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Missed Rihanna when she was in town earlier this month? No wor-ries. The rest of April is filled with great music in Vancouver (and the concert was supposed to be a dud, anyway). Here’s a look at some Canadian legends, rising stars from across the pond and
one artist formerly and currently known as Prince, who will be performing this month.
• Marianas Trench (April 12 at Pacific Coliseum) – The pop-punk rockers from right here in Vancouver first hit the scene with their 2006 debut album Fix Me. They went on to garner popular acclaim for follow-up effort Masterpiece Theatre. Their current tour supports their most recent album, Juno-nominated Ever After, with its hit singles “Haven’t Had Enough” and “Fallout”. Tickets start at $29.50.
• Randy Bachman (April 13 at Commodore Ballroom) – Guess who’s coming to the Commodore? Iconic, grey-bearded Canadian guitarist and songwriter Randy Bachman is best known for his work with 1960s rockers The Guess Who, as well as the 1970s powerhouse which was Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Winnipeg-born Bachman will be “takin’ care of business” as part of his Vinyl Tap tour, an allusion to the popular weekly music show he hosts on CBC’s Radio One. Tickets start at $39.50.
• Prince (April 15-16 at the Vogue Theatre) – The Purple One himself is coming to Vancouver for a two-night stand this April. As part of a West Coast tour of smaller, club venues (as opposed to his usual arena stops), Prince will play four separate shows at the tiny Vogue Theatre on Granville Street. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Prince fans also comes with a once-in-a-lifetime price. Tickets (now only available through resellers) started at $250.
• The Holmes Brothers (April 17 at Vancouver FanClub) – American blues legends the Holmes Brothers bring their blend of gospel, country and R&B to the intimate confines of the FanClub. Hailing from Virginia, the Holmes Brothers have recorded and performed with Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Peter Gabriel and Willie Nelson over the last half century. NPR says, “Their voices are rough enough for a juke joint and smooth enough for church.” Tickets $25.
• k-os (April 20 at Commodore Ballroom) – Canadian-Trinidadian rapper and songwriter k-os is known for promoting a positive message in his lyrics and challenging hip-hop’s obsessions with money and violence. A gifted musician who sings, plays guitar and plays keyboards, he incorporates influences as diverse as reggae, funk and rock into his songs. K-os and his band stop in the Commodore to support the release of their fifth album, 2013’s BLack on BLonde. Tickets start at $25.
It’s concert season!
5 Must-See Concerts in Vancouver this April
This month, Vancouver shares not only a time zone with Coachella — the annual California music festival — but the hidden gems as well. Here are some shows worth checking out, as if you were, say, wandering past a packed tent on Empire Polo Field...
• Zeus, Two Hours Traffic and Rah Rah (April 13 at Biltmore Cabaret) – Out-of-towners feeling adventurous could do worse than this triple bill of Canadian pop/rock bands. Doors 7pm, show 7:30. Tickets $16.50. Visit Ticketmaster.ca.
• Angel Olsen (April 21 at The Media Club) – American singer/songwriter on tour for her second album Half Way Home, with guests Villages. Doors at 8pm, show at 9. Tickets $12.00 (plus appl. s/c) advance, available online at Ticketweb.ca.
• Family of the Year (April 24 at Electric Owl) – Los Angeles-based, folk-pop band on tour to support their latest release Loma Vista. With guests Reuben and the Dark. Doors 8pm, show 9:30. Tickets $15.00 (plus appl. s/c) advance, available online at Ticketweb.ca.
• Purity Ring (April 25 at Vogue Theatre) – Canadian electronic pop duo, on tour to support their debut release Shrines. With guests Blue Hawaii. Doors 8pm, show 9:30 p.m. Tickets $20.00 (plus appl. s/c) advance, available online at NorthernTickets.com or phone 604-569-1144.
• Marnie Stern (April 25 at The Media Club) – New York-based singer/songwriter/guitarist on tour for her latest release The Chronicles of Marnia. Doors 8pm, show at 9:30. Tickets $13.00 (plus appl. s/c) advance, available online at Ticketweb.ca.
• Hannah Georgas (April 27, Rio Theatre, 1660 E. Broadway) – Acclaimed BC.singer/songwriter on tour for her second, self-titled album. With guests The Belle Game, a Vancouver band with an excellent new record, Ritual Tradition Habit. Doors 7pm, show 8. Tickets $22.50 at Ticketmaster.ca.
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The message pinned to the pillow said, “@HootHR, I applied online, now I’m dropping off a little something in case you want to sleep on it.”
The sender is now one of the 300 people with a coveted job at HootSuite’s new Vancouver headquar-ters. (It helped she was an intern � rst.)
But every month there are 700 other people making a pitch to work at the place BC Business magazine calls BC’s Best Place to Work.
Creative approaches to job applications do get Hoot-Suite’s attention, but there’s more to it than that. For instance, at one point, HootSuite was receiving a lot of cake to try to sweeten the deal, communications manager Sandy Pell says. The cake was nice, but more effective for someone applying for a job in the kitchen. If you want to do something to get your message across, do it in a way that is relevant to the job you’re applying for.
“Show that you use social media — it’s core to our culture,” founder Ryan Holmes said during a media tour of the East 8th HQ last Wednesday. “If someone doesn’t have a Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn account, will they get what we’re about? We’re looking for people who are passionate.”
Holmes says, “I once famously said I never wanted to work in a company that has an HR department.” But with 700 applications pouring in a month, and 100 new jobs to hire for, he’s turned to his “VP of People”, Am-brosia Humphries, to help him � nd the “best and the brightest” who will help propel HootSuite’s phenomenal growth to the next level.
Right now there’s a particular need for people in product marketing. There are also some “deep engineer-ing” needs.
For other tips on getting a job at HootSuite, go to Dave Olson’s blog on HootSuite.com. — Martha Perkins
By Martha Perkins
HootSuite may be on its way to becoming one of the world’s social media giants, but its new global headquar-
ters on East 8th has a bit of a summer camp feel.
