assisted "death," with a re- and ear for glimpses and snatches of working of the film's brilliant "Suicide lives-in-the-making, but it also falls is Painless" theme song, is the film's well short of the counterculture, centrepiece—though even here a anti-establishment war-satire it could woman's suddenly conscripted to have been. sexually resurrect the suicidal den- BRIAN GIBSON

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REVUE // DOCUMENTARY

Altman A

n affectionate braid of biography, tributes and reminiscences, Ron Mann's Altman is a likable documentary about the late maverick of American cinema—yes, likable, just as Robert Altman himself was always utterly likable whenever he was interviewed or made public appearances. But Altman is devoid of the friction that characterized Altman's work and his tempestuous working life. A significant part of what imbued Altman's films with magic was their openness to risk on every level and their willingness to piss people off—close collaborators included. Everyone is very nice in the placid, next-of-kinapproved, widow-narrated Altman; all hatchets are buried, all memories are warm. Perhaps this is just what happens when a great man dies: we all miss the best in him and forget, say, how he screwed us out of a credit we deserved. So be it. But, speaking as someone who cherishes Altman's work and has always been fascinated by the recklessness and irreverence with which he navigated the industry, I can't help but feel that this friction-free portrait, with its paucity

and a broad, generous sampling of whatever range of folks one might encounter in a given milieu. But the answers Mann's query generates From his early gigs in television tend to be more vague and more (Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Com- sentimental and less informative bat) to his belated but hugely than that. "Fearless" is Michael Murphy's answer, impactful start but surely there in features Fri, Nov 28 – Mon, Dec 1 are many other (M*A*S*H, Mc- Directed by Ron Mann directors whose Cabe & Mrs Mill- Metro Cinema at the Garneau legacy or influer, Nashville) to  ence involves his middle-period fearlessness: a theatrical adaptations (Secret Honor) to his late film can be fearless and not "Alttriumphs (Gosford Park, A Prairie manesque." Maybe Lily Tomlin Home Companion), Mann attempts comes closest to providing a meanto cram in as much of Altman's long ingful definition: "Creating a family" and busy career as he can in a ser- was her reply. Inclusive but also viceable pedestrian style, working capable of nastiness, festive but in some remarkable home movie also capable of spilling over into footage along the way. Insights mania, big-hearted but also cainto Altman's work and its impact pable of betrayal, Altman's legacy are, alas, largely limited to Mann is indeed a bit like that of a family. asking a number of famous inter- They brought people together, for view subjects (among them the better or for worse, and they bring late Robin Williams, star of the Alt- us together as an audience to witman mega-bomb Popeye) about the ness something that at its best was meaning of "Altmanesque," a term singularly uproarious and incisive that's usually used to describe, for and utterly cinematic. example, eccentric ensemble films JOSEF BRAUN JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM with witty overlapping dialogue of context and sense that Altman's innovations occurred in a vacuum, does him something of a disservice.

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MUSIC PREVUE // POP

WOR K M A N FOR TH E WEE KEN D Hawksley Workman returns to Edmonton with an intricately tailored set

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room is an important thing," Hawksley Workman begins. "When you listen to Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction or Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA, you have to believe that those records were made with the room size that they were eventually going to play those songs in, in Wed, Dec 3 – Sat, Dec 6 (8 pm) mind. You don't play 'Born Hawksley Workman in the USA' or 'Sweet Child With Sarah MacDougall (Dec 3) o' Mine' in a club."

Lily Kershaw (Dec 4 – 6) It's a fair observation The Club, Citadel Theatre, $49 from a guy who's peddled his slyly idiosyncratic, sometimes-pop-sometimes-folk-sometimes-rock music through every sort of venue in Edmonton—from early stints at the Sidetrack ("One of the first places I was ever treated as a human being," he notes of his early touring days) and the Dinwoodie Lounge to a prominent Folk Fest slot and a Winspear show.

So catering a set to the space Workman's in is old hat by now—he's done 'em all.

Still, while touring The God That Comes, Workman's theatrical cabaret of revelries, last year, he came to love The Club, the cabaret space that the Citadel Theatre revamped one of its theatres into a few years back. He's making a four-night return to the room, and has been busily dreaming up a set intricately tailored to that particular space.

"I knew I couldn't just show up and play 'Striptease' and 'Jealous of Your Cigarette,' you know what I mean?" the 39-year-old explains. He's been dipping into some deep wells: old songs, as well as some he's "never played" live, but that might prove ideal fits for The Club. "I want to take risks on the stage there," he notes.

It'll be Workman and a small corps performing: longtime pianist Todd Lumley (Mr Lonely), po-

Thinkin' 'bout a space to play in, probably // Dustin Rabin

tentially a drummer (unconfirmed), and maybe a local guest or two. It's not part of a greater tour Workman's doing—the Citadel's Neil LaGrandeur simply asked him back, and after the time he had last year, Workman agreed. But that isn't to say he's presently just picking up gigs: Workman's speaking on the phone after wrapping up a recording session at his home studio. After a year spent working on non-namesake projects—The God That Comes, as well as drumming in CanCon superband Mounties—he's finally getting around to another Hawksley Workman album.

The album's called Old Cheetah, and its creative process is pulling from that past year of new experiences—using improvisation to shape songs, for starters.

"That was lifted right from the way Mounties works," he says. "Mounties sits and chases hooks.

But we chase hooks in the form of a 30-minute jam. It's a bit disconcerting a drug, making records like that is. I have to keep reminding myself ... because I'm someone who likes to work quickly."

Someone who likes to work quickly, and with brio, Workman's most invigorated these days by that give-it-yer-all-in-a-jam approach, then going back in refining, if need be. In that way, making a record becomes more like a performance.

"Music for me is so physical; it's not a cerebral process for me in any way," he says. "So if I'm gonna go into the studio, I'm gonna burst physically. I'm gonna sit at the drums and play as hard as I fuckin' can. I'm gonna go and do the vocal and sing it four times, as hard as I can. And you just can't sustain that. I think that's why the stage is, for me, a more comfortable place. Because it's a place where I know I have to puke my guts out for two hours. It makes total sense for every cell in my body, that when we go up there, the job is to sweat our very DNA out of our pores."

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PREVUE // JAZZY

Tess and the d'Linquint C

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hange is inevitable; you can either choose to embrace it or be overwhelmed by what comes. This dynamic is central to Autumn, Tess and the d'Linquint's debut album.

The d'Linquint is Bryan Reichert, a longtime fixture in Edmonton's music scene as the guitarist, multiinstrumentalist and producer for sophisticated local folk-pop stalwarts F&M. The eponymous Tess is Reichert's wife, whose musical background is in choir and classical guitar. It's a new project for the Reicherts.

Autumn, 11 meditative tracks that touch on relationships, addiction and nature, is a departure from the broody tones of F&M. "I'd been listening to a lot of jazzy stuff, and I thought I should really try to reach out and explore that," Reichert says over the phone from Toronto, where he's touring with F&M. "So Tess and I started writing these songs."

Autumn is an intimate blend of male and female vocals with subdued but

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skilful instrumentation. It's a mature, wrangled Chad Andriowski, Jason warm and balanced mix of jazz, coun- Kodie and Jessica Heine to add percustry and folk with tones well-suited to sion, accordion/keys and supporting guitar/backup vowinter evenings cals, respectively. spent snuggling Fri, Nov 30 (7 pm) Reichert wanted indoors with your The Club at the Citadel, $15 to recreate the partner and drink feel of a small jazz of choice.

"We wanted to capture that ex- combo, with players who could thrive citement of listening to a record in the spontaneity and intimacy of the for the first time," Reichert says. genre.

It's a busy time for the musician. Au"We wanted to express that with our music, that sense of something tumn was recorded right around the period F&M was working on its new new."

The album's theme of change is an release At Sunset We Sing, and the appropriate one for the veteran per- Tess and the d'Linquint show is sandformer. With his main band, Reichert wiched between F&M tour dates.

Reichert says he's received nothing plays a supporting role by adding the texture and tones for the lead sing- but support from his bandmates, fellow ers. With Tess and the d'Linquint, his husband-and-wife musicians Rebecca voice is front and centre—a prospect and Ryan Anderson.

"I definitely had to put time aside to he finds just a little frightening.

"I'm terrified of public speaking, so make this happen," Reichert says. "But I'm surprised I put myself in this posi- there's an understanding between the tion," he laughs. "It's totally out of my members of F&M—we're there for each other." element to be in the forefront."

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other Mother has changed everything except band members for its latest album Very Good Bad Things.

The (former) indie band from tiny Quadra Island, tucked between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland, is now signed to one of the biggest labels on the planet: Island Records/Universal Music Canada.

After mostly self-producing its first four records, the band tapped Canadian producer Gavin Brown, known for his work with Metric and the Tragically Hip. Mother Mother recorded in Toronto, not BC, where the band laid down all four previous albums—and eschewed its go-to acoustic instruments and wrote on synths.

"I think it was a purposeful reaction to a visceral sense of change needed," says Ryan Guldemond, frontman and guitarist, over the phone from London, ON in the early stages of the band's latest tour. "When you're getting into your fifth record, you can easily fall into traps of repetition and patterns."

Upon first listen, Very Good Bad Things seems to reflect all the new-

ness that was thrown at it. Lead single "Get Out the Way" is a Pixiesmeets-Muse synth rocker—quite a departure from the mischievous but sweet pop numbers that drove Mother Mother's last three records.

The whole record sounds much bigger than anything the group’s done before: big drums, big studio shine, bigger budget. It sounds like ambition, the next step up in a career that's seen a steady but not meteoric rise.

