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SUMMARY:Am I Ovary-Acting?
DESCRIPTION:By Lunasea Theatre\n$10 in advance and $15 at the door\n\nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you.\n \n  \n    \nChildcare is available for free and on site during the May 10th reception and Q&A. Please register in advance. \nASL interpretation will be available during the May 10 Reception and Q&A \n\n \nAm I Ovary-Acting? is a work by LunaSea Theatre about reproductive justice that examines commonly held beliefs about health and medical care for those with ovaries/uteruses/vaginas. Through comedy\, storytelling\, rage and disbelief we explore reproductive health and justice through relevant objects. At Mayworks\, our focus will be the history\, uses and misuses of the speculum. This 50 minute show is part ted-talk\, part conversation\, part storytelling. When it comes to health and reproductive justice the political and social landscape right now is rife with misinformation\, disinformation and half-truths.  We are here to press against that tide with nuanced conversation and evidence-based information in a fun\, curious\, theatrical way. \nCredits:\nCreated and performed by Kathleen Dorian and Ailsa Galbreath \nResearch by Claire Horn \n\n \nKATHLEEN DORIAN (she/her) is a creator/actor based in Dartmouth\, NS (Punamu’kwati’jk). She is co-Artistic Director of LunaSea Theatre\, Nova Scotia’s foremost feminist theatre company (most recently producing SoloFest\, a festival of new one-act works)\, and one quarter of the clown-troupe-turned-accidental-theatre-company Tea Time Creation Co. (First Date/Last Date\, Gina Is Dead\, Romeo & Juliet: A Drink Along\, Midsummer Night’s Wet Dream). She has had the great pleasure of working with extremely talented Halifax peers as an actor (How Quickly Things Change – xo secret theatre; This is Nowhere\, How Small How Far Away – Zuppa Theatre; The Very Hungry Caterpillar\, My Favourite Story Book/Guess How Much I Love You\, The Rainbow Fish – Mermaid Theatre) as well as an assistant director and director (Some Blow Flutes – HomeFirst Theatre\, Booby Trap – Rooks Field Green). Kathleen is interested in puppetry\, story through movement and magic\, and meeting her audience in the space between performance and reality. \nAILSA GALBREATH (she/her) is a theatre artist based in Punamu’kwati’jk (Dartmouth). Ailsa is an actor\, creator\, and producer. She is passionate about new work. Recently\, Ailsa performed as a puppeteer in Gale Force’s ambitious outdoor creation Icarus: Falling of Birds. Ailsa played Flute in Neptune Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream last season. She performed in Two Planks and a Passion’s season of The Mountain and the Valley and Chased by the Bear.  She has worked with Ship’s Company Theatre\, Gale Force Theatre\, PARC\, secret theatre\, EFT\, HomeFirst\, Zuppa Theatre\, LunaSea Theatre Co\, Halifax Theatre for Young People and Villain’s Theatre. Ailsa is 1/4th of Tea Time Creation Co\, a clown troupe who seek to subvert the status quo with wacky fun\, through the creation of new work and reinvention of classics. Ailsa is a certified teacher of the Interactive Teaching Method of the Alexander Technique. She is the Co-Artistic Director of LunaSea Theatre Company\, a feminist theatre company whose work centres the voices of women\, non-binary\, and underrepresented genders. \n \nCLAIRE HORN is a writer and researcher with a PhD in law (University of London) and an MA in gender and legal studies (NYU). From 2021-2024\, she was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University’s Health Justice Institute\, and she has held research fellowships with the Modern Law Review and the Wellcome Trust. She has researched and taught in law and policy governing sexual and reproductive health\, rights\, and technologies for six years and has published with a variety of nonfiction venues as well as academic journals including Body & Society\, Catalyst: Feminism\, Theory\, Technoscience\, The Journal of Medical Ethics\, the Medical Law Review and Feminist Legal Studies. Her first book\, Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth\, was published in 2023 and was longlisted for the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/am-i-ovary-acting/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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SUMMARY:On the Line - Artist Reception
DESCRIPTION:By Audrey Eastwood\nOn display May 1 to June 1\nReception on May 10\, 4:00pm-6:15pm\nArtist Q&A on May 10\, 6:15pm-7:00pm \n    \nChildcare is available for free and on site during the May 10th reception and Q&A. Please register in advance. \nASL interpretation will be available during the May 10 Reception and Q&A \n\nOn the Line is a time-lapse video and photo compilation of six months’ worth of one of domestic labor’s most repetitive and relentless tasks: laundry. By   documenting every load washed\, every dryer load\, and every line of drying clothes\, the project seeks to show the cumulative weight of an everyday chore\,   particularly within the context of parenting and motherhood. \n\n \nAUDREY EASTWOOD is a multi-disciplinary artist\, General Manager of the Bus Stop Theatre Co-op\, and Co-Founder and Artistic Producer of Terra Novella Theatre. She has worked as an actor\,  designer\, musician\, technician\, and fight choreographer for a number of Kjipuktuk based companies including Villain’s Theatre\, Kick at the Dark Theatre Co-op\, Halifax Summer Opera\, Halifax Fringe\, Votive Dance and Whale Song Theatre. She is the mother of two young children\, and lives on a small farm with them and her partner Nick. Her artistic practice has shifted in the last few years to try and find space in the small gaps of time between work and childcare: cutting floral designs into sourdough bread\, filling indoor and outdoor spaces with plants\, teaching her kids the names of different birds and trees and how to successfully cut paper without cutting your small fingers\, and by making this art piece out of her never ending laundry pile.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/on-the-line-artist-reception/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Found in Translation / Trouvé dans la traduction
DESCRIPTION:By Sometimes in Nova Scotia (SiNS)\n \nMay 10\, 4:00pm-6:15pm (durational – drop in anytime) \n  \n \nCette présentation est présentée en anglais et en français grâce au soutient du gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Écosse.\nLa description ci-bas alterne entre l’anglais et le français. \n \nASL interpretation will be available \nChildcare available on site for free. Please register in advance. / Gardiennage gratuit disponible sur place. SVP instrivez-vous à l’avance (formulaire en anglais). \n\n \nFound in Translation is an interactive performance in which small objects are translated into movement\, drawing\, and poetry through a series of playful transformations. Audience members are invited to join with performers to uncover illuminating potentials in the things that surround us. \nFound in Translation originated as part of Eastern Front Theatre’s Macro Digitals: CONNECTIONS under the guidance of Kat McCormack\, with collaborators Katie Clarke\, Breton Lalama\, Logan Robins\, Gillian Seaward-Boone and Rebecca Wolfe. \n\n \nTrouvé dans la traduction est une performance interactive où de petits objets se transforment en mouvements\, dessins et poèmes grâce à une série de métamorphoses ludiques. Le public est invité à se joindre aux artistes pour découvrir le potentiel insoupçonné des objets qui nous entourent. \nCette pièce a été créée en 2022 avec les membres de la distribution originale Jacinte Armstrong\, Katie Clarke\, Breton Lalama\, Logan Robbins\, Gillian Seaward-Boone et Rebecca Wolfe\, avec la dramaturge Kat MacCormack\, et produite par Eastern Front Theatre\, Dartmouth\, NS. \n\n \nFound in Translation is an interactive performance that transforms small objects into movement\, drawing\, and poetry through a kind of artistic “assembly line.” Six performers take part at a time\, rotating through all of the roles: hosting\, describing\, drawing\, dancing\, typing poems\, and reading them aloud. Crucially\, the “machine” is always activated by audience participation. An audience member begins each round by arranging objects\, and at the end of the cycle\, they receive the poem that was generated and read out specifically for them – an artistic “gift” created through the collective process. \n\n \nTrouvé dans la traduction est une performance interactive qui transforme de petits objets en mouvement\, dessin et poésie grâce à une sorte de « chaîne de montage » artistique. Six performeurs participent simultanément\, endossant tour à tour tous les rôles : présenter\, décrire\, dessiner\, danser\, taper des poèmes et les lire à voix haute. Point essentiel\, la « machine » est toujours activée par la participation du public. Un spectateur initie chaque cycle en disposant des objets\, et à la fin\, il reçoit le poème créé et lu spécialement pour lui – un « cadeau » artistique né de ce processus collectif. \nEnsemble:\n-Jacinte Armstrong\n-Micaela Comeau\n-Françoise Labelle\n-Susan Leblanc\n-Zya Langdon-Quarmyne\n-Liliona Quarmyne\n-Mila Samarani​​​​​​​​​​\n-Dawn Shepherd\n-Winnie Sherwood-Steele\n-Geneviève Steele\n-Nadine Sures \n\n \nJACINTE ARMSTRONG (she/her) is an Acadian artist based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, NS. Her work explores embodied practice through performance\, choreography\, collaboration\, and curation\, communicating the experience of the body in relation to objects\, materials\, and people. Her choreography ranges from intimate and imagistic to large-scale collaborations with dancers\, architects\, visual artists\, radio producers\, filmmakers\, actors and musicians. A leader in the Atlantic region\, she is Artistic Director and co-founder of SiNS (Sometimes in Nova Scotia) Dance\, Artistic Director of suddenlyLISTEN\, and collaborates regularly with Mocean Dance. From 2014-18\, she was Artistic Director of Kinetic Studio. \nIn 2016\, Jacinte was awarded an Established Artist Recognition Award by the Nova Scotia Arts and Culture Partnership Council\, and a Masterworks Award for her work in Mocean Dance’s “Canvas 5×5” choreographed by Tedd Robinson. She holds an MFA in Performance from NSCAD University and is a certified in Laban Movement Analysis. \nJACINTE ARMSTRONG (elle) est une artiste acadienne basée à Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, en Nouvelle-Écosse. Son travail explore la pratique incarnée à travers la performance\, la chorégraphie\, la collaboration et le commissariat. Elle communique l’expérience du corps en relation avec les objets\, les matériaux\, l’environnement\, la technologie et les personnes. Ses chorégraphies vont de l’intime et de  l’imaginaire à des collaborations à grande échelle avec des danseur-euses\, des architectes\, des artistes visuel-les\, des producteur-rices de radio\, des cinéastes\, des créateur-rices de théâtre\, des programmeur-euses informatiques et des musicien-nes. Jacinte est titulaire d’une maîtrise en beaux-arts en performance de l’Université NSCAD et est certifiée analyste du mouvement Laban (CMA). \n\nEvent photos by Laura Demers and Daniel Wittnebel\nHeadshot of Jacinte Armstrong by Kevin MacCormack
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/found-in-translation-trouve-dans-la-traduction/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Music of Liberation
DESCRIPTION:With John Kameel Farah\nPresented in partnership with Upstream Music Association \n \nAll proceeds will be donated to the Sameer Project in Palestine \n$10 in advance and $15 at the door \n\nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n\nIn this extraordinary concert\, Palestinian-Canadian pianist and composer John Kameel Farah embraces elements of Baroque and Near-Eastern music\, improvisation and electronic music to create what he calls “Arabic-Baroque-Cyberpunk.” Surrounding the piano with synthesizers\, he combines a vivid and playful imagination with virtuosic musicianship. Accompanied by projections of his intricate ink drawings\, the performance sounds through the lens of Palestinian struggle\, identity and heritage\, drawing connections across histories and liberation movements. \n \n“In performance\, Farah ranges all over his instruments while setting up textures and countertextures\, moving deftly from acoustic to electronic episodes\, and testing and deploying his materials with a mixture of scientific care and wild abandon. Improvisation is a key working method\, both at his various keyboards and in the execution of electronic beats and processes that are equally at the core of his approach. \n“Frenetic and contemplative in turn\, Farah’s music is underpinned by a deep emotional and spiritual reservoir which\, when framed through his exceptional musicality and virtuosic instrumental command\, packs his highly original music with considerable and undeniable clout.” \n-Scott Thompson\, Guelph Jazz Festival \n\n \nJOHN KAMEEL FARAH is one of Canada’s most creative and imaginative composers. He is a Palestinian-Canadian pianist whose music embraces Baroque and Arabic Music\, experimental improvisation and electronics. He studied at the University of Toronto\, where he received the Glenn Gould Composition Award twice and afterwards had private lessons with Terry Riley in California\, and later at the Arabic Music Retreat in Hartford. He has been a member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble since 2010\, and was a guest-performer with Tangerine Dream in Toronto in 2023. \nTHE SAMEER PROJECT is a Palestinian-led mutual aid group supporting people in Gaza during the genocide. It is a donations based initiative\, led by Palestinians in the diaspora\, who are working to supply aid to displaced families in Gaza. Fiscal host: Social Change Nest.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/songs-of-liberation/
LOCATION:Joseph Strug Concert Hall\, 1385 Seymour Street\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3H 3M6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Working in Uncertainty - Dance Workshop
DESCRIPTION:With Jessie Garon of Vazari\nThis workshop is geared towards professional artists from any medium with a performance practice\, as well as students in pre-professional programs. \nWorking In Uncertainty plays with agency\, togetherness\, and uncertainty through a group improvisation structure. We explore uncertainty as a rich creative state without ego and look for ways to embrace it. This workshop encourages a playful approach to build skills as an interpreter and improvisor. Participants practise following impulses\, supporting fellow performers\, and diving into their own creativity. As a group we question; what is required for us to retain full agency while participating completely in heightened togetherness? How can safety and negotiation be built into the practice so we all take part? \nAdmission by donation. Please RSVP here:\n \n\n \nJESSIE GARON (Artistic Director of Vazari Dance Projects) is a queer performer and choreographer working in contemporary dance theatre. Originally from a homesteaded family farm in Alberta\, she is now based in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is a graduate of Dance Arts Institute after which she interned for Ate9 Dance Company (Los Angeles) under Artistic Director Danielle Agami studying Gaga Movement Language daily. Since 2014\, she has participated primarily in collaborative processes blending performative forms. Her work incites the potential of dance virtuosity\, rigor and spectacle as materials to craft spirited\, athletic and abstract dance theatre. She has worked with artists such as Brandy Leary/Anandam Dance Theatre\, Jennifer Dallas/Kemi Contemporary Dance Projects\, Serge Bennathan\, Lemi Ponifasio/MAU (New Zealand)\, Clarice Lima/Futura (Brazil) and Sara Porter. Garon is the founder and Artistic Director of Vazari Arts. As a creator she is nominated for the 2024 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize. Her work has been shown across Canada\, including the Theatre Centre (ON)\, Pumphouse Theatre (AB)\, Refinery Theatre (SK)\, Édifice Wilder Espace Danse (QC) and Salle Bernard-LeBlanc (NB).
