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SUMMARY:On the Line - Artist Reception
DESCRIPTION:By Audrey Eastwood\nOn display May 1 to June 1\nReception on May 10\, 4:00pm-6:15pm\nArtist Q&A on May 10\, 6:15pm-7:00pm \n    \nChildcare is available for free and on site during the May 10th reception and Q&A. Please register in advance. \nASL interpretation will be available during the May 10 Reception and Q&A \n\nOn the Line is a time-lapse video and photo compilation of six months’ worth of one of domestic labor’s most repetitive and relentless tasks: laundry. By   documenting every load washed\, every dryer load\, and every line of drying clothes\, the project seeks to show the cumulative weight of an everyday chore\,   particularly within the context of parenting and motherhood. \n\n \nAUDREY EASTWOOD is a multi-disciplinary artist\, General Manager of the Bus Stop Theatre Co-op\, and Co-Founder and Artistic Producer of Terra Novella Theatre. She has worked as an actor\,  designer\, musician\, technician\, and fight choreographer for a number of Kjipuktuk based companies including Villain’s Theatre\, Kick at the Dark Theatre Co-op\, Halifax Summer Opera\, Halifax Fringe\, Votive Dance and Whale Song Theatre. She is the mother of two young children\, and lives on a small farm with them and her partner Nick. Her artistic practice has shifted in the last few years to try and find space in the small gaps of time between work and childcare: cutting floral designs into sourdough bread\, filling indoor and outdoor spaces with plants\, teaching her kids the names of different birds and trees and how to successfully cut paper without cutting your small fingers\, and by making this art piece out of her never ending laundry pile.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/on-the-line-artist-reception/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Found in Translation / Trouvé dans la traduction
DESCRIPTION:By Sometimes in Nova Scotia (SiNS)\n \nMay 10\, 4:00pm-6:15pm (durational – drop in anytime) \n  \n \nCette présentation est présentée en anglais et en français grâce au soutient du gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Écosse.\nLa description ci-bas alterne entre l’anglais et le français. \n \nASL interpretation will be available \nChildcare available on site for free. Please register in advance. / Gardiennage gratuit disponible sur place. SVP instrivez-vous à l’avance (formulaire en anglais). \n\n \nFound in Translation is an interactive performance in which small objects are translated into movement\, drawing\, and poetry through a series of playful transformations. Audience members are invited to join with performers to uncover illuminating potentials in the things that surround us. \nFound in Translation originated as part of Eastern Front Theatre’s Macro Digitals: CONNECTIONS under the guidance of Kat McCormack\, with collaborators Katie Clarke\, Breton Lalama\, Logan Robins\, Gillian Seaward-Boone and Rebecca Wolfe. \n\n \nTrouvé dans la traduction est une performance interactive où de petits objets se transforment en mouvements\, dessins et poèmes grâce à une série de métamorphoses ludiques. Le public est invité à se joindre aux artistes pour découvrir le potentiel insoupçonné des objets qui nous entourent. \nCette pièce a été créée en 2022 avec les membres de la distribution originale Jacinte Armstrong\, Katie Clarke\, Breton Lalama\, Logan Robbins\, Gillian Seaward-Boone et Rebecca Wolfe\, avec la dramaturge Kat MacCormack\, et produite par Eastern Front Theatre\, Dartmouth\, NS. \n\n \nFound in Translation is an interactive performance that transforms small objects into movement\, drawing\, and poetry through a kind of artistic “assembly line.” Six performers take part at a time\, rotating through all of the roles: hosting\, describing\, drawing\, dancing\, typing poems\, and reading them aloud. Crucially\, the “machine” is always activated by audience participation. An audience member begins each round by arranging objects\, and at the end of the cycle\, they receive the poem that was generated and read out specifically for them – an artistic “gift” created through the collective process. \n\n \nTrouvé dans la traduction est une performance interactive qui transforme de petits objets en mouvement\, dessin et poésie grâce à une sorte de « chaîne de montage » artistique. Six performeurs participent simultanément\, endossant tour à tour tous les rôles : présenter\, décrire\, dessiner\, danser\, taper des poèmes et les lire à voix haute. Point essentiel\, la « machine » est toujours activée par la participation du public. Un spectateur initie chaque cycle en disposant des objets\, et à la fin\, il reçoit le poème créé et lu spécialement pour lui – un « cadeau » artistique né de ce processus collectif. \nEnsemble:\nNadine Sures\nMila Sahmarani\nGeneviève Steele\nWinnie Sherwood\nDaphné Sherwood\nSusan Leblanc\nFrançoise Labelle\nLiliona Quarmyne\nZya Langdon-Quarmyne\nMicaela Comeau\nIsabelle Peart\nJacinte Armstrong \n\n \nJACINTE ARMSTRONG (she/her) is an Acadian artist based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, NS. Her work explores embodied practice through performance\, choreography\, collaboration\, and curation\, communicating the experience of the body in relation to objects\, materials\, and people. Her choreography ranges from intimate and imagistic to large-scale collaborations with dancers\, architects\, visual artists\, radio producers\, filmmakers\, actors and musicians. A leader in the Atlantic region\, she is Artistic Director and co-founder of SiNS (Sometimes in Nova Scotia) Dance\, Artistic Director of suddenlyLISTEN\, and collaborates regularly with Mocean Dance. From 2014-18\, she was Artistic Director of Kinetic Studio. \nIn 2016\, Jacinte was awarded an Established Artist Recognition Award by the Nova Scotia Arts and Culture Partnership Council\, and a Masterworks Award for her work in Mocean Dance’s “Canvas 5×5” choreographed by Tedd Robinson. She holds an MFA in Performance from NSCAD University and is a certified in Laban Movement Analysis. \nJACINTE ARMSTRONG (elle) est une artiste acadienne basée à Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, en Nouvelle-Écosse. Son travail explore la pratique incarnée à travers la performance\, la chorégraphie\, la collaboration et le commissariat. Elle communique l’expérience du corps en relation avec les objets\, les matériaux\, l’environnement\, la technologie et les personnes. Ses chorégraphies vont de l’intime et de  l’imaginaire à des collaborations à grande échelle avec des danseur-euses\, des architectes\, des artistes visuel-les\, des producteur-rices de radio\, des cinéastes\, des créateur-rices de théâtre\, des programmeur-euses informatiques et des musicien-nes. Jacinte est titulaire d’une maîtrise en beaux-arts en performance de l’Université NSCAD et est certifiée analyste du mouvement Laban (CMA). \n\nEvent photos by Laura Demers and Daniel Wittnebel\nHeadshot of Jacinte Armstrong by Kevin MacCormack
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SUMMARY:Music of Liberation
DESCRIPTION:With John Kameel Farah\nPresented in partnership with Upstream Music Association \n \nAll proceeds will be donated to the Sameer Project in Palestine \n$10 in advance and $15 at the door \n\nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n\nIn this extraordinary concert\, Palestinian-Canadian pianist and composer John Kameel Farah embraces elements of Baroque and Near-Eastern music\, improvisation and electronic music to create what he calls “Arabic-Baroque-Cyberpunk.” Surrounding the piano with synthesizers\, he combines a vivid and playful imagination with virtuosic musicianship. Accompanied by projections of his intricate ink drawings\, the performance sounds through the lens of Palestinian struggle\, identity and heritage\, drawing connections across histories and liberation movements. \n \n“In performance\, Farah ranges all over his instruments while setting up textures and countertextures\, moving deftly from acoustic to electronic episodes\, and testing and deploying his materials with a mixture of scientific care and wild abandon. Improvisation is a key working method\, both at his various keyboards and in the execution of electronic beats and processes that are equally at the core of his approach. \n“Frenetic and contemplative in turn\, Farah’s music is underpinned by a deep emotional and spiritual reservoir which\, when framed through his exceptional musicality and virtuosic instrumental command\, packs his highly original music with considerable and undeniable clout.” \n-Scott Thompson\, Guelph Jazz Festival \n\n \nJOHN KAMEEL FARAH is one of Canada’s most creative and imaginative composers. He is a Palestinian-Canadian pianist whose music embraces Baroque and Arabic Music\, experimental improvisation and electronics. He studied at the University of Toronto\, where he received the Glenn Gould Composition Award twice and afterwards had private lessons with Terry Riley in California\, and later at the Arabic Music Retreat in Hartford. He has been a member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble since 2010\, and was a guest-performer with Tangerine Dream in Toronto in 2023. \nTHE SAMEER PROJECT is a Palestinian-led mutual aid group supporting people in Gaza during the genocide. It is a donations based initiative\, led by Palestinians in the diaspora\, who are working to supply aid to displaced families in Gaza. Fiscal host: Social Change Nest.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/songs-of-liberation/
LOCATION:Joseph Strug Concert Hall\, 1385 Seymour Street\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3H 3M6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Raising Big Questions
DESCRIPTION:YOU FRGOT SOMETHING\, Collaboration with Luke Hathaway. Photo by John Haney. \nBy Andrew Maize in collaboration with El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\n***NEW DATE AND LOCATION: SUNDAY May 9th 1-4pm – Sue Goyette @ Halifax Common \n**Please note that exact time and location are subject to change according to weather and wind conditions. Rain-Wind Dates will be scheduled according to forecast/availability. Please refer to our website and social media accounts @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for the latest information. \nWe live in punishing and brutal times. Language plays a crucial role in how we make sense of the world. In language\, we can bear witness\, negotiate meaning\, and call-out the people and systems of power to hold them accountable. Language has long been a creative and powerful tool in labour and social justice movements\, with the ability to encapsulate and embody a movement or a moment. \nThe arrival of May is the arrival of kite season. For Mayworks\, Maize has invited 3 word-workers; El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\, to compose aerial text banners to be flown across the city. The Mayworks audience is invited to help fly these kite banners. By working collectively to lift language up into the sky – we embody a public discourse of sorts\, fielding critical challenges and raising big questions. \nRAISING BIG QUESTIONS is an ongoing project by Andrew Maize\, that uses a home-made\, modular kite-letter to compose aerial text banners in the sky. Kite-flying is a joyful\, analogue and collective activity – one that must be responsive to both the weather and site. Location of the events will be dependent on environmental factors\, including wind direction. \nStay tuned closer to the date on the Mayworks Website and social media @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for announcements. \nNOTE: Andrew is offering a kite-flying workshop on April 25th. Find details at GO FLY A KITE.\n\n \nANDREW MAIZE is an artist. His playful\, collaborative and improvisational approach to making art is contingent on the relationships of environmental\,  social\, and material situations. Recent collaborative explorations include mobile instruments for improvised performances\, wind-powered kinetic sculptures\, and experimental drawing practices (using local sourced inks and candle smoke). He seeks collaborations across disciplines to expand improvisational practices as tools for embodying more responsive and adaptable ways of being\, by welcoming the fundamental agency of uncertainty. As an arts educator and organizer\, he has been involved in collaborative projects that engage communities with art\, in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Maize graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax NS in 2012\, and a MFA from the University of Guelph in 2021. He is the recipient of multiple grants and awards\, including SSHRCC\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Arts Nova Scotia. \n \nDR. EL JONES. Author\, poet\, journalist\, educator\, and advocate. Dr. El Jones is all these things and more\, an outspoken activist\, thinker and writer whose strengths converge in her spoken word performances. A respected poet\, Dr. Jones was two-time National Slam champion in 2007 and 2008\, Poet Laureate of Halifax in 2013-2015\, resident of the International Writing Program at University of Iowa in 2015\, and poet in residence at University of Toronto Scarborough in 2021. What defines her achievements is a commitment to activism and community advocacy to highlight inequities and redress injustices. The recognition of her performances\, teaching and political commitment testifies to the exceptional influence she has exercised during the Black Lives Matter movement and the expansion of Black scholarship in Canadian academia. \n \nSUE GOYETTE lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) and has published ten books of poems and a novel. Her latest collection is Future Howl\, (Gaspereau Press\, 2025). She is the editor of Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press\, 2021)\, The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (Anansi\, 2017) and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 (Tightrope Books\, 2013). Her work has been translated into French\, Spanish and German and has been featured in films\, subways\, buses\, spray painted on a sidewalk and tattooed. Her work has been nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award and has won several awards including the Dalhousie University Teaching Award\, 2021; the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation (Océan translated by Georgette Leblanc)\, 2020; J.M. Abraham Poetry Award 2016\, 2012; ReLit Award 2016; 2014 Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award; 2013 National Magazine Award\, Silver; 2012 Pat Lowther Award for Poetry; Bliss Carman Poetry Award\, 2011; The Established Artist Recognition Award\, NS\, 2011; 2010 Earle Birney Award; 2008 CBC Literary Award for Poetry; as well as the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award for her collection\, Ocean. Sue teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University. \n \nSEÁN KENNEDY is Professor of English and Coordinator of Irish Studies. Their research interests include Samuel Beckett\, Queer Ireland\, Ireland in Psychoanalysis\, Zionism\, and the “Erotics of Irish Austerity” (the ways in which austerity economics is troped in terms of the kinky language of discipline\, control and humiliation). Publications include Beckett and Ireland (Cambridge UP\, 2010)\, Send In the Clowns! (OR Books\, 2025) and Beckett beyond the normal (in progress). Kennedy is the coordinator for Unsettling Irish Studies. \n\nEvent photo by John Haney