Wood-covered walls evoke a forest where an owl might live. Tents — yes, real tents — are used as quasi-private meeting spaces. Picnic tables and ping pong tables are a fun way to unwind in the cafeteria. A sleeping “cabin” has three cots for power naps.
Where are the kayaks?HootSuite spent $2 million trans-
forming the former CSIS of� ce into a space for its 300 employees with lots of room for growth. The vast majority of people work in large, open spaces over two � oors. No walls, no doors, no cubi-cles, just big long tables festooned with computers. The company’s founder, Ryan Holmes, has a corner of� ce but it has a glass wall and no door.
As bare as the work spaces may be, however, there’s a yoga room, a � tness room, free beer or wine on Fridays, free coffee and snacks, and a relaxed, casual atmosphere as compensation. A rooftop picnic area is being planned. Oh, and for last year’s Christmas party, HootSuite took over Harrison Hot
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that harkens back to his unplugged youth is Holmes’ way of � nding calm amidst the demands of a six-million-user empire.
At one of Sam Sullivan’s Public Salons, Holmes told the story of grow-ing up “off the grid” near Vernon. His parents eschewed electricity so when young Ryan won a computer a school, he had to hot wire the family car to power up his prized Apple computer. Spend too much time on the comput-er at night and his parents would have to use jumper cables to start the car in the morning.
Those days of being willingly un-connected are long over for Holmes who remains committed to keeping HootSuite in Vancouver. “Vancouver is an amazing place where we can � nd amazing talent,” he said during a recent media tour. “There are over 500,000 Canadians living in the San Francisco area. That’s a crazy diaspora of the best and brightest. We should have � gured out a way to keep them working here.”
Just as the University of Western Ontario became an incubator of Re-search in Motion employees, he’d like to see local universities do more to let grads know that they can stay in Van-couver lifestyle and work at one of the country’s most dynamic companies.
Creating a happy work environment is part of HootSuite’s strategy for mak-ing Vancouver a tech mecca (although there was a bit of a online contretemps over HootSuite’s use of unpaid interns.)
“Happy employees are keen and in-spired and passionate about where they work,” says communications manager Sandy Pell.
The average age of employees? Twenty-nine.
Fun facts: As the former Vancouver home of CSIS, Canada’s spy agency, the of� ce that Hootsuite leases from the city came with a few surprises:
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What is the City of Vancouver doing well: Thinking green/waste reduction, and following the lead of visionaries such as Carol De La Franier of Metro Van, who, alongside businesses, champions controversial new laws such as mattress recycling.
What can the City still do better? Make it easier for people to add feed-in solar and light wind to their homes and businesses. Right now it’s extremely complicated.
Give a green tip: Instead of lights, use beeswax candles. Ask your of� ce to switch to post-consumer recycled paper.
Who are some other green leaders? Louise Schwarz, who started Recycling Alternative in her car; Julia and Ludo from Urban Digs Farm, near my warehouse; and my dad, Orazio, with Slow Food Vancouver.
About Fiveleft: Fiveleft didn’t begin with a sale but, rather, a spark. After sharing a table with another leatherworker at Portobello West in 2006, Lincoln Heller was inspired to commit to the local design event, eventually building up a loyal client base and a tight network of local craftspeople. ‘By sharing ideas and knowledge, I am adding to a creative pool that becomes a resource for all who give to it.’
What was the inspiration? Vegetable-tanned leather and people’s bags. For me, this leather was the perfect material, because it is processed without toxic chemicals. I can texture it with found objects (such as the mattress spring in the cover photo) and I can colour it with dyes and stains. It is more like paper than fabric, and very sculptural. I love the containers that carry our lives (bags, wallets, etc.). I watch people and their bags constantly, and this daily digest of style, function and detail becomes the language of Fiveleft.
What does green design mean to you? I believe in making choices that go beyond a label painted green. Coffee in a disposable cup every morning? Shopping online vs. local to save 10 per cent? Concern about my impact on the environment has molded my life and my product.
Give a green tip: Don’t use paper towels; it’s not hard. I have never bought them for my business or my home (and I have two kids), and have never felt inconvenienced by it.
EFW show time: Apr. 24, 9:30pm, Robson Square Ice Rink
LOCO for localBy Kelsey Klassen
Outside of here and Berlin, you’d be hard pressed to � nd the words ‘eco’ and ‘fash-ion week’ in the same sentence, let alone as the main event. In fact, Vancouver
is considered a world leader in ethical, sustainable fashion, with Eco Fashion Week standing as the only independent show of its kind.
As such, EFW has had to get creative. Unlike shows such as Montreal or World MasterCard Fash-ion Week, funding is a challenge. And EFW tries to avoid prohibitive participation costs for designers. So, three years in, you’ll � nd quirky shows such as the Thrift Chic Challenge and 68 lb Challenge, that see designers partnered with sponsors to help EFW cover expenses — the community pulling together to support these up-and-comers and the opportunity EFW presents.
But Vancouver has viridian leaders in other industries as well, and this previ-ously scattered community has been
quietly forging their own alliances to put group power behind goals and getting more done.
LOCO is a means for this kind of networking. The group elevates the conversation about sustain-ability in BC by focusing on the environmental, social and economic reasons for supporting local businesses.
Founding companies such as Salt Spring Coffee Vancity, Mills Basics and PacBlue have been joined by hundreds of small to mid-sized BC businesses. And now, the organization has teamed with EFW.
“Eco Fashion Week does amazing work and their mission to promote eco and local fashion is aligned with our mission,” explains Julia Spitale, LOCO’s director of community engagement.
With Eco Fashion Week coming up (April 21-24), four veteran designers have paired with four indus-
try-leading LOCO entrepreneurs, out of mutual admiration and to raise awareness of these in-novators in “less glamorous” green sectors.
