about love and the lies we tell ourselves. 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart. I like sci-fi mostly the quiet kind, where people are stuck in space alone with maybe one book or maybe zero books. (In Season 2, theres a blip of a visual gag where Nathans seen writing a passion project called Looking For Susan. But the show went on: videos depicting Canadas glorious landscape and flawless performances by k.d. Xas Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation was performed at Londons Art Night before travelling, in various iterations, to Glasgow and Baku, Azerbaijan. Beale Streets entire cast is exceptional, not least of all Torontos very own Stephan James. She pushed and challenged me to be a smarter, more economical filmmaker in the most caring, collaborative way. It takes time and money to develop writers and filmmakers, and it takes bold greenlighting decisions to birth projects that can cut through the noise. I grabbed a drink and within no time was singled out by the tall, gorgeous, smokey-eyed acrobat who had just performed four songs in a row. Off they went with their new beautiful-people families, while we stood in the window waving lovingly and slightly nervously. Tony Goldwyn and Tatiana Maslany in Network. After his time with Spider-Man, Epstein went on to originate the lead role of Gerry Goffin in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. How did this dutiful Regina girl stop apologizing so much and become the force that she still is today? Organizers revealed the lineup of guests at next month's. The exhibit opened at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto in January and then toured across Canada. On Conversation with Alanis Morissette, she gives us access to some of the greatest minds in the worlds of wellness, healing and recovery. In the 2010s, Keanu Reeves graduated from brooding 90s action movie superstar to beloved cult hero. Soon after the show premiered at Panamania, the arts and culture festival attached to the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto, rumours of its remarkable transmutation of grief into art spread far and wide. If you drew a Venn diagram of yoga and rad buildings and bonkers natural beauty, Instagram would definitely be the term in the middle. Her, featuring a score by Owen Pallett and Win Butler, premieres at New York Film Festival. But really, the inn pays homage to local architecture and industry. ), A Tribe Called Red release their self-titled album, Four years after first forming, the Ottawa-based A Tribe Called Red made their full-length debut with the release of their self-titled album, which went on to be longlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. As promised, he inspires the public with a death-defying tightrope walk for charity., The plan: Construct the ultimate talk show anecdote.. As I write this, Alanis has just announced the details of her new single and album! The result? Obviously, anyone with a beating heart prefers the latter, especially since with the release of her debut single in September, we were introduced to Mission, B.C.s pop heroine, who quickly rose to international stardom following the U.S. release of Call Me Maybe in 2012 thanks, blessedly, to the help of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, who stumbled upon the track and made their own lip dub video. Swiss Chalet, the Ottawa Senators and the SNC-Lavalin scandal are all also mentioned (seriously). Girls. Shell return to star as Judy Robinson in the second season of the Netflix remake of Lost in Space. How lucky are we to be entering our fourth decade in knowing Alanis? But then, in January 2019, she did something even better: she teamed up with Andy Samberg to host the Golden Globes and succeeded at making them the absolute best. Over four seasons, the greatest and most elaborate stunt Nathan for You ever produced was the series itself. Canada kicked off the 2010s with three straight nominations for best foreign language film (Incendies, Monsieur Lazhar and War Witch), but it very much deserved one more in 2014 when it submitted Xavier Dolans Mommy. The show even managed to get our countrys name into an Oscar-nominated song when Blame Canada provided a centerpiece to the 1999 South Park movie, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. And it struck a chord: Montreals Xavier Dolan went on to adapt the play for cinema, premiering the film at the 2013 Venice International Film Festival. The architect, Todd Saunders, is a Newfoundland native who lives and works in Norway. 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). What do you get when you combine Canadas premier EDM DJ/producer and a classic short story by celebrated sci-fi author Ray Bradbury? Nathan visits real entrepreneurs. When she was putting together the decades inarguably perfect pop album E MO TION, Carly Rae Jepsen decided one of the tracks shed recorded shouldnt make the cut because it felt too cinematic. That track was the equally inarguably perfect pop song Cut to the Feeling, and Jepsen decided to offer it to the soundtrack of animated film Ballerina (or Leap!, as it was titled in the U.S.). Because thats what made a song like Baby so easily digestible: where the magic of crushes and innocent heartbreak that accompany low-stakes relationships tend to fade the further into adulthood you go, Biebers premiere single served as a delightful time machine. Welcome to Betroffenheit, the soul-searing, genre-defying collaboration between choreographer Crystal Pite and playwright and performer Jonathon Young that stormed the stages of the worlds performing arts centres in the mid-2010s, leaving audiences harrowed, healed and breathless in its wake. So to the Asian kid crunching on shrimp chips while watching Marvel movies: your world is about to change. After conquering YouTube and the publishing world, Torontos Lilly Singh turned her sights to late-night TV this past September and made her debut with A Little Late with Lilly Singh, NBCs replacement for Last Call with Carson Daly. 