Guldemond is doing his best to be the calm in the centre of the storm of performances, promotion and politics that is the modern music industry. His job—along with his sister Molly on vocals and keys, her partner Jeremy Page on bass, Ali Siadat on drums and Jasmin Parkin on keys and vocals—is to be special on stage, night after night.

"It's very uncomfortable on the road: you wake up on a bus, it's tight and stuffy and everyone is tired and tripping over one another. You don't know where you are and it's cold and you have to somehow make sense of five different pieces of luggage," Gulde-

PREVUE // METAL

Asking Alexandria B

en Bruce is out of the fridge and into the freezer.

The guitarist and founding member of British metal band Asking Alexandria has just landed in New Jersey after two long, cold months touring Europe.

He says the band's bodies are tired— but not too tired to engage in the hijinks that saw, on past North American tours, Asking Alexandria literally tear the ceiling off a venue. That incident almost got the group deported, but it wasn't as bad as the time someone tried to kill the guys.

"We didn't tear the roof of the ceiling off—we told our fans to," Bruce clarifies with a laugh. "There was this very low ceiling in the venue and we told them to get low on the floor, and when we say 'jump' grab something and hold on. Everyone did and the

whole ceiling came down. The owners called the police and tried to get us sent back to England."

That was a few years back, somewhere in the deep American south, so Bruce can't remember exactly what state the incident occurred in. But he does remember the band paying to replace the ceiling and air-conditioning unit. On another occasion, also in the deep south, venue owners were reportedly so upset with Asking Alexandria's raucous antics that they cut the brakes on the group's tour RV. Luckily, someone on Asking Alexandria's crew saw the sabotage before the band drove off and potentially died.

The band played some of its biggest shows yet last summer as part of the Mayhem Festival, a travelling juggernaut

mond says. "The challenge is to overcome that mundanity and get in that magical headspace—to let go of your needy thoughts."

Staying in the moment is an important concept to Guldemond. If there's one thread that connects the band's early acoustic folk, the angular pop of its last three albums and the bombast of the latest record, it's the exploration of the human condition. What does it mean to be a human being in 2014?

What are the limitations of our species? It's heady stuff to put down in a three-minute, radio-friendly package.

"I think human consciousness is a very young in terms of the units of time from outer space," he says. "We've been here really just for the blink of an eye. It makes sense we're running amok, scrambling around and botching things. I think it's helpful that people are examining themselves and examining the worth and unworth of their own thoughts. I think it's really helpful to disbelieve what we've been taught to believe."

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But many of Asking Alexandria's fans wouldn't remember the '80s—in fact, it's likely they wouldn't have been born.

Acknowledging its younger base, Asking Alexandria is playing back-to-back all-ages shows at the Starlite Room.

"We try to keep our shows all ages as much as possible," Bruce says. "If you love music, you love music. There shouldn't be any boundaries."

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Teenage Kicks

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eenage Kicks is on its third lineup to see the band lock down a steady in three months, and the element roster in the near future—the brothers of uncertainty and constant change has have been playing music together for become the norm for its two core mem- more than a decade in various forms, bers Peter and Jeff van Helvoort. and the musicians accompanying them "You get a different version of the on the current tour will return to their band every time," Peter says during a respective bands when it wraps up stop in Detroit, admitting there's always mid-December. Spoils of Youth was released in April, a few days of feeling rusty, but it doesn't Sat, Nov 29 (8 pm) but Peter notes take long to get into With the Ataris, Drive By Punch the task of cona groove with a new Pawn Shop, $15 stantly relearning the songs with a lineup and adapt to new group of muthe ever-changing dynamic. "Every drummer and every guitar sicians has put a damper on the band's player play the songs differently, so it's ability to work on new material, though he tries to write as much as possible. interesting if nothing else."

But Teenage Kicks doesn't appear to be Though the absence of a steady lineup has not hindered Teenage Kicks in gain- a band that lets challenges trip them up. ing some traction behind its debut al- Spoils of Youth wasn't exactly recorded bum Spoils of Youth, Peter would like in the smoothest of fashions, after all.

The album's tracks (give or take one or two) are uptempo, boisterous rock on the surface, but the lyrics are the sum of failed relationships and some tough times in recent years—add to that the fact the album's first recording wound up being unusable and the guys had to start from square one, with Peter taking over as producer.

"I like being in control to some extent, but I was involved on so many different levels that it kind of drove me crazy, so I think me having some control but having an engineer that could do all the jobs and push all the buttons, that would be the ideal situation," Peter adds. "But I'm not opposed to having someone be in control and kind of direct me. I'm pretty self-aware and pretty judgmental of myself, so I do actually think I have the ability to push myself, but I think someone else might be able to push me more, and that might be someone worth having."

That's not to say an outside perspective would change Teenage Kicks' approach to its music. The band prides itself on crafting songs "rife with honesty, integrity and truth," an ethos that continues to play a strong role in Peter's writing, which avoids gimmicks and the standard rock tropes.

"This started when I was a few years younger, and I'm almost 30. I find it hard to be able to relate and compete with younger rock bands," he explains, noting a previous interview where the journalist made a comment that he didn't look or sound like he should be in a rock band. "I honestly think that we should be kind of like a rock band for adults.

Those are the people that relate to our band the most … it's not 20-year-old kids who want to see our band play. It's adults, so I think it's just a natural progression to where the band should be going and that's where the songs have been written from."

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PREVUE // ALTERNATIVE

Meredith Sheldon G

etting up on stage solo, with of that because I had specific ideas of nothing more than an electric what I thought people liked and I want guitar and a microphone between to give only that version of myself. My yourself and an audience, is not a situ- intention for this tour instead was to ation many of us would want to find be as much my whole self as I can be ourselves in, but it's where Meredith without censoring or protecting mySheldon finds joy and a sense of hon- self, and practise being with the audiest communication with her audience. ence from a place of greater honesty."

The Massachusetts-based singersongwriter, formerly of Family of the Achieving that sense of greater honYear, has been creating music under her esty has not been as scary as Sheldon own name for about two years now, expected it to be, and she admits she's sharing the stage with the Lemonheads kicking herself a little for spending and Marina and the Diamonds in the as much time in fear as she did. But process. Sheldon has managed to main- hindsight is just that, and Sheldon continues to tain the lost sense of mysfind her way tery surrounding modern Wed, Dec 3 (8 pm) in an often musicians, as you'll find With Johnny Marr complicated very little about her on- Starlite Room, $31 industry line and only a handful where the of interviews, something she wasn't always comfortable doing. old rules and paths to success are not Thouh you'll find Sheldon accompanied the only option.

"For a long time people said major laby a band at some gigs, she's on the road solo for her North American run bels had it sorted, then the indie labels were on their game, and now it's sort opening for Johnny Marr.

"When you play with other people of who knows," says Sheldon, who bethere is a harmonization of all the play- gan singing and playing guitar from a ers' energy on stage, which is a very young age but was more involved in cool thing. But it's also very interest- classical ballet until after high school. ing and liberating to experience just "I think it's a challenging turf to navimy own energy up there," Sheldon gate for everyone, but once we reexplains via email. "I used to be afraid ally let go of our ideas of how things

should work, we can be open to ways that even our smartest calculating selves couldn't have conjured."

Sheldon, who is currently unsigned, is finishing up her first full-length record A La Mar and hopes to have it released within the next year. In the meantime, she's released a series of EPsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A La Mar (Sketches), A La Mar (Sketches) 2 and A La Mar (Sketches) 3â&#x20AC;&#x201D;comprised of tracks that did not end up being selected for the album.

There's only a track or two on each, but they certainly pack a punch with Sheldon's strong alto that's a throwback to '90s alt-rock and slightly bluesy melodies that can't be neatly confined to one genre.

"I think my writing has always been very introspective, but as my selfawareness has deepened over the years, I think this is reflected in my writing," Sheldon says of the series.

"Recently, it has become a focus of mine to delve into the dark and light aspects of myself, the confusion and clarity, the unflattering bits and the nice bits, and to hold those two seemingly opposite experiences in one unified piece of music. This is what I'm trying to do in my whole life, anyway."

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"I think with the process of interviewing and reaching out to people, I probably took the most just from that, being nervous before calling someone and learning to gain some confidence and trying to put myself in their shoes," explains Hemsworth, who had set out to be a music writer and interviewed artists for his blog.

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The new album, Hemsworth's fol- during a week-long journey to Nepal that served as the low-up to his Juno backdrop for "One of Award-Winning de- Fri, Nov 28 (9 pm) Me," on Hemsworth's but Guilt Trip, was With Tennyson previous album. created amongst Starlite Room, $21 Newark and Nepal the rare moments couldn't be more opof down time he was able to sequester over the past posite, of course, but the idea was year, be it in a hotel room, airport or to remove Hemsworth from the hustle of his fast-paced lifestyle for mid flight.

"At the same time, it's very collab- a peaceful reprieve that allowed orative ... probably the most of any him to disconnect from technology of my projects so far," Hemsworth and take in another way of life.

"Honestly, the weirdest thing was adds. "It's kind of a bit of both: trying to take advantage of any down removing myself from Twitter and time I have, which may just be like all that stuff for that amount of 30 minutes at a hotel or something, time, and realizing that every little and then at the same time relying thing that I think is significant that on different people's creative input is said on the internet is not really and trying to make some more real as important as I make it out to be songs instead of just beats or tracks, in my head," he says, noting he did or whatever you want to call them." his best not to be a tourist. "My mom was mad when I came back The rich sonic palette of Alone because I didn't really have any picfor the First Time is amplified by tures or anything, but I was trying to these collaborations, brought forth live there a bit more than someone through the vocal talents of Lonta- who's just backpacking and take in lius on "Walk Me Home," Alex G on everything."

