Banner Theatre

Banner Theatre is one of Britain's longest established community theatre companies, with thirty years' experience of working with marginalized and disadvantaged communities. Using a combination of theatre, music and "actuality" (recorded voices captured by video or audio), we create entertaining and thought-provoking issue-led productions based on people’s real-life experiences and in support of disenfranchised sections of society. Visit the Banner Theatre website.

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Don Bouzek

Don Bouzek founded GROUND ZERO PRODUCTIONS in Toronto over 20 years ago. Since then, the company has established itself as the major theater working with organized labour in Canada, touring shows everywhere from small union halls to large national conventions. Since moving to Edmonton, he has directed a number of works, including a show about health care, which played to groups including the United Nurses of Alberta and the Friends of Medicare. Don Bouzek has won a number of national awards for his work. 

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Maria Dunn

A storyteller through song, Maria Dunn combines her Celtic heritage with the influences of North American folk and country music. Born in Scotland and raised in Ontario and Alberta, she writes songs inspired by historical and contemporary characters, capturing their struggles and triumphs in her lyrics. Maria received a 2002 Juno nomination (Roots/Traditional Solo) for her second independent recording For a Song.

Her new project, We Were Good People (2004), explores the stories of working people in Western Canada--tales of resilience and hope through experiences of immigration, internment, exploitation and The Depression. Producer: Shannon Johnson with musical contributions by The McDades, Craig Korth, Byron Myhre, Michael Jerome Browne and others. Suggested tracks: "How Do You Do, 1935?," a banjo-driven Depression-era train song; "Can You Blame the Poor Miner?", a gentle accordion ode to miners in the Crow's Nest Pass during Prohibition; "We Were Good People," a poignant solo ballad describing a 1932 Hunger March; "Mrs. McClung's Address at Walker Theatre," a cheeky Celtic wordplay on women's suffrage; "Troublemaker," a rabble-rousing current day protest song. Visit the Maria Dunn website.

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Tom Gale

Tom Gale will be curating for the third year May Week's Worker's Art Show at The Works Gallery. Tom has been showing his paintings in galleries and local venues for 20 years. His work of the past fifteen years depicts the Alberta Landscape and aspects of it, most notably High Treetop and Aspen Grove series. The Artist sees the landscape as an integral part of his life. Tom's work has been included in the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts as well as in private and corporate collections in Canada and abroad. 

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Ground Zero Productions

GROUND ZERO PRODUCTIONS is a professional Popular Theater company which has been involved in May Week since its inception, supporting the Day of Mourning ceremony, the Labour Cabaret, the May Day March and various dramatic productions. 

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Lynette Maurice

Lynette Maurice has created and performed hundreds of puppets and characters in her 30 years of entertaining. She was co-founder of Patchwork Puppets, which toured throughout Canada and UK with a traditional Punch & Judy show, as well as many other puppet performances. Lynette has been performing with the Edmonton Street Performers Festival since its inception 21 years ago. She is the quintessential Family Area Producer for festivals and events throughout Alberta and North America. 

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Terry Morrison

Singer-songwriter Terry Morrison is a well loved member of the Canadian music scene. She has been described as "...one of the most intellectually compelling songwriters in town..." by Edmonton music reviewer Roger Levesque. An accomplished guitar player, Morrison's unique sense of melody and phrasing create her own inimitable brand of contemporary roots music. Delivered in a rich sensual voice, her songs reflect a compassionate and innate intelligence. Spanning the range from jazzy folk to country, her music both soothes and cuts to the quick.  Visit the Terry Morrison website.

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Notre Dame des Bananes Choir

Notre Dame des Bananes is a choir that sings songs of peace, freedom and equality. Its members are from diverse backgrounds and include different political philosophies-- communist, anarchist, social democrat, green, but all are firmly committed to struggles against a rapacious capitalism.  Visit the Notre Dame des Bananes Choir website.

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Prairie Cats

Round up the doggies and call the Cats! Your fully paid up union dance band - THE PRAIRIE CATS - rockin' country, blues, bluegrass and cowjazz. 

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Trin Can Steel Orchestra

Trincan Steel Orchestra has grown from humble beginnings in 1982, to become an established fixture in the Caribbean and African communities of Alberta. The membership is comprised of students, professionals and youth alike – all driven by the sweet sound of the 'pan'. Forged from an actual steel drum, the 'pan' is a versatile instrument with full musical range and is just as comfortable with classical as with calypso. 

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Zu-Ma, Talent to Amuz

Zu-Ma is a creative visioning cooperative that produces special events, theatrical and puppet production, creativity workshops a hands-on seminars and classes throughout Canada and the US. This company is a collaboration between C. M. Zuby, founder of the successful US event company venture Envisionations that eventually morphed into Zu-Ma, and Lynette Maurice, professional Canadian puppeteer, event producer, artist and performer. 

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Cindi Zuby

Cindi Zuby is a professional artist, theatrical set designer, musician and illustrator. She is currently the Resident Set Designer at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. She free-lances in theatre, performs in a variety of puppet and entertainment venues and is part of the collaboration on a multitude of family events throughout Alberta and North America. She is the multi-instrumentalist (guitar, dulcimer, psaltery, bouzouki, mandolin, etc.) for the folk ensemble Speirbhean. In the USA she was the Artistic Director for the Star City Holiday Parade in Lincoln, Nebraska, illustrator for four children's books published by Dageford Press, and part of the folk duo Pheromone Pholk. 

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