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SUMMARY:Shortcuts
DESCRIPTION:DROP IN ANYTIME: Friday\, May 6th\, 3:00 PM to 7:00PM (ASL Interpretation)\nThe Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St) + Facebook Live \nFREE\nMasking is required to attend this event in person \nShortcuts are little acts of defiance. Despite what route we are told we should follow\, we use shortcuts to find our own way. \nIn this piece\, audience members’ favourite shortcuts are collected\, processed\, illustrated\, published\, and distributed by a trio of workers who open up the inside of their factory to us so we can see every detail of this long process to take a short cut. \nShortcuts\, loopholes and life hacks. We want ‘em! \nSubmit your own tips on how to get ahead on May 6th between 3:00 PM and 7:00PM\, either in person or by calling 902-404-0616 \n  \nTHE TEAM\nDan Bray – The Courier\nColleen MacIsaac – The Technician / Creator\nMahya Tench – The Operator \n \n  \nDan Bray – The Courier \nDan Bray (he/him) is an interdisciplinary theatre and visual artist\, currently living as the winter caretaker of a spooky mansion just outside Antigonish. He is the artistic director and founder of The Villains Theatre\, for which he has written\, adapted\, and directed many plays. Most recently\, his new plays Observatory Mansions and Hänsel und Gretel in: der Garten von Edible Horrors: a Terrible Parable have both been nominated for 2022 Robert Merritt awards for “Outstanding Adaptation by a Nova Scotian”; several of his original plays have also won him similar awards at the Halifax Fringe. He has had the good fortune of working with many of this province’s finest companies\, including Two Planks and a Passion\, Mulgrave Road\, Festival Antigonish\, Shakespeare by the Sea\, Eastern Front\, Phyllis Rising\, and Terra Novella. Dan has several new plays in development that are set to premiere shortly across Nova Scotia\, but they’re all under wraps for now…! www.brayowulf.ca \nColleen MacIsaac – The Technician / Creator \nColleen (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist and current Master of Fine Arts candidate at NSCAD University. A winner of the Halifax Mayor’s Award for Emerging Theatre Artist and the Bhayana Invisible Champion Award\, they like making things. Colleen’s current play A Beginner’s Guide to the Night Sky was programmed this April at Page1 Theatre’s OutFest\, and their past works include TO: THE UNKNOWN\, the effects were cumulative and i almost didn’t notice\, The Blazing World\, Mercury\, dark matter\, and Cartography. They make comics and drawings and weird little performance things\, and they are interested in exploring connections\, communications\, collaborations\, family\, queerness\, countermapping\, climate grief\, and our place in the universe. They have worked with many local companies as a graphic designer\, performer\, producer\, and playwright. \nMahya Tench – The Operator \nMahya (they/them) started their artistic journey in childhood\, performing for friends and family. Now with a BA and under the Peace and Friendship treaties\, they continue to perform\, live and work as a multidisciplinary artist near Kjipuktuk (the Great Harbour\, aka Halifax Harbour) in Mi’kma’ki: the traditional unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) peoples. A radically compassionate Queer Black\, Indigenous\, Genderfluid/Trans Woman of Colour\, she is dedicated to equity\, diversity\, inclusion\, decolonization and reindigenizing. Always an avid volunteer\, they sit on the board of the Villains Theatre\, the Bus Stop Theatre Cooperative and is a part of the Queer Theatre Ensemble Collective (QTEs). \nFavourite roles include: CHILD/TBD in OY VEY! MY BABY’S A THEY (Eastern Front Theatre & the Bus Stop Theatres Writer’s Circle)\, Gravedigger in ZOMBLET (The Villains Theatre)\, This Is Nowhere (ZUPPA Theatre Co.) and Potato in Escape The Game (Ship’s Company Theatre). \n \n\nDOWNLOAD OUR PROGRAM APP FOR ALL EVENT  DETAILS & UPDATES\n   \n 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/shortcuts/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:POCKETS OF RESISTANCE
