Throughout the year, Mayworks hosts programs including workshops, panels, and film screenings at the intersection of art and labour justice. For details about our annual festival, check back in April 2024!
Revolution Until Victory (2015) Film Screening & Workshop
Drawing from Palestinian struggle cinema, Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2015), traces fragments of revolution, interlacing images of and dreams for freedom. This experimental documentary from Kuwait-born, Gaza-raised Mohanad Yaqubi tells the stories of a people who have been resisting their oppression for millennia. Following the screening, filmmaker Robin Riad will lead a direct-on-film animation workshop, inviting participants to collaboratively create footage responding to this moment and with the intention of entering the revolutionary archive. Registration details available via @MayworksToronto
At work: Confronting Anti-Palestinian Censorship Panel + Button-making
Workers are facing heightened censorship and discipline in response to expressions of solidarity with Palestine. This panel invites workers, including arts workers, to reflect on tactics for undertaking Palestinian liberation solidarity actions at work and outside the workplace. The discussion will touch on the Palestinian Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel, legal rights, and more. Moderated by Hassan Husseini, with Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, John Greyson and Wassim Garzouzi.
Worker to Worker Solidarity: Linocut Printmaking Workshop
A panel bringing together labour activists and organizers from Palestine, Europe, US and Canada to discuss building a worker-led movement against israeli settler colonialism, apartheid and genocide. The in-person linocut workshop led by Pardis Pahlavanlu is an opportunity to learn linocutting skills and create protest posters that respond to the theme of Internationalist worker solidarity. Presented with Labour for Palestine.
Every Prisoner is a Political Prisoner: Teach-in + Art-making
This conversation touches on prisoner struggles in Palestine, exploited prisoner labour, and police suppression of solidarity work. Together, we interrogate criminalization and envision abolitionist futures from Turtle Island to Palestine. Accompanied with banner painting. Presented with Labour for Palestine and Palestinian Feminist Collective.