Three to See Edmonton Events: Sing with Love then march, Reflections artist talk and Black Girl

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Three to See Edmonton Events: Sing with Love then march, Reflections artist talk and Black Girl

Posted By: jasabacklink February 10, 2024

Sing with Love: In response to the premier’s recent political orchestrations, members of Edmonton’s choir community and local musicians including Emmet Michael are standing up with a “big, noisy, songful show of love and support for our trans siblings,” including a concert and solidarity march at 3 p.m. to Churchill Square.

“Once the government started to lay its plans out in detail,” says organizer Katy Luyk, “our shock and sadness turned to resolve. When somebody attacks people in our community, we can’t stand by and watch.” Several local choirs are involved, and audience members are encouraged to wear comfy, bright pride gear — optional donations going to The Fyrefly Institute for Gender and Sexual Diversity.

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Details: 2 p.m. Sun. at McDougall United Church (10086 MacDonald Drive), 3:30 p.m. sing-in at Churchill Square, by donation.

Reflections: Saskatoon’s Carol Wylie — who you might remember from her terrific painting show of Residential School and Holocaust survivors at Milner — is giving a talk for her new exhibition, Reflections.

A joint show with Sherwood Park photographer Marie-Pierre Castonguay, their inviting portraits are made in hope of expanding empathy for a wide group of people and their lived experiences. Both artists will be at the opening, happy to talk about their work.

Carol Wylie is giving a talk at her show Reflections Saturday at Gallery@501 in Sherwood Park. Photo by Carol Wylie /supplied

Details: 1 p.m. Sat. at Gallery@501 (#120 – 501 Festival Ave., Sherwood Park), no charge.

Black Girl (1966): A masterpiece of brewing tension, Ousmane Sembène’s feature debut is both beautiful and full of riveting metaphors, down to the mask in its harrowing last scene.

In it, a young Senegalese woman (M’Bissine Thérèse Diop) moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and soon finds life in their small apartment a prison, both figuratively and literally — in this layered critique of the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. French and Wolof with subtitles, screens with the short Barom Sarret. See this movie.

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