(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.) And this preoccupation continued into the 2010s, notably with the 2011 episode Royal Pudding. Clearly parodying the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, it centres around the wedding of the prince of Canada. During the ceremony, the princes bride is suddenly abducted, leading people all over Canada to kill themselves in despair and Rush to perform their own version of Candle in the Wind.. (Terrific!) 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!) Having used the gay lounge lizard-slash-socialite persona as a means of speaking his own truth or offering pure satirical commentary, Thompson has been a mainstay of Canadian comedy, and his return to the stage over the course of 2018 was highly celebrated. 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. Celine Dion releases her 27th studio album, Courage. 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. Time magazine called it one of the worlds 100 greatest places; Azure dubbed it the best civic landmark of 2018; Architectural Digest included it among the most futuristic libraries on the planet. The decade started with the birth of Instagram and the rise of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and it has ended with the word influencer worming its way into the Merriam-Webster dictionary. (Hawkinss character lives above a gilded cinema the real-life Elgin Theatre, where The Shape of Water screened at TIFF.). her squad of superstars). Deadmau5 released The Veldt, a retelling of Bradburys story of the same name, in 2012. 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. 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. And on the world stage, after decades of sporadic success outside the province, Qubcois filmmakers embarked on a stratospheric upward trajectory with a wild combo of arthouse and blockbuster gold. Thats over-simplifying things a touch, but this art museum was designed to be at one with nature. Designed by KPMB Architects with Architecture49 both Toronto firms the building reflects the wide-open prairie landscape. 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. ), and its music video spotlights Indigenous hoop dancers. On April 16 just weeks after his 17th birthday Calgary-bred pianist Jan Lisiecki released his album of Mozart concertos as a debut for the label Deutsche Grammophon. He later wrote and starred in a one-man cabaret at the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival called Boy Falls From the Sky, which detailed his experience during that production. 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. I am here today because I am gay, he announced. Its iconic intro (Testing, testing / Im just suggesting) wormed its way into the ears of the country when it was dropped in 2011 as the lead single to the bands third album Ever After. Its a thrill to see the common themes, patterns and interests of these artists emerge in their work to find the guiding tropes of love and living fully with the ones closest to you in Dolans work; the fascination with existential mysteries on Earth and beyond in Villeneuves; the exploration of personal differences and uneasy human reconciliations in Valles; and the deep humanism in Falardeaus and Archambaults. James Camerons Avatar becomes the highest grossing film of all time. This year alone, Canadian female filmmakers Alexandra Lazarowich and Grace Glowicki won top prizes at Sundance and SXSW respectively. Admittedly, despite the attention given to Guillaume Ct the choreographer and principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada who also starred in the film Lost in Motion didnt change the distribution game. From there, Meghies journey becomes a bit of a filmmaker fairytale. Reeves was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when the titular host asked him the ultimate question: What do you think happens when we die, Keanu Reeves? Reeves exhaled slowly, paused and looked Colbert in the eyes. But youre going to get out.. Of all the instant classics this decade produced, horror movies were some of the best: Get Out, The Babadook, Crimson Peak. Unfortunately, because these works didnt fit colonial ideas of what constituted art, they were labeled either crafts or anthropological artifacts for centuries not art worthy of examining, studying and displaying in art museums. His win marked the fourth Polaris Prize win by an Indigenous artist in five years, following Lido Pimienta, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq. (Hell turn 19 soon; does that make you feel old?). OK, thats not exactly true. Well, obviously, she experienced a lot of personal growth, but also: Orphan Black ran for five seasons, winning her four consecutive Canadian Screen Awards for her performances. Her Disney Plus series, which ends its first season this week, found ways to combine comedy with superhero romance. There are few films in Hollywood and almost none in Canada that have a family of Black women at their centre; as Meghie noted when I interviewed her, its a strange and unsettling privilege to be one of the first. The 2010s saw screen industries worldwide experience a fundamental metamorphosis: streaming services changed the game in terms of the ways audiences watch content and how creators compete in the marketplace. This is the capitalistic reality behind all art: marginalized artists work will always be considered niche when arts institutions, publishers and galleries continue to treat it as niche. But as we soon learn, he has taken care of everything: the wake is televised and in May, Dion releases a cover of the Queen song The Show Must Go On to emphasize that she will keep working, whatever happens. 