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District of NorthVancouver staff and residentscontinue to deal with the fallout of the Nov. 3 oodthat has done more than $1 million in damages andcounting.

District engineers have been working long hours withprivate contractors, environmental consultants, arboristsand geotechnical engineers in assessing and repairing

washed out bridges, eroded roads, damaged culverts andgrates.

I can tell you thats north of $500,000 now andprobably moving towards the $1 million range, saidGavin Joyce, the districts manager of parks, engineeringand facilities. We recorded a staggering 164 millimetresof rain over 24 hours.Thats over six incheswhichwould, from our engineering tables, correspond to a one-

Police arrest pipeline opponents

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Members of theSquamish Nation wereamong a large crowdgathered on BurnabyMountainThursdaymorning as BurnabyRCMP moved in toarrest protesters blockingKinder Morgan pipelinesurvey crews.

Fourteen protestershad been arrested bymid-afternoon for defyinga B.C. Supreme Courtinjunction banning anyonefrom interfering withKinder Morgans surveywork for a new pipelineroute.

Among those arrestedwas Sot-lot, a Squamishband member who arrivedat Burnaby Mountain withher sister Clarissa AntoneThursday morning.

Observers describedan emotional moment asthe two women arriveddrumming and singingon CentennialWay, thenmarched under the yellowpolice tape and into theprotesters camp.

Antone said she went to Burnaby Mountain because Iam a guardian of the Earth. Kinder Morgan wants to digright where we are. It shows on our map that this is ourterritory.

Antone said she has been coming to the site every dayfor the past two weeks. Its important that we save oursacred land, she said.

Later in the afternoon, Antone said her older sister who goes by the native name Sot-lot was arrestedafter refusing to move from a totem pole that has beencarved inside the area covered by the injunction.

Antone said her sister was arrested after she lay down

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on the pole to prevent it being moved. It was very hard.I was crying, she said, speaking by cellphone from insidethe protest camp. The mood is very intense right now.

Antone planned to stay beside a sacred re thatAboriginal women had lit inside the protest camp untilit burned out. She said she planned to come back toBurnaby Mountain on Friday, but would stay in the areawhere protesters are legally allowed to gather.

Other members of the Squamish andTsleil-WaututhNations have also joined the protesters in recent weeks.

Khelsilem, a member of the Squamish Nation, gave aspeech on the mountain on Monday in the Squamish

language asking other protesters to join them.Later in the afternoonThursday, survey crews for the

pipeline company turned up to begin work while a tensestandoff continued between police and protesters.

Kinder Morgan had no comments or statement formedia on the situation on Burnaby MountainThursdaymorning.

Janice Edmonds, spokeswoman for the North ShoreNOPE group opposed to the pipeline project, said sheunderstands why protesters are willing to be arrested.

They are saying thats the only thing they can do,she said. The (National Energy Board) process is notfair. Its not hearing what the people have to say. Its notresponding to the questions people are asking.

Edmonds said her group has asked about how airquality would be monitored in the event of a spill andabout evacuation plans and has not received satisfactoryanswers.

Edmonds also pointed to a recent report by SimonFraser University that concluded far fewer jobs will becreated by the project than the company has estimated.

There are no jobs, she said. Maybe 30 betweenB.C. and Alberta, which is nothing in the big scheme ofthings.

Theres nothing for the North Shore, she added.When people think there are economic benets, thereare none.

with les from Jennifer Moreau, Burnaby Now

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Politicians and mentalhealth advocates from theNorth Shore gathered inSeptember to celebratecompletion of the new$62 million psychiatrictreatment and mentalhealth education centre.

The original move-infor patients and staff wassupposed to be this week.

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Scientists believe they have found onecause of a mysterious wasting diseasethat has caused a mass die-off of seastars in some local waters.

Divers atWhytecliff Park rst reportedthe problem to scientists at theVancouverAquarium last fall, when they noticedlarge populations of previously healthystarsh seeming to liquefy on thespot.The die-off spread quickly, withthousands of multi-armed sunower seastars disappearing from waters off Bowen,Hutt and Popham islands.

The phenomenon has since beentracked in pockets up and down theWestCoast, as far south as California.

This week, researchers including twoVancouver Aquarium scientists, publisheda paper which points to densovirus, avirus commonly found in invertebrates, aslikely contributing to the sea

stars disappearance.The syndrome aficting the species

causes a particularly swift and nasty deathfor the sea stars, in which their limbs falloff, their body wall ruptures and theirorgans drift out into the ocean.

The sea stars which can grow upto two feet across and have 26 arms were hugely abundant until lastyear, numbering in the thousands atsome of the locations where the die-offshappened, a situation that may havespread disease.

This spring, the disease also appearedto be taking hold in common purple orochre starsh found in most local tidepools.