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/raising-big-questions-2/
LOCATION:Halifax Common\, 5816 Cogswell Street\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 4B2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Be Eternal
DESCRIPTION:With Jackson Fairfax-Perry\, Andrew Jackson\, Lance Sampson\, Shuvanjan Karmakar and Joshua Awe\nONE TICKET FOR TWO INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCES!\n$10 in advance and $15 at the door.\n**Ticket includes admission to AND SO WE DANCE** \n \nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n \nChildcare available on site for free. Please register in advance. \n\nTaking its name from the final line of Common’s acclaimed 2005 album\, Be Eternal explores black male mortality\, particularly of musicians\, and the normalization of this in modern society. Led by local saxophonist Jackson Fairfax-Perry\, this ensemble brings together 5 local improvising musicians with roots connecting to the African diaspora. Exploring both spontaneous and written compositions\, Be Eternal asks how can we move past this mindset that black men die young? That this is just how it is? How can we honour the artists who came before us\, while also giving flowers to the ones who are still with us? This music is raw and mournful\, but it is also filled with joy and hope\, brimming with the power of our ancestors. This is a celebration of our black musical lineage. \nPersonnel:\nJackson Fairfax-Perry – Saxophones \nAndrew Jackson – Trombone \nLance Sampson – Voice \nShuvanjan Karmakar – Bass \nJoshua Awe – Drums \n\n \nJACKON FAIRFAX-PERRY is an award-winning African Nova Scotian composer\, sound designer\, musician\, and musical director based in Halifax\, Nova Scotia. A graduate of Dalhousie University (Bachelor of Music in Composition\, 2014)\, Jackson has built a multidisciplinary career that bridges contemporary composition\, popular music\, improvisation\, and theatrical sound design.  For the decade following his graduation\, he recorded and toured nationally and internationally with Hillsburn\, an award-winning indie-pop band. Since 2023\, Jackson has collaborated closely with Lance Sampson\, AKA Aquakultre. As musical director for Sampson’s live performances\, he has co-written\, arranged\, and performed on several of Aquakultre’s recordings\, most notably on the critically acclaimed album 1783. As a saxophonist and keyboardist\, Jackson is an active member of Halifax’s jazz and creative music scene performing regularly with several ensembles including Many Worlds\, as well as his own group TYNES plus III. Jackson also collaborates frequently with theatre and dance artists\, having contributed music and sound design to numerous local and national productions. Jackson is the most recent recipient of the Paul Cram Creation Award\, and is in the process of writing his first composition for orchestra\, to be premiered by Symphony Nova Scotia at Open Waters Festival in January\, 2027. \n \nANDREW JACKSON is a Juno award winning trombonist and composer based in Halifax\, Nova Scotia. His versatility and unique sound have made him one of Eastern Canada’s first-call players. Jackson keeps a busy playing schedule with many of the premiere artists in the region\, spanning a variety of styles\, and was selected as a member of the National Canadian Jazz Orchestra. Andrew is a multiple time Music Nova Scotia award winner\, including accolades such as “Musician of the Year” and “Jazz Recording of The Year” amongst others. Since 2017 Andrew has been the musical curator for the TD Halifax Jazz Festival\, which has won multiple “Event of The Year” Awards under his tenure. \n \nLANCE SAMPSON better known as AQUAKULTRE is an uncommonly versatile singer\, rapper\, composer and storyteller from Halifax\, NS. Since winning the 2018 CBC Searchlight competition\, Aquakultre has released two Polaris-nominated albums and a multitude of genre-diverse\, multi-media collaborations\, establishing him as a significant musical and cultural presence. The live show is a warm-hearted party where all are welcomed by Aquakultre’s big voice and bigger stage presence. Through all his works\, via poetic lyrics and straight-up jams\, Aquakultre is on a mission to share his love for his unique and beautiful corner of the culture. \n \nSHUVANJAN KARMAKAR is a bassist. Their practice synthesizes curatorial methodology\, environmental listening\, and diasporic microcosms. Their curatorial tenure\, marked by collaborations with award-winning artists across disciplines\, explored engagement with form\, temporality\, and audience perception. This experience established a foundation in spatial dramaturgy\, critical framing\, and orchestrating sensory experiences. These principles translate into their musical practice\, where they treat sound as an experiential field rather than a linear construct. Shuvanjan’s artistic labor navigates the dialectic between the intrinsic desire to create and the external pressures that necessitate production\, allowing this tension to shape both methodology and output. Their exploration of non-equal-tempered systems\, encompassing microtonality\, just intonation\, and other alternative tuning paradigms\, serves as both a technical and conceptual extension of this inquiry. Challenging hegemonic sonic structures and repositioning the bass as a site of critical experimentation. \n \nJOSHUA AWE is an instinctive drummer who enjoys playing a wide range of musical genres. He often plays with jazz musicians in Halifax\, however\, Joshua has recently been performing with musicians in the folk and oldtime scenes where he usually plays djembe and percussion. Joshua has his roots in Nigeria where he started playing in the church. This is where he learned that music can be used for a spiritual transcendence. His resume includes an extensive list of public and private gigs including the Halifax Jazz Festival\, Every Seeker and Deep Roots Festival. \n\nEvent photo and Jackson Fairfax-Perry headshot by Jamie Kronick\nLance Sampson headshot by Mo Phùng
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SUMMARY:and so we dance
DESCRIPTION:By I’thandi Munro and Kay Macdonald\nONE TICKET FOR TWO INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCES!\n$10 in advance and $15 at the door.\n**Ticket includes admission to BE ETERNAL** \n \nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n \nChildcare available on site for free. Please register in advance. \nPlease be advised that the show addresses mature subjects. \n\nArchiving and exploring movement through the cultural lenses of African Nova Scotian identity.\nand so we dance explores the contemporary realities and historic contexts of moving/movement through time and place. Specifically looking at the realities of being African Nova Scotian within the broader context of Black + African American performance traditions. We explore cultural themes of tension\, relation\, freedom and love through the creative modalities of improvisation\, contemporary dance and vocalization. \nCredits:\nCreators:\nI’thandi Munro\, Kay Macdonald \nPerformers:\nI’thandi Munro\, Kay Macdonald \nSpecial Thanks:\nSyreeta Hector\, Sara Coffin\, Liliona Quarmyne\, Reequal Smith \nFunding Credits:\nMocean Dance – CLEaR Forum Residency\, The Khyber Centre For The Arts – KREAM Residency\, Live Art Dance – CanDance Showcase \nMusic Production and Mixing:\nCarmel Farahbakhsh\, I’thandi Munro\, Kay Macdonald and Jordan Farmer \nLighting Production:\nLouisa Adamson \n\n \nI’THANDI MUNRO is an award winning dancer\, performer\, visual artist and educator\, who has reached International recognition. She incorporates her lived experiences of her own cultural understanding within her artwork. She has a double major in Photography + Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing from NSCAD University. Munro has been facilitating within dance studios\, Halifax Regional Arts\, artist centers\, and community programs for over a decade. Munro continuously seeks to learn new ways of making\, teaching\, collaborating\, and continues to educate herself in a multitude of techniques. She has spent her entire life pursuing art but dancing is the constant base of creating throughout her professional career. Movement is at her core of making. When Munro became a mother\, her exploration into uninhibited linework and freedom of creation was sparked by watching her two young children draw effortlessly and with confidence. These inspirations from her kids showed her new pathways\, and taught her that you can make your own. This naturally led I’thandi into the research behind improv and freestyle dance. Munro uses the representation of line and lineage as underlying concepts in her art. Her work has become an ever-changing body of work that can be explored and realized in many different ways. Munro is the founder of Drifted Collective as well as Scotian: The Collective. She has collaborated with many professional dance and theatre companies primarily based out of Mi’kma’ki and the Atlantic regions such as The Woods Professional Hip Hop Company\, Mocean Dance\, Kinetic\, Rooted Dance(Votive) Nestutasi Story Telling\, Home Economics Collective\, and KasheDance. \n \nKAY MACDONALD (they/them) is an African Nova Scotian\, Acadian\, Queer\, Trans community educator\, artist\, activist\, facilitator\, and performance based artist born and raised in Kjipuktuk\, Mi’kma’ki. Macdonald’s artistic practice has roots in interdisciplinary methodologies. Gathering and curating scores of improvisational movement\, dance\, sound\, and visual arts culminating in various forms of performance. Their work explores themes of observation\, culture\, ancestral lineage\, connection\, community and place. Macdonald’s work seeks to unravel restrictive concepts of identity\, belonging\, liberation\, and societal constructs. Macdonald views the intersection of advocacy\, community building\, and artistic processes as a means to disrupt and intervene in harmful colonial and white supremacist narratives. Currently\, Kay is working as the Program Coordinator at The Youth Project\, a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to providing support and services to 2SLGBTQIA+ youth ages 12-25. As well as\, currently holds the role as Co-Artistic Director at Kinetic\, a contemporary dance organization based in Kjipuktuk. \n\nEvent photo by Reequal Smith\nI’thando Munro headshot by Cavell Holand\nKay Macdonald headshot by Matt Downey
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/and-so-we-dance/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance
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SUMMARY:Raising Big Questions
DESCRIPTION:YOU FRGOT SOMETHING\, Collaboration with Luke Hathaway. Photo by John Haney. \nBy Andrew Maize in collaboration with El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\n***POSTPONED to SUNDAY April 26th 1-4pm – Dr. El Jones @ Halifax Common\nMay 2nd 1-4pm – Seán Kennedy @ Citadel Hill Near and around Garrison Grounds\n***POSTPONED to SUNDAY May 9th 1-4pm – Sue Goyette @ Point Pleasant Park \n**Please note that exact time and location are subject to change according to weather and wind conditions. Rain-Wind Dates will be scheduled according to forecast/availability. Please refer to our website and social media accounts @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for the latest information. \nWe live in punishing and brutal times. Language plays a crucial role in how we make sense of the world. In language\, we can bear witness\, negotiate meaning\, and call-out the people and systems of power to hold them accountable. Language has long been a creative and powerful tool in labour and social justice movements\, with the ability to encapsulate and embody a movement or a moment. \nThe arrival of May is the arrival of kite season. For Mayworks\, Maize has invited 3 word-workers; El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\, to compose aerial text banners to be flown across the city. The Mayworks audience is invited to help fly these kite banners. By working collectively to lift language up into the sky – we embody a public discourse of sorts\, fielding critical challenges and raising big questions. \nRAISING BIG QUESTIONS is an ongoing project by Andrew Maize\, that uses a home-made\, modular kite-letter to compose aerial text banners in the sky. Kite-flying is a joyful\, analogue and collective activity – one that must be responsive to both the weather and site. Location of the events will be dependent on environmental factors\, including wind direction. \nStay tuned closer to the date on the Mayworks Website and social media @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for announcements. \nNOTE: Andrew is offering a kite-flying workshop on April 25th. Find details at GO FLY A KITE.