DESCRIPTION:A feminist sewing workshop with Emily Comeau\n\nCOVID UPDATE:\nThis event has been rescheduled to July 4th.\n \nDOWNLOAD OUR PROGRAM APP FOR ALL EVENT & TICKET UPDATES\n   \n\n>>> REGISTER NOW\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE – BUT HAS LIMITED CAPACITY: ONLY 6 PARTICIPANTS PER SESSION \nTired of your clothes not having pockets? Let’s fix that! Join Emily Comeau\, textile artist supreme\, for a workshop on the basics of adding pockets to just about anything. In this 2-hour lesson you will learn to make a patch pocket\, as well as how to modify an  article of clothing to include an in-seam pocket. Once you learn this technique\, you’ll want to share it with everyone you know\, so  this workshop also includes a zine and pattern for you to download\, print and share. Knowledge is power and so are pockets. \nPublic Health\nPublic Health Guidelines will be strictly enforced to ensure everyone’s safety and comfort. Please respect the venue’s instructions for masking\, distancing and travel. Stay home if you do not feel well! \n  \n \n\nArtist Bio\nHaving earned both a Costume Studies diploma from Dalhousie University and a Fibre Art degree from Concordia University\,  Emily Comeau has an extensive knowledge of textile techniques that she is eager to share. When she isn’t sewing pockets or fabric masks\, she can be found making whimsical glitter art in Montreal. \n\nWorkshop content:\n\n2 different pocket patterns will be given to each participant\nParticipants will learn to make an in-seam pocket and a patch pocket\nParticipants are asked to bring an article of clothing (pants\, shirt\, dress\, shirt) that they would like to add a pocket to.\nEach participant will leave the workshop with a zine summarizing in brief the information in the workshop as well as an iron-on patch pocket.\n\n\nMaterials needed for workshop:\nThese will be available to participants\, but you can choose to bring your own. Any shared tools will be wiped between usages. Each participant will have their own sewing machine available to them. \n\nIron\nSewing machine\nAll purpose sewing thread\nScissors\nRuler or measuring tape\nPencil or pen\nSeam ripper\nPins\nFat quarter of cotton or cotton blend fabric (approx. 18” square)\nArticle of clothing that you wish had pockets\nOptional: HEATNBOND iron-on adhesive\n\n  \nPresented by
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/pockets-of-resistance/
LOCATION:Wonder’neath\, 2482 Maynard St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 3V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:POCKETS OF RESISTANCE
DESCRIPTION:A feminist sewing workshop with Emily Comeau\n\nCOVID UPDATE:\nThis event has been rescheduled to July 4th.\n \nDOWNLOAD OUR PROGRAM APP FOR ALL EVENT & TICKET UPDATES\n   \n\n>>> REGISTER NOW\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE – BUT HAS LIMITED CAPACITY: ONLY 6 PARTICIPANTS PER SESSION \nTired of your clothes not having pockets? Let’s fix that! Join Emily Comeau\, textile artist supreme\, for a workshop on the basics of adding pockets to just about anything. In this 2-hour lesson you will learn to make a patch pocket\, as well as how to modify an  article of clothing to include an in-seam pocket. Once you learn this technique\, you’ll want to share it with everyone you know\, so  this workshop also includes a zine and pattern for you to download\, print and share. Knowledge is power and so are pockets. \nPublic Health\nPublic Health Guidelines will be strictly enforced to ensure everyone’s safety and comfort. Please respect the venue’s instructions for masking\, distancing and travel. Stay home if you do not feel well! \n  \n \n\nArtist Bio\nHaving earned both a Costume Studies diploma from Dalhousie University and a Fibre Art degree from Concordia University\,  Emily Comeau has an extensive knowledge of textile techniques that she is eager to share. When she isn’t sewing pockets or fabric masks\, she can be found making whimsical glitter art in Montreal. \n\nWorkshop content:\n\n2 different pocket patterns will be given to each participant\nParticipants will learn to make an in-seam pocket and a patch pocket\nParticipants are asked to bring an article of clothing (pants\, shirt\, dress\, shirt) that they would like to add a pocket to.\nEach participant will leave the workshop with a zine summarizing in brief the information in the workshop as well as an iron-on patch pocket.\n\n\nMaterials needed for workshop:\nThese will be available to participants\, but you can choose to bring your own. Any shared tools will be wiped between usages. Each participant will have their own sewing machine available to them. \n\nIron\nSewing machine\nAll purpose sewing thread\nScissors\nRuler or measuring tape\nPencil or pen\nSeam ripper\nPins\nFat quarter of cotton or cotton blend fabric (approx. 18” square)\nArticle of clothing that you wish had pockets\nOptional: HEATNBOND iron-on adhesive\n\n  \nPresented by
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/pockets-of-resistance/
LOCATION:Wonder’neath\, 2482 Maynard St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 3V4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210725
DTSTAMP:20260407T065325
