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It’s Shawn Gan’s first theatre gig, and after the interview that landed him the job, he still had one question. “How did you find me?” he asked, since he hadn’t applied in the first place. “We Googled ‘Edmonton Chinese musician,’ and your name came up,” the...
The Citadel Theatre is currently featuring the epic drama Evangeline, described on the theatre’s website as a tale of “star-crossed lovers…who were torn apart on their wedding day during the British expulsion of the Acadians from Atlantic Canada in 1755.” Written...
Hannah Memory Myers has known that she wanted to act since she was 14 years old, when she auditioned for the role of Chip in Beauty and the Beast and was given the role of Belle instead. After that experience, the second-year theatre student says that she knew she...
“Fell in Love with New York” is one of the biggest hits from The Zolas’ four-song Wino Oracle EP, but the band was beginning to fall out of love during our interview. The Vancouver-based band is playing the Mercury Room on Oct. 30, but was travelling from...
Most people living in the Jasper Place area would not draw similarities between their neighbourhood and the urban metropolis of London. The Jasper Place region has, unfortunately, been excluded from much of the art and culture scene in Edmonton. Moreover, an alley...
Nuit Blanche Edmonton lit up the city last weekend, marking the first in (hopefully) a long line of artistic events to take over the downtown core. Featuring over 30 exhibits, including some from Yoko Ono as well as local artists, the festival brought a charge of...
Rick Miller’s father was seven years old in April 1945. At that time, he lived in war-torn Vienna, Austria. On the day the Russian army liberated Vienna, he went out to a courtyard, where Russian soldiers asked him for directions in return for a chocolate bar. He...
Dc3 Art Projects is an Edmonton-based contemporary art gallery determined to support artists in bringing their work to the public eye. The gallery's current exhibition features Tammy Salzl’s “simplest of gestures” and Brandon Vickerd’s “Faltering Monuments.” The...
Insomniacs, prepare yourselves for another all-nighter. Rather, prepare yourselves for a sleepless evening occupied by a phantasmagoria of food, festivities, and works of art that might have you convinced you're dreaming. Nuit Blanche, a French idiom meaning a...