The disease also affected sea stars thathad been at theVancouver Aquarium foryears likely because the ocean waterused in the tanks also contained the virus.

The paper published by CornellUniversity researchers this week andco-authored byVancouver Aquariumscientists Martin Haulena and JeffMarliave points to densovirus as a majorcause of the die-off.

But it doesnt answer all questions,said Haulena, head veterinarian atthe aquarium such as whether a

Researchers pinpointmysterious wastingdiseases likely cause

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mud, logs and debris toclog culverts on Hastingsand Kilmer creeks.Thetorrent swelled andjumped the road.

The municipality,much like roughly 40district families andbusiness owners, will likelyqualify for EmergencyManagement B.C.sdisaster nancial assistanceprogram, which reimbursesup to 80 per of repair costs.

Residents who have todo major repairs to damagecaused by the ood willhave their building andelectrical permit feeswaived by the district andtheir applications will bebumped to the front of theline.

That is helpful andappreciated, said ChrisKlar, whose FrommeRoad home was heavilydamaged. But shedlike to see the districtstep forward with morecompensation as theprovincial help only coversthe essentials and doesnothing for the damage

done to her propertyoutside her home

Were anticipating that

were going to be in the$100,000-plus category onexpenses, she said. All

of that will be helpful butwere probably still goingto be a far way away fromgetting our home back tonormal.

Klar would also liketo see the district replacethe problem culverts withwider ones that wont be soprone to clogging.

We want to talk tothem about what wecan do to stop this fromhappening again becauseit happened, to a lesserdegree, to the homeownersbefore us.Whenever thoseculverts back up, thishouse seems to be the lineof attack, she said.

Experiencing whatweve experienced now,they look a little small tome, Klar added with alaugh.

That and otherimprovements will be upfor consideration, Joycesaid. Beyond the short-term measures to preventfurther damage, the districtis evaluating all of its creekbanks and infrastructure.

Well be doing acomplete review of thecreek systems goingforward here.Were outthere today and have

been all week, looking atand walking all the creeksystems to take whatevermaintenance preemptivework that needs to bedone, he said.

A friend of the Klars issetting up a benet evening

on Dec. 5 at the LynnValley Community Centre,with ticket proceeds anddonations going to helpoffset the familys losses.Tickets are available byemailing [email protected].

Residentswant problemculverts replaced

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The victors last drop ofSpanish champagne hasbeen drunk, the losers aretaking justied consolingpride in their sacrice tothe democratic process.

Moving on, what are thetop 10 problems facingWestVancouvers barely changedcouncil?

1. Parking. 2.Amblesiderejuvenation. 3. Parking.4. Stimulating business. 5.Parking. 6. Competing withPark Royal. 7. Parking. 8.Restraining Metro-toppingtown hall mostly staff costs. 9. Parking. 10.Neighbourhood consultationand protection.And, if therewere a No. 11, how aboutparking?

Pointedly, the twonaysayers against the 1300-block Grosvenor project,incumbent councillorsCraig Cameron and NoraGambioli, topped the polls nishing one-two, theonly candidates above the

5,000-vote mark.The victory party

leftovers were hardly stalebefore Cameron revealedhe had polled all councillorsand can conrm none of uswill participate in the (WestVancouver Citizens for GoodGovernment) process nextelection, unless the processradically changes. So, itwould seem theWeegies arenally dead, at least in theircurrent form.Yes, the long-

powerfulWeegies, as I fondlycall them, were mauled inlast Saturdays election. Fourof their six council choicestanked.

Cameron and Gambiolispeedily vault to the list offuture mayoral candidates,levitating to contender statuswith Couns.Michael Lewisand establishment-backedMary-Ann Booth.

Cameron and Gambioliarent your usual evasivepoliticos. Darkly handsomeCameron is something of asoul-barer. Like confessingthat council duties are moredemanding and income-shaving than he expected.Which could be interpretedas a whine about somethingpoliticians quickly discoverbut wont admit invitingthe retort: Like, so why didyou run for ofce?

Gambioli spoke up aboutthe real estate industryssecretive pressure oncouncil to lay off trying to

limit house size and, byimplication, other restraintson their deowering ourbeautiful town. She alsotold CBCs Rick Cluff thatthere were only 21 people,16 of them directors, attheWVCGG selectionmeeting a handful ofWeegies wielding ridiculousinuence, the norm since1972. But not this time.

Another eyebrow-raiser:Booth, dropped from theWeegie slate and shaken Ibelieve truly hurt by therejection, nished third.Wasshe helped by her surprise11th-hour announcementthat her lawyer husbandwould no longer work forGrosvenor, a connectionthat forced her to abstainfrom the Grosvenor debate?Vancouver Mayor GregorRobertson made a last-minute confession too. Didboth pick up the humilityvote, touching hearts of aforgiving electorate?