\n\n \nANDREW MAIZE is an artist. His playful\, collaborative and improvisational approach to making art is contingent on the relationships of environmental\,  social\, and material situations. Recent collaborative explorations include mobile instruments for improvised performances\, wind-powered kinetic sculptures\, and experimental drawing practices (using local sourced inks and candle smoke). He seeks collaborations across disciplines to expand improvisational practices as tools for embodying more responsive and adaptable ways of being\, by welcoming the fundamental agency of uncertainty. As an arts educator and organizer\, he has been involved in collaborative projects that engage communities with art\, in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Maize graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax NS in 2012\, and a MFA from the University of Guelph in 2021. He is the recipient of multiple grants and awards\, including SSHRCC\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Arts Nova Scotia. \n \nDR. EL JONES. Author\, poet\, journalist\, educator\, and advocate. Dr. El Jones is all these things and more\, an outspoken activist\, thinker and writer whose strengths converge in her spoken word performances. A respected poet\, Dr. Jones was two-time National Slam champion in 2007 and 2008\, Poet Laureate of Halifax in 2013-2015\, resident of the International Writing Program at University of Iowa in 2015\, and poet in residence at University of Toronto Scarborough in 2021. What defines her achievements is a commitment to activism and community advocacy to highlight inequities and redress injustices. The recognition of her performances\, teaching and political commitment testifies to the exceptional influence she has exercised during the Black Lives Matter movement and the expansion of Black scholarship in Canadian academia. \n \nSUE GOYETTE lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) and has published ten books of poems and a novel. Her latest collection is Future Howl\, (Gaspereau Press\, 2025). She is the editor of Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press\, 2021)\, The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (Anansi\, 2017) and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 (Tightrope Books\, 2013). Her work has been translated into French\, Spanish and German and has been featured in films\, subways\, buses\, spray painted on a sidewalk and tattooed. Her work has been nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award and has won several awards including the Dalhousie University Teaching Award\, 2021; the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation (Océan translated by Georgette Leblanc)\, 2020; J.M. Abraham Poetry Award 2016\, 2012; ReLit Award 2016; 2014 Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award; 2013 National Magazine Award\, Silver; 2012 Pat Lowther Award for Poetry; Bliss Carman Poetry Award\, 2011; The Established Artist Recognition Award\, NS\, 2011; 2010 Earle Birney Award; 2008 CBC Literary Award for Poetry; as well as the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award for her collection\, Ocean. Sue teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University. \n \nSEÁN KENNEDY is Professor of English and Coordinator of Irish Studies. Their research interests include Samuel Beckett\, Queer Ireland\, Ireland in Psychoanalysis\, Zionism\, and the “Erotics of Irish Austerity” (the ways in which austerity economics is troped in terms of the kinky language of discipline\, control and humiliation). Publications include Beckett and Ireland (Cambridge UP\, 2010)\, Send In the Clowns! (OR Books\, 2025) and Beckett beyond the normal (in progress). Kennedy is the coordinator for Unsettling Irish Studies. \n\nEvent photo by John Haney
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/raising-big-questions/2026-05-02/
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SUMMARY:Stephen Hero + El Tata y Los Taqueros
DESCRIPTION:Also featuring Ambeez\, General Khan & Gearl\nGet down with the working class on May Day at the Seahorse! \n$10 in advance and $15 at the door\nDoors at 9:00 PM \n  \n \nIf cost is a barrier\, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you. \n \n\nStephen Hero + El Tata y Los Taqueros\n \nSTEPHEN HERO makes raw\, working class hip hop from Canada’s east coast. His style is influenced by alt-rap legends like Kool Keith and MF DOOM\, with a strong penchant for the relaxed and joyous experimentation of groups like De La Soul and Beastie Boys\, but with a contemporary\, often dark feel. Hero takes the ruling class to task unapologetically as he builds his varied and powerful catalogue. \nEL TATA Y LOS TAQUEROS could be best described as a melting pot of influences\, with deeply international roots thanks to the various nationalities of its core members: Gabriel Ibarra\, Chaly Benz\, Teijiri Emore\, and Daniel Salas. Together they mix the influences of their countries from the Philippines to Honduras\, into a Latin fusion of hip hop\, funk\, and other rhythms\, resulting in a style rich in versatile musicality that really makes them stand out. \n\n \nAMBEEZ is a hip-hop producer known for raw drums\, soulful samples\, and a feel-driven approach to beatmaking. A mainstay on the Canadian hip-hop scene\, he’s built a reputation for flipping obscure sounds into hard-hitting\, cohesive tracks. His style blends gritty boom-bap with subtle experimentation and off-grid rhythms\, textured chops\, and a strong sense of swing. Focused on mood and authenticity\, his beats are crafted to feel lived-in and replayable. With accolades and a growing catalog\, ambeez continues to refine his sound while carving out his own lane. Most recent release: Computer Sciences\, Vol 1 \n \nGENERAL KHAN is a local community organizer and artist\, born and raised in Kjipuktuk\, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax\, Nova Scotia). General Khan has been breaking barriers in the local rap scene since the release of her first album Wrath of Khan in 2021 and EP ON GOD in 2023. For Khan\, Poetry and rhyming is an expression that is tied to her cultural practice as an Afghan Pashtun and Muslim. Her art style is influenced by her lived experiences facing white supremacy\, colonialism\, islamophobia and ableism. Her next album Afghan Variety is set to release summer 2026. \n \nGEARL is an Indigenous Hip‑Hop artist from Eskasoni\, Nova Scotia. He shares lived  experiences of Indigenous life in the Maritimes and promotes Mi’kmaq language and culture. Years of steady work have earned him momentum\, multiple nominations and awards. This year he’s nominated for Indigenous Artist of the Year and Hip Hop/Rap Recording of the Year at the ECMAs. Gearl delivers powerful performances\, tackles difficult topics\, adapts across genres\, improvises songwriting\, and weaves personal experience into dense\, impactful concepts. @gearljij \n\nPhotos of Stephen Hero + El Tata y Los Toqueros by Mckenzie Power
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/stephen-hero-el-tata-y-los-toqueros/
LOCATION:The Seahorse Tavern\, 2037 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 3B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Raising Big Questions
DESCRIPTION:YOU FRGOT SOMETHING\, Collaboration with Luke Hathaway. Photo by John Haney. \nBy Andrew Maize in collaboration with El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\n***POSTPONED to SUNDAY April 26th 1-4pm – Dr. El Jones @ Halifax Common\nMay 2nd 1-4pm – Seán Kennedy @ Citadel Hill Near and around Garrison Grounds\n***POSTPONED to SUNDAY May 9th 1-4pm – Sue Goyette @ Point Pleasant Park \n**Please note that exact time and location are subject to change according to weather and wind conditions. Rain-Wind Dates will be scheduled according to forecast/availability. Please refer to our website and social media accounts @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for the latest information. \nWe live in punishing and brutal times. Language plays a crucial role in how we make sense of the world. In language\, we can bear witness\, negotiate meaning\, and call-out the people and systems of power to hold them accountable. Language has long been a creative and powerful tool in labour and social justice movements\, with the ability to encapsulate and embody a movement or a moment. \nThe arrival of May is the arrival of kite season. For Mayworks\, Maize has invited 3 word-workers; El Jones\, Seán Kennedy and Sue Goyette\, to compose aerial text banners to be flown across the city. The Mayworks audience is invited to help fly these kite banners. By working collectively to lift language up into the sky – we embody a public discourse of sorts\, fielding critical challenges and raising big questions. \nRAISING BIG QUESTIONS is an ongoing project by Andrew Maize\, that uses a home-made\, modular kite-letter to compose aerial text banners in the sky. Kite-flying is a joyful\, analogue and collective activity – one that must be responsive to both the weather and site. Location of the events will be dependent on environmental factors\, including wind direction. \nStay tuned closer to the date on the Mayworks Website and social media @mayworkskjipuktukhfx for announcements. \nNOTE: Andrew is offering a kite-flying workshop on April 25th. Find details at GO FLY A KITE.\n\n \nANDREW MAIZE is an artist. His playful\, collaborative and improvisational approach to making art is contingent on the relationships of environmental\,  social\, and material situations. Recent collaborative explorations include mobile instruments for improvised performances\, wind-powered kinetic sculptures\, and experimental drawing practices (using local sourced inks and candle smoke). He seeks collaborations across disciplines to expand improvisational practices as tools for embodying more responsive and adaptable ways of being\, by welcoming the fundamental agency of uncertainty. As an arts educator and organizer\, he has been involved in collaborative projects that engage communities with art\, in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Maize graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax NS in 2012\, and a MFA from the University of Guelph in 2021. He is the recipient of multiple grants and awards\, including SSHRCC\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Arts Nova Scotia. \n \nDR. EL JONES. Author\, poet\, journalist\, educator\, and advocate. Dr. El Jones is all these things and more\, an outspoken activist\, thinker and writer whose strengths converge in her spoken word performances. A respected poet\, Dr. Jones was two-time National Slam champion in 2007 and 2008\, Poet Laureate of Halifax in 2013-2015\, resident of the International Writing Program at University of Iowa in 2015\, and poet in residence at University of Toronto Scarborough in 2021. What defines her achievements is a commitment to activism and community advocacy to highlight inequities and redress injustices. The recognition of her performances\, teaching and political commitment testifies to the exceptional influence she has exercised during the Black Lives Matter movement and the expansion of Black scholarship in Canadian academia. \n \nSUE GOYETTE lives in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) and has published ten books of poems and a novel. Her latest collection is Future Howl\, (Gaspereau Press\, 2025). She is the editor of Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press\, 2021)\, The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (Anansi\, 2017) and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 (Tightrope Books\, 2013). Her work has been translated into French\, Spanish and German and has been featured in films\, subways\, buses\, spray painted on a sidewalk and tattooed. Her work has been nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award and has won several awards including the Dalhousie University Teaching Award\, 2021; the Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation (Océan translated by Georgette Leblanc)\, 2020; J.M. Abraham Poetry Award 2016\, 2012; ReLit Award 2016; 2014 Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award; 2013 National Magazine Award\, Silver; 2012 Pat Lowther Award for Poetry; Bliss Carman Poetry Award\, 2011; The Established Artist Recognition Award\, NS\, 2011; 2010 Earle Birney Award; 2008 CBC Literary Award for Poetry; as well as the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award for her collection\, Ocean. Sue teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Dalhousie University. \n \nSEÁN KENNEDY is Professor of English and Coordinator of Irish Studies. Their research interests include Samuel Beckett\, Queer Ireland\, Ireland in Psychoanalysis\, Zionism\, and the “Erotics of Irish Austerity” (the ways in which austerity economics is troped in terms of the kinky language of discipline\, control and humiliation). Publications include Beckett and Ireland (Cambridge UP\, 2010)\, Send In the Clowns! (OR Books\, 2025) and Beckett beyond the normal (in progress). Kennedy is the coordinator for Unsettling Irish Studies. \n\nEvent photo by John Haney
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/raising-big-questions/2026-04-25/
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SUMMARY:Go Fly a Kite
DESCRIPTION:Kite Flying 101 or How to launch a kite and kite-banner!\nWith Andrew Maize\nApril 25\n10am-11am – Wonder’neath Studio\n11am-1pm – Halifax Common \nJoin artist and kite-flier Andrew Maize for a hands-on workshop that will introduce the basics of successfully launching\, landing\, and flying large kites\, kite cameras and kite-laundry (ie. kite banners). We will discuss knot-tying\, launching/landing techniques\, environmental factors\, safety\, equipment\, and kite banner designs. The workshop will begin at Wonder’neath from 10am-11am\, and then will move to the Common\, where we will practice launching\, flying and landing big kites (and kite banners)! \nParticipants are encouraged to dress for the elements (hat\, sunscreen\, sunglasses) and bring a  pair of work gloves (thin leather gloves or similar are ideal – the kite string can burn hands when under a lot of tension!) \nParticipants are also invited to help fly kite banners at future sessions of RAISING BIG QUESTIONS for Mayworks 2026. \nAdmission by donation. Please RSVP here:\n \n\n \nANDREW MAIZE is an artist. His playful\, collaborative and improvisational approach to making art is contingent on the relationships of environmental\, social\, and material situations. Recent collaborative explorations include mobile instruments for improvised performances\, wind-powered kinetic sculptures\, and experimental drawing practices (using local sourced inks and candle smoke). He seeks collaborations across disciplines to expand improvisational practices as tools for embodying more responsive and adaptable ways of being\, by welcoming the fundamental agency of uncertainty. As an arts educator and organizer\, he has been involved in collaborative projects that engage communities with art\, in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. Maize graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University in Halifax NS in 2012\, and a MFA from the University of Guelph in 2021. He is the recipient of multiple grants and awards\, including SSHRCC\, Canada Council for the Arts\, Arts Nova Scotia. \n\nEvent photo by Corey Isenor
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/go-fly-a-kite/
LOCATION:Wonder’neath\, 2482 Maynard St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 3V4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Linfield & Banfield & Co.
