The structures 1,800 beams were re-assembled on King Street, where visitors could walk beneath the rolling form. But its followup single, the wholesome What I Wouldnt Do, only enjoyed real success in Canada. It was the most fun. Organizers revealed the lineup of guests at next month's. Elliot Page is living proof of that. I like David Altmejd but I dont want to meet him, like, ever? (That, and the many GIFs circulating on Twitter of Jung either being adorable or taking his shirt off. The Toronto mansion used for some of the It House interiors is now a bit of a local tourist attraction. Andrew DCruz is the executive producer of CBC Arts. And yet voters overlooked this, oh-so-questionably deciding to nominate the vastly inferior performance Rami Malek gave in Bohemian Rhapsody instead and hand him the trophy. (Remember lip dubs?!) Although Meghie has been working on a wide variety of projects across film and television, they all share a common thread: messy, modern and creative Black female characters lead the narrative. As Alonzo Fonny Hunt, a man sent to prison for a rape he didnt commit, James is deeply captivating in a very challenging role. And in this age of trying too hard, billionaire greed, late capitalism and its contribution to environmental crisis, what message could be more important than that? Artist and educator Jason Baerg discusses the impact abstract artist Alex Janvier has had on the art world in the past 10 years. Tatiana Maslany to Star in 6-Episode All-Girls Boarding School Thriller, Marking Return to AMC By Michael Ausiello / August 10 2022, 1:00 PM PDT Getty Images Orphan Black vet Tatiana. Thats why Cree artist Kent Monkmans Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience art exhibit was so crucial. After Meghie moved to London, England, and got her masters degree in screenwriting, she wrote the first draft of what would become her debut feature film Jean of the Joneses. But in 2018, he took it on an international tour. Hope you worked out that complicated situation, Tegan and Sara. When she was putting together the decades inarguably perfect pop album E MO TION, Carly Rae Jepsen decided one of the tracks shed recorded shouldnt make the cut because it felt too cinematic. That track was the equally inarguably perfect pop song Cut to the Feeling, and Jepsen decided to offer it to the soundtrack of animated film Ballerina (or Leap!, as it was titled in the U.S.). her seven evil exes including, fun fact, the future Captain America (Chris Evans). Only two years after directing Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon in Wild, Jean-Marc Valle became an even bigger mainstream sensation after the premiere and success of Big Little Lies, the HBO adaptation of the 2014 novel by Liane Moriarty. The exhibition was a moment to talk about identity and the impact and trauma of colonialism while celebrating the artists featured, a number of whom made work specifically for the show. But its exciting that even in the era of viral videos, the audience went wild for dance, for classical music and for a corner of the arts world that, unfairly, gets so overlooked. Admittedly, despite the attention given to Guillaume Ct the choreographer and principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada who also starred in the film Lost in Motion didnt change the distribution game. Outdoor elements are inspired by the neighbouring foothills; inside, wooden beams wrap the atrium, suggesting the shape of a canoe. By showing something as little as a flick on the forehead, Kims Convenience has helped the rest of the world understand Asian family dynamics better. (Related: I was also largely incompetent.) Reeves was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when the titular host asked him the ultimate question: What do you think happens when we die, Keanu Reeves? Reeves exhaled slowly, paused and looked Colbert in the eyes. As the lead single off Biebers first full-length album, My World 2.0, its lyrics were simple (Oh, for you, I wouldve done whatever / And I just cant believe we aint together), its melody was easy to sing along with and its catchiness made it an aggressive earworm that could quickly convince anybody listening that it was the greatest song in the world. Birth Name: Tatiana Gabriele Maslany Birth Place: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Profession Actor Actor 35 Credits Perry Mason 2023 Orphan Black 2021 Drunk History 2018 Heartland 2018 Parks and. Hes since lived his life according to that system, and the Good Place gang in a mission to find out if Doug is a model example for mankind travel to Alberta to talk to him. But the other treasure these residencies offer is entry into a new community, insight into another place or into the state of our environment. I suppose its what makes this segment one of the more powerful moments in NFYs run: its just candid enough to shake your grasp of whats genuine or scripted, fact or fiction. Here are a few of the many, many examples. With highlights like the premiere of the sitcom Kims Convenience, Manny Jacintos stereotype-breaking role on The Good Place, Sandra Oh becoming the first Asian person to host the Golden Globes, and the announcement of Simu Liu as Marvels first Asian superhero, the last decade was full of watershed moments. I like to picture him in it now, surveying his legacy (this artist was also my dear friend). "I. The exhibit opened at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto in January and then toured across Canada. Anyone with even the most miniscule knowledge of Canadian pop respects and worships at the altar of Shania Twain, one of the biggest country-turned-pop (and yet