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ARTS L I S T I N G S

THE SCENEA snapshot of the cultural life of Alberta

Owen Pallett will perform in concert with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in June as part of Sled Island.

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EDMONTONALBERTA CRAFT COUNCILBrenda Malkinson: “The Surface of Things,” Jun 2–Jul 14Home: Medalta’s Artists in Residence, until Aug 18

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTAGloria Mok: “Metamorphosis,” until Jul 1William Townsend: Painting Alberta, Details of Canada, until Jul 1Li Salay, until Sep 9Hubert Hohn: Edmonton Entrances and Suburban Landscapes, until Nov 11Landmark: A New Chapter Acquisition Project, until Nov 11

BOREALIS GALLERYFur: The Fabric of Our Nation, until Jul 3

FAB GALLERY (U OF A)Light/Matter: Art at the Intersection of Photography and Printmaking, until Jun 2

LATITUDE 53Sora Park: “Typical Space,” Jun 8–Jul 21Rachel Thomas: “The Skin Machine,” Jun 8–Jul 21

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA150 Firsts: How Alberta Changed Canada… Forever, until Aug 1

SNAP GALLERYIndia Inked! until Jun 2Micheline Durocher: “Home and Garden,” Jun 15–Jul 21Megan Gnanasihamany: “Copytropic,” Jun 15–Jul 21

CALGARYALBERTA CRAFT COUNCILJamie Kroeger: “Chronicles of a Contemporary Dirtbag,” until Jun 2Stefanie Staples and Dena Seiferling: “Perch,” until Jun 2Allison Tunis: “Acceptable Bodies,” until Jun 2Process: Thinking Through, Jun 9–Aug 18

ALBERTA PRINTMAKERS GALLERYElizabeth D’Agostino: “Makeshift Tales,” until Jun 1

ESKER FOUNDATIONVanessa Brown: “The Witching Hour,” May 26–Sep 2Anna Torma: Book of Abandoned Details, May 26–Sep 2

GLENBOWAlex Janvier: Modern Indigenous Master, Jun 16–Sep 9The Artist’s Mirror: Self Portraits, until Jan 16, 2019

ILLINGWORTH KERR GALLERYGrad Show 2018, until Jun 1

NICKLE GALLERIESWhat is Money? until Sep 3

LETHBRIDGESOUTHERN ALBERTA ART GALLERYMaria Hupfield: “The One Who Keeps On Giving,” Jun 23–Sep 10Derek Liddington: “the tower will always break before it bends, the body will always bend before it breaks,” Jun 23–Sep 10

U OF L ART GALLERYAnimating the Archive, until Jun 7

RED DEERRED DEER MUSEUM AND ART GALLERYThe Writing on the Wall: Works of Dr. Joane Cardinal-Schubert RCA, until Aug 12

GRANDE PRAIRIEART GALLERY OF GRANDE PRAIRIEWhen Raven Became Spider, until Aug 19

BANFFWHYTE MUSEUMDeborah Cameron: “A Transitory Beauty,” until Jun 10From Morse to Whyte: A Dynastic Bequest of Japanese Treasures, until Jun 10100 Heads: Childhood Memories of Banff Personalities, Jun 17–Oct 21Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries, Jun 17–Oct 21

OKOTOKSLEIGHTON ART CENTREJuried members show, until Jun 3

OKOTOKS ART GALLERYPaul Rasporich: “No Clear Line,” Jun 9–Sep 1Ryan Smitham: “Time is a Flat Circle,” Jun 9–Sep 1

ST. ALBERTART GALLERY OF ST. ALBERTGerri Harden: “Birds, Bees and Ambergris,” Jun 7–Jul 28

DANCEEDMONTONKhojBy Usha Gupta, Brian Webb Dance Co.Timms Centre, Jun 1–3

CALGARYPaquita and Other WorksSchool of Alberta Ballet,Jubilee, Jun 9

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THEATREEDMONTONThe Finest of StrangersBy Stewart Lemoine, Teatro La Quindicina,Varscona Theatre, May 31–Jun 16Let There Be HeightFirefly Theatre & Circus, Westbury Theatre, Jun 7, 8

CALGARYSherlock Holmes and the American ProblemBy R. Hamilton Wright, Vertigo Theatre, May 12–Jun 10Much Ado About NothingBy Shakespeare, The Shakespeare Company, Vertigo Theatre, May 17–Jun 2The Old, Sad SongsBy Stephen Cedars, Scorpio Theatre,Pumphouse Theatres, May 18–26 Experiment 1: Why?By Sarah Bannister, U of C School of Creative and Performing Arts, Reeve Theatre and cSpace King Edward Studio Theatre, May 23–Jun 1Stage One FestivalNew Canadian one-act plays, Lunchbox Theatre, May 25–Jun 9