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. Here are 10 examples. Canadas got your back. On June 22, 2010, Canada lost a force to be reckoned with when stage and screen icon Tracy Wright passed away from pancreatic cancer. typically makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. Because the idea isnt bonkers enough, the first audience loves it. Stephan Jamess star ascends with If Beale Street Could Talk. Chris James, banner years, dominating the Billboard charts, How 94 calls to action finally allowed Indigenous artists the space to cultivate a renaissance, Rachel McAdams gets an Oscar nomination for, 10 Canadians who should have been nominated for Oscars in the 2010s, another Canadian-directed film that doesnt need to be named, leading my former employer Indiewire to demand the Academy reconsider its rules, the first comic book movie ever to score a nomination, convinced him that Mansbridge was (is) the Canadian Walter Cronkite., William Ellis and Jordan Tannahill opted to close Videofag, Having hosted several hundred performances, more than 11 million fans who tuned in to join them, Asian-Canadian representation exploded on the world stage in the 2010sand that's a very big deal, you can catch it at the Winnipeg Art Gallery until Feb. 22, 2020, Stella Meghie breaks barriers with the major studio release of, In the 2010s, Stella Meghie proved that Canadian women of colour can take over Hollywood, debuted at No. The mood is claustrophobic appropriate, considering youre trapped on a farm with family of Puritan zealots. A heist movie where the robbers break into dreams, Leonardo DiCaprio leads an all-star cast (including Halifaxs Ellen Page). I have yet to be asked to guest star. As Youngs voiceover has it: Youre trapped in a room. First stop: Toronto. And anyone who thinks its screenplay is less worthy of an Oscar nomination than Craig Borten and Melisa Wallacks dangerously problematic script for another Canadian-directed film that doesnt need to be named deserves a big slap from Rihanna. Billboard 200 chart, a first in 17 years (and an achievement a decade in the making). Before the Hulu series premiered (and before this years sequel novel The Testaments was released, for that matter), the Royal Winnipeg Ballet debuted a rendition of The Handmaids Tale that saw the story depicted in a truly unique way. But after basking in the attention of 10 women hired off Craigslist, Nathan calls off the ruse. 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. Having hosted several hundred performances and built an incredible artistic community, the duo used their announcement to remind fans and the media that their intention was never to be a permanent institution but a transient space that reflected their romantic relationship (which had since come to an end). In the shows final scene, the pair reunite, but Macis suddenly uncomfortable around the cameras. (Ive been waiting my whole life/the last two years to say that. 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. 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. Where were you when you accepted Drake as your personal saviour? And, more often than you might realize, those fantasy worlds on screenwere actually somewhere in Canada. 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 . Martin also co-wrote the book for The Prom, a musical about four Broadway actors who help a lesbian student who has been banned from bringing her girlfriend to their prom (it landed him a Tony nomination in 2019). After several failed IVF cycles and a miscarriage, Dion and Anglil welcome their twin sons Nelson and Eddy to the world. Two great entries in the canon of celebrities picking slightly random names for their children, if you ask me. And Buddy, as we know, says what he likes. Like the hungry overachievers we are, we then succeeded wildly, all over your face. Which, like, obviously: on top of Canadas always-uncanny ability to produce larger-than-life pop stars (need I remind any of us of Cline Dion, especially circa 1997? 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. Are you ready to hear the truth that needs to be told?. Keanu Reeves may be loved by the internet, but for some fans, he deserves more than some tweets singing his praises. What this means, in practical terms, is that arts organizations, publishers, literary journals and other arts institutions are not only encouraged to include Indigenous artists and our work but financially incentivized to do so. As Martha Schabas put it in her Globe and Mail review, I texted friends the following morning and told them to drop everything and go see it., Over the next three years, it toured stages from Seattle to Santa Monica to Saddlers Wells in London, collecting raves and accolades along the way, including the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production. But he is, nevertheless, an imposter playing an imposter: a comedian posing as a business consultantposing as whatever suits his plan. Alice Munro becomes the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2011, Winnipeg-based artist Sarah Anne Johnson showed photographs from a residency she participated in a couple of years before in which she travelled along with scientists and activists as they traversed the Arctic Circle for 21 days. In her pivotal 1991 paper The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Contemporary Native Art and Public Art Museums in Canada, Mohawk curator Lee-Ann Martin named the ultimate effect of this erasure: The exclusion of the arts of Native peoples implies that the artistic and cultural contributions to Canadian history by Canadas First Nations [Inuit, and Mtis] are non-existent. Because our art and literature were not acknowledged, as far as the Canadian public was concerned, it didnt exist. But progress made toward better representation, no matter how slow (sigh), is still progress in the right direction. 