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SUMMARY:TOIL HERE
DESCRIPTION:Works From Rural Mi’kma’ki\n\nPresented in partnership with the Khyber Centre for the Arts\n \n\nDOWNLOAD OUR PROGRAM APP FOR ALL EVENT & TICKET UPDATES\n   \n\nTOIL HERE is a group exhibition and curatorial collaboration between the Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax Festival and the Khyber Centre for the Arts. Featured in this exhibition are works by artists Alex Antle\, Antoinette Karuna\, Clara Gough\, Curtis Botham\, Heather Cromwell\, Kim Cain\, and Michelle Roy\, as well as by Mi’kmaq water protectors Cathy Martin\, Gnat Na’pi\, and Darlene Gilbert. Using the languages of traditional domestic craft and fine art\, the artists explore different facets of rural life\, labour and justice\, and together disrupt stereotypical notions of what rural “Maritime” art can be and speak to. \nA video tour of TOIL HERE will be released at a later date as a complement to the exhibition. The video will contain captioned interviews with each of the artists. \n\nVIDEO TOUR\n \nVideo by Keltic Kreative \nArtist Interviews\nArtist and water protectors discuss the art in TOIL HERE and water protection on Mi’kma’ki.\n\n \nThe Khyber Centre for the Arts · TOIL HERE: Works from rural Mi’kma’ki\n\nARTWORKS IN TOIL HERE\n“Pulp Mill\, Abercrombie” by Curtis Botham\n  \nTOIL HERE opens with original audio\, also available as a transcription\, from Catherine Anne Martin\, Gnat Na’pi\, and Thunderbird Swooping Down Woman (Darlene Gilbert). Upon entering and while viewing the exhibition\, and online\, visitors can hear or read as these Mi’kmaq water protectors each speak to labour and water protection on Mi’kma’ki. \nAlex Antle’s Sple’tk is a watershed map of the Exploits River beaded onto a tan moose hide and hung from a scraped birch tree. The River is located in the central region of Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland) where Alex grew up. This work explores the importance of clean water and the many uses of the River. Both L’nu and settlers have utilized the water for labour and enjoyment. \nAntoinette Karuna’s hooked rug wall hangings are part of an autobiographical series. Untitled 1 and Untitled 2 explore the spiritual aspects of erotic love\, distanced from the male gaze and existing within the private sphere of the Treaty Relationship\, as Karuna is settler and her partner is Mi’kmaq. Untitled 3 examines Karuna’s biracial identity\, which is Sri Lankan Tamil (brown) and French Canadian (white)\, and how despite pressures from monoracial society to choose one racial identity over another\, she experiences her biraciality as fluid and complex. Formally\, her rugs draw on her background as a filmmaker\, mixing the language of textiles with that of cinema––notably cinematographic and storytelling principles. \nDetail of “Sple’tk” by Alex Antle\nClara Gough’s life sized figurative basket sculptures present different forms of labour: one a parent carrying a child and the other a depiction of the artist’s father carrying tools. Gough reinvents the traditional basket weaving techniques passed down in her community to depict iterations of labour and the community itself. \nCurtis Botham’s Pulp Mill\, Abercrombie is a black and white\, photo-realistic charcoal drawing as part of his ‘Effluents’ series of drawings that depict worker’s solidarity\, economic justice and environmental impact of industry in rural Mi’kma’ki. Drawn from observational sketches\, Curtis has illustrated the environmental devastation that can be caused from unsustainable\, under-regulated pulp industries. \n“Untitled 1” by Antoinette Karuna\nSecret Codes by Heather Cromwell is a vibrant series of picture quilts The Dance\, Betty Hartley and Grandma’s Hands depicting Black Nova Scotian women\, labour\, love and stories from the community. This work came out of a project by the Black Artists’ Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS) and the Vale Quilters\, where quiltmakers created from drawings made by Halifax artist-curator David Woods\, and documented travels to African Nova Scotian communities across the province. Grandma’s Hands will be on view as part of TOIL HERE. \nTilling and burying: Red Earth\, Black Death by Kim Cain is a piece about dualities of life/death\, growth/pruning\, joy/ sorrow. The red earth sets the background for the preparation of the land for planting\, with cattle and farmers preparing the soil. Black death is actualized with the central sight of the pallbearers carrying a casket towards a waiting plot. \nMichelle Roy’s Mi’kmaq regalia pieces include a toddler’s regalia\, a prom dress\, and a special jingle dress\, in representation and honoring