2020 Call for Submissions
2019-07-31 08:00 - 2019-10-01 23:30 (America/Halifax) | Nova Scotia
Be a Part of the 2020 Festival!
Mayworks Halifax seeks proposals that will speak of the working class experience. This can be extremely varied and can be contemporary or historical. Both amateur and professional performers may apply.
Submissions need not be directly focused on work, labour or unions. Mayworks Halifax programs works of art that adress broad themes of social and environmental justice. Any submissions that adress issues of inequality and injustice, or give voice to marginalized communities will be considered.
Under-represented groups and those disadvantaged at work and in society are particularly encouraged to apply. Material is particularly sought from youth, women, people with disabilities, African Nova Scotians, First Nation Communities, Indigenous artists, people of colour, newcomer (immigrant) populations, 2SLGBTQ+ folks, Acadian or other under-represented cultures in Nova Scotia.
Proposals must be submitted in English or French for consideration.
DEADLINE: October 1st, 2019
Download Application Guidelines and Forms: 2020 Mayworks Call for Submissions (PDF)

Canadian Labour International Film Festival
2019-11-12 19:00 - 20:30 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
Since 2009, CLIFF has been screening films about workers, the conditions under which they live and work, and related social justice issues, in over 130 locations across Canada.
Admission: Pay What You Will – FREE popcorn!
The Halifax screening will feature five international short films celebrating workers.
The total run time of the event is 55 minutes. The screening will be followed by a short open discussion.

FILM PROGRAM

Azadeh
9.5 min drama from Iran and Director Mirabbas Khosravinezhad
Azadeh, a young girl living in a small village with her family, wants
go to city to visit her father, but her mother and brother won’t allow
it…

A Radiant Sphere
9.5 min documentary from Canada and Director Sara Wylie
The filmmaker discovers a long lost family member, the Canadian Communist poet and political prisoner, Joe Wallace. Her research journey reveals his fascinating life and work, and some surprising things they share in common.

The Glasgow Women Strike
11 min documentary from Switzerland and Directors Leo David Hyde and Nathalie Berger. After decades of earning less than their male counterparts, Glasgow’s female cooks, cleaners and caregivers launch the biggest Equal Pay Strike in UK History.

24-Hour Workday
14.5 min documentary from the US and Director Zishun Ning
Home care workers are forced to work grueling 24-hour shifts taking care of seriously-ill patients, with only half of the pay. When they try to fight back through legislative means, they meet obstacles from the State government which tries to legalize such inhumane practice.

Zero
9 min drama from Spain and Director David Macian Montesinos
Once upon a time, there was a town where nobody drank Coca-cola…

JOB POSTING: Assistant Festival Director
2020-01-08 | Nova Scotia
Description
Annual, part-time contract position. Varying work hours (see below). $16 per hour.
Worker’s Compensation insurance provided.
Begins February 1st, 2020.
The Assistant Director is required to assist the Festival Director in the following duties:
● Reviewing project submissions and curating the festival program
● Communicating with artists, planning logistics and organizing festival events
● Soliciting sponsorships, partnerships and donations
● Conducting outreach toward artists and organizations
● Coordinating and promoting activities outside of the main festival (ex: CLiFF)
● Other related tasks and duties as they arise
Desired skills, interests and experience
● Strong interest in social justice movements and issues
● Familiarity with the labour movement a strong asset
● Experience in event organizing and producing
● Experience in fundraising
● Experience in art curation
● Familiarity with multiple strands of the cultural sector (theatre scene, music scene, etc.)
● Proficiency with Google Docs and office software
● Graphic design skills an asset
Work hours
● February – March: 10 hours per week.
● April : 15 hours per week
● May: 20 hours per week
● June: 10 hours per week
● July – September: 5 hours per week
● October – December: 10 hours per week
Deadline for submissions

January 8th, 2020
Email info[at]mayworkshalifax.ca

AFX
2021-05-06 - 2021-05-08 | Nova Scotia
We’re partnering with the Halifax Animation Festival (AFX) to bring you two exciting events!

COVID UPDATE:
All AFX events are presented online and are not impacted by the current provincial lock down.

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This World’s Not Done (films by Helen Hill)
Curated by Becka Barker
May 6, 5:00PM – WATCH HERE
Experimental animator Helen Hill was known for the bright hand-crafted aesthetic she brought to so much of her work and life. Her films blend an exuberance for life and care for others with personal stories and themes of mortality. This program embraces the whimsy, the sadness, the fun, and the contemplation in Hill’s films as intertwining threads that encourage us to cushion our pain with love, and celebrate the brevity of our time on earth by demonstrating love and care to one another and our communities. Join us in celebrating and remembering an icon of our local film and animation community!

Animating our stories: Exploring LGBTQ2S History through Animation
May 7, 3:00PM – Watch Here
History is not the past, it is the present. We carry our history with us.
We are our history.
– James Baldwin
The first live action feature documentary was Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North in 1922. 85 years later, the world saw its first animated feature documentary with Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis in 2007.
What happened? Can animation document as well as live action? Does it tell stories differently? Inspired by Quickdraw Animation Society’s (QAS) On LGBTQ2S+ Animation Project*, this panel features special guests Mike Hooves, member of the project’s organizing collective, along with award-winning Toronto-based queer artists Lauren Hortie and Sonya Reynolds. The panel is moderated by Sam Decoste, independent animator and one of the essayists for On LGBTQ2S+ Animation.
*On LGBTQ2S+ Animation is a collection of essays, comics, and other works exploring queerness, identity and representation in animation.

JOURNEY TO THE ZONE
2021-05-13 - 2021-05-16 | Nova Scotia
An online sci-fi musical adventure
Written and directed by Peter Sarty

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Journey to the Zone is presented online and is not impacted by the current provincial lock down.
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In the year 3000, Earth has crossed over into the DIGITAL REALM, a digital purgatory in which humanity’s online personas are trapped in an endless cycle of fear and distraction. As humanity wanes in its new existence, Jax, an unlikely hero, must journey deep into cyberspace to unlock the secrets of the Perfect Pixel, the energy source of the Digital Realm. Alongside a social media android, Robopal, Jax must overcome their fears and bias in order to free humanity and bring peace to the Digital Realm. A Sci-Fi Synthesizer Space Musical, Journey to the Zone examines our relationship to our online world, as well as the possibilities and limitations of our digital existence.

