ALL-SEEING WORK, FOREVER WORK: WORKSHOP WITH KAMIKA PETERS

“So you want to make a difference?”
—Benjamin Clementine

Bridging sound and body movement, join artist Kamika Peters for a workshop exploring environmental destruction, individual capacities, and collective justice. 

Through motion, this workshop is an opportunity for participants to connect with their bodies and work through questions that are deeply personal and inherently communal such as: What does a satisfying life look like? What are the barriers? And how do we embody action and resistance?

Refreshments served! All Mayworks Festival events are free. All are welcome. No particular movement experience necessary. Open to those with limited movement capacity.

This workshop accompanies the “All-Seeing Work, Forever Work” installation developed through Mayworks’ Labour Arts Catalyst in conversation with Rising Tide Toronto activists. 

Kamika Peters is an emerging multidisciplinary artist, some sites of her exploration have been Project Creative Users, Sketch Working Arts, and the Watah Theatre. In 2020, she received an Emerging Artist Award from Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Collective and personal justice through art, performance and visual arts are the main focus of Kamika’s practice.

Rising Tide Toronto is a grassroots collective that challenges environmental injustice and the root causes of climate change on Turtle Island through direct action, in solidarity with people’s struggles locally and globally. Rising Tide Toronto engages in environmental activism through Indigenous solidarity work.

Founded in 1971, Trinity Square Video is one of Canada’s first artist-run centres and its oldest media arts centre. Trinity Square is a not-for-profit, charitable organization. For 50 years, Trinity Square has been a champion of media arts practices. Their activities are guided by a goal to increase members’ and audiences’ understanding and imagination of what media arts practices can be. Trinity Square strives to create supportive environments, encouraging artistic and curatorial experimentation that challenge medium specificity through education, production and presentation supports. As video-based practices have become increasingly present across disciplines, Trinity Square engages artists and curators in critical investigations into the changing conditions of perception, materiality and the virtual. Trinity Square consider all artistic activities and structures through a process of critical self-reflection, continuously evaluating the ethical positioning of our programming, jury structures, inter-organizational relationships, et cetera.