of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women\, Girls\, and Two-Spirit and to celebrate the strength\, labour and determination of Mi’kmaq mothers\, sisters\, aunties\, wives\, and daughters and the central role of women in struggles for Indigenous justice. \n\nARTIST BIOS\nALEX ANTLE (she/her) is an emerging L’nu beadwork artist located on the North Shore of Elmastukwek\, Ktaqmkuk (Bay of Islands\, Newfoundland). She has been learning and practicing beadwork for four years with the guidance of a community of Mi’kmaq beaders. Alex’s art often explores the relationship between tradition and living culture\, as well as the importance of land and water. \nANTOINETTE KARUNA (she/her) is a visual artist working in textiles and film. She is Tamil Sri Lankan through her father and French Canadian through her mother. Karuna spent her childhood in London\, England\, and later a decade each in Montreal and Berlin. She now lives in Antigonish\, where she works as a freelance writer and editor and teaches filmmaking at St. Francis Xavier University. \nCLARA GOUGH (she/her) is a basketmaker and sculptor based in East Preston. She carries on the traditional basket weaving taught to by her mother Edith Clayton\, a renowned African Nova Scotian basketmaker. Though strongly influenced by her mother’s techniques\, Gough has imprinted her own unique style on the craft. In 1998 she began creating figurative basket sculptures inspired by her family and community. Clara is a member of the Black Artists’ Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS)\, a non-profit\, multi-disciplinary arts association that seeks to develop the African Nova Scotian arts community. \nCURTIS BOTHAM (he/him) is a white visual artist interested in rural Maritime industries. After graduating from NSCAD University in 2017\, he spent a year in New Glasgow’s Artist Residency program where he made a series of large-scale charcoal drawings dealing with the impact of industry on the environment and nearby communities. \nHEATHER CROMWELL (she/her) is an artist and quiltmaker based in New Glasgow. She grew up watching her mother and grandmother making quilts and took on the craft in her thirties. Heather is a member of the Black Artists’ Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS). She is also part of The Northumberland Quilters Guild\, one of the largest quilt guilds in Nova Scotia. In 2007\, she joined forces with several African Nova Scotian women in New Glasgow to form the Vale Quilters Association – a group interested in exploring African North American quiltmaking traditions and promoting the heritage of Pictou County’s Black community. \nKIM CAIN‘s (she/her) work explores the African Canadian existence here in Canada and how it relates to the larger global African Diaspora. She has been using Art as a means of allowing an African Nova Scotianess to emerge into the black art canvas for over 20 years. She explains that her work begins inside of her\, altering her perception of the world\, and through that inward glance her creativity is born. \nMICHELLE ROY (she/her) is an artist and Mi’kmaq knowledge keeper\, a regalia maker\, a mother of two daughters\, a wife\, a sister\, and auntie\, and a person living with a disability. She lives off reserve on her ancestral homeland of Mi’kma’ki\, the traditional territory of the l’nu – the Mi’kmaq. She is an active community member of Acadia First Nation. Michelle has been creating regalia and artwork for the last decade and it has led her to a path to engage in conversations that bring attention to struggles\, mental health\, and to celebrate Mi’kmaq culture. \nCATHERINE ANNE MARTIN (she/her) BA MEd. CM. is a member of the Millbrook Mi’kmaw Community\, Truro\, NS. She is an independent international award winning director and producer\, writer\, facilitator\, communications consultant\, community activist\, teacher\, drummer\, and the first Mi’kmaw woman filmmaker from the Atlantic region. She is a recipient of the Order of Canada in 2017 and is presently the first Indigenous Community Engagement Director for Dalhousie University. She is a past Chair of APTN and served on the board for the first five years of its inception. She has contributed to policy and institutional change to make cultural and arts more accessible to First Nations artists. \nGNAT NA’PI (she/her)\nNatalie is first\, a full time/home educating mother. They decolonize curriculum and advocate for Mi’kmaq sovereignty. They are an anti-homelessness advocate who’s practice is grounded in anti-capitalist\, anti-homophobic and anti-racist practices. For MayWorks they hope to utilize the creative space to motivate residents of Mi’kmaki to uphold treaty and collectively dream of a Mi’kmaq led anti-capitalist reality. You can support their work by donating to water and land defenders in your area\, and to the Treaty Truckhouse Legal fund (gofundme). \nThunderbird Swooping Down Woman\, DARLENE GILBERT (she/her) is from Kjipuktuk\, Mi’kma’ki and a member of Annapolis Valley First Nation. Born in 1965\, grandmother and Treaty Defender (water protector and land defender). Clan is Toney\, beanstalk clan.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/toil-here/