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/working-in-uncertainty-workshop/
LOCATION:Breaking Circus\, 2164 Amalamek Wy\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 2WB3K 2W4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance
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SUMMARY:everything i wanted to tell you / tout ce que j’avais envie de te dire
DESCRIPTION:everything i wanted to tell you (but couldn’t\, so here it is now)\nBy Vazari\nPresented with support from / Présenté avec le soutien du Conseil Communautaire du Grand-Havre et Live Art Dance\n      \n$10 in advance and $15 at the door \n\nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n \nCette présentation est bilingue – en anglais et en français. La description en français suit ci-bas. \nASL interpretation will be available for the May 7th presentation \n\nThis athletic and empathic work of dance theatre lifts a glass (and then smashes it) to love\, loyalty and the difficult things we hope never to escape.\neverything I wanted to tell you (but couldn’t\, so here it is now) is an adventurous\, no bullshit look at the ties that bind. Two dancers are locked in a liminal space of shared memories\, imagined incidents\, and the difficult things left unsaid. Together they set off on an athletic journey traversing the tangible and illogical as they learn to navigate change without letting go – because family is forever\, right? \nWinner of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards:\nOutstanding Choreography\nOutstanding Production\nOutstanding Performance by an Individual\nAlso nominated for Outstanding Original Sound Composition and Outstanding Achievement in Design \n \nCredits:\nConcept and Direction Jessie Garon\nChoreography by Jessie Garon in collaboration with Sully Malaeb Proulx\, Jarrett Siddall\, Guillaume Biron and Pulga Muchochoma\nPerformed by Demetri Apostolopoulos and Jarrett Siddall\nSound Design by Stephen Joffe\nLighting Design by Simon Rossiter\nCostumes by Jessica Mak and Brayden Cairns\nOutside Eye Tia Kushniruk \nStatement from the creator\, Jessie Garon\n \nThe inspiration to create this work came from reconciling the friction and sense of duty in my own family. I come from a homestead farm where siblings\, cousins\, aunts\, uncles\, parents and grandparents have lived and worked together for six generations. In a time when establishing boundaries and cutting ties is more encouraged\, what has to happen if we choose to engage with the tension instead? I hope the audience will leave thinking about the listening\, empathy and flexibility required to evolve with people over time. \nNOTE: Jessie is offering a dance workshop on May 9th. Find details at WORKING IN UNCERTAINTY.\n\ntout ce que j’avais envie de te dire\n \neverything i wanted to tell you (but couldn’t\, so here it is now) est une œuvre de danse-théâtre virtuose et empathique qui lève son verre (avant de le briser) à l’amour\, à la loyauté et aux difficultés auxquelles nous espérons ne jamais échapper. \nAvec cette pièce\, Garon s’interroge sur la souplesse de nos relations les plus proches et sur la tendance culturelle à établir des frontières rigides. \nLauréat de trois prix Dora Mavor Moore:\nMeilleure chorégraphie\nMeilleure production\nMeilleure performance individuelle\nÉgalement nominé dans les catégories de meilleure composition musicale originale et meilleure réalisation en conception \n \nÉquipe:\nConcept et direction par Jessie Garon\nChorégraphie par Jessie Garon en collaboration avec Sully Malaeb Proulx\, Jarrett Siddall\, Guillaume Biron et Pulga Muchochoma\nInterprété par Demetri Apostolopoulos and Jarrett Siddall\nComposition musicale  par Stephen Joffe\nÉclairage par Simon Rossiter\nCostumes par Jessica Mak et Brayden Cairns\nRegard extérieur Tia Kushniruk \nDéclaration de la créatrice\, Jessie Garon\n \nL’inspiration pour créer cette œuvre m’est venue en conciliant les tensions et le sens du devoir au sein de ma propre famille. Je viens d’une ferme familiale en Alberta où mes frères et sœurs\, cousins\, tantes\, oncles\, parents et grands-parents ont vécu et travaillé ensemble pendant six générations. À une époque où l’on encourage davantage à établir des limites et à couper les liens\, que doit-il se passer si nous choisissons plutôt d’accepter les tensions? J’espère que le public repartira en réfléchissant à l’écoute\, à l’empathie et à la flexibilité nécessaires pour évoluer avec les gens au fil du temps. \nNB: Jessie offre un atelier de danse (en anglais) le 9 mai. Visitez WORKING IN UNCERTAINTY pour plus de détails.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/everything-i-wanted-to-tell-you-tout-ce-que-javais-envie-de-te-dire/
LOCATION:Breaking Circus\, 2164 Amalamek Wy\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 2WB3K 2W4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance
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SUMMARY:everything i wanted to tell you / tout ce que j’avais envie de te dire
DESCRIPTION:everything i wanted to tell you (but couldn’t\, so here it is now)\nBy Vazari\nPresented with support from / Présenté avec le soutien du Conseil Communautaire du Grand-Havre et Live Art Dance\n      \n$10 in advance and $15 at the door \n\nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n \nCette présentation est bilingue – en anglais et en français. La description en français suit ci-bas. \nASL interpretation will be available for the May 7th presentation \n\nThis athletic and empathic work of dance theatre lifts a glass (and then smashes it) to love\, loyalty and the difficult things we hope never to escape.\neverything I wanted to tell you (but couldn’t\, so here it is now) is an adventurous\, no bullshit look at the ties that bind. Two dancers are locked in a liminal space of shared memories\, imagined incidents\, and the difficult things left unsaid. Together they set off on an athletic journey traversing the tangible and illogical as they learn to navigate change without letting go – because family is forever\, right? \nWinner of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards:\nOutstanding Choreography\nOutstanding Production\nOutstanding Performance by an Individual\nAlso nominated for Outstanding Original Sound Composition and Outstanding Achievement in Design \n \nCredits:\nConcept and Direction Jessie Garon\nChoreography by Jessie Garon in collaboration with Sully Malaeb Proulx\, Jarrett Siddall\, Guillaume Biron and Pulga Muchochoma\nPerformed by Demetri Apostolopoulos and Jarrett Siddall\nSound Design by Stephen Joffe\nLighting Design by Simon Rossiter\nCostumes by Jessica Mak and Brayden Cairns\nOutside Eye Tia Kushniruk \nStatement from the creator\, Jessie Garon\n \nThe inspiration to create this work came from reconciling the friction and sense of duty in my own family. I come from a homestead farm where siblings\, cousins\, aunts\, uncles\, parents and grandparents have lived and worked together for six generations. In a time when establishing boundaries and cutting ties is more encouraged\, what has to happen if we choose to engage with the tension instead? I hope the audience will leave thinking about the listening\, empathy and flexibility required to evolve with people over time. \nNOTE: Jessie is offering a dance workshop on May 9th. Find details at WORKING IN UNCERTAINTY.\n\ntout ce que j’avais envie de te dire\n \neverything i wanted to tell you (but couldn’t\, so here it is now) est une œuvre de danse-théâtre virtuose et empathique qui lève son verre (avant de le briser) à l’amour\, à la loyauté et aux difficultés auxquelles nous espérons ne jamais échapper. \nAvec cette pièce\, Garon s’interroge sur la souplesse de nos relations les plus proches et sur la tendance culturelle à établir des frontières rigides. \nLauréat de trois prix Dora Mavor Moore:\nMeilleure chorégraphie\nMeilleure production\nMeilleure performance individuelle\nÉgalement nominé dans les catégories de meilleure composition musicale originale et meilleure réalisation en conception \n \nÉquipe:\nConcept et direction par Jessie Garon\nChorégraphie par Jessie Garon en collaboration avec Sully Malaeb Proulx\, Jarrett Siddall\, Guillaume Biron et Pulga Muchochoma\nInterprété par Demetri Apostolopoulos and Jarrett Siddall\nComposition musicale  par Stephen Joffe\nÉclairage par Simon Rossiter\nCostumes par Jessica Mak et Brayden Cairns\nRegard extérieur Tia Kushniruk \nDéclaration de la créatrice\, Jessie Garon\n \nL’inspiration pour créer cette œuvre m’est venue en conciliant les tensions et le sens du devoir au sein de ma propre famille. Je viens d’une ferme familiale en Alberta où mes frères et sœurs\, cousins\, tantes\, oncles\, parents et grands-parents ont vécu et travaillé ensemble pendant six générations. À une époque où l’on encourage davantage à établir des limites et à couper les liens\, que doit-il se passer si nous choisissons plutôt d’accepter les tensions? J’espère que le public repartira en réfléchissant à l’écoute\, à l’empathie et à la flexibilité nécessaires pour évoluer avec les gens au fil du temps. \nNB: Jessie offre un atelier de danse (en anglais) le 9 mai. Visitez WORKING IN UNCERTAINTY pour plus de détails.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/everything-i-wanted-to-tell-you-tout-ce-que-javais-envie-de-te-dire/
LOCATION:Breaking Circus\, 2164 Amalamek Wy\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 2WB3K 2W4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260506T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260506T203000
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SUMMARY:Queers in Carhartts
DESCRIPTION:By Devin West and Shift Change Halifax\n \nFilm Screening and Exhibition//Artist & Researcher Q&A \nQueers in Carhartts is an art exhibition\, film screening\, and research launch\, documenting the unique challenges and practices of resilience by queer and trans people working in skilled trades labour. QiC is a hybrid of qualitative research investigating the lived experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ people in skilled trades in Nova Scotia\, and a collaborative\, community-building\, creative documentation of the first-person authority of some of those experiences and survival strategies. Community collaborations feature local artist Andrew Deveaux for filmography\, Winnipeg musician and sound artist\, Kitz Willman on sound\, and sculptor-researcher (carpenter)\, Devin West on research and artistic direction. Join us in launching our exhibition\, film screening and research report at Queers in Carhartts. \n    \nResearch and art facilitated by YWCA Halifax Shift Change Project @shiftchangehalifax\, funded by Women and Gender Equity Canada. Thank you to our supporters: WAGE Canada\, Wisdom2Action\, WiSTAN and Titiklie Workplace Safety. \n\n \nDevin West
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/queers-in-carhartts/
LOCATION:Glitter Bean Cafe Co-op\, 5896 Spring Garden Rd\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3H 3B8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260425T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260425T160000
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SUMMARY:Raising Big Questions
