I wish I was adding to the canon instead of helping to create it.. In the late aughts, there was nothing hotter than vampire romance, and by 2010, it was like someone had slashed an artery on the whole trend. On Valentine's Day 2014, Elliot Page put his heart out there for all of us to see when he gave a thoughtful, deeply moving speech at the Human Rights Campaign Foundations inaugural Time to Thrive conference. A New Day era acrobats are out, old-school flair is in. His iconic slow-motion entrance in the movie quickly became another popular meme, and the actor continued to uphold his internet icon status. Torontos Buddies in Bad Times Theatre which bills itself as the largest and longest-running queer theatre in the world rang in its 40th season in September 2018. No one expected the films breakout star to be you guessed it Keanu Reeves. But beyond the architectural acclaim, the sheer wanderlust-stoking beauty of these 10 places has made them major destinations. Women in the film industry went from being a thing? When our director asked us to romantically nuzzle noses in a party scene, which we both felt was awkward and unnatural (I mean, what teenagers do that let alone in public, surrounded by their parents and their parents friends? What was once considered the great equalizer for drag in the United States has become a global standard for drag as viewed by the mainstream. (I caught the show in Portland, Ore., where the local alt weeklys admiring preview was headlined Whats German for WTF?), Its been the most incredible, profound and powerful experience of my artistic career, Pite said in an interview with La Presse before the tour wrapped up in Montreal last summer. Canada had no greater presence on Broadway this decade than with Irene Sankoff and David Heins smash musical Come From Away. Nathan visits real entrepreneurs. 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. Versatile film and television actor Tatiana Maslany is perhaps best known for her multiple performances as various clones in the hit sci-fi series Orphan Black (2013-17). By the end of the 2010s, The Simpsons will have aired 678 episodes, making it by far the longest-running American sitcom. Following the benefit singles release on March 12, the song topped the Canadian charts for seven weeks. Sarah Manning and her many clones make their debut in Orphan Black. 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. Fan theories about the control that her late husband and manager Ren Anglil had over her career abound. Starring (then) real-life couple Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, the franchise spun four books into five movies. Somewhere, Do They Know Its Christmas weeps. 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. Canadian pop no longer necessitated anybody saying Sorry? Rachel McAdams gets an Oscar nomination for Spotlight, (New Line Cinema/Columbia Pictures/Plan B Entertainment). And while the client (a moving company) was ultimately reluctant to use Nathans idea, the book he published for the episode The Movement: How I Got This Body by Never Going to the Gym in My Life was an Amazon bestseller. The Fortress Mountain Resort in Kananaskis stands in for a snowy nightmare maze. Videos of Reeves interacting with his fellow stranded passengers picked up speed (get it?) Taylor Russell makes waves (eh?) Sarah Anne Johnsons Arctic Wonderland opens at New Yorks Julie Saul Projects, Sarah Anne Johnson Arctic Wonderland (Sarah Anne Johnson). 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. According to the thread, he tried to jump-start her car, and when that failed, he called a tow truck and drove the woman home, giving her his number and telling her to call him if she needed anything. Allysin Chaynes is a Toronto drag performer and pop cultural sponge, specializing in all things subcultural, queer, camp, strange and unusual. And I have a ton of affection for the Canada Pavilion there, which reminds me a lot of what its like to find a really nice bathroom in any Canadian park. We dont say anything, we dont communicate. The National Gallery of Canada opens major retrospective on the work of artist Alex Janvier. On Dec. 2, 2019, she announced that she would go on a 31-date (though unfortunately only one of those is in Canada) tour in 2020 to celebrate Jagged Little Pills 25th anniversary. Of all the instant classics this decade produced, horror movies were some of the best: Get Out, The Babadook, Crimson Peak. 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. In a moment that was highly deserved and long overdue, Obsidian Theatre Canadas leading Black theatre company stunned at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards in June when it conquered the play and musical theatre categories simultaneously. However, while the decade was surely a win for Asian-Canadians, and every moment was more than deserving of those headlines, as I look back, I cant help but imagine a decade when Asians being cast, asked to host award shows or just being on good television isnt such a spectacle when we are just seen. Jessie Reyez has certainly achieved international success. Sure, sureyouve been following him since his days on The Odyssey. Alicia Elliott is the author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground. Behold, introverts, for here is your queen! After launching a questionable handbag collection in 2017 (one of the rare misses of Dions renaissance, if you ask me), she unveils a very surprising fashion endeavour: a gender neutral line for kids. 