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? (But thats two years from now, so lets move on.). 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. 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.. I cannot think of a better way to end this decade than with the promise of her musical return. (Float on down to 450 Pape Avenue if you dare to see it in person. 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). Sometime around 2012, the superhero genre swallowed the Infinity Gauntlet or something metastasising into an endless string of monster franchises, each farting million-dollar bills and licensing deals. The Golden Globes were another shining moment for Asian-Canadian pride as Oh won the award for best actress in a TV drama for her portrayal of Eve Polastri on Killing Eve, sweeping the stage in a glitzy white dress with gold sequined sleeves (fully living out a Crazy Rich Asians fantasy that I 100 per cent mega-swooned at). But in 2018, he took it on an international tour. It was the most fun. 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. Created by Canadas Lorne Michaels in 1975, the sketch comedy series wove its way into the fabric of our cultural discourse and went on to tackle everything from political headlines to scandals and gossip to the risk of being eaten by a shark as you answer your front door. Produced by: Peter Knegt and Mercedes Grundy | Editing: Eleanor Knowles, Reiko Milley, Peter Knegt and Samantha Edwards | Design: Mercedes Grundy and Jeff Hume | Website: Jeff Hume | Video: Lucius Dechausay, Mercedes Grundy, March Mercanti, Romeo Candido, Jessica Hayes and Kiah Welsh | Graphics: Camille Charbonneau | Research: Peter Knegt and KC Hoard, (Jeff Bottari/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign), Justin Bieber kicked off a decade of reinvention for Canadian pop music, Following the benefit singles release on March 12, 10 times Keanu Reeves was the internet's boyfriend, Videos of Reeves interacting with his fellow stranded passengers, A change.org petition to name Reeves Time magazines 2019 Person of the Year was launched, a Reddit thread about Reeves apparently rescuing a woman stranded on the side of the highway, Mordecai Richler gets a big-screen adaptation with, Ryan Goslings heartbreaking performance in, Incendies in the 2010s: A decade of Qubcois filmmakers bringing down the arthouse, the debut of her second Las Vegas residency, 10 of the decade's most influential movies (that just happened to shoot in Canada), despite the attention given to Guillaume Ct, would garner 200,000 views in just a few days, 50,000-person crowd of motorbike rally spectators, who directed 11 episodes and served as an executive producer. Outdoor elements are inspired by the neighbouring foothills; inside, wooden beams wrap the atrium, suggesting the shape of a canoe. After wrapping her 16-year on/off Vegas gig this past June (a fact: the residency was only supposed to last three years), shes gone on to embark on a 50-plus city tour across North America in support of her new album, Courage, and win the affections of anyone with an affinity for couture fashion, eccentricity and stirring renditions of My Heart Will Go On (in other words, anybody with a pulse). Its rare for a TV series to successfully depict what its like to feel hopeless, depressed, anxious or overwhelmed, sometimes all at once. So how can I argue that Alanis matters as much now, at the end of this decade, as she did in the 90s? Thats where The Hunk cracks the show open. Munro was a celebrated visual artist known not only for his provocative (and endearing) works centered around handmade Y-front briefs but also for his creation of spaces like Vazaleen and Torontos The Beaver, which became safe hubs for the LGBTQ+ community. By showing something as little as a flick on the forehead, Kims Convenience has helped the rest of the world understand Asian family dynamics better. Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava (who does not, to my knowledge, work for Stark Industries), both Azure and Designboom praised this downtown pedestrian/cyclist bridge as one of the worlds top architectural moments of 2012. Should we cut their allowances? There will never be a large audience for marginalized art if arts institutions, publishers and galleries dont financially back that art, exposing our work to Canadians on a large scale and thus creating an audience. I love drag. Now, the 2010s may have been the decade when Canadians stopped saying sorry, but when Tat and I first became friends in 2006, she said sorrya lot. (It was so intense, as you remember, that it was split into two sub-seasons and officially wrapped in the fall of 2013.) Even if the story of a woman falling in love with a water monster/fish-man wasnt entirely up your alley (full disclosure: Id be more interested in it if he wore jeans), The Shape of Water became a point of Canadian pride after the crew cleaned up at the Academy Awards. Nathan tells her theyll stop filming. In the next year, well see an Australian offshoot, a celebrity makeover version and, of course, our very own Drag Race Canada. CBC Arts first covered its construction in 2016, when we visited the building site in the foothills of the Andes outside Santiago. Through vivid storytelling at the hands of his gender-fluid, time-travelling alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Monkmans work used historical events to celebrate the resilience of Indigenous people despite the onslaught of colonialism. The outfit, put together by celebrity stylist Law Roach, was a radical move for Dion because it hinted that after years of tastemakers making fun of her, she might actually be in on the joke. Martin is currently working on musical adaptations of The Princess Bride and Night at the Museum, a sequel to The Drowsy Chaperone, as well as the Netflix film adaptation of The Prom starring Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. When did Justin Bieber, a wee baby maestro, evolve into a national treasure? It also helped launch her into the art-pop stratosphere from which she has yet to return. Alanis has done a lot of therapy, not only for her own benefit but for ours as well! 