Mayworks Kjipuktuk-Halifax

Shortcuts
2022-05-06 15:00 - 19:00 (America/Halifax) | 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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The More Things Change: A Working Class Tour of Downtown Halifax
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.
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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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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
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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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ONLINE - All In: DJ Uncle Fester x Superfluid Collective + Friends
2022-05-18 - 2022-05-20 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
Online Stream (May 18th-20th) (CC)
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This two part show will blow your socks off! DJ Uncle Fester brings together some of Halifax’ hottest MCs and the amazing Superfluid Collective for a night of great performances and a live off-the-floor recording session of new music.
Part I: DJ Uncle Fester & Friends
Featuring General Khan & Ambeez, Ghettosocks, and Aquakultre

Part II: DJ Uncle Fester x Superfluid Collective

Superfluid Collective will be DJ Uncle Fester’s live band for a night of new music recorded off-the-floor for a future collaborative album to be released later this year. Be here on the ground level for something special!

DJ Uncle Fester
16 year Vet of the Halifax Hip-Hop scene DJ Uncle Fester is always creating. A founding member of the Backburner crew, Fes has worked on many award winning albums and with artists from all across North America. Recording, Engineering, Producing, DJing, Beat Making and touring with The Extremities are all ways in which Fes has spread his sound across the map. With all this work already put in and no signs of slowing down, look for many upcoming projects to come.
IG: @fester902
Web: http://www.djunclefester.com/
Bandcamp: https://djunclefester.bandcamp.com/
More Music on: http://blackbuffalorecords.ca/
Superfluid Collective
A blend of fusion and urban influences, Superfluid is a quasi-collective, multi-dimensional, poly-genre force of kinetic energy that spins velveteen lyrics across smooth grooves, silk Rhodes, and soulful guitars. On spaceship earth, energy is neither created nor destroyed, it simply changes form. This is true for individuals that make up Superfluid Collective. Ranging from Bengali, Iranian, Pubjabi M’ikMa’ki, English, Irish and Canadian backgrounds, the group has come together through a shared thirst for Olands and basement jams. The group’s experience of immigration is paralleled by their vagabond work ethic, moving between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick for shows. A quintessential festival band, Superfluid is best experienced live.
Shuvanjan Karmaker – Founder/Bass
Paige Bailey – Piano
Serkan Suer – Drums
Seth Voliere – Guitar
James Shaw – Saxophone
Mathew Marshall – Trombone
Matt Myers – Trumpet
Web: https://www.superfluidmusic.com/

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2023 Call For Submissions
2022-09-30 | Nova Scotia
Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax is a multi-disciplinary arts festival which aims to build a society that celebrates the history and struggles of working people. The annual festival serves as an extended celebration of International Workers’ Day – known also as May Day – and seeks to feature works that speak to struggles for justice across communities and generations.
The festival’s interest reaches beyond art that relates directly to labour, work or the workplace, and includes art that speaks to any fight for social, economic or environmental justice.
Click on the image below to download our PDF application guide and forms. Deadline for submission is September 30th, 2022.
PDF Guide

Canadian Labour International Film Festival
2022-11-17 19:00 - 20:30 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax Festival of Working People in the Arts is proud to partner once again with the Canadian Labour International Film Festival for a satellite screening of films from their 16th annual festival.

The screening takes place November 17, 2022, at the Bus Stop Theatre Co-op.

This year we are screening If There is No Struggle (United States) by Jared Katriane, See Us Come Together (Philippines) by Alyssa Suico, What Will I Show You? (Canada) by Elie-John Joseph, Opera Trans*formed (Canada) by Leah Borts-Kuperman & Maria Sarrouh, The Unmaking of Medical Inadmissibility (Canada) by Laura Bisaillon, & Kellys (Spain) by Javier Fesser.

The screening lasts 62 minutes.

Admission by donation.

Online Viewing
Online streaming is available on demand. A streaming link will be emailed to anyone sending a PWYC donation by e-transfer to info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca

As of November 17th at 7:30 PM, you’ll have 2 hours to start watching. Once you begin, you’ll have 48 hours to finish watching.

