“Working people and artists don’t think that culture is just a ‘frill’; we know that it’s crucial; its how we define ourselves and defend our hopes for a future just society.”
Each year the Mayworks Festival strives to create programming that is relevant and responsive to working people and their concerns. In order to better reach the unemployed, Festival ’93 moved into the streets of Toronto with hit and run “guerrilla” art events: performance, music, dance and visual art at demonstrations and picket lines, in workplaces and subway cars, on street corners, in suburban shopping plazas, government office buildings, welfare offices, food banks, television stations, local bars, Canada Employment Centres, anywhere and every-where people congregate.