TRAILER
https://youtu.be/QIIzJjlXDgc

Cast & Creators
PETER SARTY: Writer/Director/Composer/Ensemble
Peter is a writer, actor, improviser, musician and sound designer based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a sound designer, Peter has collaborated on both film and theatre projects. Most recently, Peter created six original sound designs and scores for the Ship’s Company Theatre Play Building Program. Peter is also a member of Hello City! An award winning improv troupe based in Halifax. Peter’s theatre credits include: Listen to the Wind (Steady Theatre Co.) No Man Is an Island (Atlantic Repertory Company), Macbeth (Steady Theatre Co.), This Is Nowhere (Zuppa Theatre Co.), Three Seasons with Shakespeare by the Sea, Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes (Matchstick Theatre), Miracle on 34th Street (Neptune Theatre). Film credits include: Let’s Get Physical (Pop TV), Diggstown (CBC), I Hear You (Interwoven Films), and Cavendish (CBC) Chapelwaite (MGM). Most recently, a short film that Peter co-wrote, co-starred, and co-produced entitled: Inceldom, or why are the angry men angry, won Best Atlantic Short at the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival. Deep gratitude to Aaron Collier for his Ableton guidance and mentorship. Love to my family, Stevey, Sadie and Ophelia.
BRETON LALAMA: Jax
Breton Lalama (they/he) is a queer, trans human who combines mediums to encourage sociopolitical dialogue and bring attention to the weird parts of everyday life. They really like tomato soup. Most recent credits include: Pleasureville (Neptune); Playbuilding (Ships); Slasher (Shudder); Pretty Hard Cases (NBC/CBC); Dawn, Her Dad, and the Tractor (Crave). One dreamy post-COVID day: Rocky Horror (Neptune). You can find their writing in Harlot X Trans Sex Workers Zine, Feels Zine, Open Heart Forgery, Crush Zine, Saved By Sex Ed, Toho Journal. Breton is grateful to be part of Nightwood Theatre’s Write From The Hip cohort, 2020-2021. @bretonlikethecrackers
STEVEY HUNTER: RoboPal
Stevey Hunter is a nonbinary actor, comedian, and playwright based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Originally from Winnipeg, MB, Stevey moved to Halifax to attend Dalhousie’s Fountain School of Performing Arts. They are a member of local improv company Hello City (Silver for Best Comedy Night – The Coast 2018, 2019, Outstanding comedy and Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role Halifax Fringe 2019, Best Ensemble Halifax Fringe 2018.) They have worked with numerous Nova Scotian theatre companies including: Neptune Theatre, Ship’s Theatre Company, Zuppa theatre, and more. Stevey recently created their first solo show, When You Leave Please Say Nice Things to Me. This past March they had a workshop performance that was produced by the Bus Stop Writers’ Circle and funded by Arts Nova Scotia. Their play FAT JULIET, a retelling of Romeo & Juliet from the perspective of a fat 16 year old, Juliet, will be presented in Fall 2021. Instagram & Twitter @steveyhunter
NATHAN SIMMONS: Wisen/Ensemble
A graduate of the Fountain School of Performing Arts, Nathan Simmons is an award winning halifax-based actor and musician, whom you might have see On screen in Diggstown or Hustle and Heart, for which he won an award, or on the Neptune stage in plays like Controlled Damage and Salt Water Moon. Coming from the community of East Preston Nova Scotia, his enticing talent and charismatic energy has blessed many stages, not only in Nova Scotia, but across the country.
TAYLOR OLSON: Dramaturgy
Taylor Olson is an award-winning director, writer, and actor in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has directed over ten short films to regional, national, and international praise. He – alongside partner Koumbie – won Season 10 of CBC’s Short Film Faceoff for the coming-of-age drama Hustle & Heart. His first feature film – Bone Cage – has been released to critical acclaim; sweeping the awards at the Atlantic International Film Festival and earning additional accolades at the Silver Wave Film Festival, Mosaic Film Festival, and Hamilton Film Festival. It has appeared in competition at Poland’s Camerimage, where it was nominated for Best Cinematographer’s Debut and had its US debut in January 2021. He is the recipient of the 2020 Arts Nova Scotia Emerging Artist Award. As an actor, Taylor has appeared in over 60 films and television shows. He has received 7 ACTRA Maritimes award nominations and the Atlantic International Film Festival’s David Renton Award for Outstanding Performance, 2018 & and once won and thrice voted as a finalist for Coast Magazine’s Best of Halifax – Actor.
POSTER DESIGN by Shelby Edwards shelbyedwards.ca

ARCHIVES CONTINUUM
2021-05-25 - 2021-06-15 | Nova Scotia
A digital storytelling project by Collective 2030
In collaboration with Restorying Climate Just Futures

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Explore each offering in the website’s first layer to gain access to a hidden second layer hosting responses to the artists’ works.

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Archives Continuum is presented ONLINE and can be safely enjoyed from anywhere.

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Carmel Farahbakhsh | Cathy Martin | Shalan Joudry | Calen Sack
Michelle Sylliboy | Liliona Quarmyne | Tayla Fern Paul

Respondents:
Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky
Sailaja Krishnamurti
Jonathan Langdon
Shelley Price
Designer:
Daren Okafo
Collective 2030 engages in imagining, designing, dreaming their recurrent futures through a multidisciplinary and intergenerational storytelling lens in “Archives Continuum”. Catalyzed and unified through themes of multi-generational and time-cyclical communication, memory keeping, and relationship to land and water — each artist facilitates a response that weaves a dynamic narrative and desire to radically redesign the world as we know it.
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CHANGE THE GAME: Space Cats Fight Fascism
2021-06-20 16:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-06 16:00 - 20:00 | The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3K 3B1, Canada
Space Cats Fight Fascism
Game play level – Easy
A rising wave of fascism is sweeping across the galaxy, threatening to throw the Interspecies Galactic Alliance under autocratic rule. To help grow its power, the regime known as The Rat Pack has convinced the powers that be that all cats must be tightly controlled… or forced into feline exile. But everyone knows, cats don’t like to be collared, and they don’t like to be caged.
Space Cats Fight Fascism is a cooperative game where you play as a band of rebel cats trying to stop fascists from taking over the galaxy. It is for 2 – 4 players and takes roughly 45 – 60 minutes to play. Ages 13+

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Gaming will be preceded by a quick how-to-play presentation. You can stay for one game, or two, or more! Just take note that music at The Derby will begin around 7:00PM. Tables can be booked for two to four players and the registration cost includes the game itself. You play with a brand new game which will not have been handled by anyone else, and get to take the game with you after!

