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Music Choeur Maha Tuesday, May 25 – Saturday, May 31 Choeur Maha is a bilingual, feminist choir based in Montreal. Established in 1991 by Kathy Kennedy, Choeur Maha promotes social justice through music and provides choral education to a community of singers. Under the artistic direction of Megan Batty, we sing a varied repertoire including […]

Dialogues Essential Work, but Disposable Workers? Saturday, May 1, 6:00-7:30PM Long before the pandemic hit, essential workers and labour organisers were denouncing the inadequate, if not deplorable, working conditions in their sectors, stemming from a lack of funding, resources and planning, as well as social inequalities arising from systemic racism and gender disparities. A year […]

Music Gosford Fire By Lyrical Flips and Beny Esguerra Monday, May 17 – Monday, May 31 Produced by Wheel It Studios, the video features Lyrical Flips and Beny Esguerra in a song they co-wrote called “Gosford Fire”. The song was written after the terrible fire that engulfed the Driftwood community building (Jane Finch, North York) […]

Music ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Heebiejabi Nooria Alam aka Heebiejabi is a Toronto-based Afghan DJ and organizer. She’s been spinning tunes for progressive organizations across the city for the past three years and is passionate about using music as a tool to bring people together in the name of revolutionary love. In 2020, Heebiejabi was scheduled to […]

IN THE WATER MAY ?? Maggie Flynn will present In The Water, a work-in-progress that connects the dots from the lands and communities where resource extraction takes place, to the profits gained by oil, gas, or mining companies, their personnel, and then on to the boards and sponsors of arts and culture organizations. This work […]

Visual Art & Encounters Latin@merica: Embedding Bodies and Localities In partnership with Sur Gallery Saturday May 1st to Saturday, May 29th, 2021 Through a series of installations at Sur Gallery and interviews available on the Mayworks website, Latin@merica: Embedding Bodies and Localities offers the possibility of rethinking how traditional place-based affiliations and notions of cultural […]

Dialogues Looking back, looking forward: Collective organizing in the arts & culture sector “Art against precarity” (2017) by Tzazná + Queso   Tuesday, May 25, 6:00-7:30PM Register here Long before the pandemic, systemic labour issues in the creative sectors were pushing artists and activists to collectively and collaboratively organize. Installers, artists, curators, arts administrators, and […]

Mayworks 2021 Wrap Video Edited by Rami Accoumeh with music by Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Julien Bradley-Combs, Evan Ng, Jen Lo and Leighton Harrell.

Film MoneyMoves: 超时工作 (2019) A Mayworks Premiere Runtime: 6.22 minutes Saturday, May 1 – Monday, May 31 A roving performance that considers the toll of wage theft on the body. Created by artist En Lai Mah, MoneyMoves: 超时工作 makes visible what is too often unnoticed: the labour of immigrant workers who put food on our […]

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 […]