THE FILMS:

If There is No Struggle (United States) by Jared Katriane
A young woman discovers the working class history of her neighbourhood through the lens of a 1965 Canon Scoopic 16mm camera and historical figures via Boston’s public art. She begins an important conversation that needs to continue in the labour movement given the overwhelming right wing ideology and misinformation being spread targeting working class folks.
The film title comes from an 1857 Frederick Douglass speech: “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

See Us Come Together (Philippines) by Alyssa Suico
See Us Come Together is an amateur documentary following the members of the Optodev Workers Union, tracing their story of forming their union before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
When factories were forced to close operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, an ophthalmic lens workers’ union ensured mechanisms to protect their workers, with the ultimate goal of changing the culture of labour in their factory. The documentary brings to focus what is essential to keep a country running in times of crisis. While the pandemic turned the spotlight on essential and frontline workers, what was essential to the workers of Optodev was their union.
Subtitled in ENGLISH

What Will I Show You? (Canada) by Elie-John Joseph
In the tradition of direct cinema, What Will I Show You is an intimate documentary in which a grandfather and his grandson discuss the past and future of Innu culture. An important, first-person film telling the stories of Innu and their culture, their work, and the immediate impacts of environmental degradation on their lands.
Themes of Indigenous learning, work and way of life. From the Innu nation and residing in the Tiohtià:ke territory since 2006, Elie-John Joseph has been passionate about cinema since a young age. Self-taught, he has been practising film photography for several years.

Opera Trans*formed (Canada) by Leah Borts-Kuperman & Maria Sarrouh
“If I wasn’t an opera singer, would I be a trans man?” asks Teiya Kasahara, a gender non-binary singer, partway through the film. It’s a dilemma facing gender non-binary and trans singers working in a field whose roles are rigidly defined along gender lines: sopranos and mezzos are cast as women (so-called “trouser roles” aside); tenors and basses as men.
Teiya Kasahara (they/them) leads a new generation of trans* opera performers, activists and self-proclaimed “shit-disturbers” making their voices heard–whether the classical music world likes it or not.

The Unmaking of Medical Inadmissibility (Canada) by Laura Bisaillon
Have you ever considered the amount of work it takes to immigrate to Canada? Applying to immigrate is a form of labour: it requires time, effort, intention, skill and money. This film about immigration application work tells the stories of Martha, Winnie and Stella. As prospective immigrants to Canada, they are tagged as being “abnormal” (to use the state’s term) through the immigration medical examination and therefore face higher barriers and discrimination during the immigration process.
Themes include the criminalization of HIV, and a critical look at the idea of “good immigrants.”

Kellys (Spain) by Javier Fesser
In this high quality short, we glimpse a private conversation between two long-time hotel workers and close friends. But there are always things that are hidden, even from your best friend.
Subtitled in ENGLISH

Bloc By Bloc - 3rd Edition Game Launch
2022-11-24 18:30 - 21:30 | Glitter Bean Cafe Co-op, 5896 Spring Garden Rd, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3B8, Canada
Join us at the Glitter Bean Café on November 24th for the launch of the new edition of Bloc By Bloc: the Insurrection Game.
Instructions at 6:30 PM
Game play from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
PRE-REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED – LIMITED SEATING
$5 per seat OR $16 per table of 4
**Register by filling out this FORM

Rise up! Take back the streets of your city in the ultimate edition of the acclaimed insurrection game. Bloc by Bloc is a cooperative and semi-cooperative tabletop game inspired by 21st century protest movements, riots, and popular uprisings.
Each player controls a faction of revolutionaries—Workers, Students, Neighbors, or Prisoners—struggling together against the police in the streets of a city that changes with each game. Build barricades, clash with police, occupy districts, loot shopping centers, build mutual aid networks, and liberate the city before time runs out and the military arrives!