Public Health
Your game is yours alone. No one else will have handled it prior. Public Health Guidelines will be strictly enforced to ensure everyone’s safety and comfort. Please respect the venue’s instructions for masking, distancing and travel. Stay home if you do not feel well!

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TOIL HERE
2021-06-30 - 2021-07-24 | The Khyber Centre for the Arts, 1880 Hollis St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 1W6, Canada
Works From Rural Mi’kma’ki

Presented in partnership with the Khyber Centre for the Arts

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TOIL HERE is a group exhibition and curatorial collaboration between the Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax Festival and the Khyber Centre for the Arts. Featured in this exhibition are works by artists Alex Antle, Antoinette Karuna, Clara Gough, Curtis Botham, Heather Cromwell, Kim Cain, and Michelle Roy, as well as by Mi’kmaq water protectors Cathy Martin, Gnat Na’pi, and Darlene Gilbert. Using the languages of traditional domestic craft and fine art, the artists explore different facets of rural life, labour and justice, and together disrupt stereotypical notions of what rural “Maritime” art can be and speak to.
A video tour of TOIL HERE will be released at a later date as a complement to the exhibition. The video will contain captioned interviews with each of the artists.

VIDEO TOUR

Video by Keltic Kreative
Artist Interviews
Artist and water protectors discuss the art in TOIL HERE and water protection on Mi’kma’ki.

The Khyber Centre for the Arts · TOIL HERE: Works from rural Mi’kma’ki

ARTWORKS IN TOIL HERE
“Pulp Mill, Abercrombie” by Curtis Botham

TOIL HERE opens with original audio, also available as a transcription, from Catherine Anne Martin, Gnat Na’pi, and Thunderbird Swooping Down Woman (Darlene Gilbert). Upon entering and while viewing the exhibition, and online, visitors can hear or read as these Mi’kmaq water protectors each speak to labour and water protection on Mi’kma’ki.
Alex Antle’s Sple’tk is a watershed map of the Exploits River beaded onto a tan moose hide and hung from a scraped birch tree. The River is located in the central region of Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland) where Alex grew up. This work explores the importance of clean water and the many uses of the River. Both L’nu and settlers have utilized the water for labour and enjoyment.
Antoinette Karuna’s hooked rug wall hangings are part of an autobiographical series. Untitled 1 and Untitled 2 explore the spiritual aspects of erotic love, distanced from the male gaze and existing within the private sphere of the Treaty Relationship, as Karuna is settler and her partner is Mi’kmaq. Untitled 3 examines Karuna’s biracial identity, which is Sri Lankan Tamil (brown) and French Canadian (white), and how despite pressures from monoracial society to choose one racial identity over another, she experiences her biraciality as fluid and complex. Formally, her rugs draw on her background as a filmmaker, mixing the language of textiles with that of cinema––notably cinematographic and storytelling principles.
Detail of “Sple’tk” by Alex Antle
Clara Gough’s life sized figurative basket sculptures present different forms of labour: one a parent carrying a child and the other a depiction of the artist’s father carrying tools. Gough reinvents the traditional basket weaving techniques passed down in her community to depict iterations of labour and the community itself.
Curtis Botham’s Pulp Mill, Abercrombie is a black and white, photo-realistic charcoal drawing as part of his ‘Effluents’ series of drawings that depict worker’s solidarity, economic justice and environmental impact of industry in rural Mi’kma’ki. Drawn from observational sketches, Curtis has illustrated the environmental devastation that can be caused from unsustainable, under-regulated pulp industries.
“Untitled 1” by Antoinette Karuna
Secret Codes by Heather Cromwell is a vibrant series of picture quilts The Dance, Betty Hartley and Grandma’s Hands depicting Black Nova Scotian women, labour, love and stories from the community. This work came out of a project by the Black Artists’ Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS) and the Vale Quilters, where quiltmakers created from drawings made by Halifax artist-curator David Woods, and documented travels to African Nova Scotian communities across the province. Grandma’s Hands will be on view as part of TOIL HERE.
Tilling and burying: Red Earth, Black Death by Kim Cain is a piece about dualities of life/death, growth/pruning, joy/ sorrow. The red earth sets the background for the preparation of the land for planting, with cattle and farmers preparing the soil. Black death is actualized with the central sight of the pallbearers carrying a casket towards a waiting plot.
Michelle Roy’s Mi’kmaq regalia pieces include a toddler’s regalia, a prom dress, and a special jingle dress, in representation and honoring of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit and to celebrate the strength, labour and determination of Mi’kmaq mothers, sisters, aunties, wives, and daughters and the central role of women in struggles for Indigenous justice.