GRANDE PRAIRIELittle WomenBook by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, music by Jason Howland, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, Grande Prairie Live Theatre, Second Street Theatre, May 24–Jun 9

BANFFSLIMEBy Bryony Lavery, The Only Animal Theatre Society and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Margaret Greenham Theatre, Jun 8, 9

ROSEBUDJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor DreamcoatMusic by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice, Rosebud Theatre, Jun 1–Sep 1

Artistry Revealed: Peter Whyte, Catharine Robb Whyte and Their Contemporaries

Whyte Museum, Banff, June 17–October 21

MUST-SEE EXHIBITION

The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies marks its 50th anniversary with an exhibition of works by founders Peter Whyte (1905–1966) and Catharine

Robb Whyte (1906–1979) as well as other artists who influenced their careers. The couple was committed to preserving the history and culture of Banff and

the Rocky Mountains. The exhibition will tour Canada in 2019.

Top: Catharine Robb Whyte, Chief David Bearspaw, ca. 1930, oil on canvas. Bottom: Peter Whyte, Columbia Icefield, n.d., oil on canvas.

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IN FOCUS: PROFESSIONAL NATIVE INDIAN ARTISTS INC. EXHIBITION

PROFESSIONAL NATIVE Indian Artists Inc. was founded in 1973 by Alex Janvier, Joseph Sanchez, Daphne Odjig, Jackson Beardy, Eddy Cobiness, Norval Morrisseau and Carl Ray. Commonly known as the “Indian Group of Seven,” they came together to advocate for their paintings to be shown in galleries alongside works by non-Indigenous contemporary artists.

To honour their struggle to gain the recognition they deserved, the Museum of Aboriginal Peoples Art and Artifacts at Portage College in Lac La Biche celebrated its 40th anniversary with the opening of a new permanent exhibition of the collective’s works.

Museum director Donna Feledichuk says that until PNIAI formed, Indigenous art was primarily being shown in war museums or anthropology collections—not galleries. “They wanted to be viewed as artists in their own right, not as something lesser than or not worthy of being in the same shows in the same places as other artists,” she says.

At the time, Janvier, Morrisseau and Odjig were just starting to gain attention, which gave the group some clout. “They basically said ‘You take one, you take all.’ They would only be shown as a group and that’s how they broke in.”

The new exhibition includes original paintings by Janvier and Sanchez, the last two living members of the collective. “Mother’s Cry,” a watercolour by Janvier, speaks to the residential school experience and has never before been shown publicly. Sanchez’s “The Prophets” is a triptych of what he calls the Christian Prophet, the Indian Prophet and the New Age Prophet.

Other works on display include prints, drawings and sketches by all seven members.

For Sanchez, who attended the opening in April with Janvier, the exhibition “solidifies” the

collective’s importance. “To be a part of that history, it’s fulfilling for me,” he says.

The collective existed for a short period, disbanding in late 1975, but it had a significant impact. Members went on to have their works collected by the National Gallery of Canada, among others, and Janvier, who lives just an hour from the museum, is recognized as one of the top contemporary artists in Canada. Saskatchewan’s Mackenzie

“They wanted to be viewed as artists in their own right.”

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IN FOCUS: PROFESSIONAL NATIVE INDIAN ARTISTS INC. EXHIBITION

Art Gallery hosted an exhibition of the collective’s works in 2013 (later shown at the Art Gallery of Alberta), calling it a “ground-breaking cultural and political entity” that “directly addressed issues of colonization, and the exclusion, marginalization and denial of historical and contemporary realities that First Nations people encounter daily.”

Feledichuk says the permanent exhibition represents an important piece of the museum’s history that was previously absent. Portage College teaches traditional Indigenous art forms such as fish scale arts, beading and hide tanning—the pieces it started acquiring to help teach those skills to students led to the creation of the museum 40 years ago. Today it has more than 3,000 works in its collection and displays traditional art alongside works by students, established artists like Kent Monkman, Ann and Carl Beam, Jane Ash Poitras and George Littlechild and up-and-comers such as Amy Malbeuf, who is also from the area.

“We have works in our collection from a lot of the contemporary artists that have had successful careers because of the work that PNIAI did, so we thought we needed to go further back in the story and start with them,” she says.

The museum has also taken the unusual step of collecting artists’ stories to accompany their works. Feledichuk says in Canada’s ongoing discussion about truth and reconciliation, Indigenous people have expressed concerns about other people misrepresenting their views, so the museum is interviewing artists and playing their stories on video monitors.

