Co-production treaties are activated left, right and centre. making him the youngest artist in history to chart in the Top 25 with a debut single, Justin Trudeau to spend an evening with Ivanka Trump, drew inspiration from Belcourts painting, this year marked the close of a seven-year tour, 10 songs that should have been bigger outside of Canada, Beck + Call by July Talk feat. The mere fact that someone was able to light the internet on fire in 2019 by writing a review of a record thats almost 25 years old tells you just how powerful this album is. Since I wrote a piece examining the Indigenous renaissance Dutcher identified, even more Indigenous artists have been given the national attention they deserve. Its arguably less memorable than all the stuff in space, but when else are the New York Yankees ever going to play in Okotoks? The Canadian married couple wrote the lyrics, book and music for this show, which tells the story of a small Newfoundland town that becomes flooded with Americans after 38 planes make an emergency landing following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. pulled it off when a YouTube video called Pig rescues baby goat became an international sensation. And you hope to hell that hell find his way out of it for both your sakes. The 2010s have been all about fame often vapid, toxic, shallow and undeserved fame, a new kind of parasitic stardom that almost anyone can attain just as long as theyre desperate enough. Its a shame it didnt get the international recognition of its sister single, but at least we Canadians get to enjoy this gem ourselves. (If youre in Toronto, be sure to take in something from their current program). Add to this the Leacock Medal, the Giller Prize and the Walter Scott Prize, and its no wonder deWitt continues to earn accolades for his dark humour and fiction work. Women like pUNK Films Ingrid Veninger, who produced six low-budget features over the decade, took microbudgets and ran with them. It was a tiny boy singing about how much he liked someone and how much he hoped they could be together despite knowing it might never be so. Those who are worthy are scooped up to heaven, while unworthy souls are doomed to spend an eternity in hell. Its particularly impressive when you consider that, even five years ago, many non-Indigenous editors, tastemakers and gatekeepers in the literary community referred to Indigenous work as niche, claiming there was no audience for it. No doubt, Asian-Canadian representation in the 2010s was stellar. Sci-fi TV thriller Orphan Black, comedies Schitt's Creek and Kim's Convenience, . We have the people, the talent and the perspectives we need to create the big, bold Cancon canon weve all been waiting for. Fortunately, for fans of the blue people (who are not to be confused with the Blue Man Group), James Cameron has been talking about plans for multiple Avatar followups since 2010 and has four sequels in the works because why wouldnt he. When their children come home unable to speak to them, their bodies covered with evidence of abuse they cant escape, their minds and spirits forever changed by abuse they dare not name? (Maslany's legions of adoring fans call themselves #CloneClub on Twitter and contend that the credits on "Orphan Black" should say "Tatiana Maslany" nine or more times, once per clone . Jean of the Joneses was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards (including Best Original Screenplay) and an Independent Spirit Award (for Best First Screenplay). Farmers work A way out of the mirror was an ode to fountains and their monumentalizing and memorializing qualities. 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. In 2017, while the building was being refurbished for the masses, Geoffrey Farmer was Canadas representative at the Biennale. The Birdcage, Brokeback Mountain, The Imitation Game, Dallas Buyers Club and Philadelphia were all directed by straight men, while Modern Family and even Will & Grace definitely catered to straight audiences. ), but there were a few clear oversights on the Academys part when it came to nominating Canuck excellence in the 2010s. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. Off they went with their new beautiful-people families, while we stood in the window waving lovingly and slightly nervously. In a world where opinions on styles of drag were often clashing among scenes, we had a new great divider in Drag Race. Now, hes using his knowledge to help struggling small-business owners make it in this competitive world. Its incredibly hard to describe alternative drag succinctly. 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. And all three of those were shot in B.C. OK, thats not exactly true. Michel Marc Bouchards Tom la ferme debuts at Centre du Thtre dAujourdhui, Playwright Michel Marc Bouchards Tom on the Farm (Tom la ferme) made its debut at the Centre du Thtre dAujourdhui in Montreal in January, which clearly kicked the year off right. Cline Dion begins her Las Vegas residency. In the episode Kimmy Goes To School! the Montreal Expos are brought up multiple times, and in the following season, Titus threatens to abandon New York because he hears Montreal has a vibrant theatre scene. My favourite mention, though, is a line from Lillian after Kimmy once agains brings up the bunker (in case youre unaware, the initial premise of the series is that Kimmy has just emerged from a bunker where she has been held captive for 15 years). (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.) Karen Kain tours the National Ballet of Canada to Los Angeles for the first