Extended interviews with each of the par-ticipants are available at WEVancouver.com.
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About Nicole Bridger: After tutelage under names such as Vivienne Westwood and lululemon, Bridger produced her � rst eponymous collection in 2007 with the goal of ‘doing the right thing for people and the planet.’ Her impeccable credentials extended to winning the � rst Canadian Eco Fashion Designer of the Year award in 2010.
What are some challenges you’ve faced? Sourcing fabrics that meet my values and design aesthetic. It has been dif� cult to purchase fabric in small amounts, so initially I had to order in large quantities, which was expensive. Price points — they were really high when I � rst started. But after purchasing my own factory in Vancouver, I’m happy to say we are able to lower our prices. I never wanted to create something that people wouldn’t be able to afford.
What is green design? It should be called ‘good design’ not ‘green design.’ We need to produce items that are sustainable and functional. Everyone should be applying green design into what they do; it’s a no brainer.
Why do you participate in EFW? I believe in what EFW is doing and I want to support their vision and mission. I feel that they are a fashion week in Vancouver that could be successful. It would be tough to compete with Paris Fashion Week, but as an Eco Fashion destination, I think it could work.
EFW show time: Apr. 21, 7pm, Portside Pub
About Lunapads: Created by Madeleine Shaw in 1993, Lunapads was her response to health complications from using disposable tampons, and a solution to the waste issue created by disposable pads. Suzanne Siemens joined in 2000, and together they are successfully weaving business and social purpose. ‘Our goal is to help individuals have healthier and more positive experiences with their menstrual cycles and their bodies.’ Their natural, reusable products can now be found in London Drugs, and Lunapads has been recognized as one of the Top 20 Innovative Companies in BC (BC Business). As result of Lunapads, more than one million pads and tampons are diverted from land� lls every month.
What are some challenges you’ve faced? Pioneering a socially challenging product category in a culture that is still largely stuck on disposable products.
Some surprises? A big one came when we learned that girls in the developing world cannot afford or do not have access to any sanitary products whatsoever. As result, they are forced to stay home (from school or work) when they have their period. This is how our Pads4Girls program got started, taking us to Uganda in 2012.
Why join LOCO? To be a part of a diverse network of local businesses who are committed to enhancing the long-term sustainability of our community. Plus all the fabulous LOCO networking events!
About MattressRecycling.ca: Triggered by a story he saw on the news, Fabio Scaldaferri rounded up three twentysomething friends in 2008 and proceeded to make history — lobbying Metro Vancouver to become the only region in the world with a ban on dumping mattresses in land� lls. Their depot receives unwanted mattresses and box springs from residential and commercial clients, and a large � oor team dissassembles the components (steel, plastic, foam, wood) — recycling up to 95 per cent of each unit. As CEO, Scaldaferri recently won Young Entrepreneur of the Year from the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, and last year alone, his company diverted 80,000 mattresses from local land� lls.
What are some challenges you’ve faced? Getting the bylaw passed was a mammoth challenge. Then, building a business from scratch and scaling up to keep up with the 1,000 per cent increase in volume overnight.
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What has been a milestone? We are proud of our many community collaborations with groups such as LOCO, farmers markets and local festivals. Personally, I was awarded the Woman of Distinction in 2012 and recently received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal.
How can people get involved? Ask the question “Where is the ‘away’ in ‘thrown away’?” Or look into community initiatives such as Food Scraps Drop Spot and Vancouver Biodiesel Coop.
Tell us about your photo buddy? Kim has a great track record of doing innovative design around re-purposing and reclaiming. I originally met her when we were both on the board of Our Social Fabric.
What’s next? Working on some collaborative models for bringing local recyclers together on closed-loop recycling and recovery. We think there’s a great opportunity to create green jobs.
About Kdon: Kdon began in model, designer, Project Runway finalist and textile recycler Kim Cathers’ change-making brain 15 years ago, and has seen iterations as a Gastown storefront, home, then home-studio operation since. After selling ‘re-styled’ clothing at festivals and markets for a time, she went on to graduate from the prestigious Blanche Macdonald Centre of Design in 2005 with the Innovative Design Award. You can see the world through her eyes during her second crack at the 68 lb Challenge — 30 women’s looks created from 68 lbs of men’s suits and sweaters from Value Village. (Sixty-eight pounds is the average weight of clothing discarded by each North American every year).
What are some challenges you’ve faced? The ability to produce many of the same garments from as little as two metres of fabric. Once that colour is sold, it’s gone, but that means when you do buy from me, you’re wearing one of only a few.
Why were you excited to take part in this feature? I thought it was a great idea to get a bunch of ‘eco’ people together for a fun article like this, to showcase all the different sides of being green!
EFW show time: Apr. 22, 8:30pm, Robson Square Ice Rink
About LOCO: By connecting businesses that buy from each other and share resources, LOCO has grown into a province-wide network that makes it easy to support the small businesses comprising 98 per cent of the economic landscape of BC. Founded by Amy Robinson in 2009, LOCO recently launched a Live Local Buy Local campaign to create a dialogue between LOCO members (locobc.com) and consumers. They are also working with leaders in the corporate and government world to define local, quantify the community benefits and adjust government purchasing practices to allow local businesses better access to contracts.
What are some challenges you’ve faced? We battle the ‘culture of cheap.’ As consumers we are addicted to more, faster. Sometimes buying local means slowing down, walking, shopping in your neighbourhood, rather than buying in bulk or looking for the best deal. ‘Cheap’ is costing a fortune, in impulse purchases and tax on the planet.
Some surprises: The great things local businesses are doing in the face of increasing competition from big corporations. A recent CUPE-BC report shows that a 10 per cent shift in spending from chains to local would create 31,000 jobs and $940 million in annual wages for BC workers.