DESCRIPTION:YOU FRGOT SOMETHING\, Collaboration with Luke Hathaway. Photo by John Haney. \nBy Andrew Maize in collaboration with El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\nApril 25th 1-4pm – Dr. El Jones @ Halifax Common\nMay 2nd 1-4pm – Seán Kennedy @ Citadel Hill\nMay 3rd 1-4pm – Sue Goyette @ Point Pleasant Park \n**Please note that exact time and location are subject to change according to weather and wind conditions. Rain-Wind Dates will be scheduled according to forecast/availability. Please refer to our website and social media accounts @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for the latest information. \nWe live in punishing and brutal times. Language plays a crucial role in how we make sense of the world. In language\, we can bear witness\, negotiate meaning\, and call-out the people and systems of power to hold them accountable. Language has long been a creative and powerful tool in labour and social justice movements\, with the ability to encapsulate and embody a movement or a moment. \nThe arrival of May is the arrival of kite season. For Mayworks\, Maize has invited 3 word-workers; El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\, to compose aerial text banners to be flown across the city. The Mayworks audience is invited to help fly these kite banners. By working collectively to lift language up into the sky – we embody a public discourse of sorts\, fielding critical challenges and raising big questions. \nRAISING BIG QUESTIONS is an ongoing project by Andrew Maize\, that uses a home-made\, modular kite-letter to compose aerial text banners in the sky. Kite-flying is a joyful\, analogue and collective activity – one that must be responsive to both the weather and site. Location of the events will be dependent on environmental factors\, including wind direction. \nStay tuned closer to the date on the Mayworks Website and social media @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for announcements. \nNOTE: Andrew is offering a kite-flying workshop on April 25th. Find details at GO FLY A KITE.\n\n \nANDREW MAIZE is an artist. His playful\, collaborative and improvisational approach to making art is contingent on the relationships of environmental\,  social\, and material situations. Recent collaborative explorations include mobile instruments for improvised performances\, wind-powered kinetic sculptures\, and experimental drawing practices (using local sourced inks and candle smoke). He seeks collaborations across disciplines to expand improvisational practices as tools for embodying more responsive and adaptable ways of being\, by welcoming the fundamental agency of uncertainty. As an arts educator and organizer\, he has been involved in collaborative projects that engage communities with art\, in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Maize graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax NS in 2012\, and a MFA from the University of Guelph in 2021. He is the recipient of multiple grants and awards\, including SSHRCC\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Arts Nova Scotia. \n \nDR. EL JONES. Author\, poet\, journalist\, educator\, and advocate. Dr. El Jones is all these things and more\, an outspoken activist\, thinker and writer whose strengths converge in her spoken word performances. A respected poet\, Dr. Jones was two-time National Slam champion in 2007 and 2008\, Poet Laureate of Halifax in 2013-2015\, resident of the International Writing Program at University of Iowa in 2015\, and poet in residence at University of Toronto Scarborough in 2021. What defines her achievements is a commitment to activism and community advocacy to highlight inequities and redress injustices. The recognition of her performances\, teaching and political commitment testifies to the exceptional influence she has exercised during the Black Lives Matter movement and the expansion of Black scholarship in Canadian academia. \n \nSUE GOYETTE lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) and has published ten books of poems and a novel. Her latest collection is Future Howl\, (Gaspereau Press\, 2025). She is the editor of Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press\, 2021)\, The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (Anansi\, 2017) and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 (Tightrope Books\, 2013). Her work has been translated into French\, Spanish and German and has been featured in films\, subways\, buses\, spray painted on a sidewalk and tattooed. Her work has been nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award and has won several awards including the Dalhousie University Teaching Award\, 2021; the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation (Océan translated by Georgette Leblanc)\, 2020; J.M. Abraham Poetry Award 2016\, 2012; ReLit Award 2016; 2014 Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award; 2013 National Magazine Award\, Silver; 2012 Pat Lowther Award for Poetry; Bliss Carman Poetry Award\, 2011; The Established Artist Recognition Award\, NS\, 2011; 2010 Earle Birney Award; 2008 CBC Literary Award for Poetry; as well as the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award for her collection\, Ocean. Sue teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University. \n \nSEÁN KENNEDY is Professor of English and Coordinator of Irish Studies. Their research interests include Samuel Beckett\, Queer Ireland\, Ireland in Psychoanalysis\, Zionism\, and the “Erotics of Irish Austerity” (the ways in which austerity economics is troped in terms of the kinky language of discipline\, control and humiliation). Publications include Beckett and Ireland (Cambridge UP\, 2010)\, Send In the Clowns! (OR Books\, 2025) and Beckett beyond the normal (in progress). Kennedy is the coordinator for Unsettling Irish Studies. \n\nEvent photo by John Haney
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/raising-big-questions/
LOCATION:NS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260502T203000
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SUMMARY:Be Eternal
DESCRIPTION:With Jackson Fairfax-Perry\, Andrew Jackson\, Lance Sampson\, Shuvanjan Karmakar and Joshua Awe\nONE TICKET FOR TWO INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCES!\n$10 in advance and $15 at the door.\n**Ticket includes admission to AND SO WE DANCE** \n \nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n \nChildcare available on site for free. Please register in advance. \n\nTaking its name from the final line of Common’s acclaimed 2005 album\, Be Eternal explores black male mortality\, particularly of musicians\, and the normalization of this in modern society. Led by local saxophonist Jackson Fairfax-Perry\, this ensemble brings together 5 local improvising musicians with roots connecting to the African diaspora. Exploring both spontaneous and written compositions\, Be Eternal asks how can we move past this mindset that black men die young? That this is just how it is? How can we honour the artists who came before us\, while also giving flowers to the ones who are still with us? This music is raw and mournful\, but it is also filled with joy and hope\, brimming with the power of our ancestors. This is a celebration of our black musical lineage. \nPersonnel:\nJackson Fairfax-Perry – Saxophones \nAndrew Jackson – Trombone \nLance Sampson – Voice \nShuvanjan Karmakar – Bass \nJoshua Awe – Drums \n\n \nJACKON FAIRFAX-PERRY is an award-winning African Nova Scotian composer\, sound designer\, musician\, and musical director based in Halifax\, Nova Scotia. A graduate of Dalhousie University (Bachelor of Music in Composition\, 2014)\, Jackson has built a multidisciplinary career that bridges contemporary composition\, popular music\, improvisation\, and theatrical sound design.  For the decade following his graduation\, he recorded and toured nationally and internationally with Hillsburn\, an award-winning indie-pop band. Since 2023\, Jackson has collaborated closely with Lance Sampson\, AKA Aquakultre. As musical director for Sampson’s live performances\, he has co-written\, arranged\, and performed on several of Aquakultre’s recordings\, most notably on the critically acclaimed album 1783. As a saxophonist and keyboardist\, Jackson is an active member of Halifax’s jazz and creative music scene performing regularly with several ensembles including Many Worlds\, as well as his own group TYNES plus III. Jackson also collaborates frequently with theatre and dance artists\, having contributed music and sound design to numerous local and national productions. Jackson is the most recent recipient of the Paul Cram Creation Award\, and is in the process of writing his first composition for orchestra\, to be premiered by Symphony Nova Scotia at Open Waters Festival in January\, 2027. \n \nANDREW JACKSON is a Juno award winning trombonist and composer based in Halifax\, Nova Scotia. His versatility and unique sound have made him one of Eastern Canada’s first-call players. Jackson keeps a busy playing schedule with many of the premiere artists in the region\, spanning a variety of styles\, and was selected as a member of the National Canadian Jazz Orchestra. Andrew is a multiple time Music Nova Scotia award winner\, including accolades such as “Musician of the Year” and “Jazz Recording of The Year” amongst others. Since 2017 Andrew has been the musical curator for the TD Halifax Jazz Festival\, which has won multiple “Event of The Year” Awards under his tenure. \n \nLANCE SAMPSON better known as AQUAKULTRE is an uncommonly versatile singer\, rapper\, composer and storyteller from Halifax\, NS. Since winning the 2018 CBC Searchlight competition\, Aquakultre has released two Polaris-nominated albums and a multitude of genre-diverse\, multi-media collaborations\, establishing him as a significant musical and cultural presence. The live show is a warm-hearted party where all are welcomed by Aquakultre’s big voice and bigger stage presence. Through all his works\, via poetic lyrics and straight-up jams\, Aquakultre is on a mission to share his love for his unique and beautiful corner of the culture. \n \nSHUVANJAN KARMAKAR is a bassist. Their practice synthesizes curatorial methodology\, environmental listening\, and diasporic microcosms. Their curatorial tenure\, marked by collaborations with award-winning artists across disciplines\, explored engagement with form\, temporality\, and audience perception. This experience established a foundation in spatial dramaturgy\, critical framing\, and orchestrating sensory experiences. These principles translate into their musical practice\, where they treat sound as an experiential field rather than a linear construct. Shuvanjan’s artistic labor navigates the dialectic between the intrinsic desire to create and the external pressures that necessitate production\, allowing this tension to shape both methodology and output. Their exploration of non-equal-tempered systems\, encompassing microtonality\, just intonation\, and other alternative tuning paradigms\, serves as both a technical and conceptual extension of this inquiry. Challenging hegemonic sonic structures and repositioning the bass as a site of critical experimentation. \n \nJOSHUA AWE is an instinctive drummer who enjoys playing a wide range of musical genres. He often plays with jazz musicians in Halifax\, however\, Joshua has recently been performing with musicians in the folk and oldtime scenes where he usually plays djembe and percussion. Joshua has his roots in Nigeria where he started playing in the church. This is where he learned that music can be used for a spiritual transcendence. His resume includes an extensive list of public and private gigs including the Halifax Jazz Festival\, Every Seeker and Deep Roots Festival. \n\nEvent photo and Jackson Fairfax-Perry headshot by Jamie Kronick\nLance Sampson headshot by Mo Phùng
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/be-eternal/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260502T193000
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SUMMARY:and so we dance
