VISUAL ART AND OTHER ENCOUNTERS

IN TRANSIT AT DENTONIA PARK

On Saturday May 21st, join In Transit curator Mitra Fakhrashrafi with artist and activists Jessica Kirk, L. Akhter and Sarom Rho and curator for a day of workshops, dialogueand activities in Dentonia Park.

HOW CAN WE LIVE: AN ARTIST TALK AND COMMUNITY DIALOGUE WITH JESSICA KIRK

What is lost when we make extractive assumptions about who takes up care work, and how? In conversation with artist and community organizer  Jessica Kirk, joing a moderated artist talk and community dialogue exploring themes of migration, feminized labour, placemaking and honour.

12 – 2PM Register here.

সাবধান / SHABDHAN (“careful”): AN INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION BY L. AKHTER

12 – 4PM

REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISM AND THE MIGRANCIES OF GIG ECONOMY ORGANIZING: A WORKSHOP WITH SAROM RHO AND GIG WORKERS UNITED

We walk it to make it, we fuel it to burn it, we build it to win it. There are multiple, relational and non-sequential “its” here—can we explore them? On May 1, 2019, Foodsters United, now known as Gig Workers United, publicly announced our struggle and intent to fight misclassification and unionize. To date, multinational tech companies like Uber are pouring millions into a campaign to normalize inequality, precarity and poverty, all in the interests of corporate greed and profit. To date, workers hold our collective line and vow to accept nothing less than full and equal rights for all of us. Our concept of us remains ever expansive.

Together in this workshop, we will look at the geographies of gig economy organizing and activate a multi-chaptered story of how low-waged, migrant and racialized gig workers find each other, assemble and root ourselves in an international working class struggle. As an entry into exploring the many “its” that revolutionary optimism asks of us, and through open-ended guidance and experimentation, participants will have opportunities to locate and write themselves into this story of worker power and the gig economy.

2 – 4PM