Lewis took fth spot,reecting the still-potentpower of theWeegies topunish candidates whorefuse to kiss theWeegiering, foot, hand, or otherparts of the anatomy.Hesthe revolutionary who deedtheWeegies in 2008, andhas won twice since. So hewas the pioneer worrisomewedge in theWeegies, ifyou can say that withoutlaughing.

At all-candidatesmeetings theWeegie namedrew snickers. Gettingits approval has all butguaranteed a sumptuousvictory party.This timeWeegie backing more likelywas a predictor of Kraftdinner. Only Bill Soprovich,who has a lock on eternalre-election but slipped tofourth in the 15-candidateeld, and Cameron, abit of a puzzlingWeegiechoice considering hisdissident Grosvenor vote,

were winners among its sixrecommendations.

TheWeegie nod mayactually have been fatalto Jim Finkbeiner, nice(and improving duringthe campaign) JoannaBaxter,Michael Evison andPeter Lambur, the latter apotential asset to council butstill lacking political chops he ran unsuccessfully 18years ago.

Lewis was the onlycandidate in my hearing unless I was on awashroom break whooffered a concrete plan abovethe usual campaign pledgesof accessibility, openness,inclusiveness, honesty anda promise to send cards onMothers Day.

He outlined his 10 and10 plan to rein in townhall costs. He noted thatfrom 2004 to 2013WVspopulation rose less than one

Weegieswaning influence shows at polls

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Robo chickenThere is no party tougher on crimethan the Conservatives.We admit, weve earlier decriedtheir commitment to ineffective measureslike building more prisons and institutinglonger sentences. Still, we nd ourselvesgrateful for their tough guy stancewhen were confronted by a particularlyegregious crime, such as Michael Sonasattempt to subvert the 2011 federalelection.The former Conservative staffer hit

6,000 residents of Guelph, Ont. withmisleading robocalls just before theelection in an attempt to keep voters fromtheir polling stations.Sona, just 26 years old, faces nine

months in jail although he could get parolesometime aroundValentines Day.Like the vast majority of political

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in the ballot box, Sona acted alone.But while the Conservative party bears

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voters, many of them Liberal supporters,but his crime is an assault on democracy.PrimeMinister Stephen Harper offered

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The latest move to study(and perhaps eventuallyreduce) problem gamblingis welcome news, butdont think for aminuteits a sign the provincialgovernment is any lessvoracious when it comesto gobbling upmoneyfrom gamblers.

Last week saw theestablishment of the newCentre for GamblingResearch at the Universityof B.C.A UBC news releasesaid the centres key goalsare probing the psychologyof gambling, helpingproblem gamblers andenhancing gaming policy.

There will be a casinolab created in the centre,which sounds nifty. It willhave slot machines and othergames, and it will measurethings like heart rates andbrain responses of gamblers.

The whole thing isbeing paid for by a $2-million grant from the B.C.government and the B.C.Lottery Corporation.This isall well and good.

But if you think thatgrant is guilt money, youwould be correct.

The B.C. government,

like every other provincialgovernment (if notgovernments pretty mucheverywhere), long agobecame addicted to revenuesowing its way from thegambling industry.

It wasnt always like thisof course. For decades if aperson wanted to gamblelegally (I stress that word) inthis province, such activitieswere basically conned tohorse racing, the crownand anchor wheel on thecarnival midway (I used tooperate one, by the way)and perhaps an annual GreyCup pool or the old IrishHospital Sweepstakes horserace.

That changed in the

mid-1970s, when a nationallottery was established tohelp pay for MontrealsOlympic Games in 1976. theOlympics came and went,but the lottery stayed.

Then, in 1985, provinceswere given control ofgambling. One can justimagine provincial nancialministers of the daysalivating at the prospect ofa whole new revenue streambeing opened up to them.

And open it up it did,as provincial lotteriesbecame bigger and bigger.Eventually, casinos werebrought into being, and withthem the biggest cash cow ofall: slot machines and otherelectronic game machines.

By 2002, revenues forthe B.C. government brokethrough the $500 millionlevel. Since then, they havedoubled to almost $1.2billion expecting to come inthis year.

That money isdistributed, in part, tonon-prot arts, culture andsports groups (like yourlocal Little League baseballteam) and to municipalitiesthat host casinos (whichhelps explain the often

muted opposition to gamingexpansion by municipalities).but the vast majority (almost$900 million) goes to thegovernments generalrevenue fund.

The governments directshare of the gambling pieis enough to fund, to pickjust one area, what thegovernment spends on allsocial services in an entireyear.This isnt chumpchange were talking aboutfolks, which is why anynotion that the government any government isgoing to spend gobs of cashtreating problem gamblershas dim prospects ofbecoming reality.