DESCRIPTION:By I’thandi Munro and Kay Macdonald\nONE TICKET FOR TWO INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCES!\n$10 in advance and $15 at the door.\n**Ticket includes admission to BE ETERNAL** \n \nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n \nChildcare available on site for free. Please register in advance. \n\nArchiving and exploring movement through the cultural lenses of African Nova Scotian identity.\nand so we dance explores the contemporary realities and historic contexts of moving/movement through time and place. Specifically looking at the realities of being African Nova Scotian within the broader context of Black + African American performance traditions. We explore cultural themes of tension\, relation\, freedom and love through the creative modalities of improvisation\, contemporary dance and vocalization. \nCredits:\nCreators:\nI’thandi Munro\, Kay Macdonald \nPerformers:\nI’thandi Munro\, Kay Macdonald \nSpecial Thanks:\nSyreeta Hector\, Sara Coffin\, Liliona Quarmyne\, Reequal Smith \nFunding Credits:\nMocean Dance – CLEaR Forum Residency\, The Khyber Centre For The Arts – KREAM Residency\, Live Art Dance – CanDance Showcase \nMusic Production and Mixing:\nCarmel Farahbakhsh\, I’thandi Munro\, Kay Macdonald \nLighting Production:\nLouisa Adamson \n\n \nI’THANDI MUNRO is an award winning dancer\, performer\, visual artist and educator\, who has reached International recognition. She incorporates her lived experiences of her own cultural understanding within her artwork. She has a double major in Photography + Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing from NSCAD University. Munro has been facilitating within dance studios\, Halifax Regional Arts\, artist centers\, and community programs for over a decade. Munro continuously seeks to learn new ways of making\, teaching\, collaborating\, and continues to educate herself in a multitude of techniques. She has spent her entire life pursuing art but dancing is the constant base of creating throughout her professional career. Movement is at her core of making. When Munro became a mother\, her exploration into uninhibited linework and freedom of creation was sparked by watching her two young children draw effortlessly and with confidence. These inspirations from her kids showed her new pathways\, and taught her that you can make your own. This naturally led I’thandi into the research behind improv and freestyle dance. Munro uses the representation of line and lineage as underlying concepts in her art. Her work has become an ever-changing body of work that can be explored and realized in many different ways. Munro is the founder of Drifted Collective as well as Scotian: The Collective. She has collaborated with many professional dance and theatre companies primarily based out of Mi’kma’ki and the Atlantic regions such as The Woods Professional Hip Hop Company\, Mocean Dance\, Kinetic\, Rooted Dance(Votive) Nestutasi Story Telling\, Home Economics Collective\, and KasheDance. \n \nKAY MACDONALD (they/them) is an African Nova Scotian\, Acadian\, Queer\, Trans community educator\, artist\, activist\, facilitator\, and performance based artist born and raised in Kjipuktuk\, Mi’kma’ki. Macdonald’s artistic practice has roots in interdisciplinary methodologies. Gathering and curating scores of improvisational movement\, dance\, sound\, and visual arts culminating in various forms of performance. Their work explores themes of observation\, culture\, ancestral lineage\, connection\, community and place. Macdonald’s work seeks to unravel restrictive concepts of identity\, belonging\, liberation\, and societal constructs. Macdonald views the intersection of advocacy\, community building\, and artistic processes as a means to disrupt and intervene in harmful colonial and white supremacist narratives. Currently\, Kay is working as the Program Coordinator at The Youth Project\, a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to providing support and services to 2SLGBTQIA+ youth ages 12-25. As well as\, currently holds the role as Co-Artistic Director at Kinetic\, a contemporary dance organization based in Kjipuktuk. \n\nEvent photo by Reequal Smith\nI’thando Munro headshot by Cavell Holand\nKay Macdonald headshot by Matt Downey
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/and-so-we-dance/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance
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SUMMARY:Raising Big Questions
DESCRIPTION:YOU FRGOT SOMETHING\, Collaboration with Luke Hathaway. Photo by John Haney. \nBy Andrew Maize in collaboration with El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\nApril 25th 1-4pm – Dr. El Jones @ Halifax Common\nMay 2nd 1-4pm – Seán Kennedy @ Citadel Hill\nMay 3rd 1-4pm – Sue Goyette @ Point Pleasant Park \n**Please note that exact time and location are subject to change according to weather and wind conditions. Rain-Wind Dates will be scheduled according to forecast/availability. Please refer to our website and social media accounts @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for the latest information. \nWe live in punishing and brutal times. Language plays a crucial role in how we make sense of the world. In language\, we can bear witness\, negotiate meaning\, and call-out the people and systems of power to hold them accountable. Language has long been a creative and powerful tool in labour and social justice movements\, with the ability to encapsulate and embody a movement or a moment. \nThe arrival of May is the arrival of kite season. For Mayworks\, Maize has invited 3 word-workers; El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\, to compose aerial text banners to be flown across the city. The Mayworks audience is invited to help fly these kite banners. By working collectively to lift language up into the sky – we embody a public discourse of sorts\, fielding critical challenges and raising big questions. \nRAISING BIG QUESTIONS is an ongoing project by Andrew Maize\, that uses a home-made\, modular kite-letter to compose aerial text banners in the sky. Kite-flying is a joyful\, analogue and collective activity – one that must be responsive to both the weather and site. Location of the events will be dependent on environmental factors\, including wind direction. \nStay tuned closer to the date on the Mayworks Website and social media @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for announcements. \nNOTE: Andrew is offering a kite-flying workshop on April 25th. Find details at GO FLY A KITE.\n\n \nANDREW MAIZE is an artist. His playful\, collaborative and improvisational approach to making art is contingent on the relationships of environmental\,  social\, and material situations. Recent collaborative explorations include mobile instruments for improvised performances\, wind-powered kinetic sculptures\, and experimental drawing practices (using local sourced inks and candle smoke). He seeks collaborations across disciplines to expand improvisational practices as tools for embodying more responsive and adaptable ways of being\, by welcoming the fundamental agency of uncertainty. As an arts educator and organizer\, he has been involved in collaborative projects that engage communities with art\, in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Maize graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax NS in 2012\, and a MFA from the University of Guelph in 2021. He is the recipient of multiple grants and awards\, including SSHRCC\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Arts Nova Scotia. \n \nDR. EL JONES. Author\, poet\, journalist\, educator\, and advocate. Dr. El Jones is all these things and more\, an outspoken activist\, thinker and writer whose strengths converge in her spoken word performances. A respected poet\, Dr. Jones was two-time National Slam champion in 2007 and 2008\, Poet Laureate of Halifax in 2013-2015\, resident of the International Writing Program at University of Iowa in 2015\, and poet in residence at University of Toronto Scarborough in 2021. What defines her achievements is a commitment to activism and community advocacy to highlight inequities and redress injustices. The recognition of her performances\, teaching and political commitment testifies to the exceptional influence she has exercised during the Black Lives Matter movement and the expansion of Black scholarship in Canadian academia. \n \nSUE GOYETTE lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) and has published ten books of poems and a novel. Her latest collection is Future Howl\, (Gaspereau Press\, 2025). She is the editor of Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press\, 2021)\, The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (Anansi\, 2017) and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 (Tightrope Books\, 2013). Her work has been translated into French\, Spanish and German and has been featured in films\, subways\, buses\, spray painted on a sidewalk and tattooed. Her work has been nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award and has won several awards including the Dalhousie University Teaching Award\, 2021; the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation (Océan translated by Georgette Leblanc)\, 2020; J.M. Abraham Poetry Award 2016\, 2012; ReLit Award 2016; 2014 Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award; 2013 National Magazine Award\, Silver; 2012 Pat Lowther Award for Poetry; Bliss Carman Poetry Award\, 2011; The Established Artist Recognition Award\, NS\, 2011; 2010 Earle Birney Award; 2008 CBC Literary Award for Poetry; as well as the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award for her collection\, Ocean. Sue teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University. \n \nSEÁN KENNEDY is Professor of English and Coordinator of Irish Studies. Their research interests include Samuel Beckett\, Queer Ireland\, Ireland in Psychoanalysis\, Zionism\, and the “Erotics of Irish Austerity” (the ways in which austerity economics is troped in terms of the kinky language of discipline\, control and humiliation). Publications include Beckett and Ireland (Cambridge UP\, 2010)\, Send In the Clowns! (OR Books\, 2025) and Beckett beyond the normal (in progress). Kennedy is the coordinator for Unsettling Irish Studies. \n\nEvent photo by John Haney
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/raising-big-questions/
LOCATION:NS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260501T210000
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SUMMARY:Stephen Hero + El Tata y Los Toqueros
DESCRIPTION:Also featuring Ambeez\, General Khan & Gearl\nGet down with the working class on May Day at the Seahorse! \n$10 in advance and $15 at the door\nDoors at 9:00 PM \n  \n \nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n \n\nStephen Hero + El Tata y Los Toqueros\n \nSTEPHEN HERO makes raw\, working class hip hop from Canada’s east coast. His style is influenced by alt-rap legends like Kool Keith and MF DOOM\, with a strong penchant for the relaxed and joyous experimentation of groups like De La Soul and Beastie Boys\, but with a contemporary\, often dark feel. Hero takes the ruling class to task unapologetically as he builds his varied and powerful catalogue. \nEL TATA y LOS TOQUEROS could be best described as a melting pot of influences\, with deeply international roots thanks to the various nationalities of its core members: Gabriel Ibarra\, Chaly Benz\, Teijiri Emore\, and Daniel Salas. Together they mix the influences of their countries from the Philippines to Honduras\, into a Latin fusion of hip hop\, funk\, and other rhythms\, resulting in a style rich in versatile musicality that really makes them stand out. \n\n \nAMBEEZ is a hip-hop producer known for raw drums\, soulful samples\, and a feel-driven approach to beatmaking. A mainstay on the Canadian hip-hop scene\, he’s built a reputation for flipping obscure sounds into hard-hitting\, cohesive tracks. His style blends gritty boom-bap with subtle experimentation and off-grid rhythms\, textured chops\, and a strong sense of swing. Focused on mood and authenticity\, his beats are crafted to feel lived-in and replayable. With accolades and a growing catalog\, ambeez continues to refine his sound while carving out his own lane. Most recent release: Computer Sciences\, Vol 1 \n \nGENERAL KHAN is a local community organizer and artist\, born and raised in Kjipuktuk\, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax\, Nova Scotia). General Khan has been breaking barriers in the local rap scene since the release of her first album Wrath of Khan in 2021 and EP ON GOD in 2023. For Khan\, Poetry and rhyming is an expression that is tied to her cultural practice as an Afghan Pashtun and Muslim. Her art style is influenced by her lived experiences facing white supremacy\, colonialism\, islamophobia and ableism. Her next album Afghan Variety is set to release summer 2026. \n \nGEARL is an Indigenous Hip‑Hop artist from Eskasoni\, Nova Scotia. He shares lived  experiences of Indigenous life in the Maritimes and promotes Mi’kmaq language and culture. Years of steady work have earned him momentum\, multiple nominations and awards. This year he’s nominated for Indigenous Artist of the Year and Hip Hop/Rap Recording of the Year at the ECMAs. Gearl delivers powerful performances\, tackles difficult topics\, adapts across genres\, improvises songwriting\, and weaves personal experience into dense\, impactful concepts. @gearljij \n\nPhotos of Stephen Hero + El Tata y Los Toqueros by Mckenzie Power
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/stephen-hero-el-tata-y-los-toqueros/
LOCATION:The Seahorse Tavern\, 2037 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 3B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260501
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260511
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
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SUMMARY:Linfield & Banfield & Co.
