Tranzac - Toronto Australia New Zealand Club

The Tranzac is a non-profit member supported community organization with a focus on promoting arts, music and theatre. The TRANZAC (an abbreviation of Toronto Australia New Zealand Club) also works to promote and support Australian and New Zealand culture in Toronto.

Toronto via Guelph indie luminaries Royal City will be celebrated at the Tranzac on Friday June 26th with a special fundraising tribute night entitled Burning Torch: The Songs of Royal City.

American based Asthmatic Kitty records will be releasing a special Royal City B-Sides record on June 23rd. Royal City has had several members throughout its history but it was centered around the song writing of Aaron Riches and featured Jim Guthrie, Nathan Lawr, Simon Osborne, Leslie Feist and a slew of others.

“For a generation of Guelph music fans, Royal City was something akin to a supergroup. From his early teens Aaron Riches had been a figurehead of the city's hardcore punk scene, fronting numerous politically charged punk bands and promoting DIY gigs” wrote unofficial Royal City biographer Vish Khanna “Tracing punk's spiritual heritage back to Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, Aaron found himself drawn to the acoustic guitar and began writing softly strummed songs about streetlights and Shakespeare and dogs and broken hearts, all sung in his creaky, distinctive voice.”

The tribute night will feature Royal City’s friends and musical fans covering their music and will include Jenny Mitchell (The Barmitzvah Brothers), Gentleman Reg, Magali Meagher (The Phonemes), I Am Robot And Proud and many more.

Admission for the show is $10 and doors are at 8 PM. Proceeds from the benefit The Tranzac and the Toronto Cat Rescue.

The Queen’s Players will be holding their next production in early June entitled Arrested Hosuewives.

Queen’s Players Toronto is back for another high-larious pop cultured tossed salad. Their passing the dysfunction pon the left hand side as the infamous Bluth family from Arrested Development and the pent-up Desperate Housewives of Wisteria Lane collide for two acts of mind-altering comedy and song.

The show runs in the Tranzac Main Hall June 11-13th and 18th-20th. Doors for all shows are at 7:30 PM and everything starts at 8:30 PM.

For information about the Queen’s Players and their upcoming production visit their website at http://www.queensplayerstoronto.com.

Canadian independent online music label Zunior, will be celebrating its 5th Anniversary with a special concert at The Tranzac on Saturday June 27th.

Zunior.com was founded by Dave Ullrich, formerly a member of beloved indie band The Inbreds. Ullrich started Zunior.com as a way to sell music directly from artists to their supporters. The site builds on Ullrich's experience as the manager of The Inbreds independent label, PF Records, and on his current experience working as a developer and promoter of open source software.

The anniversary night will take over the entire Tranzac space and will feature performances from Forest City Lovers, The Violet Archers, Andrew Vincent and special performance by the other half of The Inbreds, Mike O’Neill.

Tickets are available online at Zunior.com for $10 and doors are at 8 PM.

Just a reminder that the Tranzac will become the Fringe Festival headquarters July 1st – 12th, stop by the club for a drink and some exciting independent theatre. For more information about the Toronto Fringe Festival visit their website at http://www.fringetoronto.com/.

The TRANZAC is supported by the efforts of volunteers, and there are plenty
of opportunities for people who want to help out at the club. We have particular need
for people who can help with the maintenance of the clubhouse (electrical, plumbing,
carpentry, HVAC, etc), and our grounds (parking area and the front garden area).

Some other areas include membership development, fund raising, volunteer coordination, and the newsletter. If you are interested in volunteering to help out around the club in any way, please send an e-mail to info@tranzac.org, with the word "volunteer" in the subject line.

The TRANZAC board of directors has also been working to secure sources of funding with the goal of improving the state of the clubhouse facilities. We are currently preparing applications to various agencies that provide capital funding to community and cultural groups.