“We thought it was important to let people hear directly from the artists themselves,” she says. “Their stories are very powerful and a lot of them talk about how art was a journey for them to reconnect with their culture…. We’re really trying to honour their stories, knowledge and history and art and how they want to represent it.”

—Maureen McNamee

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MUSIC & OPERAEDMONTONSaints, Legends and Magic SongsPro Coro Canada,All Saints’ Cathedral, Jun 3

EDMONTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAVenue: Winspear CentreBeethoven’s NinthAlexander Prior, conductor, Anu Komsi, soprano, Pascale Spinney, mezzo-soprano, Kokopelli and Òran choirs, Jun 1, 2Sophisticated LadiesSteven Reineke, conductor, with Montego Glover, Capathia Jenkins and Sy Smith, vocals, Jun 8, 9

CALGARYFigaro’s WeddingBy Mozart, adapted by Joel Ivany, Cowtown Opera Company, Mamdani Opera Centre, May 31–Jun 3

CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAVenue: Jack Singer Concert Hall The Firebird and Cantus ArcticusRune Bergmann, conductor, Sharon Kam, clarinet, Jun 1, 2If It Ain’t Got That SwingByron Stripling, conductor/vocals/trumpet, Carmen Bradford, vocals, Ted Louis Levy, tap dance, Bob Breithaupt, drums, Jun 8, 9Ode to JoyRune Bergmann, conductor, Yeree Suh, soprano, Marianne Beate Kielland, mezzo-soprano, John Tessier, tenor, John Relyea, baritone, Jun 15, 16Pops in the ParkKarl Hirzer, conductor, Heritage Park, Jun 20, 21Owen Pallett in ConcertKarl Hirzer, conductor, Owen Pallett, vocals/guitar, Jun 23

LITERARYEDMONTONAUDREYS BOOKSJanet Wees: When We Were Shadows, Jun 6 Read and Write with Pride 2018, Jun 12

FESTIVALS IN JUNEEDMONTONNUOVA OPERA AND MUSIC THEATRE FESTIVALMainstage performances of Tartuffe, City Workers in Love, Master Class, The Arctic Flute and Into the Woods, various venues, May 19–Jun 30

NEXTFEST 2018Emerging artists festival, Roxy on Gateway, May 31–Jun 10

HEART OF THE CITY FESTIVALAll-ages music and arts festival, Giovanni Caboto Park, Jun 2, 3

IMPROVAGANZA FESTIVALNational improv and sketch comedy festival hosted by Rapid Fire Theatre, Citadel Theatre, Jun 13–23

FREEWILL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALOutdoor performances of Comedy of Errors and Hamlet, Hawrelak Park, Jun 19–Jul 15

THE WORKS ART & DESIGN FESTIVALAn extravaganza of visual art, design and entertainment, Federal Building Plaza, Alberta Legislature, Jun 21–Jul 3

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVALMore than 50 events including performances by Snarky Puppy, Edmonton Jazz Orchestra and others, various venues, Jun 22–Jul 1

CALGARYIGNITE! FESTIVAL OF EMERGING ARTISTSSage Theatre’s emerging artists festival, West Village Theatre and Pumphouse Theatres, Jun 5–9JAZZYYC SUMMER FESTIVALPerformances by John Roney, Allison Au, Heavyweights Brass Band, Yuri Honing Quartet and others, various venues, Jun 14–17 SLED ISLANDMusic, arts, film and comedy festival featuring more than 250 bands, various venues, Jun 20–24 SHAKESPEARE BY THE BOWOutdoor performances of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Theatre Calgary, Prince’s Island Park, Jun 29–Aug 19

SPOT PUBLIC ART TALUS DOME

“Talus” refers to the pile of rocks that forms at the base of a slope, a natural occurrence in Edmonton’s river valley. This large sculpture reflects its surroundings—the landscape, sky, weather and traffic.

Location: Edmonton, Quesnell Bridge, Whitemud FreewayArtist: Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues (Ball–Nogues Studio, CA)Materials: 1,000 hand-crafted, high-grade stainless steel spheresUnveiled: 2011Commissioned by: Edmonton Arts Council

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William Trudell and Lorene Shyba: Women in Criminal Justice, Jun 13Darusha Wehm: The Home for Wayward Parrots, Jun 14Anna Mioduchowska and Kasia Jaronyk: Polish[ed]: Poland Rooted in Canadian Fiction, Jun 15

CALGARYAlberta Literary Awards GalaWriters’ Guild of Alberta, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Jun 2

SHELF LIFEW. Scott Persons: Dinosaurs of the Alberta Badlands and Dale Leckie: Rocks, Ridges and Rivers, Jun 24 #


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