Practice Strategic Contemplation: Conversation, Poetry, and Collaboration in three new books by Alexandra Juhasz

Living Room, Tranzac Club 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada

Join us for an evening of interventions and conversations around Alexandra Juhasz's three recent books: My Phone Lies to Me (Punctum, 2022), We Are Having This Conversation Right Now (with Theodore Kerr, Duke, 2022) and Really Fake (with Ganaele Langlois and Nishant Shah, Minnesota, 2021). Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn […]

Event Series WEPFEST

WEPFEST

Main Hall, Tranzac Club 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada

West End Phoenix presents a mini-festival featuring a series of writers, poets, singers and songwriters for a three day celebration of songs and ideas and music. Tuesday, May 23: Cory Doctorow Book Launch. Thursday, May 25: John Southworth and the South Seas Album Launch Saturday, May 27: Queer Songbook Orchestra with Special Guests ** Featuring […]

$20 – $50

Michael Davidson Presents : Monk’s Music

Southern Cross Lounge, Tranzac Club 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada

A quartet led by vibraphonist, Michael Davidson, exploring the compositions of Thelonious Monk. It’s an amorphous blob of his entire catalogue, drifting through songs as if in a dream. High intensity in a quiet package, delivering a delicate but ferocious interpretation of one of the most important books of music from the 20th century.

Soul Medicine with Frank Patrick, Rebecca Campbell, Jim Bish, Ed Roth, Michael Menegon and Bob Cohen

Southern Cross Lounge, Tranzac Club 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada

Frank Patrick and Soul Medicine will be filling in for the SPECIAL INTEREST group this month. ** SOUL MEDICINE featuring Frank Patrick, Rebecca Campbell, Jim Bish, Ed Roth, Michael Menegon and Bob Cohen "LOVE, LOSS, POLITICS, JOIE DE VIVRE… HUMANITY IN ALL ITS FOLLY AND BEAUTY SPRING FROM HIS DEEP, DEEP WELL. FRANK IS A […]

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Roguelight with Kelvin T

Main Hall, Tranzac Club 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada

We're ready to kick off the summer with some international talent! Come to catch the infamous Kelvin T @kelvinisnotahuman from Hong Kong along side all your favorite local heavy hitters: Viscera @viscera00001 Murderclub @murderclubb Andrew Juke @andrewstpower Placeholder @evanburgess___ Simon Thomas @01113st

Parallax

Southern Cross Lounge, Tranzac Club 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Event Series WEPFEST

WEPFEST

Main Hall, Tranzac Club 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada

West End Phoenix presents a mini-festival featuring a series of writers, poets, singers and songwriters for a three day celebration of songs and ideas and music. Tuesday, May 23: Cory Doctorow Book Launch. Thursday, May 25: John Southworth and the South Seas Album Launch Saturday, May 27: Queer Songbook Orchestra with Special Guests ** Featuring […]

$20 – $50

Days of Lavender – Live at the Tranzac

Southern Cross Lounge, Tranzac Club 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada

Vancouver-based Days of Lavender is taking the stage at the Southern Cross to introduce you to their unique and soulful electronic sound.

c_RL / Wenderly Park / Fish with an “F”

Living Room, Tranzac Club 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada

c_RL (Allison Cameron, Nicole Rampersaud, Germaine Liu) Improvising together for over a decade, this is a rare opportunity to catch all three members of this trio in the same room. Whether exploring electroacoustic abrasiveness or quilting soft blankets of sound, Germaine Liu (percussion), Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet), and Allison Cameron (small electronic objects and more) equally […]

Event Series All-Set! Presents

All-Set! Presents

Southern Cross Lounge, Tranzac Club 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada

All-Set! Presents features music based around the trio of Mike Smith (electronics), Pete Johnston (bass) and Jake Oelrichs (drums). The music made in this monthly residency is largely improvised in a subtly-propulsive way that mixes jazz, minimalism and progressive rock. A rotating cast of guests drawn from the roster of Smith and Johnston’s recording imprint […]

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Westelaken Album Release w/Little Kid (Solo) and Only God Forgives

Main Hall, Tranzac Club 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada

Help bring our new album "I am Steaming Mushrooms" into the world with our good friends in Little Kid (Solo) and Only God forgives @ TRANZAC TICKETS $15 or PWYC @ door. Please wear a mask.

$15

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