About Adhesif: ‘Waste not, want not’ might be an expression you heard as a child, but when Melissa Ferreira puts it into practice, the last thing you’re reminded of is mom. Started in 2003, Adhesif’s vintage clothing is made locally with up to 95 per cent recycled materials. (And in cuteness — Amy Robinson loved her photoshoot outfit so much, she bought the whole thing!)
What are some challenges you’ve faced? I represent the handmade revolution — slow fashion. I’m not in this industry for the money, otherwise I’d be making 5,000 of the same black coat, from cheap fibres, produced in China under poor conditions. There is something to be said for choosing ventures carefully, growing slowly — it surely wins the race and lets you sleep at night.
What is green design? If you use it, it’s not a waste, but I think quality is key in a cherished garment.
Why do you participate in EFW? It represents some of Vancouver’s finest design talent and Myriam Laroche, the founder, is so dynamic and upbeat. She gets everyone excited about being green!
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Retail advice: be willing to adapt, and fast By Martha Perkins
Businesses on Granville Street have to be nimble on their feet — even if they’re wear-ing Dr. Martens.
In 1983, Camouflage opened as a military supply store at Granville and Smithe. Thirty years later, you just have to go on its website and browse through everything from camouflage clothing and gear to $1,000 titanium knives to know that it’s stayed true to its roots. The store is both an online and retail destina-tion for military enthusiasts.
But Granville is also a tourist destination. Thousands of people walk by the store as they cruise
the entertainment district, enjoy dinner before a concert or look for something a little less conventional to buy. If a tourist wants a Canada patch or sticker to remind them of their trip to Vancouver, they can get it at Camouflage.
Manager Baseer Khudayar has worked at the store since he was 13. Asked for advice he’d give to fellow merchants along the street, he says, “Go with the trend. Be adaptable. You have to take a chance and if it works, it’s going to really work well. You have to be willing to change things around really fast.”
A case in point: Dr. Martens. Once the favourite footwear of military types, they now march to many fashion drummers. Sales of the
boots, as well as brands such as Con-verse, were taking off so Camouflage decided to open a store dedicated to shoes and boots. Luckily, the space next door became available and Khudayar and his brothers opened Zelen. (They wanted to name the store “green” to match the city’s environmental roots and discov-ered the word zelen, which means green in Croatian.) Shoe sales have quintupled.
As much as there are aspects of Granville Street life that he doesn’t like — the “souvenirs” of late-night revellers who drank a little too much — Khudayar really likes the feel of the street. “It’s probably going to be the newer Robson but it will be a little funky.”
Open since 1983, Camouflage is a now a destination store on Granville. Shawna Kisell photo
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Granville is constantly re-inventing itself By Martha Perkins
Granville Street — every time you think it means one thing, it changes. Businesses that want to survive should therefore study their Darwin. It’s not so much about survival of
the fittest in Vancouver’s entertainment district — although Granville has been known to eat its young businesses — as much as it’s “evolve or perish.”
When The Republic first opened six years ago on Granville, the Donnelly Group envisioned it as a pub with a late-night party crowd, says Jay Jones, execu-tive bartender with the Donnelly Group. It got a three a.m. liquor licence and when the food component of the business never really took off, it became a full-on night club.
But, over the years, as the night club scene on Gran-ville became more and more concentrated on Friday and Saturday nights, it became harder to justify it as a night club only. So, Republic underwent another transformation to get back that seven-days-a-week clientele. Today known as The Queen’s Republic, one of its former dance floors is now a casual seating area with pool tables and pinball machines. It can cater to everyone from the businessperson wanting some-where to take a client for lunch, a Canucks fan want-ing to watch a game with friends to someone who wants to be entertained by their favourite DJ until three in the morning.
Across the street at Donnelly Group’s Granville Room, change has been a constant. “It’s living proof that you just have to find the right fit,” says Jones.
Jones has been charged with coming up with a distinctive cocktail menu for each Donnelly location. (Don’t expect to be able to get a neon-coloured drink at the Granville Room any more.)
“Wherever we offer a venue, we’re trying to be a fit with the neighborhood and understand the demo-graphics,” he says.
Barry Rabold wants those demographics on Granville to change again. “I love that Granville is the centre of where most clubs want to be,” says the co-owner of Ginger62 and The Morrissey. “It’s the heart of the city.”
Several years ago, businesses envisioned turning Granville into one of those European neighbourhoods where people could walk from one place to another without having to worry about dodging traffic. They asked the city to close the street on weekend nights to make it more pedestrian friendly. It turned out to be a classic case of “be careful what you wish for.”
The street got the crowds, just not quite the ones they wanted.
“The problem is not with the clubs,” says Rabold, who opened Ginger62 12 years ago. “It’s the under-aged kids who just want to be where everyone is. Now we would love to see them open up the block [to cars] so there’s not the room to just hang out.”
When Rabold says he’d like the street to offer more adult entertainment, he means incentives for people older than 20 to come to Granville. Older clubbers — people in their mid-twenties to forties — don’t like making their way through a maze of drunk young people any more than someone who wants to eat dinner on Granville before listening to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at the Orpheum.
In Europe, closed streets offer great food and a wonderful variety of street performers, such as circus artists, which appeal to a cross section of people. We need more of that on Granville, Rabold says.
“Everything is so keen on doing big things but we also need some small places for start-ups,” he adds. Denman’s restaurant scene thrives because its small venues and lower rents make it possible for people to take a risk by opening a new business.
“It would make a big difference for older people if there were more restaurants,” Rabold says.
It’s imperative, Jones says, for any business on Gran-ville to have a local clientele if it’s to be viable seven days a week, not just on weekends.
“I love that Granville is the centre of where most clubs want to be. It’s the heart of the city,” says Ginger62 co-owner Barry Rabold. Martha Perkins photo
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A lifetime of achievementVancouver violinist Andrew Dawes receives covetedGovernor General’s Award for a life dedicated to musicBy Martha Perkins
Is it a coincidence that the press release announcing that Andrew Dawes is the recipient of a Governor General
Lifetime Artistic Achieve-ment Award quotes Beethoven?