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. Her second EP, Being Human in Public, was nominated for a Grammy, and shes penned songs for the likes of Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa and Sam Smith. Theres barely an episode where Nathan isnt putting himself out there, trying to turn an awkward encounter with a client (or an actor he found on Craigslist) into something more. The future looks even more promising thanks to the December 2018 announcement that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is getting its first lead Asian superhero. But between you and I, Ive never seen it, because I refuse to believe Ryan Gosling saved jazz. In fact, if you live in Winnipeg, you can catch it at the Winnipeg Art Gallery until Feb. 22, 2020. Gays familiar with his work are gagging. Its no problem: the crew will focus on getting a cool drone shot, instead. Browse Aaron Poole movies and TV shows available on Prime Video and begin streaming right away to your favorite device. Writer/director Christopher Nolan hopped back to Alberta for his next sci-fi adventure. 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. Young and his partner were in a building only metres away, but were unable to save them. 50 really is the new 21. With more than 28 billion streams, Drake is named Spotifys artist of the decade. Frankly, Toronto should always be depicted as exactly this cool. At what point did you realize that he was no longer that kid from Degrassi but a legitimate rapper and poet whose talent would go on to challenge any and all existing artists on the 2010 charts? (Keandra?). Both July Talk and Tagaq have more than proven their capacity to craft challenging, beautiful music and still reach the masses, and its about time they each get international recognition. Its not a race here. It also led to the release of her followup, The Sun and Her Flowers, but were not talking about 2017 (yet). READ. Earned It by Torontos The Weeknd is one of the more notable cuts. At the Canadian Screen Awards, we were awarded everything, including best motion picture, best feature-length documentary, best art direction/production design, best cinematography, achievement in direction, achievement in editing, best original screenplay and best original score. This eventually leads to among other things her becoming a political refugee, Skyping with Justin Trudeau and attending an elementary school named after Alanis Morissette. What can you believe, period? Since then, its become something to look forward to come (early, early) springtime (or late, late winter) in Canada, and its gotten even bigger thanks to the introduction of Canadian Screen Week, which allows for even more time and attention for well-deserved Canadian productions. When their community no longer has the medicine of childrens laughter to inspire them? Shawn Mendes releases Life of the Party (also: meet Shawn Mendes! Its an incubus which is way less surprising than Sues reaction. Brooke Lynn Hytes would go on that next year to win Miss Continental, one of the most prestigious pageant titles in the world of drag. (And youre also as Liu has excitedly expressed about to have an Asian superhero to dress up as on Halloween.). The Courage World Tour is taking her near, far and probably wherever you are. These words became iconic the moment they were spoken by Wolastoqiyik musicologist, vocalist and composer Jeremy Dutcher. Canadian producer J. Allysin Chaynes is a Toronto drag performer and pop cultural sponge, specializing in all things subcultural, queer, camp, strange and unusual. Its an obvious delusion, but a romantic one the sort of beautiful lie you can build a story on. And in the 2010s, it was more of the same gone supernova. (In unrelated news, space seems terrifying. 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. Because regardless of whether the Emmys take notice, its going to make great TV. 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. When it comes to the top-grossing movies of the decade, theres not much in the way of variety. This bouncy rap single was a huge smash in Canada, going five times platinum, but failed to perform anywhere else which really is a shame, because Nova Scotias Classified put together an incredibly catchy, fun and motivational single. 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. The phenomenal success of productions like Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen launched the continents premier stage destination into a bold new era. Sympathy for Reeves started pouring in. 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. Its this simple thing that has created some of the most incredible drag: through pure, unadulterated expression, free of rules. 6 Tatiana Maslany Is Married. Its a reminder that Edmonton has a thriving theatre community and is at no loss for artistic talent or creativity. 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. Celine Dion releases her 27th studio album, 10 iconic moments from a decade where Cline Dion unexpectedly became the queen of everything, social medias appetite for self-deprecating yet wholesome celebrities, longtime stylist and creative director Annie Horth, A post shared by Cline Dion (@celinedion), one of the rare misses of Dions renaissance, I was ready to camp and sleep all night., her wild ride with James Corden on his Carpool Karaoke segment, When I excitedly played her Hilary and Haylie Duffs cover of Material Girl in my trailer, she smiled, nodded and pretended like she thought it was great. The Quebec success story of the 2010s teaches us that great artists are global in appeal, that we dont need to fret over losing them (or worry that theyll lose their unique artistry and local values) and that films and series that resonate with large audiences can play a significant role in cultural rapprochement and understanding. The structures 1,800 beams were re-assembled on King Street, where visitors could walk beneath the rolling form. 