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JON BROOKS / FRI, NOV 28 (7:30 PM) He's been mentioned in the same breath as Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Bruce Cockburn. Like those heavyweights of Canadian music, Brooks blends his songwriting skill and musicianship with heady, often political subjects. Delicate Cages, his latest release, probes the dualities of good/evil, love/fear and freedom/imprisonment. (Festival Place, $20)

BRET MICHAELS / FRI, NOV 28 There’s never going to be a better excuse to dip into your collection of bandanas. The ‘80s rocker and reality star will be bringing his power ballads and husky-blue eyes to our fair city.

Proceeds from the show go to Homeward Bound Support Services, a local group that offers assistance to homeless people. (The Venue at River Cree Resort and Casino, $59.50)

JACK SEMPLE / FRI, NOV 28 AND SAT, NOV 29 (9 PM) Blues is the true guitar sport. Witness one of the masters as Regina-based Jack Semple melts some faces with the release of his DVD Jack Semple Band Live @ Village Guitars.

The guitar man is joined by Dave Chabot on bass, Andrew Glover on keys and Steve Hoy on drums. (Big Al’s House of Blues, $20 in advance or $25 at the door)

MOIST / SAT, NOV 29 (9 PM) Party like its 1996 as the Canadian alt-rockers reunite after more than a decade-long hiatus. They've even got new material: Glory Under Dangerous Skies, the first Moist album since 1999. True manna for lovers of '90s CanCon FM alterna-rock. (Union Hall, $27.50 in advance or $35 at the door)

KALEIA ODELLE / SUN, NOV 30 (3 PM) What were you doing when you were 13 years old? Edmonton's own Kaleia Odelle is barely a teen but she's already got considerable musical chops. Odelle is releasing her debut jazz album In Session at the Yardbird, and she's being joined by some of our city's best jazz musicians. (The Yardbird Suite, $16.75)

A NIGHT OF BIG BAND MUSIC / MON, DEC 1 (7:30 PM) If swing is your thing, then check out Grant MacEwan's music department let loose with their Big Band. Students in the diploma and degree department play everything from '30s swing, funk and Latin and have 20 members in each group. The bands are conducted by faculty members Raymond Baril and Jerrold Dubyk. (John L Haar Theatre at the Centre for Arts and Communications, $10 for students, $12 for adults)

DENIS AZABAGIC / SUN, NOV 30 (7:30 PM) The Bosnian-born classical guitarist is highly regarded for his dextrous fretwork. He’s been winning international guitar competitions since he was 20 and has played with world-renowned orchestras. (Muttart Hall Alberta College, $20 for students/seniors/ members, $25 regular)

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ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM Cold Specks, We are the City; 7pm; $20 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$25 (door)

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am WUNDERBAR Skunk Coat, Ol' Badger, Jason Dublanko of sKIn, Potco, others; 9pm; $5

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl: Throwback Thu: Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone slide; Wooftop: Dig It! Thursdays. Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests; this week: Tavia Daylene

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

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri

OMAILLES IRISH PUB Sweet Vintage Rides; no cover

MERCER TAVERN Homegrown Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture

ON THE ROCKS Achilles Last Stand with DJs

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJs Brad Wilkinson, the Hügonaut, and thomas Culture

PAWN SHOP The Ataris, Drive by Punch, Teenage Kicks

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)

ROSE AND CROWN PUB Mike Dominey

ARTERY J. Eygenraam, guests

SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–WEM Tony Dizon

THE BUCKINGHAM Big Rock Sock Hop; 8pm CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Chill Factor

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Stan Gallant (rock) DV8 Oak and Elm, the Vanas; 8pm FESTIVAL PLACE Café Series: Jon Brooks (songwriter); 7:30-11pm; $20 at Festival Place box office FESTIVAL PLACE High Valley (country); 7:30-11pm; Sold out L.B.'S PUB Jeremy Dallas MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and the Hurricanes (country) OMAILLES IRISH PUB Sweet Vintage Rides; no cover ON THE ROCKS Achilles Last Stand with DJS OVERTIME Sherwood Park Dueling Pianos PAWN SHOP Sonic Band of the Month: Royal Tusk, Whale and the Wolf, the Allovers RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am RIVER CREE–The Venue Bret Michaels; 6pm (door), 8pm (show); $59.50; benefit concert to support Edmonton's homeless; Homeward Bound Support Services and Martyshuk Housing ROSE AND CROWN PUB Mike Dominey ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE Danny Michel; 8pm (show), 7pm (door); sold out SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–DT (Rice Howard Way) Quentin Reddy (country) SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–U of A Rob Taylor (pop folk rock) SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–WEM Tony Dizon STARLITE ROOM Ryan Hemsworth (Sucker For Punishment Tour); 9pm; $21 TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music every Fri YARDBIRD SUITE Fernanda Cunha (fr Brazil/TO); 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)

ATLANTIC TRAP Duff Robison "B" STREET BAR Rockin Big Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon hosted by the Jimmy Guiboche Band; 2-6pm BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Afternoon: Big Al's House of Blues Wam Bam Thank you Jam: free chilli hosted by Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens; every Sat, 2-6pm; Evening: Jack Semple (blues DVD launch), with Dave Chabot, Andrew Glover, Steve Hoy; 9pm; $20 (adv)/$25 (door) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: (live acoustic music every Sat): this week: The Poor School (members of 100 mile house & Scenic Route to Alaska); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Celtara (Celtic); 8:30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Rockin Jake BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays: Industrial - Goth - Dark Electro with DJs the Gothfather and Zeio; 9pm; $5 (door); (every Sat except the 1st Sat of the month) BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm BRIXX BAR Sleeping in Traffic (EP release, debut show), the Noumenon, Tylor Dory Trio, Protsequence; 8pm; $10 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Chill Factor CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON Jess Valdez (pop rock); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD WOW (pop); 9pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Stan Gallant (rock DV8 The Blame, It's, Butcher's Angst, White Label Demo; 8pm EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Canto Para Una Semilla: A Song for a Seed: Sombrilla, Colectivo 97 (Latin, an evening of music honoring the life and work of Violeta Parra); 7:30-9pm; $20 at door, 780.905.4509/780.988.2976

UNION HALL Moist Live, Smashing Satellites, Forester; 8pm; $27.50 (adv)/$35 (door) YARDBIRD SUITE The Best Of Alberta Jazz Series: Jeff Hendrick and the

Love Jones Band (fr Edmonton); 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $16 (member)/$20 (guest)

Classical HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Creator of the Stars of Night: i Coristi Chamber Choir, Ariane Lowrey (accompanist), Jeremy Spurgeon (organ), Irene Apanovitch (assistant conductor); 7:30pm; $15 (adv adult)/$13 (adv student/Senior) at TIX on the Square; $20 (door, adult)/$15 (door, student/senior) MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Lullabies, Love, and Light: Ariose Women's Choir, Archbishop Jordan Girl's Choir; 7:30pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior) at door MUTTART HALL–Alberta College Midday Music: Fall Music Festival student participants; 2-3pm; free WINSPEAR CENTRE Schubert's Fourth Symphony: Mei-Ann Chen (conductor), Robert Uchida (ESO violin), Julianne Scott, (ESO clarinet); 8pm; $24-$79

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: alt rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae with DJ Sonny Grimez & instigate; Underdog: Alternating DJs THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno

FIDDLER'S ROOST Jo MacDonald; 8pm

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong every Sat

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts: Tallest To Shortest: The Frolics; 4pm; no cover

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Old School Dj

FIONN MACCOOL–City Centre ReWine Sat: Doug Hoyer; all ages; 8pm; no cover GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm; Evening: Mozzi Halo; 9:30pm

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LEGENDS Sat 3pm Jam and Open Mic with Nick Samoil and guests

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Christian Martin, Mikey Wong

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back Thursdays

THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri

LIFEGATE COMMUNITY CHURCH– Wetaskiwin REV K (EP release show, original folk/blues music); 7:309:30pm; donation

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STARLITE ROOM Astral Harvest and Zodiac Series presents: Plump DJs; 9pm; $16

FESTIVAL PLACE The Arrogant Worms; sold out

L.B.'S PUB Badasu Live

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu

RENDEZVOUS PUB Unleash the Archers, the Order of Chaos, Mortillery, Lucid Screams; 8pm (door), 9:30pm (show)

SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–U of A Rob Taylor (pop folk rock)

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Vaughan String Quartet and Amandy Bandeira (clarinet); 7:30pm; tickets at TIX on the Square

THE COMMON The Common Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

RICHARD'S PUB The Terry Evans Sat Jam (rock): every Sat; 4-8pm

APEX CASINO Jukebox Leigh (country rock); 9pm

Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm

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CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–DT (Rice Howard Way) Quentin Reddy (country)

CENTURY CASINO Michelle Wright; $59.95

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage; 8pm; all ages (15+)

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm

SAT NOV 29

FIONN MACCOOL–City Centre Craft Addict Thu: Penny and Jim; all ages; 7pm; no cover

MYER HOROWITZ Barney Bentall and the Grand Cariboo Opry; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $40 at Ticketfly.com

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and the Hurricanes (country)

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

CASINO YELLOWHEAD WOW (pop); 9pm

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm

Live Local Bands every Sat

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

FIDDLER'S ROOST Thu Open Circle Jam; 7:30pm

MERCURY ROOM The Grapes of Wrath, Bombproof the Horses, Pal Joey, guests; 7pm

disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh

BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

CASINO EDMONTON Jess Valdez (pop rock); 9pm

L.B.'S PUB South Bound Freight open jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle

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BLUES ON WHYTE Rockin Jake

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE Open Stage; 1st Thu each month, 7:30pm-10:30pm