Scratch the Surface: A Working Class Heritage Tour
2023-04-30 13:00 - 14:30, 2023-05-13 13:00 - 14:30 | Old Halifax Memorial Public Library (Spring Garden), Brunswisk St @ Spring Garden Rd, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sunday, April 30 @ 1:00pm
Saturday, May 13 @ 1:00pm
Sunday, May 21 @ 1:00pm [POSTPONED due to rain]
Sunday, June 4th, 1:00pm

Start: Old Halifax Memorial Public Library (Spring Garden) Brunswick St @ Spring Garden Rd
End: Hollis and Duke in front of 1801 Hollis St
Duration: 90 mins
Registration: PWYC / By donation
REGISTER HERE

Join Emma Lang for a new interactive working class history tour that explores the industrial past of downtown Halifax. As we move through the city we’ll explore the many types of work that used to take place where today there are offices, shops and restaurants. Pull back the curtain on what it was like to work in the laundries, factories, and food manufacturing plants of Halifax. You’ll never see downtown the same way again.
The tour has been designed with accessibility in mind.
The tour is an easygoing 90 minutes in duration with regular stops for discussion along the way.
Accessible washrooms and parking is available at the beginning of the tour.
The tour begins at the Old Spring Garden Public Library and ends at the waterfront.
The itinerary crosses through intersections with curb cuts and follows sidewalks.
Click here for Additional Accessibility Notes
Emma 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.
Top Banner Photo: Nova Scotia Archives: Jean Holder Nova Scotia Archives 1980-195 no. 24 / neg. no.: N-0172

I See You by Lara Lewis
2023-05-03 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-05-10 19:00 - 20:00 | Radstorm, 2177 Gottingen Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Presented in partnership with Radstorm
Wednesday, May 3 @ 7:00pm
Wednesday, May 10 @ 7:00pm
Location: Radstorm (2177 Gottingen St)
Duration: 1 hour
Tickets: $10/$15/$20 (Pay what you can)
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I See You is a performance art piece by Lara Lewis about her experiences as a figure drawing life model, exploring the relationship between artist and subject, the body as a means of profit, and the body image and gender feelings the work raises. I See You is part performance, part life drawing session, in which audience members are also artists drawing the performer.
Audience members are invited to bring art supplies to participate in this special life drawing session (this is optional if you’d simply like to be a spectator). A limited amount of art supplies will be available for those who do not have art supplies of their own.
Credits:
Created & performed by Lara Lewis
Facilitated by Rob Cameron
Dramaturgy by Santiago Guzmán & Jena McLean
Movement consultation by Alex Rioux
Music by Peter Sarty
I See You is followed by a regular 1 hour live model art class.

African Dance Workshop with Aly Keita
2023-05-04 18:30 - 19:30 | House of Eights Dance Studio, 5562 Sackville St - Suite 305, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 1L1, Canada
With Aly Keita
Presented in partnership with Kinetic

Thursday, May 4th @ 6:30pm
Location: House of Eights Dance Studio – Studio 1 (5562 Sackville St, Suite 305)
Duration: 1 hour
Registration: PWYC / By donation
REGISTER HERE

During the workshop, participants of all genders will discover a festive dance traditional to Guinea and typical of Mandingo culture called Doundounba, or the “Dance of the Strong Men.”
Doundounba is a symbolic battle between different Baratis, who assume responsibility for all ritual events. In Doundounba ceremonies, contenders display their strength and skills to the public to secure their place in society.
Doundounba is a gruelling dance, but with over 30 different rhythmic variations, everyone can dance to its beat! The doundoun is a traditional drum typical of the Mandingo Empire.
Accompanied by the djembe, the doundoun has a deep and low sound. It is the heart of African dance and provides the foundational beat in many different rhythms. In these dances, performers internalize the doundoun’s rhythm to stay on beat.