ARTIST BIOS
ALEX ANTLE (she/her) is an emerging L’nu beadwork artist located on the North Shore of Elmastukwek, Ktaqmkuk (Bay of Islands, Newfoundland). She has been learning and practicing beadwork for four years with the guidance of a community of Mi’kmaq beaders. Alex’s art often explores the relationship between tradition and living culture, as well as the importance of land and water.
ANTOINETTE KARUNA (she/her) is a visual artist working in textiles and film. She is Tamil Sri Lankan through her father and French Canadian through her mother. Karuna spent her childhood in London, England, and later a decade each in Montreal and Berlin. She now lives in Antigonish, where she works as a freelance writer and editor and teaches filmmaking at St. Francis Xavier University.
CLARA GOUGH (she/her) is a basketmaker and sculptor based in East Preston. She carries on the traditional basket weaving taught to by her mother Edith Clayton, a renowned African Nova Scotian basketmaker. Though strongly influenced by her mother’s techniques, Gough has imprinted her own unique style on the craft. In 1998 she began creating figurative basket sculptures inspired by her family and community. Clara is a member of the Black Artists’ Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS), a non-profit, multi-disciplinary arts association that seeks to develop the African Nova Scotian arts community.
CURTIS BOTHAM (he/him) is a white visual artist interested in rural Maritime industries. After graduating from NSCAD University in 2017, he spent a year in New Glasgow’s Artist Residency program where he made a series of large-scale charcoal drawings dealing with the impact of industry on the environment and nearby communities.
HEATHER CROMWELL (she/her) is an artist and quiltmaker based in New Glasgow. She grew up watching her mother and grandmother making quilts and took on the craft in her thirties. Heather is a member of the Black Artists’ Network of Nova Scotia (BANNS). She is also part of The Northumberland Quilters Guild, one of the largest quilt guilds in Nova Scotia. In 2007, she joined forces with several African Nova Scotian women in New Glasgow to form the Vale Quilters Association – a group interested in exploring African North American quiltmaking traditions and promoting the heritage of Pictou County’s Black community.
KIM CAIN‘s (she/her) work explores the African Canadian existence here in Canada and how it relates to the larger global African Diaspora. She has been using Art as a means of allowing an African Nova Scotianess to emerge into the black art canvas for over 20 years. She explains that her work begins inside of her, altering her perception of the world, and through that inward glance her creativity is born.
MICHELLE ROY (she/her) is an artist and Mi’kmaq knowledge keeper, a regalia maker, a mother of two daughters, a wife, a sister, and auntie, and a person living with a disability. She lives off reserve on her ancestral homeland of Mi’kma’ki, the traditional territory of the l’nu – the Mi’kmaq. She is an active community member of Acadia First Nation. Michelle has been creating regalia and artwork for the last decade and it has led her to a path to engage in conversations that bring attention to struggles, mental health, and to celebrate Mi’kmaq culture.
CATHERINE ANNE MARTIN (she/her) BA MEd. CM. is a member of the Millbrook Mi’kmaw Community, Truro, NS. She is an independent international award winning director and producer, writer, facilitator, communications consultant, community activist, teacher, drummer, and the first Mi’kmaw woman filmmaker from the Atlantic region. She is a recipient of the Order of Canada in 2017 and is presently the first Indigenous Community Engagement Director for Dalhousie University. She is a past Chair of APTN and served on the board for the first five years of its inception. She has contributed to policy and institutional change to make cultural and arts more accessible to First Nations artists.
GNAT NA’PI (she/her)
Natalie is first, a full time/home educating mother. They decolonize curriculum and advocate for Mi’kmaq sovereignty. They are an anti-homelessness advocate who’s practice is grounded in anti-capitalist, anti-homophobic and anti-racist practices. For MayWorks they hope to utilize the creative space to motivate residents of Mi’kmaki to uphold treaty and collectively dream of a Mi’kmaq led anti-capitalist reality. You can support their work by donating to water and land defenders in your area, and to the Treaty Truckhouse Legal fund (gofundme).
Thunderbird Swooping Down Woman, DARLENE GILBERT (she/her) is from Kjipuktuk, Mi’kma’ki and a member of Annapolis Valley First Nation. Born in 1965, grandmother and Treaty Defender (water protector and land defender). Clan is Toney, beanstalk clan.

POCKETS OF RESISTANCE
2021-07-04 12:00 - 14:00, 2021-07-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Wonder’neath, 2482 Maynard St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3K 3V4, Canada
A feminist sewing workshop with Emily Comeau

COVID UPDATE:
This event has been rescheduled to July 4th.

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THIS EVENT IS FREE – BUT HAS LIMITED CAPACITY: ONLY 6 PARTICIPANTS PER SESSION
Tired of your clothes not having pockets? Let’s fix that! Join Emily Comeau, textile artist supreme, for a workshop on the basics of adding pockets to just about anything. In this 2-hour lesson you will learn to make a patch pocket, as well as how to modify an article of clothing to include an in-seam pocket. Once you learn this technique, you’ll want to share it with everyone you know, so this workshop also includes a zine and pattern for you to download, print and share. Knowledge is power and so are pockets.
Public Health
Public Health Guidelines will be strictly enforced to ensure everyone’s safety and comfort. Please respect the venue’s instructions for masking, distancing and travel. Stay home if you do not feel well!

Artist Bio
Having earned both a Costume Studies diploma from Dalhousie University and a Fibre Art degree from Concordia University, Emily Comeau has an extensive knowledge of textile techniques that she is eager to share. When she isn’t sewing pockets or fabric masks, she can be found making whimsical glitter art in Montreal.

Workshop content:

2 different pocket patterns will be given to each participant
Participants will learn to make an in-seam pocket and a patch pocket
Participants are asked to bring an article of clothing (pants, shirt, dress, shirt) that they would like to add a pocket to.
Each participant will leave the workshop with a zine summarizing in brief the information in the workshop as well as an iron-on patch pocket.

Materials needed for workshop:
These will be available to participants, but you can choose to bring your own. Any shared tools will be wiped between usages. Each participant will have their own sewing machine available to them.

Iron
Sewing machine
All purpose sewing thread
Scissors
Ruler or measuring tape
Pencil or pen
Seam ripper
Pins
Fat quarter of cotton or cotton blend fabric (approx. 18” square)
Article of clothing that you wish had pockets
Optional: HEATNBOND iron-on adhesive

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AQUAKULTRE: BGM LIVE
2021-09-03 19:00 - 22:00 | The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3K 3B1, Canada
Bleeding Gums Murphy: Live Album Concert

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Featuring Aquakultre & DJ Uncle Fester
With orchestration by Erin Costelo
Opening act featuring Kxng Wooz with Superfluid
The legendary Halifax-based DJ Uncle Fester teams up with the renowned Halifax-based rapper/singer/song-writer and Polaris Prize-nominated artist Aquakultre. Together, they blend Hip-Hop, Jazz, Soul and Rhythm and Blues. The entire record will be brought to you live!
Accompanied By:
Andrew Jackson
Matt Myer
Jackson Fairfax-Perry
Jeremy Costello
Ross Burns
Tim Crofts
Lakita Wiggins
Rachael Delano
Donny Milwaukee
Special Guests:
Chudi Harris
Ghettosocks
Shevy Price
Corey Writes
Ambition
Tachichi
Andre Fenton
DJ Okay TK
Sound Technician: Tynan Dunfield
Media Team: Griffin O’toole & Audrey Chan
Public Health
Public Health Guidelines will be strictly enforced to ensure everyone’s safety and comfort. Please respect the venue’s instructions for masking, distancing and travel. Stay home if you do not feel well! The concert will be recorded and the video released at a later date.

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Troubling Joy: A Bicycle Puppet Circus
2021-09-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-06 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-07 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Nova Scotia
Duration: Approx. 40 minutes Audience: Ages 8+
Presented by the Halifax-Dartmouth & District Labour Council
Supported by Susan Leblanc, MLA Dartmouth North & Claudia Chender, MLA Dartmouth South
Sunday, September 5th Noon – Dartmouth Commons (FREE)
[CANCELLED] Monday, September 6th Noon – Halifax South Common
Presented by Halifax Fringe
[CANCELLED] Monday, September 6th 7PM – Cambridge Battery/Point Pleasant Park
Tuesday, September 7th 7PM – Cambridge Battery/Point Pleasant Park (TICKETED – $15)
[NEW] Wednesday, September 8th 2PM – Cambridge Battery/Point Pleasant Park (TICKETED – $15)
The North Barn Theatre Collective is bringing a new puppet show to audiences across Nova Scotia. Being toured entirely by bicycle, Troubling Joy: A Bicycle Puppet Circus will be visiting rural and urban communities across seven counties. This original performance will be performed outside for free at the Dartmouth Commons on September 5th and at the Halifax South Common on September 6th.
Troubling Joy: A Bicycle Puppet Circus features a cast of puppets who, in recognizing their discontent with the social structures that dictate how they live, discover the pleasure of change. Playing within the traditional circus format, the North Barn Theatre Collective uses puppetry, moving image, and song to investigate the promise of happiness, its illusions and our collective capacity to imagine new futures. This show appeals to the senses of all ages.

