Steel Bananas is kicking off the first of three salons for 2010 on May 20th at Bread and Circus in Kensington Market. There will be hors d'oeuvres and love available for all!

DRAMATIC PERFORMANCES BY:

BAIN & BERNARD

Bain & Bernard are a comedy duo hailing from Toronto. Having a keen interest in vaudeville comedy they exercise a mandate to create new vaudeville styled material and resurrect classic scripts. For the past seven years they have been involved in many different projects around the Greater Toronto Area. They are founding members of “The Beggars Bag Theatre Reparatory Company”, have performed with the burlesque show “Forbidden Broadway, the Naughty Revue” and have been regular hosts with “POP with Brains” an indie rock night charity fundraiser for CAMH. Recently they were invited by social arts organization Project Humanity to perform “Lawyers at Large” and “Greener Less Better” two pieces tailored at addressing immediate community concerns. At the 2008 Junction Arts Festival they performed “Bain & Bernard & Son’s This Thing That Thing Anything Everything Elixir!” to great acclaim and followed the next year by performing “Bain & Bernard & Son’s: You’ve Never Seen Anything Like It Show!” which featured among other things a cast of eleven and a Tap-Dancing Unicorn. Bain & Bernard have played such varied venues as The Rivoli, The Bad Dog Theatre, Sadleir House in Peterborough, The Bathurst St. Theatre and The Bloor Cinema.

TRANS CANADADA MOTORWAY SERVICES

Transcanadada motorway is a way. That is, it’s a path, a route which can be followed but also forged, a route subjectively travelling towards a relevant destination but objectively set between arbitrary points which have significance as destinations only subjectively. It is a way travelled by many subjects and objects and is thus a way comprised of many ways. It is a way of reaching subjective destinations and traversing objective pathways through the adoption of many ways simultaneously, or many ways oscillating and jumping between one another always. It is many different ways put together into a system of ways which is itself, on a higher plane, a single way, a way of many ways. It is fragmented ways, different ways, short ways, long ways, scenic ways, direct ways, low ways, high ways, layaways, freeways and unfortunately some un-free ways (though these will be kept to a minimum). It is especially a way of ways which have different names in different places and at different times, but this doesn’t mean that you aren’t still part of the TransCanadada motorWAY, even if your location identifies against this.

MUSICAL PERFORMANCES BY

GRAVITY WAVE

Two years ago Farrell, a videogame beat maker, started off as just a one man PlayStation karaoke act. In January 2007, Tom MacCammon, a 13 year- old tambourine playing sidekick, joined the Gravity Wave act. Matching pilot jackets in tact, these two idiosyncratic characters dubbed as “The Only Boy Band That Matters”, delighted audiences with their entertaining story based electro-pop dance songs. Never delivering the same show twice, and never taking a penny for the copies of Martyr’s Brigade (2007 LP, self-release) handed out after shows, Gravity Wave evolved into something more than just a man and his ipod.

On April 1st, 2008 the story of Gravity Wave began a new chapter with the “Free Party” a music, film, theatre and dance spectacular. In the spirit of Singing in the Rain and The Lawrence Welk show, Gravity Wave’s “Free Party” celebrated innovation in music and variety in art. April 1st also saw the release of Gravity Wave’s new EP Twin Prime Conjecture, an album that saw Farrell and co-producer Finlay Braithwait opt for fuzzed out lo-fi rock’n'roll danceers, Twin Prime Conjecture is an intricately orchestrated gem and privides a fitting soundtrack to its sister/film “Rignin’ In The Songwriter”. Farrell rallied together a talented team to work on this grandiose project, including the fine musicians that performed the live accompaniment to the actors in the play/film, the choreographers and dancers, Fake Prom coordinator Dylan Reibling as director of the film and James Braithwaite, the illustrator behind the academy award nominated I Met The Walrus.

THE BODY ELECTRIC

Many moons ago, Patrick Grant had a vision. This vision may or may not have been the result of hallucinogenic drugs he assumed were mere calcium supplements. Nevertheless! This vision was to get down. But not only get down, but to get down with the get down! Patrick figured, the only feasible way to do this would be to assemble the most remarkable, earth-shattering team of musicians and achieve his extraordinary goal. Patrick is not sure he has yet achieved this goal, but he wants you along for the ride. Are you ready? Did you pack your shoelaces? Fuck it. Just bring your furriest hat and remember: The Body Electric is/was/and always will be good times.

DJ GHALEON