Atelier de danse africaine
Les participant·e·s seront amené·e·s à la découverte de la « danse des hommes forts », le Doundounba, une danse festive traditionnelle de Guinée, typique de la culture mandingue.
Le doundounba est un combat symbolique entre différents « Baratis », responsables de tous les événements rituels. Les candidats à ce rang montrent leur force et leurs capacités au public pour s’assurer une place dans la société.
Le doundounba est une danse éprouvante, mais il n’y a pas d’inquiétudes à avoir car il existe environ 30 variations rythmiques dans cette danse, pour que les femmes, les aînés et les enfants puissent aussi danser sur ses notes!
Le doundoun fait partie d’un ensemble de tambours traditionnels, typiques de l’Empire du Mandingue. Accompagné par le djembé, le doundoun a un son grave et profond. Il est le cœur de la danse africaine et sert de base de nombreux rythmes. Dans la danse africaine, le danseur intériorise le rythme du doundoun qui est pour lui un point de repère pour rester dans le rythme et respecter le temps.

Djata: Conversations of the Manden
2023-05-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-05-06 19:00 - 20:00 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
By Aly Keita
Presented in partnership with Prismatic Arts Festival in association with Live Art Dance

Friday, May 5th @ 7:00pm
Saturday, May 6th @ 7:00pm
With opening performance of Unfold by Reequal Smith
Location: Bus Stop Theatre Co-op (2203 Gottingen St)
Duration:
Unfold by Reequal Smith – 10 mins
Djata: Conversations of the Manden by Aly Keita – 20 mins
(15 mins intermission between performances)
Tickets: $5/$10/$15/$20 (For both shows – Pay what you can)
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To create my piece, I drew inspiration from the Epic of Soundjata, one of the most significant foundational stories from 13th-century African oral tradition. It features Soundjata Keita, whose exploits have been transmitted through song and kora music played by lyrical poets from West Africa, known as griots. I was especially interested in the part of the legend known as “The Awakening of the Lion” to address themes of oppression, courage, metamorphosis, passage and liberation, all explored through rhythm, sound and movement.
Born from an alliance between the buffalo and the lion, Soundjata Keita, the long-awaited child whose birth was foretold by soothsayers, is unable to walk. After years of humiliation, against all odds, he stands up, walks across the village and uproots a baobab. This marks the beginning of his awakening, which will lead him to found the great Mandingo Empire, unifying the regions of West Africa, including Guinea, my home country.
Credits:
Artistic direction, choreography and dance: Aly Keita Music: Lasso Sanou and Aly Keita Rehearsal director and production manager: Raffaela Siniscalchi
Description et synopsis
Pour la réalisation de mon œuvre, je me suis inspiré de l’épopée mandingue, l’un des récits fondateurs les plus marquants des traditions orales africaines (XIIIe siècle), et de son personnage-clé : Soundjata Keita. Entre histoire et légende, les griots – des poètes lyriques de l’Afrique de l’Ouest – nous ont transmis, par le chant et les notes de leurs koras, les exploits de ce personnage emblématique de l’Afrique occidentale. Dans mon processus de création, je me suis surtout intéressé à la partie de la légende connue sous le nom de « Le réveil du lion », pour aborder, tout en rythme et en mouvement, les thèmes de l’oppression, du courage, de la métamorphose, du passage et de la libération.
Engendré par la puissance du buffle et du lion, Soundjata Keita, l’enfant que tous attendaient et dont la naissance avait été prédite par les mages, est incapable de marcher. Le prince, déchu, apprit à mettre un pied devant l’autre et trouva la force de se relever. Sous les regards stupéfaits de son peuple, Soundjata marcha vers un baobab qu’il arracha du sol. Ce fut le début de son éveil qui l’aurait mené à unifier les territoires de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et fonder, ainsi, le grand empire Mandingue.

