An International Poster Exhibition to raise awareness about violence against women and children November 3 to 6 at the Union Centre, 275 Broadway. November 3, 12:30 to 8 p.m.
November 4, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
November 5, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
November 6, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission is Free. Opening ceremony November 3 at 12:30 p.m. Evening events November 4 and 5 at 6 p.m.
Afshin Matlabi
Terrorism, Democracy, Leisure
January 23 - February 28, 2008
His current work is a multidisciplinary project on leisure. Through painting and drawings, digital imaging, print media, animation, photography, and performances, he creates an environment where the world of leisure meets terrorism and disasters.
Emory Douglas
All Power to the People
January 23 - February 28, 2008
” The community (was) the museum for our artwork. Some people saw art for the first time when they saw my posters. Some joined the party, some got inspired to make art too.”
-Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture, Black Panther Party
All Power to the People! features Black Panther Party posters and newspaper graphics produced in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition highlights the artistry of Emory Douglas, and documents the Panthers’ involvement with a broad array of causes, including opposition to the Viet Nam War and solidarity with the United Farm Workers movement. With documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), All Power to the People! also illustrates efforts of the United States government to destroy the Panthers as part of wide-spread efforts to stifle oppositional political movements. The social programs of the Panthers and the powerful images of armed party members had a strong impact on the public consciousness of the time, and their efforts to combat the oppression of racism and poverty still resonate today.
For further information, please contact aceartinc. at (204) 944-9763
Posted October 13th, 2008
MayWorks 2008 was the most ambitious of MayWorks in several years with 34 events and a total attendance of approximately 1900. Planning for MayWorks 2009 is already underway. Next year, of course, is the 9oth Anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike - so it will be a special year with unique artistic presentations and special activities to mark this important anniversary.
MayWorks draws its inspiration from art and culture that reflect the struggles of working people and one of the significant events in Canadian history in terms of that struggle was the Winnipeg General Strike. Watch this site for announcements about MayWorks 2009 events.
We also want to draw your attention to the new calendar on which we will publicize events of interest to the community.
Serena Postel in concert at the Gas Station Theatre on Saturday, October 18. Martini Hour and Art Exhibit at 7 p.m with show at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 and are available at the Gas Station Theatre and Music Trader.
The concert will feature the debut of video of the first single from Serena’s upcoming record.
Posted April 23rd, 2008
On April 23 MayWorks 2008 began with the public launch of its calendar of events. The media event was hosted by the Park Theatre which will be the location of three MayWorks activities this year.
The kick off to MayWorks featured Aidi Sara Kreindler describing some the highlights of the Festival and performing a song from her May 23 event Song, Satire and Solidarity. She was followed by Nathan Rogers who will headline a MayWorks concert on May 25 at the West End Cultural Centre.
Special thanks to Danny Schur who assisted in organizing and presenting the event.
Theatre Projects Manitoba and Native Earth Performing Arts present The Triple Truth, created and performed by the acclaimed Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble. In The Triple Truth, the history of Aboriginal people at work unfolds over 60 minutes through story, song and movement.
Circle of Life Thunderbird House, 8:00 p.m.
For more information and reservations call 989-2400
Posted April 13th, 2008
Welcome to MayWorks 2008. In the calendar you can check out the highlighted dates to find what events are taking place that day.
April 27 is the first event of this year’s calendar and it will feature a spoken word event with artists from Edmonton, Toronto and Winnipeg. It is a joint project of the MayWorks Festivals in the three cities and is made possible by funding from the Canada Council. It features some of the best young poets from these cities who will be doing work commissioned especially for the show. Here in Winnipeg we are pleased to announce that the University of Winnipeg Students Association and CKUW are also sponsoring the event.
As a pre-MayWorks event on April 4th and 5th the Almanac Festival was held at the West End Cultural Centre. It featured Tom Paxton, Lindsay Jane, Nancy White, Joe Jencks (with Helena Nash). The two nights were a unique opportunity to hear music from across two generations of performers/activists. The Almanac Festival was made possible by a grant from the Winnipeg Arts Council and was sponsored by CUPE - Manitoba.
Children attending the picnic will receive hot dogs, balloons, entertainment, inflatable rides and a entry in a free bike raffle! The picnic is open to all members of Winnipeg Labour Council affiliated unions , their families and the children of Rossbrook House, Andrews Street Family Centre and the Winnipeg Boys and Girls Club.
