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Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide plays at UVic’s Cinecenta.
francophone de Victoria hosts four days of events celebrating everything French. March 6 - 9, frncocentre.com.
NAKED BUNGY - Face the unknown like those who live with Schizophrenia. Annual naked bungy jump for BCSS runs until March 9 at Wild Play in Nanaimo. wildplay.com.
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doors to public discussions, workshops, screenings and performances showcasing some of our greatest minds. Until March 8.
sisters come home (pretty much) to Victoria with a show at The Royal Theatre. Tickets, from $47, rmts.bc.ca. See story, page 16.
Voices of all stripes come together for performances and spoken word workshops. victoriaspokenwordfestival. com. March 4 - 9.
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Sheepdogs and a lineup of local talent hit Club 9ONE9 to mark the Strathcona Hotel’s 100th anniversary.
Court Theatre takes on the coming of age comedy, March 6 - 22.
the learning stop during spring break. Get covered in tattoos and make a piece of scrimshaw from 1 - 3pm at the Maritime Museum.
Players offer a bittersweet comedy by Cat Delaney Wednesdays - Sundays from March 12 - 23 at 3821 Cedar Hill. stlukesplayers.org.
Theatre at UVic closes their season with a Governor General’s Award-winning play by one of their own, Kevin Kerr. Until March 22.
Royals face Everett at SaveOn-Foods Memorial Centre after a two-game stint at home with Kamloops March 7 - 8.
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Theatre’s annual festival includes 40 free events, readings, mini plays and more. belfry.bc.ca.
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A nine-day series of events highlighting a broad selection of BC craft breweries kicks off with Cask Night March 1 at the Victoria Public Market and closes with Brewmaster’s Brunch at the Atrium March 9. Tastings, seminars, movies and microevents fill the days between. victoriabeerweek.com. ideAFest 2014 mArch 3 - 8
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La Socété francophone de Victoria shines a light on francophone culture, including performances by Quebec’s Garoche Ta Sacoche and Marijosée from Winnipeg. To learn more about the weekend’s events, including free activities for the whole family, visit francocentre.com. The Belfry Theatre presents its annual SPARK Festival, including such intriguing titles as Terminus (“Imagine a Tarantino film set to poetry”), Little Illiad (A Skype conversation between two characters, one about to ship out from Kingston, Ont. to Afghanistan), and When it Rains
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Muppeteer extraordinaire, Tim Gosley, leads the approved festival ensemble and local puppeteers in a magical collaboration March 6. More than 20 artists from across North America join under the theme “Inside Story.” Tickets from $10/$40 pass. victoriaspokenwordfestival.com.
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The band has performed more than 5,000 concerts and written the theme song for The Colbert Report. See them at UVic’s Farquhar Auditorium. Tickets, $83.75 - $94, tickets. uvic.ca.
(“What looks like a graphic novel, makes you laugh, and breaks your heart?”). belfry.bc.ca. imAx Film FestivAl mArch 21 - April 17
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Hunting joins the Cave Singers for an early show at Sugar Nightclub, 858 Yates. Tickets, $18, at ticketweb.ca, Lyle’s Place and Ditch Records.
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Gord Clements on baritone saxophone, Rob Cheramy on guitar, Olivier Clements on trumpet, Bruce Meikle on bass, and Michael Zurmehly on drums offer an ode to Mulligan and Baker at Hermann’s Jazz Club 753 View). Tickets, $12/15, at the door and at Larsen Music.
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The Early Music Society of the Islands and Pacific Opera Victoria present the Boston Early Music Festival’s inaugural Victoria performance, a double-bill of operas by baroque composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier, La Descente d’Orphee aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs. At the McPherson Playhouse. rmts. bc.ca. tOWer OF dudes mArch 14
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The first American rock band to chart Top 40 albums in six decades brings the horn-infused harmonies to Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. Tickets, from $56.50 at 250-220-7777.
The prog rock collective hits Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre with a plan to play three albums back-to-back: “Close to the Edge,” “Going for the One” and “The Yes Album.” Tickets, from $55 at 250-220-7777. The West Coast Supergroup (Hawksley Workman, Hot Hot Heat’s Steve Bays and Limblifter’s Ryan Dahle), stop by for an early show at Sugar Nightclub, 858 Yates, with Rich Aucoin & JPNS GIRLS. Tickets, $17.50, at Lyle’s Place, Ditch Records and ticketweb.ca. JAY mAlinOWski & the deAdcOAst mArch 20
chicAgO - Bill Clinton’s favourite rock band
approved play from a songbook of 21 Top 10 singles and
five No. 1 albums March 16 at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. Tickets, $56.50, sofmc.com.
King’s career, fill the McPherson stage. rmts.bc.ca.
Inspired by his family history, the frontman for Bedouin Soundclash tells a bi-coastal double-album epic with Martel. He’ll bring the new project to the stage at Lucky Bar, 517 Yates. Tickets, $12.50, at Lyle’s Place, DItch Records and ticketweb.ca.
snOWbird: A tribute tO Anne murrAY mArch 24
This multi-media show will take audiences back over four decades of hits, career highlights and songs like Cotton Jenny, Could I have this Dance, What About Me and the one that started it all, Snowbird. ticketsm $40, rmts.bc.ca.
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Billy F. Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, the only guy in the classic rock band without the trademark facial hair, head to Save-In-Foods Memorial Centre. Tickets, from $39.50 at 250-2207777.
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Zucchero, the international blues-soul-gospel-inspired sensation shares tex-mex sounds and danceable rhythms at the McPherson Playhouse. Tickets, $45.50, rmts.bc.ca.
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Three of the world’s top Elvis tribute artists, Chris Connor, Ted Torres and Brandon Bennett, each playing various stages of
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Vancouver’s People’s Champ of Comedy, and Victoria favourite, Shirley Gnome, will sing her funny, sweet sexy, SEXY songs at the Victoria Event Centre. Tickets, $10/15. shirleygnome.com.
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St. Michaels University school takes on the story, Eric Idle and John Du Prez lovingly ripped from Monty Python. Silliness turns to art at the McPherson Playhouse. Tickets, $24.75, rmts.bc.ca. the deep end Feb. 27 - April 12
Intrepid Theatre presents theatre on the edge –quality alt programming that doesn’t fit within their regular programming. The series begins Feb. 27 at 8pm at The Metro Studio Theatre with
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Jeff Leard’s Fringe hit: The Show Must Go On, a retelling of his time travelling with a children’s theatre company. Up next is Emily Windler’s one-woman clowningmeets-Don-Knotts physical theatre of Gary has a Date March 30 - 31 at Intrepid Theatre Club. (See stage section). 8pm. ticketrocket.org, 250-590-6291. prOud Feb. 4 - mArch 9
Award-winning playwright
Michael Healey takes on his biggest subject yet: The Right Honourable Stephen Harper. Proud imagines a different outcome to the last Federal election and is aimed at audiences of all political stripes – who enjoy a little cheek. Tickets, from $25, tickets.belfry.bc.ca. the glAss menAgerie Feb. 11 - mArch 2
Tennessee Williams’ first great Broadway success is Blue
Bridge Repertory Theatre’s next undertaking in their new home at the Roxy Theatre. Tickets, from $25, 250-385-4462, bluebridgetheatre.ca. WhAt hAppened WAs... Feb. 19 - mArch 8
Theatre Inconnu takes on the rarely performed stage adaptation of the ‘94 Sundance Film Festival winner by Tom Noonan. Directed by Clayton Jevne. Tickets, $10/14, ticketrocket. org. theatreinconnu.com.
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Kerploding Theatre presents Word Play, a play for young audiences that tells the story of three young monsters: a dancer, a musician and a writer, using live original music, movement, poetry and dialogue. It’s all a part of Intrepid Theatre’s YOU Show and benefits Theatre for Development in Tamil Nadu, India. The show runs thrice: 11:30am, 1:30 and 3:30pm. Tickets, $7/10 at ticketrocket.org or 250-590-6291. the grAduAte mArch 6 - 22
Langham Court Theatre offers up an evening of impure theatrical delight with the adaptation of the novel and infamous coming of age ‘60s flick. Tickets, from $16, langhamtheatre.ca. AtOmic vAudeville’s spring cAbAret mArch 6 - 8
The “Nostalgia Bomb” is about to explode at the Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad). The vaudevillian troupe offers three nights of multi-talent for those who “only like things they’ve liked before. 8pm. atomicvaudeville. com. FAmilY Feud live stAge shOW mArch 12
A hit audience participation stage show that gives contestants the opportunity to experience the same family drama from the TV show, and even win as much as $10,000. At the Royal Theatre. Tickets from $50.75, rmts.bc.ca.
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My Friend come to Fairfield United Church March 6 in celebration of their latest album, When the Ink Dries. Tickets, from $10, at Ditch Records, Larsen Music, westmyfriend.com.
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UVic’s Phoenix Theatre closes out their season with a piece penned by Kevin Kerr, associate writing professor at the
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In this 2009 version of Shakespeare’s classic tale of love and loss, choreographer Joëlle Bouvier has abstracted the Prokofiev score and concentrated on the story’s essential turning points, allowing the medium of dance to speak directly to the audience’s hearts and emotions. At the Royal Theatre. rmts.bc.ca. FireWAll mArch 19 - 23
Target Theatre, a group of older adults who use theatre as a means to call attention to seniors’ issues have been chosen as a part of the Belfry Theatre’s incubator project. Firewall, a piece exploring the adverse effects of social media, is the result of a two-year-long collaboration, presented at the SPARK Festival. Tickets, $20, belfry.bc.ca. bill burr mArch 18
The Just For Laughs alumnus and Breaking Bad actor has developed a comedic style of uninformed logic that has made him a regular on The Late Show with David Letterman, Conan and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. At the Royal Theatre, rmts.bc.ca. the Flick mArch 18 - 30
Blue Bridge Repertory Theatre presents the tale of three underpaid employees tending to one of the last 35 millimetre film projectors in a rundown movie theatre, while their heartbreaks
prove more gripping than the lacklustre movies on screen. At the Roxy Theatre. Tickets, $26.2542, ticketrocket.org. bAllet victOriA’s rite OF spring & Other WOrks mArch 22 -23
Enjoy a new ballet by local choreographer Paul Destrooper, performed to Stravinsky’s music, as part of a mixed program. University Centre Farquhar Auditorium, UVic. 250-721-8480. gOd is A scOttish drAg queen ii mArch 28
After nearly two dozen sold out shows as God (a Scottish drag queen), Monday’s comedy columnist Mike Delamont launches a sequel as the deity in a dress. He’ll play at 7 and 9pm at Intrepid Theatre Club before touring internationally with the show. $15. mikedelamont.com. h.m.s. pinAFOre mArch 28 - 29
The Victoria Gilbert & Sullivan Society presents the international sensation H.M.S. Pinafore at Sidney’s Charlie White Theatre (and April 5 and 6 at the McPherson Playhouse). The comic operetta pokes fun at the British class system, parliamentary politics and the rise of unqualified people to positions of authority, set aboard H.M.S. Pinafore.
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Contemporary fine art paintings, sculpture, ceramics, jewellery and gemstones, and a unique array of collectible home decor. To March 8 Peggy Fletcher, Lisa Riehl, Linda Skalenda; March 10 to April 5 Peter Dowgailenko + Lindy Michie. Open Mon to Sat 10am to 5:30pm. 2170 Oak Bay Avenue, 250-590-8095. eclecticgallery.ca. legAcY gAllerY
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to present work from well-known Quebec artists who have rarely been invited to perform in Victoria. They explore active engagement with the language of performance as a play on Canada’s national language policy. Artists speak at Camosun College Feb. 26 and perform Feb. 28 and March 1 at Open Space (510 Fort). openspace.ca.` red Art gAllerY
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At Winchester Modern (758 Humboldt ), March 8 - 31 Herbert Siebner: Celebrating an Anniversary. Opening reception March 8 from 2 to 4pm with Siebner’s daughter, Angela Nielsen, in attendance. March 8 to April 26 Carole Sabiston: New Works. Opening reception March 8 from 2 to 4pm with the artist in attendance. Winchester Oak Bay (2260 Oak Bay): March 11 to 29 Will Millar. Opening reception March 15, from 1 to 5pm.
