Festival Archives Results

Dialogues Money Moves: 超时工作, A conversation Thursday, May 13, 7:30-9:00PM ASL Interpretation and Mandarin translation is available. Workers are organizing to win better conditions for themselves and their colleagues, but this can only happen if workers feel they have community support. Given the upsurge in anti-Asian racism and the importance of grocery workers in the […]

Visual Art & Encounters Museum and Labour history with Brooke Downey As an emerging museum professional, Brooke quickly became interested in labour issues facing the cultural sector. Based on her own experiences in the non-profit sector, as well as union movements happening in the U.S. and the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, she was […]

Dialogues Organize Amazon! Saturday, May 15, 1:00-2:30PM The realities are stark: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos added almost $100 billion to his net worth during the pandemic, while nearly 20,000 employees tested positive for Covid-19.   Amazon’s profits are made possible by the labour of poor and racialized warehouse workers, but also by the company’s lucrative technology […]

Film Sickening (2020) by Roya DelSol Runtime: 2.22 minutes Monday, May 17 – Monday, May 31 Sickening is an experimental performance piece following ballroom performer & designer Ebony Knowles as she uses raw material and sheer determination to metamorphose from her natural state to otherworldly up-and-coming ballroom runway legend. Link available at mayworks.ca on Monday, […]

Film Sorry We Missed You (2019), by Ken Loach Runtime: 100 minutes Sunday, May 9 – Sunday, May 16 Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a […]

Film The Words We Can’t Speak By Lindsay McIntyre Actor Table Read Workshop The Words We Can’t Speak is a screenplay in progress by writer and filmmaker Lindsay McIntyre. Festival audiences are invited to join for the last two hours of the workshop to listen to a final read through, followed by a Q&A with […]

Dialogues unpruned tomato vines: a conversation Friday, May 28, 6:30-8:00PM In the summer of 2019, Tea Base transformed what was once a pile of bricks sitting in the Chinatown Centre mall courtyard into the Anti-Displacement Garden; a place that welcomed public use and community gathering. In historically immigrant and working class neighborhoods across North America, […]

Visual art and Encounters unpruned tomato vines A digital exhibition in partnership with Tea Base What was once rubble barricaded by fencing in Chinatown Centre has been transformed by Tea Base and Friends of Chinatown Toronto (FOCT) into a community garden. In unpruned tomato vines artists Christie Carrière, Hannia Cheng, and Florence Yee share stories […]