time in 35 years. (Related: I was also largely incompetent.) From those first notes on the keyboard to the then-15-year-olds angelic coo, Baby stepped out of the rock n roll-heavy Canadian musical landscape and began to build a bridge between the pop world and the rest of us, offering a much-needed reprieve from the default offering of mainstream-beloved dudes holding guitars and wearing plaid shirts. This decade alone, she produced six feature-long documentaries and a short film serving as a powerful inspiration for Canadian women to keep going, even when it feels like the hardest thing in the world. This decade, Canada established itself as a gold mine for internationally renowned music. And earlier this year, he starred alongside a slew of other queer actors in the Netflix reboot of Tales of the City, developed by lesbian writer Lauren Morelli. Hand-picked links plus the best of CBC Arts, delivered weekly. The film was actually shot in the middle of the previous decade and was supposed to come out in 2005, but a brutal legal battle between Lonergan and the films distributor delayed things and ultimately led to a very limited release. When the New York Times named Saskatoon one of the 52 places to go in 2018, the Remai Modern was tipped as the main attraction. He originated the role of the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webbers 2010 musical Love Never Dies, and has played leading roles in the West End production of its long-running prequel, Phantom of the Opera. The painting is an indictment and in 2018, a reminder of the truth thats supposed to precede any reconciliation. Ren-Charles, the couples first son, was born on Jan. 25, 2001. CNN called him a national treasure because of it, and he further cemented his status as the internets wholesome boyfriend. Tracy Wrights final performance opens Torontos new TIFF Bell Lightbox. Munro has written 14 collections of short stories, which I suggest we all read out loud together this holiday season. Interior. Alanis has also written two brilliant new songs for the musical: Smiling and Predator., This decade, Alanis gave birth to her three children, Ever, Onyx and Winter (a.k.a. The period language is alien. But much like Speed protagonist Jack Traven, Reeves kept a cool head. The series is packed with moments of human connection that are as unexpected as they are genuine. And when Bullock was asked afterward if she knew of any potential matches for the then-bachelor, her reply came quickly: "He doesn't need anybody's help. Suzan-Lori Parkss Topdog/Underdog even beat out War Horse (remember War Horse?!) And this decade, she actually proved it. Des McAnuff is a Broadway legacy name at this point. What motivates people to believe the most obvious, calculated lie, despite all evidence to the contrary? Over the next six years, that would very much change. James took six months to complete the series, shot inside the mysterious and foreboding walls of Kingston Pen, and he did it in the company of the guards and inmates of the institution. At the time, I had been performing drag myself for just over a month, and it was making me feel on top of the world. Or about the pleasure she gets from looking out the window during a transcontinental flight on a private jet? Whose advice can you believe? Although his appearance was limited to just a few scenes where he plays himself, Reeves stole the show for many on social media. Of all the instant classics this decade produced, horror movies were some of the best: Get Out, The Babadook, Crimson Peak. I was immediately taken back to moments when I was a child and my parents probably wanted to flick me on the head for doing something trivial in public (Asian kid problems). Following this, they launched their first world tour, released two more albums and three EPs, and took home the award for group of the year at the 2018 Juno Awards. Over four seasons, the greatest and most elaborate stunt Nathan for You ever produced was the series itself. The Times piece called it a centrepiece of Saskatoons redeveloping riverfront, and that growth has earned the city a more recent mention: Architectural Digest named the city a top travel destination for 2019. 21, and was quickly declared a triumph. It was (and is) also a further testament to why none of us shouldve been allowed to quit piano lessons as a kid. My essay A Mind Spread Out on the Ground won a Gold medal at the National Magazine Awards that year, which helped me land an agent, and that piece eventually became the title essay of my essay collection. 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. She revealed that she got married during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and joked that it was a secret and no one really knew about it. But what might be my favourite thing about Canadian drag is what we have done in the last decade without the end goal of reality TV. Whether the water monster/fish-man cares about any of this remains a mystery. CBC Arts first covered its construction in 2016, when we visited the building site in the foothills of the Andes outside Santiago. ), Remai Modern opens its doors to the public. But the 2010s truly belonged to Alanis Obomsawin, who at age 87 continues to produce films in partnership with the NFB. a gale-force blast of raw, unrelenting emotion. Other notable filming locations include Chinatown and Gastown. 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. Birth Name: Tatiana Gabriele Maslany Birth Place: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Profession Actor Actor 35 Credits Perry Mason 2023 Orphan Black 2021 Drunk History 2018 Heartland 2018 Parks and. 