KELLY'S PUB Jameoke Night with the Nervous Flirts (sing-along with a live band); every Thu, 9pm-1am; no cover

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CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music every Fri: This week: Cayley Thomas with Andrew Pahl; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

FIONN MACCOOL'S–South The Acoustiholics; 8:30pm

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BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brad Bucknell and the oHNo Band; 8:30pm; $10

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu Open Mic: All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm

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UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

BLUES ON WHYTE Rockin Jake

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu: This week: Gord Schindell; 7pm

$20 / advance $25 / door

ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Jack Semple (blues); 9pm; $20 (adv)/$25 (door)

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BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Thirsty Thursday singer-songwriter open jam with guest host Emo LeBlanc; 8-12pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

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PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJs Maurice and Joses Martin RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing. com

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am

alumni)/$5 (child 12 and under) at the King’s Bookstore, 780.465.8306, door; kingsu.ca

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE Student Performance Series: MacEwan University's Night of Big Band Music, Raymond Baril and Jerrold Dubyk (conductors); 7:30pm; $10 (student)/$12 (adult) at TIX on the Square

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SUN NOV 30 ARTERY Erin Kay with Ken Stead and Justine Vandergrift (CD release); 6pm BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun Electric Blues Jam and BBQ hosted

by Marshall Lawrence and the Lazy Bastards; 4-8pm

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Gloria Noël!: Chorale Saint-Jean's Christmas concert, with guest Allez Ouest; 3-5pm; $20/$15 at le Carrefour Bookstore, door MUTTART HALL Edmonton Classical Guitar Society: Denis Azabagic; 7:30pm; $25/$20 (student/senior/ ECGS member) at TIX on the Square, Avenue Guitars, Acoustic Music, edmontonclassicalguitarsociety. org, door

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Dead Vinyl Society: Bring Out Your Dead!; 3pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brunch: Jazz Passages Trio; 9am-3pm; donations

TRINITY LUTHERAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH Gloria: Concordia Concert Choir Concert, Concordia String Quartet, accompanied by Kim Cousineau (piano); 3pm; $15 (adult)/$12 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square, Concordia Student Accounts, door

BLUES ON WHYTE Rockin Jake CITADEL THEATRE–THE CLUB Tess and the D’linquint (CD release); all ages; 7-9pm; $15 ($5 ea ticket to Kids Kottage) DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm

WINSPEAR Edmonton Youth Orchestra Concert, Michael Massey (conductor), Adam Caulfield (solo cello); 2pm; $15 (adult)/$10 (senior/student) at TIX on the Square, Edmonton Youth Orchestra 780.436.7932, door

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm FESTIVAL PLACE A Barra MacNeil’s Christmas; 2pm, and 7:30pm; sold out HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm LATITUDE 53 Bass Line Road: Alberta composers Ian Crutchley (Spring), Alissa Cheung (Summer), Derek Stoll (Fall) and Charles Stolte (Winter) bring their own unique musical vision to a particular season; donation; chambermusicoldandnew.ca LIFEGATE COMMUNITY CHURCH– Wetaskiwin REV K (EP release show, original folk/blues music); 2:305:30pm; donation

Vi Kallio 780.456.8510 ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–WEM Adam Holm (folk pop)

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols: U of A Interfaith Chaplains and Dept of Music present U of A Mixed Chorus, Faculty of Education Handbell Ringers, Marnie Giesbrecht and Joachim Segger (organ); 7:3010pm; $15 Winspear box office

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay THE BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Dead Vinyl Society: Bring Out Your Dead!; 3pm DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

TUE DEC 2 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Big Dreamer Sound jam hosted by Harry Gregg and Geoff Hamden-O'brien; this weeks guest: Peter Stone; every Tue 8pm-12am BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage Tue; 9pm L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam: Trevor Mullen

MON DEC 1

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: Mod, Brit Pop, New Wave & British Rock with DJ Blue Jay; Wooftop: Metal Mon: with Metal Phil (fr CJSR’s Heavy Metal Lunch Box)

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

BLUES ON WHYTE Eddie Turner and the Trouble Twins

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Open mic every Tue

REXALL PLACE Usher (UR Experience Tour), August Alsina, DJ Cassidy; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $39.50, $65, $90, $150

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday open mic

RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 8pm-12; no cover; relaxed dress code

JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE Student Performance Big Band, Raymond Baril and Jerrold Dubyk (conductors); 7:30-9:30pm; $10-$12 at TIX on the Square

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Country Showcase and jam (country) hosted

by Darren Gusnowsky WUNDERBAR Long Knife, No Problem, Tarantuja and Languid; 9pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Rodeowind (country)

RICHARD'S PUB Tue Live Music Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm

YEG DANCE CLUB August Alsina, Official After Party; 8pm

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4

Classical

NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeowind (country)

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session: Brett Miles Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

CARROT CAFÉ Ridere Ensemble on the Ave (string quartet); 7-8:30pm

ON THE ROCKS Moonshine Mondays with the Dungarees

DJs

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH What Sweeter Music: The King’s University Choirs; 7:30pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior/

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Brit Pop, Synthpop, Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and

SANDS HOTEL Country music dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm

not-so-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail BRIXX Metal night every Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Swing, Funk, Soul, R&B, Rock&Roll and Electro/Disco sounds of the last 70 years with DJ Thomas Culture

WED DEC 3 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Scott Cook and the Long Weekenders; 8pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds

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DEC/3

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BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm CITADEL THEATRE–THE CLUB Hawksley Workman with guest DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeowind (country) ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5

DEC/ 4&5 DEC/5

ASKING ALEXANDRIA

THE MOVING ON TOUR **ALL AGES**

ALVVAYS **18 + / 10PM DOORS**

W/ GUESTS ABSOLUTELY FREE

FAKE BLOOD W/ SINDEN DEC/12 PHANTOGRAM DEC/11

SONIC 102.9 JINGLE BELL ROCK

W/ MOUNTIES & DEAR ROUGE

DEC/13

UBK IN ASSOCIATION WITH SANTA’S ANONYMOUS PRESENT:

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ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover STARLITE ROOM Johnny Marr, Meredith Sheldon; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $31 at livenation.com WINSPEAR Jim Findlay ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wed: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

NOV/29 SLEEPING IN TRAFFIC

EP RELEASE AND DEBUT SHOW W/ GUESTS THE NOUMENON, TYLOR DORY TRIO, PROTSEQUENCE

DEC/6 CLOSE TALKER FAST FOLK UNDERGROUND SHOW DEC/11 FT/ EUGENE RIPPER, JOHN GULIAK & THE FASHION POLICE DEC/13

EDMONTON’S 7TH ANNUAL

ROCK 4 SANTA

W/ FUNK SWAY, STELLAFOX

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St 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 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-

NOV/28 RYAN HEMSWORTH

153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CITADEL THEATRE–THE CLUB 9828-101A Ave, 780.425.1820 COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DIVERSION LOUNGE 3414 Gateway Blvd, 780.435.1922 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 10025-105 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–South Holiday Inn Conference Centre,

4485 Gateway Blvd HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE Grant MacEwan Centre for Arts, 10045-156 St KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St LATITUDE 53 10242-106 St L.B.’S 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIFEGATE COMMUNITY CHURCH– Wetaskiwin 4708-50 Ave, Wetaskiwin LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132104 St MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10025-101 St MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MUTTART HALL Alberta College,10050 Macdonald Dr MYER HOROWITZ 8900-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730

NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower School, 10135-96 Ave

ST BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH 1001481 Ave VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR 4 Sir Winston Churchill Sq; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC)

• edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@ edmontonoutdoorclub.com

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COMEDY

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave, 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog

LOTUS QIGONG, 780.477.0683 • Down-

Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

town • Practice group meets every Thu

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd,

780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

3728-106 St, 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Vilmos; Nov 27-29 • Cory Robinson; Dec 4-6 • Leif Skyving; Dec 11-13

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM, 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Andrew Norelli; Until Nov 30 • Lars Callieou; Dec 3-7 • Theo Von; Dec 10-14

POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall, 10135-96 Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm • Movie: Tommy Douglas: Keeper of the Flame, Dec 3 • Linda Dumont (Editor of Alberta Street News); Dec 17

Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm DJ to follow EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave •

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP •

Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta-Edmonton branch provides a facilitated family support group for caregivers of a loved one living with schizophrenia. Free drop-in the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/Connie's Comedy • 16648-109 Ave • Komedy Krush: with

headliner Matt Billon; Nov 27, 9pm

RIVER CREE–THE VENUE • Ron James; Nov 29, 6pm (door), 8pm (show); $34.50

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

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave,

Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place,

Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

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

SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar 3” wide version Swing, 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • CENTRAL EUROPEAN CAFÉ • Convocation Hall, Faculty Lounge 320 • Join the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies in the 4th Central European Cafe. An informal afternoon of social, intellectual and cultural exchange with a Central European theme. Tea, coffee and light refreshements served during this interdisciplinary exchange of ideas • Dec 5, 2-3:30pm • Free12345

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EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Monthly roundtable discussion group. Topics change each month, please check the website for details, edmontonatheists.ca • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month

EDMONTON GARDENING VEGETARIAN & www.PreApproval.cc VEGAN GROUP • Park Allen Hall, 11104-65 Ave, 780.463.1626 • Potluck and Talk on Amphibians found in Edmonton by speaker, Kris Kendell. Bring Vegetarian/Vegan/Raw dish for 6, list the ingredients, plus a 2nd dish if you bring a guest • Nov 30, 5pm,

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)

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • #7557 Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519

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TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA •

Karma Tashi Ling Society, 10502-70 Ave • Tranquility and insight meditation based on Very Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche's teachings.