DESCRIPTION:By Coral Maloney\nFree t-shirts available at all festival events! \nIn 2025\, several citizens filed complaints about the conduct of an elected official. These complaints were reported on in the media\, allowing those people to learn of each other. They realized they were larger than they’d planned to be. They realized\, in fact\, that they were building toward something much bigger than a set of uncoordinated complaints. One person who took part in this was named Linfield. Another one was named Banfield. There were others. There will be others still. You are invited too. \nBREAK RANK // TRY SOMETHING // WE HAVE EACH OTHER \nThis project occurs throughout the run of the festival. T-shirts & buttons from Linfield & Banfield & Co. will be available at each in-person event. You are invited to don them during the festival\, and well beyond. \n \nCredits:\nProject: Coral Maloney\nDesign support: Colleen Arcturus MacIsaac \n\n \nCORAL MALONEY [++++euro/±latina/~unspecified borders] [Leander Atkinson Wurz Amaya Torres Scott Krysska] is an interdisciplinary artist and performance-maker based in Halifax in Mi’kma’ki territory. www.coralmaloney.ca
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/linfield-banfield-co/
LOCATION:NS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260425T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260425T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
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SUMMARY:Raising Big Questions
DESCRIPTION:YOU FRGOT SOMETHING\, Collaboration with Luke Hathaway. Photo by John Haney. \nBy Andrew Maize in collaboration with El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\nApril 25th 1-4pm – Dr. El Jones @ Halifax Common\nMay 2nd 1-4pm – Seán Kennedy @ Citadel Hill\nMay 3rd 1-4pm – Sue Goyette @ Point Pleasant Park \n**Please note that exact time and location are subject to change according to weather and wind conditions. Rain-Wind Dates will be scheduled according to forecast/availability. Please refer to our website and social media accounts @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for the latest information. \nWe live in punishing and brutal times. Language plays a crucial role in how we make sense of the world. In language\, we can bear witness\, negotiate meaning\, and call-out the people and systems of power to hold them accountable. Language has long been a creative and powerful tool in labour and social justice movements\, with the ability to encapsulate and embody a movement or a moment. \nThe arrival of May is the arrival of kite season. For Mayworks\, Maize has invited 3 word-workers; El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\, to compose aerial text banners to be flown across the city. The Mayworks audience is invited to help fly these kite banners. By working collectively to lift language up into the sky – we embody a public discourse of sorts\, fielding critical challenges and raising big questions. \nRAISING BIG QUESTIONS is an ongoing project by Andrew Maize\, that uses a home-made\, modular kite-letter to compose aerial text banners in the sky. Kite-flying is a joyful\, analogue and collective activity – one that must be responsive to both the weather and site. Location of the events will be dependent on environmental factors\, including wind direction. \nStay tuned closer to the date on the Mayworks Website and social media @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for announcements. \nNOTE: Andrew is offering a kite-flying workshop on April 25th. Find details at GO FLY A KITE.\n\n \nANDREW MAIZE is an artist. His playful\, collaborative and improvisational approach to making art is contingent on the relationships of environmental\,  social\, and material situations. Recent collaborative explorations include mobile instruments for improvised performances\, wind-powered kinetic sculptures\, and experimental drawing practices (using local sourced inks and candle smoke). He seeks collaborations across disciplines to expand improvisational practices as tools for embodying more responsive and adaptable ways of being\, by welcoming the fundamental agency of uncertainty. As an arts educator and organizer\, he has been involved in collaborative projects that engage communities with art\, in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Maize graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax NS in 2012\, and a MFA from the University of Guelph in 2021. He is the recipient of multiple grants and awards\, including SSHRCC\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Arts Nova Scotia. \n \nDR. EL JONES. Author\, poet\, journalist\, educator\, and advocate. Dr. El Jones is all these things and more\, an outspoken activist\, thinker and writer whose strengths converge in her spoken word performances. A respected poet\, Dr. Jones was two-time National Slam champion in 2007 and 2008\, Poet Laureate of Halifax in 2013-2015\, resident of the International Writing Program at University of Iowa in 2015\, and poet in residence at University of Toronto Scarborough in 2021. What defines her achievements is a commitment to activism and community advocacy to highlight inequities and redress injustices. The recognition of her performances\, teaching and political commitment testifies to the exceptional influence she has exercised during the Black Lives Matter movement and the expansion of Black scholarship in Canadian academia. \n \nSUE GOYETTE lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) and has published ten books of poems and a novel. Her latest collection is Future Howl\, (Gaspereau Press\, 2025). She is the editor of Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press\, 2021)\, The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (Anansi\, 2017) and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 (Tightrope Books\, 2013). Her work has been translated into French\, Spanish and German and has been featured in films\, subways\, buses\, spray painted on a sidewalk and tattooed. Her work has been nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award and has won several awards including the Dalhousie University Teaching Award\, 2021; the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation (Océan translated by Georgette Leblanc)\, 2020; J.M. Abraham Poetry Award 2016\, 2012; ReLit Award 2016; 2014 Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award; 2013 National Magazine Award\, Silver; 2012 Pat Lowther Award for Poetry; Bliss Carman Poetry Award\, 2011; The Established Artist Recognition Award\, NS\, 2011; 2010 Earle Birney Award; 2008 CBC Literary Award for Poetry; as well as the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award for her collection\, Ocean. Sue teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University. \n \nSEÁN KENNEDY is Professor of English and Coordinator of Irish Studies. Their research interests include Samuel Beckett\, Queer Ireland\, Ireland in Psychoanalysis\, Zionism\, and the “Erotics of Irish Austerity” (the ways in which austerity economics is troped in terms of the kinky language of discipline\, control and humiliation). Publications include Beckett and Ireland (Cambridge UP\, 2010)\, Send In the Clowns! (OR Books\, 2025) and Beckett beyond the normal (in progress). Kennedy is the coordinator for Unsettling Irish Studies. \n\nEvent photo by John Haney
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/raising-big-questions/
LOCATION:NS
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260425T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260425T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
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SUMMARY:Go Fly a Kite
DESCRIPTION:Kite Flying 101 or How to launch a kite and kite-banner!\nWith Andrew Maize\nApril 25\n10am-11am – Wonder’neath Studio\n11am-1pm – Halifax Common \nJoin artist and kite-flier Andrew Maize for a hands-on workshop that will introduce the basics of successfully launching\, landing\, and flying large kites\, kite cameras and kite-laundry (ie. kite banners). We will discuss knot-tying\, launching/landing techniques\, environmental factors\, safety\, equipment\, and kite banner designs. The workshop will begin at Wonder’neath from 10am-11am\, and then will move to the Common\, where we will practice launching\, flying and landing big kites (and kite banners)! \nParticipants are encouraged to dress for the elements (hat\, sunscreen\, sunglasses) and bring a  pair of work gloves (thin leather gloves or similar are ideal – the kite string can burn hands when under a lot of tension!) \nParticipants are also invited to help fly kite banners at future sessions of RAISING BIG QUESTIONS for Mayworks 2026. \nAdmission by donation. Please RSVP here:\n \n\n \nANDREW MAIZE is an artist. His playful\, collaborative and improvisational approach to making art is contingent on the relationships of environmental\, social\, and material situations. Recent collaborative explorations include mobile instruments for improvised performances\, wind-powered kinetic sculptures\, and experimental drawing practices (using local sourced inks and candle smoke). He seeks collaborations across disciplines to expand improvisational practices as tools for embodying more responsive and adaptable ways of being\, by welcoming the fundamental agency of uncertainty. As an arts educator and organizer\, he has been involved in collaborative projects that engage communities with art\, in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Maize graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax NS in 2012\, and a MFA from the University of Guelph in 2021. He is the recipient of multiple grants and awards\, including SSHRCC\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Arts Nova Scotia. \n\nEvent photo by Corey Isenor
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/go-fly-a-kite/
LOCATION:Wonder’neath\, 2482 Maynard St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 3V4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260403T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260403T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
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SUMMARY:"Seeds For Liberation" at Carbon Arc Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Solomon | USA | 2026 | 92m – followed by a post-film conversation with director Matthew Solomon\, Yara Jamal and Waseem Hijazi \nThe film will be captioned and an ASL interpreter will be present for the Q&A segment. \n \n \n \n\n\nSeeds for Liberation was born out of a deep urgency — not just to document\, but to connect. The events of October 7\, 2023\, became a global flashpoint\, but for many\, they marked a continuation of a struggle nearly eight decades in the making. As a filmmaker\, Director Matthew Solomon wanted to center Palestinian voices while also situating their liberation within a broader legacy of anti-imperialist and decolonial movements — from Black resistance in the U.S. to Chicano activism and beyond. In a world saturated with filtered narratives and state-sponsored erasure\, social media has cracked open a window — giving us raw\, direct access to the truths on the ground. This film asks: What does solidarity truly look like? And how do our struggles for justice — across geography\, race\, and history — grow from the same seed? \nSeeds for Liberation explores Palestinian resistance through emotional and impactful interviews with historians\, activists\, legal scholars\, and experts. The documentary demonstrates how social media has exposed daily life in Gaza and the West Bank\, challenging dominant Western narratives and bringing the Free Palestine movement into global consciousness. Featuring some of the biggest names in the movement\, including human rights attorney Dr. Noura Erakat\, investigative journalist Abby Martin\, justice journalist Chuck Modiano\, emergency medicine physician Dr. Mimi Syed\, and members of the Black Liberation Army\, La Raza Unida\, and Stop Cop City – the film spans decades of solidarity and shows how the fight for collective liberation is interconnected. Seeds for Liberation is a call to action\, encouraging audiences to mobilize and join the fight for humanity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Attendance for Q&A following the screening\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Solomon is an innovative and award-winning director whose interview and storytelling styles elicit deep\, emotional responses while educating and inspiring audiences. \nHis first documentary\, Reimagining Safety\, built an enormous grassroots following\, having been screened at more than 100 community events across the US. His new documentary\, Seeds for Liberation\, has been premiering to sold-out audiences while just beginning its national and international tour. Utilizing iPhone cameras to achieve a great sense of immediacy\, Matthew not only combines art and activism in his personal work but also mentors up-and-comers in doing the same. \nIn addition to filmmaking\, Matthew is a conflict resolution facilitator\, adjunct professor\, and is working towards a PhD in Transformative Social Change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(Attending virtually)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYara Jamal is an award-winning Palestinian journalist and writer. She is the founder of Free Palestine Kjipuktuk (Halifax)\, the largest grassroots organization in Atlantic Canada\, advocating for Palestinian self-determination\, sovereignty\, and the right of return. \nHer reporting on the Eskasoni Fish and Wildlife Commission and Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) earned her a Gold award from the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. \nJamal’s work focuses on Middle Eastern politics\, structural racism\, with a focus on amplifying the voices of marginalized communities \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWaseem Hijazi is a Palestinian vegan content creator and recipe developer (@plantbasedarab) with a background in finance studies. His work focuses on  preserving food heritage from the Arab cuisine\, while highlighting the cultural significance to the land. He educates the vegan and animal rights community about the oppression of Palestinians\, exposes israel’s veganwashing propaganda\, and emphasizes the importance of boycotting plant-based food-tech companies that are complicit in the occupation and genocide\, in order to better advocate for the liberation of Palestine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets $12.65 ($12 at the door if available)\nPWYC available! To reserve\, please email info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca  \n \n \n 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/seeds-for-liberation-at-carbon-arc-cinema/
LOCATION:Carbon Arc Cinema\, 1747 Summer Street\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3H 3A6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film
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ORGANIZER;CN="Carbon Arc Cinema":MAILTO:movies@carbonarc.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260402T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260402T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