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. Heres one reason: her silence is golden. During her rise, her voice was as powerful as her bad taste (or that of her entourage), and she was dismissed as the most bland person on the stage of 1998s VH1 Divas Live concert. Famous names like Sam Smith and David Guetta also contribute to the songwriting effort. For the Season 3 finale, NFY takes that swindle to the extreme, with Nathan orchestrating a high-wire spectacle. Audiences had an appetite for a particular strain of high-concept terror. 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. Fielder is a comedian a dry one. Some of the photographs feature guards, like Armed guard outside Tower 3, while others document the more harrowing spaces of the facility, where prisoners like Paul Bernardo were kept 23 hours a day. Ghosts? Should we cut their allowances? Jeremy Dutcher wins the Polaris Music Prize. Toronto drag queen Brooke Lynn Hytes finishes second on the 11th season of RuPauls Drag Race. Elliot Page comes out at the Human Rights Campaign Foundations inaugural Time to Thrive conference. 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. Interior. . Guillaume Ct releases Lost In Motion on YouTube. I love drag. The 2010s were a huge decade for Broadway. Shot among a 50,000-person crowd of motorbike rally spectators in a football stadium (and a mosh pit made up of Bouchers brother and his friends), the video juxtaposed the tiny Boucher atop the shouting, shoving, shirtless masses and created a playful effect that also addressed themes of traditional masculinity. And thats a really big deal. So a new day came: Dion would perform every night on the same stage, in the same city, surrounded by dancers, acrobats, video screens and even a scary mime in white face paint. Justin Bieber releases his massive hit single Baby. In 2017, I met Sandra Oh when I interviewed her at TIFF, and we hugged after I told her that Greys Anatomy got me through college. Performers have been allowed to grow into exactly who they need to be not who they make think a television audience needs them to be. Since the 90s, she has been synonymous with syrupy power ballads, questionable fashion choices and a passion for golfing. Keanu Reeves might be a roadside hero. She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany reveals alternate finale ending that was 'more serious' Head writer Jessica Gao told Maslany "there were like 20 versions" of the ending, the actress says. Michelle Obama wears Jason Wu dress for farewell speech, Despite the feelings of sorrow many felt as then-U.S. President Barack Obama gave his farewell address, one bright silver lining emerged (at least for Canadians tuning in): Michelle Obama wore a dress by Vancouver-raised Jason Wu, who had also designed the first ladys dresses for the inaugural balls in 2009 and 2013. (Some of us miss the graffiti. How did Dion accomplish this tour de force? Its a dubious honour on both accounts and points to the wide array of work that needs to be done not only in Hollywood but also here at home. Because regardless of whether the Emmys take notice, its going to make great TV. And you hope to hell that hell find his way out of it for both your sakes. Last name Ever, first name Greatest, his birth name was Aubrey Drake Graham and he was now our 6ix God even if we didnt know it yet. Macis tactics, perhaps, are not so different. Beck + Call, featuring celebrated throat singer Tanya Tagaq, helped cement their staying power on Canadas alternative charts. Even though her hosting the awards was a big deal, Oh acknowledged something important about representation: that change is excruciatingly slow. 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. But its exciting that even in the era of viral videos, the audience went wild for dance, for classical music and for a corner of the arts world that, unfairly, gets so overlooked. Hes convinced hell reach a happy ending, erasing a lifetime of misery. Its been exceptionally exciting to witness the international success of our Quebec filmmakers like Villeneuve and Valle, who, in the last 10 years, have leapt from their acclaimed francophone work to helm major American studio projects like Prisoners, Dallas Buyers Club, Sicario and Wild. Released in September, it went on to win the 2019 Man Booker Prize alongside Bernardine Evaristos Girl, Woman, Other and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, because of course. On June 22, 2010, Canada lost a force to be reckoned with when stage and screen icon Tracy Wright passed away from pancreatic