The emotionally tortured composer wrote his 9th Symphony after he had lost his hear-ing. Dawes, a violinist known for his ability to convey the full mag-ni� cence of Beethoven’s vision, can no longer play violin because his � ngers have, quite liter-ally, seized up.
But in talking to Dawes, who is now 73, there’s no sense of regret or anguish. His equa-nimity clearly transmits itself over the telephone line.
“I had 66 years of my hands doing a great job so they don’t owe me a thing,” he says from his Vancouver home a few days before his most recent accolade was announced. It’s not that he didn’t try everything and anything after he was diagnosed with focal dystonia, more commonly known as writer’s cramp. It’s just that after all of those attempts to � x the problem failed, he accepted that his years of playing were over. And oh, what wonderful years they were, traveling the
world and being able to play the most beautiful music in the most beautiful places.
But music is still very much a part of his life. After moving here from Toronto, he
taught at UBC and in 2011, was appointed director of the Vancouver Academy of Music’s Chamber Music In-stitute. He’s also very much involved with the St. James Music Academy, which provides free instruments and lessons to about 135 children in the Downtown East Side.
“When the kids perform and the audience erupts in applause, it’s pretty amaz-ing,” he says of what it’s like to see young people experience the thrill of performing on stage. At St. James, there’s also a social transformation as children make friends through music.
When Dawes got the news he was being hon-oured by the Governor General awards, he thought perhaps they were think-ing of someone else. “It’s always pretty amazing,” he says of his reaction to being chosen for one of Canada’s most coveted accolades. “At � rst you think you’re an imposter.”
Dawes will receive his award in Ottawa on June 1.
Oh, and the quote from Beethoven? “He who divines the secret of my music is delivered from the misery that haunts the world.”
Andrew Dawes’ accolades and achievements
• Order of Canada (1991)
• Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize (1976)
• Chalmers National Music Award (1994)
• UBC’s Dorothy Somerset Award for Excellence in Performance and Development (2002)
• 26 years (1965-1991) with Orford String Quartet, including more than 60 recordings
• Three Junos
• In 2000, the CBC named Orford String Quartet one of the “Ten Great Performers of the 20th Century”
• Professor at the University of Toronto, McGill University and University of British Columbia
• Distinguished Visiting Scolar, Catherine Thornhill Steel Chair in Music (2006)
He’s played in concert halls around the world, including 26 years with the Orford String Quartet, won three Junos and is a member of the Order of Canada. On June 1, violinist Andrew Dawes will receive a Governor General’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. Retired as a performing musician due to a hand condition, he is still very much involved with the Vancouver Acad-emy of Music and the St. James Music Academy.
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Richard Raisler has thrown a challenge on the table.
How many meals do you actually remember, he asks. Not just the place, but
the actual food. Not just who you shared the food with, but the food’s flavour. Not just how the meal made you feel, but the ingredients that went into making it.
Most of us would be hard pressed, a week or a month or a year after one of our favourite restaurant meals, to be able to describe the flavours.
That’s why, Raisler says, he loves the new Le Gavroche. “The physicality of the service will remind you of the food,” he says during a dinner at Vancouver’s longest-standing French restaurant. “Le Gavroche infuses food memory.”
He’s right. I can absolutely recall the gently smokey flavour of the salmon that had been delivered to our table in a large, enclosed glass jar. At the bottom was wild sea grass pickled in champagne vinegar, sea salt and citrus. A wild Pa-cific salmon filet, marinated with pickled mustard seeds and dill, and pierced by skewer that rested diagonally within the jar’s confines (pictured, below), was awash in a swirl of alderwood and sea kelp smoke. A few minutes later, the restaurant’s co-owner, David Auer, opened the jar, spooned the
sea grass on a plate and gently placed the de-skewered salmon on top,
Tasting the result was like being trans-ported to a pebbly beach somewhere along the Pacific coastline, sitting on a tree stump that had been washed ashore and eating a piece of salmon that had been cooked on a salvaged
stick over a campfire. (It was also easy to imagine we had caught the fish earlier that day, it was so fresh and moist.)
My husband and I were sharing a degustation din-ner with Raisler — an international food and travel writer and soon-to-be online newspaper publisher — and Rasoul Salehi, the Vancouver-based general
manager of Enotecca Wineries and Resorts.
Salehi and Auer have worked together when Auer was at Cibo and together they have come up
with Le Gavroche’s house blends of red and white from Enotecca’s Le Vieux Pin winery.
“He’s not saying goodbye to traditions but he’s not dogmatically following them either,” Salehi says of Auer’s approach to blending the house wine.
The same can be said of chef and co-owner Rob-ert Guest’s menu. He’s taken the French traditions Le Gavroche was known for during its 35-year reign at the foot of Alberni but modernized them and given them a decidedly West Coast twist. The menu’s theme is gardens — they have their own garden on the roof of the heritage building — and oceans. As Salehi says about the mixed beet salad, “It’s spring on a plate.”
Auer and Guest spent weeks coming up with innovative ways to prepare and serve many of the dishes. The medley of sea urchin and scallops is cooked quickly but gently in a coffee siphon filled with fish broth. For a palate-cleansing trou normand, they put a teaspoon of fresh herbs into a metal bowl and pour in a dash of liquid nitrogen. With a temperature of roughly -196° liquid nitro-gen instantly freezes the herbs, which you smash with a small ladle. Auer then pours in a little more liquid nitrogen and then puts in a spoonful of kelp mousse which hardens instantly in the cold bath. A similar trick is used to make a frozen White Rus-sian dessert.
Le Gavroche’s motto is “We believe in our local, organic farmers and bringing their joy to your plate.” They’re obviously having a lot of fun while they do it.
