As we prepare for the 2013/14 publishing season with SB Publications, digitize the long awaited Austerity/Touching double issue, enter post-production on two new installments of SB Films, and vet submissions for the forthcoming Electr(on)ic Empathy issue, our offices will be closed for the month of May, 2013. Stay tuned for an avalanche of work to →
Check out the mini-doc from Madeleine Collective’s “12 HR Zine Machine” installation for Nuit Blanche 2012, in collaboration with the Steel Bananas Art Collective and nine other featured Toronto art organizations. →
Congratulations to Lydia Perović on the publication of Incidental Music! A chapter of Incidental Music appeared in Steel Bananas Quarterly last year in our translation issue, prior to being picked up by feminist press Inanna Publications. The launch will be hosted by TINARS at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto on November 27th, 2012. The evening will feature performances →
From our friends, Rock Plaza Central: About a month ago, our good friend Josh Christenson from the band The Western Fifth was in a really horrendous bicycle accident, hospitalized for a few days, and released with lots of road rash, a broken finger, concussion, jaw damage and losing four teeth. He’s American and completely uninsured →
Upon first walking into Class Reunion, the first North American exhibition by Berlin-based Iranian artist, Nairy Baghramian, it becomes immediately apparent that one has interrupted an ominous gathering – or perhaps it is benevolent, and the viewer has just stumbled in at an awkward moment. The 2008 collection of eighteen slender, surreal figures of cast →
SB had a great time making zines as one of ten organizations chosen to participate in the Madeleine Collective’s 12HR Zine Machine installation for Nuit Blanche Toronto 2012. King Frankenstein, Ted Killin, Erica Annmarie, zined away in Toronto, as well as Karen Correia Da Silva and Curran Folkers beamed in from the west coast. You →
This Saturday at 1pm, KSW and Play Cthonics present JAM ISMAIL reading at the Kootenay School of Writing. Be there. Facebook event here. →
Out for printing. Online soon. →
Since SB just moved to Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant, we’re very excited to enjoy and support the community. If you’re in Vancouver, check out mag scene on main, three days of interactive events by magazines and businesses on Main street. Head out if you haven’t already. →
We’re very pleased to announce N. Alexander Armstrong as the latest addition to the SB Art Collective. Alex is an artist working with words, pictures, moving pictures, and music. He lives in Toronto, and likes to stir up trouble. He wrote for SB Quarterly periodically over the years, and is featured in SB’s 2009 Gulch Anthology. Alex →
Torontonians! Make sure to attend the soft launch/ early preview of College street’s newest record store, June Records on the 22nd, co-founded by SB affiliate Dennis Reynolds. Get in before it gets crazy, and stay tuned to junerecords.ca for info about the big band bash that will accompany their main (or hard?) launch. Facebook event info here. →
VERBS is a series of short films and performances by Karen Correia Da Silva, in collaboration with Matt Marshall and Curran Folkers. Below are a few shots by Matt Marshall from the first day of filming in Vancouver: →
Join Steel Bananas and friends for a reading at the Cedar Tree Cafe in Fredericton, NB, hosted by SB’s Associate Creative Director Curran Folkers. Readers for the evening include Sarah Bernstein, Matthew Cornfield, Michael Jessome, and Claire Kelly. Come for the words, stay for the coffee. RSVP on our FB event page by clicking here. →
While Hollywood prepares for The Manson Girls this year, a film that stars Canada’s own (Peterborough no less) Estella Warren (Planet of the Apes 2001) and the porn industry’s Ron Jeremy, the dearth of good Manson Girl poetry continues to plague our fair planet. Before it becomes a straight to Netflix film, it was in →