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TOASTMASTERS

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:

2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; 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; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward. toastmastersclubs.org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

VEGANS AND VEGETARIANS OF ALBERTA • Riverdale Community Hall •

Holiday Potluck: Holiday favourites: Bring vegan or vegetarian dish to serve 6 people, your own plate, cup, cutlery, and serving spoon. We will have hot apple cider • Dec 7, 5:30pm • $3 (member)/$5 (non-member)

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL ASSOCIATION • Meet at McDonalds 8110 Argyll Rd, 83 St, 69 Ave at 9:45am • Walk in Mill Creek Ravine to Muttart Conservatory with hike leader Yvette 780.756.3623 • Nov 29 • $20 (annual membership) WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS ALBERTA AND THE GREAT WAR • Pro-

vincial Archives of Alberta, 8555 Roper Rd • series of lectures every Wed in Nov

CHRIS HADFIELD–Unique Lives & Experiences • Winspear, 780.428.1414 •

Live at the Winspear: And evening with Chris Hadfield, singing David Bowie's Space Oddity • Dec 2, 7:30pm

FORWARD THINKING SPEAKER SERIES

• Stanley Milner Library Theatre • Whatever the Issue, Community is the Answer: Talk/ presentation by Margaret Wheatley • Dec 8, 5pm • Free, pre-register at epl.ca/margaretwheatley

EXPEDITIONS–Travel Slide presentations • Christmas Potluck: Turkey provided.

Bring drinks, potluck dish and favourite photos or slides for others to guess location; Dec 1, 6:30pm

MARGARET WHEATLEY • Stanley Milner Library Theatre • epl.ca/margaret-wheatley • Internationally renowned writer and consultant talks about healthy community engagement • Dec 8, 5pm • Free, must sign-up to attend at http://bit.ly/1yMJLWE SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall,

10433-83 Ave, upstairs, 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

SHOOTING THEORY–AN ACCIDENT OF FAST FEMINISM • 10-4 HM Tory Bldg, U of

A • politicalscience.ualberta.ca • Shannon Bell, professor of Political Science, York university • Nov 27, 3-4:30pm

SO YOU THINK WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY? • Allendale Hall, 6330-105A St

• Presented by the Council of Canadians followed by discussion • Nov 27, 7pm

SPACES OF REMEMBRANCE • Arts-Based Research Studio, 4-104, Education N, U of A • Work by Allen Ball; Artist Talk: Nov 27, 12-2pm QUEER BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House,

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trees sparkling with lights; south grounds skating rink; free hot chocolate served in the rotunda in the evenings following the Dec 4 Light-up; choir performances at noon and 6pm daily • Dec 4-23 • Free

free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

CREATIVE MUSIC GALA FUNDRAISER • Festival Place • Presented by Facey Music • Dec 1

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-

DBG CRAFTERS CHRISTMAS SALE •

103 St, 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION

• teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton. ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E

Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave, 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/ bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for femaleidentified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian

Church, 10804-119 St, 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri ea Month, 7-10:30pm

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave, 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE, 780.482.1794 • womonspace.org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave,

780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

Devonian Botonical Gardens • For wreaths, centerpieces, gifts and seasonal handmade crafts from the bounty of the Garden • Proceeds support programs and projects at the Garden • Nov 28-30

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; call or text for Sunday jam locations: rare LIVE Rendevous Pub Rock Show Sat, Dec 6, 9pm • 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 • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank) FRUIT LOOP–HOLIDAY BALL • Yellowhead Brewing, 10229-105 St • An evening of fun and frivolity with the Pride Centre, and Edmonton's first ever XXX-mas market with sexy themed holiday pop up shops.

Performances by some of Edmonton's most talented burlesque performers Beau Creep, Holly Von Sinn, and Minni d Bomme; DJ Audio Serge; hostess MC Teen Jesus Barbie • Nov 28, 8pm (door) • $5 (door donation) facebook.com/fruitloopedmonton HOLIDAY BAZZAR • Roxy Theatre, 124 St • A Night Of Knick-Knackery Featuring Vendors And Entertainment • Dec 4, 5-9Pm • Donation JUST CHRISTMAS: An Ethical Global Market Place • Alberta Avenue Hall,

9210-118 Ave • Featuring gifts for purchase, food, and live entertainment • Nov 28, 5:30-9pm; Nov 29, 9:30am-4pm

KIDS CHRISTMAS SHOPPE • Old Strathcona Antique Mall, 10323-78 Ave, 780.433.0398 • Kids, come and Christmas shop for your parents where no parents are allowed; all gifts betw $5-$20 (Grandmothers of Alberta for a New Generation will be there to help) • Nov 29-30; Sat 10am4pm; Sun: 11am-4pm LUMINARIA • Devonian Botonical

Gardens • Cider by the bonfires, strolling ice sculptures, Snow Sprites. Thousands of candles and millions of stars • Dec 6-7

MIRACLE ON JASPER AVENUE • Fort

Edmonton • Christmas 1946, who’s heart is as black as a lump of coal, that smoulders with enough fiery rage to commit . . . murder? Festive murder mystery, with 3-course dinner • Nov 28-29, 6pm • Sold out

MINKHA SWEATER SALE • Windsor Park Community Hall, 11840-87 Ave, 780.434.8105 • minkhasweaters.com • Pure alpaca/pima cotton sweaters, shawls, scarves hand knit by women’s cooperative in Bolivia • Dec 6, 9am-3pm 8 All proceeds go to the knitters santa's little helpers • River Cree, Marriott Hotel, 300 East Lapotac Blvd • kingsleyevents.com • Christmas Shopping Extravaganza • Nov 30, 10am-4pm • Proceeds to the Christmas Bureau

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

SOUND LIGHT AND MOTION • Winspear Centre • makesomethingedmonton.ca • Make Something Edmonton hosts a celebration of Edmontonians and their projects • Dec 8 STUART MCLEAN–Vinyl Café Christmas • Jubilee Auditorium • Dec 7 •

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November 1st marks the start of the 23rd Annual “LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE” campaign in support of palliative/hospice and continuing care in the communities of Stony Plain, Spruce Grove, Wabamun, Seba Beach and Parkland County.

Help us reach our $1,000,000.00 Milestone of total donations since the first campaign in 1992.

All donations are receipted for taxation purposes.

For Information Contact: Linda McCreath at 963-5691.

Mail donations to: Light Up Your Life Society, 4405 South Park Drive, Stony Plain T7Z 2M7 or you may donate on line at: www.lightupyourlife.org

THE LOFT ART GALLERY AND GIFT SHOP Loft Gallery - AJ Ottewell Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park - Open Saturdays and Sundays noon to 4 pm. October showing is “The Color Purple” and the November/December showing is smaller artwork for Christmas.

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Parents Empowering Parents (PEP) Society supports & educates families dealing with the effects of substance abuse in youth & adult children. Do you feel embarrassed, exhausted, hopeless, or alone as a result of a child struggling with substance use and/or abuse? PEP can help. Call 780.293.0737 or see www.pepsociety.ca for more information.

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EPL Free Courses: Edmonton AB Check out the Free Online Interactive Instructor Led Courses offered through the Edmonton Public Library.

Some of the courses for visual artists would include: Creating WordPress Websites, Secrets of Better Photography Beginning Writer’s Workshop many more…

For a list of Free Courses visit: https://www.epl.ca/learn4life For information and instruction on how to get started https://www.epl.ca/learn4life

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Become a Victim Services Volunteer Advocate!

Work in conjunction with the RCMP to provide immediate assistance, support, information and agency referral to victims of crime and trauma in Strathcona County and provide support to victims through the criminal justice system. Please contact Jessica at 780-410-4300 or by email at jessica.hippe@strathcona.ca for more information!

Call for Volunteers A reminder that we are currently recruiting volunteers for International Week 2015!

This year I-Week runs from January 26-30, and we are looking for volunteers to fill various positions including: helping with event preparations, assisting with publicity campaigns on and off campus, introducing guest speakers, and helping to ensure that I-Week events run smoothly.

For more information or to apply online http://www.globaled.ualberta.c a/en/AboutGlobalEducation/Vo lunteer.aspx Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism.

Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities

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Call for Volunteers We are excited to begin recruiting our amazing team of volunteers for International Week 2015! This year I-Week runs from January 26-30, and we are looking for volunteers to fill various positions including: helping with event preparations, assisting with publicity campaigns on and off campus, introducing guest speakers, and helping to ensure that I-Week events run smoothly.

While volunteering you can make new friends, learn about topical world issues, develop new skill sets, work with likeminded people, and have fun in the process! Sign up to volunteer today and help make International Week 2015 a success!

For more information contact the Global Education Volunteer Coordinator Tatiana Duque at duqueval@ualberta.ca Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network’s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers! Interested or want to learn more? Contact Maura at 780-392-8723 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Want to make a difference for patients and their families at the Cross Cancer Institute?

Volunteer with the Alberta Cancer Foundation today and help redefine the future of cancer in Alberta.

Opportunities are available throughout the year. www.albertacancer.ca/volunteer 1.866.412.4222

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Volunteers Wanted

Christmas in Action with Habitat for Humanity For those who want to give back at Christmastime, we are looking for more volunteers to join us Tuesdays to Saturdays from Dec 1 – 13! We are looking for individuals or groups from 7– 25 volunteers for construction and individuals to join us at our ReStore, our new and used building supplies store. Convincing details! • We offer a great volunteer experience! We know, because we as staff do build days too! • If you’re with a group, your group will be teambuilding: you will be interacting differently and working together in a brand new way • There is indoor work at our prefabrication shop and our ReStores • We have heated indoor work and outdoor work at our Neufeld Landing location • We take plenty of breaks to keep everybody warm on a chilly day • We have hot drinks and free hot lunches for everyone • All equipment and tools are provided • Beginners to tradespeople are welcome • Last but not least, we have a heartwarming task – building homes for families We hope you can join us!

