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SUMMARY:Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:BREAD & ROSES!\nTreat yourself to some FREE bread from LF Bakery and Raspberry & Rose flavoured ice cream and sorbet from Dee Dee’s Ice Cream. Yum!! \nOur opening reception will feature a medley of short presentations giving a glimpse of what’s to come in our 2019 festival. \nLuyos MC\nYou’ll also be treated to the precolonial kulintang (southern Philippines) sounds of artist and musician Luyos MC. Based in Southern Ontario\, Luyos MC explores the traditional Indigenous music of particular Maharlikan islands (a place currently known as the southern part of colonized Philippines) to revitalize the appreciation of these disappearing traditions. \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWith thanks to
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LOCATION:Nova Scotia
CATEGORIES:Spoken
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SUMMARY:Songs of Resilience: Bringing Voice to Protest Music
DESCRIPTION:May 4th\, 7:00pm @ St-Andrew’s United Church | May 9th\, 8:00pm @ Halifax Convention Centre\nCelebrating song as a tool for social change movements with Polaris Choir\nFeaturing 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 have impacted the Nova Scotia region. \nPolaris is Choirs for Change’s high-intensity adult community choir led by Jack Bennet\, Sanford Hare\, and Emma Norton. \n*A special second performance of this event will take part during the NSGEU Convention at the Halifax Convention Centre. The performance will be free for attending NSGEU delegates and open to the general public through the purchase of $15 tickets. \nPresented by \n \n  \n  \n  \nWith support from
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/songs-of-resilience-bringing-voice-to-protest-music/
LOCATION:Nova Scotia
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Songs of Resilience: Bringing Voice to Protest Music (NSGEU Convention)
DESCRIPTION:May 4th\, 7:00pm @ St-Andrew’s United Church | May 9th\, 8:00pm @ Halifax Convention Centre\nCelebrating song as a tool for social change movements with Polaris Choir\nFeaturing 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 have impacted the Nova Scotia region. \nPolaris is Choirs for Change’s high-intensity adult community choir led by Jack Bennet\, Sanford Hare\, and Emma Norton. \n*A special second performance of this event will take part during the NSGEU Convention at the Halifax Convention Centre. The performance will be free for attending NSGEU delegates and open to the general public through the purchase of $15 tickets. \nPresented by \n \n  \n  \n  \nWith support from
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LOCATION:Nova Scotia
CATEGORIES:Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190511T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190511T180000
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SUMMARY:The Big Picture: Working Conditions of Independent Animators
DESCRIPTION: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 to improve living and working conditions for these independent artists? \nThis panel features special guests Michael Fukushima (Executive Producer of the National Film Board’s English Animation Studio)\, laura jeanne lefave (Program Officer at the Canada Council for the Arts)\, and award-winning independent animators Steve Woloshen and Sam Decoste. \nIt is for aspiring independent animators\, commercial animators who want to know how the other half lives\, and members of the public who would like to see behind the curtain on the process that has brought us some of the greatest Canadian films ever made. \nBiographies:\nSam Decoste is an independent animator\, curator\, and educator who believes in the power of stories. Decoste directed and animated the documentary short Mary & Myself (National Film Board prod. Annette Clarke 2013)\, which was nominated for a 2014 Best Short Documentary Canadian Screen Award and won the Shelagh MacKenzie Award for Excellence in Filmmaking from the Nova Scotia Talent Trust. Their installation\, Cahun: Framed (2015)\, was featured at the Animation Festival of Halifax last year. This year Decoste is the curator and mentor of the four- person installation project entitled Under the Rug. \nMichael Fukushima is the head of the National Film Board of Canada’s world-renowned Animation Studio\, in Montreal. He has been making films since 1984\, which is a lot of water under the bridge. Fukushima joined the NFB Animation Studio in 1990 as a filmmaker\, then became a studio producer\, and is now executive producer and studio head\, with a lot of films (and some awards) under his belt. He now mostly produces the producers and offers up sagacity and wise-cracking bon mots. \nlaura jeanne lefave is Program Officer for the Explore and Create program of the Canada Council for the Arts. The Canada Council is the national funder for the arts which supports individual artists and arts organizations through grants\, services\, prizes\, and payments. Lefave is herself a dedicated champion of the arts who assists artists\, curators\, and organizations with specific advice through information sessions and