There are validarguments to curtail acasinos operating hours,reduce the number ofslot machines (which areparticularly insidious when itcomes to attracting problemgamblers) and any numberof other measures aimedat making gambling a bitharder to access.

But the fact is, evenwith that $2 million grantfor UBC, the money spentannually on problemgambling is less than one

per cent of the protsgovernment earn on thatactivity.

And as long asgovernments refuse toeven have a dialogue aboutrevisiting our tax system,they will continue to lookgreedily at any prospective

revenues that allow themto meet ever-rising publicexpectations for governmentservices, whether they are forhealth care, education, socialservices, or whatever.

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The centre replacesthe old psychiatric wardat Lions Gate known asA2, which rst openedits doors in 1929 and hasbeen beset by numerousproblems including mouldand insect infestations.

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B.C. Provincial HealthOfcer Perry Kendall, inhis groundbreaking reporton gambling released lastyear, has estimated thereare about 31,000 peoplestruggling, at variousdegrees, with problemgambling in this province.

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per cent but its operatingcosts 46.9 per cent, of which80.11 per cent are staffsalaries. (CKNW businessguru Michael Campbellbelieves bureaucrat pensionsare an economic timebomb.)

The intriguing councilnewcomer is ChristineCassidy.At the C of C-sponsored meeting she madeby far the best pitch clear,forthright and without notes.Candidates who stand andread their spiel seem dead tohow off-putting it is.

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WestVan shells out for trash cansFrom page 7

From page 6Council faces tough issues

One mans trash canis another mansmisleading news story.

The cost ofWestVancouvers new garbagecans was overstated in aTVnews story, according to amunicipal press release.

A Global BC reportstatedWestVancouver wasshelling out $400,000 for200 garbage cans over thenext three years.

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Over the next weekVancityTheatre hostsCrime Fest featuring16 neo-noir lms, 14of which areVancouvertheatrical premieres (viff.org/theatre/series/crime-fest):

10 AFuller Life(USA, 2013,Director:Samantha Fuller)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f41vkreGttc.Screening Saturday,Nov. 22 at 12:30 p.m.Samantha Fuller willbe in attendance for aQ&A session after thisscreening.

AHardDay(South Korea, 2014,Director:Kim Seong-hun)Karmic retributionon a grand scale in thiswickedly ingenioussuspense thriller: https://www.youtube.comwatch?v=pG8iJa4dYPc.

The Blue Room(La chambre bleu).

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The Crucible, Nov. 26-28 at the DarleneS.HowardTheatre,Collingwood School(Morven Campus), 70MorvenDr.,WestVancouver.Call 604-925-3331 for tickets.

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For stage performers, a black box theatreprovides all the creative freedom of a blankcanvas.

Bound only by four walls, directors, actors andstage technicians are able to, somewhat ironically,think outside the box when producing a show.And thats just what the drama students atWestVancouvers Collingwood School have been doingfor the last few weeks as they prepare to stageArthurMillers 1953 play The Crucible in theirschools brand new black box the Darlene S.HowardTheatre.

Theres no structure in the room, theres noarchitecture, theres no proscenium arch.Theresjust a big empty space and we can put the seatswherever we want, explains Collingwood drama

teacher MichaelWener, who is directing theproduction. Its a very exciting opportunity tostage the play.We are going to depict all of thescenes through lighting and its going to lookfantastic.

Constructed as part of Collingwoods MorvenCampus renovation and expansion, the newtheatre space measures 50-by-60 feet and featuresa wire grid 16 feet above the oor where lighting,sound and special effects technicians can worktheir magic.

The Crucible is a dramatization of the infamousSalem witch trials, which took place in PuritanNew England in 1692, though the play is ofteninterpreted as an analogy of McCarthyism andthe anti-communist sentiment of the 1950s.Originally a 3.5-hour show,Wener has condensedCollingwoods production down to a moremanageable hour and a half.

The large cast comprises students in grades 8to 12 who will play in the roundwith 108 seatssurrounding a central performance space.Thisexperience will be a rst for many of the youngactors.

For the most part, the kids have no idea howgreat a feeling it is to be playing in the round, to besurrounded by your audience. Its a much morenatural way to play theatre. It doesnt have thatarticiality of proscenium where youre alwaysfacing forward, saysWener, an actor, director andproducer himself.

The black box works particularly well for TheCrucible, he says, because of the plays many quicktransitions.

Theres lots of scenes. In the rst act, theresabout 50 different short scenes.

A minimalist set allows the players to cut fromscene to scene rapidly without having to movecumbersome furniture or open and close a curtain.

The new theatre space is named after DarleneHoward, a major patron of the school with herhusband Paul.