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. There are two ways to divide history: life before Carly Rae Jepsen released Call Me Maybe and life after. (Fielder famously donated $150,000 of the profits to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre 150,000 U.S. You wont be sorry. What is more heartening is their relatively recent acknowledgment of the role Indigenous art has played and continues to play in historical and contemporary culture. Indigenous artists have always created incredible work, from the blankets Salish weavers constructed from goat hair and woolly dog hair to the intricate carvings made by Inuit sculptors from bones and antlers to Haudenosaunee raised beadwork. So to the Asian kid crunching on shrimp chips while watching Marvel movies: your world is about to change. The Speed love affair that almost was. I, along with all of her truest fans, have been waiting seven years for this moment. a boyfriend. Major projects are made with our money and also without and thats OK, as Toronto and the rest of Canada welcome major productions, and our filmmakers shape them, here and elsewhere. ! Naturally, this led anybody who prided themselves on being well-versed in Canadian indie (see: me, nine years ago) to bask in a sense of superiority fuelled by the knowledge that theyd been Arcade Fire fans since Funeral came out back in 2004. Subscribe, Valentino releases a 2016 collection featuring artwork by Christi Belcourt. Shes even seen wearing no makeup in the music video! Let there be light so, so much light. 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. ; Elvis Stojko; Manitoba Sauce Cake; suburban Ottawa; and, of course, maple syrup and poutine. Justin Bieber releases his massive hit single Baby. She leaves everything on the mic on this song, so it figures that her fellow Canadians ate it up. Back in 2011, The Weeknd was an enigma. She had been rumored to have been dating Hines since 2020 and told Colbert that he was a great guy. The voices blaring at him are soon replaced by his own compulsive, circular, maddening conversations with himself in voiceover as he works through the language of PTSD, addiction and recovery a system is in place to maintain your positionuse it., Young is soon joined on stage by a company of five dancers, and over the course of the harrowing first act, they inhabit the ravaged landscape of his mind a demonic tap dance here, an alter egos sinister soft-shoe there, becoming a surreal late-night show of salsa, drugs and self-loathing. Not surprisingly, the comic/writers last show earned big ratings, and in the two-ish years since signing off, hes released a book, Rick Mercer Final Report, and still weighs in on Canadian politics. Youre going to freak people out, but youll probably connect with them too, and thats an amazing feeling to have. Im ready for a Domee Shiwritten and directed full-length feature any time. In the 2010s, Keanu Reeves graduated from brooding 90s action movie superstar to beloved cult hero. 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. Cheyenne Jacksons character, Danny, is from Ottawa and joins the cast of the show-within-a-show TGS with Tracy Jordan after starring in a movie about Canadian football, while Steve Martins Gavin Volure tries to evade house arrest by whisking Liz Lemon off to Toronto (Toronto is just like New York, but without all the stuff!). As he jovially explained the premise of the game and what drew him to it, he called the experience of playing Cyberpunk 2077 breathtaking. He paused, and a fan shouted, Youre breathtaking! from the crowd. Many of these artists first and second features were noticed fast, and came at a time when world cinema and film festivals were more influential than they had ever been, right before the content boom were now experiencing. His work is ambitious and uncanny, and I find it terrifying and sort of brittle, like the first time you see one of those anatomy books in your uncles basement that has the layered pages that show you an increasingly flayed version of the human body. 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.. SCHITT'S CREEK, also a multi-CSA winner which just premiered in its third season, follows closely in second with 13 nominations, while KIM'S . Thats iconic behaviour, but his presentation about the game at E3 a major video game expo was even more so. Without the standards set by the concept of a drag career being one long audition, the art form has been able to grow organically through performers personal expressions and styles. To look at the contributors list of this issue now is a bit surreal. His iconic slow-motion entrance in the movie quickly became another popular meme, and the actor continued to uphold his internet icon status. Ghosts? Although its not strictly autobiographical, the shock, grief and bewilderment that follow such a tragedy are at the heart of the show (indeed, the word betroffenheit" in German means just that finding yourself in a state of shock or trauma). Geoffrey Jamess chilling look inside Kingston Pen opens 2 km away from the prison at Queens Universitys Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Geoffrey James Armed guard outside Tower 3 (TrpanierBaer Gallery). Crushingly, Richard Wagamese passed away in March of that year. They relocate there. Xavier Dolan is hot off of proving hes no one-hit wonder with his sophomore feature Les amours imaginaires (Heartbeats), the stylish followup to his sensational debut Jai tu ma mre (I Killed My Mother). The thing is, the Globes were Ohs