grant-writing workshops across the country and by responding to individual questions. \nSteven Woloshen has created over 50 abstract films and time-based installations for festivals\, galleries and museums. His accolades include the 2016 René Jodoin and 2015 Wiesbaden  Lifetime Achievement Awards and two Governor General’s award nominations. Woloshen is a teacher\, film conservationist\, animator\, craftsman and the author of Recipes for Reconstruction: The Cookbook for the Frugal Filmmaker (2010)\, a hands-on manual for handmade\, analogue film techniques\, and Scratch\, Crackle & Pop! A Whole Grains Approach to Making Films without a Camera (2015). As Scratchatopia\, Woloshen has hosted solo retrospectives and workshops in Europe\, North America and Northern Africa. \n\nUnder the Rug: The Invisibility of Art Labour\nUnder the Rug is an animation exhibition that reflects on the often laborious process of creating art\, and the disconnect between art’s consumption and creation. \nThe show features the work of performance and multimedia artist Annie Onyi Cheung\, visual artist Angela Henderson\, film and theatre artist Tara Taylor and interdisciplinary artist Tom Elliott. Each artist has created an animated response to the theme through the lens of their respective practice. \nTheir individual installations can be seen throughout the festival grounds: in the board room\, the hallway\, the coat room and the screening room\, making the exhibition a part of instead of an addition to the festival. \nDedicated viewing times: Launch 5pm-6:30 Thursday May 9\, & Installations Cocktail Social 5pm-7 Friday May 10\n  \nPresented in partnership with
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/the-big-picture-working-conditions-of-independent-animators/
LOCATION:Nova Scotia
CATEGORIES:Spoken
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SUMMARY:Graphic History Collective: Drawn to Strike
DESCRIPTION:The Graphic History Collective presents two new book published by Between the Lines:\n  \n1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike commemorates one of the most important moments in Canadian history. \nDirect Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada chronicles the history of the strike as a powerful tool that has and continues to propel progressive changes in our workplaces and society at large. \nGHC contributors Robin Folvik and Orion Keresztesi will be in attendance presenting the books and Bookmark will be selling copies on site! \n \n  \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Nova Scotia
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:the effects were cumulative and i almost didn’t notice
DESCRIPTION:By the year 2100\, port cities should prepare for a 250 centimetre rise in sea levels*\nWhere do our habits – as humans\, as workers\, as individuals\, as a society – lead us? The things we do every day. The things we don’t do\, every day. Small actions with eventual results. Time ceaselessly crashes on\, and the tendency of it all to add up can catch us by surprise. What do we tend to? What do we neglect? Tides slowly rise within us\, the world changes around us\, and we forget what a tiny pinprick of perspective we see it all from. How soon we are engulfed. How unwittingly we build our own prisons. \nFor 250 minutes\, performer/creator Colleen MacIsaac constructs an examination of how easily we can paint ourselves into a corner\, get in over our heads\, alter our circumstances until they are no longer safe for us. A durational exploration of what a long time it can take to arrive at what seems preventable in action yet feels inevitable upon arrival. \n  \n*The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\, 2017 report.
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LOCATION:Nova Scotia
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190520
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SUMMARY:Remembering the Winnipeg General
DESCRIPTION:May 20th & 21st | 7:30pm-9:00pm\nDaPoPo Theatre presents a staged reading of a new play by Thomas McKechnie.\n“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?” \nWinnipeg\, 1919. Massive unemployment and inflation. In the wake of the Russian Revolution\, workers\, many of them newcomers to Canada\, unite and effectively shut down the city. Thousands of women act as strikers and strike-breakers. The Citizens’ Committee\, representing the city’s ruling class\, along with the police\, respond with force. \nToronto-based theatre artist Thomas McKechnie\, known to Halifax audiences from A Wake For Lost Time and 4 1⁄2 (ig)noble truths\, asks us to remember Canada’s landmark strike and consider the price of state-sanctioned violence and systemic oppression. \nHalifax actors Madeleine Tench and Kristi Anderson lend voices to the over 40 characters in a staged reading of this rousing new play directed by GaRRy Williams and Keelin Jack. \n  \n Sign language interpretation will be provided during the May 21st presentation.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/remembering-the-winnipeg-general/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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SUMMARY:Black Feminism: Sistas of the Struggle
