2024 Mayworks Festival
Welcome to the 39th Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts.
This year we feature twenty artists, each of whom engages, with compassion, in the spirit of collective power.
From responses to inaccessible health care in Ontario to a fight for dignity among migrant workers in Quebec; from capturing the alienation of injured workers in Toronto to classist land grabbing in Pakistan; from an analysis of radical protests against resource exploitation in the Caribbean to clarifying the long-lasting impacts of French colonialism, and to witnessing, now, the endurance of Palestinian political prisoners; the artworks narrate our joint struggles.
The exhibitions include multi-channel video, sculpture, textile art, installation, video, website creation and virtual landscapes. We also present live music, performing shadow puppets and curated film screenings.
There are participatory workshops, informed panel discussions and intimate artist talks.
Please join us.
May 26
What Is A Body Worth? Artist Talk, Shadow Puppetry and Song
With Kristine White and Jesse Corrigan
May 25
A Garden and a Library: Planting Workshop
With Atanas Bozdarov and Disability Justice Network ON
May 22 - May 31
A Garden and a Library
Installation by Atanas Bozdarov with prose by Shulamit Sappire
May 18
Mending Workshop (Hamilton)
With Camila Salcedo, a part of Labour Pains curated by Emma Steen
May 16
Let Me Get You An Orange! Evening Salon
With Sean Lee, jes sachse and Parkdale Community Legal Services, a part of Labour Pains curated by Emma Steen
May 11
Trans-Pakistan Zindabad (Long Live Trans-Pakistan)
Performance-panel with Umber Majeed, Hiba Ali, and Asad Alvi
May 10 - July 27
Labour Pains
Group exhibition with Camila Salcedo, Peter Morin, Sean Lee, Birdie Gerhl, curated by Emma Steen
May 4 - July 26
Banging the Drum
Research project by Julianna A.S. with exhibition essay by Tamara Jones, a part of When Did You Wake Up And Realize It’s All A Game?
May 4 - May 31
When Did You Wake Up And Realize It’s All A Game?
Installation by Julianna A.S. with exhibition by Tamara Jones
May 1 - May 31
Dil Dil Trans-Pakistan (Heart, Heart Trans-Pakistan)
Virtual Exhibition by Umber Majeed