still country) stars, well, ever. Im kidding, of course. Once upon a time, your boomer aunt wasnt obsessed with building her personal brand on Instagram but social medias defined the decade, and as a result, weve all learned to sell ourselves (or at least feel very worried if we arent). Cline, thank you for the moments of gold and the flashes of light. The islands rugged natural beauty is an obvious part of the draw, what with its promise of whale (and iceberg) watching by day and northern lights chasing by night. It couldnt be more obvious than on mid-tempo anthem Imperfections, where Dion sings that she has her own you guessed it imperfections. What do you get when you combine Canadas premier EDM DJ/producer and a classic short story by celebrated sci-fi author Ray Bradbury? I say that like its a bad thing, but its really not. It felt like a new era the dawn of a new day. His talent deserves a platform. Schitt's Creek: Created by Dan Levy, Eugene Levy. into the grey woods of 17th-century New England in this Canada/U.S. If it was before June 15 the day Drizzys debut album dropped congratulations, you (for many reasons, I imagine) are better than me and most people. A lack of Asian-Canadian representation, as well as the ceremonys emphasis on First Nations culture despite, well, the Canadian government failing to prioritize Indigenous communities at any other time. Having hosted several hundred performances and built an incredible artistic community, the duo used their announcement to remind fans and the media that their intention was never to be a permanent institution but a transient space that reflected their romantic relationship (which had since come to an end). Take, for example, Lius character Jung the furthest thing from a stereotypically academically-inclined and parent-pleasing Asian son. Attention turned to filmmakers like Cape Breton Island, N.S.s Ashley McKenzie, compared to Robert Bresson by The New Yorkers Richard Brody; Toronto writer-director Stella Meghie, who was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2017 for the screenplay for her first feature Jean of the Joneses; filmmaker Joyce Wong, who took over a strip mall in Torontos North York area in Wexford Plaza, a film that could arguably be called the mumblecore answer to Rashomon; dramatic-comedy filmmaker Molly McGlynn, Canadas answer to Nicole Holofcener; hybrid docudrama artist Heather Young, who won the FIPRESCI Prize for her first feature, Murmur, this year; and discursive documentary rock star Sofia Bohdanowicz, whose lovely collaborations with actor/filmmaker Deragh Campbell deserve their own miniature chapbook. To say there was hype for Margaret Atwoods followup to The Handmaids Tale is an understatement, particularly since The Testaments set 15 years after its predecessor takes place and published 34 years later returns readers to Gilead, the terrifying place select U.S. politicians seem to be steamrolling us toward. The story about a single mother (played powerfully by Anne Dorval) trying to raise her troubled son (Antoine Olivier Pilon) was praised as a cinematic tour de force, or even better: a gale-force blast of raw, unrelenting emotion. As a result, Mommy went on to become Dolans highest grossing feature, and the following year, the writer/director/producer directed Adeles video for Hello (which would go on to get over 2.5 billion views on YouTube). And it reminded anybody who saw it of the cruelty inflicted by the Canadian government over the course of the last 150 years. The Rolf Schock jury also praised Hannigans work running a mentoring foundation, Equilibrium Young Artists, which focuses on young and newly professional musicians across the world (a.k.a. We were too, Stephen. Its rare for a TV series to successfully depict what its like to feel hopeless, depressed, anxious or overwhelmed, sometimes all at once. Named CELINUNUNU, the collection replaces baby blue and hot pink with a palette that equates neutrality and gloom: black, grey and a touch of green. Like The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was created by Michael Schur, who is maybe the most Canada-obsessed American TV writer. Alas, a star was born. It was a tiny boy singing about how much he liked someone and how much he hoped they could be together despite knowing it might never be so. This had a remarkable impact: once Indigenous artists were in charge of curating and editing Indigenous pieces once Indigenous art was allowed to be truly Indigenous the issue sold out completely and went into a second pressing. The prize: a trip to Reynoldss hometown. Its the second half of Betroffenheit, though, that elevates it to genius. In short, Jamess star has been rising fast this decade, and it only seems poised to soar further in the 2020s. As a viewer, it becomes increasingly hard to keep the facts straight. Because of non-U.S. residents ineligibility to compete on the show (which Brooke Lynn Hytes got around by moving to Nashville and becoming a U.S. resident), drag as an art form in other international scenes grew in a very different way. Crushingly, Richard Wagamese passed away in March of that year. It evoked emotions many of us hadnt felt since junior high and tapped into a nostalgia that ended up defining the decade in its own way. Its incredibly hard to describe alternative drag succinctly. Though most identify her as a New Zealander, Anna Paquin was born in Winnipeg and spent the first four years of her life there, so its more than fair that we claim her as our own especially since it allows us to take pride in one of the greatest cinematic performances of the decade: Paquins in Kenneth Lonergans 2011 masterpiece Margaret. We were