Unfold
2023-05-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-05-06 19:00 - 20:00 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
By Reequal Smith
Presented in partnership with Prismatic Arts Festival in association with Live Art Dance

Friday, May 5th @ 7:00pm
Saturday, May 6th @ 7:00pm
Followed by Djata: Conversations of the Manden by Aly Keita
Location: Bus Stop Theatre Co-op (2203 Gottingen St)
Duration:
Unfold by Reequal Smith – 10 mins
Djata: Conversations of the Manden by Aly Keita – 20 mins
(15 mins intermission between performances)
Tickets: $5/$10/$15/$20 (For both shows – Pay what you can)
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The burden of misty dreams. An assortment of feelings. Of Loss & Love. A deep rooted nostalgia of home in every crevice of being manifested by the full existence and experience of body to land. Land connecting to my soles of souls.
Inspired by the sweet infectious Ghanaian Blues, this performance is fused with the essence of Afro Cuban movement, embodied with a fusion of jazz, African and funk styles. Rooted with the vibrancy of old tropical Caribbean motion, stemming from euphoric connection in the swish in our hips and the fluidity in our strides.
Reequal Smith is the Founder and Artistic Director of Oshun Dance Studios. A dance artist originally from the Bahamas, now based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

In The Dumps: An exclusive listening event
2023-05-06 10:00 - 15:00 | Africville Museum, 5795 Africville Rd, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3K 2R9, Canada
By Shauntay Grant
Part of Climate Change and Other Small Talk
Created by Sunny Drake and produced in association with Why Not Theatre and 9 companies around the world

Saturday, May 6th – Every hour @ 10:00am, 11:00am, 12:00pm, 1:00pm, 2:00pm, 3:00pm
Location: Africville Museum (5795 Africville Rd)
Duration: 1 hour
Audience members will have one hour to enjoy welcome/introductory remarks by museum staff, peruse the museum and listen to two audio plays and music while wandering through Africville Park.
Tickets are FREE but, if they are able, audience members are encouraged to make a donation to The Africville Heritage Trust. Donations can be made through the trust’s Canada Helps page or at the museum on the day of the event.
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An exclusive, pre-release, listening event!
Presented by – Zuppa, Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax, The Africville Museum and The Ecology Action Centre.
In The Dumps, by Shauntay Grant
In the wake of the Africville apology, a father enlists his eleven-year-old son in an act of illegal dumping to challenge decades of environmental racism in their rural Black Nova Scotian community. Their banter moves between playful and serious as they discuss ways of bringing about meaningful change.
In The Dumps is an audio play. It’s like a radio play…but it’s not on the radio. Audience members will be provided with wireless headphones and are invited to wander around Africville Park while they listen. By attending the listening event, audience members will get to hear In The Dumps more than one month before its release date AND be treated to another pre-release selection from the Climate Change and Other Small Talk series; Rolling Hills by Carmen Aguirre, produced in Vancouver by Electric Company.
The Africville Museum is not usually open on Saturday. Museum staff have generously agreed to allow In The Dumps audiences to peruse the exhibit as part of the event. Furthermore, staff from the museum will welcome the audiences and give a brief, contextual introduction about the museum and how it relates to Shauntay’s play.
Accessibility:
A transcript is available on demand at info@MayworksKjipuktukHfx.ca
Further accessibility measures are in development. Refer to our Accessibility page for updates.
Warning:
In The Dumps contains mild profanity.
Rolling Hills contains mature themes: military violence with civilian casualties (teens), PTSD, and strong language.
Episode Credits: In The Dumps
Written by Shauntay Grant
Directed by Mike Payette
Starring:
Jacob Sampson as Dad
Ny Langdon as Nate
with
Liliona Quarmyne as Mom
Ben Stone as the Security Guard
Jacob Sampson and Ben Stone are members of ACTRA Maritimes and were engaged under Music Code 2011
Mike Payette is a member of The Canadian Actors’ Equity Association and was engaged under the D.O.T. Agreement
Sound design, music and audio mixing by Jackson Fairfax-Perry
Dramaturgy by Jacob Sampson and Myekah Payne
Episode produced by ZUPPA with support from Sunny Drake Productions
Episode Producer & Production Manager Ben Stone
Recording engineers: Ben Creelman and Luke Batiot at Village Sound and Jackson Fairfax-Perry
In The Dumps was produced in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia), the territory of the Mi’kmaq.
Climate Change and Other Small Talk is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council and Ontario Arts Council, with additional support for this episode by Arts Nova Scotia, and Halifax Culture and Events.
Zuppa is funded by The Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia and Halifax Culture and Events

