Tranna Wintour is a comedian, singer, writer and the co-host of Chosen Family on CBC Podcasts. But in the 2010s, Stella Meghie proved that it was indeed possible. Sci-fi TV thriller Orphan Black, comedies Schitt's Creek and Kim's Convenience, . 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. Gays familiar with his work are gagging. To look at the contributors list of this issue now is a bit surreal. When Netflix dropped Always Be My Maybe in 2019, many expected the movie to be a fun vehicle for comedy superstar Ali Wong. Cheered on by the entire country, she would even be tweeted about by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (That, and the many GIFs circulating on Twitter of Jung either being adorable or taking his shirt off. 'Schitt's Creek' actor Dan Levy recently discussed rumors about his upcoming appearance in 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania'. This is nearly unheard of in the literary world. The Toronto mansion used for some of the It House interiors is now a bit of a local tourist attraction. Maybe you dont really know the mans story either. In her pivotal 1991 paper The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Contemporary Native Art and Public Art Museums in Canada, Mohawk curator Lee-Ann Martin named the ultimate effect of this erasure: The exclusion of the arts of Native peoples implies that the artistic and cultural contributions to Canadian history by Canadas First Nations [Inuit, and Mtis] are non-existent. Because our art and literature were not acknowledged, as far as the Canadian public was concerned, it didnt exist. Im not sure whether the series quite takes a position on issues like solitary confinement or the death penalty, or whether it functions as an investigation into a real part of this country that many of us are lucky enough to never see but either way, its chilling. In a decade defined by the relentless noise of content creation and everyone doing everything they can to get likes and followers, silence is rare and precious. Meanwhile, some of us will be awaiting that Titanic sequel about Rose Dawsons acting career in which we find out where Bill Paxton (RIP) bought his sweaters, which is the only James Cameron sequel we really need. Alessia Caras debut single, released on both her debut EP Four Pink Walls and debut full-length Know-It-All, Here is a song about wanting to leave parties and the splendour of doing just that. Billy-Ray Belcourts poem Love is a Moontime Teaching appeared here before it ended up in his Griffin Poetry Prize-winning book This Wound is a World. A flash goes off, and disembodied voices start to ring out , What do we say? If a tactic bombs, hell call it a success or hire an actress wholl tell him she loved it. Joining the MCU, while already being such a vocal advocate for Asian representation, gives him a larger platform to spread the message of inclusion. To the untrained eye (read: mine), the main building is a little like a modernist Imperial walker, rising above a cliff on tall, spindly legs. (Book Club, anyone?) Culture shock ensues. And speaking of her work, this year marked the close of a seven-year tour across Canada and the U.S., where Belcourts Walking With Our Sisters Project served as a memorial to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and their families. Taking place over the course of 30 years, the story follows a young man named Saul Indian Horse who makes his way into the hockey world and, after a series of racist attacks, confronts his traumatizing history. Massoud has recently claimed that since portraying Aladdin, he hasnt been on a single audition, so may casting directors sit up and take notice for 2020. The Rose . First trailer for Schitt's Creek star's new movie. Munro has written 14 collections of short stories, which I suggest we all read out loud together this holiday season. Starring Dolans muses Anne Dorval and Suzanne Clment as the mother and tutor of a troubled teen with violent tendencies (Antoine-Olivier Pilon), its Dolans magnum opus: hilarious, heartbreaking and extremely well acted. The reality is that, despite the success of Indigenous artists prior to 2015, there wasnt a national push to both recognize and, more importantly, fund Indigenous artists until the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) released its final report in December of that year. when it was named the years outstanding production of a play, while Caroline, or Change earned the prize for outstanding production of a musical. According to the thread, he tried to jump-start her car, and when that failed, he called a tow truck and drove the woman home, giving her his number and telling her to call him if she needed anything. Before 2013, Canadas primary film and television awards worked much like their American counterparts: the film-honouring Genies were our Oscars, while the television-centric Geminis were like the Canadian Emmys. When Everything, Everything was released on May 19, 2017, it made Canadian director Stella Meghie the only Black woman to have a wide release studio-backed feature film for the year. In addition to being set in Toronto, the writer-director herself is Canadian and delivered an acceptance speech that burgeoning artists need to hear. Shes proved that it is possible to disconnect from greed, the need for validation and the harmful idea that our worth is based on our productivity. And it reminded anybody who saw it of the cruelty inflicted by the Canadian government over the course of the last 150 years. Rachel McAdams gets an Oscar nomination for Spotlight, (New Line Cinema/Columbia Pictures/Plan B Entertainment). A dream come true!