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Hootenanny continues at Logan’s (1821 Cook), from 4 to 8pm, EVERY SUNDAY. mOndAYs: Deevin Avairis hosts open mike night at Serious Coffee at Millstream Village in Langford at 7pm MONDAYS. Steve Barrie hosts the city’s friendliest – and frequently weirdest – open mike. 9:30pm until closing at Logan’s (1821 Cook). From 9:30pm. tuesdAYs: Newcombe Singers Choir is open to all voices in the community, EVERY TUESDAY from 7:30pm to 9:30. Join the song at 1701 Elgin in Oak Bay. WednesdAYs: My Bar and Grill open stage (310 Gorge) runs from 8pm until midnight EVERY WEDNESDAY. FridAYs: Take a musical lunch break with UVic’s school of music, from 12:30 to 1:30pm in the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall. By donation. sAturdAYs: Maude Hunter’s Pub (3810 Shelbourne) hosts Live music SATURDAYS with Steve Lezetc and the Atkinson Brothers.
My Bar and Grill (310 Gorge Road) hosts a blues jam from 3 to 7pm with house band Summer and the Sinners EVERY SATURDAY. sundAYs: The moonshiners play every SUNDAY at Swan’s (506 Pandora). Enjoy the laid-back retro vibe of the kemp lake music cafe, like a kitchen party in Sooke EVERY SUNDAY at the Kemp Lake Store Café (7875 West Coast). 3pm. All ages. the victoria Folk music society hosts a variety of featured performers after their open stages EVERY SUNDAY at 7:30pm at Norway House (1110 Hillside). Jan. 05: Christian Bergen and Iain Bell; Jan. 12: Roland Barrett with Roger Plant; Jan. 19: Ivonne Hernandez and Jeremy Walsh; and Jan. 26: Lindsay May.
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mOndAYs: comedy @ cenote (768 Yates) – FIRST, THIRD and FOURTH MONDAYS of every month: Alternating between five-minute standup and a setlist (improvised standup) comedy shows. Hosted by Shane Priestly and Abdul Aziz. $5. last laugh mondays, the LAST MONDAY of the month at the Moka House on Hillside (103-1633 Hillside). 7:30pm. $5. tuesdAYs: sin city: kingdom of thrones EVERY TUESDAY at 8pm at Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad Street). $15/12. Expect love, lust, betrayal, beheadings and laughs as the improv troupe spins an improvised tale sincityimprov. com.
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chelseA hOtel: the sOngs OF leOnArd cOhen - An Arts Club
Theatre production, conceived and directed by Tracey Power, musical direction by Steve Charles. Six performers play 17 instruments in this tribute to a remarkable writer. Multiple venues to March 15. gvpta.ca
sEAttlE big bAd vOO dOO dAddY -Go Daddy-O to the Snoqualmie Casino-Ballroom in Snoqualmie March 9 to see the swing revivalists. briAn regAn -Watch a master of the craft of comedy March 13 at the INB Performing arts Centre in Spokane and March 16 at Mount Baker Theatre in Bellingham. vOgue knitting live -Check out Victoria’s own Jane Richmond (janerichmond.com), the woman behind beautiful knitted works, share her knowledge at Vogue Knitting Pacific Northwest Knitting’s conference, March 14 - 16 at Meydenbaur Center. sAm rOberts bAnd -Show our Canadian boy some love south of the border when he stops by the Tractor Tavern March 21. kAthY griFFin - Griffin took home a Grammy for Best Comedy Album and now she’s taking her act to the Snoqualmie Casino-Ballroom in Snoqualmie March 23. lOrde -The young artist with a sound beyond her years takes on the WaMu Theater in Seattle March 24. lOcAl Fibre mAster JAne richmOnd teAches At vOgue knitting live in seAttle mArch 14 - 16.
WednesdAYs: Comedy@ Presents: the Felicita’s select show – every SECOND WEDNESDAY of the month at the UVic campus pub. A showcase of the best seven comics in the city. stone’s throw comedy, a monthly showcase of some of the best locals and headlining guests; usually runs the THIRD or FOURTH WEDNESDAY of the month. February’s show falls on the fourth, Feb. 26 and is headlined by Kyle Bottom. $12/15. thursdAYs: ratfish, produced by James Ball and Mark Robertson, hits The Ramada Hotel (123 Gorge, upstairs from Heckler’s) EVERY THURSDAY at 8pm. Alternates between arranged lineups of locals, with a headliner and open mikes. $5. FridAYs/sAturdAYs: Touring pros come to the big stage at Heckler’s (123 Gorge). $12. Reservations required. sundAYs: sunday night improv with Paper Street Theatre’s artistic director Dave Morris runs the FIRST SUNDAY of every month at 8pm at Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad). $10. phillips’ comedy night, hosted by M Award winner, Mr. Wes Borg hits the Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad) the SECOND SUNDAY of the month at 8pm. $10. Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad). derwin blanshard’s extremely classy sunday evening programme – Wes Borg returns with his millionaire blowhard character, bringing with him a cast of special guests for a late-night-style live talk show. The LAST SUNDAY of the month at the Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad).
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tuesdAYs: Geeks and Freaks take over Logan’s (1821 Cook) for a free games night EVERY TUESDAY from 8pm. Big screen video games, modern and vintage board games are ready, but guests are welcome to bring their own. Learn to two-step and waltz at the rainbow rounders dance club, EVERY TUESDAY at 7pm at the Colwood Community Hall, 2219 Sooke. $5, first session free. sundAYs: Performers from across genres – music, comedy, dance, spoken word, etc. – meet and face off in intense, sevenminute sets at the merridale showdown every THIRD SUNDAY of the month at 8pm at the Victoria Event Centre (1415 Broad).
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Catch some WHL action on the ice at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre when the Victoria Royals take on Kamloops March 7 - 8 and Everett March 14. victoriaroyals.com. victOriA griZZlies Feb 21, 23, mArch 1
The Grizzlies finish up the last home games of their regular season against Alberni Valley Feb. 21, Surrey Feb. 23 and Cowichan Valley March 1 at Bear Mountain Arena (1767 Island Hwy). Puck drops at 7:15pm, except Feb. 23, when the game begins at 2pm. victoriagrizzlies.com. victOriA cOugArs Feb. 23, 27, mArch 2
The Victoria Cougars play most Thursdays at 7pm at Archie Browning Sports Centre (1151 Esquimalt), and every other
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Sunday at 3:30pm. On Feb. 23, 27 and March 1 they take on the Kerry Park Islanders. victoriacougars.com. sAAnich brAves - plAYOFFs
The Saanich Braves play junior hockey most Fridays at 6:30pm George Pearkes Arena (3100 Tillicum). Check saanichbraves. ca for an updated schedule. peninsulA pAnthers Feb. 21, 24, 28
The Peninsula Panthers hit the ice at Panorama Recreation Centre (1885 Forest Park). They
close their regular season against the Westshore Wolves with home games beginning at 7:30pm Feb. 21, 24 and 28. ppanthers.bc.ca. WestshOre WOlves Feb. 22, 26 The Westshore Wolves play most Wednesdays at 7 pm at Bear Mountain Arena (1767 Island Hwy),
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happy and it’ll be useless. Then I said I don’t have any money.” arts@mondaymag.com So with a $1,000 loan from Nealis, it livier Clements rememwasn’t long before Clements, a 2010 bers well the last graduate of Humber College’s jazz promoment of May 27, gram, handed over to his former class2013, as it slipped away mates the result of nine months alone from him and seven at a piano. of his friends. They had been holed “Every note was written out top up in Revolution Recording studios in to bottom in a giant stack of paper. I Toronto during Clements’ only evedropped it on the table and said: ‘Go ning off on a tour with Aidan Knight. nuts.’” The six feverish hours that ended the Three hours of recording formed the day – a collision of sweat and swearbasis of what Clements hears now as a ing, of Clements’ hip-hop, indie and launching point. classically-influenced “There was a week compositions with his when I liked it,” he says. A loan from jazz school friends – “It’s hard for me to listen bandmate yielded the richly-layto the record without ered, engulfing flow feeling a little nauseous, Colin Nealis of Olivier Clements & but at the same time, helped Olivier Dissonant Histories. I’m really proud for that Clements “Literally at 12:01, to have been my first the engineer’s like: realize his swing at the recording ‘Time’s up. We’re thing.” dream. done.’ That was that,” The guiding principal says Clements, home in behind his music, he says, is a desire to Victoria after six months of post-proreconcile his influences. duction. “I play almost exclusively with indieThe categorically-challenging sixfolk bands that have a very specific track disc is a project that wouldn’t feel. My role in those bands and the have happened had one of his friends way the music is created is unique, but in the studio that night not pushed I also love hip hop. I adore that kind him to record. Colin Nealis, Knight’s of music. … And I went to school for bandmate and presumably the namejazz, so I have that whole baggage sake of Histories’ Colin’s Always with me. It’s not trying to mash all Better Than Me had seen Clements’ those things together, but say where previous attempt to record his octetdo I fit in all of this? And then create backed flugelhorn tracks off the floor music that doesn’t suck.” at Hermann’s last April. The plan was Trumping all other influences is simple: do show, make recording, live the one closest to home. Clements’ dream. Yet this strategy didn’t account father, Gordon Clements is the former for variables. Equipment malfunction head of Jazz Studies at the Victoria meant not one note recorded, and Conservatory of Music, multi instruthey were about to leave on tour with mental classical and jazz performer and Knight. festival adjudicator. Add to that resumé Nealis made a strong argument for bass clarinetist for Dissonant Histories. a new plan: Instead of getting a medi“He taught me everything I know, ocre rushed recording, they would use so for me to be able to write music their extra day on tour to assemble and say: ‘Play it like this,’ is awesome.” their friends, established While Clements writes with his dad’s musicians in Toronto, sound in mind, his compositions are and make somehis own creation – a solitary endeavCan you thing good. “He our that, thanks to painting houses resist the lure of really convinced and backing other musicians, he has hip-hop jazz? Find me that if I half just finished paying to have produced. ass it, I won’t be Including that $1,000 from Nealis. out at Hermann’s
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TEGAN &SARA Long climb to the mainstream
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After 15 years and seven albums, Tegan and Sara are nominated for four Juno Awards in the categories of Pop Album of the Year, Single of the Year, Group of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. NATALIE NORTH arts@mondaymag.com
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hen Tegan Quin’s phone started receiving an inordinate volume of messages one day at the beginning of February, it didn’t send her mind racing toward thoughts of the Junos. She didn’t assume that after 15 years in the music business, US radio hits, primetime TV song placements, countless talk show appearances, festivals around the globe, a Grammy nod and a cover by The White Stripes, that the seventh Tegan and Sara album, Heartthrob, would suddenly spark high praise from the powers that be within the Canadian music industry. She didn’t take for granted that a pop breakthrough and a No. 3 debut on the Billboard 200 chart would transform Feb. 4 into anything other than a regular rehearsal day in Brooklyn for her and her identical twin Sara, who have been largely overlooked by the awards in the past. Quin had forgotten the Juno announcements were in progress. She went online to the live feed and learned of four Tegan and Sara nominations – recognition that may lead to awards emblazoned with their names this month, but already signifies a major triumph for all those behind them. “To have my dad emailing and saying, I believe the quote was, he felt his heart was going to burst – I could cry right now,” Quin says on the phone from Vancouver. “I feel so happy for (our parents). I would make music even if we didn’t get Juno nominations, but I feel proud for my family and my friends and most of all for our fans, especially the ones who have been with us for the last decade. … It validates their passion for us.” The Calgary-born duo will perform at the March 30 event in Winnipeg, where they could walk away with hardware for pop album, single, group and songwriter of the year. The road to mainstream
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success has been dotted with sexism, homophobia, bias and moments of joy and opportunity so surreal – when Neil Young signs them to his record label and books them as his opener or Taylor Swift pulls them on stage for a duet – that Quin can’t help but pause and ask herself: “How fucking lucky are we?”