LOCATION:The Khyber Centre for the Arts\, 1880 Hollis St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3J 1W6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210525
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210616
DTSTAMP:20260407T065325
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SUMMARY:ARCHIVES CONTINUUM
DESCRIPTION:A digital storytelling project by Collective 2030\nIn collaboration with Restorying Climate Just Futures\n  \nACCESS ARCHIVES CONTINUUM: http://archivescontinuum.onelouder.ca/ \nExplore each offering in the website’s first layer to gain access to a hidden second layer hosting responses to the artists’ works. \n\nCOVID UPDATE:\nArchives Continuum is presented ONLINE and can be safely enjoyed from anywhere.\n \nDOWNLOAD OUR PROGRAM APP FOR ALL EVENT & TICKET UPDATES\n   \n\nCarmel Farahbakhsh | Cathy Martin | Shalan Joudry | Calen Sack  \nMichelle Sylliboy | Liliona Quarmyne | Tayla Fern Paul\n\nRespondents:\nSabrina Guzman Skotnitsky\nSailaja Krishnamurti\nJonathan Langdon\nShelley Price\nDesigner:\nDaren Okafo\nCollective 2030 engages in imagining\, designing\, dreaming their recurrent futures through a multidisciplinary and intergenerational storytelling lens in “Archives Continuum”. Catalyzed and unified through themes of multi-generational and time-cyclical communication\, memory keeping\, and relationship to land and water — each artist facilitates a response that weaves a dynamic narrative and desire to radically redesign the world as we know it. \nACCESS ARCHIVES CONTINUUM: http://archivescontinuum.onelouder.ca/ \nExplore each offering in the website’s first layer to gain access to a hidden second layer hosting responses to the artists’ works.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/archives-continuum/
LOCATION:NS
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190525T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190525T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T065325
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190415T135238Z
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SUMMARY:Rope Making
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Xiaocheng Li & Leesa Hamilton\nTextile Artists\, Xiaocheng Li and Leesa Hamilton will make rope from discarded shirts.  The Fashion and Textile industry create a lot of waste that takes decades to breakdown. Donate your old shirts that would otherwise end up in landfill. This hands on activity will call on you to turn waste into something beautiful and functional. \nAll of the rope we make will be installed in the Bus Stop Theatre until the end of the Festival and then auctioned off. \nPresented in partnership with
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/rope-making/
LOCATION:NS
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190518T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190518T150000
DTSTAMP:20260407T065325
CREATED:20190409T032559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190409T035032Z
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SUMMARY:the effects were cumulative and i almost didn’t notice
DESCRIPTION:By the year 2100\, port cities should prepare for a 250 centimetre rise in sea levels*\nWhere do our habits – as humans\, as workers\, as individuals\, as a society – lead us? The things we do every day. The things we don’t do\, every day. Small actions with eventual results. Time ceaselessly crashes on\, and the tendency of it all to add up can catch us by surprise. What do we tend to? What do we neglect? Tides slowly rise within us\, the world changes around us\, and we forget what a tiny pinprick of perspective we see it all from. How soon we are engulfed. How unwittingly we build our own prisons. \nFor 250 minutes\, performer/creator Colleen MacIsaac constructs an examination of how easily we can paint ourselves into a corner\, get in over our heads\, alter our circumstances until they are no longer safe for us. A durational exploration of what a long time it can take to arrive at what seems preventable in action yet feels inevitable upon arrival. \n  \n*The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\, 2017 report.
