Its not a race here. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre opens its 40th season. Toronto drag queen Brooke Lynn Hytes finishes second on the 11th season of RuPauls Drag Race. And it worked. On June 22, 2010, Canada lost a force to be reckoned with when stage and screen icon Tracy Wright passed away from pancreatic cancer. The strategy was to exit public consciousness for a little while so that she and her husband Ren 26 years her senior could have a child together. Five years later, after working as a production assistant, winning screenplay competitions, attending a summer crash course on directing, making a short film, attending writers retreats, several grants, getting consultations and receiving a fellowship, she finally premiered Jean of the Joneses at South by Southwest in 2016 to rave reviews. In a world where opinions on styles of drag were often clashing among scenes, we had a new great divider in Drag Race. Deadmau5 released The Veldt, a retelling of Bradburys story of the same name, in 2012. And starting in 2017, Lees hilarious work paid off when he won back-to-back Canadian Screen Awards, reaffirming that when minority creatives have space to tell their own stories, the world responds positively and audiences are left wanting more. Again with the bunker, Lillian says. ), A year into the Trump presidency, as pop culture was increasingly reflecting the social #issues of the moment, Guillermo del Toros The Shape of Water told a story just as critical of the worlds various injustices and systemic ickiness but it served it up as a Cold War fairy tale. July Talks hook-laden, heavy approach to alternative rock made the Toronto band into chart-topping successes in Canada. Drakes debut studio album Thank Me Later is released. Thankfully, Canadians get the band all to ourselves. (Actually, that last bit is still true.). And when she tells Nathan she likes him, she acts like she means it nevermind the $350/hour fee. Thomas Leblanc is a Montral-based broadcaster, comedian and producer who co-hosts CBC Podcasts Chosen Family. Munro has written 14 collections of short stories, which I suggest we all read out loud together this holiday season. If its successful, hell make a hero out of a stranger: a random dude (Corey Calderwood) who lets Nathan assume his identity and, you know, carry out the plot. A man lies unconscious, or dead, in the most strangely peaceful detail of the scene, as we hope the two teens running away in the distance make it to some kind of safety. Alanis Nadine Morissette, where have you been? There are no jade eggs involved, no sauna suits just a workout plan entirely focused on hauling boxes and furniture. True Blood, The Vampire Diaries: softbois with fangs were bloody everywhere and The Twilight Saga started the frenzy. The same could be said of the movie, filmed at a time when indie rock ruled (Broken Social Scene and Metric appear on the soundtrack), the Sonic Boom record store was still on Bloor Street and 20-something dirtbags shared basement apartments in the Annex. This is the lasting legacy of the 2010s in Canadian pop. Women like pUNK Films Ingrid Veninger, who produced six low-budget features over the decade, took microbudgets and ran with them. In 2019, the citys tourism department even launched a contest. Jessie Reyez has certainly achieved international success. The resulting video for the power ballad Ashes shows a heavily retouched Dion prancing on The Colosseum stage with dancer Yanis Marshall in heels and a Deadpool costume. The book earned Wagamese the inaugural Burt Award for First Nations, Inuit and Mtis Young Adult Literature (then known as the Burt Award for First Nations, Mtis and Inuit Literature), and in 2017, the film adaptation premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). 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. His character, Jason Mendoza, breaks away from another Asian stereotype of being sexless, shy and socially awkward. Lest I sound less than impressed, Im not. We have the people, the talent and the perspectives we need to create the big, bold Cancon canon weve all been waiting for. In the 2010s, Keanu Reeves graduated from brooding 90s action movie superstar to beloved cult hero. He was accepting the 2018 Polaris Music Prize for his debut album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, sung entirely in the Wolastoq language a language that is severely endangered due to Canadas policies of Indigenous assimilation and cultural genocide. The song brought the superstar DJ to the top 40 in Canada, educating a generation of Canadians about Bradburys terrifying, dystopian storytelling along the way. Like Schitts Creek, Orphan Black was a Canadian critical darling-turned-social media phenomenon-turned-international awards contender. We didnt know back then, but the years 2008 to 2015 (roughly from Lady Gagas The Fame to Adeles 25) were decidedly a golden age for female pop. Margaret Atwood concludes a dystopian trilogy with the release of MaddAddam. In the shows dystopian version of America a totalitarian society where fertile women are child-bearing slaves Canada does get to play a supporting role in the narrative: like in Atwoods novel, our country is a safe haven for the characters to escape to (though only some are lucky enough to get here). Its the Bentall 5 building downtown. Looking back on the 2010s, I'm struck by the sweeping changes that impacted me, a Canadian female filmmaker, and my people. 