6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Opening Reception May 1, 2019 | 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Opening Reception BREAD & ROSES! Treat yourself to some FREE bread from LF Bakery and Raspberry & Rose flavoured ice cream and sorbet from Dee Dee’s Ice Cream. Yum!! Our opening reception will feature a medley of short presentations giving a glimpse of what’s to come in our 2019 festival. Luyos MC You’ll also be treated to … Continued Free
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Songs of Resilience: Bringing Voice to Protest Music May 4, 2019 | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Songs of Resilience: Bringing Voice to Protest Music May 4th, 7:00pm @ St-Andrew's United Church | May 9th, 8:00pm @ Halifax Convention Centre Celebrating song as a tool for social change movements with Polaris Choir Featuring chants, protest songs, contemporary choral works, and a choir-created arrangement, listeners will be transported throughout the past hundred years and invited to reflect on social movements that … Continued $15
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Songs of Resilience: Bringing Voice to Protest Music (NSGEU Convention) May 9, 2019 | 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Songs of Resilience: Bringing Voice to Protest Music (NSGEU Convention) May 4th, 7:00pm @ St-Andrew’s United Church | May 9th, 8:00pm @ Halifax Convention Centre Celebrating song as a tool for social change movements with Polaris Choir Featuring chants, protest songs, contemporary choral works, and a choir-created arrangement, listeners will be transported throughout the past hundred years and invited to reflect on social movements that … Continued $15
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm The Big Picture: Working Conditions of Independent Animators May 11, 2019 | 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm The Big Picture: Working Conditions of Independent Animators What is it like to be an independent animator? What challenges do independent Animators face finding funding for their work, conveying their visions to producers, and scrounging for the vast amount of time needed to make films frame by frame? What supports are available from arts organizations? And how can we put our heads together … Continued Free
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Graphic History Collective: Drawn to Strike May 15, 2019 | 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm Graphic History Collective: Drawn to Strike The Graphic History Collective presents two new book published by Between the Lines: 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike commemorates one of the most important moments in Canadian history. Direct Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada chronicles the history of the strike as a powerful tool … Continued Free
11:00 am – 3:00 pm the effects were cumulative and i almost didn’t notice May 18, 2019 | 11:00 am – 3:00 pm the effects were cumulative and i almost didn’t notice By the year 2100, port cities should prepare for a 250 centimetre rise in sea levels* Where do our habits – as humans, as workers, as individuals, as a society – lead us? The things we do every day. The things we don’t do, every day. Small actions with eventual results. Time ceaselessly crashes on, … Continued Free
2019-05-20 Remembering the Winnipeg General Remembering the Winnipeg General May 20, 2019 – May 21, 2019 Remembering the Winnipeg General May 20th & 21st | 7:30pm-9:00pm DaPoPo Theatre presents a staged reading of a new play by Thomas McKechnie. “So what do we do in divided, fearful times? What do we do with the howling, hopeless, yellow tinged guts in our frail little bodies?” Winnipeg, 1919. Massive unemployment and inflation. In the wake of the … Continued $10
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Black Feminism: Sistas of the Struggle May 22, 2019 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Black Feminism: Sistas of the Struggle We marched, sang, protested and supported the feminist movement, we fought for maternity leave, employment equity, flex time, and society stands on our shoulders. A panel discussion examining the story of Black women who have led movements for social change during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Although Black women have played an important role – … Continued Free
2019-05-23 Mi’kma’ki 2030: Hope and Fire Mi’kma’ki 2030: Hope and Fire May 23, 2019 – May 25, 2019 Mi’kma’ki 2030: Hope and Fire May 23rd to 25th | 8:00pm-9:00pm What are the possibilities for Mi’kma’ki? In this dynamic, multi-disciplinary installation-performance, indigenous and black artists dream, hope and create a different way forward for this land. The artists individually and collectively articulate their visions through a provocative sharing of film, visual art, music, word and dance. Hope and Fire … Continued $15
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Rope Making May 25, 2019 | 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Rope Making Presented by Xiaocheng Li & Leesa Hamilton Textile Artists, Xiaocheng Li and Leesa Hamilton will make rope from discarded shirts. The Fashion and Textile industry create a lot of waste that takes decades to breakdown. Donate your old shirts that would otherwise end up in landfill. This hands on activity will call on you to … Continued Free