to own entirely. This year, Gwen Benaway became not only the first trans woman but also the first Indigenous trans woman to win a Governor Generals Literary Award. Guillaume Ct releases Lost In Motion on YouTube. Scientists + artists + activists make good residencies. (It was so intense, as you remember, that it was split into two sub-seasons and officially wrapped in the fall of 2013.) First trailer for Schitt's Creek star's new movie. Based on the iconic graphic novel series by Bryan Lee OMalley, director Edgar Wrights Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a love letter to a city that often plays dress-up. Alanis Morissette releases her eighth studio album, Havoc and Bright Lights. stands in for Washington as The Twilight Saga begins its two-part conclusion. Chandler Levack is a writer and a filmmaker who is currently existing in Toronto. 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. In less than a decade, a 29-room hotel in a Newfoundland town most Canadians have never heard of became one of the worlds most talked-about tourist destinations. Its a trend I hope continues in the 2020s: less obedience, less compromise, more empowerment, more ambition. But really, the inn pays homage to local architecture and industry. Many of these new shows are controlled by Pages fellow unapologetically LGBTQ creatives like Ryan Murphy, Janet Mock, RuPaul Charles, Dan Levy and Tanya Saracho folks who dont give a shit about making sure straight audiences feel comfortable watching their work. Iran-born and Ontario-raised, Ramin Karimloo is a bona fide superstar of the stage. Andrew DCruz is the executive producer of CBC Arts. Before the Group of Seven (and others of their ilk) started trying to make visual sense of our forests and waters, too many Canadian artists vision of our landscape was borrowed from European painting tradition and idealized our surroundings while making colonialism look romantic. But just because no one outside this country has been hearing our fabulous trees fall in the woods doesnt mean that Canadian drag hasnt been making all sorts of sounds for years. How can we explain their sweeping success and the resonance of their work? When did he graduate to being a force to be reckoned with, a young artist whom you wanted to cradle and dance with and ultimately protect? In 2010, a Reddit thread about Reeves apparently rescuing a woman stranded on the side of the highway who was without a functioning car or cell phone percolated around the web. Im pretty sure I wrote an essay about it in university. 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. And I loved every minute of iteven if I had no idea who the fuck she was. 20 and No. Showing Editorial results for tatiana maslany. Suddenly there were two groups of drag queens in the world: the ones who could get on TV, and the ones who couldnt or, more accurately in many circles, the ones who wanted to get on, and the ones who didnt. First of all, that concept. Like The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was created by Michael Schur, who is maybe the most Canada-obsessed American TV writer. Always the wiser, Reeves responded by telling the fan, Youre breathtaking! The crowd went wild, and Reeves took it a step further, telling his audience, Youre all breathtaking! Video of the exchange has garnered millions of views. Imagine having to follow up Visions, a record so obsessed over that surpassing it creatively mustve been, to say the least, daunting. And yeah, its also why you LOLd at a tweet about Dumb Starbucks at some point in 2014. (As a wee baby music journo, I remember the scramble that year to snag tickets to his show at the Mod Club and my inability to do so because I had no idea who represented him or how to find out.) Canadas premier pop punk darlings went full pop with this single. Cera capped off the decade with a supporting role in the Tony-nominated Broadway run of The Waverly Gallery, a play about a young man who slowly watches his grandmother succumb to Alzheimers disease. Plus $9.5 million is a lot of money the most a Canadian painting has ever commanded and this is a really good painting. 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. Love, Canada.) Elliot Page comes out at the Human Rights Campaign Foundations inaugural Time to Thrive conference. (A hero, a legend, a woman of the people.) The story about a single mother (played powerfully by Anne Dorval) trying to raise her troubled son (Antoine Olivier Pilon) was praised as a cinematic tour de force, or even better: a gale-force blast of raw, unrelenting emotion. As a result, Mommy went on to become Dolans highest grossing feature, and the following year, the writer/director/producer directed Adeles video for Hello (which would go on to get over 2.5 billion views on YouTube). Tatiana Maslany attends the world premiere of Marvel Studios' upcoming new series "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on August 15, 2022. Hosted by Martin Short, the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards offered prizes for film, television and digital storytelling (which hadnt been covered by the Geminis or the Genies), and raked in 756,000 viewers, which is around double the number of people who watched the Geminis or Genies the previous year. I was immediately struck by her confidence on set how she took the space she needed to do her work in a firm but friendly way. In 2015, he produced and starred in Freeheld, a docudrama based on the story of a lesbian police officers fight for relationship recognition after her partner is diagnosed with cancer.