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. →
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. →
On April 26th, Steel Bananas and friends celebrated the launch of Daniel Scott Tysdal’s Dear Adolf at the Ossington in Toronto. It was an amazing night of readings by Stewart Cole, Jim Johnstone, and Daniel Tysdal, with music by Hemingway (James Harris) until the early morning! Thanks to Val for the photos! To see more →
We’re delighted to announce a new addition to Steel Bananas: Anna Veprinska! Anna Veprinska is a poet who is currently pursuing her PhD in English at York University, researching empathy in poetry. Her writing and photography can be found in various Canadian and British publications. She also plays the mandolin in the Toronto Mandolin Orchestra. Anna is taking on →
SB’S Karen Correia Da Silva will be performing in East Van tonight as part of HELLRAISER II at the Rio Theatre and Independent Art House: a collective display of the Vancouver art scene’s vitality, and a commitment to keeping independent art venues and theatres in our communities. A Fundraiser for the Rio Theatre and in support →
Join Steel Bananas and friends for the launch party for Daniel Scott Tysdal’s latest book of fiction and colour photography, Dear Adolf. Daniel will be reading from the book and speaking about the process of creating such a singular artefact! Joining us as special guest readers for the evening will be Jim Johnstone, author of Sunday, →
For a sneak peek of Daniel Tysdal’s latest book of fiction & photography, Dear Adolf (SB Publications), head out to the official University of Toronto reading at Doris McCarthy Gallery, UTSC. Stewart Cole will also be reading from Sirens (Cactus Press)! Our official Steel Bananas bash for Dear Adolf is scheduled for late April in →
We have the pleasure to announce that Daniel Scott Tysdal’s Dear Adolf is this season’s first offering from Steel Bananas Publications, the Steel Bananas Art Collective’s new small press. The book was edited and designed by SB’s Karen Correia Da Silva, and copy edited by SB’s Ted Killin. ABOUT DEAR ADOLF: In the tension between bearing →
We just released the Winter 2011-2012 catalogue for SB Publications. This season’s offerings include a text & photographic work from ReLit award winning poet Daniel Scott Tysdal, and a mixed media art book from Canadian culture jammer ýta. From within the art collective, we’re releasing a multimedia text and performance work from Karen Correia Da →
In collaboration with the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) SB’s Associate Creative Director, Curran Folkers, published a literary interpretation of Canadian artist Jennie Suddick’s installation Nothing of Harm to Dread. Suddick is graduate of OCADU and York University, the artist-in-residence at Open Studio, Toronto, and recently returned from Bee-line to Berlin: The Woodn’t →