Contact Vilija Rodgers for more information or to sign up at vrodgers@hfh.org or 780-451-3416 ext 236.

Team Edmonton is run by volunteers, and we always welcome new people to help us promote LGBT sports and recreational activities.

Volunteers can assist during particular events or can take advantage of other short-term and ongoing opportunities.

We are currently seeking volunteers to spearhead new activities, take over for retired activity leaders (cross country ski and snowshoe, outdoor pursuits), and to join the Team Edmonton Board.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, or if you would like more information, please contact volunteer@teamedmonton.ca.

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The Habitat for Humanity November Build Challenge Canadians ski, skate, snowmobile, fish and participate in many other winter activities! Why not make a Habitat build day one of your winter activities?

Habitat needs your help to keep going strong until the end of this year. We are looking for 32 groups of 10 – 25 people to volunteer with us this November. Would you be one of them?

Contact Kim Dedeugd for more information or sign up at kdedeugd@hfh.org or 780-451-3416 ext 232 Wanted: Volunteers for our Long Term Care facility!

Individuals or groups welcome!

Vulnerable Sector search by EPS is required Please contact Janice Graff Volunteer Coordinator – Extendicare Eaux Claires for more information: jgraff@extendicare.com 780-472-1106 ext 202

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ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT CALL FOR ARTISTS FOR VAULT EXHIBIT SPACE seeks proposals from artists interested in utilizing this space for short term exhibitions of single artworks created or tailored for this space. Further details on the specifications of the space as well as images of this space can be found on our website.

ArtGalleryofStAlbert.com.

For more information please contact Jenny WillsonMcGrath, Exhibition Curator/ Interim Director jennyw@artgalleryofstalbert.ca 780.651.5741 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: BUDAPEST The Open Call will begin on June 25, 2014, we have every months jury selection until April 15, 2015. Apply early!

HMC International Artist Residency Program, a not-forprofit arts organization based in Dallas, TX / Budapest, Hungary – provides national and international artists to produce new work while engaging with the arts community in Budapest, Hungary.

FOR APPLICATION FORM, questions please contact us.

Email: bszechy@yahoo.com

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Art in Transit is now accepting submissions for Sketching the Line, returning for its second year to screens in Spring 2015!

Sketching the Line is a public exhibition that showcases the work of Canadian and international artists who explore the inspiring and creative potential of their daily commute.

Submit your sketches for a chance to participate in the upcoming exhibition. Selected works will be featured on PATTISON Onestop screens in the Toronto transit system, Edmonton transit system and the Calgary Airport, reaching well over one million travellers each day. An honorarium will be awarded to all participating artists.

Deadline January 31,2015 http://www.artintransit.ca/archi ves/sketching-line-callsubmissions.html?mc_cid=925 2147d70&mc_eid=08064c2cf8 Art on the Patio will join art, music, and food, as artists and artisans display and sell their work during the very popular Festival Place Patio Series.

This is a free opportunity that will be scheduled for four dates this coming summer. Six artists per week will be scheduled.

Artists may book a maximum of two weeks.

This event will occur on Wednesday evenings. Set up time will be from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm, and take down after the evenings performance concludes (approximately 9:30-10:00 pm).

Interested in learning more?

Email artgallery@strathcona.ca Call for One Act Play Submissions: Stage Struck! is a one-act play festival sponsored by the Alberta Drama Festival Association, Edmonton Region. The Festival will be held at La Cite on Feb 27-28, 2015. For more information or to request a registration package, contact Mary-Ellen Perley at 780-481-3716 or email at mperley@shaw.ca. Award winning playwright Vern Thiessen is our adjudicator this year!

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Call For Exhibition Proposals: Red Deer, AB Harris-Warke Gallery, Red Deer Deadline: January 31 annually The gallery encourages exposure to a wide variety of Arts. In addition to painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, ceramics, jewellery, textiles and all combinations of mixed and multi-media, They hope to feature some of the less often exhibited art forms, such as literary art, landscape art, culinary art and music. We are open to an eclectic definition of art. In concert with this mandate, the downtown location facilitates a viewing public from various walks of life.

Questions and comments should be directed to: harriswarke@gmail.com

Call For Submission: Directory Of Ukrainian Artists in Alberta Do you weave, embroider or make pottery ? Do you write stories, pysanky or music ? Do you direct a choir, dance group or play in a band ? The Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts would love to hear from you and everyone else involved in the arts.

The Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts is pleased to announce that we are accepting submissions for our new online “Directory of Ukrainian Artists in Alberta”.

Additional information and submission forms are available by contacting: Elena Scharabun Directory Coordinator, ACUA directory@acuarts.ca 780-975-3077

Gini’s Restaurant Small fine dinning establishment have completed several large upgrades to their restaurant and they would like to offer some wall space to local artists to display/sell their artwork.

Contact Steve Konojacki at his cell 780.707.6507 for more information or make arrangements.

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Line-X Protective Coating is in need of Rubber Processing Machine Operator (NOC 9423);

Thermex Metal Treating Ltd. is in need of Heat Treating Operators – Metal Processing (NOC 9411); F/T-Permanent; $24.00/hour + Medical, Dental and Long Term Disability and Life Insurance; 40 hours/week, Shift hours (6:00AM-2:30PM; 2:00PM-10:30PM: 10:30PM -6:00AM); weekend days off; Duties: Prepare parts for processing, including cleaning, masking, proper fixturing; Load prepared parts into furnaces; Operate furnaces of various types, including internal quench, box tempers, pit carburizers, pit tempers, gas nitrider, salt bath nitrider; Ensure that furnace set points are correct, including proper temperature and carbon potential settings; Monitor loads, quench at appropriate times; Perform as-quenched hardness testing, when required; Perform hardness testing, using various methods including Rockwell, Brinell, Tele-Brinell, portable Rockwell, and portable Vickers, on tempered loads; Organize and perform re-tempering as required; Perform final inspections and signoffs on completed jobs; Ensure efficient maximal use of available furnace time; Maintain proper and thorough records on order travelers and production logs; Basic shop / equipment maintenance and clean-up; Requirements: Completion of secondary school; At least 1 year relevant previous experience in heat treating is required;

F/T-Permanent; $20.00/hour; 8 hours/day, 40 hours/week, 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM, 2 fixed days off on weekends; Duties: Set up and operate machinery used for mixing, moulding and curing rubber materials or products; Load or feed rubber, pigments, filler, oil and chemicals into machines; Check and monitor processing conditions and product quality; Adjust machines to proper setting as required; Train or assist in training new workers; Perform other related duties as required; Requirements: Completion of secondary school is required; Experience is an asset but not required; On-thejob training is provided;

MAIL, FAX OR E-MAIL RESUME: Employer: Thermex Metal Treating Ltd.; Business/Work Location: 7434 18 Street, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6P 1N8; E-mail: nhanson@thermexmetal.com; Phone: 780-440-4373; Fax: 780-440-4376

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS MAKE SOMETHING EDMONTON AND FAVA TV Make Something Edmonton was commissioned by Mayor Stephen Mandel to provide an answer to the question: “Why do you live in Edmonton?”

MSE and FAVA TV are partnering to commission filmmakers to address that very question by making shorts with budgets up to $10,000.

The following themes should be considered when pitching new works: - Problem solving through creativity - Social, artistic and commercial entrepreneurship - Economy that allows for risktaking - Grassroots collaboration (a.k.a. urban barn raising) - A lack of aristocracy - anyone with a good idea can start something here Have a completed work that already addresses these themes? Apply and we might give you $1,000 for the rights to screen it.

What’s Edmonton to you? Why do you choose to live and make films here? How does Edmonton infiltrate your work?

Show us! http://www.fava.ca/30th/grants/ 43-grants/261-grants

Call For Submissions for Prairie Wood Solutions Fair Award recognition for outstanding wood architecture.

New online submission process is now open, visit the following link to our website for information on the nomination process and to create and application.

Contact Communications Coordinator, Barbara Murray at 780-392-0761 or bmurray@wood-works.ca for more information. Important dates: Nomination deadline: January 23, 2015 Gala and award presentation on March 17, 2015 Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, Edmonton, AB

Call For Submissions: Santa Fe, Mexico Artists, performers & developers are now invited to submit their work CURRENTS 2015 – Santa Fe’s International New Media Festival Deadline: December 1, 2014 categories include: New Media Installations, Outdoor Architectural Mapping and !

Outdoor New Media Installations, Single Channel Video and Animation, Multimedia Performance, Fulldome Projection, Experimental or Interactive Documentary, Web-Art/ArtGaming/ Mobile Device Art-Apps, Oculus! Rift, Robotics and 3D Printing! technology and the !arts in collaboration Submission Guidelines: http://currentsnewmedia.org/su bmission-guidelines/

Loft Art Gallery and Gift Shop – Open November 1 to December 21 with smaller artworks by the artists of the Art Society of Strathcona County.

Open Saturdays 10 to 4 pm and Sundays 12 to 4 pm for your viewing and purchasing pleasure. Unique art pieces and gifts for the holiday season.

Visit the A. J. Ottewell Community Centre, and enjoy!

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Call for Visual Artists: Everything Cannot Be True: art with/in the everyday Taking place March 5 – 8, 2015, the exhibit will occupy the main gallery at the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225 – 118 Avenue This is a wonderful opportunity for your artwork to be presented to a diverse festival audience, partaking in Variety Showcases, Comedy, Theatre and Play Development, Music, Dance, Spoken Word, Visual Art, Artistic Collaborations, Yoga, and Family events.