DESCRIPTION:By Coral Maloney\nFree t-shirts available at all festival events!\n(while supplies last!) \nIn 2025\, several citizens filed complaints about the conduct of an elected official. These complaints were reported on in the media\, allowing those people to learn of each other. They realized they were larger than they’d planned to be. They realized\, in fact\, that they were building toward something much bigger than a set of uncoordinated complaints. One person who took part in this was named Linfield. Another one was named Banfield. There were others. There will be others still. You are invited too. \nBREAK RANK // TRY SOMETHING // WE HAVE EACH OTHER \nThis project occurs throughout the run of the festival. T-shirts & buttons from Linfield & Banfield & Co. will be available at each in-person event. You are invited to don them during the festival\, and well beyond. \n \nCredits:\nProject: Coral Maloney\nDesign support: Colleen Arcturus MacIsaac \n\n \nCORAL MALONEY [++++euro/±latina/~unspecified borders] [Leander Atkinson Wurz Amaya Torres Scott Krysska] is an interdisciplinary artist and performance-maker based in Halifax in Mi’kma’ki territory. www.coralmaloney.ca
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SUMMARY:Closing Reception with Curtis Botham\, Eva Grant and Martha Mutale
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a casual conversations with the artists behind No Dominion/No Domain and my inner child healing my immigrant identity. \nCurtis Botham and Martha Mutale will be joining us in person\, and Eva Grant will be joining us via video call. All will be available to answer questions about their works on display only until October 31st. \nA brief facilitated Q&A will take place at 7PM. \nRefreshments will be served! \nARTIST BIOS:\n \nEva Grant is a Queer\, St̓át̓imc-Eurasian filmmaker\, curator\, and new media artist. She studied philosophy and literature at Stanford University and is the founder of Tooth & Nail Pictures. Her world-building practice hybridizes moving image\, animation\, game engines\, interactive digital media\, data visualization\, and speculative design to prototype decolonial and capacious futures. She is a former Sundance Native Lab fellow\, a BIPOC TV & Film Episodic Writers Lab participant\, an Artengine NEW SUNS Worldbuilding Lab artist-in-residence\, a Vancouver Queer Film Festival Programming Disruptor\, a Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices fellow\, an Art Gallery of Ontario AGO x RBC emerging artist-in-residence\, and an alumna of the imagineNATIVE Originals Commission program and the Screenwriting Shorts Fellowship. Her work has been supported by Mayworks Kjipuktuk\, Nocturne: Art at Night\, CFC Satellites\, Debaser/Pique Festival\, the Indigenous Curatorial Collective\, Lay*Away\, Black Star Film Festival’s William and Louise Greaves Filmmaking Seminar\, and the Ottawa Animation Festival\, and her films have screened at festivals around the world. \n \nCurtis Botham is an award-winning artist based in Halifax\, Nova Scotia. He graduated from NSCAD University in 2017 with a bachelor of fine arts. His accolades include the Canada Games Young Artist of Excellence Award\, and numerous grants from Arts Nova Scotia and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Since 2017\, he has depicted the impact and labour of industries in the Maritimes\, examining the social and environmental effects of material culture on our lives. He has participated in residencies around Nova Scotia in order to create a broad portrait of the province and its relationship to its land\, people and resources.\ncurtisbotham.weebly.com \n \nMartha Mutale is a poet and veteran of the spoken word scene in Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, Nova Scotia. She grew up in Billtown\, Nova Scotia\, a small rural community in the Annapolis valley after emigrating from Zambia with her family when she was just under two years old. Her family is based in Nova Scotia. As an adult\, she relocated to North End Halifax where she began expressing herself as a poet while also working in the non-profit sector. She has worked as a housing support worker where she witnessed first hand the vulnerability and social disposability of those who have lost their homes – especially immigrants who\, without citizenship\, are not allowed access to shelters. In December 2022\, Martha relocated to Zambia to start over\, reconnect with herself and apply to regain her Zambian citizenship. Having been raised in the Diaspora and having called Nova Scotia home since a young child\, she longs for her birth home\, Zambia\, and yearns to learn more about her roots. While in Lusaka\, waiting for her paperwork to be approved\, she volunteered her time in an art gallery and completed two residencies which constituted her first forays into visual arts. During her second residency\, she made six dolls\, five feet long\, all sewn and painted by hand using upcycled textile fabrics and African materials she found while living in Lusaka\, Zambia. Martha is healing her inner child and making room for new and exciting adventures that await her in the future.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/closing-reception-with-curtis-botham-eva-grant-and-martha-mutale/
LOCATION:The Khyber Centre for the Arts\, 1880 Hollis St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3J 1W6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:No Dominion/No Domain
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with the Khyber Centre for the Arts and Nocturne\nMayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax presents No Dominion/No Domain\, where Eva Grant and Curtis Botham trace land\, life\, labour\, and pathways across speculative digital ancestral architectures and charcoal industrial landscapes. \n“Homeless Shelters Before Police Raid” by Curtis Botham\nNo Dominion/No Domain brings together two artists\, Eva Grant and Curtis Botham\, whose works reflect on land\, labour\, infrastructure\, and ecological movement. Presented by Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax and hosted at the Khyber Centre for the Arts\, the exhibition runs October 11-31\, 2025. Events include Nocturne: Art at Night Festival from 6PM-12AM on Saturday\, October 18\, and a closing reception Tuesday\, October 28th 6PM-8PM. \nEva Grant’s WILD INTERFACE is a work of St’át’imc speculative futurism that reimagines longhouses and Salish structures as though assembled from salmon bones. These digital works depict architecture not as idealized pasts or utopian elsewheres\, but as living interfaces: porous inter-species networks where technologies and ancestral knowledge converge. Through computational geography and postnatural territories\, Grant reconsiders space and place as co-constructed with ecologies\, where memory and labours of love entwine. \nCurtis Botham’s Effluents and Urban projects confront the landscapes of extraction that underpin industrial modernity. His large-scale charcoal drawings—made in a volatile medium that mirrors the precarity of his subject matter—document the sites of resource economies on Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia and their cascading impacts: inequities of wealth\, the precarity of workers\, and the hidden infrastructures behind everyday consumer life. Botham traces these environments with stark fidelity\, inviting viewers to recognize their own embeddedness in these cycles of labour and consumption. \nTogether\, Grant’s and Curtis’ works stage a dialogue on dominion—over land\, life\, and labour—and on domains\, whether in digital terrains of speculative ancestral architectures or in the charcoal-rendered landscapes and machinery of industrial capitalism. \nNo Dominion/No Domain invokes the dual refusal of control and possession within colonial constructs and systems. The title\, created by Grant\, arose in response to the effectiveness of messaging between the blend of analog and virtual material. Through charcoal and digital works\, the exhibition resists the illusion of permanence that dominion or domain implies. Charcoal\, itself the residue of combustion\, unsettles the idea of industry as stable progress\, while Grant’s architectures utilize the digital realm to glitch and dissolve systemically oppressive boundaries. Both practices gesture towards knowledge\, labour\, and survival beyond grids of ownership. \nDigital piece from the WILD INTERFACE series by Eva Grant\nARTIST BIOS:\n \nEva Grant is a Queer\, St̓át̓imc-Eurasian filmmaker\, curator\, and new media artist. She studied philosophy and literature at Stanford University and is the founder of Tooth & Nail Pictures. Her world-building practice hybridizes moving image\, animation\, game engines\, interactive digital media\, data visualization\, and speculative design to prototype decolonial and capacious futures. She is a former Sundance Native Lab fellow\, a BIPOC TV & Film Episodic Writers Lab participant\, an Artengine NEW SUNS Worldbuilding Lab artist-in-residence\, a Vancouver Queer Film Festival Programming Disruptor\, a Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices fellow\, an Art Gallery of Ontario AGO x RBC emerging artist-in-residence\, and an alumna of the imagineNATIVE Originals Commission program and the Screenwriting Shorts Fellowship. Her work has been supported by Mayworks Kjipuktuk\, Nocturne: Art at Night\, CFC Satellites\, Debaser/Pique Festival\, the Indigenous Curatorial Collective\, Lay*Away\, Black Star Film Festival’s William and Louise Greaves Filmmaking Seminar\, and the Ottawa Animation Festival\, and her films have screened at festivals around the world. \n \nCurtis Botham is an award-winning artist based in Halifax\, Nova Scotia. He graduated from NSCAD University in 2017 with a bachelor of fine arts. His accolades include the Canada Games Young Artist of Excellence Award\, and numerous grants from Arts Nova Scotia and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Since 2017\, he has depicted the impact and labour of industries in the Maritimes\, examining the social and environmental effects of material culture on our lives. He has participated in residencies around Nova Scotia in order to create a broad portrait of the province and its relationship to its land\, people and resources.\ncurtisbotham.weebly.com \nHOURS & EVENTS:\nExhibition on view: October 11-31\, 2025 \nGallery hours: 12-5PM Tuesday-Saturday + events \nAppointments/contact: info@khyber.ca \nAccessibility notes: www.khyber.ca/access \nNocturne hours: 6PM-12AM\, Saturday\, October 18\, 2025 \nClosing reception: Tuesday\, October 28th 6PM-8PM – Click here for details \nPresented concurrently with my inner child healing my immigrant identity
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/no-dominion-no-domain/
LOCATION:The Khyber Centre for the Arts\, 1880 Hollis St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3J 1W6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251101
DTSTAMP:20260513T020335
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SUMMARY:my inner child healing my immigrant identity
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with the Khyber Centre for the Arts and Nocturne\nmy inner child healing my immigrant identity by Martha Mutale explores the immigrant experience – the self split between two homes. A series of rag dolls where each figure represents a point in time in the immigrant life\, softly positioned in space\, while the whole assemblage provides a grounded picture of who she is. Presented by Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax and hosted at the Khyber Centre for the Arts\, the exhibition runs October 11-31\, 2025. Events include Nocturne: Art at Night Festival from 6PM-12AM on Saturday\, October 18\, and a closing reception Tuesday\, October 28th 6PM-8PM. \n \nmy inner child healing my immigrant identity is a continuation of Martha Mutale’s exploration of the immigrant experience through the making and presentation of rag dolls fabricated from Zambian fabrics overlaid with printed words. Each of the 40 inches tall dolls represents a different part of her life as an immigrant living in the Diaspora and what it means to hold two different identities grounded in two different homes – Canada and Zambia. What does it mean to call two places home at once? What does it mean to always have a foot in both worlds\, to feel unmoored by this dual self? What are the different ways in which each of these places is home and for which reasons? \nMutale was confronted with these questions when she returned to her birth home during her adult life. Everyday\, taxi drivers (themselves migrants from neighbouring African countries) would ask her about herself and where she came from. Growing up in Nova Scotia\, one of Mutale’s most vivid and concrete connections to Zambian culture was the process through which she and her sisters would continually measure each others’ bodies in order for their mother to sew clothing for them made of African fabric. These experiences and memories\, along with her love of poetry\, have been the crucible for her ongoing series of projects using rag dolls to convey her sense of identity. \nThe process of crafting is a journey in itself and the tactile medium of textiles provide for Mutale a method of self-exploration that is both meditative and very concrete at once. For my inner child healing my immigrant identity\, the dolls (smaller than in previous explorations) will be installed as a diorama in the window gallery of the Khyber Centre for the Arts through which passersby can windowgaze into Mutale’s life. As Mutale represents different facets and waypoints in her life through each rag doll\, she presents a fragmented picture of herself. The soft sculptures each convey a lack of weight and definite attachment to the ground. And yet\, the depiction of Mutale’s life as a whole through their assemblage in space\, all together\, offers her (and the observer) a sense of groundedness provided by the material expression of her identities and the added value of a sum crystallised by the joining of its parts. \nARTIST BIO\n \nMartha Mutale is a poet and veteran of the spoken word scene in Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, Nova Scotia. She grew up in Billtown\, Nova Scotia\, a small rural community in the Annapolis valley after emigrating from Zambia with her family when she was just under two years old. Her family is based in Nova Scotia. As an adult\, she relocated to North End Halifax where she began expressing herself as a poet while also working in the non-profit sector. She has worked as a housing support worker where she witnessed first hand the vulnerability and social disposability of those who have lost their homes – especially immigrants who\, without citizenship\, are not allowed access to shelters. In December 2022\, Martha relocated to Zambia to start over\, reconnect with herself and apply to regain her Zambian citizenship. Having been raised in the Diaspora and having called Nova Scotia home since a young child\, she longs for her birth home\, Zambia\, and yearns to learn more about her roots. While in Lusaka\, waiting for her paperwork to be approved\, she volunteered her time in an art gallery and completed two residencies which constituted her first forays into visual arts. During her second residency\, she made six dolls\, five feet long\, all sewn and painted by hand using upcycled textile fabrics and African materials she found while living in Lusaka\, Zambia. Martha is healing her inner child and making room for new and exciting adventures that await her in the future. \nHOURS & EVENTS:\nExhibition on view: October 11-31\, 2025 \nGallery hours: On display in the window gallery 24/7 | Open hours: 12-5PM Tuesday-Saturday + events \nAppointments/contact: info@khyber.ca \nAccessibility notes: www.khyber.ca/access \nNocturne hours: 6PM-12AM\, Saturday\, October 18\, 2025 \nClosing reception: Tuesday\, October 28th 6PM-8PM – Click here for details \nPresented concurrently with No Domain / No Dominion