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SUMMARY:"Reimagining Safety" at Carbon Arc Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Solomon | Canada | 2023 | 83m – followed by a post-film conversation with director Matthew Solomon and El Jones \nThe film will be captioned and an ASL interpreter will be present for the Q&A segment. \n \n \n \n\n\nWorldwide protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd included calls to defund or abolish the police until a sharp rise in crime gave politicians and police supporters the fuel they needed to suppress the movement. Unfortunately\, a detailed conversation about transforming public safety was never had. In this film (shot on iPhone)\, 10 experts discuss how policing and incarceration create more harm than good\, why the system persists\, and what changes can be made to make everyone safe. \nIn the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic\, director Matthew Solomon returned to school to earn a master’s degree in Public Administration in order to better position himself to use his privilege and access to help work towards positive social change. In his MPA program\, Matthew began applying the coursework regarding sustainability and workable societies to the issues with policing and incarceration. He thought this would be a step away from filmmaking\, however\, his academic advisors suggested he create a documentary film for his thesis project. Reimagining Safety is that film. \nThe film was named Best Film by Evident Change’s Media for a Just Society Award\, Best Documentary Feature at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival\, Best Cinematography at The People’s Film Festival in Harlem\, and has received a powerful endorsement by The Black Panther Party WA who has added it to their political education curriculum. \nIn Reimagining Safety\, ten experts (including LA County District Attorney George Gascón\, USC Law Professor Dr. Jody Armour\, Law Enforcement Expert Alex S Vitale\, and Halifax Professor Dr. El Jones) discuss the false premise that more police and prisons make us safer while providing practical and actionable solutions toward achieving systems of safety that work for everyone. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Attendance for Q&A following the screening\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Solomon is an innovative and award-winning director whose interview and storytelling styles elicit deep\, emotional responses while educating and inspiring audiences. \nHis first documentary\, Reimagining Safety\, built an enormous grassroots following\, having been screened at more than 100 community events across the US. His new documentary\, Seeds for Liberation\, has been premiering to sold-out audiences while just beginning its national and international tour. Utilizing iPhone cameras to achieve a great sense of immediacy\, Matthew not only combines art and activism in his personal work but also mentors up-and-comers in doing the same. \nIn addition to filmmaking\, Matthew is a conflict resolution facilitator\, adjunct professor\, and is working towards a PhD in Transformative Social Change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor\, poet\, journalist\, educator\, and advocate. Dr. El Jones is all these things and more\, an outspoken activist\, thinker and writer whose strengths converge in her spoken word performances. \nA respected poet\, Dr. Jones was two-time National Slam champion in 2007 and 2008\, Poet Laureate of Halifax in 2013-2015\, resident of the International Writing Program at University of Iowa in 2015\, and poet in residence at University of Toronto Scarborough in 2021. \nWhat defines her achievements is a commitment to activism and community advocacy to highlight inequities and redress injustices. The recognition of her performances\, teaching and political commitment testifies to the exceptional influence she has exercised during the Black Lives Matter movement and the expansion of Black scholarship in Canadian academia. \nCurrently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political and Canadian Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University\, Dr. Jones has taught at Dalhousie University\, Nova Scotia Community College\, and Saint Mary’s University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets $12.65 ($12 at the door if available)\nPWYC available! To reserve\, please email info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/reimagining-safety-at-carbon-arc-cinema/
LOCATION:Carbon Arc Cinema\, 1747 Summer Street\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3H 3A6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film
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ORGANIZER;CN="Carbon Arc Cinema":MAILTO:movies@carbonarc.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20251127T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251127T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
CREATED:20251022T120209Z
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SUMMARY:Canadian Labour International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Mayworks Momentum presents selections from the Canadian Labour International Film Festival.\nThe Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLIFF) is in its 17th edition and Mayworks will again present a local satellite screening of short films chosen from this year’s CLIFF selections. \nCLIFF selects films from across the globe that give voice to workers and their struggles for better lives. \nTotal program runtime: 91 minutes \n \n\nFilm Program:\n\nNola\nby Natalie Remplakowski & Aisha Evelyna (Canada: English) – 10 min \n \nA Black woman working as a sous-chef navigates toxic restaurant culture and her wavering mental health\, until a chance encounter changes her. \n\nYour Own Boss\nby Álvaro Guzmán Bastida (Spain: Spanish) – 18 min \n \nA food delivery worker struggles to juggle his responsibilities as a young father with the impossible demands of an algorithm that pushes him to the limit. \n\nWorking For Freedom \nby Conor Devries (Canada: English) – 11 min \n \nWorking for Freedom is a short documentary that follows an Ottawa-based woman through her experiences of prison labour at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. Author of Solidarity behind bars\, Jordan House\, provides us with an overview of the frameworks that allow these exploitative practices to continue today. \n\nShadow Work\nby Gillian McKercher (Canada: English) – 3 min \n \n\n\nThis short documentary looks at “shadow work”: tasks that are not part of an employee’s official job description\, but are necessary for the organization to function\, and may be unpaid and unseen. \nUnpaid labour\, shadow work\, glue work\, organizational citizenship. Whatever you name it\, organizations benefit from it. \n\n\n\nLimerent Pittsburgh\nby Anne Ciecko (USA: English) – 3 min \n \nA videopoem revisiting the rust belt city is a site of rekindling of memories and mythologies of labour and family. \n\nMotown South\nby Samuel George (USA: English) – 20 min \n \n\n\nThe electric vehicle industry is booming in the American South\, so much so that the region has earned the nickname the “Battery Belt”. \nBut why are producers setting up shop in states such as Georgia\, Alabama and Tennessee? In part\, the trend stems from a historic lack of union representation there. But workers – and labor organizers – have noticed. And they are starting to push back. How this emerging dynamic plays out could transform the future of American industry. \n\n\n\nGhost Workers\nby Lisette Olsthoorn (Netherlands: English) – 26 min \n \n\n\nIn a film set in which their home offices have been recreated\, six European microworkers share experiences with the filmmaker and with each other\, offering an affecting critique on changing labour conditions. \nGhost Workers is a cinematic research project into the people conducting the often hidden labor necessary to make artificial intelligence work. Working from home\, not being recognized as a worker by the platforms that they work for and being misunderstood by family and friends all together creates strong feelings of isolation. Therefore\, the filmmaker invited six workers from across Europe to share their work experiences with her and with each other. Focusing on the theme of isolation and recognition as a ‘real worker\,’ the film engages in a collective conversation about this type of work. \n\n\n 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/canadian-labour-international-film-festival-8/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20251114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251114T204500
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
CREATED:20250903T185211Z
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SUMMARY:MAYDAY: Confession Publique
DESCRIPTION:Confession Publique\n\n\n\n\n“ A sensually complex work\, Confession Publique leaves us enthralled before Angélique Willkie’s breadth of talent and her fruitful encounter with Demers’ world.” –  Alexie Legendre\, Revue JEU  \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMAYDAY\nTiohtià:ke/Montreal – Kanien’kehá:Ka Territory\n\n\n\n\nNovember 14th & 15th\, 2025. 7:30PM  \nAlderney Landing Theatre\nGeneral Seating – $65.00 Dance Advocate; $45.00 Adults; $35.00 Seniors; $20.00 Students / Arts Worker; Group Discounts Available \nRun Time – 75 Minutes \nContent Warning: Nudity\, 18+ suggested. An Active Listener will be available on site if needed.\nThis show tackles experiences of racism\, sexual violation\, and living in an aging body\, as well as the power of transformation. It contains nudity and mature content. \nTraffic Note: The Parade of Lights is taking place on Nov 15th at 5pm. Please allow time for potential traffic on your way to the show. \n\n\n\n\nIts title serving as a promise\, Confession Publique explores ambiguity and paradox\, probes the noble and the vulgar\, oscillates between grace and brutality. Choreographer Mélanie Demers turns her trusted collaborator Angélique Willkie into her muse. Together\, these two kindred spirits explore the act of telling others about yourself without reserve. The result is a hard-hitting solo show\, where anecdotes become painful secrets and the body reveals as much as words\, if not more. \nIn this work\, the protagonist concentrates on the margins as she takes a deep dive into herself and ourselves. The connection is intimate\, intimidating. The performance becomes the setting for questions asked a thousand times over: our relationship to the world\, how the environment holds our destinies in its hands\, and the power others have to dictate and dominate our life-choices. \n \nMAYDAY \nSince its foundation in 2007\, an array of charismatic and eclectic artists working with Mélanie Demers has been drawn to MAYDAY as a hub for creative exchange and reflection. Each MAYDAY work is thus the fruit of a collective effort. And not only between the artists: the public enters into the creative process as well\, since the physicality\, imagery\, and sense of rhythm characteristic of MAYDAY’s unique approach only come together as a coherent whole before an audience. Drawing on creative energies from around the world\, MAYDAY’s unique works testify to both a spirit of artistic freedom and a deep-seated concern for contemporary issues. Demers’ fascination and the relationship between words and gestures crystallizes in WOULD\, a work which won the Prix du CALQ for Best Choreography at the Prix de la danse de Montréal in 2015. WOULD will be followed by the choreographic relay Danse Mutante in 2019\, then in 2021 by La Goddam Voie Lactée\, MAMA and Confession Publique\, and finally in 2022 by Cabaret Noir. Mélanie Demers won the GRAND PRIX de la danse de Montréal\, which recognizes her unique mark on her era. MAYDAY tours frequently and has collaborated with many international partners. It is proud to be one of the few Canadian companies to have performed in both North America\, Europe\, Asia\, and Africa. \nMAYDAY tours frequently and has collaborated with many international partners. It is proud to be one of the few Canadian companies to have performed in both North America\, Europe\, Asia\, and Africa. \n \n\nCredits\n\n\n\nIdeation\, Direction and Choreography\nMélanie Demers \n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers\nAngélique Willkie with the participation of Anne-Marie Jourdenais \n\n\n\n\n\nDirection of Rehearsals\nAnne-Marie Jourdenais \n\n\n\n\n\nDramaturgy\nAngélique Willkie \n\n\n\n\n\nSet Design\nOdile Gamache \n\n\n\n\n\nSound Composition\nFrannie Holder \n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Music\nExcerpt from The Fairy Queen\, composed by Henry Purcell and sung by Angelique Willkie \n\n\n\n\n\nLighting Design\nClaire Seyller \n\n\n\n\n\nTechnical Director\nEmmanuel Bossé-Messier \n\n\n\n\n\nCostume Design\nElen Ewing \n\n\n\n\n\nProduction Management\nAlec Arsenault \n\n\n\n\n\nSpecial Notes of Thanks\nÉléonore Loiselle \n\n\n\n\n\nTeaser Production\nStefan Verna \n\n\n\n\n\nCo Presented By
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/mayday-confession-publique/
LOCATION:Alderney Landing Theatre\, 2 Ochterloney St\, Dartmouth\, Nova Scotia\, B2Y 4W1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20251114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251114T204500
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
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SUMMARY:MAYDAY: Confession Publique
DESCRIPTION:Confession Publique\n\n\n\n\n“ A sensually complex work\, Confession Publique leaves us enthralled before Angélique Willkie’s breadth of talent and her fruitful encounter with Demers’ world.” –  Alexie Legendre\, Revue JEU  \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMAYDAY\nTiohtià:ke/Montreal – Kanien’kehá:Ka Territory\n\n\n\n\nNovember 14th & 15th\, 2025. 7:30PM  \nAlderney Landing Theatre\nGeneral Seating – $65.00 Dance Advocate; $45.00 Adults; $35.00 Seniors; $20.00 Students / Arts Worker; Group Discounts Available \nRun Time – 75 Minutes \nContent Warning: Nudity\, 18+ suggested. An Active Listener will be available on site if needed.\nThis show tackles experiences of racism\, sexual violation\, and living in an aging body\, as well as the power of transformation. It contains nudity and mature content. \nTraffic Note: The Parade of Lights is taking place on Nov 15th at 5pm. Please allow time for potential traffic on your way to the show. \n\n\n\n\nIts title serving as a promise\, Confession Publique explores ambiguity and paradox\, probes the noble and the vulgar\, oscillates between grace and brutality. Choreographer Mélanie Demers turns her trusted collaborator Angélique Willkie into her muse. Together\, these two kindred spirits explore the act of telling others about yourself without reserve. The result is a hard-hitting solo show\, where anecdotes become painful secrets and the body reveals as much as words\, if not more. \nIn this work\, the protagonist concentrates on the margins as she takes a deep dive into herself and ourselves. The connection is intimate\, intimidating. The performance becomes the setting for questions asked a thousand times over: our relationship to the world\, how the environment holds our destinies in its hands\, and the power others have to dictate and dominate our life-choices. \n \nMAYDAY \nSince its foundation in 2007\, an array of charismatic and eclectic artists working with Mélanie Demers has been drawn to MAYDAY as a hub for creative exchange and reflection. Each MAYDAY work is thus the fruit of a collective effort. And not only between the artists: the public enters into the creative process as well\, since the physicality\, imagery\, and sense of rhythm characteristic of MAYDAY’s unique approach only come together as a coherent whole before an audience. Drawing on creative energies from around the world\, MAYDAY’s unique works testify to both a spirit of artistic freedom and a deep-seated concern for contemporary issues. Demers’ fascination and the relationship between words and gestures crystallizes in WOULD\, a work which won the Prix du CALQ for Best Choreography at the Prix de la danse de Montréal in 2015. WOULD will be followed by the choreographic relay Danse Mutante in 2019\, then in 2021 by La Goddam Voie Lactée\, MAMA and Confession Publique\, and finally in 2022 by Cabaret Noir. Mélanie Demers won the GRAND PRIX de la danse de Montréal\, which recognizes her unique mark on her era. MAYDAY tours frequently and has collaborated with many international partners. It is proud to be one of the few Canadian companies to have performed in both North America\, Europe\, Asia\, and Africa. \nMAYDAY tours frequently and has collaborated with many international partners. It is proud to be one of the few Canadian companies to have performed in both North America\, Europe\, Asia\, and Africa. \n \n\nCredits\n\n\n\nIdeation\, Direction and Choreography\nMélanie Demers \n\n\n\n\n\nPerformers\nAngélique Willkie with the participation of Anne-Marie Jourdenais \n\n\n\n\n\nDirection of Rehearsals\nAnne-Marie Jourdenais \n\n\n\n\n\nDramaturgy\nAngélique Willkie \n\n\n\n\n\nSet Design\nOdile Gamache \n\n\n\n\n\nSound Composition\nFrannie Holder \n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Music\nExcerpt from The Fairy Queen\, composed by Henry Purcell and sung by Angelique Willkie \n\n\n\n\n\nLighting Design\nClaire Seyller \n\n\n\n\n\nTechnical Director\nEmmanuel Bossé-Messier \n\n\n\n\n\nCostume Design\nElen Ewing \n\n\n\n\n\nProduction Management\nAlec Arsenault \n\n\n\n\n\nSpecial Notes of Thanks\nÉléonore Loiselle \n\n\n\n\n\nTeaser Production\nStefan Verna \n\n\n\n\n\nCo Presented By