Freight House Park at Ross and Isabel from 12:00 Noon to 4:00 p.m.
For more information call the Winnipeg Labour Council at 942-0522 or email info@winnipeglabour.ca.
With one foot planted firmly in folk music’s traditional roots and the other reaching into its dynamic future, Nathan Rogers is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, throat-chanter, percussionist, revivalist, or innovator. Whatever his skills entail, Nathan has the ability to turn the folk world on its ears.
West End Cultural Centre, 583 Ellice Ave. | 8:00 p.m.
Tickets $15 in advance $18 at the door, available at Organic Planet, Sled Dog Music, Candor Books, Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, West End Cultural Centre, Sonus Musica, Walnut Street Music. 480-3380 ext 202.
A short ceremony organized by MayWorks at the grave site of Mike Sokolowski to honour these fallen martyrs of “Bloody Saturday” in the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.
Brookside Cemetery, 3001 Notre Dame Avenue
1:00 p.m. | Everyone welco
An illustrated talk by Myron Shatulsky with the Winnipeg Labour Choir (Loa Henry, Director) and the What’s Left folk singing group.
Ukrainian Labour Temple, 591 Pritchard Avenue at 8 p.m. | Tickets: $10
For more information contact Brent Stearns at 488-1008
Join the award-winning composer of the musical “Strike!”, Danny Schur, as he shares details about the life of Mike Sokolowski, the Ukrainian immigrant killed during the culmination of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike - Bloody Saturday. The walking tour begins at Winnipeg’s City Hall courtyard and makes its way to the site of the former Manitoba Hotel and into “Hell’s Alley.”
City Hall - 1:00 PM (rain or shine)
Duration: 2 hours, Maximum 40 people per tour
Tickets are free but reservation is mandatory. Call 227-1167 or e-mail dannyschur@hotmail.co
With her wicked wit and piano stylings, Adi Sara Kreindler evokes Tom Lehrer, only prettier. Join her as she skewers Alberta Oil, bourgeois hypocrisy, postmodern love, and unusual dietary options. Plus: haunting ballads and sultry jazz! Co-produced by the Winnipeg Folk Festival. Sara’s profits will go to Local Investment Toward Employment [LITE].
The Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Ave.
8 p.m. | Tickets: $10 advance; $12 at the door. For tickets and information call 231-1377
S.M.I.L.E. while you D.I.E. chronicles the life of Eve Rae Mann, a telephone customer service representative. The relentless dehumanization of the profit-seeking corporate world brings Eve to the brink of madness in this absurdly surreal dark-comedy, providing insights into the human consequence of being a cog in the corporate machine. Produced by Theatre Serendipity, Written and Performed by Rachelle Fordyce.
Ragpickers Annex, 216 McDermot Ave.
8:00 p.m. | Tickets: $10 in advance at Mondragón or at the door. For more information contact Rachelle at 474-1569.
Presentation of the annual Citizen Award. Guest speaker: Whose Law and What Order? by Elizabeth Comack, Professor of Sociology, University of Manitoba and Research Associate, CCPA-Manitoba. Co-sponsored by the Joe Zuken Memorial Foundation and Canadian Centre for Policy Alterntives-Manitoba
Union Centre, 275 Broadway Ave
7:00 p.m.
Grassroots Women Manitoba are hosting a workshop about challenges faced by Aboriginal workers. Facilitator: Leslie Spillett.
Kani Kanichihk, 455 McDermot Ave
7:00 p.m.
When a priest arrives in the Dominican Republic and ventures into the plantations, he discovers thousands of dispossessed Haitians working the cane fields under backbreaking and inhumane conditions. Lacking both Haitian and Dominican citizenship, the labourers are legally invisible, and are frequently denied even the most basic human rights.
Cinemateque, 100 Arthur St. (Artspace Building)
7:00pm | Admission $7 general / $6 students/seniors / $5 Cinematheque members
Presentation and Sharing Circle about the impact of mining on the world’s Aboriginal People’s, current situation in Canada and abroad and what is being done.
Kateri Church Basement, Ellice Ave. @ Home St.