I give time, talent and treasure where mypassions lie and my passions actually lie ineducation and the arts and my community. Iidentied that a long time ago, says Howard,

Collingwood stages The Crucible in new black box theatre

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Mockingjay: the beginning of the endThe Hunger Games:Mockingjay,Part One.Directed by FrancisLawrence. StarringJennifer Lawrence.Rating: 6 (out of 10)

JULIE CRAWFORDContributingWriter

The Hunger Games:Mockingjay,Part One isa lm about propagandaand the power of goodmarketing. Its also thatthe rst thing viewers willthink about as they leavethe theatre.

Whats with this trendof halving a trilogys endinginto two separate movies,regardless if it stretches theplotline too thin and dullsdown the writers originalstory? Twilight andHarryPotter fell victim to it, nowSuzanne Collins prose is onthe rack.

This is denitely abridge lm to the endof the franchise. If youvesomehow skipped the rsttwo lms youd do well toplay catch-up before yousee this one.Not that youwould be in the dark as far

as the narrative goes, butyou might be a little bored.Claustrophobic, too:muchof the lm takes place in thedarkness of an undergroundcity, with all the drab greysand sepias that go along withit.

After destroying theQuarter Quell hungergames with one very well-aimed arrow, our heroineKatniss Everdeen (JenniferLawrence) is hiding fromher nemesis President Snow(Donald Sutherland) in themammoth undergroundcolony that is District 13.Media expert PlutarchHeavensbee (the late PhilipSeymour Hoffman) andPresident Coin (JulianneMoore, sportingMerylStreeps The Giver hairstyle)are urging Katniss to bethe lightning rod for therevolution that has beenbubbling in the districts.Katniss, however, is tootraumatized by her mostrecent survival challenge andby the loss of Peeta (JoshHutcherson) to be muchgood to anyone.

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Swedish editor refused toplayby rules of the gameThe Last Sentence(Sweden 2012, directorJanTroell) at PacicCinmathque, Friday,Nov. 28, 6:30 p.m. aspart of the 17thAnnualEuropean Union FilmFestival Nov. 21-Dec. 4.Rating: 8 (out of 10).

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The Last Sentence, an oldschoolmaster class fromSwedish director JanTroell,is one of the entries gracingthis years EuropeanUnionFilm Festival running Nov.21 throughDec. 4 at thePacic Cinmathque.

TheVancouver art houseannually screens new andrecent lms from acrossgreater Europe in partnershipwith the embassies and

consulates of the EuropeanUnions member states.The 2014 festival includesentries from 27 of the 28 EUcountries (with the exceptionof Malta).

At the age of 82,Troell was edging towardretirement before he cameacross the true story of anti-fascist Swedish journalistTorgny Segerstedt, who waseditor-in-chief of the liberaldaily Gteborgs Handels-och Sjfartstidning from1917 to 1945.

After Hitlers rise topower in 1933 Segerstedtregularly wrote editorialscritical of the German leaderwhich became increasinglydangerous as time woreon and Sweden tried tomaintain neutrality whileits friends and neighbourswere attacked by the Nazis.

In The Last Sentence(taken from a line in the OldNorse poemHvaml)Troelltells the historic tale of acomplex man in sumptuousblack and white withcinematographer MischaGavrjusjov using all aspectsof shading to the lmsadvantage.Theres nothingblack and white aboutSegerstedt the man.

Although ostensiblydealing with public eventsTroell, like Jean Renoir andIngmar Bergman beforehim, focuses on the intimatedetails of family life and itsrelationship with the largerworld. Segerstedts Jewishmistress (and wife of acolleague) complicated hislife in so many ways in whatwas already a very precarious

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It takes a visit to her oldhomeland to snap Katnissinto action. Childhoodfriend and sometime-kissing-partner Gael (LiamHemsworth) shows herwhat remains of District12; still-smoulderingruins. She agrees to be theMockingjay, the mascot forthe revolution, and to do aseries of propaganda videosthat will go viral in all ofPanem.Katniss proves to bea method actor: she just cantmake the promo spots workin front of a green screen;ourMockingjay needs to beplonked in the middle of theght to muster a credible callto war.

But rst,wardrobe.Theres some great comicrelief fromElizabeth Banksas EfeTrinket,who ndsherself below ground withthe plebs in District 13 andabout as far from the glitz ofthe Capitol as a girl could get.Im condemned to this placeof jumpsuits, shemoans.Beetee (JeffreyWright),Katniss old ally from thearena, proves to be her ownpersonal Q, crafting her a newbow as well as arrows that canbring downCapitol aircraft.

For a time its a bit likethatTomCruise movie

where he dies and repeats hisday over and over. Katnissemerges from underground,shoots a promo, cries a little,repeat. Unable to heed thelove the one youre withmantra, Katniss pines for theman shes not currently with,Peeta, who is being heldagainst his will in the Capitoland coerced into speakingout against Katniss.

