7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Songs of Resilience: Bringing Voice to Protest Music May 4, 2019 | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Songs of Resilience: Bringing Voice to Protest Music May 4th, 7:00pm @ St-Andrew's United Church | May 9th, 8:00pm @ Halifax Convention Centre Celebrating song as a tool for social change movements with Polaris Choir Featuring chants, protest songs, contemporary choral works, and a choir-created arrangement, listeners will be transported throughout the past hundred years and invited to reflect on social movements that … Continued $15
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Songs of Resilience: Bringing Voice to Protest Music (NSGEU Convention) May 9, 2019 | 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Songs of Resilience: Bringing Voice to Protest Music (NSGEU Convention) May 4th, 7:00pm @ St-Andrew’s United Church | May 9th, 8:00pm @ Halifax Convention Centre Celebrating song as a tool for social change movements with Polaris Choir Featuring chants, protest songs, contemporary choral works, and a choir-created arrangement, listeners will be transported throughout the past hundred years and invited to reflect on social movements that … Continued $15
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Strange Froots & Zamani May 31, 2019 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Strange Froots & Zamani A Friday afternoon celebration of chill grooves and deep rhythms. Strange Froots are a trio of soul warriors from Montreal, Canada featuring MCs Naïka Champaïgne, SageS, and Mags. Seamlessly blending traditions from their manifold perspectives of the Black diaspora (Haiti, Ghana, Jamaica and Senegal), the Froots’ music displays a disarming form of directness that allows … Continued Free
2019-06-01 Dance to A New Dawn Dance to A New Dawn June 1, 2019 | 11:59 pm – June 2, 2019 | 5:30 am Dance to A New Dawn Night of June 1st to 2nd - midnight to dawn *Dry Event* 5 Epic DJ's will take us all on a journey through space, time, and sound as we celebrate revolutionary arts and culture and dance the night away as a community. Complementing the music will be stunning and politicized murals, graphics, and video-streams … Continued $5 – $20
8:00 pm – 11:30 pm Hip Hop Vs. Capitalism Vol. 2 June 1, 2019 | 8:00 pm – 11:30 pm Hip Hop Vs. Capitalism Vol. 2 Back for a second year in a row, Hip-hop Vs. Capitalism will be part of Mayworks' festival mic-drop. Kicking off with a community cypher entitled "Hip-Hop vs. the System", followed by a feature set by acclaimed anti-capitalist hip-hop veterans Test Their Logik. Hip-Hop Vs. The System | A Community Cypher Calling all rappers and … Continued PWYC
May 9, 2019 | 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Songs of Resilience: Bringing Voice to Protest Music (NSGEU Convention)