Climate Change and Other Small Talk
Created by Sunny Drake and produced in association with Why Not Theatre and 9 companies around the world
Feeling overwhelmed by the looming threat of climate change? We’ve got you! Sunny Drake’s Climate Change and Other Small Talk is a theatrical podcast that is here to hold your hand through the scary stuff and entertain you at the same time.
Made by 9 creative teams around the world, these podcast episodes have got it all: from the witty to the wacky, and the serious to the silly. It’s guaranteed to be fun and ignite your inner climate warrior all while offering global perspectives on the climate crisis.
There will be weird sound effects. An angry panda running a submarine. And a 500-year-old tree that… well we can’t give the rest away.
Launching Earth Day – April 22nd – subscribe at ClimateChangeAndOtherSmallTalk.com or wherever you get your podcasts, so you never miss an episode. Learning about how to survive the apocalypse has never been so fun.

Being Present: Spotlight on Martins Madumere
2023-05-13 16:30 - 17:30 | Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Presented by AFX – Animation Festival of Halifax

Saturday, May 13th @ 4:30pm
Location: Museum of Natural History (1747 Summer St)
Duration: 60 mins
FREE
Check out the full AFX Schedule
Multidisciplinary artist Martins Madumere practises animation as he practises life – with an inspiring balance of self-discipline and openness. In this artist spotlight, we will see Martins’s animated short films; we will hear about his journey as a self-taught animator and his cultural experiences in his native Nigeria and current home of Epekwitk (colonially known as Prince Edward Island); and we will learn how he flourishes in a full life of visual arts, writing, study, athletics, and community. This event is the world premiere of his new animated short, Being Present, which was commissioned by the Animation Festival of Halifax in Kjipuktuk for the BIPOC Animator Film Commission and Mentoring Program. This project is funded by the Government of Canada.
The screening will be followed by a recorded Q&A between Martins Madumere and Sobaz Benjamin.

Folding Together
2023-05-17 15:30 - 18:00 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
By the sense archive
Presented in Partnership with Eyelevel Artist-Run Centre

Wednesday, May 17th @ 3:30pm – 6:00pm
Location: Bus Stop Theatre Co-op
Duration: 2 hours and 30 mins
Registration: FREE
Register Here
Do you identify as a mother and/or perform the work of motherhood? The sense archive invites you to join us for a Community Arts Event! We will guide participants through a simple score of folding and unfolding together. During this score you are invited to share stories, memories, and anecdotes about motherhood/mothering in relationship to loss and/or potential. We are interested in hearing/exchanging these stories as part of our research for our performance project titled This Body of Work. Responses will be documented via video, audio and/or text and participants will have the choice to have their stories included as part of our project. We will also present a short artist talk and discussion about our project (in progress).
Refreshments and snacks/light dinner will be served following the event. You will leave with a small gift from us in return for your participation! Child minding is available during the event if needed. This in person event will require masking.
Please bring:
A towel of any kind (tea, hand, bath) that you can donate to our project (this can be an already used towel) felt/embodied short story, anecdote, or memory in relation to mothering/motherhood and LOSS and/or POTENTIAL (this could be many things and is open to interpretation)
Children: Children and families are welcome. Refreshments & child minding available. Let us know if you require child minding in the registration form.
We will have hand-printed project T-Shirts available for purchase in all shapes and sizes!
This Body of Work is an interdisciplinary collaboration that explores critical feminist performance(s) of motherhood and maternal agency through lived bodily/cellular experiences. To find out more about our overall project please visit: www.thisbodyofwork.ca.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, Support for Culture, Dancemakers, The Bank Art House, Mayworks, eyelevel Gallery.
To contact us about accessibility needs or other questions please email in advance sensearchive@gmail.com or text us (if needed) on the day of at 647-459-6556.
Please Note:
If you are unable to attend this event but would still like to contribute you can still participate. Please send to sensearchive@gmail.com:
your full name and contact information your personal short story, anecdote, or memory about loss and its relationship to mothering/motherhood. You can type your story via text directly into the email OR use an audio recording platform (example: voice memos) to record and attach to the email as an audio file.