'She-Hulk': Tatiana Maslany on Seinfeld, Legally Blonde, Ally - Variety . In the last 10 years, Beyonc and Taylor Swift two of the biggest pop stars of the decade both performed covers of You Oughta Know. And in 2015, Alanis herself released a beautiful 20th anniversary edition of the album, including never-before-heard demos. KC Hoard edits the Arts and Culture section of Carleton Universitys the Charlatan, and has written for The Globe and Mail and the National Post. Whatever I had done resonated with the entire world and the attention was like sunlight on my soul., The plan: Turn the job of moving into Americas next fitness craze.. Marketing tactics have infiltrated ordinary life in ways that are increasingly absurd, and every time a NFY stunt went viral, it was like the universe clicking the like button, as if to say, yes, nothing you were taught makes sense anymore. It soon became exactly the TV show we needed to survive the rest of the decade. A heist movie where the robbers break into dreams, Leonardo DiCaprio leads an all-star cast (including Halifaxs Ellen Page). Throughout, the dancers move like caged animals to Pites inspired choreography, their bodies deformed and released according to the logic of the protagonists tortured journey. Frankly, Toronto should always be depicted as exactly this cool. Also designed by Vancouvers Patkau Architects, the Temple of Light at the Yasodhara Ashram yoga retreat was given an AZ Award by Azure magazine in 2019. (See: Arkells, The Sheepdogs.) For Loved Me Back to Life, her first album in six years, Dion arguably goes poppier than ever before. They dont exist. The series took home the Golden Globe for best television limited series and led to individual wins for stars Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern and Alexander Skarsgrd, as well as a plethora of Emmys. And in a thoroughly meta epiphany, Nathan discovers the effect his TV cameras have on people. Its a reminder that Edmonton has a thriving theatre community and is at no loss for artistic talent or creativity. This was truly the decade of the Reevesaissance, with the Canadian icon starring in a number of action films and three smash John Wick movies and winning the internets heart along the way. 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. To channel a bit of Umma and Appa from Kims Convenience, all of this was a very big deal!. 1 on the Billboard 200. Her roadmap is one that commits to a specific and focused vision while thinking big. 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. And these moments contributed to a larger fight for a more inclusive TV and film industry by breaking boundaries and showcasing nuanced Asian identities playing against stereotypes. This is the lasting legacy of the 2010s in Canadian pop. A smile crept across Colberts face he was left speechless. The record took risks, aligned itself with strange, unique visuals and featured lyrics that were introspective, angry and unafraid of what anybody might think. This coincided with Indigenous artists dominating both literature and visual art awards: the Sobey Art Award has been awarded to three Indigenous artists since 2013, and the Griffin Poetry Prize had three consecutive Indigenous winners from 2016 to 2018. Universally panned, just like the bestselling books that spawned it, Fifty Shades was nevertheless a phenomenon. Taylor Russell makes waves (eh?) How great to see our talented kids succeed!Are they going to come back? It also helped launch her into the art-pop stratosphere from which she has yet to return. Looking back, I realize that regardless of the set, if theres one time Tat has never said sorry, its between action and cut. Shes always been a fucking savage in the work itself, from her raw performance in 2010s Grown Up Movie Star to beating the shit out of Nicole Kidman in last years Destroyer. Superheroes, reboots, blockbuster franchises: that was the 2000s. Jacinto, instead, is hot and dumb on the show, and frankly, its pure fun to see an Asian character portrayed in this light far from reserved, put together and obedient. Now in its 41st year, Buddies is gearing up for a collaboration with Theatre Rusticle for their version of A Midsummer Nights Dream, while the community continues to evolve and grow thanks to the theatres support of (and consistent call for) new talent. Dancer Greta Hodgkinson reflects on the rise and achievements of National Ballet of Canada artistic director Karen Kain over the 2010s. I doubt its a coincidence. The solution: spend nearly six hours analyzing late-night interviews and write the perfect story. In 2017, while the building was being refurbished for the masses, Geoffrey Farmer was Canadas representative at the Biennale. What Do You Mean? becomes Justin Biebers first No. That all changed in May of 2010 when a photo of The Matrix star morosely biting into a sandwich on a New York park bench went viral. We leave behind the industrial room and theatrical costumes, and now its just Young and the five dancers in rehearsal sweats, offering a series of ravishing meditations-in-dance on trauma, hope, support and the painstaking, repetitive work of recovery.
