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Soft Launch of June Records

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.

Fredericopolis: An East Coast Reading

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.

Photos from the Launch for Daniel Scott Tysdal’s Dear Adolf at the Ossington in Toronto!

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

New Addition to the SB Collective: Anna Veprinska

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

PARTY FOR A CAUSE: HELLRAISER II at the Rio Theatre in East Van

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

In collaboration with the AGYU, Curran Folkers reinterprets Jennie Suddick’s Nothing of Harm to Dread

  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