“I’m sure people on the outside thought ‘what is wrong with them? Why are they toiling away in this weird sports bar scene? Why do they think they’re going to be successful?’ We just did.”
Fiery foundation
The two 19 year olds behind the first record, were naive and open to the point where Quin doesn’t “It’s this funny thing, where our whole career has regret their early choices, but certainly wouldn’t been full of these moments where it’s like: ‘How is make the same ones again. this happening? How cool is this?’ It feels just as “There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that this good now as it did then.” did hurt us, especially in the late-’90s, The first show Tegan and Sara where it was like: ‘Oh, they’re a Lilith As their played outside of Calgary was for Fair band, reading from their dairies.’ audience a cast of industry insiders at New It pigeon holed us as a band only for grows Music West in Vancouver. It was women – and only women of a certain the second show for the Grade age.” younger, focus 12 students, who were only just The upside of laying down no-holdshas shifted beginning to find the musical vehibarred naiveté, of being empowered to youth cle for their emotionally-charged and unafraid: it threw the doors to their empowerment harmonies. They packed up their emotional content wide open and let guitars, flew home and went to fans to connect on a deep level. school the next day. “Our music has gotten a bit smoother and a bit “We were regular kids,” Quin says. “When we got more professional and the production has increased, home from school, our voicemail was full of mesbut that emotional feeling is still there. It hasn’t been sages from A&R record company people saying: ‘We buffed out of us and I think that’s because we were want to talk to you about a record deal.’” so bold in the beginning. Had we been even a little That deal was signed in 1999 with Vapor Records, less open about who we were, maybe we wouldn’t Neil Young’s L.A.-based label. While it’s an undenibe the band that we are today.” ably proud moment for the sisters, it’s also a detail Their outspoken voice as LGBT advocates is a part that seems to overshadow the fact they had already of the context to everything they do. With the supproduced a full-length album completely on their port of that community, Quin feels a responsibility to own by that point. Under Feet Like Ours, released remain open. And when those near to her question earlier in ‘99, caught the attention of Young’s the public’s fascination with their orientation, she manager and largely formed the blueprint for The doesn’t. Business of Art, their first record with Vapor. “That was such a big statement to come out of The result was anything but instant stardom. high school and (say): ‘We are empowered and
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we are strong and we are feminists. We write our songs and produce our records and self-finance everything and we’re gay.’ Looking back, we took on a lot.”
“A few years ago when people started asking us about children and marriage and retiring, I remember thinking: ‘That’s sexism. Do they ask men that?’ Then I hit 30 and thought, ‘Oh God, I don’t want to do this forever.’” As Quin ages and the audience Closest collaborator grows younger, she finds teenagers, Tegan and Sara have continued a people the age she was when she simple collaboration process, unaffected by their decisions to live on opposite entered the industry, increasingly interside of the country. Tegan in Vancouver esting. A complete departure from music isn’t likely, but a stronger focus and Sara in Montreal, write individually on youth empowerment is. Fueled by and share their work electronically. The a desire not to spend their lives away initial writing is always done solo, in a from friends and family, they’ve begun solitary and independent process, Quin to imagine a life not lived exclusively says. on a tour bus. Both When their penullogophiles can be Tegan and Sara timate release, 2009’s found holed up with Sainthood was nearing tour with an episode of a storythe end of its record Katy Perry telling podcast – think, cycle, Tegan and Sara this year This American Life, reflected on what Soundlab – an interest they loved about their that echoes her openness to funneling careers and took stock of what they experiences through a new format. had left to accomplish. It was a short Until then, it’s Soduko and songwriting list. What happened next wasn’t a for Quin, who oozes delight and owndeliberate pop reinvention, but once it ership over every one of her 33 years. began, they ran with it. “I just wrote a bunch of guitar-driven Heartthrobs things and it didn’t inspire Sara,” says Tegan and Sara may have finally Quin, who felt the risk of becoming arrived at a cosmic moment in their bored was greater than the risk of career when the self-assuredness of going after a mainstream audience. “I their 30s collided with super-charged had been listening to a bunch of ‘80s synths and their tortured, brooding and ‘90s dance music, thinking, I want reflection to deliver the kind of tightto write a song like Ace of Base wrote. ly-sewn, guilt-free power pop critics That’s how I wrote Closer and that have been hungry for – one that is really inspired everybody.” more infectious and undeniably more On first listen, it feels pop, Quin interesting than any preconceptions says, “but the kind of pop we sort of held about the duo. love from the ‘80s and ‘90s, where the “We spent our 20s hacking it out intense, dark themes are under that and toiling away in the indie rock sheen of peppy-sounding awesomeworld, playing clubs and feeling pretty ness.” content with that. It was like our education. In a strange way, it was like we Capital city graduated with our PhDs and now we connections really wanted to put it to the test.” By the time Tegan and Sara released Tegan and Sara bring their musitheir second album, they had moved cal education to the silver screen this to Vancouver and made contact with month with Everything is Awesome on Victoria’s Nick Blasko, co-founder/ the soundtrack to The Lego Movie, to director of Atomique Productions Ltd. shows in Nanaimo and Victoria March Blasko, along with his business partner 3-4, and eventually back to the studio Piers Henwood, offered to manage after they tour out the rest of 2014 the band and in 2002, formed Amelia with Katy Perry. How exactly they’ll put Artists Inc., through which Tegan and it to the test next time, is something Sara remain represented. The early Quin says isn’t planned. connection led Tegan and Sara to hire “We set a goal and we don’t meet it, three Victoria musicians for their band, but it’s still so much more than we ever rehearse here and grace the Lucky Bar thought possible. We literally were this stage more than a handful of times. kinda funny acoustic sister duo from Add to that friends at the University of Calgary who just thought it would Victoria and family in Nanaimo – Tegan be cool to be able to pay our bills. and Sara have long been mistaken for That’s what we have accomplished in a locals and don’t mind the mix up. strange way, even though it’s so much “We thought that was quite sweet. more than that. All the accolades and Because Sara’s in Montreal, we’re the rest of it is just icing on the cake. from Calgary, I live in Vancouver and Our definition of success is pretty much we have all these people in Victoria, the same as it was in 1998.” we have this funny thing where we feel like all of Canada think that we’re theirs – and we are. We encourage it.”
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Screenwriting, acting, scoring musicals, producing television, fashion consulting, jingle-writing: Tegan and Sara have been offered plenty of opportunities to take a side step away from honing their craft as songwriters and performers.
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will listen, critique and offer tips to each of the bands participating. The other is David Becker, director emeritus of bands at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore. Stressing that the event is “non-competitive,” Keddy also emphasizes the learning aspect for the students, who span from Grade 6 to Grade 12. That age and experience range requires that he and Becker take varying approaches to their adjudications and comments. “We tend to talk more global and have more fun with kids at the younger ages, and more technical and more direct to the groups that are more at a senior level,” he says. “They don’t need to talk more notes and rhythms, we talk to them about things like nuance and balance.” A half dozen or so local middle and high school bands are registered for the event, which is free and open to the public. While it is not a contest, students and band directors hardwired to learning tend to take it seriously and take the comments of the adjudicators to heart, as if it were a competition. “It’s a showcase of the incredible opportunities that students have and the incredible talent that they are able to show,” Keddy says. For those of Weaver’s senior students considering registering for the music program at UVic, playing onstage in the acoustically sound Farquhar venue can prompt them to imagine, ‘I could be playing here every day.’ “I think that’s a huge draw,” he says. “It’s a chance for me to show them what the next level is.”
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Jeudi, 6 mars Thursday March 6th Vendredi, 7 mars Friday, March 7th 12H00: DÎNER DE L’AGRAFF Le dîner de l’Agraff aura lieu au Thai Lemongrass (3838 Cadboro Bay Rd) au coût de 25 $ taxes et service inclus. RSVP obligatoire avec Régine Bérubé (250) 598-1763 avant le 28 février. The Agraff lunch will be held at Thai Lemongrass (3838 Cadboro Bay Rd) at a cost of $25, taxes and gratuity included. Book with Régine Bérubé (250) 598-1763 before February 28th. 17H00: LANCEMENT - LES BEAUX JEUDIS Rendez-vous au Yates Street Taphouse & Grill pour célébrer le lancement officiel de l’événement lors d’un 5 à 7 avec performances musicales et amuses-gueules gratuits. Come and gather at Yates Street Taphouse & Grill to celebrate the official opening during a 5pm to 7pm happy hour with musical performances and complimentary appetizers. Afin de souligner la Journée internationale de la femme, la SFV a décidé de rendre hommage aux femmes en vous proposant une programmation musicale incluant des artistes féminines émergentes en têtes d’affiche. In support of the International Women’s Day, the SFV has decided to pay tribute to women by creating a special musical program that headlines emerging female artists.
Journée internationale de la femme
17H00: COEUR DU MONDE Sous la direction de Sylvie Rochette, responsable du projet, l’école Victor-Brodeur vous invite au dévoilement de Coeur du Monde, une oeuvre de l’artiste Français François Michaud symbolisant la résolution de conflits pour les élèves de l’école. Venez écouter une performance musicale d’Aude Ray et déguster des amuses-gueules gratuits. Francophone school, Victor-Brodeur, invites everyone to the unveiling of its Heart of the World, part of a globally acclaimed project done by French artist François Michaud. The permanent sculpture symbolizes the resolution of conflicts for the students of Victor-Brodeur. Come listen to a musical performance by Aude Ray and enjoy complimentary appetizers! 20H00: SPECTACLE - GAROCHE TA SACOCHE Artistes invitées gagnantes du Festival international de la Chanson de Granby de 2013, Cynthia et Sonia vous présentent un spectacle à l’école Victor-Brodeur. Billets en vente à la SFV. 10 $ Non-membre / 5 $ Membre. Winners of the Granby International Song Festival, duo Cynthia and Sonia, will put on a show at Victor-Brodeur school. Tickets are on sale at La Société francophone de Victoria. $10 Non-members / $5 Members
SCÈNE RADIO-CANADA 12:00 WONTANARA DRUM & DANCE 13:00 SAM WEBER 14:00 MICHAEL WOOD BAND 15:00 HYPER FIEND
Le samedi et le dimanche, le Centennial Square sera rempli d’activités pour toute la famille! Une zone pour enfants vous accueillera avec des jeux gonflables, un sculpteur de ballon nommé Ziggy, des maquillages gratuits et bien plus encore! De plus, le Centennial Square accueillera des organismes offrants des services en français dans la région, une bonne manière d’en connaître davantage sur la communauté francophone. Des artisans francophones et francophiles seront aussi présents pour vous offrir leurs différents produits passant des pâtisseries françaises aux peintures d’acryliques. Finalement, des groupes de musique performeront gratuitement de midi à 16 h sur la scène Radio-Canada. On Saturday and Sunday, Centennial Square will be full of activities for the whole family! A kids zone will have an inflatable jumping castle, a talented balloon artist named Ziggy, free face painting and much more! In addition, Centennial Square will be hosting organizations within the region that offer services in French, which is a good way to get to know the local Francophone community. Local Francophone and Francophile artisans will also be present to offer you their unique products from French pastries to acrylic paintings. Lastly, complimentary musical performances will be held on the Radio-Canada stage from noon to 4pm. 18H00: LANCEMENT - PAS TOUT CUIT DANS L’BEC Marijosée lancera son nouvel album Pas tout cuit dans l’bec dans le cadre de notre festival! Traitant de sujets aussi variés que son imagination, livrés à l’aide d’une voix puissante et séduisante, aux sons de musiques populaires et du monde, c’est un rendez-vous gratuit à ne pas manquer au Yates Street Taphouse & Grill dès 18h00! Marijosée will be launching her new album Pas tout cuit dans l’bec as part of our festival! She has a spectacular voice and a wild imagination that makes her shows unforgettable. Don’t miss this complimentary show at Yates Street Taphouse & Grill!