By Martha PerkinsSoundBites
David Auer, right, co-owner and manager of Le Gavroche, enlisted the help of his friend Rasoul Salehi, left, of Enotecca Wineries and Resorts to come up with house wines. Using wines from Le Vieux Pin, the Le Gavroche Rouge is a blend of merlot and Syrah grapes grown in the South Okanagan and aged 14 months in French oak barrels. Le Gavroche Blanc is a sauvignon blanc grown in the Golden Mile and aged six months in stainless steel and French oak. Gail Nugent photo
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Before I get to a wine you should be drink-ing this week, you may want to brush up on your wine knowledge a little. I have just the thing for you.
The fun folks at Railtown’s Vancouver Urban Winery are diversifying yet again, this time launch-ing “Sunday School — A series of irreverent wine seminars.” It is hosted by the Winery’s resident sommelier David Stansfield and Lisa Cook, the cellar manager at Joey Wine Bar who I wrote about a few weeks back. You’ll have to jump on it; things get going this Sunday, April 14, and then continue every second Sunday for four weeks in total.
The crew over there are way too fun and en-ergetic for you to be concerned about the events being stuffy or boring, I promise.
“I get a lot of panicked calls and texts from friends looking for urgent wine advice, from matching wines with food, finding cheap wines that don’t seem cheap, to picking the ideal wine for meeting the in-laws,” says Cook. “While I’m al-ways happy to help, it seemed like there had to be a better way to address these all too common wine crises. That was the inspiration for these seminars.”
Each seminar features multiple flights of wines corresponding to a set theme. Doors will open at 6pm, when guests will be given a tour of the win-ery, leading into the 7pm seminar that runs for a couple hours. The seminars are $35 apiece, but you can purchase the initial set of four for $120. Here’s how the calendar lines up:
April 14, #101: World Tour of WineApril 28, #102: Better Know A BC Winery — Joie FarmMay 12, #103: BC vs. The WorldMay 26, #104: How To Buy Wine & Influence People
I’d reckon these are going to sell out fast so head to VancouverUrbanWinery.com for more informa-tion and tickets.
Now, how about a little wine for your weekend?
Terra Andina 2011 Semillon – Chardonnay | Valle Central, Chile | $12-ish | Private Wine StoresIt was a sunny day a couple weeks back when I was running errands around Olympic Village and stepped into Legacy Liquor Store, managing to leave with spending less than 12 bucks! I gotta say, I’m totally blown away by the value of this bright, juicy, summery white that’s made just outside of Santiago. The Semillon bursts out with both opulence and finesse, all rich and waxy with a little stone-fruit and citrus, while the Chardonnay simply floods the palate with lively apple, pear skin, pineapple and nectar-ines. There’s just a hint of toasty goodness that adds some great complexity and cradles all of that fruit lovingly. I like the idea of Carbonara pasta with this one, with the acidity bright enough to cut through the creaminess, the fruit juicy enough to balance the salty bacon and Parmesan or Pecorino, and the peas that dot the dish will mimic the wine’s freshness. Buy this one by the case!
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Raven taps six-packsRaven Cream Ale and the East Side Bitter, two award-winning craft beers from East Vancouver’s R&B Brewing Co., are the first of many to be packaged in 341ml bottles and sold as six-packs. They started with their most popular beers, feeling that, with the craft beer market exploding in Vancouver, the time was right. And the hand-crafted beer is getting hand-crafted packaging. Details from the label to the bar code have been hand rendered by St. Bernadine Mis-sion Communications, to reflect the Brewery Creek neighbourhood where R&B is located. “The gritty black and white illustrations of iconic East Van imagery and slang
will make these six packs stand out on the shelf.” The ESB and RCA six-packs are currently available at the West Coast Liquor Store in Kerrisdale and Legacy Liquor Store in the Olympic Village. The 341mL bottles can be found on many restaurant and bar beer lists.
Say ‘Cheese!’Wine and cheese go hand in hand, right? But some combinations are better than others. Learn guidelines for pairing wine and cheese and taste classic pairings like Sauvignon Blanc with goat and port with blue. Join House Wine for this casual, stand up tasting at Les Amis du Fromage (843 E. Hastings); $45. HouseWine.ca
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Bella! Bella!Last week, James Coleridge, owner of the award-winning Bella Gelat-eria, announced via Twitter that he is expanding his gelato presence in Vancouver this fall. Fans of his old-world, handcrafted gelato will now have a Yaletown stop to chose from, in addition to the flagship location at 1001 W. Cordova (one block from the Vancouver Convention Centre_. In addition to winning our Best of the City readers’ choice survey, Bella Gelateria was just named Top 5 gelato shops outside of Italy by Eat & Drink Magazine Australia. BellaGelat-eria.com
Save On Meats ups the anteAfter their sidewalk sign was stolen by members of self-proclaimed Anti Gentrification Front (AGF), Save On Meats has turned it into an opportu-nity to feed residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Instead of just replacing the sign, owner Mark Brand has said that for every photo shared on Instagram (@saveonmeats), Twit-ter (@saveonmeats) and Facebook (/saveonmeats) with the new sign, Save On Meats will provide breakfast via one of their food tokens to a resi-dent at the Rainier Hotel. Their goal is 3,600 tokens.