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. Alessia Caras debut single, released on both her debut EP Four Pink Walls and debut full-length Know-It-All, Here is a song about wanting to leave parties and the splendour of doing just that. He was, of course, referring to the global uproar over the Television Academys failure to nominate her for her breakout role(s) in the first season of Orphan Black. Alternative performers have always seen more sides to the constructs of gender in which they can play. (Hes the handsome star. What do we tell him? Co-production treaties are activated left, right and centre. Imagine having to follow up Visions, a record so obsessed over that surpassing it creatively mustve been, to say the least, daunting. Looking back, I realize that regardless of the set, if theres one time Tat has never said sorry, its between action and cut. Shes always been a fucking savage in the work itself, from her raw performance in 2010s Grown Up Movie Star to beating the shit out of Nicole Kidman in last years Destroyer. Whether the water monster/fish-man cares about any of this remains a mystery. Fan theories about the control that her late husband and manager Ren Anglil had over her career abound. It was a triumphant moment of international recognition for Canadian television so triumphant that its easy to forget that at the same awards show only five years prior, Billy Eichner was screaming TATIANA MASLANY WAS SNUBBED!! 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. Its incredibly hard to describe alternative drag succinctly. What made it even better was that BoJack himself was voiced by Toronto native Will Arnett, who brought serious weight to a role that necessitated it. The dream of the artists residency is that it can take you somewhere youve never been (while paying you). They relocate there. With the decade coming to a close, I couldnt be prouder of this nation of queer artists and performers continuing to constantly push the boundaries of art and gender. Women in the film industry went from being a thing? And among those strides, Canada created its own spot for Asian representation in ways that the country had never witnessed before, allowing us to claim our place on the world stage as an example of what representation can look like and do. Crushingly, Richard Wagamese passed away in March of that year. I wish I was adding to the canon instead of helping to create it.. 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. A few examples: The next time Tat and I were together on set was 10 years later, when I directed her in a short film I wrote called Apart From Everything. The period language is alien. Love, Canada.) Well, anybody who read it, obviously. Are they still OURS? As some were hitting the Hollywood big-time, artists like Denis Ct, Anne mond, Sbastien Pilote, Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie were also becoming international festival darlings embraced by out-of-province and out-of-country audiences alike. And he didnt just come out: making good on the promise of that speech, he spent the rest of the decade using his celebrity to amplify LGBTQ stories and other LGBTQ artists. During her time on the show, Maslany miraculously made time to act in other projects, with a focus on indie films. 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. It also shines its comedic light on gaps in communication that result from existing in a culture that often doesnt understand the nuances of Asian family dynamics. CBC Arts first covered its construction in 2016, when we visited the building site in the foothills of the Andes outside Santiago. Were here for it. Say hello to art, culture and a metric truckload of eye candy in our newsletter. The teen romance starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson was only Meghies second feature film, but it made Hollywood and the rest of the world sit up and pay attention to this visionary from the north as she broke barriers for Black Canadian female filmmakers. Once upon a time, Cline Dion had one dream: to become an international star. Nine pieces drew inspiration from Belcourts painting Water Song (which can be found in the National Gallery of Canada), and all nine were a true testament to the vivacity and beauty that define the artists work. The lyrics are classic, straightforward Cline, referencing her ongoing claim that she is now the boss of her career: Im flying on my own / On the wings of your love () / The warmer winds will carry me / Anywhere I want them to / If you could see what I can see / That nothing's blocking my view. Is she singing about her late husband and manager no longer controlling all aspects of her life? Today, Canadian libraries and museums even a pedestrian bridge are earning international attention. Canadian drag much like much Canadian pop culture has often occupied a smaller sibling position next to the general epicentre that is the United States. 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. Videos of Reeves interacting with his fellow stranded passengers picked up speed (get it?) So imagine the delight of the nation when Now, Twains first studio album in 15 years, debuted at No. 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. 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!) In the decade since Drag Race premiered, the number of drag performers, professionals, ingenues and aspiring hopefuls has skyrocketed. And Thompsons seemingly fine with all of it. This is exactly what youd think Oscar voters would be looking for in their best original song category except Cut to the Feeling was deemed ineligible because Jepsen didnt record it specifically for the film, denying us what would have surely been an epic performance at the Oscars and leading my former employer Indiewire to demand the Academy reconsider its rules. In a bit of a twist, Canadas quirkiest screen star had quite the Broadway run this decade. Later stunts, like Summit Ice the worlds first outdoor apparel company to openly promote the true story of the holocaust might have had a more positive real-world outcome. When it premiered in 2009, the now ubiquitous Drag Race without many even noticing decisively split the world of drag like a lightning bolt thrown by Zeus and sung about by Hedwig. 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. By 2016, we were truly lacking movies based on comic book characters. So, if youre a Ms. What started as NSFW Twilight fan fiction produced one of the highest-grossing R-rated film franchises ever. 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. At 51, 16 years after launching her first residency in Las Vegas, Dion bids farewell (for now?)