cancer. KC Hoard edits the Arts and Culture section of Carleton Universitys the Charlatan, and has written for The Globe and Mail and the National Post. But before it even premiered in 2013, Tatiana was already a veteran of Canadian film and TV, having started her career at age nine in her hometown of Regina. To all the nerdy girls out there who hide behind their sketchbooks: dont be afraid to tell your stories to the world, she said. As we move out of a decade that has seen immense progress in LGBTQ representation, its important to remember that despite this, the world remains a dangerous place for many LGBTQ people which is why its imperative more celebrities take a page from Page and use their platform in a more aggressive manner. This colonial mentality that Indigenous people are backward or uncivilized or a problem that needs to be solved directly resulted in the creation of government-mandated residential schools, drastically interrupting our nations cultural and artistic development. CNN called him a national treasure because of it, and he further cemented his status as the internets wholesome boyfriend. A post shared by Cline Dion (@celinedion) on May 2, 2017 at 8:32am PDT. In one episode, Cousin Greg even drives from New York to Quebec to pick up a very grumpy Ewan and bring him to his brother. Originally consisting of DJs Ehren Bear Witness Thomas of the Cayuga First Nation, Ian DJ NDN Campeau of the Nippising First Nation and Dan DJ Shub General, Mohawk of the Six Nations Grand River (though General was replaced by Tim 2oolman Hill, Mohawk of the Six Nations Grand River, in 2014 and Campeau left in 2017), the electronic music group drew much-deserved attention for their mix of hip hop, dance and reggae alongside remixes of traditional powwow songs. 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. Where were you when you accepted Drake as your personal saviour? has a leading 14 nominations including best TV drama series and best actress in a continuing drama series for star Tatiana Maslany, who appears as a host of cloned characters on the hit show. Altmejds The Flux and The Puddle, which appeared as part of his 2015 retrospective, reads like the lab of a madman, or maybe some sort of future version of an island Dr. Moreau lived on, or a cabinet of curiosities I never want to see again but also cant help but really want to see again. In the style of a documentary mystery, the movies a search for Bills long-lost love. Maybe you dont really know the mans story either. Expect to see a lot more of her in the 2020s. 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. NFY was always more than a prank show, but in four seasons, it had evolved from poo jokes to this: a feature-length movie (documentary?) Reeves and his fellow passengers were on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Burbank, Calif. when their plane had to make an emergency landing in Bakersfield over 160 kilometres away from their destination. Born in Colombia and raised in Toronto, Sergio Trujillo became one of Broadways most sought-after choreographers this decade. Scott (Michael Cera) falls for Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but before they can go on a semi-normal date, hell have to K.O. It debuted at No. The hero wears obscure band tees, not vibranium battle armour. "I. After years of hearing the same five or six male names bandied about in casual conversation as the beardy definition of Canadian auteur-dom (Valle, Maddin, Egoyan, McDonald, Cronenberg, Dolan; then Johnson, Shin, Radwanski and Cividino, the latter quartet representing the so-called new Toronto New Wave), festivals and critics started to take notice of female voices. I like the Group of Seven as much as the next guy, and this is an affirmation of Canadian history blah blah blah and lakes and mountains blah blah good for Lawren Harris! The St. Johns native had, of course, come to prominence thanks to his work on This Hour Has 22 Minutes and subsequent Ricks Rants, the segment in which hed walk through graffitied alleys and, well, rant about whatever nonsense our prime minister and any other relevant soul was up to. OK, thats not exactly true. We don't want to seem greedy (that'd go against the Canadian stereotype, right? It was the most fun. It also helped launch her into the art-pop stratosphere from which she has yet to return. Since the 90s, she has been synonymous with syrupy power ballads, questionable fashion choices and a passion for golfing. (Hes the handsome star. Epilogue: Courage hits No. And since Indigenous peoples supposed lack of history, art, politics, science, medicine and culture was often used to excuse Canadas systematic attempts to wipe out our nations, this sort of erasure had concrete effects on our lives. 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. 50 really is the new 21. A lesser-known but perhaps even more important fact is that on this date, Meghie also became the first Black Canadian female filmmaker to ever have a wide release studio feature film. The mood is claustrophobic appropriate, considering youre trapped on a farm with family of Puritan zealots. Take that, The Notebook. Theyre shining examples of the possibilities of how Asians can be portrayed without conforming to stereotypical and racist perceptions. 