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. At 51, 16 years after launching her first residency in Las Vegas, Dion bids farewell (for now?) But just two episodes into the series, the Petting Zoo bit proved the brilliance of NFYs marketing satire. The hero wears obscure band tees, not vibranium battle armour. Starring comedy royalty Catherine O'Hara (in a career-best performance) and Eugene Levy, Schitt's Creek tells the story of a Kardashian-like . So imagine the delight of the nation when Now, Twains first studio album in 15 years, debuted at No. Because the idea isnt bonkers enough, the first audience loves it. Were all for his relationship with Alexandra Grant, but its hard not to dream about a Sandanu. CBC Artss own Peter Knegt honoured the milestone by lending space to 40 folks whose ties with Buddies run deep, while the theatre kicked off its 40th year with a remount of Gertrude and Alice in which Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas are reimagined through the efforts of director Karin Randoja and performers/writers Evalyn Parry and Anna Chatterton. Pada upacara utama, Schitt's Creek memenangkan semua tujuh kategori komedi termasuk Outstanding Comedy Series, . 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. As Martha Schabas put it in her Globe and Mail review, I texted friends the following morning and told them to drop everything and go see it., Over the next three years, it toured stages from Seattle to Santa Monica to Saddlers Wells in London, collecting raves and accolades along the way, including the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. Now, the revamped Talent to Watch program has greenlit more than 40 first features from female-identified filmmakers across the country (though Telefilm Canada should consider how crucial it is to provide marginalized voices with more than just $125,000). A look-alike Starbucks that technically spoofs the worlds biggest coffee brand, Nathan cites parody law as his defense, and in 24 hours, the world was talking about the mysterious stunt. But every now and then, there was still room for an original, standalone story to squeeze into blockbuster territory. Directed by Claude Poissant, the play revolves around a young man whose companion dies and leaves its titular character to navigate the heartbreaking familial dynamics his late partner was forced to endure. In the late aughts, there was nothing hotter than vampire romance, and by 2010, it was like someone had slashed an artery on the whole trend. After being a victim of fraud, Johnny Rose and his family go from extremely wealthy to penniless overnight. Kaurs vulnerability, honesty and seamless ability to convey feelings that so many struggle to articulate helped Milk and Honey find its way onto the New York Times Bestseller list (for more than 77 weeks) and sell approximately 2.5 million copies in 25 languages. 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. Originally consisting of DJs Ehren Bear Witness Thomas of the Cayuga First Nation, Ian DJ NDN Campeau of the Nippising First Nation and Dan DJ Shub General, Mohawk of the Six Nations Grand River (though General was replaced by Tim 2oolman Hill, Mohawk of the Six Nations Grand River, in 2014 and Campeau left in 2017), the electronic music group drew much-deserved attention for their mix of hip hop, dance and reggae alongside remixes of traditional powwow songs. I like sci-fi mostly the quiet kind, where people are stuck in space alone with maybe one book or maybe zero books. In July of 2012, we all set out on a journey: after four seasons of action, adventure, the Albuquerque underworld and Heisenberg, Breaking Bads fifth and last season premiered and brought with it an intensity I cant possibly describe in a simple paragraph. Its humbling to think that on a beautiful, balmy August night, anyone even slightly acquainted with the Tragically Hip arguably one of the most important bands in Canadian music, whose ability to blend poetry, politics and incredible hooks have left them untouchable wept openly as lead singer Gord