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/mayday-confession-publique/
LOCATION:Alderney Landing Theatre\, 2 Ochterloney St\, Dartmouth\, Nova Scotia\, B2Y 4W1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20251028T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20251028T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
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SUMMARY:Closing Reception with Curtis Botham\, Eva Grant and Martha Mutale
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a casual conversations with the artists behind No Dominion/No Domain and my inner child healing my immigrant identity. \nCurtis Botham and Martha Mutale will be joining us in person\, and Eva Grant will be joining us via video call. All will be available to answer questions about their works on display only until October 31st. \nA brief facilitated Q&A will take place at 7PM. \nRefreshments will be served! \nARTIST BIOS:\n \nEva Grant is a Queer\, St̓át̓imc-Eurasian filmmaker\, curator\, and new media artist. She studied philosophy and literature at Stanford University and is the founder of Tooth & Nail Pictures. Her world-building practice hybridizes moving image\, animation\, game engines\, interactive digital media\, data visualization\, and speculative design to prototype decolonial and capacious futures. She is a former Sundance Native Lab fellow\, a BIPOC TV & Film Episodic Writers Lab participant\, an Artengine NEW SUNS Worldbuilding Lab artist-in-residence\, a Vancouver Queer Film Festival Programming Disruptor\, a Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices fellow\, an Art Gallery of Ontario AGO x RBC emerging artist-in-residence\, and an alumna of the imagineNATIVE Originals Commission program and the Screenwriting Shorts Fellowship. Her work has been supported by Mayworks Kjipuktuk\, Nocturne: Art at Night\, CFC Satellites\, Debaser/Pique Festival\, the Indigenous Curatorial Collective\, Lay*Away\, Black Star Film Festival’s William and Louise Greaves Filmmaking Seminar\, and the Ottawa Animation Festival\, and her films have screened at festivals around the world. \n \nCurtis Botham is an award-winning artist based in Halifax\, Nova Scotia. He graduated from NSCAD University in 2017 with a bachelor of fine arts. His accolades include the Canada Games Young Artist of Excellence Award\, and numerous grants from Arts Nova Scotia and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Since 2017\, he has depicted the impact and labour of industries in the Maritimes\, examining the social and environmental effects of material culture on our lives. He has participated in residencies around Nova Scotia in order to create a broad portrait of the province and its relationship to its land\, people and resources.\ncurtisbotham.weebly.com \n \nMartha Mutale is a poet and veteran of the spoken word scene in Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, Nova Scotia. She grew up in Billtown\, Nova Scotia\, a small rural community in the Annapolis valley after emigrating from Zambia with her family when she was just under two years old. Her family is based in Nova Scotia. As an adult\, she relocated to North End Halifax where she began expressing herself as a poet while also working in the non-profit sector. She has worked as a housing support worker where she witnessed first hand the vulnerability and social disposability of those who have lost their homes – especially immigrants who\, without citizenship\, are not allowed access to shelters. In December 2022\, Martha relocated to Zambia to start over\, reconnect with herself and apply to regain her Zambian citizenship. Having been raised in the Diaspora and having called Nova Scotia home since a young child\, she longs for her birth home\, Zambia\, and yearns to learn more about her roots. While in Lusaka\, waiting for her paperwork to be approved\, she volunteered her time in an art gallery and completed two residencies which constituted her first forays into visual arts. During her second residency\, she made six dolls\, five feet long\, all sewn and painted by hand using upcycled textile fabrics and African materials she found while living in Lusaka\, Zambia. Martha is healing her inner child and making room for new and exciting adventures that await her in the future.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/closing-reception-with-curtis-botham-eva-grant-and-martha-mutale/
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:20251011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251101
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
CREATED:20250904T141921Z
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SUMMARY:No Dominion/No Domain
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with the Khyber Centre for the Arts and Nocturne\nMayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax presents No Dominion/No Domain\, where Eva Grant and Curtis Botham trace land\, life\, labour\, and pathways across speculative digital ancestral architectures and charcoal industrial landscapes. \n“Homeless Shelters Before Police Raid” by Curtis Botham\nNo Dominion/No Domain brings together two artists\, Eva Grant and Curtis Botham\, whose works reflect on land\, labour\, infrastructure\, and ecological movement. Presented by Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax and hosted at the Khyber Centre for the Arts\, the exhibition runs October 11-31\, 2025. Events include Nocturne: Art at Night Festival from 6PM-12AM on Saturday\, October 18\, and a closing reception Tuesday\, October 28th 6PM-8PM. \nEva Grant’s WILD INTERFACE is a work of St’át’imc speculative futurism that reimagines longhouses and Salish structures as though assembled from salmon bones. These digital works depict architecture not as idealized pasts or utopian elsewheres\, but as living interfaces: porous inter-species networks where technologies and ancestral knowledge converge. Through computational geography and postnatural territories\, Grant reconsiders space and place as co-constructed with ecologies\, where memory and labours of love entwine. \nCurtis Botham’s Effluents and Urban projects confront the landscapes of extraction that underpin industrial modernity. His large-scale charcoal drawings—made in a volatile medium that mirrors the precarity of his subject matter—document the sites of resource economies on Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia and their cascading impacts: inequities of wealth\, the precarity of workers\, and the hidden infrastructures behind everyday consumer life. Botham traces these environments with stark fidelity\, inviting viewers to recognize their own embeddedness in these cycles of labour and consumption. \nTogether\, Grant’s and Curtis’ works stage a dialogue on dominion—over land\, life\, and labour—and on domains\, whether in digital terrains of speculative ancestral architectures or in the charcoal-rendered landscapes and machinery of industrial capitalism. \nNo Dominion/No Domain invokes the dual refusal of control and possession within colonial constructs and systems. The title\, created by Grant\, arose in response to the effectiveness of messaging between the blend of analog and virtual material. Through charcoal and digital works\, the exhibition resists the illusion of permanence that dominion or domain implies. Charcoal\, itself the residue of combustion\, unsettles the idea of industry as stable progress\, while Grant’s architectures utilize the digital realm to glitch and dissolve systemically oppressive boundaries. Both practices gesture towards knowledge\, labour\, and survival beyond grids of ownership. \nDigital piece from the WILD INTERFACE series by Eva Grant\nARTIST BIOS:\n \nEva Grant is a Queer\, St̓át̓imc-Eurasian filmmaker\, curator\, and new media artist. She studied philosophy and literature at Stanford University and is the founder of Tooth & Nail Pictures. Her world-building practice hybridizes moving image\, animation\, game engines\, interactive digital media\, data visualization\, and speculative design to prototype decolonial and capacious futures. She is a former Sundance Native Lab fellow\, a BIPOC TV & Film Episodic Writers Lab participant\, an Artengine NEW SUNS Worldbuilding Lab artist-in-residence\, a Vancouver Queer Film Festival Programming Disruptor\, a Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices fellow\, an Art Gallery of Ontario AGO x RBC emerging artist-in-residence\, and an alumna of the imagineNATIVE Originals Commission program and the Screenwriting Shorts Fellowship. Her work has been supported by Mayworks Kjipuktuk\, Nocturne: Art at Night\, CFC Satellites\, Debaser/Pique Festival\, the Indigenous Curatorial Collective\, Lay*Away\, Black Star Film Festival’s William and Louise Greaves Filmmaking Seminar\, and the Ottawa Animation Festival\, and her films have screened at festivals around the world. \n \nCurtis Botham is an award-winning artist based in Halifax\, Nova Scotia. He graduated from NSCAD University in 2017 with a bachelor of fine arts. His accolades include the Canada Games Young Artist of Excellence Award\, and numerous grants from Arts Nova Scotia and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Since 2017\, he has depicted the impact and labour of industries in the Maritimes\, examining the social and environmental effects of material culture on our lives. He has participated in residencies around Nova Scotia in order to create a broad portrait of the province and its relationship to its land\, people and resources.\ncurtisbotham.weebly.com \nHOURS & EVENTS:\nExhibition on view: October 11-31\, 2025 \nGallery hours: 12-5PM Tuesday-Saturday + events \nAppointments/contact: info@khyber.ca \nAccessibility notes: www.khyber.ca/access \nNocturne hours: 6PM-12AM\, Saturday\, October 18\, 2025 \nClosing reception: Tuesday\, October 28th 6PM-8PM – Click here for details \nPresented concurrently with my inner child healing my immigrant identity
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/no-dominion-no-domain/
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:20251011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251101
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
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SUMMARY:my inner child healing my immigrant identity
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with the Khyber Centre for the Arts and Nocturne\nmy inner child healing my immigrant identity by Martha Mutale explores the immigrant experience – the self split between two homes. A series of rag dolls where each figure represents a point in time in the immigrant life\, softly positioned in space\, while the whole assemblage provides a grounded picture of who she is. Presented by Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax and hosted at the Khyber Centre for the Arts\, the exhibition runs October 11-31\, 2025. Events include Nocturne: Art at Night Festival from 6PM-12AM on Saturday\, October 18\, and a closing reception Tuesday\, October 28th 6PM-8PM. \n \nmy inner child healing my immigrant identity is a continuation of Martha Mutale’s exploration of the immigrant experience through the making and presentation of rag dolls fabricated from Zambian fabrics overlaid with printed words. Each of the 40 inches tall dolls represents a different part of her life as an immigrant living in the Diaspora and what it means to hold two different identities grounded in two different homes – Canada and Zambia. What does it mean to call two places home at once? What does it mean to always have a foot in both worlds\, to feel unmoored by this dual self? What are the different ways in which each of these places is home and for which reasons? \nMutale was confronted with these questions when she returned to her birth home during her adult life. Everyday\, taxi drivers (themselves migrants from neighbouring African countries) would ask her about herself and where she came from. Growing up in Nova Scotia\, one of Mutale’s most vivid and concrete connections to Zambian culture was the process through which she and her sisters would continually measure each others’ bodies in order for their mother to sew clothing for them made of African fabric. These experiences and memories\, along with her love of poetry\, have been the crucible for her ongoing series of projects using rag dolls to convey her sense of identity. \nThe process of crafting is a journey in itself and the tactile medium of textiles provide for Mutale a method of self-exploration that is both meditative and very concrete at once. For my inner child healing my immigrant identity\, the dolls (smaller than in previous explorations) will be installed as a diorama in the window gallery of the Khyber Centre for the Arts through which passersby can windowgaze into Mutale’s life. As Mutale represents different facets and waypoints in her life through each rag doll\, she presents a fragmented picture of herself. The soft sculptures each convey a lack of weight and definite attachment to the ground. And yet\, the depiction of Mutale’s life as a whole through their assemblage in space\, all together\, offers her (and the observer) a sense of groundedness provided by the material expression of her identities and the added value of a sum crystallised by the joining of its parts. \nARTIST BIO\n \nMartha Mutale is a poet and veteran of the spoken word scene in Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, Nova Scotia. She grew up in Billtown\, Nova Scotia\, a small rural community in the Annapolis valley after emigrating from Zambia with her family when she was just under two years old. Her family is based in Nova Scotia. As an adult\, she relocated to North End Halifax where she began expressing herself as a poet while also working in the non-profit sector. She has worked as a housing support worker where she witnessed first hand the vulnerability and social disposability of those who have lost their homes – especially immigrants who\, without citizenship\, are not allowed access to shelters. In December 2022\, Martha relocated to Zambia to start over\, reconnect with herself and apply to regain her Zambian citizenship. Having been raised in the Diaspora and having called Nova Scotia home since a young child\, she longs for her birth home\, Zambia\, and yearns to learn more about her roots. While in Lusaka\, waiting for her paperwork to be approved\, she volunteered her time in an art gallery and completed two residencies which constituted her first forays into visual arts. During her second residency\, she made six dolls\, five feet long\, all sewn and painted by hand using upcycled textile fabrics and African materials she found while living in Lusaka\, Zambia. Martha is healing her inner child and making room for new and exciting adventures that await her in the future. \nHOURS & EVENTS:\nExhibition on view: October 11-31\, 2025 \nGallery hours: On display in the window gallery 24/7 | Open hours: 12-5PM Tuesday-Saturday + events \nAppointments/contact: info@khyber.ca \nAccessibility notes: www.khyber.ca/access \nNocturne hours: 6PM-12AM\, Saturday\, October 18\, 2025 \nClosing reception: Tuesday\, October 28th 6PM-8PM – Click here for details \nPresented concurrently with No Domain / No Dominion
