The MayWorks 2025 Festival of Labour and the Arts Calendar will be out soon. Here is a list of events for this year’s festival:
April 24 - 7pm
Warsaw Ghetto Memorial & Candle Lighting in Memory of the Six Million
Remarks, conversation and songs
Ukrainian Labour Temple - 591 Pritchard Ave. (at McGregor)
April 28 - 11:30pm
National Day of Mourning
SAFE Workers of Tomorrow Leaders' Walk & Day of Mourning Ceremony
Union Centre - 275 Broadway Ave. to Memorial Park
May 1 - 5:30pm
International Workers' Day: Rally and March
For workers' rights! For sovereignty! For Palestine!
Gather at City Hall - 510 Main St.
May 3 - 7pm
Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left by David Camfield
Book launch featuring special guests: Tami Gadir & Andrew Loewen
McNally Robinson Booksellers Atrium - Grant Park Mall
And livestreamed on YouTube
May 4 - 10:30am
Jews and Gentiles in Film and Literature
Last lecture of a series: based on the 2013 Polish movie Ida
To register for this Zoom event, etransfer $25 to hdshorr@shaw.ca
For more information: ujpowinnipeg.com
May 17 - Noon
77th Nakba Commemoration and March
Legislative Building - 450 Broadway Ave.
May 17 - 7pm
A Celebration of Cuba's Achievements in Workers' Rights and in the Arts
Performances, music and displays
Ukrainian Labour Temple - 591 Pritchard Ave. (at McGregor)
May 20 - 7pm
Invisible Doctrine - Watch Party
Film watch party and discussion.
Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84450063314?pwd=j3fuwqdCosEluhgaE90JnSxnoPbEeY.1
Meeting ID: 844 5006 3314 - Passcode: 488097
May 24 - 1pm
Wages for Schoolwork by Shiv Raveendrabose
Book launch of the latest addition to the Semaphore Series.
ARP Books Office - 205-70 Arthur St.
May 24 - Noon to 4pm
"North End Neighbours" Culture Fest 2025
Multicultural entertainment, food and displays.
Ukrainian Labour Temple - 591 Pritchard Ave. (at McGregor)
May 24 & 25 - Noon to 4pm
Historic Ukrainian Labour Temple - A Look Inside
Part of Doors Open - Celebrating the stories our buildings tell
Ukrainian Labour Temple - 591 Pritchard Ave.
May 25 - 2pm
Operation Peter Pan and From Gaza to Cuba
Screeing of Award-winning Cuban documentary and Short film
West End Commons - 641 St. Matthews Ave. (entrance on McGee St.)
May 30 - 7pm
Gas Lit Nation - Media & Democracy for Peace Workshop
Zoom workshop
Register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HLDJMZQ
May 31 - 6pm & 8:30pm
Dance Down Tha Wall 20th Anniversary Dinner & Dance Party for Palestine
Featuring DJ Hunnicutt (& others)
An evening of dinner and #DDTW20 'Get Down for Gaza' dancing!
Ukrainian Labour Temple - 591 Pritchard Ave. (at McGregor)
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April 26 - 11:00 am
National Day of Mourning
SAFE Workers of Tomorrow – Leaders’ Walk & Day of Mourning Ceremony
Gather at Union Centre (Broadway at Smith Street) to Memorial Park
May 1 - 5:30 pm
International Workers' Day
May Day Rally and March
Workers Stand With Palestine
City Hall
May 4 - 12:00 noon
Workers Unite for Palestine! Solidarity not Silence
Rally and March
City Hall
May 4 - 2:00 pm
105 And Rising: Poetry Reading by Ron Romanowski
Henderson Branch Library
May 7 - 7:00 pm
Warsaw Ghetto Memorial: Looking at Resistance Through the Lens of Family History
Songs of the Ghettos and Partisans
With guest speaker Cecil Rosner
Ukrainian Labour Temple
May 8 - 7:00 pm
Organizing for Just Transition
Featuring Kevin MacKay
Zoom
May 11 - 7:30 pm
Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra
Special Guest, French Canadian singer/accordionist Anne-Marie Williot
Ukrainian Labour Temple
May 18 - 6:00 - 7:30 pm
On to Ottawa Peace Caravan
CUPE Training Centre, 7th Floor Union Centre
May 19 - 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Strawberry and Chocolate/Fresa y chocolate
West End Commons
May 25 & May 26 - 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm
Doors Open at The Labour Temple
Ukrainian Labour Temple
May 25 & May 26 - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Ivan Franko Museum Tours
Inside the Ukrainian Labour Temple
May 25 - 12:00 noon - 5:00 pm
North End Neighbours Culture Fest
Ukrainian Labour Temple
May 26 - 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Rally Against the U.S. Blockade of Cuba
River & Osborne