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11H00: BRUNCH: CABANE À SUCRE Un brunch sera offert dès 11h00 chez Ambrosia (638 Fisgard) et offrira un menu varié de cabane à sucre. Réjean et ses musiciens vous feront revivrent les souvenirs d’un Québec d’antan! Le Prix Henriette-Moreau sera remis lors de l’occasion. Billets en prévente seulement à la SFV. 25 $ non-membre / 20 $ membre / 15 $ enfant (10 ans et moins). AUCUN BILLET DISPONIBLE À LA PORTE. The traditional maple syrup brunch will be complemented by a musical performance by Réjean and his musicians who will let you experience traditionnal music from Quebec! The Henriette-Moreau prize will be handed out during the brunch. Tickets are being pre-sold at La Société francophone de Victoria. $25 Non-members / $20 Members / $15 for children (10 years and younger). NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR. 13H00: PIÈCE DE THÉÂTRE PRÉSENTÉE PAR L’AFRACB Pièce de théâtre intitulée Trompe l’heure et tromperies signée par le dramaturge franco-ontarien Michel Ouellette. Cette pièce fait partie d’une vaste initiative nationale de lutte contre la violence, les fraudes et les abus envers les ainés. C’est un rendez-vous à l’Ambrosia (638 Fisgard). Pour plus d’informations, Marie-Pier Courbron au (250) 3821310. The play Trompe l’heure et tromperies written by Francophone Michel Ouellette, which is part of a nation-wide initiative to stop violence, fraud, and abuse towards seniors. The play is taking place at Ambrosia and will be in French. For more information, contact MariePier Courbon at (250) 382-1310 - www.afracb.ca
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Marijosée
Marijosée voyage d’un océan à l’autre au Canada ainsi qu’en Europe en 2011-2013 à l’appui de son premier opus, Rebondir, raflant les honneurs tout au long. Mais, elle découvre rapidement son malin plaisir à partager le contenu de son journal personnel. Voilà donc qu’elle nous présente son nouvel album, Pas tout cuit dans l’bec. l’bec Marijosée travelled from sea to sea in Canada as well as in Europe from 2011 to 2013 in support of her first release, Rebondir, collecting accolades along the way. Quickly discovering the mischievous pleasure of sharing thoughts that should otherwise be left in her diary, she brings to the world her sophomore album, Pas tout cuit dans l’bec. Delivered with a voice both powerful and seductive, with music that carries both pop and world beats, Marijosée is definitely an artist to keep an eye on.
Aude Ray
Samedi, 8 mars Saturday, March 8th Dimanche, 9 mars Sunday, March 9th SCÈNE RADIO-CANADA MARIJOSÉE 12:00 AUDE RAY 13:00 GAROCHE TA SACOCHE 14:00 MARYSE BERNARD 15:00
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Aude Ray est une artiste émergente de Whistler et ancienne candidate du concours Chant’Ouest 2013. Elle sera parmi nous samedi afin de performer de nouvelles chansons fraîchement composées! Aude Ray is an emerging artist from Whistler and a previous candidate at the Chant’Ouest 2013 competition. As one of the Saturday headliner’s, Aude Ray will be debuting new songs freshly composed!
Garoche ta Sacoche
Garoche ta sacoche est un duo né de la rencontre de Cynthia Veilleux et Sonia Brochet. Elles décrivent leur musique comme folk insolite. Garoche ta sacoche, c’est deux guitares, des harmonies vocales et des textes frôlant l’absurde dans un univers déjanté. The duo, Garoche ta sacoche, was born the moment Cynthia Veilleux and Sonia Brochet met. They describe their music as funky, unusual folk. Garoche ta sacoche is composed of two guitars, harmonious vocals, and absurd lyrics that are out of this world!
Maryse Bernard
Maryse est une artiste émergente ayant apprit son français grâce au programme d’immersion francophone en C.-B.. Elle vous charmera avec sa voix grandiose en interprétant des classiques tel que La vie en rose, d’Edit Piaf. Maryse is an emerging artist who learned her French through the French Immersion Programs in British Columbia. She will charm you with her amazingly big voice and her interpretation of classics such as Edit Piaf’s La vie en rose.
Wontanara Drum and Dance
Wontanara Drum and Dance est une troupe de danse locale qui se spécialise dans l’enseignement de la danse traditionnelle et des rythmes musicaux de l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Mohamed Andre Duranteau est maître de la danse africaine et est le chorégraphe pour la troupe. Wontanara Drum & Dance is a Victoria, BC, based performance troupe founded by Guinean Master Dancer and choreographer Mohamed Andre Duranteau.
Sam Weber
Âgé de seulement 20 ans, Sam est un auteurcompositeur-interprète de Victoria ayant grandi dans un programme d’immersion francophone. En 2012, Sam était l’un des plus jeunes musiciens à être publié dans la revue Guitar Player. Sam ne fait que commencer sa carrière musicale et qui sait où il s’arrêtera! Sam is a Victoria born 20-year old singer-songwriter and guitarist who grew up in a French Immersion setting. In 2012, Weber was one of the youngest people to ever be covered by the Guitar Player magazine. Weber’s journey is just beginning and it’s off to a truly inspiring start. Come check out this amazing talent during his “early era”!
Michael Wood Band
Ce groupe de musique composé de Michael et de ses musiciens francophiles est originaire de la côte ouest. Leur musique reflète des influences de multiples sources passant par le Jazz et le Pop jusqu’au Rock classique. Michael Wood Band a d’ailleurs été sélectionné en tant que demi-finaliste pour l’International Songwriting Competition et sélectionné pour deux Vancouver Island Music Awards. The four-piece band originated from Canada’s west coast. Their sound reflects multiple influences ranging from jazz to pop to classic rock. The band was selected as a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition from 20 thousand entries worldwide, and nominated for two Vancouver Island Music Awards.
Hyper Fiend
Hyper Fiend est un groupe émergent de francométal formé en 2013 par le bassiste Raymond M. Albert et le guitariste Shaun Wiebe. Ces derniers étant à la poursuite de leur carrière musicale ont décidé, après avoir déniché leur batteur Mike Mlikolic, de former le groupe Hyper Fiend. Le nom du groupe fût choisi avec une connotation provocatrice et ironique afin d’attirer l’attention du public! Hyper Fiend is an emerging French-metal band brought together by the bassist, Raymond M. Albert, and the guitarist, Shaun Wiebe. Both were in pursuit of their musical careers and after discovering their drummer, Mike Mlikolic, they decided to form the group Hyper Fiend. The group’s name was chosen with a provocative and ironic connotation to attract the public’s attention!
Jeudi, 6 mars Thursday March 6th Vendredi, 7 mars Friday, March 7th 12H00: DÎNER DE L’AGRAFF Le dîner de l’Agraff aura lieu au Thai Lemongrass (3838 Cadboro Bay Rd) au coût de 25 $ taxes et service inclus. RSVP obligatoire avec Régine Bérubé (250) 598-1763 avant le 28 février. The Agraff lunch will be held at Thai Lemongrass (3838 Cadboro Bay Rd) at a cost of $25, taxes and gratuity included. Book with Régine Bérubé (250) 598-1763 before February 28th. 17H00: LANCEMENT - LES BEAUX JEUDIS Rendez-vous au Yates Street Taphouse & Grill pour célébrer le lancement officiel de l’événement lors d’un 5 à 7 avec performances musicales et amuses-gueules gratuits. Come and gather at Yates Street Taphouse & Grill to celebrate the official opening during a 5pm to 7pm happy hour with musical performances and complimentary appetizers. Afin de souligner la Journée internationale de la femme, la SFV a décidé de rendre hommage aux femmes en vous proposant une programmation musicale incluant des artistes féminines émergentes en têtes d’affiche. In support of the International Women’s Day, the SFV has decided to pay tribute to women by creating a special musical program that headlines emerging female artists.
Journée internationale de la femme
17H00: COEUR DU MONDE Sous la direction de Sylvie Rochette, responsable du projet, l’école Victor-Brodeur vous invite au dévoilement de Coeur du Monde, une oeuvre de l’artiste Français François Michaud symbolisant la résolution de conflits pour les élèves de l’école. Venez écouter une performance musicale d’Aude Ray et déguster des amuses-gueules gratuits. Francophone school, Victor-Brodeur, invites everyone to the unveiling of its Heart of the World, part of a globally acclaimed project done by French artist François Michaud. The permanent sculpture symbolizes the resolution of conflicts for the students of Victor-Brodeur. Come listen to a musical performance by Aude Ray and enjoy complimentary appetizers! 20H00: SPECTACLE - GAROCHE TA SACOCHE Artistes invitées gagnantes du Festival international de la Chanson de Granby de 2013, Cynthia et Sonia vous présentent un spectacle à l’école Victor-Brodeur. Billets en vente à la SFV. 10 $ Non-membre / 5 $ Membre. Winners of the Granby International Song Festival, duo Cynthia and Sonia, will put on a show at Victor-Brodeur school. Tickets are on sale at La Société francophone de Victoria. $10 Non-members / $5 Members
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Le samedi et le dimanche, le Centennial Square sera rempli d’activités pour toute la famille! Une zone pour enfants vous accueillera avec des jeux gonflables, un sculpteur de ballon nommé Ziggy, des maquillages gratuits et bien plus encore! De plus, le Centennial Square accueillera des organismes offrants des services en français dans la région, une bonne manière d’en connaître davantage sur la communauté francophone. Des artisans francophones et francophiles seront aussi présents pour vous offrir leurs différents produits passant des pâtisseries françaises aux peintures d’acryliques. Finalement, des groupes de musique performeront gratuitement de midi à 16 h sur la scène Radio-Canada. On Saturday and Sunday, Centennial Square will be full of activities for the whole family! A kids zone will have an inflatable jumping castle, a talented balloon artist named Ziggy, free face painting and much more! In addition, Centennial Square will be hosting organizations within the region that offer services in French, which is a good way to get to know the local Francophone community. Local Francophone and Francophile artisans will also be present to offer you their unique products from French pastries to acrylic paintings. Lastly, complimentary musical performances will be held on the Radio-Canada stage from noon to 4pm. 18H00: LANCEMENT - PAS TOUT CUIT DANS L’BEC Marijosée lancera son nouvel album Pas tout cuit dans l’bec dans le cadre de notre festival! Traitant de sujets aussi variés que son imagination, livrés à l’aide d’une voix puissante et séduisante, aux sons de musiques populaires et du monde, c’est un rendez-vous gratuit à ne pas manquer au Yates Street Taphouse & Grill dès 18h00! Marijosée will be launching her new album Pas tout cuit dans l’bec as part of our festival! She has a spectacular voice and a wild imagination that makes her shows unforgettable. Don’t miss this complimentary show at Yates Street Taphouse & Grill!
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11H00: BRUNCH: CABANE À SUCRE Un brunch sera offert dès 11h00 chez Ambrosia (638 Fisgard) et offrira un menu varié de cabane à sucre. Réjean et ses musiciens vous feront revivrent les souvenirs d’un Québec d’antan! Le Prix Henriette-Moreau sera remis lors de l’occasion. Billets en prévente seulement à la SFV. 25 $ non-membre / 20 $ membre / 15 $ enfant (10 ans et moins). AUCUN BILLET DISPONIBLE À LA PORTE. The traditional maple syrup brunch will be complemented by a musical performance by Réjean and his musicians who will let you experience traditionnal music from Quebec! The Henriette-Moreau prize will be handed out during the brunch. Tickets are being pre-sold at La Société francophone de Victoria. $25 Non-members / $20 Members / $15 for children (10 years and younger). NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR. 13H00: PIÈCE DE THÉÂTRE PRÉSENTÉE PAR L’AFRACB Pièce de théâtre intitulée Trompe l’heure et tromperies signée par le dramaturge franco-ontarien Michel Ouellette. Cette pièce fait partie d’une vaste initiative nationale de lutte contre la violence, les fraudes et les abus envers les ainés. C’est un rendez-vous à l’Ambrosia (638 Fisgard). Pour plus d’informations, Marie-Pier Courbron au (250) 3821310. The play Trompe l’heure et tromperies written by Francophone Michel Ouellette, which is part of a nation-wide initiative to stop violence, fraud, and abuse towards seniors. The play is taking place at Ambrosia and will be in French. For more information, contact MariePier Courbon at (250) 382-1310 - www.afracb.ca
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Marijosée
Marijosée voyage d’un océan à l’autre au Canada ainsi qu’en Europe en 2011-2013 à l’appui de son premier opus, Rebondir, raflant les honneurs tout au long. Mais, elle découvre rapidement son malin plaisir à partager le contenu de son journal personnel. Voilà donc qu’elle nous présente son nouvel album, Pas tout cuit dans l’bec. l’bec Marijosée travelled from sea to sea in Canada as well as in Europe from 2011 to 2013 in support of her first release, Rebondir, collecting accolades along the way. Quickly discovering the mischievous pleasure of sharing thoughts that should otherwise be left in her diary, she brings to the world her sophomore album, Pas tout cuit dans l’bec. Delivered with a voice both powerful and seductive, with music that carries both pop and world beats, Marijosée is definitely an artist to keep an eye on.