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/my-inner-child-healing-my-immigrant-identity/
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:20251003
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251004
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
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SUMMARY:Call For Submissions - Mayworks 2026
DESCRIPTION:DEADLINE: OCTOBER 3RD 2025\nSubmit via this FORM \nMayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax celebrates workers\, justice and solidarity through art. \nOur festival presents works of art of any discipline which explore the connection between the labour movement and art\, art-making as labour\, and struggles against racial injustice\, environmental injustice\, and other forms of injustice. \nWe encourage applications from underrepresented or marginalized artists\, including Indigenous\, Black\, Disabled\, Two-Spirit and trans artists\, as well as artists from communities of colour and language minority communities. \nSubmissions need not be directly focused on work\, labour or unions. In making our curatorial decisions\, we look for works that are at the forefront of creative exploration\, while also highlighting the political nature of artistic work. We look to include stories from Queer\, Disabled\, Black and Indigenous communities\, in addition to content that speaks to working class and feminist struggles. \n🌟 Mayworks programming is chosen by a jury of our staff members.\n🌟 Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax uses the Bus Stop Theatre as its main venue w/additional venues as needed.\n🌟 Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax provides presentation fees only\, not fees for development and creation (but feel free to ask for a letter of support). \nApplicants will be notified of their result by the end of November. \nLearn more using the FORM link. \nPhoto by Keandre Johnson
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/call-for-submissions-mayworks-2026/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250908
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
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SUMMARY:The Huns by Matchstick Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Matchstick Theatre presents Michael Ross Albert’s play The Huns in Neptune Theatre’s Craig Boardroom. A cutting office comedy and nuanced exploration of today’s working world\, The Huns is the first piece of Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax’s new MOMENTUM programming. From August 26th to September 7th\, experience the Atlantic Canadian premiere of one of the country’s most exciting new playwrights. \nThree employees of a tech company—Shelley (Katerina Bakolias)\, Pete (Liam Fair)\, and Iris (Gil Anderson)—meet for an emergency conference call. Their office has been robbed and essential equipment is missing\, with Gen-Seven set to launch ON MONDAY! The three co-workers have their bosses and colleagues on the line—WHAT COULD GO WRONG?!  \nThe Huns is directed by Jake Planinc and designed by Jordan Palmer\, with Chelsea Dickie (Stage Manager) and Alex Mills (House Manager). Matchstick’s 70-minute production has fully accessible\, but extremely limited capacity. Tickets are $20 (with one PWYC preview on August 26th). \nPerformances are at 7:30PM Tuesday through Saturday and 2:00PM on Saturdays and Sundays. Please contact us in advance for accommodation at matchsticktheatre@gmail.com
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/the-huns/
LOCATION:Neptune Theatre – Craig Boardroom\, 1593 Argyle St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3J 2B2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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ORGANIZER;CN="Matchstick Theatre":MAILTO:matchsticktheatre@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250503T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250503T143000
DTSTAMP:20260407T130002
CREATED:20250402T154658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250521T231429Z
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SUMMARY:Working Class Heritage Tours
DESCRIPTION:You’ll never see downtown the same way again!\nJoin us for interactive walking tours that share the complex working class history of downtown Halifax. Each tour takes a different path through the city core and discusses different aspects of working class history and culture. The tours are designed to be stand alone but also work as a series\, with each tour covering different topics and following a different path. \n \nGeneral Tour Notes:\n\nEach tour is approximately 90 minutes in duration with regular stops for discussion along the way.\nWashrooms and parking are available near the beginning and end of each tour.\nPlaces to sit or perch are present at most tour stops\nThe tours run over and downhill only\nThe tours follow paths that only include intersections with curb cuts and follow sidewalks that are in good shape.\nThe tour has been designed with accessibility in mind. If you would like more information on the tour’s accessibility please email: info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca\n\n \n ASL interpretation will be provided for all three tours. \n\nTour 1: Where We Stand\n \nDate: Saturday\, May 3rd\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Old Spring Garden Library (corner of Brunswick St and Spring Garden Rd) \nMoving through downtown we will talk about the impact of people\, land\, and power on the evolution of the colonial urban centre over the last 300 years while experiencing the city around us. From the paupers grounds of the 18th century\, integrated neighbourhoods of the 19th century\, strikes of the 20th century and movements for social justice today. This tour begins at the old Memorial Library and ends at the waterfront. \nThe Only Wealth Is Labour: Artists Sarah Mosher & Hanah Genosko will be carrying their crafted banner along for the tour! \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: 19th century market site in downtown Halifax. NS Archives. \n\nTour 2: Scratch the Surface ***RESCHEDULED***\n \nNEW DATE: Saturday\, May 24th\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Old Spring Garden Library (corner of Brunswick St and Spring Garden Rd)\n \nWalking along the streets of today we’ll explore the many types of work that used to take place where we now see offices\, shops and restaurants. We’ll pull back the curtain on what it was like to work in the laundries\, factories\, and food manufacturing plants of Halifax and what we can still see of this industrial past. This tour begins at the old Memorial Library and ends near Granville Mall. \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: Early 20th century women sewing in a Halifax factory. NS Archives.\n \n\nTour 3: By Choice or By Force\n \nDate: Sunday\, May 11th\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Peace & Friendship Park (1170 Hollis St)  \nLooking at a part of downtown now dominated by railroad tracks\, hotels and modern apartment buildings we’ll remember the story of immigrants and  migrants to Halifax\, both those who came by choice\, force or a lack of other options. This tour will discuss the complex history of racial and cultural  interactions in Nova Scotia and shed light on how Halifax has always had a diverse population. This tour will begin at Peace and Friendship Park and end  near the Seaport Market (formerly Cunard Centre) \nThe Only Wealth Is Labour: Artists Sarah Mosher & Hanah Genosko will be carrying their crafted banner along for the tour! \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: Charlie Wah laundry back room. Photo: J.J. Lee\n \n\nEmma Lang\n \nEmma Lang is a public heritage professional\, folklorist and tour guide. She’s been sharing her research and excitement in labour history to anyone interested for more than 20 years. \nPhoto above and Banner image: Photos by Tee Porter. \n 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/working-class-heritage-tours/
LOCATION:NS
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SUMMARY:Union
DESCRIPTION:A film by Stephen Maing and Brett Story\nUp against one of the most powerful companies on the planet\, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island\, New York. \n“Astounding\, rebellious\,… brilliant.” – The New York Times \nWINNER: U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change – Sundance Film Festival \n \nThrough intimate cinema vérité\, UNION chronicles the extraordinary efforts of an unlikely group of warehouse workers as they launch a grassroots union campaign at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island\, New York. Led by the charismatic by underestimated Chris Smalls\, the diverse band of workers start the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) and embark on a journey against one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. The odds are stacked against them\, as the groups finds itself up against a tech industry giant with unlimited resources\, without major support from national unions or politicians\, and while navigating internal divisions within their own ranks. Filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing document the struggle from day one\, offering a gripping human drama about the fight for power and dignity in today’s globalized economic landscape. \n \n\n \n  \nPresented in partnership with
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/union/
LOCATION:Park Lane Cineplex\, 5657 Spring Garden Rd\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3J 3R4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Nakba Day Banner Making
DESCRIPTION:So-so-so-Solidarity!\nLearn to make fabric banners perfect for balconies and windows using applique\, patchwork quilting and basic painting techniques. It’s Nakba Day and a good occasion to show solidarity for Palestinians\, but participants are welcome to make their banner about any topic of their choice. Sarah and Hannah will facilitate\, talk about their approach to their banner-making and teach techniques to those who are interested. Materials are provided. \nArtists\nSarah Mosher and Hannah Genosko are an artist duo collaborating in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Hannah has a background in printmaking and bookmaking\, Sarah has a background in textiles and community arts. Both are graduates of NSCAD University. Their common ground is exploring labour\, anti-capitalism and the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through quilting. Portrait of the Artist as an Essential Worker was their first project reflecting on their roles as essential workers at their jobs with Canada Post and NSLC respectively during the COVID-19 pandemic. \nNakba Day\nNakba Day commemorates the great catastrophe – the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland in 1948. Participants are invited to create banners for their homes and neighbourhoods in celebration of Palestinian solidarity but are free to also choose any message of solidarity they want to display.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/nakba-day-banner-making/
LOCATION:Wonder’neath\, 2482 Maynard St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 3V4\, Canada
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UID:3640-1746277200-1746282600@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca
SUMMARY:Working Class Heritage Tours
DESCRIPTION:You’ll never see downtown the same way again!\nJoin us for interactive walking tours that share the complex working class history of downtown Halifax. Each tour takes a different path through the city core and discusses different aspects of working class history and culture. The tours are designed to be stand alone but also work as a series\, with each tour covering different topics and following a different path. \n \nGeneral Tour Notes:\n\nEach tour is approximately 90 minutes in duration with regular stops for discussion along the way.\nWashrooms and parking are available near the beginning and end of each tour.\nPlaces to sit or perch are present at most tour stops\nThe tours run over and downhill only\nThe tours follow paths that only include intersections with curb cuts and follow sidewalks that are in good shape.\nThe tour has been designed with accessibility in mind. If you would like more information on the tour’s accessibility please email: info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca\n\n \n ASL interpretation will be provided for all three tours. \n\nTour 1: Where We Stand\n \nDate: Saturday\, May 3rd\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Old Spring Garden Library (corner of Brunswick St and Spring Garden Rd) \nMoving through downtown we will talk about the impact of people\, land\, and power on the evolution of the colonial urban centre over the last 300 years while experiencing the city around us. From the paupers grounds of the 18th century\, integrated neighbourhoods of the 19th century\, strikes of the 20th century and movements for social justice today. This tour begins at the old Memorial Library and ends at the waterfront. \nThe Only Wealth Is Labour: Artists Sarah Mosher & Hanah Genosko will be carrying their crafted banner along for the tour! \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: 19th century market site in downtown Halifax. NS Archives. \n\nTour 2: Scratch the Surface ***RESCHEDULED***\n \nNEW DATE: Saturday\, May 24th\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Old Spring Garden Library (corner of Brunswick St and Spring Garden Rd)\n \nWalking along the streets of today we’ll explore the many types of work that used to take place where we now see offices\, shops and restaurants. We’ll pull back the curtain on what it was like to work in the laundries\, factories\, and food manufacturing plants of Halifax and what we can still see of this industrial past. This tour begins at the old Memorial Library and ends near Granville Mall. \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: Early 20th century women sewing in a Halifax factory. NS Archives.\n \n\nTour 3: By Choice or By Force\n \nDate: Sunday\, May 11th\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Peace & Friendship Park (1170 Hollis St)  \nLooking at a part of downtown now dominated by railroad tracks\, hotels and modern apartment buildings we’ll remember the story of immigrants and  migrants to Halifax\, both those who came by choice\, force or a lack of other options. This tour will discuss the complex history of racial and cultural  interactions in Nova Scotia and shed light on how Halifax has always had a diverse population. This tour will begin at Peace and Friendship Park and end  near the Seaport Market (formerly Cunard Centre) \nThe Only Wealth Is Labour: Artists Sarah Mosher & Hanah Genosko will be carrying their crafted banner along for the tour! \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: Charlie Wah laundry back room. Photo: J.J. Lee\n \n\nEmma Lang\n \nEmma Lang is a public heritage professional\, folklorist and tour guide. She’s been sharing her research and excitement in labour history to anyone interested for more than 20 years. \nPhoto above and Banner image: Photos by Tee Porter. \n 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/working-class-heritage-tours/
LOCATION:NS
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