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Reel Justice May 26, 2019 | 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Reel Justice Our short film program weaves through issues and narratives to present a cinematic collage you won’t find at the Cineplex. Program: Total run time: 90 mins | Followed by a brief Q&A Apaja'simk - The Return | Trevor Gould (2018) 11 mins Glooscap’s messenger Marten is sent back to the land of the People to … Continued PWYC
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Meso América Resiste! May 28, 2019 | 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Meso América Resiste! Presented by the Beehive Design Collective Come see a mural-sized pen and ink masterpiece that took over nine years to create! The Beehive Design Collective works as word-to-image translators of complex global stories, shared with us through conversations with affected communities. MesoAmérica Resiste covers resistance to large-scale infrastructure development throughout Southern Mexico and Central America, … Continued PWYC
2019-05-29 A Timed Speed Read of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript with Additional Notes A Timed Speed Read of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript with Additional Notes May 29, 2019 – June 1, 2019 A Timed Speed Read of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript with Additional Notes May 29th to 31st | 7:30pm-9:00pm & June 1st | 2:00pm-3:30pm Presented by Surplus Production Unit In 1911, 146 people were killed in a fire at the factory of the Triangle Waist Company in New York. The highly contentious trial that followed spurred the public to demand workplace safety reforms and became a touchstone for … Continued $15
2019-05-29 A Timed Speed Read of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript with Additional Notes
2019-05-29 A Timed Speed Read of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript with Additional Notes
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Resilience Resonates – Zine Launch May 31, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Resilience Resonates – Zine Launch Resilience Resonates is a collaborative zine that’s been facilitated by Nikki A Basset and Elyse Moir, a duo of local organizers, educators and music lovers. The zine showcases a collection of expressions and feelings related to music, sound, and performance from femme, trans, gender non-conforming and two-spirit folks. Submissions include a broad range of genres, … Continued Free
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Iranian Music, The Female Body and The Burden of Message May 31, 2019 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Iranian Music, The Female Body and The Burden of Message Join Iranian academic and music researcher Hadi Milanloo along with local facilitator Carmel Farahbakhsh as they unpack Milanloo’s recent field research in Tehran. This program explores Iranian female musicians and their relationship to an at-home and diasporic audience, their visual identity in the context of unpredictable political climates, and how their creative pursuits link and … Continued Free
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Strange Froots & Zamani May 31, 2019 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Strange Froots & Zamani A Friday afternoon celebration of chill grooves and deep rhythms. Strange Froots are a trio of soul warriors from Montreal, Canada featuring MCs Naïka Champaïgne, SageS, and Mags. Seamlessly blending traditions from their manifold perspectives of the Black diaspora (Haiti, Ghana, Jamaica and Senegal), the Froots’ music displays a disarming form of directness that allows … Continued Free
2019-05-29 A Timed Speed Read of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript with Additional Notes
2019-06-01 Dance to A New Dawn Dance to A New Dawn June 1, 2019 | 11:59 pm – June 2, 2019 | 5:30 am Dance to A New Dawn Night of June 1st to 2nd - midnight to dawn *Dry Event* 5 Epic DJ's will take us all on a journey through space, time, and sound as we celebrate revolutionary arts and culture and dance the night away as a community. Complementing the music will be stunning and politicized murals, graphics, and video-streams … Continued $5 – $20
8:00 pm – 11:30 pm Hip Hop Vs. Capitalism Vol. 2 June 1, 2019 | 8:00 pm – 11:30 pm Hip Hop Vs. Capitalism Vol. 2 Back for a second year in a row, Hip-hop Vs. Capitalism will be part of Mayworks' festival mic-drop. Kicking off with a community cypher entitled "Hip-Hop vs. the System", followed by a feature set by acclaimed anti-capitalist hip-hop veterans Test Their Logik. Hip-Hop Vs. The System | A Community Cypher Calling all rappers and … Continued PWYC
May 9, 2019 | 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Songs of Resilience: Bringing Voice to Protest Music (NSGEU Convention)
All day A Timed Speed Read of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript with Additional Notes
All day A Timed Speed Read of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript with Additional Notes
All day A Timed Speed Read of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript with Additional Notes
All day A Timed Speed Read of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript with Additional Notes