A More Radiant Sphere
2023-05-18 18:30 - 20:00 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
By Sara Wylie
Presented in partnership with Carbon Arc Cinema

Thursday, May 18th @ 6:30pm
Location: Bus Stop Theatre Co-op (2203 Gottingen St)
Duration: 40 mins followed by a 30 mins Q&A with filmmaker Sara Wylie moderated by MLA Gary Burrill [CC][ASL]
Tickets: $5/$10/$15 (Pay what you can)
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[CC] This film will be closed captioned.
[ASL] ASL Interpretation will be provided for the Q&A portion of the event.
A mid-length hybrid documentary about Joe Wallace: Canadian Communist poet, political prisoner, and the filmmaker’’s long lost family member. Shot on 16mm and digital, featuring original songs by award-winning musician Fiver/Simone Schmidt.
“Poetry is of a higher order. It sets bells ringing in the mind of the reader so that he makes his own music …”

Nearly lost in the annals of Canadian history, the writings of Joe Wallace—radical believer in socialist ideals, writer of anti-capitalist verses, and survivor of detainment by the Canadian government—have been revived by his great-great-niece, director Sara Wylie.
Searching through library archives, family records, and footage from the early decades of the Canadian settler state, Wylie assembles the story of Wallace the poet and revolutionary. “The more I began looking for him, the more I began to see parts of myself reflected,” she says. His poems are spirited, forthright and folksy; they recall a time of great political change and opportunity.
Inextricable from Wallace’s life and work is the history of Canada’s labour movement and the increasing involvement of the state in its disruption. A More Radiant Sphere captures a time and a feeling at risk of being erased by Canadian myth, when the possibility of a world beyond capitalism surged forth into poetry. (Written by Sarah Bakke)
The film will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Sara Wylie moderated by Gary Burril, MLA for Halifax Chebucto

Film Credits:
Directed, produced and written by Sara Wylie
Featuring Bruce Wallace
Music by Simone Schmidt
With Nick Dourado on piano
Nathan Doucet on percussion
John Showman on fiddle
Cinematography by Suz Friesen and Sara Wylie
Sound recording by Kellen Jackson and Sara Wylie
Sound mix/edit by Michelle Hwu and Tim Atkins
Colour by Sam Gilling

Mayworks South Shore: STAND!
2023-05-20 19:00 - 20:30 | HB Studios Sport Centre, 543 Glen Allan Dr, Bridgwater, Nova Scotia, B4V 0A8, Canada
Presented by the South Shore District Labour Council
Saturday, May 20th @ 7:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm)
Location: HB Studios Sport Centre (543 Glen Allan Dr, Bridgewater, NS)
Cost: FREE
Suitable for Adults and teens, not recommended for under 13 General Seating: A limited number of seats provided or bring your own chair/blanket
Stand! is a 2019 Canadian musical film set during the 1919 Winnipeg general strike that occurred in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Directed by Robert Adetuyi and written by Danny Schur and Rick Chafe, it is based on the 2005 stage musical Strike! by Schur. Running time 1h 50min
For more information contact D Curry at seiu2steward@gmail.com
Sponsored by the South Shore District Labour Council, SEIU Local 2, Canadian Labour Congress, CUPE 8920, NSNU, NSGEU and Higgins Insurance.

The Movements
2023-05-25 20:00 - 21:30, 2023-05-26 20:00 - 21:30, 2023-05-27 20:00 - 21:30 | Alderney Landing Theatre, 2 Ochterloney St, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2Y 4W1, Canada
By Zuppa
Presented in partnership with STAGES Theatre Festival

Thursday, May 25th @ 8:00pm
Friday, May 26th @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May 27th @ 8:00pm
Thursday, June 1st @ 8:00pm
Friday, June 2nd @ 8:00pm
Saturday, June 3rd @ 8:00pm
Tuesday, June 6th @ 8:00pm