DESCRIPTION:We marched\, sang\, protested and supported the feminist movement\, we fought for maternity leave\, employment equity\, flex time\, and society stands on our shoulders. \nA panel discussion examining the story of Black women who have led movements for social change during the 70’s\, 80’s and 90’s.\nAlthough Black women have played an important role – both behind the scenes and on the frontlines – in struggles for equality\, women’s rights and social justice\, they are generally excluded from historical narratives of the feminist movement. It is time their stories were told and their contributions to social justice acknowledged and recognized. \nPanelists:\nDelvina Bernard\, Lynn Jones\, Dolly Williams and Carolann Wright-Parks \nPanel Moderator:  El Jones \nWith opening poetry by:\nDr Afua Cooper and Martha Mutale. \n“When we speak of feminism there almost always is the tendency to assume that this is something that was created by white women.” Author and Feminist Civil Rights Leader\, Angela Davis \n \n  \nBiographies:\n\n\n\n\nDelvina Bernard is an educator\, songwriter and human rights advocate. For twenty years she led the nationally acclaimed female acapella quartet Four the Moment gaining international recognition for her award winning compositions themed around gender justice\, anti-racism\, and wider social justice issues. A founding member of the Black Arts Network (BANNS) and African Nova Scotia Music Association (ANSMA) Bernard has shared the stage with artistic giants such as Maya Angelou\, Pete Seeger\, Buffy Saint Marie and Oscar Peterson. As principal founder of the Africentric Learning Institute of Nova Scotia (ALI)\, Bernard has been at the forefront of the Canadian Afrocentric education movement.\n\n\n\nDr Lynn Jones is a a community and labour activist from Truro\, Nova Scotia. From the time she was a child\, she struggled against racism\, sexism and discrimination. Jones became a strong labour activist with the Public Service Alliance of Canada\, and then became the first person of colour to be elected Vice President of the Canadian Labour Congress. She has been active in the movement against environmental racism and helped craft the first environmental racism bill in Canada. She presently chairs The Global Afrikan Congress-Nova Scotia Chapter\, a global organization who seeks reparations for the atrocities of the trans -Atlantic slave trade.\n\n\n\nDolly Williams is from the community of East Preston\, Nova Scotia\, Canada. She has served on numerous boards and committees\, including the Congress of Black Women Preston and Area Chapter\, East Preston Ratepayers\, the Halifax Senior Council\, the National Action Coalition of Canadian Women\, the Black Cultural Society of Nova Scotia\, the Black Educators Association and Southeastern Capital Health Board\, among many others. She currently sits on the Nova Scotia Community Links Board\, is Chairperson of the Preston & Area Housing Fund Board\, and a member of the Women Inter-Church Council of Halifax. In 2007\, she published the book Black Women Who Made a Difference in Nova Scotia for the Congress of Black Women of Canada.\n\n\n\nCarolann Wright-Parks was born and raised in Beechville\, Nova Scotia. She has 30 years of experience in community development in Toronto\, South Africa and Halifax. While working with communities in Toronto\, she ran for Mayor in 1988 as the first (and still only) Black woman to run for Mayor of Toronto coming second against the incumbent. In 1994\, Wright-Parks returned to Halifax and is now the Director of Community Economic Development and Strategic Engagement at the Greater Halifax Partnership. With a specific mandate to assist\, support and enhance African Nova Scotian communities\, Carolann brings lifelong passion and experience for community development to her work.\n\n\n\nEl Jones is a poet\, educator\, journalist and advocate. She grew up in Winnipeg before moving to Halifax where she studied English at Dalhousie University. She was the fifth Poet Laureate of Halifax from 2013 to 2015\, and currently holds the 15th Nancy’s Chair in Women’s Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. El is a co-founder of the Black Power Hour\, a radio show developed collectively with prisoners.\n\n\n\nDr Afua Cooper is Halifax’s current Poet Laureate. She has published five books of poetry\, including the critically acclaimed Copper Woman and Other Poems\, and two historical novels. Her creative work has been recognized with national and international awards. In 2018\, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recognized Dr. Cooper as one of the women who are changing Canadian society for the better. Cooper is also the 3rd James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian studies at Dalhousie University. An academic leader\, she is the founder of the Black Canadian Studies Association\, and also created the Black and African Diaspora Studies Minor at Dalhousie\, making it the first of its kind in a Canadian institution of higher learning.\n\n\n\nMartha Mutale is a Zambian-born poet\, organizer\, and advocate. Martha was a 4th Wall participant for the Michaëlle Jean Foundation\, where she submitted a poem called No Justice No Peace which talks about the global issues surrounding Black and Brown bodies. She has been performing poetry for several years\, she took part in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in 2016\, as well as the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam in Vancouver in 2017. She co-founded a non-profit called Poets 4 Progress which was active for two years and now spend her time working as a Program Coordinator for a Parent Resource Centre. She believes in collaboration\, building relationships\, and finding ways to better herself.\n\n\n\n  \nPresented by
