4 THE DAILY VOICE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 , 2012 EDITOR RUMAN KANG CS EMSS ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL ited by @blueprint | CASSETTE AN21 & —e e BLUEPRINT EVENTS photo World famous artists and producers will take over Vancouver this weekend at the second annual Seasons Electronic Music Festival. Seasons fest will be electric Underground electronic music takes over downtown this weekend By QUINN MELL-COBB lectronic music will be filling the air downtown this weekend with this year’s Seasons Electronic Music Festival hitting Vancouver. The four-day festival, now in its sec- ond year, is one of the most anticipated concerts for electronic lovers in Great- er Vancouver. “In terms of electro and hardstyle (music) in Vancouver, this probably can’t be beat,” said Davis Weston, a Langara business student who spends his time away from school in the DJ booth. Thursday’s kick-off party will fea- ture Swedish house duo Cazzette at Venue Nightclub. Friday’s sold-out event featuring DJ AN21 will be held at Celebrities night- club. The main event taking place on Saturday featuring electro legends Ar- min Van Buuren, Morgan Page, and Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello will take place at the Vancouver Con- vention Centre. “(Angello) might be as close as we get to seeing Swedish House Mafia in Vancouver,” Weston said. “It’s going to get crazy in there once he starts play- ing.” The festivities will come to on Sun- day with a performance from Gemini and Koan Sound at Celebrities. Although electronic music has not yet hit the mainstream and remains largely underground, the artists per- forming at the festival are superstars in their own right. Cazzette is the one of the biggest acts to emerge out of Sweden, the coun- try has become synonymous with pro- ducing exciting electronic music with the emergence of Avicii and the Swed- ish House Mafia. Cazzette’s rise to fame came from a remixed Avicii track the duo put to- gether last year. The track climbed the dance charts and solidified their spot in the electronic industry. Van Buuren, Page and Angello all have high-ranking songs on the Beat- port charts, the electronic music coun- terpart to the Billboard rankings. In particular, Page’s “Body Work,” a col- laboration with Canadian indie singers Tegan and Sara, has been steadily climbing the chart over the last few weeks. Angello and his co-conspirators that in Swedish House Mafia, Sebastian In- grosso and Axel Hedfors (better known by his stage name Axwell), recently re- leased their much-anticipated single Greyhound. Thes song debuted during the group’s sold-out December show at New York City’s Madison Square Gar- den, and has been much-clamored for ever since by DJs and listeners alike. The trio came together in 2008 and since then they have released a string of hit tracks. They have won multiple awards including a MTV europe award and most recently a European Border Breaker Awards. For more informa- tion, visit: www.seasonsfestival.com www.blueprintevents.ca. 66 Angello might be as close as we get to seeing the Swedish House Ma- fia in Van- couver. It’s going to be crazy in there when he starts playing DAVIS WESTON Fun events for the long weekend Don’t spend your Easter weekend looking for eggs. Try these unique events! By AUDREY McKINNON can nab one of the last $130 tickets to viral singer Gotye at the Vogue The- atre on Sunday, Easter long-weekend still has excitement in store. From roller derby to laughter yoga, this weekend is loaded with interesting things to do that will leave all those Go- tye ticket-holders begging to exchange stories by Monday. The Terminal City Rollergirls’ sixth season kicks off with a doubleheader in Kerrisdale on Friday at 6 p.m. Tick- ets to watch the all-girl contact sport in action are available at the door for $20. Riot Girls’ co-captain, nicknamed Hittin’ Miss #MG-42, will be rolling with her teammates against The Bad Reputations in the night’s first match- up I: youre not one of the lucky few who “Tm a washed up jock, so mostly the athletic challenge (drew me to derby), but the action packed technicolour ruckus of it all was a definite pull as well,” she said on the team’s website. “Who in their wrong mind could re- sist?” If you liked the sport enough, you can join roller derby’s Raw Meat Van- couver Roller Skating the very next day for $7 at Thunderbird Community Centre. There, new skaters learn the ropes in a non-contact two-hour ses- sion every Saturday. But if technicolour ruckus isn’t real- ly your thing, technicolour comic books might be. Saturday morning from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. the Scottish Cul- tural Centre is hosting the Pop Culture Collectibles Fair and Computer Swap. Electronics dealers and collectors will be offering up everything from cell phones to vintage comics and die-cast models. Tickets are $3 at the door. If comics don’t make your belly roll, Open Door Yoga invites yogis to come for an hour of laughter yoga on Sunday at 3 p.m. for $5. Stretch yourself silly, literally, and be led through a series of yoga exercises designed to make you laugh. “That’s so weird because I thought yoga required some kind of silence,” said Sherif Serour. For more informa- tion on the events: www.terminalcityrollergirls.com/ www.fun-promo.com/ www.opendooryoga.be.ca/ Arts Club presents Scar Tissue A story about Alzheimer’s disease and past mysteries starts performances at the Revue Stage April 5 By ROSS ARMOUR ichael Ignatieff is making a re- Me= from the wilderness this week but this time it has noth- ing to do with politics. Ignatieff’s novel Scar Tissue has been made into a play and is being opened by the Vancouver Arts Club on Thursday. Playing at the Arts Club’s Revue stage on Granville Island, the play stars Craig Erickson, Kelk Jeffery, Me- gan Leitch and Gabrielle Rose. The main character David, por- trayed by Erickson, places his mother Mary in a care home after she is diag- nosed with Alzheimer’s disease and her condition worsens. Soon after, David sets about unravel- ing the two-decades-old mystery: why did his mother completely give up her ability and skills in art? “Struggling for connection with our aging loved ones is a battle many of us go through. It is certainly the source of my own obsession with this piece,” said playwright Dennis Foon. After one day, David arrives at the home with arts supplies and asks his mother to paint a portrait of him. She refuses, instead asking him to paint grey all over her canvases and previous work. “Trying to make sense out of infir- mity, having to watch those we love fade away, we hope against hope to find closure in these crucial, formative rela- tionships.” Foon also spoke about the connec- tion a child will always have with their family. “A situation where the child, still aching for the love of a parent, remains very much alive in all of us.” Foon was the co-founder of Vancou- ver’s Green Thumb Theatre and served as Artistic Director for 12 years. He has received numerous awards for his plays including the British The- atre Award, two Chalmers Awards and the Jesse Richardson Career Achieve- ment Award. Foon describes Ignatieff’s novel as “a powerful piece of fiction, both an emo- tional journey about Alzheimer’s and a philosophical examination of memory and loss.” The play runs till April 28. ARTS CLUB photo Actor Craig Erickson playing the lead role of David in Scar Tissue, an adaptation of Michael Ignatieff’s novel.