Penghargaan Emmy Primetime ke-72 The 2010s: How 11 Tatiana Maslanys walked so Schitt's Creek - CBC (But thats two years from now, so lets move on.). She has a tattoo of James Stewart's silhouette on her wrist. Elliot Page comes out at the Human Rights Campaign Foundations inaugural Time to Thrive conference. As for the colour, the dresss near-black/navy shade reflected the occasions sombre tone. First of all, that concept. While the #MeToo movement served as a dramatic trigger in the latter portion of the 2010s, highlighting the desperate need women have to tell our own stories, the entire decade was an embarrassment of riches in terms of high-quality work made by Canadian women. But it doesnt seem to bother the patriotic rapper that his fame is mostly restricted to Canadas borders; this the same man that made a hit single out of a rap song called OhCanada, after all. CBC Arts first covered its construction in 2016, when we visited the building site in the foothills of the Andes outside Santiago. 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. Munros 2010 exhibition, Inside The Solar Temple of the Cosmic Leather Daddy, referenced the AIDS epidemic, paying homage to those who lost their lives in it while looking to figures from Egyptian history and the leather subculture of the 1970s. Spoiler? Whatever the answer, if the 2010s have been a time of all-purpose confusion, few shows have nailed the decade quite like this one, and these are just 10 of its finest moments. But while a couple of her songs have crossed borders and become international hits Call Me Maybe being the most obvious example Your Type, with its shimmering chords and lovesick lyrics, failed to perform commercially outside of Canada. The album is titled the most Alanis-y title possible: Such Pretty Forks in the Road. Of all the instant classics this decade produced, horror movies were some of the best: Get Out, The Babadook, Crimson Peak. 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. ! in the faces of unsuspecting strangers. Since I was adopted by my drag family House of Filth in 2013, Ive had the immense privilege of getting to see countless performers across this country dabble, experiment, create, destroy and share some of the most incredible drag Ive ever had the pleasure of seeing. Carly followed that by releasing her own video for the song, and it has since been viewed over one billion times. When did Justin Bieber, a wee baby maestro, evolve into a national treasure? Stephan Jamess star ascends with If Beale Street Could Talk. It grabbed the worlds attentionby blending into the background. A New Day era acrobats are out, old-school flair is in. Starring comedy royalty Catherine O'Hara (in a career-best performance) and Eugene Levy, Schitt's Creek tells the story of a Kardashian-like . What do we tell him? As raw and unflinching as Betroffenheit is, writes Judith Mackrell, you come away from it with a wild feeling of exhilaration uplifted by its courage, its coruscating beauty and by the faith it affirms in the power of art to address emotions that lie beyond reason or words. That those emotions derive from Youngs real-life tragedy what Pite calls the engine of the work makes the accomplishment all the more extraordinary. Created by Canadas Lorne Michaels in 1975, the sketch comedy series wove its way into the fabric of our cultural discourse and went on to tackle everything from political headlines to scandals and gossip to the risk of being eaten by a shark as you answer your front door. The National Gallery of Canada opens major retrospective on the work of artist Alex Janvier.