Downie performed for the last time following a terminal cancer diagnosis. Now, hes using his knowledge to help struggling small-business owners make it in this competitive world. (So youre welcome, and congrats to us all.) And as 2019 comes to a close, social media is buzzing with excitement for her next film The Photograph, releasing Valentines Day 2020 and starring two of the biggest names in this current Black Hollywood Renaissance: Issa Rae and Lakeith Stanfield. While it would be romantic to say that all of these brilliant Indigenous artists coincidentally emerged in the art scene at the same time and that Canadians and Canadian arts institutions just so happened to recognize that brilliance at the same time it wouldnt exactly be accurate. However, their legacy in the city remains: in 2017, the two released The Videofag Book, which chronicles the four years and the genius bred from them with contributions by members of Torontos arts community who rightfully valued the fruits of Ellis and Tannahills labour. Following an orphan named Flicie who dreams of becoming a ballerina (Jepsen herself voices the girls mentor, Odette), Ballerina puts Cut to the Feeling centre stage in the films climax and its basically the best thing about the film. 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. One is named after Nelson Mandela, whom Dion met while performing in South Africa during her Taking Chances tour, and the other after the more obscure songwriter Eddy Marnay, who gave her her first hits in Qubec and France. The Tragically Hip perform their final concert in Kingston, Ont. Sarah Anne Johnsons Arctic Wonderland opens at New Yorks Julie Saul Projects, Sarah Anne Johnson Arctic Wonderland (Sarah Anne Johnson). Shot in Toronto, the film racked up a slew of accolades including the award for best motion picture at the Canadian Screen Awards and a best actress Oscar for star Brie Larson and anointed Vancouvers young Jacob Tremblay as a wee star to watch. 2015 ended on a cultural high note after Justin Bieber, The Weeknd and Drake had banner years, dominating the Billboard charts. And it led me down a hole of self-discovery and body confidence. Turns out, Tegan and Sara can do anything but true blue fans already knew that. With Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy. Designed by KPMB Architects with Architecture49 both Toronto firms the building reflects the wide-open prairie landscape. 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. Frankly, few of us will ever see anything like it again. Featuring Paul Giamatti in the titular role, the film earned Giamatti a Golden Globe, won several Genie Awards and garnered an Academy Award nomination for best makeup. Audiences had an appetite for a particular strain of high-concept terror. 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. Canadian producer J. This is the question audiences asked so much that Avatar surpassed Titanics box office record in 41 days to become the highest grossing film of all time (earning roughly $2.79 billion US) at least until Avengers: Endgame stole the crown this summer. When one actor paraded around bare-assed (boxers pulled up into his butt crack for comedic effect) between takes of Tats big crying scene, she like any great Canadian artist, pre-2010 took her bottled-up biliousness and put it into the work, delivering a performance (real tears!) 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. Prior to her Gotham Awardwinning (and Spirit Awardnominated) performance in the familial drama Waves (which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in August and was released theatrically in November), the Vancouver-born 25-year-old starred in the psychological horror film Escape Room. But less so? Wallpaper magazine raved about the project in 2018, calling it one of the years most striking structures from around the globe, and in 2019, it was the only Canadian winner of an International Architecture Award. After premiering on Netflix in August, the dark comedy drew attention for its biting humour and social commentary on the ways we frame success and community. Traditionally, mainstream drag has always focused on passability, meaning to pass realistically as the opposite of your assigned or expressed daily gender. 