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HOW WE WON
2021-09-17 19:00 - 21:00 | The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3K 3B1, Canada
A 25th Anniversary Tribute Concert Honouring the Community’s Collective Action in Saving Our Canada Employment Centre

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PUBLIC HEALTH: Health care restrictions will be lifted by this date, however we strongly encourage everyone to wear masks, wash hands regularly and keep distant from those outside your group of friends. If you feel unwell, please stay home.

Finally, on September 17,we’re thrilled to present How We Won.
Join us at The Derby Showbar to hear an incredible story of collective action through the weaving of witness telling, music, and spoken word poetry in tribute to community power. On March 27th, 1996, a collection of activists from the community as well as local union members, joined together in a 133 day protest by occupying the offices of the Canada Employment Centre located at 2089 Gottingen Street in North end Halifax. This remarkable act of worker and community resistance still holds the record as Canada’s longest occupation of a Federal Government office in the history of Canada.

Credit: Lynn Jones African Canadian and Diaspora Heritage Collection

Featuring:
Dr. Lynn Jones & Carolann Wright
Both will share memories of their involvement in the landmark occupation

The evening will also feature stellar performances by
Corey Adams | Keonte Beals | Linda Carvery | El Jones | MAJE

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2022 Call for Submissions
2021-11-15 | Nova Scotia
Be a Part of the 2022 Festival!
Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax seeks proposals that will speak of the working class experience. This can be extremely varied and can be contemporary or historical. Both amateur and professional performers may apply.
Submissions need not be directly focused on work, labour or unions. Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax programs works of art that address broad themes of social and environmental justice. Any submissions that address issues of inequality and injustice, or give voice to marginalized communities will be considered.
Under-represented groups and those disadvantaged at work and in society are particularly encouraged to apply. Material is particularly sought from youth, women, people with disabilities, African Nova Scotians, First Nation Communities, Indigenous artists, people of colour, newcomer (immigrant) populations, 2SLGBTQ+ folks, Acadian or other under-represented cultures in Nova Scotia.
Proposals must be submitted in English or French for consideration.
DEADLINE: November 15th, 2021
Download Application Guidelines and Forms: Mayworks-2022-Call-for-Submissions.pdf

Canadian Labour International Film Festival
2021-11-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Nova Scotia
Free Online Screening
7 International Short Films
Once again, we are offering a local satellite screening of short films selected by the Canadian Labour International Film Festival!
The total run time of the event is 96 minutes. The screening will be followed by a short open discussion.
Register and screen the films for free here:
https://watch.eventive.org/cliff2021/play/618b18844d40d7004597da22
Join us at 8:30PM for a post film Zoom discussion:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81767310796?pwd=[REDACTED]
FILM PROGRAM

Class Action (Les Exemplaires)
Guillaume Creton
15 mins | Drama | France
A teacher dies by suicide a few weeks before high school diploma exams and her colleagues go on a strike. (Trigger Warning)
I Stand For Us
Almir Datoo
22 mins | Drama | UK
When hotel cleaners are faced with unfair working conditions, Naomi works to unite the team in solidarity against destructive zero hour contracts.
Longa Distância
Jean-Luc Moniz
14 mins | Drama| Canada
An immigrant housekeeper works to provide for her son back home in Portugal. When she is accused of stealing from a client, she fears that what she’s been working towards will all come crashing down.
MIXI (CHAKKI)
Jyotsna Puthran
6 mins | Animation | India
Pulses, grams and sprouts are used in motion to create scenarios as a metaphorical representation of growth and future of a nation and shows the dark reality behind a favourite dish.
People Show 138: Last Day
Gareth Brierley
15 mins | Drama | UK
A short dreamlike drama about power, loss and loyalty. People Show 138: Last Day, follows HR manager Sidney, who after thirty years of working at an industrial sock factory faces a challenging dilemma that could affect the livelihood of his employees.
Salvage
Christopher Boulton
10 mins | Doc | USA
Salvage questions the allure of old objects by reimagining obsolete tools as reliquaries haunted by the souls of disgruntled workers who resent their new jobs. This hybrid intersectional documentary uses magic realism to critique the inequities of gender, ethnicity, and class that underpin consumer capitalism.
Treaty Walk – A Journey for Common Ground
Brad Leitch
14 mins | Doc | Canada
The film follows a group of Indigenous elders, Healthcare Workers, and others as they embark on a two week long walking journey from Edmonton, Alberta/Treaty 6 Territory to Calgary, Alberta/Treaty 7 Territory to explore together what it means to be treaty people, working and living on common ground.

The More Things Change: A Working Class Tour of Downtown Halifax
2022-05-01 13:00 - 14:30, 2022-05-07 13:00 - 14:30, 2022-05-14 13:00 - 14:30 | Old Halifax Memorial Public Library (Spring Garden), Brunswisk St @ Spring Garden Rd, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Presented Outdoors in the Open
Masking is required to attend this event
Sunday, May 1st, 1:00 PM
Saturday, May 7th, 1:00 PM (ASL Interpretation)
Saturday, May 14th, 1:00 PM
Departure from the corner of Brunswick St and Spring Garden Rd
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Join us for an interactive tour that explores the working class past and present of downtown Halifax. 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 poor house of the 18th century, integrated neighbourhoods of the 19th century, strikes of the 20th century and movements for social justice today. This is not the Halifax story you learned in school!
The tour has been designed with accessibility in mind. If you would like more information on the tour’s accessibility please email: info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca
General Tour Notes:

The tour is an easygoing 90 minutes in duration with regular stops for discussion along the way.
The tour starts at the old Spring Garden Public Library and ends at the Ferry Terminal. Accessible washrooms and car parking are available at both ends of the tour.
The tour runs over and down hill only.
The itinerary crosses through intersections with curb cuts and follows sidewalks that are in good shape.
Places to sit or perch are present at most tour stops.
ASL interpretation will be available on May 7th. Please contact us if you would like to make specific arrangements.
Click here for more detailed Accessibility Notes for the tour.