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/my-inner-child-healing-my-immigrant-identity/
LOCATION:The Khyber Centre for the Arts\, 1880 Hollis St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3J 1W6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251003
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251004
DTSTAMP:20260513T020335
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SUMMARY:Call For Submissions - Mayworks 2026
DESCRIPTION:DEADLINE: OCTOBER 3RD 2025\nSubmit via this FORM \nMayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax celebrates workers\, justice and solidarity through art. \nOur festival presents works of art of any discipline which explore the connection between the labour movement and art\, art-making as labour\, and struggles against racial injustice\, environmental injustice\, and other forms of injustice. \nWe encourage applications from underrepresented or marginalized artists\, including Indigenous\, Black\, Disabled\, Two-Spirit and trans artists\, as well as artists from communities of colour and language minority communities. \nSubmissions need not be directly focused on work\, labour or unions. In making our curatorial decisions\, we look for works that are at the forefront of creative exploration\, while also highlighting the political nature of artistic work. We look to include stories from Queer\, Disabled\, Black and Indigenous communities\, in addition to content that speaks to working class and feminist struggles. \n🌟 Mayworks programming is chosen by a jury of our staff members.\n🌟 Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax uses the Bus Stop Theatre as its main venue w/additional venues as needed.\n🌟 Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax provides presentation fees only\, not fees for development and creation (but feel free to ask for a letter of support). \nApplicants will be notified of their result by the end of November. \nLearn more using the FORM link. \nPhoto by Keandre Johnson
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/call-for-submissions-mayworks-2026/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250524T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250524T143000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020335
CREATED:20250402T154658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250521T231429Z
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SUMMARY:Working Class Heritage Tours
DESCRIPTION:You’ll never see downtown the same way again!\nJoin us for interactive walking tours that share the complex working class history of downtown Halifax. Each tour takes a different path through the city core and discusses different aspects of working class history and culture. The tours are designed to be stand alone but also work as a series\, with each tour covering different topics and following a different path. \n \nGeneral Tour Notes:\n\nEach tour is approximately 90 minutes in duration with regular stops for discussion along the way.\nWashrooms and parking are available near the beginning and end of each tour.\nPlaces to sit or perch are present at most tour stops\nThe tours run over and downhill only\nThe tours follow paths that only include intersections with curb cuts and follow sidewalks that are in good shape.\nThe tour has been designed with accessibility in mind. If you would like more information on the tour’s accessibility please email: info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca\n\n \n ASL interpretation will be provided for all three tours. \n\nTour 1: Where We Stand\n \nDate: Saturday\, May 3rd\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Old Spring Garden Library (corner of Brunswick St and Spring Garden Rd) \nMoving through downtown we will talk about the impact of people\, land\, and power on the evolution of the colonial urban centre over the last 300 years while experiencing the city around us. From the paupers grounds of the 18th century\, integrated neighbourhoods of the 19th century\, strikes of the 20th century and movements for social justice today. This tour begins at the old Memorial Library and ends at the waterfront. \nThe Only Wealth Is Labour: Artists Sarah Mosher & Hanah Genosko will be carrying their crafted banner along for the tour! \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: 19th century market site in downtown Halifax. NS Archives. \n\nTour 2: Scratch the Surface ***RESCHEDULED***\n \nNEW DATE: Saturday\, May 24th\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Old Spring Garden Library (corner of Brunswick St and Spring Garden Rd)\n \nWalking along the streets of today we’ll explore the many types of work that used to take place where we now see offices\, shops and restaurants. We’ll pull back the curtain on what it was like to work in the laundries\, factories\, and food manufacturing plants of Halifax and what we can still see of this industrial past. This tour begins at the old Memorial Library and ends near Granville Mall. \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: Early 20th century women sewing in a Halifax factory. NS Archives.\n \n\nTour 3: By Choice or By Force\n \nDate: Sunday\, May 11th\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Peace & Friendship Park (1170 Hollis St)  \nLooking at a part of downtown now dominated by railroad tracks\, hotels and modern apartment buildings we’ll remember the story of immigrants and  migrants to Halifax\, both those who came by choice\, force or a lack of other options. This tour will discuss the complex history of racial and cultural  interactions in Nova Scotia and shed light on how Halifax has always had a diverse population. This tour will begin at Peace and Friendship Park and end  near the Seaport Market (formerly Cunard Centre) \nThe Only Wealth Is Labour: Artists Sarah Mosher & Hanah Genosko will be carrying their crafted banner along for the tour! \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: Charlie Wah laundry back room. Photo: J.J. Lee\n \n\nEmma Lang\n \nEmma Lang is a public heritage professional\, folklorist and tour guide. She’s been sharing her research and excitement in labour history to anyone interested for more than 20 years. \nPhoto above and Banner image: Photos by Tee Porter. \n 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/working-class-heritage-tours/2025-05-24/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250516T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250516T193000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020335
CREATED:20250402T155307Z
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SUMMARY:Union
DESCRIPTION:A film by Stephen Maing and Brett Story\nUp against one of the most powerful companies on the planet\, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island\, New York. \n“Astounding\, rebellious\,… brilliant.” – The New York Times \nWINNER: U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for the Art of Change – Sundance Film Festival \n \nThrough intimate cinema vérité\, UNION chronicles the extraordinary efforts of an unlikely group of warehouse workers as they launch a grassroots union campaign at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island\, New York. Led by the charismatic by underestimated Chris Smalls\, the diverse band of workers start the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) and embark on a journey against one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world. The odds are stacked against them\, as the groups finds itself up against a tech industry giant with unlimited resources\, without major support from national unions or politicians\, and while navigating internal divisions within their own ranks. Filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing document the struggle from day one\, offering a gripping human drama about the fight for power and dignity in today’s globalized economic landscape. \n \n\n \n  \nPresented in partnership with
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/union/
LOCATION:Park Lane Cineplex\, 5657 Spring Garden Rd\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3J 3R4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250515T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250515T190000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020335
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SUMMARY:Nakba Day Banner Making
DESCRIPTION:So-so-so-Solidarity!\nLearn to make fabric banners perfect for balconies and windows using applique\, patchwork quilting and basic painting techniques. It’s Nakba Day and a good occasion to show solidarity for Palestinians\, but participants are welcome to make their banner about any topic of their choice. Sarah and Hannah will facilitate\, talk about their approach to their banner-making and teach techniques to those who are interested. Materials are provided. \nArtists\nSarah Mosher and Hannah Genosko are an artist duo collaborating in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Hannah has a background in printmaking and bookmaking\, Sarah has a background in textiles and community arts. Both are graduates of NSCAD University. Their common ground is exploring labour\, anti-capitalism and the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through quilting. Portrait of the Artist as an Essential Worker was their first project reflecting on their roles as essential workers at their jobs with Canada Post and NSLC respectively during the COVID-19 pandemic. \nNakba Day\nNakba Day commemorates the great catastrophe – the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland in 1948. Participants are invited to create banners for their homes and neighbourhoods in celebration of Palestinian solidarity but are free to also choose any message of solidarity they want to display.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/nakba-day-banner-making/
LOCATION:Wonder’neath\, 2482 Maynard St\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 3V4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250511T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250511T143000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020335
CREATED:20250402T154658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250521T231429Z
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SUMMARY:Working Class Heritage Tours
DESCRIPTION:You’ll never see downtown the same way again!\nJoin us for interactive walking tours that share the complex working class history of downtown Halifax. Each tour takes a different path through the city core and discusses different aspects of working class history and culture. The tours are designed to be stand alone but also work as a series\, with each tour covering different topics and following a different path. \n \nGeneral Tour Notes:\n\nEach tour is approximately 90 minutes in duration with regular stops for discussion along the way.\nWashrooms and parking are available near the beginning and end of each tour.\nPlaces to sit or perch are present at most tour stops\nThe tours run over and downhill only\nThe tours follow paths that only include intersections with curb cuts and follow sidewalks that are in good shape.\nThe tour has been designed with accessibility in mind. If you would like more information on the tour’s accessibility please email: info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca\n\n \n ASL interpretation will be provided for all three tours. \n\nTour 1: Where We Stand\n \nDate: Saturday\, May 3rd\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Old Spring Garden Library (corner of Brunswick St and Spring Garden Rd) \nMoving through downtown we will talk about the impact of people\, land\, and power on the evolution of the colonial urban centre over the last 300 years while experiencing the city around us. From the paupers grounds of the 18th century\, integrated neighbourhoods of the 19th century\, strikes of the 20th century and movements for social justice today. This tour begins at the old Memorial Library and ends at the waterfront. \nThe Only Wealth Is Labour: Artists Sarah Mosher & Hanah Genosko will be carrying their crafted banner along for the tour! \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: 19th century market site in downtown Halifax. NS Archives. \n\nTour 2: Scratch the Surface ***RESCHEDULED***\n \nNEW DATE: Saturday\, May 24th\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Old Spring Garden Library (corner of Brunswick St and Spring Garden Rd)\n \nWalking along the streets of today we’ll explore the many types of work that used to take place where we now see offices\, shops and restaurants. We’ll pull back the curtain on what it was like to work in the laundries\, factories\, and food manufacturing plants of Halifax and what we can still see of this industrial past. This tour begins at the old Memorial Library and ends near Granville Mall. \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: Early 20th century women sewing in a Halifax factory. NS Archives.\n \n\nTour 3: By Choice or By Force\n \nDate: Sunday\, May 11th\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Peace & Friendship Park (1170 Hollis St)  \nLooking at a part of downtown now dominated by railroad tracks\, hotels and modern apartment buildings we’ll remember the story of immigrants and  migrants to Halifax\, both those who came by choice\, force or a lack of other options. This tour will discuss the complex history of racial and cultural  interactions in Nova Scotia and shed light on how Halifax has always had a diverse population. This tour will begin at Peace and Friendship Park and end  near the Seaport Market (formerly Cunard Centre) \nThe Only Wealth Is Labour: Artists Sarah Mosher & Hanah Genosko will be carrying their crafted banner along for the tour! \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: Charlie Wah laundry back room. Photo: J.J. Lee\n \n\nEmma Lang\n \nEmma Lang is a public heritage professional\, folklorist and tour guide. She’s been sharing her research and excitement in labour history to anyone interested for more than 20 years. \nPhoto above and Banner image: Photos by Tee Porter. \n 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/working-class-heritage-tours/2025-05-11/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20250510T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250510T210000