Location: Alderney Landing Theatre (2 Ochterloney St)
Duration: 90 mins
Tickets: $15/$20/$25 (Pay what you can)
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The Movements is a high-octane theatre/dance spectacular and the economics class you never had in school. It’s a show about the global economy in the form of a 90-minute workout routine. Accompanied by a soaring musical score and multi-layered video design, four performers never quit as they transform dry data into aerobic movement before your very eyes. Covering everything from GDP and the WHO to wealth inequality and inflation, The Movements examines the mind-boggling complexity of these hot topics in a way that is accessible and endlessly engaging.
Credits:
Starring (alphabetical):
Stewart Legere
Faly Mevamanana
Liliona Quarmyne
Rebecca Wolfe
Choreographer:
Liliona Quarmyne
Video Designers:
Christian Ludwig Hansen with Anna Shepard
Composer:
Stewart Legere
Lighting Design:
Jessica Lewis
Director:
Alex McLean
Dance Coach:
Rebecca Wolfe
Video Operator:
Christian Ludwig Hansen
Creation Intern: Kate Urquart
Producer: Sophie Schade
Created in partnership with Kinetic Studio and Halifax Dance.
Generously supported by the Craig Foundation and the Black Family Foundation.

This Body of Work
2023-05-26 - 2023-06-18 | Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, 923 Robie St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C3, Canada
Rendering, reassembling, and performing motherworlds
By the sense archive
Presented by Eyelevel Artist-Run Centre in collaboration with Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery

May 26th – June 18th
Opening Reception May 26th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Regular Visiting Hours: Tuesday – Sunday from 11:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery (923 Robie St)
Admission: FREE
This Body of Work is an interdisciplinary exhibition that grew from self-directed Artist Residencies in Motherhood (ARIM). This Body of Work explores critical feminist performance(s) of motherhood and maternal agency through lived bodily/cellular experiences and locates the body as the initial source and archive for the labour/work of the m/other.
We have created works that span photography, sculpture, sound, video, text, new media, and performance that consider themes of care, trauma, loss, lineage, identity, emotional bonds, oral/object histories, and memory.
We expose the labour, performance, and experience of motherhood and have allowed it to inform our work. We use a critical feminist perspective to disrupt cultural and perceptual norms. We make the work and are the work.
the sense archive employs the word “mother’ as a verb in our approach and in considering our inclusive and extended audience—an audience that includes all those who mother.
The exhibition will take place from May 26th – June 18th at SMU Art Gallery with an opening reception and performances by Morgan and Douthwright on May 26th from 6PM to 8PM.
The exhibition will feature live performances by the artists at the opening reception and on the following dates:
Friday May 26 @ 7pm
Sunday May 28 @ 2pm
Sunday June 4 @ 2pm
Friday June 9 @ 7pm
Sunday June 11 @ 2pm
Sunday June 18 @ 2pm
About the Artists:
the sense archive is interested in exploring, reading, and transcribing the body as the site of narratives that shape us as artists/mothers. We believe in activating research and artistic work that challenges patriarchal ideations of motherhood. We are focused on, and committed to, creating socially engaged work that values the body and the embodied experience.
the sense archive, Ruth Douthwright (ON), Sally Morgan (NS), and Jessica Winton (NS), are white, cis-gendered, artists, educators, and mothers, living and working in Kanata/Canada. Our initial collaborative efforts are focussed on developing our first major project in two parts—a live performance work and a gallery exhibition—titled This Body of Work.
About Eyelevel:
Prioritizing treaty, accessibility, and care, Eyelevel supports the production and presentation of socially-engaged artistic practices through arts programming outside of the traditional white-wall gallery.
Project Land Acknowledgement:
We acknowledge, honour, and are thankful for the land we live with and on. Sally and Jessica live in Kjipuktuk/Halifax located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq. This territory is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship which the Mi’kmaq, Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet), and the Passamaquoddy signed in 1726. Ruth lives in London, Ontario, located on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton Nations, on lands connected with the London Township and Sombra Treaties of 1796 and the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum.