Aude Ray
Samedi, 8 mars Saturday, March 8th Dimanche, 9 mars Sunday, March 9th SCÈNE RADIO-CANADA MARIJOSÉE 12:00 AUDE RAY 13:00 GAROCHE TA SACOCHE 14:00 MARYSE BERNARD 15:00
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Aude Ray est une artiste émergente de Whistler et ancienne candidate du concours Chant’Ouest 2013. Elle sera parmi nous samedi afin de performer de nouvelles chansons fraîchement composées! Aude Ray is an emerging artist from Whistler and a previous candidate at the Chant’Ouest 2013 competition. As one of the Saturday headliner’s, Aude Ray will be debuting new songs freshly composed!
Garoche ta Sacoche
Garoche ta sacoche est un duo né de la rencontre de Cynthia Veilleux et Sonia Brochet. Elles décrivent leur musique comme folk insolite. Garoche ta sacoche, c’est deux guitares, des harmonies vocales et des textes frôlant l’absurde dans un univers déjanté. The duo, Garoche ta sacoche, was born the moment Cynthia Veilleux and Sonia Brochet met. They describe their music as funky, unusual folk. Garoche ta sacoche is composed of two guitars, harmonious vocals, and absurd lyrics that are out of this world!
Maryse Bernard
Maryse est une artiste émergente ayant apprit son français grâce au programme d’immersion francophone en C.-B.. Elle vous charmera avec sa voix grandiose en interprétant des classiques tel que La vie en rose, d’Edit Piaf. Maryse is an emerging artist who learned her French through the French Immersion Programs in British Columbia. She will charm you with her amazingly big voice and her interpretation of classics such as Edit Piaf’s La vie en rose.
Wontanara Drum and Dance
Wontanara Drum and Dance est une troupe de danse locale qui se spécialise dans l’enseignement de la danse traditionnelle et des rythmes musicaux de l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Mohamed Andre Duranteau est maître de la danse africaine et est le chorégraphe pour la troupe. Wontanara Drum & Dance is a Victoria, BC, based performance troupe founded by Guinean Master Dancer and choreographer Mohamed Andre Duranteau.
Sam Weber
Âgé de seulement 20 ans, Sam est un auteurcompositeur-interprète de Victoria ayant grandi dans un programme d’immersion francophone. En 2012, Sam était l’un des plus jeunes musiciens à être publié dans la revue Guitar Player. Sam ne fait que commencer sa carrière musicale et qui sait où il s’arrêtera! Sam is a Victoria born 20-year old singer-songwriter and guitarist who grew up in a French Immersion setting. In 2012, Weber was one of the youngest people to ever be covered by the Guitar Player magazine. Weber’s journey is just beginning and it’s off to a truly inspiring start. Come check out this amazing talent during his “early era”!
Michael Wood Band
Ce groupe de musique composé de Michael et de ses musiciens francophiles est originaire de la côte ouest. Leur musique reflète des influences de multiples sources passant par le Jazz et le Pop jusqu’au Rock classique. Michael Wood Band a d’ailleurs été sélectionné en tant que demi-finaliste pour l’International Songwriting Competition et sélectionné pour deux Vancouver Island Music Awards. The four-piece band originated from Canada’s west coast. Their sound reflects multiple influences ranging from jazz to pop to classic rock. The band was selected as a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition from 20 thousand entries worldwide, and nominated for two Vancouver Island Music Awards.
Hyper Fiend
Hyper Fiend est un groupe émergent de francométal formé en 2013 par le bassiste Raymond M. Albert et le guitariste Shaun Wiebe. Ces derniers étant à la poursuite de leur carrière musicale ont décidé, après avoir déniché leur batteur Mike Mlikolic, de former le groupe Hyper Fiend. Le nom du groupe fût choisi avec une connotation provocatrice et ironique afin d’attirer l’attention du public! Hyper Fiend is an emerging French-metal band brought together by the bassist, Raymond M. Albert, and the guitarist, Shaun Wiebe. Both were in pursuit of their musical careers and after discovering their drummer, Mike Mlikolic, they decided to form the group Hyper Fiend. The group’s name was chosen with a provocative and ironic connotation to attract the public’s attention!
Le 17e Festival de la francophonie de Victoria est présenté par: The 17th Annual Victoria French Fest is presented by:
J’adore ce moment de l’année en Colombie-Britannique et plus particulièrement sur ce rocher indolent de Victoria, où les vagues modulent incessamment un chant continu de joie et de paix. Enfin, j’adore aussi ce moment de l’année parce qu’il apporte avec lui le temps d’une belle célébration qui réunira la beauté et l’entrain culturel de nos communautés francophones à Victoria. C’est le temps du 17e Festival de la francophonie de Victoria, où, à travers la musique, la danse, l’évocation historique et une projection sincère dans l’avenir, nos communautés francophones font vibrer les rues de l’île avec les rimes doucereuses de notre belle langue française. I love this time of year in British Columbia, especially on the peaceful island where the waves continuously whisper sounds of peace and joy. I also love this time of year because it brings with it celebrations that reunite the beauty and the culure of the Francophone communities in Victoria. It is time for the 17th Annual Victoria French Fest where, through music and dance, we commemorate our history and preserve its future. The Francophone communities will liven the streets of Victoria with the sweet sound of our beautiful French language! Moussa Magassa, Président du Conseil d’administration Chair of the Board of Directors
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fter the dark days and nights of winter, it’s glorious to venture out and celebrate the region’s burgeoning cultural scene. This month, explore spoken word, new music and see the creations of emerging artists. Kerploding Theatre presents WordPlay – a play for young audiences that tells the story of three young monsters, using live, original music, movement, poetry and dialogue, March 1 (part of Intrepid Theatre’s YOU Show). This piece supports a theatre for development in India. TicketRocket.org. Now in its fourth year, the Victoria Spoken Word Festival is designed to mentor young and emerging spoken word talent. Due to its popularity, this year the festival moves from the Intrepid Theatre Club to the Metro Studio, March 4-9. Join the festival ensemble and Poet of Honour Barbara Adler (Ten Thousand Wolves) for a full slate of poetry-related events as they explore the theme: Inside Story. TicketRocket.org. Tucked away in Oak Bay, the Canadian College of Performing Arts trains the next generation of Canada’s performing artists. The TD Festival of New Works, March 13-15 is a showcase of dance, theatre and music by these talented students. ccpacanada. com. While you’re in Oak Bay, take a walk down the avenue to Eclectic Gallery, 2170 Oak Bay Ave., for its latest exhibition (Peter Dowgailenko and Linda Downie, March 10-April 5). Opening March 12 6-8pm. For almost 30 years, the Early Music Society of the Islands has been devoted to promoting interest in music composed before 1800. March 14 and 15 it co-presents (with Pacific Opera
Victoria) one of the world’s leading baroque music ensembles, Boston Early Music Festival, in La Descente d’Orphee aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs. It’s the most ambitious project in the society’s history and a unique chance for Victoria audiences to experience a semi-staged baroque opera. Tickets rmts.ca. A Beautiful View, by leading Canadian playwright Daniel McIvor, explores the friendship of two young female friends over more than a decade. Funny and bittersweet, it moves through many phases of relationship. March 13-15 at the Intrepid Theatre Club. TicketRocket.org. If you’ve ever wanted to experience the cutting edge of new music, mark your calendars for the premiere by Andrea Young of Through the Window and the Wood for voice and electronics by Victoria composer Daniel Brandes, at Open Space March 15. Audience members are invited to come and go as they please. OpenSpace.ca. The Belfry Theatre’s annual SPARK Festival, March 17-30 is brimming with innovative and alternative work from across Canada and includes free events. Belfry.bc.ca. György Ligeti is a contemporary classical composer whose iconic works have been featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Shining. The Ligeti Festival, co-presented by the University of Victoria and the Victoria Symphony, March 21-30 offers the chance to explore his oeuvre at greater length. Sonic Lab performs works at UVic March 21, the Emily String Quartet is featured at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria March 27, and the Victoria Symphony closes the festival at Alix Goolden Hall March 29. Tickets through the respective box offices. Janis La Couvée is a community builder, writer and arts advocate.
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t’s hard to convey the experience of stepping off a plane into a new culture for the first time. The sights, smells and sounds of a foreign country can be jarring, but a new play and dance performance by the Inter-Cultural Association aims to do just that. Arrival: Stories, Mask and Movement tells five true stories of Canadian immigrants from Egypt, Germany, Philippines, Japan and Mexico who have built new lives in Greater Victoria. “Our hope was one story from each continent, we didn’t get one from Australia, but we got four out of five,” says Paulina Grainger, who produced the play through the InterCultural Association. The tales are wound together as a cohesive play, drifting back and forth between the comforts of home and the stunted Canadian politeness that can lead to a sense of isolation for many new immigrants. “One of the big themes (between the writers) was how silent it was when they got here,” Grainger says. “It seemed to be a very hard thing for them to naturally connect to.” One story explores the difficulty of finding work, while another takes a lighter look at the vast selection of Arrival: Stories, Mask tomatoes available at local grocers. and Movement runs Wrapped within the presentation March 22, 2 p.m. at are themes of spirituality, depresthe Greater Victoria sion and the discovery of personal freedom. Public Library central “We want to break down any branch courtyard. stereotypes you might have, and you
actually get to meet these people,” Grainger says. “We can go on the soapbox and talk about all the stereotypes and racism we come across, but this is more of a celebratory story.” Each writer’s words were retained as much as possible in the adaptation for stage by Barbara Poggemiller, a former Monday Magazine People’s Choice Award for Directing winner, and an instructor at the Canadian College of Performing Arts. “Barbara did a fabulous job of finding the similarities and weaving all the stories together as a collective arch,” says Yasmine Naylor, one of five actors in Arrival. “We speak these words as if we’re storytellers.” Masks and props were designed and made by Miles Lowry, whose sculptures, paintings, words and mixed media have been a mainstay of B.C. culture for the past 30 years. Enrique Rivas provides the live music as a multi-talented musician with an impressive ability to ad-lib worldly sounds. Grainger said early reception to the play has been overwhelmingly positive, with many audience members relating to the emotions of moving somewhere new. “There’s a universality to the story,” she says. “Canada’s an immigrant country. Everyone’s family has been through these experiences if they live here. This play just reminds you that we could all go through it.”