DTSTAMP:20260513T020335
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SUMMARY:Archive of Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:Archive of Loneliness brings light to the isolation of seniors and how the end of life deserves our attention just as much as the beginning. Drawing from first person audio recordings of a family member living isolated in long-term care\, Archive of Loneliness embodies the spatial and corporeal tones of loneliness. \nThe sound score and audio story arranged by Jackson Fairfax-Perry dances throughout the space alongside two performers to create a deep thoughtful swim into the waiting and in-between spaces of loneliness\, amplifying the sub-linguistic states of despair and the desire to connect. \nDiscounted tickets are sold as a Double Bill with Flower Bed\n \n \n\nCreative Team\nCreative Direction/Choreography Sara Coffin\nComposer and Sound Design Jackson Fairfax-Perry\nPerformers and Movement Contributions Darryl Tracy and Matthew Lumley\nAudio Stories the late John Paterson \nThe creation of this work was supported by Eastern Front Theatre/Early Stages Festival\, Arts Nova Scotia\, studio hours through Mocean Dance and Olga Milosevich. Thank you to Brian Riley for the initial voicemail sound extraction and a deep gratitude to the Paterson family for their support and blessing to carry Uncle John’s voice forward into this new artistic expression. \n ASL interpretation will be provided for the May 10th performance. \n         Childcare will be provided for this event. Please use this REGISTRATION FORM. \n\nBiographies\nSara Coffin\, Dance Artist\, Choreographer\nSara Coffin is an award winning dance artist\, choreographer\, dance educator and Co-Artistic Director of Mocean Dance. Coffin has been teaching and creating interdisciplinary contemporary dance work for over twenty years. She received the NS Established Artist Award in 2018\, her MFA in Choreography (Smith College)\, BFA in Dance (Simon Fraser) University and BSc Kinesiology Science (Dalhousie). Coffin has created over 30 dance works\, her choreographic work has been presented in many prominent Canadian dance festivals and in the United States. Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration\, technology as an extension of the body\, contact improvisation and emergent frameworks for composition/ performance\, and the poetic junction between vulnerability\, resiliency\, and courage. www.saracoffin.ca \nDarryl Tracy\, Dance Artist\nDarryl Tracy is a Toronto-based artist who loves human movement and expression. He is involved in dance\, choreography\, movement facilitation\, conditioning and teaching. He has performed with many Canadian and European choreographers over the last 25 years and has also created 42 works through commissions and self-productions. He was on faculty at School of Toronto Dance Theatre (now the Dance Arts Institute) for over 18 years under the artistic direction of Pat Fraser. Currently\, Darryl teaches Anatomy at the National Ballet School Teachers Training Program. He is a neurological rehabilitation physiotherapist in Toronto in the private and public sector. Most recently Tracy co-created a new solo alongside Marie-Josee Chartier entitled “six ways to peel an orange” (premiere date pending). \nMatthew Lumley\, Actor\, Movement\nMatthew Lumley is a Kjipuktuk/Halifax-based actor\, grateful to work with this wonderful group of artists! Recent theatre work includes Becca (Théâtre populaire d’Acadie)\, Wood Buffalo (Theatre New Brunswick) Schoolhouse\, Macbeth\, Elapultiek\, Frankenstein\, In This Light\, Animal Farm\, North Mountain Vanya (Two Planks)\, The Realistic Jones\, Heaven Above/Heaven Below (KAZAN Theatre)\, Hamlet (Below the Salt/Neptune Theatre)\, The Little Years (Matchstick Theatre)\, This Is Nowhere (Zuppa Theatre). TV/film work includes Aversion (Emotion Pictures) Sullivan’s Crossing (CTV; upcoming) Normal Scotia (Bell TV1)\, Extant (HDM)\, Look At Me (Afro Viking Pictures)\, Hopeless Romantic (Northeast Films)\, Polaroid (Dimension Films)\, Weirdos (Shadow Shows)\, Mr. D (CBC). Matthew wrote and performed in First Weekend and Surf Gods (airing on CBC). Matthew studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse (NYC) and York University (Toronto). Many thanks to Sara Coffin for inviting me to dance\, and to the amazing Mayworks Festival! \nJackson Fairfax-Perry\, composer / sound design\nJackson Fairfax-Perry (he/him) is an award winning African Nova Scotian composer\, sound designer\, musician and musical director living in Kjipuktuk\, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax\, Nova Scotia). For years\, Jackson has honed his skills as an in demand saxophonist and keyboardist both on the road and locally with artists such as Hillsburn and David Myles\, among others. He collaborates frequently with local hip hop and r&b artist Aquakultre\, co-writing songs and working as the musical director for his live band. A prominent collaborator with local theatre and dance artists\, Jackson has composed and created sound designs for companies such as 2b theatre company\, Eastern Front Theatre\, Ship’s Company Theatre\, and Mocean Dance among numerous others. Recent credits include Matriarchs (Aquakultre\, Nocturne)\, Dance Nation (Keep Good (Theatre) Company\, Heist)\, Sea Unseen (Mocean Dance\, The Sable Island Institute)\, Deepwater (The Villains Theatre) and Downed Hearts (Ship’s Company Theatre\, Eastern Front Theatre\, Matchstick Theatre). \n\nBanner photo: Daniel Wittnebel
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/archive-of-loneliness/2025-05-10/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance
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SUMMARY:Flower Bed
DESCRIPTION:Written and performed by Noella Murphy\nFlower Bed is an accessible chronicle of chronic illness. Using puppets\, humour\, and visual art\, it creatively explores what life is like when your full-time job is Living With Pain. Noella Murphy is a clown\, a visual artist\, a theatre maker\, and a medical mystery. From a misogynistic healthcare system that ignores women’s pain to the struggles of being confined to your bed for months on end\, Noella reflects on the absurdity\, grief\, and transformation that comes with chronic illness\, creating a place to share her story and allow others to see their experiences reflected onstage. With two complementary components (an onstage performance and an interactive gallery show)\, this multidisciplinary piece is a visual spectacle\, a place for conversation\, and a pathway towards empathy for those who have dealt with any form of illness in their lives. \nDiscounted tickets are sold as a Double Bill with Archive of Loneliness\n \n\nFlower Bed Team\nNoella Murphy – Creator/Performer\nLou Campbell – Director/Dramaturg\nLaura Stinson – Puppet Designer/Puppeteer\nGinevra Syperek – Costume Co-designer\nAshley MacDonald and Susie Murphy – Costume Co-designers\nColleen Arcturus MacIsaac – Producer \nThank you to Arts Nova Scotia for their support of this project. \n ASL interpretation will be provided for the May 10th performance. \n         Childcare will be provided for this event. Please use this REGISTRATION FORM. \n\nBios\nNoella Murphy – Creator/Performer\nNoella Murphy (she/they) is a mad and disabled actor\, costume designer\, visual artist\, and all-around clown. She holds a BFA from NSCAD University\, and is an alum of Kinsale’s Wooden O Drama Program (Ireland). Despite an active visual arts practice of her own\, Noella is deeply interested in sharing art as a therapeutic tool\, and much of Noella’s professional career has been dedicated to working with folks with varying backgrounds\, disabilities\, young\, and old. Noella uses these various expertises\, as well as her background in clowning and visual art\, to explore deeper\, more challenging subject matter\, while simultaneously infusing these discoveries with light\, care\, and play. Visually\, Noella concentrates has been fascinated by the flora that surrounds her. Exploring realism with permission to choose unnatural size\, colours\, or different materials\, Noella never tires of botanical art and using her work to show the viewer a different perspective. Her pieces range from lino cuts\, etchings\, to watercolour on wood canvases with pen on top and more recently paint marker. Drawn to line and stippling\, the style ranges from realism to a more graphic approach.\n@noella_murphy \nLou Campbell – Director/Dramaturg\nLou Campbell (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, NS. Their practice traverses many mediums including performance\, clown\, stand-up\, drag\, poetry and sound. They create work that unpacks the inner workings of their own experiences\, usually manifesting in the open sharing of mortifying past mistakes. Their award winning solo show PRUDE premiered at EFT at the Stages festival. It has since toured across the country to festivals such as rEVolver\, High Performance Rodeo\, Outfest\, and Next Stage Festival. Lou also co-runs a cross-province collective based in Toronto and Halifax called Probably Theatre. This collective creates performance work devised from poetry\, and runs events and exhibitions that facilitate the creation of new work by other artists.⁠ Lou is thrilled to be working on Flower Bed. \nLaura Stinson – Puppet Designer/Puppeteer\nLaura Stinson (she/they) – Laura crafts images from both found and traditional materials. These creations become narratives\, characters and atmospheres in a variety of theatrical spectacles. She began her career in puppetry with Bread and Puppet Theater in 2016. After four years working as a touring member and subsequent resident puppeteer with the company\, Laura moved back to Mi’kma’ki and co-founded North Barn Theatre with Ian McFarlane in 2020. Alongside making work with North Barn she continues to collaborate with other artists as a performer\, designer and builder. She also shares her specialized knowledge by leading community workshops in both puppet construction and performance across the Atlantic region. She currently lives and works in Mi’kma’ki. \n \n\nFallow\nCome see Noella Murphy’s Fallow currently on exhibit in the lobby of the Bus Stop Theatre in conjunction with Flower Bed.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/flower-bed/2025-05-10/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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SUMMARY:Archive of Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:Archive of Loneliness brings light to the isolation of seniors and how the end of life deserves our attention just as much as the beginning. Drawing from first person audio recordings of a family member living isolated in long-term care\, Archive of Loneliness embodies the spatial and corporeal tones of loneliness. \nThe sound score and audio story arranged by Jackson Fairfax-Perry dances throughout the space alongside two performers to create a deep thoughtful swim into the waiting and in-between spaces of loneliness\, amplifying the sub-linguistic states of despair and the desire to connect. \nDiscounted tickets are sold as a Double Bill with Flower Bed\n \n \n\nCreative Team\nCreative Direction/Choreography Sara Coffin\nComposer and Sound Design Jackson Fairfax-Perry\nPerformers and Movement Contributions Darryl Tracy and Matthew Lumley\nAudio Stories the late John Paterson \nThe creation of this work was supported by Eastern Front Theatre/Early Stages Festival\, Arts Nova Scotia\, studio hours through Mocean Dance and Olga Milosevich. Thank you to Brian Riley for the initial voicemail sound extraction and a deep gratitude to the Paterson family for their support and blessing to carry Uncle John’s voice forward into this new artistic expression. \n ASL interpretation will be provided for the May 10th performance. \n         Childcare will be provided for this event. Please use this REGISTRATION FORM. \n\nBiographies\nSara Coffin\, Dance Artist\, Choreographer\nSara Coffin is an award winning dance artist\, choreographer\, dance educator and Co-Artistic Director of Mocean Dance. Coffin has been teaching and creating interdisciplinary contemporary dance work for over twenty years. She received the NS Established Artist Award in 2018\, her MFA in Choreography (Smith College)\, BFA in Dance (Simon Fraser) University and BSc Kinesiology Science (Dalhousie). Coffin has created over 30 dance works\, her choreographic work has been presented in many prominent Canadian dance festivals and in the United States. Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration\, technology as an extension of the body\, contact improvisation and emergent frameworks for composition/ performance\, and the poetic junction between vulnerability\, resiliency\, and courage. www.saracoffin.ca \nDarryl Tracy\, Dance Artist\nDarryl Tracy is a Toronto-based artist who loves human movement and expression. He is involved in dance\, choreography\, movement facilitation\, conditioning and teaching. He has performed with many Canadian and European choreographers over the last 25 years and has also created 42 works through commissions and self-productions. He was on faculty at School of Toronto Dance Theatre (now the Dance Arts Institute) for over 18 years under the artistic direction of Pat Fraser. Currently\, Darryl teaches Anatomy at the National Ballet School Teachers Training Program. He is a neurological rehabilitation physiotherapist in Toronto in the private and public sector. Most recently Tracy co-created a new solo alongside Marie-Josee Chartier entitled “six ways to peel an orange” (premiere date pending). \nMatthew Lumley\, Actor\, Movement\nMatthew Lumley is a Kjipuktuk/Halifax-based actor\, grateful to work with this wonderful group of artists! Recent theatre work includes Becca (Théâtre populaire d’Acadie)\, Wood Buffalo (Theatre New Brunswick) Schoolhouse\, Macbeth\, Elapultiek\, Frankenstein\, In This Light\, Animal Farm\, North Mountain Vanya (Two Planks)\, The Realistic Jones\, Heaven Above/Heaven Below (KAZAN Theatre)\, Hamlet (Below the Salt/Neptune Theatre)\, The Little Years (Matchstick Theatre)\, This Is Nowhere (Zuppa Theatre). TV/film work includes Aversion (Emotion Pictures) Sullivan’s Crossing (CTV; upcoming) Normal Scotia (Bell TV1)\, Extant (HDM)\, Look At Me (Afro Viking Pictures)\, Hopeless Romantic (Northeast Films)\, Polaroid (Dimension Films)\, Weirdos (Shadow Shows)\, Mr. D (CBC). Matthew wrote and performed in First Weekend and Surf Gods (airing on CBC). Matthew studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse (NYC) and York University (Toronto). Many thanks to Sara Coffin for inviting me to dance\, and to the amazing Mayworks Festival! \nJackson Fairfax-Perry\, composer / sound design\nJackson Fairfax-Perry (he/him) is an award winning African Nova Scotian composer\, sound designer\, musician and musical director living in Kjipuktuk\, Mi’kma’ki (Halifax\, Nova Scotia). For years\, Jackson has honed his skills as an in demand saxophonist and keyboardist both on the road and locally with artists such as Hillsburn and David Myles\, among others. He collaborates frequently with local hip hop and r&b artist Aquakultre\, co-writing songs and working as the musical director for his live band. A prominent collaborator with local theatre and dance artists\, Jackson has composed and created sound designs for companies such as 2b theatre company\, Eastern Front Theatre\, Ship’s Company Theatre\, and Mocean Dance among numerous others. Recent credits include Matriarchs (Aquakultre\, Nocturne)\, Dance Nation (Keep Good (Theatre) Company\, Heist)\, Sea Unseen (Mocean Dance\, The Sable Island Institute)\, Deepwater (The Villains Theatre) and Downed Hearts (Ship’s Company Theatre\, Eastern Front Theatre\, Matchstick Theatre). \n\nBanner photo: Daniel Wittnebel
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/archive-of-loneliness/2025-05-09/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Dance
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SUMMARY:Flower Bed
DESCRIPTION:Written and performed by Noella Murphy\nFlower Bed is an accessible chronicle of chronic illness. Using puppets\, humour\, and visual art\, it creatively explores what life is like when your full-time job is Living With Pain. Noella Murphy is a clown\, a visual artist\, a theatre maker\, and a medical mystery. From a misogynistic healthcare system that ignores women’s pain to the struggles of being confined to your bed for months on end\, Noella reflects on the absurdity\, grief\, and transformation that comes with chronic illness\, creating a place to share her story and allow others to see their experiences reflected onstage. With two complementary components (an onstage performance and an interactive gallery show)\, this multidisciplinary piece is a visual spectacle\, a place for conversation\, and a pathway towards empathy for those who have dealt with any form of illness in their lives. \nDiscounted tickets are sold as a Double Bill with Archive of Loneliness\n \n\nFlower Bed Team\nNoella Murphy – Creator/Performer\nLou Campbell – Director/Dramaturg\nLaura Stinson – Puppet Designer/Puppeteer\nGinevra Syperek – Costume Co-designer\nAshley MacDonald and Susie Murphy – Costume Co-designers\nColleen Arcturus MacIsaac – Producer \nThank you to Arts Nova Scotia for their support of this project. \n ASL interpretation will be provided for the May 10th performance. \n         Childcare will be provided for this event. Please use this REGISTRATION FORM. \n\nBios\nNoella Murphy – Creator/Performer\nNoella Murphy (she/they) is a mad and disabled actor\, costume designer\, visual artist\, and all-around clown. She holds a BFA from NSCAD University\, and is an alum of Kinsale’s Wooden O Drama Program (Ireland). Despite an active visual arts practice of her own\, Noella is deeply interested in sharing art as a therapeutic tool\, and much of Noella’s professional career has been dedicated to working with folks with varying backgrounds\, disabilities\, young\, and old. Noella uses these various expertises\, as well as her background in clowning and visual art\, to explore deeper\, more challenging subject matter\, while simultaneously infusing these discoveries with light\, care\, and play. Visually\, Noella concentrates has been fascinated by the flora that surrounds her. Exploring realism with permission to choose unnatural size\, colours\, or different materials\, Noella never tires of botanical art and using her work to show the viewer a different perspective. Her pieces range from lino cuts\, etchings\, to watercolour on wood canvases with pen on top and more recently paint marker. Drawn to line and stippling\, the style ranges from realism to a more graphic approach.\n@noella_murphy \nLou Campbell – Director/Dramaturg\nLou Campbell (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax\, NS. Their practice traverses many mediums including performance\, clown\, stand-up\, drag\, poetry and sound. They create work that unpacks the inner workings of their own experiences\, usually manifesting in the open sharing of mortifying past mistakes. Their award winning solo show PRUDE premiered at EFT at the Stages festival. It has since toured across the country to festivals such as rEVolver\, High Performance Rodeo\, Outfest\, and Next Stage Festival. Lou also co-runs a cross-province collective based in Toronto and Halifax called Probably Theatre. This collective creates performance work devised from poetry\, and runs events and exhibitions that facilitate the creation of new work by other artists.⁠ Lou is thrilled to be working on Flower Bed. \nLaura Stinson – Puppet Designer/Puppeteer\nLaura Stinson (she/they) – Laura crafts images from both found and traditional materials. These creations become narratives\, characters and atmospheres in a variety of theatrical spectacles. She began her career in puppetry with Bread and Puppet Theater in 2016. After four years working as a touring member and subsequent resident puppeteer with the company\, Laura moved back to Mi’kma’ki and co-founded North Barn Theatre with Ian McFarlane in 2020. Alongside making work with North Barn she continues to collaborate with other artists as a performer\, designer and builder. She also shares her specialized knowledge by leading community workshops in both puppet construction and performance across the Atlantic region. She currently lives and works in Mi’kma’ki. \n \n\nFallow\nCome see Noella Murphy’s Fallow currently on exhibit in the lobby of the Bus Stop Theatre in conjunction with Flower Bed.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/flower-bed/2025-05-09/
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SUMMARY:Reel Justice - L'nui'skw Spotlight
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Lara Lewis\nThis year’s Reel Justice offerings are snapshots of the lives of different Mi’kmaw women’s lives from the past to the present. From traditional stories to  modern women\, the creators and subjects of these women’s narratives place a strong emphasis on relationality\, family\, and cultural engagement. \n \nFilms\n \nWaseteg (2010\, dir. Phyllis Grant) – 6 min\nWaseteg is the story of a young Mi’kmaq girl whose name means “the light from the Dawn.” A short story about dreams\, courage\, identity\, creation and  embracing our Elders\, Waseteg showcases Phyllis Grant’s signature style of bold lines\, bright colours and simple movements. The film is beautifully  narrated by legendary filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin. \n\n \nMi’kmaw Family (dir. Catherine Martin\, 1995) – 32 min\nThis documentary takes you on a reflective journey into the extended family of Nova Scotia’s Mi’kmaq community. Revisiting her own roots\, Mi’kmaq  filmmaker and mother Catherine Anne Martin explores how the community is recovering its First Nations values\, particularly through the teachings of  elders and a collective approach to children-rearing. Mi’kmaq Family is an inspiring resource for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous audiences who are  looking for ways to strengthen and explore their own families and traditions. \n\n \nKlusuaqnn Ajknu’kl (dir. Stephanie Joline\, 2021) – 22 min\nMi’kmaw poet and published author Rebecca Thomas uses words for a living\, but she can’t speak the language stolen from her father at residential school.  Words Matter follows her journey to reclaim the language while exploring the complicated past that’s kept it from her. This version is narrated in Mi’kmaw  and with spoken English subtitled in Mi’kmaw. \n\n \nDarlene Bernard: Women of this Land (dir. Stephanie Joline\, 2023) – 22 min\nPart of a 4-part documentary series about Indigenous women in Atlantic Canada and how they connect to land and culture. In this episode – Chief Darlene  Bernard. Bernard reflects on her position as Chief\, relationships with her community\, and ageing. \n\n \nWelima’q (dir. shalan joudry\, 2024) – 5min\nA gently mesmerizing piece exploring the profound meaning of sweetgrass picking through multidisciplinary artist shalan joudry’s lens. An immersive celebration of nature’s gifts and Indigenous traditions. \n\n         Childcare will be provided for this event. Please use this REGISTRATION FORM. \n 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/reel-justice-lnuiskw-spotlight/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:Working Class Heritage Tours
DESCRIPTION:You’ll never see downtown the same way again!\nJoin us for interactive walking tours that share the complex working class history of downtown Halifax. Each tour takes a different path through the city core and discusses different aspects of working class history and culture. The tours are designed to be stand alone but also work as a series\, with each tour covering different topics and following a different path. \n \nGeneral Tour Notes:\n\nEach tour is approximately 90 minutes in duration with regular stops for discussion along the way.\nWashrooms and parking are available near the beginning and end of each tour.\nPlaces to sit or perch are present at most tour stops\nThe tours run over and downhill only\nThe tours follow paths that only include intersections with curb cuts and follow sidewalks that are in good shape.\nThe tour has been designed with accessibility in mind. If you would like more information on the tour’s accessibility please email: info@mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca\n\n \n ASL interpretation will be provided for all three tours. \n\nTour 1: Where We Stand\n \nDate: Saturday\, May 3rd\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Old Spring Garden Library (corner of Brunswick St and Spring Garden Rd) \nMoving through downtown we will talk about the impact of people\, land\, and power on the evolution of the colonial urban centre over the last 300 years while experiencing the city around us. From the paupers grounds of the 18th century\, integrated neighbourhoods of the 19th century\, strikes of the 20th century and movements for social justice today. This tour begins at the old Memorial Library and ends at the waterfront. \nThe Only Wealth Is Labour: Artists Sarah Mosher & Hanah Genosko will be carrying their crafted banner along for the tour! \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: 19th century market site in downtown Halifax. NS Archives. \n\nTour 2: Scratch the Surface ***RESCHEDULED***\n \nNEW DATE: Saturday\, May 24th\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Old Spring Garden Library (corner of Brunswick St and Spring Garden Rd)\n \nWalking along the streets of today we’ll explore the many types of work that used to take place where we now see offices\, shops and restaurants. We’ll pull back the curtain on what it was like to work in the laundries\, factories\, and food manufacturing plants of Halifax and what we can still see of this industrial past. This tour begins at the old Memorial Library and ends near Granville Mall. \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: Early 20th century women sewing in a Halifax factory. NS Archives.\n \n\nTour 3: By Choice or By Force\n \nDate: Sunday\, May 11th\nTime: 1:00 PM\nDeparture: Peace & Friendship Park (1170 Hollis St)  \nLooking at a part of downtown now dominated by railroad tracks\, hotels and modern apartment buildings we’ll remember the story of immigrants and  migrants to Halifax\, both those who came by choice\, force or a lack of other options. This tour will discuss the complex history of racial and cultural  interactions in Nova Scotia and shed light on how Halifax has always had a diverse population. This tour will begin at Peace and Friendship Park and end  near the Seaport Market (formerly Cunard Centre) \nThe Only Wealth Is Labour: Artists Sarah Mosher & Hanah Genosko will be carrying their crafted banner along for the tour! \nClick Here For Detailed Tour Notes\nPictured: Charlie Wah laundry back room. Photo: J.J. Lee\n \n\nEmma Lang\n \nEmma Lang is a public heritage professional\, folklorist and tour guide. She’s been sharing her research and excitement in labour history to anyone interested for more than 20 years. \nPhoto above and Banner image: Photos by Tee Porter. \n 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/working-class-heritage-tours/2025-05-03/