Early 20th century fish plant workers on the Halifax waterfront
19th century market site in downtown Halifax
Emma Lang, folklorist and tour guide

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May Day @ Radstorm
2022-05-01 14:00 - 23:00 | Radstorm, 2177 Gottingen Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Looking for more to do on May Day?
Check out this Fundraising event presented by
Radstorm & the Halifax Anarchist Book Fair
Sunday, May 1
Doors – 2 PM | Screening – 3 PM | Music – 5 PM
All ages/Dry space
$10 or Pay What You Can
Radstorm, 2177 Gottingen
Masks required
Musicians:
Jah’mila
(roots reggae/reggae soul)
https://jahmila.bandcamp.com/
Test@
(anarchist hip-hop/rap)
https://testtheirlogik.bandcamp.com/
Dang.
(dark ambient/experimental /electronic/field recordings)
https://dangk.bandcamp.com/
Panties
(post-soviet immigrant harsh pedal noise)
https://inyourpanties.bandcamp.com/
Burdened
(punk rock/doom metal)
https://www.instagram.com/burdenedband/
Snarler
(fastcore/hardcore punk/powerviolence/grindcore)
https://snarler.bandcamp.com/
Documentaries:
Transmissions Part One
(33 minutes)
By: Submedia
“Part one of a four part mini-series focusing on the various dimensions of intergenerational relationships among anarchists. Part one is a collection of anarchist stories focusing on origin stories from the 60’s through the early 00’s, while the second part focuses on relationships.”
Celebrating Seven Years of Self Governance in Cherán, Michoacán
(23 minutes)
“Cherán has been practicing a traditional form of self government for 11 years. On April 15th, 2018 the Indigenous Purépecha municipality Cherán Michoacán celebrated the 7 year anniversary of their uprising against what they all call today: The Narco Government.”
We Are Now: The Story of an Armed No-Cop Zone in Atlanta
(22 minutes)
By: Crimethinc
“On the night of June 12, 2020, Atlanta police officers murdered Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, at a Wendy’s in south Atlanta, Georgia. This took place immediately following the high point of the countrywide uprising in which people responded to the murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and countless other Black people around the United States. In response, a new wave of protest and revolt broke out across Atlanta, in which the Wendy’s burned to the ground. Armed Black demonstrators occupied the site of the Wendy’s, mourning for Rayshard Brooks and seeking to create spaces of Black empowerment.”

The Work We Do: An Animation Retrospective
2022-05-05 - 2022-05-15 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
Online stream at www.anifx.ca until May 15th
Tickets to Online Screening at www.anifx.ca
Presented in partnership with the Animation Festival of Halifax (AFX)
Craft. Labour. Practice. Drudgery. Vocation. We work every day, sometimes with joy and a sense of fulfillment, sometimes with loathing and a sense of alienation. We labour for pay, for free, or for barter; we exert ourselves for overlords, for ourselves, or for our communities. These animated films from across the country and across the decades reflect on the ups and downs of our experiences as beings who toil and strive. And what medium could be more fitting than the labour-intensive delight of animation?
Total running time: 65 minutes.

Seeing Her (Lindsay McIntyre, 2020) 3:30
We begin with Lindsay McIntyre’s homage to the skill and love of work her great-grandmother
did on her amauti, animated through Super-16 cinematography.

Get a Job! (Brad Caslour, 1985) 10:30
With a turn to the ironic, this 1980’s classic is an ironic riff on classic cartoons, peppered with pop culture references.

Curtailment of Civilian Industries (Philip Ragan, 1943) 2:00
From the vaults: World War II propaganda paints a picture of labour and consumerism.

You Are Pretty Much On Your Own… The Two Disasters of Homelessness and The Pandemic ( Jeff Karabanow, Katrin Doll, Catherine Levitan-Reid, Jean Hughes and Haorui Wu, 2021) 7:45
Researchers team up with Animator Shannon Long to create an animated short exploring the homelessness sector in two Nova Scotian communities during the early phases of COVID. It is based on the SSHRC-funded 2021 study entitled “COVID-19 and Homelessness: Promoting Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery in Two Communities in Nova Scotia” by Jeff Karabanow, Kaitrin Doll, Catherine Levitan-Reid, Jean Hughes and Haorui Wu.

The Housewife (Cathy Bennett, 1975) 6:00
The Housewife provides a 1970’s look a “women’s” work and a quiet celebration of the women who do it.

Bistro Girls (Jenna Marks, 2020) 5:00
Jenna Marks’s stop-motion animation brings out the sparkle of documentary interviews with Zoe Leger and Foxy Roxy as they reflect on their work as performers.

Macpherson (Martine Chartrand, 2012) 11:00
Martine Chartrand’s exquisite paint-on-glass animation celebrates a range of work and labourers in this true story of Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican chemical engineer working in the pulp and paper industry, who inspired Félix Leclerc to write his song about the log drives.

Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) (Amanda Strong, 2017) 19:15
Indigenous people have harvested sap for thousands of years. In Biidaaban, a young genderfluid person and a shape-shifter continue this work in an urban setting.

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Shortcuts
2022-05-06 15:00 - 19:00 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
DROP IN ANYTIME: Friday, May 6th, 3:00 PM to 7:00PM (ASL Interpretation)
The Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St) + Facebook Live
FREE
Masking is required to attend this event in person
Shortcuts are little acts of defiance. Despite what route we are told we should follow, we use shortcuts to find our own way.
In this piece, audience members’ favourite shortcuts are collected, processed, illustrated, published, and distributed by a trio of workers who open up the inside of their factory to us so we can see every detail of this long process to take a short cut.
Shortcuts, loopholes and life hacks. We want ‘em!
Submit your own tips on how to get ahead on May 6th between 3:00 PM and 7:00PM, either in person or by calling 902-404-0616

THE TEAM
Dan Bray – The Courier
Colleen MacIsaac – The Technician / Creator
Mahya Tench – The Operator