20 and No. So to the Asian kid crunching on shrimp chips while watching Marvel movies: your world is about to change. Released in September, it went on to win the 2019 Man Booker Prize alongside Bernardine Evaristos Girl, Woman, Other and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, because of course. The fact that were not still celebrating the majesty of Despacito is an egregious oversight one I hope we can right at the close of this blurb. Expect to see a lot more of her in the 2020s. In fact, if you live in Winnipeg, you can catch it at the Winnipeg Art Gallery until Feb. 22, 2020. And it reminded anybody who saw it of the cruelty inflicted by the Canadian government over the course of the last 150 years. Catharsis, Im telling ya. Where were you when you first heard Baby when, despite your better judgment and years of ingrained cynicism, it oozed into your psyche and began redefining your relationship with pop as you knew it? John Barton, former editor of The Malahat Review, described the impact this had in the afterword of the magazines first all-Indigenous issue, called Indigenous Perspectives. Barton wrote that the issue was in part inspired by a letter the British Columbia Arts Council sent to literary magazines in 2015, exhorting us not only to better represent Indigenous writers in our pages, but to involve them in our decision-making. (Basically, the B.C. After years of hearing the same five or six male names bandied about in casual conversation as the beardy definition of Canadian auteur-dom (Valle, Maddin, Egoyan, McDonald, Cronenberg, Dolan; then Johnson, Shin, Radwanski and Cividino, the latter quartet representing the so-called new Toronto New Wave), festivals and critics started to take notice of female voices. Because Tat is, first and foremost, a defender of the truth. Spoiler? In customary Monkman fashion, the figures in this canvas spread through every quadrant an echo of the desperation of all of the family members trying to keep their children close. Its glass walls, for instance, are no match against Calgary vandals (or Calgary weather), and according to the local CBC News outlet, the citys spent around $300,000 repairing the panes. And it was so easy to sing and dance to, and as a result, easier still to defend to naysayers whose problems with the song seemed rooted in cynicism and bitterness. That particular outdoor playgrounds been there for ages, but the funicular project, designed by architecture firm DIALOG, makes it even more accessible to citizens with the bonus of some very scenic touches. (This is hardly an exhaustive list, but 2019 alone saw the likes of Tales of the City, Pose, Schitts Creek, Vida, Killing Eve, The Politician, and of course, 100 or so editions of RuPauls Drag Race.) I, along with all of her truest fans, have been waiting seven years for this moment. It ruminated on histories, ruins and water itself, and it was a moving tribute to the site. Shes proved, by example, that we are all good and worthy and valuable even if we do less. Take, for example, Lius character Jung the furthest thing from a stereotypically academically-inclined and parent-pleasing Asian son. So how can I argue that Alanis matters as much now, at the end of this decade, as she did in the 90s? Chilina Kennedys Broadway star reached the stratosphere this decade. The decade begins auspiciously for French-language cinema and its only le tip de liceberg. Since I wrote a piece examining the Indigenous renaissance Dutcher identified, even more Indigenous artists have been given the national attention they deserve. As wellness fads go, The Movements not overtly sketchy, which might account for its success in the real world. After all, it took 75 years before the first Asian person hosted the Globes. Swiss Chalet, the Ottawa Senators and the SNC-Lavalin scandal are all also mentioned (seriously). She has a passion for romance and seems intrigued by the way it ignites vulnerability and inspires transformation. Will Munros final show opens at Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Will Munro Spider Sex Sling (Paul Petro Contemporary Art), While he was in the last months of a terminal illness, Will Munro was working on his final exhibition for Paul Petro Contemporary Art. So the work of Vancouver-based artist Kelly Richardson has always spoken to me. A queer anthem for the ages! Royal Winnipeg Ballet adapts The Handmaids Tale. Was he still controversial? Tatiana Gabrielle Maslany, actor (born 22 September 1985 in Regina, Saskatchewan). Considering the vastness of YouTube, it was a small miracle that the Ben Shiriniandirected short film Lost In Motion earned millions of views and went on to spark hope in anyone working in the arts that theres life in digital distribution. Kent Monkmans The Scoop borrows from the scale and pomp of European (and Canadian) history paintings to viscerally depict the kidnapping of Indigenous children from their parents in the 1960s. The Handmaids Tale wins big at the Emmys. The architect, Todd Saunders, is a Newfoundland native who lives and works in Norway. In 2016, she became the first Canadian actor to win a Primetime Emmy Award for a Canadian . Canada kicked off the 2010s with three straight nominations for best foreign language film (Incendies, Monsieur