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. 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. Is he at fault? The film follows a family dominated by Black women who are forced to confront secrets that have been hidden for decades when a man shows up at their door and promptly falls dead. Producing the thing was a technical feat just a shade less tricky than wrestling a grizzly bear. Not unexpectedly, given that it was Feys followup project to 30 Rock, the Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt also loved to mention Canada, though with a specific focus on one city: Montreal. Nathan tells her theyll stop filming. In particular, her Mariner 9 of 2012 a panoramic video installation that imagines a Mars of the future explored by an unmanned vehicle feeds my desire for bleak visions of faraway planets. 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). (while they themselves borrowed from Scandinavian landscapes) gave us a truly modern language for the Canadian wild that has become a signature of our own art history. (The winner of the contest, by the way, got the chance to visit both spots on a special Deadpool tour. Its early 2011, and Denis Villeneuves Incendies is up for the Academy Award for best foreign language film. Catharsis, Im telling ya. Thats over-simplifying things a touch, but this art museum was designed to be at one with nature. Plus $9.5 million is a lot of money the most a Canadian painting has ever commanded and this is a really good painting. 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. Back off, Tony Napoli.) Just look at Sarah Polley, who made the Toronto romance Take This Waltz and NFB documentary Stories We Tell one year apart (2011 and 2012 respectively), and capped off the decade with the brilliant, multivalent CBC miniseries Alias Grace in 2017, tapping American Psycho filmmaker Mary Harron to direct it. As wellness fads go, The Movements not overtly sketchy, which might account for its success in the real world. . Looking back on the 2010s, I'm struck by the sweeping changes that impacted me, a Canadian female filmmaker, and my people. We invite you to close out your own decade by taking a little pride in what your fellow Canadians have accomplished in the 2010s. She has a tattoo of James Stewart's silhouette on her wrist. 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. The truth about not only Tat, but also Dan Levy (the visionary co-creator of Schitts Creek and also a longtime friend) and other Canadian artists, is that weve always had the talent just maybe not the audacity to make it known. Well, duh, because then he wouldnt be Buddy. her seven evil exes including, fun fact, the future Captain America (Chris Evans). I cannot think of a better way to end this decade than with the promise of her musical return. It was such an easy song to like. Spoiler? Joining the MCU, while already being such a vocal advocate for Asian representation, gives him a larger platform to spread the message of inclusion. The result? 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. For her titular role in Killing Eve, Oh became the first Asian woman in 39 years to win the prize for best actress in a TV drama. 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. Well, anyone who tuned into the pilot on Jan. 13, 2015, TBH. 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. This summer, I did a show called Dear Alanis, where I performed a stripped-down piano version of the song; I had never realized how devastating the lyric Just make sure you dont tell on me, especially to members of your family was until I sung it myself. Not quite yet, but there is hope. That all changed in May of 2010 when a photo of The Matrix star morosely biting into a sandwich on a New York park bench went viral. (Editors note: Annes suggestion is unethical and also impossible please do not pay her.) ), A year into the Trump presidency, as pop culture was increasingly reflecting the social #issues of the moment, Guillermo del Toros The Shape of Water told a story just as critical of the worlds various injustices and systemic ickiness but it served it up as a Cold War fairy tale. The jury called the building both complex and serene, a masterpiece on every level, and it received plenty more major accolades that same year, including a RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Award for International Excellence and an AIA (American Institute of Architects) Award. But just two episodes into the series, the Petting Zoo bit proved the brilliance of NFYs marketing satire. Seven Tony Award nominations later, its still playing in Toronto, New York City and London, and notably surpassed The Drowsy Chaperones record to become the longest-running Canadian musical on Broadway in October 2018.
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