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LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Mi'kma'ki 2030: Hope and Fire
DESCRIPTION:May 23rd to 25th | 8:00pm-9:00pm\nWhat are the possibilities for Mi’kma’ki? \nIn 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 invites people of all ages to immerse themselves in the most pressing questions facing our collective existence on this land. \nThe Mi’kma’ki 2030 Collective:\nSarah Brooks is a Textile Artist and Craftsperson. Born and raised in Nova Scotia\, Sarah is inspired by natural elements deriving from the landscapes that surround her within Mi’kma’ki. Always working with her hands\, Sarah chooses to work creatively in as many tactile building ways as possible and is constantly looking at and exploring different avenues through materials\, mediums and methods\, using fabrics\, colours and textures\, weaving\, sewing\, dyeing and screenprint. Sarah continues to build upon her skills and methods and concept ideologies through her studies at NSCAD University\, majoring in the Textiles field with a Minor in Art History and deep interest in Indigenous Studies. \nCatherine Martin is a Mi’kmaq person of the Millbrook community in Truro\, Nova Scotia.  Catherine’s professional and academic interests have been influenced and driven by her passion for the lives and stories of Aboriginal women. As an independent filmmaker\, director\, and writer\, Catherine’s repertoire of work includes the animation film Little Boy Who Lived with Muini’skw (2004)\, and Spirit Wind (2000). In 2006\, Catherine added the NFB online documentary Bringing Annie Mae Home to her accomplishments. Fittingly\, Catherine’s contributions to film\, television\, and digital media in Atlantic Canada were recognized in March 2015 with a WAVE Award from Women in Film and Television Atlantic. Catherine has acted as the past Chairperson of the Board of Directors for Aboriginal Peoples Television Network\, and as the past Chair of the Society for Canadian Artists of Native Ancestry. \nCynthia Martin’s ultimate desire is to celebrate the beauty of nature\, believing it is a gift of peace\, joy and healing from the Spirit of Grace\, Glory and Renewal. She is inspired by the indigenous beauty of Nova Scotia and hopes to reflect it in her work as a Mi’kmaq textile and ceramic artist. Cynthia is a member of the Mi’kmaq First Nation of Millbrook. She has a BFA from NSCAD\, and is currently enrolled in their Visual Arts Certificate Program. \nBria C. Miller was born in Yarmouth\, Nova Scotia. Bria is a Queer\, Black\, Indigenous mixed media visual artist\, arts educator\, musician\, graphic and community facilitator. She participated in Bridging Bus\, connecting with the Washington\, DC chapter of Black Lives Matter and Black Youth Project in 2016. In April of 2018\, she participated in Emergent Strategy Immersion training with Adrienne Maree Brown\, a Black femme author and social justice facilitator in Detroit. These international relationships continue to strengthen and build Bria’s capacity to organize\, which in turn allow her to improve how she offers various art programs or events in Halifax. Through her dedication to building equity and relationships in community\, she is working to create spaces where racialized and LGBTQIAP+ artists can be centered. \nTayla Fern Paul is a Mi’kmaq artist\, activist and metal fabricator currently living in Eskasoni\, Unama’ki. A member of Pictou Landing First Nation\, she grew up in Kjipuktuk (Halifax). She has a painting at the Dalhousie Weldon Law building\, a relief clay tile currently on display at the Museum of Natural History\, is currently finishing a steel and copper tree sculpture for Eel River Bar First Nation\, and is teaching art on reserves in Cape Breton. Born in Kjipuktuk and raised in Wolfville\, Tayla returned to Kjipuktuk after traveling as a youth to remain on homeland. Tayla has also done public speaking on issues of social and environmental justice. She has four children\, and is the daughter of artist Leonard Paul. \nLiliona Quarmyne is a dancer\, actor\, singer\, community organizer\, and activist committed to progressive social change. Her eclectic background and experiences have taken her through many performance styles on four different continents. She choreographs and dances across Canada and internationally\, creates and performs original works as an independent artist\, facilitates community programming\, is the Artistic Director of Kinetic Studio\, and works as the Community Catalyst at Mocean Dance. Liliona sees her body as a link to past and to future generations. Her scope of work is broad\, but is particularly focused on the relationship between art and social justice\, on the body’s ability to carry ancestral memory\, and on the role the performing arts can play in creating change. \n  \n Sign language interpretation will be provided during the May 24th presentation.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/hope-and-fire/
