9 to 5: The Story of a Movement
Film & Dialogue 9to5: The Story of a Movement (2019) Co-presented by AMAPCEO Runtime: 119 minutes Recording of the Mayworks guided Q&A with 9to5 organizers Screening: Sunday, May 2, Tuesday, May 4, and Saturday May 29 The 1970s saw an explosion of women’s participation in the workforce. Many were low paid clerical workers who […]
ABRA
ABRA April 1- May 6, 2020, 2019 Whippersnapper Gallery 594 Dundas St W ABRA is a video installation that centres working-class labour, surveillance and socio-economic bubbles. In a storefront installation, artist Hiba Ali presents a fictional conversation with Amazon’s orange-coloured mascot, Peccy. In this scene, the colour orange represents both labor and danger. As a […]
Choeur Maha
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 […]
Essential Work, but Disposable Workers?
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 […]
Gosford Fire
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) […]
Heebiejabi
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
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 […]
Latin@merica: Embedding Bodies and Localities
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 […]
Looking back, looking forward
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
Mayworks 2021 Wrap Video Edited by Rami Accoumeh with music by Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Julien Bradley-Combs, Evan Ng, Jen Lo and Leighton Harrell.
Money Moves 超时工作 (2019)
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 […]