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ometimes I can’t read the words I’ve written. It will happen at the end of a long day when the TV studio lights feel brighter than usual, the speaker in my ear seems louder and the words in the teleprompter appear incomprehensible. As the words scroll in front of me, my mouth struggles to say them. And then I become hyperaware that there are more than a couple of colleagues behind the cameras watching – you may be too. When I make mistakes in front of a live audience, sweat drips down my back. When things don’t go according to plan for percussionist Kelby MacNayr he ponders the possibilities. The jazz drummer has worked on more than 50 albums over the past 20 years and says mistakes can either “knock you down, or make your ride more exciting.” MacNayr describes playing live, improvised jazz as “running downhill fast in the woods.” He says the key is to stay focused on the goal of moving forward and having fun. “If that’s your intention, it doesn’t matter if you trip slightly or fall and bail. You’re still moving with fun.” MacNayr’s latest album is called The Measure of Light. It’s performed by a quintet of Canada’s top musicians including Juno winner Phil Dwyer, Daniel Lapp, Miles Black and Tom Wakeling. Like all successful jazz recordings, it captures
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Gary has A Date, from Fringe sensation Emily Windler plays the Intrepid Theatre Club with two shows in March as part of The Deep End series. This one woman physical comedy is full of romance and prat falls – it’s clowning-meets-Don Knotts-meets-crossdressing. March 30-31 8pm. ticketrocket.org.
Ignite your curiosity
The SPARK Festival, March 16-30 is the Belfry Theatre’s festival of new plays and new ideas. SPARK is a mid-winter festival of innovative and alternative work from across Canada. Go to sparkfestival.ca for details and tickets.
Gothic romance
UVic’s Phoenix Theatre presents the touching, intensely human and darkly comic Unity (1918) March 13-22. As WWI ends and a mysterious flu pandemic nears, the inhabitants of a small Saskatchewan town deal with the trials of life and death. Written and directed by Kevin Kerr. Go to finearts.uvic.ca for details and tickets.
compelling collaborations. And that’s why MacNayr says the only real mistake you can make in music is pursuing a selfish intention, “like letting ego take over while playing a drum solo (which always ends up) unmusical.” I agree. You can’t make TV alone. It takes videographers, editors, writers, producers and the countless crew members who are responsible for audio, lighting, directing, graphics and timing. When I make a mistake, my reaction is partly about ego, but it is mostly about letting the team down. MacNayr says the best thing about mistakes is their potential to “galvanize you on your focus forward.” So the next time I stumble on-air, instead of a focus on my failure, I’ll choose to focus on our group intention to inform, inspire and entertain. Adam Sawatsky reports on arts & lifestyle weekdays on CTV News Vancouver Island with Hudson Mack. On weekends he hosts Eye on the Arts on CFAX 1070.
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ZZ Top
After 45 years in the music industry, ZZ Top head back to Victoria, to the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre March 21. Frontman Billy Gibbons slows down just NATALIE NORTH long enough to talk new inspirations, old motivations arts@mondaymag.com and an undying desire to “let it rock and never stop.” Monday Magazine: This is a busy tour for you guys, including selected stops in Canada and the U.S., as well as Europe. How different do you find audiences in Europe as compared to those in North America? Billy Gibbons: That whole myth about European or Canadian reserve is just that – a myth. When folks come to see us they tend to let loose and turn the ‘fun’ spigot on. MM: 2014 marks the 45th year the three of you have been recording and touring together, almost in the realm of the Stones. What keeps you all going and motivated? BG: It should come as no shock that we enjoy what we do so have never seen any reason to stop doing it. It’s the same three guys (and the same three chords) for all these years because when you’re having a good time you just want to keep the good times coming. We love the Stones and have shared bills with them over the years so can say we share some of the same motivations. We just
want to let it rock and never stop. MM: The band released an album of new material in late 2012 with La Futura, the first new release since Mescalero in 2003. It was lauded as being a collection of songs featuring the guitar-driven sound of early Top. For this tour, can we expect a stripped-down guitar-bluesy style, or a combination of songs that include your hugely popular, yet more produced, hits of the 80s such as Legs, Sharp Dressed Man and Gimme All Your Lovin’?
ZZ Top continue to live a rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle and let the fun flow.
BG: We tend to offer a smorgasbord of our repertoire. We certainly do perform material from La Futura but we’d be remiss if we didn’t do stuff that goes all the way back. And we also tend to throw in something here and there that you might never have heard – even if you have all the records. It keeps it interesting for us and we think for the audience, as well.
BG: That’s a tough one but merits a thoughtful answer. When we were out on our Worldwide Texas Tour with all kinds of wildlife, we wondered if we were in a band or a zoo. But the opportunity to tour with a bison, rattle snakes and a vulture only comes around so often, if at all. Satisfied? Well, we’ve come close but always keep the Stones’ Satisfaction in mind: You really can’t get no...
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about our little city that has stuck with you over the years? BG: Aside from taking in its natural splendour, we’re looking forward to shambling down the causeway again. Maybe take up busking there if we can find an extension cord long enough. MM: The three of you essentially qualify for social security given you all turned 64 last year. Is there any plan at some point to slow down and stop touring? BG: Our plan to slow down is – no plan at all. We’ve got a lot of performing, writing and recording to do so no plan to slacken the pace. We’re just getting good at this.
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ilken Laumann strives to be authentic. She seeks the highest form of herself, and as a motivational speaker boosts others to do the same. Penning her autobiography, Unsinkable, released late in January, was in part an exercise in doing just that, though it meant revisiting the lowest points of her past including abuse, anorexia and struggles with mental health. “Whatever I’m experiencing I write about and speak about,” she says, sipping peppermint tea to stave off the last vestiges of a severe head cold as she heads into a busy week of book promotion across Canada. “I’ve always been a writer and I’ve always shared whatever I was going through … because I believe that we learn from each other and it’s an important part of my life.” Her journey started six years ago, when she realized she needed to move through the “bumps and bruises” of childhood. “I reached a place with my kids where, for no reason other than they were being kids, I would feel overwhelming rage. I didn’t know where that rage was coming from and I felt ill-equipped to be the kind of parent I wanted to be. And it was that moment of humility that I finally said ‘I need help’ and I called a friend,” she says. “I wasn’t strong enough all by myself to understand the kind of emotions I was feeling, how the past was affecting my parenting today. Many people reach that place of melting down with their kids.” As she journaled her way through the healing process, Laumann realized her roots were a significant part of her being. “I almost felt inauthentic speaking and not sharing it, because people would ask questions ‘why were you so motivated? How did you learn to be so focused and driven?’” The answer: her past. Previously, the Olympian and founder of Silken’s Active Kids’ Movement, shared insights about her divorce, parenting a child with ADD and another with autism, her Olympic dreams, goals and challenges. This time, she scratched deeper, delving into a troubled youth that included physical and emotional abuse from an unstable mother, self-harm and an eating disorder. “It was not healthy. It took a lot of courage to come forward and tell this story. I had to get to a place in my life where I could let go of how the reader would respond. “Obviously I’m not 17 anymore so I don’t remember if I was wearing a red sweater or a
black sweater but I remember the feeling of being desperate when I was 17 and having self loathing and having an eating disorder and how alone and angry and how much inner contempt I felt. And so I would write that piece of the book from being 17 again. I actually tried quite consciously to avoid, as a writer, coming back as an adult and telling the reader what it meant today. Because I think the power in the book … is not making it mean anything except what it actually is in that moment,” she says. “I’m letting the experiences speak for themselves. In order to do that I have to tell the experiences as if I was seven, as if I was 17.” The effect of releasing her raw experience has had ramifications on her family relationships. Laumann focuses on the good, others may take time. Her partner David Patchell-Evans and her children, are proud. “I think he’s seen how strong I really am and he’s observed how much I feel a story needs to be told.” “Both William and Kate, are incredibly proud,” she adds. “Writing this book and talking about this book has also made us have some really deep conversations about being authentic and what that means.” Her brother in Toronto “has been incredibly supportive.” However, the relationship with her mother, father and sister – who all signed a letter sent to media disputing the abuse allegations – will “take time” to heal. “My mom has an undiagnosed mental illness,” she says. “So their reaction, of course it’s hurtful on one hand, on the other hand … I understand that everybody is on a different journey with their past. Not everybody in my family is ready to process the past and that’s okay.” She’s pleased with the response from the general public as emails pour in with an exchange of emotions – from agreement to anger – over the themes throughout the pages from mental illness to parenting challenges. “We’re saying it’s good to talk about these things, Hatha Flow Kundalini it’s what increases awareness,” she says. “I’ve learned so much on my own spiritual journey to become Three-time who I am, that I really do Olympic medalist, understand that however you Laumann was react to a story you’re told, inducted into the will be very much reflective of where you are in your life. Canadian Sports What you’ve experienced, Hall of Fame what your own bumps and in 1998 bruises are.”
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I just went to my hometown to visit family. I often find out through the grapevine that many of them have been through my current town at some point in the last year, but didn’t even think to call. So with a few exceptions, if I didn’t go back home I wouldn’t see any of them outside of Facebook. If you have never spent time in a large Italian family, I would say approach with caution. The food is good, the conversation is personal, and the volume is deafening no matter now many, or few, are in the room. You will be offered wine to drink and something to eat to tide you over … until we eat. Traveling home has always been a journey. Last year there was so much flooding on either side of the town we had to cancel. This year, there was so much ice, I promptly put the car into a snowy ditch. (For the record the only thing injured was my gentle, gentle pride.) I don’t know what it is about me but I feel as though I
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have a punch card for crap travel. For every five amazing trips, I get an awful one free (technically not free as it cost me $235 to get the car out of that snowy ditch). Last year on my way from Victoria to Saskatoon, there was a problem with a plane which caused me to be delayed by eight hours. Now, do you think it was the two-hour flight from Vancouver to Saskatoon, or the 16 minute flight from Victoria to Vancouver that was the issue? I think you might have guessed correctly. What was the issue on the 16 minute flight you might ask? The toilet was broken on the plane. That’s right! The toilet on the 16 minute flight was broken and so we were delayed 90 minutes (causing us to miss our connection). Who cares if the toilet was broken? Its a 16 minute flight! Who wants to use the bathroom on a plane that small anyway? Is anybody sitting at the gate thinking, ‘Oh God, I hope we board the plane soon, I really need to pee!’ Couldn’t we all as adults just make a pact that we would hold it for the 20 min-
utes it would take us to get from gate to gate? As it turns out, no. I’m 6’7 and 300+ pounds, I can barely use the washrooms on a regular flight. I tried one time, we hit some turbulence, and I accidentally joined the Mile High Club with myself. What was I talking about before I started talking about planes? My hometown! Right! Back on track! I’m not going back to my hometown ever again. Well, that might be a little strong. I’m not going back ever again … in the winter. I grew up in a small town in the Rockies and, while I love my home town, I wish it was closer to where I live now. Today we drove at the top speed of 40 km/h through the mountains while avalanches fell behind us chasing us like some kind of geriatric Michael Bay movie. In the summer it is a joyful place with purple mountains, vast ranches and the sun on your face. In the winter, it is hours of travel through the slush-covered, ice-coated nightmare that is the devil’s frosted taint of the world. Next year when I have a week off … Cancun.
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HEIGHTS NATALIE NORTH arts@mondaymag.com In the cinematic version of my life story, there are few opportunities in the film’s opening montage to pause just long enough for the narrator to explain how I got into this mess. The voice of what could be a has-been star will warmly explain that although our anti-hero had no exceptional social or physical skills, she had a lot of heart, and man, when she was called to action, she took a lot of shit. I experienced one such moment last weekend, when, harnessed to a stranger, I clung to a chalky hand-hold, high atop Crag X Indoor Climbing Centre. Splayed open and suctioned to the wall gecko-style in my maiden ascent, the scene and its key player frozen. The din of sounds below faded, replaced by an acute awareness of my heartbeat, quivering leg and memory of high school panic attacks, back when I still felt shame. A voice breaks through: “Would you like to come down now?” Enter my two amazing Jennifers: Jennifer Pearce, the unsuspecting new climber who was paired with me for my belay certification session, learning how to tie a knot and not fall off the rock; and Crag X instructor Jennifer Harmer, who is leading the six-person workshop. Both stand below me, craning their necks back and offering words of encouragement. Pearce had climbed a couple of times and wanted her belay certification. Neither her lack of said certification, relative size (much smaller than I) or reassurances that I’d be okay because she was a nurse, crossed my mind until she was at the helm of my safety equipment and I was engaged in some of the worst performance art since whatever Shia LaBoeuf has been up to with a bag on his head. “Yes please,” I say. I will my hands to release, wrap them around the rope at my belly and walk down the wall to cushiony comfort of the foam floor. Only two more hours to Video go. Not only was I in serious online need of humbling after the last West Coast Wild Watch Natalie North hit ego-stroke that had me the wall at Crag X.