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SUMMARY:Rope Making
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Xiaocheng Li & Leesa Hamilton\nTextile Artists\, Xiaocheng Li and Leesa Hamilton will make rope from discarded shirts.  The Fashion and Textile industry create a lot of waste that takes decades to breakdown. Donate your old shirts that would otherwise end up in landfill. This hands on activity will call on you to turn waste into something beautiful and functional. \nAll of the rope we make will be installed in the Bus Stop Theatre until the end of the Festival and then auctioned off. \nPresented in partnership with
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/rope-making/
LOCATION:Nova Scotia
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190526T193000
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SUMMARY:Reel Justice
DESCRIPTION:Our short film program weaves through issues and narratives to present a cinematic collage you won’t find at the Cineplex. \nProgram:\nTotal run time: 90 mins | Followed by a brief Q&A \n \n\n\n\n\nApaja’simk – The Return | Trevor Gould (2018) 11 mins \nGlooscap’s messenger Marten is sent back to the land of the People to find them\, learn about them\, and to tell Glooscap if he is needed again. This Mi’kmaq language short film was produced through AFCOOP’s Language of Nova Scotia program.\n\n\n\nThe Gottingen Stigma | Ross Andersen & Silas Brown (2018) 10 mins \nThis short documentary examines the story of how the change of a street name divided the Halifax North End community.\n\n\n\nAlive Day | Paul Vienneau (2016) 3 mins \nOn the occasion of the 25th anniversary of an injury that took his leg\, first-time filmmaker and accessibility advocate Paul Vienneau reflects on how his injury changed his life and engages in a simple act of kindness to find ward off depression and isolation.\n\n\n\nBoat Harbour & the Mill | Mark Lang (2018) 6 mins \nAustralian songwriter & visual artist Mark Lang highlights the pollution resulting from the pulp mill at Boat Harbour as a case of environmental racism affecting the nearby Pictou Landing First Nation.\n\n\n\nWe Regret to Inform You… | Eva Colmers & Heidi Janz (2015) 11 mins \nIn a check-box society that functions by dividing us into neatly-defined categories\, where does someone with a strong mind and a weak body fit in? Dr. Heidi Janz – award-winning playwright\, accomplished academic\, and self-described ‘crip’ – has a curious problem. Despite her obvious physical limitations she is denied financial assistance from government programmes because of her “productive” mind. Following Heidi through her everyday life\, with all its unique responsibilities\, opportunities\, and challenges\, We Regret to Inform You… offers an unsentimental\, and unapologetic\, look at what it means to be both “disabled” and “productive”.\n\n\n\nMissing Women | Anna Quon (2016) 5 mins \nAnna Quon\, a mobility-impaired\, mixed-race Mad woman living in Dartmouth lifts her poem of the same name through a short animated film highlighting the missing and disappeared voices of women.\n\n\n\nMe Too: From Hashtags to Healing | Avalon Sexual Assault Centre (2018) 6 mins \nAvalon’s team of expert sexual assault trauma therapists explain the work of healing behind the hashtag.\n\n\n\nGrace | Taylor Olson (2018) 9 mins \nA young mother with weekend custody struggles with the ambiguity of her child’s safety. Her fear of harm to her daughter\, lack of power\, clarity and surety plague their weekend together.\n\n\n\nDuck Duck Goose | Shelley Thompson (2018) 7 mins \nWhen hiding for your life becomes a frightening game\, an elementary school teacher and children cope with the fear and guilt created by lockdown.\n(Winner – Best Short – Atlantic Film Festival FIN – 2018)\n\n\n\nL’acteur – Jana Doiron (2018) 6 mins \nAn actor loses grip with his own identity as he succumbs to an existential crisis in this francophone short produced through AFCOOP’s Languages of Nova Scotia program.\n\n\n\nThug | Daniel Boos (2017) – 15 mins \nDesperate to land a role\, an aspiring actor takes extreme measures\, risking a close relationship and inciting dramatic repercussions. Thug is a realist fiction film developed by Daniel Boos in collaboration with Simon Mutuyimana\, Emmanuel John\, and Joshua Schlaganweit. The film portrays the cast’s real life struggle to participate in the film industry stereotypes that affect their experience off screen.\n(Winner – Best Short – Atlantic Film Festival FIN – 2017)\n\n\n\n  \nPresented with support from \n          \n  \n 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/reel-justice-4/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190528T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190528T210000
DTSTAMP:20260516T154220
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SUMMARY:Meso América Resiste!