But the promos areworking and people in alldistricts are rising up againstthe Capitol. Fire is catchingand if we burn, you burnwith us! is Katniss warningto President Snow.Thesescenes of rebellion are toobrief to have much impact(a longer lumberjack scene,please) and the bombing,albeit exciting, cant sustainus through an entire movie.

Director FrancisLawrence (tired of theno relation sufx, Imsure) is working with someinteresting themes about thenature of propaganda andratings-conscious politicizing,while televised executionsand the deliberate targetingof civilians cuts too close toreality. But ultimately PartOne will go down as the lmyou sat through while youwaited for the more excitingmain event, the conclusion,due out this time next year.

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Its Only MakeBelieve (Norway 2013,director Arild OstinOmmundsen) atVancityTheatre tonight at 8:30p.m. and Nov. 27 at6:30 p.m. as part of theCrime Fest series. Formore information anda complete scheduleof lms visit viff.org/theatre/series/crime-fest.Rating: 8 (out of 10).

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Arild OstinOmmundsens Its OnlyMake Believe is an alltoo-real slice of Nordicnoir.

His camera focuseson Jenny (played byOmmundsens wife SiljeSalomonsen) as shenegotiates the good, thebad and the ugly in herlife after spending a 10-year stint in prison for aburglary gone wrong.

Still a young woman,and with a 10-year-olddaughter in tow, Jennytries to start her life overagain but the past keepsgetting in the way.

Shot on location inStavanger, Rogaland onthe southwest coast ofNorway Ommundsen goesfor a full-out Cape Fearvibe and in the processmakes a superb thrillerwith a poetic touch.

Its Only Make Believeis screening tonightand Nov. 27 as part ofVancity Theatres CrimeFest series featuring 16lms over the next week.Fourteen lms on theschedule are Vancouvertheatrical premieres.Theother two are archivalclassics: PolanskisChinatown (celebratingits 40th anniversary) andTarantinos Jackie Brown.

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LANDMARK CINEMAS 6ESPLANADE200West Esplanade,NorthVancouver604-983-2762Birdman or (TheUnexpectedVirtue ofIgnorance) (14A) Fri,Mon-Thur 6:35, 9:20; Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:35, 9:20

p.m.Big Hero 6 (G) Fri, Mon-Thur 7, 9:50; Sat-Sun 1, 4,7, 9:50 p.m.Big Hero 6 3D (G) Fri,Mon-Thur 6:30, 9:30; Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30p.m.Whiplash (14A) Fri,Mon-Thur 7:10, 9:45; Sat-

Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45p.m.Fury (14A) Fri, Mon-Thur 6:40, 9:40; Sat-Sun12:35, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 p.m.St.Vincent (PG) Fri,Mon-Thur 6:50, 9:35; Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35p.m.

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PARK &TILFORD333 Brooksbank Ave.,NorthVancouver,Gone Girl (14A) Fri-Mon 7, 10:10;Tue 3:50, 7,10:10 p.m.Interstellar (PG) Fri,Mon,Wed-Thur 6:30, 10;Sat 11 a.m., 2:40, 6:30, 10;Sun 2:40, 6:30, 10;Tue 3,6:30, 10 p.m.Dumb and DumberTo(PG) Fri 7:20, 9:50; Sat11:30 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:20,9:50; Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:20,9:50; Mon,Wed-Thurs 7:15,10;Tue 4:50, 7:15, 10 p.m.Thur 1 p.m.The Hunger Games:Mockingjay, Part 1 (PG)

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6:50, 7:20, 9:50, 10:15 p.m.Thur 1 p.m.Horrible Bosses 2 (14A)Wed-Thur 7:30, 10:10p.m.Penguins of Madagascar3D (G) Wed-Thur 7, 9:15p.m.NationalTheater Live:OfMice and Men Encore(PG) Sun 12:55 p.m.

time.The cast is uniformly

excellent.Danish actor JesperChristensen plays Segerstedt,Bergman collaborator

Pernilla August is hismistress Maja Forssman,Bjorn Granath is cuckoldedcolleagueAxel Forssman andSwedish comic Ulla Skoogis Segerstedts long-sufferingwife.

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Choreographer premieres Syncope

Don QuixotesDream and MixedRepertoire by CoastalCity Ballet, tonight,Friday, Nov. 21 at 8 p.m.at NorthVancouversCentennialTheatre.Tickets: $30/$22/$20, visitcentennialtheatre.com.Info: coastalcityballet.com.

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Tonights season openingperformance by CoastalCity Ballet will offeraudience members a mixof old and new, artfullyperformed by a dancecompany comprised oflocal talents on the rise.