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believing I was en route to becoming an Olympic archer, but several unfortunate factors combined to form an ideal environment in which my mediocrity could flourish. A list of excuses might include: over-extending my poor, soft body with too long spent in my running shoes the day prior, not stretching and not heeding the instructions to use my legs to push myself up, rather my arms to pull. It could include wielding a nerve-damaged, post-surgery foot in which I have zero confidence when it’s jammed up against a brightly-coloured shard of plastic protruding from a vertical wall that seems more like a heavDON DENTON PHOTO en-sent stepping stone across a sun-soaked pathway the same course and become regular climbing partto all the lithe bodies Spiderman-ing about, sporting ners, a concept easy to grasp as issues of trust and more of an assured smile than a grimace. I could also fear are instantly exposed and you work together simply say, I’m not exactly a natural. for a common goal. As the morning wore on, the So for someone like me to feel safe and comadrenaline pulsating through my body waned and fortable to tie in and keep climbing up after the allowed me to focus solely on my next move and the first stressful scramble, it’s a testament to the kind unwavering positivity Pearce and Harmer of relaxed, supportive environwere launching my way. Though far ment, they’ve got going at Crag The group from excelling in technique or endurX. Harmer, a North Vancouver watched politely ance, I had turned a corner: I wanted transplant and University of Victoria to do better. as I took my student, was an active climber on As with any new challenge, its shape turn, paralyzed the mainland and, knowing how seems to shift once you’re on the welcoming the community is, joined on the first hand inside. Things that seem so simple and Crag X out of necessity to make straightforward often feel differently holds with all the new friends, she says, rather than a up close. Back on the ground with core strength of desire to climb. some distance, it’s easy to see what a ripe banana. I would think of this as I replayed needs to happen, and the only way to the moment when she took the do it is to tie in and try again. group of us into the abyss of death and “It’s very much a community where everybody rebirth, a room I imagine is meant to simulate a cave. wants to help everybody else,” Harmer says. “That’s With ease and grace my mentor climbed an angled why everybody’s willing to give advice.” wall, essentially upside down. The group watched For those equipped with fabulous core strength politely as I took my turn, paralyzed on the first hand and balance without any trepidation over heights, holds with all the core strength of a ripe banana. I climbing will likely come easily and offer attaincrumbled off and considered myself lucky to have able challenges. For everyone else – expect a dose found other sources of friendship. of accomplishment and to see the truth in the old A shift in tone emerges halfway through this real adage: more risk, more reward. life adventure dramady, when I ask Pearce if she had Cue the blooper reel. any trepidation over signing up for the course alone. “I was nervous this morning for sure,” she says To find out more about Crag X Indoor and almost in the next breath invites me to join her Climbing Centre, learn to climb programs, and a friend at the gym later in the week to practice mini clinics and women’s climbing groups, our new belay skills. visit urbancliffculture.com. Harmer shares anecdotes of strangers who take
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walk to the end of the platform and look down. I try to grab hold of something to keep me from falling, but the best my body does is instinctively curl my toes over the edge for grip. It doesn’t help. “Arms above your head. Elbows touching your ears. Bend over, legs straight. Look where you want to go. Are you ready?” Emma Friesen asks me. She’s standing a foot to my right, and the decorated diver is my partner in my first synchronized dive. It’s actually not going to be much of a dive, given what I’ve seen Friesen do in practice. There’ll be no flair – no jumping, no aerial spins or somersaults. I’m just going to fall forward and hope I wind up vertical before I hit the water. I take a deep breath. My heart is pounding – I don’t know why. We’re only three metres up and the pool below is warm and inviting. “No, but I’ll do it anyway,” I reply, brushing off my nerves. I stare intently at a line of white tile on the pool floor – that’s where I’m aiming. “Up on your toes,” she instructs. “And 1… 2… 3….” I chicken out. I watch Friesen gracefully lift off her toes, fall forward and down towards the pool. Our first attempt at a synchronized dive together leaves her solo in the water. For whatever reason, watching her go it alone and seeing her come out of the water completely unscathed eases my fears, and I join her in descent on our next attempt. I hit the water hands first and smoothly pierce the surface. Painless. That was easy – once I got over the fear. “I was really impressed,” Friesen, 25, tells me. “It’s Watch Kyle’s form as not very natural for people; he takes a dive our bodies don’t want to go head-first. You were able to mondaymag.com
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fall and look where you were going. That’s huge on your first day.” Friesen has been diving for 16 years. She’s had a successful career in the sport thus far, including earning a full-ride diving scholarship to the University of Hawaii, winning an NCAA title in 2008 and competing well at national and international meets. Despite so much time competing, Friesen says she still feels nerves when standing at the end of the springboard ready to dive. “It’s a lot of pressure – you can’t miss a dive. So it’s scary, it’s exciting, it’s nerve-wracking. It’s awful in many ways, but I dig it,” she says. “There’s an intensity up there like nothing I’ve ever really experienced before.” I wholeheartedly agree. Even as a first-timer (perhaps even more so because I’m a first-timer), it is scary up there. “I think it’s the same as public speaking – that nervous energy. You feel like you want to throw up but there’s this adrenaline that’s hard to compete with,” she says. “It’s exciting. When I started diving I loved to spin and flip. And now the rest is history.”
he challenge and excitement of geocaching involves using a GPS enabled device to follow digital waypoints to a location and then attempting to find a hidden container – the cache. If you find the container, you will triumphantly add your name to the logbook and in some cases, trade special ‘swag’ or trackable items. Geocaches are hidden worldwide and hunting for them is a great adventure for families, couples, singles, seniors, community or school groups – just about anybody. The only tool required is a GPS or GPS enabled device like a smartphone, and a sense of adventure. You’ll be surprised to find yourself in new places in your own community that you didn’t know existed. There’s a bit of secrecy surrounding the activity, so as to not spoil the secret hiding locations, so make sure that nobody is watching when you retrieve and re-hide the container. While involved in the activity, geocachers are known by a unique username. You will see geocaches hidden by ‘Amandazon,’ ‘Landsharkz,’ ‘Sailaboat,’ ‘Clueless in Qualicum,’ ‘sole seeker’ and more. To learn more, visit Geocaching.com, read the Geocaching 101, watch the Geocaching in two minutes video and then head out and have some fun! You can help your family maintain a healthy active lifestyle during spring break and summer vacation with this fun-filled activity. Helen and her husband Chris have been geocaching since 2005. In 2006, they launched landsharkz.ca, a geocaching supply company which serves the geocaching community worldwide.
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labs of crisped pork belly stacked like artwork behind the glass counter of Roast are among the first things Garrett Schack points out as we meet outside the Victoria Public Market eatery. But the executive chef of Vista 18 was drawn here by the promise of perfectly prepared meat. Part of the lure is the reputation of George Szasz, Schack explains while we peruse the lunch options. “He’s practically one of the pioneers of (charcuterie) in Victoria. Not that he invented charcuterie but he’s been doing it a long time.” In what I later find out is self-professed chef geek perspective, Schack quickly points out the Henny Penny oven filled with roasting root vegetables and lamb. It can cook meat perfectly – there’s that draw – with a combination of dry heat, or an injection of steam to keep portions evenly moist. Schack has yet to eat at the relatively new Roast, owned and run by Szasz and Ryan McGregor, but seems confident. “There’s been lots of talk about Roast,
and the Public Market from among my ri-sauced sandwich up for a bite. colleagues,” he says. “Delicious sandwich, healthy portion The woman behind the counter chops a size, he didn’t disappoint,” Schack says, slab of the crisp fat from atop the porchet- referring to Szasz’s reputation. ta for my sandwich. As she shaves perI fear the texture of fat, so with slight fectly medium juicy prime rib for Schack’s trepidation at the bits of soft fat chopped sandwich, he asks where the buns are into my sandwich, I take a bite. I’m from. As she struggles to recall, the baker stunned by the fantastic crunch added by himself hustles around the corner carrying the top crispy bits. The combined salty a brown box filled with rows pork flavour and a surprise of of Portuguese buns. broccoli is fantastic. Vista 18 chef “Casa Nova (Catering),” We watch as the sandwich checks out Schack guesses correctly. “The maker pulls roasted veg from the Public ingredients are great but a the beloved Henny Penny, and fresh bun makes all the differMarket’s Roast sets them below chickens slowence.” ly turning in the rotisserie. The for lunch After a stop at the selfdelicious drippings season the serve soda fountain for a pull veggies beyond good, the Vista of Phillips Ginger Ale, we settle into bar 18 chef points out. seats, facing glass that separates us from “And you can come down on your the meat from which our sandwich fillings way home from work and buy a rotisserie were so recently cleaved. chicken. They’re far and above better than “I love that you can sit here and see it,” roasting one in your oven.” he says. “It gives you a bit of an old world Schack finishes his sandwich, while I feeling.” pack a portion away for later. Cautious of Cautiously he peels the brown paper our ongoing recovery from the illnesses from his cleverly labeled beef sandwich. that seems to be plaguing the city, we opt The sticker shows a profile of a cow’s not to swap bites. head, while mine features a piggie profile. Lamenting that loss, we split a salted With a little more abandon he hefts the chocolate cookie to lift our spirits. beef, caramelized onions and chimichurIt does the trick.
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The 10th annual Dine Around and Stay in Town runs to March 9. Participating restaurants offer $20/$30/$40/$50 menus all paired with BC wines. Go to tourismvictoria.com.
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like things that sparkle. It was after brunch and too early for a craft cocktail (as if that could be true). But a champagne-style cocktail, well that’s another kettle of fish. I also like a lovely view and so it seemed a perfect convergence of delights to head off to Sidney and visit Haro’s. As my luck would have it, while sunny in Victoria it was all fog on the Sidney waters and overhead was a murmuration of starlings and no, we were not quaffing outside. These lovelies were ensconced above the bar, branches and all and while quite whimsical it always elicits a shudder in memory of Hitchcock’s The Birds. Onto the less dramatic, I ordered up a French 75. A classic with freshly squeezed lemon, gin and sparkling. Created in 1915 at a bar in Paris by then culty barman Harry MacElhone, it didn’t turn up in print until 1930 in The Savoy Cocktail Book. The version at Haro’s was pleasant. Next up was a house concoction, the Pier Royal. Advertised with Elephant Island Cassis and fresh lime, I was looking forward to getting my first taste of this BC liquid. When I asked about the product I was told they didn’t have any and so the bartender had substituted the French L’Héritier-Guyot. Tsk, tsk. The sparkling was overwhelmed by the black currant and I was left wondering if the Elephant Island would have done the trick but by then it was time to leave the birds and fly south.
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Film Slam, CineVic's 72-hour (or so) film production challenge is back with a vengeance this year. The hot filmmaking competition starts Feb. 21 with registration, which is open until March 20. Then the Jeremy Lutter’s 2013 Film fun begins. Slam submission, 6:06. At 6pm on March 21, registered writers are given the magic words/phrase to inspire a four- to six-page properly formatted script. These are emailed to CineVic by March 23 at 6pm. Then on Sunday evening, registered filmmakers receive all the scripts, choose their top five, as well as their nomination for best script by midnight March 25. On March 26, registered actors are invited to an open casting session. One casting director will run sides with actors who have agreed to be available over the weekend. Registered film teams are invited to watch and have access to a list of the actors. Actors who register are not guaranteed a spot. On March 27 – it’s game on! The scripts are assigned to teams and they rush off to make movie magic. The results are due in Sunday at 4pm. Film Slam reels are screened at the Vic Theatre at 7:30 pm (no minors). Tickets are $10. Prizes will be announced for Best Film, Audience Favourite, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Performance (female and male). Filmmakers, writers and actors, head to cinevic. ca to find out more about registration costs and to find registration forms.