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LOCATION:NS
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20180501T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20180512T233000
DTSTAMP:20260407T065325
CREATED:20180329T000902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180430T021624Z
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SUMMARY:Under the Surface
DESCRIPTION:Under the Surface is a group exhibition featuring works by Kim Cain\, Tina Roberts-Jeffers and Katie Toth. \nTogether\, their works ask us to take a closer look at their subjects\, unearth the obscured and reconsider our assumptions about home. \nOpening Reception\nMay 1st at 6:30pm\nfollowing the May Day rally\n        \nFREE ice cream will be on offer at our opening reception immediately following the May Day march thanks to Dee Dee’s Ice Cream! \nSign language interpreters will be present during our opening reception. \nVisiting Hours\nThe exhibit will remain viewable for free to anyone attending festival events at the Bus Stop Theatre Co-op. \nVisiting hours will also be held on the weekend of May 5th and 6th from noon to 5pm each day. \n\nSeeds of the Seven Year Harvest\nby Kim Cain \n \nThrough her painting\, Cain pays homage to the arduous agricultural labour through which African Nova Scotian communities have survived despite obstacles set against them. Today’s generations of African Nova Scotians are the harvest of seeds planted long ago by tenacious and hard working ancestors. \n\nIn Full View\nby Tina Roberts-Jeffers \n\n\n  \n\n\n\nShe is\nPossession\nCommodity\nLife\n….I mean wife\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \nIn Full View is a photo exhibit that explores the unpaid labour of women\, and more specifically Black women\, in and around the home.  The stills and self portraits point to the work needed to sustain households. \nLabour that is often invisible is presented here in large\, oversized photos that ask viewers to think about the physical and emotional weight of people and things on women. \nIn Full View wonders aloud who and what can be set aside until tomorrow\, when the struggle demands so much of us today. \n\nFace Control\nby Katie Toth \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWhat makes a refugee?\n\nCanada is held up as a bastion of multiculturalism for many Romani people in Europe\, who say that they are subject to a kind of “face control” that prevents them from finding employment and being treated as full citizens in their current nations. National and international laws try to draw borders between refugees fleeing persecution and immigrants seeking better financial futures. But for people who are prevented from participating fully in civil society because of discrimination or who are denied a chance to find meaning through their work\, those lines aren’t so easy to draw. Material concerns are also political ones.\n\nThe Artists:\nKim Cain \nKim Cain’s work explores the African Canadian existence here in Canada and how it relates to the larger global African Diaspora. Growing up in Ontario\, her concept of cultural racial identity felt watered down and irrelevant. Since relocating to Nova Scotia in 1995\, she began an exploration of using Art as a means of claiming identity. Since her studies at NSCAD\, Kim has shown her work in numerous exhibitions including In This Place (1996)\, Skin (1998)\, Sistervision II (1998)\, Far and Wide (2000)\, Beyond 2000: Art of Bob Marley (2000)\, Sistervision III: Through Others Eyes (2001)\, Africville Reunion (2010)\, Freedom Festival (2011 & 2012) and SisterReVision: Reclaiming the black female body (2014). She has had two solo exhibitions at the Anna Leonowen Gallery: The Bridge: a Visual Biography (1999) and Artmomma Resurrected (2008). \n  \nTina Roberts-Jeffers \n \nTina Roberts-Jeffers is currently a stay-at-home mom to three beautiful\, bright children. A former school counsellor\, she arrived in Nova Scotia in 2010.  Tina is committed to community and believes strongly in progress through collective action. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nKatie Toth \nKatie Toth is a multimedia journalist who has been featured in Teen Vogue\, NPR and the Village Voice. She is interested in the boundaries between journalism\, art and documentary. This is her second display for Mayworks Halifax. Photo credit: Mary-Dan Johnston. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\nUnder the Surface is presented by the Nova Scotia Nurses’ Union
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/under-the-surface/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170429T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170429T110000
DTSTAMP:20260407T065325
CREATED:20170322T175441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170322T185045Z
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SUMMARY:The Decelebration of Canada 150