Five artists will be chosen to display up to 3 works apiece, alongside two artists representing both the Nina Haggerty Centre and the SkirtsAfire Festival. We are looking for women working in all mediums, and hoping for as vast a range as possible.

Please read our prospectus below, for further details on the focus of the exhibit. Interested applicants will submit at least 3 to 5 high quality images of recently completed work, including a bio and artist statement.

Deadline for applications is Friday, December 19, 2014.

Chosen artists will be notified

by January 5, 2015. http://form.jotform.ca/form/430 18816035248 Call to Makers, Mercer Collective: A Maker’s Market You must MAKE, BAKE or CREATE what you sell. You can not be a reseller of goods not produced by you.

Costs: $60 per market December show is $200 Additional Fees Table Rental is available at $10 per show. Please specify 6 ft or 4 ft. Limited quantities available.

Show Dates: March 29,April 26, Sept 27,October 25, November 22 December 13-14 – $200

http://www.emailmeform.com/ builder/form/er27bvY7c0dhM9 0B9dX49 Micro-Residency Program, CultureHub, New York Deadline: December 12, 2014 Submit a copy of your resumé or CV, links to portfolio or work samples, a proposal of no more than 500 words, and a short biography. The application deadline is December 12th, 2014.

For more information and a full list of available resources please contact residency@culturehub.org or visit http://www.culturehub.org/resid ency/ <http://carfacbc.us2.listmanage.com/track/click?u=a05 abc75b65eaa7c803675a2a&a mp;id=16541923cc&amp;e=08 064c2cf8 CultureHub http://carfacbc.us2.listmanage.com/track/click?u=a05 abc75b65eaa7c803675a2a&a mp;id=16541923cc&amp;e=08 064c2cf8 The Deep Freeze Byzantine Winter Festival is coming to Alberta Ave on January 10-11, 2015.

Looking for ARTISANS and ARTISTS to sell their wares in our indoor market, as well as ART to display in our Gallery.

Calls for Submissions can be viewed at deepfreezefest.ca/participate.

Deadline is November 30th for both Market and Gallery.

ARTISAN MARKET inquiries: contact Candace at deepfreezemarket@gmail.com GALLERY inquiries: contact Pam at deepfreezegallery@gmail.com.

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NATIONAL CALL TO ARTISTS: Rogers Place Arena – Community Rink, Sculpture in the Landscape The Sculpture in the Landscape public art competition is a National Call open to all professional artists residing in Canada and is held in accordance with the City of Edmonton policy “Percent for Art to Provide and Encourage Art in Public Areas” (C458C).

Budget: $300,000.00 CAD (maximum, all inclusive) Deadline for Submissions: 4:30 pm on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 Installation: August 2016 The EAC and the City of Edmonton invite artists to address any questions by email to abowes@edmontonarts.ca

Opportunities for artists to exhibit in Budapest: Open call for book artists! Library Thoughts 5 :An exhibition of the Book as Art Artist’s Books and book-related art Deadline: March 1, 2015 fee: USD$ 35 Book as Art exhibition organized at MAMU Gallery, Budapest June 12 – July 3, 2015 . The exhibition curator Beata Szechy.

Part of the AIR/HMC, Budapest, International Artists in Residency program. info, application form e-mail Beata Szechy bszechy@yahoo.com http://www.hungarianmulticultural-center.com Facebook: Budapest International Artist Residency

Silver Skate Festival 9th Annual Cessco International Snow Sculpture Symposium February 13 – 16, 2015 Hawrelak Park, Artists are invited to let their creative side run wild and are invited to apply to create sculptures in their own individual style. A People Choice and Artist Choice will be announced at the Everyone is a Winner Ceremony.

Two – Three person teams create works of art from an 8’ high x 8’ wide x 8’ deep block of snow within a 30’ x 30’ area and each snow sculpture is as unique as the artists that create them. The twelve pristine sculptures create a ephemeral sculpture garden for the Silver Skate audience to enjoy Please find attached the link to the Silver Skate Festival Snow Sculpture Symposium Application http://www.pocobrio.com/go/do wnloads/SSF-SculptureRegistration-Form-2015.pdf Application Deadline: December 15, 2014

The Emmanuel College Art Department offers an eightweek artists residency to four artists each summer. The residency supports a diverse group of artists, providing time and space for established and emerging artists to develop their work.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2015 residency. All applications must be received by Feb 1st, 2015. http://www.emmanuel.edu/aca demics/programs-of-studydepartments/art/artist-inresidence.html

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The From Our Dark Side competition is a national English-language contest seeking the best in Canadian female-driven genre film ideas, written by women.

Genre films can include thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, horror - or an imaginative combination of these.

We’re looking for the strongest and most original concepts that really grab us - we encourage writers to let the creative genie out of her bottle.

Writers are invited to submit their maximum 3-5 page outlines by January 15, 2015 for a chance to win a cash prize and a mentorship package designed to help them get their projects to the screen. Mentors include female genre directors such as Rachel Talalay (Dr. Who), Karen Lam (Evangeline) and Amanda Tapping (Continuum), as well as marketing expert Annelise Larson.

The competition is organized

by Women in Film and Television Vancouver (WIFTV), and supported by Super Channel, Telefilm Canada and Creative BC. For contest rules & registration, visit our website at www.womeninfilm.ca

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VASA, in cooperation with Beverley Bunker, is soliciting submissions for a visual art exhibition for June 2015 from professional and emerging artists in the Edmonton region of Alberta. The deadline for submissions is Dec 1, 2014.

Submissions must be sent electronically to mb.constable@gmail.com.

A group show to offer an opportunity for women figurative artists to showcase their expressions of women only experiencing everyday life, expressed as portraiture, female form (nude) studies, narratives, etc., in visual form. http://www.vasa.ca/

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Guitarist singer available Country, light rock, 50’s, 60’s 780-458-7133

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Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs.

Please call 780-901-7677

Looking for players for blues rock Contact Derek at 780-577-0991

Wanted: Female Singer country, light rock, 50’s & 60’s 780-458-7133 The Reel Shorts Film Festival is accepting submissions until midnight on Monday, December 15 for the 9th festival May 6-10, 2015 in Grande Prairie, Alberta. There is no submission fee and filmmakers will be paid screening fees if their film is selected. All Official Selections are eligible for the Audience Choice Award and three Juried Awards: Best Live Action Short, Best Animated Short, and Best Documentary Short.

Each winning film will receive an award designed by Grande Prairie sculptor Grant Berg and made by Decca Industries in Clairmont with a base made by D.R. Sales Woodworking in Grande Prairie. Submission details can be found at reelshorts.ca/submit/

The SkirtsAFire herArts Festival is seeking designers and artists to enter the 2015 Found Items Skirt Design Competition for this year’s festival March 5-8, 2015.

Submission deadline is November 28th, 2014.

The theme of the Skirt Design Competition this year is ‘Found Items; Finding the Magic in the Mundane’. All designs must be constructed of found upcycled materials and must be wearable. Six skirts will be selected to be constructed for the festival and showcased at our media launch. The skirts will then be judged by a celebrity panel where first, second and third prizes will be awarded. The first prize skirt will be featured at the opening ceremonies with our Honorary 2014 Skirts Lynn Mandel and Sarah Chan and our Honorary Skirt for 2015, Rachel Notley.

All six skirts will be featured in our cabaret space throughout the Festival.

To enter, a conceptual drawing and application must be submitted by November 28th.

To download the application form, full guidelines or for more information please visit http://skirtsafire.wordpress.com

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Driver with truck available for weeknights & weekends.

For inquiries call Justin at 780-257-7429

Old Appliance Removal Removal of unwanted appliances. Must be outside or in your garage.

Rates start as low as $30.

Call James @780.231.7511 for details

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What's your philosophy of life?

Do you think that most people are basically good and that you can make a meaningful life for yourself if you just work hard and act kind? Do you believe that evil, shapeshifting, kitten-eating extraterrestrials have taken on human form and are impersonating political leaders who control our society? Are you like the character Crash Davis in the film Bull Durham, who believed in "high fibre, good scotch, the sweet spot and long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days"? Now would be an excellent time for you to get very clear about the fundamental principles that guide your behaviour. Recommit yourself to your root beliefs—and jettison the beliefs that no longer work for you.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): I have two encyclopedias of dreams and they disagree on the symbolic meaning of mud. One says that when you dream of mud, you may be facing a murky moral dilemma in your waking life or are perhaps dealing with a messy temptation that threatens to compromise your integrity.

The other suggests that when you dream of mud, it means you have received an untidy but fertile opportunity that will incite growth and creativity. I suspect you have been dreaming of mud lately, Taurus, and that both meanings apply to you.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Are there certain influences you would love to bring into your life, but you can't figure out how? Do you fantasize about getting access to new resources that would make everything better for you, but they seem to be forever out of reach? If you answered "yes," it's time to stop moping. I'm happy to report that you have more power than usual to reel in those desirable influences and resources. To fully capitalize on this power, be confident that you can attract what you need.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Should you cut back and retrench? Definitely. Should you lop off and bastardize? Definitely not. Do I recommend that you spend time editing and purifying? Yes, please.

Does this mean you should censor and repress? No, thank you.