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Beehive Design Collective\nCome see a mural-sized pen and ink masterpiece that took over nine years to create!\nThe 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\, touching on themes relevant to any community on the front lines of resistance to corporate globalization. \nThis interactive presentation will feature spoken word rhymes by MC Testament of Test Their Logik.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/meso-america-resiste/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Spoken
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190529
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190602
DTSTAMP:20260516T154220
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SUMMARY:A Timed Speed Read of the  Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Trial Transcript  with Additional Notes
DESCRIPTION:May 29th to 31st | 7:30pm-9:00pm & June 1st | 2:00pm-3:30pm\nPresented by Surplus Production Unit\nIn 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 radical and progressive political movements. At the time\, people swore that the victims and the fire would never be forgotten. \nThree actors – from another country and century – are tasked with reading from the massive trial transcript as quickly as possible. Despite the  speed\, they must communicate the key points and central conflicts\, while giving insight into the 1911 events and their resonance with the world of today. Can they beat their best time? Can they surprise us? Can they help us remember? \nConceived by Alex McLean\nwith (alphabetically) Chun Shing Au\, Zach Faye\, Carmen Lee\, Kat McCormack\, Briony Merritt\, Lily Ross-Millard and Richie Wilcox \nStarring: Kat McCormack\, Briony Merritt and Richie Wilcox \nSet/prop design: Chun Shing Au\, Kai On Kerwin Lam and Carmen Lee\nDirection and Script (from verbatim sources): Alex McLean\nPreliminary Research: Myrto Koumarianos \n  \nSign language interpretation will be provided during the May 30th presentation. \n  \nPresented by \n        \n  \nWith support from \n      
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/a-timed-speed-read-of-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-trial-transcript-with-additional-notes/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190531T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190531T143000
DTSTAMP:20260516T154220
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SUMMARY:Resilience Resonates – Zine Launch
DESCRIPTION: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\, modes and mediums from communities far and wide. Join us in celebrating this noble project! \nCasual speaking engagements and light refreshments to be provided. \n \n  \n  \nPresented in partnership with 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/resilience-resonates-zine-launch/
LOCATION:Nova Scotia
CATEGORIES:Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190531T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190531T160000
DTSTAMP:20260516T154220
CREATED:20190409T033056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T154332Z
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SUMMARY:Iranian Music\, The Female Body and The Burden of Message
DESCRIPTION:Join Iranian academic and music researcher Hadi Milanloo along with local facilitator Carmel Farahbakhsh as they unpack Milanloo’s recent field research in Tehran. \nThis 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 diverge from broader political and cultural contexts. Facilitated dialogue to follow. \nPresented in partnership with 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/iranian-music-the-female-body-and-the-burden-of-message/
LOCATION:Nova Scotia
CATEGORIES:Spoken
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190531T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190531T173000
DTSTAMP:20260516T154220
CREATED:20190409T033119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190420T212253Z
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SUMMARY:Strange Froots & Zamani
DESCRIPTION: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 them to communicate complex ideas with effortless allure. \n \nJoining them is local vocalist / songwriter / producer Zamani\, a young force combining the vibes of India Arie\, Solange\, Mariah Carey and more. At 18 years young\, Zamani’s smooth presence\, deft production work and striking vocals showcase a preternatural gift for music. Look out world! \nPlus\, a special performance from neighbourhood teens curated by Paint Cha A Pitcha Productions. There’ll be free snacks and craft supplies on hand for all to enjoy. \n*Rain Location at The Bus Stop Theatre (2203 Gottingen St) \n  \nPresented in partnership with 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/strange-froots-zamani/
LOCATION:Nova Scotia
CATEGORIES:Music
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