Dan Bray – The Courier
Dan Bray (he/him) is an interdisciplinary theatre and visual artist, currently living as the winter caretaker of a spooky mansion just outside Antigonish. He is the artistic director and founder of The Villains Theatre, for which he has written, adapted, and directed many plays. Most recently, his new plays Observatory Mansions and Hänsel und Gretel in: der Garten von Edible Horrors: a Terrible Parable have both been nominated for 2022 Robert Merritt awards for “Outstanding Adaptation by a Nova Scotian”; several of his original plays have also won him similar awards at the Halifax Fringe. He has had the good fortune of working with many of this province’s finest companies, including Two Planks and a Passion, Mulgrave Road, Festival Antigonish, Shakespeare by the Sea, Eastern Front, Phyllis Rising, and Terra Novella. Dan has several new plays in development that are set to premiere shortly across Nova Scotia, but they’re all under wraps for now…! www.brayowulf.ca
Colleen MacIsaac – The Technician / Creator
Colleen (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist and current Master of Fine Arts candidate at NSCAD University. A winner of the Halifax Mayor’s Award for Emerging Theatre Artist and the Bhayana Invisible Champion Award, they like making things. Colleen’s current play A Beginner’s Guide to the Night Sky was programmed this April at Page1 Theatre’s OutFest, and their past works include TO: THE UNKNOWN, the effects were cumulative and i almost didn’t notice, The Blazing World, Mercury, dark matter, and Cartography. They make comics and drawings and weird little performance things, and they are interested in exploring connections, communications, collaborations, family, queerness, countermapping, climate grief, and our place in the universe. They have worked with many local companies as a graphic designer, performer, producer, and playwright.
Mahya Tench – The Operator
Mahya (they/them) started their artistic journey in childhood, performing for friends and family. Now with a BA and under the Peace and Friendship treaties, they continue to perform, live and work as a multidisciplinary artist near Kjipuktuk (the Great Harbour, aka Halifax Harbour) in Mi’kma’ki: the traditional unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) peoples. A radically compassionate Queer Black, Indigenous, Genderfluid/Trans Woman of Colour, she is dedicated to equity, diversity, inclusion, decolonization and reindigenizing. Always an avid volunteer, they sit on the board of the Villains Theatre, the Bus Stop Theatre Cooperative and is a part of the Queer Theatre Ensemble Collective (QTEs).
Favourite roles include: CHILD/TBD in OY VEY! MY BABY’S A THEY (Eastern Front Theatre & the Bus Stop Theatres Writer’s Circle), Gravedigger in ZOMBLET (The Villains Theatre), This Is Nowhere (ZUPPA Theatre Co.) and Potato in Escape The Game (Ship’s Company Theatre).

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How the Animation Industry Works: Globalization, Integration, Unionization
2022-05-07 16:00 - 17:30 | Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Saturday, May 7th
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Museum of Natural History, Auditorium (1747 Summer St)
Tickets available at www.anifx.ca
Are you new to the animation industry? Trying to get into it? Just curious?
Here’s a chance to find out about how financial policies and practices shape the animation workplace. We’ll discuss how international studios outsource animation work to Kjipuktuk-Halifax, how that relates to public funding for commercial film production, the effects of studios’ ownership of distribution and exhibition networks (vertical integration, like Disney Studios and Disney+), and current movements towards unionization in the industry. Featuring people at different career stages, the panel will ask what it’s like to be a freelancer in the animation world and what it’s like to support your “passion projects” by working in the industry.

Primal @ Your Doorstep!
2022-05-13 - 2022-05-15 | Your own doorstep!
May 1st to 15th, order performances online at www.GetPrimal.ca
Friday, May 13th to Sunday, May 15th: ordered performance segments at your door! (Performed at a safe distance)

Saturday, May 14th, 6:30 PM full performance (ASL Interpretation)
The Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St) + Online Stream (May 18th-20th) (CC)

Masking is required to attend this event in person, unless seated and drinking
ORDER A HOME DELIVERY
AND/OR
BUY TICKETS TO THE FULL SHOWCASE
An immersive theatrical experience delivered right to your front door!
Join The Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company for this bold devised theatre project as they explore the human cost of convenience that is paid when we order online.
Primal shares a glimpse behind closed factory doors at environmental racism, immoral surveillance, natural disasters, and more forms of worker exploitation that happens within corporations like Amazon.
In addition to a thrilling full performance at The Bus Stop Theatre on May 14th, audiences can place an order for a unique short performance that will be packaged up, shipped, and performed right to your porch, driveway stoop, street corner, or front lawn May 13-15th!
Order as of May 1st at www.GetPrimal.ca
With a focus on eclectic creative storytelling through text, movement, puppetry, music and radical audience accessibility, Primal is a tragicomic theatre experience that asks the question:
If we can’t change the world overnight, should we be able to deliver overnight?

Full Production Credits
Ivy Abbot-Charles: Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Derek Brikbeck: Website Designer & Logistical Coordinator / Ensemble Performer
Olivier Blais: Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Xinyi (Frisia) Li: Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Sarah Mackenzie: Stage Manager
Alynne Sinnemma: Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Emily Ranson: Assistant Producer
Logan Robins: Creative Collaborator / Director / Producer
Sophie Wilcott: Assistant Director

Biographies
Ivy Abbott-Charles- Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Ivy Abbott-Charles (she/her) is a Halifax-based actor with a Master’s degree in Performance from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and a certificate in Puppetry Arts from Mermaid Theatre. She has performed and collaborated on immersive theatre, children’s theatre, and political theatre, working with many local companies including DaPoPo, Zuppa, and Eastern Front. Over the last few years, she has also delved into the film world, acting in several short films, TV shows, and commercials.
Olivier Bias- Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Olivier (He/Him) is a recent graduate of the acting program at the Fountain School for Performing Arts at Dalhousie (FSPA). An aspiring writer, director and actor, he is a co-founder of a bilingual theatre company in Halifax, the Theatre DesAssimilés (TDA). Selected Credits for Acting include The Dog in the Manger; People, Places and things; The Crucible (FSPA) Les Chaises; Les Mangeurs d’ail (TDA). Other credits include Concord Floral (FSPA) as an Assistant Director and Mentire (TDA) as a production assistant.
Xinyi (Frisia) Li- Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Frisia 李昕怿 (she/her) is a photographer, theatre artist and a travel enthusiast living and working in Halifax/Kjipuktuk. Born and raised in Chongqing, China, her most recent work Dear World (2020) is an ode to her multicultural background and extensive travelling experience (before COVID-19). She recently finished her BA at Mount Allison University and continues to dedicate her work in global connection and telling the stories of those who lost their voice.
Logan Robins- Creative Collaborator / Director / Producer
Logan (he/they) is an environmental theatre maker, improviser, puppeteer, educator, musician, writer, designer, and creator of exhaustive lists- based in the Sipekne’katik region of Mi’kma’ki (colonially known as Gaspereau Valley, Nova Scotia).
Logan is the co-founder and Artistic Director of The Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company, with whom they recently wrote/directed/produced the musical Hippoposthumous as a part of the 2021 Halifax Fringe Festival! Currently you can catch Logan’s work as a creative collaborator on Eastern Front Theatre’s Macro Digitals: Connections as well as performing as an actor/improviser in Outside the March’s production of The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries– an adventurous theatrical experience that takes place over the phone! Logan believes in theatre as a tool for social change and that all art should be radically accessible.
Alynne Sinnemma- Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Alynne (she/her), a recent graduate of Acadia University’s Theatre program, is very excited to begin her work in Halifax’s indie theatre community! Selected previous roles include Rachael from One Man Two Guvnors’, with the Acadia Theatre Company and Grizzled New York City Cop from Giant Killer Shark: The Musical, with Kick at the Dark Theatre Company. In her free time Alynne takes aerial silks and acrobatics classes with Halifax Circus.

