Toronto DJ BAMBII will host THE LAST JERK at Runnymede Hall on November 20, the final edition of her decade-old Caribbean dance party. The announcement, reported by Exclaim! on November 13, confirms she is moving away from Toronto, with London named as her next home.
BAMBII broke the news herself on Instagram, in the plain terms her audience knows her for.
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RUMOURS ARE TRUE, TORONTO. IM MOVING. BUT SAVE ME THE LAST DANCE?
A Decade Of JERK In Toronto
BAMBII founded JERK more than ten years ago and named the party after the spice. From the start it was built as a rave celebrating Caribbean culture and global dance music, and it broke new ground in Toronto nightlife as a regular event centred on people of colour and the queer community. In a city where Caribbean music has shaped the soundtrack for generations, JERK gave that inheritance a room of its own, loud, sweaty and welcoming.
The party did not stay local. BAMBII took JERK on the road to Montreal, New York and Los Angeles, carrying a Toronto idea into three other nightlife capitals and bringing the lessons back home each time. That travel is part of why the final Toronto edition matters: this is a hometown farewell for a party that already proved itself elsewhere.
Speaking to the Toronto Star in 2023, BAMBII explained what the party was always trying to bottle.
JERK is an expression of what Toronto feels like to me. Growing up, Caribbean music was something that was in my blood and a part of my heritage, but it is also so much a part of Toronto, it has shaped the city’s cultural landscape since the ’80s.
The Last Dance At Runnymede Hall
THE LAST JERK takes over Runnymede Hall on Friday, November 20. The lineup for the night has not been announced yet, and Exclaim! reported that only a few tickets remain. Anyone who has followed the party’s run knows what that combination means in practice: the room will be full, the set will run long, and the night will double as a reunion for a community that grew up inside these parties.
The timing gives the farewell a clean frame. BAMBII arrives at the final edition with fresh music of her own in the world: her latest single, Drop, came out earlier this month, in November 2026. The single continues the club language she has been refining across her own releases, music built for exactly the dancefloors JERK created.
What BAMBII Built Beyond The Party
The farewell lands on top of a recording career that has already travelled well beyond Toronto. Her EP INFINITY CLUB earned a cover story in Exclaim! and went on to a nomination for the 2024 Polaris Prize, one of the highest honours in Canadian music. She followed it with INFINITY CLUB II in 2025 and a run of singles since, building a catalogue that treats dancehall, electronic music and Caribbean rhythm as one continuous language.
That arc is the real story of November 20. JERK began as a party and became a platform, a place where Toronto’s Caribbean diaspora could hear itself at full volume in its own city. BAMBII’s move closes the party’s Toronto chapter, not the culture that built it. The DJs, dancers and promoters who came up through JERK are still here, and the city’s Caribbean nights will keep running on the foundation this one laid down.
For one more night, though, the foundation has an address. THE LAST JERK, Runnymede Hall, November 20. Toronto gets its last dance, and BAMBII gets the send-off a decade of work has earned.