Lazhar and War Witch), but it very much deserved one more in 2014 when it submitted Xavier Dolans Mommy. Its arguably less memorable than all the stuff in space, but when else are the New York Yankees ever going to play in Okotoks? Starting the year off on what seemed like a hopeful note (oh, how wrong we were), Samantha Bee debuted her often-satirical late-night talk show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, in February. By playing atypical Asians, both Liu and Jacinto have moved beyond being viewed as Asian actors because at the end of the day, they simply provide good comedy, showing that when actors are cast beyond racial profiles, we have more inclusive and positively entertaining TV. In Switzerland. Workshopped in Oakville, Ont., Come From Away made its official premiere in San Diego before eventually taking over the world (and providing an opportunity for Justin Trudeau to spend an evening with Ivanka Trump, but lets forget about that). Women of Canada, I will see you all at the movies! 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. But in March 2013, two became one. The series of photos, overlaid with her paintings and other manipulations, celebrate the North and make it feel romantic while also pointing to climate change, industrial colonization and the parts of our natural world that are going to disappear. In the article, the gallerys collection gets a shoutout, but its world-class modernist architecture is described as a draw, too. Fast forward almost 40 years and the Charlemagne, Que., native is on her way to achieving that goal. The National Gallery of Canada opens major retrospective on the work of artist Alex Janvier. Nods to the Canadian penny; Drummondville, Que. Her takeover has only just begun, and I for one cant wait to see what she does in the next decade. Musician Lucas Silveira expresses how seeing Jim Carrey in the 2017 documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond took his admiration for the actor to a whole new level. And he didnt just come out: making good on the promise of that speech, he spent the rest of the decade using his celebrity to amplify LGBTQ stories and other LGBTQ artists. But in 2018, he took it on an international tour. Turns out Keanu Reeves is super respectful to women but thats not really a surprise. The sixth novel written by the late Ojibway writer Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse was released in January and garnered overwhelming acclaim for its heart-wrenching depiction of Canadas residential school system and the egregious abuses suffered by students. Shrayas beautiful words are accompanied by Juliana Neufelds illustrations, and the book earned glowing praise from publications lucky enough to review it. How can we explain their sweeping success and the resonance of their work? The title single, written by Sia, is no Titanium, but its probably her most current-sounding track since Thats the Way It Is, her iconic contribution to late-90s pop. (So dont ever let anyone tell you Canadian music is exclusively indie rock or dudes in plaid. But dont take my word for it. A few short days after losing her husband, Dion greets fans in Montrals Notre-Dame Basilica, thanking them for their support (this woman really is selfless). A quirky catharsis according to The Guardian. But in the 2010s, Stella Meghie proved that it was indeed possible. Understandably, it made a mark. Based on Emma Donoghues gripping 2010 novel which follows a kidnapping and assault victim, and the escape she and her son must make from their captor the film adaptation of Room hit Canadian theatres on Oct. 23, just over a month after screening at TIFF. The show is simply titled Celine and one of the posters shows her exposed back with the unsubtle tagline: Celines Back. Her fashion choices, supervised by longtime stylist and creative director Annie Horth, prove of better taste than the marketing campaign and include Lanvin and Versace. And, more often than you might realize, those fantasy worlds on screenwere actually somewhere in Canada. His iconic slow-motion entrance in the movie quickly became another popular meme, and the actor continued to uphold his internet icon status. 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. (Keandra?). They relocate there. Clearly to be filed under this should happen all the time, 2015 saw Canadian Mtis artist Christi Belcourt collaborate with Valentino for the fashion houses 2016 Resort collection. She was a well respected student, and participated as often as possible in school productions. At the end of the decade, Dion wanted to take time off again to have another child, but getting pregnant proved to be more difficult for her than the first time.
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