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. To protect and promote its culture, Quebec projects have also, on average, been better funded and have gone through longer gestation periods than projects in the rest of the country. I like to picture him in it now, surveying his legacy (this artist was also my dear friend). 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. It sounded like butterflies, the first time holding hands, and quiet but bold albeit still very harmless emotive declarations. To balance making millions, raising twins and mayyyyybe also to rescue Las Vegas tourism after the catastrophic crash of the Great Recession, Dion launches a second residency on the Strip. Drag Race alone has had 11 regular seasons, four All-Stars seasons, two holiday specials and several spinoff series including Drag U (in which former contestants mentored and madeover new candidates every week), the Chilean show The Switch, two seasons of Drag Race Thailand and a newly finished season of Drag Race UK. co-production. The dream of the artists residency is that it can take you somewhere youve never been (while paying you). Marketing tactics have infiltrated ordinary life in ways that are increasingly absurd, and every time a NFY stunt went viral, it was like the universe clicking the like button, as if to say, yes, nothing you were taught makes sense anymore. Noah 40 Shebib is nominated for two best rap song Grammys in the same year, Photographer Norman Wong talks about the impact music producer Noah 40 Shebib has had on crafting the Toronto sound., Nathan Fielder opens Dumb Starbucks in Los Angeles. 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. While the cast of Kims Convenience gives Canada a comedic look at one familys life, actor Manny Jacinto plays one of the many characters navigating the afterlife on the sitcom The Good Place. Was he still controversial? The 2010s were a huge decade for Broadway. 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. She seems fascinated by the way these characters grow and change through their relationships, their passions, their career woes and their secrets. Its arguably less memorable than all the stuff in space, but when else are the New York Yankees ever going to play in Okotoks? Think of Ari Asters Hereditary and Midsommar both, incidentally, produced by A24, the same company that distributed The Witch. And Im not just talking about their infatuation with Schitts Creek. Girls. These songs exemplify the power of Canadian artists even if their success was limited to Canadas borders. Hadestown begins its pre-Broadway run in Edmonton, Prior to earning 14 Tony nominations, Hadestown grew into itself at Edmontons Citadel Theatre, where the retelling of the Greek myth (in which Orpheus attempts to regain the favour of his love, Eurydice) was staged for three weeks in November 2017. ), The inaugural Canadian Screen Awards arrive. But was it enough? And whats even cooler (to me) is that it was eventually used as a Jeopardy! Tatiana Gabrielle Maslany was born September 22, 1985 in Regina, Saskatchewan, to Renate, a translator, and Dan, a woodworker. ), Jim Carreys process is immortalized as documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond hits Netflix. 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. There were hugs, claps and plenty of cheers on the set of the sci-fi series "Orphan Black" on Thursday as cast and crew members learned star Tatiana Maslany had scored a Golden Globe nomination. She didnt take up a lot of space. We dont say anything, we dont communicate. On June 22, 2010, Canada lost a force to be reckoned with when stage and screen icon Tracy Wright passed away from pancreatic cancer. Carly Rae Jepsen releases Call Me Maybe. Here are 10 examples. By the end of the 2010s, The Simpsons will have aired 678 episodes, making it by far the longest-running American sitcom. 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. Im pretty sure I wrote an essay about it in university. In addition to being set in Toronto, the writer-director herself is Canadian and delivered an acceptance speech that burgeoning artists need to hear. The waxy ashen faces of nuns, RCMP officers and priests are in ghastly contrast to the pained expressions of the women and children. Though there are many, many examples Id be happy to vouch for (justice for the criminally underrated Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and The Night Before, please), the pinnacle of Rogens decade is his greatest collaboration with childhood BFF Evan Goldberg: 2013s This Is the End, which they wrote, directed, produced and acted in (though Goldberg just made a cameo).
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