DESCRIPTION:Performance by Raven Davis\nSaturday\, April 29\, 10:00AM-11:00AM | Cornwallis Park\nFriday\, May 5\, 5:30 PM-6:30PM | Citadel Hill – Clock Tower\n\nThe Decelebration of Canada 150 is a body of work and a performance piece created to critique and expose the myth of the confederation of Canada and the discourse and erasure of: Indigenous people\, Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous history in Halifax and Canada. \nNOTE: Performances are ongoing and can be joined or left at any time. \nNOTE: Performances are outdoors. Please dress accordingly. \nRaven Davis\nAn Indigenous\, mixed race\, 2-Spirit multidisciplinary artist and activist from the Anishnawbe (Ojibwa) Nation\, Treaty 4 in Manitoba. They were born and raised in Toronto and currently works in Halifax. A parent of 3 sons\, Raven’s work spans from painting\, performance\, traditional song/dance\, design\, poetry and short film. Raven cleverly blends narratives of colonization\, race and gender justice\, 2-Spirit identity and the Anishinaabemowin language and culture into traditional and contemporary art forms. \n  \nPresented in partnership with the Union of Food and Commercial Workers – Eastern Provinces Council and the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group \n       
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/decelebration-canada-150/
LOCATION:NS
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax":MAILTO:info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170511
DTSTAMP:20260407T065325
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170410T142750Z
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SUMMARY:I Was There
DESCRIPTION:An Audiovisual installation by Katie Toth and Mary-Dan Johnston\nIt goes like this: the bank closes\, along with the grocery\, then the laundromat\, the club\, the pub\, the corner store where we bought popsicles and cartons of milk. The schools crumbled and were consolidated. Now\, standing on the same spot where I bought my first vodka cran\, underage\, there is thick gravel where years ago I felt linoleum\, softer\, sticking to the sole of my shoe.\nThe geography remains the same\, but the landscape changes\nI was there is an attempt to illuminate the psychogeography of a city that is often accused of being stuck in the past. This mixed-media installation combines photography\, oral history testimony and cartography to shed a light on what is lost in the process of gentrification.\n  \nLocation and Hours\nThis piece is presented in the lobby of The Bus Stop Theatre Co-op and can be experienced ahead or after any event presented at this location. I can also be experience between 10am and 4pm daily from May 8th to 10th. \nBiographies\nKatie Toth is an emerging audio artist and digital/audio journalist who has been published in VICE\, the Village Voice\, and NPR. Her first art piece\, which celebrated New York City’s public transit system\, was produced in collaboration with photographer Lara Atallah\, and displayed at The New York City Transit Museum’s community artist event Platform. \nMary-Dan Johnston is a writer\, researcher\, educator working at the intersections of the public and the private. Trained as an oral historian and qualitative researcher\, she is particularly interested in how the political economy of the Maritimes has shaped the embodied experiences of working people. Her writing has recently appeared in GUTS Canadian Feminist Magazine. Her art practice uses street photography to capture moments of tension and collaboration between individuals and the built environment. \n  \nPresented in partnership with the Bus Stop Theatre Cooperative and the StART Festival. \n  
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/i-was-there/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax":MAILTO:info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170502T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170502T191500
DTSTAMP:20260407T065325
CREATED:20170322T175920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170322T175934Z
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SUMMARY:Untitled (Applying Joint Compound)
DESCRIPTION:Video installation / performance by Michael Di Risio\nUntitled (Applying Joint Compound) (2016) is a video-installation and performance that attempts to make visible the labour involved in maintaining public spaces. Though often unseen and undervalued\, maintenance work is a fundamental component of the production of social space\, in turn supporting other forms of collective work and cultural production. Through a reflection on the nuances of this work\, the viewer is invited to consider what is involved in the production of the spaces that they typically inhabit. \nNOTE: While the performance will take place on May 2nd at 7pm\, the video installation will remain in the Bus Stop Theatre lobby from May 2nd to May 4th. \nMichael Di Risio\nAn artist and writer currently based in Kingston\, ON. His writing has appeared in Art Papers\, Afterimage\, Fuse Magazine\, C Magazine and PUBLIC Journal\, among others\, where he reflects on art as a social force. He has participated in recent exhibitions at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre\, Artcite and Museum London\, with forthcoming exhibitions at the Thames Art Gallery and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. He holds an MFA from the University of Windsor and is currently the Artistic Director of Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre. \n  \nPresented in partnership with the Bus Stop Theatre Co-op