all afraid of this project, but what we discovered in the process is a kind of joy in the act of creation, to make something out of such a tragic event. (The tour may be over, but the show lives on in a beautifully filmed BBC production, which you can watch on the streaming service Marquee TV.). ), Scott Thompson brings Aprs le Dluge: The Buddy Cole Monologues to Toronto. Are we human, or are we Navi? In November of 2014, Brampton, Ont.s Rupi Kaur released Milk and Honey, a collection of poems and prose that tackle subjects like sexual assault, violence, love and loss. She turns heads in her Atelier Versace dress, but a picture of her eating a New York hot dog after the event (posted to her Instagram) sends a clear signal: Cline Dion is cool now. The heartwarming show went on to earn seven Tony nominations, winning one for best direction of a musical. With each birth, Alanis experienced postpartum depression (PPD) and over the course of these 10 years, she has never shied away from publicly sharing those experiences and what shes learned in the hopes of helping other people in the same situation. Welcome to Betroffenheit, the soul-searing, genre-defying collaboration between choreographer Crystal Pite and playwright and performer Jonathon Young that stormed the stages of the worlds performing arts centres in the mid-2010s, leaving audiences harrowed, healed and breathless in its wake. Drag Race alone has had 11 regular seasons, four All-Stars seasons, two holiday specials and several spinoff series including Drag U (in which former contestants mentored and madeover new candidates every week), the Chilean show The Switch, two seasons of Drag Race Thailand and a newly finished season of Drag Race UK. Thankfully, Page ended up being far from alone in his quest to try and make a difference through the work that he did. Succession de HBO, tiene muchas posibilidades de sustituir a Game of Thrones como la serie favorita por los Premios de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias de la Televisin de Estados Unidos. Interior. Sure, sureyouve been following him since his days on The Odyssey. But it was still a joy when Vancouvers Ryan Reynolds tossed on some Spandex to play Deadpool, the Marvel superhero defined by his DGAF attitude, comedic timing and lust for revenge in the wake of an experiment gone wrong. Jessie Reyez has certainly achieved international success. Pada upacara utama, Schitt's Creek memenangkan semua tujuh kategori komedi termasuk Outstanding Comedy Series, . Ten years ago, none of these places existed and neither did Instagram an app that would go on to invent an extremely 2010s activity: liking pics of the worlds coolest-looking cool stuff. Celine Dion releases her 27th studio album, Courage. It felt like a chance to relive the 90s and the young generation of pop stars it produced (Britney Spears, *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys), but under an updated, improved Canadian lens. The film adaptation of Life of Pi comes out in theatres. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. Young plays the man who starts the show in the corner. Many provincial arts councils have done the same: the arts councils in Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Quebec all made funding Indigenous arts one of their key priorities. Search instead in Creative? In a travel reversal, the tense second season finale of Homeland (I guess I should say spoiler alert, but seriously, folks) sees Carrie take Brody to the Quebec border so he can escape on foot to Montreal. Or about the pleasure she gets from looking out the window during a transcontinental flight on a private jet? and starring Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Aubrey Plaza, Brie Larson and Chris Evans, the movie unapologetically pays tribute to city icons like Lees Palace, Casa Loma and Honest Eds (may it rest in peace). Instead, she celebrates the release at a drag club in New York City. And when movie-goers gambled on something fresh, they chose sci-fi dark and puzzling but still explosion-packed sci-fi, like Christopher Nolans Inception. On NFY, truth is a lie you have the confidence to believe. Hand-picked links plus the best of CBC Arts, delivered weekly. In the work, Xa and her husband and collaborator Benito Mayor Vellayo used masks, costumes and performance to conjure elements of Korean folklore and the orcas that are such an integral part of the Vancouver imaginary. Bao wins the Oscar for best animated short. Canadian drag much like much Canadian pop culture has often occupied a smaller sibling position next to the general epicentre that is the United States. As he jovially explained the premise of the game and what drew him to it, he called the experience of playing Cyberpunk 2077 breathtaking. He paused, and a fan shouted, Youre breathtaking! from the crowd. It included Lindsay Nixons essay Windigo, which eventually ended up in their book ntisnak. Is he accepting reality or holding on to his illusions, content to replay the memories of an old romance? Unsurprisingly, it resonated: in September, Tagaq took home the Polaris Music Prize (where she also performed in front of a backdrop listing the names of missing and murdered Indigenous women, which was incredible, heartbreaking and rage-inducing since this crisis continues). Below, 10 moments that have transformed the zeitgeists relationship to Canadas most famous musical export. lang and Sarah McLachlan were heralded as ceremonial triumphs. Who among us really thought that Schitts Creek a 30-minute comedy series created by and starring Canadian treasures Dan and Eugene Levy (and co-starring the equally treasured likes of Catherine OHara