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Hey there! Hope your week is going amazingly. Have some pitches via your weekly post-meeting arts and culture email. ICYMI: Arts & Culture meetings are Tuesdays in SUB 3-04 at 4:00-5:00 PM!Also, here's your weekly reminder to pitch me any ideas you have! I'd love to hear them. Especially for the following columns:

• Diss Track: Are there 3-4 songs that grind your gears in the worst way possible? Diss the crap out of them in this column. 

• Brew Crew/Vino Bitches: A fun, 150- to 350-word review of your favourite (or not-so-favourite) beer, wine, or other alcoholic beverage of choice.

• Noodle Nation: Who loves noodles? You (might) love noodles. Write 450 to 500 words on your favourite noodle (ramen, pho, other long stringy flour-y food) haunts for this column.

• DatApp: Have an app that’s been a game- or life-changer? Wax eloquently about it (or a few of your favourites) in a short 150- to 350-word installment for this column.

• Top 5: Top 5 study spots, places to cry in public, late-night post-exam diners...you name it, you can write a Top 5 on it! 50-200 words per Thing In The Top 5.

• Emoji of the Week: This one’s self-explanatory. Trawl your recently used emojis and sing praise about it and why other people should worship it as The Best Emoji too.

• Fashion Streeters: If you love walking up to people and asking them about their cool outfits, this one’s for you. Q & A format. Consider pairing up with a photo volunteer or taking your own pics!

• Doin’ You: Everyone has something they do exceptionally well. Wanna teach others your wizardry? Walk us step-by-step through the process of a master for this column.

• Playlists: Have killer musical taste? Share it on The Gateway with a curated playlist. 

• ...AND MORE! You can also pitch me your own column ideas if you want to write your own or if you've seen any awesome movies/heard any music/read any books/played any games/eaten any food etc., let me know. 

Lemme know at [email protected] if these pique your interest.

 And read on for this week's 很好 pitches. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Gateway line editor jobs have been posted and close this Friday!

 If you'd like to be next year's Arts & Culture Editor (it's A+ and I'd really recommend it), I highly encourage you to diversify your writing by taking different types of stories. 

If you're seriously considering applying, I recommend speaking with me, with Sofia (current News Editor and incoming Managing Editor), and with Oumar (current Online Editor and incoming Editor-in-Chief) one-on-one. It makes your application much stronger and is

essentially mandatory.

We'll want to see your ideas and what you want to bring to the position next year, should you be the one to fill it.  

Show review: School for Scandal (March 29 - April 7)

The University of Alberta Department of Drama presents the quintessential Comedy of Manners, The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, directed by the 2018 Mary Mooney Distinguished Visiting Artist, Mitchell Cushman. The School for Scandal is part of the 2017-18 Studio Theatre season, and will run March 29 - April 7, 2018, at the Timms Centre for the Arts.Set in the 18th century, Lady Sneerwell sets out to spread scandal, amidst a society made up of intrigue-hungry narcissists, frantic to tear each other down just to escape their own boredom. Featuring a cast of outrageous characters who feast on gossip and rumour but live in terror of exposure, director Mitchell Cushman explores these 18th century tropes through the eyes of modern day fictitious high school students.A graduate of the University of Alberta MFA Directing program (Class of 2011), Mitchell Cushman is the 2018 Mary Mooney Distinguished Visiting Artist. He is the Founding Artistic Director of Outside the March, and is the recipient of the Siminovitch Protégé Award, Two Dora Awards for Best Production, and the Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best Director. Check it out!

This is a good one: Documentary premiere review

On Sunday, April 8th, three UofA alumni will premiere VISTA, the first documentary to share the story of a survivor, four years after the 2014 Isla Vista campus shooting in Santa Barbara County, California. Attend the premiere on Sunday, April 8th at 4:00 pm at Metro Cinema. VISTA turns the camera away from the killer, allowing the victims to tell their stories, specifically Antoine Cherchian, a student of University of California who shot in the middle of the street while skateboarding that evening. As students at the time of the shooting (now UofA alumni) Jesse Werkman, Patrick Michaud, and Daniel Kiskaroly felt connected to the students affected by the shooting and compelled to share a different perspective of the story. The three filmmakers decided to self-fund their documentary and flew down to Santa Barbara to capture the experience of 3 individuals impacted by the tragedy. There will be a short Q&A with the filmmakers and Antoine after the premiere. Review the film. 

Film Review: In the Fade

At Cannes 2017, Diane Kruger won Best Actress for her riveting performance in Fatih Akin’s In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts), a gritty thriller about a grief-stricken woman who takes revenge for the death of her Kurdish-German husband and their young son in a Neo-Nazi terrorist attack. Also reaping accolades in the foreign language category, the film won the 2018 Golden Globe and was Germany’s 2018 Oscar entry. Katja and Nuri may have started out as an atypical couple, given that he was a convicted drug dealer and the two were married in jail. But now they are living a happy family life — until the bombing. Wanting justice, Katja asks herself: What would Nuri do? We have an online screener for this. Review it!

Review/interview: Andrew Collins Trio @ Northern Lights Folk Club on April 7

The mercurial, 5x JUNO nominee /7x Canadian Folk Music Award winning mando maestro Andrew Collins co-founded seriously noteworthy Canadian bands like the Creaking String Quartet, the Foggy Hogtown Boys and, more recently, his namesake Trio, which showcases a popular collision of trailblazing roots, newgrass, folk and jazz, not to mention a dizzying number and energetic interplay of instruments on stage. Review the show or interview this trio!

Interview/review: PVRIS @ The Starlite Room on April 27

Super talented award-winning alt-rock outfit PVRIS (pronounced Paris) is coming to Edmonton! The band released their latest record All We Know of Heaven, All We Need of Hell in August 2017 through Rise Records. The record hit #5 on Billboard’s Rock Chart, #1 on Billboard’s Emerging Artists Chart, and has been praised in the press by the likes of Alternative Press, Kerrang!, Rock Sound, NME, and more. Interview them or review the show or both!