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/untitled-applying-joint-compound/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax":MAILTO:info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170429T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170429T110000
DTSTAMP:20260407T065325
CREATED:20170322T175441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170322T185045Z
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SUMMARY:The Decelebration of Canada 150
DESCRIPTION:Performance by Raven Davis\nSaturday\, April 29\, 10:00AM-11:00AM | Cornwallis Park\nFriday\, May 5\, 5:30 PM-6:30PM | Citadel Hill – Clock Tower\n\nThe Decelebration of Canada 150 is a body of work and a performance piece created to critique and expose the myth of the confederation of Canada and the discourse and erasure of: Indigenous people\, Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous history in Halifax and Canada. \nNOTE: Performances are ongoing and can be joined or left at any time. \nNOTE: Performances are outdoors. Please dress accordingly. \nRaven Davis\nAn Indigenous\, mixed race\, 2-Spirit multidisciplinary artist and activist from the Anishnawbe (Ojibwa) Nation\, Treaty 4 in Manitoba. They were born and raised in Toronto and currently works in Halifax. A parent of 3 sons\, Raven’s work spans from painting\, performance\, traditional song/dance\, design\, poetry and short film. Raven cleverly blends narratives of colonization\, race and gender justice\, 2-Spirit identity and the Anishinaabemowin language and culture into traditional and contemporary art forms. \n  \nPresented in partnership with the Union of Food and Commercial Workers – Eastern Provinces Council and the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group \n       
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/decelebration-canada-150/
LOCATION:NS
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax":MAILTO:info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20170429T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20170429T110000
DTSTAMP:20260407T065325
CREATED:20170322T175441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170322T185045Z
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SUMMARY:The Decelebration of Canada 150
DESCRIPTION:Performance by Raven Davis\nSaturday\, April 29\, 10:00AM-11:00AM | Cornwallis Park\nFriday\, May 5\, 5:30 PM-6:30PM | Citadel Hill – Clock Tower\n\nThe Decelebration of Canada 150 is a body of work and a performance piece created to critique and expose the myth of the confederation of Canada and the discourse and erasure of: Indigenous people\, Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous history in Halifax and Canada. \nNOTE: Performances are ongoing and can be joined or left at any time. \nNOTE: Performances are outdoors. Please dress accordingly. \nRaven Davis\nAn Indigenous\, mixed race\, 2-Spirit multidisciplinary artist and activist from the Anishnawbe (Ojibwa) Nation\, Treaty 4 in Manitoba. They were born and raised in Toronto and currently works in Halifax. A parent of 3 sons\, Raven’s work spans from painting\, performance\, traditional song/dance\, design\, poetry and short film. Raven cleverly blends narratives of colonization\, race and gender justice\, 2-Spirit identity and the Anishinaabemowin language and culture into traditional and contemporary art forms. \n  \nPresented in partnership with the Union of Food and Commercial Workers – Eastern Provinces Council and the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group \n       
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/decelebration-canada-150/
LOCATION:NS
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20160428T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20160512T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T065325
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LAST-MODIFIED:20160412T013940Z
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SUMMARY:Performing Arts Workers
DESCRIPTION:A series of portraits by Zach Faye\nThe first presentation of an ongoing photo series. The project documents the local arts community\, celebrates the individual artists\, and acknowledges the continuing contributions of invaluable arts workers. \nVisiting Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11am to 4pm\, or during evenings before and after showtime.\nPresented in the lobby gallery of the Bus Stop Theatre Coop.\nSend us a message if you would like to arrange a visit with the artist! mayworkshalifax@gmail.com \n 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/in-their-dotage/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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