Don Quixotes Dreamand Mixed Repertoire, an

evening of classics and newworks, presented by theBallet Productions CanadaSociety, will get underwayat NorthVancouversCentennialTheatre at8 p.m.The one night

engagement will showcasethe pre-professionalVancouver-based balletcompany, which aimsto offer young dancersperformance opportunities,while helping them prepare

for professional careers.Company members

will perform the Dreamscene from Don Quixote, aclassical ballet. Accordingto the shows promotionalmaterials, the work wasoriginally choreographed byMarius Petipa, with musicby Ludwig Minkus.TheDream scene portrays DonQuixotes encounter withbeautiful maidens and hislove Dulcinea.

Also on tonightsprogram is a world premiereby award-winning localchoreographerWenWeiWang. Pure Emotion isWangs second worldpremiere for Coastal CityBallet and marks an attemptto combine pure movement

with raw emotion.AliceGerbrechts You KeepQuiet and I will Go,was inspired by a PabloNeruda poem and was rstperformed by LouisvilleBallet Civic Company in2002. Rounding out theperformance are works byBrazilian choreographersGisele Bellot and ElizabethAlexandre, and a worldpremiere by North Shorenative EricaTrivett.

Trivett, who grew up onthe North Shore, underwenttraining at the Goh BalletAcademy before goingon to have a successfulcareer as a dancer, livingand working in Portland,Ore., Switzerland, France,Denmark and Belgium.

Having recently returned toVancouver,Trivett teachesdance for a number oflocal groups. In addition,shes currently a fourthyear student of osteopathicmanual practice atVancouvers CanadianCollege of Osteopathy,and offers workshops inthe Feldenkrais Method,an approach based onmovement and awareness,and understanding bodyfunction.

Busy with teachingand studying, shesalways pleased to have anopportunity to choreograph,particularly with CoastalCity Ballet.

They have a really highcalibre of students andyoung professionals andits a pleasure to work withthem, she says.

An artistic staff member,teaching regularly,Trivetthas known the companysartistic director, LiYaming,and company director,Andrea Allen, since she was11.

The name ofTrivettsfeatured group piece,Syncope, is a term shelearned through herosteopathy studies.

I liked the nameSyncope because it alsoreminded me of syncopationand when I looked up thedenition it talked aboutloss of consciousness butalso then it talked about lossof sound I liked the titlebecause the piece is fairlyabstract, she says.

After choosing a piece ofmusic by John Cage called

EricaTrivettcontributespiece for newCoastal CityBallet season

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GalleriesARTS INVIEWONLONSDALEBlueShore Financial, 1250Lonsdale Ave.,NorthVancouver.Propellor Design:Arangelight sculpture inspired by theNorth Shore mountains andve meridian pendant lights arecurrently on display.

CAPILANOUNIVERSITY FIRSTNATIONS STUDENTCENTRE2055 PurcellWay,NorthVancouver.HistoricArt Installation:A witness blanket,a wood-based First Nations artinstallation that incorporatesobjects connected to residentialschool experiences from acrossCanada will be on display untilNov.27.

CITYATRIUMGALLERY141West 14th St., NorthVancouver.Monday-Friday,8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.604-988-6844 nvartscouncil.caNorthVancouverCommunityArts Councilwill present an art display ofcreatures from the deep by artistLarissa Blokhuis until Jan.19.Info: cnv.org/deepseaart.

CITYSCAPECOMMUNITYARTSPACE335 Lonsdale Ave.,NorthVancouver.Monday-Friday,9 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday,noon-5 p.m. 604-988-6844nvartscouncil.caAnonymousArt Show:Hundreds of works by hundredsof artists will be for sale at thisfundraising event and groupexhibition Nov.21-Dec.20.All artwork will be priced at

$100 and the artist will remainanonymous until after thepurchase.The Gift Box:Buy local fromtwo display cases dedicated tolocal artisans who specialize inhigh quality,hand-crafted andunique gift items.Art Rental Salon:Anongoing art rental programmewith a variety of originalartwork available ranging from$10 to $40 per month.

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whose sons graduated fromCollingwood in 2000 and2002.

She sat on Collingwoodsboard of governors for nineyears, is a former boardmember and chair with theVancouver Playhouse and acurrent board member withBard on the Beach. Lastyear, the stage in the DouglasCampbellTheatre tent atBard on the Beach wasnamed the Howard Family

Stage in honour of theHowards continued support.

I really believe thearts are mind-expanding,experience-expanding. . . .they teach tolerance, theyteach discipline, they teachunderstanding of othercultures,Howard says.

Her namesake theatreis the perfect size, as far asWener is concerned.Anyperformance space thataccommodates more than120 seats places the audiencetoo far away from the action,

he says.Any large theatre where

youre sitting in a balcony oryoure sitting in the last row,the actors, theyre ve milesaway.You just dont get thatgreat experience of beingright there, he says.

As a drama instructor, hishope is that students whowalk into the space for therst time get the sense thattheatre can be anything.

We have everythingwe need to do anything weneed, he says.