and Annie Murphy) would go on to earn a (still) growing international fanbase, a slew of Emmy nominations and praise for its inclusive and heartwarming storylines? Just kidding Im not delusional. The Birdcage, Brokeback Mountain, The Imitation Game, Dallas Buyers Club and Philadelphia were all directed by straight men, while Modern Family and even Will & Grace definitely catered to straight audiences. So, he invents a Bachelor-style reality show. about love and the lies we tell ourselves. Time magazine called it one of the worlds 100 greatest places; Azure dubbed it the best civic landmark of 2018; Architectural Digest included it among the most futuristic libraries on the planet. Here are 10 times the internet swooned over the musings and (apparent) misadventures of Keanu Reeves. Few artists can draw out emotions like Inuk musician Tanya Tagaq, and even fewer can bring those emotions out simultaneously. Altmejds The Flux and The Puddle, which appeared as part of his 2015 retrospective, reads like the lab of a madman, or maybe some sort of future version of an island Dr. Moreau lived on, or a cabinet of curiosities I never want to see again but also cant help but really want to see again. The age of a celebritys S.O. Sarah Polleys Stories We Tell is released in Canadian cinemas. Because from the very first frame, CBCs Schitts Creek established itself as a series rooted in family, in friendship and even in kindness, particularly since each character was painted as flawed and real but still inherently good. Shes proved, by example, that we are all good and worthy and valuable even if we do less. Subscribe, Valentino releases a 2016 collection featuring artwork by Christi Belcourt. Within the last decade, the entertainment industry has made wonderful yet long overdue strides in bringing attention to and representing Asian voices (thank you #OscarsSoWhite and Crazy Rich Asians). (Fielder famously donated $150,000 of the profits to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre 150,000 U.S. Des McAnuff is a Broadway legacy name at this point. In Canada, however, it won the Governors General Literary Award, as well as the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize. Which was helped, obviously, by the bands killer performance of Ready to Start, which closed out the show that night. It reminded me of Sam Shepard.) From there, Nathans game plan explodes. Macis tactics, perhaps, are not so different. Those who are worthy are scooped up to heaven, while unworthy souls are doomed to spend an eternity in hell. In 2012, this Degrassi: The Next Generation graduate made his Broadway debut in the now-infamous Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, acting as the alternate for the titular role. Youre going to freak people out, but youll probably connect with them too, and thats an amazing feeling to have. Im ready for a Domee Shiwritten and directed full-length feature any time. In a moment that was highly deserved and long overdue, Obsidian Theatre Canadas leading Black theatre company stunned at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards in June when it conquered the play and musical theatre categories simultaneously. And putting aside quacks like Egon Spengler, the science is on my side. Following 15 years of rants, jokes and biting political commentary, the Rick Mercer Report came to a close on April 10 and ended a distinctive era of Canadian television. (Come back to us, Claire. By creating an audience section for the bar, the rest of the patrons will become de facto performers in his slice of life showSmokers Allowed. It grabbed the worlds attentionby blending into the background. Glass walls, etched in the pattern of a mashrabiya screen (a common feature in Arabic architecture), cast latticed shadows when the light is just right. While Crazy Rich Asians created buzz on the international screen, Canada had its own surge in Asian representation with Kims Convenience, rich in hilarious storytelling; Manny Jacinto, making the entertainment industry a Good Place; Sandra Oh, a shining example of what can be achieved when Asian actors are given the opportunity to take on lead roles; and Liu, standing in a superhero pose as a testament to what future generations of Asian-Canadians can achieve. But what might be my favourite thing about Canadian drag is what we have done in the last decade without the end goal of reality TV. Happy to leave the big isms (racism, sexism, classism) and epic period pieces for other storytellers to tackle, Meghies interests are in the everyday lives of Black women today. This eventually leads to among other things her becoming a political refugee, Skyping with Justin Trudeau and attending an elementary school named after Alanis Morissette. The decade started with the birth of Instagram and the rise of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and it has ended with the word influencer worming its way into the Merriam-Webster dictionary. (Hell turn 19 soon; does that make you feel old?). Cheered on by the entire country, she would even be tweeted about by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 1 on the Billboard 200. Canadians played a major role in this critical turning point in Broadway history both onstage and off. Where traditional drag can be viewed as a card in which one side says female and the other says male, many think drag is simply flipping that card. Unzipped is more of a design installation, originally created by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels for his 2016 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. (It does not go over well).
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