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Joel Kinnaman is RoboCop in this 2014 remake.
(Elite Squad), takes advantage of the advances in special effects that have occurred in the last quarter century, and adds a critique of both global corporatization and the right wing punditry common on America’s Fox News. The result is flashy, ambitious … and surprisingly flatfooted. The movie, set 15 years in the future, opens with Samuel L. Jackson as a flamboyant TV windbag complaining about how heavily armed Americanmade robots have tamed the murderous streets of cities all over the world. Everywhere, that is, except America, where there is resistance to killing machines let loose in the land of the free. Hoping to change that is the folksily charismatic head of OmniCorp (Michael
Keaton), who persuades his leading research scientist (Gary Oldman) to design a cyborg that will merge a human head with the latest in lethal robotic hardware. And when a brave Detroit cop named Alex Murphy (Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman) gets blown up and is nearly dead, they suddenly have an appealing “public face” to help sell the idea of lethal law enforcement mediated by a human soul. The movie has two key subplots: violent street gangs linked to corruption inside the police department, which Alex was investigating and which is why he was nearly killed; and the cynical machinations of OmniCorp, which is treating Alex (well, what little is left of him) like a lab monkey
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in order to polish the public image crisis of marriage and of RoboCop and thus win needidentity that is set in ed political and public support. the early 1960s during Predictably, these two storylines a political row between overlap explosively by the time the Monaco and France. movie thunders to its climax. NOAH Despite its fine actors and serious Darren Aronofsky themes, RoboCop never quite rises (The Wrestler, Black above its pulp (science) fiction roots. Swan) meditates on As an action film, it’s one-dimenthe biblical tale of sional (and how come, when the Noah’s Ark. Starring bad guys know that his robo-body is DreamWorks’ Mr. Peabody and Sherman hits Russell Crowe, Jennifer vulnerable to 50-calibre bullets and the big screen March 7. Connelly, Emma that a shot to the face is lethal, they Watson, Anthony can’t take him out?) And as a cautionHopkins … and, presumably, lots of digital animals. ary tale, the dense script has too much solemn talk and not enough satiric fun. Ultimately, the movie BLOOD TIES lumbers with a gracelessness reminiscent of its proThe world of organized crime in 1970s Brooklyn tagonist. is the setting for this drama about two brothers on ROBOCOP ★★ 1/2 opposing sides of the law. Starring Mila Kunis, Billy Stars Samuel L. Jackson, Crudup, James Caan, and Clive Owen. Michael Keaton MUPPETS MOST WANTED Directed by Jose Padilha A criminal mastermind who is a dead ringer for Kermit the Frog drives the action in this lively COMING SOON: Muppet caper featuring the vocal artistry of Tina NON-STOP Fey, Ricky Gervais, and Ty Burrell. The soulful Liam Neeson has successfully morphed into a full-throttle action hero, and in his newest outing he plays an air marshal framed for hijack- PERFECTLY POTABLE: It was pepper-steak night in the man cave recenting an international flight with an on-board bomb. ly and my buddy brought along a yummy bottle MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN of 7 Deadly Zins. I’m not sure why Zinfandel lends DreamWorks is behind this classy-looking adapitself to outrageous puns – maybe it’s the bold tation of the vintage TV cartoon about the world’s nature of the wine itself. Deeply coloured and smartest dog and his adopted (human) son. shamelessly fruit forward, this 2010 bottling has that classic, slightly unruly Zin flavour profile of GRACE OF MONACO blackberry, black cherry, prune, spice, and vanilla … Nicole Kidman looks perfectly cast in this drama all heading into a long, hedonistic finish. Well worth about Grace Kelly, which focuses on the actress’s the $25 splurge!
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The Victoria Film Festival is a distant memory and let’s just say the post partum’s been a buzz kill – so long Alan Partridge. Though I’m still jazzed about the gala, between the fashion show on the street and the Polaroids by Andy Warhol, it did make my year – and who was that guy handing out pill bottle shooters in a bunny suit? I hope he had his Serving it Right. But what’s done is done and now thoughts turn to the Spirit Awards
(you didn’t think I’d say Oscars did you?) Idiosyncratic, irreverent boldly crossing the line between comedy and drama and back again, Inside Llewyn Davis is another in a long line of Cohen treats – smart, funny and yet filled with melancholia. The docs feature an eclectic line up including the likeable 20 Feet From Stardom and The Square though I’m calling it for The Act of Killing, surreal yet distressingly simple.
small SCREEN KYLE WELLS @CineFileBlog Following television this closely is kind of a new racket for me, so I’m still learning about the ebbs and flows of the seasons, when new shows are born, when they pass away. Turns out the beginning of the year is not a bad time for new shows, typically referred to as mid-season offerings from the major networks. One kind of weird premiere is From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, starting on March 11, created by the director of its cinematic namesake, Robert Rodriquez, who also directs the first two episodes. The trailer had me at Don Johnson, but the fact that it looks like a slick, twisted take on the cult movie sealed the deal. With D.J. Cotrona and Zane Holtz taking the reins from George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino as the Gecko Brothers, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series will likely be watered down compared to the batscat-crazy movie, but fans should still be excited. As far as I can tell the show is only being aired in the States (on Rodriquez’ own station, El Rey) but I hear there are other ways to access such things. If you loved Lost and the movie Gravity, well Believe, with a special preview March 10, might just be the mid-season show for you. Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón has teamed up with executive producer J.J. Abrams for a show about a young girl with special powers who must be protected from evil forces at work to take her. This isn’t top of my list to see, as I’m not a huge sci-fi fan and Abrams’ name generally has me running to the hills lately, but Cuarón, who will also direct the pilot, is the talk about town these days in film and it’ll be interesting to see what he brings to the TV world. One sci-fi looking show which does pique my interest is Resurrection, an ABC series premiering March 9. Starring, among many, That ‘70s Show’s Kurtwood Smith, the series is about previously dead people who come back to life, and not in a zombie-type way but more of an unexplained-and-makes-everyone-cry kind of way. That might not sound like a good time, but trust me, the trailer alone nearly had me welling up. There’s a bunch of programs returning too, with new seasons starting up for much-loved The Americans (Feb. 26), Hannibal (Feb. 28), Bates Motel (March 3) and Portlandia (Feb. 27). So there you go, lots on the TV as we head into spring. Get to it.
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Stick with your music lessons I took piano lessons for four years when I was a kid. I quit when it was obvious I really didn’t have any talent. My little sister, three years younger than me, had already caught up to me after only a year of lessons and I wasn’t going to sit around and let her show me up. It was my loss. Today, my little sister can play the guitar and the piano and sing in public. While I might not have been very good at the piano, or a few years later the clarinet, I loved to sing. I sang mostly in church choirs. I learned to at least read music, but I still had no aptitude for sight reading and one of my choir directors let it slip that I really didn’t have a good voice. So, that was the end of my singing career. While my training ended rather abruptly, I have always loved music of all types and through my family, friends at university and the radio I was exposed to pop music, traditional folk music, classical and religious music. But my biggest musical challenge came 10 years ago when Brian Groos, the organizer of the Pacific Baroque Festival asked me if I would do an interview about the new festival he was introducing to Victoria. I agreed and then quickly starting doing research to figure out exactly what constituted the Baroque period. I was terrified. What if I sounded like an idiot and asked dumb questions? I did the interview and discovered that well-known musicians like Bach, Mozart and Vivaldi were part of the Baroque era, but so were musicians that I had never heard of like Buxtenhude and Albinoni. I not only did that interview with the amazing early music violinist, Marc Destrube, I went to several of those first concerts. I loved the music,
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in the direction you want. Where do you want to be in five years? What do you have to start to do this year to achieve your five-year plan?
Cancer (June 21-July 22) Aries (March 21-April 19)
Your year is coming to an end. It’s time to plan for your new year. Naturally, it will be different from last year because some planets are in different parts of your chart. Mars is opposite your sign until August creating tension with partners and close friends. The way to handle this is to be patient and tolerant with others. Jupiter will attract real-estate opportunities and improved conditions with home and family. Use this month to think about what you really want for your coming year.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
You’re popular and focused on groups and clubs. Examine the role friendships play in your life. Now is the time to work with others because cooperation with others will benefit you. You can also use this time to establish who you are in your friendships. You will be more aware of your future goals and how to make your hopes and dreams a reality. Why not combine your increased popularity with your thoughts about goals by sharing your ideas with others to get their feedback?
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
This is the only time all year when the Sun is at the top of your chart making others notice you more than usual. Because this light is flattering, they see you in positive terms, and will ask you to take on increased responsibilities. If so, say yes because you won’t have to do anything special to succeed. Examine your life to see if you are going
You want a change of scenery! You want to expand your world through study or experiencing new and unfamiliar experiences. Travel is a good choice. However, you might take up a new hobby or sign up for a course – it could be anything. What is important is to break free from your everyday routine. This will satisfy your urge to be Agent 007. Some of you will be involved with the law or negotiate deals in publishing, the media, medicine and higher education. You want more!
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)
This month you will probe deeper feelings, emotions and passions. You might think about sex a lot; you might also be sexually aroused. All your feelings will be more intense. On a mundane note, you will have more to do with debt, taxes, shared property, inheritances, insurance matters and anything that is jointly held, especially credit. You might also attract someone who is strong and powerful; someone who provokes further self inquiry or forces changes in your life.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
This is the only time all year when the Sun is as far away from you as it gets all year. Since the Sun is your source of energy, you will need more sleep. However, this also means you can learn more about yourself through partnerships and close friendships. Examine relationships to discover what needs they fill or do not fill. For your own good, you must be as good for your partner as she or he is for you. Work with others. Consult experts. Figure out why you want others in your life – or not. According to Stendhal, “One can acquire everything in solitude but character.”
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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Now that the holiday fuss is Short trips, errands, discussions with settled, you want to be organized! everyone, more time with siblings Make a to-do list and do what and relatives plus increased reading you can to get better organized and writing will create a jam-packed – repairs, file papers, put things schedule this month. You’ve got things in order, even paint, clean and to do, people to see and places to go! redecorate. Later, you’ll have This is an excellent time to shop for a warm feeling in your tummy. wardrobe goodies because you like what Georgia Not only do you want to achieve you see in the mirror. You feel charming, Nicols better physical efficiency, you diplomatic and especially sociable. want to achieve better health as Because of all this to-ing and fro-ing, you well. Therefore, many of you will will have a fun opportunity to observe establish new exercise regimes and scrutinize your style of daily communications with others. your diet. Then after you reign supreme once again – you can party and socialize! Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Money, cash flow, finances and possessions will be your focus now. You want to establish Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) a greater control in your life through what you It’s party month for Scorpios! Accept invitations value and own. This is why some of you will make to schmooze. Enjoy sports events, plays, the major purchases or shop for something that gives theatre, movies, art openings, long lunches, you a sense of power. However, it’s also why at entertaining dinners and playful times with a psychological level, you will reflect upon your children. If you work in a creative field, you will values and what it is that you think really matters be productive. This is a wonderful time for a vacation, especially because you’re keen to travel in life. You will also scrutinize what you own and ask yourself if it serves any purpose. Do your and expand your horizons. All your relationships belongings make your life easier? Do you own will be more lighthearted and fun loving your stuff or does it own you? because you feel free-spirited and will seek out relationships that allow you to do this.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
This month your attention turns to home and family. You might be involved with a parent. You’ll want to cocoon at home and relax among the familiar surroundings. Even though you love to travel, it comforts you to know that you have a home base – someplace where worldly contacts can send cards, letters and invitations. Thoughts about your youth and early family members will bubble to the surface of your mind. It’s time to get together and trade lies about the bad old days.
The Sun is in your sign, recharging your batteries for the rest of the year. The Sun in your sign attracts important people and favourable circumstances. Furthermore, it means that you can more easily project yourself out into the world. Obviously, this is a great time to make an impression on others. Plus you have a strong need to express yourself and you should do so. This month, your first duty is to yourself; and if you don’t fulfill that, you will be of little use to anyone.
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