Here's my third pair of questions: will you be wise enough to shed some of your defence mechanisms and strip away one of your lame excuses? I hope so. Should you therefore dispense with all of your psychic protections and leave yourself vulnerable to being abused? I hope not.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): I know you're beautiful and you know you're beautiful. But I think you could be even more beautiful than you already are. What do you think? Have you reached the

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limits of how beautiful you can be? Or will you consider the possibility that there is even more beauty lying dormant within you, ready to be groomed and expressed? I encourage you to ruminate on these questions: 1) Are you hiding a complicated part of your beauty because it would be hard work to liberate it? 2) Are you afraid of some aspect of your beauty because revealing it would force you to acknowledge truths about yourself that are at odds with your self-image? 3) Are you worried that expressing your full beauty would intimidate other people?

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Helsinki, Finland is growing downwards.

By cutting out space in the bedrock below the city's surface, farseeing leaders have made room to build shops, a data centre, a hockey rink, a church and a swimming pool. There are also projects underway to construct 200 other underground structures. I'd like to see you start working along those lines, Virgo—at least metaphorically. Now would be an excellent time to renovate your foundations so as to accommodate your future growth.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): The Pantone Matching System presents a structured approach to identifying colours. It's used as a standard in the printing industry.

According to its system of classification, there are 104 various shades of grey. I suspect you will benefit from being equally discerning in the coming weeks. It just won't be possible to differentiate between the good guys and the bad guys. You'll misunderstand situations that you try to simplify and you'll be brilliant if you assume there's always more nuance and complexity to uncover. Don't just grudgingly tolerate ambiguity, Libra. Appreciate it.

Learn from it.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): I am not necessarily predicting that you will acquire a shiny new asset in time for the solstice.

Nor am I glibly optimistic that you will get a raise in pay or an unexpected bonus. And I can offer only a 65-percent certainty that you will snag a new perk or catch a financial break or stumble upon a treasure. In general, though, I am pretty confident that your net worth will rise in the next four weeks. Your luck will be unusually practical. To take maximum advantage of the cosmic tendencies, focus your efforts on the one or two most promising prospects.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and mathematician who is sometimes called "the father of modern science." He expressed his innovative ideas so vigorously that he offended the Catholic Church,

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which convicted him of heresy.

For us today, he symbolizes the magnificence of rational thought.

And yet Galileo also had a weird streak. For example, he gave lectures on the "Shape, Location and Size of Dante's Inferno," analyzing the poet's depiction of hell. In the course of these meticulous discourses, Galileo concluded that Satan was more than fourfifths of a mile tall. In this spirit, Sagittarius, and in accordance with current astrological omens, you are temporarily authorized to de-emphasize the constraints of reason and logic so that you may gleefully and unapologetically pursue your quirky proclivities.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): While in his early twenties, actor Robert Downey Jr appeared in the films Less Than Zero and Weird Science. That got him semi-typecast as a member of Hollywood's Brat Pack, a group of popular young actors and actresses who starred in coming-of-age films in the '80s. Eager to be free of that pigeonhole, Downey performed a ritual in 1991: he dug a hole in his backyard and buried the clothes he had worn in Less Than Zero. I recommend that you carry out a comparable ceremony to help you graduate from the parts of your past that are holding you back.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): In her book Revolution from Within, Gloria Steinem offers a challenge: "Think of the times you have said: 'I can't write,' 'I can't paint,' 'I can't run,' 'I can't shout,' 'I can't dance,' 'I can't sing.'" That's your first assignment, Aquarius: think of those times. Your second assignment is to write down other "I can't" statements you have made over the years. Assignment three is to objectively evaluate whether any of these "I can't" statements are literally true. If you find that some of them are not literally true, your fourth assignment is to actually do them. The coming weeks will be a favourable time to transform "I can't" into "I can."

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): "Dogs don't know where they begin and end," writes Ursula K Le Guin in her book The Wave in the Mind.

They "don't notice when they put their paws in the quiche." Cats are different, Le Guin continues.

They "know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open. ... It's a cat's way of maintaining relationship." Whether you are more of a dog person or a cat person, Pisces, it is very important that you be more like a cat than a dog in the coming weeks.

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Foria lubricant There are a lot of personal lubricants on the market, but this one definitely stands out. Foria contains cannabis oil. That's right, it's pot lube. The makers of Foria claim that it aids in relaxation during sex and contributes to stronger, more intense orgasms. It sounds amazing, but sadly, you can only buy it if you live in California and have a medical-marijuana prescription.

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I am a bi male in my early 20s who until recently was in the closet. I have been exploring my sexuality for the past year and I didn't want to label myself and open a Pandora's box of oppression in the American South before I knew who I was for sure. I learned through my exploration that I have a few kinks and I have been acting on those kinks, seeing what I am and am not into. I may have been too trusting, because someone I interacted with decided that he was having none of me. This person took it upon himself to find all the info he could about me, regarding kinks as well as my career and other aspects of my life, and compile it on a website. He then sent links to several of my friends and family members. He never gave an explanation for why he was doing this.

My family has been very supportive and the few close friends I've spoken to have been great.

But how do I talk to other friends when I see them? My life is out in the open now. I am trying my best to roll with it and become more comfortable with myself, but it is a struggle. These people are close to me and I value their friendship. I don't believe they think poorly of me, but I am uncomfortable knowing that they have seen a part of me that I was trying to keep somewhat compartmentalized. How can I approach the situation without making it more uncomfortable and awkward?

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guess what? The American people weren't pissed at Clinton. Clinton's approval ratings shot up. People looked at what was being done to Clinton—a special prosecutor with subpoena powers and an unlimited budget asking Clinton under oath about his sex life—and thought, "Jesus fucking Christ, I would hate to have my privacy invaded like that."

People's sympathies were with Clinton, not with the special prosecutor, not with the GOP-controlled/outof-control Congress.

I promise you this, OAU: everyone in your life who has seen the website where that malicious piece of shit made your private and consensual sexual conduct public—everyone worth keeping in your life—had the same reaction that the American people had to the impeachment of

ing for a year and living together for seven months. There is a lot of love but there has also been a lot of arguing. Our conflicts stem from issues of abuse and abandonment on his part and issues of poor self-esteem and anger on my part. We have started to go to couples counselling to address these issues and see what we can do to make it work. About a week ago, we got into a yelling match over his drinking (it's constant and a LOT) and over him arranging for me to go hang out with our downstairs neighbour (my interactions with the neighbour have not been positive due to parking issues) to smoke weed with her. To cut to the chase: we got in a screaming match that resulted in me slapping him. I really didn't mean to. It just came out of my body and I immediately regretted it. He asked me to leave the apartment and I have been staying with my mom for the past few days.

We agreed to stay away from each other until our next therapy session. If he shows up, I know he wants to give me a second chance; if not, I have to pack my shit and leave.

I guess what my question really boils down to is: am I an attacker? Am I the female equivalent of a "wife beater"? Is there anything I can do to prove my regret and willingness to change? I love him with everything I have inside of me and I don't want to lose him over such a stupid mistake.

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Check to see if you live in a state that has laws against revenge porn.

If you do, lawyer up, call the cops, and press charges.

You're in your early 20s, OAU, which means you would've been all of 7- or 8-years-old way, way back in 1998.

So the first thing I want you to do— before you talk to anyone about what happened—is Google "Bill and Monica" and then read the first few stories that pop up.

Here's the takeaway from the Bill and Monica story: an out-of-control special prosecutor appointed to investigate the suicide of a White House aide wound up "exposing" a series of blowjobs that President Bill Clinton got from a White House intern. Problematic power differential, yes, but consenting adults just the same. Politicians and pundits and editorial boards called on Clinton to resign after the affair was made public, because the American people, they insisted, had lost all respect for Clinton. He couldn't possibly govern after the blowjobs, the rimmings, the cigars, the semen stains and the denials ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman"). Clinton refused to resign and wound up getting impeached by an out-of-control GOPcontrolled Congress. (Forgive the redundancy: a GOP-controlled Congress is an out-of-control Congress, and an out-of-control Congress is a GOP-controlled Congress.) But

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William Jefferson Clinton: "Jesus, I would hate to have my privacy invaded like that."

Their sympathies are with you.

So how do you address this without making things more uncomfortable and awkward than they already are? By acknowledging the discomfort and awkwardness (D&A) that has already been created while simultaneously and subtly drawing attention to the fact that said D&A are not of your creation. The conversations you're going to have with friends start with this premise: you've been victimized by this asshole and so have they. Practice saying this: "You know more about my private life than you ever wanted to.

I'm going to stuff it down the memory hole and pretend it didn't happen.

I hope you will, too." You also might want to memorize and riff on these wise words from two other people who have been similarly victimized: "I started to [make] an apology, but I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for." —Jennifer Lawrence "The real problem here was not me sending my pictures to someone, but rather, sending them to the WRONG someone. The real travesty is a misplaced trust." —Dylan Sprouse You, too, trusted the wrong person, OAU, and you don't have anything to say you're sorry for. Look people in the eye when you speak about it—when you speak briefly about it—then change the subject.

Finally: check to see if you live in a state that has laws against revenge porn. If you do, lawyer up, call the cops and press charges.

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I'm a straight, 20-year-old woman in a relationship with a straight, 30-year-old male. We have been dat-

Couples who wind up in counselling before their first year together is up are, in my opinion, better off being counselled singly. By which I mean to say: being counselled as singles, not as a couple.

We don't have to be perfect to date, LACKING, but we do have to be in good working order. It doesn't sound like either of you qualify. His abuse and abandonment issues, your self-esteem and anger issues: I think you both should address your issues in counselling—with separate counsellors—for your own sakes, not for the sake of this relationship. You get your shit together, he gets his shit together, and then you can either get back together or be in good working order for the next guy who comes along.

And finally, LACKING: one slap at age 20—one that was instantly regretted, one that the slapper has taken full responsibility for (no bullshit claims that the slappee provoked you)—does not a lifelong abuser make.

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