Spring cleansingIf you think spring is a good time to clean your world, inside and out, The Juice Box is offering a free in-person 30-minute consultation with holistic nutritionist Keyrsten McEwan of Integrative Heal-ing Arts. “If you want to change eating habits, you do a juice cleanse for three days and do a reboot,” says Jody Polishchuk, who founded the organic company with Willow Meili. “Afterwards it’s a lot
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Anthony Sedlak memorialIn the wake of celebrity chef Anthony Sedlak’s untimely death nine months ago, loved ones searched for a fitting tribute to their 29-year-old North Vancouver son, brother and friend to all. They didn’t have to look very far for help.Just hours after the Food Network Canada star and host of The Main, who got his start bussing tables as a teenager in the Grouse Mountain cafeteria, was found dead in his North Van apart-ment on July 6, notes bearing condolences and ideas for a memorial came flooding in. “We’re a long-time North Shore family so we wanted to do something in his memory,” brother Rudy Sedlak says. Today that remembrance has taken shape in the Anthony Sedlak Memorial Career Training Scholarship. It’s a $1,200 cash award to be doled out for the first time in June to a deserving North Vancouver high school grad. Rather than picking a winner based solely on academic achievement, financial need or a combination of both, the win-ning applicant will be picked based on a proven passion for the food industry. Donations for the scholarship can be made through the North Van-couver High School Education Foundation. — Todd Coyne
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Each year Kits Family Dental chooses a theme to focus on. This year, it’s all about PREVENTION. Dr. Mak and her team teach healthy oral care habits early in life and the im-portance of regular exams twice a year to promote health.
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Granville will be GranvilleRe: Granville, the new East Hastings, Rants, March 28. Not sure how long you’ve lived in Vancouver (apparently not very long), but the Granville track from Georgia to Smithe has been trash since I was a kid. Also, it’s trash from Pender to Drake so get your facts right if you’re going to bitch about the best city in the world. If you don’t like it go back East and freeze to death in the dark.
Jenny
In the blink of a ‘why’In response to Anonymous’ rant against the blink-ing lights on bikes, I initially liked the rant as it showed that people who aren’t cycling don’t like them either. People who cycle don’t want to have those blinky lights; it’s what we’re told to have. Don’t blame us. We would prefer to have steady lights. (In north Europe blinking bike lights are not
allowed.) The rant then leads into just more cyclist-bashing which nobody needs and everybody’s tired of, and then brings up that entitlement myth that’s recently appeared. Who started that myth and what are their motives?
PWB (Person with bike)
Making the roundsSo, in the interest of public safety (and an effort to cut down on road rage) I’m giving a primer on how to handle a roundabout when driving. These steps are very complicated, so you might want to cut this out and tape it to your dashboard. Yield to a ve-hicle already in the roundabout to your immediate left, then proceed, entering to the right and travel-ling counterclockwise until you reach your exit. I can see how this could cause people to come to a dead stop, and become extremely confused, when approaching a roundabout and hope that this mes-sage on my part can help the seemingly hundreds of West End drivers who are afflicted daily.
Canadian Guy
Thanks for the tipTo the guy that dined and dashed me, March 16:
the hotel doesn’t pay, I have to! It was $42.50! Anon
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Reboot pays respect and packs a punchEvil DEaDStarring: Jane Levy, Shiloh FernandezDirected by Fede Alvarez
Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead horror legacy is alive and well thanks to an updated remake, which ditches the camp but goes for the jugular in the gore department — severed limbs and all.
First-time feature filmmaker Fede Alvarez steps behind the camera for this exercise in grue-some storytelling which, although lacking in originality, packs a visceral punch. The narrative formula, aside from minor tinkering, remains the same — five friends visit a remote cabin in the woods and unwittingly summon a demonic force that threatens to send them all to hell.
Although the 1981 version put Bruce Camp-
bell on the cult hero map thanks to his snappy one-liners, this reboot features a breakout perfor-mance from Jane Levy, star of TV’s Suburgatory, who commits herself amazingly to a gripping and sometimes disturbing character.
Although Evil Dead is bereft of the schlocky humour that made the original series such a hit,
numerous nods to its predecessors are peppered throughout which are sure to keep diehard fans delighted.
The remake succeeds mainly thanks to the use of practical special effects instead of CGI; the results are truly effective and make for some shocking thrills.
Evil Dead can be seen on the surface as a lackluster rehash of a horror classic but closer inspection uncovers a gritty homage that pays respects to its roots while providing enough thrills to satiate today’s demanding moviegoers.
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THE PlaCE BEYOND THE PiNESStarring Ryan Gosling, Bradley CooperDirected by Derek Cianfrance
Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine was an incredibly intimate affair that traced a relationship from start to finish, capturing moments both beguiling and brutal. While his follow up is equally ambitious, its scale is epic by comparison. Given the consider-able challenge that Cianfrance has taken on, it’s only fitting that the film opens with the sound of someone drawing deep breaths, bracing himself for a death-defying stunt.
Unfolding over two decades, the film consists of three movements. The first concerns Luke (Ryan Gosling), a sideshow motorcycle rider who em-barks on a crime spree to provide for his newborn son. The middle chapter focuses on Avery (Brad-ley Cooper), an ambitious cop and young father who must confront both Luke and corrupt police
officers. Leaping ahead 15 years, the final portion finds Luke and Avery’s teenage sons (Dane DeHaan and Emory Cohen) crossing paths.
From the masterful five-minute tracking shot that ushers it in through to the chaotic chase that closes it, Luke’s story is the film’s most assured and self-contained. While Cooper delivers a deceptively complex performance, his chapter can’t shake the sense that it primarily serves to plant narrative and thematic seeds that won’t reach fruition until the film’s subsequent phase.
This closing “sins of the father” passage ef-fectively imparts the tragic tale of two boys who aren’t haunted by their experiences so much as what’s been absent from their lives.
Boasting enough technical brilliance and deeply affecting drama to steer it through its frustrating patches, Pines confirms just how rewarding it can be to watch a fearless filmmaker operate without a safety net. — Curtis Woloschuk
Fearless filmmaking in ‘sins of the father’ tale
TRaNCEStarring James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel, Rosario DawsonDirected by Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle has always been an extremely instinctive filmmaker. He’s crafted countless incredibly visceral scenes, be it the adrenaline-fuelled opening of Trainspotting or the har-rowing climax of 127 Hours. Time and again, the sense of exhilaration he inspires has successfully papered over his films’ deficiencies.