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. | Everyone welcome
Sergei Eisenstein’s classic film portrayal of the 1905 Potemkin Uprising shown on the big screen with a new soundtrack! In keeping with Eisenstein’s wish that the score be constantly rewritten in order to retain its relevance to each new generation, Winnipeg sound artist Garth Hardy will provide an improvised, live musical accompaniment.
The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne St at 7:00 p.m. | Tickets: $7
For information call 478-7275
The tragedy of the Second Narrows Bridge: a reading by Gary Geddes. On June 17, 1958, Vancouver’s Second Narrows Bridge collapsed while under construction and eighteen ironworkers plunged to their deaths. Critically acclaimed poet Gary Geddes’s collection of poems and photographs, Falsework, marks the 50th anniversary of the disaster through portraits of the many lives affected by the disaster.
After the presentation there will be a book signing by the author.
The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne St, 7:00 p.m.
Tickets are $10, free for students (with ID)
Scenes from the Class Struggle: two films by Ken Loach
Raining Stones 7:00 p.m. (1993) (90 min)
One of the movie’s characters observes: “When you’re a worker it rains stones seven days a week.” This sets the scene for Ken Loach to explore one man’s struggle with his poverty in the wider context of the problems created by the “new” British economy.
Riff Raff 9:00 p.m. (1991) (96 min)
Riff Raff is a gritty and realistic portrayal of workers dealing with the consequences of the Thatcherite revolution. It follows a group of construction workers as they convert an old hospital into luxury flats (the triumph of neo-liberalism?) depicting their struggle against low pay and dangerous working conditions with no union to fight for them.
The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne St
Admission $7 or $10 for both films
For information call 478-7275
A weeklong event of open air art displays including banners prepared for the progressive movements in Winnipeg and memorabilia from our worker’s history. Show travels to a new location daily. Performances are organized at various locations from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
May 12: Central Park; Cumberland @ Kennedy
Free - For more information contact Anna at 233-7116
May 13: Coronation Park; Tat @ St.Mary’s
Free - For more information contact Anna at 233-7116
May 14: Bonny Castle Park; Main @ Assiniboine
Free - For more information contact Anna at 233-7116
May 15: Old Market Square; King @ Bannatyne with a special guest performance by musician Mike Desautles
Free - For more information contact Anna at 233-7116
May 16: Revolution Park; 387 Selkirk Ave
Free - For more information contact Anna at 233-7116
May 17: Memorial Park; Memorial @ Broadway
Free - For more information contact Anna at 233-7116
May 18: St. John’s Park; Main @ St. John’s
Free - For more information contact Anna at 233-7116
In solidarity with the Aboriginal Community who have “lost” loved ones to violence and racism.
Beginning at the St.Regis Hotel on Smith St. proceeding to the Forks for speeches and entertainment.
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Everyone Welcome
An evening of music and theatre depicting people’s struggle for social justice
Gas Station Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $10
For more information or to order tickets email: wpglabourchoir@mts.net or phone Loa Henry at 774-8573
The Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians presents Mostly Mandolins with special guests the D Rangers.
Ukrainian Labour Temple, 591 Pritchard at 8:00 p.m. | $10
For more information contact Carmen at 334-7591
Special events and entertainment on all 4 levels of the Old Markey Autonmous Zone with many radical groups co-operating to support the building’s upgrades.
A-Zone Building, 91 Albert St
8:00 p.m. | Admission by donation
With many booksellers, publishers and distributors and various radical workshops plus speakers and author readings and music by the Flaming Trolleys Marching Band.
Old Market Square
10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Free entry
Featuring works by many local artists at various venues including the A-Zone at 91 Albert St and the Platform Gallery Lobby in Artspace at 100 Arthur St.
Various Venues
Free - Guided tour details to be announced
Presentations by members of the New Socialists, Winnipeg Group, and the I.W.W. Winnipeg Branch with feature film to follow.
Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre, 91 Albert St
8:00 p.m. | Free, donations for the venue gratefully accepted
A 2008 Mayworks Labour and the Arts Festival Literary Event. Poetry of mythology and revolution by Ron Romanowski, author of Sweet Talking and The Great Buffalo Republic. Songs from the Civil Rights Movement by Liliana Romanowski.
McNally Robinson Grant Park, Travel Alcove at 7:00 p.m. | FREE
For more information contact Ron at 667-6802