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SUMMARY:WIKI w/Lord Unknown + DJ Uncle Fester • Tachichi • BASYL• Hatfield
DESCRIPTION:Come hear the beats and bars of some of the best hip hop artists on the East Coast – from both sides of the border!\nNew York hip hop fixture Wiki is coming to light up the Marquee Ballroom with Lord Unknown. They’ll be joined by local legends DJ Uncle Fester and Tachichi\, as well as rising stars BASYL and Hatfield. \n \n\nWiki\nWiki (Patrick Morales) is a critically acclaimed\, independent rapper from New York City. He has released many celebrated projects\, including albums produced by Tony Seltzer (14K Figaro in 2023)\, The Alchemist (Faith is a Rock with MIKE in 2023)\, Subjxct5 (Cold Cuts in 2022)\, Navy Blue (Half God in 2021) and NAH (Telephonebooth in 2021)\, as well as tracks with Ghostface Killah\, Earl Sweatshirt\, Princess Nokia\, Skepta\, and Madlib. Wiki is a staple of the New York underground\, where he rose to prominence as the frontman of Ratking. The trio’s groundbreaking 2014 LP So It Goes remains a landmark in experimental hip hop. One of this generation’s best lyricists and storytellers\, Wiki brings his talents to Atlantic Canada for the first time when he performs with Lord Unknown at the Marquee Ballroom in Halifax on May 2nd\, 2025. \nPraise for Wiki’s 2023 album Faith is a Rock with MIKE and The Alchemist\n“Faith Is a Rock is one of the most flat-out beautiful rap albums I’ve heard” – Alex Hudson (Exclaim!)\n“Blending emotional transparency with nuance and a knack for descriptive writing\, the LP finds profound human truths in mundanities . . . It’s as frank as it is poetic\, with everyone involved being able to find delicate beauty amid existential fear” – Peter A. Berry (Stereogum)\n“MIKE and Wiki have a lot to say. Their knack for lucid self-awareness and radical honesty is only matched by their sharp social commentary . . . Here\, two worthy champions sit on a throne crafted from their own excellence” – Matthew Ritchie (Pitchfork) \nPraise for Wiki’s 2021 album Half God with Navy Blue\n“The New York rapper’s latest is one of his greatest. A wise and angry Wiki reveals what it’s like to come of age in the city: the way it shapes\, hardens\, prematurely ages you . . . Wiki has always wielded his considerable talent to paint cityscapes with words\, but with Elsesser’s production\, they become transportive” – Matthew Ismael Ruiz (Best New Music – Pitchfork)\n“Half God is just a beautiful record . . . Wiki and Navy Blue’s New York sounds like the most glorious place on earth. I hope both of them stay in that place\, literal or metaphorical\, and I hope they make more music like this\, together or apart” – Tom Breihan (Stereogum) \nLord Unknown\n \nHailing from Brooklyn\, NY\, producer Lord Unknown has built a reputation for his eclectic and innovative sound. His impressive catalog boasts collaborations with prominent artists such as Rich the Kid\, Jay Critch\, Wiki\, and DJ Lucas\, papo2oo4 x Subjxct 5\, Starker x Yl\, and Lunchbox among many others. In 2018\, Lord Unknown launched his acclaimed “Lord Knows” series\, which has since grown to include four installments. This collection showcases his versatility\, featuring remixes\, beats\, and unreleased tracks that blend different eras and styles into something fresh and exciting. Lord Unknown’s approach to collaboration is characterized by a deep sense of creative synergy\, as he pushes boundaries with fellow rappers and producers. His unique sound has captivated audiences and established him as a hidden force in the music scene. \n  \nDJ Uncle Fester\nA veteran and OG of the Canadian 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\, beat making\, touring and DJing for various MCs in Canada (Ghostface and Raekwon)\, as well as various bands\, are all ways in which Fes has spread his sound across the map. From working with Ali Shaheed Muhammad (ATCQ) on the award winning Extremities (w Fresh Kils) project\, which blended live band recordings and musicians with a traditional hip hop approach\, all the way to arranging and mixing tracks on Chan Hays album “Here” featuring Conway\, Roc Marciano\, Benny The Butcher\, El Camino\, Pharoah Monch\, etc. With underground heavyweights AP The Overlord\, John Creasy\, Roshin\, Justo the MC and more\, Fes continues to push his craft forward. With all this work already put in and no signs of slowing down\, look for many projects to come. \nTachichi\n \nTachichi is a Halifax hiphop legend whose resume is as superb and as big as his talent\, with his fingers in everything from writing to production to video directing. Tachichi has released around 15 albums to date and played hundreds of live shows across Canada and the U.S. While much of his previous catalogue over the last 20 years has been alongside Canadian producer and DJ Moves\, Tachichi has multiple solo LPs and has released music with just about every influential and celebrated hip hop artist from the land of the maple leaf\, including Buck 65\, Classified\, Quake Matthews\, Ghettosocks\, Skratch Bastid\, Snak the Rapper\, and countless others. He is a ferocious emcee who puts the art and bars above all else with a flow like lava. \n\nBASYL\n \nFor BASYL\, music is more than just a career; it serves as a profound avenue for self-expression. Hailing from the heart of the Middle East\, BASYL\, a Palestinian rapper\, crafts a unique style that blends the melodic vibes of R&B with meticulously crafted lyrics and an infectious\, rhythmic flow. BASYL delves into themes such as freedom of speech\, oppression\, personal growth\, and love through his music. \n\nHatfield\n \nHatfield\, formerly known as “Khaki Ka$h” and “Just Q” is a Canadian rapper/singer-songwriter from Weymouth\, Nova Scotia. Influenced by artists like Earl Sweatshirt\, LUCKI\, Sufjan Stevens\, Ruby Waters\, Aldean Alliston\, Nirvana and so many more\, Hatfield started rapping and playing instruments in his prepubescents\, honing his skills for decades and dedicating himself to his craft. From early golden era boom bap hip hop records\, to modern day auto tuned vibes and everything in between. Hatfield’s versatility knows no bounds\, a true artist led by his passion and determination to express himself at all costs. \n  \n 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/wiki-w-lord-unknown-dj-uncle-fester-tachichi-basyl-hatfield/
LOCATION:The Marquee Ballroom\, 2037 Gottingen Street\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, B3K 3B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:Sandy & Nora Talk Politics LIVE w/ John Kameel Farah
DESCRIPTION:What do two of Canada’s best known political podcasters have to say about the state of the world today?\nCome find out by attending a LIVE podcast recording of Sandy and Nora Talk Politics. Through a mix of playful banter and incisive political analysis\, Sandy and Nora take apart current events and shine a light on avenues for a better future. What’s more: the event will also feature live performances by internationally-renowned pianist John Kameel Farah! \nConfused about the state of the world? Unsure where you should put your energy to make the change you yearn for? Come\, spend the night\, be inspired and leave with a renewed mission to fight for social change. \n \n ASL interpretation will be provided for this event. \n         Childcare will be provided for this event. Please use this REGISTRATION FORM. \n  \n  \nSandy & Nora\nSandy and Nora Talk Politics is one of Canada’s premier news analysis podcasts. With more than 8000 listeners per weekly episode\, Sandy and Nora have helped to influence how Canadians look at politics\, society\, the economy and social movements. \nSandy Hudson is co-editor of the bestselling anthology Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada (2020). Her writing can be found in The Washington Post\, The Toronto Star\, Maclean’s Magazine\, The Huffington Post\, Now Magazine\, and FLARE Magazine. \nNora Loreto is the author of Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age (2020)\, and From Demonized to Organized\, Building the New Union Movement (2013) and is the editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media. \nJohn Kameel Farah\n \nJohn Kameel Farah is a Palestinian-Canadian composer and pianist whose work embraces aspects of Baroque and Early music\, Improvisation\, Middle-Eastern music and forms of Electronic music. He studied composition and piano at the University of Toronto\, where he received the Glenn Gould Composition Award twice during his studies. In 2010\, he became a member of the Canadian Electronic Ensemble\, the oldest continuously active live-electronic performing group in the world. In Berlin\, he frequently works with the Oriel String Quartet and the early vocal ensemble Vox Nostra. In 2016\, he received a Dora Mavor Moore Award for sound design/composition for his work with Peggy Baker Dance Projects. In 2023\, he was invited as guest artist to perform with the iconic electronic band Tangerine Dream in Toronto.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/sandy-nora-talk-politics-live-w-john-kameel-farah/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Spoken
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SUMMARY:The Only Wealth Is Labour
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Mosher & Hannah Genosko\nWhat gives real value to anything in this world? The work we put into it.\nExploring a key concept in Marx’s labour theory of value\, textile artists Sarah Mosher and Hannah Genosko draw from the trade unionist tradition of parading crafted banners through city streets. \n‘The Only Wealth Is Labour’ by Sarah Mosher and Hannah Genosko is a patchwork quilt banner made out of their remaining uniforms from the ‘Portrait of the Artist as an Essential Worker’ quilts\, which were shown during Mayworks 2024. ‘The Only Wealth Is Labour’ quotes a historic union banner created by George Tutill in 1926 for the UK National Winding and General Engineers Society. Mosher and Genosko were struck by this quote and appreciated the simplicity and directness of the statement. With this new banner they moved away from speaking about their specific experiences as essential workers during the pandemic and into a more general call for solidarity and justice with all working people against the forces of inflation\, late capitalism and neoliberalism. \nMosher and Genosko’s banner will be carried alongside two of our Working Class Heritage Tours on May 3rd and 11th\, and otherwise on display at The Bus Stop Theatre throughout the festival. \nArtists\nSarah Mosher and Hannah Genosko are an artist duo collaborating in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. Hannah has a background in printmaking and bookmaking\, Sarah has a background in textiles and community arts. Both are graduates of NSCAD University. Their common ground is exploring labour\, anti-capitalism and the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through quilting. ‘Portrait of the Artist as an Essential Worker’ was their first project reflecting on their roles as essential workers at their jobs with Canada Post and NSLC respectively during the COVID-19 pandemic.
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/the-only-wealth-is-labour/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Wave Theory - In Support of Autism NS
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebration of World Autism Acceptance Day\nLocal filmmaker Brandon Boyd explores autism through the lens of Cape Breton musician Leona Burkey. In his latest documentary\, Boyd sheds light on Burkey’s musical career\, family life and how her son inspired a song titled Wave Theory. \nFilm run time: 28 minutes. \nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Brandon Boyd\, Leona Burkey and other invited guests. \n\nTickets\nTickets are PWYC by donation. All proceeds will be donated to Autism Nova Scotia. \n \n  \nBrandon Boyd – Writer/Director\nBrandon Boyd\, is an Autistic Filmmaker born and raised in Halifax\, Nova Scotia\, Canada. His first short film “What Do You Think” was a DIY Documentary that made it nationally in Winnipeg\, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick. His new short documentary is recipient of the Lunenburg Doc Festival’s “The Launch” contest\,  with a prize package of cash and in-kind services from major film organizations. \nTrailer\n \n 
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/wave-theory-in-support-of-autism-ns/
LOCATION:The Bus Stop Theatre Coop\, 2203 Gottingen St\, Halifax\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:2024 Call For Submissions!
DESCRIPTION:Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax is an interdisciplinary arts festival celebrating the connection between the labour movement and art\, art making as labour\, as well art exploring racial justice\, environmental justice\, and other aspects of social justice movements. The festival kicks off on or near May 1st\, International Workers Day\, a celebration of workers and bold declaration that “Captialism isn’t Working for Workers.” For more information about May Day\, refer to this digital flyer. \nThe 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. \nClick on the link below to access the online submission form. Deadline for submission is Monday\, October 2nd\, 2023. \nSUBMISSION FORM
URL:https://mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/2024-call-for-submissions/
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