Alas, the director changes tacts with Trance, aiming to create some-thing slightly more cerebral in nature. Regrettably, the material is too lightweight to ever fulfil its mind-bending aspirations.
The film bursts from the gates with a heist sequence in which hardened criminal Franck (Vincent Cassel)
forcefully liberates a satchel suppos-edly containing a £27-million Goya from art auctioneer Simon (James McAvoy).
Finding only an empty frame inside the case, Franck demands an-swers from Simon, who was actually serving as his accomplice. Unfortu-nately, a head injury has apparently robbed Simon of some vital memo-ries. Cue the recruitment of hypno-therapist Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson) in hopes of turning up the painting’s location.
“Amnesia is bollocks,” grumbles one of Franck’s henchman early on. Trance leaves us inclined to agree. The inherent ridiculousness of the prem-ise permeates every plot convolution that it spawns. Instead of his usual popcorn spectacle, Boyle has cobbled together a tedious exercise in pop psychology. — Curtis Woloschuk
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1 Mary Zilba’s Real House-wives of Vancouver viewing party at SIP Lounge on April 2 raised over $1,000 for Friends For Life: Jane Carstens of Matchmaker For Hire, RHOV Mary Zilba, RHOV Robin Reichman and Sheena Sargeant, executive director of Friends For Life. 2 Studeo55 owner Nathan Mellalieu, Dr. Lauren Donaldson, Project Skin MD medical director Dr. William McGillivray (left to right) and nutritionist Mashael Mawji celebrated the launch of The Body Skin Project at Project Skin MD April 3. 3 Dwane Arm-bruster and Brady Dahmer of the Projecting Change Film Festival were balls of energy at ION magazine’s 10th anniversary party at Autoform April 6. (Lindsaysdiet.com photo). 4 Retired VPD of� cer Grant Macdonald joined Liquor, Lust and the Law author Aaron Chapman, Forbid-den Vancouver’s Will Woods, and Penthouse owner Danny Filippone for the Secrets of the Penthouse tour April 4.
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So, tell me what you’re looking for in a girl,” says Jane Carstens, her eyes lighting up with a genuine eagerness that puts me at ease. “Once you tell me what you’re looking for in
a partner, that’s when all of the magic starts.”The magic is starting on a comfy couch in the of-
� ce of Matchmaker for Hire, Carstens’ business and passion that � nds love for hundreds of single men and women in Vancouver, Victoria and Calgary. She started Matchmaker for Hire in 2009, but has played cupid for 13 years.
“I’ve always had a knack for understanding people,” Carstens says. Before matchmaking, she did recruitment work for companies like IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers. “I love it and every day is a different day. There’s nothing better than getting that call about how great of a date it was or they’re getting married or a baby’s being born — it gives me goosebumps when I hear about that.”
Recently, she was told how well a date went by Vancouver Real Housewife Mary Zilba, who Carstens hooked up with fellow reality TV personality and philanthropist Brett Wilson of the Dragon’s Den.
“Once Mary told me what she was looking for, I already had him in mind when I was taking the elevator down from her apartment,” she says, shrugging her shoulders. “We set them up on a lunch date and it was an instant hit.”
But whether it’s high-pro� le or low-pro� le, Carstens can � nd a match for anyone — more than 80 per cent of Matchmaker for Hire’s dates lead to a second meeting. Clients include men and women in their 30s and their 70s, from all types of backgrounds. Equally as � exible, her services range depending on the client’s needs and expectations. She will even create customized ads to scout out the right person for you.
“Young professionals are starting to see the value in this type of dating, of getting speci� c — quit wasting time,” she says. “If you just cut to the chase and put some effort into it, it dramatically increases the odds of � nding the right � t.”
The process begins with an interview, and from there, Carstens and her team of love liaisons start looking through the database for matches. After that, they talk to both parties and arrange a time and place for the � rst meeting. If their arrows miss the mark on the � rst date, the team gathers feed-back and returns to the drawing board.
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Mary Zilba meets a matchmaker for hire
“Once Mary Zilba [of Real Housewives of Vancouver] told me what she was looking for, I already had him in mind when I was taking the elevator down from her apart-ment,” says Jane Carstens, professional matchmaker. She’s been featured on the two most recent episodes.
self that I wasn’t even aware of. You can almost see Carstens calculating the type of person I’m most compatible with.
“I guess I’m a real estate agent for singles. When you want to buy a house, you don’t want to see every house for sale — you want your agent to take you to the ones that are a � t,” she says clapping her hands for added emphasis. The team will also provide valuable coaching if the client needs it.
Some of our clients were married for 30 years and haven’t dated for 25 years — they don’t even know what to wear.”
So what does she tell people who are tired of the dating scene.
“Never stop trying — just try something different. Go to a different coffee shop, try to step outside of the box of your routine, network outside your normal group of people.”
American designer-discount chain Marshalls held the grand opening of its first BC store April 4. Famous for its shoe selection (more than 8,000 pairs of brand-name shoes at reduced prices), the location — walking distance from the Marine Drive skytrain station at Ontario — is sure to be hotly trotted. Marshalls photo
Martha Sturdy’s new homeVancouver artist Martha Sturdy has a new website (SturdyLiving.com), which beautifully presents her col-lection of vessels, vases, furniture, lighting and sculpture. Working primarily in resin, steel and brass, she has designed for Louis Vuitton, Saks, Bergdorf Goodman, Four Seasons and Fairmont to name a handful. Interna-tionally renown for her sophisticated yet minimal style, she is carried lo-cally at Provide (529 Beatty).
West Elm pet partyYou’re invited to a Pet Party on Sat-urday, April 13 from 12-3pm at West Elm Market (2915 Granville). Check out their new pet product line while your pet stars in a special photo ses-sion (some of which will be featured on the West Elm blog). A portion of the day’s proceeds will bene� t The British Columbia Society for the Pre-vention of Cruelty to Animals. RSVP at Facebook.com/westelm/events.
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