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ONLINE - Intersect
2022-05-18 - 2022-05-20 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
Online Stream (May 18th-20th) (ASL + CC)
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“ritual practice … the process of putting yourself together every day.”
– Wu Tsang
8 bodies, traversing identities through movement. They are a collection of moments – some curated, some not. They move with care, with curiosity, with joy, with the possibility of failure. An intricate look at the nature of intersectionality and how we construct identity.
Created by Liliona Quarmyne in collaboration with:
Carolin Mateus
Gillian Seaward-Boone
I’thandi Munro
Jacinte Armstrong
Leelee Oluwatoyosi Eko Davis
Reequal Smith
Solène Bernier
Zomi Tombing

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ONLINE - Primal
2022-05-18 - 2022-05-20 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
Online stream (May 18th – 20th) (CC)
>>BUY TICKETS
An immersive theatrical experience delivered right to your front door!
Join The Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company for this bold devised theatre project as they explore the human cost of convenience that is paid when we order online.
Primal shares a glimpse behind closed factory doors at environmental racism, immoral surveillance, natural disasters, and more forms of worker exploitation that happens within corporations like Amazon.
With a focus on eclectic creative storytelling through text, movement, puppetry, music and radical audience accessibility, Primal is a tragicomic theatre experience that asks the question:
If we can’t change the world overnight, should we be able to deliver overnight?

Full Production Credits
Ivy Abbot-Charles: Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Derek Brikbeck: Website Designer & Logistical Coordinator / Ensemble Performer
Olivier Blais: Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Xinyi (Frisia) Li: Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Sarah Mackenzie: Stage Manager
Alynne Sinnemma: Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Emily Ranson: Assistant Producer
Logan Robins: Creative Collaborator / Director / Producer
Sophie Wilcott: Assistant Director

Biographies
Ivy Abbott-Charles- Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Ivy Abbott-Charles (she/her) is a Halifax-based actor with a Master’s degree in Performance from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and a certificate in Puppetry Arts from Mermaid Theatre. She has performed and collaborated on immersive theatre, children’s theatre, and political theatre, working with many local companies including DaPoPo, Zuppa, and Eastern Front. Over the last few years, she has also delved into the film world, acting in several short films, TV shows, and commercials.
Olivier Bias- Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Olivier (He/Him) is a recent graduate of the acting program at the Fountain School for Performing Arts at Dalhousie (FSPA). An aspiring writer, director and actor, he is a co-founder of a bilingual theatre company in Halifax, the Theatre DesAssimilés (TDA). Selected Credits for Acting include The Dog in the Manger; People, Places and things; The Crucible (FSPA) Les Chaises; Les Mangeurs d’ail (TDA). Other credits include Concord Floral (FSPA) as an Assistant Director and Mentire (TDA) as a production assistant.
Xinyi (Frisia) Li- Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Frisia 李昕怿 (she/her) is a photographer, theatre artist and a travel enthusiast living and working in Halifax/Kjipuktuk. Born and raised in Chongqing, China, her most recent work Dear World (2020) is an ode to her multicultural background and extensive travelling experience (before COVID-19). She recently finished her BA at Mount Allison University and continues to dedicate her work in global connection and telling the stories of those who lost their voice.
Logan Robins- Creative Collaborator / Director / Producer
Logan (he/they) is an environmental theatre maker, improviser, puppeteer, educator, musician, writer, designer, and creator of exhaustive lists- based in the Sipekne’katik region of Mi’kma’ki (colonially known as Gaspereau Valley, Nova Scotia).
Logan is the co-founder and Artistic Director of The Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company, with whom they recently wrote/directed/produced the musical Hippoposthumous as a part of the 2021 Halifax Fringe Festival! Currently you can catch Logan’s work as a creative collaborator on Eastern Front Theatre’s Macro Digitals: Connections as well as performing as an actor/improviser in Outside the March’s production of The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries– an adventurous theatrical experience that takes place over the phone! Logan believes in theatre as a tool for social change and that all art should be radically accessible.
Alynne Sinnemma- Creative Collaborator / Ensemble Performer
Alynne (she/her), a recent graduate of Acadia University’s Theatre program, is very excited to begin her work in Halifax’s indie theatre community! Selected previous roles include Rachael from One Man Two Guvnors’, with the Acadia Theatre Company and Grizzled New York City Cop from Giant Killer Shark: The Musical, with Kick at the Dark Theatre Company. In her free time Alynne takes aerial silks and acrobatics classes with Halifax Circus.

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ONLINE - Is This the Way I’m Going Out?
2022-05-18 - 2022-05-20 | Charlie’s Club, 5580 Cunard Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Online Stream (May 18th-20th) (CC)

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Running time: 35 minutes.
Halifax north ender Todd Matheson tells his stories of being a bartender. Confronting the Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia’s claim that they represent him as part of 33, 000 workers, it’s docu theatre that collides the personal and the political, with the plight of the worker its beating heart.
Chippy, unvarnished, irreverent, and genuine—this immersive performance is at Matheson’s work, Charlie’s Club.
Note: This performance is auto biographical and references addiction and assault.

Source material and Performer: Todd Matheson
Researcher, Writer, and Director: Karen Bassett*

* The participation of this Artist is arranged by permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Associationunder the provisions of the Dance Opera Theatre Policy (DOT).

Special thanks to:
Theofani Pitsiavas
Stephen Cross
The Regulars
Sarah Hubley, staff, Charlie’s Club
Susan Adams, owner, Charlie’s Club
Charlie’s Club
The North End of Halifax

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