From page 13Howard heavily involved in arts

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RONANDREWSCOMMUNITY SPACE931 Lytton St., NorthVancouver. 604-987-8873 or604-347-8922Art and Deco:Abstractcompositions by Michael Jefferyand Christmas decorationsby Parkgate Ceramic Studiomembers will be on display untilDec.7.

SEYMOURARTGALLERY4360 Gallant Ave.,NorthVancouver. 10 a.m.-5p.m. daily. 604-924-1378seymourartgallery.comWinter Gift Gallery: Thegallery will be selling a selectionof holiday gifts by local artistsuntil Dec.24,10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Meet the artists and enjoyholiday baking at a receptionSunday,Nov.16,2-4 p.m.CuratorsTalk: EveryThursday at noon there will bea 20-minute curators talk withbackground on the current showin the gallery.

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Dream, she viewed thetitle to be even more apt.

I thought it had asimilarity and conceptof losing yourself insomething and not knowingwhere reality is.Whats thebeginning?Whats the end?Wheres the dream?Whichconsciousness are we in?she says.

Trivett endeavoured topush herself with the piece.

I wanted to challengemyself by working witha little bit more classicalvocabulary, she says,explaining she decided touse less oor work as aresult.

It came from a placeworking in Belgium whereI was learning a lot of oorwork in a very differentstyle and I wanted toget away from that andchallenge myself to revisitsome more neoclassicalvocabulary but with acontemporary approach,she says.

This is the third pieceTrivett has created for

Coastal City Ballet. Shesought to offer some of herinuences as well as thematerial and approachesshes been exposed toabroad, sharing them withherVancouver charges.

Nowadays, when yourea dancer in a company, Idsay anywhere, youre reallyhaving to contribute as anartist.Were past the dayswhere the choreographerreally just spoonfeedseverything, she says.

She encourages herdancers to learn to expressthemselves.

Thats whats goingto get them the job, is ifthey show initiative and areasking questions or seemto be being a little bit moreproactive in their role as aninterpreter. I like to pushthat, she says.

Trivett also offersworkshops and classesatThe Dance Centrewith Debbie Lee Dance,Vancouver Academyof Music, and LowerLonsdalesWest CoastOsteopathy andWellness(erica-trivett.com).

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Abook sent Peter Pierobonacross NorthAmerica.

In itself, that isnt sostrange.Many wandererslost themselves on theproud highway after readingvagabond-bait like JackKerouacsOn the Road.What was unusual aboutPierobons decision torattle across the continentin aVolkswagenWestfaliavan was that his journeywas precipitated by awoodworking book.

Pierobon was 19 or 20when he stepped inside aLynnValley bookstore andsaw amazing images ofwoodcarvings.

I really didnt know youcould make things like that,he recalls.

The NorthVancouvernative was studying ceramicsat Capilano College but onelook at the carvings derailedPierobons plans: he wasgoing to make a living withsawdust at his feet.

However, nding awoodworking school willingto accept a pupil whod nevermade anything out of woodproved difcult.

When youre youngyou do stuff like that andyou dont think about theconsequences.

He eventually parked hisvan at a small private schoolin Rochester,N.Y.Theschool was run byWendellCastle.

He was making piecesthat nobody else wasmaking, Pierobon says.

The precision ofwoodworking was part of theappeal, Pierobon explains.Clay can be stretched andmetal can be welded butwood is unforgiving.

It does take a certainmindset to be able tofunction well with thatmedium.

The medium wasexpanding before Pierobonseyes as he watched Castleincorporate metal and stoneinto furniture.

After two years of study,Castle hired Pierobon for aseries of projects bound forNewYork galleries.

It was a good job, it lefthis weekends free and he waswell situated in NewYork.He stayed for two years tothe day.

An artists job is totake risks and constantlychallenge himself, heexplains.

If you keep hitting thebulls eye youre standing tooclose to the target.

He gave Castle plenty ofnotice before embarking onhis solo career inToronto.

By giving everyonefair warning it was coming I kind of had to followthrough.

ButToronto was a toughcity for a new artist.

I didnt have family whotend to buy pieces earlierin your career, he says. Ididnt have contacts in themuseum/gallery world Itwas a struggle for me.

He applied for a green

card and set up shop inPhiladelphia.

If I was going to survivein the eld, the place to gowas back to the States.

The city of brotherly lovewas the same size asTorontobut replete with history.

It also has, not unlikeDetroit, this enormouspoverty-stricken area thatwas just full of decrepithousing and impoverishedpeople, he says. You couldhear gunshots, especially inthe summertime.

Pierobon has a memoryof spending Saturdaymorning at the farmersmarket and returning hometo nd his block barricadedby police.

Theres a chalk outlineof a dead body right in frontof my own house. Somebodygot whacked, basically. It wasa mob hit and it happenedright there.

He stayed in Philadelphiafor 12 years.

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North Shore News November 21 2014